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1H4 . . 0 The History of Henry the Fourth
1H4 . . 0 {Enter King Henry, Lord John of Lancaster, and the +
1H4 1.1. 0 Earl of Westmorland, with other [lords]}
1H4 1.1. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
1H4 1.1. 2 Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
1H4 1.1. 3 And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
1H4 1.1. 4 To be commenced in strands afar remote.
1H4 1.1. 5 No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
1H4 1.1. 6 Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood.
1H4 1.1. 7 No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
1H4 1.1. 8 Nor bruise her flow'rets with the armed hoofs
1H4 1.1. 9 Of hostile paces. Those opposed eyes,
1H4 1.1. 10 Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
1H4 1.1. 11 All of one nature, of one substance bred,
1H4 1.1. 12 Did lately meet in the intestine shock
1H4 1.1. 13 And furious close of civil butchery,
1H4 1.1. 14 Shall now in mutual well-beseeming ranks
1H4 1.1. 15 March all one way, and be no more opposed
1H4 1.1. 16 Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies.
1H4 1.1. 17 The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
1H4 1.1. 18 No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
1H4 1.1. 19 As far as to the sepulchre of Christ -
1H4 1.1. 20 Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
1H4 1.1. 21 We are impressed and engaged to fight -
1H4 1.1. 22 Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
1H4 1.1. 23 Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb
1H4 1.1. 24 To chase these pagans in those holy fields
1H4 1.1. 25 Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
1H4 1.1. 26 Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed,
1H4 1.1. 27 For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
1H4 1.1. 28 But this our purpose now is twelve month old,
1H4 1.1. 29 And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go.
1H4 1.1. 30 Therefor we meet not now. Then let me hear
1H4 1.1. 31 Of you, my gentle cousin Westmorland,
1H4 1.1. 32 What yesternight our Council did decree
1H4 1.1. 33 In forwarding this dear expedience.
1H4 1.1. 34
1H4-WESTMORLAND
My liege, this haste was hot in question,
1H4 1.1. 35 And many limits of the charge set down
1H4 1.1. 36 But yesternight, when all athwart there came
1H4 1.1. 37 A post from Wales, loaden with heavy news,
1H4 1.1. 38 Whose worst was that the noble Mortimer,
1H4 1.1. 39 Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
1H4 1.1. 40 Against the irregular and wild Glyndw^r,
1H4 1.1. 41 Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
1H4 1.1. 42 A thousand of his people butchered,
1H4 1.1. 43 Upon whose dead corpse' there was such misuse,
1H4 1.1. 44 Such beastly shameless transformation,
1H4 1.1. 45 By those Welshwomen done as may not be
1H4 1.1. 46 Without much shame retold or spoken of.
1H4 1.1. 47
1H4-KING HENRY
It seems then that the tidings of this broil
1H4 1.1. 48 Brake off our business for the Holy Land.
1H4 1.1. 49
1H4-WESTMORLAND
This matched with other did, my gracious lord,
1H4 1.1. 50 For more uneven and unwelcome news
1H4 1.1. 51 Came from the north, and thus it did import:
1H4 1.1. 52 On Holy-rood day the gallant Hotspur there -
1H4 1.1. 53 Young Harry Percy - and brave Archibald,
1H4 1.1. 54 That ever valiant and approved Scot,
1H4 1.1. 55 At Holmedon met,
1H4 1.1. 56 Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,
1H4 1.1. 57 As by discharge of their artillery
1H4 1.1. 58 And shape of likelihood the news was told;
1H4 1.1. 59 For he that brought them in the very heat
1H4 1.1. 60 And pride of their contention did take horse,
1H4 1.1. 61 Uncertain of the issue any way.
1H4 1.1. 62
1H4-KING HENRY
Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,
1H4 1.1. 63 Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse,
1H4 1.1. 64 Stained with the variation of each soil
1H4 1.1. 65 Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;
1H4 1.1. 66 And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
1H4 1.1. 67 The Earl of Douglas is discomfited.
1H4 1.1. 68 Ten thousand bold Scots, two-and-twenty knights,
1H4 1.1. 69 Balked in their own blood did Sir Walter see
1H4 1.1. 70 On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners Hotspur took
1H4 1.1. 71 Mordake the Earl of Fife and eldest son
1H4 1.1. 72 To beaten Douglas, and the Earl of Athol,
1H4 1.1. 73 Of Moray, Angus, and Menteith;
1H4 1.1. 74 And is not this an honourable spoil,
1H4 1.1. 75 A gallant prize? Ha, cousin, is it not?
1H4 1.1. 76
1H4-WESTMORLAND
In faith, it is a conquest for a prince to boast of.
1H4 1.1. 77
1H4-KING HENRY
Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, and mak'st me sin
1H4 1.1. 78 In envy that my lord Northumberland
1H4 1.1. 79 Should be the father to so blest a son -
1H4 1.1. 80 A son who is the theme of honour's tongue,
1H4 1.1. 81 Amongst a grove the very straightest plant,
1H4 1.1. 82 Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride -
1H4 1.1. 83 Whilst I by looking on the praise of him
1H4 1.1. 84 See riot and dishonour stain the brow
1H4 1.1. 85 Of my young Harry. O, that it could be proved
1H4 1.1. 86 That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged
1H4 1.1. 87 In cradle clothes our children where they lay,
1H4 1.1. 88 And called mine Percy, his Plantagenet!
1H4 1.1. 89 Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.
1H4 1.1. 90 But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,
1H4 1.1. 91 Of this young Percy's pride? The prisoners
1H4 1.1. 92 Which he in this adventure hath surprised
1H4 1.1. 93 To his own use he keeps, and sends me word
1H4 1.1. 94 I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.
1H4 1.1. 95
1H4-WESTMORLAND
This is his uncle's teaching. This is Worcester,
1H4 1.1. 96 Malevolent to you in all aspects,
1H4 1.1. 97 Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
1H4 1.1. 98 The crest of youth against your dignity.
1H4 1.1. 99
1H4-KING HENRY
But I have sent for him to answer this;
1H4 1.1. 100 And for this cause awhile we must neglect
1H4 1.1. 101 Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
1H4 1.1. 102 Cousin, on Wednesday next our Council we
1H4 1.1. 103 Will hold at Windsor. So inform the lords.
1H4 1.1. 104 But come yourself with speed to us again,
1H4 1.1. 105 For more is to be said and to be done
1H4 1.1. 106 Than out of anger can be uttered.
1H4 1.1. 107A
1H4-WESTMORLAND
I will, my liege. {Exeunt [King Henry, +
1H4 1.1. 107A Lancaster, and other}
1H4 1.1. 0 {lords at one door; Westmorland at another door]} {Enter +
1H4 1.2. 0 Harry Prince of Wales and Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4 1.2. 1
1H4-SIR JOHN
Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
1H4 1.2. 2
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old
1H4 1.2. 3 sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping
1H4 1.2. 4 upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to
1H4 1.2. 5 demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.
1H4 1.2. 6 What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day?
1H4 1.2. 7 Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons,
1H4 1.2. 8 and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs
1H4 1.2. 9 of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair
1H4 1.2. 10 hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason
1H4 1.2. 11 why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the
1H4 1.2. 12 time of the day.
1H4 1.2. 13
1H4-SIR JOHN
Indeed you come near me now, Hal, for we that
1H4 1.2. 14 take purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and
1H4 1.2. 15 not `By Phoebus, he, that wand'ring knight so fair'.
1H4 1.2. 16 And I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art a king, as
1H4 1.2. 17 God save thy grace - `majesty' I should say, for grace
1H4 1.2. 18 thou wilt have none -
1H4 1.2. 19
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, none?
1H4 1.2. 20
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to
1H4 1.2. 21 be prologue to an egg and butter.
1H4 1.2. 22
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, how then? Come, roundly, roundly.
1H4 1.2. 23
1H4-SIR JOHN
Marry then, sweet wag, when thou art king let
1H4 1.2. 24 not us that are squires of the night's body be called
1H4 1.2. 25 thieves of the day's beauty. Let us be `Diana's foresters',
1H4 1.2. 26 `gentlemen of the shade', `minions of the moon', and
1H4 1.2. 27 let men say we be men of good government, being
1H4 1.2. 28 governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress
1H4 1.2. 29 the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
1H4 1.2. 30
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou sayst well, and it holds well too, for
1H4 1.2. 31 the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb
1H4 1.2. 32 and flow like the sea, being governed as the sea is by
1H4 1.2. 33 the moon. As for proof now: a purse of gold most
1H4 1.2. 34 resolutely snatched on Monday night, and most
1H4 1.2. 35 dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with
1H4 1.2. 36 swearing `lay by!', and spent with crying `bring in!';
1H4 1.2. 37 now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder, and by
1H4 1.2. 38 and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
1H4 1.2. 39
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the Lord, thou sayst true, lad; and is not my
1H4 1.2. 40 Hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?
1H4 1.2. 41
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the
1H4 1.2. 42 castle; and is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of
1H4 1.2. 43 durance?
1H4 1.2. 44
1H4-SIR JOHN
How now, how now, mad wag? What, in thy
1H4 1.2. 45 quips and thy quiddities? What a plague have I to do
1H4 1.2. 46 with a buff jerkin?
1H4 1.2. 47
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, what a pox have I to do with my
1H4 1.2. 48 Hostess of the tavern?
1H4 1.2. 49
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many
1H4 1.2. 50 a time and oft.
1H4 1.2. 51
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?
1H4 1.2. 52
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all
1H4 1.2. 53 there.
1H4 1.2. 54
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Yea, and elsewhere so far as my coin would
1H4 1.2. 55 stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.
1H4 1.2. 56
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent
1H4 1.2. 57 that thou art heir apparent - but I prithee, sweet wag,
1H4 1.2. 58 shall there be gallows standing in England when thou
1H4 1.2. 59 art king, and resolution thus fubbed as it is with the
1H4 1.2. 60 rusty curb of old father Antic the law? Do not thou
1H4 1.2. 61 when thou art king hang a thief.
1H4 1.2. 62
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
No, thou shalt.
1H4 1.2. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Shall I? O, rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave
1H4 1.2. 64 judge!
1H4 1.2. 65
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou judgest false already. I mean thou
1H4 1.2. 66 shalt have the hanging of the thieves, and so become
1H4 1.2. 67 a rare hangman.
1H4 1.2. 68
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with
1H4 1.2. 69 my humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell
1H4 1.2. 70 you.
1H4 1.2. 71
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
For obtaining of suits?
1H4 1.2. 72
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman
1H4 1.2. 73 hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy
1H4 1.2. 74 as a gib cat, or a lugged bear.
1H4 1.2. 75
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.
1H4 1.2. 76
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.
1H4 1.2. 77
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What sayst thou to a hare, or the
1H4 1.2. 78 melancholy of Moor-ditch?
1H4 1.2. 79
1H4-SIR JOHN
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art
1H4 1.2. 80 indeed the most comparative, rascalliest sweet young
1H4 1.2. 81 Prince. But Hal, I prithee trouble me no more with
1H4 1.2. 82 vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a
1H4 1.2. 83 commodity of good names were to be bought. An old
1H4 1.2. 84 lord of the Council rated me the other day in the street
1H4 1.2. 85 about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet he talked
1H4 1.2. 86 very wisely, but I regarded him not; and yet he talked
1H4 1.2. 87 wisely, and in the street too.
1H4 1.2. 88
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in
1H4 1.2. 89 the streets, and no man regards it.
1H4 1.2. 90
1H4-SIR JOHN
O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed
1H4 1.2. 91 able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm
1H4 1.2. 92 upon me, Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew
1H4 1.2. 93 thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man
1H4 1.2. 94 should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
1H4 1.2. 95 I must give over this life, and I will give it over. By the
1H4 1.2. 96 Lord, an I do not, I am a villain. I'll be damned for
1H4 1.2. 97 never a king's son in Christendom.
1H4 1.2. 98
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Where shall we take a purse tomorrow,
1H4 1.2. 99 Jack?
1H4 1.2. 100
1H4-SIR JOHN
Zounds, where thou wilt, lad! I'll make one; an
1H4 1.2. 101 I do not, call me villain and baffle me.
1H4 1.2. 102
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I see a good amendment of life in thee,
1H4 1.2. 103 from praying to purse-taking.
1H4 1.2. 104
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal. 'Tis no sin for
1H4 1.2. 105 a man to labour in his vocation. {Enter Poins}
1H4 1.2. 106 Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a match.
1H4 1.2. 107 O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell
1H4 1.2. 108 were hot enough for him? This is the most omnipotent
1H4 1.2. 109 villain that ever cried `Stand!' to a true man.
1H4 1.2. 110
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Good morrow, Ned.
1H4 1.2. 111
1H4-POINS
Good morrow, sweet Hal. {(To Sir John)} What +
1H4 1.2. 111 says
1H4 1.2. 112 Monsieur Remorse? What says Sir John, sack-and-
1H4 1.2. 113 sugar Jack? How agrees the devil and thee about thy
1H4 1.2. 114 soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last, for a
1H4 1.2. 115 cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg?
1H4 1.2. 116
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall
1H4 1.2. 117 have his bargain, for he was never yet a breaker of
1H4 1.2. 118 proverbs: he will give the devil his due.
1H4 1.2. 119
1H4-POINS
{(to Sir John)} Then art thou damned for +
1H4 1.2. 119 keeping thy
1H4 1.2. 120 word with the devil.
1H4 1.2. 121
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Else he had been damned for cozening the
1H4 1.2. 122 devil.
1H4 1.2. 123
1H4-POINS
But my lads, my lads, tomorrow morning by four
1H4 1.2. 124 o'clock early, at Gads Hill, there are pilgrims going to
1H4 1.2. 125 Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders riding to
1H4 1.2. 126 London with fat purses. I have visors for you all; you
1H4 1.2. 127 have horses for yourselves. Gadshill lies tonight in
1H4 1.2. 128 Rochester. I have bespoke supper tomorrow night in
1H4 1.2. 129 Eastcheap. We may do it as secure as sleep. If you will
1H4 1.2. 130 go, I will stuff your purses full of crowns; if you will
1H4 1.2. 131 not, tarry at home and be hanged.
1H4 1.2. 132
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hear ye, Edward, if I tarry at home and go not,
1H4 1.2. 133 I'll hang you for going.
1H4 1.2. 134
1H4-POINS
You will, chops?
1H4 1.2. 135
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hal, wilt thou make one?
1H4 1.2. 136
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Who, I rob? I a thief? Not I, by my faith.
1H4 1.2. 137
1H4-SIR JOHN
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good
1H4 1.2. 138 fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood
1H4 1.2. 139 royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.
1H4 1.2. 140
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well then, once in my days I'll be a
1H4 1.2. 141 madcap.
1H4 1.2. 142
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, that's well said.
1H4 1.2. 143
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.
1H4 1.2. 144
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou
1H4 1.2. 145 art king.
1H4 1.2. 146
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I care not.
1H4 1.2. 147
1H4-POINS
Sir John, I prithee leave the Prince and me alone.
1H4 1.2. 148 I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure
1H4 1.2. 149 that he shall go.
1H4 1.2. 150
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and
1H4 1.2. 151 him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may
1H4 1.2. 152 move and what he hears may be believed, that the true
1H4 1.2. 153 prince may, for recreation' sake, prove a false thief; for
1H4 1.2. 154 the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell.
1H4 1.2. 155 You shall find me in Eastcheap.
1H4 1.2. 156
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Farewell, the latter spring; farewell, All-
1H4 1.2. 157 hallown summer. {Exit Sir John}
1H4 1.2. 158
1H4-POINS
Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us
1H4 1.2. 159 tomorrow. I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage
1H4 1.2. 160 alone. Oldcastle, Harvey, Russell, and Gadshill shall rob
1H4 1.2. 161 those men that we have already waylaid - yourself and
1H4 1.2. 162 I will not be there - and when they have the booty, if
1H4 1.2. 163 you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my
1H4 1.2. 164 shoulders.
1H4 1.2. 165
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
But how shall we part with them in setting
1H4 1.2. 166 forth?
1H4 1.2. 167
1H4-POINS
Why, we will set forth before or after them and
1H4 1.2. 168 appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our
1H4 1.2. 169 pleasure to fail. And then will they adventure upon the
1H4 1.2. 170 exploit themselves, which they shall have no sooner
1H4 1.2. 171 achieved but we'll set upon them.
1H4 1.2. 172
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Ay, but 'tis like that they will know us by
1H4 1.2. 173 our horses, by our habits, and by every other
1H4 1.2. 174 appointment, to be ourselves.
1H4 1.2. 175
1H4-POINS
Tut, our horses they shall not see - I'll tie them in
1H4 1.2. 176 the wood; our visors we will change after we leave
1H4 1.2. 177 them; and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the
1H4 1.2. 178 nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.
1H4 1.2. 179
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
But I doubt they will be too hard for us.
1H4 1.2. 180
1H4-POINS
Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true-
1H4 1.2. 181 bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the third,
1H4 1.2. 182 if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear
1H4 1.2. 183 arms. The virtue of this jest will be the incomprehensible
1H4 1.2. 184 lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet
1H4 1.2. 185 at supper: how thirty at least he fought with, what
1H4 1.2. 186 wards, what blows, what extremities he endured; and
1H4 1.2. 187 in the reproof of this lives the jest.
1H4 1.2. 188
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, I'll go with thee. Provide us all things
1H4 1.2. 189 necessary, and meet me tomorrow night in Eastcheap;
1H4 1.2. 190 there I'll sup. Farewell.
1H4 1.2. 191
1H4-POINS
Farewell, my lord. {Exit}
1H4 1.2. 192
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I know you all, and will a while uphold
1H4 1.2. 193 The unyoked humour of your idleness.
1H4 1.2. 194 Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
1H4 1.2. 195 Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
1H4 1.2. 196 To smother up his beauty from the world,
1H4 1.2. 197 That when he please again to be himself,
1H4 1.2. 198 Being wanted he may be more wondered at
1H4 1.2. 199 By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
1H4 1.2. 200 Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
1H4 1.2. 201 If all the year were playing holidays,
1H4 1.2. 202 To sport would be as tedious as to work;
1H4 1.2. 203 But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
1H4 1.2. 204 And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
1H4 1.2. 205 So when this loose behaviour I throw off
1H4 1.2. 206 And pay the debt I never promised,
1H4 1.2. 207 By how much better than my word I am,
1H4 1.2. 208 By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
1H4 1.2. 209 And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
1H4 1.2. 210 My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,
1H4 1.2. 211 Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
1H4 1.2. 212 Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
1H4 1.2. 213 I'll so offend to make offence a skill,
1H4 1.2. 214 Redeeming time when men think least I will. {Exit}
1H4 1.2. 0 {Enter the King, the Earls of Northumberland and +
1H4 1.3. 0 Worcester, Hotspur, Sir Walter Blunt, with other [lords]}
1H4 1.3. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
{(to Hotspur, Northumberland, and +
1H4 1.3. 1 Worcester)} My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
1H4 1.3. 2 Unapt to stir at these indignities,
1H4 1.3. 3 And you have found me, for accordingly
1H4 1.3. 4 You tread upon my patience; but be sure
1H4 1.3. 5 I will from henceforth rather be myself,
1H4 1.3. 6 Mighty and to be feared, than my condition,
1H4 1.3. 7 Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,
1H4 1.3. 8 And therefore lost that title of respect
1H4 1.3. 9 Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.
1H4 1.3. 10
1H4-WORCESTER
Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
1H4 1.3. 11 The scourge of greatness to be used on it,
1H4 1.3. 12 And that same greatness too, which our own hands
1H4 1.3. 13B Have holp to make so portly.
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to the +
1H4 1.3. 13B King)} My lord -
1H4 1.3. 14
1H4-KING HENRY
Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see
1H4 1.3. 15 Danger and disobedience in thine eye.
1H4 1.3. 16 O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
1H4 1.3. 17 And majesty might never yet endure
1H4 1.3. 18 The moody frontier of a servant brow.
1H4 1.3. 19 You have good leave to leave us. When we need
1H4 1.3. 20 Your use and counsel we shall send for you. {Exit Worcester}
1H4 1.3. 21B You were about to speak.
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yea, my good lord.
1H4 1.3. 22 Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,
1H4 1.3. 23 Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,
1H4 1.3. 24 Were, as he says, not with such strength denied
1H4 1.3. 25 As was delivered to your majesty,
1H4 1.3. 26 Who either through envy or misprision
1H4 1.3. 27 Was guilty of this fault, and not my son.
1H4 1.3. 28
1H4-HOTSPUR
{(to the King)} My liege, I did deny no +
1H4 1.3. 28 prisoners;
1H4 1.3. 29 But I remember, when the fight was done,
1H4 1.3. 30 When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
1H4 1.3. 31 Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
1H4 1.3. 32 Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed,
1H4 1.3. 33 Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new-reaped,
1H4 1.3. 34 Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
1H4 1.3. 35 He was perfumed like a milliner,
1H4 1.3. 36 And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
1H4 1.3. 37 A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
1H4 1.3. 38 He gave his nose and took 't away again -
1H4 1.3. 39 Who therewith angry, when it next came there
1H4 1.3. 40 Took it in snuff - and still he smiled and talked;
1H4 1.3. 41 And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
1H4 1.3. 42 He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly
1H4 1.3. 43 To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse
1H4 1.3. 44 Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
1H4 1.3. 45 With many holiday and lady terms
1H4 1.3. 46 He questioned me; amongst the rest demanded
1H4 1.3. 47 My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.
1H4 1.3. 48 I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold -
1H4 1.3. 49 To be so pestered with a popinjay! -
1H4 1.3. 50 Out of my grief and my impatience
1H4 1.3. 51 Answered neglectingly, I know not what -
1H4 1.3. 52 He should, or should not - for he made me mad
1H4 1.3. 53 To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet,
1H4 1.3. 54 And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman
1H4 1.3. 55 Of guns, and drums, and wounds, God save the mark!
1H4 1.3. 56 And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
1H4 1.3. 57 Was parmacity for an inward bruise,
1H4 1.3. 58 And that it was great pity, so it was,
1H4 1.3. 59 This villainous saltpetre should be digged
1H4 1.3. 60 Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
1H4 1.3. 61 Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed
1H4 1.3. 62 So cowardly, and but for these vile guns
1H4 1.3. 63 He would himself have been a soldier.
1H4 1.3. 64 This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
1H4 1.3. 65 Made me to answer indirectly, as I said,
1H4 1.3. 66 And I beseech you, let not his report
1H4 1.3. 67 Come current for an accusation
1H4 1.3. 68 Betwixt my love and your high majesty.
1H4 1.3. 69
1H4-BLUNT
{(to the King)} The circumstance considered, +
1H4 1.3. 69 good my lord,
1H4 1.3. 70 Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said
1H4 1.3. 71 To such a person, and in such a place,
1H4 1.3. 72 At such a time, with all the rest retold,
1H4 1.3. 73 May reasonably die, and never rise
1H4 1.3. 74 To do him wrong or any way impeach
1H4 1.3. 75 What then he said, so he unsay it now.
1H4 1.3. 76
1H4-KING HENRY
Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,
1H4 1.3. 77 But with proviso and exception
1H4 1.3. 78 That we at our own charge shall ransom straight
1H4 1.3. 79 His brother-in-law the foolish Mortimer,
1H4 1.3. 80 Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betrayed
1H4 1.3. 81 The lives of those that he did lead to fight
1H4 1.3. 82 Against that great magician, damned Glyndw^r -
1H4 1.3. 83 Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March
1H4 1.3. 84 Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,
1H4 1.3. 85 Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?
1H4 1.3. 86 Shall we buy treason, and indent with fears
1H4 1.3. 87 When they have lost and forfeited themselves?
1H4 1.3. 88 No, on the barren mountains let him starve;
1H4 1.3. 89 For I shall never hold that man my friend
1H4 1.3. 90 Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
1H4 1.3. 91 To ransom home revolted Mortimer -
1H4 1.3. 92A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Revolted Mortimer?
1H4 1.3. 93 He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,
1H4 1.3. 94 But by the chance of war. To prove that true
1H4 1.3. 95 Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,
1H4 1.3. 96 Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took
1H4 1.3. 97 When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,
1H4 1.3. 98 In single opposition, hand to hand,
1H4 1.3. 99 He did confound the best part of an hour
1H4 1.3. 100 In changing hardiment with great Glyndw^r.
1H4 1.3. 101 Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink,
1H4 1.3. 102 Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood,
1H4 1.3. 103 Who, then affrighted with their bloody looks,
1H4 1.3. 104 Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,
1H4 1.3. 105 And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,
1H4 1.3. 106 Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.
1H4 1.3. 107 Never did bare and rotten policy
1H4 1.3. 108 Colour her working with such deadly wounds,
1H4 1.3. 109 Nor never could the noble Mortimer
1H4 1.3. 110 Receive so many, and all willingly.
1H4 1.3. 111 Then let not him be slandered with revolt.
1H4 1.3. 112
1H4-KING HENRY
Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
1H4 1.3. 113 He never did encounter with Glyndw^r. I tell thee,
1H4 1.3. 114 He durst as well have met the devil alone
1H4 1.3. 115 As Owain Glyndw^r for an enemy.
1H4 1.3. 116 Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth
1H4 1.3. 117 Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer.
1H4 1.3. 118 Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,
1H4 1.3. 119 Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
1H4 1.3. 120 As will displease you. - My lord Northumberland,
1H4 1.3. 121 We license your departure with your son.
1H4 1.3. 122 {(To Hotspur)} Send us your prisoners, or you'll hear +
1H4 1.3. 122 of it. {Exeunt all but Hotspur and Northumberland}
1H4 1.3. 123
1H4-HOTSPUR
An if the devil come and roar for them
1H4 1.3. 124 I will not send them. I will after straight
1H4 1.3. 125 And tell him so, for I will ease my heart,
1H4 1.3. 126 Although it be with hazard of my head.
1H4 1.3. 127
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
What, drunk with choler? Stay and pause +
1H4 1.3. 127 awhile. {Enter the Earl of Worcester}
1H4 1.3. 128B Here comes your uncle.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Speak of Mortimer?
1H4 1.3. 129 Zounds, I will speak of him, and let my soul
1H4 1.3. 130 Want mercy if I do not join with him.
1H4 1.3. 131 In his behalf I'll empty all these veins,
1H4 1.3. 132 And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,
1H4 1.3. 133 But I will lift the downfall Mortimer
1H4 1.3. 134 As high in the air as this unthankful King,
1H4 1.3. 135 As this ingrate and cankered Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 136
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to Worcester)} Brother, the King +
1H4 1.3. 136 hath made your nephew mad.
1H4 1.3. 137
1H4-WORCESTER
Who struck this heat up after I was gone?
1H4 1.3. 138
1H4-HOTSPUR
He will forsooth have all my prisoners;
1H4 1.3. 139 And when I urged the ransom once again
1H4 1.3. 140 Of my wife's brother, then his cheek looked pale,
1H4 1.3. 141 And on my face he turned an eye of death,
1H4 1.3. 142 Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.
1H4 1.3. 143
1H4-WORCESTER
I cannot blame him: was not he proclaimed
1H4 1.3. 144 By Richard, that dead is, the next of blood?
1H4 1.3. 145
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
He was; I heard the proclamation.
1H4 1.3. 146 And then it was when the unhappy King,
1H4 1.3. 147 Whose wrongs in us God pardon, did set forth
1H4 1.3. 148 Upon his Irish expedition,
1H4 1.3. 149 From whence he, intercepted, did return
1H4 1.3. 150 To be deposed, and shortly murdered.
1H4 1.3. 151
1H4-WORCESTER
And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth
1H4 1.3. 152 Live scandalized and foully spoken of.
1H4 1.3. 153
1H4-HOTSPUR
But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then
1H4 1.3. 154 Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
1H4 1.3. 155B Heir to the crown?
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
He did; myself did hear it.
1H4 1.3. 156
1H4-HOTSPUR
Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin King
1H4 1.3. 157 That wished him on the barren mountains starve.
1H4 1.3. 158 But shall it be that you that set the crown
1H4 1.3. 159 Upon the head of this forgetful man,
1H4 1.3. 160 And for his sake wear the detested blot
1H4 1.3. 161 Of murderous subornation, shall it be
1H4 1.3. 162 That you a world of curses undergo,
1H4 1.3. 163 Being the agents or base second means,
1H4 1.3. 164 The cords, the ladder, or the hangman, rather?
1H4 1.3. 165 O, pardon me that I descend so low
1H4 1.3. 166 To show the line and the predicament
1H4 1.3. 167 Wherein you range under this subtle King!
1H4 1.3. 168 Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,
1H4 1.3. 169 Or fill up chronicles in time to come,
1H4 1.3. 170 That men of your nobility and power
1H4 1.3. 171 Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,
1H4 1.3. 172 As both of you, God pardon it, have done:
1H4 1.3. 173 To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
1H4 1.3. 174 And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
1H4 1.3. 175 And shall it in more shame be further spoken
1H4 1.3. 176 That you are fooled, discarded, and shook off
1H4 1.3. 177 By him for whom these shames ye underwent?
1H4 1.3. 178 No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem
1H4 1.3. 179 Your banished honours, and restore yourselves
1H4 1.3. 180 Into the good thoughts of the world again,
1H4 1.3. 181 Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt
1H4 1.3. 182 Of this proud King, who studies day and night
1H4 1.3. 183 To answer all the debt he owes to you
1H4 1.3. 184 Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
1H4 1.3. 185B Therefore, I say -
1H4-WORCESTER
Peace, cousin, say no more.
1H4 1.3. 186 And now I will unclasp a secret book,
1H4 1.3. 187 And to your quick-conceiving discontents
1H4 1.3. 188 I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
1H4 1.3. 189 As full of peril and adventurous spirit
1H4 1.3. 190 As to o'erwalk a current roaring loud
1H4 1.3. 191 On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
1H4 1.3. 192
1H4-HOTSPUR
If he fall in, good night, or sink or swim.
1H4 1.3. 193 Send danger from the east unto the west,
1H4 1.3. 194 So honour cross it from the north to south;
1H4 1.3. 195 And let them grapple. O, the blood more stirs
1H4 1.3. 196 To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
1H4 1.3. 197
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to Worcester)} Imagination of +
1H4 1.3. 197 some great exploit
1H4 1.3. 198 Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.
1H4 1.3. 199
1H4-[HOTSPUR]
By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
1H4 1.3. 200 To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
1H4 1.3. 201 Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
1H4 1.3. 202 Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
1H4 1.3. 203 And pluck up drowned honour by the locks,
1H4 1.3. 204 So he that doth redeem her thence might wear,
1H4 1.3. 205 Without corrival, all her dignities.
1H4 1.3. 206 But out upon this half-faced fellowship!
1H4 1.3. 207
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to Northumberland)} He apprehends a +
1H4 1.3. 207 world of figures here,
1H4 1.3. 208 But not the form of what he should attend.
1H4 1.3. 209 {(To Hotspur)} Good cousin, give me audience for a +
1H4 1.3. 209 while,
1H4 1.3. 210 And list to me.
1H4 1.3. 211B
1H4-HOTSPUR
I cry you mercy.
1H4-WORCESTER
Those same noble Scots
1H4 1.3. 212B That are your prisoners -
1H4-HOTSPUR
I'll keep them all.
1H4 1.3. 213 By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;
1H4 1.3. 214 No, if a scot would save his soul he shall not.
1H4 1.3. 215B I'll keep them, by this hand.
1H4-WORCESTER
You start away,
1H4 1.3. 216 And lend no ear unto my purposes.
1H4 1.3. 217B Those prisoners you shall keep.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Nay, I will; that's flat.
1H4 1.3. 218 He said he would not ransom Mortimer,
1H4 1.3. 219 Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer;
1H4 1.3. 220 But I will find him when he lies asleep,
1H4 1.3. 221 And in his ear I'll hollo `Mortimer!'
1H4 1.3. 222 Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
1H4 1.3. 223 Nothing but `Mortimer', and give it him
1H4 1.3. 224 To keep his anger still in motion.
1H4 1.3. 225A
1H4-WORCESTER
Hear you, cousin, a word.
1H4 1.3. 226
1H4-HOTSPUR
All studies here I solemnly defy,
1H4 1.3. 227 Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 228 And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales -
1H4 1.3. 229 But that I think his father loves him not
1H4 1.3. 230 And would be glad he met with some mischance -
1H4 1.3. 231 I would have him poisoned with a pot of ale.
1H4 1.3. 232
1H4-WORCESTER
Farewell, kinsman. I'll talk to you
1H4 1.3. 233 When you are better tempered to attend.
1H4 1.3. 234
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to Hotspur)} Why, what a +
1H4 1.3. 234 wasp-stung and impatient fool
1H4 1.3. 235 Art thou to break into this woman's mood,
1H4 1.3. 236 Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
1H4 1.3. 237
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, look you, I am whipped and scourged with rods,
1H4 1.3. 238 Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
1H4 1.3. 239 Of this vile politician Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 240 In Richard's time - what d' ye call the place?
1H4 1.3. 241 A plague upon 't, it is in Gloucestershire.
1H4 1.3. 242 'Twas where the madcap Duke his uncle kept -
1H4 1.3. 243 His uncle York - where I first bowed my knee
1H4 1.3. 244 Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 245 'Sblood, when you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.
1H4 1.3. 246B
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
At Berkeley castle.
1H4-HOTSPUR
You say true.
1H4 1.3. 247 Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
1H4 1.3. 248 This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
1H4 1.3. 249 `Look when his infant fortune came to age',
1H4 1.3. 250 And `gentle Harry Percy', and `kind cousin'.
1H4 1.3. 251 O, the devil take such cozeners! - God forgive me.
1H4 1.3. 252 Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.
1H4 1.3. 253
1H4-WORCESTER
Nay, if you have not, to 't again.
1H4 1.3. 254B We'll stay your leisure.
1H4-HOTSPUR
I have done, i' faith.
1H4 1.3. 255
1H4-WORCESTER
Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.
1H4 1.3. 256 Deliver them up without their ransom straight;
1H4 1.3. 257 And make the Douglas' son your only mean
1H4 1.3. 258 For powers in Scotland, which, for divers reasons
1H4 1.3. 259 Which I shall send you written, be assured
1H4 1.3. 260 Will easily be granted. {(To Northumberland)} You, my +
1H4 1.3. 260 lord,
1H4 1.3. 261 Your son in Scotland being thus employed,
1H4 1.3. 262 Shall secretly into the bosom creep
1H4 1.3. 263 Of that same noble prelate well-beloved,
1H4 1.3. 264B The Archbishop.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Of York, is 't not?
1H4-WORCESTER
True, who +
1H4 1.3. 264B bears hard
1H4 1.3. 265 His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scrope.
1H4 1.3. 266 I speak not this in estimation,
1H4 1.3. 267 As what I think might be, but what I know
1H4 1.3. 268 Is ruminated, plotted, and set down,
1H4 1.3. 269 And only stays but to behold the face
1H4 1.3. 270 Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
1H4 1.3. 271
1H4-HOTSPUR
I smell it; upon my life, it will do well!
1H4 1.3. 272
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Before the game is afoot thou still lett'st slip.
1H4 1.3. 273
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot -
1H4 1.3. 274 And then the power of Scotland and of York
1H4 1.3. 275B To join with Mortimer, ha?
1H4-WORCESTER
And so they shall.
1H4 1.3. 276
1H4-HOTSPUR
In faith, it is exceedingly well aimed.
1H4 1.3. 277
1H4-WORCESTER
And 'tis no little reason bids us speed
1H4 1.3. 278 To save our heads by raising of a head;
1H4 1.3. 279 For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
1H4 1.3. 280 The King will always think him in our debt,
1H4 1.3. 281 And think we think ourselves unsatisfied
1H4 1.3. 282 Till he hath found a time to pay us home.
1H4 1.3. 283 And see already how he doth begin
1H4 1.3. 284 To make us strangers to his looks of love.
1H4 1.3. 285
1H4-HOTSPUR
He does, he does. We'll be revenged on him.
1H4 1.3. 286
1H4-WORCESTER
Cousin, farewell. No further go in this
1H4 1.3. 287 Than I by letters shall direct your course.
1H4 1.3. 288 When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,
1H4 1.3. 289 I'll steal to Glyndw^r and Lord Mortimer,
1H4 1.3. 290 Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,
1H4 1.3. 291 As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,
1H4 1.3. 292 To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,
1H4 1.3. 293 Which now we hold at much uncertainty.
1H4 1.3. 294
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Farewell, good brother. We shall thrive, I trust.
1H4 1.3. 295
1H4-HOTSPUR
{(to Worcester)} Uncle, adieu. O, let the +
1H4 1.3. 295 hours be short
1H4 1.3. 296 Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport! {Exeunt +
1H4 1.3. 296 [Worcester at one door, Northumberland and Hotspur at another door]}
1H4 1.3. 0 {Enter a Carrier, with a lantern in his hand}
1H4 2.1. 1
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Heigh-ho! An 't be not four by the day, I'll
1H4 2.1. 2 be hanged. Charles's Wain is over the new chimney,
1H4 2.1. 3 and yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!
1H4 2.1. 4
1H4-OSTLER
{(within)} Anon, anon!
1H4 2.1. 5
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
I prithee, Tom, beat cut's saddle, put a few
1H4 2.1. 6 flocks in the point. Poor jade is wrung in the withers,
1H4 2.1. 7 out of all cess. {Enter another Carrier}
1H4 2.1. 8
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Peas and beans are as dank here as a
1H4 2.1. 9 dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the
1H4 2.1. 10 bots. This house is turned upside down since Robin
1H4 2.1. 11 Ostler died.
1H4 2.1. 12
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Poor fellow never joyed since the price of
1H4 2.1. 13 oats rose; it was the death of him.
1H4 2.1. 14
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
I think this be the most villainous house
1H4 2.1. 15 in all London road for fleas. I am stung like a tench.
1H4 2.1. 16
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Like a tench? By the mass, there is ne'er
1H4 2.1. 17 a king christen could be better bit than I have been
1H4 2.1. 18 since the first cock.
1H4 2.1. 19
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan,
1H4 2.1. 20 and then we leak in your chimney, and your chamber-
1H4 2.1. 21 lye breeds fleas like a loach.
1H4 2.1. 22
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
What, ostler! Come away, and be hanged,
1H4 2.1. 23 come away!
1H4 2.1. 24
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
I have a gammon of bacon and two races
1H4 2.1. 25 of ginger to be delivered as far as Charing Cross.
1H4 2.1. 26
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
God's body, the turkeys in my pannier are
1H4 2.1. 27 quite starved! What, ostler! A plague on thee, hast
1H4 2.1. 28 thou never an eye in thy head? Canst not hear? An
1H4 2.1. 29 'twere not as good deed as drink to break the pate on
1H4 2.1. 30 thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged! Hast
1H4 2.1. 31 no faith in thee? {Enter Gadshill}
1H4 2.1. 32
1H4-GADSHILL
Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?
1H4 2.1. 33
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
I think it be two o'clock.
1H4 2.1. 34
1H4-GADSHILL
I prithee lend me thy lantern to see my gelding
1H4 2.1. 35 in the stable.
1H4 2.1. 36
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Nay, by God, soft. I know a trick worth
1H4 2.1. 37 two of that, i' faith.
1H4 2.1. 38
1H4-GADSHILL
{(to Second Carrier)} I pray thee, lend +
1H4 2.1. 38 me thine.
1H4 2.1. 39
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Ay, when? Canst tell? `Lend me thy
1H4 2.1. 40 lantern,' quoth a. Marry, I'll see thee hanged first.
1H4 2.1. 41
1H4-GADSHILL
Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come
1H4 2.1. 42 to London?
1H4 2.1. 43
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Time enough to go to bed with a candle,
1H4 2.1. 44 I warrant thee. - Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up
1H4 2.1. 45 the gentlemen. They will along with company, for they
1H4 2.1. 46 have great charge. {Exeunt Carriers}
1H4 2.1. 47
1H4-GADSHILL
What ho, chamberlain! {Enter Chamberlain}
1H4 2.1. 48
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
`At hand' quoth Pickpurse.
1H4 2.1. 49
1H4-GADSHILL
That's even as fair as ` ``At hand'' quoth the
1H4 2.1. 50 chamberlain', for thou variest no more from picking of
1H4 2.1. 51 purses than giving direction doth from labouring: thou
1H4 2.1. 52 layest the plot how.
1H4 2.1. 53
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds
1H4 2.1. 54 current that I told you yesternight. There's a franklin
1H4 2.1. 55 in the Weald of Kent hath brought three hundred
1H4 2.1. 56 marks with him in gold. I heard him tell it to one of
1H4 2.1. 57 his company last night at supper - a kind of auditor,
1H4 2.1. 58 one that hath abundance of charge too, God knows
1H4 2.1. 59 what. They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;
1H4 2.1. 60 they will away presently.
1H4 2.1. 61
1H4-GADSHILL
Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas's
1H4 2.1. 62 clerks, I'll give thee this neck.
1H4 2.1. 63
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
No, I'll none of it; I pray thee keep that
1H4 2.1. 64 for the hangman, for I know thou worshippest Saint
1H4 2.1. 65 Nicholas as truly as a man of falsehood may.
1H4 2.1. 66
1H4-GADSHILL
What talkest thou to me of the hangman? If I
1H4 2.1. 67 hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows, for if I hang, old
1H4 2.1. 68 Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he's no
1H4 2.1. 69 starveling. Tut, there are other Trojans that thou
1H4 2.1. 70 dreamest not of, the which for sport' sake are content
1H4 2.1. 71 to do the profession some grace, that would, if matters
1H4 2.1. 72 should be looked into, for their own credit' sake make
1H4 2.1. 73 all whole. I am joined with no foot-landrakers, no long-
1H4 2.1. 74 staff sixpenny strikers, none of these mad mustachio
1H4 2.1. 75 purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity,
1H4 2.1. 76 burgomasters and great `oyez'-ers; such as can
1H4 2.1. 77 hold in, such as will strike sooner than speak, and
1H4 2.1. 78 speak sooner than drink, and drink sooner than pray.
1H4 2.1. 79 And yet, zounds, I lie, for they pray continually to their
1H4 2.1. 80 saint the commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her,
1H4 2.1. 81 but prey on her; for they ride up and down on her and
1H4 2.1. 82 make her their boots.
1H4 2.1. 83
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
What, the commonwealth their boots? Will
1H4 2.1. 84 she hold out water in foul way?
1H4 2.1. 85
1H4-GADSHILL
She will, she will, justice hath liquored her. We
1H4 2.1. 86 steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the recipe of
1H4 2.1. 87 fern-seed, we walk invisible.
1H4 2.1. 88
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
Nay, by my faith, I think you are more
1H4 2.1. 89 beholden to the night than to fern-seed for your walking
1H4 2.1. 90 invisible.
1H4 2.1. 91
1H4-GADSHILL
Give me thy hand; thou shalt have a share in
1H4 2.1. 92 our purchase, as I am a true man.
1H4 2.1. 93
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
Nay, rather let me have it as you are a
1H4 2.1. 94 false thief.
1H4 2.1. 95
1H4-GADSHILL
Go to, `{homo}' is a common name to all men.
1H4 2.1. 96 Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of the stable.
1H4 2.1. 97 Farewell, you muddy knave. {Exeunt [severally]}
1H4 2.1. 0 {Enter Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, [and Russell]}
1H4 2.2. 1
1H4-POINS
Come, shelter, shelter! {[Exeunt Harvey and +
1H4 2.2. 1 Russell at another door]}
1H4 2.2. 2 I have removed Oldcastle's horse, and he frets like a
1H4 2.2. 3 gummed velvet.
1H4 2.2. 4
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Stand close! {[Exit Poins]}
1H4 2.2. 5 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Poins! Poins, +
1H4 2.2. 5 and be hanged! Poins!
1H4 2.2. 6
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! What a
1H4 2.2. 7 brawling dost thou keep!
1H4 2.2. 8
1H4-SIR JOHN
Where's Poins, Hal?
1H4 2.2. 9
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
He is walked up to the top of the hill. I'll
1H4 2.2. 10 go seek him. {[Exit]}
1H4 2.2. 11
1H4-SIR JOHN
I am accursed to rob in that thief's company.
1H4 2.2. 12 The rascal hath removed my horse and tied him I know
1H4 2.2. 13 not where. If I travel but four foot by the square further
1H4 2.2. 14 afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to
1H4 2.2. 15 die a fair death, for all this - if I scape hanging for
1H4 2.2. 16 killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly
1H4 2.2. 17 any time this two-and-twenty years, and yet I am
1H4 2.2. 18 bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have
1H4 2.2. 19 not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be
1H4 2.2. 20 hanged. It could not be else: I have drunk medicines.
1H4 2.2. 21 Poins! Hal! A plague upon you both! Russell! Harvey!
1H4 2.2. 22 I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere not as
1H4 2.2. 23 good a deed as drink to turn true man and to leave
1H4 2.2. 24 these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed
1H4 2.2. 25 with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore
1H4 2.2. 26 and ten miles afoot with me, and the stony-hearted
1H4 2.2. 27 villains know it well enough. A plague upon 't when
1H4 2.2. 28 thieves cannot be true one to another! {They whistle. [Enter +
1H4 2.2. 28 Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, and Russell]}
1H4 2.2. 29 Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
1H4 2.2. 30 rogues, give me my horse, and be hanged!
1H4 2.2. 31
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace, ye fat-guts. Lie down, lay thine ear
1H4 2.2. 32 close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the
1H4 2.2. 33 tread of travellers.
1H4 2.2. 34
1H4-SIR JOHN
Have you any levers to lift me up again, being
1H4 2.2. 35 down? 'Sblood, I'll not bear my own flesh so far afoot
1H4 2.2. 36 again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer. What
1H4 2.2. 37 a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
1H4 2.2. 38
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou liest: thou art not colted, thou art
1H4 2.2. 39 uncolted.
1H4 2.2. 40
1H4-SIR JOHN
I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
1H4 2.2. 41 good king's son.
1H4 2.2. 42
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Out, ye rogue, shall I be your ostler?
1H4 2.2. 43
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters!
1H4 2.2. 44 If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I have not ballads
1H4 2.2. 45 made on you all and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of
1H4 2.2. 46 sack be my poison. When a jest is so forward, and
1H4 2.2. 47 afoot too! I hate it. {Enter Gadshill [visored]}
1H4 2.2. 48
1H4-GADSHILL
Stand!
1H4 2.2. 49
1H4-SIR JOHN
So I do, against my will.
1H4 2.2. 50
1H4-POINS
O, 'tis our setter, I know his voice. Gadshill, what
1H4 2.2. 51 news?
1H4 2.2. 52
1H4-[GADSHILL]
Case ye, case ye, on with your visors! There's
1H4 2.2. 53 money of the King's coming down the hill; 'tis going
1H4 2.2. 54 to the King's exchequer.
1H4 2.2. 55
1H4-SIR JOHN
You lie, ye rogue, 'tis going to the King's tavern.
1H4 2.2. 56
1H4-GADSHILL
There's enough to make us all.
1H4 2.2. 57
1H4-SIR JOHN
To be hanged. {[They put on visors]}
1H4 2.2. 58
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sirs, you four shall front them in the
1H4 2.2. 59 narrow lane. Ned Poins and I will walk lower. If they
1H4 2.2. 60 scape from your encounter, then they light on us.
1H4 2.2. 61
1H4-HARVEY
How many be there of them?
1H4 2.2. 62
1H4-GADSHILL
Some eight or ten.
1H4 2.2. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Zounds, will they not rob us?
1H4 2.2. 64
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
1H4 2.2. 65
1H4-SIR JOHN
Indeed I am not John of Gaunt your grandfather,
1H4 2.2. 66 but yet no coward, Hal.
1H4 2.2. 67
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, we leave that to the proof.
1H4 2.2. 68
1H4-POINS
Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge.
1H4 2.2. 69 When thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.
1H4 2.2. 70 Farewell, and stand fast.
1H4 2.2. 71
1H4-SIR JOHN
Now cannot I strike him if I should be hanged.
1H4 2.2. 72
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Ned, where are our +
1H4 2.2. 72 disguises?
1H4 2.2. 73
1H4-POINS
{(aside to the Prince)} Here, hard by. Stand +
1H4 2.2. 73 close. {[Exeunt the Prince and Poins]}
1H4 2.2. 74
1H4-SIR JOHN
Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say
1H4 2.2. 75 I; every man to his business. {[They stand aside.]}
1H4 2.2. 76 {Enter the Travellers, [amongst them the Carriers]}
1H4-[FIRST] TRAVELLER
1H4 2.2. 76 Come, neighbour, the boy shall lead
1H4 2.2. 77 our horses down the hill. We'll walk afoot a while, and
1H4 2.2. 78 ease their legs.
1H4 2.2. 79
1H4-THIEVES
{[coming forward]} Stand!
1H4 2.2. 80
1H4-[SECOND] TRAVELLER
Jesus bless us!
1H4 2.2. 81
1H4-SIR JOHN
Strike, down with them, cut the villains' throats!
1H4 2.2. 82 Ah, whoreson caterpillars, bacon-fed knaves! They hate
1H4 2.2. 83 us youth. Down with them, fleece them!
1H4 2.2. 84
1H4-[FIRST] TRAVELLER
O, we are undone, both we and ours
1H4 2.2. 85 for ever!
1H4 2.2. 86
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No,
1H4 2.2. 87 ye fat chuffs; I would your store were here. On, bacons,
1H4 2.2. 88 on! What, ye knaves! Young men must live. You are
1H4 2.2. 89 grand-jurors, are ye? We'll jure ye, faith. {Here they rob them +
1H4 2.2. 89 and bind them. Exeunt the thieves with the travellers}
1H4 2.2. 0 {Enter Prince Harry and Poins, disguised in buckram suits}
1H4 2.3. 1
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The thieves have bound the true men; now
1H4 2.3. 2 could thou and I rob the thieves, and go merrily to
1H4 2.3. 3 London. It would be argument for a week, laughter for
1H4 2.3. 4 a month, and a good jest for ever.
1H4 2.3. 5
1H4-POINS
Stand close; I hear them coming. {They stand aside.}
1H4 2.3. 6 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle, Russell, Harvey, and Gadshill, with the +
1H4 2.3. 6 travellers' money}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Come, my masters, let us +
1H4 2.3. 6 share, and then to
1H4 2.3. 7 horse before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two
1H4 2.3. 8 arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring. There's no
1H4 2.3. 9 more valour in that Poins than in a wild duck. {As they are +
1H4 2.3. 9 sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon them}
1H4 2.3. 10
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Your money!
1H4 2.3. 11
1H4-POINS
Villains! {Gadshill, Russell, and Harvey run away +
1H4 2.3. 11 [severally], and Oldcastle, after a blow or two, [roars and] runs away +
1H4 2.3. 11 too, leaving the booty behind them}
1H4 2.3. 12
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse.
1H4 2.3. 13 The thieves are all scattered, and possessed with fear
1H4 2.3. 14 So strongly that they dare not meet each other.
1H4 2.3. 15 Each takes his fellow for an officer.
1H4 2.3. 16 Away, good Ned. Oldcastle sweats to death,
1H4 2.3. 17 And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
1H4 2.3. 18 Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.
1H4 2.3. 19
1H4-POINS
How the fat rogue roared! {Exeunt with the booty}
1H4 2.3. 0 {Enter Hotspur, reading a letter}
1H4 2.4. 1
1H4-HOTSPUR
`But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well
1H4 2.4. 2 contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear your
1H4 2.4. 3 house.' - He could be contented; why is he not then?
1H4 2.4. 4 In respect of the love he bears our house! He shows in
1H4 2.4. 5 this he loves his own barn better than he loves our
1H4 2.4. 6 house. Let me see some more. - `The purpose you
1H4 2.4. 7 undertake is dangerous' - Why, that's certain: 'tis
1H4 2.4. 8 dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell
1H4 2.4. 9 you, my lord fool, out of this nettle danger we pluck
1H4 2.4. 10 this flower safety. - `The purpose you undertake is
1H4 2.4. 11 dangerous, the friends you have named uncertain, the
1H4 2.4. 12 time itself unsorted, and your whole plot too light for
1H4 2.4. 13 the counterpoise of so great an opposition.' - Say you
1H4 2.4. 14 so, say you so? I say unto you again, you are a shallow,
1H4 2.4. 15 cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is this!
1H4 2.4. 16 By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid,
1H4 2.4. 17 our friends true and constant; a good plot, good friends,
1H4 2.4. 18 and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good
1H4 2.4. 19 friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is this! Why, my
1H4 2.4. 20 lord of York commends the plot and the general course
1H4 2.4. 21 of the action. Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I
1H4 2.4. 22 could brain him with his lady's fan! Is there not my
1H4 2.4. 23 father, my uncle, and myself? Lord Edmund Mortimer,
1H4 2.4. 24 my lord of York, and Owain Glyndw^r? Is there not
1H4 2.4. 25 besides the Douglas? Have I not all their letters, to
1H4 2.4. 26 meet me in arms by the ninth of the next month? And
1H4 2.4. 27 are they not some of them set forward already? What
1H4 2.4. 28 a pagan rascal is this, an infidel! Ha, you shall see
1H4 2.4. 29 now, in very sincerity of fear and cold heart will he to
1H4 2.4. 30 the King, and lay open all our proceedings! O, I could
1H4 2.4. 31 divide myself and go to buffets for moving such a dish
1H4 2.4. 32 of skim-milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!
1H4 2.4. 33 Let him tell the King we are prepared; I will set forward
1H4 2.4. 34 tonight. {Enter Lady Percy}
1H4 2.4. 35 How now, Kate? I must leave you within these two
1H4 2.4. 36 hours.
1H4 2.4. 37
1H4-LADY PERCY
O my good lord, why are you thus alone?
1H4 2.4. 38 For what offence have I this fortnight been
1H4 2.4. 39 A banished woman from my Harry's bed?
1H4 2.4. 40 Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes from thee
1H4 2.4. 41 Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
1H4 2.4. 42 Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
1H4 2.4. 43 And start so often when thou sitt'st alone?
1H4 2.4. 44 Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks,
1H4 2.4. 45 And given my treasures and my rights of thee
1H4 2.4. 46 To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?
1H4 2.4. 47 In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watched,
1H4 2.4. 48 And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars,
1H4 2.4. 49 Speak terms of manege to thy bounding steed,
1H4 2.4. 50 Cry `Courage! To the field!' And thou hast talked
1H4 2.4. 51 Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
1H4 2.4. 52 Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
1H4 2.4. 53 Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
1H4 2.4. 54 Of prisoners ransomed, and of soldiers slain,
1H4 2.4. 55 And all the currents of a heady fight.
1H4 2.4. 56 Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
1H4 2.4. 57 And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep,
1H4 2.4. 58 That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
1H4 2.4. 59 Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;
1H4 2.4. 60 And in thy face strange motions have appeared,
1H4 2.4. 61 Such as we see when men restrain their breath
1H4 2.4. 62 On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?
1H4 2.4. 63 Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
1H4 2.4. 64 And I must know it, else he loves me not.
1H4 2.4. 65B
1H4-HOTSPUR
What ho! {Enter Servant} Is Gilliams with +
1H4 2.4. 65B the packet gone?
1H4 2.4. 66
1H4-SERVANT
He is, my lord, an hour ago.
1H4 2.4. 67
1H4-HOTSPUR
Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?
1H4 2.4. 68
1H4-SERVANT
One horse, my lord, he brought even now.
1H4 2.4. 69
1H4-HOTSPUR
What horse? A roan, a crop-ear, is it not?
1H4 2.4. 70B
1H4-SERVANT
It is, my lord.
1H4-HOTSPUR
That roan shall be my throne.
1H4 2.4. 71 Well, I will back him straight. - O, {Esperance}! -
1H4 2.4. 72 Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.
1H4 2.4. 73B
1H4-LADY PERCY
But hear you, my lord.
1H4-HOTSPUR
What sayst thou, my +
1H4 2.4. 73B lady?
1H4 2.4. 74B
1H4-LADY PERCY
What is it carries you away?
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, my horse,
1H4 2.4. 75B My love, my horse.
1H4-LADY PERCY
Out, you mad-headed ape!
1H4 2.4. 76 A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
1H4 2.4. 77 As you are tossed with.
1H4 2.4. 78 In faith, I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.
1H4 2.4. 79 I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
1H4 2.4. 80 About his title, and hath sent for you
1H4 2.4. 81 To line his enterprise; but if you go -
1H4 2.4. 82
1H4-HOTSPUR
So far afoot? I shall be weary, love.
1H4 2.4. 83
1H4-LADY PERCY
Come, come, you paraquito, answer me
1H4 2.4. 84 Directly to this question that I ask.
1H4 2.4. 85 In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,
1H4 2.4. 86 An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.
1H4 2.4. 87
1H4-HOTSPUR
Away, away, you trifler! Love? I love thee not,
1H4 2.4. 88 I care not for thee, Kate. This is no world
1H4 2.4. 89 To play with maumets and to tilt with lips.
1H4 2.4. 90 We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns,
1H4 2.4. 91 And pass them current, too. God's me, my horse! -
1H4 2.4. 92 What sayst thou, Kate? What wouldst thou have with me?
1H4 2.4. 93
1H4-LADY PERCY
Do you not love me? Do you not indeed?
1H4 2.4. 94 Well, do not, then, for since you love me not
1H4 2.4. 95 I will not love myself. Do you not love me?
1H4 2.4. 96 Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.
1H4 2.4. 97A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Come, wilt thou see me ride?
1H4 2.4. 98 And when I am a-horseback, I will swear
1H4 2.4. 99 I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate.
1H4 2.4. 100 I must not have you henceforth question me
1H4 2.4. 101 Whither I go, nor reason whereabout.
1H4 2.4. 102 Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,
1H4 2.4. 103 This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.
1H4 2.4. 104 I know you wise, but yet no farther wise
1H4 2.4. 105 Than Harry Percy's wife; constant you are,
1H4 2.4. 106 But yet a woman; and for secrecy
1H4 2.4. 107 No lady closer, for I well believe
1H4 2.4. 108 Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
1H4 2.4. 109 And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.
1H4 2.4. 110A
1H4-LADY PERCY
How, so far?
1H4 2.4. 111
1H4-HOTSPUR
Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate,
1H4 2.4. 112 Whither I go, thither shall you go too.
1H4 2.4. 113 Today will I set forth, tomorrow you.
1H4 2.4. 114B Will this content you, Kate?
1H4-LADY PERCY
It must, of force. +
1H4 2.4. 114B {Exeunt}
1H4 2.4. 0 {Enter Prince Harry}
1H4 2.5. 1
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Ned, prithee come out of that fat room,
1H4 2.5. 2 and lend me thy hand to laugh a little. {Enter Poins [at another +
1H4 2.5. 2 door]}
1H4 2.5. 3
1H4-POINS
Where hast been, Hal?
1H4 2.5. 4
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
With three or four loggerheads, amongst
1H4 2.5. 5 three or fourscore hogsheads. I have sounded the very
1H4 2.5. 6 bass-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to
1H4 2.5. 7 a leash of drawers, and can call them all by their
1H4 2.5. 8 christen names, as `Tom', `Dick', and `Francis'. They
1H4 2.5. 9 take it already, upon their salvation, that though I be
1H4 2.5. 10 but Prince of Wales yet I am the king of courtesy, and
1H4 2.5. 11 tell me flatly I am no proud jack like Oldcastle, but a
1H4 2.5. 12 Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy - by the Lord,
1H4 2.5. 13 so they call me; and when I am King of England I shall
1H4 2.5. 14 command all the good lads in Eastcheap. They call
1H4 2.5. 15 drinking deep `dyeing scarlet', and when you breathe
1H4 2.5. 16 in your watering they cry `Hem!' and bid you `Play it
1H4 2.5. 17 off!' To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one
1H4 2.5. 18 quarter of an hour that I can drink with any tinker in
1H4 2.5. 19 his own language during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou
1H4 2.5. 20 hast lost much honour that thou wert not with me in
1H4 2.5. 21 this action. But, sweet Ned - to sweeten which name
1H4 2.5. 22 of Ned I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped
1H4 2.5. 23 even now into my hand by an underskinker, one that
1H4 2.5. 24 never spake other English in his life than `Eight shillings
1H4 2.5. 25 and sixpence', and `You are welcome', with this shrill
1H4 2.5. 26 addition, `Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint of bastard in
1H4 2.5. 27 the Half-moon!' or so. But, Ned, to drive away the time
1H4 2.5. 28 till Oldcastle come, I prithee do thou stand in some
1H4 2.5. 29 by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what
1H4 2.5. 30 end he gave me the sugar, and do thou never leave
1H4 2.5. 31 calling `Francis!', that his tale to me may be nothing
1H4 2.5. 32 but `Anon!' Step aside, and I'll show thee a precedent. {Exit +
1H4 2.5. 32 Poins}
1H4 2.5. 33
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 34
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou art perfect.
1H4 2.5. 35
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis! {Enter Francis, a +
1H4 2.5. 35 drawer}
1H4 2.5. 36
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon, sir! - Look down into the Pomegranate,
1H4 2.5. 37 Ralph!
1H4 2.5. 38
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Come hither, Francis.
1H4 2.5. 39
1H4-FRANCIS
My lord.
1H4 2.5. 40
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How long hast thou to serve, Francis?
1H4 2.5. 41
1H4-FRANCIS
Forsooth, five years, and as much as to -
1H4 2.5. 42
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 43
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon, sir!
1H4 2.5. 44
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Five year! By 'r Lady, a long lease for the
1H4 2.5. 45 clinking of pewter. But Francis, darest thou be so
1H4 2.5. 46 valiant as to play the coward with thy indenture, and
1H4 2.5. 47 show it a fair pair of heels, and run from it?
1H4 2.5. 48
1H4-FRANCIS
O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in
1H4 2.5. 49 England, I could find in my heart -
1H4 2.5. 50
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 51
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, sir!
1H4 2.5. 52
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How old art thou, Francis?
1H4 2.5. 53
1H4-FRANCIS
Let me see, about Michaelmas next I shall be -
1H4 2.5. 54
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 55
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, sir! {(To the Prince)} Pray, stay a +
1H4 2.5. 55 little, my
1H4 2.5. 56 lord.
1H4 2.5. 57
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Nay, but hark you, Francis. For the sugar
1H4 2.5. 58 thou gavest me, 'twas a pennyworth, was 't not?
1H4 2.5. 59
1H4-FRANCIS
O Lord, I would it had been two!
1H4 2.5. 60
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I will give thee for it a thousand pound.
1H4 2.5. 61 Ask me when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it -
1H4 2.5. 62
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 63
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon!
1H4 2.5. 64
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Anon, Francis? No, Francis, but tomorrow,
1H4 2.5. 65 Francis; or, Francis, o' Thursday; or, indeed, Francis,
1H4 2.5. 66 when thou wilt. But Francis.
1H4 2.5. 67
1H4-FRANCIS
My lord.
1H4 2.5. 68
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin, crystal-
1H4 2.5. 69 button, knot-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-
1H4 2.5. 70 garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch?
1H4 2.5. 71
1H4-FRANCIS
O Lord, sir, who do you mean?
1H4 2.5. 72
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, then, your brown bastard is your
1H4 2.5. 73 only drink! For look you, Francis, your white canvas
1H4 2.5. 74 doublet will sully. In Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so
1H4 2.5. 75 much.
1H4 2.5. 76
1H4-FRANCIS
What, sir?
1H4 2.5. 77
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 78
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Away, you rogue! Dost thou not hear them
1H4 2.5. 79 call? {[As he departs] Poins and the Prince both call him. The +
1H4 2.5. 79 Drawer stands amazed, not knowing which way to go.}
1H4 2.5. 80 {Enter Vintner}
1H4-VINTNER
What, standest thou still, and +
1H4 2.5. 80 hearest such a
1H4 2.5. 81 calling? Look to the guests within. {Exit Francis}
1H4 2.5. 82 My lord, old Sir John with half a dozen more are at
1H4 2.5. 83 the door. Shall I let them in?
1H4 2.5. 84
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Let them alone a while, and then open the
1H4 2.5. 85 door. {Exit Vintner}
1H4 2.5. 86 Poins!
1H4 2.5. 87
1H4-POINS
{[within]} Anon, anon, sir! {Enter +
1H4 2.5. 87 Poins}
1H4 2.5. 88
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sirrah, Oldcastle and the rest of the +
1H4 2.5. 88 thieves
1H4 2.5. 89 are at the door. Shall we be merry?
1H4 2.5. 90
1H4-POINS
As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye, what
1H4 2.5. 91 cunning match have you made with this jest of the
1H4 2.5. 92 drawer? Come, what's the issue?
1H4 2.5. 93
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I am now of all humours that have showed
1H4 2.5. 94 themselves humours since the old days of goodman
1H4 2.5. 95 Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at
1H4 2.5. 96 midnight. {[Enter Francis]}
1H4 2.5. 97 What's o'clock, Francis?
1H4 2.5. 98
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon, sir! {[Exit at another door]}
1H4 2.5. 99
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
That ever this fellow should have fewer
1H4 2.5. 100 words than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His
1H4 2.5. 101 industry is upstairs and downstairs, his eloquence the
1H4 2.5. 102 parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind,
1H4 2.5. 103 the Hotspur of the North - he that kills me some six or
1H4 2.5. 104 seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands,
1H4 2.5. 105 and says to his wife, `Fie upon this quiet life! I want
1H4 2.5. 106 work.' `O my sweet Harry,' says she, `how many hast
1H4 2.5. 107 thou killed today?' `Give my roan horse a drench,' says
1H4 2.5. 108 he, and answers, `Some fourteen,' an hour after; `a
1H4 2.5. 109 trifle, a trifle.' I prithee call in Oldcastle. I'll play Percy,
1H4 2.5. 110 and that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his
1H4 2.5. 111 wife. `Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in Ribs, call in
1H4 2.5. 112 Tallow. {Enter Sir John Oldcastle, with sword and buckler, +
1H4 2.5. 112 Russell, Harvey, and Gadshill, [followed by] Francis, with wine}
1H4 2.5. 113
1H4-POINS
Welcome, Jack. Where hast thou been?
1H4 2.5. 114
1H4-SIR JOHN
A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance
1H4 2.5. 115 too, marry and amen! - Give me a cup of sack, boy. -
1H4 2.5. 116 Ere I lead this life long, I'll sew netherstocks, and mend
1H4 2.5. 117 them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards! -
1H4 2.5. 118 Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? {He +
1H4 2.5. 118 drinketh}
1H4 2.5. 119
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of
1H4 2.5. 120 butter - pitiful hearted Titan - that melted at the sweet
1H4 2.5. 121 tale of the sun's? If thou didst, then behold that
1H4 2.5. 122 compound.
1H4 2.5. 123
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Francis)} You rogue, here's lime in +
1H4 2.5. 123 this sack
1H4 2.5. 124 too. There is nothing but roguery to be found in
1H4 2.5. 125 villainous man, yet a coward is worse than a cup of
1H4 2.5. 126 sack with lime in it. {[Exit Francis]}
1H4 2.5. 127 A villainous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack, die when
1H4 2.5. 128 thou wilt. If manhood, good manhood, be not forgot
1H4 2.5. 129 upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
1H4 2.5. 130 There lives not three good men unhanged in England,
1H4 2.5. 131 and one of them is fat and grows old, God help the
1H4 2.5. 132 while. A bad world, I say. I would I were a weaver - I
1H4 2.5. 133 could sing psalms, or anything. A plague of all cowards,
1H4 2.5. 134 I say still.
1H4 2.5. 135
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How now, woolsack, what mutter you?
1H4 2.5. 136
1H4-SIR JOHN
A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy
1H4 2.5. 137 kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy subjects
1H4 2.5. 138 afore thee like a flock of wild geese, I'll never wear hair
1H4 2.5. 139 on my face more. You, Prince of Wales!
1H4 2.5. 140
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, you whoreson round man, what's
1H4 2.5. 141 the matter?
1H4 2.5. 142
1H4-SIR JOHN
Are not you a coward? Answer me to that. And
1H4 2.5. 143 Poins there?
1H4 2.5. 144
1H4-POINS
Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by
1H4 2.5. 145 the Lord I'll stab thee.
1H4 2.5. 146
1H4-SIR JOHN
I call thee coward? I'll see thee damned ere I
1H4 2.5. 147 call thee coward, but I would give a thousand pound
1H4 2.5. 148 I could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight
1H4 2.5. 149 enough in the shoulders; you care not who sees your
1H4 2.5. 150 back. Call you that backing of your friends? A plague
1H4 2.5. 151 upon such backing! Give me them that will face me.
1H4 2.5. 152 Give me a cup of sack. I am a rogue if I drunk today.
1H4 2.5. 153
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O villain, thy lips are scarce wiped since
1H4 2.5. 154 thou drunkest last.
1H4 2.5. 155
1H4-SIR JOHN
All is one for that. {He drinketh}
1H4 2.5. 156 A plague of all cowards, still say I.
1H4 2.5. 157
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What's the matter?
1H4 2.5. 158
1H4-SIR JOHN
What's the matter? There be four of us here
1H4 2.5. 159 have ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.
1H4 2.5. 160
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Where is it, Jack, where is it?
1H4 2.5. 161
1H4-SIR JOHN
Where is it? Taken from us it is. A hundred
1H4 2.5. 162 upon poor four of us.
1H4 2.5. 163
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, a hundred, man?
1H4 2.5. 164
1H4-SIR JOHN
I am a rogue if I were not at half-sword with a
1H4 2.5. 165 dozen of them, two hours together. I have scaped by
1H4 2.5. 166 miracle. I am eight times thrust through the doublet,
1H4 2.5. 167 four through the hose, my buckler cut through and
1H4 2.5. 168 through, my sword hacked like a handsaw. {Ecce signum.} {[He +
1H4 2.5. 168 shows his sword]}
1H4 2.5. 169 I never dealt better since I was a man. All would not
1H4 2.5. 170 do. A plague of all cowards! {(Pointing to Gadshill,}
1H4 2.5. 171 {Harvey, and Russell)} Let them speak. If they speak more
1H4 2.5. 172 or less than truth, they are villains and the sons of
1H4 2.5. 173 darkness.
1H4 2.5. 174
1H4-[PRINCE HARRY]
Speak, sirs, how was it?
1H4 2.5. 175
1H4-[GADSHILL]
We four set upon some dozen -
1H4 2.5. 176
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(to the Prince)} Sixteen at least, my +
1H4 2.5. 176 lord.
1H4 2.5. 177
1H4-[GADSHILL]
And bound them.
1H4 2.5. 178
1H4-HARVEY
No, no, they were not bound.
1H4 2.5. 179
1H4-SIR JOHN
You rogue, they were bound every man of them,
1H4 2.5. 180 or I am a Jew else, an Hebrew Jew.
1H4 2.5. 181
1H4-[GADSHILL]
As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh
1H4 2.5. 182 men set upon us.
1H4 2.5. 183
1H4-SIR JOHN
And unbound the rest; and then come in the
1H4 2.5. 184 other.
1H4 2.5. 185
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, fought you with them all?
1H4 2.5. 186
1H4-SIR JOHN
All? I know not what you call all, but if I fought
1H4 2.5. 187 not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish. If there
1H4 2.5. 188 were not two- or three-and-fifty upon poor old Jack,
1H4 2.5. 189 then am I no two-legged creature.
1H4 2.5. 190
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Pray God you have not murdered some of
1H4 2.5. 191 them.
1H4 2.5. 192
1H4-SIR JOHN
Nay, that's past praying for. I have peppered
1H4 2.5. 193 two of them. Two I am sure I have paid - two rogues
1H4 2.5. 194 in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a
1H4 2.5. 195 lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my
1H4 2.5. 196 old ward - {[He stands as to fight]}
1H4 2.5. 197 here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in
1H4 2.5. 198 buckram let drive at me.
1H4 2.5. 199
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, four? Thou saidst but two even
1H4 2.5. 200 now.
1H4 2.5. 201
1H4-SIR JOHN
Four, Hal, I told thee four.
1H4 2.5. 202
1H4-POINS
Ay, ay, he said four.
1H4 2.5. 203
1H4-SIR JOHN
These four came all afront, and mainly thrust
1H4 2.5. 204 at me. I made me no more ado, but took all their seven
1H4 2.5. 205 points in my target, thus. {[He wards himself with his buckler]}
1H4 2.5. 206
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Seven? Why, there were but four even
1H4 2.5. 207 now.
1H4 2.5. 208
1H4-SIR JOHN
In buckram?
1H4 2.5. 209
1H4-POINS
Ay, four in buckram suits.
1H4 2.5. 210
1H4-SIR JOHN
Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.
1H4 2.5. 211
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Prithee, let him +
1H4 2.5. 211 alone. We
1H4 2.5. 212 shall have more anon.
1H4 2.5. 213
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear me, Hal?
1H4 2.5. 214
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
1H4 2.5. 215
1H4-SIR JOHN
Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine
1H4 2.5. 216 in buckram that I told thee of -
1H4 2.5. 217
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} So, two more +
1H4 2.5. 217 already.
1H4 2.5. 218
1H4-SIR JOHN
Their points being broken -
1H4 2.5. 219
1H4-POINS
{[aside to the Prince]} Down fell their +
1H4 2.5. 219 hose.
1H4 2.5. 220
1H4-SIR JOHN
Began to give me ground. But I followed me
1H4 2.5. 221 close, came in foot and hand, and, with a thought,
1H4 2.5. 222 seven of the eleven I paid.
1H4 2.5. 223
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} O monstrous! +
1H4 2.5. 223 Eleven buckram
1H4 2.5. 224 men grown out of two!
1H4 2.5. 225
1H4-SIR JOHN
But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten
1H4 2.5. 226 knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive
1H4 2.5. 227 at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst not
1H4 2.5. 228 see thy hand.
1H4 2.5. 229
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
These lies are like their father that begets
1H4 2.5. 230 them - gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou
1H4 2.5. 231 clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou
1H4 2.5. 232 whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch -
1H4 2.5. 233
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, art thou mad? Art thou mad? Is not the
1H4 2.5. 234 truth the truth?
1H4 2.5. 235
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, how couldst thou know these men
1H4 2.5. 236 in Kendal green when it was so dark thou couldst not
1H4 2.5. 237 see thy hand? Come, tell us your reason. What sayst
1H4 2.5. 238 thou to this?
1H4 2.5. 239
1H4-POINS
Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.
1H4 2.5. 240
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, upon compulsion? Zounds, an I were at
1H4 2.5. 241 the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would
1H4 2.5. 242 not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on
1H4 2.5. 243 compulsion? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
1H4 2.5. 244 I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
1H4 2.5. 245
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I'll be no longer guilty of this sin. This
1H4 2.5. 246 sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back-
1H4 2.5. 247 breaker, this huge hill of flesh -
1H4 2.5. 248
1H4-SIR JOHN
'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried
1H4 2.5. 249 neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish - O, for
1H4 2.5. 250 breath to utter what is like thee! - you tailor's yard,
1H4 2.5. 251 you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck -
1H4 2.5. 252
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, breathe awhile, and then to 't again,
1H4 2.5. 253 and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,
1H4 2.5. 254 hear me speak but this.
1H4 2.5. 255
1H4-POINS
Mark, Jack.
1H4 2.5. 256
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
We two saw you four set on four, and
1H4 2.5. 257 bound them, and were masters of their wealth. - Mark
1H4 2.5. 258 now how a plain tale shall put you down. - Then did
1H4 2.5. 259 we two set on you four, and, with a word, outfaced
1H4 2.5. 260 you from your prize, and have it; yea, and can show
1H4 2.5. 261 it you here in the house. And Oldcastle, you carried
1H4 2.5. 262 your guts away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and
1H4 2.5. 263 roared for mercy, and still run and roared, as ever I
1H4 2.5. 264 heard bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy
1H4 2.5. 265 sword as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!
1H4 2.5. 266 What trick, what device, what starting-hole canst thou
1H4 2.5. 267 now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent
1H4 2.5. 268 shame?
1H4 2.5. 269
1H4-POINS
Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?
1H4 2.5. 270
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made
1H4 2.5. 271 ye. Why, hear you, my masters. Was it for me to kill
1H4 2.5. 272 the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince?
1H4 2.5. 273 Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules; but
1H4 2.5. 274 beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true
1H4 2.5. 275 prince - instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward
1H4 2.5. 276 on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee
1H4 2.5. 277 during my life - I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true
1H4 2.5. 278 prince. But by the Lord, lads, I am glad you have the
1H4 2.5. 279 money. - {(Calling)} Hostess, clap to the doors. - Watch
1H4 2.5. 280 tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of
1H4 2.5. 281 gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
1H4 2.5. 282 What, shall we be merry, shall we have a play
1H4 2.5. 283 extempore?
1H4 2.5. 284
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Content, and the argument shall be thy
1H4 2.5. 285 running away.
1H4 2.5. 286
1H4-SIR JOHN
Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me. {Enter +
1H4 2.5. 286 Hostess}
1H4 2.5. 287
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, my lord the Prince!
1H4 2.5. 288
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How now, my lady the Hostess, what sayst
1H4 2.5. 289 thou to me?
1H4 2.5. 290
1H4-HOSTESS
Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court
1H4 2.5. 291 at door would speak with you. He says he comes from
1H4 2.5. 292 your father.
1H4 2.5. 293
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Give him as much as will make him a
1H4 2.5. 294 royal man, and send him back again to my mother.
1H4 2.5. 295
1H4-SIR JOHN
What manner of man is he?
1H4 2.5. 296
1H4-HOSTESS
An old man.
1H4 2.5. 297
1H4-SIR JOHN
What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?
1H4 2.5. 298 Shall I give him his answer?
1H4 2.5. 299
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Prithee do, Jack.
1H4 2.5. 300
1H4-SIR JOHN
Faith, and I'll send him packing. {Exit}
1H4 2.5. 301
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Now, sirs; {(to Gadshill)} +
1H4 2.5. 301 by 'r Lady, you
1H4 2.5. 302 fought fair - so did you, Harvey, so did you, Russell.
1H4 2.5. 303 You are lions too - you ran away upon instinct, you
1H4 2.5. 304 will not touch the true prince; no, fie!
1H4 2.5. 305
1H4-RUSSELL
Faith, I ran when I saw others run.
1H4 2.5. 306
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came
1H4 2.5. 307 Oldcastle's sword so hacked?
1H4 2.5. 308
1H4-HARVEY
Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he
1H4 2.5. 309 would swear truth out of England but he would make
1H4 2.5. 310 you believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to
1H4 2.5. 311 do the like.
1H4 2.5. 312
1H4-RUSSELL
Yea, and to tickle our noses with speargrass, to
1H4 2.5. 313 make them bleed; and then to beslubber our garments
1H4 2.5. 314 with it, and swear it was the blood of true men. I did
1H4 2.5. 315 that I did not this seven year before - I blushed to hear
1H4 2.5. 316 his monstrous devices.
1H4 2.5. 317
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen
1H4 2.5. 318 years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever
1H4 2.5. 319 since thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and
1H4 2.5. 320 sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away. What
1H4 2.5. 321 instinct hadst thou for it?
1H4 2.5. 322
1H4-RUSSELL
{(indicating his face)} My lord, do you +
1H4 2.5. 322 see these
1H4 2.5. 323 meteors? Do you behold these exhalations?
1H4 2.5. 324
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I do.
1H4 2.5. 325
1H4-RUSSELL
What think you they portend?
1H4 2.5. 326
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Hot livers, and cold purses.
1H4 2.5. 327
1H4-RUSSELL
Choler, my lord, if rightly taken. {[Exit]}
1H4 2.5. 328
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
No, if rightly taken, halter. {Enter +
1H4 2.5. 328 Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4 2.5. 329 Here comes lean Jack; here comes bare-bone. How
1H4 2.5. 330 now, my sweet creature of bombast? How long is 't
1H4 2.5. 331 ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?
1H4 2.5. 332
1H4-SIR JOHN
My own knee? When I was about thy years,
1H4 2.5. 333 Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could
1H4 2.5. 334 have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring. A plague
1H4 2.5. 335 of sighing and grief - it blows a man up like a bladder.
1H4 2.5. 336 There's villainous news abroad. Here was Sir John
1H4 2.5. 337 Bracy from your father; you must to the court in the
1H4 2.5. 338 morning. That same mad fellow of the North, Percy,
1H4 2.5. 339 and he of Wales that gave Amamon the bastinado, and
1H4 2.5. 340 made Lucifer cuckold, and swore the devil his true
1H4 2.5. 341 liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook - what a
1H4 2.5. 342 plague call you him?
1H4 2.5. 343
1H4-POINS
Owain Glyndw^r.
1H4 2.5. 344
1H4-SIR JOHN
Owain, Owain, the same; and his son-in-law
1H4 2.5. 345 Mortimer, and old Northumberland, and that sprightly
1H4 2.5. 346 Scot of Scots Douglas, that runs a-horseback up a hill
1H4 2.5. 347 perpendicular -
1H4 2.5. 348
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
He that rides at high speed and with his
1H4 2.5. 349 pistol kills a sparrow flying.
1H4 2.5. 350
1H4-SIR JOHN
You have hit it.
1H4 2.5. 351
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
So did he never the sparrow.
1H4 2.5. 352
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he
1H4 2.5. 353 will not run.
1H4 2.5. 354
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, what a rascal art thou, then, to
1H4 2.5. 355 praise him so for running!
1H4 2.5. 356
1H4-SIR JOHN
A-horseback, ye cuckoo, but afoot he will not
1H4 2.5. 357 budge a foot.
1H4 2.5. 358
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Yes, Jack, upon instinct.
1H4 2.5. 359
1H4-SIR JOHN
I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,
1H4 2.5. 360 and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more.
1H4 2.5. 361 Worcester is stolen away tonight. Thy father's beard is
1H4 2.5. 362 turned white with the news. You may buy land now
1H4 2.5. 363 as cheap as stinking mackerel.
1H4 2.5. 364
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why then, it is like, if there come a hot
1H4 2.5. 365 June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy
1H4 2.5. 366 maidenheads as they buy hobnails: by the hundreds.
1H4 2.5. 367
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the mass, lad, thou sayst true; it is like we
1H4 2.5. 368 shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal, art
1H4 2.5. 369 not thou horrible afeard? Thou being heir-apparent,
1H4 2.5. 370 could the world pick thee out three such enemies again
1H4 2.5. 371 as that fiend Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil
1H4 2.5. 372 Glyndw^r? Art thou not horribly afraid? Doth not thy
1H4 2.5. 373 blood thrill at it?
1H4 2.5. 374
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Not a whit, i' faith. I lack some of thy
1H4 2.5. 375 instinct.
1H4 2.5. 376
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, thou wilt be horribly chid tomorrow when
1H4 2.5. 377 thou comest to thy father. If thou love me, practise an
1H4 2.5. 378 answer.
1H4 2.5. 379
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Do thou stand for my father, and examine
1H4 2.5. 380 me upon the particulars of my life.
1H4 2.5. 381
1H4-SIR JOHN
Shall I? Content. This chair shall be my state,
1H4 2.5. 382 this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown. {He sits}
1H4 2.5. 383
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thy state is taken for a joint-stool, thy
1H4 2.5. 384 golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious
1H4 2.5. 385 rich crown for a pitiful bald crown.
1H4 2.5. 386
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of
1H4 2.5. 387 thee, now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack
1H4 2.5. 388 to make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I
1H4 2.5. 389 have wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do
1H4 2.5. 390 it in King Cambyses' vein.
1H4 2.5. 391
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(bowing)} Well, here is my leg.
1H4 2.5. 392
1H4-SIR JOHN
And here is my speech. {(To Harvey, Poins, and}
1H4 2.5. 393 {Gadshill)} Stand aside, nobility.
1H4 2.5. 394
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith.
1H4 2.5. 395
1H4-SIR JOHN
Weep not, sweet Queen, for trickling tears are +
1H4 2.5. 395 vain.
1H4 2.5. 396
1H4-HOSTESS
O the Father, how he holds his countenance!
1H4 2.5. 397
1H4-SIR JOHN
For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful Queen,
1H4 2.5. 398 For tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes.
1H4 2.5. 399
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry
1H4 2.5. 400 players as ever I see!
1H4 2.5. 401
1H4-SIR JOHN
Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain. -
1H4 2.5. 402 Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy
1H4 2.5. 403 time, but also how thou art accompanied. For though
1H4 2.5. 404 the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it
1H4 2.5. 405 grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it
1H4 2.5. 406 wears. That thou art my son I have partly thy mother's
1H4 2.5. 407 word, partly my own opinion, but chiefly a villainous
1H4 2.5. 408 trick of thine eye, and a foolish hanging of thy nether
1H4 2.5. 409 lip, that doth warrant me. If then thou be son to me,
1H4 2.5. 410 here lies the point. Why, being son to me, art thou so
1H4 2.5. 411 pointed at? Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a
1H4 2.5. 412 micher, and eat blackberries? - A question not to be
1H4 2.5. 413 asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take
1H4 2.5. 414 purses? - A question to be asked. There is a thing,
1H4 2.5. 415 Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known
1H4 2.5. 416 to many in our land by the name of pitch. This pitch,
1H4 2.5. 417 as ancient writers do report, doth defile. So doth the
1H4 2.5. 418 company thou keepest. For Harry, now I do not speak
1H4 2.5. 419 to thee in drink, but in tears; not in pleasure, but in
1H4 2.5. 420 passion; not in words only, but in woes also. And yet
1H4 2.5. 421 there is a virtuous man whom I have often noted in
1H4 2.5. 422 thy company, but I know not his name.
1H4 2.5. 423
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What manner of man, an it like your
1H4 2.5. 424 majesty?
1H4 2.5. 425
1H4-SIR JOHN
A goodly, portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent;
1H4 2.5. 426 of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble
1H4 2.5. 427 carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by 'r
1H4 2.5. 428 Lady, inclining to threescore. And now I remember me,
1H4 2.5. 429 his name is Oldcastle. If that man should be lewdly
1H4 2.5. 430 given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry, I see virtue in his
1H4 2.5. 431 looks. If, then, the tree may be known by the fruit, as
1H4 2.5. 432 the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak it -
1H4 2.5. 433 there is virtue in that Oldcastle. Him keep with; the
1H4 2.5. 434 rest banish. And tell me now, thou naughty varlet, tell
1H4 2.5. 435 me, where hast thou been this month?
1H4 2.5. 436
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand
1H4 2.5. 437 for me, and I'll play my father.
1H4 2.5. 438
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(standing)} Depose me. If thou dost it +
1H4 2.5. 438 half so
1H4 2.5. 439 gravely, so majestically both in word and matter, hang
1H4 2.5. 440 me up by the heels for a rabbit sucker, or a poulter's
1H4 2.5. 441 hare.
1H4 2.5. 442
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(sitting)} Well, here I am set.
1H4 2.5. 443
1H4-SIR JOHN
And here I stand. {(To the others)} Judge, +
1H4 2.5. 443 my
1H4 2.5. 444 masters.
1H4 2.5. 445
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Now, Harry, whence come you?
1H4 2.5. 446
1H4-SIR JOHN
My noble lord, from Eastcheap.
1H4 2.5. 447
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.
1H4 2.5. 448
1H4-SIR JOHN
'Sblood, my lord, they are false. {[To the others]}
1H4 2.5. 449 Nay, I'll tickle ye for a young prince, i' faith.
1H4 2.5. 450
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Swearest thou, ungracious boy? Henceforth
1H4 2.5. 451 ne'er look on me. Thou art violently carried away
1H4 2.5. 452 from grace. There is a devil haunts thee in the likeness
1H4 2.5. 453 of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.
1H4 2.5. 454 Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours,
1H4 2.5. 455 that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of
1H4 2.5. 456 dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-
1H4 2.5. 457 bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the
1H4 2.5. 458 pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey
1H4 2.5. 459 Iniquity, that father Ruffian, that Vanity in Years?
1H4 2.5. 460 Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?
1H4 2.5. 461 Wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and
1H4 2.5. 462 eat it? Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty,
1H4 2.5. 463 but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things?
1H4 2.5. 464 Wherein worthy, but in nothing?
1H4 2.5. 465
1H4-SIR JOHN
I would your grace would take me with you.
1H4 2.5. 466 Whom means your grace?
1H4 2.5. 467
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
That villainous, abominable misleader of
1H4 2.5. 468 youth, Oldcastle; that old white-bearded Satan.
1H4 2.5. 469
1H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, the man I know.
1H4 2.5. 470
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I know thou dost.
1H4 2.5. 471
1H4-SIR JOHN
But to say I know more harm in him than in
1H4 2.5. 472 myself were to say more than I know. That he is old,
1H4 2.5. 473 the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it. But
1H4 2.5. 474 that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that
1H4 2.5. 475 I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help
1H4 2.5. 476 the wicked. If to be old and merry be a sin, then many
1H4 2.5. 477 an old host that I know is damned. If to be fat be to
1H4 2.5. 478 be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No,
1H4 2.5. 479 my good lord, banish Harvey, banish Russell, banish
1H4 2.5. 480 Poins, but for sweet Jack Oldcastle, kind Jack Oldcastle,
1H4 2.5. 481 true Jack Oldcastle, valiant Jack Oldcastle, and therefore
1H4 2.5. 482 more valiant being, as he is, old Jack Oldcastle,
1H4 2.5. 483 Banish not him thy Harry's company,
1H4 2.5. 484 Banish not him thy Harry's company.
1H4 2.5. 485 Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
1H4 2.5. 486
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I do; I will. {Knocking within. [Exit +
1H4 2.5. 486 Hostess.]}
1H4 2.5. 487 {Enter Russell, running}
1H4-RUSSELL
O my lord, my lord, the +
1H4 2.5. 487 sheriff with a most
1H4 2.5. 488 monstrous watch is at the door.
1H4 2.5. 489
1H4-SIR JOHN
Out, ye rogue! Play out the play! I have much
1H4 2.5. 490 to say in the behalf of that Oldcastle. {Enter the Hostess}
1H4 2.5. 491
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu! My lord, my lord!
1H4 2.5. 492
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Heigh, heigh, the devil rides upon a
1H4 2.5. 493 fiddlestick! What's the matter?
1H4 2.5. 494
1H4-HOSTESS
The sheriff and all the watch are at the door.
1H4 2.5. 495 They are come to search the house. Shall I let them
1H4 2.5. 496 in?
1H4 2.5. 497
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear, Hal? Never call a true piece of
1H4 2.5. 498 gold a counterfeit - thou art essentially made, without
1H4 2.5. 499 seeming so.
1H4 2.5. 500
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
And thou a natural coward without
1H4 2.5. 501 instinct.
1H4 2.5. 502
1H4-SIR JOHN
I deny your major. If you will deny the sheriff,
1H4 2.5. 503 so. If not, let him enter. If I become not a cart as well
1H4 2.5. 504 as another man, a plague on my bringing up. I hope I
1H4 2.5. 505 shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.
1H4 2.5. 506
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Go, hide thee behind the arras. The rest
1H4 2.5. 507 walk up above. Now, my masters, for a true face and
1H4 2.5. 508 good conscience. {Exeunt Poins, Russell, and Gadshill}
1H4 2.5. 509
1H4-SIR JOHN
Both which I have had, but their date is out;
1H4 2.5. 510 and therefore I'll hide me. {He withdraws behind the arras}
1H4 2.5. 511
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Hostess)} Call in the +
1H4 2.5. 511 sheriff. {Exit Hostess}
1H4 2.5. 512 {Enter Sheriff and a Carrier} Now, master sheriff, +
1H4 2.5. 512 what is your will with me?
1H4 2.5. 513
1H4-SHERIFF
First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry
1H4 2.5. 514 Hath followed certain men unto this house.
1H4 2.5. 515
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What men?
1H4 2.5. 516
1H4-SHERIFF
One of them is well known, my gracious lord,
1H4 2.5. 517B A gross, fat man.
1H4-CARRIER
As fat as butter.
1H4 2.5. 518
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The man, I do assure you, is not here,
1H4 2.5. 519 For I myself at this time have employed him.
1H4 2.5. 520 And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee
1H4 2.5. 521 That I will by tomorrow dinner-time
1H4 2.5. 522 Send him to answer thee, or any man,
1H4 2.5. 523 For anything he shall be charged withal.
1H4 2.5. 524 And so let me entreat you leave the house.
1H4 2.5. 525
1H4-SHERIFF
I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen
1H4 2.5. 526 Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.
1H4 2.5. 527
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
It may be so. If he have robbed these men,
1H4 2.5. 528 He shall be answerable. And so, farewell.
1H4 2.5. 529A
1H4-SHERIFF
Good night, my noble lord.
1H4 2.5. 530
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I think it is good morrow, is it not?
1H4 2.5. 531
1H4-SHERIFF
Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock. {Exeunt +
1H4 2.5. 531 Sheriff and Carrier}
1H4 2.5. 532
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's.
1H4 2.5. 533B Go call him forth.
1H4-HARVEY
Oldcastle! {[He draws back the +
1H4 2.5. 533B arras, revealing Sir John asleep]} Fast asleep
1H4 2.5. 534 Behind the arras, and snorting like a horse.
1H4 2.5. 535
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Hark how hard he fetches breath. Search his +
1H4 2.5. 535 pockets. {Harvey searcheth his pocket and findeth certain +
1H4 2.5. 535 papers. He [closeth the arras and] cometh forward}
1H4 2.5. 536B What hast thou found?
1H4-HARVEY
Nothing but papers, my lord.
1H4 2.5. 537A
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Let's see what they be. Read them.
1H4 2.5. 538
1H4-[HARVEY]
{(reads)} Item: a capon.2{s}. 2{d}.
1H4 2.5. 539 Item: sauce.4{d}.
1H4 2.5. 540 Item: sack, two gallons.5{s}. 8{d}.
1H4 2.5. 541 Item: anchovies and sack after supper.2{s}. 6{d}.
1H4 2.5. 542 Item: bread.{ob}.
1H4 2.5. 543
1H4-[PRINCE HARRY]
O monstrous! But one halfpennyworth of
1H4 2.5. 544 bread to this intolerable deal of sack! What there is
1H4 2.5. 545 else, keep close; we'll read it at more advantage. There
1H4 2.5. 546 let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the morning.
1H4 2.5. 547 We must all to the wars, and thy place shall be
1H4 2.5. 548 honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot,
1H4 2.5. 549 and I know his death will be a march of twelve score.
1H4 2.5. 550 The money shall be paid back again, with advantage.
1H4 2.5. 551 Be with me betimes in the morning; and so good
1H4 2.5. 552 morrow, Harvey.
1H4 2.5. 553
1H4-HARVEY
Good morrow, good my lord. {Exeunt [severally]}
1H4 2.5. 0 {Enter Hotspur, the Earl of Worcester, Lord +
1H4 3.1. 0 Mortimer, and Owain Glyndw^r, with a map}
1H4 3.1. 1
1H4-MORTIMER
These promises are fair, the parties sure,
1H4 3.1. 2 And our induction full of prosperous hope.
1H4 3.1. 3
1H4-HOTSPUR
Lord Mortimer and cousin Glyndw^r,
1H4 3.1. 4 Will you sit down? And uncle Worcester? {[Mortimer, Glyndw^r, +
1H4 3.1. 4 and Worcester sit]}
1H4 3.1. 5 A plague upon it, I have forgot the map!
1H4 3.1. 6
1H4-GLYNDW^R
No, here it is. Sit, cousin Percy, sit,
1H4 3.1. 7B Good cousin Hotspur; {[Hotspur sits]} For by that name
1H4 3.1. 8 As oft as Lancaster doth speak of you,
1H4 3.1. 9 His cheek looks pale, and with a rising sigh
1H4 3.1. 10B He wisheth you in heaven.
1H4-HOTSPUR
And you in hell,
1H4 3.1. 11 As oft as he hears Owain Glyndw^r spoke of.
1H4 3.1. 12
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I cannot blame him. At my nativity
1H4 3.1. 13 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
1H4 3.1. 14 Of burning cressets; and at my birth
1H4 3.1. 15 The frame and huge foundation of the earth
1H4 3.1. 16B Shaked like a coward.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, so it would have done
1H4 3.1. 17 At the same season if your mother's cat
1H4 3.1. 18 Had but kittened, though yourself had never been born.
1H4 3.1. 19
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I say the earth did shake when I was born.
1H4 3.1. 20
1H4-HOTSPUR
And I say the earth was not of my mind
1H4 3.1. 21 If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
1H4 3.1. 22
1H4-GLYNDW^R
The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble -
1H4 3.1. 23
1H4-HOTSPUR
O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
1H4 3.1. 24 And not in fear of your nativity.
1H4 3.1. 25 Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
1H4 3.1. 26 In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
1H4 3.1. 27 Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
1H4 3.1. 28 By the imprisoning of unruly wind
1H4 3.1. 29 Within her womb, which for enlargement striving
1H4 3.1. 30 Shakes the old beldam earth, and topples down
1H4 3.1. 31 Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
1H4 3.1. 32 Our grandam earth, having this distemp'rature,
1H4 3.1. 33B In passion shook.
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Cousin, of many men
1H4 3.1. 34 I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave
1H4 3.1. 35 To tell you once again that at my birth
1H4 3.1. 36 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
1H4 3.1. 37 The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
1H4 3.1. 38 Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.
1H4 3.1. 39 These signs have marked me extraordinary,
1H4 3.1. 40 And all the courses of my life do show
1H4 3.1. 41 I am not in the roll of commen men.
1H4 3.1. 42 Where is he living, clipped in with the sea
1H4 3.1. 43 That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
1H4 3.1. 44 Which calls me pupil or hath read to me?
1H4 3.1. 45 And bring him out that is but woman's son
1H4 3.1. 46 Can trace me in the tedious ways of art,
1H4 3.1. 47 And hold me pace in deep experiments.
1H4 3.1. 48
1H4-HOTSPUR
{[standing]} I think there's no man +
1H4 3.1. 48 speaketh better Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 49 I'll to dinner.
1H4 3.1. 50
1H4-MORTIMER
Peace, cousin Percy, you will make him mad.
1H4 3.1. 51
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
1H4 3.1. 52
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, so can I, or so can any man;
1H4 3.1. 53 But will they come when you do call for them?
1H4 3.1. 54
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
1H4 3.1. 55
1H4-HOTSPUR
And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil,
1H4 3.1. 56 By telling truth: `Tell truth, and shame the devil'.
1H4 3.1. 57 If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
1H4 3.1. 58 And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
1H4 3.1. 59 O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil.
1H4 3.1. 60
1H4-MORTIMER
Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
1H4 3.1. 61
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
1H4 3.1. 62 Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye
1H4 3.1. 63 And sandy-bottomed Severn have I sent him
1H4 3.1. 64 Bootless home, and weather-beaten back.
1H4 3.1. 65
1H4-HOTSPUR
Home without boots, and in foul weather too!
1H4 3.1. 66 How scapes he agues, in the devil's name?
1H4 3.1. 67
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Come, here's the map. Shall we divide our right,
1H4 3.1. 68 According to our threefold order ta'en?
1H4 3.1. 69
1H4-MORTIMER
The Archdeacon hath divided it
1H4 3.1. 70 Into three limits very equally.
1H4 3.1. 71 England from Trent and Severn hitherto
1H4 3.1. 72 By south and east is to my part assigned;
1H4 3.1. 73 All westward - Wales beyond the Severn shore
1H4 3.1. 74 And all the fertile land within that bound -
1H4 3.1. 75 To Owain Glyndw^r; {(to Hotspur)} and, dear coz, to you
1H4 3.1. 76 The remnant northward lying off from Trent.
1H4 3.1. 77 And our indentures tripartite are drawn,
1H4 3.1. 78 Which, being sealed interchangeably -
1H4 3.1. 79 A business that this night may execute -
1H4 3.1. 80 Tomorrow, cousin Percy, you and I
1H4 3.1. 81 And my good lord of Worcester will set forth
1H4 3.1. 82 To meet your father and the Scottish power,
1H4 3.1. 83 As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
1H4 3.1. 84 My father, Glyndw^r, is not ready yet,
1H4 3.1. 85 Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
1H4 3.1. 86 Within that space you may have drawn together
1H4 3.1. 87 Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen.
1H4 3.1. 88
1H4-GLYNDW^R
A shorter time shall send me to you, lords;
1H4 3.1. 89 And in my conduct shall your ladies come,
1H4 3.1. 90 From whom you now must steal and take no leave;
1H4 3.1. 91 For there will be a world of water shed
1H4 3.1. 92 Upon the parting of your wives and you.
1H4 3.1. 93
1H4-HOTSPUR
Methinks my moiety north from Burton here
1H4 3.1. 94 In quantity equals not one of yours.
1H4 3.1. 95 See how this river comes me cranking in,
1H4 3.1. 96 And cuts me from the best of all my land
1H4 3.1. 97 A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle, out.
1H4 3.1. 98 I'll have the current in this place dammed up,
1H4 3.1. 99 And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
1H4 3.1. 100 In a new channel fair and evenly.
1H4 3.1. 101 It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
1H4 3.1. 102 To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
1H4 3.1. 103
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Not wind? It shall, it must; you see it doth.
1H4 3.1. 104
1H4-MORTIMER
Yea, but mark how he bears his course, and runs me up
1H4 3.1. 105 With like advantage on the other side,
1H4 3.1. 106 Gelding the opposed continent as much
1H4 3.1. 107 As on the other side it takes from you.
1H4 3.1. 108
1H4-WORCESTER
Yea, but a little charge will trench him here,
1H4 3.1. 109 And on this north side win this cape of land,
1H4 3.1. 110 And then he runs straight and even.
1H4 3.1. 111
1H4-HOTSPUR
I'll have it so; a little charge will do it.
1H4 3.1. 112A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I'll not have it altered.
1H4 3.1. 113A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Will not you?
1H4 3.1. 114A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
No, nor you shall not.
1H4 3.1. 115A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Who shall say me nay?
1H4 3.1. 116A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Why, that will I.
1H4 3.1. 117
1H4-HOTSPUR
Let me not understand you, then: speak it in Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 118
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I can speak English, lord, as well as you;
1H4 3.1. 119 For I was trained up in the English court,
1H4 3.1. 120 Where, being but young, I framed to the harp
1H4 3.1. 121 Many an English ditty lovely well,
1H4 3.1. 122 And gave the tongue a helpful ornament -
1H4 3.1. 123 A virtue that was never seen in you.
1H4 3.1. 124
1H4-HOTSPUR
Marry, and I am glad of it, with all my heart.
1H4 3.1. 125 I had rather be a kitten and cry `mew'
1H4 3.1. 126 Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.
1H4 3.1. 127 I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,
1H4 3.1. 128 Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
1H4 3.1. 129 And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
1H4 3.1. 130 Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
1H4 3.1. 131 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
1H4 3.1. 132A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Come, you shall have Trent turned.
1H4 3.1. 133
1H4-HOTSPUR
I do not care. I'll give thrice so much land
1H4 3.1. 134 To any well-deserving friend;
1H4 3.1. 135 But in the way of bargain - mark ye me -
1H4 3.1. 136 I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
1H4 3.1. 137 Are the indentures drawn? Shall we be gone?
1H4 3.1. 138
1H4-GLYNDW^R
The moon shines fair. You may away by night.
1H4 3.1. 139 I'll haste the writer, and withal
1H4 3.1. 140 Break with your wives of your departure hence.
1H4 3.1. 141 I am afraid my daughter will run mad,
1H4 3.1. 142 So much she doteth on her Mortimer. {Exit}
1H4 3.1. 143
1H4-MORTIMER
Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father!
1H4 3.1. 144
1H4-HOTSPUR
I cannot choose. Sometime he angers me
1H4 3.1. 145 With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,
1H4 3.1. 146 Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
1H4 3.1. 147 And of a dragon and a finless fish,
1H4 3.1. 148 A clip-winged griffin and a moulten raven,
1H4 3.1. 149 A couching lion and a ramping cat,
1H4 3.1. 150 And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
1H4 3.1. 151 As puts me from my faith. I tell you what,
1H4 3.1. 152 He held me last night at the least nine hours
1H4 3.1. 153 In reckoning up the several devils' names
1H4 3.1. 154 That were his lackeys. I cried, `Hum!' and, `Well, go to!',
1H4 3.1. 155 But marked him not a word. O, he is as tedious
1H4 3.1. 156 As a tired horse, a railing wife,
1H4 3.1. 157 Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live
1H4 3.1. 158 With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far,
1H4 3.1. 159 Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
1H4 3.1. 160 In any summer house in Christendom.
1H4 3.1. 161
1H4-MORTIMER
In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
1H4 3.1. 162 Exceedingly well read, and profited
1H4 3.1. 163 In strange concealments, valiant as a lion,
1H4 3.1. 164 And wondrous affable, and as bountiful
1H4 3.1. 165 As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?
1H4 3.1. 166 He holds your temper in a high respect,
1H4 3.1. 167 And curbs himself even of his natural scope
1H4 3.1. 168 When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does.
1H4 3.1. 169 I warrant you, that man is not alive
1H4 3.1. 170 Might so have tempted him as you have done
1H4 3.1. 171 Without the taste of danger and reproof.
1H4 3.1. 172 But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.
1H4 3.1. 173
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to Hotspur)} In faith, my lord, you +
1H4 3.1. 173 are too wilful-blame,
1H4 3.1. 174 And since your coming hither have done enough
1H4 3.1. 175 To put him quite besides his patience.
1H4 3.1. 176 You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault.
1H4 3.1. 177 Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood -
1H4 3.1. 178 And that's the dearest grace it renders you -
1H4 3.1. 179 Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,
1H4 3.1. 180 Defect of manners, want of government,
1H4 3.1. 181 Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain,
1H4 3.1. 182 The least of which haunting a nobleman
1H4 3.1. 183 Loseth men's hearts, and leaves behind a stain
1H4 3.1. 184 Upon the beauty of all parts besides,
1H4 3.1. 185 Beguiling them of commendation.
1H4 3.1. 186
1H4-HOTSPUR
Well, I am schooled. Good manners be your speed! +
1H4 3.1. 186 {Enter Glyndw^r with Lady Percy and Mortimer's wife}
1H4 3.1. 187 Here come our wives, and let us take our leave. +
1H4 3.1. 187 {[Mortimer's wife weeps, and speaks to him in Welsh]}
1H4 3.1. 188
1H4-MORTIMER
This is the deadly spite that angers me:
1H4 3.1. 189 My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 190
1H4-GLYNDW^R
My daughter weeps she'll not part with you.
1H4 3.1. 191 She'll be a soldier, too; she'll to the wars.
1H4 3.1. 192
1H4-MORTIMER
Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy
1H4 3.1. 193 Shall follow in your conduct speedily. {Glyndw^r speaks to her +
1H4 3.1. 193 in Welsh, and she answers him in the same}
1H4 3.1. 194
1H4-GLYNDW^R
She is desperate here, a peevish self-willed +
1H4 3.1. 194 harlotry,
1H4 3.1. 195 One that no persuasion can do good upon. {The lady speaks in +
1H4 3.1. 195 Welsh}
1H4 3.1. 196
1H4-MORTIMER
I understand thy looks. That pretty Welsh
1H4 3.1. 197 Which thou down pourest from these swelling heavens
1H4 3.1. 198 I am too perfect in, and but for shame
1H4 3.1. 199 In such a parley should I answer thee. {The lady kisses him, and +
1H4 3.1. 199 speaks again in Welsh}
1H4 3.1. 200
1H4-MORTIMER
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,
1H4 3.1. 201 And that's a feeling disputation;
1H4 3.1. 202 But I will never be a truant, love,
1H4 3.1. 203 Till I have learnt thy language, for thy tongue
1H4 3.1. 204 Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned,
1H4 3.1. 205 Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower
1H4 3.1. 206 With ravishing division, to her lute.
1H4 3.1. 207
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad. {The lady +
1H4 3.1. 207 [sits on the rushes and] speaks again in Welsh}
1H4 3.1. 208
1H4-MORTIMER
O, I am ignorance itself in this!
1H4 3.1. 209
1H4-GLYNDW^R
She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
1H4 3.1. 210 And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
1H4 3.1. 211 And she will sing the song that pleaseth you,
1H4 3.1. 212 And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
1H4 3.1. 213 Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
1H4 3.1. 214 Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
1H4 3.1. 215 As is the difference betwixt day and night
1H4 3.1. 216 The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team
1H4 3.1. 217 Begins his golden progress in the east.
1H4 3.1. 218
1H4-MORTIMER
With all my heart, I'll sit and hear her sing.
1H4 3.1. 219 By that time will our book, I think, be drawn. {He sits, +
1H4 3.1. 219 [resting his head on the Welsh lady's lap]}
1H4 3.1. 220
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Do so, and those musicians that shall play to +
1H4 3.1. 220 you
1H4 3.1. 221 Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
1H4 3.1. 222 And straight they shall be here. Sit and attend.
1H4 3.1. 223
1H4-HOTSPUR
Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down.
1H4 3.1. 224 Come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.
1H4 3.1. 225A
1H4-LADY PERCY
{(sitting)} Go, ye giddy goose! +
1H4 3.1. 225A {Hotspur sits, resting his head on Lady Percy's lap. The music plays}
1H4 3.1. 226
1H4-HOTSPUR
Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;
1H4 3.1. 227 And 'tis no marvel, he is so humorous.
1H4 3.1. 228 By 'r Lady, he's a good musician.
1H4 3.1. 229
1H4-LADY PERCY
Then should you be nothing but musical,
1H4 3.1. 230 For you are altogether governed by humours.
1H4 3.1. 231 Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 232
1H4-HOTSPUR
I had rather hear Lady my brach howl in Irish.
1H4 3.1. 233
1H4-LADY PERCY
Wouldst thou have thy head broken?
1H4 3.1. 234
1H4-HOTSPUR
No.
1H4 3.1. 235
1H4-LADY PERCY
Then be still.
1H4 3.1. 236
1H4-HOTSPUR
Neither - 'tis a woman's fault.
1H4 3.1. 237
1H4-LADY PERCY
Now God help thee!
1H4 3.1. 238
1H4-HOTSPUR
To the Welsh lady's bed.
1H4 3.1. 239
1H4-LADY PERCY
What's that?
1H4 3.1. 240
1H4-HOTSPUR
Peace; she sings. {Here the lady sings a Welsh song}
1H4 3.1. 241
1H4-HOTSPUR
Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.
1H4 3.1. 242
1H4-LADY PERCY
Not mine, in good sooth.
1H4 3.1. 243
1H4-HOTSPUR
Not yours, in good sooth! Heart, you swear like
1H4 3.1. 244 a comfit-maker's wife: `Not you, in good sooth!' and
1H4 3.1. 245 `As true as I live!' and
1H4 3.1. 246 `As God shall mend me!' and `As sure as day!';
1H4 3.1. 247 And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths
1H4 3.1. 248 As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.
1H4 3.1. 249 Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
1H4 3.1. 250 A good mouth-filling oath, and leave `in sooth'
1H4 3.1. 251 And such protest of pepper gingerbread
1H4 3.1. 252 To velvet-guards and Sunday citizens.
1H4 3.1. 253 Come, sing.
1H4 3.1. 254
1H4-LADY PERCY
I will not sing.
1H4 3.1. 255
1H4-HOTSPUR
'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast
1H4 3.1. 256 teacher. {(Rising)} An the indentures be drawn, I'll +
1H4 3.1. 256 away
1H4 3.1. 257 within these two hours; and so come in when ye will. {Exit}
1H4 3.1. 258
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Come, come, Lord Mortimer. You are as slow
1H4 3.1. 259 As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.
1H4 3.1. 260 By this our book is drawn. We'll but seal,
1H4 3.1. 261B And then to horse immediately.
1H4-MORTIMER
{(rising)} +
1H4 3.1. 261B With all my heart. {The ladies rise, and all exeunt}
1H4 3.1. 0 {Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, and lords}
1H4 3.2. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
Lords, give us leave - the Prince of Wales and I
1H4 3.2. 2 Must have some private conference - but be near at hand,
1H4 3.2. 3 For we shall presently have need of you. {Exeunt Lords}
1H4 3.2. 4 I know not whether God will have it so
1H4 3.2. 5 For some displeasing service I have done,
1H4 3.2. 6 That in his secret doom out of my blood
1H4 3.2. 7 He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me,
1H4 3.2. 8 But thou dost in thy passages of life
1H4 3.2. 9 Make me believe that thou art only marked
1H4 3.2. 10 For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
1H4 3.2. 11 To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,
1H4 3.2. 12 Could such inordinate and low desires,
1H4 3.2. 13 Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,
1H4 3.2. 14 Such barren pleasures, rude society,
1H4 3.2. 15 As thou art matched withal and grafted to,
1H4 3.2. 16 Accompany the greatness of thy blood,
1H4 3.2. 17 And hold their level with thy princely heart?
1H4 3.2. 18
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
So please your majesty, I would I could
1H4 3.2. 19 Quit all offences with as clear excuse
1H4 3.2. 20 As well as I am doubtless I can purge
1H4 3.2. 21 Myself of many I am charged withal;
1H4 3.2. 22 Yet such extenuation let me beg
1H4 3.2. 23 As, in reproof of many tales devised -
1H4 3.2. 24 Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear
1H4 3.2. 25 By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers -
1H4 3.2. 26 I may, for some things true wherein my youth
1H4 3.2. 27 Hath faulty wandered and irregular,
1H4 3.2. 28 Find pardon on my true submission.
1H4 3.2. 29
1H4-KING HENRY
God pardon thee! Yet let me wonder, Harry,
1H4 3.2. 30 At thy affections, which do hold a wing
1H4 3.2. 31 Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
1H4 3.2. 32 Thy place in Council thou hast rudely lost -
1H4 3.2. 33 Which by thy younger brother is supplied -
1H4 3.2. 34 And art almost an alien to the hearts
1H4 3.2. 35 Of all the court and princes of my blood.
1H4 3.2. 36 The hope and expectation of thy time
1H4 3.2. 37 Is ruined, and the soul of every man
1H4 3.2. 38 Prophetically do forethink thy fall.
1H4 3.2. 39 Had I so lavish of my presence been,
1H4 3.2. 40 So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men,
1H4 3.2. 41 So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
1H4 3.2. 42 Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
1H4 3.2. 43 Had still kept loyal to possession,
1H4 3.2. 44 And left me in reputeless banishment,
1H4 3.2. 45 A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
1H4 3.2. 46 By being seldom seen, I could not stir
1H4 3.2. 47 But, like a comet, I was wondered at,
1H4 3.2. 48 That men would tell their children `This is he.'
1H4 3.2. 49 Others would say `Where, which is Bolingbroke?'
1H4 3.2. 50 And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
1H4 3.2. 51 And dressed myself in such humility
1H4 3.2. 52 That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
1H4 3.2. 53 Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
1H4 3.2. 54 Even in the presence of the crowned King.
1H4 3.2. 55 Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
1H4 3.2. 56 My presence like a robe pontifical -
1H4 3.2. 57 Ne'er seen but wondered at - and so my state,
1H4 3.2. 58 Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast,
1H4 3.2. 59 And won by rareness such solemnity.
1H4 3.2. 60 The skipping King, he ambled up and down
1H4 3.2. 61 With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
1H4 3.2. 62 Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state,
1H4 3.2. 63 Mingled his royalty with cap'ring fools,
1H4 3.2. 64 Had his great name profaned with their scorns,
1H4 3.2. 65 And gave his countenance, against his name,
1H4 3.2. 66 To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push
1H4 3.2. 67 Of every beardless vain comparative;
1H4 3.2. 68 Grew a companion to the common streets,
1H4 3.2. 69 Enfeoffed himself to popularity,
1H4 3.2. 70 That, being daily swallowed by men's eyes,
1H4 3.2. 71 They surfeited with honey, and began
1H4 3.2. 72 To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
1H4 3.2. 73 More than a little is by much too much.
1H4 3.2. 74 So when he had occasion to be seen,
1H4 3.2. 75 He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
1H4 3.2. 76 Heard, not regarded, seen but with such eyes
1H4 3.2. 77 As, sick and blunted with community,
1H4 3.2. 78 Afford no extraordinary gaze
1H4 3.2. 79 Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
1H4 3.2. 80 When it shines seldom in admiring eyes,
1H4 3.2. 81 But rather drowsed and hung their eyelids down,
1H4 3.2. 82 Slept in his face, and rendered such aspect
1H4 3.2. 83 As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
1H4 3.2. 84 Being with his presence glutted, gorged, and full.
1H4 3.2. 85 And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;
1H4 3.2. 86 For thou hast lost thy princely privilege
1H4 3.2. 87 With vile participation. Not an eye
1H4 3.2. 88 But is a-weary of thy common sight,
1H4 3.2. 89 Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more,
1H4 3.2. 90 Which now doth that I would not have it do -
1H4 3.2. 91 Make blind itself with foolish tenderness. {He weeps}
1H4 3.2. 92
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I shall hereafter, my thrice-gracious lord,
1H4 3.2. 93B Be more myself.
1H4-KING HENRY
For all the world,
1H4 3.2. 94 As thou art to this hour was Richard then,
1H4 3.2. 95 When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,
1H4 3.2. 96 And even as I was then is Percy now.
1H4 3.2. 97 Now by my sceptre, and my soul to boot,
1H4 3.2. 98 He hath more worthy interest to the state
1H4 3.2. 99 Than thou, the shadow of succession;
1H4 3.2. 100 For, of no right, nor colour like to right,
1H4 3.2. 101 He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
1H4 3.2. 102 Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,
1H4 3.2. 103 And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
1H4 3.2. 104 Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
1H4 3.2. 105 To bloody battles, and to bruising arms.
1H4 3.2. 106 What never-dying honour hath he got
1H4 3.2. 107 Against renowned Douglas! - whose high deeds,
1H4 3.2. 108 Whose hot incursions and great name in arms,
1H4 3.2. 109 Holds from all soldiers chief majority
1H4 3.2. 110 And military title capital
1H4 3.2. 111 Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ.
1H4 3.2. 112 Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swaddling-clothes,
1H4 3.2. 113 This infant warrior, in his enterprises
1H4 3.2. 114 Discomfited great Douglas; ta'en him once;
1H4 3.2. 115 Enlarged him; and made a friend of him
1H4 3.2. 116 To fill the mouth of deep defiance up,
1H4 3.2. 117 And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
1H4 3.2. 118 And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,
1H4 3.2. 119 The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
1H4 3.2. 120 Capitulate against us, and are up.
1H4 3.2. 121 But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
1H4 3.2. 122 Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
1H4 3.2. 123 Which art my near'st and dearest enemy? -
1H4 3.2. 124 Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,
1H4 3.2. 125 Base inclination, and the start of spleen,
1H4 3.2. 126 To fight against me under Percy's pay,
1H4 3.2. 127 To dog his heels, and curtsy at his frowns,
1H4 3.2. 128 To show how much thou art degenerate.
1H4 3.2. 129
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Do not think so; you shall not find it so.
1H4 3.2. 130 And God forgive them that so much have swayed
1H4 3.2. 131 Your majesty's good thoughts away from me.
1H4 3.2. 132 I will redeem all this on Percy's head,
1H4 3.2. 133 And in the closing of some glorious day
1H4 3.2. 134 Be bold to tell you that I am your son;
1H4 3.2. 135 When I will wear a garment all of blood,
1H4 3.2. 136 And stain my favours in a bloody mask,
1H4 3.2. 137 Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
1H4 3.2. 138 And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,
1H4 3.2. 139 That this same child of honour and renown,
1H4 3.2. 140 This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,
1H4 3.2. 141 And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
1H4 3.2. 142 For every honour sitting on his helm,
1H4 3.2. 143 Would they were multitudes, and on my head
1H4 3.2. 144 My shames redoubled; for the time will come
1H4 3.2. 145 That I shall make this northern youth exchange
1H4 3.2. 146 His glorious deeds for my indignities.
1H4 3.2. 147 Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
1H4 3.2. 148 To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;
1H4 3.2. 149 And I will call him to so strict account
1H4 3.2. 150 That he shall render every glory up,
1H4 3.2. 151 Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
1H4 3.2. 152 Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
1H4 3.2. 153 This, in the name of God, I promise here,
1H4 3.2. 154 The which if he be pleased I shall perform,
1H4 3.2. 155 I do beseech your majesty may salve
1H4 3.2. 156 The long-grown wounds of my intemperature;
1H4 3.2. 157 If not, the end of life cancels all bonds,
1H4 3.2. 158 And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
1H4 3.2. 159 Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
1H4 3.2. 160
1H4-KING HENRY
A hundred thousand rebels die in this.
1H4 3.2. 161 Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein. {Enter Sir +
1H4 3.2. 161 Walter Blunt}
1H4 3.2. 162 How now, good Blunt? Thy looks are full of speed.
1H4 3.2. 163
1H4-BLUNT
So hath the business that I come to speak of.
1H4 3.2. 164 Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
1H4 3.2. 165 That Douglas and the English rebels met
1H4 3.2. 166 The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury.
1H4 3.2. 167 A mighty and a fearful head they are,
1H4 3.2. 168 If promises be kept on every hand,
1H4 3.2. 169 As ever offered foul play in a state.
1H4 3.2. 170
1H4-KING HENRY
The Earl of Westmorland set forth today,
1H4 3.2. 171 With him my son Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 3.2. 172 For this advertisement is five days old.
1H4 3.2. 173 On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward.
1H4 3.2. 174 On Thursday we ourselves will march.
1H4 3.2. 175 Our meeting is Bridgnorth, and, Harry, you
1H4 3.2. 176 Shall march through Gloucestershire, by which account,
1H4 3.2. 177 Our business valued, some twelve days hence
1H4 3.2. 178 Our general forces at Bridgnorth shall meet.
1H4 3.2. 179 Our hands are full of business; let's away.
1H4 3.2. 180 Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. {Exeunt}
1H4 3.2. 0 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle [with a truncheon at his +
1H4 3.3. 0 waist], and Russell}
1H4 3.3. 1
1H4-SIR JOHN
Russell, am I not fallen away vilely since this
1H4 3.3. 2 last action? Do I not bate? Do I not dwindle? Why,
1H4 3.3. 3 my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown.
1H4 3.3. 4 I am withered like an old apple-john. Well, I'll repent,
1H4 3.3. 5 and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall
1H4 3.3. 6 be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no
1H4 3.3. 7 strength to repent. An I have not forgotten what the
1H4 3.3. 8 inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a
1H4 3.3. 9 brewer's horse - the inside of a church! Company,
1H4 3.3. 10 villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
1H4 3.3. 11
1H4-RUSSELL
Sir John, you are so fretful you cannot live long.
1H4 3.3. 12
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, there is it. Come, sing me a bawdy song,
1H4 3.3. 13 make me merry. I was as virtuously given as a
1H4 3.3. 14 gentleman need to be: virtuous enough; swore little;
1H4 3.3. 15 diced not - above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-
1H4 3.3. 16 house not - above once in a quarter - of an hour; paid
1H4 3.3. 17 money that I borrowed - three or four times; lived well,
1H4 3.3. 18 and in good compass. And now I live out of all order,
1H4 3.3. 19 out of all compass.
1H4 3.3. 20
1H4-RUSSELL
Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must
1H4 3.3. 21 needs be out of all compass, out of all reasonable
1H4 3.3. 22 compass, Sir John.
1H4 3.3. 23
1H4-SIR JOHN
Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.
1H4 3.3. 24 Thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the
1H4 3.3. 25 poop - but 'tis in the nose of thee. Thou art the Knight
1H4 3.3. 26 of the Burning Lamp.
1H4 3.3. 27
1H4-RUSSELL
Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.
1H4 3.3. 28
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as
1H4 3.3. 29 many a man doth of a death's head, or a {memento
1H4 3.3. 30 mori}. I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and
1H4 3.3. 31 Dives that lived in purple - for there he is in his robes,
1H4 3.3. 32 burning, burning. If thou wert any way given to virtue,
1H4 3.3. 33 I would swear by thy face; my oath should be `By this
1H4 3.3. 34 fire that's God's angel!' But thou art altogether given
1H4 3.3. 35 over, and wert indeed, but for the light in thy face, the
1H4 3.3. 36 son of utter darkness. When thou rannest up Gads Hill
1H4 3.3. 37 in the night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou
1H4 3.3. 38 hadst been an {ignis fatuus} or a ball of wildfire, there's
1H4 3.3. 39 no purchase in money. O, thou art a perpetual triumph,
1H4 3.3. 40 an everlasting bonfire-light! Thou hast saved me a
1H4 3.3. 41 thousand marks in links and torches, walking with
1H4 3.3. 42 thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern - but the
1H4 3.3. 43 sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
1H4 3.3. 44 lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
1H4 3.3. 45 I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire
1H4 3.3. 46 any time this two-and-thirty years, God reward me
1H4 3.3. 47 for it.
1H4 3.3. 48
1H4-RUSSELL
'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!
1H4 3.3. 49
1H4-SIR JOHN
God-a-mercy! So should I be sure to be heartburnt.
1H4 3.3. 49
1H4 3.3. 51 {Enter Hostess} How now, Dame Partlet the hen, have +
1H4 3.3. 51 you enquired
1H4 3.3. 52 yet who picked my pocket?
1H4 3.3. 53
1H4-HOSTESS
Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? Do
1H4 3.3. 54 you think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,
1H4 3.3. 55 I have enquired; so has my husband, man by man,
1H4 3.3. 56 boy by boy, servant by servant. The tithe of a hair was
1H4 3.3. 57 never lost in my house before.
1H4 3.3. 58
1H4-SIR JOHN
Ye lie, Hostess: Russell was shaved and lost
1H4 3.3. 59 many a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked.
1H4 3.3. 60 Go to, you are a woman, go.
1H4 3.3. 61
1H4-HOSTESS
Who, I? No, I defy thee! God's light, I was never
1H4 3.3. 62 called so in mine own house before.
1H4 3.3. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Go to, I know you well enough.
1H4 3.3. 64
1H4-HOSTESS
No, Sir John, you do not know me, Sir John; I
1H4 3.3. 65 know you, Sir John. You owe me money, Sir John, and
1H4 3.3. 66 now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it. I bought
1H4 3.3. 67 you a dozen of shirts to your back.
1H4 3.3. 68
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away
1H4 3.3. 69 to bakers' wives; they have made bolters of them.
1H4 3.3. 70
1H4-HOSTESS
Now as I am a true woman, holland of eight
1H4 3.3. 71 shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir John:
1H4 3.3. 72 for your diet, and by-drinkings, and money lent you,
1H4 3.3. 73 four-and-twenty pound.
1H4 3.3. 74
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(pointing at Russell)} He had his part +
1H4 3.3. 74 of it. Let
1H4 3.3. 75 him pay.
1H4 3.3. 76
1H4-HOSTESS
He? Alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.
1H4 3.3. 77
1H4-SIR JOHN
How, poor? Look upon his face. What call you
1H4 3.3. 78 rich? Let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks,
1H4 3.3. 79 I'll not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker
1H4 3.3. 80 of me? Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn, but I
1H4 3.3. 81 shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of
1H4 3.3. 82 my grandfather's worth forty mark.
1H4 3.3. 83
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, {(to Russell)} I have heard the +
1H4 3.3. 83 Prince tell
1H4 3.3. 84 him, I know not how oft, that that ring was copper.
1H4 3.3. 85
1H4-SIR JOHN
How? The Prince is a jack, a sneak-up. {[Raising}
1H4 3.3. 86 {his truncheon]} 'Sblood, an he were here I would cudgel
1H4 3.3. 87 him like a dog if he would say so. {Enter Prince Harry and +
1H4 3.3. 87 Harvey, marching; and Sir John Oldcastle meets them, playing upon his +
1H4 3.3. 87 truncheon like a fife}
1H4 3.3. 88 How now, lad, is the wind in that door, i' faith? Must
1H4 3.3. 89 we all march?
1H4 3.3. 90
1H4-RUSSELL
Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.
1H4 3.3. 91
1H4-HOSTESS
My lord, I pray you hear me.
1H4 3.3. 92
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What sayst thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth +
1H4 3.3. 92 thy husband?
1H4 3.3. 93 I love him well; he is an honest man.
1H4 3.3. 94
1H4-HOSTESS
Good my lord, hear me!
1H4 3.3. 95
1H4-SIR JOHN
Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.
1H4 3.3. 96
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What sayst thou, Jack?
1H4 3.3. 97
1H4-SIR JOHN
The other night I fell asleep here behind the
1H4 3.3. 98 arras, and had my pocket picked. This house is turned
1H4 3.3. 99 bawdy-house: they pick pockets.
1H4 3.3. 100
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What didst thou lose, Jack?
1H4 3.3. 101
1H4-SIR JOHN
Wilt thou believe me, Hal, three or four bonds
1H4 3.3. 102 of forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my grandfather's.
1H4 3.3. 102
1H4 3.3. 104
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
A trifle, some eightpenny matter.
1H4 3.3. 105
1H4-HOSTESS
So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your
1H4 3.3. 106 grace say so; and, my lord, he speaks most vilely of
1H4 3.3. 107 you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is, and said he
1H4 3.3. 108 would cudgel you.
1H4 3.3. 109
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What? He did not!
1H4 3.3. 110
1H4-HOSTESS
There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in
1H4 3.3. 111 me else.
1H4 3.3. 112
1H4-SIR JOHN
There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed
1H4 3.3. 113 prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox;
1H4 3.3. 114 and, for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the deputy's
1H4 3.3. 115 wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing, go!
1H4 3.3. 116
1H4-HOSTESS
Say, what thing, what thing?
1H4 3.3. 117
1H4-SIR JOHN
What thing? Why, a thing to thank God on.
1H4 3.3. 118
1H4-HOSTESS
I am no thing to thank God on. I would thou
1H4 3.3. 119 shouldst know it, I am an honest man's wife; and
1H4 3.3. 120 setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call
1H4 3.3. 121 me so.
1H4 3.3. 122
1H4-SIR JOHN
Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast
1H4 3.3. 123 to say otherwise.
1H4 3.3. 124
1H4-HOSTESS
Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?
1H4 3.3. 125
1H4-SIR JOHN
What beast? Why, an otter.
1H4 3.3. 126
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
An otter, Sir John? Why an otter?
1H4 3.3. 127
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why? She's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows
1H4 3.3. 128 not where to have her.
1H4 3.3. 129
1H4-HOSTESS
Thou art an unjust man in saying so. Thou or
1H4 3.3. 130 any man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou.
1H4 3.3. 131
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou sayst true, Hostess, and he slanders
1H4 3.3. 132 thee most grossly.
1H4 3.3. 133
1H4-HOSTESS
So he doth you, my lord, and said this other day
1H4 3.3. 134 you owed him a thousand pound.
1H4 3.3. 135
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Sir John)} Sirrah, do I owe you +
1H4 3.3. 135 a thousand
1H4 3.3. 136 pound?
1H4 3.3. 137
1H4-SIR JOHN
A thousand pound, Hal? A million! Thy love is
1H4 3.3. 138 worth a million; thou owest me thy love.
1H4 3.3. 139
1H4-HOSTESS
Nay, my lord, he called you `jack' and said he
1H4 3.3. 140 would cudgel you.
1H4 3.3. 141
1H4-SIR JOHN
Did I, Russell?
1H4 3.3. 142
1H4-RUSSELL
Indeed, Sir John, you said so.
1H4 3.3. 143
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, if he said my ring was copper.
1H4 3.3. 144
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I say 'tis copper; darest thou be as good
1H4 3.3. 145 as thy word now?
1H4 3.3. 146
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, Hal, thou knowest as thou art but man I
1H4 3.3. 147 dare, but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the
1H4 3.3. 148 roaring of the lion's whelp.
1H4 3.3. 149
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
And why not as the lion?
1H4 3.3. 150
1H4-SIR JOHN
The King himself is to be feared as the lion. Dost
1H4 3.3. 151 thou think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? Nay, an I
1H4 3.3. 152 do, I pray God my girdle break.
1H4 3.3. 153
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O, if it should, how would thy guts fall
1H4 3.3. 154 about thy knees! But sirrah, there's no room for faith,
1H4 3.3. 155 truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all filled
1H4 3.3. 156 up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest woman
1H4 3.3. 157 with picking thy pocket? Why, thou whoreson
1H4 3.3. 158 impudent embossed rascal, if there were anything in
1H4 3.3. 159 thy pocket but tavern reckonings, memorandums of
1H4 3.3. 160 bawdy-houses, and one poor pennyworth of sugar-
1H4 3.3. 161 candy to make thee long-winded - if thy pocket were
1H4 3.3. 162 enriched with any other injuries but these, I am a
1H4 3.3. 163 villain. And yet you will stand to it, you will not pocket
1H4 3.3. 164 up wrong. Art thou not ashamed?
1H4 3.3. 165
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear, Hal? Thou knowest in the state
1H4 3.3. 166 of innocency Adam fell, and what should poor Jack
1H4 3.3. 167 Oldcastle do in the days of villainy? Thou seest I have
1H4 3.3. 168 more flesh than another man, and therefore more
1H4 3.3. 169 frailty. You confess, then, you picked my pocket.
1H4 3.3. 170
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
It appears so by the story.
1H4 3.3. 171
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hostess, I forgive thee. Go make ready breakfast.
1H4 3.3. 172 Love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy
1H4 3.3. 173 guests. Thou shalt find me tractable to any honest
1H4 3.3. 174 reason; thou seest I am pacified still. Nay, prithee, be
1H4 3.3. 175 gone. {Exit Hostess}
1H4 3.3. 176 Now, Hal, to the news at court. For the robbery, lad,
1H4 3.3. 177 how is that answered?
1H4 3.3. 178
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel
1H4 3.3. 179 to thee. The money is paid back again.
1H4 3.3. 180
1H4-SIR JOHN
O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double
1H4 3.3. 181 labour.
1H4 3.3. 182
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I am good friends with my father, and may
1H4 3.3. 183 do anything.
1H4 3.3. 184
1H4-SIR JOHN
Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost,
1H4 3.3. 185 and do it with unwashed hands too.
1H4 3.3. 186
1H4-RUSSELL
Do, my lord.
1H4 3.3. 187
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of
1H4 3.3. 188 foot.
1H4 3.3. 189
1H4-SIR JOHN
I would it had been of horse! Where shall I find
1H4 3.3. 190 one that can steal well? O, for a fine thief of the age
1H4 3.3. 191 of two-and-twenty or thereabouts! I am heinously
1H4 3.3. 192 unprovided. Well, God be thanked for these rebels -
1H4 3.3. 193 they offend none but the virtuous. I laud them, I praise
1H4 3.3. 194 them.
1H4 3.3. 195
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Russell.
1H4 3.3. 196
1H4-RUSSELL
My lord?
1H4 3.3. 197
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(giving letters)} Go bear this +
1H4 3.3. 197 letter to Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 3.3. 198 To my brother John; this to my lord of Westmorland. {Exit +
1H4 3.3. 198 Russell}
1H4 3.3. 199 Go, Harvey, to horse, to horse, for thou and I
1H4 3.3. 200 Have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time. {Exit Harvey}
1H4 3.3. 201 Jack, meet me tomorrow in the Temple Hall
1H4 3.3. 202 At two o'clock in the afternoon.
1H4 3.3. 203 There shalt thou know thy charge, and there receive
1H4 3.3. 204 Money and order for their furniture.
1H4 3.3. 205 The land is burning, Percy stands on high,
1H4 3.3. 206 And either we or they must lower lie. {Exit}
1H4 3.3. 207
1H4-SIR JOHN
Rare words! Brave world! +
1H4 3.3. 207 {(Calling)} Hostess, my breakfast, come! -
1H4 3.3. 208 O, I could wish this tavern were my drum! {Exit}
1H4 3.3. 0 {Enter Hotspur and the Earls of Worcester and +
1H4 4.1. 0 Douglas}
1H4 4.1. 1
1H4-HOTSPUR
Well said, my noble Scot! If speaking truth
1H4 4.1. 2 In this fine age were not thought flattery,
1H4 4.1. 3 Such attribution should the Douglas have
1H4 4.1. 4 As not a soldier of this season's stamp
1H4 4.1. 5 Should go so general current through the world.
1H4 4.1. 6 By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
1H4 4.1. 7 The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
1H4 4.1. 8 In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.
1H4 4.1. 9 Nay, task me to my word, approve me, lord.
1H4 4.1. 10A
1H4-DOUGLAS
Thou art the king of honour.
1H4 4.1. 11 No man so potent breathes upon the ground
1H4 4.1. 12B But I will beard him.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Do so, and 'tis well. {Enter a +
1H4 4.1. 12B Messenger with letters}
1H4 4.1. 13 What letters hast thou there? I can but thank you.
1H4 4.1. 14A
1H4-MESSENGER
These letters come from your father.
1H4 4.1. 15
1H4-HOTSPUR
Letters from him? Why comes he not himself?
1H4 4.1. 16
1H4-MESSENGER
He cannot come, my lord, he is grievous sick.
1H4 4.1. 17
1H4-HOTSPUR
Zounds, how has he the leisure to be sick
1H4 4.1. 18 In such a jostling time? Who leads his power?
1H4 4.1. 19 Under whose government come they along?
1H4 4.1. 20
1H4-MESSENGER
His letters bears his mind, not I, my lord. +
1H4 4.1. 20 {Hotspur reads the letter}
1H4 4.1. 21
1H4-WORCESTER
I prithee tell me, doth he keep his bed?
1H4 4.1. 22
1H4-MESSENGER
He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;
1H4 4.1. 23 And at the time of my departure thence
1H4 4.1. 24 He was much feared by his physicians.
1H4 4.1. 25
1H4-WORCESTER
I would the state of time had first been whole
1H4 4.1. 26 Ere he by sickness had been visited.
1H4 4.1. 27 His health was never better worth than now.
1H4 4.1. 28
1H4-HOTSPUR
Sick now? Droop now? This sickness doth infect
1H4 4.1. 29 The very life-blood of our enterprise.
1H4 4.1. 30 'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.
1H4 4.1. 31 He writes me here that inward sickness stays him,
1H4 4.1. 32 And that his friends by deputation
1H4 4.1. 33 Could not so soon be drawn; nor did he think it meet
1H4 4.1. 34 To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
1H4 4.1. 35 On any soul removed but on his own.
1H4 4.1. 36 Yet doth he give us bold advertisement
1H4 4.1. 37 That with our small conjunction we should on,
1H4 4.1. 38 To see how fortune is disposed to us;
1H4 4.1. 39 For, as he writes, there is no quailing now,
1H4 4.1. 40 Because the King is certainly possessed
1H4 4.1. 41 Of all our purposes. What say you to it?
1H4 4.1. 42
1H4-WORCESTER
Your father's sickness is a maim to us.
1H4 4.1. 43
1H4-HOTSPUR
A perilous gash, a very limb lopped off.
1H4 4.1. 44 And yet, in faith, it is not. His present want
1H4 4.1. 45 Seems more than we shall find it. Were it good
1H4 4.1. 46 To set the exact wealth of all our states
1H4 4.1. 47 All at one cast, to set so rich a main
1H4 4.1. 48 On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
1H4 4.1. 49 It were not good, for therein should we read
1H4 4.1. 50 The very bottom and the sole of hope,
1H4 4.1. 51 The very list, the very utmost bound,
1H4 4.1. 52 Of all our fortunes.
1H4 4.1. 53
1H4-DOUGLAS
Faith, and so we should, where now remains
1H4 4.1. 54 A sweet reversion - we may boldly spend
1H4 4.1. 55 Upon the hope of what is to come in.
1H4 4.1. 56 A comfort of retirement lives in this.
1H4 4.1. 57
1H4-HOTSPUR
A rendezvous, a home to fly unto,
1H4 4.1. 58 If that the devil and mischance look big
1H4 4.1. 59 Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.
1H4 4.1. 60
1H4-WORCESTER
But yet I would your father had been here.
1H4 4.1. 61 The quality and hair of our attempt
1H4 4.1. 62 Brooks no division. It will be thought
1H4 4.1. 63 By some that know not why he is away
1H4 4.1. 64 That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike
1H4 4.1. 65 Of our proceedings kept the Earl from hence;
1H4 4.1. 66 And think how such an apprehension
1H4 4.1. 67 May turn the tide of fearful faction,
1H4 4.1. 68 And breed a kind of question in our cause.
1H4 4.1. 69 For, well you know, we of the off'ring side
1H4 4.1. 70 Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,
1H4 4.1. 71 And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
1H4 4.1. 72 The eye of reason may pry in upon us.
1H4 4.1. 73 This absence of your father's draws a curtain
1H4 4.1. 74 That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
1H4 4.1. 75B Before not dreamt of.
1H4-HOTSPUR
You strain too far.
1H4 4.1. 76 I rather of his absence make this use:
1H4 4.1. 77 It lends a lustre, and more great opinion,
1H4 4.1. 78 A larger dare to our great enterprise,
1H4 4.1. 79 Than if the Earl were here; for men must think
1H4 4.1. 80 If we without his help can make a head
1H4 4.1. 81 To push against a kingdom, with his help
1H4 4.1. 82 We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.
1H4 4.1. 83 Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.
1H4 4.1. 84
1H4-DOUGLAS
As heart can think, there is not such a word
1H4 4.1. 85 Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear. {Enter Sir Richard +
1H4 4.1. 85 Vernon}
1H4 4.1. 86
1H4-HOTSPUR
My cousin Vernon! Welcome, by my soul!
1H4 4.1. 87
1H4-VERNON
Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
1H4 4.1. 88 The Earl of Westmorland, seven thousand strong,
1H4 4.1. 89 Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.
1H4 4.1. 90B
1H4-HOTSPUR
No harm. What more?
1H4-VERNON
And further I have learned
1H4 4.1. 91 The King himself in person is set forth,
1H4 4.1. 92 Or hitherwards intended speedily,
1H4 4.1. 93 With strong and mighty preparation.
1H4 4.1. 94
1H4-HOTSPUR
He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
1H4 4.1. 95 The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
1H4 4.1. 96 And his comrades that daffed the world aside
1H4 4.1. 97B And bid it pass?
1H4-VERNON
All furnished, all in arms,
1H4 4.1. 98 All plumed like ostriches, that with the wind
1H4 4.1. 99
1H4-[]
1H4 4.1. 100 Baiting like eagles having lately bathed,
1H4 4.1. 101 Glittering in golden coats like images,
1H4 4.1. 102 As full of spirit as the month of May,
1H4 4.1. 103 And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
1H4 4.1. 104 Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
1H4 4.1. 105 I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
1H4 4.1. 106 His cuishes on his thighs, gallantly armed,
1H4 4.1. 107 Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury,
1H4 4.1. 108 And vaulted with such ease into his seat
1H4 4.1. 109 As if an angel dropped down from the clouds
1H4 4.1. 110 To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
1H4 4.1. 111 And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
1H4 4.1. 112
1H4-HOTSPUR
No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March,
1H4 4.1. 113 This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come!
1H4 4.1. 114 They come like sacrifices in their trim,
1H4 4.1. 115 And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
1H4 4.1. 116 All hot and bleeding will we offer them.
1H4 4.1. 117 The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit
1H4 4.1. 118 Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
1H4 4.1. 119 To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh,
1H4 4.1. 120 And yet not ours! Come, let me taste my horse,
1H4 4.1. 121 Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
1H4 4.1. 122 Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales.
1H4 4.1. 123 Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,
1H4 4.1. 124 Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corpse.
1H4 4.1. 125B O, that Glyndw^r were come!
1H4-VERNON
There is more news.
1H4 4.1. 126 I learned in Worcester, as I rode along,
1H4 4.1. 127 He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.
1H4 4.1. 128
1H4-DOUGLAS
That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.
1H4 4.1. 129
1H4-WORCESTER
Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.
1H4 4.1. 130
1H4-HOTSPUR
What may the King's whole battle reach unto?
1H4 4.1. 131B
1H4-VERNON
To thirty thousand.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Forty let it be.
1H4 4.1. 132 My father and Glyndw^r being both away,
1H4 4.1. 133 The powers of us may serve so great a day.
1H4 4.1. 134 Come, let us take a muster speedily.
1H4 4.1. 135 Doomsday is near: die all, die merrily.
1H4 4.1. 136
1H4-DOUGLAS
Talk not of dying; I am out of fear
1H4 4.1. 137 Of death or death's hand for this one half year. {Exeunt}
1H4 4.1. 0 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle and Russell}
1H4 4.2. 1
1H4-SIR JOHN
Russell, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a
1H4 4.2. 2 bottle of sack. Our soldiers shall march through. We'll
1H4 4.2. 3 to Sutton Coldfield tonight.
1H4 4.2. 4
1H4-RUSSELL
Will you give me money, captain?
1H4 4.2. 5
1H4-SIR JOHN
Lay out, lay out.
1H4 4.2. 6
1H4-RUSSELL
This bottle makes an angel.
1H4 4.2. 7
1H4-SIR JOHN
{[giving Russell money]} An if it do, +
1H4 4.2. 7 take it for thy
1H4 4.2. 8 labour; an if it make twenty, take them all; I'll answer
1H4 4.2. 9 the coinage. Bid my lieutenant Harvey meet me at
1H4 4.2. 10 town's end.
1H4 4.2. 11
1H4-RUSSELL
I will, captain. Farewell. {Exit}
1H4 4.2. 12
1H4-SIR JOHN
If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a +
1H4 4.2. 12 soused
1H4 4.2. 13 gurnet. I have misused the King's press damnably. I
1H4 4.2. 14 have got in exchange of one hundred and fifty soldiers
1H4 4.2. 15 three hundred and odd pounds. I press me none but
1H4 4.2. 16 good householders, yeomen's sons, enquire me out
1H4 4.2. 17 contracted bachelors, such as had been asked twice on
1H4 4.2. 18 the banns, such a commodity of warm slaves as had
1H4 4.2. 19 as lief hear the devil as a drum, such as fear the report
1H4 4.2. 20 of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild
1H4 4.2. 21 duck. I pressed me none but such toasts and butter,
1H4 4.2. 22 with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads,
1H4 4.2. 23 and they have bought out their services; and now my
1H4 4.2. 24 whole charge consists of ensigns, corporals, lieutenants,
1H4 4.2. 25 gentlemen of companies - slaves as ragged as Lazarus
1H4 4.2. 26 in the painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked
1H4 4.2. 27 his sores - and such as indeed were never soldiers, but
1H4 4.2. 28 discarded unjust servingmen, younger sons to younger
1H4 4.2. 29 brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade-fallen, the
1H4 4.2. 30 cankers of a calm world and a long peace, ten times
1H4 4.2. 31 more dishonourable-ragged than an old feazed ensign;
1H4 4.2. 32 and such have I to fill up the rooms of them as have
1H4 4.2. 33 bought out their services, that you would think that I
1H4 4.2. 34 had a hundred and fifty tattered prodigals lately come
1H4 4.2. 35 from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A
1H4 4.2. 36 mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had
1H4 4.2. 37 unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies.
1H4 4.2. 38 No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march
1H4 4.2. 39 through Coventry with them, that's flat. Nay, and the
1H4 4.2. 40 villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had
1H4 4.2. 41 gyves on, for indeed I had the most of them out of
1H4 4.2. 42 prison. There's not a shirt and a half in all my company;
1H4 4.2. 43 and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and
1H4 4.2. 44 thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without
1H4 4.2. 45 sleeves; and the shirt, to say the truth, stolen from my
1H4 4.2. 46 host at Saint Albans, or the red-nose innkeeper of
1H4 4.2. 47 Daventry. But that's all one; they'll find linen enough
1H4 4.2. 48 on every hedge. {Enter Prince Harry and the Earl of Westmorland}
1H4 4.2. 49
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How now, blown Jack? How now, quilt?
1H4 4.2. 50
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, Hal! How now, mad wag? What a devil
1H4 4.2. 51 dost thou in Warwickshire? My good lord of
1H4 4.2. 52 Westmorland, I cry you mercy! I thought your honour
1H4 4.2. 53 had already been at Shrewsbury.
1H4 4.2. 54
1H4-WESTMORLAND
Faith, Sir John, 'tis more than time that I
1H4 4.2. 55 were there, and you too; but my powers are there
1H4 4.2. 56 already. The King, I can tell you, looks for us all. We
1H4 4.2. 57 must away all night.
1H4 4.2. 58
1H4-SIR JOHN
Tut, never fear me. I am as vigilant as a cat to
1H4 4.2. 59 steal cream.
1H4 4.2. 60
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I think to steal cream indeed, for thy theft
1H4 4.2. 61 hath already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose
1H4 4.2. 62 fellows are these that come after?
1H4 4.2. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Mine, Hal, mine.
1H4 4.2. 64
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I did never see such pitiful rascals.
1H4 4.2. 65
1H4-SIR JOHN
Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder,
1H4 4.2. 66 food for powder. They'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush,
1H4 4.2. 67 man, mortal men, mortal men.
1H4 4.2. 68
1H4-WESTMORLAND
Ay, but Sir John, methinks they are
1H4 4.2. 69 exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly.
1H4 4.2. 70
1H4-SIR JOHN
Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they
1H4 4.2. 71 had that, and for their bareness, I am sure they never
1H4 4.2. 72 learned that of me.
1H4 4.2. 73
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
No, I'll be sworn, unless you call three
1H4 4.2. 74 fingers in the ribs bare. But sirrah, make haste. Percy
1H4 4.2. 75 is already in the field. {Exit}
1H4 4.2. 76
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, is the King encamped?
1H4 4.2. 77
1H4-WESTMORLAND
He is, Sir John. I fear we shall stay too
1H4 4.2. 78 long. {[Exit]}
1H4 4.2. 79
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, to the latter end of a fray
1H4 4.2. 80 And the beginning of a feast
1H4 4.2. 81 Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. {Exit}
1H4 4.2. 0 {Enter Hotspur, the Earls of Worcester and Douglas, and +
1H4 4.3. 0 Sir Richard Vernon}
1H4 4.3. 1B
1H4-HOTSPUR
We'll fight with him tonight.
1H4-WORCESTER
It may +
1H4 4.3. 1B not be.
1H4 4.3. 2B
1H4-DOUGLAS
You give him then advantage.
1H4-VERNON
Not a whit.
1H4 4.3. 3
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why say you so? Looks he not for supply?
1H4 4.3. 4B
1H4-VERNON
So do we.
1H4-HOTSPUR
His is certain; ours is doubtful.
1H4 4.3. 5
1H4-WORCESTER
Good cousin, be advised. Stir not tonight.
1H4 4.3. 6B
1H4-VERNON
{(to Hotspur)} Do not, my lord.
1H4-DOUGLAS
+
1H4 4.3. 6B You do not counsel well.
1H4 4.3. 7 You speak it out of fear and cold heart.
1H4 4.3. 8
1H4-VERNON
Do me no slander, Douglas. By my life -
1H4 4.3. 9 And I dare well maintain it with my life -
1H4 4.3. 10 If well-respected honour bid me on,
1H4 4.3. 11 I hold as little counsel with weak fear
1H4 4.3. 12 As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives.
1H4 4.3. 13 Let it be seen tomorrow in the battle
1H4 4.3. 14 Which of us fears.
1H4 4.3. 15A
1H4-DOUGLAS
Yea, or tonight.
1H4 4.3. 16A
1H4-VERNON
Content.
1H4 4.3. 17A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Tonight, say I.
1H4 4.3. 18
1H4-VERNON
Come, come, it may not be. I wonder much,
1H4 4.3. 19 Being men of such great leading as you are,
1H4 4.3. 20 That you foresee not what impediments
1H4 4.3. 21 Drag back our expedition. Certain horse
1H4 4.3. 22 Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up.
1H4 4.3. 23 Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today,
1H4 4.3. 24 And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
1H4 4.3. 25 Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
1H4 4.3. 26 That not a horse is half the half himself.
1H4 4.3. 27
1H4-HOTSPUR
So are the horses of the enemy
1H4 4.3. 28 In general journey-bated and brought low.
1H4 4.3. 29 The better part of ours are full of rest.
1H4 4.3. 30
1H4-WORCESTER
The number of the King exceedeth our.
1H4 4.3. 31 For God's sake, cousin, stay till all come in. {The trumpet +
1H4 4.3. 31 sounds a parley [within]. Enter Sir Walter Blunt}
1H4 4.3. 32
1H4-BLUNT
I come with gracious offers from the King,
1H4 4.3. 33 If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.
1H4 4.3. 34
1H4-HOTSPUR
Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God
1H4 4.3. 35 You were of our determination.
1H4 4.3. 36 Some of us love you well, and even those some
1H4 4.3. 37 Envy your great deservings and good name,
1H4 4.3. 38 Because you are not of our quality,
1H4 4.3. 39 But stand against us like an enemy.
1H4 4.3. 40
1H4-BLUNT
And God defend but still I should stand so,
1H4 4.3. 41 So long as out of limit and true rule
1H4 4.3. 42 You stand against anointed majesty.
1H4 4.3. 43 But to my charge. The King hath sent to know
1H4 4.3. 44 The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
1H4 4.3. 45 You conjure from the breast of civil peace
1H4 4.3. 46 Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land
1H4 4.3. 47 Audacious cruelty. If that the King
1H4 4.3. 48 Have any way your good deserts forgot,
1H4 4.3. 49 Which he confesseth to be manifold,
1H4 4.3. 50 He bids you name your griefs, and with all speed
1H4 4.3. 51 You shall have your desires, with interest,
1H4 4.3. 52 And pardon absolute for yourself and these
1H4 4.3. 53 Herein misled by your suggestion.
1H4 4.3. 54
1H4-HOTSPUR
The King is kind, and well we know the King
1H4 4.3. 55 Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
1H4 4.3. 56 My father and my uncle and myself
1H4 4.3. 57 Did give him that same royalty he wears;
1H4 4.3. 58 And when he was not six-and-twenty strong,
1H4 4.3. 59 Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
1H4 4.3. 60 A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
1H4 4.3. 61 My father gave him welcome to the shore;
1H4 4.3. 62 And when he heard him swear and vow to God
1H4 4.3. 63 He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,
1H4 4.3. 64 To sue his livery, and beg his peace
1H4 4.3. 65 With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,
1H4 4.3. 66 My father, in kind heart and pity moved,
1H4 4.3. 67 Swore him assistance, and performed it too.
1H4 4.3. 68 Now when the lords and barons of the realm
1H4 4.3. 69 Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
1H4 4.3. 70 The more and less came in with cap and knee,
1H4 4.3. 71 Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
1H4 4.3. 72 Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,
1H4 4.3. 73 Laid gifts before him, proffered him their oaths,
1H4 4.3. 74 Gave him their heirs as pages, followed him,
1H4 4.3. 75 Even at the heels, in golden multitudes.
1H4 4.3. 76 He presently, as greatness knows itself,
1H4 4.3. 77 Steps me a little higher than his vow
1H4 4.3. 78 Made to my father while his blood was poor
1H4 4.3. 79 Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh,
1H4 4.3. 80 And now forsooth takes on him to reform
1H4 4.3. 81 Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
1H4 4.3. 82 That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,
1H4 4.3. 83 Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
1H4 4.3. 84 Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,
1H4 4.3. 85 This seeming brow of justice, did he win
1H4 4.3. 86 The hearts of all that he did angle for;
1H4 4.3. 87 Proceeded further, cut me off the heads
1H4 4.3. 88 Of all the favourites that the absent King
1H4 4.3. 89 In deputation left behind him here
1H4 4.3. 90 When he was personal in the Irish war.
1H4 4.3. 91B
1H4-BLUNT
Tut, I came not to hear this.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Then to the point.
1H4 4.3. 92 In short time after, he deposed the King,
1H4 4.3. 93 Soon after that deprived him of his life,
1H4 4.3. 94 And in the neck of that tasked the whole state;
1H4 4.3. 95 To make that worse, suffered his kinsman March -
1H4 4.3. 96 Who is, if every owner were well placed,
1H4 4.3. 97 Indeed his king - to be engaged in Wales,
1H4 4.3. 98 There without ransom to lie forfeited;
1H4 4.3. 99 Disgraced me in my happy victories,
1H4 4.3. 100 Sought to entrap me by intelligence,
1H4 4.3. 101 Rated mine uncle from the Council-board,
1H4 4.3. 102 In rage dismissed my father from the court,
1H4 4.3. 103 Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,
1H4 4.3. 104 And in conclusion drove us to seek out
1H4 4.3. 105 This head of safety, and withal to pry
1H4 4.3. 106 Into his title, the which we find
1H4 4.3. 107 Too indirect for long continuance.
1H4 4.3. 108
1H4-BLUNT
Shall I return this answer to the King?
1H4 4.3. 109
1H4-HOTSPUR
Not so, Sir Walter. We'll withdraw awhile.
1H4 4.3. 110 Go to the King, and let there be impawned
1H4 4.3. 111 Some surety for a safe return again;
1H4 4.3. 112 And in the morning early shall mine uncle
1H4 4.3. 113 Bring him our purposes. And so, farewell.
1H4 4.3. 114
1H4-BLUNT
I would you would accept of grace and love.
1H4 4.3. 115B
1H4-HOTSPUR
And maybe so we shall.
1H4-BLUNT
Pray God you do. +
1H4 4.3. 115B {Exeunt [Hotspur, Worcester, Douglas, and Vernon at one door, Blunt at +
1H4 4.3. 115B another door]}
1H4 4.3. 0 {Enter the Archbishop of York, and Sir Michael}
1H4 4.4. 1
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
{(giving letters)} Hie, good Sir +
1H4 4.4. 1 Michael, bear this sealed brief
1H4 4.4. 2 With winged haste to the Lord Marshal,
1H4 4.4. 3 This to my cousin Scrope, and all the rest
1H4 4.4. 4 To whom they are directed. If you knew
1H4 4.4. 5 How much they do import, you would make haste.
1H4 4.4. 6A
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
My good lord,
1H4 4.4. 7B I guess their tenor.
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
Like enough you do.
1H4 4.4. 8 Tomorrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
1H4 4.4. 9 Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
1H4 4.4. 10 Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,
1H4 4.4. 11 As I am truly given to understand,
1H4 4.4. 12 The King with mighty and quick-raised power
1H4 4.4. 13 Meets with Lord Harry. And I fear, Sir Michael,
1H4 4.4. 14 What with the sickness of Northumberland,
1H4 4.4. 15 Whose power was in the first proportion,
1H4 4.4. 16 And what with Owain Glyndw^r's absence thence,
1H4 4.4. 17 Who with them was a rated sinew too,
1H4 4.4. 18 And comes not in, overruled by prophecies,
1H4 4.4. 19 I fear the power of Percy is too weak
1H4 4.4. 20 To wage an instant trial with the King.
1H4 4.4. 21
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
Why, my good lord, you need not fear; there is Douglas
1H4 4.4. 22B And Lord Mortimer.
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
No, Mortimer is not there.
1H4 4.4. 23
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy;
1H4 4.4. 24 And there is my lord of Worcester, and a head
1H4 4.4. 25 Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.
1H4 4.4. 26
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
And so there is; but yet the King hath drawn
1H4 4.4. 27 The special head of all the land together -
1H4 4.4. 28 The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 4.4. 29 The noble Westmorland, and warlike Blunt,
1H4 4.4. 30 And many more corrivals, and dear men
1H4 4.4. 31 Of estimation and command in arms.
1H4 4.4. 32
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.
1H4 4.4. 33
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;
1H4 4.4. 34 And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed.
1H4 4.4. 35 For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the King
1H4 4.4. 36 Dismiss his power he means to visit us,
1H4 4.4. 37 For he hath heard of our confederacy,
1H4 4.4. 38 And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him;
1H4 4.4. 39 Therefore make haste. I must go write again
1H4 4.4. 40 To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael. {Exeunt +
1H4 4.4. 40 [severally]}
1H4 4.4. 0 {Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord John of +
1H4 5.1. 0 Lancaster, the Earl of Westmorland, Sir Walter Blunt, and Sir John +
1H4 5.1. 0 Oldcastle}
1H4 5.1. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
How bloodily the sun begins to peer
1H4 5.1. 2 Above yon bulky hill! The day looks pale
1H4 5.1. 3B At his distemp'rature.
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The southern wind
1H4 5.1. 4 Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
1H4 5.1. 5 And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
1H4 5.1. 6 Foretells a tempest and a blust'ring day.
1H4 5.1. 7
1H4-KING HENRY
Then with the losers let it sympathize,
1H4 5.1. 8 For nothing can seem foul to those that win. {The trumpet sounds +
1H4 5.1. 8 [a parley within]. Enter the Earl of Worcester [and Sir Richard +
1H4 5.1. 8 Vernon]}
1H4 5.1. 9 How now, my lord of Worcester? 'Tis not well
1H4 5.1. 10 That you and I should meet upon such terms
1H4 5.1. 11 As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,
1H4 5.1. 12 And made us doff our easy robes of peace
1H4 5.1. 13 To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
1H4 5.1. 14 This is not well, my lord, this is not well.
1H4 5.1. 15 What say you to it? Will you again unknit
1H4 5.1. 16 This churlish knot of all-abhorred war,
1H4 5.1. 17 And move in that obedient orb again
1H4 5.1. 18 Where you did give a fair and natural light,
1H4 5.1. 19 And be no more an exhaled meteor,
1H4 5.1. 20 A prodigy of fear, and a portent
1H4 5.1. 21 Of broached mischief to the unborn times?
1H4 5.1. 22A
1H4-WORCESTER
Hear me, my liege.
1H4 5.1. 23 For mine own part, I could be well content
1H4 5.1. 24 To entertain the lag-end of my life
1H4 5.1. 25 With quiet hours; for I protest,
1H4 5.1. 26 I have not sought the day of this dislike.
1H4 5.1. 27
1H4-KING HENRY
You have not sought it? How comes it, then?
1H4 5.1. 28
1H4-SIR JOHN
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
1H4 5.1. 29
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace, chewet, peace!
1H4 5.1. 30
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to the King)} It pleased your majesty +
1H4 5.1. 30 to turn your looks
1H4 5.1. 31 Of favour from myself and all our house;
1H4 5.1. 32 And yet I must remember you, my lord,
1H4 5.1. 33 We were the first and dearest of your friends.
1H4 5.1. 34 For you my staff of office did I break
1H4 5.1. 35 In Richard's time, and posted day and night
1H4 5.1. 36 To meet you on the way and kiss your hand
1H4 5.1. 37 When yet you were in place and in account
1H4 5.1. 38 Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
1H4 5.1. 39 It was myself, my brother, and his son
1H4 5.1. 40 That brought you home, and boldly did outdare
1H4 5.1. 41 The dangers of the time. You swore to us,
1H4 5.1. 42 And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,
1H4 5.1. 43 That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state,
1H4 5.1. 44 Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,
1H4 5.1. 45 The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster.
1H4 5.1. 46 To this we swore our aid, but in short space
1H4 5.1. 47 It rained down fortune show'ring on your head,
1H4 5.1. 48 And such a flood of greatness fell on you,
1H4 5.1. 49 What with our help, what with the absent King,
1H4 5.1. 50 What with the injuries of a wanton time,
1H4 5.1. 51 The seeming sufferances that you had borne,
1H4 5.1. 52 And the contrarious winds that held the King
1H4 5.1. 53 So long in his unlucky Irish wars
1H4 5.1. 54 That all in England did repute him dead;
1H4 5.1. 55 And from this swarm of fair advantages
1H4 5.1. 56 You took occasion to be quickly wooed
1H4 5.1. 57 To gripe the general sway into your hand,
1H4 5.1. 58 Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster,
1H4 5.1. 59 And being fed by us, you used us so
1H4 5.1. 60 As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,
1H4 5.1. 61 Useth the sparrow - did oppress our nest,
1H4 5.1. 62 Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
1H4 5.1. 63 That even our love durst not come near your sight
1H4 5.1. 64 For fear of swallowing. But with nimble wing
1H4 5.1. 65 We were enforced for safety' sake to fly
1H4 5.1. 66 Out of your sight, and raise this present head,
1H4 5.1. 67 Whereby we stand opposed by such means
1H4 5.1. 68 As you yourself have forged against yourself,
1H4 5.1. 69 By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,
1H4 5.1. 70 And violation of all faith and troth
1H4 5.1. 71 Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.
1H4 5.1. 72
1H4-KING HENRY
These things indeed you have articulate,
1H4 5.1. 73 Proclaimed at market crosses, read in churches,
1H4 5.1. 74 To face the garment of rebellion
1H4 5.1. 75 With some fine colour that may please the eye
1H4 5.1. 76 Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,
1H4 5.1. 77 Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
1H4 5.1. 78 Of hurly-burly innovation;
1H4 5.1. 79 And never yet did insurrection want
1H4 5.1. 80 Such water-colours to impaint his cause,
1H4 5.1. 81 Nor moody beggars starving for a time
1H4 5.1. 82 Of pell-mell havoc and confusion.
1H4 5.1. 83
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
In both our armies there is many a soul
1H4 5.1. 84 Shall pay full dearly for this encounter
1H4 5.1. 85 If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew
1H4 5.1. 86 The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
1H4 5.1. 87 In praise of Henry Percy. By my hopes,
1H4 5.1. 88 This present enterprise set off his head,
1H4 5.1. 89 I do not think a braver gentleman,
1H4 5.1. 90 More active-valiant or more valiant-young,
1H4 5.1. 91 More daring, or more bold, is now alive
1H4 5.1. 92 To grace this latter age with noble deeds.
1H4 5.1. 93 For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
1H4 5.1. 94 I have a truant been to chivalry;
1H4 5.1. 95 And so I hear he doth account me too.
1H4 5.1. 96 Yet this, before my father's majesty:
1H4 5.1. 97 I am content that he shall take the odds
1H4 5.1. 98 Of his great name and estimation,
1H4 5.1. 99 And will, to save the blood on either side,
1H4 5.1. 100 Try fortune with him in a single fight.
1H4 5.1. 101
1H4-KING HENRY
And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,
1H4 5.1. 102 Albeit considerations infinite
1H4 5.1. 103 Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no.
1H4 5.1. 104 We love our people well; even those we love
1H4 5.1. 105 That are misled upon your cousin's part;
1H4 5.1. 106 And will they take the offer of our grace,
1H4 5.1. 107 Both he and they and you, yea, every man
1H4 5.1. 108 Shall be my friend again, and I'll be his.
1H4 5.1. 109 So tell your cousin, and bring me word
1H4 5.1. 110 What he will do. But if he will not yield,
1H4 5.1. 111 Rebuke and dread correction wait on us,
1H4 5.1. 112 And they shall do their office. So be gone.
1H4 5.1. 113 We will not now be troubled with reply.
1H4 5.1. 114 We offer fair; take it advisedly. {Exeunt Worcester [and +
1H4 5.1. 114 Vernon]}
1H4 5.1. 115
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
It will not be accepted, on my life.
1H4 5.1. 116 The Douglas and the Hotspur both together
1H4 5.1. 117 Are confident against the world in arms.
1H4 5.1. 118
1H4-KING HENRY
Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge,
1H4 5.1. 119 For on their answer will we set on them,
1H4 5.1. 120 And God befriend us as our cause is just! {Exeunt all but Prince +
1H4 5.1. 120 Harry and Oldcastle}
1H4 5.1. 121
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hal, if thou see me down in the battle, and
1H4 5.1. 122 bestride me, so. 'Tis a point of friendship.
1H4 5.1. 123
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Nothing but a colossus can do thee that
1H4 5.1. 124 friendship. Say thy prayers, and farewell.
1H4 5.1. 125
1H4-SIR JOHN
I would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.
1H4 5.1. 126
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, thou owest God a death. {Exit}
1H4 5.1. 127
1H4-SIR JOHN
'Tis not due yet. I would be loath to pay him
1H4 5.1. 128 before his day. What need I be so forward with him
1H4 5.1. 129 that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour
1H4 5.1. 130 pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off
1H4 5.1. 131 when I come on? How then? Can honour set-to a leg?
1H4 5.1. 132 No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound?
1H4 5.1. 133 No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What
1H4 5.1. 134 is honour? A word. What is in that word `honour'?
1H4 5.1. 135 What is that `honour'? Air. A trim reckoning! Who
1H4 5.1. 136 hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it?
1H4 5.1. 137 No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then? Yea, to
1H4 5.1. 138 the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why?
1H4 5.1. 139 Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it.
1H4 5.1. 140 Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. {Exit}
1H4 5.1. 0 {Enter the Earl of Worcester and Sir Richard Vernon}
1H4 5.2. 1
1H4-WORCESTER
O no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,
1H4 5.2. 2 The liberal and kind offer of the King.
1H4 5.2. 3B
1H4-VERNON
'Twere best he did.
1H4-WORCESTER
Then are we all undone.
1H4 5.2. 4 It is not possible, it cannot be,
1H4 5.2. 5 The King should keep his word in loving us.
1H4 5.2. 6 He will suspect us still, and find a time
1H4 5.2. 7 To punish this offence in other faults.
1H4 5.2. 8 Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes,
1H4 5.2. 9 For treason is but trusted like the fox,
1H4 5.2. 10 Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished, and locked up,
1H4 5.2. 11 Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
1H4 5.2. 12 Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
1H4 5.2. 13 Interpretation will misquote our looks,
1H4 5.2. 14 And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
1H4 5.2. 15 The better cherished still the nearer death.
1H4 5.2. 16 My nephew's trespass may be well forgot;
1H4 5.2. 17 It hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,
1H4 5.2. 18 And an adopted name of privilege -
1H4 5.2. 19 A hare-brained Hotspur, governed by a spleen.
1H4 5.2. 20 All his offences live upon my head,
1H4 5.2. 21 And on his father's. We did train him on,
1H4 5.2. 22 And, his corruption being ta'en from us,
1H4 5.2. 23 We as the spring of all shall pay for all.
1H4 5.2. 24 Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know
1H4 5.2. 25 In any case the offer of the King.
1H4 5.2. 26
1H4-VERNON
Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so. {Enter +
1H4 5.2. 26 Hotspur and the Earl of Douglas}
1H4 5.2. 27B Here comes your cousin.
1H4-HOTSPUR
My uncle is returned.
1H4 5.2. 28 Deliver up my lord of Westmorland.
1H4 5.2. 29 Uncle, what news?
1H4 5.2. 30
1H4-WORCESTER
The King will bid you battle presently.
1H4 5.2. 31
1H4-DOUGLAS
Defy him by the Lord of Westmorland.
1H4 5.2. 32
1H4-HOTSPUR
Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.
1H4 5.2. 33
1H4-DOUGLAS
Marry, and shall, and very willingly. {Exit}
1H4 5.2. 34
1H4-WORCESTER
There is no seeming mercy in the King.
1H4 5.2. 35
1H4-HOTSPUR
Did you beg any? God forbid!
1H4 5.2. 36
1H4-WORCESTER
I told him gently of our grievances,
1H4 5.2. 37 Of his oath-breaking, which he mended thus:
1H4 5.2. 38 By now forswearing that he is forsworn.
1H4 5.2. 39 He calls us `rebels', `traitors', and will scourge
1H4 5.2. 40 With haughty arms this hateful name in us. {Enter the Earl of +
1H4 5.2. 40 Douglas}
1H4 5.2. 41
1H4-DOUGLAS
Arm, gentlemen, to arms, for I have thrown
1H4 5.2. 42 A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth -
1H4 5.2. 43 And Westmorland that was engaged did bear it -
1H4 5.2. 44 Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.
1H4 5.2. 45
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to Hotspur)} The Prince of Wales +
1H4 5.2. 45 stepped forth before the King
1H4 5.2. 46 And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.
1H4 5.2. 47
1H4-HOTSPUR
O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
1H4 5.2. 48 And that no man might draw short breath today
1H4 5.2. 49 But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,
1H4 5.2. 50 How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt?
1H4 5.2. 51
1H4-VERNON
No, by my soul, I never in my life
1H4 5.2. 52 Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
1H4 5.2. 53 Unless a brother should a brother dare
1H4 5.2. 54 To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
1H4 5.2. 55 He gave you all the duties of a man,
1H4 5.2. 56 Trimmed up your praises with a princely tongue,
1H4 5.2. 57 Spoke your deservings like a chronicle,
1H4 5.2. 58 Making you ever better than his praise
1H4 5.2. 59 By still dispraising praise valued with you;
1H4 5.2. 60 And, which became him like a prince indeed,
1H4 5.2. 61 He made a blushing cital of himself,
1H4 5.2. 62 And chid his truant youth with such a grace
1H4 5.2. 63 As if he mastered there a double spirit
1H4 5.2. 64 Of teaching and of learning instantly.
1H4 5.2. 65 There did he pause; but let me tell the world,
1H4 5.2. 66 If he outlive the envy of this day,
1H4 5.2. 67 England did never owe so sweet a hope,
1H4 5.2. 68 So much misconstrued in his wantonness.
1H4 5.2. 69
1H4-HOTSPUR
Cousin, I think thou art enamoured
1H4 5.2. 70 On his follies. Never did I hear
1H4 5.2. 71 Of any prince so wild a liberty.
1H4 5.2. 72 But be he as he will, yet once ere night
1H4 5.2. 73 I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,
1H4 5.2. 74 That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
1H4 5.2. 75 Arm, arm, with speed! And fellows, soldiers, friends,
1H4 5.2. 76 Better consider what you have to do
1H4 5.2. 77 Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,
1H4 5.2. 78 Can lift your blood up with persuasion. {Enter a Messenger}
1H4 5.2. 79
1H4-MESSENGER
My lord, here are letters for you.
1H4 5.2. 80A
1H4-HOTSPUR
I cannot read them now. {[Exit Messenger]}
1H4 5.2. 81 O gentlemen, the time of life is short.
1H4 5.2. 82 To spend that shortness basely were too long
1H4 5.2. 83 If life did ride upon a dial's point,
1H4 5.2. 84 Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
1H4 5.2. 85 An if we live, we live to tread on kings;
1H4 5.2. 86 If die, brave death when princes die with us!
1H4 5.2. 87 Now for our consciences: the arms are fair
1H4 5.2. 88 When the intent of bearing them is just. {Enter another +
1H4 5.2. 88 Messenger}
1H4 5.2. 89
1H4-MESSENGER
My lord, prepare; the King comes on +
1H4 5.2. 89 apace. {[Exit]}
1H4 5.2. 90
1H4-HOTSPUR
I thank him that he cuts me from my tale,
1H4 5.2. 91 For I profess not talking, only this:
1H4 5.2. 92 Let each man do his best. And here draw I
1H4 5.2. 93 A sword whose temper I intend to stain
1H4 5.2. 94 With the best blood that I can meet withal
1H4 5.2. 95 In the adventure of this perilous day.
1H4 5.2. 96 Now {Esperance}! Percy! And set on!
1H4 5.2. 97 Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
1H4 5.2. 98 And by that music let us all embrace,
1H4 5.2. 99 For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
1H4 5.2. 100 A second time do such a courtesy. {The trumpets sound. Here they +
1H4 5.2. 100 embrace. Exeunt}
1H4 5.2. 0 {King Henry enters with his power. Alarum, and exeunt to the +
1H4 5.3. 0 battle. Then enter the Earl of Douglas, and Sir Walter Blunt, disguised +
1H4 5.3. 0 as the King}
1H4 5.3. 1
1H4-BLUNT
What is thy name, that in the battle thus
1H4 5.3. 2 Thou crossest me? What honour dost thou seek
1H4 5.3. 3B Upon my head?
1H4-DOUGLAS
Know then my name is Douglas,
1H4 5.3. 4 And I do haunt thee in the battle thus
1H4 5.3. 5 Because some tell me that thou art a king.
1H4 5.3. 6A
1H4-BLUNT
They tell thee true.
1H4 5.3. 7
1H4-DOUGLAS
The Lord of Stafford dear today hath bought
1H4 5.3. 8 Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,
1H4 5.3. 9 This sword hath ended him. So shall it thee,
1H4 5.3. 10 Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.
1H4 5.3. 11
1H4-BLUNT
I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot,
1H4 5.3. 12 And thou shalt find a king that will revenge
1H4 5.3. 13 Lord Stafford's death. {They fight. Douglas kills Blunt. Then +
1H4 5.3. 13 enter Hotspur}
1H4 5.3. 14
1H4-HOTSPUR
O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,
1H4 5.3. 15 I never had triumphed upon a Scot.
1H4 5.3. 16
1H4-DOUGLAS
All's done, all's won: here breathless lies the King.
1H4 5.3. 17A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Where?
1H4 5.3. 18A
1H4-DOUGLAS
Here.
1H4 5.3. 19
1H4-HOTSPUR
This, Douglas? No, I know this face full well.
1H4 5.3. 20 A gallant knight he was; his name was Blunt -
1H4 5.3. 21 Semblably furnished like the King himself.
1H4 5.3. 22
1H4-DOUGLAS
{(to Blunt's body)} A fool go with thy +
1H4 5.3. 22 soul, whither it goes!
1H4 5.3. 23 A borrowed title hast thou bought too dear.
1H4 5.3. 24 Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?
1H4 5.3. 25
1H4-HOTSPUR
The king hath many marching in his coats.
1H4 5.3. 26
1H4-DOUGLAS
Now by my sword, I will kill all his coats.
1H4 5.3. 27 I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,
1H4 5.3. 28B Until I meet the King.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Up and away!
1H4 5.3. 29 Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day. {Exeunt, leaving +
1H4 5.3. 29 Blunt's body}
1H4 5.3. 30 {Alarum. Enter Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Though +
1H4 5.3. 30 I could scape shot-free at London, I fear
1H4 5.3. 31 the shot here. Here's no scoring but upon the pate. -
1H4 5.3. 32 Soft, who are you? - Sir Walter Blunt. There's honour
1H4 5.3. 33 for you. Here's no vanity. I am as hot as molten lead,
1H4 5.3. 34 and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me; I need no
1H4 5.3. 35 more weight than mine own bowels. I have led my
1H4 5.3. 36 ragamuffins where they are peppered; there's not three
1H4 5.3. 37 of my hundred and fifty left alive, and they are for the
1H4 5.3. 38 town's end, to beg during life. {Enter Prince Harry}
1H4 5.3. 39 But who comes here?
1H4 5.3. 40
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, stand'st thou idle here? Lend me thy sword.
1H4 5.3. 41 Many a noble man lies stark and stiff
1H4 5.3. 42 Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,
1H4 5.3. 43 Whose deaths as yet are unrevenged. I prithee
1H4 5.3. 44 Lend me thy sword.
1H4 5.3. 45
1H4-SIR JOHN
O Hal, I prithee give me leave to breathe awhile.
1H4 5.3. 46 Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms
1H4 5.3. 47 As I have done this day. I have paid Percy,
1H4 5.3. 48B I have made him sure.
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
He is indeed,
1H4 5.3. 49 And living to kill thee. I prithee
1H4 5.3. 50B Lend me thy sword.
1H4-SIR JOHN
Nay, before God, Hal,
1H4 5.3. 51 If Percy be alive thou gett'st not my sword;
1H4 5.3. 52 But take my pistol if thou wilt.
1H4 5.3. 53B
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Give it me. What, is it in the case?
1H4-SIR JOHN
Ay, +
1H4 5.3. 53B Hal;
1H4 5.3. 54 'Tis hot, 'tis hot. There's that will sack a city. {The Prince +
1H4 5.3. 54 draws it out, and finds it to be a bottle of sack}
1H4 5.3. 55
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, is it a time to jest and dally +
1H4 5.3. 55 now? {He throws the bottle at him. Exit}
1H4 5.3. 56
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he +
1H4 5.3. 56 do
1H4 5.3. 57 come in my way, so; if he do not, if I come in his
1H4 5.3. 58 willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like not
1H4 5.3. 59 such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life,
1H4 5.3. 60 which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes unlooked
1H4 5.3. 61 for, and there's an end. {Exit [with Blunt's body]}
1H4 5.3. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, +
1H4 5.4. 0 wounded, Lord John of Lancaster, and the Earl of Westmorland}
1H4 5.4. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
I prithee, Harry, withdraw thyself, thou +
1H4 5.4. 1 bleed'st too much.
1H4 5.4. 2 Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
1H4 5.4. 3
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.
1H4 5.4. 4
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to the King)} I beseech your +
1H4 5.4. 4 majesty, make up,
1H4 5.4. 5 Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
1H4 5.4. 6
1H4-KING HENRY
I will do so. My lord of Westmorland,
1H4 5.4. 7 Lead him to his tent.
1H4 5.4. 8
1H4-WESTMORLAND
{(to the Prince)} Come, my lord, I'll +
1H4 5.4. 8 lead you to your tent.
1H4 5.4. 9
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help,
1H4 5.4. 10 And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
1H4 5.4. 11 The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
1H4 5.4. 12 Where stained nobility lies trodden on,
1H4 5.4. 13 And rebels' arms triumph in massacres.
1H4 5.4. 14
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
We breathe too long. Come, cousin Westmorland,
1H4 5.4. 15 Our duty this way lies. For God's sake, come. {Exeunt Lancaster +
1H4 5.4. 15 and Westmorland}
1H4 5.4. 16
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;
1H4 5.4. 17 I did not think thee lord of such a spirit.
1H4 5.4. 18 Before I loved thee as a brother, John,
1H4 5.4. 19 But now I do respect thee as my soul.
1H4 5.4. 20
1H4-KING HENRY
I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
1H4 5.4. 21 With lustier maintenance than I did look for
1H4 5.4. 22 Of such an ungrown warrior.
1H4 5.4. 23
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O, this boy lends mettle to us all! {Exit}
1H4 5.4. 24 {Enter the Earl of Douglas}
1H4-DOUGLAS
Another king! +
1H4 5.4. 24 They grow like Hydra's heads.
1H4 5.4. 25 I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
1H4 5.4. 26 That wear those colours on them. What art thou
1H4 5.4. 27 That counterfeit'st the person of a king?
1H4 5.4. 28
1H4-KING HENRY
The King himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart
1H4 5.4. 29 So many of his shadows thou hast met
1H4 5.4. 30 And not the very King. I have two boys
1H4 5.4. 31 Seek Percy and thyself about the field;
1H4 5.4. 32 But seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
1H4 5.4. 33 I will assay thee; and defend thyself.
1H4 5.4. 34
1H4-DOUGLAS
I fear thou art another counterfeit;
1H4 5.4. 35 And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
1H4 5.4. 36 But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,
1H4 5.4. 37 And thus I win thee. {They fight. The King being in danger, +
1H4 5.4. 37 enter Prince Harry}
1H4 5.4. 38
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art +
1H4 5.4. 38 like
1H4 5.4. 39 Never to hold it up again. The spirits
1H4 5.4. 40 Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.
1H4 5.4. 41 It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
1H4 5.4. 42 Who never promiseth but he means to pay. {They fight. Douglas +
1H4 5.4. 42 flieth}
1H4 5.4. 43 Cheerly, my lord! How fares your grace?
1H4 5.4. 44 Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,
1H4 5.4. 45 And so hath Clifton. I'll to Clifton straight.
1H4 5.4. 46A
1H4-KING HENRY
Stay and breathe awhile.
1H4 5.4. 47 Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion,
1H4 5.4. 48 And showed thou mak'st some tender of my life,
1H4 5.4. 49 In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
1H4 5.4. 50
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O God, they did me too much injury
1H4 5.4. 51 That ever said I hearkened for your death.
1H4 5.4. 52 If it were so, I might have let alone
1H4 5.4. 53 The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
1H4 5.4. 54 Which would have been as speedy in your end
1H4 5.4. 55 As all the poisonous potions in the world,
1H4 5.4. 56 And saved the treacherous labour of your son.
1H4 5.4. 57
1H4-KING HENRY
Make up to Clifton; I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey. +
1H4 5.4. 57 {Exit}
1H4 5.4. 58 {Enter Hotspur}
1H4-HOTSPUR
If I mistake not, thou art +
1H4 5.4. 58 Harry Monmouth.
1H4 5.4. 59
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.
1H4 5.4. 60B
1H4-HOTSPUR
My name is Harry Percy.
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why then, I see
1H4 5.4. 61 A very valiant rebel of the name.
1H4 5.4. 62 I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
1H4 5.4. 63 To share with me in glory any more.
1H4 5.4. 64 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
1H4 5.4. 65 Nor can one England brook a double reign
1H4 5.4. 66 Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
1H4 5.4. 67
1H4-HOTSPUR
Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come
1H4 5.4. 68 To end the one of us, and would to God
1H4 5.4. 69 Thy name in arms were now as great as mine.
1H4 5.4. 70
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I'll make it greater ere I part from thee,
1H4 5.4. 71 And all the budding honours on thy crest
1H4 5.4. 72 I'll crop to make a garland for my head.
1H4 5.4. 73
1H4-HOTSPUR
I can no longer brook thy vanities. {They fight.}
1H4 5.4. 74 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well said, Hal! To it, +
1H4 5.4. 74 Hal! Nay, you shall find
1H4 5.4. 75 no boy's play here, I can tell you. {Enter Douglas. He fighteth +
1H4 5.4. 75 with Sir John, who falls down as if he were dead. Exit Douglas. The +
1H4 5.4. 75 Prince killeth Hotspur}
1H4 5.4. 76
1H4-HOTSPUR
O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth.
1H4 5.4. 77 I better brook the loss of brittle life
1H4 5.4. 78 Than those proud titles thou hast won of me.
1H4 5.4. 79 They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh.
1H4 5.4. 80 But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool,
1H4 5.4. 81 And time, that takes survey of all the world,
1H4 5.4. 82 Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
1H4 5.4. 83 But that the earthy and cold hand of death
1H4 5.4. 84 Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust,
1H4 5.4. 85 And food for - {He dies}
1H4 5.4. 86
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, +
1H4 5.4. 86 great heart.
1H4 5.4. 87 Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
1H4 5.4. 88 When that this body did contain a spirit,
1H4 5.4. 89 A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
1H4 5.4. 90 But now two paces of the vilest earth
1H4 5.4. 91 Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead
1H4 5.4. 92 Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
1H4 5.4. 93 If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
1H4 5.4. 94 I should not make so dear a show of zeal;
1H4 5.4. 95 But let my favours hide thy mangled face, {He covers Hotspur's +
1H4 5.4. 95 face}
1H4 5.4. 96 And even in thy behalf I'll thank myself
1H4 5.4. 97 For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
1H4 5.4. 98 Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven.
1H4 5.4. 99 Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
1H4 5.4. 100 But not remembered in thy epitaph. {He spieth Sir John on the +
1H4 5.4. 100 ground}
1H4 5.4. 101 What, old acquaintance! Could not all this flesh
1H4 5.4. 102 Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell.
1H4 5.4. 103 I could have better spared a better man.
1H4 5.4. 104 O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,
1H4 5.4. 105 If I were much in love with vanity.
1H4 5.4. 106 Death hath not struck so fat a deer today,
1H4 5.4. 107 Though many dearer in this bloody fray.
1H4 5.4. 108 Embowelled will I see thee by and by.
1H4 5.4. 109 Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie. {Exit}
1H4 5.4. 110 {Sir John riseth up}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Embowelled? If thou +
1H4 5.4. 110 embowel me today, I'll give
1H4 5.4. 111 you leave to powder me, and eat me too, tomorrow.
1H4 5.4. 112 'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant
1H4 5.4. 113 Scot had paid me, scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I
1H4 5.4. 114 am no counterfeit. To die is to be a counterfeit, for he
1H4 5.4. 115 is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life
1H4 5.4. 116 of a man. But to counterfeit dying when a man thereby
1H4 5.4. 117 liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect
1H4 5.4. 118 image of life indeed. The better part of valour is
1H4 5.4. 119 discretion, in the which better part I have saved my
1H4 5.4. 120 life. Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy,
1H4 5.4. 121 though he be dead. How if he should counterfeit too,
1H4 5.4. 122 and rise? By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the
1H4 5.4. 123 better counterfeit. Therefore I'll make him sure; yea,
1H4 5.4. 124 and I'll swear I killed him. Why may not he rise as
1H4 5.4. 125 well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody
1H4 5.4. 126 sees me. Therefore, sirrah, {(stabbing Hotspur)} with a
1H4 5.4. 127 new wound in your thigh, come you along with me. {He takes up +
1H4 5.4. 127 Hotspur on his back.}
1H4 5.4. 128 {Enter Prince Harry and Lord John of Lancaster}
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
+
1H4 5.4. 128 Come, brother John. Full bravely hast thou fleshed
1H4 5.4. 129B Thy maiden sword.
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
But soft; whom have we here?
1H4 5.4. 130 Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
1H4 5.4. 131A
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I did; I saw him dead,
1H4 5.4. 132B Breathless and bleeding on the ground. {(To Sir John)} +
1H4 5.4. 132B Art thou alive?
1H4 5.4. 133 Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
1H4 5.4. 134 I prithee speak; we will not trust our eyes
1H4 5.4. 135 Without our ears. Thou art not what thou seem'st.
1H4 5.4. 136
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, that's certain: I am not a double man. But
1H4 5.4. 137 if I be not Jack Oldcastle, then am I a jack. There is
1H4 5.4. 138 Percy. If your father will do me any honour, so; if not,
1H4 5.4. 139 let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either
1H4 5.4. 140 earl or duke, I can assure you.
1H4 5.4. 141
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee +
1H4 5.4. 141 dead.
1H4 5.4. 142
1H4-SIR JOHN
Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given
1H4 5.4. 143 to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath,
1H4 5.4. 144 and so was he; but we rose both at an instant, and
1H4 5.4. 145 fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be
1H4 5.4. 146 believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour
1H4 5.4. 147 bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take 't on my
1H4 5.4. 148 death I gave him this wound in the thigh. If the man
1H4 5.4. 149 were alive and would deny it, zounds, I would make
1H4 5.4. 150 him eat a piece of my sword.
1H4 5.4. 151
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
This is the strangest tale that e'er I +
1H4 5.4. 151 heard.
1H4 5.4. 152
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
1H4 5.4. 153 {(To Sir John)} Come, bring your luggage nobly on your +
1H4 5.4. 153 back.
1H4 5.4. 154 For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
1H4 5.4. 155 I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. {A retreat is +
1H4 5.4. 155 sounded}
1H4 5.4. 156 The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is our.
1H4 5.4. 157 Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field
1H4 5.4. 158 To see what friends are living, who are dead. {Exeunt the Prince +
1H4 5.4. 158 and Lancaster}
1H4 5.4. 159
1H4-SIR JOHN
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that
1H4 5.4. 160 rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll
1H4 5.4. 161 grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live
1H4 5.4. 162 cleanly, as a nobleman should do. {Exit, bearing Hotspur's body}
1H4 5.4. 0 {The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord +
1H4 5.5. 0 John of Lancaster, the Earl of Westmorland, with the Earl of Worcester +
1H4 5.5. 0 and Sir Richard Vernon, prisoners, [and soldiers]}
1H4 5.5. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
1H4 5.5. 2 Ill-spirited Worcester, did not we send grace,
1H4 5.5. 3 Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?
1H4 5.5. 4 And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary,
1H4 5.5. 5 Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
1H4 5.5. 6 Three knights upon our party slain today,
1H4 5.5. 7 A noble earl, and many a creature else,
1H4 5.5. 8 Had been alive this hour
1H4 5.5. 9 If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne
1H4 5.5. 10 Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
1H4 5.5. 11
1H4-WORCESTER
What I have done my safety urged me to,
1H4 5.5. 12 And I embrace this fortune patiently,
1H4 5.5. 13 Since not to be avoided it falls on me.
1H4 5.5. 14
1H4-KING HENRY
Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too.
1H4 5.5. 15 Other offenders we will pause upon. {Exeunt Worcester and +
1H4 5.5. 15 Vernon, guarded}
1H4 5.5. 16 How goes the field?
1H4 5.5. 17
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The noble Scot Lord Douglas, when he saw
1H4 5.5. 18 The fortune of the day quite turned from him,
1H4 5.5. 19 The noble Percy slain, and all his men
1H4 5.5. 20 Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;
1H4 5.5. 21 And falling from a hill he was so bruised
1H4 5.5. 22 That the pursuers took him. At my tent
1H4 5.5. 23 The Douglas is, and I beseech your grace
1H4 5.5. 24 I may dispose of him.
1H4 5.5. 25A
1H4-KING HENRY
With all my heart.
1H4 5.5. 26
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Then, brother John of Lancaster,
1H4 5.5. 27 To you this honourable bounty shall belong.
1H4 5.5. 28 Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
1H4 5.5. 29 Up to his pleasure ransomless and free.
1H4 5.5. 30 His valours shown upon our crests today
1H4 5.5. 31 Have taught us how to cherish such high deeds
1H4 5.5. 32 Even in the bosom of our adversaries.
1H4 5.5. 33
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
I thank your grace for this high courtesy,
1H4 5.5. 34 Which I shall give away immediately.
1H4 5.5. 35
1H4-KING HENRY
Then this remains, that we divide our power.
1H4 5.5. 36 You, son John, and my cousin Westmorland,
1H4 5.5. 37 Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed
1H4 5.5. 38 To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scrope,
1H4 5.5. 39 Who, as we hear, are busily in arms.
1H4 5.5. 40 Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
1H4 5.5. 41 To fight with Glyndw^r and the Earl of March.
1H4 5.5. 42 Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
1H4 5.5. 43 Meeting the check of such another day;
1H4 5.5. 44 And since this business so fair is done,
1H4 5.5. 45 Let us not leave till all our own be won. {Exeunt [the King, +
1H4 5.5. 45 the Prince, and their power at one door, Lancaster, Westmorland, and +
1H4 5.5. 45 their power at another door]}
1H4 5.5.
1H4
0
1H6 . . 0 The First Part of Henry the Sixth
1H6 . . 0 {Dead march. Enter the funeral of King Henry the +
1H6 1.1. 0 Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford (Regent of France), the Duke +
1H6 1.1. 0 of Gloucester (Protector), the Duke of Exeter, the Earl of Warwick, the +
1H6 1.1. 0 Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset}
1H6 1.1. 1
1H6-BEDFORD
Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to +
1H6 1.1. 1 night!
1H6 1.1. 2 Comets, importing change of times and states,
1H6 1.1. 3 Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,
1H6 1.1. 4 And with them scourge the bad revolting stars
1H6 1.1. 5 That have consented unto Henry's death -
1H6 1.1. 6 King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long.
1H6 1.1. 7 England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
1H6 1.1. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
England ne'er had a king until his time.
1H6 1.1. 9 Virtue he had, deserving to command.
1H6 1.1. 10 His brandished sword did blind men with his beams.
1H6 1.1. 11 His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings.
1H6 1.1. 12 His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
1H6 1.1. 13 More dazzled and drove back his enemies
1H6 1.1. 14 Than midday sun, fierce bent against their faces.
1H6 1.1. 15 What should I say? His deeds exceed all speech.
1H6 1.1. 16 He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.
1H6 1.1. 17
1H6-EXETER
We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
1H6 1.1. 18 Henry is dead, and never shall revive.
1H6 1.1. 19 Upon a wooden coffin we attend,
1H6 1.1. 20 And death's dishonourable victory
1H6 1.1. 21 We with our stately presence glorify,
1H6 1.1. 22 Like captives bound to a triumphant car.
1H6 1.1. 23 What, shall we curse the planets of mishap,
1H6 1.1. 24 That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
1H6 1.1. 25 Or shall we think the subtle-witted French
1H6 1.1. 26 Conjurers and sorcerers, that, afraid of him,
1H6 1.1. 27 By magic verses have contrived his end?
1H6 1.1. 28
1H6-WINCHESTER
He was a king blest of the King of Kings.
1H6 1.1. 29 Unto the French, the dreadful judgement day
1H6 1.1. 30 So dreadful will not be as was his sight.
1H6 1.1. 31 The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought.
1H6 1.1. 32 The Church's prayers made him so prosperous.
1H6 1.1. 33
1H6-GLOUCESTER
The Church? Where is it? Had not churchmen prayed,
1H6 1.1. 34 His thread of life had not so soon decayed.
1H6 1.1. 35 None do you like but an effeminate prince,
1H6 1.1. 36 Whom like a schoolboy you may overawe.
1H6 1.1. 37
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art Protector,
1H6 1.1. 38 And lookest to command the Prince and realm.
1H6 1.1. 39 Thy wife is proud: she holdeth thee in awe,
1H6 1.1. 40 More than God or religious churchmen may.
1H6 1.1. 41
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh,
1H6 1.1. 42 And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st,
1H6 1.1. 43 Except it be to pray against thy foes.
1H6 1.1. 44
1H6-BEDFORD
Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace.
1H6 1.1. 45 Let's to the altar. Heralds, wait on us. {[Exeunt Warwick, +
1H6 1.1. 45 Somerset, and heralds with coffin]}
1H6 1.1. 46 Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms -
1H6 1.1. 47 Since arms avail not, now that Henry's dead.
1H6 1.1. 48 Posterity, await for wretched years,
1H6 1.1. 49 When, at their mothers' moistened eyes, babes shall suck,
1H6 1.1. 50 Our isle be made a marish of salt tears,
1H6 1.1. 51 And none but women left to wail the dead.
1H6 1.1. 52 Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:
1H6 1.1. 53 Prosper this realm; keep it from civil broils;
1H6 1.1. 54 Combat with adverse planets in the heavens.
1H6 1.1. 55 A far more glorious star thy soul will make
1H6 1.1. 56 Than Julius Caesar or bright - {Enter a Messenger}
1H6 1.1. 57
1H6-MESSENGER
My honourable lords, health to you all.
1H6 1.1. 58 Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,
1H6 1.1. 59 Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture.
1H6 1.1. 60 Guyenne, Compiegne, Rouen, Rheims, Orle/ans,
1H6 1.1. 61 Paris, Gisors, Poitiers are all quite lost.
1H6 1.1. 62
1H6-BEDFORD
What sayst thou, man, before dead Henry's corpse?
1H6 1.1. 63 Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns
1H6 1.1. 64 Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.
1H6 1.1. 65
1H6-GLOUCESTER
{(to the Messenger)} Is Paris lost? Is +
1H6 1.1. 65 Rouen yielded up?
1H6 1.1. 66 If Henry were recalled to life again,
1H6 1.1. 67 These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.
1H6 1.1. 68
1H6-EXETER
{(to the Messenger)} How were they lost? +
1H6 1.1. 68 What treachery was used?
1H6 1.1. 69
1H6-MESSENGER
No treachery, but want of men and money.
1H6 1.1. 70 Amongst the soldiers this is muttered:
1H6 1.1. 71 That here you maintain several factions,
1H6 1.1. 72 And whilst a field should be dispatched and fought,
1H6 1.1. 73 You are disputing of your generals.
1H6 1.1. 74 One would have ling'ring wars, with little cost;
1H6 1.1. 75 Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;
1H6 1.1. 76 A third thinks, without expense at all,
1H6 1.1. 77 By guileful fair words peace may be obtained.
1H6 1.1. 78 Awake, awake, English nobility!
1H6 1.1. 79 Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot.
1H6 1.1. 80 Cropped are the flower-de-luces in your arms;
1H6 1.1. 81 Of England's coat, one half is cut away. {[Exit]}
1H6 1.1. 82
1H6-EXETER
Were our tears wanting to this funeral,
1H6 1.1. 83 These tidings would call forth her flowing tides.
1H6 1.1. 84
1H6-BEDFORD
Me they concern; Regent I am of France.
1H6 1.1. 85 Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.
1H6 1.1. 86 Away with these disgraceful wailing robes! {[He removes his +
1H6 1.1. 86 mourning robe]}
1H6 1.1. 87 Wounds will I lend the French, instead of eyes,
1H6 1.1. 88 To weep their intermissive miseries. {Enter to them another +
1H6 1.1. 88 Messenger with letters}
1H6 1.1. 89
1H6-SECOND MESSENGER
Lords, view these letters, full of bad +
1H6 1.1. 89 mischance.
1H6 1.1. 90 France is revolted from the English quite,
1H6 1.1. 91 Except some petty towns of no import.
1H6 1.1. 92 The Dauphin Charles is crowned king in Rheims;
1H6 1.1. 93 The Bastard of Orle/ans with him is joined;
1H6 1.1. 94 Rene/, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;
1H6 1.1. 95 The Duke of Alenc@on flyeth to his side. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 96
1H6-EXETER
The Dauphin crowned King? All fly to him?
1H6 1.1. 97 O whither shall {we} fly from this reproach?
1H6 1.1. 98
1H6-GLOUCESTER
We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.
1H6 1.1. 99 Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.
1H6 1.1. 100
1H6-BEDFORD
Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?
1H6 1.1. 101 An army have I mustered in my thoughts,
1H6 1.1. 102 Wherewith already France is overrun. {Enter another Messenger}
1H6 1.1. 103
1H6 1.1. 103
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
My gracious lords, to add to your +
1H6 1.1. 103 laments,
1H6 1.1. 104 Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,
1H6 1.1. 105 I must inform you of a dismal fight
1H6 1.1. 106 Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.
1H6 1.1. 107
1H6-WINCHESTER
What, wherein Talbot overcame - is 't so?
1H6 1.1. 108
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
O no, wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown.
1H6 1.1. 109 The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.
1H6 1.1. 110 The tenth of August last, this dreadful lord,
1H6 1.1. 111 Retiring from the siege of Orle/ans,
1H6 1.1. 112 Having full scarce six thousand in his troop,
1H6 1.1. 113 By three-and-twenty thousand of the French
1H6 1.1. 114 Was round encompassed and set upon.
1H6 1.1. 115 No leisure had he to enrank his men.
1H6 1.1. 116 He wanted pikes to set before his archers -
1H6 1.1. 117 Instead whereof, sharp stakes plucked out of hedges
1H6 1.1. 118 They pitched in the ground confusedly,
1H6 1.1. 119 To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
1H6 1.1. 120 More than three hours the fight continued,
1H6 1.1. 121 Where valiant Talbot above human thought
1H6 1.1. 122 Enacted wonders with his sword and lance.
1H6 1.1. 123 Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;
1H6 1.1. 124 Here, there, and everywhere, enraged he slew.
1H6 1.1. 125 The French exclaimed the devil was in arms:
1H6 1.1. 126 All the whole army stood agazed on him.
1H6 1.1. 127 His soldiers, spying his undaunted spirit,
1H6 1.1. 128 `A Talbot! A Talbot!' cried out amain,
1H6 1.1. 129 And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
1H6 1.1. 130 Here had the conquest fully been sealed up,
1H6 1.1. 131 If Sir John Fastolf had not played the coward.
1H6 1.1. 132 He, being in the vanguard placed behind,
1H6 1.1. 133 With purpose to relieve and follow them,
1H6 1.1. 134 Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
1H6 1.1. 135 Hence grew the general wrack and massacre.
1H6 1.1. 136 Enclosed were they with their enemies.
1H6 1.1. 137 A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,
1H6 1.1. 138 Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back -
1H6 1.1. 139 Whom all France, with their chief assembled strength,
1H6 1.1. 140 Durst not presume to look once in the face.
1H6 1.1. 141
1H6-BEDFORD
Is Talbot slain then? I will slay myself,
1H6 1.1. 142 For living idly here in pomp and ease
1H6 1.1. 143 Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,
1H6 1.1. 144 Unto his dastard foemen is betrayed.
1H6 1.1. 145
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
O no, he lives, but is took prisoner,
1H6 1.1. 146 And Lord Scales with him, and Lord Hungerford;
1H6 1.1. 147 Most of the rest slaughtered, or took likewise.
1H6 1.1. 148
1H6-BEDFORD
His ransom there is none but I shall pay.
1H6 1.1. 149 I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne;
1H6 1.1. 150 His crown shall be the ransom of my friend.
1H6 1.1. 151 Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.
1H6 1.1. 152
1H6 1.1. 152 Farewell, my masters; to my task will I.
1H6 1.1. 153 Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,
1H6 1.1. 154 To keep our great Saint George's feast withal.
1H6 1.1. 155 Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
1H6 1.1. 156 Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.
1H6 1.1. 157
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
So you had need. Fore Orle/ans, besieged,
1H6 1.1. 158 The English army is grown weak and faint.
1H6 1.1. 159 The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,
1H6 1.1. 160 And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,
1H6 1.1. 161 Since they, so few, watch such a multitude. {[Exit]}
1H6 1.1. 162
1H6-EXETER
Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn:
1H6 1.1. 163 Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,
1H6 1.1. 164 Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.
1H6 1.1. 165
1H6-BEDFORD
I do remember it, and here take my leave
1H6 1.1. 166 To go about my preparation. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 167
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,
1H6 1.1. 168 To view th' artillery and munition,
1H6 1.1. 169 And then I will proclaim young Henry king. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 170
1H6-EXETER
To Eltham will I, where the young King is,
1H6 1.1. 171 Being ordained his special governor,
1H6 1.1. 172 And for his safety there I'll best devise. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 173
1H6-WINCHESTER
Each hath his place and function to attend;
1H6 1.1. 174 I am left out; for me, nothing remains.
1H6 1.1. 175 But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office.
1H6 1.1. 176 The King from Eltham I intend to steal,
1H6 1.1. 177 And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 0
1H6 1.1. 0 {Sound a flourish. Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Duke of +
1H6 1.2. 0 Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou, marching with drummer and soldiers}
1H6 1.2. 1
1H6-CHARLES
Mars his true moving - even as in the heavens,
1H6 1.2. 2 So in the earth - to this day is not known.
1H6 1.2. 3 Late did he shine upon the English side;
1H6 1.2. 4 Now we are victors: upon us he smiles.
1H6 1.2. 5 What towns of any moment but we have?
1H6 1.2. 6 At pleasure here we lie near Orle/ans
1H6 1.2. 7 Otherwhiles the famished English, like pale ghosts,
1H6 1.2. 8 Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.
1H6 1.2. 9
1H6-ALENC@ON
They want their porrage and their fat bull beeves.
1H6 1.2. 10 Either they must be dieted like mules,
1H6 1.2. 11 And have their provender tied to their mouths,
1H6 1.2. 12 Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.
1H6 1.2. 13
1H6-RENE
Let's raise the siege. Why live we idly here?
1H6 1.2. 14 Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear.
1H6 1.2. 15 Remaineth none but mad-brained Salisbury,
1H6 1.2. 16 And he may well in fretting spend his gall:
1H6 1.2. 17 Nor men nor money hath he to make war.
1H6 1.2. 18
1H6-CHARLES
Sound, sound, alarum! We will rush on them.
1H6 1.2. 19 Now for the honour of the forlorn French,
1H6 1.2. 20 Him I forgive my death that killeth me
1H6 1.2. 21 When he sees me go back one foot or flee. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.2. 0 {Here alarum. The French are beaten back by the English +
1H6 1.3. 0 with great loss. Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Duke of Alenc@on, and +
1H6 1.3. 0 Rene/ Duke of Anjou}
1H6 1.3. 1
1H6-CHARLES
Who ever saw the like? What men have I?
1H6 1.3. 2 Dogs, cowards, dastards! I would ne'er have fled,
1H6 1.3. 3 But that they left me 'midst my enemies.
1H6 1.3. 4
1H6-RENE
Salisbury is a desperate homicide.
1H6 1.3. 5 He fighteth as one weary of his life.
1H6 1.3. 6 The other lords, like lions wanting food,
1H6 1.3. 7 Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.
1H6 1.3. 8
1H6-ALENC@ON
Froissart, a countryman of ours, records
1H6 1.3. 9 England all Olivers and Rolands bred
1H6 1.3. 10 During the time Edward the Third did reign.
1H6 1.3. 11 More truly now may this be verified,
1H6 1.3. 12 For none but Samsons and Goliases
1H6 1.3. 13 It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten?
1H6 1.3. 14 Lean raw-boned rascals, who would e'er suppose
1H6 1.3. 15 They had such courage and audacity?
1H6 1.3. 16
1H6-CHARLES
Let's leave this town, for they are hare-brained slaves,
1H6 1.3. 17 And hunger will enforce them to be more eager.
1H6 1.3. 18 Of old I know them: rather with their teeth
1H6 1.3. 19 The walls they'll tear down, than forsake the siege.
1H6 1.3. 20
1H6-RENE
I think by some odd gimmers or device
1H6 1.3. 21 Their arms are set, like clocks, still to strike on,
1H6 1.3. 22 Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.
1H6 1.3. 23 By my consent we'll even let them alone.
1H6 1.3. 24A
1H6-ALENC@ON
Be it so. {Enter the Bastard of Orle/ans}
1H6 1.3. 25
1H6-BASTARD
Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.
1H6 1.3. 26
1H6-CHARLES
Bastard of Orle/ans, thrice welcome to us.
1H6 1.3. 27
1H6-BASTARD
Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appalled.
1H6 1.3. 28 Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?
1H6 1.3. 29 Be not dismayed, for succour is at hand.
1H6 1.3. 30 A holy maid hither with me I bring,
1H6 1.3. 31 Which, by a vision sent to her from heaven,
1H6 1.3. 32 Ordained is to raise this tedious siege
1H6 1.3. 33 And drive the English forth the bounds of France.
1H6 1.3. 34 The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
1H6 1.3. 35 Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome.
1H6 1.3. 36 What's past and what's to come she can descry.
1H6 1.3. 37 Speak: shall I call her in? Believe my words,
1H6 1.3. 38 For they are certain and unfallible.
1H6 1.3. 39B
1H6-CHARLES
Go call her in. {Exit Bastard} But first, +
1H6 1.3. 39B to try her skill,
1H6 1.3. 40 Rene/ stand thou as Dauphin in my place.
1H6 1.3. 41 Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern.
1H6 1.3. 42 By this means shall we sound what skill she hath. {Enter [the +
1H6 1.3. 42 Bastard of Orle/ans with] Joan la Pucelle, armed}
1H6 1.3. 43
1H6-RENE
{(as Charles)} Fair maid, is 't thou wilt do +
1H6 1.3. 43 these wondrous feats?
1H6 1.3. 44
1H6-JOAN
Rene/, is 't thou that thinkest to beguile me?
1H6 1.3. 45 Where is the Dauphin? {(To Charles)} Come, come from +
1H6 1.3. 45 behind.
1H6 1.3. 46 I know thee well, though never seen before.
1H6 1.3. 47 Be not amazed. There's nothing hid from me.
1H6 1.3. 48 In private will I talk with thee apart.
1H6 1.3. 49 Stand back you lords, and give us leave awhile. {Rene/, Alenc@on +
1H6 1.3. 49 [and Bastard] stand apart}
1H6 1.3. 50
1H6-RENE
{[to Alenc@on and Bastard]} She takes upon +
1H6 1.3. 50 her bravely, at first dash.
1H6 1.3. 51
1H6-JOAN
Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,
1H6 1.3. 52 My wit untrained in any kind of art.
1H6 1.3. 53 Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
1H6 1.3. 54 To shine on my contemptible estate.
1H6 1.3. 55 Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
1H6 1.3. 56 And to sun's parching heat displayed my cheeks,
1H6 1.3. 57 God's mother deigned to appear to me,
1H6 1.3. 58 And in a vision, full of majesty,
1H6 1.3. 59 Willed me to leave my base vocation
1H6 1.3. 60 And free my country from calamity.
1H6 1.3. 61 Her aid she promised, and assured success.
1H6 1.3. 62 In complete glory she revealed herself -
1H6 1.3. 63 And whereas I was black and swart before,
1H6 1.3. 64 With those clear rays which she infused on me
1H6 1.3. 65 That beauty am I blest with, which you may see.
1H6 1.3. 66 Ask me what question thou canst possible,
1H6 1.3. 67 And I will answer unpremeditated.
1H6 1.3. 68 My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st,
1H6 1.3. 69 And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
1H6 1.3. 70 Resolve on this: thou shalt be fortunate,
1H6 1.3. 71 If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.
1H6 1.3. 72
1H6-CHARLES
Thou hast astonished me with thy high terms.
1H6 1.3. 73 Only this proof I'll of thy valour make:
1H6 1.3. 74 In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
1H6 1.3. 75 An if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;
1H6 1.3. 76 Otherwise, I renounce all confidence.
1H6 1.3. 77
1H6-JOAN
I am prepared. Here is my keen-edged sword,
1H6 1.3. 78 Decked with five flower-de-luces on each side -
1H6 1.3. 79 The which at Touraine, in Saint Katherine's churchyard,
1H6 1.3. 80 Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.
1H6 1.3. 81
1H6-CHARLES
Then come a God's name. I fear no woman.
1H6 1.3. 82
1H6-JOAN
And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man. {Here they +
1H6 1.3. 82 fight and Joan la Pucelle overcomes}
1H6 1.3. 83
1H6-CHARLES
Stay, stay thy hands! Thou art an Amazon,
1H6 1.3. 84 And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
1H6 1.3. 85
1H6-JOAN
Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak.
1H6 1.3. 86
1H6-CHARLES
Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me.
1H6 1.3. 87 Impatiently I burn with thy desire.
1H6 1.3. 88 My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.
1H6 1.3. 89 Excellent Pucelle if thy name be so,
1H6 1.3. 90 Let me thy servant, and not sovereign be.
1H6 1.3. 91 'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.
1H6 1.3. 92
1H6-JOAN
I must not yield to any rites of love,
1H6 1.3. 93 For my profession's sacred from above.
1H6 1.3. 94 When I have chased all thy foes from hence,
1H6 1.3. 95 Then will I think upon a recompense.
1H6 1.3. 96
1H6-CHARLES
Meantime, look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.
1H6 1.3. 97
1H6-RENE
{[to the other lords apart]} My lord, +
1H6 1.3. 97 methinks, is very long in talk.
1H6 1.3. 98
1H6-ALENC@ON
Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock,
1H6 1.3. 99 Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
1H6 1.3. 100
1H6-RENE
Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?
1H6 1.3. 101
1H6-ALENC@ON
He may mean more than we poor men do know.
1H6 1.3. 102 These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
1H6 1.3. 103
1H6-RENE
{(to Charles)} My lord, where are you? What +
1H6 1.3. 103 devise you on?
1H6 1.3. 104 Shall we give o'er Orle/ans, or no?
1H6 1.3. 105
1H6-JOAN
Why, no, I say. Distrustful recreants,
1H6 1.3. 106 Fight till the last gasp; I'll be your guard.
1H6 1.3. 107
1H6-CHARLES
What she says, I'll confirm. We'll fight it out.
1H6 1.3. 108
1H6-JOAN
Assigned am I to be the English scourge.
1H6 1.3. 109 This night the siege assuredly I'll raise.
1H6 1.3. 110 Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon's days,
1H6 1.3. 111 Since I have entered into these wars.
1H6 1.3. 112 Glory is like a circle in the water,
1H6 1.3. 113 Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
1H6 1.3. 114 Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
1H6 1.3. 115 With Henry's death, the English circle ends.
1H6 1.3. 116 Dispersed are the glories it included.
1H6 1.3. 117 Now am I like that proud insulting ship
1H6 1.3. 118 Which Caesar and his fortune bore at once.
1H6 1.3. 119
1H6-CHARLES
Was Mohammed inspired with a dove?
1H6 1.3. 120 Thou with an eagle art inspired then.
1H6 1.3. 121 Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
1H6 1.3. 122 Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters were like thee.
1H6 1.3. 123 Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,
1H6 1.3. 124 How may I reverently worship thee enough?
1H6 1.3. 125
1H6-ALENC@ON
Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.
1H6 1.3. 126
1H6-RENE
Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours.
1H6 1.3. 127 Drive them from Orle/ans, and be immortalized.
1H6 1.3. 128
1H6-CHARLES
Presently we'll try. Come, let's away about it.
1H6 1.3. 129 No prophet will I trust, if she prove false. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.3. 0 {Enter the Duke of Gloucester, with his Servingmen in +
1H6 1.4. 0 blue coats}
1H6 1.4. 1
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I am come to survey the Tower this day.
1H6 1.4. 2 Since Henry's death, I fear there is conveyance.
1H6 1.4. 3 Where be these warders, that they wait not here?
1H6-[A
Servingman] +
1H6 1.4. 3 knocketh on the gates}
1H6 1.4. 4 Open the gates: 'tis Gloucester that calls.
1H6 1.4. 5
1H6-FIRST WARDER
{[within the Tower]} Who's there that +
1H6 1.4. 5 knocketh so imperiously?
1H6 1.4. 6
1H6-GLOUCESTER
S
1H6-FIRST MAN
It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.
1H6 1.4. 7
1H6-SECOND WARDER
{[within the Tower]} Whoe'er he be, +
1H6 1.4. 7 you may not be let in.
1H6 1.4. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
S
1H6-FIRST MAN
Villains, answer you so the Lord Protector?
1H6 1.4. 9
1H6-FIRST WARDER
{[within the Tower]} The Lord protect +
1H6 1.4. 9 him, so we answer him.
1H6 1.4. 10 We do no otherwise than we are willed.
1H6 1.4. 11
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Who willed you? Or whose will stands, but mine?
1H6 1.4. 12 There's none Protector of the realm but I.
1H6 1.4. 13 {(To Servingmen)} Break up the gates. I'll be your +
1H6 1.4. 13 warrantize.
1H6 1.4. 14 Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms? {Gloucester's men +
1H6 1.4. 14 rush at the Tower gates}
1H6 1.4. 15
1H6-WOODVILLE
{[within the Tower]} What noise is this? +
1H6 1.4. 15 What traitors have we here?
1H6 1.4. 16
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
1H6 1.4. 17 Open the gates! Here's Gloucester, that would enter.
1H6 1.4. 18
1H6-WOODVILLE
{[within the Tower]} Have patience, +
1H6 1.4. 18 noble duke: I may not open.
1H6 1.4. 19 My lord of Winchester forbids.
1H6 1.4. 20 From him I have express commande|ment
1H6 1.4. 21 That thou, nor none of thine, shall be let in.
1H6 1.4. 22
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Faint-hearted Woodville! Prizest him fore me? -
1H6 1.4. 23 Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
1H6 1.4. 24 Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?
1H6 1.4. 25 Thou art no friend to God or to the King.
1H6 1.4. 26 Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.
1H6 1.4. 27
1H6-SERVINGMEN
Open the gates unto the Lord Protector,
1H6 1.4. 28 Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly. {Enter, +
1H6 1.4. 28 to the Lord Protector at the Tower gates, the Bishop of Winchester and +
1H6 1.4. 28 his men in tawny coats}
1H6 1.4. 29
1H6-WINCHESTER
How now, ambitious vizier! What means this?
1H6 1.4. 30
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Peeled priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?
1H6 1.4. 31
1H6-WINCHESTER
I do, thou most usurping proditor,
1H6 1.4. 32 And not `Protector', of the King or realm.
1H6 1.4. 33
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Stand back, thou manifest conspirator.
1H6 1.4. 34 Thou that contrived'st to murder our dead lord,
1H6 1.4. 35 Thou that giv'st whores indulgences to sin,
1H6 1.4. 36 If thou proceed in this thy insolence -
1H6 1.4. 37
1H6-WINCHESTER
Nay, stand thou back! I will not budge a foot.
1H6 1.4. 38 This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
1H6 1.4. 39 To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.
1H6 1.4. 40
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back.
1H6 1.4. 41 Thy purple robes, as a child's bearing-cloth,
1H6 1.4. 42 I'll use to carry thee out of this place.
1H6 1.4. 43
1H6-WINCHESTER
Do what thou dar'st, I beard thee to thy face.
1H6 1.4. 44
1H6-GLOUCESTER
What, am I dared and bearded to my face?
1H6 1.4. 45 Draw, men, for all this privileged place. {All draw their +
1H6 1.4. 45 swords}
1H6 1.4. 46 Blue coats to tawny coats! - Priest, beware your beard.
1H6 1.4. 47 I mean to tug it, and to cuff you soundly.
1H6 1.4. 48 Under my feet I'll stamp thy bishop's mitre.
1H6 1.4. 49 In spite of Pope, or dignities of church,
1H6 1.4. 50 Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
1H6 1.4. 51
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the Pope.
1H6 1.4. 52
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Winchester goose! I cry, `A rope, a rope!'
1H6 1.4. 53 {(To his Servingmen)} Now beat them hence. Why do you +
1H6 1.4. 53 let them stay?
1H6 1.4. 54 {(To Winchester)} Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in +
1H6 1.4. 54 sheep's array.
1H6 1.4. 55 Out, tawny coats! Out, cloaked hypocrite! {Here Gloucester's +
1H6 1.4. 55 men beat out the Bishop's men. Enter in the hurly-burly the Mayor of +
1H6 1.4. 55 London and his Officers}
1H6 1.4. 56
1H6-MAYOR
Fie, lords! - that you, being supreme magistrates,
1H6 1.4. 57 Thus contumeliously should break the peace.
1H6 1.4. 58
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Peace, mayor, thou know'st little of my wrongs.
1H6 1.4. 59 Here's Beaufort - that regards nor God nor king -
1H6 1.4. 60 Hath here distrained the Tower to his use.
1H6 1.4. 61
1H6-WINCHESTER
{(to Mayor)} Here's Gloucester - a foe to +
1H6 1.4. 61 citizens,
1H6 1.4. 62 One that still motions war, and never peace,
1H6 1.4. 63 O'ercharging your free purses with large fines -
1H6 1.4. 64 That seeks to overthrow religion,
1H6 1.4. 65 Because he is Protector of the realm,
1H6 1.4. 66 And would have armour here out of the Tower
1H6 1.4. 67 To crown himself king and suppress the Prince.
1H6 1.4. 68
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I will not answer thee with words but blows. +
1H6 1.4. 68 {Here the factions skirmish again}
1H6 1.4. 69
1H6-MAYOR
Naught rests for me, in this tumultuous strife,
1H6 1.4. 70 But to make open proclamation.
1H6 1.4. 71 Come, officer, as loud as e'er thou canst, cry.
1H6 1.4. 72
1H6-OFFICER
All manner of men, assembled here in arms this
1H6 1.4. 73 day against God's peace and the King's, we charge and
1H6 1.4. 74 command you in his highness' name to repair to your
1H6 1.4. 75 several dwelling places, and not to wear, handle, or
1H6 1.4. 76 use any sword, weapon, or dagger henceforward, upon
1H6 1.4. 77 pain of death. {The skirmishes cease}
1H6 1.4. 78
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Bishop, I'll be no breaker of the law.
1H6 1.4. 79 But we shall meet and break our minds at large.
1H6 1.4. 80
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, we'll meet to thy cost, be sure.
1H6 1.4. 81 Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.
1H6 1.4. 82
1H6-MAYOR
I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.
1H6 1.4. 83 {(Aside)} This bishop is more haughty than the devil.
1H6 1.4. 84
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Mayor, farewell. Thou dost but what thou mayst.
1H6 1.4. 85
1H6-WINCHESTER
Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head,
1H6 1.4. 86 For I intend to have it ere long. {Exeunt both factions +
1H6 1.4. 86 severally}
1H6 1.4. 87
1H6-MAYOR
{(to Officers)} See the coast cleared, and +
1H6 1.4. 87 then we will depart. -
1H6 1.4. 88 Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
1H6 1.4. 89 I myself fight not once in forty year. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.4. 0 {Enter the Master Gunner of Orle/ans with his Boy}
1H6 1.5. 1
1H6-MASTER GUNNER
Sirrah, thou know'st how Orle/ans is +
1H6 1.5. 1 besieged,
1H6 1.5. 2 And how the English have the suburbs won.
1H6 1.5. 3
1H6-BOY
Father, I know, and oft have shot at them;
1H6 1.5. 4 Howe'er, unfortunate, I missed my aim.
1H6 1.5. 5
1H6-MASTER GUNNER
But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me.
1H6 1.5. 6 Chief Master Gunner am I of this town;
1H6 1.5. 7 Something I must do to procure me grace.
1H6 1.5. 8 The Prince's spials have informed me
1H6 1.5. 9 How the English, in the suburbs close entrenched,
1H6 1.5. 10 Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
1H6 1.5. 11 In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
1H6 1.5. 12 And thence discover how with most advantage
1H6 1.5. 13 They may vex us with shot or with assault.
1H6 1.5. 14 To intercept this inconvenience,
1H6 1.5. 15 A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed,
1H6 1.5. 16 And even these three days have I watched, if I could see them.
1H6 1.5. 17 Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.
1H6 1.5. 18 If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word,
1H6 1.5. 19 And thou shalt find me at the governor's.
1H6 1.5. 20
1H6-BOY
Father, I warrant you, take you no care - {[Exit Master +
1H6 1.5. 20 Gunner at one door]}
1H6 1.5. 21 I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them. {Exit [at +
1H6 1.5. 21 the other door]}
1H6 1.5. 0 {Enter the Earl of Salisbury and Lord Talbot above on the +
1H6 1.6. 0 turrets with others, among them Sir Thomas Gargrave and Sir William +
1H6 1.6. 0 Glasdale}
1H6 1.6. 1
1H6-SALISBURY
Talbot, my life, my joy, again returned?
1H6 1.6. 2 How wert thou handled, being prisoner?
1H6 1.6. 3 Or by what means got'st thou to be released?
1H6 1.6. 4 Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.
1H6 1.6. 5
1H6-TALBOT
The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner,
1H6 1.6. 6 Called the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;
1H6 1.6. 7 For him was I exchanged and ransomed.
1H6 1.6. 8 But with a baser man-of-arms by far
1H6 1.6. 9 Once in contempt they would have bartered me -
1H6 1.6. 10 Which I, disdaining, scorned, and craved death
1H6 1.6. 11 Rather than I would be so pilled esteemed.
1H6 1.6. 12 In fine, redeemed I was, as I desired.
1H6 1.6. 13 But O, the treacherous Fastolf wounds my heart,
1H6 1.6. 14 Whom with my bare fists I would execute
1H6 1.6. 15 If I now had him brought into my power.
1H6 1.6. 16
1H6-SALISBURY
Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertained.
1H6 1.6. 17
1H6-TALBOT
With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.
1H6 1.6. 18 In open market place produced they me,
1H6 1.6. 19 To be a public spectacle to all.
1H6 1.6. 20 `Here', said they, `is the terror of the French,
1H6 1.6. 21 The scarecrow that affrights our children so.'
1H6 1.6. 22 Then broke I from the officers that led me
1H6 1.6. 23 And with my nails digged stones out of the ground
1H6 1.6. 24 To hurl at the beholders of my shame.
1H6 1.6. 25 My grisly countenance made others fly.
1H6 1.6. 26 None durst come near, for fear of sudden death.
1H6 1.6. 27 In iron walls they deemed me not secure:
1H6 1.6. 28 So great fear of my name 'mongst them were spread
1H6 1.6. 29 That they supposed I could rend bars of steel
1H6 1.6. 30 And spurn in pieces posts of adamant.
1H6 1.6. 31 Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had
1H6 1.6. 32 That walked about me every minute while;
1H6 1.6. 33 And if I did but stir out of my bed,
1H6 1.6. 34 Ready they were to shoot me to the heart. {The Boy [passes over +
1H6 1.6. 34 the stage] with a linstock}
1H6 1.6. 35
1H6-SALISBURY
I grieve to hear what torments you endured.
1H6 1.6. 36 But we will be revenged sufficiently.
1H6 1.6. 37 Now it is supper time in Orle/ans.
1H6 1.6. 38 Here, through this grate, I count each one,
1H6 1.6. 39 And view the Frenchmen how they fortify.
1H6 1.6. 40 Let us look in: the sight will much delight thee. -
1H6 1.6. 41 Sir Thomas Gargrave and Sir William Glasdale,
1H6 1.6. 42 Let me have your express opinions
1H6 1.6. 43 Where is best place to make our batt'ry next. {[They look +
1H6 1.6. 43 through the grate]}
1H6 1.6. 44
1H6-GARGRAVE
I think at the north gate, for there stands Lou.
1H6 1.6. 45
1H6-GLASDALE
And I here, at the bulwark of the Bridge.
1H6 1.6. 46
1H6-TALBOT
For aught I see, this city must be famished
1H6 1.6. 47 Or with light skirmishes enfeebled. {Here they shoot off +
1H6 1.6. 47 chambers [within] and Salisbury and Gargrave fall down}
1H6 1.6. 48
1H6-SALISBURY
O Lord have mercy on us, wretched sinners!
1H6 1.6. 49
1H6-GARGRAVE
O Lord have mercy on me, woeful man!
1H6 1.6. 50
1H6-TALBOT
What chance is this that suddenly hath crossed us?
1H6 1.6. 51 Speak, Salisbury - at least, if thou canst, speak.
1H6 1.6. 52 How far'st thou, mirror of all martial men?
1H6 1.6. 53 One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off?
1H6 1.6. 54 Accursed tower! Accursed fatal hand
1H6 1.6. 55 That hath contrived this woeful tragedy!
1H6 1.6. 56 In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;
1H6 1.6. 57 Henry the Fifth he first trained to the wars;
1H6 1.6. 58 Whilst any trump did sound or drum struck up
1H6 1.6. 59 His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.
1H6 1.6. 60 Yet liv'st thou, Salisbury? Though thy speech doth fail,
1H6 1.6. 61 One eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace.
1H6 1.6. 62 The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
1H6 1.6. 63 Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive
1H6 1.6. 64 If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands. -
1H6 1.6. 65 Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
1H6 1.6. 66 Speak unto Talbot. Nay, look up to him. -
1H6 1.6. 67 Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it. {[Exit one with +
1H6 1.6. 67 Gargrave's body]}
1H6 1.6. 68 Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort:
1H6 1.6. 69 Thou shalt not die whiles -
1H6 1.6. 70 He beckons with his hand, and smiles on me,
1H6 1.6. 71 As who should say, `When I am dead and gone,
1H6 1.6. 72 Remember to avenge me on the French.'
1H6 1.6. 73 Plantagenet, I will - and like thee, Nero,
1H6 1.6. 74 Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn.
1H6 1.6. 75 Wretched shall France be only in my name. {Here an alarum, and +
1H6 1.6. 75 it thunders and lightens}
1H6 1.6. 76 What stir is this? What tumult's in the heavens?
1H6 1.6. 77 Whence cometh this alarum and the noise? {Enter a Messenger}
1H6 1.6. 78
1H6-MESSENGER
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered +
1H6 1.6. 78 head.
1H6 1.6. 79 The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle joined,
1H6 1.6. 80 A holy prophetess new risen up,
1H6 1.6. 81 Is come with a great power to raise the siege. {Here Salisbury +
1H6 1.6. 81 lifteth himself up and groans}
1H6 1.6. 82
1H6-TALBOT
Hear, hear, how dying Salisbury doth groan!
1H6 1.6. 83 It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.
1H6 1.6. 84 Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you.
1H6 1.6. 85 {Pucelle} or pucelle, Dauphin or dog-fish,
1H6 1.6. 86 Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels
1H6 1.6. 87 And make a quagmire of your mingled brains. -
1H6 1.6. 88 Convey me Salisbury into his tent,
1H6 1.6. 89 And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare. {Alarum. +
1H6 1.6. 89 Exeunt carrying Salisbury}
1H6 1.6. 0 {Here an alarum again, and Lord Talbot pursueth the +
1H6 1.7. 0 Dauphin and driveth him. Then enter Joan la Pucelle driving Englishmen +
1H6 1.7. 0 before her and [exeunt]. Then enter Lord Talbot}
1H6 1.7. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?
1H6 1.7. 2 Our English troops retire; I cannot stay them.
1H6 1.7. 3 A woman clad in armour chaseth men. {Enter Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 1.7. 4 Here, here she comes. {(To Joan)} I'll have a +
1H6 1.7. 4 bout with thee.
1H6 1.7. 5 Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee.
1H6 1.7. 6 Blood will I draw on thee - thou art a witch -
1H6 1.7. 7 And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st.
1H6 1.7. 8
1H6-JOAN
Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee. {Here +
1H6 1.7. 8 they fight}
1H6 1.7. 9
1H6-TALBOT
Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?
1H6 1.7. 10 My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage
1H6 1.7. 11 And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder
1H6 1.7. 12 But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet. {They fight +
1H6 1.7. 12 again}
1H6 1.7. 13
1H6-JOAN
Talbot, farewell. Thy hour is not yet come.
1H6 1.7. 14 I must go victual Orle/ans forthwith. {A short alarum, then [the +
1H6 1.7. 14 French pass over the stage and] enter the town with soldiers}
1H6 1.7. 15 O'ertake me if thou canst. I scorn thy strength.
1H6 1.7. 16 Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men.
1H6 1.7. 17 Help Salisbury to make his testament.
1H6 1.7. 18 This day is ours, as many more shall be. {Exit into the town}
1H6 1.7. 19
1H6-TALBOT
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.
1H6 1.7. 20 I know not where I am nor what I do.
1H6 1.7. 21 A witch by fear, not force, like Hannibal
1H6 1.7. 22 Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists.
1H6 1.7. 23 So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
1H6 1.7. 24 Are from their hives and houses driven away.
1H6 1.7. 25 They called us, for our fierceness, English dogs;
1H6 1.7. 26 Now, like to whelps, we crying run away. {A short alarum. [Enter +
1H6 1.7. 26 English soldiers]}
1H6 1.7. 27 Hark, countrymen: either renew the fight
1H6 1.7. 28 Or tear the lions out of England's coat.
1H6 1.7. 29 Renounce your style; give sheep in lions' stead.
1H6 1.7. 30 Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,
1H6 1.7. 31 Or horse or oxen from the leopard,
1H6 1.7. 32 As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves. {Alarum. Here another +
1H6 1.7. 32 skirmish}
1H6 1.7. 33 It will not be. Retire into your trenches.
1H6 1.7. 34 You all consented unto Salisbury's death,
1H6 1.7. 35 For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.
1H6 1.7. 36 Pucelle is entered into Orle/ans
1H6 1.7. 37 In spite of us or aught that we could do. {[Exeunt Soldiers]}
1H6 1.7. 38 O would I were to die with Salisbury!
1H6 1.7. 39 The shame hereof will make me hide my head. {Exit. Alarum. +
1H6 1.7. 39 Retreat}
1H6 1.7. 0 {Flourish. Enter on the walls Joan la Pucelle, Charles +
1H6 1.8. 0 the Dauphin, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, the Duke of Alenc@on and French +
1H6 1.8. 0 Soldiers [with colours]}
1H6 1.8. 1
1H6-JOAN
Advance our waving colours on the walls;
1H6 1.8. 2 Rescued is Orle/ans from the English.
1H6 1.8. 3 Thus Joan la Pucelle hath performed her word.
1H6 1.8. 4
1H6-CHARLES
Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,
1H6 1.8. 5 How shall I honour thee for this success?
1H6 1.8. 6 Thy promises are like Adonis' garden,
1H6 1.8. 7 That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.
1H6 1.8. 8 France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!
1H6 1.8. 9 Recovered is the town of Orle/ans.
1H6 1.8. 10 More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.
1H6 1.8. 11
1H6-RENE
Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?
1H6 1.8. 12 Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires
1H6 1.8. 13 And feast and banquet in the open streets
1H6 1.8. 14 To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.
1H6 1.8. 15
1H6-ALENC@ON
All France will be replete with mirth and joy
1H6 1.8. 16 When they shall hear how we have played the men.
1H6 1.8. 17
1H6-CHARLES
'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won -
1H6 1.8. 18 For which I will divide my crown with her,
1H6 1.8. 19 And all the priests and friars in my realm
1H6 1.8. 20 Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
1H6 1.8. 21 A statelier pyramid to her I'll rear
1H6 1.8. 22 Than Rhodope's of Memphis ever was.
1H6 1.8. 23 In memory of her, when she is dead
1H6 1.8. 24 Her ashes, in an urn more precious
1H6 1.8. 25 Than the rich-jewelled coffer of Darius,
1H6 1.8. 26 Transported shall be at high festivals
1H6 1.8. 27 Before the kings and queens of France.
1H6 1.8. 28 No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,
1H6 1.8. 29 But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint.
1H6 1.8. 30 Come in, and let us banquet royally
1H6 1.8. 31 After this golden day of victory. {Flourish. Exeunt}
1H6 1.8. 0
1H6 1.8. 0 {Enter [on the walls] a French Sergeant of a band, +
1H6 2.1. 0 with two Sentinels}
1H6 2.1. 1
1H6-SERGEANT
Sirs, take your places and be vigilant.
1H6 2.1. 2 If any noise or soldier you perceive
1H6 2.1. 3 Near to the walls, by some apparent sign
1H6 2.1. 4 Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.
1H6 2.1. 5B
1H6-[A SENTINEL]
Sergeant, you shall. {Exit Sergeant} +
1H6 2.1. 5B Thus are poor servitors,
1H6 2.1. 6 When others sleep upon their quiet beds,
1H6 2.1. 7 Constrained to watch in darkness, rain, and cold. {Enter Lord +
1H6 2.1. 7 Talbot, the Dukes of Bedford and Burgundy, and soldiers with scaling +
1H6 2.1. 7 ladders, their drums beating a dead march}
1H6 2.1. 8
1H6-TALBOT
Lord regent, and redoubted Burgundy -
1H6 2.1. 9 By whose approach the regions of Artois,
1H6 2.1. 10 Wallon, and Picardy are friends to us -
1H6 2.1. 11 This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,
1H6 2.1. 12 Having all day caroused and banqueted.
1H6 2.1. 13 Embrace we then this opportunity,
1H6 2.1. 14 As fitting best to quittance their deceit,
1H6 2.1. 15 Contrived by art and baleful sorcery.
1H6 2.1. 16
1H6-BEDFORD
Coward of France! How much he wrongs his fame,
1H6 2.1. 17 Despairing of his own arms' fortitude,
1H6 2.1. 18 To join with witches and the help of hell.
1H6 2.1. 19
1H6-BURGUNDY
Traitors have never other company.
1H6 2.1. 20 But what's that `Pucelle' whom they term so pure?
1H6 2.1. 21B
1H6-TALBOT
A maid, they say.
1H6-BEDFORD
A maid? And be so martial?
1H6 2.1. 22
1H6-BURGUNDY
Pray God she prove not masculine ere long.
1H6 2.1. 23 If underneath the standard of the French
1H6 2.1. 24 She carry armour as she hath begun -
1H6 2.1. 25
1H6-TALBOT
Well, let them practise and converse with spirits.
1H6 2.1. 26 God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
1H6 2.1. 27 Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
1H6 2.1. 28
1H6-BEDFORD
Ascend, brave Talbot. We will follow thee.
1H6 2.1. 29
1H6-TALBOT
Not all together. Better far, I guess,
1H6 2.1. 30 That we do make our entrance several ways -
1H6 2.1. 31 That, if it chance the one of us do fail,
1H6 2.1. 32 The other yet may rise against their force.
1H6 2.1. 33B
1H6-BEDFORD
Agreed. I'll to yon corner.
1H6-BURGUNDY
And I to +
1H6 2.1. 33B this. {[Exeunt severally Bedford and Burgundy with some +
1H6 2.1. 33B soldiers]}
1H6 2.1. 34
1H6-TALBOT
And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.
1H6 2.1. 35 Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right
1H6 2.1. 36 Of English Henry, shall this night appear
1H6 2.1. 37 How much in duty I am bound to both. {[Talbot and his soldiers] +
1H6 2.1. 37 scale the walls}
1H6 2.1. 38
1H6-[SENTINELS]
Arm! Arm! The enemy doth make assault!
1H6 2.1. 39A
1H6-ENGLISH SOLDIERS
Saint George! A Talbot! {Exeunt above}
1H6 2.1. 40 {[Alarum.] The French [soldiers] leap o'er the walls in their +
1H6 2.1. 40 shirts [and exeunt]. Enter several ways the Bastard of Orle/ans, the +
1H6 2.1. 40 Duke of Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou, half ready and half +
1H6 2.1. 40 unready}
1H6-ALENC@ON
How now, my lords? What, all unready so?
1H6 2.1. 41
1H6-BASTARD
Unready? Ay, and glad we scaped so well.
1H6 2.1. 42
1H6-RENE
'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,
1H6 2.1. 43 Hearing alarums at our chamber doors.
1H6 2.1. 44
1H6-ALENC@ON
Of all exploits since first I followed arms
1H6 2.1. 45 Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise
1H6 2.1. 46 More venturous or desperate than this.
1H6 2.1. 47
1H6-BASTARD
I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.
1H6 2.1. 48
1H6-RENE
If not of hell, the heavens sure favour him.
1H6 2.1. 49
1H6-ALENC@ON
Here cometh Charles. I marvel how he sped. {Enter +
1H6 2.1. 49 Charles the Dauphin and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 2.1. 50
1H6-BASTARD
Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.
1H6 2.1. 51
1H6-CHARLES
{(to Joan)} Is this thy cunning, thou +
1H6 2.1. 51 deceitful dame?
1H6 2.1. 52 Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
1H6 2.1. 53 Make us partakers of a little gain
1H6 2.1. 54 That now our loss might be ten times so much?
1H6 2.1. 55
1H6-JOAN
Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
1H6 2.1. 56 At all times will you have my power alike?
1H6 2.1. 57 Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,
1H6 2.1. 58 Or will you blame and lay the fault on me? -
1H6 2.1. 59 Improvident soldiers, had your watch been good,
1H6 2.1. 60 This sudden mischief never could have fall'n.
1H6 2.1. 61
1H6-CHARLES
Duke of Alenc@on, this was your default,
1H6 2.1. 62 That, being captain of the watch tonight,
1H6 2.1. 63 Did look no better to that weighty charge.
1H6 2.1. 64
1H6-ALENC@ON
Had all your quarters been as safely kept
1H6 2.1. 65 As that whereof I had the government,
1H6 2.1. 66 We had not been thus shamefully surprised.
1H6 2.1. 67B
1H6-BASTARD
Mine was secure.
1H6-RENE
And so was mine, my lord.
1H6 2.1. 68
1H6-CHARLES
And for myself, most part of all this night
1H6 2.1. 69 Within her quarter and mine own precinct
1H6 2.1. 70 I was employed in passing to and fro
1H6 2.1. 71 About relieving of the sentinels.
1H6 2.1. 72 Then how or which way should they first break in?
1H6 2.1. 73
1H6-JOAN
Question, my lords, no further of the case,
1H6 2.1. 74 How or which way. 'Tis sure they found some place
1H6 2.1. 75 But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.
1H6 2.1. 76 And now there rests no other shift but this -
1H6 2.1. 77 To gather our soldiers, scattered and dispersed,
1H6 2.1. 78 And lay new platforms to endamage them. {Alarum. Enter an +
1H6 2.1. 78 English Soldier}
1H6 2.1. 79
1H6-ENGLISH SOLDIER
A Talbot! A Talbot! {The French +
1H6 2.1. 79 fly, leaving their clothes behind}
1H6 2.1. 80
1H6-ENGLISH SOLDIER
I'll be so bold to take what they have +
1H6 2.1. 80 left.
1H6 2.1. 81 The cry of `Talbot' serves me for a sword,
1H6 2.1. 82 For I have loaden me with many spoils,
1H6 2.1. 83 Using no other weapon but his name. {Exit with spoils}
1H6 2.1. 0 {Enter Lord Talbot, the Dukes of Bedford and Burgundy, a +
1H6 2.2. 0 Captain, [and soldiers]}
1H6 2.2. 1
1H6-BEDFORD
The day begins to break and night is fled,
1H6 2.2. 2 Whose pitchy mantle overveiled the earth.
1H6 2.2. 3 Here sound retreat and cease our hot pursuit. {Retreat is +
1H6 2.2. 3 sounded}
1H6 2.2. 4
1H6-TALBOT
Bring forth the body of old Salisbury
1H6 2.2. 5 And here advance it in the market place,
1H6 2.2. 6 The middle centre of this cursed town. {[Exit one or more]}
1H6 2.2. 7 Now have I paid my vow unto his soul:
1H6 2.2. 8 For every drop of blood was drawn from him
1H6 2.2. 9 There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.
1H6 2.2. 10 And that hereafter ages may behold
1H6 2.2. 11 What ruin happened in revenge of him,
1H6 2.2. 12 Within their chiefest temple I'll erect
1H6 2.2. 13 A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interred -
1H6 2.2. 14 Upon the which, that everyone may read,
1H6 2.2. 15 Shall be engraved the sack of Orle/ans,
1H6 2.2. 16 The treacherous manner of his mournful death,
1H6 2.2. 17 And what a terror he had been to France.
1H6 2.2. 18 But, lords, in all our bloody massacre
1H6 2.2. 19 I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,
1H6 2.2. 20 His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,
1H6 2.2. 21 Nor any of his false confederates.
1H6 2.2. 22
1H6-BEDFORD
'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,
1H6 2.2. 23 Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,
1H6 2.2. 24 They did amongst the troops of armed men
1H6 2.2. 25 Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field.
1H6 2.2. 26
1H6-BURGUNDY
Myself, as far as I could well discern
1H6 2.2. 27 For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,
1H6 2.2. 28 Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,
1H6 2.2. 29 When arm-in-arm they both came swiftly running,
1H6 2.2. 30 Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves
1H6 2.2. 31 That could not live asunder day or night.
1H6 2.2. 32 After that things are set in order here,
1H6 2.2. 33 We'll follow them with all the power we have. {Enter a +
1H6 2.2. 33 Messenger}
1H6 2.2. 34
1H6-MESSENGER
All hail, my lords! Which of this princely +
1H6 2.2. 34 train
1H6 2.2. 35 Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts
1H6 2.2. 36 So much applauded through the realm of France?
1H6 2.2. 37
1H6-TALBOT
Here is the Talbot. Who would speak with him?
1H6 2.2. 38
1H6-MESSENGER
The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,
1H6 2.2. 39 With modesty admiring thy renown,
1H6 2.2. 40 By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe
1H6 2.2. 41 To visit her poor castle where she lies,
1H6 2.2. 42 That she may boast she hath beheld the man
1H6 2.2. 43 Whose glory fills the world with loud report.
1H6 2.2. 44
1H6-BURGUNDY
Is it even so? Nay, then I see our wars
1H6 2.2. 45 Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,
1H6 2.2. 46 When ladies crave to be encountered with.
1H6 2.2. 47 You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.
1H6 2.2. 48
1H6-TALBOT
Ne'er trust me then, for when a world of men
1H6 2.2. 49 Could not prevail with all their oratory,
1H6 2.2. 50 Yet hath a woman's kindness overruled. -
1H6 2.2. 51 And therefore tell her I return great thanks,
1H6 2.2. 52 And in submission will attend on her. -
1H6 2.2. 53 Will not your honours bear me company?
1H6 2.2. 54
1H6-BEDFORD
No, truly, 'tis more than manners will.
1H6 2.2. 55 And I have heard it said, `Unbidden guests
1H6 2.2. 56 Are often welcomest when they are gone'.
1H6 2.2. 57
1H6-TALBOT
Well then, alone - since there's no remedy -
1H6 2.2. 58 I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.
1H6 2.2. 59B Come hither, captain. {He whispers} You perceive my +
1H6 2.2. 59B mind?
1H6 2.2. 60
1H6-CAPTAIN
I do, my lord, and mean accordingly. {Exeunt +
1H6 2.2. 60 [severally]}
1H6 2.2. 0 {Enter the Countess of Auvergne and her Porter}
1H6 2.3. 1
1H6-COUNTESS
Porter, remember what I gave in charge,
1H6 2.3. 2 And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.
1H6 2.3. 3A
1H6-PORTER
Madam, I will. {Exit}
1H6 2.3. 4
1H6-COUNTESS
The plot is laid. If all things fall out right,
1H6 2.3. 5 I shall as famous be by this exploit
1H6 2.3. 6 As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death.
1H6 2.3. 7 Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight,
1H6 2.3. 8 And his achievements of no less account.
1H6 2.3. 9 Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,
1H6 2.3. 10 To give their censure of these rare reports. {Enter Messenger +
1H6 2.3. 10 and Lord Talbot}
1H6 2.3. 11
1H6-MESSENGER
Madam, according as your ladyship desired,
1H6 2.3. 12 By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.
1H6 2.3. 13
1H6-COUNTESS
And he is welcome. What, is this the man?
1H6 2.3. 14B
1H6-MESSENGER
Madam, it is.
1H6-COUNTESS
Is this the scourge of France?
1H6 2.3. 15 Is this the Talbot, so much feared abroad
1H6 2.3. 16 That with his name the mothers still their babes?
1H6 2.3. 17 I see report is fabulous and false.
1H6 2.3. 18 I thought I should have seen some Hercules,
1H6 2.3. 19 A second Hector, for his grim aspect
1H6 2.3. 20 And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.
1H6 2.3. 21 Alas, this is a child, a seely dwarf.
1H6 2.3. 22 It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
1H6 2.3. 23 Should strike such terror to his enemies.
1H6 2.3. 24
1H6-TALBOT
Madam, I have been bold to trouble you.
1H6 2.3. 25 But since your ladyship is not at leisure,
1H6 2.3. 26 I'll sort some other time to visit you. {He is going}
1H6 2.3. 27
1H6-COUNTESS
{(to Messenger)} What means he now? Go +
1H6 2.3. 27 ask him whither he goes.
1H6 2.3. 28
1H6-MESSENGER
Stay, my Lord Talbot, for my lady craves
1H6 2.3. 29 To know the cause of your abrupt departure.
1H6 2.3. 30
1H6-TALBOT
Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,
1H6 2.3. 31 I go to certify her Talbot's here. {Enter Porter with keys}
1H6 2.3. 32
1H6-COUNTESS
If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.
1H6 2.3. 33B
1H6-TALBOT
Prisoner? To whom?
1H6-COUNTESS
To me, bloodthirsty lord;
1H6 2.3. 34 And for that cause I trained thee to my house.
1H6 2.3. 35 Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,
1H6 2.3. 36 For in my gallery thy picture hangs;
1H6 2.3. 37 But now the substance shall endure the like,
1H6 2.3. 38 And I will chain these legs and arms of thine
1H6 2.3. 39 That hast by tyranny these many years
1H6 2.3. 40 Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
1H6 2.3. 41 And sent our sons and husbands captivate -
1H6 2.3. 42A
1H6-TALBOT
Ha, ha, ha!
1H6 2.3. 43
1H6-COUNTESS
Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan.
1H6 2.3. 44
1H6-TALBOT
I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
1H6 2.3. 45 To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow
1H6 2.3. 46 Whereon to practise your severity.
1H6 2.3. 47A
1H6-COUNTESS
Why? Art not thou the man?
1H6 2.3. 48A
1H6-TALBOT
I am indeed.
1H6 2.3. 49A
1H6-COUNTESS
Then have I substance too.
1H6 2.3. 50
1H6-TALBOT
No, no, I am but shadow of myself.
1H6 2.3. 51 You are deceived; my substance is not here.
1H6 2.3. 52 For what you see is but the smallest part
1H6 2.3. 53 And least proportion of humanity.
1H6 2.3. 54 I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,
1H6 2.3. 55 It is of such a spacious lofty pitch
1H6 2.3. 56 Your roof were not sufficient to contain 't.
1H6 2.3. 57
1H6-COUNTESS
This is a riddling merchant for the nonce.
1H6 2.3. 58 He will be here, and yet he is not here.
1H6 2.3. 59 How can these contrarieties agree?
1H6 2.3. 60
1H6-TALBOT
That will I show you presently. {He winds his horn. +
1H6 2.3. 60 Within, drums strike up; a peal of ordnance. Enter English soldiers}
1H6 2.3. 61 How say you, madam? Are you now persuaded
1H6 2.3. 62 That Talbot is but shadow of himself?
1H6 2.3. 63 These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength,
1H6 2.3. 64 With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
1H6 2.3. 65 Razeth your cities and subverts your towns,
1H6 2.3. 66 And in a moment makes them desolate.
1H6 2.3. 67
1H6-COUNTESS
Victorious Talbot, pardon my abuse.
1H6 2.3. 68 I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited,
1H6 2.3. 69 And more than may be gathered by thy shape.
1H6 2.3. 70 Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath,
1H6 2.3. 71 For I am sorry that with reverence
1H6 2.3. 72 I did not entertain thee as thou art.
1H6 2.3. 73
1H6-TALBOT
Be not dismayed, fair lady, nor misconster
1H6 2.3. 74 The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake
1H6 2.3. 75 The outward composition of his body.
1H6 2.3. 76 What you have done hath not offended me;
1H6 2.3. 77 Nor other satisfaction do I crave
1H6 2.3. 78 But only, with your patience, that we may
1H6 2.3. 79 Taste of your wine and see what cates you have:
1H6 2.3. 80 For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well.
1H6 2.3. 81
1H6-COUNTESS
With all my heart; and think me honoured
1H6 2.3. 82 To feast so great a warrior in my house. {Exeunt}
1H6 2.3. 0
1H6 2.3. 0 {A rose brier. Enter Richard Plantagenet, the Earl of +
1H6 2.4. 0 Warwick, the Duke of Somerset, William de le Pole (the Earl of +
1H6 2.4. 0 Suffolk), Vernon, and a Lawyer}
1H6 2.4. 1
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Great lords and gentlemen, what means +
1H6 2.4. 1 this silence?
1H6 2.4. 2 Dare no man answer in a case of truth?
1H6 2.4. 3
1H6-SUFFOLK
Within the Temple hall we were too loud.
1H6 2.4. 4 The garden here is more convenient.
1H6 2.4. 5
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Then say at once if I maintained the truth;
1H6 2.4. 6 Or else was wrangling Somerset in th' error?
1H6 2.4. 7
1H6-SUFFOLK
Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
1H6 2.4. 8 And never yet could frame my will to it,
1H6 2.4. 9 And therefore frame the law unto my will.
1H6 2.4. 10
1H6-SOMERSET
Judge you, my lord of Warwick, then between us.
1H6 2.4. 11
1H6-WARWICK
Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch,
1H6 2.4. 12 Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,
1H6 2.4. 13 Between two blades, which bears the better temper,
1H6 2.4. 14 Between two horses, which doth bear him best,
1H6 2.4. 15 Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,
1H6 2.4. 16 I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;
1H6 2.4. 17 But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
1H6 2.4. 18 Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
1H6 2.4. 19
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance.
1H6 2.4. 20 The truth appears so naked on my side
1H6 2.4. 21 That any purblind eye may find it out.
1H6 2.4. 22
1H6-SOMERSET
And on my side it is so well apparelled,
1H6 2.4. 23 So clear, so shining, and so evident,
1H6 2.4. 24 That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.
1H6 2.4. 25
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to +
1H6 2.4. 25 speak,
1H6 2.4. 26 In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
1H6 2.4. 27 Let him that is a true-born gentleman
1H6 2.4. 28 And stands upon the honour of his birth,
1H6 2.4. 29 If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
1H6 2.4. 30 From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. {He plucks a +
1H6 2.4. 30 white rose}
1H6 2.4. 31
1H6-SOMERSET
Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
1H6 2.4. 32 But dare maintain the party of the truth,
1H6 2.4. 33 Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. {He plucks a red +
1H6 2.4. 33 rose}
1H6 2.4. 34
1H6-WARWICK
I love no colours, and without all colour
1H6 2.4. 35 Of base insinuating flattery
1H6 2.4. 36 I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.
1H6 2.4. 37
1H6-SUFFOLK
I pluck this red rose with young Somerset,
1H6 2.4. 38 And say withal I think he held the right.
1H6 2.4. 39
1H6-VERNON
Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more
1H6 2.4. 40 Till you conclude that he upon whose side
1H6 2.4. 41 The fewest roses from the tree are cropped
1H6 2.4. 42 Shall yield the other in the right opinion.
1H6 2.4. 43
1H6-SOMERSET
Good Master Vernon, it is well objected.
1H6 2.4. 44 If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.
1H6 2.4. 45A
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
And I.
1H6 2.4. 46
1H6-VERNON
Then for the truth and plainness of the case
1H6 2.4. 47 I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,
1H6 2.4. 48 Giving my verdict on the white rose' side.
1H6 2.4. 49
1H6-SOMERSET
Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,
1H6 2.4. 50 Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose red,
1H6 2.4. 51 And fall on my side so against your will.
1H6 2.4. 52
1H6-VERNON
If I, my lord, for my opinion bleed,
1H6 2.4. 53 Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt
1H6 2.4. 54 And keep me on the side where still I am.
1H6 2.4. 55A
1H6-SOMERSET
Well, well, come on! Who else?
1H6 2.4. 56
1H6-LAWYER
Unless my study and my books be false,
1H6 2.4. 57 The argument you held was wrong in law;
1H6 2.4. 58 In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.
1H6 2.4. 59
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Now Somerset, where is your argument?
1H6 2.4. 60
1H6-SOMERSET
Here in my scabbard, meditating that
1H6 2.4. 61 Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.
1H6 2.4. 62
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses,
1H6 2.4. 63 For pale they look with fear, as witnessing
1H6 2.4. 64B The truth on our side.
1H6-SOMERSET
No, Plantagenet,
1H6 2.4. 65 'Tis not for fear, but anger, that thy cheeks
1H6 2.4. 66 Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,
1H6 2.4. 67 And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.
1H6 2.4. 68
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
1H6 2.4. 69
1H6-SOMERSET
Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
1H6 2.4. 70
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth,
1H6 2.4. 71 Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.
1H6 2.4. 72
1H6-SOMERSET
Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
1H6 2.4. 73 That shall maintain what I have said is true,
1H6 2.4. 74 Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.
1H6 2.4. 75
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,
1H6 2.4. 76 I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.
1H6 2.4. 77
1H6-SUFFOLK
Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.
1H6 2.4. 78
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and +
1H6 2.4. 78 thee.
1H6 2.4. 79
1H6-SUFFOLK
I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat.
1H6 2.4. 80
1H6-SOMERSET
Away, away, good William de le Pole.
1H6 2.4. 81 We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.
1H6 2.4. 82
1H6-WARWICK
Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset.
1H6 2.4. 83 His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,
1H6 2.4. 84 Third son to the third Edward, King of England.
1H6 2.4. 85 Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?
1H6 2.4. 86
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
He bears him on the place's privilege,
1H6 2.4. 87 Or durst not for his craven heart say thus.
1H6 2.4. 88
1H6-SOMERSET
By him that made me, I'll maintain my words
1H6 2.4. 89 On any plot of ground in Christendom.
1H6 2.4. 90 Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,
1H6 2.4. 91 For treason executed in our late king's days?
1H6 2.4. 92 And by his treason stand'st not thou attainted,
1H6 2.4. 93 Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
1H6 2.4. 94 His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood,
1H6 2.4. 95 And till thou be restored thou art a yeoman.
1H6 2.4. 96
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
My father was attached, not attainted;
1H6 2.4. 97 Condemned to die for treason, but no traitor -
1H6 2.4. 98 And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,
1H6 2.4. 99 Were growing time once ripened to my will.
1H6 2.4. 100 For your partaker Pole, and you yourself,
1H6 2.4. 101 I'll note you in my book of memory,
1H6 2.4. 102 To scourge you for this apprehension.
1H6 2.4. 103 Look to it well, and say you are well warned.
1H6 2.4. 104
1H6-SOMERSET
Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still,
1H6 2.4. 105 And know us by these colours for thy foes,
1H6 2.4. 106 For these my friends, in spite of thee, shall wear.
1H6 2.4. 107
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,
1H6 2.4. 108 As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,
1H6 2.4. 109 Will I forever, and my faction, wear
1H6 2.4. 110 Until it wither with me to my grave,
1H6 2.4. 111 Or flourish to the height of my degree.
1H6 2.4. 112
1H6-SUFFOLK
Go forward, and be choked with thy ambition.
1H6 2.4. 113 And so farewell until I meet thee next. {Exit}
1H6 2.4. 114
1H6-SOMERSET
Have with thee, Pole. - Farewell, ambitious +
1H6 2.4. 114 Richard. {Exit}
1H6 2.4. 115
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
How I am braved, and must perforce +
1H6 2.4. 115 endure it!
1H6 2.4. 116
1H6-WARWICK
This blot that they object against your house
1H6 2.4. 117 Shall be wiped out in the next parliament,
1H6 2.4. 118 Called for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester.
1H6 2.4. 119 An if thou be not then created York,
1H6 2.4. 120 I will not live to be accounted Warwick.
1H6 2.4. 121 Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,
1H6 2.4. 122 Against proud Somerset and William Pole,
1H6 2.4. 123 Will I upon thy party wear this rose.
1H6 2.4. 124 And here I prophesy: this brawl today,
1H6 2.4. 125 Grown to this faction in the Temple garden,
1H6 2.4. 126 Shall send, between the red rose and the white,
1H6 2.4. 127 A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
1H6 2.4. 128
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,
1H6 2.4. 129 That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.
1H6 2.4. 130
1H6-VERNON
In your behalf still will I wear the same.
1H6 2.4. 131A
1H6-LAWYER
And so will I.
1H6 2.4. 132A
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Thanks, gentles.
1H6 2.4. 133 Come, let us four to dinner. I dare say
1H6 2.4. 134 This quarrel will drink blood another day. {Exeunt. The rose +
1H6 2.4. 134 brier is removed}
1H6 2.4. 0
1H6 2.4. 0 {Enter Edmund Mortimer, brought in a chair [by] his +
1H6 2.5. 0 Keepers}
1H6 2.5. 1
1H6-MORTIMER
Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
1H6 2.5. 2 Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
1H6 2.5. 3 Even like a man new-haled from the rack,
1H6 2.5. 4 So fare my limbs with long imprisonment;
1H6 2.5. 5 And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,
1H6 2.5. 6 Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer,
1H6 2.5. 7 Nestor-like aged in an age of care.
1H6 2.5. 8 These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,
1H6 2.5. 9 Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;
1H6 2.5. 10 Weak shoulders, overborne with burdening grief,
1H6 2.5. 11 And pithless arms, like to a withered vine
1H6 2.5. 12 That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
1H6 2.5. 13 Yet are these feet - whose strengthless stay is numb,
1H6 2.5. 14 Unable to support this lump of clay -
1H6 2.5. 15 Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
1H6 2.5. 16 As witting I no other comfort have.
1H6 2.5. 17 But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?
1H6 2.5. 18
1H6-KEEPER
Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come.
1H6 2.5. 19 We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber,
1H6 2.5. 20 And answer was returned that he will come.
1H6 2.5. 21
1H6-MORTIMER
Enough. My soul shall then be satisfied.
1H6 2.5. 22 Poor gentleman, his wrong doth equal mine.
1H6 2.5. 23 Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign -
1H6 2.5. 24 Before whose glory I was great in arms -
1H6 2.5. 25 This loathsome sequestration have I had;
1H6 2.5. 26 And even since then hath Richard been obscured,
1H6 2.5. 27 Deprived of honour and inheritance.
1H6 2.5. 28 But now the arbitrator of despairs,
1H6 2.5. 29 Just Death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
1H6 2.5. 30 With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence.
1H6 2.5. 31 I would his troubles likewise were expired,
1H6 2.5. 32 That so he might recover what was lost. {Enter Richard +
1H6 2.5. 32 Plantagenet}
1H6 2.5. 33
1H6-KEEPER
My lord, your loving nephew now is come.
1H6 2.5. 34
1H6-MORTIMER
Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?
1H6 2.5. 35
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used:
1H6 2.5. 36 Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.
1H6 2.5. 37
1H6-MORTIMER
{(to Keepers)} Direct mine arms I may +
1H6 2.5. 37 embrace his neck
1H6 2.5. 38 And in his bosom spend my latter gasp.
1H6 2.5. 39 O tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,
1H6 2.5. 40 That I may kindly give one fainting kiss. {He embraces Richard}
1H6 2.5. 41 And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,
1H6 2.5. 42 Why didst thou say of late thou wert despised?
1H6 2.5. 43
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
First lean thine aged back against mine arm,
1H6 2.5. 44 And in that ease I'll tell thee my dis-ease.
1H6 2.5. 45 This day in argument upon a case
1H6 2.5. 46 Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;
1H6 2.5. 47 Among which terms he used his lavish tongue
1H6 2.5. 48 And did upbraid me with my father's death;
1H6 2.5. 49 Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,
1H6 2.5. 50 Else with the like I had requited him.
1H6 2.5. 51 Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,
1H6 2.5. 52 In honour of a true Plantagenet,
1H6 2.5. 53 And for alliance' sake, declare the cause
1H6 2.5. 54 My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.
1H6 2.5. 55
1H6-MORTIMER
That cause, fair nephew, that imprisoned me,
1H6 2.5. 56 And hath detained me all my flow'ring youth
1H6 2.5. 57 Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,
1H6 2.5. 58 Was cursed instrument of his decease.
1H6 2.5. 59
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Discover more at large what cause that was,
1H6 2.5. 60 For I am ignorant and cannot guess.
1H6 2.5. 61
1H6-MORTIMER
I will, if that my fading breath permit
1H6 2.5. 62 And death approach not ere my tale be done.
1H6 2.5. 63 Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this King,
1H6 2.5. 64 Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,
1H6 2.5. 65 The first begotten and the lawful heir
1H6 2.5. 66 Of Edward king, the third of that descent;
1H6 2.5. 67 During whose reign the Percies of the north,
1H6 2.5. 68 Finding his usurpation most unjust,
1H6 2.5. 69 Endeavoured my advancement to the throne.
1H6 2.5. 70 The reason moved these warlike lords to this
1H6 2.5. 71 Was for that - young King Richard thus removed,
1H6 2.5. 72 Leaving no heir begotten of his body -
1H6 2.5. 73 I was the next by birth and parentage,
1H6 2.5. 74 For by my mother I derived am
1H6 2.5. 75 From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son
1H6 2.5. 76 To King Edward the Third - whereas the King
1H6 2.5. 77 From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,
1H6 2.5. 78 Being but fourth of that heroic line.
1H6 2.5. 79 But mark: as in this haughty great attempt
1H6 2.5. 80 They laboured to plant the rightful heir,
1H6 2.5. 81 I lost my liberty, and they their lives.
1H6 2.5. 82 Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,
1H6 2.5. 83 Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,
1H6 2.5. 84 Thy father, Earl of Cambridge then, derived
1H6 2.5. 85 From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,
1H6 2.5. 86 Marrying my sister that thy mother was,
1H6 2.5. 87 Again, in pity of my hard distress,
1H6 2.5. 88 Levied an army, weening to redeem
1H6 2.5. 89 And have installed me in the diadem;
1H6 2.5. 90 But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl,
1H6 2.5. 91 And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,
1H6 2.5. 92 In whom the title rested, were suppressed.
1H6 2.5. 93
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.
1H6 2.5. 94
1H6-MORTIMER
True, and thou seest that I no issue have,
1H6 2.5. 95 And that my fainting words do warrant death.
1H6 2.5. 96 Thou art my heir. The rest I wish thee gather -
1H6 2.5. 97 But yet be wary in thy studious care.
1H6 2.5. 98
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Thy grave admonishments prevail with me.
1H6 2.5. 99 But yet methinks my father's execution
1H6 2.5. 100 Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.
1H6 2.5. 101
1H6-MORTIMER
With silence, nephew, be thou politic.
1H6 2.5. 102 Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,
1H6 2.5. 103 And like a mountain, not to be removed.
1H6 2.5. 104 But now thy uncle is removing hence,
1H6 2.5. 105 As princes do their courts, when they are cloyed
1H6 2.5. 106 With long continuance in a settled place.
1H6 2.5. 107
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
O uncle, would some part of my young years
1H6 2.5. 108 Might but redeem the passage of your age.
1H6 2.5. 109
1H6-MORTIMER
Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth
1H6 2.5. 110 Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
1H6 2.5. 111 Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good.
1H6 2.5. 112 Only give order for my funeral.
1H6 2.5. 113 And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes,
1H6 2.5. 114 And prosperous be thy life in peace and war. {Dies}
1H6 2.5. 115
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
And peace, no war, befall thy parting +
1H6 2.5. 115 soul.
1H6 2.5. 116 In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage,
1H6 2.5. 117 And like a hermit overpassed thy days.
1H6 2.5. 118 Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast,
1H6 2.5. 119 And what I do imagine, let that rest.
1H6 2.5. 120 Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself
1H6 2.5. 121 Will see his burial better than his life. {Exeunt Keepers with +
1H6 2.5. 121 Mortimer's body}
1H6 2.5. 122 Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,
1H6 2.5. 123 Choked with ambition of the meaner sort.
1H6 2.5. 124 And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,
1H6 2.5. 125 Which Somerset hath offered to my house,
1H6 2.5. 126 I doubt not but with honour to redress.
1H6 2.5. 127 And therefore haste I to the Parliament,
1H6 2.5. 128 Either to be restored to my blood,
1H6 2.5. 129 Or make mine ill th' advantage of my good. {Exit}
1H6 2.5. 0
1H6 2.5. 0 {Flourish. Enter young King Henry, the Dukes of +
1H6 3.1. 0 Exeter and Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester; the Duke of Somerset +
1H6 3.1. 0 and the Earl of Suffolk [with red roses]; the Earl of Warwick and +
1H6 3.1. 0 Richard Plantagenet [with white roses]. Gloucester offers to put up a +
1H6 3.1. 0 bill; Winchester snatches it, tears it}
1H6 3.1. 1
1H6-WINCHESTER
Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines?
1H6 3.1. 2 With written pamphlets studiously devised?
1H6 3.1. 3 Humphrey of Gloucester, if thou canst accuse,
1H6 3.1. 4 Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,
1H6 3.1. 5 Do it without invention, suddenly,
1H6 3.1. 6 As I with sudden and extemporal speech
1H6 3.1. 7 Purpose to answer what thou canst object.
1H6 3.1. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Presumptuous priest, this place commands my patience,
1H6 3.1. 9 Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonoured me.
1H6 3.1. 10 Think not, although in writing I preferred
1H6 3.1. 11 The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
1H6 3.1. 12 That therefore I have forged, or am not able
1H6 3.1. 13 Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen.
1H6 3.1. 14 No, prelate, such is thy audacious wickedness,
1H6 3.1. 15 Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks,
1H6 3.1. 16 As very infants prattle of thy pride.
1H6 3.1. 17 Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
1H6 3.1. 18 Froward by nature, enemy to peace,
1H6 3.1. 19 Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
1H6 3.1. 20 A man of thy profession and degree.
1H6 3.1. 21 And for thy treachery, what's more manifest? -
1H6 3.1. 22 In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,
1H6 3.1. 23 As well at London Bridge as at the Tower.
1H6 3.1. 24 Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,
1H6 3.1. 25 The King thy sovereign is not quite exempt
1H6 3.1. 26 From envious malice of thy swelling heart.
1H6 3.1. 27
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, I do defy thee. - Lords, vouchsafe
1H6 3.1. 28 To give me hearing what I shall reply.
1H6 3.1. 29 If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse,
1H6 3.1. 30 As he will have me, how am I so poor?
1H6 3.1. 31 Or how haps it I seek not to advance
1H6 3.1. 32 Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?
1H6 3.1. 33 And for dissension, who preferreth peace
1H6 3.1. 34 More than I do? - except I be provoked.
1H6 3.1. 35 No, my good lords, it is not that offends;
1H6 3.1. 36 It is not that that hath incensed the Duke.
1H6 3.1. 37 It is because no one should sway but he,
1H6 3.1. 38 No one but he should be about the King -
1H6 3.1. 39 And that engenders thunder in his breast
1H6 3.1. 40 And makes him roar these accusations forth.
1H6 3.1. 41 But he shall know I am as good -
1H6 3.1. 42A
1H6-GLOUCESTER
As good? -
1H6 3.1. 43 Thou bastard of my grandfather.
1H6 3.1. 44
1H6-WINCHESTER
Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,
1H6 3.1. 45 But one imperious in another's throne?
1H6 3.1. 46
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Am I not Protector, saucy priest?
1H6 3.1. 47
1H6-WINCHESTER
And am not I a prelate of the Church?
1H6 3.1. 48
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Yes - as an outlaw in a castle keeps
1H6 3.1. 49 And useth it to patronage his theft.
1H6 3.1. 50B
1H6-WINCHESTER
Unreverent Gloucester.
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Thou art reverend
1H6 3.1. 51 Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.
1H6 3.1. 52B
1H6-WINCHESTER
Rome shall remedy this.
1H6-[GLOUCESTER]
Roam thither +
1H6 3.1. 52B then.
1H6 3.1. 53
1H6-[WARWICK]
{(to Winchester)} My lord, it were your +
1H6 3.1. 53 duty to forbear.
1H6 3.1. 54
1H6-SOMERSET
Ay, so the bishop be not overborne:
1H6 3.1. 55 Methinks my lord should be religious,
1H6 3.1. 56 And know the office that belongs to such.
1H6 3.1. 57
1H6-WARWICK
Methinks his lordship should be humbler.
1H6 3.1. 58 It fitteth not a prelate so to plead.
1H6 3.1. 59
1H6-SOMERSET
Yes, when his holy state is touched so near.
1H6 3.1. 60
1H6-WARWICK
State holy or unhallowed, what of that?
1H6 3.1. 61 Is not his grace Protector to the King?
1H6 3.1. 62
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
{(aside)} Plantagenet, I see, +
1H6 3.1. 62 must hold his tongue,
1H6 3.1. 63 Lest it be said, `Speak, sirrah, when you should;
1H6 3.1. 64 Must your bold verdict intertalk with lords?'
1H6 3.1. 65 Else would I have a fling at Winchester.
1H6 3.1. 66
1H6-KING HENRY
Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,
1H6 3.1. 67 The special watchmen of our English weal,
1H6 3.1. 68 I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
1H6 3.1. 69 To join your hearts in love and amity.
1H6 3.1. 70 O what a scandal is it to our crown
1H6 3.1. 71 That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
1H6 3.1. 72 Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
1H6 3.1. 73 Civil dissension is a viperous worm
1H6 3.1. 74 That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. {A noise within}
1H6 3.1. 75A
1H6-[SERVINGMEN]
{(within)} Down with the tawny coats!
1H6 3.1. 76B
1H6-KING HENRY
What tumult's this?
1H6-WARWICK
An uproar, I dare +
1H6 3.1. 76B warrant,
1H6 3.1. 77 Begun through malice of the Bishop's men. {A noise again}
1H6 3.1. 78A
1H6-[SERVINGMEN]
{(within)} Stones, stones! +
1H6 3.1. 78A {Enter the Mayor of London}
1H6 3.1. 79
1H6-MAYOR
O my good lords, and virtuous Henry,
1H6 3.1. 80 Pity the city of London, pity us!
1H6 3.1. 81 The Bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,
1H6 3.1. 82 Forbidden late to carry any weapon,
1H6 3.1. 83 Have filled their pockets full of pebble stones
1H6 3.1. 84 And, banding themselves in contrary parts,
1H6 3.1. 85 Do pelt so fast at one another's pate
1H6 3.1. 86 That many have their giddy brains knocked out.
1H6 3.1. 87 Our windows are broke down in every street,
1H6 3.1. 88 And we for fear compelled to shut our shops. {Enter in skirmish, +
1H6 3.1. 88 with bloody pates, Winchester's Servingmen in tawny coats and +
1H6 3.1. 88 Gloucester's in blue coats}
1H6 3.1. 89
1H6-KING HENRY
We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
1H6 3.1. 90 To hold your slaught'ring hands and keep the peace. {[The +
1H6 3.1. 90 skirmish ceases]}
1H6 3.1. 91 Pray, Uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.
1H6 3.1. 92
1H6-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Nay, if we be forbidden stones, we'll
1H6 3.1. 93 fall to it with our teeth.
1H6 3.1. 94
1H6-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Do what ye dare, we are as +
1H6 3.1. 94 resolute. {Skirmish again}
1H6 3.1. 95
1H6-GLOUCESTER
You of my household, leave this peevish broil,
1H6 3.1. 96 And set this unaccustomed fight aside.
1H6 3.1. 97
1H6-THIRD SERVINGMAN
My lord, we know your grace to be a man
1H6 3.1. 98 Just and upright and, for your royal birth,
1H6 3.1. 99 Inferior to none but to his majesty;
1H6 3.1. 100 And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
1H6 3.1. 101 So kind a father of the commonweal,
1H6 3.1. 102 To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
1H6 3.1. 103 We and our wives and children all will fight
1H6 3.1. 104 And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.
1H6 3.1. 105
1H6-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Ay, and the very parings of our nails
1H6 3.1. 106B Shall pitch a field when we are dead. {They begin to skirmish +
1H6 3.1. 106B again}
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Stay, stay, I say!
1H6 3.1. 107 An if you love me as you say you do,
1H6 3.1. 108 Let me persuade you to forbear a while.
1H6 3.1. 109
1H6-KING HENRY
O how this discord doth afflict my soul!
1H6 3.1. 110 Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold
1H6 3.1. 111 My sighs and tears, and will not once relent?
1H6 3.1. 112 Who should be pitiful if you be not?
1H6 3.1. 113 Or who should study to prefer a peace,
1H6 3.1. 114 If holy churchmen take delight in broils?
1H6 3.1. 115
1H6-WARWICK
Yield, my lord Protector; yield, Winchester -
1H6 3.1. 116 Except you mean with obstinate repulse
1H6 3.1. 117 To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.
1H6 3.1. 118 You see what mischief - and what murder, too -
1H6 3.1. 119 Hath been enacted through your enmity.
1H6 3.1. 120 Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood.
1H6 3.1. 121
1H6-WINCHESTER
He shall submit, or I will never yield.
1H6 3.1. 122
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Compassion on the King commands me stoop,
1H6 3.1. 123 Or I would see his heart out ere the priest
1H6 3.1. 124 Should ever get that privilege of me.
1H6 3.1. 125
1H6-WARWICK
Behold, my lord of Winchester, the Duke
1H6 3.1. 126 Hath banished moody discontented fury,
1H6 3.1. 127 As by his smoothed brows it doth appear.
1H6 3.1. 128 Why look you still so stern and tragical?
1H6 3.1. 129
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.
1H6 3.1. 130
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Winchester)} Fie, Uncle Beaufort! +
1H6 3.1. 130 I have heard you preach
1H6 3.1. 131 That malice was a great and grievous sin;
1H6 3.1. 132 And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
1H6 3.1. 133 But prove a chief offender in the same?
1H6 3.1. 134
1H6-WARWICK
Sweet King! The Bishop hath a kindly gird.
1H6 3.1. 135 For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent.
1H6 3.1. 136 What, shall a child instruct you what to do?
1H6 3.1. 137
1H6-WINCHESTER
Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee
1H6 3.1. 138 Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give.
1H6 3.1. 139
1H6-GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} Ay, but I fear me with a +
1H6 3.1. 139 hollow heart.
1H6 3.1. 140 {(To the others)} See here, my friends and loving +
1H6 3.1. 140 countrymen,
1H6 3.1. 141 This token serveth for a flag of truce
1H6 3.1. 142 Betwixt ourselves and all our followers.
1H6 3.1. 143 So help me God, as I dissemble not.
1H6 3.1. 144
1H6-WINCHESTER
So help me God {(aside)} as I intend it +
1H6 3.1. 144 not.
1H6 3.1. 145
1H6-KING HENRY
O loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
1H6 3.1. 146 How joyful am I made by this contract!
1H6 3.1. 147 {(To Servingmen)} Away, my masters, trouble us no +
1H6 3.1. 147 more,
1H6 3.1. 148 But join in friendship as your lords have done.
1H6 3.1. 149A
1H6-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Content. I'll to the surgeon's.
1H6 3.1. 150A
1H6-SECOND SERVINGMAN
And so will I.
1H6 3.1. 151
1H6-THIRD SERVINGMAN
And I will see what physic the tavern
1H6 3.1. 152 affords. {Exeunt the Mayor and Servingmen}
1H6 3.1. 153
1H6-WARWICK
Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,
1H6 3.1. 154 Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet
1H6 3.1. 155 We do exhibit to your majesty.
1H6 3.1. 156
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Well urged, my lord of Warwick - for, sweet prince,
1H6 3.1. 157 An if your grace mark every circumstance,
1H6 3.1. 158 You have great reason to do Richard right,
1H6 3.1. 159 Especially for those occasions
1H6 3.1. 160 At Eltham Place I told your majesty.
1H6 3.1. 161
1H6-KING HENRY
And those occasions, uncle, were of force. -
1H6 3.1. 162 Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is
1H6 3.1. 163 That Richard be restored to his blood.
1H6 3.1. 164
1H6-WARWICK
Let Richard be restored to his blood.
1H6 3.1. 165 So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.
1H6 3.1. 166
1H6-WINCHESTER
As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.
1H6 3.1. 167
1H6-KING HENRY
If Richard will be true, not that alone
1H6 3.1. 168 But all the whole inheritance I give
1H6 3.1. 169 That doth belong unto the house of York,
1H6 3.1. 170 From whence you spring by lineal descent.
1H6 3.1. 171
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Thy humble servant vows obedience
1H6 3.1. 172 And humble service till the point of death.
1H6 3.1. 173
1H6-KING HENRY
Stoop then, and set your knee against my foot. +
1H6 3.1. 173 {Richard kneels}
1H6 3.1. 174 And in reguerdon of that duty done,
1H6 3.1. 175 I gird thee with the valiant sword of York.
1H6 3.1. 176 Rise, Richard, like a true Plantagenet,
1H6 3.1. 177 And rise created princely Duke of York.
1H6 3.1. 178
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(rising)} And so thrive +
1H6 3.1. 178 Richard, as thy foes may fall;
1H6 3.1. 179 And as my duty springs, so perish they
1H6 3.1. 180 That grudge one thought against your majesty.
1H6 3.1. 181
1H6-ALL BUT RICHARD AND SOMERSET
Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke +
1H6 3.1. 181 of York!
1H6 3.1. 182
1H6-SOMERSET
{(aside)} Perish, base prince, ignoble +
1H6 3.1. 182 Duke of York!
1H6 3.1. 183
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Now will it best avail your majesty
1H6 3.1. 184 To cross the seas and to be crowned in France.
1H6 3.1. 185 The presence of a king engenders love
1H6 3.1. 186 Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
1H6 3.1. 187 As it disanimates his enemies.
1H6 3.1. 188
1H6-KING HENRY
When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes,
1H6 3.1. 189 For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
1H6 3.1. 190
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Your ships already are in readiness. {Sennet. +
1H6 3.1. 190 Exeunt all but Exeter}
1H6 3.1. 191
1H6-EXETER
Ay, we may march in England or in France,
1H6 3.1. 192 Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
1H6 3.1. 193 This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
1H6 3.1. 194 Burns under feigned ashes of forged love,
1H6 3.1. 195 And will at last break out into a flame.
1H6 3.1. 196 As festered members rot but by degree
1H6 3.1. 197 Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
1H6 3.1. 198 So will this base and envious discord breed.
1H6 3.1. 199 And now I fear that fatal prophecy
1H6 3.1. 200 Which, in the time of Henry named the Fifth,
1H6 3.1. 201 Was in the mouth of every sucking babe:
1H6 3.1. 202 That `Henry born at Monmouth should win all,
1H6 3.1. 203 And Henry born at Windsor should lose all' -
1H6 3.1. 204 Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
1H6 3.1. 205 His days may finish, ere that hapless time. {Exit}
1H6 3.1. 0 {Enter Joan la Pucelle, disguised, with four French +
1H6 3.2. 0 Soldiers with sacks upon their backs}
1H6 3.2. 1
1H6-JOAN
These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,
1H6 3.2. 2 Through which our policy must make a breach.
1H6 3.2. 3 Take heed. Be wary how you place your words.
1H6 3.2. 4 Talk like the vulgar sort of market men
1H6 3.2. 5 That come to gather money for their corn.
1H6 3.2. 6 If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,
1H6 3.2. 7 And that we find the slothful watch but weak,
1H6 3.2. 8 I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,
1H6 3.2. 9 That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.
1H6 3.2. 10 A
1H6-SOLDIER
Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
1H6 3.2. 11 And we be lords and rulers over Rouen.
1H6 3.2. 12 Therefore we'll knock. {They knock}
1H6 3.2. 13B
1H6-WATCH
{(within)} {Qui la?}
1H6-JOAN
{Paysans, la +
1H6 3.2. 13B pauvre gens de France:}
1H6 3.2. 14 Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.
1H6 3.2. 15
1H6-WATCH
{(opening the gates)} Enter, go in. The +
1H6 3.2. 15 market bell is rung.
1H6 3.2. 16
1H6-JOAN
{(aside)} Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks +
1H6 3.2. 16 to the ground. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.2. 0 {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, [the +
1H6 3.3. 0 Duke of Alenc@on, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, and French soldiers]}
1H6 3.3. 1
1H6-CHARLES
Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem,
1H6 3.3. 2 And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen.
1H6 3.3. 3
1H6-BASTARD
Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.
1H6 3.3. 4 Now she is there, how will she specify
1H6 3.3. 5 `Here is the best and safest passage in'?
1H6 3.3. 6
1H6-RENE
By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower -
1H6 3.3. 7 Which, once discerned, shows that her meaning is:
1H6 3.3. 8 No way to that, for weakness, which she entered. {Enter Joan la +
1H6 3.3. 8 Pucelle on the top, thrusting out a torch burning}
1H6 3.3. 9
1H6-JOAN
Behold, this is the happy wedding torch
1H6 3.3. 10 That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
1H6 3.3. 11 But burning fatal to the Talbonites.
1H6 3.3. 12
1H6-BASTARD
See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend.
1H6 3.3. 13 The burning torch in yonder turret stands.
1H6 3.3. 14
1H6-CHARLES
Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
1H6 3.3. 15 A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
1H6 3.3. 16
1H6-RENE
Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
1H6 3.3. 17 Enter and cry, `The Dauphin!', presently,
1H6 3.3. 18 And then do execution on the watch. {Alarum. Exeunt}
1H6 3.3. 0 {An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot in an excursion}
1H6 3.4. 1
1H6-TALBOT
France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy +
1H6 3.4. 1 tears,
1H6 3.4. 2 If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
1H6 3.4. 3 Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,
1H6 3.4. 4 Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,
1H6 3.4. 5 That hardly we escaped the pride of France. {Exit}
1H6 3.4. 0 {An alarum. Excursions. The Duke of Bedford brought in +
1H6 3.5. 0 sick, in a chair. Enter Lord Talbot and the Duke of Burgundy, without; +
1H6 3.5. 0 within, Joan la Pucelle, Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, +
1H6 3.5. 0 [the Duke of Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou] on the walls}
1H6 3.5. 1
1H6-JOAN
Good morrow gallants. Want ye corn for bread?
1H6 3.5. 2 I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
1H6 3.5. 3 Before he'll buy again at such a rate.
1H6 3.5. 4 'Twas full of darnel. Do you like the taste?
1H6 3.5. 5
1H6-BURGUNDY
Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtesan.
1H6 3.5. 6 I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own,
1H6 3.5. 7 And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.
1H6 3.5. 8
1H6-CHARLES
Your grace may starve, perhaps, before that time.
1H6 3.5. 9
1H6-BEDFORD
O let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason.
1H6 3.5. 10
1H6-JOAN
What will you do, good graybeard? Break a lance
1H6 3.5. 11 And run a-tilt at death within a chair?
1H6 3.5. 12
1H6-TALBOT
Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,
1H6 3.5. 13 Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
1H6 3.5. 14 Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
1H6 3.5. 15 And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
1H6 3.5. 16 Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,
1H6 3.5. 17 Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.
1H6 3.5. 18
1H6-JOAN
Are ye so hot, sir? - Yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace.
1H6 3.5. 19 If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow. {The English whisper +
1H6 3.5. 19 together in counsel}
1H6 3.5. 20 God speed the parliament; who shall be the Speaker?
1H6 3.5. 21
1H6-TALBOT
Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?
1H6 3.5. 22
1H6-JOAN
Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,
1H6 3.5. 23 To try if that our own be ours or no.
1H6 3.5. 24
1H6-TALBOT
I speak not to that railing Hecate
1H6 3.5. 25 But unto thee, Alenc@on, and the rest.
1H6 3.5. 26 Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?
1H6 3.5. 27B
1H6-ALENC@ON
Seignieur, no.
1H6-TALBOT
Seignieur, hang! Base muleteers +
1H6 3.5. 27B of France,
1H6 3.5. 28 Like peasant footboys do they keep the walls
1H6 3.5. 29 And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.
1H6 3.5. 30
1H6-JOAN
Away, captains, let's get us from the walls,
1H6 3.5. 31 For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.
1H6 3.5. 32 Goodbye, my lord. We came but to tell you
1H6 3.5. 33 That we are here. {Exeunt French from the walls}
1H6 3.5. 34
1H6-TALBOT
And there will we be, too, ere it be long,
1H6 3.5. 35 Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame.
1H6 3.5. 36 Vow Burgundy, by honour of thy house,
1H6 3.5. 37 Pricked on by public wrongs sustained in France,
1H6 3.5. 38 Either to get the town again or die.
1H6 3.5. 39 And I - as sure as English Henry lives,
1H6 3.5. 40 And as his father here was conqueror;
1H6 3.5. 41 As sure as in this late betrayed town
1H6 3.5. 42 Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried -
1H6 3.5. 43 So sure I swear to get the town or die.
1H6 3.5. 44
1H6-BURGUNDY
My vows are equal partners with thy vows.
1H6 3.5. 45
1H6-TALBOT
But ere we go, regard this dying prince,
1H6 3.5. 46 The valiant Duke of Bedford. {(To Bedford)} Come, my +
1H6 3.5. 46 lord,
1H6 3.5. 47 We will bestow you in some better place,
1H6 3.5. 48 Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
1H6 3.5. 49
1H6-BEDFORD
Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me.
1H6 3.5. 50 Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen,
1H6 3.5. 51 And will be partner of your weal or woe.
1H6 3.5. 52
1H6-BURGUNDY
Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.
1H6 3.5. 53
1H6-BEDFORD
Not to be gone from hence; for once I read
1H6 3.5. 54 That stout Pendragon, in his litter sick,
1H6 3.5. 55 Came to the field and vanquished his foes.
1H6 3.5. 56 Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,
1H6 3.5. 57 Because I ever found them as myself.
1H6 3.5. 58
1H6-TALBOT
Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!
1H6 3.5. 59 Then be it so; heavens keep old Bedford safe.
1H6 3.5. 60 And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,
1H6 3.5. 61 But gather we our forces out of hand,
1H6 3.5. 62 And set upon our boasting enemy. {Exit with Burgundy}
1H6 3.5. 63 {An alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir John Fastolf and a +
1H6 3.5. 63 Captain}
1H6-CAPTAIN
Whither away, Sir John Fastolf, in such +
1H6 3.5. 63 haste?
1H6 3.5. 64
1H6-FASTOLF
Whither away? To save myself by flight.
1H6 3.5. 65 We are like to have the overthrow again.
1H6 3.5. 66
1H6-CAPTAIN
What, will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?
1H6 3.5. 67
1H6-FASTOLF
Ay, all the Talbots in the world, to save my life. +
1H6 3.5. 67 {Exit}
1H6 3.5. 68
1H6-CAPTAIN
Cowardly knight, ill fortune follow thee! +
1H6 3.5. 68 {Exit}
1H6 3.5. 69 {Retreat. Excursions. Joan, Alenc@on, and Charles +
1H6 3.5. 69 fly}
1H6-BEDFORD
Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,
1H6 3.5. 70 For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.
1H6 3.5. 71 What is the trust or strength of foolish man?
1H6 3.5. 72 They that of late were daring with their scoffs
1H6 3.5. 73 Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves. {Bedford dies, +
1H6 3.5. 73 and is carried in by two in his chair}
1H6 3.5. 0 {An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot, the Duke of Burgundy, and the rest +
1H6 3.6. 0 of the English soldiers}
1H6 3.6. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Lost and recovered in a day again!
1H6 3.6. 2 This is a double honour, Burgundy;
1H6 3.6. 3 Yet heavens have glory for this victory!
1H6 3.6. 4
1H6-BURGUNDY
Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
1H6 3.6. 5 Enshrines thee in his heart, and there erects
1H6 3.6. 6 Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments.
1H6 3.6. 7
1H6-TALBOT
Thanks, gentle Duke. But where is Pucelle now?
1H6 3.6. 8 I think her old familiar is asleep.
1H6 3.6. 9 Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?
1H6 3.6. 10 What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief
1H6 3.6. 11 That such a valiant company are fled.
1H6 3.6. 12 Now will we take some order in the town,
1H6 3.6. 13 Placing therein some expert officers,
1H6 3.6. 14 And then depart to Paris, to the King,
1H6 3.6. 15 For there young Henry with his nobles lie.
1H6 3.6. 16
1H6-BURGUNDY
What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.
1H6 3.6. 17
1H6-TALBOT
But yet, before we go, let's not forget
1H6 3.6. 18 The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
1H6 3.6. 19 But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen.
1H6 3.6. 20 A braver soldier never couched lance;
1H6 3.6. 21 A gentler heart did never sway in court.
1H6 3.6. 22 But kings and mightiest potentates must die,
1H6 3.6. 23 For that's the end of human misery. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.6. 0 {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, the +
1H6 3.7. 0 Duke of Alenc@on, Joan la Pucelle, [and French soldiers]}
1H6 3.7. 1
1H6-JOAN
Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
1H6 3.7. 2 Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered.
1H6 3.7. 3 Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
1H6 3.7. 4 For things that are not to be remedied.
1H6 3.7. 5 Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while,
1H6 3.7. 6 And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
1H6 3.7. 7 We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,
1H6 3.7. 8 If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.
1H6 3.7. 9
1H6-CHARLES
We have been guided by thee hitherto,
1H6 3.7. 10 And of thy cunning had no diffidence.
1H6 3.7. 11 One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.
1H6 3.7. 12
1H6-BASTARD
{(to Joan)} Search out thy wit for secret +
1H6 3.7. 12 policies,
1H6 3.7. 13 And we will make thee famous through the world.
1H6 3.7. 14
1H6-ALENC@ON
{(to Joan)} We'll set thy statue in some +
1H6 3.7. 14 holy place
1H6 3.7. 15 And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint.
1H6 3.7. 16 Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.
1H6 3.7. 17
1H6-JOAN
Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:
1H6 3.7. 18 By fair persuasions mixed with sugared words
1H6 3.7. 19 We will entice the Duke of Burgundy
1H6 3.7. 20 To leave the Talbot and to follow us.
1H6 3.7. 21
1H6-CHARLES
Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that
1H6 3.7. 22 France were no place for Henry's warriors,
1H6 3.7. 23 Nor should that nation boast it so with us,
1H6 3.7. 24 But be extirped from our provinces.
1H6 3.7. 25
1H6-ALENC@ON
For ever should they be expulsed from France
1H6 3.7. 26 And not have title of an earldom here.
1H6 3.7. 27
1H6-JOAN
Your honours shall perceive how I will work
1H6 3.7. 28 To bring this matter to the wished end. {Drum sounds afar off}
1H6 3.7. 29 Hark, by the sound of drum you may perceive
1H6 3.7. 30 Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward. {Here sound an +
1H6 3.7. 30 English march}
1H6 3.7. 31 There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,
1H6 3.7. 32 And all the troops of English after him. {Here sound a French +
1H6 3.7. 32 march}
1H6 3.7. 33 Now in the rearward comes the Duke and his;
1H6 3.7. 34 Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.
1H6 3.7. 35 Summon a parley. We will talk with him. {Trumpets sound a +
1H6 3.7. 35 parley}
1H6 3.7. 36
1H6-CHARLES
{[calling]} A parley with the Duke of +
1H6 3.7. 36 Burgundy. {[Enter the Duke of Burgundy]}
1H6 3.7. 37
1H6-BURGUNDY
Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?
1H6 3.7. 38
1H6-JOAN
The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.
1H6 3.7. 39
1H6-BURGUNDY
What sayst thou, Charles? - for I am marching hence.
1H6 3.7. 40
1H6-CHARLES
Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.
1H6 3.7. 41
1H6-JOAN
Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France,
1H6 3.7. 42 Stay. Let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.
1H6 3.7. 43
1H6-BURGUNDY
Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
1H6 3.7. 44
1H6-JOAN
Look on thy country, look on fertile France,
1H6 3.7. 45 And see the cities and the towns defaced
1H6 3.7. 46 By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
1H6 3.7. 47 As looks the mother on her lowly babe
1H6 3.7. 48 When death doth close his tender-dying eyes,
1H6 3.7. 49 See, see the pining malady of France;
1H6 3.7. 50 Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
1H6 3.7. 51 Which thou thyself hast given her woeful breast.
1H6 3.7. 52 O turn thy edged sword another way,
1H6 3.7. 53 Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.
1H6 3.7. 54 One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom
1H6 3.7. 55 Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore.
1H6 3.7. 56 Return thee, therefore, with a flood of tears,
1H6 3.7. 57 And wash away thy country's stained spots.
1H6 3.7. 58
1H6-BURGUNDY
{[aside]} Either she hath bewitched me +
1H6 3.7. 58 with her words,
1H6 3.7. 59 Or nature makes me suddenly relent.
1H6 3.7. 60
1H6-JOAN
Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,
1H6 3.7. 61 Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.
1H6 3.7. 62 Who join'st thou with but with a lordly nation
1H6 3.7. 63 That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?
1H6 3.7. 64 When Talbot hath set footing once in France
1H6 3.7. 65 And fashioned thee that instrument of ill,
1H6 3.7. 66 Who then but English Henry will be lord,
1H6 3.7. 67 And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?
1H6 3.7. 68 Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof:
1H6 3.7. 69 Was not the Duke of Orle/ans thy foe?
1H6 3.7. 70 And was he not in England prisoner?
1H6 3.7. 71 But when they heard he was thine enemy
1H6 3.7. 72 They set him free, without his ransom paid,
1H6 3.7. 73 In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.
1H6 3.7. 74 See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen,
1H6 3.7. 75 And join'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.
1H6 3.7. 76 Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord,
1H6 3.7. 77 Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.
1H6 3.7. 78
1H6-BURGUNDY
{[aside]} I am vanquished. These haughty +
1H6 3.7. 78 words of hers
1H6 3.7. 79 Have battered me like roaring cannon-shot
1H6 3.7. 80 And made me almost yield upon my knees.
1H6 3.7. 81 {(To the others)} Forgive me, country, and sweet +
1H6 3.7. 81 countrymen;
1H6 3.7. 82 And lords, accept this hearty kind embrace.
1H6 3.7. 83 My forces and my power of men are yours.
1H6 3.7. 84 So farewell, Talbot. I'll no longer trust thee.
1H6 3.7. 85
1H6-JOAN
Done like a Frenchman - {[aside]} turn and turn +
1H6 3.7. 85 again.
1H6 3.7. 86
1H6-CHARLES
Welcome, brave Duke. Thy friendship makes us fresh.
1H6 3.7. 87
1H6-BASTARD
And doth beget new courage in our breasts.
1H6 3.7. 88
1H6-ALENC@ON
Pucelle hath bravely played her part in this,
1H6 3.7. 89 And doth deserve a coronet of gold.
1H6 3.7. 90
1H6-CHARLES
Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,
1H6 3.7. 91 And seek how we may prejudice the foe. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.7. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, +
1H6 3.8. 0 the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke of Exeter; Richard Duke of York, the +
1H6 3.8. 0 Earl of Warwick, and Vernon [with white roses]; the Earl of Suffolk, +
1H6 3.8. 0 the Duke of Somerset, and Basset [with red roses]. To them, with his +
1H6 3.8. 0 soldiers, enter Lord Talbot}
1H6 3.8. 1
1H6-TALBOT
My gracious prince and honourable peers,
1H6 3.8. 2 Hearing of your arrival in this realm
1H6 3.8. 3 I have a while given truce unto my wars
1H6 3.8. 4 To do my duty to my sovereign;
1H6 3.8. 5 In sign whereof, this arm that hath reclaimed
1H6 3.8. 6 To your obedience fifty fortresses,
1H6 3.8. 7 Twelve cities, and seven walled towns of strength,
1H6 3.8. 8 Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,
1H6 3.8. 9 Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,
1H6 3.8. 10 And with submissive loyalty of heart
1H6 3.8. 11 Ascribes the glory of his conquest got
1H6 3.8. 12 First to my God, and next unto your grace. {[He kneels]}
1H6 3.8. 13
1H6-KING HENRY
Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,
1H6 3.8. 14 That hath so long been resident in France?
1H6 3.8. 15
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.
1H6 3.8. 16
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Talbot)} Welcome, brave captain +
1H6 3.8. 16 and victorious lord.
1H6 3.8. 17 When I was young - as yet I am not old -
1H6 3.8. 18 I do remember how my father said
1H6 3.8. 19 A stouter champion never handled sword.
1H6 3.8. 20 Long since we were resolved of your truth,
1H6 3.8. 21 Your faithful service and your toil in war,
1H6 3.8. 22 Yet never have you tasted our reward,
1H6 3.8. 23 Or been reguerdoned with so much as thanks,
1H6 3.8. 24 Because till now we never saw your face.
1H6 3.8. 25B Therefore stand up, {Talbot rises} and for these good +
1H6 3.8. 25B deserts
1H6 3.8. 26 We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;
1H6 3.8. 27 And in our coronation take your place. {Sennet. Exeunt all but +
1H6 3.8. 27 Vernon and Basset}
1H6 3.8. 28
1H6-VERNON
Now sir, to you that were so hot at sea,
1H6 3.8. 29 Disgracing of these colours that I wear
1H6 3.8. 30 In honour of my noble lord of York,
1H6 3.8. 31 Dar'st thou maintain the former words thou spak'st?
1H6 3.8. 32
1H6-BASSET
Yes, sir, as well as you dare patronage
1H6 3.8. 33 The envious barking of your saucy tongue
1H6 3.8. 34 Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.
1H6 3.8. 35
1H6-VERNON
Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.
1H6 3.8. 36
1H6-BASSET
Why, what is he? - as good a man as York.
1H6 3.8. 37
1H6-VERNON
Hark ye, not so. In witness, take ye that. {Vernon +
1H6 3.8. 37 strikes him}
1H6 3.8. 38
1H6-BASSET
Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such
1H6 3.8. 39 That whoso draws a sword 'tis present death,
1H6 3.8. 40 Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.
1H6 3.8. 41 But I'll unto his majesty and crave
1H6 3.8. 42 I may have liberty to venge this wrong,
1H6 3.8. 43 When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.
1H6 3.8. 44
1H6-VERNON
Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you,
1H6 3.8. 45 And after meet you sooner than you would. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.8. 0
1H6 3.8. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King Henry, the Duke of +
1H6 4.1. 0 Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke of Exeter; Richard Duke +
1H6 4.1. 0 of York, and the Earl of Warwick with white roses; the Earl of Suffolk +
1H6 4.1. 0 and the Duke of Somerset with red roses; Lord Talbot, and the Governor +
1H6 4.1. 0 of Paris}
1H6 4.1. 1
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Lord Bishop, set the crown upon his head.
1H6 4.1. 2
1H6-WINCHESTER
God save King Henry, of that name the sixth! +
1H6 4.1. 2 {Winchester crowns the King}
1H6 4.1. 3
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Now, Governor of Paris, take your oath
1H6 4.1. 4 That you elect no other king but him;
1H6 4.1. 5 Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,
1H6 4.1. 6 And none your foes but such as shall pretend
1H6 4.1. 7 Malicious practices against his state.
1H6 4.1. 8 This shall ye do, so help you righteous God. {Enter Sir John +
1H6 4.1. 8 Fastolf with a letter}
1H6 4.1. 9
1H6-FASTOLF
My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais
1H6 4.1. 10 To haste unto your coronation
1H6 4.1. 11 A letter was delivered to my hands, {[He presents the letter]}
1H6 4.1. 12 Writ to your grace from th' Duke of Burgundy.
1H6 4.1. 13
1H6-TALBOT
Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!
1H6 4.1. 14 I vowed, base knight, when I did meet thee next,
1H6 4.1. 15 To tear the Garter from thy craven's leg, {He tears it off}
1H6 4.1. 16 Which I have done because unworthily
1H6 4.1. 17 Thou wast installed in that high degree. -
1H6 4.1. 18 Pardon me, princely Henry and the rest.
1H6 4.1. 19 This dastard at the battle of Patay
1H6 4.1. 20 When but in all I was six thousand strong,
1H6 4.1. 21 And that the French were almost ten to one,
1H6 4.1. 22 Before we met, or that a stroke was given,
1H6 4.1. 23 Like to a trusty squire did run away;
1H6 4.1. 24 In which assault we lost twelve hundred men.
1H6 4.1. 25 Myself and divers gentlemen beside
1H6 4.1. 26 Were there surprised and taken prisoners.
1H6 4.1. 27 Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss,
1H6 4.1. 28 Or whether that such cowards ought to wear
1H6 4.1. 29 This ornament of knighthood: yea or no?
1H6 4.1. 30
1H6-GLOUCESTER
To say the truth, this fact was infamous
1H6 4.1. 31 And ill beseeming any common man,
1H6 4.1. 32 Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
1H6 4.1. 33
1H6-TALBOT
When first this order was ordained, my lords,
1H6 4.1. 34 Knights of the Garter were of noble birth,
1H6 4.1. 35 Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,
1H6 4.1. 36 Such as were grown to credit by the wars;
1H6 4.1. 37 Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress,
1H6 4.1. 38 But always resolute in most extremes.
1H6 4.1. 39 He then that is not furnished in this sort
1H6 4.1. 40 Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,
1H6 4.1. 41 Profaning this most honourable order,
1H6 4.1. 42 And should - if I were worthy to be judge -
1H6 4.1. 43 Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain
1H6 4.1. 44 That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.
1H6 4.1. 45
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Fastolf)} Stain to thy countrymen, +
1H6 4.1. 45 thou hear'st thy doom.
1H6 4.1. 46 Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight.
1H6 4.1. 47 Henceforth we banish thee on pain of death. {Exit Fastolf}
1H6 4.1. 48 And now, my Lord Protector, view the letter
1H6 4.1. 49 Sent from our uncle, Duke of Burgundy.
1H6 4.1. 50
1H6-GLOUCESTER
What means his grace that he hath changed his style?
1H6 4.1. 51 No more but plain and bluntly `To the King'?
1H6 4.1. 52 Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?
1H6 4.1. 53 Or doth this churlish superscription
1H6 4.1. 54 Pretend some alteration in good will?
1H6 4.1. 55 What's here? `I have upon especial cause,
1H6 4.1. 56 Moved with compassion of my country's wrack
1H6 4.1. 57 Together with the pitiful complaints
1H6 4.1. 58 Of such as your oppression feeds upon,
1H6 4.1. 59 Forsaken your pernicious faction
1H6 4.1. 60 And joined with Charles, the rightful King of France.'
1H6 4.1. 61 O monstrous treachery! Can this be so?
1H6 4.1. 62 That in alliance, amity, and oaths
1H6 4.1. 63 There should be found such false dissembling guile?
1H6 4.1. 64
1H6-KING HENRY
What? Doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?
1H6 4.1. 65
1H6-GLOUCESTER
He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.
1H6 4.1. 66
1H6-KING HENRY
Is that the worst this letter doth contain?
1H6 4.1. 67
1H6-GLOUCESTER
It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.
1H6 4.1. 68
1H6-KING HENRY
Why then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him
1H6 4.1. 69 And give him chastisement for this abuse.
1H6 4.1. 70 {(To Talbot)} How say you, my lord? Are you not +
1H6 4.1. 70 content?
1H6 4.1. 71
1H6-TALBOT
Content, my liege? Yes. But that I am prevented,
1H6 4.1. 72 I should have begged I might have been employed.
1H6 4.1. 73
1H6-KING HENRY
Then gather strength and march unto him straight.
1H6 4.1. 74 Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason,
1H6 4.1. 75 And what offence it is to flout his friends.
1H6 4.1. 76
1H6-TALBOT
I go, my lord, in heart desiring still
1H6 4.1. 77 You may behold confusion of your foes. {Exit}
1H6 4.1. 78 {Enter Vernon wearing a white rose, and Basset wearing a red +
1H6 4.1. 78 rose}
1H6-VERNON
{(to King Henry)} Grant me the combat, +
1H6 4.1. 78 gracious sovereign.
1H6 4.1. 79
1H6-BASSET
{(to King Henry)} And me, my lord; grant me +
1H6 4.1. 79 the combat, too.
1H6 4.1. 80
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(to King Henry, pointing to +
1H6 4.1. 80 Vernon)} This is my servant; hear him, noble Prince.
1H6 4.1. 81
1H6-SOMERSET
{(to King Henry, pointing to Basset)} And +
1H6 4.1. 81 this is mine, sweet Henry; favour him.
1H6 4.1. 82
1H6-KING HENRY
Be patient, lords, and give them leave to speak.
1H6 4.1. 83 Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim,
1H6 4.1. 84 And wherefore crave you combat, or with whom?
1H6 4.1. 85
1H6-VERNON
With him, my lord; for he hath done me wrong.
1H6 4.1. 86
1H6-BASSET
And I with him; for he hath done me wrong.
1H6 4.1. 87
1H6-KING HENRY
What is that wrong whereof you both complain?
1H6 4.1. 88 First let me know, and then I'll answer you.
1H6 4.1. 89
1H6-BASSET
Crossing the sea from England into France,
1H6 4.1. 90 This fellow here with envious carping tongue
1H6 4.1. 91 Upbraided me about the rose I wear,
1H6 4.1. 92 Saying the sanguine colour of the leaves
1H6 4.1. 93 Did represent my master's blushing cheeks
1H6 4.1. 94 When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
1H6 4.1. 95 About a certain question in the law
1H6 4.1. 96 Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him,
1H6 4.1. 97 With other vile and ignominious terms;
1H6 4.1. 98 In confutation of which rude reproach,
1H6 4.1. 99 And in defence of my lord's worthiness,
1H6 4.1. 100 I crave the benefit of law of arms.
1H6 4.1. 101
1H6-VERNON
And that is my petition, noble lord;
1H6 4.1. 102 For though he seem with forged quaint conceit
1H6 4.1. 103 To set a gloss upon his bold intent,
1H6 4.1. 104 Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him,
1H6 4.1. 105 And he first took exceptions at this badge,
1H6 4.1. 106 Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower
1H6 4.1. 107 Bewrayed the faintness of my master's heart.
1H6 4.1. 108
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?
1H6 4.1. 109
1H6-SOMERSET
Your private grudge, my lord of York, will out,
1H6 4.1. 110 Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.
1H6 4.1. 111
1H6-KING HENRY
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
1H6 4.1. 112 When for so slight and frivolous a cause
1H6 4.1. 113 Such factious emulations shall arise?
1H6 4.1. 114 Good cousins both of York and Somerset,
1H6 4.1. 115 Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.
1H6 4.1. 116
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Let this dissension first be tried by fight,
1H6 4.1. 117 And then your highness shall command a peace.
1H6 4.1. 118
1H6-SOMERSET
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;
1H6 4.1. 119 Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
1H6 4.1. 120
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
There is my pledge. Accept it, Somerset.
1H6 4.1. 121
1H6-VERNON
{(to King Henry)} Nay, let it rest where it +
1H6 4.1. 121 began at first.
1H6 4.1. 122
1H6-BASSET
{(to King Henry)} Confirm it so, mine +
1H6 4.1. 122 honourable lord.
1H6 4.1. 123
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Confirm it so? Confounded be your strife,
1H6 4.1. 124 And perish ye with your audacious prate!
1H6 4.1. 125 Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed
1H6 4.1. 126 With this immodest clamorous outrage
1H6 4.1. 127 To trouble and disturb the King and us?
1H6 4.1. 128 And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
1H6 4.1. 129 To bear with their perverse objections,
1H6 4.1. 130 Much less to take occasion from their mouths
1H6 4.1. 131 To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
1H6 4.1. 132 Let me persuade you take a better course.
1H6 4.1. 133
1H6-EXETER
It grieves his highness. Good my lords, be friends.
1H6 4.1. 134
1H6-KING HENRY
Come hither, you that would be combatants.
1H6 4.1. 135 Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,
1H6 4.1. 136 Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.
1H6 4.1. 137 And you, my lords, remember where we are -
1H6 4.1. 138 In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation.
1H6 4.1. 139 If they perceive dissension in our looks,
1H6 4.1. 140 And that within ourselves we disagree,
1H6 4.1. 141 How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
1H6 4.1. 142 To wilful disobedience, and rebel!
1H6 4.1. 143 Beside, what infamy will there arise
1H6 4.1. 144 When foreign princes shall be certified
1H6 4.1. 145 That for a toy, a thing of no regard,
1H6 4.1. 146 King Henry's peers and chief nobility
1H6 4.1. 147 Destroyed themselves and lost the realm of France!
1H6 4.1. 148 O, think upon the conquest of my father,
1H6 4.1. 149 My tender years, and let us not forgo
1H6 4.1. 150 That for a trifle that was bought with blood.
1H6 4.1. 151 Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.
1H6 4.1. 152 I see no reason, if I wear this rose, {He takes a red rose}
1H6 4.1. 153 That anyone should therefore be suspicious
1H6 4.1. 154 I more incline to Somerset than York.
1H6 4.1. 155 Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both.
1H6 4.1. 156 As well they may upbraid me with my crown
1H6 4.1. 157 Because, forsooth, the King of Scots is crowned.
1H6 4.1. 158 But your discretions better can persuade
1H6 4.1. 159 Than I am able to instruct or teach,
1H6 4.1. 160 And therefore, as we hither came in peace,
1H6 4.1. 161 So let us still continue peace and love.
1H6 4.1. 162 Cousin of York, we institute your grace
1H6 4.1. 163 To be our regent in these parts of France;
1H6 4.1. 164 And good my lord of Somerset, unite
1H6 4.1. 165 Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot,
1H6 4.1. 166 And like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,
1H6 4.1. 167 Go cheerfully together and digest
1H6 4.1. 168 Your angry choler on your enemies.
1H6 4.1. 169 Ourself, my Lord Protector, and the rest,
1H6 4.1. 170 After some respite, will return to Calais,
1H6 4.1. 171 From thence to England, where I hope ere long
1H6 4.1. 172 To be presented by your victories
1H6 4.1. 173 With Charles, Alenc@on, and that traitorous rout. {Flourish. +
1H6 4.1. 173 Exeunt all but York, Warwick, Vernon, and Exeter}
1H6 4.1. 174
1H6-WARWICK
My lord of York, I promise you, the King
1H6 4.1. 175 Prettily, methought, did play the orator.
1H6 4.1. 176
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
And so he did; but yet I like it not
1H6 4.1. 177 In that he wears the badge of Somerset.
1H6 4.1. 178
1H6-WARWICK
Tush, that was but his fancy; blame him not.
1H6 4.1. 179 I dare presume, sweet Prince, he thought no harm.
1H6 4.1. 180
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
An if I wist he did - but let it rest.
1H6 4.1. 181 Other affairs must now be managed. {Exeunt all but Exeter}
1H6 4.1. 182
1H6-EXETER
Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;
1H6 4.1. 183 For had the passions of thy heart burst out
1H6 4.1. 184 I fear we should have seen deciphered there
1H6 4.1. 185 More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,
1H6 4.1. 186 Than yet can be imagined or supposed.
1H6 4.1. 187 But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees
1H6 4.1. 188 This jarring discord of nobility,
1H6 4.1. 189 This shouldering of each other in the court,
1H6 4.1. 190 This factious bandying of their favourites,
1H6 4.1. 191 But that it doth presage some ill event.
1H6 4.1. 192 'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
1H6 4.1. 193 But more when envy breeds unkind division:
1H6 4.1. 194 There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. {Exit}
1H6 4.1. 0
1H6 4.1. 0 {Enter Lord Talbot with a trumpeter and drummer and +
1H6 4.2. 0 soldiers before Bordeaux}
1H6 4.2. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Go to the gates of Bordeaux, trumpeter.
1H6 4.2. 2 Summon their general unto the wall. {The trumpeter sounds a +
1H6 4.2. 2 parley. Enter French General, aloft}
1H6 4.2. 3 English John Talbot, captain, calls you forth,
1H6 4.2. 4 Servant in arms to Harry King of England;
1H6 4.2. 5 And thus he would: open your city gates,
1H6 4.2. 6 Be humble to us, call my sovereign yours
1H6 4.2. 7 And do him homage as obedient subjects,
1H6 4.2. 8 And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power.
1H6 4.2. 9 But if you frown upon this proffered peace,
1H6 4.2. 10 You tempt the fury of my three attendants -
1H6 4.2. 11 Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire -
1H6 4.2. 12 Who in a moment even with the earth
1H6 4.2. 13 Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers
1H6 4.2. 14 If you forsake the offer of their love.
1H6 4.2. 15
1H6-GENERAL
Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,
1H6 4.2. 16 Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge,
1H6 4.2. 17 The period of thy tyranny approacheth.
1H6 4.2. 18 On us thou canst not enter but by death,
1H6 4.2. 19 For I protest we are well fortified
1H6 4.2. 20 And strong enough to issue out and fight.
1H6 4.2. 21 If thou retire, the Dauphin well appointed
1H6 4.2. 22 Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
1H6 4.2. 23 On either hand thee there are squadrons pitched
1H6 4.2. 24 To wall thee from the liberty of flight,
1H6 4.2. 25 And no way canst thou turn thee for redress
1H6 4.2. 26 But death doth front thee with apparent spoil,
1H6 4.2. 27 And pale destruction meets thee in the face.
1H6 4.2. 28 Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament
1H6 4.2. 29 To fire their dangerous artillery
1H6 4.2. 30 Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.
1H6 4.2. 31 Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man
1H6 4.2. 32 Of an invincible unconquered spirit.
1H6 4.2. 33 This is the latest glory of thy praise,
1H6 4.2. 34 That I thy enemy due thee withal,
1H6 4.2. 35 For ere the glass that now begins to run
1H6 4.2. 36 Finish the process of his sandy hour,
1H6 4.2. 37 These eyes that see thee now well coloured
1H6 4.2. 38 Shall see thee withered, bloody, pale, and dead. {Drum afar off}
1H6 4.2. 39 Hark, hark, the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,
1H6 4.2. 40 Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul,
1H6 4.2. 41 And mine shall ring thy dire departure out. {Exit}
1H6 4.2. 42
1H6-TALBOT
He fables not. I hear the enemy.
1H6 4.2. 43 Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings. {[Exit one or +
1H6 4.2. 43 more]}
1H6 4.2. 44 O negligent and heedless discipline,
1H6 4.2. 45 How are we parked and bounded in a pale! -
1H6 4.2. 46 A little herd of England's timorous deer
1H6 4.2. 47 Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs.
1H6 4.2. 48 If we be English deer, be then in blood,
1H6 4.2. 49 Not rascal-like to fall down with a pinch,
1H6 4.2. 50 But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,
1H6 4.2. 51 Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel
1H6 4.2. 52 And make the cowards stand aloof at bay.
1H6 4.2. 53 Sell every man his life as dear as mine
1H6 4.2. 54 And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.
1H6 4.2. 55 God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,
1H6 4.2. 56 Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight! {Exeunt}
1H6 4.2. 0 {Enter a Messenger that meets the Duke of York. Enter +
1H6 4.3. 0 Richard Duke of York with a trumpeter and many soldiers}
1H6 4.3. 1
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Are not the speedy scouts returned +
1H6 4.3. 1 again
1H6 4.3. 2 That dogged the mighty army of the Dauphin?
1H6 4.3. 3
1H6-MESSENGER
They are returned, my lord, and give it out
1H6 4.3. 4 That he is marched to Bordeaux with his power
1H6 4.3. 5 To fight with Talbot. As he marched along,
1H6 4.3. 6 By your espials were discovered
1H6 4.3. 7 Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,
1H6 4.3. 8 Which joined with him and made their march for Bordeaux.
1H6 4.3. 9
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
A plague upon that villain Somerset
1H6 4.3. 10 That thus delays my promised supply
1H6 4.3. 11 Of horsemen that were levied for this siege!
1H6 4.3. 12 Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,
1H6 4.3. 13 And I am louted by a traitor villain
1H6 4.3. 14 And cannot help the noble chevalier.
1H6 4.3. 15 God comfort him in this necessity;
1H6 4.3. 16 If he miscarry, farewell wars in France! {Enter another +
1H6 4.3. 16 messenger, Sir William Lucy}
1H6 4.3. 17
1H6-LUCY
Thou princely leader of our English strength,
1H6 4.3. 18 Never so needful on the earth of France,
1H6 4.3. 19 Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,
1H6 4.3. 20 Who now is girdled with a waste of iron
1H6 4.3. 21 And hemmed about with grim destruction.
1H6 4.3. 22 To Bordeaux, warlike Duke; to Bordeaux, York,
1H6 4.3. 23 Else farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour.
1H6 4.3. 24
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart
1H6 4.3. 25 Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!
1H6 4.3. 26 So should we save a valiant gentleman
1H6 4.3. 27 By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.
1H6 4.3. 28 Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,
1H6 4.3. 29 That thus we die while remiss traitors sleep.
1H6 4.3. 30
1H6-LUCY
O, send some succour to the distressed lord.
1H6 4.3. 31
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;
1H6 4.3. 32 We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get,
1H6 4.3. 33 All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset.
1H6 4.3. 34
1H6-LUCY
Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul,
1H6 4.3. 35 And on his son young John, who two hours since
1H6 4.3. 36 I met in travel toward his warlike father.
1H6 4.3. 37 This seven years did not Talbot see his son,
1H6 4.3. 38 And now they meet where both their lives are done.
1H6 4.3. 39
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have
1H6 4.3. 40 To bid his young son welcome to his grave?
1H6 4.3. 41 Away - vexation almost stops my breath
1H6 4.3. 42 That sundered friends greet in the hour of death.
1H6 4.3. 43 Lucy, farewell. No more my fortune can
1H6 4.3. 44 But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.
1H6 4.3. 45 Maine, Blois, Poitiers, and Tours are won away
1H6 4.3. 46 'Long all of Somerset and his delay. {Exeunt all but Lucy}
1H6 4.3. 47
1H6-LUCY
Thus while the vulture of sedition
1H6 4.3. 48 Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,
1H6 4.3. 49 Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
1H6 4.3. 50 The conquest of our scarce-cold conqueror,
1H6 4.3. 51 That ever-living man of memory
1H6 4.3. 52 Henry the Fifth. Whiles they each other cross,
1H6 4.3. 53 Lives, honours, lands, and all hurry to loss. {[Exit]}
1H6 4.3. 0 {Enter the Duke of Somerset with his army}
1H6 4.4. 1
1H6-SOMERSET
{(to a Captain)} It is too late, I cannot +
1H6 4.4. 1 send them now.
1H6 4.4. 2 This expedition was by York and Talbot
1H6 4.4. 3 Too rashly plotted. All our general force
1H6 4.4. 4 Might with a sally of the very town
1H6 4.4. 5 Be buckled with. The over-daring Talbot
1H6 4.4. 6 Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
1H6 4.4. 7 By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure.
1H6 4.4. 8 York set him on to fight and die in shame
1H6 4.4. 9 That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name. {[Enter +
1H6 4.4. 9 Lucy]}
1H6 4.4. 10
1H6-CAPTAIN
Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
1H6 4.4. 11 Set from our o'ermatched forces forth for aid.
1H6 4.4. 12
1H6-SOMERSET
How now, Sir William, whither were you sent?
1H6 4.4. 13
1H6-LUCY
Whither, my lord? From bought and sold Lord Talbot,
1H6 4.4. 14 Who, ringed about with bold adversity,
1H6 4.4. 15 Cries out for noble York and Somerset
1H6 4.4. 16 To beat assailing death from his weak legions;
1H6 4.4. 17 And whiles the honourable captain there
1H6 4.4. 18 Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs
1H6 4.4. 19 And, unadvantaged, ling'ring looks for rescue,
1H6 4.4. 20 You his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,
1H6 4.4. 21 Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.
1H6 4.4. 22 Let not your private discord keep away
1H6 4.4. 23 The levied succours that should lend him aid,
1H6 4.4. 24 While he, renowned noble gentleman,
1H6 4.4. 25 Yield up his life unto a world of odds.
1H6 4.4. 26 Orle/ans the Bastard, Charles, and Burgundy,
1H6 4.4. 27 Alenc@on, Rene/, compass him about,
1H6 4.4. 28 And Talbot perisheth by your default.
1H6 4.4. 29
1H6-SOMERSET
York set him on; York should have sent him aid.
1H6 4.4. 30
1H6-LUCY
And York as fast upon your grace exclaims,
1H6 4.4. 31 Swearing that you withhold his levied horse
1H6 4.4. 32 Collected for this expedition.
1H6 4.4. 33
1H6-SOMERSET
York lies. He might have sent and had the horse.
1H6 4.4. 34 I owe him little duty and less love,
1H6 4.4. 35 And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.
1H6 4.4. 36
1H6-LUCY
The fraud of England, not the force of France,
1H6 4.4. 37 Hath now entrapped the noble-minded Talbot.
1H6 4.4. 38 Never to England shall he bear his life,
1H6 4.4. 39 But dies betrayed to fortune by your strife.
1H6 4.4. 40
1H6-SOMERSET
Come, go. I will dispatch the horsemen straight.
1H6 4.4. 41 Within six hours they will be at his aid.
1H6 4.4. 42
1H6-LUCY
Too late comes rescue. He is ta'en or slain,
1H6 4.4. 43 For fly he could not if he would have fled,
1H6 4.4. 44 And fly would Talbot never, though he might.
1H6 4.4. 45
1H6-SOMERSET
If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu.
1H6 4.4. 46
1H6-LUCY
His fame lives in the world, his shame in you. {Exeunt +
1H6 4.4. 46 [severally]}
1H6 4.4. 0 {Enter Lord Talbot and his son John}
1H6 4.5. 1
1H6-TALBOT
O young John Talbot, I did send for thee
1H6 4.5. 2 To tutor thee in stratagems of war,
1H6 4.5. 3 That Talbot's name might be in thee revived
1H6 4.5. 4 When sapless age and weak unable limbs
1H6 4.5. 5 Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.
1H6 4.5. 6 But O - malignant and ill-boding stars! -
1H6 4.5. 7 Now thou art come unto a feast of death,
1H6 4.5. 8 A terrible and unavoided danger.
1H6 4.5. 9 Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse,
1H6 4.5. 10 And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
1H6 4.5. 11 By sudden flight. Come, dally not, be gone.
1H6 4.5. 12
1H6-JOHN
Is my name Talbot, and am I your son,
1H6 4.5. 13 And shall I fly? O, if you love my mother,
1H6 4.5. 14 Dishonour not her honourable name
1H6 4.5. 15 To make a bastard and a slave of me.
1H6 4.5. 16 The world will say he is not Talbot's blood
1H6 4.5. 17 That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.
1H6 4.5. 18
1H6-TALBOT
Fly to revenge my death if I be slain.
1H6 4.5. 19
1H6-JOHN
He that flies so will ne'er return again.
1H6 4.5. 20
1H6-TALBOT
If we both stay, we both are sure to die.
1H6 4.5. 21
1H6-JOHN
Then let me stay and, father, do you fly.
1H6 4.5. 22 Your loss is great; so your regard should be.
1H6 4.5. 23 My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.
1H6 4.5. 24 Upon my death the French can little boast;
1H6 4.5. 25 In yours they will: in you all hopes are lost.
1H6 4.5. 26 Flight cannot stain the honour you have won,
1H6 4.5. 27 But mine it will, that no exploit have done.
1H6 4.5. 28 You fled for vantage, everyone will swear,
1H6 4.5. 29 But if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.
1H6 4.5. 30 There is no hope that ever I will stay
1H6 4.5. 31 If the first hour I shrink and run away.
1H6 4.5. 32 Here on my knee I beg mortality
1H6 4.5. 33 Rather than life preserved with infamy.
1H6 4.5. 34
1H6-TALBOT
Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?
1H6 4.5. 35
1H6-JOHN
Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.
1H6 4.5. 36
1H6-TALBOT
Upon my blessing I command thee go.
1H6 4.5. 37
1H6-JOHN
To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.
1H6 4.5. 38
1H6-TALBOT
Part of thy father may be saved in thee.
1H6 4.5. 39
1H6-JOHN
No part of him but will be shamed in me.
1H6 4.5. 40
1H6-TALBOT
Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.
1H6 4.5. 41
1H6-JOHN
Yes, your renowned name - shall flight abuse it?
1H6 4.5. 42
1H6-TALBOT
Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.
1H6 4.5. 43
1H6-JOHN
You cannot witness for me, being slain.
1H6 4.5. 44 If death be so apparent, then both fly.
1H6 4.5. 45
1H6-TALBOT
And leave my followers here to fight and die?
1H6 4.5. 46 My age was never tainted with such shame.
1H6 4.5. 47
1H6-JOHN
And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?
1H6 4.5. 48 No more can I be severed from your side
1H6 4.5. 49 Than can yourself your self in twain divide.
1H6 4.5. 50 Stay, go, do what you will: the like do I,
1H6 4.5. 51 For live I will not if my father die.
1H6 4.5. 52
1H6-TALBOT
Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,
1H6 4.5. 53 Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.
1H6 4.5. 54 Come, side by side together live and die,
1H6 4.5. 55 And soul with soul from France to heaven fly. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.5. 0 {Alarum. Excursions, wherein Lord Talbot's son John is +
1H6 4.6. 0 hemmed about by French soldiers and Talbot rescues him. [The English +
1H6 4.6. 0 drive off the French]}
1H6 4.6. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Saint George and victory! Fight, soldiers, fight!
1H6 4.6. 2 The Regent hath with Talbot broke his word,
1H6 4.6. 3 And left us to the rage of France his sword.
1H6 4.6. 4 Where is John Talbot? {(To John)} Pause and take thy +
1H6 4.6. 4 breath.
1H6 4.6. 5 I gave thee life, and rescued thee from death.
1H6 4.6. 6
1H6-JOHN
O twice my father, twice am I thy son:
1H6 4.6. 7 The life thou gav'st me first was lost and done
1H6 4.6. 8 Till with thy warlike sword, despite of fate,
1H6 4.6. 9 To my determined time thou gav'st new date.
1H6 4.6. 10
1H6-TALBOT
When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire
1H6 4.6. 11 It warmed thy father's heart with proud desire
1H6 4.6. 12 Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,
1H6 4.6. 13 Quickened with youthful spleen and warlike rage,
1H6 4.6. 14 Beat down Alenc@on, Orle/ans, Burgundy,
1H6 4.6. 15 And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.
1H6 4.6. 16 The ireful Bastard Orle/ans, that drew blood
1H6 4.6. 17 From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood
1H6 4.6. 18 Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,
1H6 4.6. 19 And interchanging blows, I quickly shed
1H6 4.6. 20 Some of his bastard blood, and in disgrace
1H6 4.6. 21 Bespoke him thus: `Contaminated, base,
1H6 4.6. 22 And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,
1H6 4.6. 23 Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine
1H6 4.6. 24 Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy.'
1H6 4.6. 25 Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,
1H6 4.6. 26 Came in strong rescue. Speak thy father's care:
1H6 4.6. 27 Art thou not weary, John? How dost thou fare?
1H6 4.6. 28 Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,
1H6 4.6. 29 Now thou art sealed the son of chivalry?
1H6 4.6. 30 Fly to revenge my death when I am dead;
1H6 4.6. 31 The help of one stands me in little stead.
1H6 4.6. 32 O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
1H6 4.6. 33 To hazard all our lives in one small boat.
1H6 4.6. 34 If I today die not with Frenchmen's rage,
1H6 4.6. 35 Tomorrow I shall die with mickle age.
1H6 4.6. 36 By me they nothing gain, and if I stay
1H6 4.6. 37 'Tis but the short'ning of my life one day.
1H6 4.6. 38 In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,
1H6 4.6. 39 My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
1H6 4.6. 40 All these and more we hazard by thy stay;
1H6 4.6. 41 All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.
1H6 4.6. 42
1H6-JOHN
The sword of Orle/ans hath not made me smart;
1H6 4.6. 43 These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart.
1H6 4.6. 44 On that advantage, bought with such a shame,
1H6 4.6. 45 To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,
1H6 4.6. 46 Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly
1H6 4.6. 47 The coward horse that bears me fall and die;
1H6 4.6. 48 And like me to the peasant boys of France,
1H6 4.6. 49 To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!
1H6 4.6. 50 Surely, by all the glory you have won,
1H6 4.6. 51 An if I fly I am not Talbot's son.
1H6 4.6. 52 Then talk no more of flight; it is no boot.
1H6 4.6. 53 If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot.
1H6 4.6. 54
1H6-TALBOT
Then follow thou thy desp'rate sire of Crete,
1H6 4.6. 55 Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet.
1H6 4.6. 56 If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side,
1H6 4.6. 57 And commendable proved, let's die in pride. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.6. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter old Lord Talbot led by a +
1H6 4.7. 0 Servant}
1H6 4.7. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Where is my other life? Mine own is gone.
1H6 4.7. 2 O where's young Talbot, where is valiant John?
1H6 4.7. 3 Triumphant death smeared with captivity,
1H6 4.7. 4 Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee.
1H6 4.7. 5 When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,
1H6 4.7. 6 His bloody sword he brandished over me,
1H6 4.7. 7 And like a hungry lion did commence
1H6 4.7. 8 Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience.
1H6 4.7. 9 But when my angry guardant stood alone,
1H6 4.7. 10 Tend'ring my ruin and assailed of none,
1H6 4.7. 11 Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
1H6 4.7. 12 Suddenly made him from my side to start
1H6 4.7. 13 Into the clust'ring battle of the French,
1H6 4.7. 14 And in that sea of blood my boy did drench
1H6 4.7. 15 His over-mounting spirit; and there died
1H6 4.7. 16 My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride. {Enter English soldiers +
1H6 4.7. 16 with John Talbot's body, borne}
1H6 4.7. 17
1H6-SERVANT
O my dear lord, lo where your son is borne.
1H6 4.7. 18
1H6-TALBOT
Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,
1H6 4.7. 19 Anon from thy insulting tyranny,
1H6 4.7. 20 Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
1H6 4.7. 21 Two Talbots winged through the lither sky
1H6 4.7. 22 In thy despite shall scape mortality.
1H6 4.7. 23 {(To John)} O thou whose wounds become hard-favoured +
1H6 4.7. 23 death,
1H6 4.7. 24 Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath.
1H6 4.7. 25 Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no;
1H6 4.7. 26 Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe. -
1H6 4.7. 27 Poor boy, he smiles, methinks, as who should say
1H6 4.7. 28 `Had death been French, then death had died today'.
1H6 4.7. 29 Come, come, and lay him in his father's arms. {Soldiers lay John +
1H6 4.7. 29 in Talbot's arms}
1H6 4.7. 30 My spirit can no longer bear these harms.
1H6 4.7. 31 Soldiers, adieu. I have what I would have,
1H6 4.7. 32 Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave. {He dies. +
1H6 4.7. 32 [Alarum.] Exeunt soldiers leaving the bodies}
1H6 4.7. 33
1H6 4.7. 33 {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the dukes of Alenc@on and Burgundy, +
1H6 4.7. 33 the Bastard of Orle/ans, and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6-CHARLES
Had +
1H6 4.7. 33 York and Somerset brought rescue in,
1H6 4.7. 34 We should have found a bloody day of this.
1H6 4.7. 35
1H6-BASTARD
How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood,
1H6 4.7. 36 Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!
1H6 4.7. 37
1H6-JOAN
Once I encountered him, and thus I said:
1H6 4.7. 38 `Thou maiden youth, be vanquished by a maid.'
1H6 4.7. 39 But with a proud, majestical high scorn
1H6 4.7. 40 He answered thus: `Young Talbot was not born
1H6 4.7. 41 To be the pillage of a giglot wench.'
1H6 4.7. 42 So rushing in the bowels of the French,
1H6 4.7. 43 He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
1H6 4.7. 44
1H6-BURGUNDY
Doubtless he would have made a noble knight.
1H6 4.7. 45 See where he lies inhearsed in the arms
1H6 4.7. 46 Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.
1H6 4.7. 47
1H6-BASTARD
Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,
1H6 4.7. 48 Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.
1H6 4.7. 49
1H6-CHARLES
O no, forbear; for that which we have fled
1H6 4.7. 50 During the life, let us not wrong it dead. {Enter Sir William +
1H6 4.7. 50 Lucy [with a French herald]}
1H6 4.7. 51
1H6-LUCY
Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent
1H6 4.7. 52 To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.
1H6 4.7. 53
1H6-CHARLES
On what submissive message art thou sent?
1H6 4.7. 54
1H6-LUCY
Submission, Dauphin? 'Tis a mere French word.
1H6 4.7. 55 We English warriors wot not what it means.
1H6 4.7. 56 I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en,
1H6 4.7. 57 And to survey the bodies of the dead.
1H6 4.7. 58
1H6-CHARLES
For prisoners ask'st thou? Hell our prison is.
1H6 4.7. 59 But tell me whom thou seek'st.
1H6 4.7. 60
1H6-LUCY
But where's the great Alcides of the field,
1H6 4.7. 61 Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
1H6 4.7. 62 Created for his rare success in arms
1H6 4.7. 63 Great Earl of Wexford, Waterford, and Valence,
1H6 4.7. 64 Lord Talbot of Goodrich and Urchinfield,
1H6 4.7. 65 Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,
1H6 4.7. 66 Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,
1H6 4.7. 67 The thrice victorious lord of Falconbridge,
1H6 4.7. 68 Knight of the noble order of Saint George,
1H6 4.7. 69 Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece,
1H6 4.7. 70 Great {Mare/chal} to Henry the Sixth
1H6 4.7. 71 Of all his wars within the realm of France?
1H6 4.7. 72
1H6-JOAN
Here's a silly, stately style indeed.
1H6 4.7. 73 The Turk, that two-and-fifty kingdoms hath,
1H6 4.7. 74 Writes not so tedious a style as this.
1H6 4.7. 75 Him that thou magnifi'st with all these titles
1H6 4.7. 76 Stinking and flyblown lies here at our feet.
1H6 4.7. 77
1H6-LUCY
Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,
1H6 4.7. 78 Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?
1H6 4.7. 79 O, were mine eye-balls into bullets turned,
1H6 4.7. 80 That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
1H6 4.7. 81 O, that I could but call these dead to life! -
1H6 4.7. 82 It were enough to fright the realm of France.
1H6 4.7. 83 Were but his picture left amongst you here
1H6 4.7. 84 It would amaze the proudest of you all.
1H6 4.7. 85 Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
1H6 4.7. 86 And give them burial as beseems their worth.
1H6 4.7. 87
1H6-JOAN
{(to Charles)} I think this upstart is old +
1H6 4.7. 87 Talbot's ghost,
1H6 4.7. 88 He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
1H6 4.7. 89 For God's sake let him have them. To keep them here
1H6 4.7. 90 They would but stink and putrefy the air.
1H6 4.7. 91A
1H6-CHARLES
Go, take their bodies hence.
1H6 4.7. 92
1H6-LUCY
I'll bear them hence, but from their ashes shall be reared
1H6 4.7. 93 A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.
1H6 4.7. 94
1H6-CHARLES
So we be rid of them, do with them what thou wilt. +
1H6 4.7. 94 {[Exeunt Lucy and herald with the bodies]}
1H6 4.7. 95 And now to Paris in this conquering vein.
1H6 4.7. 96 All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.7. 0
1H6 4.7. 0 {Sennet. Enter King Henry, the Dukes of Gloucester +
1H6 5.1. 0 and Exeter, [and others]}
1H6 5.1. 1
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Gloucester)} Have you perused the +
1H6 5.1. 1 letters from the Pope,
1H6 5.1. 2 The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
1H6 5.1. 3
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
1H6 5.1. 4 They humbly sue unto your excellence
1H6 5.1. 5 To have a godly peace concluded of
1H6 5.1. 6 Between the realms of England and of France.
1H6 5.1. 7
1H6-KING HENRY
How doth your grace affect their motion?
1H6 5.1. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, and as the only means
1H6 5.1. 9 To stop effusion of our Christian blood
1H6 5.1. 10 And 'stablish quietness on every side.
1H6 5.1. 11
1H6-KING HENRY
Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought
1H6 5.1. 12 It was both impious and unnatural
1H6 5.1. 13 That such immanity and bloody strife
1H6 5.1. 14 Should reign among professors of one faith.
1H6 5.1. 15
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect
1H6 5.1. 16 And surer bind this knot of amity,
1H6 5.1. 17 The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles -
1H6 5.1. 18 A man of great authority in France -
1H6 5.1. 19 Proffers his only daughter to your grace
1H6 5.1. 20 In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
1H6 5.1. 21
1H6-KING HENRY
Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young,
1H6 5.1. 22 And fitter is my study and my books
1H6 5.1. 23 Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
1H6 5.1. 24B Yet call th' ambassadors, {[Exit one or more]} and as +
1H6 5.1. 24B you please,
1H6 5.1. 25 So let them have their answers every one.
1H6 5.1. 26 I shall be well content with any choice
1H6 5.1. 27 Tends to God's glory and my country's weal. {Enter the Bishop of +
1H6 5.1. 27 Winchester, now in cardinal's habit, and three ambassadors, one a Papal +
1H6 5.1. 27 Legate}
1H6 5.1. 28
1H6-EXETER
{(aside)} What, is my lord of Winchester +
1H6 5.1. 28 installed
1H6 5.1. 29 And called unto a cardinal's degree?
1H6 5.1. 30 Then I perceive that will be verified
1H6 5.1. 31 Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
1H6 5.1. 32 `If once he come to be a cardinal,
1H6 5.1. 33 He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'
1H6 5.1. 34
1H6-KING HENRY
My lords ambassadors, your several suits
1H6 5.1. 35 Have been considered and debated on.
1H6 5.1. 36 Your purpose is both good and reasonable,
1H6 5.1. 37 And therefore are we certainly resolved
1H6 5.1. 38 To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
1H6 5.1. 39 Which by my lord of Winchester we mean
1H6 5.1. 40 Shall be transported presently to France.
1H6 5.1. 41
1H6-GLOUCESTER
{[to ambassadors]} And for the proffer +
1H6 5.1. 41 of my lord your master,
1H6 5.1. 42 I have informed his highness so at large
1H6 5.1. 43 As, liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,
1H6 5.1. 44 Her beauty, and the value of her dower,
1H6 5.1. 45 He doth intend she shall be England's queen.
1H6 5.1. 46
1H6-KING HENRY
{[to ambassadors]} In argument and +
1H6 5.1. 46 proof of which contract
1H6 5.1. 47 Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.
1H6 5.1. 48 {(To Gloucester)} And so, my lord Protector, see them +
1H6 5.1. 48 guarded
1H6 5.1. 49 And safely brought to Dover, wherein shipped,
1H6 5.1. 50 Commit them to the fortune of the sea. {Exeunt [severally] all +
1H6 5.1. 50 but Winchester and [Legate]}
1H6 5.1. 51
1H6-WINCHESTER
Stay, my lord legate; you shall first receive
1H6 5.1. 52 The sum of money which I promised
1H6 5.1. 53 Should be delivered to his holiness
1H6 5.1. 54 For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
1H6 5.1. 55
1H6-LEGATE
I will attend upon your lordship's leisure. {[Exit]}
1H6 5.1. 56
1H6-WINCHESTER
Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
1H6 5.1. 57 Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
1H6 5.1. 58 Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
1H6 5.1. 59 That nor in birth or for authority
1H6 5.1. 60 The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
1H6 5.1. 61 I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
1H6 5.1. 62 Or sack this country with a mutiny. {[Exit]}
1H6 5.1. 0 {Enter Charles the Dauphin [reading a letter], the Dukes +
1H6 5.2. 0 of Burgundy and Alenc@on, the Bastard of Orle/ans, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, +
1H6 5.2. 0 and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 5.2. 1
1H6-CHARLES
These news, my lords, may cheer our drooping +
1H6 5.2. 1 spirits.
1H6 5.2. 2 'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt
1H6 5.2. 3 And turn again unto the warlike French.
1H6 5.2. 4
1H6-ALENC@ON
Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,
1H6 5.2. 5 And keep not back your powers in dalliance.
1H6 5.2. 6
1H6-JOAN
Peace be amongst them if they turn to us;
1H6 5.2. 7 Else, ruin combat with their palaces! {Enter a Scout}
1H6 5.2. 8
1H6-SCOUT
Success unto our valiant general,
1H6 5.2. 9 And happiness to his accomplices.
1H6 5.2. 10
1H6-CHARLES
What tidings send our scouts? I prithee speak.
1H6 5.2. 11
1H6-SCOUT
The English army, that divided was
1H6 5.2. 12 Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,
1H6 5.2. 13 And means to give you battle presently.
1H6 5.2. 14
1H6-CHARLES
Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;
1H6 5.2. 15 But we will presently provide for them.
1H6 5.2. 16
1H6-BURGUNDY
I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there.
1H6 5.2. 17
1H6-[JOAN]
Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.
1H6 5.2. 18 Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.
1H6 5.2. 19 Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine;
1H6 5.2. 20 Let Henry fret and all the world repine.
1H6 5.2. 21
1H6-CHARLES
Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate! {Exeunt}
1H6 5.2. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 5.3. 1
1H6-JOAN
The Regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.
1H6 5.3. 2 Now help, ye charming spells and periapts,
1H6 5.3. 3 And ye choice spirits that admonish me
1H6 5.3. 4 And give me signs of future accidents. {Thunder}
1H6 5.3. 5 You speedy helpers, that are substitutes
1H6 5.3. 6 Under the lordly monarch of the north,
1H6 5.3. 7 Appear, and aid me in this enterprise. {Enter Fiends}
1H6 5.3. 8 This speed and quick appearance argues proof
1H6 5.3. 9 Of your accustomed diligence to me.
1H6 5.3. 10 Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled
1H6 5.3. 11 Out of the powerful regions under earth,
1H6 5.3. 12 Help me this once, that France may get the field. {They walk and +
1H6 5.3. 12 speak not}
1H6 5.3. 13 O, hold me not with silence overlong!
1H6 5.3. 14 Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,
1H6 5.3. 15 I'll lop a member off and give it you
1H6 5.3. 16 In earnest of a further benefit,
1H6 5.3. 17 So you do condescend to help me now. {They hang their heads}
1H6 5.3. 18 No hope to have redress? My body shall
1H6 5.3. 19 Pay recompense if you will grant my suit. {They shake their +
1H6 5.3. 19 heads}
1H6 5.3. 20 Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
1H6 5.3. 21 Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?
1H6 5.3. 22 Then take my soul - my body, soul, and all -
1H6 5.3. 23 Before that England give the French the foil. {They depart}
1H6 5.3. 24 See, they forsake me. Now the time is come
1H6 5.3. 25 That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
1H6 5.3. 26 And let her head fall into England's lap.
1H6 5.3. 27 My ancient incantations are too weak,
1H6 5.3. 28 And hell too strong for me to buckle with.
1H6 5.3. 29 Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust. {Exit}
1H6 5.3. 0 {Excursions. The Dukes of Burgundy and York fight hand to +
1H6 5.4. 0 hand. The French fly. Joan la Pucelle is taken}
1H6 5.4. 1
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Damsel of France, I think I have you +
1H6 5.4. 1 fast.
1H6 5.4. 2 Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms,
1H6 5.4. 3 And try if they can gain your liberty.
1H6 5.4. 4 A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!
1H6 5.4. 5 {[To his soldiers]} See how the ugly witch doth bend +
1H6 5.4. 5 her brows,
1H6 5.4. 6 As if with Circe she would change my shape.
1H6 5.4. 7
1H6-JOAN
Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.
1H6 5.4. 8
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man.
1H6 5.4. 9 No shape but his can please your dainty eye.
1H6 5.4. 10
1H6-JOAN
A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee,
1H6 5.4. 11 And may ye both be suddenly surprised
1H6 5.4. 12 By bloody hands in sleeping on your beds!
1H6 5.4. 13
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy +
1H6 5.4. 13 tongue.
1H6 5.4. 14
1H6-JOAN
I prithee give me leave to curse awhile.
1H6 5.4. 15
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the +
1H6 5.4. 15 stake. {Exeunt}
1H6 5.4. 0 {Alarum. Enter the Earl of Suffolk with Margaret in his +
1H6 5.5. 0 hand}
1H6 5.5. 1
1H6-SUFFOLK
Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner. +
1H6 5.5. 1 {He gazes on her}
1H6 5.5. 2 O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly,
1H6 5.5. 3 For I will touch thee but with reverent hands,
1H6 5.5. 4 And lay them gently on thy tender side.
1H6 5.5. 5 I kiss these fingers for eternal peace.
1H6 5.5. 6 Who art thou? Say, that I may honour thee.
1H6 5.5. 7
1H6-MARGARET
Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,
1H6 5.5. 8 The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art.
1H6 5.5. 9
1H6-SUFFOLK
An earl I am, and Suffolk am I called.
1H6 5.5. 10 Be not offended, nature's miracle,
1H6 5.5. 11 Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me.
1H6 5.5. 12 So doth the swan his downy cygnets save,
1H6 5.5. 13 Keeping them prisoner underneath his wings.
1H6 5.5. 14 Yet if this servile usage once offend,
1H6 5.5. 15 Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend. {She is going}
1H6 5.5. 16 O stay! {(Aside)} I have no power to let her +
1H6 5.5. 16 pass.
1H6 5.5. 17 My hand would free her, but my heart says no.
1H6 5.5. 18 As plays the sun upon the glassy stream,
1H6 5.5. 19 Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
1H6 5.5. 20 So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
1H6 5.5. 21 Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak.
1H6 5.5. 22 I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.
1H6 5.5. 23 Fie, de le Pole, disable not thyself!
1H6 5.5. 24 Hast not a tongue? Is she not here to hear?
1H6 5.5. 25 Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?
1H6 5.5. 26 Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such
1H6 5.5. 27 Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough.
1H6 5.5. 28
1H6-MARGARET
Say, Earl of Suffolk - if thy name be so -
1H6 5.5. 29 What ransom must I pay before I pass?
1H6 5.5. 30 For I perceive I am thy prisoner.
1H6 5.5. 31
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} How canst thou tell she will +
1H6 5.5. 31 deny thy suit
1H6 5.5. 32 Before thou make a trial of her love?
1H6 5.5. 33
1H6-MARGARET
Why speak'st thou not? What ransom must I pay?
1H6 5.5. 34
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} She's beautiful, and therefore +
1H6 5.5. 34 to be wooed;
1H6 5.5. 35 She is a woman, therefore to be won.
1H6 5.5. 36
1H6-MARGARET
Wilt thou accept of ransom, yea or no?
1H6 5.5. 37
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} Fond man, remember that thou +
1H6 5.5. 37 hast a wife;
1H6 5.5. 38 Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?
1H6 5.5. 39
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} I were best to leave him, for +
1H6 5.5. 39 he will not hear.
1H6 5.5. 40
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} There all is marred; there lies +
1H6 5.5. 40 a cooling card.
1H6 5.5. 41
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} He talks at random; sure the +
1H6 5.5. 41 man is mad.
1H6 5.5. 42
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} And yet a dispensation may be +
1H6 5.5. 42 had.
1H6 5.5. 43
1H6-MARGARET
And yet I would that you would answer me.
1H6 5.5. 44
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} I'll win this Lady Margaret. For +
1H6 5.5. 44 whom?
1H6 5.5. 45 Why, for my king - tush, that's a wooden thing.
1H6 5.5. 46
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} He talks of wood. It is some +
1H6 5.5. 46 carpenter.
1H6 5.5. 47
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} Yet so my fancy may be +
1H6 5.5. 47 satisfied,
1H6 5.5. 48 And peace established between these realms.
1H6 5.5. 49 But there remains a scruple in that too,
1H6 5.5. 50 For though her father be the King of Naples,
1H6 5.5. 51 Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
1H6 5.5. 52 And our nobility will scorn the match.
1H6 5.5. 53
1H6-MARGARET
Hear ye, captain? Are you not at leisure?
1H6 5.5. 54
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} It shall be so, disdain they +
1H6 5.5. 54 ne'er so much.
1H6 5.5. 55 Henry is youthful, and will quickly yield.
1H6 5.5. 56 {(To Margaret)} Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
1H6 5.5. 57
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} What though I be enthralled, he +
1H6 5.5. 57 seems a knight
1H6 5.5. 58 And will not any way dishonour me.
1H6 5.5. 59
1H6-SUFFOLK
Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.
1H6 5.5. 60
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} Perhaps I shall be rescued by +
1H6 5.5. 60 the French,
1H6 5.5. 61 And then I need not crave his courtesy.
1H6 5.5. 62
1H6-SUFFOLK
Sweet madam, give me hearing in a cause.
1H6 5.5. 63
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} Tush, women have been captivate +
1H6 5.5. 63 ere now.
1H6 5.5. 64A
1H6-SUFFOLK
Lady, wherefore talk you so?
1H6 5.5. 65
1H6-MARGARET
I cry you mercy, 'tis but {quid} for {quo}.
1H6 5.5. 66
1H6-SUFFOLK
Say, gentle Princess, would you not suppose
1H6 5.5. 67 Your bondage happy to be made a queen?
1H6 5.5. 68
1H6-MARGARET
To be a queen in bondage is more vile
1H6 5.5. 69 Than is a slave in base servility,
1H6 5.5. 70B For princes should be free.
1H6-SUFFOLK
And so shall you,
1H6 5.5. 71 If happy England's royal king be free.
1H6 5.5. 72
1H6-MARGARET
Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?
1H6 5.5. 73
1H6-SUFFOLK
I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,
1H6 5.5. 74 To put a golden sceptre in thy hand,
1H6 5.5. 75 And set a precious crown upon thy head,
1H6 5.5. 76B If thou wilt condescend to be my -
1H6-MARGARET
What?
1H6 5.5. 77A
1H6-SUFFOLK
His love.
1H6 5.5. 78
1H6-MARGARET
I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.
1H6 5.5. 79
1H6-SUFFOLK
No, gentle madam, I unworthy am
1H6 5.5. 80 To woo so fair a dame to be his wife
1H6 5.5. 81 {(Aside)} And have no portion in the choice myself. -
1H6 5.5. 82 How say you, madam; are ye so content?
1H6 5.5. 83
1H6-MARGARET
An if my father please, I am content.
1H6 5.5. 84
1H6-SUFFOLK
Then call our captains and our colours forth, +
1H6 5.5. 84 {[Enter captains, colours, and trumpeters]}
1H6 5.5. 85 And, madam, at your father's castle walls
1H6 5.5. 86 We'll crave a parley to confer with him. {Sound a parley. Enter +
1H6 5.5. 86 Rene/ Duke of Anjou on the walls}
1H6 5.5. 87 See, Rene/, see thy daughter prisoner.
1H6 5.5. 88B
1H6-RENE
To whom?
1H6-SUFFOLK
To me.
1H6-RENE
Suffolk, what remedy?
1H6 5.5. 89 I am a soldier, and unapt to weep
1H6 5.5. 90 Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.
1H6 5.5. 91
1H6-SUFFOLK
Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord.
1H6 5.5. 92 Assent, and for thy honour give consent
1H6 5.5. 93 Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king,
1H6 5.5. 94 Whom I with pain have wooed and won thereto;
1H6 5.5. 95 And this her easy-held imprisonment
1H6 5.5. 96 Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty.
1H6 5.5. 97B
1H6-RENE
Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?
1H6-SUFFOLK
Fair Margaret knows
1H6 5.5. 98 That Suffolk doth not flatter, face or feign.
1H6 5.5. 99
1H6-RENE
Upon thy princely warrant I descend
1H6 5.5. 100 To give thee answer of thy just demand.
1H6 5.5. 101
1H6-SUFFOLK
And here I will expect thy coming. {[Exit Rene/ +
1H6 5.5. 101 above]}
1H6 5.5. 102 {Trumpets sound. Enter Rene/}
1H6-RENE
Welcome, brave +
1H6 5.5. 102 Earl, into our territories.
1H6 5.5. 103 Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.
1H6 5.5. 104
1H6-SUFFOLK
Thanks, Rene/, happy for so sweet a child,
1H6 5.5. 105 Fit to be made companion with a king.
1H6 5.5. 106 What answer makes your grace unto my suit?
1H6 5.5. 107
1H6-RENE
Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
1H6 5.5. 108 To be the princely bride of such a lord,
1H6 5.5. 109 Upon condition I may quietly
1H6 5.5. 110 Enjoy mine own, the countries Maine and Anjou,
1H6 5.5. 111 Free from oppression or the stroke of war,
1H6 5.5. 112 My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.
1H6 5.5. 113
1H6-SUFFOLK
That is her ransom. I deliver her,
1H6 5.5. 114 And those two counties I will undertake
1H6 5.5. 115 Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.
1H6 5.5. 116
1H6-RENE
And I again in Henry's royal name,
1H6 5.5. 117 As deputy unto that gracious king,
1H6 5.5. 118 Give thee her hand for sign of plighted faith.
1H6 5.5. 119
1H6-SUFFOLK
Rene/ of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
1H6 5.5. 120 Because this is in traffic of a king.
1H6 5.5. 121 {(Aside)} And yet methinks I could be well content
1H6 5.5. 122 To be mine own attorney in this case.
1H6 5.5. 123 {(To Rene/)} I'll over then to England with this news,
1H6 5.5. 124 And make this marriage to be solemnized.
1H6 5.5. 125 So farewell, Rene/; set this diamond safe
1H6 5.5. 126 In golden palaces, as it becomes.
1H6 5.5. 127
1H6-RENE
I do embrace thee as I would embrace
1H6 5.5. 128 The Christian prince King Henry, were he here.
1H6 5.5. 129
1H6-MARGARET
{(to Suffolk)} Farewell, my lord. Good +
1H6 5.5. 129 wishes, praise, and prayers
1H6 5.5. 130 Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret. {She is going}
1H6 5.5. 131
1H6-SUFFOLK
Farewell, sweet madam; but hark you, Margaret -
1H6 5.5. 132 No princely commendations to my king?
1H6 5.5. 133
1H6-MARGARET
Such commendations as becomes a maid,
1H6 5.5. 134 A virgin, and his servant, say to him.
1H6 5.5. 135
1H6-SUFFOLK
Words sweetly placed, and modestly directed. {[She +
1H6 5.5. 135 is going]}
1H6 5.5. 136 But madam, I must trouble you again -
1H6 5.5. 137 No loving token to his majesty?
1H6 5.5. 138
1H6-MARGARET
Yes, my good lord: a pure unspotted heart,
1H6 5.5. 139 Never yet taint with love, I send the King.
1H6 5.5. 140A
1H6-SUFFOLK
And this withal. {He kisses her}
1H6 5.5. 141
1H6-MARGARET
That for thyself; I will not so presume
1H6 5.5. 142 To send such peevish tokens to a king. {[Exeunt Rene/ and +
1H6 5.5. 142 Margaret]}
1H6 5.5. 143
1H6-SUFFOLK
{[aside]} O, wert thou for myself! - but +
1H6 5.5. 143 Suffolk, stay.
1H6 5.5. 144 Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth.
1H6 5.5. 145 There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.
1H6 5.5. 146 Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise.
1H6 5.5. 147 Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,
1H6 5.5. 148 Mad natural graces that extinguish art.
1H6 5.5. 149 Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
1H6 5.5. 150 That when thou com'st to kneel at Henry's feet
1H6 5.5. 151 Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder. {[Exeunt]}
1H6 5.5. 0 {Enter Richard Duke of York, the Earl of Warwick, and a +
1H6 5.6. 0 Shepherd}
1H6 5.6. 1
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Bring forth that sorceress condemned +
1H6 5.6. 1 to burn. {[Enter Joan la Pucelle guarded]}
1H6 5.6. 2
1H6-SHEPHERD
Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart +
1H6 5.6. 2 outright.
1H6 5.6. 3 Have I sought every country far and near,
1H6 5.6. 4 And now it is my chance to find thee out
1H6 5.6. 5 Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?
1H6 5.6. 6 Ah Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee.
1H6 5.6. 7
1H6-JOAN
Decrepit miser, base ignoble wretch,
1H6 5.6. 8 I am descended of a gentler blood.
1H6 5.6. 9 Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.
1H6 5.6. 10
1H6-SHEPHERD
Out, out! - My lords, an 't please you, 'tis not so.
1H6 5.6. 11 I did beget her, all the parish knows.
1H6 5.6. 12 Her mother liveth yet, can testify
1H6 5.6. 13 She was the first fruit of my bach'lorship.
1H6 5.6. 14
1H6-WARWICK
{(to Joan)} Graceless, wilt thou deny thy +
1H6 5.6. 14 parentage?
1H6 5.6. 15
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
This argues what her kind of life hath been -
1H6 5.6. 16 Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.
1H6 5.6. 17
1H6-SHEPHERD
Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle.
1H6 5.6. 18 God knows thou art a collop of my flesh,
1H6 5.6. 19 And for thy sake have I shed many a tear.
1H6 5.6. 20 Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.
1H6 5.6. 21
1H6-JOAN
Peasant, avaunt! {(To the English)} You have +
1H6 5.6. 21 suborned this man
1H6 5.6. 22 Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.
1H6 5.6. 23
1H6-SHEPHERD
{(to the English)} 'Tis true I gave a +
1H6 5.6. 23 noble to the priest
1H6 5.6. 24 The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
1H6 5.6. 25 {(To Joan)} Kneel down, and take my blessing, good my +
1H6 5.6. 25 girl.
1H6 5.6. 26 Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
1H6 5.6. 27 Of thy nativity. I would the milk
1H6 5.6. 28 Thy mother gave thee when thou sucked'st her breast
1H6 5.6. 29 Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake.
1H6 5.6. 30 Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs afield,
1H6 5.6. 31 I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee.
1H6 5.6. 32 Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?
1H6 5.6. 33 {(To the English)} O burn her, burn her! Hanging is +
1H6 5.6. 33 too good. {Exit}
1H6 5.6. 34
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(to guards)} Take her away, +
1H6 5.6. 34 for she hath lived too long,
1H6 5.6. 35 To fill the world with vicious qualities.
1H6 5.6. 36
1H6-JOAN
First let me tell you whom you have condemned:
1H6 5.6. 37 Not one begotten of a shepherd swain,
1H6 5.6. 38 But issued from the progeny of kings;
1H6 5.6. 39 Virtuous and holy, chosen from above
1H6 5.6. 40 By inspiration of celestial grace
1H6 5.6. 41 To work exceeding miracles on earth.
1H6 5.6. 42 I never had to do with wicked spirits;
1H6 5.6. 43 But you that are polluted with your lusts,
1H6 5.6. 44 Stained with the guiltless blood of innocents,
1H6 5.6. 45 Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices -
1H6 5.6. 46 Because you want the grace that others have,
1H6 5.6. 47 You judge it straight a thing impossible
1H6 5.6. 48 To compass wonders but by help of devils.
1H6 5.6. 49 No, misconceived Joan of Arc hath been
1H6 5.6. 50 A virgin from her tender infancy,
1H6 5.6. 51 Chaste and immaculate in very thought,
1H6 5.6. 52 Whose maiden-blood thus rigorously effused
1H6 5.6. 53 Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.
1H6 5.6. 54
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Ay, ay, {(to guards)} away +
1H6 5.6. 54 with her to execution.
1H6 5.6. 55
1H6-WARWICK
{(to guards)} And hark ye, sirs: because +
1H6 5.6. 55 she is a maid,
1H6 5.6. 56 Spare for no faggots. Let there be enough.
1H6 5.6. 57 Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,
1H6 5.6. 58 That so her torture may be shortened.
1H6 5.6. 59
1H6-JOAN
Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?
1H6 5.6. 60 Then Joan, discover thine infirmity,
1H6 5.6. 61 That warranteth by law to be thy privilege:
1H6 5.6. 62 I am with child, ye bloody homicides.
1H6 5.6. 63 Murder not then the fruit within my womb,
1H6 5.6. 64 Although ye hale me to a violent death.
1H6 5.6. 65
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Now heaven forfend - the holy maid with child?
1H6 5.6. 66
1H6-WARWICK
{(to Joan)} The greatest miracle that e'er +
1H6 5.6. 66 ye wrought.
1H6 5.6. 67 Is all your strict preciseness come to this?
1H6 5.6. 68
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
She and the Dauphin have been ingling.
1H6 5.6. 69 I did imagine what would be her refuge.
1H6 5.6. 70
1H6-WARWICK
Well, go to, we will have no bastards live,
1H6 5.6. 71 Especially since Charles must father it.
1H6 5.6. 72
1H6-JOAN
You are deceived. My child is none of his.
1H6 5.6. 73 It was Alenc@on that enjoyed my love.
1H6 5.6. 74
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Alenc@on, that notorious Machiavel?
1H6 5.6. 75 It dies an if it had a thousand lives.
1H6 5.6. 76
1H6-JOAN
O give me leave, I have deluded you.
1H6 5.6. 77 'Twas neither Charles nor yet the Duke I named,
1H6 5.6. 78 But Rene/ King of Naples that prevailed.
1H6 5.6. 79
1H6-WARWICK
A married man? - That's most intolerable.
1H6 5.6. 80
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Why, here's a girl; I think she knows not +
1H6 5.6. 80 well -
1H6 5.6. 81 There were so many - whom she may accuse.
1H6 5.6. 82
1H6-WARWICK
It's sign she hath been liberal and free.
1H6 5.6. 83
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
And yet forsooth she is a virgin pure!
1H6 5.6. 84 {(To Joan)} Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and +
1H6 5.6. 84 thee.
1H6 5.6. 85 Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.
1H6 5.6. 86
1H6-JOAN
Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse.
1H6 5.6. 87 May never glorious sun reflex his beams
1H6 5.6. 88 Upon the country where you make abode,
1H6 5.6. 89 But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
1H6 5.6. 90 Environ you till mischief and despair
1H6 5.6. 91 Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves. {Enter the +
1H6 5.6. 91 Bishop of Winchester, now Cardinal}
1H6 5.6. 92
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(to Joan)} Break thou in +
1H6 5.6. 92 pieces, and consume to ashes,
1H6 5.6. 93 Thou foul accursed minister of hell. {[Exit Joan, guarded]}
1H6 5.6. 94
1H6-WINCHESTER
Lord Regent, I do greet your excellence
1H6 5.6. 95 With letters of commission from the King.
1H6 5.6. 96 For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,
1H6 5.6. 97 Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,
1H6 5.6. 98 Have earnestly implored a general peace
1H6 5.6. 99 Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French,
1H6 5.6. 100 And here at hand the Dauphin and his train
1H6 5.6. 101 Approacheth to confer about some matter.
1H6 5.6. 102
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Is all our travail turned to this effect?
1H6 5.6. 103 After the slaughter of so many peers,
1H6 5.6. 104 So many captains, gentlemen, and soldiers
1H6 5.6. 105 That in this quarrel have been overthrown
1H6 5.6. 106 And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,
1H6 5.6. 107 Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?
1H6 5.6. 108 Have we not lost most part of all the towns
1H6 5.6. 109 By treason, falsehood, and by treachery,
1H6 5.6. 110 Our great progenitors had conquered?
1H6 5.6. 111 O Warwick, Warwick, I foresee with grief
1H6 5.6. 112 The utter loss of all the realm of France!
1H6 5.6. 113
1H6-WARWICK
Be patient, York. If we conclude a peace
1H6 5.6. 114 It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
1H6 5.6. 115 As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. {Enter Charles the +
1H6 5.6. 115 Dauphin, the Duke of Alenc@on, the Bastard of Orle/ans, and Rene/ Duke +
1H6 5.6. 115 of Anjou}
1H6 5.6. 116
1H6-CHARLES
Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed
1H6 5.6. 117 That peaceful truce shall be proclaimed in France,
1H6 5.6. 118 We come to be informed by yourselves
1H6 5.6. 119 What the conditions of that league must be.
1H6 5.6. 120
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes
1H6 5.6. 121 The hollow passage of my poisoned voice
1H6 5.6. 122 By sight of these our baleful enemies.
1H6 5.6. 123
1H6-WINCHESTER
Charles and the rest, it is enacted thus:
1H6 5.6. 124 That, in regard King Henry gives consent,
1H6 5.6. 125 Of mere compassion and of lenity,
1H6 5.6. 126 To ease your country of distressful war
1H6 5.6. 127 And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,
1H6 5.6. 128 You shall become true liegemen to his crown.
1H6 5.6. 129 And, Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear
1H6 5.6. 130 To pay him tribute and submit thyself,
1H6 5.6. 131 Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,
1H6 5.6. 132 And still enjoy thy regal dignity.
1H6 5.6. 133
1H6-ALENC@ON
Must he be then as shadow of himself? -
1H6 5.6. 134 Adorn his temples with a coronet,
1H6 5.6. 135 And yet in substance and authority
1H6 5.6. 136 Retain but privilege of a private man?
1H6 5.6. 137 This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
1H6 5.6. 138
1H6-CHARLES
'Tis known already that I am possessed
1H6 5.6. 139 With more than half the Gallian territories,
1H6 5.6. 140 And therein reverenced for their lawful king.
1H6 5.6. 141 Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquished,
1H6 5.6. 142 Detract so much from that prerogative
1H6 5.6. 143 As to be called but viceroy of the whole?
1H6 5.6. 144 No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep
1H6 5.6. 145 That which I have than, coveting for more,
1H6 5.6. 146 Be cast from possibility of all.
1H6 5.6. 147
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Insulting Charles, hast thou by secret means
1H6 5.6. 148 Used intercession to obtain a league
1H6 5.6. 149 And, now the matter grows to compromise,
1H6 5.6. 150 Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?
1H6 5.6. 151 Either accept the title thou usurp'st,
1H6 5.6. 152 Of benefit proceeding from our king
1H6 5.6. 153 And not of any challenge of desert,
1H6 5.6. 154 Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.
1H6 5.6. 155
1H6-RENE
{(aside to Charles)} My lord, you do not +
1H6 5.6. 155 well in obstinacy
1H6 5.6. 156 To cavil in the course of this contract.
1H6 5.6. 157 If once it be neglected, ten to one
1H6 5.6. 158 We shall not find like opportunity.
1H6 5.6. 159
1H6-ALENC@ON
{(aside to Charles)} To say the truth, it +
1H6 5.6. 159 is your policy
1H6 5.6. 160 To save your subjects from such massacre
1H6 5.6. 161 And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
1H6 5.6. 162 By our proceeding in hostility;
1H6 5.6. 163 And therefore take this compact of a truce,
1H6 5.6. 164 Although you break it when your pleasure serves.
1H6 5.6. 165
1H6-WARWICK
How sayst thou, Charles? Shall our condition stand?
1H6 5.6. 166A
1H6-CHARLES
It shall,
1H6 5.6. 167 Only reserved you claim no interest
1H6 5.6. 168 In any of our towns of garrison.
1H6 5.6. 169
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Then swear allegiance to his majesty,
1H6 5.6. 170 As thou art knight, never to disobey
1H6 5.6. 171 Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,
1H6 5.6. 172 Thou nor thy nobles, to the crown of England. {[They swear]}
1H6 5.6. 173 So, now dismiss your army when ye please.
1H6 5.6. 174 Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still;
1H6 5.6. 175 For here we entertain a solemn peace. {Exeunt}
1H6 5.6. 0 {Enter the Earl of Suffolk, in conference with King +
1H6 5.7. 0 Henry, and the Dukes of Gloucester and Exeter}
1H6 5.7. 1
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Suffolk)} Your wondrous rare +
1H6 5.7. 1 description, noble Earl,
1H6 5.7. 2 Of beauteous Margaret hath astonished me.
1H6 5.7. 3 Her virtues graced with external gifts
1H6 5.7. 4 Do breed love's settled passions in my heart,
1H6 5.7. 5 And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts
1H6 5.7. 6 Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,
1H6 5.7. 7 So am I driven by breath of her renown
1H6 5.7. 8 Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
1H6 5.7. 9 Where I may have fruition of her love.
1H6 5.7. 10
1H6-SUFFOLK
Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale
1H6 5.7. 11 Is but a preface of her worthy praise.
1H6 5.7. 12 The chief perfections of that lovely dame,
1H6 5.7. 13 Had I sufficient skill to utter them,
1H6 5.7. 14 Would make a volume of enticing lines
1H6 5.7. 15 Able to ravish any dull conceit;
1H6 5.7. 16 And, which is more, she is not so divine,
1H6 5.7. 17 So full replete with choice of all delights,
1H6 5.7. 18 But with as humble lowliness of mind
1H6 5.7. 19 She is content to be at your command -
1H6 5.7. 20 Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,
1H6 5.7. 21 To love and honour Henry as her lord.
1H6 5.7. 22
1H6-KING HENRY
And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume.
1H6 5.7. 23 {(To Gloucester)} Therefore, my lord Protector, give +
1H6 5.7. 23 consent
1H6 5.7. 24 That Marg'ret may be England's royal queen.
1H6 5.7. 25
1H6-GLOUCESTER
So should I give consent to flatter sin.
1H6 5.7. 26 You know, my lord, your highness is betrothed
1H6 5.7. 27 Unto another lady of esteem.
1H6 5.7. 28 How shall we then dispense with that contract
1H6 5.7. 29 And not deface your honour with reproach?
1H6 5.7. 30
1H6-SUFFOLK
As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths,
1H6 5.7. 31 Or one that, at a triumph having vowed
1H6 5.7. 32 To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists
1H6 5.7. 33 By reason of his adversary's odds.
1H6 5.7. 34 A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,
1H6 5.7. 35 And therefore may be broke without offence.
1H6 5.7. 36
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?
1H6 5.7. 37 Her father is no better than an earl,
1H6 5.7. 38 Although in glorious titles he excel.
1H6 5.7. 39
1H6-SUFFOLK
Yes, my lord; her father is a king,
1H6 5.7. 40 The King of Naples and Jerusalem,
1H6 5.7. 41 And of such great authority in France
1H6 5.7. 42 As his alliance will confirm our peace
1H6 5.7. 43 And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.
1H6 5.7. 44
1H6-GLOUCESTER
And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,
1H6 5.7. 45 Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.
1H6 5.7. 46
1H6-EXETER
Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,
1H6 5.7. 47 Where Rene/ sooner will receive than give.
1H6 5.7. 48
1H6-SUFFOLK
A dower, my lords? Disgrace not so your King
1H6 5.7. 49 That he should be so abject, base, and poor
1H6 5.7. 50 To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
1H6 5.7. 51 Henry is able to enrich his queen,
1H6 5.7. 52 And not to seek a queen to make him rich.
1H6 5.7. 53 So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,
1H6 5.7. 54 As market men for oxen, sheep, or horse.
1H6 5.7. 55 Marriage is a matter of more worth
1H6 5.7. 56 Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
1H6 5.7. 57 Not whom {we} will but whom his grace affects
1H6 5.7. 58 Must be companion of his nuptial bed.
1H6 5.7. 59 And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,
1H6 5.7. 60 That most of all these reasons bindeth us:
1H6 5.7. 61 In our opinions she should be preferred.
1H6 5.7. 62 For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
1H6 5.7. 63 An age of discord and continual strife,
1H6 5.7. 64 Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
1H6 5.7. 65 And is a pattern of celestial peace.
1H6 5.7. 66 Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,
1H6 5.7. 67 But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
1H6 5.7. 68 Her peerless feature joined with her birth
1H6 5.7. 69 Approves her fit for none but for a king.
1H6 5.7. 70 Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
1H6 5.7. 71 More than in women commonly is seen,
1H6 5.7. 72 Will answer our hope in issue of a king.
1H6 5.7. 73 For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
1H6 5.7. 74 Is likely to beget more conquerors
1H6 5.7. 75 If with a lady of so high resolve
1H6 5.7. 76 As is fair Margaret he be linked in love.
1H6 5.7. 77 Then yield, my lords, and here conclude with me:
1H6 5.7. 78 That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.
1H6 5.7. 79
1H6-KING HENRY
Whether it be through force of your report,
1H6 5.7. 80 My noble lord of Suffolk, or for that
1H6 5.7. 81 My tender youth was never yet attaint
1H6 5.7. 82 With any passion of inflaming love,
1H6 5.7. 83 I cannot tell; but this I am assured:
1H6 5.7. 84 I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
1H6 5.7. 85 Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
1H6 5.7. 86 As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
1H6 5.7. 87 Take therefore shipping; post, my lord, to France;
1H6 5.7. 88 Agree to any covenants, and procure
1H6 5.7. 89 That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
1H6 5.7. 90 To cross the seas to England and be crowned
1H6 5.7. 91 King Henry's faithful and anointed queen.
1H6 5.7. 92 For your expenses and sufficient charge,
1H6 5.7. 93 Among the people gather up a tenth.
1H6 5.7. 94 Be gone, I say; for till you do return
1H6 5.7. 95 I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
1H6 5.7. 96 {(To Gloucester)} And you, good uncle, banish all +
1H6 5.7. 96 offence.
1H6 5.7. 97 If you do censure me by what you were,
1H6 5.7. 98 Not what you are, I know it will excuse
1H6 5.7. 99 This sudden execution of my will.
1H6 5.7. 100 And so conduct me where from company
1H6 5.7. 101 I may revolve and ruminate my grief. {Exit [with Exeter]}
1H6 5.7. 102
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and +
1H6 5.7. 102 last. {Exit}
1H6 5.7. 103
1H6-SUFFOLK
Thus Suffolk hath prevailed, and thus he goes
1H6 5.7. 104 As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
1H6 5.7. 105 With hope to find the like event in love,
1H6 5.7. 106 But prosper better than the Trojan did.
1H6 5.7. 107 Margaret shall now be queen and rule the King;
1H6 5.7. 108 But I will rule both her, the King, and realm. {Exit}
1H6 5.7.
1H6
0
2H4 . . 0 The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
2H4 . . 0 {Enter Rumour [in a robe] painted full of +
2H4 .In. 0 tongues}
2H4 .In. 1
2H4-RUMOUR
Open your ears; for which of you will stop
2H4 .In. 2 The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
2H4 .In. 3 I from the orient to the drooping west,
2H4 .In. 4 Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
2H4 .In. 5 The acts commenced on this ball of earth.
2H4 .In. 6 Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
2H4 .In. 7 The which in every language I pronounce,
2H4 .In. 8 Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
2H4 .In. 9 I speak of peace, while covert enmity
2H4 .In. 10 Under the smile of safety wounds the world;
2H4 .In. 11 And who but Rumour, who but only I,
2H4 .In. 12 Make fearful musters and prepared defence
2H4 .In. 13 Whiles the big year, swoll'n with some other griefs,
2H4 .In. 14 Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,
2H4 .In. 15 And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
2H4 .In. 16 Blown by surmises, Jealousy's conjectures,
2H4 .In. 17 And of so easy and so plain a stop
2H4 .In. 18 That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
2H4 .In. 19 The still-discordant wav'ring multitude,
2H4 .In. 20 Can play upon it. But what need I thus
2H4 .In. 21 My well-known body to anatomize
2H4 .In. 22 Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
2H4 .In. 23 I run before King Harry's victory,
2H4 .In. 24 Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury
2H4 .In. 25 Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,
2H4 .In. 26 Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
2H4 .In. 27 Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I
2H4 .In. 28 To speak so true at first? My office is
2H4 .In. 29 To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
2H4 .In. 30 Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,
2H4 .In. 31 And that the King before the Douglas' rage
2H4 .In. 32 Stooped his anointed head as low as death.
2H4 .In. 33 This have I rumoured through the peasant towns
2H4 .In. 34 Between that royal field of Shrewsbury
2H4 .In. 35 And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,
2H4 .In. 36 Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,
2H4 .In. 37 Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,
2H4 .In. 38 And not a man of them brings other news
2H4 .In. 39 Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour's tongues
2H4 .In. 40 They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. {Exit}
2H4 .In. 0 {Enter Lord Bardolph at one door. [He crosses the +
2H4 1.1. 0 stage to another door]}
2H4 1.1. 1B
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Who keeps the gate here, ho? {Enter +
2H4 1.1. 1B Porter [above]} Where is the Earl?
2H4 1.1. 2B
2H4-PORTER
What shall I say you are?
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Tell thou the +
2H4 1.1. 2B Earl
2H4 1.1. 3 That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.
2H4 1.1. 4
2H4-PORTER
His lordship is walked forth into the orchard.
2H4 1.1. 5 Please it your honour knock but at the gate,
2H4 1.1. 6B And he himself will answer. {Enter the Earl Northumberland [at +
2H4 1.1. 6B the other door], as sick, with a crutch and coif}
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
+
2H4 1.1. 6B Here comes the Earl. {[Exit Porter]}
2H4 1.1. 7
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
What news, Lord Bardolph? Every minute now
2H4 1.1. 8 Should be the father of some stratagem.
2H4 1.1. 9 The times are wild; contention, like a horse
2H4 1.1. 10 Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
2H4 1.1. 11B And bears down all before him.
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Noble Earl,
2H4 1.1. 12 I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.1. 13B
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Good, an God will.
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
As good as heart +
2H4 1.1. 13B can wish.
2H4 1.1. 14 The King is almost wounded to the death;
2H4 1.1. 15 And, in the fortune of my lord your son,
2H4 1.1. 16 Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts
2H4 1.1. 17 Killed by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John
2H4 1.1. 18 And Westmorland and Stafford fled the field;
2H4 1.1. 19 And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John,
2H4 1.1. 20 Is prisoner to your son. O, such a day,
2H4 1.1. 21 So fought, so followed, and so fairly won,
2H4 1.1. 22 Came not till now to dignify the times
2H4 1.1. 23B Since Caesar's fortunes!
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
How is this derived?
2H4 1.1. 24 Saw you the field? Came you from Shrewsbury?
2H4 1.1. 25
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence,
2H4 1.1. 26 A gentleman well bred and of good name,
2H4 1.1. 27 That freely rendered me these news for true. {Enter Travers}
2H4 1.1. 28
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Here comes my servant Travers, who I sent
2H4 1.1. 29 On Tuesday last to listen after news.
2H4 1.1. 30
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
My lord, I overrode him on the way,
2H4 1.1. 31 And he is furnished with no certainties
2H4 1.1. 32 More than he haply may retail from me.
2H4 1.1. 33
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?
2H4 1.1. 34
2H4-TRAVERS
My lord, Lord Bardolph turned me back
2H4 1.1. 35 With joyful tidings, and being better horsed
2H4 1.1. 36 Outrode me. After him came spurring hard
2H4 1.1. 37 A gentleman almost forspent with speed,
2H4 1.1. 38 That stopped by me to breathe his bloodied horse.
2H4 1.1. 39 He asked the way to Chester, and of him
2H4 1.1. 40 I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.1. 41 He told me that rebellion had ill luck,
2H4 1.1. 42 And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold.
2H4 1.1. 43 With that he gave his able horse the head,
2H4 1.1. 44 And, bending forward, struck his armed heels
2H4 1.1. 45 Against the panting sides of his poor jade
2H4 1.1. 46 Up to the rowel-head; and starting so,
2H4 1.1. 47 He seemed in running to devour the way,
2H4 1.1. 48B Staying no longer question.
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Ha? Again:
2H4 1.1. 49 Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?
2H4 1.1. 50 Of Hotspur, `Coldspur'? that rebellion
2H4 1.1. 51B Had met ill luck?
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
My lord, I'll tell you what:
2H4 1.1. 52 If my young lord your son have not the day,
2H4 1.1. 53 Upon mine honour, for a silken point
2H4 1.1. 54 I'll give my barony. Never talk of it.
2H4 1.1. 55
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Why should the gentleman that rode by Travers
2H4 1.1. 56B Give then such instances of loss?
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Who, he?
2H4 1.1. 57 He was some hilding fellow that had stol'n
2H4 1.1. 58 The horse he rode on, and, upon my life,
2H4 1.1. 59B Spoke at a venture. {Enter Morton} Look, here comes +
2H4 1.1. 59B more news.
2H4 1.1. 60
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yea, this man's brow, like to a title leaf,
2H4 1.1. 61 Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.
2H4 1.1. 62 So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood
2H4 1.1. 63 Hath left a witnessed usurpation.
2H4 1.1. 64 Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?
2H4 1.1. 65
2H4-MORTON
I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord,
2H4 1.1. 66 Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask
2H4 1.1. 67B To fright our party.
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
How doth my son and brother?
2H4 1.1. 68 Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek
2H4 1.1. 69 Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
2H4 1.1. 70 Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
2H4 1.1. 71 So dull, so dead in look, so woebegone,
2H4 1.1. 72 Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
2H4 1.1. 73 And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;
2H4 1.1. 74 But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,
2H4 1.1. 75 And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.
2H4 1.1. 76 This thou wouldst say: `Your son did thus and thus,
2H4 1.1. 77 Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas',
2H4 1.1. 78 Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds;
2H4 1.1. 79 But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,
2H4 1.1. 80 Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,
2H4 1.1. 81 Ending with `Brother, son, and all are dead.'
2H4 1.1. 82
2H4-MORTON
Douglas is living, and your brother yet;
2H4 1.1. 83B But for my lord your son -
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Why, he is dead.
2H4 1.1. 84 See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
2H4 1.1. 85 He that but fears the thing he would not know
2H4 1.1. 86 Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes
2H4 1.1. 87 That what he feared is chanced. Yet speak, Morton.
2H4 1.1. 88 Tell thou an earl his divination lies,
2H4 1.1. 89 And I will take it as a sweet disgrace,
2H4 1.1. 90 And make thee rich for doing me such wrong.
2H4 1.1. 91
2H4-MORTON
You are too great to be by me gainsaid,
2H4 1.1. 92 Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
2H4 1.1. 93
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yet for all this, say not that Percy's dead.
2H4 1.1. 94 I see a strange confession in thine eye -
2H4 1.1. 95 Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it fear or sin
2H4 1.1. 96 To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so.
2H4 1.1. 97 The tongue offends not that reports his death;
2H4 1.1. 98 And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,
2H4 1.1. 99 Not he which says the dead is not alive.
2H4 1.1. 100 Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
2H4 1.1. 101 Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
2H4 1.1. 102 Sounds ever after as a sullen bell
2H4 1.1. 103 Remembered knolling a departing friend.
2H4 1.1. 104
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead.
2H4 1.1. 105
2H4-MORTON
{(to Northumberland)} I am sorry I should +
2H4 1.1. 105 force you to believe
2H4 1.1. 106 That which I would to God I had not seen;
2H4 1.1. 107 But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,
2H4 1.1. 108 Rend'ring faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed,
2H4 1.1. 109 To Harry Monmouth, whose swift wrath beat down
2H4 1.1. 110 The never-daunted Percy to the earth,
2H4 1.1. 111 From whence with life he never more sprung up.
2H4 1.1. 112 In few, his death, whose spirit lent a fire
2H4 1.1. 113 Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,
2H4 1.1. 114 Being bruited once, took fire and heat away
2H4 1.1. 115 From the best-tempered courage in his troops;
2H4 1.1. 116 For from his metal was his party steeled,
2H4 1.1. 117 Which once in him abated, all the rest
2H4 1.1. 118 Turned on themselves, like dull and heavy lead;
2H4 1.1. 119 And, as the thing that's heavy in itself
2H4 1.1. 120 Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,
2H4 1.1. 121 So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss,
2H4 1.1. 122 Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear
2H4 1.1. 123 That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim
2H4 1.1. 124 Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,
2H4 1.1. 125 Fly from the field. Then was that noble Worcester
2H4 1.1. 126 Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot
2H4 1.1. 127 The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword
2H4 1.1. 128 Had three times slain th' appearance of the King,
2H4 1.1. 129 Gan vail his stomach, and did grace the shame
2H4 1.1. 130 Of those that turned their backs, and in his flight,
2H4 1.1. 131 Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all
2H4 1.1. 132 Is that the King hath won, and hath sent out
2H4 1.1. 133 A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,
2H4 1.1. 134 Under the conduct of young Lancaster
2H4 1.1. 135 And Westmorland. This is the news at full.
2H4 1.1. 136
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
For this I shall have time enough to mourn.
2H4 1.1. 137 In poison there is physic; and these news,
2H4 1.1. 138 Having been well, that would have made me sick,
2H4 1.1. 139 Being sick, have in some measure made me well;
2H4 1.1. 140 And, as the wretch whose fever-weakened joints,
2H4 1.1. 141 Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,
2H4 1.1. 142 Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire
2H4 1.1. 143 Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs,
2H4 1.1. 144 Weakened with grief, being now enraged with grief,
2H4 1.1. 145B Are thrice themselves. {[He casts away his crutch]} +
2H4 1.1. 145B Hence therefore, thou nice crutch!
2H4 1.1. 146 A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel
2H4 1.1. 147B Must glove this hand. {[He snatches off his coif]} And +
2H4 1.1. 147B hence, thou sickly coif!
2H4 1.1. 148 Thou art a guard too wanton for the head
2H4 1.1. 149 Which princes fleshed with conquest aim to hit.
2H4 1.1. 150 Now bind my brows with iron, and approach
2H4 1.1. 151 The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring
2H4 1.1. 152 To frown upon th' enraged Northumberland!
2H4 1.1. 153 Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not nature's hand
2H4 1.1. 154 Keep the wild flood confined! Let order die!
2H4 1.1. 155 And let this world no longer be a stage
2H4 1.1. 156 To feed contention in a ling'ring act;
2H4 1.1. 157 But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
2H4 1.1. 158 Reign in all bosoms, that each heart being set
2H4 1.1. 159 On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,
2H4 1.1. 160 And darkness be the burier of the dead!
2H4 1.1. 161
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Sweet Earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.
2H4 1.1. 162
2H4-MORTON
The lives of all your loving complices
2H4 1.1. 163 Lean on your health, the which, if you give o'er
2H4 1.1. 164 To stormy passion, must perforce decay.
2H4 1.1. 165 You cast th' event of war, my noble lord,
2H4 1.1. 166 And summed the account of chance, before you said
2H4 1.1. 167 `Let us make head'. It was your presurmise
2H4 1.1. 168 That in the dole of blows your son might drop.
2H4 1.1. 169 You knew he walked o'er perils on an edge,
2H4 1.1. 170 More likely to fall in than to get o'er.
2H4 1.1. 171 You were advised his flesh was capable
2H4 1.1. 172 Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit
2H4 1.1. 173 Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged.
2H4 1.1. 174 Yet did you say, `Go forth'; and none of this,
2H4 1.1. 175 Though strongly apprehended, could restrain
2H4 1.1. 176 The stiff-borne action. What hath then befall'n?
2H4 1.1. 177 Or what doth this bold enterprise bring forth,
2H4 1.1. 178 More than that being which was like to be?
2H4 1.1. 179
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
We all that are engaged to this loss
2H4 1.1. 180 Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas
2H4 1.1. 181 That if we wrought out life was ten to one;
2H4 1.1. 182 And yet we ventured for the gain proposed,
2H4 1.1. 183 Choked the respect of likely peril feared;
2H4 1.1. 184 And since we are o'erset, venture again.
2H4 1.1. 185 Come, we will all put forth body and goods.
2H4 1.1. 186
2H4-MORTON
'Tis more than time; and, my most noble lord,
2H4 1.1. 187 I hear for certain, and dare speak the truth,
2H4 1.1. 188 The gentle Archbishop of York is up
2H4 1.1. 189 With well-appointed powers. He is a man
2H4 1.1. 190 Who with a double surety binds his followers.
2H4 1.1. 191 My lord, your son had only but the corpse,
2H4 1.1. 192 But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;
2H4 1.1. 193 For that same word `rebellion' did divide
2H4 1.1. 194 The action of their bodies from their souls,
2H4 1.1. 195 And they did fight with queasiness, constrained,
2H4 1.1. 196 As men drink potions, that their weapons only
2H4 1.1. 197 Seemed on our side; but, for their spirits and souls,
2H4 1.1. 198 This word `rebellion', it had froze them up,
2H4 1.1. 199 As fish are in a pond. But now the Bishop
2H4 1.1. 200 Turns insurrection to religion.
2H4 1.1. 201 Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts,
2H4 1.1. 202 He's followed both with body and with mind,
2H4 1.1. 203 And doth enlarge his rising with the blood
2H4 1.1. 204 Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones;
2H4 1.1. 205 Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;
2H4 1.1. 206 Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land
2H4 1.1. 207 Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;
2H4 1.1. 208 And more and less do flock to follow him.
2H4 1.1. 209
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
I knew of this before, but, to speak truth,
2H4 1.1. 210 This present grief had wiped it from my mind.
2H4 1.1. 211 Go in with me, and counsel every man
2H4 1.1. 212 The aptest way for safety and revenge.
2H4 1.1. 213 Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed.
2H4 1.1. 214 Never so few, and never yet more need. {Exeunt}
2H4 1.1. 0 {Enter Sir John Falstaff, [followed by] his Page bearing +
2H4 1.2. 0 his sword and buckler}
2H4 1.2. 1
2H4-SIR JOHN
Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my
2H4 1.2. 2 water?
2H4 1.2. 3
2H4-PAGE
He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy
2H4 1.2. 4 water, but, for the party that owed it, he might have
2H4 1.2. 5 more diseases than he knew for.
2H4 1.2. 6
2H4-SIR JOHN
Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The
2H4 1.2. 7 brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able
2H4 1.2. 8 to invent anything that tends to laughter more than I
2H4 1.2. 9 invent, or is invented on me. I am not only witty in
2H4 1.2. 10 myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do
2H4 1.2. 11 here walk before thee like a sow that hath o'erwhelmed
2H4 1.2. 12 all her litter but one. If the Prince put thee into my
2H4 1.2. 13 service for any other reason than to set me off, why
2H4 1.2. 14 then, I have no judgement. Thou whoreson mandrake,
2H4 1.2. 15 thou art fitter to be worn in my cap than to wait at
2H4 1.2. 16 my heels. I was never manned with an agate till now;
2H4 1.2. 17 but I will set you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile
2H4 1.2. 18 apparel, and send you back again to your master for
2H4 1.2. 19 a jewel - the juvenal the Prince your master, whose
2H4 1.2. 20 chin is not yet fledge. I will sooner have a beard grow
2H4 1.2. 21 in the palm of my hand than he shall get one off his
2H4 1.2. 22 cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face is a
2H4 1.2. 23 face-royal. God may finish it when he will; 'tis not a
2H4 1.2. 24 hair amiss yet. He may keep it still at a face-royal, for
2H4 1.2. 25 a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it. And yet
2H4 1.2. 26 he'll be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his
2H4 1.2. 27 father was a bachelor. He may keep his own grace, but
2H4 1.2. 28 he's almost out of mine, I can assure him. What said
2H4 1.2. 29 Master Dumbleton about the satin for my short cloak
2H4 1.2. 30 and slops?
2H4 1.2. 31
2H4-PAGE
He said, sir, you should procure him better
2H4 1.2. 32 assurance than Bardolph. He would not take his bond
2H4 1.2. 33 and yours; he liked not the security.
2H4 1.2. 34
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let him be damned like the glutton! Pray God
2H4 1.2. 35 his tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achitophel, a rascally
2H4 1.2. 36 yea-forsooth knave, to bear a gentleman in hand and
2H4 1.2. 37 then stand upon security! The whoreson smooth-pates
2H4 1.2. 38 do now wear nothing but high shoes and bunches of
2H4 1.2. 39 keys at their girdles; and if a man is through with
2H4 1.2. 40 them in honest taking-up, then they must stand upon
2H4 1.2. 41 security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my
2H4 1.2. 42 mouth as offer to stop it with security. I looked a should
2H4 1.2. 43 have sent me two-and-twenty yards of satin, as I am
2H4 1.2. 44 a true knight, and he sends me `security'! Well, he
2H4 1.2. 45 may sleep in security, for he hath the horn of
2H4 1.2. 46 abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through
2H4 1.2. 47 it; and yet cannot he see, though he have his own
2H4 1.2. 48 lanthorn to light him. Where's Bardolph?
2H4 1.2. 49
2H4-PAGE
He's gone in Smithfield to buy your worship a
2H4 1.2. 50 horse.
2H4 1.2. 51
2H4-SIR JOHN
I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse
2H4 1.2. 52 in Smithfield. An I could get me but a wife in the stews,
2H4 1.2. 53 I were manned, horsed, and wived. {Enter the Lord Chief Justice +
2H4 1.2. 53 and his Servant}
2H4 1.2. 54
2H4-PAGE
Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the
2H4 1.2. 55 Prince for striking him about Bardolph.
2H4 1.2. 56
2H4-SIR JOHN
{[moving away]} Wait close; I will not +
2H4 1.2. 56 see him.
2H4 1.2. 57
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to his Servant)} What's he +
2H4 1.2. 57 that goes
2H4 1.2. 58 there?
2H4 1.2. 59
2H4-SERVANT
Falstaff, an 't please your lordship.
2H4 1.2. 60
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
He that was in question for the
2H4 1.2. 61 robbery?
2H4 1.2. 62
2H4-SERVANT
He, my lord; but he hath since done good service
2H4 1.2. 63 at Shrewsbury, and, as I hear, is now going with some
2H4 1.2. 64 charge to the Lord John of Lancaster.
2H4 1.2. 65
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What, to York? Call him back again.
2H4 1.2. 66
2H4-SERVANT
Sir John Falstaff!
2H4 1.2. 67
2H4-SIR JOHN
Boy, tell him I am deaf.
2H4 1.2. 68
2H4-PAGE
{(to the Servant)} You must speak louder; my +
2H4 1.2. 68 master
2H4 1.2. 69 is deaf.
2H4 1.2. 70
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I am sure he is to the hearing of
2H4 1.2. 71 anything good. {(To the Servant)} Go pluck him by the
2H4 1.2. 72 elbow; I must speak with him.
2H4 1.2. 73
2H4-SERVANT
Sir John!
2H4 1.2. 74
2H4-SIR JOHN
What, a young knave and begging! Is there not
2H4 1.2. 75 wars? Is there not employment? Doth not the King
2H4 1.2. 76 lack subjects? Do not the rebels want soldiers? Though
2H4 1.2. 77 it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse
2H4 1.2. 78 shame to beg than to be on the worst side, were it
2H4 1.2. 79 worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make
2H4 1.2. 80 it.
2H4 1.2. 81
2H4-SERVANT
You mistake me, sir.
2H4 1.2. 82
2H4-SIR JOHN
Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man?
2H4 1.2. 83 Setting my knighthood and my soldiership aside, I had
2H4 1.2. 84 lied in my throat if I had said so.
2H4 1.2. 85
2H4-SERVANT
I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and
2H4 1.2. 86 your soldiership aside, and give me leave to tell you
2H4 1.2. 87 you lie in your throat if you say I am any other than
2H4 1.2. 88 an honest man.
2H4 1.2. 89
2H4-SIR JOHN
I give thee leave to tell me so? I lay aside that
2H4 1.2. 90 which grows to me? If thou gettest any leave of me,
2H4 1.2. 91 hang me. If thou takest leave, thou wert better be
2H4 1.2. 92 hanged. You hunt counter. Hence, avaunt!
2H4 1.2. 93
2H4-SERVANT
Sir, my lord would speak with you.
2H4 1.2. 94
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John Falstaff, a word with you.
2H4 1.2. 95
2H4-SIR JOHN
My good lord! God give your lordship good time
2H4 1.2. 96 of day. I am glad to see your lordship abroad. I heard
2H4 1.2. 97 say your lordship was sick. I hope your lordship goes
2H4 1.2. 98 abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not clean past
2H4 1.2. 99 your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some
2H4 1.2. 100 relish of the saltness of time in you; and I most humbly
2H4 1.2. 101 beseech your lordship to have a reverent care of your
2H4 1.2. 102 health.
2H4 1.2. 103
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, I sent for you before your
2H4 1.2. 104 expedition to Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.2. 105
2H4-SIR JOHN
An 't please your lordship, I hear his majesty is
2H4 1.2. 106 returned with some discomfort from Wales.
2H4 1.2. 107
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I talk not of his majesty. You would
2H4 1.2. 108 not come when I sent for you.
2H4 1.2. 109
2H4-SIR JOHN
And I hear, moreover, his highness is fallen into
2H4 1.2. 110 this same whoreson apoplexy.
2H4 1.2. 111
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, God mend him! I pray you, let
2H4 1.2. 112 me speak with you.
2H4 1.2. 113
2H4-SIR JOHN
This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy,
2H4 1.2. 114 an 't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the
2H4 1.2. 115 blood, a whoreson tingling.
2H4 1.2. 116
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What tell you me of it? Be it as it is.
2H4 1.2. 117
2H4-SIR JOHN
It hath it original from much grief, from study,
2H4 1.2. 118 and perturbation of the brain. I have read the cause of
2H4 1.2. 119 his effects in Galen. It is a kind of deafness.
2H4 1.2. 120
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I think you are fallen into the disease,
2H4 1.2. 121 for you hear not what I say to you.
2H4 1.2. 122
2H4-SIR JOHN
Very well, my lord, very well. Rather, an 't please
2H4 1.2. 123 you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady of not
2H4 1.2. 124 marking, that I am troubled withal.
2H4 1.2. 125
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
To punish you by the heels would
2H4 1.2. 126 amend the attention of your ears, and I care not if I
2H4 1.2. 127 do become your physician.
2H4 1.2. 128
2H4-SIR JOHN
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
2H4 1.2. 129 Your lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment
2H4 1.2. 130 to me in respect of poverty; but how I should be your
2H4 1.2. 131 patient to follow your prescriptions, the wise may make
2H4 1.2. 132 some dram of a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself.
2H4 1.2. 133
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I sent for you, when there were matters
2H4 1.2. 134 against you for your life, to come speak with me.
2H4 1.2. 135
2H4-SIR JOHN
As I was then advised by my learned counsel
2H4 1.2. 136 in the laws of this land-service, I did not come.
2H4 1.2. 137
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live
2H4 1.2. 138 in great infamy.
2H4 1.2. 139
2H4-SIR JOHN
He that buckles himself in my belt cannot live
2H4 1.2. 140 in less.
2H4 1.2. 141
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Your means are very slender, and
2H4 1.2. 142 your waste is great.
2H4 1.2. 143
2H4-SIR JOHN
I would it were otherwise; I would my means
2H4 1.2. 144 were greater and my waist slenderer.
2H4 1.2. 145
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
You have misled the youthful Prince.
2H4 1.2. 146
2H4-SIR JOHN
The young Prince hath misled me. I am the
2H4 1.2. 147 fellow with the great belly, and he my dog.
2H4 1.2. 148
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed
2H4 1.2. 149 wound. Your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little
2H4 1.2. 150 gilded over your night's exploit on Gads Hill. You may
2H4 1.2. 151 thank th' unquiet time for your quiet o'erposting that
2H4 1.2. 152 action.
2H4 1.2. 153
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord -
2H4 1.2. 154
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
But since all is well, keep it so. Wake
2H4 1.2. 155 not a sleeping wolf.
2H4 1.2. 156
2H4-SIR JOHN
To wake a wolf is as bad as smell a fox.
2H4 1.2. 157
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What! You are as a candle, the better
2H4 1.2. 158 part burnt out.
2H4 1.2. 159
2H4-SIR JOHN
A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow - if I did
2H4 1.2. 160 say of wax, my growth would approve the truth.
2H4 1.2. 161
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
There is not a white hair in your face
2H4 1.2. 162 but should have his effect of gravity.
2H4 1.2. 163
2H4-SIR JOHN
His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy.
2H4 1.2. 164
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
You follow the young Prince up and
2H4 1.2. 165 down like his ill angel.
2H4 1.2. 166
2H4-SIR JOHN
Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light, but I
2H4 1.2. 167 hope he that looks upon me will take me without
2H4 1.2. 168 weighing. And yet in some respects, I grant, I cannot
2H4 1.2. 169 go. I cannot tell, virtue is of so little regard in these
2H4 1.2. 170 costermongers' times that true valour is turned
2H4 1.2. 171 bearherd; pregnancy is made a tapster, and his quick
2H4 1.2. 172 wit wasted in giving reckonings; all the other gifts
2H4 1.2. 173 appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes
2H4 1.2. 174 them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are old
2H4 1.2. 175 consider not the capacities of us that are young. You
2H4 1.2. 176 do measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness
2H4 1.2. 177 of your galls. And we that are in the vanguard of our
2H4 1.2. 178 youth, I must confess, are wags too.
2H4 1.2. 179
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Do you set down your name in the
2H4 1.2. 180 scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the
2H4 1.2. 181 characters of age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry
2H4 1.2. 182 hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg,
2H4 1.2. 183 an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your
2H4 1.2. 184 wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and
2H4 1.2. 185 every part about you blasted with antiquity? And will
2H4 1.2. 186 you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!
2H4 1.2. 187
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, I was born about three of the clock in
2H4 1.2. 188 the afternoon with a white head, and something a
2H4 1.2. 189 round belly. For my voice, I have lost it with hallowing
2H4 1.2. 190 and singing of anthems. To approve my youth further,
2H4 1.2. 191 I will not. The truth is, I am only old in judgement
2H4 1.2. 192 and understanding; and he that will caper with me for
2H4 1.2. 193 a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and
2H4 1.2. 194 have at him! For the box of th' ear that the Prince gave
2H4 1.2. 195 you, he gave it like a rude prince, and you took it like
2H4 1.2. 196 a sensible lord. I have checked him for it, and the
2H4 1.2. 197 young lion repents - {[aside]} marry, not in ashes and
2H4 1.2. 198 sackcloth,
2H4 1.2. 199 but in new silk and old sack.
2H4 1.2. 200
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, God send the Prince a better
2H4 1.2. 201 companion!
2H4 1.2. 202
2H4-SIR JOHN
God send the companion a better prince! I
2H4 1.2. 203 cannot rid my hands of him.
2H4 1.2. 204
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, the King hath severed you and
2H4 1.2. 205 Prince Harry. I hear you are going with Lord John of
2H4 1.2. 206 Lancaster against the Archbishop and the Earl of
2H4 1.2. 207 Northumberland.
2H4 1.2. 208
2H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But
2H4 1.2. 209 look you pray, all you that kiss my lady Peace at home,
2H4 1.2. 210 that our armies join not in a hot day; for, by the Lord,
2H4 1.2. 211 I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean not to
2H4 1.2. 212 sweat extraordinarily. If it be a hot day and I brandish
2H4 1.2. 213 anything but my bottle, would I might never spit white
2H4 1.2. 214 again. There is not a dangerous action can peep out
2H4 1.2. 215 his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I cannot last
2H4 1.2. 216 ever. But it was alway yet the trick of our English
2H4 1.2. 217 nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too
2H4 1.2. 218 common. If ye will needs say I am an old man, you
2H4 1.2. 219 should give me rest. I would to God my name were not
2H4 1.2. 220 so terrible to the enemy as it is. I were better to be
2H4 1.2. 221 eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing
2H4 1.2. 222 with perpetual motion.
2H4 1.2. 223
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, be honest, be honest, and God
2H4 1.2. 224 bless your expedition.
2H4 1.2. 225
2H4-SIR JOHN
Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound
2H4 1.2. 226 to furnish me forth?
2H4 1.2. 227
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Not a penny, not a penny. You are
2H4 1.2. 228 too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend
2H4 1.2. 229 me to my cousin Westmorland. {Exeunt Lord Chief Justice and his +
2H4 1.2. 229 Servant}
2H4 1.2. 230
2H4-SIR JOHN
If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A +
2H4 1.2. 230 man
2H4 1.2. 231 can no more separate age and covetousness than a can
2H4 1.2. 232 part young limbs and lechery; but the gout galls the
2H4 1.2. 233 one and the pox pinches the other, and so both the
2H4 1.2. 234 degrees prevent my curses. Boy!
2H4 1.2. 235
2H4-PAGE
Sir.
2H4 1.2. 236
2H4-SIR JOHN
What money is in my purse?
2H4 1.2. 237
2H4-PAGE
Seven groats and two pence.
2H4 1.2. 238
2H4-SIR JOHN
I can get no remedy against this consumption
2H4 1.2. 239 of the purse. Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out,
2H4 1.2. 240 but the disease is incurable. {(Giving letters)} Go +
2H4 1.2. 240 bear this
2H4 1.2. 241 letter to my lord of Lancaster; this to the Prince; this
2H4 1.2. 242 to the Earl of Westmorland; and this to old Mistress
2H4 1.2. 243 Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry since I
2H4 1.2. 244 perceived the first white hair of my chin. About it. You
2H4 1.2. 245 know where to find me. {[Exit Page]}
2H4 1.2. 246 A pox of this gout! - or a gout of this pox! - for the
2H4 1.2. 247 one or the other plays the rogue with my great toe.
2H4 1.2. 248 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my
2H4 1.2. 249 colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable.
2H4 1.2. 250 A good wit will make use of anything. I will turn
2H4 1.2. 251 diseases to commodity. {Exit}
2H4 1.2. 0 {Enter the Archbishop of York, Thomas Mowbray the Earl +
2H4 1.3. 0 Marshal, Lord Hastings, and Lord Bardolph}
2H4 1.3. 1
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Thus have you heard our cause and +
2H4 1.3. 1 known our means,
2H4 1.3. 2 And, my most noble friends, I pray you all
2H4 1.3. 3 Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes.
2H4 1.3. 4 And first, Lord Marshal, what say you to it?
2H4 1.3. 5
2H4-MOWBRAY
I well allow the occasion of our arms,
2H4 1.3. 6 But gladly would be better satisfied
2H4 1.3. 7 How in our means we should advance ourselves
2H4 1.3. 8 To look with forehead bold and big enough
2H4 1.3. 9 Upon the power and puissance of the King.
2H4 1.3. 10
2H4-HASTINGS
Our present musters grow upon the file
2H4 1.3. 11 To five-and-twenty thousand men of choice,
2H4 1.3. 12 And our supplies live largely in the hope
2H4 1.3. 13 Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns
2H4 1.3. 14 With an incensed fire of injuries.
2H4 1.3. 15
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus:
2H4 1.3. 16 Whether our present five-and-twenty thousand
2H4 1.3. 17 May hold up head without Northumberland.
2H4 1.3. 18B
2H4-HASTINGS
With him we may.
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Yea, marry, there's the +
2H4 1.3. 18B point;
2H4 1.3. 19 But if without him we be thought too feeble,
2H4 1.3. 20 My judgement is, we should not step too far
2H4 1.3. 21 Till we had his assistance by the hand;
2H4 1.3. 22 For in a theme so bloody-faced as this,
2H4 1.3. 23 Conjecture, expectation, and surmise
2H4 1.3. 24 Of aids uncertain should not be admitted.
2H4 1.3. 25
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph, for indeed
2H4 1.3. 26 It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.3. 27
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,
2H4 1.3. 28 Eating the air on promise of supply,
2H4 1.3. 29 Flatt'ring himself with project of a power
2H4 1.3. 30 Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts;
2H4 1.3. 31 And so, with great imagination
2H4 1.3. 32 Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
2H4 1.3. 33 And winking leapt into destruction.
2H4 1.3. 34
2H4-HASTINGS
But by your leave, it never yet did hurt
2H4 1.3. 35 To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.
2H4 1.3. 36
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Yes, if this present quality of war -
2H4 1.3. 37 Indeed the instant action, a cause on foot -
2H4 1.3. 38 Lives so in hope; as in an early spring
2H4 1.3. 39 We see th' appearing buds, which to prove fruit
2H4 1.3. 40 Hope gives not so much warrant as despair
2H4 1.3. 41 That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build
2H4 1.3. 42 We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
2H4 1.3. 43 And when we see the figure of the house,
2H4 1.3. 44 Then must we rate the cost of the erection,
2H4 1.3. 45 Which if we find outweighs ability,
2H4 1.3. 46 What do we then but draw anew the model
2H4 1.3. 47 In fewer offices, or, at least, desist
2H4 1.3. 48 To build at all? Much more in this great work -
2H4 1.3. 49 Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down
2H4 1.3. 50 And set another up - should we survey
2H4 1.3. 51 The plot of situation and the model,
2H4 1.3. 52 Consent upon a sure foundation,
2H4 1.3. 53 Question surveyors, know our own estate,
2H4 1.3. 54 How able such a work to undergo,
2H4 1.3. 55 To weigh against his opposite; or else
2H4 1.3. 56 We fortify in paper and in figures,
2H4 1.3. 57 Using the names of men instead of men,
2H4 1.3. 58 Like one that draws the model of an house
2H4 1.3. 59 Beyond his power to build it, who, half-through,
2H4 1.3. 60 Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost
2H4 1.3. 61 A naked subject to the weeping clouds,
2H4 1.3. 62 And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.
2H4 1.3. 63
2H4-HASTINGS
Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,
2H4 1.3. 64 Should be stillborn, and that we now possessed
2H4 1.3. 65 The utmost man of expectation,
2H4 1.3. 66 I think we are a body strong enough,
2H4 1.3. 67 Even as we are, to equal with the King.
2H4 1.3. 68
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
What, is the King but five-and-twenty thousand?
2H4 1.3. 69
2H4-HASTINGS
To us no more, nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph;
2H4 1.3. 70 For his divisions, as the times do brawl,
2H4 1.3. 71 Are in three heads: one power against the French,
2H4 1.3. 72 And one against Glyndw^r, perforce a third
2H4 1.3. 73 Must take up us. So is the unfirm King
2H4 1.3. 74 In three divided, and his coffers sound
2H4 1.3. 75 With hollow poverty and emptiness.
2H4 1.3. 76
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
That he should draw his several strengths +
2H4 1.3. 76 together
2H4 1.3. 77 And come against us in full puissance
2H4 1.3. 78B Need not be dreaded.
2H4-HASTINGS
If he should do so,
2H4 1.3. 79 He leaves his back unarmed, the French and Welsh
2H4 1.3. 80 Baying him at the heels. Never fear that.
2H4 1.3. 81
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Who is it like should lead his forces hither?
2H4 1.3. 82
2H4-HASTINGS
The Duke of Lancaster and Westmorland;
2H4 1.3. 83 Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth;
2H4 1.3. 84 But who is substituted 'gainst the French
2H4 1.3. 85B I have no certain notice.
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Let us on,
2H4 1.3. 86 And publish the occasion of our arms.
2H4 1.3. 87 The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
2H4 1.3. 88 Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
2H4 1.3. 89 An habitation giddy and unsure
2H4 1.3. 90 Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
2H4 1.3. 91 O thou fond many, with what loud applause
2H4 1.3. 92 Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,
2H4 1.3. 93 Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!
2H4 1.3. 94 And being now trimmed in thine own desires,
2H4 1.3. 95 Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him
2H4 1.3. 96 That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up.
2H4 1.3. 97 So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
2H4 1.3. 98 Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;
2H4 1.3. 99 And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,
2H4 1.3. 100 And howl'st to find it. What trust is in these times?
2H4 1.3. 101 They that when Richard lived would have him die
2H4 1.3. 102 Are now become enamoured on his grave.
2H4 1.3. 103 Thou that threw'st dust upon his goodly head,
2H4 1.3. 104 When through proud London he came sighing on
2H4 1.3. 105 After th' admired heels of Bolingbroke,
2H4 1.3. 106 Cri'st now, `O earth, yield us that king again,
2H4 1.3. 107 And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accursed!
2H4 1.3. 108 Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
2H4 1.3. 109
2H4-[MOWBRAY]
Shall we go draw our numbers and set on?
2H4 1.3. 110
2H4-HASTINGS
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. +
2H4 1.3. 110 {Exeunt}
2H4 1.3. 0 {Enter Mistress Quickly (the hostess of a +
2H4 2.1. 0 tavern), and an officer, Fang [followed at a distance by] another +
2H4 2.1. 0 officer, Snare}
2H4 2.1. 1
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Master Fang, have you entered the
2H4 2.1. 2 action?
2H4 2.1. 3
2H4-FANG
It is entered.
2H4 2.1. 4
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Where's your yeoman? Is 't a lusty
2H4 2.1. 5 yeoman? Will a stand to 't?
2H4 2.1. 6
2H4-FANG
Sirrah! - Where's Snare?
2H4 2.1. 7
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O Lord, ay, good Master Snare.
2H4 2.1. 8
2H4-SNARE
{[coming forward]} Here, here.
2H4 2.1. 9
2H4-FANG
Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
2H4 2.1. 10
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered
2H4 2.1. 11 him and all.
2H4 2.1. 12
2H4-SNARE
It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he
2H4 2.1. 13 will stab.
2H4 2.1. 14
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Alas the day, take heed of him; he
2H4 2.1. 15 stabbed me in mine own house, most beastly, in good
2H4 2.1. 16 faith. A cares not what mischief he does; if his weapon
2H4 2.1. 17 be out, he will foin like any devil, he will spare neither
2H4 2.1. 18 man, woman, nor child.
2H4 2.1. 19
2H4-FANG
If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
2H4 2.1. 20
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, nor I neither. I'll be at your elbow.
2H4 2.1. 21
2H4-FANG
An I but fist him once, an a come but within my
2H4 2.1. 22 vice -
2H4 2.1. 23
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
I am undone by his going, I warrant
2H4 2.1. 24 you; he's an infinitive thing upon my score. Good
2H4 2.1. 25 Master Fang, hold him sure. Good Master Snare, let
2H4 2.1. 26 him not scape. A comes continuantly to Pie Corner -
2H4 2.1. 27 saving your manhoods - to buy a saddle, and he is
2H4 2.1. 28 indited to dinner to the Lubber's Head in Lombard
2H4 2.1. 29 Street, to Master Smooth's the silkman. I pray you,
2H4 2.1. 30 since my exion is entered, and my case so openly
2H4 2.1. 31 known to the world, let him be brought in to his
2H4 2.1. 32 answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone
2H4 2.1. 33 woman to bear; and I have borne, and borne, and
2H4 2.1. 34 borne, and have been fobbed off, and fobbed off, and
2H4 2.1. 35 fobbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame
2H4 2.1. 36 to be thought on. There is no honesty in such dealing,
2H4 2.1. 37 unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast,
2H4 2.1. 38 to bear every knave's wrong. {Enter Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, +
2H4 2.1. 38 and the Page}
2H4 2.1. 39 Yonder he comes, and that arrant malmsey-nose knave
2H4 2.1. 40 Bardolph with him. Do your offices, do your offices,
2H4 2.1. 41 Master Fang and Master Snare; do me, do me, do me
2H4 2.1. 42 your offices.
2H4 2.1. 43
2H4-SIR JOHN
How now, whose mare's dead? What's the
2H4 2.1. 44 matter?
2H4 2.1. 45
2H4-FANG
Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
2H4 2.1. 46
2H4-SIR JOHN
{[drawing]} Away, varlets! Draw, +
2H4 2.1. 46 Bardolph! Cut
2H4 2.1. 47 me off the villain's head! Throw the quean in the
2H4 2.1. 48 channel! {[Bardolph draws]}
2H4 2.1. 49
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Throw me in the channel? I'll throw
2H4 2.1. 50 thee in the channel! {A brawl}
2H4 2.1. 51 Wilt thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue? Murder,
2H4 2.1. 52 murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt thou kill
2H4 2.1. 53 God's officers, and the King's? Ah, thou honeyseed
2H4 2.1. 54 rogue! Thou art a honeyseed, a man-queller, and a
2H4 2.1. 55 woman-queller.
2H4 2.1. 56
2H4-SIR JOHN
Keep them off, Bardolph!
2H4 2.1. 57
2H4-FANG
A rescue, a rescue!
2H4 2.1. 58
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Good people, bring a rescue or two.
2H4 2.1. 59 Thou wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot 'a? Do, do, thou
2H4 2.1. 60 rogue, do, thou hempseed!
2H4 2.1. 61
2H4-PAGE
Away, you scullion, you rampallian, you
2H4 2.1. 62 fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe! {Enter the Lord Chief +
2H4 2.1. 62 Justice and his men}
2H4 2.1. 63
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What is the matter? Keep the peace +
2H4 2.1. 63 here, ho! {Brawl ends. [Fang] seizes Sir John}
2H4 2.1. 64
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Good my lord, be good to me; I beseech
2H4 2.1. 65 you, stand to me.
2H4 2.1. 66
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
How now, Sir John? What, are you +
2H4 2.1. 66 brawling here?
2H4 2.1. 67 Doth this become your place, your time and business?
2H4 2.1. 68 You should have been well on your way to York.
2H4 2.1. 69 {[To Fang]} Stand from him, fellow. Wherefore hang'st +
2H4 2.1. 69 thou upon him?
2H4 2.1. 70
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O my most worshipful lord, an 't please
2H4 2.1. 71 your grace, I am a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he
2H4 2.1. 72 is arrested at my suit.
2H4 2.1. 73A
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
For what sum?
2H4 2.1. 74
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
It is more than for some, my lord, it is
2H4 2.1. 75 for all, all I have. He hath eaten me out of house and
2H4 2.1. 76 home. He hath put all my substance into that fat belly
2H4 2.1. 77 of his; {(to Sir John)} but I will have some of it out +
2H4 2.1. 77 again,
2H4 2.1. 78 or I will ride thee a-nights like the mare.
2H4 2.1. 79
2H4-SIR JOHN
I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have
2H4 2.1. 80 any vantage of ground to get up.
2H4 2.1. 81
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
How comes this, Sir John? Fie, what
2H4 2.1. 82 man of good temper would endure this tempest of
2H4 2.1. 83 exclamation? Are you not ashamed, to enforce a poor
2H4 2.1. 84 widow to so rough a course to come by her own?
2H4 2.1. 85
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to the Hostess)} What is the gross sum +
2H4 2.1. 85 that I owe
2H4 2.1. 86 thee?
2H4 2.1. 87
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Marry, if thou wert an honest man,
2H4 2.1. 88 thyself, and the money too. Thou didst swear to me
2H4 2.1. 89 upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin
2H4 2.1. 90 chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon
2H4 2.1. 91 Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke
2H4 2.1. 92 thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of
2H4 2.1. 93 Windsor - thou didst swear to me then, as I was
2H4 2.1. 94 washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my
2H4 2.1. 95 lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife
2H4 2.1. 96 Keech the butcher's wife come in then, and call me
2H4 2.1. 97 `Gossip Quickly' - coming in to borrow a mess of
2H4 2.1. 98 vinegar, telling us she had a good dish of prawns,
2H4 2.1. 99 whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told
2H4 2.1. 100 thee they were ill for a green wound? And didst thou
2H4 2.1. 101 not, when she was gone downstairs, desire me to be
2H4 2.1. 102 no more so familiarity with such poor people, saying
2H4 2.1. 103 that ere long they should call me `madam'? And didst
2H4 2.1. 104 thou not kiss me, and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings?
2H4 2.1. 105 I put thee now to thy book-oath; deny it if thou canst. {[She +
2H4 2.1. 105 weeps]}
2H4 2.1. 106
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says
2H4 2.1. 107 up and down the town that her eldest son is like you.
2H4 2.1. 108 She hath been in good case, and the truth is, poverty
2H4 2.1. 109 hath distracted her. But for these foolish officers, I
2H4 2.1. 110 beseech you I may have redress against them.
2H4 2.1. 111
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted
2H4 2.1. 112 with your manner of wrenching the true cause the
2H4 2.1. 113 false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng
2H4 2.1. 114 of words that come with such more than impudent
2H4 2.1. 115 sauciness from you, can thrust me from a level
2H4 2.1. 116 consideration. You have, as it appears to me, practised
2H4 2.1. 117 upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made
2H4 2.1. 118 her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
2H4 2.1. 119
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Yea, in truth, my lord.
2H4 2.1. 120
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Pray thee, peace. {(To Sir John)}+
2H4 2.1. 120 Pay her
2H4 2.1. 121 the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have
2H4 2.1. 122 done with her. The one you may do with sterling
2H4 2.1. 123 money, and the other with current repentance.
2H4 2.1. 124
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without
2H4 2.1. 125 reply. You call honourable boldness `impudent
2H4 2.1. 126 sauciness'; if a man will make curtsy and say nothing,
2H4 2.1. 127 he is virtuous. No, my lord, my humble duty
2H4 2.1. 128 remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to you I
2H4 2.1. 129 do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon
2H4 2.1. 130 hasty employment in the King's affairs.
2H4 2.1. 131
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
You speak as having power to do
2H4 2.1. 132 wrong; but answer in th' effect of your reputation, and
2H4 2.1. 133 satisfy the poor woman.
2H4 2.1. 134
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(drawing apart)} Come hither, +
2H4 2.1. 134 hostess. {She goes to him.}
2H4 2.1. 135A {Enter Master Gower, a messenger}
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Now, +
2H4 2.1. 135A Master Gower, what news?
2H4 2.1. 136
2H4-GOWER
The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
2H4 2.1. 137 Are near at hand; the rest the paper tells. {[Lord Chief Justice +
2H4 2.1. 137 reads the paper, and converses apart with Gower]}
2H4 2.1. 138
2H4-SIR JOHN
As I am a gentleman!
2H4 2.1. 139
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Faith, you said so before.
2H4 2.1. 140
2H4-SIR JOHN
As I am a gentleman! Come, no more words of
2H4 2.1. 141 it.
2H4 2.1. 142
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
By this heavenly ground I tread on, I
2H4 2.1. 143 must be fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry
2H4 2.1. 144 of my dining-chambers.
2H4 2.1. 145
2H4-SIR JOHN
Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking; and for
2H4 2.1. 146 thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the
2H4 2.1. 147 Prodigal, or the German hunting in waterwork, is
2H4 2.1. 148 worth a thousand of these bed-hangers and these fly-
2H4 2.1. 149 bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound if thou canst.
2H4 2.1. 150 Come, an 'twere not for thy humours, there's not a
2H4 2.1. 151 better wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw
2H4 2.1. 152 the action. Come, thou must not be in this humour
2H4 2.1. 153 with me. Dost not know me? Come, I know thou wast
2H4 2.1. 154 set on to this.
2H4 2.1. 155
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty
2H4 2.1. 156 nobles. I' faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God
2H4 2.1. 157 save me, la!
2H4 2.1. 158
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let it alone; I'll make other shift. You'll be a
2H4 2.1. 159 fool still.
2H4 2.1. 160
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Well, you shall have it, though I pawn
2H4 2.1. 161 my gown. I hope you'll come to supper. You'll pay me
2H4 2.1. 162 altogether?
2H4 2.1. 163
2H4-SIR JOHN
Will I live? {[To Bardolph and the Page]} +
2H4 2.1. 163 Go with
2H4 2.1. 164 her, with her. Hook on, hook on!
2H4 2.1. 165
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you
2H4 2.1. 166 at supper?
2H4 2.1. 167
2H4-SIR JOHN
No more words; let's have her. {Exeunt Mistress +
2H4 2.1. 167 Quickly, Bardolph,}
2H4 2.1. 168 {the Page, Fang and Snare}
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to +
2H4 2.1. 168 Gower)} I have heard better news.
2H4 2.1. 169
2H4-SIR JOHN
What's the news, my good lord?
2H4 2.1. 170
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to Gower)} Where lay the King +
2H4 2.1. 170 tonight?
2H4 2.1. 171
2H4-GOWER
At Basingstoke, my lord.
2H4 2.1. 172
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Lord Chief Justice)} I hope, my +
2H4 2.1. 172 lord, all's well.
2H4 2.1. 173 What is the news, my lord?
2H4 2.1. 174A
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to Gower)} Come all his +
2H4 2.1. 174A forces back?
2H4 2.1. 175
2H4-GOWER
No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,
2H4 2.1. 176 Are marched up to my lord of Lancaster
2H4 2.1. 177 Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
2H4 2.1. 178
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Lord Chief Justice)} Comes the King +
2H4 2.1. 178 back from Wales, my noble lord?
2H4 2.1. 179
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to Gower)} You shall have +
2H4 2.1. 179 letters of me presently.
2H4 2.1. 180 Come, go along with me, good Master Gower. {They are going}
2H4 2.1. 181
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord!
2H4 2.1. 182
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What's the matter?
2H4 2.1. 183
2H4-SIR JOHN
Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to
2H4 2.1. 184 dinner?
2H4 2.1. 185
2H4-GOWER
I must wait upon my good lord here, I thank you,
2H4 2.1. 186 good Sir John.
2H4 2.1. 187
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, you loiter here too long,
2H4 2.1. 188 being you are to take soldiers up in counties as you
2H4 2.1. 189 go.
2H4 2.1. 190
2H4-SIR JOHN
Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
2H4 2.1. 191
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What foolish master taught you these
2H4 2.1. 192 manners, Sir John?
2H4 2.1. 193
2H4-SIR JOHN
Master Gower, if they become me not, he was
2H4 2.1. 194 a fool that taught them me. {(To Lord Chief Justice)} +
2H4 2.1. 194 This
2H4 2.1. 195 is the right fencing grace, my lord - tap for tap, and so
2H4 2.1. 196 part fair.
2H4 2.1. 197
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Now the Lord lighten thee; thou art
2H4 2.1. 198 a great fool. {Exeunt [Lord Chief Justice and Gower at one}
2H4 2.1. 0 {door, Sir John at another]} {Enter Prince Harry and +
2H4 2.2. 0 Poins}
2H4 2.2. 1
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Before God, I am exceeding weary.
2H4 2.2. 2
2H4-POINS
Is 't come to that? I had thought weariness durst
2H4 2.2. 3 not have attached one of so high blood.
2H4 2.2. 4
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Faith, it does me, though it discolours the
2H4 2.2. 5 complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth it
2H4 2.2. 6 not show vilely in me to desire small beer?
2H4 2.2. 7
2H4-POINS
Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as
2H4 2.2. 8 to remember so weak a composition.
2H4 2.2. 9
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Belike then my appetite was not princely
2H4 2.2. 10 got; for, by my troth, I do now remember the poor
2H4 2.2. 11 creature small beer. But indeed, these humble
2H4 2.2. 12 considerations make me out of love with my greatness.
2H4 2.2. 13 What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name! Or
2H4 2.2. 14 to know thy face tomorrow! Or to take note how many
2H4 2.2. 15 pair of silk stockings thou hast - videlicet these, and
2H4 2.2. 16 those that were thy peach-coloured ones! Or to bear
2H4 2.2. 17 the inventory of thy shirts - as one for superfluity, and
2H4 2.2. 18 another for use. But that the tennis-court keeper knows
2H4 2.2. 19 better than I, for it is a low ebb of linen with thee
2H4 2.2. 20 when thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not
2H4 2.2. 21 done a great while, because the rest of thy low countries
2H4 2.2. 22 have made a shift to eat up thy holland.
2H4 2.2. 23
2H4-POINS
How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard,
2H4 2.2. 24 you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good young
2H4 2.2. 25 princes would do so, their fathers lying so sick as yours
2H4 2.2. 26 is?
2H4 2.2. 27
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?
2H4 2.2. 28
2H4-POINS
Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent good thing.
2H4 2.2. 29
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
It shall serve among wits of no higher
2H4 2.2. 30 breeding than thine.
2H4 2.2. 31
2H4-POINS
Go to, I stand the push of your one thing that
2H4 2.2. 32 you'll tell.
2H4 2.2. 33
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that I
2H4 2.2. 34 should be sad now my father is sick; albeit I could tell
2H4 2.2. 35 to thee, as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to
2H4 2.2. 36 call my friend, I could be sad; and sad indeed too.
2H4 2.2. 37
2H4-POINS
Very hardly, upon such a subject.
2H4 2.2. 38
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
By this hand, thou thinkest me as far in
2H4 2.2. 39 the devil's book as thou and Falstaff, for obduracy and
2H4 2.2. 40 persistency. Let the end try the man. But I tell thee,
2H4 2.2. 41 my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so sick; and
2H4 2.2. 42 keeping such vile company as thou art hath, in reason,
2H4 2.2. 43 taken from me all ostentation of sorrow.
2H4 2.2. 44
2H4-POINS
The reason?
2H4 2.2. 45
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
What wouldst thou think of me if I should
2H4 2.2. 46 weep?
2H4 2.2. 47
2H4-POINS
I would think thee a most princely hypocrite.
2H4 2.2. 48
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
It would be every man's thought, and thou
2H4 2.2. 49 art a blessed fellow to think as every man thinks. Never
2H4 2.2. 50 a man's thought in the world keeps the roadway better
2H4 2.2. 51 than thine. Every man would think me an hypocrite
2H4 2.2. 52 indeed. And what accites your most worshipful thought
2H4 2.2. 53 to think so?
2H4 2.2. 54
2H4-POINS
Why, because you have been so lewd, and so much
2H4 2.2. 55 engrafted to Falstaff.
2H4 2.2. 56
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And to thee.
2H4 2.2. 57
2H4-POINS
By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it
2H4 2.2. 58 with mine own ears. The worst that they can say of
2H4 2.2. 59 me is that I am a second brother, and that I am a
2H4 2.2. 60 proper fellow of my hands; and those two things I
2H4 2.2. 61 confess I cannot help. {Enter Bardolph [followed by] the Page}
2H4 2.2. 62 By the mass, here comes Bardolph.
2H4 2.2. 63
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And the boy that I gave Falstaff. A had
2H4 2.2. 64 him from me Christian, and look if the fat villain have
2H4 2.2. 65 not transformed him ape.
2H4 2.2. 66
2H4-BARDOLPH
God save your grace!
2H4 2.2. 67
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And yours, most noble Bardolph!
2H4 2.2. 68
2H4-POINS
{(to Bardolph)} Come, you virtuous ass, you +
2H4 2.2. 68 bashful
2H4 2.2. 69 fool, must you be blushing? Wherefore blush you now?
2H4 2.2. 70 What a maidenly man at arms are you become! Is 't
2H4 2.2. 71 such a matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead?
2H4 2.2. 72
2H4-PAGE
A calls me e'en now, my lord, through a red lattice,
2H4 2.2. 73 and I could discern no part of his face from the window.
2H4 2.2. 74 At last I spied his eyes, and methought he had made
2H4 2.2. 75 two holes in the ale-wife's red petticoat, and so peeped
2H4 2.2. 76 through.
2H4 2.2. 77
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Poins)} Has not the boy +
2H4 2.2. 77 profited?
2H4 2.2. 78
2H4-BARDOLPH
{(to the Page)} Away, you whoreson +
2H4 2.2. 78 upright
2H4 2.2. 79 rabbit, away!
2H4 2.2. 80
2H4-PAGE
Away, you rascally Althea's dream, away!
2H4 2.2. 81
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?
2H4 2.2. 82
2H4-PAGE
Marry, my lord, Althea dreamt she was delivered
2H4 2.2. 83 of a firebrand, and therefore I call him her dream.
2H4 2.2. 84
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(giving him money)} A crown's-worth +
2H4 2.2. 84 of good
2H4 2.2. 85 interpretation! There 'tis, boy.
2H4 2.2. 86
2H4-POINS
O, that this good blossom could be kept from
2H4 2.2. 87 cankers! {(Giving the Page money)} Well, there is +
2H4 2.2. 87 sixpence
2H4 2.2. 88 to preserve thee.
2H4 2.2. 89
2H4-BARDOLPH
An you do not make him hanged among you,
2H4 2.2. 90 the gallows shall be wronged.
2H4 2.2. 91
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And how doth thy master, Bardolph?
2H4 2.2. 92
2H4-BARDOLPH
Well, my good lord. He heard of your grace's
2H4 2.2. 93 coming to town. There's a letter for you.
2H4 2.2. 94
2H4-POINS
Delivered with good respect. And how doth the
2H4 2.2. 95 Martlemas your master?
2H4 2.2. 96
2H4-BARDOLPH
In bodily health, sir. {Prince Harry reads the +
2H4 2.2. 96 letter}
2H4 2.2. 97
2H4-POINS
Marry, the immortal part needs a physician, but
2H4 2.2. 98 that moves not him. Though that be sick, it dies not.
2H4 2.2. 99
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
I do allow this wen to be as familiar with
2H4 2.2. 100 me as my dog; and he holds his place, for look you
2H4 2.2. 101 how he writes. {[He gives Poins the letter]}
2H4 2.2. 102
2H4-POINS
`John Falstaff, knight'. - Every man must know
2H4 2.2. 103 that, as oft as he has occasion to name himself; even
2H4 2.2. 104 like those that are kin to the King, for they never prick
2H4 2.2. 105 their finger but they say `There's some of the King's
2H4 2.2. 106 blood spilt.' `How comes that?' says he that takes upon
2H4 2.2. 107 him not to conceive. The answer is as ready as a
2H4 2.2. 108 borrower's cap: `I am the King's poor cousin, sir.'
2H4 2.2. 109
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will
2H4 2.2. 110 fetch it from Japhet. {(Taking the letter)} But the +
2H4 2.2. 110 letter.
2H4 2.2. 111 `Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of the King nearest
2H4 2.2. 112 his father, Harry Prince of Wales, greeting.'
2H4 2.2. 113
2H4-POINS
Why, this is a certificate!
2H4 2.2. 114
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace! - `I will imitate the honourable
2H4 2.2. 115 Romans in brevity.'
2H4 2.2. 116
2H4-POINS
{(taking the letter)} Sure he means brevity +
2H4 2.2. 116 in breath,
2H4 2.2. 117 short winded. {(Reads)} `I commend me to thee, I
2H4 2.2. 118 commend thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar
2H4 2.2. 119 with Poins, for he misuses thy favours so much that
2H4 2.2. 120 he swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Repent at
2H4 2.2. 121 idle times as thou mayst. And so, farewell.
2H4 2.2. 122 Thine by yea and no - which is as much as to
2H4 2.2. 123 say, as thou usest him - Jack Falstaff with my
2H4 2.2. 124 familiars, John with my brothers and sisters,
2H4 2.2. 125 and Sir John with all Europe.'
2H4 2.2. 126 My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat
2H4 2.2. 127 it.
2H4 2.2. 128
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
That's to make him eat twenty of his
2H4 2.2. 129 words. But do you use me thus, Ned? Must I marry
2H4 2.2. 130 your sister?
2H4 2.2. 131
2H4-POINS
God send the wench no worse fortune, but I never
2H4 2.2. 132 said so.
2H4 2.2. 133
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, thus we play the fools with the time,
2H4 2.2. 134 and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock
2H4 2.2. 135 us. {(To Bardolph)} Is your master here in London?
2H4 2.2. 136
2H4-BARDOLPH
Yea, my lord.
2H4 2.2. 137
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Where sups he? Doth the old boar feed in
2H4 2.2. 138 the old frank?
2H4 2.2. 139
2H4-BARDOLPH
At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap.
2H4 2.2. 140
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
What company?
2H4 2.2. 141
2H4-PAGE
Ephesians, my lord, of the old church.
2H4 2.2. 142
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sup any women with him?
2H4 2.2. 143
2H4-PAGE
None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and
2H4 2.2. 144 Mistress Doll Tearsheet.
2H4 2.2. 145
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
What pagan may that be?
2H4 2.2. 146
2H4-PAGE
A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of
2H4 2.2. 147 my master's.
2H4 2.2. 148
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Even such kin as the parish heifers are to
2H4 2.2. 149 the town bull. Shall we steal upon them, Ned, at
2H4 2.2. 150 supper?
2H4 2.2. 151
2H4-POINS
I am your shadow, my lord; I'll follow you.
2H4 2.2. 152
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sirrah, you, boy, and Bardolph, no word
2H4 2.2. 153 to your master that I am yet come to town. {(Giving}
2H4 2.2. 154 {money)} There's for your silence.
2H4 2.2. 155
2H4-BARDOLPH
I have no tongue, sir.
2H4 2.2. 156
2H4-PAGE
And for mine, sir, I will govern it.
2H4 2.2. 157
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Fare you well; go. {Exeunt Bardolph and the +
2H4 2.2. 157 Page}
2H4 2.2. 158 This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.
2H4 2.2. 159
2H4-POINS
I warrant you, as common as the way between
2H4 2.2. 160 Saint Albans and London.
2H4 2.2. 161
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
How might we see Falstaff bestow himself
2H4 2.2. 162 tonight in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen?
2H4 2.2. 163
2H4-POINS
Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait
2H4 2.2. 164 upon him at his table like drawers.
2H4 2.2. 165
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
From a god to a bull - a heavy declension -
2H4 2.2. 166 it was Jove's case. From a prince to a prentice - a low
2H4 2.2. 167 transformation - that shall be mine; for in everything
2H4 2.2. 168 the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow me, Ned. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.2. 0 {Enter the Earl of Northumberland, Lady Northumberland, +
2H4 2.3. 0 and Lady Percy}
2H4 2.3. 1
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
I pray thee, loving wife and gentle +
2H4 2.3. 1 daughter,
2H4 2.3. 2 Give even way unto my rough affairs.
2H4 2.3. 3 Put not you on the visage of the times
2H4 2.3. 4 And be like them to Percy troublesome.
2H4 2.3. 5
2H4-LADY NORTHUMBERLAND
I have given over; I will speak no more.
2H4 2.3. 6 Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide.
2H4 2.3. 7
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn,
2H4 2.3. 8 And, but my going, nothing can redeem it.
2H4 2.3. 9
2H4-LADY PERCY
O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!
2H4 2.3. 10 The time was, father, that you broke your word
2H4 2.3. 11 When you were more endeared to it than now -
2H4 2.3. 12 When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry,
2H4 2.3. 13 Threw many a northward look to see his father
2H4 2.3. 14 Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
2H4 2.3. 15 Who then persuaded you to stay at home?
2H4 2.3. 16 There were two honours lost, yours and your son's.
2H4 2.3. 17 For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!
2H4 2.3. 18 For his, it stuck upon him as the sun
2H4 2.3. 19 In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light
2H4 2.3. 20 Did all the chivalry of England move
2H4 2.3. 21 To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass
2H4 2.3. 22 Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
2H4 2.3. 23 He had no legs that practised not his gait;
2H4 2.3. 24 And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
2H4 2.3. 25 Became the accents of the valiant;
2H4 2.3. 26 For those that could speak low and tardily
2H4 2.3. 27 Would turn their own perfection to abuse
2H4 2.3. 28 To seem like him. So that in speech, in gait,
2H4 2.3. 29 In diet, in affections of delight,
2H4 2.3. 30 In military rules, humours of blood,
2H4 2.3. 31 He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
2H4 2.3. 32 That fashioned others. And him - O wondrous him!
2H4 2.3. 33 O miracle of men! - him did you leave,
2H4 2.3. 34 Second to none, unseconded by you,
2H4 2.3. 35 To look upon the hideous god of war
2H4 2.3. 36 In disadvantage, to abide a field
2H4 2.3. 37 Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name
2H4 2.3. 38 Did seem defensible; so you left him.
2H4 2.3. 39 Never, O never do his ghost the wrong
2H4 2.3. 40 To hold your honour more precise and nice
2H4 2.3. 41 With others than with him. Let them alone.
2H4 2.3. 42 The Marshal and the Archbishop are strong.
2H4 2.3. 43 Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,
2H4 2.3. 44 Today might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck,
2H4 2.3. 45B Have talked of Monmouth's grave.
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Beshrew your heart,
2H4 2.3. 46 Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me
2H4 2.3. 47 With new lamenting ancient oversights.
2H4 2.3. 48 But I must go and meet with danger there,
2H4 2.3. 49 Or it will seek me in another place,
2H4 2.3. 50B And find me worse provided.
2H4-LADY NORTHUMBERLAND
O fly to Scotland,
2H4 2.3. 51 Till that the nobles and the armed commons
2H4 2.3. 52 Have of their puissance made a little taste.
2H4 2.3. 53
2H4-LADY PERCY
If they get ground and vantage of the King,
2H4 2.3. 54 Then join you with them like a rib of steel,
2H4 2.3. 55 To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,
2H4 2.3. 56 First let them try themselves. So did your son.
2H4 2.3. 57 He was so suffered. So came I a widow,
2H4 2.3. 58 And never shall have length of life enough
2H4 2.3. 59 To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,
2H4 2.3. 60 That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven
2H4 2.3. 61 For recordation to my noble husband.
2H4 2.3. 62
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my mind
2H4 2.3. 63 As with the tide swelled up unto his height,
2H4 2.3. 64 That makes a still stand, running neither way.
2H4 2.3. 65 Fain would I go to meet the Archbishop,
2H4 2.3. 66 But many thousand reasons hold me back.
2H4 2.3. 67 I will resolve for Scotland. There am I
2H4 2.3. 68 Till time and vantage crave my company. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.3. 0
2H4-[A
table and chairs set forth.] Enter a Drawer [with +
2H4 2.4. 0 wine] and another Drawer [with a dish of apple-johns]}
2H4 2.4. 1
2H4-[FIRST DRAWER]
What the devil hast thou brought there -
2H4 2.4. 2 apple-johns? Thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an
2H4 2.4. 3 apple-john.
2H4 2.4. 4
2H4-[SECOND DRAWER]
Mass, thou sayst true. The Prince once
2H4 2.4. 5 set a dish of apple-johns before him; and told him,
2H4 2.4. 6 there were five more Sir Johns; and, putting off his
2H4 2.4. 7 hat, said `I will now take my leave of these six dry,
2H4 2.4. 8 round, old, withered knights.' It angered him to the
2H4 2.4. 9 heart. But he hath forgot that.
2H4 2.4. 10
2H4-[FIRST DRAWER]
Why then, cover, and set them down;
2H4 2.4. 11 and see if thou canst find out Sneak's noise. Mistress
2H4 2.4. 12 Tearsheet would fain hear some music. {[Exit the Second Drawer]}
2H4 2.4. 13 {[The First Drawer covers the table.] [Enter the Second +
2H4 2.4. 13 Drawer]}
2H4-[SECOND DRAWER]
Sirrah, here will be the Prince +
2H4 2.4. 13 and
2H4 2.4. 14 Master Poins anon, and they will put on two of our
2H4 2.4. 15 jerkins and aprons, and Sir John must not know of it.
2H4 2.4. 16 Bardolph hath brought word.
2H4 2.4. 17
2H4-[FIRST DRAWER]
By the mass, here will be old utis! It will
2H4 2.4. 18 be an excellent stratagem.
2H4 2.4. 19
2H4-[SECOND DRAWER]
I'll see if I can find out Sneak. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.4. 20 {Enter Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet, drunk} +
2H4 2.4. 20
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
I' faith, sweetheart, methinks now you
2H4 2.4. 21 are in an excellent good temperality. Your pulsidge
2H4 2.4. 22 beats as extraordinarily as heart would desire, and your
2H4 2.4. 23 colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good
2H4 2.4. 24 truth, la; but i' faith, you have drunk too much
2H4 2.4. 25 canaries, and that's a marvellous searching wine, and
2H4 2.4. 26 it perfumes the blood ere we can say `What's this?'
2H4 2.4. 27 How do you now?
2H4 2.4. 28
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Better than I was. - Hem!
2H4 2.4. 29
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Why, that's well said! A good heart's
2H4 2.4. 30 worth gold. {Enter Sir John Falstaff}
2H4 2.4. 31 Lo, here comes Sir John.
2H4 2.4. 32
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(sings)} `When Arthur first in +
2H4 2.4. 32 court' - {[Calls]}
2H4 2.4. 33 Empty the jordan! - {(Sings)} `And was a +
2H4 2.4. 33 worthy king' -
2H4 2.4. 34 How now, Mistress Doll?
2H4 2.4. 35
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Sick of a qualm, yea, good faith.
2H4 2.4. 36
2H4-SIR JOHN
So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm,
2H4 2.4. 37 they are sick.
2H4 2.4. 38
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
A pox damn you, you muddy rascal! Is
2H4 2.4. 39 that all the comfort you give me?
2H4 2.4. 40
2H4-SIR JOHN
You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.
2H4 2.4. 41
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I make them? Gluttony and diseases
2H4 2.4. 42 make them; I make them not.
2H4 2.4. 43
2H4-SIR JOHN
If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help
2H4 2.4. 44 to make the diseases, Doll. We catch of you, Doll, we
2H4 2.4. 45 catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue, grant that.
2H4 2.4. 46
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Yea, Jesu, our chains and our jewels.
2H4 2.4. 47
2H4-SIR JOHN
`Your brooches, pearls, and ouches' - for to
2H4 2.4. 48 serve bravely is to come halting off, you know; to come
2H4 2.4. 49 off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to surgery
2H4 2.4. 50 bravely; to venture upon the charged chambers
2H4 2.4. 51 bravely.
2H4 2.4. 52
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
By my troth, this is the old fashion.
2H4 2.4. 53 You two never meet but you fall to some discord. You
2H4 2.4. 54 are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts;
2H4 2.4. 55 you cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What
2H4 2.4. 56 the goodyear, one must bear, {(to Doll)} and that must
2H4 2.4. 57 be you. You are the weaker vessel, as they say, the
2H4 2.4. 58 emptier vessel.
2H4 2.4. 59
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Can a weak empty vessel bear such a
2H4 2.4. 60 huge full hogshead? There's a whole merchant's
2H4 2.4. 61 venture of Bordeaux stuff in him; you have not seen
2H4 2.4. 62 a hulk better stuffed in the hold. - Come, I'll be friends
2H4 2.4. 63 with thee, Jack. Thou art going to the wars, and
2H4 2.4. 64 whether I shall ever see thee again or no there is
2H4 2.4. 65 nobody cares. {Enter a Drawer}
2H4 2.4. 66
2H4-DRAWER
Sir, Ensign Pistol's below, and would speak with
2H4 2.4. 67 you.
2H4 2.4. 68
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Hang him, swaggering rascal, let him
2H4 2.4. 69 not come hither. It is the foul-mouthedest rogue in
2H4 2.4. 70 England.
2H4 2.4. 71
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
If he swagger, let him not come here.
2H4 2.4. 72 No, by my faith! I must live among my neighbours;
2H4 2.4. 73 I'll no swaggerers. I am in good name and fame with
2H4 2.4. 74 the very best. Shut the door; there comes no swaggerers
2H4 2.4. 75 here. I have not lived all this while to have swaggering
2H4 2.4. 76 now. Shut the door, I pray you.
2H4 2.4. 77
2H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear, hostess?
2H4 2.4. 78
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Pray ye pacify yourself, Sir John. There
2H4 2.4. 79 comes no swaggerers here.
2H4 2.4. 80
2H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear? It is mine ensign.
2H4 2.4. 81
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me. Your
2H4 2.4. 82 ensign-swaggerer comes not in my doors. I was before
2H4 2.4. 83 Master Tisick the debuty t' other day, and, as he said
2H4 2.4. 84 to me - 'twas no longer ago than Wed'sday last, i' good
2H4 2.4. 85 faith - `Neighbour Quickly,' says he - Master Dumb our
2H4 2.4. 86 minister was by then - `Neighbour Quickly,' says he,
2H4 2.4. 87 `receive those that are civil, for,' said he, `you are in
2H4 2.4. 88 an ill name.' Now a said so, I can tell whereupon.
2H4 2.4. 89 `For,' says he, `you are an honest woman, and well
2H4 2.4. 90 thought on; therefore take heed what guests you
2H4 2.4. 91 receive. Receive,' says he, `no swaggering companions.'
2H4 2.4. 92 There comes none here. You would bless you to hear
2H4 2.4. 93 what he said. No, I'll no swaggerers.
2H4 2.4. 94
2H4-SIR JOHN
He's no swaggerer, hostess - a tame cheater,
2H4 2.4. 95 i' faith. You may stroke him as gently as a puppy
2H4 2.4. 96 greyhound. He'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if
2H4 2.4. 97 her feathers turn back in any show of resistance. - Call
2H4 2.4. 98 him up, drawer. {[Exit Drawer]}
2H4 2.4. 99
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Cheater call you him? I will bar no
2H4 2.4. 100 honest man my house, nor no cheater, but I do not
2H4 2.4. 101 love swaggering, by my troth, I am the worse when
2H4 2.4. 102 one says `swagger'. Feel, masters, how I shake, look
2H4 2.4. 103 you, I warrant you.
2H4 2.4. 104
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
So you do, hostess.
2H4 2.4. 105
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Do I? Yea, in very truth do I, an 'twere
2H4 2.4. 106 an aspen leaf. I cannot abide swaggerers. {Enter Pistol, +
2H4 2.4. 106 Bardolph, and the Page}
2H4 2.4. 107
2H4-PISTOL
God save you, Sir John.
2H4 2.4. 108
2H4-SIR JOHN
Welcome, Ensign Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge
2H4 2.4. 109 you with a cup of sack. Do you discharge upon mine
2H4 2.4. 110 hostess.
2H4 2.4. 111
2H4-PISTOL
I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two
2H4 2.4. 112 bullets.
2H4 2.4. 113
2H4-SIR JOHN
She is pistol-proof, sir, you shall not hardly
2H4 2.4. 114 offend her.
2H4 2.4. 115
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Come, I'll drink no proofs, nor no
2H4 2.4. 116 bullets. I'll drink no more than will do me good, for no
2H4 2.4. 117 man's pleasure, I.
2H4 2.4. 118
2H4-PISTOL
Then to you, Mistress Dorothy! I will charge you.
2H4 2.4. 119
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Charge me? I scorn you, scurvy
2H4 2.4. 120 companion. What, you poor, base, rascally, cheating,
2H4 2.4. 121 lack-linen mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I
2H4 2.4. 122 am meat for your master.
2H4 2.4. 123
2H4-PISTOL
I know you, Mistress Dorothy.
2H4 2.4. 124
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Away, you cutpurse rascal, you filthy
2H4 2.4. 125 bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your
2H4 2.4. 126 mouldy chaps an you play the saucy cuttle with me! {[She +
2H4 2.4. 126 brandishes a knife]}
2H4 2.4. 127 Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you basket-hilt stale
2H4 2.4. 128 juggler, you! {[Pistol draws his sword]}
2H4 2.4. 129 Since when, I pray you, sir? God's light, with two
2H4 2.4. 130 points on your shoulder! Much!
2H4 2.4. 131
2H4-PISTOL
God let me not live, but I will murder your ruff
2H4 2.4. 132 for this.
2H4 2.4. 133
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, good Captain Pistol; not here, sweet
2H4 2.4. 134 captain.
2H4 2.4. 135
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Captain? Thou abominable damned
2H4 2.4. 136 cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called `captain'?
2H4 2.4. 137 An captains were of my mind, they would truncheon
2H4 2.4. 138 you out, for taking their names upon you before you
2H4 2.4. 139 have earned them. You a captain? You slave! For
2H4 2.4. 140 what? For tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-
2H4 2.4. 141 house! He a captain? Hang him, rogue, he lives upon
2H4 2.4. 142 mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes. A captain?
2H4 2.4. 143 God's light, these villains will make the word `captain'
2H4 2.4. 144 odious; therefore captains had need look to 't.
2H4 2.4. 145
2H4-BARDOLPH
Pray thee, go down, good ensign.
2H4 2.4. 146
2H4-SIR JOHN
Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll. {He takes her +
2H4 2.4. 146 aside}
2H4 2.4. 147
2H4-PISTOL
Not I! I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I +
2H4 2.4. 147 could
2H4 2.4. 148 tear her! I'll be revenged of her.
2H4 2.4. 149
2H4-PAGE
Pray thee, go down.
2H4 2.4. 150
2H4-PISTOL
I'll see her damned first
2H4 2.4. 151 To Pluto's damned lake, by this hand,
2H4 2.4. 152 To th' infernal deep,
2H4 2.4. 153 Where Erebus, and tortures vile also.
2H4 2.4. 154 `Hold hook and line!' say I.
2H4 2.4. 155 Down, down, dogs; down, Fates.
2H4 2.4. 156 Have we not Hiren here?
2H4 2.4. 157
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Good Captain Pizzle, be quiet. 'Tis very
2H4 2.4. 158 late, i' faith. I beseek you now, aggravate your choler.
2H4 2.4. 159
2H4-PISTOL
These be good humours indeed!
2H4 2.4. 160 Shall pack-horses
2H4 2.4. 161 And hollow pampered jades of Asia,
2H4 2.4. 162 Which cannot go but thirty mile a day,
2H4 2.4. 163 Compare with Caesars and with cannibals,
2H4 2.4. 164 And Trojan Greeks?
2H4 2.4. 165 Nay, rather damn them with King Cerberus,
2H4 2.4. 166 And let the welkin roar. Shall we fall foul for toys?
2H4 2.4. 167
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
By my troth, captain, these are very
2H4 2.4. 168 bitter words.
2H4 2.4. 169
2H4-BARDOLPH
Be gone, good ensign; this will grow to a brawl
2H4 2.4. 170 anon.
2H4 2.4. 171
2H4-PISTOL
Die men like dogs! Give crowns like pins!
2H4 2.4. 172 Have we not Hiren here?
2H4 2.4. 173
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O' my word, captain, there's none such
2H4 2.4. 174 here. What the goodyear, do you think I would deny
2H4 2.4. 175 her? For God's sake, be quiet.
2H4 2.4. 176
2H4-PISTOL
Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis.
2H4 2.4. 177 Come, give 's some sack.
2H4 2.4. 178 {Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento.}
2H4 2.4. 179 Fear we broadsides? No; let the fiend give fire!
2H4 2.4. 180 Give me some sack; and, sweetheart, lie thou there. {[He lays +
2H4 2.4. 180 down his sword]}
2H4 2.4. 181 Come we to full points here? And are etceteras +
2H4 2.4. 181 nothings? {[He drinks]}
2H4 2.4. 182
2H4-SIR JOHN
Pistol, I would be quiet.
2H4 2.4. 183
2H4-PISTOL
Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf. What, we have seen
2H4 2.4. 184 the seven stars!
2H4 2.4. 185
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
For God's sake, thrust him downstairs. I
2H4 2.4. 186 cannot endure such a fustian rascal.
2H4 2.4. 187
2H4-PISTOL
Thrust him downstairs? Know we not Galloway
2H4 2.4. 188 nags?
2H4 2.4. 189
2H4-SIR JOHN
Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat
2H4 2.4. 190 shilling. Nay, an a do nothing but speak nothing, a
2H4 2.4. 191 shall be nothing here.
2H4 2.4. 192
2H4-BARDOLPH
{(to Pistol)} Come, get you downstairs.
2H4 2.4. 193
2H4-PISTOL
{[taking up his sword]} What, shall we have +
2H4 2.4. 193 incision? Shall we imbrue?
2H4 2.4. 194 Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days.
2H4 2.4. 195 Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds
2H4 2.4. 196 Untwine the Sisters Three. Come, Atropos, I say!
2H4 2.4. 197
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Here's goodly stuff toward!
2H4 2.4. 198
2H4-SIR JOHN
Give me my rapier, boy.
2H4 2.4. 199
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not
2H4 2.4. 200 draw.
2H4 2.4. 201
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(taking his rapier and speaking to +
2H4 2.4. 201 Pistol)} Get you
2H4 2.4. 202 downstairs. {Sir John, Bardolph, and Pistol brawl}
2H4 2.4. 203
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear
2H4 2.4. 204 keeping house afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights! {[Sir +
2H4 2.4. 204 John thrusts at Pistol]}
2H4 2.4. 205 So! {[Pistol thrusts at Sir John]}
2H4 2.4. 206 Murder, I warrant now! Alas, alas, put up your naked
2H4 2.4. 207 weapons, put up your naked weapons! {Exit Pistol, pursued by +
2H4 2.4. 207 Bardolph}
2H4 2.4. 208
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's
2H4 2.4. 209 gone. Ah, you whoreson little valiant villain, you!
2H4 2.4. 210
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
{(to Sir John)} Are you not hurt +
2H4 2.4. 210 i' th'
2H4 2.4. 211 groin? Methought a made a shrewd thrust at your
2H4 2.4. 212 belly. {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 2.4. 213
2H4-SIR JOHN
Have you turned him out o' doors?
2H4 2.4. 214
2H4-BARDOLPH
Yea, sir. The rascal's drunk. You have hurt
2H4 2.4. 215 him, sir, i' th' shoulder.
2H4 2.4. 216
2H4-SIR JOHN
A rascal, to brave me!
2H4 2.4. 217
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas,
2H4 2.4. 218 poor ape, how thou sweatest! Come, let me wipe thy
2H4 2.4. 219 face; come on, you whoreson chops. Ah rogue, i' faith,
2H4 2.4. 220 I love thee. Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy,
2H4 2.4. 221 worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than
2H4 2.4. 222 the Nine Worthies. Ah, villain!
2H4 2.4. 223
2H4-SIR JOHN
A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a
2H4 2.4. 224 blanket.
2H4 2.4. 225
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Do, an thou darest for thy heart. An thou
2H4 2.4. 226 dost, I'll canvas thee between a pair of sheets. {Enter +
2H4 2.4. 226 musicians}
2H4 2.4. 227
2H4-PAGE
The music is come, sir.
2H4 2.4. 228
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let them play. - Play, sirs! {[Music plays]}
2H4 2.4. 229 Sit on my knee, Doll. A rascal bragging slave! The
2H4 2.4. 230 rogue fled from me like quicksilver.
2H4 2.4. 231
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I' faith, and thou followed'st him like a
2H4 2.4. 232 church. Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-
2H4 2.4. 233 pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o' days, and foining
2H4 2.4. 234 o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for
2H4 2.4. 235 heaven? {Enter Prince Harry and Poins, disguised as drawers}
2H4 2.4. 236
2H4-SIR JOHN
Peace, good Doll, do not speak like a death's-
2H4 2.4. 237 head, do not bid me remember mine end.
2H4 2.4. 238
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Sirrah, what humour's the Prince of?
2H4 2.4. 239
2H4-SIR JOHN
A good shallow young fellow. A would have
2H4 2.4. 240 made a good pantler; a would ha' chipped bread well.
2H4 2.4. 241
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
They say Poins has a good wit.
2H4 2.4. 242
2H4-SIR JOHN
He a good wit? Hang him, baboon! His wit's as
2H4 2.4. 243 thick as Tewkesbury mustard; there's no more conceit
2H4 2.4. 244 in him than is in a mallet.
2H4 2.4. 245
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Why does the Prince love him so, then?
2H4 2.4. 246
2H4-SIR JOHN
Because their legs are both of a bigness, and a
2H4 2.4. 247 plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel, and
2H4 2.4. 248 drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and rides the
2H4 2.4. 249 wild mare with the boys, and jumps upon joint-stools,
2H4 2.4. 250 and swears with a good grace, and wears his boot very
2H4 2.4. 251 smooth like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no
2H4 2.4. 252 bate with telling of discreet stories, and such other
2H4 2.4. 253 gambol faculties a has that show a weak mind and an
2H4 2.4. 254 able body; for the which the Prince admits him; for
2H4 2.4. 255 the Prince himself is such another - the weight of a
2H4 2.4. 256 hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois.
2H4 2.4. 257
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Would not this +
2H4 2.4. 257 nave of a
2H4 2.4. 258 wheel have his ears cut off?
2H4 2.4. 259
2H4-POINS
Let's beat him before his whore.
2H4 2.4. 260
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Look whe'er the withered elder hath not
2H4 2.4. 261 his poll clawed like a parrot.
2H4 2.4. 262
2H4-POINS
Is it not strange that desire should so many years
2H4 2.4. 263 outlive performance?
2H4 2.4. 264
2H4-SIR JOHN
Kiss me, Doll. {They kiss}
2H4 2.4. 265
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Saturn and Venus +
2H4 2.4. 265 this year
2H4 2.4. 266 in conjunction! What says th' almanac to that?
2H4 2.4. 267
2H4-POINS
And look whether the fiery Trigon his man be not
2H4 2.4. 268 lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book, his
2H4 2.4. 269 counsel-keeper!
2H4 2.4. 270
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Doll)} Thou dost give me flattering +
2H4 2.4. 270 busses.
2H4 2.4. 271
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
By my troth, I kiss thee with a most
2H4 2.4. 272 constant heart.
2H4 2.4. 273
2H4-SIR JOHN
I am old, I am old.
2H4 2.4. 274
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy
2H4 2.4. 275 young boy of them all.
2H4 2.4. 276
2H4-SIR JOHN
What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive
2H4 2.4. 277 money o' Thursday; shalt have a cap tomorrow. - A
2H4 2.4. 278 merry song! {[The music plays again]}
2H4 2.4. 279 Come, it grows late; we'll to bed. Thou'lt forget me
2H4 2.4. 280 when I am gone.
2H4 2.4. 281
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping
2H4 2.4. 282 an thou sayst so. Prove that ever I dress myself
2H4 2.4. 283 handsome till thy return - well, hearken a' th' end.
2H4 2.4. 284
2H4-SIR JOHN
Some sack, Francis.
2H4 2.4. 285
2H4-PRINCE
2H4-AND
2H4-POINS
{(coming forward)} Anon, anon, +
2H4 2.4. 285 sir.
2H4 2.4. 286
2H4-SIR JOHN
Ha, a bastard son of the King's! - And art not
2H4 2.4. 287 thou Poins his brother?
2H4 2.4. 288
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, thou globe of sinful continents, what
2H4 2.4. 289 a life dost thou lead!
2H4 2.4. 290
2H4-SIR JOHN
A better than thou: I am a gentleman, thou art
2H4 2.4. 291 a drawer.
2H4 2.4. 292
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Very true, sir, and I come to draw you out
2H4 2.4. 293 by the ears.
2H4 2.4. 294
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O, the Lord preserve thy grace! By my
2H4 2.4. 295 troth, welcome to London! Now the Lord bless that
2H4 2.4. 296 sweet face of thine! O Jesu, are you come from Wales?
2H4 2.4. 297
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Prince Harry)} Thou whoreson mad +
2H4 2.4. 297 compound
2H4 2.4. 298 of majesty! By this light - flesh and corrupt blood, thou
2H4 2.4. 299 art welcome.
2H4 2.4. 300
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
How, you fat fool? I scorn you.
2H4 2.4. 301
2H4-POINS
{(to Prince Harry)} My lord, he will drive +
2H4 2.4. 301 you out of
2H4 2.4. 302 your revenge and turn all to a merriment, if you take
2H4 2.4. 303 not the heat.
2H4 2.4. 304
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Sir John)} You whoreson +
2H4 2.4. 304 candlemine you,
2H4 2.4. 305 how vilely did you speak of me now, before this honest,
2H4 2.4. 306 virtuous, civil gentlewoman!
2H4 2.4. 307
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
God's blessing of your good heart, and
2H4 2.4. 308 so she is, by my troth!
2H4 2.4. 309
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Prince Harry)} Didst thou hear me?
2H4 2.4. 310
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Yea, and you knew me as you did when
2H4 2.4. 311 you ran away by Gads Hill; you knew I was at your
2H4 2.4. 312 back, and spoke it on purpose to try my patience.
2H4 2.4. 313
2H4-SIR JOHN
No, no, no, not so, I did not think thou wast
2H4 2.4. 314 within hearing.
2H4 2.4. 315
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
I shall drive you, then, to confess the wilful
2H4 2.4. 316 abuse, and then I know how to handle you.
2H4 2.4. 317
2H4-SIR JOHN
No abuse, Hal; o' mine honour, no abuse.
2H4 2.4. 318
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Not? To dispraise me, and call me `pantler'
2H4 2.4. 319 and `bread-chipper' and I know not what?
2H4 2.4. 320
2H4-SIR JOHN
No abuse, Hal.
2H4 2.4. 321
2H4-POINS
No abuse?
2H4 2.4. 322
2H4-SIR JOHN
No abuse, Ned, i' th' world, honest Ned, none.
2H4 2.4. 323 I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked
2H4 2.4. 324 might not fall in love with him; {(to Prince Harry)} in
2H4 2.4. 325 which doing I have done the part of a careful friend
2H4 2.4. 326 and a true subject, and thy father is to give me thanks
2H4 2.4. 327 for it. No abuse, Hal; none, Ned, none; no, faith, boys,
2H4 2.4. 328 none.
2H4 2.4. 329
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
See now whether pure fear and entire
2H4 2.4. 330 cowardice doth not make thee wrong this virtuous
2H4 2.4. 331 gentlewoman to close with us. Is she of the wicked? Is
2H4 2.4. 332 thine hostess here of the wicked? Or is thy boy of the
2H4 2.4. 333 wicked? Or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his
2H4 2.4. 334 nose, of the wicked?
2H4 2.4. 335
2H4-POINS
{(to Sir John)} Answer, thou dead elm, +
2H4 2.4. 335 answer.
2H4 2.4. 336
2H4-SIR JOHN
The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph
2H4 2.4. 337 irrecoverable, and his face is Lucifer's privy kitchen,
2H4 2.4. 338 where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms. For the
2H4 2.4. 339 boy, there is a good angel about him, but the devil
2H4 2.4. 340 outbids him, too.
2H4 2.4. 341
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
For the women?
2H4 2.4. 342
2H4-SIR JOHN
For one of them, she's in hell already, and burns
2H4 2.4. 343 poor souls. For th' other, I owe her money, and whether
2H4 2.4. 344 she be damned for that I know not.
2H4 2.4. 345
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, I warrant you.
2H4 2.4. 346
2H4-SIR JOHN
No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit
2H4 2.4. 347 for that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee,
2H4 2.4. 348 for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house, contrary
2H4 2.4. 349 to the law, for the which I think thou wilt howl.
2H4 2.4. 350
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
All victuallers do so. What's a joint of
2H4 2.4. 351 mutton or two in a whole Lent?
2H4 2.4. 352
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
You, gentlewoman -
2H4 2.4. 353
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
What says your grace?
2H4 2.4. 354
2H4-SIR JOHN
His grace says that which his flesh rebels against. +
2H4 2.4. 354 {Peto knocks at door within}
2H4 2.4. 355
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Who knocks so loud at door? +
2H4 2.4. 355 {(Calls)}
2H4 2.4. 356 Look to th' door there, Francis. {Enter Peto}
2H4 2.4. 357
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peto, how now, what news?
2H4 2.4. 358
2H4-PETO
The King your father is at Westminster;
2H4 2.4. 359 And there are twenty weak and wearied posts
2H4 2.4. 360 Come from the north; and as I came along
2H4 2.4. 361 I met and overtook a dozen captains,
2H4 2.4. 362 Bareheaded, sweating, knocking at the taverns,
2H4 2.4. 363 And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff.
2H4 2.4. 364
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame
2H4 2.4. 365 So idly to profane the precious time,
2H4 2.4. 366 When tempest of commotion, like the south
2H4 2.4. 367 Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt
2H4 2.4. 368 And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. -
2H4 2.4. 369 Give me my sword and cloak. - Falstaff, good night. {Exeunt Prince +
2H4 2.4. 369 Harry and Poins}
2H4 2.4. 370
2H4-SIR JOHN
Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night,
2H4 2.4. 371 and we must hence and leave it unpicked. {Knocking within. [Exit +
2H4 2.4. 371 Bardolph]}
2H4 2.4. 372 More knocking at the door! {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 2.4. 373 How now, what's the matter?
2H4 2.4. 374
2H4-BARDOLPH
You must away to court, sir, presently.
2H4 2.4. 375 A dozen captains stay at door for you.
2H4 2.4. 376
2H4-SIR JOHN
{[to the Page]} Pay the musicians, +
2H4 2.4. 376 sirrah. Farewell,
2H4 2.4. 377 hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches, how
2H4 2.4. 378 men of merit are sought after. The undeserver may
2H4 2.4. 379 sleep, when the man of action is called on. Farewell,
2H4 2.4. 380 good wenches. If I be not sent away post, I will see
2H4 2.4. 381 you again ere I go. {[Exeunt musicians]}
2H4 2.4. 382
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
{[weeping]} I cannot speak. If my +
2H4 2.4. 382 heart be
2H4 2.4. 383 not ready to burst - well, sweet Jack, have a care of
2H4 2.4. 384 thyself.
2H4 2.4. 385
2H4-SIR JOHN
Farewell, farewell! {Exit [with Bardolph, Peto, and +
2H4 2.4. 385 the Page]}
2H4 2.4. 386
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Well, fare thee well. I have known thee
2H4 2.4. 387 these twenty-nine years come peascod-time, but an
2H4 2.4. 388 honester and truer-hearted man - well, fare thee well. {[Enter +
2H4 2.4. 388 Bardolph]}
2H4 2.4. 389
2H4-BARDOLPH
Mistress Tearsheet!
2H4 2.4. 390
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
What's the matter?
2H4 2.4. 391
2H4-BARDOLPH
Bid Mistress Tearsheet come to my master. {[Exit]}
2H4 2.4. 392
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O run, Doll; run, run, good Doll! +
2H4 2.4. 392 {Exeunt [Doll at one door, Mistress Quickly at another door]}
2H4 2.4. 0 {Enter King Henry in his nightgown, with a page}
2H4 3.1. 1
2H4-KING HENRY
{(giving letters)} Go call the Earls of +
2H4 3.1. 1 Surrey and of Warwick.
2H4 3.1. 2 But ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters
2H4 3.1. 3 And well consider of them. Make good speed. {Exit page}
2H4 3.1. 4 How many thousand of my poorest subjects
2H4 3.1. 5 Are at this hour asleep? O sleep, O gentle sleep,
2H4 3.1. 6 Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
2H4 3.1. 7 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
2H4 3.1. 8 And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
2H4 3.1. 9 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
2H4 3.1. 10 Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
2H4 3.1. 11 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
2H4 3.1. 12 Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
2H4 3.1. 13 Under the canopies of costly state,
2H4 3.1. 14 And lulled with sound of sweetest melody?
2H4 3.1. 15 O thou dull god, why li'st thou with the vile
2H4 3.1. 16 In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
2H4 3.1. 17 A watch-case, or a common 'larum-bell?
2H4 3.1. 18 Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
2H4 3.1. 19 Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
2H4 3.1. 20 In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
2H4 3.1. 21 And in the visitation of the winds,
2H4 3.1. 22 Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
2H4 3.1. 23 Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
2H4 3.1. 24 With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds,
2H4 3.1. 25 That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
2H4 3.1. 26 Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
2H4 3.1. 27 To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
2H4 3.1. 28 And in the calmest and most stillest night,
2H4 3.1. 29 With all appliances and means to boot,
2H4 3.1. 30 Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down.
2H4 3.1. 31 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. {Enter the Earls of +
2H4 3.1. 31 Warwick and Surrey}
2H4 3.1. 32
2H4-WARWICK
Many good morrows to your majesty!
2H4 3.1. 33B
2H4-KING HENRY
Is it good morrow, lords?
2H4-WARWICK
'Tis one o'clock, +
2H4 3.1. 33B and past.
2H4 3.1. 34
2H4-KING HENRY
Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords.
2H4 3.1. 35 Have you read o'er the letter that I sent you?
2H4 3.1. 36A
2H4-WARWICK
We have, my liege.
2H4 3.1. 37
2H4-KING HENRY
Then you perceive the body of our kingdom,
2H4 3.1. 38 How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,
2H4 3.1. 39 And with what danger near the heart of it.
2H4 3.1. 40
2H4-WARWICK
It is but as a body yet distempered,
2H4 3.1. 41 Which to his former strength may be restored
2H4 3.1. 42 With good advice and little medicine.
2H4 3.1. 43 My lord Northumberland will soon be cooled.
2H4 3.1. 44
2H4-KING HENRY
O God, that one might read the book of fate,
2H4 3.1. 45 And see the revolution of the times
2H4 3.1. 46 Make mountains level, and the continent,
2H4 3.1. 47 Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
2H4 3.1. 48 Into the sea; and other times to see
2H4 3.1. 49 The beachy girdle of the ocean
2H4 3.1. 50 Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chance's mocks
2H4 3.1. 51 And changes fill the cup of alteration
2H4 3.1. 52 With divers liquors! 'Tis not ten years gone
2H4 3.1. 53 Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,
2H4 3.1. 54 Did feast together; and in two year after
2H4 3.1. 55 Were they at wars. It is but eight years since
2H4 3.1. 56 This Percy was the man nearest my soul,
2H4 3.1. 57 Who like a brother toiled in my affairs,
2H4 3.1. 58 And laid his love and life under my foot,
2H4 3.1. 59 Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard
2H4 3.1. 60 Gave him defiance. But which of you was by -
2H4 3.1. 61 {(To Warwick)} You, cousin Neville, as I may remember -
2H4 3.1. 62 When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,
2H4 3.1. 63 Then checked and rated by Northumberland,
2H4 3.1. 64 Did speak these words, now proved a prophecy? -
2H4 3.1. 65 `Northumberland, thou ladder by the which
2H4 3.1. 66 My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne' -
2H4 3.1. 67 Though then, God knows, I had no such intent,
2H4 3.1. 68 But that necessity so bowed the state
2H4 3.1. 69 That I and greatness were compelled to kiss -
2H4 3.1. 70 `The time shall come' - thus did he follow it -
2H4 3.1. 71 `The time will come that foul sin, gathering head,
2H4 3.1. 72 Shall break into corruption'; so went on,
2H4 3.1. 73 Foretelling this same time's condition,
2H4 3.1. 74 And the division of our amity.
2H4 3.1. 75
2H4-WARWICK
There is a history in all men's lives
2H4 3.1. 76 Figuring the natures of the times deceased;
2H4 3.1. 77 The which observed, a man may prophesy,
2H4 3.1. 78 With a near aim, of the main chance of things
2H4 3.1. 79 As yet not come to life, who in their seeds
2H4 3.1. 80 And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
2H4 3.1. 81 Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
2H4 3.1. 82 And by the necessary form of this
2H4 3.1. 83 King Richard might create a perfect guess
2H4 3.1. 84 That great Northumberland, then false to him,
2H4 3.1. 85 Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness,
2H4 3.1. 86 Which should not find a ground to root upon
2H4 3.1. 87B Unless on you.
2H4-KING HENRY
Are these things then necessities?
2H4 3.1. 88 Then let us meet them like necessities;
2H4 3.1. 89 And that same word even now cries out on us.
2H4 3.1. 90 They say the Bishop and Northumberland
2H4 3.1. 91B Are fifty thousand strong.
2H4-WARWICK
It cannot be, my lord.
2H4 3.1. 92 Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
2H4 3.1. 93 The numbers of the feared. Please it your grace
2H4 3.1. 94 To go to bed? Upon my soul, my lord,
2H4 3.1. 95 The powers that you already have sent forth
2H4 3.1. 96 Shall bring this prize in very easily.
2H4 3.1. 97 To comfort you the more, I have received
2H4 3.1. 98 A certain instance that Glyndw^r is dead.
2H4 3.1. 99 Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,
2H4 3.1. 100 And these unseasoned hours perforce must add
2H4 3.1. 101B Unto your sickness.
2H4-KING HENRY
I will take your counsel.
2H4 3.1. 102 And were these inward wars once out of hand,
2H4 3.1. 103 We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land. {Exeunt}
2H4 3.1. 0 {Enter Justice Shallow and Justice Silence}
2H4 3.2. 1
2H4-SHALLOW
Come on, come on, come on! Give me your
2H4 3.2. 2 hand, sir, give me your hand, sir. An early stirrer, by
2H4 3.2. 3 the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence?
2H4 3.2. 4
2H4-SILENCE
Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 5
2H4-SHALLOW
And how doth my cousin your bedfellow? And
2H4 3.2. 6 your fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?
2H4 3.2. 7
2H4-SILENCE
Alas, a black ouzel, cousin Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 8
2H4-SHALLOW
By yea and no, sir, I dare say my cousin William
2H4 3.2. 9 is become a good scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he
2H4 3.2. 10 not?
2H4 3.2. 11
2H4-SILENCE
Indeed, sir, to my cost.
2H4 3.2. 12
2H4-SHALLOW
A must then to the Inns o' Court shortly. I was
2H4 3.2. 13 once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will talk of
2H4 3.2. 14 mad Shallow yet.
2H4 3.2. 15
2H4-SILENCE
You were called `lusty Shallow' then, cousin.
2H4 3.2. 16
2H4-SHALLOW
By the mass, I was called anything; and I would
2H4 3.2. 17 have done anything indeed, too, and roundly, too.
2H4 3.2. 18 There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire, and
2H4 3.2. 19 black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will
2H4 3.2. 20 Squeal, a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge-
2H4 3.2. 21 bucklers in all the Inns o' Court again. And I may say
2H4 3.2. 22 to you, we knew where the bona-robas were, and had
2H4 3.2. 23 the best of them all at commandment. Then was Jack
2H4 3.2. 24 Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page to Thomas
2H4 3.2. 25 Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.
2H4 3.2. 26
2H4-SILENCE
This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon
2H4 3.2. 27 about soldiers?
2H4 3.2. 28
2H4-SHALLOW
The same Sir John, the very same. I see him
2H4 3.2. 29 break Scoggin's head at the court gate when a was a
2H4 3.2. 30 crack, not thus high. And the very same day did I fight
2H4 3.2. 31 with one Samson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's
2H4 3.2. 32 Inn. Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And
2H4 3.2. 33 to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead.
2H4 3.2. 34
2H4-SILENCE
We shall all follow, cousin.
2H4 3.2. 35
2H4-SHALLOW
Certain, 'tis certain; very sure, very sure. Death,
2H4 3.2. 36 as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.
2H4 3.2. 37 How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?
2H4 3.2. 38
2H4-SILENCE
By my troth, I was not there.
2H4 3.2. 39
2H4-SHALLOW
Death is certain. Is old Double of your town
2H4 3.2. 40 living yet?
2H4 3.2. 41
2H4-SILENCE
Dead, sir.
2H4 3.2. 42
2H4-SHALLOW
Jesu, Jesu, dead! A drew a good bow; and dead!
2H4 3.2. 43 A shot a fine shoot. John o' Gaunt loved him well, and
2H4 3.2. 44 betted much money on his head. Dead! A would have
2H4 3.2. 45 clapped i' th' clout at twelve score, and carried you a
2H4 3.2. 46 forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, that
2H4 3.2. 47 it would have done a man's heart good to see. How a
2H4 3.2. 48 score of ewes now?
2H4 3.2. 49
2H4-SILENCE
Thereafter as they be. A score of good ewes may
2H4 3.2. 50 be worth ten pounds.
2H4 3.2. 51
2H4-SHALLOW
And is old Double dead? {Enter Bardolph and [the +
2H4 3.2. 51 Page]}
2H4 3.2. 52
2H4-SILENCE
Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's men, as I
2H4 3.2. 53 think.
2H4 3.2. 54
2H4-[SHALLOW]
Good morrow, honest gentlemen.
2H4 3.2. 55
2H4-BARDOLPH
I beseech you, which is Justice Shallow?
2H4 3.2. 56
2H4-SHALLOW
I am Robert Shallow, sir, a poor esquire of this
2H4 3.2. 57 county, and one of the King's Justices of the Peace.
2H4 3.2. 58 What is your good pleasure with me?
2H4 3.2. 59
2H4-BARDOLPH
My captain, sir, commends him to you - my
2H4 3.2. 60 captain Sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven,
2H4 3.2. 61 and a most gallant leader.
2H4 3.2. 62
2H4-SHALLOW
He greets me well, sir. I knew him a good
2H4 3.2. 63 backsword man. How doth the good knight? May I ask
2H4 3.2. 64 how my lady his wife doth?
2H4 3.2. 65
2H4-BARDOLPH
Sir, pardon, a soldier is better accommodated
2H4 3.2. 66 than with a wife.
2H4 3.2. 67
2H4-SHALLOW
It is well said, in faith, sir, and it is well said
2H4 3.2. 68 indeed, too. `Better accommodated' - it is good; yea,
2H4 3.2. 69 indeed is it. Good phrases are surely, and ever were,
2H4 3.2. 70 very commendable. `Accommodated' - it comes of
2H4 3.2. 71 `{accommodo}'. Very good, a good phrase.
2H4 3.2. 72
2H4-BARDOLPH
Pardon, sir, I have heard the word - `phrase'
2H4 3.2. 73 call you it? - By this day, I know not the phrase; but
2H4 3.2. 74 I will maintain the word with my sword to be a soldier-
2H4 3.2. 75 like word, and a word of exceeding good command, by
2H4 3.2. 76 heaven. `Accommodated'; that is, when a man is, as
2H4 3.2. 77 they say, accommodated; or when a man is being
2H4 3.2. 78 whereby a may be thought to be accommodated; which
2H4 3.2. 79 is an excellent thing. {Enter Sir John Falstaff}
2H4 3.2. 80
2H4-SHALLOW
It is very just. Look, here comes good Sir John.
2H4 3.2. 81 {(To Sir John)} Give me your hand, give me your +
2H4 3.2. 81 worship's
2H4 3.2. 82 good hand. By my troth, you like well, and bear your
2H4 3.2. 83 years very well. Welcome, good Sir John.
2H4 3.2. 84
2H4-SIR JOHN
I am glad to see you well, good Master Robert
2H4 3.2. 85 Shallow. {(To Silence)} Master Surecard, as I think.
2H4 3.2. 86
2H4-SHALLOW
No, Sir John, it is my cousin Silence, in
2H4 3.2. 87 commission with me.
2H4 3.2. 88
2H4-SIR JOHN
Good Master Silence, it well befits you should
2H4 3.2. 89 be of the peace.
2H4 3.2. 90
2H4-SILENCE
Your good worship is welcome.
2H4 3.2. 91
2H4-SIR JOHN
Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you
2H4 3.2. 92 provided me here half a dozen sufficient men?
2H4 3.2. 93
2H4-SHALLOW
Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?
2H4 3.2. 94
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let me see them, I beseech you. {[He sits]}
2H4 3.2. 95
2H4-SHALLOW
Where's the roll, where's the roll, where's the
2H4 3.2. 96 roll? Let me see, let me see, let me see; so, so, so, so,
2H4 3.2. 97 so. Yea, marry, sir: `Ralph Mouldy'. {[To Silence]} Let
2H4 3.2. 98 them appear as I call, let them do so, let them do so.
2H4 3.2. 99 Let me see, {(calls)} where is Mouldy? {[Enter +
2H4 3.2. 99 Mouldy]}
2H4 3.2. 100
2H4-MOULDY
Here, an 't please you.
2H4 3.2. 101
2H4-SHALLOW
What think you, Sir John? A good-limbed
2H4 3.2. 102 fellow, young, strong, and of good friends.
2H4 3.2. 103
2H4-SIR JOHN
Is thy name Mouldy?
2H4 3.2. 104
2H4-MOULDY
Yea, an 't please you.
2H4 3.2. 105
2H4-SIR JOHN
'Tis the more time thou wert used.
2H4 3.2. 106
2H4-SHALLOW
Ha, ha, ha, most excellent, i' faith! Things that
2H4 3.2. 107 are mouldy lack use. Very singular good, in faith, well
2H4 3.2. 108 said, Sir John, very well said.
2H4 3.2. 109
2H4-SIR JOHN
Prick him.
2H4 3.2. 110
2H4-MOULDY
I was pricked well enough before, an you could
2H4 3.2. 111 have let me alone. My old dame will be undone now
2H4 3.2. 112 for one to do her husbandry and her drudgery. You
2H4 3.2. 113 need not to have pricked me; there are other men fitter
2H4 3.2. 114 to go out than I.
2H4 3.2. 115
2H4-SIR JOHN
Go to, peace, Mouldy. You shall go, Mouldy; it
2H4 3.2. 116 is time you were spent.
2H4 3.2. 117
2H4-MOULDY
Spent?
2H4 3.2. 118
2H4-SHALLOW
Peace, fellow, peace. Stand aside; know you
2H4 3.2. 119 where you are? {[Mouldy stands aside]}
2H4 3.2. 120 For th' other, Sir John, let me see: `Simon Shadow' -
2H4 3.2. 121
2H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under. He's
2H4 3.2. 122 like to be a cold soldier.
2H4 3.2. 123
2H4-SHALLOW
{(calls)} Where's Shadow? {[Enter +
2H4 3.2. 123 Shadow]}
2H4 3.2. 124
2H4-SHADOW
Here, sir.
2H4 3.2. 125
2H4-SIR JOHN
Shadow, whose son art thou?
2H4 3.2. 126
2H4-SHADOW
My mother's son, sir.
2H4 3.2. 127
2H4-SIR JOHN
Thy mother's son! Like enough, and thy father's
2H4 3.2. 128 shadow. So the son of the female is the shadow of the
2H4 3.2. 129 male - it is often so indeed - but not of the father's
2H4 3.2. 130 substance.
2H4 3.2. 131
2H4-SHALLOW
Do you like him, Sir John?
2H4 3.2. 132
2H4-SIR JOHN
Shadow will serve for summer. Prick him, for
2H4 3.2. 133 we have a number of shadows fill up the muster book. {[Shadow +
2H4 3.2. 133 stands aside]}
2H4 3.2. 134
2H4-SHALLOW
{(calls)} `Thomas Wart.'
2H4 3.2. 135
2H4-SIR JOHN
Where's he? {[Enter Wart]}
2H4 3.2. 136
2H4-WART
Here, sir.
2H4 3.2. 137
2H4-SIR JOHN
Is thy name Wart?
2H4 3.2. 138
2H4-WART
Yea, sir.
2H4 3.2. 139
2H4-SIR JOHN
Thou art a very ragged wart.
2H4 3.2. 140
2H4-SHALLOW
Shall I prick him, Sir John?
2H4 3.2. 141
2H4-SIR JOHN
It were superfluous, for his apparel is built upon
2H4 3.2. 142 his back, and the whole frame stands upon pins. Prick
2H4 3.2. 143 him no more.
2H4 3.2. 144
2H4-SHALLOW
Ha, ha, ha, you can do it, sir, you can do it! I
2H4 3.2. 145 commend you well. {[Wart stands aside]}
2H4 3.2. 146 {(Calls)} `Francis Feeble.' {[Enter Feeble]}
2H4 3.2. 147
2H4-FEEBLE
Here, sir.
2H4 3.2. 148
2H4-SHALLOW
What trade art thou, Feeble?
2H4 3.2. 149
2H4-FEEBLE
A woman's tailor, sir.
2H4 3.2. 150
2H4-SHALLOW
Shall I prick him, sir?
2H4 3.2. 151
2H4-SIR JOHN
You may, but if he had been a man's tailor,
2H4 3.2. 152 he'd ha' pricked you. {(To Feeble)} Wilt thou make as
2H4 3.2. 153 many holes in an enemy's battle as thou hast done in
2H4 3.2. 154 a woman's petticoat?
2H4 3.2. 155
2H4-FEEBLE
I will do my good will, sir; you can have no more.
2H4 3.2. 156
2H4-SIR JOHN
Well said, good woman's tailor; well said,
2H4 3.2. 157 courageous Feeble! Thou wilt be as valiant as the
2H4 3.2. 158 wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the
2H4 3.2. 159 woman's tailor. Well, Master Shallow; deep, Master
2H4 3.2. 160 Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 161
2H4-FEEBLE
I would Wart might have gone, sir.
2H4 3.2. 162
2H4-SIR JOHN
I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou
2H4 3.2. 163 mightst mend him and make him fit to go. I cannot
2H4 3.2. 164 put him to a private soldier that is the leader of so
2H4 3.2. 165 many thousands. Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble.
2H4 3.2. 166
2H4-FEEBLE
It shall suffice, sir.
2H4 3.2. 167
2H4-SIR JOHN
I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. {[Feeble +
2H4 3.2. 167 stands aside]}
2H4 3.2. 168 Who is next?
2H4 3.2. 169
2H4-SHALLOW
{(calls)} `Peter Bullcalf o' th' green.'
2H4 3.2. 170
2H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf. {[Enter Bullcalf]}
2H4 3.2. 171
2H4-BULLCALF
Here, sir.
2H4 3.2. 172
2H4-SIR JOHN
Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick Bullcalf
2H4 3.2. 173 till he roar again.
2H4 3.2. 174
2H4-BULLCALF
O Lord, good my lord captain!
2H4 3.2. 175
2H4-SIR JOHN
What, dost thou roar before thou'rt pricked?
2H4 3.2. 176
2H4-BULLCALF
O Lord, sir, I am a diseased man.
2H4 3.2. 177
2H4-SIR JOHN
What disease hast thou?
2H4 3.2. 178
2H4-BULLCALF
A whoreson cold, sir; a cough, sir, which I
2H4 3.2. 179 caught with ringing in the King's affairs upon his
2H4 3.2. 180 coronation day, sir.
2H4 3.2. 181
2H4-SIR JOHN
Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown. We
2H4 3.2. 182 will have away thy cold, and I will take such order
2H4 3.2. 183 that thy friends shall ring for thee. {[Bullcalf stands aside]}
2H4 3.2. 184 Is here all?
2H4 3.2. 185
2H4-SHALLOW
There is two more called than your number.
2H4 3.2. 186 You must have but four here, sir, and so I pray you
2H4 3.2. 187 go in with me to dinner.
2H4 3.2. 188
2H4-SIR JOHN
Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot
2H4 3.2. 189 tarry dinner. I am glad to see you, by my troth, Master
2H4 3.2. 190 Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 191
2H4-SHALLOW
O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all
2H4 3.2. 192 night in the Windmill in Saint George's Field?
2H4 3.2. 193
2H4-SIR JOHN
No more of that, good Master Shallow, no more
2H4 3.2. 194 of that.
2H4 3.2. 195
2H4-SHALLOW
Ha, 'twas a merry night! And is Jane Nightwork
2H4 3.2. 196 alive?
2H4 3.2. 197
2H4-SIR JOHN
She lives, Master Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 198
2H4-SHALLOW
She never could away with me.
2H4 3.2. 199
2H4-SIR JOHN
Never, never. She would always say she could
2H4 3.2. 200 not abide Master Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 201
2H4-SHALLOW
By the mass, I could anger her to th' heart. She
2H4 3.2. 202 was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?
2H4 3.2. 203
2H4-SIR JOHN
Old, old, Master Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 204
2H4-SHALLOW
Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but
2H4 3.2. 205 be old; certain she's old; and had Robin Nightwork by
2H4 3.2. 206 old Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn.
2H4 3.2. 207
2H4-SILENCE
That's fifty-five year ago.
2H4 3.2. 208
2H4-SHALLOW
Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that
2H4 3.2. 209 that this knight and I have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I
2H4 3.2. 210 well?
2H4 3.2. 211
2H4-SIR JOHN
We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master
2H4 3.2. 212 Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 213
2H4-SHALLOW
That we have, that we have; in faith, Sir John,
2H4 3.2. 214 we have. Our watchword was `Hem boys!' Come, let's
2H4 3.2. 215 to dinner; come, let's to dinner. Jesus, the days that
2H4 3.2. 216 we have seen! Come, come. {Exeunt Shallow, Silence, and Sir +
2H4 3.2. 216 John}
2H4 3.2. 217
2H4-BULLCALF
{[coming forward]} Good Master Corporate
2H4 3.2. 218 Bardolph, stand my friend, and here's four Harry ten
2H4 3.2. 219 shillings in French crowns for you. In very truth, sir,
2H4 3.2. 220 I had as lief be hanged, sir, as go. And yet for mine
2H4 3.2. 221 own part, sir, I do not care; but rather because I am
2H4 3.2. 222 unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a desire to
2H4 3.2. 223 stay with my friends. Else, sir, I did not care, for mine
2H4 3.2. 224 own part, so much.
2H4 3.2. 225
2H4-BARDOLPH
{[taking the money]} Go to; stand +
2H4 3.2. 225 aside. {[Bullcalf stands aside]}
2H4 3.2. 226
2H4-MOULDY
{[coming forward]} And, good Master +
2H4 3.2. 226 Corporal
2H4 3.2. 227 Captain, for my old dame's sake stand my friend. She
2H4 3.2. 228 has nobody to do anything about her when I am gone,
2H4 3.2. 229 and she is old and cannot help herself. You shall have
2H4 3.2. 230 forty, sir.
2H4 3.2. 231
2H4-BARDOLPH
Go to; stand aside. {[Mouldy stands aside]}
2H4 3.2. 232
2H4-FEEBLE
By my troth, I care not. A man can die but once.
2H4 3.2. 233 We owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An 't
2H4 3.2. 234 be my destiny, so; an 't be not, so. No man's too good
2H4 3.2. 235 to serve's prince. And let it go which way it will, he
2H4 3.2. 236 that dies this year is quit for the next.
2H4 3.2. 237
2H4-BARDOLPH
Well said; thou'rt a good fellow.
2H4 3.2. 238
2H4-FEEBLE
Faith, I'll bear no base mind. {Enter Sir John +
2H4 3.2. 238 Falstaff, Shallow, and Silence}
2H4 3.2. 239
2H4-SIR JOHN
Come, sir, which men shall I have?
2H4 3.2. 240
2H4-SHALLOW
Four of which you please.
2H4 3.2. 241
2H4-BARDOLPH
{(to Sir John)} Sir, a word with +
2H4 3.2. 241 you. {(Aside to him)}
2H4 3.2. 242 I have three pound to free Mouldy and Bullcalf.
2H4 3.2. 243
2H4-SIR JOHN
Go to, well.
2H4 3.2. 244
2H4-SHALLOW
Come, Sir John, which four will you have?
2H4 3.2. 245
2H4-SIR JOHN
Do you choose for me.
2H4 3.2. 246
2H4-SHALLOW
Marry, then: Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, and
2H4 3.2. 247 Shadow.
2H4 3.2. 248
2H4-SIR JOHN
Mouldy and Bullcalf. For you, Mouldy, stay at
2H4 3.2. 249 home till you are past service; and for your part,
2H4 3.2. 250 Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it. I will none of you. +
2H4 3.2. 250 {[Exeunt Bullcalf and Mouldy]}
2H4 3.2. 251
2H4-SHALLOW
Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself wrong. They
2H4 3.2. 252 are your likeliest men, and I would have you served
2H4 3.2. 253 with the best.
2H4 3.2. 254
2H4-SIR JOHN
Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose
2H4 3.2. 255 a man? Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature,
2H4 3.2. 256 bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit,
2H4 3.2. 257 Master Shallow. Here's Wart; you see what a ragged
2H4 3.2. 258 appearance it is? A shall charge you and discharge you
2H4 3.2. 259 with the motion of a pewterer's hammer, come off and
2H4 3.2. 260 on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's bucket.
2H4 3.2. 261 And this same half-faced fellow Shadow; give me this
2H4 3.2. 262 man. He presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman
2H4 3.2. 263 may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife.
2H4 3.2. 264 And for a retreat, how swiftly will this Feeble the
2H4 3.2. 265 woman's tailor run off! O, give me the spare men, and
2H4 3.2. 266 spare me the great ones. - Put me a caliver into Wart's
2H4 3.2. 267 hand, Bardolph.
2H4 3.2. 268
2H4-BARDOLPH
{(giving Wart a caliver)} Hold, Wart. +
2H4 3.2. 268 Traverse -
2H4 3.2. 269 thas, thas, thas! {[Wart marches]}
2H4 3.2. 270
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Wart)} Come, manage me your caliver. +
2H4 3.2. 270 So;
2H4 3.2. 271 very well. Go to, very good, exceeding good. O, give
2H4 3.2. 272 me always a little, lean, old, chapped, bald shot! Well
2H4 3.2. 273 said, i' faith, Wart; thou'rt a good scab. Hold; {(giving}
2H4 3.2. 274 {a coin)} there's a tester for thee.
2H4 3.2. 275
2H4-SHALLOW
He is not his craft's master; he doth not do it
2H4 3.2. 276 right. I remember at Mile-End Green, when I lay at
2H4 3.2. 277 Clement's Inn - I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's
2H4 3.2. 278 show - there was a little quiver fellow, and a would
2H4 3.2. 279 manage you his piece thus, and a would about and
2H4 3.2. 280 about, and come you in and come you in. `Ra-ta-ta!'
2H4 3.2. 281 would a say; `Bounce!' would a say; and away again
2H4 3.2. 282 would a go; and again would a come. I shall ne'er see
2H4 3.2. 283 such a fellow.
2H4 3.2. 284
2H4-SIR JOHN
These fellows will do well, Master Shallow. God
2H4 3.2. 285 keep you, Master Silence; I will not use many words
2H4 3.2. 286 with you. Fare you well, gentlemen both; I thank you.
2H4 3.2. 287 I must a dozen mile tonight. - Bardolph, give the
2H4 3.2. 288 soldiers coats.
2H4 3.2. 289
2H4-SHALLOW
Sir John, the Lord bless you; God prosper your
2H4 3.2. 290 affairs! God send us peace! As you return, visit my
2H4 3.2. 291 house; let our old acquaintance be renewed.
2H4 3.2. 292 Peradventure I will with ye to the court.
2H4 3.2. 293
2H4-SIR JOHN
Fore God, would you would!
2H4 3.2. 294
2H4-SHALLOW
Go to, I have spoke at a word. God keep you!
2H4 3.2. 295
2H4-SIR JOHN
Fare you well, gentle gentlemen. {Exeunt Shallow +
2H4 3.2. 295 and Silence}
2H4 3.2. 296 On, Bardolph, lead the men away. {Exeunt Bardolph, +
2H4 3.2. 296 Wart, Shadow, and Feeble}
2H4 3.2. 297 As I return, I will fetch off these justices. I do see the
2H4 3.2. 298 bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how subject we
2H4 3.2. 299 old men are to this vice of lying! This same starved
2H4 3.2. 300 justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the
2H4 3.2. 301 wildness of his youth and the feats he hath done about
2H4 3.2. 302 Turnbull Street; and every third word a lie, duer paid
2H4 3.2. 303 to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do remember
2H4 3.2. 304 him at Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of
2H4 3.2. 305 a cheese paring. When a was naked, he was for all the
2H4 3.2. 306 world like a forked radish, with a head fantastically
2H4 3.2. 307 carved upon it with a knife. A was so forlorn that his
2H4 3.2. 308 dimensions, to any thick sight, were invisible. A was
2H4 3.2. 309 the very genius of famine. And now is this Vice's dagger
2H4 3.2. 310 become a squire, and talks as familiarly of John o'
2H4 3.2. 311 Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him, and I'll
2H4 3.2. 312 be sworn a ne'er saw him but once, in the Tilt-yard,
2H4 3.2. 313 and then he burst his head for crowding among the
2H4 3.2. 314 marshal's men. I saw it, and told John o' Gaunt he
2H4 3.2. 315 beat his own name; for you might have trussed him
2H4 3.2. 316 and all his apparel into an eel-skin. The case of a treble
2H4 3.2. 317 hautboy was a mansion for him, a court. And now has
2H4 3.2. 318 he land and beeves. Well, I'll be acquainted with him
2H4 3.2. 319 if I return; and 't shall go hard but I'll make him a
2H4 3.2. 320 philosopher's two stones to me. If the young dace be
2H4 3.2. 321 a bait for the old pike, I see no reason in the law of
2H4 3.2. 322 nature but I may snap at him. Let time shape, and
2H4 3.2. 323 there an end. {Exit}
2H4 3.2. 0 {Enter [in arms] the Archbishop of York, Thomas +
2H4 4.1. 0 Mowbray, Lord Hastings, and [Coleville], within the Forest of Gaultres}
2H4 4.1. 1A
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
What is this forest called?
2H4 4.1. 2
2H4-HASTINGS
'Tis Gaultres Forest, an 't shall please your grace.
2H4 4.1. 3
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Here stand, my lords, and send discoverers forth
2H4 4.1. 4 To know the numbers of our enemies.
2H4 4.1. 5B
2H4-HASTINGS
We have sent forth already.
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
'Tis +
2H4 4.1. 5B well done.
2H4 4.1. 6 My friends and brethren in these great affairs,
2H4 4.1. 7 I must acquaint you that I have received
2H4 4.1. 8 New-dated letters from Northumberland,
2H4 4.1. 9 Their cold intent, tenor, and substance, thus:
2H4 4.1. 10 Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
2H4 4.1. 11 As might hold sortance with his quality,
2H4 4.1. 12 The which he could not levy; whereupon
2H4 4.1. 13 He is retired to ripe his growing fortunes
2H4 4.1. 14 To Scotland, and concludes in hearty prayers
2H4 4.1. 15 That your attempts may overlive the hazard
2H4 4.1. 16 And fearful meeting of their opposite.
2H4 4.1. 17
2H4-MOWBRAY
Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
2H4 4.1. 18B And dash themselves to pieces. {Enter a Messenger}
2H4-HASTINGS
+
2H4 4.1. 18B Now, what news?
2H4 4.1. 19
2H4-MESSENGER
West of this forest, scarcely off a mile,
2H4 4.1. 20 In goodly form comes on the enemy;
2H4 4.1. 21 And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number
2H4 4.1. 22 Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand.
2H4 4.1. 23
2H4-MOWBRAY
The just proportion that we gave them out.
2H4 4.1. 24 Let us sway on, and face them in the field. {Enter the Earl of +
2H4 4.1. 24 Westmorland}
2H4 4.1. 25
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
What well-appointed leader fronts us +
2H4 4.1. 25 here?
2H4 4.1. 26
2H4-MOWBRAY
I think it is my lord of Westmorland.
2H4 4.1. 27
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Health and fair greeting from our general,
2H4 4.1. 28 The Prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster.
2H4 4.1. 29
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Say on, my lord of Westmorland, in peace,
2H4 4.1. 30B What doth concern your coming.
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Then, my lord,
2H4 4.1. 31 Unto your grace do I in chief address
2H4 4.1. 32 The substance of my speech. If that rebellion
2H4 4.1. 33 Came like itself, in base and abject routs,
2H4 4.1. 34 Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags,
2H4 4.1. 35 And countenanced by boys and beggary;
2H4 4.1. 36 I say, if damned commotion so appeared
2H4 4.1. 37 In his true native and most proper shape,
2H4 4.1. 38 You, reverend father, and these noble lords
2H4 4.1. 39 Had not been here to dress the ugly form
2H4 4.1. 40 Of base and bloody insurrection
2H4 4.1. 41 With your fair honours. You, Lord Archbishop,
2H4 4.1. 42 Whose see is by a civil peace maintained,
2H4 4.1. 43 Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touched,
2H4 4.1. 44 Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutored,
2H4 4.1. 45 Whose white investments figure innocence,
2H4 4.1. 46 The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,
2H4 4.1. 47 Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself
2H4 4.1. 48 Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace
2H4 4.1. 49 Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war,
2H4 4.1. 50 Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,
2H4 4.1. 51 Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine
2H4 4.1. 52 To a loud trumpet and a point of war?
2H4 4.1. 53
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Wherefore do I this? So the question stands.
2H4 4.1. 54 Briefly, to this end: we are all diseased,
2H4 4.1. 55 And with our surfeiting and wanton hours
2H4 4.1. 56 Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
2H4 4.1. 57 And we must bleed for it - of which disease
2H4 4.1. 58 Our late King Richard, being infected, died.
2H4 4.1. 59 But, my most noble lord of Westmorland,
2H4 4.1. 60 I take not on me here as a physician,
2H4 4.1. 61 Nor do I as an enemy to peace
2H4 4.1. 62 Troop in the throngs of military men;
2H4 4.1. 63 But rather show a while like fearful war
2H4 4.1. 64 To diet rank minds, sick of happiness,
2H4 4.1. 65 And purge th' obstructions which begin to stop
2H4 4.1. 66 Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly.
2H4 4.1. 67 I have in equal balance justly weighed
2H4 4.1. 68 What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,
2H4 4.1. 69 And find our griefs heavier than our offences.
2H4 4.1. 70 We see which way the stream of time doth run,
2H4 4.1. 71 And are enforced from our most quiet shore
2H4 4.1. 72 By the rough torrent of occasion;
2H4 4.1. 73 And have the summary of all our griefs,
2H4 4.1. 74 When time shall serve, to show in articles,
2H4 4.1. 75 Which long ere this we offered to the King,
2H4 4.1. 76 And might by no suit gain our audience.
2H4 4.1. 77 When we are wronged, and would unfold our griefs,
2H4 4.1. 78 We are denied access unto his person
2H4 4.1. 79 Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
2H4 4.1. 80 The dangers of the days but newly gone,
2H4 4.1. 81 Whose memory is written on the earth
2H4 4.1. 82 With yet appearing blood, and the examples
2H4 4.1. 83 Of every minute's instance, present now,
2H4 4.1. 84 Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms,
2H4 4.1. 85 Not to break peace, or any branch of it,
2H4 4.1. 86 But to establish here a peace indeed,
2H4 4.1. 87 Concurring both in name and quality.
2H4 4.1. 88
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Whenever yet was your appeal denied?
2H4 4.1. 89 Wherein have you been galled by the King?
2H4 4.1. 90 What peer hath been suborned to grate on you,
2H4 4.1. 91 That you should seal this lawless bloody book
2H4 4.1. 92 Of forged rebellion with a seal divine?
2H4 4.1. 93
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
My brother general, the commonwealth
2H4 4.1. 94 I make my quarrel in particular.
2H4 4.1. 95
2H4-WESTMORLAND
There is no need of any such redress;
2H4 4.1. 96 Or if there were, it not belongs to you.
2H4 4.1. 97
2H4-MOWBRAY
Why not to him in part, and to us all
2H4 4.1. 98 That feel the bruises of the days before,
2H4 4.1. 99 And suffer the condition of these times
2H4 4.1. 100 To lay a heavy and unequal hand
2H4 4.1. 101B Upon our honours?
2H4-WESTMORLAND
O my good Lord Mowbray,
2H4 4.1. 102 Construe the times to their necessities,
2H4 4.1. 103 And you shall say indeed it is the time,
2H4 4.1. 104 And not the King, that doth you injuries.
2H4 4.1. 105 Yet for your part, it not appears to me,
2H4 4.1. 106 Either from the King or in the present time,
2H4 4.1. 107 That you should have an inch of any ground
2H4 4.1. 108 To build a grief on. Were you not restored
2H4 4.1. 109 To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories,
2H4 4.1. 110 Your noble and right well-remembered father's?
2H4 4.1. 111
2H4-MOWBRAY
What thing in honour had my father lost
2H4 4.1. 112 That need to be revived and breathed in me?
2H4 4.1. 113 The King that loved him, as the state stood then,
2H4 4.1. 114 Was force perforce compelled to banish him;
2H4 4.1. 115 And then that Henry Bolingbroke and he,
2H4 4.1. 116 Being mounted and both roused in their seats,
2H4 4.1. 117 Their neighing coursers daring of the spur,
2H4 4.1. 118 Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,
2H4 4.1. 119 Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel,
2H4 4.1. 120 And the loud trumpet blowing them together,
2H4 4.1. 121 Then, then, when there was nothing could have stayed
2H4 4.1. 122 My father from the breast of Bolingbroke -
2H4 4.1. 123 O, when the King did throw his warder down,
2H4 4.1. 124 His own life hung upon the staff he threw;
2H4 4.1. 125 Then threw he down himself and all their lives
2H4 4.1. 126 That by indictment and by dint of sword
2H4 4.1. 127 Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke.
2H4 4.1. 128
2H4-WESTMORLAND
You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what.
2H4 4.1. 129 The Earl of Hereford was reputed then
2H4 4.1. 130 In England the most valiant gentleman.
2H4 4.1. 131 Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled?
2H4 4.1. 132 But if your father had been victor there,
2H4 4.1. 133 He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry;
2H4 4.1. 134 For all the country in a general voice
2H4 4.1. 135 Cried hate upon him, and all their prayers and love
2H4 4.1. 136 Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on
2H4 4.1. 137 And blessed and graced, indeed, more than the King.
2H4 4.1. 138 But this is mere digression from my purpose.
2H4 4.1. 139 Here come I from our princely general
2H4 4.1. 140 To know your griefs, to tell you from his grace
2H4 4.1. 141 That he will give you audience; and wherein
2H4 4.1. 142 It shall appear that your demands are just,
2H4 4.1. 143 You shall enjoy them, everything set off
2H4 4.1. 144 That might so much as think you enemies.
2H4 4.1. 145
2H4-MOWBRAY
But he hath forced us to compel this offer,
2H4 4.1. 146 And it proceeds from policy, not love.
2H4 4.1. 147
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Mowbray, you overween to take it so.
2H4 4.1. 148 This offer comes from mercy, not from fear;
2H4 4.1. 149 For lo, within a ken our army lies,
2H4 4.1. 150 Upon mine honour, all too confident
2H4 4.1. 151 To give admittance to a thought of fear.
2H4 4.1. 152 Our battle is more full of names than yours,
2H4 4.1. 153 Our men more perfect in the use of arms,
2H4 4.1. 154 Our armour all as strong, our cause the best.
2H4 4.1. 155 Then reason will our hearts should be as good.
2H4 4.1. 156 Say you not then our offer is compelled.
2H4 4.1. 157
2H4-MOWBRAY
Well, by my will we shall admit no parley.
2H4 4.1. 158
2H4-WESTMORLAND
That argues but the shame of your offence.
2H4 4.1. 159 A rotten case abides no handling.
2H4 4.1. 160
2H4-HASTINGS
Hath the Prince John a full commission,
2H4 4.1. 161 In very ample virtue of his father,
2H4 4.1. 162 To hear and absolutely to determine
2H4 4.1. 163 Of what conditions we shall stand upon?
2H4 4.1. 164
2H4-WESTMORLAND
That is intended in the general's name.
2H4 4.1. 165 I muse you make so slight a question.
2H4 4.1. 166
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Then take, my lord of Westmorland, this +
2H4 4.1. 166 schedule;
2H4 4.1. 167 For this contains our general grievances.
2H4 4.1. 168 Each several article herein redressed,
2H4 4.1. 169 All members of our cause, both here and hence,
2H4 4.1. 170 That are ensinewed to this action
2H4 4.1. 171 Acquitted by a true substantial form,
2H4 4.1. 172 And present execution of our wills
2H4 4.1. 173 To us and to our purposes consigned,
2H4 4.1. 174 We come within our awe-full banks again,
2H4 4.1. 175 And knit our powers to the arm of peace.
2H4 4.1. 176
2H4-WESTMORLAND
{(taking the schedule)} This will I +
2H4 4.1. 176 show the general. Please you, lords,
2H4 4.1. 177 In sight of both our battles we may meet,
2H4 4.1. 178 And either end in peace - which God so frame -
2H4 4.1. 179 Or to the place of diff'rence call the swords
2H4 4.1. 180B Which must decide it.
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
My lord, we will do +
2H4 4.1. 180B so. {Exit Westmorland}
2H4 4.1. 181
2H4-MOWBRAY
There is a thing within my bosom tells me
2H4 4.1. 182 That no conditions of our peace can stand.
2H4 4.1. 183
2H4-HASTINGS
Fear you not that. If we can make our peace
2H4 4.1. 184 Upon such large terms and so absolute
2H4 4.1. 185 As our conditions shall consist upon,
2H4 4.1. 186 Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
2H4 4.1. 187
2H4-MOWBRAY
Yea, but our valuation shall be such
2H4 4.1. 188 That every slight and false-derived cause,
2H4 4.1. 189 Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason,
2H4 4.1. 190 Shall to the King taste of this action,
2H4 4.1. 191 That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love,
2H4 4.1. 192 We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind
2H4 4.1. 193 That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff,
2H4 4.1. 194 And good from bad find no partition.
2H4 4.1. 195
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
No, no, my lord; note this. The King is weary
2H4 4.1. 196 Of dainty and such picking grievances,
2H4 4.1. 197 For he hath found to end one doubt by death
2H4 4.1. 198 Revives two greater in the heirs of life;
2H4 4.1. 199 And therefore will he wipe his tables clean,
2H4 4.1. 200 And keep no tell-tale to his memory
2H4 4.1. 201 That may repeat and history his loss
2H4 4.1. 202 To new remembrance; for full well he knows
2H4 4.1. 203 He cannot so precisely weed this land
2H4 4.1. 204 As his misdoubts present occasion.
2H4 4.1. 205 His foes are so enrooted with his friends
2H4 4.1. 206 That, plucking to unfix an enemy,
2H4 4.1. 207 He doth unfasten so and shake a friend;
2H4 4.1. 208 So that this land, like an offensive wife
2H4 4.1. 209 That hath enraged him on to offer strokes,
2H4 4.1. 210 As he is striking, holds his infant up,
2H4 4.1. 211 And hangs resolved correction in the arm
2H4 4.1. 212 That was upreared to execution.
2H4 4.1. 213
2H4-HASTINGS
Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods
2H4 4.1. 214 On late offenders, that he now doth lack
2H4 4.1. 215 The very instruments of chastisement;
2H4 4.1. 216 So that his power, like to a fangless lion,
2H4 4.1. 217B May offer, but not hold.
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
'Tis very true.
2H4 4.1. 218 And therefore be assured, my good Lord Marshal,
2H4 4.1. 219 If we do now make our atonement well,
2H4 4.1. 220 Our peace will, like a broken limb united,
2H4 4.1. 221B Grow stronger for the breaking.
2H4-MOWBRAY
Be it so. {Enter +
2H4 4.1. 221B Westmorland}
2H4 4.1. 222 Here is returned my lord of Westmorland.
2H4 4.1. 223
2H4-WESTMORLAND
The Prince is here at hand. Pleaseth your lordship
2H4 4.1. 224 To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies?
2H4 4.1. 225
2H4-MOWBRAY
Your grace of York, in God's name then set forward.
2H4 4.1. 226
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Before, and greet his grace! - My lord, we +
2H4 4.1. 226 come. {[They march over the stage.]}
2H4 4.1. 227 {Enter Prince John [with one or more soldiers carrying wine]}
2H4 4.1. 227
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
You are well encountered here, my cousin +
2H4 4.1. 227 Mowbray.
2H4 4.1. 228 Good day to you, gentle lord Archbishop;
2H4 4.1. 229 And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all.
2H4 4.1. 230 My lord of York, it better showed with you
2H4 4.1. 231 When that your flock, assembled by the bell,
2H4 4.1. 232 Encircled you to hear with reverence
2H4 4.1. 233 Your exposition on the holy text,
2H4 4.1. 234 Than now to see you here an iron man,
2H4 4.1. 235 Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum,
2H4 4.1. 236 Turning the word to sword, and life to death.
2H4 4.1. 237 That man that sits within a monarch's heart
2H4 4.1. 238 And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,
2H4 4.1. 239 Would he abuse the countenance of the King,
2H4 4.1. 240 Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach
2H4 4.1. 241 In shadow of such greatness! With you, Lord Bishop,
2H4 4.1. 242 It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken
2H4 4.1. 243 How deep you were within the books of God -
2H4 4.1. 244 To us, the speaker in his parliament,
2H4 4.1. 245 To us, th' imagined voice of God himself,
2H4 4.1. 246 The very opener and intelligencer
2H4 4.1. 247 Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven
2H4 4.1. 248 And our dull workings? O, who shall believe
2H4 4.1. 249 But you misuse the reverence of your place,
2H4 4.1. 250 Employ the countenance and grace of heav'n
2H4 4.1. 251 As a false favourite doth his prince's name
2H4 4.1. 252 In deeds dishonourable? You have ta'en up,
2H4 4.1. 253 Under the counterfeited zeal of God,
2H4 4.1. 254 The subjects of his substitute, my father;
2H4 4.1. 255 And, both against the peace of heaven and him,
2H4 4.1. 256B Have here upswarmed them.
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Good my lord of +
2H4 4.1. 256B Lancaster,
2H4 4.1. 257 I am not here against your father's peace;
2H4 4.1. 258 But, as I told my lord of Westmorland,
2H4 4.1. 259 The time misordered doth, in common sense,
2H4 4.1. 260 Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form,
2H4 4.1. 261 To hold our safety up. I sent your grace
2H4 4.1. 262 The parcels and particulars of our grief,
2H4 4.1. 263 The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,
2H4 4.1. 264 Whereon this Hydra son of war is born;
2H4 4.1. 265 Whose dangerous eyes may well be charmed asleep
2H4 4.1. 266 With grant of our most just and right desires,
2H4 4.1. 267 And true obedience, of this madness cured,
2H4 4.1. 268 Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.
2H4 4.1. 269
2H4-MOWBRAY
If not, we ready are to try our fortunes
2H4 4.1. 270B To the last man.
2H4-HASTINGS
And though we here fall down,
2H4 4.1. 271 We have supplies to second our attempt.
2H4 4.1. 272 If they miscarry, theirs shall second them;
2H4 4.1. 273 And so success of mischief shall be born,
2H4 4.1. 274 And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up,
2H4 4.1. 275 Whiles England shall have generation.
2H4 4.1. 276
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow,
2H4 4.1. 277 To sound the bottom of the after-times.
2H4 4.1. 278
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Pleaseth your grace to answer them directly
2H4 4.1. 279 How far forth you do like their articles?
2H4 4.1. 280
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
I like them all, and do allow them well,
2H4 4.1. 281 And swear here, by the honour of my blood,
2H4 4.1. 282 My father's purposes have been mistook,
2H4 4.1. 283 And some about him have too lavishly
2H4 4.1. 284 Wrested his meaning and authority.
2H4 4.1. 285 {(To the Archbishop)} My lord, these griefs shall be +
2H4 4.1. 285 with speed redressed;
2H4 4.1. 286 Upon my soul they shall. If this may please you,
2H4 4.1. 287 Discharge your powers unto their several counties,
2H4 4.1. 288 As we will ours; and here between the armies
2H4 4.1. 289 Let's drink together friendly and embrace,
2H4 4.1. 290 That all their eyes may bear those tokens home
2H4 4.1. 291 Of our restored love and amity.
2H4 4.1. 292
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
I take your princely word for these redresses.
2H4 4.1. 293
2H4-[PRINCE JOHN]
I give it you, and will maintain my word;
2H4 4.1. 294 And thereupon I drink unto your grace. {He drinks}
2H4 4.1. 295
2H4-[HASTINGS]
{[to Coleville]} Go, captain, and +
2H4 4.1. 295 deliver to the army
2H4 4.1. 296 This news of peace. Let them have pay, and part.
2H4 4.1. 297 I know it will well please them. Hie thee, captain. {Exit +
2H4 4.1. 297 [Coleville]}
2H4 4.1. 298
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
To you, my noble lord of +
2H4 4.1. 298 Westmorland! {He drinks}
2H4 4.1. 299
2H4-WESTMORLAND
{(drinking)} I pledge your grace. An +
2H4 4.1. 299 if you knew what pains
2H4 4.1. 300 I have bestowed to breed this present peace,
2H4 4.1. 301 You would drink freely; but my love to ye
2H4 4.1. 302 Shall show itself more openly hereafter.
2H4 4.1. 303B
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
I do not doubt you.
2H4-WESTMORLAND
I am glad of +
2H4 4.1. 303B it.
2H4 4.1. 304 {(Drinking)} Health to my lord and gentle cousin +
2H4 4.1. 304 Mowbray!
2H4 4.1. 305
2H4-MOWBRAY
You wish me health in very happy season,
2H4 4.1. 306 For I am on the sudden something ill.
2H4 4.1. 307
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Against ill chances men are ever merry;
2H4 4.1. 308 But heaviness foreruns the good event.
2H4 4.1. 309
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Therefore be merry, coz, since sudden sorrow
2H4 4.1. 310 Serves to say thus: some good thing comes tomorrow.
2H4 4.1. 311
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.
2H4 4.1. 312
2H4-MOWBRAY
So much the worse, if your own rule be true. {Shout +
2H4 4.1. 312 within}
2H4 4.1. 313
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
The word of peace is rendered. Hark how they +
2H4 4.1. 313 shout.
2H4 4.1. 314
2H4-MOWBRAY
This had been cheerful after victory.
2H4 4.1. 315
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
A peace is of the nature of a conquest,
2H4 4.1. 316 For then both parties nobly are subdued,
2H4 4.1. 317B And neither party loser.
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
{(to +
2H4 4.1. 317B Westmorland)} Go, my lord,
2H4 4.1. 318 And let our army be discharged too. {Exit Westmorland}
2H4 4.1. 319 {(To the Archbishop)} And, good my lord, so please +
2H4 4.1. 319 you, let our trains
2H4 4.1. 320 March by us, that we may peruse the men
2H4 4.1. 321B We should have coped withal.
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Go, good Lord +
2H4 4.1. 321B Hastings,
2H4 4.1. 322 And ere they be dismissed, let them march by. {Exit Hastings}
2H4 4.1. 323
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
I trust, lords, we shall lie tonight +
2H4 4.1. 323 together. {Enter the Earl of Westmorland, [with captains]}
2H4 4.1. 324 Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still?
2H4 4.1. 325
2H4-WESTMORLAND
The leaders, having charge from you to stand,
2H4 4.1. 326 Will not go off until they hear you speak.
2H4 4.1. 327B
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
They know their duties. {Enter Lord +
2H4 4.1. 327B Hastings}
2H4-HASTINGS
{[to the Archbishop]} Our army +
2H4 4.1. 327B is dispersed.
2H4 4.1. 328 Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses,
2H4 4.1. 329 East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up,
2H4 4.1. 330 Each hurries toward his home and sporting place.
2H4 4.1. 331
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Good tidings, my lord Hastings, for the which
2H4 4.1. 332 I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason;
2H4 4.1. 333 And you, Lord Archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray,
2H4 4.1. 334 Of capital treason I attach you both. {[The captains guard +
2H4 4.1. 334 Hastings, the Archbishop, and Mowbray]}
2H4 4.1. 335
2H4-MOWBRAY
Is this proceeding just and honourable?
2H4 4.1. 336A
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Is your assembly so?
2H4 4.1. 337A
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Will you thus break your faith?
2H4 4.1. 338A
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
I pawned thee none.
2H4 4.1. 339 I promised you redress of these same grievances
2H4 4.1. 340 Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour,
2H4 4.1. 341 I will perform with a most Christian care.
2H4 4.1. 342 But for you rebels, look to taste the due
2H4 4.1. 343 Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours.
2H4 4.1. 344 Most shallowly did you these arms commence,
2H4 4.1. 345 Fondly brought here, and foolishly sent hence. -
2H4 4.1. 346 Strike up our drums, pursue the scattered stray.
2H4 4.1. 347 God, and not we, hath safely fought today.
2H4 4.1. 348 Some guard these traitors to the block of death,
2H4 4.1. 349 Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. {Exeunt}
2H4 4.1. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir John Falstaff and +
2H4 4.2. 0 Coleville}
2H4 4.2. 1
2H4-SIR JOHN
What's your name, sir, of what condition are
2H4 4.2. 2 you, and of what place, I pray?
2H4 4.2. 3
2H4-COLEVILLE
I am a knight, sir, and my name is Coleville
2H4 4.2. 4 of the Dale.
2H4 4.2. 5
2H4-SIR JOHN
Well then, Coleville is your name, a knight is
2H4 4.2. 6 your degree, and your place the Dale. Coleville shall be
2H4 4.2. 7 still your name, a traitor your degree, and the dungeon
2H4 4.2. 8 your place - a place deep enough, so shall you be still
2H4 4.2. 9 Coleville of the Dale.
2H4 4.2. 10
2H4-COLEVILLE
Are not you Sir John Falstaff?
2H4 4.2. 11
2H4-SIR JOHN
As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. Do ye
2H4 4.2. 12 yield, sir, or shall I sweat for you? If I do sweat, they
2H4 4.2. 13 are the drops of thy lovers, and they weep for thy
2H4 4.2. 14 death; therefore rouse up fear and trembling, and do
2H4 4.2. 15 observance to my mercy.
2H4 4.2. 16
2H4-COLEVILLE
{(kneeling)} I think you are Sir John +
2H4 4.2. 16 Falstaff, and
2H4 4.2. 17 in that thought yield me.
2H4 4.2. 18
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(aside)} I have a whole school of +
2H4 4.2. 18 tongues in this
2H4 4.2. 19 belly of mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any
2H4 4.2. 20 other word but my name. An I had but a belly of any
2H4 4.2. 21 indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in
2H4 4.2. 22 Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. {Enter Prince John, +
2H4 4.2. 22 the Earl of Westmorland, Sir John Blunt, and other lords and soldiers}
2H4 4.2. 23 Here comes our general.
2H4 4.2. 24
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
The heat is past; follow no further +
2H4 4.2. 24 now. {A retreat is sounded}
2H4 4.2. 25 Call in the powers, good cousin Westmorland. {Exit +
2H4 4.2. 25 Westmorland}
2H4 4.2. 26 Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while?
2H4 4.2. 27 When everything is ended, then you come.
2H4 4.2. 28 These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,
2H4 4.2. 29 One time or other break some gallows' back.
2H4 4.2. 30
2H4-SIR JOHN
I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be +
2H4 4.2. 30 thus.
2H4 4.2. 31 I never knew yet but rebuke and check was the reward
2H4 4.2. 32 of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a
2H4 4.2. 33 bullet? Have I in my poor and old motion the expedition
2H4 4.2. 34 of thought? I have speeded hither with the very
2H4 4.2. 35 extremest inch of possibility; I have foundered nine-
2H4 4.2. 36 score and odd posts; and here, travel-tainted as I am,
2H4 4.2. 37 have in my pure and immaculate valour taken Sir John
2H4 4.2. 38 Coleville of the Dale, a most furious knight and valorous
2H4 4.2. 39 enemy. But what of that? He saw me, and yielded, that
2H4 4.2. 40 I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome,
2H4 4.2. 41 `I came, saw, and overcame.'
2H4 4.2. 42
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
It was more of his courtesy than your
2H4 4.2. 43 deserving.
2H4 4.2. 44
2H4-SIR JOHN
I know not. Here he is, and here I yield him;
2H4 4.2. 45 and I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the rest
2H4 4.2. 46 of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, I will have it in a
2H4 4.2. 47 particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the
2H4 4.2. 48 top on 't, Coleville kissing my foot; to the which course
2H4 4.2. 49 if I be enforced, if you do not all show like gilt twopences
2H4 4.2. 50 to me, and I in the clear sky of fame o'ershine you as
2H4 4.2. 51 much as the full moon doth the cinders of the element,
2H4 4.2. 52 which show like pins' heads to her, believe not the
2H4 4.2. 53 word of the noble. Therefore let me have right, and let
2H4 4.2. 54 desert mount.
2H4 4.2. 55
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Thine's too heavy to mount.
2H4 4.2. 56
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let it shine then.
2H4 4.2. 57
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Thine's too thick to shine.
2H4 4.2. 58
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let it do something, my good lord, that may do
2H4 4.2. 59 me good, and call it what you will.
2H4 4.2. 60B
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Is thy name Coleville?
2H4-COLEVILLE
It is, my +
2H4 4.2. 60B lord.
2H4 4.2. 61
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
A famous rebel art thou, Coleville.
2H4 4.2. 62
2H4-SIR JOHN
And a famous true subject took him.
2H4 4.2. 63
2H4-COLEVILLE
I am, my lord, but as my betters are
2H4 4.2. 64 That led me hither. Had they been ruled by me,
2H4 4.2. 65 You should have won them dearer than you have.
2H4 4.2. 66
2H4-SIR JOHN
I know not how - they sold themselves, but thou
2H4 4.2. 67 Like a kind fellow gav'st thyself away,
2H4 4.2. 68B And I thank thee for thee. {Enter the Earl of +
2H4 4.2. 68B Westmorland}
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Have you left pursuit?
2H4 4.2. 69
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Retreat is made, and execution stayed.
2H4 4.2. 70
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Send Coleville with his confederates
2H4 4.2. 71 To York, to present execution.
2H4 4.2. 72 Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure. {Exit Blunt, +
2H4 4.2. 72 with Coleville}
2H4 4.2. 73 And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords.
2H4 4.2. 74 I hear the King my father is sore sick.
2H4 4.2. 75 {(To Westmorland)} Our news shall go before us to his +
2H4 4.2. 75 majesty,
2H4 4.2. 76 Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him;
2H4 4.2. 77 And we with sober speed will follow you.
2H4 4.2. 78
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, I beseech you give me leave to go
2H4 4.2. 79 Through Gloucestershire, and when you come to court
2H4 4.2. 80 Stand, my good lord, pray, in your good report.
2H4 4.2. 81
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Fare you well, Falstaff. I in my condition
2H4 4.2. 82 Shall better speak of you than you deserve. {Exeunt all but Sir +
2H4 4.2. 82 John}
2H4 4.2. 83
2H4-SIR JOHN
I would you had but the wit; 'twere better than
2H4 4.2. 84 your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-
2H4 4.2. 85 blooded boy doth not love me, nor a man cannot make
2H4 4.2. 86 him laugh. But that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
2H4 4.2. 87 There's never none of these demure boys come to any
2H4 4.2. 88 proof; for thin drink doth so overcool their blood, and
2H4 4.2. 89 making many fish meals, that they fall into a kind of
2H4 4.2. 90 male green-sickness; and then when they marry, they
2H4 4.2. 91 get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards -
2H4 4.2. 92 which some of us should be too, but for inflammation.
2H4 4.2. 93 A good sherry-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. It
2H4 4.2. 94 ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish
2H4 4.2. 95 and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes
2H4 4.2. 96 it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery,
2H4 4.2. 97 and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the
2H4 4.2. 98 voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent
2H4 4.2. 99 wit. The second property of your excellent sherry is the
2H4 4.2. 100 warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled,
2H4 4.2. 101 left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of
2H4 4.2. 102 pusillanimity and cowardice. But the sherry warms it,
2H4 4.2. 103 and makes it course from the inwards to the parts'
2H4 4.2. 104 extremes; it illuminateth the face, which, as a beacon,
2H4 4.2. 105 gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man,
2H4 4.2. 106 to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty
2H4 4.2. 107 spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart; who,
2H4 4.2. 108 great and puffed up with his retinue, doth any deed of
2H4 4.2. 109 courage. And this valour comes of sherry. So that skill
2H4 4.2. 110 in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that sets it
2H4 4.2. 111 a-work; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a
2H4 4.2. 112 devil, till sack commences it and sets it in act and use.
2H4 4.2. 113 Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for the
2H4 4.2. 114 cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath,
2H4 4.2. 115 like lean, sterile, and bare land, manured, husbanded,
2H4 4.2. 116 and tilled, with excellent endeavour of drinking good,
2H4 4.2. 117 and good store of fertile sherry, that he is become very
2H4 4.2. 118 hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first
2H4 4.2. 119 human principle I would teach them should be to
2H4 4.2. 120 forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to
2H4 4.2. 121 sack. {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 4.2. 122 How now, Bardolph?
2H4 4.2. 123
2H4-BARDOLPH
The army is discharged all and gone.
2H4 4.2. 124
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and
2H4 4.2. 125 there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, Esquire. I have
2H4 4.2. 126 him already tempering between my finger and my
2H4 4.2. 127 thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come, away! {Exeunt}
2H4 4.2. 0 {Enter King Henry [in his bed], attended by the Earl of +
2H4 4.3. 0 Warwick, Thomas Duke of Clarence, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, [and +
2H4 4.3. 0 others]}
2H4 4.3. 1
2H4-KING HENRY
Now, lords, if God doth give successful end
2H4 4.3. 2 To this debate that bleedeth at our doors,
2H4 4.3. 3 We will our youth lead on to higher fields,
2H4 4.3. 4 And draw no swords but what are sanctified.
2H4 4.3. 5 Our navy is addressed, our power collected,
2H4 4.3. 6 Our substitutes in absence well invested,
2H4 4.3. 7 And everything lies level to our wish;
2H4 4.3. 8 Only we want a little personal strength,
2H4 4.3. 9 And pause us till these rebels now afoot
2H4 4.3. 10 Come underneath the yoke of government.
2H4 4.3. 11
2H4-WARWICK
Both which we doubt not but your majesty
2H4 4.3. 12B Shall soon enjoy.
2H4-KING HENRY
Humphrey, my son of Gloucester,
2H4 4.3. 13 Where is the Prince your brother?
2H4 4.3. 14
2H4-GLOUCESTER
I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor.
2H4 4.3. 15B
2H4-KING HENRY
And how accompanied?
2H4-GLOUCESTER
I do not know, my +
2H4 4.3. 15B lord.
2H4 4.3. 16
2H4-KING HENRY
Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him?
2H4 4.3. 17
2H4-GLOUCESTER
No, my good lord, he is in presence here.
2H4 4.3. 18A
2H4-CLARENCE
What would my lord and father?
2H4 4.3. 19
2H4-KING HENRY
Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.
2H4 4.3. 20 How chance thou art not with the Prince thy brother?
2H4 4.3. 21 He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas.
2H4 4.3. 22 Thou hast a better place in his affection
2H4 4.3. 23 Than all thy brothers. Cherish it, my boy,
2H4 4.3. 24 And noble offices thou mayst effect
2H4 4.3. 25 Of mediation, after I am dead,
2H4 4.3. 26 Between his greatness and thy other brethren.
2H4 4.3. 27 Therefore omit him not, blunt not his love,
2H4 4.3. 28 Nor lose the good advantage of his grace
2H4 4.3. 29 By seeming cold or careless of his will;
2H4 4.3. 30 For he is gracious, if he be observed;
2H4 4.3. 31 He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
2H4 4.3. 32 Open as day for melting charity.
2H4 4.3. 33 Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he is flint,
2H4 4.3. 34 As humorous as winter, and as sudden
2H4 4.3. 35 As flaws congealed in the spring of day.
2H4 4.3. 36 His temper therefore must be well observed.
2H4 4.3. 37 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
2H4 4.3. 38 When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth;
2H4 4.3. 39 But being moody, give him line and scope
2H4 4.3. 40 Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
2H4 4.3. 41 Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas,
2H4 4.3. 42 And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,
2H4 4.3. 43 A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,
2H4 4.3. 44 That the united vessel of their blood,
2H4 4.3. 45 Mingled with venom of suggestion -
2H4 4.3. 46 As force perforce the age will pour it in -
2H4 4.3. 47 Shall never leak, though it do work as strong
2H4 4.3. 48 As aconitum or rash gunpowder.
2H4 4.3. 49
2H4-CLARENCE
I shall observe him with all care and love.
2H4 4.3. 50
2H4-KING HENRY
Why art thou not at Windsor with him, Thomas?
2H4 4.3. 51
2H4-CLARENCE
He is not there today; he dines in London.
2H4 4.3. 52
2H4-KING HENRY
And how accompanied? Canst thou tell that?
2H4 4.3. 53
2H4-CLARENCE
With Poins and other his continual followers.
2H4 4.3. 54
2H4-KING HENRY
Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds,
2H4 4.3. 55 And he, the noble image of my youth,
2H4 4.3. 56 Is overspread with them; therefore my grief
2H4 4.3. 57 Stretches itself beyond the hour of death.
2H4 4.3. 58 The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape
2H4 4.3. 59 In forms imaginary th' unguided days
2H4 4.3. 60 And rotten times that you shall look upon
2H4 4.3. 61 When I am sleeping with my ancestors;
2H4 4.3. 62 For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,
2H4 4.3. 63 When rage and hot blood are his counsellors,
2H4 4.3. 64 When means and lavish manners meet together,
2H4 4.3. 65 O, with what wings shall his affections fly
2H4 4.3. 66 Towards fronting peril and opposed decay?
2H4 4.3. 67
2H4-WARWICK
My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite.
2H4 4.3. 68 The Prince but studies his companions,
2H4 4.3. 69 Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,
2H4 4.3. 70 'Tis needful that the most immodest word
2H4 4.3. 71 Be looked upon and learnt, which once attained,
2H4 4.3. 72 Your highness knows, comes to no further use
2H4 4.3. 73 But to be known and hated; so, like gross terms,
2H4 4.3. 74 The Prince will in the perfectness of time
2H4 4.3. 75 Cast off his followers, and their memory
2H4 4.3. 76 Shall as a pattern or a measure live
2H4 4.3. 77 By which his grace must mete the lives of other,
2H4 4.3. 78 Turning past evils to advantages.
2H4 4.3. 79
2H4-KING HENRY
'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb
2H4 4.3. 80B In the dead carrion. {Enter the Earl of Westmorland} +
2H4 4.3. 80B Who's here? Westmorland?
2H4 4.3. 81
2H4-WESTMORLAND
Health to my sovereign, and new happiness
2H4 4.3. 82 Added to that that I am to deliver!
2H4 4.3. 83 Prince John your son doth kiss your grace's hand.
2H4 4.3. 84 Mowbray, the Bishop Scrope, Hastings, and all
2H4 4.3. 85 Are brought to the correction of your law.
2H4 4.3. 86 There is not now a rebel's sword unsheathed,
2H4 4.3. 87 But peace puts forth her olive everywhere.
2H4 4.3. 88 The manner how this action hath been borne
2H4 4.3. 89 Here at more leisure may your highness read,
2H4 4.3. 90 With every course in his particular. {He gives the King papers}
2H4 4.3. 91
2H4-KING HENRY
O Westmorland, thou art a summer bird
2H4 4.3. 92 Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
2H4 4.3. 93B The lifting up of day. {Enter Harcourt} Look, here's +
2H4 4.3. 93B more news.
2H4 4.3. 94
2H4-HARCOURT
From enemies heaven keep your majesty;
2H4 4.3. 95 And when they stand against you, may they fall
2H4 4.3. 96 As those that I am come to tell you of!
2H4 4.3. 97 The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,
2H4 4.3. 98 With a great power of English and of Scots,
2H4 4.3. 99 Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown.
2H4 4.3. 100 The manner and true order of the fight
2H4 4.3. 101 This packet, please it you, contains at large. {He gives the +
2H4 4.3. 101 King papers}
2H4 4.3. 102
2H4-KING HENRY
And wherefore should these good news make me +
2H4 4.3. 102 sick?
2H4 4.3. 103 Will fortune never come with both hands full,
2H4 4.3. 104 But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
2H4 4.3. 105 She either gives a stomach and no food -
2H4 4.3. 106 Such are the poor in health - or else a feast,
2H4 4.3. 107 And takes away the stomach - such are the rich,
2H4 4.3. 108 That have abundance and enjoy it not.
2H4 4.3. 109 I should rejoice now at this happy news,
2H4 4.3. 110 And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy.
2H4 4.3. 111 O me! Come near me now; I am much ill. {He swoons}
2H4 4.3. 112B
2H4-GLOUCESTER
Comfort, your majesty!
2H4-CLARENCE
O my royal +
2H4 4.3. 112B father!
2H4 4.3. 113
2H4-WESTMORLAND
My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up.
2H4 4.3. 114
2H4-WARWICK
Be patient, princes; you do know these fits
2H4 4.3. 115 Are with his highness very ordinary.
2H4 4.3. 116 Stand from him, give him air; he'll straight be well.
2H4 4.3. 117
2H4-CLARENCE
No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs.
2H4 4.3. 118 Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
2H4 4.3. 119 Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
2H4 4.3. 120 So thin that life looks through and will break out.
2H4 4.3. 121
2H4-GLOUCESTER
The people fear me, for they do observe
2H4 4.3. 122 Unfathered heirs and loathly births of nature.
2H4 4.3. 123 The seasons change their manners, as the year
2H4 4.3. 124 Had found some months asleep and leaped them over.
2H4 4.3. 125
2H4-CLARENCE
The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between,
2H4 4.3. 126 And the old folk, time's doting chronicles,
2H4 4.3. 127 Say it did so a little time before
2H4 4.3. 128 That our great grandsire Edward sicked and died.
2H4 4.3. 129
2H4-WARWICK
Speak lower, princes, for the King recovers.
2H4 4.3. 130
2H4-GLOUCESTER
This apoplexy will certain be his end.
2H4 4.3. 131
2H4-KING HENRY
I pray you take me up and bear me hence
2H4 4.3. 132 Into some other chamber; softly, pray. {[The King is carried +
2H4 4.3. 132 over the stage in his bed]}
2H4 4.3. 133 Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends,
2H4 4.3. 134 Unless some dull and favourable hand
2H4 4.3. 135 Will whisper music to my weary spirit.
2H4 4.3. 136
2H4-WARWICK
Call for the music in the other room. {[Exit one or +
2H4 4.3. 136 more. Still music within]}
2H4 4.3. 137
2H4-KING HENRY
Set me the crown upon my pillow here. +
2H4 4.3. 137 {[Clarence] takes the crown [from the King's head], and sets it on his +
2H4 4.3. 137 pillow}
2H4 4.3. 138
2H4-CLARENCE
His eye is hollow, and he changes much. +
2H4 4.3. 138
2H4-[A
noise within]}
2H4 4.3. 139B
2H4-WARWICK
Less noise, less noise! {Enter Prince +
2H4 4.3. 139B Harry}
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Who saw the Duke of Clarence?
2H4 4.3. 140
2H4-CLARENCE
I am here, brother, full of heaviness.
2H4 4.3. 141
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
How now, rain within doors, and none abroad?
2H4 4.3. 142B How doth the King?
2H4-GLOUCESTER
Exceeding ill.
2H4 4.3. 143
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Heard he the good news yet? Tell it him.
2H4 4.3. 144
2H4-GLOUCESTER
He altered much upon the hearing it.
2H4 4.3. 145
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
If he be sick with joy, he'll recover +
2H4 4.3. 145 without
2H4 4.3. 146 physic.
2H4 4.3. 147
2H4-WARWICK
Not so much noise, my lords! Sweet prince, speak +
2H4 4.3. 147 low.
2H4 4.3. 148 The King your father is disposed to sleep.
2H4 4.3. 149
2H4-CLARENCE
Let us withdraw into the other room.
2H4 4.3. 150
2H4-WARWICK
Will 't please your grace to go along with us?
2H4 4.3. 151
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
No, I will sit and watch here by the King. +
2H4 4.3. 151 {Exeunt all but the King and Prince Harry}
2H4 4.3. 152 Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,
2H4 4.3. 153 Being so troublesome a bedfellow?
2H4 4.3. 154 O polished perturbation, golden care,
2H4 4.3. 155 That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
2H4 4.3. 156 To many a watchful night! - Sleep with it now;
2H4 4.3. 157 Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet,
2H4 4.3. 158 As he whose brow with homely biggen bound
2H4 4.3. 159 Snores out the watch of night. O majesty,
2H4 4.3. 160 When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit
2H4 4.3. 161 Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,
2H4 4.3. 162 That scald'st with safety. - By his gates of breath
2H4 4.3. 163 There lies a downy feather which stirs not.
2H4 4.3. 164 Did he suspire, that light and weightless down
2H4 4.3. 165 Perforce must move. - My gracious lord, my father! -
2H4 4.3. 166 This sleep is sound indeed. This is a sleep
2H4 4.3. 167 That from this golden rigol hath divorced
2H4 4.3. 168 So many English kings. - Thy due from me
2H4 4.3. 169 Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,
2H4 4.3. 170 Which nature, love, and filial tenderness
2H4 4.3. 171 Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously.
2H4 4.3. 172 My due from thee is this imperial crown,
2H4 4.3. 173 Which, as immediate from thy place and blood,
2H4 4.3. 174B Derives itself to me. {He puts the crown on his head} +
2H4 4.3. 174B Lo where it sits,
2H4 4.3. 175 Which God shall guard; and put the world's whole strength
2H4 4.3. 176 Into one giant arm, it shall not force
2H4 4.3. 177 This lineal honour from me. This from thee
2H4 4.3. 178 Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me. {Exit}
2H4 4.3. 179B {[Music ceases.] The King awakes}
2H4-KING HENRY
+
2H4 4.3. 179B Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence! {Enter the Earl of Warwick, and +
2H4 4.3. 179B the Dukes of Gloucester and Clarence}
2H4-CLARENCE
Doth the +
2H4 4.3. 179B King call?
2H4 4.3. 180
2H4-WARWICK
What would your majesty? How fares your grace?
2H4 4.3. 181
2H4-KING HENRY
Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?
2H4 4.3. 182
2H4-CLARENCE
We left the Prince my brother here, my liege,
2H4 4.3. 183 Who undertook to sit and watch by you.
2H4 4.3. 184
2H4-KING HENRY
The Prince of Wales? Where is he? Let me see him.
2H4 4.3. 185
2H4-WARWICK
This door is open; he is gone this way.
2H4 4.3. 186
2H4-GLOUCESTER
He came not through the chamber where we stayed.
2H4 4.3. 187
2H4-KING HENRY
Where is the crown? Who took it from my pillow?
2H4 4.3. 188
2H4-WARWICK
When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.
2H4 4.3. 189
2H4-KING HENRY
The Prince hath ta'en it hence. Go seek him out.
2H4 4.3. 190 Is he so hasty that he doth suppose
2H4 4.3. 191 My sleep my death?
2H4 4.3. 192 Find him, my lord of Warwick; chide him hither. {Exit Warwick}
2H4 4.3. 193 This part of his conjoins with my disease,
2H4 4.3. 194 And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are,
2H4 4.3. 195 How quickly nature falls into revolt
2H4 4.3. 196 When gold becomes her object!
2H4 4.3. 197 For this the foolish over-careful fathers
2H4 4.3. 198 Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
2H4 4.3. 199 Their bones with industry; for this they have
2H4 4.3. 200 Engrossed and piled up the cankered heaps
2H4 4.3. 201 Of strange-achieved gold; for this they have
2H4 4.3. 202 Been thoughtful to invest their sons with arts
2H4 4.3. 203 And martial exercises; when, like the bee
2H4 4.3. 204 Culling from every flower the virtuous sweets,
2H4 4.3. 205 Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey,
2H4 4.3. 206 We bring it to the hive; and, like the bees,
2H4 4.3. 207 Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste
2H4 4.3. 208 Yields his engrossments to the ending father. {Enter the Earl of +
2H4 4.3. 208 Warwick}
2H4 4.3. 209 Now where is he that will not stay so long
2H4 4.3. 210 Till his friend sickness have determined me?
2H4 4.3. 211
2H4-WARWICK
My lord, I found the Prince in the next room,
2H4 4.3. 212 Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks
2H4 4.3. 213 With such a deep demeanour, in great sorrow,
2H4 4.3. 214 That tyranny, which never quaffed but blood,
2H4 4.3. 215 Would, by beholding him, have washed his knife
2H4 4.3. 216 With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.
2H4 4.3. 217
2H4-KING HENRY
But wherefore did he take away the crown? {Enter +
2H4 4.3. 217 Prince Harry with the crown}
2H4 4.3. 218 Lo where he comes. - Come hither to me, Harry.
2H4 4.3. 219 {(To the others)} Depart the chamber; leave us here +
2H4 4.3. 219 alone. {Exeunt all but the King and Prince Harry}
2H4 4.3. 220
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
I never thought to hear you speak again.
2H4 4.3. 221
2H4-KING HENRY
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
2H4 4.3. 222 I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
2H4 4.3. 223 Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair
2H4 4.3. 224 That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours
2H4 4.3. 225 Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth,
2H4 4.3. 226 Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee!
2H4 4.3. 227 Stay but a little, for my cloud of dignity
2H4 4.3. 228 Is held from falling with so weak a wind
2H4 4.3. 229 That it will quickly drop. My day is dim.
2H4 4.3. 230 Thou hast stol'n that which after some few hours
2H4 4.3. 231 Were thine without offence, and at my death
2H4 4.3. 232 Thou hast sealed up my expectation.
2H4 4.3. 233 Thy life did manifest thou loved'st me not,
2H4 4.3. 234 And thou wilt have me die assured of it.
2H4 4.3. 235 Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts,
2H4 4.3. 236 Whom thou hast whetted on thy stony heart
2H4 4.3. 237 To stab at half an hour of my life.
2H4 4.3. 238 What, canst thou not forbear me half an hour?
2H4 4.3. 239 Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself,
2H4 4.3. 240 And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear
2H4 4.3. 241 That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.
2H4 4.3. 242 Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse
2H4 4.3. 243 Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head.
2H4 4.3. 244 Only compound me with forgotten dust.
2H4 4.3. 245 Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.
2H4 4.3. 246 Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;
2H4 4.3. 247 For now a time is come to mock at form -
2H4 4.3. 248 Harry the Fifth is crowned. Up, vanity!
2H4 4.3. 249 Down, royal state! All you sage counsellors, hence!
2H4 4.3. 250 And to the English court assemble now
2H4 4.3. 251 From every region, apes of idleness!
2H4 4.3. 252 Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum!
2H4 4.3. 253 Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
2H4 4.3. 254 Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit
2H4 4.3. 255 The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
2H4 4.3. 256 Be happy; he will trouble you no more.
2H4 4.3. 257 England shall double gild his treble guilt,
2H4 4.3. 258 England shall give him office, honour, might;
2H4 4.3. 259 For the fifth Harry from curbed licence plucks
2H4 4.3. 260 The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog
2H4 4.3. 261 Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
2H4 4.3. 262 O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!
2H4 4.3. 263 When that my care could not withhold thy riots,
2H4 4.3. 264 What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
2H4 4.3. 265 O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,
2H4 4.3. 266 Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants.
2H4 4.3. 267
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
O pardon me, my liege! But for my tears,
2H4 4.3. 268 The moist impediments unto my speech,
2H4 4.3. 269 I had forestalled this dear and deep rebuke
2H4 4.3. 270 Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard
2H4 4.3. 271 The course of it so far. There is your crown; {[He returns the +
2H4 4.3. 271 crown and kneels]}
2H4 4.3. 272 And He that wears the crown immortally
2H4 4.3. 273 Long guard it yours! If I affect it more
2H4 4.3. 274 Than as your honour and as your renown,
2H4 4.3. 275 Let me no more from this obedience rise,
2H4 4.3. 276 Which my most true and inward duteous spirit
2H4 4.3. 277 Teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending.
2H4 4.3. 278 God witness with me, when I here came in
2H4 4.3. 279 And found no course of breath within your majesty,
2H4 4.3. 280 How cold it struck my heart. If I do feign,
2H4 4.3. 281 O, let me in my present wildness die,
2H4 4.3. 282 And never live to show th' incredulous world
2H4 4.3. 283 The noble change that I have purposed.
2H4 4.3. 284 Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,
2H4 4.3. 285 And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,
2H4 4.3. 286 I spake unto this crown as having sense,
2H4 4.3. 287 And thus upbraided it: `The care on thee depending
2H4 4.3. 288 Hath fed upon the body of my father;
2H4 4.3. 289 Therefore thou best of gold art worst of gold.
2H4 4.3. 290 Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,
2H4 4.3. 291 Preserving life in medicine potable;
2H4 4.3. 292 But thou, most fine, most honoured, most renowned,
2H4 4.3. 293 Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my royal liege,
2H4 4.3. 294 Accusing it, I put it on my head,
2H4 4.3. 295 To try with it, as with an enemy
2H4 4.3. 296 That had before my face murdered my father,
2H4 4.3. 297 The quarrel of a true inheritor.
2H4 4.3. 298 But if it did infect my blood with joy
2H4 4.3. 299 Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride,
2H4 4.3. 300 If any rebel or vain spirit of mine
2H4 4.3. 301 Did with the least affection of a welcome
2H4 4.3. 302 Give entertainment to the might of it,
2H4 4.3. 303 Let God for ever keep it from my head,
2H4 4.3. 304 And make me as the poorest vassal is,
2H4 4.3. 305 That doth with awe and terror kneel to it.
2H4 4.3. 306A
2H4-KING HENRY
O my son,
2H4 4.3. 307 God put it in thy mind to take it hence,
2H4 4.3. 308 That thou mightst win the more thy father's love,
2H4 4.3. 309 Pleading so wisely in excuse of it!
2H4 4.3. 310 Come hither, Harry; sit thou by my bed,
2H4 4.3. 311 And hear, I think, the very latest counsel
2H4 4.3. 312B That ever I shall breathe. {Prince Harry [rises from kneeling +
2H4 4.3. 312B and] sits by the bed} God knows, my son,
2H4 4.3. 313 By what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways
2H4 4.3. 314 I met this crown; and I myself know well
2H4 4.3. 315 How troublesome it sat upon my head.
2H4 4.3. 316 To thee it shall descend with better quiet,
2H4 4.3. 317 Better opinion, better confirmation;
2H4 4.3. 318 For all the soil of the achievement goes
2H4 4.3. 319 With me into the earth. It seemed in me
2H4 4.3. 320 But as an honour snatched with boist'rous hand;
2H4 4.3. 321 And I had many living to upbraid
2H4 4.3. 322 My gain of it by their assistances,
2H4 4.3. 323 Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,
2H4 4.3. 324 Wounding supposed peace. All these bold fears
2H4 4.3. 325 Thou seest with peril I have answered;
2H4 4.3. 326 For all my reign hath been but as a scene
2H4 4.3. 327 Acting that argument. And now my death
2H4 4.3. 328 Changes the mood, for what in me was purchased
2H4 4.3. 329 Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort,
2H4 4.3. 330 So thou the garland wear'st successively.
2H4 4.3. 331 Yet though thou stand'st more sure than I could do,
2H4 4.3. 332 Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green,
2H4 4.3. 333 And all thy friends - which thou must make thy friends -
2H4 4.3. 334 Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out,
2H4 4.3. 335 By whose fell working I was first advanced,
2H4 4.3. 336 And by whose power I well might lodge a fear
2H4 4.3. 337 To be again displaced; which to avoid
2H4 4.3. 338 I cut them off, and had a purpose now
2H4 4.3. 339 To lead out many to the Holy Land,
2H4 4.3. 340 Lest rest and lying still might make them look
2H4 4.3. 341 Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,
2H4 4.3. 342 Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
2H4 4.3. 343 With foreign quarrels, that action hence borne out
2H4 4.3. 344 May waste the memory of the former days.
2H4 4.3. 345 More would I, but my lungs are wasted so
2H4 4.3. 346 That strength of speech is utterly denied me.
2H4 4.3. 347 How I came by the crown, O God forgive,
2H4 4.3. 348 And grant it may with thee in true peace live!
2H4 4.3. 349A
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
My gracious liege,
2H4 4.3. 350 You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;
2H4 4.3. 351 Then plain and right must my possession be,
2H4 4.3. 352 Which I with more than with a common pain
2H4 4.3. 353 'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain. {Enter Prince +
2H4 4.3. 353 John of Lancaster [followed by] the Earl of Warwick [and others]}
2H4 4.3. 354
2H4-KING HENRY
Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.
2H4 4.3. 355
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Health, peace, and happiness to my royal father!
2H4 4.3. 356
2H4-KING HENRY
Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son John;
2H4 4.3. 357 But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown
2H4 4.3. 358 From this bare withered trunk. Upon thy sight
2H4 4.3. 359 My worldly business makes a period.
2H4 4.3. 360B Where is my lord of Warwick?
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
My lord of Warwick! +
2H4 4.3. 360B {[Warwick comes forward to the King]}
2H4 4.3. 361
2H4-KING HENRY
Doth any name particular belong
2H4 4.3. 362 Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?
2H4 4.3. 363
2H4-WARWICK
'Tis called Jerusalem, my noble lord.
2H4 4.3. 364
2H4-KING HENRY
Laud be to God! Even there my life must end.
2H4 4.3. 365 It hath been prophesied to me many years
2H4 4.3. 366 I should not die but in Jerusalem,
2H4 4.3. 367 Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land;
2H4 4.3. 368 But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;
2H4 4.3. 369 In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. {Exeunt, bearing the King in +
2H4 4.3. 369 his bed}
2H4 4.3. 0 {Enter Shallow, [Silence,] Sir John Falstaff, +
2H4 5.1. 0 Bardolph, and the Page}
2H4 5.1. 1
2H4-SHALLOW
{(to Sir John} ) By cock and pie, you +
2H4 5.1. 1 shall not
2H4 5.1. 2 away tonight. - What, Davy, I say!
2H4 5.1. 3
2H4-SIR JOHN
You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.
2H4 5.1. 4
2H4-SHALLOW
I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused;
2H4 5.1. 5 excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall
2H4 5.1. 6 serve; you shall not be excused. - Why, Davy! {Enter Davy}
2H4 5.1. 7
2H4-DAVY
Here, sir.
2H4 5.1. 8
2H4-SHALLOW
Davy, Davy, Davy; let me see, Davy; let me
2H4 5.1. 9 see. William Cook - bid him come hither. - Sir John,
2H4 5.1. 10 you shall not be excused.
2H4 5.1. 11
2H4-DAVY
Marry, sir, thus: those precepts cannot be served.
2H4 5.1. 12 And again, sir: shall we sow the headland with wheat?
2H4 5.1. 13
2H4-SHALLOW
With red wheat, Davy. But for William Cook;
2H4 5.1. 14 are there no young pigeons?
2H4 5.1. 15
2H4-DAVY
Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing
2H4 5.1. 16 and plough-irons.
2H4 5.1. 17
2H4-SHALLOW
Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not
2H4 5.1. 18 be excused.
2H4 5.1. 19
2H4-DAVY
Sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be had;
2H4 5.1. 20 and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's wages,
2H4 5.1. 21 about the sack he lost at Hinkley Fair?
2H4 5.1. 22
2H4-SHALLOW
A shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple
2H4 5.1. 23 of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty
2H4 5.1. 24 little tiny kickshaws, tell William Cook.
2H4 5.1. 25
2H4-DAVY
Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?
2H4 5.1. 26
2H4-SHALLOW
Yea, Davy. I will use him well; a friend i' th'
2H4 5.1. 27 court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well,
2H4 5.1. 28 Davy, for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.
2H4 5.1. 29
2H4-DAVY
No worse than they are back-bitten, sir, for they
2H4 5.1. 30 have marvellous foul linen.
2H4 5.1. 31
2H4-SHALLOW
Well conceited, Davy. About thy business, Davy.
2H4 5.1. 32
2H4-DAVY
I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of
2H4 5.1. 33 Wo'ncot against Clement Perks o' th' Hill.
2H4 5.1. 34
2H4-SHALLOW
There is many complaints, Davy, against that
2H4 5.1. 35 Visor. That Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.
2H4 5.1. 36
2H4-DAVY
I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but
2H4 5.1. 37 yet God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some
2H4 5.1. 38 countenance at his friend's request. An honest man,
2H4 5.1. 39 sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I
2H4 5.1. 40 have served your worship truly, sir, this eight years.
2H4 5.1. 41 An I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a
2H4 5.1. 42 knave against an honest man, I have little credit with
2H4 5.1. 43 your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, sir;
2H4 5.1. 44 therefore I beseech you let him be countenanced.
2H4 5.1. 45
2H4-SHALLOW
Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look
2H4 5.1. 46 about, Davy. {[Exit Davy]}
2H4 5.1. 47 Where are you, Sir John? Come, off with your boots. -
2H4 5.1. 48 Give me your hand, Master Bardolph.
2H4 5.1. 49
2H4-BARDOLPH
I am glad to see your worship.
2H4 5.1. 50
2H4-SHALLOW
I thank thee with all my heart, kind Master
2H4 5.1. 51 Bardolph. {[To the Page]} And welcome, my tall fellow. -
2H4 5.1. 52 Come, Sir John.
2H4 5.1. 53
2H4-SIR JOHN
I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow. {Exit +
2H4 5.1. 53 Shallow [with Silence]}
2H4 5.1. 54 Bardolph, look to our horses. {Exit Bardolph [with the +
2H4 5.1. 54 Page]}
2H4 5.1. 55 If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four
2H4 5.1. 56 dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master
2H4 5.1. 57 Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to see the semblable
2H4 5.1. 58 coherence of his men's spirits and his. They, by
2H4 5.1. 59 observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices;
2H4 5.1. 60 he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-
2H4 5.1. 61 like servingman. Their spirits are so married in
2H4 5.1. 62 conjunction, with the participation of society, that they
2H4 5.1. 63 flock together in consent like so many wild geese. If I
2H4 5.1. 64 had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men
2H4 5.1. 65 with the imputation of being near their master; if to
2H4 5.1. 66 his men, I would curry with Master Shallow that no
2H4 5.1. 67 man could better command his servants. It is certain
2H4 5.1. 68 that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught
2H4 5.1. 69 as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men
2H4 5.1. 70 take heed of their company. I will devise matter enough
2H4 5.1. 71 out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual
2H4 5.1. 72 laughter the wearing out of six fashions - which is four
2H4 5.1. 73 terms, or two actions - and a shall laugh without
2H4 5.1. 74 intervallums. O, it is much that a lie with a slight oath,
2H4 5.1. 75 and a jest with a sad brow, will do with a fellow that
2H4 5.1. 76 never had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see
2H4 5.1. 77 him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!
2H4 5.1. 78
2H4-SHALLOW
{(within)} Sir John!
2H4 5.1. 79
2H4-SIR JOHN
I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow. +
2H4 5.1. 79 {Exit}
2H4 5.1. 0 {Enter the Earl of Warwick [at one door], and the Lord +
2H4 5.2. 0 Chief Justice [at another door]}
2H4 5.2. 1
2H4-WARWICK
How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?
2H4 5.2. 2A
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
How doth the King?
2H4 5.2. 3
2H4-WARWICK
Exceeding well: his cares are now all ended.
2H4 5.2. 4B
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I hope not dead.
2H4-WARWICK
He's walked the way +
2H4 5.2. 4B of nature,
2H4 5.2. 5 And to our purposes he lives no more.
2H4 5.2. 6
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I would his majesty had called me with him.
2H4 5.2. 7 The service that I truly did his life
2H4 5.2. 8 Hath left me open to all injuries.
2H4 5.2. 9
2H4-WARWICK
Indeed I think the young King loves you not.
2H4 5.2. 10
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I know he doth not, and do arm myself
2H4 5.2. 11 To welcome the condition of the time,
2H4 5.2. 12 Which cannot look more hideously upon me
2H4 5.2. 13 Than I have drawn it in my fantasy. {Enter Prince John of +
2H4 5.2. 13 Lancaster, and the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester}
2H4 5.2. 14
2H4-WARWICK
Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry.
2H4 5.2. 15 O, that the living Harry had the temper
2H4 5.2. 16 Of he the worst of these three gentlemen!
2H4 5.2. 17 How many nobles then should hold their places,
2H4 5.2. 18 That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
2H4 5.2. 19
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
O God, I fear all will be overturned.
2H4 5.2. 20
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.
2H4 5.2. 21A
2H4-GLOUCESTER
2H4-AND
2H4-CLARENCE
Good morrow, cousin.
2H4 5.2. 22
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
2H4 5.2. 23
2H4-WARWICK
We do remember, but our argument
2H4 5.2. 24 Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
2H4 5.2. 25
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy!
2H4 5.2. 26
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!
2H4 5.2. 27
2H4-GLOUCESTER
O good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;
2H4 5.2. 28 And I dare swear you borrow not that face
2H4 5.2. 29 Of seeming sorrow - it is sure your own.
2H4 5.2. 30
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
{(to Lord Chief Justice)} Though no +
2H4 5.2. 30 man be assured what grace to find,
2H4 5.2. 31 You stand in coldest expectation.
2H4 5.2. 32 I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.
2H4 5.2. 33
2H4-CLARENCE
{(to Lord Chief Justice)} Well, you must +
2H4 5.2. 33 now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,
2H4 5.2. 34 Which swims against your stream of quality.
2H4 5.2. 35
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sweet princes, what I did I did in honour,
2H4 5.2. 36 Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul;
2H4 5.2. 37 And never shall you see that I will beg
2H4 5.2. 38 A ragged and forestalled remission.
2H4 5.2. 39 If truth and upright innocency fail me,
2H4 5.2. 40 I'll to the King my master, that is dead,
2H4 5.2. 41 And tell him who hath sent me after him. {Enter Prince Harry, as +
2H4 5.2. 41 King}
2H4 5.2. 42A
2H4-WARWICK
Here comes the Prince.
2H4 5.2. 43
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Good morrow, and God save your majesty!
2H4 5.2. 44
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,
2H4 5.2. 45 Sits not so easy on me as you think.
2H4 5.2. 46 Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
2H4 5.2. 47 This is the English not the Turkish court;
2H4 5.2. 48 Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
2H4 5.2. 49 But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
2H4 5.2. 50 For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
2H4 5.2. 51 Sorrow so royally in you appears
2H4 5.2. 52 That I will deeply put the fashion on,
2H4 5.2. 53 And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad;
2H4 5.2. 54 But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
2H4 5.2. 55 Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
2H4 5.2. 56 For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured
2H4 5.2. 57 I'll be your father and your brother too.
2H4 5.2. 58 Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.
2H4 5.2. 59 Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I;
2H4 5.2. 60 But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
2H4 5.2. 61 By number into hours of happiness.
2H4 5.2. 62
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
2H4-GLOUCESTER
2H4-AND
2H4-CLARENCE
We hope no other from your +
2H4 5.2. 62 majesty.
2H4 5.2. 63
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
You all look strangely on me, {(to Lord Chief +
2H4 5.2. 63 Justice)} and you most.
2H4 5.2. 64 You are, I think, assured I love you not.
2H4 5.2. 65
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
2H4 5.2. 66 Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
2H4 5.2. 67
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
No? How might a prince of my great hopes forget
2H4 5.2. 68 So great indignities you laid upon me?
2H4 5.2. 69 What - rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
2H4 5.2. 70 Th' immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
2H4 5.2. 71 May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?
2H4 5.2. 72
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I then did use the person of your father.
2H4 5.2. 73 The image of his power lay then in me;
2H4 5.2. 74 And in th' administration of his law,
2H4 5.2. 75 Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
2H4 5.2. 76 Your highness pleased to forget my place,
2H4 5.2. 77 The majesty and power of law and justice,
2H4 5.2. 78 The image of the King whom I presented,
2H4 5.2. 79 And struck me in my very seat of judgement;
2H4 5.2. 80 Whereon, as an offender to your father,
2H4 5.2. 81 I gave bold way to my authority
2H4 5.2. 82 And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
2H4 5.2. 83 Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
2H4 5.2. 84 To have a son set your decrees at naught -
2H4 5.2. 85 To pluck down justice from your awe-full bench,
2H4 5.2. 86 To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
2H4 5.2. 87 That guards the peace and safety of your person,
2H4 5.2. 88 Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image,
2H4 5.2. 89 And mock your workings in a second body?
2H4 5.2. 90 Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours,
2H4 5.2. 91 Be now the father, and propose a son;
2H4 5.2. 92 Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
2H4 5.2. 93 See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
2H4 5.2. 94 Behold yourself so by a son disdained;
2H4 5.2. 95 And then imagine me taking your part,
2H4 5.2. 96 And in your power soft silencing your son.
2H4 5.2. 97 After this cold considerance, sentence me;
2H4 5.2. 98 And, as you are a king, speak in your state
2H4 5.2. 99 What I have done that misbecame my place,
2H4 5.2. 100 My person, or my liege's sovereignty.
2H4 5.2. 101
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
You are right Justice, and you weigh this well.
2H4 5.2. 102 Therefore still bear the balance and the sword;
2H4 5.2. 103 And I do wish your honours may increase
2H4 5.2. 104 Till you do live to see a son of mine
2H4 5.2. 105 Offend you and obey you as I did.
2H4 5.2. 106 So shall I live to speak my father's words:
2H4 5.2. 107 `Happy am I that have a man so bold
2H4 5.2. 108 That dares do justice on my proper son,
2H4 5.2. 109 And not less happy having such a son
2H4 5.2. 110 That would deliver up his greatness so
2H4 5.2. 111 Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me,
2H4 5.2. 112 For which I do commit into your hand
2H4 5.2. 113 Th' unstained sword that you have used to bear,
2H4 5.2. 114 With this remembrance: that you use the same
2H4 5.2. 115 With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
2H4 5.2. 116 As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
2H4 5.2. 117 You shall be as a father to my youth;
2H4 5.2. 118 My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
2H4 5.2. 119 And I will stoop and humble my intents
2H4 5.2. 120 To your well-practised wise directions. -
2H4 5.2. 121 And princes all, believe me, I beseech you,
2H4 5.2. 122 My father is gone wild into his grave,
2H4 5.2. 123 For in his tomb lie my affections;
2H4 5.2. 124 And with his spirits sadly I survive
2H4 5.2. 125 To mock the expectation of the world,
2H4 5.2. 126 To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
2H4 5.2. 127 Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
2H4 5.2. 128 After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
2H4 5.2. 129 Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now.
2H4 5.2. 130 Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the sea,
2H4 5.2. 131 Where it shall mingle with the state of floods,
2H4 5.2. 132 And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
2H4 5.2. 133 Now call we our high court of Parliament,
2H4 5.2. 134 And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
2H4 5.2. 135 That the great body of our state may go
2H4 5.2. 136 In equal rank with the best-governed nation;
2H4 5.2. 137 That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
2H4 5.2. 138 As things acquainted and familiar to us;
2H4 5.2. 139 {(To Lord Chief Justice)} In which you, father, shall +
2H4 5.2. 139 have foremost hand.
2H4 5.2. 140 {(To all)} Our coronation done, we will accite,
2H4 5.2. 141 As I before remembered, all our state;
2H4 5.2. 142 And, God consigning to my good intents,
2H4 5.2. 143 No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,
2H4 5.2. 144 `God shorten Harry's happy life one day.' {Exeunt}
2H4 5.2. 0
2H4-[A
table and chairs set forth.] Enter Sir John Falstaff, +
2H4 5.3. 0 Shallow, Silence, Davy [with vessels for the table], Bardolph, and the +
2H4 5.3. 0 Page}
2H4 5.3. 1
2H4-SHALLOW
{(to Sir John)} Nay, you shall see my +
2H4 5.3. 1 orchard,
2H4 5.3. 2 where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin
2H4 5.3. 3 of mine own grafting, with a dish of caraways, and so
2H4 5.3. 4 forth - come, cousin Silence - and then to bed.
2H4 5.3. 5
2H4-SIR JOHN
Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and
2H4 5.3. 6 a rich.
2H4 5.3. 7
2H4-SHALLOW
Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all,
2H4 5.3. 8 Sir John. Marry, good air. - Spread, Davy; spread, Davy. {[Davy +
2H4 5.3. 8 begins to spread the table]}
2H4 5.3. 9 Well said, Davy.
2H4 5.3. 10
2H4-SIR JOHN
This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your
2H4 5.3. 11 serving-man and your husband.
2H4 5.3. 12
2H4-SHALLOW
A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet,
2H4 5.3. 13 Sir John. - By the mass, I have drunk too much sack
2H4 5.3. 14 at supper. - A good varlet. Now sit down, now sit
2H4 5.3. 15 down. {(To Silence)} Come, cousin.
2H4 5.3. 16
2H4-SILENCE
Ah, sirrah, quoth-a, we shall
2H4 5.3. 17 {(sings)} Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,
2H4 5.3. 18 And praise God for the merry year,
2H4 5.3. 19 When flesh is cheap and females dear,
2H4 5.3. 20 And lusty lads roam here and there
2H4 5.3. 21 So merrily,
2H4 5.3. 22 And ever among so merrily.
2H4 5.3. 23
2H4-SIR JOHN
There's a merry heart, good Master Silence! I'll
2H4 5.3. 24 give you a health for that anon.
2H4 5.3. 25
2H4-SHALLOW
Good Master Bardolph! - Some wine, Davy.
2H4 5.3. 26
2H4-DAVY
{[to Sir John]} Sweet sir, sit. {[To +
2H4 5.3. 26 Bardolph]} I'll be with
2H4 5.3. 27 you anon. {[To Sir John]} Most sweet sir, sit. Master +
2H4 5.3. 27 page,
2H4 5.3. 28 good master page, sit. {[All but Davy sit. Davy pours wine]}
2H4 5.3. 29 Proface! What you want in meat, we'll have in drink;
2H4 5.3. 30 but you must bear; the heart's all.
2H4 5.3. 31
2H4-SHALLOW
Be merry, Master Bardolph and my little soldier
2H4 5.3. 32 there, be merry.
2H4 5.3. 33
2H4-SILENCE
{(sings)} Be merry, be merry, my wife has +
2H4 5.3. 33 all,
2H4 5.3. 34 For women are shrews, both short and tall,
2H4 5.3. 35 'Tis merry in hall when beards wags all,
2H4 5.3. 36 And welcome merry shrovetide.
2H4 5.3. 37 Be merry, be merry.
2H4 5.3. 38
2H4-SIR JOHN
I did not think Master Silence had been a man
2H4 5.3. 39 of this mettle.
2H4 5.3. 40
2H4-SILENCE
Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere
2H4 5.3. 41 now. {Enter Davy [with a dish of apples]}
2H4 5.3. 42
2H4-DAVY
There's a dish of leather-coats for you.
2H4 5.3. 43
2H4-SHALLOW
Davy!
2H4 5.3. 44
2H4-DAVY
Your worship! I'll be with you straight. {[To Sir}
2H4 5.3. 45 {John]} A cup of wine, sir?
2H4 5.3. 46
2H4-SILENCE
{[sings]} A cup of wine
2H4 5.3. 47 That's brisk and fine,
2H4 5.3. 48 And drink unto thee, leman mine,
2H4 5.3. 49 And a merry heart lives long-a.
2H4 5.3. 50
2H4-SIR JOHN
Well said, Master Silence.
2H4 5.3. 51
2H4-SILENCE
And we shall be merry; now comes in the sweet
2H4 5.3. 52 o' th' night.
2H4 5.3. 53
2H4-SIR JOHN
Health and long life to you, Master Silence! {He +
2H4 5.3. 53 drinks}
2H4 5.3. 54
2H4-SILENCE
Fill the cup and let it come. I'll pledge you a +
2H4 5.3. 54 mile
2H4 5.3. 55 to th' bottom.
2H4 5.3. 56
2H4-SHALLOW
Honest Bardolph, welcome! If thou want'st
2H4 5.3. 57 anything and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart! {(To the}
2H4 5.3. 58 {Page)} Welcome, my little tiny thief, and welcome indeed,
2H4 5.3. 59 too! - I'll drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the
2H4 5.3. 60 cavalieros about London. {He drinks}
2H4 5.3. 61
2H4-DAVY
I hope to see London once ere I die.
2H4 5.3. 62
2H4-BARDOLPH
An I might see you there, Davy!
2H4 5.3. 63
2H4-SHALLOW
By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha,
2H4 5.3. 64 will you not, Master Bardolph?
2H4 5.3. 65
2H4-BARDOLPH
Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.
2H4 5.3. 66
2H4-SHALLOW
By God's liggens, I thank thee. The knave will
2H4 5.3. 67 stick by thee, I can assure thee that; a will not out;
2H4 5.3. 68 'tis true-bred.
2H4 5.3. 69
2H4-BARDOLPH
And I'll stick by him, sir.
2H4 5.3. 70
2H4-SHALLOW
Why, there spoke a king! Lack nothing, be
2H4 5.3. 71 merry! {One knocks at the door within}
2H4 5.3. 72 Look who's at door there, ho! Who knocks? {[Exit +
2H4 5.3. 72 Davy]}
2H4 5.3. 73 {[Silence drinks]}
2H4-SIR JOHN
{[to Silence]} +
2H4 5.3. 73 Why, now you have done me right!
2H4 5.3. 74
2H4-SILENCE
{[sings]} Do me right,
2H4 5.3. 75 And dub me knight -
2H4 5.3. 76 Samingo.
2H4 5.3. 77 Is 't not so?
2H4 5.3. 78
2H4-SIR JOHN
'Tis so.
2H4 5.3. 79
2H4-SILENCE
Is 't so? - Why then, say an old man can do
2H4 5.3. 80 somewhat. {[Enter Davy]}
2H4 5.3. 81
2H4-DAVY
An 't please your worship, there's one Pistol come
2H4 5.3. 82 from the court with news.
2H4 5.3. 83
2H4-SIR JOHN
From the court? Let him come in. {Enter Pistol}
2H4 5.3. 84 How now, Pistol?
2H4 5.3. 85
2H4-PISTOL
Sir John, God save you.
2H4 5.3. 86
2H4-SIR JOHN
What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
2H4 5.3. 87
2H4-PISTOL
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.
2H4 5.3. 88 Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in
2H4 5.3. 89 this realm.
2H4 5.3. 90
2H4-SILENCE
By 'r Lady, I think a be - but goodman Puff of
2H4 5.3. 91 Bar'son.
2H4 5.3. 92
2H4-PISTOL
Puff?
2H4 5.3. 93 Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base! -
2H4 5.3. 94 Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,
2H4 5.3. 95 And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,
2H4 5.3. 96 And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys,
2H4 5.3. 97 And golden times, and happy news of price.
2H4 5.3. 98
2H4-SIR JOHN
I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this
2H4 5.3. 99 world.
2H4 5.3. 100
2H4-PISTOL
A foutre for the world and worldlings base!
2H4 5.3. 101 I speak of Africa and golden joys.
2H4 5.3. 102
2H4-SIR JOHN
O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?
2H4 5.3. 103 Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.
2H4 5.3. 104
2H4-SILENCE
{[singing]} `And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and +
2H4 5.3. 104 John.'
2H4 5.3. 105
2H4-PISTOL
Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?
2H4 5.3. 106 And shall good news be baffled?
2H4 5.3. 107 Then Pistol lay thy head in Furies' lap.
2H4 5.3. 108
2H4-SHALLOW
Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.
2H4 5.3. 109A
2H4-PISTOL
Why then, lament therefor.
2H4 5.3. 110
2H4-SHALLOW
Give me pardon, sir. If, sir, you come with news
2H4 5.3. 111 from the court, I take it there's but two ways: either
2H4 5.3. 112 to utter them, or conceal them. I am, sir, under the
2H4 5.3. 113 King in some authority.
2H4 5.3. 114
2H4-PISTOL
Under which king, besonian? Speak, or die.
2H4 5.3. 115B
2H4-SHALLOW
Under King Harry.
2H4-PISTOL
Harry the Fourth, or Fifth?
2H4 5.3. 116B
2H4-SHALLOW
Harry the Fourth.
2H4-PISTOL
A foutre for thine office!
2H4 5.3. 117 Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king.
2H4 5.3. 118 Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth.
2H4 5.3. 119 When Pistol lies, do this, {(making the fig)} and fig +
2H4 5.3. 119 me,
2H4 5.3. 120B Like the bragging Spaniard.
2H4-SIR JOHN
What, is the old King dead?
2H4 5.3. 121
2H4-PISTOL
As nail in door. The things I speak are just.
2H4 5.3. 122
2H4-SIR JOHN
Away, Bardolph, saddle my horse! Master Robert
2H4 5.3. 123 Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land; 'tis
2H4 5.3. 124 thine. Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities.
2H4 5.3. 125A
2H4-BARDOLPH
O joyful day!
2H4 5.3. 126 I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.
2H4 5.3. 127A
2H4-PISTOL
What, I do bring good news?
2H4 5.3. 128
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Davy)} Carry Master Silence to +
2H4 5.3. 128 bed. {[Exit Davy with Silence]}
2H4 5.3. 129 Master Shallow - my lord Shallow - be what thou wilt,
2H4 5.3. 130 I am fortune's steward - get on thy boots; we'll ride
2H4 5.3. 131 all night. - O sweet Pistol! - Away, Bardolph! {[Exit Bardolph]}
2H4 5.3. 132 Come, Pistol, utter more to me, and withal devise
2H4 5.3. 133 something to do thyself good. Boot, boot, Master
2H4 5.3. 134 Shallow! I know the young King is sick for me. Let us
2H4 5.3. 135 take any man's horses - the laws of England are at my
2H4 5.3. 136 commandment. Blessed are they that have been my
2H4 5.3. 137 friends, and woe to my Lord Chief Justice.
2H4 5.3. 138
2H4-PISTOL
Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!
2H4 5.3. 139 `Where is the life that late I led?' say they.
2H4 5.3. 140 Why, here it is. Welcome these pleasant days. {Exeunt}
2H4 5.3. 0 {Enter Beadles, dragging in Mistress Quickly and Doll +
2H4 5.4. 0 Tearsheet}
2H4 5.4. 1
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, thou arrant knave! I would to God
2H4 5.4. 2 that I might die, that I might have thee hanged. Thou
2H4 5.4. 3 hast drawn my shoulder out of joint.
2H4 5.4. 4
2H4-FIRST BEADLE
The constables have delivered her over to
2H4 5.4. 5 me; and she shall have whipping-cheer, I warrant her.
2H4 5.4. 6 There hath been a man or two killed about her.
2H4 5.4. 7
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie! Come on,
2H4 5.4. 8 I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal,
2H4 5.4. 9 an the child I go with do miscarry, thou wert better
2H4 5.4. 10 thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain.
2H4 5.4. 11
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O the Lord, that Sir John were come!
2H4 5.4. 12 He would make this a bloody day to somebody. But I
2H4 5.4. 13 pray God the fruit of her womb miscarry!
2H4 5.4. 14
2H4-FIRST BEADLE
If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions
2H4 5.4. 15 again; you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you
2H4 5.4. 16 both go with me, for the man is dead that you and
2H4 5.4. 17 Pistol beat amongst you.
2H4 5.4. 18
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I'll tell you what, you thin man in a
2H4 5.4. 19 censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this,
2H4 5.4. 20 you bluebottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner!
2H4 5.4. 21 If you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.
2H4 5.4. 22
2H4-FIRST BEADLE
Come, come, you she knight-errant, come!
2H4 5.4. 23
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O God, that right should thus o'ercome
2H4 5.4. 24 might! Well, of sufferance comes ease.
2H4 5.4. 25
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a
2H4 5.4. 26 justice.
2H4 5.4. 27
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Ay, come, you starved bloodhound.
2H4 5.4. 28
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Goodman death, goodman bones!
2H4 5.4. 29
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Thou atomy, thou!
2H4 5.4. 30
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal.
2H4 5.4. 31
2H4-FIRST BEADLE
Very well. {Exeunt}
2H4 5.4. 0 {Enter [two] Grooms, strewing rushes}
2H4 5.5. 1
2H4-FIRST GROOM
More rushes, more rushes!
2H4 5.5. 2
2H4-SECOND GROOM
The trumpets have sounded twice.
2H4 5.5. 3
2H4-[FIRST] GROOM
'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from
2H4 5.5. 4 the coronation. {Exeunt}
2H4 5.5. 5 {Enter Sir John Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and the +
2H4 5.5. 5 Page}
2H4-SIR JOHN
Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow. I +
2H4 5.5. 5 will
2H4 5.5. 6 make the King do you grace. I will leer upon him as a
2H4 5.5. 7 comes by, and do but mark the countenance that he
2H4 5.5. 8 will give me.
2H4 5.5. 9
2H4-PISTOL
God bless thy lungs, good knight.
2H4 5.5. 10
2H4-SIR JOHN
Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. {(To Shallow)}
2H4 5.5. 11 O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would
2H4 5.5. 12 have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you!
2H4 5.5. 13 But 'tis no matter; this poor show doth better; this
2H4 5.5. 14 doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
2H4 5.5. 15
2H4-[SHALLOW]
It doth so.
2H4 5.5. 16
2H4-SIR JOHN
It shows my earnestness of affection -
2H4 5.5. 17
2H4-PISTOL
It doth so.
2H4 5.5. 18
2H4-SIR JOHN
My devotion -
2H4 5.5. 19
2H4-PISTOL
It doth, it doth, it doth.
2H4 5.5. 20
2H4-SIR JOHN
As it were, to ride day and night, and not to
2H4 5.5. 21 deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to
2H4 5.5. 22 shift me -
2H4 5.5. 23
2H4-SHALLOW
It is most certain.
2H4 5.5. 24
2H4-[SIR JOHN]
But to stand stained with travel and sweating
2H4 5.5. 25 with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting
2H4 5.5. 26 all affairs in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to
2H4 5.5. 27 be done but to see him.
2H4 5.5. 28
2H4-PISTOL
'Tis {semper idem}, for {absque hoc nihil est}: 'tis all in
2H4 5.5. 29 every part.
2H4 5.5. 30
2H4-SHALLOW
'Tis so indeed.
2H4 5.5. 31
2H4-PISTOL
My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
2H4 5.5. 32 And make thee rage.
2H4 5.5. 33 Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
2H4 5.5. 34 Is in base durance and contagious prison,
2H4 5.5. 35 Haled thither
2H4 5.5. 36 By most mechanical and dirty hand.
2H4 5.5. 37 Rouse up Revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake,
2H4 5.5. 38 For Doll is in. Pistol speaks naught but truth.
2H4 5.5. 39
2H4-SIR JOHN
I will deliver her. {[Shouts within.] +
2H4 5.5. 39 Trumpets sound}
2H4 5.5. 40
2H4-PISTOL
There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangour +
2H4 5.5. 40 sounds! {Enter King Harry the Fifth, Prince John of Lancaster, +
2H4 5.5. 40 the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, the Lord Chief Justice, [and +
2H4 5.5. 40 others]}
2H4 5.5. 41
2H4-SIR JOHN
God save thy grace, King Hal, my royal Hal!
2H4 5.5. 42
2H4-PISTOL
The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!
2H4 5.5. 43A
2H4-SIR JOHN
God save thee, my sweet boy!
2H4 5.5. 44
2H4-KING HARRY
My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
2H4 5.5. 45
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to Sir John)} Have you your +
2H4 5.5. 45 wits? Know you what 'tis you speak?
2H4 5.5. 46
2H4-SIR JOHN
My king, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
2H4 5.5. 47
2H4-KING HARRY
I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
2H4 5.5. 48 How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester!
2H4 5.5. 49 I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,
2H4 5.5. 50 So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane;
2H4 5.5. 51 But being awake, I do despise my dream.
2H4 5.5. 52 Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
2H4 5.5. 53 Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
2H4 5.5. 54 For thee thrice wider than for other men.
2H4 5.5. 55 Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
2H4 5.5. 56 Presume not that I am the thing I was,
2H4 5.5. 57 For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
2H4 5.5. 58 That I have turned away my former self;
2H4 5.5. 59 So will I those that kept me company.
2H4 5.5. 60 When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
2H4 5.5. 61 Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
2H4 5.5. 62 The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
2H4 5.5. 63 Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
2H4 5.5. 64 As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
2H4 5.5. 65 Not to come near our person by ten mile.
2H4 5.5. 66 For competence of life I will allow you,
2H4 5.5. 67 That lack of means enforce you not to evils;
2H4 5.5. 68 And as we hear you do reform yourselves,
2H4 5.5. 69 We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
2H4 5.5. 70 Give you advancement. {(To Lord Chief Justice)} Be it +
2H4 5.5. 70 your charge, my lord,
2H4 5.5. 71 To see performed the tenor of our word. {(To his train)}+
2H4 5.5. 71 Set on! {Exeunt King Harry and his train}
2H4 5.5. 72
2H4-SIR JOHN
Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.
2H4 5.5. 73
2H4-SHALLOW
Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to
2H4 5.5. 74 let me have home with me.
2H4 5.5. 75
2H4-SIR JOHN
That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you
2H4 5.5. 76 grieve at this. I shall be sent for in private to him. Look
2H4 5.5. 77 you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your
2H4 5.5. 78 advancements. I will be the man yet that shall make
2H4 5.5. 79 you great.
2H4 5.5. 80
2H4-SHALLOW
I cannot perceive how, unless you give me your
2H4 5.5. 81 doublet and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you,
2H4 5.5. 82 good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.
2H4 5.5. 83
2H4-SIR JOHN
Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you
2H4 5.5. 84 heard was but a colour.
2H4 5.5. 85
2H4-SHALLOW
A colour I fear that you will die in, Sir John.
2H4 5.5. 86
2H4-SIR JOHN
Fear no colours. Go with me to dinner. Come,
2H4 5.5. 87 Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph. I shall be sent for
2H4 5.5. 88 soon at night. {Enter the Lord Chief Justice and Prince John,}
2H4 5.5. 89 {with officers}
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to officers)} +
2H4 5.5. 89 Go carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
2H4 5.5. 90 Take all his company along with him.
2H4 5.5. 91A
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, my lord!
2H4 5.5. 92
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon. -
2H4 5.5. 93 Take them away.
2H4 5.5. 94
2H4-PISTOL
{Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta}. {Exeunt +
2H4 5.5. 94 all but Prince John}
2H4 5.5. 95 {and Lord Chief Justice}
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
I like this fair +
2H4 5.5. 95 proceeding of the King's.
2H4 5.5. 96 He hath intent his wonted followers
2H4 5.5. 97 Shall all be very well provided for,
2H4 5.5. 98 But all are banished till their conversations
2H4 5.5. 99 Appear more wise and modest to the world.
2H4 5.5. 100A
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
And so they are.
2H4 5.5. 101
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
The King hath called his parliament, my lord.
2H4 5.5. 102A
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
He hath.
2H4 5.5. 103
2H4-PRINCE JOHN
I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
2H4 5.5. 104 We bear our civil swords and native fire
2H4 5.5. 105 As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
2H4 5.5. 106 Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the King.
2H4 5.5. 107 Come, will you hence? {Exeunt}
2H4 5.5. 0 {Enter Epilogue}
2H4 5.Ep. 1
2H4-EPILOGUE
First my fear, then my curtsy, last my speech.
2H4 5.Ep. 2 My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty;
2H4 5.Ep. 3 and my speech to beg your pardons. If you look for a
2H4 5.Ep. 4 good speech now, you undo me; for what I have to
2H4 5.Ep. 5 say is of mine own making, and what indeed I should
2H4 5.Ep. 6 say will, I doubt, prove mine own marring. But to the
2H4 5.Ep. 7 purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known to you, as
2H4 5.Ep. 8 it is very well, I was lately here in the end of a
2H4 5.Ep. 9 displeasing play, to pray your patience for it, and to
2H4 5.Ep. 10 promise you a better. I did mean indeed to pay you
2H4 5.Ep. 11 with this; which, if like an ill venture it come unluckily
2H4 5.Ep. 12 home, I break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here
2H4 5.Ep. 13 I promised you I would be, and here I commit my body
2H4 5.Ep. 14 to your mercies. Bate me some, and I will pay you
2H4 5.Ep. 15 some, and, as most debtors do, promise you infinitely.
2H4 5.Ep. 16 If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will
2H4 5.Ep. 17 you command me to use my legs? And yet that were
2H4 5.Ep. 18 but light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a
2H4 5.Ep. 19 good conscience will make any possible satisfaction,
2H4 5.Ep. 20 and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have forgiven
2H4 5.Ep. 21 me; if the gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do
2H4 5.Ep. 22 not agree with the gentlewomen, which was never
2H4 5.Ep. 23 seen before in such an assembly.
2H4 5.Ep. 24 One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too
2H4 5.Ep. 25 much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will
2H4 5.Ep. 26 continue the story with Sir John in it, and make you
2H4 5.Ep. 27 merry with fair Catherine of France; where, for
2H4 5.Ep. 28 anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat - unless
2H4 5.Ep. 29 already a be killed with your hard opinions. For
2H4 5.Ep. 30 Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man. My
2H4 5.Ep. 31 tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you
2H4 5.Ep. 32 good night, and so kneel down before you - but, indeed,
2H4 5.Ep. 33 to pray for the Queen. {[He dances, then kneels for applause.] +
2H4 5.Ep. 33 Exit}
2H4 5.Ep. 0
2H4 A.E. 0 [[Along with some substantial additions, Shakespeare probably made
2H4 A.E. 0 a number of short excisions when preparing the finished version
2H4 A.E. 0 of the play. The following, present in the Quarto but entirely or
2H4 A.E. 0 substantially omitted in the later Folio text, are the most
2H4 A.E. 0 significant
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2H4 A.A. 1
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And God knows whether those that bawl out the +
2H4 A.A. 1 ruins
2H4 A.A. 2 of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom - but the midwives
2H4 A.A. 3 say the children are not in the fault, whereupon the
2H4 A.A. 4 world increases, and kindreds are mightily
2H4 A.A. 5 strengthened.
2H4 A.A. 0
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2H4-KING HENRY
O, if this were seen,
2H4 A.B. 2 The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
2H4 A.B. 3 What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
2H4 A.B. 4 Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
2H4 A.B. 0
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2H4 A.C. 0 computer analysis]]
2H4 A.C. 1
2H4-SIR JOHN
yet lecherous as a monkey; and the whores called +
2H4 A.C. 1 him
2H4 A.C. 2 `mandrake'. A came ever in the rearward of the fashion,
2H4 A.C. 3 and sung those tunes to the overscutched hussies that
2H4 A.C. 4 he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his
2H4 A.C. 5 fancies or his good-nights.
2H4 A.C.
2H4
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ADO . . 0 Much Ado About Nothing
ADO . . 0 {Enter Leonato, governor of Messina, Hero his +
ADO 1.1. 0 daughter, and Beatrice his niece, with a Messenger}
ADO 1.1. 1
ADO-LEONATO
I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon
ADO 1.1. 2 comes this night to Messina.
ADO 1.1. 3
ADO-MESSENGER
He is very near by this. He was not three
ADO 1.1. 4 leagues off when I left him.
ADO 1.1. 5
ADO-LEONATO
How many gentlemen have you lost in this
ADO 1.1. 6 action?
ADO 1.1. 7
ADO-MESSENGER
But few of any sort, and none of name.
ADO 1.1. 8
ADO-LEONATO
A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings
ADO 1.1. 9 home full numbers. I find here that Don Pedro hath
ADO 1.1. 10 bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called
ADO 1.1. 11 Claudio.
ADO 1.1. 12
ADO-MESSENGER
Much deserved on his part, and equally
ADO 1.1. 13 remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself
ADO 1.1. 14 beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a
ADO 1.1. 15 lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed better bettered
ADO 1.1. 16 expectation than you must expect of me to tell you
ADO 1.1. 17 how.
ADO 1.1. 18
ADO-LEONATO
He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very
ADO 1.1. 19 much glad of it.
ADO 1.1. 20
ADO-MESSENGER
I have already delivered him letters, and there
ADO 1.1. 21 appears much joy in him - even so much that joy could
ADO 1.1. 22 not show itself modest enough without a badge of
ADO 1.1. 23 bitterness.
ADO 1.1. 24
ADO-LEONATO
Did he break out into tears?
ADO 1.1. 25
ADO-MESSENGER
In great measure.
ADO 1.1. 26
ADO-LEONATO
A kind overflow of kindness, there are no faces
ADO 1.1. 27 truer than those that are so washed. How much better
ADO 1.1. 28 is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
ADO 1.1. 29
ADO-BEATRICE
I pray you, is Signor Montanto returned from
ADO 1.1. 30 the wars, or no?
ADO 1.1. 31
ADO-MESSENGER
I know none of that name, lady. There was
ADO 1.1. 32 none such in the army, of any sort.
ADO 1.1. 33
ADO-LEONATO
What is he that you ask for, niece?
ADO 1.1. 34
ADO-HERO
My cousin means Signor Benedick of Padua.
ADO 1.1. 35
ADO-MESSENGER
O, he's returned, and as pleasant as ever he
ADO 1.1. 36 was.
ADO 1.1. 37
ADO-BEATRICE
He set up his bills here in Messina, and
ADO 1.1. 38 challenged Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool,
ADO 1.1. 39 reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid and
ADO 1.1. 40 challenged him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many
ADO 1.1. 41 hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many
ADO 1.1. 42 hath he killed? For indeed I promised to eat all of his
ADO 1.1. 43 killing.
ADO 1.1. 44
ADO-LEONATO
Faith, niece, you tax Signor Benedick too much.
ADO 1.1. 45 But he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
ADO 1.1. 46
ADO-MESSENGER
He hath done good service, lady, in these
ADO 1.1. 47 wars.
ADO 1.1. 48
ADO-BEATRICE
You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat
ADO 1.1. 49 it. He is a very valiant trencherman, he hath an
ADO 1.1. 50 excellent stomach.
ADO 1.1. 51
ADO-MESSENGER
And a good soldier too, lady.
ADO 1.1. 52
ADO-BEATRICE
And a good soldier to a lady, but what is he to
ADO 1.1. 53 a lord?
ADO 1.1. 54
ADO-MESSENGER
A lord to a lord, a man to a man, stuffed with
ADO 1.1. 55 all honourable virtues.
ADO 1.1. 56
ADO-BEATRICE
It is so, indeed. He is no less than a stuffed man.
ADO 1.1. 57 But for the stuffing - well, we are all mortal.
ADO 1.1. 58
ADO-LEONATO
You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
ADO 1.1. 59 kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her.
ADO 1.1. 60 They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between
ADO 1.1. 61 them.
ADO 1.1. 62
ADO-BEATRICE
Alas, he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict
ADO 1.1. 63 four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the
ADO 1.1. 64 whole man governed with one, so that if he have wit
ADO 1.1. 65 enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a
ADO 1.1. 66 difference between himself and his horse, for it is all
ADO 1.1. 67 the wealth that he hath left to be known a reasonable
ADO 1.1. 68 creature. Who is his companion now? He hath every
ADO 1.1. 69 month a new sworn brother.
ADO 1.1. 70
ADO-MESSENGER
Is 't possible?
ADO 1.1. 71
ADO-BEATRICE
Very easily possible. He wears his faith but as
ADO 1.1. 72 the fashion of his hat, it ever changes with the next
ADO 1.1. 73 block.
ADO 1.1. 74
ADO-MESSENGER
I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
ADO 1.1. 75
ADO-BEATRICE
No. An he were, I would burn my study. But I
ADO 1.1. 76 pray you, who is his companion? Is there no young
ADO 1.1. 77 squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the
ADO 1.1. 78 devil?
ADO 1.1. 79
ADO-MESSENGER
He is most in the company of the right noble
ADO 1.1. 80 Claudio.
ADO 1.1. 81
ADO-BEATRICE
O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease.
ADO 1.1. 82 He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker
ADO 1.1. 83 runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio. If he
ADO 1.1. 84 have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand
ADO 1.1. 85 pound ere a be cured.
ADO 1.1. 86
ADO-MESSENGER
I will hold friends with you, lady.
ADO 1.1. 87
ADO-BEATRICE
Do, good friend.
ADO 1.1. 88
ADO-LEONATO
You will never run mad, niece.
ADO 1.1. 89
ADO-BEATRICE
No, not till a hot January.
ADO 1.1. 90
ADO-MESSENGER
Don Pedro is approached. {Enter Don Pedro, +
ADO 1.1. 90 Claudio, Benedick, Balthasar, and Don John the bastard}
ADO 1.1. 91
ADO-DON PEDRO
Good Signor Leonato, are you come to meet
ADO 1.1. 92 your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost,
ADO 1.1. 93 and you encounter it.
ADO 1.1. 94
ADO-LEONATO
Never came trouble to my house in the likeness
ADO 1.1. 95 of your grace; for trouble being gone, comfort should
ADO 1.1. 96 remain, but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
ADO 1.1. 97 and happiness takes his leave.
ADO 1.1. 98
ADO-DON PEDRO
You embrace your charge too willingly. I think
ADO 1.1. 99 this is your daughter.
ADO 1.1. 100
ADO-LEONATO
Her mother hath many times told me so.
ADO 1.1. 101
ADO-BENEDICK
Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
ADO 1.1. 102
ADO-LEONATO
Signor Benedick, no, for then were you a child.
ADO 1.1. 103
ADO-DON PEDRO
You have it full, Benedick. We may guess by
ADO 1.1. 104 this what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
ADO 1.1. 105 herself. Be happy, lady, for you are like an honourable
ADO 1.1. 106 father.
ADO 1.1. 107
ADO-BENEDICK
If Signor Leonato be her father, she would not
ADO 1.1. 108 have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as like
ADO 1.1. 109 him as she is.
ADO 1.1. 110
ADO-BEATRICE
I wonder that you will still be talking, Signor
ADO 1.1. 111 Benedick. Nobody marks you.
ADO 1.1. 112
ADO-BENEDICK
What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet
ADO 1.1. 113 living?
ADO 1.1. 114
ADO-BEATRICE
Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
ADO 1.1. 115 such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy
ADO 1.1. 116 itself must convert to disdain if you come in her
ADO 1.1. 117 presence.
ADO 1.1. 118
ADO-BENEDICK
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
ADO 1.1. 119 am loved of all ladies, only you excepted. And I would
ADO 1.1. 120 I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart,
ADO 1.1. 121 for truly I love none.
ADO 1.1. 122
ADO-BEATRICE
A dear happiness to women. They would else
ADO 1.1. 123 have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank
ADO 1.1. 124 God and my cold blood I am of your humour for that.
ADO 1.1. 125 I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
ADO 1.1. 126 swear he loves me.
ADO 1.1. 127
ADO-BENEDICK
God keep your ladyship still in that mind. So
ADO 1.1. 128 some gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate
ADO 1.1. 129 scratched face.
ADO 1.1. 130
ADO-BEATRICE
Scratching could not make it worse an 'twere
ADO 1.1. 131 such a face as yours were.
ADO 1.1. 132
ADO-BENEDICK
Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
ADO 1.1. 133
ADO-BEATRICE
A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of
ADO 1.1. 134 yours.
ADO 1.1. 135
ADO-BENEDICK
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue,
ADO 1.1. 136 and so good a continuer. But keep your way, o' God's
ADO 1.1. 137 name. I have done.
ADO 1.1. 138
ADO-BEATRICE
You always end with a jade's trick. I know you
ADO 1.1. 139 of old.
ADO 1.1. 140
ADO-DON PEDRO
That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signor Claudio
ADO 1.1. 141 and Signor Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
ADO 1.1. 142 invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at the least
ADO 1.1. 143 a month, and he heartily prays some occasion may
ADO 1.1. 144 detain us longer. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but
ADO 1.1. 145 prays from his heart.
ADO 1.1. 146
ADO-LEONATO
If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.
ADO 1.1. 147 {(To Don John)} Let me bid you welcome, my lord. Being
ADO 1.1. 148 reconciled to the Prince your brother, I owe you all
ADO 1.1. 149 duty.
ADO 1.1. 150
ADO-DON JOHN
I thank you. I am not of many words, but I
ADO 1.1. 151 thank you.
ADO 1.1. 152
ADO-LEONATO
{(to Don Pedro)} Please it your grace lead +
ADO 1.1. 152 on?
ADO 1.1. 153
ADO-DON PEDRO
Your hand, Leonato. We will go together. {Exeunt +
ADO 1.1. 153 all but Benedick and Claudio}
ADO 1.1. 154
ADO-CLAUDIO
Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signor
ADO 1.1. 155 Leonato?
ADO 1.1. 156
ADO-BENEDICK
I noted her not, but I looked on her.
ADO 1.1. 157
ADO-CLAUDIO
Is she not a modest young lady?
ADO 1.1. 158
ADO-BENEDICK
Do you question me as an honest man should
ADO 1.1. 159 do, for my simple true judgement, or would you have
ADO 1.1. 160 me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant
ADO 1.1. 161 to their sex?
ADO 1.1. 162
ADO-CLAUDIO
No, I pray thee speak in sober judgement.
ADO 1.1. 163
ADO-BENEDICK
Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high
ADO 1.1. 164 praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for a
ADO 1.1. 165 great praise. Only this commendation I can afford her,
ADO 1.1. 166 that were she other than she is she were unhandsome,
ADO 1.1. 167 and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.
ADO 1.1. 168
ADO-CLAUDIO
Thou thinkest I am in sport. I pray thee tell me
ADO 1.1. 169 truly how thou likest her.
ADO 1.1. 170
ADO-BENEDICK
Would you buy her, that you enquire after her?
ADO 1.1. 171
ADO-CLAUDIO
Can the world buy such a jewel?
ADO 1.1. 172
ADO-BENEDICK
Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you
ADO 1.1. 173 this with a sad brow, or do you play the flouting jack,
ADO 1.1. 174 to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a rare
ADO 1.1. 175 carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take you to
ADO 1.1. 176 go in the song?
ADO 1.1. 177
ADO-CLAUDIO
In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I
ADO 1.1. 178 looked on.
ADO 1.1. 179
ADO-BENEDICK
I can see yet without spectacles, and I see no
ADO 1.1. 180 such matter. There's her cousin, an she were not
ADO 1.1. 181 possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty
ADO 1.1. 182 as the first of May doth the last of December. But I
ADO 1.1. 183 hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?
ADO 1.1. 184
ADO-CLAUDIO
I would scarce trust myself though I had sworn
ADO 1.1. 185 the contrary, if Hero would be my wife.
ADO 1.1. 186
ADO-BENEDICK
Is 't come to this? In faith, hath not the world
ADO 1.1. 187 one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall
ADO 1.1. 188 I never see a bachelor of three-score again? Go to,
ADO 1.1. 189 i' faith, an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke,
ADO 1.1. 190 wear the print of it, and sigh away Sundays. Look, Don
ADO 1.1. 191 Pedro is returned to seek you. {Enter Don Pedro}
ADO 1.1. 192
ADO-DON PEDRO
What secret hath held you here that you
ADO 1.1. 193 followed not to Leonato's?
ADO 1.1. 194
ADO-BENEDICK
I would your grace would constrain me to tell.
ADO 1.1. 195
ADO-DON PEDRO
I charge thee on thy allegiance.
ADO 1.1. 196
ADO-BENEDICK
You hear, Count Claudio? I can be secret as a
ADO 1.1. 197 dumb man, I would have you think so. But on my
ADO 1.1. 198 allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance! He is in
ADO 1.1. 199 love. With who? Now that is your grace's part. Mark
ADO 1.1. 200 how short his answer is: with Hero, Leonato's short
ADO 1.1. 201 daughter.
ADO 1.1. 202
ADO-CLAUDIO
If this were so, so were it uttered.
ADO 1.1. 203
ADO-BENEDICK
Like the old tale, my lord - it is not so, nor
ADO 1.1. 204 'twas not so, but indeed, God forbid it should be so.
ADO 1.1. 205
ADO-CLAUDIO
If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it
ADO 1.1. 206 should be otherwise.
ADO 1.1. 207
ADO-DON PEDRO
Amen, if you love her, for the lady is very
ADO 1.1. 208 well worthy.
ADO 1.1. 209
ADO-CLAUDIO
You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.
ADO 1.1. 210
ADO-DON PEDRO
By my troth, I speak my thought.
ADO 1.1. 211
ADO-CLAUDIO
And in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.
ADO 1.1. 212
ADO-BENEDICK
And by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I
ADO 1.1. 213 spoke mine.
ADO 1.1. 214
ADO-CLAUDIO
That I love her, I feel.
ADO 1.1. 215
ADO-DON PEDRO
That she is worthy, I know.
ADO 1.1. 216
ADO-BENEDICK
That I neither feel how she should be loved nor
ADO 1.1. 217 know how she should be worthy is the opinion that
ADO 1.1. 218 fire cannot melt out of me. I will die in it at the stake.
ADO 1.1. 219
ADO-DON PEDRO
Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the
ADO 1.1. 220 despite of beauty.
ADO 1.1. 221
ADO-CLAUDIO
And never could maintain his part but in the
ADO 1.1. 222 force of his will.
ADO 1.1. 223
ADO-BENEDICK
That a woman conceived me, I thank her. That
ADO 1.1. 224 she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble
ADO 1.1. 225 thanks. But that I will have a recheat winded in my
ADO 1.1. 226 forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric, all
ADO 1.1. 227 women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them
ADO 1.1. 228 the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right
ADO 1.1. 229 to trust none. And the fine is - for the which I may go
ADO 1.1. 230 the finer - I will live a bachelor.
ADO 1.1. 231
ADO-DON PEDRO
I shall see thee ere I die look pale with love.
ADO 1.1. 232
ADO-BENEDICK
With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my
ADO 1.1. 233 lord; not with love. Prove that ever I lose more blood
ADO 1.1. 234 with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out
ADO 1.1. 235 mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up
ADO 1.1. 236 at the door of a brothel house for the sign of blind
ADO 1.1. 237 Cupid.
ADO 1.1. 238
ADO-DON PEDRO
Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith thou
ADO 1.1. 239 wilt prove a notable argument.
ADO 1.1. 240
ADO-BENEDICK
If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat, and shoot
ADO 1.1. 241 at me, and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the
ADO 1.1. 242 shoulder and called Adam.
ADO 1.1. 243
ADO-DON PEDRO
Well, as time shall try. `In time the savage
ADO 1.1. 244 bull doth bear the yoke.'
ADO 1.1. 245
ADO-BENEDICK
The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible
ADO 1.1. 246 Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them
ADO 1.1. 247 in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, and in
ADO 1.1. 248 such great letters as they write `Here is good horse to
ADO 1.1. 249 hire' let them signify under my sign `Here you may see
ADO 1.1. 250 Benedick, the married man'.
ADO 1.1. 251
ADO-CLAUDIO
If this should ever happen thou wouldst be horn-
ADO 1.1. 252 mad.
ADO 1.1. 253
ADO-DON PEDRO
Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in
ADO 1.1. 254 Venice thou wilt quake for this shortly.
ADO 1.1. 255
ADO-BENEDICK
I look for an earthquake too, then.
ADO 1.1. 256
ADO-DON PEDRO
Well, you will temporize with the hours. In
ADO 1.1. 257 the mean time, good Signor Benedick, repair to
ADO 1.1. 258 Leonato's, commend me to him, and tell him I will not
ADO 1.1. 259 fail him at supper, for indeed he hath made great
ADO 1.1. 260 preparation.
ADO 1.1. 261
ADO-BENEDICK
I have almost matter enough in me for such an
ADO 1.1. 262 embassage. And so I commit you -
ADO 1.1. 263
ADO-CLAUDIO
To the tuition of God, from my house if I had
ADO 1.1. 264 it -
ADO 1.1. 265
ADO-DON PEDRO
The sixth of July,
ADO 1.1. 266 Your loving friend,
ADO 1.1. 267 Benedick.
ADO 1.1. 268
ADO-BENEDICK
Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
ADO 1.1. 269 discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the
ADO 1.1. 270 guards are but slightly basted on neither. Ere you flout
ADO 1.1. 271 old ends any further, examine your conscience. And
ADO 1.1. 272 so I leave you. {Exit}
ADO 1.1. 273
ADO-CLAUDIO
My liege, your highness now may do me good.
ADO 1.1. 274
ADO-DON PEDRO
My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how
ADO 1.1. 275 And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
ADO 1.1. 276 Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
ADO 1.1. 277
ADO-CLAUDIO
Hath Leonato any son, my lord?
ADO 1.1. 278
ADO-DON PEDRO
No child but Hero. She's his only heir.
ADO 1.1. 279B Dost thou affect her, Claudio?
ADO-CLAUDIO
O my lord,
ADO 1.1. 280 When you went onward on this ended action
ADO 1.1. 281 I looked upon her with a soldier's eye,
ADO 1.1. 282 That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
ADO 1.1. 283 Than to drive liking to the name of love.
ADO 1.1. 284 But now I am returned, and that war-thoughts
ADO 1.1. 285 Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
ADO 1.1. 286 Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
ADO 1.1. 287 All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
ADO 1.1. 288 Saying I liked her ere I went to wars.
ADO 1.1. 289
ADO-DON PEDRO
Thou wilt be like a lover presently,
ADO 1.1. 290 And tire the hearer with a book of words.
ADO 1.1. 291 If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
ADO 1.1. 292 And I will break with her, and with her father,
ADO 1.1. 293 And thou shalt have her. Was 't not to this end
ADO 1.1. 294 That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
ADO 1.1. 295
ADO-CLAUDIO
How sweetly you do minister to love,
ADO 1.1. 296 That know love's grief by his complexion!
ADO 1.1. 297 But lest my liking might too sudden seem
ADO 1.1. 298 I would have salved it with a longer treatise.
ADO 1.1. 299
ADO-DON PEDRO
What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
ADO 1.1. 300 The fairest grant is the necessity.
ADO 1.1. 301 Look what will serve is fit. 'Tis once: thou lovest,
ADO 1.1. 302 And I will fit thee with the remedy.
ADO 1.1. 303 I know we shall have revelling tonight.
ADO 1.1. 304 I will assume thy part in some disguise,
ADO 1.1. 305 And tell fair Hero I am Claudio.
ADO 1.1. 306 And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
ADO 1.1. 307 And take her hearing prisoner with the force
ADO 1.1. 308 And strong encounter of my amorous tale.
ADO 1.1. 309 Then after to her father will I break,
ADO 1.1. 310 And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
ADO 1.1. 311 In practice let us put it presently. {Exeunt}
ADO 1.1. 0 {Enter Leonato and Antonio, an old man brother to +
ADO 1.2. 0 Leonato, severally}
ADO 1.2. 1
ADO-LEONATO
How now, brother, where is my cousin, your
ADO 1.2. 2 son? Hath he provided this music?
ADO 1.2. 3
ADO-ANTONIO
He is very busy about it. But brother, I can tell
ADO 1.2. 4 you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.
ADO 1.2. 5
ADO-LEONATO
Are they good?
ADO 1.2. 6
ADO-ANTONIO
As the event stamps them. But they have a good
ADO 1.2. 7 cover, they show well outward. The Prince and Count
ADO 1.2. 8 Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine
ADO 1.2. 9 orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:
ADO 1.2. 10 the Prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece,
ADO 1.2. 11 your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night
ADO 1.2. 12 in a dance, and if he found her accordant he meant to
ADO 1.2. 13 take the present time by the top and instantly break
ADO 1.2. 14 with you of it.
ADO 1.2. 15
ADO-LEONATO
Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
ADO 1.2. 16
ADO-ANTONIO
A good sharp fellow. I will send for him, and
ADO 1.2. 17 question him yourself.
ADO 1.2. 18
ADO-LEONATO
No, no. We will hold it as a dream till it appear
ADO 1.2. 19 itself. But I will acquaint my daughter withal, that
ADO 1.2. 20 she may be the better prepared for an answer if
ADO 1.2. 21 peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it. {[Enter +
ADO 1.2. 21 attendants]}
ADO 1.2. 22 Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you
ADO 1.2. 23 mercy, friend. Go you with me and I will use your
ADO 1.2. 24 skill. - Good cousin, have a care this busy time. {Exeunt}
ADO 1.2. 0 {Enter Don John the bastard and Conrad, his companion}
ADO 1.3. 1
ADO-CONRAD
What the goodyear, my lord, why are you thus
ADO 1.3. 2 out of measure sad?
ADO 1.3. 3
ADO-DON JOHN
There is no measure in the occasion that breeds
ADO 1.3. 4 it, therefore the sadness is without limit.
ADO 1.3. 5
ADO-CONRAD
You should hear reason.
ADO 1.3. 6
ADO-DON JOHN
And when I have heard it, what blessing brings
ADO 1.3. 7 it?
ADO 1.3. 8
ADO-CONRAD
If not a present remedy, at least a patient
ADO 1.3. 9 sufferance.
ADO 1.3. 10
ADO-DON JOHN
I wonder that thou - being, as thou sayst thou
ADO 1.3. 11 art, born under Saturn - goest about to apply a moral
ADO 1.3. 12 medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what
ADO 1.3. 13 I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at
ADO 1.3. 14 no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for
ADO 1.3. 15 no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend
ADO 1.3. 16 on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and
ADO 1.3. 17 claw no man in his humour.
ADO 1.3. 18
ADO-CONRAD
Yea, but you must not make the full show of this
ADO 1.3. 19 till you may do it without controlment. You have of
ADO 1.3. 20 late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en
ADO 1.3. 21 you newly into his grace, where it is impossible you
ADO 1.3. 22 should take true root but by the fair weather that you
ADO 1.3. 23 make yourself. It is needful that you frame the season
ADO 1.3. 24 for your own harvest.
ADO 1.3. 25
ADO-DON JOHN
I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a
ADO 1.3. 26 rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be
ADO 1.3. 27 disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love
ADO 1.3. 28 from any. In this, though I cannot be said to be a
ADO 1.3. 29 flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am
ADO 1.3. 30 a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle, and
ADO 1.3. 31 enfranchised with a clog. Therefore I have decreed not
ADO 1.3. 32 to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth I would bite. If
ADO 1.3. 33 I had my liberty I would do my liking. In the mean
ADO 1.3. 34 time, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
ADO 1.3. 35
ADO-CONRAD
Can you make no use of your discontent?
ADO 1.3. 36
ADO-DON JOHN
I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who
ADO 1.3. 37 comes here? {Enter Borachio}
ADO 1.3. 38 What news, Borachio?
ADO 1.3. 39
ADO-BORACHIO
I came yonder from a great supper. The Prince
ADO 1.3. 40 your brother is royally entertained by Leonato, and I
ADO 1.3. 41 can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.
ADO 1.3. 42
ADO-DON JOHN
Will it serve for any model to build mischief
ADO 1.3. 43 on? What is he for a fool that betroths himself to
ADO 1.3. 44 unquietness?
ADO 1.3. 45
ADO-BORACHIO
Marry, it is your brother's right hand.
ADO 1.3. 46
ADO-DON JOHN
Who, the most exquisite Claudio?
ADO 1.3. 47
ADO-BORACHIO
Even he.
ADO 1.3. 48
ADO-DON JOHN
A proper squire. And who, and who? Which
ADO 1.3. 49 way looks he?
ADO 1.3. 50
ADO-BORACHIO
Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of
ADO 1.3. 51 Leonato.
ADO 1.3. 52
ADO-DON JOHN
A very forward March chick. How came you
ADO 1.3. 53 to this?
ADO 1.3. 54
ADO-BORACHIO
Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was
ADO 1.3. 55 smoking a musty room comes me the Prince and
ADO 1.3. 56 Claudio hand in hand, in sad conference. I whipped
ADO 1.3. 57 me behind the arras, and there heard it agreed upon
ADO 1.3. 58 that the Prince should woo Hero for himself and, having
ADO 1.3. 59 obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.
ADO 1.3. 60
ADO-DON JOHN
Come, come, let us thither. This may prove
ADO 1.3. 61 food to my displeasure. That young start-up hath all
ADO 1.3. 62 the glory of my overthrow. If I can cross him any way
ADO 1.3. 63 I bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will
ADO 1.3. 64 assist me?
ADO 1.3. 65
ADO-CONRAD
To the death, my lord.
ADO 1.3. 66
ADO-DON JOHN
Let us to the great supper. Their cheer is the
ADO 1.3. 67 greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were o' my
ADO 1.3. 68 mind. Shall we go prove what's to be done?
ADO 1.3. 69
ADO-BORACHIO
We'll wait upon your lordship. {Exeunt}
ADO 1.3. 0 {Enter Leonato, Antonio his brother, Hero his +
ADO 2.1. 0 daughter, Beatrice his niece, [Margaret, and Ursula]}
ADO 2.1. 1
ADO-LEONATO
Was not Count John here at supper?
ADO 2.1. 2
ADO-ANTONIO
I saw him not.
ADO 2.1. 3
ADO-BEATRICE
How tartly that gentleman looks. I never can
ADO 2.1. 4 see him but I am heartburned an hour after.
ADO 2.1. 5
ADO-HERO
He is of a very melancholy disposition.
ADO 2.1. 6
ADO-BEATRICE
He were an excellent man that were made just
ADO 2.1. 7 in the midway between him and Benedick. The one is
ADO 2.1. 8 too like an image and says nothing, and the other too
ADO 2.1. 9 like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.
ADO 2.1. 10
ADO-LEONATO
Then half Signor Benedick's tongue in Count
ADO 2.1. 11 John's mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in
ADO 2.1. 12 Signor Benedick's face -
ADO 2.1. 13
ADO-BEATRICE
With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and
ADO 2.1. 14 money enough in his purse - such a man would win
ADO 2.1. 15 any woman in the world, if a could get her good will.
ADO 2.1. 16
ADO-LEONATO
By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a
ADO 2.1. 17 husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
ADO 2.1. 18
ADO-ANTONIO
In faith, she's too curst.
ADO 2.1. 19
ADO-BEATRICE
Too curst is more than curst. I shall lessen God's
ADO 2.1. 20 sending that way, for it is said God sends a curst cow
ADO 2.1. 21 short horns, but to a cow too curst he sends none.
ADO 2.1. 22
ADO-LEONATO
So, by being too curst, God will send you no
ADO 2.1. 23 horns.
ADO 2.1. 24
ADO-BEATRICE
Just, if he send me no husband, for the which
ADO 2.1. 25 blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning
ADO 2.1. 26 and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with
ADO 2.1. 27 a beard on his face. I had rather lie in the woollen.
ADO 2.1. 28
ADO-LEONATO
You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
ADO 2.1. 29
ADO-BEATRICE
What should I do with him - dress him in my
ADO 2.1. 30 apparel and make him my waiting gentlewoman? He
ADO 2.1. 31 that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that
ADO 2.1. 32 hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more
ADO 2.1. 33 than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a
ADO 2.1. 34 man, I am not for him. Therefore I will even take
ADO 2.1. 35 sixpence in earnest of the bearherd and lead his apes
ADO 2.1. 36 into hell.
ADO 2.1. 37
ADO-LEONATO
Well then, go you into hell?
ADO 2.1. 38
ADO-BEATRICE
No, but to the gate, and there will the devil
ADO 2.1. 39 meet me like an old cuckold with horns on his head,
ADO 2.1. 40 and say, `Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
ADO 2.1. 41 heaven. Here's no place for you maids.' So deliver I up
ADO 2.1. 42 my apes and away to Saint Peter fore the heavens. He
ADO 2.1. 43 shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we
ADO 2.1. 44 as merry as the day is long.
ADO 2.1. 45
ADO-ANTONIO
{(to Hero)} Well, niece, I trust you will +
ADO 2.1. 45 be ruled
ADO 2.1. 46 by your father.
ADO 2.1. 47
ADO-BEATRICE
Yes, faith, it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
ADO 2.1. 48 and say, `Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that,
ADO 2.1. 49 cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make
ADO 2.1. 50 another curtsy and say, `Father, as it please me.'
ADO 2.1. 51
ADO-LEONATO
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted
ADO 2.1. 52 with a husband.
ADO 2.1. 53
ADO-BEATRICE
Not till God make men of some other mettle
ADO 2.1. 54 than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be
ADO 2.1. 55 overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? - to make
ADO 2.1. 56 an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No,
ADO 2.1. 57 uncle, I'll none. Adam's sons are my brethren, and
ADO 2.1. 58 truly I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
ADO 2.1. 59
ADO-LEONATO
{(to Hero)} Daughter, remember what I told +
ADO 2.1. 59 you.
ADO 2.1. 60 If the Prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your
ADO 2.1. 61 answer.
ADO 2.1. 62
ADO-BEATRICE
The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be
ADO 2.1. 63 not wooed in good time. If the Prince be too important,
ADO 2.1. 64 tell him there is measure in everything, and so dance
ADO 2.1. 65 out the answer. For hear me, Hero, wooing, wedding,
ADO 2.1. 66 and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a
ADO 2.1. 67 cinquepace. The first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch
ADO 2.1. 68 jig - and full as fantastical; the wedding mannerly
ADO 2.1. 69 modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry. And
ADO 2.1. 70 then comes repentance, and with his bad legs falls into
ADO 2.1. 71 the cinquepace faster and faster till he sink into his
ADO 2.1. 72 grave.
ADO 2.1. 73
ADO-LEONATO
Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.
ADO 2.1. 74
ADO-BEATRICE
I have a good eye, uncle. I can see a church by
ADO 2.1. 75 daylight.
ADO 2.1. 76
ADO-LEONATO
The revellers are entering, brother. Make good
ADO 2.1. 77 room. {Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick, and Balthasar, all +
ADO 2.1. 77 masked, Don John, and Borachio, [with a drummer]}
ADO 2.1. 78
ADO-DON PEDRO
{(to Hero)} Lady, will you walk a bout +
ADO 2.1. 78 with your
ADO 2.1. 79 friend?
ADO 2.1. 80
ADO-HERO
So you walk softly, and look sweetly, and say
ADO 2.1. 81 nothing, I am yours for the walk; and especially when
ADO 2.1. 82 I walk away.
ADO 2.1. 83
ADO-DON PEDRO
With me in your company?
ADO 2.1. 84
ADO-HERO
I may say so when I please.
ADO 2.1. 85
ADO-DON PEDRO
And when please you to say so?
ADO 2.1. 86
ADO-HERO
When I like your favour; for God defend the lute
ADO 2.1. 87 should be like the case.
ADO 2.1. 88
ADO-DON PEDRO
My visor is Philemon's roof. Within the house +
ADO 2.1. 88 is Jove.
ADO 2.1. 89B
ADO-HERO
Why, then, your visor should be thatched.
ADO-DON PEDRO
Speak +
ADO 2.1. 89B low if you speak love. {They move aside}
ADO 2.1. 90
ADO-[BALTHASAR]
{(to Margaret)} Well, I would you did +
ADO 2.1. 90 like me.
ADO 2.1. 91
ADO-MARGARET
So would not I, for your own sake, for I have
ADO 2.1. 92 many ill qualities.
ADO 2.1. 93
ADO-[BALTHASAR]
Which is one?
ADO 2.1. 94
ADO-MARGARET
I say my prayers aloud.
ADO 2.1. 95
ADO-[BALTHASAR]
I love you the better - the hearers may cry
ADO 2.1. 96 amen.
ADO 2.1. 97
ADO-MARGARET
God match me with a good dancer.
ADO 2.1. 98
ADO-BALTHASAR
Amen.
ADO 2.1. 99
ADO-MARGARET
And God keep him out of my sight when the
ADO 2.1. 100 dance is done. Answer, clerk.
ADO 2.1. 101
ADO-BALTHASAR
No more words. The clerk is answered. {They move +
ADO 2.1. 101 aside}
ADO 2.1. 102
ADO-URSULA
{(to Antonio)} I know you well enough, you +
ADO 2.1. 102 are
ADO 2.1. 103 Signor Antonio.
ADO 2.1. 104
ADO-ANTONIO
At a word, I am not.
ADO 2.1. 105
ADO-URSULA
I know you by the waggling of your head.
ADO 2.1. 106
ADO-ANTONIO
To tell you true, I counterfeit him.
ADO 2.1. 107
ADO-URSULA
You could never do him so ill-well unless you
ADO 2.1. 108 were the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down.
ADO 2.1. 109 You are he, you are he.
ADO 2.1. 110
ADO-ANTONIO
At a word, I am not.
ADO 2.1. 111
ADO-URSULA
Come, come, do you think I do not know you by
ADO 2.1. 112 your excellent wit? Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum,
ADO 2.1. 113 you are he. Graces will appear, and there's an end. {They move +
ADO 2.1. 113 aside}
ADO 2.1. 114
ADO-BEATRICE
{(to Benedick)} Will you not tell me who +
ADO 2.1. 114 told you
ADO 2.1. 115 so?
ADO 2.1. 116
ADO-BENEDICK
No, you shall pardon me.
ADO 2.1. 117
ADO-BEATRICE
Nor will you not tell me who you are?
ADO 2.1. 118
ADO-BENEDICK
Not now.
ADO 2.1. 119
ADO-BEATRICE
That I was disdainful, and that I had my good
ADO 2.1. 120 wit out of the Hundred Merry Tales - well, this was
ADO 2.1. 121 Signor Benedick that said so.
ADO 2.1. 122
ADO-BENEDICK
What's he?
ADO 2.1. 123
ADO-BEATRICE
I am sure you know him well enough.
ADO 2.1. 124
ADO-BENEDICK
Not I, believe me.
ADO 2.1. 125
ADO-BEATRICE
Did he never make you laugh?
ADO 2.1. 126
ADO-BENEDICK
I pray you, what is he?
ADO 2.1. 127
ADO-BEATRICE
Why, he is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool.
ADO 2.1. 128 Only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None
ADO 2.1. 129 but libertines delight in him, and the commendation is
ADO 2.1. 130 not in his wit but in his villainy, for he both pleases
ADO 2.1. 131 men and angers them, and then they laugh at him,
ADO 2.1. 132 and beat him. I am sure he is in the fleet. I would he
ADO 2.1. 133 had boarded me.
ADO 2.1. 134
ADO-BENEDICK
When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what
ADO 2.1. 135 you say.
ADO 2.1. 136
ADO-BEATRICE
Do, do. He'll but break a comparison or two on
ADO 2.1. 137 me, which peradventure not marked, or not laughed
ADO 2.1. 138 at, strikes him into melancholy, and then there's a
ADO 2.1. 139 partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper
ADO 2.1. 140 that night. {[Music]}
ADO 2.1. 141 We must follow the leaders.
ADO 2.1. 142
ADO-BENEDICK
In every good thing.
ADO 2.1. 143
ADO-BEATRICE
Nay, if they lead to any ill I will leave them at
ADO 2.1. 144 the next turning. {Dance. Exeunt all but Don John, Borachio, and +
ADO 2.1. 144 Claudio}
ADO 2.1. 145
ADO-DON JOHN
{(aside to Borachio)} Sure my brother is +
ADO 2.1. 145 amorous
ADO 2.1. 146 on Hero, and hath withdrawn her father to break with
ADO 2.1. 147 him about it. The ladies follow her, and but one visor
ADO 2.1. 148 remains.
ADO 2.1. 149
ADO-BORACHIO
{(aside to Don John)} And that is +
ADO 2.1. 149 Claudio. I know
ADO 2.1. 150 him by his bearing.
ADO 2.1. 151
ADO-DON JOHN
Are not you Signor Benedick?
ADO 2.1. 152
ADO-CLAUDIO
You know me well. I am he.
ADO 2.1. 153
ADO-DON JOHN
Signor, you are very near my brother in his
ADO 2.1. 154 love. He is enamoured on Hero. I pray you dissuade
ADO 2.1. 155 him from her. She is no equal for his birth. You may
ADO 2.1. 156 do the part of an honest man in it.
ADO 2.1. 157
ADO-CLAUDIO
How know you he loves her?
ADO 2.1. 158
ADO-DON JOHN
I heard him swear his affection.
ADO 2.1. 159
ADO-BORACHIO
So did I, too, and he swore he would marry
ADO 2.1. 160 her tonight.
ADO 2.1. 161
ADO-DON JOHN
Come, let us to the banquet. {Exeunt all but +
ADO 2.1. 161 Claudio}
ADO 2.1. 162
ADO-CLAUDIO
Thus answer I in name of Benedick,
ADO 2.1. 163 But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
ADO 2.1. 164 'Tis certain so, the Prince woos for himself.
ADO 2.1. 165 Friendship is constant in all other things
ADO 2.1. 166 Save in the office and affairs of love.
ADO 2.1. 167 Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.
ADO 2.1. 168 Let every eye negotiate for itself,
ADO 2.1. 169 And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
ADO 2.1. 170 Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
ADO 2.1. 171 This is an accident of hourly proof,
ADO 2.1. 172 Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero. {Enter +
ADO 2.1. 172 Benedick}
ADO 2.1. 173
ADO-BENEDICK
Count Claudio?
ADO 2.1. 174
ADO-CLAUDIO
Yea, the same.
ADO 2.1. 175
ADO-BENEDICK
Come, will you go with me?
ADO 2.1. 176
ADO-CLAUDIO
Whither?
ADO 2.1. 177
ADO-BENEDICK
Even to the next willow, about your own
ADO 2.1. 178 business, County. What fashion will you wear the
ADO 2.1. 179 garland of? About your neck, like an usurer's chain?
ADO 2.1. 180 Or under your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must
ADO 2.1. 181 wear it one way, for the Prince hath got your Hero.
ADO 2.1. 182
ADO-CLAUDIO
I wish him joy of her.
ADO 2.1. 183
ADO-BENEDICK
Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so
ADO 2.1. 184 they sell bullocks. But did you think the Prince would
ADO 2.1. 185 have served you thus?
ADO 2.1. 186
ADO-CLAUDIO
I pray you leave me.
ADO 2.1. 187
ADO-BENEDICK
Ho, now you strike like the blind man - 'twas
ADO 2.1. 188 the boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
ADO 2.1. 189
ADO-CLAUDIO
If it will not be, I'll leave you. {Exit}
ADO 2.1. 190
ADO-BENEDICK
Alas, poor hurt fowl, now will he creep into
ADO 2.1. 191 sedges. But that my Lady Beatrice should know me,
ADO 2.1. 192 and not know me! The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I
ADO 2.1. 193 go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
ADO 2.1. 194 am apt to do myself wrong. I am not so reputed. It is
ADO 2.1. 195 the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice that puts
ADO 2.1. 196 the world into her person, and so gives me out. Well,
ADO 2.1. 197 I'll be revenged as I may. {Enter Don Pedro the Prince}
ADO 2.1. 198
ADO-DON PEDRO
Now, signor, where's the Count? Did you see
ADO 2.1. 199 him?
ADO 2.1. 200
ADO-BENEDICK
Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady
ADO 2.1. 201 Fame. I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a
ADO 2.1. 202 warren. I told him - and I think I told him true - that
ADO 2.1. 203 your grace had got the good will of this young lady,
ADO 2.1. 204 and I offered him my company to a willow tree, either
ADO 2.1. 205 to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind
ADO 2.1. 206 him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.
ADO 2.1. 207
ADO-DON PEDRO
To be whipped - what's his fault?
ADO 2.1. 208
ADO-BENEDICK
The flat transgression of a schoolboy who, being
ADO 2.1. 209 overjoyed with finding a bird's nest, shows it his
ADO 2.1. 210 companion, and he steals it.
ADO 2.1. 211
ADO-DON PEDRO
Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The
ADO 2.1. 212 transgression is in the stealer.
ADO 2.1. 213
ADO-BENEDICK
Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been
ADO 2.1. 214 made, and the garland too, for the garland he might
ADO 2.1. 215 have worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed
ADO 2.1. 216 on you, who, as I take it, have stolen his bird's nest.
ADO 2.1. 217
ADO-DON PEDRO
I will but teach them to sing, and restore them
ADO 2.1. 218 to the owner.
ADO 2.1. 219
ADO-BENEDICK
If their singing answer your saying, by my faith
ADO 2.1. 220 you say honestly.
ADO 2.1. 221
ADO-DON PEDRO
The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you. The
ADO 2.1. 222 gentleman that danced with her told her she is much
ADO 2.1. 223 wronged by you.
ADO 2.1. 224
ADO-BENEDICK
O, she misused me past the endurance of a
ADO 2.1. 225 block. An oak but with one green leaf on it would have
ADO 2.1. 226 answered her. My very visor began to assume life and
ADO 2.1. 227 scold with her. She told me - not thinking I had been
ADO 2.1. 228 myself - that I was the Prince's jester, that I was duller
ADO 2.1. 229 than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest with such
ADO 2.1. 230 impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man
ADO 2.1. 231 at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She
ADO 2.1. 232 speaks poniards, and every word stabs. If her breath
ADO 2.1. 233 were as terrible as her terminations, there were no
ADO 2.1. 234 living near her, she would infect to the North Star. I
ADO 2.1. 235 would not marry her though she were endowed with
ADO 2.1. 236 all that Adam had left him before he transgressed. She
ADO 2.1. 237 would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and
ADO 2.1. 238 have cleft his club to make the fire, too. Come, talk not
ADO 2.1. 239 of her. You shall find her the infernal Ate in good
ADO 2.1. 240 apparel. I would to God some scholar would conjure
ADO 2.1. 241 her, for certainly, while she is here a man may live as
ADO 2.1. 242 quiet in hell as in a sanctuary, and people sin upon
ADO 2.1. 243 purpose because they would go thither, so indeed all
ADO 2.1. 244 disquiet, horror, and perturbation follows her. {Enter Claudio +
ADO 2.1. 244 and Beatrice, [and Leonato with Hero]}
ADO 2.1. 245
ADO-DON PEDRO
Look, here she comes.
ADO 2.1. 246
ADO-BENEDICK
Will your grace command me any service to
ADO 2.1. 247 the world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
ADO 2.1. 248 to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I
ADO 2.1. 249 will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest
ADO 2.1. 250 inch of Asia, bring you the length of Prester John's
ADO 2.1. 251 foot, fetch you a hair off the Great Cham's beard, do
ADO 2.1. 252 you any embassage to the pigmies, rather than hold
ADO 2.1. 253 three words' conference with this harpy. You have no
ADO 2.1. 254 employment for me?
ADO 2.1. 255
ADO-DON PEDRO
None but to desire your good company.
ADO 2.1. 256
ADO-BENEDICK
O God, sir, here's a dish I love not. I cannot
ADO 2.1. 257 endure my Lady Tongue. {Exit}
ADO 2.1. 258
ADO-DON PEDRO
Come, lady, come, you have lost the heart of
ADO 2.1. 259 Signor Benedick.
ADO 2.1. 260
ADO-BEATRICE
Indeed, my lord, he lent it me a while, and I
ADO 2.1. 261 gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one.
ADO 2.1. 262 Marry, once before he won it of me, with false dice.
ADO 2.1. 263 Therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.
ADO 2.1. 264
ADO-DON PEDRO
You have put him down, lady, you have put
ADO 2.1. 265 him down.
ADO 2.1. 266
ADO-BEATRICE
So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest
ADO 2.1. 267 I should prove the mother of fools. I have brought
ADO 2.1. 268 Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.
ADO 2.1. 269
ADO-DON PEDRO
Why, how now, Count, wherefore are you
ADO 2.1. 270 sad?
ADO 2.1. 271
ADO-CLAUDIO
Not sad, my lord.
ADO 2.1. 272
ADO-DON PEDRO
How then? Sick?
ADO 2.1. 273
ADO-CLAUDIO
Neither, my lord.
ADO 2.1. 274
ADO-BEATRICE
The Count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry,
ADO 2.1. 275 nor well, but civil count, civil as an orange, and
ADO 2.1. 276 something of that jealous complexion.
ADO 2.1. 277
ADO-DON PEDRO
I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true,
ADO 2.1. 278 though I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is false.
ADO 2.1. 279 Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and fair
ADO 2.1. 280 Hero is won. I have broke with her father and his good
ADO 2.1. 281 will obtained. Name the day of marriage, and God give
ADO 2.1. 282 thee joy.
ADO 2.1. 283
ADO-LEONATO
Count, take of me my daughter, and with her
ADO 2.1. 284 my fortunes. His grace hath made the match, and all
ADO 2.1. 285 grace say amen to it.
ADO 2.1. 286
ADO-BEATRICE
Speak, Count, 'tis your cue.
ADO 2.1. 287
ADO-CLAUDIO
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but
ADO 2.1. 288 little happy if I could say how much. {(To Hero)} Lady,
ADO 2.1. 289 as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for
ADO 2.1. 290 you, and dote upon the exchange.
ADO 2.1. 291
ADO-BEATRICE
{(to Hero)} Speak, cousin. Or, if you +
ADO 2.1. 291 cannot, stop
ADO 2.1. 292 his mouth with a kiss, and let not him speak, neither.
ADO 2.1. 293
ADO-DON PEDRO
In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.
ADO 2.1. 294
ADO-BEATRICE
Yea, my lord, I thank it. Poor fool, it keeps on
ADO 2.1. 295 the windy side of care. - My cousin tells him in his ear
ADO 2.1. 296 that he is in her heart.
ADO 2.1. 297
ADO-CLAUDIO
And so she doth, cousin.
ADO 2.1. 298
ADO-BEATRICE
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes everyone to
ADO 2.1. 299 the world but I, and I am sunburnt. I may sit in a
ADO 2.1. 300 corner and cry `Heigh-ho for a husband'.
ADO 2.1. 301
ADO-DON PEDRO
Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.
ADO 2.1. 302
ADO-BEATRICE
I would rather have one of your father's getting.
ADO 2.1. 303 Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your father
ADO 2.1. 304 got excellent husbands if a maid could come by them.
ADO 2.1. 305
ADO-DON PEDRO
Will you have me, lady?
ADO 2.1. 306
ADO-BEATRICE
No, my lord, unless I might have another for
ADO 2.1. 307 working days. Your grace is too costly to wear every
ADO 2.1. 308 day. But I beseech your grace, pardon me. I was born
ADO 2.1. 309 to speak all mirth and no matter.
ADO 2.1. 310
ADO-DON PEDRO
Your silence most offends me, and to be merry
ADO 2.1. 311 best becomes you; for out o' question, you were born
ADO 2.1. 312 in a merry hour.
ADO 2.1. 313
ADO-BEATRICE
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried. But then
ADO 2.1. 314 there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
ADO 2.1. 315 {(To Hero and Claudio)} Cousins, God give you joy.
ADO 2.1. 316
ADO-LEONATO
Niece, will you look to those things I told you
ADO 2.1. 317 of?
ADO 2.1. 318
ADO-BEATRICE
I cry you mercy, uncle. {(To Don Pedro)} +
ADO 2.1. 318 By your
ADO 2.1. 319 grace's pardon. {Exit Beatrice}
ADO 2.1. 320
ADO-DON PEDRO
By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.
ADO 2.1. 321
ADO-LEONATO
There's little of the melancholy element in her,
ADO 2.1. 322 my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not
ADO 2.1. 323 ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say she
ADO 2.1. 324 hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself
ADO 2.1. 325 with laughing.
ADO 2.1. 326
ADO-DON PEDRO
She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.
ADO 2.1. 327
ADO-LEONATO
O, by no means. She mocks all her wooers out
ADO 2.1. 328 of suit.
ADO 2.1. 329
ADO-DON PEDRO
She were an excellent wife for Benedick.
ADO 2.1. 330
ADO-LEONATO
O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married
ADO 2.1. 331 they would talk themselves mad.
ADO 2.1. 332
ADO-DON PEDRO
County Claudio, when mean you to go to
ADO 2.1. 333 church?
ADO 2.1. 334
ADO-CLAUDIO
Tomorrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till
ADO 2.1. 335 love have all his rites.
ADO 2.1. 336
ADO-LEONATO
Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence
ADO 2.1. 337 a just sevennight, and a time too brief, too, to have all
ADO 2.1. 338 things answer my mind.
ADO 2.1. 339
ADO-DON PEDRO
Come, you shake the head at so long a
ADO 2.1. 340 breathing, but I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall
ADO 2.1. 341 not go dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one
ADO 2.1. 342 of Hercules' labours, which is to bring Signor Benedick
ADO 2.1. 343 and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection
ADO 2.1. 344 th' one with th' other. I would fain have it a match, and
ADO 2.1. 345 I doubt not but to fashion it, if you three will but
ADO 2.1. 346 minister such assistance as I shall give you direction.
ADO 2.1. 347
ADO-LEONATO
My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten
ADO 2.1. 348 nights' watchings.
ADO 2.1. 349
ADO-CLAUDIO
And I, my lord.
ADO 2.1. 350
ADO-DON PEDRO
And you too, gentle Hero?
ADO 2.1. 351
ADO-HERO
I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my
ADO 2.1. 352 cousin to a good husband.
ADO 2.1. 353
ADO-DON PEDRO
And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband
ADO 2.1. 354 that I know. Thus far can I praise him: he is of a noble
ADO 2.1. 355 strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I
ADO 2.1. 356 will teach you how to humour your cousin that she
ADO 2.1. 357 shall fall in love with Benedick, and I, with your two
ADO 2.1. 358 helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in despite of
ADO 2.1. 359 his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in
ADO 2.1. 360 love with Beatrice. If we can do this, Cupid is no longer
ADO 2.1. 361 an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only
ADO 2.1. 362 love-gods. Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift. {Exeunt}
ADO 2.1. 0 {Enter Don John and Borachio}
ADO 2.2. 1
ADO-DON JOHN
It is so. The Count Claudio shall marry the
ADO 2.2. 2 daughter of Leonato.
ADO 2.2. 3
ADO-BORACHIO
Yea, my lord, but I can cross it.
ADO 2.2. 4
ADO-DON JOHN
Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
ADO 2.2. 5 medicinable to me. I am sick in displeasure to him, and
ADO 2.2. 6 whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly
ADO 2.2. 7 with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?
ADO 2.2. 8
ADO-BORACHIO
Not honestly, my lord, but so covertly that no
ADO 2.2. 9 dishonesty shall appear in me.
ADO 2.2. 10
ADO-DON JOHN
Show me briefly how.
ADO 2.2. 11
ADO-BORACHIO
I think I told your lordship a year since how
ADO 2.2. 12 much I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
ADO 2.2. 13 gentlewoman to Hero.
ADO 2.2. 14
ADO-DON JOHN
I remember.
ADO 2.2. 15
ADO-BORACHIO
I can at any unseasonable instant of the night
ADO 2.2. 16 appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
ADO 2.2. 17
ADO-DON JOHN
What life is in that to be the death of this
ADO 2.2. 18 marriage?
ADO 2.2. 19
ADO-BORACHIO
The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go
ADO 2.2. 20 you to the Prince your brother. Spare not to tell him
ADO 2.2. 21 that he hath wronged his honour in marrying the
ADO 2.2. 22 renowned Claudio - whose estimation do you mightily
ADO 2.2. 23 hold up - to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
ADO 2.2. 24
ADO-DON JOHN
What proof shall I make of that?
ADO 2.2. 25
ADO-BORACHIO
Proof enough to misuse the Prince, to vex
ADO 2.2. 26 Claudio, to undo Hero, and kill Leonato. Look you for
ADO 2.2. 27 any other issue?
ADO 2.2. 28
ADO-DON JOHN
Only to despite them I will endeavour anything.
ADO 2.2. 29
ADO-BORACHIO
Go then. Find me a meet hour to draw Don
ADO 2.2. 30 Pedro and the Count Claudio alone. Tell them that you
ADO 2.2. 31 know that Hero loves me. Intend a kind of zeal both
ADO 2.2. 32 to the Prince and Claudio as in love of your brother's
ADO 2.2. 33 honour who hath made this match, and his friend's
ADO 2.2. 34 reputation who is thus like to be cozened with the
ADO 2.2. 35 semblance of a maid, that you have discovered thus.
ADO 2.2. 36 They will scarcely believe this without trial. Offer them
ADO 2.2. 37 instances, which shall bear no less likelihood than to
ADO 2.2. 38 see me at her chamber window, hear me call Margaret
ADO 2.2. 39 Hero, hear Margaret term me Claudio. And bring them
ADO 2.2. 40 to see this the very night before the intended wedding,
ADO 2.2. 41 for in the mean time I will so fashion the matter that
ADO 2.2. 42 Hero shall be absent, and there shall appear such
ADO 2.2. 43 seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall
ADO 2.2. 44 be called assurance, and all the preparation overthrown.
ADO 2.2. 44
ADO 2.2. 46
ADO-DON JOHN
Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will
ADO 2.2. 47 put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and
ADO 2.2. 48 thy fee is a thousand ducats.
ADO 2.2. 49
ADO-BORACHIO
Be you constant in the accusation, and my
ADO 2.2. 50 cunning shall not shame me.
ADO 2.2. 51
ADO-DON JOHN
I will presently go learn their day of marriage. +
ADO 2.2. 51 {Exeunt}
ADO 2.2. 0 {Enter Benedick}
ADO 2.3. 1
ADO-BENEDICK
Boy! {[Enter Boy]}
ADO 2.3. 2
ADO-BOY
Signor?
ADO 2.3. 3
ADO-BENEDICK
In my chamber window lies a book. Bring it
ADO 2.3. 4 hither to me in the orchard.
ADO 2.3. 5
ADO-BOY
I am here already, sir.
ADO 2.3. 6
ADO-BENEDICK
I know that, but I would have thee hence and
ADO 2.3. 7 here again. {[Exit Boy]}
ADO 2.3. 8 I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
ADO 2.3. 9 another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviours
ADO 2.3. 10 to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow
ADO 2.3. 11 follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn
ADO 2.3. 12 by falling in love. And such a man is Claudio. I have
ADO 2.3. 13 known when there was no music with him but the
ADO 2.3. 14 drum and the fife, and now had he rather hear the
ADO 2.3. 15 tabor and the pipe. I have known when he would have
ADO 2.3. 16 walked ten mile afoot to see a good armour, and now
ADO 2.3. 17 will he lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a
ADO 2.3. 18 new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the
ADO 2.3. 19 purpose, like an honest man and a soldier, and now is
ADO 2.3. 20 he turned orthography. His words are a very fantastical
ADO 2.3. 21 banquet, just so many strange dishes. May I be so
ADO 2.3. 22 converted, and see with these eyes? I cannot tell. I
ADO 2.3. 23 think not. I will not be sworn but love may transform
ADO 2.3. 24 me to an oyster, but I'll take my oath on it, till he
ADO 2.3. 25 have made an oyster of me he shall never make me
ADO 2.3. 26 such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well. Another
ADO 2.3. 27 is wise, yet I am well. Another virtuous, yet I am well.
ADO 2.3. 28 But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall
ADO 2.3. 29 not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain.
ADO 2.3. 30 Wise, or I'll none. Virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her.
ADO 2.3. 31 Fair, or I'll never look on her. Mild, or come not near
ADO 2.3. 32 me. Noble, or not I for an angel. Of good discourse, an
ADO 2.3. 33 excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what colour
ADO 2.3. 34 it please God. Ha! The Prince and Monsieur Love. I
ADO 2.3. 35 will hide me in the arbour. {He hides.}
ADO 2.3. 36 {Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Leonato, and Claudio}
ADO-DON PEDRO
+
ADO 2.3. 36 Come, shall we hear this music?
ADO 2.3. 37
ADO-CLAUDIO
Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,
ADO 2.3. 38 As hushed on purpose to grace harmony.
ADO 2.3. 39
ADO-DON PEDRO
{(aside)} See you where Benedick hath +
ADO 2.3. 39 hid himself?
ADO 2.3. 40
ADO-CLAUDIO
{(aside)} O, very well, my lord. The music +
ADO 2.3. 40 ended,
ADO 2.3. 41 We'll fit the hid-fox with a pennyworth. {Enter Balthasar with +
ADO 2.3. 41 music}
ADO 2.3. 42
ADO-DON PEDRO
Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.
ADO 2.3. 43
ADO-BALTHASAR
O good my lord, tax not so bad a voice
ADO 2.3. 44 To slander music any more than once.
ADO 2.3. 45
ADO-DON PEDRO
It is the witness still of excellency
ADO 2.3. 46 To put a strange face on his own perfection.
ADO 2.3. 47 I pray thee sing, and let me woo no more.
ADO 2.3. 48
ADO-BALTHASAR
Because you talk of wooing I will sing,
ADO 2.3. 49 Since many a wooer doth commence his suit
ADO 2.3. 50 To her he thinks not worthy, yet he woos,
ADO 2.3. 51B Yet will he swear he loves.
ADO-DON PEDRO
Nay pray thee, come;
ADO 2.3. 52 Or if thou wilt hold longer argument,
ADO 2.3. 53B Do it in notes.
ADO-BALTHASAR
Note this before my notes:
ADO 2.3. 54 There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
ADO 2.3. 55
ADO-DON PEDRO
Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks -
ADO 2.3. 56 Note notes, forsooth, and nothing! {The accompaniment begins}
ADO 2.3. 57
ADO-BENEDICK
Now, divine air! Now is his soul ravished. Is it
ADO 2.3. 58 not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of
ADO 2.3. 59 men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when all's
ADO 2.3. 60 done.
ADO 2.3. 61
ADO-BALTHASAR
{(sings)} Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no +
ADO 2.3. 61 more.
ADO 2.3. 62 Men were deceivers ever,
ADO 2.3. 63 One foot in sea, and one on shore,
ADO 2.3. 64 To one thing constant never.
ADO 2.3. 65 Then sigh not so, but let them go,
ADO 2.3. 66 And be you blithe and bonny,
ADO 2.3. 67 Converting all your sounds of woe
ADO 2.3. 68 Into hey nonny, nonny.
ADO 2.3. 69 Sing no more ditties, sing no more
ADO 2.3. 70 Of dumps so dull and heavy.
ADO 2.3. 71 The fraud of men was ever so
ADO 2.3. 72 Since summer first was leafy.
ADO 2.3. 73 Then sigh not so, but let them go,
ADO 2.3. 74 And be you blithe and bonny,
ADO 2.3. 75 Converting all your sounds of woe
ADO 2.3. 76 Into hey nonny, nonny.
ADO 2.3. 77
ADO-DON PEDRO
By my troth, a good song.
ADO 2.3. 78
ADO-BALTHASAR
And an ill singer, my lord.
ADO 2.3. 79
ADO-DON PEDRO
Ha, no, no, faith. Thou singest well enough
ADO 2.3. 80 for a shift.
ADO 2.3. 81
ADO-BENEDICK
{(aside)} An he had been a dog that +
ADO 2.3. 81 should have
ADO 2.3. 82 howled thus, they would have hanged him; and I pray
ADO 2.3. 83 God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have
ADO 2.3. 84 heard the night-raven, come what plague could have
ADO 2.3. 85 come after it.
ADO 2.3. 86
ADO-DON PEDRO
Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray
ADO 2.3. 87 thee get us some excellent music, for tomorrow night
ADO 2.3. 88 we would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber window.
ADO 2.3. 89
ADO-BALTHASAR
The best I can, my lord. {Exit}
ADO 2.3. 90
ADO-DON PEDRO
Do so. Farewell. Come hither, Leonato. What
ADO 2.3. 91 was it you told me of today, that your niece Beatrice
ADO 2.3. 92 was in love with Signor Benedick?
ADO 2.3. 93
ADO-CLAUDIO
{(aside)} O, ay, stalk on, stalk on. The +
ADO 2.3. 93 fowl sits. -
ADO 2.3. 94 I did never think that lady would have loved any man.
ADO 2.3. 95
ADO-LEONATO
No, nor I neither. But most wonderful that she
ADO 2.3. 96 should so dote on Signor Benedick, whom she hath in
ADO 2.3. 97 all outward behaviours seemed ever to abhor.
ADO 2.3. 98
ADO-BENEDICK
{(aside)} Is 't possible? Sits the wind +
ADO 2.3. 98 in that corner?
ADO 2.3. 99
ADO-LEONATO
By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to
ADO 2.3. 100 think of it. But that she loves him with an enraged
ADO 2.3. 101 affection, it is past the infinite of thought.
ADO 2.3. 102
ADO-DON PEDRO
Maybe she doth but counterfeit.
ADO 2.3. 103
ADO-CLAUDIO
Faith, like enough.
ADO 2.3. 104
ADO-LEONATO
O God! Counterfeit? There was never counterfeit
ADO 2.3. 105 of passion came so near the life of passion as she
ADO 2.3. 106 discovers it.
ADO 2.3. 107
ADO-DON PEDRO
Why, what effects of passion shows she?
ADO 2.3. 108
ADO-CLAUDIO
{(aside)} Bait the hook well. This fish +
ADO 2.3. 108 will bite.
ADO 2.3. 109
ADO-LEONATO
What effects, my lord? She will sit you - you
ADO 2.3. 110 heard my daughter tell you how.
ADO 2.3. 111
ADO-CLAUDIO
She did indeed.
ADO 2.3. 112
ADO-DON PEDRO
How, how, I pray you? You amaze me. I
ADO 2.3. 113 would have thought her spirit had been invincible
ADO 2.3. 114 against all assaults of affection.
ADO 2.3. 115
ADO-LEONATO
I would have sworn it had, my lord, especially
ADO 2.3. 116 against Benedick.
ADO 2.3. 117
ADO-BENEDICK
{(aside)} I should think this a gull, but +
ADO 2.3. 117 that the
ADO 2.3. 118 white-bearded fellow speaks it. Knavery cannot, sure,
ADO 2.3. 119 hide himself in such reverence.
ADO 2.3. 120
ADO-CLAUDIO
{(aside)} He hath ta'en th' infection. +
ADO 2.3. 120 Hold it up.
ADO 2.3. 121
ADO-DON PEDRO
Hath she made her affection known to
ADO 2.3. 122 Benedick?
ADO 2.3. 123
ADO-LEONATO
No, and swears she never will. That's her
ADO 2.3. 124 torment.
ADO 2.3. 125
ADO-CLAUDIO
'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says. `Shall
ADO 2.3. 126 I,' says she, `that have so oft encountered him with
ADO 2.3. 127 scorn, write to him that I love him?'
ADO 2.3. 128
ADO-LEONATO
This says she now when she is beginning to
ADO 2.3. 129 write to him, for she'll be up twenty times a night, and
ADO 2.3. 130 there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet
ADO 2.3. 131 of paper. My daughter tells us all.
ADO 2.3. 132
ADO-CLAUDIO
Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a
ADO 2.3. 133 pretty jest your daughter told us of.
ADO 2.3. 134
ADO-LEONATO
O, when she had writ it and was reading it over,
ADO 2.3. 135 she found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet.
ADO 2.3. 136
ADO-CLAUDIO
That.
ADO 2.3. 137
ADO-LEONATO
O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence,
ADO 2.3. 138 railed at herself that she should be so immodest to
ADO 2.3. 139 write to one that she knew would flout her. `I measure
ADO 2.3. 140 him,' says she, `by my own spirit, for I should flout
ADO 2.3. 141 him if he writ to me, yea, though I love him I should.'
ADO 2.3. 142
ADO-CLAUDIO
Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps,
ADO 2.3. 143 sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses, `O
ADO 2.3. 144 sweet Benedick, God give me patience.'
ADO 2.3. 145
ADO-LEONATO
She doth indeed, my daughter says so, and the
ADO 2.3. 146 ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter
ADO 2.3. 147 is sometime afeard she will do a desperate outrage to
ADO 2.3. 148 herself. It is very true.
ADO 2.3. 149
ADO-DON PEDRO
It were good that Benedick knew of it by some
ADO 2.3. 150 other, if she will not discover it.
ADO 2.3. 151
ADO-CLAUDIO
To what end? He would make but a sport of it
ADO 2.3. 152 and torment the poor lady worse.
ADO 2.3. 153
ADO-DON PEDRO
An he should, it were an alms to hang him.
ADO 2.3. 154 She's an excellent sweet lady, and, out of all suspicion,
ADO 2.3. 155 she is virtuous.
ADO 2.3. 156
ADO-CLAUDIO
And she is exceeding wise.
ADO 2.3. 157
ADO-DON PEDRO
In everything but in loving Benedick.
ADO 2.3. 158
ADO-LEONATO
O my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so
ADO 2.3. 159 tender a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood
ADO 2.3. 160 hath the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just
ADO 2.3. 161 cause, being her uncle and her guardian.
ADO 2.3. 162
ADO-DON PEDRO
I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
ADO 2.3. 163 I would have doffed all other respects and made her
ADO 2.3. 164 half myself. I pray you tell Benedick of it, and hear
ADO 2.3. 165 what a will say.
ADO 2.3. 166
ADO-LEONATO
Were it good, think you?
ADO 2.3. 167
ADO-CLAUDIO
Hero thinks surely she will die, for she says she
ADO 2.3. 168 will die if he love her not, and she will die ere she
ADO 2.3. 169 make her love known, and she will die if he woo her,
ADO 2.3. 170 rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed
ADO 2.3. 171 crossness.
ADO 2.3. 172
ADO-DON PEDRO
She doth well. If she should make tender of
ADO 2.3. 173 her love 'tis very possible he'll scorn it, for the man,
ADO 2.3. 174 as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.
ADO 2.3. 175
ADO-CLAUDIO
He is a very proper man.
ADO 2.3. 176
ADO-DON PEDRO
He hath indeed a good outward happiness.
ADO 2.3. 177
ADO-CLAUDIO
Before God; and in my mind, very wise.
ADO 2.3. 178
ADO-DON PEDRO
He doth indeed show some sparks that are
ADO 2.3. 179 like wit.
ADO 2.3. 180
ADO-CLAUDIO
And I take him to be valiant.
ADO 2.3. 181
ADO-DON PEDRO
As Hector, I assure you; and in the managing
ADO 2.3. 182 of quarrels you may say he is wise, for either he avoids
ADO 2.3. 183 them with great discretion or undertakes them with a
ADO 2.3. 184 most Christianlike fear.
ADO 2.3. 185
ADO-LEONATO
If he do fear God, a must necessarily keep peace.
ADO 2.3. 186 If he break the peace, he ought to enter into a quarrel
ADO 2.3. 187 with fear and trembling.
ADO 2.3. 188
ADO-DON PEDRO
And so will he do, for the man doth fear God,
ADO 2.3. 189 howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests he
ADO 2.3. 190 will make. Well, I am sorry for your niece. Shall we
ADO 2.3. 191 go seek Benedick and tell him of her love?
ADO 2.3. 192
ADO-CLAUDIO
Never tell him, my lord. Let her wear it out with
ADO 2.3. 193 good counsel.
ADO 2.3. 194
ADO-LEONATO
Nay, that's impossible. She may wear her heart
ADO 2.3. 195 out first.
ADO 2.3. 196
ADO-DON PEDRO
Well, we will hear further of it by your
ADO 2.3. 197 daughter. Let it cool the while. I love Benedick well,
ADO 2.3. 198 and I could wish he would modestly examine himself
ADO 2.3. 199 to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady.
ADO 2.3. 200
ADO-LEONATO
My lord, will you walk? Dinner is ready.
ADO 2.3. 201
ADO-CLAUDIO
{(aside)} If he do not dote on her upon +
ADO 2.3. 201 this, I will
ADO 2.3. 202 never trust my expectation.
ADO 2.3. 203
ADO-DON PEDRO
{(aside)} Let there be the same net +
ADO 2.3. 203 spread for
ADO 2.3. 204 her, and that must your daughter and her gentlewomen
ADO 2.3. 205 carry. The sport will be when they hold one an opinion
ADO 2.3. 206 of another's dotage, and no such matter. That's the
ADO 2.3. 207 scene that I would see, which will be merely a dumb
ADO 2.3. 208 show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner. {Exeunt Don +
ADO 2.3. 208 Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato}
ADO 2.3. 209
ADO-BENEDICK
{(coming forward)} This can be no trick. +
ADO 2.3. 209 The
ADO 2.3. 210 conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of
ADO 2.3. 211 this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady. It seems
ADO 2.3. 212 her affections have their full bent. Love me! Why, it
ADO 2.3. 213 must be requited. I hear how I am censured. They say
ADO 2.3. 214 I will bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come
ADO 2.3. 215 from her. They say too that she will rather die than
ADO 2.3. 216 give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry.
ADO 2.3. 217 I must not seem proud. Happy are they that hear their
ADO 2.3. 218 detractions and can put them to mending. They say
ADO 2.3. 219 the lady is fair. 'Tis a truth, I can bear them witness.
ADO 2.3. 220 And virtuous - 'tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise,
ADO 2.3. 221 but for loving me. By my troth, it is no addition to her
ADO 2.3. 222 wit - nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be
ADO 2.3. 223 horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd
ADO 2.3. 224 quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I
ADO 2.3. 225 have railed so long against marriage; but doth not the
ADO 2.3. 226 appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that
ADO 2.3. 227 he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences
ADO 2.3. 228 and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from
ADO 2.3. 229 the career of his humour? No. The world must be
ADO 2.3. 230 peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not
ADO 2.3. 231 think I should live till I were married. Here comes
ADO 2.3. 232 Beatrice. {Enter Beatrice}
ADO 2.3. 233 By this day, she's a fair lady. I do spy some marks of
ADO 2.3. 234 love in her.
ADO 2.3. 235
ADO-BEATRICE
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
ADO 2.3. 236 to dinner.
ADO 2.3. 237
ADO-BENEDICK
Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
ADO 2.3. 238
ADO-BEATRICE
I took no more pains for those thanks than you
ADO 2.3. 239 take pains to thank me. If it had been painful I would
ADO 2.3. 240 not have come.
ADO 2.3. 241
ADO-BENEDICK
You take pleasure, then, in the message?
ADO 2.3. 242
ADO-BEATRICE
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a
ADO 2.3. 243 knife's point and choke a daw withal. You have no
ADO 2.3. 244 stomach, signor? Fare you well. {Exit}
ADO 2.3. 245
ADO-BENEDICK
Ha! `Against my will I am sent to bid you come
ADO 2.3. 246 in to dinner.' There's a double meaning in that. `I took
ADO 2.3. 247 no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to
ADO 2.3. 248 thank me.' That's as much as to say `Any pains that I
ADO 2.3. 249 take for you is as easy as thanks.' - If I do not take
ADO 2.3. 250 pity of her I am a villain. If I do not love her I am a
ADO 2.3. 251 Jew. I will go get her picture. {Exit}
ADO 2.3. 0 {Enter Hero and two gentlewomen, Margaret and +
ADO 3.1. 0 Ursula}
ADO 3.1. 1
ADO-HERO
Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour.
ADO 3.1. 2 There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
ADO 3.1. 3 Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.
ADO 3.1. 4 Whisper her ear, and tell her I and Ursula
ADO 3.1. 5 Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse
ADO 3.1. 6 Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us,
ADO 3.1. 7 And bid her steal into the pleached bower
ADO 3.1. 8 Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,
ADO 3.1. 9 Forbid the sun to enter - like favourites
ADO 3.1. 10 Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
ADO 3.1. 11 Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her
ADO 3.1. 12 To listen our propose. This is thy office.
ADO 3.1. 13 Bear thee well in it, and leave us alone.
ADO 3.1. 14
ADO-MARGARET
I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently. +
ADO 3.1. 14 {Exit}
ADO 3.1. 15
ADO-HERO
Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,
ADO 3.1. 16 As we do trace this alley up and down
ADO 3.1. 17 Our talk must only be of Benedick.
ADO 3.1. 18 When I do name him, let it be thy part
ADO 3.1. 19 To praise him more than ever man did merit.
ADO 3.1. 20 My talk to thee must be how Benedick
ADO 3.1. 21 Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter
ADO 3.1. 22 Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,
ADO 3.1. 23B That only wounds by hearsay. {Enter Beatrice} Now +
ADO 3.1. 23B begin,
ADO 3.1. 24 For look where Beatrice like a lapwing runs
ADO 3.1. 25 Close by the ground to hear our conference.
ADO 3.1. 26
ADO-URSULA
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
ADO 3.1. 27 Cut with her golden oars the silver stream
ADO 3.1. 28 And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
ADO 3.1. 29 So angle we for Beatrice, who even now
ADO 3.1. 30 Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
ADO 3.1. 31 Fear you not my part of the dialogue.
ADO 3.1. 32
ADO-HERO
Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
ADO 3.1. 33 Of the false-sweet bait that we lay for it. - {They approach +
ADO 3.1. 33 Beatrice's hiding-place}
ADO 3.1. 34 No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful.
ADO 3.1. 35 I know her spirits are as coy and wild
ADO 3.1. 36B As haggards of the rock.
ADO-URSULA
But are you sure
ADO 3.1. 37 That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?
ADO 3.1. 38
ADO-HERO
So says the Prince and my new trothed lord.
ADO 3.1. 39
ADO-URSULA
And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?
ADO 3.1. 40
ADO-HERO
They did entreat me to acquaint her of it,
ADO 3.1. 41 But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,
ADO 3.1. 42 To wish him wrestle with affection
ADO 3.1. 43 And never to let Beatrice know of it.
ADO 3.1. 44
ADO-URSULA
Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman
ADO 3.1. 45 Deserve as full as fortunate a bed
ADO 3.1. 46 As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?
ADO 3.1. 47
ADO-HERO
O god of love! I know he doth deserve
ADO 3.1. 48 As much as may be yielded to a man.
ADO 3.1. 49 But nature never framed a woman's heart
ADO 3.1. 50 Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice.
ADO 3.1. 51 Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
ADO 3.1. 52 Misprising what they look on, and her wit
ADO 3.1. 53 Values itself so highly that to her
ADO 3.1. 54 All matter else seems weak. She cannot love,
ADO 3.1. 55 Nor take no shape nor project of affection,
ADO 3.1. 56B She is so self-endeared.
ADO-URSULA
Sure, I think so.
ADO 3.1. 57 And therefore certainly it were not good
ADO 3.1. 58 She knew his love, lest she'll make sport at it.
ADO 3.1. 59
ADO-HERO
Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,
ADO 3.1. 60 How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
ADO 3.1. 61 But she would spell him backward. If fair-faced,
ADO 3.1. 62 She would swear the gentleman should be her sister.
ADO 3.1. 63 If black, why nature, drawing of an antic,
ADO 3.1. 64 Made a foul blot. If tall, a lance ill headed;
ADO 3.1. 65 If low, an agate very vilely cut;
ADO 3.1. 66 If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;
ADO 3.1. 67 If silent, why, a block moved with none.
ADO 3.1. 68 So turns she every man the wrong side out,
ADO 3.1. 69 And never gives to truth and virtue that
ADO 3.1. 70 Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.
ADO 3.1. 71
ADO-URSULA
Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.
ADO 3.1. 72
ADO-HERO
No, not to be so odd and from all fashions
ADO 3.1. 73 As Beatrice is cannot be commendable.
ADO 3.1. 74 But who dare tell her so? If I should speak
ADO 3.1. 75 She would mock me into air, O, she would laugh me
ADO 3.1. 76 Out of myself, press me to death with wit.
ADO 3.1. 77 Therefore let Benedick, like covered fire,
ADO 3.1. 78 Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly.
ADO 3.1. 79 It were a better death than die with mocks,
ADO 3.1. 80 Which is as bad as die with tickling.
ADO 3.1. 81
ADO-URSULA
Yet tell her of it, hear what she will say.
ADO 3.1. 82
ADO-HERO
No. Rather I will go to Benedick
ADO 3.1. 83 And counsel him to fight against his passion.
ADO 3.1. 84 And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
ADO 3.1. 85 To stain my cousin with. One doth not know
ADO 3.1. 86 How much an ill word may empoison liking.
ADO 3.1. 87
ADO-URSULA
O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.
ADO 3.1. 88 She cannot be so much without true judgement,
ADO 3.1. 89 Having so swift and excellent a wit
ADO 3.1. 90 As she is prized to have, as to refuse
ADO 3.1. 91 So rare a gentleman as Signor Benedick.
ADO 3.1. 92
ADO-HERO
He is the only man of Italy,
ADO 3.1. 93 Always excepted my dear Claudio.
ADO 3.1. 94
ADO-URSULA
I pray you be not angry with me, madam,
ADO 3.1. 95 Speaking my fancy. Signor Benedick,
ADO 3.1. 96 For shape, for bearing, argument, and valour
ADO 3.1. 97 Goes foremost in report through Italy.
ADO 3.1. 98
ADO-HERO
Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.
ADO 3.1. 99
ADO-URSULA
His excellence did earn it ere he had it.
ADO 3.1. 100 When are you married, madam?
ADO 3.1. 101
ADO-HERO
Why, every day, tomorrow. Come, go in.
ADO 3.1. 102 I'll show thee some attires and have thy counsel
ADO 3.1. 103 Which is the best to furnish me tomorrow.
ADO 3.1. 104
ADO-URSULA
{(aside)} She's limed, I warrant you. We +
ADO 3.1. 104 have caught her, madam.
ADO 3.1. 105
ADO-HERO
{(aside)} If it prove so, then loving goes by +
ADO 3.1. 105 haps.
ADO 3.1. 106 Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. {Exeunt Hero and +
ADO 3.1. 106 Ursula}
ADO 3.1. 107
ADO-BEATRICE
{(coming forward)} What fire is in mine +
ADO 3.1. 107 ears? Can this be true?
ADO 3.1. 108 Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much?
ADO 3.1. 109 Contempt, farewell; and maiden pride, adieu.
ADO 3.1. 110 No glory lives behind the back of such.
ADO 3.1. 111 And, Benedick, love on. I will requite thee,
ADO 3.1. 112 Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand.
ADO 3.1. 113 If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
ADO 3.1. 114 To bind our loves up in a holy band.
ADO 3.1. 115 For others say thou dost deserve, and I
ADO 3.1. 116 Believe it better than reportingly. {Exit}
ADO 3.1. 0 {Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Claudio, Benedick, and +
ADO 3.2. 0 Leonato}
ADO 3.2. 1
ADO-DON PEDRO
I do but stay till your marriage be consummate,
ADO 3.2. 2 and then go I toward Aragon.
ADO 3.2. 3
ADO-CLAUDIO
I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll vouchsafe
ADO 3.2. 4 me.
ADO 3.2. 5
ADO-DON PEDRO
Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new
ADO 3.2. 6 gloss of your marriage as to show a child his new coat
ADO 3.2. 7 and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold with
ADO 3.2. 8 Benedick for his company, for from the crown of his
ADO 3.2. 9 head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth. He hath
ADO 3.2. 10 twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and the little
ADO 3.2. 11 hangman dare not shoot at him. He hath a heart as
ADO 3.2. 12 sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what
ADO 3.2. 13 his heart thinks his tongue speaks.
ADO 3.2. 14
ADO-BENEDICK
Gallants, I am not as I have been.
ADO 3.2. 15
ADO-LEONATO
So say I. Methinks you are sadder.
ADO 3.2. 16
ADO-CLAUDIO
I hope he be in love.
ADO 3.2. 17
ADO-DON PEDRO
Hang him, truant! There's no true drop of
ADO 3.2. 18 blood in him to be truly touched with love. If he be
ADO 3.2. 19 sad, he wants money.
ADO 3.2. 20
ADO-BENEDICK
I have the toothache.
ADO 3.2. 21
ADO-DON PEDRO
Draw it.
ADO 3.2. 22
ADO-BENEDICK
Hang it.
ADO 3.2. 23
ADO-CLAUDIO
You must hang it first and draw it afterwards.
ADO 3.2. 24
ADO-DON PEDRO
What? Sigh for the toothache?
ADO 3.2. 25
ADO-LEONATO
Where is but a humour or a worm.
ADO 3.2. 26
ADO-BENEDICK
Well, everyone can master a grief but he that
ADO 3.2. 27 has it.
ADO 3.2. 28
ADO-CLAUDIO
Yet say I he is in love.
ADO 3.2. 29
ADO-DON PEDRO
There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless
ADO 3.2. 30 it be a fancy that he hath to strange disguises, as to
ADO 3.2. 31 be a Dutchman today, a Frenchman tomorrow, or in
ADO 3.2. 32 the shape of two countries at once, as a German from
ADO 3.2. 33 the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from
ADO 3.2. 34 the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy to
ADO 3.2. 35 this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no fool for
ADO 3.2. 36 fancy, as you would have it appear he is.
ADO 3.2. 37
ADO-CLAUDIO
If he be not in love with some woman there is
ADO 3.2. 38 no believing old signs. A brushes his hat o' mornings,
ADO 3.2. 39 what should that bode?
ADO 3.2. 40
ADO-DON PEDRO
Hath any man seen him at the barber's?
ADO 3.2. 41
ADO-CLAUDIO
No, but the barber's man hath been seen with
ADO 3.2. 42 him, and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
ADO 3.2. 43 stuffed tennis balls.
ADO 3.2. 44
ADO-LEONATO
Indeed, he looks younger than he did by the
ADO 3.2. 45 loss of a beard.
ADO 3.2. 46
ADO-DON PEDRO
Nay, a rubs himself with civet. Can you smell
ADO 3.2. 47 him out by that?
ADO 3.2. 48
ADO-CLAUDIO
That's as much as to say the sweet youth's in
ADO 3.2. 49 love.
ADO 3.2. 50
ADO-DON PEDRO
The greatest note of it is his melancholy.
ADO 3.2. 51
ADO-CLAUDIO
And when was he wont to wash his face?
ADO 3.2. 52
ADO-DON PEDRO
Yea, or to paint himself? - for the which I
ADO 3.2. 53 hear what they say of him.
ADO 3.2. 54
ADO-CLAUDIO
Nay, but his jesting spirit, which is now crept
ADO 3.2. 55 into a lute-string, and now governed by stops.
ADO 3.2. 56
ADO-DON PEDRO
Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him.
ADO 3.2. 57 Conclude, conclude, he is in love.
ADO 3.2. 58
ADO-CLAUDIO
Nay, but I know who loves him.
ADO 3.2. 59
ADO-DON PEDRO
That would I know, too. I warrant, one that
ADO 3.2. 60 knows him not.
ADO 3.2. 61
ADO-CLAUDIO
Yes, and his ill conditions, and in despite of all,
ADO 3.2. 62 dies for him.
ADO 3.2. 63
ADO-DON PEDRO
She shall be buried with her face upwards.
ADO 3.2. 64
ADO-BENEDICK
Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old
ADO 3.2. 65 signor, walk aside with me. I have studied eight or
ADO 3.2. 66 nine wise words to speak to you which these hobby-
ADO 3.2. 67 horses must not hear. {Exeunt Benedick and Leonato}
ADO 3.2. 68
ADO-DON PEDRO
For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.
ADO 3.2. 69
ADO-CLAUDIO
'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this
ADO 3.2. 70 played their parts with Beatrice, and then the two bears
ADO 3.2. 71 will not bite one another when they meet. {Enter Don John the +
ADO 3.2. 71 bastard}
ADO 3.2. 72
ADO-DON JOHN
My lord, and brother, God save you.
ADO 3.2. 73
ADO-DON PEDRO
Good-e'en, brother.
ADO 3.2. 74
ADO-DON JOHN
If your leisure served I would speak with you.
ADO 3.2. 75
ADO-DON PEDRO
In private?
ADO 3.2. 76
ADO-DON JOHN
If it please you. Yet Count Claudio may hear,
ADO 3.2. 77 for what I would speak of concerns him.
ADO 3.2. 78
ADO-DON PEDRO
What's the matter?
ADO 3.2. 79
ADO-DON JOHN
{(to Claudio)} Means your lordship to be +
ADO 3.2. 79 married
ADO 3.2. 80 tomorrow?
ADO 3.2. 81
ADO-DON PEDRO
You know he does.
ADO 3.2. 82
ADO-DON JOHN
I know not that when he knows what I know.
ADO 3.2. 83
ADO-CLAUDIO
If there be any impediment, I pray you discover
ADO 3.2. 84 it.
ADO 3.2. 85
ADO-DON JOHN
You may think I love you not. Let that appear
ADO 3.2. 86 hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will
ADO 3.2. 87 manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you well
ADO 3.2. 88 and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your
ADO 3.2. 89 ensuing marriage - surely suit ill spent, and labour ill
ADO 3.2. 90 bestowed.
ADO 3.2. 91
ADO-DON PEDRO
Why, what's the matter?
ADO 3.2. 92
ADO-DON JOHN
I came hither to tell you, and, circumstances
ADO 3.2. 93 shortened - for she has been too long a-talking of - the
ADO 3.2. 94 lady is disloyal.
ADO 3.2. 95
ADO-CLAUDIO
Who, Hero?
ADO 3.2. 96
ADO-DON JOHN
Even she. Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every
ADO 3.2. 97 man's Hero.
ADO 3.2. 98
ADO-CLAUDIO
Disloyal?
ADO 3.2. 99
ADO-DON JOHN
The word is too good to paint out her
ADO 3.2. 100 wickedness. I could say she were worse. Think you of
ADO 3.2. 101 a worse title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till
ADO 3.2. 102 further warrant. Go but with me tonight, you shall see
ADO 3.2. 103 her chamber window entered, even the night before
ADO 3.2. 104 her wedding day. If you love her then, tomorrow wed
ADO 3.2. 105 her. But it would better fit your honour to change your
ADO 3.2. 106 mind.
ADO 3.2. 107
ADO-CLAUDIO
May this be so?
ADO 3.2. 108
ADO-DON PEDRO
I will not think it.
ADO 3.2. 109
ADO-DON JOHN
If you dare not trust that you see, confess not
ADO 3.2. 110 that you know. If you will follow me I will show you
ADO 3.2. 111 enough, and when you have seen more and heard
ADO 3.2. 112 more, proceed accordingly.
ADO 3.2. 113
ADO-CLAUDIO
If I see anything tonight why I should not marry
ADO 3.2. 114 her, tomorrow, in the congregation where I should
ADO 3.2. 115 wed, there will I shame her.
ADO 3.2. 116
ADO-DON PEDRO
And as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will
ADO 3.2. 117 join with thee to disgrace her.
ADO 3.2. 118
ADO-DON JOHN
I will disparage her no farther till you are my
ADO 3.2. 119 witnesses. Bear it coldly but till midnight, and let the
ADO 3.2. 120 issue show itself.
ADO 3.2. 121
ADO-DON PEDRO
O day untowardly turned!
ADO 3.2. 122
ADO-CLAUDIO
O mischief strangely thwarting!
ADO 3.2. 123
ADO-DON JOHN
O plague right well prevented! - So will you
ADO 3.2. 124 say when you have seen the sequel. {Exeunt}
ADO 3.2. 0 {Enter Dogberry and his compartner Verges, with the +
ADO 3.3. 0 Watch}
ADO 3.3. 1
ADO-DOGBERRY
Are you good men and true?
ADO 3.3. 2
ADO-VERGES
Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer
ADO 3.3. 3 salvation, body and soul.
ADO 3.3. 4
ADO-DOGBERRY
Nay, that were a punishment too good for them
ADO 3.3. 5 if they should have any allegiance in them, being
ADO 3.3. 6 chosen for the Prince's watch.
ADO 3.3. 7
ADO-VERGES
Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.
ADO 3.3. 8
ADO-DOGBERRY
First, who think you the most desertless man
ADO 3.3. 9 to be constable?
ADO 3.3. 10
ADO-SECOND WATCHMAN
Hugh Oatcake, sir, or George Seacoal,
ADO 3.3. 11 for they can write and read.
ADO 3.3. 12
ADO-DOGBERRY
Come hither, neighbour Seacoal, God hath blest
ADO 3.3. 13 you with a good name. To be a well-favoured man is
ADO 3.3. 14 the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by
ADO 3.3. 15 nature.
ADO 3.3. 16
ADO-FIRST WATCHMAN
Both which, Master Constable -
ADO 3.3. 17
ADO-DOGBERRY
You have. I knew it would be your answer.
ADO 3.3. 18 Well, for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and
ADO 3.3. 19 make no boast of it. And for your writing and reading,
ADO 3.3. 20 let that appear when there is no need of such vanity.
ADO 3.3. 21 You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit
ADO 3.3. 22 man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you
ADO 3.3. 23 the lantern. This is your charge: you shall comprehend
ADO 3.3. 24 all vagrom men. You are to bid any man stand, in the
ADO 3.3. 25 Prince's name.
ADO 3.3. 26
ADO-FIRST WATCHMAN
How if a will not stand?
ADO 3.3. 27
ADO-DOGBERRY
Why then take no note of him, but let him go,
ADO 3.3. 28 and presently call the rest of the watch together, and
ADO 3.3. 29 thank God you are rid of a knave.
ADO 3.3. 30
ADO-VERGES
If he will not stand when he is bidden he is none
ADO 3.3. 31 of the Prince's subjects.
ADO 3.3. 32
ADO-DOGBERRY
True, and they are to meddle with none but
ADO 3.3. 33 the Prince's subjects. - You shall also make no noise
ADO 3.3. 34 in the streets, for for the watch to babble and to talk
ADO 3.3. 35 is most tolerable and not to be endured.
ADO 3.3. 36 A
ADO-WATCHMAN
We will rather sleep than talk. We know
ADO 3.3. 37 what belongs to a watch.
ADO 3.3. 38
ADO-DOGBERRY
Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet
ADO 3.3. 39 watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend.
ADO 3.3. 40 Only have a care that your bills be not stolen. Well,
ADO 3.3. 41 you are to call at all the alehouses and bid those that
ADO 3.3. 42 are drunk get them to bed.
ADO 3.3. 43 A
ADO-WATCHMAN
How if they will not?
ADO 3.3. 44
ADO-DOGBERRY
Why then, let them alone till they are sober.
ADO 3.3. 45 If they make you not then the better answer, you may
ADO 3.3. 46 say they are not the men you took them for.
ADO 3.3. 47 A
ADO-WATCHMAN
Well, sir.
ADO 3.3. 48
ADO-DOGBERRY
If you meet a thief you may suspect him, by
ADO 3.3. 49 virtue of your office, to be no true man; and for such
ADO 3.3. 50 kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them
ADO 3.3. 51 why, the more is for your honesty.
ADO 3.3. 52 A
ADO-WATCHMAN
If we know him to be a thief, shall we not
ADO 3.3. 53 lay hands on him?
ADO 3.3. 54
ADO-DOGBERRY
Truly, by your office you may, but I think they
ADO 3.3. 55 that touch pitch will be defiled. The most peaceable
ADO 3.3. 56 way for you if you do take a thief is to let him show
ADO 3.3. 57 himself what he is, and steal out of your company.
ADO 3.3. 58
ADO-VERGES
You have been always called a merciful man,
ADO 3.3. 59 partner.
ADO 3.3. 60
ADO-DOGBERRY
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will,
ADO 3.3. 61 much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
ADO 3.3. 62
ADO-VERGES
If you hear a child cry in the night you must call
ADO 3.3. 63 to the nurse and bid her still it.
ADO 3.3. 64 A
ADO-WATCHMAN
How if the nurse be asleep and will not
ADO 3.3. 65 hear us?
ADO 3.3. 66
ADO-DOGBERRY
Why then, depart in peace and let the child
ADO 3.3. 67 wake her with crying, for the ewe that will not hear
ADO 3.3. 68 her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when
ADO 3.3. 69 he bleats.
ADO 3.3. 70
ADO-VERGES
'Tis very true.
ADO 3.3. 71
ADO-DOGBERRY
This is the end of the charge. You, constable,
ADO 3.3. 72 are to present the Prince's own person. If you meet the
ADO 3.3. 73 Prince in the night you may stay him.
ADO 3.3. 74
ADO-VERGES
Nay, by 'r Lady, that I think a cannot.
ADO 3.3. 75
ADO-DOGBERRY
Five shillings to one on 't with any man that
ADO 3.3. 76 knows the statutes he may stay him. Marry, not without
ADO 3.3. 77 the Prince be willing, for indeed the watch ought to
ADO 3.3. 78 offend no man, and it is an offence to stay a man
ADO 3.3. 79 against his will.
ADO 3.3. 80
ADO-VERGES
By 'r Lady, I think it be so.
ADO 3.3. 81
ADO-DOGBERRY
Ha ha ha! Well, masters, good night. An there
ADO 3.3. 82 be any matter of weight chances, call up me. Keep
ADO 3.3. 83 your fellows' counsels, and your own, and good night.
ADO 3.3. 84 Come, neighbour.
ADO 3.3. 85
ADO-[FIRST] WATCHMAN
Well, masters, we hear our charge.
ADO 3.3. 86 Let us go sit here upon the church bench till two, and
ADO 3.3. 87 then all to bed.
ADO 3.3. 88
ADO-DOGBERRY
One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you
ADO 3.3. 89 watch about Signor Leonato's door, for the wedding
ADO 3.3. 90 being there tomorrow, there is a great coil tonight.
ADO 3.3. 91 Adieu. Be vigitant, I beseech you. {Exeunt Dogberry and Verges. +
ADO 3.3. 91 [The Watch sit]}
ADO 3.3. 92 {Enter Borachio and Conrad}
ADO-BORACHIO
What, Conrad!
ADO 3.3. 93
ADO-[FIRST] WATCHMAN
{(aside)} Peace, stir not.
ADO 3.3. 94
ADO-BORACHIO
Conrad, I say.
ADO 3.3. 95
ADO-CONRAD
Here, man, I am at thy elbow.
ADO 3.3. 96
ADO-BORACHIO
Mass, an my elbow itched, I thought there
ADO 3.3. 97 would a scab follow.
ADO 3.3. 98
ADO-CONRAD
I will owe thee an answer for that. And now,
ADO 3.3. 99 forward with thy tale.
ADO 3.3. 100
ADO-BORACHIO
Stand thee close, then, under this penthouse,
ADO 3.3. 101 for it drizzles rain, and I will, like a true drunkard,
ADO 3.3. 102 utter all to thee.
ADO 3.3. 103 A
ADO-WATCHMAN
{(aside)} Some treason, masters. Yet +
ADO 3.3. 103 stand
ADO 3.3. 104 close.
ADO 3.3. 105
ADO-BORACHIO
Therefore, know I have earned of Don John a
ADO 3.3. 106 thousand ducats.
ADO 3.3. 107
ADO-CONRAD
Is it possible that any villainy should be so dear?
ADO 3.3. 108
ADO-BORACHIO
Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any
ADO 3.3. 109 villainy should be so rich. For when rich villains have
ADO 3.3. 110 need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price
ADO 3.3. 111 they will.
ADO 3.3. 112
ADO-CONRAD
I wonder at it.
ADO 3.3. 113
ADO-BORACHIO
That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou
ADO 3.3. 114 knowest that the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a
ADO 3.3. 115 cloak is nothing to a man.
ADO 3.3. 116
ADO-CONRAD
Yes, it is apparel.
ADO 3.3. 117
ADO-BORACHIO
I mean the fashion.
ADO 3.3. 118
ADO-CONRAD
Yes, the fashion is the fashion.
ADO 3.3. 119
ADO-BORACHIO
Tush, I may as well say the fool's the fool. But
ADO 3.3. 120 seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
ADO 3.3. 121 A
ADO-WATCHMAN
{(aside)} I know that Deformed. A has +
ADO 3.3. 121 been
ADO 3.3. 122 a vile thief this seven year. A goes up and down like a
ADO 3.3. 123 gentleman. I remember his name.
ADO 3.3. 124
ADO-BORACHIO
Didst thou not hear somebody?
ADO 3.3. 125
ADO-CONRAD
No, 'twas the vane on the house.
ADO 3.3. 126
ADO-BORACHIO
Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief
ADO 3.3. 127 this fashion is, how giddily a turns about all the hot-
ADO 3.3. 128 bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes
ADO 3.3. 129 fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy
ADO 3.3. 130 painting, sometime like god Bel's priests in the old
ADO 3.3. 131 church window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in
ADO 3.3. 132 the smirched, worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece
ADO 3.3. 133 seems as massy as his club?
ADO 3.3. 134
ADO-CONRAD
All this I see, and I see that the fashion wears
ADO 3.3. 135 out more apparel than the man. But art not thou
ADO 3.3. 136 thyself giddy with the fashion, too, that thou hast
ADO 3.3. 137 shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
ADO 3.3. 138
ADO-BORACHIO
Not so, neither. But know that I have tonight
ADO 3.3. 139 wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the
ADO 3.3. 140 name of Hero. She leans me out at her mistress'
ADO 3.3. 141 chamber window, bids me a thousand times good
ADO 3.3. 142 night - I tell this tale vilely, I should first tell thee how
ADO 3.3. 143 the Prince, Claudio, and my master, planted and placed
ADO 3.3. 144 and possessed by my master, Don John, saw afar off in
ADO 3.3. 145 the orchard this amiable encounter.
ADO 3.3. 146
ADO-CONRAD
And thought they Margaret was Hero?
ADO 3.3. 147
ADO-BORACHIO
Two of them did, the Prince and Claudio, but
ADO 3.3. 148 the devil my master knew she was Margaret, and partly
ADO 3.3. 149 by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by the
ADO 3.3. 150 dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly by my
ADO 3.3. 151 villainy, which did confirm any slander that Don John
ADO 3.3. 152 had made, away went Claudio enraged, swore he would
ADO 3.3. 153 meet her as he was appointed next morning at the
ADO 3.3. 154 temple, and there, before the whole congregation,
ADO 3.3. 155 shame her with what he saw o'ernight, and send her
ADO 3.3. 156 home again without a husband.
ADO 3.3. 157
ADO-[FIRST] WATCHMAN
{(coming forward)} We charge you +
ADO 3.3. 157 in the
ADO 3.3. 158 Prince's name. Stand.
ADO 3.3. 159
ADO-[A WATCHMAN]
Call up the right Master Constable. We
ADO 3.3. 160 have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery
ADO 3.3. 161 that ever was known in the commonwealth.
ADO 3.3. 162
ADO-[FIRST] WATCHMAN
And one Deformed is one of them. I
ADO 3.3. 163 know him - a wears a lock.
ADO 3.3. 164
ADO-CONRAD
Masters, masters!
ADO 3.3. 165
ADO-[A WATCHMAN]
You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I
ADO 3.3. 166 warrant you.
ADO 3.3. 167
ADO-[CONRAD]
Masters -
ADO 3.3. 168
ADO-[A WATCHMAN]
Never speak. We charge you. Let us obey
ADO 3.3. 169 you to go with us.
ADO 3.3. 170
ADO-BORACHIO
{(to Conrad)} We are like to prove a +
ADO 3.3. 170 goodly
ADO 3.3. 171 commodity, being taken up of these men's bills.
ADO 3.3. 172
ADO-CONRAD
A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come,
ADO 3.3. 173 we'll obey you. {Exeunt}
ADO 3.3. 0 {Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula}
ADO 3.4. 1
ADO-HERO
Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire
ADO 3.4. 2 her to rise.
ADO 3.4. 3
ADO-URSULA
I will, lady.
ADO 3.4. 4
ADO-HERO
And bid her come hither.
ADO 3.4. 5
ADO-URSULA
Well. {Exit}
ADO 3.4. 6
ADO-MARGARET
Troth, I think your other rebato were better.
ADO 3.4. 7
ADO-HERO
No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.
ADO 3.4. 8
ADO-MARGARET
By my troth, 's not so good, and I warrant
ADO 3.4. 9 your cousin will say so.
ADO 3.4. 10
ADO-HERO
My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear
ADO 3.4. 11 none but this.
ADO 3.4. 12
ADO-MARGARET
I like the new tire within excellently, if the
ADO 3.4. 13 hair were a thought browner. And your gown's a most
ADO 3.4. 14 rare fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's gown
ADO 3.4. 15 that they praise so.
ADO 3.4. 16
ADO-HERO
O, that exceeds, they say.
ADO 3.4. 17
ADO-MARGARET
By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect
ADO 3.4. 18 of yours - cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with silver,
ADO 3.4. 19 set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts
ADO 3.4. 20 round underborne with a bluish tinsel. But for a fine,
ADO 3.4. 21 quaint, graceful, and excellent fashion, yours is worth
ADO 3.4. 22 ten on 't.
ADO 3.4. 23
ADO-HERO
God give me joy to wear it, for my heart is exceeding
ADO 3.4. 24 heavy.
ADO 3.4. 25
ADO-MARGARET
'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man.
ADO 3.4. 26
ADO-HERO
Fie upon thee, art not ashamed?
ADO 3.4. 27
ADO-MARGARET
Of what, lady? Of speaking honourably? Is not
ADO 3.4. 28 marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord
ADO 3.4. 29 honourable without marriage? I think you would have
ADO 3.4. 30 me say `saving your reverence, a husband'. An bad
ADO 3.4. 31 thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend nobody.
ADO 3.4. 32 Is there any harm in `the heavier for a husband'?
ADO 3.4. 33 None, I think, an it be the right husband and the right
ADO 3.4. 34 wife - otherwise 'tis light and not heavy. Ask my Lady
ADO 3.4. 35 Beatrice else. Here she comes. {Enter Beatrice}
ADO 3.4. 36
ADO-HERO
Good morrow, coz.
ADO 3.4. 37
ADO-BEATRICE
Good morrow, sweet Hero.
ADO 3.4. 38
ADO-HERO
Why, how now? Do you speak in the sick tune?
ADO 3.4. 39
ADO-BEATRICE
I am out of all other tune, methinks.
ADO 3.4. 40
ADO-MARGARET
Clap 's into `Light o' love'. That goes without
ADO 3.4. 41 a burden. Do you sing it, and I'll dance it.
ADO 3.4. 42
ADO-BEATRICE
Ye light o' love with your heels. Then if your
ADO 3.4. 43 husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall lack
ADO 3.4. 44 no barns.
ADO 3.4. 45
ADO-MARGARET
O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with
ADO 3.4. 46 my heels.
ADO 3.4. 47
ADO-BEATRICE
{(to Hero)} 'Tis almost five o'clock, +
ADO 3.4. 47 cousin. 'Tis
ADO 3.4. 48 time you were ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill.
ADO 3.4. 49 Heigh-ho!
ADO 3.4. 50
ADO-MARGARET
For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?
ADO 3.4. 51
ADO-BEATRICE
For the letter that begins them all - h.
ADO 3.4. 52
ADO-MARGARET
Well, an you be not turned Turk, there's no
ADO 3.4. 53 more sailing by the star.
ADO 3.4. 54
ADO-BEATRICE
What means the fool, trow?
ADO 3.4. 55
ADO-MARGARET
Nothing, I. But God send everyone their heart's
ADO 3.4. 56 desire.
ADO 3.4. 57
ADO-HERO
These gloves the Count sent me, they are an
ADO 3.4. 58 excellent perfume.
ADO 3.4. 59
ADO-BEATRICE
I am stuffed, cousin. I cannot smell.
ADO 3.4. 60
ADO-MARGARET
A maid, and stuffed! There's goodly catching
ADO 3.4. 61 of cold.
ADO 3.4. 62
ADO-BEATRICE
O, God help me, God help me. How long have
ADO 3.4. 63 you professed apprehension?
ADO 3.4. 64
ADO-MARGARET
Ever since you left it. Doth not my wit become
ADO 3.4. 65 me rarely?
ADO 3.4. 66
ADO-BEATRICE
It is not seen enough. You should wear it in
ADO 3.4. 67 your cap. By my troth, I am sick.
ADO 3.4. 68
ADO-MARGARET
Get you some of this distilled {carduus benedictus},
ADO 3.4. 69 and lay it to your heart. It is the only thing for a
ADO 3.4. 70 qualm.
ADO 3.4. 71
ADO-HERO
There thou prickest her with a thistle.
ADO 3.4. 72
ADO-BEATRICE
Benedictus - why Benedictus? You have some
ADO 3.4. 73 moral in this Benedictus.
ADO 3.4. 74
ADO-MARGARET
Moral? No, by my troth, I have no moral
ADO 3.4. 75 meaning. I meant plain holy-thistle. You may think
ADO 3.4. 76 perchance that I think you are in love. Nay, by 'r Lady,
ADO 3.4. 77 I am not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list not
ADO 3.4. 78 to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think, if I
ADO 3.4. 79 would think my heart out of thinking, that you are in
ADO 3.4. 80 love, or that you will be in love, or that you can be in
ADO 3.4. 81 love. Yet Benedick was such another, and now is he
ADO 3.4. 82 become a man. He swore he would never marry, and
ADO 3.4. 83 yet now in despite of his heart he eats his meat without
ADO 3.4. 84 grudging. And how you may be converted I know not,
ADO 3.4. 85 but methinks you look with your eyes, as other women
ADO 3.4. 86 do.
ADO 3.4. 87
ADO-BEATRICE
What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?
ADO 3.4. 88
ADO-MARGARET
Not a false gallop. {Enter Ursula}
ADO 3.4. 89
ADO-URSULA
{(to Hero)} Madam, withdraw. The Prince, +
ADO 3.4. 89 the
ADO 3.4. 90 Count, Signor Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants
ADO 3.4. 91 of the town are come to fetch you to church.
ADO 3.4. 92
ADO-HERO
Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula. +
ADO 3.4. 92 {Exeunt}
ADO 3.4. 0 {Enter Leonato, and Dogberry the constable, and Verges +
ADO 3.5. 0 the headborough}
ADO 3.5. 1
ADO-LEONATO
What would you with me, honest neighbour?
ADO 3.5. 2
ADO-DOGBERRY
Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with
ADO 3.5. 3 you that decerns you nearly.
ADO 3.5. 4
ADO-LEONATO
Brief I pray you, for you see it is a busy time
ADO 3.5. 5 with me.
ADO 3.5. 6
ADO-DOGBERRY
Marry, this it is, sir.
ADO 3.5. 7
ADO-VERGES
Yes, in truth it is, sir.
ADO 3.5. 8
ADO-LEONATO
What is it, my good friends?
ADO 3.5. 9
ADO-DOGBERRY
Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the
ADO 3.5. 10 matter - an old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt
ADO 3.5. 11 as, God help, I would desire they were. But in faith,
ADO 3.5. 12 honest as the skin between his brows.
ADO 3.5. 13
ADO-VERGES
Yes, I thank God, I am as honest as any man
ADO 3.5. 14 living that is an old man and no honester than I.
ADO 3.5. 15
ADO-DOGBERRY
Comparisons are odorous. Palabras, neighbour
ADO 3.5. 16 Verges.
ADO 3.5. 17
ADO-LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.
ADO 3.5. 18
ADO-DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are
ADO 3.5. 19 the poor Duke's officers. But truly, for mine own part,
ADO 3.5. 20 if I were as tedious as a king I could find in my heart
ADO 3.5. 21 to bestow it all of your worship.
ADO 3.5. 22
ADO-LEONATO
All thy tediousness on me, ah?
ADO 3.5. 23
ADO-DOGBERRY
Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than
ADO 3.5. 24 'tis, for I hear as good exclamation on your worship
ADO 3.5. 25 as of any man in the city, and though I be but a poor
ADO 3.5. 26 man, I am glad to hear it.
ADO 3.5. 27
ADO-VERGES
And so am I.
ADO 3.5. 28
ADO-LEONATO
I would fain know what you have to say.
ADO 3.5. 29
ADO-VERGES
Marry, sir, our watch tonight, excepting your
ADO 3.5. 30 worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant
ADO 3.5. 31 knaves as any in Messina.
ADO 3.5. 32
ADO-DOGBERRY
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As
ADO 3.5. 33 they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. God help
ADO 3.5. 34 us, it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith, neighbour
ADO 3.5. 35 Verges. Well, God's a good man. An two men ride of
ADO 3.5. 36 a horse, one must ride behind. An honest soul, i' faith,
ADO 3.5. 37 sir, by my troth he is, as ever broke bread. But, God is
ADO 3.5. 38 to be worshipped, all men are not alike, alas, good
ADO 3.5. 39 neighbour.
ADO 3.5. 40
ADO-LEONATO
Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.
ADO 3.5. 41
ADO-DOGBERRY
Gifts that God gives!
ADO 3.5. 42
ADO-LEONATO
I must leave you.
ADO 3.5. 43
ADO-DOGBERRY
One word, sir. Our watch, sir, have indeed
ADO 3.5. 44 comprehended two auspicious persons, and we would
ADO 3.5. 45 have them this morning examined before your worship.
ADO 3.5. 46
ADO-LEONATO
Take their examination yourself, and bring it
ADO 3.5. 47 me. I am now in great haste, as it may appear unto
ADO 3.5. 48 you.
ADO 3.5. 49
ADO-DOGBERRY
It shall be suffigance.
ADO 3.5. 50
ADO-LEONATO
Drink some wine ere you go. Fare you well. {Enter a +
ADO 3.5. 50 Messenger}
ADO 3.5. 51
ADO-MESSENGER
My lord, they stay for you to give your
ADO 3.5. 52 daughter to her husband.
ADO 3.5. 53
ADO-LEONATO
I'll wait upon them, I am ready. {Exeunt Leonato and +
ADO 3.5. 53 Messenger}
ADO 3.5. 54
ADO-DOGBERRY
Go, good partner, go get you to Francis Seacoal,
ADO 3.5. 55 bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the jail. We are
ADO 3.5. 56 now to examination these men.
ADO 3.5. 57
ADO-VERGES
And we must do it wisely.
ADO 3.5. 58
ADO-DOGBERRY
We will spare for no wit, I warrant you. Here's
ADO 3.5. 59 that shall drive some of them to a non-com. Only get
ADO 3.5. 60 the learned writer to set down our excommunication,
ADO 3.5. 61 and meet me at the jail. {Exeunt}
ADO 3.5. 0 {Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Don John the bastard, +
ADO 4.1. 0 Leonato, Friar Francis, Claudio, Benedick, Hero, and Beatrice}
ADO 4.1. 1
ADO-LEONATO
Come, Friar Francis, be brief. Only to the plain
ADO 4.1. 2 form of marriage, and you shall recount their particular
ADO 4.1. 3 duties afterwards.
ADO 4.1. 4
ADO-FRIAR
{(to Claudio)} You come hither, my lord, to +
ADO 4.1. 4 marry
ADO 4.1. 5 this lady?
ADO 4.1. 6
ADO-CLAUDIO
No.
ADO 4.1. 7
ADO-LEONATO
To be married to her. Friar, you come to marry
ADO 4.1. 8 her.
ADO 4.1. 9
ADO-FRIAR
{(to Hero)} Lady, you come hither to be +
ADO 4.1. 9 married to
ADO 4.1. 10 this count?
ADO 4.1. 11
ADO-HERO
I do.
ADO 4.1. 12
ADO-FRIAR
If either of you know any inward impediment why
ADO 4.1. 13 you should not be conjoined, I charge you on your
ADO 4.1. 14 souls to utter it.
ADO 4.1. 15
ADO-CLAUDIO
Know you any, Hero?
ADO 4.1. 16
ADO-HERO
None, my lord.
ADO 4.1. 17
ADO-FRIAR
Know you any, Count?
ADO 4.1. 18
ADO-LEONATO
I dare make his answer - none.
ADO 4.1. 19
ADO-CLAUDIO
O, what men dare do! What men may do! What
ADO 4.1. 20 men daily do, not knowing what they do!
ADO 4.1. 21
ADO-BENEDICK
How now! Interjections? Why then, some be of
ADO 4.1. 22 laughing, as `ah, ha, he!'
ADO 4.1. 23
ADO-CLAUDIO
Stand thee by, Friar. Father, by your leave,
ADO 4.1. 24 Will you with free and unconstrained soul
ADO 4.1. 25 Give me this maid, your daughter?
ADO 4.1. 26
ADO-LEONATO
As freely, son, as God did give her me.
ADO 4.1. 27
ADO-CLAUDIO
And what have I to give you back whose worth
ADO 4.1. 28 May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?
ADO 4.1. 29
ADO-DON PEDRO
Nothing, unless you render her again.
ADO 4.1. 30
ADO-CLAUDIO
Sweet Prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
ADO 4.1. 31 There, Leonato, take her back again.
ADO 4.1. 32 Give not this rotten orange to your friend.
ADO 4.1. 33 She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.
ADO 4.1. 34 Behold how like a maid she blushes here!
ADO 4.1. 35 O, what authority and show of truth
ADO 4.1. 36 Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
ADO 4.1. 37 Comes not that blood as modest evidence
ADO 4.1. 38 To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,
ADO 4.1. 39 All you that see her, that she were a maid,
ADO 4.1. 40 By these exterior shows? But she is none.
ADO 4.1. 41 She knows the heat of a luxurious bed.
ADO 4.1. 42 Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
ADO 4.1. 43B
ADO-LEONATO
What do you mean, my lord?
ADO-CLAUDIO
Not to be married,
ADO 4.1. 44 Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.
ADO 4.1. 45
ADO-LEONATO
Dear my lord, if you in your own proof
ADO 4.1. 46 Have vanquished the resistance of her youth
ADO 4.1. 47 And made defeat of her virginity -
ADO 4.1. 48
ADO-CLAUDIO
I know what you would say. If I have known her,
ADO 4.1. 49 You will say she did embrace me as a husband,
ADO 4.1. 50 And so extenuate the forehand sin.
ADO 4.1. 51 No, Leonato,
ADO 4.1. 52 I never tempted her with word too large,
ADO 4.1. 53 But as a brother to his sister showed
ADO 4.1. 54 Bashful sincerity and comely love.
ADO 4.1. 55
ADO-HERO
And seemed I ever otherwise to you?
ADO 4.1. 56
ADO-CLAUDIO
Out on thee, seeming! I will write against it.
ADO 4.1. 57 You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
ADO 4.1. 58 As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.
ADO 4.1. 59 But you are more intemperate in your blood
ADO 4.1. 60 Than Venus or those pampered animals
ADO 4.1. 61 That rage in savage sensuality.
ADO 4.1. 62
ADO-HERO
Is my lord well that he doth speak so wide?
ADO 4.1. 63B
ADO-LEONATO
Sweet Prince, why speak not you?
ADO-DON PEDRO
What should I +
ADO 4.1. 63B speak?
ADO 4.1. 64 I stand dishonoured, that have gone about
ADO 4.1. 65 To link my dear friend to a common stale.
ADO 4.1. 66
ADO-LEONATO
Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?
ADO 4.1. 67
ADO-DON JOHN
Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.
ADO 4.1. 68A
ADO-BENEDICK
This looks not like a nuptial.
ADO 4.1. 69A
ADO-HERO
`True'! O God!
ADO 4.1. 70A
ADO-CLAUDIO
Leonato, stand I here?
ADO 4.1. 71 Is this the Prince? Is this the Prince's brother?
ADO 4.1. 72 Is this face Hero's? Are our eyes our own?
ADO 4.1. 73
ADO-LEONATO
All this is so. But what of this, my lord?
ADO 4.1. 74
ADO-CLAUDIO
Let me but move one question to your daughter,
ADO 4.1. 75 And by that fatherly and kindly power
ADO 4.1. 76 That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
ADO 4.1. 77
ADO-LEONATO
{(to Hero)} I charge thee do so, as thou +
ADO 4.1. 77 art my child.
ADO 4.1. 78
ADO-HERO
O God defend me, how am I beset!
ADO 4.1. 79 What kind of catechizing call you this?
ADO 4.1. 80
ADO-CLAUDIO
To make you answer truly to your name.
ADO 4.1. 81
ADO-HERO
Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
ADO 4.1. 82B With any just reproach?
ADO-CLAUDIO
Marry, that can Hero.
ADO 4.1. 83 Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.
ADO 4.1. 84 What man was he talked with you yesternight
ADO 4.1. 85 Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?
ADO 4.1. 86 Now if you are a maid, answer to this.
ADO 4.1. 87
ADO-HERO
I talked with no man at that hour, my lord.
ADO 4.1. 88
ADO-DON PEDRO
Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,
ADO 4.1. 89 I am sorry you must hear. Upon mine honour,
ADO 4.1. 90 Myself, my brother, and this grieved Count
ADO 4.1. 91 Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night
ADO 4.1. 92 Talk with a ruffian at her chamber window,
ADO 4.1. 93 Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
ADO 4.1. 94 Confessed the vile encounters they have had
ADO 4.1. 95B A thousand times in secret.
ADO-DON JOHN
Fie, fie, they are
ADO 4.1. 96 Not to be named, my lord, not to be spoke of.
ADO 4.1. 97 There is not chastity enough in language
ADO 4.1. 98 Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,
ADO 4.1. 99 I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.
ADO 4.1. 100
ADO-CLAUDIO
O Hero! What a Hero hadst thou been
ADO 4.1. 101 If half thy outward graces had been placed
ADO 4.1. 102 About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
ADO 4.1. 103 But fare thee well, most foul, most fair, farewell
ADO 4.1. 104 Thou pure impiety and impious purity.
ADO 4.1. 105 For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,
ADO 4.1. 106 And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang
ADO 4.1. 107 To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
ADO 4.1. 108 And never shall it more be gracious.
ADO 4.1. 109
ADO-LEONATO
Hath no man's dagger here a point for me? {Hero +
ADO 4.1. 109 falls to the ground}
ADO 4.1. 110
ADO-BEATRICE
Why, how now, cousin, wherefore sink you down?
ADO 4.1. 111
ADO-DON JOHN
Come. Let us go. These things come thus to light
ADO 4.1. 112 Smother her spirits up. {Exeunt Don Pedro, Don John, and +
ADO 4.1. 112 Claudio}
ADO 4.1. 113B
ADO-BENEDICK
How doth the lady?
ADO-BEATRICE
Dead, I think. +
ADO 4.1. 113B Help, uncle.
ADO 4.1. 114 Hero, why Hero! Uncle, Signor Benedick, Friar -
ADO 4.1. 115
ADO-LEONATO
O fate, take not away thy heavy hand.
ADO 4.1. 116 Death is the fairest cover for her shame
ADO 4.1. 117B That may be wished for.
ADO-BEATRICE
How now, cousin Hero?
ADO 4.1. 118A
ADO-FRIAR
{(to Hero)} Have comfort, lady.
ADO 4.1. 119A
ADO-LEONATO
{(to Hero)} Dost thou look up?
ADO 4.1. 120A
ADO-FRIAR
Yea, wherefore should she not?
ADO 4.1. 121
ADO-LEONATO
Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing
ADO 4.1. 122 Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny
ADO 4.1. 123 The story that is printed in her blood?
ADO 4.1. 124 Do not live, Hero, do not ope thine eyes,
ADO 4.1. 125 For did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
ADO 4.1. 126 Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,
ADO 4.1. 127 Myself would on the rearward of reproaches
ADO 4.1. 128 Strike at thy life. Grieved I I had but one?
ADO 4.1. 129 Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?
ADO 4.1. 130 O one too much by thee! Why had I one?
ADO 4.1. 131 Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?
ADO 4.1. 132 Why had I not with charitable hand
ADO 4.1. 133 Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,
ADO 4.1. 134 Who smirched thus and mired with infamy,
ADO 4.1. 135 I might have said `No part of it is mine,
ADO 4.1. 136 This shame derives itself from unknown loins.'
ADO 4.1. 137 But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
ADO 4.1. 138 And mine that I was proud on, mine so much
ADO 4.1. 139 That I myself was to myself not mine,
ADO 4.1. 140 Valuing of her - why she, O she is fallen
ADO 4.1. 141 Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
ADO 4.1. 142 Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
ADO 4.1. 143 And salt too little which may season give
ADO 4.1. 144B To her foul tainted flesh.
ADO-BENEDICK
Sir, sir, be patient.
ADO 4.1. 145 For my part, I am so attired in wonder
ADO 4.1. 146 I know not what to say.
ADO 4.1. 147
ADO-BEATRICE
O, on my soul, my cousin is belied.
ADO 4.1. 148
ADO-BENEDICK
Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?
ADO 4.1. 149
ADO-BEATRICE
No, truly not, although until last night
ADO 4.1. 150 I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.
ADO 4.1. 151
ADO-LEONATO
Confirmed, confirmed. O, that is stronger made
ADO 4.1. 152 Which was before barred up with ribs of iron.
ADO 4.1. 153 Would the two princes lie? And Claudio lie,
ADO 4.1. 154 Who loved her so that, speaking of her foulness,
ADO 4.1. 155 Washed it with tears? Hence from her, let her die.
ADO 4.1. 156A
ADO-FRIAR
Hear me a little,
ADO 4.1. 157 For I have only been silent so long
ADO 4.1. 158 And given way unto this course of fortune
ADO 4.1. 159
ADO-[]
ADO 4.1. 160 By noting of the lady. I have marked
ADO 4.1. 161 A thousand blushing apparitions
ADO 4.1. 162 To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
ADO 4.1. 163 In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,
ADO 4.1. 164 And in her eye there hath appeared a fire
ADO 4.1. 165 To burn the errors that these princes hold
ADO 4.1. 166 Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool,
ADO 4.1. 167 Trust not my reading nor my observations,
ADO 4.1. 168 Which with experimental seal doth warrant
ADO 4.1. 169 The tenor of my book. Trust not my age,
ADO 4.1. 170 My reverence, calling, nor divinity,
ADO 4.1. 171 If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
ADO 4.1. 172B Under some biting error.
ADO-LEONATO
Friar, it cannot be.
ADO 4.1. 173 Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left
ADO 4.1. 174 Is that she will not add to her damnation
ADO 4.1. 175 A sin of perjury. She not denies it.
ADO 4.1. 176 Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse
ADO 4.1. 177 That which appears in proper nakedness?
ADO 4.1. 178
ADO-FRIAR
{(to Hero)} Lady, what man is he you are +
ADO 4.1. 178 accused of?
ADO 4.1. 179
ADO-HERO
They know that do accuse me. I know none.
ADO 4.1. 180 If I know more of any man alive
ADO 4.1. 181 Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,
ADO 4.1. 182 Let all my sins lack mercy. O my father,
ADO 4.1. 183 Prove you that any man with me conversed
ADO 4.1. 184 At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight
ADO 4.1. 185 Maintained the change of words with any creature,
ADO 4.1. 186 Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.
ADO 4.1. 187
ADO-FRIAR
There is some strange misprision in the princes.
ADO 4.1. 188
ADO-BENEDICK
Two of them have the very bent of honour,
ADO 4.1. 189 And if their wisdoms be misled in this
ADO 4.1. 190 The practice of it lives in John the bastard,
ADO 4.1. 191 Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
ADO 4.1. 192
ADO-LEONATO
I know not. If they speak but truth of her
ADO 4.1. 193 These hands shall tear her. If they wrong her honour
ADO 4.1. 194 The proudest of them shall well hear of it.
ADO 4.1. 195 Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
ADO 4.1. 196 Nor age so eat up my invention,
ADO 4.1. 197 Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
ADO 4.1. 198 Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
ADO 4.1. 199 But they shall find awaked in such a kind
ADO 4.1. 200 Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
ADO 4.1. 201 Ability in means, and choice of friends,
ADO 4.1. 202B To quit me of them throughly.
ADO-FRIAR
Pause awhile,
ADO 4.1. 203 And let my counsel sway you in this case.
ADO 4.1. 204 Your daughter here the princes left for dead,
ADO 4.1. 205 Let her a while be secretly kept in,
ADO 4.1. 206 And publish it that she is dead indeed.
ADO 4.1. 207 Maintain a mourning ostentation,
ADO 4.1. 208 And on your family's old monument
ADO 4.1. 209 Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites
ADO 4.1. 210 That appertain unto a burial.
ADO 4.1. 211
ADO-LEONATO
What shall become of this? What will this do?
ADO 4.1. 212
ADO-FRIAR
Marry, this, well carried, shall on her behalf
ADO 4.1. 213 Change slander to remorse. That is some good.
ADO 4.1. 214 But not for that dream I on this strange course,
ADO 4.1. 215 But on this travail look for greater birth.
ADO 4.1. 216 She - dying, as it must be so maintained,
ADO 4.1. 217 Upon the instant that she was accused -
ADO 4.1. 218 Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused
ADO 4.1. 219 Of every hearer. For it so falls out
ADO 4.1. 220 That what we have, we prize not to the worth
ADO 4.1. 221 Whiles we enjoy it, but, being lacked and lost,
ADO 4.1. 222 Why then we rack the value, then we find
ADO 4.1. 223 The virtue that possession would not show us
ADO 4.1. 224 Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio.
ADO 4.1. 225 When he shall hear she died upon his words,
ADO 4.1. 226 Th' idea of her life shall sweetly creep
ADO 4.1. 227 Into his study of imagination,
ADO 4.1. 228 And every lovely organ of her life
ADO 4.1. 229 Shall come apparelled in more precious habit,
ADO 4.1. 230 More moving-delicate, and full of life,
ADO 4.1. 231 Into the eye and prospect of his soul
ADO 4.1. 232 Than when she lived indeed. Then shall he mourn,
ADO 4.1. 233 If ever love had interest in his liver,
ADO 4.1. 234 And wish he had not so accused her,
ADO 4.1. 235 No, though he thought his accusation true.
ADO 4.1. 236 Let this be so, and doubt not but success
ADO 4.1. 237 Will fashion the event in better shape
ADO 4.1. 238 Than I can lay it down in likelihood.
ADO 4.1. 239 But if all aim but this be levelled false,
ADO 4.1. 240 The supposition of the lady's death
ADO 4.1. 241 Will quench the wonder of her infamy.
ADO 4.1. 242 And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,
ADO 4.1. 243 As best befits her wounded reputation,
ADO 4.1. 244 In some reclusive and religious life,
ADO 4.1. 245 Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, and injuries.
ADO 4.1. 246
ADO-BENEDICK
Signor Leonato, let the Friar advise you.
ADO 4.1. 247 And though you know my inwardness and love
ADO 4.1. 248 Is very much unto the Prince and Claudio,
ADO 4.1. 249 Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this
ADO 4.1. 250 As secretly and justly as your soul
ADO 4.1. 251 Should with your body.
ADO 4.1. 252A
ADO-LEONATO
Being that I flow in grief,
ADO 4.1. 253A The smallest twine may lead me.
ADO 4.1. 254
ADO-FRIAR
'Tis well consented. Presently away,
ADO 4.1. 255 For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.
ADO 4.1. 256 {(To Hero)} Come, lady, die to live. This wedding day
ADO 4.1. 257 Perhaps is but prolonged. Have patience, and endure. {Exeunt all +
ADO 4.1. 257 but Beatrice and Benedick}
ADO 4.1. 258
ADO-BENEDICK
Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
ADO 4.1. 259
ADO-BEATRICE
Yea, and I will weep a while longer.
ADO 4.1. 260
ADO-BENEDICK
I will not desire that.
ADO 4.1. 261
ADO-BEATRICE
You have no reason, I do it freely.
ADO 4.1. 262
ADO-BENEDICK
Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
ADO 4.1. 263
ADO-BEATRICE
Ah, how much might the man deserve of me
ADO 4.1. 264 that would right her!
ADO 4.1. 265
ADO-BENEDICK
Is there any way to show such friendship?
ADO 4.1. 266
ADO-BEATRICE
A very even way, but no such friend.
ADO 4.1. 267
ADO-BENEDICK
May a man do it?
ADO 4.1. 268
ADO-BEATRICE
It is a man's office, but not yours.
ADO 4.1. 269
ADO-BENEDICK
I do love nothing in the world so well as you.
ADO 4.1. 270 Is not that strange?
ADO 4.1. 271
ADO-BEATRICE
As strange as the thing I know not. It were as
ADO 4.1. 272 possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you,
ADO 4.1. 273 but believe me not, and yet I lie not. I confess nothing
ADO 4.1. 274 nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
ADO 4.1. 275
ADO-BENEDICK
By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.
ADO 4.1. 276
ADO-BEATRICE
Do not swear and eat it.
ADO 4.1. 277
ADO-BENEDICK
I will swear by it that you love me, and I will
ADO 4.1. 278 make him eat it that says I love not you.
ADO 4.1. 279
ADO-BEATRICE
Will you not eat your word?
ADO 4.1. 280
ADO-BENEDICK
With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest
ADO 4.1. 281 I love thee.
ADO 4.1. 282
ADO-BEATRICE
Why then, God forgive me.
ADO 4.1. 283
ADO-BENEDICK
What offence, sweet Beatrice?
ADO 4.1. 284
ADO-BEATRICE
You have stayed me in a happy hour. I was
ADO 4.1. 285 about to protest I loved you.
ADO 4.1. 286
ADO-BENEDICK
And do it with all thy heart.
ADO 4.1. 287
ADO-BEATRICE
I love you with so much of my heart that none
ADO 4.1. 288 is left to protest.
ADO 4.1. 289
ADO-BENEDICK
Come, bid me do anything for thee.
ADO 4.1. 290
ADO-BEATRICE
Kill Claudio.
ADO 4.1. 291
ADO-BENEDICK
Ha! Not for the wide world.
ADO 4.1. 292
ADO-BEATRICE
You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
ADO 4.1. 293
ADO-BENEDICK
Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
ADO 4.1. 294
ADO-BEATRICE
I am gone though I am here. There is no love
ADO 4.1. 295 in you. - Nay, I pray you, let me go.
ADO 4.1. 296
ADO-BENEDICK
Beatrice.
ADO 4.1. 297
ADO-BEATRICE
In faith, I will go.
ADO 4.1. 298
ADO-BENEDICK
We'll be friends first.
ADO 4.1. 299
ADO-BEATRICE
You dare easier be friends with me than fight
ADO 4.1. 300 with mine enemy.
ADO 4.1. 301
ADO-BENEDICK
Is Claudio thine enemy?
ADO 4.1. 302
ADO-BEATRICE
Is a not approved in the height a villain, that
ADO 4.1. 303 hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman?
ADO 4.1. 304 O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until
ADO 4.1. 305 they come to take hands, and then with public
ADO 4.1. 306 accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour -
ADO 4.1. 307 O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the
ADO 4.1. 308 market place.
ADO 4.1. 309
ADO-BENEDICK
Hear me, Beatrice.
ADO 4.1. 310
ADO-BEATRICE
Talk with a man out at a window - a proper
ADO 4.1. 311 saying!
ADO 4.1. 312
ADO-BENEDICK
Nay, but Beatrice.
ADO 4.1. 313
ADO-BEATRICE
Sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered,
ADO 4.1. 314 she is undone.
ADO 4.1. 315
ADO-BENEDICK
Beat -
ADO 4.1. 316
ADO-BEATRICE
Princes and counties! Surely a princely testimony,
ADO 4.1. 317 a goodly count, Count Comfit, a sweet gallant,
ADO 4.1. 318 surely. O that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had
ADO 4.1. 319 any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood
ADO 4.1. 320 is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and
ADO 4.1. 321 men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
ADO 4.1. 322 He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie
ADO 4.1. 323 and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore
ADO 4.1. 324 I will die a woman with grieving.
ADO 4.1. 325
ADO-BENEDICK
Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.
ADO 4.1. 326
ADO-BEATRICE
Use it for my love some other way than swearing
ADO 4.1. 327 by it.
ADO 4.1. 328
ADO-BENEDICK
Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath
ADO 4.1. 329 wronged Hero?
ADO 4.1. 330
ADO-BEATRICE
Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.
ADO 4.1. 331
ADO-BENEDICK
Enough, I am engaged, I will challenge him. I
ADO 4.1. 332 will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,
ADO 4.1. 333 Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you hear
ADO 4.1. 334 of me, so think of me. Go comfort your cousin. I must
ADO 4.1. 335 say she is dead. And so, farewell. {Exeunt}
ADO 4.1. 0 {Enter Dogberry and Verges the constables, and the +
ADO 4.2. 0 Sexton, in gowns, and the Watch, with Conrad and Borachio}
ADO 4.2. 1
ADO-DOGBERRY
Is our whole dissembly appeared?
ADO 4.2. 2
ADO-VERGES
O, a stool and a cushion for the Sexton.
ADO 4.2. 3
ADO-SEXTON
{[sits]} Which be the malefactors?
ADO 4.2. 4
ADO-DOGBERRY
Marry, that am I, and my partner.
ADO 4.2. 5
ADO-VERGES
Nay, that's certain, we have the exhibition to
ADO 4.2. 6 examine.
ADO 4.2. 7
ADO-SEXTON
But which are the offenders that are to be
ADO 4.2. 8 examined? Let them come before Master Constable.
ADO 4.2. 9
ADO-DOGBERRY
Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is
ADO 4.2. 10 your name, friend?
ADO 4.2. 11
ADO-BORACHIO
Borachio.
ADO 4.2. 12
ADO-DOGBERRY
{(to the Sexton)} Pray write down +
ADO 4.2. 12 `Borachio'. {(To}
ADO 4.2. 13 {Conrad)} Yours, sirrah?
ADO 4.2. 14
ADO-CONRAD
I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrad.
ADO 4.2. 15
ADO-DOGBERRY
Write down `Master Gentleman Conrad'. -
ADO 4.2. 16 Masters, do you serve God?
ADO 4.2. 17
ADO-CONRAD
ADO-AND
ADO-BORACHIO
Yea, sir, we hope.
ADO 4.2. 18
ADO-DOGBERRY
Write down that they hope they serve God.
ADO 4.2. 19 And write `God' first, for God defend but God should
ADO 4.2. 20 go before such villains. Masters, it is proved already
ADO 4.2. 21 that you are little better than false knaves, and it will
ADO 4.2. 22 go near to be thought so shortly. How answer you for
ADO 4.2. 23 yourselves?
ADO 4.2. 24
ADO-CONRAD
Marry, sir, we say we are none.
ADO 4.2. 25
ADO-DOGBERRY
A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you, but I
ADO 4.2. 26 will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah. A
ADO 4.2. 27 word in your ear, sir. I say to you it is thought you
ADO 4.2. 28 are false knaves.
ADO 4.2. 29
ADO-BORACHIO
Sir, I say to you we are none.
ADO 4.2. 30
ADO-DOGBERRY
Well, stand aside. Fore God, they are both in
ADO 4.2. 31 a tale. Have you writ down that they are none?
ADO 4.2. 32
ADO-SEXTON
Master Constable, you go not the way to examine.
ADO 4.2. 33 You must call forth the watch that are their accusers.
ADO 4.2. 34
ADO-DOGBERRY
Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch
ADO 4.2. 35 come forth. Masters, I charge you in the Prince's name
ADO 4.2. 36 accuse these men.
ADO 4.2. 37
ADO-FIRST WATCHMAN
This man said, sir, that Don John, the
ADO 4.2. 38 Prince's brother, was a villain.
ADO 4.2. 39
ADO-DOGBERRY
Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is
ADO 4.2. 40 flat perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.
ADO 4.2. 41
ADO-BORACHIO
Master Constable.
ADO 4.2. 42
ADO-DOGBERRY
Pray thee, fellow, peace. I do not like thy look,
ADO 4.2. 43 I promise thee.
ADO 4.2. 44
ADO-SEXTON
What heard you him say else?
ADO 4.2. 45
ADO-SECOND WATCHMAN
Marry, that he had received a
ADO 4.2. 46 thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the Lady
ADO 4.2. 47 Hero wrongfully.
ADO 4.2. 48
ADO-DOGBERRY
Flat burglary, as ever was committed.
ADO 4.2. 49
ADO-VERGES
Yea, by mass, that it is.
ADO 4.2. 50
ADO-SEXTON
What else, fellow?
ADO 4.2. 51
ADO-FIRST WATCHMAN
And that Count Claudio did mean upon
ADO 4.2. 52 his words to disgrace Hero before the whole assembly,
ADO 4.2. 53 and not marry her.
ADO 4.2. 54
ADO-DOGBERRY
O villain! Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting
ADO 4.2. 55 redemption for this.
ADO 4.2. 56
ADO-SEXTON
What else?
ADO 4.2. 57
ADO-WATCH
This is all.
ADO 4.2. 58
ADO-SEXTON
And this is more, masters, than you can deny.
ADO 4.2. 59 Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away. Hero
ADO 4.2. 60 was in this manner accused, in this very manner
ADO 4.2. 61 refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died. Master
ADO 4.2. 62 Constable, let these men be bound and brought to
ADO 4.2. 63 Leonato's. I will go before and show him their
ADO 4.2. 64 examination. {Exit}
ADO 4.2. 65
ADO-DOGBERRY
Come, let them be opinioned.
ADO 4.2. 66
ADO-VERGES
Let them be, in the hands -
ADO 4.2. 67
ADO-[CONRAD]
Off, coxcomb!
ADO 4.2. 68
ADO-DOGBERRY
God's my life, where's the Sexton? Let him
ADO 4.2. 69 write down the Prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind
ADO 4.2. 70 them. Thou naughty varlet!
ADO 4.2. 71
ADO-CONRAD
Away, you are an ass, you are an ass.
ADO 4.2. 72
ADO-DOGBERRY
Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not
ADO 4.2. 73 suspect my years? O that he were here to write me
ADO 4.2. 74 down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass.
ADO 4.2. 75 Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I
ADO 4.2. 76 am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as
ADO 4.2. 77 shall be proved upon thee by good witness. I am a wise
ADO 4.2. 78 fellow, and which is more, an officer, and which is
ADO 4.2. 79 more, a householder, and which is more, as pretty a
ADO 4.2. 80 piece of flesh as any is in Messina, and one that knows
ADO 4.2. 81 the law, go to, and a rich fellow enough, go to, and a
ADO 4.2. 82 fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two
ADO 4.2. 83 gowns, and everything handsome about him. Bring
ADO 4.2. 84 him away. O that I had been writ down an ass! {Exeunt}
ADO 4.2. 0 {Enter Leonato and Antonio his brother}
ADO 5.1. 1
ADO-ANTONIO
If you go on thus, you will kill yourself,
ADO 5.1. 2 And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief
ADO 5.1. 3B Against yourself.
ADO-LEONATO
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
ADO 5.1. 4 Which falls into mine ears as profitless
ADO 5.1. 5 As water in a sieve. Give not me counsel,
ADO 5.1. 6 Nor let no comforter delight mine ear
ADO 5.1. 7 But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
ADO 5.1. 8 Bring me a father that so loved his child,
ADO 5.1. 9 Whose joy of her is overwhelmed like mine,
ADO 5.1. 10 And bid him speak of patience.
ADO 5.1. 11 Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine,
ADO 5.1. 12 And let it answer every strain for strain,
ADO 5.1. 13 As thus for thus, and such a grief for such,
ADO 5.1. 14 In every lineament, branch, shape, and form.
ADO 5.1. 15 If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,
ADO 5.1. 16 Bid sorrow wag, cry `hem' when he should groan,
ADO 5.1. 17 Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk
ADO 5.1. 18 With candle-wasters, bring him yet to me,
ADO 5.1. 19 And I of him will gather patience.
ADO 5.1. 20 But there is no such man, for, brother, men
ADO 5.1. 21 Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
ADO 5.1. 22 Which they themselves not feel, but tasting it
ADO 5.1. 23 Their counsel turns to passion, which before
ADO 5.1. 24 Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
ADO 5.1. 25 Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
ADO 5.1. 26 Charm ache with air and agony with words.
ADO 5.1. 27 No, no, 'tis all men's office to speak patience
ADO 5.1. 28 To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
ADO 5.1. 29 But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
ADO 5.1. 30 To be so moral when he shall endure
ADO 5.1. 31 The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel.
ADO 5.1. 32 My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
ADO 5.1. 33
ADO-ANTONIO
Therein do men from children nothing differ.
ADO 5.1. 34
ADO-LEONATO
I pray thee peace, I will be flesh and blood,
ADO 5.1. 35 For there was never yet philosopher
ADO 5.1. 36 That could endure the toothache patiently,
ADO 5.1. 37 However they have writ the style of gods,
ADO 5.1. 38 And made a pish at chance and sufferance.
ADO 5.1. 39
ADO-ANTONIO
Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself.
ADO 5.1. 40 Make those that do offend you suffer, too.
ADO 5.1. 41
ADO-LEONATO
There thou speak'st reason, nay I will do so.
ADO 5.1. 42 My soul doth tell me Hero is belied,
ADO 5.1. 43 And that shall Claudio know, so shall the Prince,
ADO 5.1. 44 And all of them that thus dishonour her. {Enter Don Pedro the +
ADO 5.1. 44 Prince and Claudio}
ADO 5.1. 45
ADO-ANTONIO
Here comes the Prince and Claudio hastily.
ADO 5.1. 46B
ADO-DON PEDRO
Good e'en, good e'en.
ADO-CLAUDIO
Good day to both of you.
ADO 5.1. 47B
ADO-LEONATO
Hear you, my lords?
ADO-DON PEDRO
We have some haste, +
ADO 5.1. 47B Leonato.
ADO 5.1. 48
ADO-LEONATO
Some haste, my lord! Well, fare you well, my lord.
ADO 5.1. 49 Are you so hasty now? Well, all is one.
ADO 5.1. 50
ADO-DON PEDRO
Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.
ADO 5.1. 51
ADO-ANTONIO
If he could right himself with quarrelling,
ADO 5.1. 52B Some of us would lie low.
ADO-CLAUDIO
Who wrongs him?
ADO 5.1. 53
ADO-LEONATO
Marry, thou dost wrong me, thou dissembler, thou.
ADO 5.1. 54 Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword,
ADO 5.1. 55B I fear thee not.
ADO-CLAUDIO
Marry, beshrew my hand
ADO 5.1. 56 If it should give your age such cause of fear.
ADO 5.1. 57 In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.
ADO 5.1. 58
ADO-LEONATO
Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me.
ADO 5.1. 59 I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
ADO 5.1. 60 As under privilege of age to brag
ADO 5.1. 61 What I have done being young, or what would do
ADO 5.1. 62 Were I not old. Know Claudio to thy head,
ADO 5.1. 63 Thou hast so wronged mine innocent child and me
ADO 5.1. 64 That I am forced to lay my reverence by
ADO 5.1. 65 And with grey hairs and bruise of many days
ADO 5.1. 66 Do challenge thee to trial of a man.
ADO 5.1. 67 I say thou hast belied mine innocent child.
ADO 5.1. 68 Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
ADO 5.1. 69 And she lies buried with her ancestors,
ADO 5.1. 70 O, in a tomb where never scandal slept
ADO 5.1. 71 Save this of hers, framed by thy villainy.
ADO 5.1. 72B
ADO-CLAUDIO
My villainy?
ADO-LEONATO
Thine, Claudio, thine I say.
ADO 5.1. 73B
ADO-DON PEDRO
You say not right, old man.
ADO-LEONATO
My lord, my lord,
ADO 5.1. 74 I'll prove it on his body if he dare,
ADO 5.1. 75 Despite his nice fence and his active practice,
ADO 5.1. 76 His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.
ADO 5.1. 77
ADO-CLAUDIO
Away, I will not have to do with you.
ADO 5.1. 78
ADO-LEONATO
Canst thou so doff me? Thou hast killed my child.
ADO 5.1. 79 If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.
ADO 5.1. 80
ADO-ANTONIO
He shall kill two of us, and men indeed.
ADO 5.1. 81 But that's no matter, let him kill one first.
ADO 5.1. 82 Win me and wear me. Let him answer me.
ADO 5.1. 83 Come follow me boy, come sir boy, come follow me,
ADO 5.1. 84 Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence.
ADO 5.1. 85 Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.
ADO 5.1. 86A
ADO-LEONATO
Brother.
ADO 5.1. 87
ADO-ANTONIO
Content yourself. God knows, I loved my niece,
ADO 5.1. 88 And she is dead, slandered to death by villains
ADO 5.1. 89 That dare as well answer a man indeed
ADO 5.1. 90 As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
ADO 5.1. 91 Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops!
ADO 5.1. 92A
ADO-LEONATO
Brother Antony -
ADO 5.1. 93
ADO-ANTONIO
Hold you content. What, man, I know them, yea
ADO 5.1. 94 And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple.
ADO 5.1. 95 Scambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys,
ADO 5.1. 96 That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
ADO 5.1. 97 Go anticly, and show an outward hideousness,
ADO 5.1. 98 And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
ADO 5.1. 99 How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst,
ADO 5.1. 100 And this is all.
ADO 5.1. 101A
ADO-LEONATO
But brother Antony -
ADO 5.1. 102A
ADO-ANTONIO
Come, 'tis no matter,
ADO 5.1. 103 Do not you meddle, let me deal in this.
ADO 5.1. 104
ADO-DON PEDRO
Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.
ADO 5.1. 105 My heart is sorry for your daughter's death,
ADO 5.1. 106 But on my honour she was charged with nothing
ADO 5.1. 107 But what was true and very full of proof.
ADO 5.1. 108B
ADO-LEONATO
My lord, my lord -
ADO-DON PEDRO
I will not hear you.
ADO 5.1. 109
ADO-LEONATO
No? Come brother, away. I will be heard.
ADO 5.1. 110
ADO-ANTONIO
And shall, or some of us will smart for it. {Exeunt +
ADO 5.1. 110 Leonato and Antonio}
ADO 5.1. 111 {Enter Benedick}
ADO-DON PEDRO
See, see, here comes +
ADO 5.1. 111 the man we went to seek.
ADO 5.1. 112
ADO-CLAUDIO
Now signor, what news?
ADO 5.1. 113
ADO-BENEDICK
{(to Don Pedro)} Good day, my lord.
ADO 5.1. 114
ADO-DON PEDRO
Welcome, signor. You are almost come to part
ADO 5.1. 115 almost a fray.
ADO 5.1. 116
ADO-CLAUDIO
We had liked to have had our two noses snapped
ADO 5.1. 117 off with two old men without teeth.
ADO 5.1. 118
ADO-DON PEDRO
Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou?
ADO 5.1. 119 Had we fought, I doubt we should have been too young
ADO 5.1. 120 for them.
ADO 5.1. 121
ADO-BENEDICK
In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came
ADO 5.1. 122 to seek you both.
ADO 5.1. 123
ADO-CLAUDIO
We have been up and down to seek thee, for we
ADO 5.1. 124 are high-proof melancholy and would fain have it
ADO 5.1. 125 beaten away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
ADO 5.1. 126
ADO-BENEDICK
It is in my scabbard. Shall I draw it?
ADO 5.1. 127
ADO-DON PEDRO
Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?
ADO 5.1. 128
ADO-CLAUDIO
Never any did so, though very many have been
ADO 5.1. 129 beside their wit. I will bid thee draw as we do the
ADO 5.1. 130 minstrels, draw to pleasure us.
ADO 5.1. 131
ADO-DON PEDRO
As I am an honest man he looks pale. Art
ADO 5.1. 132 thou sick, or angry?
ADO 5.1. 133
ADO-CLAUDIO
What, courage, man. What though care killed
ADO 5.1. 134 a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
ADO 5.1. 135
ADO-BENEDICK
Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career an you
ADO 5.1. 136 charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.
ADO 5.1. 137
ADO-CLAUDIO
Nay then, give him another staff. This last was
ADO 5.1. 138 broke cross.
ADO 5.1. 139
ADO-DON PEDRO
By this light, he changes more and more. I
ADO 5.1. 140 think he be angry indeed.
ADO 5.1. 141
ADO-CLAUDIO
If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.
ADO 5.1. 142
ADO-BENEDICK
{(aside to Claudio)} Shall I speak a word +
ADO 5.1. 142 in your
ADO 5.1. 143 ear?
ADO 5.1. 144
ADO-CLAUDIO
God bless me from a challenge.
ADO 5.1. 145
ADO-BENEDICK
You are a villain. I jest not. I will make it good
ADO 5.1. 146 how you dare, with what you dare, and when you
ADO 5.1. 147 dare. Do me right, or I will protest your cowardice.
ADO 5.1. 148 You have killed a sweet lady, and her death shall fall
ADO 5.1. 149 heavy on you. Let me hear from you.
ADO 5.1. 150
ADO-CLAUDIO
Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.
ADO 5.1. 151
ADO-DON PEDRO
What, a feast, a feast?
ADO 5.1. 152
ADO-CLAUDIO
I' faith, I thank him, he hath bid me to a calf's
ADO 5.1. 153 head and a capon, the which if I do not carve most
ADO 5.1. 154 curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find a
ADO 5.1. 155 woodcock too?
ADO 5.1. 156
ADO-BENEDICK
Sir, your wit ambles well, it goes easily.
ADO 5.1. 157
ADO-DON PEDRO
I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the
ADO 5.1. 158 other day. I said thou hadst a fine wit. `True,' said she,
ADO 5.1. 159 `a fine little one.' `No,' said I, `a great wit.' `Right,'
ADO 5.1. 160 says she, `a great gross one.' `Nay,' said I, `a good wit.'
ADO 5.1. 161 `Just,' said she, `it hurts nobody.' `Nay,' said I, `the
ADO 5.1. 162 gentleman is wise.' `Certain,' said she, `a wise gentleman.'
ADO 5.1. 163 `Nay,' said I, `he hath the tongues.' `That I
ADO 5.1. 164 believe,' said she, `for he swore a thing to me on
ADO 5.1. 165 Monday night which he forswore on Tuesday morning.
ADO 5.1. 166 There's a double tongue, there's two tongues.' Thus
ADO 5.1. 167 did she an hour together trans-shape thy particular
ADO 5.1. 168 virtues, yet at last she concluded with a sigh thou wast
ADO 5.1. 169 the properest man in Italy.
ADO 5.1. 170
ADO-CLAUDIO
For the which she wept heartily and said she
ADO 5.1. 171 cared not.
ADO 5.1. 172
ADO-DON PEDRO
Yea, that she did. But yet for all that, an if
ADO 5.1. 173 she did not hate him deadly she would love him dearly.
ADO 5.1. 174 The old man's daughter told us all.
ADO 5.1. 175
ADO-CLAUDIO
All, all. And moreover, God saw him when he
ADO 5.1. 176 was hid in the garden.
ADO 5.1. 177
ADO-DON PEDRO
But when shall we set the savage bull's horns
ADO 5.1. 178 on the sensible Benedick's head?
ADO 5.1. 179
ADO-CLAUDIO
Yea, and text underneath, `Here dwells Benedick
ADO 5.1. 180 the married man'.
ADO 5.1. 181
ADO-BENEDICK
Fare you well, boy, you know my mind. I will
ADO 5.1. 182 leave you now to your gossip-like humour. You break
ADO 5.1. 183 jests as braggarts do their blades which, God be
ADO 5.1. 184 thanked, hurt not. {(To Don Pedro)} My lord, for your
ADO 5.1. 185 many courtesies I thank you. I must discontinue your
ADO 5.1. 186 company. Your brother the bastard is fled from Messina.
ADO 5.1. 187 You have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady.
ADO 5.1. 188 For my lord Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet, and
ADO 5.1. 189 till then, peace be with him. {Exit}
ADO 5.1. 190
ADO-DON PEDRO
He is in earnest.
ADO 5.1. 191
ADO-CLAUDIO
In most profound earnest, and, I'll warrant you,
ADO 5.1. 192 for the love of Beatrice.
ADO 5.1. 193
ADO-DON PEDRO
And hath challenged thee.
ADO 5.1. 194
ADO-CLAUDIO
Most sincerely.
ADO 5.1. 195
ADO-DON PEDRO
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in
ADO 5.1. 196 his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! {Enter Dogberry and +
ADO 5.1. 196 Verges the constables, the Watch, Conrad, and Borachio}
ADO 5.1. 197
ADO-CLAUDIO
He is then a giant to an ape. But then is an ape
ADO 5.1. 198 a doctor to such a man.
ADO 5.1. 199
ADO-DON PEDRO
But soft you, let me be. Pluck up, my heart,
ADO 5.1. 200 and be sad. Did he not say my brother was fled?
ADO 5.1. 201
ADO-DOGBERRY
Come you sir, if justice cannot tame you, she
ADO 5.1. 202 shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, an
ADO 5.1. 203 you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.
ADO 5.1. 204
ADO-DON PEDRO
How now, two of my brother's men bound?
ADO 5.1. 205 Borachio one.
ADO 5.1. 206
ADO-CLAUDIO
Hearken after their offence, my lord.
ADO 5.1. 207
ADO-DON PEDRO
Officers, what offence have these men done?
ADO 5.1. 208
ADO-DOGBERRY
Marry, sir, they have committed false report,
ADO 5.1. 209 moreover they have spoken untruths, secondarily they
ADO 5.1. 210 are slanders, sixth and lastly they have belied a lady,
ADO 5.1. 211 thirdly they have verified unjust things, and to
ADO 5.1. 212 conclude, they are lying knaves.
ADO 5.1. 213
ADO-DON PEDRO
First I ask thee what they have done, thirdly
ADO 5.1. 214 I ask thee what's their offence, sixth and lastly why
ADO 5.1. 215 they are committed, and to conclude, what you lay to
ADO 5.1. 216 their charge.
ADO 5.1. 217
ADO-CLAUDIO
Rightly reasoned, and in his own division. And
ADO 5.1. 218 by my troth there's one meaning well suited.
ADO 5.1. 219
ADO-DON PEDRO
{(to Conrad and Borachio)} Who have you
ADO 5.1. 220 offended, masters, that you are thus bound to your
ADO 5.1. 221 answer? This learned constable is too cunning to be
ADO 5.1. 222 understood. What's your offence?
ADO 5.1. 223
ADO-BORACHIO
Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine
ADO 5.1. 224 answer. Do you hear me, and let this Count kill me. I
ADO 5.1. 225 have deceived even your very eyes. What your wisdoms
ADO 5.1. 226 could not discover, these shallow fools have brought
ADO 5.1. 227 to light, who in the night overheard me confessing to
ADO 5.1. 228 this man how Don John your brother incensed me to
ADO 5.1. 229 slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into the
ADO 5.1. 230 orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's garments,
ADO 5.1. 231 how you disgraced her when you should marry her.
ADO 5.1. 232 My villainy they have upon record, which I had rather
ADO 5.1. 233 seal with my death than repeat over to my shame. The
ADO 5.1. 234 lady is dead upon mine and my master's false
ADO 5.1. 235 accusation, and briefly, I desire nothing but the reward
ADO 5.1. 236 of a villain.
ADO 5.1. 237
ADO-DON PEDRO
{(to Claudio)} Runs not this speech like +
ADO 5.1. 237 iron through your blood?
ADO 5.1. 238
ADO-CLAUDIO
I have drunk poison whiles he uttered it.
ADO 5.1. 239
ADO-DON PEDRO
{(to Borachio)} But did my brother set +
ADO 5.1. 239 thee on to this?
ADO 5.1. 240
ADO-BORACHIO
Yea, and paid me richly for the practice of it.
ADO 5.1. 241
ADO-DON PEDRO
He is composed and framed of treachery,
ADO 5.1. 242 And fled he is upon this villainy.
ADO 5.1. 243
ADO-CLAUDIO
Sweet Hero, now thy image doth appear
ADO 5.1. 244 In the rare semblance that I loved it first.
ADO 5.1. 245
ADO-DOGBERRY
Come, bring away the plaintiffs. By this time
ADO 5.1. 246 our Sexton hath reformed Signor Leonato of the matter.
ADO 5.1. 247 And masters, do not forget to specify, when time and
ADO 5.1. 248 place shall serve, that I am an ass.
ADO 5.1. 249
ADO-VERGES
Here, here comes Master Signor Leonato, and the
ADO 5.1. 250 Sexton, too. {Enter Leonato, Antonio his brother, and the +
ADO 5.1. 250 Sexton}
ADO 5.1. 251
ADO-LEONATO
Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes,
ADO 5.1. 252 That when I note another man like him
ADO 5.1. 253 I may avoid him. Which of these is he?
ADO 5.1. 254
ADO-BORACHIO
If you would know your wronger, look on me.
ADO 5.1. 255
ADO-LEONATO
Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast killed
ADO 5.1. 256B Mine innocent child?
ADO-BORACHIO
Yea, even I alone.
ADO 5.1. 257
ADO-LEONATO
No, not so, villain, thou beliest thyself.
ADO 5.1. 258 Here stand a pair of honourable men.
ADO 5.1. 259 A third is fled that had a hand in it.
ADO 5.1. 260 I thank you, Princes, for my daughter's death.
ADO 5.1. 261 Record it with your high and worthy deeds.
ADO 5.1. 262 'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.
ADO 5.1. 263
ADO-CLAUDIO
I know not how to pray your patience,
ADO 5.1. 264 Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself,
ADO 5.1. 265 Impose me to what penance your invention
ADO 5.1. 266 Can lay upon my sin. Yet sinned I not
ADO 5.1. 267B But in mistaking.
ADO-DON PEDRO
By my soul, nor I,
ADO 5.1. 268 And yet to satisfy this good old man
ADO 5.1. 269 I would bend under any heavy weight
ADO 5.1. 270 That he'll enjoin me to.
ADO 5.1. 271
ADO-LEONATO
I cannot bid you bid my daughter live -
ADO 5.1. 272 That were impossible - but I pray you both
ADO 5.1. 273 Possess the people in Messina here
ADO 5.1. 274 How innocent she died, and if your love
ADO 5.1. 275 Can labour aught in sad invention,
ADO 5.1. 276 Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
ADO 5.1. 277 And sing it to her bones, sing it tonight.
ADO 5.1. 278 Tomorrow morning come you to my house,
ADO 5.1. 279 And since you could not be my son-in-law,
ADO 5.1. 280 Be yet my nephew. My brother hath a daughter,
ADO 5.1. 281 Almost the copy of my child that's dead,
ADO 5.1. 282 And she alone is heir to both of us.
ADO 5.1. 283 Give her the right you should have giv'n her cousin,
ADO 5.1. 284B And so dies my revenge.
ADO-CLAUDIO
O noble sir!
ADO 5.1. 285 Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
ADO 5.1. 286 I do embrace your offer; and dispose
ADO 5.1. 287 For henceforth of poor Claudio.
ADO 5.1. 288
ADO-LEONATO
Tomorrow then I will expect your coming.
ADO 5.1. 289 Tonight I take my leave. This naughty man
ADO 5.1. 290 Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,
ADO 5.1. 291 Who I believe was packed in all this wrong,
ADO 5.1. 292B Hired to it by your brother.
ADO-BORACHIO
No, by my soul, she was not,
ADO 5.1. 293 Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,
ADO 5.1. 294 But always hath been just and virtuous
ADO 5.1. 295 In anything that I do know by her.
ADO 5.1. 296
ADO-DOGBERRY
{(to Leonato)} Moreover, sir, which +
ADO 5.1. 296 indeed is not
ADO 5.1. 297 under white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender,
ADO 5.1. 298 did call me ass. I beseech you let it be remembered in
ADO 5.1. 299 his punishment. And also the watch heard them talk
ADO 5.1. 300 of one Deformed. They say he wears a key in his ear
ADO 5.1. 301 and a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's
ADO 5.1. 302 name, the which he hath used so long and never paid
ADO 5.1. 303 that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing
ADO 5.1. 304 for God's sake. Pray you examine him upon that point.
ADO 5.1. 305
ADO-LEONATO
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
ADO 5.1. 306
ADO-DOGBERRY
Your worship speaks like a most thankful and
ADO 5.1. 307 reverend youth, and I praise God for you.
ADO 5.1. 308
ADO-LEONATO
{(giving him money)} There's for thy +
ADO 5.1. 308 pains.
ADO 5.1. 309
ADO-DOGBERRY
God save the foundation.
ADO 5.1. 310
ADO-LEONATO
Go. I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank
ADO 5.1. 311 thee.
ADO 5.1. 312
ADO-DOGBERRY
I leave an arrant knave with your worship,
ADO 5.1. 313 which I beseech your worship to correct yourself, for
ADO 5.1. 314 the example of others. God keep your worship, I wish
ADO 5.1. 315 your worship well. God restore you to health. I humbly
ADO 5.1. 316 give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may
ADO 5.1. 317 be wished, God prohibit it. Come, neighbour. {Exeunt Dogberry +
ADO 5.1. 317 and Verges}
ADO 5.1. 318
ADO-LEONATO
Until tomorrow morning, lords, farewell.
ADO 5.1. 319
ADO-ANTONIO
Farewell, my lords. We look for you tomorrow.
ADO 5.1. 320B
ADO-DON PEDRO
We will not fail.
ADO-CLAUDIO
Tonight I'll mourn with +
ADO 5.1. 320B Hero.
ADO 5.1. 321
ADO-LEONATO
{(to the Watch)} Bring you these fellows +
ADO 5.1. 321 on. - We'll talk with Margaret
ADO 5.1. 322 How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow. {Exeunt}
ADO 5.1. 0 {Enter Benedick and Margaret}
ADO 5.2. 1
ADO-BENEDICK
Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well
ADO 5.2. 2 at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
ADO 5.2. 3
ADO-MARGARET
Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of
ADO 5.2. 4 my beauty?
ADO 5.2. 5
ADO-BENEDICK
In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living
ADO 5.2. 6 shall come over it, for in most comely truth, thou
ADO 5.2. 7 deservest it.
ADO 5.2. 8
ADO-MARGARET
To have no man come over me - why, shall I
ADO 5.2. 9 always keep below stairs?
ADO 5.2. 10
ADO-BENEDICK
Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth,
ADO 5.2. 11 it catches.
ADO 5.2. 12
ADO-MARGARET
And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which
ADO 5.2. 13 hit but hurt not.
ADO 5.2. 14
ADO-BENEDICK
A most manly wit, Margaret, it will not hurt a
ADO 5.2. 15 woman. And so I pray thee call Beatrice. I give thee
ADO 5.2. 16 the bucklers.
ADO 5.2. 17
ADO-MARGARET
Give us the swords. We have bucklers of our
ADO 5.2. 18 own.
ADO 5.2. 19
ADO-BENEDICK
If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the
ADO 5.2. 20 pikes with a vice - and they are dangerous weapons
ADO 5.2. 21 for maids.
ADO 5.2. 22
ADO-MARGARET
Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think
ADO 5.2. 23 hath legs. {Exit}
ADO 5.2. 24
ADO-BENEDICK
And therefore will come.
ADO 5.2. 25 {(Sings)} The god of love
ADO 5.2. 26 That sits above,
ADO 5.2. 27 And knows me, and knows me,
ADO 5.2. 28 How pitiful I deserve -
ADO 5.2. 29 I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good
ADO 5.2. 30 swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a
ADO 5.2. 31 whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers
ADO 5.2. 32 whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a
ADO 5.2. 33 blank verse, why they were never so truly turned over
ADO 5.2. 34 and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I cannot show
ADO 5.2. 35 it in rhyme. I have tried. I can find out no rhyme to
ADO 5.2. 36 `lady' but `baby', an innocent rhyme; for `scorn' `horn',
ADO 5.2. 37 a hard rhyme; for `school' `fool', a babbling rhyme.
ADO 5.2. 38 Very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a
ADO 5.2. 39 rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms. {Enter +
ADO 5.2. 39 Beatrice}
ADO 5.2. 40 Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?
ADO 5.2. 41
ADO-BEATRICE
Yea, signor, and depart when you bid me.
ADO 5.2. 42
ADO-BENEDICK
O, stay but till then.
ADO 5.2. 43
ADO-BEATRICE
`Then' is spoken. Fare you well now. And yet
ADO 5.2. 44 ere I go, let me go with that I came for, which is with
ADO 5.2. 45 knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.
ADO 5.2. 46
ADO-BENEDICK
Only foul words, and thereupon I will kiss thee.
ADO 5.2. 47
ADO-BEATRICE
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is
ADO 5.2. 48 but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome, therefore
ADO 5.2. 49 I will depart unkissed.
ADO 5.2. 50
ADO-BENEDICK
Thou hast frighted the word out of his right
ADO 5.2. 51 sense, so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee plainly,
ADO 5.2. 52 Claudio undergoes my challenge, and either I must
ADO 5.2. 53 shortly hear from him or I will subscribe him a coward.
ADO 5.2. 54 And I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts
ADO 5.2. 55 didst thou first fall in love with me?
ADO 5.2. 56
ADO-BEATRICE
For them all together, which maintain so politic
ADO 5.2. 57 a state of evil that they will not admit any good part
ADO 5.2. 58 to intermingle with them. But for which of my good
ADO 5.2. 59 parts did you first suffer love for me?
ADO 5.2. 60
ADO-BENEDICK
Suffer love - a good epithet. I do suffer love
ADO 5.2. 61 indeed, for I love thee against my will.
ADO 5.2. 62
ADO-BEATRICE
In spite of your heart, I think. Alas, poor heart.
ADO 5.2. 63 If you spite it for my sake I will spite it for yours, for I
ADO 5.2. 64 will never love that which my friend hates.
ADO 5.2. 65
ADO-BENEDICK
Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
ADO 5.2. 66
ADO-BEATRICE
It appears not in this confession. There's not
ADO 5.2. 67 one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.
ADO 5.2. 68
ADO-BENEDICK
An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in
ADO 5.2. 69 the time of good neighbours. If a man do not erect in
ADO 5.2. 70 this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no
ADO 5.2. 71 longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow
ADO 5.2. 72 weeps.
ADO 5.2. 73
ADO-BEATRICE
And how long is that, think you?
ADO 5.2. 74
ADO-BENEDICK
Question - why, an hour in clamour and a
ADO 5.2. 75 quarter in rheum. Therefore is it most expedient for the
ADO 5.2. 76 wise, if Don Worm - his conscience - find no impediment
ADO 5.2. 77 to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own
ADO 5.2. 78 virtues, as I am to myself. So much for praising myself
ADO 5.2. 79 who, I myself will bear witness, is praiseworthy. And
ADO 5.2. 80 now tell me, how doth your cousin?
ADO 5.2. 81
ADO-BEATRICE
Very ill.
ADO 5.2. 82
ADO-BENEDICK
And how do you?
ADO 5.2. 83
ADO-BEATRICE
Very ill too.
ADO 5.2. 84
ADO-BENEDICK
Serve God, love me, and mend. There will I
ADO 5.2. 85 leave you too, for here comes one in haste. {Enter Ursula}
ADO 5.2. 86
ADO-URSULA
Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's
ADO 5.2. 87 old coil at home. It is proved my lady Hero hath been
ADO 5.2. 88 falsely accused, the Prince and Claudio mightily abused,
ADO 5.2. 89 and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and gone.
ADO 5.2. 90 Will you come presently?
ADO 5.2. 91
ADO-BEATRICE
Will you go hear this news, signor?
ADO 5.2. 92
ADO-BENEDICK
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be
ADO 5.2. 93 buried in thy eyes. And moreover, I will go with thee
ADO 5.2. 94 to thy uncle's. {Exeunt}
ADO 5.2. 0 {Enter Claudio, Don Pedro the Prince, and three or four +
ADO 5.3. 0 with tapers, all in black}
ADO 5.3. 1
ADO-CLAUDIO
Is this the monument of Leonato?
ADO 5.3. 2 A
ADO-LORD
It is, my lord.
ADO 5.3. 3
ADO-[CLAUDIO
{(reading from a scroll)]} Done to death +
ADO 5.3. 3 by slanderous tongues
ADO 5.3. 4 Was the Hero that here lies.
ADO 5.3. 5 Death in guerdon of her wrongs
ADO 5.3. 6 Gives her fame which never dies.
ADO 5.3. 7 So the life that died with shame
ADO 5.3. 8 Lives in death with glorious fame. {He hangs the epitaph on the +
ADO 5.3. 8 tomb}
ADO 5.3. 9 Hang thou there upon the tomb,
ADO 5.3. 10 Praising her when I am dumb.
ADO 5.3. 11 Now music sound, and sing your solemn hymn.
ADO 5.3. 12 {Song} Pardon, goddess of the night,
ADO 5.3. 13 Those that slew thy virgin knight,
ADO 5.3. 14 For the which with songs of woe
ADO 5.3. 15 Round about her tomb they go.
ADO 5.3. 16 Midnight, assist our moan,
ADO 5.3. 17 Help us to sigh and groan,
ADO 5.3. 18 Heavily, heavily.
ADO 5.3. 19 Graves yawn, and yield your dead
ADO 5.3. 20 Till death be uttered,
ADO 5.3. 21 Heavily, heavily.
ADO 5.3. 22
ADO-[CLAUDIO]
Now, unto thy bones good night.
ADO 5.3. 23 Yearly will I do this rite.
ADO 5.3. 24
ADO-DON PEDRO
Good morrow, masters, put your torches out.
ADO 5.3. 25 The wolves have preyed, and look, the gentle day
ADO 5.3. 26 Before the wheels of Phoebus round about
ADO 5.3. 27 Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.
ADO 5.3. 28 Thanks to you all, and leave us. Fare you well.
ADO 5.3. 29
ADO-CLAUDIO
Good morrow, masters. Each his several way.
ADO 5.3. 30
ADO-DON PEDRO
Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds,
ADO 5.3. 31 And then to Leonato's we will go.
ADO 5.3. 32
ADO-CLAUDIO
And Hymen now with luckier issue speed 's
ADO 5.3. 33 Than this for whom we rendered up this woe. {Exeunt}
ADO 5.3. 0 {Enter Leonato, Antonio, Benedick, Beatrice, Margaret, +
ADO 5.4. 0 Ursula, Friar Francis, and Hero}
ADO 5.4. 1
ADO-FRIAR
Did I not tell you she was innocent?
ADO 5.4. 2
ADO-LEONATO
So are the Prince and Claudio who accused her
ADO 5.4. 3 Upon the error that you heard debated.
ADO 5.4. 4 But Margaret was in some fault for this,
ADO 5.4. 5 Although against her will as it appears
ADO 5.4. 6 In the true course of all the question.
ADO 5.4. 7
ADO-ANTONIO
Well, I am glad that all things sorts so well.
ADO 5.4. 8
ADO-BENEDICK
And so am I, being else by faith enforced
ADO 5.4. 9 To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
ADO 5.4. 10
ADO-LEONATO
Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,
ADO 5.4. 11 Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
ADO 5.4. 12 And when I send for you come hither masked. {Exeunt Beatrice, +
ADO 5.4. 12 Hero, Margaret, and Ursula}
ADO 5.4. 13 The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour
ADO 5.4. 14 To visit me. You know your office, brother,
ADO 5.4. 15 You must be father to your brother's daughter,
ADO 5.4. 16 And give her to young Claudio.
ADO 5.4. 17
ADO-ANTONIO
Which I will do with confirmed countenance.
ADO 5.4. 18
ADO-BENEDICK
Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
ADO 5.4. 19A
ADO-FRIAR
To do what, signor?
ADO 5.4. 20
ADO-BENEDICK
To bind me or undo me, one of them.
ADO 5.4. 21 Signor Leonato, truth it is, good signor,
ADO 5.4. 22 Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
ADO 5.4. 23
ADO-LEONATO
That eye my daughter lent her, 'tis most true.
ADO 5.4. 24
ADO-BENEDICK
And I do with an eye of love requite her.
ADO 5.4. 25
ADO-LEONATO
The sight whereof I think you had from me,
ADO 5.4. 26 From Claudio and the Prince. But what's your will?
ADO 5.4. 27
ADO-BENEDICK
Your answer, sir, is enigmatical.
ADO 5.4. 28 But for my will, my will is your good will
ADO 5.4. 29 May stand with ours this day to be conjoined
ADO 5.4. 30 In the state of honourable marriage,
ADO 5.4. 31 In which, good Friar, I shall desire your help.
ADO 5.4. 32B
ADO-LEONATO
My heart is with your liking.
ADO-FRIAR
And my help.
ADO 5.4. 33 Here comes the Prince and Claudio. {Enter Don Pedro and Claudio +
ADO 5.4. 33 with attendants}
ADO 5.4. 34
ADO-DON PEDRO
Good morrow to this fair assembly.
ADO 5.4. 35
ADO-LEONATO
Good morrow, Prince. Good morrow, Claudio.
ADO 5.4. 36 We here attend you. Are you yet determined
ADO 5.4. 37 Today to marry with my brother's daughter?
ADO 5.4. 38
ADO-CLAUDIO
I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.
ADO 5.4. 39
ADO-LEONATO
Call her forth, brother, here's the Friar ready. +
ADO 5.4. 39 {Exit Antonio}
ADO 5.4. 40
ADO-DON PEDRO
Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter
ADO 5.4. 41 That you have such a February face,
ADO 5.4. 42 So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
ADO 5.4. 43
ADO-CLAUDIO
I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
ADO 5.4. 44 Tush, fear not, man, we'll tip thy horns with gold,
ADO 5.4. 45 And all Europa shall rejoice at thee
ADO 5.4. 46 As once Europa did at lusty Jove
ADO 5.4. 47 When he would play the noble beast in love.
ADO 5.4. 48
ADO-BENEDICK
Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
ADO 5.4. 49 And some such strange bull leapt your father's cow
ADO 5.4. 50 And got a calf in that same noble feat
ADO 5.4. 51 Much like to you, for you have just his bleat. {Enter Antonio +
ADO 5.4. 51 with Hero, Beatrice, Margaret, and Ursula, masked}
ADO 5.4. 52
ADO-CLAUDIO
For this I owe you. Here comes other reck'nings.
ADO 5.4. 53 Which is the lady I must seize upon?
ADO 5.4. 54
ADO-[ANTONIO]
This same is she, and I do give you her.
ADO 5.4. 55
ADO-CLAUDIO
Why then, she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face.
ADO 5.4. 56
ADO-LEONATO
No, that you shall not till you take her hand
ADO 5.4. 57 Before this Friar and swear to marry her.
ADO 5.4. 58
ADO-CLAUDIO
{(to Hero)} Give me your hand before this +
ADO 5.4. 58 holy friar.
ADO 5.4. 59 I am your husband if you like of me.
ADO 5.4. 60
ADO-HERO
{(unmasking)} And when I lived I was your +
ADO 5.4. 60 other wife;
ADO 5.4. 61 And when you loved, you were my other husband.
ADO 5.4. 62B
ADO-CLAUDIO
Another Hero!
ADO-HERO
Nothing certainer.
ADO 5.4. 63 One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
ADO 5.4. 64 And surely as I live, I am a maid.
ADO 5.4. 65
ADO-DON PEDRO
The former Hero, Hero that is dead!
ADO 5.4. 66
ADO-LEONATO
She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
ADO 5.4. 67
ADO-FRIAR
All this amazement can I qualify
ADO 5.4. 68 When after that the holy rites are ended
ADO 5.4. 69 I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death.
ADO 5.4. 70 Meantime, let wonder seem familiar,
ADO 5.4. 71 And to the chapel let us presently.
ADO 5.4. 72
ADO-BENEDICK
Soft and fair, Friar, which is Beatrice?
ADO 5.4. 73
ADO-BEATRICE
{(unmasking)} I answer to that name, what +
ADO 5.4. 73 is your will?
ADO 5.4. 74B
ADO-BENEDICK
Do not you love me?
ADO-BEATRICE
Why no, no more than +
ADO 5.4. 74B reason.
ADO 5.4. 75
ADO-BENEDICK
Why then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
ADO 5.4. 76 Have been deceived. They swore you did.
ADO 5.4. 77B
ADO-BEATRICE
Do not you love me?
ADO-BENEDICK
Troth no, no more than +
ADO 5.4. 77B reason.
ADO 5.4. 78
ADO-BEATRICE
Why then, my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula
ADO 5.4. 79 Are much deceived, for they did swear you did.
ADO 5.4. 80
ADO-BENEDICK
They swore that you were almost sick for me.
ADO 5.4. 81
ADO-BEATRICE
They swore that you were wellnigh dead for me.
ADO 5.4. 82
ADO-BENEDICK
'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
ADO 5.4. 83
ADO-BEATRICE
No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
ADO 5.4. 84
ADO-LEONATO
Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
ADO 5.4. 85
ADO-CLAUDIO
And I'll be sworn upon 't that he loves her,
ADO 5.4. 86 For here's a paper written in his hand,
ADO 5.4. 87 A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
ADO 5.4. 88B Fashioned to Beatrice.
ADO-HERO
And here's another,
ADO 5.4. 89 Writ in my cousin's hand, stol'n from her pocket,
ADO 5.4. 90 Containing her affection unto Benedick.
ADO 5.4. 91
ADO-BENEDICK
A miracle! Here's our own hands against our
ADO 5.4. 92 hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light, I take
ADO 5.4. 93 thee for pity.
ADO 5.4. 94
ADO-BEATRICE
I would not deny you, but by this good day, I
ADO 5.4. 95 yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your
ADO 5.4. 96 life, for I was told you were in a consumption.
ADO 5.4. 97
ADO-BENEDICK
{(kissing her)} Peace, I will stop your +
ADO 5.4. 97 mouth.
ADO 5.4. 98
ADO-DON PEDRO
How dost thou, Benedick the married man?
ADO 5.4. 99
ADO-BENEDICK
I'll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-
ADO 5.4. 100 crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost thou
ADO 5.4. 101 think I care for a satire or an epigram? No, if a man
ADO 5.4. 102 will be beaten with brains, a shall wear nothing
ADO 5.4. 103 handsome about him. In brief, since I do purpose to
ADO 5.4. 104 marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the
ADO 5.4. 105 world can say against it, and therefore never flout at
ADO 5.4. 106 me for what I have said against it. For man is a giddy
ADO 5.4. 107 thing, and this is my conclusion. For thy part, Claudio,
ADO 5.4. 108 I did think to have beaten thee, but in that thou art
ADO 5.4. 109 like to be my kinsman, live unbruised, and love my
ADO 5.4. 110 cousin.
ADO 5.4. 111
ADO-CLAUDIO
I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied
ADO 5.4. 112 Beatrice, that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy
ADO 5.4. 113 single life to make thee a double dealer, which out of
ADO 5.4. 114 question thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look
ADO 5.4. 115 exceeding narrowly to thee.
ADO 5.4. 116
ADO-BENEDICK
Come, come, we are friends, let's have a dance
ADO 5.4. 117 ere we are married, that we may lighten our own
ADO 5.4. 118 hearts and our wives' heels.
ADO 5.4. 119
ADO-LEONATO
We'll have dancing afterward.
ADO 5.4. 120
ADO-BENEDICK
First, of my word. Therefore play, music. {(To}
ADO 5.4. 121 {Don Pedro)} Prince, thou art sad, get thee a wife, get
ADO 5.4. 122 thee a wife. There is no staff more reverend than one
ADO 5.4. 123 tipped with horn. {Enter Messenger}
ADO 5.4. 124
ADO-MESSENGER
My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,
ADO 5.4. 125 And brought with armed men back to Messina.
ADO 5.4. 126
ADO-BENEDICK
Think not on him till tomorrow, I'll devise thee
ADO 5.4. 127 brave punishments for him. Strike up, pipers.
ADO 5.4. 127 {Dance, and exeunt}
ADO 5.4.
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AIT . . 0 All Is True
AIT . . 0 {Enter Prologue}
AIT .Pr. 1
AIT-PROLOGUE
I come no more to make you laugh. Things now
AIT .Pr. 2 That bear a weighty and a serious brow,
AIT .Pr. 3 Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe -
AIT .Pr. 4 Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow
AIT .Pr. 5 We now present. Those that can pity here
AIT .Pr. 6 May, if they think it well, let fall a tear.
AIT .Pr. 7 The subject will deserve it. Such as give
AIT .Pr. 8 Their money out of hope they may believe,
AIT .Pr. 9 May here find truth, too. Those that come to see
AIT .Pr. 10 Only a show or two, and so agree
AIT .Pr. 11 The play may pass, if they be still, and willing,
AIT .Pr. 12 I'll undertake may see away their shilling
AIT .Pr. 13 Richly in two short hours. Only they
AIT .Pr. 14 That come to hear a merry bawdy play,
AIT .Pr. 15 A noise of targets, or to see a fellow
AIT .Pr. 16 In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,
AIT .Pr. 17 Will be deceived. For, gentle hearers, know
AIT .Pr. 18 To rank our chosen truth with such a show
AIT .Pr. 19 As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting
AIT .Pr. 20 Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring
AIT .Pr. 21 To make that only true we now intend,
AIT .Pr. 22 Will leave us never an understanding friend.
AIT .Pr. 23 Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known
AIT .Pr. 24 The first and happiest hearers of the town,
AIT .Pr. 25 Be sad as we would make ye. Think ye see
AIT .Pr. 26 The very persons of our noble story
AIT .Pr. 27 As they were living; think you see them great,
AIT .Pr. 28 And followed with the general throng and sweat
AIT .Pr. 29 Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, see
AIT .Pr. 30 How soon this mightiness meets misery.
AIT .Pr. 31 And if you can be merry then, I'll say
AIT .Pr. 32 A man may weep upon his wedding day. {Exit}
AIT .Pr. 0
AIT .Pr. 0
AIT-[A
cloth of state throughout the play.] Enter the +
AIT 1.1. 0 Duke of Norfolk at one door; at the other door enter the Duke of +
AIT 1.1. 0 Buckingham and the Lord Abergavenny}
AIT 1.1. 1
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Norfolk)} Good morrow, and well +
AIT 1.1. 1 met. How have ye done
AIT 1.1. 2B Since last we saw in France?
AIT-NORFOLK
I thank your grace,
AIT 1.1. 3 Healthful, and ever since a fresh admirer
AIT 1.1. 4B Of what I saw there.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
An untimely ague
AIT 1.1. 5 Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber when
AIT 1.1. 6 Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,
AIT 1.1. 7B Met in the vale of Ardres.
AIT-NORFOLK
'Twixt Guisnes and Ardres.
AIT 1.1. 8 I was then present, saw them salute on horseback,
AIT 1.1. 9 Beheld them when they lighted, how they clung
AIT 1.1. 10 In their embracement as they grew together,
AIT 1.1. 11 Which had they, what four throned ones could have weighed
AIT 1.1. 12B Such a compounded one?
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
All the whole time
AIT 1.1. 13B I was my chamber's prisoner.
AIT-NORFOLK
Then you lost
AIT 1.1. 14 The view of earthly glory. Men might say
AIT 1.1. 15 Till this time pomp was single, but now married
AIT 1.1. 16 To one above itself. Each following day
AIT 1.1. 17 Became the next day's master, till the last
AIT 1.1. 18 Made former wonders its. Today the French,
AIT 1.1. 19 All clinquant all in gold, like heathen gods
AIT 1.1. 20 Shone down the English; and tomorrow they
AIT 1.1. 21 Made Britain India. Every man that stood
AIT 1.1. 22 Showed like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were
AIT 1.1. 23 As cherubim, all gilt; the {mesdames}, too,
AIT 1.1. 24 Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear
AIT 1.1. 25 The pride upon them, that their very labour
AIT 1.1. 26 Was to them as a painting. Now this masque
AIT 1.1. 27 Was cried incomparable, and th' ensuing night
AIT 1.1. 28 Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings
AIT 1.1. 29 Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,
AIT 1.1. 30 As presence did present them. Him in eye
AIT 1.1. 31 Still him in praise, and being present both,
AIT 1.1. 32 'Twas said they saw but one, and no discerner
AIT 1.1. 33 Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns -
AIT 1.1. 34 For so they phrase 'em - by their heralds challenged
AIT 1.1. 35 The noble spirits to arms, they did perform
AIT 1.1. 36 Beyond thought's compass, that former fabulous story
AIT 1.1. 37 Being now seen possible enough, got credit
AIT 1.1. 38B That {Bevis} was believed.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
O, you go far!
AIT 1.1. 39
AIT-NORFOLK
As I belong to worship, and affect
AIT 1.1. 40 In honour honesty, the tract of ev'rything
AIT 1.1. 41 Would by a good discourser lose some life
AIT 1.1. 42 Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal.
AIT 1.1. 43 To the disposing of it naught rebelled.
AIT 1.1. 44 Order gave each thing view. The office did
AIT 1.1. 45B Distinctly his full function.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Who did guide -
AIT 1.1. 46 I mean, who set the body and the limbs
AIT 1.1. 47 Of this great sport together, as you guess?
AIT 1.1. 48
AIT-NORFOLK
One, certes, that promises no element
AIT 1.1. 49B In such a business.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
I pray you who, my lord?
AIT 1.1. 50
AIT-NORFOLK
All this was ordered by the good discretion
AIT 1.1. 51 Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.
AIT 1.1. 52
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
The devil speed him! No man's pie is freed
AIT 1.1. 53 From his ambitious finger. What had he
AIT 1.1. 54 To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
AIT 1.1. 55 That such a keech can, with his very bulk,
AIT 1.1. 56 Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun,
AIT 1.1. 57B And keep it from the earth.
AIT-NORFOLK
Surely, sir,
AIT 1.1. 58 There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends.
AIT 1.1. 59 For being not propped by ancestry, whose grace
AIT 1.1. 60 Chalks successors their way, nor called upon
AIT 1.1. 61 For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied
AIT 1.1. 62 To eminent assistants, but spider-like,
AIT 1.1. 63 Out of his self-drawing web, a gives us note
AIT 1.1. 64 The force of his own merit makes his way -
AIT 1.1. 65 A gift that heaven gives for him which buys
AIT 1.1. 66B A place next to the King.
AIT-ABERGAVENNY
I cannot tell
AIT 1.1. 67 What heaven hath given him - let some graver eye
AIT 1.1. 68 Pierce into that; but I can see his pride
AIT 1.1. 69 Peep through each part of him. Whence has he that?
AIT 1.1. 70 If not from hell, the devil is a niggard
AIT 1.1. 71 Or has given all before, and he begins
AIT 1.1. 72B A new hell in himself.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Why the devil,
AIT 1.1. 73 Upon this French going out, took he upon him
AIT 1.1. 74 Without the privity o' th' King t' appoint
AIT 1.1. 75 Who should attend on him? He makes up the file
AIT 1.1. 76 Of all the gentry, for the most part such
AIT 1.1. 77 To whom as great a charge as little honour
AIT 1.1. 78 He meant to lay upon; and his own letter,
AIT 1.1. 79 The honourable board of council out,
AIT 1.1. 80B Must fetch him in, he papers.
AIT-ABERGAVENNY
I do know
AIT 1.1. 81 Kinsmen of mine - three at the least - that have
AIT 1.1. 82 By this so sickened their estates that never
AIT 1.1. 83B They shall abound as formerly.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
O, many
AIT 1.1. 84 Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em
AIT 1.1. 85 For this great journey. What did this vanity
AIT 1.1. 86 But minister communication of
AIT 1.1. 87B A most poor issue?
AIT-NORFOLK
Grievingly I think
AIT 1.1. 88 The peace between the French and us not values
AIT 1.1. 89B The cost that did conclude it.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Every man,
AIT 1.1. 90 After the hideous storm that followed, was
AIT 1.1. 91 A thing inspired, and, not consulting, broke
AIT 1.1. 92 Into a general prophecy - that this tempest,
AIT 1.1. 93 Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded
AIT 1.1. 94B The sudden breach on 't.
AIT-NORFOLK
Which is budded out -
AIT 1.1. 95 For France hath flawed the league, and hath attached
AIT 1.1. 96B Our merchants' goods at Bordeaux.
AIT-ABERGAVENNY
Is it therefore
AIT 1.1. 97B Th' ambassador is silenced?
AIT-NORFOLK
Marry is 't.
AIT 1.1. 98
AIT-ABERGAVENNY
A proper title of a peace, and purchased
AIT 1.1. 99B At a superfluous rate.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Why, all this business
AIT 1.1. 100B Our reverend Cardinal carried.
AIT-NORFOLK
Like it your grace,
AIT 1.1. 101 The state takes notice of the private difference
AIT 1.1. 102 Betwixt you and the Cardinal. I advise you -
AIT 1.1. 103 And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
AIT 1.1. 104 Honour and plenteous safety - that you read
AIT 1.1. 105 The Cardinal's malice and his potency
AIT 1.1. 106 Together; to consider further that
AIT 1.1. 107 What his high hatred would effect wants not
AIT 1.1. 108 A minister in his power. You know his nature,
AIT 1.1. 109 That he's revengeful; and I know his sword
AIT 1.1. 110 Hath a sharp edge - it's long, and 't may be said
AIT 1.1. 111 It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend
AIT 1.1. 112 Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
AIT 1.1. 113 You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock
AIT 1.1. 114 That I advise your shunning. {Enter Cardinal Wolsey, the purse +
AIT 1.1. 114 containing the great seal borne before him. Enter with him certain of +
AIT 1.1. 114 the guard, and two secretaries with papers. The}
AIT 1.1. 115 {Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on Buckingham and Buckingham on +
AIT 1.1. 115 him, both full of disdain}
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to a +
AIT 1.1. 115 secretary)} The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?
AIT 1.1. 116B Where's his examination?
AIT-SECRETARY
Here, so please you.
AIT 1.1. 117B
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Is he in person ready?
AIT-SECRETARY
Ay, please your +
AIT 1.1. 117B grace.
AIT 1.1. 118
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Well, we shall then know more, and Buckingham
AIT 1.1. 119 Shall lessen this big look. {Exeunt Wolsey and his train}
AIT 1.1. 120
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
This butcher's cur is venom-mouthed, and I
AIT 1.1. 121 Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best
AIT 1.1. 122 Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book
AIT 1.1. 123B Outworths a noble's blood.
AIT-NORFOLK
What, are you chafed?
AIT 1.1. 124 Ask God for temp'rance; that's th' appliance only
AIT 1.1. 125B Which your disease requires.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
I read in 's looks
AIT 1.1. 126 Matter against me, and his eye reviled
AIT 1.1. 127 Me as his abject object. At this instant
AIT 1.1. 128 He bores me with some trick. He's gone to th' King -
AIT 1.1. 129B I'll follow, and outstare him.
AIT-NORFOLK
Stay, my lord,
AIT 1.1. 130 And let your reason with your choler question
AIT 1.1. 131 What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills
AIT 1.1. 132 Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like
AIT 1.1. 133 A full hot horse who, being allowed his way,
AIT 1.1. 134 Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
AIT 1.1. 135 Can advise me like you. Be to yourself
AIT 1.1. 136B As you would to your friend.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
I'll to the King,
AIT 1.1. 137 And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
AIT 1.1. 138 This Ipswich fellow's insolence, or proclaim
AIT 1.1. 139B There's difference in no persons.
AIT-NORFOLK
Be advised.
AIT 1.1. 140 Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
AIT 1.1. 141 That it do singe yourself. We may outrun
AIT 1.1. 142 By violent swiftness that which we run at,
AIT 1.1. 143 And lose by over-running. Know you not
AIT 1.1. 144 The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er
AIT 1.1. 145 In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised.
AIT 1.1. 146 I say again there is no English soul
AIT 1.1. 147 More stronger to direct you than yourself,
AIT 1.1. 148 If with the sap of reason you would quench
AIT 1.1. 149B Or but allay the fire of passion.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Sir,
AIT 1.1. 150 I am thankful to you, and I'll go along
AIT 1.1. 151 By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow -
AIT 1.1. 152 Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
AIT 1.1. 153 From sincere motions - by intelligence,
AIT 1.1. 154 And proofs as clear as founts in July when
AIT 1.1. 155 We see each grain of gravel, I do know
AIT 1.1. 156B To be corrupt and treasonous.
AIT-NORFOLK
Say not `treasonous'.
AIT 1.1. 157
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
To th' King I'll say 't, and make my vouch as strong
AIT 1.1. 158 As shore of rock. Attend: this holy fox,
AIT 1.1. 159 Or wolf, or both - for he is equal rav'nous
AIT 1.1. 160 As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
AIT 1.1. 161 As able to perform 't, his mind and place
AIT 1.1. 162 Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally -
AIT 1.1. 163 Only to show his pomp as well in France
AIT 1.1. 164 As here at home, suggests the King our master
AIT 1.1. 165 To this last costly treaty, th' interview
AIT 1.1. 166 That swallowed so much treasure and, like a glass,
AIT 1.1. 167B Did break i' th' rinsing.
AIT-NORFOLK
Faith, and so it did.
AIT 1.1. 168
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Pray give me favour, sir. This cunning Cardinal,
AIT 1.1. 169 The articles o' th' combination drew
AIT 1.1. 170 As himself pleased, and they were ratified
AIT 1.1. 171 As he cried `Thus let be', to as much end
AIT 1.1. 172 As give a crutch to th' dead. But our count-Cardinal
AIT 1.1. 173 Has done this, and 'tis well for worthy Wolsey,
AIT 1.1. 174 Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows -
AIT 1.1. 175 Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
AIT 1.1. 176 To th' old dam, treason - Charles the Emperor,
AIT 1.1. 177 Under pretence to see the Queen his aunt -
AIT 1.1. 178 For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
AIT 1.1. 179 To whisper Wolsey - here makes visitation.
AIT 1.1. 180 His fears were that the interview betwixt
AIT 1.1. 181 England and France might through their amity
AIT 1.1. 182 Breed him some prejudice, for from this league
AIT 1.1. 183 Peeped harms that menaced him. Privily he
AIT 1.1. 184 Deals with our Cardinal and, as I trow -
AIT 1.1. 185 Which I do well, for I am sure the Emperor
AIT 1.1. 186 Paid ere he promised, whereby his suit was granted
AIT 1.1. 187 Ere it was asked - but when the way was made,
AIT 1.1. 188 And paved with gold, the Emperor thus desired
AIT 1.1. 189 That he would please to alter the King's course
AIT 1.1. 190 And break the foresaid peace. Let the King know,
AIT 1.1. 191 As soon he shall by me, that thus the Cardinal
AIT 1.1. 192 Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,
AIT 1.1. 193B And for his own advantage.
AIT-NORFOLK
I am sorry
AIT 1.1. 194 To hear this of him, and could wish he were
AIT 1.1. 195B Something mistaken in 't.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
No, not a syllable.
AIT 1.1. 196 I do pronounce him in that very shape
AIT 1.1. 197 He shall appear in proof. {Enter Brandon, a serjeant-at-arms +
AIT 1.1. 197 before him, and two or three of the guard}
AIT 1.1. 198B
AIT-BRANDON
Your office, serjeant, execute it.
AIT-SERJEANT
+
AIT 1.1. 198B Sir.
AIT 1.1. 199 {(To Buckingham)} My lord the Duke of Buckingham and +
AIT 1.1. 199 Earl
AIT 1.1. 200 Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
AIT 1.1. 201 Arrest thee of high treason in the name
AIT 1.1. 202B Of our most sovereign King.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
{[to +
AIT 1.1. 202B Norfolk]} Lo you, my lord,
AIT 1.1. 203 The net has fall'n upon me. I shall perish
AIT 1.1. 204B Under device and practice.
AIT-BRANDON
I am sorry
AIT 1.1. 205 To see you ta'en from liberty to look on
AIT 1.1. 206 The business present. 'Tis his highness' pleasure
AIT 1.1. 207B You shall to th' Tower.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
It will help me nothing
AIT 1.1. 208 To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me
AIT 1.1. 209 Which makes my whit'st part black. The will of heav'n
AIT 1.1. 210 Be done in this and all things. I obey.
AIT 1.1. 211 O, my lord Abergavenny, fare you well.
AIT 1.1. 212B
AIT-BRANDON
Nay, he must bear you company. {(To +
AIT 1.1. 212B Abergavenny)} The King
AIT 1.1. 213 Is pleased you shall to th' Tower till you know
AIT 1.1. 214B How he determines further.
AIT-ABERGAVENNY
As the Duke said,
AIT 1.1. 215 The will of heaven be done and the King's pleasure
AIT 1.1. 216B By me obeyed.
AIT-BRANDON
Here is a warrant from
AIT 1.1. 217 The King t' attach Lord Montague and the bodies
AIT 1.1. 218 Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car,
AIT 1.1. 219B One Gilbert Perk, his chancellor -
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
So, so;
AIT 1.1. 220 These are the limbs o' th' plot. No more, I hope.
AIT 1.1. 221B
AIT-BRANDON
A monk o' th' Chartreux.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
O, Nicholas Hopkins?
AIT 1.1. 222A
AIT-BRANDON
He.
AIT 1.1. 223
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
My surveyor is false. The o'er-great Cardinal
AIT 1.1. 224 Hath showed him gold. My life is spanned already.
AIT 1.1. 225 I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
AIT 1.1. 226 Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
AIT 1.1. 227 By dark'ning my clear sun. {(To Norfolk)} My lord, +
AIT 1.1. 227 farewell. {Exeunt [Norfolk at one door, Buckingham and +
AIT 1.1. 227 Abergavenny under guard at another]}
AIT 1.1. 0 {Cornetts. Enter King Henry leaning on Cardinal Wolsey's +
AIT 1.2. 0 shoulder. Enter with them Wolsey's two secretaries, the nobles, and Sir +
AIT 1.2. 0 Thomas Lovell. The King ascends to his seat under the cloth of +
AIT 1.2. 0 state; Wolsey places himself under the King's feet on his right side}
AIT 1.2. 1
AIT-KING HENRY
{[to Wolsey]} My life itself and the +
AIT 1.2. 1 best heart of it
AIT 1.2. 2 Thanks you for this great care. I stood i' th' level
AIT 1.2. 3 Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks
AIT 1.2. 4 To you that choked it. Let be called before us
AIT 1.2. 5 That gentleman of Buckingham's. In person
AIT 1.2. 6 I'll hear him his confessions justify,
AIT 1.2. 7 And point by point the treasons of his master
AIT 1.2. 8 He shall again relate.
AIT 1.2. 9
AIT-[CRIER]
{(within)} Room for the Queen, ushered by +
AIT 1.2. 9 the Duke of Norfolk. {Enter Queen Katherine, the Duke of +
AIT 1.2. 9 Norfolk, and the Duke of Suffolk. She kneels. King Henry riseth from +
AIT 1.2. 9 his state, takes her up, and kisses her}
AIT 1.2. 10
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Nay, we must longer kneel. I am a suitor.
AIT 1.2. 11B
AIT-KING HENRY
Arise, and take place by us. {He placeth her by +
AIT 1.2. 11B him} Half your suit
AIT 1.2. 12 Never name to us. You have half our power,
AIT 1.2. 13 The other moiety ere you ask is given.
AIT 1.2. 14B Repeat your will and take it.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Thank your majesty.
AIT 1.2. 15 That you would love yourself, and in that love
AIT 1.2. 16 Not unconsidered leave your honour nor
AIT 1.2. 17 The dignity of your office, is the point
AIT 1.2. 18B Of my petition.
AIT-KING HENRY
Lady mine, proceed.
AIT 1.2. 19
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
I am solicited, not by a few,
AIT 1.2. 20 And those of true condition, that your subjects
AIT 1.2. 21 Are in great grievance. There have been commissions
AIT 1.2. 22 Sent down among 'em which hath flawed the heart
AIT 1.2. 23 Of all their loyalties; wherein, although,
AIT 1.2. 24 My good lord Cardinal, they vent reproaches
AIT 1.2. 25 Most bitterly on you, as putter-on
AIT 1.2. 26 Of these exactions, yet the King our master -
AIT 1.2. 27 Whose honour heaven shield from soil - even he escapes not
AIT 1.2. 28 Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks
AIT 1.2. 29 The sides of loyalty, and almost appears
AIT 1.2. 30B In loud rebellion.
AIT-NORFOLK
Not `almost appears' -
AIT 1.2. 31 It doth appear; for upon these taxations
AIT 1.2. 32 The clothiers all, not able to maintain
AIT 1.2. 33 The many to them 'longing, have put off
AIT 1.2. 34 The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
AIT 1.2. 35 Unfit for other life, compelled by hunger
AIT 1.2. 36 And lack of other means, in desperate manner
AIT 1.2. 37 Daring th' event to th' teeth, are all in uproar,
AIT 1.2. 38B And danger serves among them.
AIT-KING HENRY
Taxation?
AIT 1.2. 39 Wherein, and what taxation? My lord Cardinal,
AIT 1.2. 40 You that are blamed for it alike with us,
AIT 1.2. 41B Know you of this taxation?
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Please you, sir,
AIT 1.2. 42 I know but of a single part in aught
AIT 1.2. 43 Pertains to th' state, and front but in that file
AIT 1.2. 44B Where others tell steps with me.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
No, my lord?
AIT 1.2. 45 You know no more than others? But you frame
AIT 1.2. 46 Things that are known alike, which are not wholesome
AIT 1.2. 47 To those which would not know them, and yet must
AIT 1.2. 48 Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions
AIT 1.2. 49 Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
AIT 1.2. 50 Most pestilent to th' hearing, and to bear 'em
AIT 1.2. 51 The back is sacrifice to th' load. They say
AIT 1.2. 52 They are devised by you, or else you suffer
AIT 1.2. 53B Too hard an exclamation.
AIT-KING HENRY
Still exaction!
AIT 1.2. 54 The nature of it? In what kind, let's know,
AIT 1.2. 55B Is this exaction?
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
I am much too venturous
AIT 1.2. 56 In tempting of your patience, but am boldened
AIT 1.2. 57 Under your promised pardon. The subjects' grief
AIT 1.2. 58 Comes through commissions which compels from each
AIT 1.2. 59 The sixth part of his substance to be levied
AIT 1.2. 60 Without delay, and the pretence for this
AIT 1.2. 61 Is named your wars in France. This makes bold mouths.
AIT 1.2. 62 Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
AIT 1.2. 63 Allegiance in them. Their curses now
AIT 1.2. 64 Live where their prayers did, and it's come to pass
AIT 1.2. 65 This tractable obedience is a slave
AIT 1.2. 66 To each incensed will. I would your highness
AIT 1.2. 67 Would give it quick consideration, for
AIT 1.2. 68B There is no primer business.
AIT-KING HENRY
By my life,
AIT 1.2. 69B This is against our pleasure.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
And for me,
AIT 1.2. 70 I have no further gone in this than by
AIT 1.2. 71 A single voice, and that not passed me but
AIT 1.2. 72 By learned approbation of the judges. If I am
AIT 1.2. 73 Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know
AIT 1.2. 74 My faculties nor person yet will be
AIT 1.2. 75 The chronicles of my doing, let me say
AIT 1.2. 76 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
AIT 1.2. 77 That virtue must go through. We must not stint
AIT 1.2. 78 Our necessary actions in the fear
AIT 1.2. 79 To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
AIT 1.2. 80 As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
AIT 1.2. 81 That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
AIT 1.2. 82 Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
AIT 1.2. 83 By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
AIT 1.2. 84 Not ours or not allowed; what worst, as oft,
AIT 1.2. 85 Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
AIT 1.2. 86 For our best act. If we shall stand still,
AIT 1.2. 87 In fear our motion will be mocked or carped at,
AIT 1.2. 88 We should take root here where we sit,
AIT 1.2. 89B Or sit state-statues only.
AIT-KING HENRY
Things done well,
AIT 1.2. 90 And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
AIT 1.2. 91 Things done without example, in their issue
AIT 1.2. 92 Are to be feared. Have you a precedent
AIT 1.2. 93 Of this commission? I believe not any.
AIT 1.2. 94 We must not rend our subjects from our laws
AIT 1.2. 95 And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?
AIT 1.2. 96 A trembling contribution! Why, we take
AIT 1.2. 97 From every tree lop, bark, and part o' th' timber,
AIT 1.2. 98 And though we leave it with a root, thus hacked
AIT 1.2. 99 The air will drink the sap. To every county
AIT 1.2. 100 Where this is questioned send our letters with
AIT 1.2. 101 Free pardon to each man that has denied
AIT 1.2. 102 The force of this commission. Pray look to 't -
AIT 1.2. 103B I put it to your care.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to a +
AIT 1.2. 103B secretary)} A word with you.
AIT 1.2. 104 Let there be letters writ to every shire
AIT 1.2. 105B Of the King's grace and pardon. {(Aside to the +
AIT 1.2. 105B secretary)} The grieved commons
AIT 1.2. 106 Hardly conceive of me. Let it be noised
AIT 1.2. 107 That through our intercession this revokement
AIT 1.2. 108 And pardon comes. I shall anon advise you
AIT 1.2. 109 Further in the proceeding. {Exit secretary}
AIT 1.2. 110 {Enter Buckingham's Surveyor}
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
{(to +
AIT 1.2. 110 the King)} I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
AIT 1.2. 111B Is run in your displeasure.
AIT-KING HENRY
It grieves many.
AIT 1.2. 112 The gentleman is learned, and a most rare speaker,
AIT 1.2. 113 To nature none more bound; his training such
AIT 1.2. 114 That he may furnish and instruct great teachers
AIT 1.2. 115 And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,
AIT 1.2. 116 When these so noble benefits shall prove
AIT 1.2. 117 Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,
AIT 1.2. 118 They turn to vicious forms ten times more ugly
AIT 1.2. 119 Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,
AIT 1.2. 120 Who was enrolled 'mongst wonders - and when we
AIT 1.2. 121 Almost with ravished list'ning could not find
AIT 1.2. 122 His hour of speech a minute - he, my lady,
AIT 1.2. 123 Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
AIT 1.2. 124 That once were his, and is become as black
AIT 1.2. 125 As if besmeared in hell. Sit by us. You shall hear -
AIT 1.2. 126 This was his gentleman in trust of him -
AIT 1.2. 127B Things to strike honour sad. {(To Wolsey)} Bid him +
AIT 1.2. 127B recount
AIT 1.2. 128 The fore-recited practices whereof
AIT 1.2. 129 We cannot feel too little, hear too much.
AIT 1.2. 130
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to the Surveyor)} Stand forth, +
AIT 1.2. 130 and with bold spirit relate what you
AIT 1.2. 131 Most like a careful subject have collected
AIT 1.2. 132B Out of the Duke of Buckingham.
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to the +
AIT 1.2. 132B Surveyor)} Speak freely.
AIT 1.2. 133
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
First, it was usual with him, every day
AIT 1.2. 134 It would infect his speech, that if the King
AIT 1.2. 135 Should without issue die, he'll carry it so
AIT 1.2. 136 To make the sceptre his. These very words
AIT 1.2. 137 I've heard him utter to his son-in-law,
AIT 1.2. 138 Lord Abergavenny, to whom by oath he menaced
AIT 1.2. 139B Revenge upon the Cardinal.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to the +
AIT 1.2. 139B King)} Please your highness note
AIT 1.2. 140 His dangerous conception in this point,
AIT 1.2. 141 Not friended by his wish to your high person.
AIT 1.2. 142 His will is most malignant, and it stretches
AIT 1.2. 143B Beyond you to your friends.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
My learned Lord +
AIT 1.2. 143B Cardinal,
AIT 1.2. 144B Deliver all with charity.
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to the +
AIT 1.2. 144B Surveyor)} Speak on.
AIT 1.2. 145 How grounded he his title to the crown
AIT 1.2. 146 Upon our fail? To this point hast thou heard him
AIT 1.2. 147B At any time speak aught?
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
He was brought to +
AIT 1.2. 147B this
AIT 1.2. 148 By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins.
AIT 1.2. 149B
AIT-KING HENRY
What was that Hopkins?
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
Sir, a +
AIT 1.2. 149B Chartreux friar,
AIT 1.2. 150 His confessor, who fed him every minute
AIT 1.2. 151B With words of sovereignty.
AIT-KING HENRY
How know'st thou this?
AIT 1.2. 152
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
Not long before your highness sped to France,
AIT 1.2. 153 The Duke being at the Rose, within the parish
AIT 1.2. 154 Saint Lawrence Poutney, did of me demand
AIT 1.2. 155 What was the speech among the Londoners
AIT 1.2. 156 Concerning the French journey. I replied
AIT 1.2. 157 Men feared the French would prove perfidious,
AIT 1.2. 158 To the King's danger; presently the Duke
AIT 1.2. 159 Said 'twas the fear indeed, and that he doubted
AIT 1.2. 160 'Twould prove the verity of certain words
AIT 1.2. 161 Spoke by a holy monk that oft, says he,
AIT 1.2. 162 `Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
AIT 1.2. 163 John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour
AIT 1.2. 164 To hear from him a matter of some moment;
AIT 1.2. 165 Whom after under the confession's seal
AIT 1.2. 166 He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke
AIT 1.2. 167 My chaplain to no creature living but
AIT 1.2. 168 To me should utter, with demure confidence
AIT 1.2. 169 This pausingly ensued: ``neither the King nor 's heirs'',
AIT 1.2. 170 Tell you the Duke, ``shall prosper. Bid him strive
AIT 1.2. 171 To win the love o' th' commonalty. The Duke
AIT 1.2. 172B Shall govern England.'' '
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
If I know you well,
AIT 1.2. 173 You were the Duke's surveyor, and lost your office
AIT 1.2. 174 On the complaint o' th' tenants. Take good heed
AIT 1.2. 175 You charge not in your spleen a noble person
AIT 1.2. 176 And spoil your nobler soul. I say, take heed;
AIT 1.2. 177B Yes, heartily beseech you.
AIT-KING HENRY
Let him on.
AIT 1.2. 178B {(To the Surveyor)} Go forward. +
AIT 1.2. 178B
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
On my soul I'll speak but truth.
AIT 1.2. 179 I told my lord the Duke, by th' devil's illusions
AIT 1.2. 180 The monk might be deceived, and that 'twas dangerous
AIT 1.2. 181 To ruminate on this so far until
AIT 1.2. 182 It forged him some design which, being believed,
AIT 1.2. 183 It was much like to do. He answered, `Tush,
AIT 1.2. 184 It can do me no damage', adding further
AIT 1.2. 185 That had the King in his last sickness failed,
AIT 1.2. 186 The Cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads
AIT 1.2. 187B Should have gone off.
AIT-KING HENRY
Ha? What, so rank? Ah, ha!
AIT 1.2. 188 There's mischief in this man. Canst thou say further?
AIT 1.2. 189B
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
I can, my liege.
AIT-KING HENRY
+
AIT 1.2. 189B Proceed.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
Being at Greenwich,
AIT 1.2. 190 After your highness had reproved the Duke
AIT 1.2. 191B About Sir William Bulmer -
AIT-KING HENRY
I remember
AIT 1.2. 192 Such a time, being my sworn servant,
AIT 1.2. 193 The Duke retained him his. But on - what hence?
AIT 1.2. 194
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
`If', quoth he, `I for this had been +
AIT 1.2. 194 committed' -
AIT 1.2. 195 As to the Tower, I thought - `I would have played
AIT 1.2. 196 The part my father meant to act upon
AIT 1.2. 197 Th' usurper Richard who, being at Salisbury,
AIT 1.2. 198 Made suit to come in 's presence; which if granted,
AIT 1.2. 199 As he made semblance of his duty, would
AIT 1.2. 200B Have put his knife into him.'
AIT-KING HENRY
A giant traitor!
AIT 1.2. 201
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to the Queen)} Now, madam, may +
AIT 1.2. 201 his highness live in freedom,
AIT 1.2. 202B And this man out of prison?
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
God mend all.
AIT 1.2. 203
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to the Surveyor)} There's something +
AIT 1.2. 203 more would out of thee - what sayst?
AIT 1.2. 204
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
S
AIT-SURVEYOR
After `the Duke his father', with `the +
AIT 1.2. 204 knife',
AIT 1.2. 205 He stretched him, and with one hand on his dagger,
AIT 1.2. 206 Another spread on 's breast, mounting his eyes,
AIT 1.2. 207 He did discharge a horrible oath whose tenor
AIT 1.2. 208 Was, were he evil used, he would outgo
AIT 1.2. 209 His father by as much as a performance
AIT 1.2. 210B Does an irresolute purpose.
AIT-KING HENRY
There's his period -
AIT 1.2. 211 To sheathe his knife in us. He is attached.
AIT 1.2. 212 Call him to present trial. If he may
AIT 1.2. 213 Find mercy in the law, 'tis his; if none,
AIT 1.2. 214 Let him not seek 't of us. By day and night,
AIT 1.2. 215 He's traitor to th' height. {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
AIT 1.2. 0
AIT 1.2. 0 {Enter the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Sands}
AIT 1.3. 1
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Is 't possible the spells of France +
AIT 1.3. 1 should juggle
AIT 1.3. 2B Men into such strange mysteries?
AIT-SANDS
New customs,
AIT 1.3. 3 Though they be never so ridiculous -
AIT 1.3. 4 Nay, let 'em be unmanly - yet are followed.
AIT 1.3. 5
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
As far as I see, all the good our English
AIT 1.3. 6 Have got by the late voyage is but merely
AIT 1.3. 7 A fit or two o' th' face. But they are shrewd ones,
AIT 1.3. 8 For when they hold 'em you would swear directly
AIT 1.3. 9 Their very noses had been counsellors
AIT 1.3. 10 To Pe/pin or Clotharius, they keep state so.
AIT 1.3. 11
AIT-SANDS
They have all new legs, and lame ones; one would take it,
AIT 1.3. 12 That never see 'em pace before, the spavin
AIT 1.3. 13B Or spring-halt reigned among 'em.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Death, my lord,
AIT 1.3. 14 Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't
AIT 1.3. 15B That sure they've worn out Christendom. {Enter Sir Thomas +
AIT 1.3. 15B Lovell} How now -
AIT 1.3. 16B What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?
AIT-LOVELL
Faith, my lord,
AIT 1.3. 17 I hear of none but the new proclamation
AIT 1.3. 18B That's clapped upon the court gate.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
What is 't for?
AIT 1.3. 19
AIT-LOVELL
The reformation of our travelled gallants
AIT 1.3. 20 That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
AIT 1.3. 21
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
I'm glad 'tis there. Now I would pray our +
AIT 1.3. 21 `{messieurs}'
AIT 1.3. 22 To think an English courtier may be wise
AIT 1.3. 23B And never see the Louvre.
AIT-LOVELL
They must either,
AIT 1.3. 24 For so run the conditions, leave those remnants
AIT 1.3. 25 Of fool and feather that they got in France,
AIT 1.3. 26 With all their honourable points of ignorance
AIT 1.3. 27 Pertaining thereunto - as fights and fireworks,
AIT 1.3. 28 Abusing better men than they can be
AIT 1.3. 29 Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean
AIT 1.3. 30 The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings,
AIT 1.3. 31 Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel -
AIT 1.3. 32 And understand again like honest men,
AIT 1.3. 33 Or pack to their old playfellows. There, I take it,
AIT 1.3. 34 They may, {cum privilegio}, `{oui}' away
AIT 1.3. 35 The lag end of their lewdness and be laughed at.
AIT 1.3. 36
AIT-SANDS
'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
AIT 1.3. 37B Are grown so catching.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
What a loss our ladies
AIT 1.3. 38B Will have of these trim vanities!
AIT-LOVELL
Ay, marry,
AIT 1.3. 39 There will be woe indeed, lords. The sly whoresons
AIT 1.3. 40 Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies.
AIT 1.3. 41 A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.
AIT 1.3. 42
AIT-SANDS
The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going,
AIT 1.3. 43 For sure there's no converting of 'em. Now
AIT 1.3. 44 An honest country lord, as I am, beaten
AIT 1.3. 45 A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong
AIT 1.3. 46 And have an hour of hearing, and, by 'r Lady,
AIT 1.3. 47B Held current music, too.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Well said, Lord Sands.
AIT 1.3. 48B Your colt's tooth is not cast yet?
AIT-SANDS
No, my lord,
AIT 1.3. 49B Nor shall not while I have a stump.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
{(to +
AIT 1.3. 49B Lovell)} Sir Thomas,
AIT 1.3. 50B Whither were you a-going?
AIT-LOVELL
To the Cardinal's.
AIT 1.3. 51B Your lordship is a guest too.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
O, 'tis true.
AIT 1.3. 52 This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
AIT 1.3. 53 To many lords and ladies. There will be
AIT 1.3. 54 The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.
AIT 1.3. 55
AIT-LOVELL
That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
AIT 1.3. 56 A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us.
AIT 1.3. 57B His dews fall everywhere.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
No doubt he's noble.
AIT 1.3. 58 He had a black mouth that said other of him.
AIT 1.3. 59
AIT-SANDS
He may, my lord; he's wherewithal. In him
AIT 1.3. 60 Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine.
AIT 1.3. 61 Men of his way should be most liberal.
AIT 1.3. 62B They are set here for examples.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
True, they are so,
AIT 1.3. 63 But few now give so great ones. My barge stays.
AIT 1.3. 64 Your lordship shall along. {(To Lovell)} Come, good Sir +
AIT 1.3. 64 Thomas,
AIT 1.3. 65 We shall be late else, which I would not be,
AIT 1.3. 66 For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford,
AIT 1.3. 67B This night to be comptrollers.
AIT-SANDS
I am your lordship's. +
AIT 1.3. 67B {Exeunt}
AIT 1.3. 0 {Hautboys. [Enter servants with] a small table for +
AIT 1.4. 0 Cardinal Wolsey [which they place] under the cloth of state, and a +
AIT 1.4. 0 longer table for the guests. Then enter at one door Anne Boleyn and +
AIT 1.4. 0 divers other ladies and gentlemen as guests, and at another door enter +
AIT 1.4. 0 Sir Henry Guildford}
AIT 1.4. 1
AIT-GUILDFORD
Ladies, a general welcome from his grace
AIT 1.4. 2 Salutes ye all. This night he dedicates
AIT 1.4. 3 To fair content and you. None here, he hopes,
AIT 1.4. 4 In all this noble bevy, has brought with her
AIT 1.4. 5 One care abroad. He would have all as merry
AIT 1.4. 6 As feast, good company, good wine, good welcome
AIT 1.4. 7B Can make good people. {Enter the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Sands, +
AIT 1.4. 7B and Sir Thomas Lovell} {(To the Lord Chamberlain)} O, +
AIT 1.4. 7B my lord, you're tardy.
AIT 1.4. 8 The very thought of this fair company
AIT 1.4. 9B Clapped wings to me.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
You are young, Sir Harry +
AIT 1.4. 9B Guildford.
AIT 1.4. 10
AIT-SANDS
Sir Thomas Lovell, had the Cardinal
AIT 1.4. 11 But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these
AIT 1.4. 12 Should find a running banquet, ere they rested,
AIT 1.4. 13 I think would better please 'em. By my life,
AIT 1.4. 14 They are a sweet society of fair ones.
AIT 1.4. 15
AIT-LOVELL
O, that your lordship were but now confessor
AIT 1.4. 16B To one or two of these.
AIT-SANDS
I would I were.
AIT 1.4. 17B They should find easy penance.
AIT-LOVELL
Faith, how easy?
AIT 1.4. 18
AIT-SANDS
As easy as a down bed would afford it.
AIT 1.4. 19B
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? {(To +
AIT 1.4. 19B Guildford)} Sir Harry,
AIT 1.4. 20 Place you that side, I'll take the charge of this. {They sit +
AIT 1.4. 20 about the longer table.
AIT-[A
noise within]}
AIT 1.4. 21 His grace is ent'ring. Nay, you must not freeze -
AIT 1.4. 22 Two women placed together makes cold weather.
AIT 1.4. 23 My lord Sands, you are one will keep 'em waking.
AIT 1.4. 24B Pray sit between these ladies.
AIT-SANDS
By my faith,
AIT 1.4. 25B And thank your lordship. {He sits between Anne and +
AIT 1.4. 25B another} By your leave, sweet ladies.
AIT 1.4. 26 If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me.
AIT 1.4. 27B I had it from my father.
AIT-ANNE
Was he mad, sir?
AIT 1.4. 28
AIT-SANDS
O, very mad; exceeding mad - in love, too.
AIT 1.4. 29 But he would bite none. Just as I do now,
AIT 1.4. 30B He would kiss you twenty with a breath. {He kisses her} +
AIT 1.4. 30B
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Well said, my lord.
AIT 1.4. 31 So now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,
AIT 1.4. 32 The penance lies on you if these fair ladies
AIT 1.4. 33 Pass away frowning.
AIT 1.4. 34A
AIT-SANDS
For my little cure,
AIT 1.4. 35 Let me alone. {Hautboys. Enter Cardinal Wolsey who takes his +
AIT 1.4. 35 seat at the small table under the state}
AIT 1.4. 36
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
You're welcome, my fair guests. That +
AIT 1.4. 36 noble lady
AIT 1.4. 37 Or gentleman that is not freely merry
AIT 1.4. 38 Is not my friend. This, to confirm my welcome,
AIT 1.4. 39B And to you all, good health! {He drinks}
AIT-SANDS
Your +
AIT 1.4. 39B grace is noble.
AIT 1.4. 40 Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks,
AIT 1.4. 41B And save me so much talking.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
My lord Sands,
AIT 1.4. 42 I am beholden to you. Cheer your neighbours.
AIT 1.4. 43 Ladies, you are not merry! Gentlemen,
AIT 1.4. 44B Whose fault is this?
AIT-SANDS
The red wine first must rise
AIT 1.4. 45 In their fair cheeks, my lord, then we shall have 'em
AIT 1.4. 46B Talk us to silence.
AIT-ANNE
You are a merry gamester,
AIT 1.4. 47B My lord Sands.
AIT-SANDS
Yes, if I make my play.
AIT 1.4. 48 Here's to your ladyship; and pledge it, madam,
AIT 1.4. 49B For 'tis to such a thing -
AIT-ANNE
You cannot show me.
AIT 1.4. 50B
AIT-SANDS
{(to Wolsey)} I told your grace they would +
AIT 1.4. 50B talk anon. {Drum and trumpet. Chambers discharged} +
AIT 1.4. 50B
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
What's that?
AIT 1.4. 51B
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
{(to the servants)} Look out +
AIT 1.4. 51B there, some of ye. {Exit a servant}
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
+
AIT 1.4. 51B What warlike voice,
AIT 1.4. 52 And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not.
AIT 1.4. 53 By all the laws of war you're privileged. {Enter the servant}
AIT 1.4. 54B
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
How now - what is 't?
AIT-SERVANT
A noble +
AIT 1.4. 54B troop of strangers,
AIT 1.4. 55 For so they seem. They've left their barge and landed,
AIT 1.4. 56 And hither make as great ambassadors
AIT 1.4. 57B From foreign princes.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Good Lord Chamberlain,
AIT 1.4. 58 Go give 'em welcome - you can speak the French tongue.
AIT 1.4. 59 And pray receive 'em nobly, and conduct 'em
AIT 1.4. 60 Into our presence where this heaven of beauty
AIT 1.4. 61 Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him. {Exit +
AIT 1.4. 61 Chamberlain, attended}
AIT 1.4. 62 {All rise, and some servants remove the tables} You +
AIT 1.4. 62 have now a broken banquet, but we'll mend it.
AIT 1.4. 63 A good digestion to you all, and once more
AIT 1.4. 64 I shower a welcome on ye - welcome all. {Hautboys. Enter, ushered +
AIT 1.4. 64 by the Lord Chamberlain, King Henry and others as masquers habited like +
AIT 1.4. 64 shepherds. They pass directly before Cardinal Wolsey and gracefully +
AIT 1.4. 64 salute him}
AIT 1.4. 65 A noble company. What are their pleasures?
AIT 1.4. 66
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Because they speak no English, thus they prayed
AIT 1.4. 67 To tell your grace, that, having heard by fame
AIT 1.4. 68 Of this so noble and so fair assembly
AIT 1.4. 69 This night to meet here, they could do no less,
AIT 1.4. 70 Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,
AIT 1.4. 71 But leave their flocks, and, under your fair conduct,
AIT 1.4. 72 Crave leave to view these ladies, and entreat
AIT 1.4. 73B An hour of revels with 'em.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Say, Lord Chamberlain,
AIT 1.4. 74 They have done my poor house grace, for which I pay 'em
AIT 1.4. 75 A thousand thanks, and pray 'em take their pleasures. {The +
AIT 1.4. 75 masquers choose ladies. The King chooses Anne Boleyn}
AIT 1.4. 76
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to Anne)} The fairest hand I ever +
AIT 1.4. 76 touched. O beauty,
AIT 1.4. 77 Till now I never knew thee. {Music. They dance}
AIT 1.4. 78A
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to the Lord Chamberlain)} My +
AIT 1.4. 78A lord.
AIT 1.4. 79A
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Your grace.
AIT 1.4. 80A
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Pray tell 'em thus much from me.
AIT 1.4. 81 There should be one amongst 'em by his person
AIT 1.4. 82 More worthy this place than myself, to whom,
AIT 1.4. 83 If I but knew him, with my love and duty
AIT 1.4. 84B I would surrender it.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
I will, my lord. {[He +
AIT 1.4. 84B whispers with the masquers]}
AIT 1.4. 85B
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
What say they?
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Such a +
AIT 1.4. 85B one they all confess
AIT 1.4. 86 There is indeed, which they would have your grace
AIT 1.4. 87B Find out, and he will take it.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
+
AIT 1.4. 87B {[standing]} Let me see then.
AIT 1.4. 88 By all your good leaves, gentlemen, here I'll make
AIT 1.4. 89B My royal choice. {[He bows before the King]}
AIT-KING HENRY
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AIT 1.4. 89B {[unmasking]} Ye have found him, Cardinal.
AIT 1.4. 90 You hold a fair assembly. You do well, lord.
AIT 1.4. 91 You are a churchman, or I'll tell you, Cardinal,
AIT 1.4. 92B I should judge now unhappily.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
I am glad
AIT 1.4. 93B Your grace is grown so pleasant.
AIT-KING HENRY
My Lord Chamberlain,
AIT 1.4. 94B Prithee come hither. {(Gesturing towards Anne)} What +
AIT 1.4. 94B fair lady's that?
AIT 1.4. 95
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
An 't please your grace, Sir Thomas Boleyn's +
AIT 1.4. 95 daughter -
AIT 1.4. 96 The Viscount Rochford - one of her highness' women.
AIT 1.4. 97
AIT-KING HENRY
By heaven, she is a dainty one. {(To +
AIT 1.4. 97 Anne)} Sweetheart,
AIT 1.4. 98 I were unmannerly to take you out
AIT 1.4. 99 And not to kiss you {[kisses her]} . A health, +
AIT 1.4. 99 gentlemen; {[He drinks]}
AIT 1.4. 100 Let it go round.
AIT 1.4. 101
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready
AIT 1.4. 102B I' th' privy chamber?
AIT-LOVELL
Yes, my lord.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
+
AIT 1.4. 102B {(to the King)} Your grace
AIT 1.4. 103 I fear with dancing is a little heated.
AIT 1.4. 104A
AIT-KING HENRY
I fear too much.
AIT 1.4. 105A
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
There's fresher air, my lord,
AIT 1.4. 106 In the next chamber.
AIT 1.4. 107
AIT-KING HENRY
Lead in your ladies, every one. {(To +
AIT 1.4. 107 Anne)} Sweet partner,
AIT 1.4. 108 I must not yet forsake you. {(To Wolsey)} Let's be +
AIT 1.4. 108 merry,
AIT 1.4. 109 Good my lord Cardinal. I have half a dozen healths
AIT 1.4. 110 To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure
AIT 1.4. 111 To lead 'em once again, and then let's dream
AIT 1.4. 112 Who's best in favour. Let the music knock it. {Exeunt with +
AIT 1.4. 112 trumpets}
AIT 1.4. 112
AIT-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 1.4. 0
AIT 1.4. 0 {Enter two Gentlemen, at several doors}
AIT 2.1. 1B
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Whither away so fast?
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
+
AIT 2.1. 1B O, God save ye.
AIT 2.1. 2 Ev'n to the hall to hear what shall become
AIT 2.1. 3B Of the great Duke of Buckingham.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
I'll save you
AIT 2.1. 4 That labour, sir. All's now done but the ceremony
AIT 2.1. 5B Of bringing back the prisoner.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Were you there?
AIT 2.1. 6B
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Yes, indeed was I.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Pray speak +
AIT 2.1. 6B what has happened.
AIT 2.1. 7B
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
You may guess quickly what.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Is +
AIT 2.1. 7B he found guilty?
AIT 2.1. 8
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Yes, truly is he, and condemned upon 't.
AIT 2.1. 9A
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I am sorry for 't.
AIT 2.1. 10A
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
So are a number more.
AIT 2.1. 11A
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
But pray, how passed it?
AIT 2.1. 12
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
I'll tell you in a little. The great Duke
AIT 2.1. 13 Came to the bar, where to his accusations
AIT 2.1. 14 He pleaded still not guilty, and alleged
AIT 2.1. 15 Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
AIT 2.1. 16 The King's attorney, on the contrary,
AIT 2.1. 17 Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions,
AIT 2.1. 18 Of divers witnesses, which the Duke desired
AIT 2.1. 19 To him brought {viva voce} to his face -
AIT 2.1. 20 At which appeared against him his surveyor,
AIT 2.1. 21 Sir Gilbert Perk his chancellor, and John Car,
AIT 2.1. 22 Confessor to him, with that devil-monk,
AIT 2.1. 23B Hopkins, that made this mischief.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
That was he
AIT 2.1. 24B That fed him with his prophecies.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
The same.
AIT 2.1. 25 All these accused him strongly, which he fain
AIT 2.1. 26 Would have flung from him, but indeed he could not.
AIT 2.1. 27 And so his peers, upon this evidence,
AIT 2.1. 28 Have found him guilty of high treason. Much
AIT 2.1. 29 He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all
AIT 2.1. 30 Was either pitied in him or forgotten.
AIT 2.1. 31
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
After all this, how did he bear himself?
AIT 2.1. 32
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
When he was brought again to th' bar to hear
AIT 2.1. 33 His knell rung out, his judgement, he was stirred
AIT 2.1. 34 With such an agony he sweat extremely,
AIT 2.1. 35 And something spoke in choler, ill and hasty;
AIT 2.1. 36 But he fell to himself again, and sweetly
AIT 2.1. 37 In all the rest showed a most noble patience.
AIT 2.1. 38B
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I do not think he fears death.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
+
AIT 2.1. 38B Sure he does not.
AIT 2.1. 39 He never was so womanish. The cause
AIT 2.1. 40B He may a little grieve at.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Certainly
AIT 2.1. 41B The Cardinal is the end of this.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
'Tis likely
AIT 2.1. 42 By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,
AIT 2.1. 43 Then deputy of Ireland, who, removed,
AIT 2.1. 44 Earl Surrey was sent thither - and in haste, too,
AIT 2.1. 45B Lest he should help his father.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
That trick of state
AIT 2.1. 46B Was a deep envious one.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
At his return
AIT 2.1. 47 No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,
AIT 2.1. 48 And generally: whoever the King favours,
AIT 2.1. 49 The Card'nal instantly will find employment -
AIT 2.1. 50B And far enough from court, too.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
All the commons
AIT 2.1. 51 Hate him perniciously and, o' my conscience,
AIT 2.1. 52 Wish him ten fathom deep. This Duke as much
AIT 2.1. 53 They love and dote on, call him `bounteous Buckingham,
AIT 2.1. 54B The mirror of all courtesy' - {Enter the Duke of Buckingham from +
AIT 2.1. 54B his arraignment, tipstaves before him, the axe with the edge towards +
AIT 2.1. 54B him, halberdiers on each side, accompanied with Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir +
AIT 2.1. 54B Nicholas Vaux, Sir William Sands, and common people}
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
+
AIT 2.1. 54B Stay there, sir,
AIT 2.1. 55 And see the noble ruined man you speak of.
AIT 2.1. 56B
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Let's stand close and behold him. {They +
AIT 2.1. 56B stand apart}
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
{(to the common people)} +
AIT 2.1. 56B All good people,
AIT 2.1. 57 You that thus far have come to pity me,
AIT 2.1. 58 Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
AIT 2.1. 59 I have this day received a traitor's judgement,
AIT 2.1. 60 And by that name must die. Yet, heaven bear witness,
AIT 2.1. 61 And if I have a conscience let it sink me,
AIT 2.1. 62 Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful.
AIT 2.1. 63 The law I bear no malice for my death.
AIT 2.1. 64 'T has done, upon the premises, but justice.
AIT 2.1. 65 But those that sought it I could wish more Christians.
AIT 2.1. 66 Be what they will, I heartily forgive 'em.
AIT 2.1. 67 Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief,
AIT 2.1. 68 Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
AIT 2.1. 69 For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em.
AIT 2.1. 70 For further life in this world I ne'er hope,
AIT 2.1. 71 Nor will I sue, although the King have mercies
AIT 2.1. 72 More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me,
AIT 2.1. 73 And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,
AIT 2.1. 74 His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave
AIT 2.1. 75 Is only bitter to him, only dying,
AIT 2.1. 76 Go with me like good angels to my end,
AIT 2.1. 77 And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
AIT 2.1. 78 Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
AIT 2.1. 79 And lift my soul to heaven. {(To the guard)} Lead on, +
AIT 2.1. 79 i' God's name.
AIT 2.1. 80
AIT-LOVELL
I do beseech your grace, for charity,
AIT 2.1. 81 If ever any malice in your heart
AIT 2.1. 82 Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.
AIT 2.1. 83
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you
AIT 2.1. 84 As I would be forgiven. I forgive all.
AIT 2.1. 85 There cannot be those numberless offences
AIT 2.1. 86 'Gainst me that I cannot take peace with. No black envy
AIT 2.1. 87 Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace,
AIT 2.1. 88 And if he speak of Buckingham, pray tell him
AIT 2.1. 89 You met him half in heaven. My vows and prayers
AIT 2.1. 90 Yet are the King's, and, till my soul forsake,
AIT 2.1. 91 Shall cry for blessings on him. May he live
AIT 2.1. 92 Longer than I have time to tell his years;
AIT 2.1. 93 Ever beloved and loving may his rule be;
AIT 2.1. 94 And, when old time shall lead him to his end,
AIT 2.1. 95 Goodness and he fill up one monument.
AIT 2.1. 96
AIT-LOVELL
To th' waterside I must conduct your grace,
AIT 2.1. 97 Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
AIT 2.1. 98B Who undertakes you to your end.
AIT-VAUX
{(to an +
AIT 2.1. 98B attendant)} Prepare there -
AIT 2.1. 99 The Duke is coming. See the barge be ready,
AIT 2.1. 100 And fit it with such furniture as suits
AIT 2.1. 101B The greatness of his person.
AIT-BUCKINGHAM
Nay, Sir Nicholas,
AIT 2.1. 102 Let it alone. My state now will but mock me.
AIT 2.1. 103 When I came hither I was Lord High Constable
AIT 2.1. 104 And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun.
AIT 2.1. 105 Yet I am richer than my base accusers,
AIT 2.1. 106 That never knew what truth meant. I now seal it,
AIT 2.1. 107 And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for 't.
AIT 2.1. 108 My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,
AIT 2.1. 109 Who first raised head against usurping Richard,
AIT 2.1. 110 Flying for succour to his servant Banister,
AIT 2.1. 111 Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed,
AIT 2.1. 112 And without trial fell. God's peace be with him.
AIT 2.1. 113 Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying
AIT 2.1. 114 My father's loss, like a most royal prince,
AIT 2.1. 115 Restored me to my honours, and out of ruins
AIT 2.1. 116 Made my name once more noble. Now his son,
AIT 2.1. 117 Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name, and all
AIT 2.1. 118 That made me happy, at one stroke has taken
AIT 2.1. 119 For ever from the world. I had my trial,
AIT 2.1. 120 And must needs say a noble one; which makes me
AIT 2.1. 121 A little happier than my wretched father.
AIT 2.1. 122 Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both
AIT 2.1. 123 Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most -
AIT 2.1. 124 A most unnatural and faithless service.
AIT 2.1. 125 Heaven has an end in all. Yet, you that hear me,
AIT 2.1. 126 This from a dying man receive as certain -
AIT 2.1. 127 Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels,
AIT 2.1. 128 Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
AIT 2.1. 129 And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
AIT 2.1. 130 The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
AIT 2.1. 131 Like water from ye, never found again
AIT 2.1. 132 But where they mean to sink ye. All good people
AIT 2.1. 133 Pray for me. I must now forsake ye. The last hour
AIT 2.1. 134 Of my long weary life is come upon me.
AIT 2.1. 135 Farewell, and when you would say something that is sad,
AIT 2.1. 136 Speak how I fell. I have done, and God forgive me. {Exeunt +
AIT 2.1. 136 Buckingham and train}
AIT 2.1. 137 {The two Gentlemen come forward}
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
+
AIT 2.1. 137 O, this is full of pity, sir; it calls,
AIT 2.1. 138 I fear, too many curses on their heads
AIT 2.1. 139B That were the authors.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
If the Duke be guiltless,
AIT 2.1. 140 'Tis full of woe. Yet I can give you inkling
AIT 2.1. 141 Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,
AIT 2.1. 142B Greater than this.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Good angels keep it from us.
AIT 2.1. 143 What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?
AIT 2.1. 144
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
This secret is so weighty, 'twill require
AIT 2.1. 145B A strong faith to conceal it.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Let me have it -
AIT 2.1. 146B I do not talk much.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I am confident;
AIT 2.1. 147 You shall, sir. Did you not of late days hear
AIT 2.1. 148 A buzzing of a separation
AIT 2.1. 149B Between the King and Katherine?
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Yes, but it held +
AIT 2.1. 149B not.
AIT 2.1. 150 For when the King once heard it, out of anger
AIT 2.1. 151 He sent command to the Lord Mayor straight
AIT 2.1. 152 To stop the rumour and allay those tongues
AIT 2.1. 153B That durst disperse it.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
But that slander, sir,
AIT 2.1. 154 Is found a truth now, for it grows again
AIT 2.1. 155 Fresher than e'er it was, and held for certain
AIT 2.1. 156 The King will venture at it. Either the Cardinal
AIT 2.1. 157 Or some about him near have, out of malice
AIT 2.1. 158 To the good Queen, possessed him with a scruple
AIT 2.1. 159 That will undo her. To confirm this, too,
AIT 2.1. 160 Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately,
AIT 2.1. 161B As all think, for this business.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
'Tis the Cardinal;
AIT 2.1. 162 And merely to revenge him on the Emperor
AIT 2.1. 163 For not bestowing on him at his asking
AIT 2.1. 164 The Archbishopric of Toledo this is purposed.
AIT 2.1. 165
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I think you have hit the mark. But is 't not cruel
AIT 2.1. 166 That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
AIT 2.1. 167B Will have his will, and she must fall.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
'Tis woeful.
AIT 2.1. 168 We are too open here to argue this.
AIT 2.1. 169 Let's think in private more. {Exeunt}
AIT 2.1. 0 {Enter the Lord Chamberlain with a letter}
AIT 2.2. 1
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
{(reads)} `My lord, the horses +
AIT 2.2. 1 your
AIT 2.2. 2 lordship sent for, with all the care I had, I saw well
AIT 2.2. 3 chosen, ridden, and furnished. They were young and
AIT 2.2. 4 handsome, and of the best breed in the north. When
AIT 2.2. 5 they were ready to set out for London, a man of my
AIT 2.2. 6 lord Cardinal's, by commission and main power, took
AIT 2.2. 7 'em from me with this reason - his master would be
AIT 2.2. 8 served before a subject, if not before the King; which
AIT 2.2. 9 stopped our mouths, sir.'
AIT 2.2. 10 I fear he will indeed. Well, let him have them.
AIT 2.2. 11 He will have all, I think. {Enter to the Lord Chamberlain the +
AIT 2.2. 11 Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk}
AIT 2.2. 12A
AIT-NORFOLK
Well met, my Lord Chamberlain.
AIT 2.2. 13A
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Good day to both your graces.
AIT 2.2. 14B
AIT-SUFFOLK
How is the King employed?
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
I left him +
AIT 2.2. 14B private,
AIT 2.2. 15B Full of sad thoughts and troubles.
AIT-NORFOLK
What's the cause?
AIT 2.2. 16
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
It seems the marriage with his brother's wife
AIT 2.2. 17B Has crept too near his conscience.
AIT-SUFFOLK
No, his conscience
AIT 2.2. 18B Has crept too near another lady.
AIT-NORFOLK
'Tis so.
AIT 2.2. 19 This is the Cardinal's doing. The King-Cardinal,
AIT 2.2. 20 That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,
AIT 2.2. 21 Turns what he list. The King will know him one day.
AIT 2.2. 22
AIT-SUFFOLK
Pray God he do. He'll never know himself else.
AIT 2.2. 23
AIT-NORFOLK
How holily he works in all his business,
AIT 2.2. 24 And with what zeal! For now he has cracked the league
AIT 2.2. 25 Between us and the Emperor, the Queen's great- nephew,
AIT 2.2. 26 He dives into the King's soul and there scatters
AIT 2.2. 27 Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,
AIT 2.2. 28 Fears, and despairs - and all these for his marriage.
AIT 2.2. 29 And out of all these, to restore the King,
AIT 2.2. 30 He counsels a divorce - a loss of her
AIT 2.2. 31 That like a jewel has hung twenty years
AIT 2.2. 32 About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;
AIT 2.2. 33 Of her that loves him with that excellence
AIT 2.2. 34 That angels love good men with; even of her
AIT 2.2. 35 That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,
AIT 2.2. 36 Will bless the King - and is not this course pious?
AIT 2.2. 37
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Heaven keep me from such counsel! 'Tis most true -
AIT 2.2. 38 These news are everywhere, every tongue speaks 'em,
AIT 2.2. 39 And every true heart weeps for 't. All that dare
AIT 2.2. 40 Look into these affairs see this main end -
AIT 2.2. 41 The French king's sister. Heaven will one day open
AIT 2.2. 42 The King's eyes, that so long have slept, upon
AIT 2.2. 43 This bold bad man.
AIT 2.2. 44A
AIT-SUFFOLK
And free us from his slavery.
AIT 2.2. 45A
AIT-NORFOLK
We had need pray,
AIT 2.2. 46 And heartily, for our deliverance,
AIT 2.2. 47 Or this imperious man will work us all
AIT 2.2. 48 From princes into pages. All men's honours
AIT 2.2. 49 Lie like one lump before him, to be fashioned
AIT 2.2. 50B Into what pitch he please.
AIT-SUFFOLK
For me, my lords,
AIT 2.2. 51 I love him not, nor fear him - there's my creed.
AIT 2.2. 52 As I am made without him, so I'll stand,
AIT 2.2. 53 If the King please. His curses and his blessings
AIT 2.2. 54 Touch me alike; they're breath I not believe in.
AIT 2.2. 55 I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him
AIT 2.2. 56B To him that made him proud - the Pope.
AIT-NORFOLK
Let's in,
AIT 2.2. 57 And with some other business put the King
AIT 2.2. 58 From these sad thoughts that work too much upon him.
AIT 2.2. 59B {(To the Lord Chamberlain)} My lord, you'll bear us +
AIT 2.2. 59B company?
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Excuse me,
AIT 2.2. 60 The King has sent me otherwhere. Besides,
AIT 2.2. 61 You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him.
AIT 2.2. 62B Health to your lordships.
AIT-NORFOLK
Thanks, my good Lord +
AIT 2.2. 62B Chamberlain. {Exit the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 2.2. 63 {King Henry draws the curtain, and sits reading +
AIT 2.2. 63 pensively}
AIT-SUFFOLK
How sad he looks! Sure he is much +
AIT 2.2. 63 afflicted.
AIT 2.2. 64B
AIT-KING HENRY
Who's there? Ha?
AIT-NORFOLK
Pray God he be not angry.
AIT 2.2. 65
AIT-KING HENRY
Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves
AIT 2.2. 66 Into my private meditations!
AIT 2.2. 67 Who am I? Ha?
AIT 2.2. 68
AIT-NORFOLK
A gracious king that pardons all offences
AIT 2.2. 69 Malice ne'er meant. Our breach of duty this way
AIT 2.2. 70 Is business of estate, in which we come
AIT 2.2. 71B To know your royal pleasure.
AIT-KING HENRY
Ye are too bold.
AIT 2.2. 72 Go to, I'll make ye know your times of business.
AIT 2.2. 73 Is this an hour for temporal affairs? Ha? {Enter Cardinal Wolsey +
AIT 2.2. 73 and Cardinal Campeius, the latter with a commission}
AIT 2.2. 74 Who's there? My good lord Cardinal? O, my Wolsey,
AIT 2.2. 75 The quiet of my wounded conscience,
AIT 2.2. 76B Thou art a cure fit for a king. {(To Campeius)} You're +
AIT 2.2. 76B welcome,
AIT 2.2. 77 Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom.
AIT 2.2. 78 Use us, and it. {(To Wolsey)} My good lord, have great +
AIT 2.2. 78 care
AIT 2.2. 79B I be not found a talker.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Sir, you cannot.
AIT 2.2. 80 I would your grace would give us but an hour
AIT 2.2. 81B Of private conference.
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to Norfolk and +
AIT 2.2. 81B Suffolk)} We are busy; go. {Norfolk and Suffolk speak +
AIT 2.2. 81B privately to one another as they depart}
AIT 2.2. 82B
AIT-NORFOLK
This priest has no pride in him!
AIT-SUFFOLK
Not +
AIT 2.2. 82B to speak of.
AIT 2.2. 83 I would not be so sick, though, for his place -
AIT 2.2. 84B But this cannot continue.
AIT-NORFOLK
If it do
AIT 2.2. 85B I'll venture one have-at-him.
AIT-SUFFOLK
I another. {Exeunt +
AIT 2.2. 85B Norfolk and Suffolk}
AIT 2.2. 86
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to the King)} Your grace has +
AIT 2.2. 86 given a precedent of wisdom
AIT 2.2. 87 Above all princes in committing freely
AIT 2.2. 88 Your scruple to the voice of Christendom.
AIT 2.2. 89 Who can be angry now? What envy reach you?
AIT 2.2. 90 The Spaniard, tied by blood and favour to her,
AIT 2.2. 91 Must now confess, if they have any goodness,
AIT 2.2. 92 The trial just and noble. All the clerks -
AIT 2.2. 93 I mean the learned ones in Christian kingdoms -
AIT 2.2. 94 Have their free voices. Rome, the nurse of judgement,
AIT 2.2. 95 Invited by your noble self, hath sent
AIT 2.2. 96 One general tongue unto us: this good man,
AIT 2.2. 97 This just and learned priest, Card'nal Campeius,
AIT 2.2. 98 Whom once more I present unto your highness.
AIT 2.2. 99
AIT-KING HENRY
{(embracing Campeius)} And once more in +
AIT 2.2. 99 mine arms I bid him welcome,
AIT 2.2. 100 And thank the holy conclave for their loves.
AIT 2.2. 101 They have sent me such a man I would have wished for.
AIT 2.2. 102
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' +
AIT 2.2. 102 loves,
AIT 2.2. 103 You are so noble. To your highness' hand
AIT 2.2. 104B I tender my commission, {He gives the commission to the +
AIT 2.2. 104B King} {(To Wolsey)} by whose virtue,
AIT 2.2. 105 The Court of Rome commanding, you, my lord
AIT 2.2. 106 Cardinal of York, are joined with me their servant
AIT 2.2. 107 In the unpartial judging of this business.
AIT 2.2. 108
AIT-KING HENRY
Two equal men. The Queen shall be acquainted
AIT 2.2. 109 Forthwith for what you come. Where's Gardiner?
AIT 2.2. 110
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
I know your majesty has always loved her
AIT 2.2. 111 So dear in heart not to deny her that
AIT 2.2. 112 A woman of less place might ask by law -
AIT 2.2. 113 Scholars allowed freely to argue for her.
AIT 2.2. 114
AIT-KING HENRY
Ay, and the best she shall have, and my favour
AIT 2.2. 115 To him that does best, God forbid else. Cardinal,
AIT 2.2. 116 Prithee call Gardiner to me, my new secretary. {Cardinal Wolsey +
AIT 2.2. 116 goes to the door and calls Gardiner}
AIT 2.2. 117 I find him a fit fellow. {Enter Gardiner}
AIT 2.2. 118
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(aside to Gardiner)} Give me your +
AIT 2.2. 118 hand. Much joy and favour to you.
AIT 2.2. 119B You are the King's now.
AIT-GARDINER
{(aside to Wolsey)}+
AIT 2.2. 119B But to be commanded
AIT 2.2. 120 For ever by your grace, whose hand has raised me.
AIT 2.2. 121A
AIT-KING HENRY
Come hither, Gardiner. {The King walks with +
AIT 2.2. 121A Gardiner and whispers with him}
AIT 2.2. 122
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
{(to Wolsey)} My lord of York, +
AIT 2.2. 122 was not one Doctor Pace
AIT 2.2. 123B In this man's place before him?
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Yes, he was.
AIT 2.2. 124B
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Was he not held a learned man?
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
AIT 2.2. 124B Yes, surely.
AIT 2.2. 125
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then,
AIT 2.2. 126B Even of yourself, lord Cardinal.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
How? Of me?
AIT 2.2. 127
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
They will not stick to say you envied him,
AIT 2.2. 128 And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous,
AIT 2.2. 129 Kept him a foreign man still, which so grieved him
AIT 2.2. 130B That he ran mad and died.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Heav'n's peace be with +
AIT 2.2. 130B him -
AIT 2.2. 131 That's Christian care enough. For living murmurers
AIT 2.2. 132 There's places of rebuke. He was a fool,
AIT 2.2. 133B For he would needs be virtuous. {(Gesturing towards +
AIT 2.2. 133B Gardiner)} That good fellow,
AIT 2.2. 134 If I command him, follows my appointment.
AIT 2.2. 135 I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother:
AIT 2.2. 136 We live not to be griped by meaner persons.
AIT 2.2. 137
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to Gardiner)} Deliver this with +
AIT 2.2. 137 modesty to th' Queen. {Exit Gardiner}
AIT 2.2. 138 The most convenient place that I can think of
AIT 2.2. 139 For such receipt of learning is Blackfriars;
AIT 2.2. 140 There ye shall meet about this weighty business.
AIT 2.2. 141 My Wolsey, see it furnished. O, my lord,
AIT 2.2. 142 Would it not grieve an able man to leave
AIT 2.2. 143 So sweet a bedfellow? But conscience, conscience -
AIT 2.2. 144 O, 'tis a tender place, and I must leave her. {Exeunt}
AIT 2.2. 0
AIT 2.2. 0 {Enter Anne Boleyn and an Old Lady}
AIT 2.3. 1
AIT-ANNE
Not for that neither. Here's the pang that pinches -
AIT 2.3. 2 His highness having lived so long with her, and she
AIT 2.3. 3 So good a lady that no tongue could ever
AIT 2.3. 4 Pronounce dishonour of her - by my life,
AIT 2.3. 5 She never knew harm-doing - O now, after
AIT 2.3. 6 So many courses of the sun enthroned,
AIT 2.3. 7 Still growing in a majesty and pomp the which
AIT 2.3. 8 To leave a thousandfold more bitter than
AIT 2.3. 9 'Tis sweet at first t' acquire - after this process,
AIT 2.3. 10 To give her the avaunt, it is a pity
AIT 2.3. 11B Would move a monster.
AIT-OLD LADY
Hearts of most hard temper
AIT 2.3. 12B Melt and lament for her.
AIT-ANNE
O, God's will! Much better
AIT 2.3. 13 She ne'er had known pomp; though 't be temporal,
AIT 2.3. 14 Yet if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce
AIT 2.3. 15 It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging
AIT 2.3. 16B As soul and bodies severing.
AIT-OLD LADY
Alas, poor lady!
AIT 2.3. 17B She's a stranger now again.
AIT-ANNE
So much the more
AIT 2.3. 18 Must pity drop upon her. Verily,
AIT 2.3. 19 I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born
AIT 2.3. 20 And range with humble livers in content
AIT 2.3. 21 Than to be perked up in a glist'ring grief
AIT 2.3. 22B And wear a golden sorrow.
AIT-OLD LADY
Our content
AIT 2.3. 23B Is our best having.
AIT-ANNE
By my troth and maidenhead,
AIT 2.3. 24B I would not be a queen.
AIT-OLD LADY
Beshrew me, I would -
AIT 2.3. 25 And venture maidenhead for 't; and so would you,
AIT 2.3. 26 For all this spice of your hypocrisy.
AIT 2.3. 27 You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,
AIT 2.3. 28 Have, too, a woman's heart which ever yet
AIT 2.3. 29 Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty;
AIT 2.3. 30 Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,
AIT 2.3. 31 Saving your mincing, the capacity
AIT 2.3. 32 Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive
AIT 2.3. 33B If you might please to stretch it.
AIT-ANNE
Nay, good troth.
AIT 2.3. 34
AIT-OLD LADY
Yes, troth and troth. You would not be a queen?
AIT 2.3. 35
AIT-ANNE
No, not for all the riches under heaven.
AIT 2.3. 36
AIT-OLD LADY
'Tis strange. A threepence bowed would hire me,
AIT 2.3. 37 Old as I am, to queen it. But I pray you,
AIT 2.3. 38 What think you of a duchess? Have you limbs
AIT 2.3. 39B To bear that load of title?
AIT-ANNE
No, in truth.
AIT 2.3. 40
AIT-OLD LADY
Then you are weakly made. Pluck off a little;
AIT 2.3. 41 I would not be a young count in your way
AIT 2.3. 42 For more than blushing comes to. If your back
AIT 2.3. 43 Cannot vouchsafe this burden, 'tis too weak
AIT 2.3. 44B Ever to get a boy.
AIT-ANNE
How you do talk!
AIT 2.3. 45 I swear again, I would not be a queen
AIT 2.3. 46B For all the world.
AIT-OLD LADY
In faith, for little England
AIT 2.3. 47 You'd venture an emballing; I myself
AIT 2.3. 48 Would for Caernarfonshire, although there 'longed
AIT 2.3. 49 No more to th' crown but that. Lo, who comes here? {Enter the +
AIT 2.3. 49 Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 2.3. 50
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Good morrow, ladies. What were 't worth +
AIT 2.3. 50 to know
AIT 2.3. 51B The secret of your conference?
AIT-ANNE
My good lord,
AIT 2.3. 52 Not your demand; it values not your asking.
AIT 2.3. 53 Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying.
AIT 2.3. 54
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
It was a gentle business, and becoming
AIT 2.3. 55 The action of good women. There is hope
AIT 2.3. 56B All will be well.
AIT-ANNE
Now I pray God, amen.
AIT 2.3. 57
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
You bear a gentle mind, and heav'nly blessings
AIT 2.3. 58 Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,
AIT 2.3. 59 Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note's
AIT 2.3. 60 Ta'en of your many virtues, the King's majesty
AIT 2.3. 61 Commends his good opinion of you, and
AIT 2.3. 62 Does purpose honour to you no less flowing
AIT 2.3. 63 Than Marchioness of Pembroke; to which title
AIT 2.3. 64 A thousand pound a year annual support
AIT 2.3. 65B Out of his grace he adds.
AIT-ANNE
I do not know
AIT 2.3. 66 What kind of my obedience I should tender.
AIT 2.3. 67 More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
AIT 2.3. 68 Are not words duly hallowed, nor my wishes
AIT 2.3. 69 More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
AIT 2.3. 70 Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,
AIT 2.3. 71 Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,
AIT 2.3. 72 As from a blushing handmaid to his highness,
AIT 2.3. 73B Whose health and royalty I pray for.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Lady,
AIT 2.3. 74 I shall not fail t' approve the fair conceit
AIT 2.3. 75 The King hath of you. {(Aside)} I have perused her +
AIT 2.3. 75 well.
AIT 2.3. 76 Beauty and honour in her are so mingled
AIT 2.3. 77 That they have caught the King, and who knows yet
AIT 2.3. 78 But from this lady may proceed a gem
AIT 2.3. 79 To lighten all this isle. {(To Anne)} I'll to the King
AIT 2.3. 80 And say I spoke with you.
AIT 2.3. 81A
AIT-ANNE
My honoured lord. {Exit the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 2.3. 82A
AIT-OLD LADY
Why, this it is - see, see!
AIT 2.3. 83 I have been begging sixteen years in court,
AIT 2.3. 84 Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could
AIT 2.3. 85 Come pat betwixt too early and too late
AIT 2.3. 86 For any suit of pounds; and you - O, fate! -
AIT 2.3. 87 A very fresh fish here - fie, fie upon
AIT 2.3. 88 This compelled fortune! - have your mouth filled up
AIT 2.3. 89B Before you open it.
AIT-ANNE
This is strange to me.
AIT 2.3. 90
AIT-OLD LADY
How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no.
AIT 2.3. 91 There was a lady once - 'tis an old story -
AIT 2.3. 92 That would not be a queen, that would she not,
AIT 2.3. 93 For all the mud in Egypt. Have you heard it?
AIT 2.3. 94B
AIT-ANNE
Come, you are pleasant.
AIT-OLD LADY
With your theme I could
AIT 2.3. 95 O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke?
AIT 2.3. 96 A thousand pounds a year, for pure respect?
AIT 2.3. 97 No other obligation? By my life,
AIT 2.3. 98 That promises more thousands. Honour's train
AIT 2.3. 99 Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time
AIT 2.3. 100 I know your back will bear a duchess. Say,
AIT 2.3. 101B Are you not stronger than you were?
AIT-ANNE
Good lady,
AIT 2.3. 102 Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,
AIT 2.3. 103 And leave me out on 't. Would I had no being,
AIT 2.3. 104 If this salute my blood a jot. It faints me
AIT 2.3. 105 To think what follows.
AIT 2.3. 106 The Queen is comfortless, and we forgetful
AIT 2.3. 107 In our long absence. Pray do not deliver
AIT 2.3. 108B What here you've heard to her.
AIT-OLD LADY
What do you think me - +
AIT 2.3. 108B {Exeunt}
AIT 2.3. 0 {Trumpets: sennet. Then cornetts. Enter two vergers with +
AIT 2.4. 0 short silver wands; next them two Scribes in the habit of doctors; +
AIT 2.4. 0 after them the Archbishop of Canterbury alone; after him the Bishops of +
AIT 2.4. 0 Lincoln, Ely, Rochester, and Saint Asaph; next them, with some small +
AIT 2.4. 0 distance, follows a gentleman bearing both the purse containing the +
AIT 2.4. 0 great seal and a cardinal's hat; then two priests bearing each a silver +
AIT 2.4. 0 cross; then a gentleman usher, bare-headed, accompanied with a +
AIT 2.4. 0 serjeant-at-arms bearing a silver mace; then two gentlemen bearing two +
AIT 2.4. 0 great silver pillars; after them, side by side, the two cardinals, +
AIT 2.4. 0 Wolsey and Campeius; then two noblemen with the sword and mace. The +
AIT 2.4. 0 King [ascends] to his seat under the cloth of state; the two cardinals +
AIT 2.4. 0 sit under him as judges; the Queen, attended by Griffith her gentleman +
AIT 2.4. 0 usher, takes place some distance from the King; the Bishops place +
AIT 2.4. 0 themselves on each side the court in the manner of a consistory; below +
AIT 2.4. 0 them, the Scribes. The lords sit next the Bishops. The rest of the +
AIT 2.4. 0 attendants stand in convenient order about the stage}
AIT 2.4. 1
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Whilst our commission from Rome is read
AIT 2.4. 2B Let silence be commanded.
AIT-KING HENRY
What's the need?
AIT 2.4. 3 It hath already publicly been read,
AIT 2.4. 4 And on all sides th' authority allowed.
AIT 2.4. 5B You may then spare that time.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Be 't so. Proceed.
AIT 2.4. 6
AIT-SCRIBE
{(to the Crier)} Say, `Henry, King of +
AIT 2.4. 6 England, come into the court'.
AIT 2.4. 7
AIT-CRIER
Henry, King of England, come into the court.
AIT 2.4. 8A
AIT-KING HENRY
Here.
AIT 2.4. 9
AIT-SCRIBE
{(to the Crier)} Say, `Katherine, Queen of +
AIT 2.4. 9 England, come into the court'.
AIT 2.4. 10
AIT-CRIER
Katherine, Queen of England, come into the court. {The +
AIT 2.4. 10 Queen makes no answer, but rises out of her chair, goes about the +
AIT 2.4. 10 court, comes to the King, and kneels at his feet. Then she speaks}
AIT 2.4. 11
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Sir, I desire you do me right and +
AIT 2.4. 11 justice,
AIT 2.4. 12 And to bestow your pity on me; for
AIT 2.4. 13 I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,
AIT 2.4. 14 Born out of your dominions, having here
AIT 2.4. 15 No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
AIT 2.4. 16 Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,
AIT 2.4. 17 In what have I offended you? What cause
AIT 2.4. 18 Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure
AIT 2.4. 19 That thus you should proceed to put me off,
AIT 2.4. 20 And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness
AIT 2.4. 21 I have been to you a true and humble wife,
AIT 2.4. 22 At all times to your will conformable,
AIT 2.4. 23 Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
AIT 2.4. 24 Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry
AIT 2.4. 25 As I saw it inclined. When was the hour
AIT 2.4. 26 I ever contradicted your desire,
AIT 2.4. 27 Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends
AIT 2.4. 28 Have I not strove to love, although I knew
AIT 2.4. 29 He were mine enemy? What friend of mine
AIT 2.4. 30 That had to him derived your anger did I
AIT 2.4. 31 Continue in my liking? Nay, gave notice
AIT 2.4. 32 He was from thence discharged? Sir, call to mind
AIT 2.4. 33 That I have been your wife in this obedience
AIT 2.4. 34 Upward of twenty years, and have been blessed
AIT 2.4. 35 With many children by you. If, in the course
AIT 2.4. 36 And process of this time, you can report -
AIT 2.4. 37 And prove it, too - against mine honour aught,
AIT 2.4. 38 My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty
AIT 2.4. 39 Against your sacred person, in God's name
AIT 2.4. 40 Turn me away, and let the foul'st contempt
AIT 2.4. 41 Shut door upon me, and so give me up
AIT 2.4. 42 To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you, sir,
AIT 2.4. 43 The King your father was reputed for
AIT 2.4. 44 A prince most prudent, of an excellent
AIT 2.4. 45 And unmatched wit and judgement. Ferdinand
AIT 2.4. 46 My father, King of Spain, was reckoned one
AIT 2.4. 47 The wisest prince that there had reigned by many
AIT 2.4. 48 A year before. It is not to be questioned
AIT 2.4. 49 That they had gathered a wise council to them
AIT 2.4. 50 Of every realm, that did debate this business,
AIT 2.4. 51 Who deemed our marriage lawful. Wherefore I humbly
AIT 2.4. 52 Beseech you, sir, to spare me till I may
AIT 2.4. 53 Be by my friends in Spain advised, whose counsel
AIT 2.4. 54 I will implore. If not, i' th' name of God,
AIT 2.4. 55B Your pleasure be fulfilled.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
You have here, lady,
AIT 2.4. 56 And of your choice, these reverend fathers, men
AIT 2.4. 57 Of singular integrity and learning,
AIT 2.4. 58 Yea, the elect o' th' land, who are assembled
AIT 2.4. 59 To plead your cause. It shall be therefore bootless
AIT 2.4. 60 That longer you desire the court, as well
AIT 2.4. 61 For your own quiet, as to rectify
AIT 2.4. 62B What is unsettled in the King.
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
His grace
AIT 2.4. 63 Hath spoken well and justly. Therefore, madam,
AIT 2.4. 64 It's fit this royal session do proceed,
AIT 2.4. 65 And that without delay their arguments
AIT 2.4. 66B Be now produced and heard.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
{(to +
AIT 2.4. 66B Wolsey)} Lord Cardinal,
AIT 2.4. 67B To you I speak.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Your pleasure, madam. +
AIT 2.4. 67B
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Sir,
AIT 2.4. 68 I am about to weep, but thinking that
AIT 2.4. 69 We are a queen, or long have dreamed so, certain
AIT 2.4. 70 The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
AIT 2.4. 71B I'll turn to sparks of fire.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Be patient yet.
AIT 2.4. 72
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
I will when you are humble! Nay, before,
AIT 2.4. 73 Or God will punish me. I do believe,
AIT 2.4. 74 Induced by potent circumstances, that
AIT 2.4. 75 You are mine enemy, and make my challenge
AIT 2.4. 76 You shall not be my judge. For it is you
AIT 2.4. 77 Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me,
AIT 2.4. 78 Which God's dew quench. Therefore I say again,
AIT 2.4. 79 I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul,
AIT 2.4. 80 Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more
AIT 2.4. 81 I hold my most malicious foe, and think not
AIT 2.4. 82B At all a friend to truth.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
I do profess
AIT 2.4. 83 You speak not like yourself, who ever yet
AIT 2.4. 84 Have stood to charity, and displayed th' effects
AIT 2.4. 85 Of disposition gentle and of wisdom
AIT 2.4. 86 O'er-topping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong.
AIT 2.4. 87 I have no spleen against you, nor injustice
AIT 2.4. 88 For you or any. How far I have proceeded,
AIT 2.4. 89 Or how far further shall, is warranted
AIT 2.4. 90 By a commission from the consistory,
AIT 2.4. 91 Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me
AIT 2.4. 92 That I `have blown this coal'. I do deny it.
AIT 2.4. 93 The King is present. If it be known to him
AIT 2.4. 94 That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,
AIT 2.4. 95 And worthily, my falsehood - yea, as much
AIT 2.4. 96 As you have done my truth. If he know
AIT 2.4. 97 That I am free of your report, he knows
AIT 2.4. 98 I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him
AIT 2.4. 99 It lies to cure me, and the cure is to
AIT 2.4. 100 Remove these thoughts from you. The which before
AIT 2.4. 101 His highness shall speak in, I do beseech
AIT 2.4. 102 You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking,
AIT 2.4. 103B And to say so no more.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
My lord, my lord -
AIT 2.4. 104 I am a simple woman, much too weak
AIT 2.4. 105 T' oppose your cunning. You're meek and humble-mouthed;
AIT 2.4. 106 You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,
AIT 2.4. 107 With meekness and humility - but your heart
AIT 2.4. 108 Is crammed with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.
AIT 2.4. 109 You have by fortune and his highness' favours
AIT 2.4. 110 Gone slightly o'er low steps, and now are mounted
AIT 2.4. 111 Where powers are your retainers, and your words,
AIT 2.4. 112 Domestics to you, serve your will as 't please
AIT 2.4. 113 Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,
AIT 2.4. 114 You tender more your person's honour than
AIT 2.4. 115 Your high profession spiritual, that again
AIT 2.4. 116 I do refuse you for my judge, and here,
AIT 2.4. 117 Before you all, appeal unto the Pope,
AIT 2.4. 118 To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
AIT 2.4. 119B And to be judged by him. {She curtsies to the King and begins to +
AIT 2.4. 119B depart}
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
The Queen is obstinate,
AIT 2.4. 120 Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and
AIT 2.4. 121 Disdainful to be tried by 't. 'Tis not well.
AIT 2.4. 122B She's going away.
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to the Crier)} Call +
AIT 2.4. 122B her again.
AIT 2.4. 123
AIT-CRIER
Katherine, Queen of England, come into the court.
AIT 2.4. 124A
AIT-GRIFFITH
{(to the Queen)} Madam, you are called +
AIT 2.4. 124A back.
AIT 2.4. 125
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
What need you note it? Pray you keep your way.
AIT 2.4. 126 When {you} are called, return. Now the Lord help.
AIT 2.4. 127 They vex me past my patience. Pray you, pass on.
AIT 2.4. 128 I will not tarry; no, nor ever more
AIT 2.4. 129 Upon this business my appearance make
AIT 2.4. 130B In any of their courts. {Exeunt Queen Katherine and her +
AIT 2.4. 130B attendants}
AIT-KING HENRY
Go thy ways, Kate.
AIT 2.4. 131 That man i' th' world who shall report he has
AIT 2.4. 132 A better wife, let him in naught be trusted
AIT 2.4. 133 For speaking false in that. Thou art alone -
AIT 2.4. 134 If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
AIT 2.4. 135 Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
AIT 2.4. 136 Obeying in commanding, and thy parts
AIT 2.4. 137 Sovereign and pious else could speak thee out -
AIT 2.4. 138 The queen of earthly queens. She's noble born,
AIT 2.4. 139 And like her true nobility she has
AIT 2.4. 140B Carried herself towards me.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Most gracious sir,
AIT 2.4. 141 In humblest manner I require your highness
AIT 2.4. 142 That it shall please you to declare in hearing
AIT 2.4. 143 Of all these ears - for where I am robbed and bound,
AIT 2.4. 144 There must I be unloosed, although not there
AIT 2.4. 145 At once and fully satisfied - whether ever I
AIT 2.4. 146 Did broach this business to your highness, or
AIT 2.4. 147 Laid any scruple in your way which might
AIT 2.4. 148 Induce you to the question on 't, or ever
AIT 2.4. 149 Have to you, but with thanks to God for such
AIT 2.4. 150 A royal lady, spake one the least word that might
AIT 2.4. 151 Be to the prejudice of her present state,
AIT 2.4. 152B Or touch of her good person?
AIT-KING HENRY
My lord Cardinal,
AIT 2.4. 153 I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,
AIT 2.4. 154 I free you from 't. You are not to be taught
AIT 2.4. 155 That you have many enemies that know not
AIT 2.4. 156 Why they are so, but, like to village curs,
AIT 2.4. 157 Bark when their fellows do. By some of these
AIT 2.4. 158 The Queen is put in anger. You're excused.
AIT 2.4. 159 But will you be more justified? You ever
AIT 2.4. 160 Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired
AIT 2.4. 161 It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft,
AIT 2.4. 162 The passages made toward it. On my honour
AIT 2.4. 163 I speak my good lord Card'nal to this point,
AIT 2.4. 164 And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to 't,
AIT 2.4. 165 I will be bold with time and your attention.
AIT 2.4. 166 Then mark th' inducement. Thus it came - give heed to 't.
AIT 2.4. 167 My conscience first received a tenderness,
AIT 2.4. 168 Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches uttered
AIT 2.4. 169 By th' Bishop of Bayonne, then French Ambassador,
AIT 2.4. 170 Who had been hither sent on the debating
AIT 2.4. 171 A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orle/ans and
AIT 2.4. 172 Our daughter Mary. I' th' progress of this business,
AIT 2.4. 173 Ere a determinate resolution, he -
AIT 2.4. 174 I mean the Bishop - did require a respite
AIT 2.4. 175 Wherein he might the King his lord advertise
AIT 2.4. 176 Whether our daughter were legitimate,
AIT 2.4. 177 Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,
AIT 2.4. 178 Sometimes our brother's wife. This respite shook
AIT 2.4. 179 The bosom of my conscience, entered me,
AIT 2.4. 180 Yea, with a spitting power, and made to tremble
AIT 2.4. 181 The region of my breast; which forced such way
AIT 2.4. 182 That many mazed considerings did throng
AIT 2.4. 183 And prest in with this caution. First, methought
AIT 2.4. 184 I stood not in the smile of heaven, who had
AIT 2.4. 185 Commanded nature that my lady's womb,
AIT 2.4. 186 If it conceived a male child by me, should
AIT 2.4. 187 Do no more offices of life to 't than
AIT 2.4. 188 The grave does yield to th' dead. For her male issue
AIT 2.4. 189 Or died where they were made, or shortly after
AIT 2.4. 190 This world had aired them. Hence I took a thought
AIT 2.4. 191 This was a judgement on me that my kingdom,
AIT 2.4. 192 Well worthy the best heir o' th' world, should not
AIT 2.4. 193 Be gladded in 't by me. Then follows that
AIT 2.4. 194 I weighed the danger which my realms stood in
AIT 2.4. 195 By this my issue's fail, and that gave to me
AIT 2.4. 196 Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
AIT 2.4. 197 The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
AIT 2.4. 198 Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
AIT 2.4. 199 Now present here together - that's to say
AIT 2.4. 200 I meant to rectify my conscience, which
AIT 2.4. 201 I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,
AIT 2.4. 202 By all the reverend fathers of the land
AIT 2.4. 203 And doctors learned. First I began in private
AIT 2.4. 204 With you, my lord of Lincoln. You remember
AIT 2.4. 205 How under my oppression I did reek
AIT 2.4. 206B When I first moved you.
AIT-LINCOLN
Very well, my liege.
AIT 2.4. 207
AIT-KING HENRY
I have spoke long. Be pleased yourself to say
AIT 2.4. 208B How far you satisfied me.
AIT-LINCOLN
So please your highness,
AIT 2.4. 209 The question did at first so stagger me,
AIT 2.4. 210 Bearing a state of mighty moment in 't
AIT 2.4. 211 And consequence of dread, that I committed
AIT 2.4. 212 The daring'st counsel which I had to doubt,
AIT 2.4. 213 And did entreat your highness to this course
AIT 2.4. 214B Which you are running here.
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to +
AIT 2.4. 214B Canterbury)} I then moved you,
AIT 2.4. 215 My lord of Canterbury, and got your leave
AIT 2.4. 216 To make this present summons. Unsolicited
AIT 2.4. 217 I left no reverend person in this court,
AIT 2.4. 218 But by particular consent proceeded
AIT 2.4. 219 Under your hands and seals. Therefore, go on,
AIT 2.4. 220 For no dislike i' th' world against the person
AIT 2.4. 221 Of the good Queen, but the sharp thorny points
AIT 2.4. 222 Of my alleged reasons, drives this forward.
AIT 2.4. 223 Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life
AIT 2.4. 224 And kingly dignity, we are contented
AIT 2.4. 225 To wear our mortal state to come with her,
AIT 2.4. 226 Katherine, our queen, before the primest creature
AIT 2.4. 227B That's paragoned o' th' world.
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
So please your +
AIT 2.4. 227B highness,
AIT 2.4. 228 The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness
AIT 2.4. 229 That we adjourn this court till further day.
AIT 2.4. 230 Meanwhile must be an earnest motion
AIT 2.4. 231 Made to the Queen to call back her appeal
AIT 2.4. 232B She intends unto his holiness.
AIT-KING HENRY
{(aside)} +
AIT 2.4. 232B I may perceive
AIT 2.4. 233 These cardinals trifle with me. I abhor
AIT 2.4. 234 This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
AIT 2.4. 235 My learned and well-beloved servant, Cranmer,
AIT 2.4. 236 Prithee return. With thy approach I know
AIT 2.4. 237 My comfort comes along. {(Aloud)} Break up the court.
AIT 2.4. 238 I say, set on. {Exeunt in manner as they entered}
AIT 2.4. 238
AIT-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 2.4. 0
AIT 2.4. 0 {Enter Queen Katherine and her women, as at work}
AIT 3.1. 1
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Take thy lute, wench. My soul grows sad +
AIT 3.1. 1 with troubles.
AIT 3.1. 2 Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst. Leave working.
AIT 3.1. 3
AIT-GENTLEWOMAN
{(sings)} Orpheus with his lute made +
AIT 3.1. 3 trees,
AIT 3.1. 4 And the mountain tops that freeze,
AIT 3.1. 5 Bow themselves when he did sing.
AIT 3.1. 6 To his music plants and flowers
AIT 3.1. 7 Ever sprung, as sun and showers
AIT 3.1. 8 There had made a lasting spring.
AIT 3.1. 9 Everything that heard him play,
AIT 3.1. 10 Even the billows of the sea,
AIT 3.1. 11 Hung their heads, and then lay by.
AIT 3.1. 12 In sweet music is such art,
AIT 3.1. 13 Killing care and grief of heart
AIT 3.1. 14 Fall asleep, or hearing, die. {Enter [Griffith,] a gentleman}
AIT 3.1. 15A
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
How now?
AIT 3.1. 16
AIT-[GRIFFITH]
An 't please your grace, the two great cardinals
AIT 3.1. 17B Wait in the presence.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Would they speak with me?
AIT 3.1. 18B
AIT-[GRIFFITH]
They willed me say so, madam.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Pray +
AIT 3.1. 18B their graces
AIT 3.1. 19B To come near. {[Exit Griffith]} What can be their +
AIT 3.1. 19B business
AIT 3.1. 20 With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour?
AIT 3.1. 21 I do not like their coming, now I think on 't;
AIT 3.1. 22 They should be good men, their affairs as righteous -
AIT 3.1. 23B But all hoods make not monks. {Enter the two cardinals, Wolsey +
AIT 3.1. 23B and Campeius, [ushered by Griffith]}
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Peace +
AIT 3.1. 23B to your highness.
AIT 3.1. 24
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Your graces find me here part of a housewife -
AIT 3.1. 25 I would be all, against the worst may happen.
AIT 3.1. 26 What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?
AIT 3.1. 27
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
May it please you, noble madam, to withdraw
AIT 3.1. 28 Into your private chamber, we shall give you
AIT 3.1. 29B The full cause of our coming.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Speak it here.
AIT 3.1. 30 There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,
AIT 3.1. 31 Deserves a corner. Would all other women
AIT 3.1. 32 Could speak this with as free a soul as I do.
AIT 3.1. 33 My lords, I care not - so much I am happy
AIT 3.1. 34 Above a number - if my actions
AIT 3.1. 35 Were tried by ev'ry tongue, ev'ry eye saw 'em,
AIT 3.1. 36 Envy and base opinion set against 'em,
AIT 3.1. 37 I know my life so even. If your business
AIT 3.1. 38 Seek me out and that way I am wife in,
AIT 3.1. 39 Out with it boldly. Truth loves open dealing.
AIT 3.1. 40
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, Regina +
AIT 3.1. 40 serenissima} -
AIT 3.1. 41A
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
O, good my lord, no Latin.
AIT 3.1. 42 I am not such a truant since my coming
AIT 3.1. 43 As not to know the language I have lived in.
AIT 3.1. 44 A strange tongue makes my cause more strange suspicious -
AIT 3.1. 45 Pray, speak in English. Here are some will thank you,
AIT 3.1. 46 If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake.
AIT 3.1. 47 Believe me, she has had much wrong. Lord Cardinal,
AIT 3.1. 48 The willing'st sin I ever yet committed
AIT 3.1. 49B May be absolved in English.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Noble lady,
AIT 3.1. 50 I am sorry my integrity should breed -
AIT 3.1. 51 And service to his majesty and you -
AIT 3.1. 52 So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant.
AIT 3.1. 53 We come not by the way of accusation,
AIT 3.1. 54 To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,
AIT 3.1. 55 Nor to betray you any way to sorrow -
AIT 3.1. 56 You have too much, good lady - but to know
AIT 3.1. 57 How you stand minded in the weighty difference
AIT 3.1. 58 Between the King and you, and to deliver,
AIT 3.1. 59 Like free and honest men, our just opinions
AIT 3.1. 60B And comforts to your cause.
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Most honoured madam,
AIT 3.1. 61 My lord of York, out of his noble nature,
AIT 3.1. 62 Zeal, and obedience he still bore your grace,
AIT 3.1. 63 Forgetting, like a good man, your late censure
AIT 3.1. 64 Both of his truth and him - which was too far -
AIT 3.1. 65 Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,
AIT 3.1. 66B His service and his counsel.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
+
AIT 3.1. 66B {(aside)} To betray me.
AIT 3.1. 67 {(Aloud)} My lords, I thank you both for your good +
AIT 3.1. 67 wills.
AIT 3.1. 68 Ye speak like honest men - pray God ye prove so.
AIT 3.1. 69 But how to make ye suddenly an answer
AIT 3.1. 70 In such a point of weight, so near mine honour -
AIT 3.1. 71 More near my life, I fear - with my weak wit,
AIT 3.1. 72 And to such men of gravity and learning,
AIT 3.1. 73 In truth I know not. I was set at work
AIT 3.1. 74 Among my maids, full little - God knows - looking
AIT 3.1. 75 Either for such men or such business.
AIT 3.1. 76 For her sake that I have been - for I feel
AIT 3.1. 77 The last fit of my greatness - good your graces,
AIT 3.1. 78 Let me have time and counsel for my cause.
AIT 3.1. 79 Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless.
AIT 3.1. 80
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Madam, you wrong the King's love with these fears.
AIT 3.1. 81B Your hopes and friends are infinite.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
In England
AIT 3.1. 82 But little for my profit. Can you think, lords,
AIT 3.1. 83 That any Englishman dare give me counsel,
AIT 3.1. 84 Or be a known friend 'gainst his highness' pleasure -
AIT 3.1. 85 Though he be grown so desperate to be honest -
AIT 3.1. 86 And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,
AIT 3.1. 87 They that must weigh out my afflictions,
AIT 3.1. 88 They that my trust must grow to, live not here.
AIT 3.1. 89 They are, as all my other comforts, far hence,
AIT 3.1. 90B In mine own country, lords.
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
I would your grace
AIT 3.1. 91B Would leave your griefs and take my counsel.
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
How, +
AIT 3.1. 91B sir?
AIT 3.1. 92
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Put your main cause into the King's protection.
AIT 3.1. 93 He's loving and most gracious. 'Twill be much
AIT 3.1. 94 Both for your honour better and your cause,
AIT 3.1. 95 For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye
AIT 3.1. 96B You'll part away disgraced.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to the +
AIT 3.1. 96B Queen)} He tells you rightly.
AIT 3.1. 97
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Ye tell me what ye wish for both - my ruin.
AIT 3.1. 98 Is this your Christian counsel? Out upon ye!
AIT 3.1. 99 Heaven is above all yet - there sits a judge
AIT 3.1. 100B That no king can corrupt.
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Your rage mistakes us.
AIT 3.1. 101
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
The more shame for ye! Holy men I thought ye,
AIT 3.1. 102 Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues -
AIT 3.1. 103 But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye.
AIT 3.1. 104 Mend 'em, for shame, my lords! Is this your comfort?
AIT 3.1. 105 The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
AIT 3.1. 106 A woman lost among ye, laughed at, scorned?
AIT 3.1. 107 I will not wish ye half my miseries -
AIT 3.1. 108 I have more charity. But say I warned ye.
AIT 3.1. 109 Take heed, for heaven's sake take heed, lest at once
AIT 3.1. 110 The burden of my sorrows fall upon ye.
AIT 3.1. 111
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Madam, this is a mere distraction.
AIT 3.1. 112 You turn the good we offer into envy.
AIT 3.1. 113
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Ye turn me into nothing. Woe upon ye,
AIT 3.1. 114 And all such false professors. Would you have me -
AIT 3.1. 115 If you have any justice, any pity,
AIT 3.1. 116 If ye be anything but churchmen's habits -
AIT 3.1. 117 Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?
AIT 3.1. 118 Alas, he's banished me his bed already -
AIT 3.1. 119 His love, too, long ago. I am old, my lords,
AIT 3.1. 120 And all the fellowship I hold now with him
AIT 3.1. 121 Is only my obedience. What can happen
AIT 3.1. 122 To me above this wretchedness? All your studies
AIT 3.1. 123B Make me accursed like this.
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Your fears are worse.
AIT 3.1. 124
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Have I lived thus long - let me speak myself,
AIT 3.1. 125 Since virtue finds no friends - a wife, a true one?
AIT 3.1. 126 A woman, I dare say, without vainglory,
AIT 3.1. 127 Never yet branded with suspicion?
AIT 3.1. 128 Have I with all my full affections
AIT 3.1. 129 Still met the King, loved him next heav'n, obeyed him,
AIT 3.1. 130 Been out of fondness superstitious to him,
AIT 3.1. 131 Almost forgot my prayers to content him?
AIT 3.1. 132 And am I thus rewarded? 'Tis not well, lords.
AIT 3.1. 133 Bring me a constant woman to her husband,
AIT 3.1. 134 One that ne'er dreamed a joy beyond his pleasure,
AIT 3.1. 135 And to that woman when she has done most,
AIT 3.1. 136 Yet will I add an honour, a great patience.
AIT 3.1. 137
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.
AIT 3.1. 138
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty
AIT 3.1. 139 To give up willingly that noble title
AIT 3.1. 140 Your master wed me to. Nothing but death
AIT 3.1. 141B Shall e'er divorce my dignities.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Pray, hear me.
AIT 3.1. 142
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Would I had never trod this English earth,
AIT 3.1. 143 Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it.
AIT 3.1. 144 Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
AIT 3.1. 145 What will become of me now, wretched lady?
AIT 3.1. 146 I am the most unhappy woman living.
AIT 3.1. 147 {(To her women)} Alas, poor wenches, where are now +
AIT 3.1. 147 your fortunes?
AIT 3.1. 148 Shipwrecked upon a kingdom where no pity,
AIT 3.1. 149 No friends, no hope, no kindred weep for me?
AIT 3.1. 150 Almost no grave allowed me? Like the lily,
AIT 3.1. 151 That once was mistress of the field and flourished,
AIT 3.1. 152B I'll hang my head and perish.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
If your grace
AIT 3.1. 153 Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,
AIT 3.1. 154 You'd feel more comfort. Why should we, good lady,
AIT 3.1. 155 Upon what cause, wrong you? Alas, our places,
AIT 3.1. 156 The way of our profession, is against it.
AIT 3.1. 157 We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow 'em.
AIT 3.1. 158 For goodness' sake, consider what you do,
AIT 3.1. 159 How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly
AIT 3.1. 160 Grow from the King's acquaintance by this carriage.
AIT 3.1. 161 The hearts of princes kiss obedience,
AIT 3.1. 162 So much they love it, but to stubborn spirits
AIT 3.1. 163 They swell and grow as terrible as storms.
AIT 3.1. 164 I know you have a gentle noble temper,
AIT 3.1. 165 A soul as even as a calm. Pray, think us
AIT 3.1. 166 Those we profess - peacemakers, friends, and servants.
AIT 3.1. 167
AIT-CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues
AIT 3.1. 168 With these weak women's fears. A noble spirit,
AIT 3.1. 169 As yours was put into you, ever casts
AIT 3.1. 170 Such doubts as false coin from it. The King loves you.
AIT 3.1. 171 Beware you lose it not. For us, if you please
AIT 3.1. 172 To trust us in your business, we are ready
AIT 3.1. 173 To use our utmost studies in your service.
AIT 3.1. 174
AIT-QUEEN KATHERINE
Do what ye will, my lords, and pray forgive me.
AIT 3.1. 175 If I have used myself unmannerly,
AIT 3.1. 176 You know I am a woman, lacking wit
AIT 3.1. 177 To make a seemly answer to such persons.
AIT 3.1. 178 Pray do my service to his majesty.
AIT 3.1. 179 He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers
AIT 3.1. 180 While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,
AIT 3.1. 181 Bestow your counsels on me. She now begs
AIT 3.1. 182 That little thought, when she set footing here,
AIT 3.1. 183 She should have bought her dignities so dear. {Exeunt}
AIT 3.1. 0
AIT 3.1. 0 {Enter the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Suffolk, Lord +
AIT 3.2. 0 Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 3.2. 1
AIT-NORFOLK
If you will now unite in your complaints,
AIT 3.2. 2 And force them with a constancy, the Cardinal
AIT 3.2. 3 Cannot stand under them. If you omit
AIT 3.2. 4 The offer of this time, I cannot promise
AIT 3.2. 5 But that you shall sustain more new disgraces
AIT 3.2. 6B With these you bear already.
AIT-SURREY
I am joyful
AIT 3.2. 7 To meet the least occasion that may give me
AIT 3.2. 8 Remembrance of my father-in-law the Duke,
AIT 3.2. 9B To be revenged on him.
AIT-SUFFOLK
Which of the peers
AIT 3.2. 10 Have uncontemned gone by him, or at least
AIT 3.2. 11 Strangely neglected? When did he regard
AIT 3.2. 12 The stamp of nobleness in any person
AIT 3.2. 13B Out of himself?
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
My lords, you speak your pleasures.
AIT 3.2. 14 What he deserves of you and me I know;
AIT 3.2. 15 What we can do to him - though now the time
AIT 3.2. 16 Gives way to us - I much fear. If you cannot
AIT 3.2. 17 Bar his access to th' King, never attempt
AIT 3.2. 18 Anything on him, for he hath a witchcraft
AIT 3.2. 19B Over the King in 's tongue.
AIT-NORFOLK
O, fear him not.
AIT 3.2. 20 His spell in that is out. The King hath found
AIT 3.2. 21 Matter against him that for ever mars
AIT 3.2. 22 The honey of his language. No, he's settled,
AIT 3.2. 23B Not to come off, in his displeasure.
AIT-SURREY
Sir,
AIT 3.2. 24 I should be glad to hear such news as this
AIT 3.2. 25B Once every hour.
AIT-NORFOLK
Believe it, this is true.
AIT 3.2. 26 In the divorce his contrary proceedings
AIT 3.2. 27 Are all unfolded, wherein he appears
AIT 3.2. 28B As I would wish mine enemy.
AIT-SURREY
How came
AIT 3.2. 29B His practices to light?
AIT-SUFFOLK
Most strangely.
AIT-SURREY
O, how, +
AIT 3.2. 29B how?
AIT 3.2. 30
AIT-SUFFOLK
The Cardinal's letters to the Pope miscarried,
AIT 3.2. 31 And came to th' eye o' th' King, wherein was read
AIT 3.2. 32 How that the Cardinal did entreat his holiness
AIT 3.2. 33 To stay the judgement o' th' divorce, for if
AIT 3.2. 34 It did take place, `I do', quoth he, `perceive
AIT 3.2. 35 My king is tangled in affection to
AIT 3.2. 36 A creature of the Queen's, Lady Anne Boleyn'.
AIT 3.2. 37B
AIT-SURREY
Has the King this?
AIT-SUFFOLK
Believe it.
AIT-SURREY
Will +
AIT 3.2. 37B this work?
AIT 3.2. 38
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
The King in this perceives him how he coasts
AIT 3.2. 39 And hedges his own way. But in this point
AIT 3.2. 40 All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
AIT 3.2. 41 After his patient's death. The King already
AIT 3.2. 42B Hath married the fair lady.
AIT-SURREY
Would he had.
AIT 3.2. 43
AIT-SUFFOLK
May you be happy in your wish, my lord,
AIT 3.2. 44B For I profess you have it.
AIT-SURREY
Now all my joy
AIT 3.2. 45B Trace the conjunction.
AIT-SUFFOLK
My amen to 't.
AIT-NORFOLK
All men's.
AIT 3.2. 46
AIT-SUFFOLK
There's order given for her coronation.
AIT 3.2. 47 Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
AIT 3.2. 48 To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,
AIT 3.2. 49 She is a gallant creature, and complete
AIT 3.2. 50 In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her
AIT 3.2. 51 Will fall some blessing to this land which shall
AIT 3.2. 52B In it be memorized.
AIT-SURREY
But will the King
AIT 3.2. 53 Digest this letter of the Cardinal's?
AIT 3.2. 54B The Lord forbid!
AIT-NORFOLK
Marry, amen.
AIT-SUFFOLK
No, no -
AIT 3.2. 55 There be more wasps that buzz about his nose
AIT 3.2. 56 Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius
AIT 3.2. 57 Is stol'n away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;
AIT 3.2. 58 Has left the cause o' th' King unhandled, and
AIT 3.2. 59 Is posted as the agent of our Cardinal
AIT 3.2. 60 To second all his plot. I do assure you
AIT 3.2. 61B The King cried `Ha!' at this.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Now God incense him,
AIT 3.2. 62B And let him cry `Ha!' louder.
AIT-NORFOLK
But, my lord,
AIT 3.2. 63 When returns Cranmer?
AIT 3.2. 64
AIT-SUFFOLK
He is returned in his opinions, which
AIT 3.2. 65 Have satisfied the King for his divorce,
AIT 3.2. 66 Together with all famous colleges,
AIT 3.2. 67 Almost, in Christendom. Shortly, I believe,
AIT 3.2. 68 His second marriage shall be published, and
AIT 3.2. 69 Her coronation. Katherine no more
AIT 3.2. 70 Shall be called `Queen', but `Princess Dowager',
AIT 3.2. 71B And `widow to Prince Arthur'.
AIT-NORFOLK
This same Cranmer's
AIT 3.2. 72 A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain
AIT 3.2. 73B In the King's business.
AIT-SUFFOLK
He has, and we shall see him
AIT 3.2. 74B For it an archbishop.
AIT-NORFOLK
So I hear.
AIT-SUFFOLK
'Tis so. +
AIT 3.2. 74B {Enter Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell}
AIT 3.2. 75B The Cardinal.
AIT-NORFOLK
Observe, observe - he's moody. +
AIT 3.2. 75B {They stand apart and observe Wolsey and Cromwell}
AIT 3.2. 76
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(to Cromwell)} The packet, +
AIT 3.2. 76 Cromwell - gave 't you the King?
AIT 3.2. 77B
AIT-CROMWELL
To his own hand, in 's bedchamber.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
+
AIT 3.2. 77B Looked he
AIT 3.2. 78B O' th' inside of the paper?
AIT-CROMWELL
Presently
AIT 3.2. 79 He did unseal them, and the first he viewed
AIT 3.2. 80 He did it with a serious mind; a heed
AIT 3.2. 81 Was in his countenance. You he bade
AIT 3.2. 82B Attend him here this morning.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Is he ready
AIT 3.2. 83 To come abroad?
AIT 3.2. 84A
AIT-CROMWELL
I think by this he is.
AIT 3.2. 85A
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Leave me a while. {Exit Cromwell}
AIT 3.2. 86 {(Aside)} It shall be to the Duchess of Alenc@on,
AIT 3.2. 87 The French King's sister - he shall marry her.
AIT 3.2. 88 Anne Boleyn? No, I'll no Anne Boleyns for him.
AIT 3.2. 89 There's more in 't than fair visage. Boleyn?
AIT 3.2. 90 No, we'll no Boleyns. Speedily I wish
AIT 3.2. 91 To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke? {The nobles +
AIT 3.2. 91 speak among themselves}
AIT 3.2. 92B
AIT-NORFOLK
He's discontented.
AIT-SUFFOLK
Maybe he hears the +
AIT 3.2. 92B King
AIT 3.2. 93B Does whet his anger to him.
AIT-SURREY
Sharp enough,
AIT 3.2. 94 Lord, for thy justice.
AIT 3.2. 95
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(aside)} The late Queen's +
AIT 3.2. 95 gentlewoman? A knight's daughter
AIT 3.2. 96 To be her mistress' mistress? The Queen's queen?
AIT 3.2. 97 This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it,
AIT 3.2. 98 Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous
AIT 3.2. 99 And well deserving? Yet I know her for
AIT 3.2. 100 A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to
AIT 3.2. 101 Our cause, that she should lie i' th' bosom of
AIT 3.2. 102 Our hard-ruled King. Again, there is sprung up
AIT 3.2. 103 An heretic, an arch-one, Cranmer, one
AIT 3.2. 104 Hath crawled into the favour of the King
AIT 3.2. 105B And is his oracle. {The nobles speak among themselves}
AIT-NORFOLK
AIT 3.2. 105B He is vexed at something. {Enter King Henry reading a +
AIT 3.2. 105B schedule, and Lovell with him}
AIT 3.2. 106
AIT-SURREY
I would 'twere something that would fret the +
AIT 3.2. 106 string,
AIT 3.2. 107B The master-cord on 's heart!
AIT-SUFFOLK
The King, the King!
AIT 3.2. 108
AIT-KING HENRY
{[aside]} What piles of wealth hath he +
AIT 3.2. 108 accumulated
AIT 3.2. 109 To his own portion? And what expense by th' hour
AIT 3.2. 110 Seems to flow from him? How i' th' name of thrift
AIT 3.2. 111 Does he rake this together? {(To the nobles)} Now, my +
AIT 3.2. 111 lords,
AIT 3.2. 112B Saw you the Cardinal?
AIT-NORFOLK
My lord, we have
AIT 3.2. 113 Stood here observing him. Some strange commotion
AIT 3.2. 114 Is in his brain. He bites his lip, and starts,
AIT 3.2. 115 Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
AIT 3.2. 116 Then lays his finger on his temple, straight
AIT 3.2. 117 Springs out into fast gait, then stops again,
AIT 3.2. 118 Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts
AIT 3.2. 119 His eye against the moon. In most strange postures
AIT 3.2. 120B We have seen him set himself.
AIT-KING HENRY
It may well be
AIT 3.2. 121 There is a mutiny in 's mind. This morning
AIT 3.2. 122 Papers of state he sent me to peruse
AIT 3.2. 123 As I required, and wot you what I found
AIT 3.2. 124 There, on my conscience put unwittingly?
AIT 3.2. 125 Forsooth, an inventory thus importing
AIT 3.2. 126 The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,
AIT 3.2. 127 Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household which
AIT 3.2. 128 I find at such proud rate that it outspeaks
AIT 3.2. 129B Possession of a subject.
AIT-NORFOLK
It's heaven's will.
AIT 3.2. 130 Some spirit put this paper in the packet
AIT 3.2. 131B To bless your eye withal.
AIT-KING HENRY
If we did think
AIT 3.2. 132 His contemplation were above the earth
AIT 3.2. 133 And fixed on spiritual object, he should still
AIT 3.2. 134 Dwell in his musings. But I am afraid
AIT 3.2. 135 His thinkings are below the moon, not worth
AIT 3.2. 136B His serious considering. {The King takes his seat and whispers +
AIT 3.2. 136B with Lovell, who then goes to the Cardinal}
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
+
AIT 3.2. 136B Heaven forgive me!
AIT 3.2. 137B {[To the King]} Ever God bless your highness! +
AIT 3.2. 137B
AIT-KING HENRY
Good my lord,
AIT 3.2. 138 You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory
AIT 3.2. 139 Of your best graces in your mind, the which
AIT 3.2. 140 You were now running o'er. You have scarce time
AIT 3.2. 141 To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
AIT 3.2. 142 To keep your earthly audit. Sure, in that,
AIT 3.2. 143 I deem you an ill husband, and am glad
AIT 3.2. 144B To have you therein my companion.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Sir,
AIT 3.2. 145 For holy offices I have a time; a time
AIT 3.2. 146 To think upon the part of business which
AIT 3.2. 147 I bear i' th' state; and nature does require
AIT 3.2. 148 Her times of preservation which, perforce,
AIT 3.2. 149 I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
AIT 3.2. 150B Must give my tendance to.
AIT-KING HENRY
You have said well.
AIT 3.2. 151
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
And ever may your highness yoke together,
AIT 3.2. 152 As I will lend you cause, my doing well
AIT 3.2. 153B With my well-saying.
AIT-KING HENRY
'Tis well said again,
AIT 3.2. 154 And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well -
AIT 3.2. 155 And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you.
AIT 3.2. 156 He said he did, and with his deed did crown
AIT 3.2. 157 His word upon you. Since I had my office,
AIT 3.2. 158 I have kept you next my heart, have not alone
AIT 3.2. 159 Employed you where high profits might come home,
AIT 3.2. 160 But pared my present havings to bestow
AIT 3.2. 161B My bounties upon you.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(aside)} +
AIT 3.2. 161B What should this mean?
AIT 3.2. 162B
AIT-SURREY
{[aside]} The Lord increase this +
AIT 3.2. 162B business!
AIT-KING HENRY
Have I not made you
AIT 3.2. 163 The prime man of the state? I pray you tell me
AIT 3.2. 164 If what I now pronounce you have found true,
AIT 3.2. 165 And, if you may confess it, say withal
AIT 3.2. 166 If you are bound to us or no. What say you?
AIT 3.2. 167
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
My sovereign, I confess your royal graces
AIT 3.2. 168 Showered on me daily have been more than could
AIT 3.2. 169 My studied purposes requite, which went
AIT 3.2. 170 Beyond all man's endeavours. My endeavours
AIT 3.2. 171 Have ever come too short of my desires,
AIT 3.2. 172 Yet filed with my abilities. Mine own ends
AIT 3.2. 173 Have been mine so that evermore they pointed
AIT 3.2. 174 To th' good of your most sacred person and
AIT 3.2. 175 The profit of the state. For your great graces
AIT 3.2. 176 Heaped upon me, poor undeserver, I
AIT 3.2. 177 Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,
AIT 3.2. 178 My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,
AIT 3.2. 179 Which ever has and ever shall be growing,
AIT 3.2. 180B Till death, that winter, kill it.
AIT-KING HENRY
Fairly answered.
AIT 3.2. 181 A loyal and obedient subject is
AIT 3.2. 182 Therein illustrated. The honour of it
AIT 3.2. 183 Does pay the act of it, as, i' th' contrary,
AIT 3.2. 184 The foulness is the punishment. I presume
AIT 3.2. 185 That as my hand has opened bounty to you,
AIT 3.2. 186 My heart dropped love, my power rained honour, more
AIT 3.2. 187 On you than any, so your hand and heart,
AIT 3.2. 188 Your brain, and every function of your power,
AIT 3.2. 189 Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
AIT 3.2. 190 As 'twere in love's particular, be more
AIT 3.2. 191B To me, your friend, than any.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
I do profess
AIT 3.2. 192 That for your highness' good I ever laboured
AIT 3.2. 193 More than mine own; that am, have, and will be -
AIT 3.2. 194 Though all the world should crack their duty to you,
AIT 3.2. 195 And throw it from their soul, though perils did
AIT 3.2. 196 Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and
AIT 3.2. 197 Appear in forms more horrid - yet, my duty,
AIT 3.2. 198 As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
AIT 3.2. 199 Should the approach of this wild river break,
AIT 3.2. 200B And stand unshaken yours.
AIT-KING HENRY
'Tis nobly spoken.
AIT 3.2. 201 Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast,
AIT 3.2. 202 For you have seen him open 't. {(To Wolsey)} Read o'er +
AIT 3.2. 202 this, {He gives him a paper}
AIT 3.2. 203 And after this {(giving him another paper)} , +
AIT 3.2. 203 and then to breakfast with
AIT 3.2. 204B What appetite you have. {Exit King Henry, frowning upon +
AIT 3.2. 204B the Cardinal. The nobles throng after the King, smiling and +
AIT 3.2. 204B whispering} +
AIT 3.2. 204B +
AIT 3.2. 204B
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
What should this mean?
AIT 3.2. 205 What sudden anger's this? How have I reaped it?
AIT 3.2. 206 He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
AIT 3.2. 207 Leaped from his eyes. So looks the chafed lion
AIT 3.2. 208 Upon the daring huntsman that has galled him,
AIT 3.2. 209 Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper -
AIT 3.2. 210B I fear, the story of his anger. {He reads one of the +
AIT 3.2. 210B papers} 'Tis so.
AIT 3.2. 211 This paper has undone me. 'Tis th' account
AIT 3.2. 212 Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together
AIT 3.2. 213 For mine own ends - indeed, to gain the popedom,
AIT 3.2. 214 And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence,
AIT 3.2. 215 Fit for a fool to fall by! What cross devil
AIT 3.2. 216 Made me put this main secret in the packet
AIT 3.2. 217 I sent the King? Is there no way to cure this?
AIT 3.2. 218 No new device to beat this from his brains?
AIT 3.2. 219 I know 'twill stir him strongly. Yet I know
AIT 3.2. 220 A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune
AIT 3.2. 221B Will bring me off again. What's this? {He reads the other +
AIT 3.2. 221B paper} `To th' Pope'?
AIT 3.2. 222 The letter, as I live, with all the business
AIT 3.2. 223 I writ to 's holiness. Nay then, farewell.
AIT 3.2. 224 I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
AIT 3.2. 225 And from that full meridian of my glory
AIT 3.2. 226 I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
AIT 3.2. 227 Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
AIT 3.2. 228 And no man see me more. {Enter to Cardinal Wolsey the Dukes of +
AIT 3.2. 228 Norfolk and}
AIT 3.2. 229 {Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT-NORFOLK
+
AIT 3.2. 229 Hear the King's pleasure, Cardinal, who commands you
AIT 3.2. 230 To render up the great seal presently
AIT 3.2. 231 Into our hands, and to confine yourself
AIT 3.2. 232 To Asher House, my lord of Winchester's,
AIT 3.2. 233B Till you hear further from his highness.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Stay -
AIT 3.2. 234 Where's your commission, lords? Words cannot carry
AIT 3.2. 235B Authority so weighty.
AIT-SUFFOLK
Who dare cross 'em
AIT 3.2. 236 Bearing the King's will from his mouth expressly?
AIT 3.2. 237
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Till I find more than will or words to do it -
AIT 3.2. 238 I mean your malice - know, officious lords,
AIT 3.2. 239 I dare and must deny it. Now I feel
AIT 3.2. 240 Of what coarse metal ye are moulded - envy.
AIT 3.2. 241 How eagerly ye follow my disgraces
AIT 3.2. 242 As if it fed ye, and how sleek and wanton
AIT 3.2. 243 Ye appear in everything may bring my ruin!
AIT 3.2. 244 Follow your envious courses, men of malice.
AIT 3.2. 245 You have Christian warrant for 'em, and no doubt
AIT 3.2. 246 In time will find their fit rewards. That seal
AIT 3.2. 247 You ask with such a violence, the King,
AIT 3.2. 248 Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me,
AIT 3.2. 249 Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,
AIT 3.2. 250 During my life; and, to confirm his goodness,
AIT 3.2. 251 Tied it by letters patents. Now, who'll take it?
AIT 3.2. 252B
AIT-SURREY
The King that gave it.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
It must be himself +
AIT 3.2. 252B then.
AIT 3.2. 253B
AIT-SURREY
Thou art a proud traitor, priest.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Proud +
AIT 3.2. 253B lord, thou liest.
AIT 3.2. 254 Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
AIT 3.2. 255B Have burnt that tongue than said so.
AIT-SURREY
Thy ambition,
AIT 3.2. 256 Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
AIT 3.2. 257 Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law.
AIT 3.2. 258 The heads of all thy brother cardinals
AIT 3.2. 259 With thee and all thy best parts bound together
AIT 3.2. 260 Weighed not a hair of his. Plague of your policy,
AIT 3.2. 261 You sent me deputy for Ireland,
AIT 3.2. 262 Far from his succour, from the King, from all
AIT 3.2. 263 That might have mercy on the fault thou gav'st him;
AIT 3.2. 264 Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,
AIT 3.2. 265B Absolved him with an axe.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
This, and all else
AIT 3.2. 266 This talking lord can lay upon my credit,
AIT 3.2. 267 I answer is most false. The Duke by law
AIT 3.2. 268 Found his deserts. How innocent I was
AIT 3.2. 269 From any private malice in his end,
AIT 3.2. 270 His noble jury and foul cause can witness.
AIT 3.2. 271 If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you
AIT 3.2. 272 You have as little honesty as honour,
AIT 3.2. 273 That in the way of loyalty and truth
AIT 3.2. 274 Toward the King, my ever royal master,
AIT 3.2. 275 Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,
AIT 3.2. 276B And all that love his follies.
AIT-SURREY
By my soul,
AIT 3.2. 277 Your long coat, priest, protects you; thou shouldst feel
AIT 3.2. 278 My sword i' th' life-blood of thee else. My lords,
AIT 3.2. 279 Can ye endure to hear this arrogance,
AIT 3.2. 280 And from this fellow? If we live thus tamely,
AIT 3.2. 281 To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
AIT 3.2. 282 Farewell nobility. Let his grace go forward
AIT 3.2. 283B And dare us with his cap, like larks.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
All goodness
AIT 3.2. 284B Is poison to thy stomach.
AIT-SURREY
Yes, that goodness
AIT 3.2. 285 Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,
AIT 3.2. 286 Into your own hands, Card'nal, by extortion;
AIT 3.2. 287 The goodness of your intercepted packets
AIT 3.2. 288 You writ to th' Pope against the King; your goodness -
AIT 3.2. 289 Since you provoke me - shall be most notorious.
AIT 3.2. 290 My lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,
AIT 3.2. 291 As you respect the common good, the state
AIT 3.2. 292 Of our despised nobility, our issues -
AIT 3.2. 293 Whom if he live will scarce be gentlemen -
AIT 3.2. 294 Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles
AIT 3.2. 295 Collected from his life. {(To Wolsey)} I'll startle you
AIT 3.2. 296 Worse than the sacring-bell when the brown wench
AIT 3.2. 297 Lay kissing in your arms, lord Cardinal.
AIT 3.2. 298
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{[aside]} How much, methinks, I +
AIT 3.2. 298 could despise this man,
AIT 3.2. 299 But that I am bound in charity against it.
AIT 3.2. 300
AIT-NORFOLK
{(to Surrey)} Those articles, my lord, are +
AIT 3.2. 300 in the King's hand;
AIT 3.2. 301B But thus much - they are foul ones.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
So much fairer
AIT 3.2. 302 And spotless shall mine innocence arise
AIT 3.2. 303B When the King knows my truth.
AIT-SURREY
This cannot save you.
AIT 3.2. 304 I thank my memory I yet remember
AIT 3.2. 305 Some of these articles, and out they shall.
AIT 3.2. 306 Now, if you can blush and cry `Guilty', Cardinal,
AIT 3.2. 307B You'll show a little honesty.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
Speak on, sir;
AIT 3.2. 308 I dare your worst objections. If I blush,
AIT 3.2. 309 It is to see a nobleman want manners.
AIT 3.2. 310
AIT-SURREY
I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!
AIT 3.2. 311 First, that without the King's assent or knowledge
AIT 3.2. 312 You wrought to be a legate, by which power
AIT 3.2. 313 You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.
AIT 3.2. 314
AIT-NORFOLK
{(to Wolsey)} Then, that in all you writ +
AIT 3.2. 314 to Rome, or else
AIT 3.2. 315 To foreign princes, `{Ego et Rex meus}'
AIT 3.2. 316 Was still inscribed - in which you brought the King
AIT 3.2. 317B To be your servant.
AIT-SUFFOLK
{(to Wolsey)} Then, +
AIT 3.2. 317B that without the knowledge
AIT 3.2. 318 Either of King or Council, when you went
AIT 3.2. 319 Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold
AIT 3.2. 320 To carry into Flanders the great seal.
AIT 3.2. 321
AIT-SURREY
{(to Wolsey)} Item, you sent a large +
AIT 3.2. 321 commission
AIT 3.2. 322 To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,
AIT 3.2. 323 Without the King's will or the state's allowance,
AIT 3.2. 324 A league between his highness and Ferrara.
AIT 3.2. 325
AIT-SUFFOLK
{(to Wolsey)} That out of mere ambition +
AIT 3.2. 325 you have caused
AIT 3.2. 326 Your holy hat to be stamped on the King's coin.
AIT 3.2. 327
AIT-SURREY
{(to Wolsey)} Then, that you have sent +
AIT 3.2. 327 innumerable substance -
AIT 3.2. 328 By what means got, I leave to your own conscience -
AIT 3.2. 329 To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
AIT 3.2. 330 You have for dignities to the mere undoing
AIT 3.2. 331 Of all the kingdom. Many more there are,
AIT 3.2. 332 Which since they are of you, and odious,
AIT 3.2. 333B I will not taint my mouth with.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
O, my lord,
AIT 3.2. 334 Press not a falling man too far. 'Tis virtue.
AIT 3.2. 335 His faults lie open to the laws. Let them,
AIT 3.2. 336 Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him
AIT 3.2. 337B So little of his great self.
AIT-SURREY
I forgive him.
AIT 3.2. 338
AIT-SUFFOLK
Lord Cardinal, the King's further pleasure is -
AIT 3.2. 339 Because all those things you have done of late,
AIT 3.2. 340 By your power legantine within this kingdom,
AIT 3.2. 341 Fall into th' compass of a praemunire -
AIT 3.2. 342 That therefore such a writ be sued against you,
AIT 3.2. 343 To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,
AIT 3.2. 344 Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be
AIT 3.2. 345 Out of the King's protection. This is my charge.
AIT 3.2. 346
AIT-NORFOLK
{(to Wolsey)} And so we'll leave you to +
AIT 3.2. 346 your meditations
AIT 3.2. 347 How to live better. For your stubborn answer
AIT 3.2. 348 About the giving back the great seal to us,
AIT 3.2. 349 The King shall know it and, no doubt, shall thank you.
AIT 3.2. 350 So fare you well, my little good lord Cardinal. {Exeunt all but +
AIT 3.2. 350 Wolsey}
AIT 3.2. 351
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
So farewell - to the little good you bear +
AIT 3.2. 351 me.
AIT 3.2. 352 Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
AIT 3.2. 353 This is the state of man. Today he puts forth
AIT 3.2. 354 The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms,
AIT 3.2. 355 And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
AIT 3.2. 356 The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
AIT 3.2. 357 And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
AIT 3.2. 358 His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
AIT 3.2. 359 And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
AIT 3.2. 360 Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
AIT 3.2. 361 This many summers in a sea of glory,
AIT 3.2. 362 But far beyond my depth; my high-blown pride
AIT 3.2. 363 At length broke under me, and now has left me
AIT 3.2. 364 Weary, and old with service, to the mercy
AIT 3.2. 365 Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
AIT 3.2. 366 Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye!
AIT 3.2. 367 I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched
AIT 3.2. 368 Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
AIT 3.2. 369 There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
AIT 3.2. 370 That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
AIT 3.2. 371 More pangs and fears than wars or women have,
AIT 3.2. 372 And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
AIT 3.2. 373B Never to hope again. {Enter Cromwell, who then stands +
AIT 3.2. 373B amazed} Why, how now, Cromwell?
AIT 3.2. 374B
AIT-CROMWELL
I have no power to speak, sir.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
What, +
AIT 3.2. 374B amazed
AIT 3.2. 375 At my misfortunes? Can thy spirit wonder
AIT 3.2. 376B A great man should decline? {[Cromwell begins to weep]} +
AIT 3.2. 376B Nay, an you weep
AIT 3.2. 377B I am fall'n indeed.
AIT-CROMWELL
How does your grace?
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
+
AIT 3.2. 377B Why, well -
AIT 3.2. 378 Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.
AIT 3.2. 379 I know myself now, and I feel within me
AIT 3.2. 380 A peace above all earthly dignities,
AIT 3.2. 381 A still and quiet conscience. The King has cured me.
AIT 3.2. 382 I humbly thank his grace, and from these shoulders,
AIT 3.2. 383 These ruined pillars, out of pity, taken
AIT 3.2. 384 A load would sink a navy - too much honour.
AIT 3.2. 385 O, 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden
AIT 3.2. 386 Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.
AIT 3.2. 387
AIT-CROMWELL
I am glad your grace has made that right use of it.
AIT 3.2. 388
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
I hope I have. I am able now, methinks,
AIT 3.2. 389 Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,
AIT 3.2. 390 To endure more miseries and greater far
AIT 3.2. 391 Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.
AIT 3.2. 392B What news abroad?
AIT-CROMWELL
The heaviest and the worst
AIT 3.2. 393B Is your displeasure with the King.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
God bless him.
AIT 3.2. 394
AIT-CROMWELL
The next is that Sir Thomas More is chosen
AIT 3.2. 395B Lord Chancellor in your place.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
That's somewhat +
AIT 3.2. 395B sudden.
AIT 3.2. 396 But he's a learned man. May he continue
AIT 3.2. 397 Long in his highness' favour, and do justice
AIT 3.2. 398 For truth's sake and his conscience, that his bones,
AIT 3.2. 399 When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,
AIT 3.2. 400 May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on him.
AIT 3.2. 401B What more?
AIT-CROMWELL
That Cranmer is returned with welcome,
AIT 3.2. 402 Installed lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
AIT 3.2. 403B
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
That's news indeed.
AIT-CROMWELL
Last, that the Lady +
AIT 3.2. 403B Anne,
AIT 3.2. 404 Whom the King hath in secrecy long married,
AIT 3.2. 405 This day was viewed in open as his queen,
AIT 3.2. 406 Going to chapel, and the voice is now
AIT 3.2. 407 Only about her coronation.
AIT 3.2. 408
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
There was the weight that pulled me down. O, +
AIT 3.2. 408 Cromwell,
AIT 3.2. 409 The King has gone beyond me. All my glories
AIT 3.2. 410 In that one woman I have lost for ever.
AIT 3.2. 411 No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,
AIT 3.2. 412 Or gild again the noble troops that waited
AIT 3.2. 413 Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell.
AIT 3.2. 414 I am a poor fall'n man, unworthy now
AIT 3.2. 415 To be thy lord and master. Seek the King -
AIT 3.2. 416 That sun I pray may never set - I have told him
AIT 3.2. 417 What and how true thou art. He will advance thee.
AIT 3.2. 418 Some little memory of me will stir him.
AIT 3.2. 419 I know his noble nature not to let
AIT 3.2. 420 Thy hopeful service perish too. Good Cromwell,
AIT 3.2. 421 Neglect him not. Make use now, and provide
AIT 3.2. 422B For thine own future safety.
AIT-CROMWELL
{[weeping]} +
AIT 3.2. 422B O, my lord,
AIT 3.2. 423 Must I then leave you? Must I needs forgo
AIT 3.2. 424 So good, so noble, and so true a master?
AIT 3.2. 425 Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,
AIT 3.2. 426 With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
AIT 3.2. 427 The King shall have my service, but my prayers
AIT 3.2. 428 For ever and for ever shall be yours.
AIT 3.2. 429
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
{(weeping)} Cromwell, I did not +
AIT 3.2. 429 think to shed a tear
AIT 3.2. 430 In all my miseries, but thou hast forced me,
AIT 3.2. 431 Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.
AIT 3.2. 432 Let's dry our eyes, and thus far hear me, Cromwell,
AIT 3.2. 433 And when I am forgotten, as I shall be,
AIT 3.2. 434 And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention
AIT 3.2. 435 Of me more must be heard of, say I taught thee -
AIT 3.2. 436 Say Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
AIT 3.2. 437 And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,
AIT 3.2. 438 Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in,
AIT 3.2. 439 A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.
AIT 3.2. 440 Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me.
AIT 3.2. 441 Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
AIT 3.2. 442 By that sin fell the angels. How can man, then,
AIT 3.2. 443 The image of his maker, hope to win by it?
AIT 3.2. 444 Love thyself last. Cherish those hearts that hate thee.
AIT 3.2. 445 Corruption wins not more than honesty.
AIT 3.2. 446 Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace
AIT 3.2. 447 To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not.
AIT 3.2. 448 Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
AIT 3.2. 449 Thy God's, and truth's. Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell,
AIT 3.2. 450 Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
AIT 3.2. 451 Serve the King. And prithee, lead me in -
AIT 3.2. 452 There take an inventory of all I have:
AIT 3.2. 453 To the last penny 'tis the King's. My robe,
AIT 3.2. 454 And my integrity to heaven, is all
AIT 3.2. 455 I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell,
AIT 3.2. 456 Had I but served my God with half the zeal
AIT 3.2. 457 I served my King, He would not in mine age
AIT 3.2. 458 Have left me naked to mine enemies.
AIT 3.2. 459B
AIT-CROMWELL
Good sir, have patience.
AIT-CARDINAL WOLSEY
So I have. +
AIT 3.2. 459B Farewell
AIT 3.2. 460 The hopes of court; my hopes in heaven do dwell. {Exeunt}
AIT 3.2. 460
AIT-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 3.2. 0 {Enter the two Gentlemen meeting one another. The +
AIT 4.1. 0 first holds a paper}
AIT 4.1. 1B
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
You're well met once again. +
AIT 4.1. 1B
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
So are you.
AIT 4.1. 2
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
You come to take your stand here and behold
AIT 4.1. 3 The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?
AIT 4.1. 4
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
'Tis all my business. At our last encounter
AIT 4.1. 5 The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.
AIT 4.1. 6
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
'Tis very true. But that time offered sorrow,
AIT 4.1. 7B This, general joy.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
'Tis well. The citizens,
AIT 4.1. 8 I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds -
AIT 4.1. 9 As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward -
AIT 4.1. 10 In celebration of this day with shows,
AIT 4.1. 11B Pageants, and sights of honour.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Never greater,
AIT 4.1. 12 Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir.
AIT 4.1. 13
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
May I be bold to ask what that contains,
AIT 4.1. 14B That paper in your hand?
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Yes, 'tis the list
AIT 4.1. 15 Of those that claim their offices this day
AIT 4.1. 16 By custom of the coronation.
AIT 4.1. 17 The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims
AIT 4.1. 18 To be High Steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk,
AIT 4.1. 19 He to be Earl Marshal. You may read the rest. {He gives him the +
AIT 4.1. 19 paper}
AIT 4.1. 20
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I thank you, sir. Had I not known those +
AIT 4.1. 20 customs,
AIT 4.1. 21 I should have been beholden to your paper.
AIT 4.1. 22 But I beseech you, what's become of Katherine,
AIT 4.1. 23 The Princess Dowager? How goes her business?
AIT 4.1. 24
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
That I can tell you too. The Archbishop
AIT 4.1. 25 Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
AIT 4.1. 26 Learned and reverend fathers of his order,
AIT 4.1. 27 Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off
AIT 4.1. 28 From Ampthill, where the Princess lay; to which
AIT 4.1. 29 She was often cited by them, but appeared not.
AIT 4.1. 30 And, to be short, for not appearance, and
AIT 4.1. 31 The King's late scruple, by the main assent
AIT 4.1. 32 Of all these learned men, she was divorced,
AIT 4.1. 33 And the late marriage made of none effect,
AIT 4.1. 34 Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,
AIT 4.1. 35B Where she remains now sick.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Alas, good lady! +
AIT 4.1. 35B {Flourish of trumpets within}
AIT 4.1. 36 The trumpets sound. Stand close. The Queen is coming. +
AIT 4.1. 36 {Enter the coronation procession, which passes over the stage in order +
AIT 4.1. 36 and state. Hautboys, within, [play during the procession]}
AIT 4.1. 37 {the order of the coronation} {1. First, [enter] +
AIT 4.1. 37 trumpeters, who play a lively flourish. 2. Then, enter two judges. 3. +
AIT 4.1. 37 Then, enter the Lord Chancellor, with both the purse containing the +
AIT 4.1. 37 great seal and the mace borne before him. 4. Then, enter choristers +
AIT 4.1. 37 singing; [with them, musicians playing.] 5. Then, enter the Lord Mayor +
AIT 4.1. 37 of London bearing the mace, followed by Garter King-of-Arms wearing his +
AIT 4.1. 37 coat of arms and a gilt copper crown. 6. Then, enter Marquis Dorset +
AIT 4.1. 37 bearing a sceptre of gold, and wearing, on his head, a demi-coronal of +
AIT 4.1. 37 gold and, about his neck, a collar of esses. With him enter the Earl +
AIT 4.1. 37 of Surrey bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an +
AIT 4.1. 37 earl's coronet, and also wearing a collar of esses. 7. Next, enter the +
AIT 4.1. 37 Duke of Suffolk as High Steward, in his robe of estate, with his +
AIT 4.1. 37 coronet on his head, and bearing a long white wand. With him, enter the +
AIT 4.1. 37 Duke of Norfolk with the rod of marshalship and a coronet on his head. +
AIT 4.1. 37 Each wears a collar of esses. 8. Then, under a canopy borne by four +
AIT 4.1. 37 barons of the Cinque Ports, enter Anne, the new Queen, in her robe. Her +
AIT 4.1. 37 hair, which hangs loose, is richly adorned with pearl. She wears a +
AIT 4.1. 37 crown. Accompanying her on either side are the Bishops of London and +
AIT 4.1. 37 Winchester. 9. Next, enter the old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of +
AIT 4.1. 37 gold wrought with flowers, bearing the Queen's train. 10. Finally, +
AIT 4.1. 37 enter certain ladies or countesses, with plain circlets of gold without +
AIT 4.1. 37 flowers. The two Gentlemen comment on the procession as it passes over +
AIT 4.1. 37 the stage}
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
A royal train, believe me. +
AIT 4.1. 37 These I know.
AIT 4.1. 38B Who's that that bears the sceptre?
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Marquis Dorset.
AIT 4.1. 39 And that, the Earl of Surrey with the rod.
AIT 4.1. 40
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
A bold brave gentleman. That should be
AIT 4.1. 41B The Duke of Suffolk?
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
'Tis the same: High Steward.
AIT 4.1. 42B
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
And that, my lord of Norfolk?
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
+
AIT 4.1. 42B Yes.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
{(seeing Anne)} Heaven bless +
AIT 4.1. 42B thee!
AIT 4.1. 43 Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on.
AIT 4.1. 44 Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.
AIT 4.1. 45 Our King has all the Indies in his arms,
AIT 4.1. 46 And more, and richer, when he strains that lady.
AIT 4.1. 47B I cannot blame his conscience.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
They that bear
AIT 4.1. 48 The cloth of honour over her are four barons
AIT 4.1. 49 Of the Cinque Ports.
AIT 4.1. 50A
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Those men are happy,
AIT 4.1. 51 And so are all are near her.
AIT 4.1. 52 I take it she that carries up the train
AIT 4.1. 53 Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk.
AIT 4.1. 54
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
It is. And all the rest are countesses.
AIT 4.1. 55
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed -
AIT 4.1. 56B
AIT-[FIRST GENTLEMAN]
And sometimes falling ones.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
+
AIT 4.1. 56B No more of that. {Exit the last of the procession, and then}
AIT 4.1. 57 {a great flourish of trumpets within} {Enter a third Gentleman +
AIT 4.1. 57 [in a sweat]}
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
God save you, sir. Where +
AIT 4.1. 57 have you been broiling?
AIT 4.1. 58
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
Among the crowd i' th' Abbey, where a finger
AIT 4.1. 59 Could not be wedged in more. I am stifled
AIT 4.1. 60 With the mere rankness of their joy.
AIT 4.1. 61B
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
You saw the ceremony?
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
That I +
AIT 4.1. 61B did.
AIT 4.1. 62A
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
How was it?
AIT 4.1. 63B
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
Well worth the seeing.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Good +
AIT 4.1. 63B sir, speak it to us.
AIT 4.1. 64
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
As well as I am able. The rich stream
AIT 4.1. 65 Of lords and ladies, having brought the Queen
AIT 4.1. 66 To a prepared place in the choir, fell off
AIT 4.1. 67 A distance from her, while her grace sat down
AIT 4.1. 68 To rest a while - some half an hour or so -
AIT 4.1. 69 In a rich chair of state, opposing freely
AIT 4.1. 70 The beauty of her person to the people.
AIT 4.1. 71 Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman
AIT 4.1. 72 That ever lay by man; which when the people
AIT 4.1. 73 Had the full view of, such a noise arose
AIT 4.1. 74 As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
AIT 4.1. 75 As loud and to as many tunes. Hats, cloaks -
AIT 4.1. 76 Doublets, I think - flew up, and had their faces
AIT 4.1. 77 Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy
AIT 4.1. 78 I never saw before. Great-bellied women,
AIT 4.1. 79 That had not half a week to go, like rams
AIT 4.1. 80 In the old time of war, would shake the press,
AIT 4.1. 81 And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living
AIT 4.1. 82 Could say `This is my wife' there, all were woven
AIT 4.1. 83B So strangely in one piece.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
But what followed?
AIT 4.1. 84
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
At length her grace rose, and with modest paces
AIT 4.1. 85 Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like
AIT 4.1. 86 Cast her fair eyes to heaven, and prayed devoutly,
AIT 4.1. 87 Then rose again, and bowed her to the people,
AIT 4.1. 88 When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
AIT 4.1. 89 She had all the royal makings of a queen,
AIT 4.1. 90 As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,
AIT 4.1. 91 The rod and bird of peace, and all such emblems
AIT 4.1. 92 Laid nobly on her. Which performed, the choir,
AIT 4.1. 93 With all the choicest music of the kingdom,
AIT 4.1. 94 Together sung {Te Deum}. So she parted,
AIT 4.1. 95 And with the same full state paced back again
AIT 4.1. 96B To York Place, where the feast is held.
AIT-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Sir,
AIT 4.1. 97 You must no more call it York Place - that's past,
AIT 4.1. 98 For since the Cardinal fell, that title's lost.
AIT 4.1. 99B 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall.
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
I know +
AIT 4.1. 99B it,
AIT 4.1. 100 But 'tis so lately altered that the old name
AIT 4.1. 101B Is fresh about me.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
What two reverend bishops
AIT 4.1. 102 Were those that went on each side of the Queen?
AIT 4.1. 103
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
Stokesley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester -
AIT 4.1. 104 Newly preferred from the King's secretary -
AIT 4.1. 105B The other London.
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
He of Winchester
AIT 4.1. 106 Is held no great good lover of the Archbishop's,
AIT 4.1. 107B The virtuous Cranmer.
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
All the land knows that.
AIT 4.1. 108 However, yet there is no great breach. When it comes,
AIT 4.1. 109 Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.
AIT 4.1. 110B
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Who may that be, I pray you?
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
+
AIT 4.1. 110B Thomas Cromwell,
AIT 4.1. 111 A man in much esteem with th' King, and truly
AIT 4.1. 112 A worthy friend. The King has made him
AIT 4.1. 113 Master o' th' Jewel House,
AIT 4.1. 114 And one already of the Privy Council.
AIT 4.1. 115B
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMAN
He will deserve more.
AIT-THIRD GENTLEMAN
Yes, +
AIT 4.1. 115B without all doubt.
AIT 4.1. 116 Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way,
AIT 4.1. 117 Which is to th' court, and there ye shall be my guests.
AIT 4.1. 118 Something I can command. As I walk thither
AIT 4.1. 119B I'll tell ye more.
AIT-FIRST
AIT-AND
AIT-SECOND GENTLEMEN
You may command us, +
AIT 4.1. 119B sir. {Exeunt}
AIT 4.1. 0 {[Three chairs.] Enter Katherine Dowager, sick, led +
AIT 4.2. 0 between Griffith her gentleman usher, and Patience her woman}
AIT 4.2. 1B
AIT-GRIFFITH
How does your grace?
AIT-KATHERINE
O Griffith, +
AIT 4.2. 1B sick to death.
AIT 4.2. 2 My legs, like loaden branches, bow to th' earth,
AIT 4.2. 3 Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair. {A chair is +
AIT 4.2. 3 brought to her. She sits}
AIT 4.2. 4 So now, methinks, I feel a little ease.
AIT 4.2. 5 Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'st me,
AIT 4.2. 6 That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey,
AIT 4.2. 7B Was dead?
AIT-GRIFFITH
Yes, madam, but I think your grace,
AIT 4.2. 8 Out of the pain you suffered, gave no ear to 't.
AIT 4.2. 9
AIT-KATHERINE
Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died.
AIT 4.2. 10 If well, he stepped before me happily
AIT 4.2. 11B For my example.
AIT-GRIFFITH
Well, the voice goes, madam.
AIT 4.2. 12 For after the stout Earl Northumberland
AIT 4.2. 13 Arrested him at York, and brought him forward,
AIT 4.2. 14 As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,
AIT 4.2. 15 He fell sick, suddenly, and grew so ill
AIT 4.2. 16B He could not sit his mule.
AIT-KATHERINE
Alas, poor man.
AIT 4.2. 17
AIT-GRIFFITH
At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,
AIT 4.2. 18 Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
AIT 4.2. 19 With all his convent, honourably received him,
AIT 4.2. 20 To whom he gave these words: `O father abbot,
AIT 4.2. 21 An old man broken with the storms of state
AIT 4.2. 22 Is come to lay his weary bones among ye.
AIT 4.2. 23 Give him a little earth, for charity.'
AIT 4.2. 24 So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
AIT 4.2. 25 Pursued him still, and three nights after this,
AIT 4.2. 26 About the hour of eight, which he himself
AIT 4.2. 27 Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,
AIT 4.2. 28 Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
AIT 4.2. 29 He gave his honours to the world again,
AIT 4.2. 30 His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
AIT 4.2. 31
AIT-KATHERINE
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him.
AIT 4.2. 32 Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,
AIT 4.2. 33 And yet with charity. He was a man
AIT 4.2. 34 Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking
AIT 4.2. 35 Himself with princes; one that by suggestion
AIT 4.2. 36 Tied all the kingdom. Simony was fair play.
AIT 4.2. 37 His own opinion was his law. I' th' presence
AIT 4.2. 38 He would say untruths, and be ever double
AIT 4.2. 39 Both in his words and meaning. He was never,
AIT 4.2. 40 But where he meant to ruin, pitiful.
AIT 4.2. 41 His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
AIT 4.2. 42 But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
AIT 4.2. 43 Of his own body he was ill, and gave
AIT 4.2. 44B The clergy ill example.
AIT-GRIFFITH
Noble madam,
AIT 4.2. 45 Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
AIT 4.2. 46 We write in water. May it please your highness
AIT 4.2. 47B To hear me speak his good now?
AIT-KATHERINE
Yes, good Griffith,
AIT 4.2. 48B I were malicious else.
AIT-GRIFFITH
This cardinal,
AIT 4.2. 49 Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
AIT 4.2. 50 Was fashioned to much honour. From his cradle
AIT 4.2. 51 He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
AIT 4.2. 52 Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
AIT 4.2. 53 Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
AIT 4.2. 54 But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
AIT 4.2. 55 And though he were unsatisfied in getting -
AIT 4.2. 56 Which was a sin - yet in bestowing, madam,
AIT 4.2. 57 He was most princely: ever witness for him
AIT 4.2. 58 Those twins of learning that he raised in you,
AIT 4.2. 59 Ipswich and Oxford - one of which fell with him,
AIT 4.2. 60 Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;
AIT 4.2. 61 The other, though unfinished, yet so famous,
AIT 4.2. 62 So excellent in art, and still so rising,
AIT 4.2. 63 That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.
AIT 4.2. 64 His overthrow heaped happiness upon him,
AIT 4.2. 65 For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
AIT 4.2. 66 And found the blessedness of being little.
AIT 4.2. 67 And to add greater honours to his age
AIT 4.2. 68 Than man could give him, he died fearing God.
AIT 4.2. 69
AIT-KATHERINE
After my death I wish no other herald,
AIT 4.2. 70 No other speaker of my living actions
AIT 4.2. 71 To keep mine honour from corruption
AIT 4.2. 72 But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
AIT 4.2. 73 Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,
AIT 4.2. 74 With thy religious truth and modesty,
AIT 4.2. 75 Now in his ashes honour. Peace be with him.
AIT 4.2. 76 {(To her woman)} Patience, be near me still, and set +
AIT 4.2. 76 me lower.
AIT 4.2. 77 I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,
AIT 4.2. 78 Cause the musicians play me that sad note
AIT 4.2. 79 I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating
AIT 4.2. 80 On that celestial harmony I go to. {Sad and solemn music. +
AIT 4.2. 80 Katherine sleeps}
AIT 4.2. 81
AIT-GRIFFITH
{(to the woman)} She is asleep. Good +
AIT 4.2. 81 wench, let's sit down quiet
AIT 4.2. 82 For fear we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience. {They sit}
AIT 4.2. 83 {the vision} {Enter, solemnly tripping one after +
AIT 4.2. 83 another, six personages clad in white robes, wearing on their heads +
AIT 4.2. 83 garlands of bays, and golden visors on their faces. They carry branches +
AIT 4.2. 83 of bays or palm in their hands. They first conge/ unto Katherine, +
AIT 4.2. 83 then dance; and, at certain changes, the first two hold a spare +
AIT 4.2. 83 garland over her head at which the other four make reverent curtsies. +
AIT 4.2. 83 Then the two that held the garland deliver the same to the other next +
AIT 4.2. 83 two, who observe the same order in their changes and holding the +
AIT 4.2. 83 garland over her head. Which done, they deliver the same garland to the +
AIT 4.2. 83 last two who likewise observe the same order. At which, as it were by +
AIT 4.2. 83 inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing, and holdeth up +
AIT 4.2. 83 her hands to heaven. And so in their dancing vanish, carrying the +
AIT 4.2. 83 garland with them. The music continues}
AIT-KATHERINE
+
AIT 4.2. 83 {(waking)} Spirits of peace, where are ye? Are ye all gone,
AIT 4.2. 84 And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye? {Griffith and +
AIT 4.2. 84 Patience rise and come forward}
AIT 4.2. 85B
AIT-GRIFFITH
Madam, we are here.
AIT-KATHERINE
It is not you I +
AIT 4.2. 85B call for.
AIT 4.2. 86B Saw ye none enter since I slept?
AIT-GRIFFITH
None, madam.
AIT 4.2. 87
AIT-KATHERINE
No? Saw you not even now a blessed troop
AIT 4.2. 88 Invite me to a banquet, whose bright faces
AIT 4.2. 89 Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?
AIT 4.2. 90 They promised me eternal happiness,
AIT 4.2. 91 And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel
AIT 4.2. 92 I am not worthy yet to wear. I shall,
AIT 4.2. 93 Assuredly.
AIT 4.2. 94
AIT-GRIFFITH
I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams
AIT 4.2. 95B Possess your fancy.
AIT-KATHERINE
Bid the music leave.
AIT 4.2. 96B They are harsh and heavy to me. {Music ceases}
AIT-PATIENCE
+
AIT 4.2. 96B {(to Griffith)} Do you note
AIT 4.2. 97 How much her grace is altered on the sudden?
AIT 4.2. 98 How long her face is drawn? How pale she looks,
AIT 4.2. 99 And of an earthy colour? Mark her eyes?
AIT 4.2. 100B
AIT-GRIFFITH
She is going, wench. Pray, pray.
AIT-PATIENCE
Heaven +
AIT 4.2. 100B comfort her. {Enter a Messenger}
AIT 4.2. 101B
AIT-MESSENGER
{(to Katherine)} An 't like your +
AIT 4.2. 101B grace -
AIT-KATHERINE
You are a saucy fellow -
AIT 4.2. 102B Deserve we no more reverence?
AIT-GRIFFITH
{(to the +
AIT 4.2. 102B Messenger)} You are to blame,
AIT 4.2. 103 Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,
AIT 4.2. 104 To use so rude behaviour. Go to, kneel.
AIT 4.2. 105
AIT-MESSENGER
{(kneeling before Katherine)} I humbly +
AIT 4.2. 105 do entreat your highness' pardon.
AIT 4.2. 106 My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying
AIT 4.2. 107 A gentleman sent from the King to see you.
AIT 4.2. 108
AIT-KATHERINE
Admit him entrance, Griffith. But this fellow
AIT 4.2. 109B Let me ne'er see again. {Exit Messenger} {Enter Lord +
AIT 4.2. 109B Caputius [ushered by Griffith]} If my sight fail not,
AIT 4.2. 110 You should be lord ambassador from the Emperor,
AIT 4.2. 111 My royal nephew, and your name Caputius.
AIT 4.2. 112B
AIT-CAPUTIUS
Madam, the same, {[bowing]} your +
AIT 4.2. 112B servant.
AIT-KATHERINE
O, my lord,
AIT 4.2. 113 The times and titles now are altered strangely
AIT 4.2. 114 With me since first you knew me. But I pray you,
AIT 4.2. 115B What is your pleasure with me?
AIT-CAPUTIUS
Noble lady,
AIT 4.2. 116 First mine own service to your grace; the next,
AIT 4.2. 117 The King's request that I would visit you,
AIT 4.2. 118 Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me
AIT 4.2. 119 Sends you his princely commendations,
AIT 4.2. 120 And heartily entreats you take good comfort.
AIT 4.2. 121
AIT-KATHERINE
O, my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
AIT 4.2. 122 'Tis like a pardon after execution.
AIT 4.2. 123 That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
AIT 4.2. 124 But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
AIT 4.2. 125B How does his highness?
AIT-CAPUTIUS
Madam, in good health.
AIT 4.2. 126
AIT-KATHERINE
So may he ever do, and ever flourish
AIT 4.2. 127 When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name
AIT 4.2. 128 Banished the kingdom. {(To her woman)} Patience, is +
AIT 4.2. 128 that letter
AIT 4.2. 129B I caused you write yet sent away?
AIT-PATIENCE
No, madam.
AIT 4.2. 130
AIT-KATHERINE
{(to Caputius)} Sir, I most humbly pray +
AIT 4.2. 130 you to deliver
AIT 4.2. 131B This to my lord the King. {The letter is given to +
AIT 4.2. 131B Caputius}
AIT-CAPUTIUS
Most willing, madam.
AIT 4.2. 132
AIT-KATHERINE
In which I have commended to his goodness
AIT 4.2. 133 The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter -
AIT 4.2. 134 The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her -
AIT 4.2. 135 Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding.
AIT 4.2. 136 She is young, and of a noble modest nature.
AIT 4.2. 137 I hope she will deserve well - and a little
AIT 4.2. 138 To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him,
AIT 4.2. 139 Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition
AIT 4.2. 140 Is that his noble grace would have some pity
AIT 4.2. 141 Upon my wretched women, that so long
AIT 4.2. 142 Have followed both my fortunes faithfully;
AIT 4.2. 143 Of which there is not one, I dare avow -
AIT 4.2. 144 And now I should not lie - but will deserve,
AIT 4.2. 145 For virtue and true beauty of the soul,
AIT 4.2. 146 For honesty and decent carriage,
AIT 4.2. 147 A right good husband. Let him be a noble,
AIT 4.2. 148 And sure those men are happy that shall have 'em.
AIT 4.2. 149 The last is for my men - they are the poorest,
AIT 4.2. 150 But poverty could never draw 'em from me -
AIT 4.2. 151 That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,
AIT 4.2. 152 And something over to remember me by.
AIT 4.2. 153 If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life,
AIT 4.2. 154 And able means, we had not parted thus.
AIT 4.2. 155 These are the whole contents; and, good my lord,
AIT 4.2. 156 By that you love the dearest in this world,
AIT 4.2. 157 As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,
AIT 4.2. 158 Stand these poor people's friend and urge the King
AIT 4.2. 159B To do me this last rite.
AIT-CAPUTIUS
By heaven I will,
AIT 4.2. 160 Or let me lose the fashion of a man.
AIT 4.2. 161
AIT-KATHERINE
I thank you, honest lord. Remember me
AIT 4.2. 162 In all humility unto his highness.
AIT 4.2. 163 Say his long trouble now is passing
AIT 4.2. 164 Out of this world. Tell him, in death I blessed him,
AIT 4.2. 165 For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,
AIT 4.2. 166B My lord. Griffith, farewell. {(To her woman)} Nay, +
AIT 4.2. 166B Patience,
AIT 4.2. 167 You must not leave me yet. I must to bed.
AIT 4.2. 168 Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,
AIT 4.2. 169 Let me be used with honour. Strew me over
AIT 4.2. 170 With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
AIT 4.2. 171 I was a chaste wife to my grave. Embalm me,
AIT 4.2. 172 Then lay me forth. Although unqueened, yet like
AIT 4.2. 173 A queen and daughter to a king inter me.
AIT 4.2. 174 I can no more. {Exeunt [Caputius and Griffith at one door; +
AIT 4.2. 174 Patience] leading Katherine [at another]}
AIT 4.2. 174
AIT-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 4.2. 0
AIT 4.2. 0 {Enter [at one door] Gardiner, Bishop of +
AIT 5.1. 0 Winchester; before him, a Page with a torch}
AIT 5.1. 1B
AIT-GARDINER
It's one o'clock, boy, is 't not?
AIT-PAGE
It +
AIT 5.1. 1B hath struck.
AIT 5.1. 2
AIT-GARDINER
These should be hours for necessities,
AIT 5.1. 3 Not for delights; times to repair our nature
AIT 5.1. 4 With comforting repose, and not for us
AIT 5.1. 5B To waste these times. {Enter [at another door] Sir Thomas +
AIT 5.1. 5B Lovell, meeting them} Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!
AIT 5.1. 6B Whither so late?
AIT-LOVELL
Came you from the King, my lord?
AIT 5.1. 7
AIT-GARDINER
I did, Sir Thomas, and left him at primero
AIT 5.1. 8B With the Duke of Suffolk.
AIT-LOVELL
I must to him too,
AIT 5.1. 9 Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave.
AIT 5.1. 10
AIT-GARDINER
Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell - what's the matter?
AIT 5.1. 11 It seems you are in haste. An if there be
AIT 5.1. 12 No great offence belongs to 't, give your friend
AIT 5.1. 13 Some touch of your late business. Affairs that walk,
AIT 5.1. 14 As they say spirits do, at midnight, have
AIT 5.1. 15 In them a wilder nature than the business
AIT 5.1. 16B That seeks dispatch by day.
AIT-LOVELL
My lord, I love you,
AIT 5.1. 17 And durst commend a secret to your ear
AIT 5.1. 18 Much weightier than this work. The Queen's in labour -
AIT 5.1. 19 They say in great extremity - and feared
AIT 5.1. 20B She'll with the labour end.
AIT-GARDINER
The fruit she goes with
AIT 5.1. 21 I pray for heartily, that it may find
AIT 5.1. 22 Good time, and live. But, for the stock, Sir Thomas,
AIT 5.1. 23B I wish it grubbed up now.
AIT-LOVELL
Methinks I could
AIT 5.1. 24 Cry the amen, and yet my conscience says
AIT 5.1. 25 She's a good creature and, sweet lady, does
AIT 5.1. 26B Deserve our better wishes.
AIT-GARDINER
But sir, sir,
AIT 5.1. 27 Hear me, Sir Thomas. You're a gentleman
AIT 5.1. 28 Of mine own way. I know you wise, religious.
AIT 5.1. 29 And let me tell you, it will ne'er be well -
AIT 5.1. 30 'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take 't of me -
AIT 5.1. 31 Till Cranmer, Cromwell - her two hands - and she,
AIT 5.1. 32B Sleep in their graves.
AIT-LOVELL
Now, sir, you speak of two
AIT 5.1. 33 The most remarked i' th' kingdom. As for Cromwell,
AIT 5.1. 34 Beside that of the Jewel House is made Master
AIT 5.1. 35 O' th' Rolls and the King's secretary. Further, sir,
AIT 5.1. 36 Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments
AIT 5.1. 37 With which the time will load him. Th' Archbishop
AIT 5.1. 38 Is the King's hand and tongue, and who dare speak
AIT 5.1. 39B One syllable against him?
AIT-GARDINER
Yes, yes, Sir Thomas -
AIT 5.1. 40 There are that dare, and I myself have ventured
AIT 5.1. 41 To speak my mind of him, and, indeed, this day,
AIT 5.1. 42 Sir - I may tell it you, I think - I have
AIT 5.1. 43 Incensed the lords o' th' Council that he is -
AIT 5.1. 44 For so I know he is, they know he is -
AIT 5.1. 45 A most arch heretic, a pestilence
AIT 5.1. 46 That does infect the land; with which they, moved,
AIT 5.1. 47 Have broken with the King, who hath so far
AIT 5.1. 48 Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace
AIT 5.1. 49 And princely care, foreseeing those fell mischiefs
AIT 5.1. 50 Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded
AIT 5.1. 51 Tomorrow morning to the Council board
AIT 5.1. 52 He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,
AIT 5.1. 53 And we must root him out. From your affairs
AIT 5.1. 54 I hinder you too long. Good night, Sir Thomas.
AIT 5.1. 55
AIT-LOVELL
Many good nights, my lord; I rest your servant. +
AIT 5.1. 55 {Exeunt Gardiner and Page at one door}
AIT 5.1. 56 {Enter King Henry and Suffolk at another door}
AIT-KING HENRY
+
AIT 5.1. 56 {(to Suffolk)} Charles, I will play no more tonight.
AIT 5.1. 57 My mind's not on 't. You are too hard for me.
AIT 5.1. 58
AIT-SUFFOLK
Sir, I did never win of you before.
AIT 5.1. 59A
AIT-KING HENRY
But little, Charles,
AIT 5.1. 60 Nor shall not when my fancy's on my play.
AIT 5.1. 61 Now, Lovell, from the Queen what is the news?
AIT 5.1. 62
AIT-LOVELL
I could not personally deliver to her
AIT 5.1. 63 What you commanded me, but by her woman
AIT 5.1. 64 I sent your message, who returned her thanks
AIT 5.1. 65 In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness
AIT 5.1. 66B Most heartily to pray for her.
AIT-KING HENRY
What sayst thou? Ha?
AIT 5.1. 67 To pray for her? What, is she crying out?
AIT 5.1. 68
AIT-LOVELL
So said her woman, and that her suffrance made
AIT 5.1. 69B Almost each pang a death.
AIT-KING HENRY
Alas, good lady.
AIT 5.1. 70
AIT-SUFFOLK
God safely quit her of her burden, and
AIT 5.1. 71 With gentle travail, to the gladding of
AIT 5.1. 72B Your highness with an heir.
AIT-KING HENRY
'Tis midnight, Charles.
AIT 5.1. 73 Prithee to bed, and in thy prayers remember
AIT 5.1. 74 Th' estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone,
AIT 5.1. 75 For I must think of that which company
AIT 5.1. 76B Would not be friendly to.
AIT-SUFFOLK
I wish your highness
AIT 5.1. 77 A quiet night, and my good mistress will
AIT 5.1. 78B Remember in my prayers.
AIT-KING HENRY
Charles, good night. {Exit +
AIT 5.1. 78B Suffolk}
AIT 5.1. 79 {Enter Sir Anthony Denny} Well, sir, what follows?
AIT 5.1. 80
AIT-DENNY
Sir, I have brought my lord the Archbishop,
AIT 5.1. 81B As you commanded me.
AIT-KING HENRY
Ha, Canterbury?
AIT 5.1. 82B
AIT-DENNY
Ay, my good lord.
AIT-KING HENRY
'Tis true - where is he, Denny?
AIT 5.1. 83B
AIT-DENNY
He attends your highness' pleasure.
AIT-KING HENRY
Bring him +
AIT 5.1. 83B to us. {Exit Denny}
AIT 5.1. 84
AIT-LOVELL
{(aside)} This is about that which the +
AIT 5.1. 84 Bishop spake.
AIT 5.1. 85 I am happily come hither. {Enter Cranmer the Archbishop, ushered +
AIT 5.1. 85 by Denny}
AIT 5.1. 86A
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to Lovell and Denny)} Avoid the +
AIT 5.1. 86A gallery. {[Denny begins to depart.] Lovell seems to stay}
AIT 5.1. 87 Ha? I have said. Be gone.
AIT 5.1. 88B What? {Exeunt Lovell and Denny}
AIT-CRANMER
+
AIT 5.1. 88B {(aside)} I am fearful. Wherefore frowns he thus?
AIT 5.1. 89 'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well.
AIT 5.1. 90
AIT-KING HENRY
How now, my lord? You do desire to know
AIT 5.1. 91B Wherefore I sent for you.
AIT-CRANMER
{(kneeling)} It +
AIT 5.1. 91B is my duty
AIT 5.1. 92B T' attend your highness' pleasure.
AIT-KING HENRY
Pray you, arise,
AIT 5.1. 93 My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury.
AIT 5.1. 94 Come, you and I must walk a turn together.
AIT 5.1. 95 I have news to tell you. Come, come - give me your hand. {[Cranmer +
AIT 5.1. 95 rises. They walk]}
AIT 5.1. 96 Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,
AIT 5.1. 97 And am right sorry to repeat what follows.
AIT 5.1. 98 I have, and most unwillingly, of late
AIT 5.1. 99 Heard many grievous - I do say, my lord,
AIT 5.1. 100 Grievous - complaints of you, which, being considered,
AIT 5.1. 101 Have moved us and our Council that you shall
AIT 5.1. 102 This morning come before us, where I know
AIT 5.1. 103 You cannot with such freedom purge yourself
AIT 5.1. 104 But that, till further trial in those charges
AIT 5.1. 105 Which will require your answer, you must take
AIT 5.1. 106 Your patience to you, and be well contented
AIT 5.1. 107 To make your house our Tower. You a brother of us,
AIT 5.1. 108 It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness
AIT 5.1. 109B Would come against you.
AIT-CRANMER
{(kneeling)} I +
AIT 5.1. 109B humbly thank your highness,
AIT 5.1. 110 And am right glad to catch this good occasion
AIT 5.1. 111 Most throughly to be winnowed, where my chaff
AIT 5.1. 112 And corn shall fly asunder. For I know
AIT 5.1. 113 There's none stands under more calumnious tongues
AIT 5.1. 114B Than I myself, poor man.
AIT-KING HENRY
Stand up, good Canterbury.
AIT 5.1. 115 Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
AIT 5.1. 116 In us, thy friend. Give me thy hand. Stand up.
AIT 5.1. 117B Prithee, let's walk. {Cranmer rises. They walk} Now, by +
AIT 5.1. 117B my halidom,
AIT 5.1. 118 What manner of man are you? My lord, I looked
AIT 5.1. 119 You would have given me your petition that
AIT 5.1. 120 I should have ta'en some pains to bring together
AIT 5.1. 121 Yourself and your accusers, and to have heard you
AIT 5.1. 122B Without indurance further.
AIT-CRANMER
Most dread liege,
AIT 5.1. 123 The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
AIT 5.1. 124 If they shall fail, I with mine enemies
AIT 5.1. 125 Will triumph o'er my person, which I weigh not,
AIT 5.1. 126 Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing
AIT 5.1. 127B What can be said against me.
AIT-KING HENRY
Know you not
AIT 5.1. 128 How your state stands i' th' world, with the whole world?
AIT 5.1. 129 Your enemies are many, and not small; their practices
AIT 5.1. 130 Must bear the same proportion, and not ever
AIT 5.1. 131 The justice and the truth o' th' question carries
AIT 5.1. 132 The dew o' th' verdict with it. At what ease
AIT 5.1. 133 Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
AIT 5.1. 134 To swear against you? Such things have been done.
AIT 5.1. 135 You are potently opposed, and with a malice
AIT 5.1. 136 Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,
AIT 5.1. 137 I mean in perjured witness, than your master,
AIT 5.1. 138 Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived
AIT 5.1. 139 Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to.
AIT 5.1. 140 You take a precipice for no leap of danger,
AIT 5.1. 141B And woo your own destruction.
AIT-CRANMER
God and your majesty
AIT 5.1. 142 Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
AIT 5.1. 143B The trap is laid for me.
AIT-KING HENRY
Be of good cheer.
AIT 5.1. 144 They shall no more prevail than we give way to.
AIT 5.1. 145 Keep comfort to you, and this morning see
AIT 5.1. 146 You do appear before them. If they shall chance,
AIT 5.1. 147 In charging you with matters, to commit you,
AIT 5.1. 148 The best persuasions to the contrary
AIT 5.1. 149 Fail not to use, and with what vehemency
AIT 5.1. 150 Th' occasion shall instruct you. If entreaties
AIT 5.1. 151 Will render you no remedy, {[giving his ring]} this +
AIT 5.1. 151 ring
AIT 5.1. 152 Deliver them, and your appeal to us
AIT 5.1. 153B There make before them. {Cranmer weeps} Look, the good +
AIT 5.1. 153B man weeps.
AIT 5.1. 154 He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother,
AIT 5.1. 155 I swear he is true-hearted, and a soul
AIT 5.1. 156 None better in my kingdom. Get you gone,
AIT 5.1. 157B And do as I have bid you. {Exit Cranmer} He has +
AIT 5.1. 157B strangled
AIT 5.1. 158B His language in his tears. {Enter the Old Lady}
AIT-[LOVELL]
+
AIT 5.1. 158B {(within)} Come back! What mean you? {[Enter +
AIT 5.1. 158B Lovell, following her]}
AIT 5.1. 159
AIT-OLD LADY
I'll not come back. The tidings that I bring
AIT 5.1. 160 Will make my boldness manners. {(To the King)} Now good +
AIT 5.1. 160 angels
AIT 5.1. 161 Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person
AIT 5.1. 162B Under their blessed wings.
AIT-KING HENRY
Now by thy looks
AIT 5.1. 163 I guess thy message. Is the Queen delivered?
AIT 5.1. 164B Say, `Ay, and of a boy.'
AIT-OLD LADY
Ay, ay, my liege,
AIT 5.1. 165 And of a lovely boy. The God of heaven
AIT 5.1. 166 Both now and ever bless her! 'Tis a girl
AIT 5.1. 167 Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your queen
AIT 5.1. 168 Desires your visitation, and to be
AIT 5.1. 169 Acquainted with this stranger. 'Tis as like you
AIT 5.1. 170B As cherry is to cherry.
AIT-KING HENRY
Lovell -
AIT-LOVELL
Sir?
AIT 5.1. 171
AIT-KING HENRY
Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the Queen. +
AIT 5.1. 171 {Exit}
AIT 5.1. 172
AIT-OLD LADY
An hundred marks? By this light, I'll ha' more.
AIT 5.1. 173 An ordinary groom is for such payment.
AIT 5.1. 174 I will have more, or scold it out of him.
AIT 5.1. 175 Said I for this the girl was like to him? I'll
AIT 5.1. 176 Have more, or else unsay 't; and now, while 'tis hot,
AIT 5.1. 177 I'll put it to the issue. {Exeunt}
AIT 5.1. 0
AIT 5.1. 0 {Enter [pursuivants, pages, footboys, and grooms. Then +
AIT 5.2. 0 enter] Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury}
AIT 5.2. 1
AIT-CRANMER
I hope I am not too late, and yet the gentleman
AIT 5.2. 2 That was sent to me from the council prayed me
AIT 5.2. 3 To make great haste. All fast? What means this? { (Calling at +
AIT 5.2. 3 the door)} Ho!
AIT 5.2. 4B Who waits there? {Enter a Doorkeeper} Sure you know +
AIT 5.2. 4B me?
AIT-DOORKEEPER
Yes, my lord,
AIT 5.2. 5B But yet I cannot help you.
AIT-CRANMER
Why? {[Enter Doctor Butts, +
AIT 5.2. 5B passing over the stage]}
AIT 5.2. 6B
AIT-DOORKEEPER
Your grace must wait till you be called +
AIT 5.2. 6B for.
AIT-CRANMER
So.
AIT 5.2. 7
AIT-BUTTS
{(aside)} This is a piece of malice. I am +
AIT 5.2. 7 glad
AIT 5.2. 8 I came this way so happily. The King
AIT 5.2. 9B Shall understand it presently. {Exit}
AIT-CRANMER
+
AIT 5.2. 9B {(aside)} 'Tis Butts,
AIT 5.2. 10 The King's physician. As he passed along
AIT 5.2. 11 How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
AIT 5.2. 12 Pray heaven he found not my disgrace. For certain
AIT 5.2. 13 This is of purpose laid by some that hate me -
AIT 5.2. 14 God turn their hearts, I never sought their malice -
AIT 5.2. 15 To quench mine honour. They would shame to make me
AIT 5.2. 16 Wait else at door, a fellow Councillor,
AIT 5.2. 17 'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures
AIT 5.2. 18 Must be fulfilled, and I attend with patience. {Enter King Henry +
AIT 5.2. 18 and Doctor Butts at a window, above}
AIT 5.2. 19B
AIT-BUTTS
I'll show your grace the strangest sight - +
AIT 5.2. 19B
AIT-KING HENRY
What's that, Butts?
AIT 5.2. 20
AIT-BUTTS
I think your highness saw this many a day.
AIT 5.2. 21B
AIT-KING HENRY
Body o' me, where is it?
AIT-BUTTS
{(pointing at +
AIT 5.2. 21B Cranmer, below)} There, my lord.
AIT 5.2. 22 The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury,
AIT 5.2. 23 Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,
AIT 5.2. 24B Pages, and footboys.
AIT-KING HENRY
Ha? 'Tis he indeed.
AIT 5.2. 25 Is this the honour they do one another?
AIT 5.2. 26 'Tis well there's one above 'em yet. I had thought
AIT 5.2. 27 They had parted so much honesty among 'em -
AIT 5.2. 28 At least good manners - as not thus to suffer
AIT 5.2. 29 A man of his place and so near our favour
AIT 5.2. 30 To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures,
AIT 5.2. 31 And at the door, too, like a post with packets!
AIT 5.2. 32 By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery!
AIT 5.2. 33 Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close.
AIT 5.2. 34 We shall hear more anon. {[Cranmer and the doorkeeper stand to +
AIT 5.2. 34 one side. Exeunt the lackeys]}
AIT 5.2. 35 {Above, Butts [partly] draws the curtain close. Below, a +
AIT 5.2. 35 council table is brought in along with chairs and stools, and placed +
AIT 5.2. 35 under the cloth of state. Enter the Lord Chancellor, who places himself +
AIT 5.2. 35 at the upper end of the table, on the left hand, leaving a seat void +
AIT 5.2. 35 above him at the table's head as for Canterbury's seat. The Duke of +
AIT 5.2. 35 Suffolk, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, the Lord +
AIT 5.2. 35 Chamberlain, and Gardiner, the Bishop of Winchester, seat themselves +
AIT 5.2. 35 in order on each side of the table. Cromwell sits at the lower end, and +
AIT 5.2. 35 acts as secretary}
AIT-LORD CHANCELLOR
{(to Cromwell)} +
AIT 5.2. 35 Speak to the business, master secretary.
AIT 5.2. 36B Why are we met in council?
AIT-CROMWELL
Please your honours,
AIT 5.2. 37 The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury.
AIT 5.2. 38B
AIT-GARDINER
Has he had knowledge of it?
AIT-CROMWELL
Yes.
AIT-NORFOLK
+
AIT 5.2. 38B {(to the Doorkeeper)} Who waits there?
AIT 5.2. 39B
AIT-DOORKEEPER
{[coming forward]} Without, my noble +
AIT 5.2. 39B lords?
AIT-GARDINER
Yes.
AIT-DOORKEEPER
My lord Archbishop;
AIT 5.2. 40 And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.
AIT 5.2. 41B
AIT-LORD CHANCELLOR
Let him come in.
AIT-DOORKEEPER
{(to +
AIT 5.2. 41B Cranmer)} Your grace may enter now. {Cranmer approaches +
AIT 5.2. 41B the Council table}
AIT 5.2. 42
AIT-LORD CHANCELLOR
My good lord Archbishop, I'm very sorry
AIT 5.2. 43 To sit here at this present and behold
AIT 5.2. 44 That chair stand empty, but we all are men
AIT 5.2. 45 In our own natures frail, and capable
AIT 5.2. 46 Of our flesh; few are angels; out of which frailty
AIT 5.2. 47 And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us,
AIT 5.2. 48 Have misdemeaned yourself, and not a little,
AIT 5.2. 49 Toward the King first, then his laws, in filling
AIT 5.2. 50 The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains' -
AIT 5.2. 51 For so we are informed - with new opinions,
AIT 5.2. 52 Diverse and dangerous, which are heresies,
AIT 5.2. 53 And, not reformed, may prove pernicious.
AIT 5.2. 54
AIT-GARDINER
Which reformation must be sudden too,
AIT 5.2. 55 My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses
AIT 5.2. 56 Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,
AIT 5.2. 57 But stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur 'em
AIT 5.2. 58 Till they obey the manege. If we suffer,
AIT 5.2. 59 Out of our easiness and childish pity
AIT 5.2. 60 To one man's honour, this contagious sickness,
AIT 5.2. 61 Farewell all physic - and what follows then?
AIT 5.2. 62 Commotions, uproars - with a general taint
AIT 5.2. 63 Of the whole state, as of late days our neighbours,
AIT 5.2. 64 The upper Germany, can dearly witness,
AIT 5.2. 65 Yet freshly pitied in our memories.
AIT 5.2. 66
AIT-CRANMER
My good lords, hitherto in all the progress
AIT 5.2. 67 Both of my life and office, I have laboured,
AIT 5.2. 68 And with no little study, that my teaching
AIT 5.2. 69 And the strong course of my authority
AIT 5.2. 70 Might go one way, and safely; and the end
AIT 5.2. 71 Was ever to do well. Nor is there living -
AIT 5.2. 72 I speak it with a single heart, my lords -
AIT 5.2. 73 A man that more detests, more stirs against,
AIT 5.2. 74 Both in his private conscience and his place,
AIT 5.2. 75 Defacers of a public peace than I do.
AIT 5.2. 76 Pray heaven the King may never find a heart
AIT 5.2. 77 With less allegiance in it. Men that make
AIT 5.2. 78 Envy and crooked malice nourishment
AIT 5.2. 79 Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships
AIT 5.2. 80 That, in this case of justice, my accusers,
AIT 5.2. 81 Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,
AIT 5.2. 82B And freely urge against me.
AIT-SUFFOLK
Nay, my lord,
AIT 5.2. 83 That cannot be. You are a Councillor,
AIT 5.2. 84 And by that virtue no man dare accuse you.
AIT 5.2. 85
AIT-GARDINER
{(to Cranmer)} My lord, because we have +
AIT 5.2. 85 business of more moment,
AIT 5.2. 86 We will be short with you. 'Tis his highness' pleasure
AIT 5.2. 87 And our consent, for better trial of you,
AIT 5.2. 88 From hence you be committed to the Tower
AIT 5.2. 89 Where, being but a private man again,
AIT 5.2. 90 You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,
AIT 5.2. 91 More than, I fear, you are provided for.
AIT 5.2. 92
AIT-CRANMER
Ah, my good lord of Winchester, I thank you.
AIT 5.2. 93 You are always my good friend. If your will pass,
AIT 5.2. 94 I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,
AIT 5.2. 95 You are so merciful. I see your end -
AIT 5.2. 96 'Tis my undoing. Love and meekness, lord,
AIT 5.2. 97 Become a churchman better than ambition.
AIT 5.2. 98 Win straying souls with modesty again;
AIT 5.2. 99 Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,
AIT 5.2. 100 Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,
AIT 5.2. 101 I make as little doubt as you do conscience
AIT 5.2. 102 In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,
AIT 5.2. 103 But reverence to your calling makes me modest.
AIT 5.2. 104
AIT-GARDINER
My lord, my lord - you are a sectary,
AIT 5.2. 105 That's the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers,
AIT 5.2. 106 To men that understand you, words and weakness.
AIT 5.2. 107
AIT-CROMWELL
{(to Gardiner)} My lord of Winchester, +
AIT 5.2. 107 you're a little,
AIT 5.2. 108 By your good favour, too sharp. Men so noble,
AIT 5.2. 109 However faulty, yet should find respect
AIT 5.2. 110 For what they have been. 'Tis a cruelty
AIT 5.2. 111B To load a falling man.
AIT-GARDINER
Good master secretary,
AIT 5.2. 112 I cry your honour mercy. You may worst
AIT 5.2. 113B Of all this table say so.
AIT-CROMWELL
Why, my lord?
AIT 5.2. 114
AIT-GARDINER
Do not I know you for a favourer
AIT 5.2. 115B Of this new sect? Ye are not sound.
AIT-CROMWELL
Not sound?
AIT 5.2. 116B
AIT-GARDINER
Not sound, I say.
AIT-CROMWELL
Would you were half so +
AIT 5.2. 116B honest!
AIT 5.2. 117 Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears.
AIT 5.2. 118B
AIT-GARDINER
I shall remember this bold language.
AIT-CROMWELL
Do.
AIT 5.2. 119B Remember your bold life, too.
AIT-LORD CHANCELLOR
This is too much.
AIT 5.2. 120B Forbear, for shame, my lords.
AIT-GARDINER
I have done.
AIT-CROMWELL
And +
AIT 5.2. 120B I.
AIT 5.2. 121
AIT-LORD CHANCELLOR
{(to Cranmer)} Then thus for you, +
AIT 5.2. 121 my lord. It stands agreed,
AIT 5.2. 122 I take it, by all voices, that forthwith
AIT 5.2. 123 You be conveyed to th' Tower a prisoner,
AIT 5.2. 124 There to remain till the King's further pleasure
AIT 5.2. 125 Be known unto us. Are you all agreed, lords?
AIT 5.2. 126B
AIT-ALL THE COUNCIL
We are.
AIT-CRANMER
Is there no other way of mercy,
AIT 5.2. 127B But I must needs to th' Tower, my lords?
AIT-GARDINER
What other
AIT 5.2. 128 Would you expect? You are strangely troublesome.
AIT 5.2. 129B Let some o' th' guard be ready there. {Enter the guard} +
AIT 5.2. 129B
AIT-CRANMER
For me?
AIT 5.2. 130B Must I go like a traitor thither?
AIT-GARDINER
{(to the +
AIT 5.2. 130B guard)} Receive him,
AIT 5.2. 131B And see him safe i' th' Tower.
AIT-CRANMER
Stay, good my lords.
AIT 5.2. 132 I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords - {He shows the +
AIT 5.2. 132 King's ring}
AIT 5.2. 133 By virtue of that ring I take my cause
AIT 5.2. 134 Out of the grips of cruel men, and give it
AIT 5.2. 135 To a most noble judge, the King my master.
AIT 5.2. 136B
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
This is the King's ring.
AIT-SURREY
'Tis no +
AIT 5.2. 136B counterfeit.
AIT 5.2. 137
AIT-SUFFOLK
'Tis the right ring, by heav'n. I told ye all
AIT 5.2. 138 When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling
AIT 5.2. 139B 'Twould fall upon ourselves.
AIT-NORFOLK
Do you think, my lords,
AIT 5.2. 140 The King will suffer but the little finger
AIT 5.2. 141B Of this man to be vexed?
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
'Tis now too certain.
AIT 5.2. 142 How much more is his life in value with him!
AIT 5.2. 143B Would I were fairly out on 't. {[Exit King with Butts +
AIT 5.2. 143B above]}
AIT-CROMWELL
My mind gave me,
AIT 5.2. 144 In seeking tales and informations
AIT 5.2. 145 Against this man, whose honesty the devil
AIT 5.2. 146 And his disciples only envy at,
AIT 5.2. 147 Ye blew the fire that burns ye. Now have at ye! {Enter, below, +
AIT 5.2. 147 King Henry frowning on them. He takes his seat}
AIT 5.2. 148
AIT-GARDINER
Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven
AIT 5.2. 149 In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince,
AIT 5.2. 150 Not only good and wise, but most religious.
AIT 5.2. 151 One that in all obedience makes the church
AIT 5.2. 152 The chief aim of his honour, and, to strengthen
AIT 5.2. 153 That holy duty, out of dear respect,
AIT 5.2. 154 His royal self in judgement comes to hear
AIT 5.2. 155 The cause betwixt her and this great offender.
AIT 5.2. 156
AIT-KING HENRY
You were ever good at sudden commendations,
AIT 5.2. 157 Bishop of Winchester. But know I come not
AIT 5.2. 158 To hear such flattery now; and in my presence
AIT 5.2. 159 They are too thin and base to hide offences.
AIT 5.2. 160 To me you cannot reach. You play the spaniel,
AIT 5.2. 161 And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
AIT 5.2. 162 But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I'm sure
AIT 5.2. 163 Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.
AIT 5.2. 164B {(To Cranmer)} Good man, sit down. {Cranmer +
AIT 5.2. 164B takes his seat at the head of the Council table} Now let me +
AIT 5.2. 164B see the proudest,
AIT 5.2. 165 He that dares most, but wag his finger at thee.
AIT 5.2. 166 By all that's holy, he had better starve
AIT 5.2. 167 Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
AIT 5.2. 168B
AIT-SURREY
May it please your grace -
AIT-KING HENRY
No, sir, it does not +
AIT 5.2. 168B please me!
AIT 5.2. 169 I had thought I had had men of some understanding
AIT 5.2. 170 And wisdom of my Council, but I find none.
AIT 5.2. 171 Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,
AIT 5.2. 172 This good man - few of you deserve that title -
AIT 5.2. 173 This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy
AIT 5.2. 174 At chamber door? And one as great as you are?
AIT 5.2. 175 Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission
AIT 5.2. 176 Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye
AIT 5.2. 177 Power as he was a Councillor to try him,
AIT 5.2. 178 Not as a groom. There's some of ye, I see,
AIT 5.2. 179 More out of malice than integrity,
AIT 5.2. 180 Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean;
AIT 5.2. 181B Which ye shall never have while I live.
AIT-LORD CHANCELLOR
Thus far,
AIT 5.2. 182 My most dread sovereign, may it like your grace
AIT 5.2. 183 To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed
AIT 5.2. 184 Concerning his imprisonment was rather -
AIT 5.2. 185 If there be faith in men - meant for his trial
AIT 5.2. 186 And fair purgation to the world than malice,
AIT 5.2. 187B I'm sure, in me.
AIT-KING HENRY
Well, well, my lords - respect him.
AIT 5.2. 188 Take him and use him well, he's worthy of it.
AIT 5.2. 189 I will say thus much for him - if a prince
AIT 5.2. 190 May be beholden to a subject, I
AIT 5.2. 191 Am for his love and service so to him.
AIT 5.2. 192 Make me no more ado, but all embrace him.
AIT 5.2. 193 Be friends, for shame, my lords. {(To Cranmer)} My lord +
AIT 5.2. 193 of Canterbury,
AIT 5.2. 194 I have a suit which you must not deny me:
AIT 5.2. 195 That is a fair young maid that yet wants baptism -
AIT 5.2. 196 You must be godfather, and answer for her.
AIT 5.2. 197
AIT-CRANMER
The greatest monarch now alive may glory
AIT 5.2. 198 In such an honour; how may I deserve it,
AIT 5.2. 199 That am a poor and humble subject to you?
AIT 5.2. 200
AIT-KING HENRY
Come, come, my lord - you'd spare your
AIT 5.2. 201 spoons. You shall have two noble partners with you -
AIT 5.2. 202 the old Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Marquis Dorset.
AIT 5.2. 203 Will these please you?
AIT 5.2. 204 {(To Gardiner)} Once more, my lord of Winchester, I +
AIT 5.2. 204 charge you
AIT 5.2. 205B Embrace and love this man.
AIT-GARDINER
With a true heart
AIT 5.2. 206B And brother-love I do it. {[Gardiner and Cranmer +
AIT 5.2. 206B embrace]}
AIT-CRANMER
{(weeping)} And let heaven
AIT 5.2. 207 Witness how dear I hold this confirmation.
AIT 5.2. 208
AIT-KING HENRY
Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart.
AIT 5.2. 209 The common voice, I see, is verified
AIT 5.2. 210 Of thee which says thus, `Do my lord of Canterbury
AIT 5.2. 211 A shrewd turn, and he's your friend for ever.'
AIT 5.2. 212 Come, lords, we trifle time away. I long
AIT 5.2. 213 To have this young one made a Christian.
AIT 5.2. 214 As I have made ye one, lords, one remain -
AIT 5.2. 215 So I grow stronger, you more honour gain. {Exeunt}
AIT 5.2. 0 {Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter [with rushes] and +
AIT 5.3. 0 his man [with a broken cudgel]}
AIT 5.3. 1
AIT-PORTER
{(to those within)} You'll leave your noise +
AIT 5.3. 1 anon, ye rascals. Do you take
AIT 5.3. 2 The court for Paris Garden, ye rude slaves?
AIT 5.3. 3 Leave your gaping.
AIT 5.3. 4
AIT-ONE
{(within)} Good master porter, I belong to th' +
AIT 5.3. 4 larder.
AIT 5.3. 5
AIT-PORTER
Belong to th' gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue!
AIT 5.3. 6 Is this a place to roar in?
AIT 5.3. 7 {(To his man)} Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and +
AIT 5.3. 7 strong ones,
AIT 5.3. 8B {[Raising his rushes]} These are but switches to +
AIT 5.3. 8B 'em. {(To those within)} I'll scratch your heads.
AIT 5.3. 9 You must be seeing christenings? Do you look
AIT 5.3. 10 For ale and cakes here, you rude rascals?
AIT 5.3. 11
AIT-MAN
Pray, sir, be patient. 'Tis as much impossible,
AIT 5.3. 12 Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons,
AIT 5.3. 13 To scatter 'em as 'tis to make 'em sleep
AIT 5.3. 14 On May-day morning - which will never be.
AIT 5.3. 15 We may as well push against Paul's as stir 'em.
AIT 5.3. 16A
AIT-PORTER
How got they in, and be hanged?
AIT 5.3. 17
AIT-MAN
Alas, I know not. How gets the tide in?
AIT 5.3. 18 As much as one sound cudgel of four foot - {He raises his cudgel}
AIT 5.3. 19 You see the poor remainder - could distribute,
AIT 5.3. 20B I made no spare, sir.
AIT-PORTER
You did nothing, sir.
AIT 5.3. 21
AIT-MAN
I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,
AIT 5.3. 22 To mow 'em down before me; but if I spared any
AIT 5.3. 23 That had a head to hit, either young or old,
AIT 5.3. 24 He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,
AIT 5.3. 25 Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again -
AIT 5.3. 26 And that I would not for a cow, God save her!
AIT 5.3. 27A
AIT-ONE
{(within)} Do you hear, master porter?
AIT 5.3. 28
AIT-PORTER
I shall be with you presently,
AIT 5.3. 29 Good master puppy. {(To his man)} Keep the door close, +
AIT 5.3. 29 sirrah.
AIT 5.3. 30B
AIT-MAN
What would you have me do?
AIT-PORTER
What should you do,
AIT 5.3. 31 but knock 'em down by th' dozens? Is this Moorfields
AIT 5.3. 32 to muster in? Or have we some strange Indian with
AIT 5.3. 33 the great tool come to court, the women so besiege us?
AIT 5.3. 34 Bless me, what a fry of fornication is at door! On my
AIT 5.3. 35 Christian conscience, this one christening will beget a
AIT 5.3. 36 thousand. Here will be father, godfather, and all
AIT 5.3. 37 together.
AIT 5.3. 38
AIT-MAN
The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a fellow
AIT 5.3. 39 somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his
AIT 5.3. 40 face, for o' my conscience twenty of the dog-days now
AIT 5.3. 41 reign in 's nose. All that stand about him are under the
AIT 5.3. 42 line - they need no other penance. That fire-drake did
AIT 5.3. 43 I hit three times on the head, and three times was his
AIT 5.3. 44 nose discharged against me. He stands there like a
AIT 5.3. 45 mortar-piece, to blow us. There was a haberdasher's
AIT 5.3. 46 wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her
AIT 5.3. 47 pinked porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a
AIT 5.3. 48 combustion in the state. I missed the meteor once, and
AIT 5.3. 49 hit that woman, who cried out `Clubs!', when I might
AIT 5.3. 50 see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her
AIT 5.3. 51 succour, which were the hope o' th' Strand, where she
AIT 5.3. 52 was quartered. They fell on. I made good my place. At
AIT 5.3. 53 length they came to th' broomstaff to me. I defied 'em
AIT 5.3. 54 still, when suddenly a file of boys behind 'em, loose
AIT 5.3. 55 shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles that I was fain
AIT 5.3. 56 to draw mine honour in and let 'em win the work. The
AIT 5.3. 57 devil was amongst 'em, I think, surely.
AIT 5.3. 58
AIT-PORTER
These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse,
AIT 5.3. 59 and fight for bitten apples, that no audience but the
AIT 5.3. 60 tribulation of Tower Hill or the limbs of Limehouse,
AIT 5.3. 61 their dear brothers, are able to endure. I have some of
AIT 5.3. 62 'em in {limbo patrum}, and there they are like to dance
AIT 5.3. 63 these three days, besides the running banquet of two
AIT 5.3. 64 beadles that is to come. {Enter the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 5.3. 65
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Mercy o' me, what a multitude are here!
AIT 5.3. 66 They grow still, too - from all parts they are coming,
AIT 5.3. 67 As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,
AIT 5.3. 68 These lazy knaves? {(To the Porter and his man)} You've +
AIT 5.3. 68 made a fine hand, fellows!
AIT 5.3. 69 There's a trim rabble let in - are all these
AIT 5.3. 70 Your faithful friends o' th' suburbs? We shall have
AIT 5.3. 71 Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies
AIT 5.3. 72B When they pass back from the christening!
AIT-PORTER
An 't please your +
AIT 5.3. 72B honour,
AIT 5.3. 73 We are but men, and what so many may do,
AIT 5.3. 74 Not being torn a-pieces, we have done.
AIT 5.3. 75B An army cannot rule 'em.
AIT-LORD CHAMBERLAIN
As I live,
AIT 5.3. 76 If the King blame me for 't, I'll lay ye all
AIT 5.3. 77 By th' heels, and suddenly - and on your heads
AIT 5.3. 78 Clap round fines for neglect. You're lazy knaves,
AIT 5.3. 79 And here ye lie baiting of bombards when
AIT 5.3. 80B Ye should do service. {Flourish of trumpets within} +
AIT 5.3. 80B Hark, the trumpets sound.
AIT 5.3. 81 They're come, already, from the christening.
AIT 5.3. 82 Go break among the press, and find a way out
AIT 5.3. 83 To let the troop pass fairly, or I'll find
AIT 5.3. 84 A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months. {[As they +
AIT 5.3. 84 leave, the Porter and his man call within]}
AIT 5.3. 85B
AIT-PORTER
Make way there for the Princess!
AIT-MAN
You great +
AIT 5.3. 85B fellow,
AIT 5.3. 86 Stand close up, or I'll make your head ache.
AIT 5.3. 87
AIT-PORTER
You i' th' camlet, get up o' th' rail -
AIT 5.3. 88 I'll peck you o'er the pales else. {Exeunt}
AIT 5.3. 0 {Enter trumpeters, sounding. Then enter two aldermen, the +
AIT 5.4. 0 Lord Mayor of London, Garter King-of-Arms, Cranmer the Archbishop of +
AIT 5.4. 0 Canterbury, the Duke of Norfolk with his marshal's staff, the Duke +
AIT 5.4. 0 of Suffolk, two noblemen bearing great standing bowls for the +
AIT 5.4. 0 christening gifts; then enter four noblemen bearing a canopy, under +
AIT 5.4. 0 which is the Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the +
AIT 5.4. 0 child Elizabeth richly habited in a mantle, whose train is borne by a +
AIT 5.4. 0 lady. Then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the other godmother, and +
AIT 5.4. 0 ladies. The troop pass once about the stage and Garter speaks}
AIT 5.4. 1
AIT-GARTER
Heaven, from thy endless goodness send
AIT 5.4. 2 prosperous life, long, and ever happy, to the high and
AIT 5.4. 3 mighty Princess of England, Elizabeth. {Flourish. Enter King +
AIT 5.4. 3 Henry and guard}
AIT 5.4. 4
AIT-CRANMER
{(kneeling)} And to your royal grace, and +
AIT 5.4. 4 the good Queen!
AIT 5.4. 5 My noble partners and myself thus pray
AIT 5.4. 6 All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,
AIT 5.4. 7 Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
AIT 5.4. 8B May hourly fall upon ye.
AIT-KING HENRY
Thank you, good lord Archbishop.
AIT 5.4. 9B What is her name?
AIT-CRANMER
Elizabeth.
AIT-KING HENRY
Stand up, +
AIT 5.4. 9B lord. {Cranmer rises}
AIT 5.4. 10B {(To the child)} With this kiss take my +
AIT 5.4. 10B blessing - {He kisses the child} God protect thee,
AIT 5.4. 11B Into whose hand I give thy life.
AIT-CRANMER
Amen.
AIT 5.4. 12
AIT-KING HENRY
{(to Cranmer, old Duchess, and +
AIT 5.4. 12 Marchioness)} My noble gossips, you've been too prodigal.
AIT 5.4. 13 I thank ye heartily. So shall this lady,
AIT 5.4. 14B When she has so much English.
AIT-CRANMER
Let me speak, sir,
AIT 5.4. 15 For heaven now bids me, and the words I utter
AIT 5.4. 16 Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth.
AIT 5.4. 17 This royal infant - heaven still move about her -
AIT 5.4. 18 Though in her cradle, yet now promises
AIT 5.4. 19 Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings
AIT 5.4. 20 Which time shall bring to ripeness. She shall be -
AIT 5.4. 21 But few now living can behold that goodness -
AIT 5.4. 22 A pattern to all princes living with her,
AIT 5.4. 23 And all that shall succeed. Saba was never
AIT 5.4. 24 More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
AIT 5.4. 25 Than this pure soul shall be. All princely graces
AIT 5.4. 26 That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
AIT 5.4. 27 With all the virtues that attend the good,
AIT 5.4. 28 Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her,
AIT 5.4. 29 Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her.
AIT 5.4. 30 She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her;
AIT 5.4. 31 Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
AIT 5.4. 32 And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.
AIT 5.4. 33 In her days every man shall eat in safety
AIT 5.4. 34 Under his own vine what he plants, and sing
AIT 5.4. 35 The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
AIT 5.4. 36 God shall be truly known, and those about her
AIT 5.4. 37 From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
AIT 5.4. 38 And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
AIT 5.4. 39 Nor shall this peace sleep with her, but, as when
AIT 5.4. 40 The bird of wonder dies - the maiden phoenix -
AIT 5.4. 41 Her ashes new create another heir
AIT 5.4. 42 As great in admiration as herself,
AIT 5.4. 43 So shall she leave her blessedness to one,
AIT 5.4. 44 When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,
AIT 5.4. 45 Who from the sacred ashes of her honour
AIT 5.4. 46 Shall star-like rise as great in fame as she was,
AIT 5.4. 47 And so stand fixed. Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,
AIT 5.4. 48 That were the servants to this chosen infant,
AIT 5.4. 49 Shall then be his, and, like a vine, grow to him.
AIT 5.4. 50 Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
AIT 5.4. 51 His honour and the greatness of his name
AIT 5.4. 52 Shall be, and make new nations. He shall flourish,
AIT 5.4. 53 And like a mountain cedar reach his branches
AIT 5.4. 54 To all the plains about him. Our children's children
AIT 5.4. 55B Shall see this, and bless heaven.
AIT-KING HENRY
Thou speakest wonders.
AIT 5.4. 56
AIT-CRANMER
She shall be, to the happiness of England,
AIT 5.4. 57 An aged princess. Many days shall see her,
AIT 5.4. 58 And yet no day without a deed to crown it.
AIT 5.4. 59 Would I had known no more. But she must die -
AIT 5.4. 60 She must, the saints must have her - yet a virgin,
AIT 5.4. 61 A most unspotted lily shall she pass
AIT 5.4. 62 To th' ground, and all the world shall mourn her.
AIT 5.4. 63A
AIT-KING HENRY
O lord Archbishop,
AIT 5.4. 64 Thou hast made me now a man. Never before
AIT 5.4. 65 This happy child did I get anything.
AIT 5.4. 66 This oracle of comfort has so pleased me
AIT 5.4. 67 That when I am in heaven I shall desire
AIT 5.4. 68 To see what this child does, and praise my maker.
AIT 5.4. 69 I thank ye all. To you, my good Lord Mayor,
AIT 5.4. 70 And your good brethren, I am much beholden.
AIT 5.4. 71 I have received much honour by your presence,
AIT 5.4. 72 And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords.
AIT 5.4. 73 Ye must all see the Queen, and she must thank ye.
AIT 5.4. 74 She will be sick else. This day, no man think
AIT 5.4. 75 He's business at his house, for all shall stay -
AIT 5.4. 76 This little one shall make it holiday. {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
AIT 5.4. 0
AIT 5.4. 0 {Enter Epilogue}
AIT 5.Ep. 1
AIT-EPILOGUE
'Tis ten to one this play can never please
AIT 5.Ep. 2 All that are here. Some come to take their ease,
AIT 5.Ep. 3 And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,
AIT 5.Ep. 4 We've frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear,
AIT 5.Ep. 5 They'll say 'tis naught. Others to hear the city
AIT 5.Ep. 6 Abused extremely, and to cry `That's witty!' -
AIT 5.Ep. 7 Which we have not done neither; that, I fear,
AIT 5.Ep. 8 All the expected good we're like to hear
AIT 5.Ep. 9 For this play at this time is only in
AIT 5.Ep. 10 The merciful construction of good women,
AIT 5.Ep. 11 For such a one we showed 'em. If they smile,
AIT 5.Ep. 12 And say `'Twill do', I know within a while
AIT 5.Ep. 13 All the best men are ours - for 'tis ill hap
AIT 5.Ep. 14 If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap. {Exit}
AIT 5.Ep.
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ANT . . 0 The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
ANT . . 0 {Enter Demetrius and Philo}
ANT 1.1. 1
ANT-PHILO
Nay, but this dotage of our General's
ANT 1.1. 2 O'erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes,
ANT 1.1. 3 That o'er the files and musters of the war
ANT 1.1. 4 Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn
ANT 1.1. 5 The office and devotion of their view
ANT 1.1. 6 Upon a tawny front. His captain's heart,
ANT 1.1. 7 Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
ANT 1.1. 8 The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,
ANT 1.1. 9 And is become the bellows and the fan
ANT 1.1. 10B To cool a gipsy's lust. {Flourish. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, her +
ANT 1.1. 10B ladies, the train, with eunuchs fanning her} Look where they +
ANT 1.1. 10B come.
ANT 1.1. 11 Take but good note, and you shall see in him
ANT 1.1. 12 The triple pillar of the world transformed
ANT 1.1. 13 Into a strumpet's fool. Behold and see.
ANT 1.1. 14
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(to Antony)} If it be love indeed, tell +
ANT 1.1. 14 me how much.
ANT 1.1. 15
ANT-ANTONY
There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
ANT 1.1. 16
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
ANT 1.1. 17
ANT-ANTONY
Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. +
ANT 1.1. 17 {Enter a Messenger}
ANT 1.1. 18A
ANT-MESSENGER
News, my good lord, from Rome.
ANT 1.1. 19A
ANT-ANTONY
Grates me: the sum.
ANT 1.1. 20A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Nay, hear them, Antony.
ANT 1.1. 21 Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows
ANT 1.1. 22 If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent
ANT 1.1. 23 His powerful mandate to you: `Do this, or this,
ANT 1.1. 24 Take in that kingdom and enfranchise that.
ANT 1.1. 25 Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'
ANT 1.1. 26A
ANT-ANTONY
How, my love?
ANT 1.1. 27A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Perchance? Nay, and most like.
ANT 1.1. 28 You must not stay here longer. Your dismission
ANT 1.1. 29 Is come from Caesar, therefore hear it, Antony.
ANT 1.1. 30 Where's Fulvia's process - Caesar's, I would say - both?
ANT 1.1. 31 Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,
ANT 1.1. 32 Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine
ANT 1.1. 33 Is Caesar's homager; else so thy cheek pays shame
ANT 1.1. 34 When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
ANT 1.1. 35
ANT-ANTONY
Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
ANT 1.1. 36 Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space.
ANT 1.1. 37 Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike
ANT 1.1. 38 Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life
ANT 1.1. 39 Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair
ANT 1.1. 40 And such a twain can do 't - in which I bind
ANT 1.1. 41 On pain of punishment the world to weet -
ANT 1.1. 42B We stand up peerless.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{[aside]} Excellent +
ANT 1.1. 42B falsehood!
ANT 1.1. 43 Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her?
ANT 1.1. 44 I'll seem the fool I am not. {(To Antony)} Antony
ANT 1.1. 45B Will be himself.
ANT-ANTONY
But stirred by Cleopatra.
ANT 1.1. 46 Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours
ANT 1.1. 47 Let's not confound the time with conference harsh.
ANT 1.1. 48 There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
ANT 1.1. 49 Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?
ANT 1.1. 50B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Hear the ambassadors.
ANT-ANTONY
Fie, wrangling queen,
ANT 1.1. 51 Whom everything becomes - to chide, to laugh,
ANT 1.1. 52 To weep; how every passion fully strives
ANT 1.1. 53 To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!
ANT 1.1. 54 No messenger but thine; and all alone
ANT 1.1. 55 Tonight we'll wander through the streets and note
ANT 1.1. 56 The qualities of people. Come, my queen.
ANT 1.1. 57 Last night you did desire it. {(To the Messenger)} +
ANT 1.1. 57 Speak not to us. {Exeunt Antony and Cleopatra with the train, +
ANT 1.1. 57 [and by another door the Messenger]}
ANT 1.1. 58
ANT-DEMETRIUS
Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?
ANT 1.1. 59
ANT-PHILO
Sir, sometimes when he is not Antony
ANT 1.1. 60 He comes too short of that great property
ANT 1.1. 61B Which still should go with Antony.
ANT-DEMETRIUS
I am full sorry
ANT 1.1. 62 That he approves the common liar who
ANT 1.1. 63 Thus speaks of him at Rome; but I will hope
ANT 1.1. 64 Of better deeds tomorrow. Rest you happy. {Exeunt}
ANT 1.1. 0 {Enter Enobarbus, a Soothsayer, Charmian, Iras, Mardian +
ANT 1.2. 0 the eunuch, Alexas, [and attendants]}
ANT 1.2. 1
ANT-CHARMIAN
Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything
ANT 1.2. 2 Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the
ANT 1.2. 3 soothsayer that you praised so to th' Queen?
ANT 1.2. 4 O that I knew this husband, which you say
ANT 1.2. 5B Must charge his horns with garlands!
ANT-ALEXAS
Soothsayer!
ANT 1.2. 6A
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
Your will?
ANT 1.2. 7
ANT-CHARMIAN
Is this the man? Is 't you, sir, that know things?
ANT 1.2. 8
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
In nature's infinite book of secrecy
ANT 1.2. 9 A little I can read.
ANT 1.2. 10A
ANT-ALEXAS
{(to Charmian)} Show him your hand.
ANT 1.2. 11A
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(calling)} Bring in the banquet +
ANT 1.2. 11A quickly,
ANT 1.2. 12 Wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. {[Enter servants with +
ANT 1.2. 12 food and wine, and exeunt]}
ANT 1.2. 13A
ANT-CHARMIAN
{(to Soothsayer)} Good sir, give me good +
ANT 1.2. 13A fortune.
ANT 1.2. 14A
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
I make not, but foresee.
ANT 1.2. 15B
ANT-CHARMIAN
Pray then, foresee me one.
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
You shall be yet
ANT 1.2. 16B Far fairer than you are.
ANT-CHARMIAN
He means in flesh.
ANT 1.2. 17B
ANT-IRAS
No, you shall paint when you are old.
ANT-CHARMIAN
Wrinkles +
ANT 1.2. 17B forbid!
ANT 1.2. 18B
ANT-ALEXAS
Vex not his prescience. Be attentive.
ANT-CHARMIAN
Hush!
ANT 1.2. 19
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
You shall be more beloving than beloved.
ANT 1.2. 20
ANT-CHARMIAN
I had rather heat my liver with drinking.
ANT 1.2. 21
ANT-ALEXAS
Nay, hear him.
ANT 1.2. 22
ANT-CHARMIAN
Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be
ANT 1.2. 23 married to three kings in a forenoon and widow them
ANT 1.2. 24 all. Let me have a child at fifty to whom Herod of Jewry
ANT 1.2. 25 may do homage. Find me to marry me with Octavius
ANT 1.2. 26 Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.
ANT 1.2. 27
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.
ANT 1.2. 28
ANT-CHARMIAN
O, excellent! I love long life better than figs.
ANT 1.2. 29
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
You have seen and proved a fairer former +
ANT 1.2. 29 fortune
ANT 1.2. 30 Than that which is to approach.
ANT 1.2. 31
ANT-CHARMIAN
Then belike my children shall have no names.
ANT 1.2. 32 Prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?
ANT 1.2. 33
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
If every of your wishes had a womb,
ANT 1.2. 34 And fertile every wish, a million.
ANT 1.2. 35
ANT-CHARMIAN
Out, fool - I forgive thee for a witch.
ANT 1.2. 36
ANT-ALEXAS
You think none but your sheets are privy to your
ANT 1.2. 37 wishes.
ANT 1.2. 38A
ANT-CHARMIAN
{(to the Soothsayer)} Nay, come, tell +
ANT 1.2. 38A Iras hers.
ANT 1.2. 39
ANT-ALEXAS
We'll know all our fortunes.
ANT 1.2. 40
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Mine, and most of our fortunes, tonight shall
ANT 1.2. 41 be drunk to bed.
ANT 1.2. 42
ANT-IRAS
{(showing her hand to the Soothsayer)} +
ANT 1.2. 42 There's a palm
ANT 1.2. 43 presages chastity, if nothing else.
ANT 1.2. 44
ANT-CHARMIAN
E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.
ANT 1.2. 45
ANT-IRAS
Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.
ANT 1.2. 46
ANT-CHARMIAN
Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication,
ANT 1.2. 47 I cannot scratch mine ear. {(To the Soothsayer)}
ANT 1.2. 48 Prithee, tell her but a workaday fortune.
ANT 1.2. 49A
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
Your fortunes are alike.
ANT 1.2. 50
ANT-IRAS
But how, but how? Give me particulars.
ANT 1.2. 51A
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
I have said.
ANT 1.2. 52
ANT-IRAS
Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?
ANT 1.2. 53
ANT-CHARMIAN
Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better
ANT 1.2. 54 than I, where would you choose it?
ANT 1.2. 55
ANT-IRAS
Not in my husband's nose.
ANT 1.2. 56
ANT-CHARMIAN
Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas -
ANT 1.2. 57 come, his fortune, his fortune. O, let him marry a
ANT 1.2. 58 woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee, and
ANT 1.2. 59 let her die too, and give him a worse, and let worse
ANT 1.2. 60 follow worse till the worst of all follow him laughing
ANT 1.2. 61 to his grave, fiftyfold a cuckold. Good Isis, hear me this
ANT 1.2. 62 prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight;
ANT 1.2. 63 good Isis, I beseech thee.
ANT 1.2. 64
ANT-IRAS
Amen, dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people.
ANT 1.2. 65 For as it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome man
ANT 1.2. 66 loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul
ANT 1.2. 67 knave uncuckolded. Therefore, dear Isis, keep decorum,
ANT 1.2. 68 and fortune him accordingly.
ANT 1.2. 69
ANT-CHARMIAN
Amen.
ANT 1.2. 70
ANT-ALEXAS
Lo now, if it lay in their hands to make me a
ANT 1.2. 71 cuckold, they would make themselves whores but
ANT 1.2. 72 they'd do 't. {Enter Cleopatra}
ANT 1.2. 73B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Hush, here comes Antony.
ANT-CHARMIAN
Not he, +
ANT 1.2. 73B the Queen.
ANT 1.2. 74B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Saw you my lord?
ANT-ENOBARBUS
No, lady.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Was +
ANT 1.2. 74B he not here?
ANT 1.2. 75A
ANT-CHARMIAN
No, madam.
ANT 1.2. 76
ANT-CLEOPATRA
He was disposed to mirth, but on the sudden
ANT 1.2. 77 A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!
ANT 1.2. 78A
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Madam?
ANT 1.2. 79
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Seek him, and bring him hither. Where's Alexas?
ANT 1.2. 80
ANT-ALEXAS
Here at your service. My lord approaches. {Enter +
ANT 1.2. 80 Antony with a Messenger}
ANT 1.2. 81
ANT-CLEOPATRA
We will not look upon him. Go with us. +
ANT 1.2. 81 {Exeunt all but Antony and the Messenger}
ANT 1.2. 82
ANT-MESSENGER
Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.
ANT 1.2. 83A
ANT-ANTONY
Against my brother Lucius?
ANT 1.2. 84
ANT-MESSENGER
Ay, but soon that war had end, and the time's state
ANT 1.2. 85 Made friends of them, jointing their force 'gainst Caesar,
ANT 1.2. 86 Whose better issue in the war from Italy
ANT 1.2. 87B Upon the first encounter drave them.
ANT-ANTONY
Well, what worst?
ANT 1.2. 88
ANT-MESSENGER
The nature of bad news infects the teller.
ANT 1.2. 89
ANT-ANTONY
When it concerns the fool or coward. On.
ANT 1.2. 90 Things that are past are done. With me 'tis thus:
ANT 1.2. 91 Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,
ANT 1.2. 92B I hear him as he flattered.
ANT-MESSENGER
Labienus -
ANT 1.2. 93 This is stiff news - hath with his Parthian force
ANT 1.2. 94 Extended Asia; from Euphrates
ANT 1.2. 95 His conquering banner shook, from Syria
ANT 1.2. 96 To Lydia and to Ionia,
ANT 1.2. 97B Whilst -
ANT-ANTONY
Antony, thou wouldst say -
ANT-MESSENGER
O, my lord!
ANT 1.2. 98
ANT-ANTONY
Speak to me home. Mince not the general tongue.
ANT 1.2. 99 Name Cleopatra as she is called in Rome.
ANT 1.2. 100 Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my faults
ANT 1.2. 101 With such full licence as both truth and malice
ANT 1.2. 102 Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds
ANT 1.2. 103 When our quick winds lie still, and our ills told us
ANT 1.2. 104 Is as our earing. Fare thee well a while.
ANT 1.2. 105A
ANT-MESSENGER
At your noble pleasure. {Exit Messenger}
ANT 1.2. 106 {Enter another Messenger}
ANT-ANTONY
From Sicyon, ho, +
ANT 1.2. 106 the news? Speak there.
ANT 1.2. 107B
ANT-[SECOND MESSENGER]
The man from Sicyon -
ANT-[ANTONY]
Is there such a +
ANT 1.2. 107B one?
ANT 1.2. 108B
ANT-[SECOND MESSENGER]
He stays upon your will.
ANT-ANTONY
Let him +
ANT 1.2. 108B appear. {Exit Second Messenger}
ANT 1.2. 109 These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,
ANT 1.2. 110B Or lose myself in dotage. {Enter another Messenger with a +
ANT 1.2. 110B letter} What are you?
ANT 1.2. 111B
ANT-[THIRD MESSENGER]
Fulvia thy wife is dead.
ANT-ANTONY
Where died +
ANT 1.2. 111B she?
ANT 1.2. 112A
ANT-THIRD MESSENGER
In Sicyon.
ANT 1.2. 113 Her length of sickness, with what else more serious
ANT 1.2. 114B Importeth thee to know, this bears. {He gives Antony the +
ANT 1.2. 114B letter}
ANT-ANTONY
Forbear me. {[Exit Third Messenger]}
ANT 1.2. 115 There's a great spirit gone. Thus did I desire it.
ANT 1.2. 116 What our contempts doth often hurl from us
ANT 1.2. 117 We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,
ANT 1.2. 118 By revolution low'ring, does become
ANT 1.2. 119 The opposite of itself. She's good being gone;
ANT 1.2. 120 The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
ANT 1.2. 121 I must from this enchanting queen break off.
ANT 1.2. 122 Ten thousand harms more than the ills I know
ANT 1.2. 123 My idleness doth hatch. How now, Enobarbus! {[Enter Enobarbus]}
ANT 1.2. 124B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
What's your pleasure, sir?
ANT-ANTONY
I must +
ANT 1.2. 124B with haste from hence.
ANT 1.2. 125
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Why, then we kill all our women. We see
ANT 1.2. 126 how mortal an unkindness is to them; if they suffer
ANT 1.2. 127 our departure, death's the word.
ANT 1.2. 128A
ANT-ANTONY
I must be gone.
ANT 1.2. 129
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Under a compelling occasion let women die.
ANT 1.2. 130 It were pity to cast them away for nothing, though
ANT 1.2. 131 between them and a great cause they should be
ANT 1.2. 132 esteemed nothing. Cleopatra catching but the least
ANT 1.2. 133 noise of this dies instantly. I have seen her die twenty
ANT 1.2. 134 times upon far poorer moment. I do think there is
ANT 1.2. 135 mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon
ANT 1.2. 136 her, she hath such a celerity in dying.
ANT 1.2. 137A
ANT-ANTONY
She is cunning past man's thought.
ANT 1.2. 138
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Alack, sir, no. Her passions are made of
ANT 1.2. 139 nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call
ANT 1.2. 140 her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater
ANT 1.2. 141 storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This
ANT 1.2. 142 cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower
ANT 1.2. 143 of rain as well as Jove.
ANT 1.2. 144A
ANT-ANTONY
Would I had never seen her!
ANT 1.2. 145
ANT-ENOBARBUS
O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful
ANT 1.2. 146 piece of work, which not to have been blessed withal
ANT 1.2. 147 would have discredited your travel.
ANT 1.2. 148
ANT-ANTONY
Fulvia is dead.
ANT 1.2. 149
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Sir.
ANT 1.2. 150
ANT-ANTONY
Fulvia is dead.
ANT 1.2. 151
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Fulvia?
ANT 1.2. 152
ANT-ANTONY
Dead.
ANT 1.2. 153
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice.
ANT 1.2. 154 When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man
ANT 1.2. 155 from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;
ANT 1.2. 156 comforting therein that when old robes are worn out
ANT 1.2. 157 there are members to make new. If there were no more
ANT 1.2. 158 women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the
ANT 1.2. 159 case to be lamented. This grief is crowned with consolation;
ANT 1.2. 160 your old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and
ANT 1.2. 161 indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this
ANT 1.2. 162 sorrow.
ANT 1.2. 163
ANT-ANTONY
The business she hath broached in the state
ANT 1.2. 164 Cannot endure my absence.
ANT 1.2. 165
ANT-ENOBARBUS
And the business you have broached here
ANT 1.2. 166 cannot be without you, especially that of Cleopatra's,
ANT 1.2. 167 which wholly depends on your abode.
ANT 1.2. 168
ANT-ANTONY
No more light answers. Let our officers
ANT 1.2. 169 Have notice what we purpose. I shall break
ANT 1.2. 170 The cause of our expedience to the Queen,
ANT 1.2. 171 And get her leave to part; for not alone
ANT 1.2. 172 The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
ANT 1.2. 173 Do strongly speak to us, but the letters too
ANT 1.2. 174 Of many our contriving friends in Rome
ANT 1.2. 175 Petition us at home. Sextus Pompeius
ANT 1.2. 176 Hath given the dare to Caesar and commands
ANT 1.2. 177 The empire of the sea. Our slippery people,
ANT 1.2. 178 Whose love is never linked to the deserver
ANT 1.2. 179 Till his deserts are past, begin to throw
ANT 1.2. 180 Pompey the Great and all his dignities
ANT 1.2. 181 Upon his son, who - high in name and power,
ANT 1.2. 182 Higher than both in blood and life - stands up
ANT 1.2. 183 For the main soldier; whose quality, going on,
ANT 1.2. 184 The sides o' th' world may danger. Much is breeding
ANT 1.2. 185 Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,
ANT 1.2. 186 And not a serpent's poison. Say our pleasure,
ANT 1.2. 187 To such whose place is under us, requires
ANT 1.2. 188B Our quick remove from hence.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I shall do 't. {Exeunt +
ANT 1.2. 188B severally}
ANT 1.2. 0 {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Alexas, and Iras}
ANT 1.3. 1B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Where is he?
ANT-CHARMIAN
I did not see him +
ANT 1.3. 1B since.
ANT 1.3. 2
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{[to Alexas]} See where he is, who's +
ANT 1.3. 2 with him, what he does.
ANT 1.3. 3 I did not send you. If you find him sad,
ANT 1.3. 4 Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report
ANT 1.3. 5 That I am sudden sick. Quick, and return. {Exit [Alexas]}
ANT 1.3. 6
ANT-CHARMIAN
Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,
ANT 1.3. 7 You do not hold the method to enforce
ANT 1.3. 8B The like from him.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What should I do I do not?
ANT 1.3. 9
ANT-CHARMIAN
In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
ANT 1.3. 10
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Thou teachest like a fool, the way to lose him.
ANT 1.3. 11
ANT-CHARMIAN
Tempt him not so too far. Iwis, forbear.
ANT 1.3. 12 In time we hate that which we often fear. {Enter Antony}
ANT 1.3. 13B But here comes Antony.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I am sick and sullen.
ANT 1.3. 14
ANT-ANTONY
I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose.
ANT 1.3. 15
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall.
ANT 1.3. 16 It cannot be thus long - the sides of nature
ANT 1.3. 17B Will not sustain it.
ANT-ANTONY
Now, my dearest queen.
ANT 1.3. 18B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Pray you, stand farther from me.
ANT-ANTONY
What's the +
ANT 1.3. 18B matter?
ANT 1.3. 19
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I know by that same eye there's some good news.
ANT 1.3. 20 What says the married woman - you may go?
ANT 1.3. 21 Would she had never given you leave to come.
ANT 1.3. 22 Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here.
ANT 1.3. 23 I have no power upon you; hers you are.
ANT 1.3. 24B
ANT-ANTONY
The gods best know -
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O, never was there queen
ANT 1.3. 25 So mightily betrayed! Yet at the first
ANT 1.3. 26B I saw the treasons planted.
ANT-ANTONY
Cleopatra -
ANT 1.3. 27
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Why should I think you can be mine and true -
ANT 1.3. 28 Though you in swearing shake the throned gods -
ANT 1.3. 29 Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,
ANT 1.3. 30 To be entangled with those mouth-made vows
ANT 1.3. 31B Which break themselves in swearing.
ANT-ANTONY
Most sweet queen -
ANT 1.3. 32
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
ANT 1.3. 33 But bid farewell and go. When you sued staying,
ANT 1.3. 34 Then was the time for words; no going then.
ANT 1.3. 35 Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
ANT 1.3. 36 Bliss in our brow's bent; none our parts so poor
ANT 1.3. 37 But was a race of heaven. They are so still,
ANT 1.3. 38 Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
ANT 1.3. 39B Art turned the greatest liar.
ANT-ANTONY
How now, lady!
ANT 1.3. 40
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I would I had thy inches. Thou shouldst know
ANT 1.3. 41B There were a heart in Egypt.
ANT-ANTONY
Hear me, Queen.
ANT 1.3. 42 The strong necessity of time commands
ANT 1.3. 43 Our services a while, but my full heart
ANT 1.3. 44 Remains in use with you. Our Italy
ANT 1.3. 45 Shines o'er with civil swords. Sextus Pompeius
ANT 1.3. 46 Makes his approaches to the port of Rome.
ANT 1.3. 47 Equality of two domestic powers
ANT 1.3. 48 Breed scrupulous faction. The hated, grown to strength,
ANT 1.3. 49 Are newly grown to love. The condemned Pompey,
ANT 1.3. 50 Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace
ANT 1.3. 51 Into the hearts of such as have not thrived
ANT 1.3. 52 Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;
ANT 1.3. 53 And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge
ANT 1.3. 54 By any desperate change. My more particular,
ANT 1.3. 55 And that which most with you should safe my going,
ANT 1.3. 56 Is Fulvia's death.
ANT 1.3. 57
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Though age from folly could not give me freedom,
ANT 1.3. 58 It does from childishness. Can Fulvia die?
ANT 1.3. 59A
ANT-ANTONY
She's dead, my queen. {He offers letters}
ANT 1.3. 60 Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
ANT 1.3. 61 The garboils she awaked. At the last, best,
ANT 1.3. 62B See when and where she died.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O most false love!
ANT 1.3. 63 Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
ANT 1.3. 64 With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,
ANT 1.3. 65 In Fulvia's death how mine received shall be.
ANT 1.3. 66
ANT-ANTONY
Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know
ANT 1.3. 67 The purposes I bear, which are or cease
ANT 1.3. 68 As you shall give th' advice. By the fire
ANT 1.3. 69 That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence
ANT 1.3. 70 Thy soldier-servant, making peace or war
ANT 1.3. 71B As thou affects.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Cut my lace, Charmian, come.
ANT 1.3. 72 But let it be. I am quickly ill and well;
ANT 1.3. 73B So Antony loves.
ANT-ANTONY
My precious queen, forbear,
ANT 1.3. 74 And give true evidence to his love, which stands
ANT 1.3. 75B An honourable trial.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
So Fulvia told me.
ANT 1.3. 76 I prithee turn aside and weep for her,
ANT 1.3. 77 Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears
ANT 1.3. 78 Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one scene
ANT 1.3. 79 Of excellent dissembling, and let it look
ANT 1.3. 80B Like perfect honour.
ANT-ANTONY
You'll heat my blood. No more.
ANT 1.3. 81
ANT-CLEOPATRA
You can do better yet; but this is meetly.
ANT 1.3. 82B
ANT-ANTONY
Now by my sword -
ANT-CLEOPATRA
And target. Still he mends.
ANT 1.3. 83 But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,
ANT 1.3. 84 How this Herculean Roman does become
ANT 1.3. 85 The carriage of his chafe.
ANT 1.3. 86A
ANT-ANTONY
I'll leave you, lady.
ANT 1.3. 87A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Courteous lord, one word.
ANT 1.3. 88 Sir, you and I must part; but that's not it.
ANT 1.3. 89 Sir, you and I have loved; but there's not it;
ANT 1.3. 90 That you know well. Something it is I would -
ANT 1.3. 91 O, my oblivion is a very Antony,
ANT 1.3. 92B And I am all forgotten.
ANT-ANTONY
But that your royalty
ANT 1.3. 93 Holds idleness your subject, I should take you
ANT 1.3. 94B For idleness itself.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
'Tis sweating labour
ANT 1.3. 95 To bear such idleness so near the heart
ANT 1.3. 96 As Cleopatra this. But sir, forgive me,
ANT 1.3. 97 Since my becomings kill me when they do not
ANT 1.3. 98 Eye well to you. Your honour calls you hence,
ANT 1.3. 99 Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly,
ANT 1.3. 100 And all the gods go with you. Upon your sword
ANT 1.3. 101 Sit laurel victory, and smooth success
ANT 1.3. 102B Be strewed before your feet.
ANT-ANTONY
Let us go.
ANT 1.3. 103 Come. Our separation so abides and flies
ANT 1.3. 104 That thou residing here goes yet with me,
ANT 1.3. 105 And I hence fleeting, here remain with thee.
ANT 1.3. 106 Away. {Exeunt severally}
ANT 1.3. 0 {Enter Octavius reading a letter, Lepidus, and their +
ANT 1.4. 0 train}
ANT 1.4. 1
ANT-CAESAR
You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,
ANT 1.4. 2 It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate
ANT 1.4. 3 Our great competitor. From Alexandria
ANT 1.4. 4 This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
ANT 1.4. 5 The lamps of night in revel; is not more manlike
ANT 1.4. 6 Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy
ANT 1.4. 7 More womanly than he; hardly gave audience
ANT 1.4. 8 Or vouchsafed to think he had partners. You shall find there
ANT 1.4. 9 A man who is the abstract of all faults
ANT 1.4. 10B That all men follow.
ANT-LEPIDUS
I must not think there are
ANT 1.4. 11 Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
ANT 1.4. 12 His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,
ANT 1.4. 13 More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary
ANT 1.4. 14 Rather than purchased; what he cannot change
ANT 1.4. 15 Than what he chooses.
ANT 1.4. 16
ANT-CAESAR
You are too indulgent. Let's grant it is not
ANT 1.4. 17 Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy,
ANT 1.4. 18 To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit
ANT 1.4. 19 And keep the turn of tippling with a slave,
ANT 1.4. 20 To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
ANT 1.4. 21 With knaves that smells of sweat. Say this becomes him -
ANT 1.4. 22 As his composure must be rare indeed
ANT 1.4. 23 Whom these things cannot blemish - yet must Antony
ANT 1.4. 24 No way excuse his foils when we do bear
ANT 1.4. 25 So great weight in his lightness. If he filled
ANT 1.4. 26 His vacancy with his voluptuousness,
ANT 1.4. 27 Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones
ANT 1.4. 28 Call on him for 't. But to confound such time
ANT 1.4. 29 That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud
ANT 1.4. 30 As his own state and ours - 'tis to be chid
ANT 1.4. 31 As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge,
ANT 1.4. 32 Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,
ANT 1.4. 33B And so rebel to judgement. {Enter a Messenger}
ANT-LEPIDUS
+
ANT 1.4. 33B Here's more news.
ANT 1.4. 34
ANT-MESSENGER
Thy biddings have been done, and every hour,
ANT 1.4. 35 Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report
ANT 1.4. 36 How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea,
ANT 1.4. 37 And it appears he is beloved of those
ANT 1.4. 38 That only have feared Caesar. To the ports
ANT 1.4. 39 The discontents repair, and men's reports
ANT 1.4. 40B Give him much wronged. {[Exit]}
ANT-CAESAR
I should +
ANT 1.4. 40B have known no less.
ANT 1.4. 41 It hath been taught us from the primal state
ANT 1.4. 42 That he which is was wished until he were,
ANT 1.4. 43 And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,
ANT 1.4. 44 Comes deared by being lacked. This common body,
ANT 1.4. 45 Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
ANT 1.4. 46 Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide,
ANT 1.4. 47B To rot itself with motion. {[Enter a second Messenger]} +
ANT 1.4. 47B
ANT-SECOND MESSENGER
Caesar, I bring thee word
ANT 1.4. 48 Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,
ANT 1.4. 49 Makes the sea serve them, which they ear and wound
ANT 1.4. 50 With keels of every kind. Many hot inroads
ANT 1.4. 51 They make in Italy. The borders maritime
ANT 1.4. 52 Lack blood to think on 't, and flush youth revolt.
ANT 1.4. 53 No vessel can peep forth but 'tis as soon
ANT 1.4. 54 Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more
ANT 1.4. 55B Than could his war resisted. {[Exit]}
ANT-CAESAR
+
ANT 1.4. 55B Antony,
ANT 1.4. 56 Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once
ANT 1.4. 57 Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st
ANT 1.4. 58 Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel
ANT 1.4. 59 Did famine follow, whom thou fought'st against -
ANT 1.4. 60 Though daintily brought up - with patience more
ANT 1.4. 61 Than savages could suffer. Thou didst drink
ANT 1.4. 62 The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle
ANT 1.4. 63 Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign
ANT 1.4. 64 The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
ANT 1.4. 65 Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets,
ANT 1.4. 66 The barks of trees thou browsed. On the Alps
ANT 1.4. 67 It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
ANT 1.4. 68 Which some did die to look on; and all this -
ANT 1.4. 69 It wounds thine honour that I speak it now -
ANT 1.4. 70 Was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek
ANT 1.4. 71 So much as lanked not.
ANT 1.4. 72A
ANT-LEPIDUS
'Tis pity of him.
ANT 1.4. 73A
ANT-CAESAR
Let his shames quickly
ANT 1.4. 74 Drive him to Rome. 'Tis time we twain
ANT 1.4. 75 Did show ourselves i' th' field; and to that end
ANT 1.4. 76 Assemble we immediate council. Pompey
ANT 1.4. 77B Thrives in our idleness.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Tomorrow, Caesar,
ANT 1.4. 78 I shall be furnished to inform you rightly
ANT 1.4. 79 Both what by sea and land I can be able
ANT 1.4. 80B To front this present time.
ANT-CAESAR
Till which encounter
ANT 1.4. 81 It is my business, too. Farewell.
ANT 1.4. 82
ANT-LEPIDUS
Farewell, my lord. What you shall know meantime
ANT 1.4. 83 Of stirs abroad I shall beseech you, sir,
ANT 1.4. 84 To let me be partaker.
ANT 1.4. 85
ANT-CAESAR
Doubt not, sir. I knew it for my bond. {Exeunt}
ANT 1.4. 0 {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian}
ANT 1.5. 1A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Charmian!
ANT 1.5. 2A
ANT-CHARMIAN
Madam?
ANT 1.5. 3
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(yawning)} Ha, ha. Give me to drink +
ANT 1.5. 3 mandragora.
ANT 1.5. 4A
ANT-CHARMIAN
Why, madam?
ANT 1.5. 5
ANT-CLEOPATRA
That I might sleep out this great gap of time
ANT 1.5. 6B My Antony is away.
ANT-CHARMIAN
You think of him too much.
ANT 1.5. 7B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O, 'tis treason!
ANT-CHARMIAN
Madam, I trust not so.
ANT 1.5. 8B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Thou, eunuch Mardian!
ANT-MARDIAN
What's your highness' +
ANT 1.5. 8B pleasure?
ANT 1.5. 9
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Not now to hear thee sing. I take no pleasure
ANT 1.5. 10 In aught an eunuch has. 'Tis well for thee
ANT 1.5. 11 That, being unseminared, thy freer thoughts
ANT 1.5. 12 May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?
ANT 1.5. 13A
ANT-MARDIAN
Yes, gracious madam.
ANT 1.5. 14A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Indeed?
ANT 1.5. 15
ANT-MARDIAN
Not in deed, madam, for I can do nothing
ANT 1.5. 16 But what indeed is honest to be done.
ANT 1.5. 17 Yet have I fierce affections, and think
ANT 1.5. 18B What Venus did with Mars.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O, Charmian,
ANT 1.5. 19 Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he or sits he?
ANT 1.5. 20 Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse?
ANT 1.5. 21 O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
ANT 1.5. 22 Do bravely, horse, for wot'st thou whom thou mov'st? -
ANT 1.5. 23 The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
ANT 1.5. 24 And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,
ANT 1.5. 25 Or murmuring `Where's my serpent of old Nile?' -
ANT 1.5. 26 For so he calls me. Now I feed myself
ANT 1.5. 27 With most delicious poison. Think on me,
ANT 1.5. 28 That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,
ANT 1.5. 29 And wrinkled deep in time. Broad-fronted Caesar,
ANT 1.5. 30 When thou wast here above the ground I was
ANT 1.5. 31 A morsel for a monarch, and great Pompey
ANT 1.5. 32 Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow.
ANT 1.5. 33 There would he anchor his aspect, and die
ANT 1.5. 34B With looking on his life. {Enter Alexas}
ANT-ALEXAS
+
ANT 1.5. 34B Sovereign of Egypt, hail!
ANT 1.5. 35
ANT-CLEOPATRA
How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!
ANT 1.5. 36 Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath
ANT 1.5. 37 With his tinct gilded thee. How goes it
ANT 1.5. 38B With my brave Mark Antony?
ANT-ALEXAS
Last thing he did, dear Queen,
ANT 1.5. 39 He kissed - the last of many doubled kisses -
ANT 1.5. 40 This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.
ANT 1.5. 41B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Mine ear must pluck it thence.
ANT-ALEXAS
`Good friend,' +
ANT 1.5. 41B quoth he,
ANT 1.5. 42 `Say the firm Roman to great Egypt sends
ANT 1.5. 43 This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,
ANT 1.5. 44 To mend the petty present, I will piece
ANT 1.5. 45 Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the East,
ANT 1.5. 46 Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,
ANT 1.5. 47 And soberly did mount an arm-jaunced steed,
ANT 1.5. 48 Who neighed so high that what I would have spoke
ANT 1.5. 49B Was beastly dumbed by him.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What, was he sad or merry?
ANT 1.5. 50
ANT-ALEXAS
Like to the time o' th' year between the extremes
ANT 1.5. 51 Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.
ANT 1.5. 52
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O well divided disposition! Note him,
ANT 1.5. 53 Note him, good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him.
ANT 1.5. 54 He was not sad, for he would shine on those
ANT 1.5. 55 That make their looks by his; he was not merry,
ANT 1.5. 56 Which seemed to tell them his remembrance lay
ANT 1.5. 57 In Egypt with his joy; but between both.
ANT 1.5. 58 O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,
ANT 1.5. 59 The violence of either thee becomes;
ANT 1.5. 60 So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?
ANT 1.5. 61
ANT-ALEXAS
Ay, madam, twenty several messengers.
ANT 1.5. 62B Why do you send so thick?
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Who's born that day
ANT 1.5. 63 When I forget to send to Antony
ANT 1.5. 64 Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian!
ANT 1.5. 65 Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,
ANT 1.5. 66B Ever love Caesar so?
ANT-CHARMIAN
O, that brave Caesar!
ANT 1.5. 67
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Be choked with such another emphasis!
ANT 1.5. 68B Say `the brave Antony'.
ANT-CHARMIAN
The valiant Caesar.
ANT 1.5. 69
ANT-CLEOPATRA
By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth
ANT 1.5. 70 If thou with Caesar paragon again
ANT 1.5. 71B My man of men.
ANT-CHARMIAN
By your most gracious pardon,
ANT 1.5. 72B I sing but after you.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
My salad days,
ANT 1.5. 73 When I was green in judgement, cold in blood,
ANT 1.5. 74 To say as I said then. But come, away,
ANT 1.5. 75 Get me ink and paper.
ANT 1.5. 76 He shall have every day a several greeting,
ANT 1.5. 77 Or I'll unpeople Egypt. {Exeunt}
ANT 1.5. 0 {Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike +
ANT 2.1. 0 manner}
ANT 2.1. 1
ANT-POMPEY
If the great gods be just, they shall assist
ANT 2.1. 2B The deeds of justest men.
ANT-[MENECRATES]
Know, worthy Pompey,
ANT 2.1. 3 That what they do delay they not deny.
ANT 2.1. 4
ANT-POMPEY
Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays
ANT 2.1. 5B The thing we sue for.
ANT-[MENECRATES]
We, ignorant of ourselves,
ANT 2.1. 6 Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
ANT 2.1. 7 Deny us for our good; so find we profit
ANT 2.1. 8B By losing of our prayers.
ANT-POMPEY
I shall do well.
ANT 2.1. 9 The people love me, and the sea is mine.
ANT 2.1. 10 My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope
ANT 2.1. 11 Says it will come to th' full. Mark Antony
ANT 2.1. 12 In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make
ANT 2.1. 13 No wars without doors. Caesar gets money where
ANT 2.1. 14 He loses hearts. Lepidus flatters both,
ANT 2.1. 15 Of both is flattered; but he neither loves,
ANT 2.1. 16B Nor either cares for him.
ANT-[MENAS]
Caesar and Lepidus
ANT 2.1. 17 Are in the field; a mighty strength they carry.
ANT 2.1. 18B
ANT-POMPEY
Where have you this? 'Tis false.
ANT-[MENAS]
From Silvius, +
ANT 2.1. 18B sir.
ANT 2.1. 19
ANT-POMPEY
He dreams. I know they are in Rome together,
ANT 2.1. 20 Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,
ANT 2.1. 21 Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip.
ANT 2.1. 22 Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both
ANT 2.1. 23 Tie up the libertine, in a field of feasts
ANT 2.1. 24 Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks
ANT 2.1. 25 Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
ANT 2.1. 26 That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
ANT 2.1. 27B Even till a Lethe'd dullness - {Enter Varrius} How now, +
ANT 2.1. 27B Varrius?
ANT 2.1. 28
ANT-VARRIUS
This is most certain that I shall deliver:
ANT 2.1. 29 Mark Antony is every hour in Rome
ANT 2.1. 30 Expected. Since he went from Egypt, 'tis
ANT 2.1. 31B A space for farther travel.
ANT-POMPEY
I could have given less matter
ANT 2.1. 32 A better ear. Menas, I did not think
ANT 2.1. 33 This amorous surfeiter would have donned his helm
ANT 2.1. 34 For such a petty war. His soldiership
ANT 2.1. 35 Is twice the other twain. But let us rear
ANT 2.1. 36 The higher our opinion, that our stirring
ANT 2.1. 37 Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck
ANT 2.1. 38B The ne'er lust-wearied Antony.
ANT-MENAS
I cannot hope
ANT 2.1. 39 Caesar and Antony shall well greet together.
ANT 2.1. 40 His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar,
ANT 2.1. 41 His brother warred upon him, although, I think,
ANT 2.1. 42B Not moved by Antony.
ANT-POMPEY
I know not, Menas,
ANT 2.1. 43 How lesser enmities may give way to greater.
ANT 2.1. 44 Were 't not that we stand up against them all,
ANT 2.1. 45 'Twere pregnant they should square between themselves,
ANT 2.1. 46 For they have entertained cause enough
ANT 2.1. 47 To draw their swords. But how the fear of us
ANT 2.1. 48 May cement their divisions, and bind up
ANT 2.1. 49 The petty difference, we yet not know.
ANT 2.1. 50 Be 't as our gods will have 't; it only stands
ANT 2.1. 51 Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.
ANT 2.1. 52 Come, Menas. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.1. 0 {Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus}
ANT 2.2. 1
ANT-LEPIDUS
Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,
ANT 2.2. 2 And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
ANT 2.2. 3B To soft and gentle speech.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I shall entreat him
ANT 2.2. 4 To answer like himself. If Caesar move him,
ANT 2.2. 5 Let Antony look over Caesar's head
ANT 2.2. 6 And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
ANT 2.2. 7 Were I the wearer of Antonio's beard
ANT 2.2. 8B I would not shave 't today.
ANT-LEPIDUS
'Tis not a time
ANT 2.2. 9B For private stomaching.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Every time
ANT 2.2. 10 Serves for the matter that is then born in 't.
ANT 2.2. 11
ANT-LEPIDUS
But small to greater matters must give way.
ANT 2.2. 12B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Not if the small come first.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Your speech is +
ANT 2.2. 12B passion.
ANT 2.2. 13 But pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
ANT 2.2. 14B The noble Antony. {Enter at one door Antony and +
ANT 2.2. 14B Ventidius}
ANT-ENOBARBUS
And yonder Caesar. {Enter at +
ANT 2.2. 14B another door Caesar, Maecenas, and Agrippa}
ANT 2.2. 15
ANT-ANTONY
{(to Ventidius)} If we compose well here, +
ANT 2.2. 15 to Parthia.
ANT 2.2. 16B Hark, Ventidius.
ANT-CAESAR
I do not know,
ANT 2.2. 17B Maecenas; ask Agrippa.
ANT-LEPIDUS
{(to Caesar and +
ANT 2.2. 17B Antony)} Noble friends,
ANT 2.2. 18 That which combined us was most great; and let not
ANT 2.2. 19 A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,
ANT 2.2. 20 May it be gently heard. When we debate
ANT 2.2. 21 Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
ANT 2.2. 22 Murder in healing wounds. Then, noble partners,
ANT 2.2. 23 The rather for I earnestly beseech,
ANT 2.2. 24 Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,
ANT 2.2. 25B Nor curstness grow to th' matter.
ANT-ANTONY
'Tis spoken well.
ANT 2.2. 26 Were we before our armies, and to fight,
ANT 2.2. 27 I should do thus. {[Antony and Caesar embrace.] Flourish}
ANT 2.2. 28A
ANT-CAESAR
Welcome to Rome.
ANT 2.2. 29A
ANT-ANTONY
Thank you.
ANT 2.2. 30A
ANT-CAESAR
Sit.
ANT 2.2. 31A
ANT-ANTONY
Sit, sir.
ANT 2.2. 32A
ANT-CAESAR
Nay then. {They sit}
ANT 2.2. 33
ANT-ANTONY
I learn you take things ill which are not so,
ANT 2.2. 34B Or being, concern you not.
ANT-CAESAR
I must be laughed at
ANT 2.2. 35 If or for nothing or a little I
ANT 2.2. 36 Should say myself offended, and with you
ANT 2.2. 37 Chiefly i' th' world; more laughed at that I should
ANT 2.2. 38 Once name you derogately, when to sound your name
ANT 2.2. 39 It not concerned me.
ANT 2.2. 40
ANT-ANTONY
My being in Egypt, Caesar, what was 't to you?
ANT 2.2. 41
ANT-CAESAR
No more than my residing here at Rome
ANT 2.2. 42 Might be to you in Egypt. Yet if you there
ANT 2.2. 43 Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt
ANT 2.2. 44B Might be my question.
ANT-ANTONY
How intend you `practised'?
ANT 2.2. 45
ANT-CAESAR
You may be pleased to catch at mine intent
ANT 2.2. 46 By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother
ANT 2.2. 47 Made wars upon me, and their contestation
ANT 2.2. 48 Was theme for you. You were the word of war.
ANT 2.2. 49
ANT-ANTONY
You do mistake the business. My brother never
ANT 2.2. 50 Did urge me in his act. I did enquire it,
ANT 2.2. 51 And have my learning from some true reports
ANT 2.2. 52 That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather
ANT 2.2. 53 Discredit my authority with yours,
ANT 2.2. 54 And make the wars alike against my stomach,
ANT 2.2. 55 Having alike your cause? Of this, my letters
ANT 2.2. 56 Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,
ANT 2.2. 57 As matter whole you have to make it with,
ANT 2.2. 58B It must not be with this.
ANT-CAESAR
You praise yourself
ANT 2.2. 59 By laying defects of judgement to me, but
ANT 2.2. 60B You patched up your excuses.
ANT-ANTONY
Not so, not so.
ANT 2.2. 61 I know you could not lack, I am certain on 't,
ANT 2.2. 62 Very necessity of this thought, that I,
ANT 2.2. 63 Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,
ANT 2.2. 64 Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
ANT 2.2. 65 Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,
ANT 2.2. 66 I would you had her spirit in such another.
ANT 2.2. 67 The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle
ANT 2.2. 68 You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
ANT 2.2. 69
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Would we had all such wives, that the men
ANT 2.2. 70 might go to wars with the women.
ANT 2.2. 71
ANT-ANTONY
So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar,
ANT 2.2. 72 Made out of her impatience - which not wanted
ANT 2.2. 73 Shrewdness of policy too - I grieving grant
ANT 2.2. 74 Did you too much disquiet, for that you must
ANT 2.2. 75B But say I could not help it.
ANT-CAESAR
I wrote to you
ANT 2.2. 76 When, rioting in Alexandria, you
ANT 2.2. 77 Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts
ANT 2.2. 78 Did gibe my missive out of audience.
ANT 2.2. 79
ANT-ANTONY
Sir, he fell upon me ere admitted, then.
ANT 2.2. 80 Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want
ANT 2.2. 81 Of what I was i' th' morning; but next day
ANT 2.2. 82 I told him of myself, which was as much
ANT 2.2. 83 As to have asked him pardon. Let this fellow
ANT 2.2. 84 Be nothing of our strife. If we contend,
ANT 2.2. 85B Out of our question wipe him.
ANT-CAESAR
You have broken
ANT 2.2. 86 The article of your oath, which you shall never
ANT 2.2. 87 Have tongue to charge me with.
ANT 2.2. 88A
ANT-LEPIDUS
Soft, Caesar.
ANT 2.2. 89A
ANT-ANTONY
No, Lepidus, let him speak.
ANT 2.2. 90 The honour is sacred which he talks on now,
ANT 2.2. 91 Supposing that I lacked it. But on, Caesar:
ANT 2.2. 92 The article of my oath -
ANT 2.2. 93
ANT-CAESAR
To lend me arms and aid when I required them,
ANT 2.2. 94B The which you both denied.
ANT-ANTONY
Neglected, rather,
ANT 2.2. 95 And then when poisoned hours had bound me up
ANT 2.2. 96 From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may
ANT 2.2. 97 I'll play the penitent to you, but mine honesty
ANT 2.2. 98 Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power
ANT 2.2. 99 Work without it. Truth is that Fulvia,
ANT 2.2. 100 To have me out of Egypt, made wars here,
ANT 2.2. 101 For which myself, the ignorant motive, do
ANT 2.2. 102 So far ask pardon as befits mine honour
ANT 2.2. 103B To stoop in such a case.
ANT-LEPIDUS
'Tis noble spoken.
ANT 2.2. 104
ANT-MAECENAS
If it might please you to enforce no further
ANT 2.2. 105 The griefs between ye; to forget them quite
ANT 2.2. 106 Were to remember that the present need
ANT 2.2. 107B Speaks to atone you.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Worthily spoken, Maecenas.
ANT 2.2. 108
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Or if you borrow one another's love for the
ANT 2.2. 109 instant, you may, when you hear no more words of
ANT 2.2. 110 Pompey, return it again. You shall have time to wrangle
ANT 2.2. 111 in when you have nothing else to do.
ANT 2.2. 112
ANT-ANTONY
Thou art a soldier only. Speak no more.
ANT 2.2. 113
ANT-ENOBARBUS
That truth should be silent I had almost +
ANT 2.2. 113 forgot.
ANT 2.2. 114
ANT-ANTONY
You wrong this presence, therefore speak no more.
ANT 2.2. 115
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Go to, then; your considerate stone.
ANT 2.2. 116
ANT-CAESAR
I do not much dislike the matter, but
ANT 2.2. 117 The manner of his speech, for 't cannot be
ANT 2.2. 118 We shall remain in friendship, our conditions
ANT 2.2. 119 So diff'ring in their acts. Yet if I knew
ANT 2.2. 120 What hoop should hold us staunch, from edge to edge
ANT 2.2. 121 O' th' world I would pursue it.
ANT 2.2. 122A
ANT-AGRIPPA
Give me leave, Caesar.
ANT 2.2. 123A
ANT-CAESAR
Speak, Agrippa.
ANT 2.2. 124
ANT-AGRIPPA
Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,
ANT 2.2. 125 Admired Octavia. Great Mark Antony
ANT 2.2. 126B Is now a widower.
ANT-CAESAR
Say not so, Agrippa.
ANT 2.2. 127 If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof
ANT 2.2. 128 Were well deserved of rashness.
ANT 2.2. 129
ANT-ANTONY
I am not married, Caesar. Let me hear
ANT 2.2. 130 Agrippa further speak.
ANT 2.2. 131
ANT-AGRIPPA
To hold you in perpetual amity,
ANT 2.2. 132 To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
ANT 2.2. 133 With an unslipping knot, take Antony
ANT 2.2. 134 Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims
ANT 2.2. 135 No worse a husband than the best of men;
ANT 2.2. 136 Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
ANT 2.2. 137 That which none else can utter. By this marriage
ANT 2.2. 138 All little jealousies which now seem great,
ANT 2.2. 139 And all great fears which now import their dangers,
ANT 2.2. 140 Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales
ANT 2.2. 141 Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both
ANT 2.2. 142 Would each to other and all loves to both
ANT 2.2. 143 Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke,
ANT 2.2. 144 For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,
ANT 2.2. 145B By duty ruminated.
ANT-ANTONY
Will Caesar speak?
ANT 2.2. 146
ANT-CAESAR
Not till he hears how Antony is touched
ANT 2.2. 147 With what is spoke already.
ANT 2.2. 148A
ANT-ANTONY
What power is in Agrippa,
ANT 2.2. 149 If I would say `Agrippa, be it so',
ANT 2.2. 150B To make this good?
ANT-CAESAR
The power of Caesar,
ANT 2.2. 151B And his power unto Octavia.
ANT-ANTONY
May I never
ANT 2.2. 152 To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
ANT 2.2. 153 Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand.
ANT 2.2. 154 Further this act of grace, and from this hour
ANT 2.2. 155 The heart of brothers govern in our loves
ANT 2.2. 156B And sway our great designs.
ANT-CAESAR
There's my hand. {Antony +
ANT 2.2. 156B and Caesar clasp hands}
ANT 2.2. 157 A sister I bequeath you whom no brother
ANT 2.2. 158 Did ever love so dearly. Let her live
ANT 2.2. 159 To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never
ANT 2.2. 160B Fly off our loves again.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Happily, amen.
ANT 2.2. 161
ANT-ANTONY
I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey,
ANT 2.2. 162 For he hath laid strange courtesies and great
ANT 2.2. 163 Of late upon me. I must thank him only,
ANT 2.2. 164 Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;
ANT 2.2. 165B At heel of that, defy him.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Time calls upon 's.
ANT 2.2. 166 Of us must Pompey presently be sought,
ANT 2.2. 167B Or else he seeks out us.
ANT-ANTONY
Where lies he?
ANT 2.2. 168B
ANT-CAESAR
About the Mount Misena.
ANT-ANTONY
What is his strength
ANT 2.2. 169B By land?
ANT-CAESAR
Great and increasing, but by sea
ANT 2.2. 170B He is an absolute master.
ANT-ANTONY
So is the fame.
ANT 2.2. 171 Would we had spoke together. Haste we for it;
ANT 2.2. 172 Yet ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we
ANT 2.2. 173B The business we have talked of.
ANT-CAESAR
With most gladness,
ANT 2.2. 174 And do invite you to my sister's view,
ANT 2.2. 175B Whither straight I'll lead you.
ANT-ANTONY
Let us, Lepidus,
ANT 2.2. 176B Not lack your company.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Noble Antony,
ANT 2.2. 177 Not sickness should detain me. {Flourish. Exeunt all but +
ANT 2.2. 177 Enobarbus, Agrippa, and Maecenas}
ANT 2.2. 178
ANT-MAECENAS
{(to Enobarbus)} Welcome from Egypt, sir.
ANT 2.2. 179
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Maecenas!
ANT 2.2. 180 My honourable friend, Agrippa!
ANT 2.2. 181
ANT-AGRIPPA
Good Enobarbus!
ANT 2.2. 182
ANT-MAECENAS
We have cause to be glad that matters are so
ANT 2.2. 183 well digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.
ANT 2.2. 184
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance,
ANT 2.2. 185 and made the night light with drinking.
ANT 2.2. 186
ANT-MAECENAS
Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast
ANT 2.2. 187 and but twelve persons there - is this true?
ANT 2.2. 188
ANT-ENOBARBUS
This was but as a fly by an eagle. We had
ANT 2.2. 189 much more monstrous matter of feast, which worthily
ANT 2.2. 190 deserved noting.
ANT 2.2. 191
ANT-MAECENAS
She's a most triumphant lady, if report be
ANT 2.2. 192 square to her.
ANT 2.2. 193
ANT-ENOBARBUS
When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed
ANT 2.2. 194 up his heart upon the river of Cydnus.
ANT 2.2. 195
ANT-AGRIPPA
There she appeared indeed, or my reporter
ANT 2.2. 196 devised well for her.
ANT 2.2. 197A
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I will tell you.
ANT 2.2. 198 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne
ANT 2.2. 199 Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold;
ANT 2.2. 200 Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
ANT 2.2. 201 The winds were love-sick with them. The oars were silver,
ANT 2.2. 202 Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
ANT 2.2. 203 The water which they beat to follow faster,
ANT 2.2. 204 As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
ANT 2.2. 205 It beggared all description. She did lie
ANT 2.2. 206 In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue -
ANT 2.2. 207 O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
ANT 2.2. 208 The fancy outwork nature. On each side her
ANT 2.2. 209 Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
ANT 2.2. 210 With divers-coloured fans whose wind did seem
ANT 2.2. 211 To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
ANT 2.2. 212B And what they undid did.
ANT-AGRIPPA
O, rare for Antony!
ANT 2.2. 213
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
ANT 2.2. 214 So many mermaids, tended her i' th' eyes,
ANT 2.2. 215 And made their bends adornings. At the helm
ANT 2.2. 216 A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle
ANT 2.2. 217 Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands
ANT 2.2. 218 That yarely frame the office. From the barge
ANT 2.2. 219 A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
ANT 2.2. 220 Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
ANT 2.2. 221 Her people out upon her, and Antony,
ANT 2.2. 222 Enthroned i' th' market-place, did sit alone,
ANT 2.2. 223 Whistling to th' air, which but for vacancy
ANT 2.2. 224 Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
ANT 2.2. 225B And made a gap in nature.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Rare Egyptian!
ANT 2.2. 226
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Upon her landing Antony sent to her,
ANT 2.2. 227 Invited her to supper. She replied
ANT 2.2. 228 It should be better he became her guest,
ANT 2.2. 229 Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony,
ANT 2.2. 230 Whom ne'er the word of `No' woman heard speak,
ANT 2.2. 231 Being barbered ten times o'er, goes to the feast,
ANT 2.2. 232 And for his ordinary pays his heart
ANT 2.2. 233B For what his eyes eat only.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Royal wench!
ANT 2.2. 234 She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed.
ANT 2.2. 235B He ploughed her, and she cropped.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I saw her once
ANT 2.2. 236 Hop forty paces through the public street,
ANT 2.2. 237 And having lost her breath, she spoke and panted,
ANT 2.2. 238 That she did make defect perfection,
ANT 2.2. 239B And breathless, pour breath forth.
ANT-MAECENAS
Now Antony
ANT 2.2. 240B Must leave her utterly.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Never. He will not.
ANT 2.2. 241 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
ANT 2.2. 242 Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
ANT 2.2. 243 The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
ANT 2.2. 244 Where most she satisfies. For vilest things
ANT 2.2. 245 Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
ANT 2.2. 246 Bless her when she is riggish.
ANT 2.2. 247
ANT-MAECENAS
If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle
ANT 2.2. 248 The heart of Antony, Octavia is
ANT 2.2. 249B A blessed lottery to him.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Let us go.
ANT 2.2. 250 Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest
ANT 2.2. 251B Whilst you abide here.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Humbly, sir, I thank you. +
ANT 2.2. 251B {Exeunt}
ANT 2.2. 0 {Enter Antony and Caesar; Octavia between them}
ANT 2.3. 1
ANT-ANTONY
The world and my great office will sometimes
ANT 2.3. 2B Divide me from your bosom.
ANT-OCTAVIA
All which time,
ANT 2.3. 3 Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
ANT 2.3. 4B To them for you.
ANT-ANTONY
Good night, sir. My Octavia,
ANT 2.3. 5 Read not my blemishes in the world's report.
ANT 2.3. 6 I have not kept my square, but that to come
ANT 2.3. 7 Shall all be done by th' rule. Good night, dear lady.
ANT 2.3. 8 Good night, sir.
ANT 2.3. 9A
ANT-CAESAR
Good night. {Exeunt Caesar and Octavia}
ANT 2.3. 10 {Enter Soothsayer}
ANT-ANTONY
Now, sirrah. You do wish +
ANT 2.3. 10 yourself in Egypt?
ANT 2.3. 11
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
Would I had never come from thence, nor you
ANT 2.3. 12B Gone thither.
ANT-ANTONY
If you can, your reason?
ANT 2.3. 13
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
I see it in my motion, have it not in my tongue.
ANT 2.3. 14B But yet hie you to Egypt again.
ANT-ANTONY
Say to me
ANT 2.3. 15 Whose fortunes shall rise higher: Caesar's or mine?
ANT 2.3. 16
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
Caesar's. Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side.
ANT 2.3. 17 Thy daemon, that thy spirit which keeps thee, is
ANT 2.3. 18 Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable,
ANT 2.3. 19 Where Caesar's is not. But near him thy angel
ANT 2.3. 20 Becomes afeard, as being o'erpowered. Therefore
ANT 2.3. 21B Make space enough between you.
ANT-ANTONY
Speak this no more.
ANT 2.3. 22
ANT-SOOTHSAYER
To none but thee; no more but when to thee.
ANT 2.3. 23 If thou dost play with him at any game
ANT 2.3. 24 Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck
ANT 2.3. 25 He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Thy lustre thickens
ANT 2.3. 26 When he shines by. I say again, thy spirit
ANT 2.3. 27 Is all afraid to govern thee near him;
ANT 2.3. 28B But he away, 'tis noble.
ANT-ANTONY
Get thee gone.
ANT 2.3. 29 Say to Ventidius I would speak with him. {Exit Soothsayer}
ANT 2.3. 30 He shall to Parthia; be it art or hap,
ANT 2.3. 31 He hath spoken true. The very dice obey him,
ANT 2.3. 32 And in our sports my better cunning faints
ANT 2.3. 33 Under his chance. If we draw lots, he speeds.
ANT 2.3. 34 His cocks do win the battle still of mine
ANT 2.3. 35 When it is all to nought, and his quails ever
ANT 2.3. 36 Beat mine, inhooped, at odds. I will to Egypt;
ANT 2.3. 37 And though I make this marriage for my peace,
ANT 2.3. 38B I' th' East my pleasure lies. {Enter Ventidius} O, come, +
ANT 2.3. 38B Ventidius.
ANT 2.3. 39 You must to Parthia, your commission's ready.
ANT 2.3. 40 Follow me, and receive 't. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.3. 0 {Enter Lepidus, Maecenas, and Agrippa}
ANT 2.4. 1
ANT-LEPIDUS
Trouble yourselves no further. Pray you, hasten
ANT 2.4. 2B Your generals after.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Sir, Mark Antony
ANT 2.4. 3 Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow.
ANT 2.4. 4
ANT-LEPIDUS
Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,
ANT 2.4. 5B Which will become you both, farewell.
ANT-MAECENAS
We shall,
ANT 2.4. 6 As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount
ANT 2.4. 7B Before you, Lepidus.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Your way is shorter.
ANT 2.4. 8 My purposes do draw me much about.
ANT 2.4. 9B You'll win two days upon me.
ANT-MAECENAS
ANT-AND
ANT-AGRIPPA
Sir, good +
ANT 2.4. 9B success.
ANT 2.4. 10A
ANT-LEPIDUS
Farewell. {Exeunt Maecenas and Agrippa at one door, +
ANT 2.4. 10A Lepidus at another}
ANT 2.4. 0 {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas}
ANT 2.5. 1
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Give me some music - music, moody food
ANT 2.5. 2B Of us that trade in love.
ANT-CHARMIAN
ANT-IRAS
ANT-AND
ANT-ALEXAS
The music, +
ANT 2.5. 2B ho! {Enter Mardian, the eunuch}
ANT 2.5. 3
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Let it alone. Let's to billiards. Come, +
ANT 2.5. 3 Charmian.
ANT 2.5. 4
ANT-CHARMIAN
My arm is sore. Best play with Mardian.
ANT 2.5. 5
ANT-CLEOPATRA
As well a woman with an eunuch played
ANT 2.5. 6 As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?
ANT 2.5. 7A
ANT-MARDIAN
As well as I can, madam.
ANT 2.5. 8
ANT-CLEOPATRA
And when good will is showed, though 't come too short
ANT 2.5. 9 The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now.
ANT 2.5. 10 Give me mine angle. We'll to th' river. There,
ANT 2.5. 11 My music playing far off, I will betray
ANT 2.5. 12 Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce
ANT 2.5. 13 Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up
ANT 2.5. 14 I'll think them every one an Antony,
ANT 2.5. 15B And say `Ah ha, you're caught!'
ANT-CHARMIAN
'Twas merry when
ANT 2.5. 16 You wagered on your angling, when your diver
ANT 2.5. 17 Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he
ANT 2.5. 18B With fervency drew up.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
That time - O times! -
ANT 2.5. 19 I laughed him out of patience, and that night
ANT 2.5. 20 I laughed him into patience, and next morn,
ANT 2.5. 21 Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed,
ANT 2.5. 22 Then put my tires and mantles on him whilst
ANT 2.5. 23B I wore his sword Philippan. {Enter a Messenger} O, from +
ANT 2.5. 23B Italy.
ANT 2.5. 24 Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,
ANT 2.5. 25B That long time have been barren.
ANT-MESSENGER
Madam, madam!
ANT 2.5. 26
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Antonio's dead. If thou say so, villain,
ANT 2.5. 27 Thou kill'st thy mistress; but well and free,
ANT 2.5. 28 If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here
ANT 2.5. 29 My bluest veins to kiss - a hand that kings
ANT 2.5. 30B Have lipped, and trembled kissing.
ANT-MESSENGER
First, madam, he is +
ANT 2.5. 30B well.
ANT 2.5. 31
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Why, there's more gold. But, sirrah, mark: we use
ANT 2.5. 32 To say the dead are well. Bring it to that,
ANT 2.5. 33 The gold I give thee will I melt and pour
ANT 2.5. 34 Down thy ill-uttering throat.
ANT 2.5. 35A
ANT-MESSENGER
Good madam, hear me.
ANT 2.5. 36A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Well, go to, I will.
ANT 2.5. 37 But there's no goodness in thy face. If Antony
ANT 2.5. 38 Be free and healthful, so tart a favour
ANT 2.5. 39 To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,
ANT 2.5. 40 Thou shouldst come like a Fury crowned with snakes,
ANT 2.5. 41B Not like a formal man.
ANT-MESSENGER
Will 't please you hear me?
ANT 2.5. 42
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st.
ANT 2.5. 43 Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,
ANT 2.5. 44 Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,
ANT 2.5. 45 I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail
ANT 2.5. 46B Rich pearls upon thee.
ANT-MESSENGER
Madam, he's well.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Well +
ANT 2.5. 46B said.
ANT 2.5. 47B
ANT-MESSENGER
And friends with Caesar.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Thou'rt an honest +
ANT 2.5. 47B man.
ANT 2.5. 48
ANT-MESSENGER
Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.
ANT 2.5. 49B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Make thee a fortune from me.
ANT-MESSENGER
But yet, madam -
ANT 2.5. 50
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I do not like `But yet'; it does allay
ANT 2.5. 51 The good precedence. Fie upon `But yet'.
ANT 2.5. 52 `But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth
ANT 2.5. 53 Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,
ANT 2.5. 54 Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,
ANT 2.5. 55 The good and bad together. He's friends with Caesar,
ANT 2.5. 56 In state of health, thou sayst; and, thou sayst, free.
ANT 2.5. 57
ANT-MESSENGER
Free, madam? No, I made no such report.
ANT 2.5. 58B He's bound unto Octavia.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
For what good turn?
ANT 2.5. 59B
ANT-MESSENGER
For the best turn i' th' bed.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I am pale, +
ANT 2.5. 59B Charmian.
ANT 2.5. 60
ANT-MESSENGER
Madam, he's married to Octavia.
ANT 2.5. 61
ANT-CLEOPATRA
The most infectious pestilence upon thee! {She +
ANT 2.5. 61 strikes him down}
ANT 2.5. 62B
ANT-MESSENGER
Good madam, patience!
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What say +
ANT 2.5. 62B you? {She strikes him}
ANT 2.5. 63 Hence, horrible villain, or I'll spurn thine eyes
ANT 2.5. 64 Like balls before me. I'll unhair thy head, {She hales him up +
ANT 2.5. 64 and down}
ANT 2.5. 65 Thou shalt be whipped with wire and stewed in brine,
ANT 2.5. 66B Smarting in ling'ring pickle.
ANT-MESSENGER
Gracious madam,
ANT 2.5. 67 I that do bring the news made not the match.
ANT 2.5. 68
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,
ANT 2.5. 69 And make thy fortunes proud. The blow thou hadst
ANT 2.5. 70 Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage,
ANT 2.5. 71 And I will boot thee with what gift beside
ANT 2.5. 72B Thy modesty can beg.
ANT-MESSENGER
He's married, madam.
ANT 2.5. 73B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Rogue, thou hast lived too long. {She draws a +
ANT 2.5. 73B knife}
ANT-MESSENGER
Nay then, I'll run.
ANT 2.5. 74 What mean you, madam? I have made no fault. {Exit}
ANT 2.5. 75
ANT-CHARMIAN
Good madam, keep yourself within yourself.
ANT 2.5. 76 The man is innocent.
ANT 2.5. 77
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
ANT 2.5. 78 Melt Egypt into Nile, and kindly creatures
ANT 2.5. 79 Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again.
ANT 2.5. 80 Though I am mad I will not bite him. Call!
ANT 2.5. 81B
ANT-CHARMIAN
He is afeard to come.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I will not hurt +
ANT 2.5. 81B him. {[Exit Charmian]}
ANT 2.5. 82 These hands do lack nobility that they strike
ANT 2.5. 83 A meaner than myself, since I myself
ANT 2.5. 84B Have given myself the cause. {Enter the Messenger again [with +
ANT 2.5. 84B Charmian]} Come hither, sir.
ANT 2.5. 85 Though it be honest, it is never good
ANT 2.5. 86 To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message
ANT 2.5. 87 An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell
ANT 2.5. 88 Themselves when they be felt.
ANT 2.5. 89A
ANT-MESSENGER
I have done my duty.
ANT 2.5. 90A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Is he married?
ANT 2.5. 91 I cannot hate thee worser than I do
ANT 2.5. 92B If thou again say `Yes'.
ANT-MESSENGER
He's married, madam.
ANT 2.5. 93
ANT-CLEOPATRA
The gods confound thee! Dost thou hold there still?
ANT 2.5. 94B
ANT-MESSENGER
Should I lie, madam?
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O, I would thou didst,
ANT 2.5. 95 So half my Egypt were submerged and made
ANT 2.5. 96 A cistern for scaled snakes. Go, get thee hence.
ANT 2.5. 97 Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me
ANT 2.5. 98 Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?
ANT 2.5. 99B
ANT-MESSENGER
I crave your highness' pardon.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
He is +
ANT 2.5. 99B married?
ANT 2.5. 100
ANT-MESSENGER
Take no offence that I would not offend you.
ANT 2.5. 101 To punish me for what you make me do
ANT 2.5. 102 Seems much unequal. He's married to Octavia.
ANT 2.5. 103
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O that his fault should make a knave of thee,
ANT 2.5. 104 That act not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence.
ANT 2.5. 105 The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome
ANT 2.5. 106 Are all too dear for me. Lie they upon thy hand,
ANT 2.5. 107B And be undone by 'em. {Exit Messenger}
ANT-CHARMIAN
+
ANT 2.5. 107B Good your highness, patience.
ANT 2.5. 108
ANT-CLEOPATRA
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
ANT 2.5. 109A
ANT-CHARMIAN
Many times, madam.
ANT 2.5. 110
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I am paid for 't now. Lead me from hence.
ANT 2.5. 111 I faint. O Iras, Charmian - 'tis no matter.
ANT 2.5. 112 Go to the fellow, good Alexas, bid him
ANT 2.5. 113 Report the feature of Octavia: her years,
ANT 2.5. 114 Her inclination; let him not leave out
ANT 2.5. 115 The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly. {Exit Alexas}
ANT 2.5. 116 Let him for ever go - let him not, Charmian;
ANT 2.5. 117 Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
ANT 2.5. 118 The other way's a Mars. {[To Mardian]} Bid you Alexas
ANT 2.5. 119 Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,
ANT 2.5. 120 But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.5. 0 {Flourish. Enter Pompey and Menas at one door, with a +
ANT 2.6. 0 drummer and a trumpeter; at another, Caesar, Lepidus, Antony, +
ANT 2.6. 0 Enobarbus, Maecenas, Agrippa, with soldiers marching}
ANT 2.6. 1
ANT-POMPEY
Your hostages I have, so have you mine,
ANT 2.6. 2B And we shall talk before we fight.
ANT-CAESAR
Most meet
ANT 2.6. 3 That first we come to words, and therefore have we
ANT 2.6. 4 Our written purposes before us sent,
ANT 2.6. 5 Which if thou hast considered, let us know
ANT 2.6. 6 If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword
ANT 2.6. 7 And carry back to Sicily much tall youth
ANT 2.6. 8B That else must perish here.
ANT-POMPEY
To you all three,
ANT 2.6. 9 The senators alone of this great world,
ANT 2.6. 10 Chief factors for the gods: I do not know
ANT 2.6. 11 Wherefore my father should revengers want,
ANT 2.6. 12 Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar,
ANT 2.6. 13 Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,
ANT 2.6. 14 There saw you labouring for him. What was 't
ANT 2.6. 15 That moved pale Cassius to conspire? And what
ANT 2.6. 16 Made the all-honoured, honest Roman Brutus,
ANT 2.6. 17 With the armed rest, courtiers of beauteous freedom,
ANT 2.6. 18 To drench the Capitol but that they would
ANT 2.6. 19 Have one man but a man? And that is it
ANT 2.6. 20 Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden
ANT 2.6. 21 The angered ocean foams; with which I meant
ANT 2.6. 22 To scourge th' ingratitude that despiteful Rome
ANT 2.6. 23B Cast on my noble father.
ANT-CAESAR
Take your time.
ANT 2.6. 24
ANT-ANTONY
Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails.
ANT 2.6. 25 We'll speak with thee at sea. At land thou know'st
ANT 2.6. 26B How much we do o'ercount thee.
ANT-POMPEY
At land indeed
ANT 2.6. 27 Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house,
ANT 2.6. 28 But since the cuckoo builds not for himself,
ANT 2.6. 29B Remain in 't as thou mayst.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Be pleased to tell us -
ANT 2.6. 30 For this is from the present - how you take
ANT 2.6. 31B The offers we have sent you.
ANT-CAESAR
There's the point.
ANT 2.6. 32
ANT-ANTONY
Which do not be entreated to, but weigh
ANT 2.6. 33B What it is worth, embraced.
ANT-CAESAR
And what may follow,
ANT 2.6. 34B To try a larger fortune?
ANT-POMPEY
You have made me offer
ANT 2.6. 35 Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must
ANT 2.6. 36 Rid all the sea of pirates; then to send
ANT 2.6. 37 Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon,
ANT 2.6. 38 To part with unhacked edges, and bear back
ANT 2.6. 39B Our targes undinted.
ANT-CAESAR
ANT-ANTONY
ANT-AND
ANT-LEPIDUS
That's our +
ANT 2.6. 39B offer.
ANT-POMPEY
Know, then,
ANT 2.6. 40 I came before you here a man prepared
ANT 2.6. 41 To take this offer. But Mark Antony
ANT 2.6. 42 Put me to some impatience. Though I lose
ANT 2.6. 43 The praise of it by telling, you must know,
ANT 2.6. 44 When Caesar and your brother were at blows,
ANT 2.6. 45 Your mother came to Sicily, and did find
ANT 2.6. 46B Her welcome friendly.
ANT-ANTONY
I have heard it, Pompey,
ANT 2.6. 47 And am well studied for a liberal thanks
ANT 2.6. 48B Which I do owe you.
ANT-POMPEY
Let me have your hand. {Pompey and +
ANT 2.6. 48B Antony shake hands}
ANT 2.6. 49 I did not think, sir, to have met you here.
ANT 2.6. 50
ANT-ANTONY
The beds i' th' East are soft; and thanks to you,
ANT 2.6. 51 That called me timelier than my purpose hither;
ANT 2.6. 52B For I have gained by 't.
ANT-CAESAR
{(to Pompey)} Since +
ANT 2.6. 52B I saw you last
ANT 2.6. 53B There is a change upon you.
ANT-POMPEY
Well, I know not
ANT 2.6. 54 What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face,
ANT 2.6. 55 But in my bosom shall she never come
ANT 2.6. 56B To make my heart her vassal.
ANT-LEPIDUS
Well met here.
ANT 2.6. 57
ANT-POMPEY
I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed.
ANT 2.6. 58 I crave our composition may be written
ANT 2.6. 59B And sealed between us.
ANT-CAESAR
That's the next to do.
ANT 2.6. 60
ANT-POMPEY
We'll feast each other ere we part, and let's
ANT 2.6. 61 Draw lots who shall begin.
ANT 2.6. 62A
ANT-ANTONY
That will I, Pompey.
ANT 2.6. 63A
ANT-POMPEY
No, Antony, take the lot.
ANT 2.6. 64 But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
ANT 2.6. 65 Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
ANT 2.6. 66B Grew fat with feasting there.
ANT-ANTONY
You have heard much.
ANT 2.6. 67A
ANT-POMPEY
I have fair meanings, sir.
ANT 2.6. 68A
ANT-ANTONY
And fair words to them.
ANT 2.6. 69A
ANT-POMPEY
Then so much have I heard,
ANT 2.6. 70 And I have heard Apollodorus carried -
ANT 2.6. 71B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
No more o' that, he did so.
ANT-POMPEY
What, I pray you?
ANT 2.6. 72
ANT-ENOBARBUS
A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.
ANT 2.6. 73
ANT-POMPEY
I know thee now. How far'st thou, soldier?
ANT 2.6. 74
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Well, and well am like to do, for I perceive
ANT 2.6. 75B Four feasts are toward.
ANT-POMPEY
Let me shake thy hand. {Pompey +
ANT 2.6. 75B and Enobarbus shake hands}
ANT 2.6. 76 I never hated thee. I have seen thee fight
ANT 2.6. 77 When I have envied thy behaviour.
ANT 2.6. 78
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Sir, I never loved you much, but I ha' praised ye
ANT 2.6. 79 When you have well deserved ten times as much
ANT 2.6. 80 As I have said you did.
ANT 2.6. 81
ANT-POMPEY
Enjoy thy plainness. It nothing ill becomes thee.
ANT 2.6. 82 Aboard my galley I invite you all.
ANT 2.6. 83B Will you lead, lords?
ANT-CAESAR
ANT-ANTONY
ANT-AND
ANT-LEPIDUS
Show 's the way, +
ANT 2.6. 83B sir.
ANT-POMPEY
Come. {Exeunt all but Enobarbus and Menas}
ANT 2.6. 84
ANT-MENAS
{(aside)} Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er +
ANT 2.6. 84 have made this treaty.
ANT 2.6. 85 {(To Enobarbus)} You and I have known, sir.
ANT 2.6. 86
ANT-ENOBARBUS
At sea, I think.
ANT 2.6. 87
ANT-MENAS
We have, sir.
ANT 2.6. 88
ANT-ENOBARBUS
You have done well by water.
ANT 2.6. 89
ANT-MENAS
And you by land.
ANT 2.6. 90
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I will praise any man that will praise me,
ANT 2.6. 91 though it cannot be denied what I have done by land.
ANT 2.6. 92
ANT-MENAS
Nor what I have done by water.
ANT 2.6. 93
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Yes, something you can deny for your own
ANT 2.6. 94 safety. You have been a great thief by sea.
ANT 2.6. 95
ANT-MENAS
And you by land.
ANT 2.6. 96
ANT-ENOBARBUS
There I deny my land service; but give me
ANT 2.6. 97 your hand, Menas. If our eyes had authority, here they
ANT 2.6. 98 might take two thieves kissing. {They shake hands}
ANT 2.6. 99
ANT-MENAS
All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands
ANT 2.6. 100 are.
ANT 2.6. 101
ANT-ENOBARBUS
But there is never a fair woman has a true
ANT 2.6. 102 face.
ANT 2.6. 103
ANT-MENAS
No slander; they steal hearts.
ANT 2.6. 104
ANT-ENOBARBUS
We came hither to fight with you.
ANT 2.6. 105
ANT-MENAS
For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking.
ANT 2.6. 106 Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.
ANT 2.6. 107
ANT-ENOBARBUS
If he do, sure he cannot weep 't back again.
ANT 2.6. 108
ANT-MENAS
You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony
ANT 2.6. 109 here. Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?
ANT 2.6. 110
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Caesar's sister is called Octavia.
ANT 2.6. 111
ANT-MENAS
True, sir. She was the wife of Caius Marcellus.
ANT 2.6. 112
ANT-ENOBARBUS
But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.
ANT 2.6. 113
ANT-MENAS
Pray ye, sir?
ANT 2.6. 114
ANT-ENOBARBUS
'Tis true.
ANT 2.6. 115
ANT-MENAS
Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.
ANT 2.6. 116
ANT-ENOBARBUS
If I were bound to divine of this unity I would
ANT 2.6. 117 not prophesy so.
ANT 2.6. 118
ANT-MENAS
I think the policy of that purpose made more in
ANT 2.6. 119 the marriage than the love of the parties.
ANT 2.6. 120
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I think so, too. But you shall find the band
ANT 2.6. 121 that seems to tie their friendship together will be the
ANT 2.6. 122 very strangler of their amity. Octavia is of a holy, cold,
ANT 2.6. 123 and still conversation.
ANT 2.6. 124
ANT-MENAS
Who would not have his wife so?
ANT 2.6. 125
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Not he that himself is not so, which is Mark
ANT 2.6. 126 Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again; then shall
ANT 2.6. 127 the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar, and, as
ANT 2.6. 128 I said before, that which is the strength of their amity
ANT 2.6. 129 shall prove the immediate author of their variance.
ANT 2.6. 130 Antony will use his affection where it is. He married
ANT 2.6. 131 but his occasion here.
ANT 2.6. 132
ANT-MENAS
And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?
ANT 2.6. 133 I have a health for you.
ANT 2.6. 134
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I shall take it, sir. We have used our throats
ANT 2.6. 135 in Egypt.
ANT 2.6. 136
ANT-MENAS
Come, let's away. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.6. 0 {Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet}
ANT 2.7. 1
ANT-FIRST SERVANT
Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants
ANT 2.7. 2 are ill rooted already; the least wind i' th' world will
ANT 2.7. 3 blow them down.
ANT 2.7. 4
ANT-SECOND SERVANT
Lepidus is high-coloured.
ANT 2.7. 5
ANT-FIRST SERVANT
They have made him drink alms-drink.
ANT 2.7. 6
ANT-SECOND SERVANT
As they pinch one another by the
ANT 2.7. 7 disposition, he cries out `No more!' - reconciles them
ANT 2.7. 8 to his entreaty and himself to th' drink.
ANT 2.7. 9
ANT-FIRST SERVANT
But it raises the greater war between him
ANT 2.7. 10 and his discretion.
ANT 2.7. 11
ANT-SECOND SERVANT
Why, this it is to have a name in great
ANT 2.7. 12 men's fellowship. I had as lief have a reed that will do
ANT 2.7. 13 me no service as a partisan I could not heave.
ANT 2.7. 14
ANT-FIRST SERVANT
To be called into a huge sphere and not
ANT 2.7. 15 to be seen to move in 't, are the holes where eyes should
ANT 2.7. 16 be which pitifully disaster the cheeks. {A sennet sounded. Enter +
ANT 2.7. 16 Caesar, Antony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa, Maecenas, Enobarbus, and +
ANT 2.7. 16 Menas, with other captains [and a boy]}
ANT 2.7. 17
ANT-ANTONY
{(to Caesar)} Thus do they, sir: they take +
ANT 2.7. 17 the flow o' th' Nile
ANT 2.7. 18 By certain scales i' th' pyramid. They know
ANT 2.7. 19 By th' height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth
ANT 2.7. 20 Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells
ANT 2.7. 21 The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman
ANT 2.7. 22 Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
ANT 2.7. 23 And shortly comes to harvest.
ANT 2.7. 24A
ANT-LEPIDUS
You've strange serpents there?
ANT 2.7. 25A
ANT-ANTONY
Ay, Lepidus.
ANT 2.7. 26
ANT-LEPIDUS
Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud
ANT 2.7. 27 by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile.
ANT 2.7. 28
ANT-ANTONY
They are so.
ANT 2.7. 29
ANT-POMPEY
Sit, and some wine. A health to Lepidus! +
ANT 2.7. 29 {[Antony, Pompey, and Lepidus sit]}
ANT 2.7. 30
ANT-LEPIDUS
I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er +
ANT 2.7. 30 out.
ANT 2.7. 31
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Not till you have slept - I fear me you'll be in
ANT 2.7. 32 till then.
ANT 2.7. 33
ANT-LEPIDUS
Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'
ANT 2.7. 34 pyramises are very goodly things: without contradiction
ANT 2.7. 35 I have heard that.
ANT 2.7. 36B
ANT-MENAS
{(aside to Pompey)} Pompey, a word.
ANT-POMPEY
ANT 2.7. 36B {(aside to Menas)} Say in mine ear; what is 't?
ANT 2.7. 37
ANT-MENAS
{(aside to Pompey)} Forsake thy seat, I do +
ANT 2.7. 37 beseech thee, captain,
ANT 2.7. 38B And hear me speak a word.
ANT-POMPEY
{(aside to Menas)} +
ANT 2.7. 38B Forbear me till anon.
ANT 2.7. 39 {(Aloud)} This wine for Lepidus! {Menas +
ANT 2.7. 39 whispers in Pompey's ear}
ANT 2.7. 40
ANT-LEPIDUS
What manner o' thing is your crocodile?
ANT 2.7. 41
ANT-ANTONY
It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as
ANT 2.7. 42 it hath breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves
ANT 2.7. 43 with it own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth
ANT 2.7. 44 it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
ANT 2.7. 45
ANT-LEPIDUS
What colour is it of?
ANT 2.7. 46
ANT-ANTONY
Of it own colour, too.
ANT 2.7. 47
ANT-LEPIDUS
'Tis a strange serpent.
ANT 2.7. 48
ANT-ANTONY
'Tis so, and the tears of it are wet.
ANT 2.7. 49
ANT-CAESAR
{(to Antony)} Will this description satisfy +
ANT 2.7. 49 him?
ANT 2.7. 50
ANT-ANTONY
With the health that Pompey gives him; else he
ANT 2.7. 51 is a very epicure.
ANT 2.7. 52
ANT-POMPEY
{(aside to Menas)} Go hang, sir, hang! Tell +
ANT 2.7. 52 me of that? Away,
ANT 2.7. 53 Do as I bid you. {(Aloud)} Where's this cup I called +
ANT 2.7. 53 for?
ANT 2.7. 54
ANT-MENAS
{(aside to Pompey)} If for the sake of merit +
ANT 2.7. 54 thou wilt hear me,
ANT 2.7. 55B Rise from thy stool.
ANT-POMPEY
{[rising]} I think +
ANT 2.7. 55B thou'rt mad. The matter? {[Menas and Pompey stand apart]}
ANT 2.7. 56
ANT-MENAS
I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.
ANT 2.7. 57
ANT-POMPEY
Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?
ANT 2.7. 58B Be jolly, lords.
ANT-ANTONY
These quicksands, Lepidus,
ANT 2.7. 59 Keep off them, for you sink.
ANT 2.7. 60B
ANT-MENAS
Wilt thou be lord of all the world?
ANT-POMPEY
What sayst +
ANT 2.7. 60B thou?
ANT 2.7. 61
ANT-MENAS
Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice.
ANT 2.7. 62B
ANT-POMPEY
How should that be?
ANT-MENAS
But entertain it
ANT 2.7. 63 And, though thou think me poor, I am the man
ANT 2.7. 64B Will give thee all the world.
ANT-POMPEY
Hast thou drunk well?
ANT 2.7. 65
ANT-MENAS
No, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.
ANT 2.7. 66 Thou art, if thou dar'st be, the earthly Jove.
ANT 2.7. 67 Whate'er the ocean pales or sky inclips
ANT 2.7. 68B Is thine, if thou wilt ha 't.
ANT-POMPEY
Show me which way!
ANT 2.7. 69
ANT-MENAS
These three world-sharers, these competitors,
ANT 2.7. 70 Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable;
ANT 2.7. 71 And when we are put off, fall to their throats.
ANT 2.7. 72B All there is thine.
ANT-POMPEY
Ah, this thou shouldst have done
ANT 2.7. 73 And not have spoke on 't. In me 'tis villainy,
ANT 2.7. 74 In thee 't had been good service. Thou must know
ANT 2.7. 75 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;
ANT 2.7. 76 Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue
ANT 2.7. 77 Hath so betrayed thine act. Being done unknown,
ANT 2.7. 78 I should have found it afterwards well done,
ANT 2.7. 79 But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink. {He returns to the +
ANT 2.7. 79 others}
ANT 2.7. 80
ANT-MENAS
{(aside)} For this, I'll never follow thy +
ANT 2.7. 80 palled fortunes more.
ANT 2.7. 81 Who seeks and will not take when once 'tis offered,
ANT 2.7. 82B Shall never find it more.
ANT-POMPEY
This health to Lepidus!
ANT 2.7. 83
ANT-ANTONY
Bear him ashore. - I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.
ANT 2.7. 84B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Here's to thee, Menas!
ANT-MENAS
Enobarbus, welcome.
ANT 2.7. 85B
ANT-POMPEY
Fill till the cup be hid. {One lifts Lepidus, drunk, +
ANT 2.7. 85B and carries him off}
ANT-ENOBARBUS
There's a strong fellow, +
ANT 2.7. 85B Menas.
ANT 2.7. 86A
ANT-MENAS
Why?
ANT 2.7. 87
ANT-ENOBARBUS
A bears the third part of the world, man; seest not?
ANT 2.7. 88
ANT-MENAS
The third part then is drunk. Would it were all,
ANT 2.7. 89B That it might go on wheels.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Drink thou, increase the +
ANT 2.7. 89B reels.
ANT 2.7. 90A
ANT-MENAS
Come.
ANT 2.7. 91
ANT-POMPEY
This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.
ANT 2.7. 92
ANT-ANTONY
It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho!
ANT 2.7. 93B Here's to Caesar!
ANT-CAESAR
I could well forbear 't.
ANT 2.7. 94 It's monstrous labour when I wash my brain,
ANT 2.7. 95 An it grow fouler.
ANT 2.7. 96A
ANT-ANTONY
Be a child o' th' time.
ANT 2.7. 97A
ANT-CAESAR
Possess it, I'll make answer.
ANT 2.7. 98 But I had rather fast from all, four days,
ANT 2.7. 99B Than drink so much in one.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(to Antony)} +
ANT 2.7. 99B Ha, my brave Emperor,
ANT 2.7. 100 Shall we dance now the Egyptian bacchanals,
ANT 2.7. 101 And celebrate our drink?
ANT 2.7. 102A
ANT-POMPEY
Let's ha 't, good soldier.
ANT 2.7. 103A
ANT-ANTONY
Come, let's all take hands
ANT 2.7. 104 Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense
ANT 2.7. 105B In soft and delicate Lethe.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
All take hands.
ANT 2.7. 106 Make battery to our ears with the loud music.
ANT 2.7. 107 The while I'll place you, then the boy shall sing.
ANT 2.7. 108 The holding every man shall beat as loud
ANT 2.7. 109 As his strong sides can volley. {Music plays. Enobarbus places +
ANT 2.7. 109 them hand in hand}
ANT 2.7. 110
ANT-[BOY]
{(sings)} Come, thou monarch of the vine,
ANT 2.7. 111 Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne!
ANT 2.7. 112 In thy vats our cares be drowned,
ANT 2.7. 113 With thy grapes our hairs be crowned!
ANT 2.7. 114 Cup us till the world go round,
ANT 2.7. 115 Cup us till the world go round!
ANT 2.7. 116B
ANT-CAESAR
What would you more? Pompey, good night. +
ANT 2.7. 116B {(To Antony)} Good-brother,
ANT 2.7. 117 Let me request you off. Our graver business
ANT 2.7. 118 Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part.
ANT 2.7. 119 You see we have burnt our cheeks. Strong Enobarb
ANT 2.7. 120 Is weaker than the wine, and mine own tongue
ANT 2.7. 121 Splits what it speaks. The wild disguise hath almost
ANT 2.7. 122 Anticked us all. What needs more words? Good night.
ANT 2.7. 123B Good Antony, your hand.
ANT-POMPEY
I'll try you on the shore.
ANT 2.7. 124B
ANT-ANTONY
And shall, sir. Give 's your hand.
ANT-POMPEY
O Antony,
ANT 2.7. 125 You have my father's house. But what, we are friends!
ANT 2.7. 126 Come down into the boat. {Exeunt all but Enobarbus and Menas}
ANT 2.7. 127B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Take heed you fall not, Menas.
ANT-MENAS
I'll +
ANT 2.7. 127B not on shore.
ANT 2.7. 128 No, to my cabin. These drums, these trumpets, flutes, what!
ANT 2.7. 129 Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
ANT 2.7. 130 To these great fellows. Sound and be hanged, sound out! {Sound a +
ANT 2.7. 130 flourish, with drums}
ANT 2.7. 131B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(throwing his cap in the air)} Hoo, +
ANT 2.7. 131B says a! There's my cap.
ANT-MENAS
Ho, noble captain, come! +
ANT 2.7. 131B {Exeunt}
ANT 2.7. 0 {Enter Ventidius, with Silius and other Roman +
ANT 3.1. 0 soldiers, as it were in triumph; the dead body of Pacorus borne before +
ANT 3.1. 0 him}
ANT 3.1. 1
ANT-VENTIDIUS
Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now
ANT 3.1. 2 Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death
ANT 3.1. 3 Make me revenger. Bear the King's son's body
ANT 3.1. 4 Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,
ANT 3.1. 5B Pays this for Marcus Crassus.
ANT-SILIUS
Noble Ventidius,
ANT 3.1. 6 Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,
ANT 3.1. 7 The fugitive Parthians follow. Spur through Media,
ANT 3.1. 8 Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither
ANT 3.1. 9 The routed fly. So thy grand captain, Antony,
ANT 3.1. 10 Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and
ANT 3.1. 11B Put garlands on thy head.
ANT-VENTIDIUS
O Silius, Silius,
ANT 3.1. 12 I have done enough. A lower place, note well,
ANT 3.1. 13 May make too great an act. For learn this, Silius:
ANT 3.1. 14 Better to leave undone than by our deed
ANT 3.1. 15 Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.
ANT 3.1. 16 Caesar and Antony have ever won
ANT 3.1. 17 More in their officer than person. Sossius,
ANT 3.1. 18 One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,
ANT 3.1. 19 For quick accumulation of renown,
ANT 3.1. 20 Which he achieved by th' minute, lost his favour.
ANT 3.1. 21 Who does i' th' wars more than his captain can
ANT 3.1. 22 Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition,
ANT 3.1. 23 The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss
ANT 3.1. 24 Than gain which darkens him.
ANT 3.1. 25 I could do more to do Antonius good,
ANT 3.1. 26 But 'twould offend him, and in his offence
ANT 3.1. 27B Should my performance perish.
ANT-SILIUS
Thou hast, Ventidius, that
ANT 3.1. 28 Without the which a soldier and his sword
ANT 3.1. 29 Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony?
ANT 3.1. 30
ANT-VENTIDIUS
I'll humbly signify what in his name,
ANT 3.1. 31 That magical word of war, we have effected;
ANT 3.1. 32 How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,
ANT 3.1. 33 The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia
ANT 3.1. 34B We have jaded out o' th' field.
ANT-SILIUS
Where is he now?
ANT 3.1. 35
ANT-VENTIDIUS
He purposeth to Athens; whither, with what haste
ANT 3.1. 36 The weight we must convey with 's will permit,
ANT 3.1. 37 We shall appear before him. - On there; pass along. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.1. 0 {Enter Agrippa at one door, Enobarbus at another}
ANT 3.2. 1A
ANT-AGRIPPA
What, are the brothers parted?
ANT 3.2. 2
ANT-ENOBARBUS
They have dispatched with Pompey; he is gone.
ANT 3.2. 3 The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
ANT 3.2. 4 To part from Rome, Caesar is sad, and Lepidus
ANT 3.2. 5 Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
ANT 3.2. 6B With the green-sickness.
ANT-AGRIPPA
'Tis a noble Lepidus.
ANT 3.2. 7
ANT-ENOBARBUS
A very fine one. O, how he loves Caesar!
ANT 3.2. 8
ANT-AGRIPPA
Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
ANT 3.2. 9
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
ANT 3.2. 10
ANT-AGRIPPA
What's Antony - the god of Jupiter?
ANT 3.2. 11
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Spake you of Caesar? How, the nonpareil?
ANT 3.2. 12
ANT-AGRIPPA
O Antony, O thou Arabian bird!
ANT 3.2. 13
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Would you praise Caesar, say `Caesar'; go no further.
ANT 3.2. 14
ANT-AGRIPPA
Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
ANT 3.2. 15
ANT-ENOBARBUS
But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony -
ANT 3.2. 16 Hoo! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot
ANT 3.2. 17 Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number - hoo! -
ANT 3.2. 18 His love to Antony. But as for Caesar -
ANT 3.2. 19B Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Both he loves.
ANT 3.2. 20B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
They are his shards, and he their beetle. +
ANT 3.2. 20B {[Trumpet within]} So,
ANT 3.2. 21 This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
ANT 3.2. 22
ANT-AGRIPPA
Good fortune, worthy soldier, and farewell. {Enter +
ANT 3.2. 22 Caesar, Antony, Lepidus, and Octavia}
ANT 3.2. 23A
ANT-ANTONY
{(to Caesar)} No further, sir.
ANT 3.2. 24
ANT-CAESAR
You take from me a great part of myself.
ANT 3.2. 25 Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife
ANT 3.2. 26 As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest bond
ANT 3.2. 27 Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
ANT 3.2. 28 Let not the piece of virtue which is set
ANT 3.2. 29 Betwixt us as the cement of our love
ANT 3.2. 30 To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
ANT 3.2. 31 The fortress of it; for better might we
ANT 3.2. 32 Have loved without this mean if on both parts
ANT 3.2. 33B This be not cherished.
ANT-ANTONY
Make me not offended
ANT 3.2. 34B In your distrust.
ANT-CAESAR
I have said.
ANT-ANTONY
You shall not find,
ANT 3.2. 35 Though you be therein curious, the least cause
ANT 3.2. 36 For what you seem to fear. So, the gods keep you,
ANT 3.2. 37 And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends.
ANT 3.2. 38 We will here part.
ANT 3.2. 39
ANT-CAESAR
Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well.
ANT 3.2. 40 The elements be kind to thee, and make
ANT 3.2. 41 Thy spirits all of comfort. Fare thee well.
ANT 3.2. 42A
ANT-OCTAVIA
{(weeping)} My noble brother!
ANT 3.2. 43
ANT-ANTONY
The April's in her eyes; it is love's spring,
ANT 3.2. 44 And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
ANT 3.2. 45
ANT-OCTAVIA
Sir, look well to my husband's house, and -
ANT 3.2. 46B
ANT-CAESAR
What, Octavia?
ANT-OCTAVIA
I'll tell you in your ear. +
ANT 3.2. 46B {She whispers to Caesar}
ANT 3.2. 47
ANT-ANTONY
Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
ANT 3.2. 48 Her heart inform her tongue - the swan's-down feather,
ANT 3.2. 49 That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
ANT 3.2. 50 And neither way inclines.
ANT 3.2. 51A
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(aside to Agrippa)} Will Caesar weep?
ANT 3.2. 52A
ANT-AGRIPPA
{(aside to Enobarbus)} He has a cloud +
ANT 3.2. 52A in 's face.
ANT 3.2. 53
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(aside to Agrippa)} He were the worse +
ANT 3.2. 53 for that were he a horse;
ANT 3.2. 54B So is he, being a man.
ANT-AGRIPPA
{(aside to +
ANT 3.2. 54B Enobarbus)} Why, Enobarbus,
ANT 3.2. 55 When Antony found Julius Caesar dead
ANT 3.2. 56 He cried almost to roaring, and he wept
ANT 3.2. 57 When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
ANT 3.2. 58
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(aside to Agrippa)} That year indeed he +
ANT 3.2. 58 was troubled with a rheum.
ANT 3.2. 59 What willingly he did confound he wailed,
ANT 3.2. 60B Believe 't, till I wept too.
ANT-CAESAR
No, sweet Octavia,
ANT 3.2. 61 You shall hear from me still. The time shall not
ANT 3.2. 62B Outgo my thinking on you.
ANT-ANTONY
Come, sir, come,
ANT 3.2. 63 I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
ANT 3.2. 64 Look, here I have you {(embracing Caesar)} ; thus I let +
ANT 3.2. 64 you go,
ANT 3.2. 65B And give you to the gods.
ANT-CAESAR
Adieu, be happy.
ANT 3.2. 66
ANT-LEPIDUS
Let all the number of the stars give light
ANT 3.2. 67B To thy fair way.
ANT-CAESAR
Farewell, farewell. {He kisses +
ANT 3.2. 67B Octavia}
ANT-ANTONY
Farewell.
ANT 3.2. 0 {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas}
ANT 3.3. 1B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Where is the fellow?
ANT-ALEXAS
Half afeard to +
ANT 3.3. 1B come.
ANT 3.3. 2B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Go to, go to. {Enter the Messenger as +
ANT 3.3. 2B before} Come hither, sir.
ANT-ALEXAS
Good majesty,
ANT 3.3. 3 Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you
ANT 3.3. 4B But when you are well pleased.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
That Herod's head
ANT 3.3. 5 I'll have; but how, when Antony is gone,
ANT 3.3. 6B Through whom I might command it? {(To the Messenger)} +
ANT 3.3. 6B Come thou near.
ANT 3.3. 7B
ANT-MESSENGER
Most gracious majesty!
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Didst thou behold
ANT 3.3. 8B Octavia?
ANT-MESSENGER
Ay, dread Queen.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Where?
ANT-MESSENGER
+
ANT 3.3. 8B Madam, in Rome.
ANT 3.3. 9 I looked her in the face, and saw her led
ANT 3.3. 10 Between her brother and Mark Antony.
ANT 3.3. 11B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Is she as tall as me?
ANT-MESSENGER
She is not, madam.
ANT 3.3. 12
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low?
ANT 3.3. 13
ANT-MESSENGER
Madam, I heard her speak. She is low-voiced.
ANT 3.3. 14
ANT-CLEOPATRA
That's not so good. He cannot like her long.
ANT 3.3. 15
ANT-CHARMIAN
Like her? O Isis, 'tis impossible!
ANT 3.3. 16
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I think so, Charmian. Dull of tongue, and dwarfish.
ANT 3.3. 17 What majesty is in her gait? Remember
ANT 3.3. 18B If e'er thou looked'st on majesty.
ANT-MESSENGER
She creeps.
ANT 3.3. 19 Her motion and her station are as one.
ANT 3.3. 20 She shows a body rather than a life,
ANT 3.3. 21B A statue than a breather.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Is this certain?
ANT 3.3. 22B
ANT-MESSENGER
Or I have no observance.
ANT-CHARMIAN
Three in Egypt
ANT 3.3. 23B Cannot make better note.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
He's very knowing,
ANT 3.3. 24 I do perceive 't. There's nothing in her yet.
ANT 3.3. 25B The fellow has good judgement.
ANT-CHARMIAN
Excellent.
ANT 3.3. 26B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(to the Messenger)} Guess at her years, +
ANT 3.3. 26B I prithee.
ANT-MESSENGER
Madam,
ANT 3.3. 27B She was a widow -
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Widow? Charmian, hark.
ANT 3.3. 28A
ANT-MESSENGER
And I do think she's thirty.
ANT 3.3. 29
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Bear'st thou her face in mind? Is 't long or round?
ANT 3.3. 30A
ANT-MESSENGER
Round, even to faultiness.
ANT 3.3. 31
ANT-CLEOPATRA
For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.
ANT 3.3. 32B Her hair - what colour?
ANT-MESSENGER
Brown, madam; and her forehead
ANT 3.3. 33B As low as she would wish it.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(giving +
ANT 3.3. 33B money)} There's gold for thee.
ANT 3.3. 34 Thou must not take my former sharpness ill.
ANT 3.3. 35 I will employ thee back again. I find thee
ANT 3.3. 36 Most fit for business. Go, make thee ready.
ANT 3.3. 37B Our letters are prepared. {Exit Messenger}
ANT-CHARMIAN
+
ANT 3.3. 37B A proper man.
ANT 3.3. 38
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Indeed he is so. I repent me much
ANT 3.3. 39 That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,
ANT 3.3. 40B This creature's no such thing.
ANT-CHARMIAN
Nothing, madam.
ANT 3.3. 41
ANT-CLEOPATRA
The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.
ANT 3.3. 42
ANT-CHARMIAN
Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,
ANT 3.3. 43 And serving you so long!
ANT 3.3. 44
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian.
ANT 3.3. 45 But 'tis no matter. Thou shalt bring him to me
ANT 3.3. 46 Where I will write. All may be well enough.
ANT 3.3. 47A
ANT-CHARMIAN
I warrant you, madam. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.3. 0 {Enter Antony and Octavia}
ANT 3.4. 1
ANT-ANTONY
Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,
ANT 3.4. 2 That were excusable, that and thousands more
ANT 3.4. 3 Of semblable import; but he hath waged
ANT 3.4. 4 New wars 'gainst Pompey, made his will and read it
ANT 3.4. 5 To public ear, spoke scantly of me;
ANT 3.4. 6 When perforce he could not
ANT 3.4. 7 But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly
ANT 3.4. 8 He vented them, most narrow measure lent me.
ANT 3.4. 9 When the best hint was given him, he not took 't,
ANT 3.4. 10B Or did it from his teeth.
ANT-OCTAVIA
O my good lord,
ANT 3.4. 11 Believe not all, or if you must believe,
ANT 3.4. 12 Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,
ANT 3.4. 13 If this division chance, ne'er stood between,
ANT 3.4. 14 Praying for both parts.
ANT 3.4. 15 The good gods will mock me presently,
ANT 3.4. 16 When I shall pray `O, bless my lord and husband!',
ANT 3.4. 17 Undo that prayer by crying out as loud
ANT 3.4. 18 `O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother
ANT 3.4. 19 Prays and destroys the prayer; no midway
ANT 3.4. 20B 'Twixt these extremes at all.
ANT-ANTONY
Gentle Octavia,
ANT 3.4. 21 Let your best love draw to that point which seeks
ANT 3.4. 22 Best to preserve it. If I lose mine honour,
ANT 3.4. 23 I lose myself. Better I were not yours
ANT 3.4. 24 Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,
ANT 3.4. 25 Yourself shall go between 's. The meantime, lady,
ANT 3.4. 26 I'll raise the preparation of a war
ANT 3.4. 27 Shall stain your brother. Make your soonest haste;
ANT 3.4. 28B So your desires are yours.
ANT-OCTAVIA
Thanks to my lord.
ANT 3.4. 29 The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,
ANT 3.4. 30 Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be
ANT 3.4. 31 As if the world should cleave, and that slain men
ANT 3.4. 32 Should solder up the rift.
ANT 3.4. 33
ANT-ANTONY
When it appears to you where this begins,
ANT 3.4. 34 Turn your displeasure that way, for our faults
ANT 3.4. 35 Can never be so equal that your love
ANT 3.4. 36 Can equally move with them. Provide your going,
ANT 3.4. 37 Choose your own company, and command what cost
ANT 3.4. 38 Your heart has mind to. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.4. 0 {Enter Enobarbus and Eros, meeting}
ANT 3.5. 1
ANT-ENOBARBUS
How now, friend Eros?
ANT 3.5. 2
ANT-EROS
There's strange news come, sir.
ANT 3.5. 3
ANT-ENOBARBUS
What, man?
ANT 3.5. 4
ANT-EROS
Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.
ANT 3.5. 5
ANT-ENOBARBUS
This is old. What is the success?
ANT 3.5. 6
ANT-EROS
Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst
ANT 3.5. 7 Pompey, presently denied him rivality, would not let
ANT 3.5. 8 him partake in the glory of the action, and, not resting
ANT 3.5. 9 here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to
ANT 3.5. 10 Pompey; upon his own appeal seizes him; so the poor
ANT 3.5. 11 third is up, till death enlarge his confine.
ANT 3.5. 12
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Then, world, thou hast a pair of chops, no +
ANT 3.5. 12 more,
ANT 3.5. 13 And throw between them all the food thou hast,
ANT 3.5. 14 They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?
ANT 3.5. 15
ANT-EROS
He's walking in the garden, thus, and spurns
ANT 3.5. 16 The rush that lies before him, cries `Fool Lepidus!'
ANT 3.5. 17 And threats the throat of that his officer
ANT 3.5. 18B That murdered Pompey.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Our great navy's rigged.
ANT 3.5. 19
ANT-EROS
For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius:
ANT 3.5. 20 My lord desires you presently. My news
ANT 3.5. 21B I might have told hereafter.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
'Twill be naught.
ANT 3.5. 22B But let it be; bring me to Antony.
ANT-EROS
Come, sir. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.5. 0 {Enter Agrippa, Maecenas, and Caesar}
ANT 3.6. 1
ANT-CAESAR
Contemning Rome, he has done all this and more
ANT 3.6. 2 In Alexandria. Here's the manner of 't:
ANT 3.6. 3 I' th' market place on a tribunal silvered,
ANT 3.6. 4 Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
ANT 3.6. 5 Were publicly enthroned. At the feet sat
ANT 3.6. 6 Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,
ANT 3.6. 7 And all the unlawful issue that their lust
ANT 3.6. 8 Since then hath made between them. Unto her
ANT 3.6. 9 He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her
ANT 3.6. 10 Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
ANT 3.6. 11B Absolute queen.
ANT-MAECENAS
This in the public eye?
ANT 3.6. 12
ANT-CAESAR
I' th' common showplace, where they exercise.
ANT 3.6. 13 His sons he there proclaimed the kings of kings;
ANT 3.6. 14 Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia
ANT 3.6. 15 He gave to Alexander. To Ptolemy he assigned
ANT 3.6. 16 Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia. She
ANT 3.6. 17 In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis
ANT 3.6. 18 That day appeared, and oft before gave audience,
ANT 3.6. 19B As 'tis reported, so.
ANT-MAECENAS
Let Rome be thus informed.
ANT 3.6. 20
ANT-AGRIPPA
Who, queasy with his insolence already,
ANT 3.6. 21B Will their good thoughts call from him.
ANT-CAESAR
The people knows it,
ANT 3.6. 22 And have now received his accusations.
ANT 3.6. 23A
ANT-AGRIPPA
Who does he accuse?
ANT 3.6. 24
ANT-CAESAR
Caesar, and that having in Sicily
ANT 3.6. 25 Sextus Pompeius spoiled, we had not rated him
ANT 3.6. 26 His part o' th' isle. Then does he say he lent me
ANT 3.6. 27 Some shipping, unrestored. Lastly, he frets
ANT 3.6. 28 That Lepidus of the triumvirate
ANT 3.6. 29 Should be deposed; and being, that we detain
ANT 3.6. 30B All his revenue.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Sir, this should be answered.
ANT 3.6. 31
ANT-CAESAR
'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.
ANT 3.6. 32 I have told him Lepidus was grown too cruel,
ANT 3.6. 33 That he his high authority abused
ANT 3.6. 34 And did deserve his change. For what I have conquered,
ANT 3.6. 35 I grant him part; but then in his Armenia,
ANT 3.6. 36 And other of his conquered kingdoms,
ANT 3.6. 37B I demand the like.
ANT-MAECENAS
He'll never yield to that.
ANT 3.6. 38
ANT-CAESAR
Nor must not then be yielded to in this. {Enter +
ANT 3.6. 38 Octavia with her train}
ANT 3.6. 39
ANT-OCTAVIA
Hail, Caesar, and my lord; hail, most dear +
ANT 3.6. 39 Caesar!
ANT 3.6. 40
ANT-CAESAR
That ever I should call thee castaway!
ANT 3.6. 41
ANT-OCTAVIA
You have not called me so, nor have you cause.
ANT 3.6. 42
ANT-CAESAR
Why have you stol'n upon us thus? You come not
ANT 3.6. 43 Like Caesar's sister. The wife of Antony
ANT 3.6. 44 Should have an army for an usher, and
ANT 3.6. 45 The neighs of horse to tell of her approach
ANT 3.6. 46 Long ere she did appear. The trees by th' way
ANT 3.6. 47 Should have borne men, and expectation fainted,
ANT 3.6. 48 Longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust
ANT 3.6. 49 Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
ANT 3.6. 50 Raised by your populous troops. But you are come
ANT 3.6. 51 A market maid to Rome, and have prevented
ANT 3.6. 52 The ostentation of our love; which, left unshown,
ANT 3.6. 53 Is often left unloved. We should have met you
ANT 3.6. 54 By sea and land, supplying every stage
ANT 3.6. 55B With an augmented greeting.
ANT-OCTAVIA
Good my lord,
ANT 3.6. 56 To come thus was I not constrained, but did it
ANT 3.6. 57 On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,
ANT 3.6. 58 Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted
ANT 3.6. 59 My grieved ear withal, whereon I begged
ANT 3.6. 60B His pardon for return.
ANT-CAESAR
Which soon he granted,
ANT 3.6. 61 Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.
ANT 3.6. 62B
ANT-OCTAVIA
Do not say so, my lord.
ANT-CAESAR
I have eyes upon him,
ANT 3.6. 63 And his affairs come to me on the wind.
ANT 3.6. 64B Where is he now?
ANT-OCTAVIA
My lord, in Athens.
ANT 3.6. 65
ANT-CAESAR
No, my most wronged sister. Cleopatra
ANT 3.6. 66 Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire
ANT 3.6. 67 Up to a whore; who now are levying
ANT 3.6. 68 The kings o' th' earth for war. He hath assembled
ANT 3.6. 69 Bocchus, the King of Libya; Archelaus
ANT 3.6. 70 Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, King
ANT 3.6. 71 Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian King Adallas;
ANT 3.6. 72 King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont;
ANT 3.6. 73 Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, King
ANT 3.6. 74 Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,
ANT 3.6. 75 The Kings of Mede and Lycaonia;
ANT 3.6. 76B With a more larger list of sceptres.
ANT-OCTAVIA
Ay me most wretched,
ANT 3.6. 77 That have my heart parted betwixt two friends
ANT 3.6. 78B That does afflict each other!
ANT-CAESAR
Welcome hither.
ANT 3.6. 79 Your letters did withhold our breaking forth
ANT 3.6. 80 Till we perceived both how you were wrong led
ANT 3.6. 81 And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart.
ANT 3.6. 82 Be you not troubled with the time, which drives
ANT 3.6. 83 O'er your content these strong necessities;
ANT 3.6. 84 But let determined things to destiny
ANT 3.6. 85 Hold unbewailed their way. Welcome to Rome;
ANT 3.6. 86 Nothing more dear to me. You are abused
ANT 3.6. 87 Beyond the mark of thought, and the high gods,
ANT 3.6. 88 To do you justice, makes their ministers
ANT 3.6. 89 Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort,
ANT 3.6. 90B And ever welcome to us.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Welcome, lady.
ANT 3.6. 91A
ANT-MAECENAS
Welcome, dear madam.
ANT 3.6. 92 Each heart in Rome does love and pity you.
ANT 3.6. 93 Only th' adulterous Antony, most large
ANT 3.6. 94 In his abominations, turns you off,
ANT 3.6. 95 And gives his potent regiment to a trull
ANT 3.6. 96B That noises it against us.
ANT-OCTAVIA
Is it so, sir?
ANT 3.6. 97
ANT-CAESAR
Most certain. Sister, welcome. Pray you
ANT 3.6. 98 Be ever known to patience. My dear'st sister! {Exeunt}
ANT 3.6. 0 {Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbus}
ANT 3.7. 1
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I will be even with thee, doubt it not.
ANT 3.7. 2A
ANT-ENOBARBUS
But why, why, why?
ANT 3.7. 3
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,
ANT 3.7. 4B And sayst it is not fit.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Well, is it, is it?
ANT 3.7. 5
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Is 't not denounced against us? Why should not we
ANT 3.7. 6B Be there in person?
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{[aside]} Well, I +
ANT 3.7. 6B could reply
ANT 3.7. 7 If we should serve with horse and mares together,
ANT 3.7. 8 The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear
ANT 3.7. 9B A soldier and his horse.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What is 't you say?
ANT 3.7. 10
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Your presence needs must puzzle Antony,
ANT 3.7. 11 Take from his heart, take from his brain, from 's time
ANT 3.7. 12 What should not then be spared. He is already
ANT 3.7. 13 Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome
ANT 3.7. 14 That Photinus, an eunuch, and your maids
ANT 3.7. 15B Manage this war.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Sink Rome, and their tongues rot
ANT 3.7. 16 That speak against us! A charge we bear i' th' war,
ANT 3.7. 17 And as the president of my kingdom will
ANT 3.7. 18 Appear there for a man. Speak not against it.
ANT 3.7. 19B I will not stay behind. {Enter Antony and Camidius}
ANT-ENOBARBUS
+
ANT 3.7. 19B Nay, I have done.
ANT 3.7. 20B Here comes the Emperor.
ANT-ANTONY
Is it not strange, Camidius,
ANT 3.7. 21 That from Tarentum and Brundisium
ANT 3.7. 22 He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea
ANT 3.7. 23 And take in Toryne? - You have heard on 't, sweet?
ANT 3.7. 24
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Celerity is never more admired
ANT 3.7. 25B Than by the negligent.
ANT-ANTONY
A good rebuke,
ANT 3.7. 26 Which might have well becomed the best of men
ANT 3.7. 27 To taunt at slackness. Camidius, we
ANT 3.7. 28B Will fight with him by sea.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
By sea - what else?
ANT 3.7. 29B
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Why will my lord do so?
ANT-ANTONY
For that he dares us +
ANT 3.7. 29B to 't.
ANT 3.7. 30
ANT-ENOBARBUS
So hath my lord dared him to single fight.
ANT 3.7. 31
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia,
ANT 3.7. 32 Where Caesar fought with Pompey. But these offers
ANT 3.7. 33 Which serve not for his vantage, he shakes off,
ANT 3.7. 34B And so should you.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Your ships are not well manned,
ANT 3.7. 35 Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people
ANT 3.7. 36 Engrossed by swift impress. In Caesar's fleet
ANT 3.7. 37 Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought.
ANT 3.7. 38 Their ships are yare, yours heavy. No disgrace
ANT 3.7. 39 Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,
ANT 3.7. 40B Being prepared for land.
ANT-ANTONY
By sea, by sea.
ANT 3.7. 41
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Most worthy sir, you therein throw away
ANT 3.7. 42 The absolute soldiership you have by land;
ANT 3.7. 43 Distract your army, which doth most consist
ANT 3.7. 44 Of war-marked footmen; leave unexecuted
ANT 3.7. 45 Your own renowned knowledge; quite forgo
ANT 3.7. 46 The way which promises assurance, and
ANT 3.7. 47 Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard
ANT 3.7. 48B From firm security.
ANT-ANTONY
I'll fight at sea.
ANT 3.7. 49
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.
ANT 3.7. 50
ANT-ANTONY
Our overplus of shipping will we burn,
ANT 3.7. 51 And with the rest full-manned, from th' head of Actium
ANT 3.7. 52 Beat th' approaching Caesar. But if we fail,
ANT 3.7. 53B We then can do 't at land. {Enter a Messenger} Thy +
ANT 3.7. 53B business?
ANT 3.7. 54
ANT-MESSENGER
The news is true, my lord. He is descried.
ANT 3.7. 55 Caesar has taken Toryne.
ANT 3.7. 56
ANT-ANTONY
Can he be there in person? 'Tis impossible;
ANT 3.7. 57 Strange that his power should be. Camidius,
ANT 3.7. 58 Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,
ANT 3.7. 59 And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship.
ANT 3.7. 60B Away, my Thetis! {Enter a Soldier} How now, worthy +
ANT 3.7. 60B soldier?
ANT 3.7. 61
ANT-SOLDIER
O noble Emperor, do not fight by sea.
ANT 3.7. 62 Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt
ANT 3.7. 63 This sword and these my wounds? Let th' Egyptians
ANT 3.7. 64 And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we
ANT 3.7. 65 Have used to conquer standing on the earth,
ANT 3.7. 66B And fighting foot to foot.
ANT-ANTONY
Well, well; away! {Exeunt +
ANT 3.7. 66B Antony, Cleopatra, and Enobarbus}
ANT 3.7. 67
ANT-SOLDIER
By Hercules, I think I am i' th' right.
ANT 3.7. 68
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Soldier, thou art; but his whole action grows
ANT 3.7. 69 Not in the power on 't. So our leader's led,
ANT 3.7. 70B And we are women's men.
ANT-SOLDIER
You keep by land
ANT 3.7. 71 The legions and the horse whole, do you not?
ANT 3.7. 72
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,
ANT 3.7. 73 Publicola and Caelius are for sea,
ANT 3.7. 74 But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's
ANT 3.7. 75B Carries beyond belief.
ANT-SOLDIER
While he was yet in Rome
ANT 3.7. 76 His power went out in such distractions
ANT 3.7. 77B As beguiled all spies.
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Who's his lieutenant, hear you?
ANT 3.7. 78B
ANT-SOLDIER
They say, one Taurus.
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Well I know the +
ANT 3.7. 78B man. {Enter a Messenger}
ANT 3.7. 79
ANT-MESSENGER
The Emperor calls Camidius.
ANT 3.7. 80
ANT-CAMIDIUS
With news the time's in labour, and throws forth
ANT 3.7. 81 Each minute some. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.7. 0 {Enter Caesar with his army, marching, and Taurus}
ANT 3.8. 1A
ANT-CAESAR
Taurus!
ANT 3.8. 2A
ANT-TAURUS
My lord?
ANT 3.8. 3
ANT-CAESAR
Strike not by land. Keep whole. Provoke not battle
ANT 3.8. 4 Till we have done at sea. {(Giving a scroll)} Do not +
ANT 3.8. 4 exceed
ANT 3.8. 5 The prescript of this scroll. Our fortune lies
ANT 3.8. 6 Upon this jump. {Exit Caesar and his army at one door, Taurus at +
ANT 3.8. 6 another}
ANT 3.8. 0 {Enter Antony and Enobarbus}
ANT 3.9. 1
ANT-ANTONY
Set we our squadrons on yon side o' th' hill
ANT 3.9. 2 In eye of Caesar's battle, from which place
ANT 3.9. 3 We may the number of the ships behold,
ANT 3.9. 4 And so proceed accordingly. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.9. 0 {Camidius marcheth with his land army one way over the +
ANT 3.10. 0 stage, and Taurus, the lieutenant of Caesar, with his army the other +
ANT 3.10. 0 way. After their going in is heard the noise of a sea-fight. Alarum. +
ANT 3.10. 0 Enter Enobarbus}
ANT 3.10. 1
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no +
ANT 3.10. 1 longer.
ANT 3.10. 2 Th' {Antoniad}, the Egyptian admiral,
ANT 3.10. 3 With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder.
ANT 3.10. 4B To see 't mine eyes are blasted. {Enter Scarus}
ANT-SCARUS
+
ANT 3.10. 4B Gods and goddesses -
ANT 3.10. 5B All the whole synod of them!
ANT-ENOBARBUS
What's thy passion?
ANT 3.10. 6
ANT-SCARUS
The greater cantle of the world is lost
ANT 3.10. 7 With very ignorance; we have kissed away
ANT 3.10. 8B Kingdoms and provinces.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
How appears the fight?
ANT 3.10. 9
ANT-SCARUS
On our side like the tokened pestilence,
ANT 3.10. 10 Where death is sure. Yon riband-red nag of Egypt -
ANT 3.10. 11 Whom leprosy o'ertake! - i' th' midst o' th' fight -
ANT 3.10. 12 When vantage like a pair of twins appeared,
ANT 3.10. 13 Both as the same, or rather ours the elder -
ANT 3.10. 14 The breese upon her, like a cow in June,
ANT 3.10. 15B Hoists sails and flies.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
That I beheld.
ANT 3.10. 16 Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
ANT 3.10. 17B Endure a further view.
ANT-SCARUS
She once being luffed,
ANT 3.10. 18 The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
ANT 3.10. 19 Claps on his sea-wing and, like a doting mallard,
ANT 3.10. 20 Leaving the fight in height, flies after her.
ANT 3.10. 21 I never saw an action of such shame.
ANT 3.10. 22 Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
ANT 3.10. 23B Did violate so itself.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Alack, alack! {Enter +
ANT 3.10. 23B Camidius}
ANT 3.10. 24
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,
ANT 3.10. 25 And sinks most lamentably. Had our general
ANT 3.10. 26 Been what he knew himself, it had gone well.
ANT 3.10. 27 O, he has given example for our flight
ANT 3.10. 28 Most grossly by his own.
ANT 3.10. 29
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then, good night indeed!
ANT 3.10. 30
ANT-CAMIDIUS
Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.
ANT 3.10. 31
ANT-SCARUS
'Tis easy to 't, and there I will attend
ANT 3.10. 32B What further comes.
ANT-CAMIDIUS
To Caesar will I render
ANT 3.10. 33 My legions and my horse. Six kings already
ANT 3.10. 34B Show me the way of yielding.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I'll yet follow
ANT 3.10. 35 The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
ANT 3.10. 36 Sits in the wind against me. {[Exeunt severally]}
ANT 3.10. 0 {Enter Antony with Attendants}
ANT 3.11. 1
ANT-ANTONY
Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon 't,
ANT 3.11. 2 It is ashamed to bear me. Friends, come hither.
ANT 3.11. 3 I am so lated in the world that I
ANT 3.11. 4 Have lost my way for ever. I have a ship
ANT 3.11. 5 Laden with gold. Take that; divide it, fly,
ANT 3.11. 6B And make your peace with Caesar.
ANT-ATTENDANTS
Fly? Not we.
ANT 3.11. 7
ANT-ANTONY
I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards
ANT 3.11. 8 To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone.
ANT 3.11. 9 I have myself resolved upon a course
ANT 3.11. 10 Which has no need of you. Be gone.
ANT 3.11. 11 My treasure's in the harbour. Take it. O,
ANT 3.11. 12 I followed that I blush to look upon.
ANT 3.11. 13 My very hairs do mutiny, for the white
ANT 3.11. 14 Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
ANT 3.11. 15 For fear and doting. Friends, be gone. You shall
ANT 3.11. 16 Have letters from me to some friends that will
ANT 3.11. 17 Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
ANT 3.11. 18 Nor make replies of loathness. Take the hint
ANT 3.11. 19 Which my despair proclaims. Let that be left
ANT 3.11. 20 Which leaves itself. To the seaside straightway!
ANT 3.11. 21 I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
ANT 3.11. 22 Leave me, I pray, a little. Pray you now,
ANT 3.11. 23 Nay, do so; for indeed I have lost command.
ANT 3.11. 24 Therefore I pray you; I'll see you by and by. {Exeunt +
ANT 3.11. 24 attendants}
ANT 3.11. 25 {He sits down. Enter Cleopatra led by Charmian, Iras, and +
ANT 3.11. 25 Eros}
ANT-EROS
Nay, gentle madam, to him. Comfort him.
ANT 3.11. 26A
ANT-IRAS
Do, most dear Queen.
ANT 3.11. 27A
ANT-CHARMIAN
Do. Why, what else?
ANT 3.11. 28A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Let me sit down. O Juno! {She sits down}
ANT 3.11. 29A
ANT-ANTONY
No, no, no, no, no.
ANT 3.11. 30A
ANT-EROS
{(to Antony)} See you here, sir?
ANT 3.11. 31A
ANT-ANTONY
O fie, fie, fie!
ANT 3.11. 32A
ANT-CHARMIAN
Madam.
ANT 3.11. 33A
ANT-IRAS
Madam. O good Empress!
ANT 3.11. 34A
ANT-EROS
Sir, sir.
ANT 3.11. 35
ANT-ANTONY
Yes, my lord, yes. He at Philippi kept
ANT 3.11. 36 His sword e'en like a dancer, while I struck
ANT 3.11. 37 The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I
ANT 3.11. 38 That the mad Brutus ended. He alone
ANT 3.11. 39 Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had
ANT 3.11. 40 In the brave squares of war. Yet now - no matter.
ANT 3.11. 41A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{([rising,] to Charmian and Iras)} Ah, +
ANT 3.11. 41A stand by.
ANT 3.11. 42A
ANT-EROS
The Queen, my lord, the Queen.
ANT 3.11. 43A
ANT-IRAS
Go to him, madam.
ANT 3.11. 44 Speak to him. He's unqualitied
ANT 3.11. 45B With very shame.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Well then, sustain me. O!
ANT 3.11. 46
ANT-EROS
Most noble sir, arise. The Queen approaches.
ANT 3.11. 47 Her head's declined, and death will seize her but
ANT 3.11. 48 Your comfort makes the rescue.
ANT 3.11. 49
ANT-ANTONY
I have offended reputation;
ANT 3.11. 50B A most unnoble swerving.
ANT-EROS
Sir, the Queen.
ANT 3.11. 51
ANT-ANTONY
{[rising]} O, whither hast thou led me, +
ANT 3.11. 51 Egypt? See
ANT 3.11. 52 How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
ANT 3.11. 53 By looking back what I have left behind
ANT 3.11. 54B 'Stroyed in dishonour.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O, my lord, my lord,
ANT 3.11. 55 Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought
ANT 3.11. 56B You would have followed.
ANT-ANTONY
Egypt, thou knew'st too well
ANT 3.11. 57 My heart was to thy rudder tied by th' strings,
ANT 3.11. 58 And thou shouldst tow me after. O'er my spirit
ANT 3.11. 59 Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that
ANT 3.11. 60 Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
ANT 3.11. 61B Command me.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O, my pardon!
ANT-ANTONY
Now I must
ANT 3.11. 62 To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
ANT 3.11. 63 And palter in the shifts of lowness, who
ANT 3.11. 64 With half the bulk o' th' world played as I pleased,
ANT 3.11. 65 Making and marring fortunes. You did know
ANT 3.11. 66 How much you were my conqueror, and that
ANT 3.11. 67 My sword, made weak by my affection, would
ANT 3.11. 68B Obey it on all cause.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Pardon, pardon!
ANT 3.11. 69
ANT-ANTONY
Fall not a tear, I say. One of them rates
ANT 3.11. 70 All that is won and lost. Give me a kiss. {He kisses her}
ANT 3.11. 71 Even this repays me. {(To an Attendant)} We +
ANT 3.11. 71 sent our schoolmaster;
ANT 3.11. 72 Is a come back? {(To Cleopatra)} Love, I am full of +
ANT 3.11. 72 lead. { (Calling)} Some wine
ANT 3.11. 73 Within there, and our viands! Fortune knows
ANT 3.11. 74 We scorn her most when most she offers blows. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.11. 0 {Enter Caesar, [Agrippa,] Thidias, and Dolabella, with +
ANT 3.12. 0 others}
ANT 3.12. 1
ANT-CAESAR
Let him appear that's come from Antony.
ANT 3.12. 2B Know you him?
ANT-DOLABELLA
Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster;
ANT 3.12. 3 An argument that he is plucked, when hither
ANT 3.12. 4 He sends so poor a pinion of his wing,
ANT 3.12. 5 Which had superfluous kings for messengers
ANT 3.12. 6B Not many moons gone by. {Enter Ambassador from Antony}
ANT-CAESAR
+
ANT 3.12. 6B Approach and speak.
ANT 3.12. 7
ANT-AMBASSADOR
Such as I am, I come from Antony.
ANT 3.12. 8 I was of late as petty to his ends
ANT 3.12. 9 As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf
ANT 3.12. 10B To his grand sea.
ANT-CAESAR
Be 't so. Declare thine office.
ANT 3.12. 11
ANT-AMBASSADOR
Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and
ANT 3.12. 12 Requires to live in Egypt; which not granted,
ANT 3.12. 13 He lessens his requests, and to thee sues
ANT 3.12. 14 To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,
ANT 3.12. 15 A private man in Athens. This for him.
ANT 3.12. 16 Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness,
ANT 3.12. 17 Submits her to thy might, and of thee craves
ANT 3.12. 18 The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
ANT 3.12. 19B Now hazarded to thy grace.
ANT-CAESAR
For Antony,
ANT 3.12. 20 I have no ears to his request. The Queen
ANT 3.12. 21 Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she
ANT 3.12. 22 From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,
ANT 3.12. 23 Or take his life there. This if she perform
ANT 3.12. 24 She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.
ANT 3.12. 25B
ANT-AMBASSADOR
Fortune pursue thee!
ANT-CAESAR
Bring him through the +
ANT 3.12. 25B bands. {Exit Ambassador, attended}
ANT 3.12. 26 {(To Thidias)} To try thy eloquence now 'tis time. +
ANT 3.12. 26 Dispatch.
ANT 3.12. 27 From Antony win Cleopatra. Promise,
ANT 3.12. 28 And in our name, what she requires. Add more
ANT 3.12. 29 As thine invention offers. Women are not
ANT 3.12. 30 In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure
ANT 3.12. 31 The ne'er-touched vestal. Try thy cunning, Thidias.
ANT 3.12. 32 Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we
ANT 3.12. 33B Will answer as a law.
ANT-THIDIAS
Caesar, I go.
ANT 3.12. 34
ANT-CAESAR
Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,
ANT 3.12. 35 And what thou think'st his very action speaks
ANT 3.12. 36B In every power that moves.
ANT-THIDIAS
Caesar, I shall. {Exeunt +
ANT 3.12. 36B Caesar and his train at one door, and Thidias at another}
ANT 3.12. 0 {Enter Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, and Iras}
ANT 3.13. 1B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What shall we do, Enobarbus?
ANT-ENOBARBUS
+
ANT 3.13. 1B Think, and die.
ANT 3.13. 2
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Is Antony or we in fault for this?
ANT 3.13. 3
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Antony only, that would make his will
ANT 3.13. 4 Lord of his reason. What though you fled
ANT 3.13. 5 From that great face of war, whose several ranges
ANT 3.13. 6 Frighted each other? Why should he follow?
ANT 3.13. 7 The itch of his affection should not then
ANT 3.13. 8 Have nicked his captainship, at such a point,
ANT 3.13. 9 When half to half the world opposed, he being
ANT 3.13. 10 The mooted question. 'Twas a shame no less
ANT 3.13. 11 Than was his loss, to course your flying flags
ANT 3.13. 12B And leave his navy gazing.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Prithee, peace. {Enter +
ANT 3.13. 12B the Ambassador with Antony}
ANT 3.13. 13B
ANT-ANTONY
Is that his answer?
ANT-AMBASSADOR
Ay, my lord.
ANT 3.13. 14
ANT-ANTONY
The Queen shall then have courtesy, so she
ANT 3.13. 15B Will yield us up.
ANT-AMBASSADOR
He says so.
ANT-ANTONY
Let her know 't.
ANT 3.13. 16 {(To Cleopatra)} To the boy Caesar send this grizzled +
ANT 3.13. 16 head,
ANT 3.13. 17 And he will fill thy wishes to the brim
ANT 3.13. 18B With principalities.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
That head, my lord?
ANT 3.13. 19
ANT-ANTONY
{(to the Ambassador)} To him again. Tell +
ANT 3.13. 19 him he wears the rose
ANT 3.13. 20 Of youth upon him, from which the world should note
ANT 3.13. 21 Something particular. His coin, ships, legions,
ANT 3.13. 22 May be a coward's, whose ministers would prevail
ANT 3.13. 23 Under the service of a child as soon
ANT 3.13. 24 As i' th' command of Caesar. I dare him therefore
ANT 3.13. 25 To lay his gay caparisons apart
ANT 3.13. 26 And answer me declined, sword against sword,
ANT 3.13. 27 Ourselves alone. I'll write it. Follow me. {Exeunt Antony and +
ANT 3.13. 27 Ambassador}
ANT 3.13. 28
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(aside)} Yes, like enough, high-battled +
ANT 3.13. 28 Caesar will
ANT 3.13. 29 Unstate his happiness and be staged to th' show
ANT 3.13. 30 Against a sworder! I see men's judgements are
ANT 3.13. 31 A parcel of their fortunes, and things outward
ANT 3.13. 32 Do draw the inward quality after them
ANT 3.13. 33 To suffer all alike. That he should dream,
ANT 3.13. 34 Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will
ANT 3.13. 35 Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued
ANT 3.13. 36B His judgement, too. {Enter a Servant}
ANT-SERVANT
A +
ANT 3.13. 36B messenger from Caesar.
ANT 3.13. 37
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What, no more ceremony? See, my women:
ANT 3.13. 38 Against the blown rose may they stop their nose,
ANT 3.13. 39 That kneeled unto the buds. Admit him, sir. {Exit Servant}
ANT 3.13. 40
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(aside)} Mine honesty and I begin to +
ANT 3.13. 40 square.
ANT 3.13. 41 The loyalty well held to fools does make
ANT 3.13. 42 Our faith mere folly; yet he that can endure
ANT 3.13. 43 To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord
ANT 3.13. 44 Does conquer him that did his master conquer,
ANT 3.13. 45B And earns a place i' th' story. {Enter Thidias}
ANT-CLEOPATRA
+
ANT 3.13. 45B Caesar's will?
ANT 3.13. 46B
ANT-THIDIAS
Hear it apart.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
None but friends; say boldly.
ANT 3.13. 47
ANT-THIDIAS
So haply are they friends to Antony.
ANT 3.13. 48
ANT-ENOBARBUS
He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has,
ANT 3.13. 49 Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master
ANT 3.13. 50 Will leap to be his friend. For us, you know,
ANT 3.13. 51 Whose he is, we are: and that is Caesar's.
ANT 3.13. 52
ANT-THIDIAS
So. {(To Cleopatra)} Thus, then, thou most +
ANT 3.13. 52 renowned: Caesar entreats
ANT 3.13. 53 Not to consider in what case thou stand'st
ANT 3.13. 54B Further than he is Caesar.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Go on; right royal.
ANT 3.13. 55
ANT-THIDIAS
He knows that you embraced not Antony
ANT 3.13. 56 As you did love, but as you feared him.
ANT 3.13. 57A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O.
ANT 3.13. 58
ANT-THIDIAS
The scars upon your honour therefore he
ANT 3.13. 59 Does pity as constrained blemishes,
ANT 3.13. 60B Not as deserved.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
He is a god, and knows
ANT 3.13. 61 What is most right. Mine honour was not yielded,
ANT 3.13. 62B But conquered merely.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(aside)} To be +
ANT 3.13. 62B sure of that
ANT 3.13. 63 I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky
ANT 3.13. 64 That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for
ANT 3.13. 65B Thy dearest quit thee. {Exit}
ANT-THIDIAS
Shall I say +
ANT 3.13. 65B to Caesar
ANT 3.13. 66 What you require of him? - For he partly begs
ANT 3.13. 67 To be desired to give. It much would please him
ANT 3.13. 68 That of his fortunes you should make a staff
ANT 3.13. 69 To lean upon. But it would warm his spirits
ANT 3.13. 70 To hear from me you had left Antony,
ANT 3.13. 71 And put your self under his shroud,
ANT 3.13. 72B The universal landlord.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What's your name?
ANT 3.13. 73B
ANT-THIDIAS
My name is Thidias.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Most kind messenger,
ANT 3.13. 74 Say to great Caesar this in deputation:
ANT 3.13. 75 I kiss his conqu'ring hand. Tell him I am prompt
ANT 3.13. 76 To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel
ANT 3.13. 77 Till from his all-obeying breath I hear
ANT 3.13. 78B The doom of Egypt.
ANT-THIDIAS
'Tis your noblest course.
ANT 3.13. 79 Wisdom and fortune combating together,
ANT 3.13. 80 If that the former dare but what it can,
ANT 3.13. 81 No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay
ANT 3.13. 82B My duty on your hand. {He kisses Cleopatra's hand}
ANT-CLEOPATRA
+
ANT 3.13. 82B Your Caesar's father oft,
ANT 3.13. 83 When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,
ANT 3.13. 84 Bestowed his lips on that unworthy place,
ANT 3.13. 85B As it rained kisses. {Enter Antony and Enobarbus}
ANT-ANTONY
+
ANT 3.13. 85B Favours, by Jove that thunders!
ANT 3.13. 86B What art thou, fellow?
ANT-THIDIAS
One that but performs
ANT 3.13. 87 The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest
ANT 3.13. 88B To have command obeyed.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
You will be whipped.
ANT 3.13. 89
ANT-ANTONY
{(calling)} Approach, there! - Ah, you kite! +
ANT 3.13. 89 Now, gods and devils,
ANT 3.13. 90 Authority melts from me of late. When I cried `Ho!',
ANT 3.13. 91 Like boys unto a muss kings would start forth,
ANT 3.13. 92 And cry `Your will?' - Have you no ears? I am
ANT 3.13. 93B Antony yet. {Enter servants} Take hence this jack, and +
ANT 3.13. 93B whip him.
ANT 3.13. 94
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{[aside to Thidias]} 'Tis better playing +
ANT 3.13. 94 with a lion's whelp
ANT 3.13. 95B Than with an old one dying.
ANT-ANTONY
Moon and stars!
ANT 3.13. 96 Whip him! Were 't twenty of the greatest tributaries
ANT 3.13. 97 That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them
ANT 3.13. 98 So saucy with the hand of she here - what's her name
ANT 3.13. 99 Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,
ANT 3.13. 100 Till like a boy you see him cringe his face,
ANT 3.13. 101 And whine aloud for mercy. Take him hence.
ANT 3.13. 102B
ANT-THIDIAS
Mark Antony -
ANT-ANTONY
Tug him away. Being whipped,
ANT 3.13. 103 Bring him again. This jack of Caesar's shall
ANT 3.13. 104 Bear us an errand to him. {Exeunt servants with Thidias}
ANT 3.13. 105 You were half blasted ere I knew you. Ha,
ANT 3.13. 106 Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome,
ANT 3.13. 107 Forborne the getting of a lawful race,
ANT 3.13. 108 And by a gem of women, to be abused
ANT 3.13. 109 By one that looks on feeders?
ANT 3.13. 110A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Good my lord -
ANT 3.13. 111A
ANT-ANTONY
You have been a boggler ever.
ANT 3.13. 112 But when we in our viciousness grow hard -
ANT 3.13. 113 O misery on 't! - the wise gods seel our eyes,
ANT 3.13. 114 In our own filth drop our clear judgements, make us
ANT 3.13. 115 Adore our errors, laugh at 's while we strut
ANT 3.13. 116B To our confusion.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O, is 't come to this?
ANT 3.13. 117
ANT-ANTONY
I found you as a morsel cold upon
ANT 3.13. 118 Dead Caesar's trencher; nay, you were a fragment
ANT 3.13. 119 Of Gnaeus Pompey's, besides what hotter hours
ANT 3.13. 120 Unregistered in vulgar fame you have
ANT 3.13. 121 Luxuriously picked out. For I am sure,
ANT 3.13. 122 Though you can guess what temperance should be,
ANT 3.13. 123B You know not what it is.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Wherefore is this?
ANT 3.13. 124
ANT-ANTONY
To let a fellow that will take rewards
ANT 3.13. 125 And say `God quit you' be familiar with
ANT 3.13. 126 My playfellow your hand, this kingly seal
ANT 3.13. 127 And plighter of high hearts! O that I were
ANT 3.13. 128 Upon the hill of Basan to outroar
ANT 3.13. 129 The horned herd! For I have savage cause,
ANT 3.13. 130 And to proclaim it civilly were like
ANT 3.13. 131 A haltered neck which does the hangman thank
ANT 3.13. 132B For being yare about him. {Enter a Servant with Thidias}+
ANT 3.13. 132B Is he whipped?
ANT 3.13. 133A
ANT-SERVANT
Soundly, my lord.
ANT 3.13. 134A
ANT-ANTONY
Cried he, and begged a pardon?
ANT 3.13. 135A
ANT-SERVANT
He did ask favour.
ANT 3.13. 136
ANT-ANTONY
{(to Thidias)} If that thy father live, let +
ANT 3.13. 136 him repent
ANT 3.13. 137 Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry
ANT 3.13. 138 To follow Caesar in his triumph, since
ANT 3.13. 139 Thou hast been whipped for following him. Henceforth
ANT 3.13. 140 The white hand of a lady fever thee,
ANT 3.13. 141 Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar;
ANT 3.13. 142 Tell him thy entertainment. Look thou say
ANT 3.13. 143 He makes me angry with him, for he seems
ANT 3.13. 144 Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,
ANT 3.13. 145 Not what he knew I was. He makes me angry,
ANT 3.13. 146 And at this time most easy 'tis to do 't,
ANT 3.13. 147 When my good stars that were my former guides
ANT 3.13. 148 Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires
ANT 3.13. 149 Into th' abyss of hell. If he mislike
ANT 3.13. 150 My speech and what is done, tell him he has
ANT 3.13. 151 Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom
ANT 3.13. 152 He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,
ANT 3.13. 153 As he shall like, to quit me. Urge it thou.
ANT 3.13. 154 Hence, with thy stripes, be gone! {Exit [Servant with] Thidias}
ANT 3.13. 155A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Have you done yet?
ANT 3.13. 156A
ANT-ANTONY
Alack, our terrene moon
ANT 3.13. 157 Is now eclipsed, and it portends alone
ANT 3.13. 158B The fall of Antony.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(aside)} I must stay +
ANT 3.13. 158B his time.
ANT 3.13. 159
ANT-ANTONY
To flatter Caesar would you mingle eyes
ANT 3.13. 160B With one that ties his points?
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Not know me yet?
ANT 3.13. 161B
ANT-ANTONY
Cold-hearted toward me?
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Ah, dear, if I be so,
ANT 3.13. 162 From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,
ANT 3.13. 163 And poison it in the source, and the first stone
ANT 3.13. 164 Drop in my neck: as it determines, so
ANT 3.13. 165 Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite,
ANT 3.13. 166 Till by degrees the memory of my womb,
ANT 3.13. 167 Together with my brave Egyptians all,
ANT 3.13. 168 By the discandying of this pelleted storm
ANT 3.13. 169 Lie graveless till the flies and gnats of Nile
ANT 3.13. 170B Have buried them for prey!
ANT-ANTONY
I am satisfied.
ANT 3.13. 171 Caesar sits down in Alexandria, where
ANT 3.13. 172 I will oppose his fate. Our force by land
ANT 3.13. 173 Hath nobly held; our severed navy too
ANT 3.13. 174 Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like.
ANT 3.13. 175 Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?
ANT 3.13. 176 If from the field I shall return once more
ANT 3.13. 177 To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood.
ANT 3.13. 178 I and my sword will earn our chronicle.
ANT 3.13. 179B There's hope in 't yet.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
That's my brave lord.
ANT 3.13. 180
ANT-ANTONY
I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed,
ANT 3.13. 181 And fight maliciously; for when mine hours
ANT 3.13. 182 Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
ANT 3.13. 183 Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth,
ANT 3.13. 184 And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,
ANT 3.13. 185 Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
ANT 3.13. 186 All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
ANT 3.13. 187B Let's mock the midnight bell.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
It is my birthday.
ANT 3.13. 188 I had thought to've held it poor, but since my lord
ANT 3.13. 189 Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.
ANT 3.13. 190A
ANT-ANTONY
We will yet do well.
ANT 3.13. 191
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Call all his noble captains to my lord!
ANT 3.13. 192
ANT-ANTONY
Do so. We'll speak to them, and tonight I'll force
ANT 3.13. 193 The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen,
ANT 3.13. 194 There's sap in 't yet. The next time I do fight
ANT 3.13. 195 I'll make death love me, for I will contend
ANT 3.13. 196 Even with his pestilent scythe. {Exeunt all but Enobarbus}
ANT 3.13. 197
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious
ANT 3.13. 198 Is to be frighted out of fear, and in that mood
ANT 3.13. 199 The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still
ANT 3.13. 200 A diminution in our captain's brain
ANT 3.13. 201 Restores his heart. When valour preys on reason,
ANT 3.13. 202 It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek
ANT 3.13. 203 Some way to leave him. {Exit}
ANT 3.13. 0 {Enter Caesar, reading a letter, with Agrippa, +
ANT 4.1. 0 Maecenas, and his army}
ANT 4.1. 1
ANT-CAESAR
He calls me boy, and chides as he had power
ANT 4.1. 2 To beat me out of Egypt. My messenger
ANT 4.1. 3 He hath whipped with rods, dares me to personal combat,
ANT 4.1. 4 Caesar to Antony. Let the old ruffian know
ANT 4.1. 5 I have many other ways to die; meantime,
ANT 4.1. 6B Laugh at his challenge.
ANT-MAECENAS
Caesar must think,
ANT 4.1. 7 When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted
ANT 4.1. 8 Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now
ANT 4.1. 9 Make boot of his distraction. Never anger
ANT 4.1. 10B Made good guard for itself.
ANT-CAESAR
Let our best heads
ANT 4.1. 11 Know that tomorrow the last of many battles
ANT 4.1. 12 We mean to fight. Within our files there are,
ANT 4.1. 13 Of those that served Mark Antony but late,
ANT 4.1. 14 Enough to fetch him in. See it done,
ANT 4.1. 15 And feast the army. We have store to do 't,
ANT 4.1. 16 And they have earned the waste. Poor Antony! {Exeunt}
ANT 4.1. 0 {Enter Antony, Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, +
ANT 4.2. 0 Alexas, with others}
ANT 4.2. 1B
ANT-ANTONY
He will not fight with me, Domitius?
ANT-ENOBARBUS
+
ANT 4.2. 1B No.
ANT 4.2. 2A
ANT-ANTONY
Why should he not?
ANT 4.2. 3
ANT-ENOBARBUS
He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
ANT 4.2. 4B He is twenty men to one.
ANT-ANTONY
Tomorrow, soldier,
ANT 4.2. 5 By sea and land I'll fight. Or I will live
ANT 4.2. 6 Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
ANT 4.2. 7 Shall make it live again. Woot thou fight well?
ANT 4.2. 8B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I'll strike, and cry `Take all!'
ANT-ANTONY
Well said. +
ANT 4.2. 8B Come on!
ANT 4.2. 9 Call forth my household servants. Let's tonight
ANT 4.2. 10B Be bounteous at our meal. {Enter Servitors} Give me thy +
ANT 4.2. 10B hand.
ANT 4.2. 11 Thou hast been rightly honest; so hast thou,
ANT 4.2. 12 Thou, and thou, and thou; you have served me well,
ANT 4.2. 13B And kings have been your fellows.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(to +
ANT 4.2. 13B Enobarbus)} What means this?
ANT 4.2. 14
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(to Cleopatra)} 'Tis one of those odd +
ANT 4.2. 14 tricks which sorrow shoots
ANT 4.2. 15B Out of the mind.
ANT-ANTONY
{(to a Servitor)} And thou +
ANT 4.2. 15B art honest too.
ANT 4.2. 16 I wish I could be made so many men,
ANT 4.2. 17 And all of you clapped up together in
ANT 4.2. 18 An Antony, that I might do you service
ANT 4.2. 19B So good as you have done.
ANT-SERVITORS
The gods forbid!
ANT 4.2. 20
ANT-ANTONY
Well, my good fellows, wait on me tonight.
ANT 4.2. 21 Scant not my cups, and make as much of me
ANT 4.2. 22 As when mine empire was your fellow too,
ANT 4.2. 23B And suffered my command.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(aside to +
ANT 4.2. 23B Enobarbus)} What does he mean?
ANT 4.2. 24B
ANT-ENOBARBUS
{(aside to Cleopatra)} To make his +
ANT 4.2. 24B followers weep.
ANT-ANTONY
Tend me tonight.
ANT 4.2. 25 Maybe it is the period of your duty.
ANT 4.2. 26 Haply you shall not see me more; or if,
ANT 4.2. 27 A mangled shadow. Perchance tomorrow
ANT 4.2. 28 You'll serve another master. I look on you
ANT 4.2. 29 As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,
ANT 4.2. 30 I turn you not away, but, like a master
ANT 4.2. 31 Married to your good service, stay till death.
ANT 4.2. 32 Tend me tonight two hours. I ask no more;
ANT 4.2. 33B And the gods yield you for 't!
ANT-ENOBARBUS
What mean you, sir,
ANT 4.2. 34 To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep,
ANT 4.2. 35 And I, an ass, am onion-eyed. For shame,
ANT 4.2. 36B Transform us not to women.
ANT-ANTONY
Ho, ho, ho,
ANT 4.2. 37 Now the witch take me if I meant it thus!
ANT 4.2. 38 Grace grow where those drops fall. My hearty friends,
ANT 4.2. 39 You take me in too dolorous a sense;
ANT 4.2. 40 For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you
ANT 4.2. 41 To burn this night with torches. Know, my hearts,
ANT 4.2. 42 I hope well of tomorrow, and will lead you
ANT 4.2. 43 Where rather I'll expect victorious life
ANT 4.2. 44 Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,
ANT 4.2. 45 And drown consideration. {Exeunt}
ANT 4.2. 0 {Enter a company of Soldiers}
ANT 4.3. 1
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Brother, good night. Tomorrow is the day.
ANT 4.3. 2
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
It will determine one way. Fare you well.
ANT 4.3. 3 Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?
ANT 4.3. 4A
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Nothing. What news?
ANT 4.3. 5
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you.
ANT 4.3. 6B
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Well, sir, good night. {Enter other Soldiers, +
ANT 4.3. 6B meeting them}
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
Soldiers, have careful watch.
ANT 4.3. 7B
ANT-THIRD SOLDIER
And you. Good night, good night. {They place +
ANT 4.3. 7B themselves in every corner of the stage}
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
+
ANT 4.3. 7B Here we; an if tomorrow
ANT 4.3. 8 Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope
ANT 4.3. 9B Our landmen will stand up.
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
'Tis a brave army,
ANT 4.3. 10B And full of purpose. {Music of the hautboys is under the +
ANT 4.3. 10B stage}
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
Peace, what noise?
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
+
ANT 4.3. 10B List, list!
ANT 4.3. 11B
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
Hark!
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Music i' th' air. +
ANT 4.3. 11B
ANT-THIRD SOLDIER
Under the earth.
ANT 4.3. 12B
ANT-FOURTH SOLDIER
It signs well, does it not?
ANT-THIRD SOLDIER
+
ANT 4.3. 12B No.
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Peace, I say!
ANT 4.3. 13 What should this mean?
ANT 4.3. 14
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,
ANT 4.3. 15B Now leaves him.
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Walk. Let's see if other watchmen
ANT 4.3. 16B Do hear what we do.
ANT-SECOND SOLDIER
How now, masters?
ANT-ALL
+
ANT 4.3. 16B {(speaking together)} How now?
ANT 4.3. 17B How now? Do you hear this?
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Ay. Is 't not strange?
ANT 4.3. 18
ANT-THIRD SOLDIER
Do you hear, masters? Do you hear?
ANT 4.3. 19
ANT-FIRST SOLDIER
Follow the noise so far as we have quarter.
ANT 4.3. 20B Let's see how it will give off.
ANT-ALL
Content. 'Tis strange. +
ANT 4.3. 20B {Exeunt}
ANT 4.3. 0 {Enter Antony and Cleopatra, with Charmian and others}
ANT 4.4. 1B
ANT-ANTONY
{(calling)} Eros, mine armour, +
ANT 4.4. 1B Eros!
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Sleep a little.
ANT 4.4. 2
ANT-ANTONY
No, my chuck. Eros, come, mine armour, Eros! {Enter +
ANT 4.4. 2 Eros with armour}
ANT 4.4. 3 Come, good fellow, put thine iron on.
ANT 4.4. 4 If fortune be not ours today, it is
ANT 4.4. 5B Because we brave her. Come.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Nay, I'll help, too.
ANT 4.4. 6B What's this for?
ANT-ANTONY
Ah, let be, let be! Thou art
ANT 4.4. 7 The armourer of my heart. False, false! This, this!
ANT 4.4. 8B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Sooth, la, I'll help. Thus it must be. {She helps +
ANT 4.4. 8B Antony to arm}
ANT-ANTONY
Well, well,
ANT 4.4. 9 We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?
ANT 4.4. 10B Go put on thy defences.
ANT-EROS
Briefly, sir.
ANT 4.4. 11B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Is not this buckled well?
ANT-ANTONY
Rarely, rarely.
ANT 4.4. 12 He that unbuckles this, till we do please
ANT 4.4. 13 To doff 't for our repose, shall hear a storm.
ANT 4.4. 14 Thou fumblest, Eros, and my queen's a squire
ANT 4.4. 15 More tight at this than thou. Dispatch. O love,
ANT 4.4. 16 That thou couldst see my wars today, and knew'st
ANT 4.4. 17 The royal occupation! Thou shouldst see
ANT 4.4. 18B A workman in 't. {Enter an armed Soldier} Good morrow to +
ANT 4.4. 18B thee. Welcome.
ANT 4.4. 19 Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge.
ANT 4.4. 20 To business that we love we rise betime,
ANT 4.4. 21B And go to 't with delight.
ANT-SOLDIER
A thousand, sir,
ANT 4.4. 22 Early though 't be, have on their riveted trim,
ANT 4.4. 23 And at the port expect you. {Shout within. Trumpets flourish. +
ANT 4.4. 23 Enter [Captains] and Soldiers}
ANT 4.4. 24
ANT-CAPTAIN
The morn is fair. Good morrow, General.
ANT 4.4. 25B
ANT-SOLDIERS
Good morrow, General.
ANT-ANTONY
'Tis well blown, lads.
ANT 4.4. 26 This morning, like the spirit of a youth
ANT 4.4. 27 That means to be of note, begins betimes.
ANT 4.4. 28 So, so. Come, give me that. This way. Well said.
ANT 4.4. 29 Fare thee well, dame. Whate'er becomes of me,
ANT 4.4. 30B This is a soldier's kiss. {He kisses Cleopatra} +
ANT 4.4. 30B Rebukable
ANT 4.4. 31 And worthy shameful check it were to stand
ANT 4.4. 32 On more mechanic compliment. I'll leave thee
ANT 4.4. 33 Now like a man of steel. You that will fight,
ANT 4.4. 34 Follow me close. I'll bring you to 't. Adieu. {Exeunt all but +
ANT 4.4. 34 Cleopatra and Charmian}
ANT 4.4. 35B
ANT-CHARMIAN
Please you retire to your chamber?
ANT-CLEOPATRA
+
ANT 4.4. 35B Lead me.
ANT 4.4. 36 He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might
ANT 4.4. 37 Determine this great war in single fight!
ANT 4.4. 38 Then, Antony - but now! Well, on. {Exeunt}
ANT 4.4. 0 {Trumpets sound. Enter Antony and Eros, meeting a +
ANT 4.5. 0 Soldier}
ANT 4.5. 1
ANT-SOLDIER
The gods make this a happy day to Antony!
ANT 4.5. 2
ANT-ANTONY
Would thou and those thy scars had once prevailed
ANT 4.5. 3B To make me fight at land!
ANT-SOLDIER
Hadst thou done so,
ANT 4.5. 4 The kings that have revolted, and the soldier
ANT 4.5. 5 That has this morning left thee, would have still
ANT 4.5. 6B Followed thy heels.
ANT-ANTONY
Who's gone this morning?
ANT 4.5. 7
ANT-SOLDIER
Who? One ever near thee. Call for Enobarbus,
ANT 4.5. 8 He shall not hear thee, or from Caesar's camp
ANT 4.5. 9B Say `I am none of thine'.
ANT-ANTONY
What sayest thou?
ANT 4.5. 10B
ANT-SOLDIER
Sir, he is with Caesar.
ANT-EROS
{(to +
ANT 4.5. 10B Antony)} Sir, his chests and treasure
ANT 4.5. 11B He has not with him.
ANT-ANTONY
Is he gone?
ANT-SOLDIER
Most certain.
ANT 4.5. 12
ANT-ANTONY
Go, Eros, send his treasure after. Do it.
ANT 4.5. 13 Detain no jot, I charge thee. Write to him -
ANT 4.5. 14 I will subscribe - gentle adieus and greetings.
ANT 4.5. 15 Say that I wish he never find more cause
ANT 4.5. 16 To change a master. O, my fortunes have
ANT 4.5. 17 Corrupted honest men! Dispatch. Enobarbus! {Exeunt}
ANT 4.5. 0 {Flourish. Enter Agrippa, Caesar, with Enobarbus and +
ANT 4.6. 0 Dolabella}
ANT 4.6. 1
ANT-CAESAR
Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight.
ANT 4.6. 2 Our will is Antony be took alive.
ANT 4.6. 3B Make it so known.
ANT-AGRIPPA
Caesar, I shall. {Exit}
ANT 4.6. 4
ANT-CAESAR
The time of universal peace is near.
ANT 4.6. 5 Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world
ANT 4.6. 6B Shall bear the olive freely. {Enter a Messenger}
ANT-MESSENGER
+
ANT 4.6. 6B Antony
ANT 4.6. 7B Is come into the field.
ANT-CAESAR
Go charge Agrippa
ANT 4.6. 8 Plant those that have revolted in the van,
ANT 4.6. 9 That Antony may seem to spend his fury
ANT 4.6. 10 Upon himself. {Exeunt Messenger [at one door], Caesar and +
ANT 4.6. 10 Dolabella [at another]}
ANT 4.6. 11
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Alexas did revolt, and went to Jewry on
ANT 4.6. 12 Affairs of Antony; there did dissuade
ANT 4.6. 13 Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar
ANT 4.6. 14 And leave his master, Antony. For this pains,
ANT 4.6. 15 Caesar hath hanged him. Camidius and the rest
ANT 4.6. 16 That fell away have entertainment but
ANT 4.6. 17 No honourable trust. I have done ill,
ANT 4.6. 18 Of which I do accuse myself so sorely
ANT 4.6. 19B That I will joy no more. {Enter a Soldier of Caesar's}
ANT-SOLDIER
ANT 4.6. 19B Enobarbus, Antony
ANT 4.6. 20 Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
ANT 4.6. 21 His bounty overplus. The messenger
ANT 4.6. 22 Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now
ANT 4.6. 23 Unloading of his mules.
ANT 4.6. 24A
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I give it you.
ANT 4.6. 25A
ANT-SOLDIER
Mock not, Enobarbus,
ANT 4.6. 26 I tell you true. Best you safed the bringer
ANT 4.6. 27 Out of the host. I must attend mine office,
ANT 4.6. 28 Or would have done 't myself. Your Emperor
ANT 4.6. 29 Continues still a Jove. {Exit}
ANT 4.6. 30
ANT-ENOBARBUS
I am alone the villain of the earth,
ANT 4.6. 31 And feel I am so most. O Antony,
ANT 4.6. 32 Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
ANT 4.6. 33 My better service, when my turpitude
ANT 4.6. 34 Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart.
ANT 4.6. 35 If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
ANT 4.6. 36 Shall outstrike thought; but thought will do 't, I feel.
ANT 4.6. 37 I fight against thee? No, I will go seek
ANT 4.6. 38 Some ditch wherein to die. The foul'st best fits
ANT 4.6. 39 My latter part of life. {Exit}
ANT 4.6. 0 {Alarum. Enter Agrippa [with drummers and trumpeters]}
ANT 4.7. 1
ANT-AGRIPPA
Retire! We have engaged our selves too far.
ANT 4.7. 2 Caesar himself has work, and our oppression
ANT 4.7. 3 Exceeds what we expected. {Exeunt}
ANT 4.7. 0 {Alarums. Enter Antony, and Scarus wounded}
ANT 4.8. 1
ANT-SCARUS
O my brave Emperor, this is fought indeed!
ANT 4.8. 2 Had we done so at first, we had droven them home
ANT 4.8. 3B With clouts about their heads.
ANT-ANTONY
Thou bleed'st apace.
ANT 4.8. 4
ANT-SCARUS
I had a wound here that was like a T,
ANT 4.8. 5B But now 'tis made an H. {Retreat sounded far off}
ANT-ANTONY
+
ANT 4.8. 5B They do retire.
ANT 4.8. 6
ANT-SCARUS
We'll beat 'em into bench-holes. I have yet
ANT 4.8. 7 Room for six scotches more. {Enter Eros}
ANT 4.8. 8
ANT-EROS
They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves
ANT 4.8. 9B For a fair victory.
ANT-SCARUS
Let us score their backs
ANT 4.8. 10 And snatch 'em up as we take hares, behind.
ANT 4.8. 11B 'Tis sport to maul a runner.
ANT-ANTONY
{(to Eros)} I +
ANT 4.8. 11B will reward thee
ANT 4.8. 12 Once for thy sprightly comfort, and tenfold
ANT 4.8. 13B For thy good valour. Come thee on.
ANT-SCARUS
I'll halt after. +
ANT 4.8. 13B {Exeunt}
ANT 4.8. 0 {Alarum. Enter Antony again in a march; drummers and +
ANT 4.9. 0 trumpeters; Scarus, with others}
ANT 4.9. 1
ANT-ANTONY
We have beat him to his camp. Run one before,
ANT 4.9. 2B And let the Queen know of our gests. {[Exit a soldier]} +
ANT 4.9. 2B Tomorrow,
ANT 4.9. 3 Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood
ANT 4.9. 4 That has today escaped. I thank you all,
ANT 4.9. 5 For doughty-handed are you, and have fought
ANT 4.9. 6 Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been
ANT 4.9. 7 Each man's like mine. You have shown all Hectors.
ANT 4.9. 8 Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,
ANT 4.9. 9 Tell them your feats whilst they with joyful tears
ANT 4.9. 10 Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss
ANT 4.9. 11B The honoured gashes whole. {Enter Cleopatra} {(To +
ANT 4.9. 11B Scarus)} Give me thy hand.
ANT 4.9. 12 To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,
ANT 4.9. 13B Make her thanks bless thee. {(To Cleopatra, embracing +
ANT 4.9. 13B her)} O thou day o' th' world,
ANT 4.9. 14 Chain mine armed neck; leap thou, attire and all,
ANT 4.9. 15 Through proof of harness to my heart, and there
ANT 4.9. 16B Ride on the pants triumphing.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Lord of lords!
ANT 4.9. 17 O infinite virtue, com'st thou smiling from
ANT 4.9. 18B The world's great snare uncaught?
ANT-ANTONY
My nightingale,
ANT 4.9. 19 We have beat them to their beds. What, girl, though grey
ANT 4.9. 20 Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we
ANT 4.9. 21 A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can
ANT 4.9. 22 Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man.
ANT 4.9. 23 Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand;
ANT 4.9. 24B Kiss it, my warrior. {Scarus kisses Cleopatra's hand} +
ANT 4.9. 24B He hath fought today
ANT 4.9. 25 As if a god, in hate of mankind, had
ANT 4.9. 26B Destroyed in such a shape.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I'll give thee, friend,
ANT 4.9. 27 An armour all of gold. It was a king's.
ANT 4.9. 28
ANT-ANTONY
He has deserved it, were it carbuncled
ANT 4.9. 29 Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand.
ANT 4.9. 30 Through Alexandria make a jolly march.
ANT 4.9. 31 Bear our hacked targets like the men that owe them.
ANT 4.9. 32 Had our great palace the capacity
ANT 4.9. 33 To camp this host, we all would sup together
ANT 4.9. 34 And drink carouses to the next day's fate,
ANT 4.9. 35 Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,
ANT 4.9. 36 With brazen din blast you the city's ear;
ANT 4.9. 37 Make mingle with our rattling taborins,
ANT 4.9. 38 That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,
ANT 4.9. 39 Applauding our approach. {Trumpets sound. Exeunt}
ANT 4.9. 0 {Enter a Sentry and his company; Enobarbus follows}
ANT 4.10. 1
ANT-SENTRY
If we be not relieved within this hour
ANT 4.10. 2 We must return to th' court of guard. The night
ANT 4.10. 3 Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle
ANT 4.10. 4B By th' second hour i' th' morn.
ANT-FIRST WATCH
This last day was
ANT 4.10. 5B A shrewd one to 's.
ANT-ENOBARBUS
O bear me witness, night -
ANT 4.10. 6B
ANT-SECOND WATCH
What man is this?
ANT-FIRST WATCH
Stand close, and list +
ANT 4.10. 6B him.
ANT 4.10. 7
ANT-ENOBARBUS
Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
ANT 4.10. 8 When men revolted shall upon record
ANT 4.10. 9 Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
ANT 4.10. 10B Before thy face repent.
ANT-SENTRY
Enobarbus?
ANT-SECOND WATCH
Peace; +
ANT 4.10. 10B hark further.
ANT 4.10. 11
ANT-ENOBARBUS
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
ANT 4.10. 12 The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
ANT 4.10. 13 That life, a very rebel to my will,
ANT 4.10. 14 May hang no longer on me. Throw my heart
ANT 4.10. 15 Against the flint and hardness of my fault,
ANT 4.10. 16 Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
ANT 4.10. 17 And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
ANT 4.10. 18 Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
ANT 4.10. 19 Forgive me in thine own particular,
ANT 4.10. 20 But let the world rank me in register
ANT 4.10. 21 A master-leaver and a fugitive.
ANT 4.10. 22 O Antony! O Antony! {He dies}
ANT 4.10. 23A
ANT-FIRST WATCH
Let's speak to him.
ANT 4.10. 24
ANT-SENTRY
Let's hear him, for the things he speaks
ANT 4.10. 25B May concern Caesar.
ANT-SECOND WATCH
Let's do so. But he sleeps.
ANT 4.10. 26
ANT-SENTRY
Swoons, rather; for so bad a prayer as his
ANT 4.10. 27B Was never yet for sleep.
ANT-FIRST WATCH
Go we to him.
ANT 4.10. 28B
ANT-SECOND WATCH
Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.
ANT-FIRST WATCH
Hear +
ANT 4.10. 28B you, sir?
ANT 4.10. 29B
ANT-SENTRY
The hand of death hath raught him. {Drums afar +
ANT 4.10. 29B off} Hark, the drums
ANT 4.10. 30 Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
ANT 4.10. 31 To th' court of guard; he is of note. Our hour
ANT 4.10. 32 Is fully out.
ANT 4.10. 33
ANT-SECOND WATCH
Come on, then. He may recover yet. {Exeunt with +
ANT 4.10. 33 the body}
ANT 4.10. 0 {Enter Antony and Scarus with their army}
ANT 4.11. 1
ANT-ANTONY
Their preparation is today by sea;
ANT 4.11. 2B We please them not by land.
ANT-SCARUS
For both, my lord.
ANT 4.11. 3
ANT-ANTONY
I would they'd fight i' th' fire or i' th' air;
ANT 4.11. 4 We'd fight there too. But this it is: our foot
ANT 4.11. 5 Upon the hills adjoining to the city
ANT 4.11. 6 Shall stay with us. Order for sea is given.
ANT 4.11. 7 They have put forth the haven -
ANT 4.11. 8 Where their appointment we may best discover,
ANT 4.11. 9 And look on their endeavour. {Exeunt}
ANT 4.11. 0 {Enter Caesar and his army}
ANT 4.12. 1
ANT-CAESAR
But being charged, we will be still by land -
ANT 4.12. 2 Which, as I take 't, we shall, for his best force
ANT 4.12. 3 Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
ANT 4.12. 4 And hold our best advantage. {Exeunt}
ANT 4.12. 0 {[Alarum afar off, as at a sea fight.] Enter Antony and +
ANT 4.13. 0 Scarus}
ANT 4.13. 1
ANT-ANTONY
Yet they are not joined. Where yon pine does stand
ANT 4.13. 2 I shall discover all. I'll bring thee word
ANT 4.13. 3B Straight how 'tis like to go. {Exit}
ANT-SCARUS
+
ANT 4.13. 3B Swallows have built
ANT 4.13. 4 In Cleopatra's sails their nests. The augurs
ANT 4.13. 5 Say they know not, they cannot tell, look grimly,
ANT 4.13. 6 And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
ANT 4.13. 7 Is valiant, and dejected, and by starts
ANT 4.13. 8 His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear
ANT 4.13. 9B Of what he has and has not. {Enter Antony}
ANT-ANTONY
+
ANT 4.13. 9B All is lost.
ANT 4.13. 10 This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.
ANT 4.13. 11 My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder
ANT 4.13. 12 They cast their caps up, and carouse together
ANT 4.13. 13 Like friends long lost. Triple-turned whore! 'Tis thou
ANT 4.13. 14 Hast sold me to this novice, and my heart
ANT 4.13. 15 Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;
ANT 4.13. 16 For when I am revenged upon my charm,
ANT 4.13. 17 I have done all. Bid them all fly. Be gone. {[Exit Scarus]}
ANT 4.13. 18 O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more.
ANT 4.13. 19 Fortune and Antony part here; even here
ANT 4.13. 20 Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts
ANT 4.13. 21 That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave
ANT 4.13. 22 Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
ANT 4.13. 23 On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is barked
ANT 4.13. 24 That overtopped them all. Betrayed I am.
ANT 4.13. 25 O this false soul of Egypt! This grave charm,
ANT 4.13. 26 Whose eye becked forth my wars and called them home,
ANT 4.13. 27 Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,
ANT 4.13. 28 Like a right gipsy hath at fast and loose
ANT 4.13. 29 Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
ANT 4.13. 30B What, Eros, Eros! {Enter Cleopatra} Ah, thou spell! +
ANT 4.13. 30B Avaunt.
ANT 4.13. 31
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Why is my lord enraged against his love?
ANT 4.13. 32
ANT-ANTONY
Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving
ANT 4.13. 33 And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee
ANT 4.13. 34 And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians;
ANT 4.13. 35 Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
ANT 4.13. 36 Of all thy sex; most monster-like be shown
ANT 4.13. 37 For poor'st diminutives, for dolts, and let
ANT 4.13. 38 Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
ANT 4.13. 39B With her prepared nails. {Exit Cleopatra} 'Tis well +
ANT 4.13. 39B thou'rt gone,
ANT 4.13. 40 If it be well to live. But better 'twere
ANT 4.13. 41 Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death
ANT 4.13. 42 Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!
ANT 4.13. 43 The shirt of Nessus is upon me. Teach me,
ANT 4.13. 44 Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage.
ANT 4.13. 45 Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' th' moon,
ANT 4.13. 46 And with those hands that grasped the heaviest club
ANT 4.13. 47 Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die.
ANT 4.13. 48 To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall
ANT 4.13. 49 Under this plot. She dies for 't. Eros, ho! {Exit}
ANT 4.13. 0 {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Mardian}
ANT 4.14. 1
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Help me, my women! O, he's more mad
ANT 4.14. 2 Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly
ANT 4.14. 3B Was never so embossed.
ANT-CHARMIAN
To th' monument!
ANT 4.14. 4 There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.
ANT 4.14. 5 The soul and body rive not more in parting
ANT 4.14. 6B Than greatness going off.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
To th' monument!
ANT 4.14. 7 Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself.
ANT 4.14. 8 Say that the last I spoke was `Antony',
ANT 4.14. 9 And word it, prithee, piteously. Hence, Mardian,
ANT 4.14. 10 And bring me how he takes my death. To th' monument! {Exeunt}
ANT 4.14. 0 {Enter Antony and Eros}
ANT 4.15. 1B
ANT-ANTONY
Eros, thou yet behold'st me?
ANT-EROS
Ay, noble +
ANT 4.15. 1B lord.
ANT 4.15. 2
ANT-ANTONY
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish,
ANT 4.15. 3 A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
ANT 4.15. 4 A towered citadel, a pendent rock,
ANT 4.15. 5 A forked mountain, or blue promontory
ANT 4.15. 6 With trees upon 't that nod unto the world
ANT 4.15. 7 And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs;
ANT 4.15. 8B They are black vesper's pageants.
ANT-EROS
Ay, my lord.
ANT 4.15. 9
ANT-ANTONY
That which is now a horse even with a thought
ANT 4.15. 10 The rack distains, and makes it indistinct
ANT 4.15. 11B As water is in water.
ANT-EROS
It does, my lord.
ANT 4.15. 12
ANT-ANTONY
My good knave Eros, now thy captain is
ANT 4.15. 13 Even such a body. Here I am Antony,
ANT 4.15. 14 Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.
ANT 4.15. 15 I made these wars for Egypt, and the Queen -
ANT 4.15. 16 Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine,
ANT 4.15. 17 Which whilst it was mine had annexed unto 't
ANT 4.15. 18 A million more, now lost - she, Eros, has
ANT 4.15. 19 Packed cards with Caesar, and false-played my glory
ANT 4.15. 20 Unto an enemy's triumph.
ANT 4.15. 21 Nay, weep not, gentle Eros. There is left us
ANT 4.15. 22B Ourselves to end ourselves. {Enter Mardian} O thy vile +
ANT 4.15. 22B lady,
ANT 4.15. 23B She has robbed me of my sword!
ANT-MARDIAN
No, Antony,
ANT 4.15. 24 My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled
ANT 4.15. 25B With thine entirely.
ANT-ANTONY
Hence, saucy eunuch, peace!
ANT 4.15. 26 She hath betrayed me, and shall die the death.
ANT 4.15. 27
ANT-MARDIAN
Death of one person can be paid but once,
ANT 4.15. 28 And that she has discharged. What thou wouldst do
ANT 4.15. 29 Is done unto thy hand. The last she spake
ANT 4.15. 30 Was `Antony, most noble Antony!'
ANT 4.15. 31 Then in the midst a tearing groan did break
ANT 4.15. 32 The name of Antony. It was divided
ANT 4.15. 33 Between her heart and lips. She rendered life,
ANT 4.15. 34B Thy name so buried in her.
ANT-ANTONY
Dead, then?
ANT-MARDIAN
Dead.
ANT 4.15. 35
ANT-ANTONY
Unarm, Eros. The long day's task is done,
ANT 4.15. 36 And we must sleep. {(To Mardian)} That thou depart'st +
ANT 4.15. 36 hence safe
ANT 4.15. 37B Does pay thy labour richly. Go. {Exit Mardian} Off, +
ANT 4.15. 37B pluck off. {Eros helps Antony to unarm}
ANT 4.15. 38 The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep
ANT 4.15. 39 The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!
ANT 4.15. 40 Heart, once be stronger than thy continent;
ANT 4.15. 41 Crack thy frail case. Apace, Eros, apace.
ANT 4.15. 42 No more a soldier. Bruised pieces, go;
ANT 4.15. 43 You have been nobly borne. - From me a while. {Exit Eros}
ANT 4.15. 44 I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
ANT 4.15. 45 Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now
ANT 4.15. 46 All length is torture. Since the torch is out,
ANT 4.15. 47 Lie down, and stray no farther. Now all labour
ANT 4.15. 48 Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles
ANT 4.15. 49 Itself with strength. Seal, then, and all is done.
ANT 4.15. 50 Eros! - I come, my queen. - Eros! - Stay for me.
ANT 4.15. 51 Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand,
ANT 4.15. 52 And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze.
ANT 4.15. 53 Dido and her Aeneas shall want troops,
ANT 4.15. 54 And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros! {Enter Eros}
ANT 4.15. 55B
ANT-EROS
What would my lord?
ANT-ANTONY
Since Cleopatra died
ANT 4.15. 56 I have lived in such dishonour that the gods
ANT 4.15. 57 Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword
ANT 4.15. 58 Quartered the world, and o'er green Neptune's back
ANT 4.15. 59 With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack
ANT 4.15. 60 The courage of a woman; less noble mind
ANT 4.15. 61 Than she which by her death our Caesar tells
ANT 4.15. 62 `I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros,
ANT 4.15. 63 That when the exigent should come, which now
ANT 4.15. 64 Is come indeed - when I should see behind me
ANT 4.15. 65 Th' inevitable prosecution of
ANT 4.15. 66 Disgrace and horror - that on my command
ANT 4.15. 67 Thou then wouldst kill me. Do 't. The time is come.
ANT 4.15. 68 Thou strik'st not me; 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st.
ANT 4.15. 69B Put colour in thy cheek.
ANT-EROS
The gods withhold me!
ANT 4.15. 70 Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,
ANT 4.15. 71B Though enemy, lost aim and could not?
ANT-ANTONY
Eros,
ANT 4.15. 72 Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see
ANT 4.15. 73 Thy master thus with pleached arms, bending down
ANT 4.15. 74 His corrigible neck, his face subdued
ANT 4.15. 75 To penetrative shame, whilst the wheeled seat
ANT 4.15. 76 Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded
ANT 4.15. 77B His baseness that ensued?
ANT-EROS
I would not see 't.
ANT 4.15. 78
ANT-ANTONY
Come then; for with a wound I must be cured.
ANT 4.15. 79 Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn
ANT 4.15. 80B Most useful for thy country.
ANT-EROS
O sir, pardon me!
ANT 4.15. 81
ANT-ANTONY
When I did make thee free, swor'st thou not then
ANT 4.15. 82 To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once,
ANT 4.15. 83 Or thy precedent services are all
ANT 4.15. 84 But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come.
ANT 4.15. 85
ANT-EROS
Turn from me then that noble countenance
ANT 4.15. 86 Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.
ANT 4.15. 87A
ANT-ANTONY
{(turning away)} Lo thee!
ANT 4.15. 88B
ANT-EROS
My sword is drawn.
ANT-ANTONY
Then let it do at once
ANT 4.15. 89B The thing why thou hast drawn it.
ANT-EROS
My dear master,
ANT 4.15. 90 My captain, and my Emperor: let me say,
ANT 4.15. 91 Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.
ANT 4.15. 92A
ANT-ANTONY
'Tis said, man; and farewell.
ANT 4.15. 93B
ANT-EROS
Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?
ANT-ANTONY
Now, +
ANT 4.15. 93B Eros. {[Eros stabs himself]}
ANT 4.15. 94
ANT-EROS
Why, there then, thus I do escape the sorrow
ANT 4.15. 95B Of Antony's death. {He dies}
ANT-ANTONY
Thrice nobler +
ANT 4.15. 95B than myself,
ANT 4.15. 96 Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what
ANT 4.15. 97 I should and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros
ANT 4.15. 98 Have by their brave instruction got upon me
ANT 4.15. 99 A nobleness in record. But I will be
ANT 4.15. 100 A bridegroom in my death, and run into 't
ANT 4.15. 101 As to a lover's bed. Come then, and, Eros,
ANT 4.15. 102 Thy master dies thy scholar. To do thus
ANT 4.15. 103B I learned of thee. {He stabs himself} How, not dead? +
ANT 4.15. 103B Not dead?
ANT 4.15. 104B The guard, ho! O, dispatch me! {Enter a guard [and +
ANT 4.15. 104B Decretas]}
ANT-FIRST GUARD
What's the noise?
ANT 4.15. 105
ANT-ANTONY
I have done my work ill, friends. O, make an end
ANT 4.15. 106B Of what I have begun!
ANT-SECOND GUARD
The star is fall'n.
ANT 4.15. 107B
ANT-FIRST GUARD
And time is at his period.
ANT-ALL THE GUARDS
Alas
ANT 4.15. 108B And woe!
ANT-ANTONY
Let him that loves me strike me dead.
ANT 4.15. 109B
ANT-FIRST GUARD
Not I.
ANT-SECOND GUARD
Nor I.
ANT-THIRD GUARD
Nor +
ANT 4.15. 109B anyone. {Exeunt the guard}
ANT 4.15. 110
ANT-DECRETAS
Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers +
ANT 4.15. 110 fly. {He takes Antony's sword}
ANT 4.15. 111 This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,
ANT 4.15. 112B Shall enter me with him. {Enter Diomedes}
ANT-DIOMEDES
+
ANT 4.15. 112B Where's Antony?
ANT 4.15. 113B
ANT-DECRETAS
There, Diomed, there.
ANT-DIOMEDES
Lives he? Wilt thou not +
ANT 4.15. 113B answer, man? {Exit Decretas}
ANT 4.15. 114
ANT-ANTONY
Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give +
ANT 4.15. 114 me
ANT 4.15. 115B Sufficing strokes for death.
ANT-DIOMEDES
Most absolute lord,
ANT 4.15. 116 My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.
ANT 4.15. 117B
ANT-ANTONY
When did she send thee?
ANT-DIOMEDES
Now, my lord.
ANT-ANTONY
+
ANT 4.15. 117B Where is she?
ANT 4.15. 118
ANT-DIOMEDES
Locked in her monument. She had a prophesying fear
ANT 4.15. 119 Of what hath come to pass; for when she saw -
ANT 4.15. 120 Which never shall be found - you did suspect
ANT 4.15. 121 She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage
ANT 4.15. 122 Would not be purged, she sent word she was dead;
ANT 4.15. 123 But fearing since how it might work, hath sent
ANT 4.15. 124 Me to proclaim the truth; and I am come,
ANT 4.15. 125 I dread, too late.
ANT 4.15. 126
ANT-ANTONY
Too late, good Diomed. Call my guard, I prithee.
ANT 4.15. 127
ANT-DIOMEDES
What ho, the Emperor's guard! The guard, what ho!
ANT 4.15. 128 Come, your lord calls. {Enter four or five of the guard of +
ANT 4.15. 128 Antony}
ANT 4.15. 129
ANT-ANTONY
Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides.
ANT 4.15. 130 'Tis the last service that I shall command you.
ANT 4.15. 131
ANT-FIRST GUARD
Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear
ANT 4.15. 132B All your true followers out.
ANT-ALL THE GUARDS
Most heavy day!
ANT 4.15. 133
ANT-ANTONY
Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate
ANT 4.15. 134 To grace it with your sorrows. Bid that welcome
ANT 4.15. 135 Which comes to punish us, and we punish it,
ANT 4.15. 136 Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up.
ANT 4.15. 137 I have led you oft; carry me now, good friends,
ANT 4.15. 138 And have my thanks for all. {Exeunt bearing Antony [and Eros]}
ANT 4.15. 0 {Enter Cleopatra [and her maids aloft], with Charmian +
ANT 4.16. 0 and Iras}
ANT 4.16. 1
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O Charmian, I will never go from hence.
ANT 4.16. 2B
ANT-CHARMIAN
Be comforted, dear madam.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
No, I will not.
ANT 4.16. 3 All strange and terrible events are welcome,
ANT 4.16. 4 But comforts we despise. Our size of sorrow,
ANT 4.16. 5 Proportioned to our cause, must be as great
ANT 4.16. 6B As that which makes it. {Enter Diomedes [below]} How +
ANT 4.16. 6B now? Is he dead?
ANT 4.16. 7
ANT-DIOMEDES
His death's upon him, but not dead.
ANT 4.16. 8 Look out o' th' other side your monument.
ANT 4.16. 9B His guard have brought him thither. {Enter below Antony, borne +
ANT 4.16. 9B by the guard}
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O sun,
ANT 4.16. 10 Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in; darkling stand
ANT 4.16. 11 The varying shore o' th' world! O Antony,
ANT 4.16. 12 Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian,
ANT 4.16. 13 Help, Iras, help, help, friends below!
ANT 4.16. 14B Let's draw him hither.
ANT-ANTONY
Peace. Not Caesar's valour
ANT 4.16. 15 Hath o'erthrown Antony, but Antony's
ANT 4.16. 16B Hath triumphed on itself.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
So it should be,
ANT 4.16. 17 That none but Antony should conquer Antony.
ANT 4.16. 18 But woe 'tis so!
ANT 4.16. 19
ANT-ANTONY
I am dying, Egypt, dying. Only
ANT 4.16. 20 I here importune death awhile until
ANT 4.16. 21 Of many thousand kisses the poor last
ANT 4.16. 22B I lay upon thy lips.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I dare not, dear,
ANT 4.16. 23 Dear, my lord, pardon. I dare not,
ANT 4.16. 24 Lest I be taken. Nor th' imperious show
ANT 4.16. 25 Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall
ANT 4.16. 26 Be brooched with me, if knife, drugs, serpents, have
ANT 4.16. 27 Edge, sting, or operation. I am safe.
ANT 4.16. 28 Your wife, Octavia, with her modest eyes
ANT 4.16. 29 And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour
ANT 4.16. 30 Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony. -
ANT 4.16. 31 Help me, my women. - We must draw thee up.
ANT 4.16. 32B Assist, good friends.
ANT-ANTONY
O quick, or I am gone!
ANT 4.16. 33
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Here's sport indeed. How heavy weighs my lord!
ANT 4.16. 34 Our strength is all gone into heaviness,
ANT 4.16. 35 That makes the weight. Had I great Juno's power
ANT 4.16. 36 The strong-winged Mercury should fetch thee up
ANT 4.16. 37 And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little.
ANT 4.16. 38 Wishers were ever fools. O come, come, come! {They heave Antony +
ANT 4.16. 38 aloft to Cleopatra}
ANT 4.16. 39 And welcome, welcome! Die when thou hast lived,
ANT 4.16. 40 Quicken with kissing. Had my lips that power,
ANT 4.16. 41 Thus would I wear them out. {They kiss}
ANT 4.16. 42A
ANT-ALL THE LOOKERS
ON A heavy sight.
ANT 4.16. 43A
ANT-ANTONY
I am dying, Egypt, dying.
ANT 4.16. 44 Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.
ANT 4.16. 45
ANT-CLEOPATRA
No, let me speak, and let me rail so high
ANT 4.16. 46 That the false hussy Fortune break her wheel,
ANT 4.16. 47B Provoked by my offence.
ANT-ANTONY
One word, sweet queen.
ANT 4.16. 48 Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!
ANT 4.16. 49B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
They do not go together.
ANT-ANTONY
Gentle, hear me.
ANT 4.16. 50 None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.
ANT 4.16. 51
ANT-CLEOPATRA
My resolution and my hands I'll trust,
ANT 4.16. 52 None about Caesar.
ANT 4.16. 53
ANT-ANTONY
The miserable change now at my end
ANT 4.16. 54 Lament nor sorrow at, but please your thoughts
ANT 4.16. 55 In feeding them with those my former fortunes,
ANT 4.16. 56 Wherein I lived the greatest prince o' th' world,
ANT 4.16. 57 The noblest; and do now not basely die,
ANT 4.16. 58 Not cowardly put off my helmet to
ANT 4.16. 59 My countryman; a Roman by a Roman
ANT 4.16. 60 Valiantly vanquished. Now my spirit is going;
ANT 4.16. 61B I can no more.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Noblest of men, woot die?
ANT 4.16. 62 Hast thou no care of me? Shall I abide
ANT 4.16. 63 In this dull world, which in thy absence is
ANT 4.16. 64B No better than a sty? {Antony dies} O see, my women,
ANT 4.16. 65 The crown o' th' earth doth melt. My lord!
ANT 4.16. 66 O, withered is the garland of the war.
ANT 4.16. 67 The soldier's pole is fall'n. Young boys and girls
ANT 4.16. 68 Are level now with men. The odds is gone,
ANT 4.16. 69 And there is nothing left remarkable
ANT 4.16. 70 Beneath the visiting moon. {She falls}
ANT 4.16. 71A
ANT-CHARMIAN
O, quietness, lady!
ANT 4.16. 72A
ANT-IRAS
She's dead, too, our sovereign.
ANT 4.16. 73B
ANT-CHARMIAN
Lady!
ANT-IRAS
Madam!
ANT-CHARMIAN
O, madam, madam, madam!
ANT 4.16. 74B
ANT-IRAS
Royal Egypt, Empress!
ANT-CHARMIAN
Peace, peace, Iras!
ANT 4.16. 75
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(recovering)} No more but e'en a woman, +
ANT 4.16. 75 and commanded
ANT 4.16. 76 By such poor passion as the maid that milks
ANT 4.16. 77 And does the meanest chores. It were for me
ANT 4.16. 78 To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods,
ANT 4.16. 79 To tell them that this world did equal theirs
ANT 4.16. 80 Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught.
ANT 4.16. 81 Patience is sottish, and impatience does
ANT 4.16. 82 Become a dog that's mad. Then is it sin
ANT 4.16. 83 To rush into the secret house of death
ANT 4.16. 84 Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?
ANT 4.16. 85 What, what, good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian?
ANT 4.16. 86 My noble girls! Ah, women, women! Look,
ANT 4.16. 87 Our lamp is spent, it's out. Good sirs, take heart;
ANT 4.16. 88 We'll bury him, and then what's brave, what's noble,
ANT 4.16. 89 Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
ANT 4.16. 90 And make death proud to take us. Come, away.
ANT 4.16. 91 This case of that huge spirit now is cold.
ANT 4.16. 92 Ah, women, women! Come. We have no friend
ANT 4.16. 93 But resolution, and the briefest end. {Exeunt, those above +
ANT 4.16. 93 bearing off Antony's body}
ANT 4.16. 0 {Enter Caesar with his council of war: Agrippa, +
ANT 5.1. 0 Dolabella, Maecenas, Gallus, Proculeius}
ANT 5.1. 1
ANT-CAESAR
Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield.
ANT 5.1. 2 Being so frustrate, tell him, he but mocks
ANT 5.1. 3B The pauses that he makes.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Caesar, I shall. {Exit}
ANT 5.1. 4 {Enter Decretas with the sword of Antony}
ANT-CAESAR
+
ANT 5.1. 4 Wherefore is that? And what art thou that dar'st
ANT 5.1. 5B Appear thus to us?
ANT-DECRETAS
I am called Decretas.
ANT 5.1. 6 Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy
ANT 5.1. 7 Best to be served. Whilst he stood up and spoke
ANT 5.1. 8 He was my master, and I wore my life
ANT 5.1. 9 To spend upon his haters. If thou please
ANT 5.1. 10 To take me to thee, as I was to him
ANT 5.1. 11 I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,
ANT 5.1. 12B I yield thee up my life.
ANT-CAESAR
What is 't thou sayst?
ANT 5.1. 13
ANT-DECRETAS
I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.
ANT 5.1. 14
ANT-CAESAR
The breaking of so great a thing should make
ANT 5.1. 15 A greater crack. The rived world
ANT 5.1. 16 Should have shook lions into civil streets,
ANT 5.1. 17 And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony
ANT 5.1. 18 Is not a single doom; in that name lay
ANT 5.1. 19B A moiety of the world.
ANT-DECRETAS
He is dead, Caesar,
ANT 5.1. 20 Not by a public minister of justice,
ANT 5.1. 21 Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand
ANT 5.1. 22 Which writ his honour in the acts it did
ANT 5.1. 23 Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,
ANT 5.1. 24 Splitted the heart. This is his sword;
ANT 5.1. 25 I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained
ANT 5.1. 26B With his most noble blood.
ANT-CAESAR
{(weeping)} Look +
ANT 5.1. 26B you, sad friends,
ANT 5.1. 27 The gods rebuke me; but it is a tidings
ANT 5.1. 28B To wash the eyes of kings.
ANT-[AGRIPPA]
And strange it is
ANT 5.1. 29 That nature must compel us to lament
ANT 5.1. 30B Our most persisted deeds.
ANT-MAECENAS
His taints and honours
ANT 5.1. 31B Waged equal with him.
ANT-[AGRIPPA]
A rarer spirit never
ANT 5.1. 32 Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us
ANT 5.1. 33 Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touched.
ANT 5.1. 34
ANT-MAECENAS
When such a spacious mirror's set before him
ANT 5.1. 35B He needs must see himself.
ANT-CAESAR
O Antony,
ANT 5.1. 36 I have followed thee to this. But we do lance
ANT 5.1. 37 Diseases in our bodies. I must perforce
ANT 5.1. 38 Have shown to thee such a declining day,
ANT 5.1. 39 Or look on thine. We could not stall together
ANT 5.1. 40 In the whole world. But yet let me lament,
ANT 5.1. 41 With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,
ANT 5.1. 42 That thou, my brother, my competitor
ANT 5.1. 43 In top of all design, my mate in empire,
ANT 5.1. 44 Friend and companion in the front of war,
ANT 5.1. 45 The arm of mine own body, and the heart
ANT 5.1. 46 Where mine his thoughts did kindle - that our stars,
ANT 5.1. 47 Unreconciliable, should divide
ANT 5.1. 48 Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends - {Enter an +
ANT 5.1. 48 Egyptian}
ANT 5.1. 49 But I will tell you at some meeter season.
ANT 5.1. 50 The business of this man looks out of him;
ANT 5.1. 51 We'll hear him what he says. - Whence are you?
ANT 5.1. 52
ANT-EGYPTIAN
A poor Egyptian, yet the Queen my mistress,
ANT 5.1. 53 Confined in all she has, her monument,
ANT 5.1. 54 Of thy intents desires instruction,
ANT 5.1. 55 That she preparedly may frame herself
ANT 5.1. 56B To th' way she's forced to.
ANT-CAESAR
Bid her have good heart.
ANT 5.1. 57 She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,
ANT 5.1. 58 How honourable and how kindly we
ANT 5.1. 59 Determine for her. For Caesar cannot live
ANT 5.1. 60B To be ungentle.
ANT-EGYPTIAN
So; the gods preserve thee! {Exit}
ANT 5.1. 61
ANT-CAESAR
Come hither, Proculeius. Go, and say
ANT 5.1. 62 We purpose her no shame. Give her what comforts
ANT 5.1. 63 The quality of her passion shall require,
ANT 5.1. 64 Lest in her greatness, by some mortal stroke,
ANT 5.1. 65 She do defeat us; for her life in Rome
ANT 5.1. 66 Would be eternal in our triumph. Go,
ANT 5.1. 67 And with your speediest bring us what she says
ANT 5.1. 68B And how you find of her.
ANT-PROCULEIUS
Caesar, I shall. {Exit}
ANT 5.1. 69B
ANT-CAESAR
Gallus, go you along. {Exit Gallus}+
ANT 5.1. 69B Where's Dolabella,
ANT 5.1. 70B To second Proculeius?
ANT-ALL BUT CAESAR
Dolabella!
ANT 5.1. 71
ANT-CAESAR
Let him alone; for I remember now
ANT 5.1. 72 How he's employed. He shall in time be ready.
ANT 5.1. 73 Go with me to my tent, where you shall see
ANT 5.1. 74 How hardly I was drawn into this war,
ANT 5.1. 75 How calm and gentle I proceeded still
ANT 5.1. 76 In all my writings. Go with me, and see
ANT 5.1. 77 What I can show in this. {Exeunt}
ANT 5.1. 0 {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian}
ANT 5.2. 1
ANT-CLEOPATRA
My desolation does begin to make
ANT 5.2. 2 A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar.
ANT 5.2. 3 Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,
ANT 5.2. 4 A minister of her will. And it is great
ANT 5.2. 5 To do that thing that ends all other deeds,
ANT 5.2. 6 Which shackles accidents and bolts up change,
ANT 5.2. 7 Which sleeps and never palates more the dung,
ANT 5.2. 8 The beggar's nurse, and Caesar's. {Enter Proculeius}
ANT 5.2. 9
ANT-PROCULEIUS
Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt,
ANT 5.2. 10 And bids thee study on what fair demands
ANT 5.2. 11B Thou mean'st to have him grant thee.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What's thy name?
ANT 5.2. 12B
ANT-PROCULEIUS
My name is Proculeius.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Antony
ANT 5.2. 13 Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but
ANT 5.2. 14 I do not greatly care to be deceived,
ANT 5.2. 15 That have no use for trusting. If your master
ANT 5.2. 16 Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him
ANT 5.2. 17 That majesty, to keep decorum, must
ANT 5.2. 18 No less beg than a kingdom. If he please
ANT 5.2. 19 To give me conquered Egypt for my son,
ANT 5.2. 20 He gives me so much of mine own as I
ANT 5.2. 21B Will kneel to him with thanks.
ANT-PROCULEIUS
Be of good cheer.
ANT 5.2. 22 You're fall'n into a princely hand; fear nothing.
ANT 5.2. 23 Make your full reference freely to my lord,
ANT 5.2. 24 Who is so full of grace that it flows over
ANT 5.2. 25 On all that need. Let me report to him
ANT 5.2. 26 Your sweet dependency, and you shall find
ANT 5.2. 27 A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness,
ANT 5.2. 28B Where he for grace is kneeled to.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Pray you, tell him
ANT 5.2. 29 I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him
ANT 5.2. 30 The greatness he has got. I hourly learn
ANT 5.2. 31 A doctrine of obedience, and would gladly
ANT 5.2. 32B Look him i' th' face.
ANT-PROCULEIUS
This I'll report, dear lady;
ANT 5.2. 33 Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied
ANT 5.2. 34 Of him that caused it. {[Enter Roman soldiers from behind]}
ANT 5.2. 35
ANT-PROCULEIUS
{(to the soldiers)} You see how easily +
ANT 5.2. 35 she may be surprised.
ANT 5.2. 36B Guard her till Caesar come.
ANT-IRAS
Royal Queen -
ANT 5.2. 37
ANT-CHARMIAN
O Cleopatra, thou art taken, Queen!
ANT 5.2. 38B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(drawing a dagger)} Quick, quick, good +
ANT 5.2. 38B hands!
ANT-PROCULEIUS
{(disarming Cleopatra)} Hold, +
ANT 5.2. 38B worthy lady, hold!
ANT 5.2. 39 Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this
ANT 5.2. 40B Relieved but not betrayed.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What, of death too,
ANT 5.2. 41B That rids our dogs of languish?
ANT-PROCULEIUS
Cleopatra,
ANT 5.2. 42 Do not abuse my master's bounty by
ANT 5.2. 43 Th' undoing of yourself. Let the world see
ANT 5.2. 44 His nobleness well acted, which your death
ANT 5.2. 45B Will never let come forth.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Where art thou, death?
ANT 5.2. 46 Come hither, come. Come, come, and take a queen
ANT 5.2. 47B Worth many babes and beggars.
ANT-PROCULEIUS
O temperance, lady!
ANT 5.2. 48
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Sir, I will eat no meat. I'll not drink, sir.
ANT 5.2. 49 If idle talk will once be necessary,
ANT 5.2. 50 I'll not sleep, neither. This mortal house I'll ruin,
ANT 5.2. 51 Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I
ANT 5.2. 52 Will not wait pinioned at your master's court,
ANT 5.2. 53 Nor once be chastised with the sober eye
ANT 5.2. 54 Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up
ANT 5.2. 55 And show me to the shouting varletry
ANT 5.2. 56 Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
ANT 5.2. 57 Be gentle grave unto me; rather on Nilus' mud
ANT 5.2. 58 Lay me stark naked, and let the waterflies
ANT 5.2. 59 Blow me into abhorring; rather make
ANT 5.2. 60 My country's high pyramides my gibbet,
ANT 5.2. 61B And hang me up in chains.
ANT-PROCULEIUS
You do extend
ANT 5.2. 62 These thoughts of horror further than you shall
ANT 5.2. 63B Find cause in Caesar. {Enter Dolabella}
ANT-DOLABELLA
+
ANT 5.2. 63B Proculeius,
ANT 5.2. 64 What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,
ANT 5.2. 65 And he hath sent for thee. For the Queen,
ANT 5.2. 66B I'll take her to my guard.
ANT-PROCULEIUS
So, Dolabella,
ANT 5.2. 67 It shall content me best. Be gentle to her.
ANT 5.2. 68 {(To Cleopatra)} To Caesar I will speak what you shall +
ANT 5.2. 68 please,
ANT 5.2. 69B If you'll employ me to him.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Say I would die. {Exit +
ANT 5.2. 69B Proculeius}
ANT 5.2. 70
ANT-DOLABELLA
Most noble Empress, you have heard of me.
ANT 5.2. 71B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I cannot tell.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Assuredly you know me.
ANT 5.2. 72
ANT-CLEOPATRA
No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.
ANT 5.2. 73 You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;
ANT 5.2. 74B Is 't not your trick?
ANT-DOLABELLA
I understand not, madam.
ANT 5.2. 75
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony.
ANT 5.2. 76 O, such another sleep, that I might see
ANT 5.2. 77B But such another man!
ANT-DOLABELLA
If it might please ye -
ANT 5.2. 78
ANT-CLEOPATRA
His face was as the heav'ns, and therein stuck
ANT 5.2. 79 A sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted
ANT 5.2. 80B The little O o' th' earth.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Most sovereign creature -
ANT 5.2. 81
ANT-CLEOPATRA
His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm
ANT 5.2. 82 Crested the world. His voice was propertied
ANT 5.2. 83 As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;
ANT 5.2. 84 But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,
ANT 5.2. 85 He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,
ANT 5.2. 86 There was no winter in 't; an autumn 'twas,
ANT 5.2. 87 That grew the more by reaping. His delights
ANT 5.2. 88 Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above
ANT 5.2. 89 The element they lived in. In his livery
ANT 5.2. 90 Walked crowns and crownets. Realms and islands were
ANT 5.2. 91B As plates dropped from his pocket.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Cleopatra -
ANT 5.2. 92
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Think you there was, or might be, such a man
ANT 5.2. 93B As this I dreamt of?
ANT-DOLABELLA
Gentle madam, no.
ANT 5.2. 94
ANT-CLEOPATRA
You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.
ANT 5.2. 95 But if there be, or ever were one such,
ANT 5.2. 96 It's past the size of dreaming. Nature wants stuff
ANT 5.2. 97 To vie strange forms with fancy; yet t' imagine
ANT 5.2. 98 An Antony were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,
ANT 5.2. 99B Condemning shadows quite.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Hear me, good madam:
ANT 5.2. 100 Your loss is as yourself, great, and you bear it
ANT 5.2. 101 As answering to the weight. Would I might never
ANT 5.2. 102 O'ertake pursued success but I do feel,
ANT 5.2. 103 By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites
ANT 5.2. 104B My very heart at root.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
I thank you, sir.
ANT 5.2. 105 Know you what Caesar means to do with me?
ANT 5.2. 106
ANT-DOLABELLA
I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.
ANT 5.2. 107B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Nay, pray you, sir.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Though he be honourable -
ANT 5.2. 108B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
He'll lead me then in triumph.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Madam, he +
ANT 5.2. 108B will, I know 't. {Flourish. Enter Caesar, with Proculeius, +
ANT 5.2. 108B Gallus, Maecenas, and others of his train}
ANT 5.2. 109B
ANT-ALL
Make way, there! Caesar!
ANT-CAESAR
Which is the Queen +
ANT 5.2. 109B of Egypt?
ANT 5.2. 110B
ANT-DOLABELLA
{(to Cleopatra)} It is the Emperor, +
ANT 5.2. 110B madam. {Cleopatra kneels}
ANT-CAESAR
Arise! You shall +
ANT 5.2. 110B not kneel.
ANT 5.2. 111B I pray you rise, rise, Egypt.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(rising)} +
ANT 5.2. 111B Sir, the gods
ANT 5.2. 112 Will have it thus. My master and my lord
ANT 5.2. 113B I must obey.
ANT-CAESAR
Take to you no hard thoughts.
ANT 5.2. 114 The record of what injuries you did us,
ANT 5.2. 115 Though written in our flesh, we shall remember
ANT 5.2. 116B As things but done by chance.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Sole sir o' th' world,
ANT 5.2. 117 I cannot project mine own cause so well
ANT 5.2. 118 To make it clear, but do confess I have
ANT 5.2. 119 Been laden with like frailties which before
ANT 5.2. 120B Have often shamed our sex.
ANT-CAESAR
Cleopatra, know
ANT 5.2. 121 We will extenuate rather than enforce.
ANT 5.2. 122 If you apply yourself to our intents,
ANT 5.2. 123 Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find
ANT 5.2. 124 A benefit in this change; but if you seek
ANT 5.2. 125 To lay on me a cruelty by taking
ANT 5.2. 126 Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself
ANT 5.2. 127 Of my good purposes and put your children
ANT 5.2. 128 To that destruction which I'll guard them from,
ANT 5.2. 129 If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave.
ANT 5.2. 130
ANT-CLEOPATRA
And may through all the world! 'Tis yours, and we,
ANT 5.2. 131 Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall
ANT 5.2. 132 Hang in what place you please. {(Giving a paper)} Here, +
ANT 5.2. 132 my good lord.
ANT 5.2. 133
ANT-CAESAR
You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.
ANT 5.2. 134
ANT-CLEOPATRA
This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels
ANT 5.2. 135 I am possessed of. 'Tis exactly valued,
ANT 5.2. 136 Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus? {[Enter Seleucus]}
ANT 5.2. 137A
ANT-SELEUCUS
Here, madam.
ANT 5.2. 138
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(to Caesar)} This is my treasurer. Let +
ANT 5.2. 138 him speak, my lord,
ANT 5.2. 139 Upon his peril, that I have reserved
ANT 5.2. 140 To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus.
ANT 5.2. 141
ANT-SELEUCUS
Madam, I had rather seal my lips
ANT 5.2. 142 Than to my peril speak that which is not.
ANT 5.2. 143A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
What have I kept back?
ANT 5.2. 144
ANT-SELEUCUS
Enough to purchase what you have made known.
ANT 5.2. 145
ANT-CAESAR
Nay, blush not, Cleopatra. I approve
ANT 5.2. 146B Your wisdom in the deed.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
See, Caesar! O, behold
ANT 5.2. 147 How pomp is followed! Mine will now be yours,
ANT 5.2. 148 And should we shift estates, yours would be mine.
ANT 5.2. 149 The ingratitude of this Seleucus does
ANT 5.2. 150 Even make me wild. - O slave, of no more trust
ANT 5.2. 151 Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? Thou shalt
ANT 5.2. 152 Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine eyes
ANT 5.2. 153 Though they had wings. Slave, soulless villain, dog!
ANT 5.2. 154B O rarely base!
ANT-CAESAR
Good Queen, let us entreat you.
ANT 5.2. 155
ANT-CLEOPATRA
O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,
ANT 5.2. 156 That thou vouchsafing here to visit me,
ANT 5.2. 157 Doing the honour of thy lordliness
ANT 5.2. 158 To one so meek - that mine own servant should
ANT 5.2. 159 Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
ANT 5.2. 160 Addition of his envy. Say, good Caesar,
ANT 5.2. 161 That I some lady trifles have reserved,
ANT 5.2. 162 Immoment toys, things of such dignity
ANT 5.2. 163 As we greet modern friends withal; and say
ANT 5.2. 164 Some nobler token I have kept apart
ANT 5.2. 165 For Livia and Octavia, to induce
ANT 5.2. 166 Their mediation - must I be unfolded
ANT 5.2. 167 With one that I have bred? The gods! It smites me
ANT 5.2. 168 Beneath the fall I have. {(To Seleucus)} Prithee, go +
ANT 5.2. 168 hence,
ANT 5.2. 169 Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits
ANT 5.2. 170 Through th' ashes of my chance. Wert thou a man
ANT 5.2. 171B Thou wouldst have mercy on me.
ANT-CAESAR
Forbear, Seleucus. +
ANT 5.2. 171B {Exit Seleucus}
ANT 5.2. 172
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Be it known that we, the greatest, are +
ANT 5.2. 172 misthought
ANT 5.2. 173 For things that others do; and when we fall
ANT 5.2. 174 We answer others' merits in our name,
ANT 5.2. 175B Are therefore to be pitied.
ANT-CAESAR
Cleopatra,
ANT 5.2. 176 Not what you have reserved nor what acknowledged
ANT 5.2. 177 Put we i' th' roll of conquest. Still be 't yours.
ANT 5.2. 178 Bestow it at your pleasure, and believe
ANT 5.2. 179 Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you
ANT 5.2. 180 Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheered.
ANT 5.2. 181 Make not your thoughts your prisons. No, dear Queen;
ANT 5.2. 182 For we intend so to dispose you as
ANT 5.2. 183 Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed and sleep.
ANT 5.2. 184 Our care and pity is so much upon you
ANT 5.2. 185 That we remain your friend; and so adieu.
ANT 5.2. 186B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
My master and my lord!
ANT-CAESAR
Not so. Adieu. +
ANT 5.2. 186B {Flourish. Exeunt Caesar and his train}
ANT 5.2. 187
ANT-CLEOPATRA
He words me, girls, he words me, that I should +
ANT 5.2. 187 not
ANT 5.2. 188 Be noble to myself. But hark thee, Charmian. {She whispers to +
ANT 5.2. 188 Charmian}
ANT 5.2. 189
ANT-IRAS
Finish, good lady. The bright day is done,
ANT 5.2. 190B And we are for the dark.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
{(to Charmian)} +
ANT 5.2. 190B Hie thee again.
ANT 5.2. 191 I have spoke already, and it is provided.
ANT 5.2. 192B Go put it to the haste.
ANT-CHARMIAN
Madam, I will. {Enter +
ANT 5.2. 192B Dolabella}
ANT 5.2. 193B
ANT-DOLABELLA
Where's the Queen?
ANT-CHARMIAN
Behold, +
ANT 5.2. 193B sir. {Exit}
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Dolabella!
ANT 5.2. 194
ANT-DOLABELLA
Madam, as thereto sworn by your command -
ANT 5.2. 195 Which my love makes religion to obey -
ANT 5.2. 196 I tell you this: Caesar through Syria
ANT 5.2. 197 Intends his journey, and within three days
ANT 5.2. 198 You with your children will he send before.
ANT 5.2. 199 Make your best use of this. I have performed
ANT 5.2. 200B Your pleasure, and my promise.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Dolabella,
ANT 5.2. 201B I shall remain your debtor.
ANT-DOLABELLA
I your servant.
ANT 5.2. 202 Adieu, good Queen. I must attend on Caesar.
ANT 5.2. 203B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Farewell, and thanks. {Exit Dolabella} +
ANT 5.2. 203B Now, Iras, what think'st thou?
ANT 5.2. 204 Thou, an Egyptian puppet shall be shown
ANT 5.2. 205 In Rome, as well as I. Mechanic slaves
ANT 5.2. 206 With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers shall
ANT 5.2. 207 Uplift us to the view. In their thick breaths,
ANT 5.2. 208 Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded,
ANT 5.2. 209B And forced to drink their vapour.
ANT-IRAS
The gods forbid!
ANT 5.2. 210
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors
ANT 5.2. 211 Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers
ANT 5.2. 212 Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians
ANT 5.2. 213 Extemporally will stage us, and present
ANT 5.2. 214 Our Alexandrian revels. Antony
ANT 5.2. 215 Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
ANT 5.2. 216 Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
ANT 5.2. 217B I' th' posture of a whore.
ANT-IRAS
O, the good gods!
ANT 5.2. 218A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Nay, that's certain.
ANT 5.2. 219
ANT-IRAS
I'll never see 't! For I am sure my nails
ANT 5.2. 220B Are stronger than mine eyes.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Why, that's the way
ANT 5.2. 221 To fool their preparation and to conquer
ANT 5.2. 222B Their most absurd intents. {Enter Charmian} Now, +
ANT 5.2. 222B Charmian!
ANT 5.2. 223 Show me, my women, like a queen. Go fetch
ANT 5.2. 224 My best attires. I am again for Cydnus
ANT 5.2. 225 To meet Mark Antony. Sirrah Iras, go.
ANT 5.2. 226 Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed,
ANT 5.2. 227 And when thou hast done this chore I'll give thee leave
ANT 5.2. 228 To play till doomsday. - Bring our crown and all. {[Exit Iras]}
ANT 5.2. 229B {A noise within} Wherefore's this noise? {Enter +
ANT 5.2. 229B a Guardsman}
ANT-GUARDSMAN
Here is a rural fellow
ANT 5.2. 230 That will not be denied your highness' presence.
ANT 5.2. 231 He brings you figs.
ANT 5.2. 232B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Let him come in. {Exit Guardsman} What +
ANT 5.2. 232B poor an instrument
ANT 5.2. 233 May do a noble deed! He brings me liberty.
ANT 5.2. 234 My resolution's placed, and I have nothing
ANT 5.2. 235 Of woman in me. Now from head to foot
ANT 5.2. 236 I am marble-constant. Now the fleeting moon
ANT 5.2. 237B No planet is of mine. {Enter Guardsman, and Clown with a +
ANT 5.2. 237B basket}
ANT-GUARDSMAN
This is the man.
ANT 5.2. 238B
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Avoid, and leave him. {Exit Guardsman} +
ANT 5.2. 238B Hast thou the pretty worm
ANT 5.2. 239 Of Nilus there, that kills and pains not?
ANT 5.2. 240
ANT-CLOWN
Truly, I have him; but I would not be the party
ANT 5.2. 241 that should desire you to touch him, for his biting is
ANT 5.2. 242 immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or never
ANT 5.2. 243 recover.
ANT 5.2. 244
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Remember'st thou any that have died on 't?
ANT 5.2. 245
ANT-CLOWN
Very many, men, and women too. I heard of one
ANT 5.2. 246 of them no longer than yesterday, a very honest
ANT 5.2. 247 woman, but something given to lie, as a woman should
ANT 5.2. 248 not do but in the way of honesty, how she died of
ANT 5.2. 249 the biting of it, what pain she felt. Truly, she makes a
ANT 5.2. 250 very good report o' th' worm; but he that will believe
ANT 5.2. 251 all that they say shall never be saved by half that
ANT 5.2. 252 they do; but this is most falliable: the worm's an odd
ANT 5.2. 253 worm.
ANT 5.2. 254
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Get thee hence, farewell.
ANT 5.2. 255
ANT-CLOWN
I wish you all joy of the worm.
ANT 5.2. 256
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Farewell.
ANT 5.2. 257
ANT-CLOWN
You must think this, look you, that the worm will
ANT 5.2. 258 do his kind.
ANT 5.2. 259
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Ay, ay; farewell.
ANT 5.2. 260
ANT-CLOWN
Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in
ANT 5.2. 261 the keeping of wise people; for indeed there is no
ANT 5.2. 262 goodness in the worm.
ANT 5.2. 263
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Take thou no care; it shall be heeded.
ANT 5.2. 264
ANT-CLOWN
Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is
ANT 5.2. 265 not worth the feeding.
ANT 5.2. 266
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Will it eat me?
ANT 5.2. 267
ANT-CLOWN
You must not think I am so simple but I know
ANT 5.2. 268 the devil himself will not eat a woman; I know that a
ANT 5.2. 269 woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.
ANT 5.2. 270 But truly, these same whoreson devils do the gods great
ANT 5.2. 271 harm in their women; for in every ten that they make,
ANT 5.2. 272 the devils mar five.
ANT 5.2. 273A
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Well, get thee gone, farewell.
ANT 5.2. 274
ANT-CLOWN
Yes, forsooth. I wish you joy o' th' worm. +
ANT 5.2. 274 {Exit, leaving the basket}
ANT 5.2. 275 {Enter [Iras] with a robe, crown, and other jewels}
ANT-CLEOPATRA
ANT 5.2. 275 Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have
ANT 5.2. 276 Immortal longings in me. Now no more
ANT 5.2. 277 The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. {Charmian and +
ANT 5.2. 277 Iras help her to dress}
ANT 5.2. 278 Yare, yare, good Iras, quick - methinks I hear
ANT 5.2. 279 Antony call. I see him rouse himself
ANT 5.2. 280 To praise my noble act. I hear him mock
ANT 5.2. 281 The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men
ANT 5.2. 282 To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come.
ANT 5.2. 283 Now to that name my courage prove my title.
ANT 5.2. 284 I am fire and air; my other elements
ANT 5.2. 285 I give to baser life. So, have you done?
ANT 5.2. 286 Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips. {She kisses +
ANT 5.2. 286 them}
ANT 5.2. 287 Farewell, kind Charmian. Iras, long farewell. {Iras +
ANT 5.2. 287 falls and dies}
ANT 5.2. 288 Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?
ANT 5.2. 289 If thou and nature can so gently part,
ANT 5.2. 290 The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
ANT 5.2. 291 Which hurts and is desired. Dost thou lie still?
ANT 5.2. 292 If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world
ANT 5.2. 293 It is not worth leave-taking.
ANT 5.2. 294
ANT-CHARMIAN
Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say
ANT 5.2. 295B The gods themselves do weep.
ANT-CLEOPATRA
This proves me base.
ANT 5.2. 296 If she first meet the curled Antony
ANT 5.2. 297 He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss
ANT 5.2. 298B Which is my heaven to have. {She takes an aspic from the basket +
ANT 5.2. 298B and puts it to her breast} Come, thou mortal wretch,
ANT 5.2. 299 With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
ANT 5.2. 300 Of life at once untie. Poor venomous fool,
ANT 5.2. 301 Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,
ANT 5.2. 302 That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass
ANT 5.2. 303B Unpolicied!
ANT-CHARMIAN
O eastern star!
ANT-CLEOPATRA
Peace, peace.
ANT 5.2. 304 Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
ANT 5.2. 305B That sucks the nurse asleep?
ANT-CHARMIAN
O, break! O, break!
ANT 5.2. 306
ANT-CLEOPATRA
As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle.
ANT 5.2. 307B O Antony! {She puts another aspic to her arm} Nay, I +
ANT 5.2. 307B will take thee too.
ANT 5.2. 308B What should I stay - {She dies}
ANT-CHARMIAN
In this +
ANT 5.2. 308B vile world? So, fare thee well.
ANT 5.2. 309 Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
ANT 5.2. 310 A lass unparalleled. Downy windows, close,
ANT 5.2. 311 And golden Phoebus never be beheld
ANT 5.2. 312 Of eyes again so royal. Your crown's awry.
ANT 5.2. 313 I'll mend it, and then play - {Enter the Guard, rustling in}
ANT 5.2. 314A
ANT-FIRST GUARD
Where's the Queen?
ANT 5.2. 315A
ANT-CHARMIAN
Speak softly. Wake her not.
ANT 5.2. 316B
ANT-FIRST GUARD
Caesar hath sent -
ANT-CHARMIAN
Too slow a +
ANT 5.2. 316B messenger. {She applies an aspic}
ANT 5.2. 317 O come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.
ANT 5.2. 318
ANT-FIRST GUARD
Approach, ho! All's not well. Caesar's beguiled.
ANT 5.2. 319
ANT-SECOND GUARD
There's Dolabella sent from Caesar. Call him. +
ANT 5.2. 319 {[Exit a Guardsman]}
ANT 5.2. 320
ANT-FIRST GUARD
What work is here, Charmian? Is this well +
ANT 5.2. 320 done?
ANT 5.2. 321
ANT-CHARMIAN
It is well done, and fitting for a princess
ANT 5.2. 322 Descended of so many royal kings.
ANT 5.2. 323 Ah, soldier! {She dies}
ANT 5.2. 324B {Enter Dolabella}
ANT-DOLABELLA
How goes it +
ANT 5.2. 324B here?
ANT-SECOND GUARD
All dead.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Caesar, thy thoughts
ANT 5.2. 325 Touch their effects in this. Thyself art coming
ANT 5.2. 326 To see performed the dreaded act which thou
ANT 5.2. 327B So sought'st to hinder.
ANT-ALL
A way there, a way for Caesar! +
ANT 5.2. 327B {Enter Caesar and all his train, marching}
ANT 5.2. 328
ANT-DOLABELLA
{(to Caesar)} O sir, you are too sure an +
ANT 5.2. 328 augurer.
ANT 5.2. 329B That you did fear is done.
ANT-CAESAR
Bravest at the last,
ANT 5.2. 330 She levelled at our purposes, and, being royal,
ANT 5.2. 331 Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?
ANT 5.2. 332B I do not see them bleed.
ANT-DOLABELLA
{(to a +
ANT 5.2. 332B Guardsman)} Who was last with them?
ANT 5.2. 333
ANT-FIRST GUARD
A simple countryman that brought her figs.
ANT 5.2. 334B This was his basket.
ANT-CAESAR
Poisoned, then.
ANT-FIRST GUARD
O Caesar,
ANT 5.2. 335 This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake.
ANT 5.2. 336 I found her trimming up the diadem
ANT 5.2. 337 On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood,
ANT 5.2. 338B And on the sudden dropped.
ANT-CAESAR
O, noble weakness!
ANT 5.2. 339 If they had swallowed poison, 'twould appear
ANT 5.2. 340 By external swelling; but she looks like sleep,
ANT 5.2. 341 As she would catch another Antony
ANT 5.2. 342B In her strong toil of grace.
ANT-DOLABELLA
Here on her breast
ANT 5.2. 343 There is a vent of blood, and something blown.
ANT 5.2. 344B The like is on her arm.
ANT-FIRST GUARD
This is an aspic's trail,
ANT 5.2. 345 And these fig-leaves have slime upon them such
ANT 5.2. 346 As th' aspic leaves upon the caves of Nile.
ANT 5.2. 347A
ANT-CAESAR
Most probable
ANT 5.2. 348 That so she died; for her physician tells me
ANT 5.2. 349 She hath pursued conclusions infinite
ANT 5.2. 350 Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed,
ANT 5.2. 351 And bear her women from the monument.
ANT 5.2. 352 She shall be buried by her Antony.
ANT 5.2. 353 No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
ANT 5.2. 354 A pair so famous. High events as these
ANT 5.2. 355 Strike those that make them, and their story is
ANT 5.2. 356 No less in pity than his glory which
ANT 5.2. 357 Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall
ANT 5.2. 358 In solemn show attend this funeral,
ANT 5.2. 359 And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see
ANT 5.2. 360 High order in this great solemnity. {Exeunt all, soldiers +
ANT 5.2. 360 bearing Cleopatra [on her bed], Charmian, and Iras}
ANT 5.2.
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AWW . . 0 All's Well That Ends Well
AWW . . 0 {Enter young Bertram Count of Roussillon, his +
AWW 1.1. 0 mother the Countess, Helen, and Lord Lafeu, all in black}
AWW 1.1. 1
AWW-COUNTESS
In delivering my son from me I bury a second
AWW 1.1. 2 husband.
AWW 1.1. 3
AWW-BERTRAM
And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's
AWW 1.1. 4 death anew; but I must attend his majesty's command,
AWW 1.1. 5 to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.
AWW 1.1. 6
AWW-LAFEU
You shall find of the King a husband, madam;
AWW 1.1. 7 you, sir, a father. He that so generally is at all times
AWW 1.1. 8 good must of necessity hold his virtue to you, whose
AWW 1.1. 9 worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather
AWW 1.1. 10 than lack it where there is such abundance.
AWW 1.1. 11
AWW-COUNTESS
What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?
AWW 1.1. 12
AWW-LAFEU
He hath abandoned his physicians, madam, under
AWW 1.1. 13 whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope,
AWW 1.1. 14 and finds no other advantage in the process but only
AWW 1.1. 15 the losing of hope by time.
AWW 1.1. 16
AWW-COUNTESS
This young gentlewoman had a father - O that
AWW 1.1. 17 `had': how sad a passage 'tis! - whose skill was almost
AWW 1.1. 18 as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would
AWW 1.1. 19 have made nature immortal, and death should have
AWW 1.1. 20 play for lack of work. Would for the King's sake he
AWW 1.1. 21 were living. I think it would be the death of the King's
AWW 1.1. 22 disease.
AWW 1.1. 23
AWW-LAFEU
How called you the man you speak of, madam?
AWW 1.1. 24
AWW-COUNTESS
He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it
AWW 1.1. 25 was his great right to be so: Ge/rard de Narbonne.
AWW 1.1. 26
AWW-LAFEU
He was excellent indeed, madam. The King very
AWW 1.1. 27 lately spoke of him, admiringly and mourningly. He
AWW 1.1. 28 was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge
AWW 1.1. 29 could be set up against mortality.
AWW 1.1. 30
AWW-BERTRAM
What is it, my good lord, the King languishes
AWW 1.1. 31 of?
AWW 1.1. 32
AWW-LAFEU
A fistula, my lord.
AWW 1.1. 33
AWW-BERTRAM
I heard not of it before.
AWW 1.1. 34
AWW-LAFEU
I would it were not notorious. - Was this gentlewoman
AWW 1.1. 35 the daughter of Ge/rard de Narbonne?
AWW 1.1. 36
AWW-COUNTESS
His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my
AWW 1.1. 37 overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that her
AWW 1.1. 38 education promises; her dispositions she inherits, which
AWW 1.1. 39 makes fair gifts fairer - for where an unclean mind
AWW 1.1. 40 carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with
AWW 1.1. 41 pity: they are virtues and traitors too. In her they are
AWW 1.1. 42 the better for their simpleness. She derives her honesty
AWW 1.1. 43 and achieves her goodness.
AWW 1.1. 44
AWW-LAFEU
Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.
AWW 1.1. 45
AWW-COUNTESS
'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her
AWW 1.1. 46 praise in. The remembrance of her father never
AWW 1.1. 47 approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows
AWW 1.1. 48 takes all livelihood from her cheek. - No more of this,
AWW 1.1. 49 Helen. Go to, no more, lest it be rather thought you
AWW 1.1. 50 affect a sorrow than to have -
AWW 1.1. 51
AWW-HELEN
I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.
AWW 1.1. 52
AWW-LAFEU
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
AWW 1.1. 53 excessive grief the enemy to the living.
AWW 1.1. 54
AWW-COUNTESS
If the living be not enemy to the grief, the excess
AWW 1.1. 55 makes it soon mortal.
AWW 1.1. 56
AWW-BERTRAM
{(kneeling)} Madam, I desire your holy +
AWW 1.1. 56 wishes.
AWW 1.1. 57
AWW-LAFEU
How understand we that?
AWW 1.1. 58
AWW-COUNTESS
Be thou blessed, Bertram, and succeed thy father
AWW 1.1. 59 In manners as in shape. Thy blood and virtue
AWW 1.1. 60 Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
AWW 1.1. 61 Share with thy birthright. Love all, trust a few,
AWW 1.1. 62 Do wrong to none. Be able for thine enemy
AWW 1.1. 63 Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
AWW 1.1. 64 Under thy own life's key. Be checked for silence
AWW 1.1. 65 But never taxed for speech. What heaven more will
AWW 1.1. 66 That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,
AWW 1.1. 67 Fall on thy head. Farewell. {(To Lafeu)} My lord,
AWW 1.1. 68 'Tis an unseasoned courtier. Good my lord,
AWW 1.1. 69B Advise him.
AWW-LAFEU
He cannot want the best
AWW 1.1. 70 That shall attend his love.
AWW 1.1. 71A
AWW-COUNTESS
Heaven bless him! - Farewell, Bertram.
AWW 1.1. 72
AWW-BERTRAM
{(rising)} The best wishes that can be +
AWW 1.1. 72 forged in
AWW 1.1. 73 your thoughts be servants to you. {[Exit Countess]}
AWW 1.1. 74 {(To Helen)} Be comfortable to my mother, your +
AWW 1.1. 74 mistress,
AWW 1.1. 75 and make much of her.
AWW 1.1. 76
AWW-LAFEU
Farewell, pretty lady. You must hold the credit of
AWW 1.1. 77 your father. {Exeunt Bertram and Lafeu}
AWW 1.1. 78
AWW-HELEN
O were that all! I think not on my father,
AWW 1.1. 79 And these great tears grace his remembrance more
AWW 1.1. 80 Than those I shed for him. What was he like?
AWW 1.1. 81 I have forgot him. My imagination
AWW 1.1. 82 Carries no favour in 't but Bertram's.
AWW 1.1. 83 I am undone. There is no living, none,
AWW 1.1. 84 If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one
AWW 1.1. 85 That I should love a bright particular star
AWW 1.1. 86 And think to wed it, he is so above me.
AWW 1.1. 87 In his bright radiance and collateral light
AWW 1.1. 88 Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
AWW 1.1. 89 Th' ambition in my love thus plagues itself.
AWW 1.1. 90 The hind that would be mated by the lion
AWW 1.1. 91 Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though a plague,
AWW 1.1. 92 To see him every hour, to sit and draw
AWW 1.1. 93 His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
AWW 1.1. 94 In our heart's table - heart too capable
AWW 1.1. 95 Of every line and trick of his sweet favour.
AWW 1.1. 96 But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy
AWW 1.1. 97 Must sanctify his relics. Who comes here? {Enter Paroles}
AWW 1.1. 98 One that goes with him. I love him for his sake -
AWW 1.1. 99 And yet I know him a notorious liar,
AWW 1.1. 100 Think him a great way fool, solely a coward.
AWW 1.1. 101 Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him
AWW 1.1. 102 That they take place when virtue's steely bones
AWW 1.1. 103 Looks bleak i' th' cold wind. Withal, full oft we see
AWW 1.1. 104 Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
AWW 1.1. 105
AWW-PAROLES
Save you, fair queen.
AWW 1.1. 106
AWW-HELEN
And you, monarch.
AWW 1.1. 107
AWW-PAROLES
No.
AWW 1.1. 108
AWW-HELEN
And no.
AWW 1.1. 109
AWW-PAROLES
Are you meditating on virginity?
AWW 1.1. 110
AWW-HELEN
Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you, let me
AWW 1.1. 111 ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity: how
AWW 1.1. 112 may we barricado it against him?
AWW 1.1. 113
AWW-PAROLES
Keep him out.
AWW 1.1. 114
AWW-HELEN
But he assails, and our virginity, though valiant
AWW 1.1. 115 in the defence, yet is weak. Unfold to us some warlike
AWW 1.1. 116 resistance.
AWW 1.1. 117
AWW-PAROLES
There is none. Man, setting down before you,
AWW 1.1. 118 will undermine you and blow you up.
AWW 1.1. 119
AWW-HELEN
Bless our poor virginity from underminers and
AWW 1.1. 120 blowers-up. Is there no military policy how virgins
AWW 1.1. 121 might blow up men?
AWW 1.1. 122
AWW-PAROLES
Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier
AWW 1.1. 123 be blown up. Marry, in blowing him down again, with
AWW 1.1. 124 the breach yourselves made you lose your city. It is
AWW 1.1. 125 not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve
AWW 1.1. 126 virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there
AWW 1.1. 127 was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That
AWW 1.1. 128 you were made of is mettle to make virgins. Virginity
AWW 1.1. 129 by being once lost may be ten times found; by being
AWW 1.1. 130 ever kept it is ever lost. 'Tis too cold a companion,
AWW 1.1. 131 away with 't.
AWW 1.1. 132
AWW-HELEN
I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a
AWW 1.1. 133 virgin.
AWW 1.1. 134
AWW-PAROLES
There's little can be said in 't. 'Tis against the
AWW 1.1. 135 rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity is to
AWW 1.1. 136 accuse your mothers, which is most infallible
AWW 1.1. 137 disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity
AWW 1.1. 138 murders itself, and should be buried in highways, out
AWW 1.1. 139 of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against
AWW 1.1. 140 nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese;
AWW 1.1. 141 consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with
AWW 1.1. 142 feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish,
AWW 1.1. 143 proud, idle, made of self-love - which is the most
AWW 1.1. 144 inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not, you cannot
AWW 1.1. 145 choose but lose by 't. Out with 't! Within t' one year it
AWW 1.1. 146 will make itself two, which is a goodly increase, and
AWW 1.1. 147 the principal itself not much the worse. Away with 't.
AWW 1.1. 148
AWW-HELEN
How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?
AWW 1.1. 149
AWW-PAROLES
Let me see. Marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it
AWW 1.1. 150 likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with lying:
AWW 1.1. 151 the longer kept, the less worth. Off with 't while 'tis
AWW 1.1. 152 vendible. Answer the time of request. Virginity like an
AWW 1.1. 153 old courtier wears her cap out of fashion, richly suited
AWW 1.1. 154 but unsuitable, just like the brooch and the toothpick,
AWW 1.1. 155 which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie
AWW 1.1. 156 and your porridge than in your cheek, and your
AWW 1.1. 157 virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French
AWW 1.1. 158 withered pears: it looks ill, it eats drily, marry, 'tis a
AWW 1.1. 159 withered pear - it was formerly better, marry, yet 'tis
AWW 1.1. 160 a withered pear. Will you anything with it?
AWW 1.1. 161A
AWW-HELEN
Not my virginity, yet . . .
AWW 1.1. 162 There shall your master have a thousand loves,
AWW 1.1. 163 A mother and a mistress and a friend,
AWW 1.1. 164 A phoenix, captain, and an enemy,
AWW 1.1. 165 A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,
AWW 1.1. 166 A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear:
AWW 1.1. 167 His humble ambition, proud humility,
AWW 1.1. 168 His jarring concord and his discord dulcet,
AWW 1.1. 169 His faith, his sweet disaster, with a world
AWW 1.1. 170 Of pretty fond adoptious christendoms
AWW 1.1. 171 That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he -
AWW 1.1. 172 I know not what he shall. God send him well.
AWW 1.1. 173 The court's a learning place, and he is one -
AWW 1.1. 174A
AWW-PAROLES
What one, i' faith?
AWW 1.1. 175A
AWW-HELEN
That I wish well. 'Tis pity.
AWW 1.1. 176A
AWW-PAROLES
What's pity?
AWW 1.1. 177
AWW-HELEN
That wishing well had not a body in 't
AWW 1.1. 178 Which might be felt, that we, the poorer born,
AWW 1.1. 179 Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,
AWW 1.1. 180 Might with effects of them follow our friends
AWW 1.1. 181 And show what we alone must think, which never
AWW 1.1. 182 Returns us thanks. {Enter a Page}
AWW 1.1. 183
AWW-PAGE
Monsieur Paroles, my lord calls for you. +
AWW 1.1. 183 {[Exit]}
AWW 1.1. 184
AWW-PAROLES
Little Helen, farewell. If I can remember thee I
AWW 1.1. 185 will think of thee at court.
AWW 1.1. 186
AWW-HELEN
Monsieur Paroles, you were born under a
AWW 1.1. 187 charitable star.
AWW 1.1. 188
AWW-PAROLES
Under Mars, I.
AWW 1.1. 189
AWW-HELEN
I especially think {under} Mars.
AWW 1.1. 190
AWW-PAROLES
Why `{under} Mars'?
AWW 1.1. 191
AWW-HELEN
The wars hath so kept you under that you must
AWW 1.1. 192 needs be born under Mars.
AWW 1.1. 193
AWW-PAROLES
When he was predominant.
AWW 1.1. 194
AWW-HELEN
When he was retrograde, I think rather.
AWW 1.1. 195
AWW-PAROLES
Why think you so?
AWW 1.1. 196
AWW-HELEN
You go so much backward when you fight.
AWW 1.1. 197
AWW-PAROLES
That's for advantage.
AWW 1.1. 198
AWW-HELEN
So is running away, when fear proposes the safety.
AWW 1.1. 199 But the composition that your valour and fear makes
AWW 1.1. 200 in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear
AWW 1.1. 201 well.
AWW 1.1. 202
AWW-PAROLES
I am so full of businesses I cannot answer thee
AWW 1.1. 203 acutely. I will return perfect courtier, in the which my
AWW 1.1. 204 instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt
AWW 1.1. 205 be capable of a courtier's counsel and understand what
AWW 1.1. 206 advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine
AWW 1.1. 207 unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away.
AWW 1.1. 208 Farewell. When thou hast leisure say thy prayers;
AWW 1.1. 209 when thou hast none remember thy friends. Get thee
AWW 1.1. 210 a good husband and use him as he uses thee. So
AWW 1.1. 211 farewell. {Exit}
AWW 1.1. 212
AWW-HELEN
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
AWW 1.1. 213 Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky
AWW 1.1. 214 Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
AWW 1.1. 215 Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
AWW 1.1. 216 What power is it which mounts my love so high,
AWW 1.1. 217 That makes me see and cannot feed mine eye?
AWW 1.1. 218 The mightiest space in fortune nature brings
AWW 1.1. 219 To join like likes and kiss like native things.
AWW 1.1. 220 Impossible be strange attempts to those
AWW 1.1. 221 That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose
AWW 1.1. 222 What hath been cannot be. Who ever strove
AWW 1.1. 223 To show her merit that did miss her love?
AWW 1.1. 224 The King's disease - my project may deceive me,
AWW 1.1. 225 But my intents are fixed and will not leave me. {Exit}
AWW 1.1. 0 {A flourish of cornetts. Enter the King of France with +
AWW 1.2. 0 letters, the two Lords Dumaine, [and divers attendants]}
AWW 1.2. 1
AWW-KING
The Florentines and Sienese are by th' ears,
AWW 1.2. 2 Have fought with equal fortune, and continue
AWW 1.2. 3B A braving war.
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
So 'tis reported, sir.
AWW 1.2. 4
AWW-KING
Nay, 'tis most credible: we here receive it
AWW 1.2. 5 A certainty vouched from our cousin Austria,
AWW 1.2. 6 With caution that the Florentine will move us
AWW 1.2. 7 For speedy aid - wherein our dearest friend
AWW 1.2. 8 Prejudicates the business, and would seem
AWW 1.2. 9B To have us make denial.
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
His love and wisdom
AWW 1.2. 10 Approved so to your majesty may plead
AWW 1.2. 11B For amplest credence.
AWW-KING
He hath armed our answer,
AWW 1.2. 12 And Florence is denied before he comes.
AWW 1.2. 13 Yet for our gentlemen that mean to see
AWW 1.2. 14 The Tuscan service, freely have they leave
AWW 1.2. 15B To stand on either part.
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
It well may serve
AWW 1.2. 16 A nursery to our gentry, who are sick
AWW 1.2. 17B For breathing and exploit.
AWW-KING
What's he comes here? {Enter +
AWW 1.2. 17B Bertram, Lafeu, and Paroles}
AWW 1.2. 18
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
It is the Count Roussillon, my good +
AWW 1.2. 18 lord,
AWW 1.2. 19B Young Bertram.
AWW-KING
{(to Bertram)} Youth, thou +
AWW 1.2. 19B bear'st thy father's face.
AWW 1.2. 20 Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,
AWW 1.2. 21 Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts
AWW 1.2. 22 Mayst thou inherit, too. Welcome to Paris.
AWW 1.2. 23
AWW-BERTRAM
My thanks and duty are your majesty's.
AWW 1.2. 24
AWW-KING
I would I had that corporal soundness now
AWW 1.2. 25 As when thy father and myself in friendship
AWW 1.2. 26 First tried our soldiership. He did look far
AWW 1.2. 27 Into the service of the time, and was
AWW 1.2. 28 Discipled of the bravest. He lasted long,
AWW 1.2. 29 But on us both did haggish age steal on,
AWW 1.2. 30 And wore us out of act. It much repairs me
AWW 1.2. 31 To talk of your good father. In his youth
AWW 1.2. 32 He had the wit which I can well observe
AWW 1.2. 33 Today in our young lords, but they may jest
AWW 1.2. 34 Till their own scorn return to them unnoted
AWW 1.2. 35 Ere they can hide their levity in honour.
AWW 1.2. 36 So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness
AWW 1.2. 37 Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were
AWW 1.2. 38 His equal had awaked them, and his honour -
AWW 1.2. 39 Clock to itself - knew the true minute when
AWW 1.2. 40 Exception bid him speak, and at this time
AWW 1.2. 41 His tongue obeyed his hand. Who were below him
AWW 1.2. 42 He used as creatures of another place,
AWW 1.2. 43 And bowed his eminent top to their low ranks,
AWW 1.2. 44 Making them proud of his humility,
AWW 1.2. 45 In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man
AWW 1.2. 46 Might be a copy to these younger times,
AWW 1.2. 47 Which followed well would demonstrate them now
AWW 1.2. 48B But goers-backward.
AWW-BERTRAM
His good remembrance, sir,
AWW 1.2. 49 Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb.
AWW 1.2. 50 So in approof lives not his epitaph
AWW 1.2. 51 As in your royal speech.
AWW 1.2. 52
AWW-KING
Would I were with him! He would always say -
AWW 1.2. 53 Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words
AWW 1.2. 54 He scattered not in ears, but grafted them
AWW 1.2. 55 To grow there and to bear. `Let me not live' -
AWW 1.2. 56 This his good melancholy oft began
AWW 1.2. 57 On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,
AWW 1.2. 58 When it was out - `Let me not live', quoth he,
AWW 1.2. 59 `After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff
AWW 1.2. 60 Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses
AWW 1.2. 61 All but new things disdain, whose judgements are
AWW 1.2. 62 Mere fathers of their garments, whose constancies
AWW 1.2. 63 Expire before their fashions.' This he wished.
AWW 1.2. 64 I after him do after him wish too,
AWW 1.2. 65 Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,
AWW 1.2. 66 I quickly were dissolved from my hive
AWW 1.2. 67B To give some labourers room.
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
You're loved, sir.
AWW 1.2. 68 They that least lend it you shall lack you first.
AWW 1.2. 69
AWW-KING
I fill a place, I know 't. - How long is 't, Count,
AWW 1.2. 70 Since the physician at your father's died?
AWW 1.2. 71B He was much famed.
AWW-BERTRAM
Some six months since, my lord.
AWW 1.2. 72
AWW-KING
If he were living I would try him yet. -
AWW 1.2. 73 Lend me an arm. - The rest have worn me out
AWW 1.2. 74 With several applications. Nature and sickness
AWW 1.2. 75 Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, Count.
AWW 1.2. 76B My son's no dearer.
AWW-BERTRAM
Thank your majesty. {[Flourish.] +
AWW 1.2. 76B Exeunt}
AWW 1.2. 0 {Enter the Countess, Reynaldo her steward, and [behind] +
AWW 1.3. 0 Lavatch her clown}
AWW 1.3. 1
AWW-COUNTESS
I will now hear. What say you of this +
AWW 1.3. 1 gentlewoman?
AWW 1.3. 1
AWW 1.3. 3
AWW-REYNALDO
Madam, the care I have had to even your
AWW 1.3. 4 content I wish might be found in the calendar of my
AWW 1.3. 5 past endeavours, for then we wound our modesty and
AWW 1.3. 6 make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of
AWW 1.3. 7 ourselves we publish them.
AWW 1.3. 8
AWW-COUNTESS
What does this knave here? {(To Lavatch)} +
AWW 1.3. 8 Get
AWW 1.3. 9 you gone, sirrah. The complaints I have heard of you
AWW 1.3. 10 I do not all believe. 'Tis my slowness that I do not, for
AWW 1.3. 11 I know you lack not folly to commit them and have
AWW 1.3. 12 ability enough to make such knaveries yours.
AWW 1.3. 13
AWW-LAVATCH
'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor
AWW 1.3. 14 fellow.
AWW 1.3. 15
AWW-COUNTESS
Well, sir?
AWW 1.3. 16
AWW-LAVATCH
No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor,
AWW 1.3. 17 though many of the rich are damned. But if I may
AWW 1.3. 18 have your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel
AWW 1.3. 19 the woman and I will do as we may.
AWW 1.3. 20
AWW-COUNTESS
Wilt thou needs be a beggar?
AWW 1.3. 21
AWW-LAVATCH
I do beg your good will in this case.
AWW 1.3. 22
AWW-COUNTESS
In what case?
AWW 1.3. 23
AWW-LAVATCH
In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no
AWW 1.3. 24 heritage, and I think I shall never have the blessing of
AWW 1.3. 25 God till I have issue o' my body, for they say bairns
AWW 1.3. 26 are blessings.
AWW 1.3. 27
AWW-COUNTESS
Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.
AWW 1.3. 28
AWW-LAVATCH
My poor body, madam, requires it. I am driven
AWW 1.3. 29 on by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil
AWW 1.3. 30 drives.
AWW 1.3. 31
AWW-COUNTESS
Is this all your worship's reason?
AWW 1.3. 32
AWW-LAVATCH
Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons, such
AWW 1.3. 33 as they are.
AWW 1.3. 34
AWW-COUNTESS
May the world know them?
AWW 1.3. 35
AWW-LAVATCH
I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as
AWW 1.3. 36 you - and all flesh and blood - are, and indeed I do
AWW 1.3. 37 marry that I may repent.
AWW 1.3. 38
AWW-COUNTESS
Thy marriage sooner than thy wickedness.
AWW 1.3. 39
AWW-LAVATCH
I am out o' friends, madam, and I hope to have
AWW 1.3. 40 friends for my wife's sake.
AWW 1.3. 41
AWW-COUNTESS
Such friends are thine enemies, knave.
AWW 1.3. 42
AWW-LAVATCH
You're shallow, madam - in great friends, for
AWW 1.3. 43 the knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary
AWW 1.3. 44 of. He that ears my land spares my team, and gives
AWW 1.3. 45 me leave to in the crop. If I be his cuckold, he's my
AWW 1.3. 46 drudge. He that comforts my wife is the cherisher of
AWW 1.3. 47 my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh and
AWW 1.3. 48 blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my flesh
AWW 1.3. 49 and blood is my friend; {ergo}, he that kisses my wife is
AWW 1.3. 50 my friend. If men could be contented to be what they
AWW 1.3. 51 are, there were no fear in marriage. For young
AWW 1.3. 52 Chairbonne the puritan and old Poisson the papist,
AWW 1.3. 53 howsome'er their hearts are severed in religion, their
AWW 1.3. 54 heads are both one: they may jowl horns together like
AWW 1.3. 55 any deer i' th' herd.
AWW 1.3. 56
AWW-COUNTESS
Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and
AWW 1.3. 57 calumnious knave?
AWW 1.3. 58
AWW-LAVATCH
A prophet? Ay, madam, and I speak the truth
AWW 1.3. 59 the next way.
AWW 1.3. 60 {[He sings]} For I the ballad will repeat,
AWW 1.3. 61 Which men full true shall find:
AWW 1.3. 62 Your marriage comes by destiny,
AWW 1.3. 63 Your cuckoo sings by kind.
AWW 1.3. 64
AWW-COUNTESS
Get you gone, sir. I'll talk with you more anon.
AWW 1.3. 65
AWW-REYNALDO
May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen
AWW 1.3. 66 come to you? Of her I am to speak.
AWW 1.3. 67
AWW-COUNTESS
{(to Lavatch)} Sirrah, tell my +
AWW 1.3. 67 gentlewoman I would
AWW 1.3. 68 speak with her. Helen, I mean.
AWW 1.3. 69
AWW-LAVATCH
{[sings]} `Was this fair face the cause', +
AWW 1.3. 69 quoth she,
AWW 1.3. 70 `Why the Grecians sacked Troy?
AWW 1.3. 71 Fond done, done fond. Was this King Priam's joy?'
AWW 1.3. 72 With that she sighed as she stood,
AWW 1.3. 73 With that she sighed as she stood,
AWW 1.3. 74 And gave this sentence then:
AWW 1.3. 75 `Among nine bad if one be good,
AWW 1.3. 76 Among nine bad if one be good,
AWW 1.3. 77 There's yet one good in ten.'
AWW 1.3. 78
AWW-COUNTESS
What, `one good in ten'? You corrupt the song,
AWW 1.3. 79 sirrah.
AWW 1.3. 80
AWW-LAVATCH
One good {woman} in ten, madam, which is a
AWW 1.3. 81 purifying o' th' song. Would God would serve the world
AWW 1.3. 82 so all the year! We'd find no fault with the tithe-
AWW 1.3. 83 woman if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a? An
AWW 1.3. 84 we might have a good woman born but ere every
AWW 1.3. 85 blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the
AWW 1.3. 86 lottery well. A man may draw his heart out ere a pluck
AWW 1.3. 87 one.
AWW 1.3. 88
AWW-COUNTESS
You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command
AWW 1.3. 89 you.
AWW 1.3. 90
AWW-LAVATCH
That man should be at woman's command, and
AWW 1.3. 91 yet no hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet
AWW 1.3. 92 it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of humility
AWW 1.3. 93 over the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth.
AWW 1.3. 94 The business is for Helen to come hither. {Exit}
AWW 1.3. 95
AWW-COUNTESS
Well now.
AWW 1.3. 96
AWW-REYNALDO
I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman
AWW 1.3. 97 entirely.
AWW 1.3. 98
AWW-COUNTESS
Faith, I do. Her father bequeathed her to me,
AWW 1.3. 99 and she herself without other advantage may lawfully
AWW 1.3. 100 make title to as much love as she finds. There is more
AWW 1.3. 101 owing her than is paid, and more shall be paid her
AWW 1.3. 102 than she'll demand.
AWW 1.3. 103
AWW-REYNALDO
Madam, I was very late more near her than I
AWW 1.3. 104 think she wished me. Alone she was, and did
AWW 1.3. 105 communicate to herself, her own words to her own
AWW 1.3. 106 ears; she thought, I dare vow for her, they touched
AWW 1.3. 107 not any stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your
AWW 1.3. 108 son. Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put
AWW 1.3. 109 such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no god,
AWW 1.3. 110 that would not extend his might only where qualities
AWW 1.3. 111 were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that would suffer
AWW 1.3. 112 her poor knight surprised without rescue in the first
AWW 1.3. 113 assault or ransom afterward. This she delivered in the
AWW 1.3. 114 most bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin
AWW 1.3. 115 exclaim in; which I held my duty speedily to acquaint
AWW 1.3. 116 you withal, sithence in the loss that may happen it
AWW 1.3. 117 concerns you something to know it.
AWW 1.3. 118
AWW-COUNTESS
You have discharged this honestly. Keep it to
AWW 1.3. 119 yourself. Many likelihoods informed me of this before,
AWW 1.3. 120 which hung so tott'ring in the balance that I could
AWW 1.3. 121 neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you, leave me. Stall
AWW 1.3. 122 this in your bosom, and I thank you for your honest
AWW 1.3. 123 care. I will speak with you further anon. {Exit Steward}
AWW 1.3. 124 {Enter Helen}
AWW-COUNTESS
{(aside)} Even so it +
AWW 1.3. 124 was with me when I was young.
AWW 1.3. 125 If ever we are nature's, these are ours: this thorn
AWW 1.3. 126 Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong.
AWW 1.3. 127 Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;
AWW 1.3. 128 It is the show and seal of nature's truth,
AWW 1.3. 129 Where love's strong passion is impressed in youth.
AWW 1.3. 130 By our remembrances of days foregone,
AWW 1.3. 131 Such were our faults - or then we thought them none.
AWW 1.3. 132 Her eye is sick on 't. I observe her now.
AWW 1.3. 133B
AWW-HELEN
What is your pleasure, madam?
AWW-COUNTESS
You know, Helen,
AWW 1.3. 134 I am a mother to you.
AWW 1.3. 135B
AWW-HELEN
Mine honourable mistress.
AWW-COUNTESS
Nay, a mother.
AWW 1.3. 136 Why not a mother? When I said `a mother',
AWW 1.3. 137 Methought you saw a serpent. What's in `mother'
AWW 1.3. 138 That you start at it? I say I am your mother,
AWW 1.3. 139 And put you in the catalogue of those
AWW 1.3. 140 That were enwombed mine. 'Tis often seen
AWW 1.3. 141 Adoption strives with nature, and choice breeds
AWW 1.3. 142 A native slip to us from foreign seeds.
AWW 1.3. 143 You ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan,
AWW 1.3. 144 Yet I express to you a mother's care.
AWW 1.3. 145 God's mercy, maiden! Does it curd thy blood
AWW 1.3. 146 To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,
AWW 1.3. 147 That this distempered messenger of wet,
AWW 1.3. 148 The many-coloured Iris, rounds thine eye?
AWW 1.3. 149B Why, that you are my daughter?
AWW-HELEN
That I am not.
AWW 1.3. 150B
AWW-COUNTESS
I say I am your mother.
AWW-HELEN
Pardon, madam.
AWW 1.3. 151 The Count Roussillon cannot be my brother.
AWW 1.3. 152 I am from humble, he from honoured name;
AWW 1.3. 153 No note upon my parents, his all noble.
AWW 1.3. 154 My master, my dear lord he is, and I
AWW 1.3. 155 His servant live and will his vassal die.
AWW 1.3. 156B He must not be my brother.
AWW-COUNTESS
Nor I your mother?
AWW 1.3. 157
AWW-HELEN
You are my mother, madam. Would you were -
AWW 1.3. 158 So that my lord your son were not my brother -
AWW 1.3. 159 Indeed my mother! Or were you both our mothers
AWW 1.3. 160 I care no more for than I do for heaven,
AWW 1.3. 161 So I were not his sister. Can 't no other
AWW 1.3. 162 But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?
AWW 1.3. 163
AWW-COUNTESS
Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law.
AWW 1.3. 164 God shield you mean it not! `Daughter' and `mother'
AWW 1.3. 165 So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?
AWW 1.3. 166 My fear hath catched your fondness. Now I see
AWW 1.3. 167 The myst'ry of your loneliness, and find
AWW 1.3. 168 Your salt tears' head. Now to all sense 'tis gross:
AWW 1.3. 169 You love my son. Invention is ashamed
AWW 1.3. 170 Against the proclamation of thy passion
AWW 1.3. 171 To say thou dost not. Therefore tell me true,
AWW 1.3. 172 But tell me then 'tis so - for look, thy cheeks
AWW 1.3. 173 Confess it t' one to th' other, and thine eyes
AWW 1.3. 174 See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours
AWW 1.3. 175 That in their kind they speak it. Only sin
AWW 1.3. 176 And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
AWW 1.3. 177 That truth should be suspected. Speak, is 't so?
AWW 1.3. 178 If it be so you have wound a goodly clew;
AWW 1.3. 179 If it be not, forswear 't. Howe'er, I charge thee,
AWW 1.3. 180 As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,
AWW 1.3. 181B To tell me truly.
AWW-HELEN
Good madam, pardon me.
AWW 1.3. 182B
AWW-COUNTESS
Do you love my son?
AWW-HELEN
Your pardon, noble mistress.
AWW 1.3. 183B
AWW-COUNTESS
Love you my son?
AWW-HELEN
Do not you love him, madam?
AWW 1.3. 184
AWW-COUNTESS
Go not about. My love hath in 't a bond
AWW 1.3. 185 Whereof the world takes note. Come, come, disclose
AWW 1.3. 186 The state of your affection, for your passions
AWW 1.3. 187B Have to the full appeached.
AWW-HELEN
Then I confess,
AWW 1.3. 188 Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,
AWW 1.3. 189 That before you and next unto high heaven
AWW 1.3. 190 I love your son.
AWW 1.3. 191 My friends were poor but honest; so's my love.
AWW 1.3. 192 Be not offended, for it hurts not him
AWW 1.3. 193 That he is loved of me. I follow him not
AWW 1.3. 194 By any token of presumptuous suit,
AWW 1.3. 195 Nor would I have him till I do deserve him,
AWW 1.3. 196 Yet never know how that desert should be.
AWW 1.3. 197 I know I love in vain, strive against hope;
AWW 1.3. 198 Yet in this captious and intenable sieve
AWW 1.3. 199 I still pour in the waters of my love
AWW 1.3. 200 And lack not to lose still. Thus, Indian-like,
AWW 1.3. 201 Religious in mine error, I adore
AWW 1.3. 202 The sun that looks upon his worshipper
AWW 1.3. 203 But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,
AWW 1.3. 204 Let not your hate encounter with my love
AWW 1.3. 205 For loving where you do; but if yourself,
AWW 1.3. 206 Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,
AWW 1.3. 207 Did ever in so true a flame of liking
AWW 1.3. 208 Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian
AWW 1.3. 209 Was both herself and Love, O then give pity
AWW 1.3. 210 To her whose state is such that cannot choose
AWW 1.3. 211 But lend and give where she is sure to lose,
AWW 1.3. 212 That seeks to find not that her search implies,
AWW 1.3. 213 But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies.
AWW 1.3. 214
AWW-COUNTESS
Had you not lately an intent - speak truly -
AWW 1.3. 215 To go to Paris?
AWW 1.3. 216A
AWW-HELEN
Madam, I had.
AWW 1.3. 217A
AWW-COUNTESS
Wherefore? Tell true.
AWW 1.3. 218
AWW-HELEN
I will tell truth, by grace itself I swear.
AWW 1.3. 219 You know my father left me some prescriptions
AWW 1.3. 220 Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading
AWW 1.3. 221 And manifest experience had collected
AWW 1.3. 222 For general sovereignty, and that he willed me
AWW 1.3. 223 In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,
AWW 1.3. 224 As notes whose faculties inclusive were
AWW 1.3. 225 More than they were in note. Amongst the rest
AWW 1.3. 226 There is a remedy, approved, set down,
AWW 1.3. 227 To cure the desperate languishings whereof
AWW 1.3. 228B The King is rendered lost.
AWW-COUNTESS
This was your motive
AWW 1.3. 229 For Paris, was it? Speak.
AWW 1.3. 230
AWW-HELEN
My lord your son made me to think of this,
AWW 1.3. 231 Else Paris and the medicine and the King
AWW 1.3. 232 Had from the conversation of my thoughts
AWW 1.3. 233B Haply been absent then.
AWW-COUNTESS
But think you, Helen,
AWW 1.3. 234 If you should tender your supposed aid,
AWW 1.3. 235 He would receive it? He and his physicians
AWW 1.3. 236 Are of a mind: he, that they cannot help him;
AWW 1.3. 237 They, that they cannot help. How shall they credit
AWW 1.3. 238 A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,
AWW 1.3. 239 Embowelled of their doctrine, have left off
AWW 1.3. 240B The danger to itself?
AWW-HELEN
There's something in 't
AWW 1.3. 241 More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
AWW 1.3. 242 Of his profession, that his good receipt
AWW 1.3. 243 Shall for my legacy be sanctified
AWW 1.3. 244 By th' luckiest stars in heaven, and would your honour
AWW 1.3. 245 But give me leave to try success, I'd venture
AWW 1.3. 246 The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure
AWW 1.3. 247 By such a day, an hour.
AWW 1.3. 248A
AWW-COUNTESS
Dost thou believe 't?
AWW 1.3. 249A
AWW-HELEN
Ay, madam, knowingly.
AWW 1.3. 250
AWW-COUNTESS
Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,
AWW 1.3. 251 Means and attendants, and my loving greetings
AWW 1.3. 252 To those of mine in court. I'll stay at home
AWW 1.3. 253 And pray God's blessing into thy attempt.
AWW 1.3. 254 Be gone tomorrow, and be sure of this:
AWW 1.3. 255 What I can help thee to, thou shalt not miss. {Exeunt}
AWW 1.3. 0 {Flourish of cornetts. Enter the King [carried in a +
AWW 2.1. 0 chair], with the two Lords Dumaine, divers young lords taking leave for +
AWW 2.1. 0 the Florentine war, and Bertram and Paroles}
AWW 2.1. 1
AWW-KING
Farewell, young lords. These warlike principles
AWW 2.1. 2 Do not throw from you. And you, my lords, farewell.
AWW 2.1. 3 Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all,
AWW 2.1. 4 The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,
AWW 2.1. 5B And is enough for both.
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
'Tis our hope, sir,
AWW 2.1. 6 After well-entered soldiers, to return
AWW 2.1. 7 And find your grace in health.
AWW 2.1. 8
AWW-KING
No, no, it cannot be - and yet my heart
AWW 2.1. 9 Will not confess he owes the malady
AWW 2.1. 10 That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords.
AWW 2.1. 11 Whether I live or die, be you the sons
AWW 2.1. 12 Of worthy Frenchmen; let higher Italy -
AWW 2.1. 13 Those bated that inherit but the fall
AWW 2.1. 14 Of the last monarchy - see that you come
AWW 2.1. 15 Not to woo honour but to wed it. When
AWW 2.1. 16 The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,
AWW 2.1. 17 That fame may cry you loud. I say farewell.
AWW 2.1. 18
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Health at your bidding serve your majesty.
AWW 2.1. 19
AWW-KING
Those girls of Italy, take heed of them.
AWW 2.1. 20 They say our French lack language to deny
AWW 2.1. 21 If they demand. Beware of being captives
AWW 2.1. 22B Before you serve.
AWW-BOTH LORDS DUMAINE
Our hearts receive your +
AWW 2.1. 22B warnings.
AWW 2.1. 23A
AWW-KING
Farewell. - Come hither to me. {[Some lords stand aside +
AWW 2.1. 23A with the King]}
AWW 2.1. 24
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} O my sweet lord, +
AWW 2.1. 24 that you will stay behind us.
AWW 2.1. 25B
AWW-PAROLES
'Tis not his fault, the spark.
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
O +
AWW 2.1. 25B 'tis brave wars.
AWW 2.1. 26
AWW-PAROLES
Most admirable! I have seen those wars.
AWW 2.1. 27
AWW-BERTRAM
I am commanded here, and kept a coil with
AWW 2.1. 28 `Too young' and `the next year' and `'tis too early'.
AWW 2.1. 29
AWW-PAROLES
An thy mind stand to 't, boy, steal away bravely.
AWW 2.1. 30
AWW-BERTRAM
I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,
AWW 2.1. 31 Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,
AWW 2.1. 32 Till honour be bought up, and no sword worn
AWW 2.1. 33 But one to dance with. By heaven, I'll steal away.
AWW 2.1. 34B
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
There's honour in the theft.
AWW-PAROLES
Commit +
AWW 2.1. 34B it, Count.
AWW 2.1. 35
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
I am your accessary. And so, farewell.
AWW 2.1. 36A
AWW-BERTRAM
I grow to you,
AWW 2.1. 37 And our parting is a tortured body.
AWW 2.1. 38B
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Farewell, captain.
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Sweet +
AWW 2.1. 38B Monsieur Paroles.
AWW 2.1. 39
AWW-PAROLES
Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good
AWW 2.1. 40 sparks and lustrous, a word, good mettles. You shall
AWW 2.1. 41 find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain Spurio,
AWW 2.1. 42 with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his
AWW 2.1. 43 sinister cheek. It was this very sword entrenched it.
AWW 2.1. 44 Say to him I live, and observe his reports for me.
AWW 2.1. 45
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
We shall, noble captain.
AWW 2.1. 46
AWW-PAROLES
Mars dote on you for his novices. {Exeunt both Lords +
AWW 2.1. 46 Dumaine}
AWW 2.1. 47 {(To Bertram)} What will ye do?
AWW 2.1. 48
AWW-BERTRAM
Stay the King.
AWW 2.1. 49
AWW-PAROLES
Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords.
AWW 2.1. 50 You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold
AWW 2.1. 51 an adieu. Be more expressive to them, for they wear
AWW 2.1. 52 themselves in the cap of the time, there do muster true
AWW 2.1. 53 gait; eat, speak, and move under the influence of the
AWW 2.1. 54 most received star - and though the devil lead the
AWW 2.1. 55 measure, such are to be followed. After them, and take
AWW 2.1. 56 a more dilated farewell.
AWW 2.1. 57
AWW-BERTRAM
And I will do so.
AWW 2.1. 58
AWW-PAROLES
Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy
AWW 2.1. 59 sword-men. {Exeunt [Bertram and Paroles]}
AWW 2.1. 60 {Enter Lafeu to the King}
AWW-LAFEU
{(kneeling)}+
AWW 2.1. 60 Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.
AWW 2.1. 61A
AWW-KING
I'll fee thee to stand up.
AWW 2.1. 62
AWW-LAFEU
{(rising)} Then here's a man stands that has +
AWW 2.1. 62 bought his pardon.
AWW 2.1. 63 I would you had kneeled, my lord, to ask me mercy,
AWW 2.1. 64 And that at my bidding you could so stand up.
AWW 2.1. 65
AWW-KING
I would I had, so I had broke thy pate
AWW 2.1. 66B And asked thee mercy for 't.
AWW-LAFEU
Good faith, across!
AWW 2.1. 67 But my good lord, 'tis thus: will you be cured
AWW 2.1. 68B Of your infirmity?
AWW-KING
No.
AWW-LAFEU
O will you eat
AWW 2.1. 69 No grapes, my royal fox? Yes, but you will,
AWW 2.1. 70 My noble grapes, an if my royal fox
AWW 2.1. 71 Could reach them. I have seen a medicine
AWW 2.1. 72 That's able to breathe life into a stone,
AWW 2.1. 73 Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
AWW 2.1. 74 With sprightly fire and motion; whose simple touch
AWW 2.1. 75 Is powerful to araise King Pe/pin, nay,
AWW 2.1. 76 To give great Charlemagne a pen in 's hand,
AWW 2.1. 77B And write to her a love-line.
AWW-KING
What `her' is this?
AWW 2.1. 78
AWW-LAFEU
Why, Doctor She. My lord, there's one arrived,
AWW 2.1. 79 If you will see her. Now by my faith and honour,
AWW 2.1. 80 If seriously I may convey my thoughts
AWW 2.1. 81 In this my light deliverance, I have spoke
AWW 2.1. 82 With one that in her sex, her years, profession,
AWW 2.1. 83 Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more
AWW 2.1. 84 Than I dare blame my weakness. Will you see her -
AWW 2.1. 85 For that is her demand - and know her business?
AWW 2.1. 86B That done, laugh well at me.
AWW-KING
Now, good Lafeu,
AWW 2.1. 87 Bring in the admiration, that we with thee
AWW 2.1. 88 May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
AWW 2.1. 89B By wond'ring how thou took'st it.
AWW-LAFEU
Nay, I'll fit you,
AWW 2.1. 90 And not be all day neither. {[He goes to the door]}
AWW 2.1. 91
AWW-KING
Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.
AWW 2.1. 92A
AWW-LAFEU
{(to Helen, within)} Nay, come your +
AWW 2.1. 92A ways. {Enter Helen [disguised]}
AWW 2.1. 93A
AWW-KING
This haste hath wings indeed.
AWW 2.1. 94A
AWW-LAFEU
{(to Helen)} Nay, come your ways.
AWW 2.1. 95 This is his majesty. Say your mind to him.
AWW 2.1. 96 A traitor you do look like, but such traitors
AWW 2.1. 97 His majesty seldom fears. I am Cressid's uncle,
AWW 2.1. 98 That dare leave two together. Fare you well. {Exeunt [all but +
AWW 2.1. 98 the King and Helen]}
AWW 2.1. 99
AWW-KING
Now, fair one, does your business follow us?
AWW 2.1. 100
AWW-HELEN
Ay, my good lord. Ge/rard de Narbonne was my father;
AWW 2.1. 101B In what he did profess, well found.
AWW-KING
I knew him.
AWW 2.1. 102
AWW-HELEN
The rather will I spare my praises towards him;
AWW 2.1. 103 Knowing him is enough. On 's bed of death
AWW 2.1. 104 Many receipts he gave me, chiefly one
AWW 2.1. 105 Which, as the dearest issue of his practice,
AWW 2.1. 106 And of his old experience th' only darling,
AWW 2.1. 107 He bade me store up as a triple eye
AWW 2.1. 108 Safer than mine own two, more dear. I have so,
AWW 2.1. 109 And hearing your high majesty is touched
AWW 2.1. 110 With that malignant cause wherein the honour
AWW 2.1. 111 Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,
AWW 2.1. 112 I come to tender it and my appliance
AWW 2.1. 113B With all bound humbleness.
AWW-KING
We thank you, maiden,
AWW 2.1. 114 But may not be so credulous of cure,
AWW 2.1. 115 When our most learned doctors leave us, and
AWW 2.1. 116 The congregated College have concluded
AWW 2.1. 117 That labouring art can never ransom nature
AWW 2.1. 118 From her inaidable estate. I say we must not
AWW 2.1. 119 So stain our judgement or corrupt our hope,
AWW 2.1. 120 To prostitute our past-cure malady
AWW 2.1. 121 To empirics, or to dissever so
AWW 2.1. 122 Our great self and our credit, to esteem
AWW 2.1. 123 A senseless help, when help past sense we deem.
AWW 2.1. 124
AWW-HELEN
My duty then shall pay me for my pains.
AWW 2.1. 125 I will no more enforce mine office on you,
AWW 2.1. 126 Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
AWW 2.1. 127 A modest one to bear me back again.
AWW 2.1. 128
AWW-KING
I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful.
AWW 2.1. 129 Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give
AWW 2.1. 130 As one near death to those that wish him live.
AWW 2.1. 131 But what at full I know, thou know'st no part;
AWW 2.1. 132 I knowing all my peril, thou no art.
AWW 2.1. 133
AWW-HELEN
What I can do can do no hurt to try,
AWW 2.1. 134 Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy.
AWW 2.1. 135 He that of greatest works is finisher
AWW 2.1. 136 Oft does them by the weakest minister.
AWW 2.1. 137 So holy writ in babes hath judgement shown
AWW 2.1. 138 When judges have been babes; great floods have flow'n
AWW 2.1. 139 From simple sources, and great seas have dried.
AWW 2.1. 140 When miracles have by th' great'st been denied
AWW 2.1. 141
AWW-[]
AWW 2.1. 142 Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
AWW 2.1. 143 Where most it promises, and oft it hits
AWW 2.1. 144 Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
AWW 2.1. 145
AWW-KING
I must not hear thee. Fare thee well, kind maid.
AWW 2.1. 146 Thy pains, not used, must by thyself be paid:
AWW 2.1. 147 Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.
AWW 2.1. 148
AWW-HELEN
Inspired merit so by breath is barred.
AWW 2.1. 149 It is not so with him that all things knows
AWW 2.1. 150 As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows;
AWW 2.1. 151 But most it is presumption in us when
AWW 2.1. 152 The help of heaven we count the act of men.
AWW 2.1. 153 Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent.
AWW 2.1. 154 Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.
AWW 2.1. 155 I am not an impostor, that proclaim
AWW 2.1. 156 Myself against the level of mine aim,
AWW 2.1. 157 But know I think, and think I know most sure,
AWW 2.1. 158 My art is not past power, nor you past cure.
AWW 2.1. 159
AWW-KING
Art thou so confident? Within what space
AWW 2.1. 160B Hop'st thou my cure?
AWW-HELEN
The great'st grace lending grace,
AWW 2.1. 161 Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
AWW 2.1. 162 Their fiery coacher his diurnal ring,
AWW 2.1. 163 Ere twice in murk and occidental damp
AWW 2.1. 164 Moist Hesperus hath quenched her sleepy lamp,
AWW 2.1. 165 Or four-and-twenty times the pilot's glass
AWW 2.1. 166 Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,
AWW 2.1. 167 What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,
AWW 2.1. 168 Health shall live free, and sickness freely die.
AWW 2.1. 169
AWW-KING
Upon thy certainty and confidence
AWW 2.1. 170B What dar'st thou venture?
AWW-HELEN
Tax of impudence,
AWW 2.1. 171 A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame;
AWW 2.1. 172 Traduced by odious ballads, my maiden's name
AWW 2.1. 173 Seared otherwise, nay - worse of worst - extended
AWW 2.1. 174 With vilest torture, let my life be ended.
AWW 2.1. 175
AWW-KING
Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak,
AWW 2.1. 176 His powerful sound within an organ weak;
AWW 2.1. 177 And what impossibility would slay
AWW 2.1. 178 In common sense, sense saves another way.
AWW 2.1. 179 Thy life is dear, for all that life can rate
AWW 2.1. 180 Worth name of life in thee hath estimate:
AWW 2.1. 181 Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all
AWW 2.1. 182 That happiness and prime can happy call.
AWW 2.1. 183 Thou this to hazard needs must intimate
AWW 2.1. 184 Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate.
AWW 2.1. 185 Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,
AWW 2.1. 186 That ministers thine own death if I die.
AWW 2.1. 187
AWW-HELEN
If I break time, or flinch in property
AWW 2.1. 188 Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,
AWW 2.1. 189 And well deserved. Not helping, death's my fee.
AWW 2.1. 190 But if I help, what do you promise me?
AWW 2.1. 191B
AWW-KING
Make thy demand.
AWW-HELEN
But will you make it even?
AWW 2.1. 192
AWW-KING
Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.
AWW 2.1. 193
AWW-HELEN
Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand
AWW 2.1. 194 What husband in thy power I will command.
AWW 2.1. 195 Exempted be from me the arrogance
AWW 2.1. 196 To choose from forth the royal blood of France,
AWW 2.1. 197 My low and humble name to propagate
AWW 2.1. 198 With any branch or image of thy state;
AWW 2.1. 199 But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know
AWW 2.1. 200 Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.
AWW 2.1. 201
AWW-KING
Here is my hand. The premises observed,
AWW 2.1. 202 Thy will by my performance shall be served.
AWW 2.1. 203 So make the choice of thy own time, for I,
AWW 2.1. 204 Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.
AWW 2.1. 205 More should I question thee, and more I must,
AWW 2.1. 206 Though more to know could not be more to trust:
AWW 2.1. 207 From whence thou cam'st, how tended on - but rest
AWW 2.1. 208 Unquestioned welcome, and undoubted blessed. -
AWW 2.1. 209 Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
AWW 2.1. 210 As high as word, my deed shall match thy deed. {Flourish. Exeunt +
AWW 2.1. 210 the King, [carried], and Helen}
AWW 2.1. 0 {Enter the Countess and Lavatch the clown}
AWW 2.2. 1
AWW-COUNTESS
Come on, sir. I shall now put you to the height
AWW 2.2. 2 of your breeding.
AWW 2.2. 3
AWW-LAVATCH
I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught.
AWW 2.2. 4 I know my business is but to the court.
AWW 2.2. 5
AWW-COUNTESS
`To the court'? Why, what place make you
AWW 2.2. 6 special, when you put off that with such contempt?
AWW 2.2. 7 `But to the court'!
AWW 2.2. 8
AWW-LAVATCH
Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any
AWW 2.2. 9 manners he may easily put it off at court. He that
AWW 2.2. 10 cannot make a leg, put off 's cap, kiss his hand, and
AWW 2.2. 11 say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap, and
AWW 2.2. 12 indeed such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the
AWW 2.2. 13 court. But for me, I have an answer will serve all men.
AWW 2.2. 14
AWW-COUNTESS
Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all
AWW 2.2. 15 questions.
AWW 2.2. 16
AWW-LAVATCH
It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks:
AWW 2.2. 17 the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-
AWW 2.2. 18 buttock, or any buttock.
AWW 2.2. 19
AWW-COUNTESS
Will your answer serve fit to all questions?
AWW 2.2. 20
AWW-LAVATCH
As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,
AWW 2.2. 21 as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's
AWW 2.2. 22 rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove
AWW 2.2. 23 Tuesday, a morris for May Day, as the nail to his hole,
AWW 2.2. 24 the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding quean to a
AWW 2.2. 25 wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth,
AWW 2.2. 26 nay as the pudding to his skin.
AWW 2.2. 27
AWW-COUNTESS
Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for
AWW 2.2. 28 all questions?
AWW 2.2. 29
AWW-LAVATCH
From beyond your duke to beneath your constable,
AWW 2.2. 30 it will fit any question.
AWW 2.2. 31
AWW-COUNTESS
It must be an answer of most monstrous size
AWW 2.2. 32 that must fit all demands.
AWW 2.2. 33
AWW-LAVATCH
But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned
AWW 2.2. 34 should speak truth of it. Here it is, and all that belongs
AWW 2.2. 35 to 't. Ask me if I am a courtier. It shall do you no harm
AWW 2.2. 36 to learn.
AWW 2.2. 37
AWW-COUNTESS
To be young again, if we could! I will be a fool
AWW 2.2. 38 in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I
AWW 2.2. 39 pray you, sir, are you a courtier?
AWW 2.2. 40
AWW-LAVATCH
O Lord, sir! - There's a simple putting off. More,
AWW 2.2. 41 more, a hundred of them.
AWW 2.2. 42
AWW-COUNTESS
Sir, I am a poor friend of yours that loves you.
AWW 2.2. 43
AWW-LAVATCH
O Lord, sir! - Thick, thick, spare not me.
AWW 2.2. 44
AWW-COUNTESS
I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely
AWW 2.2. 45 meat.
AWW 2.2. 46
AWW-LAVATCH
O Lord, sir! - Nay, put me to 't, I warrant you.
AWW 2.2. 47
AWW-COUNTESS
You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.
AWW 2.2. 48
AWW-LAVATCH
O Lord, sir! - Spare not me.
AWW 2.2. 49
AWW-COUNTESS
Do you cry `O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and
AWW 2.2. 50 `spare not me'? Indeed, your `O Lord, sir!' is very
AWW 2.2. 51 sequent to your whipping. You would answer very well
AWW 2.2. 52 to a whipping, if you were but bound to 't.
AWW 2.2. 53
AWW-LAVATCH
I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my `O Lord,
AWW 2.2. 54 sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever.
AWW 2.2. 55
AWW-COUNTESS
I play the noble housewife with the time, to
AWW 2.2. 56 entertain it so merrily with a fool.
AWW 2.2. 57
AWW-LAVATCH
O Lord, sir! - Why, there 't serves well again.
AWW 2.2. 58
AWW-COUNTESS
An end, sir! To your business: give Helen +
AWW 2.2. 58 this, {She gives him a letter}
AWW 2.2. 59 And urge her to a present answer back.
AWW 2.2. 60 Commend me to my kinsmen and my son.
AWW 2.2. 61 This is not much.
AWW 2.2. 62
AWW-LAVATCH
Not much commendation to them?
AWW 2.2. 63
AWW-COUNTESS
Not much employment for you. You understand
AWW 2.2. 64 me.
AWW 2.2. 65
AWW-LAVATCH
Most fruitfully. I am there before my legs.
AWW 2.2. 66
AWW-COUNTESS
Haste you again. {Exeunt severally}
AWW 2.2. 0 {Enter Bertram, Lafeu [with a ballad], and Paroles}
AWW 2.3. 1
AWW-LAFEU
They say miracles are past, and we have our
AWW 2.3. 2 philosophical persons to make modern and familiar
AWW 2.3. 3 things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we
AWW 2.3. 4 make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into
AWW 2.3. 5 seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves
AWW 2.3. 6 to an unknown fear.
AWW 2.3. 7
AWW-PAROLES
Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that
AWW 2.3. 8 hath shot out in our latter times.
AWW 2.3. 9
AWW-BERTRAM
And so 'tis.
AWW 2.3. 10
AWW-LAFEU
To be relinquished of the artists -
AWW 2.3. 11
AWW-PAROLES
So I say - both of Galen and Paracelsus.
AWW 2.3. 12
AWW-LAFEU
Of all the learned and authentic Fellows -
AWW 2.3. 13
AWW-PAROLES
Right, so I say.
AWW 2.3. 14
AWW-LAFEU
That gave him out incurable -
AWW 2.3. 15
AWW-PAROLES
Why, there 'tis, so say I too.
AWW 2.3. 16
AWW-LAFEU
Not to be helped.
AWW 2.3. 17
AWW-PAROLES
Right, as 'twere a man assured of a -
AWW 2.3. 18
AWW-LAFEU
Uncertain life and sure death.
AWW 2.3. 19
AWW-PAROLES
Just, you say well, so would I have said.
AWW 2.3. 20
AWW-LAFEU
I may truly say it is a novelty to the world.
AWW 2.3. 21
AWW-PAROLES
It is indeed. If you will have it in showing, you
AWW 2.3. 22 shall read it in {[pointing to the ballad]} +
AWW 2.3. 22 what-do-ye-call
AWW 2.3. 23 there.
AWW 2.3. 24
AWW-LAFEU
{[reads]} `A showing of a heavenly effect in +
AWW 2.3. 24 an earthly
AWW 2.3. 25 actor.'
AWW 2.3. 26
AWW-PAROLES
That's it, I would have said the very same.
AWW 2.3. 27
AWW-LAFEU
Why, your dolphin is not lustier. Fore me, I speak
AWW 2.3. 28 in respect -
AWW 2.3. 29
AWW-PAROLES
Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the
AWW 2.3. 30 brief and the tedious of it, and he's of a most facinorous
AWW 2.3. 31 spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the -
AWW 2.3. 32
AWW-LAFEU
Very hand of heaven.
AWW 2.3. 33
AWW-PAROLES
Ay, so I say.
AWW 2.3. 34
AWW-LAFEU
In a most weak -
AWW 2.3. 35
AWW-PAROLES
And debile minister great power, great transcendence,
AWW 2.3. 36 which should indeed give us a further use
AWW 2.3. 37 to be made than alone the recov'ry of the king, as to
AWW 2.3. 38 be -
AWW 2.3. 39
AWW-LAFEU
Generally thankful. {Enter the King, Helen, and +
AWW 2.3. 39 attendants}
AWW 2.3. 40
AWW-PAROLES
I would have said it, you say well. Here comes
AWW 2.3. 41 the King.
AWW 2.3. 42
AWW-LAFEU
{Lustig}, as the Dutchman says. I'll like a maid the
AWW 2.3. 43 better whilst I have a tooth in my head. {[The King and Helen +
AWW 2.3. 43 dance]}
AWW 2.3. 44 Why, he's able to lead her a coranto.
AWW 2.3. 45
AWW-PAROLES
{Mort du vinaigre}, is not this Helen?
AWW 2.3. 46
AWW-LAFEU
Fore God, I think so.
AWW 2.3. 47
AWW-KING
Go call before me all the lords in court. +
AWW 2.3. 47 {Exit one or more}
AWW 2.3. 48 Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side, {[The King +
AWW 2.3. 48 and Helen sit]}
AWW 2.3. 49 And with this healthful hand whose banished sense
AWW 2.3. 50 Thou hast repealed, a second time receive
AWW 2.3. 51 The confirmation of my promised gift,
AWW 2.3. 52 Which but attends thy naming. {Enter four Lords}
AWW 2.3. 53 Fair maid, send forth thine eye. This youthful parcel
AWW 2.3. 54 Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
AWW 2.3. 55 O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice
AWW 2.3. 56 I have to use. Thy frank election make.
AWW 2.3. 57 Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.
AWW 2.3. 58
AWW-HELEN
To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
AWW 2.3. 59 Fall when love please. Marry, to each but one.
AWW 2.3. 60
AWW-LAFEU
{(aside)} I'd give bay Curtal and his +
AWW 2.3. 60 furniture
AWW 2.3. 61 My mouth no more were broken than these boys',
AWW 2.3. 62B And writ as little beard.
AWW-KING
{(to Helen)} Peruse +
AWW 2.3. 62B them well.
AWW 2.3. 63 Not one of these but had a noble father.
AWW 2.3. 64A
AWW-HELEN
Gentlemen,
AWW 2.3. 65 Heaven hath through me restored the King to health.
AWW 2.3. 66
AWW-[ALL BUT HELEN]
We understand it, and thank heaven for you.
AWW 2.3. 67
AWW-HELEN
I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest
AWW 2.3. 68 That I protest I simply am a maid. -
AWW 2.3. 69 Please it your majesty, I have done already.
AWW 2.3. 70 The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me:
AWW 2.3. 71 `We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,
AWW 2.3. 72 Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever,
AWW 2.3. 73B We'll ne'er come there again.'
AWW-KING
Make choice and see.
AWW 2.3. 74 Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.
AWW 2.3. 75
AWW-HELEN
{(rising)} Now, Dian, from thy altar do I +
AWW 2.3. 75 fly,
AWW 2.3. 76 And to imperial Love, that god most high,
AWW 2.3. 77B Do my sighs stream. {[She addresses her to a Lord]} +
AWW 2.3. 77B Sir, will you hear my suit?
AWW 2.3. 78B
AWW-FIRST LORD
And grant it.
AWW-HELEN
Thanks, sir. All the rest is +
AWW 2.3. 78B mute.
AWW 2.3. 79
AWW-LAFEU
{(aside)} I had rather be in this choice +
AWW 2.3. 79 than throw
AWW 2.3. 80 ambs-ace for my life.
AWW 2.3. 81
AWW-HELEN
{(to another Lord)} The honour, sir, that +
AWW 2.3. 81 flames in your fair eyes,
AWW 2.3. 82 Before I speak, too threat'ningly replies.
AWW 2.3. 83 Love make your fortunes twenty times above
AWW 2.3. 84 Her that so wishes, and her humble love.
AWW 2.3. 85B
AWW-SECOND LORD
No better, if you please.
AWW-HELEN
My wish receive,
AWW 2.3. 86 Which great Love grant. And so I take my leave.
AWW 2.3. 87
AWW-LAFEU
{(aside)} Do all they deny her? An they were +
AWW 2.3. 87 sons of
AWW 2.3. 88 mine I'd have them whipped, or I would send them to
AWW 2.3. 89 th' Turk to make eunuchs of.
AWW 2.3. 90
AWW-HELEN
{(to another Lord)} Be not afraid that I +
AWW 2.3. 90 your hand should take;
AWW 2.3. 91 I'll never do you wrong for your own sake.
AWW 2.3. 92 Blessing upon your vows, and in your bed
AWW 2.3. 93 Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed.
AWW 2.3. 94
AWW-LAFEU
{(aside)} These boys are boys of ice, +
AWW 2.3. 94 they'll none have
AWW 2.3. 95 her. Sure they are bastards to the English, the French
AWW 2.3. 96 ne'er got 'em.
AWW 2.3. 97
AWW-HELEN
{(to another Lord)} You are too young, too +
AWW 2.3. 97 happy, and too good
AWW 2.3. 98 To make yourself a son out of my blood.
AWW 2.3. 99A
AWW-FOURTH LORD
Fair one, I think not so.
AWW 2.3. 100
AWW-LAFEU
{(aside)} There's one grape yet. I am sure +
AWW 2.3. 100 thy father
AWW 2.3. 101 drunk wine, but if thou beest not an ass I am a youth
AWW 2.3. 102 of fourteen. I have known thee already.
AWW 2.3. 103
AWW-HELEN
{(to Bertram)} I dare not say I take you, +
AWW 2.3. 103 but I give
AWW 2.3. 104 Me and my service ever whilst I live
AWW 2.3. 105 Into your guiding power. - This is the man.
AWW 2.3. 106
AWW-KING
Why then, young Bertram, take her, she's thy wife.
AWW 2.3. 107
AWW-BERTRAM
My wife, my liege? I shall beseech your highness,
AWW 2.3. 108 In such a business give me leave to use
AWW 2.3. 109B The help of mine own eyes.
AWW-KING
Know'st thou not, Bertram,
AWW 2.3. 110B What she has done for me?
AWW-BERTRAM
Yes, my good lord,
AWW 2.3. 111 But never hope to know why I should marry her.
AWW 2.3. 112
AWW-KING
Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed.
AWW 2.3. 113
AWW-BERTRAM
But follows it, my lord, to bring me down
AWW 2.3. 114 Must answer for your raising? I know her well:
AWW 2.3. 115 She had her breeding at my father's charge.
AWW 2.3. 116 A poor physician's daughter, my wife? Disdain
AWW 2.3. 117 Rather corrupt me ever.
AWW 2.3. 118
AWW-KING
'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which
AWW 2.3. 119 I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,
AWW 2.3. 120 Of colour, weight, and heat, poured all together,
AWW 2.3. 121 Would quite confound distinction, yet stands off
AWW 2.3. 122 In differences so mighty. If she be
AWW 2.3. 123 All that is virtuous, save what thou dislik'st -
AWW 2.3. 124 `A poor physician's daughter' - thou dislik'st
AWW 2.3. 125 Of virtue for the name. But do not so.
AWW 2.3. 126 From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
AWW 2.3. 127 The place is dignified by th' doer's deed.
AWW 2.3. 128 Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,
AWW 2.3. 129 It is a dropsied honour. Good alone
AWW 2.3. 130 Is good without a name, vileness is so:
AWW 2.3. 131 The property by what it is should go,
AWW 2.3. 132 Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair.
AWW 2.3. 133 In these to nature she's immediate heir,
AWW 2.3. 134 And these breed honour. That is honour's scorn
AWW 2.3. 135 Which challenges itself as honour's born
AWW 2.3. 136 And is not like the sire; honours thrive
AWW 2.3. 137 When rather from our acts we them derive
AWW 2.3. 138 Than our foregoers. The mere word's a slave,
AWW 2.3. 139 Debauched on every tomb, on every grave
AWW 2.3. 140 A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
AWW 2.3. 141 Where dust and dammed oblivion is the tomb
AWW 2.3. 142 Of honoured bones indeed. What should be said?
AWW 2.3. 143 If thou canst like this creature as a maid,
AWW 2.3. 144 I can create the rest. Virtue and she
AWW 2.3. 145 Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.
AWW 2.3. 146
AWW-BERTRAM
I cannot love her, nor will strive to do 't.
AWW 2.3. 147
AWW-KING
Thou wrong'st thyself. If thou shouldst strive to choose -
AWW 2.3. 148
AWW-HELEN
That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad.
AWW 2.3. 149 Let the rest go.
AWW 2.3. 150
AWW-KING
My honour's at the stake, which to defeat
AWW 2.3. 151 I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,
AWW 2.3. 152 Proud, scornful boy, unworthy this good gift,
AWW 2.3. 153 That dost in vile misprision shackle up
AWW 2.3. 154 My love and her desert; that canst not dream
AWW 2.3. 155 We, poising us in her defective scale,
AWW 2.3. 156 Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know
AWW 2.3. 157 It is in us to plant thine honour where
AWW 2.3. 158 We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt;
AWW 2.3. 159 Obey our will, which travails in thy good;
AWW 2.3. 160 Believe not thy disdain, but presently
AWW 2.3. 161 Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
AWW 2.3. 162 Which both thy duty owes and our power claims,
AWW 2.3. 163 Or I will throw thee from my care for ever
AWW 2.3. 164 Into the staggers and the careless lapse
AWW 2.3. 165 Of youth and ignorance, both my revenge and hate
AWW 2.3. 166 Loosing upon thee in the name of justice
AWW 2.3. 167 Without all terms of pity. Speak. Thine answer.
AWW 2.3. 168
AWW-BERTRAM
{(kneeling)} Pardon, my gracious lord, for +
AWW 2.3. 168 I submit
AWW 2.3. 169 My fancy to your eyes. When I consider
AWW 2.3. 170 What great creation and what dole of honour
AWW 2.3. 171 Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late
AWW 2.3. 172 Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now
AWW 2.3. 173 The praised of the King; who, so ennobled,
AWW 2.3. 174B Is as 'twere born so.
AWW-KING
Take her by the hand
AWW 2.3. 175 And tell her she is thine; to whom I promise
AWW 2.3. 176 A counterpoise, if not to thy estate
AWW 2.3. 177B A balance more replete.
AWW-BERTRAM
{(rising)} I take +
AWW 2.3. 177B her hand.
AWW 2.3. 178
AWW-KING
Good fortune and the favour of the King
AWW 2.3. 179 Smile upon this contract, whose ceremony
AWW 2.3. 180 Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,
AWW 2.3. 181 And be performed tonight. The solemn feast
AWW 2.3. 182 Shall more attend upon the coming space,
AWW 2.3. 183 Expecting absent friends. As thou lov'st her
AWW 2.3. 184 Thy love's to me religious; else, does err. {[Flourish.] Exeunt +
AWW 2.3. 184 all but Paroles and Lafeu, who stay behind, commenting on this wedding}
AWW 2.3. 185
AWW-LAFEU
Do you hear, monsieur? A word with you.
AWW 2.3. 186
AWW-PAROLES
Your pleasure, sir.
AWW 2.3. 187
AWW-LAFEU
Your lord and master did well to make his
AWW 2.3. 188 recantation.
AWW 2.3. 189
AWW-PAROLES
Recantation? My lord? My master?
AWW 2.3. 190
AWW-LAFEU
Ay. Is it not a language I speak?
AWW 2.3. 191
AWW-PAROLES
A most harsh one, and not to be understood
AWW 2.3. 192 without bloody succeeding. My master?
AWW 2.3. 193
AWW-LAFEU
Are you companion to the Count Roussillon?
AWW 2.3. 194
AWW-PAROLES
To any count, to all counts, to what is man.
AWW 2.3. 195
AWW-LAFEU
To what is count's man; count's master is of
AWW 2.3. 196 another style.
AWW 2.3. 197
AWW-PAROLES
You are too old, sir. Let it satisfy you, you are
AWW 2.3. 198 too old.
AWW 2.3. 199
AWW-LAFEU
I must tell thee, sirrah, I write `Man', to which
AWW 2.3. 200 title age cannot bring thee.
AWW 2.3. 201
AWW-PAROLES
What I dare too well do I dare not do.
AWW 2.3. 202
AWW-LAFEU
I did think thee for two ordinaries to be a pretty
AWW 2.3. 203 wise fellow. Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy
AWW 2.3. 204 travel; it might pass. Yet the scarves and the bannerets
AWW 2.3. 205 about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing
AWW 2.3. 206 thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found
AWW 2.3. 207 thee; when I lose thee again I care not. Yet art thou
AWW 2.3. 208 good for nothing but taking up, and that thou'rt scarce
AWW 2.3. 209 worth.
AWW 2.3. 210
AWW-PAROLES
Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon
AWW 2.3. 211 thee -
AWW 2.3. 212
AWW-LAFEU
Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou
AWW 2.3. 213 hasten thy trial, which if - Lord have mercy on thee
AWW 2.3. 214 for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee
AWW 2.3. 215 well. Thy casement I need not open, for I look through
AWW 2.3. 216 thee. Give me thy hand.
AWW 2.3. 217
AWW-PAROLES
My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
AWW 2.3. 218
AWW-LAFEU
Ay, with all my heart, and thou art worthy of it.
AWW 2.3. 219
AWW-PAROLES
I have not, my lord, deserved it.
AWW 2.3. 220
AWW-LAFEU
Yes, good faith, every dram of it, and I will not
AWW 2.3. 221 bate thee a scruple.
AWW 2.3. 222
AWW-PAROLES
Well, I shall be wiser.
AWW 2.3. 223
AWW-LAFEU
E'en as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull
AWW 2.3. 224 at a smack o' th' contrary. If ever thou beest bound in
AWW 2.3. 225 thy scarf and beaten thou shall find what it is to be
AWW 2.3. 226 proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my
AWW 2.3. 227 acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, that
AWW 2.3. 228 I may say in the default, `He is a man I know'.
AWW 2.3. 229
AWW-PAROLES
My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.
AWW 2.3. 230
AWW-LAFEU
I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my
AWW 2.3. 231 poor doing eternal; for doing I am past, as I will by
AWW 2.3. 232 thee, in what motion age will give me leave. {Exit}
AWW 2.3. 233
AWW-PAROLES
Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace +
AWW 2.3. 233 off
AWW 2.3. 234 me. Scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord. Well, I must be
AWW 2.3. 235 patient. There is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him,
AWW 2.3. 236 by my life, if I can meet him with any convenience,
AWW 2.3. 237 an he were double and double a lord. I'll have no more
AWW 2.3. 238 pity of his age than I would have of - I'll beat him, an
AWW 2.3. 239 if I could but meet him again. {Enter Lafeu}
AWW 2.3. 240
AWW-LAFEU
Sirrah, your lord and master's married. There's
AWW 2.3. 241 news for you: you have a new mistress.
AWW 2.3. 242
AWW-PAROLES
I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make
AWW 2.3. 243 some reservation of your wrongs. He is my good lord;
AWW 2.3. 244 whom I serve above is my master.
AWW 2.3. 245
AWW-LAFEU
Who? God?
AWW 2.3. 246
AWW-PAROLES
Ay, sir.
AWW 2.3. 247
AWW-LAFEU
The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou
AWW 2.3. 248 garter up thy arms o' this fashion? Dost make hose of
AWW 2.3. 249 thy sleeves? Do other servants so? Thou wert best set
AWW 2.3. 250 thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honour,
AWW 2.3. 251 if I were but two hours younger I'd beat thee. Methink'st
AWW 2.3. 252 thou art a general offence and every man should beat
AWW 2.3. 253 thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe
AWW 2.3. 254 themselves upon thee.
AWW 2.3. 255
AWW-PAROLES
This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.
AWW 2.3. 256
AWW-LAFEU
Go to, sir. You were beaten in Italy for picking a
AWW 2.3. 257 kernel out of a pomegranate, you are a vagabond and
AWW 2.3. 258 no true traveller, you are more saucy with lords and
AWW 2.3. 259 honourable personages than the commission of your
AWW 2.3. 260 birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth
AWW 2.3. 261 another word, else I'd call you knave. I leave you. {Exit}
AWW 2.3. 262
AWW-PAROLES
Good, very good, it is so then. Good, very good,
AWW 2.3. 263 let it be concealed awhile. {[Enter Bertram]}
AWW 2.3. 264
AWW-BERTRAM
Undone and forfeited to cares for ever.
AWW 2.3. 265
AWW-PAROLES
What's the matter, sweetheart?
AWW 2.3. 266
AWW-BERTRAM
Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,
AWW 2.3. 267 I will not bed her.
AWW 2.3. 268
AWW-PAROLES
What, what, sweetheart?
AWW 2.3. 269
AWW-BERTRAM
O my Paroles, they have married me.
AWW 2.3. 270 I'll to the Tuscan wars and never bed her.
AWW 2.3. 271
AWW-PAROLES
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits
AWW 2.3. 272 The tread of a man's foot. To th' wars!
AWW 2.3. 273
AWW-BERTRAM
There's letters from my mother. What th' import is
AWW 2.3. 274 I know not yet.
AWW 2.3. 275
AWW-PAROLES
Ay, that would be known. To th' wars, my boy, to th' wars!
AWW 2.3. 276 He wears his honour in a box unseen
AWW 2.3. 277 That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,
AWW 2.3. 278 Spending his manly marrow in her arms,
AWW 2.3. 279 Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
AWW 2.3. 280 Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions!
AWW 2.3. 281 France is a stable, we that dwell in 't jades.
AWW 2.3. 282 Therefore to th' war.
AWW 2.3. 283
AWW-BERTRAM
It shall be so. I'll send her to my house,
AWW 2.3. 284 Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,
AWW 2.3. 285 And wherefore I am fled, write to the King
AWW 2.3. 286 That which I durst not speak. His present gift
AWW 2.3. 287 Shall furnish me to those Italian fields
AWW 2.3. 288 Where noble fellows strike. Wars is no strife
AWW 2.3. 289 To the dark house and the detested wife.
AWW 2.3. 290
AWW-PAROLES
Will this {capriccio} hold in thee? Art sure?
AWW 2.3. 291
AWW-BERTRAM
Go with me to my chamber and advise me.
AWW 2.3. 292 I'll send her straight away. Tomorrow
AWW 2.3. 293 I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.
AWW 2.3. 294
AWW-PAROLES
Why, these balls bound, there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:
AWW 2.3. 295 A young man married is a man that's marred.
AWW 2.3. 296 Therefore away, and leave her bravely. Go.
AWW 2.3. 297 The King has done you wrong, but hush 'tis so. {Exeunt}
AWW 2.3. 0 {Enter Helen reading a letter, and Lavatch the clown}
AWW 2.4. 1
AWW-HELEN
My mother greets me kindly. Is she well?
AWW 2.4. 2
AWW-LAVATCH
She is not well, but yet she has her health. +
AWW 2.4. 2 She's
AWW 2.4. 3 very merry, but yet she is not well. But thanks be given
AWW 2.4. 4 she's very well and wants nothing i' th' world. But yet
AWW 2.4. 5 she is not well.
AWW 2.4. 6
AWW-HELEN
If she be very well, what does she ail
AWW 2.4. 7 That she's not very well?
AWW 2.4. 8
AWW-LAVATCH
Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two +
AWW 2.4. 8 things.
AWW 2.4. 9
AWW-HELEN
What two things?
AWW 2.4. 10
AWW-LAVATCH
One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send
AWW 2.4. 11 her quickly. The other, that she's in earth, from whence
AWW 2.4. 12 God send her quickly. {Enter Paroles}
AWW 2.4. 13
AWW-PAROLES
Bless you, my fortunate lady.
AWW 2.4. 14
AWW-HELEN
I hope, sir, I have your good will to have
AWW 2.4. 15 Mine own good fortunes.
AWW 2.4. 16
AWW-PAROLES
You had my prayers to lead them on, and to
AWW 2.4. 17 keep them on have them still. - O my knave, how does
AWW 2.4. 18 my old lady?
AWW 2.4. 19
AWW-LAVATCH
So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,
AWW 2.4. 20 I would she did as you say.
AWW 2.4. 21
AWW-PAROLES
Why, I say nothing.
AWW 2.4. 22
AWW-LAVATCH
Marry, you are the wiser man, for many a
AWW 2.4. 23 man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. To say
AWW 2.4. 24 nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have
AWW 2.4. 25 nothing, is to be a great part of your title, which is
AWW 2.4. 26 within a very little of nothing.
AWW 2.4. 27
AWW-PAROLES
Away, thou'rt a knave.
AWW 2.4. 28
AWW-LAVATCH
You should have said, sir, `Before a knave,
AWW 2.4. 29 thou'rt a knave' - that's `Before me, thou'rt a knave'.
AWW 2.4. 30 This had been truth, sir.
AWW 2.4. 31
AWW-PAROLES
Go to, thou art a witty fool. I have found thee.
AWW 2.4. 32
AWW-LAVATCH
Did you find me in yourself, sir, or were you
AWW 2.4. 33 taught to find me?
AWW 2.4. 34
AWW-[PAROLES]
In myself, knave.
AWW 2.4. 35
AWW-LAVATCH
The search, sir, was profitable, and much fool
AWW 2.4. 36 may you find in you, even to the world's pleasure and
AWW 2.4. 37 the increase of laughter.
AWW 2.4. 38
AWW-PAROLES
{(to Helen)} A good knave, i' faith, and +
AWW 2.4. 38 well fed.
AWW 2.4. 39 Madam, my lord will go away tonight.
AWW 2.4. 40 A very serious business calls on him.
AWW 2.4. 41 The great prerogative and rite of love,
AWW 2.4. 42 Which as your due time claims, he does acknowledge,
AWW 2.4. 43 But puts it off to a compelled restraint:
AWW 2.4. 44 Whose want and whose delay is strewed with sweets,
AWW 2.4. 45 Which they distil now in the curbed time,
AWW 2.4. 46 To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy,
AWW 2.4. 47B And pleasure drown the brim.
AWW-HELEN
What's his will else?
AWW 2.4. 48
AWW-PAROLES
That you will take your instant leave o' th' King,
AWW 2.4. 49 And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
AWW 2.4. 50 Strengthened with what apology you think
AWW 2.4. 51B May make it probable need.
AWW-HELEN
What more commands he?
AWW 2.4. 52
AWW-PAROLES
That having this obtained, you presently
AWW 2.4. 53B Attend his further pleasure.
AWW-HELEN
In everything
AWW 2.4. 54B I wait upon his will.
AWW-PAROLES
I shall report it so.
AWW 2.4. 55
AWW-HELEN
I pray you. {[Exit Paroles at one door]}
AWW 2.4. 56 Come, sirrah. {Exeunt [at another door]}
AWW 2.4. 0 {Enter Lafeu and Bertram}
AWW 2.5. 1
AWW-LAFEU
But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.
AWW 2.5. 2
AWW-BERTRAM
Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.
AWW 2.5. 3
AWW-LAFEU
You have it from his own deliverance.
AWW 2.5. 4
AWW-BERTRAM
And by other warranted testimony.
AWW 2.5. 5
AWW-LAFEU
Then my dial goes not true. I took this lark for a
AWW 2.5. 6 bunting.
AWW 2.5. 7
AWW-BERTRAM
I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in
AWW 2.5. 8 knowledge, and accordingly valiant.
AWW 2.5. 9
AWW-LAFEU
I have then sinned against his experience and
AWW 2.5. 10 transgressed against his valour - and my state that way
AWW 2.5. 11 is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my heart to
AWW 2.5. 12 repent. Here he comes. I pray you make us friends. I
AWW 2.5. 13 will pursue the amity. {Enter Paroles}
AWW 2.5. 14
AWW-PAROLES
{(to Bertram)} These things shall be done, +
AWW 2.5. 14 sir.
AWW 2.5. 15
AWW-LAFEU
{(to Bertram)} Pray you, sir, who's his +
AWW 2.5. 15 tailor?
AWW 2.5. 16
AWW-PAROLES
Sir!
AWW 2.5. 17
AWW-LAFEU
O, I know him well. Ay, `Sir', he; `Sir''s a good
AWW 2.5. 18 workman, a very good tailor.
AWW 2.5. 19
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside to Paroles)} Is she gone to the +
AWW 2.5. 19 King?
AWW 2.5. 20
AWW-PAROLES
She is.
AWW 2.5. 21
AWW-BERTRAM
Will she away tonight?
AWW 2.5. 22
AWW-PAROLES
As you'll have her.
AWW 2.5. 23
AWW-BERTRAM
I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,
AWW 2.5. 24 Given order for our horses, and tonight,
AWW 2.5. 25 When I should take possession of the bride,
AWW 2.5. 26 End ere I do begin.
AWW 2.5. 27
AWW-LAFEU
{(aside)} A good traveller is something at +
AWW 2.5. 27 the latter
AWW 2.5. 28 end of a dinner, but one that lies three-thirds and uses
AWW 2.5. 29 a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with,
AWW 2.5. 30 should be once heard and thrice beaten. {(To Paroles)}
AWW 2.5. 31 God save you, captain.
AWW 2.5. 32
AWW-BERTRAM
{(to Paroles)} Is there any unkindness +
AWW 2.5. 32 between my
AWW 2.5. 33 lord and you, monsieur?
AWW 2.5. 34
AWW-PAROLES
I know not how I have deserved to run into my
AWW 2.5. 35 lord's displeasure.
AWW 2.5. 36
AWW-LAFEU
You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs
AWW 2.5. 37 and all, like him that leaped into the custard, and out
AWW 2.5. 38 of it you'll run again, rather than suffer question for
AWW 2.5. 39 your residence.
AWW 2.5. 40
AWW-BERTRAM
It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.
AWW 2.5. 41
AWW-LAFEU
And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's
AWW 2.5. 42 prayers. Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me:
AWW 2.5. 43 there can be no kernel in this light nut. The soul of
AWW 2.5. 44 this man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of
AWW 2.5. 45 heavy consequence. I have kept of them tame, and
AWW 2.5. 46 know their natures. - Farewell, monsieur. I have
AWW 2.5. 47 spoken better of you than you have wit or will to
AWW 2.5. 48 deserve at my hand, but we must do good against evil. {Exit}
AWW 2.5. 49A
AWW-PAROLES
An idle lord, I swear.
AWW 2.5. 50A
AWW-BERTRAM
I think not so.
AWW 2.5. 51A
AWW-PAROLES
Why, do you not know him?
AWW 2.5. 52
AWW-BERTRAM
Yes, I do know him well, and common speech
AWW 2.5. 53 Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. {Enter Helen, +
AWW 2.5. 53 [attended]}
AWW 2.5. 54
AWW-HELEN
I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,
AWW 2.5. 55 Spoke with the King, and have procured his leave
AWW 2.5. 56 For present parting; only he desires
AWW 2.5. 57B Some private speech with you.
AWW-BERTRAM
I shall obey his will.
AWW 2.5. 58 You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,
AWW 2.5. 59 Which holds not colour with the time, nor does
AWW 2.5. 60 The ministration and required office
AWW 2.5. 61 On my particular. Prepared I was not
AWW 2.5. 62 For such a business, therefore am I found
AWW 2.5. 63 So much unsettled. This drives me to entreat you
AWW 2.5. 64 That presently you take your way for home,
AWW 2.5. 65 And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,
AWW 2.5. 66 For my respects are better than they seem,
AWW 2.5. 67 And my appointments have in them a need
AWW 2.5. 68 Greater than shows itself at the first view
AWW 2.5. 69 To you that know them not. This to my mother. {He gives her a +
AWW 2.5. 69 letter}
AWW 2.5. 70 'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so
AWW 2.5. 71B I leave you to your wisdom.
AWW-HELEN
Sir, I can nothing say
AWW 2.5. 72 But that I am your most obedient servant.
AWW 2.5. 73B
AWW-BERTRAM
Come, come, no more of that.
AWW-HELEN
And ever shall
AWW 2.5. 74 With true observance seek to eke out that
AWW 2.5. 75 Wherein toward me my homely stars have failed
AWW 2.5. 76B To equal my great fortune.
AWW-BERTRAM
Let that go.
AWW 2.5. 77 My haste is very great. Farewell. Hie home.
AWW 2.5. 78B
AWW-HELEN
Pray sir, your pardon.
AWW-BERTRAM
Well, what would you say?
AWW 2.5. 79
AWW-HELEN
I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,
AWW 2.5. 80 Nor dare I say 'tis mine - and yet it is -
AWW 2.5. 81 But like a timorous thief most fain would steal
AWW 2.5. 82B What law does vouch mine own.
AWW-BERTRAM
What would you have?
AWW 2.5. 83
AWW-HELEN
Something, and scarce so much: nothing indeed.
AWW 2.5. 84 I would not tell you what I would, my lord. Faith, yes:
AWW 2.5. 85 Strangers and foes do sunder and not kiss.
AWW 2.5. 86
AWW-BERTRAM
I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.
AWW 2.5. 87
AWW-HELEN
I shall not break your bidding, good my lord. -
AWW 2.5. 88 Where are my other men? - Monsieur, farewell. {Exeunt Helen [and +
AWW 2.5. 88 attendants at one door]}
AWW 2.5. 89
AWW-BERTRAM
Go thou toward home, where I will never come
AWW 2.5. 90 Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum. -
AWW 2.5. 91B Away, and for our flight.
AWW-PAROLES
Bravely. {Coraggio}! +
AWW 2.5. 91B {Exeunt [at another door]}
AWW 2.5. 0 {Flourish of trumpets. Enter the Duke of Florence +
AWW 3.1. 0 and the two Lords Dumaine, with a troop of soldiers}
AWW 3.1. 1
AWW-DUKE
So that from point to point now have you heard
AWW 3.1. 2 The fundamental reasons of this war,
AWW 3.1. 3 Whose great decision hath much blood let forth,
AWW 3.1. 4B And more thirsts after.
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Holy seems the quarrel
AWW 3.1. 5 Upon your grace's part; black and fearful
AWW 3.1. 6 On the opposer.
AWW 3.1. 7
AWW-DUKE
Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
AWW 3.1. 8 Would in so just a business shut his bosom
AWW 3.1. 9B Against our borrowing prayers.
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Good my lord,
AWW 3.1. 10 The reasons of our state I cannot yield
AWW 3.1. 11 But like a common and an outward man
AWW 3.1. 12 That the great figure of a council frames
AWW 3.1. 13 By self-unable motion; therefore dare not
AWW 3.1. 14 Say what I think of it, since I have found
AWW 3.1. 15 Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
AWW 3.1. 16B As often as I guessed.
AWW-DUKE
Be it his pleasure.
AWW 3.1. 17
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
But I am sure the younger of our nation,
AWW 3.1. 18 That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
AWW 3.1. 19B Come here for physic.
AWW-DUKE
Welcome shall they be,
AWW 3.1. 20 And all the honours that can fly from us
AWW 3.1. 21 Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
AWW 3.1. 22 When better fall, for your avails they fell.
AWW 3.1. 23 Tomorrow to the field. {Flourish. Exeunt}
AWW 3.1. 0 {Enter the Countess with a letter, and Lavatch}
AWW 3.2. 1
AWW-COUNTESS
It hath happened all as I would have had it,
AWW 3.2. 2 save that he comes not along with her.
AWW 3.2. 3
AWW-LAVATCH
By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very
AWW 3.2. 4 melancholy man.
AWW 3.2. 5
AWW-COUNTESS
By what observance, I pray you?
AWW 3.2. 6
AWW-LAVATCH
Why, he will look upon his boot and sing, mend
AWW 3.2. 7 the ruff and sing, ask questions and sing, pick his teeth
AWW 3.2. 8 and sing. I know a man that had this trick of
AWW 3.2. 9 melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.
AWW 3.2. 10
AWW-COUNTESS
Let me see what he writes, and when he means
AWW 3.2. 11 to come. {She opens the letter and reads}
AWW 3.2. 12
AWW-LAVATCH
{(aside)} I have no mind to Isbel since I +
AWW 3.2. 12 was at
AWW 3.2. 13 court. Our old lings and our Isbels o' th' country are
AWW 3.2. 14 nothing like your old ling and your Isbels o' th' court.
AWW 3.2. 15 The brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to
AWW 3.2. 16 love as an old man loves money: with no stomach.
AWW 3.2. 17
AWW-COUNTESS
What have we here?
AWW 3.2. 18
AWW-LAVATCH
E'en that you have there. {Exit}
AWW 3.2. 19
AWW-COUNTESS
{(reads the letter aloud)} `I have sent +
AWW 3.2. 19 you a
AWW 3.2. 20 daughter-in-law. She hath recovered the King and
AWW 3.2. 21 undone me. I have wedded her, not bedded her, and
AWW 3.2. 22 sworn to make the ``not'' eternal. You shall hear I am
AWW 3.2. 23 run away; know it before the report come. If there be
AWW 3.2. 24 breadth enough in the world I will hold a long distance.
AWW 3.2. 25 My duty to you.
AWW 3.2. 26 Your unfortunate son,
AWW 3.2. 27 Bertram.'
AWW 3.2. 28 This is not well, rash and unbridled boy,
AWW 3.2. 29 To fly the favours of so good a King,
AWW 3.2. 30 To pluck his indignation on thy head
AWW 3.2. 31 By the misprizing of a maid too virtuous
AWW 3.2. 32 For the contempt of empire. {Enter Lavatch}
AWW 3.2. 33
AWW-LAVATCH
O madam, yonder is heavy news within,
AWW 3.2. 34 between two soldiers and my young lady.
AWW 3.2. 35
AWW-COUNTESS
What is the matter?
AWW 3.2. 36
AWW-LAVATCH
Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some
AWW 3.2. 37 comfort. Your son will not be killed so soon as I thought
AWW 3.2. 38 he would.
AWW 3.2. 39
AWW-COUNTESS
Why should he be killed?
AWW 3.2. 40
AWW-LAVATCH
So say I, madam - if he run away, as I hear he
AWW 3.2. 41 does. The danger is in standing to 't; that's the loss of
AWW 3.2. 42 men, though it be the getting of children. Here they
AWW 3.2. 43 come will tell you more. For my part, I only heard
AWW 3.2. 44 your son was run away. {[Exit]}
AWW 3.2. 45 {Enter Helen with a letter, and the two Lords Dumaine} +
AWW 3.2. 45
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
{(to the Countess)} Save you, +
AWW 3.2. 45 good madam.
AWW 3.2. 46
AWW-HELEN
Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.
AWW 3.2. 47A
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Do not say so.
AWW 3.2. 48
AWW-COUNTESS
{(to Helen)} Think upon patience. - Pray +
AWW 3.2. 48 you, gentlemen,
AWW 3.2. 49 I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief
AWW 3.2. 50 That the first face of neither on the start
AWW 3.2. 51 Can woman me unto 't. Where is my son, I pray you?
AWW 3.2. 52
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Madam, he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence.
AWW 3.2. 53 We met him thitherward, for thence we came,
AWW 3.2. 54 And, after some dispatch in hand at court,
AWW 3.2. 55 Thither we bend again.
AWW 3.2. 56
AWW-HELEN
Look on his letter, madam: here's my passport. {[She] +
AWW 3.2. 56 reads aloud}
AWW 3.2. 57 `When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which
AWW 3.2. 58 never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of
AWW 3.2. 59 thy body that I am father to, then call me husband;
AWW 3.2. 60 but in such a ``then'' I write a ``never''.'
AWW 3.2. 61 This is a dreadful sentence.
AWW 3.2. 62B
AWW-COUNTESS
Brought you this letter, gentlemen?
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
+
AWW 3.2. 62B Ay, madam,
AWW 3.2. 63 And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pains.
AWW 3.2. 64
AWW-COUNTESS
I prithee, lady, have a better cheer.
AWW 3.2. 65 If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine
AWW 3.2. 66 Thou robb'st me of a moiety. He was my son,
AWW 3.2. 67 But I do wash his name out of my blood,
AWW 3.2. 68 And thou art all my child. - Towards Florence is he?
AWW 3.2. 69B
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Ay, madam.
AWW-COUNTESS
And to be a soldier?
AWW 3.2. 70
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Such is his noble purpose, and - believe 't -
AWW 3.2. 71 The Duke will lay upon him all the honour
AWW 3.2. 72B That good convenience claims.
AWW-COUNTESS
Return you thither?
AWW 3.2. 73
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
AWW 3.2. 74
AWW-HELEN
`Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'
AWW 3.2. 75 'Tis bitter.
AWW 3.2. 76A
AWW-COUNTESS
Find you that there?
AWW 3.2. 77A
AWW-HELEN
Ay, madam.
AWW 3.2. 78
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
'Tis but the boldness of his hand,
AWW 3.2. 79 Haply, which his heart was not consenting to.
AWW 3.2. 80
AWW-COUNTESS
Nothing in France until he have no wife?
AWW 3.2. 81 There's nothing here that is too good for him
AWW 3.2. 82 But only she, and she deserves a lord
AWW 3.2. 83 That twenty such rude boys might tend upon
AWW 3.2. 84 And call her, hourly, mistress. Who was with him?
AWW 3.2. 85
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
A servant only, and a gentleman
AWW 3.2. 86 Which I have sometime known.
AWW 3.2. 87A
AWW-COUNTESS
Paroles, was it not?
AWW 3.2. 88A
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Ay, my good lady, he.
AWW 3.2. 89
AWW-COUNTESS
A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.
AWW 3.2. 90 My son corrupts a well-derived nature
AWW 3.2. 91B With his inducement.
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Indeed, good lady,
AWW 3.2. 92 The fellow has a deal of that too much,
AWW 3.2. 93B Which holds him much to have.
AWW-COUNTESS
You're welcome, gentlemen.
AWW 3.2. 94 I will entreat you when you see my son
AWW 3.2. 95 To tell him that his sword can never win
AWW 3.2. 96 The honour that he loses. More I'll entreat you
AWW 3.2. 97B Written to bear along.
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
We serve you, madam,
AWW 3.2. 98 In that and all your worthiest affairs.
AWW 3.2. 99
AWW-COUNTESS
Not so, but as we change our courtesies.
AWW 3.2. 100 Will you draw near? {Exeunt all but Helen}
AWW 3.2. 101
AWW-HELEN
`Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.'
AWW 3.2. 102 Nothing in France until he has no wife.
AWW 3.2. 103 Thou shalt have none, Roussillon, none in France;
AWW 3.2. 104 Then hast thou all again. Poor lord, is 't I
AWW 3.2. 105 That chase thee from thy country and expose
AWW 3.2. 106 Those tender limbs of thine to the event
AWW 3.2. 107 Of the none-sparing war? And is it I
AWW 3.2. 108 That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou
AWW 3.2. 109 Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark
AWW 3.2. 110 Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers
AWW 3.2. 111 That ride upon the violent speed of fire,
AWW 3.2. 112 Fly with false aim, cleave the still-piecing air
AWW 3.2. 113 That sings with piercing, do not touch my lord.
AWW 3.2. 114 Whoever shoots at him, I set him there.
AWW 3.2. 115 Whoever charges on his forward breast,
AWW 3.2. 116 I am the caitiff that do hold him to 't,
AWW 3.2. 117 And though I kill him not, I am the cause
AWW 3.2. 118 His death was so effected. Better 'twere
AWW 3.2. 119 I met the ravin lion when he roared
AWW 3.2. 120 With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere
AWW 3.2. 121 That all the miseries which nature owes
AWW 3.2. 122 Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Roussillon,
AWW 3.2. 123 Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,
AWW 3.2. 124 As oft it loses all. I will be gone;
AWW 3.2. 125 My being here it is that holds thee hence.
AWW 3.2. 126 Shall I stay here to do 't? No, no, although
AWW 3.2. 127 The air of paradise did fan the house
AWW 3.2. 128 And angels officed all. I will be gone,
AWW 3.2. 129 That pitiful rumour may report my flight
AWW 3.2. 130 To consolate thine ear. Come night, end day;
AWW 3.2. 131 For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away. {Exit}
AWW 3.2. 0 {Flourish of trumpets. Enter the Duke of Florence, +
AWW 3.3. 0 Bertram, a drummer and trumpeters, soldiers, and Paroles}
AWW 3.3. 1
AWW-DUKE
{(to Bertram)} The general of our horse thou +
AWW 3.3. 1 art, and we,
AWW 3.3. 2 Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence
AWW 3.3. 3B Upon thy promising fortune.
AWW-BERTRAM
Sir, it is
AWW 3.3. 4 A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet
AWW 3.3. 5 We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake
AWW 3.3. 6B To th' extreme edge of hazard.
AWW-DUKE
Then go thou forth,
AWW 3.3. 7 And Fortune play upon thy prosperous helm
AWW 3.3. 8B As thy auspicious mistress.
AWW-BERTRAM
This very day,
AWW 3.3. 9 Great Mars, I put myself into thy file.
AWW 3.3. 10 Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove
AWW 3.3. 11 A lover of thy drum, hater of love. {Exeunt}
AWW 3.3. 0 {Enter the Countess and Reynaldo her steward, with a +
AWW 3.4. 0 letter}
AWW 3.4. 1
AWW-COUNTESS
Alas! And would you take the letter of her?
AWW 3.4. 2 Might you not know she would do as she has done,
AWW 3.4. 3 By sending me a letter? Read it again.
AWW 3.4. 4
AWW-REYNALDO
{(reads the letter)} `I am Saint Jaques' +
AWW 3.4. 4 pilgrim, thither gone.
AWW 3.4. 5 Ambitious love hath so in me offended
AWW 3.4. 6 That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon
AWW 3.4. 7 With sainted vow my faults to have amended.
AWW 3.4. 8 Write, write, that from the bloody course of war
AWW 3.4. 9 My dearest master, your dear son, may hie.
AWW 3.4. 10 Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far
AWW 3.4. 11 His name with zealous fervour sanctify.
AWW 3.4. 12 His taken labours bid him me forgive;
AWW 3.4. 13 I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth
AWW 3.4. 14 From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,
AWW 3.4. 15 Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth.
AWW 3.4. 16 He is too good and fair for death and me;
AWW 3.4. 17 Whom I myself embrace to set him free.'
AWW 3.4. 18
AWW-COUNTESS
Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!
AWW 3.4. 19 Reynaldo, you did never lack advice so much
AWW 3.4. 20 As letting her pass so. Had I spoke with her,
AWW 3.4. 21 I could have well diverted her intents,
AWW 3.4. 22B Which thus she hath prevented.
AWW-REYNALDO
Pardon me, madam.
AWW 3.4. 23 If I had given you this at over-night
AWW 3.4. 24 She might have been o'erta'en - and yet she writes
AWW 3.4. 25B Pursuit would be but vain.
AWW-COUNTESS
What angel shall
AWW 3.4. 26 Bless this unworthy husband? He cannot thrive
AWW 3.4. 27 Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear
AWW 3.4. 28 And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath
AWW 3.4. 29 Of greatest justice. Write, write, Reynaldo,
AWW 3.4. 30 To this unworthy husband of his wife.
AWW 3.4. 31 Let every word weigh heavy of her worth,
AWW 3.4. 32 That he does weigh too light; my greatest grief,
AWW 3.4. 33 Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.
AWW 3.4. 34 Dispatch the most convenient messenger.
AWW 3.4. 35 When haply he shall hear that she is gone,
AWW 3.4. 36 He will return, and hope I may that she,
AWW 3.4. 37 Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,
AWW 3.4. 38 Led hither by pure love. Which of them both
AWW 3.4. 39 Is dearest to me I have no skill in sense
AWW 3.4. 40 To make distinction. Provide this messenger.
AWW 3.4. 41 My heart is heavy and mine age is weak;
AWW 3.4. 42 Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak. {Exeunt}
AWW 3.4. 0 {A tucket afar off. Enter an old Widow, her daughter +
AWW 3.5. 0 Diana, and Mariana, with other Florentine citizens}
AWW 3.5. 1
AWW-WIDOW
Nay, come, for if they do approach the city we
AWW 3.5. 2 shall lose all the sight.
AWW 3.5. 3
AWW-DIANA
They say the French Count has done most
AWW 3.5. 4 honourable service.
AWW 3.5. 5
AWW-WIDOW
It is reported that he has taken their greatest
AWW 3.5. 6 commander, and that with his own hand he slew the
AWW 3.5. 7 Duke's brother. {(Tucket)} We have lost our labour; +
AWW 3.5. 7 they
AWW 3.5. 8 are gone a contrary way. Hark. You may know by
AWW 3.5. 9 their trumpets.
AWW 3.5. 10
AWW-MARIANA
Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves
AWW 3.5. 11 with the report of it. - Well, Diana, take heed of this
AWW 3.5. 12 French earl. The honour of a maid is her name, and
AWW 3.5. 13 no legacy is so rich as honesty.
AWW 3.5. 14
AWW-WIDOW
{(to Diana)} I have told my neighbour how +
AWW 3.5. 14 you have
AWW 3.5. 15 been solicited by a gentleman, his companion.
AWW 3.5. 16
AWW-MARIANA
I know that knave, hang him! One Paroles. A
AWW 3.5. 17 filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young
AWW 3.5. 18 earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises, enticements,
AWW 3.5. 19 oaths, tokens, and all their engines of lust,
AWW 3.5. 20 are not the things they go under. Many a maid hath
AWW 3.5. 21 been seduced by them; and the misery is, example,
AWW 3.5. 22 that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood,
AWW 3.5. 23 cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they
AWW 3.5. 24 are limed with the twigs that threatens them. I hope I
AWW 3.5. 25 need not to advise you further, but I hope your own
AWW 3.5. 26 grace will keep you where you are, though there were
AWW 3.5. 27 no further danger known but the modesty which is so
AWW 3.5. 28 lost.
AWW 3.5. 29
AWW-DIANA
You shall not need to fear me. {Enter Helen dressed as +
AWW 3.5. 29 a pilgrim}
AWW 3.5. 30
AWW-WIDOW
I hope so. Look, here comes a pilgrim. I know she
AWW 3.5. 31 will lie at my house; thither they send one another.
AWW 3.5. 32 I'll question her.
AWW 3.5. 33 God save you, pilgrim. Whither are you bound?
AWW 3.5. 34A
AWW-HELEN
To Saint Jaques le Grand.
AWW 3.5. 35 Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?
AWW 3.5. 36
AWW-WIDOW
At the `Saint Francis' here beside the port.
AWW 3.5. 37B
AWW-HELEN
Is this the way?
AWW-WIDOW
Ay, marry, is 't. {Sound of +
AWW 3.5. 37B a march, far off}
AWW 3.5. 38 Hark you, they come this way. If you will tarry,
AWW 3.5. 39 Holy pilgrim, but till the troops come by,
AWW 3.5. 40 I will conduct you where you shall be lodged,
AWW 3.5. 41 The rather for I think I know your hostess
AWW 3.5. 42 As ample as myself.
AWW 3.5. 43A
AWW-HELEN
Is it yourself?
AWW 3.5. 44A
AWW-WIDOW
If you shall please so, pilgrim.
AWW 3.5. 45
AWW-HELEN
I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.
AWW 3.5. 46B
AWW-WIDOW
You came, I think, from France?
AWW-HELEN
I did so.
AWW 3.5. 47
AWW-WIDOW
Here you shall see a countryman of yours
AWW 3.5. 48B That has done worthy service.
AWW-HELEN
His name, I pray you?
AWW 3.5. 49
AWW-DIANA
The Count Roussillon. Know you such a one?
AWW 3.5. 50
AWW-HELEN
But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him;
AWW 3.5. 51B His face I know not.
AWW-DIANA
Whatsome'er he is,
AWW 3.5. 52 He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,
AWW 3.5. 53 As 'tis reported; for the King had married him
AWW 3.5. 54 Against his liking. Think you it is so?
AWW 3.5. 55
AWW-HELEN
Ay, surely, mere the truth. I know his lady.
AWW 3.5. 56
AWW-DIANA
There is a gentleman that serves the Count
AWW 3.5. 57B Reports but coarsely of her.
AWW-HELEN
What's his name?
AWW 3.5. 58B
AWW-DIANA
Monsieur Paroles.
AWW-HELEN
O, I believe with him:
AWW 3.5. 59 In argument of praise, or to the worth
AWW 3.5. 60 Of the great Count himself, she is too mean
AWW 3.5. 61 To have her name repeated. All her deserving
AWW 3.5. 62 Is a reserved honesty, and that
AWW 3.5. 63B I have not heard examined.
AWW-DIANA
Alas, poor lady.
AWW 3.5. 64 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife
AWW 3.5. 65 Of a detesting lord.
AWW 3.5. 66
AWW-WIDOW
I warr'nt, good creature, wheresoe'er she is
AWW 3.5. 67 Her heart weighs sadly. This young maid might do her
AWW 3.5. 68B A shrewd turn if she pleased.
AWW-HELEN
How do you mean?
AWW 3.5. 69 Maybe the amorous Count solicits her
AWW 3.5. 70B In the unlawful purpose.
AWW-WIDOW
He does indeed,
AWW 3.5. 71 And brokes with all that can in such a suit
AWW 3.5. 72 Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.
AWW 3.5. 73 But she is armed for him, and keeps her guard
AWW 3.5. 74 In honestest defence.
AWW 3.5. 75A
AWW-MARIANA
The gods forbid else. {[Enter, with drummer and +
AWW 3.5. 75A colours, Bertram, Paroles, and the whole army]}
AWW 3.5. 76A
AWW-WIDOW
So, now they come.
AWW 3.5. 77 That is Antonio, the Duke's eldest son;
AWW 3.5. 78B That, Escalus.
AWW-HELEN
Which is the Frenchman?
AWW-DIANA
He -
AWW 3.5. 79 That with the plume. 'Tis a most gallant fellow.
AWW 3.5. 80 I would he loved his wife. If he were honester
AWW 3.5. 81 He were much goodlier. Is 't not
AWW 3.5. 82 A handsome gentleman?
AWW 3.5. 83A
AWW-HELEN
I like him well.
AWW 3.5. 84A
AWW-DIANA
'Tis pity he is not honest.
AWW 3.5. 85 Yond's that same knave that leads him to those places.
AWW 3.5. 86 Were I his lady, I would poison
AWW 3.5. 87B That vile rascal.
AWW-HELEN
Which is he?
AWW-DIANA
That jackanapes
AWW 3.5. 88 With scarves. Why is he melancholy?
AWW 3.5. 89A
AWW-HELEN
Perchance he's hurt i' th' battle.
AWW 3.5. 90A
AWW-PAROLES
{(aside)} Lose our drum? Well.
AWW 3.5. 91A
AWW-MARIANA
He's shrewdly vexed at something.
AWW 3.5. 92B Look, he has spied us.
AWW-WIDOW
{(to Paroles)} Marry, +
AWW 3.5. 92B hang you!
AWW 3.5. 93
AWW-MARIANA
{(to Paroles)} And your courtesy, for a +
AWW 3.5. 93 ring-carrier. {Exeunt Bertram, Paroles, and the army}
AWW 3.5. 94
AWW-WIDOW
The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you
AWW 3.5. 95 Where you shall host. Of enjoined penitents
AWW 3.5. 96 There's four or five to great Saint Jaques bound
AWW 3.5. 97B Already at my house.
AWW-HELEN
I humbly thank you.
AWW 3.5. 98 Please it this matron and this gentle maid
AWW 3.5. 99 To eat with us tonight, the charge and thanking
AWW 3.5. 100 Shall be for me. And to requite you further,
AWW 3.5. 101 I will bestow some precepts of this virgin
AWW 3.5. 102B Worthy the note.
AWW-WIDOW
AWW-AND
AWW-MARIANA
We'll take your offer +
AWW 3.5. 102B kindly. {Exeunt}
AWW 3.5. 0 {Enter Bertram and the two Captains Dumaine}
AWW 3.6. 1
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} Nay, good my +
AWW 3.6. 1 lord,
AWW 3.6. 2 put him to 't. Let him have his way.
AWW 3.6. 3
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} If your lordship +
AWW 3.6. 3 find him
AWW 3.6. 4 not a hilding, hold me no more in your respect.
AWW 3.6. 5
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} On my life, my +
AWW 3.6. 5 lord, a
AWW 3.6. 6 bubble.
AWW 3.6. 7
AWW-BERTRAM
Do you think I am so far deceived in him?
AWW 3.6. 8
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Believe it, my lord. In mine own
AWW 3.6. 9 direct knowledge - without any malice, but to speak of
AWW 3.6. 10 him as my kinsman - he's a most notable coward, an
AWW 3.6. 11 infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker,
AWW 3.6. 12 the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's
AWW 3.6. 13 entertainment.
AWW 3.6. 14
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} It were fit you +
AWW 3.6. 14 knew
AWW 3.6. 15 him, lest reposing too far in his virtue, which he hath
AWW 3.6. 16 not, he might at some great and trusty business, in a
AWW 3.6. 17 main danger, fail you.
AWW 3.6. 18
AWW-BERTRAM
I would I knew in what particular action to try
AWW 3.6. 19 him.
AWW 3.6. 20
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
None better than to let him fetch off
AWW 3.6. 21 his drum, which you hear him so confidently undertake
AWW 3.6. 22 to do.
AWW 3.6. 23
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} I, with a troop +
AWW 3.6. 23 of
AWW 3.6. 24 Florentines, will suddenly surprise him. Such I will
AWW 3.6. 25 have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy;
AWW 3.6. 26 we will bind and hoodwink him so, that he shall
AWW 3.6. 27 suppose no other but that he is carried into the laager
AWW 3.6. 28 of the adversary's when we bring him to our own tents.
AWW 3.6. 29 Be but your lordship present at his examination: if he
AWW 3.6. 30 do not, for the promise of his life and in the highest
AWW 3.6. 31 compulsion of base fear, offer to betray you, and deliver
AWW 3.6. 32 all the intelligence in his power against you, and that
AWW 3.6. 33 with the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never trust
AWW 3.6. 34 my judgement in anything.
AWW 3.6. 35
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} O, for the love +
AWW 3.6. 35 of laughter,
AWW 3.6. 36 let him fetch his drum. He says he has a stratagem
AWW 3.6. 37 for 't. When your lordship sees the bottom of his success
AWW 3.6. 38 in 't, and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore
AWW 3.6. 39 will be melted, if you give him not John Drum's
AWW 3.6. 40 entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed. Here
AWW 3.6. 41 he comes. {Enter Paroles}
AWW 3.6. 42
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
O {[aside]} for the +
AWW 3.6. 42 love of laughter
AWW 3.6. 43 {[aloud]} hinder not the honour of his design; let him
AWW 3.6. 44 fetch off his drum in any hand.
AWW 3.6. 45
AWW-BERTRAM
{(to Paroles)} How now, monsieur? This +
AWW 3.6. 45 drum
AWW 3.6. 46 sticks sorely in your disposition.
AWW 3.6. 47
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
A pox on 't, let it go. 'Tis but a drum.
AWW 3.6. 48
AWW-PAROLES
But a drum? Is 't but a drum? A drum so lost!
AWW 3.6. 49 There was excellent command: to charge in with our
AWW 3.6. 50 horse upon our own wings and to rend our own
AWW 3.6. 51 soldiers!
AWW 3.6. 52
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
That was not to be blamed in the
AWW 3.6. 53 command of the service. It was a disaster of war that
AWW 3.6. 54 Caesar himself could not have prevented, if he had
AWW 3.6. 55 been there to command.
AWW 3.6. 56
AWW-BERTRAM
Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success.
AWW 3.6. 57 Some dishonour we had in the loss of that drum, but
AWW 3.6. 58 it is not to be recovered.
AWW 3.6. 59
AWW-PAROLES
It might have been recovered.
AWW 3.6. 60
AWW-BERTRAM
It might, but it is not now.
AWW 3.6. 61
AWW-PAROLES
It {is} to be recovered. But that the merit of service
AWW 3.6. 62 is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I
AWW 3.6. 63 would have that drum or another, or `{hic iacet}'.
AWW 3.6. 64
AWW-BERTRAM
Why, if you have a stomach, to 't, monsieur. If
AWW 3.6. 65 you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this
AWW 3.6. 66 instrument of honour again into his native quarter, be
AWW 3.6. 67 magnanimous in the enterprise and go on. I will grace
AWW 3.6. 68 the attempt for a worthy exploit. If you speed well in
AWW 3.6. 69 it, the Duke shall both speak of it and extend to you
AWW 3.6. 70 what further becomes his greatness, even to the utmost
AWW 3.6. 71 syllable of your worthiness.
AWW 3.6. 72
AWW-PAROLES
By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.
AWW 3.6. 73
AWW-BERTRAM
But you must not now slumber in it.
AWW 3.6. 74
AWW-PAROLES
I'll about it this evening, and I will presently
AWW 3.6. 75 pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my
AWW 3.6. 76 certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation; and
AWW 3.6. 77 by midnight look to hear further from me.
AWW 3.6. 78
AWW-BERTRAM
May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are
AWW 3.6. 79 gone about it?
AWW 3.6. 80
AWW-PAROLES
I know not what the success will be, my lord,
AWW 3.6. 81 but the attempt I vow.
AWW 3.6. 82
AWW-BERTRAM
I know thou'rt valiant, and to the possibility of
AWW 3.6. 83 thy soldiership will subscribe for thee. Farewell.
AWW 3.6. 84
AWW-PAROLES
I love not many words. {Exit}
AWW 3.6. 85
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
No more than a fish loves water.
AWW 3.6. 86 {(To Bertram)} Is not this a strange fellow, my lord, +
AWW 3.6. 86 that
AWW 3.6. 87 so confidently seems to undertake this business, which
AWW 3.6. 88 he knows is not to be done? Damns himself to do, and
AWW 3.6. 89 dares better be damned than to do 't.
AWW 3.6. 90
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} You do not know +
AWW 3.6. 90 him,
AWW 3.6. 91 my lord, as we do. Certain it is that he will steal himself
AWW 3.6. 92 into a man's favour, and for a week escape a great
AWW 3.6. 93 deal of discoveries, but when you find him out, you
AWW 3.6. 94 have him ever after.
AWW 3.6. 95
AWW-BERTRAM
Why, do you think he will make no deed at all
AWW 3.6. 96 of this that so seriously he does address himself unto?
AWW 3.6. 97
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
None in the world, but return with
AWW 3.6. 98 an invention, and clap upon you two or three probable
AWW 3.6. 99 lies. But we have almost embosked him. You shall see
AWW 3.6. 100 his fall tonight; for indeed he is not for your lordship's
AWW 3.6. 101 respect.
AWW 3.6. 102
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(to Bertram)} We'll make you +
AWW 3.6. 102 some
AWW 3.6. 103 sport with the fox ere we case him. He was first smoked
AWW 3.6. 104 by the old Lord Lafeu. When his disguise and he is
AWW 3.6. 105 parted, tell me what a sprat you shall find him, which
AWW 3.6. 106 you shall see this very night.
AWW 3.6. 107
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
I must go look my twigs. He shall be +
AWW 3.6. 107 caught.
AWW 3.6. 108
AWW-BERTRAM
Your brother, he shall go along with me.
AWW 3.6. 109
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
As 't please your lordship. I'll +
AWW 3.6. 109 leave
AWW 3.6. 110 you. {Exit}
AWW 3.6. 111
AWW-BERTRAM
Now will I lead you to the house, and show you
AWW 3.6. 112B The lass I spoke of.
AWW-[FIRST] LORD DUMAINE
But you say she's honest.
AWW 3.6. 113
AWW-BERTRAM
That's all the fault. I spoke with her but once
AWW 3.6. 114 And found her wondrous cold, but I sent to her
AWW 3.6. 115 By this same coxcomb that we have i' th' wind
AWW 3.6. 116 Tokens and letters, which she did re-send,
AWW 3.6. 117 And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature.
AWW 3.6. 118B Will you go see her?
AWW-[FIRST] LORD DUMAINE
With all my heart, my +
AWW 3.6. 118B lord. {Exeunt}
AWW 3.6. 0 {Enter Helen and the Widow}
AWW 3.7. 1
AWW-HELEN
If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
AWW 3.7. 2 I know not how I shall assure you further
AWW 3.7. 3 But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.
AWW 3.7. 4
AWW-WIDOW
Though my estate be fall'n, I was well born,
AWW 3.7. 5 Nothing acquainted with these businesses,
AWW 3.7. 6 And would not put my reputation now
AWW 3.7. 7B In any staining act.
AWW-HELEN
Nor would I wish you.
AWW 3.7. 8 First give me trust the Count he is my husband,
AWW 3.7. 9 And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
AWW 3.7. 10 Is so from word to word, and then you cannot,
AWW 3.7. 11 By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,
AWW 3.7. 12B Err in bestowing it.
AWW-WIDOW
I should believe you,
AWW 3.7. 13 For you have showed me that which well approves
AWW 3.7. 14B You're great in fortune.
AWW-HELEN
Take this purse of gold,
AWW 3.7. 15 And let me buy your friendly help thus far,
AWW 3.7. 16 Which I will over-pay, and pay again
AWW 3.7. 17 When I have found it. The Count he woos your daughter,
AWW 3.7. 18 Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,
AWW 3.7. 19 Resolved to carry her. Let her in fine consent,
AWW 3.7. 20 As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.
AWW 3.7. 21 Now his important blood will naught deny
AWW 3.7. 22 That she'll demand. A ring the County wears,
AWW 3.7. 23 That downward hath succeeded in his house
AWW 3.7. 24 From son to son some four or five descents
AWW 3.7. 25 Since the first father wore it. This ring he holds
AWW 3.7. 26 In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire
AWW 3.7. 27 To buy his will it would not seem too dear,
AWW 3.7. 28 Howe'er repented after.
AWW 3.7. 29
AWW-WIDOW
Now I see the bottom of your purpose.
AWW 3.7. 30
AWW-HELEN
You see it lawful then. It is no more
AWW 3.7. 31 But that your daughter ere she seems as won
AWW 3.7. 32 Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;
AWW 3.7. 33 In fine, delivers me to fill the time,
AWW 3.7. 34 Herself most chastely absent. After,
AWW 3.7. 35 To marry her I'll add three thousand crowns
AWW 3.7. 36B To what is passed already.
AWW-WIDOW
I have yielded.
AWW 3.7. 37 Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
AWW 3.7. 38 That time and place with this deceit so lawful
AWW 3.7. 39 May prove coherent. Every night he comes
AWW 3.7. 40 With musics of all sorts, and songs composed
AWW 3.7. 41 To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us
AWW 3.7. 42 To chide him from our eaves, for he persists
AWW 3.7. 43B As if his life lay on 't.
AWW-HELEN
Why then tonight
AWW 3.7. 44 Let us essay our plot, which if it speed
AWW 3.7. 45 Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed
AWW 3.7. 46 And lawful meaning in a wicked act,
AWW 3.7. 47 Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact.
AWW 3.7. 48 But let's about it. {Exeunt}
AWW 3.7. 0 {Enter [Second Lord Dumaine], with five or six +
AWW 4.1. 0 other soldiers, in ambush}
AWW 4.1. 1
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
He can come no other way but
AWW 4.1. 2 by this hedge corner. When you sally upon him, speak
AWW 4.1. 3 what terrible language you will. Though you understand
AWW 4.1. 4 it not yourselves, no matter, for we must not
AWW 4.1. 5 seem to understand him, unless some one among us,
AWW 4.1. 6 whom we must produce for an interpreter.
AWW 4.1. 7
AWW-INTERPRETER
Good captain, let me be th' interpreter.
AWW 4.1. 8
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
Art not acquainted with him?
AWW 4.1. 9 Knows he not thy voice?
AWW 4.1. 10
AWW-INTERPRETER
No, sir, I warrant you.
AWW 4.1. 11
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
But what linsey-woolsey hast
AWW 4.1. 12 thou to speak to us again?
AWW 4.1. 13
AWW-INTERPRETER
E'en such as you speak to me.
AWW 4.1. 14
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
He must think us some band of
AWW 4.1. 15 strangers i' th' adversary's entertainment. Now he hath
AWW 4.1. 16 a smack of all neighbouring languages, therefore we
AWW 4.1. 17 must every one be a man of his own fancy. Not to
AWW 4.1. 18 know what we speak one to another, so we seem to
AWW 4.1. 19 know, is to know straight our purpose: choughs'
AWW 4.1. 20 language, gabble enough and good enough. As for you,
AWW 4.1. 21 interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch, ho!
AWW 4.1. 22 Here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep, and
AWW 4.1. 23 then to return and swear the lies he forges. {They hide. Enter +
AWW 4.1. 23 Paroles. [Clock strikes]}
AWW 4.1. 24
AWW-PAROLES
Ten o'clock. Within these three hours 'twill be
AWW 4.1. 25 time enough to go home. What shall I say I have done?
AWW 4.1. 26 It must be a very plausive invention that carries it.
AWW 4.1. 27 They begin to smoke me, and disgraces have of late
AWW 4.1. 28 knocked too often at my door. I find my tongue is too
AWW 4.1. 29 foolhardy, but my heart hath the fear of Mars before
AWW 4.1. 30 it, and of his creatures, not daring the reports of my
AWW 4.1. 31 tongue.
AWW 4.1. 32
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} This is the first +
AWW 4.1. 32 truth that
AWW 4.1. 33 e'er thine own tongue was guilty of.
AWW 4.1. 34
AWW-PAROLES
What the devil should move me to undertake
AWW 4.1. 35 the recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the
AWW 4.1. 36 impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I
AWW 4.1. 37 must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in
AWW 4.1. 38 exploit. Yet slight ones will not carry it. They will say,
AWW 4.1. 39 `Came you off with so little?' And great ones I dare
AWW 4.1. 40 not give. Wherefore, what's the instance? Tongue, I
AWW 4.1. 41 must put you into a butter-woman's mouth, and buy
AWW 4.1. 42 myself another of Bajazet's mute, if you prattle me into
AWW 4.1. 43 these perils.
AWW 4.1. 44
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} Is it possible he +
AWW 4.1. 44 should
AWW 4.1. 45 know what he is, and be that he is?
AWW 4.1. 46
AWW-PAROLES
I would the cutting of my garments would serve
AWW 4.1. 47 the turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.
AWW 4.1. 48
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} We cannot afford +
AWW 4.1. 48 you so.
AWW 4.1. 49
AWW-PAROLES
Or the baring of my beard, and to say it was in
AWW 4.1. 50 stratagem.
AWW 4.1. 51
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} 'Twould not do.
AWW 4.1. 52
AWW-PAROLES
Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.
AWW 4.1. 53
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} Hardly serve.
AWW 4.1. 54
AWW-PAROLES
Though I swore I leapt from the window of the
AWW 4.1. 55 citadel?
AWW 4.1. 56
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} How deep?
AWW 4.1. 57
AWW-PAROLES
Thirty fathom.
AWW 4.1. 58
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} Three great oaths +
AWW 4.1. 58 would
AWW 4.1. 59 scarce make that be believed.
AWW 4.1. 60
AWW-PAROLES
I would I had any drum of the enemy's. I would
AWW 4.1. 61 swear I recovered it.
AWW 4.1. 62
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} You shall hear one +
AWW 4.1. 62 anon.
AWW 4.1. 63
AWW-PAROLES
A drum now of the enemy's - {Alarum within. [The +
AWW 4.1. 63 ambush rushes forth]}
AWW 4.1. 64
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{Throca movousus, cargo, cargo,
AWW 4.1. 65 cargo}.
AWW 4.1. 66
AWW-[SOLDIERS]
{(severally)} {Cargo, cargo, cargo, +
AWW 4.1. 66 villianda par corbo,
AWW 4.1. 67 cargo}. {[They seize and blindfold him]}
AWW 4.1. 68
AWW-PAROLES
O ransom, ransom, do not hide mine eyes.
AWW 4.1. 69
AWW-INTERPRETER
{Boskos thromuldo boskos}.
AWW 4.1. 70
AWW-PAROLES
I know you are the Moscows regiment,
AWW 4.1. 71 And I shall lose my life for want of language.
AWW 4.1. 72 If there be here German or Dane, Low Dutch,
AWW 4.1. 73 Italian, or French, let him speak to me,
AWW 4.1. 74 I'll discover that which shall undo the Florentine.
AWW 4.1. 75A
AWW-INTERPRETER
{Boskos vauvado}. -
AWW 4.1. 76 I understand thee, and can speak thy tongue. -
AWW 4.1. 77 {Kerelybonto}. - Sir,
AWW 4.1. 78 Betake thee to thy faith, for seventeen poniards
AWW 4.1. 79B Are at thy bosom.
AWW-PAROLES
O!
AWW-INTERPRETER
O pray, pray, pray! -
AWW 4.1. 80 {Manka revania dulche}?
AWW 4.1. 81
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{Oscorbidulchos volivorco}.
AWW 4.1. 82
AWW-INTERPRETER
The general is content to spare thee yet,
AWW 4.1. 83 And, hoodwinked as thou art, will lead thee on
AWW 4.1. 84 To gather from thee. Haply thou mayst inform
AWW 4.1. 85B Something to save thy life.
AWW-PAROLES
O let me live,
AWW 4.1. 86 And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,
AWW 4.1. 87 Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that
AWW 4.1. 88B Which you will wonder at.
AWW-INTERPRETER
But wilt thou faithfully?
AWW 4.1. 89B
AWW-PAROLES
If I do not, damn me.
AWW-INTERPRETER
{Acordo linta}. -
AWW 4.1. 90 Come on, thou art granted space. {Exeunt all but [Second] Lord +
AWW 4.1. 90 Dumaine}
AWW 4.1. 91 {and a Soldier} {A short alarum within}
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
+
AWW 4.1. 91 Go tell the Count Roussillon and my brother
AWW 4.1. 92 We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled
AWW 4.1. 93B Till we do hear from them.
AWW-SOLDIER
Captain, I will.
AWW 4.1. 94
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
A will betray us all unto ourselves.
AWW 4.1. 95B Inform on that.
AWW-SOLDIER
So I will, sir.
AWW 4.1. 96
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
Till then I'll keep him dark and safely +
AWW 4.1. 96 locked. {Exeunt severally}
AWW 4.1. 0 {Enter Bertram and the maid called Diana}
AWW 4.2. 1
AWW-BERTRAM
They told me that your name was Fontibel.
AWW 4.2. 2B
AWW-DIANA
No, my good lord, Diana.
AWW-BERTRAM
Titled goddess,
AWW 4.2. 3 And worth it, with addition. But, fair soul,
AWW 4.2. 4 In your fine frame hath love no quality?
AWW 4.2. 5 If the quick fire of youth light not your mind,
AWW 4.2. 6 You are no maiden but a monument.
AWW 4.2. 7 When you are dead you should be such a one
AWW 4.2. 8 As you are now, for you are cold and stern,
AWW 4.2. 9 And now you should be as your mother was
AWW 4.2. 10 When your sweet self was got.
AWW 4.2. 11A
AWW-DIANA
She then was honest.
AWW 4.2. 12B
AWW-BERTRAM
So should you be.
AWW-DIANA
No.
AWW 4.2. 13 My mother did but duty; such, my lord,
AWW 4.2. 14B As you owe to your wife.
AWW-BERTRAM
No more o' that.
AWW 4.2. 15 I prithee do not strive against my vows.
AWW 4.2. 16 I was compelled to her, but I love thee
AWW 4.2. 17 By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever
AWW 4.2. 18B Do thee all rights of service.
AWW-DIANA
Ay, so you serve us
AWW 4.2. 19 Till we serve you. But when you have our roses,
AWW 4.2. 20 You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,
AWW 4.2. 21B And mock us with our bareness.
AWW-BERTRAM
How have I sworn!
AWW 4.2. 22
AWW-DIANA
'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,
AWW 4.2. 23 But the plain single vow that is vowed true.
AWW 4.2. 24 What is not holy, that we swear not by,
AWW 4.2. 25 But take the high'st to witness; then pray you, tell me,
AWW 4.2. 26 If I should swear by Jove's great attributes
AWW 4.2. 27 I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths
AWW 4.2. 28 When I did love you ill? This has no holding,
AWW 4.2. 29 To swear by him whom I protest to love
AWW 4.2. 30 That I will work against him. Therefore your oaths
AWW 4.2. 31 Are words and poor conditions but unsealed,
AWW 4.2. 32B At least in my opinion.
AWW-BERTRAM
Change it, change it.
AWW 4.2. 33 Be not so holy-cruel. Love is holy,
AWW 4.2. 34 And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts
AWW 4.2. 35 That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,
AWW 4.2. 36 But give thyself unto my sick desires,
AWW 4.2. 37 Who then recovers. Say thou art mine, and ever
AWW 4.2. 38 My love as it begins shall so persever.
AWW 4.2. 39
AWW-DIANA
I see that men make toys e'en such a surance
AWW 4.2. 40 That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.
AWW 4.2. 41
AWW-BERTRAM
I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power
AWW 4.2. 42B To give it from me.
AWW-DIANA
Will you not, my lord?
AWW 4.2. 43
AWW-BERTRAM
It is an honour 'longing to our house,
AWW 4.2. 44 Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
AWW 4.2. 45 Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world
AWW 4.2. 46B In me to lose.
AWW-DIANA
Mine honour's such a ring.
AWW 4.2. 47 My chastity's the jewel of our house,
AWW 4.2. 48 Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
AWW 4.2. 49 Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world
AWW 4.2. 50 In me to lose. Thus your own proper wisdom
AWW 4.2. 51 Brings in the champion Honour on my part
AWW 4.2. 52B Against your vain assault.
AWW-BERTRAM
Here, take my ring.
AWW 4.2. 53 My house, mine honour, yea my life be thine,
AWW 4.2. 54 And I'll be bid by thee.
AWW 4.2. 55
AWW-DIANA
When midnight comes, knock at my chamber window.
AWW 4.2. 56 I'll order take my mother shall not hear.
AWW 4.2. 57 Now will I charge you in the bond of truth,
AWW 4.2. 58 When you have conquered my yet maiden bed,
AWW 4.2. 59 Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me -
AWW 4.2. 60 My reasons are most strong, and you shall know them
AWW 4.2. 61 When back again this ring shall be delivered -
AWW 4.2. 62 And on your finger in the night I'll put
AWW 4.2. 63 Another ring that, what in time proceeds,
AWW 4.2. 64 May token to the future our past deeds.
AWW 4.2. 65 Adieu till then; then, fail not. You have won
AWW 4.2. 66 A wife of me, though there my hope be done.
AWW 4.2. 67
AWW-BERTRAM
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
AWW 4.2. 68
AWW-DIANA
For which live long to thank both heaven and me.
AWW 4.2. 69 You may so in the end. {[Exit Bertram]}
AWW 4.2. 70 My mother told me just how he would woo,
AWW 4.2. 71 As if she sat in 's heart. She says all men
AWW 4.2. 72 Have the like oaths. He had sworn to marry me
AWW 4.2. 73 When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him
AWW 4.2. 74 When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,
AWW 4.2. 75 Marry that will; I live and die a maid.
AWW 4.2. 76 Only, in this disguise I think 't no sin
AWW 4.2. 77 To cozen him that would unjustly win. {Exit}
AWW 4.2. 0 {Enter the two Captains Dumaine and some two or three +
AWW 4.3. 0 soldiers}
AWW 4.3. 1
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
You have not given him his mother's
AWW 4.3. 2 letter?
AWW 4.3. 3
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
I have delivered it an hour since.
AWW 4.3. 4 There is something in 't that stings his nature, for on
AWW 4.3. 5 the reading it he changed almost into another man.
AWW 4.3. 6
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
He has much worthy blame laid
AWW 4.3. 7 upon him for shaking off so good a wife and so sweet
AWW 4.3. 8 a lady.
AWW 4.3. 9
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Especially he hath incurred the
AWW 4.3. 10 everlasting displeasure of the King, who had even tuned
AWW 4.3. 11 his bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a
AWW 4.3. 12 thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you.
AWW 4.3. 13
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
When you have spoken it 'tis dead,
AWW 4.3. 14 and I am the grave of it.
AWW 4.3. 15
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
He hath perverted a young gentlewoman
AWW 4.3. 16 here in Florence of a most chaste renown, and
AWW 4.3. 17 this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour.
AWW 4.3. 18 He hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks
AWW 4.3. 19 himself made in the unchaste composition.
AWW 4.3. 20
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Now God delay our rebellion! As we
AWW 4.3. 21 are ourselves, what things are we.
AWW 4.3. 22
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Merely our own traitors. And as in
AWW 4.3. 23 the common course of all treasons we still see them
AWW 4.3. 24 reveal themselves till they attain to their abhorred ends,
AWW 4.3. 25 so he that in this action contrives against his own
AWW 4.3. 26 nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.
AWW 4.3. 27
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Is it not meant damnable in us to be
AWW 4.3. 28 trumpeters of our unlawful intents? We shall not then
AWW 4.3. 29 have his company tonight?
AWW 4.3. 30
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Not till after midnight, for he is
AWW 4.3. 31 dieted to his hour.
AWW 4.3. 32
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
That approaches apace. I would
AWW 4.3. 33 gladly have him see his company anatomized, that he
AWW 4.3. 34 might take a measure of his own judgements, wherein
AWW 4.3. 35 so curiously he had set this counterfeit.
AWW 4.3. 36
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
We will not meddle with him till
AWW 4.3. 37 he come, for his presence must be the whip of the
AWW 4.3. 38 other.
AWW 4.3. 39
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
In the mean time, what hear you of
AWW 4.3. 40 these wars?
AWW 4.3. 41
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
I hear there is an overture of peace.
AWW 4.3. 42
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.
AWW 4.3. 43
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
What will Count Roussillon do
AWW 4.3. 44 then? Will he travel higher, or return again into
AWW 4.3. 45 France?
AWW 4.3. 46
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
I perceive by this demand you are
AWW 4.3. 47 not altogether of his council.
AWW 4.3. 48
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be
AWW 4.3. 49 a great deal of his act.
AWW 4.3. 50
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Sir, his wife some two months since
AWW 4.3. 51 fled from his house. Her pretence is a pilgrimage to
AWW 4.3. 52 Saint Jaques le Grand, which holy undertaking with
AWW 4.3. 53 most austere sanctimony she accomplished, and there
AWW 4.3. 54 residing, the tenderness of her nature became as a prey
AWW 4.3. 55 to her grief: in fine, made a groan of her last breath,
AWW 4.3. 56 and now she sings in heaven.
AWW 4.3. 57
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
How is this justified?
AWW 4.3. 58
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
The stronger part of it by her own
AWW 4.3. 59 letters, which makes her story true even to the point
AWW 4.3. 60 of her death. Her death itself, which could not be her
AWW 4.3. 61 office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by the
AWW 4.3. 62 rector of the place.
AWW 4.3. 63
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Hath the Count all this intelligence?
AWW 4.3. 64
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Ay, and the particular confirmations,
AWW 4.3. 65 point from point, to the full arming of the verity.
AWW 4.3. 66
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
I am heartily sorry that he'll be
AWW 4.3. 67 glad of this.
AWW 4.3. 68
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
How mightily sometimes we make
AWW 4.3. 69 us comforts of our losses.
AWW 4.3. 70
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
And how mightily some other times
AWW 4.3. 71 we drown our gain in tears. The great dignity that his
AWW 4.3. 72 valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be
AWW 4.3. 73 encountered with a shame as ample.
AWW 4.3. 74
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
The web of our life is of a mingled
AWW 4.3. 75 yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues would be proud
AWW 4.3. 76 if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would
AWW 4.3. 77 despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. {Enter a +
AWW 4.3. 77 Servant}
AWW 4.3. 78 How now? Where's your master?
AWW 4.3. 79
AWW-SERVANT
He met the Duke in the street, sir, of whom he
AWW 4.3. 80 hath taken a solemn leave. His lordship will next
AWW 4.3. 81 morning for France. The Duke hath offered him letters
AWW 4.3. 82 of commendations to the King.
AWW 4.3. 83
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
They shall be no more than needful
AWW 4.3. 84 there, if they were more than they can commend. {Enter Bertram}
AWW 4.3. 85
AWW-[FIRST LORD DUMAINE]
They cannot be too sweet for the
AWW 4.3. 86 King's tartness. Here's his lordship now. How now, my
AWW 4.3. 87 lord, is 't not after midnight?
AWW 4.3. 88
AWW-BERTRAM
I have tonight dispatched sixteen businesses, a
AWW 4.3. 89 month's length apiece. By an abstract of success: I
AWW 4.3. 90 have {conge/d} with the Duke, done my adieu with his
AWW 4.3. 91 nearest, buried a wife, mourned for her, writ to my
AWW 4.3. 92 lady mother I am returning, entertained my convoy,
AWW 4.3. 93 and between these main parcels of dispatch affected
AWW 4.3. 94 many nicer needs. The last was the greatest, but that
AWW 4.3. 95 I have not ended yet.
AWW 4.3. 96
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
If the business be of any difficulty,
AWW 4.3. 97 and this morning your departure hence, it requires
AWW 4.3. 98 haste of your lordship.
AWW 4.3. 99
AWW-BERTRAM
I mean the business is not ended, as fearing to
AWW 4.3. 100 hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this dialogue
AWW 4.3. 101 between the Fool and the Soldier? Come, bring forth
AWW 4.3. 102 this counterfeit model, has deceived me like a double-
AWW 4.3. 103 meaning prophesier.
AWW 4.3. 104
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Bring him forth. {Exit one or more}
AWW 4.3. 105 He's sat i' th' stocks all night, poor gallant knave.
AWW 4.3. 106
AWW-BERTRAM
No matter, his heels have deserved it in usurping
AWW 4.3. 107 his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?
AWW 4.3. 108
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
I have told your lordship already,
AWW 4.3. 109 the stocks carry him. But to answer you as you would
AWW 4.3. 110 be understood, he weeps like a wench that had shed
AWW 4.3. 111 her milk. He hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom
AWW 4.3. 112 he supposes to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance
AWW 4.3. 113 to this very instant disaster of his setting i' th'
AWW 4.3. 114 stocks. And what think you he hath confessed?
AWW 4.3. 115
AWW-BERTRAM
Nothing of me, has a?
AWW 4.3. 116
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
His confession is taken, and it shall
AWW 4.3. 117 be read to his face. If your lordship be in 't, as I believe
AWW 4.3. 118 you are, you must have the patience to hear it. {Enter Paroles +
AWW 4.3. 118 [guarded and] blindfolded, with the Interpreter}
AWW 4.3. 119
AWW-BERTRAM
A plague upon him! Muffled! He can say
AWW 4.3. 120 nothing of me.
AWW 4.3. 121
AWW-[FIRST LORD DUMAINE]
{(aside to Bertram)} Hush, +
AWW 4.3. 121 hush.
AWW 4.3. 122
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{(aside to Bertram)} Hoodman +
AWW 4.3. 122 comes.
AWW 4.3. 123 {(Aloud)} {Porto tartarossa}.
AWW 4.3. 124
AWW-INTERPRETER
{(to Paroles)} He calls for the +
AWW 4.3. 124 tortures. What
AWW 4.3. 125 will you say without 'em?
AWW 4.3. 126
AWW-PAROLES
I will confess what I know without constraint.
AWW 4.3. 127 If ye pinch me like a pasty I can say no more.
AWW 4.3. 128
AWW-INTERPRETER
{Bosko chimurcho}.
AWW 4.3. 129
AWW-[SECOND] LORD DUMAINE
{Boblibindo chicurmurco}.
AWW 4.3. 130
AWW-INTERPRETER
You are a merciful general. - Our general
AWW 4.3. 131 bids you answer to what I shall ask you out of a note.
AWW 4.3. 132
AWW-PAROLES
And truly, as I hope to live.
AWW 4.3. 133
AWW-INTERPRETER
{[reads]} `First demand of him how +
AWW 4.3. 133 many horse
AWW 4.3. 134 the Duke is strong.' - What say you to that?
AWW 4.3. 135
AWW-PAROLES
Five or six thousand, but very weak and
AWW 4.3. 136 unserviceable. The troops are all scattered and the
AWW 4.3. 137 commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation
AWW 4.3. 138 and credit, and as I hope to live.
AWW 4.3. 139
AWW-INTERPRETER
Shall I set down your answer so?
AWW 4.3. 140
AWW-PAROLES
Do. I'll take the sacrament on 't, how and which
AWW 4.3. 141 way you will.
AWW 4.3. 142
AWW-[FIRST LORD DUMAINE]
{(aside)} All's one to him.
AWW 4.3. 143
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} What a past-saving slave is +
AWW 4.3. 143 this!
AWW 4.3. 144
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} You're deceived, my +
AWW 4.3. 144 lord. This
AWW 4.3. 145 is Monsieur Paroles, the `gallant militarist' - that was
AWW 4.3. 146 his own phrase - that had the whole theoric of war in
AWW 4.3. 147 the knot of his scarf, and the practice in the chape of
AWW 4.3. 148 his dagger.
AWW 4.3. 149
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} I will never trust a +
AWW 4.3. 149 man
AWW 4.3. 150 again for keeping his sword clean, nor believe he can
AWW 4.3. 151 have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly.
AWW 4.3. 152
AWW-INTERPRETER
{(to Paroles)} Well, that's set down.
AWW 4.3. 153
AWW-PAROLES
`Five or six thousand horse,' I said - I will say
AWW 4.3. 154 true - `or thereabouts' set down, for I'll speak truth.
AWW 4.3. 155
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} He's very near the +
AWW 4.3. 155 truth in
AWW 4.3. 156 this.
AWW 4.3. 157
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} But I con him no thanks for 't +
AWW 4.3. 157 in the
AWW 4.3. 158 nature he delivers it.
AWW 4.3. 159
AWW-PAROLES
`Poor rogues', I pray you say.
AWW 4.3. 160
AWW-INTERPRETER
Well, that's set down.
AWW 4.3. 161
AWW-PAROLES
I humbly thank you, sir. A truth's a truth. The
AWW 4.3. 162 rogues are marvellous poor.
AWW 4.3. 163
AWW-INTERPRETER
{[reads]} `Demand of him of what +
AWW 4.3. 163 strength they
AWW 4.3. 164 are a-foot.' - What say you to that?
AWW 4.3. 165
AWW-PAROLES
By my troth, sir, if I were to die this present
AWW 4.3. 166 hour, I will tell true. Let me see, Spurio a hundred and
AWW 4.3. 167 fifty; Sebastian so many; Corambus so many; Jaques
AWW 4.3. 168 so many; Guillaume, Cosmo, Lodowick, and Gratii, two
AWW 4.3. 169 hundred fifty each; mine own company, Chitopher,
AWW 4.3. 170 Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred fifty each. So that the
AWW 4.3. 171 muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life amounts
AWW 4.3. 172 not to fifteen thousand poll, half of the which dare not
AWW 4.3. 173 shake the snow from off their cassocks lest they shake
AWW 4.3. 174 themselves to pieces.
AWW 4.3. 175
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} What shall be done to him?
AWW 4.3. 176
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} Nothing, but let him +
AWW 4.3. 176 have
AWW 4.3. 177 thanks. {(To Interpreter)} Demand of him my condition,
AWW 4.3. 178 and what credit I have with the Duke.
AWW 4.3. 179
AWW-INTERPRETER
{(to Paroles)} Well, that's set +
AWW 4.3. 179 down. {[Reads]}
AWW 4.3. 180 `You shall demand of him, whether one Captain
AWW 4.3. 181 Dumaine be i' th' camp, a Frenchman; what his
AWW 4.3. 182 reputation is with the Duke; what his valour, honesty,
AWW 4.3. 183 and expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were
AWW 4.3. 184 not possible with well-weighing sums of gold to corrupt
AWW 4.3. 185 him to a revolt.' - What say you to this? What do you
AWW 4.3. 186 know of it?
AWW 4.3. 187
AWW-PAROLES
I beseech you let me answer to the particular of
AWW 4.3. 188 the inter'gatories. Demand them singly.
AWW 4.3. 189
AWW-INTERPRETER
Do you know this Captain Dumaine?
AWW 4.3. 190
AWW-PAROLES
I know him. A was a botcher's prentice in Paris,
AWW 4.3. 191 from whence he was whipped for getting the sheriff's
AWW 4.3. 192 fool with child - a dumb innocent that could not say
AWW 4.3. 193 him nay.
AWW 4.3. 194
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside to First Lord Dumaine)} Nay, by +
AWW 4.3. 194 your leave,
AWW 4.3. 195 hold your hands, though I know his brains are forfeit
AWW 4.3. 196 to the next tile that falls.
AWW 4.3. 197
AWW-INTERPRETER
Well, is this captain in the Duke of Florence's
AWW 4.3. 198 camp?
AWW 4.3. 199
AWW-PAROLES
Upon my knowledge he is, and lousy.
AWW 4.3. 200
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} Nay, look not so upon +
AWW 4.3. 200 me: we
AWW 4.3. 201 shall hear of your lordship anon.
AWW 4.3. 202
AWW-INTERPRETER
What is his reputation with the Duke?
AWW 4.3. 203
AWW-PAROLES
The Duke knows him for no other but a poor
AWW 4.3. 204 officer of mine, and writ to me this other day to turn
AWW 4.3. 205 him out o' th' band. I think I have his letter in my
AWW 4.3. 206 pocket.
AWW 4.3. 207
AWW-INTERPRETER
Marry, we'll search.
AWW 4.3. 208
AWW-PAROLES
In good sadness, I do not know. Either it is there,
AWW 4.3. 209 or it is upon a file with the Duke's other letters in my
AWW 4.3. 210 tent.
AWW 4.3. 211
AWW-INTERPRETER
Here 'tis, here's a paper. Shall I read it to
AWW 4.3. 212 you?
AWW 4.3. 213
AWW-PAROLES
I do not know if it be it or no.
AWW 4.3. 214
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} Our interpreter does it well.
AWW 4.3. 215
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} Excellently.
AWW 4.3. 215
AWW-INTERPRETER
{(reads the letter)}
AWW 4.3. 216 `Dian, the Count's a fool, and full of gold.'
AWW 4.3. 217
AWW-PAROLES
That is not the Duke's letter, sir. That is an
AWW 4.3. 218 advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana,
AWW 4.3. 219 to take heed of the allurement of one Count Roussillon,
AWW 4.3. 220 a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish. I pray
AWW 4.3. 221 you, sir, put it up again.
AWW 4.3. 222
AWW-INTERPRETER
Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.
AWW 4.3. 223
AWW-PAROLES
My meaning in 't, I protest, was very honest in
AWW 4.3. 224 the behalf of the maid, for I knew the young Count to
AWW 4.3. 225 be a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to
AWW 4.3. 226 virginity, and devours up all the fry it finds.
AWW 4.3. 227
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} Damnable both-sides rogue.
AWW 4.3. 228
AWW-INTERPRETER
{(reads)} `When he swears oaths, bid +
AWW 4.3. 228 him drop gold, and take it.
AWW 4.3. 229 After he scores he never pays the score.
AWW 4.3. 230 Half-won is match well made; match, and well make it.
AWW 4.3. 231 He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before.
AWW 4.3. 232 And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this:
AWW 4.3. 233 Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss.
AWW 4.3. 234 For count of this, the Count's a fool, I know it,
AWW 4.3. 235 Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.
AWW 4.3. 236 Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,
AWW 4.3. 237 Paroles.'
AWW 4.3. 238
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} He shall be whipped through the +
AWW 4.3. 238 army
AWW 4.3. 239 with this rhyme in 's forehead.
AWW 4.3. 240
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} This is your devoted +
AWW 4.3. 240 friend,
AWW 4.3. 241 sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier.
AWW 4.3. 242
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} I could endure anything before +
AWW 4.3. 242 but a cat,
AWW 4.3. 243 and now he's a cat to me.
AWW 4.3. 244
AWW-INTERPRETER
I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we
AWW 4.3. 245 shall be fain to hang you.
AWW 4.3. 246
AWW-PAROLES
My life, sir, in any case! Not that I am afraid to
AWW 4.3. 247 die, but that, my offences being many, I would repent
AWW 4.3. 248 out the remainder of nature. Let me live, sir, in a
AWW 4.3. 249 dungeon, i' th' stocks, or anywhere, so I may live.
AWW 4.3. 250
AWW-INTERPRETER
We'll see what may be done, so you confess
AWW 4.3. 251 freely. Therefore once more to this Captain Dumaine.
AWW 4.3. 252 You have answered to his reputation with the Duke,
AWW 4.3. 253 and to his valour. What is his honesty?
AWW 4.3. 254
AWW-PAROLES
He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For
AWW 4.3. 255 rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes
AWW 4.3. 256 not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he is stronger
AWW 4.3. 257 than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility that
AWW 4.3. 258 you would think truth were a fool. Drunkenness is his
AWW 4.3. 259 best virtue, for he will be swine-drunk, and in his sleep
AWW 4.3. 260 he does little harm, save to his bedclothes; but they
AWW 4.3. 261 about him know his conditions, and lay him in straw.
AWW 4.3. 262 I have but little more to say, sir, of his honesty. He has
AWW 4.3. 263 everything that an honest man should not have; what
AWW 4.3. 264 an honest man should have, he has nothing.
AWW 4.3. 265
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} I begin to love him +
AWW 4.3. 265 for this.
AWW 4.3. 266
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} For this description of thine +
AWW 4.3. 266 honesty? A
AWW 4.3. 267 pox upon him! For me, he's more and more a cat.
AWW 4.3. 268
AWW-INTERPRETER
What say you to his expertness in war?
AWW 4.3. 269
AWW-PAROLES
Faith, sir, he's led the drum before the English
AWW 4.3. 270 tragedians. To belie him I will not, and more of his
AWW 4.3. 271 soldiership I know not, except in that country he had
AWW 4.3. 272 the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile
AWW 4.3. 273 End, to instruct for the doubling of files. I would do the
AWW 4.3. 274 man what honour I can, but of this I am not certain.
AWW 4.3. 275
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} He hath out-villained +
AWW 4.3. 275 villainy
AWW 4.3. 276 so far that the rarity redeems him.
AWW 4.3. 277
AWW-BERTRAM
{(aside)} A pox on him! He's a cat still.
AWW 4.3. 278
AWW-INTERPRETER
His qualities being at this poor price, I need
AWW 4.3. 279 not to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.
AWW 4.3. 280
AWW-PAROLES
Sir, for a {quart d'e/cu} he will sell the fee-simple of
AWW 4.3. 281 his salvation, the inheritance of it, and cut th' entail
AWW 4.3. 282 from all remainders, and a perpetual succession for it
AWW 4.3. 283 perpetually.
AWW 4.3. 284
AWW-INTERPRETER
What's his brother, the other Captain
AWW 4.3. 285 Dumaine?
AWW 4.3. 286
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
{(aside)} Why does he ask him +
AWW 4.3. 286 of me?
AWW 4.3. 287
AWW-INTERPRETER
What's he?
AWW 4.3. 288
AWW-PAROLES
E'en a crow o' th' same nest. Not altogether so
AWW 4.3. 289 great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal
AWW 4.3. 290 in evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his
AWW 4.3. 291 brother is reputed one of the best that is. In a retreat
AWW 4.3. 292 he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has
AWW 4.3. 293 the cramp.
AWW 4.3. 294
AWW-INTERPRETER
If your life be saved will you undertake to
AWW 4.3. 295 betray the Florentine?
AWW 4.3. 296
AWW-PAROLES
Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count
AWW 4.3. 297 Roussillon.
AWW 4.3. 298
AWW-INTERPRETER
I'll whisper with the general and know his
AWW 4.3. 299 pleasure.
AWW 4.3. 300
AWW-PAROLES
I'll no more drumming. A plague of all drums!
AWW 4.3. 301 Only to seem to deserve well, and to beguile the
AWW 4.3. 302 supposition of that lascivious young boy, the Count,
AWW 4.3. 303 have I run into this danger. Yet who would have
AWW 4.3. 304 suspected an ambush where I was taken?
AWW 4.3. 305
AWW-INTERPRETER
There is no remedy, sir, but you must die.
AWW 4.3. 306 The general says you that have so traitorously
AWW 4.3. 307 discovered the secrets of your army, and made such
AWW 4.3. 308 pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve
AWW 4.3. 309 the world for no honest use; therefore you must die. -
AWW 4.3. 310 Come, headsman, off with his head.
AWW 4.3. 311
AWW-PAROLES
O Lord, sir! - Let me live, or let me see my death!
AWW 4.3. 312
AWW-INTERPRETER
That shall you, and take your leave of all
AWW 4.3. 313 your friends. {He unmuffles Paroles}
AWW 4.3. 314 So, look about you. Know you any here?
AWW 4.3. 315
AWW-BERTRAM
Good morrow, noble captain.
AWW 4.3. 316
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
God bless you, Captain Paroles.
AWW 4.3. 317
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
God save you, noble captain.
AWW 4.3. 318
AWW-SECOND LORD DUMAINE
Captain, what greeting will you to
AWW 4.3. 319 my Lord Lafeu? I am for France.
AWW 4.3. 320
AWW-FIRST LORD DUMAINE
Good captain, will you give me a
AWW 4.3. 321 copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the
AWW 4.3. 322 Count Roussillon? An I were not a very coward I'd
AWW 4.3. 323 compel it of you. But fare you well. {Exeunt all but Paroles and +
AWW 4.3. 323 Interpreter}
AWW 4.3. 324
AWW-INTERPRETER
You are undone, captain - all but your scarf;
AWW 4.3. 325 that has a knot on 't yet.
AWW 4.3. 326
AWW-PAROLES
Who cannot be crushed with a plot?
AWW 4.3. 327
AWW-INTERPRETER
If you could find out a country where but
AWW 4.3. 328 women were that had received so much shame, you
AWW 4.3. 329 might begin an impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir. I
AWW 4.3. 330 am for France too. We shall speak of you there. {Exit}
AWW 4.3. 331
AWW-PAROLES
Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great
AWW 4.3. 332 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more,
AWW 4.3. 333 But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft
AWW 4.3. 334 As captain shall. Simply the thing I am
AWW 4.3. 335 Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,
AWW 4.3. 336 Let him fear this, for it will come to pass
AWW 4.3. 337 That every braggart shall be found an ass.
AWW 4.3. 338 Rust, sword; cool, blushes; and Paroles live
AWW 4.3. 339 Safest in shame; being fooled, by fool'ry thrive.
AWW 4.3. 340 There's place and means for every man alive.
AWW 4.3. 341 I'll after them. {Exit}
AWW 4.3. 0 {Enter Helen, the Widow, and Diana}
AWW 4.4. 1
AWW-HELEN
That you may well perceive I have not wronged you,
AWW 4.4. 2 One of the greatest in the Christian world
AWW 4.4. 3 Shall be my surety; fore whose throne 'tis needful,
AWW 4.4. 4 Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel.
AWW 4.4. 5 Time was, I did him a desired office
AWW 4.4. 6 Dear almost as his life; which gratitude
AWW 4.4. 7 Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth
AWW 4.4. 8 And answer `Thanks'. I duly am informed
AWW 4.4. 9 His grace is at Marseilles, to which place
AWW 4.4. 10 We have convenient convoy. You must know
AWW 4.4. 11 I am supposed dead. The army breaking,
AWW 4.4. 12 My husband hies him home, where, heaven aiding,
AWW 4.4. 13 And by the leave of my good lord the King,
AWW 4.4. 14B We'll be before our welcome.
AWW-WIDOW
Gentle madam,
AWW 4.4. 15 You never had a servant to whose trust
AWW 4.4. 16B Your business was more welcome.
AWW-HELEN
Nor you, mistress,
AWW 4.4. 17 Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour
AWW 4.4. 18 To recompense your love. Doubt not but heaven
AWW 4.4. 19 Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,
AWW 4.4. 20 As it hath fated her to be my motive
AWW 4.4. 21 And helper to a husband. But O, strange men,
AWW 4.4. 22 That can such sweet use make of what they hate,
AWW 4.4. 23 When saucy trusting of the cozened thoughts
AWW 4.4. 24 Defiles the pitchy night; so lust doth play
AWW 4.4. 25 With what it loathes, for that which is away.
AWW 4.4. 26 But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,
AWW 4.4. 27 Under my poor instructions yet must suffer
AWW 4.4. 28B Something in my behalf.
AWW-DIANA
Let death and honesty
AWW 4.4. 29 Go with your impositions, I am yours,
AWW 4.4. 30B Upon your will to suffer.
AWW-HELEN
Yet, I pray you. -
AWW 4.4. 31 But with that word the time will bring on summer,
AWW 4.4. 32 When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns
AWW 4.4. 33 And be as sweet as sharp. We must away,
AWW 4.4. 34 Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us.
AWW 4.4. 35 All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown.
AWW 4.4. 36 Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. {Exeunt}
AWW 4.4. 0 {Enter Lavatch, the old Countess, and Lafeu}
AWW 4.5. 1
AWW-LAFEU
No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipped-
AWW 4.5. 2 taffeta fellow there, whose villainous saffron would
AWW 4.5. 3 have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a
AWW 4.5. 4 nation in his colour. Else, your daughter-in-law had
AWW 4.5. 5 been alive at this hour, and your son here at home,
AWW 4.5. 6 more advanced by the King than by that red-tailed
AWW 4.5. 7 humble-bee I speak of.
AWW 4.5. 8
AWW-COUNTESS
I would a had not known him. It was the death
AWW 4.5. 9 of the most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature
AWW 4.5. 10 had praise for creating. If she had partaken of my flesh
AWW 4.5. 11 and cost me the dearest groans of a mother I could not
AWW 4.5. 12 have owed her a more rooted love.
AWW 4.5. 13
AWW-LAFEU
'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady. We may
AWW 4.5. 14 pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another
AWW 4.5. 15 herb.
AWW 4.5. 16
AWW-LAVATCH
Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the
AWW 4.5. 17 salad, or rather the herb of grace.
AWW 4.5. 18
AWW-LAFEU
They are not grass, you knave, they are nose-
AWW 4.5. 19 herbs.
AWW 4.5. 20
AWW-LAVATCH
I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir, I have not
AWW 4.5. 21 much skill in grace.
AWW 4.5. 22
AWW-LAFEU
Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a
AWW 4.5. 23 fool?
AWW 4.5. 24
AWW-LAVATCH
A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave
AWW 4.5. 25 at a man's.
AWW 4.5. 26
AWW-LAFEU
Your distinction?
AWW 4.5. 27
AWW-LAVATCH
I would cozen the man of his wife and do his
AWW 4.5. 28 service.
AWW 4.5. 29
AWW-LAFEU
So you were a knave at his service indeed.
AWW 4.5. 30
AWW-LAVATCH
And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do
AWW 4.5. 31 her service.
AWW 4.5. 32
AWW-LAFEU
I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and
AWW 4.5. 33 fool.
AWW 4.5. 34
AWW-LAVATCH
At your service.
AWW 4.5. 35
AWW-LAFEU
No, no, no.
AWW 4.5. 36
AWW-LAVATCH
Why, sir, if I cannot serve you I can serve as
AWW 4.5. 37 great a prince as you are.
AWW 4.5. 38
AWW-LAFEU
Who's that? A Frenchman?
AWW 4.5. 39
AWW-LAVATCH
Faith, sir, a has an English name, but his
AWW 4.5. 40 phys'namy is more hotter in France than there.
AWW 4.5. 41
AWW-LAFEU
What prince is that?
AWW 4.5. 42
AWW-LAVATCH
The Black Prince, sir, alias the prince of
AWW 4.5. 43 darkness, alias the devil.
AWW 4.5. 44
AWW-LAFEU
Hold thee, there's my purse. I give thee not this
AWW 4.5. 45 to suggest thee from thy master thou talk'st of; serve
AWW 4.5. 46 him still.
AWW 4.5. 47
AWW-LAVATCH
I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved
AWW 4.5. 48 a great fire, and the master I speak of ever keeps a
AWW 4.5. 49 good fire. But since he is the prince of the world, let
AWW 4.5. 50 the nobility remain in 's court; I am for the house with
AWW 4.5. 51 the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pomp
AWW 4.5. 52 to enter. Some that humble themselves may, but the
AWW 4.5. 53 many will be too chill and tender, and they'll be for
AWW 4.5. 54 the flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the
AWW 4.5. 55 great fire.
AWW 4.5. 56
AWW-LAFEU
Go thy ways. I begin to be aweary of thee, and I
AWW 4.5. 57 tell thee so before, because I would not fall out with
AWW 4.5. 58 thee. Go thy ways. Let my horses be well looked to,
AWW 4.5. 59 without any tricks.
AWW 4.5. 60
AWW-LAVATCH
If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be
AWW 4.5. 61 jades' tricks, which are their own right by the law of
AWW 4.5. 62 nature. {Exit}
AWW 4.5. 63
AWW-LAFEU
A shrewd knave and an unhappy.
AWW 4.5. 64
AWW-COUNTESS
So a is. My lord that's gone made himself much
AWW 4.5. 65 sport out of him; by his authority he remains here,
AWW 4.5. 66 which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness, and
AWW 4.5. 67 indeed he has no pace, but runs where he will.
AWW 4.5. 68
AWW-LAFEU
I like him well, 'tis not amiss. And I was about to
AWW 4.5. 69 tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and
AWW 4.5. 70 that my lord your son was upon his return home, I
AWW 4.5. 71 moved the King my master to speak in the behalf of
AWW 4.5. 72 my daughter; which, in the minority of them both, his
AWW 4.5. 73 majesty out of a self-gracious remembrance did first
AWW 4.5. 74 propose. His highness hath promised me to do it; and
AWW 4.5. 75 to stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against
AWW 4.5. 76 your son, there is no fitter matter. How does your
AWW 4.5. 77 ladyship like it?
AWW 4.5. 78
AWW-COUNTESS
With very much content, my lord, and I wish
AWW 4.5. 79 it happily effected.
AWW 4.5. 80
AWW-LAFEU
His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able
AWW 4.5. 81 body as when he numbered thirty. A will be here
AWW 4.5. 82 tomorrow, or I am deceived by him that in such
AWW 4.5. 83 intelligence hath seldom failed.
AWW 4.5. 84
AWW-COUNTESS
It rejoices me that I hope I shall see him ere I
AWW 4.5. 85 die. I have letters that my son will be here tonight. I
AWW 4.5. 86 shall beseech your lordship to remain with me till they
AWW 4.5. 87 meet together.
AWW 4.5. 88
AWW-LAFEU
Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might
AWW 4.5. 89 safely be admitted.
AWW 4.5. 90
AWW-COUNTESS
You need but plead your honourable privilege.
AWW 4.5. 91
AWW-LAFEU
Lady, of that I have made a bold charter, but, I
AWW 4.5. 92 thank my God, it holds yet. {Enter Lavatch}
AWW 4.5. 93
AWW-LAVATCH
O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a
AWW 4.5. 94 patch of velvet on 's face. Whether there be a scar
AWW 4.5. 95 under 't or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch
AWW 4.5. 96 of velvet. His left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a
AWW 4.5. 97 half, but his right cheek is worn bare.
AWW 4.5. 98
AWW-LAFEU
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good liv'ry
AWW 4.5. 99 of honour. So belike is that.
AWW 4.5. 100
AWW-LAVATCH
But it is your carbonadoed face.
AWW 4.5. 101
AWW-LAFEU
{(to the Countess)} Let us go see your son, +
AWW 4.5. 101 I pray you.
AWW 4.5. 102 I long to talk with the young noble soldier.
AWW 4.5. 103
AWW-LAVATCH
Faith, there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine
AWW 4.5. 104 hats, and most courteous feathers, which bow the head
AWW 4.5. 105 and nod at every man. {Exeunt}
AWW 4.5. 0 {Enter Helen, the Widow, and Diana, with two +
AWW 5.1. 0 attendants}
AWW 5.1. 1
AWW-HELEN
But this exceeding posting day and night
AWW 5.1. 2 Must wear your spirits low. We cannot help it.
AWW 5.1. 3 But since you have made the days and nights as one
AWW 5.1. 4 To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,
AWW 5.1. 5 Be bold you do so grow in my requital
AWW 5.1. 6B As nothing can unroot you. {Enter a Gentleman +
AWW 5.1. 6B Austringer} In happy time!
AWW 5.1. 7 This man may help me to his majesty's ear,
AWW 5.1. 8 If he would spend his power. - God save you, sir.
AWW 5.1. 9A
AWW-GENTLEMAN
And you.
AWW 5.1. 10
AWW-HELEN
Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.
AWW 5.1. 11A
AWW-GENTLEMAN
I have been sometimes there.
AWW 5.1. 12
AWW-HELEN
I do presume, sir, that you are not fall'n
AWW 5.1. 13 From the report that goes upon your goodness,
AWW 5.1. 14 And therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions
AWW 5.1. 15 Which lay nice manners by, I put you to
AWW 5.1. 16 The use of your own virtues, for the which
AWW 5.1. 17B I shall continue thankful.
AWW-GENTLEMAN
What's your will?
AWW 5.1. 18A
AWW-HELEN
That it will please you
AWW 5.1. 19 To give this poor petition to the King,
AWW 5.1. 20 And aid me with that store of power you have
AWW 5.1. 21 To come into his presence.
AWW 5.1. 22A
AWW-GENTLEMAN
The King's not here.
AWW 5.1. 23B
AWW-HELEN
Not here, sir?
AWW-GENTLEMAN
Not indeed.
AWW 5.1. 24 He hence removed last night, and with more haste
AWW 5.1. 25 Than is his use.
AWW 5.1. 26A
AWW-WIDOW
Lord, how we lose our pains.
AWW 5.1. 27A
AWW-HELEN
All's well that ends well yet,
AWW 5.1. 28 Though time seem so adverse, and means unfit. -
AWW 5.1. 29 I do beseech you, whither is he gone?
AWW 5.1. 30
AWW-GENTLEMAN
Marry, as I take it, to Roussillon,
AWW 5.1. 31B Whither I am going.
AWW-HELEN
I do beseech you, sir,
AWW 5.1. 32 Since you are like to see the King before me,
AWW 5.1. 33 Commend the paper to his gracious hand,
AWW 5.1. 34 Which I presume shall render you no blame,
AWW 5.1. 35 But rather make you thank your pains for it.
AWW 5.1. 36 I will come after you with what good speed
AWW 5.1. 37B Our means will make us means.
AWW-GENTLEMAN
{(taking the +
AWW 5.1. 37B paper)} This I'll do for you.
AWW 5.1. 38
AWW-HELEN
And you shall find yourself to be well thanked,
AWW 5.1. 39 Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again. -
AWW 5.1. 40 Go, go, provide. {Exeunt severally}
AWW 5.1. 0 {Enter Lavatch and Paroles, with a letter}
AWW 5.2. 1
AWW-PAROLES
Good Master Lavatch, give my Lord Lafeu this
AWW 5.2. 2 letter. I have ere now, sir, been better known to you,
AWW 5.2. 3 when I have held familiarity with fresher clothes. But
AWW 5.2. 4 I am now, sir, muddied in Fortune's mood, and smell
AWW 5.2. 5 somewhat strong of her strong displeasure.
AWW 5.2. 6
AWW-LAVATCH
Truly, Fortune's displeasure is but sluttish if it
AWW 5.2. 7 smell so strongly as thou speakest of. I will henceforth
AWW 5.2. 8 eat no fish of Fortune's butt'ring. Prithee allow the
AWW 5.2. 9 wind.
AWW 5.2. 10
AWW-PAROLES
Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir, I spake
AWW 5.2. 11 but by a metaphor.
AWW 5.2. 12
AWW-LAVATCH
Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink I will stop
AWW 5.2. 13 my nose, or against any man's metaphor. Prithee get
AWW 5.2. 14 thee further.
AWW 5.2. 15
AWW-PAROLES
Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.
AWW 5.2. 16
AWW-LAVATCH
Foh, prithee stand away. A paper from Fortune's
AWW 5.2. 17 close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he comes
AWW 5.2. 18 himself. {Enter Lafeu}
AWW 5.2. 19 Here is a pur of Fortune's, sir, or of Fortune's cat - but
AWW 5.2. 20 not a musk-cat - that has fallen into the unclean fish-
AWW 5.2. 21 pond of her displeasure and, as he says, is muddied
AWW 5.2. 22 withal. Pray you, sir, use the carp as you may, for he
AWW 5.2. 23 looks like a poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally
AWW 5.2. 24 knave. I do pity his distress in my similes of comfort,
AWW 5.2. 25 and leave him to your lordship. {Exit}
AWW 5.2. 26
AWW-PAROLES
My lord, I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly
AWW 5.2. 27 scratched.
AWW 5.2. 28
AWW-LAFEU
And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late
AWW 5.2. 29 to pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the
AWW 5.2. 30 knave with Fortune that she should scratch you, who
AWW 5.2. 31 of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves
AWW 5.2. 32 thrive long under her? There's a {quart d'e/cu} for you.
AWW 5.2. 33 Let the justices make you and Fortune friends; I am
AWW 5.2. 34 for other business.
AWW 5.2. 35
AWW-PAROLES
I beseech your honour to hear me one single
AWW 5.2. 36 word -
AWW 5.2. 37
AWW-LAFEU
You beg a single penny more. Come, you shall
AWW 5.2. 38 ha 't. Save your word.
AWW 5.2. 39
AWW-PAROLES
My name, my good lord, is Paroles.
AWW 5.2. 40
AWW-LAFEU
You beg more than one word then. Cox my
AWW 5.2. 41 passion! Give me your hand. How does your drum?
AWW 5.2. 42
AWW-PAROLES
O my good lord, you were the first that found
AWW 5.2. 43 me.
AWW 5.2. 44
AWW-LAFEU
Was I, in sooth? And I was the first that lost thee.
AWW 5.2. 45
AWW-PAROLES
It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some
AWW 5.2. 46 grace, for you did bring me out.
AWW 5.2. 47
AWW-LAFEU
Out upon thee, knave! Dost thou put upon me at
AWW 5.2. 48 once both the office of God and the devil? One brings
AWW 5.2. 49 thee in grace, and the other brings thee out. {Trumpets sound}
AWW 5.2. 50 The King's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah,
AWW 5.2. 51 enquire further after me. I had talk of you last night.
AWW 5.2. 52 Though you are a fool and a knave, you shall eat. Go
AWW 5.2. 53 to, follow.
AWW 5.2. 54
AWW-PAROLES
I praise God for you. {[Exeunt]}
AWW 5.2. 0 {Flourish of trumpets. Enter the King, the old Countess, +
AWW 5.3. 0 Lafeu, and attendants}
AWW 5.3. 1
AWW-KING
We lost a jewel of her, and our esteem
AWW 5.3. 2 Was made much poorer by it. But your son,
AWW 5.3. 3 As mad in folly, lacked the sense to know
AWW 5.3. 4B Her estimation home.
AWW-COUNTESS
'Tis past, my liege,
AWW 5.3. 5 And I beseech your majesty to make it
AWW 5.3. 6 Natural rebellion done i' th' blade of youth,
AWW 5.3. 7 When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force,
AWW 5.3. 8B O'erbears it and burns on.
AWW-KING
My honoured lady,
AWW 5.3. 9 I have forgiven and forgotten all,
AWW 5.3. 10 Though my revenges were high bent upon him
AWW 5.3. 11B And watched the time to shoot.
AWW-LAFEU
This I must say -
AWW 5.3. 12 But first I beg my pardon - the young lord
AWW 5.3. 13 Did to his majesty, his mother, and his lady
AWW 5.3. 14 Offence of mighty note, but to himself
AWW 5.3. 15 The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife
AWW 5.3. 16 Whose beauty did astonish the survey
AWW 5.3. 17 Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive,
AWW 5.3. 18 Whose dear perfection hearts that scorned to serve
AWW 5.3. 19B Humbly called mistress.
AWW-KING
Praising what is lost
AWW 5.3. 20 Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither.
AWW 5.3. 21 We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill
AWW 5.3. 22 All repetition. Let him not ask our pardon.
AWW 5.3. 23 The nature of his great offence is dead,
AWW 5.3. 24 And deeper than oblivion we do bury
AWW 5.3. 25 Th' incensing relics of it. Let him approach
AWW 5.3. 26 A stranger, no offender; and inform him
AWW 5.3. 27B So 'tis our will he should.
AWW-ATTENDANT
I shall, my liege. +
AWW 5.3. 27B {Exit}
AWW 5.3. 28
AWW-KING
{(to Lafeu)} What says he to your daughter? +
AWW 5.3. 28 Have you spoke?
AWW 5.3. 29
AWW-LAFEU
All that he is hath reference to your highness.
AWW 5.3. 30
AWW-KING
Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me
AWW 5.3. 31 That sets him high in fame. {Enter Bertram [with a patch of +
AWW 5.3. 31 velvet on his left cheek, and kneels]}
AWW 5.3. 32A
AWW-LAFEU
He looks well on 't.
AWW 5.3. 33A
AWW-KING
{(to Bertram)} I am not a day of season,
AWW 5.3. 34 For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
AWW 5.3. 35 In me at once. But to the brightest beams
AWW 5.3. 36 Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth.
AWW 5.3. 37B The time is fair again.
AWW-BERTRAM
My high-repented blames,
AWW 5.3. 38B Dear sovereign, pardon to me.
AWW-KING
All is whole.
AWW 5.3. 39 Not one word more of the consumed time.
AWW 5.3. 40 Let's take the instant by the forward top,
AWW 5.3. 41 For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
AWW 5.3. 42 Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time
AWW 5.3. 43 Steals ere we can effect them. You remember
AWW 5.3. 44 The daughter of this lord?
AWW 5.3. 45
AWW-BERTRAM
Admiringly, my liege. At first
AWW 5.3. 46 I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart
AWW 5.3. 47 Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue;
AWW 5.3. 48 Where, the impression of mine eye enfixing,
AWW 5.3. 49 Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,
AWW 5.3. 50 Which warped the line of every other favour,
AWW 5.3. 51 Stained a fair colour or expressed it stolen,
AWW 5.3. 52 Extended or contracted all proportions
AWW 5.3. 53 To a most hideous object. Thence it came
AWW 5.3. 54 That she whom all men praised and whom myself,
AWW 5.3. 55 Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye
AWW 5.3. 56B The dust that did offend it.
AWW-KING
Well excused.
AWW 5.3. 57 That thou didst love her strikes some scores away
AWW 5.3. 58 From the great count. But love that comes too late,
AWW 5.3. 59 Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
AWW 5.3. 60 To the grace-sender turns a sour offence,
AWW 5.3. 61 Crying, `That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults
AWW 5.3. 62 Make trivial price of serious things we have,
AWW 5.3. 63 Not knowing them until we know their grave.
AWW 5.3. 64 Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,
AWW 5.3. 65 Destroy our friends and after weep their dust.
AWW 5.3. 66 Our own love waking cries to see what's done,
AWW 5.3. 67 While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon.
AWW 5.3. 68 Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.
AWW 5.3. 69 Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin.
AWW 5.3. 70 The main consents are had, and here we'll stay
AWW 5.3. 71 To see our widower's second marriage day.
AWW 5.3. 72
AWW-[COUNTESS]
Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!
AWW 5.3. 73 Or ere they meet, in me, O nature, cease.
AWW 5.3. 74
AWW-LAFEU
{(to Bertram)} Come on, my son, in whom my +
AWW 5.3. 74 house's name
AWW 5.3. 75 Must be digested, give a favour from you
AWW 5.3. 76 To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,
AWW 5.3. 77B That she may quickly come. {Bertram gives Lafeu a ring} +
AWW 5.3. 77B By my old beard
AWW 5.3. 78 And ev'ry hair that's on 't, Helen that's dead
AWW 5.3. 79 Was a sweet creature. Such a ring as this,
AWW 5.3. 80 The last that ere I took her leave at court,
AWW 5.3. 81B I saw upon her finger.
AWW-BERTRAM
Hers it was not.
AWW 5.3. 82
AWW-KING
Now pray you let me see it; for mine eye,
AWW 5.3. 83 While I was speaking, oft was fastened to 't. {Lafeu gives him +
AWW 5.3. 83 the ring}
AWW 5.3. 84 This ring was mine, and when I gave it Helen
AWW 5.3. 85 I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood
AWW 5.3. 86 Necessitied to help, that by this token
AWW 5.3. 87 I would relieve her. Had you that craft to reave her
AWW 5.3. 88B Of what should stead her most?
AWW-BERTRAM
My gracious sovereign,
AWW 5.3. 89 Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,
AWW 5.3. 90B The ring was never hers.
AWW-COUNTESS
Son, on my life
AWW 5.3. 91 I have seen her wear it, and she reckoned it
AWW 5.3. 92B At her life's rate.
AWW-LAFEU
I am sure I saw her wear it.
AWW 5.3. 93
AWW-BERTRAM
You are deceived, my lord, she never saw it.
AWW 5.3. 94 In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,
AWW 5.3. 95 Wrapped in a paper which contained the name
AWW 5.3. 96 Of her that threw it. Noble she was, and thought
AWW 5.3. 97 I stood ingaged. But when I had subscribed
AWW 5.3. 98 To mine own fortune, and informed her fully
AWW 5.3. 99 I could not answer in that course of honour
AWW 5.3. 100 As she had made the overture, she ceased
AWW 5.3. 101 In heavy satisfaction, and would never
AWW 5.3. 102B Receive the ring again.
AWW-KING
Plutus himself,
AWW 5.3. 103 That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
AWW 5.3. 104 Hath not in nature's mystery more science
AWW 5.3. 105 Than I have in this ring. 'Twas mine, 'twas Helen's,
AWW 5.3. 106 Whoever gave it you. Then if you know
AWW 5.3. 107 That you are well acquainted with yourself,
AWW 5.3. 108 Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement
AWW 5.3. 109 You got it from her. She called the saints to surety
AWW 5.3. 110 That she would never put it from her finger
AWW 5.3. 111 Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,
AWW 5.3. 112 Where you have never come, or sent it us
AWW 5.3. 113B Upon her great disaster.
AWW-BERTRAM
She never saw it.
AWW 5.3. 114
AWW-KING
Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour,
AWW 5.3. 115 And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me
AWW 5.3. 116 Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove
AWW 5.3. 117 That thou art so inhuman - 'twill not prove so.
AWW 5.3. 118 And yet I know not. Thou didst hate her deadly,
AWW 5.3. 119 And she is dead, which nothing but to close
AWW 5.3. 120 Her eyes myself could win me to believe,
AWW 5.3. 121 More than to see this ring. - Take him away.
AWW 5.3. 122 My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,
AWW 5.3. 123 Shall tax my fears of little vanity,
AWW 5.3. 124 Having vainly feared too little. Away with him.
AWW 5.3. 125B We'll sift this matter further.
AWW-BERTRAM
If you shall prove
AWW 5.3. 126 This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy
AWW 5.3. 127 Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,
AWW 5.3. 128 Where yet she never was. {Exit guarded}
AWW 5.3. 129A {Enter the Gentleman Austringer with a paper}
AWW-KING
+
AWW 5.3. 129A I am wrapped in dismal thinkings.
AWW 5.3. 130A
AWW-GENTLEMAN
Gracious sovereign,
AWW 5.3. 131 Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not.
AWW 5.3. 132 Here's a petition from a Florentine
AWW 5.3. 133 Who hath for four or five removes come short
AWW 5.3. 134 To tender it herself. I undertook it,
AWW 5.3. 135 Vanquished thereto by the fair grace and speech
AWW 5.3. 136 Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know
AWW 5.3. 137 Is here attending. Her business looks in her
AWW 5.3. 138 With an importing visage, and she told me
AWW 5.3. 139 In a sweet verbal brief it did concern
AWW 5.3. 140 Your highness with herself.
AWW 5.3. 141
AWW-[KING]
{(reads a letter)} `Upon his many +
AWW 5.3. 141 protestations to
AWW 5.3. 142 marry me when his wife was dead, I blush to say it,
AWW 5.3. 143 he won me. Now is the Count Roussillon a widower,
AWW 5.3. 144 his vows are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to
AWW 5.3. 145 him. He stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I
AWW 5.3. 146 follow him to his country for justice. Grant it me, O
AWW 5.3. 147 King! In you it best lies; otherwise a seducer flourishes
AWW 5.3. 148 and a poor maid is undone.
AWW 5.3. 149 Diana Capilet.'
AWW 5.3. 150
AWW-LAFEU
I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for
AWW 5.3. 151 this. I'll none of him.
AWW 5.3. 152
AWW-KING
The heavens have thought well on thee, Lafeu,
AWW 5.3. 153 To bring forth this discov'ry. - Seek these suitors.
AWW 5.3. 154 Go speedily and bring again the Count. {Exit one or more}
AWW 5.3. 155 I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,
AWW 5.3. 156B Was foully snatched. {[Enter Bertram guarded]}
AWW-COUNTESS
+
AWW 5.3. 156B Now justice on the doers!
AWW 5.3. 157
AWW-KING
{(to Bertram)} I wonder, sir, since wives are +
AWW 5.3. 157 monsters to you,
AWW 5.3. 158 And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,
AWW 5.3. 159B Yet you desire to marry. {Enter the Widow and Diana} +
AWW 5.3. 159B What woman's that?
AWW 5.3. 160
AWW-DIANA
I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,
AWW 5.3. 161 Derived from the ancient Capilet.
AWW 5.3. 162 My suit, as I do understand, you know,
AWW 5.3. 163 And therefore know how far I may be pitied.
AWW 5.3. 164
AWW-WIDOW
{(to the King)} I am her mother, sir, whose +
AWW 5.3. 164 age and honour
AWW 5.3. 165 Both suffer under this complaint we bring,
AWW 5.3. 166 And both shall cease without your remedy.
AWW 5.3. 167
AWW-KING
Come hither, Count. Do you know these women?
AWW 5.3. 168
AWW-BERTRAM
My lord, I neither can nor will deny
AWW 5.3. 169 But that I know them. Do they charge me further?
AWW 5.3. 170
AWW-DIANA
Why do you look so strange upon your wife?
AWW 5.3. 171B
AWW-BERTRAM
{(to the King)} She's none of mine, my +
AWW 5.3. 171B lord.
AWW-DIANA
If you shall marry
AWW 5.3. 172 You give away this hand, and that is mine;
AWW 5.3. 173 You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;
AWW 5.3. 174 You give away myself, which is known mine,
AWW 5.3. 175 For I by vow am so embodied yours
AWW 5.3. 176 That she which marries you must marry me,
AWW 5.3. 177 Either both or none.
AWW 5.3. 178
AWW-LAFEU
{(to Bertram)} Your reputation comes too +
AWW 5.3. 178 short for
AWW 5.3. 179 my daughter, you are no husband for her.
AWW 5.3. 180
AWW-BERTRAM
{(to the King)} My lord, this is a fond +
AWW 5.3. 180 and desp'rate creature
AWW 5.3. 181 Whom sometime I have laughed with. Let your highness
AWW 5.3. 182 Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour
AWW 5.3. 183 Than for to think that I would sink it here.
AWW 5.3. 184
AWW-KING
Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend
AWW 5.3. 185 Till your deeds gain them. Fairer prove your honour
AWW 5.3. 186B Than in my thought it lies.
AWW-DIANA
Good my lord,
AWW 5.3. 187 Ask him upon his oath if he does think
AWW 5.3. 188 He had not my virginity.
AWW 5.3. 189A
AWW-KING
What sayst thou to her?
AWW 5.3. 190A
AWW-BERTRAM
She's impudent, my lord,
AWW 5.3. 191 And was a common gamester to the camp.
AWW 5.3. 192
AWW-DIANA
{(to the King)} He does me wrong, my lord. +
AWW 5.3. 192 If I were so
AWW 5.3. 193 He might have bought me at a common price.
AWW 5.3. 194 Do not believe him. O behold this ring,
AWW 5.3. 195 Whose high respect and rich validity
AWW 5.3. 196 Did lack a parallel; yet for all that
AWW 5.3. 197 He gave it to a commoner o' th' camp,
AWW 5.3. 198B If I be one.
AWW-COUNTESS
He blushes and 'tis hit.
AWW 5.3. 199 Of six preceding ancestors, that gem;
AWW 5.3. 200 Conferred by testament to th' sequent issue
AWW 5.3. 201 Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife.
AWW 5.3. 202B That ring's a thousand proofs.
AWW-KING
{(to Diana)} +
AWW 5.3. 202B Methought you said
AWW 5.3. 203 You saw one here in court could witness it.
AWW 5.3. 204
AWW-DIANA
I did, my lord, but loath am to produce
AWW 5.3. 205 So bad an instrument. His name's Paroles.
AWW 5.3. 206
AWW-LAFEU
I saw the man today, if man he be.
AWW 5.3. 207B
AWW-KING
Find him and bring him hither. {Exit one}
AWW-BERTRAM
+
AWW 5.3. 207B What of him?
AWW 5.3. 208 He's quoted for a most perfidious slave
AWW 5.3. 209 With all the spots o' th' world taxed and debauched,
AWW 5.3. 210 Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.
AWW 5.3. 211 Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,
AWW 5.3. 212B That will speak anything?
AWW-KING
She hath that ring of yours.
AWW 5.3. 213
AWW-BERTRAM
I think she has. Certain it is I liked her
AWW 5.3. 214 And boarded her i' th' wanton way of youth.
AWW 5.3. 215 She knew her distance and did angle for me,
AWW 5.3. 216 Madding my eagerness with her restraint,
AWW 5.3. 217 As all impediments in fancy's course
AWW 5.3. 218 Are motives of more fancy; and in fine
AWW 5.3. 219 Her inf'nite cunning with her modern grace
AWW 5.3. 220 Subdued me to her rate. She got the ring,
AWW 5.3. 221 And I had that which my inferior might
AWW 5.3. 222B At market price have bought.
AWW-DIANA
I must be patient.
AWW 5.3. 223 You that have turned off a first so noble wife
AWW 5.3. 224 May justly diet me. I pray you yet -
AWW 5.3. 225 Since you lack virtue I will lose a husband -
AWW 5.3. 226 Send for your ring, I will return it home,
AWW 5.3. 227 And give me mine again.
AWW 5.3. 228A
AWW-BERTRAM
I have it not.
AWW 5.3. 229A
AWW-KING
{(to Diana)} What ring was yours, I pray you?
AWW 5.3. 230
AWW-DIANA
Sir, much like the same upon your finger.
AWW 5.3. 231
AWW-KING
Know you this ring? This ring was his of late.
AWW 5.3. 232
AWW-DIANA
And this was it I gave him being abed.
AWW 5.3. 233
AWW-KING
The story then goes false you threw it him
AWW 5.3. 234B Out of a casement?
AWW-DIANA
I have spoke the truth. {Enter +
AWW 5.3. 234B Paroles}
AWW 5.3. 235
AWW-BERTRAM
{(to the King)} My lord, I do confess the +
AWW 5.3. 235 ring was hers.
AWW 5.3. 236
AWW-KING
You boggle shrewdly; every feather starts you. -
AWW 5.3. 237B Is this the man you speak of?
AWW-DIANA
Ay, my lord.
AWW 5.3. 238
AWW-KING
{(to Paroles)} Tell me, sirrah - but tell me +
AWW 5.3. 238 true, I charge you,
AWW 5.3. 239 Not fearing the displeasure of your master,
AWW 5.3. 240 Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off -
AWW 5.3. 241 By him and by this woman here what know you?
AWW 5.3. 242
AWW-PAROLES
So please your majesty, my master hath been
AWW 5.3. 243 an honourable gentleman. Tricks he hath had in him
AWW 5.3. 244 which gentlemen have.
AWW 5.3. 245
AWW-KING
Come, come, to th' purpose. Did he love this woman?
AWW 5.3. 246
AWW-PAROLES
Faith, sir, he did love her, but how?
AWW 5.3. 247
AWW-KING
How, I pray you?
AWW 5.3. 248
AWW-PAROLES
He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a
AWW 5.3. 249 woman.
AWW 5.3. 250
AWW-KING
How is that?
AWW 5.3. 251
AWW-PAROLES
He loved her, sir, and loved her not.
AWW 5.3. 252
AWW-KING
As thou art a knave and no knave. What an
AWW 5.3. 253 equivocal companion is this!
AWW 5.3. 254
AWW-PAROLES
I am a poor man, and at your majesty's
AWW 5.3. 255 command.
AWW 5.3. 256
AWW-LAFEU
{(to the King)} He's a good drum, my lord, +
AWW 5.3. 256 but a
AWW 5.3. 257 naughty orator.
AWW 5.3. 258
AWW-DIANA
{(to Paroles)} Do you know he promised me +
AWW 5.3. 258 marriage?
AWW 5.3. 259
AWW-PAROLES
Faith, I know more than I'll speak.
AWW 5.3. 260
AWW-KING
But wilt thou not speak all thou know'st?
AWW 5.3. 261
AWW-PAROLES
Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between
AWW 5.3. 262 them, as I said; but more than that, he loved her, for
AWW 5.3. 263 indeed he was mad for her and talked of Satan and of
AWW 5.3. 264 limbo and of Furies and I know not what. Yet I was
AWW 5.3. 265 in that credit with them at that time that I knew of
AWW 5.3. 266 their going to bed and of other motions, as promising
AWW 5.3. 267 her marriage and things which would derive me ill will
AWW 5.3. 268 to speak of. Therefore I will not speak what I know.
AWW 5.3. 269
AWW-KING
Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say
AWW 5.3. 270 they are married. But thou art too fine in thy evidence,
AWW 5.3. 271 therefore stand aside. -
AWW 5.3. 272B This ring you say was yours.
AWW-DIANA
Ay, my good lord.
AWW 5.3. 273
AWW-KING
Where did you buy it? Or who gave it you?
AWW 5.3. 274
AWW-DIANA
It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.
AWW 5.3. 275B
AWW-KING
Who lent it you?
AWW-DIANA
It was not lent me neither.
AWW 5.3. 276B
AWW-KING
Where did you find it then?
AWW-DIANA
I found it not.
AWW 5.3. 277
AWW-KING
If it were yours by none of all these ways,
AWW 5.3. 278B How could you give it him?
AWW-DIANA
I never gave it him.
AWW 5.3. 279
AWW-LAFEU
{(to the King)} This woman's an easy glove, +
AWW 5.3. 279 my lord,
AWW 5.3. 280 she goes off and on at pleasure.
AWW 5.3. 281
AWW-KING
{(to Diana)} This ring was mine. I gave it +
AWW 5.3. 281 his first wife.
AWW 5.3. 282
AWW-DIANA
It might be yours or hers for aught I know.
AWW 5.3. 283
AWW-KING
{(to attendants)} Take her away, I do not +
AWW 5.3. 283 like her now.
AWW 5.3. 284 To prison with her. And away with him. -
AWW 5.3. 285 Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring
AWW 5.3. 286B Thou diest within this hour.
AWW-DIANA
I'll never tell you.
AWW 5.3. 287B
AWW-KING
{(to attendants)} Take her away.
AWW-DIANA
+
AWW 5.3. 287B I'll put in bail, my liege.
AWW 5.3. 288
AWW-KING
I think thee now some common customer.
AWW 5.3. 289
AWW-DIANA
By Jove, if ever I knew man 'twas you.
AWW 5.3. 290
AWW-KING
Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?
AWW 5.3. 291
AWW-DIANA
Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty.
AWW 5.3. 292 He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to 't;
AWW 5.3. 293 I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.
AWW 5.3. 294 Great King, I am no strumpet; by my life,
AWW 5.3. 295 I am either maid or else this old man's wife.
AWW 5.3. 296
AWW-KING
{(to attendants)} She does abuse our ears. To +
AWW 5.3. 296 prison with her.
AWW 5.3. 297B
AWW-DIANA
Good mother, fetch my bail. {Exit Widow} +
AWW 5.3. 297B Stay, royal sir.
AWW 5.3. 298 The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,
AWW 5.3. 299 And he shall surety me. But for this lord,
AWW 5.3. 300 Who hath abused me as he knows himself,
AWW 5.3. 301 Though yet he never harmed me, here I quit him.
AWW 5.3. 302 He knows himself my bed he hath defiled,
AWW 5.3. 303 And at that time he got his wife with child.
AWW 5.3. 304 Dead though she be she feels her young one kick.
AWW 5.3. 305 So there's my riddle; one that's dead is quick.
AWW 5.3. 306B And now behold the meaning. {Enter Helen and the Widow}
AWW-KING
+
AWW 5.3. 306B Is there no exorcist
AWW 5.3. 307 Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?
AWW 5.3. 308B Is 't real that I see?
AWW-HELEN
No, my good lord,
AWW 5.3. 309 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,
AWW 5.3. 310B The name and not the thing.
AWW-BERTRAM
Both, both. O, pardon!
AWW 5.3. 311
AWW-HELEN
O, my good lord, when I was like this maid
AWW 5.3. 312 I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring.
AWW 5.3. 313 And, look you, here's your letter. This it says:
AWW 5.3. 314 `When from my finger you can get this ring,
AWW 5.3. 315 And are by me with child,' et cetera. This is done.
AWW 5.3. 316 Will you be mine now you are doubly won?
AWW 5.3. 317
AWW-BERTRAM
{(to the King)} If she, my liege, can make +
AWW 5.3. 317 me know this clearly
AWW 5.3. 318 I'll love her dearly, ever ever dearly.
AWW 5.3. 319
AWW-HELEN
If it appear not plain and prove untrue,
AWW 5.3. 320 Deadly divorce step between me and you. -
AWW 5.3. 321 O my dear mother, do I see you living?
AWW 5.3. 322
AWW-LAFEU
Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon.
AWW 5.3. 323 {(To Paroles)} Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkerchief.
AWW 5.3. 324 So, I thank thee. Wait on me home, I'll make sport
AWW 5.3. 325 with thee. Let thy curtsies alone, they are scurvy ones.
AWW 5.3. 326
AWW-KING
{(to Helen)} Let us from point to point this +
AWW 5.3. 326 story know
AWW 5.3. 327 To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
AWW 5.3. 328 {(To Diana)} If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped +
AWW 5.3. 328 flower,
AWW 5.3. 329 Choose thou thy husband and I'll pay thy dower.
AWW 5.3. 330 For I can guess that by thy honest aid
AWW 5.3. 331 Thou kept'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.
AWW 5.3. 332 Of that and all the progress more and less
AWW 5.3. 333 Resolvedly more leisure shall express.
AWW 5.3. 334 All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,
AWW 5.3. 335 The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. {Flourish of +
AWW 5.3. 335 trumpets}
AWW 5.3. 0
AWW 5.Ep. 1 The King's a beggar now the play is done.
AWW 5.Ep. 2 All is well ended if this suit be won:
AWW 5.Ep. 3 That you express content, which we will pay
AWW 5.Ep. 4 With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
AWW 5.Ep. 5 Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts:
AWW 5.Ep. 6 Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts. {Exeunt}
AWW 5.Ep.
AWW
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AYL . . 0 As You Like It
AYL . . 0 {Enter Orlando and Adam}
AYL 1.1. 1
AYL-ORLANDO
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
AYL 1.1. 2 bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,
AYL 1.1. 3 and, as thou sayst, charged my brother on his blessing
AYL 1.1. 4 to breed me well - and there begins my sadness. My
AYL 1.1. 5 brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks
AYL 1.1. 6 goldenly of his profit. For my part, he keeps me rustically
AYL 1.1. 7 at home - or, to speak more properly, stays me here at
AYL 1.1. 8 home unkept; for call you that keeping for a gentleman
AYL 1.1. 9 of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an ox?
AYL 1.1. 10 His horses are bred better, for besides that they are fair
AYL 1.1. 11 with their feeding, they are taught their manege, and
AYL 1.1. 12 to that end riders dearly hired. But I, his brother, gain
AYL 1.1. 13 nothing under him but growth, for the which his
AYL 1.1. 14 animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as
AYL 1.1. 15 I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me,
AYL 1.1. 16 the something that nature gave me his countenance
AYL 1.1. 17 seems to take from me. He lets me feed with his hinds,
AYL 1.1. 18 bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him
AYL 1.1. 19 lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it,
AYL 1.1. 20 Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father,
AYL 1.1. 21 which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against
AYL 1.1. 22 this servitude. I will no longer endure it, though yet I
AYL 1.1. 23 know no wise remedy how to avoid it. {Enter Oliver}
AYL 1.1. 24
AYL-ADAM
Yonder comes my master, your brother.
AYL 1.1. 25
AYL-ORLANDO
Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he
AYL 1.1. 26 will shake me up. {Adam stands aside}
AYL 1.1. 27
AYL-OLIVER
Now, sir, what make you here?
AYL 1.1. 28
AYL-ORLANDO
Nothing. I am not taught to make anything.
AYL 1.1. 29
AYL-OLIVER
What mar you then, sir?
AYL 1.1. 30
AYL-ORLANDO
Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which
AYL 1.1. 31 God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with
AYL 1.1. 32 idleness.
AYL 1.1. 33
AYL-OLIVER
Marry, sir, be better employed, and be nought
AYL 1.1. 34 awhile.
AYL 1.1. 35
AYL-ORLANDO
Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with
AYL 1.1. 36 them? What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should
AYL 1.1. 37 come to such penury?
AYL 1.1. 38
AYL-OLIVER
Know you where you are, sir?
AYL 1.1. 39
AYL-ORLANDO
O sir, very well; here in your orchard.
AYL 1.1. 40
AYL-OLIVER
Know you before whom, sir?
AYL 1.1. 41
AYL-ORLANDO
Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I
AYL 1.1. 42 know you are my eldest brother, and in the gentle
AYL 1.1. 43 condition of blood you should so know me. The courtesy
AYL 1.1. 44 of nations allows you my better, in that you are the
AYL 1.1. 45 first-born; but the same tradition takes not away my
AYL 1.1. 46 blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us. I have
AYL 1.1. 47 as much of my father in me as you, albeit I confess
AYL 1.1. 48 your coming before me is nearer to his reverence.
AYL 1.1. 49
AYL-OLIVER
{(assailing him)} What, boy!
AYL 1.1. 50
AYL-ORLANDO
{(seizing him by the throat)} Come, come, +
AYL 1.1. 50 elder
AYL 1.1. 51 brother, you are too young in this.
AYL 1.1. 52
AYL-OLIVER
Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?
AYL 1.1. 53
AYL-ORLANDO
I am no villein. I am the youngest son of Sir
AYL 1.1. 54 Rowland de Bois. He was my father, and he is thrice
AYL 1.1. 55 a villain that says such a father begot villeins. Wert
AYL 1.1. 56 thou not my brother, I would not take this hand from
AYL 1.1. 57 thy throat till this other had pulled out thy tongue for
AYL 1.1. 58 saying so. Thou hast railed on thyself.
AYL 1.1. 59
AYL-ADAM
{(coming forward)} Sweet masters, be patient. +
AYL 1.1. 59 For
AYL 1.1. 60 your father's remembrance, be at accord.
AYL 1.1. 61
AYL-OLIVER
{(to Orlando)} Let me go, I say.
AYL 1.1. 62
AYL-ORLANDO
I will not till I please. You shall hear me. My
AYL 1.1. 63 father charged you in his will to give me good
AYL 1.1. 64 education. You have trained me like a peasant,
AYL 1.1. 65 obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like
AYL 1.1. 66 qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in me,
AYL 1.1. 67 and I will no longer endure it. Therefore allow me such
AYL 1.1. 68 exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the
AYL 1.1. 69 poor allottery my father left me by testament. With
AYL 1.1. 70 that I will go buy my fortunes.
AYL 1.1. 71
AYL-OLIVER
And what wilt thou do - beg when that is spent?
AYL 1.1. 72 Well, sir, get you in. I will not long be troubled with
AYL 1.1. 73 you. You shall have some part of your will. I pray you,
AYL 1.1. 74 leave me.
AYL 1.1. 75
AYL-ORLANDO
I will no further offend you than becomes me
AYL 1.1. 76 for my good.
AYL 1.1. 77
AYL-OLIVER
{(to Adam)} Get you with him, you old dog.
AYL 1.1. 78
AYL-ADAM
Is `old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my
AYL 1.1. 79 teeth in your service. God be with my old master, he
AYL 1.1. 80 would not have spoke such a word. {Exeunt Orlando and Adam}
AYL 1.1. 81
AYL-OLIVER
Is it even so? Begin you to grow upon me? I will
AYL 1.1. 82 physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns
AYL 1.1. 83 neither. Holla, Denis! {Enter Denis}
AYL 1.1. 84
AYL-DENIS
Calls your worship?
AYL 1.1. 85
AYL-OLIVER
Was not Charles, the Duke's wrestler, here to
AYL 1.1. 86 speak with me?
AYL 1.1. 87
AYL-DENIS
So please you, he is here at the door, and importunes
AYL 1.1. 88 access to you.
AYL 1.1. 89
AYL-OLIVER
Call him in. {Exit Denis}
AYL 1.1. 90 'Twill be a good way. And tomorrow the wrestling is. +
AYL 1.1. 90 {Enter Charles}
AYL 1.1. 91
AYL-CHARLES
Good morrow to your worship.
AYL 1.1. 92
AYL-OLIVER
Good Monsieur Charles - what's the new news at
AYL 1.1. 93 the new court?
AYL 1.1. 94
AYL-CHARLES
There's no news at the court, sir, but the old
AYL 1.1. 95 news: that is, the old Duke is banished by his younger
AYL 1.1. 96 brother, the new Duke, and three or four loving lords
AYL 1.1. 97 have put themselves into voluntary exile with him,
AYL 1.1. 98 whose lands and revenues enrich the new Duke;
AYL 1.1. 99 therefore he gives them good leave to wander.
AYL 1.1. 100
AYL-OLIVER
Can you tell if Rosalind, the Duke's daughter, be
AYL 1.1. 101 banished with her father?
AYL 1.1. 102
AYL-CHARLES
O no; for the Duke's daughter her cousin so
AYL 1.1. 103 loves her, being ever from their cradles bred together,
AYL 1.1. 104 that she would have followed her exile, or have died
AYL 1.1. 105 to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no less
AYL 1.1. 106 beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and never
AYL 1.1. 107 two ladies loved as they do.
AYL 1.1. 108
AYL-OLIVER
Where will the old Duke live?
AYL 1.1. 109
AYL-CHARLES
They say he is already in the forest of Ardenne,
AYL 1.1. 110 and a many merry men with him; and there they live
AYL 1.1. 111 like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many
AYL 1.1. 112 young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the
AYL 1.1. 113 time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
AYL 1.1. 114
AYL-OLIVER
What, you wrestle tomorrow before the new
AYL 1.1. 115 Duke?
AYL 1.1. 116
AYL-CHARLES
Marry do I, sir, and I came to acquaint you with
AYL 1.1. 117 a matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand that
AYL 1.1. 118 your younger brother, Orlando, hath a disposition to
AYL 1.1. 119 come in disguised against me to try a fall. Tomorrow,
AYL 1.1. 120 sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me
AYL 1.1. 121 without some broken limb, shall acquit him well. Your
AYL 1.1. 122 brother is but young and tender, and for your love I
AYL 1.1. 123 would be loath to foil him, as I must for my own
AYL 1.1. 124 honour if he come in. Therefore out of my love to you
AYL 1.1. 125 I came hither to acquaint you withal, that either you
AYL 1.1. 126 might stay him from his intendment, or brook such
AYL 1.1. 127 disgrace well as he shall run into, in that it is a thing
AYL 1.1. 128 of his own search, and altogether against my will.
AYL 1.1. 129
AYL-OLIVER
Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which
AYL 1.1. 130 thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had myself
AYL 1.1. 131 notice of my brother's purpose herein, and have by
AYL 1.1. 132 underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it;
AYL 1.1. 133 but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles, it is the
AYL 1.1. 134 stubbornest young fellow of France, full of ambition,
AYL 1.1. 135 an envious emulator of every man's good parts, a secret
AYL 1.1. 136 and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.
AYL 1.1. 137 Therefore use thy discretion. I had as lief thou didst
AYL 1.1. 138 break his neck as his finger. And thou wert best look
AYL 1.1. 139 to 't; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if he
AYL 1.1. 140 do not mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise
AYL 1.1. 141 against thee by poison, entrap thee by some treacherous
AYL 1.1. 142 device, and never leave thee till he hath ta'en thy life
AYL 1.1. 143 by some indirect means or other. For I assure thee -
AYL 1.1. 144 and almost with tears I speak it - there is not one so
AYL 1.1. 145 young and so villainous this day living. I speak but
AYL 1.1. 146 brotherly of him, but should I anatomize him to thee
AYL 1.1. 147 as he is, I must blush and weep, and thou must look
AYL 1.1. 148 pale and wonder.
AYL 1.1. 149
AYL-CHARLES
I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he
AYL 1.1. 150 come tomorrow I'll give him his payment. If ever he
AYL 1.1. 151 go alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more. And
AYL 1.1. 152 so God keep your worship.
AYL 1.1. 153
AYL-OLIVER
Farewell, good Charles. {Exit Charles}
AYL 1.1. 154 Now will I stir this gamester. I hope I shall see an end
AYL 1.1. 155 of him, for my soul - yet I know not why - hates
AYL 1.1. 156 nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle; never schooled,
AYL 1.1. 157 and yet learned; full of noble device; of all sorts
AYL 1.1. 158 enchantingly beloved; and, indeed, so much in the
AYL 1.1. 159 heart of the world, and especially of my own people,
AYL 1.1. 160 who best know him, that I am altogether misprized.
AYL 1.1. 161 But it shall not be so long. This wrestler shall clear all.
AYL 1.1. 162 Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither,
AYL 1.1. 163 which now I'll go about. {Exit}
AYL 1.1. 0 {Enter Rosalind and Celia}
AYL 1.2. 1
AYL-CELIA
I pray thee Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.
AYL 1.2. 2
AYL-ROSALIND
Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am
AYL 1.2. 3 mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? Unless
AYL 1.2. 4 you could teach me to forget a banished father you
AYL 1.2. 5 must not learn me how to remember any extraordinary
AYL 1.2. 6 pleasure.
AYL 1.2. 7
AYL-CELIA
Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight
AYL 1.2. 8 that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father, had
AYL 1.2. 9 banished thy uncle, the Duke my father, so thou hadst
AYL 1.2. 10 been still with me I could have taught my love to take
AYL 1.2. 11 thy father for mine. So wouldst thou, if the truth of
AYL 1.2. 12 thy love to me were so righteously tempered as mine
AYL 1.2. 13 is to thee.
AYL 1.2. 14
AYL-ROSALIND
Well, I will forget the condition of my estate to
AYL 1.2. 15 rejoice in yours.
AYL 1.2. 16
AYL-CELIA
You know my father hath no child but I, nor none
AYL 1.2. 17 is like to have. And truly, when he dies thou shalt be
AYL 1.2. 18 his heir; for what he hath taken away from thy father
AYL 1.2. 19 perforce, I will render thee again in affection. By mine
AYL 1.2. 20 honour I will, and when I break that oath, let me turn
AYL 1.2. 21 monster. Therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be
AYL 1.2. 22 merry.
AYL 1.2. 23
AYL-ROSALIND
From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports.
AYL 1.2. 24 Let me see, what think you of falling in love?
AYL 1.2. 25
AYL-CELIA
Marry, I prithee do, to make sport withal; but love
AYL 1.2. 26 no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport neither
AYL 1.2. 27 than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in honour
AYL 1.2. 28 come off again.
AYL 1.2. 29
AYL-ROSALIND
What shall be our sport, then?
AYL 1.2. 30
AYL-CELIA
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune
AYL 1.2. 31 from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be
AYL 1.2. 32 bestowed equally.
AYL 1.2. 33
AYL-ROSALIND
I would we could do so, for her benefits are
AYL 1.2. 34 mightily misplaced; and the bountiful blind woman
AYL 1.2. 35 doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
AYL 1.2. 36
AYL-CELIA
'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce
AYL 1.2. 37 makes honest, and those that she makes honest she
AYL 1.2. 38 makes very ill-favouredly.
AYL 1.2. 39
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to
AYL 1.2. 40 Nature's. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in
AYL 1.2. 41 the lineaments of nature. {Enter Touchstone the clown}
AYL 1.2. 42
AYL-CELIA
No. When Nature hath made a fair creature, may
AYL 1.2. 43 she not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature
AYL 1.2. 44 hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not Fortune
AYL 1.2. 45 sent in this fool to cut off the argument?
AYL 1.2. 46
AYL-ROSALIND
Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature,
AYL 1.2. 47 when Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of
AYL 1.2. 48 Nature's wit.
AYL 1.2. 49
AYL-CELIA
Peradventure this is not Fortune's work, neither,
AYL 1.2. 50 but Nature's, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull
AYL 1.2. 51 to reason of such goddesses, and hath sent this natural
AYL 1.2. 52 for our whetstone; for always the dullness of the fool
AYL 1.2. 53 is the whetstone of the wits. How now, wit: whither
AYL 1.2. 54 wander you?
AYL 1.2. 55
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Mistress, you must come away to your father.
AYL 1.2. 56
AYL-CELIA
Were you made the messenger?
AYL 1.2. 57
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come
AYL 1.2. 58 for you.
AYL 1.2. 59
AYL-ROSALIND
Where learned you that oath, fool?
AYL 1.2. 60
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Of a certain knight that swore `by his honour'
AYL 1.2. 61 they were good pancakes, and swore `by his honour'
AYL 1.2. 62 the mustard was naught. Now I'll stand to it the
AYL 1.2. 63 pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and
AYL 1.2. 64 yet was not the knight forsworn.
AYL 1.2. 65
AYL-CELIA
How prove you that in the great heap of your
AYL 1.2. 66 knowledge?
AYL 1.2. 67
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.
AYL 1.2. 68
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Stand you both forth now. Stroke your chins,
AYL 1.2. 69 and swear by your beards that I am a knave.
AYL 1.2. 70
AYL-CELIA
By our beards - if we had them - thou art.
AYL 1.2. 71
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
By my knavery - if I had it - then I were;
AYL 1.2. 72 but if you swear by that that is not, you are not
AYL 1.2. 73 forsworn. No more was this knight, swearing by his
AYL 1.2. 74 honour, for he never had any; or if he had, he had
AYL 1.2. 75 sworn it away before ever he saw those pancakes or
AYL 1.2. 76 that mustard.
AYL 1.2. 77
AYL-CELIA
Prithee, who is 't that thou meanest?
AYL 1.2. 78
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
One that old Frederick, your father, loves.
AYL 1.2. 79
AYL-[CELIA]
My father's love is enough to honour him.
AYL 1.2. 80 Enough, speak no more of him; you'll be whipped for
AYL 1.2. 81 taxation one of these days.
AYL 1.2. 82
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
The more pity that fools may not speak wisely
AYL 1.2. 83 what wise men do foolishly.
AYL 1.2. 84
AYL-CELIA
By my troth, thou sayst true; for since the little
AYL 1.2. 85 wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that
AYL 1.2. 86 wise men have makes a great show. Here comes
AYL 1.2. 87 Monsieur Le Beau. {Enter Le Beau}
AYL 1.2. 88
AYL-ROSALIND
With his mouth full of news.
AYL 1.2. 89
AYL-CELIA
Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their
AYL 1.2. 90 young.
AYL 1.2. 91
AYL-ROSALIND
Then shall we be news-crammed.
AYL 1.2. 92
AYL-CELIA
All the better: we shall be the more marketable.
AYL 1.2. 93 {Bonjour}, Monsieur Le Beau, what's the news?
AYL 1.2. 94
AYL-LE BEAU
Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.
AYL 1.2. 95
AYL-CELIA
Sport? Of what colour?
AYL 1.2. 96
AYL-LE BEAU
What colour, madam? How shall I answer you?
AYL 1.2. 97
AYL-ROSALIND
As wit and fortune will.
AYL 1.2. 98
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Or as the destinies decrees.
AYL 1.2. 99
AYL-CELIA
Well said. That was laid on with a trowel.
AYL 1.2. 100
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Nay, if I keep not my rank -
AYL 1.2. 101
AYL-ROSALIND
Thou losest thy old smell.
AYL 1.2. 102
AYL-LE BEAU
You amaze me, ladies. I would have told you of
AYL 1.2. 103 good wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.
AYL 1.2. 104
AYL-ROSALIND
Yet tell us the manner of the wrestling.
AYL 1.2. 105
AYL-LE BEAU
I will tell you the beginning, and if it please your
AYL 1.2. 106 ladyships you may see the end, for the best is yet to
AYL 1.2. 107 do, and here, where you are, they are coming to
AYL 1.2. 108 perform it.
AYL 1.2. 109
AYL-CELIA
Well, the beginning that is dead and buried.
AYL 1.2. 110
AYL-LE BEAU
There comes an old man and his three sons -
AYL 1.2. 111
AYL-CELIA
I could match this beginning with an old tale.
AYL 1.2. 112
AYL-LE BEAU
Three proper young men, of excellent growth
AYL 1.2. 113 and presence.
AYL 1.2. 114
AYL-ROSALIND
With bills on their necks: `Be it known unto
AYL 1.2. 115 all men by these presents' -
AYL 1.2. 116
AYL-LE BEAU
The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the
AYL 1.2. 117 Duke's wrestler, which Charles in a moment threw
AYL 1.2. 118 him, and broke three of his ribs, that there is little hope
AYL 1.2. 119 of life in him. So he served the second, and so the third.
AYL 1.2. 120 Yonder they lie, the poor old man their father making
AYL 1.2. 121 such pitiful dole over them that all the beholders take
AYL 1.2. 122 his part with weeping.
AYL 1.2. 123
AYL-ROSALIND
Alas!
AYL 1.2. 124
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
But what is the sport, monsieur, that the
AYL 1.2. 125 ladies have lost?
AYL 1.2. 126
AYL-LE BEAU
Why, this that I speak of.
AYL 1.2. 127
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Thus men may grow wiser every day. It is
AYL 1.2. 128 the first time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was
AYL 1.2. 129 sport for ladies.
AYL 1.2. 130
AYL-CELIA
Or I, I promise thee.
AYL 1.2. 131
AYL-ROSALIND
But is there any else longs to see this broken
AYL 1.2. 132 music in his sides? Is there yet another dotes upon rib-
AYL 1.2. 133 breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?
AYL 1.2. 134
AYL-LE BEAU
You must if you stay here, for here is the place
AYL 1.2. 135 appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to
AYL 1.2. 136 perform it.
AYL 1.2. 137
AYL-CELIA
Yonder sure they are coming. Let us now stay and
AYL 1.2. 138 see it. {Flourish. Enter Duke Frederick, Lords, Orlando, +
AYL 1.2. 138 Charles, and attendants}
AYL 1.2. 139
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Come on. Since the youth will not be
AYL 1.2. 140 entreated, his own peril on his forwardness.
AYL 1.2. 141
AYL-ROSALIND
Is yonder the man?
AYL 1.2. 142
AYL-LE BEAU
Even he, madam.
AYL 1.2. 143
AYL-CELIA
Alas, he is too young. Yet he looks successfully.
AYL 1.2. 144
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
How now, daughter and cousin; are you
AYL 1.2. 145 crept hither to see the wrestling?
AYL 1.2. 146
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.
AYL 1.2. 147
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
You will take little delight in it, I can tell
AYL 1.2. 148 you, there is such odds in the man. In pity of the
AYL 1.2. 149 challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he
AYL 1.2. 150 will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if you
AYL 1.2. 151 can move him.
AYL 1.2. 152
AYL-CELIA
Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.
AYL 1.2. 153
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Do so. I'll not be by. {He stands aside}
AYL 1.2. 154
AYL-LE BEAU
{(to Orlando)} Monsieur the challenger, +
AYL 1.2. 154 the Princess
AYL 1.2. 155 calls for you.
AYL 1.2. 156
AYL-ORLANDO
I attend them with all respect and duty.
AYL 1.2. 157
AYL-ROSALIND
Young man, have you challenged Charles the
AYL 1.2. 158 wrestler?
AYL 1.2. 159
AYL-ORLANDO
No, fair Princess. He is the general challenger;
AYL 1.2. 160 I come but in as others do, to try with him the strength
AYL 1.2. 161 of my youth.
AYL 1.2. 162
AYL-CELIA
Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your
AYL 1.2. 163 years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
AYL 1.2. 164 If you saw yourself with your eyes, or knew yourself
AYL 1.2. 165 with your judgement, the fear of your adventure would
AYL 1.2. 166 counsel you to a more equal enterprise. We pray you
AYL 1.2. 167 for your own sake to embrace your own safety and
AYL 1.2. 168 give over this attempt.
AYL 1.2. 169
AYL-ROSALIND
Do, young sir. Your reputation shall not
AYL 1.2. 170 therefore be misprized. We will make it our suit to the
AYL 1.2. 171 Duke that the wrestling might not go forward.
AYL 1.2. 172
AYL-ORLANDO
I beseech you, punish me not with your hard
AYL 1.2. 173 thoughts, wherein I confess me much guilty to deny
AYL 1.2. 174 so fair and excellent ladies anything. But let your fair
AYL 1.2. 175 eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my trial, wherein
AYL 1.2. 176 if I be foiled, there is but one shamed that was never
AYL 1.2. 177 gracious, if killed, but one dead that is willing to be so.
AYL 1.2. 178 I shall do my friends no wrong, for I have none to
AYL 1.2. 179 lament me; the world no injury, for in it I have nothing.
AYL 1.2. 180 Only in the world I fill up a place which may be better
AYL 1.2. 181 supplied when I have made it empty.
AYL 1.2. 182
AYL-ROSALIND
The little strength that I have, I would it were
AYL 1.2. 183 with you.
AYL 1.2. 184
AYL-CELIA
And mine, to eke out hers.
AYL 1.2. 185
AYL-ROSALIND
Fare you well. Pray heaven I be deceived in
AYL 1.2. 186 you.
AYL 1.2. 187
AYL-CELIA
Your heart's desires be with you.
AYL 1.2. 188
AYL-CHARLES
Come, where is this young gallant that is so
AYL 1.2. 189 desirous to lie with his mother earth?
AYL 1.2. 190
AYL-ORLANDO
Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest
AYL 1.2. 191 working.
AYL 1.2. 192
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
You shall try but one fall.
AYL 1.2. 193
AYL-CHARLES
No, I warrant your grace you shall not entreat
AYL 1.2. 194 him to a second that have so mightily persuaded him
AYL 1.2. 195 from a first.
AYL 1.2. 196
AYL-ORLANDO
You mean to mock me after; you should not
AYL 1.2. 197 have mocked me before. But come your ways.
AYL 1.2. 198
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Orlando)} Now Hercules be thy speed, +
AYL 1.2. 198 young
AYL 1.2. 199 man!
AYL 1.2. 200
AYL-CELIA
I would I were invisible, to catch the strong fellow
AYL 1.2. 201 by the leg. {Charles and Orlando wrestle}
AYL 1.2. 202
AYL-ROSALIND
O excellent young man!
AYL 1.2. 203
AYL-CELIA
If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who
AYL 1.2. 204 should down. {Orlando throws Charles. Shout}
AYL 1.2. 205B
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
No more, no more.
AYL-ORLANDO
Yes, I +
AYL 1.2. 205B beseech your grace.
AYL 1.2. 206 I am not yet well breathed.
AYL 1.2. 207A
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
How dost thou, Charles?
AYL 1.2. 208A
AYL-LE BEAU
He cannot speak, my lord.
AYL 1.2. 209A
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Bear him away. {Attendants carry Charles off}
AYL 1.2. 210 What is thy name, young man?
AYL 1.2. 211
AYL-ORLANDO
Orlando, my liege, the youngest son of Sir
AYL 1.2. 212 Rowland de Bois.
AYL 1.2. 213
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
I would thou hadst been son to some man +
AYL 1.2. 213 else.
AYL 1.2. 214 The world esteemed thy father honourable,
AYL 1.2. 215 But I did find him still mine enemy.
AYL 1.2. 216 Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed
AYL 1.2. 217 Hadst thou descended from another house.
AYL 1.2. 218 But fare thee well, thou art a gallant youth.
AYL 1.2. 219 I would thou hadst told me of another father. {Exeunt Duke +
AYL 1.2. 219 Frederick, Le Beau, [Touchstone,] Lords, and attendants}
AYL 1.2. 220
AYL-CELIA
{(to Rosalind)} Were I my father, coz, would +
AYL 1.2. 220 I do this?
AYL 1.2. 221
AYL-ORLANDO
I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,
AYL 1.2. 222 His youngest son, and would not change that calling
AYL 1.2. 223 To be adopted heir to Frederick.
AYL 1.2. 224
AYL-ROSALIND
My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,
AYL 1.2. 225 And all the world was of my father's mind.
AYL 1.2. 226 Had I before known this young man his son
AYL 1.2. 227 I should have given him tears unto entreaties
AYL 1.2. 228B Ere he should thus have ventured.
AYL-CELIA
Gentle cousin,
AYL 1.2. 229 Let us go thank him, and encourage him.
AYL 1.2. 230 My father's rough and envious disposition
AYL 1.2. 231 Sticks me at heart. - Sir, you have well deserved.
AYL 1.2. 232 If you do keep your promises in love
AYL 1.2. 233 But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,
AYL 1.2. 234B Your mistress shall be happy.
AYL-ROSALIND
{(giving him a chain +
AYL 1.2. 234B from her neck)} Gentleman,
AYL 1.2. 235 Wear this for me - one out of suits with fortune,
AYL 1.2. 236 That could give more but that her hand lacks means.
AYL 1.2. 237B Shall we go, coz?
AYL-CELIA
Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman. +
AYL 1.2. 237B {Rosalind and Celia turn to go}
AYL 1.2. 238
AYL-ORLANDO
{(aside)} Can I not say `I thank you'? My +
AYL 1.2. 238 better parts
AYL 1.2. 239 Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up
AYL 1.2. 240 Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
AYL 1.2. 241
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Celia)} He calls us back. My pride +
AYL 1.2. 241 fell with my fortunes,
AYL 1.2. 242 I'll ask him what he would. - Did you call, sir?
AYL 1.2. 243 Sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown
AYL 1.2. 244 More than your enemies.
AYL 1.2. 245A
AYL-CELIA
Will you go, coz?
AYL 1.2. 246A
AYL-ROSALIND
Have with you. {(To Orlando)} Fare you +
AYL 1.2. 246A well. {Exeunt Rosalind and Celia}
AYL 1.2. 247
AYL-ORLANDO
What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
AYL 1.2. 248 I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference. {Enter Le Beau}
AYL 1.2. 249 O poor Orlando! Thou art overthrown.
AYL 1.2. 250 Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.
AYL 1.2. 251
AYL-LE BEAU
Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
AYL 1.2. 252 To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved
AYL 1.2. 253 High commendation, true applause, and love,
AYL 1.2. 254 Yet such is now the Duke's condition
AYL 1.2. 255 That he misconsters all that you have done.
AYL 1.2. 256 The Duke is humorous. What he is indeed
AYL 1.2. 257 More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.
AYL 1.2. 258
AYL-ORLANDO
I thank you, sir. And pray you tell me this,
AYL 1.2. 259 Which of the two was daughter of the Duke
AYL 1.2. 260 That here was at the wrestling?
AYL 1.2. 261
AYL-LE BEAU
Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners -
AYL 1.2. 262 But yet indeed the shorter is his daughter.
AYL 1.2. 263 The other is daughter to the banished Duke,
AYL 1.2. 264 And here detained by her usurping uncle
AYL 1.2. 265 To keep his daughter company, whose loves
AYL 1.2. 266 Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
AYL 1.2. 267 But I can tell you that of late this Duke
AYL 1.2. 268 Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,
AYL 1.2. 269 Grounded upon no other argument
AYL 1.2. 270 But that the people praise her for her virtues
AYL 1.2. 271 And pity her for her good father's sake.
AYL 1.2. 272 And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady
AYL 1.2. 273 Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well.
AYL 1.2. 274 Hereafter, in a better world than this,
AYL 1.2. 275 I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
AYL 1.2. 276
AYL-ORLANDO
I rest much bounden to you. Fare you well. {Exit Le +
AYL 1.2. 276 Beau}
AYL 1.2. 277 Thus must I from the smoke into the smother,
AYL 1.2. 278 From tyrant Duke unto a tyrant brother. -
AYL 1.2. 279 But heavenly Rosalind! {Exit}
AYL 1.2. 0 {Enter Celia and Rosalind}
AYL 1.3. 1
AYL-CELIA
Why cousin, why Rosalind - Cupid have mercy,
AYL 1.3. 2 not a word?
AYL 1.3. 3
AYL-ROSALIND
Not one to throw at a dog.
AYL 1.3. 4
AYL-CELIA
No, thy words are too precious to be cast away
AYL 1.3. 5 upon curs. Throw some of them at me. Come, lame me
AYL 1.3. 6 with reasons.
AYL 1.3. 7
AYL-ROSALIND
Then there were two cousins laid up, when the
AYL 1.3. 8 one should be lamed with reasons and the other mad
AYL 1.3. 9 without any.
AYL 1.3. 10
AYL-CELIA
But is all this for your father?
AYL 1.3. 11
AYL-ROSALIND
No, some of it is for my child's father. O how
AYL 1.3. 12 full of briers is this working-day world!
AYL 1.3. 13
AYL-CELIA
They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in
AYL 1.3. 14 holiday foolery. If we walk not in the trodden paths
AYL 1.3. 15 our very petticoats will catch them.
AYL 1.3. 16
AYL-ROSALIND
I could shake them off my coat. These burs are
AYL 1.3. 17 in my heart.
AYL 1.3. 18
AYL-CELIA
Hem them away.
AYL 1.3. 19
AYL-ROSALIND
I would try, if I could cry `hem' and have him.
AYL 1.3. 20
AYL-CELIA
Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.
AYL 1.3. 21
AYL-ROSALIND
O, they take the part of a better wrestler than
AYL 1.3. 22 myself.
AYL 1.3. 23
AYL-CELIA
O, a good wish upon you! You will try in time, in
AYL 1.3. 24 despite of a fall. But turning these jests out of service,
AYL 1.3. 25 let us talk in good earnest. Is it possible on such a
AYL 1.3. 26 sudden you should fall into so strong a liking with old
AYL 1.3. 27 Sir Rowland's youngest son?
AYL 1.3. 28
AYL-ROSALIND
The Duke my father loved his father dearly.
AYL 1.3. 29
AYL-CELIA
Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his
AYL 1.3. 30 son dearly? By this kind of chase I should hate him,
AYL 1.3. 31 for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate not
AYL 1.3. 32 Orlando.
AYL 1.3. 33
AYL-ROSALIND
No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.
AYL 1.3. 34
AYL-CELIA
Why should I not? Doth he not deserve well? {Enter +
AYL 1.3. 34 Duke Frederick, with Lords}
AYL 1.3. 35
AYL-ROSALIND
Let me love him for that, and do you love him
AYL 1.3. 36 because I do. Look, here comes the Duke.
AYL 1.3. 37
AYL-CELIA
With his eyes full of anger.
AYL 1.3. 38
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
{(to Rosalind)} Mistress, dispatch +
AYL 1.3. 38 you with your safest haste,
AYL 1.3. 39 And get you from our court.
AYL 1.3. 40A
AYL-ROSALIND
Me, uncle?
AYL 1.3. 41A
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
You, cousin.
AYL 1.3. 42 Within these ten days if that thou beest found
AYL 1.3. 43 So near our public court as twenty miles,
AYL 1.3. 44B Thou diest for it.
AYL-ROSALIND
I do beseech your grace
AYL 1.3. 45 Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me.
AYL 1.3. 46 If with myself I hold intelligence,
AYL 1.3. 47 Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,
AYL 1.3. 48 If that I do not dream, or be not frantic -
AYL 1.3. 49 As I do trust I am not - then, dear uncle,
AYL 1.3. 50 Never so much as in a thought unborn
AYL 1.3. 51B Did I offend your highness.
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Thus do all traitors.
AYL 1.3. 52 If their purgation did consist in words
AYL 1.3. 53 They are as innocent as grace itself.
AYL 1.3. 54 Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.
AYL 1.3. 55
AYL-ROSALIND
Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor.
AYL 1.3. 56 Tell me whereon the likelihood depends?
AYL 1.3. 57
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Thou art thy father's daughter - there's enough.
AYL 1.3. 58
AYL-ROSALIND
So was I when your highness took his dukedom;
AYL 1.3. 59 So was I when your highness banished him.
AYL 1.3. 60 Treason is not inherited, my lord,
AYL 1.3. 61 Or if we did derive it from our friends,
AYL 1.3. 62 What's that to me? My father was no traitor.
AYL 1.3. 63 Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
AYL 1.3. 64 To think my poverty is treacherous.
AYL 1.3. 65A
AYL-CELIA
Dear sovereign, hear me speak.
AYL 1.3. 66
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Ay, Celia, we stayed her for your sake,
AYL 1.3. 67 Else had she with her father ranged along.
AYL 1.3. 68
AYL-CELIA
I did not then entreat to have her stay.
AYL 1.3. 69 It was your pleasure, and your own remorse.
AYL 1.3. 70 I was too young that time to value her,
AYL 1.3. 71 But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
AYL 1.3. 72 Why, so am I. We still have slept together,
AYL 1.3. 73 Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,
AYL 1.3. 74 And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans
AYL 1.3. 75 Still we went coupled and inseparable.
AYL 1.3. 76
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
She is too subtle for thee, and her smoothness,
AYL 1.3. 77 Her very silence, and her patience
AYL 1.3. 78 Speak to the people, and they pity her.
AYL 1.3. 79 Thou art a fool. She robs thee of thy name,
AYL 1.3. 80 And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous
AYL 1.3. 81 When she is gone. Then open not thy lips.
AYL 1.3. 82 Firm and irrevocable is my doom
AYL 1.3. 83 Which I have passed upon her. She is banished.
AYL 1.3. 84
AYL-CELIA
Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege.
AYL 1.3. 85 I cannot live out of her company.
AYL 1.3. 86
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
You are a fool. - You, niece, provide yourself.
AYL 1.3. 87 If you outstay the time, upon mine honour
AYL 1.3. 88 And in the greatness of my word, you die. {Exit Duke Frederick, +
AYL 1.3. 88 with Lords}
AYL 1.3. 89
AYL-CELIA
O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?
AYL 1.3. 90 Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
AYL 1.3. 91 I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.
AYL 1.3. 92B
AYL-ROSALIND
I have more cause.
AYL-CELIA
Thou hast not, cousin.
AYL 1.3. 93 Prithee, be cheerful. Know'st thou not the Duke
AYL 1.3. 94B Hath banished me, his daughter?
AYL-ROSALIND
That he hath not.
AYL 1.3. 95
AYL-CELIA
No, hath not? Rosalind, lack'st thou then the love
AYL 1.3. 96 Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one?
AYL 1.3. 97 Shall we be sundered? Shall we part, sweet girl?
AYL 1.3. 98 No. Let my father seek another heir.
AYL 1.3. 99 Therefore devise with me how we may fly,
AYL 1.3. 100 Whither to go, and what to bear with us,
AYL 1.3. 101 And do not seek to take your change upon you,
AYL 1.3. 102 To bear your griefs yourself, and leave me out.
AYL 1.3. 103 For by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,
AYL 1.3. 104 Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.
AYL 1.3. 105A
AYL-ROSALIND
Why, whither shall we go?
AYL 1.3. 106
AYL-CELIA
To seek my uncle in the forest of Ardenne.
AYL 1.3. 107
AYL-ROSALIND
Alas, what danger will it be to us,
AYL 1.3. 108 Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
AYL 1.3. 109 Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
AYL 1.3. 110
AYL-CELIA
I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
AYL 1.3. 111 And with a kind of umber smirch my face.
AYL 1.3. 112 The like do you, so shall we pass along
AYL 1.3. 113B And never stir assailants.
AYL-ROSALIND
Were it not better,
AYL 1.3. 114 Because that I am more than common tall,
AYL 1.3. 115 That I did suit me all points like a man,
AYL 1.3. 116 A gallant curtal-axe upon my thigh,
AYL 1.3. 117 A boar-spear in my hand, and in my heart,
AYL 1.3. 118 Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will.
AYL 1.3. 119 We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
AYL 1.3. 120 As many other mannish cowards have,
AYL 1.3. 121 That do outface it with their semblances.
AYL 1.3. 122
AYL-CELIA
What shall I call thee when thou art a man?
AYL 1.3. 123
AYL-ROSALIND
I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page,
AYL 1.3. 124 And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
AYL 1.3. 125 But what will you be called?
AYL 1.3. 126
AYL-CELIA
Something that hath a reference to my state.
AYL 1.3. 127 No longer Celia, but Aliena.
AYL 1.3. 128
AYL-ROSALIND
But cousin, what if we essayed to steal
AYL 1.3. 129 The clownish fool out of your father's court.
AYL 1.3. 130 Would he not be a comfort to our travel?
AYL 1.3. 131
AYL-CELIA
He'll go along o'er the wide world with me.
AYL 1.3. 132 Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,
AYL 1.3. 133 And get our jewels and our wealth together,
AYL 1.3. 134 Devise the fittest time and safest way
AYL 1.3. 135 To hide us from pursuit that will be made
AYL 1.3. 136 After my flight. Now go we in content,
AYL 1.3. 137 To liberty, and not to banishment. {Exeunt}
AYL 1.3. 0 {Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, and two or three Lords +
AYL 2.1. 0 dressed as foresters}
AYL 2.1. 1
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
AYL 2.1. 2 Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
AYL 2.1. 3 Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
AYL 2.1. 4 More free from peril than the envious court?
AYL 2.1. 5 Here feel we not the penalty of Adam,
AYL 2.1. 6 The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
AYL 2.1. 7 And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
AYL 2.1. 8 Which when it bites and blows upon my body
AYL 2.1. 9 Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say
AYL 2.1. 10 `This is no flattery. These are counsellors
AYL 2.1. 11 That feelingly persuade me what I am.'
AYL 2.1. 12 Sweet are the uses of adversity
AYL 2.1. 13 Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
AYL 2.1. 14 Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
AYL 2.1. 15 And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
AYL 2.1. 16 Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
AYL 2.1. 17 Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
AYL 2.1. 18
AYL-AMIENS
I would not change it. Happy is your grace
AYL 2.1. 19 That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
AYL 2.1. 20 Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
AYL 2.1. 21
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
AYL 2.1. 22 And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
AYL 2.1. 23 Being native burghers of this desert city,
AYL 2.1. 24 Should in their own confines with forked heads
AYL 2.1. 25B Have their round haunches gored.
AYL-FIRST LORD
Indeed, my lord,
AYL 2.1. 26 The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,
AYL 2.1. 27 And in that kind swears you do more usurp
AYL 2.1. 28 Than doth your brother that hath banished you.
AYL 2.1. 29 Today my lord of Amiens and myself
AYL 2.1. 30 Did steal behind him as he lay along
AYL 2.1. 31 Under an oak, whose antic root peeps out
AYL 2.1. 32 Upon the brook that brawls along this wood,
AYL 2.1. 33 To the which place a poor sequestered stag
AYL 2.1. 34 That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt
AYL 2.1. 35 Did come to languish. And indeed, my lord,
AYL 2.1. 36 The wretched animal heaved forth such groans
AYL 2.1. 37 That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
AYL 2.1. 38 Almost to bursting, and the big round tears
AYL 2.1. 39 Coursed one another down his innocent nose
AYL 2.1. 40 In piteous chase. And thus the hairy fool,
AYL 2.1. 41 Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,
AYL 2.1. 42 Stood on th' extremest verge of the swift brook,
AYL 2.1. 43B Augmenting it with tears.
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
But what said Jaques?
AYL 2.1. 44 Did he not moralize this spectacle?
AYL 2.1. 45
AYL-FIRST LORD
O yes, into a thousand similes.
AYL 2.1. 46 First, for his weeping into the needless stream;
AYL 2.1. 47 `Poor deer,' quoth he, `thou mak'st a testament
AYL 2.1. 48 As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
AYL 2.1. 49 To that which had too much.' Then being there alone,
AYL 2.1. 50 Left and abandoned of his velvet friend,
AYL 2.1. 51 `'Tis right,' quoth he, `thus misery doth part
AYL 2.1. 52 The flux of company.' Anon a careless herd
AYL 2.1. 53 Full of the pasture jumps along by him
AYL 2.1. 54 And never stays to greet him. `Ay,' quoth Jaques,
AYL 2.1. 55 `Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens,
AYL 2.1. 56 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore should you look
AYL 2.1. 57 Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'
AYL 2.1. 58 Thus most invectively he pierceth through
AYL 2.1. 59 The body of the country, city, court,
AYL 2.1. 60 Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we
AYL 2.1. 61 Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse,
AYL 2.1. 62 To fright the animals and to kill them up
AYL 2.1. 63 In their assigned and native dwelling place.
AYL 2.1. 64
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
And did you leave him in this contemplation?
AYL 2.1. 65
AYL-SECOND LORD
We did, my lord, weeping and commenting
AYL 2.1. 66B Upon the sobbing deer.
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Show me the place.
AYL 2.1. 67 I love to cope him in these sullen fits,
AYL 2.1. 68B For then he's full of matter.
AYL-FIRST LORD
I'll bring you to him +
AYL 2.1. 68B straight. {Exeunt}
AYL 2.1. 0 {Enter Duke Frederick, with Lords}
AYL 2.2. 1
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Can it be possible that no man saw them?
AYL 2.2. 2 It cannot be. Some villains of my court
AYL 2.2. 3 Are of consent and sufferance in this.
AYL 2.2. 4
AYL-FIRST LORD
I cannot hear of any that did see her.
AYL 2.2. 5 The ladies her attendants of her chamber
AYL 2.2. 6 Saw her abed, and in the morning early
AYL 2.2. 7 They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.
AYL 2.2. 8
AYL-SECOND LORD
My lord, the roynish clown at whom so oft
AYL 2.2. 9 Your grace was wont to laugh is also missing.
AYL 2.2. 10 Hisperia, the Princess' gentlewoman,
AYL 2.2. 11 Confesses that she secretly o'erheard
AYL 2.2. 12 Your daughter and her cousin much commend
AYL 2.2. 13 The parts and graces of the wrestler
AYL 2.2. 14 That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles,
AYL 2.2. 15 And she believes wherever they are gone
AYL 2.2. 16 That youth is surely in their company.
AYL 2.2. 17
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither.
AYL 2.2. 18 If he be absent, bring his brother to me,
AYL 2.2. 19 I'll make him find him. Do this suddenly,
AYL 2.2. 20 And let not search and inquisition quail
AYL 2.2. 21 To bring again these foolish runaways. {Exeunt severally}
AYL 2.2. 0 {Enter Orlando and Adam, meeting}
AYL 2.3. 1A
AYL-ORLANDO
Who's there?
AYL 2.3. 2
AYL-ADAM
What, my young master, O my gentle master,
AYL 2.3. 3 O my sweet master, O you memory
AYL 2.3. 4 Of old Sir Rowland, why, what make you here!
AYL 2.3. 5 Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you?
AYL 2.3. 6 And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant?
AYL 2.3. 7 Why would you be so fond to overcome
AYL 2.3. 8 The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke?
AYL 2.3. 9 Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.
AYL 2.3. 10 Know you not, master, to some kind of men
AYL 2.3. 11 Their graces serve them but as enemies?
AYL 2.3. 12 No more do yours. Your virtues, gentle master,
AYL 2.3. 13 Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.
AYL 2.3. 14 O, what a world is this, when what is comely
AYL 2.3. 15 Envenoms him that bears it!
AYL 2.3. 16A
AYL-ORLANDO
Why, what's the matter?
AYL 2.3. 17A
AYL-ADAM
O, unhappy youth,
AYL 2.3. 18 Come not within these doors. Within this roof
AYL 2.3. 19 The enemy of all your graces lives,
AYL 2.3. 20 Your brother - no, no brother - yet the son -
AYL 2.3. 21 Yet not the son, I will not call him son -
AYL 2.3. 22 Of him I was about to call his father,
AYL 2.3. 23 Hath heard your praises, and this night he means
AYL 2.3. 24 To burn the lodging where you use to lie,
AYL 2.3. 25 And you within it. If he fail of that,
AYL 2.3. 26 He will have other means to cut you off.
AYL 2.3. 27 I overheard him and his practices.
AYL 2.3. 28 This is no place, this house is but a butchery.
AYL 2.3. 29 Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.
AYL 2.3. 30
AYL-ORLANDO
Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?
AYL 2.3. 31
AYL-ADAM
No matter whither, so you come not here.
AYL 2.3. 32
AYL-ORLANDO
What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food,
AYL 2.3. 33 Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce
AYL 2.3. 34 A thievish living on the common road?
AYL 2.3. 35 This I must do, or know not what to do.
AYL 2.3. 36 Yet this I will not do, do how I can.
AYL 2.3. 37 I rather will subject me to the malice
AYL 2.3. 38 Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.
AYL 2.3. 39
AYL-ADAM
But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,
AYL 2.3. 40 The thrifty hire I saved under your father,
AYL 2.3. 41 Which I did store to be my foster-nurse
AYL 2.3. 42 When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
AYL 2.3. 43 And unregarded age in corners thrown.
AYL 2.3. 44 Take that, and he that doth the ravens feed,
AYL 2.3. 45 Yea providently caters for the sparrow,
AYL 2.3. 46 Be comfort to my age. Here is the gold.
AYL 2.3. 47 All this I give you. Let me be your servant.
AYL 2.3. 48 Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty,
AYL 2.3. 49 For in my youth I never did apply
AYL 2.3. 50 Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
AYL 2.3. 51 Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
AYL 2.3. 52 The means of weakness and debility.
AYL 2.3. 53 Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
AYL 2.3. 54 Frosty but kindly. Let me go with you,
AYL 2.3. 55 I'll do the service of a younger man
AYL 2.3. 56 In all your business and necessities.
AYL 2.3. 57
AYL-ORLANDO
O good old man, how well in thee appears
AYL 2.3. 58 The constant service of the antique world,
AYL 2.3. 59 When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
AYL 2.3. 60 Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
AYL 2.3. 61 Where none will sweat but for promotion,
AYL 2.3. 62 And having that do choke their service up
AYL 2.3. 63 Even with the having. It is not so with thee.
AYL 2.3. 64 But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree,
AYL 2.3. 65 That cannot so much as a blossom yield
AYL 2.3. 66 In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry.
AYL 2.3. 67 But come thy ways. We'll go along together,
AYL 2.3. 68 And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,
AYL 2.3. 69 We'll light upon some settled low content.
AYL 2.3. 70
AYL-ADAM
Master, go on, and I will follow thee
AYL 2.3. 71 To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
AYL 2.3. 72 From seventeen years till now almost fourscore
AYL 2.3. 73 Here lived I, but now live here no more.
AYL 2.3. 74 At seventeen years, many their fortunes seek,
AYL 2.3. 75 But at fourscore, it is too late a week.
AYL 2.3. 76 Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
AYL 2.3. 77 Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. {Exeunt}
AYL 2.3. 0 {Enter Rosalind in man's clothes as Ganymede; Celia as +
AYL 2.4. 0 Aliena, a shepherdess; and Touchstone the clown}
AYL 2.4. 1
AYL-ROSALIND
O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!
AYL 2.4. 2
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not
AYL 2.4. 3 weary.
AYL 2.4. 4
AYL-ROSALIND
I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's
AYL 2.4. 5 apparel and to cry like a woman. But I must comfort
AYL 2.4. 6 the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show
AYL 2.4. 7 itself courageous to petticoat; therefore, courage, good
AYL 2.4. 8 Aliena!
AYL 2.4. 9
AYL-CELIA
I pray you, bear with me. I cannot go no further.
AYL 2.4. 10
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
For my part, I had rather bear with you than
AYL 2.4. 11 bear you. Yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you,
AYL 2.4. 12 for I think you have no money in your purse.
AYL 2.4. 13
AYL-ROSALIND
Well, this is the forest of Ardenne.
AYL 2.4. 14
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Ay, now am I in Ardenne; the more fool I.
AYL 2.4. 15 When I was at home I was in a better place; but
AYL 2.4. 16 travellers must be content. {Enter Corin and Silvius}
AYL 2.4. 17
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, be so, good Touchstone. Look you, who
AYL 2.4. 18 comes here - a young man and an old in solemn talk.
AYL 2.4. 19
AYL-CORIN
{(to Silvius)} That is the way to make her +
AYL 2.4. 19 scorn you still.
AYL 2.4. 20
AYL-SILVIUS
O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!
AYL 2.4. 21
AYL-CORIN
I partly guess; for I have loved ere now.
AYL 2.4. 22
AYL-SILVIUS
No, Corin, being old thou canst not guess,
AYL 2.4. 23 Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
AYL 2.4. 24 As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.
AYL 2.4. 25 But if thy love were ever like to mine -
AYL 2.4. 26 As sure I think did never man love so -
AYL 2.4. 27 How many actions most ridiculous
AYL 2.4. 28 Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?
AYL 2.4. 29
AYL-CORIN
Into a thousand that I have forgotten.
AYL 2.4. 30
AYL-SILVIUS
O, thou didst then never love so heartily.
AYL 2.4. 31 If thou rememberest not the slightest folly
AYL 2.4. 32 That ever love did make thee run into,
AYL 2.4. 33 Thou hast not loved.
AYL 2.4. 34 Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,
AYL 2.4. 35 Wearing thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,
AYL 2.4. 36 Thou hast not loved.
AYL 2.4. 37 Or if thou hast not broke from company
AYL 2.4. 38 Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,
AYL 2.4. 39 Thou hast not loved.
AYL 2.4. 40 O, Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe! {Exit}
AYL 2.4. 41
AYL-ROSALIND
Alas, poor shepherd, searching of thy wound,
AYL 2.4. 42 I have by hard adventure found mine own.
AYL 2.4. 43
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
And I mine. I remember when I was in love
AYL 2.4. 44 I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that
AYL 2.4. 45 for coming a-night to Jane Smile, and I remember the
AYL 2.4. 46 kissing of her batlet, and the cow's dugs that her pretty
AYL 2.4. 47 chapped hands had milked; and I remember the wooing
AYL 2.4. 48 of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took two
AYL 2.4. 49 cods, and giving her them again, said with weeping
AYL 2.4. 50 tears, `Wear these for my sake.' We that are true lovers
AYL 2.4. 51 run into strange capers. But as all is mortal in nature,
AYL 2.4. 52 so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
AYL 2.4. 53
AYL-ROSALIND
Thou speak'st wiser than thou art ware of.
AYL 2.4. 54
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit
AYL 2.4. 55 till I break my shins against it.
AYL 2.4. 56
AYL-ROSALIND
Jove, Jove, this shepherd's passion
AYL 2.4. 57 Is much upon my fashion.
AYL 2.4. 58
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
And mine, but it grows something stale with
AYL 2.4. 59 me.
AYL 2.4. 60
AYL-CELIA
I pray you, one of you question yon man
AYL 2.4. 61 If he for gold will give us any food.
AYL 2.4. 62 I faint almost to death.
AYL 2.4. 63A
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
{(to Corin)} Holla, you clown!
AYL 2.4. 64A
AYL-ROSALIND
Peace, fool, he's not thy kinsman.
AYL 2.4. 65A
AYL-CORIN
Who calls?
AYL 2.4. 66A
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Your betters, sir.
AYL 2.4. 67A
AYL-CORIN
Else are they very wretched.
AYL 2.4. 68
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Touchstone)} Peace, I say. +
AYL 2.4. 68 {(To Corin)} Good even to you, friend.
AYL 2.4. 69
AYL-CORIN
And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.
AYL 2.4. 70
AYL-ROSALIND
I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
AYL 2.4. 71 Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
AYL 2.4. 72 Bring us where we may rest ourselves, and feed.
AYL 2.4. 73 Here's a young maid with travel much oppressed,
AYL 2.4. 74B And faints for succour.
AYL-CORIN
Fair sir, I pity her,
AYL 2.4. 75 And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
AYL 2.4. 76 My fortunes were more able to relieve her.
AYL 2.4. 77 But I am shepherd to another man,
AYL 2.4. 78 And do not shear the fleeces that I graze.
AYL 2.4. 79 My master is of churlish disposition,
AYL 2.4. 80 And little recks to find the way to heaven
AYL 2.4. 81 By doing deeds of hospitality.
AYL 2.4. 82 Besides, his cot, his flocks, and bounds of feed
AYL 2.4. 83 Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now
AYL 2.4. 84 By reason of his absence there is nothing
AYL 2.4. 85 That you will feed on. But what is, come see,
AYL 2.4. 86 And in my voice most welcome shall you be.
AYL 2.4. 87
AYL-ROSALIND
What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?
AYL 2.4. 88
AYL-CORIN
That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,
AYL 2.4. 89 That little cares for buying anything.
AYL 2.4. 90
AYL-ROSALIND
I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,
AYL 2.4. 91 Buy thou the cottage, pasture, and the flock,
AYL 2.4. 92 And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.
AYL 2.4. 93
AYL-CELIA
And we will mend thy wages. I like this place,
AYL 2.4. 94 And willingly could waste my time in it.
AYL 2.4. 95
AYL-CORIN
Assuredly the thing is to be sold.
AYL 2.4. 96 Go with me. If you like upon report
AYL 2.4. 97 The soil, the profit, and this kind of life,
AYL 2.4. 98 I will your very faithful feeder be,
AYL 2.4. 99 And buy it with your gold right suddenly. {Exeunt}
AYL 2.4. 0 {Enter Amiens, Jaques, and other Lords dressed as +
AYL 2.5. 0 foresters}
AYL 2.5. 1
AYL-[AMIENS]
{(sings)} Under the greenwood tree
AYL 2.5. 2 Who loves to lie with me,
AYL 2.5. 3 And turn his merry note
AYL 2.5. 4 Unto the sweet bird's throat,
AYL 2.5. 5 Come hither, come hither, come hither.
AYL 2.5. 6 Here shall he see
AYL 2.5. 7 No enemy
AYL 2.5. 8 But winter and rough weather.
AYL 2.5. 9
AYL-JAQUES
More, more, I prithee, more.
AYL 2.5. 10
AYL-AMIENS
It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.
AYL 2.5. 11
AYL-JAQUES
I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck
AYL 2.5. 12 melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. More,
AYL 2.5. 13 I prithee, more.
AYL 2.5. 14
AYL-AMIENS
My voice is ragged, I know I cannot please you.
AYL 2.5. 15
AYL-JAQUES
I do not desire you to please me, I do desire you
AYL 2.5. 16 to sing. Come, more; another stanza. Call you 'em
AYL 2.5. 17 stanzas?
AYL 2.5. 18
AYL-AMIENS
What you will, Monsieur Jaques.
AYL 2.5. 19
AYL-JAQUES
Nay, I care not for their names, they owe me
AYL 2.5. 20 nothing. Will you sing?
AYL 2.5. 21
AYL-AMIENS
More at your request than to please myself.
AYL 2.5. 22
AYL-JAQUES
Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank
AYL 2.5. 23 you. But that they call compliment is like th' encounter
AYL 2.5. 24 of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily
AYL 2.5. 25 methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me
AYL 2.5. 26 the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will
AYL 2.5. 27 not, hold your tongues.
AYL 2.5. 28
AYL-AMIENS
Well, I'll end the song. - Sirs, cover the while. +
AYL 2.5. 28 {Lords prepare food and drink}
AYL 2.5. 29 The Duke will drink under this tree. {(To +
AYL 2.5. 29 Jaques)} He hath
AYL 2.5. 30 been all this day to look you.
AYL 2.5. 31
AYL-JAQUES
And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is
AYL 2.5. 32 too disputable for my company. I think of as many
AYL 2.5. 33 matters as he, but I give heaven thanks, and make no
AYL 2.5. 34 boast of them. Come, warble, come.
AYL 2.5. 35
AYL-ALL
{(sing)} Who doth ambition shun,
AYL 2.5. 36 And loves to live i' th' sun,
AYL 2.5. 37 Seeking the food he eats
AYL 2.5. 38 And pleased with what he gets,
AYL 2.5. 39 Come hither, come hither, come hither.
AYL 2.5. 40 Here shall he see
AYL 2.5. 41 No enemy
AYL 2.5. 42 But winter and rough weather.
AYL 2.5. 43
AYL-JAQUES
I'll give you a verse to this note that I made
AYL 2.5. 44 yesterday in despite of my invention.
AYL 2.5. 45
AYL-AMIENS
And I'll sing it.
AYL 2.5. 46
AYL-JAQUES
Thus it goes:
AYL 2.5. 47 If it do come to pass
AYL 2.5. 48 That any man turn ass,
AYL 2.5. 49 Leaving his wealth and ease
AYL 2.5. 50 A stubborn will to please,
AYL 2.5. 51 Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame.
AYL 2.5. 52 Here shall he see
AYL 2.5. 53 Gross fools as he,
AYL 2.5. 54 An if he will come to me.
AYL 2.5. 55
AYL-AMIENS
What's that `ducdame'?
AYL 2.5. 56
AYL-JAQUES
'Tis a Greek invocation to call fools into a circle.
AYL 2.5. 57 I'll go sleep if I can. If I cannot, I'll rail against all the
AYL 2.5. 58 firstborn of Egypt.
AYL 2.5. 59
AYL-AMIENS
And I'll go seek the Duke; his banquet is prepared. +
AYL 2.5. 59 {Exeunt}
AYL 2.5. 0 {Enter Orlando and Adam}
AYL 2.6. 1
AYL-ADAM
Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food.
AYL 2.6. 2 Here lie I down and measure out my grave. Farewell,
AYL 2.6. 3 kind master.
AYL 2.6. 4
AYL-ORLANDO
Why, how now, Adam? No greater heart in
AYL 2.6. 5 thee? Live a little, comfort a little, cheer thyself a little.
AYL 2.6. 6 If this uncouth forest yield anything savage I will either
AYL 2.6. 7 be food for it or bring it for food to thee. Thy conceit
AYL 2.6. 8 is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be
AYL 2.6. 9 comfortable. Hold death awhile at the arm's end. I will
AYL 2.6. 10 here be with thee presently, and if I bring thee not
AYL 2.6. 11 something to eat, I will give thee leave to die. But if
AYL 2.6. 12 thou diest before I come, thou art a mocker of my
AYL 2.6. 13 labour. Well said. Thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with
AYL 2.6. 14 thee quickly. Yet thou liest in the bleak air. Come, I
AYL 2.6. 15 will bear thee to some shelter, and thou shalt not die
AYL 2.6. 16 for lack of a dinner if there live anything in this desert.
AYL 2.6. 17 Cheerly, good Adam. {Orlando carries Adam off}
AYL 2.6. 0 {Enter Duke Senior and Lords dressed as outlaws}
AYL 2.7. 1
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
I think he be transformed into a beast,
AYL 2.7. 2 For I can nowhere find him like a man.
AYL 2.7. 3
AYL-FIRST LORD
My lord, he is but even now gone hence.
AYL 2.7. 4 Here was he merry, hearing of a song.
AYL 2.7. 5
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
If he, compact of jars, grow musical
AYL 2.7. 6 We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.
AYL 2.7. 7 Go seek him. Tell him I would speak with him. {Enter Jaques}
AYL 2.7. 8
AYL-FIRST LORD
He saves my labour by his own approach.
AYL 2.7. 9
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Why, how now, monsieur, what a life is this,
AYL 2.7. 10 That your poor friends must woo your company!
AYL 2.7. 11 What, you look merrily.
AYL 2.7. 12
AYL-JAQUES
A fool, a fool, I met a fool i' th' forest,
AYL 2.7. 13 A motley fool - a miserable world! -
AYL 2.7. 14 As I do live by food, I met a fool,
AYL 2.7. 15 Who laid him down and basked him in the sun,
AYL 2.7. 16 And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
AYL 2.7. 17 In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
AYL 2.7. 18 `Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. `No, sir,' quoth he,
AYL 2.7. 19 `Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.'
AYL 2.7. 20 And then he drew a dial from his poke,
AYL 2.7. 21 And looking on it with lack-lustre eye
AYL 2.7. 22 Says very wisely `It is ten o'clock.'
AYL 2.7. 23 `Thus we may see', quoth he, `how the world wags.
AYL 2.7. 24 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
AYL 2.7. 25 And after one hour more 'twill be eleven.
AYL 2.7. 26 And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
AYL 2.7. 27 And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;
AYL 2.7. 28 And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear
AYL 2.7. 29 The motley fool thus moral on the time
AYL 2.7. 30 My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
AYL 2.7. 31 That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
AYL 2.7. 32 And I did laugh sans intermission
AYL 2.7. 33 An hour by his dial. O noble fool,
AYL 2.7. 34 A worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
AYL 2.7. 35A
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
What fool is this?
AYL 2.7. 36
AYL-JAQUES
O worthy fool! - One that hath been a courtier,
AYL 2.7. 37 And says `If ladies be but young and fair
AYL 2.7. 38 They have the gift to know it.' And in his brain,
AYL 2.7. 39 Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
AYL 2.7. 40 After a voyage, he hath strange places crammed
AYL 2.7. 41 With observation, the which he vents
AYL 2.7. 42 In mangled forms. O that I were a fool,
AYL 2.7. 43 I am ambitious for a motley coat.
AYL 2.7. 44B
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Thou shalt have one.
AYL-JAQUES
It is my only suit,
AYL 2.7. 45 Provided that you weed your better judgements
AYL 2.7. 46 Of all opinion that grows rank in them
AYL 2.7. 47 That I am wise. I must have liberty
AYL 2.7. 48 Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
AYL 2.7. 49 To blow on whom I please, for so fools have;
AYL 2.7. 50 And they that are most galled with my folly,
AYL 2.7. 51 They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?
AYL 2.7. 52 The why is plain as way to parish church:
AYL 2.7. 53 He that a fool doth very wisely hit
AYL 2.7. 54 Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
AYL 2.7. 55 Seem aught but senseless of the bob. If not,
AYL 2.7. 56 The wise man's folly is anatomized
AYL 2.7. 57 Even by the squandering glances of the fool.
AYL 2.7. 58 Invest me in my motley. Give me leave
AYL 2.7. 59 To speak my mind, and I will through and through
AYL 2.7. 60 Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world,
AYL 2.7. 61 If they will patiently receive my medicine.
AYL 2.7. 62
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Fie on thee, I can tell what thou wouldst do.
AYL 2.7. 63
AYL-JAQUES
What, for a counter, would I do but good?
AYL 2.7. 64
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin;
AYL 2.7. 65 For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
AYL 2.7. 66 As sensual as the brutish sting itself,
AYL 2.7. 67 And all th' embossed sores and headed evils
AYL 2.7. 68 That thou with licence of free foot hast caught
AYL 2.7. 69 Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.
AYL 2.7. 70A
AYL-JAQUES
Why, who cries out on pride
AYL 2.7. 71 That can therein tax any private party?
AYL 2.7. 72 Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,
AYL 2.7. 73 Till that the weary very means do ebb?
AYL 2.7. 74 What woman in the city do I name
AYL 2.7. 75 When that I say the city-woman bears
AYL 2.7. 76 The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
AYL 2.7. 77 Who can come in and say that I mean her
AYL 2.7. 78 When such a one as she, such is her neighbour?
AYL 2.7. 79 Or what is he of basest function,
AYL 2.7. 80 That says his bravery is not on my cost,
AYL 2.7. 81 Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits
AYL 2.7. 82 His folly to the mettle of my speech?
AYL 2.7. 83 There then, how then, what then, let me see wherein
AYL 2.7. 84 My tongue hath wronged him. If it do him right,
AYL 2.7. 85 Then he hath wronged himself. If he be free,
AYL 2.7. 86 Why then my taxing like a wild goose flies,
AYL 2.7. 87 Unclaimed of any man. But who comes here? {Enter Orlando, with +
AYL 2.7. 87 sword drawn}
AYL 2.7. 88B
AYL-ORLANDO
Forbear, and eat no more!
AYL-JAQUES
Why, I have +
AYL 2.7. 88B eat none yet.
AYL 2.7. 89
AYL-ORLANDO
Nor shalt not till necessity be served.
AYL 2.7. 90
AYL-JAQUES
Of what kind should this cock come of?
AYL 2.7. 91
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Art thou thus boldened, man, by thy distress?
AYL 2.7. 92 Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
AYL 2.7. 93 That in civility thou seem'st so empty?
AYL 2.7. 94
AYL-ORLANDO
You touched my vein at first. The thorny point
AYL 2.7. 95 Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
AYL 2.7. 96 Of smooth civility. Yet am I inland bred,
AYL 2.7. 97 And know some nurture. But forbear, I say.
AYL 2.7. 98 He dies that touches any of this fruit
AYL 2.7. 99 Till I and my affairs are answered.
AYL 2.7. 100
AYL-JAQUES
An you will not be answered with reason, I must
AYL 2.7. 101 die.
AYL 2.7. 102
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
What would you have? Your gentleness shall +
AYL 2.7. 102 force
AYL 2.7. 103 More than your force move us to gentleness.
AYL 2.7. 104
AYL-ORLANDO
I almost die for food; and let me have it.
AYL 2.7. 105
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
AYL 2.7. 106
AYL-ORLANDO
Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you.
AYL 2.7. 107 I thought that all things had been savage here,
AYL 2.7. 108 And therefore put I on the countenance
AYL 2.7. 109 Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are
AYL 2.7. 110 That in this desert inaccessible,
AYL 2.7. 111 Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
AYL 2.7. 112 Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time,
AYL 2.7. 113 If ever you have looked on better days,
AYL 2.7. 114 If ever been where bells have knolled to church,
AYL 2.7. 115 If ever sat at any good man's feast,
AYL 2.7. 116 If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear,
AYL 2.7. 117 And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied,
AYL 2.7. 118 Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.
AYL 2.7. 119 In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
AYL 2.7. 120
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
True is it that we have seen better days,
AYL 2.7. 121 And have with holy bell been knolled to church,
AYL 2.7. 122 And sat at good men's feasts, and wiped our eyes
AYL 2.7. 123 Of drops that sacred pity hath engendered.
AYL 2.7. 124 And therefore sit you down in gentleness,
AYL 2.7. 125 And take upon command what help we have
AYL 2.7. 126 That to your wanting may be ministered.
AYL 2.7. 127
AYL-ORLANDO
Then but forbear your food a little while
AYL 2.7. 128 Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn
AYL 2.7. 129 And give it food. There is an old poor man
AYL 2.7. 130 Who after me hath many a weary step
AYL 2.7. 131 Limped in pure love. Till he be first sufficed,
AYL 2.7. 132 Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger,
AYL 2.7. 133B I will not touch a bit.
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Go find him out,
AYL 2.7. 134 And we will nothing waste till you return.
AYL 2.7. 135
AYL-ORLANDO
I thank ye; and be blessed for your good comfort! +
AYL 2.7. 135 {Exit}
AYL 2.7. 136
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy.
AYL 2.7. 137 This wide and universal theatre
AYL 2.7. 138 Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
AYL 2.7. 139B Wherein we play in.
AYL-JAQUES
All the world's a stage,
AYL 2.7. 140 And all the men and women merely players.
AYL 2.7. 141 They have their exits and their entrances,
AYL 2.7. 142 And one man in his time plays many parts,
AYL 2.7. 143 His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
AYL 2.7. 144 Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
AYL 2.7. 145 Then the whining schoolboy with his satchel
AYL 2.7. 146 And shining morning face, creeping like snail
AYL 2.7. 147 Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
AYL 2.7. 148 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
AYL 2.7. 149 Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then, a soldier,
AYL 2.7. 150 Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
AYL 2.7. 151 Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
AYL 2.7. 152 Seeking the bubble reputation
AYL 2.7. 153 Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
AYL 2.7. 154 In fair round belly with good capon lined,
AYL 2.7. 155 With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
AYL 2.7. 156 Full of wise saws and modern instances;
AYL 2.7. 157 And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
AYL 2.7. 158 Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
AYL 2.7. 159 With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
AYL 2.7. 160 His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
AYL 2.7. 161 For his shrunk shank, and his big, manly voice,
AYL 2.7. 162 Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
AYL 2.7. 163 And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
AYL 2.7. 164 That ends this strange, eventful history,
AYL 2.7. 165 Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
AYL 2.7. 166 Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. {Enter +
AYL 2.7. 166 Orlando bearing Adam}
AYL 2.7. 167
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Welcome. Set down your venerable burden
AYL 2.7. 168 And let him feed.
AYL 2.7. 169A
AYL-ORLANDO
I thank you most for him.
AYL 2.7. 170A
AYL-ADAM
So had you need;
AYL 2.7. 171 I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.
AYL 2.7. 172
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Welcome. Fall to. I will not trouble you
AYL 2.7. 173 As yet to question you about your fortunes.
AYL 2.7. 174 Give us some music, and, good cousin, sing.
AYL 2.7. 175
AYL-[AMIENS]
{(sings)} Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
AYL 2.7. 176 Thou art not so unkind
AYL 2.7. 177 As man's ingratitude.
AYL 2.7. 178 Thy tooth is not so keen,
AYL 2.7. 179 Because thou art not seen,
AYL 2.7. 180 Although thy breath be rude.
AYL 2.7. 181 Hey-ho, sing hey-ho, unto the green holly.
AYL 2.7. 182 Most friendship is feigning, most loving, mere folly.
AYL 2.7. 183 Then hey-ho, the holly;
AYL 2.7. 184 This life is most jolly.
AYL 2.7. 185 Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
AYL 2.7. 186 That dost not bite so nigh
AYL 2.7. 187 As benefits forgot.
AYL 2.7. 188 Though thou the waters warp,
AYL 2.7. 189 Thy sting is not so sharp
AYL 2.7. 190 As friend remembered not.
AYL 2.7. 191 Hey-ho, sing hey-ho, unto the green holly.
AYL 2.7. 192 Most friendship is feigning, most loving, mere folly.
AYL 2.7. 193 Then hey-ho, the holly;
AYL 2.7. 194 This life is most jolly.
AYL 2.7. 195
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
{(to Orlando)} If that you were the +
AYL 2.7. 195 good Sir Rowland's son,
AYL 2.7. 196 As you have whispered faithfully you were,
AYL 2.7. 197 And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
AYL 2.7. 198 Most truly limned and living in your face,
AYL 2.7. 199 Be truly welcome hither. I am the Duke
AYL 2.7. 200 That loved your father. The residue of your fortune,
AYL 2.7. 201 Go to my cave and tell me. {(To Adam)} Good old man,
AYL 2.7. 202 Thou art right welcome, as thy master is. -
AYL 2.7. 203 {(To Lords)} Support him by the arm. {(To +
AYL 2.7. 203 Orlando)} Give me your hand,
AYL 2.7. 204 And let me all your fortunes understand. {Exeunt}
AYL 2.7. 0 {Enter Duke Frederick, Lords, and Oliver}
AYL 3.1. 1
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot +
AYL 3.1. 1 be.
AYL 3.1. 2 But were I not the better part made mercy,
AYL 3.1. 3 I should not seek an absent argument
AYL 3.1. 4 Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
AYL 3.1. 5 Find out thy brother wheresoe'er he is.
AYL 3.1. 6 Seek him with candle. Bring him, dead or living,
AYL 3.1. 7 Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
AYL 3.1. 8 To seek a living in our territory.
AYL 3.1. 9 Thy lands, and all things that thou dost call thine
AYL 3.1. 10 Worth seizure, do we seize into our hands
AYL 3.1. 11 Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother's mouth
AYL 3.1. 12 Of what we think against thee.
AYL 3.1. 13
AYL-OLIVER
O that your highness knew my heart in this.
AYL 3.1. 14 I never loved my brother in my life.
AYL 3.1. 15
AYL-DUKE FREDERICK
More villain thou. {(To Lords)} +
AYL 3.1. 15 Well, push him out of doors,
AYL 3.1. 16 And let my officers of such a nature
AYL 3.1. 17 Make an extent upon his house and lands.
AYL 3.1. 18 Do this expediently, and turn him going. {Exeunt severally}
AYL 3.1. 0 {Enter Orlando with a paper}
AYL 3.2. 1
AYL-ORLANDO
Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love;
AYL 3.2. 2 And thou thrice-crowned queen of night, survey
AYL 3.2. 3 With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
AYL 3.2. 4 Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.
AYL 3.2. 5 O Rosalind, these trees shall be my books,
AYL 3.2. 6 And in their barks my thoughts I'll character
AYL 3.2. 7 That every eye which in this forest looks
AYL 3.2. 8 Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere.
AYL 3.2. 9 Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree
AYL 3.2. 10 The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. {Exit}
AYL 3.2. 11 {Enter Corin and Touchstone the clown}
AYL-CORIN
And +
AYL 3.2. 11 how like you this shepherd's life, Master
AYL 3.2. 12 Touchstone?
AYL 3.2. 13
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a
AYL 3.2. 14 good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it
AYL 3.2. 15 is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very
AYL 3.2. 16 well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile
AYL 3.2. 17 life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me
AYL 3.2. 18 well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
AYL 3.2. 19 As it is a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well;
AYL 3.2. 20 but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much
AYL 3.2. 21 against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee,
AYL 3.2. 22 shepherd?
AYL 3.2. 23
AYL-CORIN
No more but that I know the more one sickens,
AYL 3.2. 24 the worse at ease he is, and that he that wants money,
AYL 3.2. 25 means, and content is without three good friends; that
AYL 3.2. 26 the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that
AYL 3.2. 27 good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause
AYL 3.2. 28 of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned
AYL 3.2. 29 no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding
AYL 3.2. 30 or comes of a very dull kindred.
AYL 3.2. 31
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast
AYL 3.2. 32 ever in court, shepherd?
AYL 3.2. 33
AYL-CORIN
No, truly.
AYL 3.2. 34
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Then thou art damned.
AYL 3.2. 35
AYL-CORIN
Nay, I hope.
AYL 3.2. 36
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted
AYL 3.2. 37 egg, all on one side.
AYL 3.2. 38
AYL-CORIN
For not being at court? Your reason?
AYL 3.2. 39
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Why, if thou never wast at court thou never
AYL 3.2. 40 sawest good manners. If thou never sawest good
AYL 3.2. 41 manners, then thy manners must be wicked, and
AYL 3.2. 42 wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a
AYL 3.2. 43 parlous state, shepherd.
AYL 3.2. 44
AYL-CORIN
Not a whit, Touchstone. Those that are good
AYL 3.2. 45 manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country
AYL 3.2. 46 as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at
AYL 3.2. 47 the court. You told me you salute not at the court but
AYL 3.2. 48 you kiss your hands. That courtesy would be uncleanly
AYL 3.2. 49 if courtiers were shepherds.
AYL 3.2. 50
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Instance, briefly; come, instance.
AYL 3.2. 51
AYL-CORIN
Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their
AYL 3.2. 52 fells, you know, are greasy.
AYL 3.2. 53
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat?
AYL 3.2. 54 And is not the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the
AYL 3.2. 55 sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance,
AYL 3.2. 56 I say. Come.
AYL 3.2. 57
AYL-CORIN
Besides, our hands are hard.
AYL 3.2. 58
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow
AYL 3.2. 59 again. A more sounder instance. Come.
AYL 3.2. 60
AYL-CORIN
And they are often tarred over with the surgery of
AYL 3.2. 61 our sheep; and would you have us kiss tar? The
AYL 3.2. 62 courtier's hands are perfumed with civet.
AYL 3.2. 63
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Most shallow, man. Thou worms' meat in
AYL 3.2. 64 respect of a good piece of flesh indeed, learn of the
AYL 3.2. 65 wise, and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar,
AYL 3.2. 66 the very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance,
AYL 3.2. 67 shepherd.
AYL 3.2. 68
AYL-CORIN
You have too courtly a wit for me. I'll rest.
AYL 3.2. 69
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee,
AYL 3.2. 70 shallow man. God make incision in thee, thou art raw.
AYL 3.2. 71
AYL-CORIN
Sir, I am a true labourer. I earn that I eat, get that
AYL 3.2. 72 I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness;
AYL 3.2. 73 glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and
AYL 3.2. 74 the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and
AYL 3.2. 75 my lambs suck.
AYL 3.2. 76
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
That is another simple sin in you, to bring
AYL 3.2. 77 the ewes and the rams together, and to offer to get
AYL 3.2. 78 your living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to
AYL 3.2. 79 a bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth
AYL 3.2. 80 to a crooked-pated old cuckoldly ram, out of all
AYL 3.2. 81 reasonable match. If thou beest not damned for this,
AYL 3.2. 82 the devil himself will have no shepherds. I cannot see
AYL 3.2. 83 else how thou shouldst scape.
AYL 3.2. 84
AYL-CORIN
Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new
AYL 3.2. 85 mistress's brother. {Enter Rosalind as Ganymede}
AYL 3.2. 86
AYL-ROSALIND
{(reads)} `From the east to western Ind
AYL 3.2. 87 No jewel is like Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 88 Her worth being mounted on the wind
AYL 3.2. 89 Through all the world bears Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 90 All the pictures fairest lined
AYL 3.2. 91 Are but black to Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 92 Let no face be kept in mind
AYL 3.2. 93 But the fair of Rosalind.'
AYL 3.2. 94
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
I'll rhyme you so eight years together,
AYL 3.2. 95 dinners, and suppers, and sleeping-hours excepted. It
AYL 3.2. 96 is the right butter-women's rank to market.
AYL 3.2. 97
AYL-ROSALIND
Out, fool.
AYL 3.2. 98
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
For a taste:
AYL 3.2. 99 If a hart do lack a hind,
AYL 3.2. 100 Let him seek out Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 101 If the cat will after kind,
AYL 3.2. 102 So, be sure, will Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 103 Wintered garments must be lined,
AYL 3.2. 104 So must slender Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 105 They that reap must sheaf and bind,
AYL 3.2. 106 Then to cart with Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 107 `Sweetest nut hath sourest rind',
AYL 3.2. 108 Such a nut is Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 109 He that sweetest rose will find
AYL 3.2. 110 Must find love's prick, and Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 111 This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you
AYL 3.2. 112 infect yourself with them?
AYL 3.2. 113
AYL-ROSALIND
Peace, you dull fool, I found them on a tree.
AYL 3.2. 114
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
AYL 3.2. 115
AYL-ROSALIND
I'll graft it with you, and then I shall graft it
AYL 3.2. 116 with a medlar; then it will be the earliest fruit i' th'
AYL 3.2. 117 country, for you'll be rotten ere you be half-ripe, and
AYL 3.2. 118 that's the right virtue of the medlar.
AYL 3.2. 119
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
You have said; but whether wisely or no, let
AYL 3.2. 120 the forest judge. {Enter Celia, as Aliena, with a writing}
AYL 3.2. 121
AYL-ROSALIND
Peace, here comes my sister, reading. Stand +
AYL 3.2. 121 aside.
AYL 3.2. 122
AYL-CELIA
{(reads)} `Why should this a desert be?
AYL 3.2. 123 For it is unpeopled? No.
AYL 3.2. 124 Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
AYL 3.2. 125 That shall civil sayings show.
AYL 3.2. 126 Some, how brief the life of man
AYL 3.2. 127 Runs his erring pilgrimage,
AYL 3.2. 128 That the stretching of a span
AYL 3.2. 129 Buckles in his sum of age.
AYL 3.2. 130 Some of violated vows
AYL 3.2. 131 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend.
AYL 3.2. 132 But upon the fairest boughs,
AYL 3.2. 133 Or at every sentence end,
AYL 3.2. 134 Will I `Rosalinda' write,
AYL 3.2. 135 Teaching all that read to know
AYL 3.2. 136 The quintessence of every sprite
AYL 3.2. 137 Heaven would in little show.
AYL 3.2. 138 Therefore heaven nature charged
AYL 3.2. 139 That one body should be filled
AYL 3.2. 140 With all graces wide-enlarged.
AYL 3.2. 141 Nature presently distilled
AYL 3.2. 142 Helen's cheek, but not her heart,
AYL 3.2. 143 Cleopatra's majesty,
AYL 3.2. 144 Atalanta's better part,
AYL 3.2. 145 Sad Lucretia's modesty.
AYL 3.2. 146 Thus Rosalind of many parts
AYL 3.2. 147 By heavenly synod was devised
AYL 3.2. 148 Of many faces, eyes, and hearts
AYL 3.2. 149 To have the touches dearest prized.
AYL 3.2. 150 Heaven would that she these gifts should have
AYL 3.2. 151 And I to live and die her slave.'
AYL 3.2. 152
AYL-ROSALIND
O most gentle Jupiter! What tedious homily of
AYL 3.2. 153 love have you wearied your parishioners withal, and
AYL 3.2. 154 never cried `Have patience, good people.'
AYL 3.2. 155
AYL-CELIA
How now, back, friends. Shepherd, go off a little.
AYL 3.2. 156 Go with him, sirrah.
AYL 3.2. 157
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable
AYL 3.2. 158 retreat, though not with bag and baggage, yet with
AYL 3.2. 159 scrip and scrippage. {Exit with Corin}
AYL 3.2. 160
AYL-CELIA
Didst thou hear these verses?
AYL 3.2. 161
AYL-ROSALIND
O yes, I heard them all, and more, too, for
AYL 3.2. 162 some of them had in them more feet than the verses
AYL 3.2. 163 would bear.
AYL 3.2. 164
AYL-CELIA
That's no matter; the feet might bear the verses.
AYL 3.2. 165
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, but the feet were lame, and could not bear
AYL 3.2. 166 themselves without the verse, and therefore stood
AYL 3.2. 167 lamely in the verse.
AYL 3.2. 168
AYL-CELIA
But didst thou hear without wondering how thy
AYL 3.2. 169 name should be hanged and carved upon these trees?
AYL 3.2. 170
AYL-ROSALIND
I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder
AYL 3.2. 171 before you came; for look here what I found on a palm-
AYL 3.2. 172 tree; {(showing Celia the verses)} I was never so +
AYL 3.2. 172 berhymed
AYL 3.2. 173 since Pythagoras' time that I was an Irish rat, which
AYL 3.2. 174 I can hardly remember.
AYL 3.2. 175
AYL-CELIA
Trow you who hath done this?
AYL 3.2. 176
AYL-ROSALIND
Is it a man?
AYL 3.2. 177
AYL-CELIA
And a chain that you once wore about his neck.
AYL 3.2. 178 Change you colour?
AYL 3.2. 179
AYL-ROSALIND
I prithee, who?
AYL 3.2. 180
AYL-CELIA
O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to meet.
AYL 3.2. 181 But mountains may be removed with earthquakes, and
AYL 3.2. 182 so encounter.
AYL 3.2. 183
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, but who is it?
AYL 3.2. 184
AYL-CELIA
Is it possible?
AYL 3.2. 185
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary
AYL 3.2. 186 vehemence, tell me who it is.
AYL 3.2. 187
AYL-CELIA
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful-
AYL 3.2. 188 wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that out
AYL 3.2. 189 of all whooping!
AYL 3.2. 190
AYL-ROSALIND
Good my complexion! Dost thou think, though
AYL 3.2. 191 I am caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and
AYL 3.2. 192 hose in my disposition? One inch of delay more is a
AYL 3.2. 193 South Sea of discovery. I prithee tell me who is it
AYL 3.2. 194 quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst
AYL 3.2. 195 stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man
AYL 3.2. 196 out of thy mouth as wine comes out of a narrow-
AYL 3.2. 197 mouthed bottle - either too much at once, or none at
AYL 3.2. 198 all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth, that I
AYL 3.2. 199 may drink thy tidings.
AYL 3.2. 200
AYL-CELIA
So you may put a man in your belly.
AYL 3.2. 201
AYL-ROSALIND
Is he of God's making? What manner of man?
AYL 3.2. 202 Is his head worth a hat? Or his chin worth a beard?
AYL 3.2. 203
AYL-CELIA
Nay, he hath but a little beard.
AYL 3.2. 204
AYL-ROSALIND
Why, God will send more, if the man will be
AYL 3.2. 205 thankful. Let me stay the growth of his beard, if thou
AYL 3.2. 206 delay me not the knowledge of his chin.
AYL 3.2. 207
AYL-CELIA
It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's
AYL 3.2. 208 heels and your heart both in an instant.
AYL 3.2. 209
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, but the devil take mocking. Speak sad
AYL 3.2. 210 brow and true maid.
AYL 3.2. 211
AYL-CELIA
I' faith, coz, 'tis he.
AYL 3.2. 212
AYL-ROSALIND
Orlando?
AYL 3.2. 213
AYL-CELIA
Orlando.
AYL 3.2. 214
AYL-ROSALIND
Alas the day, what shall I do with my doublet
AYL 3.2. 215 and hose! What did he when thou sawest him? What
AYL 3.2. 216 said he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What
AYL 3.2. 217 makes he here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he?
AYL 3.2. 218 How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou see
AYL 3.2. 219 him again? Answer me in one word.
AYL 3.2. 220
AYL-CELIA
You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first, 'tis
AYL 3.2. 221 a word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To
AYL 3.2. 222 say ay and no to these particulars is more than to
AYL 3.2. 223 answer in a catechism.
AYL 3.2. 224
AYL-ROSALIND
But doth he know that I am in this forest, and
AYL 3.2. 225 in man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the
AYL 3.2. 226 day he wrestled?
AYL 3.2. 227
AYL-CELIA
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the
AYL 3.2. 228 propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my finding
AYL 3.2. 229 him, and relish it with good observance. I found him
AYL 3.2. 230 under a tree, like a dropped acorn -
AYL 3.2. 231
AYL-ROSALIND
It may well be called Jove's tree when it drops
AYL 3.2. 232 forth such fruit.
AYL 3.2. 233
AYL-CELIA
Give me audience, good madam.
AYL 3.2. 234
AYL-ROSALIND
Proceed.
AYL 3.2. 235
AYL-CELIA
There lay he, stretched along like a wounded
AYL 3.2. 236 knight -
AYL 3.2. 237
AYL-ROSALIND
Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well
AYL 3.2. 238 becomes the ground.
AYL 3.2. 239
AYL-CELIA
Cry `holla' to thy tongue, I prithee: it curvets
AYL 3.2. 240 unseasonably. - He was furnished like a hunter -
AYL 3.2. 241
AYL-ROSALIND
O ominous - he comes to kill my heart.
AYL 3.2. 242
AYL-CELIA
I would sing my song without a burden; thou
AYL 3.2. 243 bringest me out of tune.
AYL 3.2. 244
AYL-ROSALIND
Do you not know I am a woman? When I
AYL 3.2. 245 think, I must speak. - Sweet, say on. {Enter Orlando and Jaques}
AYL 3.2. 246
AYL-CELIA
You bring me out. Soft, comes he not here?
AYL 3.2. 247
AYL-ROSALIND
'Tis he. Slink by, and note him. {Rosalind and +
AYL 3.2. 247 Celia stand aside}
AYL 3.2. 248
AYL-JAQUES
{(to Orlando)} I thank you for your +
AYL 3.2. 248 company, but,
AYL 3.2. 249 good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone.
AYL 3.2. 250
AYL-ORLANDO
And so had I. But yet for fashion' sake, I thank
AYL 3.2. 251 you too for your society.
AYL 3.2. 252
AYL-JAQUES
God b' wi' you; let's meet as little as we can.
AYL 3.2. 253
AYL-ORLANDO
I do desire we may be better strangers.
AYL 3.2. 254
AYL-JAQUES
I pray you mar no more trees with writing love-
AYL 3.2. 255 songs in their barks.
AYL 3.2. 256
AYL-ORLANDO
I pray you mar no more of my verses with
AYL 3.2. 257 reading them ill-favouredly.
AYL 3.2. 258
AYL-JAQUES
Rosalind is your love's name?
AYL 3.2. 259
AYL-ORLANDO
Yes, just.
AYL 3.2. 260
AYL-JAQUES
I do not like her name.
AYL 3.2. 261
AYL-ORLANDO
There was no thought of pleasing you when
AYL 3.2. 262 she was christened.
AYL 3.2. 263
AYL-JAQUES
What stature is she of?
AYL 3.2. 264
AYL-ORLANDO
Just as high as my heart.
AYL 3.2. 265
AYL-JAQUES
You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been
AYL 3.2. 266 acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them
AYL 3.2. 267 out of rings?
AYL 3.2. 268
AYL-ORLANDO
Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth,
AYL 3.2. 269 from whence you have studied your questions.
AYL 3.2. 270
AYL-JAQUES
You have a nimble wit; I think 'twas made of
AYL 3.2. 271 Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me, and we
AYL 3.2. 272 two will rail against our mistress the world, and all
AYL 3.2. 273 our misery?
AYL 3.2. 274
AYL-ORLANDO
I will chide no breather in the world but myself,
AYL 3.2. 275 against whom I know most faults.
AYL 3.2. 276
AYL-JAQUES
The worst fault you have is to be in love.
AYL 3.2. 277
AYL-ORLANDO
'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue.
AYL 3.2. 278 I am weary of you.
AYL 3.2. 279
AYL-JAQUES
By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found
AYL 3.2. 280 you.
AYL 3.2. 281
AYL-ORLANDO
He is drowned in the brook. Look but in, and
AYL 3.2. 282 you shall see him.
AYL 3.2. 283
AYL-JAQUES
There I shall see mine own figure.
AYL 3.2. 284
AYL-ORLANDO
Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.
AYL 3.2. 285
AYL-JAQUES
I'll tarry no longer with you. Farewell, good Signor
AYL 3.2. 286 Love.
AYL 3.2. 287
AYL-ORLANDO
I am glad of your departure. Adieu, good
AYL 3.2. 288 Monsieur Melancholy. {Exit Jaques}
AYL 3.2. 289
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Celia)} I will speak to him like a +
AYL 3.2. 289 saucy lackey,
AYL 3.2. 290 and under that habit play the knave with him. {(To}
AYL 3.2. 291 {Orlando)} Do you hear, forester?
AYL 3.2. 292
AYL-ORLANDO
Very well. What would you?
AYL 3.2. 293
AYL-ROSALIND
I pray you, what is 't o'clock?
AYL 3.2. 294
AYL-ORLANDO
You should ask me what time o' day. There's
AYL 3.2. 295 no clock in the forest.
AYL 3.2. 296
AYL-ROSALIND
Then there is no true lover in the forest, else
AYL 3.2. 297 sighing every minute and groaning every hour would
AYL 3.2. 298 detect the lazy foot of time as well as a clock.
AYL 3.2. 299
AYL-ORLANDO
And why not the swift foot of time? Had not
AYL 3.2. 300 that been as proper?
AYL 3.2. 301
AYL-ROSALIND
By no means, sir. Time travels in divers paces
AYL 3.2. 302 with divers persons. I'll tell you who time ambles
AYL 3.2. 303 withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal,
AYL 3.2. 304 and who he stands still withal.
AYL 3.2. 305
AYL-ORLANDO
I prithee, who doth he trot withal?
AYL 3.2. 306
AYL-ROSALIND
Marry, he trots hard with a young maid
AYL 3.2. 307 between the contract of her marriage and the day it is
AYL 3.2. 308 solemnized. If the interim be but a se'nnight, time's
AYL 3.2. 309 pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year.
AYL 3.2. 310
AYL-ORLANDO
Who ambles time withal?
AYL 3.2. 311
AYL-ROSALIND
With a priest that lacks Latin, and a rich man
AYL 3.2. 312 that hath not the gout; for the one sleeps easily because
AYL 3.2. 313 he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because
AYL 3.2. 314 he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean
AYL 3.2. 315 and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden
AYL 3.2. 316 of heavy tedious penury. These time ambles withal.
AYL 3.2. 317
AYL-ORLANDO
Who doth he gallop withal?
AYL 3.2. 318
AYL-ROSALIND
With a thief to the gallows; for though he go
AYL 3.2. 319 as softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon
AYL 3.2. 320 there.
AYL 3.2. 321
AYL-ORLANDO
Who stays it still withal?
AYL 3.2. 322
AYL-ROSALIND
With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep
AYL 3.2. 323 between term and term, and then they perceive not
AYL 3.2. 324 how time moves.
AYL 3.2. 325
AYL-ORLANDO
Where dwell you, pretty youth?
AYL 3.2. 326
AYL-ROSALIND
With this shepherdess, my sister, here in the
AYL 3.2. 327 skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
AYL 3.2. 328
AYL-ORLANDO
Are you native of this place?
AYL 3.2. 329
AYL-ROSALIND
As the coney that you see dwell where she is
AYL 3.2. 330 kindled.
AYL 3.2. 331
AYL-ORLANDO
Your accent is something finer than you could
AYL 3.2. 332 purchase in so removed a dwelling.
AYL 3.2. 333
AYL-ROSALIND
I have been told so of many; but indeed an old
AYL 3.2. 334 religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was
AYL 3.2. 335 in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship
AYL 3.2. 336 too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him
AYL 3.2. 337 read many lectures against it, and I thank God I am
AYL 3.2. 338 not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy
AYL 3.2. 339 offences as he hath generally taxed their whole sex
AYL 3.2. 340 withal.
AYL 3.2. 341
AYL-ORLANDO
Can you remember any of the principal evils
AYL 3.2. 342 that he laid to the charge of women?
AYL 3.2. 343
AYL-ROSALIND
There were none principal; they were all like
AYL 3.2. 344 one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming
AYL 3.2. 345 monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
AYL 3.2. 346
AYL-ORLANDO
I prithee, recount some of them.
AYL 3.2. 347
AYL-ROSALIND
No. I will not cast away my physic but on those
AYL 3.2. 348 that are sick. There is a man haunts the forest that
AYL 3.2. 349 abuses our young plants with carving Rosalind on their
AYL 3.2. 350 barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on
AYL 3.2. 351 brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind.
AYL 3.2. 352 If I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him
AYL 3.2. 353 some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian
AYL 3.2. 354 of love upon him.
AYL 3.2. 355
AYL-ORLANDO
I am he that is so love-shaked. I pray you, tell
AYL 3.2. 356 me your remedy.
AYL 3.2. 357
AYL-ROSALIND
There is none of my uncle's marks upon you.
AYL 3.2. 358 He taught me how to know a man in love, in which
AYL 3.2. 359 cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
AYL 3.2. 360
AYL-ORLANDO
What were his marks?
AYL 3.2. 361
AYL-ROSALIND
A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye
AYL 3.2. 362 and sunken, which you have not; an unquestionable
AYL 3.2. 363 spirit, which you have not; a beard neglected, which
AYL 3.2. 364 you have not - but I pardon you for that, for simply
AYL 3.2. 365 your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue.
AYL 3.2. 366 Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet
AYL 3.2. 367 unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied,
AYL 3.2. 368 and everything about you demonstrating a careless
AYL 3.2. 369 desolation. But you are no such man. You are rather
AYL 3.2. 370 point-device in your accoutrements, as loving yourself
AYL 3.2. 371 than seeming the lover of any other.
AYL 3.2. 372
AYL-ORLANDO
Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I
AYL 3.2. 373 love.
AYL 3.2. 374
AYL-ROSALIND
Me believe it? You may as soon make her that
AYL 3.2. 375 you love believe it, which I warrant she is apter to do
AYL 3.2. 376 than to confess she does. That is one of the points in
AYL 3.2. 377 the which women still give the lie to their consciences.
AYL 3.2. 378 But in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses
AYL 3.2. 379 on the trees wherein Rosalind is so admired?
AYL 3.2. 380
AYL-ORLANDO
I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of
AYL 3.2. 381 Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he.
AYL 3.2. 382
AYL-ROSALIND
But are you so much in love as your rhymes
AYL 3.2. 383 speak?
AYL 3.2. 384
AYL-ORLANDO
Neither rhyme nor reason can express how
AYL 3.2. 385 much.
AYL 3.2. 386
AYL-ROSALIND
Love is merely a madness, and I tell you,
AYL 3.2. 387 deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen
AYL 3.2. 388 do; and the reason why they are not so punished and
AYL 3.2. 389 cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers
AYL 3.2. 390 are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.
AYL 3.2. 391
AYL-ORLANDO
Did you ever cure any so?
AYL 3.2. 392
AYL-ROSALIND
Yes, one; and in this manner. He was to
AYL 3.2. 393 imagine me his love, his mistress; and I set him every
AYL 3.2. 394 day to woo me. At which time would I, being but a
AYL 3.2. 395 moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable,
AYL 3.2. 396 longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,
AYL 3.2. 397 inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every passion
AYL 3.2. 398 something, and for no passion truly anything, as boys
AYL 3.2. 399 and women are for the most part cattle of this colour -
AYL 3.2. 400 would now like him, now loathe him; then entertain
AYL 3.2. 401 him, then forswear him; now weep for him, then spit
AYL 3.2. 402 at him, that I drave my suitor from his mad humour
AYL 3.2. 403 of love to a living humour of madness, which was to
AYL 3.2. 404 forswear the full stream of the world and to live in a
AYL 3.2. 405 nook merely monastic. And thus I cured him, and this
AYL 3.2. 406 way will I take upon me to wash your liver as clean
AYL 3.2. 407 as a sound sheep's heart, that there shall not be one
AYL 3.2. 408 spot of love in 't.
AYL 3.2. 409
AYL-ORLANDO
I would not be cured, youth.
AYL 3.2. 410
AYL-ROSALIND
I would cure you if you would but call me
AYL 3.2. 411 Rosalind and come every day to my cot, and woo me.
AYL 3.2. 412
AYL-ORLANDO
Now by the faith of my love, I will. Tell me
AYL 3.2. 413 where it is.
AYL 3.2. 414
AYL-ROSALIND
Go with me to it, and I'll show it you. And by
AYL 3.2. 415 the way you shall tell me where in the forest you live.
AYL 3.2. 416 Will you go?
AYL 3.2. 417
AYL-ORLANDO
With all my heart, good youth.
AYL 3.2. 418
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, you must call me Rosalind. - Come, sister.
AYL 3.2. 419 Will you go? {Exeunt}
AYL 3.2. 0 {Enter Touchstone the clown and Audrey, followed by +
AYL 3.3. 0 Jaques}
AYL 3.3. 1
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Come apace, good Audrey. I will fetch up
AYL 3.3. 2 your goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey, am I the man
AYL 3.3. 3 yet? Doth my simple feature content you?
AYL 3.3. 4
AYL-AUDREY
Your features, Lord warrant us - what features?
AYL 3.3. 5
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
I am here with thee and thy goats as the
AYL 3.3. 6 most capricious poet honest Ovid was among the Goths.
AYL 3.3. 7
AYL-JAQUES
{(aside)} O knowledge ill-inhabited; worse +
AYL 3.3. 7 than Jove
AYL 3.3. 8 in a thatched house.
AYL 3.3. 9
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
When a man's verses cannot be understood,
AYL 3.3. 10 nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child,
AYL 3.3. 11 understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great
AYL 3.3. 12 reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had
AYL 3.3. 13 made thee poetical.
AYL 3.3. 14
AYL-AUDREY
I do not know what `poetical' is. Is it honest in
AYL 3.3. 15 deed and word? Is it a true thing?
AYL 3.3. 16
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most
AYL 3.3. 17 feigning, and lovers are given to poetry; and what they
AYL 3.3. 18 swear in poetry it may be said, as lovers, they do feign.
AYL 3.3. 19
AYL-AUDREY
Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me
AYL 3.3. 20 poetical?
AYL 3.3. 21
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art
AYL 3.3. 22 honest. Now if thou wert a poet, I might have some
AYL 3.3. 23 hope thou didst feign.
AYL 3.3. 24
AYL-AUDREY
Would you not have me honest?
AYL 3.3. 25
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured;
AYL 3.3. 26 for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce
AYL 3.3. 27 to sugar.
AYL 3.3. 28
AYL-JAQUES
{(aside)} A material fool.
AYL 3.3. 29
AYL-AUDREY
Well, I am not fair, and therefore I pray the gods
AYL 3.3. 30 make me honest.
AYL 3.3. 31
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul
AYL 3.3. 32 slut were to put good meat into an unclean dish.
AYL 3.3. 33
AYL-AUDREY
I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am
AYL 3.3. 34 foul.
AYL 3.3. 35
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness.
AYL 3.3. 36 Sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may
AYL 3.3. 37 be, I will marry thee; and to that end I have been with
AYL 3.3. 38 Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next village, who
AYL 3.3. 39 hath promised to meet me in this place of the forest,
AYL 3.3. 40 and to couple us.
AYL 3.3. 41
AYL-JAQUES
{(aside)} I would fain see this meeting.
AYL 3.3. 42
AYL-AUDREY
Well, the gods give us joy.
AYL 3.3. 43
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Amen. - A man may, if he were of a fearful
AYL 3.3. 44 heart, stagger in this attempt; for here we have no
AYL 3.3. 45 temple but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But
AYL 3.3. 46 what though? Courage. As horns are odious, they are
AYL 3.3. 47 necessary. It is said many a man knows no end of his
AYL 3.3. 48 goods. Right: many a man has good horns, and knows
AYL 3.3. 49 no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of his wife, 'tis
AYL 3.3. 50 none of his own getting. Horns? Even so. Poor men
AYL 3.3. 51 alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them as huge as
AYL 3.3. 52 the rascal. Is the single man therefore blessed? No. As
AYL 3.3. 53 a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is
AYL 3.3. 54 the forehead of a married man more honourable than
AYL 3.3. 55 the bare brow of a bachelor. And by how much defence
AYL 3.3. 56 is better than no skill, by so much is a horn more
AYL 3.3. 57 precious than to want. {Enter Sir Oliver Martext}
AYL 3.3. 58 Here comes Sir Oliver. - Sir Oliver Martext, you are
AYL 3.3. 59 well met. Will you dispatch us here under this tree, or
AYL 3.3. 60 shall we go with you to your chapel?
AYL 3.3. 61
AYL-SIR OLIVER MARTEXT
Is there none here to give the woman?
AYL 3.3. 62
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
I will not take her on gift of any man.
AYL 3.3. 63
AYL-SIR OLIVER MARTEXT
Truly she must be given, or the
AYL 3.3. 64 marriage is not lawful.
AYL 3.3. 65
AYL-JAQUES
{(coming forward)} Proceed, proceed. I'll +
AYL 3.3. 65 give her.
AYL 3.3. 66
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Good even, good Monsieur What-ye-call 't.
AYL 3.3. 67 How do you, sir? You are very well met. God 'ield you
AYL 3.3. 68 for your last company. I am very glad to see you. Even
AYL 3.3. 69 a toy in hand here, sir. {Jaques removes his hat}
AYL 3.3. 70 Nay, pray be covered.
AYL 3.3. 71
AYL-JAQUES
Will you be married, motley?
AYL 3.3. 72
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his
AYL 3.3. 73 curb, and the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires;
AYL 3.3. 74 and as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.
AYL 3.3. 75
AYL-JAQUES
And will you, being a man of your breeding, be
AYL 3.3. 76 married under a bush, like a beggar? Get you to church,
AYL 3.3. 77 and have a good priest that can tell you what marriage
AYL 3.3. 78 is. This fellow will but join you together as they join
AYL 3.3. 79 wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel
AYL 3.3. 80 and, like green timber, warp, warp.
AYL 3.3. 81
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
I am not in the mind but I were better to be
AYL 3.3. 82 married of him than of another, for he is not like to
AYL 3.3. 83 marry me well, and not being well married, it will be
AYL 3.3. 84 a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.
AYL 3.3. 85
AYL-JAQUES
Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.
AYL 3.3. 86
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Come, sweet Audrey.
AYL 3.3. 87 We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.
AYL 3.3. 88 Farewell, good Master Oliver. Not
AYL 3.3. 89 O, sweet Oliver,
AYL 3.3. 90 O, brave Oliver,
AYL 3.3. 91 Leave me not behind thee
AYL 3.3. 92 but
AYL 3.3. 93 Wind away,
AYL 3.3. 94 Begone, I say,
AYL 3.3. 95 I will not to wedding with thee.
AYL 3.3. 96
AYL-SIR OLIVER MARTEXT
{(aside)} 'Tis no matter. Ne'er +
AYL 3.3. 96 a fantastical
AYL 3.3. 97 knave of them all shall flout me out of my
AYL 3.3. 98 calling. {Exeunt}
AYL 3.3. 0 {Enter Rosalind as Ganymede and Celia as Aliena}
AYL 3.4. 1
AYL-ROSALIND
Never talk to me. I will weep.
AYL 3.4. 2
AYL-CELIA
Do, I prithee, but yet have the grace to consider
AYL 3.4. 3 that tears do not become a man.
AYL 3.4. 4
AYL-ROSALIND
But have I not cause to weep?
AYL 3.4. 5
AYL-CELIA
As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.
AYL 3.4. 6
AYL-ROSALIND
His very hair is of the dissembling colour.
AYL 3.4. 7
AYL-CELIA
Something browner than Judas's. Marry, his kisses
AYL 3.4. 8 are Judas's own children.
AYL 3.4. 9
AYL-ROSALIND
I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.
AYL 3.4. 10
AYL-CELIA
An excellent colour. Your chestnut was ever the
AYL 3.4. 11 only colour.
AYL 3.4. 12
AYL-ROSALIND
And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch
AYL 3.4. 13 of holy bread.
AYL 3.4. 14
AYL-CELIA
He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana. A nun
AYL 3.4. 15 of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously. The
AYL 3.4. 16 very ice of chastity is in them.
AYL 3.4. 17
AYL-ROSALIND
But why did he swear he would come this
AYL 3.4. 18 morning, and comes not?
AYL 3.4. 19
AYL-CELIA
Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.
AYL 3.4. 20
AYL-ROSALIND
Do you think so?
AYL 3.4. 21
AYL-CELIA
Yes. I think he is not a pick-purse, nor a horse-
AYL 3.4. 22 stealer; but for his verity in love, I do think him as
AYL 3.4. 23 concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut.
AYL 3.4. 24
AYL-ROSALIND
Not true in love?
AYL 3.4. 25
AYL-CELIA
Yes, when he is in. But I think he is not in.
AYL 3.4. 26
AYL-ROSALIND
You have heard him swear downright he was.
AYL 3.4. 27
AYL-CELIA
`Was' is not `is'. Besides, the oath of a lover is no
AYL 3.4. 28 stronger than the word of a tapster. They are both the
AYL 3.4. 29 confirmer of false reckonings. He attends here in the
AYL 3.4. 30 forest on the Duke your father.
AYL 3.4. 31
AYL-ROSALIND
I met the Duke yesterday, and had much
AYL 3.4. 32 question with him. He asked me of what parentage I
AYL 3.4. 33 was. I told him, of as good as he, so he laughed and
AYL 3.4. 34 let me go. But what talk we of fathers when there is
AYL 3.4. 35 such a man as Orlando?
AYL 3.4. 36
AYL-CELIA
O that's a brave man. He writes brave verses,
AYL 3.4. 37 speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks
AYL 3.4. 38 them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his
AYL 3.4. 39 lover, as a puny tilter that spurs his horse but on one
AYL 3.4. 40 side breaks his staff, like a noble goose. But all's brave
AYL 3.4. 41 that youth mounts, and folly guides. Who comes here? {Enter +
AYL 3.4. 41 Corin}
AYL 3.4. 42
AYL-CORIN
Mistress and master, you have oft enquired
AYL 3.4. 43 After the shepherd that complained of love
AYL 3.4. 44 Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,
AYL 3.4. 45 Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
AYL 3.4. 46B That was his mistress.
AYL-CELIA
Well, and what of him?
AYL 3.4. 47
AYL-CORIN
If you will see a pageant truly played
AYL 3.4. 48 Between the pale complexion of true love
AYL 3.4. 49 And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
AYL 3.4. 50 Go hence a little, and I shall conduct you,
AYL 3.4. 51B If you will mark it.
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Celia)} O come, +
AYL 3.4. 51B let us remove.
AYL 3.4. 52 The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
AYL 3.4. 53 {(To Corin)} Bring us to this sight, and you shall say
AYL 3.4. 54 I'll prove a busy actor in their play. {Exeunt}
AYL 3.4. 0 {Enter Silvius and Phoebe}
AYL 3.5. 1
AYL-SILVIUS
Sweet Phoebe, do not scorn me, do not, Phoebe.
AYL 3.5. 2 Say that you love me not, but say not so
AYL 3.5. 3 In bitterness. The common executioner,
AYL 3.5. 4 Whose heart th' accustomed sight of death makes hard,
AYL 3.5. 5 Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
AYL 3.5. 6 But first begs pardon. Will you sterner be
AYL 3.5. 7 Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops? {Enter Rosalind as +
AYL 3.5. 7 Ganymede, Celia as Aliena, and Corin, and stand aside}
AYL 3.5. 8
AYL-PHOEBE
{(to Silvius)} I would not be thy +
AYL 3.5. 8 executioner.
AYL 3.5. 9 I fly thee for I would not injure thee.
AYL 3.5. 10 Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye.
AYL 3.5. 11 'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable
AYL 3.5. 12 That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
AYL 3.5. 13 Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
AYL 3.5. 14 Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers.
AYL 3.5. 15 Now I do frown on thee with all my heart,
AYL 3.5. 16 And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee.
AYL 3.5. 17 Now counterfeit to swoon, why now fall down;
AYL 3.5. 18 Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,
AYL 3.5. 19 Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers.
AYL 3.5. 20 Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee.
AYL 3.5. 21 Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains
AYL 3.5. 22 Some scar of it. Lean upon a rush,
AYL 3.5. 23 The cicatrice and capable impressure
AYL 3.5. 24 Thy palm some moment keeps. But now mine eyes,
AYL 3.5. 25 Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not;
AYL 3.5. 26 Nor I am sure there is no force in eyes
AYL 3.5. 27 That can do hurt.
AYL 3.5. 28A
AYL-SILVIUS
O dear Phoebe,
AYL 3.5. 29 If ever - as that ever may be near -
AYL 3.5. 30 You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,
AYL 3.5. 31 Then shall you know the wounds invisible
AYL 3.5. 32B That love's keen arrows make.
AYL-PHOEBE
But till that time
AYL 3.5. 33 Come not thou near me. And when that time comes,
AYL 3.5. 34 Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not,
AYL 3.5. 35 As till that time I shall not pity thee.
AYL 3.5. 36
AYL-ROSALIND
{(coming forward)} And why, I pray you? +
AYL 3.5. 36 Who might be your mother,
AYL 3.5. 37 That you insult, exult, and all at once,
AYL 3.5. 38 Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty -
AYL 3.5. 39 As, by my faith, I see no more in you
AYL 3.5. 40 Than without candle may go dark to bed -
AYL 3.5. 41 Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?
AYL 3.5. 42 Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?
AYL 3.5. 43 I see no more in you than in the ordinary
AYL 3.5. 44 Of nature's sale-work. - 'Od's my little life,
AYL 3.5. 45 I think she means to tangle my eyes, too.
AYL 3.5. 46 No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it.
AYL 3.5. 47 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
AYL 3.5. 48 Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
AYL 3.5. 49 That can entame my spirits to your worship.
AYL 3.5. 50 {(To Silvius)} You, foolish shepherd, wherefore do you +
AYL 3.5. 50 follow her
AYL 3.5. 51 Like foggy south, puffing with wind and rain?
AYL 3.5. 52 You are a thousand times a properer man
AYL 3.5. 53 Than she a woman. 'Tis such fools as you
AYL 3.5. 54 That makes the world full of ill-favoured children.
AYL 3.5. 55 'Tis not her glass but you that flatters her,
AYL 3.5. 56 And out of you she sees herself more proper
AYL 3.5. 57 Than any of her lineaments can show her.
AYL 3.5. 58 {(To Phoebe)} But, mistress, know yourself; down on +
AYL 3.5. 58 your knees
AYL 3.5. 59 And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love;
AYL 3.5. 60 For I must tell you friendly in your ear,
AYL 3.5. 61 Sell when you can. You are not for all markets.
AYL 3.5. 62 Cry the man mercy, love him, take his offer;
AYL 3.5. 63 Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer. -
AYL 3.5. 64 So, take her to thee, shepherd. Fare you well.
AYL 3.5. 65
AYL-PHOEBE
Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year together.
AYL 3.5. 66 I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.
AYL 3.5. 67
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Phoebe)} He's fallen in love with +
AYL 3.5. 67 your foulness,
AYL 3.5. 68 {(to Silvius)} and she'll fall in love with my anger. +
AYL 3.5. 68 If it
AYL 3.5. 69 be so, as fast as she answers thee with frowning looks,
AYL 3.5. 70 I'll sauce her with bitter words.
AYL 3.5. 71 {(To Phoebe)} Why look you so upon me?
AYL 3.5. 72
AYL-PHOEBE
For no ill will I bear you.
AYL 3.5. 73
AYL-ROSALIND
I pray you do not fall in love with me,
AYL 3.5. 74 For I am falser than vows made in wine.
AYL 3.5. 75 Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,
AYL 3.5. 76 'Tis at the tuft of olives, here hard by.
AYL 3.5. 77 {(To Celia)} Will you go, sister? {(To +
AYL 3.5. 77 Silvius)} Shepherd, ply her hard. -
AYL 3.5. 78 Come, sister. {(To Phoebe)} Shepherdess, look on him +
AYL 3.5. 78 better,
AYL 3.5. 79 And be not proud. Though all the world could see,
AYL 3.5. 80 None could be so abused in sight as he. -
AYL 3.5. 81 Come, to our flock. {Exeunt Rosalind, Celia, and Corin}
AYL 3.5. 82
AYL-PHOEBE
{(aside)} Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw +
AYL 3.5. 82 of might:
AYL 3.5. 83 `Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'
AYL 3.5. 84B
AYL-SILVIUS
Sweet Phoebe -
AYL-PHOEBE
Ha, what sayst thou, Silvius?
AYL 3.5. 85A
AYL-SILVIUS
Sweet Phoebe, pity me.
AYL 3.5. 86
AYL-PHOEBE
Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.
AYL 3.5. 87
AYL-SILVIUS
Wherever sorrow is, relief would be.
AYL 3.5. 88 If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
AYL 3.5. 89 By giving love your sorrow and my grief
AYL 3.5. 90 Were both extermined.
AYL 3.5. 91
AYL-PHOEBE
Thou hast my love, is not that neighbourly?
AYL 3.5. 92B
AYL-SILVIUS
I would have you.
AYL-PHOEBE
Why, that were covetousness.
AYL 3.5. 93 Silvius, the time was that I hated thee;
AYL 3.5. 94 And yet it is not that I bear thee love.
AYL 3.5. 95 But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
AYL 3.5. 96 Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
AYL 3.5. 97 I will endure; and I'll employ thee, too.
AYL 3.5. 98 But do not look for further recompense
AYL 3.5. 99 Than thine own gladness that thou art employed.
AYL 3.5. 100
AYL-SILVIUS
So holy and so perfect is my love,
AYL 3.5. 101 And I in such a poverty of grace,
AYL 3.5. 102 That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
AYL 3.5. 103 To glean the broken ears after the man
AYL 3.5. 104 That the main harvest reaps. Loose now and then
AYL 3.5. 105 A scattered smile, and that I'll live upon.
AYL 3.5. 106
AYL-PHOEBE
Know'st thou the youth that spoke to me erewhile?
AYL 3.5. 107
AYL-SILVIUS
Not very well, but I have met him oft,
AYL 3.5. 108 And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
AYL 3.5. 109 That the old Carlot once was master of.
AYL 3.5. 110
AYL-PHOEBE
Think not I love him, though I ask for him.
AYL 3.5. 111 'Tis but a peevish boy. Yet he talks well.
AYL 3.5. 112 But what care I for words? Yet words do well
AYL 3.5. 113 When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
AYL 3.5. 114 It is a pretty youth - not very pretty -
AYL 3.5. 115 But sure he's proud; and yet his pride becomes him.
AYL 3.5. 116 He'll make a proper man. The best thing in him
AYL 3.5. 117 Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue
AYL 3.5. 118 Did make offence, his eye did heal it up.
AYL 3.5. 119 He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall.
AYL 3.5. 120 His leg is but so-so; and yet 'tis well.
AYL 3.5. 121 There was a pretty redness in his lip,
AYL 3.5. 122 A little riper and more lusty-red
AYL 3.5. 123 Than that mixed in his cheek. 'Twas just the difference
AYL 3.5. 124 Betwixt the constant red and mingled damask.
AYL 3.5. 125 There be some women, Silvius, had they marked him
AYL 3.5. 126 In parcels as I did, would have gone near
AYL 3.5. 127 To fall in love with him; but for my part,
AYL 3.5. 128 I love him not, nor hate him not. And yet
AYL 3.5. 129 Have I more cause to hate him than to love him,
AYL 3.5. 130 For what had he to do to chide at me?
AYL 3.5. 131 He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black,
AYL 3.5. 132 And now I am remembered, scorned at me.
AYL 3.5. 133 I marvel why I answered not again.
AYL 3.5. 134 But that's all one. Omittance is no quittance.
AYL 3.5. 135 I'll write to him a very taunting letter,
AYL 3.5. 136 And thou shalt bear it. Wilt thou, Silvius?
AYL 3.5. 137B
AYL-SILVIUS
Phoebe, with all my heart.
AYL-PHOEBE
I'll write it +
AYL 3.5. 137B straight.
AYL 3.5. 138 The matter's in my head and in my heart.
AYL 3.5. 139 I will be bitter with him, and passing short.
AYL 3.5. 140 Go with me, Silvius. {Exeunt}
AYL 3.5. 0 {Enter Rosalind as Ganymede, Celia as Aliena, and +
AYL 4.1. 0 Jaques}
AYL 4.1. 1
AYL-JAQUES
I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better +
AYL 4.1. 1 acquainted
AYL 4.1. 2 with thee.
AYL 4.1. 3
AYL-ROSALIND
They say you are a melancholy fellow.
AYL 4.1. 4
AYL-JAQUES
I am so. I do love it better than laughing.
AYL 4.1. 5
AYL-ROSALIND
Those that are in extremity of either are
AYL 4.1. 6 abominable fellows, and betray themselves to every
AYL 4.1. 7 modern censure worse than drunkards.
AYL 4.1. 8
AYL-JAQUES
Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.
AYL 4.1. 9
AYL-ROSALIND
Why then, 'tis good to be a post.
AYL 4.1. 10
AYL-JAQUES
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is
AYL 4.1. 11 emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical, nor
AYL 4.1. 12 the courtier's, which is proud, nor the soldier's, which
AYL 4.1. 13 is ambitious, nor the lawyer's, which is politic, nor the
AYL 4.1. 14 lady's, which is nice, nor the lover's, which is all these;
AYL 4.1. 15 but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of
AYL 4.1. 16 many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed
AYL 4.1. 17 the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my
AYL 4.1. 18 often rumination wraps me in a most humorous
AYL 4.1. 19 sadness.
AYL 4.1. 20
AYL-ROSALIND
A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason
AYL 4.1. 21 to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands to see
AYL 4.1. 22 other men's. Then to have seen much and to have
AYL 4.1. 23 nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
AYL 4.1. 24
AYL-JAQUES
Yes, I have gained my experience. {Enter Orlando}
AYL 4.1. 25
AYL-ROSALIND
And your experience makes you sad. I had
AYL 4.1. 26 rather have a fool to make me merry than experience
AYL 4.1. 27 to make me sad - and to travel for it too!
AYL 4.1. 28
AYL-ORLANDO
Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind.
AYL 4.1. 29
AYL-JAQUES
Nay then, God b' wi' you an you talk in blank
AYL 4.1. 30 verse.
AYL 4.1. 31
AYL-ROSALIND
Farewell, Monsieur Traveller. Look you lisp,
AYL 4.1. 32 and wear strange suits; disable all the benefits of your
AYL 4.1. 33 own country; be out of love with your nativity, and
AYL 4.1. 34 almost chide God for making you that countenance
AYL 4.1. 35 you are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a
AYL 4.1. 36 gondola. {[Exit Jaques]}
AYL 4.1. 37 Why, how now, Orlando? Where have you been all
AYL 4.1. 38 this while? You a lover? An you serve me such another
AYL 4.1. 39 trick, never come in my sight more.
AYL 4.1. 40
AYL-ORLANDO
My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my
AYL 4.1. 41 promise.
AYL 4.1. 42
AYL-ROSALIND
Break an hour's promise in love! He that will
AYL 4.1. 43 divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but a
AYL 4.1. 44 part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs of
AYL 4.1. 45 love, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped
AYL 4.1. 46 him o' th' shoulder, but I'll warrant him heartwhole.
AYL 4.1. 47
AYL-ORLANDO
Pardon me, dear Rosalind.
AYL 4.1. 48
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my
AYL 4.1. 49 sight. I had as lief be wooed of a snail.
AYL 4.1. 50
AYL-ORLANDO
Of a snail?
AYL 4.1. 51
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he
AYL 4.1. 52 carries his house on his head - a better jointure, I think,
AYL 4.1. 53 than you make a woman. Besides, he brings his destiny
AYL 4.1. 54 with him.
AYL 4.1. 55
AYL-ORLANDO
What's that?
AYL 4.1. 56
AYL-ROSALIND
Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be
AYL 4.1. 57 beholden to your wives for. But he comes armed in his
AYL 4.1. 58 fortune, and prevents the slander of his wife.
AYL 4.1. 59
AYL-ORLANDO
Virtue is no hornmaker, and my Rosalind is
AYL 4.1. 60 virtuous.
AYL 4.1. 61
AYL-ROSALIND
And I am your Rosalind.
AYL 4.1. 62
AYL-CELIA
It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a Rosalind
AYL 4.1. 63 of a better leer than you.
AYL 4.1. 64
AYL-ROSALIND
Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a
AYL 4.1. 65 holiday humour, and like enough to consent. What
AYL 4.1. 66 would you say to me now an I were your very, very
AYL 4.1. 67 Rosalind?
AYL 4.1. 68
AYL-ORLANDO
I would kiss before I spoke.
AYL 4.1. 69
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, you were better speak first, and when you
AYL 4.1. 70 were gravelled for lack of matter you might take
AYL 4.1. 71 occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are out,
AYL 4.1. 72 they will spit; and for lovers, lacking - God warr'nt
AYL 4.1. 73 us - matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
AYL 4.1. 74
AYL-ORLANDO
How if the kiss be denied?
AYL 4.1. 75
AYL-ROSALIND
Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins
AYL 4.1. 76 new matter.
AYL 4.1. 77
AYL-ORLANDO
Who could be out, being before his beloved
AYL 4.1. 78 mistress?
AYL 4.1. 79
AYL-ROSALIND
Marry, that should you if I were your mistress,
AYL 4.1. 80 or I should think my honesty ranker than my wit.
AYL 4.1. 81
AYL-ORLANDO
What, of my suit?
AYL 4.1. 82
AYL-ROSALIND
Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your
AYL 4.1. 83 suit. Am not I your Rosalind?
AYL 4.1. 84
AYL-ORLANDO
I take some joy to say you are because I would
AYL 4.1. 85 be talking of her.
AYL 4.1. 86
AYL-ROSALIND
Well, in her person I say I will not have you.
AYL 4.1. 87
AYL-ORLANDO
Then in mine own person I die.
AYL 4.1. 88
AYL-ROSALIND
No, faith; die by attorney. The poor world is
AYL 4.1. 89 almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there
AYL 4.1. 90 was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in
AYL 4.1. 91 a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed out with a
AYL 4.1. 92 Grecian club, yet he did what he could to die before,
AYL 4.1. 93 and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he would
AYL 4.1. 94 have lived many a fair year though Hero had turned
AYL 4.1. 95 nun if it had not been for a hot midsummer night, for,
AYL 4.1. 96 good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the
AYL 4.1. 97 Hellespont and, being taken with the cramp, was
AYL 4.1. 98 drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found
AYL 4.1. 99 it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have
AYL 4.1. 100 died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,
AYL 4.1. 101 but not for love.
AYL 4.1. 102
AYL-ORLANDO
I would not have my right Rosalind of this
AYL 4.1. 103 mind, for I protest her frown might kill me.
AYL 4.1. 104
AYL-ROSALIND
By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come,
AYL 4.1. 105 now I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on
AYL 4.1. 106 disposition; and ask me what you will, I will grant it.
AYL 4.1. 107
AYL-ORLANDO
Then love me, Rosalind.
AYL 4.1. 108
AYL-ROSALIND
Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and
AYL 4.1. 109 all.
AYL 4.1. 110
AYL-ORLANDO
And wilt thou have me?
AYL 4.1. 111
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, and twenty such.
AYL 4.1. 112
AYL-ORLANDO
What sayst thou?
AYL 4.1. 113
AYL-ROSALIND
Are you not good?
AYL 4.1. 114
AYL-ORLANDO
I hope so.
AYL 4.1. 115
AYL-ROSALIND
Why then, can one desire too much of a good
AYL 4.1. 116 thing? {(To Celia)} Come, sister, you shall be the +
AYL 4.1. 116 priest
AYL 4.1. 117 and marry us. - Give me your hand, Orlando. - What
AYL 4.1. 118 do you say, sister?
AYL 4.1. 119
AYL-ORLANDO
{(to Celia)} Pray thee, marry us.
AYL 4.1. 120
AYL-CELIA
I cannot say the words.
AYL 4.1. 121
AYL-ROSALIND
You must begin, `Will you, Orlando' -
AYL 4.1. 122
AYL-CELIA
Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this
AYL 4.1. 123 Rosalind?
AYL 4.1. 124
AYL-ORLANDO
I will.
AYL 4.1. 125
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, but when?
AYL 4.1. 126
AYL-ORLANDO
Why now, as fast as she can marry us.
AYL 4.1. 127
AYL-ROSALIND
Then you must say, `I take thee, Rosalind, for
AYL 4.1. 128 wife.'
AYL 4.1. 129
AYL-ORLANDO
I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.
AYL 4.1. 130
AYL-ROSALIND
I might ask you for your commission; but I do
AYL 4.1. 131 take thee, Orlando, for my husband. There's a girl goes
AYL 4.1. 132 before the priest; and certainly a woman's thought
AYL 4.1. 133 runs before her actions.
AYL 4.1. 134
AYL-ORLANDO
So do all thoughts; they are winged.
AYL 4.1. 135
AYL-ROSALIND
Now tell me how long you would have her
AYL 4.1. 136 after you have possessed her?
AYL 4.1. 137
AYL-ORLANDO
For ever and a day.
AYL 4.1. 138
AYL-ROSALIND
Say a day without the ever. No, no, Orlando;
AYL 4.1. 139 men are April when they woo, December when they
AYL 4.1. 140 wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky
AYL 4.1. 141 changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous
AYL 4.1. 142 of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more
AYL 4.1. 143 clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-
AYL 4.1. 144 fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a
AYL 4.1. 145 monkey. I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the
AYL 4.1. 146 fountain, and I will do that when you are disposed to
AYL 4.1. 147 be merry. I will laugh like a hyena, and that when
AYL 4.1. 148 thou art inclined to sleep.
AYL 4.1. 149
AYL-ORLANDO
But will my Rosalind do so?
AYL 4.1. 150
AYL-ROSALIND
By my life, she will do as I do.
AYL 4.1. 151
AYL-ORLANDO
O, but she is wise.
AYL 4.1. 152
AYL-ROSALIND
Or else she could not have the wit to do this.
AYL 4.1. 153 The wiser, the waywarder. Make the doors upon a
AYL 4.1. 154 woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. Shut
AYL 4.1. 155 that, and 'twill out at the key-hole. Stop that, 'twill fly
AYL 4.1. 156 with the smoke out at the chimney.
AYL 4.1. 157
AYL-ORLANDO
A man that had a wife with such a wit, he
AYL 4.1. 158 might say `Wit, whither wilt?'
AYL 4.1. 159
AYL-ROSALIND
Nay, you might keep that check for it till you
AYL 4.1. 160 met your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.
AYL 4.1. 161
AYL-ORLANDO
And what wit could wit have to excuse that?
AYL 4.1. 162
AYL-ROSALIND
Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You
AYL 4.1. 163 shall never take her without her answer unless you
AYL 4.1. 164 take her without her tongue. O, that woman that
AYL 4.1. 165 cannot make her fault her husband's occasion, let her
AYL 4.1. 166 never nurse her child herself, for she will breed it like
AYL 4.1. 167 a fool.
AYL 4.1. 168
AYL-ORLANDO
For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.
AYL 4.1. 169
AYL-ROSALIND
Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.
AYL 4.1. 170
AYL-ORLANDO
I must attend the Duke at dinner. By two o'clock
AYL 4.1. 171 I will be with thee again.
AYL 4.1. 172
AYL-ROSALIND
Ay, go your ways, go your ways. I knew what
AYL 4.1. 173 you would prove; my friends told me as much, and I
AYL 4.1. 174 thought no less. That flattering tongue of yours won
AYL 4.1. 175 me. 'Tis but one cast away, and so, come, death! Two
AYL 4.1. 176 o'clock is your hour?
AYL 4.1. 177
AYL-ORLANDO
Ay, sweet Rosalind.
AYL 4.1. 178
AYL-ROSALIND
By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God
AYL 4.1. 179 mend me, and by all pretty oaths that are not
AYL 4.1. 180 dangerous, if you break one jot of your promise or
AYL 4.1. 181 come one minute behind your hour, I will think you
AYL 4.1. 182 the most pathetical break-promise, and the most hollow
AYL 4.1. 183 lover, and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind
AYL 4.1. 184 that may be chosen out of the gross band of the
AYL 4.1. 185 unfaithful. Therefore beware my censure, and keep
AYL 4.1. 186 your promise.
AYL 4.1. 187
AYL-ORLANDO
With no less religion than if thou wert indeed
AYL 4.1. 188 my Rosalind. So, adieu.
AYL 4.1. 189
AYL-ROSALIND
Well, Time is the old justice that examines all
AYL 4.1. 190 such offenders; and let Time try. Adieu. {Exit Orlando}
AYL 4.1. 191
AYL-CELIA
You have simply misused our sex in your love-
AYL 4.1. 192 prate. We must have your doublet and hose plucked
AYL 4.1. 193 over your head, and show the world what the bird
AYL 4.1. 194 hath done to her own nest.
AYL 4.1. 195
AYL-ROSALIND
O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou
AYL 4.1. 196 didst know how many fathom deep I am in love. But
AYL 4.1. 197 it cannot be sounded. My affection hath an unknown
AYL 4.1. 198 bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.
AYL 4.1. 199
AYL-CELIA
Or rather bottomless, that as fast as you pour
AYL 4.1. 200 affection in, it runs out.
AYL 4.1. 201
AYL-ROSALIND
No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that
AYL 4.1. 202 was begot of thought, conceived of spleen, and born of
AYL 4.1. 203 madness, that blind rascally boy that abuses everyone's
AYL 4.1. 204 eyes because his own are out, let him be judge how
AYL 4.1. 205 deep I am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out
AYL 4.1. 206 of the sight of Orlando. I'll go find a shadow and sigh
AYL 4.1. 207 till he come.
AYL 4.1. 208
AYL-CELIA
And I'll sleep. {Exeunt}
AYL 4.1. 0 {Enter Jaques and Lords dressed as foresters}
AYL 4.2. 1
AYL-JAQUES
Which is he that killed the deer?
AYL 4.2. 2
AYL-FIRST LORD
Sir, it was I.
AYL 4.2. 3
AYL-JAQUES
{(to the others)} Let's present him to the +
AYL 4.2. 3 Duke like
AYL 4.2. 4 a Roman conqueror. And it would do well to set the
AYL 4.2. 5 deer's horns upon his head for a branch of victory.
AYL 4.2. 6 Have you no song, forester, for this purpose?
AYL 4.2. 7
AYL-SECOND LORD
Yes, sir.
AYL 4.2. 8
AYL-JAQUES
Sing it. 'Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it
AYL 4.2. 9 make noise enough.
AYL 4.2. 10
AYL-LORDS
{(sing)} What shall he have that killed the +
AYL 4.2. 10 deer?
AYL 4.2. 11 His leather skin and horns to wear.
AYL 4.2. 12 Then sing him home; the rest shall bear
AYL 4.2. 13 This burden.
AYL 4.2. 14 Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;
AYL 4.2. 15 It was a crest ere thou wast born.
AYL 4.2. 16 Thy father's father wore it,
AYL 4.2. 17 And thy father bore it.
AYL 4.2. 18 The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
AYL 4.2. 19 Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. {Exeunt}
AYL 4.2. 0 {Enter Rosalind as Ganymede and Celia as Aliena}
AYL 4.3. 1
AYL-ROSALIND
How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock?
AYL 4.3. 2 And here much Orlando.
AYL 4.3. 3
AYL-CELIA
I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain
AYL 4.3. 4 he hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to
AYL 4.3. 5 sleep. {[Enter Silvius]}
AYL 4.3. 6 Look who comes here.
AYL 4.3. 7
AYL-SILVIUS
{(to Rosalind)} My errand is to you, fair +
AYL 4.3. 7 youth.
AYL 4.3. 8 My gentle Phoebe did bid me give you this. {He offers Rosalind a +
AYL 4.3. 8 letter, which she takes}
AYL 4.3. 9 {and reads} I know not the contents, but as I guess
AYL 4.3. 10 By the stern brow and waspish action
AYL 4.3. 11 Which she did use as she was writing of it,
AYL 4.3. 12 It bears an angry tenor. Pardon me;
AYL 4.3. 13 I am but as a guiltless messenger.
AYL 4.3. 14
AYL-ROSALIND
Patience herself would startle at this letter,
AYL 4.3. 15 And play the swaggerer. Bear this, bear all.
AYL 4.3. 16 She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
AYL 4.3. 17 She calls me proud, and that she could not love me
AYL 4.3. 18 Were man as rare as Phoenix. 'Od's my will,
AYL 4.3. 19 Her love is not the hare that I do hunt.
AYL 4.3. 20 Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,
AYL 4.3. 21 This is a letter of your own device.
AYL 4.3. 22
AYL-SILVIUS
No, I protest; I know not the contents.
AYL 4.3. 23B Phoebe did write it.
AYL-ROSALIND
Come, come, you are a fool,
AYL 4.3. 24 And turned into the extremity of love.
AYL 4.3. 25 I saw her hand. She has a leathern hand,
AYL 4.3. 26 A free-stone coloured hand. I verily did think
AYL 4.3. 27 That her old gloves were on; but 'twas her hands.
AYL 4.3. 28 She has a housewife's hand - but that's no matter.
AYL 4.3. 29 I say she never did invent this letter.
AYL 4.3. 30 This is a man's invention, and his hand.
AYL 4.3. 31A
AYL-SILVIUS
Sure, it is hers.
AYL 4.3. 32
AYL-ROSALIND
Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style,
AYL 4.3. 33 A style for challengers. Why, she defies me,
AYL 4.3. 34 Like Turk to Christian. Women's gentle brain
AYL 4.3. 35 Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention,
AYL 4.3. 36 Such Ethiop words, blacker in their effect
AYL 4.3. 37 Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?
AYL 4.3. 38
AYL-SILVIUS
So please you, for I never heard it yet,
AYL 4.3. 39 Yet heard too much of Phoebe's cruelty.
AYL 4.3. 40
AYL-ROSALIND
She Phoebes me. Mark how the tyrant writes:
AYL 4.3. 41 {(reads)} `Art thou god to shepherd turned,
AYL 4.3. 42 That a maiden's heart hath burned?'
AYL 4.3. 43 Can a woman rail thus?
AYL 4.3. 44
AYL-SILVIUS
Call you this railing?
AYL 4.3. 45
AYL-ROSALIND
{(reads)} `Why, thy godhead laid apart,
AYL 4.3. 46 Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?'
AYL 4.3. 47 Did you ever hear such railing?
AYL 4.3. 48 `Whiles the eye of man did woo me
AYL 4.3. 49 That could do no vengeance to me.' -
AYL 4.3. 50 Meaning me a beast.
AYL 4.3. 51 `If the scorn of your bright eyne
AYL 4.3. 52 Have power to raise such love in mine,
AYL 4.3. 53 Alack, in me what strange effect
AYL 4.3. 54 Would they work in mild aspect?
AYL 4.3. 55 Whiles you chid me I did love;
AYL 4.3. 56 How then might your prayers move?
AYL 4.3. 57 He that brings this love to thee
AYL 4.3. 58 Little knows this love in me,
AYL 4.3. 59 And by him seal up thy mind
AYL 4.3. 60 Whether that thy youth and kind
AYL 4.3. 61 Will the faithful offer take
AYL 4.3. 62 Of me, and all that I can make,
AYL 4.3. 63 Or else by him my love deny,
AYL 4.3. 64 And then I'll study how to die.'
AYL 4.3. 65
AYL-SILVIUS
Call you this chiding?
AYL 4.3. 66
AYL-CELIA
Alas, poor shepherd.
AYL 4.3. 67
AYL-ROSALIND
Do you pity him? No, he deserves no pity. {(To}
AYL 4.3. 68 {Silvius)} Wilt thou love such a woman? What, to make
AYL 4.3. 69 thee an instrument, and play false strains upon thee? -
AYL 4.3. 70 not to be endured. Well, go your way to her - for I see
AYL 4.3. 71 love hath made thee a tame snake - and say this to
AYL 4.3. 72 her: that if she love me, I charge her to love thee. If
AYL 4.3. 73 she will not, I will never have her unless thou entreat
AYL 4.3. 74 for her. If you be a true lover, hence, and not a word;
AYL 4.3. 75 for here comes more company. {Exit Silvius}
AYL 4.3. 76 {Enter Oliver}
AYL-OLIVER
Good morrow, fair ones. Pray +
AYL 4.3. 76 you, if you know,
AYL 4.3. 77 Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
AYL 4.3. 78 A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees?
AYL 4.3. 79
AYL-CELIA
West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom.
AYL 4.3. 80 The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
AYL 4.3. 81 Left on your right hand brings you to the place.
AYL 4.3. 82 But at this hour the house doth keep itself.
AYL 4.3. 83 There's none within.
AYL 4.3. 84
AYL-OLIVER
If that an eye may profit by a tongue,
AYL 4.3. 85 Then should I know you by description.
AYL 4.3. 86 Such garments, and such years. `The boy is fair,
AYL 4.3. 87 Of female favour, and bestows himself
AYL 4.3. 88 Like a ripe sister. The woman low
AYL 4.3. 89 And browner than her brother.' Are not you
AYL 4.3. 90 The owner of the house I did enquire for?
AYL 4.3. 91
AYL-CELIA
It is no boast, being asked, to say we are.
AYL 4.3. 92
AYL-OLIVER
Orlando doth commend him to you both,
AYL 4.3. 93 And to that youth he calls his Rosalind
AYL 4.3. 94 He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?
AYL 4.3. 95
AYL-ROSALIND
I am. What must we understand by this?
AYL 4.3. 96
AYL-OLIVER
Some of my shame, if you will know of me
AYL 4.3. 97 What man I am, and how, and why, and where
AYL 4.3. 98B This handkerchief was stained.
AYL-CELIA
I pray you tell it.
AYL 4.3. 99
AYL-OLIVER
When last the young Orlando parted from you,
AYL 4.3. 100 He left a promise to return again
AYL 4.3. 101 Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,
AYL 4.3. 102 Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
AYL 4.3. 103 Lo what befell. He threw his eye aside,
AYL 4.3. 104 And mark what object did present itself.
AYL 4.3. 105 Under an old oak, whose boughs were mossed with age
AYL 4.3. 106 And high top bald with dry antiquity,
AYL 4.3. 107 A wretched, ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
AYL 4.3. 108 Lay sleeping on his back. About his neck
AYL 4.3. 109 A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,
AYL 4.3. 110 Who with her head, nimble in threats, approached
AYL 4.3. 111 The opening of his mouth. But suddenly
AYL 4.3. 112 Seeing Orlando, it unlinked itself,
AYL 4.3. 113 And with indented glides did slip away
AYL 4.3. 114 Into a bush, under which bush's shade
AYL 4.3. 115 A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
AYL 4.3. 116 Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch
AYL 4.3. 117 When that the sleeping man should stir. For 'tis
AYL 4.3. 118 The royal disposition of that beast
AYL 4.3. 119 To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead.
AYL 4.3. 120 This seen, Orlando did approach the man
AYL 4.3. 121 And found it was his brother, his elder brother.
AYL 4.3. 122
AYL-CELIA
O, I have heard him speak of that same brother,
AYL 4.3. 123 And he did render him the most unnatural
AYL 4.3. 124B That lived amongst men.
AYL-OLIVER
And well he might so do,
AYL 4.3. 125 For well I know he was unnatural.
AYL 4.3. 126
AYL-ROSALIND
But to Orlando. Did he leave him there,
AYL 4.3. 127 Food to the sucked and hungry lioness?
AYL 4.3. 128
AYL-OLIVER
Twice did he turn his back, and purposed so.
AYL 4.3. 129 But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
AYL 4.3. 130 And nature, stronger than his just occasion,
AYL 4.3. 131 Made him give battle to the lioness,
AYL 4.3. 132 Who quickly fell before him; in which hurtling
AYL 4.3. 133 From miserable slumber I awaked.
AYL 4.3. 134B
AYL-CELIA
Are you his brother?
AYL-ROSALIND
Was 't you he rescued?
AYL 4.3. 135
AYL-CELIA
Was 't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?
AYL 4.3. 136
AYL-OLIVER
'Twas I, but 'tis not I. I do not shame
AYL 4.3. 137 To tell you what I was, since my conversion
AYL 4.3. 138 So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.
AYL 4.3. 139B
AYL-ROSALIND
But for the bloody napkin?
AYL-OLIVER
By and by.
AYL 4.3. 140 When from the first to last betwixt us two
AYL 4.3. 141 Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed -
AYL 4.3. 142 As how I came into that desert place -
AYL 4.3. 143 I' brief, he led me to the gentle Duke,
AYL 4.3. 144 Who gave me fresh array, and entertainment,
AYL 4.3. 145 Committing me unto my brother's love,
AYL 4.3. 146 Who led me instantly unto his cave,
AYL 4.3. 147 There stripped himself, and here upon his arm
AYL 4.3. 148 The lioness had torn some flesh away,
AYL 4.3. 149 Which all this while had bled. And now he fainted,
AYL 4.3. 150 And cried in fainting upon Rosalind.
AYL 4.3. 151 Brief, I recovered him, bound up his wound,
AYL 4.3. 152 And after some small space, being strong at heart,
AYL 4.3. 153 He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
AYL 4.3. 154 To tell this story, that you might excuse
AYL 4.3. 155 His broken promise, and to give this napkin,
AYL 4.3. 156 Dyed in his blood, unto the shepherd youth
AYL 4.3. 157 That he in sport doth call his Rosalind. {Rosalind faints}
AYL 4.3. 158
AYL-CELIA
Why, how now, Ganymede, sweet Ganymede!
AYL 4.3. 159
AYL-OLIVER
Many will swoon when they do look on blood.
AYL 4.3. 160
AYL-CELIA
There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!
AYL 4.3. 161A
AYL-OLIVER
Look, he recovers.
AYL 4.3. 162A
AYL-ROSALIND
I would I were at home.
AYL 4.3. 163A
AYL-CELIA
We'll lead you thither.
AYL 4.3. 164 {(To Oliver)} I pray you, will you take him by the +
AYL 4.3. 164 arm?
AYL 4.3. 165
AYL-OLIVER
Be of good cheer, youth. You a man? You lack a
AYL 4.3. 166 man's heart.
AYL 4.3. 167
AYL-ROSALIND
I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would
AYL 4.3. 168 think this was well counterfeited. I pray you, tell your
AYL 4.3. 169 brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!
AYL 4.3. 170
AYL-OLIVER
This was not counterfeit. There is too great
AYL 4.3. 171 testimony in your complexion that it was a passion of
AYL 4.3. 172 earnest.
AYL 4.3. 173
AYL-ROSALIND
Counterfeit, I assure you.
AYL 4.3. 174
AYL-OLIVER
Well then, take a good heart, and counterfeit to
AYL 4.3. 175 be a man.
AYL 4.3. 176
AYL-ROSALIND
So I do; but, i' faith, I should have been a
AYL 4.3. 177 woman by right.
AYL 4.3. 178
AYL-CELIA
Come, you look paler and paler. Pray you, draw
AYL 4.3. 179 homewards. Good sir, go with us.
AYL 4.3. 180
AYL-OLIVER
That will I, for I must bear answer back
AYL 4.3. 181 How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.
AYL 4.3. 182
AYL-ROSALIND
I shall devise something. But I pray you
AYL 4.3. 183 commend my counterfeiting to him. Will you go? {Exeunt}
AYL 4.3. 0 {Enter Touchstone the clown and Audrey}
AYL 5.1. 1
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
We shall find a time, Audrey. Patience, gentle
AYL 5.1. 2 Audrey.
AYL 5.1. 3
AYL-AUDREY
Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old
AYL 5.1. 4 gentleman's saying.
AYL 5.1. 5
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most
AYL 5.1. 6 vile Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the
AYL 5.1. 7 forest lays claim to you.
AYL 5.1. 8
AYL-AUDREY
Ay, I know who 'tis. He hath no interest in me
AYL 5.1. 9 in the world. Here comes the man you mean. {Enter William}
AYL 5.1. 10
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.
AYL 5.1. 11 By my troth, we that have good wits have much to
AYL 5.1. 12 answer for. We shall be flouting; we cannot hold.
AYL 5.1. 13
AYL-WILLIAM
Good ev'n, Audrey.
AYL 5.1. 14
AYL-AUDREY
God ye good ev'n, William.
AYL 5.1. 15
AYL-WILLIAM
{(to Touchstone)} And good ev'n to you, +
AYL 5.1. 15 sir.
AYL 5.1. 16
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Good ev'n, gentle friend. Cover thy head,
AYL 5.1. 17 cover thy head. Nay, prithee, be covered. How old are
AYL 5.1. 18 you, friend?
AYL 5.1. 19
AYL-WILLIAM
Five-and-twenty, sir.
AYL 5.1. 20
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
A ripe age. Is thy name William?
AYL 5.1. 21
AYL-WILLIAM
William, sir.
AYL 5.1. 22
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
A fair name. Wast born i' th' forest here?
AYL 5.1. 23
AYL-WILLIAM
Ay, sir, I thank God.
AYL 5.1. 24
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Thank God - a good answer. Art rich?
AYL 5.1. 25
AYL-WILLIAM
Faith, sir, so-so.
AYL 5.1. 26
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
So-so is good, very good, very excellent good.
AYL 5.1. 27 And yet it is not, it is but so-so. Art thou wise?
AYL 5.1. 28
AYL-WILLIAM
Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.
AYL 5.1. 29
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Why, thou sayst well. I do now remember a
AYL 5.1. 30 saying: `The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise
AYL 5.1. 31 man knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen
AYL 5.1. 32 philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,
AYL 5.1. 33 would open his lips when he put it into his mouth,
AYL 5.1. 34 meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat, and
AYL 5.1. 35 lips to open. You do love this maid?
AYL 5.1. 36
AYL-WILLIAM
I do, sir.
AYL 5.1. 37
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Give me your hand. Art thou learned?
AYL 5.1. 38
AYL-WILLIAM
No, sir.
AYL 5.1. 39
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Then learn this of me: to have is to have.
AYL 5.1. 40 For it is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured
AYL 5.1. 41 out of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty
AYL 5.1. 42 the other. For all your writers do consent that {ipse} is
AYL 5.1. 43 he. Now you are not {ipse}, for I am he.
AYL 5.1. 44
AYL-WILLIAM
Which he, sir?
AYL 5.1. 45
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
He, sir, that must marry this woman.
AYL 5.1. 46 Therefore, you clown, abandon - which is in the vulgar,
AYL 5.1. 47 leave - the society - which in the boorish is company -
AYL 5.1. 48 of this female - which in the common is woman; which
AYL 5.1. 49 together is, abandon the society of this female, or,
AYL 5.1. 50 clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding,
AYL 5.1. 51 diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate
AYL 5.1. 52 thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage. I will deal
AYL 5.1. 53 in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel. I will
AYL 5.1. 54 bandy with thee in faction, I will o'errun thee with
AYL 5.1. 55 policy. I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
AYL 5.1. 56 Therefore tremble, and depart.
AYL 5.1. 57
AYL-AUDREY
Do, good William.
AYL 5.1. 58
AYL-WILLIAM
God rest you merry, sir. {Exit}
AYL 5.1. 59 {Enter Corin}
AYL-CORIN
Our master and mistress seeks +
AYL 5.1. 59 you. Come, away,
AYL 5.1. 60 away.
AYL 5.1. 61
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Trip, Audrey, trip, Audrey. {(To Corin)} +
AYL 5.1. 61 I
AYL 5.1. 62 attend, I attend. {Exeunt}
AYL 5.1. 0 {Enter Orlando and Oliver}
AYL 5.2. 1
AYL-ORLANDO
Is 't possible that on so little acquaintance you
AYL 5.2. 2 should like her? That but seeing, you should love her?
AYL 5.2. 3 And loving, woo? And wooing, she should grant? And
AYL 5.2. 4 will you persevere to enjoy her?
AYL 5.2. 5
AYL-OLIVER
Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the
AYL 5.2. 6 poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden
AYL 5.2. 7 wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,
AYL 5.2. 8 `I love Aliena'; say with her, that she loves me; consent
AYL 5.2. 9 with both that we may enjoy each other. It shall be to
AYL 5.2. 10 your good, for my father's house and all the revenue
AYL 5.2. 11 that was old Sir Rowland's will I estate upon you, and
AYL 5.2. 12 here live and die a shepherd. {Enter Rosalind as Ganymede}
AYL 5.2. 13
AYL-ORLANDO
You have my consent. Let your wedding be
AYL 5.2. 14 tomorrow. Thither will I invite the Duke and all's
AYL 5.2. 15 contented followers. Go you, and prepare Aliena; for
AYL 5.2. 16 look you, here comes my Rosalind.
AYL 5.2. 17
AYL-ROSALIND
God save you, brother.
AYL 5.2. 18
AYL-OLIVER
And you, fair sister. {Exit}
AYL 5.2. 19
AYL-ROSALIND
O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see
AYL 5.2. 20 thee wear thy heart in a scarf.
AYL 5.2. 21
AYL-ORLANDO
It is my arm.
AYL 5.2. 22
AYL-ROSALIND
I thought thy heart had been wounded with
AYL 5.2. 23 the claws of a lion.
AYL 5.2. 24
AYL-ORLANDO
Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
AYL 5.2. 25
AYL-ROSALIND
Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited
AYL 5.2. 26 to swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?
AYL 5.2. 27
AYL-ORLANDO
Ay, and greater wonders than that.
AYL 5.2. 28
AYL-ROSALIND
O, I know where you are. Nay, 'tis true. There
AYL 5.2. 29 was never anything so sudden but the fight of two
AYL 5.2. 30 rams, and Caesar's thrasonical brag of `I came, saw,
AYL 5.2. 31 and overcame', for your brother and my sister no
AYL 5.2. 32 sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they
AYL 5.2. 33 loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner
AYL 5.2. 34 sighed but they asked one another the reason; no
AYL 5.2. 35 sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
AYL 5.2. 36 and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to
AYL 5.2. 37 marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be
AYL 5.2. 38 incontinent before marriage. They are in the very wrath
AYL 5.2. 39 of love, and they will together. Clubs cannot part them.
AYL 5.2. 40
AYL-ORLANDO
They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid
AYL 5.2. 41 the Duke to the nuptial. But O, how bitter a thing it is
AYL 5.2. 42 to look into happiness through another man's eyes. By
AYL 5.2. 43 so much the more shall I tomorrow be at the height
AYL 5.2. 44 of heart-heaviness by how much I shall think my
AYL 5.2. 45 brother happy in having what he wishes for.
AYL 5.2. 46
AYL-ROSALIND
Why, then, tomorrow I cannot serve your turn
AYL 5.2. 47 for Rosalind?
AYL 5.2. 48
AYL-ORLANDO
I can live no longer by thinking.
AYL 5.2. 49
AYL-ROSALIND
I will weary you then no longer with idle
AYL 5.2. 50 talking. Know of me then - for now I speak to some
AYL 5.2. 51 purpose - that I know you are a gentleman of good
AYL 5.2. 52 conceit. I speak not this that you should bear a good
AYL 5.2. 53 opinion of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you
AYL 5.2. 54 are; neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may
AYL 5.2. 55 in some little measure draw a belief from you to do
AYL 5.2. 56 yourself good, and not to grace me. Believe then, if you
AYL 5.2. 57 please, that I can do strange things. I have since I was
AYL 5.2. 58 three year old conversed with a magician, most
AYL 5.2. 59 profound in his art, and yet not damnable. If you do
AYL 5.2. 60 love Rosalind so near the heart as your gesture cries
AYL 5.2. 61 it out, when your brother marries Aliena shall you
AYL 5.2. 62 marry her. I know into what straits of fortune she is
AYL 5.2. 63 driven, and it is not impossible to me, if it appear not
AYL 5.2. 64 inconvenient to you, to set her before your eyes
AYL 5.2. 65 tomorrow, human as she is, and without any danger.
AYL 5.2. 66
AYL-ORLANDO
Speakest thou in sober meanings?
AYL 5.2. 67
AYL-ROSALIND
By my life, I do, which I tender dearly, though
AYL 5.2. 68 I say I am a magician. Therefore put you in your best
AYL 5.2. 69 array, bid your friends: for if you will be married
AYL 5.2. 70 tomorrow, you shall; and to Rosalind if you will. {Enter Silvius +
AYL 5.2. 70 and Phoebe}
AYL 5.2. 71 Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
AYL 5.2. 72
AYL-PHOEBE
{(to Rosalind)} Youth, you have done me +
AYL 5.2. 72 much ungentleness,
AYL 5.2. 73 To show the letter that I writ to you.
AYL 5.2. 74
AYL-ROSALIND
I care not if I have. It is my study
AYL 5.2. 75 To seem despiteful and ungentle to you.
AYL 5.2. 76 You are there followed by a faithful shepherd.
AYL 5.2. 77 Look upon him; love him. He worships you.
AYL 5.2. 78
AYL-PHOEBE
{(to Silvius)} Good shepherd, tell this +
AYL 5.2. 78 youth what 'tis to love.
AYL 5.2. 79
AYL-SILVIUS
It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
AYL 5.2. 80 And so am I for Phoebe.
AYL 5.2. 81A
AYL-PHOEBE
And I for Ganymede.
AYL 5.2. 82A
AYL-ORLANDO
And I for Rosalind.
AYL 5.2. 83A
AYL-ROSALIND
And I for no woman.
AYL 5.2. 84
AYL-SILVIUS
It is to be all made of faith and service,
AYL 5.2. 85 And so am I for Phoebe.
AYL 5.2. 86A
AYL-PHOEBE
And I for Ganymede.
AYL 5.2. 87A
AYL-ORLANDO
And I for Rosalind.
AYL 5.2. 88A
AYL-ROSALIND
And I for no woman.
AYL 5.2. 89
AYL-SILVIUS
It is to be all made of fantasy,
AYL 5.2. 90 All made of passion, and all made of wishes,
AYL 5.2. 91 All adoration, duty, and observance,
AYL 5.2. 92 All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
AYL 5.2. 93 All purity, all trial, all obedience,
AYL 5.2. 94 And so am I for Phoebe.
AYL 5.2. 95A
AYL-PHOEBE
And so am I for Ganymede.
AYL 5.2. 96A
AYL-ORLANDO
And so am I for Rosalind.
AYL 5.2. 97A
AYL-ROSALIND
And so am I for no woman.
AYL 5.2. 98
AYL-PHOEBE
{(to Rosalind)} If this be so, why blame +
AYL 5.2. 98 you me to love you?
AYL 5.2. 99
AYL-SILVIUS
{(to Phoebe)} If this be so, why blame you +
AYL 5.2. 99 me to love you?
AYL 5.2. 100
AYL-ORLANDO
If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
AYL 5.2. 101
AYL-ROSALIND
Why do you speak too, `Why blame you me to
AYL 5.2. 102 love you?'
AYL 5.2. 103
AYL-ORLANDO
To her that is not here nor doth not hear.
AYL 5.2. 104
AYL-ROSALIND
Pray you, no more of this, 'tis like the howling
AYL 5.2. 105 of Irish wolves against the moon. {(To Silvius)} I will +
AYL 5.2. 105 help
AYL 5.2. 106 you if I can. {(To Phoebe)} I would love you if I +
AYL 5.2. 106 could. -
AYL 5.2. 107 Tomorrow meet me all together. {(To Phoebe)} I will
AYL 5.2. 108 marry you if ever I marry woman, and I'll be married
AYL 5.2. 109 tomorrow. {(To Orlando)} I will satisfy you if ever I +
AYL 5.2. 109 satisfy
AYL 5.2. 110 man, and you shall be married tomorrow. {(To Silvius)}
AYL 5.2. 111 I will content you if what pleases you contents you,
AYL 5.2. 112 and you shall be married tomorrow. {(To Orlando)} As
AYL 5.2. 113 you love Rosalind, meet. {(To Silvius)} As you love
AYL 5.2. 114 Phoebe, meet. And as I love no woman, I'll meet. So
AYL 5.2. 115 fare you well. I have left you commands.
AYL 5.2. 116
AYL-SILVIUS
I'll not fail, if I live.
AYL 5.2. 117
AYL-PHOEBE
Nor I.
AYL 5.2. 118
AYL-ORLANDO
Nor I. {Exeunt severally}
AYL 5.2. 0 {Enter Touchstone the clown and Audrey}
AYL 5.3. 1
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Tomorrow is the joyful day, Audrey, tomorrow
AYL 5.3. 2 will we be married.
AYL 5.3. 3
AYL-AUDREY
I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is
AYL 5.3. 4 no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the
AYL 5.3. 5 world. Here come two of the banished Duke's pages. {Enter two +
AYL 5.3. 5 Pages}
AYL 5.3. 6
AYL-FIRST PAGE
Well met, honest gentleman.
AYL 5.3. 7
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a
AYL 5.3. 8 song.
AYL 5.3. 9
AYL-SECOND PAGE
We are for you. Sit i' th' middle.
AYL 5.3. 10
AYL-FIRST PAGE
Shall we clap into 't roundly, without hawking,
AYL 5.3. 11 or spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the
AYL 5.3. 12 only prologues to a bad voice?
AYL 5.3. 13
AYL-SECOND PAGE
I' faith, i' faith, and both in a tune, like two
AYL 5.3. 14 gipsies on a horse.
AYL 5.3. 15
AYL-BOTH PAGES
{(sing)} It was a lover and his lass,
AYL 5.3. 16 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
AYL 5.3. 17 That o'er the green cornfield did pass
AYL 5.3. 18 In spring-time, the only pretty ring-time,
AYL 5.3. 19 When birds do sing, hey ding-a-ding ding,
AYL 5.3. 20 Sweet lovers love the spring.
AYL 5.3. 21 Between the acres of the rye,
AYL 5.3. 22 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
AYL 5.3. 23 These pretty country folks would lie,
AYL 5.3. 24 In spring-time, the only pretty ring-time,
AYL 5.3. 25 When birds do sing, hey ding-a-ding ding,
AYL 5.3. 26 Sweet lovers love the spring.
AYL 5.3. 27 This carol they began that hour,
AYL 5.3. 28 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
AYL 5.3. 29 How that a life was but a flower,
AYL 5.3. 30 In spring-time, the only pretty ring-time,
AYL 5.3. 31 When birds do sing, hey ding-a-ding ding,
AYL 5.3. 32 Sweet lovers love the spring.
AYL 5.3. 33 And therefore take the present time,
AYL 5.3. 34 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
AYL 5.3. 35 For love is crowned with the prime,
AYL 5.3. 36 In spring time, the only pretty ring-time,
AYL 5.3. 37 When birds do sing, hey ding-a-ding ding,
AYL 5.3. 38 Sweet lovers love the spring.
AYL 5.3. 39
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Truly, young gentlemen, though there was
AYL 5.3. 40 no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very
AYL 5.3. 41 untunable.
AYL 5.3. 42
AYL-FIRST PAGE
You are deceived, sir, we kept time, we lost
AYL 5.3. 43 not our time.
AYL 5.3. 44
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
By my troth, yes, I count it but time lost to
AYL 5.3. 45 hear such a foolish song. God b' wi' you, and God mend
AYL 5.3. 46 your voices. Come, Audrey. {Exeunt severally}
AYL 5.3. 0 {Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Oliver, and +
AYL 5.4. 0 Celia as Aliena}
AYL 5.4. 1
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
AYL 5.4. 2 Can do all this that he hath promised?
AYL 5.4. 3
AYL-ORLANDO
I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not,
AYL 5.4. 4 As those that fear they hope, and know they fear. {Enter +
AYL 5.4. 4 Rosalind as Ganymede, with Silvius and Phoebe}
AYL 5.4. 5
AYL-ROSALIND
Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged.
AYL 5.4. 6 {(To the Duke)} You say if I bring in your Rosalind
AYL 5.4. 7 You will bestow her on Orlando here?
AYL 5.4. 8
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.
AYL 5.4. 9
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Orlando)} And you say you will have +
AYL 5.4. 9 her when I bring her?
AYL 5.4. 10
AYL-ORLANDO
That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.
AYL 5.4. 11
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Phoebe)} You say you'll marry me if +
AYL 5.4. 11 I be willing?
AYL 5.4. 12
AYL-PHOEBE
That will I, should I die the hour after.
AYL 5.4. 13
AYL-ROSALIND
But if you do refuse to marry me
AYL 5.4. 14 You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
AYL 5.4. 15A
AYL-PHOEBE
So is the bargain.
AYL 5.4. 16
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to Silvius)} You say that you'll have +
AYL 5.4. 16 Phoebe if she will.
AYL 5.4. 17
AYL-SILVIUS
Though to have her and death were both one thing.
AYL 5.4. 18
AYL-ROSALIND
I have promised to make all this matter even.
AYL 5.4. 19 Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daughter.
AYL 5.4. 20 You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter.
AYL 5.4. 21 Keep your word, Phoebe, that you'll marry me,
AYL 5.4. 22 Or else refusing me to wed this shepherd.
AYL 5.4. 23 Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her
AYL 5.4. 24 If she refuse me; and from hence I go
AYL 5.4. 25 To make these doubts all even. {Exeunt Rosalind and Celia}
AYL 5.4. 26
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
I do remember in this shepherd boy
AYL 5.4. 27 Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.
AYL 5.4. 28
AYL-ORLANDO
My lord, the first time that I ever saw him,
AYL 5.4. 29 Methought he was a brother to your daughter.
AYL 5.4. 30 But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
AYL 5.4. 31 And hath been tutored in the rudiments
AYL 5.4. 32 Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
AYL 5.4. 33 Whom he reports to be a great magician
AYL 5.4. 34 Obscured in the circle of this forest. {[Enter Touchstone the +
AYL 5.4. 34 clown and Audrey]}
AYL 5.4. 35
AYL-JAQUES
There is sure another flood toward, and these
AYL 5.4. 36 couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of
AYL 5.4. 37 very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called
AYL 5.4. 38 fools.
AYL 5.4. 39
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Salutation and greeting to you all.
AYL 5.4. 40
AYL-JAQUES
{(to the Duke)} Good my lord, bid him +
AYL 5.4. 40 welcome. This
AYL 5.4. 41 is the motley-minded gentleman that I have so often
AYL 5.4. 42 met in the forest. He hath been a courtier, he swears.
AYL 5.4. 43
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
If any man doubt that, let him put me to my
AYL 5.4. 44 purgation. I have trod a measure, I have flattered a
AYL 5.4. 45 lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with
AYL 5.4. 46 mine enemy, I have undone three tailors, I have had
AYL 5.4. 47 four quarrels, and like to have fought one.
AYL 5.4. 48
AYL-JAQUES
And how was that ta'en up?
AYL 5.4. 49
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was
AYL 5.4. 50 upon the seventh cause.
AYL 5.4. 51
AYL-JAQUES
How, seventh cause? - Good my lord, like this
AYL 5.4. 52 fellow.
AYL 5.4. 53
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
I like him very well.
AYL 5.4. 54
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
God 'ield you, sir, I desire you of the like. I
AYL 5.4. 55 press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country
AYL 5.4. 56 copulatives, to swear, and to forswear, according as
AYL 5.4. 57 marriage binds and blood breaks. A poor virgin, sir, an
AYL 5.4. 58 ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. A poor humour
AYL 5.4. 59 of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will. Rich
AYL 5.4. 60 honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as
AYL 5.4. 61 your pearl in your foul oyster.
AYL 5.4. 62
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.
AYL 5.4. 63
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such
AYL 5.4. 64 dulcet diseases.
AYL 5.4. 65
AYL-JAQUES
But for the seventh cause. How did you find the
AYL 5.4. 66 quarrel on the seventh cause?
AYL 5.4. 67
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
Upon a lie seven times removed. - Bear your
AYL 5.4. 68 body more seeming, Audrey. - As thus, sir: I did dislike
AYL 5.4. 69 the cut of a certain courtier's beard. He sent me word
AYL 5.4. 70 if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind
AYL 5.4. 71 it was. This is called the Retort Courteous. If I sent him
AYL 5.4. 72 word again it was not well cut, he would send me
AYL 5.4. 73 word he cut it to please himself. This is called the Quip
AYL 5.4. 74 Modest. If again it was not well cut, he disabled my
AYL 5.4. 75 judgement. This is called the Reply Churlish. If again
AYL 5.4. 76 it was not well cut, he would answer I spake not true.
AYL 5.4. 77 This is called the Reproof Valiant. If again it was not
AYL 5.4. 78 well cut, he would say I lie. This is called the
AYL 5.4. 79 Countercheck Quarrelsome. And so to the Lie Circumstantial,
AYL 5.4. 80 and the Lie Direct.
AYL 5.4. 81
AYL-JAQUES
And how oft did you say his beard was not well
AYL 5.4. 82 cut?
AYL 5.4. 83
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
I durst go no further than the Lie
AYL 5.4. 84 Circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct;
AYL 5.4. 85 and so we measured swords, and parted.
AYL 5.4. 86
AYL-JAQUES
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of
AYL 5.4. 87 the lie?
AYL 5.4. 88
AYL-TOUCHSTONE
O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as
AYL 5.4. 89 you have books for good manners. I will name you the
AYL 5.4. 90 degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second,
AYL 5.4. 91 the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the
AYL 5.4. 92 fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck
AYL 5.4. 93 Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the
AYL 5.4. 94 seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but
AYL 5.4. 95 the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that, too, with an
AYL 5.4. 96 `if'. I knew when seven justices could not take up a
AYL 5.4. 97 quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves,
AYL 5.4. 98 one of them thought but of an `if', as `If you said so,
AYL 5.4. 99 then I said so', and they shook hands and swore
AYL 5.4. 100 brothers. Your `if' is the only peacemaker; much virtue
AYL 5.4. 101 in `if'.
AYL 5.4. 102
AYL-JAQUES
{(to the Duke)} Is not this a rare fellow, +
AYL 5.4. 102 my lord?
AYL 5.4. 103 He's as good at anything, and yet a fool.
AYL 5.4. 104
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and
AYL 5.4. 105 under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. {[Still +
AYL 5.4. 105 music.] Enter Hymen with Rosalind and Celia as themselves}
AYL 5.4. 106
AYL-HYMEN
Then is there mirth in heaven
AYL 5.4. 107 When earthly things made even
AYL 5.4. 108 Atone together.
AYL 5.4. 109 Good Duke, receive thy daughter;
AYL 5.4. 110 Hymen from heaven brought her,
AYL 5.4. 111 Yea, brought her hither,
AYL 5.4. 112 That thou mightst join her hand with his
AYL 5.4. 113 Whose heart within his bosom is.
AYL 5.4. 114
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to the Duke)} To you I give myself, for +
AYL 5.4. 114 I am yours.
AYL 5.4. 115 {(To Orlando)} To you I give myself, for I am yours.
AYL 5.4. 116
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.
AYL 5.4. 117
AYL-ORLANDO
If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.
AYL 5.4. 118
AYL-PHOEBE
If sight and shape be true,
AYL 5.4. 119 Why then, my love adieu!
AYL 5.4. 120
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to the Duke)} I'll have no father if +
AYL 5.4. 120 you be not he.
AYL 5.4. 121 {(To Orlando)} I'll have no husband if you be not he,
AYL 5.4. 122 {(To Phoebe)} Nor ne'er wed woman if you be not she.
AYL 5.4. 123
AYL-HYMEN
Peace, ho, I bar confusion.
AYL 5.4. 124 'Tis I must make conclusion
AYL 5.4. 125 Of these most strange events.
AYL 5.4. 126 Here's eight that must take hands
AYL 5.4. 127 To join in Hymen's bands,
AYL 5.4. 128 If truth holds true contents.
AYL 5.4. 129 {(To Orlando and Rosalind)} You and you no cross shall +
AYL 5.4. 129 part.
AYL 5.4. 130 {(To Oliver and Celia)} You and you are heart in heart.
AYL 5.4. 131 {(To Phoebe)} You to his love must accord,
AYL 5.4. 132 Or have a woman to your lord.
AYL 5.4. 133 {(To Touchstone and Audrey)} You and you are sure +
AYL 5.4. 133 together
AYL 5.4. 134 As the winter to foul weather. -
AYL 5.4. 135 Whiles a wedlock hymn we sing,
AYL 5.4. 136 Feed yourselves with questioning,
AYL 5.4. 137 That reason wonder may diminish
AYL 5.4. 138 How thus we met, and these things finish.
AYL 5.4. 139 {Song} Wedding is great Juno's crown,
AYL 5.4. 140 O blessed bond of board and bed.
AYL 5.4. 141 'Tis Hymen peoples every town.
AYL 5.4. 142 High wedlock then be honoured.
AYL 5.4. 143 Honour, high honour and renown
AYL 5.4. 144 To Hymen, god of every town.
AYL 5.4. 145
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
{(to Celia)} O my dear niece, welcome +
AYL 5.4. 145 thou art to me,
AYL 5.4. 146 Even daughter; welcome in no less degree.
AYL 5.4. 147
AYL-PHOEBE
{(to Silvius)} I will not eat my word. Now +
AYL 5.4. 147 thou art mine,
AYL 5.4. 148 Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine. {Enter Jaques de Bois, +
AYL 5.4. 148 the second brother}
AYL 5.4. 149
AYL-JAQUES DE BOIS
Let me have audience for a word or two.
AYL 5.4. 150 I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,
AYL 5.4. 151 That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.
AYL 5.4. 152 Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
AYL 5.4. 153 Men of great worth resorted to this forest,
AYL 5.4. 154 Addressed a mighty power, which were on foot,
AYL 5.4. 155 In his own conduct, purposely to take
AYL 5.4. 156 His brother here, and put him to the sword.
AYL 5.4. 157 And to the skirts of this wild wood he came
AYL 5.4. 158 Where, meeting with an old religious man,
AYL 5.4. 159 After some question with him was converted
AYL 5.4. 160 Both from his enterprise and from the world,
AYL 5.4. 161 His crown bequeathing to his banished brother,
AYL 5.4. 162 And all their lands restored to them again
AYL 5.4. 163 That were with him exiled. This to be true
AYL 5.4. 164B I do engage my life.
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Welcome, young man.
AYL 5.4. 165 Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:
AYL 5.4. 166 To one his lands withheld, and to the other
AYL 5.4. 167 A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
AYL 5.4. 168 First, in this forest let us do those ends
AYL 5.4. 169 That here were well begun, and well begot.
AYL 5.4. 170 And after, every of this happy number
AYL 5.4. 171 That have endured shrewd days and nights with us
AYL 5.4. 172 Shall share the good of our returned fortune
AYL 5.4. 173 According to the measure of their states.
AYL 5.4. 174 Meantime, forget this new-fallen dignity
AYL 5.4. 175 And fall into our rustic revelry.
AYL 5.4. 176 Play, music, and you brides and bridegrooms all,
AYL 5.4. 177 With measure heaped in joy to th' measures fall.
AYL 5.4. 178
AYL-JAQUES
Sir, by your patience. {(To Jaques de Bois)} +
AYL 5.4. 178 If I heard you rightly
AYL 5.4. 179 The Duke hath put on a religious life
AYL 5.4. 180 And thrown into neglect the pompous court.
AYL 5.4. 181A
AYL-JAQUES DE BOIS
He hath.
AYL 5.4. 182
AYL-JAQUES
To him will I. Out of these convertites
AYL 5.4. 183 There is much matter to be heard and learned.
AYL 5.4. 184 {(To the Duke)} You to your former honour I bequeath;
AYL 5.4. 185 Your patience and your virtue well deserves it.
AYL 5.4. 186 {(To Orlando)} You to a love that your true faith doth +
AYL 5.4. 186 merit;
AYL 5.4. 187 {(To Oliver)} You to your land, and love, and great +
AYL 5.4. 187 allies;
AYL 5.4. 188 {(To Silvius)} You to a long and well-deserved bed;
AYL 5.4. 189 {(To Touchstone)} And you to wrangling, for thy loving +
AYL 5.4. 189 voyage
AYL 5.4. 190 Is but for two months victualled. - So, to your pleasures;
AYL 5.4. 191 I am for other than for dancing measures.
AYL 5.4. 192A
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Stay, Jaques, stay.
AYL 5.4. 193
AYL-JAQUES
To see no pastime, I. What you would have
AYL 5.4. 194 I'll stay to know at your abandoned cave. {Exit}
AYL 5.4. 195
AYL-DUKE SENIOR
Proceed, proceed. We'll so begin these rites
AYL 5.4. 196 As we do trust they'll end, in true delights. {[They dance; +
AYL 5.4. 196 then] exeunt all but Rosalind}
AYL 5.4. 0
AYL 5.Ep. 1
AYL-ROSALIND
{(to the audience)} It is not the fashion +
AYL 5.Ep. 1 to see the
AYL 5.Ep. 2 lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than
AYL 5.Ep. 3 to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good
AYL 5.Ep. 4 wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs
AYL 5.Ep. 5 no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
AYL 5.Ep. 6 and good plays prove the better by the help of good
AYL 5.Ep. 7 epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither
AYL 5.Ep. 8 a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the
AYL 5.Ep. 9 behalf of a good play! I am not furnished like a beggar,
AYL 5.Ep. 10 therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to
AYL 5.Ep. 11 conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge
AYL 5.Ep. 12 you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like
AYL 5.Ep. 13 as much of this play as please you. And I charge you,
AYL 5.Ep. 14 O men, for the love you bear to women - as I perceive
AYL 5.Ep. 15 by your simpering none of you hates them - that
AYL 5.Ep. 16 between you and the women the play may please. If I
AYL 5.Ep. 17 were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had
AYL 5.Ep. 18 beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and
AYL 5.Ep. 19 breaths that I defied not. And I am sure, as many as
AYL 5.Ep. 20 have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will
AYL 5.Ep. 21 for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. {Exit}
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0
COR . . 0 The Tragedy of Coriolanus
COR . . 0 {Enter a company of mutinous Citizens with staves, +
COR 1.1. 0 clubs, and other weapons}
COR 1.1. 1
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
Before we proceed any further, hear me
COR 1.1. 2 speak.
COR 1.1. 3
COR-ALL
Speak, speak.
COR 1.1. 4
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
You are all resolved rather to die than to
COR 1.1. 5 famish?
COR 1.1. 6
COR-ALL
Resolved, resolved.
COR 1.1. 7
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
First, you know Caius Martius is chief
COR 1.1. 8 enemy to the people.
COR 1.1. 9
COR-ALL
We know 't, we know 't.
COR 1.1. 10
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our
COR 1.1. 11 own price. Is 't a verdict?
COR 1.1. 12
COR-ALL
No more talking on 't, let it be done. Away, away.
COR 1.1. 13
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
One word, good citizens.
COR 1.1. 14
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians
COR 1.1. 15 good. What authority surfeits on would relieve
COR 1.1. 16 us. If they would yield us but the superfluity while it
COR 1.1. 17 were wholesome we might guess they relieved us
COR 1.1. 18 humanely, but they think we are too dear. The leanness
COR 1.1. 19 that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an
COR 1.1. 20 inventory to particularize their abundance; our
COR 1.1. 21 sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this with
COR 1.1. 22 our pikes ere we become rakes; for the gods know I
COR 1.1. 23 speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
COR 1.1. 24
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Would you proceed especially against Caius
COR 1.1. 25 Martius?
COR 1.1. 26
COR-[THIRD CITIZEN]
Against him first.
COR 1.1. 27
COR-[FOURTH CITIZEN]
He's a very dog to the commonalty.
COR 1.1. 28
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Consider you what services he has done
COR 1.1. 29 for his country?
COR 1.1. 30
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
Very well, and could be content to give him
COR 1.1. 31 good report for 't, but that he pays himself with being
COR 1.1. 32 proud.
COR 1.1. 33
COR-[FIFTH CITIZEN]
Nay, but speak not maliciously.
COR 1.1. 34
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
I say unto you, what he hath done famously,
COR 1.1. 35 he did it to that end - though soft-conscienced men can
COR 1.1. 36 be content to say `it was for his country', `he did it to
COR 1.1. 37 please his mother, and to be partly proud' - which he
COR 1.1. 38 is even to the altitude of his virtue.
COR 1.1. 39
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
What he cannot help in his nature you
COR 1.1. 40 account a vice in him. You must in no way say he is
COR 1.1. 41 covetous.
COR 1.1. 42
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
If I must not, I need not be barren of
COR 1.1. 43 accusations. He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in
COR 1.1. 44 repetition. {Shouts within}
COR 1.1. 45 What shouts are these? The other side o' th' city is
COR 1.1. 46 risen. Why stay we prating here? To th' Capitol!
COR 1.1. 47
COR-ALL
Come, come. {Enter Menenius}
COR 1.1. 48
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
Soft, who comes here?
COR 1.1. 49
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath
COR 1.1. 50 always loved the people.
COR 1.1. 51
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
He's one honest enough. Would all the rest
COR 1.1. 52 were so!
COR 1.1. 53
COR-MENENIUS
What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go +
COR 1.1. 53 you
COR 1.1. 54 With bats and clubs? The matter. Speak, I pray you.
COR 1.1. 55
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
Our business is not unknown to th' +
COR 1.1. 55 senate.
COR 1.1. 56 They have had inkling this fortnight what we intend
COR 1.1. 57 to do, which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say
COR 1.1. 58 poor suitors have strong breaths; they shall know we
COR 1.1. 59 have strong arms, too.
COR 1.1. 60
COR-MENENIUS
Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest +
COR 1.1. 60 neighbours,
COR 1.1. 61 Will you undo yourselves?
COR 1.1. 62
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
We cannot, sir. We are undone already.
COR 1.1. 63
COR-MENENIUS
I tell you, friends, most charitable care
COR 1.1. 64 Have the patricians of you. For your wants,
COR 1.1. 65 Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well
COR 1.1. 66 Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them
COR 1.1. 67 Against the Roman state, whose course will on
COR 1.1. 68 The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs
COR 1.1. 69 Of more strong link asunder than can ever
COR 1.1. 70 Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,
COR 1.1. 71 The gods, not the patricians, make it, and
COR 1.1. 72 Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,
COR 1.1. 73 You are transported by calamity
COR 1.1. 74 Thither where more attends you, and you slander
COR 1.1. 75 The helms o' th' state, who care for you like fathers,
COR 1.1. 76 When you curse them as enemies.
COR 1.1. 77
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
Care for us? True, indeed! They ne'er
COR 1.1. 78 cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses
COR 1.1. 79 crammed with grain; make edicts for usury to
COR 1.1. 80 support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
COR 1.1. 81 established against the rich; and provide more piercing
COR 1.1. 82 statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the
COR 1.1. 83 wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love
COR 1.1. 84 they bear us.
COR 1.1. 85A
COR-MENENIUS
Either you must
COR 1.1. 86 Confess yourselves wondrous malicious
COR 1.1. 87 Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you
COR 1.1. 88 A pretty tale. It may be you have heard it,
COR 1.1. 89 But since it serves my purpose, I will venture
COR 1.1. 90 To stale 't a little more.
COR 1.1. 91
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
Well, I'll hear it, sir. Yet you must not
COR 1.1. 92 think to fob off our disgrace with a tale. But an 't please
COR 1.1. 93 you, deliver.
COR 1.1. 94
COR-MENENIUS
There was a time when all the body's members,
COR 1.1. 95 Rebelled against the belly, thus accused it:
COR 1.1. 96 That only like a gulf it did remain
COR 1.1. 97 I' th' midst o' th' body, idle and unactive,
COR 1.1. 98 Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing
COR 1.1. 99 Like labour with the rest; where th' other instruments
COR 1.1. 100 Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,
COR 1.1. 101 And, mutually participate, did minister
COR 1.1. 102 Unto the appetite and affection common
COR 1.1. 103 Of the whole body. The belly answered -
COR 1.1. 104
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
Well, sir, what answer made the belly?
COR 1.1. 105
COR-MENENIUS
Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,
COR 1.1. 106 Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus -
COR 1.1. 107 For look you, I may make the belly smile
COR 1.1. 108 As well as speak - it tauntingly replied
COR 1.1. 109 To th' discontented members, the mutinous parts
COR 1.1. 110 That envied his receipt; even so most fitly
COR 1.1. 111 As you malign our senators for that
COR 1.1. 112B They are not such as you.
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
Your belly's answer - what?
COR 1.1. 113 The kingly crowned head, the vigilant eye,
COR 1.1. 114 The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier,
COR 1.1. 115 Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter,
COR 1.1. 116 With other muniments and petty helps
COR 1.1. 117B In this our fabric, if that they -
COR-MENENIUS
What then?
COR 1.1. 118 Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? What then?
COR 1.1. 119
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
Should by the cormorant belly be restrained,
COR 1.1. 120B Who is the sink o' th' body -
COR-MENENIUS
Well, what then?
COR 1.1. 121
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
The former agents, if they did complain,
COR 1.1. 122B What could the belly answer?
COR-MENENIUS
I will tell you,
COR 1.1. 123 If you'll bestow a small of what you have little -
COR 1.1. 124 Patience - a while, you'st hear the belly's answer.
COR 1.1. 125B
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
You're long about it.
COR-MENENIUS
Note me this, +
COR 1.1. 125B good friend:
COR 1.1. 126 Your most grave belly was deliberate,
COR 1.1. 127 Not rash like his accusers, and thus answered:
COR 1.1. 128 `True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he,
COR 1.1. 129 `That I receive the general food at first
COR 1.1. 130 Which you do live upon, and fit it is,
COR 1.1. 131 Because I am the storehouse and the shop
COR 1.1. 132 Of the whole body. But, if you do remember,
COR 1.1. 133 I send it through the rivers of your blood
COR 1.1. 134 Even to the court, the heart, to th' seat o' th' brain;
COR 1.1. 135 And through the cranks and offices of man
COR 1.1. 136 The strongest nerves and small inferior veins
COR 1.1. 137 From me receive that natural competency
COR 1.1. 138 Whereby they live. And though that all at once' -
COR 1.1. 139 You my good friends, this says the belly, mark me -
COR 1.1. 140B
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
Ay, sir, well, well.
COR-MENENIUS
`Though all at +
COR 1.1. 140B once cannot
COR 1.1. 141 See what I do deliver out to each,
COR 1.1. 142 Yet I can make my audit up that all
COR 1.1. 143 From me do back receive the flour of all
COR 1.1. 144 And leave me but the bran.' What say you to 't?
COR 1.1. 145
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
It was an answer. How apply you this?
COR 1.1. 146
COR-MENENIUS
The senators of Rome are this good belly,
COR 1.1. 147 And you the mutinous members. For examine
COR 1.1. 148 Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly
COR 1.1. 149 Touching the weal o' th' common, you shall find
COR 1.1. 150 No public benefit which you receive
COR 1.1. 151 But it proceeds or comes from them to you,
COR 1.1. 152 And no way from yourselves. What do you think,
COR 1.1. 153 You, the great toe of this assembly?
COR 1.1. 154
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
I the great toe? Why the great toe?
COR 1.1. 155
COR-MENENIUS
For that, being one o' th' lowest, basest, poorest
COR 1.1. 156 Of this most wise rebellion, thou goest foremost.
COR 1.1. 157 Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,
COR 1.1. 158 Lead'st first to win some vantage.
COR 1.1. 159 But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs.
COR 1.1. 160 Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.
COR 1.1. 161B The one side must have bale. {Enter Martius} Hail, +
COR 1.1. 161B noble Martius!
COR 1.1. 162
COR-MARTIUS
Thanks. - What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
COR 1.1. 163 That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
COR 1.1. 164B Make yourselves scabs?
COR-[FIRST] CITIZEN
We have ever your good word.
COR 1.1. 165
COR-MARTIUS
He that will give good words to thee will flatter
COR 1.1. 166 Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs
COR 1.1. 167 That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you,
COR 1.1. 168 The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,
COR 1.1. 169 Where he should find you lions finds you hares,
COR 1.1. 170 Where foxes, geese. You are no surer, no,
COR 1.1. 171 Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,
COR 1.1. 172 Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is
COR 1.1. 173 To make him worthy whose offence subdues him,
COR 1.1. 174 And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness
COR 1.1. 175 Deserves your hate, and your affections are
COR 1.1. 176 A sick man's appetite, who desires most that
COR 1.1. 177 Which would increase his evil. He that depends
COR 1.1. 178 Upon your favours swims with fins of lead,
COR 1.1. 179 And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye?
COR 1.1. 180 With every minute you do change a mind,
COR 1.1. 181 And call him noble that was now your hate,
COR 1.1. 182 Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,
COR 1.1. 183 That in these several places of the city
COR 1.1. 184 You cry against the noble senate, who,
COR 1.1. 185 Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else
COR 1.1. 186B Would feed on one another? {(To Menenius)} What's their +
COR 1.1. 186B seeking?
COR 1.1. 187
COR-MENENIUS
For corn at their own rates, whereof they say
COR 1.1. 188B The city is well stored.
COR-MARTIUS
Hang 'em! They say?
COR 1.1. 189 They'll sit by th' fire and presume to know
COR 1.1. 190 What's done i' th' Capitol, who's like to rise,
COR 1.1. 191 Who thrives and who declines; side factions and give out
COR 1.1. 192 Conjectural marriages, making parties strong
COR 1.1. 193 And feebling such as stand not in their liking
COR 1.1. 194 Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's grain enough!
COR 1.1. 195 Would the nobility lay aside their ruth
COR 1.1. 196 And let me use my sword, I'd make a quarry
COR 1.1. 197 With thousands of these quartered slaves as high
COR 1.1. 198 As I could pitch my lance.
COR 1.1. 199
COR-MENENIUS
Nay, these are all most thoroughly persuaded,
COR 1.1. 200 For though abundantly they lack discretion,
COR 1.1. 201 Yet are they passing cowardly. But I beseech you,
COR 1.1. 202B What says the other troop?
COR-MARTIUS
They are dissolved. Hang 'em.
COR 1.1. 203 They said they were an-hungry, sighed forth proverbs -
COR 1.1. 204 That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
COR 1.1. 205 That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
COR 1.1. 206 Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds
COR 1.1. 207 They vented their complainings, which being answered,
COR 1.1. 208 And a petition granted them - a strange one,
COR 1.1. 209 To break the heart of generosity
COR 1.1. 210 And make bold power look pale - they threw their caps
COR 1.1. 211 As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,
COR 1.1. 212B Shouting their emulation.
COR-MENENIUS
What is granted them?
COR 1.1. 213
COR-MARTIUS
Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,
COR 1.1. 214 Of their own choice. One's Junius Brutus,
COR 1.1. 215 Sicinius Velutus, and I know not. 'Sdeath,
COR 1.1. 216 The rabble should have first unroofed the city
COR 1.1. 217 Ere so prevailed with me! It will in time
COR 1.1. 218 Win upon power and throw forth greater themes
COR 1.1. 219 For insurrection's arguing.
COR 1.1. 220A
COR-MENENIUS
This is strange.
COR 1.1. 221A
COR-MARTIUS
{(to the Citizens)} Go get you home, you +
COR 1.1. 221A fragments. {Enter a Messenger hastily}
COR 1.1. 222A
COR-MESSENGER
Where's Caius Martius?
COR 1.1. 223A
COR-MARTIUS
Here. What's the matter?
COR 1.1. 224
COR-MESSENGER
The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.
COR 1.1. 225
COR-MARTIUS
I am glad on 't. Then we shall ha' means to vent
COR 1.1. 226B Our musty superfluity. {Enter Sicinius, Brutus, Cominius, +
COR 1.1. 226B Lartius, with other Senators} See, our best elders.
COR 1.1. 227
COR-FIRST SENATOR
Martius, 'tis true that you have lately told us.
COR 1.1. 228B The Volsces are in arms.
COR-MARTIUS
They have a leader,
COR 1.1. 229 Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't.
COR 1.1. 230 I sin in envying his nobility,
COR 1.1. 231 And were I anything but what I am,
COR 1.1. 232B I would wish me only he.
COR-COMINIUS
You have fought together!
COR 1.1. 233
COR-MARTIUS
Were half to half the world by th' ears and he
COR 1.1. 234 Upon my party, I'd revolt to make
COR 1.1. 235 Only my wars with him. He is a lion
COR 1.1. 236B That I am proud to hunt.
COR-FIRST SENATOR
Then, worthy Martius,
COR 1.1. 237 Attend upon Cominius to these wars.
COR 1.1. 238B
COR-COMINIUS
{(to Martius)} It is your former +
COR 1.1. 238B promise.
COR-MARTIUS
Sir, it is,
COR 1.1. 239 And I am constant. Titus Lartius, thou
COR 1.1. 240 Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face.
COR 1.1. 241B What, art thou stiff? Stand'st out?
COR-LARTIUS
No, Caius Martius.
COR 1.1. 242 I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with th' other
COR 1.1. 243B Ere stay behind this business.
COR-MENENIUS
O true bred!
COR 1.1. 244
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
Your company to th' Capitol, where I know
COR 1.1. 245B Our greatest friends attend us.
COR-LARTIUS
{(to +
COR 1.1. 245B Cominius)} Lead you on.
COR 1.1. 246 {(To Martius)} Follow Cominius. We must follow you,
COR 1.1. 247B Right worthy your priority.
COR-COMINIUS
Noble Martius.
COR 1.1. 248B
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
{(to the Citizens)} Hence to your +
COR 1.1. 248B homes, be gone.
COR-MARTIUS
Nay, let them follow.
COR 1.1. 249 The Volsces have much corn. Take these rats thither
COR 1.1. 250B To gnaw their garners. {Citizens steal away} Worshipful +
COR 1.1. 250B mutineers,
COR 1.1. 251 Your valour puts well forth. {(To the Senators)} Pray +
COR 1.1. 251 follow. {Exeunt all but Sicinius and Brutus}
COR 1.1. 252
COR-SICINIUS
Was ever man so proud as is this Martius?
COR 1.1. 253A
COR-BRUTUS
He has no equal.
COR 1.1. 254
COR-SICINIUS
When we were chosen tribunes for the people -
COR 1.1. 255B
COR-BRUTUS
Marked you his lip and eyes?
COR-SICINIUS
Nay, but his +
COR 1.1. 255B taunts.
COR 1.1. 256
COR-BRUTUS
Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
COR 1.1. 257A
COR-SICINIUS
Bemock the modest moon.
COR 1.1. 258
COR-BRUTUS
The present wars devour him. He is grown
COR 1.1. 259B Too proud to be so valiant.
COR-SICINIUS
Such a nature,
COR 1.1. 260 Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
COR 1.1. 261 Which he treads on at noon. But I do wonder
COR 1.1. 262 His insolence can brook to be commanded
COR 1.1. 263B Under Cominius.
COR-BRUTUS
Fame, at the which he aims -
COR 1.1. 264 In whom already he's well graced - cannot
COR 1.1. 265 Better be held nor more attained than by
COR 1.1. 266 A place below the first; for what miscarries
COR 1.1. 267 Shall be the general's fault, though he perform
COR 1.1. 268 To th' utmost of a man, and giddy censure
COR 1.1. 269 Will then cry out of Martius `O, if he
COR 1.1. 270B Had borne the business!'
COR-SICINIUS
Besides, if things go well,
COR 1.1. 271 Opinion, that so sticks on Martius, shall
COR 1.1. 272B Of his demerits rob Cominius.
COR-BRUTUS
Come,
COR 1.1. 273 Half all Cominius' honours are to Martius,
COR 1.1. 274 Though Martius earned them not; and all his faults
COR 1.1. 275 To Martius shall be honours, though indeed
COR 1.1. 276B In aught he merit not.
COR-SICINIUS
Let's hence and hear
COR 1.1. 277 How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,
COR 1.1. 278 More than his singularity, he goes
COR 1.1. 279B Upon this present action.
COR-BRUTUS
Let's along. {Exeunt}
COR 1.1. 0 {Enter Aufidius, with Senators of Corioles}
COR 1.2. 1
COR-FIRST SENATOR
So, your opinion is, Aufidius,
COR 1.2. 2 That they of Rome are entered in our counsels
COR 1.2. 3B And know how we proceed.
COR-AUFIDIUS
Is it not yours?
COR 1.2. 4 What ever have been thought on in this state
COR 1.2. 5 That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome
COR 1.2. 6 Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days gone
COR 1.2. 7 Since I heard thence. These are the words. I think
COR 1.2. 8 I have the letter here - yes, here it is. {[He reads the letter]}
COR 1.2. 9 `They have pressed a power, but it is not known
COR 1.2. 10 Whether for east or west. The dearth is great,
COR 1.2. 11 The people mutinous, and it is rumoured
COR 1.2. 12 Cominius, Martius your old enemy,
COR 1.2. 13 Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,
COR 1.2. 14 And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman,
COR 1.2. 15 These three lead on this preparation
COR 1.2. 16 Whither 'tis bent. Most likely 'tis for you.
COR 1.2. 17B Consider of it.'
COR-FIRST SENATOR
Our army's in the field.
COR 1.2. 18 We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready
COR 1.2. 19B To answer us.
COR-AUFIDIUS
Nor did you think it folly
COR 1.2. 20 To keep your great pretences veiled till when
COR 1.2. 21 They needs must show themselves, which in the hatching,
COR 1.2. 22 It seemed, appeared to Rome. By the discovery
COR 1.2. 23 We shall be shortened in our aim, which was
COR 1.2. 24 To take in many towns ere, almost, Rome
COR 1.2. 25B Should know we were afoot.
COR-SECOND SENATOR
Noble Aufidius,
COR 1.2. 26 Take your commission, hie you to your bands.
COR 1.2. 27 Let us alone to guard Corioles.
COR 1.2. 28 If they set down before 's, for the remove
COR 1.2. 29 Bring up your army, but I think you'll find
COR 1.2. 30B They've not prepared for us.
COR-AUFIDIUS
O, doubt not that.
COR 1.2. 31 I speak from certainties. Nay, more,
COR 1.2. 32 Some parcels of their power are forth already,
COR 1.2. 33 And only hitherward. I leave your honours.
COR 1.2. 34 If we and Caius Martius chance to meet,
COR 1.2. 35 'Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike
COR 1.2. 36B Till one can do no more.
COR-ALL THE SENATORS
The gods assist you!
COR 1.2. 37B
COR-AUFIDIUS
And keep your honours safe.
COR-FIRST SENATOR
+
COR 1.2. 37B Farewell.
COR-SECOND SENATOR
Farewell.
COR-ALL
Farewell. {Exeunt, +
COR 1.2. 37B [Aufidius at one door,}
COR 1.2. 0 {Senators at another door]} {Enter Volumnia and Virgilia, +
COR 1.3. 0 mother and wife to Martius. They set them down on two low stools and +
COR 1.3. 0 sew}
COR 1.3. 1
COR-VOLUMNIA
I pray you, daughter, sing, or express yourself
COR 1.3. 2 in a more comfortable sort. If my son were my husband,
COR 1.3. 3 I should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won
COR 1.3. 4 honour than in the embracements of his bed where he
COR 1.3. 5 would show most love. When yet he was but tender-
COR 1.3. 6 bodied and the only son of my womb, when youth
COR 1.3. 7 with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when for a
COR 1.3. 8 day of kings' entreaties a mother should not sell him
COR 1.3. 9 an hour from her beholding, I, considering how honour
COR 1.3. 10 would become such a person - that it was no better
COR 1.3. 11 than, picture-like, to hang by th' wall if renown made
COR 1.3. 12 it not stir - was pleased to let him seek danger where
COR 1.3. 13 he was like to find fame. To a cruel war I sent him,
COR 1.3. 14 from whence he returned his brows bound with oak. I
COR 1.3. 15 tell thee, daughter, I sprang not more in joy at first
COR 1.3. 16 hearing he was a man-child than now in first seeing
COR 1.3. 17 he had proved himself a man.
COR 1.3. 18
COR-VIRGILIA
But had he died in the business, madam, how
COR 1.3. 19 then?
COR 1.3. 20
COR-VOLUMNIA
Then his good report should have been my
COR 1.3. 21 son. I therein would have found issue. Hear me profess
COR 1.3. 22 sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike,
COR 1.3. 23 and none less dear than thine and my good Martius',
COR 1.3. 24 I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country
COR 1.3. 25 than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. {Enter a +
COR 1.3. 25 Gentlewoman}
COR 1.3. 26
COR-GENTLEWOMAN
Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit
COR 1.3. 27 you.
COR 1.3. 28
COR-VIRGILIA
{(to Volumnia)} Beseech you give me leave +
COR 1.3. 28 to retire
COR 1.3. 29 myself.
COR 1.3. 30A
COR-VOLUMNIA
Indeed you shall not.
COR 1.3. 31 Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum,
COR 1.3. 32 See him pluck Aufidius down by th' hair;
COR 1.3. 33 As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him.
COR 1.3. 34 Methinks I see him stamp thus, and call thus:
COR 1.3. 35 `Come on, you cowards, you were got in fear
COR 1.3. 36 Though you were born in Rome!' His bloody brow
COR 1.3. 37 With his mailed hand then wiping, forth he goes,
COR 1.3. 38 Like to a harvest-man that's tasked to mow
COR 1.3. 39 Or all or lose his hire.
COR 1.3. 40
COR-VIRGILIA
His bloody brow? O Jupiter, no blood!
COR 1.3. 41
COR-VOLUMNIA
Away, you fool! It more becomes a man
COR 1.3. 42 Than gilt his trophy. The breasts of Hecuba
COR 1.3. 43 When she did suckle Hector looked not lovelier
COR 1.3. 44 Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood
COR 1.3. 45B At Grecian sword, contemning. {(To the Gentlewoman)} +
COR 1.3. 45B Tell Valeria
COR 1.3. 46 We are fit to bid her welcome. {Exit Gentlewoman}
COR 1.3. 47
COR-VIRGILIA
Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!
COR 1.3. 48
COR-VOLUMNIA
He'll beat Aufidius' head below his knee
COR 1.3. 49 And tread upon his neck. {Enter Valeria, with an usher and the +
COR 1.3. 49 Gentlewoman}
COR 1.3. 50
COR-VALERIA
My ladies both, good day to you.
COR 1.3. 51
COR-VOLUMNIA
Sweet madam.
COR 1.3. 52
COR-VIRGILIA
I am glad to see your ladyship.
COR 1.3. 53
COR-VALERIA
How do you both? You are manifest
COR 1.3. 54 housekeepers. What are you sewing here? A fine spot,
COR 1.3. 55 in good faith. How does your little son?
COR 1.3. 56
COR-VIRGILIA
I thank your ladyship; well, good madam.
COR 1.3. 57
COR-VOLUMNIA
He had rather see the swords and hear a drum
COR 1.3. 58 than look upon his schoolmaster.
COR 1.3. 59
COR-VALERIA
O' my word, the father's son! I'll swear 'tis a
COR 1.3. 60 very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o'
COR 1.3. 61 Wednesday half an hour together. He's such a
COR 1.3. 62 confirmed countenance! I saw him run after a gilded
COR 1.3. 63 butterfly, and when he caught it he let it go again,
COR 1.3. 64 and after it again, and over and over he comes, and
COR 1.3. 65 up again, catched it again. Or whether his fall enraged
COR 1.3. 66 him, or how 'twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it!
COR 1.3. 67 O, I warrant, how he mammocked it!
COR 1.3. 68
COR-VOLUMNIA
One on 's father's moods.
COR 1.3. 69
COR-VALERIA
Indeed, la, 'tis a noble child.
COR 1.3. 70
COR-VIRGILIA
A crack, madam.
COR 1.3. 71
COR-VALERIA
Come, lay aside your stitchery. I must have you
COR 1.3. 72 play the idle housewife with me this afternoon.
COR 1.3. 73
COR-VIRGILIA
No, good madam, I will not out of doors.
COR 1.3. 74
COR-VALERIA
Not out of doors?
COR 1.3. 75
COR-VOLUMNIA
She shall, she shall.
COR 1.3. 76
COR-VIRGILIA
Indeed, no, by your patience. I'll not over the
COR 1.3. 77 threshold till my lord return from the wars.
COR 1.3. 78
COR-VALERIA
Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably.
COR 1.3. 79 Come, you must go visit the good lady that lies in.
COR 1.3. 80
COR-VIRGILIA
I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her
COR 1.3. 81 with my prayers, but I cannot go thither.
COR 1.3. 82
COR-VOLUMNIA
Why, I pray you?
COR 1.3. 83
COR-VIRGILIA
'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love.
COR 1.3. 84
COR-VALERIA
You would be another Penelope. Yet they say
COR 1.3. 85 all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill
COR 1.3. 86 Ithaca full of moths. Come, I would your cambric were
COR 1.3. 87 sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking
COR 1.3. 88 it for pity. Come, you shall go with us.
COR 1.3. 89
COR-VIRGILIA
No, good madam, pardon me, indeed I will not
COR 1.3. 90 forth.
COR 1.3. 91
COR-VALERIA
In truth, la, go with me, and I'll tell you excellent
COR 1.3. 92 news of your husband.
COR 1.3. 93
COR-VIRGILIA
O, good madam, there can be none yet.
COR 1.3. 94
COR-VALERIA
Verily, I do not jest with you: there came news
COR 1.3. 95 from him last night.
COR 1.3. 96
COR-VIRGILIA
Indeed, madam?
COR 1.3. 97
COR-VALERIA
In earnest, it's true. I heard a senator speak it.
COR 1.3. 98 Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth, against
COR 1.3. 99 whom Cominius the general is gone with one part of
COR 1.3. 100 our Roman power. Your lord and Titus Lartius are set
COR 1.3. 101 down before their city Corioles. They nothing doubt
COR 1.3. 102 prevailing, and to make it brief wars. This is true, on
COR 1.3. 103 mine honour; and so, I pray, go with us.
COR 1.3. 104
COR-VIRGILIA
Give me excuse, good madam, I will obey you
COR 1.3. 105 in everything hereafter.
COR 1.3. 106
COR-VOLUMNIA
{(to Valeria)} Let her alone, lady. As +
COR 1.3. 106 she is now
COR 1.3. 107 she will but disease our better mirth.
COR 1.3. 108
COR-VALERIA
In truth, I think she would. Fare you well, then.
COR 1.3. 109 Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy
COR 1.3. 110 solemness out o' door and go along with us.
COR 1.3. 111
COR-VIRGILIA
No, at a word, madam. Indeed, I must not. I
COR 1.3. 112 wish you much mirth.
COR 1.3. 113
COR-VALERIA
Well then, farewell. {Exeunt [Valeria, Volumnia, and +
COR 1.3. 113 usher at one door, Virgilia and Gentlewoman at another door]}
COR 1.3. 0 {Enter Martius, Lartius with a drummer, [a trumpeter,] +
COR 1.4. 0 and colours, with captains and Soldiers [carrying scaling ladders], as +
COR 1.4. 0 before the city Corioles; to them a Messenger}
COR 1.4. 1
COR-MARTIUS
Yonder comes news. A wager they have met.
COR 1.4. 2B
COR-LARTIUS
My horse to yours, no.
COR-MARTIUS
'Tis done.
COR-LARTIUS
+
COR 1.4. 2B Agreed.
COR 1.4. 3
COR-MARTIUS
{(to the Messenger)} Say, has our general +
COR 1.4. 3 met the enemy?
COR 1.4. 4
COR-MESSENGER
They lie in view, but have not spoke as yet.
COR 1.4. 5B
COR-LARTIUS
So, the good horse is mine.
COR-MARTIUS
I'll buy him of you.
COR 1.4. 6
COR-LARTIUS
No, I'll nor sell nor give him. Lend you him I will,
COR 1.4. 7B For half a hundred years. {(To the trumpeter)} Summon +
COR 1.4. 7B the town.
COR 1.4. 8B
COR-MARTIUS
{(to the Messenger)} How far off lie these +
COR 1.4. 8B armies?
COR-MESSENGER
Within this mile and half.
COR 1.4. 9
COR-MARTIUS
Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours.
COR 1.4. 10 Now Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,
COR 1.4. 11 That we with smoking swords may march from hence
COR 1.4. 12B To help our fielded friends. {(To the trumpeter)} Come, +
COR 1.4. 12B blow thy blast. {They sound a parley. Enter two Senators, with +
COR 1.4. 12B others, on the walls of Corioles}
COR 1.4. 13 {(To the Senators)} Tullus Aufidius, is he within your +
COR 1.4. 13 walls?
COR 1.4. 14
COR-FIRST SENATOR
No, nor a man that fears you less than he:
COR 1.4. 15B That's lesser than a little. {Drum afar off} {[To the +
COR 1.4. 15B Volscians]} Hark, our drums
COR 1.4. 16 Are bringing forth our youth. We'll break our walls
COR 1.4. 17 Rather than they shall pound us up. Our gates,
COR 1.4. 18 Which yet seem shut, we have but pinned with rushes.
COR 1.4. 19B They'll open of themselves. {Alarum far off} {(To the +
COR 1.4. 19B Romans)} Hark you, far off
COR 1.4. 20 There is Aufidius. List what work he makes
COR 1.4. 21B Amongst your cloven army. {[Exeunt Volscians from the +
COR 1.4. 21B walls]}
COR-MARTIUS
O, they are at it!
COR 1.4. 22
COR-LARTIUS
Their noise be our instruction. Ladders, ho! {[They +
COR 1.4. 22 prepare to assault the walls.]}
COR 1.4. 23 {Enter the army of the Volsces from the gates}
COR-MARTIUS
+
COR 1.4. 23 They fear us not, but issue forth their city.
COR 1.4. 24 Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight
COR 1.4. 25 With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, brave Titus.
COR 1.4. 26 They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts,
COR 1.4. 27 Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows.
COR 1.4. 28 He that retires, I'll take him for a Volsce,
COR 1.4. 29 And he shall feel mine edge. {Alarum. The Romans are beat back +
COR 1.4. 29 [and exeunt] to their trenches, [the Volsces following]}
COR 1.4. 0 {Enter [Roman Soldiers, in retreat, followed by] Martius, +
COR 1.5. 0 cursing}
COR 1.5. 1
COR-MARTIUS
All the contagion of the south light on you,
COR 1.5. 2 You shames of Rome! You herd of - boils and plagues
COR 1.5. 3 Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorred
COR 1.5. 4 Farther than seen, and one infect another
COR 1.5. 5 Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese
COR 1.5. 6 That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
COR 1.5. 7 From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell:
COR 1.5. 8 All hurt behind! Backs red, and faces pale
COR 1.5. 9 With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home,
COR 1.5. 10 Or by the fires of heaven I'll leave the foe
COR 1.5. 11 And make my wars on you. Look to 't. Come on.
COR 1.5. 12 If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives,
COR 1.5. 13 As they us to our trenches. Follow. {[The Romans come forward +
COR 1.5. 13 towards the walls.] Another alarum, and [enter the army of the +
COR 1.5. 13 Volsces.] Martius beats them back [through] the gates}
COR 1.5. 14 So, now the gates are ope. Now prove good seconds.
COR 1.5. 15 'Tis for the followers fortune widens them,
COR 1.5. 16 Not for the fliers. Mark me, and do the like. {He enters the +
COR 1.5. 16 gates}
COR 1.5. 17B
COR-FIRST SOLDIER
Foolhardiness! Not I.
COR-SECOND SOLDIER
Nor +
COR 1.5. 17B I. {Alarum continues. The gates close, and Martius is shut in}
COR 1.5. 18B
COR-FIRST SOLDIER
See, they have shut him in. +
COR 1.5. 18B
COR-[THIRD SOLDIER]
To th' pot, I warrant him. {Enter Lartius}
COR 1.5. 19B
COR-LARTIUS
What is become of Martius?
COR-[FOURTH SOLDIER]
+
COR 1.5. 19B Slain, sir, doubtless.
COR 1.5. 20
COR-FIRST SOLDIER
Following the fliers at the very heels,
COR 1.5. 21 With them he enters, who upon the sudden
COR 1.5. 22 Clapped-to their gates. He is himself alone
COR 1.5. 23B To answer all the city.
COR-LARTIUS
O noble fellow,
COR 1.5. 24 Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword
COR 1.5. 25 And, when it bows, stand'st up! Thou art lost, Martius.
COR 1.5. 26 A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,
COR 1.5. 27 Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier
COR 1.5. 28 Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible
COR 1.5. 29 Only in strokes, but with thy grim looks and
COR 1.5. 30 The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds
COR 1.5. 31 Thou mad'st thine enemies shake as if the world
COR 1.5. 32B Were feverous and did tremble. {Enter Martius, bleeding, +
COR 1.5. 32B assaulted by the enemy}
COR-FIRST SOLDIER
Look, sir.
COR-LARTIUS
COR 1.5. 32B O, 'tis Martius!
COR 1.5. 33 Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike. {They fight, and all +
COR 1.5. 33 exeunt into the city}
COR 1.5. 0 {Enter certain Romans with spoils}
COR 1.6. 1
COR-FIRST ROMAN
This will I carry to Rome.
COR 1.6. 2
COR-SECOND ROMAN
And I this.
COR 1.6. 3
COR-THIRD ROMAN
A murrain on 't, I took this for silver. {[He +
COR 1.6. 3 throws it away.]}
COR 1.6. 4 {Alarum continues still afar off. Enter Martius, bleeding, and Lartius +
COR 1.6. 4 with a trumpeter. Exeunt Romans with spoils}
COR-MARTIUS
See +
COR 1.6. 4 here these movers that do prize their honours
COR 1.6. 5 At a cracked drachma! Cushions, leaden spoons,
COR 1.6. 6 Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would
COR 1.6. 7 Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves,
COR 1.6. 8 Ere yet the fight be done, pack up. Down with them!
COR 1.6. 9 And hark what noise the general makes. To him.
COR 1.6. 10 There is the man of my soul's hate, Aufidius,
COR 1.6. 11 Piercing our Romans. Then, valiant Titus, take
COR 1.6. 12 Convenient numbers to make good the city,
COR 1.6. 13 Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste
COR 1.6. 14B To help Cominius.
COR-LARTIUS
Worthy sir, thou bleed'st.
COR 1.6. 15 Thy exercise hath been too violent
COR 1.6. 16B For a second course of fight.
COR-MARTIUS
Sir, praise me not.
COR 1.6. 17 My work hath yet not warmed me. Fare you well.
COR 1.6. 18 The blood I drop is rather physical
COR 1.6. 19 Than dangerous to me. To Aufidius thus
COR 1.6. 20B I will appear and fight.
COR-LARTIUS
Now the fair goddess fortune
COR 1.6. 21 Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
COR 1.6. 22 Misguide thy opposers' swords! Bold gentleman,
COR 1.6. 23B Prosperity be thy page.
COR-MARTIUS
Thy friend no less
COR 1.6. 24 Than those she placeth highest. So farewell.
COR 1.6. 25A
COR-LARTIUS
Thou worthiest Martius! {Exit Martius}
COR 1.6. 26 Go sound thy trumpet in the market-place.
COR 1.6. 27 Call thither all the officers o' th' town,
COR 1.6. 28 Where they shall know our mind. Away. {Exeunt [severally]}
COR 1.6. 0 {Enter Cominius, as it were in retire, with soldiers}
COR 1.7. 1
COR-COMINIUS
Breathe you, my friends. Well fought. We are +
COR 1.7. 1 come off
COR 1.7. 2 Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands
COR 1.7. 3 Nor cowardly in retire. Believe me, sirs,
COR 1.7. 4 We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,
COR 1.7. 5 By interims and conveying gusts we have heard
COR 1.7. 6 The charges of our friends. The Roman gods
COR 1.7. 7 Lead their successes as we wish our own,
COR 1.7. 8 That both our powers, with smiling fronts encount'ring,
COR 1.7. 9B May give you thankful sacrifice! {Enter a Messenger} +
COR 1.7. 9B Thy news?
COR 1.7. 10
COR-MESSENGER
The citizens of Corioles have issued,
COR 1.7. 11 And given to Lartius and to Martius battle.
COR 1.7. 12 I saw our party to their trenches driven,
COR 1.7. 13B And then I came away.
COR-COMINIUS
Though thou speak'st truth,
COR 1.7. 14 Methinks thou speak'st not well. How long is 't since?
COR 1.7. 15A
COR-MESSENGER
Above an hour, my lord.
COR 1.7. 16
COR-COMINIUS
'Tis not a mile; briefly we heard their drums.
COR 1.7. 17 How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour,
COR 1.7. 18B And bring thy news so late?
COR-MESSENGER
Spies of the Volsces
COR 1.7. 19 Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel
COR 1.7. 20 Three or four miles about; else had I, sir,
COR 1.7. 21B Half an hour since brought my report. {[Exit]} {Enter +
COR 1.7. 21B Martius, bloody}
COR-COMINIUS
Who's yonder,
COR 1.7. 22 That does appear as he were flayed? O gods!
COR 1.7. 23 He has the stamp of Martius, and I have
COR 1.7. 24B Before-time seen him thus.
COR-MARTIUS
Come I too late?
COR 1.7. 25
COR-COMINIUS
The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor
COR 1.7. 26 More than I know the sound of Martius' tongue
COR 1.7. 27B From every meaner man.
COR-MARTIUS
Come I too late?
COR 1.7. 28
COR-COMINIUS
Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,
COR 1.7. 29B But mantled in your own.
COR-MARTIUS
O, let me clip ye
COR 1.7. 30 In arms as sound as when I wooed, in heart
COR 1.7. 31 As merry as when our nuptial day was done,
COR 1.7. 32 And tapers burnt to bedward! {[They embrace]}
COR 1.7. 33
COR-COMINIUS
Flower of warriors! How is 't with Titus Lartius?
COR 1.7. 34
COR-MARTIUS
As with a man busied about decrees,
COR 1.7. 35 Condemning some to death and some to exile,
COR 1.7. 36 Ransoming him or pitying, threat'ning th' other;
COR 1.7. 37 Holding Corioles in the name of Rome
COR 1.7. 38 Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,
COR 1.7. 39B To let him slip at will.
COR-COMINIUS
Where is that slave
COR 1.7. 40 Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?
COR 1.7. 41B Where is he? Call him hither.
COR-MARTIUS
Let him alone.
COR 1.7. 42 He did inform the truth. But for our gentlemen,
COR 1.7. 43 The common file - a plague - tribunes for them? -
COR 1.7. 44 The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge
COR 1.7. 45B From rascals worse than they.
COR-COMINIUS
But how prevailed you?
COR 1.7. 46
COR-MARTIUS
Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
COR 1.7. 47 Where is the enemy? Are you lords o' th' field?
COR 1.7. 48 If not, why cease you till you are so?
COR 1.7. 49
COR-COMINIUS
Martius, we have at disadvantage fought,
COR 1.7. 50 And did retire to win our purpose.
COR 1.7. 51
COR-MARTIUS
How lies their battle? Know you on which side
COR 1.7. 52B They have placed their men of trust?
COR-COMINIUS
As I guess, Martius,
COR 1.7. 53 Their bands i' th' vanguard are the Antiates,
COR 1.7. 54 Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius,
COR 1.7. 55B Their very heart of hope.
COR-MARTIUS
I do beseech you
COR 1.7. 56 By all the battles wherein we have fought,
COR 1.7. 57 By th' blood we have shed together, by th' vows we have made
COR 1.7. 58 To endure friends, that you directly set me
COR 1.7. 59 Against Aufidius and his Antiates,
COR 1.7. 60 And that you not delay the present, but,
COR 1.7. 61 Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,
COR 1.7. 62B We prove this very hour.
COR-COMINIUS
Though I could wish
COR 1.7. 63 You were conducted to a gentle bath
COR 1.7. 64 And balms applied to you, yet dare I never
COR 1.7. 65 Deny your asking. Take your choice of those
COR 1.7. 66B That best can aid your action.
COR-MARTIUS
Those are they
COR 1.7. 67 That most are willing. If any such be here -
COR 1.7. 68 As it were sin to doubt - that love this painting
COR 1.7. 69 Wherein you see me smeared; if any fear
COR 1.7. 70 Lesser his person than an ill report;
COR 1.7. 71 If any think brave death outweighs bad life,
COR 1.7. 72 And that his country's dearer than himself,
COR 1.7. 73 Let him alone, or so many so minded, {He waves his sword}
COR 1.7. 74 Wave thus to express his disposition,
COR 1.7. 75 And follow Martius. {They all shout and wave their swords, [then +
COR 1.7. 75 some] take him up in their arms and they cast up their caps}
COR 1.7. 76 O' me alone, make you a sword of me?
COR 1.7. 77 If these shows be not outward, which of you
COR 1.7. 78 But is four Volsces? None of you but is
COR 1.7. 79 Able to bear against the great Aufidius
COR 1.7. 80 A shield as hard as his. A certain number -
COR 1.7. 81 Though thanks to all - must I select from all.
COR 1.7. 82 The rest shall bear the business in some other fight
COR 1.7. 83 As cause will be obeyed. Please you to march,
COR 1.7. 84 And I shall quickly draw out my command,
COR 1.7. 85B Which men are best inclined.
COR-COMINIUS
March on, my fellows.
COR 1.7. 86 Make good this ostentation, and you shall
COR 1.7. 87 Divide in all with us. {Exeunt marching}
COR 1.7. 0 {Enter Lartius [through the gates of Corioles], with a +
COR 1.8. 0 drummer and a trumpeter, a Lieutenant, other soldiers, and a scout}
COR 1.8. 1
COR-LARTIUS
{(to the Lieutenant)} So, let the ports be +
COR 1.8. 1 guarded. Keep your duties
COR 1.8. 2 As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch
COR 1.8. 3 Those centuries to our aid. The rest will serve
COR 1.8. 4 For a short holding. If we lose the field
COR 1.8. 5 We cannot keep the town.
COR 1.8. 6A
COR-LIEUTENANT
Fear not our care, sir.
COR 1.8. 7A
COR-LARTIUS
Hence, and shut your gates upon 's. {[Exit +
COR 1.8. 7A Lieutenant]}
COR 1.8. 8 {(To the scout)} Our guider, come; to th' Roman camp +
COR 1.8. 8 conduct us. {Exeunt towards Cominius and Caius Martius}
COR 1.8. 0 {Alarum, as in battle. Enter Martius, bloody, and +
COR 1.9. 0 Aufidius, at several doors}
COR 1.9. 1
COR-MARTIUS
I'll fight with none but thee, for I do hate thee
COR 1.9. 2B Worse than a promise-breaker.
COR-AUFIDIUS
We hate alike.
COR 1.9. 3 Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor
COR 1.9. 4 More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot.
COR 1.9. 5
COR-MARTIUS
Let the first budger die the other's slave,
COR 1.9. 6B And the gods doom him after.
COR-AUFIDIUS
If I fly, Martius,
COR 1.9. 7B Holla me like a hare.
COR-MARTIUS
Within these three hours, Tullus,
COR 1.9. 8 Alone I fought in your Corioles' walls,
COR 1.9. 9 And made what work I pleased. 'Tis not my blood
COR 1.9. 10 Wherein thou seest me masked. For thy revenge,
COR 1.9. 11B Wrench up thy power to th' highest.
COR-AUFIDIUS
Wert thou the Hector
COR 1.9. 12 That was the whip of your bragged progeny,
COR 1.9. 13 Thou shouldst not scape me here. {Here they fight, and certain +
COR 1.9. 13 Volsces come in the aid of Aufidius. Martius fights till the Volsces be +
COR 1.9. 13 driven in breathless, [Martius following]}
COR 1.9. 14 Officious and not valiant, you have shamed me
COR 1.9. 15 In your condemned seconds. {Exit}
COR 1.9. 0 {Alarum. A retreat is sounded. [Flourish.] Enter at one +
COR 1.10. 0 door Cominius with the Romans, at another door Martius with his arm in +
COR 1.10. 0 a scarf}
COR 1.10. 1
COR-COMINIUS
{(to Martius)} If I should tell thee o'er +
COR 1.10. 1 this thy day's work
COR 1.10. 2 Thou'lt not believe thy deeds. But I'll report it
COR 1.10. 3 Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,
COR 1.10. 4 Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,
COR 1.10. 5 I' th' end admire; where ladies shall be frighted
COR 1.10. 6 And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the dull tribunes,
COR 1.10. 7 That with the fusty plebeians hate thine honours,
COR 1.10. 8 Shall say against their hearts `We thank the gods
COR 1.10. 9 Our Rome hath such a soldier.'
COR 1.10. 10 Yet cam'st thou to a morsel of this feast,
COR 1.10. 11B Having fully dined before. {Enter Lartius, with his power, from +
COR 1.10. 11B the pursuit}
COR-LARTIUS
O general,
COR 1.10. 12 Here is the steed, we the caparison.
COR 1.10. 13B Hadst thou beheld -
COR-MARTIUS
Pray now, no more. My mother,
COR 1.10. 14 Who has a charter to extol her blood,
COR 1.10. 15 When she does praise me grieves me. I have done
COR 1.10. 16 As you have done, that's what I can; induced
COR 1.10. 17 As you have been, that's for my country.
COR 1.10. 18 He that has but effected his good will
COR 1.10. 19B Hath overta'en mine act.
COR-COMINIUS
You shall not be
COR 1.10. 20 The grave of your deserving. Rome must know
COR 1.10. 21 The value of her own. 'Twere a concealment
COR 1.10. 22 Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
COR 1.10. 23 To hide your doings and to silence that
COR 1.10. 24 Which, to the spire and top of praises vouched,
COR 1.10. 25 Would seem but modest. Therefore, I beseech you -
COR 1.10. 26 In sign of what you are, not to reward
COR 1.10. 27 What you have done - before our army hear me.
COR 1.10. 28
COR-MARTIUS
I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
COR 1.10. 29B To hear themselves remembered.
COR-COMINIUS
Should they not,
COR 1.10. 30 Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,
COR 1.10. 31 And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses -
COR 1.10. 32 Whereof we have ta'en good, and good store - of all
COR 1.10. 33 The treasure in this field achieved and city,
COR 1.10. 34 We render you the tenth, to be ta'en forth
COR 1.10. 35 Before the common distribution
COR 1.10. 36B At your only choice.
COR-MARTIUS
I thank you, general,
COR 1.10. 37 But cannot make my heart consent to take
COR 1.10. 38 A bribe to pay my sword. I do refuse it,
COR 1.10. 39 And stand upon my common part with those
COR 1.10. 40 That have upheld the doing. {A long flourish. They all cry +
COR 1.10. 40 `Martius, Martius!', casting up their caps and lances. Cominius and +
COR 1.10. 40 Lartius stand bare}
COR 1.10. 41 May these same instruments which you profane
COR 1.10. 42 Never sound more. When drums and trumpets shall
COR 1.10. 43 I' th' field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
COR 1.10. 44 Made all of false-faced soothing. When steel grows
COR 1.10. 45 Soft as the parasite's silk, let him be made
COR 1.10. 46 An overture for th' wars. No more, I say.
COR 1.10. 47 For that I have not washed my nose that bled,
COR 1.10. 48 Or foiled some debile wretch, which without note
COR 1.10. 49 Here's many else have done, you shout me forth
COR 1.10. 50 In acclamations hyperbolical,
COR 1.10. 51 As if I loved my little should be dieted
COR 1.10. 52B In praises sauced with lies.
COR-COMINIUS
Too modest are you,
COR 1.10. 53 More cruel to your good report than grateful
COR 1.10. 54 To us that give you truly. By your patience,
COR 1.10. 55 If 'gainst yourself you be incensed we'll put you,
COR 1.10. 56 Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,
COR 1.10. 57 Then reason safely with you. Therefore be it known,
COR 1.10. 58 As to us, to all the world, that Caius Martius
COR 1.10. 59 Wears this war's garland, in token of the which
COR 1.10. 60 My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,
COR 1.10. 61 With all his trim belonging; and from this time,
COR 1.10. 62 For what he did before Corioles, call him,
COR 1.10. 63 With all th' applause and clamour of the host,
COR 1.10. 64 Martius Caius Coriolanus. Bear th' addition
COR 1.10. 65 Nobly ever! {Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums}
COR 1.10. 66A
COR-ALL
Martius Caius Coriolanus!
COR 1.10. 67A
COR-CORIOLANUS
{(to Cominius)} I will go wash,
COR 1.10. 68 And when my face is fair you shall perceive
COR 1.10. 69 Whether I blush or no. Howbeit, I thank you.
COR 1.10. 70 I mean to stride your steed, and at all times
COR 1.10. 71 To undercrest your good addition
COR 1.10. 72B To th' fairness of my power.
COR-COMINIUS
So, to our tent,
COR 1.10. 73 Where, ere we do repose us, we will write
COR 1.10. 74 To Rome of our success. You, Titus Lartius,
COR 1.10. 75 Must to Corioles back. Send us to Rome
COR 1.10. 76 The best, with whom we may articulate
COR 1.10. 77B For their own good and ours.
COR-LARTIUS
I shall, my lord.
COR 1.10. 78A
COR-CORIOLANUS
The gods begin to mock me. I, that now
COR 1.10. 79 Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg
COR 1.10. 80B Of my lord general.
COR-COMINIUS
Take 't, 'tis yours. What is 't?
COR 1.10. 81
COR-CORIOLANUS
I sometime lay here in Corioles,
COR 1.10. 82 And at a poor man's house. He used me kindly.
COR 1.10. 83 He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;
COR 1.10. 84 But then Aufidius was within my view,
COR 1.10. 85 And wrath o'erwhelmed my pity. I request you
COR 1.10. 86B To give my poor host freedom.
COR-COMINIUS
O, well begged!
COR 1.10. 87 Were he the butcher of my son he should
COR 1.10. 88 Be free as is the wind. Deliver him, Titus.
COR 1.10. 89B
COR-LARTIUS
Martius, his name?
COR-CORIOLANUS
By Jupiter, forgot!
COR 1.10. 90 I am weary, yea, my memory is tired.
COR 1.10. 91B Have we no wine here?
COR-COMINIUS
Go we to our tent.
COR 1.10. 92 The blood upon your visage dries; 'tis time
COR 1.10. 93 It should be looked to. Come.
COR-[A
flourish of cornetts.] Exeunt}
COR 1.10. 0 {Enter Aufidius, bloody, with two or three Soldiers}
COR 1.11. 1A
COR-AUFIDIUS
The town is ta'en.
COR 1.11. 2 A
COR-SOLDIER
'Twill be delivered back on good condition.
COR 1.11. 3A
COR-AUFIDIUS
Condition?
COR 1.11. 4 I would I were a Roman, for I cannot,
COR 1.11. 5 Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition?
COR 1.11. 6 What good condition can a treaty find
COR 1.11. 7 I' th' part that is at mercy? Five times, Martius,
COR 1.11. 8 I have fought with thee; so often hast thou beat me,
COR 1.11. 9 And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter
COR 1.11. 10 As often as we eat. By th' elements,
COR 1.11. 11 If e'er again I meet him beard to beard,
COR 1.11. 12 He's mine, or I am his! Mine emulation
COR 1.11. 13 Hath not that honour in 't it had, for where
COR 1.11. 14 I thought to crush him in an equal force,
COR 1.11. 15 True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way
COR 1.11. 16B Or wrath or craft may get him. A
COR-SOLDIER
He's the devil.
COR 1.11. 17
COR-AUFIDIUS
Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour, poisoned
COR 1.11. 18 With only suff'ring stain by him, for him
COR 1.11. 19 Shall fly out of itself. Nor sleep nor sanctuary,
COR 1.11. 20 Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol,
COR 1.11. 21 The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice -
COR 1.11. 22 Embargements all of fury - shall lift up
COR 1.11. 23 Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst
COR 1.11. 24 My hate to Martius. Where I find him, were it
COR 1.11. 25 At home upon my brother's guard, even there,
COR 1.11. 26 Against the hospitable canon, would I
COR 1.11. 27 Wash my fierce hand in 's heart. Go you to th' city.
COR 1.11. 28 Learn how 'tis held, and what they are that must
COR 1.11. 29B Be hostages for Rome. A
COR-SOLDIER
Will not you go?
COR 1.11. 30
COR-AUFIDIUS
I am attended at the cypress grove. I pray you -
COR 1.11. 31 'Tis south the city mills - bring me word thither
COR 1.11. 32 How the world goes, that to the pace of it
COR 1.11. 33B I may spur on my journey. A
COR-SOLDIER
I shall, sir. {Exeunt +
COR 1.11. 33B [Aufidius at one door, Soldiers at another door]}
COR 1.11. 33B
COR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
COR 1.11. 0 {Enter Menenius with the two tribunes of the +
COR 2.1. 0 people, Sicinius and Brutus}
COR 2.1. 1
COR-MENENIUS
The augurer tells me we shall have news
COR 2.1. 2 tonight.
COR 2.1. 3
COR-BRUTUS
Good or bad?
COR 2.1. 4
COR-MENENIUS
Not according to the prayer of the people, for
COR 2.1. 5 they love not Martius.
COR 2.1. 6
COR-SICINIUS
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
COR 2.1. 7
COR-MENENIUS
Pray you, who does the wolf love?
COR 2.1. 8
COR-SICINIUS
The lamb.
COR 2.1. 9
COR-MENENIUS
Ay, to devour him, as the hungry plebeians
COR 2.1. 10 would the noble Martius.
COR 2.1. 11
COR-BRUTUS
He's a lamb indeed that baas like a bear.
COR 2.1. 12
COR-MENENIUS
He's a bear indeed that lives like a lamb. You
COR 2.1. 13 two are old men. Tell me one thing that I shall ask
COR 2.1. 14 you.
COR 2.1. 15
COR-SICINIUS
COR-AND
COR-BRUTUS
Well, sir?
COR 2.1. 16
COR-MENENIUS
In what enormity is Martius poor in that you
COR 2.1. 17 two have not in abundance?
COR 2.1. 18
COR-BRUTUS
He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all.
COR 2.1. 19
COR-SICINIUS
Especially in pride.
COR 2.1. 20
COR-BRUTUS
And topping all others in boasting.
COR 2.1. 21
COR-MENENIUS
This is strange now. Do you two know how
COR 2.1. 22 you are censured here in the city - I mean of us o' th'
COR 2.1. 23 right-hand file. Do you?
COR 2.1. 24
COR-SICINIUS
COR-AND
COR-BRUTUS
Why, how are we censured?
COR 2.1. 25
COR-MENENIUS
Because - you talk of pride now - will you not
COR 2.1. 26 be angry?
COR 2.1. 27
COR-SICINIUS
COR-AND
COR-BRUTUS
Well, well, sir, well?
COR 2.1. 28
COR-MENENIUS
Why, 'tis no great matter, for a very little thief
COR 2.1. 29 of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.
COR 2.1. 30 Give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at your
COR 2.1. 31 pleasures - at the least, if you take it as a pleasure to
COR 2.1. 32 you in being so. You blame Martius for being proud?
COR 2.1. 33
COR-BRUTUS
We do it not alone, sir.
COR 2.1. 34
COR-MENENIUS
I know you can do very little alone, for your
COR 2.1. 35 helps are many, or else your actions would grow
COR 2.1. 36 wondrous single. Your abilities are too infant-like for
COR 2.1. 37 doing much alone. You talk of pride. O that you could
COR 2.1. 38 turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and
COR 2.1. 39 make but an interior survey of your good selves! O
COR 2.1. 40 that you could!
COR 2.1. 41
COR-SICINIUS
COR-AND
COR-BRUTUS
What then, sir?
COR 2.1. 42
COR-MENENIUS
Why, then you should discover a brace of
COR 2.1. 43 unmeriting, proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias
COR 2.1. 44 fools, as any in Rome.
COR 2.1. 45
COR-SICINIUS
Menenius, you are known well enough too.
COR 2.1. 46
COR-MENENIUS
I am known to be a humorous patrician, and
COR 2.1. 47 one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of
COR 2.1. 48 allaying Tiber in 't; said to be something imperfect in
COR 2.1. 49 favouring the first complaint, hasty and tinder-like
COR 2.1. 50 upon too trivial motion; one that converses more with
COR 2.1. 51 the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the
COR 2.1. 52 morning. What I think, I utter, and spend my malice
COR 2.1. 53 in my breath. Meeting two such wealsmen as you are -
COR 2.1. 54 I cannot call you Lycurguses - if the drink you give me
COR 2.1. 55 touch my palate adversely, I make a crooked face at
COR 2.1. 56 it. I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter
COR 2.1. 57 well, when I find the ass in compound with the major
COR 2.1. 58 part of your syllables. And though I must be content
COR 2.1. 59 to bear with those that say you are reverend grave
COR 2.1. 60 men, yet they lie deadly that tell you have good faces.
COR 2.1. 61 If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it
COR 2.1. 62 that I am known well enough too? What harm can
COR 2.1. 63 your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character,
COR 2.1. 64 if I be known well enough too?
COR 2.1. 65
COR-BRUTUS
Come, sir, come, we know you well enough.
COR 2.1. 66
COR-MENENIUS
You know neither me, yourselves, nor anything.
COR 2.1. 67 You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs. You
COR 2.1. 68 wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a
COR 2.1. 69 cause between an orange-wife and a faucet-seller, and
COR 2.1. 70 then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second
COR 2.1. 71 day of audience. When you are hearing a matter
COR 2.1. 72 between party and party, if you chance to be pinched
COR 2.1. 73 with the colic, you make faces like mummers, set up
COR 2.1. 74 the bloody flag against all patience, and in roaring for
COR 2.1. 75 a chamber-pot, dismiss the controversy bleeding, the
COR 2.1. 76 more entangled by your hearing. All the peace you
COR 2.1. 77 make in their cause is calling both the parties knaves.
COR 2.1. 78 You are a pair of strange ones.
COR 2.1. 79
COR-BRUTUS
Come, come, you are well understood to be a
COR 2.1. 80 perfecter giber for the table than a necessary bencher
COR 2.1. 81 in the Capitol.
COR 2.1. 82
COR-MENENIUS
Our very priests must become mockers if they
COR 2.1. 83 shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are.
COR 2.1. 84 When you speak best unto the purpose it is not worth
COR 2.1. 85 the wagging of your beards, and your beards deserve
COR 2.1. 86 not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's
COR 2.1. 87 cushion or to be entombed in an ass's pack-saddle. Yet
COR 2.1. 88 you must be saying `Martius is proud', who, in a cheap
COR 2.1. 89 estimation, is worth all your predecessors since
COR 2.1. 90 Deucalion, though peradventure some of the best of
COR 2.1. 91 'em were hereditary hangmen. Good e'en to your
COR 2.1. 92 worships. More of your conversation would infect my
COR 2.1. 93 brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians. I
COR 2.1. 94 will be bold to take my leave of you. {He leaves Brutus and +
COR 2.1. 94 Sicinius, who stand aside.}
COR 2.1. 95 {Enter in haste Volumnia, Virgilia, and Valeria} How now, my +
COR 2.1. 95 as fair as noble ladies - and the moon,
COR 2.1. 96 were she earthly, no nobler - whither do you follow
COR 2.1. 97 your eyes so fast?
COR 2.1. 98
COR-VOLUMNIA
Honourable Menenius, my boy Martius
COR 2.1. 99 approaches. For the love of Juno, let's go.
COR 2.1. 100
COR-MENENIUS
Ha, Martius coming home?
COR 2.1. 101
COR-VOLUMNIA
Ay, worthy Menenius, and with most
COR 2.1. 102 prosperous approbation.
COR 2.1. 103
COR-MENENIUS
{[throwing up his cap]} Take my cap, +
COR 2.1. 103 Jupiter, and
COR 2.1. 104 I thank thee! Hoo, Martius coming home?
COR 2.1. 105
COR-VIRGILIA
COR-AND
COR-VALERIA
Nay, 'tis true.
COR 2.1. 106
COR-VOLUMNIA
Look, here's a letter from him. The state hath
COR 2.1. 107 another, his wife another, and I think there's one at
COR 2.1. 108 home for you.
COR 2.1. 109
COR-MENENIUS
I will make my very house reel tonight. A letter
COR 2.1. 110 for me?
COR 2.1. 111
COR-VIRGILIA
Yes, certain, there's a letter for you; I saw 't.
COR 2.1. 112
COR-MENENIUS
A letter for me? It gives me an estate of seven
COR 2.1. 113 years' health, in which time I will make a lip at the
COR 2.1. 114 physician. The most sovereign prescription in Galen is
COR 2.1. 115 but empiricutic and, to this preservative, of no better
COR 2.1. 116 report than a horse-drench. Is he not wounded? He
COR 2.1. 117 was wont to come home wounded.
COR 2.1. 118
COR-VIRGILIA
O, no, no, no!
COR 2.1. 119
COR-VOLUMNIA
O, he is wounded, I thank the gods for 't!
COR 2.1. 120
COR-MENENIUS
So do I, too, if it be not too much. Brings a
COR 2.1. 121 victory in his pocket, the wounds become him.
COR 2.1. 122
COR-VOLUMNIA
On 's brows, Menenius. He comes the third time
COR 2.1. 123 home with the oaken garland.
COR 2.1. 124
COR-MENENIUS
Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?
COR 2.1. 125
COR-VOLUMNIA
Titus Lartius writes they fought together, but
COR 2.1. 126 Aufidius got off.
COR 2.1. 127
COR-MENENIUS
And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him
COR 2.1. 128 that. An he had stayed by him, I would not have been
COR 2.1. 129 so fidiussed for all the chests in Corioles and the gold
COR 2.1. 130 that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?
COR 2.1. 131
COR-VOLUMNIA
Good ladies, let's go. Yes, yes, yes. The senate
COR 2.1. 132 has letters from the general, wherein he gives my son
COR 2.1. 133 the whole name of the war. He hath in this action
COR 2.1. 134 outdone his former deeds doubly.
COR 2.1. 135
COR-VALERIA
In truth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.
COR 2.1. 136
COR-MENENIUS
Wondrous, ay, I warrant you; and not without
COR 2.1. 137 his true purchasing.
COR 2.1. 138
COR-VIRGILIA
The gods grant them true.
COR 2.1. 139
COR-VOLUMNIA
True? Pooh-whoo!
COR 2.1. 140
COR-MENENIUS
True? I'll be sworn they are true. Where is he
COR 2.1. 141 wounded? {(To the tribunes)} God save your good
COR 2.1. 142 worships. Martius is coming home. He has more cause
COR 2.1. 143 to be proud. {(To Volumnia)} Where is he wounded?
COR 2.1. 144
COR-VOLUMNIA
I' th' shoulder and i' th' left arm. There will be
COR 2.1. 145 large cicatrices to show the people when he shall stand
COR 2.1. 146 for his place. He received in the repulse of Tarquin
COR 2.1. 147 seven hurts i' th' body.
COR 2.1. 148
COR-MENENIUS
One i' th' neck and two i' th' thigh - there's nine
COR 2.1. 149 that I know.
COR 2.1. 150
COR-VOLUMNIA
He had before this last expedition twenty-five
COR 2.1. 151 wounds upon him.
COR 2.1. 152
COR-MENENIUS
Now it's twenty-seven. Every gash was an
COR 2.1. 153 enemy's grave. {A shout and flourish}
COR 2.1. 154 Hark, the trumpets.
COR 2.1. 155
COR-VOLUMNIA
These are the ushers of Martius. Before him
COR 2.1. 156 he carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
COR 2.1. 157 Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie,
COR 2.1. 158 Which being advanced, declines; and then men die. {Trumpets +
COR 2.1. 158 sound a sennet. Enter [in state] Cominius the general and Lartius, +
COR 2.1. 158 between them Coriolanus, crowned with an oaken garland, with captains +
COR 2.1. 158 and soldiers and a Herald}
COR 2.1. 159
COR-HERALD
Know, Rome, that all alone Martius did fight
COR 2.1. 160 Within Corioles' gates, where he hath won
COR 2.1. 161 With fame a name to `Martius Caius'; these
COR 2.1. 162 In honour follows `Coriolanus'.
COR 2.1. 163 Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus! {A flourish sounds}
COR 2.1. 164
COR-ALL
Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!
COR 2.1. 165
COR-CORIOLANUS
No more of this, it does offend my heart.
COR 2.1. 166B Pray now, no more.
COR-COMINIUS
Look, sir, your mother.
COR-CORIOLANUS
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COR 2.1. 166B {(to Volumnia)} O,
COR 2.1. 167 You have, I know, petitioned all the gods
COR 2.1. 168B For my prosperity! {He kneels}
COR-VOLUMNIA
Nay, my +
COR 2.1. 168B good soldier, up,
COR 2.1. 169 My gentle Martius, worthy Caius, {[He rises]}
COR 2.1. 170 And, by deed-achieving honour newly named -
COR 2.1. 171 What is it? - `Coriolanus' must I call thee?
COR 2.1. 172B But O, thy wife!
COR-CORIOLANUS
{(to Virgilia)} My +
COR 2.1. 172B gracious silence, hail.
COR 2.1. 173 Wouldst thou have laughed had I come coffined home,
COR 2.1. 174 That weep'st to see me triumph? Ah, my dear,
COR 2.1. 175 Such eyes the widows in Corioles wear,
COR 2.1. 176B And mothers that lack sons.
COR-MENENIUS
Now the gods crown thee!
COR 2.1. 177
COR-[CORIOLANUS]
{(to Valeria)} And live you yet? O my +
COR 2.1. 177 sweet lady, pardon.
COR 2.1. 178
COR-VOLUMNIA
I know not where to turn. O, welcome home!
COR 2.1. 179 And welcome, general, and you're welcome all!
COR 2.1. 180
COR-MENENIUS
A hundred thousand welcomes! I could weep
COR 2.1. 181 And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome!
COR 2.1. 182 A curse begnaw at very root on 's heart
COR 2.1. 183 That is not glad to see thee. You are three
COR 2.1. 184 That Rome should dote on. Yet, by the faith of men,
COR 2.1. 185 We have some old crab-trees here at home that will not
COR 2.1. 186 Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors!
COR 2.1. 187 We call a nettle but a nettle, and
COR 2.1. 188 The faults of fools but folly.
COR 2.1. 189A
COR-COMINIUS
Ever right.
COR 2.1. 190A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Menenius, ever, ever.
COR 2.1. 191B
COR-HERALD
Give way there, and go on.
COR-CORIOLANUS
{[to +
COR 2.1. 191B Volumnia and Virgilia]} Your hand, and yours.
COR 2.1. 192 Ere in our own house I do shade my head
COR 2.1. 193 The good patricians must be visited,
COR 2.1. 194 From whom I have received not only greetings,
COR 2.1. 195B But with them change of honours.
COR-VOLUMNIA
I have lived
COR 2.1. 196 To see inherited my very wishes,
COR 2.1. 197 And the buildings of my fancy. Only
COR 2.1. 198 There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but
COR 2.1. 199B Our Rome will cast upon thee.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Know, good mother,
COR 2.1. 200 I had rather be their servant in my way
COR 2.1. 201B Than sway with them in theirs.
COR-COMINIUS
On, to the Capitol. +
COR 2.1. 201B {A flourish of cornetts. Exeunt in state, as before, all but Brutus and +
COR 2.1. 201B Sicinius, who come forward}
COR 2.1. 202
COR-BRUTUS
All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights
COR 2.1. 203 Are spectacled to see him. Your prattling nurse
COR 2.1. 204 Into a rapture lets her baby cry
COR 2.1. 205 While she chats him; the kitchen malkin pins
COR 2.1. 206 Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,
COR 2.1. 207 Clamb'ring the walls to eye him. Stalls, bulks, windows
COR 2.1. 208 Are smothered up, leads filled and ridges horsed
COR 2.1. 209 With variable complexions, all agreeing
COR 2.1. 210 In earnestness to see him. Seld-shown flamens
COR 2.1. 211 Do press among the popular throngs, and puff
COR 2.1. 212 To win a vulgar station. Our veiled dames
COR 2.1. 213 Commit the war of white and damask in
COR 2.1. 214 Their nicely guarded cheeks to th' wanton spoil
COR 2.1. 215 Of Phoebus' burning kisses. Such a pother
COR 2.1. 216 As if that whatsoever god who leads him
COR 2.1. 217 Were slily crept into his human powers
COR 2.1. 218B And gave him graceful posture.
COR-SICINIUS
On the sudden
COR 2.1. 219B I warrant him consul.
COR-BRUTUS
Then our office may
COR 2.1. 220 During his power go sleep.
COR 2.1. 221
COR-SICINIUS
He cannot temp'rately transport his honours
COR 2.1. 222 From where he should begin and end, but will
COR 2.1. 223B Lose those he hath won.
COR-BRUTUS
In that there's comfort.
COR-SICINIUS
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COR 2.1. 223B Doubt not
COR 2.1. 224 The commoners, for whom we stand, but they
COR 2.1. 225 Upon their ancient malice will forget
COR 2.1. 226 With the least cause these his new honours, which
COR 2.1. 227 That he will give them make I as little question
COR 2.1. 228B As he is proud to do 't.
COR-BRUTUS
I heard him swear,
COR 2.1. 229 Were he to stand for consul, never would he
COR 2.1. 230 Appear i' th' market-place nor on him put
COR 2.1. 231 The napless vesture of humility,
COR 2.1. 232 Nor, showing, as the manner is, his wounds
COR 2.1. 233B To th' people, beg their stinking breaths.
COR-SICINIUS
'Tis right.
COR 2.1. 234
COR-BRUTUS
It was his word. O, he would miss it rather
COR 2.1. 235 Than carry it, but by the suit of the gentry to him,
COR 2.1. 236B And the desire of the nobles.
COR-SICINIUS
I wish no better
COR 2.1. 237 Than have him hold that purpose, and to put it
COR 2.1. 238B In execution.
COR-BRUTUS
'Tis most like he will.
COR 2.1. 239
COR-SICINIUS
It shall be to him then, as our good wills,
COR 2.1. 240B A sure destruction.
COR-BRUTUS
So it must fall out
COR 2.1. 241 To him, or our authority's for an end.
COR 2.1. 242 We must suggest the people in what hatred
COR 2.1. 243 He still hath held them; that to 's power he would
COR 2.1. 244 Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders,
COR 2.1. 245 And dispropertied their freedoms, holding them
COR 2.1. 246 In human action and capacity
COR 2.1. 247 Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
COR 2.1. 248 Than camels in their war, who have their provand
COR 2.1. 249 Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows
COR 2.1. 250B For sinking under them.
COR-SICINIUS
This, as you say, suggested
COR 2.1. 251 At some time when his soaring insolence
COR 2.1. 252 Shall touch the people - which time shall not want
COR 2.1. 253 If he be put upon 't, and that's as easy
COR 2.1. 254 As to set dogs on sheep - will be his fire
COR 2.1. 255 To kindle their dry stubble, and their blaze
COR 2.1. 256B Shall darken him for ever. {Enter a Messenger}
COR-BRUTUS
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COR 2.1. 256B What's the matter?
COR 2.1. 257
COR-MESSENGER
You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought
COR 2.1. 258 That Martius shall be consul. I have seen
COR 2.1. 259 The dumb men throng to see him, and the blind
COR 2.1. 260 To hear him speak. Matrons flung gloves,
COR 2.1. 261 Ladies and maids their scarves and handkerchiefs,
COR 2.1. 262 Upon him as he passed. The nobles bended
COR 2.1. 263 As to Jove's statue, and the commons made
COR 2.1. 264 A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts.
COR 2.1. 265B I never saw the like.
COR-BRUTUS
Let's to the Capitol,
COR 2.1. 266 And carry with us ears and eyes for th' time,
COR 2.1. 267B But hearts for the event.
COR-SICINIUS
Have with you. {Exeunt}
COR 2.1. 0 {Enter two Officers, to lay cushions, as it were in the +
COR 2.2. 0 Capitol}
COR 2.2. 1
COR-FIRST OFFICER
Come, come, they are almost here. How
COR 2.2. 2 many stand for consulships?
COR 2.2. 3
COR-SECOND OFFICER
Three, they say, but 'tis thought of everyone
COR 2.2. 4 Coriolanus will carry it.
COR 2.2. 5
COR-FIRST OFFICER
That's a brave fellow, but he's vengeance
COR 2.2. 6 proud and loves not the common people.
COR 2.2. 7
COR-SECOND OFFICER
Faith, there hath been many great men
COR 2.2. 8 that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them;
COR 2.2. 9 and there be many that they have loved they know
COR 2.2. 10 not wherefore, so that if they love they know not why,
COR 2.2. 11 they hate upon no better a ground. Therefore for
COR 2.2. 12 Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate
COR 2.2. 13 him manifests the true knowledge he has in their
COR 2.2. 14 disposition, and out of his noble carelessness lets them
COR 2.2. 15 plainly see 't.
COR 2.2. 16
COR-FIRST OFFICER
If he did not care whether he had their
COR 2.2. 17 love or no he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them
COR 2.2. 18 neither good nor harm; but he seeks their hate with
COR 2.2. 19 greater devotion than they can render it him, and
COR 2.2. 20 leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him
COR 2.2. 21 their opposite. Now to seem to affect the malice and
COR 2.2. 22 displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he
COR 2.2. 23 dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
COR 2.2. 24
COR-SECOND OFFICER
He hath deserved worthily of his country,
COR 2.2. 25 and his assent is not by such easy degrees as those
COR 2.2. 26 who, having been supple and courteous to the people,
COR 2.2. 27 bonneted, without any further deed to have them at
COR 2.2. 28 all into their estimation and report. But he hath so
COR 2.2. 29 planted his honours in their eyes and his actions in
COR 2.2. 30 their hearts that for their tongues to be silent and not
COR 2.2. 31 confess so much were a kind of ingrateful injury. To
COR 2.2. 32 report otherwise were a malice that, giving itself the
COR 2.2. 33 lie, would pluck reproof and rebuke from every ear that
COR 2.2. 34 heard it.
COR 2.2. 35
COR-FIRST OFFICER
No more of him. He's a worthy man. Make
COR 2.2. 36 way, they are coming. {A sennet. Enter the Patricians, and +
COR 2.2. 36 Sicinius and Brutus, the tribunes of the people, lictors before them; +
COR 2.2. 36 Coriolanus, Menenius, Cominius the consul. [The Patricians take their +
COR 2.2. 36 places and sit.] Sicinius}
COR 2.2. 37 {and Brutus take their places by themselves. Coriolanus +
COR 2.2. 37 stands}
COR-MENENIUS
Having determined of the Volsces, and
COR 2.2. 38 To send for Titus Lartius, it remains
COR 2.2. 39 As the main point of this our after-meeting
COR 2.2. 40 To gratify his noble service that
COR 2.2. 41 Hath thus stood for his country. Therefore please you,
COR 2.2. 42 Most reverend and grave elders, to desire
COR 2.2. 43 The present consul and last general
COR 2.2. 44 In our well-found successes to report
COR 2.2. 45 A little of that worthy work performed
COR 2.2. 46 By Martius Caius Coriolanus, whom
COR 2.2. 47 We met here both to thank and to remember
COR 2.2. 48B With honours like himself. {[Coriolanus sits]}
COR-FIRST SENATOR
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COR 2.2. 48B Speak, good Cominius.
COR 2.2. 49 Leave nothing out for length, and make us think
COR 2.2. 50 Rather our state's defective for requital
COR 2.2. 51B Than we to stretch it out. {(To the tribunes)} Masters +
COR 2.2. 51B o' th' people,
COR 2.2. 52 We do request your kindest ears and, after,
COR 2.2. 53 Your loving motion toward the common body
COR 2.2. 54B To yield what passes here.
COR-SICINIUS
We are convented
COR 2.2. 55 Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts
COR 2.2. 56 Inclinable to honour and advance
COR 2.2. 57B The theme of our assembly.
COR-BRUTUS
Which the rather
COR 2.2. 58 We shall be blessed to do if he remember
COR 2.2. 59 A kinder value of the people than
COR 2.2. 60B He hath hereto prized them at.
COR-MENENIUS
That's off, that's off.
COR 2.2. 61 I would you rather had been silent. Please you
COR 2.2. 62B To hear Cominius speak?
COR-BRUTUS
Most willingly,
COR 2.2. 63 But yet my caution was more pertinent
COR 2.2. 64B Than the rebuke you give it.
COR-MENENIUS
He loves your people,
COR 2.2. 65 But tie him not to be their bedfellow.
COR 2.2. 66B Worthy Cominius, speak. {Coriolanus rises and offers to go +
COR 2.2. 66B away} {(To Coriolanus)} Nay, keep your place.
COR 2.2. 67A
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
Sit, Coriolanus. Never shame to hear
COR 2.2. 68B What you have nobly done.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Your honours' pardon,
COR 2.2. 69 I had rather have my wounds to heal again
COR 2.2. 70B Than hear say how I got them.
COR-BRUTUS
Sir, I hope
COR 2.2. 71B My words disbenched you not?
COR-CORIOLANUS
No, sir, yet oft
COR 2.2. 72 When blows have made me stay I fled from words.
COR 2.2. 73 You soothed not, therefore hurt not; but your people,
COR 2.2. 74B I love them as they weigh -
COR-MENENIUS
Pray now, sit down.
COR 2.2. 75
COR-CORIOLANUS
I had rather have one scratch my head i' th' sun
COR 2.2. 76 When the alarum were struck than idly sit
COR 2.2. 77B To hear my nothings monstered. {Exit}
COR-MENENIUS
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COR 2.2. 77B Masters of the people,
COR 2.2. 78 Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter -
COR 2.2. 79 That's thousand to one good one - when you now see
COR 2.2. 80 He had rather venture all his limbs for honour
COR 2.2. 81 Than one on 's ears to hear it? Proceed, Cominius.
COR 2.2. 82
COR-COMINIUS
I shall lack voice; the deeds of Coriolanus
COR 2.2. 83 Should not be uttered feebly. It is held
COR 2.2. 84 That valour is the chiefest virtue, and
COR 2.2. 85 Most dignifies the haver. If it be,
COR 2.2. 86 The man I speak of cannot in the world
COR 2.2. 87 Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years,
COR 2.2. 88 When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought
COR 2.2. 89 Beyond the mark of others. Our then dictator,
COR 2.2. 90 Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight
COR 2.2. 91 When with his Amazonian chin he drove
COR 2.2. 92 The bristled lips before him. He bestrid
COR 2.2. 93 An o'erpressed Roman, and, i' th' consul's view,
COR 2.2. 94 Slew three opposers. Tarquin's self he met,
COR 2.2. 95 And struck him on his knee. In that day's feats,
COR 2.2. 96 When he might act the woman in the scene,
COR 2.2. 97 He proved best man i' th' field, and for his meed
COR 2.2. 98 Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age
COR 2.2. 99 Man-entered thus, he waxed like a sea,
COR 2.2. 100 And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
COR 2.2. 101 He lurched all swords of the garland. For this last
COR 2.2. 102 Before and in Corioles, let me say
COR 2.2. 103 I cannot speak him home. He stopped the fliers,
COR 2.2. 104 And by his rare example made the coward
COR 2.2. 105 Turn terror into sport. As weeds before
COR 2.2. 106 A vessel under sail, so men obeyed
COR 2.2. 107 And fell below his stem. His sword, death's stamp,
COR 2.2. 108 Where it did mark, it took. From face to foot
COR 2.2. 109 He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
COR 2.2. 110 Was timed with dying cries. Alone he entered
COR 2.2. 111 The mortal gate of th' city, which he, painted
COR 2.2. 112 With shunless destiny, aidless came off,
COR 2.2. 113 And with a sudden reinforcement struck
COR 2.2. 114 Corioles like a planet. Now all's his.
COR 2.2. 115 When by and by the din of war gan pierce
COR 2.2. 116 His ready sense, then straight his doubled spirit
COR 2.2. 117 Requickened what in flesh was fatigate,
COR 2.2. 118 And to the battle came he, where he did
COR 2.2. 119 Run reeking o'er the lives of men as if
COR 2.2. 120 'Twere a perpetual spoil; and till we called
COR 2.2. 121 Both field and city ours he never stood
COR 2.2. 122B To ease his breast with panting.
COR-MENENIUS
Worthy man.
COR 2.2. 123
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
He cannot but with measure fit the honours
COR 2.2. 124B Which we devise him.
COR-COMINIUS
Our spoils he kicked at,
COR 2.2. 125 And looked upon things precious as they were
COR 2.2. 126 The common muck of the world. He covets less
COR 2.2. 127 Than misery itself would give, rewards
COR 2.2. 128 His deeds with doing them, and is content
COR 2.2. 129B To spend the time to end it.
COR-MENENIUS
He's right noble.
COR 2.2. 130A Let him be called for.
COR 2.2. 131A
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
Call Coriolanus.
COR 2.2. 132A
COR-OFFICER
He doth appear. {Enter Coriolanus}
COR 2.2. 133
COR-MENENIUS
The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased
COR 2.2. 134B To make thee consul.
COR-CORIOLANUS
I do owe them still
COR 2.2. 135B My life and services.
COR-MENENIUS
It then remains
COR 2.2. 136B That you do speak to the people.
COR-CORIOLANUS
I do beseech you,
COR 2.2. 137 Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot
COR 2.2. 138 Put on the gown, stand naked, and entreat them
COR 2.2. 139 For my wounds' sake to give their suffrage.
COR 2.2. 140B Please you that I may pass this doing.
COR-SICINIUS
Sir, the people
COR 2.2. 141 Must have their voices, neither will they bate
COR 2.2. 142B One jot of ceremony.
COR-MENENIUS
{(to Coriolanus)} Put +
COR 2.2. 142B them not to 't.
COR 2.2. 143 Pray you, go fit you to the custom and
COR 2.2. 144 Take to you, as your predecessors have,
COR 2.2. 145B Your honour with your form.
COR-CORIOLANUS
It is a part
COR 2.2. 146 That I shall blush in acting, and might well
COR 2.2. 147B Be taken from the people.
COR-BRUTUS
{(to Sicinius)} +
COR 2.2. 147B Mark you that?
COR 2.2. 148
COR-CORIOLANUS
To brag unto them `Thus I did, and thus',
COR 2.2. 149 Show them th' unaching scars, which I should hide,
COR 2.2. 150 As if I had received them for the hire
COR 2.2. 151B Of their breath only!
COR-MENENIUS
Do not stand upon 't. -
COR 2.2. 152 We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,
COR 2.2. 153 Our purpose to them; and to our noble consul
COR 2.2. 154 Wish we all joy and honour.
COR 2.2. 155
COR-SENATORS
To Coriolanus come all joy and honour! {A flourish +
COR 2.2. 155 of cornetts, then exeunt all but Sicinius and Brutus}
COR 2.2. 156
COR-BRUTUS
You see how he intends to use the people.
COR 2.2. 157
COR-SICINIUS
May they perceive 's intent! He will require them
COR 2.2. 158 As if he did contemn what he requested
COR 2.2. 159B Should be in them to give.
COR-BRUTUS
Come, we'll inform them
COR 2.2. 160 Of our proceedings here. On th' market-place
COR 2.2. 161 I know they do attend us. {Exeunt}
COR 2.2. 0 {Enter seven or eight Citizens}
COR 2.3. 1
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
Once, if he do require our voices we ought
COR 2.3. 2 not to deny him.
COR 2.3. 3
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
We may, sir, if we will.
COR 2.3. 4
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
We have power in ourselves to do it, but
COR 2.3. 5 it is a power that we have no power to do. For if he
COR 2.3. 6 show us his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to
COR 2.3. 7 put our tongues into those wounds and speak for them;
COR 2.3. 8 so if he tell us his noble deeds we must also tell him
COR 2.3. 9 our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is monstrous,
COR 2.3. 10 and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a
COR 2.3. 11 monster of the multitude, of the which we, being
COR 2.3. 12 members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous
COR 2.3. 13 members.
COR 2.3. 14
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
And to make us no better thought of, a
COR 2.3. 15 little help will serve; for once we stood up about the
COR 2.3. 16 corn, he himself stuck not to call us the many-headed
COR 2.3. 17 multitude.
COR 2.3. 18
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
We have been called so of many, not that
COR 2.3. 19 our heads are some brown, some black, some abram,
COR 2.3. 20 some bald, but that our wits are so diversely coloured;
COR 2.3. 21 and truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of
COR 2.3. 22 one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south, and
COR 2.3. 23 their consent of one direct way should be at once to
COR 2.3. 24 all the points o' th' compass.
COR 2.3. 25
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Think you so? Which way do you judge
COR 2.3. 26 my wit would fly?
COR 2.3. 27
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
Nay, your wit will not so soon out as
COR 2.3. 28 another man's will, 'tis strongly wedged up in a
COR 2.3. 29 blockhead. But if it were at liberty, 'twould sure
COR 2.3. 30 southward.
COR 2.3. 31
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Why that way?
COR 2.3. 32
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
To lose itself in a fog where, being three
COR 2.3. 33 parts melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would
COR 2.3. 34 return for conscience' sake, to help to get thee a wife.
COR 2.3. 35
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
You are never without your tricks. You
COR 2.3. 36 may, you may.
COR 2.3. 37
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
Are you all resolved to give your voices?
COR 2.3. 38 But that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I say,
COR 2.3. 39 if he would incline to the people there was never a
COR 2.3. 40 worthier man. {Enter Coriolanus in a gown of humility, with +
COR 2.3. 40 Menenius}
COR 2.3. 41 Here he comes, and in the gown of humility. Mark his
COR 2.3. 42 behaviour. We are not to stay all together, but to come
COR 2.3. 43 by him where he stands by ones, by twos, and by
COR 2.3. 44 threes. He's to make his requests by particulars, wherein
COR 2.3. 45 every one of us has a single honour in giving him our
COR 2.3. 46 own voices with our own tongues. Therefore follow
COR 2.3. 47 me, and I'll direct you how you shall go by him.
COR 2.3. 48
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
Content, content. {Exeunt Citizens}
COR 2.3. 49
COR-MENENIUS
O sir, you are not right. Have you not known
COR 2.3. 50B The worthiest men have done 't?
COR-CORIOLANUS
What must I say?
COR 2.3. 51 `I pray, sir'? Plague upon 't, I cannot bring
COR 2.3. 52 My tongue to such a pace. `Look, sir, my wounds.
COR 2.3. 53 I got them in my country's service, when
COR 2.3. 54 Some certain of your brethren roared and ran
COR 2.3. 55B From th' noise of our own drums'?
COR-MENENIUS
O me, the gods!
COR 2.3. 56 You must not speak of that, you must desire them
COR 2.3. 57B To think upon you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Think upon me? Hang 'em.
COR 2.3. 58 I would they would forget me like the virtues
COR 2.3. 59B Which our divines lose by 'em.
COR-MENENIUS
You'll mar all.
COR 2.3. 60 I'll leave you. Pray you, speak to 'em, I pray you,
COR 2.3. 61B In wholesome manner.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Bid them wash their faces
COR 2.3. 62B And keep their teeth clean. {Exit Menenius} {Enter three +
COR 2.3. 62B of the Citizens} So, here comes a brace.
COR 2.3. 63 You know the cause, sir, of my standing here.
COR 2.3. 64
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
We do, sir. Tell us what hath brought you to 't.
COR 2.3. 65
COR-CORIOLANUS
Mine own desert.
COR 2.3. 66
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Your own desert?
COR 2.3. 67
COR-CORIOLANUS
Ay, but not mine own desire.
COR 2.3. 68
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
How not your own desire?
COR 2.3. 69
COR-CORIOLANUS
No, sir, 'twas never my desire yet to trouble
COR 2.3. 70 the poor with begging.
COR 2.3. 71
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
You must think if we give you anything
COR 2.3. 72 we hope to gain by you.
COR 2.3. 73
COR-CORIOLANUS
Well then, I pray, your price o' th' consulship?
COR 2.3. 74
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
The price is to ask it kindly.
COR 2.3. 75
COR-CORIOLANUS
Kindly, sir, I pray let me ha 't. I have wounds
COR 2.3. 76 to show you which shall be yours in private. {(To Second}
COR 2.3. 77 {Citizen)} Your good voice, sir. What say you?
COR 2.3. 78
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
You shall ha 't, worthy sir.
COR 2.3. 79
COR-CORIOLANUS
A match, sir. There's in all two worthy voices
COR 2.3. 80 begged. I have your alms. Adieu.
COR 2.3. 81
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
{(to the other Citizens)} But this +
COR 2.3. 81 is something
COR 2.3. 82 odd.
COR 2.3. 83
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
An 'twere to give again - but 'tis no
COR 2.3. 84 matter. {Exeunt Citizens}
COR 2.3. 85 {Enter two other Citizens}
COR-CORIOLANUS
Pray you +
COR 2.3. 85 now, if it may stand with the tune
COR 2.3. 86 of your voices that I may be consul, I have here the
COR 2.3. 87 customary gown.
COR 2.3. 88
COR-[FOURTH] CITIZEN
You have deserved nobly of your
COR 2.3. 89 country, and you have not deserved nobly.
COR 2.3. 90
COR-CORIOLANUS
Your enigma?
COR 2.3. 91
COR-[FOURTH] CITIZEN
You have been a scourge to her enemies,
COR 2.3. 92 you have been a rod to her friends. You have not,
COR 2.3. 93 indeed, loved the common people.
COR 2.3. 94
COR-CORIOLANUS
You should account me the more virtuous
COR 2.3. 95 that I have not been common in my love. I will, sir,
COR 2.3. 96 flatter my sworn brother the people to earn a dearer
COR 2.3. 97 estimation of them. 'Tis a condition they account gentle.
COR 2.3. 98 And since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have
COR 2.3. 99 my hat than my heart, I will practise the insinuating
COR 2.3. 100 nod and be off to them most counterfeitly; that is, sir,
COR 2.3. 101 I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular
COR 2.3. 102 man, and give it bountiful to the desirers. Therefore,
COR 2.3. 103 beseech you I may be consul.
COR 2.3. 104
COR-[FIFTH] CITIZEN
We hope to find you our friend, and
COR 2.3. 105 therefore give you our voices heartily.
COR 2.3. 106
COR-[FOURTH] CITIZEN
You have received many wounds for
COR 2.3. 107 your country.
COR 2.3. 108
COR-CORIOLANUS
I will not seal your knowledge with showing
COR 2.3. 109 them. I will make much of your voices, and so trouble
COR 2.3. 110 you no farther.
COR 2.3. 111
COR-BOTH CITIZENS
The gods give you joy, sir, heartily.
COR 2.3. 112A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Most sweet voices. {Exeunt Citizens}
COR 2.3. 113 Better it is to die, better to starve,
COR 2.3. 114 Than crave the hire which first we do deserve.
COR 2.3. 115 Why in this womanish toge should I stand here
COR 2.3. 116 To beg of Hob and Dick that does appear
COR 2.3. 117 Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to 't.
COR 2.3. 118 What custom wills, in all things should we do 't,
COR 2.3. 119 The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
COR 2.3. 120 And mountainous error be too highly heaped
COR 2.3. 121 For truth to o'erpeer. Rather than fool it so,
COR 2.3. 122 Let the high office and the honour go
COR 2.3. 123 To one that would do thus. I am half through.
COR 2.3. 124 The one part suffered, the other will I do. {Enter three +
COR 2.3. 124 Citizens more}
COR 2.3. 125 Here come more voices.
COR 2.3. 126 Your voices! For your voices I have fought,
COR 2.3. 127 Watched for your voices, for your voices bear
COR 2.3. 128 Of wounds two dozen odd; battles thrice six
COR 2.3. 129 I have seen and heard of for your voices, have
COR 2.3. 130 Done many things, some less, some more. Your voices!
COR 2.3. 131 Indeed I would be consul.
COR 2.3. 132
COR-[SIXTH] CITIZEN
He has done nobly, and cannot go without
COR 2.3. 133 any honest man's voice.
COR 2.3. 134
COR-[SEVENTH] CITIZEN
Therefore let him be consul. The gods
COR 2.3. 135 give him joy and make him good friend to the people!
COR 2.3. 136
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
Amen, Amen. God save thee, noble
COR 2.3. 137 consul!
COR 2.3. 138
COR-CORIOLANUS
Worthy voices. {Exeunt Citizens}
COR 2.3. 139 {Enter Menenius with Brutus and Sicinius}
COR-MENENIUS
+
COR 2.3. 139 You have stood your limitation, and the tribunes
COR 2.3. 140 Endue you with the people's voice. Remains
COR 2.3. 141 That in th' official marks invested, you
COR 2.3. 142B Anon do meet the senate.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Is this done?
COR 2.3. 143
COR-SICINIUS
The custom of request you have discharged.
COR 2.3. 144 The people do admit you, and are summoned
COR 2.3. 145 To meet anon upon your approbation.
COR 2.3. 146B
COR-CORIOLANUS
Where, at the senate-house?
COR-SICINIUS
There, +
COR 2.3. 146B Coriolanus.
COR 2.3. 147B
COR-CORIOLANUS
May I change these garments?
COR-SICINIUS
You may, sir.
COR 2.3. 148
COR-CORIOLANUS
That I'll straight do, and, knowing myself again,
COR 2.3. 149 Repair to th' senate-house.
COR 2.3. 150
COR-MENENIUS
I'll keep you company. {(To the tribunes)} +
COR 2.3. 150 Will you along?
COR 2.3. 151B
COR-BRUTUS
We stay here for the people.
COR-SICINIUS
Fare you +
COR 2.3. 151B well. {Exeunt Coriolanus and Menenius}
COR 2.3. 152 He has it now, and by his looks methinks
COR 2.3. 153B 'Tis warm at 's heart.
COR-BRUTUS
With a proud heart he wore
COR 2.3. 154 His humble weeds. Will you dismiss the people? {Enter the +
COR 2.3. 154 Plebeians}
COR 2.3. 155
COR-SICINIUS
How now, my masters, have you chose this man?
COR 2.3. 156A
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
He has our voices, sir.
COR 2.3. 157
COR-BRUTUS
We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.
COR 2.3. 158
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Amen, sir. To my poor unworthy notice
COR 2.3. 159 He mocked us when he begged our voices.
COR 2.3. 160
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
Certainly. He flouted us downright.
COR 2.3. 161
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
No, 'tis his kind of speech. He did not mock us.
COR 2.3. 162
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
Not one amongst us save yourself but says
COR 2.3. 163 He used us scornfully. He should have showed us
COR 2.3. 164 His marks of merit, wounds received for 's country.
COR 2.3. 165B
COR-SICINIUS
Why, so he did, I am sure.
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
No, no; no +
COR 2.3. 165B man saw 'em.
COR 2.3. 166
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
He said he had wounds which he could show in private,
COR 2.3. 167 And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,
COR 2.3. 168 `I would be consul,' says he. `Aged custom
COR 2.3. 169 But by your voices will not so permit me.
COR 2.3. 170 Your voices therefore.' When we granted that,
COR 2.3. 171 Here was `I thank you for your voices, thank you.
COR 2.3. 172 Your most sweet voices. Now you have left your voices
COR 2.3. 173 I have no further with you.' Was not this mockery?
COR 2.3. 174
COR-SICINIUS
Why either were you ignorant to see 't,
COR 2.3. 175 Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness
COR 2.3. 176B To yield your voices?
COR-BRUTUS
{(to the Citizens)} +
COR 2.3. 176B Could you not have told him
COR 2.3. 177 As you were lessoned: when he had no power
COR 2.3. 178 But was a petty servant to the state,
COR 2.3. 179 He was your enemy, ever spake against
COR 2.3. 180 Your liberties and the charters that you bear
COR 2.3. 181 I' th' body of the weal; and now arriving
COR 2.3. 182 A place of potency and sway o' th' state,
COR 2.3. 183 If he should still malignantly remain
COR 2.3. 184 Fast foe to th' plebeii, your voices might
COR 2.3. 185 Be curses to yourselves. You should have said
COR 2.3. 186 That as his worthy deeds did claim no less
COR 2.3. 187 Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature
COR 2.3. 188 Would think upon you for your voices and
COR 2.3. 189 Translate his malice towards you into love,
COR 2.3. 190B Standing your friendly lord.
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the +
COR 2.3. 190B Citizens)} Thus to have said
COR 2.3. 191 As you were fore-advised had touched his spirit
COR 2.3. 192 And tried his inclination, from him plucked
COR 2.3. 193 Either his gracious promise which you might,
COR 2.3. 194 As cause had called you up, have held him to,
COR 2.3. 195 Or else it would have galled his surly nature,
COR 2.3. 196 Which easily endures not article
COR 2.3. 197 Tying him to aught. So putting him to rage,
COR 2.3. 198 You should have ta'en th' advantage of his choler
COR 2.3. 199B And passed him unelected.
COR-BRUTUS
{(to the Citizens)}+
COR 2.3. 199B Did you perceive
COR 2.3. 200 He did solicit you in free contempt
COR 2.3. 201 When he did need your loves, and do you think
COR 2.3. 202 That his contempt shall not be bruising to you
COR 2.3. 203 When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies
COR 2.3. 204 No heart among you? Or had you tongues to cry
COR 2.3. 205B Against the rectorship of judgement?
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the +
COR 2.3. 205B Citizens)} Have you
COR 2.3. 206 Ere now denied the asker, and now again,
COR 2.3. 207 Of him that did not ask but mock, bestow
COR 2.3. 208 Your sued-for tongues?
COR 2.3. 209
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
He's not confirmed, we may deny him yet.
COR 2.3. 210A
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
And will deny him.
COR 2.3. 211 I'll have five hundred voices of that sound.
COR 2.3. 212
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
I twice five hundred, and their friends to piece 'em.
COR 2.3. 213
COR-BRUTUS
Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends
COR 2.3. 214 They have chose a consul that will from them take
COR 2.3. 215 Their liberties, make them of no more voice
COR 2.3. 216 Than dogs that are as often beat for barking,
COR 2.3. 217B As therefor kept to do so.
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the +
COR 2.3. 217B Citizens)} Let them assemble,
COR 2.3. 218 And on a safer judgement all revoke
COR 2.3. 219 Your ignorant election. Enforce his pride
COR 2.3. 220 And his old hate unto you. Besides, forget not
COR 2.3. 221 With what contempt he wore the humble weed,
COR 2.3. 222 How in his suit he scorned you; but your loves,
COR 2.3. 223 Thinking upon his services, took from you
COR 2.3. 224 Th' apprehension of his present portance,
COR 2.3. 225 Which most gibingly, ungravely he did fashion
COR 2.3. 226B After the inveterate hate he bears you.
COR-BRUTUS
{(to the +
COR 2.3. 226B Citizens)} Lay
COR 2.3. 227 A fault on us your tribunes, that we laboured
COR 2.3. 228 No impediment between, but that you must
COR 2.3. 229B Cast your election on him.
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the +
COR 2.3. 229B Citizens)} Say you chose him
COR 2.3. 230 More after our commandment than as guided
COR 2.3. 231 By your own true affections, and that your minds,
COR 2.3. 232 Preoccupied with what you rather must do
COR 2.3. 233 Than what you should, made you against the grain
COR 2.3. 234 To voice him consul. Lay the fault on us.
COR 2.3. 235
COR-BRUTUS
{(to the Citizens)} Ay, spare us not. Say +
COR 2.3. 235 we read lectures to you,
COR 2.3. 236 How youngly he began to serve his country,
COR 2.3. 237 How long continued, and what stock he springs of,
COR 2.3. 238 The noble house o' th' Martians, from whence came
COR 2.3. 239 That Ancus Martius, Numa's daughter's son,
COR 2.3. 240 Who after great Hostilius here was king;
COR 2.3. 241 Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,
COR 2.3. 242 That our best water brought by conduits hither;
COR 2.3. 243 And Censorinus that was so surnamed,
COR 2.3. 244 And nobly named so, twice being censor,
COR 2.3. 245B Was his great ancestor.
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the Citizens)}+
COR 2.3. 245B One thus descended,
COR 2.3. 246 That hath beside well in his person wrought
COR 2.3. 247 To be set high in place, we did commend
COR 2.3. 248 To your remembrances, but you have found,
COR 2.3. 249 Scaling his present bearing with his past,
COR 2.3. 250 That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke
COR 2.3. 251B Your sudden approbation.
COR-BRUTUS
{(to the Citizens)} +
COR 2.3. 251B Say you ne'er had done 't -
COR 2.3. 252 Harp on that still - but by our putting on;
COR 2.3. 253 And presently when you have drawn your number,
COR 2.3. 254B Repair to th' Capitol.
COR-[A CITIZEN]
We will so.
COR-[ANOTHER CITIZEN]
+
COR 2.3. 254B Almost all
COR 2.3. 255B Repent in their election. {Exeunt Citizens}
COR-BRUTUS
+
COR 2.3. 255B Let them go on.
COR 2.3. 256 This mutiny were better put in hazard
COR 2.3. 257 Than stay, past doubt, for greater.
COR 2.3. 258 If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
COR 2.3. 259 With their refusal, both observe and answer
COR 2.3. 260B The vantage of his anger.
COR-SICINIUS
To th' Capitol, come.
COR 2.3. 261 We will be there before the stream o' th' people,
COR 2.3. 262 And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,
COR 2.3. 263 Which we have goaded onward. {Exeunt}
COR 2.3. 263
COR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
COR 2.3. 0 {Cornetts. Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, all the +
COR 3.1. 0 gentry; Cominius, Lartius, and other Senators}
COR 3.1. 1
COR-CORIOLANUS
Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?
COR 3.1. 2
COR-LARTIUS
He had, my lord, and that it was which caused
COR 3.1. 3 Our swifter composition.
COR 3.1. 4
COR-CORIOLANUS
So then the Volsces stand but as at first,
COR 3.1. 5 Ready when time shall prompt them to make raid
COR 3.1. 6B Upon 's again.
COR-COMINIUS
They are worn, lord consul, so
COR 3.1. 7 That we shall hardly in our ages see
COR 3.1. 8B Their banners wave again.
COR-CORIOLANUS
{(to Lartius)} +
COR 3.1. 8B Saw you Aufidius?
COR 3.1. 9
COR-LARTIUS
On safeguard he came to me, and did curse
COR 3.1. 10 Against the Volsces for they had so vilely
COR 3.1. 11 Yielded the town. He is retired to Antium.
COR 3.1. 12B
COR-CORIOLANUS
Spoke he of me?
COR-LARTIUS
He did, my lord.
COR-CORIOLANUS
COR 3.1. 12B How? What?
COR 3.1. 13
COR-LARTIUS
How often he had met you sword to sword;
COR 3.1. 14 That of all things upon the earth he hated
COR 3.1. 15 Your person most; that he would pawn his fortunes
COR 3.1. 16 To hopeless restitution, so he might
COR 3.1. 17 Be called your vanquisher.
COR 3.1. 18A
COR-CORIOLANUS
At Antium lives he?
COR 3.1. 19A
COR-LARTIUS
At Antium.
COR 3.1. 20
COR-CORIOLANUS
I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
COR 3.1. 21 To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home. {Enter Sicinius and +
COR 3.1. 21 Brutus}
COR 3.1. 22 Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,
COR 3.1. 23 The tongues o' th' common mouth. I do despise them,
COR 3.1. 24 For they do prank them in authority
COR 3.1. 25 Against all noble sufferance.
COR 3.1. 26A
COR-SICINIUS
Pass no further.
COR 3.1. 27A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Ha, what is that?
COR 3.1. 28
COR-BRUTUS
It will be dangerous to go on. No further.
COR 3.1. 29A
COR-CORIOLANUS
What makes this change?
COR 3.1. 30A
COR-MENENIUS
The matter?
COR 3.1. 31
COR-COMINIUS
Hath he not passed the noble and the common?
COR 3.1. 32B
COR-BRUTUS
Cominius, no.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Have I had children's voices?
COR 3.1. 33
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
Tribunes, give way. He shall to th' market-place.
COR 3.1. 34B
COR-BRUTUS
The people are incensed against him.
COR-SICINIUS
Stop,
COR 3.1. 35B Or all will fall in broil.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Are these your herd?
COR 3.1. 36 Must these have voices, that can yield them now
COR 3.1. 37 And straight disclaim their tongues? What are your offices?
COR 3.1. 38 You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?
COR 3.1. 39B Have you not set them on?
COR-MENENIUS
Be calm, be calm.
COR 3.1. 40
COR-CORIOLANUS
It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot
COR 3.1. 41 To curb the will of the nobility.
COR 3.1. 42 Suffer 't, and live with such as cannot rule
COR 3.1. 43B Nor ever will be ruled.
COR-BRUTUS
Call 't not a plot.
COR 3.1. 44 The people cry you mocked them, and of late
COR 3.1. 45 When corn was given them gratis, you repined,
COR 3.1. 46 Scandalled the suppliants for the people, called them
COR 3.1. 47 Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.
COR 3.1. 48B
COR-CORIOLANUS
Why, this was known before.
COR-BRUTUS
Not to them all.
COR 3.1. 49B
COR-CORIOLANUS
Have you informed them sithence?
COR-BRUTUS
How, I inform +
COR 3.1. 49B them?
COR 3.1. 50
COR-[CORIOLANUS]
You are like to do such business.
COR 3.1. 51A
COR-BRUTUS
Not unlike
COR 3.1. 52 Each way to better yours.
COR 3.1. 53
COR-CORIOLANUS
Why then should I be consul? By yon clouds,
COR 3.1. 54 Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me
COR 3.1. 55B Your fellow tribune.
COR-SICINIUS
You show too much of that
COR 3.1. 56 For which the people stir. If you will pass
COR 3.1. 57 To where you are bound, you must enquire your way,
COR 3.1. 58 Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,
COR 3.1. 59 Or never be so noble as a consul,
COR 3.1. 60B Nor yoke with him for tribune.
COR-MENENIUS
Let's be calm.
COR 3.1. 61
COR-COMINIUS
The people are abused, set on. This palt'ring
COR 3.1. 62 Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus
COR 3.1. 63 Deserved this so dishonoured rub, laid falsely
COR 3.1. 64B I' th' plain way of his merit.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Tell me of corn?
COR 3.1. 65 This was my speech, and I will speak 't again.
COR 3.1. 66A
COR-MENENIUS
Not now, not now.
COR 3.1. 67A
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
Not in this heat, sir, now.
COR 3.1. 68A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Now as I live,
COR 3.1. 69 I will. My nobler friends, I crave their pardons.
COR 3.1. 70 For the mutable rank-scented meinie,
COR 3.1. 71 Let them regard me, as I do not flatter,
COR 3.1. 72 And therein behold themselves. I say again,
COR 3.1. 73 In soothing them we nourish 'gainst our Senate
COR 3.1. 74 The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
COR 3.1. 75 Which we ourselves have ploughed for, sowed, and scattered
COR 3.1. 76 By mingling them with us, the honoured number
COR 3.1. 77 Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
COR 3.1. 78B Which they have given to beggars.
COR-MENENIUS
Well, no more.
COR 3.1. 79B
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
No more words, we beseech you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
How, +
COR 3.1. 79B no more?
COR 3.1. 80 As for my country I have shed my blood,
COR 3.1. 81 Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs
COR 3.1. 82 Coin words till their decay against those measles
COR 3.1. 83 Which we disdain should tetter us, yet sought
COR 3.1. 84 The very way to catch them.
COR 3.1. 85
COR-BRUTUS
You speak o' th' people as if you were a god
COR 3.1. 86 To punish, not a man of their infirmity.
COR 3.1. 87B
COR-SICINIUS
'Twere well we let the people know 't.
COR-MENENIUS
What, +
COR 3.1. 87B what, his choler?
COR 3.1. 88
COR-CORIOLANUS
Choler? Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,
COR 3.1. 89B By Jove, 'twould be my mind.
COR-SICINIUS
It is a mind
COR 3.1. 90 That shall remain a poison where it is,
COR 3.1. 91B Not poison any further.
COR-CORIOLANUS
`Shall remain'?
COR 3.1. 92 Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
COR 3.1. 93B His absolute `shall'?
COR-COMINIUS
'Twas from the canon.
COR-CORIOLANUS
+
COR 3.1. 93B `Shall'?
COR 3.1. 94 O good but most unwise patricians, why,
COR 3.1. 95 You grave but reckless senators, have you thus
COR 3.1. 96 Given Hydra here to choose an officer
COR 3.1. 97 That, with his peremptory `shall', being but
COR 3.1. 98 The horn and noise o' th' monster's, wants not spirit
COR 3.1. 99 To say he'll turn your current in a ditch
COR 3.1. 100 And make your channel his? If he have power,
COR 3.1. 101 Then vail your impotence; if none, awake
COR 3.1. 102 Your dangerous lenity. If you are learned,
COR 3.1. 103 Be not as common fools; if you are not,
COR 3.1. 104 Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians
COR 3.1. 105 If they be senators, and they are no less
COR 3.1. 106 When, both your voices blended, the great'st taste
COR 3.1. 107 Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate,
COR 3.1. 108 And such a one as he, who puts his `shall',
COR 3.1. 109 His popular `shall', against a graver bench
COR 3.1. 110 Than ever frowned in Greece. By Jove himself,
COR 3.1. 111 It makes the consuls base, and my soul aches
COR 3.1. 112 To know, when two authorities are up,
COR 3.1. 113 Neither supreme, how soon confusion
COR 3.1. 114 May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take
COR 3.1. 115B The one by th' other.
COR-COMINIUS
Well, on to th' market-place.
COR 3.1. 116
COR-CORIOLANUS
Whoever gave that counsel to give forth
COR 3.1. 117 The corn o' th' storehouse gratis, as 'twas used
COR 3.1. 118B Sometime in Greece -
COR-MENENIUS
Well, well, no more of that.
COR 3.1. 119
COR-CORIOLANUS
Though there the people had more absolute power -
COR 3.1. 120 I say they nourished disobedience, fed
COR 3.1. 121B The ruin of the state.
COR-BRUTUS
Why shall the people give
COR 3.1. 122B One that speaks thus their voice?
COR-CORIOLANUS
I'll give my reasons,
COR 3.1. 123 More worthier than their voices. They know the corn
COR 3.1. 124 Was not our recompense, resting well assured
COR 3.1. 125 They ne'er did service for 't. Being pressed to th' war,
COR 3.1. 126 Even when the navel of the state was touched,
COR 3.1. 127 They would not thread the gates. This kind of service
COR 3.1. 128 Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i' th' war,
COR 3.1. 129 Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they showed
COR 3.1. 130 Most valour, spoke not for them. Th' accusation
COR 3.1. 131 Which they have often made against the senate,
COR 3.1. 132 All cause unborn, could never be the native
COR 3.1. 133 Of our so frank donation. Well, what then?
COR 3.1. 134 How shall this bosom multiplied digest
COR 3.1. 135 The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express
COR 3.1. 136 What's like to be their words: `We did request it,
COR 3.1. 137 We are the greater poll, and in true fear
COR 3.1. 138 They gave us our demands.' Thus we debase
COR 3.1. 139 The nature of our seats, and make the rabble
COR 3.1. 140 Call our cares fears, which will in time
COR 3.1. 141 Break ope the locks o' th' senate and bring in
COR 3.1. 142B The crows to peck the eagles.
COR-MENENIUS
Come, enough.
COR 3.1. 143B
COR-BRUTUS
Enough with over-measure.
COR-CORIOLANUS
No, take more.
COR 3.1. 144 What may be sworn by, both divine and human,
COR 3.1. 145 Seal what I end withal! This double worship,
COR 3.1. 146 Where one part does disdain with cause, the other
COR 3.1. 147 Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom
COR 3.1. 148 Cannot conclude but by the yea and no
COR 3.1. 149 Of general ignorance, it must omit
COR 3.1. 150 Real necessities, and give way the while
COR 3.1. 151 To unstable slightness. Purpose so barred, it follows
COR 3.1. 152 Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore beseech you -
COR 3.1. 153 You that will be less fearful than discreet,
COR 3.1. 154 That love the fundamental part of state
COR 3.1. 155 More than you doubt the change on 't, that prefer
COR 3.1. 156 A noble life before a long, and wish
COR 3.1. 157 To jump a body with a dangerous physic
COR 3.1. 158 That's sure of death without it - at once pluck out
COR 3.1. 159 The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick
COR 3.1. 160 The sweet which is their poison. Your dishonour
COR 3.1. 161 Mangles true judgement, and bereaves the state
COR 3.1. 162 Of that integrity which should become 't,
COR 3.1. 163 Not having the power to do the good it would
COR 3.1. 164B For th' ill which doth control 't.
COR-BRUTUS
He's said enough.
COR 3.1. 165
COR-SICINIUS
He's spoken like a traitor, and shall answer
COR 3.1. 166B As traitors do.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee!
COR 3.1. 167 What should the people do with these bald tribunes,
COR 3.1. 168 On whom depending, their obedience fails
COR 3.1. 169 To th' greater bench? In a rebellion,
COR 3.1. 170 When what's not meet but what must be was law,
COR 3.1. 171 Then were they chosen. In a better hour
COR 3.1. 172 Let what is meet be said it must be meet,
COR 3.1. 173 And throw their power i' th' dust.
COR 3.1. 174B
COR-BRUTUS
Manifest treason.
COR-SICINIUS
This a consul? No.
COR 3.1. 175B
COR-BRUTUS
The aediles, ho! {Enter an Aedile} Let him +
COR 3.1. 175B be apprehended.
COR 3.1. 176B
COR-SICINIUS
Go call the people, {[Exit Aedile]} {(To +
COR 3.1. 176B Coriolanus)} in whose name myself
COR 3.1. 177 Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,
COR 3.1. 178 A foe to th' public weal. Obey, I charge thee,
COR 3.1. 179B And follow to thine answer.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Hence, old goat!
COR 3.1. 180B
COR-ALL [THE PATRICIANS]
We'll surety him.
COR-COMINIUS
{(to +
COR 3.1. 180B Sicinius)} Aged sir, hands off.
COR 3.1. 181
COR-CORIOLANUS
{(to Sicinius)} Hence, rotten thing, or +
COR 3.1. 181 I shall shake thy bones
COR 3.1. 182B Out of thy garments.
COR-SICINIUS
Help, ye citizens! {Enter a +
COR 3.1. 182B rabble of Plebeians, with the Aediles}
COR 3.1. 183B
COR-MENENIUS
On both sides more respect.
COR-SICINIUS
Here's +
COR 3.1. 183B he
COR 3.1. 184B That would take from you all your power.
COR-BRUTUS
Seize him, aediles.
COR 3.1. 185B
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
Down with him, down with him!
COR-SECOND SENATOR
+
COR 3.1. 185B Weapons, weapons, weapons! {They all bustle about Coriolanus}
COR 3.1. 186
COR-[CITIZENS
COR-AND
COR-PATRICIANS]
{[in dispersed cries]} +
COR 3.1. 186 Tribunes! Patricians! Citizens! What ho!
COR 3.1. 187 Sicinius! Brutus! Coriolanus! Citizens!
COR 3.1. 188
COR-[SOME CITIZENS
COR-AND
COR-PATRICIANS]
Peace, peace, peace! Stay! Hold! +
COR 3.1. 188 Peace!
COR 3.1. 189
COR-MENENIUS
What is about to be? I am out of breath.
COR 3.1. 190 Confusion's near; I cannot speak. You tribunes
COR 3.1. 191 To th' people, Coriolanus, patience!
COR 3.1. 192B Speak, good Sicinius.
COR-SICINIUS
Hear me, people, peace.
COR 3.1. 193
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
Let's hear our tribune! Peace! Speak, speak, +
COR 3.1. 193 speak!
COR 3.1. 194
COR-SICINIUS
You are at point to lose your liberties.
COR 3.1. 195 Martius would have all from you - Martius
COR 3.1. 196B Whom late you have named for consul.
COR-MENENIUS
Fie, fie, fie,
COR 3.1. 197 This is the way to kindle, not to quench.
COR 3.1. 198
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
To unbuild the city, and to lay all flat.
COR 3.1. 199B
COR-SICINIUS
What is the city but the people?
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
+
COR 3.1. 199B True,
COR 3.1. 200B The people are the city.
COR-BRUTUS
By the consent of all
COR 3.1. 201 We were established the people's magistrates.
COR 3.1. 202B
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
You so remain.
COR-MENENIUS
And so are like to +
COR 3.1. 202B do.
COR 3.1. 203
COR-[CORIOLANUS]
That is the way to lay the city flat,
COR 3.1. 204 To bring the roof to the foundation,
COR 3.1. 205 And bury all which yet distinctly ranges
COR 3.1. 206B In heaps and piles of ruin.
COR-SICINIUS
This deserves death.
COR 3.1. 207
COR-BRUTUS
Or let us stand to our authority,
COR 3.1. 208 Or let us lose it. We do here pronounce,
COR 3.1. 209 Upon the part o' th' people in whose power
COR 3.1. 210 We were elected theirs, Martius is worthy
COR 3.1. 211B Of present death.
COR-SICINIUS
Therefore lay hold of him,
COR 3.1. 212 Bear him to th' rock Tarpeian; and from thence
COR 3.1. 213B Into destruction cast him.
COR-BRUTUS
Aediles, seize him.
COR 3.1. 214B
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
Yield, Martius, yield.
COR-MENENIUS
Hear me one +
COR 3.1. 214B word.
COR 3.1. 215 Beseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word.
COR 3.1. 216A
COR-AEDILES
Peace, peace!
COR 3.1. 217
COR-MENENIUS
{(to the tribunes)} Be that you seem, +
COR 3.1. 217 truly your country's friend,
COR 3.1. 218 And temp'rately proceed to what you would
COR 3.1. 219B Thus violently redress.
COR-BRUTUS
Sir, those cold ways
COR 3.1. 220 That seem like prudent helps are very poisons
COR 3.1. 221 Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him,
COR 3.1. 222B And bear him to the rock. {Coriolanus draws his +
COR 3.1. 222B sword}
COR-CORIOLANUS
No, I'll die here.
COR 3.1. 223 There's some among you have beheld me fighting.
COR 3.1. 224 Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
COR 3.1. 225
COR-MENENIUS
Down with that sword. Tribunes, withdraw a while.
COR 3.1. 226B
COR-BRUTUS
Lay hands upon him.
COR-MENENIUS
Help Martius, help!
COR 3.1. 227 You that be noble, help him, young and old.
COR 3.1. 228A
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
Down with him, down with him! {In this +
COR 3.1. 228A mutiny the tribunes, the Aediles, and the people are beat in}
COR 3.1. 229
COR-MENENIUS
{(to Coriolanus)} Go get you to your +
COR 3.1. 229 house. Be gone, away!
COR 3.1. 230B All will be naught else.
COR-SECOND SENATOR
{(to +
COR 3.1. 230B Coriolanus)} Get you gone.
COR 3.1. 231
COR-[CORIOLANUS]
Stand fast; we have as many friends as enemies.
COR 3.1. 232B
COR-MENENIUS
Shall it be put to that?
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
The gods +
COR 3.1. 232B forbid!
COR 3.1. 233 {(To Coriolanus)} I prithee, noble friend, home to thy +
COR 3.1. 233 house.
COR 3.1. 234B Leave us to cure this cause.
COR-MENENIUS
For 'tis a sore upon us
COR 3.1. 235 You cannot tent yourself. Be gone, beseech you.
COR 3.1. 236A
COR-[COMINIUS]
Come, sir, along with us.
COR 3.1. 237
COR-[CORIOLANUS]
I would they were barbarians, as they are,
COR 3.1. 238 Though in Rome littered; not Romans, as they are not,
COR 3.1. 239B Though calved i' th' porch o' th' Capitol.
COR-[MENENIUS]
Be gone.
COR 3.1. 240 Put not your worthy rage into your tongue.
COR 3.1. 241B One time will owe another.
COR-CORIOLANUS
On fair ground
COR 3.1. 242B I could beat forty of them.
COR-MENENIUS
I could myself
COR 3.1. 243 Take up a brace o' th' best of them, yea, the two tribunes.
COR 3.1. 244
COR-COMINIUS
But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic,
COR 3.1. 245 And manhood is called foolery when it stands
COR 3.1. 246B Against a falling fabric. {(To Coriolanus)} Will you +
COR 3.1. 246B hence
COR 3.1. 247 Before the tag return, whose rage doth rend
COR 3.1. 248 Like interrupted waters, and o'erbear
COR 3.1. 249B What they are used to bear?
COR-MENENIUS
{(to +
COR 3.1. 249B Coriolanus)} Pray you be gone.
COR 3.1. 250 I'll try whether my old wit be in request
COR 3.1. 251 With those that have but little. This must be patched
COR 3.1. 252 With cloth of any colour.
COR 3.1. 253A
COR-COMINIUS
Nay, come away. {Exeunt Coriolanus and Cominius}
COR 3.1. 254A A
COR-PATRICIAN
This man has marred his fortune.
COR 3.1. 255
COR-MENENIUS
His nature is too noble for the world.
COR 3.1. 256 He would not flatter Neptune for his trident
COR 3.1. 257 Or Jove for 's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth.
COR 3.1. 258 What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent,
COR 3.1. 259 And, being angry, does forget that ever
COR 3.1. 260B He heard the name of death. {A noise within} Here's +
COR 3.1. 260B goodly work.
COR 3.1. 261B A
COR-PATRICIAN
I would they were abed.
COR-MENENIUS
I would they were +
COR 3.1. 261B in Tiber.
COR 3.1. 262 What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair? {Enter Brutus +
COR 3.1. 262 and Sicinius, with the rabble again}
COR 3.1. 263A
COR-SICINIUS
Where is this viper
COR 3.1. 264 That would depopulate the city and
COR 3.1. 265B Be every man himself?
COR-MENENIUS
You worthy tribunes -
COR 3.1. 266
COR-SICINIUS
He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock
COR 3.1. 267 With rigorous hands. He hath resisted law,
COR 3.1. 268 And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
COR 3.1. 269 Than the severity of the public power,
COR 3.1. 270B Which he so sets at naught.
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
He shall well know
COR 3.1. 271 The noble tribunes are the people's mouths,
COR 3.1. 272B And we their hands.
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
He shall, sure +
COR 3.1. 272B on 't.
COR-MENENIUS
Sir, sir.
COR 3.1. 273A
COR-SICINIUS
Peace!
COR 3.1. 274
COR-MENENIUS
Do not cry havoc where you should but hunt
COR 3.1. 275B With modest warrant.
COR-SICINIUS
Sir, how comes 't that you
COR 3.1. 276B Have holp to make this rescue?
COR-MENENIUS
Hear me speak.
COR 3.1. 277 As I do know the consul's worthiness,
COR 3.1. 278 So can I name his faults.
COR 3.1. 279A
COR-SICINIUS
Consul? What consul?
COR 3.1. 280A
COR-MENENIUS
The consul Coriolanus.
COR 3.1. 281A
COR-BRUTUS
He consul?
COR 3.1. 282A
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
No, no, no, no, no!
COR 3.1. 283
COR-MENENIUS
If, by the tribunes' leave and yours, good people,
COR 3.1. 284 I may be heard, I would crave a word or two,
COR 3.1. 285 The which shall turn you to no further harm
COR 3.1. 286B Than so much loss of time.
COR-SICINIUS
Speak briefly, then,
COR 3.1. 287 For we are peremptory to dispatch
COR 3.1. 288 This viperous traitor. To eject him hence
COR 3.1. 289 Were but our danger, and to keep him here
COR 3.1. 290 Our certain death. Therefore it is decreed
COR 3.1. 291B He dies tonight.
COR-MENENIUS
Now the good gods forbid
COR 3.1. 292 That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude
COR 3.1. 293 Towards her deserved children is enrolled
COR 3.1. 294 In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam
COR 3.1. 295 Should now eat up her own!
COR 3.1. 296
COR-SICINIUS
He's a disease that must be cut away.
COR 3.1. 297
COR-MENENIUS
O, he's a limb that has but a disease -
COR 3.1. 298 Mortal to cut it off, to cure it easy.
COR 3.1. 299 What has he done to Rome that's worthy death?
COR 3.1. 300 Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost -
COR 3.1. 301 Which I dare vouch is more than that he hath
COR 3.1. 302 By many an ounce - he dropped it for his country;
COR 3.1. 303 And what is left, to lose it by his country
COR 3.1. 304 Were to us all that do 't and suffer it
COR 3.1. 305B A brand to th' end o' th' world.
COR-SICINIUS
This is clean cam.
COR 3.1. 306
COR-BRUTUS
Merely awry. When he did love his country
COR 3.1. 307B It honoured him.
COR-[SICINIUS]
The service of the foot,
COR 3.1. 308 Being once gangrened, is not then respected
COR 3.1. 309B For what before it was.
COR-BRUTUS
We'll hear no more.
COR 3.1. 310 Pursue him to his house and pluck him thence,
COR 3.1. 311 Lest his infection, being of catching nature,
COR 3.1. 312B Spread further.
COR-MENENIUS
One word more, one word!
COR 3.1. 313 This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find
COR 3.1. 314 The harm of unscanned swiftness, will too late
COR 3.1. 315 Tie leaden pounds to 's heels. Proceed by process,
COR 3.1. 316 Lest parties - as he is beloved - break out
COR 3.1. 317 And sack great Rome with Romans.
COR 3.1. 318A
COR-BRUTUS
If it were so?
COR 3.1. 319A
COR-SICINIUS
{(to Menenius)} What do ye talk?
COR 3.1. 320 Have we not had a taste of his obedience:
COR 3.1. 321 Our aediles smote, ourselves resisted? Come.
COR 3.1. 322
COR-MENENIUS
Consider this: he has been bred i' th' wars
COR 3.1. 323 Since a could draw a sword, and is ill-schooled
COR 3.1. 324 In bolted language. Meal and bran together
COR 3.1. 325 He throws without distinction. Give me leave,
COR 3.1. 326 I'll go to him and undertake to bring him
COR 3.1. 327 Where he shall answer by a lawful form,
COR 3.1. 328B In peace, to his utmost peril.
COR-FIRST SENATOR
Noble tribunes,
COR 3.1. 329 It is the humane way. The other course
COR 3.1. 330 Will prove too bloody, and the end of it
COR 3.1. 331B Unknown to the beginning.
COR-SICINIUS
Noble Menenius,
COR 3.1. 332 Be you then as the people's officer.
COR 3.1. 333B {(To the Citizens)} Masters, lay down your +
COR 3.1. 333B weapons.
COR-BRUTUS
Go not home.
COR 3.1. 334
COR-SICINIUS
Meet on the market-place. {(To Menenius)} +
COR 3.1. 334 We'll attend you there,
COR 3.1. 335 Where if you bring not Martius, we'll proceed
COR 3.1. 336B In our first way.
COR-MENENIUS
I'll bring him to you.
COR 3.1. 337 {(To the Senators)} Let me desire your company. He +
COR 3.1. 337 must come,
COR 3.1. 338B Or what is worst will follow.
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
Pray you, let's to +
COR 3.1. 338B him. {Exeunt [tribunes and Citizens at one door, Patricians at +
COR 3.1. 338B another door]}
COR 3.1. 0 {Enter Coriolanus, with Nobles}
COR 3.2. 1
COR-CORIOLANUS
Let them pull all about mine ears, present me
COR 3.2. 2 Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels,
COR 3.2. 3 Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,
COR 3.2. 4 That the precipitation might down stretch
COR 3.2. 5 Below the beam of sight, yet will I still
COR 3.2. 6B Be thus to them. {Enter Volumnia} A
COR-PATRICIAN
You +
COR 3.2. 6B do the nobler.
COR-CORIOLANUS
I muse my mother
COR 3.2. 7 Does not approve me further, who was wont
COR 3.2. 8 To call them woollen vassals, things created
COR 3.2. 9 To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads
COR 3.2. 10 In congregations, to yawn, be still, and wonder,
COR 3.2. 11 When one but of my ordinance stood up
COR 3.2. 12 To speak of peace or war. {(To Volumnia)} I talk of +
COR 3.2. 12 you.
COR 3.2. 13 Why did you wish me milder? Would you have me
COR 3.2. 14 False to my nature? Rather say I play
COR 3.2. 15B The man I am.
COR-VOLUMNIA
O, sir, sir, sir,
COR 3.2. 16 I would have had you put your power well on
COR 3.2. 17B Before you had worn it out.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Let go.
COR 3.2. 18
COR-VOLUMNIA
You might have been enough the man you are
COR 3.2. 19 With striving less to be so. Lesser had been
COR 3.2. 20 The taxings of your dispositions if
COR 3.2. 21 You had not showed them how ye were disposed
COR 3.2. 22B Ere they lacked power to cross you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Let them hang.
COR 3.2. 23A
COR-VOLUMNIA
Ay, and burn too. {Enter Menenius, with the +
COR 3.2. 23A Senators}
COR 3.2. 24
COR-MENENIUS
{(to Coriolanus)} Come, come, you have +
COR 3.2. 24 been too rough, something too rough.
COR 3.2. 25B You must return and mend it.
COR-[FIRST] SENATOR
There's no remedy
COR 3.2. 26 Unless, by not so doing, our good city
COR 3.2. 27B Cleave in the midst and perish.
COR-VOLUMNIA
{(to +
COR 3.2. 27B Coriolanus)} Pray be counselled.
COR 3.2. 28 I have a heart as little apt as yours,
COR 3.2. 29 But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
COR 3.2. 30B To better vantage.
COR-MENENIUS
Well said, noble woman.
COR 3.2. 31 Before he should thus stoop to th' herd, but that
COR 3.2. 32 The violent fit o' th' time craves it as physic
COR 3.2. 33 For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,
COR 3.2. 34 Which I can scarcely bear.
COR 3.2. 35A
COR-CORIOLANUS
What must I do?
COR 3.2. 36A
COR-MENENIUS
Return to th' tribunes.
COR 3.2. 37A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Well, what then, what then?
COR 3.2. 38A
COR-MENENIUS
Repent what you have spoke.
COR 3.2. 39
COR-CORIOLANUS
For them? I cannot do it to the gods.
COR 3.2. 40B Must I then do 't to them?
COR-VOLUMNIA
You are too absolute,
COR 3.2. 41 Though therein you can never be too noble,
COR 3.2. 42 But when extremities speak. I have heard you say,
COR 3.2. 43 Honour and policy, like unsevered friends,
COR 3.2. 44 I' th' war do grow together. Grant that, and tell me
COR 3.2. 45 In peace what each of them by th' other lose
COR 3.2. 46B That they combine not there.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Tush, tush!
COR-MENENIUS
A +
COR 3.2. 46B good demand.
COR 3.2. 47
COR-VOLUMNIA
If it be honour in your wars to seem
COR 3.2. 48 The same you are not, which for your best ends
COR 3.2. 49 You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse
COR 3.2. 50 That it shall hold companionship in peace
COR 3.2. 51 With honour, as in war, since that to both
COR 3.2. 52B It stands in like request?
COR-CORIOLANUS
Why force you this?
COR 3.2. 53
COR-VOLUMNIA
Because that now it lies you on to speak to th' people,
COR 3.2. 54 Not by your own instruction, nor by th' matter
COR 3.2. 55 Which your heart prompts you, but with such words
COR 3.2. 56 That are but roted in your tongue, though but
COR 3.2. 57 Bastards and syllables of no allowance
COR 3.2. 58 To your bosom's truth. Now this no more
COR 3.2. 59 Dishonours you at all than to take in
COR 3.2. 60 A town with gentle words, which else would put you
COR 3.2. 61 To your fortune and the hazard of much blood.
COR 3.2. 62 I would dissemble with my nature where
COR 3.2. 63 My fortunes and my friends at stake required
COR 3.2. 64 I should do so in honour. I am in this
COR 3.2. 65 Your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles;
COR 3.2. 66 And you will rather show our general louts
COR 3.2. 67 How you can frown than spend a fawn upon 'em
COR 3.2. 68 For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard
COR 3.2. 69B Of what that want might ruin.
COR-MENENIUS
Noble lady!
COR 3.2. 70 {(To Coriolanus)} Come, go with us, speak fair. You +
COR 3.2. 70 may salve so,
COR 3.2. 71 Not what is dangerous present, but the loss
COR 3.2. 72B Of what is past.
COR-VOLUMNIA
I prithee now, my son, {[She takes +
COR 3.2. 72B his bonnet]}
COR 3.2. 73 Go to them with this bonnet in thy hand,
COR 3.2. 74 And thus far having stretched it - here be with them -
COR 3.2. 75 Thy knee bussing the stones - for in such business
COR 3.2. 76 Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant
COR 3.2. 77 More learned than the ears - waving thy head,
COR 3.2. 78 With often, thus, correcting thy stout heart,
COR 3.2. 79 Now humble as the ripest mulberry
COR 3.2. 80 That will not hold the handling; or say to them
COR 3.2. 81 Thou art their soldier and, being bred in broils,
COR 3.2. 82 Hast not the soft way which, thou dost confess,
COR 3.2. 83 Were fit for thee to use as they to claim,
COR 3.2. 84 In asking their good loves; but thou wilt frame
COR 3.2. 85 Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs so far
COR 3.2. 86B As thou hast power and person.
COR-MENENIUS
{(to +
COR 3.2. 86B Coriolanus)} This but done
COR 3.2. 87 Even as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours;
COR 3.2. 88 For they have pardons, being asked, as free
COR 3.2. 89B As words to little purpose.
COR-VOLUMNIA
{(to +
COR 3.2. 89B Coriolanus)} Prithee now,
COR 3.2. 90 Go, and be ruled, although I know thou hadst rather
COR 3.2. 91 Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf
COR 3.2. 92B Than flatter him in a bower. {Enter Cominius} Here is +
COR 3.2. 92B Cominius.
COR 3.2. 93
COR-COMINIUS
I have been i' th' market-place; and, sir, 'tis fit
COR 3.2. 94 You make strong party, or defend yourself
COR 3.2. 95 By calmness or by absence. All's in anger.
COR 3.2. 96B
COR-MENENIUS
Only fair speech.
COR-COMINIUS
I think 'twill serve, if he
COR 3.2. 97B Can thereto frame his spirit.
COR-VOLUMNIA
He must, and will.
COR 3.2. 98 Prithee now, say you will, and go about it.
COR 3.2. 99
COR-CORIOLANUS
Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce?
COR 3.2. 100 Must I with my base tongue give to my noble heart
COR 3.2. 101 A lie that it must bear? Well, I will do 't.
COR 3.2. 102 Yet were there but this single plot to lose,
COR 3.2. 103 This mould of Martius they to dust should grind it
COR 3.2. 104 And throw 't against the wind. To th' market-place.
COR 3.2. 105 You have put me now to such a part which never
COR 3.2. 106B I shall discharge to th' life.
COR-COMINIUS
Come, come, we'll prompt +
COR 3.2. 106B you.
COR 3.2. 107
COR-VOLUMNIA
I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said
COR 3.2. 108 My praises made thee first a soldier, so,
COR 3.2. 109 To have my praise for this, perform a part
COR 3.2. 110B Thou hast not done before.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Well, I must do 't.
COR 3.2. 111 Away, my disposition; and possess me
COR 3.2. 112 Some harlot's spirit! My throat of war be turned,
COR 3.2. 113 Which choired with my drum, into a pipe
COR 3.2. 114 Small as an eunuch or the virgin voice
COR 3.2. 115 That babies lull asleep! The smiles of knaves
COR 3.2. 116 Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up
COR 3.2. 117 The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue
COR 3.2. 118 Make motion through my lips, and my armed knees,
COR 3.2. 119 Who bowed but in my stirrup, bend like his
COR 3.2. 120 That hath received an alms! I will not do 't,
COR 3.2. 121 Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth,
COR 3.2. 122 And by my body's action teach my mind
COR 3.2. 123B A most inherent baseness.
COR-VOLUMNIA
At thy choice, then.
COR 3.2. 124 To beg of thee it is my more dishonour
COR 3.2. 125 Than thou of them. Come all to ruin. Let
COR 3.2. 126 Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear
COR 3.2. 127 Thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death
COR 3.2. 128 With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list.
COR 3.2. 129 Thy valiantness was mine, thou sucked'st it from me,
COR 3.2. 130B But owe thy pride thyself.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Pray be content.
COR 3.2. 131 Mother, I am going to the market-place.
COR 3.2. 132 Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
COR 3.2. 133 Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved
COR 3.2. 134 Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going.
COR 3.2. 135 Commend me to my wife. I'll return consul,
COR 3.2. 136 Or never trust to what my tongue can do
COR 3.2. 137B I' th' way of flattery further.
COR-VOLUMNIA
Do your will. {Exit +
COR 3.2. 137B Volumnia}
COR 3.2. 138
COR-COMINIUS
Away! The tribunes do attend you. Arm yourself
COR 3.2. 139 To answer mildly, for they are prepared
COR 3.2. 140 With accusations, as I hear, more strong
COR 3.2. 141 Than are upon you yet.
COR 3.2. 142
COR-CORIOLANUS
The word is `mildly'. Pray you let us go.
COR 3.2. 143 Let them accuse me by invention, I
COR 3.2. 144 Will answer in mine honour.
COR 3.2. 145A
COR-MENENIUS
Ay, but mildly.
COR 3.2. 146A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Well, mildly be it, then - mildly. {Exeunt}
COR 3.2. 0 {Enter Sicinius and Brutus}
COR 3.3. 1
COR-BRUTUS
In this point charge him home: that he affects
COR 3.3. 2 Tyrannical power. If he evade us there,
COR 3.3. 3 Enforce him with his envy to the people,
COR 3.3. 4 And that the spoil got on the Antiats
COR 3.3. 5B Was ne'er distributed. {Enter an Aedile} What, will he +
COR 3.3. 5B come?
COR 3.3. 6B
COR-AEDILE
He's coming.
COR-BRUTUS
How accompanied?
COR 3.3. 7
COR-AEDILE
With old Menenius, and those senators
COR 3.3. 8B That always favoured him.
COR-SICINIUS
Have you a catalogue
COR 3.3. 9 Of all the voices that we have procured,
COR 3.3. 10B Set down by th' poll?
COR-AEDILE
I have, 'tis ready.
COR 3.3. 11B
COR-SICINIUS
Have you collected them by tribes?
COR-AEDILE
I have.
COR 3.3. 12
COR-SICINIUS
Assemble presently the people hither,
COR 3.3. 13 And when they hear me say `It shall be so
COR 3.3. 14 I' th' right and strength o' th' commons', be it either
COR 3.3. 15 For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them,
COR 3.3. 16 If I say `Fine', cry `Fine!', if `Death', cry `Death!',
COR 3.3. 17 Insisting on the old prerogative
COR 3.3. 18B And power i' th' truth o' th' cause.
COR-AEDILE
I shall inform them.
COR 3.3. 19
COR-BRUTUS
And when such time they have begun to cry,
COR 3.3. 20 Let them not cease, but with a din confused
COR 3.3. 21 Enforce the present execution
COR 3.3. 22B Of what we chance to sentence.
COR-AEDILE
Very well.
COR 3.3. 23
COR-SICINIUS
Make them be strong, and ready for this hint
COR 3.3. 24B When we shall hap to give 't them.
COR-BRUTUS
{[to the +
COR 3.3. 24B Aedile]} Go about it. {[Exit Aedile]}
COR 3.3. 25 Put him to choler straight. He hath been used
COR 3.3. 26 Ever to conquer and to have his worth
COR 3.3. 27 Of contradiction. Being once chafed, he cannot
COR 3.3. 28 Be reined again to temperance. Then he speaks
COR 3.3. 29 What's in his heart, and that is there which looks
COR 3.3. 30 With us to break his neck. {Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, and +
COR 3.3. 30 Cominius, with other [Senators and Patricians]}
COR 3.3. 31A
COR-SICINIUS
Well, here he comes.
COR 3.3. 32A
COR-MENENIUS
{(to Coriolanus)} Calmly, I do beseech +
COR 3.3. 32A you.
COR 3.3. 33
COR-CORIOLANUS
Ay, as an hostler that for th' poorest piece
COR 3.3. 34 Will bear the knave by th' volume. - Th' honoured gods
COR 3.3. 35 Keep Rome in safety and the chairs of justice
COR 3.3. 36 Supplied with worthy men, plant love among 's,
COR 3.3. 37 Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,
COR 3.3. 38 And not our streets with war!
COR 3.3. 39A
COR-FIRST SENATOR
Amen, amen.
COR 3.3. 40A
COR-MENENIUS
A noble wish. {Enter the Aedile with the Citizens}
COR 3.3. 41B
COR-SICINIUS
Draw near, ye people.
COR-AEDILE
List to your +
COR 3.3. 41B tribunes. Audience!
COR 3.3. 42B Peace, I say.
COR-CORIOLANUS
First, hear me speak. +
COR 3.3. 42B
COR-SICINIUS
COR-AND
COR-BRUTUS
Well, say. - Peace ho!
COR 3.3. 43
COR-CORIOLANUS
Shall I be charged no further than this present?
COR 3.3. 44B Must all determine here?
COR-SICINIUS
I do demand
COR 3.3. 45 If you submit you to the people's voices,
COR 3.3. 46 Allow their officers, and are content
COR 3.3. 47 To suffer lawful censure for such faults
COR 3.3. 48B As shall be proved upon you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
I am content.
COR 3.3. 49
COR-MENENIUS
Lo, citizens, he says he is content.
COR 3.3. 50 The warlike service he has done, consider. Think
COR 3.3. 51 Upon the wounds his body bears, which show
COR 3.3. 52B Like graves i' th' holy churchyard.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Scratches with briers,
COR 3.3. 53B Scars to move laughter only.
COR-MENENIUS
Consider further
COR 3.3. 54 That when he speaks not like a citizen,
COR 3.3. 55 You find him like a soldier. Do not take
COR 3.3. 56 His rougher accents for malicious sounds,
COR 3.3. 57 But, as I say, such as become a soldier
COR 3.3. 58 Rather than envy you.
COR 3.3. 59A
COR-COMINIUS
Well, well, no more.
COR 3.3. 60A
COR-CORIOLANUS
What is the matter
COR 3.3. 61 That, being passed for consul with full voice,
COR 3.3. 62 I am so dishonoured that the very hour
COR 3.3. 63 You take it off again?
COR 3.3. 64A
COR-SICINIUS
Answer to us.
COR 3.3. 65A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Say, then. 'Tis true I ought so.
COR 3.3. 66
COR-SICINIUS
We charge you that you have contrived to take
COR 3.3. 67 From Rome all seasoned office, and to wind
COR 3.3. 68 Yourself into a power tyrannical,
COR 3.3. 69 For which you are a traitor to the people.
COR 3.3. 70B
COR-CORIOLANUS
How, traitor?
COR-MENENIUS
Nay, temperately - your promise.
COR 3.3. 71
COR-CORIOLANUS
The fires i' th' lowest hell fold in the people!
COR 3.3. 72 Call me their traitor, thou injurious tribune?
COR 3.3. 73 Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,
COR 3.3. 74 In thy hands clutched as many millions, in
COR 3.3. 75 Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say
COR 3.3. 76 `Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free
COR 3.3. 77 As I do pray the gods.
COR 3.3. 78A
COR-SICINIUS
Mark you this, people?
COR 3.3. 79A
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
To th' rock, to th' rock with him!
COR 3.3. 80A
COR-SICINIUS
Peace!
COR 3.3. 81 We need not put new matter to his charge.
COR 3.3. 82 What you have seen him do and heard him speak,
COR 3.3. 83 Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,
COR 3.3. 84 Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying
COR 3.3. 85 Those whose great power must try him -
COR 3.3. 86 Even this, so criminal and in such capital kind,
COR 3.3. 87B Deserves th' extremest death.
COR-BRUTUS
But since he hath
COR 3.3. 88B Served well for Rome -
COR-CORIOLANUS
What do you prate of service?
COR 3.3. 89B
COR-BRUTUS
I talk of that that know it.
COR-CORIOLANUS
You?
COR 3.3. 90
COR-MENENIUS
Is this the promise that you made your mother?
COR 3.3. 91B
COR-COMINIUS
Know, I pray you -
COR-CORIOLANUS
I'll know no further.
COR 3.3. 92 Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
COR 3.3. 93 Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger
COR 3.3. 94 But with a grain a day, I would not buy
COR 3.3. 95 Their mercy at the price of one fair word,
COR 3.3. 96 Nor check my courage for what they can give
COR 3.3. 97B To have 't with saying `Good morrow'.
COR-SICINIUS
For that he has,
COR 3.3. 98 As much as in him lies, from time to time
COR 3.3. 99 Inveighed against the people, seeking means
COR 3.3. 100 To pluck away their power, as now at last
COR 3.3. 101 Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
COR 3.3. 102 Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
COR 3.3. 103 That doth distribute it, in the name o' th' people,
COR 3.3. 104 And in the power of us the tribunes, we
COR 3.3. 105 E'en from this instant banish him our city
COR 3.3. 106 In peril of precipitation
COR 3.3. 107 From off the rock Tarpeian, never more
COR 3.3. 108 To enter our Rome gates. I' th' people's name
COR 3.3. 109B I say it shall be so.
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
It shall be so,
COR 3.3. 110 It shall be so. Let him away. He's banished,
COR 3.3. 111 And it shall be so.
COR 3.3. 112
COR-COMINIUS
Hear me, my masters and my common friends.
COR 3.3. 113B
COR-SICINIUS
He's sentenced. No more hearing.
COR-COMINIUS
Let me speak.
COR 3.3. 114 I have been consul, and can show for Rome
COR 3.3. 115 Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love
COR 3.3. 116 My country's good with a respect more tender,
COR 3.3. 117 More holy and profound, than mine own life,
COR 3.3. 118 My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,
COR 3.3. 119 And treasure of my loins. Then if I would
COR 3.3. 120B Speak that -
COR-SICINIUS
We know your drift. Speak what?
COR 3.3. 121
COR-BRUTUS
There's no more to be said, but he is banished,
COR 3.3. 122 As enemy to the people and his country.
COR 3.3. 123B It shall be so.
COR-ALL [THE CITIZENS]
It shall be so, it shall be so.
COR 3.3. 124
COR-CORIOLANUS
You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate
COR 3.3. 125 As reek o' th' rotten fens, whose loves I prize
COR 3.3. 126 As the dead carcasses of unburied men
COR 3.3. 127 That do corrupt my air: I banish you.
COR 3.3. 128 And here remain with your uncertainty.
COR 3.3. 129 Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts;
COR 3.3. 130 Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
COR 3.3. 131 Fan you into despair! Have the power still
COR 3.3. 132 To banish your defenders, till at length
COR 3.3. 133 Your ignorance - which finds not till it feels -
COR 3.3. 134 Making but reservation of yourselves,
COR 3.3. 135 Still your own foes, deliver you
COR 3.3. 136 As most abated captives to some nation
COR 3.3. 137 That won you without blows! Despising
COR 3.3. 138 For you the city, thus I turn my back.
COR 3.3. 139 There is a world elsewhere. {Exeunt Coriolanus, Cominius, and +
COR 3.3. 139 Menenius, with the rest of the Patricians. The Citizens}
COR 3.3. 140 {all shout, and throw up their caps}
COR-AEDILE
The people's +
COR 3.3. 140 enemy is gone, is gone.
COR 3.3. 141
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
Our enemy is banished, he is gone. Hoo-oo!
COR 3.3. 142
COR-SICINIUS
Go see him out at gates, and follow him
COR 3.3. 143 As he hath followed you, with all despite.
COR 3.3. 144 Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard
COR 3.3. 145 Attend us through the city.
COR 3.3. 146
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
Come, come, let's see him out at gates. Come.
COR 3.3. 147 The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come. {Exeunt}
COR 3.3. 147
COR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
COR 3.3. 0 {Enter Coriolanus, Volumnia, Virgilia, Menenius, +
COR 4.1. 0 and Cominius, with the young nobility of Rome}
COR 4.1. 1
COR-CORIOLANUS
Come, leave your tears. A brief farewell. The +
COR 4.1. 1 beast
COR 4.1. 2 With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,
COR 4.1. 3 Where is your ancient courage? You were used
COR 4.1. 4 To say extremities was the trier of spirits,
COR 4.1. 5 That common chances common men could bear,
COR 4.1. 6 That when the sea was calm all boats alike
COR 4.1. 7 Showed mastership in floating; fortune's blows
COR 4.1. 8 When most struck home, being gentle wounded craves
COR 4.1. 9 A noble cunning. You were used to load me
COR 4.1. 10 With precepts that would make invincible
COR 4.1. 11 The heart that conned them.
COR 4.1. 12A
COR-VIRGILIA
O heavens, O heavens!
COR 4.1. 13A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Nay, I prithee, woman -
COR 4.1. 14
COR-VOLUMNIA
Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,
COR 4.1. 15B And occupations perish!
COR-CORIOLANUS
What, what, what?
COR 4.1. 16 I shall be loved when I am lacked. Nay, mother,
COR 4.1. 17 Resume that spirit when you were wont to say,
COR 4.1. 18 If you had been the wife of Hercules
COR 4.1. 19 Six of his labours you'd have done, and saved
COR 4.1. 20 Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,
COR 4.1. 21 Droop not. Adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother.
COR 4.1. 22 I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
COR 4.1. 23 Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
COR 4.1. 24 And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
COR 4.1. 25 I have seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld
COR 4.1. 26 Heart-hard'ning spectacles. Tell these sad women
COR 4.1. 27 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes
COR 4.1. 28 As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well
COR 4.1. 29 My hazards still have been your solace, and -
COR 4.1. 30 Believe 't not lightly - though I go alone,
COR 4.1. 31 Like to a lonely dragon that his fen
COR 4.1. 32 Makes feared and talked of more than seen, your son
COR 4.1. 33 Will or exceed the common or be caught
COR 4.1. 34B With cautelous baits and practice.
COR-VOLUMNIA
My first son,
COR 4.1. 35 Whither will thou go? Take good Cominius
COR 4.1. 36 With thee a while. Determine on some course
COR 4.1. 37 More than a wild exposure to each chance
COR 4.1. 38B That starts i' th' way before thee.
COR-[VIRGILIA]
O the gods!
COR 4.1. 39
COR-COMINIUS
I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee
COR 4.1. 40 Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us
COR 4.1. 41 And we of thee. So, if the time thrust forth
COR 4.1. 42 A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send
COR 4.1. 43 O'er the vast world to seek a single man,
COR 4.1. 44 And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
COR 4.1. 45B I' th' absence of the needer.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Fare ye well.
COR 4.1. 46 Thou hast years upon thee, and thou art too full
COR 4.1. 47 Of the wars' surfeits to go rove with one
COR 4.1. 48 That's yet unbruised. Bring me but out at gate.
COR 4.1. 49 Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
COR 4.1. 50 My friends of noble touch. When I am forth,
COR 4.1. 51 Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you come.
COR 4.1. 52 While I remain above the ground you shall
COR 4.1. 53 Hear from me still, and never of me aught
COR 4.1. 54B But what is like me formerly.
COR-MENENIUS
That's worthily
COR 4.1. 55 As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep.
COR 4.1. 56 If I could shake off but one seven years
COR 4.1. 57 From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,
COR 4.1. 58B I'd with thee every foot.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Give me thy hand. Come. +
COR 4.1. 58B {Exeunt}
COR 4.1. 0 {Enter the two tribunes, Sicinius and Brutus, with the +
COR 4.2. 0 Aedile}
COR 4.2. 1
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the Aedile)} Bid them all home. He's +
COR 4.2. 1 gone, and we'll no further.
COR 4.2. 2 The nobility are vexed, whom we see have sided
COR 4.2. 3B In his behalf.
COR-BRUTUS
Now we have shown our power,
COR 4.2. 4 Let us seem humbler after it is done
COR 4.2. 5B Than when it was a-doing.
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the Aedile)}+
COR 4.2. 5B Bid them home.
COR 4.2. 6 Say their great enemy is gone, and they
COR 4.2. 7B Stand in their ancient strength.
COR-BRUTUS
Dismiss them home. +
COR 4.2. 7B {Exit Aedile}
COR 4.2. 8 {Enter Volumnia, Virgilia, [weeping,] and Menenius} +
COR 4.2. 8 Here comes his mother.
COR 4.2. 9A
COR-SICINIUS
Let's not meet her.
COR 4.2. 10A
COR-BRUTUS
Why?
COR 4.2. 11A
COR-SICINIUS
They say she's mad.
COR 4.2. 12
COR-BRUTUS
They have ta'en note of us. Keep on your way.
COR 4.2. 13
COR-VOLUMNIA
O, you're well met! Th' hoarded plague o' th' gods
COR 4.2. 14B Requite your love!
COR-MENENIUS
Peace, peace, be not so loud.
COR 4.2. 15
COR-VOLUMNIA
{(to the tribunes)} If that I could for +
COR 4.2. 15 weeping, you should hear -
COR 4.2. 16 Nay, and you shall hear some. Will you be gone?
COR 4.2. 17
COR-VIRGILIA
{(to the tribunes)} You shall stay, too. +
COR 4.2. 17 I would I had the power
COR 4.2. 18B To say so to my husband.
COR-SICINIUS
{(to Volumnia)} +
COR 4.2. 18B Are you mankind?
COR 4.2. 19
COR-VOLUMNIA
Ay, fool. Is that a shame? Note but this, fool:
COR 4.2. 20 Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
COR 4.2. 21 To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
COR 4.2. 22B Than thou hast spoken words?
COR-SICINIUS
O blessed heavens!
COR 4.2. 23
COR-VOLUMNIA
More noble blows than ever thou wise words,
COR 4.2. 24 And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what - yet go.
COR 4.2. 25 Nay, but thou shalt stay too. I would my son
COR 4.2. 26 Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
COR 4.2. 27B His good sword in his hand.
COR-SICINIUS
What then?
COR-VIRGILIA
What +
COR 4.2. 27B then?
COR 4.2. 28 He'd make an end of thy posterity.
COR 4.2. 29A
COR-VOLUMNIA
Bastards and all.
COR 4.2. 30 Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!
COR 4.2. 31A
COR-MENENIUS
Come, come, peace.
COR 4.2. 32
COR-SICINIUS
I would he had continued to his country
COR 4.2. 33 As he began, and not unknit himself
COR 4.2. 34B The noble knot he made.
COR-BRUTUS
I would he had.
COR 4.2. 35
COR-VOLUMNIA
`I would he had'! 'Twas you incensed the rabble -
COR 4.2. 36 Cats that can judge as fitly of his worth
COR 4.2. 37 As I can of those mysteries which heaven
COR 4.2. 38 Will not have earth to know.
COR 4.2. 39A
COR-BRUTUS
{(to Sicinius)} Pray, let's go.
COR 4.2. 40A
COR-VOLUMNIA
Now pray, sir, get you gone.
COR 4.2. 41 You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:
COR 4.2. 42 As far as doth the Capitol exceed
COR 4.2. 43 The meanest house in Rome, so far my son -
COR 4.2. 44 This lady's husband here, this, do you see? -
COR 4.2. 45 Whom you have banished does exceed you all.
COR 4.2. 46B
COR-BRUTUS
Well, well, we'll leave you.
COR-SICINIUS
Why stay we to be +
COR 4.2. 46B baited
COR 4.2. 47B With one that wants her wits? {Exeunt tribunes}
COR-VOLUMNIA
+
COR 4.2. 47B Take my prayers with you.
COR 4.2. 48 I would the gods had nothing else to do
COR 4.2. 49 But to confirm my curses. Could I meet 'em
COR 4.2. 50 But once a day, it would unclog my heart
COR 4.2. 51B Of what lies heavy to 't.
COR-MENENIUS
You have told them home
COR 4.2. 52 And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me?
COR 4.2. 53
COR-VOLUMNIA
Anger's my meat, I sup upon myself,
COR 4.2. 54B And so shall starve with feeding. {(To Virgilia)} Come, +
COR 4.2. 54B let's go.
COR 4.2. 55 Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,
COR 4.2. 56B In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come. {Exeunt Volumnia and +
COR 4.2. 56B Virgilia}
COR-MENENIUS
Fie, fie, fie. {Exit}
COR 4.2. 0 {Enter Nicanor, a Roman, and Adrian, a Volscian}
COR 4.3. 1
COR-NICANOR
I know you well, sir, and you know me. Your
COR 4.3. 2 name, I think, is Adrian.
COR 4.3. 3
COR-ADRIAN
It is so, sir. Truly, I have forgot you.
COR 4.3. 4
COR-NICANOR
I am a Roman, and my services are, as you are,
COR 4.3. 5 against 'em. Know you me yet?
COR 4.3. 6
COR-ADRIAN
Nicanor, no?
COR 4.3. 7
COR-NICANOR
The same, sir.
COR 4.3. 8
COR-ADRIAN
You had more beard when I last saw you, but
COR 4.3. 9 your favour is well approved by your tongue. What's
COR 4.3. 10 the news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian
COR 4.3. 11 state to find you out there. You have well saved me a
COR 4.3. 12 day's journey.
COR 4.3. 13
COR-NICANOR
There hath been in Rome strange insurrections,
COR 4.3. 14 the people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.
COR 4.3. 15
COR-ADRIAN
Hath been? - is it ended then? Our state thinks
COR 4.3. 16 not so. They are in a most warlike preparation, and
COR 4.3. 17 hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.
COR 4.3. 18
COR-NICANOR
The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
COR 4.3. 19 would make it flame again, for the nobles receive so to
COR 4.3. 20 heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus that
COR 4.3. 21 they are in a ripe aptness to take all power from the
COR 4.3. 22 people, and to pluck from them their tribunes for ever.
COR 4.3. 23 This lies glowing, I can tell you, and is almost mature
COR 4.3. 24 for the violent breaking out.
COR 4.3. 25
COR-ADRIAN
Coriolanus banished?
COR 4.3. 26
COR-NICANOR
Banished, sir.
COR 4.3. 27
COR-ADRIAN
You will be welcome with this intelligence,
COR 4.3. 28 Nicanor.
COR 4.3. 29
COR-NICANOR
The day serves well for them now. I have heard
COR 4.3. 30 it said the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when
COR 4.3. 31 she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble Tullus
COR 4.3. 32 Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his great
COR 4.3. 33 opposer Coriolanus being now in no request of his
COR 4.3. 34 country.
COR 4.3. 35
COR-ADRIAN
He cannot choose. I am most fortunate thus
COR 4.3. 36 accidentally to encounter you. You have ended my
COR 4.3. 37 business, and I will merrily accompany you home.
COR 4.3. 38
COR-NICANOR
I shall between this and supper tell you most
COR 4.3. 39 strange things from Rome, all tending to the good of
COR 4.3. 40 their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?
COR 4.3. 41
COR-ADRIAN
A most royal one - the centurions and their
COR 4.3. 42 charges distinctly billeted already in th' entertainment,
COR 4.3. 43 and to be on foot at an hour's warning.
COR 4.3. 44
COR-NICANOR
I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am
COR 4.3. 45 the man, I think, that shall set them in present action.
COR 4.3. 46 So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your
COR 4.3. 47 company.
COR 4.3. 48
COR-ADRIAN
You take my part from me, sir. I have the most
COR 4.3. 49 cause to be glad of yours.
COR 4.3. 50
COR-NICANOR
Well, let us go together. {Exeunt}
COR 4.3. 0 {Enter Coriolanus in mean apparel, disguised and muffled}
COR 4.4. 1
COR-CORIOLANUS
A goodly city is this Antium. City,
COR 4.4. 2 'Tis I that made thy widows. Many an heir
COR 4.4. 3 Of these fair edifices fore my wars
COR 4.4. 4 Have I heard groan and drop. Then know me not,
COR 4.4. 5 Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
COR 4.4. 6B In puny battle slay me. {Enter a Citizen} Save you, +
COR 4.4. 6B sir.
COR 4.4. 7B
COR-CITIZEN
And you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Direct me, if it be your will,
COR 4.4. 8 Where great Aufidius lies. Is he in Antium?
COR 4.4. 9
COR-CITIZEN
He is, and feasts the nobles of the state
COR 4.4. 10B At his house this night.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Which is his house, beseech you?
COR 4.4. 11B
COR-CITIZEN
This here before you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Thank you, sir. +
COR 4.4. 11B Farewell. {Exit Citizen}
COR 4.4. 12 O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,
COR 4.4. 13 Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,
COR 4.4. 14 Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
COR 4.4. 15 Are still together, who twin as 'twere in love
COR 4.4. 16 Unseparable, shall within this hour,
COR 4.4. 17 On a dissension of a doit, break out
COR 4.4. 18 To bitterest enmity. So fellest foes,
COR 4.4. 19 Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
COR 4.4. 20 To take the one the other, by some chance,
COR 4.4. 21 Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
COR 4.4. 22 And interjoin their issues. So with me.
COR 4.4. 23 My birthplace hate I, and my love's upon
COR 4.4. 24 This enemy town. I'll enter. If he slay me,
COR 4.4. 25 He does fair justice; if he give me way,
COR 4.4. 26 I'll do his country service. {Exit}
COR 4.4. 0 {Music plays. Enter a Servingman}
COR 4.5. 1
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Wine, wine, wine! What service is
COR 4.5. 2 here? I think our fellows are asleep. {[Exit]}
COR 4.5. 3 {Enter a Second Servingman}
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
+
COR 4.5. 3 Where's Cotus? My master calls for
COR 4.5. 4 him. Cotus! {Exit}
COR 4.5. 5A {Enter Coriolanus, as before}
COR-CORIOLANUS
A goodly +
COR 4.5. 5A house. The feast
COR 4.5. 6 Smells well, but I appear not like a guest. {Enter the First +
COR 4.5. 6 Servingman}
COR 4.5. 7
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
What would you have, friend? Whence
COR 4.5. 8 are you? Here's no place for you. Pray go to the door. {Exit}
COR 4.5. 9
COR-CORIOLANUS
I have deserved no better entertainment
COR 4.5. 10 In being Coriolanus. {Enter Second Servingman}
COR 4.5. 11
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Whence are you, sir? Has the porter
COR 4.5. 12 his eyes in his head, that he gives entrance to such
COR 4.5. 13 companions? Pray get you out.
COR 4.5. 14
COR-CORIOLANUS
Away!
COR 4.5. 15
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Away? Get you away.
COR 4.5. 16
COR-CORIOLANUS
Now thou'rt troublesome.
COR 4.5. 17
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Are you so brave? I'll have you
COR 4.5. 18 talked with anon. {Enter Third Servingman. The First meets him}
COR 4.5. 19
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
What fellow's this?
COR 4.5. 20
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
A strange one as ever I looked on. I
COR 4.5. 21 cannot get him out o' th' house. Prithee, call my master
COR 4.5. 22 to him.
COR 4.5. 23
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
{(to Coriolanus)} What have you +
COR 4.5. 23 to do
COR 4.5. 24 here, fellow? Pray you, avoid the house.
COR 4.5. 25
COR-CORIOLANUS
Let me but stand. I will not hurt your hearth.
COR 4.5. 26
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
What are you?
COR 4.5. 27
COR-CORIOLANUS
A gentleman.
COR 4.5. 28
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
A marvellous poor one.
COR 4.5. 29
COR-CORIOLANUS
True, so I am.
COR 4.5. 30
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Pray you, poor gentleman, take up
COR 4.5. 31 some other station. Here's no place for you. Pray you,
COR 4.5. 32 avoid. Come.
COR 4.5. 33
COR-CORIOLANUS
Follow your function. Go and batten on cold +
COR 4.5. 33 bits. {He pushes him away from him}
COR 4.5. 34
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
What, you will not? - Prithee tell my
COR 4.5. 35 master what a strange guest he has here.
COR 4.5. 36
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
And I shall. {Exit Second Servingman}
COR 4.5. 37
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Where dwell'st thou?
COR 4.5. 38
COR-CORIOLANUS
Under the canopy.
COR 4.5. 39
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Under the canopy?
COR 4.5. 40
COR-CORIOLANUS
Ay.
COR 4.5. 41
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Where's that?
COR 4.5. 42
COR-CORIOLANUS
I' th' city of kites and crows.
COR 4.5. 43
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
I' th' city of kites and crows? What an
COR 4.5. 44 ass it is! Then thou dwell'st with daws, too?
COR 4.5. 45
COR-CORIOLANUS
No, I serve not thy master.
COR 4.5. 46
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
How, sir? Do you meddle with my
COR 4.5. 47 master?
COR 4.5. 48
COR-CORIOLANUS
Ay, 'tis an honester service than to meddle
COR 4.5. 49 with thy mistress. Thou prat'st and prat'st. Serve with
COR 4.5. 50 thy trencher. Hence! {He beats him away.}
COR 4.5. 51 {Enter Aufidius, with the Second Servingman}
COR-AUFIDIUS
+
COR 4.5. 51 Where is this fellow?
COR 4.5. 52
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Here, sir. I'd have beaten him like a
COR 4.5. 53 dog but for disturbing the lords within. {[The Servingmen stand +
COR 4.5. 53 aside]}
COR 4.5. 54
COR-AUFIDIUS
Whence com'st thou? What wouldst thou? Thy name?
COR 4.5. 55B Why speak'st not? Speak, man. What's thy name?
COR-CORIOLANUS
+
COR 4.5. 55B {[unmuffling his head]} If, Tullus,
COR 4.5. 56 Not yet thou know'st me, and seeing me dost not
COR 4.5. 57 Think me for the man I am, necessity
COR 4.5. 58B Commands me name myself.
COR-AUFIDIUS
What is thy name?
COR 4.5. 59
COR-CORIOLANUS
A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears
COR 4.5. 60B And harsh in sound to thine.
COR-AUFIDIUS
Say, what's thy name?
COR 4.5. 61 Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
COR 4.5. 62 Bears a command in 't. Though thy tackle's torn,
COR 4.5. 63 Thou show'st a noble vessel. What's thy name?
COR 4.5. 64
COR-CORIOLANUS
Prepare thy brow to frown. Know'st thou me yet?
COR 4.5. 65A
COR-AUFIDIUS
I know thee not. Thy name?
COR 4.5. 66
COR-CORIOLANUS
My name is Caius Martius, who hath done
COR 4.5. 67 To thee particularly, and to all the Volsces,
COR 4.5. 68 Great hurt and mischief. Thereto witness may
COR 4.5. 69 My surname Coriolanus. The painful service,
COR 4.5. 70 The extreme dangers, and the drops of blood
COR 4.5. 71 Shed for my thankless country, are requited
COR 4.5. 72 But with that surname - a good memory
COR 4.5. 73 And witness of the malice and displeasure
COR 4.5. 74 Which thou shouldst bear me. Only that name remains.
COR 4.5. 75 The cruelty and envy of the people,
COR 4.5. 76 Permitted by our dastard nobles, who
COR 4.5. 77 Have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest,
COR 4.5. 78 And suffered me by th' voice of slaves to be
COR 4.5. 79 Whooped out of Rome. Now this extremity
COR 4.5. 80 Hath brought me to thy hearth. Not out of hope -
COR 4.5. 81 Mistake me not - to save my life, for if
COR 4.5. 82 I had feared death, of all the men i' th' world
COR 4.5. 83 I would have 'voided thee, but in mere spite
COR 4.5. 84 To be full quit of those my banishers
COR 4.5. 85 Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast
COR 4.5. 86 A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
COR 4.5. 87 Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
COR 4.5. 88 Of shame seen through thy country, speed thee straight,
COR 4.5. 89 And make my misery serve thy turn. So use it
COR 4.5. 90 That my revengeful services may prove
COR 4.5. 91 As benefits to thee; for I will fight
COR 4.5. 92 Against my cankered country with the spleen
COR 4.5. 93 Of all the under-fiends. But if so be
COR 4.5. 94 Thou dar'st not this, and that to prove more fortunes
COR 4.5. 95 Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am
COR 4.5. 96 Longer to live most weary, and present
COR 4.5. 97 My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice,
COR 4.5. 98 Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,
COR 4.5. 99 Since I have ever followed thee with hate,
COR 4.5. 100 Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,
COR 4.5. 101 And cannot live but to thy shame unless
COR 4.5. 102B It be to do thee service.
COR-AUFIDIUS
O Martius, Martius!
COR 4.5. 103 Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart
COR 4.5. 104 A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter
COR 4.5. 105 Should from yon cloud speak divine things
COR 4.5. 106 And say ` 'Tis true', I'd not believe them more
COR 4.5. 107 Than thee, all-noble Martius. Let me twine
COR 4.5. 108 Mine arms about that body whereagainst
COR 4.5. 109 My grained ash an hundred times hath broke,
COR 4.5. 110B And scarred the moon with splinters. {(He embraces +
COR 4.5. 110B Coriolanus)} Here I clip
COR 4.5. 111 The anvil of my sword, and do contest
COR 4.5. 112 As hotly and as nobly with thy love
COR 4.5. 113 As ever in ambitious strength I did
COR 4.5. 114 Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,
COR 4.5. 115 I loved the maid I married; never man
COR 4.5. 116 Sighed truer breath. But that I see thee here,
COR 4.5. 117 Thou noble thing, more dances my rapt heart
COR 4.5. 118 Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
COR 4.5. 119 Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars, I tell thee
COR 4.5. 120 We have a power on foot, and I had purpose
COR 4.5. 121 Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,
COR 4.5. 122 Or lose mine arm for 't. Thou hast beat me out
COR 4.5. 123 Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
COR 4.5. 124 Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me -
COR 4.5. 125 We have been down together in my sleep,
COR 4.5. 126 Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat -
COR 4.5. 127 And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy Martius,
COR 4.5. 128 Had we no other quarrel else to Rome but that
COR 4.5. 129 Thou art thence banished, we would muster all
COR 4.5. 130 From twelve to seventy, and, pouring war
COR 4.5. 131 Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,
COR 4.5. 132 Like a bold flood o'erbear 't. O, come, go in,
COR 4.5. 133 And take our friendly senators by th' hands
COR 4.5. 134 Who now are here taking their leaves of me,
COR 4.5. 135 Who am prepared against your territories,
COR 4.5. 136B Though not for Rome itself.
COR-CORIOLANUS
You bless me, gods.
COR 4.5. 137
COR-AUFIDIUS
Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have
COR 4.5. 138 The leading of thine own revenges, take
COR 4.5. 139 Th' one half of my commission and set down -
COR 4.5. 140 As best thou art experienced, since thou know'st
COR 4.5. 141 Thy country's strength and weakness - thine own ways:
COR 4.5. 142 Whether to knock against the gates of Rome,
COR 4.5. 143 Or rudely visit them in parts remote
COR 4.5. 144 To fright them ere destroy. But come in.
COR 4.5. 145 Let me commend thee first to those that shall
COR 4.5. 146 Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!
COR 4.5. 147 And more a friend than ere an enemy;
COR 4.5. 148 Yet, Martius, that was much. Your hand. Most welcome! {Exeunt}
COR 4.5. 149 {[The two Servingmen come forward]}
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
+
COR 4.5. 149 Here's a strange alteration!
COR 4.5. 150
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
By my hand, I had thought to have
COR 4.5. 151 strucken him with a cudgel, and yet my mind gave me
COR 4.5. 152 his clothes made a false report of him.
COR 4.5. 153
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
What an arm he has! He turned me
COR 4.5. 154 about with his finger and his thumb as one would set
COR 4.5. 155 up a top.
COR 4.5. 156
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Nay, I knew by his face that there
COR 4.5. 157 was something in him. He had, sir, a kind of face,
COR 4.5. 158 methought - I cannot tell how to term it.
COR 4.5. 159
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
He had so, looking, as it were - would
COR 4.5. 160 I were hanged but I thought there was more in him
COR 4.5. 161 than I could think.
COR 4.5. 162
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
So did I, I'll be sworn. He is simply
COR 4.5. 163 the rarest man i' th' world.
COR 4.5. 164
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
I think he is yet a greater soldier than
COR 4.5. 165 he you wot on.
COR 4.5. 166
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Who, my master?
COR 4.5. 167
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Nay, it's no matter for that.
COR 4.5. 168
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Worth six on him.
COR 4.5. 169
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Nay, not so, neither; but I take him
COR 4.5. 170 to be the greater soldier.
COR 4.5. 171
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Faith, look you, one cannot tell how
COR 4.5. 172 to say that. For the defence of a town our general is
COR 4.5. 173 excellent.
COR 4.5. 174
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Ay, and for an assault too. {Enter the +
COR 4.5. 174 Third Servingman}
COR 4.5. 175
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
O, slaves, I can tell you news - news,
COR 4.5. 176 you rascals!
COR 4.5. 177
COR-FIRST
COR-AND
COR-SECOND SERVINGMEN
What, what, what? Let's
COR 4.5. 178 partake.
COR 4.5. 179
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
I would not be a Roman of all nations.
COR 4.5. 180 I had as lief be a condemned man.
COR 4.5. 181
COR-FIRST
COR-AND
COR-SECOND SERVINGMEN
Wherefore? Wherefore?
COR 4.5. 182
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Why, here's he that was wont to
COR 4.5. 183 thwack our general, Caius Martius.
COR 4.5. 184
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Why do you say `thwack our general'?
COR 4.5. 185
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
I do not say `thwack our general'; but
COR 4.5. 186 he was always good enough for him.
COR 4.5. 187
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Come, we are fellows and friends. He
COR 4.5. 188 was ever too hard for him. I have heard him say so
COR 4.5. 189 himself.
COR 4.5. 190
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
He was too hard for him directly. To
COR 4.5. 191 say the truth on 't, before Corioles he scotched him and
COR 4.5. 192 notched him like a carbonado.
COR 4.5. 193
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
An he had been cannibally given, he
COR 4.5. 194 might have broiled and eaten him too.
COR 4.5. 195
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
But more of thy news!
COR 4.5. 196
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Why, he is so made on here within
COR 4.5. 197 as if he were son and heir to Mars; set at upper end
COR 4.5. 198 o' th' table, no question asked him by any of the senators
COR 4.5. 199 but they stand bald before him. Our general himself
COR 4.5. 200 makes a mistress of him, sanctifies himself with 's hand,
COR 4.5. 201 and turns up the white o' th' eye to his discourse. But
COR 4.5. 202 the bottom of the news is, our general is cut i' th'
COR 4.5. 203 middle, and but one half of what he was yesterday, for
COR 4.5. 204 the other has half by the entreaty and grant of the
COR 4.5. 205 whole table. He'll go, he says, and sowl the porter of
COR 4.5. 206 Rome gates by th' ears. He will mow all down before
COR 4.5. 207 him, and leave his passage polled.
COR 4.5. 208
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
And he's as like to do 't as any man
COR 4.5. 209 I can imagine.
COR 4.5. 210
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Do 't? He will do 't; for look you, sir,
COR 4.5. 211 he has as many friends as enemies; which friends, sir,
COR 4.5. 212 as it were durst not - look you, sir - show themselves,
COR 4.5. 213 as we term it, his friends whilst he's in dejectitude.
COR 4.5. 214
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Dejectitude? What's that?
COR 4.5. 215
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
But when they shall see, sir, his crest
COR 4.5. 216 up again and the man in blood, they will out of their
COR 4.5. 217 burrows like conies after rain, and revel all with him.
COR 4.5. 218
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
But when goes this forward?
COR 4.5. 219
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Tomorrow, today, presently. You shall
COR 4.5. 220 have the drum struck up this afternoon. 'Tis as it were
COR 4.5. 221 a parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they wipe
COR 4.5. 222 their lips.
COR 4.5. 223
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Why, then we shall have a stirring
COR 4.5. 224 world again. This peace is nothing but to rust iron,
COR 4.5. 225 increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers.
COR 4.5. 226
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Let me have war, say I. It exceeds
COR 4.5. 227 peace as far as day does night. It's sprightly walking,
COR 4.5. 228 audible and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy,
COR 4.5. 229 lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of
COR 4.5. 230 more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.
COR 4.5. 231
COR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
'Tis so, and as war in some sort may
COR 4.5. 232 be said to be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but
COR 4.5. 233 peace is a great maker of cuckolds.
COR 4.5. 234
COR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Ay, and it makes men hate one
COR 4.5. 235 another.
COR 4.5. 236
COR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Reason; because they then less need
COR 4.5. 237 one another. The wars for my money. I hope to see
COR 4.5. 238 Romans as cheap as Volscians.
COR-[A
sound within]}
COR 4.5. 239 They are rising, they are rising.
COR 4.5. 240
COR-FIRST
COR-AND
COR-SECOND SERVINGMEN
In, in, in, in. {Exeunt}
COR 4.5. 0 {Enter the two tribunes, Sicinius and Brutus}
COR 4.6. 1
COR-SICINIUS
We hear not of him, neither need we fear him.
COR 4.6. 2 His remedies are tame - the present peace
COR 4.6. 3 And quietness of the people, which before
COR 4.6. 4 Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends
COR 4.6. 5 Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,
COR 4.6. 6 Though they themselves did suffer by 't, behold
COR 4.6. 7 Dissentious numbers pest'ring streets than see
COR 4.6. 8 Our tradesmen singing in their shops and going
COR 4.6. 9 About their functions friendly. {Enter Menenius}
COR 4.6. 10
COR-BRUTUS
We stood to 't in good time. Is this Menenius?
COR 4.6. 11
COR-SICINIUS
'Tis he, 'tis he. O, he is grown most kind of late.
COR 4.6. 12 Hail, sir.
COR 4.6. 13A
COR-MENENIUS
Hail to you both.
COR 4.6. 14
COR-SICINIUS
Your Coriolanus is not much missed
COR 4.6. 15 But with his friends. The commonwealth doth stand,
COR 4.6. 16 And so would do were he more angry at it.
COR 4.6. 17
COR-MENENIUS
All's well, and might have been much better if
COR 4.6. 18 He could have temporized.
COR 4.6. 19A
COR-SICINIUS
Where is he, hear you?
COR 4.6. 20A
COR-MENENIUS
Nay, I hear nothing.
COR 4.6. 21 His mother and his wife hear nothing from him. {Enter three or +
COR 4.6. 21 four Citizens}
COR 4.6. 22B
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
{(to the tribunes)} The gods +
COR 4.6. 22B preserve you both.
COR-SICINIUS
Good e'en, our neighbours.
COR 4.6. 23
COR-BRUTUS
Good e'en to you all, good e'en to you all.
COR 4.6. 24
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
Ourselves, our wives and children, on our knees
COR 4.6. 25B Are bound to pray for you both.
COR-SICINIUS
Live and thrive.
COR 4.6. 26A
COR-BRUTUS
Farewell, kind neighbours.
COR 4.6. 27 We wished Coriolanus had loved you as we did.
COR 4.6. 28B
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
Now the gods keep you!
COR-SICINIUS
COR-AND
COR-BRUTUS
+
COR 4.6. 28B Farewell, farewell. {Exeunt Citizens}
COR 4.6. 29
COR-SICINIUS
This is a happier and more comely time
COR 4.6. 30 Than when these fellows ran about the streets
COR 4.6. 31B Crying confusion.
COR-BRUTUS
Caius Martius was
COR 4.6. 32 A worthy officer i' th' war, but insolent,
COR 4.6. 33 O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,
COR 4.6. 34B Self-loving -
COR-SICINIUS
And affecting one sole throne
COR 4.6. 35B Without assistance.
COR-MENENIUS
I think not so.
COR 4.6. 36
COR-SICINIUS
We should by this, to all our lamentation,
COR 4.6. 37 If he had gone forth consul found it so.
COR 4.6. 38
COR-BRUTUS
The gods have well prevented it, and Rome
COR 4.6. 39B Sits safe and still without him. {Enter an Aedile}
COR-AEDILE
+
COR 4.6. 39B Worthy tribunes,
COR 4.6. 40 There is a slave whom we have put in prison
COR 4.6. 41 Reports the Volsces, with two several powers,
COR 4.6. 42 Are entered in the Roman territories,
COR 4.6. 43 And with the deepest malice of the war
COR 4.6. 44B Destroy what lies before 'em.
COR-MENENIUS
'Tis Aufidius,
COR 4.6. 45 Who, hearing of our Martius' banishment,
COR 4.6. 46 Thrusts forth his horns again into the world,
COR 4.6. 47 Which were inshelled when Martius stood for Rome,
COR 4.6. 48B And durst not once peep out.
COR-SICINIUS
Come, what talk you of +
COR 4.6. 48B Martius?
COR 4.6. 49
COR-BRUTUS
{(to the Aedile)} Go see this rumourer +
COR 4.6. 49 whipped. It cannot be
COR 4.6. 50B The Volsces dare break with us.
COR-MENENIUS
Cannot be?
COR 4.6. 51 We have record that very well it can,
COR 4.6. 52 And three examples of the like hath been
COR 4.6. 53 Within my age. But reason with the fellow,
COR 4.6. 54 Before you punish him, where he heard this,
COR 4.6. 55 Lest you shall chance to whip your information
COR 4.6. 56 And beat the messenger who bids beware
COR 4.6. 57B Of what is to be dreaded.
COR-SICINIUS
Tell not me.
COR 4.6. 58B I know this cannot be.
COR-BRUTUS
Not possible. {Enter a +
COR 4.6. 58B Messenger}
COR 4.6. 59
COR-MESSENGER
The nobles in great earnestness are going
COR 4.6. 60 All to the senate-house. Some news is come
COR 4.6. 61B That turns their countenances.
COR-SICINIUS
'Tis this slave.
COR 4.6. 62 {(To the Aedile)} Go whip him fore the people's eyes. - +
COR 4.6. 62 His raising,
COR 4.6. 63B Nothing but his report. {Exit Aedile}
COR-MESSENGER
+
COR 4.6. 63B Yes, worthy sir,
COR 4.6. 64 The slave's report is seconded, and more,
COR 4.6. 65B More fearful, is delivered.
COR-SICINIUS
What more fearful?
COR 4.6. 66
COR-MESSENGER
It is spoke freely out of many mouths -
COR 4.6. 67 How probable I do not know - that Martius,
COR 4.6. 68 Joined with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,
COR 4.6. 69 And vows revenge as spacious as between
COR 4.6. 70B The young'st and oldest thing.
COR-SICINIUS
This is most likely!
COR 4.6. 71
COR-BRUTUS
Raised only that the weaker sort may wish
COR 4.6. 72 Good Martius home again.
COR 4.6. 73A
COR-SICINIUS
The very trick on 't.
COR 4.6. 74A
COR-MENENIUS
This is unlikely.
COR 4.6. 75 He and Aufidius can no more atone
COR 4.6. 76 Than violent'st contrariety. {Enter another Messenger}
COR 4.6. 77
COR-SECOND MESSENGER
You are sent for to the senate.
COR 4.6. 78 A fearful army, led by Caius Martius
COR 4.6. 79 Associated with Aufidius, rages
COR 4.6. 80 Upon our territories, and have already
COR 4.6. 81 O'erborne their way, consumed with fire and took
COR 4.6. 82 What lay before them. {Enter Cominius}
COR 4.6. 83A
COR-COMINIUS
O, you have made good work!
COR 4.6. 84A
COR-MENENIUS
What news? What news?
COR 4.6. 85
COR-COMINIUS
You have holp to ravish your own daughters and
COR 4.6. 86 To melt the city leads upon your pates,
COR 4.6. 87 To see your wives dishonoured to your noses.
COR 4.6. 88A
COR-MENENIUS
What's the news? What's the news?
COR 4.6. 89
COR-COMINIUS
Your temples burned in their cement, and
COR 4.6. 90 Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined
COR 4.6. 91B Into an auger's bore.
COR-MENENIUS
Pray now, your news?
COR 4.6. 92B {(To the tribunes)} You have made fair work, I fear +
COR 4.6. 92B me. {(To Cominius)} Pray, your news.
COR 4.6. 93 If Martius should be joined wi' th' Volscians -
COR 4.6. 94
COR-COMINIUS
If? He is their god. He leads them like a thing
COR 4.6. 95 Made by some other deity than nature,
COR 4.6. 96 That shapes man better, and they follow him
COR 4.6. 97 Against us brats with no less confidence
COR 4.6. 98 Than boys pursuing summer butterflies,
COR 4.6. 99B Or butchers killing flies.
COR-MENENIUS
{(to the +
COR 4.6. 99B tribunes)} You have made good work,
COR 4.6. 100 You and your apron-men, you that stood so much
COR 4.6. 101 Upon the voice of occupation and
COR 4.6. 102 The breath of garlic-eaters!
COR 4.6. 103
COR-COMINIUS
{(to the tribunes)} He'll shake your Rome +
COR 4.6. 103 about your ears.
COR 4.6. 104
COR-MENENIUS
As Hercules did shake down mellow fruit.
COR 4.6. 105 {(To the tribunes)} You have made fair work.
COR 4.6. 106A
COR-BRUTUS
But is this true, sir?
COR 4.6. 107A
COR-COMINIUS
Ay, and you'll look pale
COR 4.6. 108 Before you find it other. All the regions
COR 4.6. 109 Do smilingly revolt, and who resists
COR 4.6. 110 Are mocked for valiant ignorance,
COR 4.6. 111 And perish constant fools. Who is 't can blame him?
COR 4.6. 112 Your enemies and his find something in him.
COR 4.6. 113A
COR-MENENIUS
We are all undone unless
COR 4.6. 114B The noble man have mercy.
COR-COMINIUS
Who shall ask it?
COR 4.6. 115 The tribunes cannot do 't, for shame; the people
COR 4.6. 116 Deserve such pity of him as the wolf
COR 4.6. 117 Does of the shepherds. For his best friends, if they
COR 4.6. 118 Should say `Be good to Rome', they charged him even
COR 4.6. 119 As those should do that had deserved his hate,
COR 4.6. 120B And therein showed like enemies.
COR-MENENIUS
'Tis true.
COR 4.6. 121 If he were putting to my house the brand
COR 4.6. 122 That should consume it, I have not the face
COR 4.6. 123B To say `Beseech you, cease.' {(To the tribunes)} You +
COR 4.6. 123B have made fair hands,
COR 4.6. 124B You and your crafts! You have crafted fair!
COR-COMINIUS
{(to +
COR 4.6. 124B the tribunes)} You have brought
COR 4.6. 125 A trembling upon Rome such as was never
COR 4.6. 126 S' incapable of help.
COR 4.6. 127A
COR-SICINIUS
COR-AND
COR-BRUTUS
Say not we brought it.
COR 4.6. 128A
COR-MENENIUS
How? Was 't we?
COR 4.6. 129 We loved him, but like beasts and cowardly nobles
COR 4.6. 130 Gave way unto your clusters, who did hoot
COR 4.6. 131B Him out o' th' city.
COR-COMINIUS
But I fear
COR 4.6. 132 They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,
COR 4.6. 133 The second name of men, obeys his points
COR 4.6. 134 As if he were his officer. Desperation
COR 4.6. 135 Is all the policy, strength, and defence
COR 4.6. 136B That Rome can make against them. {Enter a troop of +
COR 4.6. 136B Citizens}
COR-MENENIUS
Here come the clusters.
COR 4.6. 137 {(To the Citizens)} And is Aufidius with him? You are +
COR 4.6. 137 they
COR 4.6. 138 That made the air unwholesome when you cast
COR 4.6. 139 Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at
COR 4.6. 140 Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming,
COR 4.6. 141 And not a hair upon a soldier's head
COR 4.6. 142 Which will not prove a whip. As many coxcombs
COR 4.6. 143 As you threw caps up will he tumble down,
COR 4.6. 144 And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter.
COR 4.6. 145 If he could burn us all into one coal,
COR 4.6. 146 We have deserved it.
COR 4.6. 147A
COR-ALL THE CITIZENS
Faith, we hear fearful news.
COR 4.6. 148A
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
For mine own part,
COR 4.6. 149 When I said `banish him' I said 'twas pity.
COR 4.6. 150A
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
And so did I.
COR 4.6. 151
COR-THIRD CITIZEN
And so did I, and to say the truth so did
COR 4.6. 152 very many of us. That we did, we did for the best, and
COR 4.6. 153 though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet
COR 4.6. 154 it was against our will.
COR 4.6. 155B
COR-COMINIUS
You're goodly things, you voices.
COR-MENENIUS
+
COR 4.6. 155B You have made good work,
COR 4.6. 156 You and your cry. Shall 's to the Capitol?
COR 4.6. 157A
COR-COMINIUS
O, ay, what else? {Exeunt Menenius and Cominius}
COR 4.6. 158
COR-SICINIUS
Go, masters, get you home. Be not dismayed.
COR 4.6. 159 These are a side that would be glad to have
COR 4.6. 160 This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,
COR 4.6. 161 And show no sign of fear.
COR 4.6. 162
COR-FIRST CITIZEN
The gods be good to us! Come, masters,
COR 4.6. 163 let's home. I ever said we were i' th' wrong when we
COR 4.6. 164 banished him.
COR 4.6. 165
COR-SECOND CITIZEN
So did we all. But come, let's home. {Exeunt +
COR 4.6. 165 Citizens}
COR 4.6. 166B
COR-BRUTUS
I do not like this news.
COR-SICINIUS
Nor I.
COR 4.6. 167
COR-BRUTUS
Let's to the Capitol. Would half my wealth
COR 4.6. 168B Would buy this for a lie.
COR-SICINIUS
Pray let's go. {Exeunt}
COR 4.6. 0 {Enter Aufidius with his Lieutenant}
COR 4.7. 1A
COR-AUFIDIUS
Do they still fly to th' Roman?
COR 4.7. 2
COR-LIEUTENANT
I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but
COR 4.7. 3 Your soldiers use him as the grace fore meat,
COR 4.7. 4 Their talk at table, and their thanks at end,
COR 4.7. 5 And you are darkened in this action, sir,
COR 4.7. 6B Even by your own.
COR-AUFIDIUS
I cannot help it now,
COR 4.7. 7 Unless by using means I lame the foot
COR 4.7. 8 Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,
COR 4.7. 9 Even to my person, than I thought he would
COR 4.7. 10 When first I did embrace him. Yet his nature
COR 4.7. 11 In that's no changeling, and I must excuse
COR 4.7. 12B What cannot be amended.
COR-LIEUTENANT
Yet I wish, sir -
COR 4.7. 13 I mean for your particular - you had not
COR 4.7. 14 Joined in commission with him, but either
COR 4.7. 15 Have borne the action of yourself or else
COR 4.7. 16 To him had left it solely.
COR 4.7. 17
COR-AUFIDIUS
I understand thee well, and be thou sure,
COR 4.7. 18 When he shall come to his account, he knows not
COR 4.7. 19 What I can urge against him. Although it seems -
COR 4.7. 20 And so he thinks, and is no less apparent
COR 4.7. 21 To th' vulgar eye - that he bears all things fairly
COR 4.7. 22 And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,
COR 4.7. 23 Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon
COR 4.7. 24 As draw his sword, yet he hath left undone
COR 4.7. 25 That which shall break his neck or hazard mine
COR 4.7. 26 Whene'er we come to our account.
COR 4.7. 27
COR-LIEUTENANT
Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?
COR 4.7. 28
COR-AUFIDIUS
All places yields to him ere he sits down,
COR 4.7. 29 And the nobility of Rome are his.
COR 4.7. 30 The senators and patricians love him too.
COR 4.7. 31 The tribunes are no soldiers, and their people
COR 4.7. 32 Will be as rash in the repeal as hasty
COR 4.7. 33 To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome
COR 4.7. 34 As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
COR 4.7. 35 By sovereignty of nature. First he was
COR 4.7. 36 A noble servant to them, but he could not
COR 4.7. 37 Carry his honours even. Whether 'twas pride,
COR 4.7. 38 Which out of daily fortune ever taints
COR 4.7. 39 The happy man; whether defect of judgement,
COR 4.7. 40 To fail in the disposing of those chances
COR 4.7. 41 Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
COR 4.7. 42 Not to be other than one thing, not moving
COR 4.7. 43 From th' casque to th' cushion, but commanding peace
COR 4.7. 44 Even with the same austerity and garb
COR 4.7. 45 As he controlled the war: but one of these -
COR 4.7. 46 As he hath spices of them all - not all,
COR 4.7. 47 For I dare so far free him - made him feared,
COR 4.7. 48 So hated, and so banished. But he has a merit
COR 4.7. 49 To choke it in the utt'rance. So our virtues
COR 4.7. 50 Lie in th' interpretation of the time,
COR 4.7. 51 And power, unto itself most commendable,
COR 4.7. 52 Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
COR 4.7. 53 T' extol what it hath done.
COR 4.7. 54 One fire drives out one fire, one nail one nail;
COR 4.7. 55 Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
COR 4.7. 56 Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
COR 4.7. 57 Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine. {Exeunt}
COR 4.7. 57
COR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
COR 4.7. 0 {Enter Menenius, Cominius, Sicinius and Brutus, the +
COR 5.1. 0 two tribunes, with others}
COR 5.1. 1
COR-MENENIUS
No, I'll not go. You hear what he hath said
COR 5.1. 2 Which was sometime his general, who loved him
COR 5.1. 3 In a most dear particular. He called me father,
COR 5.1. 4 But what o' that? {(To the tribunes)} Go, you that +
COR 5.1. 4 banished him.
COR 5.1. 5 A mile before his tent fall down, and knee
COR 5.1. 6 The way into his mercy. Nay, if he coyed
COR 5.1. 7 To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home.
COR 5.1. 8B
COR-COMINIUS
He would not seem to know me.
COR-MENENIUS
{(to the +
COR 5.1. 8B tribunes)} Do you hear?
COR 5.1. 9
COR-COMINIUS
Yet one time he did call me by my name.
COR 5.1. 10 I urged our old acquaintance and the drops
COR 5.1. 11 That we have bled together. `Coriolanus'
COR 5.1. 12 He would not answer to, forbade all names.
COR 5.1. 13 He was a kind of nothing, titleless,
COR 5.1. 14 Till he had forged himself a name o' th' fire
COR 5.1. 15B Of burning Rome.
COR-MENENIUS
{(to the tribunes)} Why, +
COR 5.1. 15B so! You have made good work.
COR 5.1. 16 A pair of tribunes that have wracked fair Rome
COR 5.1. 17 To make coals cheap - a noble memory!
COR 5.1. 18
COR-COMINIUS
I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon
COR 5.1. 19 When it was less expected. He replied
COR 5.1. 20 It was a bare petition of a state
COR 5.1. 21B To one whom they had punished.
COR-MENENIUS
Very well.
COR 5.1. 22 Could he say less?
COR 5.1. 23
COR-COMINIUS
I offered to awaken his regard
COR 5.1. 24 For 's private friends. His answer to me was
COR 5.1. 25 He could not stay to pick them in a pile
COR 5.1. 26 Of noisome, musty chaff. He said 'twas folly,
COR 5.1. 27 For one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt
COR 5.1. 28B And still to nose th' offence.
COR-MENENIUS
For one poor grain or two?
COR 5.1. 29 I am one of those. His mother, wife, his child,
COR 5.1. 30 And this brave fellow too - we are the grains.
COR 5.1. 31 {(To the tribunes)} You are the musty chaff, and you +
COR 5.1. 31 are smelt
COR 5.1. 32 Above the moon. We must be burnt for you.
COR 5.1. 33
COR-SICINIUS
Nay, pray be patient. If you refuse your aid
COR 5.1. 34 In this so never-needed help, yet do not
COR 5.1. 35 Upbraid 's with our distress. But sure, if you
COR 5.1. 36 Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue,
COR 5.1. 37 More than the instant army we can make,
COR 5.1. 38B Might stop our countryman.
COR-MENENIUS
No, I'll not meddle.
COR 5.1. 39B
COR-SICINIUS
Pray you go to him.
COR-MENENIUS
What should I do?
COR 5.1. 40
COR-BRUTUS
Only make trial what your love can do
COR 5.1. 41 For Rome towards Martius.
COR 5.1. 42
COR-MENENIUS
Well, and say that Martius return me,
COR 5.1. 43 As Cominius is returned, unheard - what then?
COR 5.1. 44 But as a discontented friend, grief-shot
COR 5.1. 45B With his unkindness? Say 't be so?
COR-SICINIUS
Yet your good will
COR 5.1. 46 Must have that thanks from Rome after the measure
COR 5.1. 47B As you intended well.
COR-MENENIUS
I'll undertake 't.
COR 5.1. 48 I think he'll hear me. Yet to bite his lip
COR 5.1. 49 And `hmh' at good Cominius much unhearts me.
COR 5.1. 50 He was not taken well, he had not dined.
COR 5.1. 51 The veins unfilled, our blood is cold, and then
COR 5.1. 52 We pout upon the morning, are unapt
COR 5.1. 53 To give or to forgive; but when we have stuffed
COR 5.1. 54 These pipes and these conveyances of our blood
COR 5.1. 55 With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
COR 5.1. 56 Than in our priest-like fasts. Therefore I'll watch him
COR 5.1. 57 Till he be dieted to my request,
COR 5.1. 58 And then I'll set upon him.
COR 5.1. 59
COR-BRUTUS
You know the very road into his kindness,
COR 5.1. 60B And cannot lose your way.
COR-MENENIUS
Good faith, I'll prove him.
COR 5.1. 61 Speed how it will, I shall ere long have knowledge
COR 5.1. 62B Of my success. {Exit}
COR-COMINIUS
He'll never hear +
COR 5.1. 62B him.
COR-SICINIUS
Not?
COR 5.1. 63
COR-COMINIUS
I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye
COR 5.1. 64 Red as 'twould burn Rome, and his injury
COR 5.1. 65 The jailer to his pity. I kneeled before him;
COR 5.1. 66 'Twas very faintly he said `Rise', dismissed me
COR 5.1. 67 Thus with his speechless hand. What he would do
COR 5.1. 68 He sent in writing after me, what he would not,
COR 5.1. 69 Bound with an oath to hold to his conditions.
COR 5.1. 70 So that all hope is vain unless his noble mother
COR 5.1. 71 And his wife, who as I hear mean to solicit him
COR 5.1. 72 For mercy to his country. Therefore let's hence,
COR 5.1. 73 And with our fair entreaties haste them on. {Exeunt}
COR 5.1. 0 {Enter Menenius to the Watch or guard}
COR 5.2. 1A
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
Stay. Whence are you?
COR 5.2. 2A
COR-SECOND WATCHMAN
Stand, and go back.
COR 5.2. 3A
COR-MENENIUS
You guard like men; 'tis well.
COR 5.2. 4 But, by your leave, I am an officer
COR 5.2. 5 Of state, and come to speak with Coriolanus.
COR 5.2. 6A
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
From whence?
COR 5.2. 7B
COR-MENENIUS
From Rome.
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
You may not pass, you must +
COR 5.2. 7B return.
COR 5.2. 8 Our general will no more hear from thence.
COR 5.2. 9
COR-SECOND WATCHMAN
You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before
COR 5.2. 10B You'll speak with Coriolanus.
COR-MENENIUS
Good my friends,
COR 5.2. 11 If you have heard your general talk of Rome
COR 5.2. 12 And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks
COR 5.2. 13 My name hath touched your ears. It is Menenius.
COR 5.2. 14
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
Be it so; go back. The virtue of your name
COR 5.2. 15B Is not here passable.
COR-MENENIUS
I tell thee, fellow,
COR 5.2. 16 Thy general is my lover. I have been
COR 5.2. 17 The book of his good acts, whence men have read
COR 5.2. 18 His fame unparalleled happily amplified;
COR 5.2. 19 For I have ever verified my friends,
COR 5.2. 20 Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity
COR 5.2. 21 Would without lapsing suffer. Nay, sometimes,
COR 5.2. 22 Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,
COR 5.2. 23 I have tumbled past the throw, and in his praise
COR 5.2. 24 Have almost stamped the leasing. Therefore, fellow,
COR 5.2. 25 I must have leave to pass.
COR 5.2. 26
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
Faith, sir, if you had told as many lies
COR 5.2. 27 in his behalf as you have uttered words in your own,
COR 5.2. 28 you should not pass here, no, though it were as virtuous
COR 5.2. 29 to lie as to live chastely. Therefore go back.
COR 5.2. 30
COR-MENENIUS
Prithee, fellow, remember my name is
COR 5.2. 31 Menenius, always factionary on the party of your
COR 5.2. 32 general.
COR 5.2. 33
COR-SECOND WATCHMAN
Howsoever you have been his liar, as
COR 5.2. 34 you say you have, I am one that, telling true under
COR 5.2. 35 him, must say you cannot pass. Therefore go back.
COR 5.2. 36
COR-MENENIUS
Has he dined, canst thou tell? For I would not
COR 5.2. 37 speak with him till after dinner.
COR 5.2. 38
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
You are a Roman, are you?
COR 5.2. 39
COR-MENENIUS
I am as thy general is.
COR 5.2. 40
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
Then you should hate Rome as he does.
COR 5.2. 41 Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the
COR 5.2. 42 very defender of them, and in a violent popular
COR 5.2. 43 ignorance given your enemy your shield, think to front
COR 5.2. 44 his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the
COR 5.2. 45 virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied
COR 5.2. 46 intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to
COR 5.2. 47 be? Can you think to blow out the intended fire your
COR 5.2. 48 city is ready to flame in with such weak breath as this?
COR 5.2. 49 No, you are deceived, therefore back to Rome, and
COR 5.2. 50 prepare for your execution. You are condemned, our
COR 5.2. 51 general has sworn you out of reprieve and pardon.
COR 5.2. 52
COR-MENENIUS
Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he
COR 5.2. 53 would use me with estimation.
COR 5.2. 54
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
Come, my captain knows you not.
COR 5.2. 55
COR-MENENIUS
I mean thy general.
COR 5.2. 56
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
My general cares not for you. Back, I
COR 5.2. 57 say, go, lest I let forth your half pint of blood. Back.
COR 5.2. 58 That's the utmost of your having. Back.
COR 5.2. 59
COR-MENENIUS
Nay, but fellow, fellow - {Enter Coriolanus with +
COR 5.2. 59 Aufidius}
COR 5.2. 60
COR-CORIOLANUS
What's the matter?
COR 5.2. 61
COR-MENENIUS
{(to First Watchman)} Now, you companion, +
COR 5.2. 61 I'll
COR 5.2. 62 say an errand for you. You shall know now that I am
COR 5.2. 63 in estimation. You shall perceive that a jack guardant
COR 5.2. 64 cannot office me from my son Coriolanus. Guess but
COR 5.2. 65 by my entertainment with him if thou stand'st not i' th'
COR 5.2. 66 state of hanging, or of some death more long in
COR 5.2. 67 spectatorship and crueller in suffering. Behold now
COR 5.2. 68 presently, and swoon for what's to come upon thee.
COR 5.2. 69 {(To Coriolanus)} The glorious gods sit in hourly +
COR 5.2. 69 synod
COR 5.2. 70 about thy particular prosperity, and love thee no worse
COR 5.2. 71 than thy old father Menenius does! {(Weeping)} O, my
COR 5.2. 72 son, my son, thou art preparing fire for us. Look thee,
COR 5.2. 73 here's water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come
COR 5.2. 74 to thee, but being assured none but myself could move
COR 5.2. 75 thee, I have been blown out of our gates with sighs,
COR 5.2. 76 and conjure thee to pardon Rome and thy petitionary
COR 5.2. 77 countrymen. The good gods assuage thy wrath and
COR 5.2. 78 turn the dregs of it upon this varlet here, this, who
COR 5.2. 79 like a block hath denied my access to thee!
COR 5.2. 80A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Away!
COR 5.2. 81A
COR-MENENIUS
How? Away?
COR 5.2. 82
COR-CORIOLANUS
Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs
COR 5.2. 83 Are servanted to others. Though I owe
COR 5.2. 84 My revenge properly, my remission lies
COR 5.2. 85 In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar,
COR 5.2. 86 Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison rather
COR 5.2. 87 Than pity note how much. Therefore be gone.
COR 5.2. 88 Mine ears against your suits are stronger than
COR 5.2. 89 Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee, {He gives +
COR 5.2. 89 him a letter}
COR 5.2. 90 Take this along. I writ it for thy sake,
COR 5.2. 91 And would have sent it. Another word, Menenius,
COR 5.2. 92 I will not hear thee speak. - This man, Aufidius,
COR 5.2. 93 Was my beloved in Rome; yet thou behold'st.
COR 5.2. 94A
COR-AUFIDIUS
You keep a constant temper. {Exeunt Coriolanus and +
COR 5.2. 94A Aufidius}
COR 5.2. 95
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
Now, sir, is your name Menenius?
COR 5.2. 96
COR-SECOND WATCHMAN
'Tis a spell, you see, of much power.
COR 5.2. 97 You know the way home again.
COR 5.2. 98
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
Do you hear how we are shent for
COR 5.2. 99 keeping your greatness back?
COR 5.2. 100
COR-SECOND WATCHMAN
What cause do you think I have to
COR 5.2. 101 swoon?
COR 5.2. 102
COR-MENENIUS
I neither care for th' world nor your general.
COR 5.2. 103 For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any,
COR 5.2. 104 you're so slight. He that hath a will to die by himself
COR 5.2. 105 fears it not from another. Let your general do his worst.
COR 5.2. 106 For you, be that you are long, and your misery increase
COR 5.2. 107 with your age. I say to you as I was said to, `Away!' {Exit}
COR 5.2. 108
COR-FIRST WATCHMAN
A noble fellow, I warrant him.
COR 5.2. 109
COR-SECOND WATCHMAN
The worthy fellow is our general. He's
COR 5.2. 110 the rock, the oak, not to be wind-shaken. {Exeunt}
COR 5.2. 0 {Enter Coriolanus and Aufidius, with Volscian soldiers. +
COR 5.3. 0 [Coriolanus and Aufidius sit]}
COR 5.3. 1
COR-CORIOLANUS
We will before the walls of Rome tomorrow
COR 5.3. 2 Set down our host. My partner in this action,
COR 5.3. 3 You must report to th' Volscian lords how plainly
COR 5.3. 4B I have borne this business.
COR-AUFIDIUS
Only their ends
COR 5.3. 5 You have respected, stopped your ears against
COR 5.3. 6 The general suit of Rome, never admitted
COR 5.3. 7 A private whisper, no, not with such friends
COR 5.3. 8B That thought them sure of you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
This last old man,
COR 5.3. 9 Whom with a cracked heart I have sent to Rome,
COR 5.3. 10 Loved me above the measure of a father,
COR 5.3. 11 Nay, godded me indeed. Their latest refuge
COR 5.3. 12 Was to send him, for whose old love I have -
COR 5.3. 13 Though I showed sourly to him - once more offered
COR 5.3. 14 The first conditions, which they did refuse
COR 5.3. 15 And cannot now accept, to grace him only
COR 5.3. 16 That thought he could do more. A very little
COR 5.3. 17 I have yielded to. Fresh embassies and suits,
COR 5.3. 18 Nor from the state nor private friends, hereafter
COR 5.3. 19B Will I lend ear to. {Shout within} Ha, what shout is +
COR 5.3. 19B this?
COR 5.3. 20 Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow
COR 5.3. 21 In the same time 'tis made? I will not. {Enter Virgilia, +
COR 5.3. 21 Volumnia, Valeria, Young Martius, with attendants}
COR 5.3. 22 My wife comes foremost, then the honoured mould
COR 5.3. 23 Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand
COR 5.3. 24 The grandchild to her blood. But out, affection!
COR 5.3. 25 All bond and privilege of nature break;
COR 5.3. 26 Let it be virtuous to be obstinate. {[Virgilia] curtsies}
COR 5.3. 27 What is that curtsy worth? Or those dove's eyes
COR 5.3. 28 Which can make gods forsworn? I melt, and am not
COR 5.3. 29B Of stronger earth than others. {Volumnia bows} My +
COR 5.3. 29B mother bows,
COR 5.3. 30 As if Olympus to a molehill should
COR 5.3. 31 In supplication nod; and my young boy
COR 5.3. 32 Hath an aspect of intercession which
COR 5.3. 33 Great nature cries `Deny not'. - Let the Volsces
COR 5.3. 34 Plough Rome and harrow Italy! I'll never
COR 5.3. 35 Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
COR 5.3. 36 As if a man were author of himself
COR 5.3. 37B And knew no other kin.
COR-VIRGILIA
My lord and husband.
COR 5.3. 38
COR-CORIOLANUS
These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome.
COR 5.3. 39
COR-VIRGILIA
The sorrow that delivers us thus changed
COR 5.3. 40B Makes you think so.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Like a dull actor now
COR 5.3. 41 I have forgot my part, and I am out
COR 5.3. 42 Even to a full disgrace. {[Rising]} Best of my flesh,
COR 5.3. 43 Forgive my tyranny, but do not say
COR 5.3. 44B For that `Forgive our Romans'. {[Virgilia kisses him]} +
COR 5.3. 44B O, a kiss
COR 5.3. 45 Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
COR 5.3. 46 Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
COR 5.3. 47 I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
COR 5.3. 48 Hath virgined it e'er since. You gods, I prate,
COR 5.3. 49 And the most noble mother of the world
COR 5.3. 50 Leave unsaluted! Sink, my knee, i' th' earth. {He kneels}
COR 5.3. 51 Of thy deep duty more impression show
COR 5.3. 52B Than that of common sons.
COR-VOLUMNIA
O, stand up blest, +
COR 5.3. 52B {[Coriolanus rises]}
COR 5.3. 53 Whilst with no softer cushion than the flint
COR 5.3. 54 I kneel before thee, and unproperly
COR 5.3. 55 Show duty as mistaken all this while
COR 5.3. 56B Between the child and parent. {She kneels}
COR-CORIOLANUS
+
COR 5.3. 56B What's this?
COR 5.3. 57 Your knees to me? To your corrected son? {[He raises her]}
COR 5.3. 58 Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
COR 5.3. 59 Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds
COR 5.3. 60 Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun,
COR 5.3. 61 Murd'ring impossibility to make
COR 5.3. 62B What cannot be slight work.
COR-VOLUMNIA
Thou art my warrior.
COR 5.3. 63 I holp to frame thee. Do you know this lady?
COR 5.3. 64
COR-CORIOLANUS
The noble sister of Publicola,
COR 5.3. 65 The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
COR 5.3. 66 That's candied by the frost from purest snow
COR 5.3. 67 And hangs on Dian's temple - dear Valeria!
COR 5.3. 68
COR-VOLUMNIA
{(showing Coriolanus his son)} This is a +
COR 5.3. 68 poor epitome of yours,
COR 5.3. 69 Which by th' interpretation of full time
COR 5.3. 70B May show like all yourself.
COR-CORIOLANUS
{(to Young +
COR 5.3. 70B Martius)} The god of soldiers,
COR 5.3. 71 With the consent of supreme Jove, inform
COR 5.3. 72 Thy thoughts with nobleness, that thou mayst prove
COR 5.3. 73 To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' th' wars
COR 5.3. 74 Like a great sea-mark standing every flaw
COR 5.3. 75 And saving those that eye thee!
COR 5.3. 76A
COR-VOLUMNIA
{(to Young Martius)} Your knee, +
COR 5.3. 76A sirrah. {[Young Martius kneels]}
COR 5.3. 77A
COR-CORIOLANUS
That's my brave boy.
COR 5.3. 78
COR-VOLUMNIA
Even he, your wife, this lady, and myself
COR 5.3. 79B Are suitors to you.
COR-CORIOLANUS
I beseech you, peace.
COR 5.3. 80 Or if you'd ask, remember this before:
COR 5.3. 81 The things I have forsworn to grant may never
COR 5.3. 82 Be held by you denials. Do not bid me
COR 5.3. 83 Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate
COR 5.3. 84 Again with Rome's mechanics. Tell me not
COR 5.3. 85 Wherein I seem unnatural. Desire not t' allay
COR 5.3. 86 My rages and revenges with your colder reasons.
COR 5.3. 87A
COR-VOLUMNIA
O, no more, no more!
COR 5.3. 88 You have said you will not grant us anything -
COR 5.3. 89 For we have nothing else to ask but that
COR 5.3. 90 Which you deny already. Yet we will ask,
COR 5.3. 91 That, if you fail in our request, the blame
COR 5.3. 92 May hang upon your hardness. Therefore hear us.
COR 5.3. 93
COR-CORIOLANUS
Aufidius and you Volsces, mark, for we'll
COR 5.3. 94B Hear naught from Rome in private. {[He sits]} Your +
COR 5.3. 94B request?
COR 5.3. 95
COR-VOLUMNIA
Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
COR 5.3. 96 And state of bodies would bewray what life
COR 5.3. 97 We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself
COR 5.3. 98 How more unfortunate than all living women
COR 5.3. 99 Are we come hither, since that thy sight, which should
COR 5.3. 100 Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts,
COR 5.3. 101 Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow,
COR 5.3. 102 Making the mother, wife, and child to see
COR 5.3. 103 The son, the husband, and the father tearing
COR 5.3. 104 His country's bowels out; and to poor we
COR 5.3. 105 Thine enmity's most capital. Thou barr'st us
COR 5.3. 106 Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
COR 5.3. 107 That all but we enjoy. For how can we,
COR 5.3. 108 Alas, how can we for our country pray,
COR 5.3. 109 Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
COR 5.3. 110 Whereto we are bound? Alack, or we must lose
COR 5.3. 111 The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,
COR 5.3. 112 Our comfort in the country. We must find
COR 5.3. 113 An evident calamity, though we had
COR 5.3. 114 Our wish which side should win. For either thou
COR 5.3. 115 Must as a foreign recreant be led
COR 5.3. 116 With manacles thorough our streets, or else
COR 5.3. 117 Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,
COR 5.3. 118 And bear the palm for having bravely shed
COR 5.3. 119 Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,
COR 5.3. 120 I purpose not to wait on fortune till
COR 5.3. 121 These wars determine. If I cannot persuade thee
COR 5.3. 122 Rather to show a noble grace to both parts
COR 5.3. 123 Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner
COR 5.3. 124 March to assault thy country than to tread -
COR 5.3. 125 Trust to 't, thou shalt not - on thy mother's womb
COR 5.3. 126B That brought thee to this world.
COR-VIRGILIA
Ay, and mine,
COR 5.3. 127 That brought you forth this boy to keep your name
COR 5.3. 128B Living to time.
COR-YOUNG MARTIUS
A shall not tread on me.
COR 5.3. 129 I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight.
COR 5.3. 130
COR-CORIOLANUS
Not of a woman's tenderness to be
COR 5.3. 131 Requires nor child nor woman's face to see.
COR 5.3. 132B I have sat too long. {[He rises and turns away]}
COR-VOLUMNIA
+
COR 5.3. 132B Nay, go not from us thus.
COR 5.3. 133 If it were so that our request did tend
COR 5.3. 134 To save the Romans, thereby to destroy
COR 5.3. 135 The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us
COR 5.3. 136 As poisonous of your honour. No, our suit
COR 5.3. 137 Is that you reconcile them: while the Volsces
COR 5.3. 138 May say `This mercy we have showed', the Romans
COR 5.3. 139 `This we received', and each in either side
COR 5.3. 140 Give the all-hail to thee and cry `Be blest
COR 5.3. 141 For making up this peace!' Thou know'st, great son,
COR 5.3. 142 The end of war's uncertain; but this certain,
COR 5.3. 143 That if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
COR 5.3. 144 Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name
COR 5.3. 145 Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,
COR 5.3. 146 Whose chronicle thus writ: `The man was noble,
COR 5.3. 147 But with his last attempt he wiped it out,
COR 5.3. 148 Destroyed his country, and his name remains
COR 5.3. 149 To th' ensuing age abhorred.' Speak to me, son.
COR 5.3. 150 Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour,
COR 5.3. 151 To imitate the graces of the gods,
COR 5.3. 152 To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air,
COR 5.3. 153 And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt
COR 5.3. 154 That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak?
COR 5.3. 155 Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
COR 5.3. 156 Still to remember wrongs? Daughter, speak you,
COR 5.3. 157 He cares not for your weeping. Speak thou, boy.
COR 5.3. 158 Perhaps thy childishness will move him more
COR 5.3. 159 Than can our reasons. There's no man in the world
COR 5.3. 160 More bound to 's mother, yet here he lets me prate
COR 5.3. 161 Like one i' th' stocks. Thou hast never in thy life
COR 5.3. 162 Showed thy dear mother any courtesy,
COR 5.3. 163 When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
COR 5.3. 164 Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home,
COR 5.3. 165 Loaden with honour. Say my request's unjust,
COR 5.3. 166 And spurn me back. But if it be not so,
COR 5.3. 167 Thou art not honest, and the gods will plague thee
COR 5.3. 168 That thou restrain'st from me the duty which
COR 5.3. 169 To a mother's part belongs. - He turns away.
COR 5.3. 170 Down, ladies. Let us shame him with our knees.
COR 5.3. 171 To his surname `Coriolanus' 'longs more pride
COR 5.3. 172 Than pity to our prayers. Down! An end.
COR 5.3. 173B This is the last. {The ladies and Young Martius kneel} +
COR 5.3. 173B So we will home to Rome,
COR 5.3. 174 And die among our neighbours. - Nay, behold 's.
COR 5.3. 175 This boy, that cannot tell what he would have,
COR 5.3. 176 But kneels and holds up hands for fellowship,
COR 5.3. 177 Does reason our petition with more strength
COR 5.3. 178 Than thou hast to deny 't. - Come, let us go.
COR 5.3. 179 This fellow had a Volscian to his mother.
COR 5.3. 180 His wife is in Corioles, and this child
COR 5.3. 181 Like him by chance. - Yet give us our dispatch.
COR 5.3. 182 I am hushed until our city be afire,
COR 5.3. 183B And then I'll speak a little. {He holds her by the hand, +
COR 5.3. 183B silent}
COR-CORIOLANUS
O mother, mother!
COR 5.3. 184 What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,
COR 5.3. 185 The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
COR 5.3. 186 They laugh at. O my mother, mother, O!
COR 5.3. 187 You have won a happy victory to Rome;
COR 5.3. 188 But for your son, believe it, O believe it,
COR 5.3. 189 Most dangerously you have with him prevailed,
COR 5.3. 190 If not most mortal to him. But let it come. {[The ladies and +
COR 5.3. 190 Young Martius rise]}
COR 5.3. 191 Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars,
COR 5.3. 192 I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,
COR 5.3. 193 Were you in my stead would you have heard
COR 5.3. 194 A mother less, or granted less, Aufidius?
COR 5.3. 195B
COR-AUFIDIUS
I was moved withal.
COR-CORIOLANUS
I dare be sworn you +
COR 5.3. 195B were.
COR 5.3. 196 And, sir, it is no little thing to make
COR 5.3. 197 Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir,
COR 5.3. 198 What peace you'll make, advise me. For my part,
COR 5.3. 199 I'll not to Rome; I'll back with you, and pray you
COR 5.3. 200 Stand to me in this cause. - O mother! Wife!
COR 5.3. 201
COR-AUFIDIUS
{(aside)} I am glad thou hast set thy +
COR 5.3. 201 mercy and thy honour
COR 5.3. 202 At difference in thee. Out of that I'll work
COR 5.3. 203B Myself a former fortune.
COR-CORIOLANUS
{(to Volumnia and +
COR 5.3. 203B Virgilia)} Ay, by and by.
COR 5.3. 204 But we will drink together, and you shall bear
COR 5.3. 205 A better witness back than words, which we
COR 5.3. 206 On like conditions will have counter-sealed.
COR 5.3. 207 Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve
COR 5.3. 208 To have a temple built you. All the swords
COR 5.3. 209 In Italy, and her confederate arms,
COR 5.3. 210 Could not have made this peace. {Exeunt}
COR 5.3. 0 {Enter Menenius and Sicinius}
COR 5.4. 1
COR-MENENIUS
See you yon coign o' th' Capitol, yon corner-
COR 5.4. 2 stone?
COR 5.4. 3
COR-SICINIUS
Why, what of that?
COR 5.4. 4
COR-MENENIUS
If it be possible for you to displace it with your
COR 5.4. 5 little finger, there is some hope the ladies of Rome,
COR 5.4. 6 especially his mother, may prevail with him. But I say
COR 5.4. 7 there is no hope in 't, our throats are sentenced and
COR 5.4. 8 stay upon execution.
COR 5.4. 9
COR-SICINIUS
Is 't possible that so short a time can alter the
COR 5.4. 10 condition of a man?
COR 5.4. 11
COR-MENENIUS
There is differency between a grub and a
COR 5.4. 12 butterfly, yet your butterfly was a grub. This Martius
COR 5.4. 13 is grown from man to dragon. He has wings, he's more
COR 5.4. 14 than a creeping thing.
COR 5.4. 15
COR-SICINIUS
He loved his mother dearly.
COR 5.4. 16
COR-MENENIUS
So did he me, and he no more remembers his
COR 5.4. 17 mother now than an eight-year old horse. The tartness
COR 5.4. 18 of his face sours ripe grapes. When he walks, he moves
COR 5.4. 19 like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his
COR 5.4. 20 treading. He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye,
COR 5.4. 21 talks like a knell, and his `hmh!' is a battery. He sits
COR 5.4. 22 in his state as a thing made for Alexander. What he
COR 5.4. 23 bids be done is finished with his bidding. He wants
COR 5.4. 24 nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne
COR 5.4. 25 in.
COR 5.4. 26
COR-SICINIUS
Yes: mercy, if you report him truly.
COR 5.4. 27
COR-MENENIUS
I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy
COR 5.4. 28 his mother shall bring from him. There is no more
COR 5.4. 29 mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger. That
COR 5.4. 30 shall our poor city find; and all this is 'long of you.
COR 5.4. 31
COR-SICINIUS
The gods be good unto us!
COR 5.4. 32
COR-MENENIUS
No, in such a case the gods will not be good
COR 5.4. 33 unto us. When we banished him we respected not
COR 5.4. 34 them, and, he returning to break our necks, they
COR 5.4. 35 respect not us. {Enter a Messenger}
COR 5.4. 36
COR-MESSENGER
{(to Sicinius)} Sir, if you'd save your +
COR 5.4. 36 life, fly to your house.
COR 5.4. 37 The plebeians have got your fellow tribune
COR 5.4. 38 And hale him up and down, all swearing if
COR 5.4. 39 The Roman ladies bring not comfort home
COR 5.4. 40B They'll give him death by inches. {Enter another +
COR 5.4. 40B Messenger}
COR-SICINIUS
What's the news?
COR 5.4. 41
COR-SECOND MESSENGER
Good news, good news. The ladies have prevailed,
COR 5.4. 42 The Volscians are dislodged, and Martius gone.
COR 5.4. 43 A merrier day did never yet greet Rome,
COR 5.4. 44B No, not th' expulsion of the Tarquins.
COR-SICINIUS
Friend,
COR 5.4. 45 Art thou certain this is true? Is 't most certain?
COR 5.4. 46
COR-SECOND MESSENGER
As certain as I know the sun is fire.
COR 5.4. 47 Where have you lurked that you make doubt of it?
COR 5.4. 48 Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide
COR 5.4. 49B As the recomforted through th' gates. {Trumpets, hautboys, +
COR 5.4. 49B drums, beat all together} Why, hark you,
COR 5.4. 50 The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes,
COR 5.4. 51 Tabors and cymbals and the shouting Romans
COR 5.4. 52B Make the sun dance. {A shout within} Hark +
COR 5.4. 52B you!
COR-MENENIUS
This is good news.
COR 5.4. 53 I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia
COR 5.4. 54 Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians,
COR 5.4. 55 A city full; of tribunes such as you,
COR 5.4. 56 A sea and land full. You have prayed well today.
COR 5.4. 57 This morning for ten thousand of your throats
COR 5.4. 58B I'd not have given a doit. {Music sounds still with the +
COR 5.4. 58B shouts} Hark how they joy!
COR 5.4. 59
COR-SICINIUS
{(to the Messenger)} First, the gods +
COR 5.4. 59 bless you for your tidings. Next,
COR 5.4. 60 {[Giving money]} Accept my thankfulness.
COR 5.4. 61
COR-SECOND MESSENGER
Sir, we have all great cause to give great thanks.
COR 5.4. 62B
COR-SICINIUS
They are near the city.
COR-SECOND MESSENGER
Almost at +
COR 5.4. 62B point to enter.
COR 5.4. 63A
COR-SICINIUS
We'll meet them, and help the joy. {Exeunt}
COR 5.4. 0 {Enter [at one door] Lords [and Citizens], [at another +
COR 5.5. 0 door] two Senators with the ladies Volumnia, Virgilia, and Valeria, +
COR 5.5. 0 passing over the stage}
COR 5.5. 1 A
COR-SENATOR
Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!
COR 5.5. 2 Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,
COR 5.5. 3 And make triumphant fires. Strew flowers before them.
COR 5.5. 4 Unshout the noise that banished Martius,
COR 5.5. 5 Repeal him with the welcome of his mother.
COR 5.5. 6B Cry `Welcome, ladies, welcome!'
COR-ALL
Welcome, ladies, welcome! +
COR 5.5. 6B {A flourish with drums and trumpets. Exeunt}
COR 5.5. 0 {Enter Tullus Aufidius with attendants}
COR 5.6. 1
COR-AUFIDIUS
Go tell the lords o' th' city I am here.
COR 5.6. 2 Deliver them this paper. Having read it,
COR 5.6. 3 Bid them repair to th' market-place, where I,
COR 5.6. 4 Even in theirs and in the commons' ears,
COR 5.6. 5 Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse
COR 5.6. 6 The city ports by this hath entered, and
COR 5.6. 7 Intends t' appear before the people, hoping
COR 5.6. 8B To purge himself with words. Dispatch. {Exeunt attendants}+
COR 5.6. 8B {Enter three or four Conspirators of Aufidius' faction} Most +
COR 5.6. 8B welcome.
COR 5.6. 9B
COR-FIRST CONSPIRATOR
How is it with our general?
COR-AUFIDIUS
Even so
COR 5.6. 10 As with a man by his own alms impoisoned,
COR 5.6. 11B And with his charity slain.
COR-SECOND CONSPIRATOR
Most noble sir,
COR 5.6. 12 If you do hold the same intent wherein
COR 5.6. 13 You wished us parties, we'll deliver you
COR 5.6. 14B Of your great danger.
COR-AUFIDIUS
Sir, I cannot tell.
COR 5.6. 15 We must proceed as we do find the people.
COR 5.6. 16
COR-THIRD CONSPIRATOR
The people will remain uncertain whilst
COR 5.6. 17 'Twixt you there's difference, but the fall of either
COR 5.6. 18B Makes the survivor heir of all.
COR-AUFIDIUS
I know it,
COR 5.6. 19 And my pretext to strike at him admits
COR 5.6. 20 A good construction. I raised him, and I pawned
COR 5.6. 21 Mine honour for his truth; who being so heightened,
COR 5.6. 22 He watered his new plants with dews of flattery,
COR 5.6. 23 Seducing so my friends; and to this end
COR 5.6. 24 He bowed his nature, never known before
COR 5.6. 25 But to be rough, unswayable, and free.
COR 5.6. 26A
COR-THIRD CONSPIRATOR
Sir, his stoutness
COR 5.6. 27 When he did stand for consul, which he lost
COR 5.6. 28B By lack of stooping -
COR-AUFIDIUS
That I would have spoke of.
COR 5.6. 29 Being banished for 't, he came unto my hearth,
COR 5.6. 30 Presented to my knife his throat. I took him,
COR 5.6. 31 Made him joint-servant with me, gave him way
COR 5.6. 32 In all his own desires; nay, let him choose
COR 5.6. 33 Out of my files, his projects to accomplish,
COR 5.6. 34 My best and freshest men; served his designments
COR 5.6. 35 In mine own person, holp to reap the fame
COR 5.6. 36 Which he did end all his, and took some pride
COR 5.6. 37 To do myself this wrong, till at the last
COR 5.6. 38 I seemed his follower, not partner, and
COR 5.6. 39 He waged me with his countenance as if
COR 5.6. 40B I had been mercenary.
COR-FIRST CONSPIRATOR
So he did, my lord.
COR 5.6. 41 The army marvelled at it, and in the last,
COR 5.6. 42 When he had carried Rome and that we looked
COR 5.6. 43B For no less spoil than glory -
COR-AUFIDIUS
There was it,
COR 5.6. 44 For which my sinews shall be stretched upon him.
COR 5.6. 45 At a few drops of women's rheum, which are
COR 5.6. 46 As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour
COR 5.6. 47 Of our great action; therefore shall he die,
COR 5.6. 48B And I'll renew me in his fall. {Drums and trumpets sound, with +
COR 5.6. 48B great shouts of the people} But hark.
COR 5.6. 49
COR-FIRST CONSPIRATOR
Your native town you entered like a post,
COR 5.6. 50 And had no welcomes home; but he returns
COR 5.6. 51B Splitting the air with noise.
COR-SECOND CONSPIRATOR
And patient fools,
COR 5.6. 52 Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear
COR 5.6. 53B With giving him glory.
COR-THIRD CONSPIRATOR
Therefore, at your vantage,
COR 5.6. 54 Ere he express himself or move the people
COR 5.6. 55 With what he would say, let him feel your sword,
COR 5.6. 56 Which we will second. When he lies along,
COR 5.6. 57 After your way his tale pronounced shall bury
COR 5.6. 58B His reasons with his body. {Enter the Lords of the +
COR 5.6. 58B city}
COR-AUFIDIUS
Say no more.
COR 5.6. 59 Here come the lords.
COR 5.6. 60A
COR-ALL THE LORDS
You are most welcome home.
COR 5.6. 61A
COR-AUFIDIUS
I have not deserved it.
COR 5.6. 62 But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused
COR 5.6. 63B What I have written to you?
COR-ALL THE LORDS
We have.
COR-FIRST LORD
And +
COR 5.6. 63B grieve to hear 't.
COR 5.6. 64 What faults he made before the last, I think
COR 5.6. 65 Might have found easy fines. But there to end
COR 5.6. 66 Where he was to begin, and give away
COR 5.6. 67 The benefit of our levies, answering us
COR 5.6. 68 With our own charge, making a treaty where
COR 5.6. 69 There was a yielding - this admits no excuse.
COR 5.6. 70A
COR-AUFIDIUS
He approaches. You shall hear him. {Enter +
COR 5.6. 70A Coriolanus marching with drum and colours, the Commoners being with +
COR 5.6. 70A him}
COR 5.6. 71
COR-CORIOLANUS
Hail, lords! I am returned your soldier,
COR 5.6. 72 No more infected with my country's love
COR 5.6. 73 Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting
COR 5.6. 74 Under your great command. You are to know
COR 5.6. 75 That prosperously I have attempted, and
COR 5.6. 76 With bloody passage led your wars even to
COR 5.6. 77 The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home
COR 5.6. 78 Doth more than counterpoise a full third part
COR 5.6. 79 The charges of the action. We have made peace
COR 5.6. 80 With no less honour to the Antiates
COR 5.6. 81 Than shame to th' Romans. And we here deliver,
COR 5.6. 82 Subscribed by th' consuls and patricians,
COR 5.6. 83 Together with the seal o' th' senate, what
COR 5.6. 84B We have compounded on. {He gives the Lords a paper}
COR-AUFIDIUS
+
COR 5.6. 84B Read it not, noble lords,
COR 5.6. 85 But tell the traitor in the highest degree
COR 5.6. 86 He hath abused your powers.
COR 5.6. 87A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Traitor? How now?
COR 5.6. 88A
COR-AUFIDIUS
Ay, traitor, Martius.
COR 5.6. 89A
COR-CORIOLANUS
Martius?
COR 5.6. 90
COR-AUFIDIUS
Ay, Martius, Caius Martius. Dost thou think
COR 5.6. 91 I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name,
COR 5.6. 92 `Coriolanus', in Corioles?
COR 5.6. 93 You lords and heads o' th' state, perfidiously
COR 5.6. 94 He has betrayed your business, and given up,
COR 5.6. 95 For certain drops of salt, your city, Rome -
COR 5.6. 96 I say your city - to his wife and mother,
COR 5.6. 97 Breaking his oath and resolution like
COR 5.6. 98 A twist of rotten silk, never admitting
COR 5.6. 99 Counsel o' th' war. But at his nurse's tears
COR 5.6. 100 He whined and roared away your victory,
COR 5.6. 101 That pages blushed at him, and men of heart
COR 5.6. 102B Looked wond'ring each at others.
COR-CORIOLANUS
Hear'st thou, Mars?
COR 5.6. 103B
COR-AUFIDIUS
Name not the god, thou boy of tears.
COR-CORIOLANUS
+
COR 5.6. 103B Ha?
COR-AUFIDIUS
No more.
COR 5.6. 104
COR-CORIOLANUS
Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart
COR 5.6. 105 Too great for what contains it. `Boy'? O slave! -
COR 5.6. 106 Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever
COR 5.6. 107 I was forced to scold. Your judgements, my grave lords,
COR 5.6. 108 Must give this cur the lie, and his own notion -
COR 5.6. 109 Who wears my stripes impressed upon him, that
COR 5.6. 110 Must bear my beating to his grave - shall join
COR 5.6. 111B To thrust the lie unto him.
COR-FIRST LORD
Peace both, and hear me +
COR 5.6. 111B speak.
COR 5.6. 112
COR-CORIOLANUS
Cut me to pieces, Volsces. Men and lads,
COR 5.6. 113 Stain all your edges on me. `Boy'! False hound,
COR 5.6. 114 If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there
COR 5.6. 115 That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
COR 5.6. 116 Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
COR 5.6. 117B Alone I did it. `Boy'!
COR-AUFIDIUS
Why, noble lords,
COR 5.6. 118 Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,
COR 5.6. 119 Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,
COR 5.6. 120B Fore your own eyes and ears?
COR-ALL THE CONSPIRATORS
Let him die for 't.
COR 5.6. 121
COR-ALL THE PEOPLE
{[shouting dispersedly]} Tear him +
COR 5.6. 121 to pieces! Do it presently!
COR 5.6. 122 He killed my son! My daughter! He killed my cousin
COR 5.6. 123B Marcus! He killed my father!
COR-SECOND LORD
Peace, ho! No outrage, +
COR 5.6. 123B peace.
COR 5.6. 124 The man is noble, and his fame folds in
COR 5.6. 125 This orb o' th' earth. His last offences to us
COR 5.6. 126 Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius,
COR 5.6. 127 And trouble not the peace.
COR 5.6. 128
COR-CORIOLANUS
{[drawing his sword]} O that I had him +
COR 5.6. 128 with six Aufidiuses,
COR 5.6. 129 Or more, his tribe, to use my lawful sword!
COR 5.6. 130B
COR-AUFIDIUS
{[drawing his sword]} Insolent +
COR 5.6. 130B villain!
COR-ALL THE CONSPIRATORS
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill +
COR 5.6. 130B him! {Two Conspirators draw and kill Martius, who falls. +
COR 5.6. 130B Aufidius [and Conspirators] stand on him}
COR 5.6. 131B
COR-LORDS
Hold, hold, hold, hold!
COR-AUFIDIUS
My noble +
COR 5.6. 131B masters, hear me speak.
COR 5.6. 132B
COR-FIRST LORD
O Tullus!
COR-SECOND LORD
{(to Aufidius)}+
COR 5.6. 132B Thou hast done a deed whereat
COR 5.6. 133B Valour will weep.
COR-THIRD LORD
{[to Aufidius and the +
COR 5.6. 133B Conspirators]} Tread not upon him, masters.
COR 5.6. 134 All be quiet. Put up your swords.
COR 5.6. 135A
COR-AUFIDIUS
My lords,
COR 5.6. 136 When you shall know - as in this rage
COR 5.6. 137 Provoked by him you cannot - the great danger
COR 5.6. 138 Which this man's life did owe you, you'll rejoice
COR 5.6. 139 That he is thus cut off. Please it your honours
COR 5.6. 140 To call me to your senate, I'll deliver
COR 5.6. 141 Myself your loyal servant, or endure
COR 5.6. 142B Your heaviest censure.
COR-FIRST LORD
Bear from hence his body,
COR 5.6. 143 And mourn you for him. Let him be regarded
COR 5.6. 144 As the most noble corpse that ever herald
COR 5.6. 145B Did follow to his urn.
COR-SECOND LORD
His own impatience
COR 5.6. 146 Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame.
COR 5.6. 147B Let's make the best of it.
COR-AUFIDIUS
My rage is gone,
COR 5.6. 148 And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
COR 5.6. 149 Help three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
COR 5.6. 150 Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully.
COR 5.6. 151 Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he
COR 5.6. 152 Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
COR 5.6. 153 Which to this hour bewail the injury,
COR 5.6. 154 Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist. {A dead march +
COR 5.6. 154 sounded. Exeunt bearing the body of Martius}
COR 5.6.
COR
0
CYL . . 0 The First Part of the Contention of the Two +
CYL . . Famous Houses of York and Lancaster
CYL . . 0 {Flourish of trumpets, then hautboys. Enter, at one +
CYL 1.1. 0 door, King Henry and Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Somerset, +
CYL 1.1. 0 the Duke of Buckingham, Cardinal Beaufort, [and others]. Enter, at the +
CYL 1.1. 0 other door, the Duke of York, and the Marquis of Suffolk, and Queen +
CYL 1.1. 0 Margaret, and the Earls of Salisbury and Warwick}
CYL 1.1. 1
CYL-SUFFOLK
{(kneeling before King Henry)} As by your +
CYL 1.1. 1 high imperial majesty
CYL 1.1. 2 I had in charge at my depart for France,
CYL 1.1. 3 As Procurator to your excellence,
CYL 1.1. 4 To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,
CYL 1.1. 5 So, in the famous ancient city Tours,
CYL 1.1. 6 In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,
CYL 1.1. 7 The Dukes of Orle/ans, Calaber, Bretagne, and Alenc@on,
CYL 1.1. 8 Seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops,
CYL 1.1. 9 I have performed my task and was espoused,
CYL 1.1. 10 And humbly now upon my bended knee,
CYL 1.1. 11 In sight of England and her lordly peers,
CYL 1.1. 12 Deliver up my title in the Queen
CYL 1.1. 13 To your most gracious hands, that are the substance
CYL 1.1. 14 Of that great shadow I did represent -
CYL 1.1. 15 The happiest gift that ever marquis gave,
CYL 1.1. 16 The fairest queen that ever king received.
CYL 1.1. 17
CYL-KING HENRY
Suffolk, arise. Welcome, Queen Margaret.
CYL 1.1. 18 I can express no kinder sign of love
CYL 1.1. 19B Than this kind kiss. {He kisses her} O Lord that lends +
CYL 1.1. 19B me life,
CYL 1.1. 20 Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
CYL 1.1. 21 For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
CYL 1.1. 22 A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
CYL 1.1. 23 If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
CYL 1.1. 24
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Th' excess of love I bear unto your grace
CYL 1.1. 25 Forbids me to be lavish of my tongue
CYL 1.1. 26 Lest I should speak more than beseems a woman.
CYL 1.1. 27 Let this suffice: my bliss is in your liking,
CYL 1.1. 28 And naught can make poor Margaret miserable
CYL 1.1. 29 Unless the frown of mighty England's King.
CYL 1.1. 30
CYL-KING HENRY
Her sight did ravish, but her grace in speech,
CYL 1.1. 31 Her words yclad with wisdom's majesty,
CYL 1.1. 32 Makes me from wond'ring fall to weeping joys,
CYL 1.1. 33 Such is the fullness of my heart's content.
CYL 1.1. 34 Lords, with one cheerful voice, welcome my love.
CYL 1.1. 35
CYL-LORDS
{(kneeling)} Long live Queen Margaret, +
CYL 1.1. 35 England's happiness.
CYL 1.1. 36A
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
We thank you all. {Flourish. [They all rise]}
CYL 1.1. 37
CYL-SUFFOLK
{(to Gloucester)} My Lord Protector, so it +
CYL 1.1. 37 please your grace,
CYL 1.1. 38 Here are the articles of contracted peace
CYL 1.1. 39 Between our sovereign and the French King Charles,
CYL 1.1. 40 For eighteen months concluded by consent.
CYL 1.1. 41
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(reads)} Imprimis: it is agreed +
CYL 1.1. 41 between the
CYL 1.1. 42 French King Charles and William de la Pole, Marquis
CYL 1.1. 43 of Suffolk, ambassador for Henry, King of England, that
CYL 1.1. 44 the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret,
CYL 1.1. 45 daughter unto Rene/, King of Naples, Sicilia, and
CYL 1.1. 46 Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England, ere the
CYL 1.1. 47 thirtieth of May next ensuing.
CYL 1.1. 48 Item: it is further agreed between them that the
CYL 1.1. 49 duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be
CYL 1.1. 50 released and delivered to the King her fa - {[Gloucester lets the +
CYL 1.1. 50 paper fall]}
CYL 1.1. 51B
CYL-KING HENRY
Uncle, how now?
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Pardon me, +
CYL 1.1. 51B gracious lord.
CYL 1.1. 52 Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
CYL 1.1. 53 And dimmed mine eyes that I can read no further.
CYL 1.1. 54
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Cardinal Beaufort)} Uncle of +
CYL 1.1. 54 Winchester, I pray read on.
CYL 1.1. 55
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(reads)} Item: it is further +
CYL 1.1. 55 agreed
CYL 1.1. 56 between them that the duchy of Anjou and the county
CYL 1.1. 57 of Maine shall be released and delivered to the King
CYL 1.1. 58 her father, and she sent over of the King of England's
CYL 1.1. 59 own proper cost and charges, without dowry.
CYL 1.1. 60
CYL-KING HENRY
They please us well. {(To +
CYL 1.1. 60 Suffolk)} Lord Marquis, kneel down. {Suffolk kneels}
CYL 1.1. 61 We here create thee first Duke of Suffolk,
CYL 1.1. 62B And gird thee with the sword. {Suffolk rises} Cousin of +
CYL 1.1. 62B York,
CYL 1.1. 63 We here discharge your grace from being regent
CYL 1.1. 64 I' th' parts of France till term of eighteen months
CYL 1.1. 65 Be full expired. Thanks uncle Winchester,
CYL 1.1. 66 Gloucester, York, and Buckingham, Somerset,
CYL 1.1. 67 Salisbury, and Warwick.
CYL 1.1. 68 We thank you all for this great favour done
CYL 1.1. 69 In entertainment to my princely Queen.
CYL 1.1. 70 Come, let us in, and with all speed provide
CYL 1.1. 71 To see her coronation be performed. {Exeunt King Henry, Queen +
CYL 1.1. 71 Margaret, and Suffolk. [Gloucester stays] all the rest}
CYL 1.1. 72
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,
CYL 1.1. 73 To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief,
CYL 1.1. 74 Your grief, the common grief of all the land.
CYL 1.1. 75 What - did my brother Henry spend his youth,
CYL 1.1. 76 His valour, coin, and people in the wars?
CYL 1.1. 77 Did he so often lodge in open field
CYL 1.1. 78 In winter's cold and summer's parching heat
CYL 1.1. 79 To conquer France, his true inheritance?
CYL 1.1. 80 And did my brother Bedford toil his wits
CYL 1.1. 81 To keep by policy what Henry got?
CYL 1.1. 82 Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham,
CYL 1.1. 83 Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick,
CYL 1.1. 84 Received deep scars in France and Normandy?
CYL 1.1. 85 Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself,
CYL 1.1. 86 With all the learned Council of the realm,
CYL 1.1. 87 Studied so long, sat in the Council House
CYL 1.1. 88 Early and late, debating to and fro,
CYL 1.1. 89 How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe,
CYL 1.1. 90 And had his highness in his infancy
CYL 1.1. 91 Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?
CYL 1.1. 92 And shall these labours and these honours die?
CYL 1.1. 93 Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,
CYL 1.1. 94 Your deeds of war, and all our counsel die?
CYL 1.1. 95 O peers of England, shameful is this league,
CYL 1.1. 96 Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,
CYL 1.1. 97 Blotting your names from books of memory,
CYL 1.1. 98 Razing the characters of your renown,
CYL 1.1. 99 Defacing monuments of conquered France,
CYL 1.1. 100 Undoing all, as all had never been!
CYL 1.1. 101
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
CYL 1.1. 102 This peroration with such circumstance?
CYL 1.1. 103 For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still.
CYL 1.1. 104
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Ay, uncle, we will keep it if we can -
CYL 1.1. 105 But now it is impossible we should.
CYL 1.1. 106 Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,
CYL 1.1. 107 Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine
CYL 1.1. 108 Unto the poor King Rene/, whose large style
CYL 1.1. 109 Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.
CYL 1.1. 110
CYL-SALISBURY
Now by the death of Him that died for all,
CYL 1.1. 111 These counties were the keys of Normandy -
CYL 1.1. 112 But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?
CYL 1.1. 113
CYL-WARWICK
For grief that they are past recovery.
CYL 1.1. 114 For were there hope to conquer them again
CYL 1.1. 115 My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.
CYL 1.1. 116 Anjou and Maine? Myself did win them both!
CYL 1.1. 117 Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer -
CYL 1.1. 118 And are the cities that I got with wounds
CYL 1.1. 119 Delivered up again with peaceful words?
CYL 1.1. 120 {Mort Dieu!}
CYL 1.1. 121
CYL-YORK
For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,
CYL 1.1. 122 That dims the honour of this warlike isle!
CYL 1.1. 123 France should have torn and rent my very heart
CYL 1.1. 124 Before I would have yielded to this league.
CYL 1.1. 125 I never read but England's kings have had
CYL 1.1. 126 Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives -
CYL 1.1. 127 And our King Henry gives away his own,
CYL 1.1. 128 To match with her that brings no vantages.
CYL 1.1. 129
CYL-GLOUCESTER
A proper jest, and never heard before,
CYL 1.1. 130 That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
CYL 1.1. 131 For costs and charges in transporting her!
CYL 1.1. 132 She should have stayed in France and starved in France
CYL 1.1. 133 Before -
CYL 1.1. 134
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
My lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot!
CYL 1.1. 135 It was the pleasure of my lord the King.
CYL 1.1. 136
CYL-GLOUCESTER
My lord of Winchester, I know your mind.
CYL 1.1. 137 'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,
CYL 1.1. 138 But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.
CYL 1.1. 139 Rancour will out. Proud prelate, in thy face
CYL 1.1. 140 I see thy fury. If I longer stay
CYL 1.1. 141 We shall begin our ancient bickerings -
CYL 1.1. 142 But I'll be gone, and give thee leave to speak.
CYL 1.1. 143 Lordings, farewell, and say when I am gone,
CYL 1.1. 144 I prophesied France will be lost ere long. {Exit}
CYL 1.1. 145
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
So, there goes our Protector in a rage.
CYL 1.1. 146 'Tis known to you he is mine enemy;
CYL 1.1. 147 Nay more, an enemy unto you all,
CYL 1.1. 148 And no great friend, I fear me, to the King.
CYL 1.1. 149 Consider, lords, he is the next of blood
CYL 1.1. 150 And heir apparent to the English crown.
CYL 1.1. 151 Had Henry got an empire by his marriage,
CYL 1.1. 152 And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west,
CYL 1.1. 153 There's reason he should be displeased at it.
CYL 1.1. 154 Look to it, lords - let not his smoothing words
CYL 1.1. 155 Bewitch your hearts. Be wise and circumspect.
CYL 1.1. 156 What though the common people favour him,
CYL 1.1. 157 Calling him `Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester',
CYL 1.1. 158 Clapping their hands and crying with loud voice
CYL 1.1. 159 `Jesu maintain your royal excellence!'
CYL 1.1. 160 With `God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!'
CYL 1.1. 161 I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,
CYL 1.1. 162 He will be found a dangerous Protector.
CYL 1.1. 163
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Why should he then protect our sovereign,
CYL 1.1. 164 He being of age to govern of himself?
CYL 1.1. 165 Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,
CYL 1.1. 166 And all together, with the Duke of Suffolk,
CYL 1.1. 167 We'll quickly hoist Duke Humphrey from his seat.
CYL 1.1. 168
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
This weighty business will not brook delay -
CYL 1.1. 169 I'll to the Duke of Suffolk presently. {Exit}
CYL 1.1. 170
CYL-SOMERSET
Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey's pride
CYL 1.1. 171 And greatness of his place be grief to us,
CYL 1.1. 172 Yet let us watch the haughty Cardinal;
CYL 1.1. 173 His insolence is more intolerable
CYL 1.1. 174 Than all the princes in the land beside.
CYL 1.1. 175 If Gloucester be displaced, he'll be Protector.
CYL 1.1. 176
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Or thou or I, Somerset, will be Protector,
CYL 1.1. 177 Despite Duke Humphrey or the Cardinal. {Exeunt Buckingham and +
CYL 1.1. 177 Somerset}
CYL 1.1. 178
CYL-SALISBURY
Pride went before, ambition follows him.
CYL 1.1. 179 While these do labour for their own preferment,
CYL 1.1. 180 Behoves it us to labour for the realm.
CYL 1.1. 181 I never saw but Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
CYL 1.1. 182 Did bear him like a noble gentleman.
CYL 1.1. 183 Oft have I seen the haughty Cardinal,
CYL 1.1. 184 More like a soldier than a man o' th' church,
CYL 1.1. 185 As stout and proud as he were lord of all,
CYL 1.1. 186 Swear like a ruffian, and demean himself
CYL 1.1. 187 Unlike the ruler of a commonweal.
CYL 1.1. 188 Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age,
CYL 1.1. 189 Thy deeds, thy plainness, and thy housekeeping
CYL 1.1. 190 Hath won thee greatest favour of the commons,
CYL 1.1. 191 Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey.
CYL 1.1. 192 And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,
CYL 1.1. 193 In bringing them to civil discipline,
CYL 1.1. 194 Thy late exploits done in the heart of France,
CYL 1.1. 195 When thou wert Regent for our sovereign,
CYL 1.1. 196 Have made thee feared and honoured of the people.
CYL 1.1. 197 The reverence of mine age and Neville's name
CYL 1.1. 198 Is of no little force if I command.
CYL 1.1. 199 Join we together for the public good,
CYL 1.1. 200 In what we can to bridle and suppress
CYL 1.1. 201 The pride of Suffolk and the Cardinal
CYL 1.1. 202 With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition;
CYL 1.1. 203 And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey's deeds
CYL 1.1. 204 While they do tend the profit of the land.
CYL 1.1. 205
CYL-WARWICK
So God help Warwick, as he loves the land,
CYL 1.1. 206 And common profit of his country!
CYL 1.1. 207
CYL-YORK
And so says York, {(aside)} for he hath +
CYL 1.1. 207 greatest cause.
CYL 1.1. 208
CYL-SALISBURY
Then let's away, and look unto the main.
CYL 1.1. 209
CYL-WARWICK
Unto the main? O, father, Maine is lost!
CYL 1.1. 210 That Maine which by main force Warwick did win,
CYL 1.1. 211 And would have kept so long as breath did last!
CYL 1.1. 212 Main chance, father, you meant - but I meant Maine,
CYL 1.1. 213 Which I will win from France or else be slain. {Exeunt Warwick +
CYL 1.1. 213 and Salisbury, leaving only York}
CYL 1.1. 214
CYL-YORK
Anjou and Maine are given to the French,
CYL 1.1. 215 Paris is lost, the state of Normandy
CYL 1.1. 216 Stands on a tickle point now they are gone;
CYL 1.1. 217 Suffolk concluded on the articles,
CYL 1.1. 218 The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased
CYL 1.1. 219 To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter.
CYL 1.1. 220 I cannot blame them all - what is 't to them?
CYL 1.1. 221 'Tis thine they give away and not their own!
CYL 1.1. 222 Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage,
CYL 1.1. 223 And purchase friends, and give to courtesans,
CYL 1.1. 224 Still revelling like lords till all be gone,
CYL 1.1. 225 Whileas the seely owner of the goods
CYL 1.1. 226 Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless hands,
CYL 1.1. 227 And shakes his head, and, trembling, stands aloof,
CYL 1.1. 228 While all is shared and all is born away,
CYL 1.1. 229 Ready to starve and dare not touch his own.
CYL 1.1. 230 So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue,
CYL 1.1. 231 While his own lands are bargained for and sold.
CYL 1.1. 232 Methinks the realms of England, France, and Ireland
CYL 1.1. 233 Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood
CYL 1.1. 234 As did the fatal brand Althaea burnt
CYL 1.1. 235 Unto the prince's heart of Calydon.
CYL 1.1. 236 Anjou and Maine both given unto the French!
CYL 1.1. 237 Cold news for me - for I had hope of France,
CYL 1.1. 238 Even as I have of fertile England's soil.
CYL 1.1. 239 A day will come when York shall claim his own,
CYL 1.1. 240 And therefore I will take the Nevilles' parts,
CYL 1.1. 241 And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,
CYL 1.1. 242 And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown,
CYL 1.1. 243 For that's the golden mark I seek to hit.
CYL 1.1. 244 Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,
CYL 1.1. 245 Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist,
CYL 1.1. 246 Nor wear the diadem upon his head
CYL 1.1. 247 Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown.
CYL 1.1. 248 Then, York, be still a while till time do serve.
CYL 1.1. 249 Watch thou, and wake when others be asleep,
CYL 1.1. 250 To pry into the secrets of the state -
CYL 1.1. 251 Till Henry, surfeit in the joys of love
CYL 1.1. 252 With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen,
CYL 1.1. 253 And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars.
CYL 1.1. 254 Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose,
CYL 1.1. 255 With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed,
CYL 1.1. 256 And in my standard bear the arms of York,
CYL 1.1. 257 To grapple with the house of Lancaster;
CYL 1.1. 258 And force perforce I'll make him yield the crown,
CYL 1.1. 259 Whose bookish rule hath pulled fair England down. {Exit}
CYL 1.1. 0 {Enter Duke Humphrey of Gloucester and his wife Eleanor, +
CYL 1.2. 0 the Duchess}
CYL 1.2. 1
CYL-DUCHESS
Why droops my lord, like over-ripened corn
CYL 1.2. 2 Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?
CYL 1.2. 3 Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows,
CYL 1.2. 4 As frowning at the favours of the world?
CYL 1.2. 5 Why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth,
CYL 1.2. 6 Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight?
CYL 1.2. 7 What seest thou there? King Henry's diadem,
CYL 1.2. 8 Enchased with all the honours of the world?
CYL 1.2. 9 If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face
CYL 1.2. 10 Until thy head be circled with the same.
CYL 1.2. 11 Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
CYL 1.2. 12 What, is 't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine;
CYL 1.2. 13 And having both together heaved it up,
CYL 1.2. 14 We'll both together lift our heads to heaven
CYL 1.2. 15 And never more abase our sight so low
CYL 1.2. 16 As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.
CYL 1.2. 17
CYL-GLOUCESTER
O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,
CYL 1.2. 18 Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts!
CYL 1.2. 19 And may that hour when I imagine ill
CYL 1.2. 20 Against my king and nephew, virtuous Henry,
CYL 1.2. 21 Be my last breathing in this mortal world!
CYL 1.2. 22 My troublous dream this night doth make me sad.
CYL 1.2. 23
CYL-DUCHESS
What dreamed my lord? Tell me and I'll requite it
CYL 1.2. 24 With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream.
CYL 1.2. 25
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,
CYL 1.2. 26 Was broke in twain - by whom I have forgot,
CYL 1.2. 27 But, as I think, it was by th' Cardinal -
CYL 1.2. 28 And on the pieces of the broken wand
CYL 1.2. 29 Were placed the heads of Edmund, Duke of Somerset,
CYL 1.2. 30 And William de la Pole, first Duke of Suffolk.
CYL 1.2. 31 This was my dream - what it doth bode, God knows.
CYL 1.2. 32
CYL-DUCHESS
Tut, this was nothing but an argument
CYL 1.2. 33 That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove
CYL 1.2. 34 Shall lose his head for his presumption.
CYL 1.2. 35 But list to me, my Humphrey, my sweet duke:
CYL 1.2. 36 Methought I sat in seat of majesty
CYL 1.2. 37 In the cathedral church of Westminster,
CYL 1.2. 38 And in that chair where kings and queens are crowned,
CYL 1.2. 39 Where Henry and Dame Margaret kneeled to me,
CYL 1.2. 40 And on my head did set the diadem.
CYL 1.2. 41
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright.
CYL 1.2. 42 Presumptuous dame! Ill-nurtured Eleanor!
CYL 1.2. 43 Art thou not second woman in the realm,
CYL 1.2. 44 And the Protector's wife beloved of him?
CYL 1.2. 45 Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command
CYL 1.2. 46 Above the reach or compass of thy thought?
CYL 1.2. 47 And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
CYL 1.2. 48 To tumble down thy husband and thyself
CYL 1.2. 49 From top of honour to disgrace's feet?
CYL 1.2. 50 Away from me, and let me hear no more!
CYL 1.2. 51
CYL-DUCHESS
What, what, my lord? Are you so choleric
CYL 1.2. 52 With Eleanor for telling but her dream?
CYL 1.2. 53 Next time I'll keep my dreams unto myself
CYL 1.2. 54 And not be checked.
CYL 1.2. 55
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Nay, be not angry; I am pleased again. {Enter a +
CYL 1.2. 55 Messenger}
CYL 1.2. 56
CYL-MESSENGER
My Lord Protector, 'tis his highness' pleasure
CYL 1.2. 57 You do prepare to ride unto Saint Albans,
CYL 1.2. 58 Whereas the King and Queen do mean to hawk.
CYL 1.2. 59
CYL-GLOUCESTER
I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?
CYL 1.2. 60
CYL-DUCHESS
Yes, my good lord, I'll follow presently. {Exeunt +
CYL 1.2. 60 Gloucester and the Messenger}
CYL 1.2. 61 Follow I must; I cannot go before
CYL 1.2. 62 While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind.
CYL 1.2. 63 Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,
CYL 1.2. 64 I would remove these tedious stumbling blocks
CYL 1.2. 65 And smooth my way upon their headless necks.
CYL 1.2. 66 And, being a woman, I will not be slack
CYL 1.2. 67 To play my part in fortune's pageant.
CYL 1.2. 68 {(Calling within)} Where are you there? Sir John! Nay, +
CYL 1.2. 68 fear not man.
CYL 1.2. 69 We are alone. Here's none but thee and I. {Enter Sir John Hume}
CYL 1.2. 70
CYL-HUME
Jesus preserve your royal majesty.
CYL 1.2. 71
CYL-DUCHESS
What sayst thou? `Majesty'? I am but `grace'.
CYL 1.2. 72
CYL-HUME
But by the grace of God and Hume's advice
CYL 1.2. 73 Your grace's title shall be multiplied.
CYL 1.2. 74
CYL-DUCHESS
What sayst thou, man? Hast thou as yet conferred
CYL 1.2. 75 With Margery Jordan, the cunning witch of Eye,
CYL 1.2. 76 With Roger Bolingbroke, the conjuror?
CYL 1.2. 77 And will they undertake to do me good?
CYL 1.2. 78
CYL-HUME
This they have promised: to show your highness
CYL 1.2. 79 A spirit raised from depth of underground
CYL 1.2. 80 That shall make answer to such questions
CYL 1.2. 81 As by your Grace shall be propounded him.
CYL 1.2. 82
CYL-DUCHESS
It is enough. I'll think upon the questions.
CYL 1.2. 83 When from Saint Albans we do make return,
CYL 1.2. 84 We'll see these things effected to the full.
CYL 1.2. 85 Here, Hume {(giving him money)} , take this reward. +
CYL 1.2. 85 Make merry, man,
CYL 1.2. 86 With thy confederates in this weighty cause. {Exit}
CYL 1.2. 87
CYL-HUME
Hume must make merry with the Duchess' gold;
CYL 1.2. 88 Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume?
CYL 1.2. 89 Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum;
CYL 1.2. 90 The business asketh silent secrecy.
CYL 1.2. 91 Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch.
CYL 1.2. 92 Gold cannot come amiss were she a devil.
CYL 1.2. 93 Yet have I gold flies from another coast -
CYL 1.2. 94 I dare not say from the rich Cardinal
CYL 1.2. 95 And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,
CYL 1.2. 96 Yet I do find it so; for, to be plain,
CYL 1.2. 97 They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,
CYL 1.2. 98 Have hired me to undermine the Duchess,
CYL 1.2. 99 And buzz these conjurations in her brain.
CYL 1.2. 100 They say `A crafty knave does need no broker',
CYL 1.2. 101 Yet am I Suffolk and the Cardinal's broker.
CYL 1.2. 102 Hume, if you take not heed you shall go near
CYL 1.2. 103 To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.
CYL 1.2. 104 Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last
CYL 1.2. 105 Hume's knavery will be the Duchess' wrack,
CYL 1.2. 106 And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall.
CYL 1.2. 107 Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all. {Exit}
CYL 1.2. 0 {Enter Peter, the armourer's man, with two or three other +
CYL 1.3. 0 Petitioners}
CYL 1.3. 1
CYL-FIRST PETITIONER
My masters, let's stand close. My Lord
CYL 1.3. 2 Protector will come this way by and by and then we
CYL 1.3. 3 may deliver our supplications in the quill.
CYL 1.3. 4
CYL-SECOND PETITIONER
Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's
CYL 1.3. 5 a good man, Jesu bless him. {Enter the Duke of Suffolk and Queen +
CYL 1.3. 5 Margaret}
CYL 1.3. 6
CYL-[FIRST PETITIONER]
Here a comes, methinks, and the Queen
CYL 1.3. 7 with him. I'll be the first, sure. {He goes to meet Suffolk and +
CYL 1.3. 7 the Queen}
CYL 1.3. 8
CYL-SECOND PETITIONER
Come back, fool - this is the Duke of
CYL 1.3. 9 Suffolk and not my Lord Protector.
CYL 1.3. 10
CYL-SUFFOLK
{(to the First Petitioner)} How now, +
CYL 1.3. 10 fellow - wouldst anything with me?
CYL 1.3. 11
CYL-FIRST PETITIONER
I pray, my lord, pardon me - I took ye
CYL 1.3. 12 for my Lord Protector.
CYL 1.3. 13
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{[seeing his supplication, she +
CYL 1.3. 13 reads]} `To my
CYL 1.3. 14 Lord Protector' - are your supplications to his lordship?
CYL 1.3. 15 Let me see them. {[She takes First Petitioner's supplication]}
CYL 1.3. 16 What is thine?
CYL 1.3. 17
CYL-FIRST PETITIONER
Mine is, an 't please your grace, against
CYL 1.3. 18 John Goodman, my lord Cardinal's man, for keeping
CYL 1.3. 19 my house and lands and wife and all from me.
CYL 1.3. 20
CYL-SUFFOLK
Thy wife too? That's some wrong indeed. {[To the}
CYL 1.3. 21 {Second Petitioner]} What's yours? {He takes the +
CYL 1.3. 21 supplication}
CYL 1.3. 22 What's here? {(Reads)} `Against the Duke of +
CYL 1.3. 22 Suffolk for
CYL 1.3. 23 enclosing the commons of Melford'! {[To the Second}
CYL 1.3. 24 {Petitioner]} How now, Sir Knave?
CYL 1.3. 25
CYL-SECOND PETITIONER
Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of
CYL 1.3. 26 our whole township.
CYL 1.3. 27
CYL-PETER
{[offering his petition]} Against my master, +
CYL 1.3. 27 Thomas
CYL 1.3. 28 Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful
CYL 1.3. 29 heir to the crown.
CYL 1.3. 30
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
What sayst thou? Did the Duke of York
CYL 1.3. 31 say he was rightful heir to the crown?
CYL 1.3. 32
CYL-PETER
That my master was? No, forsooth, my master said
CYL 1.3. 33 that he was and that the King was an usurer.
CYL 1.3. 34
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
An usurper thou wouldst say.
CYL 1.3. 35
CYL-PETER
Ay, forsooth - an usurper.
CYL 1.3. 36
CYL-SUFFOLK
{(calling within)} Who is there? +
CYL 1.3. 36 {Enter a servant}
CYL 1.3. 37 Take this fellow in and send for his master with a
CYL 1.3. 38 pursuivant presently. {(To Peter)} We'll hear more of +
CYL 1.3. 38 your
CYL 1.3. 39 matter before the King. {Exit the servant with Peter}
CYL 1.3. 40
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to the Petitioners)} And as for +
CYL 1.3. 40 you that love to be protected
CYL 1.3. 41 Under the wings of our Protector's grace,
CYL 1.3. 42 Begin your suits anew and sue to him. {[She] tears the +
CYL 1.3. 42 supplication}
CYL 1.3. 43 Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go.
CYL 1.3. 44A
CYL-ALL PETITIONERS
Come, let's be gone. {Exeunt Petitioners}
CYL 1.3. 45
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
My lord of Suffolk, say, is this the +
CYL 1.3. 45 guise?
CYL 1.3. 46 Is this the fashions in the court of England?
CYL 1.3. 47 Is this the government of Britain's isle,
CYL 1.3. 48 And this the royalty of Albion's king?
CYL 1.3. 49 What, shall King Henry be a pupil still
CYL 1.3. 50 Under the surly Gloucester's governance?
CYL 1.3. 51 Am I a queen in title and in style,
CYL 1.3. 52 And must be made a subject to a duke?
CYL 1.3. 53 I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours
CYL 1.3. 54 Thou rann'st a-tilt in honour of my love
CYL 1.3. 55 And stol'st away the ladies' hearts of France,
CYL 1.3. 56 I thought King Henry had resembled thee
CYL 1.3. 57 In courage, courtship, and proportion.
CYL 1.3. 58 But all his mind is bent to holiness,
CYL 1.3. 59 To number Ave-Maries on his beads.
CYL 1.3. 60 His champions are the prophets and apostles,
CYL 1.3. 61 His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,
CYL 1.3. 62 His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
CYL 1.3. 63 Are brazen images of canonized saints.
CYL 1.3. 64 I would the college of the cardinals
CYL 1.3. 65 Would choose him Pope, and carry him to Rome,
CYL 1.3. 66 And set the triple crown upon his head -
CYL 1.3. 67 That were a state fit for his holiness.
CYL 1.3. 68
CYL-SUFFOLK
Madam, be patient - as I was cause
CYL 1.3. 69 Your highness came to England, so will I
CYL 1.3. 70 In England work your grace's full content.
CYL 1.3. 71
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Beside the haught Protector have we Beaufort
CYL 1.3. 72 The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham,
CYL 1.3. 73 And grumbling York; and not the least of these
CYL 1.3. 74 But can do more in England than the King.
CYL 1.3. 75
CYL-SUFFOLK
And he of these that can do most of all
CYL 1.3. 76 Cannot do more in England than the Nevilles:
CYL 1.3. 77 Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers.
CYL 1.3. 78
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Not all these lords do vex me half so much
CYL 1.3. 79 As that proud dame, the Lord Protector's wife.
CYL 1.3. 80 She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies
CYL 1.3. 81 More like an empress than Duke Humphrey's wife.
CYL 1.3. 82 Strangers in court do take her for the queen.
CYL 1.3. 83 She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
CYL 1.3. 84 And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
CYL 1.3. 85 Shall I not live to be avenged on her?
CYL 1.3. 86 Contemptuous base-born callet as she is,
CYL 1.3. 87 She vaunted 'mongst her minions t' other day
CYL 1.3. 88 The very train of her worst-wearing gown
CYL 1.3. 89 Was better worth than all my father's lands,
CYL 1.3. 90 Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter.
CYL 1.3. 91
CYL-SUFFOLK
Madam, myself have limed a bush for her,
CYL 1.3. 92 And placed a choir of such enticing birds
CYL 1.3. 93 That she will light to listen to their lays,
CYL 1.3. 94 And never mount to trouble you again.
CYL 1.3. 95 So let her rest; and, madam, list to me,
CYL 1.3. 96 For I am bold to counsel you in this:
CYL 1.3. 97 Although we fancy not the Cardinal,
CYL 1.3. 98 Yet must we join with him and with the lords
CYL 1.3. 99 Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace.
CYL 1.3. 100 As for the Duke of York, this late complaint
CYL 1.3. 101 Will make but little for his benefit.
CYL 1.3. 102 So one by one we'll weed them all at last,
CYL 1.3. 103 And you yourself shall steer the happy helm. {Sound a sennet. +
CYL 1.3. 103 [Enter King Henry with the Duke of York and the Duke of Somerset on +
CYL 1.3. 103 either side of him whispering with him. Also enter Duke Humphrey of +
CYL 1.3. 103 Gloucester, Dame Eleanor the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of +
CYL 1.3. 103 Buckingham, the Earls of Salisbury and Warwick, and Cardinal Beaufort +
CYL 1.3. 103 Bishop of Winchester]}
CYL 1.3. 104
CYL-KING HENRY
For my part, noble lords, I care not which:
CYL 1.3. 105 Or Somerset or York, all's one to me.
CYL 1.3. 106
CYL-YORK
If York have ill demeaned himself in France
CYL 1.3. 107 Then let him be denied the regentship.
CYL 1.3. 108
CYL-SOMERSET
If Somerset be unworthy of the place,
CYL 1.3. 109 Let York be regent - I will yield to him.
CYL 1.3. 110
CYL-WARWICK
Whether your grace be worthy, yea or no,
CYL 1.3. 111 Dispute not that: York is the worthier.
CYL 1.3. 112
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak.
CYL 1.3. 113
CYL-WARWICK
The Cardinal's not my better in the field.
CYL 1.3. 114
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
All in this presence are thy betters, Warwick.
CYL 1.3. 115
CYL-WARWICK
Warwick may live to be the best of all.
CYL 1.3. 116
CYL-SALISBURY
Peace, son; {(to Buckingham)} and show +
CYL 1.3. 116 some reason, Buckingham,
CYL 1.3. 117 Why Somerset should be preferred in this.
CYL 1.3. 118
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Because the King, forsooth, will have it so.
CYL 1.3. 119
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Madam, the King is old enough himself
CYL 1.3. 120 To give his censure. These are no women's matters.
CYL 1.3. 121
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
If he be old enough, what needs your grace
CYL 1.3. 122 To be Protector of his excellence?
CYL 1.3. 123
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Madam, I am Protector of the realm,
CYL 1.3. 124 And at his pleasure will resign my place.
CYL 1.3. 125
CYL-SUFFOLK
Resign it then, and leave thine insolence.
CYL 1.3. 126 Since thou wert king - as who is king but thou? -
CYL 1.3. 127 The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack,
CYL 1.3. 128 The Dauphin hath prevailed beyond the seas,
CYL 1.3. 129 And all the peers and nobles of the realm
CYL 1.3. 130 Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty.
CYL 1.3. 131
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(to Gloucester)} The commons +
CYL 1.3. 131 hast thou racked, the clergy's bags
CYL 1.3. 132 Are lank and lean with thy extortions.
CYL 1.3. 133
CYL-SOMERSET
{(to Gloucester)} Thy sumptuous buildings +
CYL 1.3. 133 and thy wife's attire
CYL 1.3. 134 Have cost a mass of public treasury.
CYL 1.3. 135
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Gloucester)} Thy cruelty in +
CYL 1.3. 135 execution
CYL 1.3. 136 Upon offenders hath exceeded law
CYL 1.3. 137 And left thee to the mercy of the law.
CYL 1.3. 138
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to Gloucester)} Thy sale of +
CYL 1.3. 138 offices and towns in France -
CYL 1.3. 139 If they were known, as the suspect is great -
CYL 1.3. 140 Would make thee quickly hop without thy head. {Exit Gloucester}
CYL 1.3. 141 {Queen Margaret lets fall her fan} {(To the +
CYL 1.3. 141 Duchess)} Give me my fan - what, minion, can ye not? {She +
CYL 1.3. 141 gives the Duchess a box on the ear}
CYL 1.3. 142 I cry you mercy, madam! Was it you?
CYL 1.3. 143
CYL-DUCHESS
Was 't I? Yea, I it was, proud Frenchwoman!
CYL 1.3. 144 Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
CYL 1.3. 145 I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
CYL 1.3. 146
CYL-KING HENRY
Sweet aunt, be quiet - 'twas against her will.
CYL 1.3. 147
CYL-DUCHESS
Against her will? Good King, look to 't in time!
CYL 1.3. 148 She'll pamper thee and dandle thee like a baby.
CYL 1.3. 149 Though in this place most master wear no breeches,
CYL 1.3. 150 She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged! {Exit}
CYL 1.3. 151
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(aside to Cardinal Beaufort)} Lord +
CYL 1.3. 151 Cardinal, I will follow Eleanor
CYL 1.3. 152 And listen after Humphrey how he proceeds.
CYL 1.3. 153 She's tickled now, her fury needs no spurs -
CYL 1.3. 154 She'll gallop far enough to her destruction. {Exit}
CYL 1.3. 155 {Enter Duke Humphrey of Gloucester}
CYL-GLOUCESTER
+
CYL 1.3. 155 Now, lords, my choler being overblown
CYL 1.3. 156 With walking once about the quadrangle,
CYL 1.3. 157 I come to talk of commonwealth affairs.
CYL 1.3. 158 As for your spiteful false objections,
CYL 1.3. 159 Prove them, and I lie open to the law.
CYL 1.3. 160 But God in mercy so deal with my soul
CYL 1.3. 161 As I in duty love my King and country.
CYL 1.3. 162 But to the matter that we have in hand -
CYL 1.3. 163 I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man
CYL 1.3. 164 To be your regent in the realm of France.
CYL 1.3. 165
CYL-SUFFOLK
Before we make election, give me leave
CYL 1.3. 166 To show some reason of no little force
CYL 1.3. 167 That York is most unmeet of any man.
CYL 1.3. 168
CYL-YORK
I'll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet:
CYL 1.3. 169 First, for I cannot flatter thee in pride;
CYL 1.3. 170 Next, if I be appointed for the place,
CYL 1.3. 171 My lord of Somerset will keep me here
CYL 1.3. 172 Without discharge, money, or furniture,
CYL 1.3. 173 Till France be won into the Dauphin's hands.
CYL 1.3. 174 Last time I danced attendance on his will
CYL 1.3. 175 Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost.
CYL 1.3. 176
CYL-WARWICK
That can I witness, and a fouler fact
CYL 1.3. 177 Did never traitor in the land commit.
CYL 1.3. 178A
CYL-SUFFOLK
Peace, headstrong Warwick.
CYL 1.3. 179
CYL-WARWICK
Image of pride, why should I hold my peace? {Enter, +
CYL 1.3. 179 guarded, Horner the armourer and Peter his man}
CYL 1.3. 180
CYL-SUFFOLK
Because here is a man accused of treason -
CYL 1.3. 181 Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!
CYL 1.3. 182
CYL-YORK
Doth anyone accuse York for a traitor?
CYL 1.3. 183
CYL-KING HENRY
What mean'st thou, Suffolk? Tell me, what are these?
CYL 1.3. 184
CYL-SUFFOLK
Please it your majesty, this is the man {He +
CYL 1.3. 184 indicates Peter}
CYL 1.3. 185 That doth accuse his master {(indicating +
CYL 1.3. 185 Horner)} of high treason.
CYL 1.3. 186 His words were these: that Richard Duke of York
CYL 1.3. 187 Was rightful heir unto the English crown,
CYL 1.3. 188 And that your majesty was an usurper.
CYL 1.3. 189A
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Horner)} Say, man, were these thy +
CYL 1.3. 189A words?
CYL 1.3. 190
CYL-HORNER
An 't shall please your majesty, I never said nor
CYL 1.3. 191 thought any such matter. God is my witness, I am
CYL 1.3. 192 falsely accused by the villain.
CYL 1.3. 193
CYL-PETER
{[raising his hands]} By these ten bones, my +
CYL 1.3. 193 lords, he
CYL 1.3. 194 did speak them to me in the garret one night as we
CYL 1.3. 195 were scouring my lord of York's armour.
CYL 1.3. 196
CYL-YORK
Base dunghill villain and mechanical,
CYL 1.3. 197 I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech!
CYL 1.3. 198 {(To King Henry)} I do beseech your royal majesty,
CYL 1.3. 199 Let him have all the rigour of the law.
CYL 1.3. 200
CYL-HORNER
Alas, my lord, hang me if ever I spake the words.
CYL 1.3. 201 My accuser is my prentice, and when I did correct him
CYL 1.3. 202 for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees
CYL 1.3. 203 he would be even with me. I have good witness of this,
CYL 1.3. 204 therefore, I beseech your majesty, do not cast away an
CYL 1.3. 205 honest man for a villain's accusation.
CYL 1.3. 206
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Gloucester)} Uncle, what shall we +
CYL 1.3. 206 say to this in law?
CYL 1.3. 207
CYL-GLOUCESTER
This doom, my lord, if I may judge by case:
CYL 1.3. 208 Let Somerset be regent o'er the French,
CYL 1.3. 209 Because in York this breeds suspicion.
CYL 1.3. 210 {(Indicating Horner and Peter)} And let these have a +
CYL 1.3. 210 day appointed them
CYL 1.3. 211 For single combat in convenient place,
CYL 1.3. 212 For he {(indicating Horner)} hath witness of his +
CYL 1.3. 212 servant's malice.
CYL 1.3. 213 This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.
CYL 1.3. 214
CYL-KING HENRY
Then be it so. {(To Somerset)} My lord +
CYL 1.3. 214 of Somerset,
CYL 1.3. 215 We make you regent o'er the realm of France
CYL 1.3. 216 There to defend our rights 'gainst foreign foes.
CYL 1.3. 217
CYL-SOMERSET
I humbly thank your royal majesty.
CYL 1.3. 218
CYL-HORNER
And I accept the combat willingly.
CYL 1.3. 219
CYL-PETER
{[to Gloucester]} Alas, my lord, I cannot +
CYL 1.3. 219 fight; for
CYL 1.3. 220 God's sake, pity my case! The spite of man prevaileth
CYL 1.3. 221 against me. O Lord, have mercy upon me - I shall never
CYL 1.3. 222 be able to fight a blow! O Lord, my heart!
CYL 1.3. 223
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Sirrah, or you must fight or else be hanged.
CYL 1.3. 224
CYL-KING HENRY
Away with them to prison, and the day
CYL 1.3. 225 Of combat be the last of the next month.
CYL 1.3. 226 Come, Somerset, we'll see thee sent away. {Flourish. Exeunt}
CYL 1.3. 0 {Enter Margery Jordan, a witch; Sir John Hume and John +
CYL 1.4. 0 Southwell, two priests; and Roger Bolingbroke, a conjuror}
CYL 1.4. 1
CYL-HUME
Come, my masters, the Duchess, I tell you, expects
CYL 1.4. 2 performance of your promises.
CYL 1.4. 3
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
Master Hume, we are therefore provided.
CYL 1.4. 4 Will her ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms?
CYL 1.4. 5
CYL-HUME
Ay, what else? Fear you not her courage.
CYL 1.4. 6
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
I have heard her reported to be a woman
CYL 1.4. 7 of an invincible spirit. But it shall be convenient, Master
CYL 1.4. 8 Hume, that you be by her, aloft, while we be busy
CYL 1.4. 9 below. And so, I pray you, go in God's name and leave
CYL 1.4. 10 us. {Exit Hume}
CYL 1.4. 11 Mother Jordan, be you prostrate and grovel on the
CYL 1.4. 12 earth. {She lies down upon her face.}
CYL 1.4. 13 {[Enter Eleanor, the Duchess of Gloucester, aloft]} John +
CYL 1.4. 13 Southwell, read you and let us to our work.
CYL 1.4. 14
CYL-DUCHESS
Well said, my masters, and welcome all. To this
CYL 1.4. 15 gear the sooner the better. {[Enter Hume aloft]}
CYL 1.4. 16
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
Patience, good lady - wizards know their times.
CYL 1.4. 17 Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
CYL 1.4. 18 The time of night when Troy was set on fire,
CYL 1.4. 19 The time when screech-owls cry and bandogs howl,
CYL 1.4. 20 And spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves -
CYL 1.4. 21 That time best fits the work we have in hand.
CYL 1.4. 22 Madam, sit you, and fear not. Whom we raise
CYL 1.4. 23 We will make fast within a hallowed verge. {Here do the +
CYL 1.4. 23 ceremonies belonging, and make the circle. Southwell reads `Coniuro +
CYL 1.4. 23 te', etc. It thunders and lightens terribly, then the spirit Asnath +
CYL 1.4. 23 riseth}
CYL 1.4. 24A
CYL-ASNATH
{Adsum}.
CYL 1.4. 25A
CYL-WITCH
Asnath,
CYL 1.4. 26 By the eternal God whose name and power
CYL 1.4. 27 Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask,
CYL 1.4. 28 For till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.
CYL 1.4. 29
CYL-ASNATH
Ask what thou wilt, that I had said and done.
CYL 1.4. 30
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
{(reads)} `First, of the King: what +
CYL 1.4. 30 shall of him become?'
CYL 1.4. 31
CYL-ASNATH
The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose,
CYL 1.4. 32 But him outlive, and die a violent death. {As the spirit speaks, +
CYL 1.4. 32 [Southwell] writes the answer}
CYL 1.4. 33
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
{(reads)} `Tell me what fate awaits +
CYL 1.4. 33 the Duke of Suffolk.'
CYL 1.4. 34
CYL-ASNATH
By water shall he die, and take his end.
CYL 1.4. 35
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
{(reads)} `What shall betide the Duke +
CYL 1.4. 35 of Somerset?'
CYL 1.4. 36
CYL-ASNATH
Let him shun castles. Safer shall he be
CYL 1.4. 37 Upon the sandy plains than where castles mounted stand.
CYL 1.4. 38 Have done - for more I hardly can endure.
CYL 1.4. 39
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
Descend to darkness and the burning lake!
CYL 1.4. 40 False fiend, avoid! {Thunder and lightning. The spirit sinks +
CYL 1.4. 40 down again}
CYL 1.4. 41 {Enter, breaking in, the Dukes of York and Buckingham with +
CYL 1.4. 41 their guard, among them Sir Humphrey Stafford}
CYL-YORK
Lay +
CYL 1.4. 41 hands upon these traitors and their trash. {[Bolingbroke, +
CYL 1.4. 41 Southwell, and Jordan are taken prisoner. Buckingham takes the writings +
CYL 1.4. 41 from Bolingbroke and Southwell]}
CYL 1.4. 42 {(To Jordan)} Beldam, I think we watched you at an +
CYL 1.4. 42 inch.
CYL 1.4. 43 {(To the Duchess)} What, madam, are you there? The +
CYL 1.4. 43 King and common weal
CYL 1.4. 44 Are deep indebted for this piece of pains.
CYL 1.4. 45 My lord Protector will, I doubt it not,
CYL 1.4. 46 See you well guerdoned for these good deserts.
CYL 1.4. 47
CYL-DUCHESS
Not half so bad as thine to England's king,
CYL 1.4. 48 Injurious Duke, that threatest where's no cause.
CYL 1.4. 49B
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
True, madam, none at all - {[He raises the +
CYL 1.4. 49B writings]} what call you this?
CYL 1.4. 50 {(To his men)} Away with them. Let them be clapped up +
CYL 1.4. 50 close
CYL 1.4. 51 And kept asunder. {(To the Duchess)} You, madam, shall +
CYL 1.4. 51 with us.
CYL 1.4. 52 Stafford, take her to thee. {Exeunt Stafford [and others] to the +
CYL 1.4. 52 Duchess [and Hume] above}
CYL 1.4. 53 We'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming.
CYL 1.4. 54 All away!
CYL 1.4. 55
CYL-YORK
Lord Buckingham, methinks you watched her well.
CYL 1.4. 56 A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon.
CYL 1.4. 57 Now pray, my lord, let's see the devil's writ. {[Buckingham +
CYL 1.4. 57 gives him the writings]}
CYL 1.4. 58B What have we here? {He reads the writings} +
CYL 1.4. 58B Why, this is just
CYL 1.4. 59 {Aio Aeacidam, Romanos vincere posse}.
CYL 1.4. 60 These oracles are hardily attained
CYL 1.4. 61 And hardly understood. Come, come, my lord,
CYL 1.4. 62 The King is now in progress towards Saint Albans;
CYL 1.4. 63 With him the husband of this lovely lady.
CYL 1.4. 64 Thither goes these news as fast as horse can carry them -
CYL 1.4. 65 A sorry breakfast for my lord Protector.
CYL 1.4. 66
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Your grace shall give me leave, my lord of York,
CYL 1.4. 67 To be the post in hope of his reward.
CYL 1.4. 68B
CYL-YORK
{(returning the writings to Buckingham)} At +
CYL 1.4. 68B your pleasure, my good lord. {[Exit Buckingham]} +
CYL 1.4. 68B {(Calling within)} Who's within there, ho! {Enter a +
CYL 1.4. 68B servingman}
CYL 1.4. 69 Invite my lords of Salisbury and Warwick
CYL 1.4. 70 To sup with me tomorrow night. Away. {Exeunt severally}
CYL 1.4. 0 {Enter King Henry, Queen Margaret with her hawk on +
CYL 2.1. 0 her fist, Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, Cardinal Beaufort, and the Duke +
CYL 2.1. 0 of Suffolk, with falconers hollering}
CYL 2.1. 1
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook
CYL 2.1. 2 I saw not better sport these seven years' day;
CYL 2.1. 3 Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high,
CYL 2.1. 4 And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.
CYL 2.1. 5
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Gloucester)} But what a point, my +
CYL 2.1. 5 lord, your falcon made,
CYL 2.1. 6 And what a pitch she flew above the rest!
CYL 2.1. 7 To see how God in all his creatures works!
CYL 2.1. 8 Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.
CYL 2.1. 9
CYL-SUFFOLK
No marvel, an it like your majesty,
CYL 2.1. 10 My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;
CYL 2.1. 11 They know their master loves to be aloft,
CYL 2.1. 12 And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.
CYL 2.1. 13
CYL-GLOUCESTER
My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind
CYL 2.1. 14 That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
CYL 2.1. 15
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
I thought as much; he would be above the clouds.
CYL 2.1. 16
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Ay, my lord Cardinal, how think you by that?
CYL 2.1. 17 Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?
CYL 2.1. 18
CYL-KING HENRY
The treasury of everlasting joy.
CYL 2.1. 19
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(to Gloucester)} Thy heaven is +
CYL 2.1. 19 on earth; thine eyes and thoughts
CYL 2.1. 20 Beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart,
CYL 2.1. 21 Pernicious Protector, dangerous peer,
CYL 2.1. 22 That smooth'st it so with King and common weal!
CYL 2.1. 23
CYL-GLOUCESTER
What, Cardinal? Is your priesthood grown peremptory?
CYL 2.1. 24 {Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?}
CYL 2.1. 25 Churchmen so hot? Good uncle, hide such malice
CYL 2.1. 26 With some holiness - can you do it?
CYL 2.1. 27
CYL-SUFFOLK
No malice, sir, no more than well becomes
CYL 2.1. 28 So good a quarrel and so bad a peer.
CYL 2.1. 29B
CYL-GLOUCESTER
As who, my lord?
CYL-SUFFOLK
Why, as you, my lord -
CYL 2.1. 30 An 't like your lordly Lord's Protectorship.
CYL 2.1. 31
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Why, Suffolk, England knows thine insolence.
CYL 2.1. 32B
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
And thy ambition, Gloucester.
CYL-KING HENRY
I +
CYL 2.1. 32B prithee peace,
CYL 2.1. 33 Good Queen, and whet not on these furious peers -
CYL 2.1. 34 For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
CYL 2.1. 35
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Let me be blessed for the peace I make
CYL 2.1. 36 Against this proud Protector with my sword. {[Gloucester and +
CYL 2.1. 36 Cardinal Beaufort speak privately to one another]}
CYL 2.1. 37
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Faith, holy uncle, would 't were come to that.
CYL 2.1. 38B
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Marry, when thou dar'st.
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Dare? I +
CYL 2.1. 38B tell thee, priest,
CYL 2.1. 39 Plantagenets could never brook the dare!
CYL 2.1. 40
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
I am Plantagenet as well as thou,
CYL 2.1. 41 And son to John of Gaunt.
CYL 2.1. 42A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
In bastardy.
CYL 2.1. 43A
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
I scorn thy words.
CYL 2.1. 44
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Make up no factious numbers for the matter,
CYL 2.1. 45 In thine own person answer thy abuse.
CYL 2.1. 46
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Ay, where thou dar'st not peep; an if thou +
CYL 2.1. 46 dar'st,
CYL 2.1. 47 This evening on the east side of the grove.
CYL 2.1. 48B
CYL-KING HENRY
How now, my lords?
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
+
CYL 2.1. 48B {(aloud)} Believe me, cousin Gloucester,
CYL 2.1. 49 Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,
CYL 2.1. 50 We had had more sport. {(Aside to Gloucester)} Come +
CYL 2.1. 50 with thy two-hand sword.
CYL 2.1. 51A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(aloud)} True, uncle.
CYL 2.1. 52 {(Aside to Cardinal Beaufort)} Are ye advised? The +
CYL 2.1. 52 east side of the grove.
CYL 2.1. 53B
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(aside to Gloucester)} I am +
CYL 2.1. 53B with you.
CYL-KING HENRY
Why, how now, uncle Gloucester?
CYL 2.1. 54
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Talking of hawking, nothing else, my lord.
CYL 2.1. 55 {(Aside to the Cardinal)} Now, by God's mother, +
CYL 2.1. 55 priest, I'll shave your crown for this,
CYL 2.1. 56B Or all my fence shall fail.
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(aside to +
CYL 2.1. 56B Gloucester)} {Medice, teipsum} -
CYL 2.1. 57 Protector, see to 't well; protect yourself.
CYL 2.1. 58
CYL-KING HENRY
The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords.
CYL 2.1. 59 How irksome is this music to my heart!
CYL 2.1. 60 When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
CYL 2.1. 61 I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. {Enter one crying +
CYL 2.1. 61 `a miracle'}
CYL 2.1. 62A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
What means this noise?
CYL 2.1. 63 Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?
CYL 2.1. 64
CYL-ONE
A miracle, a miracle!
CYL 2.1. 65
CYL-SUFFOLK
Come to the King - tell him what miracle.
CYL 2.1. 66
CYL-ONE
{(to King Henry)} Forsooth, a blind man at +
CYL 2.1. 66 Saint Alban's shrine
CYL 2.1. 67 Within this half-hour hath received his sight -
CYL 2.1. 68 A man that ne'er saw in his life before.
CYL 2.1. 69
CYL-KING HENRY
Now God be praised, that to believing souls
CYL 2.1. 70 Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! {Enter the Mayor +
CYL 2.1. 70 and aldermen of Saint Albans, with music, bearing the man, Simpcox, +
CYL 2.1. 70 between two in a chair. Enter Simpcox's Wife [and other townsmen] with +
CYL 2.1. 70 them}
CYL 2.1. 71
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Here comes the townsmen on procession
CYL 2.1. 72 To present your highness with the man. {[The townsmen kneel]}
CYL 2.1. 73
CYL-KING HENRY
Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,
CYL 2.1. 74 Although by sight his sin be multiplied.
CYL 2.1. 75
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(to the townsmen)} Stand by, my +
CYL 2.1. 75 masters, bring him near the King.
CYL 2.1. 76 His highness' pleasure is to talk with him. {They [rise and] +
CYL 2.1. 76 bear Simpcox before the King}
CYL 2.1. 77
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Simpcox)} Good fellow, tell us +
CYL 2.1. 77 here the circumstance,
CYL 2.1. 78 That we for thee may glorify the Lord.
CYL 2.1. 79 What, hast thou been long blind and now restored?
CYL 2.1. 80B
CYL-SIMPCOX
Born blind, an 't please your grace.
CYL-SIMPCOX
S
CYL-WIFE
Ay, +
CYL 2.1. 80B indeed, was he.
CYL 2.1. 81A
CYL-SUFFOLK
What woman is this?
CYL 2.1. 82A
CYL-SIMPCOX
S
CYL-WIFE
His wife, an 't like your worship.
CYL 2.1. 83A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Hadst thou been his mother
CYL 2.1. 84B Thou couldst have better told.
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to +
CYL 2.1. 84B Simpcox)} Where wert thou born?
CYL 2.1. 85
CYL-SIMPCOX
At Berwick, in the north, an 't like your grace.
CYL 2.1. 86
CYL-KING HENRY
Poor soul, God's goodness hath been great to thee.
CYL 2.1. 87 Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
CYL 2.1. 88 But still remember what the Lord hath done.
CYL 2.1. 89
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to Simpcox)} Tell me, good +
CYL 2.1. 89 fellow, cam'st thou here by chance,
CYL 2.1. 90 Or of devotion to this holy shrine?
CYL 2.1. 91
CYL-SIMPCOX
God knows, of pure devotion, being called
CYL 2.1. 92 A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep,
CYL 2.1. 93 By good Saint Alban, who said, `Simon, come;
CYL 2.1. 94 Come offer at my shrine and I will help thee.'
CYL 2.1. 95
CYL-SIMPCOX
S
CYL-WIFE
Most true, forsooth, and many time and oft
CYL 2.1. 96 Myself have heard a voice to call him so.
CYL 2.1. 97B
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(to Simpcox)} What, art thou +
CYL 2.1. 97B lame?
CYL-SIMPCOX
Ay, God almighty help me.
CYL 2.1. 98B
CYL-SUFFOLK
How cam'st thou so?
CYL-SIMPCOX
A fall off of a tree.
CYL 2.1. 99B
CYL-SIMPCOX
S
CYL-WIFE
{(to Suffolk)} A plum tree, +
CYL 2.1. 99B master.
CYL-GLOUCESTER
How long hast thou been blind?
CYL 2.1. 100B
CYL-SIMPCOX
O, born so, master.
CYL-GLOUCESTER
What, and wouldst climb a +
CYL 2.1. 100B tree?
CYL 2.1. 101
CYL-SIMPCOX
But that in all my life, when I was a youth.
CYL 2.1. 102
CYL-SIMPCOX
S
CYL-WIFE
{(to Gloucester)} Too true - and +
CYL 2.1. 102 bought his climbing very dear.
CYL 2.1. 103
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(to Simpcox)} Mass, thou loved'st +
CYL 2.1. 103 plums well that wouldst venture so.
CYL 2.1. 104
CYL-SIMPCOX
Alas, good master, my wife desired some damsons,
CYL 2.1. 105 And made me climb with danger of my life.
CYL 2.1. 106
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{[aside]} A subtle knave, but yet it +
CYL 2.1. 106 shall not serve.
CYL 2.1. 107 {(To Simpcox)} Let me see thine eyes: wink now, now +
CYL 2.1. 107 open them.
CYL 2.1. 108 In my opinion yet thou seest not well.
CYL 2.1. 109
CYL-SIMPCOX
Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and Saint
CYL 2.1. 110 Alban.
CYL 2.1. 111
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Sayst thou me so? {(Pointing)} +
CYL 2.1. 111 What colour is this cloak of?
CYL 2.1. 112B
CYL-SIMPCOX
Red, master; red as blood.
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Why, that's well +
CYL 2.1. 112B said.
CYL 2.1. 113B {(Pointing)} And his cloak?
CYL-SIMPCOX
Why, that's +
CYL 2.1. 113B green.
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(pointing)} And what colour's
CYL 2.1. 114B His hose?
CYL-SIMPCOX
Yellow, master; yellow as gold.
CYL 2.1. 115B
CYL-GLOUCESTER
And what colour's my gown?
CYL-SIMPCOX
Black, sir; +
CYL 2.1. 115B coal-black, as jet.
CYL 2.1. 116
CYL-KING HENRY
Why, then, thou know'st what colour jet is of?
CYL 2.1. 117
CYL-SUFFOLK
And yet I think jet did he never see.
CYL 2.1. 118
CYL-GLOUCESTER
But cloaks and gowns before this day, a many.
CYL 2.1. 119
CYL-SIMPCOX
S
CYL-WIFE
Never before this day in all his life.
CYL 2.1. 120
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Tell me, sirrah, what's my name?
CYL 2.1. 121
CYL-SIMPCOX
Alas, master, I know not.
CYL 2.1. 122A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(pointing)} What's his name?
CYL 2.1. 123A
CYL-SIMPCOX
I know not.
CYL 2.1. 124A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(pointing)} Nor his?
CYL 2.1. 125A
CYL-SIMPCOX
No, truly, sir.
CYL 2.1. 126A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(pointing)} Nor his name?
CYL 2.1. 127A
CYL-SIMPCOX
No indeed, master.
CYL 2.1. 128A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
What's thine own name?
CYL 2.1. 129
CYL-SIMPCOX
Simon Simpcox, an it please you, master.
CYL 2.1. 130
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Then, Simon, sit thou there the lying'st knave
CYL 2.1. 131 In Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind
CYL 2.1. 132 Thou mightst as well have known our names as thus
CYL 2.1. 133 To name the several colours we do wear.
CYL 2.1. 134 Sight may distinguish colours, but suddenly
CYL 2.1. 135 To nominate them all - it is impossible.
CYL 2.1. 136 Saint Alban here hath done a miracle.
CYL 2.1. 137 Would you not think his cunning to be great
CYL 2.1. 138 That could restore this cripple to his legs again?
CYL 2.1. 139A
CYL-SIMPCOX
O master, that you could!
CYL 2.1. 140
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{(to the Mayor and aldermen)} My +
CYL 2.1. 140 masters of Saint Albans, have you not
CYL 2.1. 141 Beadles in your town, and things called whips?
CYL 2.1. 142
CYL-MAYOR
We have, my lord, an if it please your grace.
CYL 2.1. 143A
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Then send for one presently.
CYL 2.1. 144
CYL-MAYOR
{(to a townsman)} Sirrah, go fetch the +
CYL 2.1. 144 beadle hither straight. {Exit one}
CYL 2.1. 145B
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Bring me a stool. {A stool is +
CYL 2.1. 145B brought} {(To Simpcox)} Now, sirrah, if you mean
CYL 2.1. 146 To save yourself from whipping, leap me o'er
CYL 2.1. 147B This stool and run away.
CYL-SIMPCOX
Alas, master,
CYL 2.1. 148 I am not able even to stand alone.
CYL 2.1. 149 You go about to torture me in vain. {Enter a Beadle with whips}
CYL 2.1. 150
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Well, sirrah, we must have you find your legs.
CYL 2.1. 151 {(To the Beadle)} Whip him till he leap over that same +
CYL 2.1. 151 stool.
CYL 2.1. 152A
CYL-BEADLE
I will, my lord.
CYL 2.1. 153 {(To Simpcox)} Come on, sirrah, off with your doublet +
CYL 2.1. 153 quickly.
CYL 2.1. 154
CYL-SIMPCOX
Alas, master, what shall I do? I am not able to
CYL 2.1. 155 stand. {After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over the +
CYL 2.1. 155 stool and runs away. [Some of ] the townsmen follow and cry, `A +
CYL 2.1. 155 miracle! A miracle!'}
CYL 2.1. 156
CYL-KING HENRY
O God, seest thou this and bear'st so long?
CYL 2.1. 157
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
It made me laugh to see the villain run!
CYL 2.1. 158
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{[to the Beadle]} Follow the knave, and +
CYL 2.1. 158 take this drab away.
CYL 2.1. 159
CYL-SIMPCOX
S
CYL-WIFE
Alas, sir, we did it for pure need. {[Exit +
CYL 2.1. 159 the Beadle with the Wife]}
CYL 2.1. 160
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{[to the Mayor]} Let them be whipped +
CYL 2.1. 160 through every market-town
CYL 2.1. 161 Till they come to Berwick, from whence they came. {Exeunt the +
CYL 2.1. 161 Mayor [and any remaining townsmen]}
CYL 2.1. 162
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Duke Humphrey has done a miracle today.
CYL 2.1. 163
CYL-SUFFOLK
True: made the lame to leap and fly away.
CYL 2.1. 164
CYL-GLOUCESTER
But you have done more miracles than I -
CYL 2.1. 165 You made, in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly. {Enter the Duke +
CYL 2.1. 165 of Buckingham}
CYL 2.1. 166
CYL-KING HENRY
What tidings with our cousin Buckingham?
CYL 2.1. 167
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold.
CYL 2.1. 168 A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,
CYL 2.1. 169 Under the countenance and confederacy
CYL 2.1. 170 Of Lady Eleanor, the Protector's wife,
CYL 2.1. 171 The ringleader and head of all this rout,
CYL 2.1. 172 Have practised dangerously against your state,
CYL 2.1. 173 Dealing with witches and with conjurors,
CYL 2.1. 174 Whom we have apprehended in the fact,
CYL 2.1. 175 Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,
CYL 2.1. 176 Demanding of King Henry's life and death
CYL 2.1. 177 And other of your highness' Privy Council.
CYL 2.1. 178 And here's the answer the devil did make to them. {Buckingham +
CYL 2.1. 178 gives King Henry the writings}
CYL 2.1. 179
CYL-[KING HENRY]
{(reads)} `First of the King: what +
CYL 2.1. 179 shall of him become?
CYL 2.1. 180 The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose,
CYL 2.1. 181 But him outlive and die a violent death.'
CYL 2.1. 182 God's will be done in all. Well, to the rest.
CYL 2.1. 183 {(Reads)} `Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of +
CYL 2.1. 183 Suffolk?
CYL 2.1. 184 By water shall he die, and take his end.'
CYL 2.1. 185
CYL-SUFFOLK
{[aside]} By water must the Duke of +
CYL 2.1. 185 Suffolk die?
CYL 2.1. 186 It must be so, or else the devil doth lie.
CYL 2.1. 187
CYL-KING HENRY
{(reads)} `What shall betide the Duke +
CYL 2.1. 187 of Somerset?
CYL 2.1. 188 Let him shun castles. Safer shall he be
CYL 2.1. 189 Upon the sandy plains than where castles mounted stand.'
CYL 2.1. 190
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(to Gloucester)} And so, my +
CYL 2.1. 190 Lord Protector, by this means
CYL 2.1. 191 Your lady is forthcoming yet at London.
CYL 2.1. 192 {(Aside to Gloucester)} This news, I think, hath +
CYL 2.1. 192 turned your weapon's edge.
CYL 2.1. 193 'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour.
CYL 2.1. 194
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart.
CYL 2.1. 195 Sorrow and grief have vanquished all my powers,
CYL 2.1. 196 And, vanquished as I am, I yield to thee
CYL 2.1. 197 Or to the meanest groom.
CYL 2.1. 198
CYL-KING HENRY
O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones,
CYL 2.1. 199 Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!
CYL 2.1. 200
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest,
CYL 2.1. 201 And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best.
CYL 2.1. 202
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal,
CYL 2.1. 203 How I have loved my King and common weal;
CYL 2.1. 204 And for my wife, I know not how it stands.
CYL 2.1. 205 Sorry I am to hear what I have heard.
CYL 2.1. 206 Noble she is, but if she have forgot
CYL 2.1. 207 Honour and virtue and conversed with such
CYL 2.1. 208 As, like to pitch, defile nobility,
CYL 2.1. 209 I banish her my bed and company,
CYL 2.1. 210 And give her as a prey to law and shame
CYL 2.1. 211 That hath dishonoured Gloucester's honest name.
CYL 2.1. 212
CYL-KING HENRY
Well, for this night we will repose us here;
CYL 2.1. 213 Tomorrow toward London back again,
CYL 2.1. 214 To look into this business thoroughly,
CYL 2.1. 215 And call these foul offenders to their answers,
CYL 2.1. 216 And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,
CYL 2.1. 217 Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails. +
CYL 2.1. 217 {Flourish. Exeunt}
CYL 2.1. 0 {Enter the Duke of York and the Earls of Salisbury and +
CYL 2.2. 0 Warwick}
CYL 2.2. 1
CYL-YORK
Now, my good lords of Salisbury and Warwick,
CYL 2.2. 2 Our simple supper ended, give me leave
CYL 2.2. 3 In this close walk to satisfy myself
CYL 2.2. 4 In craving your opinion of my title,
CYL 2.2. 5 Which is infallible, to England's crown.
CYL 2.2. 6
CYL-SALISBURY
My lord, I long to hear it out at full.
CYL 2.2. 7
CYL-WARWICK
Sweet York, begin, and if thy claim be good,
CYL 2.2. 8 The Nevilles are thy subjects to command.
CYL 2.2. 9A
CYL-YORK
Then thus:
CYL 2.2. 10 Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:
CYL 2.2. 11 The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales;
CYL 2.2. 12 The second, William of Hatfield; and the third,
CYL 2.2. 13 Lionel Duke of Clarence; next to whom
CYL 2.2. 14 Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster;
CYL 2.2. 15 The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York;
CYL 2.2. 16 The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester;
CYL 2.2. 17 William of Windsor was the seventh and last.
CYL 2.2. 18 Edward the Black Prince died before his father
CYL 2.2. 19 And left behind him Richard, his only son,
CYL 2.2. 20 Who, after Edward the Third's death, reigned as king
CYL 2.2. 21 Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster,
CYL 2.2. 22 The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt,
CYL 2.2. 23 Crowned by the name of Henry the Fourth,
CYL 2.2. 24 Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,
CYL 2.2. 25 Sent his poor queen to France from whence she came,
CYL 2.2. 26 And him to Pomfret; where, as well you know,
CYL 2.2. 27 Harmless Richard was murdered traitorously.
CYL 2.2. 28
CYL-WARWICK
{(to Salisbury)} Father, the Duke of York +
CYL 2.2. 28 hath told the truth;
CYL 2.2. 29 Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.
CYL 2.2. 30
CYL-YORK
Which now they hold by force and not by right;
CYL 2.2. 31 For Richard, the first son's heir, being dead,
CYL 2.2. 32 The issue of the next son should have reigned.
CYL 2.2. 33
CYL-SALISBURY
But William of Hatfield died without an heir.
CYL 2.2. 34
CYL-YORK
The third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line
CYL 2.2. 35 I claim the crown, had issue Phillipe, a daughter,
CYL 2.2. 36 Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March;
CYL 2.2. 37 Edmund had issue, Roger, Earl of March;
CYL 2.2. 38 Roger had issue, Edmund, Anne and Eleanor.
CYL 2.2. 39
CYL-SALISBURY
This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,
CYL 2.2. 40 As I have read, laid claim unto the crown,
CYL 2.2. 41 And, but for Owain Glyndw^r, had been king,
CYL 2.2. 42 Who kept him in captivity till he died.
CYL 2.2. 43B But to the rest.
CYL-YORK
His eldest sister, Anne,
CYL 2.2. 44 My mother, being heir unto the crown,
CYL 2.2. 45 Married Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who was son
CYL 2.2. 46 To Edmund Langley, Edward the Third's fifth son.
CYL 2.2. 47 By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir
CYL 2.2. 48 To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son
CYL 2.2. 49 Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Phillipe,
CYL 2.2. 50 Sole daughter unto Lionel, Duke of Clarence.
CYL 2.2. 51 So if the issue of the elder son
CYL 2.2. 52 Succeed before the younger, I am king.
CYL 2.2. 53
CYL-WARWICK
What plain proceedings is more plain than this?
CYL 2.2. 54 Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,
CYL 2.2. 55 The fourth son; York claims it from the third:
CYL 2.2. 56 Till Lionel's issue fails, John's should not reign.
CYL 2.2. 57 It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee
CYL 2.2. 58 And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock.
CYL 2.2. 59 Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together,
CYL 2.2. 60 And in this private plot be we the first
CYL 2.2. 61 That shall salute our rightful sovereign
CYL 2.2. 62 With honour of his birthright to the crown.
CYL 2.2. 63
CYL-SALISBURY
CYL-AND
CYL-WARWICK
{(kneeling)} Long live our +
CYL 2.2. 63 sovereign Richard, England's king!
CYL 2.2. 64B
CYL-YORK
We thank you, lords; {[Salisbury and Warwick +
CYL 2.2. 64B rise]} but I am not your king
CYL 2.2. 65 Till I be crowned, and that my sword be stained
CYL 2.2. 66 With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster -
CYL 2.2. 67 And that's not suddenly to be performed,
CYL 2.2. 68 But with advice and silent secrecy.
CYL 2.2. 69 Do you, as I do, in these dangerous days,
CYL 2.2. 70 Wink at the Duke of Suffolk's insolence,
CYL 2.2. 71 At Beaufort's pride, at Somerset's ambition,
CYL 2.2. 72 At Buckingham, and all the crew of them,
CYL 2.2. 73 Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock,
CYL 2.2. 74 That virtuous prince, the good Duke Humphrey.
CYL 2.2. 75 'Tis that they seek, and they, in seeking that,
CYL 2.2. 76 Shall find their deaths, if York can prophesy.
CYL 2.2. 77
CYL-SALISBURY
My lord, break off - we know your mind at full.
CYL 2.2. 78
CYL-WARWICK
My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick
CYL 2.2. 79 Shall one day make the Duke of York a king.
CYL 2.2. 80
CYL-YORK
And Neville, this I do assure myself -
CYL 2.2. 81 Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick
CYL 2.2. 82 The greatest man in England but the King. {Exeunt}
CYL 2.2. 0 {Sound trumpets. Enter King Henry and state, with guard, +
CYL 2.3. 0 to banish the Duchess: King Henry and Queen Margaret, Duke Humphrey of +
CYL 2.3. 0 Gloucester, the Duke of Suffolk [and the Duke of Buckingham, Cardinal +
CYL 2.3. 0 Beaufort], and, led with officers, Dame}{EleanorCobham the Duchess, +
CYL 2.3. 0 Margery Jordan the witch, John Southwell and Sir John Hume the two +
CYL 2.3. 0 priests, and Roger Bolingbroke the conjuror; [then enter to them] the +
CYL 2.3. 0 Duke of York and the Earls of Salisbury [and Warwick]}
CYL 2.3. 1
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to the Duchess)} Stand forth, Dame +
CYL 2.3. 1 Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife. {She comes forward}
CYL 2.3. 2 In sight of God and us your guilt is great;
CYL 2.3. 3 Receive the sentence of the law for sins
CYL 2.3. 4 Such as by God's book are adjudged to death.
CYL 2.3. 5 {(To the Witch, Southwell, Hume, and Bolingbroke)} You +
CYL 2.3. 5 four, from hence to prison back again;
CYL 2.3. 6 From thence, unto the place of execution.
CYL 2.3. 7 The witch in Smithfield shall be burned to ashes,
CYL 2.3. 8 And you three shall be strangled on the gallows. {[Exeunt Witch, +
CYL 2.3. 8 Southwell, Hume, and Bolingbroke, guarded]}
CYL 2.3. 9 {(To the Duchess)} You, madam, for you are more nobly +
CYL 2.3. 9 born,
CYL 2.3. 10 Despoiled of your honour in your life,
CYL 2.3. 11 Shall, after three days' open penance done,
CYL 2.3. 12 Live in your country here in banishment
CYL 2.3. 13 With Sir John Stanley in the Isle of Man.
CYL 2.3. 14
CYL-DUCHESS
Welcome is banishment; welcome were my death.
CYL 2.3. 15
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Eleanor, the law, thou seest, hath judged thee;
CYL 2.3. 16 I cannot justify whom the law condemns. {[Exit the Duchess, +
CYL 2.3. 16 guarded]}
CYL 2.3. 17 Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
CYL 2.3. 18 Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age
CYL 2.3. 19 Will bring thy head with sorrow to the grave.
CYL 2.3. 20 {(To King Henry)} I beseech your majesty, give me +
CYL 2.3. 20 leave to go.
CYL 2.3. 21 Sorrow would solace, and mine age would ease.
CYL 2.3. 22
CYL-KING HENRY
Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. Ere thou go,
CYL 2.3. 23 Give up thy staff. Henry will to himself
CYL 2.3. 24 Protector be; and God shall be my hope,
CYL 2.3. 25 My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet.
CYL 2.3. 26 And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved
CYL 2.3. 27 Than when thou wert Protector to thy King.
CYL 2.3. 28
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
I see no reason why a king of years
CYL 2.3. 29 Should be to be protected like a child.
CYL 2.3. 30 God and King Henry govern England's helm!
CYL 2.3. 31 Give up your staff, sir, and the King his realm.
CYL 2.3. 32
CYL-GLOUCESTER
My staff? Here, noble Henry, is my staff.
CYL 2.3. 33 As willingly do I the same resign
CYL 2.3. 34 As erst thy father Henry made it mine;
CYL 2.3. 35 And even as willing at thy feet I leave it
CYL 2.3. 36 As others would ambitiously receive it. {He lays the staff at +
CYL 2.3. 36 King Henry's feet}
CYL 2.3. 37 Farewell, good King. When I am dead and gone,
CYL 2.3. 38 May honourable peace attend thy throne. {Exit}
CYL 2.3. 39
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Why, now is Henry King and Margaret Queen,
CYL 2.3. 40 And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself,
CYL 2.3. 41 That bears so shrewd a maim; two pulls at once -
CYL 2.3. 42 His lady banished and a limb lopped off. {She picks up the +
CYL 2.3. 42 staff}
CYL 2.3. 43 This staff of honour raught, there let it stand
CYL 2.3. 44 Where it best fits to be, in Henry's hand. {She gives the staff +
CYL 2.3. 44 to King Henry}
CYL 2.3. 45
CYL-SUFFOLK
Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays;
CYL 2.3. 46 Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days.
CYL 2.3. 47
CYL-YORK
Lords, let him go. Please it your majesty,
CYL 2.3. 48 This is the day appointed for the combat,
CYL 2.3. 49 And ready are the appellant and defendant -
CYL 2.3. 50 The armourer and his man - to enter the lists,
CYL 2.3. 51 So please your highness to behold the fight.
CYL 2.3. 52
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Ay, good my lord, for purposely therefor
CYL 2.3. 53 Left I the court to see this quarrel tried.
CYL 2.3. 54
CYL-KING HENRY
A God's name, see the lists and all things fit;
CYL 2.3. 55 Here let them end it, and God defend the right.
CYL 2.3. 56
CYL-YORK
I never saw a fellow worse bestead,
CYL 2.3. 57 Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant,
CYL 2.3. 58 The servant of this armourer, my lords. {Enter at one door +
CYL 2.3. 58 Horner the armourer and his Neighbours, drinking to him so much that he +
CYL 2.3. 58 is drunken; and he enters with a drummer before him and [carrying] his +
CYL 2.3. 58 staff with a sandbag fastened to it. Enter at the other door Peter his +
CYL 2.3. 58 man, also with a drummer and a staff with sandbag, and Prentices +
CYL 2.3. 58 drinking to him}
CYL 2.3. 59
CYL-FIRST NEIGHBOUR
{(offering drink to Horner)} Here, +
CYL 2.3. 59 neighbour
CYL 2.3. 60 Horner, I drink to you in a cup of sack, and fear not,
CYL 2.3. 61 neighbour, you shall do well enough.
CYL 2.3. 62
CYL-SECOND NEIGHBOUR
{(offering drink to Horner)} And +
CYL 2.3. 62 here,
CYL 2.3. 63 neighbour, here's a cup of charneco.
CYL 2.3. 64
CYL-THIRD NEIGHBOUR
{(offering drink to Horner)} +
CYL 2.3. 64 Here's a pot of
CYL 2.3. 65 good double beer, neighbour, drink and be merry, and
CYL 2.3. 66 fear not your man.
CYL 2.3. 67
CYL-HORNER
{[accepting the offers of drink]} Let it +
CYL 2.3. 67 come, i' faith
CYL 2.3. 68 I'll pledge you all, and a fig for Peter.
CYL 2.3. 69
CYL-FIRST PRENTICE
{(offering drink to Peter)} Here, +
CYL 2.3. 69 Peter, I drink
CYL 2.3. 70 to thee, and be not afeard.
CYL 2.3. 71
CYL-SECOND PRENTICE
{(offering drink to Peter)} Here, +
CYL 2.3. 71 Peter, here's
CYL 2.3. 72 a pint of claret wine for thee.
CYL 2.3. 73
CYL-THIRD PRENTICE
{(offering drink to Peter)} And +
CYL 2.3. 73 here's a quart
CYL 2.3. 74 for me, and be merry, Peter, and fear not thy master.
CYL 2.3. 75 Fight for credit of the prentices!
CYL 2.3. 76
CYL-PETER
{[refusing the offers of drink]} I thank you +
CYL 2.3. 76 all. Drink
CYL 2.3. 77 and pray for me, I pray you, for I think I have taken
CYL 2.3. 78 my last draught in this world. Here, Robin, an if I die,
CYL 2.3. 79 I give thee my apron; and, Will, thou shalt have my
CYL 2.3. 80 hammer; and here, Tom, take all the money that I
CYL 2.3. 81 have. O Lord bless me, I pray God, for I am never able
CYL 2.3. 82 to deal with my master, he hath learned so much fence
CYL 2.3. 83 already.
CYL 2.3. 84
CYL-SALISBURY
Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows.
CYL 2.3. 85 {(To Peter)} Sirrah, what's thy name?
CYL 2.3. 86
CYL-PETER
Peter, forsooth.
CYL 2.3. 87
CYL-SALISBURY
Peter? What more?
CYL 2.3. 88
CYL-PETER
Thump.
CYL 2.3. 89
CYL-SALISBURY
Thump! Then see that thou thump thy master
CYL 2.3. 90 well.
CYL 2.3. 91
CYL-HORNER
Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my
CYL 2.3. 92 man's instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an
CYL 2.3. 93 honest man; and touching the Duke of York, I will
CYL 2.3. 94 take my death I never meant him any ill, nor the King,
CYL 2.3. 95 nor the Queen; and therefore, Peter, have at thee with
CYL 2.3. 96 a downright blow.
CYL 2.3. 97
CYL-YORK
Dispatch; this knave's tongue begins to +
CYL 2.3. 97 double. {Sound trumpets an alarum to the combatants. They fight +
CYL 2.3. 97 and Peter hits Horner on the head and strikes him down}
CYL 2.3. 98
CYL-HORNER
Hold, Peter, hold - I confess, I confess +
CYL 2.3. 98 treason. {He dies}
CYL 2.3. 99
CYL-YORK
{(to an attendant, pointing to Horner)} Take +
CYL 2.3. 99 away his
CYL 2.3. 100 weapon. {(To Peter)} Fellow, thank God and the good
CYL 2.3. 101 wine in thy master's wame.
CYL 2.3. 102
CYL-PETER
{[kneeling]} O God, have I overcome mine +
CYL 2.3. 102 enemy in
CYL 2.3. 103 this presence? O, Peter, thou hast prevailed in right.
CYL 2.3. 104
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to attendants, pointing to Horner)} +
CYL 2.3. 104 Go, take hence that traitor from our sight,
CYL 2.3. 105 For by his death we do perceive his guilt.
CYL 2.3. 106 And God in justice hath revealed to us
CYL 2.3. 107 The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,
CYL 2.3. 108 Which he had thought to have murdered wrongfully.
CYL 2.3. 109 {(To Peter)} Come, fellow, follow us for thy +
CYL 2.3. 109 reward. {Sound a flourish. Exeunt, some carrying Horner's body}
CYL 2.3. 0 {Enter Duke Humphrey of Gloucester and his men in +
CYL 2.4. 0 mourning cloaks}
CYL 2.4. 1
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
CYL 2.4. 2 And after summer evermore succeeds
CYL 2.4. 3 Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold;
CYL 2.4. 4 So cares and joys abound as seasons fleet.
CYL 2.4. 5 Sirs, what's o'clock?
CYL 2.4. 6A
CYL-SERVANT
Ten, my lord.
CYL 2.4. 7
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Ten is the hour that was appointed me
CYL 2.4. 8 To watch the coming of my punished Duchess;
CYL 2.4. 9 Uneath may she endure the flinty streets,
CYL 2.4. 10 To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.
CYL 2.4. 11 Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook
CYL 2.4. 12 The abject people gazing on thy face
CYL 2.4. 13 With envious looks, laughing at thy shame,
CYL 2.4. 14 That erst did follow thy proud chariot wheels
CYL 2.4. 15 When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets.
CYL 2.4. 16 But soft, I think she comes; and I'll prepare
CYL 2.4. 17 My tear-stained eyes to see her miseries. {Enter the Duchess, +
CYL 2.4. 17 Dame Eleanor Cobham, barefoot, with a white sheet about her, written +
CYL 2.4. 17 verses pinned on her back, and carrying a wax candle in her hand; she +
CYL 2.4. 17 is accompanied by the [two Sheriffs] of London, and Sir John Stanley, +
CYL 2.4. 17 and officers with bills and halberds}
CYL 2.4. 18
CYL-SERVANT
{(to Gloucester)} So please your grace, +
CYL 2.4. 18 we'll take her from the sheriffs.
CYL 2.4. 19
CYL-GLOUCESTER
No, stir not for your lives, let her pass by.
CYL 2.4. 20
CYL-DUCHESS
Come you, my lord, to see my open shame?
CYL 2.4. 21 Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze,
CYL 2.4. 22 See how the giddy multitude do point
CYL 2.4. 23 And nod their heads, and throw their eyes on thee.
CYL 2.4. 24 Ah, Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks,
CYL 2.4. 25 And, in thy closet pent up, rue my shame,
CYL 2.4. 26 And ban thine enemies - both mine and thine.
CYL 2.4. 27
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Be patient, gentle Nell; forget this grief.
CYL 2.4. 28
CYL-DUCHESS
Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself;
CYL 2.4. 29 For whilst I think I am thy married wife,
CYL 2.4. 30 And thou a prince, Protector of this land,
CYL 2.4. 31 Methinks I should not thus be led along,
CYL 2.4. 32 Mailed up in shame, with papers on my back,
CYL 2.4. 33 And followed with a rabble that rejoice
CYL 2.4. 34 To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.
CYL 2.4. 35 The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,
CYL 2.4. 36 And when I start, the envious people laugh,
CYL 2.4. 37 And bid me be advised how I tread.
CYL 2.4. 38 Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?
CYL 2.4. 39 Trowest thou that e'er I'll look upon the world,
CYL 2.4. 40 Or count them happy that enjoys the sun?
CYL 2.4. 41 No, dark shall be my light, and night my day;
CYL 2.4. 42 To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.
CYL 2.4. 43 Sometime I'll say I am Duke Humphrey's wife,
CYL 2.4. 44 And he a prince and ruler of the land;
CYL 2.4. 45 Yet so he ruled, and such a prince he was,
CYL 2.4. 46 As he stood by whilst I, his forlorn Duchess,
CYL 2.4. 47 Was made a wonder and a pointing stock
CYL 2.4. 48 To every idle rascal follower.
CYL 2.4. 49 But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,
CYL 2.4. 50 Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death
CYL 2.4. 51 Hang over thee, as sure it shortly will.
CYL 2.4. 52 For Suffolk, he that can do all in all
CYL 2.4. 53 With her that hateth thee and hates us all,
CYL 2.4. 54 And York, and impious Beaufort that false priest,
CYL 2.4. 55 Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,
CYL 2.4. 56 And fly thou how thou canst, they'll tangle thee.
CYL 2.4. 57 But fear not thou until thy foot be snared,
CYL 2.4. 58 Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.
CYL 2.4. 59
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Ah, Nell, forbear; thou aimest all awry.
CYL 2.4. 60 I must offend before I be attainted,
CYL 2.4. 61 And had I twenty times so many foes,
CYL 2.4. 62 And each of them had twenty times their power,
CYL 2.4. 63 All these could not procure me any scathe
CYL 2.4. 64 So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless.
CYL 2.4. 65 Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach?
CYL 2.4. 66 Why, yet thy scandal were not wiped away,
CYL 2.4. 67 But I in danger for the breach of law.
CYL 2.4. 68 Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell.
CYL 2.4. 69 I pray thee sort thy heart to patience.
CYL 2.4. 70 These few days' wonder will be quickly worn. {Enter a Herald}
CYL 2.4. 71
CYL-HERALD
I summon your grace to his majesty's parliament
CYL 2.4. 72 holden at Bury the first of this next month.
CYL 2.4. 73
CYL-GLOUCESTER
And my consent ne'er asked herein before?
CYL 2.4. 74 This is close dealing. Well, I will be there. {Exit Herald}
CYL 2.4. 75 My Nell, I take my leave; and, Master Sheriff,
CYL 2.4. 76 Let not her penance exceed the King's commission.
CYL 2.4. 77
CYL-[FIRST] SHERIFF
An 't please your grace, here my commission stays,
CYL 2.4. 78 And Sir John Stanley is appointed now
CYL 2.4. 79 To take her with him to the Isle of Man.
CYL 2.4. 80
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?
CYL 2.4. 81
CYL-STANLEY
So am I given in charge, may 't please your grace.
CYL 2.4. 82
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Entreat her not the worse in that I pray
CYL 2.4. 83 You use her well. The world may laugh again,
CYL 2.4. 84 And I may live to do you kindness if
CYL 2.4. 85 You do it her. And so, Sir John, farewell. {[Gloucester begins +
CYL 2.4. 85 to leave]}
CYL 2.4. 86
CYL-DUCHESS
What, gone, my lord, and bid me not farewell?
CYL 2.4. 87
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Witness my tears - I cannot stay to speak. {Exeunt +
CYL 2.4. 87 Gloucester and his men}
CYL 2.4. 88
CYL-DUCHESS
Art thou gone too? All comfort go with thee,
CYL 2.4. 89 For none abides with me. My joy is death -
CYL 2.4. 90 Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard,
CYL 2.4. 91 Because I wished this world's eternity.
CYL 2.4. 92 Stanley, I prithee go and take me hence.
CYL 2.4. 93 I care not whither, for I beg no favour,
CYL 2.4. 94 Only convey me where thou art commanded.
CYL 2.4. 95
CYL-STANLEY
Why, madam, that is to the Isle of Man,
CYL 2.4. 96 There to be used according to your state.
CYL 2.4. 97
CYL-DUCHESS
That's bad enough, for I am but reproach;
CYL 2.4. 98 And shall I then be used reproachfully?
CYL 2.4. 99
CYL-STANLEY
Like to a duchess and Duke Humphrey's lady,
CYL 2.4. 100 According to that state you shall be used.
CYL 2.4. 101
CYL-DUCHESS
Sheriff, farewell, and better than I fare,
CYL 2.4. 102 Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.
CYL 2.4. 103
CYL-[FIRST] SHERIFF
It is my office, and, madam, pardon me.
CYL 2.4. 104
CYL-DUCHESS
Ay, ay, farewell - thy office is discharged. {[Exeunt +
CYL 2.4. 104 Sheriffs]}
CYL 2.4. 105 Come, Stanley, shall we go?
CYL 2.4. 106
CYL-STANLEY
Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet,
CYL 2.4. 107 And go we to attire you for our journey.
CYL 2.4. 108
CYL-DUCHESS
My shame will not be shifted with my sheet -
CYL 2.4. 109 No, it will hang upon my richest robes
CYL 2.4. 110 And show itself, attire me how I can.
CYL 2.4. 111 Go, lead the way, I long to see my prison. {Exeunt}
CYL 2.4. 0 {Sound a sennet. Enter to the parliament: enter two +
CYL 3.1. 0 heralds before, then the Dukes of Buckingham and Suffolk, and then the +
CYL 3.1. 0 Duke of York and Cardinal Beaufort, and then King Henry and Queen +
CYL 3.1. 0 Margaret, and then the Earls of Salisbury and Warwick, [with +
CYL 3.1. 0 attendants]}
CYL 3.1. 1
CYL-KING HENRY
I muse my lord of Gloucester is not come.
CYL 3.1. 2 'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,
CYL 3.1. 3 Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now.
CYL 3.1. 4
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Can you not see, or will ye not observe,
CYL 3.1. 5 The strangeness of his altered countenance?
CYL 3.1. 6 With what a majesty he bears himself?
CYL 3.1. 7 How insolent of late he is become?
CYL 3.1. 8 How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself?
CYL 3.1. 9 We know the time since he was mild and affable,
CYL 3.1. 10 And if we did but glance a far-off look,
CYL 3.1. 11 Immediately he was upon his knee,
CYL 3.1. 12 That all the court admired him for submission.
CYL 3.1. 13 But meet him now, and be it in the morn
CYL 3.1. 14 When everyone will give the time of day,
CYL 3.1. 15 He knits his brow, and shows an angry eye,
CYL 3.1. 16 And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,
CYL 3.1. 17 Disdaining duty that to us belongs.
CYL 3.1. 18 Small curs are not regarded when they grin,
CYL 3.1. 19 But great men tremble when the lion roars -
CYL 3.1. 20 And Humphrey is no little man in England.
CYL 3.1. 21 First, note that he is near you in descent,
CYL 3.1. 22 And, should you fall, he is the next will mount.
CYL 3.1. 23 Meseemeth then it is no policy,
CYL 3.1. 24 Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears
CYL 3.1. 25 And his advantage following your decease,
CYL 3.1. 26 That he should come about your royal person,
CYL 3.1. 27 Or be admitted to your highness' Council.
CYL 3.1. 28 By flattery hath he won the commons' hearts,
CYL 3.1. 29 And when he please to make commotion,
CYL 3.1. 30 'Tis to be feared they all will follow him.
CYL 3.1. 31 Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
CYL 3.1. 32 Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
CYL 3.1. 33 And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
CYL 3.1. 34 The reverent care I bear unto my lord
CYL 3.1. 35 Made me collect these dangers in the Duke.
CYL 3.1. 36 If it be fond, call it a woman's fear;
CYL 3.1. 37 Which fear, if better reasons can supplant,
CYL 3.1. 38 I will subscribe and say I wronged the Duke.
CYL 3.1. 39 My lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York,
CYL 3.1. 40 Reprove my allegation if you can,
CYL 3.1. 41 Or else conclude my words effectual.
CYL 3.1. 42
CYL-SUFFOLK
Well hath your highness seen into this Duke,
CYL 3.1. 43 And had I first been put to speak my mind,
CYL 3.1. 44 I think I should have told your grace's tale.
CYL 3.1. 45 The Duchess by his subornation,
CYL 3.1. 46 Upon my life, began her devilish practices;
CYL 3.1. 47 Or if he were not privy to those faults,
CYL 3.1. 48 Yet by reputing of his high descent,
CYL 3.1. 49 As next the King he was successive heir,
CYL 3.1. 50 And such high vaunts of his nobility,
CYL 3.1. 51 Did instigate the bedlam brainsick Duchess
CYL 3.1. 52 By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall.
CYL 3.1. 53 Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
CYL 3.1. 54 And in his simple show he harbours treason.
CYL 3.1. 55 The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
CYL 3.1. 56 {(To King Henry)} No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is +
CYL 3.1. 56 a man
CYL 3.1. 57 Unsounded yet, and full of deep deceit.
CYL 3.1. 58
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(to King Henry)} Did he not, +
CYL 3.1. 58 contrary to form of law,
CYL 3.1. 59 Devise strange deaths for small offences done?
CYL 3.1. 60
CYL-YORK
{(to King Henry)} And did he not, in his +
CYL 3.1. 60 Protectorship,
CYL 3.1. 61 Levy great sums of money through the realm
CYL 3.1. 62 For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it,
CYL 3.1. 63 By means whereof the towns each day revolted?
CYL 3.1. 64
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to King Henry)} Tut, these are petty +
CYL 3.1. 64 faults to faults unknown,
CYL 3.1. 65 Which time will bring to light in smooth Duke Humphrey.
CYL 3.1. 66
CYL-KING HENRY
My lords, at once: the care you have of us
CYL 3.1. 67 To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot
CYL 3.1. 68 Is worthy praise, but shall I speak my conscience?
CYL 3.1. 69 Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent
CYL 3.1. 70 From meaning treason to our royal person
CYL 3.1. 71 As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove.
CYL 3.1. 72 The Duke is virtuous, mild, and too well given
CYL 3.1. 73 To dream on evil or to work my downfall.
CYL 3.1. 74
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Ah, what's more dangerous than this fond affiance?
CYL 3.1. 75 Seems he a dove? His feathers are but borrowed,
CYL 3.1. 76 For he's disposed as the hateful raven.
CYL 3.1. 77 Is he a lamb? His skin is surely lent him,
CYL 3.1. 78 For he's inclined as is the ravenous wolf.
CYL 3.1. 79 Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?
CYL 3.1. 80 Take heed, my lord, the welfare of us all
CYL 3.1. 81 Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man. {Enter the Duke of +
CYL 3.1. 81 Somerset}
CYL 3.1. 82
CYL-SOMERSET
{[kneeling before King Henry]} All health +
CYL 3.1. 82 unto my gracious sovereign.
CYL 3.1. 83
CYL-KING HENRY
Welcome, Lord Somerset. What news from France?
CYL 3.1. 84
CYL-SOMERSET
That all your interest in those territories
CYL 3.1. 85 Is utterly bereft you - all is lost.
CYL 3.1. 86
CYL-KING HENRY
Cold news, Lord Somerset; but God's will be done. +
CYL 3.1. 86 {[Somerset rises]}
CYL 3.1. 87
CYL-YORK
{(aside)} Cold news for me, for I had hope of +
CYL 3.1. 87 France,
CYL 3.1. 88 As firmly as I hope for fertile England.
CYL 3.1. 89 Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud,
CYL 3.1. 90 And caterpillars eat my leaves away.
CYL 3.1. 91 But I will remedy this gear ere long,
CYL 3.1. 92 Or sell my title for a glorious grave. {Enter Duke Humphrey of +
CYL 3.1. 92 Gloucester}
CYL 3.1. 93
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{[kneeling before King Henry]} All +
CYL 3.1. 93 happiness unto my lord the King.
CYL 3.1. 94 Pardon, my liege, that I have stayed so long.
CYL 3.1. 95
CYL-SUFFOLK
Nay, Gloucester, know that thou art come too soon
CYL 3.1. 96 Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art.
CYL 3.1. 97 I do arrest thee of high treason here.
CYL 3.1. 98
CYL-GLOUCESTER
{[rising]} Well, Suffolk's Duke, thou +
CYL 3.1. 98 shalt not see me blush,
CYL 3.1. 99 Nor change my countenance for this arrest.
CYL 3.1. 100 A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.
CYL 3.1. 101 The purest spring is not so free from mud
CYL 3.1. 102 As I am clear from treason to my sovereign.
CYL 3.1. 103 Who can accuse me? Wherein am I guilty?
CYL 3.1. 104
CYL-YORK
'Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes of France,
CYL 3.1. 105 And, being Protector, stayed the soldiers' pay,
CYL 3.1. 106 By means whereof his highness hath lost France.
CYL 3.1. 107
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Is it but thought so? What are they that think it?
CYL 3.1. 108 I never robbed the soldiers of their pay,
CYL 3.1. 109 Nor ever had one penny bribe from France.
CYL 3.1. 110 So help me God, as I have watched the night,
CYL 3.1. 111 Ay, night by night, in studying good for England,
CYL 3.1. 112 That doit that e'er I wrested from the King,
CYL 3.1. 113 Or any groat I hoarded to my use,
CYL 3.1. 114 Be brought against me at my trial day!
CYL 3.1. 115 No: many a pound of mine own proper store,
CYL 3.1. 116 Because I would not tax the needy commons,
CYL 3.1. 117 Have I dispursed to the garrisons,
CYL 3.1. 118 And never asked for restitution.
CYL 3.1. 119
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
It serves you well, my lord, to say so much.
CYL 3.1. 120
CYL-GLOUCESTER
I say no more than truth, so help me God.
CYL 3.1. 121
CYL-YORK
In your Protectorship you did devise
CYL 3.1. 122 Strange tortures for offenders, never heard of,
CYL 3.1. 123 That England was defamed by tyranny.
CYL 3.1. 124
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Why, 'tis well known that whiles I was Protector
CYL 3.1. 125 Pity was all the fault that was in me,
CYL 3.1. 126 For I should melt at an offender's tears,
CYL 3.1. 127 And lowly words were ransom for their fault.
CYL 3.1. 128 Unless it were a bloody murderer,
CYL 3.1. 129 Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,
CYL 3.1. 130 I never gave them condign punishment.
CYL 3.1. 131 Murder, indeed - that bloody sin - I tortured
CYL 3.1. 132 Above the felon or what trespass else.
CYL 3.1. 133
CYL-SUFFOLK
My lord, these faults are easy, quickly answered,
CYL 3.1. 134 But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge
CYL 3.1. 135 Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself.
CYL 3.1. 136 I do arrest you in his highness' name,
CYL 3.1. 137 And here commit you to my good lord Cardinal
CYL 3.1. 138 To keep until your further time of trial.
CYL 3.1. 139
CYL-KING HENRY
My lord of Gloucester, 'tis my special hope
CYL 3.1. 140 That you will clear yourself from all suspense.
CYL 3.1. 141 My conscience tells me you are innocent.
CYL 3.1. 142
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous.
CYL 3.1. 143 Virtue is choked with foul ambition,
CYL 3.1. 144 And charity chased hence by rancour's hand.
CYL 3.1. 145 Foul subornation is predominant,
CYL 3.1. 146 And equity exiled your highness' land.
CYL 3.1. 147 I know their complot is to have my life,
CYL 3.1. 148 And if my death might make this island happy
CYL 3.1. 149 And prove the period of their tyranny,
CYL 3.1. 150 I would expend it with all willingness.
CYL 3.1. 151 But mine is made the prologue to their play,
CYL 3.1. 152 For thousands more that yet suspect no peril
CYL 3.1. 153 Will not conclude their plotted tragedy.
CYL 3.1. 154 Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,
CYL 3.1. 155 And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate;
CYL 3.1. 156 Sharp Buckingham unburdens with his tongue
CYL 3.1. 157 The envious load that lies upon his heart;
CYL 3.1. 158 And dogged York that reaches at the moon,
CYL 3.1. 159 Whose overweening arm I have plucked back,
CYL 3.1. 160 By false accuse doth level at my life.
CYL 3.1. 161 {(To Queen Margaret)} And you, my sovereign lady, with +
CYL 3.1. 161 the rest,
CYL 3.1. 162 Causeless have laid disgraces on my head,
CYL 3.1. 163 And with your best endeavour have stirred up
CYL 3.1. 164 My liefest liege to be mine enemy.
CYL 3.1. 165 Ay, all of you have laid your heads together -
CYL 3.1. 166 Myself had notice of your conventicles -
CYL 3.1. 167 And all to make away my guiltless life.
CYL 3.1. 168 I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
CYL 3.1. 169 Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt.
CYL 3.1. 170 The ancient proverb will be well effected:
CYL 3.1. 171 `A staff is quickly found to beat a dog'.
CYL 3.1. 172
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(to King Henry)} My liege, his +
CYL 3.1. 172 railing is intolerable.
CYL 3.1. 173 If those that care to keep your royal person
CYL 3.1. 174 From treason's secret knife and traitor's rage
CYL 3.1. 175 Be thus upbraided, chid, and rated at,
CYL 3.1. 176 And the offender granted scope of speech,
CYL 3.1. 177 'Twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace.
CYL 3.1. 178
CYL-SUFFOLK
{(to King Henry)} Hath he not twit our +
CYL 3.1. 178 sovereign lady here
CYL 3.1. 179 With ignominious words, though clerkly couched,
CYL 3.1. 180 As if she had suborned some to swear
CYL 3.1. 181 False allegations to o'erthrow his state?
CYL 3.1. 182
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
But I can give the loser leave to chide.
CYL 3.1. 183
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Far truer spoke than meant. I lose indeed;
CYL 3.1. 184 Beshrew the winners, for they played me false!
CYL 3.1. 185 And well such losers may have leave to speak.
CYL 3.1. 186
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to King Henry)} He'll wrest the +
CYL 3.1. 186 sense, and hold us here all day.
CYL 3.1. 187 Lord Cardinal, he is your prisoner.
CYL 3.1. 188
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
{(to some of his attendants)} +
CYL 3.1. 188 Sirs, take away the Duke and guard him sure.
CYL 3.1. 189
CYL-GLOUCESTER
Ah, thus King Henry throws away his crutch
CYL 3.1. 190 Before his legs be firm to bear his body.
CYL 3.1. 191 Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,
CYL 3.1. 192 And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
CYL 3.1. 193 Ah, that my fear were false; ah, that it were!
CYL 3.1. 194 For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear. {Exit Gloucester, +
CYL 3.1. 194 guarded by the Cardinal's men}
CYL 3.1. 195
CYL-KING HENRY
My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best
CYL 3.1. 196 Do or undo, as if ourself were here.
CYL 3.1. 197
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
What, will your highness leave the Parliament?
CYL 3.1. 198
CYL-KING HENRY
Ay, Margaret, my heart is drowned with grief,
CYL 3.1. 199 Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,
CYL 3.1. 200 My body round engirt with misery;
CYL 3.1. 201 For what's more miserable than discontent?
CYL 3.1. 202 Ah, uncle Humphrey, in thy face I see
CYL 3.1. 203 The map of honour, truth, and loyalty;
CYL 3.1. 204 And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come
CYL 3.1. 205 That e'er I proved thee false, or feared thy faith.
CYL 3.1. 206 What louring star now envies thy estate,
CYL 3.1. 207 That these great lords and Margaret our Queen
CYL 3.1. 208 Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?
CYL 3.1. 209 Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong.
CYL 3.1. 210 And as the butcher takes away the calf,
CYL 3.1. 211 And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strains,
CYL 3.1. 212 Bearing it to the bloody slaughterhouse,
CYL 3.1. 213 Even so remorseless have they borne him hence;
CYL 3.1. 214 And as the dam runs lowing up and down,
CYL 3.1. 215 Looking the way her harmless young one went,
CYL 3.1. 216 And can do naught but wail her darling's loss;
CYL 3.1. 217 Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case
CYL 3.1. 218 With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimmed eyes
CYL 3.1. 219 Look after him, and cannot do him good,
CYL 3.1. 220 So mighty are his vowed enemies.
CYL 3.1. 221 His fortunes I will weep, and 'twixt each groan,
CYL 3.1. 222 Say `Who's a traitor? Gloucester, he is none'. {Exit [with +
CYL 3.1. 222 Salisbury and Warwick]}
CYL 3.1. 223
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's +
CYL 3.1. 223 hot beams.
CYL 3.1. 224 Henry my lord is cold in great affairs,
CYL 3.1. 225 Too full of foolish pity; and Gloucester's show
CYL 3.1. 226 Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile
CYL 3.1. 227 With sorrow snares relenting passengers,
CYL 3.1. 228 Or as the snake rolled in a flow'ring bank
CYL 3.1. 229 With shining chequered slough doth sting a child
CYL 3.1. 230 That for the beauty thinks it excellent.
CYL 3.1. 231 Believe me, lords, were none more wise than I -
CYL 3.1. 232 And yet herein I judge mine own wit good -
CYL 3.1. 233 This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world
CYL 3.1. 234 To rid us from the fear we have of him.
CYL 3.1. 235
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
That he should die is worthy policy;
CYL 3.1. 236 But yet we want a colour for his death.
CYL 3.1. 237 'Tis meet he be condemned by course of law.
CYL 3.1. 238
CYL-SUFFOLK
But, in my mind, that were no policy.
CYL 3.1. 239 The King will labour still to save his life,
CYL 3.1. 240 The commons haply rise to save his life;
CYL 3.1. 241 And yet we have but trivial argument
CYL 3.1. 242 More than mistrust that shows him worthy death.
CYL 3.1. 243
CYL-YORK
So that, by this, you would not have him die?
CYL 3.1. 244
CYL-SUFFOLK
Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I.
CYL 3.1. 245
CYL-YORK
{(aside)} 'Tis York that hath more reason for +
CYL 3.1. 245 his death.
CYL 3.1. 246 {(Aloud)} But my lord Cardinal, and you my lord of +
CYL 3.1. 246 Suffolk,
CYL 3.1. 247 Say as you think, and speak it from your souls.
CYL 3.1. 248 Were 't not all one an empty eagle were set
CYL 3.1. 249 To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,
CYL 3.1. 250 As place Duke Humphrey for the King's Protector?
CYL 3.1. 251
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
So the poor chicken should be sure of death.
CYL 3.1. 252
CYL-SUFFOLK
Madam, 'tis true; and were 't not madness then
CYL 3.1. 253 To make the fox surveyor of the fold,
CYL 3.1. 254 Who being accused a crafty murderer,
CYL 3.1. 255 His guilt should be but idly posted over
CYL 3.1. 256 Because his purpose is not executed?
CYL 3.1. 257 No - let him die in that he is a fox,
CYL 3.1. 258 By nature proved an enemy to the flock,
CYL 3.1. 259 Before his chaps be stained with crimson blood,
CYL 3.1. 260 As Humphrey, proved by reasons, to my liege.
CYL 3.1. 261 And do not stand on quillets how to slay him;
CYL 3.1. 262 Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety,
CYL 3.1. 263 Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how,
CYL 3.1. 264 So he be dead; for that is good conceit
CYL 3.1. 265 Which mates him first that first intends deceit.
CYL 3.1. 266
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Thrice-noble Suffolk, 'tis resolutely spoke.
CYL 3.1. 267
CYL-SUFFOLK
Not resolute, except so much were done;
CYL 3.1. 268 For things are often spoke and seldom meant;
CYL 3.1. 269 But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,
CYL 3.1. 270 Seeing the deed is meritorious,
CYL 3.1. 271 And to preserve my sovereign from his foe,
CYL 3.1. 272 Say but the word and I will be his priest.
CYL 3.1. 273
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
But I would have him dead, my lord of Suffolk,
CYL 3.1. 274 Ere you can take due orders for a priest.
CYL 3.1. 275 Say you consent and censure well the deed,
CYL 3.1. 276 And I'll provide his executioner;
CYL 3.1. 277 I tender so the safety of my liege.
CYL 3.1. 278
CYL-SUFFOLK
Here is my hand; the deed is worthy doing.
CYL 3.1. 279A
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
And so say I.
CYL 3.1. 280
CYL-YORK
And I. And now we three have spoke it,
CYL 3.1. 281 It skills not greatly who impugns our doom. {Enter a Post}
CYL 3.1. 282
CYL-POST
Great lord, from Ireland am I come amain
CYL 3.1. 283 To signify that rebels there are up
CYL 3.1. 284 And put the Englishmen unto the sword.
CYL 3.1. 285 Send succours, lords, and stop the rage betime,
CYL 3.1. 286 Before the wound do grow uncurable;
CYL 3.1. 287 For, being green, there is great hope of help. {[Exit]}
CYL 3.1. 288
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
A breach that craves a quick expedient +
CYL 3.1. 288 stop!
CYL 3.1. 289 What counsel give you in this weighty cause?
CYL 3.1. 290
CYL-YORK
That Somerset be sent as regent thither.
CYL 3.1. 291 'Tis meet that lucky ruler be employed -
CYL 3.1. 292 Witness the fortune he hath had in France.
CYL 3.1. 293
CYL-SOMERSET
If York, with all his far-fet policy,
CYL 3.1. 294 Had been the regent there instead of me,
CYL 3.1. 295 He never would have stayed in France so long.
CYL 3.1. 296
CYL-YORK
No, not to lose it all as thou hast done.
CYL 3.1. 297 I rather would have lost my life betimes
CYL 3.1. 298 Than bring a burden of dishonour home
CYL 3.1. 299 By staying there so long till all were lost.
CYL 3.1. 300 Show me one scar charactered on thy skin.
CYL 3.1. 301 Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win.
CYL 3.1. 302
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Nay, then, this spark will prove a raging fire
CYL 3.1. 303 If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with.
CYL 3.1. 304 No more, good York; sweet Somerset, be still.
CYL 3.1. 305 Thy fortune, York, hadst thou been regent there,
CYL 3.1. 306 Might happily have proved far worse than his.
CYL 3.1. 307
CYL-YORK
What, worse than naught? Nay, then a shame take all!
CYL 3.1. 308
CYL-SOMERSET
And, in the number, thee that wishest shame.
CYL 3.1. 309
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
My lord of York, try what your fortune is.
CYL 3.1. 310 Th' uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms
CYL 3.1. 311 And temper clay with blood of Englishmen.
CYL 3.1. 312 To Ireland will you lead a band of men
CYL 3.1. 313 Collected choicely, from each county some,
CYL 3.1. 314 And try your hap against the Irishmen?
CYL 3.1. 315
CYL-YORK
I will, my lord, so please his majesty.
CYL 3.1. 316
CYL-SUFFOLK
Why, our authority is his consent,
CYL 3.1. 317 And what we do establish he confirms.
CYL 3.1. 318 Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand.
CYL 3.1. 319
CYL-YORK
I am content. Provide me soldiers, lords,
CYL 3.1. 320 Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.
CYL 3.1. 321
CYL-SUFFOLK
A charge, Lord York, that I will see performed.
CYL 3.1. 322 But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey.
CYL 3.1. 323
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
No more of him - for I will deal with him
CYL 3.1. 324 That henceforth he shall trouble us no more.
CYL 3.1. 325 And so, break off; the day is almost spent.
CYL 3.1. 326 Lord Suffolk, you and I must talk of that event.
CYL 3.1. 327
CYL-YORK
My lord of Suffolk, within fourteen days
CYL 3.1. 328 At Bristol I expect my soldiers;
CYL 3.1. 329 For there I'll ship them all for Ireland.
CYL 3.1. 330
CYL-SUFFOLK
I'll see it truly done, my lord of York. {Exeunt all +
CYL 3.1. 330 but York}
CYL 3.1. 331
CYL-YORK
Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,
CYL 3.1. 332 And change misdoubt to resolution.
CYL 3.1. 333 Be that thou hop'st to be, or what thou art
CYL 3.1. 334 Resign to death; it is not worth th' enjoying.
CYL 3.1. 335 Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man
CYL 3.1. 336 And find no harbour in a royal heart.
CYL 3.1. 337 Faster than springtime showers comes thought on thought,
CYL 3.1. 338 And not a thought but thinks on dignity.
CYL 3.1. 339 My brain, more busy than the labouring spider,
CYL 3.1. 340 Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
CYL 3.1. 341 Well, nobles, well: 'tis politicly done
CYL 3.1. 342 To send me packing with an host of men.
CYL 3.1. 343 I fear me you but warm the starved snake,
CYL 3.1. 344 Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts.
CYL 3.1. 345 'Twas men I lacked, and you will give them me.
CYL 3.1. 346 I take it kindly. Yet be well assured
CYL 3.1. 347 You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands.
CYL 3.1. 348 Whiles I in Ireland nurse a mighty band,
CYL 3.1. 349 I will stir up in England some black storm
CYL 3.1. 350 Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell,
CYL 3.1. 351 And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage
CYL 3.1. 352 Until the golden circuit on my head
CYL 3.1. 353 Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams
CYL 3.1. 354 Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
CYL 3.1. 355 And for a minister of my intent,
CYL 3.1. 356 I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman,
CYL 3.1. 357 John Cade of Ashford,
CYL 3.1. 358 To make commotion, as full well he can,
CYL 3.1. 359 Under the title of John Mortimer.
CYL 3.1. 360 In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade
CYL 3.1. 361 Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,
CYL 3.1. 362 And fought so long till that his thighs with darts
CYL 3.1. 363 Were almost like a sharp-quilled porcupine;
CYL 3.1. 364 And in the end, being rescued, I have seen
CYL 3.1. 365 Him caper upright like a wild Morisco,
CYL 3.1. 366 Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.
CYL 3.1. 367 Full often like a shag-haired crafty kern
CYL 3.1. 368 Hath he conversed with the enemy
CYL 3.1. 369 And, undiscovered, come to me again
CYL 3.1. 370 And given me notice of their villainies.
CYL 3.1. 371 This devil here shall be my substitute,
CYL 3.1. 372 For that John Mortimer, which now is dead,
CYL 3.1. 373 In face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble.
CYL 3.1. 374 By this I shall perceive the commons' mind,
CYL 3.1. 375 How they affect the house and claim of York.
CYL 3.1. 376 Say he be taken, racked, and tortured -
CYL 3.1. 377 I know no pain they can inflict upon him
CYL 3.1. 378 Will make him say I moved him to those arms.
CYL 3.1. 379 Say that he thrive, as 'tis great like he will -
CYL 3.1. 380 Why then from Ireland come I with my strength
CYL 3.1. 381 And reap the harvest which that coistrel sowed.
CYL 3.1. 382 For Humphrey being dead, as he shall be,
CYL 3.1. 383 And Henry put apart, the next for me. {Exit}
CYL 3.1. 0 {[The curtains are drawn apart, revealing Duke Humphrey +
CYL 3.2. 0 of Gloucester in his bed with two men lying on his breast, smothering +
CYL 3.2. 0 him in his bed]}
CYL 3.2. 1
CYL-FIRST MURDERER
{(to the Second Murderer)} Run to +
CYL 3.2. 1 my lord of Suffolk - let him know
CYL 3.2. 2 We have dispatched the Duke as he commanded.
CYL 3.2. 3
CYL-SECOND MURDERER
O that it were to do! What have we done?
CYL 3.2. 4 Didst ever hear a man so penitent? {Enter the Duke of Suffolk}
CYL 3.2. 5
CYL-FIRST MURDERER
Here comes my lord.
CYL 3.2. 6
CYL-SUFFOLK
Now, sirs, have you dispatched this thing?
CYL 3.2. 7
CYL-FIRST MURDERER
Ay, my good lord, he's dead.
CYL 3.2. 8
CYL-SUFFOLK
Why, that's well said. Go, get you to my house.
CYL 3.2. 9 I will reward you for this venturous deed.
CYL 3.2. 10 The King and all the peers are here at hand.
CYL 3.2. 11 Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,
CYL 3.2. 12 According as I gave directions?
CYL 3.2. 13
CYL-FIRST MURDERER
'Tis, my good lord.
CYL 3.2. 14
CYL-SUFFOLK
Then draw the curtains close; away, be +
CYL 3.2. 14 gone! {Exeunt [the Murderers, drawing the curtains as they +
CYL 3.2. 14 leave]}
CYL 3.2. 15 {Sound trumpets, then enter King Henry and Queen Margaret, +
CYL 3.2. 15 Cardinal Beaufort, the Duke of Somerset, and attendants}
CYL-KING HENRY
+
CYL 3.2. 15 {[to Suffolk]} Go call our uncle to our presence +
CYL 3.2. 15 straight.
CYL 3.2. 16 Say we intend to try his grace today
CYL 3.2. 17 If he be guilty, as 'tis published.
CYL 3.2. 18
CYL-SUFFOLK
I'll call him presently, my noble lord. {Exit}
CYL 3.2. 19
CYL-KING HENRY
Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all,
CYL 3.2. 20 Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester
CYL 3.2. 21 Than from true evidence, of good esteem,
CYL 3.2. 22 He be approved in practice culpable.
CYL 3.2. 23
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
God forbid any malice should prevail
CYL 3.2. 24 That faultless may condemn a noble man!
CYL 3.2. 25 Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!
CYL 3.2. 26
CYL-KING HENRY
I thank thee, Meg. These words content me much. +
CYL 3.2. 26 {Enter Suffolk}
CYL 3.2. 27 How now? Why look'st thou pale? Why tremblest thou?
CYL 3.2. 28 Where is our uncle? What's the matter, Suffolk?
CYL 3.2. 29
CYL-SUFFOLK
Dead in his bed, my lord - Gloucester is dead.
CYL 3.2. 30A
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Marry, God forfend!
CYL 3.2. 31
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
God's secret judgement. I did dream tonight
CYL 3.2. 32 The Duke was dumb and could not speak a word. {King Henry falls +
CYL 3.2. 32 to the ground}
CYL 3.2. 33
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
How fares my lord? Help, lords - the King is +
CYL 3.2. 33 dead!
CYL 3.2. 34
CYL-SOMERSET
Rear up his body; wring him by the nose.
CYL 3.2. 35
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Run, go, help, help! O Henry, ope thine eyes!
CYL 3.2. 36
CYL-SUFFOLK
He doth revive again. Madam, be patient.
CYL 3.2. 37B
CYL-KING HENRY
O heavenly God!
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
How fares my gracious +
CYL 3.2. 37B lord?
CYL 3.2. 38
CYL-SUFFOLK
Comfort, my sovereign; gracious Henry, comfort.
CYL 3.2. 39
CYL-KING HENRY
What, doth my lord of Suffolk comfort me?
CYL 3.2. 40 Came he right now to sing a raven's note
CYL 3.2. 41 Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers;
CYL 3.2. 42 And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,
CYL 3.2. 43 By crying comfort from a hollow breast
CYL 3.2. 44 Can chase away the first-conceived sound?
CYL 3.2. 45 Hide not thy poison with such sugared words. {[He begins to +
CYL 3.2. 45 rise. Suffolk offers to assist him]}
CYL 3.2. 46 Lay not thy hands on me - forbear, I say!
CYL 3.2. 47 Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting.
CYL 3.2. 48 Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight!
CYL 3.2. 49 Upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny
CYL 3.2. 50 Sits in grim majesty to fright the world.
CYL 3.2. 51 Look not upon me, for thine eyes are wounding -
CYL 3.2. 52 Yet do not go away. Come, basilisk,
CYL 3.2. 53 And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight.
CYL 3.2. 54 For in the shade of death I shall find joy;
CYL 3.2. 55 In life, but double death, now Gloucester's dead.
CYL 3.2. 56
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Why do you rate my lord of Suffolk thus?
CYL 3.2. 57 Although the Duke was enemy to him,
CYL 3.2. 58 Yet he most Christian-like laments his death.
CYL 3.2. 59 And for myself, foe as he was to me,
CYL 3.2. 60 Might liquid tears, or heart-offending groans,
CYL 3.2. 61 Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,
CYL 3.2. 62 I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,
CYL 3.2. 63 Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs,
CYL 3.2. 64 And all to have the noble Duke alive.
CYL 3.2. 65 What know I how the world may deem of me?
CYL 3.2. 66 For it is known we were but hollow friends,
CYL 3.2. 67 It may be judged I made the Duke away.
CYL 3.2. 68 So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded
CYL 3.2. 69 And princes' courts be filled with my reproach.
CYL 3.2. 70 This get I by his death. Ay me, unhappy,
CYL 3.2. 71 To be a queen, and crowned with infamy.
CYL 3.2. 72
CYL-KING HENRY
Ah, woe is me for Gloucester, wretched man!
CYL 3.2. 73
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Be woe for me, more wretched than he is.
CYL 3.2. 74 What, dost thou turn away and hide thy face?
CYL 3.2. 75 I am no loathsome leper - look on me!
CYL 3.2. 76 What, art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?
CYL 3.2. 77 Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen.
CYL 3.2. 78 Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb?
CYL 3.2. 79 Why, then Queen Margaret was ne'er thy joy.
CYL 3.2. 80 Erect his statue| and worship it,
CYL 3.2. 81 And make my image but an alehouse sign.
CYL 3.2. 82 Was I for this nigh wrecked upon the sea,
CYL 3.2. 83 And twice by awkward winds from England's bank
CYL 3.2. 84 Drove back again unto my native clime?
CYL 3.2. 85 What boded this, but well forewarning winds
CYL 3.2. 86 Did seem to say, `Seek not a scorpion's nest,
CYL 3.2. 87 Nor set no footing on this unkind shore'.
CYL 3.2. 88 What did I then, but cursed the gentle gusts
CYL 3.2. 89 And he that loosed them forth their brazen caves,
CYL 3.2. 90 And bid them blow towards England's blessed shore,
CYL 3.2. 91 Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock.
CYL 3.2. 92 Yet Aeolus would not be a murderer,
CYL 3.2. 93 But left that hateful office unto thee.
CYL 3.2. 94 The pretty vaulting sea refused to drown me,
CYL 3.2. 95 Knowing that thou wouldst have me drowned on shore
CYL 3.2. 96 With tears as salt as sea through thy unkindness.
CYL 3.2. 97 The splitting rocks cow'red in the sinking sands,
CYL 3.2. 98 And would not dash me with their ragged sides,
CYL 3.2. 99 Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,
CYL 3.2. 100 Might in thy palace perish Margaret.
CYL 3.2. 101 As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs,
CYL 3.2. 102 When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
CYL 3.2. 103 I stood upon the hatches in the storm,
CYL 3.2. 104 And when the dusky sky began to rob
CYL 3.2. 105 My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,
CYL 3.2. 106 I took a costly jewel from my neck -
CYL 3.2. 107 A heart it was, bound in with diamonds -
CYL 3.2. 108 And threw it towards thy land. The sea received it,
CYL 3.2. 109 And so I wished thy body might my heart.
CYL 3.2. 110 And even with this I lost fair England's view,
CYL 3.2. 111 And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart,
CYL 3.2. 112 And called them blind and dusky spectacles
CYL 3.2. 113 For losing ken of Albion's wished coast.
CYL 3.2. 114 How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue -
CYL 3.2. 115 The agent of thy foul inconstancy -
CYL 3.2. 116 To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did,
CYL 3.2. 117 When he to madding Dido would unfold
CYL 3.2. 118 His father's acts, commenced in burning Troy!
CYL 3.2. 119 Am I not witched like her? Or thou not false like him?
CYL 3.2. 120 Ay me, I can no more. Die, Margaret,
CYL 3.2. 121 For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long. {Noise within. +
CYL 3.2. 121 Enter the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury with many commons}
CYL 3.2. 122
CYL-WARWICK
{(to King Henry)} It is reported, mighty +
CYL 3.2. 122 sovereign,
CYL 3.2. 123 That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murdered
CYL 3.2. 124 By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means.
CYL 3.2. 125 The commons, like an angry hive of bees
CYL 3.2. 126 That want their leader, scatter up and down
CYL 3.2. 127 And care not who they sting in his revenge.
CYL 3.2. 128 Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny,
CYL 3.2. 129 Until they hear the order of his death.
CYL 3.2. 130
CYL-KING HENRY
That he is dead, good Warwick, 'tis too true.
CYL 3.2. 131 But how he died God knows, not Henry.
CYL 3.2. 132 Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,
CYL 3.2. 133 And comment then upon his sudden death.
CYL 3.2. 134
CYL-WARWICK
That shall I do, my liege. - Stay, Salisbury,
CYL 3.2. 135 With the rude multitude till I return. {[Exeunt Warwick at one +
CYL 3.2. 135 door, Salisbury and commons at another]}
CYL 3.2. 136
CYL-KING HENRY
O thou that judgest all things, stay my +
CYL 3.2. 136 thoughts,
CYL 3.2. 137 My thoughts that labour to persuade my soul
CYL 3.2. 138 Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
CYL 3.2. 139 If my suspect be false, forgive me God,
CYL 3.2. 140 For judgement only doth belong to thee.
CYL 3.2. 141 Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips
CYL 3.2. 142 With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain
CYL 3.2. 143 Upon his face an ocean of salt tears,
CYL 3.2. 144 To tell my love unto his dumb, deaf trunk,
CYL 3.2. 145 And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling.
CYL 3.2. 146 But all in vain are these mean obsequies, {[Enter Warwick who +
CYL 3.2. 146 draws apart the curtains and shows] Gloucester dead in his bed. Bed put +
CYL 3.2. 146 forth}
CYL 3.2. 147 And to survey his dead and earthy image,
CYL 3.2. 148 What were it but to make my sorrow greater?
CYL 3.2. 149
CYL-WARWICK
Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.
CYL 3.2. 150
CYL-KING HENRY
That is to see how deep my grave is made:
CYL 3.2. 151 For with his soul fled all my worldly solace,
CYL 3.2. 152 For seeing him I see my life in death.
CYL 3.2. 153
CYL-WARWICK
As surely as my soul intends to live
CYL 3.2. 154 With that dread King that took our state upon Him
CYL 3.2. 155 To free us from his Father's wrathful curse,
CYL 3.2. 156 I do believe that violent hands were laid
CYL 3.2. 157 Upon the life of this thrice-famed Duke.
CYL 3.2. 158
CYL-SUFFOLK
A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!
CYL 3.2. 159 What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?
CYL 3.2. 160
CYL-WARWICK
See how the blood is settled in his face.
CYL 3.2. 161 Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost
CYL 3.2. 162 Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,
CYL 3.2. 163 Being all descended to the labouring heart;
CYL 3.2. 164 Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,
CYL 3.2. 165 Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy;
CYL 3.2. 166 Which, with the heart, there cools, and ne'er returneth
CYL 3.2. 167 To blush and beautify the cheek again.
CYL 3.2. 168 But see, his face is black and full of blood;
CYL 3.2. 169 His eyeballs further out than when he lived,
CYL 3.2. 170 Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;
CYL 3.2. 171 His hair upreared; his nostrils stretched with struggling;
CYL 3.2. 172 His hands abroad displayed, as one that grasped
CYL 3.2. 173 And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.
CYL 3.2. 174 Look on the sheets. His hair, you see, is sticking;
CYL 3.2. 175 His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged,
CYL 3.2. 176 Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged.
CYL 3.2. 177 It cannot be but he was murdered here.
CYL 3.2. 178 The least of all these signs were probable.
CYL 3.2. 179
CYL-SUFFOLK
Why, Warwick, who should do the Duke to death?
CYL 3.2. 180 Myself and Beaufort had him in protection,
CYL 3.2. 181 And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers.
CYL 3.2. 182
CYL-WARWICK
But both of you were vowed Duke Humphrey's foes,
CYL 3.2. 183 {(To Cardinal Beaufort)} And you, forsooth, had the +
CYL 3.2. 183 good Duke to keep.
CYL 3.2. 184 'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend;
CYL 3.2. 185 And 'tis well seen he found an enemy.
CYL 3.2. 186
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen
CYL 3.2. 187 As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death?
CYL 3.2. 188
CYL-WARWICK
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh,
CYL 3.2. 189 And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,
CYL 3.2. 190 But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
CYL 3.2. 191 Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest
CYL 3.2. 192 But may imagine how the bird was dead,
CYL 3.2. 193 Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?
CYL 3.2. 194 Even so suspicious is this tragedy.
CYL 3.2. 195
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife?
CYL 3.2. 196 Is Beaufort termed a kite? Where are his talons?
CYL 3.2. 197
CYL-SUFFOLK
I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men.
CYL 3.2. 198 But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,
CYL 3.2. 199 That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart
CYL 3.2. 200 That slanders me with murder's crimson badge.
CYL 3.2. 201 Say, if thou dar'st, proud Lord of Warwickshire,
CYL 3.2. 202 That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death. {[Exit Cardinal +
CYL 3.2. 202 Beaufort assisted by Somerset]}
CYL 3.2. 203
CYL-WARWICK
What dares not Warwick, if false Suffolk dare +
CYL 3.2. 203 him?
CYL 3.2. 204
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
He dares not calm his contumelious spirit,
CYL 3.2. 205 Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,
CYL 3.2. 206 Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.
CYL 3.2. 207
CYL-WARWICK
Madam, be still, with reverence may I say,
CYL 3.2. 208 For every word you speak in his behalf
CYL 3.2. 209 Is slander to your royal dignity.
CYL 3.2. 210
CYL-SUFFOLK
Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour!
CYL 3.2. 211 If ever lady wronged her lord so much,
CYL 3.2. 212 Thy mother took into her blameful bed
CYL 3.2. 213 Some stern untutored churl, and noble stock
CYL 3.2. 214 Was graffed with crabtree slip, whose fruit thou art,
CYL 3.2. 215 And never of the Nevilles' noble race.
CYL 3.2. 216
CYL-WARWICK
But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee
CYL 3.2. 217 And I should rob the deathsman of his fee,
CYL 3.2. 218 Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames,
CYL 3.2. 219 And that my sovereign's presence makes me mild,
CYL 3.2. 220 I would, false murd'rous coward, on thy knee
CYL 3.2. 221 Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech,
CYL 3.2. 222 And say it was thy mother that thou meant'st -
CYL 3.2. 223 That thou thyself wast born in bastardy!
CYL 3.2. 224 And after all this fearful homage done,
CYL 3.2. 225 Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell,
CYL 3.2. 226 Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men!
CYL 3.2. 227
CYL-SUFFOLK
Thou shalt be waking while I shed thy blood,
CYL 3.2. 228 If from this presence thou dar'st go with me.
CYL 3.2. 229
CYL-WARWICK
Away, even now, or I will drag thee hence.
CYL 3.2. 230 Unworthy though thou art, I'll cope with thee,
CYL 3.2. 231 And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost. {Exeunt Suffolk +
CYL 3.2. 231 and Warwick}
CYL 3.2. 232
CYL-KING HENRY
What stronger breastplate than a heart +
CYL 3.2. 232 untainted?
CYL 3.2. 233 Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;
CYL 3.2. 234 And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
CYL 3.2. 235 Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
CYL 3.2. 236
CYL-COMMONS
{(within)} Down with Suffolk! Down with +
CYL 3.2. 236 Suffolk!
CYL 3.2. 237A
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
What noise is this? {Enter Suffolk +
CYL 3.2. 237A and Warwick with their weapons drawn}
CYL 3.2. 238
CYL-KING HENRY
Why, how now, lords? Your wrathful weapons +
CYL 3.2. 238 drawn
CYL 3.2. 239 Here in our presence? Dare you be so bold?
CYL 3.2. 240 Why, what tumultuous clamour have we here?
CYL 3.2. 241
CYL-SUFFOLK
The trait'rous Warwick with the men of Bury
CYL 3.2. 242 Set all upon me, mighty sovereign!
CYL 3.2. 243
CYL-COMMONS
{(within)} Down with Suffolk! Down with +
CYL 3.2. 243 Suffolk! {Enter from the commons the Earl of Salisbury}
CYL 3.2. 244
CYL-SALISBURY
{(to the commons, within)} Sirs, stand +
CYL 3.2. 244 apart. The King shall know your mind.
CYL 3.2. 245 {(To King Henry)} Dread lord, the commons send you +
CYL 3.2. 245 word by me
CYL 3.2. 246 Unless Lord Suffolk straight be done to death,
CYL 3.2. 247 Or banished fair England's territories,
CYL 3.2. 248 They will by violence tear him from your palace
CYL 3.2. 249 And torture him with grievous ling'ring death.
CYL 3.2. 250 They say, by him the good Duke Humphrey died;
CYL 3.2. 251 They say, in him they fear your highness' death;
CYL 3.2. 252 And mere instinct of love and loyalty,
CYL 3.2. 253 Free from a stubborn opposite intent,
CYL 3.2. 254 As being thought to contradict your liking,
CYL 3.2. 255 Makes them thus forward in his banishment.
CYL 3.2. 256 They say, in care of your most royal person,
CYL 3.2. 257 That if your highness should intend to sleep,
CYL 3.2. 258 And charge that no man should disturb your rest
CYL 3.2. 259 In pain of your dislike, or pain of death,
CYL 3.2. 260 Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict,
CYL 3.2. 261 Were there a serpent seen with forked tongue,
CYL 3.2. 262 That slily glided towards your majesty,
CYL 3.2. 263 It were but necessary you were waked,
CYL 3.2. 264 Lest, being suffered in that harmful slumber,
CYL 3.2. 265 The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal.
CYL 3.2. 266 And therefore do they cry, though you forbid,
CYL 3.2. 267 That they will guard you, whe'er you will or no,
CYL 3.2. 268 From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is,
CYL 3.2. 269 With whose envenomed and fatal sting
CYL 3.2. 270 Your loving uncle, twenty times his worth,
CYL 3.2. 271 They say, is shamefully bereft of life.
CYL 3.2. 272
CYL-COMMONS
{(within)} An answer from the King, my +
CYL 3.2. 272 lord of
CYL 3.2. 273 Salisbury!
CYL 3.2. 274
CYL-SUFFOLK
'Tis like the commons, rude unpolished hinds,
CYL 3.2. 275 Could send such message to their sovereign.
CYL 3.2. 276 But you, my lord, were glad to be employed,
CYL 3.2. 277 To show how quaint an orator you are.
CYL 3.2. 278 But all the honour Salisbury hath won
CYL 3.2. 279 Is that he was the Lord Ambassador
CYL 3.2. 280 Sent from a sort of tinkers to the King.
CYL 3.2. 281
CYL-COMMONS
{(within)} An answer from the King, or we +
CYL 3.2. 281 will
CYL 3.2. 282 all break in!
CYL 3.2. 283
CYL-KING HENRY
Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me
CYL 3.2. 284 I thank them for their tender loving care,
CYL 3.2. 285 And had I not been 'cited so by them,
CYL 3.2. 286 Yet did I purpose as they do entreat;
CYL 3.2. 287 For sure my thoughts do hourly prophesy
CYL 3.2. 288 Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means.
CYL 3.2. 289 And therefore by His majesty I swear,
CYL 3.2. 290 Whose far unworthy deputy I am,
CYL 3.2. 291 He shall not breathe infection in this air
CYL 3.2. 292 But three days longer, on the pain of death. {[Exit Salisbury]}
CYL 3.2. 293
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{[kneeling]} O Henry, let me plead +
CYL 3.2. 293 for gentle Suffolk.
CYL 3.2. 294
CYL-KING HENRY
Ungentle Queen, to call him gentle Suffolk.
CYL 3.2. 295 No more, I say! If thou dost plead for him
CYL 3.2. 296 Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath.
CYL 3.2. 297 Had I but said, I would have kept my word;
CYL 3.2. 298 But when I swear, it is irrevocable.
CYL 3.2. 299 {(To Suffolk)} If after three days' space thou here +
CYL 3.2. 299 beest found
CYL 3.2. 300 On any ground that I am ruler of,
CYL 3.2. 301 The world shall not be ransom for thy life.
CYL 3.2. 302 Come, Warwick; come, good Warwick, go with me.
CYL 3.2. 303 I have great matters to impart to thee.
CYL 3.2. 304
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{[rising]} Mischance and sorrow go +
CYL 3.2. 304 along with you!
CYL 3.2. 305 Heart's discontent and sour affliction
CYL 3.2. 306 Be playfellows to keep you company!
CYL 3.2. 307 There's two of you, the devil make a third,
CYL 3.2. 308 And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!
CYL 3.2. 309
CYL-SUFFOLK
Cease, gentle Queen, these execrations,
CYL 3.2. 310 And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave.
CYL 3.2. 311
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!
CYL 3.2. 312 Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemies?
CYL 3.2. 313
CYL-SUFFOLK
A plague upon them! Wherefore should I curse them?
CYL 3.2. 314 Could curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan,
CYL 3.2. 315 I would invent as bitter searching terms,
CYL 3.2. 316 As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear,
CYL 3.2. 317 Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth,
CYL 3.2. 318 With full as many signs of deadly hate,
CYL 3.2. 319 As lean-faced envy in her loathsome cave.
CYL 3.2. 320 My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;
CYL 3.2. 321 Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint;
CYL 3.2. 322 My hair be fixed on end, as one distraught;
CYL 3.2. 323 Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban.
CYL 3.2. 324 And, even now, my burdened heart would break
CYL 3.2. 325 Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!
CYL 3.2. 326 Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!
CYL 3.2. 327 Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees!
CYL 3.2. 328 Their chiefest prospect murd'ring basilisks!
CYL 3.2. 329 Their softest touch as smart as lizards' stings!
CYL 3.2. 330 Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss,
CYL 3.2. 331 And boding screech-owls make the consort full!
CYL 3.2. 332 All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell -
CYL 3.2. 333
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Enough, sweet Suffolk, thou torment'st thyself,
CYL 3.2. 334 And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass,
CYL 3.2. 335 Or like an overcharged gun, recoil
CYL 3.2. 336 And turn the force of them upon thyself.
CYL 3.2. 337
CYL-SUFFOLK
You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?
CYL 3.2. 338 Now by this ground that I am banished from,
CYL 3.2. 339 Well could I curse away a winter's night,
CYL 3.2. 340 Though standing naked on a mountain top,
CYL 3.2. 341 Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
CYL 3.2. 342 And think it but a minute spent in sport.
CYL 3.2. 343
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
O let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,
CYL 3.2. 344 That I may dew it with my mournful tears;
CYL 3.2. 345 Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place
CYL 3.2. 346 To wash away my woeful monuments. {[She kisses his palm]}
CYL 3.2. 347 O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand
CYL 3.2. 348 That thou mightst think upon these lips by the seal,
CYL 3.2. 349 Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!
CYL 3.2. 350 So get thee gone, that I may know my grief.
CYL 3.2. 351 'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,
CYL 3.2. 352 As one that surfeits thinking on a want.
CYL 3.2. 353 I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,
CYL 3.2. 354 Adventure to be banished myself.
CYL 3.2. 355 And banished I am, if but from thee.
CYL 3.2. 356 Go, speak not to me; even now be gone!
CYL 3.2. 357 O, go not yet. Even thus two friends condemned
CYL 3.2. 358 Embrace, and kiss, and take ten thousand leaves,
CYL 3.2. 359 Loather a hundred times to part than die.
CYL 3.2. 360 Yet now farewell, and farewell life with thee.
CYL 3.2. 361
CYL-SUFFOLK
Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished -
CYL 3.2. 362 Once by the King, and three times thrice by thee.
CYL 3.2. 363 'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence,
CYL 3.2. 364 A wilderness is populous enough,
CYL 3.2. 365 So Suffolk had thy heavenly company.
CYL 3.2. 366 For where thou art, there is the world itself,
CYL 3.2. 367 With every several pleasure in the world;
CYL 3.2. 368 And where thou art not, desolation.
CYL 3.2. 369 I can no more. Live thou to joy thy life;
CYL 3.2. 370 Myself no joy in naught but that thou liv'st. {Enter Vaux}
CYL 3.2. 371
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Whither goes Vaux so fast? What news, I +
CYL 3.2. 371 prithee?
CYL 3.2. 372
CYL-VAUX
To signify unto his majesty
CYL 3.2. 373 That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death.
CYL 3.2. 374 For suddenly a grievous sickness took him
CYL 3.2. 375 That makes him gasp, and stare, and catch the air,
CYL 3.2. 376 Blaspheming God and cursing men on earth.
CYL 3.2. 377 Sometime he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost
CYL 3.2. 378 Were by his side; sometime he calls the King,
CYL 3.2. 379 And whispers to his pillow as to him
CYL 3.2. 380 The secrets of his over-charged soul;
CYL 3.2. 381 And I am sent to tell his majesty
CYL 3.2. 382 That even now he cries aloud for him.
CYL 3.2. 383
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Go tell this heavy message to the King. {Exit +
CYL 3.2. 383 Vaux}
CYL 3.2. 384 Ay me! What is this world? What news are these?
CYL 3.2. 385 But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss
CYL 3.2. 386 Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?
CYL 3.2. 387 Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,
CYL 3.2. 388 And with the southern clouds contend in tears -
CYL 3.2. 389 Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrow's?
CYL 3.2. 390 Now get thee hence. The King, thou know'st, is coming.
CYL 3.2. 391 If thou be found by me, thou art but dead.
CYL 3.2. 392
CYL-SUFFOLK
If I depart from thee, I cannot live.
CYL 3.2. 393 And in thy sight to die, what were it else
CYL 3.2. 394 But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap?
CYL 3.2. 395 Here could I breathe my soul into the air,
CYL 3.2. 396 As mild and gentle as the cradle babe
CYL 3.2. 397 Dying with mother's dug between his lips;
CYL 3.2. 398 Where, from thy sight, I should be raging mad,
CYL 3.2. 399 And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes,
CYL 3.2. 400 To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth,
CYL 3.2. 401 So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul
CYL 3.2. 402 Or I should breathe it, so, into thy body - {[He kisseth her]}
CYL 3.2. 403 And then it lived in sweet Elysium.
CYL 3.2. 404 By thee to die were but to die in jest;
CYL 3.2. 405 From thee to die were torture more than death.
CYL 3.2. 406 O, let me stay, befall what may befall!
CYL 3.2. 407
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Away. Though parting be a fretful corrosive,
CYL 3.2. 408 It is applied to a deathful wound.
CYL 3.2. 409 To France, sweet Suffolk. Let me hear from thee.
CYL 3.2. 410 For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's Globe
CYL 3.2. 411 I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out.
CYL 3.2. 412B
CYL-SUFFOLK
I go.
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
And take my heart with thee. +
CYL 3.2. 412B {[She kisseth him]}
CYL 3.2. 413
CYL-SUFFOLK
A jewel, locked into the woefull'st cask
CYL 3.2. 414 That ever did contain a thing of worth.
CYL 3.2. 415 Even as a splitted barque, so sunder we -
CYL 3.2. 416B This way fall I to death.
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
This way for me. +
CYL 3.2. 416B {Exeunt severally}
CYL 3.2. 0 {Enter King Henry and the Earls of Salisbury and Warwick. +
CYL 3.3. 0 Then the curtains be drawn revealing Cardinal Beaufort in his bed +
CYL 3.3. 0 raving and staring as if he were mad}
CYL 3.3. 1
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Cardinal Beaufort)} How fares my +
CYL 3.3. 1 lord? Speak, Beaufort, to thy sovereign.
CYL 3.3. 2
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
If thou beest death, I'll give thee England's +
CYL 3.3. 2 treasure
CYL 3.3. 3 Enough to purchase such another island,
CYL 3.3. 4 So thou wilt let me live and feel no pain.
CYL 3.3. 5
CYL-KING HENRY
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life
CYL 3.3. 6 Where death's approach is seen so terrible.
CYL 3.3. 7
CYL-WARWICK
Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.
CYL 3.3. 8
CYL-CARDINAL BEAUFORT
Bring me unto my trial when you will.
CYL 3.3. 9 Died he not in his bed? Where should he die?
CYL 3.3. 10 Can I make men live whe'er they will or no?
CYL 3.3. 11 O, torture me no more - I will confess.
CYL 3.3. 12 Alive again? Then show me where he is.
CYL 3.3. 13 I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him.
CYL 3.3. 14 He hath no eyes! The dust hath blinded them.
CYL 3.3. 15 Comb down his hair - look, look: it stands upright,
CYL 3.3. 16 Like lime twigs set to catch my winged soul.
CYL 3.3. 17 Give me some drink, and bid the apothecary
CYL 3.3. 18 Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.
CYL 3.3. 19
CYL-KING HENRY
O Thou eternal mover of the heavens,
CYL 3.3. 20 Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch.
CYL 3.3. 21 O, beat away the busy meddling fiend
CYL 3.3. 22 That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul,
CYL 3.3. 23 And from his bosom purge this black despair.
CYL 3.3. 24
CYL-WARWICK
See how the pangs of death do make him grin.
CYL 3.3. 25
CYL-SALISBURY
Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably.
CYL 3.3. 26
CYL-KING HENRY
Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be.
CYL 3.3. 27 Lord Card'nal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,
CYL 3.3. 28 Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. {Cardinal Beaufort +
CYL 3.3. 28 dies}
CYL 3.3. 29 He dies and makes no sign. O God, forgive him.
CYL 3.3. 30
CYL-WARWICK
So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
CYL 3.3. 31
CYL-KING HENRY
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
CYL 3.3. 32 Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close,
CYL 3.3. 33 And let us all to meditation. {Exeunt, [drawing the curtains. +
CYL 3.3. 33 The bed is removed]}
CYL 3.3. 0 {Alarums within, and the chambers be discharged +
CYL 4.1. 0 like as it were a fight at sea. And then enter the Captain of the ship, +
CYL 4.1. 0 the Master, the Master's Mate, Walter Whitmore, [and others]. With +
CYL 4.1. 0 them, as their prisoners, the Duke of Suffolk, disguised, and two +
CYL 4.1. 0 Gentlemen}
CYL 4.1. 1
CYL-CAPTAIN
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
CYL 4.1. 2 Is crept into the bosom of the sea;
CYL 4.1. 3 And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades
CYL 4.1. 4 That drag the tragic melancholy night;
CYL 4.1. 5 Who, with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings
CYL 4.1. 6 Clip dead men's graves, and from their misty jaws
CYL 4.1. 7 Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.
CYL 4.1. 8 Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize,
CYL 4.1. 9 For whilst our pinnace anchors in the downs,
CYL 4.1. 10 Here shall they make their ransom on the sand,
CYL 4.1. 11 Or with their blood stain this discoloured shore.
CYL 4.1. 12 Master, {(pointing to the First Gentleman)} this +
CYL 4.1. 12 prisoner freely give I thee,
CYL 4.1. 13 {(To the Mate)} And thou, that art his mate, make boot +
CYL 4.1. 13 of this. {He points to the Second Gentleman}
CYL 4.1. 14 {(To Walter Whitmore)} The other {(pointing to +
CYL 4.1. 14 Suffolk)} , Walter Whitmore, is thy share.
CYL 4.1. 15
CYL-FIRST GENTLEMAN
{(to the Master)} What is my +
CYL 4.1. 15 ransom, Master, let me know.
CYL 4.1. 16
CYL-MASTER
A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head.
CYL 4.1. 17
CYL-MATE
{(to the Second Gentleman)} And so much shall +
CYL 4.1. 17 you give, or off goes yours.
CYL 4.1. 18
CYL-CAPTAIN
{(to both the Gentlemen)} What, think you +
CYL 4.1. 18 much to pay two thousand crowns,
CYL 4.1. 19 And bear the name and port of gentlemen?
CYL 4.1. 20
CYL-[WHITMORE]
Cut both the villains' throats! {[To +
CYL 4.1. 20 Suffolk]} For die you shall.
CYL 4.1. 21 The lives of those which we have lost in fight
CYL 4.1. 22
CYL-[]
CYL 4.1. 23 Be counterpoised with such a petty sum.
CYL 4.1. 24
CYL-FIRST GENTLEMAN
{(to the Master)} I'll give it, +
CYL 4.1. 24 sir, and therefore spare my life.
CYL 4.1. 25
CYL-SECOND GENTLEMAN
{(to the Mate)} And so will I, +
CYL 4.1. 25 and write home for it straight.
CYL 4.1. 26
CYL-WHITMORE
{(to Suffolk)} I lost mine eye in laying +
CYL 4.1. 26 the prize aboard,
CYL 4.1. 27 And therefore to revenge it, shalt thou die -
CYL 4.1. 28 And so should these, if I might have my will.
CYL 4.1. 29
CYL-CAPTAIN
Be not so rash; take ransom; let him live.
CYL 4.1. 30
CYL-SUFFOLK
Look on my George - I am a gentleman.
CYL 4.1. 31 Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid.
CYL 4.1. 32
CYL-WHITMORE
And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. {Suffolk +
CYL 4.1. 32 starteth}
CYL 4.1. 33 How now - why starts thou? What doth thee affright?
CYL 4.1. 34
CYL-SUFFOLK
Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death.
CYL 4.1. 35 A cunning man did calculate my birth,
CYL 4.1. 36 And told me that by `water' I should die.
CYL 4.1. 37 Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded;
CYL 4.1. 38 Thy name is Gualtier, being rightly sounded.
CYL 4.1. 39
CYL-WHITMORE
Gualtier or Walter - which it is I care not.
CYL 4.1. 40 Never yet did base dishonour blur our name
CYL 4.1. 41 But with our sword we wiped away the blot.
CYL 4.1. 42 Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge,
CYL 4.1. 43 Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defaced,
CYL 4.1. 44 And I proclaimed a coward through the world.
CYL 4.1. 45
CYL-SUFFOLK
Stay, Whitmore; for thy prisoner is a prince,
CYL 4.1. 46 The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole.
CYL 4.1. 47
CYL-WHITMORE
The Duke of Suffolk muffled up in rags?
CYL 4.1. 48
CYL-SUFFOLK
Ay, but these rags are no part of the Duke.
CYL 4.1. 49 Jove sometime went disguised, and why not I?
CYL 4.1. 50
CYL-CAPTAIN
But Jove was never slain as thou shalt be.
CYL 4.1. 51
CYL-SUFFOLK
Obscure and lousy swain, King Henry's blood,
CYL 4.1. 52 The honourable blood of Lancaster,
CYL 4.1. 53 Must not be shed by such a jady groom.
CYL 4.1. 54 Hast thou not kissed thy hand and held my stirrup?
CYL 4.1. 55 Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule
CYL 4.1. 56 And thought thee happy when I shook my head?
CYL 4.1. 57 How often hast thou waited at my cup,
CYL 4.1. 58 Fed from my trencher, kneeled down at the board
CYL 4.1. 59 When I have feasted with Queen Margaret?
CYL 4.1. 60 Remember it, and let it make thee crestfall'n,
CYL 4.1. 61 Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride,
CYL 4.1. 62 How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood
CYL 4.1. 63 And duly waited for my coming forth?
CYL 4.1. 64 This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,
CYL 4.1. 65 And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue.
CYL 4.1. 66
CYL-WHITMORE
Speak, Captain - shall I stab the forlorn swain?
CYL 4.1. 67
CYL-CAPTAIN
First let my words stab him as he hath me.
CYL 4.1. 68
CYL-SUFFOLK
Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou.
CYL 4.1. 69
CYL-CAPTAIN
Convey him hence and, on our longboat's side,
CYL 4.1. 70B Strike off his head.
CYL-SUFFOLK
Thou dar'st not for thy own.
CYL 4.1. 71B
CYL-CAPTAIN
Pole -
CYL-[SUFFOLK]
Pole?
CYL-CAPTAIN
Ay, kennel, puddle, +
CYL 4.1. 71B sink, whose filth and dirt
CYL 4.1. 72 Troubles the silver spring where England drinks,
CYL 4.1. 73 Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth
CYL 4.1. 74 For swallowing the treasure of the realm.
CYL 4.1. 75 Thy lips that kissed the Queen shall sweep the ground,
CYL 4.1. 76 And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey's death
CYL 4.1. 77 Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,
CYL 4.1. 78 Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again.
CYL 4.1. 79 And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,
CYL 4.1. 80 For daring to affy a mighty lord
CYL 4.1. 81 Unto the daughter of a worthless king,
CYL 4.1. 82 Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem.
CYL 4.1. 83 By devilish policy art thou grown great,
CYL 4.1. 84 And like ambitious Sylla, overgorged
CYL 4.1. 85 With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart.
CYL 4.1. 86 By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,
CYL 4.1. 87 The false revolting Normans, thorough thee,
CYL 4.1. 88 Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy
CYL 4.1. 89 Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,
CYL 4.1. 90 And sent the ragged soldiers, wounded, home.
CYL 4.1. 91 The princely Warwick, and the Nevilles all,
CYL 4.1. 92 Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,
CYL 4.1. 93 As hating thee, are rising up in arms;
CYL 4.1. 94 And now the house of York, thrust from the crown,
CYL 4.1. 95 By shameful murder of a guiltless king
CYL 4.1. 96 And lofty, proud, encroaching tyranny,
CYL 4.1. 97 Burns with revenging fire, whose hopeful colours
CYL 4.1. 98 Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,
CYL 4.1. 99 Under the which is writ, `{Invitis nubibus}'.
CYL 4.1. 100 The commons here in Kent are up in arms,
CYL 4.1. 101 And, to conclude, reproach and beggary
CYL 4.1. 102 Is crept into the palace of our King,
CYL 4.1. 103 And all by thee. {(To Whitmore)} Away, convey him +
CYL 4.1. 103 hence.
CYL 4.1. 104
CYL-SUFFOLK
O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder
CYL 4.1. 105 Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges.
CYL 4.1. 106 Small things make base men proud. This villain here,
CYL 4.1. 107 Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more
CYL 4.1. 108 Than Bargulus, the strong Illyrian pirate.
CYL 4.1. 109 Drones suck not eagles' blood, but rob beehives.
CYL 4.1. 110 It is impossible that I should die
CYL 4.1. 111 By such a lowly vassal as thyself.
CYL 4.1. 112 Thy words move rage, and not remorse in me.
CYL 4.1. 113
CYL-[CAPTAIN]
But my deeds, Suffolk, soon shall stay thy rage.
CYL 4.1. 114
CYL-SUFFOLK
I go of message from the Queen to France -
CYL 4.1. 115 I charge thee, waft me safely cross the Channel!
CYL 4.1. 116A
CYL-CAPTAIN
Walter -
CYL 4.1. 117
CYL-WHITMORE
Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death.
CYL 4.1. 118
CYL-SUFFOLK
{Paene gelidus timor occupat artus} -
CYL 4.1. 119 It is thee I fear.
CYL 4.1. 120
CYL-WHITMORE
Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee.
CYL 4.1. 121 What, are ye daunted now? Now will ye stoop?
CYL 4.1. 122
CYL-FIRST GENTLEMAN
{(to Suffolk)} My gracious lord, +
CYL 4.1. 122 entreat him - speak him fair.
CYL 4.1. 123
CYL-SUFFOLK
Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough,
CYL 4.1. 124 Used to command, untaught to plead for favour.
CYL 4.1. 125 Far be it we should honour such as these
CYL 4.1. 126 With humble suit. No, rather let my head
CYL 4.1. 127 Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any
CYL 4.1. 128 Save to the God of heaven and to my king;
CYL 4.1. 129 And sooner dance upon a bloody pole
CYL 4.1. 130 Than stand uncovered to the vulgar groom.
CYL 4.1. 131 True nobility is exempt from fear;
CYL 4.1. 132 More can I bear than you dare execute.
CYL 4.1. 133
CYL-CAPTAIN
Hale him away, and let him talk no more.
CYL 4.1. 134
CYL-SUFFOLK
Come, `soldiers', show what cruelty ye can,
CYL 4.1. 135 That this my death may never be forgot.
CYL 4.1. 136 Great men oft die by vile Besonians;
CYL 4.1. 137 A Roman sworder and banditto slave
CYL 4.1. 138 Murdered sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand
CYL 4.1. 139 Stabbed Julius Caesar; savage islanders
CYL 4.1. 140 Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates. {Exit Whitmore +
CYL 4.1. 140 with Suffolk}
CYL 4.1. 141
CYL-CAPTAIN
And as for these whose ransom we have set,
CYL 4.1. 142 It is our pleasure one of them depart.
CYL 4.1. 143 {(To the Second Gentleman)} Therefore, come you with +
CYL 4.1. 143 us and {(to his men, pointing to the First Gentleman)} +
CYL 4.1. 143 let him go. {Exeunt all but the First Gentleman}
CYL 4.1. 144 {Enter Whitmore with Suffolk's head and body}
CYL-WHITMORE
+
CYL 4.1. 144 There let his head and lifeless body lie,
CYL 4.1. 145 Until the Queen his mistress bury it. {Exit}
CYL 4.1. 146
CYL-FIRST GENTLEMAN
O barbarous and bloody spectacle!
CYL 4.1. 147 His body will I bear unto the King.
CYL 4.1. 148 If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;
CYL 4.1. 149 So will the Queen, that living held him dear. {Exit with +
CYL 4.1. 149 Suffolk's head and body}
CYL 4.1. 0 {Enter two Rebels [with long staves]}
CYL 4.2. 1
CYL-FIRST REBEL
Come and get thee a sword, though made of
CYL 4.2. 2 a lath; they have been up these two days.
CYL 4.2. 3
CYL-SECOND REBEL
They have the more need to sleep now
CYL 4.2. 4 then.
CYL 4.2. 5
CYL-FIRST REBEL
I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to
CYL 4.2. 6 dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new
CYL 4.2. 7 nap upon it.
CYL 4.2. 8
CYL-SECOND REBEL
So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I
CYL 4.2. 9 say it was never merry world in England since gentlemen
CYL 4.2. 10 came up.
CYL 4.2. 11
CYL-FIRST REBEL
O, miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in
CYL 4.2. 12 handicraftsmen.
CYL 4.2. 13
CYL-SECOND REBEL
The nobility think scorn to go in leather
CYL 4.2. 14 aprons.
CYL 4.2. 15
CYL-FIRST REBEL
Nay more, the King's Council are no good
CYL 4.2. 16 workmen.
CYL 4.2. 17
CYL-SECOND REBEL
True; and yet it is said `Labour in thy
CYL 4.2. 18 vocation'; which is as much to say as `Let the
CYL 4.2. 19 magistrates be labouring men'; and therefore should
CYL 4.2. 20 we be magistrates.
CYL 4.2. 21
CYL-FIRST REBEL
Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of
CYL 4.2. 22 a brave mind than a hard hand.
CYL 4.2. 23
CYL-SECOND REBEL
I see them! I see them! There's Best's son,
CYL 4.2. 24 the tanner of Wingham -
CYL 4.2. 25
CYL-FIRST REBEL
He shall have the skins of our enemies to
CYL 4.2. 26 make dog's leather of.
CYL 4.2. 27
CYL-SECOND REBEL
And Dick the butcher -
CYL 4.2. 28
CYL-FIRST REBEL
Then is sin struck down like an ox, and
CYL 4.2. 29 iniquity's throat cut like a calf.
CYL 4.2. 30
CYL-SECOND REBEL
And Smith the weaver -
CYL 4.2. 31
CYL-FIRST REBEL
Argo, their thread of life is spun.
CYL 4.2. 32
CYL-SECOND REBEL
Come, come, let's fall in with them. {Enter +
CYL 4.2. 32 Jack Cade, Dick the Butcher, Smith the Weaver, a sawyer, [and a +
CYL 4.2. 32 drummer,] with infinite numbers, [all with long staves]}
CYL 4.2. 33
CYL-CADE
We, John Cade, so termed of our supposed father -
CYL 4.2. 34
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to his fellows)} Or rather of stealing a +
CYL 4.2. 34 cade of
CYL 4.2. 35 herrings.
CYL 4.2. 36
CYL-CADE
For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with
CYL 4.2. 37 the spirit of putting down kings and princes - command
CYL 4.2. 38 silence!
CYL 4.2. 39
CYL-BUTCHER
Silence!
CYL 4.2. 40
CYL-CADE
My father was a Mortimer -
CYL 4.2. 41
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to his fellows)} He was an honest man +
CYL 4.2. 41 and a good
CYL 4.2. 42 bricklayer.
CYL 4.2. 43
CYL-CADE
My mother a Plantagenet -
CYL 4.2. 44
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to his fellows)} I knew her well, she +
CYL 4.2. 44 was a midwife.
CYL 4.2. 45
CYL-CADE
My wife descended of the Lacys -
CYL 4.2. 46
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to his fellows)} She was indeed a +
CYL 4.2. 46 pedlar's daughter
CYL 4.2. 47 and sold many laces.
CYL 4.2. 48
CYL-WEAVER
{(to his fellows)} But now of late, not +
CYL 4.2. 48 able to travel
CYL 4.2. 49 with her furred pack, she washes bucks here at home.
CYL 4.2. 50
CYL-CADE
Therefore am I of an honourable house.
CYL 4.2. 51
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to his fellows)} Ay, by my faith, the +
CYL 4.2. 51 field is
CYL 4.2. 52 honourable, and there was he born, under a hedge;
CYL 4.2. 53 for his father had never a house but the cage.
CYL 4.2. 54
CYL-CADE
Valiant I am -
CYL 4.2. 55
CYL-WEAVER
{(to his fellows)} A must needs, for +
CYL 4.2. 55 beggary is
CYL 4.2. 56 valiant.
CYL 4.2. 57
CYL-CADE
I am able to endure much -
CYL 4.2. 58
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to his fellows)} No question of that, +
CYL 4.2. 58 for I have
CYL 4.2. 59 seen him whipped three market days together.
CYL 4.2. 60
CYL-CADE
I fear neither sword nor fire.
CYL 4.2. 61
CYL-WEAVER
{(to his fellows)} He need not fear the +
CYL 4.2. 61 sword, for
CYL 4.2. 62 his coat is of proof.
CYL 4.2. 63
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to his fellows)} But methinks he should +
CYL 4.2. 63 stand in
CYL 4.2. 64 fear of fire, being burned i' th' hand for stealing of
CYL 4.2. 65 sheep.
CYL 4.2. 66
CYL-CADE
Be brave, then, for your captain is brave and vows
CYL 4.2. 67 reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny
CYL 4.2. 68 loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have
CYL 4.2. 69 ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
CYL 4.2. 70 All the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside
CYL 4.2. 71 shall my palfrey go to grass. And when I am king, as
CYL 4.2. 72 king I will be -
CYL 4.2. 73
CYL-ALL CADE
S
CYL-FOLLOWERS
God save your majesty!
CYL 4.2. 74
CYL-CADE
I thank you good people! - there shall be no money.
CYL 4.2. 75 All shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel
CYL 4.2. 76 them all in one livery that they may agree like brothers,
CYL 4.2. 77 and worship me their lord.
CYL 4.2. 78
CYL-BUTCHER
The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.
CYL 4.2. 79
CYL-CADE
Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable
CYL 4.2. 80 thing that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be
CYL 4.2. 81 made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled
CYL 4.2. 82 o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but
CYL 4.2. 83 I say 'tis the bee's wax. For I did but seal once to a
CYL 4.2. 84 thing, and I was never mine own man since. How
CYL 4.2. 85 now? Who's there? {Enter some bringing forth the Clerk of +
CYL 4.2. 85 Chatham}
CYL 4.2. 86
CYL-WEAVER
The Clerk of Chatham - he can write and read
CYL 4.2. 87 and cast account.
CYL 4.2. 88
CYL-CADE
O, monstrous!
CYL 4.2. 89
CYL-WEAVER
We took him setting of boys' copies.
CYL 4.2. 90
CYL-CADE
Here's a villain.
CYL 4.2. 91
CYL-WEAVER
He's a book in his pocket with red letters in 't.
CYL 4.2. 92
CYL-CADE
Nay, then he is a conjuror!
CYL 4.2. 93
CYL-BUTCHER
Nay, he can make obligations and write court
CYL 4.2. 94 hand.
CYL 4.2. 95
CYL-CADE
I am sorry for 't. The man is a proper man, of mine
CYL 4.2. 96 honour. Unless I find him guilty, he shall not die. Come
CYL 4.2. 97 hither, sirrah, I must examine thee. What is thy name?
CYL 4.2. 98
CYL-CLERK
Emmanuel.
CYL 4.2. 99
CYL-BUTCHER
They use to write that on the top of letters -
CYL 4.2. 100 'twill go hard with you.
CYL 4.2. 101
CYL-CADE
Let me alone. {(To the Clerk)} Dost thou use +
CYL 4.2. 101 to write
CYL 4.2. 102 thy name? Or hast thou a mark to thyself like an
CYL 4.2. 103 honest plain-dealing man?
CYL 4.2. 104
CYL-CLERK
Sir, I thank God I have been so well brought up
CYL 4.2. 105 that I can write my name.
CYL 4.2. 106
CYL-ALL CADE
S
CYL-FOLLOWERS
He hath confessed - away with
CYL 4.2. 107 him! He's a villain and a traitor.
CYL 4.2. 108
CYL-CADE
Away with him, I say, hang him with his pen and
CYL 4.2. 109 inkhorn about his neck. {Exit one with the Clerk}
CYL 4.2. 110 {Enter a Messenger}
CYL-MESSENGER
Where's our general?
CYL 4.2. 111
CYL-CADE
Here I am, thou particular fellow.
CYL 4.2. 112
CYL-MESSENGER
Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his
CYL 4.2. 113 brother are hard by with the King's forces.
CYL 4.2. 114
CYL-CADE
Stand, villain, stand - or I'll fell thee down. He shall
CYL 4.2. 115 be encountered with a man as good as himself. He is
CYL 4.2. 116 but a knight, is a?
CYL 4.2. 117
CYL-MESSENGER
No.
CYL 4.2. 118
CYL-CADE
To equal him I will make myself a knight presently. {He +
CYL 4.2. 118 kneels and knights himself}
CYL 4.2. 119 Rise up, Sir John Mortimer. {He rises}
CYL 4.2. 120 Now have at him! {Enter Sir Humphrey Stafford and his +
CYL 4.2. 120 brother, with a drummer and soldiers}
CYL 4.2. 121
CYL-STAFFORD
{(to Cade's followers)} Rebellious hinds, +
CYL 4.2. 121 the filth and scum of Kent,
CYL 4.2. 122 Marked for the gallows, lay your weapons down;
CYL 4.2. 123 Home to your cottages, forsake this groom.
CYL 4.2. 124 The King is merciful, if you revolt.
CYL 4.2. 125
CYL-STAFFORD
S
CYL-BROTHER
{(to Cade's followers)} But +
CYL 4.2. 125 angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,
CYL 4.2. 126 If you go forward. Therefore, yield or die.
CYL 4.2. 127
CYL-CADE
{(to his followers)} As for these +
CYL 4.2. 127 silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
CYL 4.2. 128 It is to you, good people, that I speak,
CYL 4.2. 129 Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign -
CYL 4.2. 130 For I am rightful heir unto the crown.
CYL 4.2. 131
CYL-STAFFORD
Villain, thy father was a plasterer
CYL 4.2. 132 And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?
CYL 4.2. 133B
CYL-CADE
And Adam was a gardener.
CYL-STAFFORD
S
CYL-BROTHER
And what of +
CYL 4.2. 133B that?
CYL 4.2. 134
CYL-CADE
Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March,
CYL 4.2. 135 Married the Duke of Clarence' daughter, did he not?
CYL 4.2. 136A
CYL-STAFFORD
Ay, sir.
CYL 4.2. 137
CYL-CADE
By her he had two children at one birth.
CYL 4.2. 138A
CYL-STAFFORD
S
CYL-BROTHER
That's false.
CYL 4.2. 139
CYL-CADE
Ay, there's the question - but I say 'tis true.
CYL 4.2. 140 The elder of them, being put to nurse,
CYL 4.2. 141 Was by a beggar-woman stol'n away,
CYL 4.2. 142 And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,
CYL 4.2. 143 Became a bricklayer when he came to age.
CYL 4.2. 144 His son am I - deny it an you can.
CYL 4.2. 145
CYL-BUTCHER
Nay, 'tis too true - therefore he shall be king.
CYL 4.2. 146
CYL-WEAVER
Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house,
CYL 4.2. 147 and the bricks are alive at this day to testify. Therefore
CYL 4.2. 148 deny it not.
CYL 4.2. 149
CYL-STAFFORD
{(to Cade's followers)} And will you +
CYL 4.2. 149 credit this base drudge's words
CYL 4.2. 150 That speaks he knows not what?
CYL 4.2. 151
CYL-ALL CADE
S
CYL-FOLLOWERS
Ay, marry, will we - therefore get ye gone.
CYL 4.2. 152
CYL-STAFFORD
S
CYL-BROTHER
Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you +
CYL 4.2. 152 this.
CYL 4.2. 153
CYL-CADE
{(aside)} He lies, for I invented it myself.
CYL 4.2. 154 {(Aloud)} Go to, sirrah - tell the King from me that for
CYL 4.2. 155 his father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys
CYL 4.2. 156 went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content
CYL 4.2. 157 he shall reign; but I'll be Protector over him.
CYL 4.2. 158
CYL-BUTCHER
And, furthermore, we'll have the Lord Saye's
CYL 4.2. 159 head for selling the dukedom of Maine.
CYL 4.2. 160
CYL-CADE
And good reason, for thereby is England maimed,
CYL 4.2. 161 and fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds
CYL 4.2. 162 it up. Fellow-kings, I tell you that that Lord Saye hath
CYL 4.2. 163 gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch,
CYL 4.2. 164 and, more than that, he can speak French, and
CYL 4.2. 165 therefore he is a traitor!
CYL 4.2. 166
CYL-STAFFORD
O gross and miserable ignorance!
CYL 4.2. 167
CYL-CADE
Nay, answer if you can: the Frenchmen are our
CYL 4.2. 168 enemies; go to, then, I ask but this - can he that speaks
CYL 4.2. 169 with the tongue of an enemy be a good counsellor or
CYL 4.2. 170 no?
CYL 4.2. 171
CYL-ALL CADE
S
CYL-FOLLOWERS
No, no - and therefore we'll have
CYL 4.2. 172 his head!
CYL 4.2. 173
CYL-STAFFORD
S
CYL-BROTHER
{(to Stafford)} Well, seeing +
CYL 4.2. 173 gentle words will not prevail,
CYL 4.2. 174 Assail them with the army of the King.
CYL 4.2. 175
CYL-STAFFORD
Herald, away, and throughout every town
CYL 4.2. 176 Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade;
CYL 4.2. 177 That those which fly before the battle ends
CYL 4.2. 178 May, even in their wives' and children's sight,
CYL 4.2. 179 Be hanged up for example at their doors.
CYL 4.2. 180 And you that be the King's friends, follow me! {Exeunt [the +
CYL 4.2. 180 Staffords and their soldiers]}
CYL 4.2. 181
CYL-CADE
And you that love the commons, follow me!
CYL 4.2. 182 Now show yourselves men - 'tis for liberty.
CYL 4.2. 183 We will not leave one lord, one gentleman -
CYL 4.2. 184 Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon,
CYL 4.2. 185 For they are thrifty honest men, and such
CYL 4.2. 186 As would, but that they dare not, take our parts.
CYL 4.2. 187
CYL-BUTCHER
They are all in order, and march toward us.
CYL 4.2. 188
CYL-CADE
But then are we in order when we are
CYL 4.2. 189 Most out of order. Come, march forward! {[Exeunt]}
CYL 4.2. 0 {Alarums to the fight; [excursions,] wherein both the +
CYL 4.3. 0 Staffords are slain. Enter Jack Cade, Dick the Butcher, and the rest}
CYL 4.3. 1
CYL-CADE
Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford?
CYL 4.3. 2
CYL-BUTCHER
Here, sir.
CYL 4.3. 3
CYL-CADE
They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou
CYL 4.3. 4 behaved'st thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own
CYL 4.3. 5 slaughterhouse. Therefore, thus will I reward thee -
CYL 4.3. 6 the Lent shall be as long again as it is. Thou shalt have
CYL 4.3. 7 licence to kill for a hundred, lacking one.
CYL 4.3. 8
CYL-BUTCHER
I desire no more.
CYL 4.3. 9
CYL-CADE
And to speak truth, thou deserv'st no less. {[He +
CYL 4.3. 9 apparels himself in the Staffords' armour]}
CYL 4.3. 10 This monument of the victory will I bear, and the
CYL 4.3. 11 bodies shall be dragged at my horse heels till I do come
CYL 4.3. 12 to London, where we will have the Mayor's sword
CYL 4.3. 13 borne before us.
CYL 4.3. 14
CYL-BUTCHER
If we mean to thrive and do good, break open
CYL 4.3. 15 the jails and let out the prisoners.
CYL 4.3. 16
CYL-CADE
Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let's march
CYL 4.3. 17 towards London. {Exeunt, [dragging the Staffords' bodies]}
CYL 4.3. 0 {Enter King Henry [reading] a supplication, Queen +
CYL 4.4. 0 Margaret carrying Suffolk's head, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Lord +
CYL 4.4. 0 Saye, [with others]}
CYL 4.4. 1
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{[aside]} Oft have I heard that +
CYL 4.4. 1 grief softens the mind,
CYL 4.4. 2 And makes it fearful and degenerate;
CYL 4.4. 3 Think, therefore, on revenge, and cease to weep.
CYL 4.4. 4 But who can cease to weep and look on this?
CYL 4.4. 5 Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast,
CYL 4.4. 6 But where's the body that I should embrace?
CYL 4.4. 7
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to King Henry)} What answer makes +
CYL 4.4. 7 your grace to the rebels' supplication?
CYL 4.4. 8
CYL-KING HENRY
I'll send some holy bishop to entreat,
CYL 4.4. 9 For God forbid so many simple souls
CYL 4.4. 10 Should perish by the sword. And I myself,
CYL 4.4. 11 Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,
CYL 4.4. 12 Will parley with Jack Cade their general.
CYL 4.4. 13 But stay, I'll read it over once again. {He reads}
CYL 4.4. 14
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to Suffolk's head)} Ah, barbarous +
CYL 4.4. 14 villains! Hath this lovely face
CYL 4.4. 15 Ruled like a wandering planet over me,
CYL 4.4. 16 And could it not enforce them to relent,
CYL 4.4. 17 That were unworthy to behold the same?
CYL 4.4. 18
CYL-KING HENRY
Lord Saye, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head.
CYL 4.4. 19
CYL-SAYE
Ay, but I hope your highness shall have his.
CYL 4.4. 20
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Queen Margaret)} How now, madam? +
CYL 4.4. 20 Still lamenting and mourning
CYL 4.4. 21 Suffolk's death?
CYL 4.4. 22 I fear me, love, if that I had been dead,
CYL 4.4. 23 Thou wouldest not have mourned so much for me.
CYL 4.4. 24
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
No, my love, I should not mourn, but die for +
CYL 4.4. 24 thee. {Enter a Messenger, [in haste]}
CYL 4.4. 25
CYL-KING HENRY
How now? What news? Why com'st thou in such +
CYL 4.4. 25 haste?
CYL 4.4. 26
CYL-MESSENGER
The rebels are in Southwark - fly, my lord!
CYL 4.4. 27 Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,
CYL 4.4. 28 Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house,
CYL 4.4. 29 And calls your grace usurper, openly,
CYL 4.4. 30 And vows to crown himself in Westminster.
CYL 4.4. 31 His army is a ragged multitude
CYL 4.4. 32 Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless.
CYL 4.4. 33 Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother's death
CYL 4.4. 34 Hath given them heart and courage to proceed.
CYL 4.4. 35 All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,
CYL 4.4. 36 They call false caterpillars and intend their death.
CYL 4.4. 37
CYL-KING HENRY
O, graceless men; they know not what they do.
CYL 4.4. 38
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
My gracious lord, retire to Kenilworth
CYL 4.4. 39 Until a power be raised to put them down.
CYL 4.4. 40
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Ah, were the Duke of Suffolk now alive
CYL 4.4. 41 These Kentish rebels would be soon appeased!
CYL 4.4. 42
CYL-KING HENRY
Lord Saye, the trait'rous rabble hateth thee -
CYL 4.4. 43 Therefore away with us to Kenilworth.
CYL 4.4. 44
CYL-SAYE
So might your grace's person be in danger.
CYL 4.4. 45 The sight of me is odious in their eyes,
CYL 4.4. 46 And therefore in this city will I stay
CYL 4.4. 47 And live alone as secret as I may. {Enter another Messenger}
CYL 4.4. 48
CYL-SECOND MESSENGER
{(to King Henry)} Jack Cade hath +
CYL 4.4. 48 almost gotten London Bridge;
CYL 4.4. 49 The citizens fly and forsake their houses;
CYL 4.4. 50 The rascal people, thirsting after prey,
CYL 4.4. 51 Join with the traitor; and they jointly swear
CYL 4.4. 52 To spoil the city and your royal court.
CYL 4.4. 53
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to King Henry)} Then linger not, my +
CYL 4.4. 53 lord; away, take horse!
CYL 4.4. 54
CYL-KING HENRY
Come, Margaret. God, our hope, will succour us.
CYL 4.4. 55
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{[aside]} My hope is gone, now +
CYL 4.4. 55 Suffolk is deceased.
CYL 4.4. 56
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Saye)} Farewell, my lord. Trust +
CYL 4.4. 56 not the Kentish rebels.
CYL 4.4. 57
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Saye)} Trust nobody, for fear you +
CYL 4.4. 57 be betrayed.
CYL 4.4. 58
CYL-SAYE
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
CYL 4.4. 59 And therefore am I bold and resolute. {Exeunt [Saye at one door, +
CYL 4.4. 59 the rest at another]}
CYL 4.4. 0 {Enter the Lord Scales upon the Tower, walking. Enter +
CYL 4.5. 0 three or four Citizens below}
CYL 4.5. 1A
CYL-SCALES
How now? Is Jack Cade slain?
CYL 4.5. 2
CYL-FIRST CITIZEN
No, my lord Scales, nor likely to be slain,
CYL 4.5. 3 for he and his men have won the bridge, killing all
CYL 4.5. 4 those that did withstand them. The Lord Mayor craveth
CYL 4.5. 5 aid of your honour from the Tower to defend the city
CYL 4.5. 6 from the rebels.
CYL 4.5. 7
CYL-SCALES
Such aid as I can spare you shall command,
CYL 4.5. 8 But I am troubled here with them myself.
CYL 4.5. 9 The rebels have essayed to win the Tower.
CYL 4.5. 10 Get you to Smithfield, there to gather head,
CYL 4.5. 11 And thither will I send you Matthew Gough.
CYL 4.5. 12 Fight for your king, your country, and your lives!
CYL 4.5. 13 And so, farewell, for I must hence again. {Exeunt, Scales above, +
CYL 4.5. 13 the Citizens below}
CYL 4.5. 0 {Enter Jack Cade, the Weaver, the Butcher, and the rest. +
CYL 4.6. 0 Cade strikes his sword on London Stone}
CYL 4.6. 1
CYL-CADE
Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And, here sitting
CYL 4.6. 2 upon London Stone, I charge and command that, of
CYL 4.6. 3 the city's cost, the Pissing Conduit run nothing but
CYL 4.6. 4 claret wine this first year of our reign. And now
CYL 4.6. 5 henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls me
CYL 4.6. 6 otherwise than Lord Mortimer. {Enter a Soldier, running}
CYL 4.6. 7
CYL-SOLDIER
Jack Cade, Jack Cade!
CYL 4.6. 8
CYL-CADE
Zounds, knock him down there! {They kill him}
CYL 4.6. 9
CYL-BUTCHER
If this fellow be wise, he'll never call ye Jack
CYL 4.6. 10 Cade more; I think he hath a very fair warning. {[He takes a +
CYL 4.6. 10 paper from the soldier's body}
CYL 4.6. 11 {and reads it]} My lord, there's an army gathered together in
CYL 4.6. 12 Smithfield.
CYL 4.6. 13
CYL-CADE
Come then, let's go fight with them - but first, go
CYL 4.6. 14 on and set London Bridge afire, and, if you can, burn
CYL 4.6. 15 down the Tower too. Come, let's away. {Exeunt}
CYL 4.6. 0 {Alarums. [Excursions, wherein] Matthew Gough is slain, +
CYL 4.7. 0 and all the rest of his men with him. Then enter Jack Cade with his +
CYL 4.7. 0 company, among them the Butcher, the Weaver, and John, a rebel}
CYL 4.7. 1
CYL-CADE
So, sirs, now go some and pull down the Savoy;
CYL 4.7. 2 others to th' Inns of Court - down with them all.
CYL 4.7. 3
CYL-BUTCHER
I have a suit unto your lordship.
CYL 4.7. 4
CYL-CADE
Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word.
CYL 4.7. 5
CYL-BUTCHER
Only that the laws of England may come out of
CYL 4.7. 6 your mouth.
CYL 4.7. 7
CYL-JOHN
{(aside to his fellows)} Mass, 'twill be sore +
CYL 4.7. 7 law then,
CYL 4.7. 8 for he was thrust in the mouth with a spear, and 'tis
CYL 4.7. 9 not whole yet.
CYL 4.7. 10
CYL-WEAVER
{(aside to John)} Nay, John, it will be +
CYL 4.7. 10 stinking law,
CYL 4.7. 11 for his breath stinks with eating toasted cheese.
CYL 4.7. 12
CYL-CADE
I have thought upon it - it shall be so. Away! Burn
CYL 4.7. 13 all the records of the realm. My mouth shall be the
CYL 4.7. 14 Parliament of England.
CYL 4.7. 15
CYL-JOHN
{(aside to his fellows)} Then we are like to +
CYL 4.7. 15 have biting
CYL 4.7. 16 statutes unless his teeth be pulled out.
CYL 4.7. 17
CYL-CADE
And henceforward all things shall be in common. {Enter +
CYL 4.7. 17 a Messenger}
CYL 4.7. 18
CYL-MESSENGER
My lord, a prize, a prize! Here's the Lord Saye
CYL 4.7. 19 which sold the towns in France. He that made us pay
CYL 4.7. 20 one-and-twenty fifteens and one shilling to the pound
CYL 4.7. 21 the last subsidy. {Enter a rebel with the Lord Saye}
CYL 4.7. 22
CYL-CADE
Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. +
CYL 4.7. 22 {(To Saye)}
CYL 4.7. 23 Ah, thou say, thou serge - nay, thou buckram lord!
CYL 4.7. 24 Now art thou within point-blank of our jurisdiction
CYL 4.7. 25 regal. What canst thou answer to my majesty for giving
CYL 4.7. 26 up of Normandy unto Mounsieur Basimecu, the
CYL 4.7. 27 Dauphin of France? Be it known unto thee by these
CYL 4.7. 28 presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I
CYL 4.7. 29 am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such
CYL 4.7. 30 filth as thou art. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted
CYL 4.7. 31 the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school;
CYL 4.7. 32 and, whereas before, our forefathers had no other books
CYL 4.7. 33 but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing
CYL 4.7. 34 to be used and, contrary to the King his crown and
CYL 4.7. 35 dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved
CYL 4.7. 36 to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually
CYL 4.7. 37 talk of a noun and a verb and such abominable words
CYL 4.7. 38 as no Christian ear can endure to hear. Thou hast
CYL 4.7. 39 appointed justices of peace to call poor men before them
CYL 4.7. 40 about matters they were not able to answer. Moreover,
CYL 4.7. 41 thou hast put them in prison, and, because they could
CYL 4.7. 42 not read, thou hast hanged them when indeed only for
CYL 4.7. 43 that cause they have been most worthy to live. Thou
CYL 4.7. 44 dost ride on a foot-cloth, dost thou not?
CYL 4.7. 45
CYL-SAYE
What of that?
CYL 4.7. 46
CYL-CADE
Marry, thou ought'st not to let thy horse wear a
CYL 4.7. 47 cloak when honester men than thou go in their hose
CYL 4.7. 48 and doublets.
CYL 4.7. 49
CYL-BUTCHER
And work in their shirts, too; as myself, for
CYL 4.7. 50 example, that am a butcher.
CYL 4.7. 51A
CYL-SAYE
You men of Kent.
CYL 4.7. 52
CYL-BUTCHER
What say you of Kent?
CYL 4.7. 53
CYL-SAYE
Nothing but this - 'tis {bona terra, mala gens}.
CYL 4.7. 54
CYL-CADE
{Bonum terrum} - zounds, what's that?
CYL 4.7. 55
CYL-BUTCHER
He speaks French.
CYL 4.7. 56
CYL-[FIRST REBEL]
No, 'tis Dutch.
CYL 4.7. 57
CYL-[SECOND REBEL]
No, 'tis Out-talian, I know it well enough.
CYL 4.7. 58
CYL-SAYE
Hear me but speak, and bear me where you will.
CYL 4.7. 59 Kent, in the commentaries Caesar writ,
CYL 4.7. 60 Is termed the civil'st place of all this isle;
CYL 4.7. 61 Sweet is the country, because full of riches;
CYL 4.7. 62 The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy;
CYL 4.7. 63 Which makes me hope you are not void of pity.
CYL 4.7. 64 I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy;
CYL 4.7. 65 Yet to recover them would lose my life.
CYL 4.7. 66 Justice with favour have I always done,
CYL 4.7. 67 Prayers and tears have moved me - gifts could never.
CYL 4.7. 68 When have I aught exacted at your hands,
CYL 4.7. 69 But to maintain the King, the realm, and you?
CYL 4.7. 70 Large gifts have I bestowed on learned clerks
CYL 4.7. 71 Because my book preferred me to the King,
CYL 4.7. 72 And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
CYL 4.7. 73 Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
CYL 4.7. 74 Unless you be possessed with devilish spirits,
CYL 4.7. 75 You cannot but forbear to murder me.
CYL 4.7. 76 This tongue hath parleyed unto foreign kings
CYL 4.7. 77 For your behoof -
CYL 4.7. 78
CYL-CADE
Tut, when struck'st thou one blow in the field?
CYL 4.7. 79
CYL-SAYE
Great men have reaching hands. Oft have I struck
CYL 4.7. 80 Those that I never saw, and struck them dead.
CYL 4.7. 81
CYL-REBEL
O monstrous coward! What, to come behind folks?
CYL 4.7. 82
CYL-SAYE
These cheeks are pale for watching for your good -
CYL 4.7. 83
CYL-CADE
Give him a box o' th' ear, and that will make 'em
CYL 4.7. 84 red again. {[One of the rebels strikes Saye]}
CYL 4.7. 85
CYL-SAYE
Long sitting to determine poor men's causes
CYL 4.7. 86 Hath made me full of sickness and diseases.
CYL 4.7. 87
CYL-CADE
Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the
CYL 4.7. 88 health o' th' hatchet.
CYL 4.7. 89
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to Saye)} Why dost thou quiver, man?
CYL 4.7. 90
CYL-SAYE
The palsy, and not fear, provokes me.
CYL 4.7. 91
CYL-CADE
Nay, he nods at us as who should say `I'll be even
CYL 4.7. 92 with you'. I'll see if his head will stand steadier on a
CYL 4.7. 93 pole or no. Take him away, and behead him.
CYL 4.7. 94
CYL-SAYE
Tell me wherein have I offended most?
CYL 4.7. 95 Have I affected wealth or honour? Speak.
CYL 4.7. 96 Are my chests filled up with extorted gold?
CYL 4.7. 97 Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?
CYL 4.7. 98 Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death?
CYL 4.7. 99 These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding,
CYL 4.7. 100 This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts.
CYL 4.7. 101 O let me live!
CYL 4.7. 102
CYL-CADE
{(aside)} I feel remorse in myself with his +
CYL 4.7. 102 words, but
CYL 4.7. 103 I'll bridle it. He shall die an it be but for pleading so
CYL 4.7. 104 well for his life. {(Aloud)} Away with him - he has a
CYL 4.7. 105 familiar under his tongue; he speaks not a God's name.
CYL 4.7. 106 Go, take him away, I say, to the Standard in Cheapside,
CYL 4.7. 107 and strike off his head presently; and then go to Mile
CYL 4.7. 108 End Green - break into his son-in-law's house, Sir James
CYL 4.7. 109 Cromer, and strike off his head, and bring them both
CYL 4.7. 110 upon two poles hither.
CYL 4.7. 111
CYL-ALL CADE
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CYL-FOLLOWERS
It shall be done!
CYL 4.7. 112
CYL-SAYE
Ah, countrymen, if, when you make your prayers,
CYL 4.7. 113 God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
CYL 4.7. 114 How would it fare with your departed souls?
CYL 4.7. 115 And therefore yet relent and save my life!
CYL 4.7. 116
CYL-CADE
Away with him, and do as I command ye! +
CYL 4.7. 116 {Exeunt [the Butcher and] one or two with the Lord Saye}
CYL 4.7. 117 The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head
CYL 4.7. 118 on his shoulders unless he pay me tribute. There shall
CYL 4.7. 119 not a maid be married but she shall pay to me her
CYL 4.7. 120 maidenhead, ere they have it. Married men shall hold
CYL 4.7. 121 of me {in capite}. And we charge and command that their
CYL 4.7. 122 wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell. {Enter a +
CYL 4.7. 122 Rebel}
CYL 4.7. 123
CYL-REBEL
O captain, London Bridge is afire!
CYL 4.7. 124
CYL-CADE
Run to Billingsgate and fetch pitch and flax and
CYL 4.7. 125 quench it. {Enter the Butcher and a Sergeant}
CYL 4.7. 126
CYL-SERGEANT
Justice, justice, I pray you, sir, let me have
CYL 4.7. 127 justice of this fellow here.
CYL 4.7. 128
CYL-CADE
Why, what has he done?
CYL 4.7. 129
CYL-SERGEANT
Alas, sir, he has ravished my wife.
CYL 4.7. 130
CYL-BUTCHER
{(to Cade)} Why, my lord, he would have +
CYL 4.7. 130 'rested
CYL 4.7. 131 me and I went and entered my action in his wife's
CYL 4.7. 132 proper house.
CYL 4.7. 133
CYL-CADE
Dick, follow thy suit in her common place. {(To the}
CYL 4.7. 134 {Sergeant)} You whoreson villain, you are a sergeant -
CYL 4.7. 135 you'll take any man by the throat for twelve pence,
CYL 4.7. 136 and 'rest a man when he's at dinner, and have him to
CYL 4.7. 137 prison ere the meat be out of his mouth. {(To the Butcher)}
CYL 4.7. 138 Go, Dick, take him hence: cut out his tongue for
CYL 4.7. 139 cogging, hough him for running, and, to conclude,
CYL 4.7. 140 brain him with his own mace. {Exit the Butcher with the +
CYL 4.7. 140 Sergeant}
CYL 4.7. 141
CYL-REBEL
My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take
CYL 4.7. 142 up commodities upon our bills?
CYL 4.7. 143
CYL-CADE
Marry, presently. He that will lustily stand to it
CYL 4.7. 144 shall go with me and take up these commodities
CYL 4.7. 145 following - item, a gown, a kirtle, a petticoat, and a
CYL 4.7. 146 smock.
CYL 4.7. 147
CYL-ALL CADE
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CYL-FOLLOWERS
O brave! {Enter two with the Lord +
CYL 4.7. 147 Saye's head and Sir James Cromer's upon two poles}
CYL 4.7. 148
CYL-CADE
But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another,
CYL 4.7. 149 for they loved well when they were alive. {[The two heads are +
CYL 4.7. 149 made to kiss]}
CYL 4.7. 150 Now part them again, lest they consult about the giving
CYL 4.7. 151 up of some more towns in France. Soldiers, defer the
CYL 4.7. 152 spoil of the city until night. For with these borne before
CYL 4.7. 153 us instead of maces will we ride through the streets,
CYL 4.7. 154 and at every corner have them kiss. Away! {[Exeunt two with the +
CYL 4.7. 154 heads. The others begin to follow]}
CYL 4.7. 155 Up Fish Street! Down Saint Magnus' Corner! Kill and
CYL 4.7. 156 knock down! Throw them into Thames! {Sound a parley}
CYL 4.7. 157 What noise is this? Dare any be so bold to sound retreat
CYL 4.7. 158 or parley when I command them kill? {Enter the Duke of +
CYL 4.7. 158 Buckingham and old Lord Clifford}
CYL 4.7. 159
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Ay, here they be that dare and will disturb +
CYL 4.7. 159 thee!
CYL 4.7. 160 Know, Cade, we come ambassadors from the King
CYL 4.7. 161 Unto the commons, whom thou hast misled,
CYL 4.7. 162 And here pronounce free pardon to them all
CYL 4.7. 163 That will forsake thee and go home in peace.
CYL 4.7. 164
CYL-CLIFFORD
What say ye, countrymen, will ye relent
CYL 4.7. 165 And yield to mercy whilst 'tis offered you,
CYL 4.7. 166 Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?
CYL 4.7. 167 Who loves the King and will embrace his pardon,
CYL 4.7. 168 Fling up his cap and say `God save his majesty'.
CYL 4.7. 169 Who hateth him and honours not his father,
CYL 4.7. 170 Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,
CYL 4.7. 171 Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by. {They [fling up their +
CYL 4.7. 171 caps and] forsake Cade}
CYL 4.7. 172
CYL-ALL CADE
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CYL-FOLLOWERS
God save the King! God save the
CYL 4.7. 173 King!
CYL 4.7. 174
CYL-CADE
What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave?
CYL 4.7. 175 {(To the rabble)} And you, base peasants, do ye +
CYL 4.7. 175 believe
CYL 4.7. 176 him? Will you needs be hanged with your pardons
CYL 4.7. 177 about your necks? Hath my sword, therefore, broke
CYL 4.7. 178 through London gates that you should leave me at the
CYL 4.7. 179 White Hart in Southwark? I thought ye would never
CYL 4.7. 180 have given out these arms till you had recovered your
CYL 4.7. 181 ancient freedom. But you are all recreants and dastards,
CYL 4.7. 182 and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Let them
CYL 4.7. 183 break your backs with burdens, take your houses over
CYL 4.7. 184 your heads, ravish your wives and daughters before
CYL 4.7. 185 your faces. For me, I will make shift for one, and so
CYL 4.7. 186 God's curse light upon you all.
CYL 4.7. 187
CYL-ALL CADE
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CYL-FOLLOWERS
We'll follow Cade! We'll follow
CYL 4.7. 188 Cade! {They run to Cade again}
CYL 4.7. 189
CYL-CLIFFORD
Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth
CYL 4.7. 190 That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him?
CYL 4.7. 191 Will he conduct you through the heart of France
CYL 4.7. 192 And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?
CYL 4.7. 193 Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to,
CYL 4.7. 194 Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil -
CYL 4.7. 195 Unless by robbing of your friends and us.
CYL 4.7. 196 Were 't not a shame that whilst you live at jar
CYL 4.7. 197 The fearful French, whom you late vanquished,
CYL 4.7. 198 Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you?
CYL 4.7. 199 Methinks already in this civil broil
CYL 4.7. 200 I see them lording it in London streets,
CYL 4.7. 201 Crying `{Villiago!}' unto all they meet.
CYL 4.7. 202 Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry
CYL 4.7. 203 Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's mercy.
CYL 4.7. 204 To France! To France! And get what you have lost!
CYL 4.7. 205 Spare England, for it is your native coast.
CYL 4.7. 206 Henry hath money; you are strong and manly;
CYL 4.7. 207 God on our side, doubt not of victory.
CYL 4.7. 208
CYL-ALL CADE
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CYL-FOLLOWERS
A Clifford! A Clifford! We'll follow
CYL 4.7. 209 the King and Clifford! {They forsake Cade}
CYL 4.7. 210
CYL-CADE
{(aside)} Was ever feather so lightly blown +
CYL 4.7. 210 to and fro
CYL 4.7. 211 as this multitude? The name of Henry the Fifth hales
CYL 4.7. 212 them to an hundred mischiefs, and makes them leave
CYL 4.7. 213 me desolate. I see them lay their heads together to
CYL 4.7. 214 surprise me. My sword make way for me, for here is
CYL 4.7. 215 no staying. {(Aloud)} In despite of the devils and +
CYL 4.7. 215 hell,
CYL 4.7. 216 have through the very middest of you! And heavens
CYL 4.7. 217 and honour be witness that no want of resolution in
CYL 4.7. 218 me, but only my followers' base and ignominious
CYL 4.7. 219 treasons, makes me betake me to my heels. {He runs through them +
CYL 4.7. 219 with his staff, and flies away}
CYL 4.7. 220
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
What, is he fled? Go, some, and follow him,
CYL 4.7. 221 And he that brings his head unto the King
CYL 4.7. 222 Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward. {Exeunt some of +
CYL 4.7. 222 them after Cade}
CYL 4.7. 223 {(To the remaining rebels)} Follow me, soldiers, we'll +
CYL 4.7. 223 devise a mean
CYL 4.7. 224 To reconcile you all unto the King. {Exeunt}
CYL 4.7. 0 {Sound trumpets. Enter King Henry, Queen Margaret, and +
CYL 4.8. 0 the Duke of Somerset on the terrace}
CYL 4.8. 1
CYL-KING HENRY
Was ever King that joyed an earthly throne
CYL 4.8. 2 And could command no more content than I?
CYL 4.8. 3 No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
CYL 4.8. 4 But I was made a king at nine months old.
CYL 4.8. 5 Was never subject longed to be a king
CYL 4.8. 6 As I do long and wish to be a subject. {Enter the Duke of +
CYL 4.8. 6 Buckingham and Lord Clifford [on the terrace]}
CYL 4.8. 7
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to King Henry)} Health and glad +
CYL 4.8. 7 tidings to your majesty.
CYL 4.8. 8
CYL-KING HENRY
Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised?
CYL 4.8. 9 Or is he but retired to make him strong? {Enter, below, +
CYL 4.8. 9 multitudes with halters about their necks}
CYL 4.8. 10
CYL-CLIFFORD
He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do +
CYL 4.8. 10 yield,
CYL 4.8. 11 And humbly thus with halters on their necks
CYL 4.8. 12 Expect your highness' doom of life or death.
CYL 4.8. 13
CYL-KING HENRY
Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates
CYL 4.8. 14 To entertain my vows of thanks and praise.
CYL 4.8. 15 {(To the multitudes below)} Soldiers, this day have +
CYL 4.8. 15 you redeemed your lives,
CYL 4.8. 16 And showed how well you love your prince and country.
CYL 4.8. 17 Continue still in this so good a mind,
CYL 4.8. 18 And Henry, though he be infortunate,
CYL 4.8. 19 Assure yourselves will never be unkind.
CYL 4.8. 20 And so, with thanks and pardon to you all,
CYL 4.8. 21 I do dismiss you to your several countries.
CYL 4.8. 22
CYL-ALL CADE
S
CYL-FORMER FOLLOWERS
God save the King! God
CYL 4.8. 23 save the King! {[Exeunt multitudes below]}
CYL 4.8. 24 {Enter a Messenger [on the terrace]}
CYL-MESSENGER
{(to +
CYL 4.8. 24 King Henry)} Please it your grace to be advertised
CYL 4.8. 25 The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland,
CYL 4.8. 26 And with a puissant and a mighty power
CYL 4.8. 27 Of galloglasses and stout Irish kerns
CYL 4.8. 28 Is marching hitherward in proud array,
CYL 4.8. 29 And still proclaimeth, as he comes along,
CYL 4.8. 30 His arms are only to remove from thee
CYL 4.8. 31 The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms a traitor.
CYL 4.8. 32
CYL-KING HENRY
Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distressed,
CYL 4.8. 33 Like to a ship that, having scaped a tempest,
CYL 4.8. 34 Is straightway calmed and boarded with a pirate.
CYL 4.8. 35 But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed,
CYL 4.8. 36 And now is York in arms to second him.
CYL 4.8. 37 I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,
CYL 4.8. 38 And ask him what's the reason of these arms.
CYL 4.8. 39 Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower;
CYL 4.8. 40 And, Somerset, we will commit thee thither,
CYL 4.8. 41 Until his army be dismissed from him.
CYL 4.8. 42
CYL-SOMERSET
My lord, I'll yield myself to prison willingly,
CYL 4.8. 43 Or unto death, to do my country good.
CYL 4.8. 44
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to Buckingham)} In any case, be not +
CYL 4.8. 44 too rough in terms,
CYL 4.8. 45 For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language.
CYL 4.8. 46
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
I will, my lord, and doubt not so to deal
CYL 4.8. 47 As all things shall redound unto your good.
CYL 4.8. 48
CYL-KING HENRY
Come, wife, let's in and learn to govern better;
CYL 4.8. 49 For yet may England curse my wretched reign. {Flourish. Exeunt}
CYL 4.8. 0 {Enter Jack Cade}
CYL 4.9. 1
CYL-CADE
Fie on ambitions; fie on myself that have a sword
CYL 4.9. 2 and yet am ready to famish. These five days have I hid
CYL 4.9. 3 me in these woods and durst not peep out, for all the
CYL 4.9. 4 country is laid for me. But now am I so hungry that if
CYL 4.9. 5 I might have a lease of my life for a thousand years, I
CYL 4.9. 6 could stay no longer. Wherefore o'er a brick wall have
CYL 4.9. 7 I climbed into this garden to see if I can eat grass or
CYL 4.9. 8 pick a sallet another while, which is not amiss to cool
CYL 4.9. 9 a man's stomach this hot weather. And I think this
CYL 4.9. 10 word `sallet' was born to do me good; for many a time,
CYL 4.9. 11 but for a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a
CYL 4.9. 12 brown bill; and many a time, when I have been dry,
CYL 4.9. 13 and bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a
CYL 4.9. 14 quart pot to drink in; and now the word `sallet' must
CYL 4.9. 15 serve me to feed on. {[He lies down picking of herbs and eating +
CYL 4.9. 15 them.]}
CYL 4.9. 16 {Enter Sir Alexander Iden [and five of his men]}
CYL-IDEN
+
CYL 4.9. 16 Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court
CYL 4.9. 17 And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?
CYL 4.9. 18 This small inheritance my father left me
CYL 4.9. 19 Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy.
CYL 4.9. 20 I seek not to wax great by others' waning,
CYL 4.9. 21 Or gather wealth I care not with what envy;
CYL 4.9. 22 Sufficeth that I have maintains my state,
CYL 4.9. 23 And sends the poor well pleased from my gate. {[Cade rises to +
CYL 4.9. 23 his knees]}
CYL 4.9. 24
CYL-CADE
{(aside)} Zounds, here's the lord of the soil +
CYL 4.9. 24 come to
CYL 4.9. 25 seize me for a stray for entering his fee-simple without
CYL 4.9. 26 leave. {(To Iden)} A villain, thou wilt betray me and +
CYL 4.9. 26 get
CYL 4.9. 27 a thousand crowns of the king by carrying my head
CYL 4.9. 28 to him; but I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich and
CYL 4.9. 29 swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part.
CYL 4.9. 30
CYL-IDEN
Why, rude companion, whatsoe'er thou be,
CYL 4.9. 31 I know thee not. Why then should I betray thee?
CYL 4.9. 32 Is 't not enough to break into my garden,
CYL 4.9. 33 And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,
CYL 4.9. 34 Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner,
CYL 4.9. 35 But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?
CYL 4.9. 36
CYL-CADE
Brave thee? Ay, by the best blood that ever was
CYL 4.9. 37 broached - and beard thee too! Look on me well - I
CYL 4.9. 38 have eat no meat these five days, yet come thou and
CYL 4.9. 39 thy five men, an if I do not leave you all as dead as a
CYL 4.9. 40 doornail I pray God I may never eat grass more.
CYL 4.9. 41
CYL-IDEN
Nay, it shall ne'er be said while England stands
CYL 4.9. 42 That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent,
CYL 4.9. 43 Took odds to combat a poor famished man.
CYL 4.9. 44 Oppose thy steadfast gazing eyes to mine -
CYL 4.9. 45 See if thou canst outface me with thy looks.
CYL 4.9. 46 Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser -
CYL 4.9. 47 Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,
CYL 4.9. 48 Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon.
CYL 4.9. 49 My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast,
CYL 4.9. 50 And if mine arm be heaved in the air,
CYL 4.9. 51 Thy grave is digged already in the earth.
CYL 4.9. 52 As for words, whose greatness answers words,
CYL 4.9. 53 Let this my sword report what speech forbears.
CYL 4.9. 54 {(To his men)} Stand you all aside.
CYL 4.9. 55
CYL-CADE
By my valour, the most complete champion that
CYL 4.9. 56 ever I heard. {(To his sword)} Steel, if thou turn the +
CYL 4.9. 56 edge
CYL 4.9. 57 or cut not out the burly-boned clown in chines of beef
CYL 4.9. 58 ere thou sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my
CYL 4.9. 59 knees thou mayst be turned to hobnails. {[Cade stands.] Here +
CYL 4.9. 59 they fight, and Cade falls down}
CYL 4.9. 60 O, I am slain! Famine and no other hath slain me! Let
CYL 4.9. 61 ten thousand devils come against me, and give me but
CYL 4.9. 62 the ten meals I have lost, and I'd defy them all. Wither,
CYL 4.9. 63 garden, and be henceforth a burying place to all that
CYL 4.9. 64 do dwell in this house, because the unconquered soul
CYL 4.9. 65 of Cade is fled.
CYL 4.9. 66
CYL-IDEN
Is 't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?
CYL 4.9. 67 Sword, I will hallow thee for this thy deed
CYL 4.9. 68 And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead.
CYL 4.9. 69 Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point
CYL 4.9. 70 But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat
CYL 4.9. 71 To emblaze the honour that thy master got.
CYL 4.9. 72
CYL-CADE
Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell
CYL 4.9. 73 Kent from me she hath lost her best man, and exhort
CYL 4.9. 74 all the world to be cowards. For I, that never feared
CYL 4.9. 75 any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour. {He dies}
CYL 4.9. 76
CYL-IDEN
How much thou wrong'st me, heaven be my judge.
CYL 4.9. 77 Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bore thee!
CYL 4.9. 78 And {[stabbing him again]} as I thrust thy body in with +
CYL 4.9. 78 my sword,
CYL 4.9. 79 So wish I I might thrust thy soul to hell.
CYL 4.9. 80 Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels
CYL 4.9. 81 Unto a dunghill, which shall be thy grave,
CYL 4.9. 82 And there cut off thy most ungracious head,
CYL 4.9. 83 Which I will bear in triumph to the King,
CYL 4.9. 84 Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. {Exeunt with the body}
CYL 4.9. 0 {Enter the Duke of York and his army of Irish with +
CYL 5.1. 0 a drummer and soldiers bearing colours}
CYL 5.1. 1
CYL-YORK
From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right,
CYL 5.1. 2 And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head.
CYL 5.1. 3 Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright,
CYL 5.1. 4 To entertain great England's lawful king.
CYL 5.1. 5 Ah, {sancta maiestas}! Who would not buy thee dear?
CYL 5.1. 6 Let them obey that knows not how to rule;
CYL 5.1. 7 This hand was made to handle naught but gold.
CYL 5.1. 8 I cannot give due action to my words,
CYL 5.1. 9 Except a sword or sceptre balance it.
CYL 5.1. 10 A sceptre shall it have, have I a sword,
CYL 5.1. 11 On which I'll toss the fleur-de-lis of France. {Enter the Duke +
CYL 5.1. 11 of Buckingham}
CYL 5.1. 12 {(Aside)} Whom have we here? Buckingham to disturb me?
CYL 5.1. 13 The King hath sent him sure - I must dissemble.
CYL 5.1. 14
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well.
CYL 5.1. 15
CYL-YORK
Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting.
CYL 5.1. 16 Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure?
CYL 5.1. 17
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,
CYL 5.1. 18 To know the reason of these arms in peace;
CYL 5.1. 19 Or why thou, being a subject as I am,
CYL 5.1. 20 Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn,
CYL 5.1. 21 Should raise so great a power without his leave,
CYL 5.1. 22 Or dare to bring thy force so near the court?
CYL 5.1. 23
CYL-YORK
{(aside)} Scarce can I speak, my choler is so +
CYL 5.1. 23 great.
CYL 5.1. 24 O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,
CYL 5.1. 25 I am so angry at these abject terms;
CYL 5.1. 26 And now, like Ajax Telamonius,
CYL 5.1. 27 On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury.
CYL 5.1. 28 I am far better born than is the King,
CYL 5.1. 29 More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts;
CYL 5.1. 30 But I must make fair weather yet a while,
CYL 5.1. 31 Till Henry be more weak and I more strong.
CYL 5.1. 32 {(Aloud)} Buckingham, I prithee pardon me,
CYL 5.1. 33 That I have given no answer all this while;
CYL 5.1. 34 My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.
CYL 5.1. 35 The cause why I have brought this army hither
CYL 5.1. 36 Is to remove proud Somerset from the King,
CYL 5.1. 37 Seditious to his grace and to the state.
CYL 5.1. 38
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
That is too much presumption on thy part;
CYL 5.1. 39 But if thy arms be to no other end,
CYL 5.1. 40 The King hath yielded unto thy demand:
CYL 5.1. 41 The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.
CYL 5.1. 42
CYL-YORK
Upon thine honour, is he prisoner?
CYL 5.1. 43
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Upon mine honour, he is prisoner.
CYL 5.1. 44
CYL-YORK
Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers.
CYL 5.1. 45 Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves;
CYL 5.1. 46 Meet me tomorrow in Saint George's field.
CYL 5.1. 47 You shall have pay and everything you wish. {Exeunt soldiers}
CYL 5.1. 48 {(To Buckingham)} And let my sovereign, virtuous +
CYL 5.1. 48 Henry,
CYL 5.1. 49 Command my eldest son - nay, all my sons -
CYL 5.1. 50 As pledges of my fealty and love.
CYL 5.1. 51 I'll send them all as willing as I live.
CYL 5.1. 52 Lands, goods, horse, armour, anything I have
CYL 5.1. 53 Is his to use, so Somerset may die.
CYL 5.1. 54
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
York, I commend this kind submission.
CYL 5.1. 55 We twain will go into his highness' tent. {Enter King Henry and +
CYL 5.1. 55 attendants}
CYL 5.1. 56
CYL-KING HENRY
Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us,
CYL 5.1. 57 That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm?
CYL 5.1. 58
CYL-YORK
In all submission and humility
CYL 5.1. 59 York doth present himself unto your highness.
CYL 5.1. 60
CYL-KING HENRY
Then what intends these forces thou dost bring?
CYL 5.1. 61
CYL-YORK
To heave the traitor Somerset from hence,
CYL 5.1. 62 And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,
CYL 5.1. 63 Who since I heard to be discomfited. {Enter Iden with Cade's +
CYL 5.1. 63 head}
CYL 5.1. 64
CYL-IDEN
If one so rude and of so mean condition
CYL 5.1. 65 May pass into the presence of a king,
CYL 5.1. 66 {[Kneeling]} Lo, I present your grace a traitor's +
CYL 5.1. 66 head,
CYL 5.1. 67 The head of Cade, whom I in combat slew.
CYL 5.1. 68
CYL-KING HENRY
The head of Cade? Great God, how just art thou!
CYL 5.1. 69 O let me view his visage, being dead,
CYL 5.1. 70 That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.
CYL 5.1. 71 Tell me, my friend, art thou the man that slew him?
CYL 5.1. 72
CYL-IDEN
{[rising]} Iwis, an 't like your majesty.
CYL 5.1. 73
CYL-KING HENRY
How art thou called? And what is thy degree?
CYL 5.1. 74
CYL-IDEN
Alexander Iden, that's my name;
CYL 5.1. 75 A poor esquire of Kent that loves his king.
CYL 5.1. 76
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
{(to King Henry)} So please it you, my +
CYL 5.1. 76 lord, 'twere not amiss
CYL 5.1. 77 He were created knight for his good service.
CYL 5.1. 78B
CYL-KING HENRY
Iden, kneel down. {Iden kneels and King Henry +
CYL 5.1. 78B knights him} Rise up a knight. {Iden rises}
CYL 5.1. 79 We give thee for reward a thousand marks,
CYL 5.1. 80 And will that thou henceforth attend on us.
CYL 5.1. 81
CYL-IDEN
May Iden live to merit such a bounty,
CYL 5.1. 82 And never live but true unto his liege. {[Exit]}
CYL 5.1. 83 {Enter Queen Margaret and the Duke of Somerset}
CYL-KING HENRY
+
CYL 5.1. 83 See, Buckingham, Somerset comes wi' th' Queen.
CYL 5.1. 84 Go bid her hide him quickly from the Duke.
CYL 5.1. 85
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head,
CYL 5.1. 86 But boldly stand and front him to his face.
CYL 5.1. 87
CYL-YORK
How now? Is Somerset at liberty?
CYL 5.1. 88 Then, York, unloose thy long imprisoned thoughts,
CYL 5.1. 89 And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.
CYL 5.1. 90 Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?
CYL 5.1. 91 False King, why hast thou broken faith with me,
CYL 5.1. 92 Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?
CYL 5.1. 93 `King' did I call thee? No, thou art not king;
CYL 5.1. 94 Not fit to govern and rule multitudes,
CYL 5.1. 95 Which dar'st not - no, nor canst not - rule a traitor.
CYL 5.1. 96 That head of thine doth not become a crown;
CYL 5.1. 97 Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff,
CYL 5.1. 98 And not to grace an aweful princely sceptre.
CYL 5.1. 99 That gold must round engird these brows of mine,
CYL 5.1. 100 Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
CYL 5.1. 101 Is able with the change to kill and cure.
CYL 5.1. 102 Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up,
CYL 5.1. 103 And with the same to act controlling laws.
CYL 5.1. 104 Give place! By heaven, thou shalt rule no more
CYL 5.1. 105 O'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler.
CYL 5.1. 106
CYL-SOMERSET
O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,
CYL 5.1. 107 Of capital treason 'gainst the King and crown.
CYL 5.1. 108 Obey, audacious traitor; kneel for grace.
CYL 5.1. 109
CYL-YORK
{(to an attendant)} Sirrah, call in my sons +
CYL 5.1. 109 to be my bail. {Exit attendant}
CYL 5.1. 110 I know, ere they will have me go to ward,
CYL 5.1. 111 They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement.
CYL 5.1. 112
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
{[to Buckingham]} Call hither +
CYL 5.1. 112 Clifford; bid him come amain,
CYL 5.1. 113 To say if that the bastard boys of York
CYL 5.1. 114 Shall be the surety for their traitor father. {Exit +
CYL 5.1. 114 [Buckingham]}
CYL 5.1. 115
CYL-YORK
O blood-bespotted Neapolitan,
CYL 5.1. 116 Outcast of Naples, England's bloody scourge!
CYL 5.1. 117 The sons of York, thy betters in their birth,
CYL 5.1. 118 Shall be their father's bail, and bane to those
CYL 5.1. 119 That for my surety will refuse the boys. {Enter [at one door] +
CYL 5.1. 119 York's sons Edward and crookback Richard [with a drummer and soldiers]}
CYL 5.1. 120 See where they come. I'll warrant they'll make it good.+
CYL 5.1. 120 {Enter [at the other door] Clifford [and his son, with a drummer and +
CYL 5.1. 120 soldiers]}
CYL 5.1. 121
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
And here comes Clifford to deny their +
CYL 5.1. 121 bail.
CYL 5.1. 122
CYL-CLIFFORD
{(kneeling before King Henry)} Health and +
CYL 5.1. 122 all happiness to my lord the King. {He rises}
CYL 5.1. 123
CYL-YORK
I thank thee, Clifford. Say, what news with thee?
CYL 5.1. 124 Nay, do not fright us with an angry look -
CYL 5.1. 125 We are thy sovereign, Clifford; kneel again.
CYL 5.1. 126 For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee.
CYL 5.1. 127
CYL-CLIFFORD
This is my king, York; I do not mistake.
CYL 5.1. 128 But thou mistakes me much to think I do.
CYL 5.1. 129 {(To King Henry)} To Bedlam with him! Is the man grown +
CYL 5.1. 129 mad?
CYL 5.1. 130
CYL-KING HENRY
Ay, Clifford, a bedlam and ambitious humour
CYL 5.1. 131 Makes him oppose himself against his king.
CYL 5.1. 132
CYL-CLIFFORD
He is a traitor; let him to the Tower,
CYL 5.1. 133 And chop away that factious pate of his.
CYL 5.1. 134
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
He is arrested, but will not obey.
CYL 5.1. 135 His sons, he says, shall give their words for him.
CYL 5.1. 136A
CYL-YORK
{(to Edward and Richard)} Will you not, sons?
CYL 5.1. 137
CYL-EDWARD
Ay, noble father, if our words will serve.
CYL 5.1. 138
CYL-RICHARD
And if words will not, then our weapons shall.
CYL 5.1. 139
CYL-CLIFFORD
Why, what a brood of traitors have we here!
CYL 5.1. 140
CYL-YORK
Look in a glass, and call thy image so.
CYL 5.1. 141 I am thy king, and thou a false-heart traitor.
CYL 5.1. 142 Call hither to the stake my two brave bears,
CYL 5.1. 143 That with the very shaking of their chains,
CYL 5.1. 144 They may astonish these fell-lurking curs.
CYL 5.1. 145 {(To an attendant)} Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to +
CYL 5.1. 145 me. {Exit attendant}
CYL 5.1. 146 {Enter the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury [with a drummer and +
CYL 5.1. 146 soldiers]}
CYL-CLIFFORD
Are these thy bears? We'll bait thy +
CYL 5.1. 146 bears to death,
CYL 5.1. 147 And manacle the bearherd in their chains,
CYL 5.1. 148 If thou dar'st bring them to the baiting place.
CYL 5.1. 149
CYL-RICHARD
Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur
CYL 5.1. 150 Run back and bite, because he was withheld;
CYL 5.1. 151 Who, being suffered with the bear's fell paw,
CYL 5.1. 152 Hath clapped his tail between his legs and cried;
CYL 5.1. 153 And such a piece of service will you do,
CYL 5.1. 154 If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick.
CYL 5.1. 155
CYL-CLIFFORD
Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump,
CYL 5.1. 156 As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!
CYL 5.1. 157
CYL-YORK
Nay, we shall heat you thoroughly anon.
CYL 5.1. 158
CYL-CLIFFORD
Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.
CYL 5.1. 159
CYL-KING HENRY
Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?
CYL 5.1. 160 Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,
CYL 5.1. 161 Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!
CYL 5.1. 162 What, wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian,
CYL 5.1. 163 And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?
CYL 5.1. 164 O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?
CYL 5.1. 165 If it be banished from the frosty head,
CYL 5.1. 166 Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
CYL 5.1. 167 Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,
CYL 5.1. 168 And shame thine honourable age with blood?
CYL 5.1. 169 Why, art thou old and want'st experience?
CYL 5.1. 170 Or wherefore dost abuse it if thou hast it?
CYL 5.1. 171 For shame in duty bend thy knee to me,
CYL 5.1. 172 That bows unto the grave with mickle age.
CYL 5.1. 173
CYL-SALISBURY
My lord, I have considered with myself
CYL 5.1. 174 The title of this most renowned Duke,
CYL 5.1. 175 And in my conscience do repute his grace
CYL 5.1. 176 The rightful heir to England's royal seat.
CYL 5.1. 177
CYL-KING HENRY
Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me?
CYL 5.1. 178A
CYL-SALISBURY
I have.
CYL 5.1. 179
CYL-KING HENRY
Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?
CYL 5.1. 180
CYL-SALISBURY
It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
CYL 5.1. 181 But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
CYL 5.1. 182 Who can be bound by any solemn vow
CYL 5.1. 183 To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man,
CYL 5.1. 184 To force a spotless virgin's chastity,
CYL 5.1. 185 To reave the orphan of his patrimony,
CYL 5.1. 186 To wring the widow from her customed right,
CYL 5.1. 187 And have no other reason for this wrong
CYL 5.1. 188 But that he was bound by a solemn oath?
CYL 5.1. 189
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
A subtle traitor needs no sophister.
CYL 5.1. 190
CYL-KING HENRY
{(to an attendant)} Call Buckingham, +
CYL 5.1. 190 and bid him arm himself. {Exit attendant}
CYL 5.1. 191
CYL-YORK
{(to King Henry)} Call Buckingham and all the +
CYL 5.1. 191 friends thou hast,
CYL 5.1. 192 I am resolved for death or dignity.
CYL 5.1. 193
CYL-CLIFFORD
The first, I warrant thee, if dreams prove true.
CYL 5.1. 194
CYL-WARWICK
You were best to go to bed and dream again,
CYL 5.1. 195 To keep you from the tempest of the field.
CYL 5.1. 196
CYL-CLIFFORD
I am resolved to bear a greater storm
CYL 5.1. 197 Than any thou canst conjure up today -
CYL 5.1. 198 And that I'll write upon thy burgonet
CYL 5.1. 199 Might I but know thee by thy household badge.
CYL 5.1. 200
CYL-WARWICK
Now by my father's badge, old Neville's crest,
CYL 5.1. 201 The rampant bear chained to the ragged staff,
CYL 5.1. 202 This day I'll wear aloft my burgonet,
CYL 5.1. 203 As on a mountain top the cedar shows
CYL 5.1. 204 That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,
CYL 5.1. 205 Even to affright thee with the view thereof.
CYL 5.1. 206
CYL-CLIFFORD
And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear,
CYL 5.1. 207 And tread it under foot with all contempt,
CYL 5.1. 208 Despite the bearherd that protects the bear.
CYL 5.1. 209
CYL-YOUNG CLIFFORD
And so to arms, victorious father,
CYL 5.1. 210 To quell the rebels and their complices.
CYL 5.1. 211
CYL-RICHARD
Fie, charity, for shame! Speak not in spite -
CYL 5.1. 212 For you shall sup with Jesu Christ tonight.
CYL 5.1. 213
CYL-YOUNG CLIFFORD
Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst tell.
CYL 5.1. 214
CYL-RICHARD
If not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell. {Exeunt +
CYL 5.1. 214 severally}
CYL 5.1. 0 {[An alehouse sign: a castle.] Alarums to the battle. +
CYL 5.2. 0 Then enter the Duke of Somerset and Richard fighting. Richard kills +
CYL 5.2. 0 Somerset [under the sign]}
CYL 5.2. 1A
CYL-RICHARD
So lie thou there -
CYL 5.2. 2 For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign,
CYL 5.2. 3 The Castle in Saint Albans, Somerset
CYL 5.2. 4 Hath made the wizard famous in his death.
CYL 5.2. 5 Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathfull still -
CYL 5.2. 6 Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill. {Exit [with +
CYL 5.2. 6 Somerset's body. The sign is removed]}
CYL 5.2. 0 {[Alarum again.] Enter the Earl of Warwick}
CYL 5.3. 1
CYL-WARWICK
Clifford of Cumberland, 'tis Warwick calls!
CYL 5.3. 2 An if thou dost not hide thee from the bear,
CYL 5.3. 3 Now, when the angry trumpet sounds alarum,
CYL 5.3. 4 And dead men's cries do fill the empty air,
CYL 5.3. 5 Clifford I say, come forth and fight with me!
CYL 5.3. 6 Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland,
CYL 5.3. 7 Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms!
CYL 5.3. 8
CYL-CLIFFORD
{(within)} Warwick, stand still; and stir +
CYL 5.3. 8 not till I come. {Enter the Duke of York}
CYL 5.3. 9
CYL-WARWICK
How now, my noble lord? What, all afoot?
CYL 5.3. 10
CYL-YORK
The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed.
CYL 5.3. 11 But match to match I have encountered him,
CYL 5.3. 12 And made a prey for carrion kites and crows
CYL 5.3. 13 Even of the bonny beast he loved so well. {Enter Lord Clifford}
CYL 5.3. 14
CYL-WARWICK
{(to Clifford)} Of one or both of us the +
CYL 5.3. 14 time is come.
CYL 5.3. 15
CYL-YORK
Hold, Warwick - seek thee out some other chase,
CYL 5.3. 16 For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
CYL 5.3. 17
CYL-WARWICK
Then nobly, York; 'tis for a crown thou fight'st.
CYL 5.3. 18 {(To Clifford)} As I intend, Clifford, to thrive +
CYL 5.3. 18 today,
CYL 5.3. 19 It grieves my soul to leave thee unassailed. {Exit}
CYL 5.3. 20
CYL-YORK
Clifford, since we are singled here alone,
CYL 5.3. 21 Be this the day of doom to one of us.
CYL 5.3. 22 For know my heart hath sworn immortal hate
CYL 5.3. 23 To thee and all the house of Lancaster.
CYL 5.3. 24
CYL-CLIFFORD
And here I stand and pitch my foot to thine,
CYL 5.3. 25 Vowing not to stir till thou or I be slain.
CYL 5.3. 26 For never shall my heart be safe at rest
CYL 5.3. 27 Till I have spoiled the hateful house of York. {Alarums. They +
CYL 5.3. 27 fight. York kills Clifford}
CYL 5.3. 28
CYL-YORK
Now, Lancaster, sit sure - thy sinews shrink.
CYL 5.3. 29 Come, fearful Henry, grovelling on thy face -
CYL 5.3. 30 Yield up thy crown unto the prince of York. {Exit}
CYL 5.3. 31 {Alarums, then enter Young Clifford}
CYL-YOUNG CLIFFORD
+
CYL 5.3. 31 Shame and confusion, all is on the rout!
CYL 5.3. 32 Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
CYL 5.3. 33 Where it should guard. O, war, thou son of hell,
CYL 5.3. 34 Whom angry heavens do make their minister,
CYL 5.3. 35 Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
CYL 5.3. 36 Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly!
CYL 5.3. 37 He that is truly dedicate to war
CYL 5.3. 38 Hath no self-love; nor he that loves himself
CYL 5.3. 39 Hath not essentially, but by circumstance,
CYL 5.3. 40B The name of valour. {He sees his father's body} O, let +
CYL 5.3. 40B the vile world end,
CYL 5.3. 41 And the premised flames of the last day
CYL 5.3. 42 Knit earth and heaven together.
CYL 5.3. 43 Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,
CYL 5.3. 44 Particularities and petty sounds
CYL 5.3. 45 To cease! Wast thou ordained, dear father,
CYL 5.3. 46 To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve
CYL 5.3. 47 The silver livery of advised age,
CYL 5.3. 48 And in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus
CYL 5.3. 49 To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight
CYL 5.3. 50 My heart is turned to stone, and while 'tis mine
CYL 5.3. 51 It shall be stony. York not our old men spares;
CYL 5.3. 52 No more will I their babes. Tears virginal
CYL 5.3. 53 Shall be to me even as the dew to fire,
CYL 5.3. 54 And beauty that the tyrant oft reclaims
CYL 5.3. 55 Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax.
CYL 5.3. 56 Henceforth I will not have to do with pity.
CYL 5.3. 57 Meet I an infant of the house of York,
CYL 5.3. 58 Into as many gobbets will I cut it
CYL 5.3. 59 As wild Medea young Absyrtus did.
CYL 5.3. 60 In cruelty will I seek out my fame.
CYL 5.3. 61 Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house, {He takes his +
CYL 5.3. 61 father's body up on his back}
CYL 5.3. 62 As did Aeneas old Anchises bear,
CYL 5.3. 63 So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders.
CYL 5.3. 64 But then Aeneas bare a living load,
CYL 5.3. 65 Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine. {Exit with the body}
CYL 5.3. 0 {[Alarums again. Then enter three or four bearing the +
CYL 5.4. 0 Duke of Buckingham wounded to his tent.] Alarums still. Enter King +
CYL 5.4. 0 Henry, Queen Margaret, and others}
CYL 5.4. 1
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Away, my lord! You are slow. For shame, +
CYL 5.4. 1 away!
CYL 5.4. 2
CYL-KING HENRY
Can we outrun the heavens? Good Margaret, stay.
CYL 5.4. 3
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
What are you made of? You'll nor fight nor fly.
CYL 5.4. 4 Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence,
CYL 5.4. 5 To give the enemy way, and to secure us
CYL 5.4. 6 By what we can, which can no more but fly. {Alarum afar off}
CYL 5.4. 7 If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom
CYL 5.4. 8 Of all our fortunes; but if we haply scape -
CYL 5.4. 9 As well we may if not through your neglect -
CYL 5.4. 10 We shall to London get where you are loved,
CYL 5.4. 11 And where this breach now in our fortunes made
CYL 5.4. 12 May readily be stopped. {Enter Young Clifford}
CYL 5.4. 13
CYL-YOUNG CLIFFORD
{(to King Henry)} But that my +
CYL 5.4. 13 heart's on future mischief set,
CYL 5.4. 14 I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly;
CYL 5.4. 15 But fly you must; uncurable discomfit
CYL 5.4. 16 Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.
CYL 5.4. 17 Away for your relief, and we will live
CYL 5.4. 18 To see their day and them our fortune give.
CYL 5.4. 19 Away, my lord, away! {Exeunt}
CYL 5.4. 0 {Alarum. Retreat. Enter the Duke of York, his sons Edward +
CYL 5.5. 0 and Richard, and soldiers, including a drummer and some bearing +
CYL 5.5. 0 colours}
CYL 5.5. 1
CYL-YORK
{(to Edward and Richard)} How now, boys! +
CYL 5.5. 1 Fortunate this fight hath been,
CYL 5.5. 2 I hope, to us and ours for England's good
CYL 5.5. 3 And our great honour, that so long we lost
CYL 5.5. 4 Whilst faint-heart Henry did usurp our rights.
CYL 5.5. 5 Of Salisbury, who can report of him?
CYL 5.5. 6 That winter lion who in rage forgets
CYL 5.5. 7 Aged contusions and all brush of time,
CYL 5.5. 8 And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,
CYL 5.5. 9 Repairs him with occasion. This happy day
CYL 5.5. 10 Is not itself, nor have we won one foot
CYL 5.5. 11B If Salisbury be lost.
CYL-RICHARD
My noble father,
CYL 5.5. 12 Three times today I holp him to his horse;
CYL 5.5. 13 Three times bestrid him; thrice I led him off,
CYL 5.5. 14 Persuaded him from any further act;
CYL 5.5. 15 But still where danger was, still there I met him,
CYL 5.5. 16 And like rich hangings in a homely house,
CYL 5.5. 17 So was his will in his old feeble body. {Enter the Earls of +
CYL 5.5. 17 Salisbury and Warwick}
CYL 5.5. 18
CYL-EDWARD
{(to York)} See, noble father, where they +
CYL 5.5. 18 both do come -
CYL 5.5. 19 The only props unto the house of York!
CYL 5.5. 20
CYL-SALISBURY
Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought today;
CYL 5.5. 21 By th' mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard.
CYL 5.5. 22 God knows how long it is I have to live,
CYL 5.5. 23 And it hath pleased him that three times today
CYL 5.5. 24 You have defended me from imminent death.
CYL 5.5. 25 Well, lords, we have not got that which we have -
CYL 5.5. 26 'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,
CYL 5.5. 27 Being opposites of such repairing nature.
CYL 5.5. 28
CYL-YORK
I know our safety is to follow them,
CYL 5.5. 29 For, as I hear, the King is fled to London,
CYL 5.5. 30 To call a present court of Parliament.
CYL 5.5. 31 Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.
CYL 5.5. 32 What says Lord Warwick, shall we after them?
CYL 5.5. 33
CYL-WARWICK
After them? Nay, before them if we can!
CYL 5.5. 34 Now by my hand, lords, 'twas a glorious day!
CYL 5.5. 35 Saint Albans battle won by famous York
CYL 5.5. 36 Shall be eternized in all age to come.
CYL 5.5. 37 Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all,
CYL 5.5. 38 And more such days as these to us befall! {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
CYL 5.5. 0
CYL A.A. 0 [[We adopt the 1594 Quarto version of the Queen's initial speech,
CYL A.A. 0 1.1.24-9; the Folio version, which follows, is probably the author's
CYL A.A. 0 original draft
CYL-]]
CYL A.A. 1
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Great King of England, and my gracious lord,
CYL A.A. 2 The mutual conference that my mind hath had -
CYL A.A. 3 By day, by night; waking, and in my dreams;
CYL A.A. 4 In courtly company, or at my beads -
CYL A.A. 5 With you, mine alder liefest sovereign,
CYL A.A. 6 Makes me the bolder to salute my king
CYL A.A. 7 With ruder terms, such as my wit affords
CYL A.A. 8 And overjoy of heart doth minister.
CYL A.A. 0
CYL A.B. 0
CYL A.B. 0 [[For 1.4.39-40.2 the Quarto substitutes the following; it may report a
CYL A.B. 0 revision made in rehearsal to cover the Spirit's descent
CYL-]]
CYL A.B. 0 {The Spirit sinks down again}
CYL A.B. 1
CYL-BOLINGBROKE
Then down, I say, unto the damned pool
CYL A.B. 2 Where Pluto in his fiery wagon sits
CYL A.B. 3 Riding, amidst the singed and parched smokes,
CYL A.B. 4 The road of Ditis by the River Styx.
CYL A.B. 5 There howl and burn for ever in those flames.
CYL A.B. 6 Rise, Jordan, rise, and stay thy charming spells -
CYL A.B. 7 Zounds, we are betrayed!
CYL A.B. 0
CYL A.C. 0
CYL A.C. 0 [[The entire debate on Duke Humphrey's death in 3.1 is handled differently
CYL A.C. 0 by the Quarto from the Folio. We retain the Folio version of the debate,
CYL A.C. 0 but the Quarto version may represent authorial revision. The following Q
CYL A.C. 0 lines, roughly corresponding to 3.1.310-30.1, are of particular interest
CYL A.C. 0 because they supply Buckingham with speeches for this latter part of the
CYL A.C. 0 scene
CYL-]]
CYL A.C. 1
CYL-[YORK]
Let me have some bands of chosen soldiers,
CYL A.C. 2 And York shall try his fortune 'gainst those kerns.
CYL A.C. 3
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
York, thou shalt. My lord of Buckingham,
CYL A.C. 4 Let it be your charge to muster up such soldiers
CYL A.C. 5 As shall suffice him in these needful wars.
CYL A.C. 6
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Madam, I will, and levy such a band
CYL A.C. 7 As soon shall overcome those Irish rebels.
CYL A.C. 8 But, York, where shall those soldiers stay for thee?
CYL A.C. 9
CYL-YORK
At Bristol I will expect them ten days hence.
CYL A.C. 10
CYL-BUCKINGHAM
Then thither shall they come, and so farewell. +
CYL A.C. 10 {Exit}
CYL A.C. 11
CYL-YORK
Adieu, my lord of Buckingham.
CYL A.C. 12
CYL-QUEEN MARGARET
Suffolk, remember what you have to do -
CYL A.C. 13 And you, Lord Cardinal - concerning Duke Humphrey.
CYL A.C. 14 'Twere good that you did see to it in time.
CYL A.C. 15 Come, let us go, that it may be performed. {Exeunt all but York}
CYL A.C. 0
CYL A.D. 0 [[We adopt the Quarto version of the confrontation between Clifford and
CYL A.D. 0 York at 5.3.20-30; the Folio version, an edited text of which follows, is
CYL A.D. 0 probably the author's original draft
CYL-]]
CYL A.D. 1
CYL-CLIFFORD
What seest thou in me, York? Why dost thou pause?
CYL A.D. 2
CYL-YORK
With thy brave bearing should I be in love,
CYL A.D. 3 But that thou art so fast mine enemy.
CYL A.D. 4
CYL-CLIFFORD
Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem,
CYL A.D. 5 But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason.
CYL A.D. 6
CYL-YORK
So let it help me now against thy sword,
CYL A.D. 7 As I in justice and true right express it.
CYL A.D. 8
CYL-CLIFFORD
My soul and body on the action, both.
CYL A.D. 9
CYL-YORK
A dreadful lay. Address thee instantly.
CYL A.D. 10
CYL-CLIFFORD
{La fin couronne les oeuvres.} {Alarms. They fight. +
CYL A.D. 10 York kills Clifford}
CYL A.D. 11
CYL-YORK
Thus war hath given thee peace, for thou art still.
CYL A.D. 12 Peace with his soul, heaven, if it be thy will. {Exit}
CYL A.D.
CYL
0
CYM . . 0 Cymbeline King of Britain
CYM . . 0 {Enter two Gentlemen}
CYM 1.1. 1
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
You do not meet a man but frowns. Our +
CYM 1.1. 1 bloods
CYM 1.1. 2 No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
CYM 1.1. 3B Still seem as does the King.
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
But what's the matter?
CYM 1.1. 4
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
His daughter, and the heir of 's kingdom, whom
CYM 1.1. 5 He purposed to his wife's sole son - a widow
CYM 1.1. 6 That late he married - hath referred herself
CYM 1.1. 7 Unto a poor but worthy gentleman. She's wedded,
CYM 1.1. 8 Her husband banished, she imprisoned. All
CYM 1.1. 9 Is outward sorrow, though I think the King
CYM 1.1. 10B Be touched at very heart.
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
None but the King?
CYM 1.1. 11
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
He that hath lost her, too. So is the Queen,
CYM 1.1. 12 That most desired the match. But not a courtier -
CYM 1.1. 13 Although they wear their faces to the bent
CYM 1.1. 14 Of the King's looks - hath a heart that is not
CYM 1.1. 15B Glad of the thing they scowl at.
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
And why so?
CYM 1.1. 16
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
He that hath missed the Princess is a thing
CYM 1.1. 17 Too bad for bad report, and he that hath her -
CYM 1.1. 18 I mean that married her - alack, good man,
CYM 1.1. 19 And therefore banished! - is a creature such
CYM 1.1. 20 As, to seek through the regions of the earth
CYM 1.1. 21 For one his like, there would be something failing
CYM 1.1. 22 In him that should compare. I do not think
CYM 1.1. 23 So fair an outward and such stuff within
CYM 1.1. 24B Endows a man but he.
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
You speak him far.
CYM 1.1. 25
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
I do extend him, sir, within himself;
CYM 1.1. 26 Crush him together rather than unfold
CYM 1.1. 27B His measure duly.
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
What's his name and birth?
CYM 1.1. 28
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
I cannot delve him to the root. His father
CYM 1.1. 29 Was called Sicilius, who did join his honour
CYM 1.1. 30 Against the Romans with Cassibelan
CYM 1.1. 31 But had his titles by Tenantius, whom
CYM 1.1. 32 He served with glory and admired success,
CYM 1.1. 33 So gained the sur-addition `Leonatus';
CYM 1.1. 34 And had, besides this gentleman in question,
CYM 1.1. 35 Two other sons who in the wars o' th' time
CYM 1.1. 36 Died with their swords in hand; for which their father,
CYM 1.1. 37 Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow
CYM 1.1. 38 That he quit being, and his gentle lady,
CYM 1.1. 39 Big of this gentleman, our theme, deceased
CYM 1.1. 40 As he was born. The King, he takes the babe
CYM 1.1. 41 To his protection, calls him Posthumus Leonatus,
CYM 1.1. 42 Breeds him, and makes him of his bedchamber;
CYM 1.1. 43 Puts to him all the learnings that his time
CYM 1.1. 44 Could make him the receiver of, which he took
CYM 1.1. 45 As we do air, fast as 'twas ministered,
CYM 1.1. 46 And in 's spring became a harvest; lived in court -
CYM 1.1. 47 Which rare it is to do - most praised, most loved;
CYM 1.1. 48 A sample to the youngest, to th' more mature
CYM 1.1. 49 A glass that feated them, and to the graver
CYM 1.1. 50 A child that guided dotards. To his mistress,
CYM 1.1. 51 For whom he now is banished, her own price
CYM 1.1. 52 Proclaims how she esteemed him and his virtue.
CYM 1.1. 53 By her election may be truly read
CYM 1.1. 54B What kind of man he is.
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I honour him
CYM 1.1. 55 Even out of your report. But pray you tell me,
CYM 1.1. 56B Is she sole child to th' King?
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
His only child.
CYM 1.1. 57 He had two sons - if this be worth your hearing,
CYM 1.1. 58 Mark it: the eld'st of them at three years old,
CYM 1.1. 59 I' th' swathing clothes the other, from their nursery
CYM 1.1. 60 Were stol'n, and to this hour no guess in knowledge
CYM 1.1. 61 Which way they went.
CYM 1.1. 62A
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
How long is this ago?
CYM 1.1. 63A
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Some twenty years.
CYM 1.1. 64
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
That a king's children should be so conveyed,
CYM 1.1. 65 So slackly guarded, and the search so slow
CYM 1.1. 66B That could not trace them!
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Howsoe'er 'tis strange,
CYM 1.1. 67 Or that the negligence may well be laughed at,
CYM 1.1. 68B Yet is it true, sir.
CYM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I do well believe you. +
CYM 1.1. 68B {Enter the Queen, Posthumus, and Innogen}
CYM 1.1. 69
CYM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
We must forbear. Here comes the +
CYM 1.1. 69 gentleman,
CYM 1.1. 70 The Queen and Princess. {Exeunt the two Gentlemen}
CYM 1.1. 71
CYM-QUEEN
No, be assured you shall not find me, daughter,
CYM 1.1. 72 After the slander of most stepmothers,
CYM 1.1. 73 Evil-eyed unto you. You're my prisoner, but
CYM 1.1. 74 Your jailer shall deliver you the keys
CYM 1.1. 75 That lock up your restraint. For you, Posthumus,
CYM 1.1. 76 So soon as I can win th' offended King
CYM 1.1. 77 I will be known your advocate. Marry, yet
CYM 1.1. 78 The fire of rage is in him, and 'twere good
CYM 1.1. 79 You leaned unto his sentence with what patience
CYM 1.1. 80B Your wisdom may inform you.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Please your highness,
CYM 1.1. 81B I will from hence today.
CYM-QUEEN
You know the peril.
CYM 1.1. 82 I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying
CYM 1.1. 83 The pangs of barred affections, though the King
CYM 1.1. 84 Hath charged you should not speak together. {Exit}
CYM 1.1. 85
CYM-INNOGEN
O dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant
CYM 1.1. 86 Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband,
CYM 1.1. 87 I something fear my father's wrath, but nothing -
CYM 1.1. 88 Always reserved my holy duty - what
CYM 1.1. 89 His rage can do on me. You must be gone,
CYM 1.1. 90 And I shall here abide the hourly shot
CYM 1.1. 91 Of angry eyes, not comforted to live
CYM 1.1. 92 But that there is this jewel in the world
CYM 1.1. 93B That I may see again.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
My queen, my mistress!
CYM 1.1. 94 O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause
CYM 1.1. 95 To be suspected of more tenderness
CYM 1.1. 96 Than doth become a man. I will remain
CYM 1.1. 97 The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth;
CYM 1.1. 98 My residence in Rome at one Filario's,
CYM 1.1. 99 Who to my father was a friend, to me
CYM 1.1. 100 Known but by letter; thither write, my queen,
CYM 1.1. 101 And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send
CYM 1.1. 102B Though ink be made of gall. {Enter Queen}
CYM-QUEEN
Be +
CYM 1.1. 102B brief, I pray you.
CYM 1.1. 103 If the King come, I shall incur I know not
CYM 1.1. 104 How much of his displeasure. {(Aside)} Yet I'll move +
CYM 1.1. 104 him
CYM 1.1. 105 To walk this way. I never do him wrong
CYM 1.1. 106 But he does buy my injuries, to be friends,
CYM 1.1. 107B Pays dear for my offences. {Exit}
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Should +
CYM 1.1. 107B we be taking leave
CYM 1.1. 108 As long a term as yet we have to live,
CYM 1.1. 109 The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu.
CYM 1.1. 110A
CYM-INNOGEN
Nay, stay a little.
CYM 1.1. 111 Were you but riding forth to air yourself
CYM 1.1. 112 Such parting were too petty. Look here, love:
CYM 1.1. 113 This diamond was my mother's. Take it, heart; {She gives him a +
CYM 1.1. 113 ring}
CYM 1.1. 114 But keep it till you woo another wife
CYM 1.1. 115B When Innogen is dead.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
How, how? Another?
CYM 1.1. 116 You gentle gods, give me but this I have,
CYM 1.1. 117 And cere up my embracements from a next
CYM 1.1. 118 With bonds of death! Remain, remain thou here {He puts on the +
CYM 1.1. 118 ring}
CYM 1.1. 119 While sense can keep it on; and, sweetest, fairest,
CYM 1.1. 120 As I my poor self did exchange for you
CYM 1.1. 121 To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles
CYM 1.1. 122 I still win of you. For my sake wear this. {He gives her a +
CYM 1.1. 122 bracelet}
CYM 1.1. 123 It is a manacle of love. I'll place it
CYM 1.1. 124B Upon this fairest prisoner.
CYM-INNOGEN
O the gods!
CYM 1.1. 125B When shall we see again? {Enter Cymbeline and lords}
CYM-POSTHUMUS
CYM 1.1. 125B Alack, the King!
CYM 1.1. 126
CYM-CYMBELINE
Thou basest thing, avoid hence, from my sight!
CYM 1.1. 127 If after this command thou fraught the court
CYM 1.1. 128 With thy unworthiness, thou diest. Away.
CYM 1.1. 129B Thou'rt poison to my blood.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
The gods protect you,
CYM 1.1. 130 And bless the good remainders of the court!
CYM 1.1. 131B I am gone. {Exit}
CYM-INNOGEN
There cannot be a pinch +
CYM 1.1. 131B in death
CYM 1.1. 132B More sharp than this is.
CYM-CYMBELINE
O disloyal thing,
CYM 1.1. 133 That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st
CYM 1.1. 134B A year's age on me.
CYM-INNOGEN
I beseech you, sir,
CYM 1.1. 135 Harm not yourself with your vexation.
CYM 1.1. 136 I am senseless of your wrath. A touch more rare
CYM 1.1. 137B Subdues all pangs, all fears.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Past grace, obedience -
CYM 1.1. 138
CYM-INNOGEN
Past hope and in despair: that way past grace.
CYM 1.1. 139
CYM-CYMBELINE
That mightst have had the sole son of my queen!
CYM 1.1. 140
CYM-INNOGEN
O blessed that I might not! I chose an eagle
CYM 1.1. 141 And did avoid a puttock.
CYM 1.1. 142
CYM-CYMBELINE
Thou took'st a beggar, wouldst have made my throne
CYM 1.1. 143B A seat for baseness.
CYM-INNOGEN
No, I rather added
CYM 1.1. 144B A lustre to it.
CYM-CYMBELINE
O thou vile one!
CYM-INNOGEN
Sir,
CYM 1.1. 145 It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus.
CYM 1.1. 146 You bred him as my playfellow, and he is
CYM 1.1. 147 A man worth any woman, over-buys me
CYM 1.1. 148B Almost the sum he pays.
CYM-CYMBELINE
What, art thou mad?
CYM 1.1. 149
CYM-INNOGEN
Almost, sir. Heaven restore me! Would I were
CYM 1.1. 150 A neatherd's daughter, and my Leonatus
CYM 1.1. 151B Our neighbour shepherd's son. {Enter Queen}
CYM-CYMBELINE
+
CYM 1.1. 151B Thou foolish thing.
CYM 1.1. 152 {(To Queen)} They were again together; you have done
CYM 1.1. 153 Not after our command. {(To lords)} Away with her,
CYM 1.1. 154B And pen her up.
CYM-QUEEN
Beseech your patience, peace,
CYM 1.1. 155 Dear lady daughter, peace. Sweet sovereign,
CYM 1.1. 156 Leave us to ourselves, and make yourself some comfort
CYM 1.1. 157B Out of your best advice.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Nay, let her languish
CYM 1.1. 158 A drop of blood a day, and, being aged,
CYM 1.1. 159B Die of this folly. {Exit with lords}
CYM-QUEEN
Fie, you +
CYM 1.1. 159B must give way. {Enter Pisanio}
CYM 1.1. 160 Here is your servant. How now, sir? What news?
CYM 1.1. 161B
CYM-PISANIO
My lord your son drew on my master.
CYM-QUEEN
Ha!
CYM 1.1. 162B No harm, I trust, is done?
CYM-PISANIO
There might have been,
CYM 1.1. 163 But that my master rather played than fought,
CYM 1.1. 164 And had no help of anger. They were parted
CYM 1.1. 165B By gentlemen at hand.
CYM-QUEEN
I am very glad on 't.
CYM 1.1. 166
CYM-INNOGEN
Your son's my father's friend; he takes his part
CYM 1.1. 167 To draw upon an exile - O brave sir!
CYM 1.1. 168 I would they were in Afric both together,
CYM 1.1. 169 Myself by with a needle, that I might prick
CYM 1.1. 170 The goer-back. {(To Pisanio)} Why came you from your +
CYM 1.1. 170 master?
CYM 1.1. 171
CYM-PISANIO
On his command. He would not suffer me
CYM 1.1. 172 To bring him to the haven, left these notes
CYM 1.1. 173 Of what commands I should be subject to
CYM 1.1. 174B When 't pleased you to employ me.
CYM-QUEEN
This hath been
CYM 1.1. 175 Your faithful servant. I dare lay mine honour
CYM 1.1. 176 He will remain so.
CYM 1.1. 177A
CYM-PISANIO
I humbly thank your highness.
CYM 1.1. 178A
CYM-QUEEN
Pray walk a while. {[Exit]}
CYM 1.1. 179
CYM-INNOGEN
About some half hour hence, pray you speak with +
CYM 1.1. 179 me.
CYM 1.1. 180 You shall at least go see my lord aboard.
CYM 1.1. 181 For this time leave me. {Exeunt severally}
CYM 1.1. 0 {Enter Cloten and two Lords}
CYM 1.2. 1
CYM-FIRST LORD
Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt. The
CYM 1.2. 2 violence of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice.
CYM 1.2. 3 Where air comes out, air comes in. There's none abroad
CYM 1.2. 4 so wholesome as that you vent.
CYM 1.2. 5
CYM-CLOTEN
If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I
CYM 1.2. 6 hurt him?
CYM 1.2. 7
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} No, faith, not so much as +
CYM 1.2. 7 his patience.
CYM 1.2. 8
CYM-FIRST LORD
Hurt him? His body's a passable carcass if he
CYM 1.2. 9 be not hurt. It is a thoroughfare for steel if he be not
CYM 1.2. 10 hurt.
CYM 1.2. 11
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} His steel was in debt - it +
CYM 1.2. 11 went o' th'
CYM 1.2. 12 backside the town.
CYM 1.2. 13
CYM-CLOTEN
The villain would not stand me.
CYM 1.2. 14
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} No, but he fled forward +
CYM 1.2. 14 still, toward
CYM 1.2. 15 your face.
CYM 1.2. 16
CYM-FIRST LORD
Stand you? You have land enough of your
CYM 1.2. 17 own, but he added to your having, gave you some
CYM 1.2. 18 ground.
CYM 1.2. 19
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} As many inches as you have +
CYM 1.2. 19 oceans.
CYM 1.2. 20 Puppies!
CYM 1.2. 21
CYM-CLOTEN
I would they had not come between us.
CYM 1.2. 22
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} So would I, till you had +
CYM 1.2. 22 measured
CYM 1.2. 23 how long a fool you were upon the ground.
CYM 1.2. 24
CYM-CLOTEN
And that she should love this fellow and refuse
CYM 1.2. 25 me!
CYM 1.2. 26
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} If it be a sin to make a +
CYM 1.2. 26 true election,
CYM 1.2. 27 she is damned.
CYM 1.2. 28
CYM-FIRST LORD
Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her
CYM 1.2. 29 brain go not together. She's a good sign, but I have
CYM 1.2. 30 seen small reflection of her wit.
CYM 1.2. 31
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} She shines not upon fools +
CYM 1.2. 31 lest the
CYM 1.2. 32 reflection should hurt her.
CYM 1.2. 33
CYM-CLOTEN
Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been
CYM 1.2. 34 some hurt done.
CYM 1.2. 35
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} I wish not so, unless it had +
CYM 1.2. 35 been the
CYM 1.2. 36 fall of an ass, which is no great hurt.
CYM 1.2. 37
CYM-CLOTEN
{(to Second Lord)} You'll go with us?
CYM 1.2. 38
CYM-FIRST LORD
I'll attend your lordship.
CYM 1.2. 39
CYM-CLOTEN
Nay, come, let's go together.
CYM 1.2. 40
CYM-SECOND LORD
Well, my lord. {Exeunt}
CYM 1.2. 0 {Enter Innogen and Pisanio}
CYM 1.3. 1
CYM-INNOGEN
I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' th' haven
CYM 1.3. 2 And questionedst every sail. If he should write
CYM 1.3. 3 And I not have it, 'twere a paper lost
CYM 1.3. 4 As offered mercy is. What was the last
CYM 1.3. 5B That he spake to thee?
CYM-PISANIO
It was his queen, his queen.
CYM 1.3. 6B
CYM-INNOGEN
Then waved his handkerchief?
CYM-PISANIO
And kissed it, +
CYM 1.3. 6B madam.
CYM 1.3. 7
CYM-INNOGEN
Senseless linen, happier therein than I!
CYM 1.3. 8B And that was all?
CYM-PISANIO
No, madam. For so long
CYM 1.3. 9 As he could make me with this eye or ear
CYM 1.3. 10 Distinguish him from others he did keep
CYM 1.3. 11 The deck, with glove or hat or handkerchief
CYM 1.3. 12 Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind
CYM 1.3. 13 Could best express how slow his soul sailed on,
CYM 1.3. 14B How swift his ship.
CYM-INNOGEN
Thou shouldst have made him
CYM 1.3. 15 As little as a crow, or less, ere left
CYM 1.3. 16B To after-eye him.
CYM-PISANIO
Madam, so I did.
CYM 1.3. 17
CYM-INNOGEN
I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but
CYM 1.3. 18 To look upon him till the diminution
CYM 1.3. 19 Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;
CYM 1.3. 20 Nay, followed him till he had melted from
CYM 1.3. 21 The smallness of a gnat to air, and then
CYM 1.3. 22 Have turned mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
CYM 1.3. 23 When shall we hear from him?
CYM 1.3. 24A
CYM-PISANIO
Be assured, madam,
CYM 1.3. 25 With his next vantage.
CYM 1.3. 26
CYM-INNOGEN
I did not take my leave of him, but had
CYM 1.3. 27 Most pretty things to say. Ere I could tell him
CYM 1.3. 28 How I would think on him at certain hours,
CYM 1.3. 29 Such thoughts and such, or I could make him swear
CYM 1.3. 30 The shes of Italy should not betray
CYM 1.3. 31 Mine interest and his honour, or have charged him
CYM 1.3. 32 At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight
CYM 1.3. 33 T' encounter me with orisons - for then
CYM 1.3. 34 I am in heaven for him - or ere I could
CYM 1.3. 35 Give him that parting kiss which I had set
CYM 1.3. 36 Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father,
CYM 1.3. 37 And, like the tyrannous breathing of the north,
CYM 1.3. 38B Shakes all our buds from growing. {Enter a Lady}
CYM-LADY
+
CYM 1.3. 38B The Queen, madam,
CYM 1.3. 39 Desires your highness' company.
CYM 1.3. 40
CYM-INNOGEN
{(to Pisanio)} Those things I bid you do, +
CYM 1.3. 40 get them dispatched.
CYM 1.3. 41B I will attend the Queen.
CYM-PISANIO
Madam, I shall. {Exeunt +
CYM 1.3. 41B Innogen and Lady at one door, Pisanio at another}
CYM 1.3. 0
CYM-[A
table brought out, with a banquet upon it.] Enter +
CYM 1.4. 0 Filario, Giacomo, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, and a Spaniard}
CYM 1.4. 1
CYM-GIACOMO
Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain. He
CYM 1.4. 2 was then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy
CYM 1.4. 3 as since he hath been allowed the name of. But I could
CYM 1.4. 4 then have looked on him without the help of admiration,
CYM 1.4. 5 though the catalogue of his endowments had been
CYM 1.4. 6 tabled by his side and I to peruse him by items.
CYM 1.4. 7
CYM-FILARIO
You speak of him when he was less furnished
CYM 1.4. 8 than now he is with that which makes him both
CYM 1.4. 9 without and within.
CYM 1.4. 10
CYM-FRENCHMAN
I have seen him in France. We had very
CYM 1.4. 11 many there could behold the sun with as firm eyes as
CYM 1.4. 12 he.
CYM 1.4. 13
CYM-GIACOMO
This matter of marrying his king's daughter,
CYM 1.4. 14 wherein he must be weighed rather by her value than
CYM 1.4. 15 his own, words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the
CYM 1.4. 16 matter.
CYM 1.4. 17
CYM-FRENCHMAN
And then his banishment.
CYM 1.4. 18
CYM-GIACOMO
Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this
CYM 1.4. 19 lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully
CYM 1.4. 20 to extend him, be it but to fortify her judgement, which
CYM 1.4. 21 else an easy battery might lay flat for taking a beggar
CYM 1.4. 22 without less quality. But how comes it he is to sojourn
CYM 1.4. 23 with you? How creeps acquaintance?
CYM 1.4. 24
CYM-FILARIO
His father and I were soldiers together, to whom
CYM 1.4. 25 I have been often bound for no less than my life. {Enter +
CYM 1.4. 25 Posthumus}
CYM 1.4. 26 Here comes the Briton. Let him be so entertained
CYM 1.4. 27 amongst you as suits with gentlemen of your knowing
CYM 1.4. 28 to a stranger of his quality. I beseech you all, be better
CYM 1.4. 29 known to this gentleman, whom I commend to you as
CYM 1.4. 30 a noble friend of mine. How worthy he is I will leave
CYM 1.4. 31 to appear hereafter rather than story him in his own
CYM 1.4. 32 hearing.
CYM 1.4. 33
CYM-FRENCHMAN
{(to Posthumus)} Sir, we have known +
CYM 1.4. 33 together
CYM 1.4. 34 in Orle/ans.
CYM 1.4. 35
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Since when I have been debtor to you for
CYM 1.4. 36 courtesies which I will be ever to pay, and yet pay still.
CYM 1.4. 37
CYM-FRENCHMAN
Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness. I was
CYM 1.4. 38 glad I did atone my countryman and you. It had been
CYM 1.4. 39 pity you should have been put together with so mortal
CYM 1.4. 40 a purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so
CYM 1.4. 41 slight and trivial a nature.
CYM 1.4. 42
CYM-POSTHUMUS
By your pardon, sir, I was then a young
CYM 1.4. 43 traveller, rather shunned to go even with what I heard
CYM 1.4. 44 than in my every action to be guided by others'
CYM 1.4. 45 experiences; but upon my mended judgement - if I
CYM 1.4. 46 offend not to say it is mended - my quarrel was not
CYM 1.4. 47 altogether slight.
CYM 1.4. 48
CYM-FRENCHMAN
Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of
CYM 1.4. 49 swords, and by such two that would by all likelihood
CYM 1.4. 50 have confounded one the other, or have fallen both.
CYM 1.4. 51
CYM-GIACOMO
Can we with manners ask what was the
CYM 1.4. 52 difference?
CYM 1.4. 53
CYM-FRENCHMAN
Safely, I think. 'Twas a contention in public,
CYM 1.4. 54 which may without contradiction suffer the report. It
CYM 1.4. 55 was much like an argument that fell out last night,
CYM 1.4. 56 where each of us fell in praise of our country mistresses,
CYM 1.4. 57 this gentleman at that time vouching - and upon
CYM 1.4. 58 warrant of bloody affirmation - his to be more fair,
CYM 1.4. 59 virtuous, wise, chaste, constant, qualified, and less
CYM 1.4. 60 attemptable than any the rarest of our ladies in France.
CYM 1.4. 61
CYM-GIACOMO
That lady is not now living, or this gentleman's
CYM 1.4. 62 opinion by this worn out.
CYM 1.4. 63
CYM-POSTHUMUS
She holds her virtue still, and I my mind.
CYM 1.4. 64
CYM-GIACOMO
You must not so far prefer her fore ours of Italy.
CYM 1.4. 65
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Being so far provoked as I was in France I
CYM 1.4. 66 would abate her nothing, though I profess myself her
CYM 1.4. 67 adorer, not her friend.
CYM 1.4. 68
CYM-GIACOMO
As fair and as good - a kind of hand-in-hand
CYM 1.4. 69 comparison - had been something too fair and too good
CYM 1.4. 70 for any lady in Britain. If she went before others I have
CYM 1.4. 71 seen - as that diamond of yours outlustres many I have
CYM 1.4. 72 beheld - I could not but believe she excelled many; but
CYM 1.4. 73 I have not seen the most precious diamond that is, nor
CYM 1.4. 74 you the lady.
CYM 1.4. 75
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I praised her as I rated her; so do I my stone.
CYM 1.4. 76
CYM-GIACOMO
What do you esteem it at?
CYM 1.4. 77
CYM-POSTHUMUS
More than the world enjoys.
CYM 1.4. 78
CYM-GIACOMO
Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or
CYM 1.4. 79 she's outprized by a trifle.
CYM 1.4. 80
CYM-POSTHUMUS
You are mistaken. The one may be sold or
CYM 1.4. 81 given, or if there were wealth enough for the purchase
CYM 1.4. 82 or merit for the gift. The other is not a thing for sale,
CYM 1.4. 83 and only the gift of the gods.
CYM 1.4. 84
CYM-GIACOMO
Which the gods have given you?
CYM 1.4. 85
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Which, by their graces, I will keep.
CYM 1.4. 86
CYM-GIACOMO
You may wear her in title yours; but, you know,
CYM 1.4. 87 strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your ring
CYM 1.4. 88 may be stolen too; so your brace of unprizable
CYM 1.4. 89 estimations, the one is but frail, and the other casual.
CYM 1.4. 90 A cunning thief or a that-way accomplished courtier
CYM 1.4. 91 would hazard the winning both of first and last.
CYM 1.4. 92
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Your Italy contains none so accomplished a
CYM 1.4. 93 courtier to convince the honour of my mistress if in
CYM 1.4. 94 the holding or loss of that you term her frail. I do
CYM 1.4. 95 nothing doubt you have store of thieves; notwithstanding,
CYM 1.4. 96 I fear not my ring.
CYM 1.4. 97
CYM-FILARIO
Let us leave here, gentlemen.
CYM 1.4. 98
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signor, I
CYM 1.4. 99 thank him, makes no stranger of me. We are familiar
CYM 1.4. 100 at first.
CYM 1.4. 101
CYM-GIACOMO
With five times so much conversation I should
CYM 1.4. 102 get ground of your fair mistress, make her go back
CYM 1.4. 103 even to the yielding, had I admittance and opportunity
CYM 1.4. 104 to friend.
CYM 1.4. 105
CYM-POSTHUMUS
No, no.
CYM 1.4. 106
CYM-GIACOMO
I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate
CYM 1.4. 107 to your ring, which in my opinion o'ervalues it
CYM 1.4. 108 something. But I make my wager rather against your
CYM 1.4. 109 confidence than her reputation, and, to bar your offence
CYM 1.4. 110 herein too, I durst attempt it against any lady in the
CYM 1.4. 111 world.
CYM 1.4. 112
CYM-POSTHUMUS
You are a great deal abused in too bold a
CYM 1.4. 113 persuasion, and I doubt not you sustain what you're
CYM 1.4. 114 worthy of by your attempt.
CYM 1.4. 115
CYM-GIACOMO
What's that?
CYM 1.4. 116
CYM-POSTHUMUS
A repulse; though your attempt, as you call
CYM 1.4. 117 it, deserve more - a punishment, too.
CYM 1.4. 118
CYM-FILARIO
Gentlemen, enough of this. It came in too
CYM 1.4. 119 suddenly. Let it die as it was born; and, I pray you, be
CYM 1.4. 120 better acquainted.
CYM 1.4. 121
CYM-GIACOMO
Would I had put my estate and my neighbour's
CYM 1.4. 122 on th' approbation of what I have spoke.
CYM 1.4. 123
CYM-POSTHUMUS
What lady would you choose to assail?
CYM 1.4. 124
CYM-GIACOMO
Yours, whom in constancy you think stands so
CYM 1.4. 125 safe. I will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring
CYM 1.4. 126 that, commend me to the court where your lady is,
CYM 1.4. 127 with no more advantage than the opportunity of a
CYM 1.4. 128 second conference, and I will bring from thence that
CYM 1.4. 129 honour of hers which you imagine so reserved.
CYM 1.4. 130
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I will wage against your gold, gold to it; my
CYM 1.4. 131 ring I hold dear as my finger, 'tis part of it.
CYM 1.4. 132
CYM-GIACOMO
You are a friend, and therein the wiser. If you
CYM 1.4. 133 buy ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot
CYM 1.4. 134 preserve it from tainting. But I see you have some
CYM 1.4. 135 religion in you, that you fear.
CYM 1.4. 136
CYM-POSTHUMUS
This is but a custom in your tongue. You bear
CYM 1.4. 137 a graver purpose, I hope.
CYM 1.4. 138
CYM-GIACOMO
I am the master of my speeches, and would
CYM 1.4. 139 undergo what's spoken, I swear.
CYM 1.4. 140
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Will you? I shall but lend my diamond till
CYM 1.4. 141 your return. Let there be covenants drawn between 's.
CYM 1.4. 142 My mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your
CYM 1.4. 143 unworthy thinking. I dare you to this match. Here's
CYM 1.4. 144 my ring.
CYM 1.4. 145
CYM-FILARIO
I will have it no lay.
CYM 1.4. 146
CYM-GIACOMO
By the gods, it is one. If I bring you no sufficient
CYM 1.4. 147 testimony that I have enjoyed the dearest bodily part
CYM 1.4. 148 of your mistress, my ten thousand ducats are yours;
CYM 1.4. 149 so is your diamond too. If I come off and leave her in
CYM 1.4. 150 such honour as you have trust in, she your jewel, this
CYM 1.4. 151 your jewel, and my gold are yours, provided I have
CYM 1.4. 152 your commendation for my more free entertainment.
CYM 1.4. 153
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I embrace these conditions; let us have articles
CYM 1.4. 154 betwixt us. Only thus far you shall answer: if you make
CYM 1.4. 155 your voyage upon her and give me directly to
CYM 1.4. 156 understand you have prevailed, I am no further your
CYM 1.4. 157 enemy; she is not worth our debate. If she remain
CYM 1.4. 158 unseduced, you not making it appear otherwise, for
CYM 1.4. 159 your ill opinion and th' assault you have made to her
CYM 1.4. 160 chastity you shall answer me with your sword.
CYM 1.4. 161
CYM-GIACOMO
Your hand, a covenant. We will have these
CYM 1.4. 162 things set down by lawful counsel, and straight away
CYM 1.4. 163 for Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and
CYM 1.4. 164 starve. I will fetch my gold and have our two wagers
CYM 1.4. 165 recorded.
CYM 1.4. 166
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Agreed. {[Exit with Giacomo]}
CYM 1.4. 167
CYM-FRENCHMAN
Will this hold, think you?
CYM 1.4. 168
CYM-FILARIO
Signor Giacomo will not from it. Pray let us
CYM 1.4. 169 follow 'em. {Exeunt. [Table is removed]}
CYM 1.4. 0 {Enter Queen, Ladies, and Cornelius, a doctor}
CYM 1.5. 1
CYM-QUEEN
Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those +
CYM 1.5. 1 flowers.
CYM 1.5. 2B Make haste. Who has the note of them? A
CYM-LADY
I, madam.
CYM 1.5. 3A
CYM-QUEEN
Dispatch. {Exeunt Ladies}
CYM 1.5. 4 Now, Master Doctor, have you brought those drugs?
CYM 1.5. 5
CYM-CORNELIUS
Pleaseth your highness, ay. Here they are, madam. +
CYM 1.5. 5 {He gives her a box}
CYM 1.5. 6 But I beseech your grace, without offence -
CYM 1.5. 7 My conscience bids me ask - wherefore you have
CYM 1.5. 8 Commanded of me these most poisonous compounds,
CYM 1.5. 9 Which are the movers of a languishing death,
CYM 1.5. 10B But though slow, deadly.
CYM-QUEEN
I wonder, doctor,
CYM 1.5. 11 Thou ask'st me such a question. Have I not been
CYM 1.5. 12 Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learned me how
CYM 1.5. 13 To make perfumes, distil, preserve - yea, so
CYM 1.5. 14 That our great King himself doth woo me oft
CYM 1.5. 15 For my confections? Having thus far proceeded,
CYM 1.5. 16 Unless thou think'st me devilish, is 't not meet
CYM 1.5. 17 That I did amplify my judgement in
CYM 1.5. 18 Other conclusions? I will try the forces
CYM 1.5. 19 Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
CYM 1.5. 20 We count not worth the hanging, but none human,
CYM 1.5. 21 To try the vigour of them, and apply
CYM 1.5. 22 Allayments to their act, and by them gather
CYM 1.5. 23B Their several virtues and effects.
CYM-CORNELIUS
Your highness
CYM 1.5. 24 Shall from this practice but make hard your heart.
CYM 1.5. 25 Besides, the seeing these effects will be
CYM 1.5. 26B Both noisome and infectious.
CYM-QUEEN
O, content thee. {Enter +
CYM 1.5. 26B Pisanio}
CYM 1.5. 27 {(Aside)} Here comes a flattering rascal; upon him
CYM 1.5. 28 Will I first work. He's factor for his master,
CYM 1.5. 29 And enemy to my son. {(Aloud)} How now, Pisanio? -
CYM 1.5. 30 Doctor, your service for this time is ended.
CYM 1.5. 31B Take your own way.
CYM-CORNELIUS
{(aside)} I do suspect +
CYM 1.5. 31B you, madam.
CYM 1.5. 32B But you shall do no harm.
CYM-QUEEN
{(to Pisanio)} Hark +
CYM 1.5. 32B thee, a word.
CYM 1.5. 33
CYM-CORNELIUS
{(aside)} I do not like her. She doth +
CYM 1.5. 33 think she has
CYM 1.5. 34 Strange ling'ring poisons. I do know her spirit,
CYM 1.5. 35 And will not trust one of her malice with
CYM 1.5. 36 A drug of such damned nature. Those she has
CYM 1.5. 37 Will stupefy and dull the sense a while,
CYM 1.5. 38 Which first, perchance, she'll prove on cats and dogs,
CYM 1.5. 39 Then afterward up higher; but there is
CYM 1.5. 40 No danger in what show of death it makes
CYM 1.5. 41 More than the locking up the spirits a time,
CYM 1.5. 42 To be more fresh, reviving. She is fooled
CYM 1.5. 43 With a most false effect, and I the truer
CYM 1.5. 44B So to be false with her.
CYM-QUEEN
No further service, doctor,
CYM 1.5. 45B Until I send for thee.
CYM-CORNELIUS
I humbly take my leave. +
CYM 1.5. 45B {Exit}
CYM 1.5. 46
CYM-QUEEN
{(to Pisanio)} Weeps she still, sayst thou? +
CYM 1.5. 46 Dost thou think in time
CYM 1.5. 47 She will not quench, and let instructions enter
CYM 1.5. 48 Where folly now possesses? Do thou work.
CYM 1.5. 49 When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son
CYM 1.5. 50 I'll tell thee on the instant thou art then
CYM 1.5. 51 As great as is thy master - greater, for
CYM 1.5. 52 His fortunes all lie speechless, and his name
CYM 1.5. 53 Is at last gasp. Return he cannot, nor
CYM 1.5. 54 Continue where he is. To shift his being
CYM 1.5. 55 Is to exchange one misery with another,
CYM 1.5. 56 And every day that comes comes to decay
CYM 1.5. 57 A day's work in him. What shalt thou expect
CYM 1.5. 58 To be depender on a thing that leans,
CYM 1.5. 59 Who cannot be new built nor has no friends
CYM 1.5. 60B So much as but to prop him? {[She drops her box. He takes it +
CYM 1.5. 60B up]} Thou tak'st up
CYM 1.5. 61 Thou know'st not what; but take it for thy labour.
CYM 1.5. 62 It is a thing I made which hath the King
CYM 1.5. 63 Five times redeemed from death. I do not know
CYM 1.5. 64 What is more cordial. Nay, I prithee take it.
CYM 1.5. 65 It is an earnest of a farther good
CYM 1.5. 66 That I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how
CYM 1.5. 67 The case stands with her; do 't as from thyself.
CYM 1.5. 68 Think what a chance thou changest on, but think
CYM 1.5. 69 Thou hast thy mistress still; to boot, my son,
CYM 1.5. 70 Who shall take notice of thee. I'll move the King
CYM 1.5. 71 To any shape of thy preferment, such
CYM 1.5. 72 As thou'lt desire; and then myself, I chiefly,
CYM 1.5. 73 That set thee on to this desert, am bound
CYM 1.5. 74 To load thy merit richly. Call my women.
CYM 1.5. 75B Think on my words. {Exit Pisanio} A sly and constant +
CYM 1.5. 75B knave,
CYM 1.5. 76 Not to be shaked; the agent for his master,
CYM 1.5. 77 And the remembrancer of her to hold
CYM 1.5. 78 The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that
CYM 1.5. 79 Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her
CYM 1.5. 80 Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after,
CYM 1.5. 81 Except she bend her humour, shall be assured
CYM 1.5. 82B To taste of too. {Enter Pisanio and Ladies} So, so; +
CYM 1.5. 82B well done, well done.
CYM 1.5. 83 The violets, cowslips, and the primroses
CYM 1.5. 84 Bear to my closet. Fare thee well, Pisanio.
CYM 1.5. 85B Think on my words, Pisanio.
CYM-PISANIO
And shall do. {Exeunt +
CYM 1.5. 85B Queen and Ladies}
CYM 1.5. 86 But when to my good lord I prove untrue,
CYM 1.5. 87 I'll choke myself - there's all I'll do for you. {Exit}
CYM 1.5. 0 {Enter Innogen}
CYM 1.6. 1
CYM-INNOGEN
A father cruel and a stepdame false,
CYM 1.6. 2 A foolish suitor to a wedded lady
CYM 1.6. 3 That hath her husband banished. O, that husband,
CYM 1.6. 4 My supreme crown of grief, and those repeated
CYM 1.6. 5 Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,
CYM 1.6. 6 As my two brothers, happy; but most miserable
CYM 1.6. 7 Is the desire that's glorious. Blest be those,
CYM 1.6. 8 How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,
CYM 1.6. 9B Which seasons comfort. {Enter Pisanio and Giacomo} Who +
CYM 1.6. 9B may this be? Fie!
CYM 1.6. 10
CYM-PISANIO
Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome
CYM 1.6. 11B Comes from my lord with letters.
CYM-GIACOMO
Change you, madam?
CYM 1.6. 12 The worthy Leonatus is in safety,
CYM 1.6. 13B And greets your highness dearly. {He gives her the +
CYM 1.6. 13B letters}
CYM-INNOGEN
Thanks, good sir.
CYM 1.6. 14 You're kindly welcome. {She reads the letters}
CYM 1.6. 15
CYM-GIACOMO
{(aside)} All of her that is out of door +
CYM 1.6. 15 most rich!
CYM 1.6. 16 If she be furnished with a mind so rare
CYM 1.6. 17 She is alone, th' Arabian bird, and I
CYM 1.6. 18 Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend;
CYM 1.6. 19 Arm me audacity from head to foot,
CYM 1.6. 20 Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight;
CYM 1.6. 21 Rather, directly fly.
CYM 1.6. 22
CYM-INNOGEN
{(reads aloud)} `He is one of the noblest +
CYM 1.6. 22 note, to
CYM 1.6. 23 whose kindnesses I am most infinitely tied. Reflect upon
CYM 1.6. 24 him accordingly, as you value
CYM 1.6. 25 Your truest
CYM 1.6. 26 Leonatus.'
CYM 1.6. 27 {(To Giacomo)} So far I read aloud,
CYM 1.6. 28 But even the very middle of my heart
CYM 1.6. 29 Is warmed by th' rest, and takes it thankfully.
CYM 1.6. 30 You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I
CYM 1.6. 31 Have words to bid you, and shall find it so
CYM 1.6. 32B In all that I can do.
CYM-GIACOMO
Thanks, fairest lady.
CYM 1.6. 33 What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes
CYM 1.6. 34 To see this vaulted arch and the rich crop
CYM 1.6. 35 Of sea and land, which can distinguish 'twixt
CYM 1.6. 36 The fiery orbs above and the twinned stones
CYM 1.6. 37 Upon th' unnumbered beach, and can we not
CYM 1.6. 38 Partition make with spectacles so precious
CYM 1.6. 39B 'Twixt fair and foul?
CYM-INNOGEN
What makes your admiration?
CYM 1.6. 40
CYM-GIACOMO
It cannot be i' th' eye - for apes and monkeys,
CYM 1.6. 41 'Twixt two such shes, would chatter this way and
CYM 1.6. 42 Contemn with mows the other; nor i' th' judgement,
CYM 1.6. 43 For idiots in this case of favour would
CYM 1.6. 44 Be wisely definite; nor i' th' appetite -
CYM 1.6. 45 Sluttery, to such neat excellence opposed,
CYM 1.6. 46 Should make desire vomit emptiness,
CYM 1.6. 47 Not so allured to feed.
CYM 1.6. 48A
CYM-INNOGEN
What is the matter, trow?
CYM 1.6. 49A
CYM-GIACOMO
The cloyed will,
CYM 1.6. 50 That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub
CYM 1.6. 51 Both filled and running, ravening first the lamb,
CYM 1.6. 52B Longs after for the garbage.
CYM-INNOGEN
What, dear sir,
CYM 1.6. 53 Thus raps you? Are you well?
CYM 1.6. 54
CYM-GIACOMO
Thanks, madam, well. {(To Pisanio)} Beseech +
CYM 1.6. 54 you, sir,
CYM 1.6. 55 Desire my man's abode where I did leave him.
CYM 1.6. 56B He's strange and peevish.
CYM-PISANIO
I was going, sir,
CYM 1.6. 57B To give him welcome. {Exit}
CYM-INNOGEN
Continues well +
CYM 1.6. 57B my lord?
CYM 1.6. 58B His health, beseech you?
CYM-GIACOMO
Well, madam.
CYM 1.6. 59
CYM-INNOGEN
Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is.
CYM 1.6. 60
CYM-GIACOMO
Exceeding pleasant, none a stranger there
CYM 1.6. 61 So merry and so gamesome. He is called
CYM 1.6. 62B The Briton Reveller.
CYM-INNOGEN
When he was here
CYM 1.6. 63 He did incline to sadness, and oft-times
CYM 1.6. 64B Not knowing why.
CYM-GIACOMO
I never saw him sad.
CYM 1.6. 65 There is a Frenchman his companion, one
CYM 1.6. 66 An eminent monsieur that, it seems, much loves
CYM 1.6. 67 A Gallian girl at home. He furnaces
CYM 1.6. 68 The thick sighs from him, whiles the jolly Briton -
CYM 1.6. 69 Your lord, I mean - laughs from 's free lungs, cries `O,
CYM 1.6. 70 Can my sides hold, to think that man, who knows
CYM 1.6. 71 By history, report or his own proof
CYM 1.6. 72 What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose
CYM 1.6. 73 But must be, will 's free hours languish
CYM 1.6. 74B For assured bondage?'
CYM-INNOGEN
Will my lord say so?
CYM 1.6. 75
CYM-GIACOMO
Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter.
CYM 1.6. 76 It is a recreation to be by
CYM 1.6. 77 And hear him mock the Frenchman. But heavens know
CYM 1.6. 78B Some men are much to blame.
CYM-INNOGEN
Not he, I hope.
CYM 1.6. 79
CYM-GIACOMO
Not he; but yet heaven's bounty towards him might
CYM 1.6. 80 Be used more thankfully. In himself 'tis much;
CYM 1.6. 81 In you, which I count his, beyond all talents.
CYM 1.6. 82 Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound
CYM 1.6. 83B To pity too.
CYM-INNOGEN
What do you pity, sir?
CYM 1.6. 84B
CYM-GIACOMO
Two creatures heartily.
CYM-INNOGEN
Am I one, sir?
CYM 1.6. 85 You look on me; what wreck discern you in me
CYM 1.6. 86B Deserves your pity?
CYM-GIACOMO
Lamentable! What,
CYM 1.6. 87 To hide me from the radiant sun, and solace
CYM 1.6. 88B I' th' dungeon by a snuff?
CYM-INNOGEN
I pray you, sir,
CYM 1.6. 89 Deliver with more openness your answers
CYM 1.6. 90 To my demands. Why do you pity me?
CYM 1.6. 91A
CYM-GIACOMO
That others do -
CYM 1.6. 92 I was about to say enjoy your - but
CYM 1.6. 93 It is an office of the gods to venge it,
CYM 1.6. 94B Not mine to speak on 't.
CYM-INNOGEN
You do seem to know
CYM 1.6. 95 Something of me, or what concerns me. Pray you,
CYM 1.6. 96 Since doubting things go ill often hurts more
CYM 1.6. 97 Than to be sure they do - for certainties
CYM 1.6. 98 Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
CYM 1.6. 99 The remedy then born - discover to me
CYM 1.6. 100B What both you spur and stop.
CYM-GIACOMO
Had I this cheek
CYM 1.6. 101 To bathe my lips upon; this hand whose touch,
CYM 1.6. 102 Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul
CYM 1.6. 103 To th' oath of loyalty; this object which
CYM 1.6. 104 Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye,
CYM 1.6. 105 Firing it only here: should I, damned then,
CYM 1.6. 106 Slaver with lips as common as the stairs
CYM 1.6. 107 That mount the Capitol; join grips with hands
CYM 1.6. 108 Made hard with hourly falsehood - falsehood as
CYM 1.6. 109 With labour; then by-peeping in an eye
CYM 1.6. 110 Base and illustrous as the smoky light
CYM 1.6. 111 That's fed with stinking tallow - it were fit
CYM 1.6. 112 That all the plagues of hell should at one time
CYM 1.6. 113B Encounter such revolt.
CYM-INNOGEN
My lord, I fear,
CYM 1.6. 114B Has forgot Britain.
CYM-GIACOMO
And himself. Not I
CYM 1.6. 115 Inclined to this intelligence pronounce
CYM 1.6. 116 The beggary of his change, but 'tis your graces
CYM 1.6. 117 That from my mutest conscience to my tongue
CYM 1.6. 118B Charms this report out.
CYM-INNOGEN
Let me hear no more.
CYM 1.6. 119
CYM-GIACOMO
O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
CYM 1.6. 120 With pity that doth make me sick. A lady
CYM 1.6. 121 So fair, and fastened to an empery
CYM 1.6. 122 Would make the great'st king double, to be partnered
CYM 1.6. 123 With tomboys hired with that self exhibition
CYM 1.6. 124 Which your own coffers yield; with diseased ventures
CYM 1.6. 125 That play with all infirmities for gold
CYM 1.6. 126 Which rottenness can lend to nature; such boiled stuff
CYM 1.6. 127 As well might poison poison! Be revenged,
CYM 1.6. 128 Or she that bore you was no queen, and you
CYM 1.6. 129B Recoil from your great stock.
CYM-INNOGEN
Revenged?
CYM 1.6. 130 How should I be revenged? If this be true -
CYM 1.6. 131 As I have such a heart that both mine ears
CYM 1.6. 132 Must not in haste abuse - if it be true,
CYM 1.6. 133B How should I be revenged?
CYM-GIACOMO
Should he make me
CYM 1.6. 134 Live like Diana's priest betwixt cold sheets
CYM 1.6. 135 Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps,
CYM 1.6. 136 In your despite, upon your purse - revenge it.
CYM 1.6. 137 I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,
CYM 1.6. 138 More noble than that runagate to your bed,
CYM 1.6. 139 And will continue fast to your affection,
CYM 1.6. 140B Still close as sure.
CYM-INNOGEN
What ho, Pisanio!
CYM 1.6. 141
CYM-GIACOMO
Let me my service tender on your lips.
CYM 1.6. 142
CYM-INNOGEN
Away, I do condemn mine ears that have
CYM 1.6. 143 So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable
CYM 1.6. 144 Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not
CYM 1.6. 145 For such an end thou seek'st, as base as strange.
CYM 1.6. 146 Thou wrong'st a gentleman who is as far
CYM 1.6. 147 From thy report as thou from honour, and
CYM 1.6. 148 Solicit'st here a lady that disdains
CYM 1.6. 149 Thee and the devil alike. What ho, Pisanio!
CYM 1.6. 150 The King my father shall be made acquainted
CYM 1.6. 151 Of thy assault. If he shall think it fit
CYM 1.6. 152 A saucy stranger in his court to mart
CYM 1.6. 153 As in a Romish stew, and to expound
CYM 1.6. 154 His beastly mind to us, he hath a court
CYM 1.6. 155 He little cares for, and a daughter who
CYM 1.6. 156 He not respects at all. What ho, Pisanio!
CYM 1.6. 157
CYM-GIACOMO
O happy Leonatus! I may say
CYM 1.6. 158 The credit that thy lady hath of thee
CYM 1.6. 159 Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness
CYM 1.6. 160 Her assured credit. Blessed live you long,
CYM 1.6. 161 A lady to the worthiest sir that ever
CYM 1.6. 162 Country called his; and you his mistress, only
CYM 1.6. 163 For the most worthiest fit. Give me your pardon.
CYM 1.6. 164 I have spoke this to know if your affiance
CYM 1.6. 165 Were deeply rooted, and shall make your lord
CYM 1.6. 166 That which he is new o'er; and he is one
CYM 1.6. 167 The truest mannered, such a holy witch
CYM 1.6. 168 That he enchants societies into him;
CYM 1.6. 169B Half all men's hearts are his.
CYM-INNOGEN
You make amends.
CYM 1.6. 170
CYM-GIACOMO
He sits 'mongst men like a descended god.
CYM 1.6. 171 He hath a kind of honour sets him off
CYM 1.6. 172 More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry,
CYM 1.6. 173 Most mighty princess, that I have adventured
CYM 1.6. 174 To try your taking of a false report, which hath
CYM 1.6. 175 Honoured with confirmation your great judgement
CYM 1.6. 176 In the election of a sir so rare
CYM 1.6. 177 Which you know cannot err. The love I bear him
CYM 1.6. 178 Made me to fan you thus, but the gods made you,
CYM 1.6. 179 Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon.
CYM 1.6. 180
CYM-INNOGEN
All's well, sir. Take my power i' th' court for yours.
CYM 1.6. 181
CYM-GIACOMO
My humble thanks. I had almost forgot
CYM 1.6. 182 T' entreat your grace but in a small request,
CYM 1.6. 183 And yet of moment too, for it concerns
CYM 1.6. 184 Your lord; myself and other noble friends
CYM 1.6. 185B Are partners in the business.
CYM-INNOGEN
Pray what is 't?
CYM 1.6. 186
CYM-GIACOMO
Some dozen Romans of us, and your lord -
CYM 1.6. 187 Best feather of our wing - have mingled sums
CYM 1.6. 188 To buy a present for the Emperor,
CYM 1.6. 189 Which I, the factor for the rest, have done
CYM 1.6. 190 In France. 'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels
CYM 1.6. 191 Of rich and exquisite form; their value's great,
CYM 1.6. 192 And I am something curious, being strange,
CYM 1.6. 193 To have them in safe stowage. May it please you
CYM 1.6. 194B To take them in protection?
CYM-INNOGEN
Willingly,
CYM 1.6. 195 And pawn mine honour for their safety; since
CYM 1.6. 196 My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them
CYM 1.6. 197B In my bedchamber.
CYM-GIACOMO
They are in a trunk
CYM 1.6. 198 Attended by my men. I will make bold
CYM 1.6. 199 To send them to you, only for this night.
CYM 1.6. 200B I must aboard tomorrow.
CYM-INNOGEN
O, no, no!
CYM 1.6. 201
CYM-GIACOMO
Yes, I beseech, or I shall short my word
CYM 1.6. 202 By length'ning my return. From Gallia
CYM 1.6. 203 I crossed the seas on purpose and on promise
CYM 1.6. 204B To see your grace.
CYM-INNOGEN
I thank you for your pains;
CYM 1.6. 205B But not away tomorrow!
CYM-GIACOMO
O, I must, madam.
CYM 1.6. 206 Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please
CYM 1.6. 207 To greet your lord with writing, do 't tonight.
CYM 1.6. 208 I have outstood my time, which is material
CYM 1.6. 209B To th' tender of our present.
CYM-INNOGEN
I will write.
CYM 1.6. 210 Send your trunk to me, it shall safe be kept,
CYM 1.6. 211 And truly yielded you. You're very welcome. {Exeunt severally}
CYM 1.6. 211
CYM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
CYM 1.6. 0 {Enter Cloten and the two Lords}
CYM 2.1. 1
CYM-CLOTEN
Was there ever man had such luck? When I
CYM 2.1. 2 kissed the jack upon an upcast, to be hit away! I had
CYM 2.1. 3 a hundred pound on 't, and then a whoreson jackanapes
CYM 2.1. 4 must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine
CYM 2.1. 5 oaths of him, and might not spend them at my pleasure.
CYM 2.1. 6
CYM-FIRST LORD
What got he by that? You have broke his
CYM 2.1. 7 pate with your bowl.
CYM 2.1. 8
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} If his wit had been like him +
CYM 2.1. 8 that broke
CYM 2.1. 9 it, it would have run all out.
CYM 2.1. 10
CYM-CLOTEN
When a gentleman is disposed to swear it is not
CYM 2.1. 11 for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
CYM 2.1. 12
CYM-SECOND LORD
No, my lord {(aside)} - nor crop the +
CYM 2.1. 12 ears of
CYM 2.1. 13 them.
CYM 2.1. 14
CYM-CLOTEN
Whoreson dog! I give him satisfaction? Would he
CYM 2.1. 15 had been one of my rank.
CYM 2.1. 16
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} To have smelled like a fool.
CYM 2.1. 17
CYM-CLOTEN
I am not vexed more at anything in th' earth. A
CYM 2.1. 18 pox on 't, I had rather not be so noble as I am. They
CYM 2.1. 19 dare not fight with me because of the Queen, my
CYM 2.1. 20 mother. Every jack-slave hath his bellyful of fighting,
CYM 2.1. 21 and I must go up and down like a cock that nobody
CYM 2.1. 22 can match.
CYM 2.1. 23
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} You are cock and capon too +
CYM 2.1. 23 an you
CYM 2.1. 24 crow cock with your comb on.
CYM 2.1. 25
CYM-CLOTEN
Sayst thou?
CYM 2.1. 26
CYM-SECOND LORD
It is not fit your lordship should undertake
CYM 2.1. 27 every companion that you give offence to.
CYM 2.1. 28
CYM-CLOTEN
No, I know that, but it is fit I should commit
CYM 2.1. 29 offence to my inferiors.
CYM 2.1. 30
CYM-SECOND LORD
Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.
CYM 2.1. 31
CYM-CLOTEN
Why, so I say.
CYM 2.1. 32
CYM-FIRST LORD
Did you hear of a stranger that's come to
CYM 2.1. 33 court tonight?
CYM 2.1. 34
CYM-CLOTEN
A stranger, and I not know on 't?
CYM 2.1. 35
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} He's a strange fellow +
CYM 2.1. 35 himself and
CYM 2.1. 36 knows it not.
CYM 2.1. 37
CYM-FIRST LORD
There's an Italian come, and, 'tis thought,
CYM 2.1. 38 one of Leonatus' friends.
CYM 2.1. 39
CYM-CLOTEN
Leonatus? A banished rascal; and he's another,
CYM 2.1. 40 whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger?
CYM 2.1. 41
CYM-FIRST LORD
One of your lordship's pages.
CYM 2.1. 42
CYM-CLOTEN
Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no
CYM 2.1. 43 derogation in 't?
CYM 2.1. 44
CYM-SECOND LORD
You cannot derogate, my lord.
CYM 2.1. 45
CYM-CLOTEN
Not easily, I think.
CYM 2.1. 46
CYM-SECOND LORD
{(aside)} You are a fool granted, +
CYM 2.1. 46 therefore your
CYM 2.1. 47 issues, being foolish, do not derogate.
CYM 2.1. 48
CYM-CLOTEN
Come, I'll go see this Italian. What I have lost
CYM 2.1. 49 today at bowls I'll win tonight of him. Come, go.
CYM 2.1. 50
CYM-SECOND LORD
I'll attend your lordship. {Exeunt Cloten and +
CYM 2.1. 50 First Lord}
CYM 2.1. 51 That such a crafty devil as is his mother
CYM 2.1. 52 Should yield the world this ass! - a woman that
CYM 2.1. 53 Bears all down with her brain, and this her son
CYM 2.1. 54 Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,
CYM 2.1. 55 And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,
CYM 2.1. 56 Thou divine Innogen, what thou endur'st,
CYM 2.1. 57 Betwixt a father by thy stepdame governed,
CYM 2.1. 58 A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer
CYM 2.1. 59 More hateful than the foul expulsion is
CYM 2.1. 60 Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act
CYM 2.1. 61 Of the divorce he'd make! The heavens hold firm
CYM 2.1. 62 The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked
CYM 2.1. 63 That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand
CYM 2.1. 64 T' enjoy thy banished lord and this great land! {Exit}
CYM 2.1. 0 {A trunk [and arras]. A bed is [thrust forth] with +
CYM 2.2. 0 Innogen in it, reading a book. Enter to her Helen, a lady}
CYM 2.2. 1B
CYM-INNOGEN
Who's there? My woman Helen?
CYM-HELEN
Please you, +
CYM 2.2. 1B madam.
CYM 2.2. 2B
CYM-INNOGEN
What hour is it?
CYM-HELEN
Almost midnight, madam.
CYM 2.2. 3
CYM-INNOGEN
I have read three hours then. Mine eyes are weak.
CYM 2.2. 4 Fold down the leaf where I have left. To bed.
CYM 2.2. 5 Take not away the taper; leave it burning,
CYM 2.2. 6 And if thou canst awake by four o' th' clock,
CYM 2.2. 7 I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. {[Exit Helen]}
CYM 2.2. 8 To your protection I commend me, gods.
CYM 2.2. 9 From fairies and the tempters of the night
CYM 2.2. 10 Guard me, beseech ye. {She sleeps.}
CYM 2.2. 11 {Giacomo comes from the trunk}
CYM-GIACOMO
The crickets sing, +
CYM 2.2. 11 and man's o'er-laboured sense
CYM 2.2. 12 Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus
CYM 2.2. 13 Did softly press the rushes ere he wakened
CYM 2.2. 14 The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,
CYM 2.2. 15 How bravely thou becom'st thy bed! Fresh lily,
CYM 2.2. 16 And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch,
CYM 2.2. 17 But kiss, one kiss! Rubies unparagoned,
CYM 2.2. 18 How dearly they do 't! 'Tis her breathing that
CYM 2.2. 19 Perfumes the chamber thus. The flame o' th' taper
CYM 2.2. 20 Bows toward her, and would underpeep her lids,
CYM 2.2. 21 To see th' enclosed lights, now canopied
CYM 2.2. 22 Under these windows, white and azure-laced
CYM 2.2. 23 With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design -
CYM 2.2. 24 To note the chamber. I will write all down. {He writes in his +
CYM 2.2. 24 tables}
CYM 2.2. 25 Such and such pictures, there the window, such
CYM 2.2. 26 Th' adornment of her bed, the arras, figures,
CYM 2.2. 27 Why, such and such; and the contents o' th' story.
CYM 2.2. 28 Ah, but some natural notes about her body
CYM 2.2. 29 Above ten thousand meaner movables
CYM 2.2. 30 Would testify t' enrich mine inventory.
CYM 2.2. 31 O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her,
CYM 2.2. 32 And be her sense but as a monument
CYM 2.2. 33 Thus in a chapel lying. Come off, come off;
CYM 2.2. 34 As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard. {He takes the bracelet +
CYM 2.2. 34 from her arm}
CYM 2.2. 35 'Tis mine, and this will witness outwardly,
CYM 2.2. 36 As strongly as the conscience does within,
CYM 2.2. 37 To th' madding of her lord. On her left breast
CYM 2.2. 38 A mole, cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
CYM 2.2. 39 I' th' bottom of a cowslip. Here's a voucher
CYM 2.2. 40 Stronger than ever law could make. This secret
CYM 2.2. 41 Will force him think I have picked the lock and ta'en
CYM 2.2. 42 The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end?
CYM 2.2. 43 Why should I write this down that's riveted,
CYM 2.2. 44 Screwed to my memory? She hath been reading late,
CYM 2.2. 45 The tale of Tereus. Here the leaf's turned down
CYM 2.2. 46 Where Philomel gave up. I have enough.
CYM 2.2. 47 To th' trunk again, and shut the spring of it.
CYM 2.2. 48 Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning
CYM 2.2. 49 May bare the raven's eye! I lodge in fear.
CYM 2.2. 50 Though this' a heavenly angel, hell is here. {Clock strikes}
CYM 2.2. 51 One, two, three. Time, time! {Exit into the trunk. +
CYM 2.2. 51 [The bed and trunk are removed]}
CYM 2.2. 0 {Enter Cloten and the two Lords}
CYM 2.3. 1
CYM-FIRST LORD
Your lordship is the most patient man in loss,
CYM 2.3. 2 the most coldest that ever turned up ace.
CYM 2.3. 3
CYM-CLOTEN
It would make any man cold to lose.
CYM 2.3. 4
CYM-FIRST LORD
But not every man patient after the noble
CYM 2.3. 5 temper of your lordship. You are most hot and furious
CYM 2.3. 6 when you win.
CYM 2.3. 7
CYM-CLOTEN
Winning will put any man into courage. If I could
CYM 2.3. 8 get this foolish Innogen I should have gold enough. It's
CYM 2.3. 9 almost morning, is 't not?
CYM 2.3. 10
CYM-FIRST LORD
Day, my lord.
CYM 2.3. 11
CYM-CLOTEN
I would this music would come. I am advised to
CYM 2.3. 12 give her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate. {Enter +
CYM 2.3. 12 Musicians}
CYM 2.3. 13 Come on, tune. If you can penetrate her with your
CYM 2.3. 14 fingering, so; we'll try with tongue too. If none will
CYM 2.3. 15 do, let her remain; but I'll never give o'er. First, a very
CYM 2.3. 16 excellent good-conceited thing; after, a wonderful sweet
CYM 2.3. 17 air with admirable rich words to it; and then let her
CYM 2.3. 18 consider. {[Music]}
CYM 2.3. 19
CYM-[MUSICIAN]
{(sings)} Hark, hark, the lark at heaven +
CYM 2.3. 19 gate sings,
CYM 2.3. 20 And Phoebus gins arise,
CYM 2.3. 21 His steeds to water at those springs
CYM 2.3. 22 On chaliced flowers that lies,
CYM 2.3. 23 And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes;
CYM 2.3. 24 With everything that pretty is, my lady sweet, arise,
CYM 2.3. 25 Arise, arise!
CYM 2.3. 26
CYM-CLOTEN
So, get you gone. If this penetrate I will +
CYM 2.3. 26 consider
CYM 2.3. 27 your music the better; if it do not, it is a vice in her
CYM 2.3. 28 ears which horse hairs and calves' guts nor the voice
CYM 2.3. 29 of unpaved eunuch to boot can never amend. {Exeunt Musicians}
CYM 2.3. 30 {Enter Cymbeline and the Queen}
CYM-SECOND LORD
Here +
CYM 2.3. 30 comes the King.
CYM 2.3. 31
CYM-CLOTEN
I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason
CYM 2.3. 32 I was up so early. He cannot choose but take this
CYM 2.3. 33 service I have done fatherly. Good morrow to your
CYM 2.3. 34 majesty, and to my gracious mother.
CYM 2.3. 35
CYM-CYMBELINE
Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?
CYM 2.3. 36 Will she not forth?
CYM 2.3. 37
CYM-CLOTEN
I have assailed her with musics, but she
CYM 2.3. 38 vouchsafes no notice.
CYM 2.3. 39
CYM-CYMBELINE
The exile of her minion is too new.
CYM 2.3. 40 She hath not yet forgot him. Some more time
CYM 2.3. 41 Must wear the print of his remembrance out,
CYM 2.3. 42B And then she's yours.
CYM-QUEEN
{(to Cloten)} You are +
CYM 2.3. 42B most bound to th' King,
CYM 2.3. 43 Who lets go by no vantages that may
CYM 2.3. 44 Prefer you to his daughter. Frame yourself
CYM 2.3. 45 To orderly solicits, and be friended
CYM 2.3. 46 With aptness of the season. Make denials
CYM 2.3. 47 Increase your services; so seem as if
CYM 2.3. 48 You were inspired to do those duties which
CYM 2.3. 49 You tender to her; that you in all obey her,
CYM 2.3. 50 Save when command to your dismission tends,
CYM 2.3. 51B And therein you are senseless.
CYM-CLOTEN
Senseless? Not so. +
CYM 2.3. 51B {Enter a Messenger}
CYM 2.3. 52
CYM-MESSENGER
{(to Cymbeline)} So like you, sir, +
CYM 2.3. 52 ambassadors from Rome;
CYM 2.3. 53B The one is Caius Lucius.
CYM-CYMBELINE
A worthy fellow,
CYM 2.3. 54 Albeit he comes on angry purpose now:
CYM 2.3. 55 But that's no fault of his. We must receive him
CYM 2.3. 56 According to the honour of his sender,
CYM 2.3. 57 And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,
CYM 2.3. 58 We must extend our notice. Our dear son,
CYM 2.3. 59 When you have given good morning to your mistress,
CYM 2.3. 60 Attend the Queen and us. We shall have need
CYM 2.3. 61 T' employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen. {Exeunt all +
CYM 2.3. 61 but Cloten}
CYM 2.3. 62
CYM-CLOTEN
If she be up, I'll speak with her; if not,
CYM 2.3. 63B Let her lie still and dream. {[He knocks]} By your +
CYM 2.3. 63B leave, ho! -
CYM 2.3. 64 I know her women are about her; what
CYM 2.3. 65 If I do line one of their hands? 'Tis gold
CYM 2.3. 66 Which buys admittance - oft it doth - yea, and makes
CYM 2.3. 67 Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up
CYM 2.3. 68 Their deer to th' stand o' th' stealer; and 'tis gold
CYM 2.3. 69 Which makes the true man killed and saves the thief,
CYM 2.3. 70 Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man. What
CYM 2.3. 71 Can it not do and undo? I will make
CYM 2.3. 72 One of her women lawyer to me, for
CYM 2.3. 73 I yet not understand the case myself. -
CYM 2.3. 74 By your leave. {Knocks. Enter a Lady}
CYM 2.3. 75B
CYM-LADY
Who's there that knocks?
CYM-CLOTEN
A +
CYM 2.3. 75B gentleman.
CYM-LADY
No more?
CYM 2.3. 76B
CYM-CLOTEN
Yes, and a gentlewoman's son.
CYM-LADY
That's more
CYM 2.3. 77 {[Aside]} Than some whose tailors are as dear as yours
CYM 2.3. 78 Can justly boast of. {(To him)} What's your lordship's +
CYM 2.3. 78 pleasure?
CYM 2.3. 79B
CYM-CLOTEN
Your lady's person. Is she ready?
CYM-LADY
Ay.
CYM 2.3. 80B {[Aside]} To keep her chamber.
CYM-CLOTEN
There is gold +
CYM 2.3. 80B for you.
CYM 2.3. 81 Sell me your good report.
CYM 2.3. 82
CYM-LADY
How, my good name? - or to report of you
CYM 2.3. 83B What I shall think is good? {Enter Innogen} The +
CYM 2.3. 83B Princess. {[Exit]}
CYM 2.3. 84
CYM-CLOTEN
Good morrow, fairest. Sister, your sweet hand.
CYM 2.3. 85
CYM-INNOGEN
Good morrow, sir. You lay out too much pains
CYM 2.3. 86 For purchasing but trouble. The thanks I give
CYM 2.3. 87 Is telling you that I am poor of thanks,
CYM 2.3. 88B And scarce can spare them.
CYM-CLOTEN
Still I swear I love you.
CYM 2.3. 89
CYM-INNOGEN
If you but said so, 'twere as deep with me.
CYM 2.3. 90 If you swear still, your recompense is still
CYM 2.3. 91B That I regard it not.
CYM-CLOTEN
This is no answer.
CYM 2.3. 92
CYM-INNOGEN
But that you shall not say I yield being silent,
CYM 2.3. 93 I would not speak. I pray you, spare me. Faith,
CYM 2.3. 94 I shall unfold equal discourtesy
CYM 2.3. 95 To your best kindness. One of your great knowing
CYM 2.3. 96 Should learn, being taught, forbearance.
CYM 2.3. 97
CYM-CLOTEN
To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin.
CYM 2.3. 98B I will not.
CYM-INNOGEN
Fools cure not mad folks.
CYM 2.3. 99B
CYM-CLOTEN
Do you call me fool?
CYM-INNOGEN
As I am mad, I do.
CYM 2.3. 100 If you'll be patient, I'll no more be mad;
CYM 2.3. 101 That cures us both. I am much sorry, sir,
CYM 2.3. 102 You put me to forget a lady's manners
CYM 2.3. 103 By being so verbal; and learn now for all
CYM 2.3. 104 That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce
CYM 2.3. 105 By th' very truth of it: I care not for you,
CYM 2.3. 106 And am so near the lack of charity
CYM 2.3. 107 To accuse myself I hate you, which I had rather
CYM 2.3. 108B You felt than make 't my boast.
CYM-CLOTEN
You sin against
CYM 2.3. 109 Obedience which you owe your father. For
CYM 2.3. 110 The contract you pretend with that base wretch,
CYM 2.3. 111 One bred of alms and fostered with cold dishes,
CYM 2.3. 112 With scraps o' th' court, it is no contract, none.
CYM 2.3. 113 And though it be allowed in meaner parties -
CYM 2.3. 114 Yet who than he more mean? - to knit their souls,
CYM 2.3. 115 On whom there is no more dependency
CYM 2.3. 116 But brats and beggary, in self-figured knot,
CYM 2.3. 117 Yet you are curbed from that enlargement by
CYM 2.3. 118 The consequence o' th' crown, and must not foil
CYM 2.3. 119 The precious note of it with a base slave,
CYM 2.3. 120 A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth,
CYM 2.3. 121B A pantler - not so eminent.
CYM-INNOGEN
Profane fellow,
CYM 2.3. 122 Wert thou the son of Jupiter, and no more
CYM 2.3. 123 But what thou art besides, thou wert too base
CYM 2.3. 124 To be his groom; thou wert dignified enough,
CYM 2.3. 125 Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made
CYM 2.3. 126 Comparative for your virtues to be styled
CYM 2.3. 127 The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated
CYM 2.3. 128B For being preferred so well.
CYM-CLOTEN
The south-fog rot him!
CYM 2.3. 129
CYM-INNOGEN
He never can meet more mischance than come
CYM 2.3. 130 To be but named of thee. His meanest garment
CYM 2.3. 131 That ever hath but clipped his body is dearer
CYM 2.3. 132 In my respect than all the hairs above thee,
CYM 2.3. 133 Were they all made such men. How now, Pisanio! {Enter Pisanio}
CYM 2.3. 134A
CYM-CLOTEN
His garment? Now the devil -
CYM 2.3. 135
CYM-INNOGEN
{(to Pisanio)} To Dorothy, my woman, hie +
CYM 2.3. 135 thee presently.
CYM 2.3. 136B
CYM-CLOTEN
His garment?
CYM-INNOGEN
{(to Pisanio)} I am +
CYM 2.3. 136B sprited with a fool,
CYM 2.3. 137 Frighted, and angered worse. Go bid my woman
CYM 2.3. 138 Search for a jewel that too casually
CYM 2.3. 139 Hath left mine arm. It was thy master's. 'Shrew me
CYM 2.3. 140 If I would lose it for a revenue
CYM 2.3. 141 Of any king's in Europe! I do think
CYM 2.3. 142 I saw 't this morning; confident I am
CYM 2.3. 143 Last night 'twas on mine arm; I kissed it.
CYM 2.3. 144 I hope it be not gone to tell my lord
CYM 2.3. 145B That I kiss aught but he.
CYM-PISANIO
'Twill not be lost.
CYM 2.3. 146B
CYM-INNOGEN
I hope so. Go and search. {Exit Pisanio}
CYM-CLOTEN
+
CYM 2.3. 146B You have abused me.
CYM 2.3. 147B `His meanest garment'?
CYM-INNOGEN
Ay, I said so, sir.
CYM 2.3. 148 If you will make 't an action, call witness to 't.
CYM 2.3. 149B
CYM-CLOTEN
I will inform your father.
CYM-INNOGEN
Your mother too.
CYM 2.3. 150 She's my good lady, and will conceive, I hope,
CYM 2.3. 151 But the worst of me. So I leave you, sir,
CYM 2.3. 152B To th' worst of discontent. {Exit}
CYM-CLOTEN
I'll be +
CYM 2.3. 152B revenged.
CYM 2.3. 153 `His meanest garment'? Well! {Exit}
CYM 2.3. 0 {Enter Posthumus and Filario}
CYM 2.4. 1
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Fear it not, sir. I would I were so sure
CYM 2.4. 2 To win the King as I am bold her honour
CYM 2.4. 3B Will remain hers.
CYM-FILARIO
What means do you make to him?
CYM 2.4. 4
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Not any; but abide the change of time,
CYM 2.4. 5 Quake in the present winter's state, and wish
CYM 2.4. 6 That warmer days would come. In these seared hopes
CYM 2.4. 7 I barely gratify your love; they failing,
CYM 2.4. 8 I must die much your debtor.
CYM 2.4. 9
CYM-FILARIO
Your very goodness and your company
CYM 2.4. 10 O'erpays all I can do. By this, your king
CYM 2.4. 11 Hath heard of great Augustus. Caius Lucius
CYM 2.4. 12 Will do 's commission throughly. And I think
CYM 2.4. 13 He'll grant the tribute, send th' arrearages,
CYM 2.4. 14 Ere look upon our Romans, whose remembrance
CYM 2.4. 15B Is yet fresh in their grief.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I do believe,
CYM 2.4. 16 Statist though I am none, nor like to be,
CYM 2.4. 17 That this will prove a war, and you shall hear
CYM 2.4. 18 The legions now in Gallia sooner landed
CYM 2.4. 19 In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings
CYM 2.4. 20 Of any penny tribute paid. Our countrymen
CYM 2.4. 21 Are men more ordered than when Julius Caesar
CYM 2.4. 22 Smiled at their lack of skill but found their courage
CYM 2.4. 23 Worthy his frowning at. Their discipline,
CYM 2.4. 24 Now wing-led with their courage, will make known
CYM 2.4. 25 To their approvers they are people such
CYM 2.4. 26B That mend upon the world. {Enter Giacomo}
CYM-FILARIO
+
CYM 2.4. 26B See, Giacomo.
CYM 2.4. 27
CYM-POSTHUMUS
{(to Giacomo)} The swiftest harts have +
CYM 2.4. 27 posted you by land,
CYM 2.4. 28 And winds of all the corners kissed your sails
CYM 2.4. 29B To make your vessel nimble.
CYM-FILARIO
{(to Giacomo)} +
CYM 2.4. 29B Welcome, sir.
CYM 2.4. 30
CYM-POSTHUMUS
{(to Giacomo)} I hope the briefness of +
CYM 2.4. 30 your answer made
CYM 2.4. 31B The speediness of your return.
CYM-GIACOMO
Your lady is
CYM 2.4. 32 One of the fair'st that I have looked upon -
CYM 2.4. 33
CYM-POSTHUMUS
And therewithal the best, or let her beauty
CYM 2.4. 34 Look through a casement to allure false hearts,
CYM 2.4. 35B And be false with them.
CYM-GIACOMO
Here are letters for you.
CYM 2.4. 36B
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Their tenor good, I trust.
CYM-GIACOMO
'Tis very +
CYM 2.4. 36B like. {Posthumus reads the letters}
CYM 2.4. 37
CYM-[FILARIO]
Was Caius Lucius in the Briton court
CYM 2.4. 38B When you were there?
CYM-GIACOMO
He was expected then,
CYM 2.4. 39B But not approached.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
All is well yet.
CYM 2.4. 40 Sparkles this stone as it was wont, or is 't not
CYM 2.4. 41B Too dull for your good wearing?
CYM-GIACOMO
If I had lost it
CYM 2.4. 42 I should have lost the worth of it in gold.
CYM 2.4. 43 I'll make a journey twice as far t' enjoy
CYM 2.4. 44 A second night of such sweet shortness which
CYM 2.4. 45 Was mine in Britain; for the ring is won.
CYM 2.4. 46B
CYM-POSTHUMUS
The stone's too hard to come by.
CYM-GIACOMO
Not a whit,
CYM 2.4. 47B Your lady being so easy.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Make not, sir,
CYM 2.4. 48 Your loss your sport. I hope you know that we
CYM 2.4. 49B Must not continue friends.
CYM-GIACOMO
Good sir, we must,
CYM 2.4. 50 If you keep covenant. Had I not brought
CYM 2.4. 51 The knowledge of your mistress home I grant
CYM 2.4. 52 We were to question farther, but I now
CYM 2.4. 53 Profess myself the winner of her honour,
CYM 2.4. 54 Together with your ring, and not the wronger
CYM 2.4. 55 Of her or you, having proceeded but
CYM 2.4. 56B By both your wills.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
If you can make 't apparent
CYM 2.4. 57 That you have tasted her in bed, my hand
CYM 2.4. 58 And ring is yours. If not, the foul opinion
CYM 2.4. 59 You had of her pure honour gains or loses
CYM 2.4. 60 Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both
CYM 2.4. 61B To who shall find them.
CYM-GIACOMO
Sir, my circumstances,
CYM 2.4. 62 Being so near the truth as I will make them,
CYM 2.4. 63 Must first induce you to believe; whose strength
CYM 2.4. 64 I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not
CYM 2.4. 65 You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find
CYM 2.4. 66B You need it not.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Proceed.
CYM-GIACOMO
First, her +
CYM 2.4. 66B bedchamber -
CYM 2.4. 67 Where I confess I slept not, but profess
CYM 2.4. 68 Had that was well worth watching - it was hanged
CYM 2.4. 69 With tapestry of silk and silver; the story
CYM 2.4. 70 Proud Cleopatra when she met her Roman,
CYM 2.4. 71 And Cydnus swelled above the banks, or for
CYM 2.4. 72 The press of boats or pride: a piece of work
CYM 2.4. 73 So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive
CYM 2.4. 74 In workmanship and value; which I wondered
CYM 2.4. 75 Could be so rarely and exactly wrought,
CYM 2.4. 76B Such the true life on 't was.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
This is true,
CYM 2.4. 77 And this you might have heard of here, by me
CYM 2.4. 78B Or by some other.
CYM-GIACOMO
More particulars
CYM 2.4. 79B Must justify my knowledge.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
So they must,
CYM 2.4. 80B Or do your honour injury.
CYM-GIACOMO
The chimney
CYM 2.4. 81 Is south the chamber, and the chimney-piece
CYM 2.4. 82 Chaste Dian bathing. Never saw I figures
CYM 2.4. 83 So likely to report themselves; the cutter
CYM 2.4. 84 Was as another nature; dumb, outwent her,
CYM 2.4. 85B Motion and breath left out.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
This is a thing
CYM 2.4. 86 Which you might from relation likewise reap,
CYM 2.4. 87B Being, as it is, much spoke of.
CYM-GIACOMO
The roof o' th' chamber
CYM 2.4. 88 With golden cherubins is fretted. Her andirons -
CYM 2.4. 89 I had forgot them - were two winking Cupids
CYM 2.4. 90 Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely
CYM 2.4. 91B Depending on their brands.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
This is her honour!
CYM 2.4. 92 Let it be granted you have seen all this - and praise
CYM 2.4. 93 Be given to your remembrance - the description
CYM 2.4. 94 Of what is in her chamber nothing saves
CYM 2.4. 95B The wager you have laid.
CYM-GIACOMO
Then, if you can
CYM 2.4. 96 Be pale, I beg but leave to air this jewel. See! {He shows the +
CYM 2.4. 96 bracelet}
CYM 2.4. 97 And now 'tis up again; it must be married
CYM 2.4. 98B To that your diamond. I'll keep them.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Jove!
CYM 2.4. 99 Once more let me behold it. Is it that
CYM 2.4. 100B Which I left with her?
CYM-GIACOMO
Sir, I thank her, that.
CYM 2.4. 101 She stripped it from her arm. I see her yet.
CYM 2.4. 102 Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
CYM 2.4. 103 And yet enriched it too. She gave it me,
CYM 2.4. 104B And said she prized it once.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Maybe she plucked it off
CYM 2.4. 105B To send it me.
CYM-GIACOMO
She writes so to you, doth she?
CYM 2.4. 106
CYM-POSTHUMUS
O, no, no, no - 'tis true! Here, take this too. {He +
CYM 2.4. 106 gives Giacomo his ring}
CYM 2.4. 107 It is a basilisk unto mine eye,
CYM 2.4. 108 Kills me to look on 't. Let there be no honour
CYM 2.4. 109 Where there is beauty, truth where semblance, love
CYM 2.4. 110 Where there's another man. The vows of women
CYM 2.4. 111 Of no more bondage be to where they are made
CYM 2.4. 112 Than they are to their virtues, which is nothing!
CYM 2.4. 113B O, above measure false!
CYM-FILARIO
Have patience, sir,
CYM 2.4. 114 And take your ring again; 'tis not yet won.
CYM 2.4. 115 It may be probable she lost it, or
CYM 2.4. 116 Who knows if one her woman, being corrupted,
CYM 2.4. 117B Hath stol'n it from her?
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Very true,
CYM 2.4. 118 And so I hope he came by 't. Back my ring. {He takes his ring +
CYM 2.4. 118 again}
CYM 2.4. 119 Render to me some corporal sign about her
CYM 2.4. 120 More evident than this; for this was stol'n.
CYM 2.4. 121
CYM-GIACOMO
By Jupiter, I had it from her arm.
CYM 2.4. 122
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Hark you, he swears, by Jupiter he swears.
CYM 2.4. 123 'Tis true, nay, keep the ring, 'tis true. I am sure
CYM 2.4. 124 She would not lose it. Her attendants are
CYM 2.4. 125 All sworn and honourable. They induced to steal it?
CYM 2.4. 126 And by a stranger? No, he hath enjoyed her.
CYM 2.4. 127 The cognizance of her incontinency
CYM 2.4. 128 Is this. She hath bought the name of whore thus dearly. {He +
CYM 2.4. 128 gives Giacomo his ring}
CYM 2.4. 129 There, take thy hire, and all the fiends of hell
CYM 2.4. 130B Divide themselves between you!
CYM-FILARIO
Sir, be patient.
CYM 2.4. 131 This is not strong enough to be believed
CYM 2.4. 132B Of one persuaded well of.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Never talk on 't.
CYM 2.4. 133B She hath been colted by him.
CYM-GIACOMO
If you seek
CYM 2.4. 134 For further satisfying, under her breast -
CYM 2.4. 135 Worthy the pressing - lies a mole, right proud
CYM 2.4. 136 Of that most delicate lodging. By my life,
CYM 2.4. 137 I kissed it, and it gave me present hunger
CYM 2.4. 138 To feed again, though full. You do remember
CYM 2.4. 139B This stain upon her?
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Ay, and it doth confirm
CYM 2.4. 140 Another stain as big as hell can hold,
CYM 2.4. 141B Were there no more but it.
CYM-GIACOMO
Will you hear more?
CYM 2.4. 142
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Spare your arithmetic, never count the turns.
CYM 2.4. 143B Once, and a million!
CYM-GIACOMO
I'll be sworn.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
No +
CYM 2.4. 143B swearing.
CYM 2.4. 144 If you will swear you have not done 't, you lie,
CYM 2.4. 145 And I will kill thee if thou dost deny
CYM 2.4. 146B Thou'st made me cuckold.
CYM-GIACOMO
I'll deny nothing.
CYM 2.4. 147
CYM-POSTHUMUS
O that I had her here to tear her limb-meal!
CYM 2.4. 148 I will go there and do 't i' th' court, before
CYM 2.4. 149B Her father. I'll do something. {Exit}
CYM-FILARIO
Quite +
CYM 2.4. 149B besides
CYM 2.4. 150 The government of patience! You have won.
CYM 2.4. 151 Let's follow and pervert the present wrath
CYM 2.4. 152B He hath against himself.
CYM-GIACOMO
With all my heart. {Exeunt}
CYM 2.4. 0 {Enter Posthumus}
CYM 2.5. 1
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Is there no way for men to be, but women
CYM 2.5. 2 Must be half-workers? We are bastards all,
CYM 2.5. 3 And that most venerable man which I
CYM 2.5. 4 Did call my father was I know not where
CYM 2.5. 5 When I was stamped. Some coiner with his tools
CYM 2.5. 6 Made me a counterfeit; yet my mother seemed
CYM 2.5. 7 The Dian of that time: so doth my wife
CYM 2.5. 8 The nonpareil of this. O vengeance, vengeance!
CYM 2.5. 9 Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained,
CYM 2.5. 10 And prayed me oft forbearance; did it with
CYM 2.5. 11 A pudency so rosy the sweet view on 't
CYM 2.5. 12 Might well have warmed old Saturn; that I thought her
CYM 2.5. 13 As chaste as unsunned snow. O all the devils!
CYM 2.5. 14 This yellow Giacomo in an hour - was 't not? -
CYM 2.5. 15 Or less - at first? Perchance he spoke not, but
CYM 2.5. 16 Like a full-acorned boar, a German one,
CYM 2.5. 17 Cried `O!' and mounted; found no opposition
CYM 2.5. 18 But what he looked for should oppose and she
CYM 2.5. 19 Should from encounter guard. Could I find out
CYM 2.5. 20 The woman's part in me - for there's no motion
CYM 2.5. 21 That tends to vice in man but I affirm
CYM 2.5. 22 It is the woman's part; be it lying, note it,
CYM 2.5. 23 The woman's; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers;
CYM 2.5. 24 Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers;
CYM 2.5. 25 Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,
CYM 2.5. 26 Nice longing, slanders, mutability,
CYM 2.5. 27 All faults that man can name, nay, that hell knows,
CYM 2.5. 28 Why, hers in part or all, but rather all -
CYM 2.5. 29 For even to vice
CYM 2.5. 30 They are not constant, but are changing still
CYM 2.5. 31 One vice but of a minute old for one
CYM 2.5. 32 Not half so old as that. I'll write against them,
CYM 2.5. 33 Detest them, curse them, yet 'tis greater skill
CYM 2.5. 34 In a true hate to pray they have their will.
CYM 2.5. 35 The very devils cannot plague them better. {Exit}
CYM 2.5. 35
CYM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
CYM 2.5. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter in state Cymbeline, the Queen, +
CYM 3.1. 0 Cloten, and lords at one door, and at another, Caius Lucius and +
CYM 3.1. 0 attendants}
CYM 3.1. 1
CYM-CYMBELINE
Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us?
CYM 3.1. 2
CYM-LUCIUS
When Julius Caesar - whose remembrance yet
CYM 3.1. 3 Lives in men's eyes, and will to ears and tongues
CYM 3.1. 4 Be theme and hearing ever - was in this Britain
CYM 3.1. 5 And conquered it, Cassibelan, thine uncle,
CYM 3.1. 6 Famous in Caesar's praises no whit less
CYM 3.1. 7 Than in his feats deserving it, for him
CYM 3.1. 8 And his succession granted Rome a tribute,
CYM 3.1. 9 Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately
CYM 3.1. 10B Is left untendered.
CYM-QUEEN
And, to kill the marvel,
CYM 3.1. 11B Shall be so ever.
CYM-CLOTEN
There will be many Caesars
CYM 3.1. 12 Ere such another Julius. Britain's a world
CYM 3.1. 13 By itself, and we will nothing pay
CYM 3.1. 14B For wearing our own noses.
CYM-QUEEN
That opportunity
CYM 3.1. 15 Which then they had to take from 's, to resume
CYM 3.1. 16 We have again. Remember, sir, my liege,
CYM 3.1. 17 The kings your ancestors, together with
CYM 3.1. 18 The natural bravery of your isle, which stands
CYM 3.1. 19 As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in
CYM 3.1. 20 With banks unscalable and roaring waters,
CYM 3.1. 21 With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,
CYM 3.1. 22 But suck them up to th' topmast. A kind of conquest
CYM 3.1. 23 Caesar made here, but made not here his brag
CYM 3.1. 24 Of `came and saw and overcame'. With shame -
CYM 3.1. 25 The first that ever touched him - he was carried
CYM 3.1. 26 From off our coast, twice beaten; and his shipping,
CYM 3.1. 27 Poor ignorant baubles, on our terrible seas
CYM 3.1. 28 Like eggshells moved upon their surges, cracked
CYM 3.1. 29 As easily 'gainst our rocks; for joy whereof
CYM 3.1. 30 The famed Cassibelan, who was once at point -
CYM 3.1. 31 O giglot fortune! - to master Caesar's sword,
CYM 3.1. 32 Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright,
CYM 3.1. 33 And Britons strut with courage.
CYM 3.1. 34
CYM-CLOTEN
Come, there's no more tribute to be paid. Our
CYM 3.1. 35 kingdom is stronger than it was at that time, and, as
CYM 3.1. 36 I said, there is no more such Caesars. Other of them
CYM 3.1. 37 may have crooked noses, but to owe such straight
CYM 3.1. 38 arms, none.
CYM 3.1. 39A
CYM-CYMBELINE
Son, let your mother end.
CYM 3.1. 40
CYM-CLOTEN
We have yet many among us can grip as hard
CYM 3.1. 41 as Cassibelan. I do not say I am one, but I have a
CYM 3.1. 42 hand. Why tribute? Why should we pay tribute? If
CYM 3.1. 43 Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put
CYM 3.1. 44 the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for
CYM 3.1. 45 light; else, sir, no more tribute, pray you now.
CYM 3.1. 46A
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to Lucius)} You must know,
CYM 3.1. 47 Till the injurious Romans did extort
CYM 3.1. 48 This tribute from us we were free. Caesar's ambition,
CYM 3.1. 49 Which swelled so much that it did almost stretch
CYM 3.1. 50 The sides o' th' world, against all colour here
CYM 3.1. 51 Did put the yoke upon 's, which to shake off
CYM 3.1. 52 Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon
CYM 3.1. 53 Ourselves to be. We do say then to Caesar,
CYM 3.1. 54 Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which
CYM 3.1. 55 Ordained our laws, whose use the sword of Caesar
CYM 3.1. 56 Hath too much mangled, whose repair and franchise
CYM 3.1. 57 Shall by the power we hold be our good deed,
CYM 3.1. 58 Though Rome be therefore angry. Mulmutius made our laws,
CYM 3.1. 59 Who was the first of Britain which did put
CYM 3.1. 60 His brows within a golden crown and called
CYM 3.1. 61B Himself a king.
CYM-LUCIUS
I am sorry, Cymbeline,
CYM 3.1. 62 That I am to pronounce Augustus Caesar -
CYM 3.1. 63 Caesar, that hath more kings his servants than
CYM 3.1. 64 Thyself domestic officers - thine enemy.
CYM 3.1. 65 Receive it from me, then: war and confusion
CYM 3.1. 66 In Caesar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee. Look
CYM 3.1. 67 For fury not to be resisted. Thus defied,
CYM 3.1. 68B I thank thee for myself.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Thou art welcome, Caius.
CYM 3.1. 69 Thy Caesar knighted me; my youth I spent
CYM 3.1. 70 Much under him; of him I gathered honour,
CYM 3.1. 71 Which he to seek of me again perforce
CYM 3.1. 72 Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect
CYM 3.1. 73 That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for
CYM 3.1. 74 Their liberties are now in arms, a precedent
CYM 3.1. 75 Which not to read would show the Britons cold;
CYM 3.1. 76B So Caesar shall not find them.
CYM-LUCIUS
Let proof speak.
CYM 3.1. 77
CYM-CLOTEN
His majesty bids you welcome. Make pastime with
CYM 3.1. 78 us a day or two or longer. If you seek us afterwards in
CYM 3.1. 79 other terms, you shall find us in our salt-water girdle.
CYM 3.1. 80 If you beat us out of it, it is yours; if you fall in the
CYM 3.1. 81 adventure, our crows shall fare the better for you; and
CYM 3.1. 82 there's an end.
CYM 3.1. 83A
CYM-LUCIUS
So, sir.
CYM 3.1. 84
CYM-CYMBELINE
I know your master's pleasure, and he mine.
CYM 3.1. 85 All the remain is `Welcome'. {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
CYM 3.1. 0 {Enter Pisanio, reading of a letter}
CYM 3.2. 1
CYM-PISANIO
How? Of adultery? Wherefore write you not
CYM 3.2. 2 What monster's her accuser? Leonatus,
CYM 3.2. 3 O master, what a strange infection
CYM 3.2. 4 Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian,
CYM 3.2. 5 As poisonous tongued as handed, hath prevailed
CYM 3.2. 6 On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal? No.
CYM 3.2. 7 She's punished for her truth, and undergoes,
CYM 3.2. 8 More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults
CYM 3.2. 9 As would take in some virtue. O my master,
CYM 3.2. 10 Thy mind to hers is now as low as were
CYM 3.2. 11 Thy fortunes. How? That I should murder her,
CYM 3.2. 12 Upon the love and truth and vows which I
CYM 3.2. 13 Have made to thy command? I her? Her blood?
CYM 3.2. 14 If it be so to do good service, never
CYM 3.2. 15 Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,
CYM 3.2. 16 That I should seem to lack humanity
CYM 3.2. 17 So much as this fact comes to? {(Reads)} `Do 't. The +
CYM 3.2. 17 letter
CYM 3.2. 18 That I have sent her, by her own command
CYM 3.2. 19 Shall give thee opportunity.' O damned paper,
CYM 3.2. 20 Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble,
CYM 3.2. 21 Art thou a fedary for this act, and look'st
CYM 3.2. 22B So virgin-like without? {Enter Innogen} Lo, here she +
CYM 3.2. 22B comes.
CYM 3.2. 23 I am ignorant in what I am commanded.
CYM 3.2. 24A
CYM-INNOGEN
How now, Pisanio?
CYM 3.2. 25
CYM-PISANIO
Madam, here is a letter from my lord.
CYM 3.2. 26
CYM-INNOGEN
Who, thy lord that is my lord, Leonatus?
CYM 3.2. 27 O learned indeed were that astronomer
CYM 3.2. 28 That knew the stars as I his characters -
CYM 3.2. 29 He'd lay the future open. You good gods,
CYM 3.2. 30 Let what is here contained relish of love,
CYM 3.2. 31 Of my lord's health, of his content - yet not
CYM 3.2. 32 That we two are asunder; let that grieve him.
CYM 3.2. 33 Some griefs are med'cinable; that is one of them,
CYM 3.2. 34 For it doth physic love - of his content
CYM 3.2. 35 All but in that. Good wax, thy leave. Blest be
CYM 3.2. 36 You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers
CYM 3.2. 37 And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike;
CYM 3.2. 38 Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet
CYM 3.2. 39 You clasp young Cupid's tables. Good news, gods! {She opens and +
CYM 3.2. 39 reads the letter}
CYM 3.2. 40 `Justice and your father's wrath, should he take me in
CYM 3.2. 41 his dominion, could not be so cruel to me as you, O
CYM 3.2. 42 the dearest of creatures, would even renew me with
CYM 3.2. 43 your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria, at Milford
CYM 3.2. 44 Haven. What your own love will out of this advise you,
CYM 3.2. 45 follow. So he wishes you all happiness, that remains
CYM 3.2. 46 loyal to his vow, and your increasing in love,
CYM 3.2. 47 Leonatus Posthumus.'
CYM 3.2. 48 O for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio?
CYM 3.2. 49 He is at Milford Haven. Read, and tell me
CYM 3.2. 50 How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs
CYM 3.2. 51 May plod it in a week, why may not I
CYM 3.2. 52 Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,
CYM 3.2. 53 Who long'st like me to see thy lord, who long'st -
CYM 3.2. 54 O let me bate - but not like me - yet long'st
CYM 3.2. 55 But in a fainter kind - O, not like me,
CYM 3.2. 56 For mine's beyond beyond; say, and speak thick -
CYM 3.2. 57 Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing,
CYM 3.2. 58 To th' smothering of the sense - how far it is
CYM 3.2. 59 To this same blessed Milford. And by th' way
CYM 3.2. 60 Tell me how Wales was made so happy as
CYM 3.2. 61 T' inherit such a haven. But first of all,
CYM 3.2. 62 How we may steal from hence; and for the gap
CYM 3.2. 63 That we shall make in time from our hence-going
CYM 3.2. 64 Till our return, to excuse; but first, how get hence.
CYM 3.2. 65 Why should excuse be born or ere begot?
CYM 3.2. 66 We'll talk of that hereafter. Prithee speak,
CYM 3.2. 67 How many score of miles may we well ride
CYM 3.2. 68B 'Twixt hour and hour?
CYM-PISANIO
One score 'twixt sun and sun,
CYM 3.2. 69 Madam, 's enough for you, and too much too.
CYM 3.2. 70
CYM-INNOGEN
Why, one that rode to 's execution, man,
CYM 3.2. 71 Could never go so slow. I have heard of riding wagers
CYM 3.2. 72 Where horses have been nimbler than the sands
CYM 3.2. 73 That run i' th' clock's behalf. But this is fool'ry.
CYM 3.2. 74 Go bid my woman feign a sickness, say
CYM 3.2. 75 She'll home to her father; and provide me presently
CYM 3.2. 76 A riding-suit no costlier than would fit
CYM 3.2. 77B A franklin's housewife.
CYM-PISANIO
Madam, you're best consider.
CYM 3.2. 78
CYM-INNOGEN
I see before me, man. Nor here, nor here,
CYM 3.2. 79 Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them
CYM 3.2. 80 That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee,
CYM 3.2. 81 Do as I bid thee. There's no more to say:
CYM 3.2. 82 Accessible is none but Milford way. {Exeunt}
CYM 3.2. 0 {Enter Belarius, followed by Guiderius and Arviragus, +
CYM 3.3. 0 [from a cave in the woods]}
CYM 3.3. 1
CYM-BELARIUS
A goodly day not to keep house with such
CYM 3.3. 2 Whose roof's as low as ours. Stoop, boys; this gate
CYM 3.3. 3 Instructs you how t' adore the heavens, and bows you
CYM 3.3. 4 To a morning's holy office. The gates of monarchs
CYM 3.3. 5 Are arched so high that giants may jet through
CYM 3.3. 6 And keep their impious turbans on without
CYM 3.3. 7 Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!
CYM 3.3. 8 We house i' th' rock, yet use thee not so hardly
CYM 3.3. 9B As prouder livers do.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Hail, heaven!
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Hail, +
CYM 3.3. 9B heaven!
CYM 3.3. 10
CYM-BELARIUS
Now for our mountain sport. Up to yon hill,
CYM 3.3. 11 Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Consider,
CYM 3.3. 12 When you above perceive me like a crow,
CYM 3.3. 13 That it is place which lessens and sets off,
CYM 3.3. 14 And you may then revolve what tales I have told you
CYM 3.3. 15 Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war;
CYM 3.3. 16 That service is not service, so being done,
CYM 3.3. 17 But being so allowed. To apprehend thus
CYM 3.3. 18 Draws us a profit from all things we see,
CYM 3.3. 19 And often to our comfort shall we find
CYM 3.3. 20 The sharded beetle in a safer hold
CYM 3.3. 21 Than is the full-winged eagle. O, this life
CYM 3.3. 22 Is nobler than attending for a check,
CYM 3.3. 23 Richer than doing nothing for a bauble,
CYM 3.3. 24 Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk;
CYM 3.3. 25 Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine,
CYM 3.3. 26 Yet keeps his book uncrossed. No life to ours.
CYM 3.3. 27
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Out of your proof you speak. We, poor unfledged,
CYM 3.3. 28 Have never winged from view o' th' nest, nor know not
CYM 3.3. 29 What air's from home. Haply this life is best,
CYM 3.3. 30 If quiet life be best; sweeter to you
CYM 3.3. 31 That have a sharper known; well corresponding
CYM 3.3. 32 With your stiff age, but unto us it is
CYM 3.3. 33 A cell of ignorance, travelling abed,
CYM 3.3. 34 A prison for a debtor, that not dares
CYM 3.3. 35B To stride a limit.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
{(to Belarius)} What +
CYM 3.3. 35B should we speak of
CYM 3.3. 36 When we are old as you? When we shall hear
CYM 3.3. 37 The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
CYM 3.3. 38 In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse
CYM 3.3. 39 The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing.
CYM 3.3. 40 We are beastly: subtle as the fox for prey,
CYM 3.3. 41 Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat.
CYM 3.3. 42 Our valour is to chase what flies; our cage
CYM 3.3. 43 We make a choir, as doth the prisoned bird,
CYM 3.3. 44B And sing our bondage freely.
CYM-BELARIUS
How you speak!
CYM 3.3. 45 Did you but know the city's usuries,
CYM 3.3. 46 And felt them knowingly; the art o' th' court,
CYM 3.3. 47 As hard to leave as keep, whose top to climb
CYM 3.3. 48 Is certain falling, or so slipp'ry that
CYM 3.3. 49 The fear's as bad as falling; the toil o' th' war,
CYM 3.3. 50 A pain that only seems to seek out danger
CYM 3.3. 51 I' th' name of fame and honour, which dies i' th' search
CYM 3.3. 52 And hath as oft a sland'rous epitaph
CYM 3.3. 53 As record of fair act; nay, many times
CYM 3.3. 54 Doth ill deserve by doing well; what's worse,
CYM 3.3. 55 Must curtsy at the censure. O boys, this story
CYM 3.3. 56 The world may read in me. My body's marked
CYM 3.3. 57 With Roman swords, and my report was once
CYM 3.3. 58 First with the best of note. Cymbeline loved me,
CYM 3.3. 59 And when a soldier was the theme my name
CYM 3.3. 60 Was not far off. Then was I as a tree
CYM 3.3. 61 Whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night
CYM 3.3. 62 A storm or robbery, call it what you will,
CYM 3.3. 63 Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,
CYM 3.3. 64B And left me bare to weather.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Uncertain favour!
CYM 3.3. 65
CYM-BELARIUS
My fault being nothing, as I have told you oft,
CYM 3.3. 66 But that two villains, whose false oaths prevailed
CYM 3.3. 67 Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline
CYM 3.3. 68 I was confederate with the Romans. So
CYM 3.3. 69 Followed my banishment, and this twenty years
CYM 3.3. 70 This rock and these demesnes have been my world,
CYM 3.3. 71 Where I have lived at honest freedom, paid
CYM 3.3. 72 More pious debts to heaven than in all
CYM 3.3. 73 The fore-end of my time. But up to th' mountains!
CYM 3.3. 74 This is not hunter's language. He that strikes
CYM 3.3. 75 The venison first shall be the lord o' th' feast,
CYM 3.3. 76 To him the other two shall minister,
CYM 3.3. 77 And we will fear no poison which attends
CYM 3.3. 78 In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys. {Exeunt +
CYM 3.3. 78 Guiderius and Arviragus}
CYM 3.3. 79 How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!
CYM 3.3. 80 These boys know little they are sons to th' King,
CYM 3.3. 81 Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.
CYM 3.3. 82 They think they are mine, and though trained up thus meanly
CYM 3.3. 83 I' th' cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit
CYM 3.3. 84 The roofs of palaces, and nature prompts them
CYM 3.3. 85 In simple and low things to prince it much
CYM 3.3. 86 Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore,
CYM 3.3. 87 The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, who
CYM 3.3. 88 The King his father called Guiderius - Jove,
CYM 3.3. 89 When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell
CYM 3.3. 90 The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out
CYM 3.3. 91 Into my story: say `Thus mine enemy fell,
CYM 3.3. 92 And thus I set my foot on 's neck', even then
CYM 3.3. 93 The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats,
CYM 3.3. 94 Strains his young nerves, and puts himself in posture
CYM 3.3. 95 That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,
CYM 3.3. 96 Once Arviragus, in as like a figure
CYM 3.3. 97 Strikes life into my speech, and shows much more
CYM 3.3. 98B His own conceiving.
CYM-[A
hunting-horn sounds]} Hark, the +
CYM 3.3. 98B game is roused!
CYM 3.3. 99 O Cymbeline, heaven and my conscience knows
CYM 3.3. 100 Thou didst unjustly banish me, whereon
CYM 3.3. 101 At three and two years old I stole these babes,
CYM 3.3. 102 Thinking to bar thee of succession as
CYM 3.3. 103 Thou reft'st me of my lands. Euriphile,
CYM 3.3. 104 Thou wast their nurse; they took thee for their mother,
CYM 3.3. 105 And every day do honour to her grave.
CYM 3.3. 106 Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan called,
CYM 3.3. 107B They take for natural father.
CYM-[A
hunting-horn sounds]} +
CYM 3.3. 107B The game is up. {Exit}
CYM 3.3. 0 {Enter Pisanio, and Innogen in a riding-suit}
CYM 3.4. 1
CYM-INNOGEN
Thou told'st me when we came from horse the place
CYM 3.4. 2 Was near at hand. Ne'er longed my mother so
CYM 3.4. 3 To see me first as I have now. Pisanio, man,
CYM 3.4. 4 Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind
CYM 3.4. 5 That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh
CYM 3.4. 6 From th' inward of thee? One but painted thus
CYM 3.4. 7 Would be interpreted a thing perplexed
CYM 3.4. 8 Beyond self-explication. Put thyself
CYM 3.4. 9 Into a haviour of less fear, ere wildness
CYM 3.4. 10 Vanquish my staider senses. What's the matter? {Pisanio gives +
CYM 3.4. 10 her a letter}
CYM 3.4. 11 Why tender'st thou that paper to me with
CYM 3.4. 12 A look untender? If 't be summer news,
CYM 3.4. 13 Smile to 't before; if winterly, thou need'st
CYM 3.4. 14 But keep that count'nance still. My husband's hand?
CYM 3.4. 15 That drug-damned Italy hath out-craftied him,
CYM 3.4. 16 And he's at some hard point. Speak, man. Thy tongue
CYM 3.4. 17 May take off some extremity which to read
CYM 3.4. 18B Would be even mortal to me.
CYM-PISANIO
Please you read,
CYM 3.4. 19 And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing
CYM 3.4. 20 The most disdained of fortune.
CYM 3.4. 21
CYM-INNOGEN
{(reads)} `Thy mistress, Pisanio, hath +
CYM 3.4. 21 played the
CYM 3.4. 22 strumpet in my bed, the testimonies whereof lies
CYM 3.4. 23 bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises but
CYM 3.4. 24 from proof as strong as my grief and as certain as I
CYM 3.4. 25 expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio, must act
CYM 3.4. 26 for me, if thy faith be not tainted with the breach of
CYM 3.4. 27 hers. Let thine own hands take away her life. I shall
CYM 3.4. 28 give thee opportunity at Milford Haven. She hath my
CYM 3.4. 29 letter for the purpose, where if thou fear to strike and
CYM 3.4. 30 to make me certain it is done, thou art the pander to
CYM 3.4. 31 her dishonour and equally to me disloyal.'
CYM 3.4. 32
CYM-PISANIO
{(aside)} What shall I need to draw my +
CYM 3.4. 32 sword? The paper
CYM 3.4. 33 Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,
CYM 3.4. 34 Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
CYM 3.4. 35 Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
CYM 3.4. 36 Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
CYM 3.4. 37 All corners of the world. Kings, queens, and states,
CYM 3.4. 38 Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
CYM 3.4. 39 This viperous slander enters. {(To Innogen)} What +
CYM 3.4. 39 cheer, madam?
CYM 3.4. 40
CYM-INNOGEN
False to his bed? What is it to be false?
CYM 3.4. 41 To lie in watch there and to think on him?
CYM 3.4. 42 To weep 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge nature,
CYM 3.4. 43 To break it with a fearful dream of him
CYM 3.4. 44 And cry myself awake? That's false to 's bed, is it?
CYM 3.4. 45A
CYM-PISANIO
Alas, good lady.
CYM 3.4. 46
CYM-INNOGEN
I false? Thy conscience witness, Giacomo,
CYM 3.4. 47 Thou didst accuse him of incontinency.
CYM 3.4. 48 Thou then lookedst like a villain; now, methinks,
CYM 3.4. 49 Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy,
CYM 3.4. 50 Whose mother was her painting, hath betrayed him.
CYM 3.4. 51 Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion,
CYM 3.4. 52 And for I am richer than to hang by th' walls
CYM 3.4. 53 I must be ripped. To pieces with me! O,
CYM 3.4. 54 Men's vows are women's traitors. All good seeming,
CYM 3.4. 55 By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought
CYM 3.4. 56 Put on for villainy; not born where 't grows,
CYM 3.4. 57B But worn a bait for ladies.
CYM-PISANIO
Good madam, hear me.
CYM 3.4. 58
CYM-INNOGEN
True honest men being heard like false Aeneas
CYM 3.4. 59 Were in his time thought false, and Sinon's weeping
CYM 3.4. 60 Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity
CYM 3.4. 61 From most true wretchedness. So thou, Posthumus,
CYM 3.4. 62 Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men.
CYM 3.4. 63 Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured
CYM 3.4. 64 From thy great fail. {(To Pisanio)} Come, fellow, be +
CYM 3.4. 64 thou honest,
CYM 3.4. 65 Do thou thy master's bidding. When thou seest him,
CYM 3.4. 66 A little witness my obedience. Look,
CYM 3.4. 67 I draw the sword myself. Take it, and hit
CYM 3.4. 68 The innocent mansion of my love, my heart.
CYM 3.4. 69 Fear not, 'tis empty of all things but grief.
CYM 3.4. 70 Thy master is not there, who was indeed
CYM 3.4. 71 The riches of it. Do his bidding; strike.
CYM 3.4. 72 Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause,
CYM 3.4. 73B But now thou seem'st a coward.
CYM-PISANIO
Hence, vile instrument,
CYM 3.4. 74B Thou shalt not damn my hand!
CYM-INNOGEN
Why, I must die,
CYM 3.4. 75 And if I do not by thy hand thou art
CYM 3.4. 76 No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter
CYM 3.4. 77 There is a prohibition so divine
CYM 3.4. 78 That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart.
CYM 3.4. 79 Something's afore 't. Soft, soft, we'll no defence;
CYM 3.4. 80 Obedient as the scabbard. What is here? {She takes letters from +
CYM 3.4. 80 her bosom}
CYM 3.4. 81 The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus,
CYM 3.4. 82 All turned to heresy? Away, away,
CYM 3.4. 83 Corrupters of my faith, you shall no more
CYM 3.4. 84 Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools
CYM 3.4. 85 Believe false teachers. Though those that are betrayed
CYM 3.4. 86 Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
CYM 3.4. 87 Stands in worse case of woe. And thou, Posthumus,
CYM 3.4. 88 That didst set up my disobedience 'gainst the King
CYM 3.4. 89 My father, and make me put into contempt the suits
CYM 3.4. 90 Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find
CYM 3.4. 91 It is no act of common passage but
CYM 3.4. 92 A strain of rareness; and I grieve myself
CYM 3.4. 93 To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her
CYM 3.4. 94 That now thou tirest on, how thy memory
CYM 3.4. 95 Will then be panged by me. {(To Pisanio)} Prithee, +
CYM 3.4. 95 dispatch.
CYM 3.4. 96 The lamb entreats the butcher. Where's thy knife?
CYM 3.4. 97 Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding
CYM 3.4. 98B When I desire it too.
CYM-PISANIO
O gracious lady,
CYM 3.4. 99 Since I received command to do this business
CYM 3.4. 100B I have not slept one wink.
CYM-INNOGEN
Do 't, and to bed, then.
CYM 3.4. 101B
CYM-PISANIO
I'll wake mine eyeballs out first.
CYM-INNOGEN
Wherefore +
CYM 3.4. 101B then
CYM 3.4. 102 Didst undertake it? Why hast thou abused
CYM 3.4. 103 So many miles with a pretence? - this place,
CYM 3.4. 104 Mine action, and thine own? Our horses' labour,
CYM 3.4. 105 The time inviting thee? The perturbed court,
CYM 3.4. 106 For my being absent, whereunto I never
CYM 3.4. 107 Purpose return? Why hast thou gone so far
CYM 3.4. 108 To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand,
CYM 3.4. 109B Th' elected deer before thee?
CYM-PISANIO
But to win time
CYM 3.4. 110 To lose so bad employment, in the which
CYM 3.4. 111 I have considered of a course. Good lady,
CYM 3.4. 112B Hear me with patience.
CYM-INNOGEN
Talk thy tongue weary. Speak.
CYM 3.4. 113 I have heard I am a strumpet, and mine ear,
CYM 3.4. 114 Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,
CYM 3.4. 115B Nor tent to bottom that. But speak.
CYM-PISANIO
Then, madam,
CYM 3.4. 116B I thought you would not back again.
CYM-INNOGEN
Most like,
CYM 3.4. 117B Bringing me here to kill me.
CYM-PISANIO
Not so, neither.
CYM 3.4. 118 But if I were as wise as honest, then
CYM 3.4. 119 My purpose would prove well. It cannot be
CYM 3.4. 120 But that my master is abused. Some villain,
CYM 3.4. 121 Ay, and singular in his art, hath done you both
CYM 3.4. 122 This cursed injury.
CYM 3.4. 123A
CYM-INNOGEN
Some Roman courtesan.
CYM 3.4. 124A
CYM-PISANIO
No, on my life.
CYM 3.4. 125 I'll give but notice you are dead, and send him
CYM 3.4. 126 Some bloody sign of it, for 'tis commanded
CYM 3.4. 127 I should do so. You shall be missed at court,
CYM 3.4. 128B And that will well confirm it.
CYM-INNOGEN
Why, good fellow,
CYM 3.4. 129 What shall I do the while, where bide, how live,
CYM 3.4. 130 Or in my life what comfort when I am
CYM 3.4. 131B Dead to my husband?
CYM-PISANIO
If you'll back to th' court -
CYM 3.4. 132
CYM-INNOGEN
No court, no father, nor no more ado
CYM 3.4. 133 With that harsh, churlish, noble, simple nothing,
CYM 3.4. 134 That Cloten, whose love suit hath been to me
CYM 3.4. 135B As fearful as a siege.
CYM-PISANIO
If not at court,
CYM 3.4. 136B Then not in Britain must you bide.
CYM-INNOGEN
Where then?
CYM 3.4. 137 Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,
CYM 3.4. 138 Are they not but in Britain? I' th' world's volume
CYM 3.4. 139 Our Britain seems as of it but not in 't,
CYM 3.4. 140 In a great pool a swan's nest. Prithee, think
CYM 3.4. 141B There's livers out of Britain.
CYM-PISANIO
I am most glad
CYM 3.4. 142 You think of other place. Th' ambassador,
CYM 3.4. 143 Lucius the Roman, comes to Milford Haven
CYM 3.4. 144 Tomorrow. Now if you could wear a mind
CYM 3.4. 145 Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise
CYM 3.4. 146 That which t' appear itself must not yet be
CYM 3.4. 147 But by self-danger, you should tread a course
CYM 3.4. 148 Pretty and full of view; yea, haply near
CYM 3.4. 149 The residence of Posthumus; so nigh, at least,
CYM 3.4. 150 That though his actions were not visible, yet
CYM 3.4. 151 Report should render him hourly to your ear
CYM 3.4. 152B As truly as he moves.
CYM-INNOGEN
O, for such means,
CYM 3.4. 153 Though peril to my modesty, not death on 't,
CYM 3.4. 154B I would adventure.
CYM-PISANIO
Well then, here's the point:
CYM 3.4. 155 You must forget to be a woman; change
CYM 3.4. 156 Command into obedience, fear and niceness -
CYM 3.4. 157 The handmaids of all women, or more truly
CYM 3.4. 158 Woman it pretty self - into a waggish courage,
CYM 3.4. 159 Ready in gibes, quick-answered, saucy and
CYM 3.4. 160 As quarrelous as the weasel. Nay, you must
CYM 3.4. 161 Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,
CYM 3.4. 162 Exposing it - but O, the harder heart! -
CYM 3.4. 163 Alack, no remedy - to the greedy touch
CYM 3.4. 164 Of common-kissing Titan, and forget
CYM 3.4. 165 Your laboursome and dainty trims wherein
CYM 3.4. 166B You made great Juno angry.
CYM-INNOGEN
Nay, be brief.
CYM 3.4. 167 I see into thy end, and am almost
CYM 3.4. 168B A man already.
CYM-PISANIO
First, make yourself but like one.
CYM 3.4. 169 Forethinking this, I have already fit -
CYM 3.4. 170 'Tis in my cloak-bag - doublet, hat, hose, all
CYM 3.4. 171 That answer to them. Would you in their serving,
CYM 3.4. 172 And with what imitation you can borrow
CYM 3.4. 173 From youth of such a season, fore noble Lucius
CYM 3.4. 174 Present yourself, desire his service, tell him
CYM 3.4. 175 Wherein you're happy - which will make him know
CYM 3.4. 176 If that his head have ear in music - doubtless
CYM 3.4. 177 With joy he will embrace you, for he's honourable,
CYM 3.4. 178 And, doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad -
CYM 3.4. 179 You have me, rich, and I will never fail
CYM 3.4. 180B Beginning nor supplyment.
CYM-INNOGEN
Thou art all the comfort
CYM 3.4. 181 The gods will diet me with. Prithee away.
CYM 3.4. 182 There's more to be considered, but we'll even
CYM 3.4. 183 All that good time will give us. This attempt
CYM 3.4. 184 I am soldier to, and will abide it with
CYM 3.4. 185 A prince's courage. Away, I prithee.
CYM 3.4. 186
CYM-PISANIO
Well, madam, we must take a short farewell
CYM 3.4. 187 Lest, being missed, I be suspected of
CYM 3.4. 188 Your carriage from the court. My noble mistress,
CYM 3.4. 189 Here is a box. I had it from the Queen.
CYM 3.4. 190 What's in 't is precious. If you are sick at sea
CYM 3.4. 191 Or stomach-qualmed at land, a dram of this
CYM 3.4. 192 Will drive away distemper. To some shade,
CYM 3.4. 193 And fit you to your manhood. May the gods
CYM 3.4. 194B Direct you to the best.
CYM-INNOGEN
Amen. I thank thee. {Exeunt +
CYM 3.4. 194B severally}
CYM 3.4. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter Cymbeline, the Queen, Cloten, Lucius, +
CYM 3.5. 0 and lords}
CYM 3.5. 1B
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to Lucius)} Thus far, and so +
CYM 3.5. 1B farewell.
CYM-LUCIUS
Thanks, royal sir.
CYM 3.5. 2 My emperor hath wrote I must from hence;
CYM 3.5. 3 And am right sorry that I must report ye
CYM 3.5. 4B My master's enemy.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Our subjects, sir,
CYM 3.5. 5 Will not endure his yoke, and for ourself
CYM 3.5. 6 To show less sovereignty than they must needs
CYM 3.5. 7B Appear unkinglike.
CYM-LUCIUS
So, sir, I desire of you
CYM 3.5. 8 A conduct over land to Milford Haven.
CYM 3.5. 9 {(To the Queen)} Madam, all joy befall your +
CYM 3.5. 9 grace, {[to Cloten]} and you.
CYM 3.5. 10
CYM-CYMBELINE
My lords, you are appointed for that office.
CYM 3.5. 11 The due of honour in no point omit.
CYM 3.5. 12B So farewell, noble Lucius.
CYM-LUCIUS
Your hand, my lord.
CYM 3.5. 13
CYM-CLOTEN
Receive it friendly, but from this time forth
CYM 3.5. 14B I wear it as your enemy.
CYM-LUCIUS
Sir, the event
CYM 3.5. 15 Is yet to name the winner. Fare you well.
CYM 3.5. 16
CYM-CYMBELINE
Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords,
CYM 3.5. 17 Till he have crossed the Severn. Happiness. {Exeunt Lucius and +
CYM 3.5. 17 lords}
CYM 3.5. 18
CYM-QUEEN
He goes hence frowning, but it honours us
CYM 3.5. 19B That we have given him cause.
CYM-CLOTEN
'Tis all the better.
CYM 3.5. 20 Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it.
CYM 3.5. 21
CYM-CYMBELINE
Lucius hath wrote already to the Emperor
CYM 3.5. 22 How it goes here. It fits us therefore ripely
CYM 3.5. 23 Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness.
CYM 3.5. 24 The powers that he already hath in Gallia
CYM 3.5. 25 Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves
CYM 3.5. 26B His war for Britain.
CYM-QUEEN
'Tis not sleepy business,
CYM 3.5. 27 But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
CYM 3.5. 28
CYM-CYMBELINE
Our expectation that it would be thus
CYM 3.5. 29 Hath made us forward. But, my gentle queen,
CYM 3.5. 30 Where is our daughter? She hath not appeared
CYM 3.5. 31 Before the Roman, nor to us hath tendered
CYM 3.5. 32 The duty of the day. She looks us like
CYM 3.5. 33 A thing more made of malice than of duty.
CYM 3.5. 34 We have noted it. Call her before us, for
CYM 3.5. 35B We have been too slight in sufferance. {Exit one or +
CYM 3.5. 35B more}
CYM-QUEEN
Royal sir,
CYM 3.5. 36 Since the exile of Posthumus most retired
CYM 3.5. 37 Hath her life been, the cure whereof, my lord,
CYM 3.5. 38 'Tis time must do. Beseech your majesty
CYM 3.5. 39 Forbear sharp speeches to her. She's a lady
CYM 3.5. 40 So tender of rebukes that words are strokes,
CYM 3.5. 41B And strokes death to her. {Enter a Messenger}
CYM-CYMBELINE
+
CYM 3.5. 41B Where is she, sir? How
CYM 3.5. 42B Can her contempt be answered?
CYM-MESSENGER
Please you, sir,
CYM 3.5. 43 Her chambers are all locked, and there's no answer
CYM 3.5. 44 That will be given to th' loud'st of noise we make.
CYM 3.5. 45
CYM-QUEEN
My lord, when last I went to visit her
CYM 3.5. 46 She prayed me to excuse her keeping close,
CYM 3.5. 47 Whereto constrained by her infirmity,
CYM 3.5. 48 She should that duty leave unpaid to you
CYM 3.5. 49 Which daily she was bound to proffer. This
CYM 3.5. 50 She wished me to make known, but our great court
CYM 3.5. 51B Made me to blame in memory.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Her doors locked?
CYM 3.5. 52 Not seen of late? Grant heavens that which I
CYM 3.5. 53B Fear prove false. {Exit}
CYM-QUEEN
Son, I say, follow +
CYM 3.5. 53B the King.
CYM 3.5. 54
CYM-CLOTEN
That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant,
CYM 3.5. 55B I have not seen these two days.
CYM-QUEEN
Go, look after. {Exit +
CYM 3.5. 55B Cloten}
CYM 3.5. 56 Pisanio, thou that stand'st so for Posthumus!
CYM 3.5. 57 He hath a drug of mine. I pray his absence
CYM 3.5. 58 Proceed by swallowing that, for he believes
CYM 3.5. 59 It is a thing most precious. But for her,
CYM 3.5. 60 Where is she gone? Haply despair hath seized her,
CYM 3.5. 61 Or, winged with fervour of her love, she's flown
CYM 3.5. 62 To her desired Posthumus. Gone she is
CYM 3.5. 63 To death or to dishonour, and my end
CYM 3.5. 64 Can make good use of either. She being down,
CYM 3.5. 65 I have the placing of the British crown. {Enter Cloten}
CYM 3.5. 66B How now, my son?
CYM-CLOTEN
'Tis certain she is fled.
CYM 3.5. 67 Go in and cheer the King. He rages, none
CYM 3.5. 68B Dare come about him.
CYM-QUEEN
All the better. May
CYM 3.5. 69 This night forestall him of the coming day. {Exit}
CYM 3.5. 70
CYM-CLOTEN
I love and hate her. For she's fair and royal,
CYM 3.5. 71 And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite
CYM 3.5. 72 Than lady, ladies, woman - from every one
CYM 3.5. 73 The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,
CYM 3.5. 74 Outsells them all - I love her therefore; but
CYM 3.5. 75 Disdaining me, and throwing favours on
CYM 3.5. 76 The low Posthumus, slanders so her judgement
CYM 3.5. 77 That what's else rare is choked; and in that point
CYM 3.5. 78 I will conclude to hate her, nay, indeed,
CYM 3.5. 79 To be revenged upon her. For when fools
CYM 3.5. 80B Shall - {Enter Pisanio} Who is here? What, are you +
CYM 3.5. 80B packing, sirrah?
CYM 3.5. 81 Come hither. Ah, you precious pander! Villain,
CYM 3.5. 82 Where is thy lady? In a word, or else
CYM 3.5. 83B Thou art straightway with the fiends.
CYM-PISANIO
O good my lord!
CYM 3.5. 84
CYM-CLOTEN
Where is thy lady? - or, by Jupiter,
CYM 3.5. 85 I will not ask again. Close villain,
CYM 3.5. 86 I'll have this secret from thy tongue or rip
CYM 3.5. 87 Thy heart to find it. Is she with Posthumus,
CYM 3.5. 88 From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
CYM 3.5. 89B A dram of worth be drawn?
CYM-PISANIO
Alas, my lord,
CYM 3.5. 90 How can she be with him? When was she missed?
CYM 3.5. 91B He is in Rome.
CYM-CLOTEN
Where is she, sir? Come nearer.
CYM 3.5. 92 No farther halting. Satisfy me home
CYM 3.5. 93 What is become of her.
CYM 3.5. 94A
CYM-PISANIO
O my all-worthy lord!
CYM 3.5. 95A
CYM-CLOTEN
All-worthy villain,
CYM 3.5. 96 Discover where thy mistress is at once,
CYM 3.5. 97 At the next word. No more of `worthy lord'.
CYM 3.5. 98 Speak, or thy silence on the instant is
CYM 3.5. 99B Thy condemnation and thy death.
CYM-PISANIO
Then, sir,
CYM 3.5. 100 This paper is the history of my knowledge
CYM 3.5. 101B Touching her flight. {He gives Cloten a letter}
CYM-CLOTEN
+
CYM 3.5. 101B Let's see 't. I will pursue her
CYM 3.5. 102B Even to Augustus' throne.
CYM-PISANIO
{[aside]} Or this +
CYM 3.5. 102B or perish.
CYM 3.5. 103 She's far enough, and what he learns by this
CYM 3.5. 104B May prove his travel, not her danger.
CYM-CLOTEN
Hum!
CYM 3.5. 105
CYM-PISANIO
{(aside)} I'll write to my lord she's +
CYM 3.5. 105 dead. O Innogen,
CYM 3.5. 106 Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!
CYM 3.5. 107B
CYM-CLOTEN
Sirrah, is this letter true?
CYM-PISANIO
Sir, as I think.
CYM 3.5. 108
CYM-CLOTEN
It is Posthumus' hand; I know 't. Sirrah, if thou
CYM 3.5. 109 wouldst not be a villain but do me true service, undergo
CYM 3.5. 110 those employments wherein I should have cause to use
CYM 3.5. 111 thee with a serious industry - that is, what villainy
CYM 3.5. 112 soe'er I bid thee do, to perform it directly and truly - I
CYM 3.5. 113 would think thee an honest man. Thou shouldst neither
CYM 3.5. 114 want my means for thy relief nor my voice for thy
CYM 3.5. 115 preferment.
CYM 3.5. 116
CYM-PISANIO
Well, my good lord.
CYM 3.5. 117
CYM-CLOTEN
Wilt thou serve me? For since patiently and
CYM 3.5. 118 constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of that
CYM 3.5. 119 beggar Posthumus, thou canst not in the course of
CYM 3.5. 120 gratitude but be a diligent follower of mine. Wilt thou
CYM 3.5. 121 serve me?
CYM 3.5. 122
CYM-PISANIO
Sir, I will.
CYM 3.5. 123
CYM-CLOTEN
Give me thy hand. Here's my purse. Hast any of
CYM 3.5. 124 thy late master's garments in thy possession?
CYM 3.5. 125
CYM-PISANIO
I have, my lord, at my lodging the same suit he
CYM 3.5. 126 wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress.
CYM 3.5. 127
CYM-CLOTEN
The first service thou dost me, fetch that suit
CYM 3.5. 128 hither. Let it be thy first service. Go.
CYM 3.5. 129
CYM-PISANIO
I shall, my lord. {Exit}
CYM 3.5. 130
CYM-CLOTEN
Meet thee at Milford Haven! I forgot to ask him
CYM 3.5. 131 one thing; I'll remember 't anon. Even there, thou
CYM 3.5. 132 villain Posthumus, will I kill thee. I would these
CYM 3.5. 133 garments were come. She said upon a time - the
CYM 3.5. 134 bitterness of it I now belch from my heart - that she
CYM 3.5. 135 held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect
CYM 3.5. 136 than my noble and natural person, together with the
CYM 3.5. 137 adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my
CYM 3.5. 138 back will I ravish her - first kill him, and in her eyes;
CYM 3.5. 139 there shall she see my valour, which will then be a
CYM 3.5. 140 torment to her contempt. He on the ground, my speech
CYM 3.5. 141 of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my
CYM 3.5. 142 lust hath dined - which, as I say, to vex her I will
CYM 3.5. 143 execute in the clothes that she so praised - to the court
CYM 3.5. 144 I'll knock her back, foot her home again. She hath
CYM 3.5. 145 despised me rejoicingly, and I'll be merry in my revenge. {Enter +
CYM 3.5. 145 Pisanio with Posthumus' suit}
CYM 3.5. 146B Be those the garments?
CYM-PISANIO
Ay, my noble lord.
CYM 3.5. 147
CYM-CLOTEN
How long is 't since she went to Milford Haven?
CYM 3.5. 148A
CYM-PISANIO
She can scarce be there yet.
CYM 3.5. 149
CYM-CLOTEN
Bring this apparel to my chamber. That is the
CYM 3.5. 150 second thing that I have commanded thee. The third
CYM 3.5. 151 is that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design. Be
CYM 3.5. 152 but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself to
CYM 3.5. 153 thee. My revenge is now at Milford. Would I had wings
CYM 3.5. 154 to follow it. Come, and be true. {Exit}
CYM 3.5. 155
CYM-PISANIO
Thou bidd'st me to my loss, for true to thee
CYM 3.5. 156 Were to prove false, which I will never be
CYM 3.5. 157 To him that is most true. To Milford go,
CYM 3.5. 158 And find not her whom thou pursuest. Flow, flow,
CYM 3.5. 159 You heavenly blessings, on her. This fool's speed
CYM 3.5. 160 Be crossed with slowness; labour be his meed. {Exit}
CYM 3.5. 0 {Enter Innogen, dressed as a man, before the cave}
CYM 3.6. 1
CYM-INNOGEN
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
CYM 3.6. 2 I have tired myself, and for two nights together
CYM 3.6. 3 Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick,
CYM 3.6. 4 But that my resolution helps me. Milford,
CYM 3.6. 5 When from the mountain-top Pisanio showed thee,
CYM 3.6. 6 Thou wast within a ken. O Jove, I think
CYM 3.6. 7 Foundations fly the wretched - such, I mean,
CYM 3.6. 8 Where they should be relieved. Two beggars told me
CYM 3.6. 9 I could not miss my way. Will poor folks lie,
CYM 3.6. 10 That have afflictions on them, knowing 'tis
CYM 3.6. 11 A punishment or trial? Yes. No wonder,
CYM 3.6. 12 When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fullness
CYM 3.6. 13 Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood
CYM 3.6. 14 Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord,
CYM 3.6. 15 Thou art one o' th' false ones. Now I think on thee
CYM 3.6. 16 My hunger's gone, but even before I was
CYM 3.6. 17 At point to sink for food. But what is this?
CYM 3.6. 18 Here is a path to 't. 'Tis some savage hold.
CYM 3.6. 19 I were best not call; I dare not call; yet famine,
CYM 3.6. 20 Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant.
CYM 3.6. 21 Plenty and peace breeds cowards, hardness ever
CYM 3.6. 22 Of hardiness is mother. Ho! Who's here?
CYM 3.6. 23 If anything that's civil, speak; if savage,
CYM 3.6. 24 Take or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I'll enter.
CYM 3.6. 25 Best draw my sword, and if mine enemy
CYM 3.6. 26 But fear the sword like me he'll scarcely look on 't.
CYM 3.6. 27 Such a foe, good heavens! {Exit into the cave}
CYM 3.6. 28 {Enter Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus}
CYM-BELARIUS
+
CYM 3.6. 28 You, Polydore, have proved best woodman and
CYM 3.6. 29 Are master of the feast. Cadwal and I
CYM 3.6. 30 Will play the cook and servant; 'tis our match.
CYM 3.6. 31 The sweat of industry would dry and die
CYM 3.6. 32 But for the end it works to. Come, our stomachs
CYM 3.6. 33 Will make what's homely savoury. Weariness
CYM 3.6. 34 Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
CYM 3.6. 35 Finds the down pillow hard. Now peace be here,
CYM 3.6. 36B Poor house, that keep'st thyself.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
I am throughly weary.
CYM 3.6. 37
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
I am weak with toil yet strong in appetite.
CYM 3.6. 38
CYM-GUIDERIUS
There is cold meat i' th' cave. We'll browse on that
CYM 3.6. 39B Whilst what we have killed be cooked.
CYM-BELARIUS
{(looking +
CYM 3.6. 39B into the cave)} Stay, come not in.
CYM 3.6. 40 But that it eats our victuals I should think
CYM 3.6. 41B Here were a fairy.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
What's the matter, sir?
CYM 3.6. 42
CYM-BELARIUS
By Jupiter, an angel - or, if not,
CYM 3.6. 43 An earthly paragon. Behold divineness
CYM 3.6. 44B No elder than a boy. {Enter Innogen from the cave, dressed as a +
CYM 3.6. 44B man}
CYM-INNOGEN
Good masters, harm me not.
CYM 3.6. 45 Before I entered here I called, and thought
CYM 3.6. 46 To have begged or bought what I have took. Good truth,
CYM 3.6. 47 I have stol'n naught, nor would not, though I had found
CYM 3.6. 48 Gold strewed i' th' floor. Here's money for my meat.
CYM 3.6. 49 I would have left it on the board so soon
CYM 3.6. 50 As I had made my meal, and parted
CYM 3.6. 51B With prayers for the provider.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Money, youth?
CYM 3.6. 52
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
CYM 3.6. 53 As 'tis no better reckoned but of those
CYM 3.6. 54B Who worship dirty gods.
CYM-INNOGEN
I see you're angry.
CYM 3.6. 55 Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should
CYM 3.6. 56B Have died had I not made it.
CYM-BELARIUS
Whither bound?
CYM 3.6. 57B
CYM-INNOGEN
To Milford Haven.
CYM-BELARIUS
What's your name?
CYM 3.6. 58
CYM-INNOGEN
Fidele, sir. I have a kinsman who
CYM 3.6. 59 Is bound for Italy. He embarked at Milford,
CYM 3.6. 60 To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,
CYM 3.6. 61B I am fall'n in this offence.
CYM-BELARIUS
Prithee, fair youth,
CYM 3.6. 62 Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds
CYM 3.6. 63 By this rude place we live in. Well encountered.
CYM 3.6. 64 'Tis almost night. You shall have better cheer
CYM 3.6. 65 Ere you depart, and thanks to stay and eat it.
CYM 3.6. 66B Boys, bid him welcome.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Were you a woman, youth,
CYM 3.6. 67 I should woo hard but be your groom in honesty,
CYM 3.6. 68B Ay, bid for you as I'd buy.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
I'll make 't my comfort
CYM 3.6. 69 He is a man, I'll love him as my brother.
CYM 3.6. 70 {(To Innogen)} And such a welcome as I'd give to him
CYM 3.6. 71 After long absence, such is yours. Most welcome.
CYM 3.6. 72B Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends.
CYM-INNOGEN
'Mongst friends
CYM 3.6. 73 If brothers. {(Aside)} Would it had been so that they
CYM 3.6. 74 Had been my father's sons. Then had my price
CYM 3.6. 75 Been less, and so more equal ballasting
CYM 3.6. 76B To thee, Posthumus. {The three men speak apart}
CYM-BELARIUS
+
CYM 3.6. 76B He wrings at some distress.
CYM 3.6. 77B
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Would I could free 't.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Or I, whate'er it be,
CYM 3.6. 78B What pain it cost, what danger. Gods!
CYM-BELARIUS
Hark, boys. +
CYM 3.6. 78B {They whisper}
CYM 3.6. 79A
CYM-INNOGEN
{(aside)} Great men
CYM 3.6. 80 That had a court no bigger than this cave,
CYM 3.6. 81 That did attend themselves and had the virtue
CYM 3.6. 82 Which their own conscience sealed them, laying by
CYM 3.6. 83 That nothing-gift of differing multitudes,
CYM 3.6. 84 Could not outpeer these twain. Pardon me, gods,
CYM 3.6. 85 I'd change my sex to be companion with them,
CYM 3.6. 86B Since Leonatus' false.
CYM-BELARIUS
It shall be so.
CYM 3.6. 87 Boys, we'll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in.
CYM 3.6. 88 Discourse is heavy, fasting. When we have supped
CYM 3.6. 89 We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story,
CYM 3.6. 90B So far as thou wilt speak it.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Pray draw near.
CYM 3.6. 91
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
The night to th' owl and morn to th' lark less welcome.
CYM 3.6. 92A
CYM-INNOGEN
Thanks, sir.
CYM 3.6. 93A
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
I pray draw near. {Exeunt into the cave}
CYM 3.6. 0 {Enter two Roman Senators, and Tribunes}
CYM 3.7. 1
CYM-FIRST SENATOR
This is the tenor of the Emperor's writ:
CYM 3.7. 2 That since the common men are now in action
CYM 3.7. 3 'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,
CYM 3.7. 4 And that the legions now in Gallia are
CYM 3.7. 5 Full weak to undertake our wars against
CYM 3.7. 6 The fall'n-off Britons, that we do incite
CYM 3.7. 7 The gentry to this business. He creates
CYM 3.7. 8 Lucius pro-consul, and to you the tribunes,
CYM 3.7. 9 For this immediate levy, he commends
CYM 3.7. 10 His absolute commission. Long live Caesar!
CYM 3.7. 11B A
CYM-TRIBUNE
Is Lucius general of the forces?
CYM-SECOND SENATOR
Ay.
CYM 3.7. 12B A
CYM-TRIBUNE
Remaining now in Gallia?
CYM-FIRST SENATOR
With those +
CYM 3.7. 12B legions
CYM 3.7. 13 Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy
CYM 3.7. 14 Must be supplyant. The words of your commission
CYM 3.7. 15 Will tie you to the numbers and the time
CYM 3.7. 16B Of their dispatch. A
CYM-TRIBUNE
We will discharge our duty. +
CYM 3.7. 16B {Exeunt}
CYM 3.7. 16
CYM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
CYM 3.7. 0 {Enter Cloten, in Posthumus' suit}
CYM 4.1. 1
CYM-CLOTEN
I am near to th' place where they should meet,
CYM 4.1. 2 if Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments
CYM 4.1. 3 serve me! Why should his mistress, who was made by
CYM 4.1. 4 him that made the tailor, not be fit too? - the rather -
CYM 4.1. 5 saving reverence of the word - for 'tis said a woman's
CYM 4.1. 6 fitness comes by fits. Therein I must play the workman.
CYM 4.1. 7 I dare speak it to myself, for it is not vainglory for a
CYM 4.1. 8 man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. I
CYM 4.1. 9 mean the lines of my body are as well drawn as his:
CYM 4.1. 10 no less young, more strong, not beneath him in
CYM 4.1. 11 fortunes, beyond him in the advantage of the time,
CYM 4.1. 12 above him in birth, alike conversant in general services,
CYM 4.1. 13 and more remarkable in single oppositions. Yet this
CYM 4.1. 14 imperceiverant thing loves him in my despite. What
CYM 4.1. 15 mortality is! Posthumus, thy head which now is
CYM 4.1. 16 growing upon thy shoulders shall within this hour be
CYM 4.1. 17 off, thy mistress enforced, thy garments cut to pieces
CYM 4.1. 18 before thy face; and all this done, spurn her home to
CYM 4.1. 19 her father, who may haply be a little angry for my so
CYM 4.1. 20 rough usage; but my mother, having power of his
CYM 4.1. 21 testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My
CYM 4.1. 22 horse is tied up safe. Out, sword, and to a sore purpose!
CYM 4.1. 23 Fortune, put them into my hand. This is the very
CYM 4.1. 24 description of their meeting-place, and the fellow dares
CYM 4.1. 25 not deceive me. {Exit}
CYM 4.1. 0 {Enter Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, and Innogen +
CYM 4.2. 0 dressed as a man, from the cave}
CYM 4.2. 1
CYM-BELARIUS
{(to Innogen)} You are not well. Remain +
CYM 4.2. 1 here in the cave.
CYM 4.2. 2B We'll come to you from hunting.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
{(to +
CYM 4.2. 2B Innogen)} Brother, stay here.
CYM 4.2. 3B Are we not brothers?
CYM-INNOGEN
So man and man should be,
CYM 4.2. 4 But clay and clay differs in dignity,
CYM 4.2. 5 Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick.
CYM 4.2. 6
CYM-GUIDERIUS
{(to Belarius and Arviragus)} Go you to +
CYM 4.2. 6 hunting. I'll abide with him.
CYM 4.2. 7
CYM-INNOGEN
So sick I am not, yet I am not well;
CYM 4.2. 8 But not so citizen a wanton as
CYM 4.2. 9 To seem to die ere sick. So please you, leave me.
CYM 4.2. 10 Stick to your journal course. The breach of custom
CYM 4.2. 11 Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me
CYM 4.2. 12 Cannot amend me. Society is no comfort
CYM 4.2. 13 To one not sociable. I am not very sick,
CYM 4.2. 14 Since I can reason of it. Pray you, trust me here.
CYM 4.2. 15 I'll rob none but myself; and let me die,
CYM 4.2. 16B Stealing so poorly.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
I love thee: I have spoke it;
CYM 4.2. 17 How much the quantity, the weight as much,
CYM 4.2. 18B As I do love my father.
CYM-BELARIUS
What, how, how?
CYM 4.2. 19
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
If it be sin to say so, sir, I yoke me
CYM 4.2. 20 In my good brother's fault. I know not why
CYM 4.2. 21 I love this youth, and I have heard you say
CYM 4.2. 22 Love's reason's without reason. The bier at door
CYM 4.2. 23 And a demand who is 't shall die, I'd say
CYM 4.2. 24B `My father, not this youth'.
CYM-BELARIUS
{(aside)} O +
CYM 4.2. 24B noble strain!
CYM 4.2. 25 O worthiness of nature, breed of greatness!
CYM 4.2. 26 Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.
CYM 4.2. 27 Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
CYM 4.2. 28 I'm not their father, yet who this should be
CYM 4.2. 29 Doth miracle itself, loved before me.
CYM 4.2. 30B {(Aloud)} 'Tis the ninth hour o' th' morn. +
CYM 4.2. 30B
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
{(to Innogen)} Brother, farewell.
CYM 4.2. 31B
CYM-INNOGEN
I wish ye sport.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
You health. - So please you, +
CYM 4.2. 31B sir.
CYM 4.2. 32
CYM-INNOGEN
{(aside)} These are kind creatures. Gods, +
CYM 4.2. 32 what lies I have heard!
CYM 4.2. 33 Our courtiers say all's savage but at court.
CYM 4.2. 34 Experience, O thou disprov'st report!
CYM 4.2. 35 Th' imperious seas breeds monsters; for the dish
CYM 4.2. 36 Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish.
CYM 4.2. 37 I am sick still, heart-sick. Pisanio,
CYM 4.2. 38B I'll now taste of thy drug. {[She swallows the drug.] The men +
CYM 4.2. 38B speak apart}
CYM-GUIDERIUS
I could not stir him.
CYM 4.2. 39 He said he was gentle but unfortunate,
CYM 4.2. 40 Dishonestly afflicted but yet honest.
CYM 4.2. 41
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Thus did he answer me, yet said hereafter
CYM 4.2. 42B I might know more.
CYM-BELARIUS
To th' field, to th' field!
CYM 4.2. 43 {(To Innogen)} We'll leave you for this time. Go in +
CYM 4.2. 43 and rest.
CYM 4.2. 44B
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
{(to Innogen)} We'll not be long +
CYM 4.2. 44B away.
CYM-BELARIUS
{(to Innogen)} Pray be not sick,
CYM 4.2. 45B For you must be our housewife.
CYM-INNOGEN
Well or ill,
CYM 4.2. 46B I am bound to you. {Exit}
CYM-BELARIUS
And shalt be +
CYM 4.2. 46B ever.
CYM 4.2. 47 This youth, howe'er distressed, appears hath had
CYM 4.2. 48 Good ancestors.
CYM 4.2. 49A
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
How angel-like he sings!
CYM 4.2. 50A
CYM-GUIDERIUS
But his neat cookery!
CYM 4.2. 51
CYM-[BELARIUS]
He cut our roots in characters,
CYM 4.2. 52 And sauced our broths as Juno had been sick
CYM 4.2. 53B And he her dieter.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Nobly he yokes
CYM 4.2. 54 A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh
CYM 4.2. 55 Was that it was for not being such a smile;
CYM 4.2. 56 The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly
CYM 4.2. 57 From so divine a temple to commix
CYM 4.2. 58B With winds that sailors rail at.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
I do note
CYM 4.2. 59 That grief and patience, rooted in him both,
CYM 4.2. 60B Mingle their spurs together.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Grow patience,
CYM 4.2. 61 And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine
CYM 4.2. 62 His perishing root with the increasing vine.
CYM 4.2. 63
CYM-BELARIUS
It is great morning. Come away. Who's there? {Enter +
CYM 4.2. 63 Cloten in Posthumus' suit}
CYM 4.2. 64
CYM-CLOTEN
I cannot find those runagates. That villain
CYM 4.2. 65B Hath mocked me. I am faint.
CYM-BELARIUS
{(aside to Arviragus +
CYM 4.2. 65B and Guiderius)} `Those runagates'?
CYM 4.2. 66 Means he not us? I partly know him; 'tis
CYM 4.2. 67 Cloten, the son o' th' Queen. I fear some ambush.
CYM 4.2. 68 I saw him not these many years, and yet
CYM 4.2. 69 I know 'tis he. We are held as outlaws. Hence!
CYM 4.2. 70
CYM-GUIDERIUS
{(aside to Arviragus and Belarius)} He +
CYM 4.2. 70 is but one. You and my brother search
CYM 4.2. 71 What companies are near. Pray you, away.
CYM 4.2. 72B Let me alone with him. {Exeunt Arviragus and Belarius}
CYM-CLOTEN
+
CYM 4.2. 72B Soft, what are you
CYM 4.2. 73 That fly me thus? Some villain mountaineers?
CYM 4.2. 74B I have heard of such. What slave art thou?
CYM-GUIDERIUS
A thing
CYM 4.2. 75 More slavish did I ne'er than answering
CYM 4.2. 76B A slave without a knock.
CYM-CLOTEN
Thou art a robber,
CYM 4.2. 77 A law-breaker, a villain. Yield thee, thief.
CYM 4.2. 78
CYM-GUIDERIUS
To who? To thee? What art thou? Have not I
CYM 4.2. 79 An arm as big as thine, a heart as big?
CYM 4.2. 80 Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not
CYM 4.2. 81 My dagger in my mouth. Say what thou art,
CYM 4.2. 82B Why I should yield to thee.
CYM-CLOTEN
Thou villain base,
CYM 4.2. 83B Know'st me not by my clothes?
CYM-GUIDERIUS
No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
CYM 4.2. 84 Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,
CYM 4.2. 85B Which, as it seems, make thee.
CYM-CLOTEN
Thou precious varlet,
CYM 4.2. 86B My tailor made them not.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Hence, then, and thank
CYM 4.2. 87 The man that gave them thee. Thou art some fool.
CYM 4.2. 88B I am loath to beat thee.
CYM-CLOTEN
Thou injurious thief,
CYM 4.2. 89B Hear but my name and tremble.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
What's thy name?
CYM 4.2. 90A
CYM-CLOTEN
Cloten, thou villain.
CYM 4.2. 91
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name,
CYM 4.2. 92 I cannot tremble at it. Were it toad or adder, spider,
CYM 4.2. 93B 'Twould move me sooner.
CYM-CLOTEN
To thy further fear,
CYM 4.2. 94 Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know
CYM 4.2. 95B I am son to th' Queen.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
I am sorry for 't, not seeming
CYM 4.2. 96B So worthy as thy birth.
CYM-CLOTEN
Art not afeard?
CYM 4.2. 97
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Those that I reverence, those I fear, the wise.
CYM 4.2. 98B At fools I laugh, not fear them.
CYM-CLOTEN
Die the death.
CYM 4.2. 99 When I have slain thee with my proper hand
CYM 4.2. 100 I'll follow those that even now fled hence,
CYM 4.2. 101 And on the gates of Lud's town set your heads.
CYM 4.2. 102B Yield, rustic mountaineer. {Fight and exeunt} {Enter +
CYM 4.2. 102B Belarius and Arviragus}
CYM-BELARIUS
No company's abroad?
CYM 4.2. 103
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
None in the world. You did mistake him, sure.
CYM 4.2. 104
CYM-BELARIUS
I cannot tell. Long is it since I saw him,
CYM 4.2. 105 But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favour
CYM 4.2. 106 Which then he wore. The snatches in his voice
CYM 4.2. 107 And burst of speaking were as his. I am absolute
CYM 4.2. 108B 'Twas very Cloten.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
In this place we left them.
CYM 4.2. 109 I wish my brother make good time with him,
CYM 4.2. 110B You say he is so fell.
CYM-BELARIUS
Being scarce made up,
CYM 4.2. 111 I mean to man, he had not apprehension
CYM 4.2. 112 Of roaring terrors; for defect of judgement
CYM 4.2. 113B Is oft the cause of fear. {Enter Guiderius with Cloten's +
CYM 4.2. 113B head} But see, thy brother.
CYM 4.2. 114
CYM-GUIDERIUS
This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse,
CYM 4.2. 115 There was no money in 't. Not Hercules
CYM 4.2. 116 Could have knocked out his brains, for he had none.
CYM 4.2. 117 Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne
CYM 4.2. 118B My head as I do his.
CYM-BELARIUS
What hast thou done?
CYM 4.2. 119
CYM-GUIDERIUS
I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head,
CYM 4.2. 120 Son to the Queen after his own report,
CYM 4.2. 121 Who called me traitor, mountaineer, and swore
CYM 4.2. 122 With his own single hand he'd take us in,
CYM 4.2. 123 Displace our heads where - thanks, ye gods - they grow,
CYM 4.2. 124B And set them on Lud's town.
CYM-BELARIUS
We are all undone.
CYM 4.2. 125
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Why, worthy father, what have we to lose
CYM 4.2. 126 But that he swore to take, our lives? The law
CYM 4.2. 127 Protects not us: then why should we be tender
CYM 4.2. 128 To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us,
CYM 4.2. 129 Play judge and executioner all himself,
CYM 4.2. 130 For we do fear the law? What company
CYM 4.2. 131B Discover you abroad?
CYM-BELARIUS
No single soul
CYM 4.2. 132 Can we set eye on, but in all safe reason
CYM 4.2. 133 He must have some attendants. Though his humour
CYM 4.2. 134 Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that
CYM 4.2. 135 From one bad thing to worse, not frenzy,
CYM 4.2. 136 Not absolute madness, could so far have raved
CYM 4.2. 137 To bring him here alone. Although perhaps
CYM 4.2. 138 It may be heard at court that such as we
CYM 4.2. 139 Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time
CYM 4.2. 140 May make some stronger head, the which he hearing -
CYM 4.2. 141 As it is like him - might break out, and swear
CYM 4.2. 142 He'd fetch us in, yet is 't not probable
CYM 4.2. 143 To come alone, either he so undertaking,
CYM 4.2. 144 Or they so suffering. Then on good ground we fear
CYM 4.2. 145 If we do fear this body hath a tail
CYM 4.2. 146B More perilous than the head.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Let ord'nance
CYM 4.2. 147 Come as the gods foresay it; howsoe'er,
CYM 4.2. 148B My brother hath done well.
CYM-BELARIUS
I had no mind
CYM 4.2. 149 To hunt this day. The boy Fidele's sickness
CYM 4.2. 150B Did make my way long forth.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
With his own sword,
CYM 4.2. 151 Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en
CYM 4.2. 152 His head from him. I'll throw 't into the creek
CYM 4.2. 153 Behind our rock, and let it to the sea
CYM 4.2. 154 And tell the fishes he's the Queen's son, Cloten.
CYM 4.2. 155B That's all I reck. {Exit with Cloten's head}
CYM-BELARIUS
+
CYM 4.2. 155B I fear 'twill be revenged.
CYM 4.2. 156 Would, Polydore, thou hadst not done 't, though valour
CYM 4.2. 157B Becomes thee well enough.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Would I had done 't,
CYM 4.2. 158 So the revenge alone pursued me. Polydore,
CYM 4.2. 159 I love thee brotherly, but envy much
CYM 4.2. 160 Thou hast robbed me of this deed. I would revenges
CYM 4.2. 161 That possible strength might meet would seek us through
CYM 4.2. 162B And put us to our answer.
CYM-BELARIUS
Well, 'tis done.
CYM 4.2. 163 We'll hunt no more today, nor seek for danger
CYM 4.2. 164 Where there's no profit. I prithee, to our rock.
CYM 4.2. 165 You and Fidele play the cooks. I'll stay
CYM 4.2. 166 Till hasty Polydore return, and bring him
CYM 4.2. 167B To dinner presently.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Poor sick Fidele!
CYM 4.2. 168 I'll willingly to him. To gain his colour
CYM 4.2. 169 I'd let a parish of such Clotens blood,
CYM 4.2. 170B And praise myself for charity. {Exit into the cave}
CYM-BELARIUS
+
CYM 4.2. 170B O thou goddess,
CYM 4.2. 171 Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st
CYM 4.2. 172 In these two princely boys! They are as gentle
CYM 4.2. 173 As zephyrs blowing below the violet,
CYM 4.2. 174 Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,
CYM 4.2. 175 Their royal blood enchafed, as the rud'st wind
CYM 4.2. 176 That by the top doth take the mountain pine
CYM 4.2. 177 And make him stoop to th' vale. 'Tis wonder
CYM 4.2. 178 That an invisible instinct should frame them
CYM 4.2. 179 To royalty unlearned, honour untaught,
CYM 4.2. 180 Civility not seen from other, valour
CYM 4.2. 181 That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop
CYM 4.2. 182 As if it had been sowed. Yet still it's strange
CYM 4.2. 183 What Cloten's being here to us portends,
CYM 4.2. 184B Or what his death will bring us. {Enter Guiderius}
CYM-GUIDERIUS
+
CYM 4.2. 184B Where's my brother?
CYM 4.2. 185 I have sent Cloten's clotpoll down the stream
CYM 4.2. 186 In embassy to his mother. His body's hostage
CYM 4.2. 187B For his return. {Solemn music}
CYM-BELARIUS
My +
CYM 4.2. 187B ingenious instrument! -
CYM 4.2. 188 Hark, Polydore, it sounds. But what occasion
CYM 4.2. 189 Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark!
CYM 4.2. 190B
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Is he at home?
CYM-BELARIUS
He went hence even now.
CYM 4.2. 191
CYM-GUIDERIUS
What does he mean? Since death of my dear'st mother
CYM 4.2. 192 It did not speak before. All solemn things
CYM 4.2. 193 Should answer solemn accidents. The matter?
CYM 4.2. 194 Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
CYM 4.2. 195 Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
CYM 4.2. 196B Is Cadwal mad? {Enter from the cave Arviragus with Innogen, +
CYM 4.2. 196B dead, bearing her in his arms}
CYM-BELARIUS
Look, here he +
CYM 4.2. 196B comes,
CYM 4.2. 197 And brings the dire occasion in his arms
CYM 4.2. 198B Of what we blame him for.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
The bird is dead
CYM 4.2. 199 That we have made so much on. I had rather
CYM 4.2. 200 Have skipped from sixteen years of age to sixty,
CYM 4.2. 201 To have turned my leaping time into a crutch,
CYM 4.2. 202B Than have seen this.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
{(to Innogen)} O +
CYM 4.2. 202B sweetest, fairest lily!
CYM 4.2. 203 My brother wears thee not one half so well
CYM 4.2. 204B As when thou grew'st thyself.
CYM-BELARIUS
O melancholy,
CYM 4.2. 205 Who ever yet could sound thy bottom, find
CYM 4.2. 206 The ooze to show what coast thy sluggish crare
CYM 4.2. 207 Might easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing,
CYM 4.2. 208 Jove knows what man thou mightst have made; but I,
CYM 4.2. 209 Thou diedst a most rare boy, of melancholy.
CYM 4.2. 210B {(To Arviragus)} How found you him?
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
+
CYM 4.2. 210B Stark, as you see,
CYM 4.2. 211 Thus smiling as some fly had tickled slumber,
CYM 4.2. 212 Not as death's dart being laughed at; his right cheek
CYM 4.2. 213B Reposing on a cushion.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Where?
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
O' th' floor,
CYM 4.2. 214 His arms thus leagued. I thought he slept, and put
CYM 4.2. 215 My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness
CYM 4.2. 216B Answered my steps too loud.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Why, he but sleeps.
CYM 4.2. 217 If he be gone he'll make his grave a bed.
CYM 4.2. 218 With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,
CYM 4.2. 219B {(To Innogen)} And worms will not come to +
CYM 4.2. 219B thee.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
{(to Innogen)} With fairest flowers
CYM 4.2. 220 Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,
CYM 4.2. 221 I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack
CYM 4.2. 222 The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor
CYM 4.2. 223 The azured harebell, like thy veins; no, nor
CYM 4.2. 224 The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander
CYM 4.2. 225 Outsweetened not thy breath. The ruddock would
CYM 4.2. 226 With charitable bill - O bill sore shaming
CYM 4.2. 227 Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie
CYM 4.2. 228 Without a monument! - bring thee all this,
CYM 4.2. 229 Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none,
CYM 4.2. 230B To winter-gown thy corpse.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Prithee, have done,
CYM 4.2. 231 And do not play in wench-like words with that
CYM 4.2. 232 Which is so serious. Let us bury him,
CYM 4.2. 233 And not protract with admiration what
CYM 4.2. 234B Is now due debt. To th' grave.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Say, where shall 's lay +
CYM 4.2. 234B him?
CYM 4.2. 235B
CYM-GUIDERIUS
By good Euriphile, our mother.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Be 't so,
CYM 4.2. 236 And let us, Polydore, though now our voices
CYM 4.2. 237 Have got the mannish crack, sing him to th' ground
CYM 4.2. 238 As once our mother; use like note and words,
CYM 4.2. 239 Save that `Euriphile' must be `Fidele'.
CYM 4.2. 240A
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Cadwal,
CYM 4.2. 241 I cannot sing. I'll weep, and word it with thee,
CYM 4.2. 242 For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse
CYM 4.2. 243B Than priests and fanes that lie.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
We'll speak it then.
CYM 4.2. 244
CYM-BELARIUS
Great griefs, I see, medicine the less, for Cloten
CYM 4.2. 245 Is quite forgot. He was a queen's son, boys,
CYM 4.2. 246 And though he came our enemy, remember
CYM 4.2. 247 He was paid for that. Though mean and mighty rotting
CYM 4.2. 248 Together have one dust, yet reverence,
CYM 4.2. 249 That angel of the world, doth make distinction
CYM 4.2. 250 Of place 'tween high and low. Our foe was princely,
CYM 4.2. 251 And though you took his life as being our foe,
CYM 4.2. 252B Yet bury him as a prince.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Pray you, fetch him hither.
CYM 4.2. 253 Thersites' body is as good as Ajax'
CYM 4.2. 254B When neither are alive.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
{(to Belarius)} +
CYM 4.2. 254B If you'll go fetch him,
CYM 4.2. 255B We'll say our song the whilst. {Exit Belarius} Brother, +
CYM 4.2. 255B begin.
CYM 4.2. 256
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to th' east.
CYM 4.2. 257B My father hath a reason for 't.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
'Tis true.
CYM 4.2. 258B
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Come on, then, and remove him.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
So, begin.
CYM 4.2. 259
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun,
CYM 4.2. 260 Nor the furious winter's rages.
CYM 4.2. 261 Thou thy worldly task hast done,
CYM 4.2. 262 Home art gone and ta'en thy wages.
CYM 4.2. 263 Golden lads and girls all must,
CYM 4.2. 264 As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
CYM 4.2. 265
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Fear no more the frown o' th' great,
CYM 4.2. 266 Thou art past the tyrant's stroke.
CYM 4.2. 267 Care no more to clothe and eat,
CYM 4.2. 268 To thee the reed is as the oak.
CYM 4.2. 269 The sceptre, learning, physic, must
CYM 4.2. 270 All follow this and come to dust.
CYM 4.2. 271
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Fear no more the lightning flash,
CYM 4.2. 272
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Nor th' all-dreaded thunder-stone.
CYM 4.2. 273
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Fear not slander, censure rash.
CYM 4.2. 274
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Thou hast finished joy and moan.
CYM 4.2. 275
CYM-GUIDERIUS
CYM-AND
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
All lovers young, all lovers must
CYM 4.2. 276 Consign to thee and come to dust.
CYM 4.2. 277
CYM-GUIDERIUS
No exorcisor harm thee,
CYM 4.2. 278
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Nor no witchcraft charm thee.
CYM 4.2. 279
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Ghost unlaid forbear thee.
CYM 4.2. 280
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Nothing ill come near thee.
CYM 4.2. 281
CYM-GUIDERIUS
CYM-AND
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Quiet consummation have,
CYM 4.2. 282 And renowned be thy grave. {Enter Belarius with the body of +
CYM 4.2. 282 Cloten in Posthumus' suit}
CYM 4.2. 283
CYM-GUIDERIUS
We have done our obsequies. Come, lay him down.
CYM 4.2. 284
CYM-BELARIUS
Here's a few flowers, but 'bout midnight more;
CYM 4.2. 285 The herbs that have on them cold dew o' th' night
CYM 4.2. 286 Are strewings fitt'st for graves upon th' earth's face.
CYM 4.2. 287 You were as flowers, now withered; even so
CYM 4.2. 288 These herblets shall, which we upon you strow.
CYM 4.2. 289 Come on, away; apart upon our knees
CYM 4.2. 290
CYM-[]
CYM 4.2. 291 The ground that gave them first has them again.
CYM 4.2. 292 Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain. {Exeunt +
CYM 4.2. 292 Belarius, Arviragus, and Guiderius}
CYM 4.2. 293
CYM-INNOGEN
{(awakes)} Yes, sir, to Milford Haven. +
CYM 4.2. 293 Which is the way?
CYM 4.2. 294 I thank you. By yon bush? Pray, how far thither?
CYM 4.2. 295 'Od's pitykins, can it be six mile yet?
CYM 4.2. 296 I have gone all night. 'Faith, I'll lie down and sleep. {She +
CYM 4.2. 296 sees Cloten}
CYM 4.2. 297 But soft, no bedfellow! O gods and goddesses!
CYM 4.2. 298 These flowers are like the pleasures of the world,
CYM 4.2. 299 This bloody man the care on 't. I hope I dream,
CYM 4.2. 300 For so I thought I was a cavekeeper,
CYM 4.2. 301 And cook to honest creatures. But 'tis not so.
CYM 4.2. 302 'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot of nothing,
CYM 4.2. 303 Which the brain makes of fumes. Our very eyes
CYM 4.2. 304 Are sometimes like our judgements, blind. Good faith,
CYM 4.2. 305 I tremble still with fear; but if there be
CYM 4.2. 306 Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity
CYM 4.2. 307 As a wren's eye, feared gods, a part of it!
CYM 4.2. 308 The dream's here still. Even when I wake it is
CYM 4.2. 309 Without me as within me; not imagined, felt.
CYM 4.2. 310 A headless man? The garments of Posthumus?
CYM 4.2. 311 I know the shape of 's leg; this is his hand,
CYM 4.2. 312 His foot Mercurial, his Martial thigh,
CYM 4.2. 313 The brawns of Hercules; but his Jovial face -
CYM 4.2. 314 Murder in heaven! How? 'Tis gone. Pisanio,
CYM 4.2. 315 All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks,
CYM 4.2. 316 And mine to boot, be darted on thee! Thou,
CYM 4.2. 317 Conspired with that irregulous devil Cloten,
CYM 4.2. 318 Hath here cut off my lord. To write and read
CYM 4.2. 319 Be henceforth treacherous! Damned Pisanio
CYM 4.2. 320 Hath with his forged letters - damned Pisanio -
CYM 4.2. 321 From this most bravest vessel of the world
CYM 4.2. 322 Struck the main-top! O Posthumus, alas,
CYM 4.2. 323 Where is thy head? Where's that? Ay me, where's that?
CYM 4.2. 324 Pisanio might have killed thee at the heart
CYM 4.2. 325 And left thy head on. How should this be? Pisanio?
CYM 4.2. 326 'Tis he and Cloten. Malice and lucre in them
CYM 4.2. 327 Have laid this woe here. O, 'tis pregnant, pregnant!
CYM 4.2. 328 The drug he gave me, which he said was precious
CYM 4.2. 329 And cordial to me, have I not found it
CYM 4.2. 330 Murd'rous to th' senses? That confirms it home.
CYM 4.2. 331 This is Pisanio's deed, and Cloten - O,
CYM 4.2. 332 Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,
CYM 4.2. 333 That we the horrider may seem to those
CYM 4.2. 334B Which chance to find us! {[She smears her face with +
CYM 4.2. 334B blood]} O my lord, my lord! {[She faints.]}
CYM 4.2. 335 {Enter Lucius, Roman Captains, and a Soothsayer} A
CYM-ROMAN CAPTAIN
+
CYM 4.2. 335 {(to Lucius)} To them the legions garrisoned in Gallia
CYM 4.2. 336 After your will have crossed the sea, attending
CYM 4.2. 337 You here at Milford Haven with your ships.
CYM 4.2. 338B They are hence in readiness.
CYM-LUCIUS
But what from Rome?
CYM 4.2. 339 A
CYM-ROMAN CAPTAIN
The senate hath stirred up the confiners
CYM 4.2. 340 And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits
CYM 4.2. 341 That promise noble service, and they come
CYM 4.2. 342 Under the conduct of bold Giacomo,
CYM 4.2. 343B Siena's brother.
CYM-LUCIUS
When expect you them?
CYM 4.2. 344B A
CYM-ROMAN CAPTAIN
With the next benefit o' th' wind.
CYM-LUCIUS
This +
CYM 4.2. 344B forwardness
CYM 4.2. 345 Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers
CYM 4.2. 346B Be mustered; bid the captains look to 't. {[Exit one or +
CYM 4.2. 346B more]} {(To Soothsayer)} Now, sir,
CYM 4.2. 347 What have you dreamed of late of this war's purpose?
CYM 4.2. 348
CYM-SOOTHSAYER
Last night the very gods showed me a vision -
CYM 4.2. 349 I fast, and prayed for their intelligence - thus:
CYM 4.2. 350 I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged
CYM 4.2. 351 From the spongy south to this part of the west,
CYM 4.2. 352 There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,
CYM 4.2. 353 Unless my sins abuse my divination,
CYM 4.2. 354B Success to th' Roman host.
CYM-LUCIUS
Dream often so,
CYM 4.2. 355B And never false. {He sees Cloten's body} Soft, ho, what +
CYM 4.2. 355B trunk is here
CYM 4.2. 356 Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime
CYM 4.2. 357 It was a worthy building. How, a page?
CYM 4.2. 358 Or dead or sleeping on him? But dead rather,
CYM 4.2. 359 For nature doth abhor to make his bed
CYM 4.2. 360 With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead.
CYM 4.2. 361B Let's see the boy's face. A
CYM-ROMAN CAPTAIN
He's alive, my lord.
CYM 4.2. 362
CYM-LUCIUS
He'll then instruct us of this body. Young one,
CYM 4.2. 363 Inform us of thy fortunes, for it seems
CYM 4.2. 364 They crave to be demanded. Who is this
CYM 4.2. 365 Thou mak'st thy bloody pillow? Or who was he
CYM 4.2. 366 That, otherwise than noble nature did,
CYM 4.2. 367 Hath altered that good picture? What's thy interest
CYM 4.2. 368 In this sad wreck? How came 't? Who is 't?
CYM 4.2. 369B What art thou?
CYM-INNOGEN
I am nothing; or if not,
CYM 4.2. 370 Nothing to be were better. This was my master,
CYM 4.2. 371 A very valiant Briton, and a good,
CYM 4.2. 372 That here by mountaineers lies slain. Alas,
CYM 4.2. 373 There is no more such masters. I may wander
CYM 4.2. 374 From east to occident, cry out for service,
CYM 4.2. 375 Try many, all good; serve truly, never
CYM 4.2. 376B Find such another master.
CYM-LUCIUS
'Lack, good youth,
CYM 4.2. 377 Thou mov'st no less with thy complaining than
CYM 4.2. 378 Thy master in bleeding. Say his name, good friend.
CYM 4.2. 379
CYM-INNOGEN
Richard du Champ. {(Aside)} If I do lie and +
CYM 4.2. 379 do
CYM 4.2. 380 No harm by it, though the gods hear I hope
CYM 4.2. 381B They'll pardon it. {(Aloud)} Say you, sir?
CYM-LUCIUS
+
CYM 4.2. 381B Thy name?
CYM-INNOGEN
Fidele, sir.
CYM 4.2. 382
CYM-LUCIUS
Thou dost approve thyself the very same.
CYM 4.2. 383 Thy name well fits thy faith, thy faith thy name.
CYM 4.2. 384 Wilt take thy chance with me? I will not say
CYM 4.2. 385 Thou shalt be so well mastered, but be sure,
CYM 4.2. 386 No less beloved. The Roman Emperor's letters
CYM 4.2. 387 Sent by a consul to me should not sooner
CYM 4.2. 388 Than thine own worth prefer thee. Go with me.
CYM 4.2. 389
CYM-INNOGEN
I'll follow, sir. But first, an 't please the gods,
CYM 4.2. 390 I'll hide my master from the flies as deep
CYM 4.2. 391 As these poor pickaxes can dig; and when
CYM 4.2. 392 With wild-wood leaves and weeds I ha' strewed his grave
CYM 4.2. 393 And on it said a century of prayers,
CYM 4.2. 394 Such as I can, twice o'er I'll weep and sigh,
CYM 4.2. 395 And leaving so his service, follow you,
CYM 4.2. 396B So please you entertain me.
CYM-LUCIUS
Ay, good youth,
CYM 4.2. 397 And rather father thee than master thee. My friends,
CYM 4.2. 398 The boy hath taught us manly duties. Let us
CYM 4.2. 399 Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can,
CYM 4.2. 400 And make him with our pikes and partisans
CYM 4.2. 401 A grave. Come, arm him. Boy, he is preferred
CYM 4.2. 402 By thee to us, and he shall be interred
CYM 4.2. 403 As soldiers can. Be cheerful. Wipe thine eyes.
CYM 4.2. 404 Some falls are means the happier to arise. {Exeunt with Cloten's +
CYM 4.2. 404 body}
CYM 4.2. 0 {Enter Cymbeline, Lords, and Pisanio}
CYM 4.3. 1
CYM-CYMBELINE
Again, and bring me word how 'tis with +
CYM 4.3. 1 her. {Exit one or more}
CYM 4.3. 2 A fever with the absence of her son,
CYM 4.3. 3 A madness of which her life's in danger - heavens,
CYM 4.3. 4 How deeply you at once do touch me! Innogen,
CYM 4.3. 5 The great part of my comfort, gone; my queen
CYM 4.3. 6 Upon a desperate bed, and in a time
CYM 4.3. 7 When fearful wars point at me; her son gone,
CYM 4.3. 8 So needful for this present! It strikes me past
CYM 4.3. 9 The hope of comfort. {(To Pisanio)} But for thee, +
CYM 4.3. 9 fellow,
CYM 4.3. 10 Who needs must know of her departure and
CYM 4.3. 11 Dost seem so ignorant, we'll enforce it from thee
CYM 4.3. 12B By a sharp torture.
CYM-PISANIO
Sir, my life is yours.
CYM 4.3. 13 I humbly set it at your will. But for my mistress,
CYM 4.3. 14 I nothing know where she remains, why gone,
CYM 4.3. 15 Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your highness,
CYM 4.3. 16B Hold me your loyal servant. A
CYM-LORD
Good my liege,
CYM 4.3. 17 The day that she was missing he was here.
CYM 4.3. 18 I dare be bound he's true, and shall perform
CYM 4.3. 19 All parts of his subjection loyally. For Cloten,
CYM 4.3. 20 There wants no diligence in seeking him,
CYM 4.3. 21B And will no doubt be found.
CYM-CYMBELINE
The time is troublesome.
CYM 4.3. 22 {(To Pisanio)} We'll slip you for a season, but our +
CYM 4.3. 22 jealousy
CYM 4.3. 23B Does yet depend. A
CYM-LORD
So please your majesty,
CYM 4.3. 24 The Roman legions, all from Gallia drawn,
CYM 4.3. 25 Are landed on your coast with a supply
CYM 4.3. 26 Of Roman gentlemen by the senate sent.
CYM 4.3. 27
CYM-CYMBELINE
Now for the counsel of my son and queen!
CYM 4.3. 28B I am amazed with matter. A
CYM-LORD
Good my liege,
CYM 4.3. 29 Your preparation can affront no less
CYM 4.3. 30 Than what you hear of. Come more, for more you're ready.
CYM 4.3. 31 The want is but to put those powers in motion
CYM 4.3. 32B That long to move.
CYM-CYMBELINE
I thank you. Let's withdraw,
CYM 4.3. 33 And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not
CYM 4.3. 34 What can from Italy annoy us, but
CYM 4.3. 35 We grieve at chances here. Away. {Exeunt Cymbeline and Lords}
CYM 4.3. 36
CYM-PISANIO
I heard no letter from my master since
CYM 4.3. 37 I wrote him Innogen was slain. 'Tis strange.
CYM 4.3. 38 Nor hear I from my mistress, who did promise
CYM 4.3. 39 To yield me often tidings. Neither know I
CYM 4.3. 40 What is betid to Cloten, but remain
CYM 4.3. 41 Perplexed in all. The heavens still must work.
CYM 4.3. 42 Wherein I am false I am honest; not true, to be true.
CYM 4.3. 43 These present wars shall find I love my country
CYM 4.3. 44 Even to the note o' th' King, or I'll fall in them.
CYM 4.3. 45 All other doubts, by time let them be cleared:
CYM 4.3. 46 Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. {Exit}
CYM 4.3. 0 {Enter Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus}
CYM 4.4. 1B
CYM-GUIDERIUS
The noise is round about us.
CYM-BELARIUS
Let us +
CYM 4.4. 1B from it.
CYM 4.4. 2
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it
CYM 4.4. 3B From action and adventure?
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Nay, what hope
CYM 4.4. 4 Have we in hiding us? This way the Romans
CYM 4.4. 5 Must or for Britains slay us, or receive us
CYM 4.4. 6 For barbarous and unnatural revolts
CYM 4.4. 7B During their use, and slay us after.
CYM-BELARIUS
Sons,
CYM 4.4. 8 We'll higher to the mountains; there secure us.
CYM 4.4. 9 To the King's party there's no going. Newness
CYM 4.4. 10 Of Cloten's death - we being not known, not mustered
CYM 4.4. 11 Among the bands - may drive us to a render
CYM 4.4. 12 Where we have lived, and so extort from 's that
CYM 4.4. 13 Which we have done, whose answer would be death
CYM 4.4. 14B Drawn on with torture.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
This is, sir, a doubt
CYM 4.4. 15 In such a time nothing becoming you
CYM 4.4. 16B Nor satisfying us.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
It is not likely
CYM 4.4. 17 That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
CYM 4.4. 18 Behold their quartered files, have both their eyes
CYM 4.4. 19 And ears so cloyed importantly as now,
CYM 4.4. 20 That they will waste their time upon our note,
CYM 4.4. 21B To know from whence we are.
CYM-BELARIUS
O, I am known
CYM 4.4. 22 Of many in the army. Many years,
CYM 4.4. 23 Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him
CYM 4.4. 24 From my remembrance. And besides, the King
CYM 4.4. 25 Hath not deserved my service nor your loves,
CYM 4.4. 26 Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
CYM 4.4. 27 The certainty of this hard life; aye hopeless
CYM 4.4. 28 To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
CYM 4.4. 29 But to be still hot summer's tanlings, and
CYM 4.4. 30B The shrinking slaves of winter.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Than be so,
CYM 4.4. 31 Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to th' army.
CYM 4.4. 32 I and my brother are not known; yourself
CYM 4.4. 33 So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown,
CYM 4.4. 34B Cannot be questioned.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
By this sun that shines,
CYM 4.4. 35 I'll thither. What thing is 't that I never
CYM 4.4. 36 Did see man die, scarce ever looked on blood
CYM 4.4. 37 But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison,
CYM 4.4. 38 Never bestrid a horse save one that had
CYM 4.4. 39 A rider like myself, who ne'er wore rowel
CYM 4.4. 40 Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed
CYM 4.4. 41 To look upon the holy sun, to have
CYM 4.4. 42 The benefit of his blest beams, remaining
CYM 4.4. 43B So long a poor unknown.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
By heavens, I'll go.
CYM 4.4. 44 If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
CYM 4.4. 45 I'll take the better care; but if you will not,
CYM 4.4. 46 The hazard therefore due fall on me by
CYM 4.4. 47B The hands of Romans.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
So say I, amen.
CYM 4.4. 48
CYM-BELARIUS
No reason I, since of your lives you set
CYM 4.4. 49 So slight a valuation, should reserve
CYM 4.4. 50 My cracked one to more care. Have with you, boys!
CYM 4.4. 51 If in your country wars you chance to die,
CYM 4.4. 52 That is my bed, too, lads, and there I'll lie.
CYM 4.4. 53 Lead, lead. {(Aside)} The time seems long. Their blood +
CYM 4.4. 53 thinks scorn
CYM 4.4. 54 Till it fly out and show them princes born. {Exeunt}
CYM 4.4. 54
CYM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
CYM 4.4. 0 {Enter Posthumus, dressed as an Italian gentleman, +
CYM 5.1. 0 carrying a bloody cloth}
CYM 5.1. 1
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I once +
CYM 5.1. 1 wished
CYM 5.1. 2 Thou shouldst be coloured thus. You married ones,
CYM 5.1. 3 If each of you should take this course, how many
CYM 5.1. 4 Must murder wives much better than themselves
CYM 5.1. 5 For wrying but a little! O Pisanio,
CYM 5.1. 6 Every good servant does not all commands,
CYM 5.1. 7 No bond but to do just ones. Gods, if you
CYM 5.1. 8 Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never
CYM 5.1. 9 Had lived to put on this; so had you saved
CYM 5.1. 10 The noble Innogen to repent, and struck
CYM 5.1. 11 Me, wretch, more worth your vengeance. But alack,
CYM 5.1. 12 You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love,
CYM 5.1. 13 To have them fall no more. You some permit
CYM 5.1. 14 To second ills with ills, each elder worse,
CYM 5.1. 15 And make them dread ill, to the doer's thrift.
CYM 5.1. 16 But Innogen is your own. Do your blest wills,
CYM 5.1. 17 And make me blest to obey. I am brought hither
CYM 5.1. 18 Among th' Italian gentry, and to fight
CYM 5.1. 19 Against my lady's kingdom. 'Tis enough
CYM 5.1. 20 That, Britain, I have killed thy mistress-piece;
CYM 5.1. 21 I'll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,
CYM 5.1. 22 Hear patiently my purpose. I'll disrobe me
CYM 5.1. 23 Of these Italian weeds, and suit myself
CYM 5.1. 24B As does a Briton peasant. {[He disrobes himself ]} So +
CYM 5.1. 24B I'll fight
CYM 5.1. 25 Against the part I come with; so I'll die
CYM 5.1. 26 For thee, O Innogen, even for whom my life
CYM 5.1. 27 Is every breath a death; and, thus unknown,
CYM 5.1. 28 Pitied nor hated, to the face of peril
CYM 5.1. 29 Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know
CYM 5.1. 30 More valour in me than my habits show.
CYM 5.1. 31 Gods, put the strength o' th' Leonati in me.
CYM 5.1. 32 To shame the guise o' th' world, I will begin
CYM 5.1. 33 The fashion - less without and more within. {Exit}
CYM 5.1. 0
CYM-[A
march.] Enter Lucius, Giacomo, and the Roman army at +
CYM 5.2. 0 one door, and the Briton army at another, Leonatus Posthumus following +
CYM 5.2. 0 like a poor soldier. They march over and go out. [Alarums.] Then enter +
CYM 5.2. 0 again in skirmish Giacomo and Posthumus: he vanquisheth and disarmeth +
CYM 5.2. 0 Giacomo, and then leaves him}
CYM 5.2. 1
CYM-GIACOMO
The heaviness and guilt within my bosom
CYM 5.2. 2 Takes off my manhood. I have belied a lady,
CYM 5.2. 3 The princess of this country, and the air on 't
CYM 5.2. 4 Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,
CYM 5.2. 5 A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me
CYM 5.2. 6 In my profession? Knighthoods and honours borne
CYM 5.2. 7 As I wear mine are titles but of scorn.
CYM 5.2. 8 If that thy gentry, Britain, go before
CYM 5.2. 9 This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds
CYM 5.2. 10 Is that we scarce are men and you are gods. {Exit}
CYM 5.2. 0 {The battle continues. [Alarums. Excursions. The trumpets +
CYM 5.3. 0 sound a retreat.] The Britons fly, Cymbeline is taken. Then enter to +
CYM 5.3. 0 his rescue Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus}
CYM 5.3. 1
CYM-BELARIUS
Stand, stand, we have th' advantage of the +
CYM 5.3. 1 ground.
CYM 5.3. 2 The lane is guarded. Nothing routs us but
CYM 5.3. 3B The villainy of our fears.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
CYM-AND
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Stand, stand, +
CYM 5.3. 3B and fight. {Enter Posthumus like a poor soldier, and seconds the +
CYM 5.3. 3B Britons. They rescue Cymbeline and exeunt}
CYM 5.3. 0 {[The trumpets sound a retreat,] then enter Lucius, Giacomo, and +
CYM 5.4. 0 Innogen}
CYM 5.4. 1
CYM-LUCIUS
{(to Innogen)} Away, boy, from the troops, +
CYM 5.4. 1 and save thyself;
CYM 5.4. 2 For friends kill friends, and the disorder's such
CYM 5.4. 3B As war were hoodwinked.
CYM-GIACOMO
'Tis their fresh supplies.
CYM 5.4. 4
CYM-LUCIUS
It is a day turned strangely. Or betimes
CYM 5.4. 5 Let's reinforce, or fly. {Exeunt}
CYM 5.4. 0 {Enter Posthumus like a poor soldier, and a Briton Lord}
CYM 5.5. 1B
CYM-LORD
Cam'st thou from where they made the +
CYM 5.5. 1B stand?
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I did,
CYM 5.5. 2B Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.
CYM-LORD
Ay.
CYM 5.5. 3
CYM-POSTHUMUS
No blame be to you, sir, for all was lost,
CYM 5.5. 4 But that the heavens fought. The King himself
CYM 5.5. 5 Of his wings destitute, the army broken,
CYM 5.5. 6 And but the backs of Britons seen, all flying
CYM 5.5. 7 Through a strait lane; the enemy full-hearted,
CYM 5.5. 8 Lolling the tongue with slaught'ring, having work
CYM 5.5. 9 More plentiful than tools to do 't, struck down
CYM 5.5. 10 Some mortally, some slightly touched, some falling
CYM 5.5. 11 Merely through fear, that the strait pass was dammed
CYM 5.5. 12 With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living
CYM 5.5. 13B To die with lengthened shame.
CYM-LORD
Where was this lane?
CYM 5.5. 14
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Close by the battle, ditched, and walled with turf;
CYM 5.5. 15 Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier,
CYM 5.5. 16 An honest one, I warrant, who deserved
CYM 5.5. 17 So long a breeding as his white beard came to,
CYM 5.5. 18 In doing this for 's country. Athwart the lane
CYM 5.5. 19 He with two striplings - lads more like to run
CYM 5.5. 20 The country base than to commit such slaughter;
CYM 5.5. 21 With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer
CYM 5.5. 22 Than those for preservation cased, or shame -
CYM 5.5. 23 Made good the passage, cried to those that fled
CYM 5.5. 24 `Our Britain's harts die flying, not her men.
CYM 5.5. 25 To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards. Stand,
CYM 5.5. 26 Or we are Romans, and will give you that
CYM 5.5. 27 Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save
CYM 5.5. 28 But to look back in frown. Stand, stand.' These three,
CYM 5.5. 29 Three thousand confident, in act as many -
CYM 5.5. 30 For three performers are the file when all
CYM 5.5. 31 The rest do nothing - with this word `Stand, stand',
CYM 5.5. 32 Accommodated by the place, more charming
CYM 5.5. 33 With their own nobleness, which could have turned
CYM 5.5. 34 A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks;
CYM 5.5. 35 Part shame, part spirit renewed, that some, turned coward
CYM 5.5. 36 But by example - O, a sin in war,
CYM 5.5. 37 Damned in the first beginners! - gan to look
CYM 5.5. 38 The way that they did and to grin like lions
CYM 5.5. 39 Upon the pikes o' th' hunters. Then began
CYM 5.5. 40 A stop i' th' chaser, a retire. Anon
CYM 5.5. 41 A rout, confusion thick; forthwith they fly
CYM 5.5. 42 Chickens the way which they stooped eagles; slaves,
CYM 5.5. 43 The strides they victors made; and now our cowards,
CYM 5.5. 44 Like fragments in hard voyages, became
CYM 5.5. 45 The life o' th' need. Having found the back door open
CYM 5.5. 46 Of the unguarded hearts, heavens, how they wound!
CYM 5.5. 47 Some slain before, some dying, some their friends
CYM 5.5. 48 O'erborne i' th' former wave, ten chased by one,
CYM 5.5. 49 Are now each one the slaughterman of twenty.
CYM 5.5. 50 Those that would die or ere resist are grown
CYM 5.5. 51B The mortal bugs o' th' field.
CYM-LORD
This was strange chance:
CYM 5.5. 52 A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys.
CYM 5.5. 53
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Nay, do not wonder at it. Yet you are made
CYM 5.5. 54 Rather to wonder at the things you hear
CYM 5.5. 55 Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon 't,
CYM 5.5. 56 And vent it for a mock'ry? Here is one:
CYM 5.5. 57 `Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane,
CYM 5.5. 58 Preserved the Britons, was the Romans' bane.'
CYM 5.5. 59B
CYM-LORD
Nay, be not angry, sir.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
'Lack, to what end?
CYM 5.5. 60 Who dares not stand his foe, I'll be his friend,
CYM 5.5. 61 For if he'll do as he is made to do,
CYM 5.5. 62 I know he'll quickly fly my friendship too.
CYM 5.5. 63B You have put me into rhyme.
CYM-LORD
Farewell; you're angry. +
CYM 5.5. 63B {Exit}
CYM 5.5. 64
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Still going? This a lord? O noble misery,
CYM 5.5. 65 To be i' th' field and ask `What news?' of me!
CYM 5.5. 66 Today how many would have given their honours
CYM 5.5. 67 To have saved their carcasses - took heel to do 't,
CYM 5.5. 68 And yet died too! I, in mine own woe charmed,
CYM 5.5. 69 Could not find death where I did hear him groan,
CYM 5.5. 70 Nor feel him where he struck. Being an ugly monster,
CYM 5.5. 71 'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds,
CYM 5.5. 72 Sweet words, or hath more ministers than we
CYM 5.5. 73 That draw his knives i' th' war. Well, I will find him;
CYM 5.5. 74 For being now a favourer to the Briton,
CYM 5.5. 75 No more a Briton, I have resumed again
CYM 5.5. 76 The part I came in. Fight I will no more,
CYM 5.5. 77 But yield me to the veriest hind that shall
CYM 5.5. 78 Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is
CYM 5.5. 79 Here made by th' Roman; great the answer be
CYM 5.5. 80 Britons must take. For me, my ransom's death,
CYM 5.5. 81 On either side I come to spend my breath,
CYM 5.5. 82 Which neither here I'll keep nor bear again,
CYM 5.5. 83 But end it by some means for Innogen. {Enter two Briton +
CYM 5.5. 83 Captains, and soldiers}
CYM 5.5. 84
CYM-FIRST CAPTAIN
Great Jupiter be praised, Lucius is taken.
CYM 5.5. 85 'Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels.
CYM 5.5. 86
CYM-SECOND CAPTAIN
There was a fourth man, in a seely habit,
CYM 5.5. 87B That gave th' affront with them.
CYM-FIRST CAPTAIN
So 'tis reported,
CYM 5.5. 88 But none of 'em can be found. Stand, who's there?
CYM 5.5. 89A
CYM-POSTHUMUS
A Roman,
CYM 5.5. 90 Who had not now been drooping here if seconds
CYM 5.5. 91B Had answered him.
CYM-SECOND CAPTAIN
{(to soldiers)} +
CYM 5.5. 91B Lay hands on him, a dog!
CYM 5.5. 92 A leg of Rome shall not return to tell
CYM 5.5. 93 What crows have pecked them here. He brags his service
CYM 5.5. 94 As if he were of note. Bring him to th' King. {[Flourish.] Enter +
CYM 5.5. 94 Cymbeline [and his train], Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, Pisanio, and +
CYM 5.5. 94 Roman captives. The Captains present Posthumus to Cymbeline, who +
CYM 5.5. 94 delivers him over to a Jailer.}
CYM 5.5. 95 {Exeunt all but Posthumus and two Jailers, [who lock gyves on his +
CYM 5.5. 95 legs]}
CYM-FIRST JAILER
You shall not now be stol'n. You have +
CYM 5.5. 95 locks upon you,
CYM 5.5. 96B So graze as you find pasture.
CYM-SECOND JAILER
Ay, or a stomach. +
CYM 5.5. 96B {Exeunt Jailers}
CYM 5.5. 97
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way,
CYM 5.5. 98 I think, to liberty. Yet am I better
CYM 5.5. 99 Than one that's sick o' th' gout, since he had rather
CYM 5.5. 100 Groan so in perpetuity than be cured
CYM 5.5. 101 By th' sure physician, death, who is the key
CYM 5.5. 102 T' unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fettered
CYM 5.5. 103 More than my shanks and wrists. You good gods give me
CYM 5.5. 104 The penitent instrument to pick that bolt,
CYM 5.5. 105 Then free for ever. Is 't enough I am sorry?
CYM 5.5. 106 So children temporal fathers do appease;
CYM 5.5. 107 Gods are more full of mercy. Must I repent,
CYM 5.5. 108 I cannot do it better than in gyves
CYM 5.5. 109 Desired more than constrained. To satisfy,
CYM 5.5. 110 If of my freedom 'tis the main part, take
CYM 5.5. 111 No stricter render of me than my all.
CYM 5.5. 112 I know you are more clement than vile men
CYM 5.5. 113 Who of their broken debtors take a third,
CYM 5.5. 114 A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again
CYM 5.5. 115 On their abatement. That's not my desire.
CYM 5.5. 116 For Innogen's dear life take mine, and though
CYM 5.5. 117 'Tis not so dear, yet 'tis a life; you coined it.
CYM 5.5. 118 'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp;
CYM 5.5. 119 Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake;
CYM 5.5. 120 You rather mine, being yours. And so, great powers,
CYM 5.5. 121 If you will make this audit, take this life,
CYM 5.5. 122 And cancel these cold bonds. O Innogen,
CYM 5.5. 123 I'll speak to thee in silence! {He sleeps. Solemn music. Enter, +
CYM 5.5. 123 as in an apparition, Sicilius Leonatus (father to Posthumus, an old +
CYM 5.5. 123 man), attired like a warrior, leading in his hand an ancient matron, +
CYM 5.5. 123 his wife, and mother to Posthumus, with music before them.}
CYM 5.5. 124 {Then, after other music, follows the two young Leonati, brothers to +
CYM 5.5. 124 Posthumus, with wounds as they died in the wars. They circle Posthumus +
CYM 5.5. 124 round as he lies sleeping}
CYM-SICILIUS
No more, thou +
CYM 5.5. 124 thunder-master, show
CYM 5.5. 125 Thy spite on mortal flies.
CYM 5.5. 126 With Mars fall out, with Juno chide,
CYM 5.5. 127 That thy adulteries
CYM 5.5. 128 Rates and revenges.
CYM 5.5. 129 Hath my poor boy done aught but well,
CYM 5.5. 130 Whose face I never saw?
CYM 5.5. 131 I died whilst in the womb he stayed,
CYM 5.5. 132 Attending nature's law,
CYM 5.5. 133 Whose father then - as men report
CYM 5.5. 134 Thou orphans' father art -
CYM 5.5. 135 Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him
CYM 5.5. 136 From this earth-vexing smart.
CYM 5.5. 137
CYM-MOTHER
Lucina lent not me her aid,
CYM 5.5. 138 But took me in my throes,
CYM 5.5. 139 That from me was Posthumus ripped,
CYM 5.5. 140 Came crying 'mongst his foes,
CYM 5.5. 141 A thing of pity.
CYM 5.5. 142
CYM-SICILIUS
Great nature like his ancestry
CYM 5.5. 143 Moulded the stuff so fair
CYM 5.5. 144 That he deserved the praise o' th' world
CYM 5.5. 145 As great Sicilius' heir.
CYM 5.5. 146
CYM-FIRST BROTHER
When once he was mature for man,
CYM 5.5. 147 In Britain where was he
CYM 5.5. 148 That could stand up his parallel,
CYM 5.5. 149 Or fruitful object be
CYM 5.5. 150 In eye of Innogen, that best
CYM 5.5. 151 Could deem his dignity?
CYM 5.5. 152
CYM-MOTHER
With marriage wherefore was he mocked,
CYM 5.5. 153 To be exiled, and thrown
CYM 5.5. 154 From Leonati seat and cast
CYM 5.5. 155 From her his dearest one,
CYM 5.5. 156 Sweet Innogen?
CYM 5.5. 157
CYM-SICILIUS
Why did you suffer Giacomo,
CYM 5.5. 158 Slight thing of Italy,
CYM 5.5. 159 To taint his nobler heart and brain
CYM 5.5. 160 With needless jealousy,
CYM 5.5. 161 And to become the geck and scorn
CYM 5.5. 162 O' th' other's villainy?
CYM 5.5. 163
CYM-SECOND BROTHER
For this from stiller seats we come,
CYM 5.5. 164 Our parents and us twain,
CYM 5.5. 165 That striking in our country's cause
CYM 5.5. 166 Fell bravely and were slain,
CYM 5.5. 167 Our fealty and Tenantius' right
CYM 5.5. 168 With honour to maintain.
CYM 5.5. 169
CYM-FIRST BROTHER
Like hardiment Posthumus hath
CYM 5.5. 170 To Cymbeline performed.
CYM 5.5. 171 Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,
CYM 5.5. 172 Why hast thou thus adjourned
CYM 5.5. 173 The graces for his merits due,
CYM 5.5. 174 Being all to dolours turned?
CYM 5.5. 175
CYM-SICILIUS
Thy crystal window ope; look out;
CYM 5.5. 176 No longer exercise
CYM 5.5. 177 Upon a valiant race thy harsh
CYM 5.5. 178 And potent injuries.
CYM 5.5. 179
CYM-MOTHER
Since, Jupiter, our son is good,
CYM 5.5. 180 Take off his miseries.
CYM 5.5. 181
CYM-SICILIUS
Peep through thy marble mansion. Help,
CYM 5.5. 182 Or we poor ghosts will cry
CYM 5.5. 183 To th' shining synod of the rest
CYM 5.5. 184 Against thy deity.
CYM 5.5. 185
CYM-BROTHERS
Help, Jupiter, or we appeal,
CYM 5.5. 186 And from thy justice fly. {Jupiter descends in thunder and +
CYM 5.5. 186 lightning, sitting upon an eagle. He throws a thunderbolt. The ghosts +
CYM 5.5. 186 fall on their knees}
CYM 5.5. 187
CYM-JUPITER
No more, you petty spirits of region low,
CYM 5.5. 188 Offend our hearing. Hush! How dare you ghosts
CYM 5.5. 189 Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt, you know,
CYM 5.5. 190 Sky-planted, batters all rebelling coasts?
CYM 5.5. 191 Poor shadows of Elysium, hence, and rest
CYM 5.5. 192 Upon your never-withering banks of flowers.
CYM 5.5. 193 Be not with mortal accidents oppressed;
CYM 5.5. 194 No care of yours it is; you know 'tis ours.
CYM 5.5. 195 Whom best I love, I cross, to make my gift,
CYM 5.5. 196 The more delayed, delighted. Be content.
CYM 5.5. 197 Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift.
CYM 5.5. 198 His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.
CYM 5.5. 199 Our Jovial star reigned at his birth, and in
CYM 5.5. 200 Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade.
CYM 5.5. 201 He shall be lord of Lady Innogen,
CYM 5.5. 202 And happier much by his affliction made.
CYM 5.5. 203 This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein
CYM 5.5. 204 Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine. {He gives the ghosts +
CYM 5.5. 204 a tablet which they lay upon Posthumus' breast}
CYM 5.5. 205 And so away. No farther with your din
CYM 5.5. 206 Express impatience, lest you stir up mine.
CYM 5.5. 207 Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. {He ascends into the +
CYM 5.5. 207 heavens}
CYM 5.5. 208
CYM-SICILIUS
He came in thunder. His celestial breath
CYM 5.5. 209 Was sulphurous to smell. The holy eagle
CYM 5.5. 210 Stooped, as to foot us. His ascension is
CYM 5.5. 211 More sweet than our blest fields. His royal bird
CYM 5.5. 212 Preens the immortal wing and claws his beak
CYM 5.5. 213B As when his god is pleased.
CYM-ALL THE GHOSTS
Thanks, Jupiter.
CYM 5.5. 214
CYM-SICILIUS
The marble pavement closes, he is entered
CYM 5.5. 215 His radiant roof. Away, and, to be blest,
CYM 5.5. 216 Let us with care perform his great behest. {The ghosts vanish}
CYM 5.5. 217 {Posthumus awakes}
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Sleep, thou hast been +
CYM 5.5. 217 a grandsire, and begot
CYM 5.5. 218 A father to me; and thou hast created
CYM 5.5. 219 A mother and two brothers. But, O scorn,
CYM 5.5. 220 Gone! They went hence so soon as they were born,
CYM 5.5. 221 And so I am awake. Poor wretches that depend
CYM 5.5. 222 On greatness' favour dream as I have done,
CYM 5.5. 223 Wake and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve.
CYM 5.5. 224 Many dream not to find, neither deserve,
CYM 5.5. 225 And yet are steeped in favours; so am I,
CYM 5.5. 226 That have this golden chance and know not why.
CYM 5.5. 227 What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one,
CYM 5.5. 228 Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
CYM 5.5. 229 Nobler than that it covers. Let thy effects
CYM 5.5. 230 So follow to be most unlike our courtiers,
CYM 5.5. 231 As good as promise. {He reads}
CYM 5.5. 232 `Whenas a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown,
CYM 5.5. 233 without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of
CYM 5.5. 234 tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be
CYM 5.5. 235 lopped branches which, being dead many years, shall
CYM 5.5. 236 after revive, be jointed to the old stock, and freshly
CYM 5.5. 237 grow; then shall Posthumus end his miseries, Britain
CYM 5.5. 238 be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty.'
CYM 5.5. 239 'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
CYM 5.5. 240 Tongue, and brain not; either both, or nothing,
CYM 5.5. 241 Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such
CYM 5.5. 242 As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,
CYM 5.5. 243 The action of my life is like it, which I'll keep,
CYM 5.5. 244 If but for sympathy. {Enter Jailer}
CYM 5.5. 245
CYM-JAILER
Come, sir, are you ready for death?
CYM 5.5. 246
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Over-roasted rather; ready long ago.
CYM 5.5. 247
CYM-JAILER
Hanging is the word, sir. If you be ready for that,
CYM 5.5. 248 you are well cooked.
CYM 5.5. 249
CYM-POSTHUMUS
So, if I prove a good repast to the spectators,
CYM 5.5. 250 the dish pays the shot.
CYM 5.5. 251
CYM-JAILER
A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort
CYM 5.5. 252 is, you shall be called to no more payments, fear no
CYM 5.5. 253 more tavern bills, which are as often the sadness of
CYM 5.5. 254 parting as the procuring of mirth. You come in faint
CYM 5.5. 255 for want of meat, depart reeling with too much drink,
CYM 5.5. 256 sorry that you have paid too much and sorry that you
CYM 5.5. 257 are paid too much; purse and brain both empty: the
CYM 5.5. 258 brain the heavier for being too light, the purse too
CYM 5.5. 259 light, being drawn of heaviness. Of this contradiction
CYM 5.5. 260 you shall now be quit. O, the charity of a penny cord!
CYM 5.5. 261 It sums up thousands in a trice. You have no true
CYM 5.5. 262 debitor and creditor but it: of what's past, is, and to
CYM 5.5. 263 come the discharge. Your neck, sir, is pen, book, and
CYM 5.5. 264 counters; so the acquittance follows.
CYM 5.5. 265
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I am merrier to die than thou art to live.
CYM 5.5. 266
CYM-JAILER
Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache;
CYM 5.5. 267 but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman
CYM 5.5. 268 to help him to bed, I think he would change places
CYM 5.5. 269 with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which
CYM 5.5. 270 way you shall go.
CYM 5.5. 271
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Yes, indeed do I, fellow.
CYM 5.5. 272
CYM-JAILER
Your death has eyes in 's head, then. I have not
CYM 5.5. 273 seen him so pictured. You must either be directed by
CYM 5.5. 274 some that take upon them to know, or take upon
CYM 5.5. 275 yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or
CYM 5.5. 276 jump the after-enquiry on your own peril; and how
CYM 5.5. 277 you shall speed in your journey's end I think you'll
CYM 5.5. 278 never return to tell on.
CYM 5.5. 279
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes
CYM 5.5. 280 to direct them the way I am going but such as wink
CYM 5.5. 281 and will not use them.
CYM 5.5. 282
CYM-JAILER
What an infinite mock is this, that a man should
CYM 5.5. 283 have the best use of eyes to see the way of blindness!
CYM 5.5. 284 I am sure hanging's the way of winking. {Enter a Messenger}
CYM 5.5. 285
CYM-MESSENGER
Knock off his manacles, bring your prisoner
CYM 5.5. 286 to the King.
CYM 5.5. 287
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Thou bring'st good news, I am called to be
CYM 5.5. 288 made free.
CYM 5.5. 289
CYM-JAILER
I'll be hanged then.
CYM 5.5. 290
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Thou shalt be then freer than a jailer; no
CYM 5.5. 291 bolts for the dead.
CYM 5.5. 292
CYM-JAILER
{(aside)} Unless a man would marry a +
CYM 5.5. 292 gallows and
CYM 5.5. 293 beget young gibbets, I never saw one so prone. Yet, on
CYM 5.5. 294 my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live,
CYM 5.5. 295 for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them, too,
CYM 5.5. 296 that die against their wills; so should I if I were one. I
CYM 5.5. 297 would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.
CYM 5.5. 298 O, there were desolation of jailers and gallowses! I
CYM 5.5. 299 speak against my present profit, but my wish hath a
CYM 5.5. 300 preferment in 't. {Exeunt}
CYM 5.5. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter Cymbeline, Belarius, Guiderius, +
CYM 5.6. 0 Arviragus, Pisanio, and lords}
CYM 5.6. 1
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus)}+
CYM 5.6. 1 Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made
CYM 5.6. 2 Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart
CYM 5.6. 3 That the poor soldier that so richly fought,
CYM 5.6. 4 Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast
CYM 5.6. 5 Stepped before targs of proof, cannot be found.
CYM 5.6. 6 He shall be happy that can find him, if
CYM 5.6. 7B Our grace can make him so.
CYM-BELARIUS
I never saw
CYM 5.6. 8 Such noble fury in so poor a thing,
CYM 5.6. 9 Such precious deeds in one that promised naught
CYM 5.6. 10B But beggary and poor looks.
CYM-CYMBELINE
No tidings of him?
CYM 5.6. 11
CYM-PISANIO
He hath been searched among the dead and living,
CYM 5.6. 12B But no trace of him.
CYM-CYMBELINE
To my grief I am
CYM 5.6. 13 The heir of his reward, which I will add
CYM 5.6. 14 {(To Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus)} To you, the +
CYM 5.6. 14 liver, heart, and brain of Britain,
CYM 5.6. 15 By whom I grant she lives. 'Tis now the time
CYM 5.6. 16B To ask of whence you are. Report it.
CYM-BELARIUS
Sir,
CYM 5.6. 17 In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen.
CYM 5.6. 18 Further to boast were neither true nor modest,
CYM 5.6. 19B Unless I add we are honest.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Bow your knees. {They +
CYM 5.6. 19B kneel. He knights them}
CYM 5.6. 20 Arise, my knights o' th' battle. I create you
CYM 5.6. 21 Companions to our person, and will fit you
CYM 5.6. 22 With dignities becoming your estates. {Belarius, Guiderius, and +
CYM 5.6. 22 Arviragus rise.}
CYM 5.6. 23 {Enter Cornelius and Ladies} There's business in these faces. +
CYM 5.6. 23 Why so sadly
CYM 5.6. 24 Greet you our victory? You look like Romans,
CYM 5.6. 25B And not o' th' court of Britain.
CYM-CORNELIUS
Hail, great King!
CYM 5.6. 26 To sour your happiness I must report
CYM 5.6. 27B The Queen is dead.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Who worse than a physician
CYM 5.6. 28 Would this report become? But I consider
CYM 5.6. 29 By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
CYM 5.6. 30 Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?
CYM 5.6. 31
CYM-CORNELIUS
With horror, madly dying, like her life,
CYM 5.6. 32 Which being cruel to the world, concluded
CYM 5.6. 33 Most cruel to herself. What she confessed
CYM 5.6. 34 I will report, so please you. These her women
CYM 5.6. 35 Can trip me if I err, who with wet cheeks
CYM 5.6. 36B Were present when she finished.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Prithee, say.
CYM 5.6. 37
CYM-CORNELIUS
First, she confessed she never loved you, only
CYM 5.6. 38 Affected greatness got by you, not you;
CYM 5.6. 39 Married your royalty, was wife to your place,
CYM 5.6. 40B Abhorred your person.
CYM-CYMBELINE
She alone knew this,
CYM 5.6. 41 And but she spoke it dying, I would not
CYM 5.6. 42 Believe her lips in opening it. Proceed.
CYM 5.6. 43
CYM-CORNELIUS
Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love
CYM 5.6. 44 With such integrity, she did confess
CYM 5.6. 45 Was as a scorpion to her sight, whose life,
CYM 5.6. 46 But that her flight prevented it, she had
CYM 5.6. 47B Ta'en off by poison.
CYM-CYMBELINE
O most delicate fiend!
CYM 5.6. 48 Who is 't can read a woman? Is there more?
CYM 5.6. 49
CYM-CORNELIUS
More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had
CYM 5.6. 50 For you a mortal mineral which, being took,
CYM 5.6. 51 Should by the minute feed on life, and, ling'ring,
CYM 5.6. 52 By inches waste you. In which time she purposed
CYM 5.6. 53 By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to
CYM 5.6. 54 O'ercome you with her show; and in fine,
CYM 5.6. 55 When she had fit you with her craft, to work
CYM 5.6. 56 Her son into th' adoption of the crown;
CYM 5.6. 57 But failing of her end by his strange absence,
CYM 5.6. 58 Grew shameless-desperate, opened in despite
CYM 5.6. 59 Of heaven and men her purposes, repented
CYM 5.6. 60 The evils she hatched were not effected; so
CYM 5.6. 61B Despairing died.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Heard you all this, her women?
CYM 5.6. 62B
CYM-[LADIES]
We did, so please your highness.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Mine eyes
CYM 5.6. 63 Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
CYM 5.6. 64 Mine ears that heard her flattery, nor my heart
CYM 5.6. 65 That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious
CYM 5.6. 66 To have mistrusted her. Yet, O my daughter,
CYM 5.6. 67 That it was folly in me thou mayst say,
CYM 5.6. 68 And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all! {Enter Lucius, +
CYM 5.6. 68 Giacomo, Soothsayer, and other Roman prisoners, Posthumus behind, and +
CYM 5.6. 68 Innogen dressed as a man, all guarded by Briton soldiers}
CYM 5.6. 69 Thou com'st not, Caius, now for tribute. That
CYM 5.6. 70 The Britons have razed out, though with the loss
CYM 5.6. 71 Of many a bold one; whose kinsmen have made suit
CYM 5.6. 72 That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter
CYM 5.6. 73 Of you, their captives, which ourself have granted.
CYM 5.6. 74 So think of your estate.
CYM 5.6. 75
CYM-LUCIUS
Consider, sir, the chance of war. The day
CYM 5.6. 76 Was yours by accident. Had it gone with us,
CYM 5.6. 77 We should not, when the blood was cool, have threatened
CYM 5.6. 78 Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods
CYM 5.6. 79 Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives
CYM 5.6. 80 May be called ransom, let it come. Sufficeth
CYM 5.6. 81 A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer.
CYM 5.6. 82 Augustus lives to think on 't; and so much
CYM 5.6. 83 For my peculiar care. This one thing only
CYM 5.6. 84B I will entreat: {He presents Innogen to Cymbeline} my +
CYM 5.6. 84B boy, a Briton born,
CYM 5.6. 85 Let him be ransomed. Never master had
CYM 5.6. 86 A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,
CYM 5.6. 87 So tender over his occasions, true,
CYM 5.6. 88 So feat, so nurse-like; let his virtue join
CYM 5.6. 89 With my request, which I'll make bold your highness
CYM 5.6. 90 Cannot deny. He hath done no Briton harm,
CYM 5.6. 91 Though he have served a Roman. Save him, sir,
CYM 5.6. 92B And spare no blood beside.
CYM-CYMBELINE
I have surely seen him.
CYM 5.6. 93 His favour is familiar to me. Boy,
CYM 5.6. 94 Thou hast looked thyself into my grace,
CYM 5.6. 95 And art mine own. I know not why, wherefore,
CYM 5.6. 96 To say `Live, boy'. Ne'er thank thy master. Live,
CYM 5.6. 97 And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt
CYM 5.6. 98 Fitting my bounty and thy state, I'll give it,
CYM 5.6. 99 Yea, though thou do demand a prisoner
CYM 5.6. 100B The noblest ta'en.
CYM-INNOGEN
I humbly thank your highness.
CYM 5.6. 101
CYM-LUCIUS
I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad,
CYM 5.6. 102B And yet I know thou wilt.
CYM-INNOGEN
No, no. Alack,
CYM 5.6. 103 There's other work in hand. I see a thing
CYM 5.6. 104 Bitter to me as death. Your life, good master,
CYM 5.6. 105B Must shuffle for itself.
CYM-LUCIUS
The boy disdains me.
CYM 5.6. 106 He leaves me, scorns me. Briefly die their joys
CYM 5.6. 107 That place them on the truth of girls and boys.
CYM 5.6. 108B Why stands he so perplexed?
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to Innogen)}+
CYM 5.6. 108B What wouldst thou, boy?
CYM 5.6. 109 I love thee more and more; think more and more
CYM 5.6. 110 What's best to ask. Know'st him thou look'st on? Speak,
CYM 5.6. 111 Wilt have him live? Is he thy kin, thy friend?
CYM 5.6. 112
CYM-INNOGEN
He is a Roman, no more kin to me
CYM 5.6. 113 Than I to your highness, who, being born your vassal,
CYM 5.6. 114B Am something nearer.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Wherefore ey'st him so?
CYM 5.6. 115
CYM-INNOGEN
I'll tell you, sir, in private, if you please
CYM 5.6. 116B To give me hearing.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Ay, with all my heart,
CYM 5.6. 117 And lend my best attention. What's thy name?
CYM 5.6. 118B
CYM-INNOGEN
Fidele, sir.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Thou'rt my good youth, my page.
CYM 5.6. 119 I'll be thy master. Walk with me, speak freely. {Cymbeline and +
CYM 5.6. 119 Innogen speak apart}
CYM 5.6. 120B
CYM-BELARIUS
{(aside to Guiderius and Arviragus)} Is +
CYM 5.6. 120B not this boy revived from death?
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
One sand another
CYM 5.6. 121 Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad
CYM 5.6. 122 Who died, and was Fidele. What think you?
CYM 5.6. 123A
CYM-GUIDERIUS
The same dead thing alive.
CYM 5.6. 124
CYM-BELARIUS
Peace, peace, see further. He eyes us not. Forbear.
CYM 5.6. 125 Creatures may be alike. Were 't he, I am sure
CYM 5.6. 126B He would have spoke to us.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
But we see him dead.
CYM 5.6. 127B
CYM-BELARIUS
Be silent; let's see further.
CYM-PISANIO
+
CYM 5.6. 127B {(aside)} It is my mistress.
CYM 5.6. 128 Since she is living, let the time run on
CYM 5.6. 129B To good or bad.
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to Innogen)} Come, +
CYM 5.6. 129B stand thou by our side,
CYM 5.6. 130 Make thy demand aloud. {(To Giacomo)} Sir, step you +
CYM 5.6. 130 forth.
CYM 5.6. 131 Give answer to this boy, and do it freely,
CYM 5.6. 132 Or, by our greatness and the grace of it,
CYM 5.6. 133 Which is our honour, bitter torture shall
CYM 5.6. 134B Winnow the truth from falsehood. {(To Innogen)} On, +
CYM 5.6. 134B speak to him.
CYM 5.6. 135
CYM-INNOGEN
My boon is that this gentleman may render
CYM 5.6. 136B Of whom he had this ring.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
{(aside)} +
CYM 5.6. 136B What's that to him?
CYM 5.6. 137
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to Giacomo)} That diamond upon your +
CYM 5.6. 137 finger, say,
CYM 5.6. 138 How came it yours?
CYM 5.6. 139
CYM-GIACOMO
Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that
CYM 5.6. 140B Which to be spoke would torture thee.
CYM-CYMBELINE
How, me?
CYM 5.6. 141
CYM-GIACOMO
I am glad to be constrained to utter that
CYM 5.6. 142 Torments me to conceal. By villainy
CYM 5.6. 143 I got this ring; 'twas Leonatus' jewel,
CYM 5.6. 144 Whom thou didst banish; and, which more may grieve thee,
CYM 5.6. 145 As it doth me, a nobler sir ne'er lived
CYM 5.6. 146 'Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou hear more, my lord?
CYM 5.6. 147B
CYM-CYMBELINE
All that belongs to this.
CYM-GIACOMO
That paragon thy +
CYM 5.6. 147B daughter,
CYM 5.6. 148 For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits
CYM 5.6. 149 Quail to remember - give me leave, I faint.
CYM 5.6. 150
CYM-CYMBELINE
My daughter? What of her? Renew thy strength.
CYM 5.6. 151 I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will
CYM 5.6. 152 Than die ere I hear more. Strive, man, and speak.
CYM 5.6. 153
CYM-GIACOMO
Upon a time - unhappy was the clock
CYM 5.6. 154 That struck the hour - it was in Rome - accursed
CYM 5.6. 155 The mansion where - 'twas at a feast - O, would
CYM 5.6. 156 Our viands had been poisoned, or at least
CYM 5.6. 157 Those which I heaved to head! - the good Posthumus -
CYM 5.6. 158 What should I say? - he was too good to be
CYM 5.6. 159 Where ill men were, and was the best of all
CYM 5.6. 160 Amongst the rar'st of good ones - sitting sadly,
CYM 5.6. 161 Hearing us praise our loves of Italy
CYM 5.6. 162 For beauty that made barren the swelled boast
CYM 5.6. 163 Of him that best could speak; for feature laming
CYM 5.6. 164 The shrine of Venus or straight-pitched Minerva,
CYM 5.6. 165 Postures beyond brief nature; for condition,
CYM 5.6. 166 A shop of all the qualities that man
CYM 5.6. 167 Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving,
CYM 5.6. 168B Fairness which strikes the eye -
CYM-CYMBELINE
I stand on fire.
CYM 5.6. 169B Come to the matter.
CYM-GIACOMO
All too soon I shall,
CYM 5.6. 170 Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly. This Posthumus,
CYM 5.6. 171 Most like a noble lord in love and one
CYM 5.6. 172 That had a royal lover, took his hint,
CYM 5.6. 173 And not dispraising whom we praised - therein
CYM 5.6. 174 He was as calm as virtue - he began
CYM 5.6. 175 His mistress' picture, which by his tongue being made,
CYM 5.6. 176 And then a mind put in 't, either our brags
CYM 5.6. 177 Were cracked of kitchen-trulls, or his description
CYM 5.6. 178B Proved us unspeaking sots.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Nay, nay, to th' purpose.
CYM 5.6. 179
CYM-GIACOMO
Your daughter's chastity - there it begins.
CYM 5.6. 180 He spake of her as Dian had hot dreams
CYM 5.6. 181 And she alone were cold, whereat I, wretch,
CYM 5.6. 182 Made scruple of his praise, and wagered with him
CYM 5.6. 183 Pieces of gold 'gainst this which then he wore
CYM 5.6. 184 Upon his honoured finger, to attain
CYM 5.6. 185 In suit the place of 's bed and win this ring
CYM 5.6. 186 By hers and mine adultery. He, true knight,
CYM 5.6. 187 No lesser of her honour confident
CYM 5.6. 188 Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring -
CYM 5.6. 189 And would so had it been a carbuncle
CYM 5.6. 190 Of Phoebus' wheel, and might so safely had it
CYM 5.6. 191 Been all the worth of 's car. Away to Britain
CYM 5.6. 192 Post I in this design. Well may you, sir,
CYM 5.6. 193 Remember me at court, where I was taught
CYM 5.6. 194 Of your chaste daughter the wide difference
CYM 5.6. 195 'Twixt amorous and villainous. Being thus quenched
CYM 5.6. 196 Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain
CYM 5.6. 197 Gan in your duller Britain operate
CYM 5.6. 198 Most vilely; for my vantage, excellent.
CYM 5.6. 199 And, to be brief, my practice so prevailed
CYM 5.6. 200 That I returned with simular proof enough
CYM 5.6. 201 To make the noble Leonatus mad
CYM 5.6. 202 By wounding his belief in her renown
CYM 5.6. 203 With tokens thus and thus; averring notes
CYM 5.6. 204 Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet -
CYM 5.6. 205 O cunning, how I got it! - nay, some marks
CYM 5.6. 206 Of secret on her person, that he could not
CYM 5.6. 207 But think her bond of chastity quite cracked,
CYM 5.6. 208 I having ta'en the forfeit. Whereupon -
CYM 5.6. 209B Methinks I see him now -
CYM-POSTHUMUS
{(coming forward)}+
CYM 5.6. 209B Ay, so thou dost,
CYM 5.6. 210 Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool,
CYM 5.6. 211 Egregious murderer, thief, anything
CYM 5.6. 212 That's due to all the villains past, in being,
CYM 5.6. 213 To come! O, give me cord, or knife, or poison,
CYM 5.6. 214 Some upright justicer! Thou, King, send out
CYM 5.6. 215 For torturers ingenious. It is I
CYM 5.6. 216 That all th' abhorred things o' th' earth amend
CYM 5.6. 217 By being worse than they. I am Posthumus,
CYM 5.6. 218 That killed thy daughter - villain-like, I lie:
CYM 5.6. 219 That caused a lesser villain than myself,
CYM 5.6. 220 A sacrilegious thief, to do 't. The temple
CYM 5.6. 221 Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself.
CYM 5.6. 222 Spit and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set
CYM 5.6. 223 The dogs o' th' street to bay me. Every villain
CYM 5.6. 224 Be called Posthumus Leonatus, and
CYM 5.6. 225 Be `villain' less than 'twas! O Innogen!
CYM 5.6. 226 My queen, my life, my wife, O Innogen,
CYM 5.6. 227B Innogen, Innogen!
CYM-INNOGEN
{(approaching him)} +
CYM 5.6. 227B Peace, my lord. Hear, hear.
CYM 5.6. 228
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Shall 's have a play of this? Thou scornful page,
CYM 5.6. 229B There lie thy part. {He strikes her down}
CYM-PISANIO
+
CYM 5.6. 229B {(coming forward)} O gentlemen, help!
CYM 5.6. 230 Mine and your mistress! O my lord Posthumus,
CYM 5.6. 231 You ne'er killed Innogen till now. Help, help!
CYM 5.6. 232B {(To Innogen)} Mine honoured lady.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Does +
CYM 5.6. 232B the world go round?
CYM 5.6. 233B
CYM-POSTHUMUS
How comes these staggers on me?
CYM-PISANIO
{(to +
CYM 5.6. 233B Innogen)} Wake, my mistress.
CYM 5.6. 234
CYM-CYMBELINE
If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me
CYM 5.6. 235 To death with mortal joy.
CYM 5.6. 236A
CYM-PISANIO
{(to Innogen)} How fares my mistress?
CYM 5.6. 237A
CYM-INNOGEN
O, get thee from my sight!
CYM 5.6. 238 Thou gav'st me poison. Dangerous fellow, hence.
CYM 5.6. 239B Breathe not where princes are.
CYM-CYMBELINE
The tune of Innogen.
CYM 5.6. 240
CYM-PISANIO
Lady, the gods throw stones of sulphur on me if
CYM 5.6. 241 That box I gave you was not thought by me
CYM 5.6. 242 A precious thing. I had it from the Queen.
CYM 5.6. 243B
CYM-CYMBELINE
New matter still.
CYM-INNOGEN
It poisoned me.
CYM-CORNELIUS
+
CYM 5.6. 243B O gods!
CYM 5.6. 244 I left out one thing which the Queen confessed
CYM 5.6. 245 {(To Pisanio)} Which must approve thee honest. `If +
CYM 5.6. 245 Pisanio
CYM 5.6. 246 Have', said she, `given his mistress that confection
CYM 5.6. 247 Which I gave him for cordial, she is served
CYM 5.6. 248B As I would serve a rat.'
CYM-CYMBELINE
What's this, Cornelius?
CYM 5.6. 249
CYM-CORNELIUS
The Queen, sir, very oft importuned me
CYM 5.6. 250 To temper poisons for her, still pretending
CYM 5.6. 251 The satisfaction of her knowledge only
CYM 5.6. 252 In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs
CYM 5.6. 253 Of no esteem. I, dreading that her purpose
CYM 5.6. 254 Was of more danger, did compound for her
CYM 5.6. 255 A certain stuff which, being ta'en, would cease
CYM 5.6. 256 The present power of life, but in short time
CYM 5.6. 257 All offices of nature should again
CYM 5.6. 258 Do their due functions. {(To Innogen)} Have you ta'en +
CYM 5.6. 258 of it?
CYM 5.6. 259B
CYM-INNOGEN
Most like I did, for I was dead.
CYM-BELARIUS
+
CYM 5.6. 259B {(aside to Guiderius and Arviragus)} My boys,
CYM 5.6. 260B There was our error.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
This is sure Fidele.
CYM 5.6. 261
CYM-INNOGEN
{(to Posthumus)} Why did you throw your +
CYM 5.6. 261 wedded lady from you?
CYM 5.6. 262 Think that you are upon a lock, and now
CYM 5.6. 263B Throw me again. {She throws her arms about his neck}
CYM-POSTHUMUS
CYM 5.6. 263B Hang there like fruit, my soul,
CYM 5.6. 264B Till the tree die.
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to Innogen)} How +
CYM 5.6. 264B now, my flesh, my child?
CYM 5.6. 265 What, mak'st thou me a dullard in this act?
CYM 5.6. 266B Wilt thou not speak to me?
CYM-INNOGEN
{(kneeling)} +
CYM 5.6. 266B Your blessing, sir.
CYM 5.6. 267
CYM-BELARIUS
{(aside to Guiderius and Arviragus)} +
CYM 5.6. 267 Though you did love this youth, I blame ye not.
CYM 5.6. 268B You had a motive for 't.
CYM-CYMBELINE
My tears that fall
CYM 5.6. 269B Prove holy water on thee! {[He raises her]} Innogen,
CYM 5.6. 270B Thy mother's dead.
CYM-INNOGEN
I am sorry for 't, my lord.
CYM 5.6. 271
CYM-CYMBELINE
O, she was naught, and 'long of her it was
CYM 5.6. 272 That we meet here so strangely. But her son
CYM 5.6. 273B Is gone, we know not how nor where.
CYM-PISANIO
My lord,
CYM 5.6. 274 Now fear is from me I'll speak truth. Lord Cloten,
CYM 5.6. 275 Upon my lady's missing, came to me
CYM 5.6. 276 With his sword drawn, foamed at the mouth, and swore
CYM 5.6. 277 If I discovered not which way she was gone
CYM 5.6. 278 It was my instant death. By accident
CYM 5.6. 279 I had a feigned letter of my master's
CYM 5.6. 280 Then in my pocket, which directed him
CYM 5.6. 281 To seek her on the mountains near to Milford,
CYM 5.6. 282 Where in a frenzy, in my master's garments,
CYM 5.6. 283 Which he enforced from me, away he posts
CYM 5.6. 284 With unchaste purpose, and with oath to violate
CYM 5.6. 285 My lady's honour. What became of him
CYM 5.6. 286B I further know not.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
Let me end the story.
CYM 5.6. 287B I slew him there.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Marry, the gods forfend!
CYM 5.6. 288 I would not thy good deeds should from my lips
CYM 5.6. 289 Pluck a hard sentence. Prithee, valiant youth,
CYM 5.6. 290 Deny 't again.
CYM 5.6. 291A
CYM-GUIDERIUS
I have spoke it, and I did it.
CYM 5.6. 292A
CYM-CYMBELINE
He was a prince.
CYM 5.6. 293
CYM-GUIDERIUS
A most incivil one. The wrongs he did me
CYM 5.6. 294 Were nothing prince-like, for he did provoke me
CYM 5.6. 295 With language that would make me spurn the sea
CYM 5.6. 296 If it could so roar to me. I cut off 's head,
CYM 5.6. 297 And am right glad he is not standing here
CYM 5.6. 298B To tell this tale of mine.
CYM-CYMBELINE
I am sorrow for thee.
CYM 5.6. 299 By thine own tongue thou art condemned, and must
CYM 5.6. 300B Endure our law. Thou'rt dead.
CYM-INNOGEN
That headless man
CYM 5.6. 301B I thought had been my lord.
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to +
CYM 5.6. 301B soldiers)} Bind the offender,
CYM 5.6. 302B And take him from our presence.
CYM-BELARIUS
Stay, sir King.
CYM 5.6. 303 This boy is better than the man he slew,
CYM 5.6. 304 As well descended as thyself, and hath
CYM 5.6. 305 More of thee merited than a band of Clotens
CYM 5.6. 306 Had ever scar for. Let his arms alone;
CYM 5.6. 307B They were not born for bondage.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Why, old soldier,
CYM 5.6. 308 Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for
CYM 5.6. 309 By tasting of our wrath? How of descent
CYM 5.6. 310B As good as we?
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
In that he spake too far.
CYM 5.6. 311B
CYM-CYMBELINE
{[to Belarius]} And thou shalt die +
CYM 5.6. 311B for 't.
CYM-BELARIUS
We will die all three
CYM 5.6. 312 But I will prove that two on 's are as good
CYM 5.6. 313 As I have given out him. My sons, I must
CYM 5.6. 314 For mine own part unfold a dangerous speech,
CYM 5.6. 315B Though haply well for you.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Your danger's ours.
CYM 5.6. 316B
CYM-GUIDERIUS
And our good his.
CYM-BELARIUS
Have at it then. By leave,
CYM 5.6. 317 Thou hadst, great King, a subject who
CYM 5.6. 318B Was called Belarius.
CYM-CYMBELINE
What of him? He is
CYM 5.6. 319B A banished traitor.
CYM-BELARIUS
He it is that hath
CYM 5.6. 320 Assumed this age. Indeed, a banished man;
CYM 5.6. 321B I know not how a traitor.
CYM-CYMBELINE
{(to soldiers)} +
CYM 5.6. 321B Take him hence.
CYM 5.6. 322B The whole world shall not save him.
CYM-BELARIUS
Not too hot.
CYM 5.6. 323 First pay me for the nursing of thy sons,
CYM 5.6. 324 And let it be confiscate all so soon
CYM 5.6. 325B As I have received it.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Nursing of my sons?
CYM 5.6. 326
CYM-BELARIUS
I am too blunt and saucy. {(Kneeling)} +
CYM 5.6. 326 Here's my knee.
CYM 5.6. 327 Ere I arise I will prefer my sons,
CYM 5.6. 328 Then spare not the old father. Mighty sir,
CYM 5.6. 329 These two young gentlemen that call me father
CYM 5.6. 330 And think they are my sons are none of mine.
CYM 5.6. 331 They are the issue of your loins, my liege,
CYM 5.6. 332B And blood of your begetting.
CYM-CYMBELINE
How, my issue?
CYM 5.6. 333
CYM-BELARIUS
So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,
CYM 5.6. 334 Am that Belarius whom you sometime banished.
CYM 5.6. 335 Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment
CYM 5.6. 336 Itself, and all my treason. That I suffered
CYM 5.6. 337 Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes -
CYM 5.6. 338 For such and so they are - these twenty years
CYM 5.6. 339 Have I trained up. Those arts they have as I
CYM 5.6. 340 Could put into them. My breeding was, sir,
CYM 5.6. 341 As your highness knows. Their nurse Euriphile,
CYM 5.6. 342 Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children
CYM 5.6. 343 Upon my banishment. I moved her to 't,
CYM 5.6. 344 Having received the punishment before
CYM 5.6. 345 For that which I did then. Beaten for loyalty
CYM 5.6. 346 Excited me to treason. Their dear loss,
CYM 5.6. 347 The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shaped
CYM 5.6. 348 Unto my end of stealing them. But, gracious sir,
CYM 5.6. 349 Here are your sons again, and I must lose
CYM 5.6. 350 Two of the sweet'st companions in the world.
CYM 5.6. 351 The benediction of these covering heavens
CYM 5.6. 352 Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy
CYM 5.6. 353B To inlay heaven with stars.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Thou weep'st, and speak'st.
CYM 5.6. 354 The service that you three have done is more
CYM 5.6. 355 Unlike than this thou tell'st. I lost my children.
CYM 5.6. 356 If these be they, I know not how to wish
CYM 5.6. 357B A pair of worthier sons.
CYM-BELARIUS
{[rising]} Be +
CYM 5.6. 357B pleased a while.
CYM 5.6. 358 This gentleman, whom I call Polydore,
CYM 5.6. 359 Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius. {[Guiderius +
CYM 5.6. 359 kneels]}
CYM 5.6. 360 This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus,
CYM 5.6. 361B Your younger princely son. {[Arviragus kneels]} He, +
CYM 5.6. 361B sir, was lapped
CYM 5.6. 362 In a most curious mantle wrought by th' hand
CYM 5.6. 363 Of his queen mother, which for more probation
CYM 5.6. 364B I can with ease produce.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Guiderius had
CYM 5.6. 365 Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star.
CYM 5.6. 366B It was a mark of wonder.
CYM-BELARIUS
This is he,
CYM 5.6. 367 Who hath upon him still that natural stamp.
CYM 5.6. 368 It was wise nature's end in the donation
CYM 5.6. 369B To be his evidence now.
CYM-CYMBELINE
O, what am I?
CYM 5.6. 370 A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother
CYM 5.6. 371 Rejoiced deliverance more. Blest pray you be,
CYM 5.6. 372 That, after this strange starting from your orbs,
CYM 5.6. 373B You may reign in them now! {[Guiderius and Arviragus +
CYM 5.6. 373B rise]} O Innogen,
CYM 5.6. 374B Thou hast lost by this a kingdom.
CYM-INNOGEN
No, my lord,
CYM 5.6. 375 I have got two worlds by 't. O my gentle brothers,
CYM 5.6. 376 Have we thus met? O, never say hereafter
CYM 5.6. 377 But I am truest speaker. You called me brother
CYM 5.6. 378 When I was but your sister; I you brothers
CYM 5.6. 379B When ye were so indeed.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Did you e'er meet?
CYM 5.6. 380B
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
Ay, my good lord.
CYM-GUIDERIUS
And at first meeting +
CYM 5.6. 380B loved,
CYM 5.6. 381 Continued so until we thought he died.
CYM 5.6. 382B
CYM-CORNELIUS
By the Queen's dram she swallowed.
CYM-CYMBELINE
O rare +
CYM 5.6. 382B instinct!
CYM 5.6. 383 When shall I hear all through? This fierce abridgement
CYM 5.6. 384 Hath to it circumstantial branches which
CYM 5.6. 385 Distinction should be rich in. Where? How lived you?
CYM 5.6. 386 And when came you to serve our Roman captive?
CYM 5.6. 387 How parted with your brothers? How first met them?
CYM 5.6. 388 Why fled you from the court? And whither? These,
CYM 5.6. 389 And your three motives to the battle, with
CYM 5.6. 390 I know not how much more, should be demanded,
CYM 5.6. 391 And all the other by-dependences,
CYM 5.6. 392 From chance to chance. But nor the time nor place
CYM 5.6. 393 Will serve our long inter'gatories. See,
CYM 5.6. 394 Posthumus anchors upon Innogen,
CYM 5.6. 395 And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye
CYM 5.6. 396 On him, her brothers, me, her master, hitting
CYM 5.6. 397 Each object with a joy. The counterchange
CYM 5.6. 398 Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground,
CYM 5.6. 399 And smoke the temple with our sacrifices.
CYM 5.6. 400 {(To Belarius)} Thou art my brother; so we'll hold +
CYM 5.6. 400 thee ever.
CYM 5.6. 401
CYM-INNOGEN
{(to Belarius)} You are my father too, and +
CYM 5.6. 401 did relieve me
CYM 5.6. 402B To see this gracious season.
CYM-CYMBELINE
All o'erjoyed,
CYM 5.6. 403 Save these in bonds. Let them be joyful too,
CYM 5.6. 404B For they shall taste our comfort.
CYM-INNOGEN
{(to +
CYM 5.6. 404B Lucius)} My good master,
CYM 5.6. 405B I will yet do you service.
CYM-LUCIUS
Happy be you!
CYM 5.6. 406
CYM-CYMBELINE
The forlorn soldier that so nobly fought,
CYM 5.6. 407 He would have well becomed this place, and graced
CYM 5.6. 408B The thankings of a king.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
I am, sir,
CYM 5.6. 409 The soldier that did company these three
CYM 5.6. 410 In poor beseeming. 'Twas a fitment for
CYM 5.6. 411 The purpose I then followed. That I was he,
CYM 5.6. 412 Speak, Giacomo; I had you down, and might
CYM 5.6. 413B Have made you finish.
CYM-GIACOMO
{(kneeling)} I am +
CYM 5.6. 413B down again,
CYM 5.6. 414 But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee
CYM 5.6. 415 As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you,
CYM 5.6. 416 Which I so often owe; but your ring first,
CYM 5.6. 417 And here the bracelet of the truest princess
CYM 5.6. 418B That ever swore her faith.
CYM-POSTHUMUS
{(raising him)}+
CYM 5.6. 418B Kneel not to me.
CYM 5.6. 419 The power that I have on you is to spare you,
CYM 5.6. 420 The malice towards you to forgive you. Live,
CYM 5.6. 421B And deal with others better.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Nobly doomed!
CYM 5.6. 422 We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law.
CYM 5.6. 423B Pardon's the word to all.
CYM-ARVIRAGUS
{(to Posthumus)}+
CYM 5.6. 423B You holp us, sir,
CYM 5.6. 424 As you did mean indeed to be our brother.
CYM 5.6. 425 Joyed are we that you are.
CYM 5.6. 426
CYM-POSTHUMUS
Your servant, princes. {(To Lucius)} Good +
CYM 5.6. 426 my lord of Rome,
CYM 5.6. 427 Call forth your soothsayer. As I slept, methought
CYM 5.6. 428 Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed,
CYM 5.6. 429 Appeared to me with other spritely shows
CYM 5.6. 430 Of mine own kindred. When I waked I found
CYM 5.6. 431 This label on my bosom, whose containing
CYM 5.6. 432 Is so from sense in hardness that I can
CYM 5.6. 433 Make no collection of it. Let him show
CYM 5.6. 434B His skill in the construction.
CYM-LUCIUS
Philharmonus.
CYM 5.6. 435B
CYM-SOOTHSAYER
Here, my good lord.
CYM-LUCIUS
Read, and declare the +
CYM 5.6. 435B meaning.
CYM 5.6. 436
CYM-SOOTHSAYER
{(reads the tablet)} `Whenas a lion's +
CYM 5.6. 436 whelp shall,
CYM 5.6. 437 to himself unknown, without seeking find, and be
CYM 5.6. 438 embraced by a piece of tender air; and when from a
CYM 5.6. 439 stately cedar shall be lopped branches which, being
CYM 5.6. 440 dead many years, shall after revive, be jointed to the
CYM 5.6. 441 old stock, and freshly grow: then shall Posthumus end
CYM 5.6. 442 his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in peace
CYM 5.6. 443 and plenty.'
CYM 5.6. 444 Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp.
CYM 5.6. 445 The fit and apt construction of thy name,
CYM 5.6. 446 Being {leo-natus}, doth import so much.
CYM 5.6. 447 {(To Cymbeline)} The piece of tender air thy virtuous +
CYM 5.6. 447 daughter,
CYM 5.6. 448 Which we call `{mollis aer}'; and `{mollis aer}'
CYM 5.6. 449 We term it `{mulier}', {(to Posthumus)} which +
CYM 5.6. 449 `{mulier}' I divine
CYM 5.6. 450 Is this most constant wife, who even now,
CYM 5.6. 451 Answering the letter of the oracle,
CYM 5.6. 452 Unknown to you, unsought, were clipped about
CYM 5.6. 453B With this most tender air.
CYM-CYMBELINE
This hath some seeming.
CYM 5.6. 454
CYM-SOOTHSAYER
The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,
CYM 5.6. 455 Personates thee, and thy lopped branches point
CYM 5.6. 456 Thy two sons forth, who, by Belarius stol'n,
CYM 5.6. 457 For many years thought dead, are now revived,
CYM 5.6. 458 To the majestic cedar joined, whose issue
CYM 5.6. 459B Promises Britain peace and plenty.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Well,
CYM 5.6. 460 My peace we will begin; and, Caius Lucius,
CYM 5.6. 461 Although the victor, we submit to Caesar
CYM 5.6. 462 And to the Roman empire, promising
CYM 5.6. 463 To pay our wonted tribute, from the which
CYM 5.6. 464 We were dissuaded by our wicked queen,
CYM 5.6. 465 Whom heavens in justice both on her and hers
CYM 5.6. 466 Have laid most heavy hand.
CYM 5.6. 467
CYM-SOOTHSAYER
The fingers of the powers above do tune
CYM 5.6. 468 The harmony of this peace. The vision,
CYM 5.6. 469 Which I made known to Lucius ere the stroke
CYM 5.6. 470 Of this yet scarce-cold battle, at this instant
CYM 5.6. 471 Is full accomplished. For the Roman eagle,
CYM 5.6. 472 From south to west on wing soaring aloft,
CYM 5.6. 473 Lessened herself, and in the beams o' th' sun
CYM 5.6. 474 So vanished; which foreshowed our princely eagle
CYM 5.6. 475 Th' imperial Caesar should again unite
CYM 5.6. 476 His favour with the radiant Cymbeline,
CYM 5.6. 477B Which shines here in the west.
CYM-CYMBELINE
Laud we the gods,
CYM 5.6. 478 And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
CYM 5.6. 479 From our blest altars. Publish we this peace
CYM 5.6. 480 To all our subjects. Set we forward, let
CYM 5.6. 481 A Roman and a British ensign wave
CYM 5.6. 482 Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
CYM 5.6. 483 And in the temple of great Jupiter
CYM 5.6. 484 Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
CYM 5.6. 485 Set on there. Never was a war did cease,
CYM 5.6. 486 Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace. {[Flourish.] +
CYM 5.6. 486 Exeunt [in triumph]}
CYM 5.6.
CYM
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ERR . . 0 The Comedy of Errors
ERR . . 0 {Enter Solinus, the Duke of Ephesus, with Egeon the +
ERR 1.1. 0 Merchant of Syracuse, Jailer, and other attendants}
ERR 1.1. 1
ERR-EGEON
Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,
ERR 1.1. 2 And by the doom of death end woes and all.
ERR 1.1. 3
ERR-DUKE
Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more.
ERR 1.1. 4 I am not partial to infringe our laws.
ERR 1.1. 5 The enmity and discord which of late
ERR 1.1. 6 Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke
ERR 1.1. 7 To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,
ERR 1.1. 8 Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives,
ERR 1.1. 9 Have sealed his rigorous statutes with their bloods,
ERR 1.1. 10 Excludes all pity from our threat'ning looks.
ERR 1.1. 11 For since the mortal and intestine jars
ERR 1.1. 12 'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,
ERR 1.1. 13 It hath in solemn synods been decreed,
ERR 1.1. 14 Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,
ERR 1.1. 15 To admit no traffic to our adverse towns.
ERR 1.1. 16 Nay more: if any born at Ephesus
ERR 1.1. 17 Be seen at Syracusian marts and fairs;
ERR 1.1. 18 Again, if any Syracusian born
ERR 1.1. 19 Come to the bay of Ephesus - he dies,
ERR 1.1. 20 His goods confiscate to the Duke's dispose,
ERR 1.1. 21 Unless a thousand marks be levied
ERR 1.1. 22 To quit the penalty and ransom him.
ERR 1.1. 23 Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,
ERR 1.1. 24 Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.
ERR 1.1. 25 Therefore by law thou art condemned to die.
ERR 1.1. 26
ERR-EGEON
Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,
ERR 1.1. 27 My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
ERR 1.1. 28
ERR-DUKE
Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause
ERR 1.1. 29 Why thou departed'st from thy native home,
ERR 1.1. 30 And for what cause thou cam'st to Ephesus.
ERR 1.1. 31
ERR-EGEON
A heavier task could not have been imposed
ERR 1.1. 32 Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.
ERR 1.1. 33 Yet, that the world may witness that my end
ERR 1.1. 34 Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,
ERR 1.1. 35 I'll utter what my sorrow gives me leave.
ERR 1.1. 36 In Syracusa was I born, and wed
ERR 1.1. 37 Unto a woman happy but for me,
ERR 1.1. 38 And by me happy, had not our hap been bad.
ERR 1.1. 39 With her I lived in joy, our wealth increased
ERR 1.1. 40 By prosperous voyages I often made
ERR 1.1. 41 To Epidamnum, till my factor's death,
ERR 1.1. 42 And the great care of goods at random left,
ERR 1.1. 43 Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse,
ERR 1.1. 44 From whom my absence was not six months old
ERR 1.1. 45 Before herself - almost at fainting under
ERR 1.1. 46 The pleasing punishment that women bear -
ERR 1.1. 47 Had made provision for her following me,
ERR 1.1. 48 And soon and safe arrived where I was.
ERR 1.1. 49 There had she not been long but she became
ERR 1.1. 50 A joyful mother of two goodly sons;
ERR 1.1. 51 And, which was strange, the one so like the other
ERR 1.1. 52 As could not be distinguished but by names.
ERR 1.1. 53 That very hour, and in the selfsame inn,
ERR 1.1. 54 A mean-born woman was delivered
ERR 1.1. 55 Of such a burden male, twins both alike.
ERR 1.1. 56 Those, for their parents were exceeding poor,
ERR 1.1. 57 I bought, and brought up to attend my sons.
ERR 1.1. 58 My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,
ERR 1.1. 59 Made daily motions for our home return.
ERR 1.1. 60 Unwilling, I agreed. Alas! Too soon
ERR 1.1. 61 We came aboard.
ERR 1.1. 62 A league from Epidamnum had we sailed
ERR 1.1. 63 Before the always-wind-obeying deep
ERR 1.1. 64 Gave any tragic instance of our harm.
ERR 1.1. 65 But longer did we not retain much hope,
ERR 1.1. 66 For what obscured light the heavens did grant
ERR 1.1. 67 Did but convey unto our fearful minds
ERR 1.1. 68 A doubtful warrant of immediate death,
ERR 1.1. 69 Which though myself would gladly have embraced,
ERR 1.1. 70 Yet the incessant weepings of my wife -
ERR 1.1. 71 Weeping before for what she saw must come -
ERR 1.1. 72 And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,
ERR 1.1. 73 That mourned for fashion, ignorant what to fear,
ERR 1.1. 74 Forced me to seek delays for them and me.
ERR 1.1. 75 And this it was - for other means was none:
ERR 1.1. 76 The sailors sought for safety by our boat,
ERR 1.1. 77 And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us.
ERR 1.1. 78 My wife, more careful for the latter-born,
ERR 1.1. 79 Had fastened him unto a small spare mast
ERR 1.1. 80 Such as seafaring men provide for storms.
ERR 1.1. 81 To him one of the other twins was bound,
ERR 1.1. 82 Whilst I had been like heedful of the other.
ERR 1.1. 83 The children thus disposed, my wife and I,
ERR 1.1. 84 Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fixed,
ERR 1.1. 85 Fastened ourselves at either end the mast,
ERR 1.1. 86 And floating straight, obedient to the stream,
ERR 1.1. 87 Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.
ERR 1.1. 88 At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,
ERR 1.1. 89 Dispersed those vapours that offended us,
ERR 1.1. 90 And by the benefit of his wished light
ERR 1.1. 91 The seas waxed calm, and we discovered
ERR 1.1. 92 Two ships from far, making amain to us:
ERR 1.1. 93 Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this.
ERR 1.1. 94 But ere they came - O let me say no more!
ERR 1.1. 95 Gather the sequel by that went before.
ERR 1.1. 96
ERR-DUKE
Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so,
ERR 1.1. 97 For we may pity though not pardon thee.
ERR 1.1. 98
ERR-EGEON
O, had the gods done so, I had not now
ERR 1.1. 99 Worthily termed them merciless to us.
ERR 1.1. 100 For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,
ERR 1.1. 101 We were encountered by a mighty rock,
ERR 1.1. 102 Which being violently borne upon,
ERR 1.1. 103 Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst,
ERR 1.1. 104 So that in this unjust divorce of us
ERR 1.1. 105 Fortune had left to both of us alike
ERR 1.1. 106 What to delight in, what to sorrow for.
ERR 1.1. 107 Her part, poor soul, seeming as burdened
ERR 1.1. 108 With lesser weight but not with lesser woe,
ERR 1.1. 109 Was carried with more speed before the wind,
ERR 1.1. 110 And in our sight they three were taken up
ERR 1.1. 111 By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.
ERR 1.1. 112 At length another ship had seized on us,
ERR 1.1. 113 And, knowing whom it was their hap to save,
ERR 1.1. 114 Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests,
ERR 1.1. 115 And would have reft the fishers of their prey
ERR 1.1. 116 Had not their barque been very slow of sail;
ERR 1.1. 117 And therefore homeward did they bend their course.
ERR 1.1. 118 Thus have you heard me severed from my bliss,
ERR 1.1. 119 That by misfortunes was my life prolonged
ERR 1.1. 120 To tell sad stories of my own mishaps.
ERR 1.1. 121
ERR-DUKE
And for the sake of them thou sorrow'st for,
ERR 1.1. 122 Do me the favour to dilate at full
ERR 1.1. 123 What have befall'n of them and thee till now.
ERR 1.1. 124
ERR-EGEON
My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,
ERR 1.1. 125 At eighteen years became inquisitive
ERR 1.1. 126 After his brother, and importuned me
ERR 1.1. 127 That his attendant - so his case was like,
ERR 1.1. 128 Reft of his brother, but retained his name -
ERR 1.1. 129 Might bear him company in the quest of him;
ERR 1.1. 130 Whom whilst I laboured of a love to see,
ERR 1.1. 131 I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
ERR 1.1. 132 Five summers have I spent in farthest Greece,
ERR 1.1. 133 Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,
ERR 1.1. 134 And coasting homeward came to Ephesus,
ERR 1.1. 135 Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought
ERR 1.1. 136 Or that or any place that harbours men.
ERR 1.1. 137 But here must end the story of my life,
ERR 1.1. 138 And happy were I in my timely death
ERR 1.1. 139 Could all my travels warrant me they live.
ERR 1.1. 140
ERR-DUKE
Hapless Egeon, whom the fates have marked
ERR 1.1. 141 To bear the extremity of dire mishap,
ERR 1.1. 142 Now trust me, were it not against our laws -
ERR 1.1. 143 Which princes, would they, may not disannul -
ERR 1.1. 144 Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,
ERR 1.1. 145 My soul should sue as advocate for thee.
ERR 1.1. 146 But though thou art adjudged to the death,
ERR 1.1. 147 And passed sentence may not be recalled
ERR 1.1. 148 But to our honour's great disparagement,
ERR 1.1. 149 Yet will I favour thee in what I can.
ERR 1.1. 150 Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day
ERR 1.1. 151 To seek thy health by beneficial help.
ERR 1.1. 152 Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus:
ERR 1.1. 153 Beg thou or borrow to make up the sum,
ERR 1.1. 154 And live. If no, then thou art doomed to die.
ERR 1.1. 155 Jailer, take him to thy custody.
ERR 1.1. 156A
ERR-JAILER
I will, my lord.
ERR 1.1. 157
ERR-EGEON
Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend,
ERR 1.1. 158 But to procrastinate his lifeless end. {Exeunt}
ERR 1.1. 0 {Enter [from the bay] Antipholus of Syracuse, Merchant +
ERR 1.2. 0 [of Ephesus], and Dromio of Syracuse}
ERR 1.2. 1
ERR-MERCHANT [OF EPHESUS]
Therefore give out you are of +
ERR 1.2. 1 Epidamnum,
ERR 1.2. 2 Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
ERR 1.2. 3 This very day a Syracusian merchant
ERR 1.2. 4 Is apprehended for arrival here,
ERR 1.2. 5 And, not being able to buy out his life,
ERR 1.2. 6 According to the statute of the town
ERR 1.2. 7 Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.
ERR 1.2. 8 There is your money that I had to keep.
ERR 1.2. 9
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
{(to Dromio)} Go bear it to +
ERR 1.2. 9 the Centaur, where we host,
ERR 1.2. 10 And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee.
ERR 1.2. 11 Within this hour it will be dinner-time.
ERR 1.2. 12 Till that I'll view the manners of the town,
ERR 1.2. 13 Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,
ERR 1.2. 14 And then return and sleep within mine inn;
ERR 1.2. 15 For with long travel I am stiff and weary.
ERR 1.2. 16 Get thee away.
ERR 1.2. 17
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Many a man would take you at your word,
ERR 1.2. 18 And go indeed, having so good a mean. {Exit}
ERR 1.2. 19
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
A trusty villain, sir, that very +
ERR 1.2. 19 oft,
ERR 1.2. 20 When I am dull with care and melancholy,
ERR 1.2. 21 Lightens my humour with his merry jests.
ERR 1.2. 22 What, will you walk with me about the town,
ERR 1.2. 23 And then go to my inn and dine with me?
ERR 1.2. 24
ERR-MERCHANT [OF EPHESUS]
I am invited, sir, to certain merchants
ERR 1.2. 25 Of whom I hope to make much benefit.
ERR 1.2. 26 I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock,
ERR 1.2. 27 Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart,
ERR 1.2. 28 And afterward consort you till bedtime.
ERR 1.2. 29 My present business calls me from you now.
ERR 1.2. 30
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Farewell till then. I will go lose myself,
ERR 1.2. 31 And wander up and down to view the city.
ERR 1.2. 32
ERR-MERCHANT [OF EPHESUS]
Sir, I commend you to your own content.+
ERR 1.2. 32 {Exit}
ERR 1.2. 33
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
He that commends me to mine own +
ERR 1.2. 33 content
ERR 1.2. 34 Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
ERR 1.2. 35 I to the world am like a drop of water
ERR 1.2. 36 That in the ocean seeks another drop,
ERR 1.2. 37 Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
ERR 1.2. 38 Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
ERR 1.2. 39 So I, to find a mother and a brother,
ERR 1.2. 40 In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself. {Enter Dromio of +
ERR 1.2. 40 Ephesus}
ERR 1.2. 41 Here comes the almanac of my true date.
ERR 1.2. 42 What now? How chance thou art returned so soon?
ERR 1.2. 43
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Returned so soon? Rather approached too late.
ERR 1.2. 44 The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit.
ERR 1.2. 45 The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;
ERR 1.2. 46 My mistress made it one upon my cheek.
ERR 1.2. 47 She is so hot because the meat is cold.
ERR 1.2. 48 The meat is cold because you come not home.
ERR 1.2. 49 You come not home because you have no stomach.
ERR 1.2. 50 You have no stomach, having broke your fast;
ERR 1.2. 51 But we that know what 'tis to fast and pray
ERR 1.2. 52 Are penitent for your default today.
ERR 1.2. 53
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Stop in your wind, sir. Tell me this, I +
ERR 1.2. 53 pray:
ERR 1.2. 54 Where have you left the money that I gave you?
ERR 1.2. 55
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
O - sixpence that I had o' Wednesday last
ERR 1.2. 56 To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper?
ERR 1.2. 57 The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not.
ERR 1.2. 58
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I am not in a sportive humour now.
ERR 1.2. 59 Tell me, and dally not: where is the money?
ERR 1.2. 60 We being strangers here, how dar'st thou trust
ERR 1.2. 61 So great a charge from thine own custody?
ERR 1.2. 62
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner.
ERR 1.2. 63 I from my mistress come to you in post.
ERR 1.2. 64 If I return I shall be post indeed,
ERR 1.2. 65 For she will scour your fault upon my pate.
ERR 1.2. 66 Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,
ERR 1.2. 67 And strike you home without a messenger.
ERR 1.2. 68
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of +
ERR 1.2. 68 season.
ERR 1.2. 69 Reserve them till a merrier hour than this.
ERR 1.2. 70 Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?
ERR 1.2. 71
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
To me, sir? Why, you gave no gold to me.
ERR 1.2. 72
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Come on, sir knave, have done your +
ERR 1.2. 72 foolishness,
ERR 1.2. 73 And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge.
ERR 1.2. 74
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
My charge was but to fetch you from the mart
ERR 1.2. 75 Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner.
ERR 1.2. 76 My mistress and her sister stays for you.
ERR 1.2. 77
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Now, as I am a Christian, answer me
ERR 1.2. 78 In what safe place you have bestowed my money,
ERR 1.2. 79 Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours
ERR 1.2. 80 That stands on tricks when I am undisposed.
ERR 1.2. 81 Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?
ERR 1.2. 82
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I have some marks of yours upon my pate,
ERR 1.2. 83 Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,
ERR 1.2. 84 But not a thousand marks between you both.
ERR 1.2. 85 If I should pay your worship those again,
ERR 1.2. 86 Perchance you will not bear them patiently.
ERR 1.2. 87
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Thy mistress' marks? What mistress, slave, +
ERR 1.2. 87 hast thou?
ERR 1.2. 88
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Your worship's wife, my mistress, at the Phoenix:
ERR 1.2. 89 She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,
ERR 1.2. 90 And prays that you will hie you home to dinner.
ERR 1.2. 91
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,
ERR 1.2. 92 Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave! {He beats Dromio}
ERR 1.2. 93
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
What mean you, sir? For God's sake, +
ERR 1.2. 93 hold your hands!
ERR 1.2. 94 Nay, an you will not, sir, I'll take my heels. {Exit}
ERR 1.2. 95
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Upon my life, by some device or +
ERR 1.2. 95 other
ERR 1.2. 96 The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.
ERR 1.2. 97 They say this town is full of cozenage,
ERR 1.2. 98 As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
ERR 1.2. 99 Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
ERR 1.2. 100 Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
ERR 1.2. 101 Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
ERR 1.2. 102 And many suchlike libertines of sin.
ERR 1.2. 103 If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.
ERR 1.2. 104 I'll to the Centaur to go seek this slave.
ERR 1.2. 105 I greatly fear my money is not safe. {Exit}
ERR 1.2. 105
ERR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
ERR 1.2. 0 {Enter [from the Phoenix] Adriana, wife of +
ERR 2.1. 0 Antipholus of Ephesus, with Luciana, her sister}
ERR 2.1. 1
ERR-ADRIANA
Neither my husband nor the slave returned
ERR 2.1. 2 That in such haste I sent to seek his master?
ERR 2.1. 3 Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock.
ERR 2.1. 4
ERR-LUCIANA
Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,
ERR 2.1. 5 And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner.
ERR 2.1. 6 Good sister, let us dine, and never fret.
ERR 2.1. 7 A man is master of his liberty.
ERR 2.1. 8 Time is their mistress, and when they see time
ERR 2.1. 9 They'll go or come. If so, be patient, sister.
ERR 2.1. 10
ERR-ADRIANA
Why should their liberty than ours be more?
ERR 2.1. 11
ERR-LUCIANA
Because their business still lies out o' door.
ERR 2.1. 12
ERR-ADRIANA
Look when I serve him so, he takes it ill.
ERR 2.1. 13
ERR-LUCIANA
O, know he is the bridle of your will.
ERR 2.1. 14
ERR-ADRIANA
There's none but asses will be bridled so.
ERR 2.1. 15
ERR-LUCIANA
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
ERR 2.1. 16 There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
ERR 2.1. 17 But hath his bound in earth, in sea, in sky.
ERR 2.1. 18 The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls
ERR 2.1. 19 Are their males' subjects and at their controls.
ERR 2.1. 20 Man, more divine, the master of all these,
ERR 2.1. 21 Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas,
ERR 2.1. 22 Indued with intellectual sense and souls,
ERR 2.1. 23 Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls,
ERR 2.1. 24 Are masters to their females, and their lords.
ERR 2.1. 25 Then let your will attend on their accords.
ERR 2.1. 26
ERR-ADRIANA
This servitude makes you to keep unwed.
ERR 2.1. 27
ERR-LUCIANA
Not this, but troubles of the marriage bed.
ERR 2.1. 28
ERR-ADRIANA
But were you wedded, you would bear some sway.
ERR 2.1. 29
ERR-LUCIANA
Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey.
ERR 2.1. 30
ERR-ADRIANA
How if your husband start some otherwhere?
ERR 2.1. 31
ERR-LUCIANA
Till he come home again, I would forbear.
ERR 2.1. 32
ERR-ADRIANA
Patience unmoved! No marvel though she pause:
ERR 2.1. 33 They can be meek that have no other cause.
ERR 2.1. 34 A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
ERR 2.1. 35 We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.
ERR 2.1. 36 But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
ERR 2.1. 37 As much or more we should ourselves complain.
ERR 2.1. 38 So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,
ERR 2.1. 39 With urging helpless patience would relieve me.
ERR 2.1. 40 But if thou live to see like right bereft,
ERR 2.1. 41 This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.
ERR 2.1. 42
ERR-LUCIANA
Well, I will marry one day, but to try. {Enter +
ERR 2.1. 42 Dromio of Ephesus}
ERR 2.1. 43 Here comes your man. Now is your husband nigh.
ERR 2.1. 44
ERR-ADRIANA
Say, is your tardy master now at hand?
ERR 2.1. 45
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Nay, he's at two hands with me, and
ERR 2.1. 46 that my two ears can witness.
ERR 2.1. 47
ERR-ADRIANA
Say, didst thou speak with him? Know'st thou his +
ERR 2.1. 47 mind?
ERR 2.1. 48
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I? Ay, he told his mind upon mine ear.
ERR 2.1. 49 Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it.
ERR 2.1. 50
ERR-LUCIANA
Spake he so doubtfully thou couldst not feel his meaning?
ERR 2.1. 51
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Nay, he struck so plainly I could too
ERR 2.1. 52 well feel his blows, and withal so doubtfully that I
ERR 2.1. 53 could scarce under-stand them.
ERR 2.1. 54
ERR-ADRIANA
But say, I prithee, is he coming home?
ERR 2.1. 55 It seems he hath great care to please his wife.
ERR 2.1. 56
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad.
ERR 2.1. 57A
ERR-ADRIANA
Horn-mad, thou villain?
ERR 2.1. 58
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I mean not cuckold-mad, but sure he is stark mad.
ERR 2.1. 59 When I desired him to come home to dinner,
ERR 2.1. 60 He asked me for a thousand marks in gold.
ERR 2.1. 61 `'Tis dinner-time,' quoth I. `My gold,' quoth he.
ERR 2.1. 62 `Your meat doth burn,' quoth I. `My gold,' quoth he.
ERR 2.1. 63 `Will you come home?' quoth I. `My gold,' quoth he;
ERR 2.1. 64 `Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?'
ERR 2.1. 65 `The pig', quoth I, `is burned.' `My gold!' quoth he.
ERR 2.1. 66 `My mistress, sir - ' quoth I. `Hang up thy mistress!
ERR 2.1. 67 I know thy mistress not. Out on thy mistress!'
ERR 2.1. 68A
ERR-LUCIANA
Quoth who?
ERR 2.1. 69A
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Quoth my master.
ERR 2.1. 70 `I know', quoth he, `no house, no wife, no mistress.'
ERR 2.1. 71 So that my errand, due unto my tongue,
ERR 2.1. 72 I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders;
ERR 2.1. 73 For, in conclusion, he did beat me there.
ERR 2.1. 74
ERR-ADRIANA
Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home.
ERR 2.1. 75
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Go back again and be new beaten home?
ERR 2.1. 76 For God's sake, send some other messenger.
ERR 2.1. 77
ERR-ADRIANA
Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across.
ERR 2.1. 78
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
An he will bless that cross with other beating,
ERR 2.1. 79 Between you I shall have a holy head.
ERR 2.1. 80
ERR-ADRIANA
Hence, prating peasant. Fetch thy master home. {She +
ERR 2.1. 80 beats Dromio}
ERR 2.1. 81
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Am I so round with you as you with me,
ERR 2.1. 82 That like a football you do spurn me thus?
ERR 2.1. 83 You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither.
ERR 2.1. 84 If I last in this service, you must case me in leather. {Exit}
ERR 2.1. 85
ERR-LUCIANA
{(to Adriana)} Fie, how impatience loureth +
ERR 2.1. 85 in your face!
ERR 2.1. 86
ERR-ADRIANA
His company must do his minions grace,
ERR 2.1. 87 Whilst I at home starve for a merry look.
ERR 2.1. 88 Hath homely age th' alluring beauty took
ERR 2.1. 89 From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it.
ERR 2.1. 90 Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit?
ERR 2.1. 91 If voluble and sharp discourse be marred,
ERR 2.1. 92 Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.
ERR 2.1. 93 Do their gay vestments his affections bait?
ERR 2.1. 94 That's not my fault: he's master of my state.
ERR 2.1. 95 What ruins are in me that can be found
ERR 2.1. 96 By him not ruined? Then is he the ground
ERR 2.1. 97 Of my defeatures. My decayed fair
ERR 2.1. 98 A sunny look of his would soon repair.
ERR 2.1. 99 But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale,
ERR 2.1. 100 And feeds from home. Poor I am but his stale.
ERR 2.1. 101
ERR-LUCIANA
Self-harming jealousy! Fie, beat it hence.
ERR 2.1. 102
ERR-ADRIANA
Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense.
ERR 2.1. 103 I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,
ERR 2.1. 104 Or else what lets it but he would be here?
ERR 2.1. 105 Sister, you know he promised me a chain.
ERR 2.1. 106 Would that alone o' love he would detain,
ERR 2.1. 107 So he would keep fair quarter with his bed.
ERR 2.1. 108 I see the jewel best enamelled
ERR 2.1. 109 Will lose her beauty. Yet the gold bides still
ERR 2.1. 110 That others touch; and often touching will
ERR 2.1. 111 Wear gold, and yet no man that hath a name
ERR 2.1. 112 By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
ERR 2.1. 113 Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,
ERR 2.1. 114 I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die.
ERR 2.1. 115
ERR-LUCIANA
How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! {[Exeunt +
ERR 2.1. 115 into the Phoenix]}
ERR 2.1. 0 {Enter Antipholus of Syracuse}
ERR 2.2. 1
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
The gold I gave to Dromio is laid +
ERR 2.2. 1 up
ERR 2.2. 2 Safe at the Centaur, and the heedful slave
ERR 2.2. 3 Is wandered forth in care to seek me out.
ERR 2.2. 4 By computation and mine host's report,
ERR 2.2. 5 I could not speak with Dromio since at first
ERR 2.2. 6 I sent him from the mart! See, here he comes. {Enter Dromio of +
ERR 2.2. 6 Syracuse}
ERR 2.2. 7 How now, sir, is your merry humour altered?
ERR 2.2. 8 As you love strokes, so jest with me again.
ERR 2.2. 9 You know no Centaur? You received no gold?
ERR 2.2. 10 Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?
ERR 2.2. 11 My house was at the Phoenix? - Wast thou mad,
ERR 2.2. 12 That thus so madly thou didst answer me?
ERR 2.2. 13
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
What answer, sir? When spake I such a word?
ERR 2.2. 14
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Even now, even here, not half an hour since.
ERR 2.2. 15
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I did not see you since you sent me hence
ERR 2.2. 16 Home to the Centaur with the gold you gave me.
ERR 2.2. 17
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt,
ERR 2.2. 18 And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner,
ERR 2.2. 19 For which I hope thou felt'st I was displeased.
ERR 2.2. 20
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I am glad to see you in this merry vein.
ERR 2.2. 21 What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me.
ERR 2.2. 22
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the +
ERR 2.2. 22 teeth?
ERR 2.2. 23 Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that. {He beats +
ERR 2.2. 23 Dromio}
ERR 2.2. 24
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Hold, sir, for God's sake - now your +
ERR 2.2. 24 jest is earnest!
ERR 2.2. 25 Upon what bargain do you give it me?
ERR 2.2. 26
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Because that I familiarly sometimes
ERR 2.2. 27 Do use you for my fool, and chat with you,
ERR 2.2. 28 Your sauciness will jest upon my love,
ERR 2.2. 29 And make a common of my serious hours.
ERR 2.2. 30 When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport,
ERR 2.2. 31 But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
ERR 2.2. 32 If you will jest with me, know my aspect,
ERR 2.2. 33 And fashion your demeanour to my looks,
ERR 2.2. 34 Or I will beat this method in your sconce.
ERR 2.2. 35
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
`Sconce' call you it? So you would
ERR 2.2. 36 leave battering, I had rather have it a head. An you
ERR 2.2. 37 use these blows long, I must get a sconce for my head,
ERR 2.2. 38 and ensconce it too, or else I shall seek my wit in my
ERR 2.2. 39 shoulders. But I pray, sir, why am I beaten?
ERR 2.2. 40
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Dost thou not know?
ERR 2.2. 41
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten.
ERR 2.2. 42
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Shall I tell you why?
ERR 2.2. 43
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say
ERR 2.2. 44 every why hath a wherefore.
ERR 2.2. 45
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
`Why' first: for flouting me; and +
ERR 2.2. 45 then `wherefore':
ERR 2.2. 46 For urging it the second time to me.
ERR 2.2. 47
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Was there ever any man thus beaten out of +
ERR 2.2. 47 season,
ERR 2.2. 48 When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? -
ERR 2.2. 49B Well, sir, I thank you.
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Thank me, sir, for +
ERR 2.2. 49B what?
ERR 2.2. 50
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, sir, for this something that
ERR 2.2. 51 you gave me for nothing.
ERR 2.2. 52
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I'll make you amends next, to
ERR 2.2. 53 give you nothing for something. But say, sir, is it
ERR 2.2. 54 dinner-time?
ERR 2.2. 55
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No, sir, I think the meat wants that
ERR 2.2. 56 I have.
ERR 2.2. 57
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
In good time, sir. What's that?
ERR 2.2. 58
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Basting.
ERR 2.2. 59
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Well, sir, then 'twill be dry.
ERR 2.2. 60
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
If it be, sir, I pray you eat none of it.
ERR 2.2. 61
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Your reason?
ERR 2.2. 62
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Lest it make you choleric and
ERR 2.2. 63 purchase me another dry basting.
ERR 2.2. 64
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Well, sir, learn to jest in good
ERR 2.2. 65 time. There's a time for all things.
ERR 2.2. 66
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I durst have denied that before you
ERR 2.2. 67 were so choleric.
ERR 2.2. 68
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
By what rule, sir?
ERR 2.2. 69
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the
ERR 2.2. 70 plain bald pate of Father Time himself.
ERR 2.2. 71
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Let's hear it.
ERR 2.2. 72
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
There's no time for a man to recover
ERR 2.2. 73 his hair that grows bald by nature.
ERR 2.2. 74
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
May he not do it by fine and
ERR 2.2. 75 recovery?
ERR 2.2. 76
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig, and
ERR 2.2. 77 recover the lost hair of another man.
ERR 2.2. 78
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Why is Time such a niggard of
ERR 2.2. 79 hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement?
ERR 2.2. 80
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Because it is a blessing that he
ERR 2.2. 81 bestows on beasts, and what he hath scanted men in
ERR 2.2. 82 hair he hath given them in wit.
ERR 2.2. 83
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Why, but there's many a man
ERR 2.2. 84 hath more hair than wit.
ERR 2.2. 85
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Not a man of those but he hath the
ERR 2.2. 86 wit to lose his hair.
ERR 2.2. 87
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Why, thou didst conclude hairy
ERR 2.2. 88 men plain dealers, without wit.
ERR 2.2. 89
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
The plainer dealer, the sooner lost.
ERR 2.2. 90 Yet he loseth it in a kind of jollity.
ERR 2.2. 91
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
For what reason?
ERR 2.2. 92
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
For two, and sound ones too.
ERR 2.2. 93
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Nay, not sound, I pray you.
ERR 2.2. 94
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Sure ones, then.
ERR 2.2. 95
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing.
ERR 2.2. 96
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Certain ones, then.
ERR 2.2. 97
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Name them.
ERR 2.2. 98
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
The one, to save the money that he
ERR 2.2. 99 spends in tiring; the other, that at dinner they should
ERR 2.2. 100 not drop in his porridge.
ERR 2.2. 101
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
You would all this time have
ERR 2.2. 102 proved there is no time for all things.
ERR 2.2. 103
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, and did, sir: namely, e'en no
ERR 2.2. 104 time to recover hair lost by nature.
ERR 2.2. 105
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
But your reason was not substantial,
ERR 2.2. 106 why there is no time to recover.
ERR 2.2. 107
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald,
ERR 2.2. 108 and therefore to the world's end will have bald
ERR 2.2. 109 followers.
ERR 2.2. 110
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion.
ERR 2.2. 110
ERR 2.2. 112 {Enter [from the Phoenix] Adriana and Luciana} But +
ERR 2.2. 112 soft - who wafts us yonder?
ERR 2.2. 113
ERR-ADRIANA
Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown:
ERR 2.2. 114 Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects.
ERR 2.2. 115 I am not Adriana, nor thy wife.
ERR 2.2. 116 The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow
ERR 2.2. 117 That never words were music to thine ear,
ERR 2.2. 118 That never object pleasing in thine eye,
ERR 2.2. 119 That never touch well welcome to thy hand,
ERR 2.2. 120 That never meat sweet-savoured in thy taste,
ERR 2.2. 121 Unless I spake, or looked, or touched, or carved to thee.
ERR 2.2. 122 How comes it now, my husband, O how comes it
ERR 2.2. 123 That thou art then estranged from thyself? -
ERR 2.2. 124 Thy `self' I call it, being strange to me
ERR 2.2. 125 That, undividable, incorporate,
ERR 2.2. 126 Am better than thy dear self's better part.
ERR 2.2. 127 Ah, do not tear away thyself from me;
ERR 2.2. 128 For know, my love, as easy mayst thou fall
ERR 2.2. 129 A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
ERR 2.2. 130 And take unmingled thence that drop again
ERR 2.2. 131 Without addition or diminishing,
ERR 2.2. 132 As take from me thyself, and not me too.
ERR 2.2. 133 How dearly would it touch thee to the quick
ERR 2.2. 134 Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious,
ERR 2.2. 135 And that this body, consecrate to thee,
ERR 2.2. 136 By ruffian lust should be contaminate?
ERR 2.2. 137 Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurn at me,
ERR 2.2. 138 And hurl the name of husband in my face,
ERR 2.2. 139 And tear the stained skin off my harlot brow,
ERR 2.2. 140 And from my false hand cut the wedding ring,
ERR 2.2. 141 And break it with a deep-divorcing vow?
ERR 2.2. 142 I know thou canst, and therefore see thou do it!
ERR 2.2. 143 I am possessed with an adulterate blot;
ERR 2.2. 144 My blood is mingled with the crime of lust.
ERR 2.2. 145 For if we two be one, and thou play false,
ERR 2.2. 146 I do digest the poison of thy flesh,
ERR 2.2. 147 Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
ERR 2.2. 148 Keep then fair league and truce with thy true bed,
ERR 2.2. 149 I live unstained, thou undishonoured.
ERR 2.2. 150
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Plead you to {me}, fair dame? I know you +
ERR 2.2. 150 not.
ERR 2.2. 151 In Ephesus I am but two hours old,
ERR 2.2. 152 As strange unto your town as to your talk,
ERR 2.2. 153 Who, every word by all my wit being scanned,
ERR 2.2. 154 Wants wit in all one word to understand.
ERR 2.2. 155
ERR-LUCIANA
Fie, brother, how the world is changed with you!
ERR 2.2. 156 When were you wont to use my sister thus?
ERR 2.2. 157 She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner.
ERR 2.2. 158A
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
By Dromio?
ERR 2.2. 159A
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
By me?
ERR 2.2. 160
ERR-ADRIANA
By thee; and this thou didst return from him -
ERR 2.2. 161 That he did buffet thee, and in his blows
ERR 2.2. 162 Denied my house for his, me for his wife.
ERR 2.2. 163
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Did you converse, sir, with this +
ERR 2.2. 163 gentlewoman?
ERR 2.2. 164 What is the course and drift of your compact?
ERR 2.2. 165
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I, sir? I never saw her till this time.
ERR 2.2. 166
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Villain, thou liest; for even her very words
ERR 2.2. 167 Didst thou deliver to me on the mart.
ERR 2.2. 168
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I never spake with her in all my life.
ERR 2.2. 169
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
How can she thus then call us by our names? -
ERR 2.2. 170 Unless it be by inspiration.
ERR 2.2. 171
ERR-ADRIANA
How ill agrees it with your gravity
ERR 2.2. 172 To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,
ERR 2.2. 173 Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!
ERR 2.2. 174 Be it my wrong you are from me exempt,
ERR 2.2. 175 But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
ERR 2.2. 176 Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine.
ERR 2.2. 177 Thou art an elm, my husband; I a vine,
ERR 2.2. 178 Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
ERR 2.2. 179 Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
ERR 2.2. 180 If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,
ERR 2.2. 181 Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss,
ERR 2.2. 182 Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion
ERR 2.2. 183 Infect thy sap, and live on thy confusion.
ERR 2.2. 184
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
{(aside)} To me she speaks, +
ERR 2.2. 184 she moves me for her theme.
ERR 2.2. 185 What, was I married to her in my dream?
ERR 2.2. 186 Or sleep I now, and think I hear all this?
ERR 2.2. 187 What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
ERR 2.2. 188 Until I know this sure uncertainty,
ERR 2.2. 189 I'll entertain the offered fallacy.
ERR 2.2. 190
ERR-LUCIANA
Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner.
ERR 2.2. 191
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(aside)} O, for my beads! I +
ERR 2.2. 191 cross me for a sinner.
ERR 2.2. 192 This is the fairy land. O spite of spites,
ERR 2.2. 193 We talk with goblins, oafs, and sprites.
ERR 2.2. 194 If we obey them not, this will ensue:
ERR 2.2. 195 They'll suck our breath or pinch us black and blue.
ERR 2.2. 196
ERR-LUCIANA
Why prat'st thou to thyself, and answer'st not?
ERR 2.2. 197 Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot.
ERR 2.2. 198
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(to Antipholus)} I am +
ERR 2.2. 198 transformed, master, am not I?
ERR 2.2. 199
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I think thou art in mind, and so am I.
ERR 2.2. 200
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape.
ERR 2.2. 201B
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Thou hast thine own form. +
ERR 2.2. 201B
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No, I am an ape.
ERR 2.2. 202
ERR-LUCIANA
If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass.
ERR 2.2. 203
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{[to Antipholus]} 'Tis true she +
ERR 2.2. 203 rides me, and I long for grass.
ERR 2.2. 204 'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be
ERR 2.2. 205 But I should know her as well as she knows me.
ERR 2.2. 206
ERR-ADRIANA
Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,
ERR 2.2. 207 To put the finger in the eye and weep
ERR 2.2. 208 Whilst man and master laughs my woes to scorn.
ERR 2.2. 209 {(To Antipholus)} Come, sir, to dinner. - Dromio, keep +
ERR 2.2. 209 the gate. -
ERR 2.2. 210 Husband, I'll dine above with you today,
ERR 2.2. 211 And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. -
ERR 2.2. 212 Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,
ERR 2.2. 213 Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter. -
ERR 2.2. 214 Come, sister. - Dromio, play the porter well.
ERR 2.2. 215
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
{(aside)} Am I in earth, in +
ERR 2.2. 215 heaven, or in hell?
ERR 2.2. 216 Sleeping or waking? Mad or well advised?
ERR 2.2. 217 Known unto these, and to myself disguised!
ERR 2.2. 218 I'll say as they say, and persever so,
ERR 2.2. 219 And in this mist at all adventures go.
ERR 2.2. 220
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Master, shall I be porter at the gate?
ERR 2.2. 221
ERR-ADRIANA
Ay, and let none enter, lest I break your pate.
ERR 2.2. 222
ERR-LUCIANA
Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late. {Exeunt +
ERR 2.2. 222 [into the Phoenix]}
ERR 2.2. 222
ERR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
ERR 2.2. 0 {Enter Antipholus of Ephesus, his man Dromio, +
ERR 3.1. 0 Angelo the goldsmith, and Balthasar the merchant}
ERR 3.1. 1
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Good Signor Angelo, you must excuse +
ERR 3.1. 1 us all.
ERR 3.1. 2 My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours.
ERR 3.1. 3 Say that I lingered with you at your shop
ERR 3.1. 4 To see the making of her carcanet,
ERR 3.1. 5 And that tomorrow you will bring it home. -
ERR 3.1. 6 But here's a villain that would face me down
ERR 3.1. 7 He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,
ERR 3.1. 8 And charged him with a thousand marks in gold,
ERR 3.1. 9 And that I did deny my wife and house.
ERR 3.1. 10 Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?
ERR 3.1. 11
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know -
ERR 3.1. 12 That you beat me at the mart I have your hand to show.
ERR 3.1. 13 If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink,
ERR 3.1. 14 Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
ERR 3.1. 15B
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I think thou art an ass.
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
+
ERR 3.1. 15B Marry, so it doth appear
ERR 3.1. 16 By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear.
ERR 3.1. 17 I should kick being kicked, and, being at that pass,
ERR 3.1. 18 You would keep from my heels, and beware of an ass.
ERR 3.1. 19
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
You're sad, Signor Balthasar. Pray God our +
ERR 3.1. 19 cheer
ERR 3.1. 20 May answer my good will, and your good welcome here.
ERR 3.1. 21
ERR-BALTHASAR
I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear.
ERR 3.1. 22
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
O, Signor Balthasar, either at flesh or fish
ERR 3.1. 23 A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.
ERR 3.1. 24
ERR-BALTHASAR
Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords.
ERR 3.1. 25
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
And welcome more common, for that's nothing +
ERR 3.1. 25 but words.
ERR 3.1. 26
ERR-BALTHASAR
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
ERR 3.1. 27
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Ay, to a niggardly host and more sparing +
ERR 3.1. 27 guest.
ERR 3.1. 28 But though my cates be mean, take them in good part.
ERR 3.1. 29 Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart.
ERR 3.1. 30 But soft, my door is locked. {(To Dromio)} Go bid them +
ERR 3.1. 30 let us in.
ERR 3.1. 31
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
{(calling)} Maud, Bridget, +
ERR 3.1. 31 Marian, Cicely, Gillian, Ginn! {[Enter Dromio of Syracuse within +
ERR 3.1. 31 the Phoenix]}
ERR 3.1. 32
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} Mome, +
ERR 3.1. 32 malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch!
ERR 3.1. 33 Either get thee from the door or sit down at the hatch.
ERR 3.1. 34 Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such store
ERR 3.1. 35 When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door.
ERR 3.1. 36
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
What patch is made our porter? My master stays in +
ERR 3.1. 36 the street.
ERR 3.1. 37
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within)} Let him walk from +
ERR 3.1. 37 whence he came, lest he catch cold on 's feet.
ERR 3.1. 38
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Who talks within there? Ho, open the door!
ERR 3.1. 39
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} Right, +
ERR 3.1. 39 sir, I'll tell you when, an you'll tell me wherefore.
ERR 3.1. 40
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Wherefore? For my dinner - I have not dined +
ERR 3.1. 40 today.
ERR 3.1. 41
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} Nor +
ERR 3.1. 41 today here you must not. Come again when you may.
ERR 3.1. 42
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
What art thou that keep'st me out from the +
ERR 3.1. 42 house I owe?
ERR 3.1. 43
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} The +
ERR 3.1. 43 porter for this time, sir, and my name is Dromio.
ERR 3.1. 44
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and +
ERR 3.1. 44 my name.
ERR 3.1. 45 The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.
ERR 3.1. 46 If thou hadst been Dromio today in my place,
ERR 3.1. 47 Thou wouldst have changed thy pate for an aim, or thy name for an +
ERR 3.1. 47 ass. {Enter Nell within the Phoenix}
ERR 3.1. 48
ERR-NELL
{(within the Phoenix)} What a coil is there, +
ERR 3.1. 48 Dromio? Who are those at the gate?
ERR 3.1. 49B
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Let my master in, Nell.
ERR-NELL
{(within +
ERR 3.1. 49B the Phoenix)} Faith no, he comes too late;
ERR 3.1. 50B And so tell your master.
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
O Lord, I must laugh.
ERR 3.1. 51 Have at you with a proverb: `Shall I set in my staff?'
ERR 3.1. 52
ERR-NELL
{(within the Phoenix)} Have at you with +
ERR 3.1. 52 another - that's `When? Can you tell?'
ERR 3.1. 53
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} If thy +
ERR 3.1. 53 name be called Nell, Nell, thou hast answered him well.
ERR 3.1. 54
ERR-[]
ERR 3.1. 55
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Nell)} Do you hear, you +
ERR 3.1. 55 minion? You'll let us in, I hope?
ERR 3.1. 56B
ERR-NELL
{(within the Phoenix)} I thought to have +
ERR 3.1. 56B asked you.
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within)} And you +
ERR 3.1. 56B said no.
ERR 3.1. 57B
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
So, come help. {[He and Antipholus beat +
ERR 3.1. 57B the door]} Well struck! There was blow for blow.
ERR 3.1. 58B
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Nell)} Thou baggage, +
ERR 3.1. 58B let me in.
ERR-NELL
{(within the Phoenix)} Can you tell +
ERR 3.1. 58B for whose sake?
ERR 3.1. 59B
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Master, knock the door hard.
ERR-NELL
+
ERR 3.1. 59B {(within the Phoenix)} Let him knock till it ache.
ERR 3.1. 60
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
You'll cry for this, minion, if I beat the +
ERR 3.1. 60 door down.
ERR 3.1. 61
ERR-NELL
{(within the Phoenix)} What needs all that, +
ERR 3.1. 61 and a pair of stocks in the town? {Enter Adriana within the +
ERR 3.1. 61 Phoenix}
ERR 3.1. 62
ERR-ADRIANA
{(within the Phoenix)} Who is that at the +
ERR 3.1. 62 door that keeps all this noise?
ERR 3.1. 63
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} By my +
ERR 3.1. 63 troth, your town is troubled with unruly boys.
ERR 3.1. 64
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Adriana)} Are you +
ERR 3.1. 64 there, wife? You might have come before.
ERR 3.1. 65
ERR-ADRIANA
{(within the Phoenix)} Your wife, sir +
ERR 3.1. 65 knave? Go, get you from the door. {Exit with Nell}
ERR 3.1. 66
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
{(to Antipholus)} If you went in +
ERR 3.1. 66 pain, master, this knave would go sore.
ERR 3.1. 67
ERR-ANGELO
{(to Antipholus)} Here is neither cheer, +
ERR 3.1. 67 sir, nor welcome; we would fain have either.
ERR 3.1. 68
ERR-BALTHASAR
In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.
ERR 3.1. 69
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
{(to Antipholus)} They stand at +
ERR 3.1. 69 the door, master. Bid them welcome hither.
ERR 3.1. 70
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
There is something in the wind, that we +
ERR 3.1. 70 cannot get in.
ERR 3.1. 71
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
You would say so, master, if your garments were +
ERR 3.1. 71 thin.
ERR 3.1. 72 Your cake here is warm within: you stand here in the cold.
ERR 3.1. 73 It would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold.
ERR 3.1. 74
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Go fetch me something. I'll break ope the +
ERR 3.1. 74 gate.
ERR 3.1. 75
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} Break +
ERR 3.1. 75 any breaking here, and I'll break your knave's pate.
ERR 3.1. 76
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
A man may break a word with you, sir, and words +
ERR 3.1. 76 are but wind;
ERR 3.1. 77 Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
ERR 3.1. 78
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} It seems +
ERR 3.1. 78 thou want'st breaking. Out upon thee, hind!
ERR 3.1. 79
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Here's too much `Out upon thee!' I pray thee, let +
ERR 3.1. 79 me in.
ERR 3.1. 80
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(within the Phoenix)} Ay, when +
ERR 3.1. 80 fowls have no feathers, and fish have no fin.
ERR 3.1. 81
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Well, I'll break in. - Go borrow me a crow.
ERR 3.1. 82
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?
ERR 3.1. 83 For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather.
ERR 3.1. 84 {(To Dromio of Syracuse)} If a crow help us in, +
ERR 3.1. 84 sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.
ERR 3.1. 85
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Go, get thee gone. Fetch me an iron crow.
ERR 3.1. 86
ERR-BALTHASAR
Have patience, sir. O, let it not be so!
ERR 3.1. 87 Herein you war against your reputation,
ERR 3.1. 88 And draw within the compass of suspect
ERR 3.1. 89 Th' unviolated honour of your wife.
ERR 3.1. 90 Once this: your long experience of her wisdom,
ERR 3.1. 91 Her sober virtue, years, and modesty,
ERR 3.1. 92 Plead on her part some cause to you unknown;
ERR 3.1. 93 And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse
ERR 3.1. 94 Why at this time the doors are made against you.
ERR 3.1. 95 Be ruled by me. Depart in patience,
ERR 3.1. 96 And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,
ERR 3.1. 97 And about evening come yourself alone
ERR 3.1. 98 To know the reason of this strange restraint.
ERR 3.1. 99 If by strong hand you offer to break in
ERR 3.1. 100 Now in the stirring passage of the day,
ERR 3.1. 101 A vulgar comment will be made of it,
ERR 3.1. 102 And that supposed by the common rout
ERR 3.1. 103 Against your yet ungalled estimation,
ERR 3.1. 104 That may with foul intrusion enter in
ERR 3.1. 105 And dwell upon your grave when you are dead.
ERR 3.1. 106 For slander lives upon succession,
ERR 3.1. 107 For ever housed where once it gets possession.
ERR 3.1. 108
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
You have prevailed. I will depart in quiet,
ERR 3.1. 109 And in despite of mirth mean to be merry.
ERR 3.1. 110 I know a wench of excellent discourse,
ERR 3.1. 111 Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle.
ERR 3.1. 112 There will we dine. This woman that I mean,
ERR 3.1. 113 My wife - but, I protest, without desert -
ERR 3.1. 114 Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal.
ERR 3.1. 115 To her will we to dinner. {(To Angelo)} Get you home
ERR 3.1. 116 And fetch the chain. By this, I know, 'tis made.
ERR 3.1. 117 Bring it, I pray you, to the Porcupine,
ERR 3.1. 118 For there's the house. That chain will I bestow -
ERR 3.1. 119 Be it for nothing but to spite my wife -
ERR 3.1. 120 Upon mine hostess there. Good sir, make haste:
ERR 3.1. 121 Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
ERR 3.1. 122 I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me.
ERR 3.1. 123
ERR-ANGELO
I'll meet you at that place some hour hence.
ERR 3.1. 124B
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Do so. {[Exit Angelo]} This +
ERR 3.1. 124B jest shall cost me some expense. {Exeunt [Dromio of Syracuse +
ERR 3.1. 124B within the Phoenix, and the others into the Porcupine]}
ERR 3.1. 0 {Enter [from the Phoenix] Luciana with Antipholus of +
ERR 3.2. 0 Syracuse}
ERR 3.2. 1
ERR-LUCIANA
And may it be that you have quite forgot
ERR 3.2. 2 A husband's office? Shall, Antipholus,
ERR 3.2. 3 Even in the spring of love thy love-springs rot?
ERR 3.2. 4 Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?
ERR 3.2. 5 If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
ERR 3.2. 6 Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness;
ERR 3.2. 7 Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth:
ERR 3.2. 8 Muffle your false love with some show of blindness.
ERR 3.2. 9 Let not my sister read it in your eye.
ERR 3.2. 10 Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
ERR 3.2. 11 Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
ERR 3.2. 12 Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger.
ERR 3.2. 13 Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted:
ERR 3.2. 14 Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint.
ERR 3.2. 15 Be secret-false. What need she be acquainted?
ERR 3.2. 16 What simple thief brags of his own attaint?
ERR 3.2. 17 'Tis double wrong to truant with your bed,
ERR 3.2. 18 And let her read it in thy looks at board.
ERR 3.2. 19 Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed;
ERR 3.2. 20 Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.
ERR 3.2. 21 Alas, poor women, make us but believe -
ERR 3.2. 22 Being compact of credit - that you love us.
ERR 3.2. 23 Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve.
ERR 3.2. 24 We in your motion turn, and you may move us.
ERR 3.2. 25 Then, gentle brother, get you in again.
ERR 3.2. 26 Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife:
ERR 3.2. 27 'Tis holy sport to be a little vain
ERR 3.2. 28 When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife.
ERR 3.2. 29
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Sweet mistress - what your name is else I know +
ERR 3.2. 29 not,
ERR 3.2. 30 Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine.
ERR 3.2. 31 Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not
ERR 3.2. 32 Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine.
ERR 3.2. 33 Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak.
ERR 3.2. 34 Lay open to my earthy gross conceit,
ERR 3.2. 35 Smothered in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,
ERR 3.2. 36 The folded meaning of your words' deceit.
ERR 3.2. 37 Against my soul's pure truth why labour you
ERR 3.2. 38 To make it wander in an unknown field?
ERR 3.2. 39 Are you a god? Would you create me new?
ERR 3.2. 40 Transform me, then, and to your power I'll yield.
ERR 3.2. 41 But if that I am I, then well I know
ERR 3.2. 42 Your weeping sister is no wife of mine,
ERR 3.2. 43 Nor to her bed no homage do I owe.
ERR 3.2. 44 Far more, far more, to you do I decline.
ERR 3.2. 45 O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note
ERR 3.2. 46 To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears.
ERR 3.2. 47 Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote.
ERR 3.2. 48 Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
ERR 3.2. 49 And as a bed I'll take them, and there lie,
ERR 3.2. 50 And in that glorious supposition think
ERR 3.2. 51 He gains by death that hath such means to die.
ERR 3.2. 52 Let love, being light, be drowned if she sink.
ERR 3.2. 53
ERR-LUCIANA
What, are you mad, that you do reason so?
ERR 3.2. 54
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Not mad, but mated - how, I do not know.
ERR 3.2. 55
ERR-LUCIANA
It is a fault that springeth from your eye.
ERR 3.2. 56
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being +
ERR 3.2. 56 by.
ERR 3.2. 57
ERR-LUCIANA
Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight.
ERR 3.2. 58
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
As good to wink, sweet love, as look on +
ERR 3.2. 58 night.
ERR 3.2. 59
ERR-LUCIANA
Why call you me `love'? Call my sister so.
ERR 3.2. 60B
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Thy sister's sister.
ERR-LUCIANA
That's my +
ERR 3.2. 60B sister.
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
No,
ERR 3.2. 61 It is thyself, mine own self's better part,
ERR 3.2. 62 Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,
ERR 3.2. 63 My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim,
ERR 3.2. 64 My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.
ERR 3.2. 65
ERR-LUCIANA
All this my sister is, or else should be.
ERR 3.2. 66
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Call thyself sister, sweet, for I am thee.
ERR 3.2. 67 Thee will I love, and with thee lead my life.
ERR 3.2. 68 Thou hast no husband yet, nor I no wife.
ERR 3.2. 69B Give me thy hand.
ERR-LUCIANA
O soft, sir, hold you still;
ERR 3.2. 70 I'll fetch my sister to get her good will. {Exit [into the +
ERR 3.2. 70 Phoenix]}
ERR 3.2. 71 {Enter [from the Phoenix] Dromio of Syracuse} +
ERR 3.2. 71
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Why, how now, Dromio! Where
ERR 3.2. 72 runn'st thou so fast?
ERR 3.2. 73
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio?
ERR 3.2. 74 Am I your man? Am I myself?
ERR 3.2. 75
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Thou art Dromio, thou art my
ERR 3.2. 76 man, thou art thyself.
ERR 3.2. 77
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I am an ass, I am a woman's man,
ERR 3.2. 78 and besides myself.
ERR 3.2. 79
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What woman's man? And how
ERR 3.2. 80 besides thyself?
ERR 3.2. 81
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, sir, besides myself I am due
ERR 3.2. 82 to a woman: one that claims me, one that haunts me,
ERR 3.2. 83 one that will have me.
ERR 3.2. 84
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What claim lays she to thee?
ERR 3.2. 85
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, sir, such claim as you would
ERR 3.2. 86 lay to your horse; and she would have me as a beast -
ERR 3.2. 87 not that, I being a beast, she would have me, but that
ERR 3.2. 88 she, being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me.
ERR 3.2. 89
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What is she?
ERR 3.2. 90
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
A very reverend body; ay, such a
ERR 3.2. 91 one as a man may not speak of without he say `sir-
ERR 3.2. 92 reverence'. I have but lean luck in the match, and yet
ERR 3.2. 93 is she a wondrous fat marriage.
ERR 3.2. 94
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
How dost thou mean, a fat
ERR 3.2. 95 marriage?
ERR 3.2. 96
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench,
ERR 3.2. 97 and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to
ERR 3.2. 98 but to make a lamp of her, and run from her by her
ERR 3.2. 99 own light. I warrant her rags and the tallow in them
ERR 3.2. 100 will burn a Poland winter. If she lives till doomsday,
ERR 3.2. 101 she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
ERR 3.2. 102
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What complexion is she of?
ERR 3.2. 103
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Swart like my shoe, but her face
ERR 3.2. 104 nothing like so clean kept. For why? - She sweats a
ERR 3.2. 105 man may go overshoes in the grime of it.
ERR 3.2. 106
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
That's a fault that water will
ERR 3.2. 107 mend.
ERR 3.2. 108
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No, sir, 'tis in grain. Noah's flood
ERR 3.2. 109 could not do it.
ERR 3.2. 110
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What's her name?
ERR 3.2. 111
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Nell, sir. But her name and three-
ERR 3.2. 112 quarters - that's an ell and three-quarters - will not
ERR 3.2. 113 measure her from hip to hip.
ERR 3.2. 114
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Then she bears some breadth?
ERR 3.2. 115
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No longer from head to foot than
ERR 3.2. 116 from hip to hip. She is spherical, like a globe. I could
ERR 3.2. 117 find out countries in her.
ERR 3.2. 118
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
In what part of her body stands
ERR 3.2. 119 Ireland?
ERR 3.2. 120
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, sir, in her buttocks. I found
ERR 3.2. 121 it out by the bogs.
ERR 3.2. 122
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Where Scotland?
ERR 3.2. 123
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I found it by the barrenness, hard
ERR 3.2. 124 in the palm of her hand.
ERR 3.2. 125
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Where France?
ERR 3.2. 126
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
In her forehead, armed and reverted,
ERR 3.2. 127 making war against her heir.
ERR 3.2. 128
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Where England?
ERR 3.2. 129
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I
ERR 3.2. 130 could find no whiteness in them. But I guess it stood
ERR 3.2. 131 in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between France
ERR 3.2. 132 and it.
ERR 3.2. 133
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Where Spain?
ERR 3.2. 134
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Faith, I saw it not, but I felt it hot
ERR 3.2. 135 in her breath.
ERR 3.2. 136
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Where America, the Indies?
ERR 3.2. 137
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
O, sir, upon her nose, all o'er
ERR 3.2. 138 embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires,
ERR 3.2. 139 declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain,
ERR 3.2. 140 who sent whole armadas of carracks to be ballast at
ERR 3.2. 141 her nose.
ERR 3.2. 142
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Where stood Belgia, the
ERR 3.2. 143 Netherlands?
ERR 3.2. 144
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
O, sir, I did not look so low. To
ERR 3.2. 145 conclude, this drudge or diviner laid claim to me, called
ERR 3.2. 146 me Dromio, swore I was assured to her, told me what
ERR 3.2. 147 privy marks I had about me - as the mark of my
ERR 3.2. 148 shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my
ERR 3.2. 149 left arm - that I, amazed, ran from her as a witch. And
ERR 3.2. 150 I think if my breast had not been made of faith, and
ERR 3.2. 151 my heart of steel, she had transformed me to a curtal
ERR 3.2. 152 dog, and made me turn i' th' wheel.
ERR 3.2. 153
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Go, hie thee presently. Post to +
ERR 3.2. 153 the road.
ERR 3.2. 154 An if the wind blow any way from shore,
ERR 3.2. 155 I will not harbour in this town tonight.
ERR 3.2. 156 If any barque put forth, come to the mart,
ERR 3.2. 157 Where I will walk till thou return to me.
ERR 3.2. 158 If everyone knows us, and we know none,
ERR 3.2. 159 'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack, and be gone.
ERR 3.2. 160
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
As from a bear a man would run for life,
ERR 3.2. 161 So fly I from her that would be my wife. {Exit [to the bay]}
ERR 3.2. 162
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
There's none but witches do +
ERR 3.2. 162 inhabit here,
ERR 3.2. 163 And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence.
ERR 3.2. 164 She that doth call me husband, even my soul
ERR 3.2. 165 Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,
ERR 3.2. 166 Possessed with such a gentle sovereign grace,
ERR 3.2. 167 Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
ERR 3.2. 168 Hath almost made me traitor to myself.
ERR 3.2. 169 But lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
ERR 3.2. 170 I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song. {Enter Angelo +
ERR 3.2. 170 with the chain}
ERR 3.2. 171B
ERR-ANGELO
Master Antipholus.
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Ay, +
ERR 3.2. 171B that's my name.
ERR 3.2. 172
ERR-ANGELO
I know it well, sir. Lo, here's the chain.
ERR 3.2. 173 I thought to have ta'en you at the Porcupine.
ERR 3.2. 174 The chain unfinished made me stay thus long.
ERR 3.2. 175
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
{(taking the chain)} What +
ERR 3.2. 175 is your will that I shall do with this?
ERR 3.2. 176
ERR-ANGELO
What please yourself, sir. I have made it for you.
ERR 3.2. 177
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Made it for me, sir? I bespoke it not.
ERR 3.2. 178
ERR-ANGELO
Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.
ERR 3.2. 179 Go home with it, and please your wife withal,
ERR 3.2. 180 And soon at supper-time I'll visit you,
ERR 3.2. 181 And then receive my money for the chain.
ERR 3.2. 182
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I pray you, sir, receive the money now,
ERR 3.2. 183 For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more.
ERR 3.2. 184
ERR-ANGELO
You are a merry man, sir. Fare you well. {Exit}
ERR 3.2. 185
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What I should think of this I +
ERR 3.2. 185 cannot tell.
ERR 3.2. 186 But this I think: there's no man is so vain
ERR 3.2. 187 That would refuse so fair an offered chain.
ERR 3.2. 188 I see a man here needs not live by shifts,
ERR 3.2. 189 When in the streets he meets such golden gifts.
ERR 3.2. 190 I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay.
ERR 3.2. 191 If any ship put out, then straight away! {Exit}
ERR 3.2. 191
ERR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
ERR 3.2. 0 {Enter Second Merchant, Angelo the goldsmith, and +
ERR 4.1. 0 an Officer}
ERR 4.1. 1
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
{(to Angelo)} You know since +
ERR 4.1. 1 Pentecost the sum is due,
ERR 4.1. 2 And since I have not much importuned you;
ERR 4.1. 3 Nor now I had not, but that I am bound
ERR 4.1. 4 To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage.
ERR 4.1. 5 Therefore make present satisfaction,
ERR 4.1. 6 Or I'll attach you by this officer.
ERR 4.1. 7
ERR-ANGELO
Even just the sum that I do owe to you
ERR 4.1. 8 Is growing to me by Antipholus,
ERR 4.1. 9 And in the instant that I met with you
ERR 4.1. 10 He had of me a chain. At five o'clock
ERR 4.1. 11 I shall receive the money for the same.
ERR 4.1. 12 Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,
ERR 4.1. 13 I will discharge my bond, and thank you too. {Enter Antipholus +
ERR 4.1. 13 of Ephesus and Dromio of Ephesus from the Courtesan's house (the +
ERR 4.1. 13 Porcupine)}
ERR 4.1. 14
ERR-OFFICER
That labour may you save. See where he comes.
ERR 4.1. 15
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Dromio)} While I go to +
ERR 4.1. 15 the goldsmith's house, go thou
ERR 4.1. 16 And buy a rope's end. That will I bestow
ERR 4.1. 17 Among my wife and her confederates
ERR 4.1. 18 For locking me out of my doors by day.
ERR 4.1. 19 But soft, I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone.
ERR 4.1. 20 Buy thou a rope, and bring it home to me.
ERR 4.1. 21
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I buy a thousand pound a year, I buy a +
ERR 4.1. 21 rope. {Exit}
ERR 4.1. 22
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Angelo)} A man is well +
ERR 4.1. 22 holp up that trusts to you!
ERR 4.1. 23 I promised your presence and the chain,
ERR 4.1. 24 But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me.
ERR 4.1. 25 Belike you thought our love would last too long
ERR 4.1. 26 If it were chained together, and therefore came not.
ERR 4.1. 27
ERR-ANGELO
Saving your merry humour, here's the note
ERR 4.1. 28 How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat,
ERR 4.1. 29 The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion,
ERR 4.1. 30 Which doth amount to three odd ducats more
ERR 4.1. 31 Than I stand debted to this gentleman.
ERR 4.1. 32 I pray you see him presently discharged,
ERR 4.1. 33 For he is bound to sea, and stays but for it.
ERR 4.1. 34
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I am not furnished with the present money.
ERR 4.1. 35 Besides, I have some business in the town.
ERR 4.1. 36 Good signor, take the stranger to my house,
ERR 4.1. 37 And with you take the chain, and bid my wife
ERR 4.1. 38 Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof.
ERR 4.1. 39 Perchance I will be there as soon as you.
ERR 4.1. 40
ERR-ANGELO
Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?
ERR 4.1. 41
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
No, bear it with you, lest I come not time +
ERR 4.1. 41 enough.
ERR 4.1. 42
ERR-ANGELO
Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you?
ERR 4.1. 43
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
An if I have not, sir, I hope you have;
ERR 4.1. 44 Or else you may return without your money.
ERR 4.1. 45
ERR-ANGELO
Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain.
ERR 4.1. 46 Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman,
ERR 4.1. 47 And I, to blame, have held him here too long.
ERR 4.1. 48
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Good Lord! You use this dalliance to excuse
ERR 4.1. 49 Your breach of promise to the Porcupine.
ERR 4.1. 50 I should have chid you for not bringing it,
ERR 4.1. 51 But like a shrew you first begin to brawl.
ERR 4.1. 52
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
{(to Angelo)} The hour steals on. +
ERR 4.1. 52 I pray you, sir, dispatch.
ERR 4.1. 53
ERR-ANGELO
{(to Antipholus)} You hear how he +
ERR 4.1. 53 importunes me. The chain!
ERR 4.1. 54
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Why, give it to my wife, and fetch your +
ERR 4.1. 54 money.
ERR 4.1. 55
ERR-ANGELO
Come, come, you know I gave it you even now.
ERR 4.1. 56 Either send the chain, or send me by some token.
ERR 4.1. 57
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Fie, now you run this humour out of breath.
ERR 4.1. 58 Come, where's the chain? I pray you let me see it.
ERR 4.1. 59
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
My business cannot brook this dalliance.
ERR 4.1. 60 Good sir, say whe'er you'll answer me or no;
ERR 4.1. 61 If not, I'll leave him to the officer.
ERR 4.1. 62
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I answer you? What should I answer you?
ERR 4.1. 63
ERR-ANGELO
The money that you owe me for the chain.
ERR 4.1. 64
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I owe you none till I receive the chain.
ERR 4.1. 65
ERR-ANGELO
You know I gave it you half an hour since.
ERR 4.1. 66
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
You gave me none. You wrong me much to say +
ERR 4.1. 66 so.
ERR 4.1. 67
ERR-ANGELO
You wrong me more, sir, in denying it.
ERR 4.1. 68 Consider how it stands upon my credit.
ERR 4.1. 69
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
Well, officer, arrest him at my suit.
ERR 4.1. 70
ERR-OFFICER
{(to Angelo)} I do, and charge you in the +
ERR 4.1. 70 Duke's name to obey me.
ERR 4.1. 71
ERR-ANGELO
{(to Antipholus)} This touches me in +
ERR 4.1. 71 reputation.
ERR 4.1. 72 Either consent to pay this sum for me,
ERR 4.1. 73 Or I attach you by this officer.
ERR 4.1. 74
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Consent to pay thee that I never had?
ERR 4.1. 75 Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou dar'st.
ERR 4.1. 76
ERR-ANGELO
Here is thy fee: arrest him, officer.
ERR 4.1. 77 I would not spare my brother in this case
ERR 4.1. 78 If he should scorn me so apparently.
ERR 4.1. 79
ERR-OFFICER
{(to Antipholus)} I do arrest you, sir. +
ERR 4.1. 79 You hear the suit.
ERR 4.1. 80
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I do obey thee till I give thee bail.
ERR 4.1. 81 {(To Angelo)} But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as +
ERR 4.1. 81 dear
ERR 4.1. 82 As all the metal in your shop will answer.
ERR 4.1. 83
ERR-ANGELO
Sir, sir, I shall have law in Ephesus,
ERR 4.1. 84 To your notorious shame, I doubt it not. {Enter Dromio of +
ERR 4.1. 84 Syracuse, from the bay}
ERR 4.1. 85
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Master, there's a barque of Epidamnum
ERR 4.1. 86 That stays but till her owner comes aboard,
ERR 4.1. 87 And then she bears away. Our freightage, sir,
ERR 4.1. 88 I have conveyed aboard, and I have bought
ERR 4.1. 89 The oil, the balsamum, and aqua-vitae.
ERR 4.1. 90 The ship is in her trim; the merry wind
ERR 4.1. 91 Blows fair from land. They stay for naught at all
ERR 4.1. 92 But for their owner, master, and yourself.
ERR 4.1. 93
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
How now? A madman? Why, thou peevish sheep,
ERR 4.1. 94 What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?
ERR 4.1. 95
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.
ERR 4.1. 96
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope,
ERR 4.1. 97 And told thee to what purpose and what end.
ERR 4.1. 98
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
You sent me for a rope|s end as soon.
ERR 4.1. 99 You sent me to the bay, sir, for a barque.
ERR 4.1. 100
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I will debate this matter at more leisure,
ERR 4.1. 101 And teach your ears to list me with more heed.
ERR 4.1. 102 To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight.
ERR 4.1. 103 Give her this key, and tell her in the desk
ERR 4.1. 104 That's covered o'er with Turkish tapestry
ERR 4.1. 105 There is a purse of ducats. Let her send it.
ERR 4.1. 106 Tell her I am arrested in the street,
ERR 4.1. 107 And that shall bail me. Hie thee, slave. Be gone! -
ERR 4.1. 108 On, officer, to prison, till it come. {Exeunt all but Dromio of +
ERR 4.1. 108 Syracuse}
ERR 4.1. 109
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
To Adriana. That is where we dined,
ERR 4.1. 110 Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband.
ERR 4.1. 111 She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
ERR 4.1. 112 Thither I must, although against my will;
ERR 4.1. 113 For servants must their masters' minds fulfil. {Exit}
ERR 4.1. 0 {Enter [from the Phoenix] Adriana and Luciana}
ERR 4.2. 1
ERR-ADRIANA
Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?
ERR 4.2. 2 Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye
ERR 4.2. 3 That he did plead in earnest, yea or no?
ERR 4.2. 4 Looked he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?
ERR 4.2. 5 What observation mad'st thou in this case
ERR 4.2. 6 Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?
ERR 4.2. 7
ERR-LUCIANA
First he denied you had in him no right.
ERR 4.2. 8
ERR-ADRIANA
He meant he did me none, the more my spite.
ERR 4.2. 9
ERR-LUCIANA
Then swore he that he was a stranger here.
ERR 4.2. 10
ERR-ADRIANA
And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.
ERR 4.2. 11B
ERR-LUCIANA
Then pleaded I for you.
ERR-ADRIANA
And what said he?
ERR 4.2. 12
ERR-LUCIANA
That love I begged for you, he begged of me.
ERR 4.2. 13
ERR-ADRIANA
With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?
ERR 4.2. 14
ERR-LUCIANA
With words that in an honest suit might move.
ERR 4.2. 15 First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.
ERR 4.2. 16B
ERR-ADRIANA
Didst speak him fair?
ERR-LUCIANA
Have patience, I beseech.
ERR 4.2. 17
ERR-ADRIANA
I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still.
ERR 4.2. 18 My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
ERR 4.2. 19 He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
ERR 4.2. 20 Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless everywhere,
ERR 4.2. 21 Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,
ERR 4.2. 22 Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
ERR 4.2. 23
ERR-LUCIANA
Who would be jealous, then, of such a one?
ERR 4.2. 24 No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
ERR 4.2. 25
ERR-ADRIANA
Ah, but I think him better than I say,
ERR 4.2. 26 And yet would herein others' eyes were worse.
ERR 4.2. 27 Far from her nest the lapwing cries away.
ERR 4.2. 28 My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse. {Enter Dromio +
ERR 4.2. 28 of Syracuse running}
ERR 4.2. 29
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Here, go - the desk, the purse! Sweet +
ERR 4.2. 29 now, make haste!
ERR 4.2. 30B
ERR-LUCIANA
How? Hast thou lost thy breath?
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
By +
ERR 4.2. 30B running fast.
ERR 4.2. 31
ERR-ADRIANA
Where is thy master, Dromio? Is he well?
ERR 4.2. 32
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell.
ERR 4.2. 33 A devil in an everlasting garment hath him,
ERR 4.2. 34 One whose hard heart is buttoned up with steel;
ERR 4.2. 35 A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;
ERR 4.2. 36 A wolf, nay worse, a fellow all in buff;
ERR 4.2. 37 A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands
ERR 4.2. 38 The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow launds;
ERR 4.2. 39 A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dryfoot well;
ERR 4.2. 40 One that before the Judgement carries poor souls to hell.
ERR 4.2. 41A
ERR-ADRIANA
Why, man, what is the matter?
ERR 4.2. 42
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I do not know the matter, he is 'rested on the +
ERR 4.2. 42 case.
ERR 4.2. 43
ERR-ADRIANA
What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.
ERR 4.2. 44
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I know not at whose suit he is arrested well,
ERR 4.2. 45 But is in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell.
ERR 4.2. 46 Will you send him, mistress, redemption - the money in his desk?
ERR 4.2. 47B
ERR-ADRIANA
Go fetch it, sister. {Exit Luciana [into the +
ERR 4.2. 47B Phoenix]} This I wonder at,
ERR 4.2. 48 That he unknown to me should be in debt.
ERR 4.2. 49 Tell me, was he arrested on a bond?
ERR 4.2. 50
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Not on a bond but on a stronger thing:
ERR 4.2. 51 A chain, a chain - do you not hear it ring?
ERR 4.2. 52B
ERR-ADRIANA
What, the chain?
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No, no, the bell. +
ERR 4.2. 52B 'Tis time that I were gone:
ERR 4.2. 53 It was two ere I left him, and now the clock strikes one.
ERR 4.2. 54
ERR-ADRIANA
The hours come back! That did I never hear.
ERR 4.2. 55
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant, a turns back +
ERR 4.2. 55 for very fear.
ERR 4.2. 56
ERR-ADRIANA
As if time were in debt. How fondly dost thou reason!
ERR 4.2. 57
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's +
ERR 4.2. 57 worth to season.
ERR 4.2. 58 Nay, he's a thief too. Have you not heard men say
ERR 4.2. 59 That time comes stealing on by night and day?
ERR 4.2. 60 If a be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,
ERR 4.2. 61 Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day? {Enter Luciana +
ERR 4.2. 61 [from the Phoenix] with the money}
ERR 4.2. 62
ERR-ADRIANA
Go, Dromio, there's the money. Bear it straight,
ERR 4.2. 63 And bring thy master home immediately. {[Exit Dromio]}
ERR 4.2. 64 Come, sister, I am pressed down with conceit:
ERR 4.2. 65 Conceit, my comfort and my injury. {Exeunt [into the Phoenix]}
ERR 4.2. 0 {Enter Antipholus of Syracuse, wearing the chain}
ERR 4.3. 1
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
There's not a man I meet but doth +
ERR 4.3. 1 salute me
ERR 4.3. 2 As if I were their well-acquainted friend,
ERR 4.3. 3 And everyone doth call me by my name.
ERR 4.3. 4 Some tender money to me, some invite me,
ERR 4.3. 5 Some other give me thanks for kindnesses.
ERR 4.3. 6 Some offer me commodities to buy.
ERR 4.3. 7 Even now a tailor called me in his shop,
ERR 4.3. 8 And showed me silks that he had bought for me,
ERR 4.3. 9 And therewithal took measure of my body.
ERR 4.3. 10 Sure, these are but imaginary wiles,
ERR 4.3. 11 And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here. {Enter Dromio of Syracuse +
ERR 4.3. 11 with the money}
ERR 4.3. 12
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Master, here's the gold you sent me
ERR 4.3. 13 for. What, have you got redemption from the picture
ERR 4.3. 14 of old Adam new apparelled?
ERR 4.3. 15
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What gold is this? What Adam dost +
ERR 4.3. 15 thou mean?
ERR 4.3. 16
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Not that Adam that kept the
ERR 4.3. 17 Paradise, but that Adam that keeps the prison - he that
ERR 4.3. 18 goes in the calf's skin, that was killed for the Prodigal;
ERR 4.3. 19 he that came behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and
ERR 4.3. 20 bid you forsake your liberty.
ERR 4.3. 21
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I understand thee not.
ERR 4.3. 22
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No? Why, 'tis a plain case: he that
ERR 4.3. 23 went like a bass viol in a case of leather; the man, sir,
ERR 4.3. 24 that when gentlemen are tired gives them a sob and
ERR 4.3. 25 'rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed men
ERR 4.3. 26 and gives them suits of durance; he that sets up his
ERR 4.3. 27 rest to do more exploits with his mace than a Moorish
ERR 4.3. 28 pike.
ERR 4.3. 29
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
What, thou mean'st an officer?
ERR 4.3. 30
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band: he
ERR 4.3. 31 that brings any man to answer it that breaks his bond;
ERR 4.3. 32 one that thinks a man always going to bed, and says
ERR 4.3. 33 `God give you good rest.'
ERR 4.3. 34
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Well, sir, there rest in your
ERR 4.3. 35 foolery. Is there any ships puts forth tonight? May we
ERR 4.3. 36 be gone?
ERR 4.3. 37
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Why, sir, I brought you word an
ERR 4.3. 38 hour since that the barque {Expedition} put forth tonight,
ERR 4.3. 39 and then were you hindered by the sergeant to tarry
ERR 4.3. 40 for the hoy {Delay}. Here are the angels that you sent
ERR 4.3. 41 for to deliver you.
ERR 4.3. 42
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
The fellow is distraught, and so +
ERR 4.3. 42 am I,
ERR 4.3. 43 And here we wander in illusions.
ERR 4.3. 44 Some blessed power deliver us from hence. {Enter a Courtesan +
ERR 4.3. 44 [from the Porcupine]}
ERR 4.3. 45
ERR-COURTESAN
Well met, well met, Master Antipholus.
ERR 4.3. 46 I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now.
ERR 4.3. 47 Is that the chain you promised me today?
ERR 4.3. 48
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not!
ERR 4.3. 49
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Master, is this Mistress Satan?
ERR 4.3. 50
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
It is the devil.
ERR 4.3. 51
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's
ERR 4.3. 52 dam; and here she comes in the habit of a light wench.
ERR 4.3. 53 And thereof comes that the wenches say `God damn
ERR 4.3. 54 me' - that's as much to say, `God make me a light
ERR 4.3. 55 wench.' It is written they appear to men like angels of
ERR 4.3. 56 light. Light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn. Ergo,
ERR 4.3. 57 light wenches will burn. Come not near her.
ERR 4.3. 58
ERR-COURTESAN
Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir.
ERR 4.3. 59 Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here.
ERR 4.3. 60
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat,
ERR 4.3. 61 and bespeak a long spoon.
ERR 4.3. 62
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Why, Dromio?
ERR 4.3. 63
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, he must have a long spoon
ERR 4.3. 64 that must eat with the devil.
ERR 4.3. 65
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
{(to Courtesan)} Avoid, +
ERR 4.3. 65 thou fiend! What tell'st thou me of supping?
ERR 4.3. 66 Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress.
ERR 4.3. 67 I conjure thee to leave me and be gone.
ERR 4.3. 68
ERR-COURTESAN
Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,
ERR 4.3. 69 Or for my diamond the chain you promised,
ERR 4.3. 70 And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you.
ERR 4.3. 71
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail,
ERR 4.3. 72 A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,
ERR 4.3. 73 A nut, a cherry-stone;
ERR 4.3. 74 But she, more covetous, would have a chain.
ERR 4.3. 75 Master, be wise; an if you give it her,
ERR 4.3. 76 The devil will shake her chain, and fright us with it.
ERR 4.3. 77
ERR-COURTESAN
{(to Antipholus)} I pray you, sir, my +
ERR 4.3. 77 ring, or else the chain.
ERR 4.3. 78 I hope you do not mean to cheat me so?
ERR 4.3. 79
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Avaunt, thou witch! - Come, Dromio, let us go.
ERR 4.3. 80
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
`Fly pride' says the peacock. Mistress, that you +
ERR 4.3. 80 know. {Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse}
ERR 4.3. 81 {and Dromio of Syracuse}
ERR-COURTESAN
Now, out of doubt, +
ERR 4.3. 81 Antipholus is mad;
ERR 4.3. 82 Else would he never so demean himself.
ERR 4.3. 83 A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,
ERR 4.3. 84 And for the same he promised me a chain.
ERR 4.3. 85 Both one and other he denies me now.
ERR 4.3. 86 The reason that I gather he is mad,
ERR 4.3. 87 Besides this present instance of his rage,
ERR 4.3. 88 Is a mad tale he told today at dinner
ERR 4.3. 89 Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.
ERR 4.3. 90 Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,
ERR 4.3. 91 On purpose shut the doors against his way.
ERR 4.3. 92 My way is now to hie home to his house,
ERR 4.3. 93 And tell his wife that, being lunatic,
ERR 4.3. 94 He rushed into my house, and took perforce
ERR 4.3. 95 My ring away. This course I fittest choose,
ERR 4.3. 96 For forty ducats is too much to lose. {Exit}
ERR 4.3. 0 {Enter Antipholus of Ephesus with the Officer}
ERR 4.4. 1
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Fear me not, man, I will not break +
ERR 4.4. 1 away.
ERR 4.4. 2 I'll give thee ere I leave thee so much money
ERR 4.4. 3 To warrant thee as I am 'rested for.
ERR 4.4. 4 My wife is in a wayward mood today,
ERR 4.4. 5 And will not lightly trust the messenger
ERR 4.4. 6 That I should be attached in Ephesus.
ERR 4.4. 7 I tell you 'twill sound harshly in her ears. {Enter Dromio of +
ERR 4.4. 7 Ephesus with a rope's end}
ERR 4.4. 8 Here comes my man. I think he brings the money. -
ERR 4.4. 9 How now, sir? Have you that I sent you for?
ERR 4.4. 10
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all.
ERR 4.4. 11A
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
But where's the money?
ERR 4.4. 12
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope.
ERR 4.4. 13
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope?
ERR 4.4. 14
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate.
ERR 4.4. 15
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
To what end did I bid thee hie thee home?
ERR 4.4. 16
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
To a rope's end, sir, and to that end
ERR 4.4. 17 am I returned.
ERR 4.4. 18
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
And to that end, sir, I will +
ERR 4.4. 18 welcome you. {He beats Dromio}
ERR 4.4. 19
ERR-OFFICER
Good sir, be patient.
ERR 4.4. 20
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Nay, 'tis for me to be patient: I am
ERR 4.4. 21 in adversity.
ERR 4.4. 22
ERR-OFFICER
Good now, hold thy tongue.
ERR 4.4. 23
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Nay, rather persuade {him} to hold his
ERR 4.4. 24 hands.
ERR 4.4. 25
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Thou whoreson, senseless villain!
ERR 4.4. 26
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I would I were senseless, sir, that I
ERR 4.4. 27 might not feel your blows.
ERR 4.4. 28
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Thou art sensible in nothing but
ERR 4.4. 29 blows, and so is an ass.
ERR 4.4. 30
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I am an ass indeed. You may prove
ERR 4.4. 31 it by my long ears. - I have served him from the hour
ERR 4.4. 32 of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his
ERR 4.4. 33 hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he
ERR 4.4. 34 heats me with beating. When I am warm, he cools me
ERR 4.4. 35 with beating. I am waked with it when I sleep, raised
ERR 4.4. 36 with it when I sit, driven out of doors with it when I
ERR 4.4. 37 go from home, welcomed home with it when I return.
ERR 4.4. 38 Nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont her
ERR 4.4. 39 brat, and I think when he hath lamed me I shall beg
ERR 4.4. 40 with it from door to door. {Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtesan, +
ERR 4.4. 40 and a schoolmaster called Pinch}
ERR 4.4. 41
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Come, go along: my wife is coming +
ERR 4.4. 41 yonder.
ERR 4.4. 42
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
{(to Adriana)} Mistress, +
ERR 4.4. 42 {respice finem} -
ERR 4.4. 43 respect your end - or rather, to prophesy like the parrot,
ERR 4.4. 44 `Beware the rope's end'.
ERR 4.4. 45A
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Wilt thou still talk? {He +
ERR 4.4. 45A beats Dromio}
ERR 4.4. 46
ERR-COURTESAN
{(to Adriana)} How say you now? Is not +
ERR 4.4. 46 your husband mad?
ERR 4.4. 47
ERR-ADRIANA
His incivility confirms no less. -
ERR 4.4. 48 Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer.
ERR 4.4. 49 Establish him in his true sense again,
ERR 4.4. 50 And I will please you what you will demand.
ERR 4.4. 51
ERR-LUCIANA
Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!
ERR 4.4. 52
ERR-COURTESAN
Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy.
ERR 4.4. 53
ERR-PINCH
{(to Antipholus)} Give me your hand, and let +
ERR 4.4. 53 me feel your pulse.
ERR 4.4. 54
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
There is my hand, and let it feel your +
ERR 4.4. 54 ear. {He strikes Pinch}
ERR 4.4. 55
ERR-PINCH
I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
ERR 4.4. 56 To yield possession to my holy prayers,
ERR 4.4. 57 And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:
ERR 4.4. 58 I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.
ERR 4.4. 59
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad.
ERR 4.4. 60
ERR-ADRIANA
O that thou wert not, poor distressed soul.
ERR 4.4. 61
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
You minion, you, are these your customers?
ERR 4.4. 62 Did this companion with the saffron face
ERR 4.4. 63 Revel and feast it at my house today,
ERR 4.4. 64 Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut,
ERR 4.4. 65 And I denied to enter in my house?
ERR 4.4. 66
ERR-ADRIANA
O husband, God doth know you dined at home,
ERR 4.4. 67 Where would you had remained until this time,
ERR 4.4. 68 Free from these slanders and this open shame.
ERR 4.4. 69B
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Dined at home? {(To Dromio)} +
ERR 4.4. 69B Thou villain, what sayst thou?
ERR 4.4. 70
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.
ERR 4.4. 71
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Were not my doors locked up, and I shut out?
ERR 4.4. 72
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Pardie, your doors were locked, and you shut out.
ERR 4.4. 73
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
And did not she herself revile me there?
ERR 4.4. 74
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Sans fable, she herself reviled you there.
ERR 4.4. 75
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and +
ERR 4.4. 75 scorn me?
ERR 4.4. 76
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Certes she did. The kitchen vestal scorned you.
ERR 4.4. 77
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
And did not I in rage depart from thence?
ERR 4.4. 78
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
In verity you did. My bones bears witness,
ERR 4.4. 79 That since have felt the vigour of his rage.
ERR 4.4. 80
ERR-ADRIANA
{(aside to Pinch)} Is 't good to soothe +
ERR 4.4. 80 him in these contraries?
ERR 4.4. 81
ERR-PINCH
{(aside to Adriana)} It is no shame. The +
ERR 4.4. 81 fellow finds his vein,
ERR 4.4. 82 And, yielding to him, humours well his frenzy.
ERR 4.4. 83
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Adriana)} Thou hast +
ERR 4.4. 83 suborned the goldsmith to arrest me.
ERR 4.4. 84
ERR-ADRIANA
Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,
ERR 4.4. 85 By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.
ERR 4.4. 86
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Money by me? Heart and good will you might,
ERR 4.4. 87 But surely, master, not a rag of money.
ERR 4.4. 88
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Went'st not thou to her for a purse of +
ERR 4.4. 88 ducats?
ERR 4.4. 89
ERR-ADRIANA
He came to me, and I delivered it.
ERR 4.4. 90
ERR-LUCIANA
And I am witness with her that she did.
ERR 4.4. 91
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
God and the ropemaker bear me witness
ERR 4.4. 92 That I was sent for nothing but a rope.
ERR 4.4. 93
ERR-PINCH
{(aside to Adriana)} Mistress, both man and +
ERR 4.4. 93 master is possessed.
ERR 4.4. 94 I know it by their pale and deadly looks.
ERR 4.4. 95 They must be bound and laid in some dark room.
ERR 4.4. 96
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Adriana)} Say wherefore +
ERR 4.4. 96 didst thou lock me forth today,
ERR 4.4. 97 {(To Dromio)} And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?
ERR 4.4. 98
ERR-ADRIANA
I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.
ERR 4.4. 99
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
And, gentle master, I received no gold.
ERR 4.4. 100 But I confess, sir, that we were locked out.
ERR 4.4. 101
ERR-ADRIANA
Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both.
ERR 4.4. 102
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all,
ERR 4.4. 103 And art confederate with a damned pack
ERR 4.4. 104 To make a loathsome abject scorn of me.
ERR 4.4. 105 But with these nails I'll pluck out those false eyes,
ERR 4.4. 106 That would behold in me this shameful sport. {[He reaches for +
ERR 4.4. 106 Adriana; she shrieks.]}
ERR 4.4. 107 {Enter three or four, and offer to bind him. He strives}
ERR-ADRIANA
+
ERR 4.4. 107 O, bind him, bind him. Let him not come near me.
ERR 4.4. 108
ERR-PINCH
More company! The fiend is strong within him.
ERR 4.4. 109
ERR-LUCIANA
Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks.
ERR 4.4. 110
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
What, will you murder me? - Thou, jailer, thou,
ERR 4.4. 111 I am thy prisoner. Wilt thou suffer them
ERR 4.4. 112B To make a rescue?
ERR-OFFICER
Masters, let him go.
ERR 4.4. 113 He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.
ERR 4.4. 114
ERR-PINCH
Go, bind his man, for he is frantic too. {They bind +
ERR 4.4. 114 Dromio}
ERR 4.4. 115
ERR-ADRIANA
What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
ERR 4.4. 116 Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
ERR 4.4. 117 Do outrage and displeasure to himself?
ERR 4.4. 118
ERR-OFFICER
He is my prisoner. If I let him go,
ERR 4.4. 119 The debt he owes will be required of me.
ERR 4.4. 120
ERR-ADRIANA
I will discharge thee ere I go from thee.
ERR 4.4. 121 Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,
ERR 4.4. 122 And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it. -
ERR 4.4. 123 Good Master Doctor, see him safe conveyed
ERR 4.4. 124 Home to my house. O most unhappy day!
ERR 4.4. 125A
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
O most unhappy strumpet!
ERR 4.4. 126
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Master, I am here entered in bond for you.
ERR 4.4. 127
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Out on thee, villain! Wherefore dost thou mad +
ERR 4.4. 127 me?
ERR 4.4. 128
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Will you be bound for nothing? Be mad, good +
ERR 4.4. 128 master -
ERR 4.4. 129 Cry, `The devil!'
ERR 4.4. 130
ERR-LUCIANA
God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!
ERR 4.4. 131
ERR-ADRIANA
Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me. {Exeunt +
ERR 4.4. 131 [into the Phoenix], Pinch and others carrying off Antipholus of Ephesus +
ERR 4.4. 131 and Dromio of Ephesus. The Officer, Adriana, Luciana, and the Courtesan +
ERR 4.4. 131 remain}
ERR 4.4. 132 {(To the Officer)} Say now, whose suit is he arrested +
ERR 4.4. 132 at?
ERR 4.4. 133
ERR-OFFICER
One Angelo, a goldsmith. Do you know him?
ERR 4.4. 134
ERR-ADRIANA
I know the man. What is the sum he owes?
ERR 4.4. 135B
ERR-OFFICER
Two hundred ducats.
ERR-ADRIANA
Say, how grows it due?
ERR 4.4. 136
ERR-OFFICER
Due for a chain your husband had of him.
ERR 4.4. 137
ERR-ADRIANA
He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.
ERR 4.4. 138
ERR-COURTESAN
Whenas your husband all in rage today
ERR 4.4. 139 Came to my house, and took away my ring -
ERR 4.4. 140 The ring I saw upon his finger now -
ERR 4.4. 141 Straight after did I meet him with a chain.
ERR 4.4. 142
ERR-ADRIANA
It may be so, but I did never see it.
ERR 4.4. 143 Come, jailer, bring me where the goldsmith is.
ERR 4.4. 144 I long to know the truth hereof at large. {Enter Antipholus of +
ERR 4.4. 144 Syracuse (wearing the chain) and Dromio of Syracuse with their rapiers +
ERR 4.4. 144 drawn}
ERR 4.4. 145
ERR-LUCIANA
God, for thy mercy, they are loose again!
ERR 4.4. 146
ERR-ADRIANA
And come with naked swords. Let's call more help
ERR 4.4. 147B To have them bound again.
ERR-OFFICER
Away, they'll kill us! {All +
ERR 4.4. 147B but Antipholus and Dromio run out, as fast as may be, frighted}
ERR 4.4. 148
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I see these witches are afraid of +
ERR 4.4. 148 swords.
ERR 4.4. 149
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
She that would be your wife now ran from you.
ERR 4.4. 150
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Come to the Centaur. Fetch our stuff from +
ERR 4.4. 150 thence.
ERR 4.4. 151 I long that we were safe and sound aboard.
ERR 4.4. 152
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Faith, stay here this night. They will
ERR 4.4. 153 surely do us no harm. You saw they speak us fair, give
ERR 4.4. 154 us gold. Methinks they are such a gentle nation that,
ERR 4.4. 155 but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage
ERR 4.4. 156 of me, I could find in my heart to stay here still, and
ERR 4.4. 157 turn witch.
ERR 4.4. 158
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I will not stay tonight for all +
ERR 4.4. 158 the town.
ERR 4.4. 159 Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard. {Exeunt}
ERR 4.4. 159
ERR-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
ERR 4.4. 0 {Enter Second Merchant and Angelo the goldsmith}
ERR 5.1. 1
ERR-ANGELO
I am sorry, sir, that I have hindered you,
ERR 5.1. 2 But I protest he had the chain of me,
ERR 5.1. 3 Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.
ERR 5.1. 4
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
How is the man esteemed here in the city?
ERR 5.1. 5
ERR-ANGELO
Of very reverend reputation, sir,
ERR 5.1. 6 Of credit infinite, highly beloved,
ERR 5.1. 7 Second to none that lives here in the city.
ERR 5.1. 8 His word might bear my wealth at any time.
ERR 5.1. 9
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
Speak softly. Yonder, as I think, he walks. +
ERR 5.1. 9 {Enter Antipholus of Syracuse, wearing the chain, and Dromio of +
ERR 5.1. 9 Syracuse again}
ERR 5.1. 10
ERR-ANGELO
'Tis so, and that self chain about his neck
ERR 5.1. 11 Which he forswore most monstrously to have.
ERR 5.1. 12 Good sir, draw near to me. I'll speak to him. -
ERR 5.1. 13 Signor Antipholus, I wonder much
ERR 5.1. 14 That you would put me to this shame and trouble,
ERR 5.1. 15 And not without some scandal to yourself,
ERR 5.1. 16 With circumstance and oaths so to deny
ERR 5.1. 17 This chain, which now you wear so openly.
ERR 5.1. 18 Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,
ERR 5.1. 19 You have done wrong to this my honest friend,
ERR 5.1. 20 Who, but for staying on our controversy,
ERR 5.1. 21 Had hoisted sail and put to sea today.
ERR 5.1. 22 This chain you had of me. Can you deny it?
ERR 5.1. 23
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I think I had. I never did deny it.
ERR 5.1. 24
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.
ERR 5.1. 25
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?
ERR 5.1. 26
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
These ears of mine, thou know'st, did hear thee.
ERR 5.1. 27 Fie on thee, wretch! 'Tis pity that thou liv'st
ERR 5.1. 28 To walk where any honest men resort.
ERR 5.1. 29
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Thou art a villain to impeach me thus.
ERR 5.1. 30 I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty
ERR 5.1. 31 Against thee presently, if thou dar'st stand.
ERR 5.1. 32
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
I dare, and do defy thee for a villain. +
ERR 5.1. 32 {They draw. Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtesan,}
ERR 5.1. 33 {and others [from the Phoenix]}
ERR-ADRIANA
Hold, hurt him +
ERR 5.1. 33 not, for God's sake; he is mad.
ERR 5.1. 34 Some get within him, take his sword away.
ERR 5.1. 35 Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.
ERR 5.1. 36
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Run, master, run! For God's sake take a house.
ERR 5.1. 37 This is some priory - in, or we are spoiled. {Exeunt Antipholus of +
ERR 5.1. 37 Syracuse and}
ERR 5.1. 38 {Dromio of Syracuse to the priory} {Enter [from the priory] the +
ERR 5.1. 38 Lady Abbess}
ERR-ABBESS
Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you +
ERR 5.1. 38 hither?
ERR 5.1. 39
ERR-ADRIANA
To fetch my poor distracted husband hence.
ERR 5.1. 40 Let us come in, that we may bind him fast,
ERR 5.1. 41 And bear him home for his recovery.
ERR 5.1. 42
ERR-ANGELO
I knew he was not in his perfect wits.
ERR 5.1. 43
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
I am sorry now that I did draw on him.
ERR 5.1. 44
ERR-ABBESS
How long hath this possession held the man?
ERR 5.1. 45
ERR-ADRIANA
This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,
ERR 5.1. 46 And much, much different from the man he was;
ERR 5.1. 47 But till this afternoon his passion
ERR 5.1. 48 Ne'er brake into extremity of rage.
ERR 5.1. 49
ERR-ABBESS
Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck at sea?
ERR 5.1. 50 Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye
ERR 5.1. 51 Strayed his affection in unlawful love -
ERR 5.1. 52 A sin prevailing much in youthful men,
ERR 5.1. 53 Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing?
ERR 5.1. 54 Which of these sorrows is he subject to?
ERR 5.1. 55
ERR-ADRIANA
To none of these, except it be the last,
ERR 5.1. 56 Namely some love that drew him oft from home.
ERR 5.1. 57
ERR-ABBESS
You should for that have reprehended him.
ERR 5.1. 58B
ERR-ADRIANA
Why, so I did.
ERR-ABBESS
Ay, but not rough enough.
ERR 5.1. 59
ERR-ADRIANA
As roughly as my modesty would let me.
ERR 5.1. 60A
ERR-ABBESS
Haply in private.
ERR 5.1. 61A
ERR-ADRIANA
And in assemblies too.
ERR 5.1. 62A
ERR-ABBESS
Ay, but not enough.
ERR 5.1. 63
ERR-ADRIANA
It was the copy of our conference.
ERR 5.1. 64 In bed he slept not for my urging it.
ERR 5.1. 65 At board he fed not for my urging it.
ERR 5.1. 66 Alone, it was the subject of my theme.
ERR 5.1. 67 In company I often glanced it.
ERR 5.1. 68 Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.
ERR 5.1. 69
ERR-ABBESS
And thereof came it that the man was mad.
ERR 5.1. 70 The venom clamours of a jealous woman
ERR 5.1. 71 Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
ERR 5.1. 72 It seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing,
ERR 5.1. 73 And thereof comes it that his head is light.
ERR 5.1. 74 Thou sayst his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings.
ERR 5.1. 75 Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
ERR 5.1. 76 Thereof the raging fire of fever bred,
ERR 5.1. 77 And what's a fever but a fit of madness?
ERR 5.1. 78 Thou sayst his sports were hindered by thy brawls.
ERR 5.1. 79 Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
ERR 5.1. 80 But moody and dull melancholy,
ERR 5.1. 81 Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
ERR 5.1. 82 And at her heels a huge infectious troop
ERR 5.1. 83 Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
ERR 5.1. 84 In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest
ERR 5.1. 85 To be disturbed would mad or man or beast.
ERR 5.1. 86 The consequence is, then, thy jealous fits
ERR 5.1. 87 Hath scared thy husband from the use of wits.
ERR 5.1. 88
ERR-LUCIANA
She never reprehended him but mildly
ERR 5.1. 89 When he demeaned himself rough, rude, and wildly.
ERR 5.1. 90 {(To Adriana)} Why bear you these rebukes, and answer +
ERR 5.1. 90 not?
ERR 5.1. 91
ERR-ADRIANA
She did betray me to my own reproof. -
ERR 5.1. 92 Good people, enter, and lay hold on him.
ERR 5.1. 93
ERR-ABBESS
No, not a creature enters in my house.
ERR 5.1. 94
ERR-ADRIANA
Then let your servants bring my husband forth.
ERR 5.1. 95
ERR-ABBESS
Neither. He took this place for sanctuary,
ERR 5.1. 96 And it shall privilege him from your hands
ERR 5.1. 97 Till I have brought him to his wits again,
ERR 5.1. 98 Or lose my labour in essaying it.
ERR 5.1. 99
ERR-ADRIANA
I will attend my husband, be his nurse,
ERR 5.1. 100 Diet his sickness, for it is my office,
ERR 5.1. 101 And will have no attorney but myself.
ERR 5.1. 102 And therefore let me have him home with me.
ERR 5.1. 103
ERR-ABBESS
Be patient, for I will not let him stir
ERR 5.1. 104 Till I have used the approved means I have,
ERR 5.1. 105 With wholesome syrups, drugs, and holy prayers
ERR 5.1. 106 To make of him a formal man again.
ERR 5.1. 107 It is a branch and parcel of mine oath,
ERR 5.1. 108 A charitable duty of my order.
ERR 5.1. 109 Therefore depart, and leave him here with me.
ERR 5.1. 110
ERR-ADRIANA
I will not hence, and leave my husband here;
ERR 5.1. 111 And ill it doth beseem your holiness
ERR 5.1. 112 To separate the husband and the wife.
ERR 5.1. 113
ERR-ABBESS
Be quiet and depart. Thou shalt not have him. {[Exit +
ERR 5.1. 113 into the priory]}
ERR 5.1. 114
ERR-LUCIANA
{(to Adriana)} Complain unto the Duke of +
ERR 5.1. 114 this indignity.
ERR 5.1. 115
ERR-ADRIANA
Come, go, I will fall prostrate at his feet,
ERR 5.1. 116 And never rise until my tears and prayers
ERR 5.1. 117 Have won his grace to come in person hither
ERR 5.1. 118 And take perforce my husband from the Abbess.
ERR 5.1. 119
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
By this, I think, the dial point's at five.
ERR 5.1. 120 Anon, I'm sure, the Duke himself in person
ERR 5.1. 121 Comes this way to the melancholy vale,
ERR 5.1. 122 The place of death and sorry execution,
ERR 5.1. 123 Behind the ditches of the abbey here.
ERR 5.1. 124A
ERR-ANGELO
Upon what cause?
ERR 5.1. 125
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
To see a reverend Syracusian merchant,
ERR 5.1. 126 Who put unluckily into this bay
ERR 5.1. 127 Against the laws and statutes of this town,
ERR 5.1. 128 Beheaded publicly for his offence.
ERR 5.1. 129
ERR-ANGELO
See where they come. We will behold his death.
ERR 5.1. 130
ERR-LUCIANA
Kneel to the Duke before he pass the abbey. {Enter +
ERR 5.1. 130 Solinus Duke of Ephesus, and Egeon the merchant of Syracuse, +
ERR 5.1. 130 bareheaded, with the headsman and other officers}
ERR 5.1. 131
ERR-DUKE
Yet once again proclaim it publicly:
ERR 5.1. 132 If any friend will pay the sum for him,
ERR 5.1. 133 He shall not die, so much we tender him.
ERR 5.1. 134
ERR-ADRIANA
{(kneeling)} Justice, most sacred Duke, +
ERR 5.1. 134 against the Abbess!
ERR 5.1. 135
ERR-DUKE
She is a virtuous and a reverend lady.
ERR 5.1. 136 It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong.
ERR 5.1. 137
ERR-ADRIANA
May it please your grace, Antipholus my husband,
ERR 5.1. 138 Who I made lord of me and all I had
ERR 5.1. 139 At your important letters - this ill day
ERR 5.1. 140 A most outrageous fit of madness took him,
ERR 5.1. 141 That desp'rately he hurried through the street,
ERR 5.1. 142 With him his bondman, all as mad as he,
ERR 5.1. 143 Doing displeasure to the citizens
ERR 5.1. 144 By rushing in their houses, bearing thence
ERR 5.1. 145 Rings, jewels, anything his rage did like.
ERR 5.1. 146 Once did I get him bound, and sent him home,
ERR 5.1. 147 Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went
ERR 5.1. 148 That here and there his fury had committed.
ERR 5.1. 149 Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,
ERR 5.1. 150 He broke from those that had the guard of him,
ERR 5.1. 151 And with his mad attendant and himself,
ERR 5.1. 152 Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,
ERR 5.1. 153 Met us again, and, madly bent on us,
ERR 5.1. 154 Chased us away; till, raising of more aid,
ERR 5.1. 155 We came again to bind them. Then they fled
ERR 5.1. 156 Into this abbey, whither we pursued them,
ERR 5.1. 157 And here the Abbess shuts the gates on us,
ERR 5.1. 158 And will not suffer us to fetch him out,
ERR 5.1. 159 Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.
ERR 5.1. 160 Therefore, most gracious Duke, with thy command
ERR 5.1. 161 Let him be brought forth, and borne hence for help.
ERR 5.1. 162
ERR-DUKE
{[raising Adriana]} Long since, thy husband +
ERR 5.1. 162 served me in my wars,
ERR 5.1. 163 And I to thee engaged a prince's word,
ERR 5.1. 164 When thou didst make him master of thy bed,
ERR 5.1. 165 To do him all the grace and good I could. -
ERR 5.1. 166 Go, some of you, knock at the abbey gate,
ERR 5.1. 167 And bid the Lady Abbess come to me.
ERR 5.1. 168 I will determine this before I stir. {Enter a Messenger [from +
ERR 5.1. 168 the Phoenix]}
ERR 5.1. 169
ERR-MESSENGER
{(to Adriana)} O mistress, mistress, +
ERR 5.1. 169 shift and save yourself!
ERR 5.1. 170 My master and his man are both broke loose,
ERR 5.1. 171 Beaten the maids a-row, and bound the Doctor,
ERR 5.1. 172 Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire,
ERR 5.1. 173 And ever as it blazed they threw on him
ERR 5.1. 174 Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair.
ERR 5.1. 175 My master preaches patience to him, and the while
ERR 5.1. 176 His man with scissors nicks him like a fool;
ERR 5.1. 177 And sure - unless you send some present help -
ERR 5.1. 178 Between them they will kill the conjurer.
ERR 5.1. 179
ERR-ADRIANA
Peace, fool. Thy master and his man are here,
ERR 5.1. 180 And that is false thou dost report to us.
ERR 5.1. 181
ERR-MESSENGER
Mistress, upon my life I tell you true.
ERR 5.1. 182 I have not breathed almost since I did see it.
ERR 5.1. 183 He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,
ERR 5.1. 184 To scorch your face and to disfigure you. {Cry within}
ERR 5.1. 185 Hark, hark, I hear him, mistress. Fly, be gone!
ERR 5.1. 186
ERR-DUKE
{(to Adriana)} Come stand by me. Fear +
ERR 5.1. 186 nothing. Guard with halberds! {Enter Antipholus of Ephesus and +
ERR 5.1. 186 Dromio of Ephesus [from the Phoenix]}
ERR 5.1. 187
ERR-ADRIANA
Ay me, it is my husband! Witness you
ERR 5.1. 188 That he is borne about invisible.
ERR 5.1. 189 Even now we housed him in the abbey here,
ERR 5.1. 190 And now he's there, past thought of human reason.
ERR 5.1. 191
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Justice, most gracious Duke, O grant me +
ERR 5.1. 191 justice,
ERR 5.1. 192 Even for the service that long since I did thee,
ERR 5.1. 193 When I bestrid thee in the wars, and took
ERR 5.1. 194 Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood
ERR 5.1. 195 That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice!
ERR 5.1. 196
ERR-EGEON
{(aside)} Unless the fear of death doth make +
ERR 5.1. 196 me dote,
ERR 5.1. 197 I see my son Antipholus, and Dromio.
ERR 5.1. 198
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Justice, sweet prince, against that woman +
ERR 5.1. 198 there,
ERR 5.1. 199 She whom thou gav'st to me to be my wife,
ERR 5.1. 200 That hath abused and dishonoured me
ERR 5.1. 201 Even in the strength and height of injury.
ERR 5.1. 202 Beyond imagination is the wrong
ERR 5.1. 203 That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.
ERR 5.1. 204
ERR-DUKE
Discover how, and thou shalt find me just.
ERR 5.1. 205
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
This day, great Duke, she shut the doors upon +
ERR 5.1. 205 me
ERR 5.1. 206 While she with harlots feasted in my house.
ERR 5.1. 207
ERR-DUKE
A grievous fault! - Say, woman, didst thou so?
ERR 5.1. 208
ERR-ADRIANA
No, my good lord. Myself, he, and my sister
ERR 5.1. 209 Today did dine together. So befall my soul
ERR 5.1. 210 As this is false he burdens me withal.
ERR 5.1. 211
ERR-LUCIANA
Ne'er may I look on day nor sleep on night
ERR 5.1. 212 But she tells to your highness simple truth.
ERR 5.1. 213
ERR-ANGELO
{(aside)} O perjured woman! They are both +
ERR 5.1. 213 forsworn.
ERR 5.1. 214 In this the madman justly chargeth them.
ERR 5.1. 215
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
My liege, I am advised what I say,
ERR 5.1. 216 Neither disturbed with the effect of wine,
ERR 5.1. 217 Nor heady-rash provoked with raging ire,
ERR 5.1. 218 Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.
ERR 5.1. 219 This woman locked me out this day from dinner.
ERR 5.1. 220 That goldsmith there, were he not packed with her,
ERR 5.1. 221 Could witness it, for he was with me then,
ERR 5.1. 222 Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,
ERR 5.1. 223 Promising to bring it to the Porcupine,
ERR 5.1. 224 Where Balthasar and I did dine together.
ERR 5.1. 225 Our dinner done, and he not coming thither,
ERR 5.1. 226 I went to seek him. In the street I met him,
ERR 5.1. 227 And in his company that gentleman. {He points to the Second +
ERR 5.1. 227 Merchant}
ERR 5.1. 228 There did this perjured goldsmith swear me down
ERR 5.1. 229 That I this day of him received the chain,
ERR 5.1. 230 Which, God he knows, I saw not. For the which
ERR 5.1. 231 He did arrest me with an officer.
ERR 5.1. 232 I did obey, and sent my peasant home
ERR 5.1. 233 For certain ducats. He with none returned.
ERR 5.1. 234 Then fairly I bespoke the officer
ERR 5.1. 235 To go in person with me to my house.
ERR 5.1. 236 By th' way, we met my wife, her sister, and a rabble more
ERR 5.1. 237 Of vile confederates. Along with them
ERR 5.1. 238 They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
ERR 5.1. 239 A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
ERR 5.1. 240 A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller,
ERR 5.1. 241 A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
ERR 5.1. 242 A living dead man. This pernicious slave,
ERR 5.1. 243 Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer,
ERR 5.1. 244 And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,
ERR 5.1. 245 And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me,
ERR 5.1. 246 Cries out I was possessed. Then all together
ERR 5.1. 247 They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence,
ERR 5.1. 248 And in a dark and dankish vault at home
ERR 5.1. 249 There left me and my man, both bound together,
ERR 5.1. 250 Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,
ERR 5.1. 251 I gained my freedom, and immediately
ERR 5.1. 252 Ran hither to your grace, whom I beseech
ERR 5.1. 253 To give me ample satisfaction
ERR 5.1. 254 For these deep shames and great indignities.
ERR 5.1. 255
ERR-ANGELO
My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him:
ERR 5.1. 256 That he dined not at home, but was locked out.
ERR 5.1. 257
ERR-DUKE
But had he such a chain of thee, or no?
ERR 5.1. 258
ERR-ANGELO
He had, my lord, and when he ran in here
ERR 5.1. 259 These people saw the chain about his neck.
ERR 5.1. 260
ERR-SECOND MERCHANT
{(to Antipholus)} Besides, I will +
ERR 5.1. 260 be sworn these ears of mine
ERR 5.1. 261 Heard you confess you had the chain of him,
ERR 5.1. 262 After you first forswore it on the mart,
ERR 5.1. 263 And thereupon I drew my sword on you;
ERR 5.1. 264 And then you fled into this abbey here,
ERR 5.1. 265 From whence I think you are come by miracle.
ERR 5.1. 266
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I never came within these abbey walls,
ERR 5.1. 267 Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me.
ERR 5.1. 268 I never saw the chain, so help me heaven,
ERR 5.1. 269 And this is false you burden me withal.
ERR 5.1. 270
ERR-DUKE
Why, what an intricate impeach is this!
ERR 5.1. 271 I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup.
ERR 5.1. 272 If here you housed him, here he would have been.
ERR 5.1. 273 If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly.
ERR 5.1. 274 {(To Adriana)} You say he dined at home, the goldsmith +
ERR 5.1. 274 here
ERR 5.1. 275 Denies that saying. {(To Dromio)} Sirrah, what say you?
ERR 5.1. 276
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
{(pointing out the Courtesan)} +
ERR 5.1. 276 Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porcupine.
ERR 5.1. 277
ERR-COURTESAN
He did, and from my finger snatched that ring.
ERR 5.1. 278
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
'Tis true, my liege, this ring I had of her.
ERR 5.1. 279
ERR-DUKE
{(to Courtesan)} Saw'st thou him enter at the +
ERR 5.1. 279 abbey here?
ERR 5.1. 280
ERR-COURTESAN
As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace.
ERR 5.1. 281
ERR-DUKE
Why, this is strange. Go call the Abbess hither.
ERR 5.1. 282 I think you are all mated, or stark mad. {Exit one to the +
ERR 5.1. 282 priory}
ERR 5.1. 283
ERR-EGEON
{(coming forward)} Most mighty Duke, +
ERR 5.1. 283 vouchsafe me speak a word.
ERR 5.1. 284 Haply I see a friend will save my life,
ERR 5.1. 285 And pay the sum that may deliver me.
ERR 5.1. 286
ERR-DUKE
Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt.
ERR 5.1. 287
ERR-EGEON
{(to Antipholus)} Is not your name, sir, +
ERR 5.1. 287 called Antipholus?
ERR 5.1. 288 And is not that your bondman Dromio?
ERR 5.1. 289
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Within this hour I was his bondman, sir,
ERR 5.1. 290 But he, I thank him, gnawed in two my cords.
ERR 5.1. 291 Now am I Dromio, and his man, unbound.
ERR 5.1. 292
ERR-EGEON
I am sure you both of you remember me.
ERR 5.1. 293
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you;
ERR 5.1. 294 For lately we were bound as you are now.
ERR 5.1. 295 You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?
ERR 5.1. 296
ERR-EGEON
Why look you strange on me? You know me well.
ERR 5.1. 297
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I never saw you in my life till now.
ERR 5.1. 298
ERR-EGEON
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
ERR 5.1. 299 And careful hours with time's deformed hand
ERR 5.1. 300 Have written strange defeatures in my face.
ERR 5.1. 301 But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
ERR 5.1. 302
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Neither.
ERR 5.1. 303
ERR-EGEON
Dromio, nor thou?
ERR 5.1. 304
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
No, trust me sir, nor I.
ERR 5.1. 305
ERR-EGEON
I am sure thou dost.
ERR 5.1. 306
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not, and
ERR 5.1. 307 whatsoever a man denies, you are now bound to believe
ERR 5.1. 308 him.
ERR 5.1. 309
ERR-EGEON
Not know my voice? O time's extremity,
ERR 5.1. 310 Hast thou so cracked and splitted my poor tongue
ERR 5.1. 311 In seven short years that here my only son
ERR 5.1. 312 Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares?
ERR 5.1. 313 Though now this grained face of mine be hid
ERR 5.1. 314 In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
ERR 5.1. 315 And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
ERR 5.1. 316 Yet hath my night of life some memory,
ERR 5.1. 317 My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
ERR 5.1. 318 My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.
ERR 5.1. 319 All these old witnesses, I cannot err,
ERR 5.1. 320 Tell me thou art my son Antipholus.
ERR 5.1. 321
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I never saw my father in my life.
ERR 5.1. 322
ERR-EGEON
But seven years since, in Syracusa bay,
ERR 5.1. 323 Thou know'st we parted. But perhaps, my son,
ERR 5.1. 324 Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in misery.
ERR 5.1. 325
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
The Duke, and all that know me in the city,
ERR 5.1. 326 Can witness with me that it is not so.
ERR 5.1. 327 I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life.
ERR 5.1. 328
ERR-DUKE
{(to Egeon)} I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty +
ERR 5.1. 328 years
ERR 5.1. 329 Have I been patron to Antipholus,
ERR 5.1. 330 During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa.
ERR 5.1. 331 I see thy age and dangers make thee dote. {Enter [from the +
ERR 5.1. 331 priory] the Abbess, with Antipholus}
ERR 5.1. 332 {of Syracuse, wearing the chain, and Dromio of Syracuse}
ERR-ABBESS
+
ERR 5.1. 332 Most mighty Duke, behold a man much wronged. {All +
ERR 5.1. 332 gather to see them}
ERR 5.1. 333
ERR-ADRIANA
I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.
ERR 5.1. 334
ERR-DUKE
One of these men is {genius} to the other:
ERR 5.1. 335 And so of these, which is the natural man,
ERR 5.1. 336 And which the spirit? Who deciphers them?
ERR 5.1. 337
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I, sir, am Dromio. Command him away.
ERR 5.1. 338
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I, sir, am Dromio. Pray let me stay.
ERR 5.1. 339
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Egeon, art thou not? Or else his ghost.
ERR 5.1. 340
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
O, my old master, who hath bound him here?
ERR 5.1. 341
ERR-ABBESS
Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds,
ERR 5.1. 342 And gain a husband by his liberty.
ERR 5.1. 343 Speak, old Egeon, if thou beest the man
ERR 5.1. 344 That hadst a wife once called Emilia,
ERR 5.1. 345 That bore thee at a burden two fair sons.
ERR 5.1. 346 O, if thou beest the same Egeon, speak,
ERR 5.1. 347 And speak unto the same Emilia.
ERR 5.1. 348
ERR-DUKE
Why, here begins his morning story right:
ERR 5.1. 349 These two Antipholus', these two so like,
ERR 5.1. 350 And these two Dromios, one in semblance -
ERR 5.1. 351 Besides his urging of her wreck at sea.
ERR 5.1. 352 These are the parents to these children,
ERR 5.1. 353 Which accidentally are met together.
ERR 5.1. 354
ERR-EGEON
If I dream not, thou art Emilia.
ERR 5.1. 355 If thou art she, tell me, where is that son
ERR 5.1. 356 That floated with thee on the fatal raft?
ERR 5.1. 357
ERR-ABBESS
By men of Epidamnum he and I
ERR 5.1. 358 And the twin Dromio all were taken up.
ERR 5.1. 359 But, by and by, rude fishermen of Corinth
ERR 5.1. 360 By force took Dromio and my son from them,
ERR 5.1. 361 And me they left with those of Epidamnum.
ERR 5.1. 362 What then became of them I cannot tell;
ERR 5.1. 363 I, to this fortune that you see me in.
ERR 5.1. 364
ERR-DUKE
{(to Antipholus of Syracuse)} Antipholus, +
ERR 5.1. 364 thou cam'st from Corinth first.
ERR 5.1. 365
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
No, sir, not I. I came from Syracuse.
ERR 5.1. 366
ERR-DUKE
Stay, stand apart. I know not which is which.
ERR 5.1. 367
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord.
ERR 5.1. 368A
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
And I with him.
ERR 5.1. 369
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Brought to this town by that most famous +
ERR 5.1. 369 warrior,
ERR 5.1. 370 Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.
ERR 5.1. 371
ERR-ADRIANA
Which of you two did dine with me today?
ERR 5.1. 372A
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I, gentle mistress.
ERR 5.1. 373A
ERR-ADRIANA
And are not you my husband?
ERR 5.1. 374A
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
No, I say nay to that.
ERR 5.1. 375
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
And so do I. Yet did she call me so;
ERR 5.1. 376 And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,
ERR 5.1. 377 Did call me brother. {(To Luciana)} What I told you +
ERR 5.1. 377 then
ERR 5.1. 378 I hope I shall have leisure to make good,
ERR 5.1. 379 If this be not a dream I see and hear.
ERR 5.1. 380
ERR-ANGELO
That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.
ERR 5.1. 381
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I think it be, sir. I deny it not.
ERR 5.1. 382
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
{(to Angelo)} And you, sir, +
ERR 5.1. 382 for this chain arrested me.
ERR 5.1. 383
ERR-ANGELO
I think I did, sir. I deny it not.
ERR 5.1. 384
ERR-ADRIANA
{(to Antipholus of Ephesus)} I sent you +
ERR 5.1. 384 money, sir, to be your bail,
ERR 5.1. 385 By Dromio, but I think he brought it not.
ERR 5.1. 386A
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
No, none by me.
ERR 5.1. 387
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
{(to Adriana)} This purse +
ERR 5.1. 387 of ducats I received from you,
ERR 5.1. 388 And Dromio my man did bring them me.
ERR 5.1. 389 I see we still did meet each other's man,
ERR 5.1. 390 And I was ta'en for him, and he for me,
ERR 5.1. 391 And thereupon these errors are arose.
ERR 5.1. 392
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
These ducats pawn I for my father here.
ERR 5.1. 393
ERR-DUKE
It shall not need. Thy father hath his life.
ERR 5.1. 394
ERR-COURTESAN
Sir, I must have that diamond from you.
ERR 5.1. 395
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
There, take it, and much thanks for my good +
ERR 5.1. 395 cheer.
ERR 5.1. 396
ERR-ABBESS
Renowned Duke, vouchsafe to take the pains
ERR 5.1. 397 To go with us into the abbey here,
ERR 5.1. 398 And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes,
ERR 5.1. 399 And all that are assembled in this place,
ERR 5.1. 400 That by this sympathized one day's error
ERR 5.1. 401 Have suffered wrong. Go, keep us company,
ERR 5.1. 402 And we shall make full satisfaction.
ERR 5.1. 403 Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail
ERR 5.1. 404 Of you, my sons, and till this present hour
ERR 5.1. 405 My heavy burden ne'er delivered.
ERR 5.1. 406 The Duke, my husband, and my children both,
ERR 5.1. 407 And you the calendars of their nativity,
ERR 5.1. 408 Go to a gossips' feast, and joy with me.
ERR 5.1. 409 After so long grief, such festivity!
ERR 5.1. 410
ERR-DUKE
With all my heart I'll gossip at this feast. {Exeunt +
ERR 5.1. 410 [into the priory] all but the two Dromios and two brothers Antipholus}
ERR 5.1. 411
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
{(to Antipholus of Ephesus)} +
ERR 5.1. 411 Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?
ERR 5.1. 412
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou +
ERR 5.1. 412 embarked?
ERR 5.1. 413
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the +
ERR 5.1. 413 Centaur.
ERR 5.1. 414
ERR-ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
He speaks to me. - I am your master, Dromio.
ERR 5.1. 415 Come, go with us. We'll look to that anon.
ERR 5.1. 416 Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him. {Exeunt the +
ERR 5.1. 416 brothers Antipholus}
ERR 5.1. 417
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
There is a fat friend at your master's +
ERR 5.1. 417 house,
ERR 5.1. 418 That kitchened me for you today at dinner.
ERR 5.1. 419 She now shall be my sister, not my wife.
ERR 5.1. 420
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Methinks you are my glass and not my brother.
ERR 5.1. 421 I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
ERR 5.1. 422 Will you walk in to see their gossiping?
ERR 5.1. 423
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Not I, sir, you are my elder.
ERR 5.1. 424
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
That's a question. How shall we try
ERR 5.1. 425 it?
ERR 5.1. 426
ERR-DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
We'll draw cuts for the senior. Till
ERR 5.1. 427 then, lead thou first.
ERR 5.1. 428
ERR-DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Nay, then thus:
ERR 5.1. 429 We came into the world like brother and brother,
ERR 5.1. 430 And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. {Exeunt +
ERR 5.1. 430 [to the priory]}
ERR 5.1.
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H5 . . 0 The Life of Henry the Fifth
H5 . . 0 {Enter Chorus as Prologue}
H5 .Pr. 1
H5-CHORUS
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend
H5 .Pr. 2 The brightest heaven of invention:
H5 .Pr. 3 A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
H5 .Pr. 4 And monarchs to behold the swelling scene.
H5 .Pr. 5 Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
H5 .Pr. 6 Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels,
H5 .Pr. 7 Leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire
H5 .Pr. 8 Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,
H5 .Pr. 9 The flat unraised spirits that hath dared
H5 .Pr. 10 On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
H5 .Pr. 11 So great an object. Can this cock-pit hold
H5 .Pr. 12 The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram
H5 .Pr. 13 Within this wooden O the very casques
H5 .Pr. 14 That did affright the air at Agincourt?
H5 .Pr. 15 O pardon: since a crooked figure may
H5 .Pr. 16 Attest in little place a million,
H5 .Pr. 17 And let us, ciphers to this great account,
H5 .Pr. 18 On your imaginary forces work.
H5 .Pr. 19 Suppose within the girdle of these walls
H5 .Pr. 20 Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
H5 .Pr. 21 Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
H5 .Pr. 22 The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder.
H5 .Pr. 23 Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts:
H5 .Pr. 24 Into a thousand parts divide one man,
H5 .Pr. 25 And make imaginary puissance.
H5 .Pr. 26 Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them,
H5 .Pr. 27 Printing their proud hoofs i' th' receiving earth;
H5 .Pr. 28 For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
H5 .Pr. 29 Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times,
H5 .Pr. 30 Turning th' accomplishment of many years
H5 .Pr. 31 Into an hourglass - for the which supply,
H5 .Pr. 32 Admit me Chorus to this history,
H5 .Pr. 33 Who Prologue-like your humble patience pray
H5 .Pr. 34 Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. {Exit}
H5 .Pr. 0 {Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop +
H5 1.1. 0 of Ely}
H5 1.1. 1
H5-CANTERBURY
My lord, I'll tell you. That self bill is +
H5 1.1. 1 urged
H5 1.1. 2 Which in th' eleventh year of the last king's reign
H5 1.1. 3 Was like, and had indeed against us passed,
H5 1.1. 4 But that the scrambling and unquiet time
H5 1.1. 5 Did push it out of farther question.
H5 1.1. 6
H5-ELY
But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?
H5 1.1. 7
H5-CANTERBURY
It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
H5 1.1. 8 We lose the better half of our possession,
H5 1.1. 9 For all the temporal lands which men devout
H5 1.1. 10 By testament have given to the Church
H5 1.1. 11 Would they strip from us - being valued thus:
H5 1.1. 12 As much as would maintain, to the King's honour,
H5 1.1. 13 Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
H5 1.1. 14 Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
H5 1.1. 15 And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
H5 1.1. 16 Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil,
H5 1.1. 17 A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
H5 1.1. 18 And to the coffers of the King beside
H5 1.1. 19 A thousand pounds by th' year. Thus runs the bill.
H5 1.1. 20A
H5-ELY
This would drink deep.
H5 1.1. 21A
H5-CANTERBURY
'Twould drink the cup and all.
H5 1.1. 22A
H5-ELY
But what prevention?
H5 1.1. 23
H5-CANTERBURY
The King is full of grace and fair regard.
H5 1.1. 24
H5-ELY
And a true lover of the holy Church.
H5 1.1. 25
H5-CANTERBURY
The courses of his youth promised it not.
H5 1.1. 26 The breath no sooner left his father's body
H5 1.1. 27 But that his wildness, mortified in him,
H5 1.1. 28 Seemed to die too. Yea, at that very moment
H5 1.1. 29 Consideration like an angel came
H5 1.1. 30 And whipped th' offending Adam out of him,
H5 1.1. 31 Leaving his body as a paradise
H5 1.1. 32 T' envelop and contain celestial spirits.
H5 1.1. 33 Never was such a sudden scholar made;
H5 1.1. 34 Never came reformation in a flood
H5 1.1. 35 With such a heady currance scouring faults;
H5 1.1. 36 Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness
H5 1.1. 37 So soon did lose his seat - and all at once -
H5 1.1. 38B As in this king.
H5-ELY
We are blessed in the change.
H5 1.1. 39
H5-CANTERBURY
Hear him but reason in divinity
H5 1.1. 40 And, all-admiring, with an inward wish
H5 1.1. 41 You would desire the King were made a prelate;
H5 1.1. 42 Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
H5 1.1. 43 You would say it hath been all-in-all his study;
H5 1.1. 44 List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
H5 1.1. 45 A fearful battle rendered you in music;
H5 1.1. 46 Turn him to any cause of policy,
H5 1.1. 47 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
H5 1.1. 48 Familiar as his garter - that when he speaks,
H5 1.1. 49 The air, a chartered libertine, is still,
H5 1.1. 50 And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears
H5 1.1. 51 To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences:
H5 1.1. 52 So that the art and practic part of life
H5 1.1. 53 Must be the mistress to this theoric.
H5 1.1. 54 Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,
H5 1.1. 55 Since his addiction was to courses vain,
H5 1.1. 56 His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow,
H5 1.1. 57 His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports,
H5 1.1. 58 And never noted in him any study,
H5 1.1. 59 Any retirement, any sequestration
H5 1.1. 60 From open haunts and popularity.
H5 1.1. 61
H5-ELY
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
H5 1.1. 62 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
H5 1.1. 63 Neighboured by fruit of baser quality;
H5 1.1. 64 And so the Prince obscured his contemplation
H5 1.1. 65 Under the veil of wildness - which, no doubt,
H5 1.1. 66 Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
H5 1.1. 67 Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
H5 1.1. 68
H5-CANTERBURY
It must be so, for miracles are ceased,
H5 1.1. 69 And therefore we must needs admit the means
H5 1.1. 70B How things are perfected.
H5-ELY
But, my good lord,
H5 1.1. 71 How now for mitigation of this bill
H5 1.1. 72 Urged by the Commons? Doth his majesty
H5 1.1. 73B Incline to it, or no?
H5-CANTERBURY
He seems indifferent,
H5 1.1. 74 Or rather swaying more upon our part
H5 1.1. 75 Than cherishing th' exhibitors against us;
H5 1.1. 76 For I have made an offer to his majesty,
H5 1.1. 77 Upon our spiritual convocation
H5 1.1. 78 And in regard of causes now in hand,
H5 1.1. 79 Which I have opened to his grace at large:
H5 1.1. 80 As touching France, to give a greater sum
H5 1.1. 81 Than ever at one time the clergy yet
H5 1.1. 82 Did to his predecessors part withal.
H5 1.1. 83
H5-ELY
How did this offer seem received, my lord?
H5 1.1. 84
H5-CANTERBURY
With good acceptance of his majesty,
H5 1.1. 85 Save that there was not time enough to hear,
H5 1.1. 86 As I perceived his grace would fain have done,
H5 1.1. 87 The severals and unhidden passages
H5 1.1. 88 Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms,
H5 1.1. 89 And generally to the crown and seat of France,
H5 1.1. 90 Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.
H5 1.1. 91
H5-ELY
What was th' impediment that broke this off?
H5 1.1. 92
H5-CANTERBURY
The French ambassador upon that instant
H5 1.1. 93 Craved audience - and the hour I think is come
H5 1.1. 94 To give him hearing. Is it four o'clock?
H5 1.1. 95A
H5-ELY
It is.
H5 1.1. 96
H5-CANTERBURY
Then go we in, to know his embassy -
H5 1.1. 97 Which I could with a ready guess declare
H5 1.1. 98 Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.
H5 1.1. 99
H5-ELY
I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it. {Exeunt}
H5 1.1. 0 {Enter King Harry, the Dukes of Gloucester, [Clarence], +
H5 1.2. 0 and Exeter, and the Earls of Warwick and Westmorland}
H5 1.2. 1
H5-KING HARRY
Where is my gracious lord of Canterbury?
H5 1.2. 2B
H5-EXETER
Not here in presence.
H5-KING HARRY
Send for him, good +
H5 1.2. 2B uncle.
H5 1.2. 3
H5-WESTMORLAND
Shall we call in th' ambassador, my liege?
H5 1.2. 4
H5-KING HARRY
Not yet, my cousin. We would be resolved,
H5 1.2. 5 Before we hear him, of some things of weight
H5 1.2. 6 That task our thoughts, concerning us and France. {Enter the +
H5 1.2. 6 Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely}
H5 1.2. 7
H5-CANTERBURY
God and his angels guard your sacred throne,
H5 1.2. 8B And make you long become it.
H5-KING HARRY
Sure we thank you.
H5 1.2. 9 My learned lord, we pray you to proceed,
H5 1.2. 10 And justly and religiously unfold
H5 1.2. 11 Why the law Salic that they have in France
H5 1.2. 12 Or should or should not bar us in our claim.
H5 1.2. 13 And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
H5 1.2. 14 That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,
H5 1.2. 15 Or nicely charge your understanding soul
H5 1.2. 16 With opening titles miscreate, whose right
H5 1.2. 17 Suits not in native colours with the truth;
H5 1.2. 18 For God doth know how many now in health
H5 1.2. 19 Shall drop their blood in approbation
H5 1.2. 20 Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
H5 1.2. 21 Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
H5 1.2. 22 How you awake our sleeping sword of war;
H5 1.2. 23 We charge you in the name of God take heed.
H5 1.2. 24 For never two such kingdoms did contend
H5 1.2. 25 Without much fall of blood, whose guiltless drops
H5 1.2. 26 Are every one a woe, a sore complaint
H5 1.2. 27 'Gainst him whose wrongs gives edge unto the swords
H5 1.2. 28 That makes such waste in brief mortality.
H5 1.2. 29 Under this conjuration speak, my lord,
H5 1.2. 30 For we will hear, note, and believe in heart
H5 1.2. 31 That what you speak is in your conscience washed
H5 1.2. 32 As pure as sin with baptism.
H5 1.2. 33
H5-CANTERBURY
Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers
H5 1.2. 34 That owe your selves, your lives, and services
H5 1.2. 35 To this imperial throne. There is no bar
H5 1.2. 36 To make against your highness' claim to France
H5 1.2. 37 But this, which they produce from Pharamond:
H5 1.2. 38 `{In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant}' -
H5 1.2. 39 `No woman shall succeed in Salic land' -
H5 1.2. 40 Which `Salic land' the French unjustly gloss
H5 1.2. 41 To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
H5 1.2. 42 The founder of this law and female bar.
H5 1.2. 43 Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
H5 1.2. 44 That the land Salic is in Germany,
H5 1.2. 45 Between the floods of Saale and of Elbe,
H5 1.2. 46 Where, Charles the Great having subdued the Saxons,
H5 1.2. 47 There left behind and settled certain French
H5 1.2. 48 Who, holding in disdain the German women
H5 1.2. 49 For some dishonest manners of their life,
H5 1.2. 50 Established there this law: to wit, no female
H5 1.2. 51 Should be inheritrix in Salic land -
H5 1.2. 52 Which Salic, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Saale,
H5 1.2. 53 Is at this day in Germany called Meissen.
H5 1.2. 54 Then doth it well appear the Salic Law
H5 1.2. 55 Was not devised for the realm of France.
H5 1.2. 56 Nor did the French possess the Salic land
H5 1.2. 57 Until four hundred one-and-twenty years
H5 1.2. 58 After defunction of King Pharamond,
H5 1.2. 59 Idly supposed the founder of this law,
H5 1.2. 60 Who died within the year of our redemption
H5 1.2. 61 Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
H5 1.2. 62 Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
H5 1.2. 63 Beyond the river Saale, in the year
H5 1.2. 64 Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
H5 1.2. 65 King Pe/pin, which deposed Childe/ric,
H5 1.2. 66 Did, as heir general - being descended
H5 1.2. 67 Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clotaire -
H5 1.2. 68 Make claim and title to the crown of France.
H5 1.2. 69 Hugh Capet also - who usurped the crown
H5 1.2. 70 Of Charles the Duke of Lorraine, sole heir male
H5 1.2. 71 Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great -
H5 1.2. 72 To fine his title with some shows of truth,
H5 1.2. 73 Though in pure truth it was corrupt and naught,
H5 1.2. 74 Conveyed himself as heir to th' Lady Lingard,
H5 1.2. 75 Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
H5 1.2. 76 To Louis the Emperor, and Louis the son
H5 1.2. 77 Of Charles the Great. Also, King Louis the Ninth,
H5 1.2. 78 Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
H5 1.2. 79 Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
H5 1.2. 80 Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
H5 1.2. 81 That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,
H5 1.2. 82 Was lineal of the Lady Ermengarde,
H5 1.2. 83 Daughter to Charles, the foresaid Duke of Lorraine;
H5 1.2. 84 By the which marriage, the line of Charles the Great
H5 1.2. 85 Was reunited to the crown of France.
H5 1.2. 86 So that, as clear as is the summer's sun,
H5 1.2. 87 King Pe/pin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,
H5 1.2. 88 King Louis his satisfaction, all appear
H5 1.2. 89 To hold in right and title of the female;
H5 1.2. 90 So do the kings of France unto this day,
H5 1.2. 91 Howbeit they would hold up this Salic Law
H5 1.2. 92 To bar your highness claiming from the female,
H5 1.2. 93 And rather choose to hide them in a net
H5 1.2. 94 Than amply to embar their crooked titles,
H5 1.2. 95 Usurped from you and your progenitors.
H5 1.2. 96
H5-KING HARRY
May I with right and conscience make this claim?
H5 1.2. 97
H5-CANTERBURY
The sin upon my head, dread sovereign.
H5 1.2. 98 For in the Book of Numbers is it writ,
H5 1.2. 99 `When the son dies, let the inheritance
H5 1.2. 100 Descend unto the daughter.' Gracious lord,
H5 1.2. 101 Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;
H5 1.2. 102 Look back into your mighty ancestors.
H5 1.2. 103 Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,
H5 1.2. 104 From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
H5 1.2. 105 And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,
H5 1.2. 106 Who on the French ground played a tragedy,
H5 1.2. 107 Making defeat on the full power of France,
H5 1.2. 108 Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
H5 1.2. 109 Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
H5 1.2. 110 Forage in blood of French nobility.
H5 1.2. 111 O noble English, that could entertain
H5 1.2. 112 With half their forces the full pride of France,
H5 1.2. 113 And let another half stand laughing by,
H5 1.2. 114 All out of work, and cold for action.
H5 1.2. 115
H5-ELY
Awake remembrance of those valiant dead,
H5 1.2. 116 And with your puissant arm renew their feats.
H5 1.2. 117 You are their heir, you sit upon their throne,
H5 1.2. 118 The blood and courage that renowned them
H5 1.2. 119 Runs in your veins - and my thrice-puissant liege
H5 1.2. 120 Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
H5 1.2. 121 Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
H5 1.2. 122
H5-EXETER
Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
H5 1.2. 123 Do all expect that you should rouse yourself
H5 1.2. 124 As did the former lions of your blood.
H5 1.2. 125
H5-WESTMORLAND
They know your grace hath cause; and means and might,
H5 1.2. 126 So hath your highness. Never king of England
H5 1.2. 127 Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
H5 1.2. 128 Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England
H5 1.2. 129 And lie pavilioned in the fields of France.
H5 1.2. 130
H5-CANTERBURY
O let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
H5 1.2. 131 With blood and sword and fire, to win your right.
H5 1.2. 132 In aid whereof, we of the spiritualty
H5 1.2. 133 Will raise your highness such a mighty sum
H5 1.2. 134 As never did the clergy at one time
H5 1.2. 135 Bring in to any of your ancestors.
H5 1.2. 136
H5-KING HARRY
We must not only arm t' invade the French,
H5 1.2. 137 But lay down our proportions to defend
H5 1.2. 138 Against the Scot, who will make raid upon us
H5 1.2. 139 With all advantages.
H5 1.2. 140
H5-CANTERBURY
They of those marches, gracious sovereign,
H5 1.2. 141 Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
H5 1.2. 142 Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
H5 1.2. 143
H5-KING HARRY
We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,
H5 1.2. 144 But fear the main intendment of the Scot,
H5 1.2. 145 Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us.
H5 1.2. 146 For you shall read that my great-grandfather
H5 1.2. 147 Never unmasked his power unto France
H5 1.2. 148 But that the Scot on his unfurnished kingdom
H5 1.2. 149 Came pouring like the tide into a breach
H5 1.2. 150 With ample and brim fullness of his force
H5 1.2. 151 Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,
H5 1.2. 152 Girding with grievous siege castles and towns,
H5 1.2. 153 That England, being empty of defence,
H5 1.2. 154 Hath shook and trembled at the bruit thereof.
H5 1.2. 155
H5-CANTERBURY
She hath been then more feared than harmed, my liege.
H5 1.2. 156 For hear her but exampled by herself:
H5 1.2. 157 When all her chivalry hath been in France
H5 1.2. 158 And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
H5 1.2. 159 She hath herself not only well defended
H5 1.2. 160 But taken and impounded as a stray
H5 1.2. 161 The King of Scots, whom she did send to France
H5 1.2. 162 To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings
H5 1.2. 163 And make your chronicle as rich with praise
H5 1.2. 164 As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
H5 1.2. 165 With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries.
H5 1.2. 166
H5-[A LORD]
But there's a saying very old and true:
H5 1.2. 167 `If that you will France win,
H5 1.2. 168 Then with Scotland first begin.'
H5 1.2. 169 For once the eagle England being in prey,
H5 1.2. 170 To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
H5 1.2. 171 Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs,
H5 1.2. 172 Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,
H5 1.2. 173 To 'tame and havoc more than she can eat.
H5 1.2. 174
H5-EXETER
It follows then the cat must stay at home.
H5 1.2. 175 Yet that is but a crushed necessity,
H5 1.2. 176 Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries
H5 1.2. 177 And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
H5 1.2. 178 While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,
H5 1.2. 179 Th' advised head defends itself at home.
H5 1.2. 180 For government, though high and low and lower,
H5 1.2. 181 Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
H5 1.2. 182 Congreeing in a full and natural close,
H5 1.2. 183B Like music.
H5-CANTERBURY
True. Therefore doth heaven divide
H5 1.2. 184 The state of man in divers functions,
H5 1.2. 185 Setting endeavour in continual motion;
H5 1.2. 186 To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
H5 1.2. 187 Obedience. For so work the honey-bees,
H5 1.2. 188 Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
H5 1.2. 189 The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
H5 1.2. 190 They have a king, and officers of sorts,
H5 1.2. 191 Where some like magistrates correct at home;
H5 1.2. 192 Others like merchants venture trade abroad;
H5 1.2. 193 Others like soldiers, armed in their stings,
H5 1.2. 194 Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
H5 1.2. 195 Which pillage they with merry march bring home
H5 1.2. 196 To the tent royal of their emperor,
H5 1.2. 197 Who busied in his majesty surveys
H5 1.2. 198 The singing masons building roofs of gold,
H5 1.2. 199 The civil citizens lading up the honey,
H5 1.2. 200 The poor mechanic porters crowding in
H5 1.2. 201 Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
H5 1.2. 202 The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum
H5 1.2. 203 Delivering o'er to executors pale
H5 1.2. 204 The lazy yawning drone. I this infer:
H5 1.2. 205 That many things, having full reference
H5 1.2. 206 To one consent, may work contrariously.
H5 1.2. 207 As many arrows, loosed several ways,
H5 1.2. 208 Fly to one mark, as many ways meet in one town,
H5 1.2. 209 As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea,
H5 1.2. 210 As many lines close in the dial's centre,
H5 1.2. 211 So may a thousand actions once afoot
H5 1.2. 212 End in one purpose, and be all well borne
H5 1.2. 213 Without defect. Therefore to France, my liege.
H5 1.2. 214 Divide your happy England into four,
H5 1.2. 215 Whereof take you one quarter into France,
H5 1.2. 216 And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
H5 1.2. 217 If we with thrice such powers left at home
H5 1.2. 218 Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,
H5 1.2. 219 Let us be worried, and our nation lose
H5 1.2. 220 The name of hardiness and policy.
H5 1.2. 221
H5-KING HARRY
Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin. +
H5 1.2. 221 {Exit one or more}
H5 1.2. 222 Now are we well resolved, and by God's help
H5 1.2. 223 And yours, the noble sinews of our power,
H5 1.2. 224 France being ours we'll bend it to our awe,
H5 1.2. 225 Or break it all to pieces. Or there we'll sit,
H5 1.2. 226 Ruling in large and ample empery
H5 1.2. 227 O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
H5 1.2. 228 Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
H5 1.2. 229 Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
H5 1.2. 230 Either our history shall with full mouth
H5 1.2. 231 Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
H5 1.2. 232 Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
H5 1.2. 233 Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph. {Enter Ambassadors of +
H5 1.2. 233 France, with a tun}
H5 1.2. 234 Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure
H5 1.2. 235 Of our fair cousin Dauphin, for we hear
H5 1.2. 236 Your greeting is from him, not from the King.
H5 1.2. 237
H5-AMBASSADOR
May 't please your majesty to give us leave
H5 1.2. 238 Freely to render what we have in charge,
H5 1.2. 239 Or shall we sparingly show you far off
H5 1.2. 240 The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?
H5 1.2. 241
H5-KING HARRY
We are no tyrant, but a Christian king,
H5 1.2. 242 Unto whose grace our passion is as subject
H5 1.2. 243 As is our wretches fettered in our prisons.
H5 1.2. 244 Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
H5 1.2. 245B Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
H5-AMBASSADOR
Thus then in few:
H5 1.2. 246 Your highness lately sending into France
H5 1.2. 247 Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
H5 1.2. 248 Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
H5 1.2. 249 In answer of which claim, the Prince our master
H5 1.2. 250 Says that you savour too much of your youth,
H5 1.2. 251 And bids you be advised, there's naught in France
H5 1.2. 252 That can be with a nimble galliard won:
H5 1.2. 253 You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
H5 1.2. 254 He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
H5 1.2. 255 This tun of treasure, and in lieu of this
H5 1.2. 256 Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
H5 1.2. 257 Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
H5 1.2. 258B
H5-KING HARRY
What treasure, uncle?
H5-EXETER
{(opening the +
H5 1.2. 258B tun)} Tennis balls, my liege.
H5 1.2. 259
H5-KING HARRY
We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us.
H5 1.2. 260 His present and your pains we thank you for.
H5 1.2. 261 When we have matched our rackets to these balls,
H5 1.2. 262 We will in France, by God's grace, play a set
H5 1.2. 263 Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
H5 1.2. 264 Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
H5 1.2. 265 That all the courts of France will be disturbed
H5 1.2. 266 With chases. And we understand him well,
H5 1.2. 267 How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
H5 1.2. 268 Not measuring what use we made of them.
H5 1.2. 269 We never valued this poor seat of England,
H5 1.2. 270 And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
H5 1.2. 271 To barbarous licence - as 'tis ever common
H5 1.2. 272 That men are merriest when they are from home.
H5 1.2. 273 But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,
H5 1.2. 274 Be like a king, and show my sail of greatness
H5 1.2. 275 When I do rouse me in my throne of France.
H5 1.2. 276 For that have I laid by my majesty
H5 1.2. 277 And plodded like a man for working days,
H5 1.2. 278 But I will rise there with so full a glory
H5 1.2. 279 That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
H5 1.2. 280 Yea strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
H5 1.2. 281 And tell the pleasant Prince this mock of his
H5 1.2. 282 Hath turned his balls to gunstones, and his soul
H5 1.2. 283 Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
H5 1.2. 284 That shall fly from them - for many a thousand widows
H5 1.2. 285 Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands,
H5 1.2. 286 Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;
H5 1.2. 287 Ay, some are yet ungotten and unborn
H5 1.2. 288 That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.
H5 1.2. 289 But this lies all within the will of God,
H5 1.2. 290 To whom I do appeal, and in whose name
H5 1.2. 291 Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on
H5 1.2. 292 To venge me as I may, and to put forth
H5 1.2. 293 My rightful hand in a well-hallowed cause.
H5 1.2. 294 So get you hence in peace. And tell the Dauphin
H5 1.2. 295 His jest will savour but of shallow wit
H5 1.2. 296 When thousands weep more than did laugh at it. -
H5 1.2. 297 Convey them with safe conduct. - Fare you well. {Exeunt +
H5 1.2. 297 Ambassadors}
H5 1.2. 298A
H5-EXETER
This was a merry message.
H5 1.2. 299
H5-KING HARRY
We hope to make the sender blush at it.
H5 1.2. 300 Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
H5 1.2. 301 That may give furth'rance to our expedition;
H5 1.2. 302 For we have now no thought in us but France,
H5 1.2. 303 Save those to God, that run before our business.
H5 1.2. 304 Therefore let our proportions for these wars
H5 1.2. 305 Be soon collected, and all things thought upon
H5 1.2. 306 That may with reasonable swiftness add
H5 1.2. 307 More feathers to our wings; for, God before,
H5 1.2. 308 We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
H5 1.2. 309 Therefore let every man now task his thought,
H5 1.2. 310 That this fair action may on foot be brought. {[Flourish.] +
H5 1.2. 310 Exeunt}
H5 1.2. 0 {Enter Chorus}
H5 2.0. 1
H5-CHORUS
Now all the youth of England are on fire,
H5 2.0. 2 And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;
H5 2.0. 3 Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
H5 2.0. 4 Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
H5 2.0. 5 They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,
H5 2.0. 6 Following the mirror of all Christian kings
H5 2.0. 7 With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
H5 2.0. 8 For now sits expectation in the air
H5 2.0. 9 And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
H5 2.0. 10 With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,
H5 2.0. 11 Promised to Harry and his followers.
H5 2.0. 12 The French, advised by good intelligence
H5 2.0. 13 Of this most dreadful preparation,
H5 2.0. 14 Shake in their fear, and with pale policy
H5 2.0. 15 Seek to divert the English purposes.
H5 2.0. 16 O England! - model to thy inward greatness,
H5 2.0. 17 Like little body with a mighty heart,
H5 2.0. 18 What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,
H5 2.0. 19 Were all thy children kind and natural?
H5 2.0. 20 But see, thy fault France hath in thee found out:
H5 2.0. 21 A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills
H5 2.0. 22 With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men -
H5 2.0. 23 One, Richard, Earl of Cambridge; and the second
H5 2.0. 24 Henry, Lord Scrope of Masham; and the third
H5 2.0. 25 Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland -
H5 2.0. 26 Have, for the gilt of France - O guilt indeed! -
H5 2.0. 27 Confirmed conspiracy with fearful France;
H5 2.0. 28 And by their hands this grace of kings must die,
H5 2.0. 29 If hell and treason hold their promises,
H5 2.0. 30 Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
H5 2.0. 31 Linger your patience on, and we'll digest
H5 2.0. 32 Th' abuse of distance, force - perforce - a play.
H5 2.0. 33 The sum is paid, the traitors are agreed,
H5 2.0. 34 The King is set from London, and the scene
H5 2.0. 35 Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton.
H5 2.0. 36 There is the playhouse now, there must you sit,
H5 2.0. 37 And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
H5 2.0. 38 And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
H5 2.0. 39 To give you gentle pass - for if we may
H5 2.0. 40 We'll not offend one stomach with our play.
H5 2.0. 41 But till the King come forth, and not till then,
H5 2.0. 42 Unto Southampton do we shift our scene. {Exit}
H5 2.0. 0 {Enter Corporal Nim and Lieutenant Bardolph}
H5 2.1. 1
H5-BARDOLPH
Well met, Corporal Nim.
H5 2.1. 2
H5-NIM
Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.
H5 2.1. 3
H5-BARDOLPH
What, are Ensign Pistol and you friends yet?
H5 2.1. 4
H5-NIM
For my part, I care not. I say little, but when time
H5 2.1. 5 shall serve, there shall be smiles - but that shall be as
H5 2.1. 6 it may. I dare not fight, but I will wink and hold out
H5 2.1. 7 mine iron. It is a simple one, but what though? It will
H5 2.1. 8 toast cheese, and it will endure cold, as another man's
H5 2.1. 9 sword will - and there's an end.
H5 2.1. 10
H5-BARDOLPH
I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends,
H5 2.1. 11 and we'll be all three sworn brothers to France. Let 't
H5 2.1. 12 be so, good Corporal Nim.
H5 2.1. 13
H5-NIM
Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the certain
H5 2.1. 14 of it, and when I cannot live any longer, I will do as I
H5 2.1. 15 may. That is my rest, that is the rendezvous of it.
H5 2.1. 16
H5-BARDOLPH
It is certain, corporal, that he is married to
H5 2.1. 17 Nell Quickly, and certainly she did you wrong, for you
H5 2.1. 18 were troth-plight to her.
H5 2.1. 19
H5-NIM
I cannot tell. Things must be as they may. Men may
H5 2.1. 20 sleep, and they may have their throats about them at
H5 2.1. 21 that time, and some say knives have edges. It must be
H5 2.1. 22 as it may. Though Patience be a tired mare, yet she
H5 2.1. 23 will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot
H5 2.1. 24 tell. {Enter Ensign Pistol and Hostess Quickly}
H5 2.1. 25
H5-BARDOLPH
Good morrow, Ensign Pistol. {(To +
H5 2.1. 25 Nim)} Here
H5 2.1. 26 comes Ensign Pistol and his wife. Good Corporal, be
H5 2.1. 27 patient here.
H5 2.1. 28
H5-[NIM]
How now, mine host Pistol?
H5 2.1. 29
H5-PISTOL
Base tick, call'st thou me host? Now by Gad's lugs
H5 2.1. 30 I swear I scorn the term. Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.
H5 2.1. 31
H5-HOSTESS
No, by my troth, not long, for we cannot lodge
H5 2.1. 32 and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live
H5 2.1. 33 honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will be
H5 2.1. 34 thought we keep a bawdy-house straight. {[Nim draws his sword]}
H5 2.1. 35 O well-a-day, Lady! If he be not hewn now, we shall
H5 2.1. 36 see wilful adultery and murder committed. {[Pistol draws his +
H5 2.1. 36 sword]}
H5 2.1. 37
H5-BARDOLPH
Good lieutenant, good corporal, offer nothing
H5 2.1. 38 here.
H5 2.1. 39
H5-NIM
Pish.
H5 2.1. 40
H5-PISTOL
Pish for thee, Iceland dog. Thou prick-eared cur +
H5 2.1. 40 of Iceland.
H5 2.1. 41
H5-HOSTESS
Good Corporal Nim, show thy valour, and put
H5 2.1. 42 up your sword. {They sheathe their swords}
H5 2.1. 43
H5-NIM
Will you shog off? I would have you {solus}.
H5 2.1. 44
H5-PISTOL
`{Solus}', egregious dog? O viper vile!
H5 2.1. 45 The {solus} in thy most marvellous face,
H5 2.1. 46 The {solus} in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
H5 2.1. 47 And in thy hateful lungs, yea in thy maw pardie -
H5 2.1. 48 And which is worse, within thy nasty mouth.
H5 2.1. 49 I do retort the {solus} in thy bowels,
H5 2.1. 50 For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,
H5 2.1. 51 And flashing fire will follow.
H5 2.1. 52
H5-NIM
I am not Barbason, you cannot conjure me. I have
H5 2.1. 53 an humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow
H5 2.1. 54 foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my rapier,
H5 2.1. 55 as I may, in fair terms. If you would walk off, I would
H5 2.1. 56 prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may, and
H5 2.1. 57 that's the humour of it.
H5 2.1. 58
H5-PISTOL
O braggart vile, and damned furious wight!
H5 2.1. 59 The grave doth gape and doting death is near.
H5 2.1. 60 Therefore ex-hale. {Pistol and Nim draw their swords}
H5 2.1. 61
H5-BARDOLPH
Hear me, hear me what I say. {[He draws +
H5 2.1. 61 his sword]}
H5 2.1. 62 He that strikes the first stroke, I'll run him up to the
H5 2.1. 63 hilts, as I am a soldier.
H5 2.1. 64
H5-PISTOL
An oath of mickle might, and fury shall +
H5 2.1. 64 abate. {[They sheathe their swords]}
H5 2.1. 65 {(To Nim)} Give me thy fist, thy forefoot to me give.
H5 2.1. 66 Thy spirits are most tall.
H5 2.1. 67
H5-NIM
I will cut thy throat one time or other, in fair +
H5 2.1. 67 terms,
H5 2.1. 68 that is the humour of it.
H5 2.1. 69A
H5-PISTOL
{Couple a gorge},
H5 2.1. 70 That is the word. I thee defy again.
H5 2.1. 71 O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?
H5 2.1. 72 No, to the spital go,
H5 2.1. 73 And from the powd'ring tub of infamy
H5 2.1. 74 Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,
H5 2.1. 75 Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse.
H5 2.1. 76 I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly
H5 2.1. 77 For the only she, and - {pauca}, there's enough. Go to. {Enter the +
H5 2.1. 77 Boy [running]}
H5 2.1. 78
H5-BOY
Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and
H5 2.1. 79 you, hostess. He is very sick, and would to bed. - Good
H5 2.1. 80 Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and do the
H5 2.1. 81 office of a warming-pan. - Faith, he's very ill.
H5 2.1. 82
H5-BARDOLPH
Away, you rogue!
H5 2.1. 83
H5-HOSTESS
By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one
H5 2.1. 84 of these days. The King has killed his heart. Good
H5 2.1. 85 husband, come home presently. {Exit [with Boy]}
H5 2.1. 86
H5-BARDOLPH
Come, shall I make you two friends? We must
H5 2.1. 87 to France together. Why the devil should we keep
H5 2.1. 88 knives to cut one another's throats?
H5 2.1. 89
H5-PISTOL
Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
H5 2.1. 90
H5-NIM
You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at
H5 2.1. 91 betting?
H5 2.1. 92A
H5-PISTOL
Base is the slave that pays.
H5 2.1. 93
H5-NIM
That now I will have. That's the humour of it.
H5 2.1. 94
H5-PISTOL
As manhood shall compound. Push home. +
H5 2.1. 94 {Pistol and Nim draw their swords}
H5 2.1. 95
H5-BARDOLPH
{[drawing his sword]} By this sword, he +
H5 2.1. 95 that makes
H5 2.1. 96 the first thrust, I'll kill him. By this sword, I will.
H5 2.1. 97
H5-PISTOL
Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their +
H5 2.1. 97 course. {[He sheathes his sword]}
H5 2.1. 98
H5-BARDOLPH
Corporal Nim, an thou wilt be friends, be
H5 2.1. 99 friends. An thou wilt not, why then be enemies with
H5 2.1. 100 me too. Prithee, put up.
H5 2.1. 101
H5-NIM
I shall have my eight shillings?
H5 2.1. 102
H5-PISTOL
A noble shalt thou have, and present pay,
H5 2.1. 103 And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
H5 2.1. 104 And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.
H5 2.1. 105 I'll live by Nim, and Nim shall live by me.
H5 2.1. 106 Is not this just? For I shall sutler be
H5 2.1. 107 Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
H5 2.1. 108 Give me thy hand.
H5 2.1. 109
H5-NIM
I shall have my noble?
H5 2.1. 110A
H5-PISTOL
In cash, most justly paid.
H5 2.1. 111
H5-NIM
Well then, that's the humour of 't. {[Nim and +
H5 2.1. 111 Bardolph sheathe their swords.]}
H5 2.1. 112 {Enter Hostess Quickly}
H5-HOSTESS
As ever you come of women, +
H5 2.1. 112 come in quickly to
H5 2.1. 113 Sir John. Ah, poor heart, he is so shaked of a burning
H5 2.1. 114 quotidian-tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold.
H5 2.1. 115 Sweet men, come to him. {[Exit]}
H5 2.1. 116
H5-NIM
The King hath run bad humours on the knight,
H5 2.1. 117 that's the even of it.
H5 2.1. 118A
H5-PISTOL
Nim, thou hast spoke the right.
H5 2.1. 119 His heart is fracted and corroborate.
H5 2.1. 120
H5-NIM
The King is a good king, but it must be as it may.
H5 2.1. 121 He passes some humours and careers.
H5 2.1. 122
H5-PISTOL
Let us condole the knight - for, lambkins, we will +
H5 2.1. 122 live. {Exeunt}
H5 2.1. 0 {Enter the Dukes of Exeter and [Gloucester], and the Earl +
H5 2.2. 0 of Westmorland}
H5 2.2. 1
H5-[GLOUCESTER]
Fore God, his grace is bold to trust these +
H5 2.2. 1 traitors.
H5 2.2. 2
H5-EXETER
They shall be apprehended by and by.
H5 2.2. 3
H5-WESTMORLAND
How smooth and even they do bear themselves,
H5 2.2. 4 As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
H5 2.2. 5 Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
H5 2.2. 6
H5-[GLOUCESTER]
The King hath note of all that they intend,
H5 2.2. 7 By interception which they dream not of.
H5 2.2. 8
H5-EXETER
Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
H5 2.2. 9 Whom he hath dulled and cloyed with gracious favours -
H5 2.2. 10 That he should for a foreign purse so sell
H5 2.2. 11 His sovereign's life to death and treachery. {Sound trumpets. +
H5 2.2. 11 Enter King Harry, Lord Scrope, the Earl of Cambridge, and Sir Thomas +
H5 2.2. 11 Grey}
H5 2.2. 12
H5-KING HARRY
Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
H5 2.2. 13 My lord of Cambridge, and my kind lord of Masham,
H5 2.2. 14 And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts.
H5 2.2. 15 Think you not that the powers we bear with us
H5 2.2. 16 Will cut their passage through the force of France,
H5 2.2. 17 Doing the execution and the act
H5 2.2. 18 For which we have in head assembled them?
H5 2.2. 19
H5-SCROPE
No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
H5 2.2. 20
H5-KING HARRY
I doubt not that, since we are well persuaded
H5 2.2. 21 We carry not a heart with us from hence
H5 2.2. 22 That grows not in a fair consent with ours,
H5 2.2. 23 Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
H5 2.2. 24 Success and conquest to attend on us.
H5 2.2. 25
H5-CAMBRIDGE
Never was monarch better feared and loved
H5 2.2. 26 Than is your majesty. There's not, I think, a subject
H5 2.2. 27 That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
H5 2.2. 28 Under the sweet shade of your government.
H5 2.2. 29
H5-GREY
True. Those that were your father's enemies
H5 2.2. 30 Have steeped their galls in honey, and do serve you
H5 2.2. 31 With hearts create of duty and of zeal.
H5 2.2. 32
H5-KING HARRY
We therefore have great cause of thankfulness,
H5 2.2. 33 And shall forget the office of our hand
H5 2.2. 34 Sooner than quittance of desert and merit,
H5 2.2. 35 According to their weight and worthiness.
H5 2.2. 36
H5-SCROPE
So service shall with steeled sinews toil,
H5 2.2. 37 And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
H5 2.2. 38 To do your grace incessant services.
H5 2.2. 39
H5-KING HARRY
We judge no less. - Uncle of Exeter,
H5 2.2. 40 Enlarge the man committed yesterday
H5 2.2. 41 That railed against our person. We consider
H5 2.2. 42 It was excess of wine that set him on,
H5 2.2. 43 And on his more advice we pardon him.
H5 2.2. 44
H5-SCROPE
That's mercy, but too much security.
H5 2.2. 45 Let him be punished, sovereign, lest example
H5 2.2. 46 Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
H5 2.2. 47
H5-KING HARRY
O let us yet be merciful.
H5 2.2. 48
H5-CAMBRIDGE
So may your highness, and yet punish too.
H5 2.2. 49
H5-GREY
Sir, you show great mercy if you give him life,
H5 2.2. 50 After the taste of much correction.
H5 2.2. 51
H5-KING HARRY
Alas, your too much love and care of me
H5 2.2. 52 Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch.
H5 2.2. 53 If little faults proceeding on distemper
H5 2.2. 54 Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
H5 2.2. 55 When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
H5 2.2. 56 Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,
H5 2.2. 57 Though Cambridge, Scrope, and Grey, in their dear care
H5 2.2. 58 And tender preservation of our person,
H5 2.2. 59 Would have him punished. And now to our French causes.
H5 2.2. 60B Who are the late commissioners?
H5-CAMBRIDGE
I one, my lord.
H5 2.2. 61 Your highness bade me ask for it today.
H5 2.2. 62B
H5-SCROPE
So did you me, my liege.
H5-GREY
And I, my royal sovereign.
H5 2.2. 63
H5-KING HARRY
Then Richard, Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;
H5 2.2. 64 There yours, Lord Scrope of Masham, and sir knight,
H5 2.2. 65 Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours.
H5 2.2. 66 Read them, and know I know your worthiness. -
H5 2.2. 67 My lord of Westmorland, and Uncle Exeter,
H5 2.2. 68 We will aboard tonight. - Why, how now, gentlemen?
H5 2.2. 69 What see you in those papers, that you lose
H5 2.2. 70 So much complexion? - Look ye how they change:
H5 2.2. 71 Their cheeks are paper. - Why, what read you there
H5 2.2. 72 That have so cowarded and chased your blood
H5 2.2. 73B Out of appearance?
H5-CAMBRIDGE
I do confess my fault,
H5 2.2. 74 And do submit me to your highness' mercy.
H5 2.2. 75A
H5-GREY
H5-AND
H5-SCROPE
To which we all appeal.
H5 2.2. 76
H5-KING HARRY
The mercy that was quick in us but late
H5 2.2. 77 By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.
H5 2.2. 78 You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy,
H5 2.2. 79 For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
H5 2.2. 80 As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. -
H5 2.2. 81 See you, my princes and my noble peers,
H5 2.2. 82 These English monsters? My lord of Cambridge here,
H5 2.2. 83 You know how apt our love was to accord
H5 2.2. 84 To furnish him with all appurtenants
H5 2.2. 85 Belonging to his honour; and this vile man
H5 2.2. 86 Hath for a few light crowns lightly conspired
H5 2.2. 87 And sworn unto the practices of France
H5 2.2. 88 To kill us here in Hampton. To the which
H5 2.2. 89 This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
H5 2.2. 90 Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But O
H5 2.2. 91 What shall I say to thee, Lord Scrope, thou cruel,
H5 2.2. 92 Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature?
H5 2.2. 93 Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,
H5 2.2. 94 That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
H5 2.2. 95 That almost mightst ha' coined me into gold
H5 2.2. 96 Wouldst thou ha' practised on me for thy use:
H5 2.2. 97 May it be possible that foreign hire
H5 2.2. 98 Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
H5 2.2. 99 That might annoy my finger? 'Tis so strange
H5 2.2. 100 That though the truth of it stands off as gross
H5 2.2. 101 As black on white, my eye will scarcely see it.
H5 2.2. 102 Treason and murder ever kept together,
H5 2.2. 103 As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,
H5 2.2. 104 Working so grossly in a natural cause
H5 2.2. 105 That admiration did not whoop at them;
H5 2.2. 106 But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in
H5 2.2. 107 Wonder to wait on treason and on murder.
H5 2.2. 108 And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
H5 2.2. 109 That wrought upon thee so preposterously
H5 2.2. 110 Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.
H5 2.2. 111 And other devils that suggest by treasons
H5 2.2. 112 Do botch and bungle up damnation
H5 2.2. 113 With patches, colours, and with forms, being fetched
H5 2.2. 114 From glist'ring semblances of piety;
H5 2.2. 115 But he that tempered thee, bade thee stand up,
H5 2.2. 116 Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,
H5 2.2. 117 Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
H5 2.2. 118 If that same demon that hath gulled thee thus
H5 2.2. 119 Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
H5 2.2. 120 He might return to vasty Tartar back
H5 2.2. 121 And tell the legions, `I can never win
H5 2.2. 122 A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'
H5 2.2. 123 O how hast thou with jealousy infected
H5 2.2. 124 The sweetness of affiance. Show men dutiful?
H5 2.2. 125 Why so didst thou. Seem they grave and learned?
H5 2.2. 126 Why so didst thou. Come they of noble family?
H5 2.2. 127 Why so didst thou. Seem they religious?
H5 2.2. 128 Why so didst thou. Or are they spare in diet,
H5 2.2. 129 Free from gross passion, or of mirth or anger,
H5 2.2. 130 Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
H5 2.2. 131 Garnished and decked in modest complement,
H5 2.2. 132 Not working with the eye without the ear,
H5 2.2. 133 And but in purged judgement trusting neither?
H5 2.2. 134 Such, and so finely boulted, didst thou seem.
H5 2.2. 135 And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot
H5 2.2. 136 To mark the full-fraught man, and best endowed,
H5 2.2. 137 With some suspicion. I will weep for thee,
H5 2.2. 138 For this revolt of thine methinks is like
H5 2.2. 139 Another fall of man. - Their faults are open.
H5 2.2. 140 Arrest them to the answer of the law,
H5 2.2. 141 And God acquit them of their practices.
H5 2.2. 142
H5-EXETER
I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
H5 2.2. 143 Richard, Earl of Cambridge. - I arrest thee of high
H5 2.2. 144 treason, by the name of Henry, Lord Scrope of
H5 2.2. 145 Masham. - I arrest thee of high treason, by the name
H5 2.2. 146 of Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.
H5 2.2. 147
H5-SCROPE
Our purposes God justly hath discovered,
H5 2.2. 148 And I repent my fault more than my death,
H5 2.2. 149 Which I beseech your highness to forgive
H5 2.2. 150 Although my body pay the price of it.
H5 2.2. 151
H5-CAMBRIDGE
For me, the gold of France did not seduce,
H5 2.2. 152 Although I did admit it as a motive
H5 2.2. 153 The sooner to effect what I intended.
H5 2.2. 154 But God be thanked for prevention,
H5 2.2. 155 Which heartily in sufferance will rejoice,
H5 2.2. 156 Beseeching God and you to pardon me.
H5 2.2. 157
H5-GREY
Never did faithful subject more rejoice
H5 2.2. 158 At the discovery of most dangerous treason
H5 2.2. 159 Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,
H5 2.2. 160 Prevented from a damned enterprise.
H5 2.2. 161 My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
H5 2.2. 162
H5-KING HARRY
God 'quit you in his mercy. Hear your sentence.
H5 2.2. 163 You have conspired against our royal person,
H5 2.2. 164 Joined with an enemy proclaimed and fixed,
H5 2.2. 165 And from his coffers
H5 2.2. 166 Received the golden earnest of our death,
H5 2.2. 167 Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
H5 2.2. 168 His princes and his peers to servitude,
H5 2.2. 169 His subjects to oppression and contempt,
H5 2.2. 170 And his whole kingdom into desolation.
H5 2.2. 171 Touching our person seek we no revenge,
H5 2.2. 172 But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
H5 2.2. 173 Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
H5 2.2. 174 We do deliver you. Get ye therefore hence,
H5 2.2. 175 Poor miserable wretches, to your death;
H5 2.2. 176 The taste whereof, God of his mercy give
H5 2.2. 177 You patience to endure, and true repentance
H5 2.2. 178 Of all your dear offences. - Bear them hence. {Exeunt the +
H5 2.2. 178 traitors, guarded}
H5 2.2. 179 Now lords for France, the enterprise whereof
H5 2.2. 180 Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
H5 2.2. 181 We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
H5 2.2. 182 Since God so graciously hath brought to light
H5 2.2. 183 This dangerous treason lurking in our way
H5 2.2. 184 To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now
H5 2.2. 185 But every rub is smoothed on our way.
H5 2.2. 186 Then forth, dear countrymen. Let us deliver
H5 2.2. 187 Our puissance into the hand of God,
H5 2.2. 188 Putting it straight in expedition.
H5 2.2. 189 Cheerly to sea, the signs of war advance:
H5 2.2. 190 No king of England, if not king of France. {Flourish. Exeunt}
H5 2.2. 0 {Enter Ensign Pistol, Corporal Nim, Lieutenant Bardolph, +
H5 2.3. 0 Boy, and Hostess Quickly}
H5 2.3. 1
H5-HOSTESS
Prithee, honey, sweet husband, let me bring thee
H5 2.3. 2 to Staines.
H5 2.3. 3
H5-PISTOL
No, for my manly heart doth erne. Bardolph,
H5 2.3. 4 Be blithe; Nim, rouse thy vaunting veins; boy, bristle
H5 2.3. 5 Thy courage up. For Falstaff he is dead,
H5 2.3. 6 And we must earn therefore.
H5 2.3. 7
H5-BARDOLPH
Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is,
H5 2.3. 8 either in heaven or in hell.
H5 2.3. 9
H5-HOSTESS
Nay, sure he's not in hell. He's in Arthur's
H5 2.3. 10 bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A made
H5 2.3. 11 a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom
H5 2.3. 12 child. A parted ev'n just between twelve and one, ev'n
H5 2.3. 13 at the turning o' th' tide - for after I saw him fumble
H5 2.3. 14 with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon
H5 2.3. 15 his finger's end, I knew there was but one way. For
H5 2.3. 16 his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a babbled of green
H5 2.3. 17 fields. `How now, Sir John?' quoth I. `What, man! Be
H5 2.3. 18 o' good cheer.' So a cried out, `God, God, God', three
H5 2.3. 19 or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a should
H5 2.3. 20 not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble
H5 2.3. 21 himself with any such thoughts yet. So a bade me lay
H5 2.3. 22 more clothes on his feet. I put my hand into the bed
H5 2.3. 23 and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone.
H5 2.3. 24 Then I felt to his knees, and so up'ard and up'ard, and
H5 2.3. 25 all was as cold as any stone.
H5 2.3. 26
H5-NIM
They say he cried out of sack.
H5 2.3. 27
H5-HOSTESS
Ay, that a did.
H5 2.3. 28
H5-BARDOLPH
And of women.
H5 2.3. 29
H5-HOSTESS
Nay, that a did not.
H5 2.3. 30
H5-BOY
Yes, that a did, and said they were devils incarnate.
H5 2.3. 31
H5-HOSTESS
A could never abide carnation, 'twas a colour he
H5 2.3. 32 never liked.
H5 2.3. 33
H5-BOY
A said once the devil would have him about women.
H5 2.3. 34
H5-HOSTESS
A did in some sort, indeed, handle women - but
H5 2.3. 35 then he was rheumatic, and talked of the Whore of
H5 2.3. 36 Babylon.
H5 2.3. 37
H5-BOY
Do you not remember, a saw a flea stick upon
H5 2.3. 38 Bardolph's nose, and a said it was a black soul burning
H5 2.3. 39 in hell-fire.
H5 2.3. 40
H5-BARDOLPH
Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire.
H5 2.3. 41 That's all the riches I got in his service.
H5 2.3. 42
H5-NIM
Shall we shog? The King will be gone from
H5 2.3. 43 Southampton.
H5 2.3. 44
H5-PISTOL
Come, let's away. - My love, give me thy lips.+
H5 2.3. 44 {He kisses her}
H5 2.3. 45 Look to my chattels and my movables.
H5 2.3. 46 Let senses rule. The word is `Pitch and pay'.
H5 2.3. 47 Trust none, for oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
H5 2.3. 48 And Holdfast is the only dog, my duck.
H5 2.3. 49 Therefore {caveto} be thy counsellor.
H5 2.3. 50 Go, clear thy crystals. - Yokefellows in arms,
H5 2.3. 51 Let us to France, like horseleeches, my boys,
H5 2.3. 52 To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
H5 2.3. 53
H5-BOY
{(aside)} And that's but unwholesome food, +
H5 2.3. 53 they say.
H5 2.3. 54A
H5-PISTOL
Touch her soft mouth, and march.
H5 2.3. 55
H5-BARDOLPH
Farewell, hostess. {He kisses her}
H5 2.3. 56
H5-NIM
I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it, but adieu.
H5 2.3. 57
H5-PISTOL
{(to Hostess)} Let housewifery appear. Keep +
H5 2.3. 57 close, I thee command.
H5 2.3. 58
H5-HOSTESS
Farewell! Adieu! {Exeunt severally}
H5 2.3. 0 {Flourish. Enter King Charles the Sixth of France, the +
H5 2.4. 0 Dauphin, the Constable, and the Dukes of Berri and [Bourbon]}
H5 2.4. 1
H5-KING CHARLES
Thus comes the English with full power upon +
H5 2.4. 1 us,
H5 2.4. 2 And more than carefully it us concerns
H5 2.4. 3 To answer royally in our defences.
H5 2.4. 4 Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bourbon,
H5 2.4. 5 Of Brabant and of Orle/ans shall make forth,
H5 2.4. 6 And you Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch
H5 2.4. 7 To line and new-repair our towns of war
H5 2.4. 8 With men of courage and with means defendant.
H5 2.4. 9 For England his approaches makes as fierce
H5 2.4. 10 As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
H5 2.4. 11 It fits us then to be as provident
H5 2.4. 12 As fear may teach us, out of late examples
H5 2.4. 13 Left by the fatal and neglected English
H5 2.4. 14B Upon our fields.
H5-DAUPHIN
My most redoubted father,
H5 2.4. 15 It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe,
H5 2.4. 16 For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom -
H5 2.4. 17 Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question -
H5 2.4. 18 But that defences, musters, preparations
H5 2.4. 19 Should be maintained, assembled, and collected
H5 2.4. 20 As were a war in expectation.
H5 2.4. 21 Therefore, I say, 'tis meet we all go forth
H5 2.4. 22 To view the sick and feeble parts of France.
H5 2.4. 23 And let us do it with no show of fear,
H5 2.4. 24 No, with no more than if we heard that England
H5 2.4. 25 Were busied with a Whitsun morris dance.
H5 2.4. 26 For, my good liege, she is so idly kinged,
H5 2.4. 27 Her sceptre so fantastically borne
H5 2.4. 28 By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
H5 2.4. 29B That fear attends her not.
H5-CONSTABLE
O peace, Prince Dauphin.
H5 2.4. 30 You are too much mistaken in this king.
H5 2.4. 31 Question your grace the late ambassadors
H5 2.4. 32 With what great state he heard their embassy,
H5 2.4. 33 How well supplied with aged counsellors,
H5 2.4. 34 How modest in exception, and withal
H5 2.4. 35 How terrible in constant resolution,
H5 2.4. 36 And you shall find his vanities forespent
H5 2.4. 37 Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
H5 2.4. 38 Covering discretion with a coat of folly,
H5 2.4. 39 As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
H5 2.4. 40 That shall first spring and be most delicate.
H5 2.4. 41
H5-DAUPHIN
Well, 'tis not so, my Lord High Constable.
H5 2.4. 42 But though we think it so, it is no matter.
H5 2.4. 43 In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
H5 2.4. 44 The enemy more mighty than he seems.
H5 2.4. 45 So the proportions of defence are filled -
H5 2.4. 46 Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,
H5 2.4. 47 Doth like a miser spoil his coat with scanting
H5 2.4. 48B A little cloth.
H5-KING CHARLES
Think we King Harry strong.
H5 2.4. 49 And princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
H5 2.4. 50 The kindred of him hath been fleshed upon us,
H5 2.4. 51 And he is bred out of that bloody strain
H5 2.4. 52 That haunted us in our familiar paths.
H5 2.4. 53 Witness our too-much-memorable shame
H5 2.4. 54 When Cre/cy battle fatally was struck,
H5 2.4. 55 And all our princes captived by the hand
H5 2.4. 56 Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales,
H5 2.4. 57 Whiles that his mountant sire, on mountain standing,
H5 2.4. 58 Up in the air, crowned with the golden sun,
H5 2.4. 59 Saw his heroical seed and smiled to see him
H5 2.4. 60 Mangle the work of nature and deface
H5 2.4. 61 The patterns that by God and by French fathers
H5 2.4. 62 Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
H5 2.4. 63 Of that victorious stock, and let us fear
H5 2.4. 64 The native mightiness and fate of him. {Enter a Messenger}
H5 2.4. 65
H5-MESSENGER
Ambassadors from Harry, King of England,
H5 2.4. 66 Do crave admittance to your majesty.
H5 2.4. 67
H5-KING CHARLES
We'll give them present audience. Go and bring +
H5 2.4. 67 them. {Exit Messenger}
H5 2.4. 68 You see this chase is hotly followed, friends.
H5 2.4. 69
H5-DAUPHIN
Turn head and stop pursuit. For coward dogs
H5 2.4. 70 Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
H5 2.4. 71 Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
H5 2.4. 72 Take up the English short, and let them know
H5 2.4. 73 Of what a monarchy you are the head.
H5 2.4. 74 Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
H5 2.4. 75B As self-neglecting. {Enter the Duke of Exeter, +
H5 2.4. 75B [attended]}
H5-KING CHARLES
From our brother England?
H5 2.4. 76
H5-EXETER
From him, and thus he greets your majesty:
H5 2.4. 77 He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
H5 2.4. 78 That you divest yourself and lay apart
H5 2.4. 79 The borrowed glories that by gift of heaven,
H5 2.4. 80 By law of nature and of nations, 'longs
H5 2.4. 81 To him and to his heirs, namely the crown,
H5 2.4. 82 And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
H5 2.4. 83 By custom and the ordinance of times
H5 2.4. 84 Unto the crown of France. That you may know
H5 2.4. 85 'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
H5 2.4. 86 Picked from the worm-holes of long-vanished days,
H5 2.4. 87 Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
H5 2.4. 88 He sends you this most memorable line,
H5 2.4. 89 In every branch truly demonstrative,
H5 2.4. 90 Willing you over-look this pedigree,
H5 2.4. 91 And when you find him evenly derived
H5 2.4. 92 From his most famed of famous ancestors,
H5 2.4. 93 Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
H5 2.4. 94 Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
H5 2.4. 95 From him, the native and true challenger.
H5 2.4. 96A
H5-KING CHARLES
Or else what follows?
H5 2.4. 97
H5-EXETER
Bloody constraint. For if you hide the crown
H5 2.4. 98 Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it.
H5 2.4. 99 Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
H5 2.4. 100 In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,
H5 2.4. 101 That if requiring fail, he will compel;
H5 2.4. 102 And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
H5 2.4. 103 Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
H5 2.4. 104 On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
H5 2.4. 105 Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head
H5 2.4. 106 Turns he the widows' tears, the orphans' cries,
H5 2.4. 107 The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans,
H5 2.4. 108 For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers
H5 2.4. 109 That shall be swallowed in this controversy.
H5 2.4. 110 This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message -
H5 2.4. 111 Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
H5 2.4. 112 To whom expressly I bring greeting too.
H5 2.4. 113
H5-KING CHARLES
For us, we will consider of this further.
H5 2.4. 114 Tomorrow shall you bear our full intent
H5 2.4. 115B Back to our brother England.
H5-DAUPHIN
For the Dauphin,
H5 2.4. 116 I stand here for him. What to him from England?
H5 2.4. 117
H5-EXETER
Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt;
H5 2.4. 118 And anything that may not misbecome
H5 2.4. 119 The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
H5 2.4. 120 Thus says my king: an if your father's highness
H5 2.4. 121 Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
H5 2.4. 122 Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
H5 2.4. 123 He'll call you to so hot an answer for it
H5 2.4. 124 That caves and womby vaultages of France
H5 2.4. 125 Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
H5 2.4. 126 In second accent of his ordinance.
H5 2.4. 127
H5-DAUPHIN
Say if my father render fair return
H5 2.4. 128 It is against my will, for I desire
H5 2.4. 129 Nothing but odds with England. To that end,
H5 2.4. 130 As matching to his youth and vanity,
H5 2.4. 131 I did present him with the Paris balls.
H5 2.4. 132
H5-EXETER
He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,
H5 2.4. 133 Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe.
H5 2.4. 134 And be assured, you'll find a diff'rence,
H5 2.4. 135 As we his subjects have in wonder found,
H5 2.4. 136 Between the promise of his greener days
H5 2.4. 137 And these he masters now: now he weighs time
H5 2.4. 138 Even to the utmost grain. That you shall read
H5 2.4. 139 In your own losses, if he stay in France.
H5 2.4. 140
H5-KING CHARLES
{[rising]} Tomorrow shall you know +
H5 2.4. 140 our mind at full. {Flourish}
H5 2.4. 141
H5-EXETER
Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king
H5 2.4. 142 Come here himself to question our delay -
H5 2.4. 143 For he is footed in this land already.
H5 2.4. 144
H5-KING CHARLES
You shall be soon dispatched with fair conditions.
H5 2.4. 145 A night is but small breath and little pause
H5 2.4. 146 To answer matters of this consequence. {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
H5 2.4. 0 {Enter Chorus}
H5 3.0. 1
H5-CHORUS
Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
H5 3.0. 2 In motion of no less celerity
H5 3.0. 3 Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
H5 3.0. 4 The well-appointed king at Dover pier
H5 3.0. 5 Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet
H5 3.0. 6 With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning.
H5 3.0. 7 Play with your fancies, and in them behold
H5 3.0. 8 Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
H5 3.0. 9 Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give
H5 3.0. 10 To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
H5 3.0. 11 Borne with th' invisible and creeping wind,
H5 3.0. 12 Draw the huge bottoms through the furrowed sea,
H5 3.0. 13 Breasting the lofty surge. O do but think
H5 3.0. 14 You stand upon the rivage and behold
H5 3.0. 15 A city on th' inconstant billows dancing -
H5 3.0. 16 For so appears this fleet majestical,
H5 3.0. 17 Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow!
H5 3.0. 18 Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
H5 3.0. 19 And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
H5 3.0. 20 Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women,
H5 3.0. 21 Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance.
H5 3.0. 22 For who is he, whose chin is but enriched
H5 3.0. 23 With one appearing hair, that will not follow
H5 3.0. 24 These culled and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
H5 3.0. 25 Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege.
H5 3.0. 26 Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
H5 3.0. 27 With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
H5 3.0. 28 Suppose th' ambassador from the French comes back,
H5 3.0. 29 Tells Harry that the King doth offer him
H5 3.0. 30 Catherine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,
H5 3.0. 31 Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
H5 3.0. 32 The offer likes not, and the nimble gunner
H5 3.0. 33 With linstock now the devilish cannon touches, {Alarum, and +
H5 3.0. 33 chambers go off}
H5 3.0. 34 And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
H5 3.0. 35 And eke out our performance with your mind. {Exit}
H5 3.0. 0 {Alarum. Enter King Harry [and the English army, with] +
H5 3.1. 0 scaling ladders}
H5 3.1. 1
H5-KING HARRY
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once +
H5 3.1. 1 more,
H5 3.1. 2 Or close the wall up with our English dead.
H5 3.1. 3 In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
H5 3.1. 4 As modest stillness and humility,
H5 3.1. 5 But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
H5 3.1. 6 Then imitate the action of the tiger.
H5 3.1. 7 Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood,
H5 3.1. 8 Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
H5 3.1. 9 Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,
H5 3.1. 10 Let it pry through the portage of the head
H5 3.1. 11 Like the brass cannon, let the brow o'erwhelm it
H5 3.1. 12 As fearfully as doth a galled rock
H5 3.1. 13 O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
H5 3.1. 14 Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
H5 3.1. 15 Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
H5 3.1. 16 Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
H5 3.1. 17 To his full height. On, on, you noblest English,
H5 3.1. 18 Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof,
H5 3.1. 19 Fathers that like so many Alexanders
H5 3.1. 20 Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
H5 3.1. 21 And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
H5 3.1. 22 Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
H5 3.1. 23 That those whom you called fathers did beget you.
H5 3.1. 24 Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
H5 3.1. 25 And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen,
H5 3.1. 26 Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
H5 3.1. 27 The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
H5 3.1. 28 That you are worth your breeding - which I doubt not,
H5 3.1. 29 For there is none of you so mean and base
H5 3.1. 30 That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
H5 3.1. 31 I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
H5 3.1. 32 Straining upon the start. The game's afoot.
H5 3.1. 33 Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
H5 3.1. 34 Cry, `God for Harry! England and Saint George!' {Alarum, and +
H5 3.1. 34 chambers go off. Exeunt}
H5 3.1. 0 {Enter Nim, Bardolph, Ensign Pistol, and Boy}
H5 3.2. 1
H5-BARDOLPH
On, on, on, on, on! To the breach, to the
H5 3.2. 2 breach!
H5 3.2. 3
H5-NIM
Pray thee corporal, stay. The knocks are too hot,
H5 3.2. 4 and for mine own part I have not a case of lives. The
H5 3.2. 5 humour of it is too hot, that is the very plainsong of
H5 3.2. 6 it.
H5 3.2. 7
H5-PISTOL
`The plainsong' is most just, for humours do +
H5 3.2. 7 abound.
H5 3.2. 8 Knocks go and come, God's vassals drop and die,
H5 3.2. 9 {[sings]} And sword and shield
H5 3.2. 10 In bloody field
H5 3.2. 11 Doth win immortal fame.
H5 3.2. 12
H5-BOY
Would I were in an alehouse in London. I would
H5 3.2. 13 give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.
H5 3.2. 14
H5-PISTOL
{[sings]} And I.
H5 3.2. 15 If wishes would prevail with me
H5 3.2. 16 My purpose should not fail with me
H5 3.2. 17 But thither would I hie.
H5 3.2. 18
H5-BOY
{[sings]} As duly
H5 3.2. 19 But not as truly
H5 3.2. 20 As bird doth sing on bough. {Enter Captain Fluellen and beats +
H5 3.2. 20 them in}
H5 3.2. 21
H5-FLUELLEN
God's plud! Up to the breaches, you dogs!
H5 3.2. 22 Avaunt, you cullions!
H5 3.2. 23
H5-PISTOL
Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.
H5 3.2. 24 Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,
H5 3.2. 25 Abate thy rage, great duke. Good bawcock, bate
H5 3.2. 26 Thy rage. Use lenity, sweet chuck.
H5 3.2. 27
H5-NIM
These be good humours! {[Fluellen begins to +
H5 3.2. 27 beat Nim]}
H5 3.2. 28 Your honour runs bad humours. {Exeunt all but [the +
H5 3.2. 28 Boy]}
H5 3.2. 29
H5-BOY
As young as I am, I have observed these three
H5 3.2. 30 swashers. I am boy to them all three, but all they three,
H5 3.2. 31 though they should serve me, could not be man to me,
H5 3.2. 32 for indeed three such antics do not amount to a man.
H5 3.2. 33 For Bardolph, he is white-livered and red-faced - by the
H5 3.2. 34 means whereof a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol,
H5 3.2. 35 he hath a killing tongue and a quiet sword - by the
H5 3.2. 36 means whereof a breaks words, and keeps whole
H5 3.2. 37 weapons. For Nim, he hath heard that men of few
H5 3.2. 38 words are the best men, and therefore he scorns to say
H5 3.2. 39 his prayers, lest a should be thought a coward. But his
H5 3.2. 40 few bad words are matched with as few good deeds -
H5 3.2. 41 for a never broke any man's head but his own, and
H5 3.2. 42 that was against a post, when he was drunk. They will
H5 3.2. 43 steal anything, and call it `purchase'. Bardolph stole a
H5 3.2. 44 lute case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three
H5 3.2. 45 halfpence. Nim and Bardolph are sworn brothers in
H5 3.2. 46 filching, and in Calais they stole a fire shovel. I knew
H5 3.2. 47 by that piece of service the men would carry coals.
H5 3.2. 48 They would have me as familiar with men's pockets as
H5 3.2. 49 their gloves or their handkerchiefs - which makes much
H5 3.2. 50 against my manhood, if I should take from another's
H5 3.2. 51 pocket to put into mine, for it is plain pocketing up of
H5 3.2. 52 wrongs. I must leave them, and seek some better
H5 3.2. 53 service. Their villainy goes against my weak stomach,
H5 3.2. 54 and therefore I must cast it up. {Exit}
H5 3.2. 0 {Enter Captain Gower [and Captain Fluellen, meeting]}
H5 3.3. 1
H5-GOWER
Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the
H5 3.3. 2 mines. The Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.
H5 3.3. 3
H5-FLUELLEN
To the mines? Tell you the Duke it is not so
H5 3.3. 4 good to come to the mines. For look you, the mines is
H5 3.3. 5 not according to the disciplines of the war. The concavities
H5 3.3. 6 of it is not sufficient. For look you, th' athversary,
H5 3.3. 7 you may discuss unto the Duke, look you, is digt
H5 3.3. 8 himself, four yard under, the countermines. By Cheshu,
H5 3.3. 9 I think a will plow up all, if there is not better directions.
H5 3.3. 10
H5-GOWER
The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the
H5 3.3. 11 siege is given, is altogether directed by an Irishman, a
H5 3.3. 12 very valiant gentleman, i' faith.
H5 3.3. 13
H5-FLUELLEN
It is Captain MacMorris, is it not?
H5 3.3. 14
H5-GOWER
I think it be.
H5 3.3. 15
H5-FLUELLEN
By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world. I will
H5 3.3. 16 verify as much in his beard. He has no more directions
H5 3.3. 17 in the true disciplines of the wars, look you - of the
H5 3.3. 18 {Roman} disciplines - than is a puppy dog. {Enter Captain +
H5 3.3. 18 MacMorris and Captain Jamy}
H5 3.3. 19
H5-GOWER
Here a comes, and the Scots captain, Captain
H5 3.3. 20 Jamy, with him.
H5 3.3. 21
H5-FLUELLEN
Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous gentleman,
H5 3.3. 22 that is certain, and of great expedition and
H5 3.3. 23 knowledge in th' anciant wars, upon my particular
H5 3.3. 24 knowledge of his directions. By Cheshu, he will
H5 3.3. 25 maintain his argument as well as any military man in
H5 3.3. 26 the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars of the
H5 3.3. 27 Romans.
H5 3.3. 28
H5-JAMY
I say gud day, Captain Fluellen.
H5 3.3. 29
H5-FLUELLEN
Good e'en to your worship, good Captain James.
H5 3.3. 30
H5-GOWER
How now, Captain MacMorris, have you quit the
H5 3.3. 31 mines? Have the pioneers given o'er?
H5 3.3. 32
H5-MACMORRIS
By Chrish law, 'tish ill done. The work ish
H5 3.3. 33 give over, the trumpet sound the retreat. By my hand
H5 3.3. 34 I swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done, it
H5 3.3. 35 ish give over. I would have blowed up the town, so
H5 3.3. 36 Chrish save me law, in an hour. O 'tish ill done, 'tish
H5 3.3. 37 ill done, by my hand 'tish ill done.
H5 3.3. 38
H5-FLUELLEN
Captain MacMorris, I beseech you now, will
H5 3.3. 39 you vouchsafe me, look you, a few disputations with
H5 3.3. 40 you, as partly touching or concerning the disciplines
H5 3.3. 41 of the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,
H5 3.3. 42 look you, and friendly communication? Partly to satisfy
H5 3.3. 43 my opinion and partly for the satisfaction, look you, of
H5 3.3. 44 my mind. As touching the direction of the military
H5 3.3. 45 discipline, that is the point.
H5 3.3. 46
H5-JAMY
It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath,
H5 3.3. 47 and I sall quite you with gud leve, as I may pick
H5 3.3. 48 occasion. That sall I, marry.
H5 3.3. 49
H5-MACMORRIS
It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me.
H5 3.3. 50 The day is hot, and the weather and the wars and the
H5 3.3. 51 King and the dukes. It is no time to discourse. The
H5 3.3. 52 town is besieched. An the trumpet call us to the breach,
H5 3.3. 53 and we talk and, be Chrish, do nothing, 'tis shame for
H5 3.3. 54 us all. So God sa' me, 'tis shame to stand still, it is
H5 3.3. 55 shame by my hand. And there is throats to be cut, and
H5 3.3. 56 works to be done, and there ish nothing done, so Christ
H5 3.3. 57 sa' me law.
H5 3.3. 58
H5-JAMY
By the mess, ere these eyes of mine take themselves
H5 3.3. 59 to slumber, ay'll de gud service, or I'll lig i' th' grund
H5 3.3. 60 for it. Ay owe Got a death, and I'll pay 't as valorously
H5 3.3. 61 as I may, that sall I suirely do, that is the brief and
H5 3.3. 62 the long. Marry, I wad full fain heard some question
H5 3.3. 63 'tween you twae.
H5 3.3. 64
H5-FLUELLEN
Captain MacMorris, I think, look you, under
H5 3.3. 65 your correction, there is not many of your nation -
H5 3.3. 66
H5-MACMORRIS
Of my nation? What ish my nation? Ish a
H5 3.3. 67 villain and a bastard and a knave and a rascal? What
H5 3.3. 68 ish my nation? Who talks of my nation?
H5 3.3. 69
H5-FLUELLEN
Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than
H5 3.3. 70 is meant, Captain MacMorris, peradventure I shall think
H5 3.3. 71 you do not use me with that affability as in discretion
H5 3.3. 72 you ought to use me, look you, being as good a man
H5 3.3. 73 as yourself, both in the disciplines of war and in the
H5 3.3. 74 derivation of my birth, and in other particularities.
H5 3.3. 75
H5-MACMORRIS
I do not know you so good a man as myself.
H5 3.3. 76 So Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.
H5 3.3. 77
H5-GOWER
Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.
H5 3.3. 78
H5-JAMY
Ah, that's a foul fault. {A parley is sounded}
H5 3.3. 79
H5-GOWER
The town sounds a parley.
H5 3.3. 80
H5-FLUELLEN
Captain MacMorris, when there is more better
H5 3.3. 81 opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so bold
H5 3.3. 82 as to tell you I know the disciplines of war. And there
H5 3.3. 83 is an end. {Exit}
H5 3.3. 84 {[Flourish.] Enter King Harry and all his train before the +
H5 3.3. 84 gates}
H5-KING HARRY
How yet resolves the Governor of the +
H5 3.3. 84 town?
H5 3.3. 85 This is the latest parle we will admit.
H5 3.3. 86 Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves,
H5 3.3. 87 Or like to men proud of destruction
H5 3.3. 88 Defy us to our worst. For as I am a soldier,
H5 3.3. 89 A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
H5 3.3. 90 If I begin the batt'ry once again
H5 3.3. 91 I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
H5 3.3. 92 Till in her ashes she lie buried.
H5 3.3. 93 The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
H5 3.3. 94 And the fleshed soldier, rough and hard of heart,
H5 3.3. 95 In liberty of bloody hand shall range
H5 3.3. 96 With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
H5 3.3. 97 Your fresh fair virgins and your flow'ring infants.
H5 3.3. 98 What is it then to me if impious war
H5 3.3. 99 Arrayed in flames like to the prince of fiends
H5 3.3. 100 Do with his smirched complexion all fell feats
H5 3.3. 101 Enlinked to waste and desolation?
H5 3.3. 102 What is 't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
H5 3.3. 103 If your pure maidens fall into the hand
H5 3.3. 104 Of hot and forcing violation?
H5 3.3. 105 What rein can hold licentious wickedness
H5 3.3. 106 When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
H5 3.3. 107 We may as bootless spend our vain command
H5 3.3. 108 Upon th' enraged soldiers in their spoil
H5 3.3. 109 As send precepts to the leviathan
H5 3.3. 110 To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
H5 3.3. 111 Take pity of your town and of your people
H5 3.3. 112 Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command,
H5 3.3. 113 Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
H5 3.3. 114 O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
H5 3.3. 115 Of heady murder, spoil, and villainy.
H5 3.3. 116 If not - why, in a moment look to see
H5 3.3. 117 The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
H5 3.3. 118 Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
H5 3.3. 119 Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
H5 3.3. 120 And their most reverend heads dashed to the walls;
H5 3.3. 121 Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
H5 3.3. 122 Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
H5 3.3. 123 Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
H5 3.3. 124 At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
H5 3.3. 125 What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?
H5 3.3. 126 Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroyed? {Enter Governor [on +
H5 3.3. 126 the wall]}
H5 3.3. 127
H5-GOVERNOR
Our expectation hath this day an end.
H5 3.3. 128 The Dauphin, whom of succours we entreated,
H5 3.3. 129 Returns us that his powers are yet not ready
H5 3.3. 130 To raise so great a siege. Therefore, dread King,
H5 3.3. 131 We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
H5 3.3. 132 Enter our gates, dispose of us and ours,
H5 3.3. 133 For we no longer are defensible.
H5 3.3. 134B
H5-KING HARRY
Open your gates. {[Exit Governor]} Come, +
H5 3.3. 134B Uncle Exeter,
H5 3.3. 135 Go you and enter Harfleur. There remain,
H5 3.3. 136 And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French.
H5 3.3. 137 Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,
H5 3.3. 138 The winter coming on, and sickness growing
H5 3.3. 139 Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.
H5 3.3. 140 Tonight in Harfleur will we be your guest;
H5 3.3. 141 Tomorrow for the march are we addressed. {[The gates are +
H5 3.3. 141 opened.] Flourish, and they enter the town}
H5 3.3. 0 {Enter Princess Catherine and Alice, an old gentlewoman}
H5 3.4. 1
H5-CATHERINE
Alice, tu as e/te/ en Angleterre, et tu bien +
H5 3.4. 1 parles
H5 3.4. 2 le langage.
H5 3.4. 3
H5-ALICE
Un peu, madame.
H5 3.4. 4
H5-CATHERINE
Je te prie, m'enseignez. Il faut que j'apprenne
H5 3.4. 5 a parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en anglais?
H5 3.4. 6
H5-ALICE
La main? Elle est appele/e {de hand}.
H5 3.4. 7
H5-CATHERINE
{De hand}. Et les doigts?
H5 3.4. 8
H5-ALICE
Les doigts? Ma foi, j'oublie les doigts, mais je me
H5 3.4. 9 souviendrai. Les doigts - je pense qu'ils sont appele/s {de
H5 3.4. 10 fingres}. Oui, {de fingres}.
H5 3.4. 11
H5-CATHERINE
La main, {de hand}; les doigts, {de fingres}. Je pense
H5 3.4. 12 que je suis la bonne e/coliere; j'ai gagne/ deux mots
H5 3.4. 13 d'anglais vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?
H5 3.4. 14
H5-ALICE
Les ongles? Nous les appelons {de nails}.
H5 3.4. 15
H5-CATHERINE
{De nails}. E/coutez - dites-moi si je parle bien:
H5 3.4. 16 {de hand, de fingres}, et {de nails}.
H5 3.4. 17
H5-ALICE
C'est bien dit, madame. Il est fort bon anglais.
H5 3.4. 18
H5-CATHERINE
Dites-moi l'anglais pour le bras.
H5 3.4. 19
H5-ALICE
{De arma}, madame.
H5 3.4. 20
H5-CATHERINE
Et le coude?
H5 3.4. 21
H5-ALICE
{D'elbow}.
H5 3.4. 22
H5-CATHERINE
{D'elbow}. Je m'en fais la re/pe/tition de tous les
H5 3.4. 23 mots que vous m'avez appris des a pre/sent.
H5 3.4. 24
H5-ALICE
Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.
H5 3.4. 25
H5-CATHERINE
Excusez-moi, Alice. E/coutez: {d'hand, de fingre,
H5 3.4. 26 de nails, d'arma, de bilbow}.
H5 3.4. 27
H5-ALICE
{D'elbow}, madame.
H5 3.4. 28
H5-CATHERINE
O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! {D'elbow}.
H5 3.4. 29 Comment appelez-vous le col?
H5 3.4. 30
H5-ALICE
{De nick}, madame.
H5 3.4. 31
H5-CATHERINE
{De nick}. Et le menton?
H5 3.4. 32
H5-ALICE
{De chin}.
H5 3.4. 33
H5-CATHERINE
{De sin}. Le col, {de nick}; le menton, {de sin}.
H5 3.4. 34
H5-ALICE
Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en ve/rite/ vous prononcez
H5 3.4. 35 les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre.
H5 3.4. 36
H5-CATHERINE
Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la gra^ce de
H5 3.4. 37 Dieu, et en peu de temps.
H5 3.4. 38
H5-ALICE
N'avez-vous y de/ja oublie/ ce que je vous ai
H5 3.4. 39 enseigne/?
H5 3.4. 40
H5-CATHERINE
Non, et je re/citerai a vous promptement:
H5 3.4. 41 {d'hand, de fingre, de mailes} -
H5 3.4. 42
H5-ALICE
{De nails}, madame.
H5 3.4. 43
H5-CATHERINE
{De nails, de arma, de ilbow} -
H5 3.4. 44
H5-ALICE
Sauf votre honneur, {d'elbow}.
H5 3.4. 45
H5-CATHERINE
Ainsi dis-je. {D'elbow, de nick}, et {de sin}. Comment
H5 3.4. 46 appelez-vous les pieds et la robe?
H5 3.4. 47
H5-ALICE
{De foot}, madame, et {de cown}.
H5 3.4. 48
H5-CATHERINE
{De foot} et {de cown}? O Seigneur Dieu! Ils sont
H5 3.4. 49 les mots de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et
H5 3.4. 50 impudique, et non pour les dames d'honneur d'user. Je
H5 3.4. 51 ne voudrais prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs
H5 3.4. 52 de France pour tout le monde. Foh! {De foot} et {de cown!}
H5 3.4. 53 Ne/anmoins, je re/citerai une autre fois ma lec@on
H5 3.4. 54 ensemble. {D'hand, de fingre, de nails, d'arma, d'elbow, de
H5 3.4. 55 nick, de sin, de foot, de cown}.
H5 3.4. 56
H5-ALICE
Excellent, madame!
H5 3.4. 57
H5-CATHERINE
C'est assez pour une fois. Allons-nous a di^ner. +
H5 3.4. 57 {Exeunt}
H5 3.4. 0 {Enter King Charles the Sixth of France, the Dauphin, the +
H5 3.5. 0 Constable, the Duke of [Bourbon], and others}
H5 3.5. 1
H5-KING CHARLES
'Tis certain he hath passed the River Somme.
H5 3.5. 2
H5-CONSTABLE
And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
H5 3.5. 3 Let us not live in France; let us quit all
H5 3.5. 4 And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
H5 3.5. 5
H5-DAUPHIN
{O Dieu vivant!} Shall a few sprays of us,
H5 3.5. 6 The emptying of our fathers' luxury,
H5 3.5. 7 Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,
H5 3.5. 8 Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds
H5 3.5. 9 And over-look their grafters?
H5 3.5. 10
H5-[BOURBON]
Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!
H5 3.5. 11 {Mort de ma vie}, if they march along
H5 3.5. 12 Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom
H5 3.5. 13 To buy a slobb'ry and a dirty farm
H5 3.5. 14 In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.
H5 3.5. 15
H5-CONSTABLE
{Dieu de batailles!} Where have they this mettle?
H5 3.5. 16 Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull,
H5 3.5. 17 On whom as in despite the sun looks pale,
H5 3.5. 18 Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
H5 3.5. 19 A drench for sur-reined jades - their barley-broth -
H5 3.5. 20 Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?
H5 3.5. 21 And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,
H5 3.5. 22 Seem frosty? O for honour of our land
H5 3.5. 23 Let us not hang like roping icicles
H5 3.5. 24 Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people
H5 3.5. 25 Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields -
H5 3.5. 26 `Poor' may we call them, in their native lords.
H5 3.5. 27A
H5-DAUPHIN
By faith and honour,
H5 3.5. 28 Our madams mock at us and plainly say
H5 3.5. 29 Our mettle is bred out, and they will give
H5 3.5. 30 Their bodies to the lust of English youth,
H5 3.5. 31 To new-store France with bastard warriors.
H5 3.5. 32
H5-[BOURBON]
They bid us, `To the English dancing-schools,
H5 3.5. 33 And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos' -
H5 3.5. 34 Saying our grace is only in our heels,
H5 3.5. 35 And that we are most lofty runaways.
H5 3.5. 36
H5-KING CHARLES
Where is Montjoy the herald? Speed him hence.
H5 3.5. 37 Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.
H5 3.5. 38 Up, princes, and with spirit of honour edged
H5 3.5. 39 More sharper than your swords, hie to the field.
H5 3.5. 40 Charles Delabret, High Constable of France,
H5 3.5. 41 You Dukes of Orle/ans, Bourbon, and of Berri,
H5 3.5. 42 Alenc@on, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy,
H5 3.5. 43 Jaques Cha^tillion, Rambures, Vaudemont,
H5 3.5. 44 Beaumont, Grandpre/, Roussi, and Fauconbridge,
H5 3.5. 45 Foix, Lestrelles, Boucicault, and Charolais,
H5 3.5. 46 High dukes, great princes, barons, lords, and knights,
H5 3.5. 47 For your great seats now quit you of great shames.
H5 3.5. 48 Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
H5 3.5. 49 With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur;
H5 3.5. 50 Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow
H5 3.5. 51 Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat
H5 3.5. 52 The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon.
H5 3.5. 53 Go down upon him, you have power enough,
H5 3.5. 54 And in a captive chariot into Rouen
H5 3.5. 55B Bring him our prisoner.
H5-CONSTABLE
This becomes the great.
H5 3.5. 56 Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
H5 3.5. 57 His soldiers sick and famished in their march,
H5 3.5. 58 For I am sure when he shall see our army
H5 3.5. 59 He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear
H5 3.5. 60 And, fore achievement, offer us his ransom.
H5 3.5. 61
H5-KING CHARLES
Therefore, Lord Constable, haste on Montjoy,
H5 3.5. 62 And let him say to England that we send
H5 3.5. 63 To know what willing ransom he will give. -
H5 3.5. 64 Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.
H5 3.5. 65
H5-DAUPHIN
Not so, I do beseech your majesty.
H5 3.5. 66
H5-KING CHARLES
Be patient, for you shall remain with us. -
H5 3.5. 67 Now forth, Lord Constable, and princes all,
H5 3.5. 68 And quickly bring us word of England's fall. {Exeunt severally}
H5 3.5. 0 {Enter Captains Gower and Fluellen, meeting}
H5 3.6. 1
H5-GOWER
How now, Captain Fluellen, come you from the
H5 3.6. 2 bridge?
H5 3.6. 3
H5-FLUELLEN
I assure you there is very excellent services
H5 3.6. 4 committed at the bridge.
H5 3.6. 5
H5-GOWER
Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
H5 3.6. 6
H5-FLUELLEN
The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as
H5 3.6. 7 Agamemnon, and a man that I love and honour with
H5 3.6. 8 my soul and my heart and my duty and my live and
H5 3.6. 9 my living and my uttermost power. He is not, God be
H5 3.6. 10 praised and blessed, any hurt in the world, but keeps
H5 3.6. 11 the bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline.
H5 3.6. 12 There is an ensign lieutenant there at the pridge, I
H5 3.6. 13 think in my very conscience he is as valiant a man as
H5 3.6. 14 Mark Antony, and he is a man of no estimation in the
H5 3.6. 15 world, but I did see him do as gallant service.
H5 3.6. 16
H5-GOWER
What do you call him?
H5 3.6. 17
H5-FLUELLEN
He is called Ensign Pistol.
H5 3.6. 18
H5-GOWER
I know him not. {Enter Ensign Pistol}
H5 3.6. 19
H5-FLUELLEN
Here is the man.
H5 3.6. 20
H5-PISTOL
Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours.
H5 3.6. 21 The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
H5 3.6. 22
H5-FLUELLEN
Ay, I praise God, and I have merited some love
H5 3.6. 23 at his hands.
H5 3.6. 24
H5-PISTOL
Bardolph, a soldier firm and sound of heart,
H5 3.6. 25 Of buxom valour, hath by cruel fate
H5 3.6. 26 And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,
H5 3.6. 27 That goddess blind that stands upon the rolling restless stone -
H5 3.6. 28
H5-FLUELLEN
By your patience, Ensign Pistol: Fortune is
H5 3.6. 29 painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify
H5 3.6. 30 to you that Fortune is blind. And she is painted also
H5 3.6. 31 with a wheel, to signify to you - which is the moral of
H5 3.6. 32 it - that she is turning and inconstant and mutability
H5 3.6. 33 and variation. And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a
H5 3.6. 34 spherical stone, which rolls and rolls and rolls. In good
H5 3.6. 35 truth, the poet makes a most excellent description of
H5 3.6. 36 it; Fortune is an excellent moral.
H5 3.6. 37
H5-PISTOL
Fortune is Bardolph's foe and frowns on him,
H5 3.6. 38 For he hath stol'n a pax, and hanged must a be.
H5 3.6. 39 A damned death -
H5 3.6. 40 Let gallows gape for dog, let man go free,
H5 3.6. 41 And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.
H5 3.6. 42 But Exeter hath given the doom of death
H5 3.6. 43 For pax of little price.
H5 3.6. 44 Therefore go speak, the Duke will hear thy voice,
H5 3.6. 45 And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
H5 3.6. 46 With edge of penny cord and vile reproach.
H5 3.6. 47 Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
H5 3.6. 48
H5-FLUELLEN
Ensign Pistol, I do partly understand your
H5 3.6. 49 meaning.
H5 3.6. 50A
H5-PISTOL
Why then rejoice therefor.
H5 3.6. 51
H5-FLUELLEN
Certainly, ensign, it is not a thing to rejoice +
H5 3.6. 51 at.
H5 3.6. 52 For if, look you, he were my brother, I would desire
H5 3.6. 53 the Duke to use his good pleasure, and put him to
H5 3.6. 54 executions. For discipline ought to be used.
H5 3.6. 55
H5-PISTOL
Die and be damned! and {fico} for thy friendship.
H5 3.6. 56
H5-FLUELLEN
It is well.
H5 3.6. 57A
H5-PISTOL
The fig of Spain.
H5 3.6. 58
H5-FLUELLEN
Very good.
H5 3.6. 59
H5-PISTOL
I say the fig within thy bowels and thy dirty +
H5 3.6. 59 maw. {Exit}
H5 3.6. 60
H5-FLUELLEN
Captain Gower, cannot you hear it lighten and
H5 3.6. 61 thunder?
H5 3.6. 62
H5-GOWER
Why, is this the ensign you told me of? I remember
H5 3.6. 63 him now. A bawd, a cutpurse.
H5 3.6. 64
H5-FLUELLEN
I'll assure you, a uttered as prave words at the
H5 3.6. 65 pridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it is
H5 3.6. 66 very well. What he has spoke to me, that is well, I
H5 3.6. 67 warrant you, when time is serve.
H5 3.6. 68
H5-GOWER
Why 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and
H5 3.6. 69 then goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return
H5 3.6. 70 into London under the form of a soldier. And such
H5 3.6. 71 fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names,
H5 3.6. 72 and they will learn you by rote where services were
H5 3.6. 73 done - at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,
H5 3.6. 74 at such a convoy, who came off bravely, who was shot,
H5 3.6. 75 who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on - and
H5 3.6. 76 this they con perfectly in the phrase of war, which they
H5 3.6. 77 trick up with new-tuned oaths. And what a beard of
H5 3.6. 78 the General's cut and a horrid suit of the camp will do
H5 3.6. 79 among foaming bottles and ale-washed wits is
H5 3.6. 80 wonderful to be thought on. But you must learn to
H5 3.6. 81 know such slanders of the age, or else you may be
H5 3.6. 82 marvellously mistook.
H5 3.6. 83
H5-FLUELLEN
I tell you what, Captain Gower, I do perceive
H5 3.6. 84 he is not the man that he would gladly make show to
H5 3.6. 85 the world he is. If I find a hole in his coat, I will tell
H5 3.6. 86 him my mind. {A drum is heard}
H5 3.6. 87 Hark you, the King is coming, and I must speak with
H5 3.6. 88 him from the pridge. {Enter King Harry and his poor soldiers, +
H5 3.6. 88 with drum and colours}
H5 3.6. 89 God pless your majesty.
H5 3.6. 90
H5-KING HARRY
How now, Fluellen, com'st thou from the +
H5 3.6. 90 bridge?
H5 3.6. 91
H5-FLUELLEN
Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter
H5 3.6. 92 has very gallantly maintained the pridge. The French
H5 3.6. 93 is gone off, look you, and there is gallant and most
H5 3.6. 94 prave passages. Marry, th' athversary was have possession
H5 3.6. 95 of the pridge, but he is enforced to retire, and the
H5 3.6. 96 Duke of Exeter is master of the pridge. I can tell your
H5 3.6. 97 majesty, the Duke is a prave man.
H5 3.6. 98
H5-KING HARRY
What men have you lost, Fluellen?
H5 3.6. 99
H5-FLUELLEN
The perdition of th' athversary hath been very
H5 3.6. 100 great, reasonable great. Marry, for my part I think the
H5 3.6. 101 Duke hath lost never a man, but one that is like to be
H5 3.6. 102 executed for robbing a church, one Bardolph, if your
H5 3.6. 103 majesty know the man. His face is all bubuncles and
H5 3.6. 104 whelks and knobs and flames o' fire, and his lips blows
H5 3.6. 105 at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue
H5 3.6. 106 and sometimes red. But his nose is executed, and his
H5 3.6. 107 fire's out.
H5 3.6. 108
H5-KING HARRY
We would have all such offenders so cut off,
H5 3.6. 109 and we here give express charge that in our marches
H5 3.6. 110 through the country there be nothing compelled from
H5 3.6. 111 the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the
H5 3.6. 112 French upbraided or abused in disdainful language. For
H5 3.6. 113 when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler
H5 3.6. 114 gamester is the soonest winner. {Tucket. Enter Montjoy}
H5 3.6. 115A
H5-MONTJOY
You know me by my habit.
H5 3.6. 116
H5-KING HARRY
Well then, I know thee. What shall I know of thee?
H5 3.6. 117B
H5-MONTJOY
My master's mind.
H5-KING HARRY
Unfold it.
H5-MONTJOY
Thus +
H5 3.6. 117B says my King:
H5 3.6. 118 `Say thou to Harry of England, though we seemed
H5 3.6. 119 dead, we did but sleep. Advantage is a better soldier
H5 3.6. 120 than rashness. Tell him, we could have rebuked him
H5 3.6. 121 at Harfleur, but that we thought not good to bruise an
H5 3.6. 122 injury till it were full ripe. Now we speak upon our
H5 3.6. 123 cue, and our voice is imperial. England shall repent his
H5 3.6. 124 folly, see his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid
H5 3.6. 125 him therefore consider of his ransom, which must
H5 3.6. 126 proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we
H5 3.6. 127 have lost, the disgrace we have digested - which in
H5 3.6. 128 weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under.
H5 3.6. 129 For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for th' effusion
H5 3.6. 130 of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too faint a
H5 3.6. 131 number; and for our disgrace, his own person kneeling
H5 3.6. 132 at our feet but a weak and worthless satisfaction. To
H5 3.6. 133 this add defiance, and tell him for conclusion he hath
H5 3.6. 134 betrayed his followers, whose condemnation is
H5 3.6. 135 pronounced.'
H5 3.6. 136 So far my King and master; so much my office.
H5 3.6. 137
H5-KING HARRY
What is thy name? I know thy quality.
H5 3.6. 138A
H5-MONTJOY
Montjoy.
H5 3.6. 139
H5-KING HARRY
Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back
H5 3.6. 140 And tell thy king I do not seek him now,
H5 3.6. 141 But could be willing to march on to Calais
H5 3.6. 142 Without impeachment, for to say the sooth -
H5 3.6. 143 Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
H5 3.6. 144 Unto an enemy of craft and vantage -
H5 3.6. 145 My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
H5 3.6. 146 My numbers lessened, and those few I have
H5 3.6. 147 Almost no better than so many French;
H5 3.6. 148 Who when they were in health - I tell thee herald,
H5 3.6. 149 I thought upon one pair of English legs
H5 3.6. 150 Did march three Frenchmen. Yet forgive me, God,
H5 3.6. 151 That I do brag thus. This your air of France
H5 3.6. 152 Hath blown that vice in me. I must repent.
H5 3.6. 153 Go, therefore, tell thy master here I am;
H5 3.6. 154 My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,
H5 3.6. 155 My army but a weak and sickly guard.
H5 3.6. 156 Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,
H5 3.6. 157 Though France himself and such another neighbour
H5 3.6. 158 Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
H5 3.6. 159 Go bid thy master well advise himself.
H5 3.6. 160 If we may pass, we will; if we be hindered,
H5 3.6. 161 We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
H5 3.6. 162 Discolour. And so, Montjoy, fare you well.
H5 3.6. 163 The sum of all our answer is but this:
H5 3.6. 164 We would not seek a battle as we are,
H5 3.6. 165 Nor as we are we say we will not shun it.
H5 3.6. 166 So tell your master.
H5 3.6. 167
H5-MONTJOY
I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness. {Exit}
H5 3.6. 168
H5-GLOUCESTER
I hope they will not come upon us now.
H5 3.6. 169
H5-KING HARRY
We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
H5 3.6. 170 March to the bridge. It now draws toward night.
H5 3.6. 171 Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,
H5 3.6. 172 And on tomorrow bid them march away. {Exeunt}
H5 3.6. 0 {Enter the Constable, Lord Rambures, the Dukes of +
H5 3.7. 0 Orle/ans and [Bourbon], with others}
H5 3.7. 1
H5-CONSTABLE
Tut, I have the best armour of the world.
H5 3.7. 2 Would it were day.
H5 3.7. 3
H5-ORLE
ANS You have an excellent armour. But let my horse
H5 3.7. 4 have his due.
H5 3.7. 5
H5-CONSTABLE
It is the best horse of Europe.
H5 3.7. 6
H5-ORLE
ANS Will it never be morning?
H5 3.7. 7
H5-[BOURBON]
My lord of Orle/ans and my Lord High
H5 3.7. 8 Constable, you talk of horse and armour?
H5 3.7. 9
H5-ORLE
ANS You are as well provided of both as any prince
H5 3.7. 10 in the world.
H5 3.7. 11
H5-[BOURBON]
What a long night is this! I will not change
H5 3.7. 12 my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.
H5 3.7. 13 Ah ha! He bounds from the earth as if his entrails were
H5 3.7. 14 hares - {le cheval volant}, the Pegasus, {qui a les narines de
H5 3.7. 15 feu!} When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk; he trots
H5 3.7. 16 the air, the earth sings when he touches it, the basest
H5 3.7. 17 horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of
H5 3.7. 18 Hermes.
H5 3.7. 19
H5-ORLE
ANS He's of the colour of the nutmeg.
H5 3.7. 20
H5-[BOURBON]
And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for
H5 3.7. 21 Perseus. He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements
H5 3.7. 22 of earth and water never appear in him, but only in
H5 3.7. 23 patient stillness while his rider mounts him. He is
H5 3.7. 24 indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
H5 3.7. 25
H5-CONSTABLE
Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and
H5 3.7. 26 excellent horse.
H5 3.7. 27
H5-[BOURBON]
It is the prince of palfreys. His neigh is like the
H5 3.7. 28 bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces
H5 3.7. 29 homage.
H5 3.7. 30
H5-ORLE
ANS No more, cousin.
H5 3.7. 31
H5-[BOURBON]
Nay, the man hath no wit, that cannot from
H5 3.7. 32 the rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb vary
H5 3.7. 33 deserved praise on my palfrey. It is a theme as fluent
H5 3.7. 34 as the sea. Turn the sands into eloquent tongues, and
H5 3.7. 35 my horse is argument for them all. 'Tis a subject for a
H5 3.7. 36 sovereign to reason on, and for a sovereign's sovereign
H5 3.7. 37 to ride on, and for the world, familiar to us and
H5 3.7. 38 unknown, to lay apart their particular functions, and
H5 3.7. 39 wonder at him. I once writ a sonnet in his praise, and
H5 3.7. 40 began thus: `Wonder of nature! - '
H5 3.7. 41
H5-ORLE
ANS I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.
H5 3.7. 42
H5-[BOURBON]
Then did they imitate that which I composed
H5 3.7. 43 to my courser, for my horse is my mistress.
H5 3.7. 44
H5-ORLE
ANS Your mistress bears well.
H5 3.7. 45
H5-[BOURBON]
{Me} well, which is the prescribed praise and
H5 3.7. 46 perfection of a good and particular mistress.
H5 3.7. 47
H5-CONSTABLE
Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress
H5 3.7. 48 shrewdly shook your back.
H5 3.7. 49
H5-[BOURBON]
So perhaps did yours.
H5 3.7. 50
H5-CONSTABLE
Mine was not bridled.
H5 3.7. 51
H5-[BOURBON]
O then belike she was old and gentle, and you
H5 3.7. 52 rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and
H5 3.7. 53 in your strait strossers.
H5 3.7. 54
H5-CONSTABLE
You have good judgement in horsemanship.
H5 3.7. 55
H5-[BOURBON]
Be warned by me then: they that ride so, and
H5 3.7. 56 ride not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have
H5 3.7. 57 my horse to my mistress.
H5 3.7. 58
H5-CONSTABLE
I had as lief have my mistress a jade.
H5 3.7. 59
H5-[BOURBON]
I tell thee, Constable, my mistress wears his
H5 3.7. 60 own hair.
H5 3.7. 61
H5-CONSTABLE
I could make as true a boast as that, if I had
H5 3.7. 62 a sow to my mistress.
H5 3.7. 63
H5-[BOURBON]
`{Le chien est retourne/ a son propre vomissement,
H5 3.7. 64 et la truie lave/e au bourbier}.' Thou makest use of
H5 3.7. 65 anything.
H5 3.7. 66
H5-CONSTABLE
Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or
H5 3.7. 67 any such proverb so little kin to the purpose.
H5 3.7. 68
H5-RAMBURES
My Lord Constable, the armour that I saw in
H5 3.7. 69 your tent tonight, are those stars or suns upon it?
H5 3.7. 70
H5-CONSTABLE
Stars, my lord.
H5 3.7. 71
H5-[BOURBON]
Some of them will fall tomorrow, I hope.
H5 3.7. 72
H5-CONSTABLE
And yet my sky shall not want.
H5 3.7. 73
H5-[BOURBON]
That may be, for you bear a many superfluously,
H5 3.7. 74 and 'twere more honour some were away.
H5 3.7. 75
H5-CONSTABLE
Even as your horse bears your praises, who
H5 3.7. 76 would trot as well were some of your brags dismounted.
H5 3.7. 77
H5-[BOURBON]
Would I were able to load him with his desert!
H5 3.7. 78 Will it never be day? I will trot tomorrow a mile, and
H5 3.7. 79 my way shall be paved with English faces.
H5 3.7. 80
H5-CONSTABLE
I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out
H5 3.7. 81 of my way. But I would it were morning, for I would
H5 3.7. 82 fain be about the ears of the English.
H5 3.7. 83
H5-RAMBURES
Who will go to hazard with me for twenty
H5 3.7. 84 prisoners?
H5 3.7. 85
H5-CONSTABLE
You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you
H5 3.7. 86 have them.
H5 3.7. 87
H5-[BOURBON]
'Tis midnight. I'll go arm myself. {Exit}
H5 3.7. 88
H5-ORLE
ANS The Duke of Bourbon longs for morning.
H5 3.7. 89
H5-RAMBURES
He longs to eat the English.
H5 3.7. 90
H5-CONSTABLE
I think he will eat all he kills.
H5 3.7. 91
H5-ORLE
ANS By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant
H5 3.7. 92 prince.
H5 3.7. 93
H5-CONSTABLE
Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the
H5 3.7. 94 oath.
H5 3.7. 95
H5-ORLE
ANS He is simply the most active gentleman of France.
H5 3.7. 96
H5-CONSTABLE
Doing is activity, and he will still be doing.
H5 3.7. 97
H5-ORLE
ANS He never did harm that I heard of.
H5 3.7. 98
H5-CONSTABLE
Nor will do none tomorrow. He will keep that
H5 3.7. 99 good name still.
H5 3.7. 100
H5-ORLE
ANS I know him to be valiant.
H5 3.7. 101
H5-CONSTABLE
I was told that by one that knows him better
H5 3.7. 102 than you.
H5 3.7. 103
H5-ORLE
ANS What's he?
H5 3.7. 104
H5-CONSTABLE
Marry, he told me so himself, and he said he
H5 3.7. 105 cared not who knew it.
H5 3.7. 106
H5-ORLE
ANS He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him.
H5 3.7. 107
H5-CONSTABLE
By my faith, sir, but it is. Never anybody saw
H5 3.7. 108 it but his lackey. 'Tis a hooded valour, and when it
H5 3.7. 109 appears it will bate.
H5 3.7. 110
H5-ORLE
ANS `Ill will never said well.'
H5 3.7. 111
H5-CONSTABLE
I will cap that proverb with `There is flattery
H5 3.7. 112 in friendship.'
H5 3.7. 113
H5-ORLE
ANS And I will take up that with `Give the devil his
H5 3.7. 114 due.'
H5 3.7. 115
H5-CONSTABLE
Well placed! There stands your friend for the
H5 3.7. 116 devil. Have at the very eye of that proverb with `A pox
H5 3.7. 117 of the devil!'
H5 3.7. 118
H5-ORLE
ANS You are the better at proverbs by how much `a
H5 3.7. 119 fool's bolt is soon shot'.
H5 3.7. 120
H5-CONSTABLE
You have shot over.
H5 3.7. 121
H5-ORLE
ANS 'Tis not the first time you were overshot. {Enter a +
H5 3.7. 121 Messenger}
H5 3.7. 122
H5-MESSENGER
My Lord High Constable, the English lie within
H5 3.7. 123 fifteen hundred paces of your tents.
H5 3.7. 124
H5-CONSTABLE
Who hath measured the ground?
H5 3.7. 125
H5-MESSENGER
The Lord Grandpre/.
H5 3.7. 126
H5-CONSTABLE
A valiant and most expert gentleman. {[Exit +
H5 3.7. 126 Messenger]}
H5 3.7. 127 Would it were day! Alas, poor Harry of England. He
H5 3.7. 128 longs not for the dawning as we do.
H5 3.7. 129
H5-ORLE
ANS What a wretched and peevish fellow is this King
H5 3.7. 130 of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so
H5 3.7. 131 far out of his knowledge.
H5 3.7. 132
H5-CONSTABLE
If the English had any apprehension, they
H5 3.7. 133 would run away.
H5 3.7. 134
H5-ORLE
ANS That they lack - for if their heads had any
H5 3.7. 135 intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy
H5 3.7. 136 headpieces.
H5 3.7. 137
H5-RAMBURES
That island of England breeds very valiant
H5 3.7. 138 creatures. Their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
H5 3.7. 139
H5-ORLE
ANS Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth
H5 3.7. 140 of a Russian bear, and have their heads crushed like
H5 3.7. 141 rotten apples. You may as well say, `That's a valiant
H5 3.7. 142 flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.'
H5 3.7. 143
H5-CONSTABLE
Just, just. And the men do sympathize with
H5 3.7. 144 the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving
H5 3.7. 145 their wits with their wives. And then, give them great
H5 3.7. 146 meals of beef, and iron and steel, they will eat like
H5 3.7. 147 wolves and fight like devils.
H5 3.7. 148
H5-ORLE
ANS Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.
H5 3.7. 149
H5-CONSTABLE
Then shall we find tomorrow they have only
H5 3.7. 150 stomachs to eat, and none to fight. Now is it time to
H5 3.7. 151 arm. Come, shall we about it?
H5 3.7. 152
H5-ORLE
ANS It is now two o'clock. But let me see - by ten
H5 3.7. 153 We shall have each a hundred Englishmen. {Exeunt}
H5 3.7. 0 {Enter Chorus}
H5 4.0. 1
H5-CHORUS
Now entertain conjecture of a time
H5 4.0. 2 When creeping murmur and the poring dark
H5 4.0. 3 Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
H5 4.0. 4 From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
H5 4.0. 5 The hum of either army stilly sounds,
H5 4.0. 6 That the fixed sentinels almost receive
H5 4.0. 7 The secret whispers of each other's watch.
H5 4.0. 8 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
H5 4.0. 9 Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
H5 4.0. 10 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
H5 4.0. 11 Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents
H5 4.0. 12 The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
H5 4.0. 13 With busy hammers closing rivets up,
H5 4.0. 14 Give dreadful note of preparation.
H5 4.0. 15 The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll
H5 4.0. 16 And the third hour of drowsy morning name.
H5 4.0. 17 Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,
H5 4.0. 18 The confident and overlusty French
H5 4.0. 19 Do the low-rated English play at dice,
H5 4.0. 20 And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,
H5 4.0. 21 Who like a foul and ugly witch doth limp
H5 4.0. 22 So tediously away. The poor condemned English,
H5 4.0. 23 Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
H5 4.0. 24 Sit patiently and inly ruminate
H5 4.0. 25 The morning's danger; and their gesture sad,
H5 4.0. 26 Investing lank lean cheeks and war-worn coats,
H5 4.0. 27 Presented them unto the gazing moon
H5 4.0. 28 So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold
H5 4.0. 29 The royal captain of this ruined band
H5 4.0. 30 Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
H5 4.0. 31 Let him cry, `Praise and glory on his head!'
H5 4.0. 32 For forth he goes and visits all his host,
H5 4.0. 33 Bids them good morrow with a modest smile
H5 4.0. 34 And calls them brothers, friends, and countrymen.
H5 4.0. 35 Upon his royal face there is no note
H5 4.0. 36 How dread an army hath enrounded him;
H5 4.0. 37 Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
H5 4.0. 38 Unto the weary and all-watched night,
H5 4.0. 39 But freshly looks and overbears attaint
H5 4.0. 40 With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty,
H5 4.0. 41 That every wretch, pining and pale before,
H5 4.0. 42 Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks.
H5 4.0. 43 A largess universal, like the sun,
H5 4.0. 44 His liberal eye doth give to everyone,
H5 4.0. 45 Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all
H5 4.0. 46 Behold, as may unworthiness define,
H5 4.0. 47 A little touch of Harry in the night.
H5 4.0. 48 And so our scene must to the battle fly,
H5 4.0. 49 Where O for pity, we shall much disgrace,
H5 4.0. 50 With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
H5 4.0. 51 Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous,
H5 4.0. 52 The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,
H5 4.0. 53 Minding true things by what their mock'ries be. {Exit}
H5 4.0. 0 {Enter King Harry and the Duke of Gloucester, then the +
H5 4.1. 0 Duke of [Clarence]}
H5 4.1. 1
H5-KING HARRY
Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great +
H5 4.1. 1 danger;
H5 4.1. 2 The greater therefore should our courage be.
H5 4.1. 3 Good morrow, brother Clarence. God Almighty!
H5 4.1. 4 There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
H5 4.1. 5 Would men observingly distil it out -
H5 4.1. 6 For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
H5 4.1. 7 Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
H5 4.1. 8 Besides, they are our outward consciences,
H5 4.1. 9 And preachers to us all, admonishing
H5 4.1. 10 That we should dress us fairly for our end.
H5 4.1. 11 Thus may we gather honey from the weed
H5 4.1. 12 And make a moral of the devil himself. {Enter Sir Thomas +
H5 4.1. 12 Erpingham}
H5 4.1. 13 Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham.
H5 4.1. 14 A good soft pillow for that good white head
H5 4.1. 15 Were better than a churlish turf of France.
H5 4.1. 16
H5-ERPINGHAM
Not so, my liege. This lodging likes me better,
H5 4.1. 17 Since I may say, `Now lie I like a king.'
H5 4.1. 18
H5-KING HARRY
'Tis good for men to love their present pains
H5 4.1. 19 Upon example. So the spirit is eased,
H5 4.1. 20 And when the mind is quickened, out of doubt
H5 4.1. 21 The organs, though defunct and dead before,
H5 4.1. 22 Break up their drowsy grave and newly move
H5 4.1. 23 With casted slough and fresh legerity.
H5 4.1. 24B Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. {He puts on Erpingham's +
H5 4.1. 24B cloak} Brothers both,
H5 4.1. 25 Commend me to the princes in our camp.
H5 4.1. 26 Do my good morrow to them, and anon
H5 4.1. 27 Desire them all to my pavilion.
H5 4.1. 28A
H5-GLOUCESTER
We shall, my liege.
H5 4.1. 29A
H5-ERPINGHAM
Shall I attend your grace?
H5 4.1. 30A
H5-KING HARRY
No, my good knight.
H5 4.1. 31 Go with my brothers to my lords of England.
H5 4.1. 32 I and my bosom must debate awhile,
H5 4.1. 33 And then I would no other company.
H5 4.1. 34
H5-ERPINGHAM
The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry.
H5 4.1. 35
H5-KING HARRY
God-a-mercy, old heart, thou speak'st cheerfully. +
H5 4.1. 35 {Exeunt all but King Harry}
H5 4.1. 36 {Enter Pistol [to him]}
H5-PISTOL
{Qui vous la}?
H5 4.1. 37
H5-KING HARRY
A friend.
H5 4.1. 38
H5-PISTOL
Discuss unto me: art thou officer,
H5 4.1. 39 Or art thou base, common, and popular?
H5 4.1. 40
H5-KING HARRY
I am a gentleman of a company.
H5 4.1. 41A
H5-PISTOL
Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
H5 4.1. 42
H5-KING HARRY
Even so. What are you?
H5 4.1. 43
H5-PISTOL
As good a gentleman as the Emperor.
H5 4.1. 44
H5-KING HARRY
Then you are a better than the King.
H5 4.1. 45
H5-PISTOL
The King's a bawcock and a heart-of-gold,
H5 4.1. 46 A lad of life, an imp of fame,
H5 4.1. 47 Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
H5 4.1. 48 I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heartstring
H5 4.1. 49 I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?
H5 4.1. 50
H5-KING HARRY
Harry {le roi}.
H5 4.1. 51
H5-PISTOL
Leroi? A Cornish name. Art thou of Cornish crew?
H5 4.1. 52
H5-KING HARRY
No, I am a Welshman.
H5 4.1. 53A
H5-PISTOL
Know'st thou Fluellen?
H5 4.1. 54
H5-KING HARRY
Yes.
H5 4.1. 55
H5-PISTOL
Tell him I'll knock his leek about his pate
H5 4.1. 56 Upon Saint Davy's day.
H5 4.1. 57
H5-KING HARRY
Do not you wear your dagger in your cap
H5 4.1. 58 that day, lest he knock that about yours.
H5 4.1. 59A
H5-PISTOL
Art thou his friend?
H5 4.1. 60
H5-KING HARRY
And his kinsman too.
H5 4.1. 61A
H5-PISTOL
The {fico} for thee then.
H5 4.1. 62
H5-KING HARRY
I thank you. God be with you.
H5 4.1. 63A
H5-PISTOL
My name is Pistol called.
H5 4.1. 64
H5-KING HARRY
It sorts well with your fierceness. +
H5 4.1. 64 {Exit Pistol}
H5 4.1. 65 {Enter Captains Fluellen and Gower [severally]. King Harry +
H5 4.1. 65 stands apart}
H5-GOWER
Captain Fluellen!
H5 4.1. 66
H5-FLUELLEN
So! In the name of Jesu Christ, speak fewer. It
H5 4.1. 67 is the greatest admiration in the universal world, when
H5 4.1. 68 the true and ancient prerogatifs and laws of the wars
H5 4.1. 69 is not kept. If you would take the pains but to examine
H5 4.1. 70 the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, I warrant
H5 4.1. 71 you, that there is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-babble in
H5 4.1. 72 Pompey's camp. I warrant you, you shall find the
H5 4.1. 73 ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of it, and the
H5 4.1. 74 forms of it, and the sobriety of it, and the modesty of
H5 4.1. 75 it, to be otherwise.
H5 4.1. 76
H5-GOWER
Why, the enemy is loud. You hear him all night.
H5 4.1. 77
H5-FLUELLEN
If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
H5 4.1. 78 coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,
H5 4.1. 79 look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb?
H5 4.1. 80 In your own conscience now?
H5 4.1. 81
H5-GOWER
I will speak lower.
H5 4.1. 82
H5-FLUELLEN
I pray you and beseech you that you will. {Exeunt +
H5 4.1. 82 Fluellen and Gower}
H5 4.1. 83
H5-KING HARRY
Though it appear a little out of fashion,
H5 4.1. 84 There is much care and valour in this Welshman. {Enter three +
H5 4.1. 84 soldiers: John Bates, Alexander Court, and Michael Williams}
H5 4.1. 85
H5-COURT
Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which
H5 4.1. 86 breaks yonder?
H5 4.1. 87
H5-BATES
I think it be. But we have no great cause to desire
H5 4.1. 88 the approach of day.
H5 4.1. 89
H5-WILLIAMS
We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I
H5 4.1. 90 think we shall never see the end of it. - Who goes
H5 4.1. 91 there?
H5 4.1. 92
H5-KING HARRY
A friend.
H5 4.1. 93
H5-WILLIAMS
Under what captain serve you?
H5 4.1. 94
H5-KING HARRY
Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
H5 4.1. 95
H5-WILLIAMS
A good old commander and a most kind gentleman.
H5 4.1. 96 I pray you, what thinks he of our estate?
H5 4.1. 97
H5-KING HARRY
Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look
H5 4.1. 98 to be washed off the next tide.
H5 4.1. 99
H5-BATES
He hath not told his thought to the King?
H5 4.1. 100
H5-KING HARRY
No, nor it is not meet he should. For though
H5 4.1. 101 I speak it to you, I think the King is but a man, as I
H5 4.1. 102 am. The violet smells to him as it doth to me; the
H5 4.1. 103 element shows to him as it doth to me. All his senses
H5 4.1. 104 have but human conditions. His ceremonies laid by, in
H5 4.1. 105 his nakedness he appears but a man, and though his
H5 4.1. 106 affections are higher mounted than ours, yet when
H5 4.1. 107 they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. Therefore,
H5 4.1. 108 when he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out
H5 4.1. 109 of doubt, be of the same relish as ours are. Yet, in
H5 4.1. 110 reason, no man should possess him with any
H5 4.1. 111 appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should
H5 4.1. 112 dishearten his army.
H5 4.1. 113
H5-BATES
He may show what outward courage he will, but
H5 4.1. 114 I believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish himself
H5 4.1. 115 in Thames up to the neck. And so I would he were,
H5 4.1. 116 and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.
H5 4.1. 117
H5-KING HARRY
By my troth, I will speak my conscience of
H5 4.1. 118 the King. I think he would not wish himself anywhere
H5 4.1. 119 but where he is.
H5 4.1. 120
H5-BATES
Then I would he were here alone. So should he be
H5 4.1. 121 sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives
H5 4.1. 122 saved.
H5 4.1. 123
H5-KING HARRY
I dare say you love him not so ill to wish
H5 4.1. 124 him here alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other
H5 4.1. 125 men's minds. Methinks I could not die anywhere so
H5 4.1. 126 contented as in the King's company, his cause being
H5 4.1. 127 just and his quarrel honourable.
H5 4.1. 128
H5-WILLIAMS
That's more than we know.
H5 4.1. 129
H5-BATES
Ay, or more than we should seek after. For we
H5 4.1. 130 know enough if we know we are the King's subjects.
H5 4.1. 131 If his cause be wrong, our obedience to the King wipes
H5 4.1. 132 the crime of it out of us.
H5 4.1. 133
H5-WILLIAMS
But if the cause be not good, the King himself
H5 4.1. 134 hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs
H5 4.1. 135 and arms and heads chopped off in a battle shall join
H5 4.1. 136 together at the latter day, and cry all, `We died at such
H5 4.1. 137 a place' - some swearing, some crying for a surgeon,
H5 4.1. 138 some upon their wives left poor behind them, some
H5 4.1. 139 upon the debts they owe, some upon their children
H5 4.1. 140 rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die
H5 4.1. 141 in a battle, for how can they charitably dispose of
H5 4.1. 142 anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these
H5 4.1. 143 men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the
H5 4.1. 144 King that led them to it - who to disobey were against
H5 4.1. 145 all proportion of subjection.
H5 4.1. 146
H5-KING HARRY
So, if a son that is by his father sent about
H5 4.1. 147 merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the
H5 4.1. 148 imputation of his wickedness, by your rule, should be
H5 4.1. 149 imposed upon his father, that sent him. Or if a servant,
H5 4.1. 150 under his master's command transporting a sum of
H5 4.1. 151 money, be assailed by robbers, and die in many
H5 4.1. 152 irreconciled iniquities, you may call the business of the
H5 4.1. 153 master the author of the servant's damnation. But this
H5 4.1. 154 is not so. The King is not bound to answer the particular
H5 4.1. 155 endings of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the
H5 4.1. 156 master of his servant, for they purpose not their deaths
H5 4.1. 157 when they propose their services. Besides, there is no
H5 4.1. 158 king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to the
H5 4.1. 159 arbitrament of swords, can try it out with all unspotted
H5 4.1. 160 soldiers. Some, peradventure, have on them the guilt
H5 4.1. 161 of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of
H5 4.1. 162 beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury;
H5 4.1. 163 some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before
H5 4.1. 164 gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and
H5 4.1. 165 robbery. Now, if these men have defeated the law and
H5 4.1. 166 outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip
H5 4.1. 167 men, they have no wings to fly from God. War is his
H5 4.1. 168 beadle. War is his vengeance. So that here men are
H5 4.1. 169 punished for before-breach of the King's laws, in now
H5 4.1. 170 the King's quarrel. Where they feared the death, they
H5 4.1. 171 have borne life away; and where they would be safe,
H5 4.1. 172 they perish. Then if they die unprovided, no more is
H5 4.1. 173 the King guilty of their damnation than he was before
H5 4.1. 174 guilty of those impieties for the which they are now
H5 4.1. 175 visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every
H5 4.1. 176 subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier
H5 4.1. 177 in the wars do as every sick man in his bed: wash
H5 4.1. 178 every mote out of his conscience. And dying so, death
H5 4.1. 179 is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was
H5 4.1. 180 blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained.
H5 4.1. 181 And in him that escapes, it were not sin to think that,
H5 4.1. 182 making God so free an offer, he let him outlive that
H5 4.1. 183 day to see his greatness and to teach others how they
H5 4.1. 184 should prepare.
H5 4.1. 185
H5-[BATES]
'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon
H5 4.1. 186 his own head. The King is not to answer it. I do not
H5 4.1. 187 desire he should answer for me, and yet I determine to
H5 4.1. 188 fight lustily for him.
H5 4.1. 189
H5-KING HARRY
I myself heard the King say he would not be
H5 4.1. 190 ransomed.
H5 4.1. 191
H5-WILLIAMS
Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully, but
H5 4.1. 192 when our throats are cut he may be ransomed, and
H5 4.1. 193 we ne'er the wiser.
H5 4.1. 194
H5-KING HARRY
If I live to see it, I will never trust his word
H5 4.1. 195 after.
H5 4.1. 196
H5-WILLIAMS
You pay him then! That's a perilous shot out
H5 4.1. 197 of an elder-gun, that a poor and a private displeasure
H5 4.1. 198 can do against a monarch. You may as well go about
H5 4.1. 199 to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a
H5 4.1. 200 peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word after!
H5 4.1. 201 Come, 'tis a foolish saying.
H5 4.1. 202
H5-KING HARRY
Your reproof is something too round. I should
H5 4.1. 203 be angry with you, if the time were convenient.
H5 4.1. 204
H5-WILLIAMS
Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.
H5 4.1. 205
H5-KING HARRY
I embrace it.
H5 4.1. 206
H5-WILLIAMS
How shall I know thee again?
H5 4.1. 207
H5-KING HARRY
Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear
H5 4.1. 208 it in my bonnet. Then if ever thou darest acknowledge
H5 4.1. 209 it, I will make it my quarrel.
H5 4.1. 210
H5-WILLIAMS
Here's my glove. Give me another of thine.
H5 4.1. 211
H5-KING HARRY
There. {They exchange gloves}
H5 4.1. 212
H5-WILLIAMS
This will I also wear in my cap. If ever thou
H5 4.1. 213 come to me and say, after tomorrow, `This is my glove',
H5 4.1. 214 by this hand I will take thee a box on the ear.
H5 4.1. 215
H5-KING HARRY
If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
H5 4.1. 216
H5-WILLIAMS
Thou darest as well be hanged.
H5 4.1. 217
H5-KING HARRY
Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the
H5 4.1. 218 King's company.
H5 4.1. 219
H5-WILLIAMS
Keep thy word. Fare thee well.
H5 4.1. 220
H5-BATES
Be friends, you English fools, be friends. We have
H5 4.1. 221 French quarrels enough, if you could tell how to reckon.
H5 4.1. 222
H5-KING HARRY
Indeed, the French may lay twenty French
H5 4.1. 223 crowns to one they will beat us, for they bear them on
H5 4.1. 224 their shoulders. But it is no English treason to cut
H5 4.1. 225 French crowns, and tomorrow the King himself will be
H5 4.1. 226 a clipper. {Exeunt soldiers}
H5 4.1. 227 Upon the King.
H5 4.1. 228 `Let us our lives, our souls, our debts, our care-full wives,
H5 4.1. 229 Our children, and our sins, lay on the King.'
H5 4.1. 230 We must bear all. O hard condition,
H5 4.1. 231 Twin-born with greatness: subject to the breath
H5 4.1. 232 Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel
H5 4.1. 233 But his own wringing. What infinite heartsease
H5 4.1. 234 Must kings neglect that private men enjoy?
H5 4.1. 235 And what have kings that privates have not too,
H5 4.1. 236 Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
H5 4.1. 237 And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
H5 4.1. 238 What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
H5 4.1. 239 Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
H5 4.1. 240 What are thy rents? What are thy comings-in?
H5 4.1. 241 O ceremony, show me but thy worth.
H5 4.1. 242 What is thy soul of adoration?
H5 4.1. 243 Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
H5 4.1. 244 Creating awe and fear in other men?
H5 4.1. 245 Wherein thou art less happy, being feared,
H5 4.1. 246 Than they in fearing.
H5 4.1. 247 What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
H5 4.1. 248 But poisoned flattery? O be sick, great greatness,
H5 4.1. 249 And bid thy ceremony give thee cure.
H5 4.1. 250 Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
H5 4.1. 251 With titles blown from adulation?
H5 4.1. 252 Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
H5 4.1. 253 Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
H5 4.1. 254 Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream
H5 4.1. 255 That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;
H5 4.1. 256 I am a king that find thee, and I know
H5 4.1. 257 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
H5 4.1. 258 The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
H5 4.1. 259 The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
H5 4.1. 260 The farced title running fore the king,
H5 4.1. 261 The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
H5 4.1. 262 That beats upon the high shore of this world -
H5 4.1. 263 No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
H5 4.1. 264 Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
H5 4.1. 265 Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave
H5 4.1. 266 Who with a body filled and vacant mind
H5 4.1. 267 Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread;
H5 4.1. 268 Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,
H5 4.1. 269 But like a lackey from the rise to set
H5 4.1. 270 Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night
H5 4.1. 271 Sleeps in Elysium; next day, after dawn
H5 4.1. 272 Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
H5 4.1. 273 And follows so the ever-running year
H5 4.1. 274 With profitable labour to his grave.
H5 4.1. 275 And but for ceremony such a wretch,
H5 4.1. 276 Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
H5 4.1. 277 Had the forehand and vantage of a king.
H5 4.1. 278 The slave, a member of the country's peace,
H5 4.1. 279 Enjoys it, but in gross brain little wots
H5 4.1. 280 What watch the King keeps to maintain the peace,
H5 4.1. 281 Whose hours the peasant best advantages. {Enter Sir Thomas +
H5 4.1. 281 Erpingham}
H5 4.1. 282
H5-ERPINGHAM
My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
H5 4.1. 283B Seek through your camp to find you.
H5-KING HARRY
Good old knight,
H5 4.1. 284 Collect them all together at my tent.
H5 4.1. 285B I'll be before thee.
H5-ERPINGHAM
I shall do 't, my lord. {Exit}
H5 4.1. 286
H5-KING HARRY
O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts.
H5 4.1. 287 Possess them not with fear. Take from them now
H5 4.1. 288 The sense of reck'ning, ere th' opposed numbers
H5 4.1. 289 Pluck their hearts from them. Not today, O Lord,
H5 4.1. 290 O not today, think not upon the fault
H5 4.1. 291 My father made in compassing the crown.
H5 4.1. 292 I Richard's body have interred new,
H5 4.1. 293 And on it have bestowed more contrite tears
H5 4.1. 294 Than from it issued forced drops of blood.
H5 4.1. 295 Five hundred poor have I in yearly pay
H5 4.1. 296 Who twice a day their withered hands hold up
H5 4.1. 297 Toward heaven to pardon blood. And I have built
H5 4.1. 298 Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests
H5 4.1. 299 Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do,
H5 4.1. 300 Though all that I can do is nothing worth,
H5 4.1. 301 Since that my penitence comes after ill,
H5 4.1. 302 Imploring pardon. {Enter the Duke of Gloucester}
H5 4.1. 303B
H5-GLOUCESTER
My liege.
H5-KING HARRY
My brother +
H5 4.1. 303B Gloucester's voice? Ay.
H5 4.1. 304 I know thy errand, I will go with thee.
H5 4.1. 305 The day, my friends, and all things stay for me. {Exeunt}
H5 4.1. 0 {Enter the Dukes of [Bourbon] and Orle/ans, and Lord +
H5 4.2. 0 Rambures}
H5 4.2. 1
H5-ORLE
ANS The sun doth gild our armour. Up, my lords!
H5 4.2. 2
H5-[BOURBON]
{Monte cheval!} My horse! {Varlet, lacquais!} +
H5 4.2. 2 Ha!
H5 4.2. 3
H5-ORLE
ANS O brave spirit!
H5 4.2. 4
H5-[BOURBON]
{Via les eaux et terre!}
H5 4.2. 5
H5-ORLE
ANS {Rien plus? L'air et feu!}
H5 4.2. 6
H5-[BOURBON]
{Cieux}, cousin Orle/ans! {Enter the Constable}
H5 4.2. 7 Now, my Lord Constable!
H5 4.2. 8
H5-CONSTABLE
Hark how our steeds for present service neigh.
H5 4.2. 9
H5-[BOURBON]
Mount them and make incision in their hides,
H5 4.2. 10 That their hot blood may spin in English eyes
H5 4.2. 11 And dout them with superfluous courage. Ha!
H5 4.2. 12
H5-RAMBURES
What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?
H5 4.2. 13 How shall we then behold their natural tears? {Enter a +
H5 4.2. 13 Messenger}
H5 4.2. 14
H5-MESSENGER
The English are embattled, you French peers.
H5 4.2. 15
H5-CONSTABLE
To horse, you gallant princes, straight to horse!
H5 4.2. 16 Do but behold yon poor and starved band,
H5 4.2. 17 And your fair show shall suck away their souls,
H5 4.2. 18 Leaving them but the shells and husks of men.
H5 4.2. 19 There is not work enough for all our hands,
H5 4.2. 20 Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
H5 4.2. 21 To give each naked curtal-axe a stain
H5 4.2. 22 That our French gallants shall today draw out
H5 4.2. 23 And sheathe for lack of sport. Let us but blow on them,
H5 4.2. 24 The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them.
H5 4.2. 25 'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,
H5 4.2. 26 That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,
H5 4.2. 27 Who in unnecessary action swarm
H5 4.2. 28 About our squares of battle, were enough
H5 4.2. 29 To purge this field of such a hilding foe,
H5 4.2. 30 Though we upon this mountain's basis by
H5 4.2. 31 Took stand for idle speculation,
H5 4.2. 32 But that our honours must not. What's to say?
H5 4.2. 33 A very little little let us do
H5 4.2. 34 And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound
H5 4.2. 35 The tucket sonance and the note to mount,
H5 4.2. 36 For our approach shall so much dare the field
H5 4.2. 37 That England shall couch down in fear and yield. {Enter Lord +
H5 4.2. 37 Grandpre/}
H5 4.2. 38
H5-GRANDPRE
Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
H5 4.2. 39 Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,
H5 4.2. 40 Ill-favouredly become the morning field.
H5 4.2. 41 Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose
H5 4.2. 42 And our air shakes them passing scornfully.
H5 4.2. 43 Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggared host
H5 4.2. 44 And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps.
H5 4.2. 45 The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks
H5 4.2. 46 With torchstaves in their hands, and their poor jades
H5 4.2. 47 Lob down their heads, drooping the hides and hips,
H5 4.2. 48 The gum down-roping from their pale dead eyes,
H5 4.2. 49 And in their palled dull mouths the gimmaled bit
H5 4.2. 50 Lies foul with chewed grass, still and motionless.
H5 4.2. 51 And their executors, the knavish crows,
H5 4.2. 52 Fly o'er them all impatient for their hour.
H5 4.2. 53 Description cannot suit itself in words
H5 4.2. 54 To demonstrate the life of such a battle
H5 4.2. 55 In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
H5 4.2. 56
H5-CONSTABLE
They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.
H5 4.2. 57
H5-[BOURBON]
Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits
H5 4.2. 58 And give their fasting horses provender,
H5 4.2. 59 And after fight with them?
H5 4.2. 60
H5-CONSTABLE
I stay but for my guidon. To the field!
H5 4.2. 61 I will the banner from a trumpet take
H5 4.2. 62 And use it for my haste. Come, come away!
H5 4.2. 63 The sun is high, and we outwear the day. {Exeunt}
H5 4.2. 0 {Enter the Dukes of Gloucester, [Clarence], and Exeter, +
H5 4.3. 0 the Earls of Salisbury and [Warwick], and Sir Thomas Erpingham, with +
H5 4.3. 0 all [the] host}
H5 4.3. 1A
H5-GLOUCESTER
Where is the King?
H5 4.3. 2
H5-[CLARENCE]
The King himself is rode to view their battle.
H5 4.3. 3
H5-[WARWICK]
Of fighting men they have full threescore thousand.
H5 4.3. 4
H5-EXETER
There's five to one. Besides, they all are fresh.
H5 4.3. 5
H5-SALISBURY
God's arm strike with us! 'Tis a fearful odds.
H5 4.3. 6 God b' wi' you, princes all. I'll to my charge.
H5 4.3. 7 If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
H5 4.3. 8 Then joyfully, my noble Lord of Clarence,
H5 4.3. 9 My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,
H5 4.3. 10 And {(to Warwick)} my kind kinsman, warriors all, +
H5 4.3. 10 adieu.
H5 4.3. 11
H5-[CLARENCE]
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee.
H5 4.3. 12
H5-EXETER
Farewell, kind lord. Fight valiantly today -
H5 4.3. 13 And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,
H5 4.3. 14 For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour. {Exit +
H5 4.3. 14 Salisbury}
H5 4.3. 15
H5-[CLARENCE]
He is as full of valour as of kindness,
H5 4.3. 16B Princely in both. {Enter King Harry, behind}
H5-[WARWICK]
+
H5 4.3. 16B O that we now had here
H5 4.3. 17 But one ten thousand of those men in England
H5 4.3. 18B That do no work today.
H5-KING HARRY
What's he that wishes so?
H5 4.3. 19 My cousin Warwick? No, my fair cousin.
H5 4.3. 20 If we are marked to die, we are enough
H5 4.3. 21 To do our country loss; and if to live,
H5 4.3. 22 The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
H5 4.3. 23 God's will, I pray thee wish not one man more.
H5 4.3. 24 By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
H5 4.3. 25 Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
H5 4.3. 26 It ernes me not if men my garments wear;
H5 4.3. 27 Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
H5 4.3. 28 But if it be a sin to covet honour
H5 4.3. 29 I am the most offending soul alive.
H5 4.3. 30 No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
H5 4.3. 31 God's peace, I would not lose so great an honour
H5 4.3. 32 As one man more methinks would share from me
H5 4.3. 33 For the best hope I have. O do not wish one more.
H5 4.3. 34 Rather proclaim it presently through my host
H5 4.3. 35 That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
H5 4.3. 36 Let him depart. His passport shall be made
H5 4.3. 37 And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
H5 4.3. 38 We would not die in that man's company
H5 4.3. 39 That fears his fellowship to die with us.
H5 4.3. 40 This day is called the Feast of Crispian.
H5 4.3. 41 He that outlives this day and comes safe home
H5 4.3. 42 Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named
H5 4.3. 43 And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
H5 4.3. 44 He that shall see this day and live t' old age
H5 4.3. 45 Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours
H5 4.3. 46 And say, `Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.'
H5 4.3. 47 Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars
H5 4.3. 48 And say, `These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
H5 4.3. 49 Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
H5 4.3. 50 But he'll remember, with advantages,
H5 4.3. 51 What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
H5 4.3. 52 Familiar in his mouth as household words -
H5 4.3. 53 Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
H5 4.3. 54 Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester -
H5 4.3. 55 Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
H5 4.3. 56 This story shall the good man teach his son,
H5 4.3. 57 And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by
H5 4.3. 58 From this day to the ending of the world
H5 4.3. 59 But we in it shall be remembered,
H5 4.3. 60 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
H5 4.3. 61 For he today that sheds his blood with me
H5 4.3. 62 Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
H5 4.3. 63 This day shall gentle his condition.
H5 4.3. 64 And gentlemen in England now abed
H5 4.3. 65 Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
H5 4.3. 66 And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
H5 4.3. 67 That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. {Enter the Earl of +
H5 4.3. 67 Salisbury}
H5 4.3. 68
H5-SALISBURY
My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed.
H5 4.3. 69 The French are bravely in their battles set
H5 4.3. 70 And will with all expedience charge on us.
H5 4.3. 71
H5-KING HARRY
All things are ready if our minds be so.
H5 4.3. 72
H5-[WARWICK]
Perish the man whose mind is backward now.
H5 4.3. 73
H5-KING HARRY
Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?
H5 4.3. 74
H5-[WARWICK]
God's will, my liege, would you and I alone,
H5 4.3. 75 Without more help, could fight this royal battle.
H5 4.3. 76
H5-KING HARRY
Why now thou hast unwished five thousand men,
H5 4.3. 77 Which likes me better than to wish us one. -
H5 4.3. 78 You know your places. God be with you all. {Tucket. Enter +
H5 4.3. 78 Montjoy}
H5 4.3. 79
H5-MONTJOY
Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
H5 4.3. 80 If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound
H5 4.3. 81 Before thy most assured overthrow.
H5 4.3. 82 For certainly thou art so near the gulf
H5 4.3. 83 Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy
H5 4.3. 84 The Constable desires thee thou wilt mind
H5 4.3. 85 Thy followers of repentance, that their souls
H5 4.3. 86 May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
H5 4.3. 87 From off these fields where, wretches, their poor bodies
H5 4.3. 88 Must lie and fester.
H5 4.3. 89A
H5-KING HARRY
Who hath sent thee now?
H5 4.3. 90A
H5-MONTJOY
The Constable of France.
H5 4.3. 91
H5-KING HARRY
I pray thee bear my former answer back.
H5 4.3. 92 Bid them achieve me, and then sell my bones.
H5 4.3. 93 Good God, why should they mock poor fellows thus?
H5 4.3. 94 The man that once did sell the lion's skin
H5 4.3. 95 While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
H5 4.3. 96 A many of our bodies shall no doubt
H5 4.3. 97 Find native graves, upon the which, I trust,
H5 4.3. 98 Shall witness live in brass of this day's work.
H5 4.3. 99 And those that leave their valiant bones in France,
H5 4.3. 100 Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills
H5 4.3. 101 They shall be famed. For there the sun shall greet them
H5 4.3. 102 And draw their honours reeking up to heaven,
H5 4.3. 103 Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
H5 4.3. 104 The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
H5 4.3. 105 Mark then abounding valour in our English,
H5 4.3. 106 That, being dead, like to the bullets grazing
H5 4.3. 107 Break out into a second course of mischief,
H5 4.3. 108 Killing in relapse of mortality.
H5 4.3. 109 Let me speak proudly. Tell the Constable
H5 4.3. 110 We are but warriors for the working day.
H5 4.3. 111 Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched
H5 4.3. 112 With rainy marching in the painful field.
H5 4.3. 113 There's not a piece of feather in our host -
H5 4.3. 114 Good argument, I hope, we will not fly -
H5 4.3. 115 And time hath worn us into slovenry.
H5 4.3. 116 But by the mass, our hearts are in the trim.
H5 4.3. 117 And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
H5 4.3. 118 They'll be in fresher robes, as they will pluck
H5 4.3. 119 The gay new coats o'er your French soldiers' heads,
H5 4.3. 120 And turn them out of service. If they do this -
H5 4.3. 121 As if God please, they shall - my ransom then
H5 4.3. 122 Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour.
H5 4.3. 123 Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald.
H5 4.3. 124 They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints -
H5 4.3. 125 Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
H5 4.3. 126 Shall yield them little. Tell the Constable.
H5 4.3. 127
H5-MONTJOY
I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well.
H5 4.3. 128 Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
H5 4.3. 129
H5-KING HARRY
I fear thou wilt once more come for a ransom. +
H5 4.3. 129 {Exit Montjoy}
H5 4.3. 130 {Enter the Duke of York}
H5-YORK
My lord, most humbly +
H5 4.3. 130 on my knee I beg
H5 4.3. 131 The leading of the vanguard.
H5 4.3. 132
H5-KING HARRY
Take it, brave York. - Now soldiers, march away,
H5 4.3. 133 And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day. {Exeunt}
H5 4.3. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter Pistol, a French soldier, and +
H5 4.4. 0 the Boy}
H5 4.4. 1A
H5-PISTOL
Yield, cur.
H5 4.4. 2
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{Je pense que vous e^tes le gentilhomme de
H5 4.4. 3 bon qualite/}.
H5 4.4. 4
H5-PISTOL
{Qualite/}? `{Calin o custure me!}'
H5 4.4. 5 Art thou a gentleman? What is thy name? Discuss.
H5 4.4. 6
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{O Seigneur Dieu!}
H5 4.4. 7
H5-PISTOL
{[aside]} O Seigneur Dew should be a +
H5 4.4. 7 gentleman. -
H5 4.4. 8 Perpend my words, O Seigneur Dew, and mark:
H5 4.4. 9 O Seigneur Dew, thou diest, on point of fox,
H5 4.4. 10 Except, O Seigneur, thou do give to me
H5 4.4. 11 Egregious ransom.
H5 4.4. 12
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{O prenez mise/ricorde! Ayez pitie/ de +
H5 4.4. 12 moi!}
H5 4.4. 13
H5-PISTOL
`Moy' shall not serve, I will have forty `moys',
H5 4.4. 14 Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
H5 4.4. 15 In drops of crimson blood.
H5 4.4. 16
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{Est-il impossible d'e/chapper la force de +
H5 4.4. 16 ton
H5 4.4. 17 bras}?
H5 4.4. 18
H5-PISTOL
Brass, cur? Thou damned and luxurious mountain +
H5 4.4. 18 goat,
H5 4.4. 19 Offer'st me brass?
H5 4.4. 20
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{O pardonne-moi!}
H5 4.4. 21
H5-PISTOL
Sayst thou me so? Is that a ton of moys? -
H5 4.4. 22 Come hither boy. Ask me this slave in French
H5 4.4. 23 What is his name.
H5 4.4. 24
H5-BOY
{E/coutez: comment e^tes-vous appele/}?
H5 4.4. 25
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{Monsieur le Fer}.
H5 4.4. 26
H5-BOY
He says his name is Master Fer.
H5 4.4. 27
H5-PISTOL
Master Fer? I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret
H5 4.4. 28 him.
H5 4.4. 29 Discuss the same in French unto him.
H5 4.4. 30
H5-BOY
I do not know the French for fer and ferret and firk.
H5 4.4. 31
H5-PISTOL
Bid him prepare, for I will cut his throat.
H5 4.4. 32
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{Que dit-il, monsieur}?
H5 4.4. 33
H5-BOY
{Il me commande a vous dire que vous faites vous pre^t,
H5 4.4. 34 car ce soldat ici est dispose/ tout a cette heure de couper
H5 4.4. 35 votre gorge}.
H5 4.4. 36
H5-PISTOL
{Oui, couper la gorge, par ma foi},
H5 4.4. 37 Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
H5 4.4. 38 Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.
H5 4.4. 39
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{O je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, +
H5 4.4. 39 me
H5 4.4. 40 pardonner. Je suis le gentilhomme de bonne maison. Gardez
H5 4.4. 41 ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents e/cus}.
H5 4.4. 42A
H5-PISTOL
What are his words?
H5 4.4. 43
H5-BOY
He prays you to save his life. He is a gentleman of a
H5 4.4. 44 good house, and for his ransom he will give you two
H5 4.4. 45 hundred crowns.
H5 4.4. 46
H5-PISTOL
Tell him, my fury shall abate, and I the crowns +
H5 4.4. 46 will take.
H5 4.4. 47
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{Petit monsieur, que dit-il}?
H5 4.4. 48
H5-BOY
{Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner aucun
H5 4.4. 49 prisonnier; ne/anmoins, pour les e/cus que vous lui ci
H5 4.4. 50 promettez, il est content a vous donner la liberte/, le
H5 4.4. 51 franchisement}.
H5 4.4. 52
H5-FRENCH SOLDIER
{(kneeling to Pistol)} {Sur mes +
H5 4.4. 52 genoux je vous
H5 4.4. 53 donne mille remerciements, et je m'estime heureux que j'ai
H5 4.4. 54 tombe/ entre les mains d'un chevalier, comme je pense, le
H5 4.4. 55 plus brave, vaillant, et treis-distingue/ seigneur d'Angleterre}.
H5 4.4. 56A
H5-PISTOL
Expound unto me, boy.
H5 4.4. 57
H5-BOY
He gives you upon his knees a thousand thanks, and
H5 4.4. 58 he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the
H5 4.4. 59 hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave, valorous,
H5 4.4. 60 and thrice-worthy seigneur of England.
H5 4.4. 61
H5-PISTOL
As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
H5 4.4. 62 Follow me.
H5 4.4. 63
H5-BOY
{Suivez-vous le grand capitaine}. {Exeunt +
H5 4.4. 63 Pistol and French Soldier}
H5 4.4. 64 I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a
H5 4.4. 65 heart. But the saying is true: `The empty vessel makes
H5 4.4. 66 the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nim had ten times
H5 4.4. 67 more valour than this roaring devil i' th' old play, that
H5 4.4. 68 everyone may pare his nails with a wooden dagger,
H5 4.4. 69 and they are both hanged, and so would this be, if he
H5 4.4. 70 durst steal anything adventurously. I must stay with
H5 4.4. 71 the lackeys with the luggage of our camp. The French
H5 4.4. 72 might have a good prey of us, if he knew of it, for there
H5 4.4. 73 is none to guard it but boys. {Exit}
H5 4.4. 0 {Enter the Constable, the Dukes of Orle/ans and +
H5 4.5. 0 [Bourbon], and Lord Rambures}
H5 4.5. 1
H5-CONSTABLE
{O diable!}
H5 4.5. 2
H5-ORLE
ANS {O Seigneur! Le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!}
H5 4.5. 3
H5-[BOURBON]
{Mort de ma vie!} All is confounded, all.
H5 4.5. 4 Reproach and everlasting shame
H5 4.5. 5 Sits mocking in our plumes. {A short alarum}
H5 4.5. 6 {O me/chante fortune!} - {(To Rambures)} Do +
H5 4.5. 6 not run away.
H5 4.5. 7
H5-[ORLE
ANS] We are enough yet living in the field
H5 4.5. 8 To smother up the English in our throngs,
H5 4.5. 9 If any order might be thought upon.
H5 4.5. 10
H5-BOURBON
The devil take order. Once more back again!
H5 4.5. 11 And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
H5 4.5. 12 Let him go home, and with his cap in hand
H5 4.5. 13 Like a base leno hold the chamber door
H5 4.5. 14 Whilst by a slave no gentler than my dog
H5 4.5. 15 His fairest daughter is contaminated.
H5 4.5. 16
H5-CONSTABLE
Disorder that hath spoiled us friend us now.
H5 4.5. 17 Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
H5 4.5. 18A
H5-BOURBON
I'll to the throng.
H5 4.5. 19 Let life be short, else shame will be too long. {Exeunt}
H5 4.5. 0 {Alarum. Enter King Harry and his train, with prisoners}
H5 4.6. 1
H5-KING HARRY
Well have we done, thrice-valiant countrymen.
H5 4.6. 2 But all's not done; yet keep the French the field. {[Enter the +
H5 4.6. 2 Duke of Exeter]}
H5 4.6. 3
H5-EXETER
The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.
H5 4.6. 4
H5-KING HARRY
Lives he, good uncle? Thrice within this hour
H5 4.6. 5 I saw him down, thrice up again and fighting.
H5 4.6. 6 From helmet to the spur, all blood he was.
H5 4.6. 7
H5-EXETER
In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,
H5 4.6. 8 Larding the plain. And by his bloody side,
H5 4.6. 9 Yokefellow to his honour-owing wounds,
H5 4.6. 10 The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.
H5 4.6. 11 Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled over,
H5 4.6. 12 Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped,
H5 4.6. 13 And takes him by the beard, kisses the gashes
H5 4.6. 14 That bloodily did yawn upon his face,
H5 4.6. 15 And cries aloud, `Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk.
H5 4.6. 16 My soul shall thine keep company to heaven.
H5 4.6. 17 Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
H5 4.6. 18 As in this glorious and well-foughten field
H5 4.6. 19 We kept together in our chivalry.'
H5 4.6. 20 Upon these words I came and cheered him up.
H5 4.6. 21 He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,
H5 4.6. 22 And with a feeble grip says, `Dear my lord,
H5 4.6. 23 Commend my service to my sovereign.'
H5 4.6. 24 So did he turn, and over Suffolk's neck
H5 4.6. 25 He threw his wounded arm, and kissed his lips,
H5 4.6. 26 And so espoused to death, with blood he sealed
H5 4.6. 27 A testament of noble-ending love.
H5 4.6. 28 The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
H5 4.6. 29 Those waters from me which I would have stopped.
H5 4.6. 30 But I had not so much of man in me,
H5 4.6. 31 And all my mother came into mine eyes
H5 4.6. 32B And gave me up to tears.
H5-KING HARRY
I blame you not,
H5 4.6. 33 For hearing this I must perforce compound
H5 4.6. 34 With mistful eyes, or they will issue too. {Alarum}
H5 4.6. 35 But hark, what new alarum is this same?
H5 4.6. 36 The French have reinforced their scattered men.
H5 4.6. 37 Then every soldier kill his prisoners. {[The soldiers kill their +
H5 4.6. 37 prisoners]}
H5 4.6. 38 Give the word through.
H5 4.6. 39A
H5-[PISTOL]
{Coup' la gorge}. {Exeunt}
H5 4.6. 0 {Enter Captains Fluellen and Gower}
H5 4.7. 1
H5-FLUELLEN
Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly
H5 4.7. 2 against the law of arms. 'Tis as arrant a piece of
H5 4.7. 3 knavery, mark you now, as can be offert. In your
H5 4.7. 4 conscience now, is it not?
H5 4.7. 5
H5-GOWER
'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive. And the
H5 4.7. 6 cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this
H5 4.7. 7 slaughter. Besides, they have burned and carried away
H5 4.7. 8 all that was in the King's tent; wherefore the King
H5 4.7. 9 most worthily hath caused every soldier to cut his
H5 4.7. 10 prisoner's throat. O 'tis a gallant king.
H5 4.7. 11
H5-FLUELLEN
Ay, he was porn at Monmouth. Captain Gower,
H5 4.7. 12 what call you the town's name where Alexander the
H5 4.7. 13 Pig was born?
H5 4.7. 14
H5-GOWER
Alexander the Great.
H5 4.7. 15
H5-FLUELLEN
Why I pray you, is not `pig' great? The pig or
H5 4.7. 16 the great or the mighty or the huge or the
H5 4.7. 17 magnanimous are all one reckonings, save the phrase
H5 4.7. 18 is a little variations.
H5 4.7. 19
H5-GOWER
I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon.
H5 4.7. 20 His father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.
H5 4.7. 21
H5-FLUELLEN
I think it is e'en Macedon where Alexander is
H5 4.7. 22 porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the
H5 4.7. 23 world I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons
H5 4.7. 24 between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,
H5 4.7. 25 look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon,
H5 4.7. 26 and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth. It is
H5 4.7. 27 called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains
H5 4.7. 28 what is the name of the other river - but 'tis all one,
H5 4.7. 29 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is
H5 4.7. 30 salmons in both. If you mark Alexander's life well,
H5 4.7. 31 Harry of Monmouth's life is come after it indifferent
H5 4.7. 32 well. For there is figures in all things. Alexander, God
H5 4.7. 33 knows, and you know, in his rages and his furies and
H5 4.7. 34 his wraths and his cholers and his moods and his
H5 4.7. 35 displeasures and his indignations, and also being a little
H5 4.7. 36 intoxicates in his prains, did in his ales and his angers,
H5 4.7. 37 look you, kill his best friend Cleitus -
H5 4.7. 38
H5-GOWER
Our King is not like him in that. He never killed
H5 4.7. 39 any of his friends.
H5 4.7. 40
H5-FLUELLEN
It is not well done, mark you now, to take the
H5 4.7. 41 tales out of my mouth ere it is made an end and
H5 4.7. 42 finished. I speak but in the figures and comparisons of
H5 4.7. 43 it. As Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his
H5 4.7. 44 ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in
H5 4.7. 45 his right wits and his good judgements, turned away
H5 4.7. 46 the fat knight with the great-belly doublet - he was full
H5 4.7. 47 of jests and gipes and knaveries and mocks - I have
H5 4.7. 48 forgot his name.
H5 4.7. 49
H5-GOWER
Sir John Falstaff.
H5 4.7. 50
H5-FLUELLEN
That is he. I'll tell you, there is good men porn
H5 4.7. 51 at Monmouth.
H5 4.7. 52
H5-GOWER
Here comes his majesty. {Alarum. Enter King Harry [and +
H5 4.7. 52 the English army], with the Duke of Bourbon, [the Duke of Orle/ans,] +
H5 4.7. 52 and other prisoners. Flourish}
H5 4.7. 53
H5-KING HARRY
I was not angry since I came to France
H5 4.7. 54 Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
H5 4.7. 55 Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill.
H5 4.7. 56 If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
H5 4.7. 57 Or void the field: they do offend our sight.
H5 4.7. 58 If they'll do neither, we will come to them,
H5 4.7. 59 And make them skirr away as swift as stones
H5 4.7. 60 Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
H5 4.7. 61 Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,
H5 4.7. 62 And not a man of them that we shall take
H5 4.7. 63 Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so. {Enter Montjoy}
H5 4.7. 64
H5-EXETER
Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.
H5 4.7. 65
H5-GLOUCESTER
His eyes are humbler than they used to be.
H5 4.7. 66
H5-KING HARRY
How now, what means this, herald? Know'st thou not
H5 4.7. 67 That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
H5 4.7. 68B Com'st thou again for ransom?
H5-MONTJOY
No, great King.
H5 4.7. 69 I come to thee for charitable licence,
H5 4.7. 70 That we may wander o'er this bloody field
H5 4.7. 71 To book our dead and then to bury them,
H5 4.7. 72 To sort our nobles from our common men -
H5 4.7. 73 For many of our princes, woe the while,
H5 4.7. 74 Lie drowned and soaked in mercenary blood.
H5 4.7. 75 So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
H5 4.7. 76 In blood of princes, and our wounded steeds
H5 4.7. 77 Fret fetlock-deep in gore, and with wild rage
H5 4.7. 78 Jerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
H5 4.7. 79 Killing them twice. O give us leave, great King,
H5 4.7. 80 To view the field in safety, and dispose
H5 4.7. 81B Of their dead bodies.
H5-KING HARRY
I tell thee truly, herald,
H5 4.7. 82 I know not if the day be ours or no,
H5 4.7. 83 For yet a many of your horsemen peer
H5 4.7. 84B And gallop o'er the field.
H5-MONTJOY
The day is yours.
H5 4.7. 85
H5-KING HARRY
Praised be God, and not our strength, for it.
H5 4.7. 86 What is this castle called that stands hard by?
H5 4.7. 87A
H5-MONTJOY
They call it Agincourt.
H5 4.7. 88
H5-KING HARRY
Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
H5 4.7. 89 Fought on the day of Crispin Crispian.
H5 4.7. 90
H5-FLUELLEN
Your grandfather of famous memory, an 't
H5 4.7. 91 please your majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the
H5 4.7. 92 Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,
H5 4.7. 93 fought a most prave pattle here in France.
H5 4.7. 94A
H5-KING HARRY
They did, Fluellen.
H5 4.7. 95
H5-FLUELLEN
Your majesty says very true. If your majesties
H5 4.7. 96 is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in
H5 4.7. 97 a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their
H5 4.7. 98 Monmouth caps, which your majesty know to this
H5 4.7. 99 hour is an honourable badge of the service. And I do
H5 4.7. 100 believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek
H5 4.7. 101 upon Saint Tavy's day.
H5 4.7. 102
H5-KING HARRY
I wear it for a memorable honour,
H5 4.7. 103 For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
H5 4.7. 104
H5-FLUELLEN
All the water in Wye cannot wash your
H5 4.7. 105 majesty's Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you
H5 4.7. 106 that. God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases
H5 4.7. 107 his grace, and his majesty too.
H5 4.7. 108A
H5-KING HARRY
Thanks, good my countryman.
H5 4.7. 109
H5-FLUELLEN
By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman. I
H5 4.7. 110 care not who know it, I will confess it to all the world.
H5 4.7. 111 I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be
H5 4.7. 112 God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.
H5 4.7. 113B
H5-KING HARRY
God keep me so. {Enter Williams with a +
H5 4.7. 113B glove in his cap} Our heralds go with him.
H5 4.7. 114 Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
H5 4.7. 115B On both our parts. {Exeunt Montjoy, [Gower,] and an English +
H5 4.7. 115B herald} Call yonder fellow hither.
H5 4.7. 116
H5-EXETER
{(to Williams)} Soldier, you must come to +
H5 4.7. 116 the King.
H5 4.7. 117
H5-KING HARRY
Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy
H5 4.7. 118 cap?
H5 4.7. 119
H5-WILLIAMS
An 't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one
H5 4.7. 120 that I should fight withal, if he be alive.
H5 4.7. 121
H5-KING HARRY
An Englishman?
H5 4.7. 122
H5-WILLIAMS
An 't please your majesty, a rascal, that
H5 4.7. 123 swaggered with me last night - who, if a live, and ever
H5 4.7. 124 dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him
H5 4.7. 125 a box o' th' ear; or if I can see my glove in his cap -
H5 4.7. 126 which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear
H5 4.7. 127 if a lived - I will strike it out soundly.
H5 4.7. 128
H5-KING HARRY
What think you, Captain Fluellen? Is it fit
H5 4.7. 129 this soldier keep his oath?
H5 4.7. 130
H5-FLUELLEN
He is a craven and a villain else, an 't please
H5 4.7. 131 your majesty, in my conscience.
H5 4.7. 132
H5-KING HARRY
It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great
H5 4.7. 133 sort, quite from the answer of his degree.
H5 4.7. 134
H5-FLUELLEN
Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil
H5 4.7. 135 is, as Lucifer and Beelzebub himself, it is necessary,
H5 4.7. 136 look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath. If
H5 4.7. 137 he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant
H5 4.7. 138 a villain and a Jack-sauce as ever his black shoe trod
H5 4.7. 139 upon God's ground and his earth, in my conscience,
H5 4.7. 140 law.
H5 4.7. 141
H5-KING HARRY
Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou
H5 4.7. 142 meetest the fellow.
H5 4.7. 143
H5-WILLIAMS
So I will, my liege, as I live.
H5 4.7. 144
H5-KING HARRY
Who serv'st thou under?
H5 4.7. 145
H5-WILLIAMS
Under Captain Gower, my liege.
H5 4.7. 146
H5-FLUELLEN
Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge
H5 4.7. 147 and literatured in the wars.
H5 4.7. 148
H5-KING HARRY
Call him hither to me, soldier.
H5 4.7. 149
H5-WILLIAMS
I will, my liege. {Exit}
H5 4.7. 150
H5-KING HARRY
{(giving him Williams's other glove)} +
H5 4.7. 150 Here,
H5 4.7. 151 Fluellen, wear thou this favour for me and stick it in
H5 4.7. 152 thy cap. When Alenc@on and myself were down together,
H5 4.7. 153 I plucked this glove from his helm. If any man challenge
H5 4.7. 154 this, he is a friend to Alenc@on and an enemy to our
H5 4.7. 155 person. If thou encounter any such, apprehend him,
H5 4.7. 156 an thou dost me love.
H5 4.7. 157
H5-FLUELLEN
Your grace does me as great honours as can
H5 4.7. 158 be desired in the hearts of his subjects. I would fain see
H5 4.7. 159 the man that has but two legs that shall find himself
H5 4.7. 160 aggriefed at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see
H5 4.7. 161 it once. An 't please God of his grace, that I would see.
H5 4.7. 162
H5-KING HARRY
Know'st thou Gower?
H5 4.7. 163
H5-FLUELLEN
He is my dear friend, an 't please you.
H5 4.7. 164
H5-KING HARRY
Pray thee, go seek him and bring him to my
H5 4.7. 165 tent.
H5 4.7. 166
H5-FLUELLEN
I will fetch him. {Exit}
H5 4.7. 167
H5-KING HARRY
My lord of Warwick and my brother Gloucester,
H5 4.7. 168 Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.
H5 4.7. 169 The glove which I have given him for a favour
H5 4.7. 170 May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear.
H5 4.7. 171 It is the soldier's. I by bargain should
H5 4.7. 172 Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick.
H5 4.7. 173 If that the soldier strike him, as I judge
H5 4.7. 174 By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,
H5 4.7. 175 Some sudden mischief may arise of it,
H5 4.7. 176 For I do know Fluellen valiant
H5 4.7. 177 And touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,
H5 4.7. 178 And quickly will return an injury.
H5 4.7. 179 Follow, and see there be no harm between them.
H5 4.7. 180 Go you with me, uncle of Exeter. {Exeunt severally}
H5 4.7. 0 {Enter Captain Gower and Williams}
H5 4.8. 1
H5-WILLIAMS
I warrant it is to knight you, captain. +
H5 4.8. 1 {Enter Captain Fluellen}
H5 4.8. 2
H5-FLUELLEN
God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech
H5 4.8. 3 you now, come apace to the King. There is more good
H5 4.8. 4 toward you, peradventure, than is in your knowledge
H5 4.8. 5 to dream of.
H5 4.8. 6
H5-WILLIAMS
Sir, know you this glove?
H5 4.8. 7
H5-FLUELLEN
Know the glove? I know the glove is a glove.
H5 4.8. 8
H5-WILLIAMS
{[plucking the glove from Fluellen's cap]}+
H5 4.8. 8 I know
H5 4.8. 9 this, and thus I challenge it. {He strikes Fluellen}
H5 4.8. 10
H5-FLUELLEN
God's plood, and his! An arrant traitor as any's
H5 4.8. 11 in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
H5 4.8. 12
H5-GOWER
{(to Williams)} How now, sir? You villain!
H5 4.8. 13
H5-WILLIAMS
Do you think I'll be forsworn?
H5 4.8. 14
H5-FLUELLEN
Stand away, Captain Gower. I will give treason
H5 4.8. 15 his payment into plows, I warrant you.
H5 4.8. 16
H5-WILLIAMS
I am no traitor.
H5 4.8. 17
H5-FLUELLEN
That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his
H5 4.8. 18 majesty's name, apprehend him. He's a friend of the
H5 4.8. 19 Duke Alenc@on's. {Enter the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of +
H5 4.8. 19 Gloucester}
H5 4.8. 20
H5-WARWICK
How now, how now, what's the matter?
H5 4.8. 21
H5-FLUELLEN
My lord of Warwick, here is - praised be God
H5 4.8. 22 for it - a most contagious treason come to light, look
H5 4.8. 23 you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. {Enter King Harry +
H5 4.8. 23 and the Duke of Exeter}
H5 4.8. 24 Here is his majesty.
H5 4.8. 25
H5-KING HARRY
How now, what is the matter?
H5 4.8. 26
H5-FLUELLEN
My liege, here is a villain and a traitor that,
H5 4.8. 27 look your grace, has struck the glove which your
H5 4.8. 28 majesty is take out of the helmet of Alenc@on.
H5 4.8. 29
H5-WILLIAMS
My liege, this was my glove - here is the fellow
H5 4.8. 30 of it - and he that I gave it to in change promised to
H5 4.8. 31 wear it in his cap. I promised to strike him, if he did. I
H5 4.8. 32 met this man with my glove in his cap, and I have
H5 4.8. 33 been as good as my word.
H5 4.8. 34
H5-FLUELLEN
Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's
H5 4.8. 35 manhood, what an arrant rascally beggarly lousy knave
H5 4.8. 36 it is. I hope your majesty is pear me testimony and
H5 4.8. 37 witness, and will avouchment that this is the glove of
H5 4.8. 38 Alenc@on that your majesty is give me, in your
H5 4.8. 39 conscience now.
H5 4.8. 40
H5-KING HARRY
Give me thy glove, soldier. Look, here is the
H5 4.8. 41 fellow of it.
H5 4.8. 42 'Twas I indeed thou promised'st to strike,
H5 4.8. 43 And thou hast given me most bitter terms.
H5 4.8. 44
H5-FLUELLEN
An 't please your majesty, let his neck answer
H5 4.8. 45 for it, if there is any martial law in the world.
H5 4.8. 46
H5-KING HARRY
How canst thou make me satisfaction?
H5 4.8. 47
H5-WILLIAMS
All offences, my lord, come from the heart.
H5 4.8. 48 Never came any from mine that might offend your
H5 4.8. 49 majesty.
H5 4.8. 50
H5-KING HARRY
It was ourself thou didst abuse.
H5 4.8. 51
H5-WILLIAMS
Your majesty came not like yourself. You
H5 4.8. 52 appeared to me but as a common man. Witness the
H5 4.8. 53 night, your garments, your lowliness. And what your
H5 4.8. 54 highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you take
H5 4.8. 55 it for your own fault, and not mine, for had you been
H5 4.8. 56 as I took you for, I made no offence. Therefore I beseech
H5 4.8. 57 your highness pardon me.
H5 4.8. 58
H5-KING HARRY
Here, Uncle Exeter, fill this glove with +
H5 4.8. 58 crowns
H5 4.8. 59 And give it to this fellow. - Keep it, fellow,
H5 4.8. 60 And wear it for an honour in thy cap
H5 4.8. 61 Till I do challenge it. - Give him the crowns.
H5 4.8. 62 - And captain, you must needs be friends with him.
H5 4.8. 63
H5-FLUELLEN
By this day and this light, the fellow has +
H5 4.8. 63 mettle
H5 4.8. 64 enough in his belly. - Hold, there is twelve pence for
H5 4.8. 65 you, and I pray you to serve God, and keep you out of
H5 4.8. 66 prawls and prabbles and quarrels and dissensions, and
H5 4.8. 67 I warrant you it is the better for you.
H5 4.8. 68
H5-WILLIAMS
I will none of your money.
H5 4.8. 69
H5-FLUELLEN
It is with a good will. I can tell you, it will
H5 4.8. 70 serve you to mend your shoes. Come, wherefore should
H5 4.8. 71 you be so pashful? Your shoes is not so good. 'Tis a
H5 4.8. 72 good shilling, I warrant you, or I will change it. {Enter [an +
H5 4.8. 72 English] Herald}
H5 4.8. 73
H5-KING HARRY
Now, herald, are the dead numbered?
H5 4.8. 74
H5-HERALD
Here is the number of the slaughtered French.
H5 4.8. 75
H5-KING HARRY
What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
H5 4.8. 76
H5-EXETER
Charles, Duke of Orle/ans, nephew to the King;
H5 4.8. 77 Jean, Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Boucicault;
H5 4.8. 78 Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
H5 4.8. 79 Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
H5 4.8. 80
H5-KING HARRY
This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
H5 4.8. 81 That in the field lie slain. Of princes in this number
H5 4.8. 82 And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
H5 4.8. 83 One hundred twenty-six; added to these,
H5 4.8. 84 Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
H5 4.8. 85 Eight thousand and four hundred, of the which
H5 4.8. 86 Five hundred were but yesterday dubbed knights.
H5 4.8. 87 So that in these ten thousand they have lost
H5 4.8. 88 There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;
H5 4.8. 89 The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,
H5 4.8. 90 And gentlemen of blood and quality.
H5 4.8. 91 The names of those their nobles that lie dead:
H5 4.8. 92 Charles Delabret, High Constable of France;
H5 4.8. 93 Jaques of Cha^tillon, Admiral of France;
H5 4.8. 94 The Master of the Crossbows, Lord Rambures;
H5 4.8. 95 Great-Master of France, the brave Sir Guiscard Dauphin;
H5 4.8. 96 Jean, Duke of Alenc@on; Antony, Duke of Brabant,
H5 4.8. 97 The brother to the Duke of Burgundy;
H5 4.8. 98 And E/douard, Duke of Bar; of lusty earls,
H5 4.8. 99 Grandpre/ and Roussi, Fauconbridge and Foix,
H5 4.8. 100 Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrelles.
H5 4.8. 101 Here was a royal fellowship of death.
H5 4.8. 102 Where is the number of our English dead? {He is given another +
H5 4.8. 102 paper}
H5 4.8. 103 Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
H5 4.8. 104 Sir Richard Keighley, Davy Gam Esquire;
H5 4.8. 105 None else of name, and of all other men
H5 4.8. 106 But five-and-twenty. O God, thy arm was here,
H5 4.8. 107 And not to us, but to thy arm alone
H5 4.8. 108 Ascribe we all. When, without stratagem,
H5 4.8. 109 But in plain shock and even play of battle,
H5 4.8. 110 Was ever known so great and little loss
H5 4.8. 111 On one part and on th' other? Take it God,
H5 4.8. 112B For it is none but thine.
H5-EXETER
'Tis wonderful.
H5 4.8. 113
H5-KING HARRY
Come, go we in procession to the village,
H5 4.8. 114 And be it death proclaimed through our host
H5 4.8. 115 To boast of this, or take that praise from God
H5 4.8. 116 Which is his only.
H5 4.8. 117
H5-FLUELLEN
Is it not lawful, an 't please your majesty, to +
H5 4.8. 117 tell
H5 4.8. 118 how many is killed?
H5 4.8. 119
H5-KING HARRY
Yes, captain, but with this acknowledgement,
H5 4.8. 120 That God fought for us.
H5 4.8. 121
H5-FLUELLEN
Yes, in my conscience, he did us great good.
H5 4.8. 122A
H5-KING HARRY
Do we all holy rites:
H5 4.8. 123 Let there be sung {Non nobis} and {Te Deum},
H5 4.8. 124 The dead with charity enclosed in clay;
H5 4.8. 125 And then to Calais, and to England then,
H5 4.8. 126 Where ne'er from France arrived more-happy men. {Exeunt}
H5 4.8. 0 {Enter Chorus}
H5 5.0. 1
H5-CHORUS
Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story
H5 5.0. 2 That I may prompt them - and of such as have,
H5 5.0. 3 I humbly pray them to admit th' excuse
H5 5.0. 4 Of time, of numbers, and due course of things,
H5 5.0. 5 Which cannot in their huge and proper life
H5 5.0. 6 Be here presented. Now we bear the King
H5 5.0. 7 Toward Calais. Grant him there; there seen,
H5 5.0. 8 Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
H5 5.0. 9 Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
H5 5.0. 10 Pales-in the flood, with men, maids, wives, and boys,
H5 5.0. 11 Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouthed sea,
H5 5.0. 12 Which like a mighty whiffler fore the King
H5 5.0. 13 Seems to prepare his way. So let him land,
H5 5.0. 14 And solemnly see him set on to London.
H5 5.0. 15 So swift a pace hath thought, that even now
H5 5.0. 16 You may imagine him upon Blackheath,
H5 5.0. 17 Where that his lords desire him to have borne
H5 5.0. 18 His bruised helmet and his bended sword
H5 5.0. 19 Before him through the city; he forbids it,
H5 5.0. 20 Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride,
H5 5.0. 21 Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent
H5 5.0. 22 Quite from himself, to God. But now behold,
H5 5.0. 23 In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
H5 5.0. 24 How London doth pour out her citizens.
H5 5.0. 25 The Mayor and all his brethren, in best sort,
H5 5.0. 26 Like to the senators of th' antique Rome
H5 5.0. 27 With the plebeians swarming at their heels,
H5 5.0. 28 Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Caesar in -
H5 5.0. 29 As, by a lower but high-loving likelihood,
H5 5.0. 30 Were now the General of our gracious Empress -
H5 5.0. 31 As in good time he may - from Ireland coming,
H5 5.0. 32 Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
H5 5.0. 33 How many would the peaceful city quit
H5 5.0. 34 To welcome him! Much more, and much more cause,
H5 5.0. 35 Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;
H5 5.0. 36 As yet the lamentation of the French
H5 5.0. 37 Invites the King of England's stay at home.
H5 5.0. 38 The Emperor's coming in behalf of France,
H5 5.0. 39 To order peace between them [
H5 5.0. 40 ] and omit
H5 5.0. 41 All the occurrences, whatever chanced,
H5 5.0. 42 Till Harry's back-return again to France.
H5 5.0. 43 There must we bring him, and myself have played
H5 5.0. 44 The interim by rememb'ring you 'tis past.
H5 5.0. 45 Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance,
H5 5.0. 46 After your thoughts, straight back again to France. {Exit}
H5 5.0. 0 {Enter Captain Gower and Captain Fluellen, with a leek in +
H5 5.1. 0 his cap and a cudgel}
H5 5.1. 1
H5-GOWER
Nay, that's right. But why wear you your leek
H5 5.1. 2 today? Saint Davy's day is past.
H5 5.1. 3
H5-FLUELLEN
There is occasions and causes why and
H5 5.1. 4 wherefore in all things. I will tell you, ass my friend,
H5 5.1. 5 Captain Gower. The rascally scald beggarly lousy
H5 5.1. 6 pragging knave Pistol - which you and yourself and all
H5 5.1. 7 the world know to be no petter than a fellow, look you
H5 5.1. 8 now, of no merits - he is come to me, and prings me
H5 5.1. 9 pread and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me eat my
H5 5.1. 10 leek. It was in a place where I could not breed no
H5 5.1. 11 contention with him, but I will be so bold as to wear
H5 5.1. 12 it in my cap till I see him once again, and then I will
H5 5.1. 13 tell him a little piece of my desires. {Enter Ensign Pistol}
H5 5.1. 14
H5-GOWER
Why, here a comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
H5 5.1. 15
H5-FLUELLEN
'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-
H5 5.1. 16 cocks. - God pless you Ensign Pistol, you scurvy lousy
H5 5.1. 17 knave, God pless you.
H5 5.1. 18
H5-PISTOL
Ha, art thou bedlam? Dost thou thirst, base +
H5 5.1. 18 Trojan,
H5 5.1. 19 To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?
H5 5.1. 20 Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
H5 5.1. 21
H5-FLUELLEN
I peseech you heartily, scurvy lousy knave, at
H5 5.1. 22 my desires and my requests and my petitions, to eat,
H5 5.1. 23 look you, this leek. Because, look you, you do not love
H5 5.1. 24 it, nor your affections and your appetites and your
H5 5.1. 25 digestions does not agree with it, I would desire you
H5 5.1. 26 to eat it.
H5 5.1. 27
H5-PISTOL
Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.
H5 5.1. 28
H5-FLUELLEN
There is one goat for you. {(He strikes +
H5 5.1. 28 Pistol)} Will
H5 5.1. 29 you be so good, scald knave, as eat it?
H5 5.1. 30A
H5-PISTOL
Base Trojan, thou shalt die.
H5 5.1. 31
H5-FLUELLEN
You say very true, scald knave, when God's
H5 5.1. 32 will is. I will desire you to live in the mean time, and
H5 5.1. 33 eat your victuals. Come, there is sauce for it. {(He strikes}
H5 5.1. 34 {him)} You called me yesterday `mountain-squire', but I
H5 5.1. 35 will make you today a `squire of low degree'. I pray
H5 5.1. 36 you, fall to. If you can mock a leek you can eat a leek. {[He +
H5 5.1. 36 strikes him]}
H5 5.1. 37
H5-GOWER
Enough, captain, you have astonished him.
H5 5.1. 38
H5-FLUELLEN
By Jesu, I will make him eat some part of my
H5 5.1. 39 leek, or I will peat his pate four days and four nights. -
H5 5.1. 40 Bite, I pray you. It is good for your green wound and
H5 5.1. 41 your ploody coxcomb.
H5 5.1. 42A
H5-PISTOL
Must I bite?
H5 5.1. 43
H5-FLUELLEN
Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of
H5 5.1. 44 question too, and ambiguities.
H5 5.1. 45
H5-PISTOL
By this leek, I will most horribly revenge - +
H5 5.1. 45 {[Fluellen threatens him]}
H5 5.1. 46 I eat and eat - I swear -
H5 5.1. 47
H5-FLUELLEN
Eat, I pray you. Will you have some more sauce
H5 5.1. 48 to your leek? There is not enough leek to swear by.
H5 5.1. 49
H5-PISTOL
Quiet thy cudgel, thou dost see I eat.
H5 5.1. 50
H5-FLUELLEN
Much good do you, scald knave, heartily. Nay,
H5 5.1. 51 pray you throw none away. The skin is good for your
H5 5.1. 52 broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks
H5 5.1. 53 hereafter, I pray you mock at 'em, that is all.
H5 5.1. 54A
H5-PISTOL
Good.
H5 5.1. 55
H5-FLUELLEN
Ay, leeks is good. Hold you, there is a groat to
H5 5.1. 56 heal your pate.
H5 5.1. 57A
H5-PISTOL
Me, a groat?
H5 5.1. 58
H5-FLUELLEN
Yes, verily, and in truth you shall take it, or +
H5 5.1. 58 I
H5 5.1. 59 have another leek in my pocket which you shall eat.
H5 5.1. 60
H5-PISTOL
I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.
H5 5.1. 61
H5-FLUELLEN
If I owe you anything, I will pay you in +
H5 5.1. 61 cudgels.
H5 5.1. 62 You shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me
H5 5.1. 63 but cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal
H5 5.1. 64 your pate. {Exit}
H5 5.1. 65A
H5-PISTOL
All hell shall stir for this.
H5 5.1. 66
H5-GOWER
Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly knave.
H5 5.1. 67 Will you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an
H5 5.1. 68 honourable respect and worn as a memorable trophy
H5 5.1. 69 of predeceased valour, and dare not avouch in your
H5 5.1. 70 deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and
H5 5.1. 71 galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought,
H5 5.1. 72 because he could not speak English in the native garb,
H5 5.1. 73 he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. You
H5 5.1. 74 find it otherwise. And henceforth let a Welsh correction
H5 5.1. 75 teach you a good English condition. Fare ye well. {Exit}
H5 5.1. 76
H5-PISTOL
Doth Fortune play the hussy with me now?
H5 5.1. 77 News have I that my Nell is dead
H5 5.1. 78 I' th' spital of a malady of France,
H5 5.1. 79 And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
H5 5.1. 80 Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs
H5 5.1. 81 Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,
H5 5.1. 82 And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.
H5 5.1. 83 To England will I steal, and there I'll steal,
H5 5.1. 84 And patches will I get unto these cudgelled scars,
H5 5.1. 85 And swear I got them in the Gallia wars. {Exit}
H5 5.1. 0 {Enter at one door King Harry, the Dukes of Exeter and +
H5 5.2. 0 [Clarence], the Earl of Warwick, and other lords; at another, King +
H5 5.2. 0 Charles the Sixth of France, Queen Isabel, the Duke of Burgundy, and +
H5 5.2. 0 other French, among them Princess Catherine and Alice}
H5 5.2. 1
H5-KING HARRY
Peace to this meeting, wherefor we are met.
H5 5.2. 2 Unto our brother France and to our sister,
H5 5.2. 3 Health and fair time of day. Joy and good wishes
H5 5.2. 4 To our most fair and princely cousin Catherine;
H5 5.2. 5 And as a branch and member of this royalty,
H5 5.2. 6 By whom this great assembly is contrived,
H5 5.2. 7 We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy.
H5 5.2. 8 And princes French, and peers, health to you all.
H5 5.2. 9
H5-KING CHARLES
Right joyous are we to behold your face.
H5 5.2. 10 Most worthy brother England, fairly met.
H5 5.2. 11 So are you, princes English, every one.
H5 5.2. 12
H5-QUEEN ISABEL
So happy be the issue, brother England,
H5 5.2. 13 Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,
H5 5.2. 14 As we are now glad to behold your eyes -
H5 5.2. 15 Your eyes which hitherto have borne in them,
H5 5.2. 16 Against the French that met them in their bent,
H5 5.2. 17 The fatal balls of murdering basilisks.
H5 5.2. 18 The venom of such looks we fairly hope
H5 5.2. 19 Have lost their quality, and that this day
H5 5.2. 20 Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
H5 5.2. 21
H5-KING HARRY
To cry amen to that, thus we appear.
H5 5.2. 22
H5-QUEEN ISABEL
You English princes all, I do salute you.
H5 5.2. 23
H5-BURGUNDY
My duty to you both, on equal love,
H5 5.2. 24 Great Kings of France and England. That I have laboured
H5 5.2. 25 With all my wits, my pains, and strong endeavours,
H5 5.2. 26 To bring your most imperial majesties
H5 5.2. 27 Unto this bar and royal interview,
H5 5.2. 28 Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.
H5 5.2. 29 Since, then, my office hath so far prevailed
H5 5.2. 30 That face to face and royal eye to eye
H5 5.2. 31 You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me
H5 5.2. 32 If I demand, before this royal view,
H5 5.2. 33 What rub or what impediment there is
H5 5.2. 34 Why that the naked, poor, and mangled peace,
H5 5.2. 35 Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births,
H5 5.2. 36 Should not in this best garden of the world,
H5 5.2. 37 Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
H5 5.2. 38 Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,
H5 5.2. 39 And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,
H5 5.2. 40 Corrupting in it own fertility.
H5 5.2. 41 Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,
H5 5.2. 42 Unpruned dies; her hedges even-plashed
H5 5.2. 43 Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair
H5 5.2. 44 Put forth disordered twigs; her fallow leas
H5 5.2. 45 The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory
H5 5.2. 46 Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts
H5 5.2. 47 That should deracinate such savagery.
H5 5.2. 48 The even mead - that erst brought sweetly forth
H5 5.2. 49 The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover -
H5 5.2. 50 Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
H5 5.2. 51 Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems
H5 5.2. 52 But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
H5 5.2. 53 Losing both beauty and utility.
H5 5.2. 54 An all our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges,
H5 5.2. 55 Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,
H5 5.2. 56 Even so our houses and ourselves and children
H5 5.2. 57 Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
H5 5.2. 58 The sciences that should become our country,
H5 5.2. 59 But grow like savages - as soldiers will
H5 5.2. 60 That nothing do but meditate on blood -
H5 5.2. 61 To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire,
H5 5.2. 62 And everything that seems unnatural.
H5 5.2. 63 Which to reduce into our former favour
H5 5.2. 64 You are assembled, and my speech entreats
H5 5.2. 65 That I may know the let why gentle peace
H5 5.2. 66 Should not expel these inconveniences
H5 5.2. 67 And bless us with her former qualities.
H5 5.2. 68
H5-KING HARRY
If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace
H5 5.2. 69 Whose want gives growth to th' imperfections
H5 5.2. 70 Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
H5 5.2. 71 With full accord to all our just demands,
H5 5.2. 72 Whose tenors and particular effects
H5 5.2. 73 You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.
H5 5.2. 74
H5-BURGUNDY
The King hath heard them, to the which as yet
H5 5.2. 75B There is no answer made.
H5-KING HARRY
Well then, the peace,
H5 5.2. 76 Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.
H5 5.2. 77
H5-KING CHARLES
I have but with a cursitory eye
H5 5.2. 78 O'erglanced the articles. Pleaseth your grace
H5 5.2. 79 To appoint some of your council presently
H5 5.2. 80 To sit with us once more, with better heed
H5 5.2. 81 To re-survey them, we will suddenly
H5 5.2. 82 Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
H5 5.2. 83
H5-KING HARRY
Brother, we shall. - Go, Uncle Exeter
H5 5.2. 84 And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester;
H5 5.2. 85 Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the King,
H5 5.2. 86 And take with you free power to ratify,
H5 5.2. 87 Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
H5 5.2. 88 Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
H5 5.2. 89 Anything in or out of our demands,
H5 5.2. 90 And we'll consign thereto. - Will you, fair sister,
H5 5.2. 91 Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
H5 5.2. 92
H5-QUEEN
Our gracious brother, I will go with them.
H5 5.2. 93 Haply a woman's voice may do some good
H5 5.2. 94 When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
H5 5.2. 95
H5-KING HARRY
Yet leave our cousin Catherine here with us.
H5 5.2. 96 She is our capital demand, comprised
H5 5.2. 97 Within the fore-rank of our articles.
H5 5.2. 98B
H5-QUEEN
She hath good leave. {Exeunt all but King Harry, +
H5 5.2. 98B Catherine, and Alice}
H5-KING HARRY
Fair Catherine, and most +
H5 5.2. 98B fair,
H5 5.2. 99 Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
H5 5.2. 100 Such as will enter at a lady's ear
H5 5.2. 101 And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
H5 5.2. 102
H5-CATHERINE
Your majesty shall mock at me. I cannot speak
H5 5.2. 103 your England.
H5 5.2. 104
H5-KING HARRY
O fair Catherine, if you will love me soundly
H5 5.2. 105 with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you
H5 5.2. 106 confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you
H5 5.2. 107 like me, Kate?
H5 5.2. 108
H5-CATHERINE
{Pardonnez-moi}, I cannot tell vat is `like me'.
H5 5.2. 109
H5-KING HARRY
An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like
H5 5.2. 110 an angel.
H5 5.2. 111
H5-CATHERINE
{(to Alice)} {Que dit-il? - que je suis +
H5 5.2. 111 semblable a les
H5 5.2. 112 anges}?
H5 5.2. 113
H5-ALICE
{Oui, vraiment - sauf votre gra^ce - ainsi dit-il}.
H5 5.2. 114
H5-KING HARRY
I said so, dear Catherine, and I must not
H5 5.2. 115 blush to affirm it.
H5 5.2. 116
H5-CATHERINE
{O bon Dieu! Les langues des hommes sont pleines
H5 5.2. 117 de tromperies}.
H5 5.2. 118
H5-KING HARRY
What says she, fair one? That the tongues
H5 5.2. 119 of men are full of deceits?
H5 5.2. 120
H5-ALICE
{Oui}, dat de tongeus of de mans is be full of deceits -
H5 5.2. 121 dat is de Princess.
H5 5.2. 122
H5-KING HARRY
The Princess is the better Englishwoman.
H5 5.2. 123 I' faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding. I
H5 5.2. 124 am glad thou canst speak no better English, for if thou
H5 5.2. 125 couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king that
H5 5.2. 126 thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my
H5 5.2. 127 crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly
H5 5.2. 128 to say, `I love you'; then if you urge me farther than
H5 5.2. 129 to say, `Do you in faith?', I wear out my suit. Give me
H5 5.2. 130 your answer, i' faith do, and so clap hands and a
H5 5.2. 131 bargain. How say you, lady?
H5 5.2. 132
H5-CATHERINE
{Sauf votre honneur}, me understand well.
H5 5.2. 133
H5-KING HARRY
Marry, if you would put me to verses, or to
H5 5.2. 134 dance for your sake, Kate, why, you undid me. For the
H5 5.2. 135 one I have neither words nor measure, and for the
H5 5.2. 136 other I have no strength in measure - yet a reasonable
H5 5.2. 137 measure in strength. If I could win a lady at leap-frog,
H5 5.2. 138 or by vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my
H5 5.2. 139 back, under the correction of bragging be it spoken, I
H5 5.2. 140 should quickly leap into a wife. Or if I might buffet for
H5 5.2. 141 my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could
H5 5.2. 142 lay on like a butcher, and sit like a jackanapes, never
H5 5.2. 143 off. But before God, Kate, I cannot look greenly, nor
H5 5.2. 144 gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in
H5 5.2. 145 protestation - only downright oaths, which I never use
H5 5.2. 146 till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou canst
H5 5.2. 147 love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not
H5 5.2. 148 worth sunburning, that never looks in his glass for
H5 5.2. 149 love of anything he sees there, let thine eye be thy
H5 5.2. 150 cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: if thou canst love
H5 5.2. 151 me for this, take me. If not, to say to thee that I shall
H5 5.2. 152 die, is true - but for thy love, by the Lord, no. Yet I
H5 5.2. 153 love thee, too. And while thou livest, dear Kate, take
H5 5.2. 154 a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy, for he perforce
H5 5.2. 155 must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo
H5 5.2. 156 in other places. For these fellows of infinite tongue,
H5 5.2. 157 that can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they
H5 5.2. 158 do always reason themselves out again. What! A
H5 5.2. 159 speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is but a ballad; a good
H5 5.2. 160 leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard
H5 5.2. 161 will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair
H5 5.2. 162 face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow, but a good
H5 5.2. 163 heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon - or rather the
H5 5.2. 164 sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never
H5 5.2. 165 changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have
H5 5.2. 166 such a one, take me; and take me, take a soldier; take
H5 5.2. 167 a soldier, take a king. And what sayst thou then to my
H5 5.2. 168 love? Speak, my fair - and fairly, I pray thee.
H5 5.2. 169
H5-CATHERINE
Is it possible dat I sould love de {ennemi} of
H5 5.2. 170 France?
H5 5.2. 171
H5-KING HARRY
No, it is not possible you should love the
H5 5.2. 172 enemy of France, Kate. But in loving me, you should
H5 5.2. 173 love the friend of France, for I love France so well that
H5 5.2. 174 I will not part with a village of it, I will have it all
H5 5.2. 175 mine; and Kate, when France is mine, and I am yours,
H5 5.2. 176 then yours is France, and you are mine.
H5 5.2. 177
H5-CATHERINE
I cannot tell vat is dat.
H5 5.2. 178
H5-KING HARRY
No, Kate? I will tell thee in French - which
H5 5.2. 179 I am sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married
H5 5.2. 180 wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook off.
H5 5.2. 181 {Je quand suis le possesseur de France, et quand vous avez
H5 5.2. 182 le possession de moi} - let me see, what then? Saint Denis
H5 5.2. 183 be my speed! - {donc vo^tre est France, et vous e^tes mienne}.
H5 5.2. 184 It is as easy for me, Kate, to conquer the kingdom as
H5 5.2. 185 to speak so much more French. I shall never move thee
H5 5.2. 186 in French, unless it be to laugh at me.
H5 5.2. 187
H5-CATHERINE
{Sauf votre honneur, le franc@ais que vous parlez,
H5 5.2. 188 il est meilleur que l'anglais lequel je parle}.
H5 5.2. 189
H5-KING HARRY
No, faith, is 't not, Kate. But thy speaking of
H5 5.2. 190 my tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs
H5 5.2. 191 be granted to be much at one. But Kate, dost thou
H5 5.2. 192 understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?
H5 5.2. 193
H5-CATHERINE
I cannot tell.
H5 5.2. 194
H5-KING HARRY
Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll
H5 5.2. 195 ask them. Come, I know thou lovest me, and at night
H5 5.2. 196 when you come into your closet you'll question this
H5 5.2. 197 gentlewoman about me, and I know, Kate, you will to
H5 5.2. 198 her dispraise those parts in me that you love with your
H5 5.2. 199 heart. But good Kate, mock me mercifully - the rather,
H5 5.2. 200 gentle princess, because I love thee cruelly. If ever thou
H5 5.2. 201 be'st mine, Kate - as I have a saving faith within me
H5 5.2. 202 tells me thou shalt - I get thee with scrambling, and
H5 5.2. 203 thou must therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder.
H5 5.2. 204 Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint
H5 5.2. 205 George, compound a boy, half-French half-English, that
H5 5.2. 206 shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the
H5 5.2. 207 beard? Shall we not? What sayst thou, my fair flower-
H5 5.2. 208 de-luce?
H5 5.2. 209
H5-CATHERINE
I do not know dat.
H5 5.2. 210
H5-KING HARRY
No, 'tis hereafter to know, but now to
H5 5.2. 211 promise. Do but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour
H5 5.2. 212 for your French part of such a boy, and for my English
H5 5.2. 213 moiety take the word of a king and a bachelor. How
H5 5.2. 214 answer you, {la plus belle Catherine du monde, mon tres
H5 5.2. 215 chere et divine de/esse}?
H5 5.2. 216
H5-CATHERINE
Your {majeste/} 'ave {faux} French enough to
H5 5.2. 217 deceive de most sage {demoiselle} dat is {en France}.
H5 5.2. 218
H5-KING HARRY
Now fie upon my false French! By mine
H5 5.2. 219 honour, in true English, I love thee, Kate. By which
H5 5.2. 220 honour I dare not swear thou lovest me, yet my blood
H5 5.2. 221 begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding
H5 5.2. 222 the poor and untempering effect of my visage. Now
H5 5.2. 223 beshrew my father's ambition! He was thinking of civil
H5 5.2. 224 wars when he got me; therefore was I created with a
H5 5.2. 225 stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I
H5 5.2. 226 come to woo ladies I fright them. But in faith, Kate,
H5 5.2. 227 the elder I wax the better I shall appear. My comfort
H5 5.2. 228 is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no
H5 5.2. 229 more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast
H5 5.2. 230 me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear
H5 5.2. 231 me, better and better; and therefore tell me, most fair
H5 5.2. 232 Catherine, will you have me? Put off your maiden
H5 5.2. 233 blushes, avouch the thoughts of your heart with the
H5 5.2. 234 looks of an empress, take me by the hand and say,
H5 5.2. 235 `Harry of England, I am thine' - which word thou shalt
H5 5.2. 236 no sooner bless mine ear withal, but I will tell thee
H5 5.2. 237 aloud, `England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is
H5 5.2. 238 thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine' - who, though
H5 5.2. 239 I speak it before his face, if he be not fellow with the
H5 5.2. 240 best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
H5 5.2. 241 Come, your answer in broken music - for thy voice is
H5 5.2. 242 music and thy English broken. Therefore, queen of all,
H5 5.2. 243 Catherine, break thy mind to me in broken English:
H5 5.2. 244 wilt thou have me?
H5 5.2. 245
H5-CATHERINE
Dat is as it shall please de {roi mon pere}.
H5 5.2. 246
H5-KING HARRY
Nay, it will please him well, Kate. It shall
H5 5.2. 247 please him, Kate.
H5 5.2. 248
H5-CATHERINE
Den it sall also content me.
H5 5.2. 249
H5-KING HARRY
Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you
H5 5.2. 250 my queen.
H5 5.2. 251
H5-CATHERINE
{Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez! Ma foi, je
H5 5.2. 252 ne veux point que vous abbaissez votre grandeur en baisant
H5 5.2. 253 la main d'une de votre seigneurie indigne serviteur. Excusez-
H5 5.2. 254 moi, je vous supplie, mon treis-puissant seigneur}.
H5 5.2. 255
H5-KING HARRY
Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
H5 5.2. 256
H5-CATHERINE
{Les dames et demoiselles pour e^tre baise/es devant
H5 5.2. 257 leurs noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France}.
H5 5.2. 258
H5-KING HARRY
{(to Alice)} Madam my interpreter, what +
H5 5.2. 258 says
H5 5.2. 259 she?
H5 5.2. 260
H5-ALICE
Dat it is not be de {fac@on pour les} ladies of France -
H5 5.2. 261 I cannot tell vat is {baiser en} Anglish.
H5 5.2. 262
H5-KING HARRY
To kiss.
H5 5.2. 263
H5-ALICE
Your {majeste/ entend} bettre {que moi}.
H5 5.2. 264
H5-KING HARRY
It is not a fashion for the maids in France to
H5 5.2. 265 kiss before they are married, would she say?
H5 5.2. 266
H5-ALICE
{Oui, vraiment}.
H5 5.2. 267
H5-KING HARRY
O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings.
H5 5.2. 268 Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the
H5 5.2. 269 weak list of a country's fashion. We are the makers of
H5 5.2. 270 manners, Kate, and the liberty that follows our places
H5 5.2. 271 stops the mouth of all find-faults, as I will do yours,
H5 5.2. 272 for upholding the nice fashion of your country in
H5 5.2. 273 denying me a kiss. Therefore, patiently and yielding.
H5 5.2. 274 {(He kisses her)} You have witchcraft in your lips, +
H5 5.2. 274 Kate.
H5 5.2. 275 There is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than
H5 5.2. 276 in the tongues of the French Council, and they should
H5 5.2. 277 sooner persuade Harry of England than a general
H5 5.2. 278 petition of monarchs. Here comes your father. {Enter King +
H5 5.2. 278 Charles, Queen Isabel, the Duke of Burgundy, and the French and English +
H5 5.2. 278 lords}
H5 5.2. 279
H5-BURGUNDY
God save your majesty. My royal cousin, teach
H5 5.2. 280 you our princess English?
H5 5.2. 281
H5-KING HARRY
I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how
H5 5.2. 282 perfectly I love her, and that is good English.
H5 5.2. 283
H5-BURGUNDY
Is she not apt?
H5 5.2. 284
H5-KING HARRY
Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition
H5 5.2. 285 is not smooth, so that having neither the voice nor the
H5 5.2. 286 heart of flattery about me I cannot so conjure up the
H5 5.2. 287 spirit of love in her that he will appear in his true
H5 5.2. 288 likeness.
H5 5.2. 289
H5-BURGUNDY
Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer
H5 5.2. 290 you for that. If you would conjure in her, you must
H5 5.2. 291 make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true
H5 5.2. 292 likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you
H5 5.2. 293 blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the
H5 5.2. 294 virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the appearance
H5 5.2. 295 of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing self? It were,
H5 5.2. 296 my lord, a hard condition for a maid to consign to.
H5 5.2. 297
H5-KING HARRY
Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind
H5 5.2. 298 and enforces.
H5 5.2. 299
H5-BURGUNDY
They are then excused, my lord, when they
H5 5.2. 300 see not what they do.
H5 5.2. 301
H5-KING HARRY
Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to
H5 5.2. 302 consent winking.
H5 5.2. 303
H5-BURGUNDY
I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you
H5 5.2. 304 will teach her to know my meaning. For maids, well
H5 5.2. 305 summered and warm kept, are like flies at
H5 5.2. 306 Bartholomew-tide: blind, though they have their eyes.
H5 5.2. 307 And then they will endure handling, which before
H5 5.2. 308 would not abide looking on.
H5 5.2. 309
H5-KING HARRY
This moral ties me over to time and a hot
H5 5.2. 310 summer, and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in
H5 5.2. 311 the latter end, and she must be blind too.
H5 5.2. 312
H5-BURGUNDY
As love is, my lord, before that it loves.
H5 5.2. 313
H5-KING HARRY
It is so. And you may, some of you, thank
H5 5.2. 314 love for my blindness, who cannot see many a fair
H5 5.2. 315 French city for one fair French maid that stands in my
H5 5.2. 316 way.
H5 5.2. 317
H5-KING CHARLES
Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively,
H5 5.2. 318 the cities turned into a maid - for they are all girdled
H5 5.2. 319 with maiden walls that war hath never entered.
H5 5.2. 320
H5-KING HARRY
Shall Kate be my wife?
H5 5.2. 321
H5-KING CHARLES
So please you.
H5 5.2. 322
H5-KING HARRY
I am content, so the maiden cities you talk
H5 5.2. 323 of may wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way
H5 5.2. 324 for my wish shall show me the way to my will.
H5 5.2. 325
H5-KING CHARLES
We have consented to all terms of reason.
H5 5.2. 326A
H5-KING HARRY
Is 't so, my lords of England?
H5 5.2. 327
H5-[WARWICK]
The King hath granted every article:
H5 5.2. 328 His daughter first, and so in sequel all,
H5 5.2. 329 According to their firm proposed natures.
H5 5.2. 330
H5-EXETER
Only he hath not yet subscribed this:
H5 5.2. 331 where your majesty demands that the King of France,
H5 5.2. 332 having any occasion to write for matter of grant, shall
H5 5.2. 333 name your highness in this form and with this addition:
H5 5.2. 334 {[reads]} in French, {Notre tres cher fils Henri, Roi
H5 5.2. 335 d'Angleterre, He/ritier de France}, and thus in Latin,
H5 5.2. 336 {Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex Angliae et
H5 5.2. 337 Haeres Franciae}.
H5 5.2. 338
H5-KING CHARLES
Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,
H5 5.2. 339 But your request shall make me let it pass.
H5 5.2. 340
H5-KING HARRY
I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,
H5 5.2. 341 Let that one article rank with the rest,
H5 5.2. 342 And thereupon give me your daughter.
H5 5.2. 343
H5-KING CHARLES
Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
H5 5.2. 344 Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms
H5 5.2. 345 Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
H5 5.2. 346 With envy of each other's happiness,
H5 5.2. 347 May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction
H5 5.2. 348 Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
H5 5.2. 349 In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
H5 5.2. 350 His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
H5 5.2. 351A
H5-[ALL]
Amen.
H5 5.2. 352
H5-KING HARRY
Now welcome, Kate, and bear me witness all
H5 5.2. 353 That here I kiss her as my sovereign Queen. {Flourish}
H5 5.2. 354
H5-QUEEN ISABEL
God, the best maker of all marriages,
H5 5.2. 355 Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one.
H5 5.2. 356 As man and wife, being two, are one in love,
H5 5.2. 357 So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal
H5 5.2. 358 That never may ill office or fell jealousy,
H5 5.2. 359 Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,
H5 5.2. 360 Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms
H5 5.2. 361 To make divorce of their incorporate league;
H5 5.2. 362 That English may as French, French Englishmen,
H5 5.2. 363 Receive each other, God speak this `Amen'.
H5 5.2. 364A
H5-ALL
Amen.
H5 5.2. 365
H5-KING HARRY
Prepare we for our marriage. On which day,
H5 5.2. 366 My lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,
H5 5.2. 367 And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.
H5 5.2. 368 Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me,
H5 5.2. 369 And may our oaths well kept and prosp'rous be. {Sennet. Exeunt}
H5 5.2. 0 {Enter Chorus}
H5 5.Ep. 1
H5-CHORUS
Thus far with rough and all-unable pen
H5 5.Ep. 2 Our bending author hath pursued the story,
H5 5.Ep. 3 In little room confining mighty men,
H5 5.Ep. 4 Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
H5 5.Ep. 5 Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
H5 5.Ep. 6 This star of England. Fortune made his sword,
H5 5.Ep. 7 By which the world's best garden he achieved,
H5 5.Ep. 8 And of it left his son imperial lord.
H5 5.Ep. 9 Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crowned king
H5 5.Ep. 10 Of France and England, did this king succeed,
H5 5.Ep. 11 Whose state so many had the managing
H5 5.Ep. 12 That they lost France and made his England bleed,
H5 5.Ep. 13 Which oft our stage hath shown - and, for their sake,
H5 5.Ep. 14 In your fair minds let this acceptance take. {Exit}
H5 5.Ep. 0
H5 A.E. 0 [[The Dauphin/Bourbon variant, which usually involves only the alteration
H5 A.E. 0 of speech-prefixes, has several consequences for the dialogue and
H5 A.E. 0 structure of 4.5. There follow edited texts of the Folio and Quarto
H5 A.E. 0 versions of this scene
H5-]]
H5 A.E. 0
H5 A.A. 0
H5-[[FOLIO]]
H5 A.A. 0 {Enter the Constable, Orle/ans, Bourbon, the Dauphin, and +
H5 A.A. 0 Rambures}
H5 A.A. 1
H5-CONSTABLE
{O diable!}
H5 A.A. 2
H5-ORLE
ANS {O Seigneur! Le jour est perdu, tout est perdu.}
H5 A.A. 3
H5-DAUPHIN
{Mort de ma vie!} All is confounded, all.
H5 A.A. 4 Reproach and everlasting shame
H5 A.A. 5 Sits mocking in our plumes. {A short alarum}
H5 A.A. 6 {O me/chante fortune!} Do not run away. {[Exit Rambures]}
H5 A.A. 7
H5-CONSTABLE
Why, all our ranks are broke.
H5 A.A. 8
H5-DAUPHIN
O perdurable shame! Let's stab ourselves:
H5 A.A. 9 Be these the wretches that we played at dice for?
H5 A.A. 10
H5-ORLE
ANS Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
H5 A.A. 11
H5-BOURBON
Shame, an eternall shame, nothing but shame!
H5 A.A. 12 Let us die in pride. In once more, back again!
H5 A.A. 13 And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
H5 A.A. 14 Let him go home, and with his cap in hand
H5 A.A. 15 Like a base leno hold the chamber door,
H5 A.A. 16 Whilst by a slave no gentler than my dog
H5 A.A. 17 His fairest daughter is contaminated.
H5 A.A. 18
H5-CONSTABLE
Disorder that hath spoiled us, friend us now,
H5 A.A. 19 Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
H5 A.A. 20
H5-ORLE
ANS We are enough yet living in the field
H5 A.A. 21 To smother up the English in our throngs,
H5 A.A. 22 If any order might be thought upon.
H5 A.A. 23
H5-BOURBON
The devil take order now. I'll to the throng.
H5 A.A. 24 Let life be short, else shame will be too long. {Exeunt}
H5 A.A. 0
H5 A.B. 0
H5-[[QUARTO]]
H5 A.B. 0
H5 A.B. 0 {Enter the four French lords: the Constable, Orle/ans, Bourbon, +
H5 A.B. 0 and Gebon}
H5 A.B. 1A
H5-GEBON
{O diabello!}
H5 A.B. 2A
H5-CONSTABLE
{Mort de ma vie!}
H5 A.B. 3A
H5-ORLE
ANS O what a day is this!
H5 A.B. 4
H5-BOURBON
{O jour de honte}, all is gone, all is lost.
H5 A.B. 5
H5-CONSTABLE
We are enough yet living in the field
H5 A.B. 6 To smother up the English,
H5 A.B. 7 If any order might be thought upon.
H5 A.B. 8
H5-BOURBON
A plague of order! Once more to the field!
H5 A.B. 9 And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
H5 A.B. 10 Let him go home, and with his cap in hand,
H5 A.B. 11 Like a base leno hold the chamber door,
H5 A.B. 12 Whilst by a slave no gentler than my dog
H5 A.B. 13 His fairest daughter is contaminated.
H5 A.B. 14
H5-CONSTABLE
Disorder that hath spoiled us, right us now.
H5 A.B. 15 Come we in heaps, we'll offer up our lives
H5 A.B. 16 Unto these English, or else die with fame.
H5 A.B. 17A
H5-[BOURBON]
Come, come along.
H5 A.B. 18 Let's die with honour, our shame doth last too long. {Exeunt}
H5 A.B.
H5
0
HAM . . 0 The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark
HAM . . 0 {Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels, at +
HAM 1.1. 0 several doors}
HAM 1.1. 1A
HAM-BARNARDO
Who's there?
HAM 1.1. 2
HAM-FRANCISCO
Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.
HAM 1.1. 3B
HAM-BARNARDO
Long live the King!
HAM-FRANCISCO
Barnardo?
HAM-BARNARDO
He.
HAM 1.1. 4
HAM-FRANCISCO
You come most carefully upon your hour.
HAM 1.1. 5
HAM-BARNARDO
'Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco.
HAM 1.1. 6
HAM-FRANCISCO
For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold,
HAM 1.1. 7B And I am sick at heart.
HAM-BARNARDO
Have you had quiet guard?
HAM 1.1. 8B
HAM-FRANCISCO
Not a mouse stirring.
HAM-BARNARDO
Well, good night.
HAM 1.1. 9 If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
HAM 1.1. 10 The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. {Enter Horatio and +
HAM 1.1. 10 Marcellus}
HAM 1.1. 11B
HAM-FRANCISCO
I think I hear them. - Stand! Who's +
HAM 1.1. 11B there?
HAM-HORATIO
Friends to this ground.
HAM 1.1. 12B
HAM-MARCELLUS
And liegemen to the Dane.
HAM-FRANCISCO
Give you good +
HAM 1.1. 12B night.
HAM 1.1. 13
HAM-MARCELLUS
O farewell, honest soldier. Who hath relieved you?
HAM 1.1. 14
HAM-FRANCISCO
Barnardo has my place. Give you good night. {Exit}
HAM 1.1. 15A
HAM-MARCELLUS
Holla, Barnardo!
HAM 1.1. 16A
HAM-BARNARDO
Say - what, is Horatio there?
HAM 1.1. 17A
HAM-HORATIO
A piece of him.
HAM 1.1. 18
HAM-BARNARDO
Welcome, Horatio. Welcome, good Marcellus.
HAM 1.1. 19
HAM-MARCELLUS
What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
HAM 1.1. 20A
HAM-BARNARDO
I have seen nothing.
HAM 1.1. 21
HAM-MARCELLUS
Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
HAM 1.1. 22 And will not let belief take hold of him
HAM 1.1. 23 Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us.
HAM 1.1. 24 Therefore I have entreated him along
HAM 1.1. 25 With us to watch the minutes of this night,
HAM 1.1. 26 That if again this apparition come
HAM 1.1. 27 He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
HAM 1.1. 28B
HAM-HORATIO
Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
HAM-BARNARDO
Sit down a +
HAM 1.1. 28B while,
HAM 1.1. 29 And let us once again assail your ears,
HAM 1.1. 30 That are so fortified against our story,
HAM 1.1. 31B What we two nights have seen.
HAM-HORATIO
Well, sit we down,
HAM 1.1. 32 And let us hear Barnardo speak of this.
HAM 1.1. 33A
HAM-BARNARDO
Last night of all,
HAM 1.1. 34 When yon same star that's westward from the pole
HAM 1.1. 35 Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven
HAM 1.1. 36 Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
HAM 1.1. 37 The bell then beating one - {Enter the Ghost in complete armour, +
HAM 1.1. 37 holding a truncheon, with his beaver up}
HAM 1.1. 38
HAM-MARCELLUS
Peace, break thee off. Look where it comes +
HAM 1.1. 38 again.
HAM 1.1. 39
HAM-BARNARDO
In the same figure like the King that's dead.
HAM 1.1. 40
HAM-MARCELLUS
{(to Horatio)} Thou art a scholar - speak +
HAM 1.1. 40 to it, Horatio.
HAM 1.1. 41
HAM-BARNARDO
Looks it not like the King? - Mark it, Horatio.
HAM 1.1. 42
HAM-HORATIO
Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder.
HAM 1.1. 43B
HAM-BARNARDO
It would be spoke to.
HAM-MARCELLUS
Question it, Horatio.
HAM 1.1. 44
HAM-HORATIO
{(to the Ghost)} What art thou that +
HAM 1.1. 44 usurp'st this time of night,
HAM 1.1. 45 Together with that fair and warlike form
HAM 1.1. 46 In which the majesty of buried Denmark
HAM 1.1. 47 Did sometimes march? By heaven, I charge thee speak.
HAM 1.1. 48B
HAM-MARCELLUS
It is offended.
HAM-BARNARDO
See, it stalks away.
HAM 1.1. 49
HAM-HORATIO
{(to the Ghost)} Stay, speak, speak, I +
HAM 1.1. 49 charge thee speak. {Exit Ghost}
HAM 1.1. 50A
HAM-MARCELLUS
'Tis gone, and will not answer.
HAM 1.1. 51
HAM-BARNARDO
How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale.
HAM 1.1. 52 Is not this something more than fantasy?
HAM 1.1. 53 What think you on 't?
HAM 1.1. 54
HAM-HORATIO
Before my God, I might not this believe
HAM 1.1. 55 Without the sensible and true avouch
HAM 1.1. 56 Of mine own eyes.
HAM 1.1. 57A
HAM-MARCELLUS
Is it not like the King?
HAM 1.1. 58A
HAM-HORATIO
As thou art to thyself.
HAM 1.1. 59 Such was the very armour he had on
HAM 1.1. 60 When he th' ambitious Norway combated.
HAM 1.1. 61 So frowned he once when in an angry parley
HAM 1.1. 62 He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
HAM 1.1. 63 'Tis strange.
HAM 1.1. 64
HAM-MARCELLUS
Thus twice before, and just at this dead hour,
HAM 1.1. 65 With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
HAM 1.1. 66
HAM-HORATIO
In what particular thought to work I know not,
HAM 1.1. 67 But in the gross and scope of my opinion
HAM 1.1. 68 This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
HAM 1.1. 69
HAM-MARCELLUS
Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
HAM 1.1. 70 Why this same strict and most observant watch
HAM 1.1. 71 So nightly toils the subject of the land,
HAM 1.1. 72 And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
HAM 1.1. 73 And foreign mart for implements of war,
HAM 1.1. 74 Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
HAM 1.1. 75 Does not divide the Sunday from the week:
HAM 1.1. 76 What might be toward that this sweaty haste
HAM 1.1. 77 Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day,
HAM 1.1. 78B Who is 't that can inform me?
HAM-HORATIO
That can I -
HAM 1.1. 79 At least the whisper goes so: our last king,
HAM 1.1. 80 Whose image even but now appeared to us,
HAM 1.1. 81 Was as you know by Fortinbras of Norway,
HAM 1.1. 82 Thereto pricked on by a most emulate pride,
HAM 1.1. 83 Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet -
HAM 1.1. 84 For so this side of our known world esteemed him -
HAM 1.1. 85 Did slay this Fortinbras, who by a sealed compact
HAM 1.1. 86 Well ratified by law and heraldry
HAM 1.1. 87 Did forfeit with his life all those his lands
HAM 1.1. 88 Which he stood seized on to the conqueror;
HAM 1.1. 89 Against the which a moiety competent
HAM 1.1. 90 Was gaged by our King, which had returned
HAM 1.1. 91 To the inheritance of Fortinbras
HAM 1.1. 92 Had he been vanquisher, as by the same cov'nant
HAM 1.1. 93 And carriage of the article designed
HAM 1.1. 94 His fell to Hamlet. Now sir, young Fortinbras,
HAM 1.1. 95 Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
HAM 1.1. 96 Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
HAM 1.1. 97 Sharked up a list of landless resolutes
HAM 1.1. 98 For food and diet to some enterprise
HAM 1.1. 99 That hath a stomach in 't, which is no other -
HAM 1.1. 100 And it doth well appear unto our state -
HAM 1.1. 101 But to recover of us by strong hand
HAM 1.1. 102 And terms compulsative those foresaid lands
HAM 1.1. 103 So by his father lost. And this, I take it,
HAM 1.1. 104 Is the main motive of our preparations,
HAM 1.1. 105 The source of this our watch, and the chief head
HAM 1.1. 106 Of this post-haste and rummage in the land. {Enter the Ghost, as +
HAM 1.1. 106 before}
HAM 1.1. 107 But soft, behold - lo where it comes again!
HAM 1.1. 108 I'll cross it though it blast me. - Stay, illusion. {The Ghost +
HAM 1.1. 108 spreads his arms}
HAM 1.1. 109 If thou hast any sound or use of voice,
HAM 1.1. 110 Speak to me.
HAM 1.1. 111 If there be any good thing to be done
HAM 1.1. 112 That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
HAM 1.1. 113 Speak to me.
HAM 1.1. 114 If thou art privy to thy country's fate
HAM 1.1. 115 Which happily foreknowing may avoid,
HAM 1.1. 116 O speak!
HAM 1.1. 117 Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
HAM 1.1. 118 Extorted treasure in the womb of earth -
HAM 1.1. 119 For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death - {The cock +
HAM 1.1. 119 crows}
HAM 1.1. 120 Speak of it, stay and speak. - Stop it, Marcellus.
HAM 1.1. 121
HAM-MARCELLUS
Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
HAM 1.1. 122B
HAM-HORATIO
Do, if it will not stand.
HAM-BARNARDO
'Tis here.
HAM-HORATIO
+
HAM 1.1. 122B 'Tis here. {Exit Ghost}
HAM 1.1. 123A
HAM-MARCELLUS
'Tis gone.
HAM 1.1. 124 We do it wrong, being so majestical,
HAM 1.1. 125 To offer it the show of violence,
HAM 1.1. 126 For it is as the air invulnerable,
HAM 1.1. 127 And our vain blows malicious mockery.
HAM 1.1. 128
HAM-BARNARDO
It was about to speak when the cock crew.
HAM 1.1. 129
HAM-HORATIO
And then it started like a guilty thing
HAM 1.1. 130 Upon a fearful summons. I have heard
HAM 1.1. 131 The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
HAM 1.1. 132 Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
HAM 1.1. 133 Awake the god of day, and at his warning,
HAM 1.1. 134 Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
HAM 1.1. 135 Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies
HAM 1.1. 136 To his confine; and of the truth herein
HAM 1.1. 137 This present object made probation.
HAM 1.1. 138
HAM-MARCELLUS
It faded on the crowing of the cock.
HAM 1.1. 139 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
HAM 1.1. 140 Wherein our saviour's birth is celebrated
HAM 1.1. 141 The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
HAM 1.1. 142 And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad,
HAM 1.1. 143 The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
HAM 1.1. 144 No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
HAM 1.1. 145 So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
HAM 1.1. 146
HAM-HORATIO
So have I heard, and do in part believe it.
HAM 1.1. 147 But look, the morn in russet mantle clad
HAM 1.1. 148 Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
HAM 1.1. 149 Break we our watch up, and by my advice
HAM 1.1. 150 Let us impart what we have seen tonight
HAM 1.1. 151 Unto young Hamlet; for upon my life,
HAM 1.1. 152 This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
HAM 1.1. 153 Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
HAM 1.1. 154 As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
HAM 1.1. 155
HAM-MARCELLUS
Let's do 't, I pray; and I this morning know
HAM 1.1. 156 Where we shall find him most conveniently. {Exeunt}
HAM 1.1. 0 {Flourish. Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the +
HAM 1.2. 0 Queen, members of the Council, such as Polonius, his son Laertes and +
HAM 1.2. 0 daughter Ophelia, Prince Hamlet dressed in black, with others}
HAM 1.2. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's +
HAM 1.2. 1 death
HAM 1.2. 2 The memory be green, and that it us befitted
HAM 1.2. 3 To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
HAM 1.2. 4 To be contracted in one brow of woe,
HAM 1.2. 5 Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
HAM 1.2. 6 That we with wisest sorrow think on him
HAM 1.2. 7 Together with remembrance of ourselves.
HAM 1.2. 8 Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
HAM 1.2. 9 Th' imperial jointress of this warlike state,
HAM 1.2. 10 Have we as 'twere with a defeated joy,
HAM 1.2. 11 With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
HAM 1.2. 12 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
HAM 1.2. 13 In equal scale weighing delight and dole,
HAM 1.2. 14 Taken to wife. Nor have we herein barred
HAM 1.2. 15 Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
HAM 1.2. 16 With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
HAM 1.2. 17 Now follows that you know young Fortinbras,
HAM 1.2. 18 Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
HAM 1.2. 19 Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
HAM 1.2. 20 Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
HAM 1.2. 21 Co-leagued with the dream of his advantage,
HAM 1.2. 22 He hath not failed to pester us with message
HAM 1.2. 23 Importing the surrender of those lands
HAM 1.2. 24 Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
HAM 1.2. 25 To our most valiant brother. So much for him. {Enter Valtemand +
HAM 1.2. 25 and Cornelius}
HAM 1.2. 26 Now for ourself, and for this time of meeting,
HAM 1.2. 27 Thus much the business is: we have here writ
HAM 1.2. 28 To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras -
HAM 1.2. 29 Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
HAM 1.2. 30 Of this his nephew's purpose - to suppress
HAM 1.2. 31 His further gait herein, in that the levies,
HAM 1.2. 32 The lists, and full proportions are all made
HAM 1.2. 33 Out of his subject; and we here dispatch
HAM 1.2. 34 You, good Cornelius, and you, Valtemand,
HAM 1.2. 35 For bearers of this greeting to old Norway,
HAM 1.2. 36 Giving to you no further personal power
HAM 1.2. 37 To business with the King more than the scope
HAM 1.2. 38 Of these dilated articles allow.
HAM 1.2. 39 Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.
HAM 1.2. 40
HAM-VALTEMAND
In that and all things will we show our duty.
HAM 1.2. 41
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
We doubt it nothing, heartily farewell. +
HAM 1.2. 41 {Exeunt Valtemand and Cornelius}
HAM 1.2. 42 And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
HAM 1.2. 43 You told us of some suit. What is 't, Laertes?
HAM 1.2. 44 You cannot speak of reason to the Dane
HAM 1.2. 45 And lose your voice. What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
HAM 1.2. 46 That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
HAM 1.2. 47 The head is not more native to the heart,
HAM 1.2. 48 The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
HAM 1.2. 49 Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
HAM 1.2. 50B What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
HAM-LAERTES
Dread my lord,
HAM 1.2. 51 Your leave and favour to return to France,
HAM 1.2. 52 From whence though willingly I came to Denmark
HAM 1.2. 53 To show my duty in your coronation,
HAM 1.2. 54 Yet now I must confess, that duty done,
HAM 1.2. 55 My thoughts and wishes bend again towards France
HAM 1.2. 56 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
HAM 1.2. 57
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?
HAM 1.2. 58
HAM-POLONIUS
He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
HAM 1.2. 59 By laboursome petition, and at last
HAM 1.2. 60 Upon his will I sealed my hard consent.
HAM 1.2. 61 I do beseech you give him leave to go.
HAM 1.2. 62
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine,
HAM 1.2. 63 And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
HAM 1.2. 64 But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son -
HAM 1.2. 65
HAM-HAMLET
A little more than kin and less than kind.
HAM 1.2. 66
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
HAM 1.2. 67
HAM-HAMLET
Not so, my lord, I am too much i' th' sun.
HAM 1.2. 68
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Good Hamlet, cast thy nightly colour off,
HAM 1.2. 69 And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
HAM 1.2. 70 Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
HAM 1.2. 71 Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
HAM 1.2. 72 Thou know'st 'tis common - all that lives must die,
HAM 1.2. 73 Passing through nature to eternity.
HAM 1.2. 74B
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, madam, it is common.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
If it be,
HAM 1.2. 75 Why seems it so particular with thee?
HAM 1.2. 76
HAM-HAMLET
Seems, madam? Nay, it {is}. I know not `seems'.
HAM 1.2. 77 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good-mother,
HAM 1.2. 78 Nor customary suits of solemn black,
HAM 1.2. 79 Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
HAM 1.2. 80 No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
HAM 1.2. 81 Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,
HAM 1.2. 82 Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief
HAM 1.2. 83 That can denote me truly. These indeed `seem',
HAM 1.2. 84 For they are actions that a man might play;
HAM 1.2. 85 But I have that within which passeth show -
HAM 1.2. 86 These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
HAM 1.2. 87
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
HAM 1.2. 88 To give these mourning duties to your father;
HAM 1.2. 89 But you must know your father lost a father;
HAM 1.2. 90 That father lost, lost his; and the survivor bound
HAM 1.2. 91 In filial obligation for some term
HAM 1.2. 92 To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever
HAM 1.2. 93 In obstinate condolement is a course
HAM 1.2. 94 Of impious stubbornness, 'tis unmanly grief,
HAM 1.2. 95 It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
HAM 1.2. 96 A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
HAM 1.2. 97 An understanding simple and unschooled;
HAM 1.2. 98 For what we know must be, and is as common
HAM 1.2. 99 As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
HAM 1.2. 100 Why should we in our peevish opposition
HAM 1.2. 101 Take it to heart? Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven,
HAM 1.2. 102 A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
HAM 1.2. 103 To reason most absurd, whose common theme
HAM 1.2. 104 Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried
HAM 1.2. 105 From the first corpse till he that died today,
HAM 1.2. 106 `This must be so'. We pray you throw to earth
HAM 1.2. 107 This unprevailing woe, and think of us
HAM 1.2. 108 As of a father; for let the world take note
HAM 1.2. 109 You are the most immediate to our throne,
HAM 1.2. 110 And with no less nobility of love
HAM 1.2. 111 Than that which dearest father bears his son
HAM 1.2. 112 Do I impart towards you. For your intent
HAM 1.2. 113 In going back to school in Wittenberg,
HAM 1.2. 114 It is most retrograde to our desire,
HAM 1.2. 115 And we beseech you bend you to remain
HAM 1.2. 116 Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
HAM 1.2. 117 Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
HAM 1.2. 118
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet.
HAM 1.2. 119 I pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.
HAM 1.2. 120
HAM-HAMLET
I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
HAM 1.2. 121
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply.
HAM 1.2. 122 Be as ourself in Denmark. {(To Gertrude)} Madam, come.
HAM 1.2. 123 This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet
HAM 1.2. 124 Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof,
HAM 1.2. 125 No jocund health that Denmark drinks today
HAM 1.2. 126 But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
HAM 1.2. 127 And the King's rouse the heavens shall bruit again,
HAM 1.2. 128 Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come, away. {[Flourish.] Exeunt all +
HAM 1.2. 128 but Hamlet}
HAM 1.2. 129
HAM-HAMLET
O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
HAM 1.2. 130 Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
HAM 1.2. 131 Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
HAM 1.2. 132 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, O God,
HAM 1.2. 133 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
HAM 1.2. 134 Seem to me all the uses of this world!
HAM 1.2. 135 Fie on 't, ah fie, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
HAM 1.2. 136 That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
HAM 1.2. 137 Possess it merely. That it should come to this -
HAM 1.2. 138 But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two -
HAM 1.2. 139 So excellent a king, that was to this
HAM 1.2. 140 Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
HAM 1.2. 141 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
HAM 1.2. 142 Visit her face too roughly! Heaven and earth,
HAM 1.2. 143 Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
HAM 1.2. 144 As if increase of appetite had grown
HAM 1.2. 145 By what it fed on, and yet within a month -
HAM 1.2. 146 Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman -
HAM 1.2. 147 A little month, or ere those shoes were old
HAM 1.2. 148 With which she followed my poor father's body,
HAM 1.2. 149 Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she -
HAM 1.2. 150 O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
HAM 1.2. 151 Would have mourned longer! - married with mine uncle,
HAM 1.2. 152 My father's brother, but no more like my father
HAM 1.2. 153 Than I to Hercules; within a month,
HAM 1.2. 154 Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
HAM 1.2. 155 Had left the flushing of her galled eyes,
HAM 1.2. 156 She married. O most wicked speed, to post
HAM 1.2. 157 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
HAM 1.2. 158 It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
HAM 1.2. 159 But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. {Enter Horatio, +
HAM 1.2. 159 Marcellus, and Barnardo}
HAM 1.2. 160B
HAM-HORATIO
Hail to your lordship.
HAM-HAMLET
I am glad to see +
HAM 1.2. 160B you well.
HAM 1.2. 161 Horatio - or I do forget myself.
HAM 1.2. 162
HAM-HORATIO
The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.
HAM 1.2. 163
HAM-HAMLET
Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you.
HAM 1.2. 164 And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? -
HAM 1.2. 165B Marcellus.
HAM-MARCELLUS
My good lord.
HAM 1.2. 166
HAM-HAMLET
I am very glad to see you. {(To Barnardo)} +
HAM 1.2. 166 Good even, sir. -
HAM 1.2. 167 But what in faith make you from Wittenberg?
HAM 1.2. 168
HAM-HORATIO
A truant disposition, good my lord.
HAM 1.2. 169
HAM-HAMLET
I would not have your enemy say so,
HAM 1.2. 170 Nor shall you do mine ear that violence
HAM 1.2. 171 To make it truster of your own report
HAM 1.2. 172 Against yourself. I know you are no truant.
HAM 1.2. 173 But what is your affair in Elsinore?
HAM 1.2. 174 We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
HAM 1.2. 175
HAM-HORATIO
My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
HAM 1.2. 176
HAM-HAMLET
I prithee do not mock me, fellow-student;
HAM 1.2. 177 I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
HAM 1.2. 178
HAM-HORATIO
Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon.
HAM 1.2. 179
HAM-HAMLET
Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats
HAM 1.2. 180 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
HAM 1.2. 181 Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
HAM 1.2. 182 Ere I had ever seen that day, Horatio.
HAM 1.2. 183 My father - methinks I see my father.
HAM 1.2. 184B
HAM-HORATIO
O where, my lord?
HAM-HAMLET
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
HAM 1.2. 185
HAM-HORATIO
I saw him once. A was a goodly king.
HAM 1.2. 186
HAM-HAMLET
A was a man. Take him for all in all,
HAM 1.2. 187 I shall not look upon his like again.
HAM 1.2. 188
HAM-HORATIO
My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
HAM 1.2. 189A
HAM-HAMLET
Saw? Who?
HAM 1.2. 190A
HAM-HORATIO
My lord, the King your father.
HAM 1.2. 191A
HAM-HAMLET
The King my father?
HAM 1.2. 192
HAM-HORATIO
Season your admiration for a while
HAM 1.2. 193 With an attent ear till I may deliver,
HAM 1.2. 194 Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
HAM 1.2. 195B This marvel to you.
HAM-HAMLET
For God's love let me hear!
HAM 1.2. 196
HAM-HORATIO
Two nights together had these gentlemen,
HAM 1.2. 197 Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch,
HAM 1.2. 198 In the dead waste and middle of the night,
HAM 1.2. 199 Been thus encountered. A figure like your father,
HAM 1.2. 200 Armed at all points exactly, cap-a-pie,
HAM 1.2. 201 Appears before them, and with solemn march
HAM 1.2. 202 Goes slow and stately by them. Thrice he walked
HAM 1.2. 203 By their oppressed and fear-surprised eyes
HAM 1.2. 204 Within his truncheon's length, whilst they distilled
HAM 1.2. 205 Almost to jelly with the act of fear
HAM 1.2. 206 Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me
HAM 1.2. 207 In dreadful secrecy impart they did,
HAM 1.2. 208 And I with them the third night kept the watch,
HAM 1.2. 209 Where, as they had delivered, both in time,
HAM 1.2. 210 Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
HAM 1.2. 211 The apparition comes. I knew your father;
HAM 1.2. 212B These hands are not more like.
HAM-HAMLET
But where was this?
HAM 1.2. 213
HAM-MARCELLUS
My lord, upon the platform where we watched.
HAM 1.2. 214B
HAM-HAMLET
Did you not speak to it?
HAM-HORATIO
My lord, I did,
HAM 1.2. 215 But answer made it none; yet once methought
HAM 1.2. 216 It lifted up it head and did address
HAM 1.2. 217 Itself to motion like as it would speak,
HAM 1.2. 218 But even then the morning cock crew loud,
HAM 1.2. 219 And at the sound it shrunk in haste away
HAM 1.2. 220B And vanished from our sight.
HAM-HAMLET
'Tis very strange.
HAM 1.2. 221
HAM-HORATIO
As I do live, my honoured lord, 'tis true,
HAM 1.2. 222 And we did think it writ down in our duty
HAM 1.2. 223 To let you know of it.
HAM 1.2. 224
HAM-HAMLET
Indeed, indeed, sirs; but this troubles me. -
HAM 1.2. 225B Hold you the watch tonight?
HAM-BARNARDO
HAM-AND
HAM-MARCELLUS
We do, my lord.
HAM 1.2. 226B
HAM-HAMLET
Armed, say you?
HAM-BARNARDO
HAM-AND
HAM-MARCELLUS
Armed, my +
HAM 1.2. 226B lord.
HAM-HAMLET
From top to toe?
HAM 1.2. 227B
HAM-BARNARDO
HAM-AND
HAM-MARCELLUS
My lord, from head to foot.
HAM-HAMLET
Then +
HAM 1.2. 227B saw you not his face.
HAM 1.2. 228
HAM-HORATIO
O yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up.
HAM 1.2. 229B
HAM-HAMLET
What looked he? Frowningly?
HAM-HORATIO
A countenance more
HAM 1.2. 230B In sorrow than in anger.
HAM-HAMLET
Pale or red?
HAM 1.2. 231B
HAM-HORATIO
Nay, very pale.
HAM-HAMLET
And fixed his eyes upon you?
HAM 1.2. 232A
HAM-HORATIO
Most constantly.
HAM 1.2. 233A
HAM-HAMLET
I would I had been there.
HAM 1.2. 234A
HAM-HORATIO
It would have much amazed you.
HAM 1.2. 235
HAM-HAMLET
Very like, very like. Stayed it long?
HAM 1.2. 236
HAM-HORATIO
While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
HAM 1.2. 237A
HAM-BARNARDO
HAM-AND
HAM-MARCELLUS
Longer, longer.
HAM 1.2. 238A
HAM-HORATIO
Not when I saw 't.
HAM 1.2. 239A
HAM-HAMLET
His beard was grizzly, no?
HAM 1.2. 240
HAM-HORATIO
It was as I have seen it in his life,
HAM 1.2. 241B A sable silvered.
HAM-HAMLET
I'll watch tonight. Perchance
HAM 1.2. 242B 'Twill walk again.
HAM-HORATIO
I warrant you it will.
HAM 1.2. 243
HAM-HAMLET
If it assume my noble father's person
HAM 1.2. 244 I'll speak to it though hell itself should gape
HAM 1.2. 245 And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
HAM 1.2. 246 If you have hitherto concealed this sight,
HAM 1.2. 247 Let it be treble in your silence still,
HAM 1.2. 248 And whatsoever else shall hap tonight,
HAM 1.2. 249 Give it an understanding but no tongue.
HAM 1.2. 250 I will requite your loves. So fare ye well.
HAM 1.2. 251 Upon the platform 'twixt eleven and twelve
HAM 1.2. 252B I'll visit you.
HAM-ALL THREE
Our duty to your honour.
HAM 1.2. 253
HAM-HAMLET
Your love, as mine to you. Farewell. {Exeunt all but +
HAM 1.2. 253 Hamlet}
HAM 1.2. 254 My father's spirit in arms! All is not well.
HAM 1.2. 255 I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come.
HAM 1.2. 256 Till then, sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,
HAM 1.2. 257 Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. {Exit}
HAM 1.2. 0 {Enter Laertes and Ophelia, his sister}
HAM 1.3. 1
HAM-LAERTES
My necessaries are inbarqued. Farewell.
HAM 1.3. 2 And, sister, as the winds give benefit
HAM 1.3. 3 And convoy is assistant, do not sleep
HAM 1.3. 4B But let me hear from you.
HAM-OPHELIA
Do you doubt that?
HAM 1.3. 5
HAM-LAERTES
For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,
HAM 1.3. 6 Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,
HAM 1.3. 7 A violet in the youth of primy nature,
HAM 1.3. 8 Forward not permanent, sweet not lasting,
HAM 1.3. 9 The perfume and suppliance of a minute,
HAM 1.3. 10B No more.
HAM-OPHELIA
No more but so?
HAM-LAERTES
Think it no more.
HAM 1.3. 11 For nature crescent does not grow alone
HAM 1.3. 12 In thews and bulk, but as his temple waxes
HAM 1.3. 13 The inward service of the mind and soul
HAM 1.3. 14 Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
HAM 1.3. 15 And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
HAM 1.3. 16 The virtue of his will; but you must fear,
HAM 1.3. 17 His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,
HAM 1.3. 18 For he himself is subject to his birth.
HAM 1.3. 19 He may not, as unvalued persons do,
HAM 1.3. 20 Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
HAM 1.3. 21 The sanity and health of the whole state;
HAM 1.3. 22 And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
HAM 1.3. 23 Unto the voice and yielding of that body
HAM 1.3. 24 Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
HAM 1.3. 25 It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
HAM 1.3. 26 As he in his peculiar sect and force
HAM 1.3. 27 May give his saying deed, which is no further
HAM 1.3. 28 Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
HAM 1.3. 29 Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain
HAM 1.3. 30 If with too credent ear you list his songs,
HAM 1.3. 31 Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
HAM 1.3. 32 To his unmastered importunity.
HAM 1.3. 33 Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
HAM 1.3. 34 And keep within the rear of your affection,
HAM 1.3. 35 Out of the shot and danger of desire.
HAM 1.3. 36 The chariest maid is prodigal enough
HAM 1.3. 37 If she unmask her beauty to the moon.
HAM 1.3. 38 Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
HAM 1.3. 39 The canker galls the infants of the spring
HAM 1.3. 40 Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
HAM 1.3. 41 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
HAM 1.3. 42 Contagious blastments are most imminent.
HAM 1.3. 43 Be wary then; best safety lies in fear;
HAM 1.3. 44 Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
HAM 1.3. 45
HAM-OPHELIA
I shall th' effect of this good lesson keep
HAM 1.3. 46 As watchman to my heart; but, good my brother,
HAM 1.3. 47 Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
HAM 1.3. 48 Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven
HAM 1.3. 49 Whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine
HAM 1.3. 50 Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
HAM 1.3. 51B And recks not his own rede.
HAM-LAERTES
O fear me not. {Enter +
HAM 1.3. 51B Polonius}
HAM 1.3. 52 I stay too long - but here my father comes.
HAM 1.3. 53 A double blessing is a double grace;
HAM 1.3. 54 Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
HAM 1.3. 55
HAM-POLONIUS
Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!
HAM 1.3. 56 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
HAM 1.3. 57 And you are stayed for. There - my blessing with thee,
HAM 1.3. 58 And these few precepts in thy memory
HAM 1.3. 59 See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
HAM 1.3. 60 Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
HAM 1.3. 61 Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
HAM 1.3. 62 The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
HAM 1.3. 63 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,
HAM 1.3. 64 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
HAM 1.3. 65 Of each new-hatched unfledged comrade. Beware
HAM 1.3. 66 Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
HAM 1.3. 67 Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
HAM 1.3. 68 Give every man thine ear but few thy voice.
HAM 1.3. 69 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
HAM 1.3. 70 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
HAM 1.3. 71 But not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy;
HAM 1.3. 72 For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
HAM 1.3. 73 And they in France of the best rank and station
HAM 1.3. 74 Are of all most select and generous chief in that.
HAM 1.3. 75 Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
HAM 1.3. 76 For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
HAM 1.3. 77 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
HAM 1.3. 78 This above all - to thine own self be true,
HAM 1.3. 79 And it must follow, as the night the day,
HAM 1.3. 80 Thou canst not then be false to any man.
HAM 1.3. 81 Farewell - my blessing season this in thee.
HAM 1.3. 82
HAM-LAERTES
Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
HAM 1.3. 83
HAM-POLONIUS
The time invites you. Go; your servants tend.
HAM 1.3. 84
HAM-LAERTES
Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
HAM 1.3. 85B What I have said to you.
HAM-OPHELIA
'Tis in my memory locked,
HAM 1.3. 86 And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
HAM 1.3. 87A
HAM-LAERTES
Farewell. {Exit}
HAM 1.3. 88
HAM-POLONIUS
What is 't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?
HAM 1.3. 89
HAM-OPHELIA
So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
HAM 1.3. 90A
HAM-POLONIUS
Marry, well bethought.
HAM 1.3. 91 'Tis told me he hath very oft of late
HAM 1.3. 92 Given private time to you, and you yourself
HAM 1.3. 93 Have of your audience been most free and bounteous.
HAM 1.3. 94 If it be so - as so 'tis put on me,
HAM 1.3. 95 And that in way of caution - I must tell you
HAM 1.3. 96 You do not understand yourself so clearly
HAM 1.3. 97 As it behoves my daughter and your honour.
HAM 1.3. 98 What is between you? Give me up the truth.
HAM 1.3. 99
HAM-OPHELIA
He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
HAM 1.3. 100 Of his affection to me.
HAM 1.3. 101
HAM-POLONIUS
Affection, pooh! You speak like a green girl
HAM 1.3. 102 Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
HAM 1.3. 103 Do you believe his `tenders' as you call them?
HAM 1.3. 104
HAM-OPHELIA
I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
HAM 1.3. 105
HAM-POLONIUS
Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby
HAM 1.3. 106 That you have ta'en his tenders for true pay,
HAM 1.3. 107 Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,
HAM 1.3. 108 Or - not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
HAM 1.3. 109 Running it thus - you'll tender me a fool.
HAM 1.3. 110
HAM-OPHELIA
My lord, he hath importuned me with love
HAM 1.3. 111 In honourable fashion -
HAM 1.3. 112
HAM-POLONIUS
Ay, fashion you may call it. Go to, go to.
HAM 1.3. 113
HAM-OPHELIA
And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
HAM 1.3. 114 With all the vows of heaven.
HAM 1.3. 115
HAM-POLONIUS
Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know
HAM 1.3. 116 When the blood burns how prodigal the soul
HAM 1.3. 117 Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,
HAM 1.3. 118 Giving more light than heat, extinct in both
HAM 1.3. 119 Even in their promise as it is a-making,
HAM 1.3. 120 You must not take for fire. From this time, daughter,
HAM 1.3. 121 Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
HAM 1.3. 122 Set your entreatments at a higher rate
HAM 1.3. 123 Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
HAM 1.3. 124 Believe so much in him, that he is young,
HAM 1.3. 125 And with a larger tether may he walk
HAM 1.3. 126 Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,
HAM 1.3. 127 Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers,
HAM 1.3. 128 Not of the dye which their investments show,
HAM 1.3. 129 But mere imploratators of unholy suits,
HAM 1.3. 130 Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds
HAM 1.3. 131 The better to beguile. This is for all -
HAM 1.3. 132 I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
HAM 1.3. 133 Have you so slander any moment leisure
HAM 1.3. 134 As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
HAM 1.3. 135 Look to 't, I charge you. Come your ways.
HAM 1.3. 136A
HAM-OPHELIA
I shall obey, my lord. {Exeunt}
HAM 1.3. 0 {Enter Prince Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus}
HAM 1.4. 1
HAM-HAMLET
The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold.
HAM 1.4. 2
HAM-HORATIO
It is a nipping and an eager air.
HAM 1.4. 3A
HAM-HAMLET
What hour now?
HAM 1.4. 4A
HAM-HORATIO
I think it lacks of twelve.
HAM 1.4. 5A
HAM-MARCELLUS
No, it is struck.
HAM 1.4. 6
HAM-HORATIO
Indeed? I heard it not. Then it draws near the season
HAM 1.4. 7 Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. {A flourish of +
HAM 1.4. 7 trumpets, and two pieces of ordnance goes off}
HAM 1.4. 8 What does this mean, my lord?
HAM 1.4. 9
HAM-HAMLET
The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse,
HAM 1.4. 10 Keeps wassail, and the swagg'ring upspring reels,
HAM 1.4. 11 And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down
HAM 1.4. 12 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
HAM 1.4. 13 The triumph of his pledge.
HAM 1.4. 14A
HAM-HORATIO
Is it a custom?
HAM 1.4. 15A
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, marry is 't,
HAM 1.4. 16 And to my mind, though I am native here
HAM 1.4. 17 And to the manner born, it is a custom
HAM 1.4. 18 More honoured in the breach than the observance. {Enter the +
HAM 1.4. 18 Ghost, as before}
HAM 1.4. 19A
HAM-HORATIO
Look, my lord, it comes.
HAM 1.4. 20
HAM-HAMLET
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
HAM 1.4. 21 Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned,
HAM 1.4. 22 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
HAM 1.4. 23 Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
HAM 1.4. 24 Thou com'st in such a questionable shape
HAM 1.4. 25 That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet,
HAM 1.4. 26 King, father, royal Dane. O answer me!
HAM 1.4. 27 Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell
HAM 1.4. 28 Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
HAM 1.4. 29 Have burst their cerements, why the sepulchre
HAM 1.4. 30 Wherein we saw thee quietly enurned
HAM 1.4. 31 Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws
HAM 1.4. 32 To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
HAM 1.4. 33 That thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel,
HAM 1.4. 34 Revisitst thus the glimpses of the moon,
HAM 1.4. 35 Making night hideous, and we fools of nature
HAM 1.4. 36 So horridly to shake our disposition
HAM 1.4. 37 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
HAM 1.4. 38 Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? {The Ghost +
HAM 1.4. 38 beckons Hamlet}
HAM 1.4. 39
HAM-HORATIO
It beckons you to go away with it
HAM 1.4. 40 As if it some impartment did desire
HAM 1.4. 41B To you alone.
HAM-MARCELLUS
{(to Hamlet)} Look with +
HAM 1.4. 41B what courteous action
HAM 1.4. 42 It wafts you to a more removed ground.
HAM 1.4. 43B But do not go with it.
HAM-HORATIO
{(to Hamlet)} No, by +
HAM 1.4. 43B no means.
HAM 1.4. 44
HAM-HAMLET
It will not speak. Then will I follow it.
HAM 1.4. 45B
HAM-HORATIO
Do not, my lord.
HAM-HAMLET
Why, what should be the fear?
HAM 1.4. 46 I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
HAM 1.4. 47 And for my soul, what can it do to that,
HAM 1.4. 48 Being a thing immortal as itself? {The Ghost beckons Hamlet}
HAM 1.4. 49 It waves me forth again. I'll follow it.
HAM 1.4. 50
HAM-HORATIO
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
HAM 1.4. 51 Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
HAM 1.4. 52 That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
HAM 1.4. 53 And there assume some other horrible form
HAM 1.4. 54 Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
HAM 1.4. 55 And draw you into madness? Think of it. {The Ghost beckons +
HAM 1.4. 55 Hamlet}
HAM 1.4. 56
HAM-HAMLET
It wafts me still. {(To the Ghost)}+
HAM 1.4. 56 Go on, I'll follow thee.
HAM 1.4. 57B
HAM-MARCELLUS
You shall not go, my lord.
HAM-HAMLET
Hold off your hand.
HAM 1.4. 58B
HAM-HORATIO
Be ruled. You shall not go.
HAM-HAMLET
My fate cries out,
HAM 1.4. 59 And makes each petty artere in this body
HAM 1.4. 60 As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. {The Ghost beckons Hamlet}
HAM 1.4. 61 Still am I called. Unhand me, gentlemen.
HAM 1.4. 62 By heav'n, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
HAM 1.4. 63 I say, away! {(To the Ghost)} Go on, I'll follow +
HAM 1.4. 63 thee. {Exeunt the Ghost and Hamlet}
HAM 1.4. 64
HAM-HORATIO
He waxes desperate with imagination.
HAM 1.4. 65
HAM-MARCELLUS
Let's follow. 'Tis not fit thus to obey him.
HAM 1.4. 66
HAM-HORATIO
Have after. To what issue will this come?
HAM 1.4. 67
HAM-MARCELLUS
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
HAM 1.4. 68B
HAM-HORATIO
Heaven will direct it.
HAM-MARCELLUS
Nay, let's follow +
HAM 1.4. 68B him. {Exeunt}
HAM 1.4. 0 {Enter the Ghost, and Prince Hamlet following}
HAM 1.5. 1
HAM-HAMLET
Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak. I'll go no +
HAM 1.5. 1 further.
HAM 1.5. 2B
HAM-GHOST
Mark me.
HAM-HAMLET
I will.
HAM-GHOST
My hour is almost come
HAM 1.5. 3 When I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames
HAM 1.5. 4B Must render up myself.
HAM-HAMLET
Alas, poor ghost!
HAM 1.5. 5
HAM-GHOST
Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
HAM 1.5. 6B To what I shall unfold.
HAM-HAMLET
Speak, I am bound to hear.
HAM 1.5. 7
HAM-GHOST
So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.
HAM 1.5. 8A
HAM-HAMLET
What?
HAM 1.5. 9A
HAM-GHOST
I am thy father's spirit,
HAM 1.5. 10 Doomed for a certain term to walk the night,
HAM 1.5. 11 And for the day confined to fast in fires
HAM 1.5. 12 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
HAM 1.5. 13 Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
HAM 1.5. 14 To tell the secrets of my prison-house
HAM 1.5. 15 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
HAM 1.5. 16 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
HAM 1.5. 17 Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
HAM 1.5. 18 Thy knotty and combined locks to part,
HAM 1.5. 19 And each particular hair to stand on end
HAM 1.5. 20 Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
HAM 1.5. 21 But this eternal blazon must not be
HAM 1.5. 22 To ears of flesh and blood. List, Hamlet, list, O list!
HAM 1.5. 23 If thou didst ever thy dear father love -
HAM 1.5. 24A
HAM-HAMLET
O God!
HAM 1.5. 25
HAM-GHOST
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
HAM 1.5. 26A
HAM-HAMLET
Murder?
HAM 1.5. 27
HAM-GHOST
Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
HAM 1.5. 28 But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
HAM 1.5. 29
HAM-HAMLET
Haste, haste me to know it, that with wings as swift
HAM 1.5. 30 As meditation or the thoughts of love
HAM 1.5. 31B May sweep to my revenge.
HAM-GHOST
I find thee apt,
HAM 1.5. 32 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
HAM 1.5. 33 That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf
HAM 1.5. 34 Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear.
HAM 1.5. 35 'Tis given out that, sleeping in mine orchard,
HAM 1.5. 36 A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark
HAM 1.5. 37 Is by a forged process of my death
HAM 1.5. 38 Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth,
HAM 1.5. 39 The serpent that did sting thy father's life
HAM 1.5. 40 Now wears his crown.
HAM 1.5. 41
HAM-HAMLET
O my prophetic soul! Mine uncle?
HAM 1.5. 42
HAM-GHOST
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
HAM 1.5. 43 With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts -
HAM 1.5. 44 O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
HAM 1.5. 45 So to seduce! - won to his shameful lust
HAM 1.5. 46 The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
HAM 1.5. 47 O Hamlet, what a falling off was there! -
HAM 1.5. 48 From me, whose love was of that dignity
HAM 1.5. 49 That it went hand-in-hand even with the vow
HAM 1.5. 50 I made to her in marriage, and to decline
HAM 1.5. 51 Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
HAM 1.5. 52 To those of mine.
HAM 1.5. 53 But virtue, as it never will be moved,
HAM 1.5. 54 Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
HAM 1.5. 55 So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,
HAM 1.5. 56 Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
HAM 1.5. 57 And prey on garbage.
HAM 1.5. 58 But soft, methinks I scent the morning's air.
HAM 1.5. 59 Brief let me be. Sleeping within mine orchard,
HAM 1.5. 60 My custom always in the afternoon,
HAM 1.5. 61 Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
HAM 1.5. 62 With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,
HAM 1.5. 63 And in the porches of mine ears did pour
HAM 1.5. 64 The leperous distilment, whose effect
HAM 1.5. 65 Holds such an enmity with blood of man
HAM 1.5. 66 That swift as quicksilver it courses through
HAM 1.5. 67 The natural gates and alleys of the body,
HAM 1.5. 68 And with a sudden vigour it doth posset
HAM 1.5. 69 And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
HAM 1.5. 70 The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine;
HAM 1.5. 71 And a most instant tetter barked about,
HAM 1.5. 72 Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
HAM 1.5. 73 All my smooth body.
HAM 1.5. 74 Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand
HAM 1.5. 75 Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,
HAM 1.5. 76 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
HAM 1.5. 77 Unhouseled, dis-appointed, unaneled,
HAM 1.5. 78 No reck'ning made, but sent to my account
HAM 1.5. 79 With all my imperfections on my head.
HAM 1.5. 80 O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!
HAM 1.5. 81 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.
HAM 1.5. 82 Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
HAM 1.5. 83 A couch for luxury and damned incest.
HAM 1.5. 84 But howsoever thou pursuest this act,
HAM 1.5. 85 Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
HAM 1.5. 86 Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven,
HAM 1.5. 87 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge
HAM 1.5. 88 To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once.
HAM 1.5. 89 The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
HAM 1.5. 90 And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
HAM 1.5. 91 Adieu, adieu, Hamlet. Remember me. {Exit}
HAM 1.5. 92
HAM-HAMLET
O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
HAM 1.5. 93 And shall I couple hell? O fie! Hold, hold, my heart,
HAM 1.5. 94 And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
HAM 1.5. 95 But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee?
HAM 1.5. 96 Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
HAM 1.5. 97 In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
HAM 1.5. 98 Yea, from the table of my memory
HAM 1.5. 99 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
HAM 1.5. 100 All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
HAM 1.5. 101 That youth and observation copied there,
HAM 1.5. 102 And thy commandment all alone shall live
HAM 1.5. 103 Within the book and volume of my brain
HAM 1.5. 104 Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, yes, by heaven.
HAM 1.5. 105 O most pernicious woman!
HAM 1.5. 106 O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
HAM 1.5. 107 My tables,
HAM 1.5. 108 My tables - meet it is I set it down
HAM 1.5. 109 That one may smile and smile and be a villain.
HAM 1.5. 110 At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. {He writes}
HAM 1.5. 111 So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word:
HAM 1.5. 112 It is `Adieu, adieu, remember me'.
HAM 1.5. 113 I have sworn 't.
HAM 1.5. 114A
HAM-HORATIO
HAM-AND
HAM-MARCELLUS
{(within)} My lord, my +
HAM 1.5. 114A lord. {Enter Horatio and Marcellus}
HAM 1.5. 115A
HAM-MARCELLUS
{(calling)} Lord Hamlet!
HAM 1.5. 116A
HAM-HORATIO
Heaven secure him.
HAM 1.5. 117A
HAM-HAMLET
So be it.
HAM 1.5. 118A
HAM-HORATIO
{(calling)} Illo, ho, ho, my lord.
HAM 1.5. 119
HAM-HAMLET
Hillo, ho, ho, boy; come, bird, come.
HAM 1.5. 120A
HAM-MARCELLUS
How is 't, my noble lord?
HAM 1.5. 121A
HAM-HORATIO
{(to Hamlet)} What news, my lord?
HAM 1.5. 122A
HAM-HAMLET
O wonderful!
HAM 1.5. 123B
HAM-HORATIO
Good my lord, tell it.
HAM-HAMLET
No, you'll reveal it.
HAM 1.5. 124B
HAM-HORATIO
Not I, my lord, by heaven.
HAM-MARCELLUS
Nor I, my lord.
HAM 1.5. 125
HAM-HAMLET
How say you then, would heart of man once think it?
HAM 1.5. 126B But you'll be secret?
HAM-HORATIO
HAM-AND
HAM-MARCELLUS
Ay, by heav'n, my +
HAM 1.5. 126B lord.
HAM 1.5. 127
HAM-HAMLET
There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
HAM 1.5. 128 But he's an arrant knave.
HAM 1.5. 129
HAM-HORATIO
There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
HAM 1.5. 130B To tell us this.
HAM-HAMLET
Why, right, you are i' th' right,
HAM 1.5. 131 And so without more circumstance at all
HAM 1.5. 132 I hold it fit that we shake hands and part,
HAM 1.5. 133 You as your business and desires shall point you -
HAM 1.5. 134 For every man has business and desire,
HAM 1.5. 135 Such as it is - and for mine own poor part,
HAM 1.5. 136 Look you, I'll go pray.
HAM 1.5. 137
HAM-HORATIO
These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
HAM 1.5. 138
HAM-HAMLET
I'm sorry they offend you, heartily,
HAM 1.5. 139B Yes, faith, heartily.
HAM-HORATIO
There's no offence, my lord.
HAM 1.5. 140
HAM-HAMLET
Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
HAM 1.5. 141 And much offence, too. Touching this vision here,
HAM 1.5. 142 It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you.
HAM 1.5. 143 For your desire to know what is between us,
HAM 1.5. 144 O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends,
HAM 1.5. 145 As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers,
HAM 1.5. 146B Give me one poor request.
HAM-HORATIO
What is 't, my lord? We will.
HAM 1.5. 147
HAM-HAMLET
Never make known what you have seen tonight.
HAM 1.5. 148B
HAM-HORATIO
HAM-AND
HAM-MARCELLUS
My lord, we will not.
HAM-HAMLET
Nay, but +
HAM 1.5. 148B swear 't.
HAM 1.5. 149B
HAM-HORATIO
In faith, my lord, not I.
HAM-MARCELLUS
Nor I, my lord, in +
HAM 1.5. 149B faith.
HAM 1.5. 150B
HAM-HAMLET
Upon my sword.
HAM-MARCELLUS
We have sworn, my lord, already.
HAM 1.5. 151B
HAM-HAMLET
Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. {The Ghost cries under +
HAM 1.5. 151B the stage}
HAM-GHOST
Swear.
HAM 1.5. 152
HAM-HAMLET
Ah ha, boy, sayst thou so? Art thou there, truepenny? -
HAM 1.5. 153 Come on. You hear this fellow in the cellarage.
HAM 1.5. 154B Consent to swear.
HAM-HORATIO
Propose the oath, my lord.
HAM 1.5. 155
HAM-HAMLET
Never to speak of this that you have seen,
HAM 1.5. 156 Swear by my sword.
HAM 1.5. 157A
HAM-GHOST
{(under the stage)} Swear. {[They +
HAM 1.5. 157A swear]}
HAM 1.5. 158
HAM-HAMLET
{Hic et ubique}? Then we'll shift our ground. -
HAM 1.5. 159 Come hither, gentlemen,
HAM 1.5. 160 And lay your hands again upon my sword.
HAM 1.5. 161 Never to speak of this that you have heard,
HAM 1.5. 162 Swear by my sword.
HAM 1.5. 163A
HAM-GHOST
{(under the stage)} Swear. {[They +
HAM 1.5. 163A swear]}
HAM 1.5. 164
HAM-HAMLET
Well said, old mole. Canst work i' th' earth so +
HAM 1.5. 164 fast?
HAM 1.5. 165 A worthy pioneer. - Once more remove, good friends.
HAM 1.5. 166
HAM-HORATIO
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
HAM 1.5. 167
HAM-HAMLET
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
HAM 1.5. 168 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
HAM 1.5. 169 Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. But come,
HAM 1.5. 170 Here as before, never, so help you mercy,
HAM 1.5. 171 How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself -
HAM 1.5. 172 As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
HAM 1.5. 173 To put an antic disposition on -
HAM 1.5. 174 That you at such time seeing me never shall,
HAM 1.5. 175 With arms encumbered thus, or this headshake,
HAM 1.5. 176 Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase
HAM 1.5. 177 As `Well, we know' or `We could an if we would',
HAM 1.5. 178 Or `If we list to speak', or `There be, an if they might',
HAM 1.5. 179 Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
HAM 1.5. 180 That you know aught of me - this not to do,
HAM 1.5. 181 So grace and mercy at your most need help you, swear.
HAM 1.5. 182A
HAM-GHOST
{(under the stage)} Swear. {[They +
HAM 1.5. 182A swear]}
HAM 1.5. 183
HAM-HAMLET
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit. - So, gentlemen,
HAM 1.5. 184 With all my love I do commend me to you,
HAM 1.5. 185 And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
HAM 1.5. 186 May do t' express his love and friending to you,
HAM 1.5. 187 God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together,
HAM 1.5. 188 And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
HAM 1.5. 189 The time is out of joint. O cursed spite
HAM 1.5. 190 That ever I was born to set it right!
HAM 1.5. 191 Nay, come, let's go together. {Exeunt}
HAM 1.5. 0 {Enter old Polonius with his man Reynaldo}
HAM 2.1. 1
HAM-POLONIUS
Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.
HAM 2.1. 2A
HAM-REYNALDO
I will, my lord.
HAM 2.1. 3
HAM-POLONIUS
You shall do marv'lous wisely, good Reynaldo,
HAM 2.1. 4 Before you visit him to make enquire
HAM 2.1. 5B Of his behaviour.
HAM-REYNALDO
My lord, I did intend it.
HAM 2.1. 6
HAM-POLONIUS
Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir,
HAM 2.1. 7 Enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,
HAM 2.1. 8 And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
HAM 2.1. 9 What company, at what expense; and finding
HAM 2.1. 10 By this encompassment and drift of question
HAM 2.1. 11 That they do know my son, come you more nearer
HAM 2.1. 12 Than your particular demands will touch it.
HAM 2.1. 13 Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him,
HAM 2.1. 14 As thus: `I know his father and his friends,
HAM 2.1. 15 And in part him' - do you mark this, Reynaldo?
HAM 2.1. 16A
HAM-REYNALDO
Ay, very well, my lord.
HAM 2.1. 17
HAM-POLONIUS
`And in part him, but', you may say, `not well,
HAM 2.1. 18 But if 't be he I mean, he's very wild,
HAM 2.1. 19 Addicted so and so'; and there put on him
HAM 2.1. 20 What forgeries you please - marry, none so rank
HAM 2.1. 21 As may dishonour him, take heed of that -
HAM 2.1. 22 But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips
HAM 2.1. 23 As are companions noted and most known
HAM 2.1. 24 To youth and liberty.
HAM 2.1. 25A
HAM-REYNALDO
As gaming, my lord?
HAM 2.1. 26A
HAM-POLONIUS
Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing,
HAM 2.1. 27 Quarrelling, drabbing - you may go so far.
HAM 2.1. 28
HAM-REYNALDO
My lord, that would dishonour him.
HAM 2.1. 29
HAM-POLONIUS
Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge.
HAM 2.1. 30 You must not put another scandal on him,
HAM 2.1. 31 That he is open to incontinency.
HAM 2.1. 32 That's not my meaning - but breathe his faults so quaintly
HAM 2.1. 33 That they may seem the taints of liberty,
HAM 2.1. 34 The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
HAM 2.1. 35 A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
HAM 2.1. 36B Of general assault.
HAM-REYNALDO
But, my good lord -
HAM 2.1. 37B
HAM-POLONIUS
Wherefore should you do this?
HAM-REYNALDO
Ay, my lord.
HAM 2.1. 38B I would know that.
HAM-POLONIUS
Marry, sir, here's my drift,
HAM 2.1. 39 And I believe it is a fetch of warrant:
HAM 2.1. 40 You laying these slight sullies on my son,
HAM 2.1. 41 As 'twere a thing a little soiled i' th' working,
HAM 2.1. 42 Mark you, your party in converse, him you would sound,
HAM 2.1. 43 Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
HAM 2.1. 44 The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured
HAM 2.1. 45 He closes with you in this consequence:
HAM 2.1. 46 `Good sir', or so, or `friend', or `gentleman',
HAM 2.1. 47 According to the phrase and the addition
HAM 2.1. 48B Of man and country.
HAM-REYNALDO
Very good, my lord.
HAM 2.1. 49
HAM-POLONIUS
And then, sir, does a this - a does -
HAM 2.1. 50 what was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to
HAM 2.1. 51 say something. Where did I leave?
HAM 2.1. 52
HAM-REYNALDO
At `closes in the consequence', at `friend,
HAM 2.1. 53 Or so', and `gentleman'.
HAM 2.1. 54
HAM-POLONIUS
At `closes in the consequence' - ay, marry,
HAM 2.1. 55 He closes with you thus: `I know the gentleman,
HAM 2.1. 56 I saw him yesterday' - or t' other day,
HAM 2.1. 57 Or then, or then - `with such and such, and, as you say,
HAM 2.1. 58 There was a gaming, there o'ertook in 's rouse,
HAM 2.1. 59 There falling out at tennis', or perchance
HAM 2.1. 60 `I saw him enter such a house of sale',
HAM 2.1. 61 Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. See you now,
HAM 2.1. 62 Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;
HAM 2.1. 63 And thus do we of wisdom and of reach
HAM 2.1. 64 With windlasses and with assays of bias
HAM 2.1. 65 By indirections find directions out.
HAM 2.1. 66 So, by my former lecture and advice,
HAM 2.1. 67 Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?
HAM 2.1. 68A
HAM-REYNALDO
My lord, I have.
HAM 2.1. 69A
HAM-POLONIUS
God b' wi' ye. Fare ye well.
HAM 2.1. 70A
HAM-REYNALDO
Good my lord.
HAM 2.1. 71
HAM-POLONIUS
Observe his inclination in yourself.
HAM 2.1. 72A
HAM-REYNALDO
I shall, my lord.
HAM 2.1. 73A
HAM-POLONIUS
And let him ply his music.
HAM 2.1. 74A
HAM-REYNALDO
Well, my lord. {Enter Ophelia}
HAM 2.1. 75B
HAM-POLONIUS
Farewell. {Exit Reynaldo} How +
HAM 2.1. 75B now, Ophelia, what's the matter?
HAM 2.1. 76
HAM-OPHELIA
Alas, my lord, I have been so affrighted.
HAM 2.1. 77A
HAM-POLONIUS
With what, i' th' name of God?
HAM 2.1. 78
HAM-OPHELIA
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
HAM 2.1. 79 Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,
HAM 2.1. 80 No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,
HAM 2.1. 81 Ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle,
HAM 2.1. 82 Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
HAM 2.1. 83 And with a look so piteous in purport
HAM 2.1. 84 As if he had been loosed out of hell
HAM 2.1. 85 To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
HAM 2.1. 86B
HAM-POLONIUS
Mad for thy love?
HAM-OPHELIA
My lord, I do not know,
HAM 2.1. 87B But truly I do fear it.
HAM-POLONIUS
What said he?
HAM 2.1. 88
HAM-OPHELIA
He took me by the wrist and held me hard,
HAM 2.1. 89 Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
HAM 2.1. 90 And with his other hand thus o'er his brow
HAM 2.1. 91 He falls to such perusal of my face
HAM 2.1. 92 As a would draw it. Long stayed he so.
HAM 2.1. 93 At last, a little shaking of mine arm,
HAM 2.1. 94 And thrice his head thus waving up and down,
HAM 2.1. 95 He raised a sigh so piteous and profound
HAM 2.1. 96 That it did seem to shatter all his bulk
HAM 2.1. 97 And end his being. That done, he lets me go,
HAM 2.1. 98 And, with his head over his shoulder turned,
HAM 2.1. 99 He seemed to find his way without his eyes,
HAM 2.1. 100 For out o' doors he went without their help,
HAM 2.1. 101 And to the last bended their light on me.
HAM 2.1. 102
HAM-POLONIUS
Come, go with me. I will go seek the King.
HAM 2.1. 103 This is the very ecstasy of love,
HAM 2.1. 104 Whose violent property fordoes itself
HAM 2.1. 105 And leads the will to desperate undertakings
HAM 2.1. 106 As oft as any passion under heaven
HAM 2.1. 107 That does afflict our natures. I am sorry -
HAM 2.1. 108 What, have you given him any hard words of late?
HAM 2.1. 109
HAM-OPHELIA
No, my good lord, but as you did command
HAM 2.1. 110 I did repel his letters and denied
HAM 2.1. 111B His access to me.
HAM-POLONIUS
That hath made him mad.
HAM 2.1. 112 I am sorry that with better speed and judgement
HAM 2.1. 113 I had not quoted him. I feared he did but trifle
HAM 2.1. 114 And meant to wreck thee. But beshrew my jealousy!
HAM 2.1. 115 By heaven, it is as proper to our age
HAM 2.1. 116 To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
HAM 2.1. 117 As it is common for the younger sort
HAM 2.1. 118 To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King.
HAM 2.1. 119 This must be known, which, being kept close, might move
HAM 2.1. 120 More grief to hide than hate to utter love. {Exeunt}
HAM 2.1. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, +
HAM 2.2. 0 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with others}
HAM 2.2. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
HAM 2.2. 2 Moreover that we much did long to see you,
HAM 2.2. 3 The need we have to use you did provoke
HAM 2.2. 4 Our hasty sending. Something have you heard
HAM 2.2. 5 Of Hamlet's transformation - so I call it,
HAM 2.2. 6 Since not th' exterior nor the inward man
HAM 2.2. 7 Resembles that it was. What it should be,
HAM 2.2. 8 More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
HAM 2.2. 9 So much from th' understanding of himself,
HAM 2.2. 10 I cannot deem of. I entreat you both
HAM 2.2. 11 That, being of so young days brought up with him,
HAM 2.2. 12 And since so neighboured to his youth and humour,
HAM 2.2. 13 That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
HAM 2.2. 14 Some little time, so by your companies
HAM 2.2. 15 To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,
HAM 2.2. 16 So much as from occasions you may glean,
HAM 2.2. 17 Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus
HAM 2.2. 18 That, opened, lies within our remedy.
HAM 2.2. 19
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you,
HAM 2.2. 20 And sure I am two men there is not living
HAM 2.2. 21 To whom he more adheres. If it will please you
HAM 2.2. 22 To show us so much gentry and good will
HAM 2.2. 23 As to expend your time with us a while
HAM 2.2. 24 For the supply and profit of our hope,
HAM 2.2. 25 Your visitation shall receive such thanks
HAM 2.2. 26B As fits a king's remembrance.
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Both your majesties
HAM 2.2. 27 Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
HAM 2.2. 28 Put your dread pleasures more into command
HAM 2.2. 29B Than to entreaty.
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
But we both obey,
HAM 2.2. 30 And here give up ourselves in the full bent
HAM 2.2. 31 To lay our service freely at your feet
HAM 2.2. 32 To be commanded.
HAM 2.2. 33
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.
HAM 2.2. 34
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz.
HAM 2.2. 35 And I beseech you instantly to visit
HAM 2.2. 36 My too-much changed son. - Go, some of ye,
HAM 2.2. 37 And bring the gentlemen where Hamlet is.
HAM 2.2. 38
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Heavens make our presence and our practices
HAM 2.2. 39B Pleasant and helpful to him.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Ay, amen! {Exeunt +
HAM 2.2. 39B Rosencrantz and Guildenstern [with others]}
HAM 2.2. 40 {Enter Polonius}
HAM-POLONIUS
Th' ambassadors from +
HAM 2.2. 40 Norway, my good lord,
HAM 2.2. 41 Are joyfully returned.
HAM 2.2. 42
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Thou still hast been the father of good news.
HAM 2.2. 43
HAM-POLONIUS
Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege,
HAM 2.2. 44 I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,
HAM 2.2. 45 Both to my God and to my gracious King.
HAM 2.2. 46 And I do think - or else this brain of mine
HAM 2.2. 47 Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
HAM 2.2. 48 As it hath used to do - that I have found
HAM 2.2. 49 The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
HAM 2.2. 50
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
O speak of that, that I do long to hear!
HAM 2.2. 51
HAM-POLONIUS
Give first admittance to th' ambassadors.
HAM 2.2. 52 My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.
HAM 2.2. 53
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in. +
HAM 2.2. 53 {Exit Polonius}
HAM 2.2. 54 He tells me, my sweet queen, that he hath found
HAM 2.2. 55 The head and source of all your son's distemper.
HAM 2.2. 56
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
I doubt it is no other but the main -
HAM 2.2. 57 His father's death and our o'er-hasty marriage.
HAM 2.2. 58B
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Well, we shall sift him. {Enter Polonius, +
HAM 2.2. 58B Valtemand, and Cornelius} Welcome, my good friends.
HAM 2.2. 59 Say, Valtemand, what from our brother Norway?
HAM 2.2. 60
HAM-VALTEMAND
Most fair return of greetings and desires.
HAM 2.2. 61 Upon our first he sent out to suppress
HAM 2.2. 62 His nephew's levies, which to him appeared
HAM 2.2. 63 To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack;
HAM 2.2. 64 But better looked into, he truly found
HAM 2.2. 65 It was against your highness; whereat grieved
HAM 2.2. 66 That so his sickness, age, and impotence
HAM 2.2. 67 Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
HAM 2.2. 68 On Fortinbras, which he, in brief, obeys,
HAM 2.2. 69 Receives rebuke from Norway, and, in fine,
HAM 2.2. 70 Makes vow before his uncle never more
HAM 2.2. 71 To give th' essay of arms against your majesty;
HAM 2.2. 72 Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
HAM 2.2. 73 Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee
HAM 2.2. 74 And his commission to employ those soldiers
HAM 2.2. 75 So levied as before, against the Polack,
HAM 2.2. 76 With an entreaty herein further shown, {He gives a letter to +
HAM 2.2. 76 Claudius}
HAM 2.2. 77 That it might please you to give quiet pass
HAM 2.2. 78 Through your dominions for his enterprise
HAM 2.2. 79 On such regards of safety and allowance
HAM 2.2. 80B As therein are set down.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
It likes us well,
HAM 2.2. 81 And at our more considered time we'll read,
HAM 2.2. 82 Answer, and think upon this business.
HAM 2.2. 83 Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour.
HAM 2.2. 84 Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together.
HAM 2.2. 85 Most welcome home. {Exeunt Valtemand and Cornelius}
HAM 2.2. 86
HAM-POLONIUS
This business is very well ended.
HAM 2.2. 87 My liege, and madam, to expostulate
HAM 2.2. 88 What majesty should be, what duty is,
HAM 2.2. 89 Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
HAM 2.2. 90 Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
HAM 2.2. 91 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
HAM 2.2. 92 And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
HAM 2.2. 93 I will be brief. Your noble son is mad -
HAM 2.2. 94 `Mad' call I it, for to define true madness,
HAM 2.2. 95 What is 't but to be nothing else but mad?
HAM 2.2. 96B But let that go.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
More matter with less art.
HAM 2.2. 97
HAM-POLONIUS
Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
HAM 2.2. 98 That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity,
HAM 2.2. 99 And pity 'tis 'tis true - a foolish figure,
HAM 2.2. 100 But farewell it, for I will use no art.
HAM 2.2. 101 Mad let us grant him, then; and now remains
HAM 2.2. 102 That we find out the cause of this effect -
HAM 2.2. 103 Or rather say `the cause of this {defect}',
HAM 2.2. 104 For this effect defective comes by cause.
HAM 2.2. 105 Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
HAM 2.2. 106 Perpend.
HAM 2.2. 107 I have a daughter - have whilst she is mine -
HAM 2.2. 108 Who in her duty and obedience, mark,
HAM 2.2. 109 Hath given me this. Now gather and surmise. {He reads a letter}
HAM 2.2. 110 `To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most beautified
HAM 2.2. 111 Ophelia' - that's an ill phrase, a vile phrase, `beautified'
HAM 2.2. 112 is a vile phrase. But you shall hear - `these in her
HAM 2.2. 113 excellent white bosom, these'.
HAM 2.2. 114A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Came this from Hamlet to her?
HAM 2.2. 115
HAM-POLONIUS
Good madam, stay a while. I will be faithful.
HAM 2.2. 116 `Doubt thou the stars are fire,
HAM 2.2. 117 Doubt that the sun doth move,
HAM 2.2. 118 Doubt truth to be a liar,
HAM 2.2. 119 But never doubt I love.
HAM 2.2. 120 O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not
HAM 2.2. 121 art to reckon my groans. But that I love thee best, O
HAM 2.2. 122 most best, believe it. Adieu.
HAM 2.2. 123 Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this
HAM 2.2. 124 machine is to him,
HAM 2.2. 125 Hamlet.'
HAM 2.2. 126 This in obedience hath my daughter showed me,
HAM 2.2. 127 And more above hath his solicitings,
HAM 2.2. 128 As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
HAM 2.2. 129B All given to mine ear.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
But how hath she
HAM 2.2. 130B Received his love?
HAM-POLONIUS
What do you think of me?
HAM 2.2. 131
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
As of a man faithful and honourable.
HAM 2.2. 132
HAM-POLONIUS
I would fain prove so. But what might you think,
HAM 2.2. 133 When I had seen this hot love on the wing,
HAM 2.2. 134 As I perceived it - I must tell you that -
HAM 2.2. 135 Before my daughter told me, what might you,
HAM 2.2. 136 Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,
HAM 2.2. 137 If I had played the desk or table-book,
HAM 2.2. 138 Or given my heart a winking mute and dumb,
HAM 2.2. 139 Or looked upon this love with idle sight -
HAM 2.2. 140 What might you think? No, I went round to work,
HAM 2.2. 141 And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
HAM 2.2. 142 `Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star.
HAM 2.2. 143 This must not be'. And then I precepts gave her,
HAM 2.2. 144 That she should lock herself from his resort,
HAM 2.2. 145 Admit no messengers, receive no tokens;
HAM 2.2. 146 Which done, she took the fruits of my advice,
HAM 2.2. 147 And he, repulsed - a short tale to make -
HAM 2.2. 148 Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
HAM 2.2. 149 Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
HAM 2.2. 150 Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,
HAM 2.2. 151 Into the madness wherein now he raves,
HAM 2.2. 152 And all we wail for.
HAM 2.2. 153A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to Gertrude)} Do you think 'tis +
HAM 2.2. 153A this?
HAM 2.2. 154A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
It may be; very likely.
HAM 2.2. 155
HAM-POLONIUS
Hath there been such a time - I'd fain know that -
HAM 2.2. 156 That I have positively said `'Tis so'
HAM 2.2. 157B When it proved otherwise?
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Not that I know.
HAM 2.2. 158
HAM-POLONIUS
{(touching his head, then his shoulder)} +
HAM 2.2. 158 Take this from this if this be otherwise.
HAM 2.2. 159 If circumstances lead me I will find
HAM 2.2. 160 Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
HAM 2.2. 161B Within the centre.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
How may we try it further?
HAM 2.2. 162
HAM-POLONIUS
You know sometimes he walks four hours together
HAM 2.2. 163B Here in the lobby.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
So he does indeed.
HAM 2.2. 164
HAM-POLONIUS
At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him.
HAM 2.2. 165 {(To Claudius)} Be you and I behind an arras then.
HAM 2.2. 166 Mark the encounter. If he love her not,
HAM 2.2. 167 And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,
HAM 2.2. 168 Let me be no assistant for a state,
HAM 2.2. 169B But keep a farm and carters.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
We will try it. +
HAM 2.2. 169B {Enter Prince Hamlet, madly attired, reading on a book}
HAM 2.2. 170
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
But look where sadly the poor wretch comes +
HAM 2.2. 170 reading.
HAM 2.2. 171
HAM-POLONIUS
Away, I do beseech you both, away.
HAM 2.2. 172 I'll board him presently. O give me leave. {Exeunt Claudius and +
HAM 2.2. 172 Gertrude}
HAM 2.2. 173 How does my good Lord Hamlet?
HAM 2.2. 174A
HAM-HAMLET
Well, God-'a'-mercy.
HAM 2.2. 175A
HAM-POLONIUS
Do you know me, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 176
HAM-HAMLET
Excellent, excellent well. You're a fishmonger.
HAM 2.2. 177
HAM-POLONIUS
Not I, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 178
HAM-HAMLET
Then I would you were so honest a man.
HAM 2.2. 179
HAM-POLONIUS
Honest, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 180
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, sir. To be honest, as this world goes, is to
HAM 2.2. 181 be one man picked out of ten thousand.
HAM 2.2. 182
HAM-POLONIUS
That's very true, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 183
HAM-HAMLET
For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being
HAM 2.2. 184 a good kissing carrion - have you a daughter?
HAM 2.2. 185
HAM-POLONIUS
I have, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 186
HAM-HAMLET
Let her not walk i' th' sun. Conception is a
HAM 2.2. 187 blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive.
HAM 2.2. 188 Friend, look to 't.
HAM 2.2. 189
HAM-POLONIUS
{(aside)} How say you by that? Still +
HAM 2.2. 189 harping on
HAM 2.2. 190 my daughter. Yet he knew me not at first - a said I
HAM 2.2. 191 was a fishmonger. A is far gone, far gone, and truly,
HAM 2.2. 192 in my youth I suffered much extremity for love, very
HAM 2.2. 193 near this. I'll speak to him again. - What do you read,
HAM 2.2. 194 my lord?
HAM 2.2. 195
HAM-HAMLET
Words, words, words.
HAM 2.2. 196
HAM-POLONIUS
What is the matter, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 197
HAM-HAMLET
Between who?
HAM 2.2. 198
HAM-POLONIUS
I mean the matter you read, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 199
HAM-HAMLET
Slanders, sir; for the satirical slave says here that
HAM 2.2. 200 old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled,
HAM 2.2. 201 their eyes purging thick amber or plum-tree gum, and
HAM 2.2. 202 that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with
HAM 2.2. 203 most weak hams. All which, sir, though I most
HAM 2.2. 204 powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty
HAM 2.2. 205 to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir, should
HAM 2.2. 206 be old as I am - if, like a crab, you could go backward.
HAM 2.2. 207
HAM-POLONIUS
{(aside)} Though this be madness, yet +
HAM 2.2. 207 there is
HAM 2.2. 208 method in 't. - Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 209
HAM-HAMLET
Into my grave.
HAM 2.2. 210
HAM-POLONIUS
Indeed, that is out o' th' air. {(Aside)} +
HAM 2.2. 210 How pregnant
HAM 2.2. 211 sometimes his replies are! A happiness that often
HAM 2.2. 212 madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not
HAM 2.2. 213 so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him, and
HAM 2.2. 214 suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him
HAM 2.2. 215 and my daughter. - My lord, I will take my leave of
HAM 2.2. 216 you.
HAM 2.2. 217
HAM-HAMLET
You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I
HAM 2.2. 218 will more willingly part withal - except my life, my life,
HAM 2.2. 219 my life.
HAM 2.2. 220
HAM-POLONIUS
{(going)} Fare you well, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 221
HAM-HAMLET
These tedious old fools! {[Enter Guildenstern and +
HAM 2.2. 221 Rosencrantz]}
HAM 2.2. 222
HAM-POLONIUS
You go to seek the Lord Hamlet. There he is.
HAM 2.2. 223
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
God save you, sir.
HAM 2.2. 224
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
{[to Polonius]} Mine honoured +
HAM 2.2. 224 lord. {[Exit Polonius]}
HAM 2.2. 225
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
{(to Hamlet)} My most dear lord.
HAM 2.2. 226
HAM-HAMLET
My ex'llent good friends. How dost thou,
HAM 2.2. 227 Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz - good lads, how do ye
HAM 2.2. 228 both?
HAM 2.2. 229
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
As the indifferent children of the earth.
HAM 2.2. 230
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Happy in that we are not over-happy,
HAM 2.2. 231 On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.
HAM 2.2. 232
HAM-HAMLET
Nor the soles of her shoe?
HAM 2.2. 233
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Neither, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 234
HAM-HAMLET
Then you live about her waist, or in the middle
HAM 2.2. 235 of her favour?
HAM 2.2. 236
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Faith, her privates we.
HAM 2.2. 237
HAM-HAMLET
In the secret parts of Fortune? O, most true, she
HAM 2.2. 238 is a strumpet. What's the news?
HAM 2.2. 239
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
None, my lord, but that the world's grown
HAM 2.2. 240 honest.
HAM 2.2. 241
HAM-HAMLET
Then is doomsday near. But your news is not
HAM 2.2. 242 true. Let me question more in particular. What have
HAM 2.2. 243 you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune
HAM 2.2. 244 that she sends you to prison hither?
HAM 2.2. 245
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Prison, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 246
HAM-HAMLET
Denmark's a prison.
HAM 2.2. 247
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Then is the world one.
HAM 2.2. 248
HAM-HAMLET
A goodly one, in which there are many confines,
HAM 2.2. 249 wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o' th' worst.
HAM 2.2. 250
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
We think not so, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 251
HAM-HAMLET
Why, then 'tis none to you, for there is nothing
HAM 2.2. 252 either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it
HAM 2.2. 253 is a prison.
HAM 2.2. 254
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Why, then your ambition makes it one; 'tis
HAM 2.2. 255 too narrow for your mind.
HAM 2.2. 256
HAM-HAMLET
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and
HAM 2.2. 257 count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that
HAM 2.2. 258 I have bad dreams.
HAM 2.2. 259
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Which dreams indeed are ambition; for the
HAM 2.2. 260 very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow
HAM 2.2. 261 of a dream.
HAM 2.2. 262
HAM-HAMLET
A dream itself is but a shadow.
HAM 2.2. 263
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and
HAM 2.2. 264 light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.
HAM 2.2. 265
HAM-HAMLET
Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs
HAM 2.2. 266 and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall
HAM 2.2. 267 we to th' court? For, by my fay, I cannot reason.
HAM 2.2. 268
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
HAM-AND
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
We'll wait upon you.
HAM 2.2. 269
HAM-HAMLET
No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest
HAM 2.2. 270 of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest
HAM 2.2. 271 man, I am most dreadfully attended. But in the beaten
HAM 2.2. 272 way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
HAM 2.2. 273
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
To visit you, my lord, no other occasion.
HAM 2.2. 274
HAM-HAMLET
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but
HAM 2.2. 275 I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too
HAM 2.2. 276 dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your
HAM 2.2. 277 own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly
HAM 2.2. 278 with me. Come, come. Nay, speak.
HAM 2.2. 279
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
What should we say, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 280
HAM-HAMLET
Why, anything - but to th' purpose. You were
HAM 2.2. 281 sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks
HAM 2.2. 282 which your modesties have not craft enough to colour.
HAM 2.2. 283 I know the good King and Queen have sent for you.
HAM 2.2. 284
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
To what end, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 285
HAM-HAMLET
That you must teach me. But let me conjure you
HAM 2.2. 286 by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of
HAM 2.2. 287 our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love,
HAM 2.2. 288 and by what more dear a better proposer could charge
HAM 2.2. 289 you withal, be even and direct with me whether you
HAM 2.2. 290 were sent for or no.
HAM 2.2. 291
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
{(to Guildenstern)} What say you?
HAM 2.2. 292
HAM-HAMLET
Nay then, I have an eye of you - if you love me,
HAM 2.2. 293 hold not off.
HAM 2.2. 294
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
My lord, we were sent for.
HAM 2.2. 295
HAM-HAMLET
I will tell you why. So shall my anticipation
HAM 2.2. 296 prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King
HAM 2.2. 297 and Queen moult no feather. I have of late - but
HAM 2.2. 298 wherefore I know not - lost all my mirth, forgone all
HAM 2.2. 299 custom of exercise; and indeed it goes so heavily with
HAM 2.2. 300 my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems
HAM 2.2. 301 to me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy
HAM 2.2. 302 the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging, this majestical
HAM 2.2. 303 roof fretted with golden fire - why, it appears no other
HAM 2.2. 304 thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of
HAM 2.2. 305 vapours. What a piece of work is a man! How noble
HAM 2.2. 306 in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving
HAM 2.2. 307 how express and admirable, in action how like an
HAM 2.2. 308 angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of
HAM 2.2. 309 the world, the paragon of animals! And yet to me what
HAM 2.2. 310 is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me - no,
HAM 2.2. 311 nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem
HAM 2.2. 312 to say so.
HAM 2.2. 313
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
My lord, there was no such stuff in my
HAM 2.2. 314 thoughts.
HAM 2.2. 315
HAM-HAMLET
Why did you laugh, then, when I said `Man
HAM 2.2. 316 delights not me'?
HAM 2.2. 317
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
To think, my lord, if you delight not in man
HAM 2.2. 318 what lenten entertainment the players shall receive
HAM 2.2. 319 from you. We coted them on the way, and hither are
HAM 2.2. 320 they coming to offer you service.
HAM 2.2. 321
HAM-HAMLET
He that plays the King shall be welcome; his
HAM 2.2. 322 majesty shall have tribute of me. The adventurous
HAM 2.2. 323 Knight shall use his foil and target, the Lover shall not
HAM 2.2. 324 sigh gratis, the Humorous Man shall end his part in
HAM 2.2. 325 peace, the Clown shall make those laugh whose lungs
HAM 2.2. 326 are tickled o' th' sear, and the Lady shall say her mind
HAM 2.2. 327 freely, or the blank verse shall halt for 't. What players
HAM 2.2. 328 are they?
HAM 2.2. 329
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Even those you were wont to take delight
HAM 2.2. 330 in, the tragedians of the city.
HAM 2.2. 331
HAM-HAMLET
How chances it they travel? Their residence both
HAM 2.2. 332 in reputation and profit was better both ways.
HAM 2.2. 333
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
I think their inhibition comes by the means
HAM 2.2. 334 of the late innovation.
HAM 2.2. 335
HAM-HAMLET
Do they hold the same estimation they did when
HAM 2.2. 336 I was in the city? Are they so followed?
HAM 2.2. 337
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
No, indeed, they are not.
HAM 2.2. 338
HAM-HAMLET
How comes it? Do they grow rusty?
HAM 2.2. 339
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted
HAM 2.2. 340 pace. But there is, sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases,
HAM 2.2. 341 that cry out on the top of question and are most
HAM 2.2. 342 tyrannically clapped for 't. These are now the fashion,
HAM 2.2. 343 and so berattle the common stages - so they call them -
HAM 2.2. 344 that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills,
HAM 2.2. 345 and dare scarce come thither.
HAM 2.2. 346
HAM-HAMLET
What, are they children? Who maintains 'em?
HAM 2.2. 347 How are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no
HAM 2.2. 348 longer than they can sing? Will they not say afterwards,
HAM 2.2. 349 if they should grow themselves to common players -
HAM 2.2. 350 as it is like most will, if their means are not better -
HAM 2.2. 351 their writers do them wrong to make them exclaim
HAM 2.2. 352 against their own succession?
HAM 2.2. 353
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Faith, there has been much to-do on both
HAM 2.2. 354 sides, and the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to
HAM 2.2. 355 controversy. There was for a while no money bid for
HAM 2.2. 356 argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs
HAM 2.2. 357 in the question.
HAM 2.2. 358
HAM-HAMLET
Is 't possible?
HAM 2.2. 359
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
O, there has been much throwing about of
HAM 2.2. 360 brains.
HAM 2.2. 361
HAM-HAMLET
Do the boys carry it away?
HAM 2.2. 362
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Ay, that they do, my lord, Hercules and his
HAM 2.2. 363 load too.
HAM 2.2. 364
HAM-HAMLET
It is not strange; for mine uncle is King of
HAM 2.2. 365 Denmark, and those that would make mows at him
HAM 2.2. 366 while my father lived give twenty, forty, an hundred
HAM 2.2. 367 ducats apiece for his picture in little. 'Sblood, there is
HAM 2.2. 368 something in this more than natural, if philosophy
HAM 2.2. 369 could find it out. {A flourish for the Players}
HAM 2.2. 370
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
There are the players.
HAM 2.2. 371
HAM-HAMLET
Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your
HAM 2.2. 372 hands, come. Th' appurtenance of welcome is fashion
HAM 2.2. 373 and ceremony. Let me comply with you in the garb,
HAM 2.2. 374 lest my extent to the players - which, I tell you, must
HAM 2.2. 375 show fairly outward - should more appear like
HAM 2.2. 376 entertainment than yours. {[He shakes hands with them]}
HAM 2.2. 377 You are welcome. But my uncle-father and aunt-mother
HAM 2.2. 378 are deceived.
HAM 2.2. 379
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
In what, my dear lord?
HAM 2.2. 380
HAM-HAMLET
I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind
HAM 2.2. 381 is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. {Enter Polonius}
HAM 2.2. 382
HAM-POLONIUS
Well be with you, gentlemen.
HAM 2.2. 383
HAM-HAMLET
{(aside)} Hark you, Guildenstern, and you +
HAM 2.2. 383 too - at
HAM 2.2. 384 each ear a hearer - that great baby you see there is
HAM 2.2. 385 not yet out of his swathing-clouts.
HAM 2.2. 386
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
{(aside)} Haply he's the second time +
HAM 2.2. 386 come to
HAM 2.2. 387 them, for they say an old man is twice a child.
HAM 2.2. 388
HAM-HAMLET
{(aside)} I will prophesy he comes to tell +
HAM 2.2. 388 me of the
HAM 2.2. 389 players. Mark it. - You say right, sir, for o' Monday
HAM 2.2. 390 morning, 'twas so indeed.
HAM 2.2. 391
HAM-POLONIUS
My lord, I have news to tell you.
HAM 2.2. 392
HAM-HAMLET
My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius
HAM 2.2. 393 was an actor in Rome -
HAM 2.2. 394
HAM-POLONIUS
The actors are come hither, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 395
HAM-HAMLET
Buzz, buzz.
HAM 2.2. 396
HAM-POLONIUS
Upon mine honour -
HAM 2.2. 397
HAM-HAMLET
Then came each actor on his ass.
HAM 2.2. 398
HAM-POLONIUS
The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,
HAM 2.2. 399 comedy, history, pastoral, pastorical-comical, historical-
HAM 2.2. 400 pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-
HAM 2.2. 401 pastoral, scene individable or poem unlimited. Seneca
HAM 2.2. 402 cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law
HAM 2.2. 403 of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.
HAM 2.2. 404
HAM-HAMLET
O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst
HAM 2.2. 405 thou!
HAM 2.2. 406
HAM-POLONIUS
What a treasure had he, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 407A
HAM-HAMLET
Why,
HAM 2.2. 408 `One fair daughter and no more,
HAM 2.2. 409 The which he loved passing well'.
HAM 2.2. 410
HAM-POLONIUS
{(aside)} Still on my daughter.
HAM 2.2. 411
HAM-HAMLET
Am I not i' th' right, old Jephthah?
HAM 2.2. 412
HAM-POLONIUS
If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a
HAM 2.2. 413 daughter that I love passing well.
HAM 2.2. 414
HAM-HAMLET
Nay, that follows not.
HAM 2.2. 415
HAM-POLONIUS
What follows then, my lord?
HAM 2.2. 416A
HAM-HAMLET
Why
HAM 2.2. 417 `As by lot
HAM 2.2. 418 God wot',
HAM 2.2. 419 and then you know
HAM 2.2. 420 `It came to pass
HAM 2.2. 421 As most like it was' -
HAM 2.2. 422 the first row of the pious chanson will show you more,
HAM 2.2. 423 for look where my abridgements come. {Enter four or five +
HAM 2.2. 423 Players}
HAM 2.2. 424 You're welcome, masters, welcome all. - I am glad to
HAM 2.2. 425 see thee well. - Welcome, good friends. - O, my old
HAM 2.2. 426 friend! Thy face is valanced since I saw thee last.
HAM 2.2. 427 Com'st thou to beard me in Denmark? - What, my
HAM 2.2. 428 young lady and mistress. By 'r Lady, your ladyship is
HAM 2.2. 429 nearer heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude
HAM 2.2. 430 of a chopine. Pray God your voice, like a piece of
HAM 2.2. 431 uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring. -
HAM 2.2. 432 Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en to 't like French
HAM 2.2. 433 falc'ners, fly at anything we see. We'll have a speech
HAM 2.2. 434 straight. Come, give us a taste of your quality. Come,
HAM 2.2. 435 a passionate speech.
HAM 2.2. 436
HAM-FIRST PLAYER
What speech, my good lord?
HAM 2.2. 437
HAM-HAMLET
I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was
HAM 2.2. 438 never acted, or, if it was, not above once; for the play,
HAM 2.2. 439 I remember, pleased not the million. 'Twas caviare to
HAM 2.2. 440 the general. But it was - as I received it, and others
HAM 2.2. 441 whose judgements in such matters cried in the top of
HAM 2.2. 442 mine - an excellent play, well digested in the scenes,
HAM 2.2. 443 set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember
HAM 2.2. 444 one said there was no sallets in the lines to make the
HAM 2.2. 445 matter savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might
HAM 2.2. 446 indict the author of affectation, but called it an honest
HAM 2.2. 447 method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very much
HAM 2.2. 448 more handsome than fine. One speech in it I chiefly
HAM 2.2. 449 loved, 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it
HAM 2.2. 450 especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it
HAM 2.2. 451 live in your memory, begin at this line - let me see, let
HAM 2.2. 452 me see:
HAM 2.2. 453 `The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast' -
HAM 2.2. 454 'tis not so. It begins with Pyrrhus -
HAM 2.2. 455 `The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
HAM 2.2. 456 Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
HAM 2.2. 457 When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
HAM 2.2. 458 Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared
HAM 2.2. 459 With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot
HAM 2.2. 460 Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
HAM 2.2. 461 With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
HAM 2.2. 462 Baked and impasted with the parching streets,
HAM 2.2. 463 That lend a tyrranous and damned light
HAM 2.2. 464 To their vile murders. Roasted in wrath and fire,
HAM 2.2. 465 And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,
HAM 2.2. 466 With eyes like carbuncles the hellish Pyrrhus
HAM 2.2. 467 Old grandsire Priam seeks.'
HAM 2.2. 468 So, proceed you.
HAM 2.2. 469
HAM-POLONIUS
Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good
HAM 2.2. 470 accent and good discretion.
HAM 2.2. 471A
HAM-FIRST PLAYER
`Anon he finds him,
HAM 2.2. 472 Striking too short at Greeks. His antique sword,
HAM 2.2. 473 Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,
HAM 2.2. 474 Repugnant to command. Unequal match,
HAM 2.2. 475 Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;
HAM 2.2. 476 But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
HAM 2.2. 477 Th' unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
HAM 2.2. 478 Seeming to feel his blow, with flaming top
HAM 2.2. 479 Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash
HAM 2.2. 480 Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear. For lo, his sword,
HAM 2.2. 481 Which was declining on the milky head
HAM 2.2. 482 Of reverend Priam, seemed i' th' air to stick.
HAM 2.2. 483 So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,
HAM 2.2. 484 And, like a neutral to his will and matter,
HAM 2.2. 485 Did nothing.
HAM 2.2. 486 But as we often see against some storm
HAM 2.2. 487 A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,
HAM 2.2. 488 The bold winds speechless, and the orb below
HAM 2.2. 489 As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
HAM 2.2. 490 Doth rend the region: so, after Pyrrhus' pause,
HAM 2.2. 491 A roused vengeance sets him new a-work;
HAM 2.2. 492 And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall
HAM 2.2. 493 On Mars his armour, forged for proof eterne,
HAM 2.2. 494 With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword
HAM 2.2. 495 Now falls on Priam.
HAM 2.2. 496 Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
HAM 2.2. 497 In general synod, take away her power,
HAM 2.2. 498 Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
HAM 2.2. 499 And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,
HAM 2.2. 500 As low as to the fiends!'
HAM 2.2. 501A
HAM-POLONIUS
This is too long.
HAM 2.2. 502
HAM-HAMLET
It shall to the barber's, with your beard. +
HAM 2.2. 502 {(To First}
HAM 2.2. 503 {Player)} Prithee, say on. He's for a jig or a tale of
HAM 2.2. 504 bawdry, or he sleeps. Say on, come to Hecuba.
HAM 2.2. 505
HAM-FIRST PLAYER
`But who, O who had seen the mobbled queen' -
HAM 2.2. 506
HAM-HAMLET
`The mobbled queen'?
HAM 2.2. 507
HAM-POLONIUS
That's good; `mobbled queen' is good.
HAM 2.2. 508
HAM-FIRST PLAYER
`Run barefoot up and down, threat'ning the +
HAM 2.2. 508 flames
HAM 2.2. 509 With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head
HAM 2.2. 510 Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
HAM 2.2. 511 About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,
HAM 2.2. 512 A blanket in th' alarm of fear caught up -
HAM 2.2. 513 Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steeped,
HAM 2.2. 514 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced.
HAM 2.2. 515 But if the gods themselves did see her then,
HAM 2.2. 516 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
HAM 2.2. 517 In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
HAM 2.2. 518 The instant burst of clamour that she made -
HAM 2.2. 519 Unless things mortal move them not at all -
HAM 2.2. 520 Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,
HAM 2.2. 521 And passion in the gods.'
HAM 2.2. 522
HAM-POLONIUS
Look whe'er he has not turned his colour, and
HAM 2.2. 523 has tears in 's eyes. {(To First Player)} Prithee, no +
HAM 2.2. 523 more.
HAM 2.2. 524
HAM-HAMLET
{(to First Player)} 'Tis well. I'll have +
HAM 2.2. 524 thee speak out
HAM 2.2. 525 the rest soon. {(To Polonius)} Good my lord, will you +
HAM 2.2. 525 see
HAM 2.2. 526 the players well bestowed? Do ye hear? - let them be
HAM 2.2. 527 well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles
HAM 2.2. 528 of the time. After your death you were better have a
HAM 2.2. 529 bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
HAM 2.2. 530
HAM-POLONIUS
My lord, I will use them according to their
HAM 2.2. 531 desert.
HAM 2.2. 532
HAM-HAMLET
God's bodykins, man, much better. Use every
HAM 2.2. 533 man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
HAM 2.2. 534 Use them after your own honour and dignity - the less
HAM 2.2. 535 they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take
HAM 2.2. 536 them in.
HAM 2.2. 537
HAM-POLONIUS
{(to Players)} Come, sirs. {Exit}
HAM 2.2. 538
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Players)} Follow him, friends. We'll +
HAM 2.2. 538 hear a play
HAM 2.2. 539 tomorrow. Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play
HAM 2.2. 540 the murder of Gonzago?
HAM 2.2. 541
HAM-[PLAYERS]
Ay, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 542
HAM-HAMLET
We'll ha 't tomorrow night. You could for a need
HAM 2.2. 543 study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I
HAM 2.2. 544 would set down and insert in 't, could ye not?
HAM 2.2. 545
HAM-[PLAYERS]
Ay, my lord.
HAM 2.2. 546
HAM-HAMLET
Very well. Follow that lord, and look you mock
HAM 2.2. 547 him not. {[Exeunt Players]}
HAM 2.2. 548 My good friends, I'll leave you till night. You are
HAM 2.2. 549 welcome to Elsinore.
HAM 2.2. 550
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Good my lord.
HAM 2.2. 551B
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, so. God b' wi' ye. {Exeunt all but +
HAM 2.2. 551B Hamlet} Now I am alone.
HAM 2.2. 552 O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
HAM 2.2. 553 Is it not monstrous that this player here,
HAM 2.2. 554 But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
HAM 2.2. 555 Could force his soul so to his whole conceit
HAM 2.2. 556 That from her working all his visage wanned,
HAM 2.2. 557 Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect,
HAM 2.2. 558 A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
HAM 2.2. 559 With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing.
HAM 2.2. 560 For Hecuba!
HAM 2.2. 561 What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
HAM 2.2. 562 That he should weep for her? What would he do
HAM 2.2. 563 Had he the motive and the cue for passion
HAM 2.2. 564 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears,
HAM 2.2. 565 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
HAM 2.2. 566 Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
HAM 2.2. 567 Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
HAM 2.2. 568 The very faculty of eyes and ears. Yet I,
HAM 2.2. 569 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak
HAM 2.2. 570 Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
HAM 2.2. 571 And can say nothing - no, not for a king
HAM 2.2. 572 Upon whose property and most dear life
HAM 2.2. 573 A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?
HAM 2.2. 574 Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across,
HAM 2.2. 575 Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face,
HAM 2.2. 576 Tweaks me by th' nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat
HAM 2.2. 577 As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?
HAM 2.2. 578 Ha? 'Swounds, I should take it; for it cannot be
HAM 2.2. 579 But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall
HAM 2.2. 580 To make oppression bitter, or ere this
HAM 2.2. 581 I should 'a' fatted all the region kites
HAM 2.2. 582 With this slave's offal. Bloody, bawdy villain!
HAM 2.2. 583 Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
HAM 2.2. 584 O, vengeance! -
HAM 2.2. 585 Why, what an ass am I? Ay, sure, this is most brave,
HAM 2.2. 586 That I, the son of the dear murdered,
HAM 2.2. 587 Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
HAM 2.2. 588 Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words
HAM 2.2. 589 And fall a-cursing like a very drab,
HAM 2.2. 590 A scullion! Fie upon 't, foh! - About, my brain.
HAM 2.2. 591 I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play
HAM 2.2. 592 Have by the very cunning of the scene
HAM 2.2. 593 Been struck so to the soul that presently
HAM 2.2. 594 They have proclaimed their malefactions;
HAM 2.2. 595 For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
HAM 2.2. 596 With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
HAM 2.2. 597 Play something like the murder of my father
HAM 2.2. 598 Before mine uncle. I'll observe his looks,
HAM 2.2. 599 I'll tent him to the quick. If a but blench,
HAM 2.2. 600 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
HAM 2.2. 601 May be the devil, and the devil hath power
HAM 2.2. 602 T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,
HAM 2.2. 603 Out of my weakness and my melancholy -
HAM 2.2. 604 As he is very potent with such spirits -
HAM 2.2. 605 Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds
HAM 2.2. 606 More relative than this. The play's the thing
HAM 2.2. 607 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. {Exit}
HAM 2.2. 0 {Enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius, +
HAM 3.1. 0 Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and lords}
HAM 3.1. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)} +
HAM 3.1. 1 And can you by no drift of circumstance
HAM 3.1. 2 Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
HAM 3.1. 3 Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
HAM 3.1. 4 With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
HAM 3.1. 5
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
He does confess he feels himself distracted,
HAM 3.1. 6 But from what cause a will by no means speak.
HAM 3.1. 7
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
HAM 3.1. 8 But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
HAM 3.1. 9 When we would bring him on to some confession
HAM 3.1. 10 Of his true state.
HAM 3.1. 11A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Did he receive you well?
HAM 3.1. 12A
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Most like a gentleman.
HAM 3.1. 13
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
But with much forcing of his disposition.
HAM 3.1. 14
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Niggard of question, but of our demands
HAM 3.1. 15B Most free in his reply.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Did you assay him
HAM 3.1. 16 To any pastime?
HAM 3.1. 17
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Madam, it so fell out that certain players
HAM 3.1. 18 We o'er-raught on the way. Of these we told him,
HAM 3.1. 19 And there did seem in him a kind of joy
HAM 3.1. 20 To hear of it. They are about the court,
HAM 3.1. 21 And, as I think, they have already order
HAM 3.1. 22B This night to play before him.
HAM-POLONIUS
'Tis most true,
HAM 3.1. 23 And he beseeched me to entreat your majesties
HAM 3.1. 24 To hear and see the matter.
HAM 3.1. 25
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
With all my heart; and it doth much content me
HAM 3.1. 26 To hear him so inclined. - Good gentlemen,
HAM 3.1. 27 Give him a further edge, and drive his purpose on
HAM 3.1. 28 To these delights.
HAM 3.1. 29A
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
We shall, my lord. {Exeunt Rosencrantz and +
HAM 3.1. 29A Guildenstern}
HAM 3.1. 30A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Sweet Gertrude, leave us too,
HAM 3.1. 31 For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
HAM 3.1. 32 That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
HAM 3.1. 33 Affront Ophelia.
HAM 3.1. 34 Her father and myself, lawful espials,
HAM 3.1. 35 Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,
HAM 3.1. 36 We may of their encounter frankly judge,
HAM 3.1. 37 And gather by him, as he is behaved,
HAM 3.1. 38 If 't be th' affliction of his love or no
HAM 3.1. 39B That thus he suffers for.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
I shall obey you.
HAM 3.1. 40 And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
HAM 3.1. 41 That your good beauties be the happy cause
HAM 3.1. 42 Of Hamlet's wildness; so shall I hope your virtues
HAM 3.1. 43 Will bring him to his wonted way again,
HAM 3.1. 44B To both your honours.
HAM-OPHELIA
Madam, I wish it may. {Exit +
HAM 3.1. 44B Gertrude}
HAM 3.1. 45
HAM-POLONIUS
Ophelia, walk you here. - Gracious, so please you,
HAM 3.1. 46 We will bestow ourselves. - Read on this book,
HAM 3.1. 47 That show of such an exercise may colour
HAM 3.1. 48 Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this:
HAM 3.1. 49 'Tis too much proved that with devotion's visage
HAM 3.1. 50 And pious action we do sugar o'er
HAM 3.1. 51B The devil himself.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
O, 'tis too true.
HAM 3.1. 52 {(Aside)} How smart a lash that speech doth give my +
HAM 3.1. 52 conscience.
HAM 3.1. 53 The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
HAM 3.1. 54 Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
HAM 3.1. 55 Than is my deed to my most painted word.
HAM 3.1. 56 O heavy burden!
HAM 3.1. 57
HAM-POLONIUS
I hear him coming. Let's withdraw, my lord. {Exeunt +
HAM 3.1. 57 Claudius and Polonius}
HAM 3.1. 58 {Enter Prince Hamlet}
HAM-HAMLET
To be, or not to be; +
HAM 3.1. 58 that is the question:
HAM 3.1. 59 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
HAM 3.1. 60 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
HAM 3.1. 61 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
HAM 3.1. 62 And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep -
HAM 3.1. 63 No more, and by a sleep to say we end
HAM 3.1. 64 The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
HAM 3.1. 65 That flesh is heir to - 'tis a consummation
HAM 3.1. 66 Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.
HAM 3.1. 67 To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
HAM 3.1. 68 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
HAM 3.1. 69 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
HAM 3.1. 70 Must give us pause. There's the respect
HAM 3.1. 71 That makes calamity of so long life,
HAM 3.1. 72 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
HAM 3.1. 73 Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
HAM 3.1. 74 The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay,
HAM 3.1. 75 The insolence of office, and the spurns
HAM 3.1. 76 That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
HAM 3.1. 77 When he himself might his quietus make
HAM 3.1. 78 With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,
HAM 3.1. 79 To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
HAM 3.1. 80 But that the dread of something after death,
HAM 3.1. 81 The undiscovered country from whose bourn
HAM 3.1. 82 No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
HAM 3.1. 83 And makes us rather bear those ills we have
HAM 3.1. 84 Than fly to others that we know not of?
HAM 3.1. 85 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
HAM 3.1. 86 And thus the native hue of resolution
HAM 3.1. 87 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
HAM 3.1. 88 And enterprises of great pith and moment
HAM 3.1. 89 With this regard their currents turn awry,
HAM 3.1. 90 And lose the name of action. Soft you, now,
HAM 3.1. 91 The fair Ophelia! - Nymph, in thy orisons
HAM 3.1. 92B Be all my sins remembered.
HAM-OPHELIA
Good my lord,
HAM 3.1. 93 How does your honour for this many a day?
HAM 3.1. 94
HAM-HAMLET
I humbly thank you, well, well, well.
HAM 3.1. 95
HAM-OPHELIA
My lord, I have remembrances of yours
HAM 3.1. 96 That I have longed long to redeliver.
HAM 3.1. 97 I pray you now receive them.
HAM 3.1. 98
HAM-HAMLET
No, no, I never gave you aught.
HAM 3.1. 99
HAM-OPHELIA
My honoured lord, you know right well you did,
HAM 3.1. 100 And with them words of so sweet breath composed
HAM 3.1. 101 As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost,
HAM 3.1. 102 Take these again; for to the noble mind
HAM 3.1. 103 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
HAM 3.1. 104 There, my lord.
HAM 3.1. 105
HAM-HAMLET
Ha, ha? Are you honest?
HAM 3.1. 106A
HAM-OPHELIA
My lord.
HAM 3.1. 107
HAM-HAMLET
Are you fair?
HAM 3.1. 108A
HAM-OPHELIA
What means your lordship?
HAM 3.1. 109
HAM-HAMLET
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty
HAM 3.1. 110 should admit no discourse to your beauty.
HAM 3.1. 111
HAM-OPHELIA
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce
HAM 3.1. 112 than with honesty?
HAM 3.1. 113
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner
HAM 3.1. 114 transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the
HAM 3.1. 115 force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.
HAM 3.1. 116 This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives
HAM 3.1. 117 it proof. I did love you once.
HAM 3.1. 118
HAM-OPHELIA
Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
HAM 3.1. 119
HAM-HAMLET
You should not have believed me, for virtue
HAM 3.1. 120 cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish
HAM 3.1. 121 of it. I loved you not.
HAM 3.1. 122A
HAM-OPHELIA
I was the more deceived.
HAM 3.1. 123
HAM-HAMLET
Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a
HAM 3.1. 124 breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but
HAM 3.1. 125 yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better
HAM 3.1. 126 my mother had not borne me. I am very proud,
HAM 3.1. 127 revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck
HAM 3.1. 128 than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to
HAM 3.1. 129 give them shape, or time to act them in. What should
HAM 3.1. 130 such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and
HAM 3.1. 131 earth? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us.
HAM 3.1. 132 Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?
HAM 3.1. 133A
HAM-OPHELIA
At home, my lord.
HAM 3.1. 134
HAM-HAMLET
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may
HAM 3.1. 135 play the fool nowhere but in 's own house. Farewell.
HAM 3.1. 136A
HAM-OPHELIA
O help him, you sweet heavens!
HAM 3.1. 137
HAM-HAMLET
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for
HAM 3.1. 138 thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,
HAM 3.1. 139 thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery,
HAM 3.1. 140 go, farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool;
HAM 3.1. 141 for wise men know well enough what monsters you
HAM 3.1. 142 make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly, too.
HAM 3.1. 143 Farewell.
HAM 3.1. 144A
HAM-OPHELIA
O heavenly powers, restore him!
HAM 3.1. 145
HAM-HAMLET
I have heard of your paintings, too, well enough.
HAM 3.1. 146 God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves
HAM 3.1. 147 another. You jig, you amble, and you lisp, and
HAM 3.1. 148 nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness
HAM 3.1. 149 your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on 't. It hath made
HAM 3.1. 150 me mad. I say we will have no more marriages. Those
HAM 3.1. 151 that are married already - all but one - shall live. The
HAM 3.1. 152 rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go. {Exit}
HAM 3.1. 153
HAM-OPHELIA
O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
HAM 3.1. 154 The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword,
HAM 3.1. 155 Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
HAM 3.1. 156 The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
HAM 3.1. 157 Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite, down!
HAM 3.1. 158 And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
HAM 3.1. 159 That sucked the honey of his music vows,
HAM 3.1. 160 Now see that noble and most sovereign reason
HAM 3.1. 161 Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh;
HAM 3.1. 162 That unmatched form and feature of blown youth
HAM 3.1. 163 Blasted with ecstasy. O woe is me,
HAM 3.1. 164 T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see! {Enter King +
HAM 3.1. 164 Claudius and Polonius}
HAM 3.1. 165
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Love? His affections do not that way tend,
HAM 3.1. 166 Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little,
HAM 3.1. 167 Was not like madness. There's something in his soul
HAM 3.1. 168 O'er which his melancholy sits on brood,
HAM 3.1. 169 And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
HAM 3.1. 170 Will be some danger; which to prevent
HAM 3.1. 171 I have in quick determination
HAM 3.1. 172 Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England
HAM 3.1. 173 For the demand of our neglected tribute.
HAM 3.1. 174 Haply the seas and countries different,
HAM 3.1. 175 With variable objects, shall expel
HAM 3.1. 176 This something-settled matter in his heart,
HAM 3.1. 177 Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
HAM 3.1. 178 From fashion of himself. What think you on 't?
HAM 3.1. 179
HAM-POLONIUS
It shall do well. But yet do I believe
HAM 3.1. 180 The origin and commencement of this grief
HAM 3.1. 181 Sprung from neglected love. - How now, Ophelia?
HAM 3.1. 182 You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;
HAM 3.1. 183 We heard it all. - My lord, do as you please,
HAM 3.1. 184 But, if you hold it fit, after the play
HAM 3.1. 185 Let his queen mother all alone entreat him
HAM 3.1. 186 To show his griefs. Let her be round with him,
HAM 3.1. 187 And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear
HAM 3.1. 188 Of all their conference. If she find him not,
HAM 3.1. 189 To England send him, or confine him where
HAM 3.1. 190B Your wisdom best shall think.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
It shall be so.
HAM 3.1. 191 Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. {Exeunt}
HAM 3.1. 0 {Enter Prince Hamlet and two or three of the Players}
HAM 3.2. 1
HAM-HAMLET
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced
HAM 3.2. 2 it to you - trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth
HAM 3.2. 3 it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-
HAM 3.2. 4 crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too
HAM 3.2. 5 much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in
HAM 3.2. 6 the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say the
HAM 3.2. 7 whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget
HAM 3.2. 8 a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends
HAM 3.2. 9 me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated
HAM 3.2. 10 fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split
HAM 3.2. 11 the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are
HAM 3.2. 12 capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and
HAM 3.2. 13 noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing
HAM 3.2. 14 Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it.
HAM 3.2. 15 A
HAM-PLAYER
I warrant your honour.
HAM 3.2. 16
HAM-HAMLET
Be not too tame, neither; but let your own
HAM 3.2. 17 discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word,
HAM 3.2. 18 the word to the action, with this special observance:
HAM 3.2. 19 that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For
HAM 3.2. 20 anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,
HAM 3.2. 21 whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to
HAM 3.2. 22 hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature, to show virtue
HAM 3.2. 23 her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very
HAM 3.2. 24 age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now
HAM 3.2. 25 this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the
HAM 3.2. 26 unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve;
HAM 3.2. 27 the censure of the which one must in your allowance
HAM 3.2. 28 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players
HAM 3.2. 29 that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and
HAM 3.2. 30 that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither
HAM 3.2. 31 having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian,
HAM 3.2. 32 pagan, nor no man, have so strutted and bellowed that
HAM 3.2. 33 I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made
HAM 3.2. 34 men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity
HAM 3.2. 35 so abominably.
HAM 3.2. 36 A
HAM-PLAYER
I hope we have reformed that indifferently with
HAM 3.2. 37 us, sir.
HAM 3.2. 38
HAM-HAMLET
O, reform it altogether. And let those that play
HAM 3.2. 39 your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;
HAM 3.2. 40 for there be of them that will themselves laugh to set
HAM 3.2. 41 on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too,
HAM 3.2. 42 though in the mean time some necessary question of
HAM 3.2. 43 the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,
HAM 3.2. 44 and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses
HAM 3.2. 45 it. Go make you ready. {Exeunt Players}
HAM 3.2. 46 {Enter Polonius, Guildenstern, and Rosencrantz} {(To +
HAM 3.2. 46 Polonius)} How now, my lord? Will the King hear
HAM 3.2. 47 this piece of work?
HAM 3.2. 48
HAM-POLONIUS
And the Queen too, and that presently.
HAM 3.2. 49
HAM-HAMLET
Bid the players make haste. {Exit Polonius}
HAM 3.2. 50B Will you two help to hasten them? +
HAM 3.2. 50B
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
HAM-AND
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
We will, my lord. {Exeunt}
HAM 3.2. 51B
HAM-HAMLET
What ho, Horatio! {Enter Horatio}
HAM-HORATIO
HAM 3.2. 51B Here, sweet lord, at your service.
HAM 3.2. 52
HAM-HAMLET
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
HAM 3.2. 53 As e'er my conversation coped withal.
HAM 3.2. 54B
HAM-HORATIO
O my dear lord -
HAM-HAMLET
Nay, do not think I flatter;
HAM 3.2. 55 For what advancement may I hope from thee,
HAM 3.2. 56 That no revenue hast but thy good spirits
HAM 3.2. 57 To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?
HAM 3.2. 58 No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
HAM 3.2. 59 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
HAM 3.2. 60 Where thrift may follow feigning. Dost thou hear? -
HAM 3.2. 61 Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
HAM 3.2. 62 And could of men distinguish, her election
HAM 3.2. 63 Hath sealed thee for herself; for thou hast been
HAM 3.2. 64 As one in suff'ring all that suffers nothing,
HAM 3.2. 65 A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
HAM 3.2. 66 Hath ta'en with equal thanks; and blest are those
HAM 3.2. 67 Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled
HAM 3.2. 68 That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
HAM 3.2. 69 To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
HAM 3.2. 70 That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
HAM 3.2. 71 In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
HAM 3.2. 72 As I do thee. Something too much of this.
HAM 3.2. 73 There is a play tonight before the King.
HAM 3.2. 74 One scene of it comes near the circumstance
HAM 3.2. 75 Which I have told thee of my father's death.
HAM 3.2. 76 I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
HAM 3.2. 77 Even with the very comment of thy soul
HAM 3.2. 78 Observe mine uncle. If his occulted guilt
HAM 3.2. 79 Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
HAM 3.2. 80 It is a damned ghost that we have seen,
HAM 3.2. 81 And my imaginations are as foul
HAM 3.2. 82 As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note,
HAM 3.2. 83 For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
HAM 3.2. 84 And after, we will both our judgements join
HAM 3.2. 85B To censure of his seeming.
HAM-HORATIO
Well, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 86 If a steal aught the whilst this play is playing
HAM 3.2. 87 And scape detecting, I will pay the theft. {[Sound a flourish]}
HAM 3.2. 88
HAM-HAMLET
They are coming to the play. I must be idle.
HAM 3.2. 89B Get you a place. {[Danish march. Enter King Claudius, Queen +
HAM 3.2. 89B Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and other lords +
HAM 3.2. 89B attendant, with the King's guard carrying torches]}
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
+
HAM 3.2. 89B How fares our cousin Hamlet?
HAM 3.2. 90
HAM-HAMLET
Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat
HAM 3.2. 91 the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.
HAM 3.2. 92
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet.
HAM 3.2. 93 These words are not mine.
HAM 3.2. 94
HAM-HAMLET
No, nor mine now. {(To Polonius)} My lord, +
HAM 3.2. 94 you
HAM 3.2. 95 played once i' th' university, you say.
HAM 3.2. 96
HAM-POLONIUS
That I did, my lord, and was accounted a good
HAM 3.2. 97 actor.
HAM 3.2. 98
HAM-HAMLET
And what did you enact?
HAM 3.2. 99
HAM-POLONIUS
I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed i' th'
HAM 3.2. 100 Capitol. Brutus killed me.
HAM 3.2. 101
HAM-HAMLET
It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf
HAM 3.2. 102 there. - Be the players ready?
HAM 3.2. 103
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Ay, my lord, they stay upon your patience.
HAM 3.2. 104
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Come hither, my good Hamlet. Sit by me.
HAM 3.2. 105
HAM-HAMLET
No, good-mother, here's mettle more +
HAM 3.2. 105 attractive. {He sits by Ophelia}
HAM 3.2. 106
HAM-POLONIUS
{(aside)} O ho, do you mark that?
HAM 3.2. 107
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Ophelia)} Lady, shall I lie in your +
HAM 3.2. 107 lap?
HAM 3.2. 108
HAM-OPHELIA
No, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 109
HAM-HAMLET
I mean my head upon your lap?
HAM 3.2. 110
HAM-OPHELIA
Ay, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 111
HAM-HAMLET
Do you think I meant country matters?
HAM 3.2. 112
HAM-OPHELIA
I think nothing, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 113
HAM-HAMLET
That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
HAM 3.2. 114
HAM-OPHELIA
What is, my lord?
HAM 3.2. 115
HAM-HAMLET
No thing.
HAM 3.2. 116
HAM-OPHELIA
You are merry, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 117
HAM-HAMLET
Who, I?
HAM 3.2. 118
HAM-OPHELIA
Ay, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 119
HAM-HAMLET
O God, your only jig-maker! What should a man
HAM 3.2. 120 do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my
HAM 3.2. 121 mother looks, and my father died within 's two hours.
HAM 3.2. 122
HAM-OPHELIA
Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 123
HAM-HAMLET
So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for
HAM 3.2. 124 I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens, die two months
HAM 3.2. 125 ago and not forgotten yet! Then there's hope a great
HAM 3.2. 126 man's memory may outlive his life half a year. But,
HAM 3.2. 127 by 'r Lady, a must build churches then, or else shall a
HAM 3.2. 128 suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose
HAM 3.2. 129 epitaph is `For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot.' {Hautboys +
HAM 3.2. 129 play. The dumb show enters. Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly, the +
HAM 3.2. 129 Queen embracing him. She kneels and makes show of protestation unto +
HAM 3.2. 129 him. He takes her up and declines his head upon her neck.}
HAM 3.2. 130 {He lays him down upon a bank of flowers. She, seeing him asleep, +
HAM 3.2. 130 leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and +
HAM 3.2. 130 pours poison in the King's ears, and exits. The Queen returns, +
HAM 3.2. 130 finds the King dead, and makes passionate action. The poisoner, with +
HAM 3.2. 130 some two or three mutes, comes in again, seeming to lament with her. +
HAM 3.2. 130 The dead body is carried away. The poisoner woos the Queen with gifts. +
HAM 3.2. 130 She seems loath and unwilling a while, but in the end accepts his love. +
HAM 3.2. 130 Exeunt the Players}
HAM-OPHELIA
What means this, my lord?
HAM 3.2. 131
HAM-HAMLET
Marry, this is miching {malhecho}. That means
HAM 3.2. 132 mischief.
HAM 3.2. 133
HAM-OPHELIA
Belike this show imports the argument of the play. +
HAM 3.2. 133 {Enter Prologue}
HAM 3.2. 134
HAM-HAMLET
We shall know by this fellow. The players cannot
HAM 3.2. 135 keep counsel, they'll tell all.
HAM 3.2. 136
HAM-OPHELIA
Will a tell us what this show meant?
HAM 3.2. 137
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, or any show that you'll show him. Be not
HAM 3.2. 138 you ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what
HAM 3.2. 139 it means.
HAM 3.2. 140
HAM-OPHELIA
You are naught, you are naught. I'll mark the
HAM 3.2. 141 play.
HAM 3.2. 142
HAM-PROLOGUE
For us and for our tragedy
HAM 3.2. 143 Here stooping to your clemency,
HAM 3.2. 144 We beg your hearing patiently. {Exit}
HAM 3.2. 145
HAM-HAMLET
Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
HAM 3.2. 146
HAM-OPHELIA
'Tis brief, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 147
HAM-HAMLET
As woman's love. {Enter the Player King and his +
HAM 3.2. 147 Queen}
HAM 3.2. 148
HAM-PLAYER KING
Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone +
HAM 3.2. 148 round
HAM 3.2. 149 Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,
HAM 3.2. 150 And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen
HAM 3.2. 151 About the world have times twelve thirties been
HAM 3.2. 152 Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands
HAM 3.2. 153 Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
HAM 3.2. 154
HAM-PLAYER QUEEN
So many journeys may the sun and moon
HAM 3.2. 155 Make us again count o'er ere love be done.
HAM 3.2. 156 But woe is me, you are so sick of late,
HAM 3.2. 157 So far from cheer and from your former state,
HAM 3.2. 158 That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
HAM 3.2. 159 Discomfort you my lord it nothing must.
HAM 3.2. 160 For women's fear and love holds quantity,
HAM 3.2. 161 In neither aught, or in extremity.
HAM 3.2. 162 Now what my love is, proof hath made you know,
HAM 3.2. 163 And as my love is sized, my fear is so.
HAM 3.2. 164
HAM-PLAYER KING
Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too.
HAM 3.2. 165 My operant powers their functions leave to do,
HAM 3.2. 166 And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
HAM 3.2. 167 Honoured, beloved; and haply one as kind
HAM 3.2. 168B For husband shalt thou -
HAM-PLAYER QUEEN
O, confound the rest!
HAM 3.2. 169 Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
HAM 3.2. 170 In second husband let me be accurst;
HAM 3.2. 171 None wed the second but who killed the first.
HAM 3.2. 172
HAM-HAMLET
Wormwood, wormwood.
HAM 3.2. 173
HAM-PLAYER QUEEN
The instances that second marriage move
HAM 3.2. 174 Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
HAM 3.2. 175 A second time I kill my husband dead
HAM 3.2. 176 When second husband kisses me in bed.
HAM 3.2. 177
HAM-PLAYER KING
I do believe you think what now you speak;
HAM 3.2. 178 But what we do determine oft we break.
HAM 3.2. 179 Purpose is but the slave to memory,
HAM 3.2. 180 Of violent birth but poor validity,
HAM 3.2. 181 Which now like fruit unripe sticks on the tree,
HAM 3.2. 182 But fall unshaken when they mellow be.
HAM 3.2. 183 Most necessary 'tis that we forget
HAM 3.2. 184 To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.
HAM 3.2. 185 What to ourselves in passion we propose,
HAM 3.2. 186 The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
HAM 3.2. 187 The violence of either grief or joy
HAM 3.2. 188 Their own enactures with themselves destroy.
HAM 3.2. 189 Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
HAM 3.2. 190 Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
HAM 3.2. 191 This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
HAM 3.2. 192 That even our loves should with our fortunes change;
HAM 3.2. 193 For 'tis a question left us yet to prove
HAM 3.2. 194 Whether love lead fortune or else fortune love.
HAM 3.2. 195 The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;
HAM 3.2. 196 The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
HAM 3.2. 197 And hitherto doth love on fortune tend,
HAM 3.2. 198 For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
HAM 3.2. 199 And who in want a hollow friend doth try
HAM 3.2. 200 Directly seasons him his enemy.
HAM 3.2. 201 But orderly to end where I begun,
HAM 3.2. 202 Our wills and fates do so contrary run
HAM 3.2. 203 That our devices still are overthrown;
HAM 3.2. 204 Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
HAM 3.2. 205 So think thou wilt no second husband wed;
HAM 3.2. 206 But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
HAM 3.2. 207
HAM-PLAYER QUEEN
Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light,
HAM 3.2. 208 Sport and repose lock from me day and night,
HAM 3.2. 209 Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
HAM 3.2. 210 Meet what I would have well and it destroy,
HAM 3.2. 211 Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife
HAM 3.2. 212 If, once a widow, ever I be wife.
HAM 3.2. 213
HAM-HAMLET
If she should break it now!
HAM 3.2. 214
HAM-PLAYER KING
{(to Player Queen)} 'Tis deeply sworn. +
HAM 3.2. 214 Sweet, leave me here a while.
HAM 3.2. 215 My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
HAM 3.2. 216B The tedious day with sleep.
HAM-PLAYER QUEEN
Sleep rock thy brain,
HAM 3.2. 217 And never come mischance between us twain. {Player King sleeps. +
HAM 3.2. 217 Player Queen exits}
HAM 3.2. 218
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Gertrude)} Madam, how like you this +
HAM 3.2. 218 play?
HAM 3.2. 219
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
The lady protests too much, methinks.
HAM 3.2. 220
HAM-HAMLET
O, but she'll keep her word.
HAM 3.2. 221
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Have you heard the argument? Is there
HAM 3.2. 222 no offence in 't?
HAM 3.2. 223
HAM-HAMLET
No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest. No offence
HAM 3.2. 224 i' th' world.
HAM 3.2. 225
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
What do you call the play?
HAM 3.2. 226
HAM-HAMLET
{The Mousetrap.} Marry, how? Tropically. This play
HAM 3.2. 227 is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is
HAM 3.2. 228 the Duke's name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon.
HAM 3.2. 229 'Tis a knavish piece of work; but what o' that? Your
HAM 3.2. 230 majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not.
HAM 3.2. 231 Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. {Enter +
HAM 3.2. 231 Player Lucianus}
HAM 3.2. 232 This is one Lucianus, nephew to the King.
HAM 3.2. 233
HAM-OPHELIA
You are as good as a chorus, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 234
HAM-HAMLET
I could interpret between you and your love if I
HAM 3.2. 235 could see the puppets dallying.
HAM 3.2. 236
HAM-OPHELIA
You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
HAM 3.2. 237
HAM-HAMLET
It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.
HAM 3.2. 238
HAM-OPHELIA
Still better, and worse.
HAM 3.2. 239
HAM-HAMLET
So you mis-take your husbands. {(To Lucianus)}
HAM 3.2. 240 Begin, murderer. Pox, leave thy damnable faces and
HAM 3.2. 241 begin. Come: `the croaking raven doth bellow for
HAM 3.2. 242 revenge'.
HAM 3.2. 243
HAM-PLAYER LUCIANUS
Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and +
HAM 3.2. 243 time agreeing,
HAM 3.2. 244 Confederate season, else no creature seeing;
HAM 3.2. 245 Thou mixture rank of midnight weeds collected,
HAM 3.2. 246 With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
HAM 3.2. 247 Thy natural magic and dire property
HAM 3.2. 248 On wholesome life usurp immediately. {He pours the poison in the +
HAM 3.2. 248 Player King's ear}
HAM 3.2. 249
HAM-HAMLET
A poisons him i' th' garden for 's estate. His
HAM 3.2. 250 name's Gonzago. The story is extant, and writ in choice
HAM 3.2. 251 Italian. You shall see anon how the murderer gets the
HAM 3.2. 252 love of Gonzago's wife.
HAM 3.2. 253
HAM-OPHELIA
The King rises.
HAM 3.2. 254
HAM-HAMLET
What, frighted with false fire?
HAM 3.2. 255
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
{(to Claudius)} How fares my lord?
HAM 3.2. 256
HAM-POLONIUS
Give o'er the play.
HAM 3.2. 257
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Give me some light. Away.
HAM 3.2. 258
HAM-[COURTIERS]
Lights, lights, lights! {Exeunt all but Hamlet +
HAM 3.2. 258 and Horatio}
HAM 3.2. 259
HAM-HAMLET
Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
HAM 3.2. 260 The hart ungalled play,
HAM 3.2. 261 For some must watch, while some must sleep,
HAM 3.2. 262 So runs the world away.
HAM 3.2. 263 Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers, if the rest
HAM 3.2. 264 of my fortunes turn Turk with me, with two Provenc@al
HAM 3.2. 265 roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry
HAM 3.2. 266 of players, sir?
HAM 3.2. 267
HAM-HORATIO
Half a share.
HAM 3.2. 268
HAM-HAMLET
A whole one, I.
HAM 3.2. 269 For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
HAM 3.2. 270 This realm dismantled was
HAM 3.2. 271 Of Jove himself, and now reigns here
HAM 3.2. 272 A very, very - pajock.
HAM 3.2. 273
HAM-HORATIO
You might have rhymed.
HAM 3.2. 274
HAM-HAMLET
O good Horatio, I'll take the Ghost's word for a
HAM 3.2. 275 thousand pound. Didst perceive?
HAM 3.2. 276
HAM-HORATIO
Very well, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 277
HAM-HAMLET
Upon the talk of the pois'ning?
HAM 3.2. 278
HAM-HORATIO
I did very well note him. {Enter Rosencrantz and +
HAM 3.2. 278 Guildenstern}
HAM 3.2. 279
HAM-HAMLET
Ah ha! Come, some music, come, the recorders,
HAM 3.2. 280 For if the King like not the comedy,
HAM 3.2. 281 Why then, belike he likes it not, pardie.
HAM 3.2. 282 Come, some music.
HAM 3.2. 283
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with
HAM 3.2. 284 you.
HAM 3.2. 285
HAM-HAMLET
Sir, a whole history.
HAM 3.2. 286
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
The King, sir -
HAM 3.2. 287
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, sir, what of him?
HAM 3.2. 288
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Is in his retirement marvellous distempered.
HAM 3.2. 289
HAM-HAMLET
With drink, sir?
HAM 3.2. 290
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
No, my lord, rather with choler.
HAM 3.2. 291
HAM-HAMLET
Your wisdom should show itself more richer to
HAM 3.2. 292 signify this to his doctor, for for me to put him to his
HAM 3.2. 293 purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more
HAM 3.2. 294 choler.
HAM 3.2. 295
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Good my lord, put your discourse into some
HAM 3.2. 296 frame, and start not so wildly from my affair.
HAM 3.2. 297
HAM-HAMLET
I am tame, sir. Pronounce.
HAM 3.2. 298
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
The Queen your mother, in most great
HAM 3.2. 299 affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you.
HAM 3.2. 300
HAM-HAMLET
You are welcome.
HAM 3.2. 301
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of
HAM 3.2. 302 the right breed. If it shall please you to make me a
HAM 3.2. 303 wholesome answer, I will do your mother's
HAM 3.2. 304 commandment; if not, your pardon and my return
HAM 3.2. 305 shall be the end of my business.
HAM 3.2. 306
HAM-HAMLET
Sir, I cannot.
HAM 3.2. 307
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
What, my lord?
HAM 3.2. 308
HAM-HAMLET
Make you a wholesome answer. My wit's
HAM 3.2. 309 diseased. But, sir, such answers as I can make, you
HAM 3.2. 310 shall command; or rather, as you say, my mother.
HAM 3.2. 311 Therefore no more, but to the matter. My mother, you
HAM 3.2. 312 say?
HAM 3.2. 313
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Then thus she says: your behaviour hath
HAM 3.2. 314 struck her into amazement and admiration.
HAM 3.2. 315
HAM-HAMLET
O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother!
HAM 3.2. 316 But is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's
HAM 3.2. 317 admiration?
HAM 3.2. 318
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
She desires to speak with you in her closet
HAM 3.2. 319 ere you go to bed.
HAM 3.2. 320
HAM-HAMLET
We shall obey, were she ten times our mother.
HAM 3.2. 321 Have you any further trade with us?
HAM 3.2. 322
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
My lord, you once did love me.
HAM 3.2. 323
HAM-HAMLET
So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.
HAM 3.2. 324
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Good my lord, what is your cause of
HAM 3.2. 325 distemper? You do freely bar the door of your own
HAM 3.2. 326 liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend.
HAM 3.2. 327
HAM-HAMLET
Sir, I lack advancement.
HAM 3.2. 328
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
How can that be when you have the voice
HAM 3.2. 329 of the King himself for your succession in Denmark?
HAM 3.2. 330
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, but `while the grass grows . . .' - the proverb
HAM 3.2. 331 is something musty. {Enter one with a recorder}
HAM 3.2. 332 O, the recorder. Let me see. {(To Rosencrantz and}
HAM 3.2. 333 {Guildenstern, taking them aside)} To withdraw with you,
HAM 3.2. 334 why do you go about to recover the wind of me as if
HAM 3.2. 335 you would drive me into a toil?
HAM 3.2. 336
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love
HAM 3.2. 337 is too unmannerly.
HAM 3.2. 338
HAM-HAMLET
I do not well understand that. Will you play
HAM 3.2. 339 upon this pipe?
HAM 3.2. 340
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
My lord, I cannot.
HAM 3.2. 341
HAM-HAMLET
I pray you.
HAM 3.2. 342
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
Believe me, I cannot.
HAM 3.2. 343
HAM-HAMLET
I do beseech you.
HAM 3.2. 344
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
I know no touch of it, my lord.
HAM 3.2. 345
HAM-HAMLET
'Tis as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with
HAM 3.2. 346 your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your
HAM 3.2. 347 mouth, and it will discourse most excellent music. Look
HAM 3.2. 348 you, these are the stops.
HAM 3.2. 349
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
But these cannot I command to any
HAM 3.2. 350 utterance of harmony. I have not the skill.
HAM 3.2. 351
HAM-HAMLET
Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you
HAM 3.2. 352 make of me! You would play upon me, you would
HAM 3.2. 353 seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart
HAM 3.2. 354 of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest
HAM 3.2. 355 note to the top of my compass; and there is much
HAM 3.2. 356 music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot
HAM 3.2. 357 you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier
HAM 3.2. 358 to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument
HAM 3.2. 359 you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play
HAM 3.2. 360 upon me. {Enter Polonius}
HAM 3.2. 361 God bless you, sir.
HAM 3.2. 362
HAM-POLONIUS
My lord, the Queen would speak with you, and
HAM 3.2. 363 presently.
HAM 3.2. 364
HAM-HAMLET
Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape
HAM 3.2. 365 of a camel?
HAM 3.2. 366
HAM-POLONIUS
By th' mass, and 'tis: like a camel, indeed.
HAM 3.2. 367
HAM-HAMLET
Methinks it is like a weasel.
HAM 3.2. 368
HAM-POLONIUS
It is backed like a weasel.
HAM 3.2. 369
HAM-HAMLET
Or like a whale.
HAM 3.2. 370
HAM-POLONIUS
Very like a whale.
HAM 3.2. 371
HAM-HAMLET
Then will I come to my mother by and by. {(Aside)}
HAM 3.2. 372 They fool me to the top of my bent. {(To +
HAM 3.2. 372 Polonius)} I will
HAM 3.2. 373 come by and by.
HAM 3.2. 374
HAM-POLONIUS
I will say so.
HAM 3.2. 375
HAM-HAMLET
`By and by' is easily said. {Exit Polonius}
HAM 3.2. 376 Leave me, friends. {Exeunt Rosencrantz and +
HAM 3.2. 376 Guildenstern}
HAM 3.2. 377 'Tis now the very witching time of night,
HAM 3.2. 378 When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
HAM 3.2. 379 Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood,
HAM 3.2. 380 And do such bitter business as the day
HAM 3.2. 381 Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother.
HAM 3.2. 382 O heart, lose not thy nature! Let not ever
HAM 3.2. 383 The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.
HAM 3.2. 384 Let me be cruel, not unnatural.
HAM 3.2. 385 I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
HAM 3.2. 386 My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites -
HAM 3.2. 387 How in my words somever she be shent,
HAM 3.2. 388 To give them seals never my soul consent. {Exit}
HAM 3.2. 0 {Enter King Claudius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern}
HAM 3.3. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
HAM 3.3. 2 To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you.
HAM 3.3. 3 I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
HAM 3.3. 4 And he to England shall along with you.
HAM 3.3. 5 The terms of our estate may not endure
HAM 3.3. 6 Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
HAM 3.3. 7B Out of his lunacies.
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
We will ourselves provide.
HAM 3.3. 8 Most holy and religious fear it is
HAM 3.3. 9 To keep those many many bodies safe
HAM 3.3. 10 That live and feed upon your majesty.
HAM 3.3. 11
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
The single and peculiar life is bound
HAM 3.3. 12 With all the strength and armour of the mind
HAM 3.3. 13 To keep itself from noyance; but much more
HAM 3.3. 14 That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests
HAM 3.3. 15 The lives of many. The cease of majesty
HAM 3.3. 16 Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw
HAM 3.3. 17 What's near it with it. It is a massy wheel
HAM 3.3. 18 Fixed on the summit of the highest mount,
HAM 3.3. 19 To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
HAM 3.3. 20 Are mortised and adjoined, which when it falls
HAM 3.3. 21 Each small annexment, petty consequence,
HAM 3.3. 22 Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never alone
HAM 3.3. 23 Did the King sigh, but with a general groan.
HAM 3.3. 24
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage,
HAM 3.3. 25 For we will fetters put upon this fear
HAM 3.3. 26B Which now goes too free-footed.
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
HAM-AND
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
We +
HAM 3.3. 26B will haste us. {Exeunt both}
HAM 3.3. 27 {Enter Polonius}
HAM-POLONIUS
My lord, he's going to +
HAM 3.3. 27 his mother's closet.
HAM 3.3. 28 Behind the arras I'll convey myself
HAM 3.3. 29 To hear the process. I'll warrant she'll tax him home.
HAM 3.3. 30 And, as you said - and wisely was it said -
HAM 3.3. 31 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,
HAM 3.3. 32 Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear
HAM 3.3. 33 The speech of vantage. Fare you well, my liege.
HAM 3.3. 34 I'll call upon you ere you go to bed,
HAM 3.3. 35B And tell you what I know.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Thanks, dear my lord. +
HAM 3.3. 35B {Exit Polonius}
HAM 3.3. 36 O, my offence is rank! It smells to heaven.
HAM 3.3. 37 It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
HAM 3.3. 38 A brother's murder. Pray can I not.
HAM 3.3. 39 Though inclination be as sharp as will,
HAM 3.3. 40 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
HAM 3.3. 41 And like a man to double business bound
HAM 3.3. 42 I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
HAM 3.3. 43 And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
HAM 3.3. 44 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
HAM 3.3. 45 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
HAM 3.3. 46 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
HAM 3.3. 47 But to confront the visage of offence?
HAM 3.3. 48 And what's in prayer but this twofold force,
HAM 3.3. 49 To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
HAM 3.3. 50 Or pardoned being down? Then I'll look up.
HAM 3.3. 51 My fault is past - but O, what form of prayer
HAM 3.3. 52 Can serve my turn? `Forgive me my foul murder'?
HAM 3.3. 53 That cannot be, since I am still possessed
HAM 3.3. 54 Of those effects for which I did the murder -
HAM 3.3. 55 My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
HAM 3.3. 56 May one be pardoned and retain th' offence?
HAM 3.3. 57 In the corrupted currents of this world
HAM 3.3. 58 Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
HAM 3.3. 59 And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
HAM 3.3. 60 Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above.
HAM 3.3. 61 There is no shuffling, there the action lies
HAM 3.3. 62 In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled
HAM 3.3. 63 Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults
HAM 3.3. 64 To give in evidence. What then? What rests?
HAM 3.3. 65 Try what repentance can. What can it not?
HAM 3.3. 66 Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
HAM 3.3. 67 O wretched state, O bosom black as death,
HAM 3.3. 68 O limed soul that, struggling to be free,
HAM 3.3. 69 Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay.
HAM 3.3. 70 Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel,
HAM 3.3. 71 Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
HAM 3.3. 72 All may be well. {He kneels.}
HAM 3.3. 73 {Enter Prince Hamlet behind him}
HAM-HAMLET
Now might I do it +
HAM 3.3. 73 pat, now a is praying,
HAM 3.3. 74B And now I'll do 't, {[He draws his sword]} and so a +
HAM 3.3. 74B goes to heaven,
HAM 3.3. 75 And so am I revenged. That would be scanned.
HAM 3.3. 76 A villain kills my father, and for that
HAM 3.3. 77 I, his sole son, do this same villain send
HAM 3.3. 78 To heaven.
HAM 3.3. 79 O, this is hire and salary, not revenge!
HAM 3.3. 80 A took my father grossly, full of bread,
HAM 3.3. 81 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
HAM 3.3. 82 And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?
HAM 3.3. 83 But in our circumstance and course of thought
HAM 3.3. 84 'Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged
HAM 3.3. 85 To take him in the purging of his soul,
HAM 3.3. 86 When he is fit and seasoned for his passage?
HAM 3.3. 87 No. {He sheathes his sword}
HAM 3.3. 88 Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hint.
HAM 3.3. 89 When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
HAM 3.3. 90 Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed,
HAM 3.3. 91 At gaming, swearing, or about some act
HAM 3.3. 92 That has no relish of salvation in 't,
HAM 3.3. 93 Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven,
HAM 3.3. 94 And that his soul may be as damned and black
HAM 3.3. 95 As hell whereto it goes. My mother stays.
HAM 3.3. 96 This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. {Exit}
HAM 3.3. 97
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
HAM 3.3. 98 Words without thoughts never to heaven go. {Exit}
HAM 3.3. 0 {Enter Queen Gertrude and Polonius}
HAM 3.4. 1
HAM-POLONIUS
A will come straight. Look you lay home to him.
HAM 3.4. 2 Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
HAM 3.4. 3 And that your grace hath screened and stood between
HAM 3.4. 4 Much heat and him. I'll silence me e'en here.
HAM 3.4. 5 Pray you be round with him.
HAM 3.4. 6
HAM-HAMLET
{(within)} Mother, mother, mother!
HAM 3.4. 7
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
I'll warr'nt you. Fear me not. Withdraw; I +
HAM 3.4. 7 hear him coming. {Polonius hides behind the arras.}
HAM 3.4. 8A {Enter Prince Hamlet}
HAM-HAMLET
Now, mother, what's the +
HAM 3.4. 8A matter?
HAM 3.4. 9
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
HAM 3.4. 10
HAM-HAMLET
Mother, you have my father much offended.
HAM 3.4. 11
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
HAM 3.4. 12
HAM-HAMLET
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
HAM 3.4. 13B
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Why, how now, Hamlet?
HAM-HAMLET
What's the matter +
HAM 3.4. 13B now?
HAM 3.4. 14B
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Have you forgot me?
HAM-HAMLET
No, by the rood, not +
HAM 3.4. 14B so.
HAM 3.4. 15 You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife.
HAM 3.4. 16 But - would you were not so - you are my mother.
HAM 3.4. 17
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.
HAM 3.4. 18
HAM-HAMLET
Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge.
HAM 3.4. 19 You go not till I set you up a glass
HAM 3.4. 20 Where you may see the inmost part of you.
HAM 3.4. 21
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?
HAM 3.4. 22B Help, help, ho!
HAM-POLONIUS
{(behind the arras)} What +
HAM 3.4. 22B ho! Help, help, help!
HAM 3.4. 23
HAM-HAMLET
How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead. {He thrusts +
HAM 3.4. 23 his sword through the arras}
HAM 3.4. 24B
HAM-POLONIUS
O, I am slain!
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
{(to +
HAM 3.4. 24B Hamlet)} O me, what hast thou done?
HAM 3.4. 25
HAM-HAMLET
Nay, I know not. Is it the King?
HAM 3.4. 26
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
HAM 3.4. 27
HAM-HAMLET
A bloody deed - almost as bad, good-mother,
HAM 3.4. 28 As kill a king and marry with his brother.
HAM 3.4. 29B
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
As kill a king?
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, lady, 'twas my word.
HAM 3.4. 30 {(To Polonius)} Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, +
HAM 3.4. 30 farewell.
HAM 3.4. 31 I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune.
HAM 3.4. 32 Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger. -
HAM 3.4. 33 Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down,
HAM 3.4. 34 And let me wring your heart; for so I shall
HAM 3.4. 35 If it be made of penetrable stuff,
HAM 3.4. 36 If damned custom have not brassed it so
HAM 3.4. 37 That it is proof and bulwark against sense.
HAM 3.4. 38
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue
HAM 3.4. 39B In noise so rude against me?
HAM-HAMLET
Such an act
HAM 3.4. 40 That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
HAM 3.4. 41 Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
HAM 3.4. 42 From the fair forehead of an innocent love
HAM 3.4. 43 And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows
HAM 3.4. 44 As false as dicers' oaths - O, such a deed
HAM 3.4. 45 As from the body of contraction plucks
HAM 3.4. 46 The very soul, and sweet religion makes
HAM 3.4. 47 A rhapsody of words. Heaven's face doth glow,
HAM 3.4. 48 Yea, this solidity and compound mass
HAM 3.4. 49 With tristful visage, as against the doom,
HAM 3.4. 50B Is thought-sick at the act.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Ay me, what act,
HAM 3.4. 51 That roars so loud and thunders in the index?
HAM 3.4. 52
HAM-HAMLET
Look here upon this picture, and on this,
HAM 3.4. 53 The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
HAM 3.4. 54 See what a grace was seated on this brow -
HAM 3.4. 55 Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,
HAM 3.4. 56 An eye like Mars, to threaten or command,
HAM 3.4. 57 A station like the herald Mercury
HAM 3.4. 58 New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
HAM 3.4. 59 A combination and a form indeed
HAM 3.4. 60 Where every god did seem to set his seal
HAM 3.4. 61 To give the world assurance of a man.
HAM 3.4. 62 This {was} your husband. Look you now what follows.
HAM 3.4. 63 Here {is} your husband, like a mildewed ear
HAM 3.4. 64 Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
HAM 3.4. 65 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
HAM 3.4. 66 And batten on this moor? Ha, have you eyes?
HAM 3.4. 67 You cannot call it love, for at your age
HAM 3.4. 68 The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble,
HAM 3.4. 69 And waits upon the judgement; and what judgement
HAM 3.4. 70 Would step from this to this? What devil was 't
HAM 3.4. 71 That thus hath cozened you at hood-man blind?
HAM 3.4. 72 O shame, where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
HAM 3.4. 73 If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
HAM 3.4. 74 To flaming youth let virtue be as wax
HAM 3.4. 75 And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame
HAM 3.4. 76 When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
HAM 3.4. 77 Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
HAM 3.4. 78B And reason panders will.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
O Hamlet, speak no more!
HAM 3.4. 79 Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul,
HAM 3.4. 80 And there I see such black and grained spots
HAM 3.4. 81B As will not leave their tinct.
HAM-HAMLET
Nay, but to live
HAM 3.4. 82 In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
HAM 3.4. 83 Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love
HAM 3.4. 84B Over the nasty sty -
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
O, speak to me no more!
HAM 3.4. 85 These words like daggers enter in mine ears.
HAM 3.4. 86B No more, sweet Hamlet.
HAM-HAMLET
A murderer and a villain,
HAM 3.4. 87 A slave that is not twenti'th part the tithe
HAM 3.4. 88 Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,
HAM 3.4. 89 A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
HAM 3.4. 90 That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
HAM 3.4. 91 And put it in his pocket -
HAM 3.4. 92A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
No more.
HAM 3.4. 93A
HAM-HAMLET
A king of shreds and patches - {Enter the Ghost in his +
HAM 3.4. 93A nightgown}
HAM 3.4. 94 Save me and hover o'er me with your wings,
HAM 3.4. 95 You heavenly guards! {(To the Ghost)} What would you, +
HAM 3.4. 95 gracious figure?
HAM 3.4. 96A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Alas, he's mad.
HAM 3.4. 97
HAM-HAMLET
{(to the Ghost)} Do you not come your tardy +
HAM 3.4. 97 son to chide,
HAM 3.4. 98 That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by
HAM 3.4. 99 Th' important acting of your dread command?
HAM 3.4. 100B O, say!
HAM-GHOST
Do not forget. This visitation
HAM 3.4. 101 Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
HAM 3.4. 102 But look, amazement on thy mother sits.
HAM 3.4. 103 O, step between her and her fighting soul.
HAM 3.4. 104 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
HAM 3.4. 105 Speak to her, Hamlet.
HAM 3.4. 106A
HAM-HAMLET
How is it with you, lady?
HAM 3.4. 107A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Alas, how is 't with you,
HAM 3.4. 108 That you do bend your eye on vacancy,
HAM 3.4. 109 And with th' incorporal air do hold discourse?
HAM 3.4. 110 Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep,
HAM 3.4. 111 And, as the sleeping soldiers in th' alarm,
HAM 3.4. 112 Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,
HAM 3.4. 113 Start up and stand on end. O gentle son,
HAM 3.4. 114 Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
HAM 3.4. 115 Sprinkle cool patience! Whereon do you look?
HAM 3.4. 116
HAM-HAMLET
On him, on him. Look you how pale he glares.
HAM 3.4. 117 His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones,
HAM 3.4. 118 Would make them capable. {(To the Ghost)} Do not look +
HAM 3.4. 118 upon me,
HAM 3.4. 119 Lest with this piteous action you convert
HAM 3.4. 120 My stern effects. Then what I have to do
HAM 3.4. 121 Will want true colour - tears perchance for blood.
HAM 3.4. 122B
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
To whom do you speak this?
HAM-HAMLET
Do you see +
HAM 3.4. 122B nothing there?
HAM 3.4. 123
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Nothing at all, yet all that is I see.
HAM 3.4. 124B
HAM-HAMLET
Nor did you nothing hear?
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
No, nothing but +
HAM 3.4. 124B ourselves.
HAM 3.4. 125
HAM-HAMLET
Why, look you there. Look how it steals away.
HAM 3.4. 126 My father, in his habit as he lived.
HAM 3.4. 127 Look where he goes even now out at the portal. {Exit the Ghost}
HAM 3.4. 128
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
This is the very coinage of your brain.
HAM 3.4. 129 This bodiless creation ecstasy
HAM 3.4. 130B Is very cunning in.
HAM-HAMLET
Ecstasy?
HAM 3.4. 131 My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time,
HAM 3.4. 132 And makes as healthful music. It is not madness
HAM 3.4. 133 That I have uttered. Bring me to the test,
HAM 3.4. 134 And I the matter will reword, which madness
HAM 3.4. 135 Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace
HAM 3.4. 136 Lay not a flattering unction to your soul
HAM 3.4. 137 That not your trespass but my madness speaks.
HAM 3.4. 138 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place
HAM 3.4. 139 Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
HAM 3.4. 140 Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
HAM 3.4. 141 Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,
HAM 3.4. 142 And do not spread the compost o'er the weeds
HAM 3.4. 143 To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue,
HAM 3.4. 144 For in the fatness of these pursy times
HAM 3.4. 145 Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
HAM 3.4. 146 Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
HAM 3.4. 147
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain!
HAM 3.4. 148
HAM-HAMLET
O, throw away the worser part of it,
HAM 3.4. 149 And live the purer with the other half!
HAM 3.4. 150 Good night - but go not to mine uncle's bed.
HAM 3.4. 151 Assume a virtue if you have it not.
HAM 3.4. 152 Refrain tonight,
HAM 3.4. 153 And that shall lend a kind of easiness
HAM 3.4. 154 To the next abstinence. Once more, good night;
HAM 3.4. 155 And when you are desirous to be blest,
HAM 3.4. 156 I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord,
HAM 3.4. 157 I do repent. But heaven hath pleased it so
HAM 3.4. 158 To punish me with this, and this with me,
HAM 3.4. 159 That I must be their scourge and minister.
HAM 3.4. 160 I will bestow him, and will answer well
HAM 3.4. 161 The death I gave him. So, again, good night.
HAM 3.4. 162 I must be cruel only to be kind.
HAM 3.4. 163 Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
HAM 3.4. 164A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
What shall I do?
HAM 3.4. 165
HAM-HAMLET
Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:
HAM 3.4. 166 Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed,
HAM 3.4. 167 Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,
HAM 3.4. 168 And let him for a pair of reechy kisses,
HAM 3.4. 169 Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,
HAM 3.4. 170 Make you to ravel all this matter out,
HAM 3.4. 171 That I essentially am not in madness,
HAM 3.4. 172 But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know,
HAM 3.4. 173 For who that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise,
HAM 3.4. 174 Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,
HAM 3.4. 175 Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so?
HAM 3.4. 176 No, in despite of sense and secrecy,
HAM 3.4. 177 Unpeg the basket on the house's top,
HAM 3.4. 178 Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape,
HAM 3.4. 179 To try conclusions in the basket creep,
HAM 3.4. 180 And break your own neck down.
HAM 3.4. 181
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
HAM 3.4. 182 And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
HAM 3.4. 183B What thou hast said to me.
HAM-HAMLET
I must to England.
HAM 3.4. 184B You know that?
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Alack, I had forgot.
HAM 3.4. 185B 'Tis so concluded on.
HAM-HAMLET
This man shall set me packing.
HAM 3.4. 186 I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.
HAM 3.4. 187 Mother, good night indeed. This counsellor
HAM 3.4. 188 Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
HAM 3.4. 189 Who was in life a foolish prating knave. -
HAM 3.4. 190 Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you. -
HAM 3.4. 191 Good night, mother. {Exit, tugging in Polonius}
HAM 3.4. 0 {Enter King Claudius to Queen Gertrude}
HAM 4.1. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
There's matter in these sighs, these +
HAM 4.1. 1 profound heaves;
HAM 4.1. 2 You must translate. 'Tis fit we understand them.
HAM 4.1. 3 Where is your son?
HAM 4.1. 4
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Ah, my good lord, what have I seen tonight!
HAM 4.1. 5A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?
HAM 4.1. 6
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Mad as the sea and wind when both contend
HAM 4.1. 7 Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit,
HAM 4.1. 8 Behind the arras hearing something stir,
HAM 4.1. 9 He whips his rapier out and cries `A rat, a rat!',
HAM 4.1. 10 And in his brainish apprehension kills
HAM 4.1. 11B The unseen good old man.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
O heavy deed!
HAM 4.1. 12 It had been so with us had we been there.
HAM 4.1. 13 His liberty is full of threats to all -
HAM 4.1. 14 To you yourself, to us, to everyone.
HAM 4.1. 15 Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answered?
HAM 4.1. 16 It will be laid to us, whose providence
HAM 4.1. 17 Should have kept short, restrained, and out of haunt
HAM 4.1. 18 This mad young man. But so much was our love,
HAM 4.1. 19 We would not understand what was most fit,
HAM 4.1. 20 But, like the owner of a foul disease,
HAM 4.1. 21 To keep it from divulging, let it feed
HAM 4.1. 22 Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone?
HAM 4.1. 23
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
To draw apart the body he hath killed,
HAM 4.1. 24 O'er whom - his very madness, like some ore
HAM 4.1. 25 Among a mineral of metals base,
HAM 4.1. 26 Shows itself pure - a weeps for what is done.
HAM 4.1. 27A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
O Gertrude, come away!
HAM 4.1. 28 The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
HAM 4.1. 29 But we will ship him hence; and this vile deed
HAM 4.1. 30 We must with all our majesty and skill
HAM 4.1. 31 Both countenance and excuse. - Ho, Guildenstern! {Enter +
HAM 4.1. 31 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern}
HAM 4.1. 32 Friends both, go join you with some further aid.
HAM 4.1. 33 Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
HAM 4.1. 34 And from his mother's closet hath he dragged him.
HAM 4.1. 35 Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body
HAM 4.1. 36 Into the chapel. I pray you haste in this. {Exeunt Rosencrantz +
HAM 4.1. 36 and Guildenstern}
HAM 4.1. 37 Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends
HAM 4.1. 38 To let them know both what we mean to do
HAM 4.1. 39 And what's untimely done. O, come away!
HAM 4.1. 40 My soul is full of discord and dismay. {Exeunt}
HAM 4.1. 0 {Enter Prince Hamlet}
HAM 4.2. 1A
HAM-HAMLET
Safely stowed.
HAM 4.2. 2
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
HAM-AND
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
{(within)} Hamlet, +
HAM 4.2. 2 Lord Hamlet!
HAM 4.2. 3B
HAM-HAMLET
What noise? Who calls on Hamlet? {Enter Rosencrantz +
HAM 4.2. 3B and Guildenstern} O, here they come.
HAM 4.2. 4
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
HAM 4.2. 5
HAM-HAMLET
Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.
HAM 4.2. 6
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence
HAM 4.2. 7 And bear it to the chapel.
HAM 4.2. 8A
HAM-HAMLET
Do not believe it.
HAM 4.2. 9A
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Believe what?
HAM 4.2. 10
HAM-HAMLET
That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.
HAM 4.2. 11 Besides, to be demanded of a sponge - what replication
HAM 4.2. 12 should be made by the son of a king?
HAM 4.2. 13
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
HAM 4.2. 14
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, sir, that soaks up the King's countenance,
HAM 4.2. 15 his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the
HAM 4.2. 16 King best service in the end. He keeps them, like an
HAM 4.2. 17 ape an apple in the corner of his jaw, first mouthed to
HAM 4.2. 18 be last swallowed. When he needs what you have
HAM 4.2. 19 gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall
HAM 4.2. 20 be dry again.
HAM 4.2. 21
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
I understand you not, my lord.
HAM 4.2. 22
HAM-HAMLET
I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a
HAM 4.2. 23 foolish ear.
HAM 4.2. 24
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
My lord, you must tell us where the body
HAM 4.2. 25 is, and go with us to the King.
HAM 4.2. 26
HAM-HAMLET
The body is with the King, but the King is not
HAM 4.2. 27 with the body. The King is a thing -
HAM 4.2. 28
HAM-GUILDENSTERN
A thing, my lord?
HAM 4.2. 29
HAM-HAMLET
Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all
HAM 4.2. 30 after. {Exit running, pursued by the others}
HAM 4.2. 0 {Enter King Claudius}
HAM 4.3. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
I have sent to seek him, and to find the +
HAM 4.3. 1 body.
HAM 4.3. 2 How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
HAM 4.3. 3 Yet must not we put the strong law on him.
HAM 4.3. 4 He's loved of the distracted multitude,
HAM 4.3. 5 Who like not in their judgement but their eyes,
HAM 4.3. 6 And where 'tis so, th' offender's scourge is weighed,
HAM 4.3. 7 But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
HAM 4.3. 8 This sudden sending him away must seem
HAM 4.3. 9 Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown
HAM 4.3. 10 By desperate appliance are relieved,
HAM 4.3. 11B Or not at all. {Enter Rosencrantz} How now, what hath +
HAM 4.3. 11B befall'n?
HAM 4.3. 12
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord,
HAM 4.3. 13B We cannot get from him.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
But where is he?
HAM 4.3. 14
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Without, my lord, guarded to know your pleasure.
HAM 4.3. 15A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Bring him before us.
HAM 4.3. 16
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
Ho, Guildenstern! Bring in my lord. {Enter +
HAM 4.3. 16 Prince Hamlet and Guildenstern}
HAM 4.3. 17
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
HAM 4.3. 18A
HAM-HAMLET
At supper.
HAM 4.3. 19A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
At supper? Where?
HAM 4.3. 20
HAM-HAMLET
Not where he eats, but where a is eaten. A certain
HAM 4.3. 21 convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm
HAM 4.3. 22 is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to
HAM 4.3. 23 fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king
HAM 4.3. 24 and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes,
HAM 4.3. 25 but to one table. That's the end.
HAM 4.3. 26A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Alas, alas!
HAM 4.3. 27
HAM-HAMLET
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of
HAM 4.3. 28 a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
HAM 4.3. 29A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
What dost thou mean by this?
HAM 4.3. 30
HAM-HAMLET
Nothing but to show you how a king may go a
HAM 4.3. 31 progress through the guts of a beggar.
HAM 4.3. 32A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Where is Polonius?
HAM 4.3. 33
HAM-HAMLET
In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger
HAM 4.3. 34 find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself.
HAM 4.3. 35 But indeed, if you find him not this month, you shall
HAM 4.3. 36 nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.
HAM 4.3. 37A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{[to Rosencrantz]} Go seek him +
HAM 4.3. 37A there.
HAM 4.3. 38
HAM-HAMLET
{[to Rosencrantz]} A will stay till ye +
HAM 4.3. 38 come. {Exit [Rosencrantz]}
HAM 4.3. 39
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Hamlet, this deed of thine, for thine +
HAM 4.3. 39 especial safety -
HAM 4.3. 40 Which we do tender as we dearly grieve
HAM 4.3. 41 For that which thou hast done - must send thee hence
HAM 4.3. 42 With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself.
HAM 4.3. 43 The barque is ready, and the wind at help,
HAM 4.3. 44 Th' associates tend, and everything is bent
HAM 4.3. 45 For England.
HAM 4.3. 46
HAM-HAMLET
For England?
HAM 4.3. 47A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Ay, Hamlet.
HAM 4.3. 48
HAM-HAMLET
Good.
HAM 4.3. 49
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
So is it if thou knew'st our purposes.
HAM 4.3. 50
HAM-HAMLET
I see a cherub that sees them. But come, for
HAM 4.3. 51 England. Farewell, dear mother.
HAM 4.3. 52A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Thy loving father, Hamlet.
HAM 4.3. 53
HAM-HAMLET
My mother. Father and mother is man and wife,
HAM 4.3. 54 man and wife is one flesh, and so my mother. Come,
HAM 4.3. 55 for England. {Exit}
HAM 4.3. 56
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{[to Guildenstern]} Follow him at +
HAM 4.3. 56 foot. Tempt him with speed aboard.
HAM 4.3. 57 Delay it not. I'll have him hence tonight.
HAM 4.3. 58 Away, for everything is sealed and done
HAM 4.3. 59 That else leans on th' affair. Pray you, make haste. {Exit +
HAM 4.3. 59 [Guildenstern]}
HAM 4.3. 60 And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught -
HAM 4.3. 61 As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
HAM 4.3. 62 Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
HAM 4.3. 63 After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
HAM 4.3. 64 Pays homage to us - thou mayst not coldly set
HAM 4.3. 65 Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
HAM 4.3. 66 By letters conjuring to that effect,
HAM 4.3. 67 The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England,
HAM 4.3. 68 For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
HAM 4.3. 69 And thou must cure me. Till I know 'tis done,
HAM 4.3. 70 Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. {Exit}
HAM 4.3. 0 {Enter Fortinbras with an army over the stage}
HAM 4.4. 1
HAM-FORTINBRAS
Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king.
HAM 4.4. 2 Tell him that by his licence Fortinbras
HAM 4.4. 3 Claims the conveyance of a promised march
HAM 4.4. 4 Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
HAM 4.4. 5 If that his majesty would aught with us,
HAM 4.4. 6 We shall express our duty in his eye,
HAM 4.4. 7 And let him know so.
HAM 4.4. 8A
HAM-CAPTAIN
I will do 't, my lord. {[Exit]}
HAM 4.4. 9A
HAM-FORTINBRAS
Go safely on. {Exeunt marching}
HAM 4.4. 0 {Enter Queen Gertrude and Horatio}
HAM 4.5. 1B
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
I will not speak with her.
HAM-HORATIO
She +
HAM 4.5. 1B is importunate,
HAM 4.5. 2 Indeed distraught. Her mood will needs be pitied.
HAM 4.5. 3A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
What would she have?
HAM 4.5. 4
HAM-HORATIO
She speaks much of her father, says she hears
HAM 4.5. 5 There's tricks i' th' world, and hems, and beats her heart,
HAM 4.5. 6 Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt
HAM 4.5. 7 That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,
HAM 4.5. 8 Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
HAM 4.5. 9 The hearers to collection. They aim at it,
HAM 4.5. 10 And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts,
HAM 4.5. 11 Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them,
HAM 4.5. 12 Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
HAM 4.5. 13 Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
HAM 4.5. 14
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
'Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew
HAM 4.5. 15 Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
HAM 4.5. 16 Let her come in. {[Horatio withdraws to admit Ophelia]}
HAM 4.5. 17
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,
HAM 4.5. 18 Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
HAM 4.5. 19 So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
HAM 4.5. 20 It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. {Enter Ophelia mad, +
HAM 4.5. 20 [her hair down, with a lute]}
HAM 4.5. 21
HAM-OPHELIA
Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?
HAM 4.5. 22A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
How now, Ophelia?
HAM 4.5. 23
HAM-OPHELIA
{(sings)} How should I your true love know
HAM 4.5. 24 From another one? -
HAM 4.5. 25 By his cockle hat and staff,
HAM 4.5. 26 And his sandal shoon.
HAM 4.5. 27
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?
HAM 4.5. 28A
HAM-OPHELIA
Say you? Nay, pray you, mark.
HAM 4.5. 29 {(Sings)} He is dead and gone, lady,
HAM 4.5. 30 He is dead and gone.
HAM 4.5. 31 At his head a grass-green turf,
HAM 4.5. 32 At his heels a stone.
HAM 4.5. 33A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Nay, but Ophelia -
HAM 4.5. 34
HAM-OPHELIA
Pray you, mark.
HAM 4.5. 35 {(Sings)} White his shroud as the mountain snow - +
HAM 4.5. 35 {Enter King Claudius}
HAM 4.5. 36A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Alas, look here, my lord.
HAM 4.5. 37
HAM-OPHELIA
{(sings)} Larded with sweet flowers,
HAM 4.5. 38 Which bewept to the grave did - not - go
HAM 4.5. 39 With true-love showers.
HAM 4.5. 40A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
How do ye, pretty lady?
HAM 4.5. 41
HAM-OPHELIA
Well, God 'ield you. They say the owl was a
HAM 4.5. 42 baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but
HAM 4.5. 43 know not what we may be. God be at your table!
HAM 4.5. 44A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to Gertrude)} Conceit upon her +
HAM 4.5. 44A father.
HAM 4.5. 45
HAM-OPHELIA
Pray you, let's have no words of this, but when
HAM 4.5. 46 they ask you what it means, say you this.
HAM 4.5. 47 {(Sings)} Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
HAM 4.5. 48 All in the morning betime,
HAM 4.5. 49 And I a maid at your window
HAM 4.5. 50 To be your Valentine.
HAM 4.5. 51 Then up he rose, and donned his clothes,
HAM 4.5. 52 And dupped the chamber door;
HAM 4.5. 53 Let in the maid, that out a maid
HAM 4.5. 54 Never departed more.
HAM 4.5. 55A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Pretty Ophelia -
HAM 4.5. 56
HAM-OPHELIA
Indeed, la? Without an oath, I'll make an end
HAM 4.5. 57 on 't.
HAM 4.5. 58 {(Sings)} By Gis, and by Saint Charity,
HAM 4.5. 59 Alack, and fie for shame!
HAM 4.5. 60 Young men will do 't if they come to 't,
HAM 4.5. 61 By Cock, they are to blame.
HAM 4.5. 62 Quoth she `Before you tumbled me,
HAM 4.5. 63 You promised me to wed.'
HAM 4.5. 64 So would I 'a' done, by yonder sun,
HAM 4.5. 65 An thou hadst not come to my bed.
HAM 4.5. 66A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to Gertrude)} How long hath she +
HAM 4.5. 66A been thus?
HAM 4.5. 67
HAM-OPHELIA
I hope all will be well. We must be patient. But
HAM 4.5. 68 I cannot choose but weep to think they should lay him
HAM 4.5. 69 i' th' cold ground. My brother shall know of it. And so
HAM 4.5. 70 I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach!
HAM 4.5. 71 Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night,
HAM 4.5. 72 good night. {Exit}
HAM 4.5. 73
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to Horatio)} Follow her close. +
HAM 4.5. 73 Give her good watch, I pray you. {Exit Horatio}
HAM 4.5. 74 O, this is the poison of deep grief! It springs
HAM 4.5. 75 All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,
HAM 4.5. 76 When sorrows come they come not single spies,
HAM 4.5. 77 But in battalions. First, her father slain;
HAM 4.5. 78 Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
HAM 4.5. 79 Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
HAM 4.5. 80 Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
HAM 4.5. 81 For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly
HAM 4.5. 82 In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
HAM 4.5. 83 Divided from herself and her fair judgement,
HAM 4.5. 84 Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
HAM 4.5. 85 Last, and as much containing as all these,
HAM 4.5. 86 Her brother is in secret come from France,
HAM 4.5. 87 Feeds on this wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
HAM 4.5. 88 And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
HAM 4.5. 89 With pestilent speeches of his father's death;
HAM 4.5. 90 Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
HAM 4.5. 91 Will nothing stick our persons to arraign
HAM 4.5. 92 In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,
HAM 4.5. 93 Like to a murd'ring-piece, in many places
HAM 4.5. 94B Gives me superfluous death. {A noise within}
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
+
HAM 4.5. 94B Alack, what noise is this?
HAM 4.5. 95
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Where is my Switzers? Let them guard the door. +
HAM 4.5. 95 {Enter a Messenger}
HAM 4.5. 96B What is the matter?
HAM-MESSENGER
Save yourself, my lord.
HAM 4.5. 97 The ocean, overpeering of his list,
HAM 4.5. 98 Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
HAM 4.5. 99 Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
HAM 4.5. 100 O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord,
HAM 4.5. 101 And, as the world were now but to begin,
HAM 4.5. 102 Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
HAM 4.5. 103 The ratifiers and props of every word,
HAM 4.5. 104 They cry `Choose we! Laertes shall be king.'
HAM 4.5. 105 Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds,
HAM 4.5. 106 `Laertes shall be king, Laertes king.'
HAM 4.5. 107
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! +
HAM 4.5. 107 {A noise within}
HAM 4.5. 108 O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!
HAM 4.5. 109A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
The doors are broke. {Enter Laertes [with his +
HAM 4.5. 109A followers at the door]}
HAM 4.5. 110
HAM-LAERTES
Where is the King? - Sirs, stand you all without.
HAM 4.5. 111A
HAM-ALL HIS FOLLOWERS
No, let's come in.
HAM 4.5. 112A
HAM-LAERTES
I pray you, give me leave.
HAM 4.5. 113A
HAM-ALL HIS FOLLOWERS
We will, we will.
HAM 4.5. 114B
HAM-LAERTES
I thank you. Keep the door. {[Exeunt +
HAM 4.5. 114B followers]} O thou vile king,
HAM 4.5. 115B Give me my father.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Calmly, good Laertes.
HAM 4.5. 116
HAM-LAERTES
That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,
HAM 4.5. 117 Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot
HAM 4.5. 118 Even here between the chaste unsmirched brow
HAM 4.5. 119B Of my true mother.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
What is the cause, Laertes,
HAM 4.5. 120 That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? -
HAM 4.5. 121 Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person.
HAM 4.5. 122 There's such divinity doth hedge a king
HAM 4.5. 123 That treason can but peep to what it would,
HAM 4.5. 124 Acts little of his will. - Tell me, Laertes,
HAM 4.5. 125 Why thou art thus incensed. - Let him go, Gertrude. -
HAM 4.5. 126B Speak, man.
HAM-LAERTES
Where is my father?
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Dead.
HAM 4.5. 127B
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
{(to Laertes)} But not by +
HAM 4.5. 127B him.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Let him demand his fill.
HAM 4.5. 128
HAM-LAERTES
How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with.
HAM 4.5. 129 To hell, allegiance! Vows to the blackest devil!
HAM 4.5. 130 Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit!
HAM 4.5. 131 I dare damnation. To this point I stand,
HAM 4.5. 132 That both the worlds I give to negligence,
HAM 4.5. 133 Let come what comes. Only I'll be revenged
HAM 4.5. 134 Most throughly for my father.
HAM 4.5. 135A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Who shall stay you?
HAM 4.5. 136A
HAM-LAERTES
My will, not all the world;
HAM 4.5. 137 And for my means, I'll husband them so well
HAM 4.5. 138B They shall go far with little.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Good Laertes,
HAM 4.5. 139 If you desire to know the certainty
HAM 4.5. 140 Of your dear father's death, is 't writ in your revenge
HAM 4.5. 141 That, sweepstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
HAM 4.5. 142 Winner and loser?
HAM 4.5. 143A
HAM-LAERTES
None but his enemies.
HAM 4.5. 144A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Will you know them then?
HAM 4.5. 145
HAM-LAERTES
To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms,
HAM 4.5. 146 And, like the kind life-rend'ring pelican,
HAM 4.5. 147B Repast them with my blood.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Why, now you speak
HAM 4.5. 148 Like a good child and a true gentleman.
HAM 4.5. 149 That I am guiltless of your father's death,
HAM 4.5. 150 And am most sensibly in grief for it,
HAM 4.5. 151 It shall as level to your judgement pierce
HAM 4.5. 152 As day does to your eye. {A noise within}
HAM 4.5. 153A
HAM-VOICES
{(within)} Let her come in.
HAM 4.5. 154A
HAM-LAERTES
How now, what noise is that? {Enter Ophelia as +
HAM 4.5. 154A before}
HAM 4.5. 155 O heat dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt
HAM 4.5. 156 Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!
HAM 4.5. 157 By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight
HAM 4.5. 158 Till our scale turns the beam. O rose of May,
HAM 4.5. 159 Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
HAM 4.5. 160 O heavens, is 't possible a young maid's wits
HAM 4.5. 161 Should be as mortal as an old man's life?
HAM 4.5. 162 Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine
HAM 4.5. 163 It sends some precious instance of itself
HAM 4.5. 164 After the thing it loves.
HAM 4.5. 165
HAM-OPHELIA
{(sings)} They bore him barefaced on the +
HAM 4.5. 165 bier,
HAM 4.5. 166 Hey non nony, nony, hey nony,
HAM 4.5. 167 And on his grave rained many a tear -
HAM 4.5. 168 Fare you well, my dove.
HAM 4.5. 169
HAM-LAERTES
Hadst thou thy wits and didst persuade revenge,
HAM 4.5. 170 It could not move thus.
HAM 4.5. 171
HAM-OPHELIA
You must sing `Down, a-down', and you, `Call
HAM 4.5. 172 him a-down-a'. O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the
HAM 4.5. 173 false steward that stole his master's daughter.
HAM 4.5. 174A
HAM-LAERTES
This nothing's more than matter.
HAM 4.5. 175
HAM-OPHELIA
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray,
HAM 4.5. 176 love, remember. And there is pansies; that's for
HAM 4.5. 177 thoughts.
HAM 4.5. 178
HAM-LAERTES
A document in madness - thoughts and remembrance +
HAM 4.5. 178 fitted.
HAM 4.5. 179
HAM-OPHELIA
There's fennel for you, and columbines. There's
HAM 4.5. 180 rue for you, and here's some for me. We may call it
HAM 4.5. 181 herb-grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue
HAM 4.5. 182 with a difference. There's a daisy. I would give you
HAM 4.5. 183 some violets, but they withered all when my father
HAM 4.5. 184 died. They say a made a good end.
HAM 4.5. 185 {(Sings)} For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
HAM 4.5. 186
HAM-LAERTES
Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself
HAM 4.5. 187 She turns to favour and to prettiness.
HAM 4.5. 188
HAM-OPHELIA
{(sings)} And will a not come again,
HAM 4.5. 189 And will a not come again?
HAM 4.5. 190 No, no, he is dead,
HAM 4.5. 191 Go to thy death-bed,
HAM 4.5. 192 He never will come again.
HAM 4.5. 193 His beard as white as snow,
HAM 4.5. 194 All flaxen was his poll.
HAM 4.5. 195 He is gone, he is gone,
HAM 4.5. 196 And we cast away moan.
HAM 4.5. 197 God 'a' mercy on his soul.
HAM 4.5. 198 And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God b' wi' ye. +
HAM 4.5. 198 {[Exeunt Ophelia and Gertrude]}
HAM 4.5. 199A
HAM-LAERTES
Do you see this, O God?
HAM 4.5. 200
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Laertes, I must commune with your grief,
HAM 4.5. 201 Or you deny me right. Go but apart,
HAM 4.5. 202 Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will,
HAM 4.5. 203 And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me.
HAM 4.5. 204 If by direct or by collateral hand
HAM 4.5. 205 They find us touched, we will our kingdom give,
HAM 4.5. 206 Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours,
HAM 4.5. 207 To you in satisfaction. But if not,
HAM 4.5. 208 Be you content to lend your patience to us,
HAM 4.5. 209 And we shall jointly labour with your soul
HAM 4.5. 210B To give it due content.
HAM-LAERTES
Let this be so.
HAM 4.5. 211 His means of death, his obscure burial -
HAM 4.5. 212 No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
HAM 4.5. 213 No noble rite nor formal ostentation -
HAM 4.5. 214 Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,
HAM 4.5. 215B That I must call 't in question.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
So you shall;
HAM 4.5. 216 And where th' offence is, let the great axe fall.
HAM 4.5. 217 I pray you go with me. {Exeunt}
HAM 4.5. 0 {Enter Horatio with a Servant}
HAM 4.6. 1
HAM-HORATIO
What are they that would speak with me?
HAM 4.6. 2
HAM-SERVANT
Sailors, sir. They say they have letters for you.
HAM 4.6. 3A
HAM-HORATIO
Let them come in. {Exit Servant}
HAM 4.6. 4 I do not know from what part of the world
HAM 4.6. 5 I should be greeted if not from Lord Hamlet. {Enter [Sailors]}
HAM 4.6. 6A A
HAM-SAILOR
God bless you, sir.
HAM 4.6. 7A
HAM-HORATIO
Let him bless thee too.
HAM 4.6. 8 A
HAM-SAILOR
A shall, sir, an 't please him. There's a letter +
HAM 4.6. 8 for
HAM 4.6. 9 you, sir. It comes from th' ambassador that was bound
HAM 4.6. 10 for England - if your name be Horatio, as I am let to
HAM 4.6. 11 know it is.
HAM 4.6. 12
HAM-HORATIO
{(reads)} `Horatio, when thou shalt have +
HAM 4.6. 12 overlooked
HAM 4.6. 13 this, give these fellows some means to the King. They
HAM 4.6. 14 have letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea,
HAM 4.6. 15 a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase.
HAM 4.6. 16 Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled
HAM 4.6. 17 valour, and in the grapple I boarded them. On the
HAM 4.6. 18 instant they got clear of our ship, so I alone became
HAM 4.6. 19 their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves of
HAM 4.6. 20 mercy; but they knew what they did: I am to do a
HAM 4.6. 21 good turn for them. Let the King have the letters I have
HAM 4.6. 22 sent, and repair thou to me with as much haste as
HAM 4.6. 23 thou wouldst fly death. I have words to speak in thine
HAM 4.6. 24 ear will make thee dumb, yet are they much too light
HAM 4.6. 25 for the bore of the matter. These good fellows will bring
HAM 4.6. 26 thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold
HAM 4.6. 27 their course for England. Of them I have much to tell
HAM 4.6. 28 thee. Farewell.
HAM 4.6. 29 He that thou knowest thine,
HAM 4.6. 30 Hamlet.'
HAM 4.6. 31 Come, I will give you way for these your letters,
HAM 4.6. 32 And do 't the speedier that you may direct me
HAM 4.6. 33 To him from whom you brought them. {Exeunt}
HAM 4.6. 0 {Enter King Claudius and Laertes}
HAM 4.7. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Now must your conscience my acquittance +
HAM 4.7. 1 seal,
HAM 4.7. 2 And you must put me in your heart for friend,
HAM 4.7. 3 Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
HAM 4.7. 4 That he which hath your noble father slain
HAM 4.7. 5B Pursued my life.
HAM-LAERTES
It well appears. But tell me
HAM 4.7. 6 Why you proceeded not against these feats,
HAM 4.7. 7 So crimeful and so capital in nature,
HAM 4.7. 8 As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
HAM 4.7. 9B You mainly were stirred up.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
O, for two special +
HAM 4.7. 9B reasons,
HAM 4.7. 10 Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed,
HAM 4.7. 11 And yet to me they're strong. The Queen his mother
HAM 4.7. 12 Lives almost by his looks; and for myself -
HAM 4.7. 13 My virtue or my plague, be it either which -
HAM 4.7. 14 She's so conjunctive to my life and soul
HAM 4.7. 15 That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
HAM 4.7. 16 I could not but by her. The other motive
HAM 4.7. 17 Why to a public count I might not go
HAM 4.7. 18 Is the great love the general gender bear him,
HAM 4.7. 19 Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
HAM 4.7. 20 Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
HAM 4.7. 21 Convert his guilts to graces; so that my arrows,
HAM 4.7. 22 Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind,
HAM 4.7. 23 Would have reverted to my bow again,
HAM 4.7. 24 And not where I had aimed them.
HAM 4.7. 25
HAM-LAERTES
And so have I a noble father lost,
HAM 4.7. 26 A sister driven into desp'rate terms,
HAM 4.7. 27 Who has, if praises may go back again,
HAM 4.7. 28 Stood challenger, on mount, of all the age
HAM 4.7. 29 For her perfections. But my revenge will come.
HAM 4.7. 30
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Break not your sleeps for that. You must not think
HAM 4.7. 31 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
HAM 4.7. 32 That we can let our beard be shook with danger,
HAM 4.7. 33 And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more.
HAM 4.7. 34 I loved your father, and we love ourself.
HAM 4.7. 35 And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine - {Enter a Messenger +
HAM 4.7. 35 with letters}
HAM 4.7. 36B How now? What news?
HAM-MESSENGER
Letters, my lord, from +
HAM 4.7. 36B Hamlet.
HAM 4.7. 37 This to your majesty; this to the Queen.
HAM 4.7. 38A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
From Hamlet? Who brought them?
HAM 4.7. 39
HAM-MESSENGER
Sailors, my lord, they say. I saw them not.
HAM 4.7. 40 They were given me by Claudio. He received them.
HAM 4.7. 41
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Laertes, you shall hear them. - Leave us. {Exit +
HAM 4.7. 41 Messenger}
HAM 4.7. 42 {(Reads)} `High and mighty, you shall know I am set
HAM 4.7. 43 naked on your kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave
HAM 4.7. 44 to see your kingly eyes, when I shall, first asking your
HAM 4.7. 45 pardon, thereunto recount th' occasions of my sudden
HAM 4.7. 46 and more strange return.
HAM 4.7. 47 Hamlet.'
HAM 4.7. 48 What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
HAM 4.7. 49 Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
HAM 4.7. 50B
HAM-LAERTES
Know you the hand?
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
'Tis Hamlet's +
HAM 4.7. 50B character.
HAM 4.7. 51 `Naked' - and in a postscript here he says
HAM 4.7. 52 `Alone'. Can you advise me?
HAM 4.7. 53
HAM-LAERTES
I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come.
HAM 4.7. 54 It warms the very sickness in my heart
HAM 4.7. 55 That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
HAM 4.7. 56B `Thus diddest thou'.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
If it be so, Laertes -
HAM 4.7. 57 As how should it be so, how otherwise? -
HAM 4.7. 58 Will you be ruled by me?
HAM 4.7. 59
HAM-LAERTES
If so you'll not o'errule me to a peace.
HAM 4.7. 60
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
To thine own peace. If he be now returned,
HAM 4.7. 61 As checking at his voyage, and that he means
HAM 4.7. 62 No more to undertake it, I will work him
HAM 4.7. 63 To an exploit, now ripe in my device,
HAM 4.7. 64 Under the which he shall not choose but fall;
HAM 4.7. 65 And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe;
HAM 4.7. 66 But even his mother shall uncharge the practice
HAM 4.7. 67 And call it accident. Some two months since
HAM 4.7. 68 Here was a gentleman of Normandy.
HAM 4.7. 69 I've seen myself, and served against, the French,
HAM 4.7. 70 And they can well on horseback; but this gallant
HAM 4.7. 71 Had witchcraft in 't. He grew into his seat,
HAM 4.7. 72 And to such wondrous doing brought his horse
HAM 4.7. 73 As had he been incorpsed and demi-natured
HAM 4.7. 74 With the brave beast. So far he passed my thought
HAM 4.7. 75 That I in forgery of shapes and tricks
HAM 4.7. 76B Come short of what he did.
HAM-LAERTES
A Norman was 't?
HAM 4.7. 77A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
A Norman.
HAM 4.7. 78B
HAM-LAERTES
Upon my life, Lamord.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
The very same.
HAM 4.7. 79
HAM-LAERTES
I know him well. He is the brooch indeed,
HAM 4.7. 80B And gem, of all the nation.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
He made confession of you,
HAM 4.7. 81 And gave you such a masterly report
HAM 4.7. 82 For art and exercise in your defence,
HAM 4.7. 83 And for your rapier most especially,
HAM 4.7. 84 That he cried out 'twould be a sight indeed
HAM 4.7. 85 If one could match you. Sir, this report of his
HAM 4.7. 86 Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
HAM 4.7. 87 That he could nothing do but wish and beg
HAM 4.7. 88 Your sudden coming o'er to play with him.
HAM 4.7. 89B Now, out of this -
HAM-LAERTES
What out of this, my lord?
HAM 4.7. 90
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Laertes, was your father dear to you?
HAM 4.7. 91 Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
HAM 4.7. 92B A face without a heart?
HAM-LAERTES
Why ask you this?
HAM 4.7. 93
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Not that I think you did not love your father,
HAM 4.7. 94 But that I know love is begun by time,
HAM 4.7. 95 And that I see, in passages of proof,
HAM 4.7. 96 Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
HAM 4.7. 97 Hamlet comes back. What would you undertake
HAM 4.7. 98 To show yourself your father's son in deed
HAM 4.7. 99B More than in words?
HAM-LAERTES
To cut his throat i' th' church.
HAM 4.7. 100
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
No place indeed should murder sanctuarize.
HAM 4.7. 101 Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,
HAM 4.7. 102 Will you do this? - keep close within your chamber.
HAM 4.7. 103 Hamlet returned shall know you are come home.
HAM 4.7. 104 We'll put on those shall praise your excellence,
HAM 4.7. 105 And set a double varnish on the fame
HAM 4.7. 106 The Frenchman gave you; bring you, in fine, together,
HAM 4.7. 107 And wager on your heads. He, being remiss,
HAM 4.7. 108 Most generous, and free from all contriving,
HAM 4.7. 109 Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease,
HAM 4.7. 110 Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
HAM 4.7. 111 A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice,
HAM 4.7. 112B Requite him for your father.
HAM-LAERTES
I will do 't,
HAM 4.7. 113 And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
HAM 4.7. 114 I bought an unction of a mountebank
HAM 4.7. 115 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
HAM 4.7. 116 Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
HAM 4.7. 117 Collected from all simples that have virtue
HAM 4.7. 118 Under the moon, can save the thing from death
HAM 4.7. 119 That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point
HAM 4.7. 120 With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly,
HAM 4.7. 121B It may be death.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Let's further think of this;
HAM 4.7. 122 Weigh what convenience both of time and means
HAM 4.7. 123 May fit us to our shape. If this should fail,
HAM 4.7. 124 And that our drift look through our bad performance,
HAM 4.7. 125 'Twere better not essayed. Therefore this project
HAM 4.7. 126 Should have a back or second that might hold
HAM 4.7. 127 If this should blast in proof. Soft, let me see.
HAM 4.7. 128 We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings . . .
HAM 4.7. 129 I ha 't! When in your motion you are hot and dry -
HAM 4.7. 130 As make your bouts more violent to that end -
HAM 4.7. 131 And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him
HAM 4.7. 132 A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,
HAM 4.7. 133 If he by chance escape your venomed stuck,
HAM 4.7. 134B Our purpose may hold there. - {Enter Queen Gertrude} How +
HAM 4.7. 134B now, sweet Queen?
HAM 4.7. 135
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
HAM 4.7. 136 So fast they follow. Your sister's drowned, Laertes.
HAM 4.7. 137A
HAM-LAERTES
Drowned? O, where?
HAM 4.7. 138
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
There is a willow grows aslant a brook
HAM 4.7. 139 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
HAM 4.7. 140 Therewith fantastic garlands did she make
HAM 4.7. 141 Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
HAM 4.7. 142 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
HAM 4.7. 143 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
HAM 4.7. 144 There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds
HAM 4.7. 145 Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
HAM 4.7. 146 When down the weedy trophies and herself
HAM 4.7. 147 Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
HAM 4.7. 148 And mermaid-like a while they bore her up;
HAM 4.7. 149 Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes,
HAM 4.7. 150 As one incapable of her own distress,
HAM 4.7. 151 Or like a creature native and endued
HAM 4.7. 152 Unto that element. But long it could not be
HAM 4.7. 153 Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
HAM 4.7. 154 Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
HAM 4.7. 155 To muddy death.
HAM 4.7. 156A
HAM-LAERTES
Alas, then is she drowned.
HAM 4.7. 157A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Drowned, drowned.
HAM 4.7. 158
HAM-LAERTES
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
HAM 4.7. 159 And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet
HAM 4.7. 160 It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
HAM 4.7. 161B Let shame say what it will. {He weeps} When these are +
HAM 4.7. 161B gone,
HAM 4.7. 162 The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord.
HAM 4.7. 163 I have a speech of fire that fain would blaze,
HAM 4.7. 164B But that this folly douts it. {Exit}
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
+
HAM 4.7. 164B Let's follow, Gertrude.
HAM 4.7. 165 How much I had to do to calm his rage!
HAM 4.7. 166 Now fear I this will give it start again;
HAM 4.7. 167 Therefore let's follow. {Exeunt}
HAM 4.7. 0 {Enter two Clowns [carrying a spade and a pickaxe]}
HAM 5.1. 1
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
HAM 5.1. 2 wilfully seeks her own salvation?
HAM 5.1. 3
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
I tell thee she is, and therefore make her
HAM 5.1. 4 grave straight. The coroner hath sat on her, and finds
HAM 5.1. 5 it Christian burial.
HAM 5.1. 6
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
How can that be unless she drowned herself
HAM 5.1. 7 in her own defence?
HAM 5.1. 8
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Why, 'tis found so.
HAM 5.1. 9
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
It must be {se offendendo}, it cannot be else;
HAM 5.1. 10 for here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it
HAM 5.1. 11 argues an act; and an act hath three branches: it is
HAM 5.1. 12 to act, to do, and to perform. Argal she drowned herself
HAM 5.1. 13 wittingly.
HAM 5.1. 14
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Nay, but hear you, Goodman Delver.
HAM 5.1. 15
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Give me leave. Here lies the water - good.
HAM 5.1. 16 Here stands the man - good. If the man go to this water
HAM 5.1. 17 and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes. Mark
HAM 5.1. 18 you that. But if the water come to him and drown him,
HAM 5.1. 19 he drowns not himself; argal he that is not guilty of
HAM 5.1. 20 his own death shortens not his own life.
HAM 5.1. 21
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
But is this law?
HAM 5.1. 22
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Ay, marry, is 't: coroner's quest law.
HAM 5.1. 23
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Will you ha' the truth on 't? If this had
HAM 5.1. 24 not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried
HAM 5.1. 25 out o' Christian burial.
HAM 5.1. 26
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Why, there thou sayst, and the more pity
HAM 5.1. 27 that great folk should have count'nance in this world
HAM 5.1. 28 to drown or hang themselves more than their even
HAM 5.1. 29 Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient
HAM 5.1. 30 gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakers;
HAM 5.1. 31 they hold up Adam's profession. {[First Clown digs]}
HAM 5.1. 32
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Was he a gentleman?
HAM 5.1. 33
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
A was the first that ever bore arms.
HAM 5.1. 34
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Why, he had none.
HAM 5.1. 35
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
What, art a heathen? How dost thou
HAM 5.1. 36 understand the Scripture? The Scripture says Adam
HAM 5.1. 37 digged. Could he dig without arms? I'll put another
HAM 5.1. 38 question to thee. If thou answerest me not to the
HAM 5.1. 39 purpose, confess thyself -
HAM 5.1. 40
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Go to.
HAM 5.1. 41
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
What is he that builds stronger than either
HAM 5.1. 42 the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
HAM 5.1. 43
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives
HAM 5.1. 44 a thousand tenants.
HAM 5.1. 45
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
I like thy wit well, in good faith. The gallows
HAM 5.1. 46 does well. But how does it well? It does well to those
HAM 5.1. 47 that do ill. Now thou dost ill to say the gallows is built
HAM 5.1. 48 stronger than the church, argal the gallows may do
HAM 5.1. 49 well to thee. To 't again, come.
HAM 5.1. 50
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
`Who builds stronger than a mason, a
HAM 5.1. 51 shipwright, or a carpenter?'
HAM 5.1. 52
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.
HAM 5.1. 53
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Marry, now I can tell.
HAM 5.1. 54
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
To 't.
HAM 5.1. 55
HAM-SECOND CLOWN
Mass, I cannot tell. {Enter Prince Hamlet and +
HAM 5.1. 55 Horatio afar off}
HAM 5.1. 56
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your
HAM 5.1. 57 dull ass will not mend his pace with beating; and when
HAM 5.1. 58 you are asked this question next, say `a grave-maker';
HAM 5.1. 59 the houses that he makes lasts till doomsday. Go, get
HAM 5.1. 60 thee to Johan. Fetch me a stoup of liquor. {Exit Second Clown}
HAM 5.1. 61 {(Sings)} In youth when I did love, did love,
HAM 5.1. 62 Methought it was very sweet
HAM 5.1. 63 To contract-O-the time for-a-my behove,
HAM 5.1. 64 O methought there-a-was nothing-a-meet.
HAM 5.1. 65
HAM-HAMLET
Has this fellow no feeling of his business that a
HAM 5.1. 66 sings at grave-making?
HAM 5.1. 67
HAM-HORATIO
Custom hath made it in him a property of
HAM 5.1. 68 easiness.
HAM 5.1. 69
HAM-HAMLET
'Tis e'en so; the hand of little employment hath
HAM 5.1. 70 the daintier sense.
HAM 5.1. 71
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
{(sings)} But age with his stealing +
HAM 5.1. 71 steps
HAM 5.1. 72 Hath caught me in his clutch,
HAM 5.1. 73 And hath shipped me intil the land,
HAM 5.1. 74 As if I had never been such. {[He throws up a skull]}
HAM 5.1. 75
HAM-HAMLET
That skull had a tongue in it and could sing
HAM 5.1. 76 once. How the knave jowls it to th' ground as if 'twere
HAM 5.1. 77 Cain's jawbone, that did the first murder! This might
HAM 5.1. 78 be the pate of a politician which this ass o'er-offices,
HAM 5.1. 79 one that would circumvent God, might it not?
HAM 5.1. 80
HAM-HORATIO
It might, my lord.
HAM 5.1. 81
HAM-HAMLET
Or of a courtier, which could say `Good morrow,
HAM 5.1. 82 sweet lord. How dost thou, good lord?' This might be
HAM 5.1. 83 my lord such a one, that praised my lord such a one's
HAM 5.1. 84 horse when a meant to beg it, might it not?
HAM 5.1. 85
HAM-HORATIO
Ay, my lord.
HAM 5.1. 86
HAM-HAMLET
Why, e'en so, and now my lady Worm's,
HAM 5.1. 87 chapless, and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's
HAM 5.1. 88 spade. Here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to
HAM 5.1. 89 see 't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to
HAM 5.1. 90 play at loggats with 'em? Mine ache to think on 't.
HAM 5.1. 91
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
{(sings)} A pickaxe and a spade, a +
HAM 5.1. 91 spade,
HAM 5.1. 92 For and a shrouding-sheet;
HAM 5.1. 93 O, a pit of clay for to be made
HAM 5.1. 94 For such a guest is meet. {[He throws up another skull]}
HAM 5.1. 95
HAM-HAMLET
There's another. Why might not that be the skull
HAM 5.1. 96 of a lawyer? Where be his quiddits now, his quillets,
HAM 5.1. 97 his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he
HAM 5.1. 98 suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the
HAM 5.1. 99 sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his
HAM 5.1. 100 action of battery? H'm! This fellow might be in 's time
HAM 5.1. 101 a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his
HAM 5.1. 102 recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his
HAM 5.1. 103 recoveries. Is this the fine of his fines and the recovery
HAM 5.1. 104 of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
HAM 5.1. 105 Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases,
HAM 5.1. 106 and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a
HAM 5.1. 107 pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands
HAM 5.1. 108 will hardly lie in this box; and must th' inheritor himself
HAM 5.1. 109 have no more, ha?
HAM 5.1. 110
HAM-HORATIO
Not a jot more, my lord.
HAM 5.1. 111
HAM-HAMLET
Is not parchment made of sheepskins?
HAM 5.1. 112
HAM-HORATIO
Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too.
HAM 5.1. 113
HAM-HAMLET
They are sheep and calves that seek out
HAM 5.1. 114 assurance in that. I will speak to this fellow. {(To the}
HAM 5.1. 115 {First Clown)} Whose grave's this, sirrah?
HAM 5.1. 116
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Mine, sir.
HAM 5.1. 117 {(Sings)} O, a pit of clay for to be made
HAM 5.1. 118 For such a guest is meet.
HAM 5.1. 119
HAM-HAMLET
I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in 't.
HAM 5.1. 120
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
You lie out on 't, sir, and therefore it is not
HAM 5.1. 121 yours. For my part, I do not lie in 't, and yet it is mine.
HAM 5.1. 122
HAM-HAMLET
Thou dost lie in 't, to be in 't and say 'tis thine.
HAM 5.1. 123 'Tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
HAM 5.1. 124
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
'Tis a quick lie, sir, 'twill away again from
HAM 5.1. 125 me to you.
HAM 5.1. 126
HAM-HAMLET
What man dost thou dig it for?
HAM 5.1. 127
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
For no man, sir.
HAM 5.1. 128
HAM-HAMLET
What woman, then?
HAM 5.1. 129
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
For none, neither.
HAM 5.1. 130
HAM-HAMLET
Who is to be buried in 't?
HAM 5.1. 131
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her
HAM 5.1. 132 soul, she's dead.
HAM 5.1. 133
HAM-HAMLET
How absolute the knave is! We must speak by
HAM 5.1. 134 the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,
HAM 5.1. 135 Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it. The
HAM 5.1. 136 age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant
HAM 5.1. 137 comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.
HAM 5.1. 138 {(To the First Clown)} How long hast thou been a +
HAM 5.1. 138 grave-
HAM 5.1. 139 maker?
HAM 5.1. 140
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Of all the days i' th' year I came to 't that
HAM 5.1. 141 day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
HAM 5.1. 142
HAM-HAMLET
How long is that since?
HAM 5.1. 143
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell
HAM 5.1. 144 that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was
HAM 5.1. 145 born - he that was mad and sent into England.
HAM 5.1. 146
HAM-HAMLET
Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?
HAM 5.1. 147
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Why, because a was mad. A shall recover
HAM 5.1. 148 his wits there; or if a do not, 'tis no great matter there.
HAM 5.1. 149
HAM-HAMLET
Why?
HAM 5.1. 150
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
'Twill not be seen in him there. There the
HAM 5.1. 151 men are as mad as he.
HAM 5.1. 152
HAM-HAMLET
How came he mad?
HAM 5.1. 153
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Very strangely, they say.
HAM 5.1. 154
HAM-HAMLET
How strangely?
HAM 5.1. 155
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Faith, e'en with losing his wits.
HAM 5.1. 156
HAM-HAMLET
Upon what ground?
HAM 5.1. 157
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Why, here in Denmark. I have been sexton
HAM 5.1. 158 here, man and boy, thirty years.
HAM 5.1. 159
HAM-HAMLET
How long will a man lie i' th' earth ere he rot?
HAM 5.1. 160
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
I' faith, if a be not rotten before a die - as
HAM 5.1. 161 we have many pocky corpses nowadays, that will scarce
HAM 5.1. 162 hold the laying in - a will last you some eight year or
HAM 5.1. 163 nine year. A tanner will last you nine year.
HAM 5.1. 164
HAM-HAMLET
Why he more than another?
HAM 5.1. 165
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade
HAM 5.1. 166 that a will keep out water a great while, and your
HAM 5.1. 167 water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
HAM 5.1. 168 Here's a skull, now. This skull has lain in the earth
HAM 5.1. 169 three-and-twenty years.
HAM 5.1. 170
HAM-HAMLET
Whose was it?
HAM 5.1. 171
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
A whoreson mad fellow's it was. Whose do
HAM 5.1. 172 you think it was?
HAM 5.1. 173
HAM-HAMLET
Nay, I know not.
HAM 5.1. 174
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue - a
HAM 5.1. 175 poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once! This
HAM 5.1. 176 same skull, sir, was Yorick's skull, the King's jester.
HAM 5.1. 177
HAM-HAMLET
This?
HAM 5.1. 178
HAM-FIRST CLOWN
E'en that.
HAM 5.1. 179
HAM-HAMLET
Let me see. {He takes the skull}
HAM 5.1. 180 Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio - a fellow of
HAM 5.1. 181 infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me
HAM 5.1. 182 on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred
HAM 5.1. 183 my imagination is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung
HAM 5.1. 184 those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where
HAM 5.1. 185 be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your
HAM 5.1. 186 flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table
HAM 5.1. 187 on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning?
HAM 5.1. 188 Quite chop-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber
HAM 5.1. 189 and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour
HAM 5.1. 190 she must come. Make her laugh at that. Prithee,
HAM 5.1. 191 Horatio, tell me one thing.
HAM 5.1. 192
HAM-HORATIO
What's that, my lord?
HAM 5.1. 193
HAM-HAMLET
Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion
HAM 5.1. 194 i' th' earth?
HAM 5.1. 195
HAM-HORATIO
E'en so.
HAM 5.1. 196
HAM-HAMLET
And smelt so? Pah! {[He throws the skull down]}
HAM 5.1. 197
HAM-HORATIO
E'en so, my lord.
HAM 5.1. 198
HAM-HAMLET
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why
HAM 5.1. 199 may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander
HAM 5.1. 200 till a find it stopping a bung-hole?
HAM 5.1. 201
HAM-HORATIO
'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.
HAM 5.1. 202
HAM-HAMLET
No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither
HAM 5.1. 203 with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it, as thus:
HAM 5.1. 204 Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
HAM 5.1. 205 returneth into dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make
HAM 5.1. 206 loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted
HAM 5.1. 207 might they not stop a beer-barrel?
HAM 5.1. 208 Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
HAM 5.1. 209 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
HAM 5.1. 210 O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
HAM 5.1. 211 Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
HAM 5.1. 212B But soft, but soft; aside. {Hamlet and Horatio stand aside. +
HAM 5.1. 212B Enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Laertes, and a coffin, with a +
HAM 5.1. 212B Priest and lords attendant} Here comes the King,
HAM 5.1. 213 The Queen, the courtiers - who is that they follow,
HAM 5.1. 214 And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
HAM 5.1. 215 The corpse they follow did with desp'rate hand
HAM 5.1. 216 Fordo it own life. 'Twas of some estate.
HAM 5.1. 217B Couch we a while, and mark.
HAM-LAERTES
What ceremony else?
HAM 5.1. 218
HAM-HAMLET
{(aside to Horatio)} That is Laertes, a +
HAM 5.1. 218 very noble youth. Mark.
HAM 5.1. 219A
HAM-LAERTES
What ceremony else?
HAM 5.1. 220
HAM-PRIEST
Her obsequies have been as far enlarged
HAM 5.1. 221 As we have warrantise. Her death was doubtful,
HAM 5.1. 222 And but that great command o'ersways the order
HAM 5.1. 223 She should in ground unsanctified have lodged
HAM 5.1. 224 Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers,
HAM 5.1. 225 Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her,
HAM 5.1. 226 Yet here she is allowed her virgin rites,
HAM 5.1. 227 Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
HAM 5.1. 228 Of bell and burial.
HAM 5.1. 229A
HAM-LAERTES
Must there no more be done?
HAM 5.1. 230A
HAM-PRIEST
No more be done.
HAM 5.1. 231 We should profane the service of the dead
HAM 5.1. 232 To sing sage requiem and such rest to her
HAM 5.1. 233B As to peace-parted souls.
HAM-LAERTES
Lay her i' th' earth,
HAM 5.1. 234 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
HAM 5.1. 235 May violets spring. I tell thee, churlish priest,
HAM 5.1. 236 A minist'ring angel shall my sister be
HAM 5.1. 237 When thou liest howling.
HAM 5.1. 238A
HAM-HAMLET
{(aside)} What, the fair Ophelia!
HAM 5.1. 239
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
{(scattering flowers)} Sweets to +
HAM 5.1. 239 the sweet. Farewell.
HAM 5.1. 240 I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife.
HAM 5.1. 241 I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,
HAM 5.1. 242B And not t' have strewed thy grave.
HAM-LAERTES
O, treble woe
HAM 5.1. 243 Fall ten times treble on that cursed head
HAM 5.1. 244 Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
HAM 5.1. 245 Deprived thee of! - Hold off the earth a while,
HAM 5.1. 246 Till I have caught her once more in mine arms. {He leaps into +
HAM 5.1. 246 the grave}
HAM 5.1. 247 Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead
HAM 5.1. 248 Till of this flat a mountain you have made
HAM 5.1. 249 To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head
HAM 5.1. 250B Of blue Olympus.
HAM-HAMLET
{(coming forward)} What is +
HAM 5.1. 250B he whose grief
HAM 5.1. 251 Bears such an emphasis, whose phrase of sorrow
HAM 5.1. 252 Conjures the wand'ring stars and makes them stand
HAM 5.1. 253 Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,
HAM 5.1. 254 Hamlet the Dane. {[Hamlet leaps in after Laertes]}
HAM 5.1. 255A
HAM-LAERTES
The devil take thy soul.
HAM 5.1. 256A
HAM-HAMLET
Thou pray'st not well.
HAM 5.1. 257 I prithee take thy fingers from my throat,
HAM 5.1. 258 For though I am not splenative and rash,
HAM 5.1. 259 Yet have I something in me dangerous,
HAM 5.1. 260 Which let thy wiseness fear. Away thy hand.
HAM 5.1. 261B
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to Lords)} Pluck them +
HAM 5.1. 261B asunder.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
Hamlet, Hamlet!
HAM 5.1. 262B
HAM-ALL [THE LORDS]
Gentlemen!
HAM-HORATIO
{(to Hamlet)}+
HAM 5.1. 262B Good my lord, be quiet.
HAM 5.1. 263
HAM-HAMLET
Why, I will fight with him upon this theme
HAM 5.1. 264 Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
HAM 5.1. 265A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
O my son, what theme?
HAM 5.1. 266
HAM-HAMLET
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
HAM 5.1. 267 Could not, with all their quantity of love,
HAM 5.1. 268 Make up my sum. - What wilt thou do for her?
HAM 5.1. 269A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
O, he is mad, Laertes.
HAM 5.1. 270A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
{(to Laertes)} For love of God, +
HAM 5.1. 270A forbear him.
HAM 5.1. 271A
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Laertes)} 'Swounds, show me what +
HAM 5.1. 271A thou'lt do.
HAM 5.1. 272 Woot weep, woot fight, woot fast, woot tear thyself,
HAM 5.1. 273 Woot drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?
HAM 5.1. 274 I'll do 't. Dost thou come here to whine,
HAM 5.1. 275 To outface me with leaping in her grave?
HAM 5.1. 276 Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
HAM 5.1. 277 And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
HAM 5.1. 278 Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
HAM 5.1. 279 Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
HAM 5.1. 280 Make Ossa like a wart. Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
HAM 5.1. 281B I'll rant as well as thou.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{[to +
HAM 5.1. 281B Laertes]} This is mere madness,
HAM 5.1. 282 And thus a while the fit will work on him.
HAM 5.1. 283 Anon, as patient as the female dove
HAM 5.1. 284 When that her golden couplets are disclosed,
HAM 5.1. 285B His silence will sit drooping.
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Laertes)}+
HAM 5.1. 285B Hear you, sir,
HAM 5.1. 286 What is the reason that you use me thus?
HAM 5.1. 287 I loved you ever. But it is no matter.
HAM 5.1. 288 Let Hercules himself do what he may,
HAM 5.1. 289 The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. {Exit}
HAM 5.1. 290
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon +
HAM 5.1. 290 him. {Exit Horatio}
HAM 5.1. 291 {(To Laertes)} Strengthen your patience in our last +
HAM 5.1. 291 night's speech.
HAM 5.1. 292 We'll put the matter to the present push. -
HAM 5.1. 293 Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son. -
HAM 5.1. 294 This grave shall have a living monument.
HAM 5.1. 295 An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
HAM 5.1. 296 Till then, in patience our proceeding be. {Exeunt}
HAM 5.1. 0 {Enter Prince Hamlet and Horatio}
HAM 5.2. 1
HAM-HAMLET
So much for this, sir. Now, let me see, the other.
HAM 5.2. 2 You do remember all the circumstance?
HAM 5.2. 3A
HAM-HORATIO
Remember it, my lord!
HAM 5.2. 4
HAM-HAMLET
Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
HAM 5.2. 5 That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay
HAM 5.2. 6 Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly -
HAM 5.2. 7 And praised be rashness for it: let us know
HAM 5.2. 8 Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
HAM 5.2. 9 When our dear plots do pall, and that should teach us
HAM 5.2. 10 There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
HAM 5.2. 11 Rough-hew them how we will -
HAM 5.2. 12A
HAM-HORATIO
That is most certain.
HAM 5.2. 13A
HAM-HAMLET
Up from my cabin,
HAM 5.2. 14 My sea-gown scarfed about me in the dark,
HAM 5.2. 15 Groped I to find out them, had my desire,
HAM 5.2. 16 Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew
HAM 5.2. 17 To mine own room again, making so bold,
HAM 5.2. 18 My fears forgetting manners, to unseal
HAM 5.2. 19 Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio -
HAM 5.2. 20 O royal knavery! - an exact command,
HAM 5.2. 21 Larded with many several sorts of reasons
HAM 5.2. 22 Importing Denmark's health, and England's, too,
HAM 5.2. 23 With ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,
HAM 5.2. 24 That on the supervise, no leisure bated,
HAM 5.2. 25 No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,
HAM 5.2. 26B My head should be struck off.
HAM-HORATIO
Is 't possible?
HAM 5.2. 27
HAM-HAMLET
{(giving it to him)} Here's the commission. +
HAM 5.2. 27 Read it at more leisure.
HAM 5.2. 28 But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?
HAM 5.2. 29A
HAM-HORATIO
I beseech you.
HAM 5.2. 30
HAM-HAMLET
Being thus benetted round with villainies -
HAM 5.2. 31 Ere I could make a prologue to my brains,
HAM 5.2. 32 They had begun the play - I sat me down,
HAM 5.2. 33 Devised a new commission, wrote it fair.
HAM 5.2. 34 I once did hold it, as our statists do,
HAM 5.2. 35 A baseness to write fair, and laboured much
HAM 5.2. 36 How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
HAM 5.2. 37 It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know
HAM 5.2. 38B Th' effect of what I wrote?
HAM-HORATIO
Ay, good my lord.
HAM 5.2. 39
HAM-HAMLET
An earnest conjuration from the King,
HAM 5.2. 40 As England was his faithful tributary,
HAM 5.2. 41 As love between them like the palm should flourish,
HAM 5.2. 42 As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
HAM 5.2. 43 And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
HAM 5.2. 44 And many such like `as'es of great charge,
HAM 5.2. 45 That on the view and know of these contents,
HAM 5.2. 46 Without debatement further more or less,
HAM 5.2. 47 He should the bearers put to sudden death,
HAM 5.2. 48B Not shriving-time allowed.
HAM-HORATIO
How was this sealed?
HAM 5.2. 49
HAM-HAMLET
Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
HAM 5.2. 50 I had my father's signet in my purse,
HAM 5.2. 51 Which was the model of that Danish seal;
HAM 5.2. 52 Folded the writ up in the form of th' other,
HAM 5.2. 53 Subscribed it, gave 't th' impression, placed it safely,
HAM 5.2. 54 The changeling never known. Now the next day
HAM 5.2. 55 Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent
HAM 5.2. 56 Thou know'st already.
HAM 5.2. 57
HAM-HORATIO
So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to 't.
HAM 5.2. 58
HAM-HAMLET
Why, man, they did make love to this employment.
HAM 5.2. 59 They are not near my conscience. Their defeat
HAM 5.2. 60 Doth by their own insinuation grow.
HAM 5.2. 61 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
HAM 5.2. 62 Between the pass and fell incensed points
HAM 5.2. 63B Of mighty opposites.
HAM-HORATIO
Why, what a king is this!
HAM 5.2. 64
HAM-HAMLET
Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon -
HAM 5.2. 65 He that hath killed my king and whored my mother,
HAM 5.2. 66 Popped in between th' election and my hopes,
HAM 5.2. 67 Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
HAM 5.2. 68 And with such coz'nage - is 't not perfect conscience
HAM 5.2. 69 To quit him with this arm? And is 't not to be damned
HAM 5.2. 70 To let this canker of our nature come
HAM 5.2. 71 In further evil?
HAM 5.2. 72
HAM-HORATIO
It must be shortly known to him from England
HAM 5.2. 73 What is the issue of the business there.
HAM 5.2. 74
HAM-HAMLET
It will be short. The interim's mine,
HAM 5.2. 75 And a man's life's no more than to say `one'.
HAM 5.2. 76 But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
HAM 5.2. 77 That to Laertes I forgot myself;
HAM 5.2. 78 For by the image of my cause I see
HAM 5.2. 79 The portraiture of his. I'll court his favours.
HAM 5.2. 80 But sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
HAM 5.2. 81B Into a tow'ring passion.
HAM-HORATIO
Peace, who comes here? +
HAM 5.2. 81B {Enter young Osric, a courtier, [taking off his hat]}
HAM 5.2. 82
HAM-OSRIC
Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
HAM 5.2. 83
HAM-HAMLET
I humbly thank you, sir. {(To +
HAM 5.2. 83 Horatio)} Dost know
HAM 5.2. 84 this water-fly?
HAM 5.2. 85
HAM-HORATIO
No, my good lord.
HAM 5.2. 86
HAM-HAMLET
Thy state is the more gracious, for 'tis a vice to
HAM 5.2. 87 know him. He hath much land, and fertile. Let a beast
HAM 5.2. 88 be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's
HAM 5.2. 89 mess. 'Tis a chuff, but, as I say, spacious in the
HAM 5.2. 90 possession of dirt.
HAM 5.2. 91
HAM-OSRIC
Sweet lord, if your friendship were at leisure I
HAM 5.2. 92 should impart a thing to you from his majesty.
HAM 5.2. 93
HAM-HAMLET
I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit.
HAM 5.2. 94 Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.
HAM 5.2. 95
HAM-OSRIC
I thank your lordship, 'tis very hot.
HAM 5.2. 96
HAM-HAMLET
No, believe me, 'tis very cold. The wind is
HAM 5.2. 97 northerly.
HAM 5.2. 98
HAM-OSRIC
It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.
HAM 5.2. 99
HAM-HAMLET
Methinks it is very sultry and hot for my
HAM 5.2. 100 complexion.
HAM 5.2. 101
HAM-OSRIC
Exceedingly, my lord. It is very sultry, as 'twere -
HAM 5.2. 102 I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his majesty bade me
HAM 5.2. 103 signify to you that a has laid a great wager on your
HAM 5.2. 104 head. Sir, this is the matter.
HAM 5.2. 105
HAM-HAMLET
I beseech you, remember.
HAM 5.2. 106
HAM-OSRIC
Nay, good my lord, for mine ease, in good faith.
HAM 5.2. 107 Sir, you are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is
HAM 5.2. 108 at his weapon.
HAM 5.2. 109
HAM-HAMLET
What's his weapon?
HAM 5.2. 110
HAM-OSRIC
Rapier and dagger.
HAM 5.2. 111
HAM-HAMLET
That's two of his weapons. But well.
HAM 5.2. 112
HAM-OSRIC
The King, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary
HAM 5.2. 113 horses, against the which he imponed, as I take it, six
HAM 5.2. 114 French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns as
HAM 5.2. 115 girdle, hanger, or so. Three of the carriages, in faith,
HAM 5.2. 116 are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts,
HAM 5.2. 117 most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit.
HAM 5.2. 118
HAM-HAMLET
What call you the carriages?
HAM 5.2. 119
HAM-OSRIC
The carriages, sir, are the hangers.
HAM 5.2. 120
HAM-HAMLET
The phrase would be more germane to the matter
HAM 5.2. 121 if we could carry cannon by our sides. I would it might
HAM 5.2. 122 be hangers till then. But on: six Barbary horses against
HAM 5.2. 123 six French swords, their assigns, and three liberal-
HAM 5.2. 124 conceited carriages - that's the French bet against the
HAM 5.2. 125 Danish. Why is this `imponed', as you call it?
HAM 5.2. 126
HAM-OSRIC
The King, sir, hath laid, sir, that in a dozen passes
HAM 5.2. 127 between you and him he shall not exceed you three
HAM 5.2. 128 hits. He hath on 't twelve for nine, and it would come
HAM 5.2. 129 to immediate trial if your lordship would vouchsafe the
HAM 5.2. 130 answer.
HAM 5.2. 131
HAM-HAMLET
How if I answer no?
HAM 5.2. 132
HAM-OSRIC
I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in
HAM 5.2. 133 trial.
HAM 5.2. 134
HAM-HAMLET
Sir, I will walk here in the hall. If it please his
HAM 5.2. 135 majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me. Let the
HAM 5.2. 136 foils be brought; the gentleman willing, an the King
HAM 5.2. 137 hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can. If not,
HAM 5.2. 138 I'll gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
HAM 5.2. 139
HAM-OSRIC
Shall I re-deliver you e'en so?
HAM 5.2. 140
HAM-HAMLET
To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature
HAM 5.2. 141 will.
HAM 5.2. 142
HAM-OSRIC
I commend my duty to your lordship.
HAM 5.2. 143
HAM-HAMLET
Yours, yours. {Exit Osric}
HAM 5.2. 144 He does well to commend it himself; there are no
HAM 5.2. 145 tongues else for 's turn.
HAM 5.2. 146
HAM-HORATIO
This lapwing runs away with the shell on his
HAM 5.2. 147 head.
HAM 5.2. 148
HAM-HAMLET
A did comply with his dug before a sucked it.
HAM 5.2. 149 Thus has he - and many more of the same bevy that I
HAM 5.2. 150 know the drossy age dotes on - only got the tune of
HAM 5.2. 151 the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of
HAM 5.2. 152 yeasty collection which carries them through and
HAM 5.2. 153 through the most fanned and winnowed opinions; and
HAM 5.2. 154 do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.
HAM 5.2. 155
HAM-HORATIO
You will lose this wager, my lord.
HAM 5.2. 156
HAM-HAMLET
I do not think so. Since he went into France, I
HAM 5.2. 157 have been in continual practice. I shall win at the odds.
HAM 5.2. 158 But thou wouldst not think how all here about my
HAM 5.2. 159 heart - but it is no matter.
HAM 5.2. 160
HAM-HORATIO
Nay, good my lord -
HAM 5.2. 161
HAM-HAMLET
It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gain-
HAM 5.2. 162 giving as would perhaps trouble a woman.
HAM 5.2. 163
HAM-HORATIO
If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will
HAM 5.2. 164 forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit.
HAM 5.2. 165
HAM-HAMLET
Not a whit. We defy augury. There's a special
HAM 5.2. 166 providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis
HAM 5.2. 167 not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it
HAM 5.2. 168 be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since
HAM 5.2. 169 no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave
HAM 5.2. 170 betimes? {Enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Laertes, and +
HAM 5.2. 170 lords, with Osric and other attendants with [trumpets, drums, +
HAM 5.2. 170 cushions], foils, and gauntlets; a table, and flagons of wine on it}
HAM 5.2. 171
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from +
HAM 5.2. 171 me.
HAM 5.2. 172
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Laertes)} Give me your pardon, sir. +
HAM 5.2. 172 I've done you wrong;
HAM 5.2. 173 But pardon 't as you are a gentleman.
HAM 5.2. 174 This presence knows,
HAM 5.2. 175 And you must needs have heard, how I am punished
HAM 5.2. 176 With sore distraction. What I have done
HAM 5.2. 177 That might your nature, honour, and exception
HAM 5.2. 178 Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
HAM 5.2. 179 Was 't Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet.
HAM 5.2. 180 If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,
HAM 5.2. 181 And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
HAM 5.2. 182 Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
HAM 5.2. 183 Who does it then? His madness. If 't be so,
HAM 5.2. 184 Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged.
HAM 5.2. 185 His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
HAM 5.2. 186 Sir, in this audience
HAM 5.2. 187 Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
HAM 5.2. 188 Free me so far in your most generous thoughts
HAM 5.2. 189 That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house
HAM 5.2. 190B And hurt my brother.
HAM-LAERTES
I am satisfied in nature,
HAM 5.2. 191 Whose motive in this case should stir me most
HAM 5.2. 192 To my revenge. But in my terms of honour
HAM 5.2. 193 I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement
HAM 5.2. 194 Till by some elder masters of known honour
HAM 5.2. 195 I have a voice and precedent of peace
HAM 5.2. 196 To keep my name ungored; but till that time
HAM 5.2. 197 I do receive your offered love like love,
HAM 5.2. 198B And will not wrong it.
HAM-HAMLET
I do embrace it freely,
HAM 5.2. 199 And will this brothers' wager frankly play. -
HAM 5.2. 200B {(To attendants)} Give us the foils. Come +
HAM 5.2. 200B on.
HAM-LAERTES
{(to attendants)} Come, one for me.
HAM 5.2. 201
HAM-HAMLET
I'll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance
HAM 5.2. 202 Your skill shall, like a star i' th' darkest night,
HAM 5.2. 203 Stick fiery off indeed.
HAM 5.2. 204A
HAM-LAERTES
You mock me, sir.
HAM 5.2. 205A
HAM-HAMLET
No, by this hand.
HAM 5.2. 206
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,
HAM 5.2. 207B You know the wager?
HAM-HAMLET
Very well, my lord.
HAM 5.2. 208 Your grace hath laid the odds o' th' weaker side.
HAM 5.2. 209
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
I do not fear it; I have seen you both.
HAM 5.2. 210 But since he is bettered, we have therefore odds.
HAM 5.2. 211
HAM-LAERTES
{(taking a foil)} This is too heavy; let +
HAM 5.2. 211 me see another.
HAM 5.2. 212
HAM-HAMLET
{(taking a foil)} This likes me well. These +
HAM 5.2. 212 foils have all a length?
HAM 5.2. 213A
HAM-OSRIC
Ay, my good lord. {Hamlet and Laertes prepare to play}
HAM 5.2. 214
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to attendants)} Set me the stoups +
HAM 5.2. 214 of wine upon that table.
HAM 5.2. 215 If Hamlet give the first or second hit,
HAM 5.2. 216 Or quit in answer of the third exchange,
HAM 5.2. 217 Let all the battlements their ordnance fire.
HAM 5.2. 218 The King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath,
HAM 5.2. 219 And in the cup an union shall he throw
HAM 5.2. 220 Richer than that which four successive kings
HAM 5.2. 221 In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups,
HAM 5.2. 222 And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
HAM 5.2. 223 The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
HAM 5.2. 224 The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
HAM 5.2. 225B `Now the King drinks to Hamlet'. {Trumpets the while he +
HAM 5.2. 225B drinks} Come, begin.
HAM 5.2. 226 And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.
HAM 5.2. 227
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Laertes)} Come on, sir.
HAM 5.2. 228
HAM-LAERTES
Come, my lord. {They play}
HAM 5.2. 229
HAM-HAMLET
One.
HAM 5.2. 230
HAM-LAERTES
No.
HAM 5.2. 231
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Osric)} Judgement.
HAM 5.2. 232
HAM-OSRIC
A hit, a very palpable hit.
HAM 5.2. 233
HAM-LAERTES
Well, again.
HAM 5.2. 234
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Stay. Give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is +
HAM 5.2. 234 thine.
HAM 5.2. 235 Here's to thy health. - {[Drum and] trumpets sound, and shot goes +
HAM 5.2. 235 off}
HAM 5.2. 235B Give him the cup.
HAM 5.2. 236
HAM-HAMLET
I'll play this bout first. Set it by a while. -
HAM 5.2. 237B Come. {They play again} Another hit. What say you?
HAM 5.2. 238
HAM-LAERTES
A touch, a touch, I do confess.
HAM 5.2. 239B
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Our son shall win.
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
He's fat and +
HAM 5.2. 239B scant of breath. -
HAM 5.2. 240 Here, Hamlet, take my napkin. Rub thy brows.
HAM 5.2. 241 The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.
HAM 5.2. 242B
HAM-HAMLET
Good madam.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Gertrude, do not drink.
HAM 5.2. 243
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
I will, my lord, I pray you pardon me. {She +
HAM 5.2. 243 drinks, then offers the cup to Hamlet}
HAM 5.2. 244
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(aside)} It is the poisoned cup; it +
HAM 5.2. 244 is too late.
HAM 5.2. 245
HAM-HAMLET
I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.
HAM 5.2. 246A
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
{(to Hamlet)} Come, let me wipe thy +
HAM 5.2. 246A face.
HAM 5.2. 247A
HAM-LAERTES
{(aside to Claudius)} My lord, I'll hit +
HAM 5.2. 247A him now.
HAM 5.2. 248A
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(aside to Laertes)} I do not +
HAM 5.2. 248A think 't.
HAM 5.2. 249
HAM-LAERTES
{(aside)} And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my +
HAM 5.2. 249 conscience.
HAM 5.2. 250
HAM-HAMLET
Come for the third, Laertes, you but dally.
HAM 5.2. 251 I pray you pass with your best violence.
HAM 5.2. 252 I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
HAM 5.2. 253B
HAM-LAERTES
Say you so? Come on. {They play}
HAM-OSRIC
+
HAM 5.2. 253B Nothing neither way.
HAM 5.2. 254B
HAM-LAERTES
{(to Hamlet)} Have at you now! +
HAM 5.2. 254B {[Laertes wounds Hamlet.] In scuffling, they change rapiers, [and +
HAM 5.2. 254B Hamlet wounds Laertes]}
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
{(to +
HAM 5.2. 254B attendants)} Part them, they are incensed.
HAM 5.2. 255B
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Laertes)} Nay, come again. +
HAM 5.2. 255B {[The Queen falls down]}
HAM-OSRIC
Look to the Queen there, +
HAM 5.2. 255B ho!
HAM 5.2. 256
HAM-HORATIO
They bleed on both sides. {(To Hamlet)} How +
HAM 5.2. 256 is 't, my lord?
HAM 5.2. 257A
HAM-OSRIC
How is 't, Laertes?
HAM 5.2. 258
HAM-LAERTES
Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric.
HAM 5.2. 259 I am justly killed with mine own treachery.
HAM 5.2. 260B
HAM-HAMLET
How does the Queen?
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
She swoons to see them +
HAM 5.2. 260B bleed.
HAM 5.2. 261
HAM-QUEEN GERTRUDE
No, no, the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet,
HAM 5.2. 262 The drink, the drink - I am poisoned. {[She dies]}
HAM 5.2. 263
HAM-HAMLET
O villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked! +
HAM 5.2. 263 {[Exit Osric]}
HAM 5.2. 264 Treachery, seek it out.
HAM 5.2. 265
HAM-LAERTES
It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain.
HAM 5.2. 266 No med'cine in the world can do thee good.
HAM 5.2. 267 In thee there is not half an hour of life.
HAM 5.2. 268 The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
HAM 5.2. 269 Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice
HAM 5.2. 270 Hath turned itself on me. Lo, here I lie,
HAM 5.2. 271 Never to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned.
HAM 5.2. 272 I can no more. The King, the King's to blame.
HAM 5.2. 273
HAM-HAMLET
The point envenomed too? Then, venom, to thy work. +
HAM 5.2. 273 {He hurts King Claudius}
HAM 5.2. 274A
HAM-ALL THE COURTIERS
Treason, treason!
HAM 5.2. 275
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
O yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt.
HAM 5.2. 276
HAM-HAMLET
Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane,
HAM 5.2. 277 Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?
HAM 5.2. 278B Follow my mother. {King Claudius dies}
HAM-LAERTES
He +
HAM 5.2. 278B is justly served.
HAM 5.2. 279 It is a poison tempered by himself.
HAM 5.2. 280 Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
HAM 5.2. 281 Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
HAM 5.2. 282 Nor thine on me. {He dies}
HAM 5.2. 283
HAM-HAMLET
Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
HAM 5.2. 284 I am dead, Horatio. Wretched Queen, adieu!
HAM 5.2. 285 You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
HAM 5.2. 286 That are but mutes or audience to this act,
HAM 5.2. 287 Had I but time - as this fell sergeant Death
HAM 5.2. 288 Is strict in his arrest - O, I could tell you -
HAM 5.2. 289 But let it be. Horatio, I am dead,
HAM 5.2. 290 Thou liv'st. Report me and my cause aright
HAM 5.2. 291B To the unsatisfied.
HAM-HORATIO
Never believe it.
HAM 5.2. 292 I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.
HAM 5.2. 293B Here's yet some liquor left.
HAM-HAMLET
As thou'rt a man,
HAM 5.2. 294 Give me the cup. Let go. By heaven, I'll ha 't.
HAM 5.2. 295 O God, Horatio, what a wounded name,
HAM 5.2. 296 Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
HAM 5.2. 297 If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
HAM 5.2. 298 Absent thee from felicity a while,
HAM 5.2. 299 And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain
HAM 5.2. 300B To tell my story. {March afar off, and shout within} +
HAM 5.2. 300B What warlike noise is this? {Enter Osric}
HAM 5.2. 301
HAM-OSRIC
Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,
HAM 5.2. 302 To th' ambassadors of England gives
HAM 5.2. 303B This warlike volley.
HAM-HAMLET
O, I die, Horatio!
HAM 5.2. 304 The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
HAM 5.2. 305 I cannot live to hear the news from England,
HAM 5.2. 306 But I do prophesy th' election lights
HAM 5.2. 307 On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.
HAM 5.2. 308 So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less,
HAM 5.2. 309 Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
HAM 5.2. 310 O, O, O, O! {He dies}
HAM 5.2. 311
HAM-HORATIO
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet +
HAM 5.2. 311 prince,
HAM 5.2. 312 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. -
HAM 5.2. 313 Why does the drum come hither? {Enter Fortinbras with the +
HAM 5.2. 313 English [Ambassadors], with a drummer, colours, and attendants}
HAM 5.2. 314A
HAM-FORTINBRAS
Where is this sight?
HAM 5.2. 315A
HAM-HORATIO
What is it ye would see?
HAM 5.2. 316 If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
HAM 5.2. 317
HAM-FORTINBRAS
This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,
HAM 5.2. 318 What feast is toward in thine eternal cell
HAM 5.2. 319 That thou so many princes at a shot
HAM 5.2. 320B So bloodily hast struck!
HAM-AMBASSADOR
The sight is dismal,
HAM 5.2. 321 And our affairs from England come too late.
HAM 5.2. 322 The ears are senseless that should give us hearing
HAM 5.2. 323 To tell him his commandment is fulfilled,
HAM 5.2. 324 That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
HAM 5.2. 325B Where should we have our thanks?
HAM-HORATIO
Not from his mouth,
HAM 5.2. 326 Had it th' ability of life to thank you.
HAM 5.2. 327 He never gave commandment for their death.
HAM 5.2. 328 But since so jump upon this bloody question
HAM 5.2. 329 You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
HAM 5.2. 330 Are here arrived, give order that these bodies
HAM 5.2. 331 High on a stage be placed to the view;
HAM 5.2. 332 And let me speak to th' yet unknowing world
HAM 5.2. 333 How these things came about. So shall you hear
HAM 5.2. 334 Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
HAM 5.2. 335 Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters,
HAM 5.2. 336 Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause;
HAM 5.2. 337 And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
HAM 5.2. 338 Fall'n on th' inventors' heads. All this can I
HAM 5.2. 339B Truly deliver.
HAM-FORTINBRAS
Let us haste to hear it,
HAM 5.2. 340 And call the noblest to the audience.
HAM 5.2. 341 For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune.
HAM 5.2. 342 I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
HAM 5.2. 343 Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
HAM 5.2. 344
HAM-HORATIO
Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
HAM 5.2. 345 And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more.
HAM 5.2. 346 But let this same be presently performed,
HAM 5.2. 347 Even whiles men's minds are wild, lest more mischance
HAM 5.2. 348B On plots and errors happen.
HAM-FORTINBRAS
Let four captains
HAM 5.2. 349 Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
HAM 5.2. 350 For he was likely, had he been put on,
HAM 5.2. 351 To have proved most royally; and for his passage,
HAM 5.2. 352 The soldiers' music and the rites of war
HAM 5.2. 353 Speak loudly for him.
HAM 5.2. 354 Take up the body. Such a sight as this
HAM 5.2. 355 Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
HAM 5.2. 356 Go, bid the soldiers shoot. {Exeunt, marching, with the bodies; +
HAM 5.2. 356 after the which, a peal of ordnance are shot off}
HAM 5.2. 0
HAM A.A. 0 [[Just before the second entrance of the Ghost in 1.1 (l. 106.1), Q2 has
HAM A.A. 0 these additional lines
HAM-]]
HAM A.A. 1
HAM-BARNARDO
I think it be no other but e'en so.
HAM A.A. 2 Well may it sort that this portentous figure
HAM A.A. 3 Comes armed through our watch so like the king
HAM A.A. 4 That was and is the question of these wars.
HAM A.A. 5
HAM-HORATIO
A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
HAM A.A. 6 In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
HAM A.A. 7 A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
HAM A.A. 8 The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
HAM A.A. 9 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets
HAM A.A. 10 At stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood,
HAM A.A. 11 Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,
HAM A.A. 12 Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands,
HAM A.A. 13 Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
HAM A.A. 14 And even the like precurse of feared events,
HAM A.A. 15 As harbingers preceding still the fates,
HAM A.A. 16 And prologue to the omen coming on,
HAM A.A. 17 Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
HAM A.A. 18 Unto our climature and countrymen.
HAM A.A. 0
HAM A.B. 0 [[Just before the entrance of the Ghost in 1.4 (line 18.1), Q2 has these
HAM A.B. 0 additional lines continuing Hamlet's speech (the speech prefix is added +
HAM A.B. 0 here to assist in computer analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.B. 1
HAM-HAMLET
This heavy-headed revel east and west
HAM A.B. 2 Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations.
HAM A.B. 3 They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
HAM A.B. 4 Soil our addition; and indeed it takes
HAM A.B. 5 From our achievements, though performed at height,
HAM A.B. 6 The pith and marrow of our attribute.
HAM A.B. 7 So, oft it chances in particular men
HAM A.B. 8 That, for some vicious mole of nature in them -
HAM A.B. 9 As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty,
HAM A.B. 10 Since nature cannot choose his origin,
HAM A.B. 11 By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
HAM A.B. 12 Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
HAM A.B. 13 Or by some habit that too much o'erleavens
HAM A.B. 14 The form of plausive manners - that these men,
HAM A.B. 15 Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
HAM A.B. 16 Being nature's livery or fortune's star,
HAM A.B. 17 His virtues else be they as pure as grace,
HAM A.B. 18 As infinite as man may undergo,
HAM A.B. 19 Shall in the general censure take corruption
HAM A.B. 20 From that particular fault. The dram of evil
HAM A.B. 21 Doth all the noble substance over-daub
HAM A.B. 22 To his own scandal.
HAM A.B. 0
HAM A.C. 0 [[After 1.4.55, Q2 has these additional lines continuing Horatio's speech
HAM A.C. 0 (the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.C. 1
HAM-HORATIO
The very place puts toys of desperation,
HAM A.C. 2 Without more motive, into every brain
HAM A.C. 3 That looks so many fathoms to the sea
HAM A.C. 4 And hears it roar beneath.
HAM A.C. 0
HAM A.D. 0 [[After 3.2.163, Q2 has this additional couplet concluding the Player
HAM A.D. 0 Queen's speech (the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
HAM A.D. 0 analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.D. 1
HAM-PLAYER QUEEN
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are +
HAM A.D. 1 fear;
HAM A.D. 2 Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
HAM A.D. 0
HAM A.E. 0 [[After 3.2.208, Q2 has this additional couplet in the middle of the
HAM A.E. 0 Player Queen's speech (the speech prefix is added here to assist in
HAM A.E. 0 computer analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.E. 1
HAM-PLAYER QUEEN
To desperation turn my trust and hope;
HAM A.E. 2 An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope.
HAM A.E. 0
HAM A.F. 0 [[After `this?' in 3.4.70, Q2 has this more expansive version of Hamlet's
HAM A.F. 0 lines of which F retains only `what devil . . . blind' (the speech
HAM A.F. 0 prefix is added here to assist in computer analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.F. 1B
HAM-HAMLET
Sense sure you have,
HAM A.F. 2 Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
HAM A.F. 3 Is apoplexed, for madness would not err,
HAM A.F. 4 Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thralled
HAM A.F. 5 But it reserved some quantity of choice
HAM A.F. 6 To serve in such a difference. What devil was 't
HAM A.F. 7 That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
HAM A.F. 8 Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
HAM A.F. 9 Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
HAM A.F. 10 Or but a sickly part of one true sense
HAM A.F. 11B Could not so mope.
HAM A.F. 0
HAM A.G. 0 [[After 3.4.151, Q2 has this more expansive version of Hamlet's lines of
HAM A.G. 0 which F retains only `refrain . . . abstinence' (the speech prefix is
HAM A.G. 0 added here to assist in computer analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.G. 1
HAM-HAMLET
That monster custom, who all sense doth eat,
HAM A.G. 2 Of habits devilish, is angel yet in this:
HAM A.G. 3 That to the use of actions fair and good
HAM A.G. 4 He likewise gives a frock or livery
HAM A.G. 5 That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
HAM A.G. 6 And that shall lend a kind of easiness
HAM A.G. 7 To the next abstinence, the next more easy -
HAM A.G. 8 For use almost can change the stamp of nature -
HAM A.G. 9 And either in the devil, or throw him out
HAM A.G. 10 With wondrous potency.
HAM A.G. 0
HAM A.H. 0 [[At 3.4.185, Q2 has these additional lines before `This man . . .'
HAM-]]
HAM A.H. 1
HAM-HAMLET
There's letters sealed, and my two schoolfellows -
HAM A.H. 2 Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged -
HAM A.H. 3 They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way
HAM A.H. 4 And marshal me to knavery. Let it work,
HAM A.H. 5 For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
HAM A.H. 6 Hoised with his own petard; and 't shall go hard
HAM A.H. 7 But I will delve one yard below their mines
HAM A.H. 8 And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet
HAM A.H. 9 When in one line two crafts directly meet.
HAM A.H. 0
HAM A.I. 0 [[After `done' in 4.1.39, Q2 has these additional lines continuing the
HAM A.I. 0 King's speech (the first three words are an editorial conjecture); the
HAM A.I. 0 speech prefix is added here to assist in computer analysis]]
HAM A.I. 1B
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
So envious slander,
HAM A.I. 2 Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,
HAM A.I. 3 As level as the cannon to his blank,
HAM A.I. 4 Transports his poisoned shot, may miss our name
HAM A.I. 5B And hit the woundless air.
HAM A.I. 0
HAM A.J. 0 [[Q2 has this more expansive version of the ending of 4.4
HAM-]]
HAM A.J. 1B
HAM-CAPTAIN
I will do 't, my lord.
HAM A.J. 2B
HAM-FORTINBRAS
Go softly on. {Exit with his army} {Enter +
HAM A.J. 2B Prince Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, etc.}
HAM-HAMLET
HAM A.J. 2B {(to the Captain)} Good sir, whose powers are these?
HAM A.J. 3B
HAM-CAPTAIN
They are of Norway, sir.
HAM-HAMLET
How purposed, sir, I pray +
HAM A.J. 3B you?
HAM A.J. 4B
HAM-CAPTAIN
Against some part of Poland.
HAM-HAMLET
Who commands them, sir?
HAM A.J. 5
HAM-CAPTAIN
The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.
HAM A.J. 6
HAM-HAMLET
Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
HAM A.J. 7 Or for some frontier?
HAM A.J. 8
HAM-CAPTAIN
Truly to speak, and with no addition,
HAM A.J. 9 We go to gain a little patch of ground
HAM A.J. 10 That hath in it no profit but the name.
HAM A.J. 11 To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it,
HAM A.J. 12 Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
HAM A.J. 13 A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
HAM A.J. 14
HAM-HAMLET
Why then, the Polack never will defend it.
HAM A.J. 15
HAM-CAPTAIN
Yes, it is already garrisoned.
HAM A.J. 16
HAM-HAMLET
Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
HAM A.J. 17 Will now debate the question of this straw.
HAM A.J. 18 This is th' imposthume of much wealth and peace,
HAM A.J. 19 That inward breaks and shows no cause without
HAM A.J. 20 Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
HAM A.J. 21B
HAM-CAPTAIN
God buy you, sir. {Exit}
HAM-ROSENCRANTZ
+
HAM A.J. 21B Will 't please you go, my lord?
HAM A.J. 22
HAM-HAMLET
I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. +
HAM A.J. 22 {Exeunt all but Hamlet}
HAM A.J. 23 How all occasions do inform against me
HAM A.J. 24 And spur my dull revenge! What is a man
HAM A.J. 25 If his chief good and market of his time
HAM A.J. 26 Be but to sleep and feed? - a beast, no more.
HAM A.J. 27 Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
HAM A.J. 28 Looking before and after, gave us not
HAM A.J. 29 That capability and god-like reason
HAM A.J. 30 To fust in us unused. Now whether it be
HAM A.J. 31 Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
HAM A.J. 32 Of thinking too precisely on th' event -
HAM A.J. 33 A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom
HAM A.J. 34 And ever three parts coward - I do not know
HAM A.J. 35 Why yet I live to say `This thing's to do',
HAM A.J. 36 Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means,
HAM A.J. 37 To do 't. Examples gross as earth exhort me,
HAM A.J. 38 Witness this army of such mass and charge,
HAM A.J. 39 Led by a delicate and tender prince,
HAM A.J. 40 Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed
HAM A.J. 41 Makes mouths at the invisible event,
HAM A.J. 42 Exposing what is mortal and unsure
HAM A.J. 43 To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
HAM A.J. 44 Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
HAM A.J. 45 Is not to stir without great argument,
HAM A.J. 46 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
HAM A.J. 47 When honour's at the stake. How stand I, then,
HAM A.J. 48 That have a father killed, a mother stained,
HAM A.J. 49 Excitements of my reason and my blood,
HAM A.J. 50 And let all sleep while, to my shame, I see
HAM A.J. 51 The imminent death of twenty thousand men
HAM A.J. 52 That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
HAM A.J. 53 Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
HAM A.J. 54 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
HAM A.J. 55 Which is not tomb enough and continent
HAM A.J. 56 To hide the slain. O, from this time forth
HAM A.J. 57 My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth! {Exit}
HAM A.J. 0
HAM A.K. 0 [[After `accident' at 4.7.67, Q2 has these additional lines
HAM-]]
HAM A.K. 1B
HAM-LAERTES
My lord, I will be ruled,
HAM A.K. 2 The rather if you could devise it so
HAM A.K. 3B That I might be the organ.
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
It falls right.
HAM A.K. 4 You have been talked of, since your travel, much,
HAM A.K. 5 And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
HAM A.K. 6 Wherein they say you shine. Your sum of parts
HAM A.K. 7 Did not together pluck such envy from him
HAM A.K. 8 As did that one, and that, in my regard,
HAM A.K. 9B Of the unworthiest siege.
HAM-LAERTES
What part is that, my lord?
HAM A.K. 10
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
A very ribbon in the cap of youth,
HAM A.K. 11 Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes
HAM A.K. 12 The light and careless livery that it wears
HAM A.K. 13 Than settled age his sables and his weeds
HAM A.K. 14 Importing health and graveness.
HAM A.K. 0
HAM A.L. 0 [[After `match you' at 4.7.85, Q2 has these additional lines continuing
HAM A.L. 0 the King's speech (the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
HAM A.L. 0 analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.L. 1B
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
Th' escrimers of their nation
HAM A.L. 2 He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye
HAM A.L. 3 If you opposed them.
HAM A.L. 0
HAM A.M. 0 [[After 4.7.96, Q2 has these additional lines continuing the King's
HAM A.M. 0 speech; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer analysis
HAM-]]
HAM A.M. 1
HAM-KING CLAUDIUS
There lives within the very flame of love
HAM A.M. 2 A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it,
HAM A.M. 3 And nothing is at a like goodness still,
HAM A.M. 4 For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
HAM A.M. 5 Dies in his own too much. That we would do
HAM A.M. 6 We should do when we would, for this `would' changes,
HAM A.M. 7 And hath abatements and delays as many
HAM A.M. 8 As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
HAM A.M. 9 And then this `should' is like a spendthrift's sigh,
HAM A.M. 10 That hurts by easing. But to the quick of th' ulcer -
HAM A.M. 0
HAM A.N. 0 [[After `Sir' at 5.2.107, Q2 has these lines (in place of F's `you are not
HAM A.N. 0 ignorant of what excellence Laertes is at his weapon'; the first speech
HAM A.N. 0 prefix is added here to assist in computer analysis)
HAM-]]
HAM A.N. 1
HAM-OSRIC
here is newly come to court Laertes, believe me, an
HAM A.N. 2 absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences,
HAM A.N. 3 of very soft society and great showing. Indeed, to speak
HAM A.N. 4 feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry,
HAM A.N. 5 for you shall find in him the continent of what part a
HAM A.N. 6 gentleman would see.
HAM A.N. 7
HAM-HAMLET
Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you,
HAM A.N. 8 though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy
HAM A.N. 9 th' arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither in
HAM A.N. 10 respect of his quick sail. But in the verity of extolment,
HAM A.N. 11 I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion
HAM A.N. 12 of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction
HAM A.N. 13 of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would
HAM A.N. 14 trace him his umbrage, nothing more.
HAM A.N. 15
HAM-OSRIC
Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
HAM A.N. 16
HAM-HAMLET
The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the
HAM A.N. 17 gentleman in our more rawer breath?
HAM A.N. 18
HAM-OSRIC
Sir?
HAM A.N. 19
HAM-HORATIO
Is 't not possible to understand in another
HAM A.N. 20 tongue? You will to 't, sir, rarely.
HAM A.N. 21
HAM-HAMLET
What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
HAM A.N. 22
HAM-OSRIC
Of Laertes?
HAM A.N. 23
HAM-HORATIO
{(aside to Hamlet)} His purse is empty +
HAM A.N. 23 already; all
HAM A.N. 24 's golden words are spent.
HAM A.N. 25
HAM-HAMLET
{(to Osric)} Of him, sir.
HAM A.N. 26
HAM-OSRIC
I know you are not ignorant -
HAM A.N. 27
HAM-HAMLET
I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did it
HAM A.N. 28 would not much approve me. Well, sir?
HAM A.N. 29
HAM-OSRIC
You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is.
HAM A.N. 30
HAM-HAMLET
I dare not confess that, lest I should compare
HAM A.N. 31 with him in excellence. But to know a man well were
HAM A.N. 32 to know himself.
HAM A.N. 33
HAM-OSRIC
I mean, sir, for his weapon. But in the imputation
HAM A.N. 34 laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.
HAM A.N. 0
HAM A.O. 0 [[After 5.2.118, Q2 has the following additional speech
HAM-]]
HAM A.O. 1
HAM-HORATIO
{(aside to Hamlet)} I knew you must be +
HAM A.O. 1 edified by
HAM A.O. 2 the margin ere you had done.
HAM A.O. 0
HAM A.P. 0 [[After 5.2.154, Q2 has the following (in place of F's
HAM-HORATIO
You will
HAM A.P. 0 lose this wager, my lord')
HAM-]]
HAM A.P. 0 {Enter a Lord}
HAM A.P. 1
HAM-LORD
{(to Hamlet)} My lord, his majesty commended +
HAM A.P. 1 him to
HAM A.P. 2 you by young Osric, who brings back to him that you
HAM A.P. 3 attend him in the hall. He sends to know if your
HAM A.P. 4 pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you will
HAM A.P. 5 take longer time.
HAM A.P. 6
HAM-HAMLET
I am constant to my purposes; they follow the
HAM A.P. 7 King's pleasure. If his fitness speaks, mine is ready,
HAM A.P. 8 now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.
HAM A.P. 9
HAM-LORD
The King and Queen and all are coming down.
HAM A.P. 10
HAM-HAMLET
In happy time.
HAM A.P. 11
HAM-LORD
The Queen desires you to use some gentle
HAM A.P. 12 entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.
HAM A.P. 13
HAM-HAMLET
She well instructs me. {Exit Lord}
HAM A.P. 14
HAM-HORATIO
You will lose, my lord.
HAM A.P.
HAM
0
JC . . 0 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
JC . . 0 {Enter Flavius, Murellus, and certain commoners +
JC 1.1. 0 over the stage}
JC 1.1. 1
JC-FLAVIUS
Hence, home, you idle creatures, get you home!
JC 1.1. 2 Is this a holiday? What, know you not,
JC 1.1. 3 Being mechanical, you ought not walk
JC 1.1. 4 Upon a labouring day without the sign
JC 1.1. 5 Of your profession? - Speak, what trade art thou?
JC 1.1. 6
JC-CARPENTER
Why, sir, a carpenter.
JC 1.1. 7
JC-MURELLUS
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
JC 1.1. 8 What dost thou with thy best apparel on? -
JC 1.1. 9 You, sir, what trade are you?
JC 1.1. 10
JC-COBBLER
Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman I am
JC 1.1. 11 but, as you would say, a cobbler.
JC 1.1. 12
JC-MURELLUS
But what trade art thou? Answer me directly.
JC 1.1. 13
JC-COBBLER
A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe
JC 1.1. 14 conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
JC 1.1. 15
JC-FLAVIUS
What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what +
JC 1.1. 15 trade?
JC 1.1. 16
JC-COBBLER
Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me. Yet
JC 1.1. 17 if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
JC 1.1. 18
JC-MURELLUS
What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy +
JC 1.1. 18 fellow?
JC 1.1. 19
JC-COBBLER
Why, sir, cobble you.
JC 1.1. 20
JC-FLAVIUS
Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
JC 1.1. 21
JC-COBBLER
Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl. I
JC 1.1. 22 meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's
JC 1.1. 23 matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old
JC 1.1. 24 shoes: when they are in great danger I recover them.
JC 1.1. 25 As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have
JC 1.1. 26 gone upon my handiwork.
JC 1.1. 27
JC-FLAVIUS
But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
JC 1.1. 28 Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?
JC 1.1. 29
JC-COBBLER
Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes to get myself
JC 1.1. 30 into more work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday to
JC 1.1. 31 see Caesar, and to rejoice in his triumph.
JC 1.1. 32
JC-MURELLUS
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
JC 1.1. 33 What tributaries follow him to Rome
JC 1.1. 34 To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?
JC 1.1. 35 You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
JC 1.1. 36 O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
JC 1.1. 37 Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
JC 1.1. 38 Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
JC 1.1. 39 To towers and windows, yea to chimney-tops,
JC 1.1. 40 Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
JC 1.1. 41 The livelong day with patient expectation
JC 1.1. 42 To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.
JC 1.1. 43 And when you saw his chariot but appear,
JC 1.1. 44 Have you not made an universal shout,
JC 1.1. 45 That Tiber trembled underneath her banks
JC 1.1. 46 To hear the replication of your sounds
JC 1.1. 47 Made in her concave shores?
JC 1.1. 48 And do you now put on your best attire?
JC 1.1. 49 And do you now cull out a holiday?
JC 1.1. 50 And do you now strew flowers in his way
JC 1.1. 51 That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?
JC 1.1. 52 Be gone!
JC 1.1. 53 Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
JC 1.1. 54 Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
JC 1.1. 55 That needs must light on this ingratitude.
JC 1.1. 56
JC-FLAVIUS
Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault
JC 1.1. 57 Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
JC 1.1. 58 Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
JC 1.1. 59 Into the channel, till the lowest stream
JC 1.1. 60 Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. {Exeunt all the +
JC 1.1. 60 commoners}
JC 1.1. 61 See whe'er their basest mettle be not moved.
JC 1.1. 62 They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.
JC 1.1. 63 Go you down that way towards the Capitol;
JC 1.1. 64 This way will I. Disrobe the images
JC 1.1. 65 If you do find them decked with ceremonies.
JC 1.1. 66A
JC-MURELLUS
May we do so?
JC 1.1. 67 You know it is the Feast of Lupercal.
JC 1.1. 68
JC-FLAVIUS
It is no matter. Let no images
JC 1.1. 69 Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,
JC 1.1. 70 And drive away the vulgar from the streets;
JC 1.1. 71 So do you too where you perceive them thick.
JC 1.1. 72 These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing
JC 1.1. 73 Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
JC 1.1. 74 Who else would soar above the view of men
JC 1.1. 75 And keep us all in servile fearfulness. {Exeunt}
JC 1.1. 0 {[Loud music.] Enter Caesar, Antony stripped for the +
JC 1.2. 0 course, Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, a +
JC 1.2. 0 Soothsayer, [a throng of citizens]; after them, Murellus and Flavius}
JC 1.2. 1A
JC-CAESAR
Calpurnia.
JC 1.2. 2A
JC-CASCA
Peace, ho! Caesar speaks. {[Music ceases]}
JC 1.2. 3A
JC-CAESAR
Calpurnia.
JC 1.2. 4A
JC-CALPURNIA
Here, my lord.
JC 1.2. 5
JC-CAESAR
Stand you directly in Antonio's way
JC 1.2. 6 When he doth run his course. - Antonio.
JC 1.2. 7A
JC-ANTONY
Caesar, my lord.
JC 1.2. 8
JC-CAESAR
Forget not in your speed, Antonio,
JC 1.2. 9 To touch Calpurnia, for our elders say
JC 1.2. 10 The barren, touched in this holy chase,
JC 1.2. 11B Shake off their sterile curse.
JC-ANTONY
I shall remember:
JC 1.2. 12 When Caesar says `Do this', it is performed.
JC 1.2. 13
JC-CAESAR
Set on, and leave no ceremony out. {[Music]}
JC 1.2. 14A
JC-SOOTHSAYER
Caesar!
JC 1.2. 15A
JC-CAESAR
Ha! Who calls?
JC 1.2. 16
JC-CASCA
Bid every noise be still. Peace yet again. {[Music +
JC 1.2. 16 ceases]}
JC 1.2. 17
JC-CAESAR
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
JC 1.2. 18 I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
JC 1.2. 19 Cry `Caesar!' Speak. Caesar is turned to hear.
JC 1.2. 20B
JC-SOOTHSAYER
Beware the ides of March.
JC-CAESAR
What man is that?
JC 1.2. 21
JC-BRUTUS
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
JC 1.2. 22
JC-CAESAR
Set him before me; let me see his face.
JC 1.2. 23
JC-CASSIUS
Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar. {The +
JC 1.2. 23 Soothsayer comes forward}
JC 1.2. 24
JC-CAESAR
What sayst thou to me now? Speak once again.
JC 1.2. 25A
JC-SOOTHSAYER
Beware the ides of March.
JC 1.2. 26
JC-CAESAR
He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass! {Sennet. +
JC 1.2. 26 Exeunt all but Brutus and Cassius}
JC 1.2. 27
JC-CASSIUS
Will you go see the order of the course?
JC 1.2. 28A
JC-BRUTUS
Not I.
JC 1.2. 29A
JC-CASSIUS
I pray you, do.
JC 1.2. 30
JC-BRUTUS
I am not gamesome; I do lack some part
JC 1.2. 31 Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
JC 1.2. 32 Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires.
JC 1.2. 33 I'll leave you.
JC 1.2. 34
JC-CASSIUS
Brutus, I do observe you now of late.
JC 1.2. 35 I have not from your eyes that gentleness
JC 1.2. 36 And show of love as I was wont to have.
JC 1.2. 37 You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
JC 1.2. 38B Over your friend that loves you.
JC-BRUTUS
Cassius,
JC 1.2. 39 Be not deceived. If I have veiled my look,
JC 1.2. 40 I turn the trouble of my countenance
JC 1.2. 41 Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
JC 1.2. 42 Of late with passions of some difference,
JC 1.2. 43 Conceptions only proper to myself,
JC 1.2. 44 Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviours.
JC 1.2. 45 But let not therefore my good friends be grieved -
JC 1.2. 46 Among which number, Cassius, be you one -
JC 1.2. 47 Nor construe any further my neglect
JC 1.2. 48 Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
JC 1.2. 49 Forgets the shows of love to other men.
JC 1.2. 50
JC-CASSIUS
Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion,
JC 1.2. 51 By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
JC 1.2. 52 Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
JC 1.2. 53 Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
JC 1.2. 54
JC-BRUTUS
No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself
JC 1.2. 55 But by reflection, by some other things.
JC 1.2. 56A
JC-CASSIUS
'Tis just;
JC 1.2. 57 And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
JC 1.2. 58 That you have no such mirrors as will turn
JC 1.2. 59 Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
JC 1.2. 60 That you might see your shadow. I have heard
JC 1.2. 61 Where many of the best respect in Rome -
JC 1.2. 62 Except immortal Caesar - speaking of Brutus,
JC 1.2. 63 And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
JC 1.2. 64 Have wished that noble Brutus had his eyes.
JC 1.2. 65
JC-BRUTUS
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
JC 1.2. 66 That you would have me seek into myself
JC 1.2. 67 For that which is not in me?
JC 1.2. 68
JC-CASSIUS
Therefor, good Brutus, be prepared to hear.
JC 1.2. 69 And since you know you cannot see yourself
JC 1.2. 70 So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
JC 1.2. 71 Will modestly discover to yourself
JC 1.2. 72 That of yourself which you yet know not of.
JC 1.2. 73 And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus.
JC 1.2. 74 Were I a common laughter, or did use
JC 1.2. 75 To stale with ordinary oaths my love
JC 1.2. 76 To every new protester; if you know
JC 1.2. 77 That I do fawn on men and hug them hard,
JC 1.2. 78 And after scandal them; or if you know
JC 1.2. 79 That I profess myself in banqueting
JC 1.2. 80 To all the rout: then hold me dangerous. {Flourish and shout +
JC 1.2. 80 within}
JC 1.2. 81
JC-BRUTUS
What means this shouting? I do fear the people
JC 1.2. 82B Choose Caesar for their king.
JC-CASSIUS
Ay, do you fear it?
JC 1.2. 83 Then must I think you would not have it so.
JC 1.2. 84
JC-BRUTUS
I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.
JC 1.2. 85 But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
JC 1.2. 86 What is it that you would impart to me?
JC 1.2. 87 If it be aught toward the general good,
JC 1.2. 88 Set honour in one eye and death i' th' other,
JC 1.2. 89 And I will look on both indifferently;
JC 1.2. 90 For let the gods so speed me as I love
JC 1.2. 91 The name of honour more than I fear death.
JC 1.2. 92
JC-CASSIUS
I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
JC 1.2. 93 As well as I do know your outward favour.
JC 1.2. 94 Well, honour is the subject of my story.
JC 1.2. 95 I cannot tell what you and other men
JC 1.2. 96 Think of this life; but for my single self,
JC 1.2. 97 I had as lief not be, as live to be
JC 1.2. 98 In awe of such a thing as I myself.
JC 1.2. 99 I was born free as Caesar, so were you.
JC 1.2. 100 We both have fed as well, and we can both
JC 1.2. 101 Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
JC 1.2. 102 For once upon a raw and gusty day,
JC 1.2. 103 The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
JC 1.2. 104 Said Caesar to me `Dar'st thou, Cassius, now
JC 1.2. 105 Leap in with me into this angry flood,
JC 1.2. 106 And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
JC 1.2. 107 Accoutred as I was I plunged in,
JC 1.2. 108 And bade him follow. So indeed he did.
JC 1.2. 109 The torrent roared, and we did buffet it
JC 1.2. 110 With lusty sinews, throwing it aside,
JC 1.2. 111 And stemming it with hearts of controversy.
JC 1.2. 112 But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
JC 1.2. 113 Caesar cried `Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
JC 1.2. 114 Ay, as Aeneas our great ancestor
JC 1.2. 115 Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
JC 1.2. 116 The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
JC 1.2. 117 Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
JC 1.2. 118 Is now become a god, and Cassius is
JC 1.2. 119 A wretched creature, and must bend his body
JC 1.2. 120 If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
JC 1.2. 121 He had a fever when he was in Spain,
JC 1.2. 122 And when the fit was on him, I did mark
JC 1.2. 123 How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.
JC 1.2. 124 His coward lips did from their colour fly;
JC 1.2. 125 And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
JC 1.2. 126 Did lose his lustre. I did hear him groan,
JC 1.2. 127 Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
JC 1.2. 128 Mark him and write his speeches in their books,
JC 1.2. 129 `Alas!' it cried, `Give me some drink, Titinius',
JC 1.2. 130 As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me
JC 1.2. 131 A man of such a feeble temper should
JC 1.2. 132 So get the start of the majestic world,
JC 1.2. 133B And bear the palm alone! {Flourish and shout within}
JC-BRUTUS
+
JC 1.2. 133B Another general shout!
JC 1.2. 134 I do believe that these applauses are
JC 1.2. 135 For some new honours that are heaped on Caesar.
JC 1.2. 136
JC-CASSIUS
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
JC 1.2. 137 Like a Colossus, and we petty men
JC 1.2. 138 Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
JC 1.2. 139 To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
JC 1.2. 140 Men at sometime were masters of their fates.
JC 1.2. 141 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
JC 1.2. 142 But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
JC 1.2. 143 Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that `Caesar'?
JC 1.2. 144 Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
JC 1.2. 145 Write them together: yours is as fair a name.
JC 1.2. 146 Sound them: it doth become the mouth as well.
JC 1.2. 147 Weigh them: it is as heavy. Conjure with 'em:
JC 1.2. 148 `Brutus' will start a spirit as soon as `Caesar'.
JC 1.2. 149 Now in the names of all the gods at once,
JC 1.2. 150 Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed
JC 1.2. 151 That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed.
JC 1.2. 152 Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods.
JC 1.2. 153 When went there by an age since the great flood,
JC 1.2. 154 But it was famed with more than with one man?
JC 1.2. 155 When could they say till now, that talked of Rome,
JC 1.2. 156 That her wide walls encompassed but one man?
JC 1.2. 157 Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough
JC 1.2. 158 When there is in it but one only man.
JC 1.2. 159 O, you and I have heard our fathers say
JC 1.2. 160 There was a Brutus once that would have brooked
JC 1.2. 161 Th' eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
JC 1.2. 162 As easily as a king.
JC 1.2. 163
JC-BRUTUS
That you do love me I am nothing jealous.
JC 1.2. 164 What you would work me to I have some aim.
JC 1.2. 165 How I have thought of this and of these times
JC 1.2. 166 I shall recount hereafter. For this present,
JC 1.2. 167 I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
JC 1.2. 168 Be any further moved. What you have said
JC 1.2. 169 I will consider. What you have to say
JC 1.2. 170 I will with patience hear, and find a time
JC 1.2. 171 Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
JC 1.2. 172 Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
JC 1.2. 173 Brutus had rather be a villager
JC 1.2. 174 Than to repute himself a son of Rome
JC 1.2. 175 Under these hard conditions as this time
JC 1.2. 176B Is like to lay upon us.
JC-CASSIUS
I am glad
JC 1.2. 177 That my weak words have struck but thus much show
JC 1.2. 178 Of fire from Brutus. {[Music.] Enter Caesar and his train}
JC 1.2. 179
JC-BRUTUS
The games are done, and Caesar is returning.
JC 1.2. 180
JC-CASSIUS
As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve,
JC 1.2. 181 And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
JC 1.2. 182 What hath proceeded worthy note today.
JC 1.2. 183
JC-BRUTUS
I will do so. But look you, Cassius,
JC 1.2. 184 The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,
JC 1.2. 185 And all the rest look like a chidden train.
JC 1.2. 186 Calpurnia's cheek is pale, and Cicero
JC 1.2. 187 Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
JC 1.2. 188 As we have seen him in the Capitol
JC 1.2. 189 Being crossed in conference by some senators.
JC 1.2. 190
JC-CASSIUS
Casca will tell us what the matter is.
JC 1.2. 191A
JC-CAESAR
Antonio.
JC 1.2. 192A
JC-ANTONY
Caesar.
JC 1.2. 193
JC-CAESAR
Let me have men about me that are fat,
JC 1.2. 194 Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights.
JC 1.2. 195 Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
JC 1.2. 196 He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
JC 1.2. 197
JC-ANTONY
Fear him not, Caesar, he's not dangerous.
JC 1.2. 198 He is a noble Roman, and well given.
JC 1.2. 199
JC-CAESAR
Would he were fatter! But I fear him not.
JC 1.2. 200 Yet if my name were liable to fear,
JC 1.2. 201 I do not know the man I should avoid
JC 1.2. 202 So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much,
JC 1.2. 203 He is a great observer, and he looks
JC 1.2. 204 Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays,
JC 1.2. 205 As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music.
JC 1.2. 206 Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
JC 1.2. 207 As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit
JC 1.2. 208 That could be moved to smile at anything.
JC 1.2. 209 Such men as he be never at heart's ease
JC 1.2. 210 Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
JC 1.2. 211 And therefore are they very dangerous.
JC 1.2. 212 I rather tell thee what is to be feared
JC 1.2. 213 Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar.
JC 1.2. 214 Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
JC 1.2. 215 And tell me truly what thou think'st of him. {Sennet. Exeunt +
JC 1.2. 215 Caesar and his train. Brutus, Cassius, and Casca remain}
JC 1.2. 216
JC-CASCA
{(to Brutus)} You pulled me by the cloak. +
JC 1.2. 216 Would you
JC 1.2. 217 speak with me?
JC 1.2. 218
JC-BRUTUS
Ay, Casca. Tell us what hath chanced today,
JC 1.2. 219 That Caesar looks so sad.
JC 1.2. 220
JC-CASCA
Why, you were with him, were you not?
JC 1.2. 221
JC-BRUTUS
I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.
JC 1.2. 222
JC-CASCA
Why, there was a crown offered him; and being
JC 1.2. 223 offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,
JC 1.2. 224 thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.
JC 1.2. 225
JC-BRUTUS
What was the second noise for?
JC 1.2. 226
JC-CASCA
Why, for that too.
JC 1.2. 227
JC-CASSIUS
They shouted thrice. What was the last cry for?
JC 1.2. 228
JC-CASCA
Why, for that too.
JC 1.2. 229
JC-BRUTUS
Was the crown offered him thrice?
JC 1.2. 230
JC-CASCA
Ay, marry, was 't; and he put it by thrice, every
JC 1.2. 231 time gentler than other; and at every putting by, mine
JC 1.2. 232 honest neighbours shouted.
JC 1.2. 233B
JC-CASSIUS
Who offered him the crown?
JC-CASCA
Why, Antony.
JC 1.2. 234
JC-BRUTUS
Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.
JC 1.2. 235
JC-CASCA
I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it.
JC 1.2. 236 It was mere foolery, I did not mark it. I saw Mark
JC 1.2. 237 Antony offer him a crown - yet 'twas not a crown
JC 1.2. 238 neither, 'twas one of these coronets - and as I told you
JC 1.2. 239 he put it by once; but for all that, to my thinking he
JC 1.2. 240 would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again;
JC 1.2. 241 then he put it by again - but to my thinking he was
JC 1.2. 242 very loath to lay his fingers off it. And then he offered
JC 1.2. 243 it the third time; he put it the third time by. And still
JC 1.2. 244 as he refused it, the rabblement hooted, and clapped
JC 1.2. 245 their chapped hands, and threw up their sweaty
JC 1.2. 246 nightcaps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath
JC 1.2. 247 because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost
JC 1.2. 248 choked Caesar; for he swooned and fell down at it.
JC 1.2. 249 And for mine own part, I durst not laugh for fear of
JC 1.2. 250 opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
JC 1.2. 251
JC-CASSIUS
But soft, I pray you. What, did Caesar swoon?
JC 1.2. 252
JC-CASCA
He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at
JC 1.2. 253 mouth, and was speechless.
JC 1.2. 254
JC-BRUTUS
'Tis very like: he hath the falling sickness.
JC 1.2. 255
JC-CASSIUS
No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I
JC 1.2. 256 And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.
JC 1.2. 257
JC-CASCA
I know not what you mean by that, but I am sure
JC 1.2. 258 Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not clap him
JC 1.2. 259 and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased
JC 1.2. 260 them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I
JC 1.2. 261 am no true man.
JC 1.2. 262
JC-BRUTUS
What said he when he came unto himself?
JC 1.2. 263
JC-CASCA
Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the
JC 1.2. 264 common herd was glad he refused the crown, he
JC 1.2. 265 plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his throat
JC 1.2. 266 to cut. An I had been a man of any occupation, if I
JC 1.2. 267 would not have taken him at a word, I would I might
JC 1.2. 268 go to hell among the rogues. And so he fell. When he
JC 1.2. 269 came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said
JC 1.2. 270 anything amiss, he desired their worships to think it
JC 1.2. 271 was his infirmity. Three or four wenches where I stood
JC 1.2. 272 cried `Alas, good soul!' and forgave him with all their
JC 1.2. 273 hearts. But there's no heed to be taken of them: if
JC 1.2. 274 Caesar had stabbed their mothers they would have
JC 1.2. 275 done no less.
JC 1.2. 276
JC-BRUTUS
And after that he came thus sad away?
JC 1.2. 277
JC-CASCA
Ay.
JC 1.2. 278
JC-CASSIUS
Did Cicero say anything?
JC 1.2. 279
JC-CASCA
Ay, he spoke Greek.
JC 1.2. 280
JC-CASSIUS
To what effect?
JC 1.2. 281
JC-CASCA
Nay, an I tell you that, I'll ne'er look you i' th'
JC 1.2. 282 face again. But those that understood him smiled at
JC 1.2. 283 one another, and shook their heads. But for mine own
JC 1.2. 284 part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more news,
JC 1.2. 285 too. Murellus and Flavius, for pulling scarves off
JC 1.2. 286 Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you well. There
JC 1.2. 287 was more foolery yet, if I could remember it.
JC 1.2. 288
JC-CASSIUS
Will you sup with me tonight, Casca?
JC 1.2. 289
JC-CASCA
No, I am promised forth.
JC 1.2. 290
JC-CASSIUS
Will you dine with me tomorrow?
JC 1.2. 291
JC-CASCA
Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your
JC 1.2. 292 dinner worth the eating.
JC 1.2. 293
JC-CASSIUS
Good; I will expect you.
JC 1.2. 294
JC-CASCA
Do so. Farewell both. {Exit}
JC 1.2. 295
JC-BRUTUS
What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!
JC 1.2. 296 He was quick mettle when he went to school.
JC 1.2. 297
JC-CASSIUS
So is he now, in execution
JC 1.2. 298 Of any bold or noble enterprise,
JC 1.2. 299 However he puts on this tardy form.
JC 1.2. 300 This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
JC 1.2. 301 Which gives men stomach to digest his words
JC 1.2. 302 With better appetite.
JC 1.2. 303
JC-BRUTUS
And so it is. For this time I will leave you.
JC 1.2. 304 Tomorrow, if you please to speak with me,
JC 1.2. 305 I will come home to you; or if you will,
JC 1.2. 306 Come home to me and I will wait for you.
JC 1.2. 307
JC-CASSIUS
I will do so. Till then, think of the world. {Exit +
JC 1.2. 307 Brutus}
JC 1.2. 308 Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see
JC 1.2. 309 Thy honourable mettle may be wrought
JC 1.2. 310 From that it is disposed. Therefore it is meet
JC 1.2. 311 That noble minds keep ever with their likes;
JC 1.2. 312 For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
JC 1.2. 313 Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus.
JC 1.2. 314 If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius,
JC 1.2. 315 He should not humour me. I will this night
JC 1.2. 316 In several hands in at his windows throw -
JC 1.2. 317 As if they came from several citizens -
JC 1.2. 318 Writings, all tending to the great opinion
JC 1.2. 319 That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely
JC 1.2. 320 Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.
JC 1.2. 321 And after this, let Caesar seat him sure,
JC 1.2. 322 For we will shake him, or worse days endure. {Exit}
JC 1.2. 0 {Thunder and lightning. Enter Casca, [at one door, with +
JC 1.3. 0 his sword drawn,] and Cicero [at another]}
JC 1.3. 1
JC-CICERO
Good even, Casca. Brought you Caesar home?
JC 1.3. 2 Why are you breathless, and why stare you so?
JC 1.3. 3
JC-CASCA
Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth
JC 1.3. 4 Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
JC 1.3. 5 I have seen tempests when the scolding winds
JC 1.3. 6 Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen
JC 1.3. 7 Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam
JC 1.3. 8 To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds;
JC 1.3. 9 But never till tonight, never till now,
JC 1.3. 10 Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
JC 1.3. 11 Either there is a civil strife in heaven,
JC 1.3. 12 Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
JC 1.3. 13 Incenses them to send destruction.
JC 1.3. 14
JC-CICERO
Why, saw you anything more wonderful?
JC 1.3. 15
JC-CASCA
A common slave - you know him well by sight -
JC 1.3. 16 Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
JC 1.3. 17 Like twenty torches joined; and yet his hand,
JC 1.3. 18 Not sensible of fire, remained unscorched.
JC 1.3. 19 Besides - I ha' not since put up my sword -
JC 1.3. 20 Against the Capitol I met a lion
JC 1.3. 21 Who glazed upon me, and went surly by
JC 1.3. 22 Without annoying me. And there were drawn
JC 1.3. 23 Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
JC 1.3. 24 Transformed with their fear, who swore they saw
JC 1.3. 25 Men all in fire walk up and down the streets.
JC 1.3. 26 And yesterday the bird of night did sit
JC 1.3. 27 Even at noonday upon the market-place,
JC 1.3. 28 Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies
JC 1.3. 29 Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
JC 1.3. 30 `These are their reasons', `they are natural',
JC 1.3. 31 For I believe they are portentous things
JC 1.3. 32 Unto the climate that they point upon.
JC 1.3. 33
JC-CICERO
Indeed it is a strange-disposed time;
JC 1.3. 34 But men may construe things after their fashion,
JC 1.3. 35 Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
JC 1.3. 36 Comes Caesar to the Capitol tomorrow?
JC 1.3. 37
JC-CASCA
He doth, for he did bid Antonio
JC 1.3. 38 Send word to you he would be there tomorrow.
JC 1.3. 39
JC-CICERO
Good night then, Casca. This disturbed sky
JC 1.3. 40B Is not to walk in.
JC-CASCA
Farewell, Cicero. {Exit Cicero}
JC 1.3. 41B {Enter Cassius, [unbraced]}
JC-CASSIUS
Who's +
JC 1.3. 41B there?
JC-CASCA
A Roman.
JC-CASSIUS
Casca, by your voice.
JC 1.3. 42
JC-CASCA
Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this?
JC 1.3. 43
JC-CASSIUS
A very pleasing night to honest men.
JC 1.3. 44
JC-CASCA
Who ever knew the heavens menace so?
JC 1.3. 45
JC-CASSIUS
Those that have known the earth so full of faults.
JC 1.3. 46 For my part, I have walked about the streets,
JC 1.3. 47 Submitting me unto the perilous night;
JC 1.3. 48 And thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,
JC 1.3. 49 Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;
JC 1.3. 50 And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open
JC 1.3. 51 The breast of heaven, I did present myself
JC 1.3. 52 Even in the aim and very flash of it.
JC 1.3. 53
JC-CASCA
But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?
JC 1.3. 54 It is the part of men to fear and tremble
JC 1.3. 55 When the most mighty gods by tokens send
JC 1.3. 56 Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.
JC 1.3. 57
JC-CASSIUS
You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life
JC 1.3. 58 That should be in a Roman you do want,
JC 1.3. 59 Or else you use not. You look pale, and gaze,
JC 1.3. 60 And put on fear, and cast yourself in wonder,
JC 1.3. 61 To see the strange impatience of the heavens;
JC 1.3. 62 But if you would consider the true cause
JC 1.3. 63 Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,
JC 1.3. 64 Why birds and beasts from quality and kind -
JC 1.3. 65 Why old men, fools, and children calculate -
JC 1.3. 66 Why all these things change from their ordinance,
JC 1.3. 67 Their natures, and preformed faculties,
JC 1.3. 68 To monstrous quality - why, you shall find
JC 1.3. 69 That heaven hath infused them with these spirits
JC 1.3. 70 To make them instruments of fear and warning
JC 1.3. 71 Unto some monstrous state. Now could I, Casca,
JC 1.3. 72 Name to thee a man most like this dreadful night,
JC 1.3. 73 That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars
JC 1.3. 74 As doth the lion in the Capitol;
JC 1.3. 75 A man no mightier than thyself or me
JC 1.3. 76 In personal action, yet prodigious grown,
JC 1.3. 77 And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.
JC 1.3. 78
JC-CASCA
'Tis Caesar that you mean, is it not, Cassius?
JC 1.3. 79
JC-CASSIUS
Let it be who it is; for Romans now
JC 1.3. 80 Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors.
JC 1.3. 81 But woe the while! Our fathers' minds are dead,
JC 1.3. 82 And we are governed with our mothers' spirits.
JC 1.3. 83 Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.
JC 1.3. 84
JC-CASCA
Indeed they say the senators tomorrow
JC 1.3. 85 Mean to establish Caesar as a king,
JC 1.3. 86 And he shall wear his crown by sea and land
JC 1.3. 87 In every place save here in Italy.
JC 1.3. 88
JC-CASSIUS
{(drawing his dagger)} I know where I will +
JC 1.3. 88 wear this dagger then:
JC 1.3. 89 Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.
JC 1.3. 90 Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;
JC 1.3. 91 Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat.
JC 1.3. 92 Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
JC 1.3. 93 Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
JC 1.3. 94 Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
JC 1.3. 95 But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
JC 1.3. 96 Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
JC 1.3. 97 If I know this, know all the world besides,
JC 1.3. 98 That part of tyranny that I do bear
JC 1.3. 99B I can shake off at pleasure. {Thunder still}
JC-CASCA
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JC 1.3. 99B So can I.
JC 1.3. 100 So every bondman in his own hand bears
JC 1.3. 101 The power to cancel his captivity.
JC 1.3. 102
JC-CASSIUS
And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?
JC 1.3. 103 Poor man, I know he would not be a wolf
JC 1.3. 104 But that he sees the Romans are but sheep.
JC 1.3. 105 He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.
JC 1.3. 106 Those that with haste will make a mighty fire
JC 1.3. 107 Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome,
JC 1.3. 108 What rubbish, and what offal, when it serves
JC 1.3. 109 For the base matter to illuminate
JC 1.3. 110 So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,
JC 1.3. 111 Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this
JC 1.3. 112 Before a willing bondman; then I know
JC 1.3. 113 My answer must be made. But I am armed,
JC 1.3. 114 And dangers are to me indifferent.
JC 1.3. 115
JC-CASCA
You speak to Casca, and to such a man
JC 1.3. 116 That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold. My hand.
JC 1.3. 117 Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
JC 1.3. 118 And I will set this foot of mine as far
JC 1.3. 119B As who goes farthest. {They join hands}
JC-CASSIUS
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JC 1.3. 119B There's a bargain made.
JC 1.3. 120 Now know you, Casca, I have moved already
JC 1.3. 121 Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans
JC 1.3. 122 To undergo with me an enterprise
JC 1.3. 123 Of honourable-dangerous consequence.
JC 1.3. 124 And I do know by this they stay for me
JC 1.3. 125 In Pompey's Porch; for now, this fearful night,
JC 1.3. 126 There is no stir or walking in the streets,
JC 1.3. 127 And the complexion of the element
JC 1.3. 128 In favour's like the work we have in hand,
JC 1.3. 129 Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. {Enter Cinna}
JC 1.3. 130
JC-CASCA
Stand close a while, for here comes one in haste.
JC 1.3. 131
JC-CASSIUS
'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait.
JC 1.3. 132 He is a friend. - Cinna, where haste you so?
JC 1.3. 133
JC-CINNA
To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?
JC 1.3. 134
JC-CASSIUS
No, it is Casca, one incorporate
JC 1.3. 135 To our attempts. Am I not stayed for, Cinna?
JC 1.3. 136
JC-CINNA
I am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!
JC 1.3. 137 There's two or three of us have seen strange sights.
JC 1.3. 138A
JC-CASSIUS
Am I not stayed for? Tell me.
JC 1.3. 139A
JC-CINNA
Yes, you are.
JC 1.3. 140 O Cassius, if you could
JC 1.3. 141 But win the noble Brutus to our party -
JC 1.3. 142
JC-CASSIUS
Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper, {He +
JC 1.3. 142 gives Cinna letters}
JC 1.3. 143 And look you lay it in the Praetor's Chair,
JC 1.3. 144 Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this
JC 1.3. 145 In at his window. Set this up with wax
JC 1.3. 146 Upon old Brutus' statue. All this done,
JC 1.3. 147 Repair to Pompey's Porch where you shall find us.
JC 1.3. 148 Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?
JC 1.3. 149
JC-CINNA
All but Metellus Cimber, and he's gone
JC 1.3. 150 To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,
JC 1.3. 151 And so bestow these papers as you bade me.
JC 1.3. 152
JC-CASSIUS
That done, repair to Pompey's Theatre. {Exit Cinna}
JC 1.3. 153 Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day
JC 1.3. 154 See Brutus at his house. Three parts of him
JC 1.3. 155 Is ours already, and the man entire
JC 1.3. 156 Upon the next encounter yields him ours.
JC 1.3. 157
JC-CASCA
O, he sits high in all the people's hearts,
JC 1.3. 158 And that which would appear offence in us
JC 1.3. 159 His countenance, like richest alchemy,
JC 1.3. 160 Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
JC 1.3. 161
JC-CASSIUS
Him and his worth, and our great need of him,
JC 1.3. 162 You have right well conceited. Let us go,
JC 1.3. 163 For it is after midnight, and ere day
JC 1.3. 164 We will awake him and be sure of him. {Exeunt}
JC 1.3. 0 {Enter Brutus in his orchard}
JC 2.1. 1A
JC-BRUTUS
What, Lucius, ho! -
JC 2.1. 2 I cannot by the progress of the stars
JC 2.1. 3 Give guess how near to day. - Lucius, I say! -
JC 2.1. 4 I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. -
JC 2.1. 5 When, Lucius, when? Awake, I say! What, Lucius! {Enter Lucius}
JC 2.1. 6
JC-LUCIUS
Called you, my lord?
JC 2.1. 7
JC-BRUTUS
Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.
JC 2.1. 8 When it is lighted, come and call me here.
JC 2.1. 9
JC-LUCIUS
I will, my lord. {Exit}
JC 2.1. 10
JC-BRUTUS
It must be by his death. And for my part
JC 2.1. 11 I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
JC 2.1. 12 But for the general. He would be crowned.
JC 2.1. 13 How that might change his nature, there's the question.
JC 2.1. 14 It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,
JC 2.1. 15 And that craves wary walking. Crown him: that!
JC 2.1. 16 And then I grant we put a sting in him
JC 2.1. 17 That at his will he may do danger with.
JC 2.1. 18 Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
JC 2.1. 19 Remorse from power. And to speak truth of Caesar,
JC 2.1. 20 I have not known when his affections swayed
JC 2.1. 21 More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof
JC 2.1. 22 That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
JC 2.1. 23 Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
JC 2.1. 24 But when he once attains the upmost round,
JC 2.1. 25 He then unto the ladder turns his back,
JC 2.1. 26 Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
JC 2.1. 27 By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
JC 2.1. 28 Then lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel
JC 2.1. 29 Will bear no colour for the thing he is,
JC 2.1. 30 Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,
JC 2.1. 31 Would run to these and these extremities;
JC 2.1. 32 And therefore think him as a serpent's egg,
JC 2.1. 33 Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous,
JC 2.1. 34 And kill him in the shell. {Enter Lucius, with a letter}
JC 2.1. 35
JC-LUCIUS
The taper burneth in your closet, sir.
JC 2.1. 36 Searching the window for a flint, I found
JC 2.1. 37 This paper, thus sealed up, and I am sure
JC 2.1. 38 It did not lie there when I went to bed. {He gives him the +
JC 2.1. 38 letter}
JC 2.1. 39
JC-BRUTUS
Get you to bed again; it is not day.
JC 2.1. 40 Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?
JC 2.1. 41
JC-LUCIUS
I know not, sir.
JC 2.1. 42
JC-BRUTUS
Look in the calendar and bring me word.
JC 2.1. 43
JC-LUCIUS
I will, sir. {Exit}
JC 2.1. 44
JC-BRUTUS
The exhalations whizzing in the air
JC 2.1. 45 Give so much light that I may read by them. {He opens the letter +
JC 2.1. 45 and reads}
JC 2.1. 46 `Brutus, thou sleep'st. Awake, and see thyself.
JC 2.1. 47 Shall Rome, et cetera? Speak, strike, redress.' -
JC 2.1. 48 `Brutus, thou sleep'st. Awake.'
JC 2.1. 49 Such instigations have been often dropped
JC 2.1. 50 Where I have took them up.
JC 2.1. 51 `Shall Rome, et cetera?' Thus must I piece it out:
JC 2.1. 52 Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?
JC 2.1. 53 My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
JC 2.1. 54 The Tarquin drive when he was called a king.
JC 2.1. 55 `Speak, strike, redress.' Am I entreated
JC 2.1. 56 To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise,
JC 2.1. 57 If the redress will follow, thou receivest
JC 2.1. 58 Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus. {Enter Lucius}
JC 2.1. 59
JC-LUCIUS
Sir, March is wasted fifteen days. {Knock +
JC 2.1. 59 within}
JC 2.1. 60
JC-BRUTUS
'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks. +
JC 2.1. 60 {Exit Lucius}
JC 2.1. 61 Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar
JC 2.1. 62 I have not slept.
JC 2.1. 63 Between the acting of a dreadful thing
JC 2.1. 64 And the first motion, all the interim is
JC 2.1. 65 Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
JC 2.1. 66 The genius and the mortal instruments
JC 2.1. 67 Are then in counsel, and the state of man,
JC 2.1. 68 Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
JC 2.1. 69 The nature of an insurrection. {Enter Lucius}
JC 2.1. 70
JC-LUCIUS
Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door,
JC 2.1. 71B Who doth desire to see you.
JC-BRUTUS
Is he alone?
JC 2.1. 72B
JC-LUCIUS
No, sir, there are more with him.
JC-BRUTUS
Do you know +
JC 2.1. 72B them?
JC 2.1. 73
JC-LUCIUS
No, sir; their hats are plucked about their ears,
JC 2.1. 74 And half their faces buried in their cloaks,
JC 2.1. 75 That by no means I may discover them
JC 2.1. 76B By any mark of favour.
JC-BRUTUS
Let 'em enter. {Exit Lucius}
JC 2.1. 77 They are the faction. O conspiracy,
JC 2.1. 78 Sham'st thou to show thy dang'rous brow by night,
JC 2.1. 79 When evils are most free? O then by day
JC 2.1. 80 Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
JC 2.1. 81 To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy.
JC 2.1. 82 Hide it in smiles and affability;
JC 2.1. 83 For if thou put thy native semblance on,
JC 2.1. 84 Not Erebus itself were dim enough
JC 2.1. 85 To hide thee from prevention. {Enter the conspirators, muffled: +
JC 2.1. 85 Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus, and Trebonius}
JC 2.1. 86
JC-CASSIUS
I think we are too bold upon your rest.
JC 2.1. 87 Good morrow, Brutus. Do we trouble you?
JC 2.1. 88
JC-BRUTUS
I have been up this hour, awake all night.
JC 2.1. 89 Know I these men that come along with you?
JC 2.1. 90
JC-CASSIUS
Yes, every man of them; and no man here
JC 2.1. 91 But honours you; and every one doth wish
JC 2.1. 92 You had but that opinion of yourself
JC 2.1. 93 Which every noble Roman bears of you.
JC 2.1. 94B This is Trebonius.
JC-BRUTUS
He is welcome hither.
JC 2.1. 95B
JC-CASSIUS
This, Decius Brutus.
JC-BRUTUS
He is welcome too.
JC 2.1. 96
JC-CASSIUS
This, Casca; Cinna, this; and this, Metellus Cimber.
JC 2.1. 97A
JC-BRUTUS
They are all welcome.
JC 2.1. 98 What watchful cares do interpose themselves
JC 2.1. 99B Betwixt your eyes and night?
JC-CASSIUS
Shall I entreat a word? +
JC 2.1. 99B {Cassius and Brutus [stand aside and] whisper}
JC 2.1. 100
JC-DECIUS
Here lies the east. Doth not the day break here?
JC 2.1. 101A
JC-CASCA
No.
JC 2.1. 102
JC-CINNA
O pardon, sir, it doth; and yon grey lines
JC 2.1. 103 That fret the clouds are messengers of day.
JC 2.1. 104
JC-CASCA
You shall confess that you are both deceived. {He +
JC 2.1. 104 points his sword}
JC 2.1. 105 Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,
JC 2.1. 106 Which is a great way growing on the south,
JC 2.1. 107 Weighing the youthful season of the year.
JC 2.1. 108 Some two months hence up higher toward the north
JC 2.1. 109 He first presents his fire, and the high east
JC 2.1. 110 Stands, as the Capitol, directly here. {He points his sword.}
JC 2.1. 111 {[Brutus and Cassius join the other conspirators]}
JC-BRUTUS
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JC 2.1. 111 Give me your hands all over, one by one. {He shakes their hands}
JC 2.1. 112
JC-CASSIUS
And let us swear our resolution.
JC 2.1. 113
JC-BRUTUS
No, not an oath. If not the face of men,
JC 2.1. 114 The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse -
JC 2.1. 115 If these be motives weak, break off betimes,
JC 2.1. 116 And every man hence to his idle bed.
JC 2.1. 117 So let high-sighted tyranny range on
JC 2.1. 118 Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,
JC 2.1. 119 As I am sure they do, bear fire enough
JC 2.1. 120 To kindle cowards and to steel with valour
JC 2.1. 121 The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen,
JC 2.1. 122 What need we any spur but our own cause
JC 2.1. 123 To prick us to redress? What other bond
JC 2.1. 124 Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word
JC 2.1. 125 And will not palter? And what other oath
JC 2.1. 126 Than honesty to honesty engaged
JC 2.1. 127 That this shall be or we will fall for it?
JC 2.1. 128 Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,
JC 2.1. 129 Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls
JC 2.1. 130 That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear
JC 2.1. 131 Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain
JC 2.1. 132 The even virtue of our enterprise,
JC 2.1. 133 Nor th' insuppressive mettle of our spirits,
JC 2.1. 134 To think that or our cause or our performance
JC 2.1. 135 Did need an oath, when every drop of blood
JC 2.1. 136 That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,
JC 2.1. 137 Is guilty of a several bastardy
JC 2.1. 138 If he do break the smallest particle
JC 2.1. 139 Of any promise that hath passed from him.
JC 2.1. 140
JC-CASSIUS
But what of Cicero? Shall we sound him?
JC 2.1. 141 I think he will stand very strong with us.
JC 2.1. 142B
JC-CASCA
Let us not leave him out.
JC-CINNA
No, by no means.
JC 2.1. 143
JC-METELLUS
O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
JC 2.1. 144 Will purchase us a good opinion,
JC 2.1. 145 And buy men's voices to commend our deeds.
JC 2.1. 146 It shall be said his judgement ruled our hands.
JC 2.1. 147 Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,
JC 2.1. 148 But all be buried in his gravity.
JC 2.1. 149
JC-BRUTUS
O, name him not! Let us not break with him,
JC 2.1. 150 For he will never follow anything
JC 2.1. 151 That other men begin.
JC 2.1. 152A
JC-CASSIUS
Then leave him out.
JC 2.1. 153A
JC-CASCA
Indeed he is not fit.
JC 2.1. 154
JC-DECIUS
Shall no man else be touched, but only Caesar?
JC 2.1. 155
JC-CASSIUS
Decius, well urged. I think it is not meet
JC 2.1. 156 Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,
JC 2.1. 157 Should outlive Caesar. We shall find of him
JC 2.1. 158 A shrewd contriver. And you know his means,
JC 2.1. 159 If he improve them, may well stretch so far
JC 2.1. 160 As to annoy us all; which to prevent,
JC 2.1. 161 Let Antony and Caesar fall together.
JC 2.1. 162
JC-BRUTUS
Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
JC 2.1. 163 To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
JC 2.1. 164 Like wrath in death and envy afterwards -
JC 2.1. 165 For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.
JC 2.1. 166 Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
JC 2.1. 167 We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,
JC 2.1. 168 And in the spirit of men there is no blood.
JC 2.1. 169 O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,
JC 2.1. 170 And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
JC 2.1. 171 Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends,
JC 2.1. 172 Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully.
JC 2.1. 173 Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
JC 2.1. 174 Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.
JC 2.1. 175 And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
JC 2.1. 176 Stir up their servants to an act of rage,
JC 2.1. 177 And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make
JC 2.1. 178 Our purpose necessary, and not envious;
JC 2.1. 179 Which so appearing to the common eyes,
JC 2.1. 180 We shall be called purgers, not murderers.
JC 2.1. 181 And for Mark Antony, think not of him,
JC 2.1. 182 For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
JC 2.1. 183B When Caesar's head is off.
JC-CASSIUS
Yet I fear him;
JC 2.1. 184 For in the engrafted love he bears to Caesar -
JC 2.1. 185
JC-BRUTUS
Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him.
JC 2.1. 186 If he love Caesar, all that he can do
JC 2.1. 187 Is to himself: take thought, and die for Caesar.
JC 2.1. 188 And that were much he should, for he is given
JC 2.1. 189 To sports, to wildness, and much company.
JC 2.1. 190
JC-TREBONIUS
There is no fear in him. Let him not die;
JC 2.1. 191 For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. {Clock strikes}
JC 2.1. 192B
JC-BRUTUS
Peace, count the clock.
JC-CASSIUS
The clock hath +
JC 2.1. 192B stricken three.
JC 2.1. 193B
JC-TREBONIUS
'Tis time to part.
JC-CASSIUS
But it is doubtful yet
JC 2.1. 194 Whether Caesar will come forth today or no;
JC 2.1. 195 For he is superstitious grown of late,
JC 2.1. 196 Quite from the main opinion he held once
JC 2.1. 197 Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies.
JC 2.1. 198 It may be these apparent prodigies,
JC 2.1. 199 The unaccustomed terror of this night,
JC 2.1. 200 And the persuasion of his augurers,
JC 2.1. 201 May hold him from the Capitol today.
JC 2.1. 202
JC-DECIUS
Never fear that. If he be so resolved
JC 2.1. 203 I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
JC 2.1. 204 That unicorns may be betrayed with trees,
JC 2.1. 205 And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
JC 2.1. 206 Lions with toils, and men with flatterers;
JC 2.1. 207 But when I tell him he hates flatterers;
JC 2.1. 208 He says he does, being then most flattered. Let me work,
JC 2.1. 209 For I can give his humour the true bent,
JC 2.1. 210 And I will bring him to the Capitol.
JC 2.1. 211
JC-CASSIUS
Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.
JC 2.1. 212
JC-BRUTUS
By the eighth hour. Is that the uttermost?
JC 2.1. 213
JC-CINNA
Be that the uttermost, and fail not then.
JC 2.1. 214
JC-METELLUS
Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,
JC 2.1. 215 Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey.
JC 2.1. 216 I wonder none of you have thought of him.
JC 2.1. 217
JC-BRUTUS
Now good Metellus, go along by him.
JC 2.1. 218 He loves me well, and I have given him reasons.
JC 2.1. 219 Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him.
JC 2.1. 220
JC-CASSIUS
The morning comes upon 's. We'll leave you, Brutus.
JC 2.1. 221 And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember
JC 2.1. 222 What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.
JC 2.1. 223
JC-BRUTUS
Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily.
JC 2.1. 224 Let not our looks put on our purposes;
JC 2.1. 225 But bear it as our Roman actors do,
JC 2.1. 226 With untired spirits and formal constancy.
JC 2.1. 227 And so good morrow to you every one. {Exeunt all but Brutus}
JC 2.1. 228 Boy, Lucius! - Fast asleep? It is no matter.
JC 2.1. 229 Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
JC 2.1. 230 Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies
JC 2.1. 231 Which busy care draws in the brains of men;
JC 2.1. 232B Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. {Enter Portia}
JC-PORTIA
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JC 2.1. 232B Brutus, my lord.
JC 2.1. 233
JC-BRUTUS
Portia, what mean you? Wherefore rise you now?
JC 2.1. 234 It is not for your health thus to commit
JC 2.1. 235 Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.
JC 2.1. 236
JC-PORTIA
Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,
JC 2.1. 237 Stole from my bed; and yesternight at supper
JC 2.1. 238 You suddenly arose, and walked about
JC 2.1. 239 Musing and sighing, with your arms across;
JC 2.1. 240 And when I asked you what the matter was,
JC 2.1. 241 You stared upon me with ungentle looks.
JC 2.1. 242 I urged you further; then you scratched your head,
JC 2.1. 243 And too impatiently stamped with your foot.
JC 2.1. 244 Yet I insisted; yet you answered not,
JC 2.1. 245 But with an angry wafture of your hand
JC 2.1. 246 Gave sign for me to leave you. So I did,
JC 2.1. 247 Fearing to strengthen that impatience
JC 2.1. 248 Which seemed too much enkindled, and withal
JC 2.1. 249 Hoping it was but an effect of humour,
JC 2.1. 250 Which sometime hath his hour with every man.
JC 2.1. 251 It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep;
JC 2.1. 252 And could it work so much upon your shape
JC 2.1. 253 As it hath much prevailed on your condition,
JC 2.1. 254 I should not know you Brutus. Dear my lord,
JC 2.1. 255 Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.
JC 2.1. 256
JC-BRUTUS
I am not well in health, and that is all.
JC 2.1. 257
JC-PORTIA
Brutus is wise, and were he not in health
JC 2.1. 258 He would embrace the means to come by it.
JC 2.1. 259
JC-BRUTUS
Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.
JC 2.1. 260
JC-PORTIA
Is Brutus sick? And is it physical
JC 2.1. 261 To walk unbraced and suck up the humours
JC 2.1. 262 Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick?
JC 2.1. 263 And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
JC 2.1. 264 To dare the vile contagion of the night,
JC 2.1. 265 And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
JC 2.1. 266 To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus,
JC 2.1. 267 You have some sick offence within your mind,
JC 2.1. 268 Which by the right and virtue of my place
JC 2.1. 269 I ought to know of. {(Kneeling)} And upon my knees,
JC 2.1. 270 I charm you by my once-commended beauty,
JC 2.1. 271 By all your vows of love, and that great vow
JC 2.1. 272 Which did incorporate and make us one,
JC 2.1. 273 That you unfold to me, your self, your half,
JC 2.1. 274 Why you are heavy, and what men tonight
JC 2.1. 275 Have had resort to you - for here have been
JC 2.1. 276 Some six or seven, who did hide their faces
JC 2.1. 277B Even from darkness.
JC-BRUTUS
Kneel not, gentle Portia.
JC 2.1. 278
JC-PORTIA
{[rising]} I should not need if you were +
JC 2.1. 278 gentle Brutus.
JC 2.1. 279 Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
JC 2.1. 280 Is it excepted I should know no secrets
JC 2.1. 281 That appertain to you? Am I your self
JC 2.1. 282 But as it were in sort or limitation?
JC 2.1. 283 To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
JC 2.1. 284 And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
JC 2.1. 285 Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
JC 2.1. 286 Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.
JC 2.1. 287
JC-BRUTUS
You are my true and honourable wife,
JC 2.1. 288 As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
JC 2.1. 289 That visit my sad heart.
JC 2.1. 290
JC-PORTIA
If this were true, then should I know this secret.
JC 2.1. 291 I grant I am a woman, but withal
JC 2.1. 292 A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife.
JC 2.1. 293 I grant I am a woman, but withal
JC 2.1. 294 A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter.
JC 2.1. 295 Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
JC 2.1. 296 Being so fathered and so husbanded?
JC 2.1. 297 Tell me your counsels; I will not disclose 'em.
JC 2.1. 298 I have made strong proof of my constancy,
JC 2.1. 299 Giving myself a voluntary wound
JC 2.1. 300 Here in the thigh. Can I bear that with patience,
JC 2.1. 301B And not my husband's secrets?
JC-BRUTUS
O ye gods,
JC 2.1. 302 Render me worthy of this noble wife! {Knocking within}
JC 2.1. 303 Hark, hark, one knocks. Portia, go in a while,
JC 2.1. 304 And by and by thy bosom shall partake
JC 2.1. 305 The secrets of my heart.
JC 2.1. 306 All my engagements I will construe to thee,
JC 2.1. 307 All the charactery of my sad brows.
JC 2.1. 308B Leave me with haste. {Exit Portia} Lucius, who's that +
JC 2.1. 308B knocks? {Enter Lucius, and Ligarius, with a kerchief [round his +
JC 2.1. 308B head]}
JC 2.1. 309
JC-LUCIUS
Here is a sick man that would speak with you.
JC 2.1. 310
JC-BRUTUS
Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of. -
JC 2.1. 311B Boy, stand aside. {[Exit] Lucius} Caius Ligarius, how?
JC 2.1. 312
JC-LIGARIUS
Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue.
JC 2.1. 313
JC-BRUTUS
O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,
JC 2.1. 314 To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!
JC 2.1. 315
JC-LIGARIUS
I am not sick if Brutus have in hand
JC 2.1. 316 Any exploit worthy the name of honour.
JC 2.1. 317
JC-BRUTUS
Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
JC 2.1. 318 Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.
JC 2.1. 319
JC-LIGARIUS
By all the gods that Romans bow before,
JC 2.1. 320B I here discard my sickness. {He pulls off his kerchief} +
JC 2.1. 320B Soul of Rome,
JC 2.1. 321 Brave son derived from honourable loins,
JC 2.1. 322 Thou like an exorcist hast conjured up
JC 2.1. 323 My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,
JC 2.1. 324 And I will strive with things impossible,
JC 2.1. 325 Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?
JC 2.1. 326
JC-BRUTUS
A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
JC 2.1. 327
JC-LIGARIUS
But are not some whole that we must make sick?
JC 2.1. 328
JC-BRUTUS
That must we also. What it is, my Caius,
JC 2.1. 329 I shall unfold to thee as we are going
JC 2.1. 330B To whom it must be done.
JC-LIGARIUS
Set on your foot,
JC 2.1. 331 And with a heart new-fired I follow you
JC 2.1. 332 To do I know not what; but it sufficeth
JC 2.1. 333B That Brutus leads me on.
JC-BRUTUS
Follow me then. {Exeunt}
JC 2.1. 0 {Thunder and lightning. Enter Julius Caesar in his +
JC 2.2. 0 nightgown}
JC 2.2. 1
JC-CAESAR
Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight.
JC 2.2. 2 Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out
JC 2.2. 3 `Help, ho! They murder Caesar!' - Who's within? {Enter a Servant}
JC 2.2. 4
JC-SERVANT
My lord.
JC 2.2. 5
JC-CAESAR
Go bid the priests do present sacrifice,
JC 2.2. 6 And bring me their opinions of success.
JC 2.2. 7
JC-SERVANT
I will, my lord. {Exit}
JC 2.2. 8 {Enter Calpurnia}
JC-CALPURNIA
What mean you, Caesar? +
JC 2.2. 8 Think you to walk forth?
JC 2.2. 9 You shall not stir out of your house today.
JC 2.2. 10
JC-CAESAR
Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me
JC 2.2. 11 Ne'er looked but on my back; when they shall see
JC 2.2. 12 The face of Caesar, they are vanished.
JC 2.2. 13
JC-CALPURNIA
Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
JC 2.2. 14 Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
JC 2.2. 15 Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
JC 2.2. 16 Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
JC 2.2. 17 A lioness hath whelped in the streets,
JC 2.2. 18 And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.
JC 2.2. 19 Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds,
JC 2.2. 20 In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
JC 2.2. 21 Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.
JC 2.2. 22 The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
JC 2.2. 23 Horses do neigh, and dying men did groan,
JC 2.2. 24 And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
JC 2.2. 25 O Caesar, these things are beyond all use,
JC 2.2. 26B And I do fear them.
JC-CAESAR
What can be avoided
JC 2.2. 27 Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
JC 2.2. 28 Yet Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions
JC 2.2. 29 Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
JC 2.2. 30
JC-CALPURNIA
When beggars die there are no comets seen;
JC 2.2. 31 The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
JC 2.2. 32
JC-CAESAR
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
JC 2.2. 33 The valiant never taste of death but once.
JC 2.2. 34 Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
JC 2.2. 35 It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
JC 2.2. 36 Seeing that death, a necessary end,
JC 2.2. 37B Will come when it will come. {Enter Servant} What say +
JC 2.2. 37B the augurers?
JC 2.2. 38
JC-SERVANT
They would not have you to stir forth today.
JC 2.2. 39 Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,
JC 2.2. 40 They could not find a heart within the beast.
JC 2.2. 41
JC-CAESAR
The gods do this in shame of cowardice.
JC 2.2. 42 Caesar should be a beast without a heart
JC 2.2. 43 If he should stay at home today for fear.
JC 2.2. 44 No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well
JC 2.2. 45 That Caesar is more dangerous than he.
JC 2.2. 46 We are two lions littered in one day,
JC 2.2. 47 And I the elder and more terrible.
JC 2.2. 48B And Caesar shall go forth.
JC-CALPURNIA
Alas, my lord,
JC 2.2. 49 Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
JC 2.2. 50 Do not go forth today. Call it my fear
JC 2.2. 51 That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
JC 2.2. 52 We'll send Mark Antony to the Senate House,
JC 2.2. 53 And he shall say you are not well today.
JC 2.2. 54 Let me upon my knee prevail in this. {She kneels}
JC 2.2. 55
JC-CAESAR
Mark Antony shall say I am not well,
JC 2.2. 56 And for thy humour I will stay at home. {Enter Decius}
JC 2.2. 57 Here's Decius Brutus; he shall tell them so. +
JC 2.2. 57 {[Calpurnia rises]}
JC 2.2. 58
JC-DECIUS
Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar.
JC 2.2. 59 I come to fetch you to the Senate House.
JC 2.2. 60
JC-CAESAR
And you are come in very happy time
JC 2.2. 61 To bear my greeting to the senators
JC 2.2. 62 And tell them that I will not come today.
JC 2.2. 63 Cannot is false, and that I dare not, falser.
JC 2.2. 64 I will not come today; tell them so, Decius.
JC 2.2. 65B
JC-CALPURNIA
Say he is sick.
JC-CAESAR
Shall Caesar send a lie?
JC 2.2. 66 Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far,
JC 2.2. 67 To be afeard to tell greybeards the truth?
JC 2.2. 68 Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.
JC 2.2. 69
JC-DECIUS
Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,
JC 2.2. 70 Lest I be laughed at when I tell them so.
JC 2.2. 71
JC-CAESAR
The cause is in my will; I will not come.
JC 2.2. 72 That is enough to satisfy the Senate.
JC 2.2. 73 But for your private satisfaction,
JC 2.2. 74 Because I love you, I will let you know.
JC 2.2. 75 Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home.
JC 2.2. 76 She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,
JC 2.2. 77 Which like a fountain with an hundred spouts
JC 2.2. 78 Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans
JC 2.2. 79 Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it.
JC 2.2. 80 And these does she apply for warnings and portents
JC 2.2. 81 Of evils imminent, and on her knee
JC 2.2. 82 Hath begged that I will stay at home today.
JC 2.2. 83
JC-DECIUS
This dream is all amiss interpreted.
JC 2.2. 84 It was a vision fair and fortunate.
JC 2.2. 85 Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,
JC 2.2. 86 In which so many smiling Romans bathed,
JC 2.2. 87 Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
JC 2.2. 88 Reviving blood, and that great men shall press
JC 2.2. 89 For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.
JC 2.2. 90 This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.
JC 2.2. 91
JC-CAESAR
And this way have you well expounded it.
JC 2.2. 92
JC-DECIUS
I have, when you have heard what I can say.
JC 2.2. 93 And know it now: the Senate have concluded
JC 2.2. 94 To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
JC 2.2. 95 If you shall send them word you will not come,
JC 2.2. 96 Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock
JC 2.2. 97 Apt to be rendered for someone to say
JC 2.2. 98 `Break up the Senate till another time,
JC 2.2. 99 When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'
JC 2.2. 100 If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper
JC 2.2. 101 `Lo, Caesar is afraid'?
JC 2.2. 102 Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love
JC 2.2. 103 To your proceeding bids me tell you this,
JC 2.2. 104 And reason to my love is liable.
JC 2.2. 105
JC-CAESAR
How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!
JC 2.2. 106 I am ashamed I did yield to them.
JC 2.2. 107 Give me my robe, for I will go. {Enter [Cassius,] Brutus, +
JC 2.2. 107 Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, Trebonius, and Cinna}
JC 2.2. 108 And look where Cassius is come to fetch me.
JC 2.2. 109B
JC-[CASSIUS]
Good morrow, Caesar.
JC-CAESAR
Welcome, Cassius. -
JC 2.2. 110 What, Brutus, are you stirred so early too? -
JC 2.2. 111 Good morrow, Casca. - Caius Ligarius,
JC 2.2. 112 Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy
JC 2.2. 113 As that same ague which hath made you lean.
JC 2.2. 114B What is 't o'clock?
JC-BRUTUS
Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.
JC 2.2. 115
JC-CAESAR
I thank you for your pains and courtesy. {Enter +
JC 2.2. 115 Antony}
JC 2.2. 116 See, Antony that revels long a-nights
JC 2.2. 117 Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.
JC 2.2. 118B
JC-ANTONY
So to most noble Caesar.
JC-CAESAR
{[to +
JC 2.2. 118B Calpurnia]} Bid them prepare within.
JC 2.2. 119 I am to blame to be thus waited for. {[Exit Calpurnia]}
JC 2.2. 120 Now, Cinna. - Now, Metellus. - What, Trebonius!
JC 2.2. 121 I have an hour's talk in store for you.
JC 2.2. 122 Remember that you call on me today.
JC 2.2. 123 Be near me, that I may remember you.
JC 2.2. 124
JC-TREBONIUS
Caesar, I will, {[aside]} and so near +
JC 2.2. 124 will I be
JC 2.2. 125 That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
JC 2.2. 126
JC-CAESAR
Good friends, go in and taste some wine with me,
JC 2.2. 127 And we, like friends, will straightway go together.
JC 2.2. 128
JC-BRUTUS
{(aside)} That every like is not the same, +
JC 2.2. 128 O Caesar,
JC 2.2. 129 The heart of Brutus ernes to think upon. {Exeunt}
JC 2.2. 0 {Enter Artemidorus, reading a letter}
JC 2.3. 1
JC-ARTEMIDORUS
`Caesar, beware of Brutus. Take heed of
JC 2.3. 2 Cassius. Come not near Casca. Have an eye to Cinna.
JC 2.3. 3 Trust not Trebonius. Mark well Metellus Cimber. Decius
JC 2.3. 4 Brutus loves thee not. Thou hast wronged Caius
JC 2.3. 5 Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and
JC 2.3. 6 it is bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,
JC 2.3. 7 look about you. Security gives way to conspiracy.
JC 2.3. 8 The mighty gods defend thee!
JC 2.3. 9 Thy lover,
JC 2.3. 10 Artemidorus.'
JC 2.3. 11 Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
JC 2.3. 12 And as a suitor will I give him this.
JC 2.3. 13 My heart laments that virtue cannot live
JC 2.3. 14 Out of the teeth of emulation.
JC 2.3. 15 If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live.
JC 2.3. 16 If not, the fates with traitors do contrive. {Exit}
JC 2.3. 0 {Enter Portia and Lucius}
JC 2.4. 1
JC-PORTIA
I prithee, boy, run to the Senate House.
JC 2.4. 2 Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone. -
JC 2.4. 3B Why dost thou stay?
JC-LUCIUS
To know my errand, madam.
JC 2.4. 4
JC-PORTIA
I would have had thee there and here again
JC 2.4. 5 Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.
JC 2.4. 6 {(Aside)} O constancy, be strong upon my side;
JC 2.4. 7 Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue.
JC 2.4. 8 I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
JC 2.4. 9 How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
JC 2.4. 10B {(To Lucius)} Art thou here yet?
JC-LUCIUS
Madam, what +
JC 2.4. 10B should I do?
JC 2.4. 11 Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?
JC 2.4. 12 And so return to you, and nothing else?
JC 2.4. 13
JC-PORTIA
Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,
JC 2.4. 14 For he went sickly forth; and take good note
JC 2.4. 15 What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.
JC 2.4. 16 Hark, boy, what noise is that?
JC 2.4. 17A
JC-LUCIUS
I hear none, madam.
JC 2.4. 18A
JC-PORTIA
Prithee, listen well.
JC 2.4. 19 I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,
JC 2.4. 20 And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
JC 2.4. 21A
JC-LUCIUS
Sooth, madam, I hear nothing. {Enter the Soothsayer}
JC 2.4. 22
JC-PORTIA
Come hither, fellow. Which way hast thou been?
JC 2.4. 23
JC-SOOTHSAYER
At mine own house, good lady.
JC 2.4. 24A
JC-PORTIA
What is 't o'clock?
JC 2.4. 25A
JC-SOOTHSAYER
About the ninth hour, lady.
JC 2.4. 26
JC-PORTIA
Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?
JC 2.4. 27
JC-SOOTHSAYER
Madam, not yet. I go to take my stand
JC 2.4. 28 To see him pass on to the Capitol.
JC 2.4. 29
JC-PORTIA
Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?
JC 2.4. 30
JC-SOOTHSAYER
That I have, lady. If it will please Caesar
JC 2.4. 31 To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,
JC 2.4. 32 I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
JC 2.4. 33
JC-PORTIA
Why, know'st thou any harms intended towards him?
JC 2.4. 34
JC-SOOTHSAYER
None that I know will be; much that I fear may chance.
JC 2.4. 35B Good morrow to you. {[He moves away]} Here the street +
JC 2.4. 35B is narrow.
JC 2.4. 36 The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,
JC 2.4. 37 Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,
JC 2.4. 38 Will crowd a feeble man almost to death.
JC 2.4. 39 I'll get me to a place more void, and there
JC 2.4. 40 Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. {Exit}
JC 2.4. 41
JC-PORTIA
{(aside)} I must go in. Ay me! How weak a +
JC 2.4. 41 thing
JC 2.4. 42 The heart of woman is! O Brutus,
JC 2.4. 43 The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise! -
JC 2.4. 44 Sure the boy heard me. {(To Lucius)} Brutus hath a suit
JC 2.4. 45 That Caesar will not grant. {(Aside)} O, I grow faint!
JC 2.4. 46 {(To Lucius)} Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord.
JC 2.4. 47 Say I am merry. Come to me again,
JC 2.4. 48 And bring me word what he doth say to thee. {Exeunt [severally]}
JC 2.4. 0 {Enter [at one door] Artemidorus, the Soothsayer, +
JC 3.1. 0 and citizens. Flourish. Enter [at another door] Caesar, Brutus, +
JC 3.1. 0 Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna, [Ligarius,] Antony, +
JC 3.1. 0 Lepidus, Publius, Popillius, [and other senators]}
JC 3.1. 1A
JC-CAESAR
{(to the Soothsayer)} The ides of March are +
JC 3.1. 1A come.
JC 3.1. 2A
JC-SOOTHSAYER
Ay, Caesar, but not gone.
JC 3.1. 3A
JC-ARTEMIDORUS
Hail, Caesar! Read this schedule.
JC 3.1. 4
JC-DECIUS
{(to Caesar)} Trebonius doth desire you to +
JC 3.1. 4 o'er-read
JC 3.1. 5 At your best leisure this his humble suit.
JC 3.1. 6
JC-ARTEMIDORUS
O Caesar, read mine first, for mine's a suit
JC 3.1. 7 That touches Caesar nearer. Read it, great Caesar.
JC 3.1. 8
JC-CAESAR
What touches us ourself shall be last served.
JC 3.1. 9
JC-ARTEMIDORUS
Delay not, Caesar, read it instantly.
JC 3.1. 10B
JC-CAESAR
What, is the fellow mad?
JC-PUBLIUS
{(to +
JC 3.1. 10B Artemidorus)} Sirrah, give place.
JC 3.1. 11
JC-CASSIUS
{(to Artemidorus)} What, urge you your +
JC 3.1. 11 petitions in the street?
JC 3.1. 12 Come to the Capitol. {[They walk about the stage]}
JC 3.1. 13
JC-POPILLIUS
{(aside to Cassius)} I wish your +
JC 3.1. 13 enterprise today may thrive.
JC 3.1. 14B
JC-CASSIUS
What enterprise, Popillius?
JC-POPILLIUS
Fare you +
JC 3.1. 14B well. {He leaves Cassius, and makes to Caesar}
JC 3.1. 15A
JC-BRUTUS
What said Popillius Laena?
JC 3.1. 16
JC-CASSIUS
He wished today our enterprise might thrive.
JC 3.1. 17 I fear our purpose is discovered.
JC 3.1. 18
JC-BRUTUS
Look how he makes to Caesar. Mark him.
JC 3.1. 19
JC-CASSIUS
Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. -
JC 3.1. 20 Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,
JC 3.1. 21 Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,
JC 3.1. 22B For I will slay myself.
JC-BRUTUS
Cassius, be constant.
JC 3.1. 23 Popillius Laena speaks not of our purposes,
JC 3.1. 24 For look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.
JC 3.1. 25
JC-CASSIUS
Trebonius knows his time, for look you, Brutus,
JC 3.1. 26 He draws Mark Antony out of the way. {Exeunt Trebonius and +
JC 3.1. 26 Antony}
JC 3.1. 27
JC-DECIUS
Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go
JC 3.1. 28 And presently prefer his suit to Caesar. {[Caesar sits]}
JC 3.1. 29
JC-BRUTUS
He is addressed. Press near, and second him.
JC 3.1. 30
JC-CINNA
Casca, you are the first that rears your hand. {[The +
JC 3.1. 30 conspirators and the other senators take their places]}
JC 3.1. 31
JC-CAESAR
Are we all ready? What is now amiss
JC 3.1. 32 That Caesar and his Senate must redress?
JC 3.1. 33
JC-METELLUS
{(coming forward and kneeling)} Most +
JC 3.1. 33 high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,
JC 3.1. 34 Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat
JC 3.1. 35B An humble heart.
JC-CAESAR
I must prevent thee, Cimber.
JC 3.1. 36 These couchings and these lowly courtesies
JC 3.1. 37 Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
JC 3.1. 38 And turn preordinance and first decree
JC 3.1. 39 Into the law of children. Be not fond
JC 3.1. 40 To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood
JC 3.1. 41 That will be thawed from the true quality
JC 3.1. 42 With that which melteth fools: I mean sweet words,
JC 3.1. 43 Low-crooked curtsies, and base spaniel fawning.
JC 3.1. 44 Thy brother by decree is banished.
JC 3.1. 45 If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,
JC 3.1. 46 I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
JC 3.1. 47 Know Caesar doth not wrong but with just cause,
JC 3.1. 48 Nor without cause will he be satisfied.
JC 3.1. 49
JC-METELLUS
Is there no voice more worthy than my own
JC 3.1. 50 To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear
JC 3.1. 51 For the repealing of my banished brother?
JC 3.1. 52
JC-BRUTUS
{(coming forward and kneeling)} I kiss thy +
JC 3.1. 52 hand, but not in flattery, Caesar,
JC 3.1. 53 Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may
JC 3.1. 54 Have an immediate freedom of repeal.
JC 3.1. 55B
JC-CAESAR
What, Brutus?
JC-CASSIUS
{(coming forward and +
JC 3.1. 55B kneeling)} Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon.
JC 3.1. 56 As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall
JC 3.1. 57 To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.
JC 3.1. 58
JC-CAESAR
I could be well moved if I were as you.
JC 3.1. 59 If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.
JC 3.1. 60 But I am constant as the Northern Star,
JC 3.1. 61 Of whose true fixed and resting quality
JC 3.1. 62 There is no fellow in the firmament.
JC 3.1. 63 The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks;
JC 3.1. 64 They are all fire, and every one doth shine;
JC 3.1. 65 But there's but one in all doth hold his place.
JC 3.1. 66 So in the world: 'tis furnished well with men,
JC 3.1. 67 And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
JC 3.1. 68 Yet in the number I do know but one
JC 3.1. 69 That unassailable holds on his rank,
JC 3.1. 70 Unshaked of motion; and that I am he
JC 3.1. 71 Let me a little show it even in this -
JC 3.1. 72 That I was constant Cimber should be banished,
JC 3.1. 73 And constant do remain to keep him so.
JC 3.1. 74B
JC-CINNA
{(coming forward and kneeling)} O +
JC 3.1. 74B Caesar!
JC-CAESAR
Hence! Wilt thou lift up Olympus?
JC 3.1. 75B
JC-DECIUS
{(coming forward [with Ligarius] and +
JC 3.1. 75B kneeling)} Great Caesar!
JC-CAESAR
Doth not Brutus bootless +
JC 3.1. 75B kneel?
JC 3.1. 76B
JC-CASCA
{(coming forward [and kneeling])} Speak hands+
JC 3.1. 76B for me. {They stab Caesar, [Casca first, Brutus last]}
JC-CAESAR
+
JC 3.1. 76B {Et tu, Brute/}? - Then fall Caesar. {He dies}
JC 3.1. 77
JC-CINNA
Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
JC 3.1. 78 Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
JC 3.1. 79
JC-CASSIUS
Some to the common pulpits, and cry out
JC 3.1. 80 `Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!'
JC 3.1. 81
JC-BRUTUS
People and senators, be not affrighted. {[Exeunt in a +
JC 3.1. 81 tumult Lepidus, Popillius, other senators, Artemidorus, Soothsayer, and +
JC 3.1. 81 citizens]}
JC 3.1. 82 Fly not! Stand still! Ambition's debt is paid.
JC 3.1. 83A
JC-CASCA
Go to the pulpit, Brutus.
JC 3.1. 84A
JC-DECIUS
And Cassius too.
JC 3.1. 85
JC-BRUTUS
Where's Publius?
JC 3.1. 86
JC-CINNA
Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.
JC 3.1. 87
JC-METELLUS
Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's
JC 3.1. 88 Should chance -
JC 3.1. 89
JC-BRUTUS
Talk not of standing. - Publius, good cheer!
JC 3.1. 90 There is no harm intended to your person,
JC 3.1. 91 Nor to no Roman else - so tell them, Publius.
JC 3.1. 92
JC-CASSIUS
And leave us, Publius, lest that the people,
JC 3.1. 93 Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.
JC 3.1. 94
JC-BRUTUS
Do so; and let no man abide this deed
JC 3.1. 95 But we the doers. {[Exit Publius]}
JC 3.1. 96A {Enter Trebonius}
JC-CASSIUS
Where is Antony?
JC 3.1. 97A
JC-TREBONIUS
Fled to his house, amazed.
JC 3.1. 98 Men, wives, and children stare, cry out, and run,
JC 3.1. 99B As it were doomsday.
JC-BRUTUS
Fates, we will know your pleasures.
JC 3.1. 100 That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time
JC 3.1. 101 And drawing days out that men stand upon.
JC 3.1. 102
JC-CASCA
Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life
JC 3.1. 103 Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
JC 3.1. 104
JC-BRUTUS
Grant that, and then is death a benefit.
JC 3.1. 105 So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged
JC 3.1. 106 His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,
JC 3.1. 107 And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood
JC 3.1. 108 Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords;
JC 3.1. 109 Then walk we forth even to the market-place,
JC 3.1. 110 And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,
JC 3.1. 111 Let's all cry `peace, freedom, and liberty!'
JC 3.1. 112B
JC-CASSIUS
Stoop, then, and wash. {They smear their hands with +
JC 3.1. 112B Caesar's blood} How many ages hence
JC 3.1. 113 Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
JC 3.1. 114 In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
JC 3.1. 115
JC-BRUTUS
How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,
JC 3.1. 116 That now on Pompey's basis lies along,
JC 3.1. 117B No worthier than the dust!
JC-CASSIUS
So oft as that shall be,
JC 3.1. 118 So often shall the knot of us be called
JC 3.1. 119 The men that gave their country liberty.
JC 3.1. 120B
JC-DECIUS
What, shall we forth?
JC-CASSIUS
Ay, every man away.
JC 3.1. 121 Brutus shall lead, and we will grace his heels
JC 3.1. 122 With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome. {Enter Antony's +
JC 3.1. 122 Servant}
JC 3.1. 123
JC-BRUTUS
Soft; who comes here? A friend of Antony's.
JC 3.1. 124
JC-SERVANT
{(kneeling and falling prostrate)} Thus, +
JC 3.1. 124 Brutus, did my master bid me kneel.
JC 3.1. 125 Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down,
JC 3.1. 126 And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say.
JC 3.1. 127 `Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest.
JC 3.1. 128 Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving.
JC 3.1. 129 Say I love Brutus, and I honour him.
JC 3.1. 130 Say I feared Caesar, honoured him, and loved him.
JC 3.1. 131 If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony
JC 3.1. 132 May safely come to him and be resolved
JC 3.1. 133 How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,
JC 3.1. 134 Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead
JC 3.1. 135 So well as Brutus living, but will follow
JC 3.1. 136 The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus
JC 3.1. 137 Thorough the hazards of this untrod state
JC 3.1. 138 With all true faith.' So says my master Antony.
JC 3.1. 139
JC-BRUTUS
Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman.
JC 3.1. 140 I never thought him worse.
JC 3.1. 141 Tell him, so please him come unto this place,
JC 3.1. 142 He shall be satisfied, and, by my honour,
JC 3.1. 143B Depart untouched.
JC-SERVANT
{[rising]} I'll fetch him +
JC 3.1. 143B presently. {Exit}
JC 3.1. 144
JC-BRUTUS
I know that we shall have him well to friend.
JC 3.1. 145
JC-CASSIUS
I wish we may. But yet have I a mind
JC 3.1. 146 That fears him much; and my misgiving still
JC 3.1. 147 Falls shrewdly to the purpose. {Enter Antony}
JC 3.1. 148
JC-BRUTUS
But here comes Antony. - Welcome, Mark Antony.
JC 3.1. 149
JC-ANTONY
O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low?
JC 3.1. 150 Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
JC 3.1. 151 Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well. -
JC 3.1. 152 I know not, gentlemen, what you intend -
JC 3.1. 153 Who else must be let blood, who else is rank.
JC 3.1. 154 If I myself, there is no hour so fit
JC 3.1. 155 As Caesar's death's hour, nor no instrument
JC 3.1. 156 Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich
JC 3.1. 157 With the most noble blood of all this world.
JC 3.1. 158 I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,
JC 3.1. 159 Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,
JC 3.1. 160 Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years,
JC 3.1. 161 I shall not find myself so apt to die.
JC 3.1. 162 No place will please me so, no mean of death,
JC 3.1. 163 As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,
JC 3.1. 164 The choice and master spirits of this age.
JC 3.1. 165
JC-BRUTUS
O Antony, beg not your death of us!
JC 3.1. 166 Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,
JC 3.1. 167 As by our hands and this our present act
JC 3.1. 168 You see we do, yet see you but our hands,
JC 3.1. 169 And this the bleeding business they have done.
JC 3.1. 170 Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;
JC 3.1. 171 And pity to the general wrong of Rome -
JC 3.1. 172 As fire drives out fire, so pity pity -
JC 3.1. 173 Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,
JC 3.1. 174 To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony.
JC 3.1. 175 Our arms, unstrung of malice, and our hearts
JC 3.1. 176 Of brothers' temper, do receive you in
JC 3.1. 177 With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.
JC 3.1. 178
JC-CASSIUS
Your voice shall be as strong as any man's
JC 3.1. 179 In the disposing of new dignities.
JC 3.1. 180
JC-BRUTUS
Only be patient till we have appeased
JC 3.1. 181 The multitude, beside themselves with fear,
JC 3.1. 182 And then we will deliver you the cause
JC 3.1. 183 Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,
JC 3.1. 184B Have thus proceeded.
JC-ANTONY
I doubt not of your wisdom.
JC 3.1. 185 Let each man render me his bloody hand. {He shakes hands with +
JC 3.1. 185 the conspirators}
JC 3.1. 186 First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you. -
JC 3.1. 187 Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand. -
JC 3.1. 188 Now, Decius Brutus, yours; - now yours, Metellus; -
JC 3.1. 189 Yours, Cinna; - and my valiant Casca, yours; -
JC 3.1. 190 Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
JC 3.1. 191 Gentlemen all - alas, what shall I say?
JC 3.1. 192 My credit now stands on such slippery ground
JC 3.1. 193 That one of two bad ways you must conceit me:
JC 3.1. 194 Either a coward or a flatterer.
JC 3.1. 195 That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true.
JC 3.1. 196 If then thy spirit look upon us now,
JC 3.1. 197 Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death
JC 3.1. 198 To see thy Antony making his peace,
JC 3.1. 199 Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes -
JC 3.1. 200 Most noble! - in the presence of thy corpse?
JC 3.1. 201 Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,
JC 3.1. 202 Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,
JC 3.1. 203 It would become me better than to close
JC 3.1. 204 In terms of friendship with thine enemies.
JC 3.1. 205 Pardon me, Julius. Here wast thou bayed, brave hart;
JC 3.1. 206 Here didst thou fall, and here thy hunters stand
JC 3.1. 207 Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.
JC 3.1. 208 O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;
JC 3.1. 209 And this indeed, O world, the heart of thee.
JC 3.1. 210 How like a deer strucken by many princes
JC 3.1. 211 Dost thou here lie!
JC 3.1. 212A
JC-CASSIUS
Mark Antony.
JC 3.1. 213A
JC-ANTONY
Pardon me, Caius Cassius.
JC 3.1. 214 The enemies of Caesar shall say this;
JC 3.1. 215 Then in a friend it is cold modesty.
JC 3.1. 216
JC-CASSIUS
I blame you not for praising Caesar so;
JC 3.1. 217 But what compact mean you to have with us?
JC 3.1. 218 Will you be pricked in number of our friends,
JC 3.1. 219 Or shall we on, and not depend on you?
JC 3.1. 220
JC-ANTONY
Therefore I took your hands, but was indeed
JC 3.1. 221 Swayed from the point by looking down on Caesar.
JC 3.1. 222 Friends am I with you all, and love you all
JC 3.1. 223 Upon this hope: that you shall give me reasons
JC 3.1. 224 Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.
JC 3.1. 225
JC-BRUTUS
Or else were this a savage spectacle.
JC 3.1. 226 Our reasons are so full of good regard,
JC 3.1. 227 That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,
JC 3.1. 228B You should be satisfied.
JC-ANTONY
That's all I seek;
JC 3.1. 229 And am, moreover, suitor that I may
JC 3.1. 230 Produce his body to the market-place,
JC 3.1. 231 And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,
JC 3.1. 232 Speak in the order of his funeral.
JC 3.1. 233B
JC-BRUTUS
You shall, Mark Antony.
JC-CASSIUS
Brutus, a word with you.
JC 3.1. 234 {(Aside to Brutus)} You know not what you do. Do not +
JC 3.1. 234 consent
JC 3.1. 235 That Antony speak in his funeral.
JC 3.1. 236 Know you how much the people may be moved
JC 3.1. 237B By that which he will utter?
JC-BRUTUS
{(aside to +
JC 3.1. 237B Cassius)} By your pardon,
JC 3.1. 238 I will myself into the pulpit first,
JC 3.1. 239 And show the reason of our Caesar's death.
JC 3.1. 240 What Antony shall speak I will protest
JC 3.1. 241 He speaks by leave and by permission;
JC 3.1. 242 And that we are contented Caesar shall
JC 3.1. 243 Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies,
JC 3.1. 244 It shall advantage more than do us wrong.
JC 3.1. 245
JC-CASSIUS
{(aside to Brutus)} I know not what may +
JC 3.1. 245 fall. I like it not.
JC 3.1. 246
JC-BRUTUS
Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body.
JC 3.1. 247 You shall not in your funeral speech blame us;
JC 3.1. 248 But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,
JC 3.1. 249 And say you do 't by our permission;
JC 3.1. 250 Else shall you not have any hand at all
JC 3.1. 251 About his funeral. And you shall speak
JC 3.1. 252 In the same pulpit whereto I am going,
JC 3.1. 253 After my speech is ended.
JC 3.1. 254A
JC-ANTONY
Be it so;
JC 3.1. 255 I do desire no more.
JC 3.1. 256
JC-BRUTUS
Prepare the body then, and follow us. {Exeunt all but +
JC 3.1. 256 Antony}
JC 3.1. 257
JC-ANTONY
O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
JC 3.1. 258 That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.
JC 3.1. 259 Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
JC 3.1. 260 That ever lived in the tide of times.
JC 3.1. 261 Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
JC 3.1. 262 Over thy wounds now do I prophesy -
JC 3.1. 263 Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips
JC 3.1. 264 To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue -
JC 3.1. 265 A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
JC 3.1. 266 Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
JC 3.1. 267 Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
JC 3.1. 268 Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
JC 3.1. 269 And dreadful objects so familiar,
JC 3.1. 270 That mothers shall but smile when they behold
JC 3.1. 271 Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
JC 3.1. 272 All pity choked with custom of fell deeds;
JC 3.1. 273 And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
JC 3.1. 274 With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
JC 3.1. 275 Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
JC 3.1. 276 Cry `havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war,
JC 3.1. 277 That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
JC 3.1. 278 With carrion men, groaning for burial. {Enter Octavius' Servant}
JC 3.1. 279 You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?
JC 3.1. 280A
JC-SERVANT
I do, Mark Antony.
JC 3.1. 281
JC-ANTONY
Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.
JC 3.1. 282
JC-SERVANT
He did receive his letters, and is coming,
JC 3.1. 283 And bid me say to you by word of mouth -
JC 3.1. 284 {(Seeing the body)} O Caesar!
JC 3.1. 285
JC-ANTONY
Thy heart is big. Get thee apart and weep.
JC 3.1. 286 Passion, I see, is catching, for mine eyes,
JC 3.1. 287 Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,
JC 3.1. 288 Began to water. Is thy master coming?
JC 3.1. 289
JC-SERVANT
He lies tonight within seven leagues of Rome.
JC 3.1. 290
JC-ANTONY
Post back with speed and tell him what hath chanced.
JC 3.1. 291 Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,
JC 3.1. 292 No Rome of safety for Octavius yet.
JC 3.1. 293 Hie hence and tell him so. - Yet stay awhile.
JC 3.1. 294 Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corpse
JC 3.1. 295 Into the market-place. There shall I try
JC 3.1. 296 In my oration how the people take
JC 3.1. 297 The cruel issue of these bloody men;
JC 3.1. 298 According to the which thou shalt discourse
JC 3.1. 299 To young Octavius of the state of things.
JC 3.1. 300 Lend me your hand. {Exeunt with Caesar's body}
JC 3.1. 0 {Enter Brutus and Cassius, with the Plebeians}
JC 3.2. 1
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
We will be satisfied! Let us be +
JC 3.2. 1 satisfied!
JC 3.2. 2
JC-BRUTUS
Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.
JC 3.2. 3 {(Aside to Cassius)} Cassius, go you into the other +
JC 3.2. 3 street,
JC 3.2. 4 And part the numbers.
JC 3.2. 5 {(To the Plebeians)} Those that will hear me speak, +
JC 3.2. 5 let 'em stay here;
JC 3.2. 6 Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;
JC 3.2. 7 And public reasons shall be rendered
JC 3.2. 8B Of Caesar's death. {Brutus ascends to the pulpit} +
JC 3.2. 8B
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
I will hear Brutus speak.
JC 3.2. 9
JC-SECOND PLEBEIAN
I will hear Cassius, and compare their reasons
JC 3.2. 10 When severally we hear them rendered. {Exit Cassius, with some +
JC 3.2. 10 Plebeians}
JC 3.2. 11 {[Enter] Brutus [above] in the pulpit}
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
+
JC 3.2. 11 The noble Brutus is ascended. Silence.
JC 3.2. 12A
JC-BRUTUS
Be patient till the last.
JC 3.2. 13 Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my
JC 3.2. 14 cause, and be silent that you may hear. Believe me for
JC 3.2. 15 mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that
JC 3.2. 16 you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and
JC 3.2. 17 awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If
JC 3.2. 18 there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of
JC 3.2. 19 Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was
JC 3.2. 20 no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus
JC 3.2. 21 rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved
JC 3.2. 22 Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you
JC 3.2. 23 rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that
JC 3.2. 24 Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved
JC 3.2. 25 me, I weep for him. As he was fortunate, I rejoice at
JC 3.2. 26 it. As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was
JC 3.2. 27 ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy
JC 3.2. 28 for his fortune, honour for his valour, and death for
JC 3.2. 29 his ambition. Who is here so base that would be a
JC 3.2. 30 bondman? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who
JC 3.2. 31 is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any,
JC 3.2. 32 speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that
JC 3.2. 33 will not love his country? If any, speak, for him have
JC 3.2. 34 I offended. I pause for a reply.
JC 3.2. 35
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
None, Brutus, none.
JC 3.2. 36
JC-BRUTUS
Then none have I offended. I have done no more
JC 3.2. 37 to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of
JC 3.2. 38 his death is enrolled in the Capitol, his glory not
JC 3.2. 39 extenuated wherein he was worthy, nor his offences
JC 3.2. 40 enforced for which he suffered death. {Enter Mark Antony, with +
JC 3.2. 40 [others bearing] Caesar's body [in a coffin]}
JC 3.2. 41 Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who,
JC 3.2. 42 though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the
JC 3.2. 43 benefit of his dying: a place in the commonwealth - as
JC 3.2. 44 which of you shall not? With this I depart: that as I
JC 3.2. 45 slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the
JC 3.2. 46 same dagger for myself when it shall please my country
JC 3.2. 47 to need my death.
JC 3.2. 48
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
Live, Brutus, live, live!
JC 3.2. 49
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Bring him with triumph home unto his +
JC 3.2. 49 house.
JC 3.2. 50
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Give him a statue with his ancestors.
JC 3.2. 51B
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Let him be Caesar.
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
Caesar's +
JC 3.2. 51B better parts
JC 3.2. 52 Shall be crowned in Brutus.
JC 3.2. 53
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
We'll bring him to his house with shouts and +
JC 3.2. 53 clamours.
JC 3.2. 54B
JC-BRUTUS
My countrymen.
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Peace, silence. Brutus +
JC 3.2. 54B speaks.
JC 3.2. 55A
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Peace, ho!
JC 3.2. 56
JC-BRUTUS
Good countrymen, let me depart alone,
JC 3.2. 57 And, for my sake, stay here with Antony.
JC 3.2. 58 Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech
JC 3.2. 59 Tending to Caesar's glories, which Mark Antony,
JC 3.2. 60 By our permission, is allowed to make.
JC 3.2. 61 I do entreat you, not a man depart
JC 3.2. 62 Save I alone till Antony have spoke. {Exit}
JC 3.2. 63
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Stay, ho, and let us hear Mark Antony.
JC 3.2. 64
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Let him go up into the public chair.
JC 3.2. 65 We'll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.
JC 3.2. 66
JC-ANTONY
For Brutus' sake I am beholden to you. {Antony +
JC 3.2. 66 ascends to the pulpit}
JC 3.2. 67B
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
What does he say of Brutus? +
JC 3.2. 67B
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
He says, for Brutus' sake
JC 3.2. 68 He finds himself beholden to us all.
JC 3.2. 69
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here!
JC 3.2. 70B
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
This Caesar was a tyrant.
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Nay, +
JC 3.2. 70B that's certain.
JC 3.2. 71 We are blessed that Rome is rid of him. {[Enter] Antony in the +
JC 3.2. 71 pulpit}
JC 3.2. 72
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Peace, let us hear what Antony can say.
JC 3.2. 73B
JC-ANTONY
You gentle Romans.
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
Peace, ho! Let us +
JC 3.2. 73B hear him.
JC 3.2. 74
JC-ANTONY
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
JC 3.2. 75 I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
JC 3.2. 76 The evil that men do lives after them;
JC 3.2. 77 The good is oft interred with their bones.
JC 3.2. 78 So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
JC 3.2. 79 Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
JC 3.2. 80 If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
JC 3.2. 81 And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
JC 3.2. 82 Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -
JC 3.2. 83 For Brutus is an honourable man,
JC 3.2. 84 So are they all, all honourable men -
JC 3.2. 85 Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
JC 3.2. 86 He was my friend, faithful and just to me.
JC 3.2. 87 But Brutus says he was ambitious,
JC 3.2. 88 And Brutus is an honourable man.
JC 3.2. 89 He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
JC 3.2. 90 Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
JC 3.2. 91 Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
JC 3.2. 92 When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.
JC 3.2. 93 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
JC 3.2. 94 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
JC 3.2. 95 And Brutus is an honourable man.
JC 3.2. 96 You all did see that on the Lupercal
JC 3.2. 97 I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
JC 3.2. 98 Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
JC 3.2. 99 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
JC 3.2. 100 And sure he is an honourable man.
JC 3.2. 101 I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
JC 3.2. 102 But here I am to speak what I do know.
JC 3.2. 103 You all did love him once, not without cause.
JC 3.2. 104 What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
JC 3.2. 105 O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
JC 3.2. 106B And men have lost their reason! {He weeps} Bear with +
JC 3.2. 106B me.
JC 3.2. 107 My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
JC 3.2. 108 And I must pause till it come back to me.
JC 3.2. 109
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.
JC 3.2. 110
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
If thou consider rightly of the matter,
JC 3.2. 111B Caesar has had great wrong.
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Has he not, masters?
JC 3.2. 112 I fear there will a worse come in his place.
JC 3.2. 113
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
Marked ye his words? He would not take the crown,
JC 3.2. 114 Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.
JC 3.2. 115
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
If it be found so, some will dear abide it.
JC 3.2. 116
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Poor soul, his eyes are red as fire with weeping.
JC 3.2. 117
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.
JC 3.2. 118
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
Now mark him; he begins again to speak.
JC 3.2. 119
JC-ANTONY
But yesterday the word of Caesar might
JC 3.2. 120 Have stood against the world. Now lies he there,
JC 3.2. 121 And none so poor to do him reverence.
JC 3.2. 122 O masters, if I were disposed to stir
JC 3.2. 123 Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
JC 3.2. 124 I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
JC 3.2. 125 Who, you all know, are honourable men.
JC 3.2. 126 I will not do them wrong. I rather choose
JC 3.2. 127 To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
JC 3.2. 128 Than I will wrong such honourable men.
JC 3.2. 129 But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar.
JC 3.2. 130 I found it in his closet. 'Tis his will.
JC 3.2. 131 Let but the commons hear this testament -
JC 3.2. 132 Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read -
JC 3.2. 133 And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds,
JC 3.2. 134 And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,
JC 3.2. 135 Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
JC 3.2. 136 And, dying, mention it within their wills,
JC 3.2. 137 Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
JC 3.2. 138 Unto their issue.
JC 3.2. 139
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
We'll hear the will. Read it, Mark Antony.
JC 3.2. 140
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
The will, the will! We will hear Caesar's will.
JC 3.2. 141
JC-ANTONY
Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it.
JC 3.2. 142 It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.
JC 3.2. 143 You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
JC 3.2. 144 And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
JC 3.2. 145 It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
JC 3.2. 146 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs,
JC 3.2. 147 For if you should, O what would come of it?
JC 3.2. 148
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
Read the will. We'll hear it, Antony.
JC 3.2. 149 You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.
JC 3.2. 150
JC-ANTONY
Will you be patient? Will you stay a while?
JC 3.2. 151 I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it.
JC 3.2. 152 I fear I wrong the honourable men
JC 3.2. 153 Whose daggers have stabbed Caesar; I do fear it.
JC 3.2. 154
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
They were traitors. Honourable men?
JC 3.2. 155
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
The will, the testament!
JC 3.2. 156
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
They were villains, murderers. The
JC 3.2. 157 will, read the will!
JC 3.2. 158
JC-ANTONY
You will compel me then to read the will?
JC 3.2. 159 Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,
JC 3.2. 160 And let me show you him that made the will.
JC 3.2. 161 Shall I descend? And will you give me leave?
JC 3.2. 162B
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
Come down.
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Descend. +
JC 3.2. 162B
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
You shall have leave. {Antony descends from +
JC 3.2. 162B the pulpit}
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
A ring.
JC 3.2. 163B Stand round.
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Stand from the hearse. Stand from the +
JC 3.2. 163B body.
JC 3.2. 164
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Room for Antony, most noble Antony! +
JC 3.2. 164 {[Enter Antony below]}
JC 3.2. 165
JC-ANTONY
Nay, press not so upon me. Stand farre off.
JC 3.2. 166A
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
Stand back! Room! Bear back!
JC 3.2. 167
JC-ANTONY
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
JC 3.2. 168 You all do know this mantle. I remember
JC 3.2. 169 The first time ever Caesar put it on.
JC 3.2. 170 'Twas on a summer's evening in his tent,
JC 3.2. 171 That day he overcame the Nervii.
JC 3.2. 172 Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through.
JC 3.2. 173 See what a rent the envious Casca made.
JC 3.2. 174 Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabbed;
JC 3.2. 175 And as he plucked his cursed steel away,
JC 3.2. 176 Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it,
JC 3.2. 177 As rushing out of doors to be resolved
JC 3.2. 178 If Brutus so unkindly knocked or no -
JC 3.2. 179 For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel.
JC 3.2. 180 Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
JC 3.2. 181 This was the most unkindest cut of all.
JC 3.2. 182 For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
JC 3.2. 183 Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
JC 3.2. 184 Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart,
JC 3.2. 185 And in his mantle muffling up his face,
JC 3.2. 186 Even at the base of Pompey's statue,
JC 3.2. 187 Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
JC 3.2. 188 O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
JC 3.2. 189 Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
JC 3.2. 190 Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
JC 3.2. 191 O now you weep, and I perceive you feel
JC 3.2. 192 The dint of pity. These are gracious drops.
JC 3.2. 193 Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold
JC 3.2. 194 Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here.
JC 3.2. 195 Here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors. {He uncovers +
JC 3.2. 195 Caesar's body}
JC 3.2. 196B
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
O piteous spectacle!
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
+
JC 3.2. 196B O noble Caesar!
JC 3.2. 197A
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
O woeful day!
JC 3.2. 198B
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
O traitors, villains!
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
O most +
JC 3.2. 198B bloody sight!
JC 3.2. 199
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
We will be revenged.
JC 3.2. 200
JC-[ALL THE PLEBEIANS]
Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! +
JC 3.2. 200 Kill! Slay!
JC 3.2. 201B Let not a traitor live!
JC-ANTONY
Stay, countrymen.
JC 3.2. 202
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Peace there, hear the noble Antony.
JC 3.2. 203
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll
JC 3.2. 204 die with him!
JC 3.2. 205
JC-ANTONY
Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you +
JC 3.2. 205 up
JC 3.2. 206 To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
JC 3.2. 207 They that have done this deed are honourable.
JC 3.2. 208 What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
JC 3.2. 209 That made them do it. They are wise and honourable,
JC 3.2. 210 And will no doubt with reasons answer you.
JC 3.2. 211 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
JC 3.2. 212 I am no orator as Brutus is,
JC 3.2. 213 But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man
JC 3.2. 214 That love my friend; and that they know full well
JC 3.2. 215 That gave me public leave to speak of him.
JC 3.2. 216 For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
JC 3.2. 217 Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
JC 3.2. 218 To stir men's blood. I only speak right on.
JC 3.2. 219 I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
JC 3.2. 220 Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
JC 3.2. 221 And bid them speak for me. But were I Brutus,
JC 3.2. 222 And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
JC 3.2. 223 Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
JC 3.2. 224 In every wound of Caesar that should move
JC 3.2. 225 The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
JC 3.2. 226B
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
We'll mutiny.
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
We'll burn the +
JC 3.2. 226B house of Brutus.
JC 3.2. 227
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Away then! Come, seek the conspirators.
JC 3.2. 228
JC-ANTONY
Yet hear me, countrymen, yet hear me speak.
JC 3.2. 229
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
Peace, ho! Hear Antony, most noble Antony.
JC 3.2. 230
JC-ANTONY
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what.
JC 3.2. 231 Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?
JC 3.2. 232 Alas, you know not. I must tell you then.
JC 3.2. 233 You have forgot the will I told you of.
JC 3.2. 234
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
Most true. The will. Let's stay and hear the +
JC 3.2. 234 will.
JC 3.2. 235
JC-ANTONY
Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.
JC 3.2. 236 To every Roman citizen he gives -
JC 3.2. 237 To every several man - seventy-five drachmas.
JC 3.2. 238
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death.
JC 3.2. 239B
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
O royal Caesar!
JC-ANTONY
Hear me with +
JC 3.2. 239B patience.
JC-ALL THE PLEBEIANS
Peace, ho!
JC 3.2. 240
JC-ANTONY
Moreover he hath left you all his walks,
JC 3.2. 241 His private arbours, and new-planted orchards,
JC 3.2. 242 On this side Tiber. He hath left them you,
JC 3.2. 243 And to your heirs for ever - common pleasures
JC 3.2. 244 To walk abroad and recreate yourselves.
JC 3.2. 245 Here was a Caesar. When comes such another?
JC 3.2. 246
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Never, never! Come, away, away!
JC 3.2. 247 We'll burn his body in the holy place,
JC 3.2. 248 And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.
JC 3.2. 249 Take up the body.
JC 3.2. 250
JC-[FOURTH] PLEBEIAN
Go, fetch fire!
JC 3.2. 251
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Pluck down benches!
JC 3.2. 252
JC-[FIFTH] PLEBEIAN
Pluck down forms, windows, anything! +
JC 3.2. 252 {Exeunt Plebeians [with Caesar's body]}
JC 3.2. 253
JC-ANTONY
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot.
JC 3.2. 254B Take thou what course thou wilt. {Enter [Octavius'] +
JC 3.2. 254B Servant} How now, fellow?
JC 3.2. 255
JC-SERVANT
Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.
JC 3.2. 256A
JC-ANTONY
Where is he?
JC 3.2. 257
JC-SERVANT
He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house.
JC 3.2. 258
JC-ANTONY
And thither will I straight to visit him.
JC 3.2. 259 He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,
JC 3.2. 260 And in this mood will give us anything.
JC 3.2. 261
JC-SERVANT
I heard him say Brutus and Cassius
JC 3.2. 262 Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.
JC 3.2. 263
JC-ANTONY
Belike they had some notice of the people,
JC 3.2. 264 How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius. {Exeunt}
JC 3.2. 0 {Enter Cinna the poet}
JC 3.3. 1
JC-CINNA
I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar,
JC 3.3. 2 And things unlucky charge my fantasy.
JC 3.3. 3 I have no will to wander forth of doors,
JC 3.3. 4 Yet something leads me forth. {Enter the Plebeians}
JC 3.3. 5
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
What is your name?
JC 3.3. 6
JC-SECOND PLEBEIAN
Whither are you going?
JC 3.3. 7
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Where do you dwell?
JC 3.3. 8
JC-FOURTH PLEBEIAN
Are you a married man or a bachelor?
JC 3.3. 9
JC-SECOND PLEBEIAN
Answer every man directly.
JC 3.3. 10
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Ay, and briefly.
JC 3.3. 11
JC-FOURTH PLEBEIAN
Ay, and wisely.
JC 3.3. 12
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Ay, and truly, you were best.
JC 3.3. 13
JC-CINNA
What is my name? Whither am I going? Where
JC 3.3. 14 do I dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then
JC 3.3. 15 to answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and
JC 3.3. 16 truly: wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
JC 3.3. 17
JC-SECOND PLEBEIAN
That's as much as to say they are fools
JC 3.3. 18 that marry. You'll bear me a bang for that, I fear.
JC 3.3. 19 Proceed directly.
JC 3.3. 20
JC-CINNA
Directly I am going to Caesar's funeral.
JC 3.3. 21
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
As a friend or an enemy?
JC 3.3. 22
JC-CINNA
As a friend.
JC 3.3. 23
JC-SECOND PLEBEIAN
That matter is answered directly.
JC 3.3. 24
JC-FOURTH PLEBEIAN
For your dwelling - briefly.
JC 3.3. 25
JC-CINNA
Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.
JC 3.3. 26
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Your name, sir, truly.
JC 3.3. 27
JC-CINNA
Truly, my name is Cinna.
JC 3.3. 28
JC-FIRST PLEBEIAN
Tear him to pieces! He's a conspirator.
JC 3.3. 29
JC-CINNA
I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
JC 3.3. 30
JC-FOURTH PLEBEIAN
Tear him for his bad verses, tear him
JC 3.3. 31 for his bad verses.
JC 3.3. 32
JC-CINNA
I am not Cinna the conspirator.
JC 3.3. 33
JC-FOURTH PLEBEIAN
It is no matter, his name's Cinna. Pluck
JC 3.3. 34 but his name out of his heart, and turn him going.
JC 3.3. 35
JC-THIRD PLEBEIAN
Tear him, tear him! {[They set upon Cinna]}
JC 3.3. 36 Come, brands, ho! Firebrands! To Brutus', to Cassius'!
JC 3.3. 37 Burn all! Some to Decius' house, and some to Casca's;
JC 3.3. 38 some to Ligarius'. Away, go! {Exeunt all the Plebeians, with +
JC 3.3. 38 Cinna}
JC 3.3. 0 {Enter Antony with papers, Octavius, and Lepidus}
JC 4.1. 1
JC-ANTONY
These many, then, shall die; their names are +
JC 4.1. 1 pricked.
JC 4.1. 2
JC-OCTAVIUS
{(to Lepidus)} Your brother too must die. +
JC 4.1. 2 Consent you, Lepidus?
JC 4.1. 3B
JC-LEPIDUS
I do consent.
JC-OCTAVIUS
Prick him down, Antony.
JC 4.1. 4
JC-LEPIDUS
Upon condition Publius shall not live,
JC 4.1. 5 Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.
JC 4.1. 6
JC-ANTONY
He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him.
JC 4.1. 7 But Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house;
JC 4.1. 8 Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine
JC 4.1. 9 How to cut off some charge in legacies.
JC 4.1. 10
JC-LEPIDUS
What, shall I find you here?
JC 4.1. 11
JC-OCTAVIUS
Or here or at the Capitol. {Exit Lepidus}
JC 4.1. 12
JC-ANTONY
This is a slight, unmeritable man,
JC 4.1. 13 Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit,
JC 4.1. 14 The three-fold world divided, he should stand
JC 4.1. 15B One of the three to share it?
JC-OCTAVIUS
So you thought him,
JC 4.1. 16 And took his voice who should be pricked to die
JC 4.1. 17 In our black sentence and proscription.
JC 4.1. 18
JC-ANTONY
Octavius, I have seen more days than you,
JC 4.1. 19 And though we lay these honours on this man
JC 4.1. 20 To ease ourselves of divers sland'rous loads,
JC 4.1. 21 He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,
JC 4.1. 22 To groan and sweat under the business,
JC 4.1. 23 Either led or driven as we point the way;
JC 4.1. 24 And having brought our treasure where we will,
JC 4.1. 25 Then take we down his load, and turn him off,
JC 4.1. 26 Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears
JC 4.1. 27B And graze in commons.
JC-OCTAVIUS
You may do your will;
JC 4.1. 28 But he's a tried and valiant soldier.
JC 4.1. 29
JC-ANTONY
So is my horse, Octavius, and for that
JC 4.1. 30 I do appoint him store of provender.
JC 4.1. 31 It is a creature that I teach to fight,
JC 4.1. 32 To wind, to stop, to run directly on,
JC 4.1. 33 His corporal motion governed by my spirit;
JC 4.1. 34 And in some taste is Lepidus but so.
JC 4.1. 35 He must be taught, and trained, and bid go forth -
JC 4.1. 36 A barren-spirited fellow, one that feeds
JC 4.1. 37 On objects, arts, and imitations,
JC 4.1. 38 Which, out of use and staled by other men,
JC 4.1. 39 Begin his fashion. Do not talk of him
JC 4.1. 40 But as a property. And now, Octavius,
JC 4.1. 41 Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius
JC 4.1. 42 Are levying powers. We must straight make head.
JC 4.1. 43 Therefore let our alliance be combined,
JC 4.1. 44 Our best friends made, our meinies stretched,
JC 4.1. 45 And let us presently go sit in council,
JC 4.1. 46 How covert matters may be best disclosed,
JC 4.1. 47 And open perils surest answered.
JC 4.1. 48
JC-OCTAVIUS
Let us do so, for we are at the stake
JC 4.1. 49 And bayed about with many enemies;
JC 4.1. 50 And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
JC 4.1. 51 Millions of mischiefs. {Exeunt}
JC 4.1. 0 {Drum. Enter Brutus, Lucius, and the army. [Lucillius,] +
JC 4.2. 0 Titinius, and Pindarus meet them}
JC 4.2. 1
JC-BRUTUS
Stand, ho!
JC 4.2. 2
JC-[SOLDIER]
Give the word `ho', and stand.
JC 4.2. 3
JC-BRUTUS
What now, Lucillius: is Cassius near?
JC 4.2. 4
JC-LUCILLIUS
He is at hand, and Pindarus is come
JC 4.2. 5 To do you salutation from his master.
JC 4.2. 6
JC-BRUTUS
He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,
JC 4.2. 7 In his own change or by ill officers,
JC 4.2. 8 Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
JC 4.2. 9 Things done undone. But if he be at hand,
JC 4.2. 10B I shall be satisfied.
JC-PINDARUS
I do not doubt
JC 4.2. 11 But that my noble master will appear
JC 4.2. 12 Such as he is, full of regard and honour.
JC 4.2. 13
JC-BRUTUS
He is not doubted. - A word, Lucillius. {Brutus and +
JC 4.2. 13 Lucillius speak apart}
JC 4.2. 14 How he received you let me be resolved.
JC 4.2. 15
JC-LUCILLIUS
With courtesy and with respect enough,
JC 4.2. 16 But not with such familiar instances,
JC 4.2. 17 Nor with such free and friendly conference,
JC 4.2. 18B As he hath used of old.
JC-BRUTUS
Thou hast described
JC 4.2. 19 A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucillius:
JC 4.2. 20 When love begins to sicken and decay
JC 4.2. 21 It useth an enforced ceremony.
JC 4.2. 22 There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;
JC 4.2. 23 But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
JC 4.2. 24 Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; {Low march +
JC 4.2. 24 within}
JC 4.2. 25 But when they should endure the bloody spur,
JC 4.2. 26 They fall their crests and, like deceitful jades,
JC 4.2. 27 Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?
JC 4.2. 28
JC-LUCILLIUS
They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.
JC 4.2. 29 The greater part, the horse in general,
JC 4.2. 30B Are come with Cassius. {Enter Cassius and his powers}
JC-BRUTUS
+
JC 4.2. 30B Hark, he is arrived.
JC 4.2. 31 March gently on to meet him. {The armies march}
JC 4.2. 32A
JC-CASSIUS
Stand, ho!
JC 4.2. 33A
JC-BRUTUS
Stand, ho! Speak the word along.
JC 4.2. 34
JC-[FIRST SOLDIER]
Stand!
JC 4.2. 35
JC-[SECOND SOLDIER]
Stand!
JC 4.2. 36
JC-[THIRD SOLDIER]
Stand!
JC 4.2. 37
JC-CASSIUS
Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.
JC 4.2. 38
JC-BRUTUS
Judge me, you gods: wrong I mine enemies?
JC 4.2. 39 And if not so, how should I wrong a brother?
JC 4.2. 40
JC-CASSIUS
Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs,
JC 4.2. 41B And when you do them -
JC-BRUTUS
Cassius, be content.
JC 4.2. 42 Speak your griefs softly. I do know you well.
JC 4.2. 43 Before the eyes of both our armies here,
JC 4.2. 44 Which should perceive nothing but love from us,
JC 4.2. 45 Let us not wrangle. Bid them move away,
JC 4.2. 46 Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,
JC 4.2. 47B And I will give you audience.
JC-CASSIUS
Pindarus,
JC 4.2. 48 Bid our commanders lead their charges off
JC 4.2. 49 A little from this ground.
JC 4.2. 50
JC-BRUTUS
Lucillius, do you the like; and let no man
JC 4.2. 51 Come to our tent till we have done our conference.
JC 4.2. 52 Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door. {Exeunt the armies}
JC 4.2. 53 {Brutus and Cassius remain, [with Titinius, and Lucius guarding +
JC 4.2. 53 the door]}
JC-CASSIUS
That you have wronged me doth appear in +
JC 4.2. 53 this:
JC 4.2. 54 You have condemned and noted Lucius Pella
JC 4.2. 55 For taking bribes here of the Sardians,
JC 4.2. 56 Wherein my letters praying on his side,
JC 4.2. 57 Because I knew the man, was slighted off.
JC 4.2. 58
JC-BRUTUS
You wronged yourself to write in such a case.
JC 4.2. 59
JC-CASSIUS
In such a time as this it is not meet
JC 4.2. 60 That every nice offence should bear his comment.
JC 4.2. 61
JC-BRUTUS
Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
JC 4.2. 62 Are much condemned to have an itching palm,
JC 4.2. 63 To sell and mart your offices for gold
JC 4.2. 64B To undeservers.
JC-CASSIUS
I, an itching palm?
JC 4.2. 65 You know that you are Brutus that speaks this,
JC 4.2. 66 Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.
JC 4.2. 67
JC-BRUTUS
The name of Cassius honours this corruption,
JC 4.2. 68 And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.
JC 4.2. 69A
JC-CASSIUS
Chastisement?
JC 4.2. 70
JC-BRUTUS
Remember March, the ides of March, remember.
JC 4.2. 71 Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
JC 4.2. 72 What villain touched his body, that did stab,
JC 4.2. 73 And not for justice? What, shall one of us,
JC 4.2. 74 That struck the foremost man of all this world
JC 4.2. 75 But for supporting robbers, shall we now
JC 4.2. 76 Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
JC 4.2. 77 And sell the mighty space of our large honours
JC 4.2. 78 For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
JC 4.2. 79 I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
JC 4.2. 80B Than such a Roman.
JC-CASSIUS
Brutus, bay not me.
JC 4.2. 81 I'll not endure it. You forget yourself
JC 4.2. 82 To hedge me in. I am a soldier, I,
JC 4.2. 83 Older in practice, abler than yourself
JC 4.2. 84 To make conditions.
JC 4.2. 85A
JC-BRUTUS
Go to, you are not, Cassius.
JC 4.2. 86A
JC-CASSIUS
I am.
JC 4.2. 87A
JC-BRUTUS
I say you are not.
JC 4.2. 88
JC-CASSIUS
Urge me no more, I shall forget myself.
JC 4.2. 89 Have mind upon your health. Tempt me no farther.
JC 4.2. 90A
JC-BRUTUS
Away, slight man.
JC 4.2. 91A
JC-CASSIUS
Is 't possible?
JC 4.2. 92A
JC-BRUTUS
Hear me, for I will speak.
JC 4.2. 93 Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
JC 4.2. 94 Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
JC 4.2. 95
JC-CASSIUS
O ye gods, ye gods! Must I endure all this?
JC 4.2. 96
JC-BRUTUS
All this? Ay, more. Fret till your proud heart break.
JC 4.2. 97 Go show your slaves how choleric you are,
JC 4.2. 98 And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?
JC 4.2. 99 Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch
JC 4.2. 100 Under your testy humour? By the gods,
JC 4.2. 101 You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
JC 4.2. 102 Though it do split you. For from this day forth
JC 4.2. 103 I'll use you for my mirth, yea for my laughter,
JC 4.2. 104B When you are waspish.
JC-CASSIUS
Is it come to this?
JC 4.2. 105
JC-BRUTUS
You say you are a better soldier.
JC 4.2. 106 Let it appear so, make your vaunting true,
JC 4.2. 107 And it shall please me well. For mine own part,
JC 4.2. 108 I shall be glad to learn of noble men.
JC 4.2. 109
JC-CASSIUS
You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus.
JC 4.2. 110 I said an elder soldier, not a better.
JC 4.2. 111B Did I say better?
JC-BRUTUS
If you did, I care not.
JC 4.2. 112
JC-CASSIUS
When Caesar lived he durst not thus have moved me.
JC 4.2. 113
JC-BRUTUS
Peace, peace; you durst not so have tempted him.
JC 4.2. 114A
JC-CASSIUS
I durst not?
JC 4.2. 115A
JC-BRUTUS
No.
JC 4.2. 116A
JC-CASSIUS
What, durst not tempt him?
JC 4.2. 117A
JC-BRUTUS
For your life you durst not.
JC 4.2. 118
JC-CASSIUS
Do not presume too much upon my love.
JC 4.2. 119 I may do that I shall be sorry for.
JC 4.2. 120
JC-BRUTUS
You have done that you should be sorry for.
JC 4.2. 121 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
JC 4.2. 122 For I am armed so strong in honesty
JC 4.2. 123 That they pass by me as the idle wind,
JC 4.2. 124 Which I respect not. I did send to you
JC 4.2. 125 For certain sums of gold, which you denied me;
JC 4.2. 126 For I can raise no money by vile means.
JC 4.2. 127 By heaven, I had rather coin my heart
JC 4.2. 128 And drop my blood for drachmas than to wring
JC 4.2. 129 From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
JC 4.2. 130 By any indirection. I did send
JC 4.2. 131 To you for gold to pay my legions,
JC 4.2. 132 Which you denied me. Was that done like Cassius?
JC 4.2. 133 Should I have answered Caius Cassius so?
JC 4.2. 134 When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous
JC 4.2. 135 To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
JC 4.2. 136 Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;
JC 4.2. 137B Dash him to pieces.
JC-CASSIUS
I denied you not.
JC 4.2. 138B
JC-BRUTUS
You did.
JC-CASSIUS
I did not. He was but a fool
JC 4.2. 139 That brought my answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart.
JC 4.2. 140 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
JC 4.2. 141 But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
JC 4.2. 142
JC-BRUTUS
I do not, till you practise them on me.
JC 4.2. 143B
JC-CASSIUS
You love me not.
JC-BRUTUS
I do not like your faults.
JC 4.2. 144
JC-CASSIUS
A friendly eye could never see such faults.
JC 4.2. 145
JC-BRUTUS
A flatterer's would not, though they do appear
JC 4.2. 146 As huge as high Olympus.
JC 4.2. 147
JC-CASSIUS
Come, Antony and young Octavius, come,
JC 4.2. 148 Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius;
JC 4.2. 149 For Cassius is aweary of the world,
JC 4.2. 150 Hated by one he loves, braved by his brother,
JC 4.2. 151 Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
JC 4.2. 152 Set in a notebook, learned and conned by rote,
JC 4.2. 153 To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep
JC 4.2. 154 My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,
JC 4.2. 155 And here my naked breast; within, a heart
JC 4.2. 156 Dearer than Pluto's mine, richer than gold.
JC 4.2. 157 If that thou beest a Roman, take it forth.
JC 4.2. 158 I that denied thee gold will give my heart.
JC 4.2. 159 Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know
JC 4.2. 160 When thou didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better
JC 4.2. 161B Than ever thou loved'st Cassius.
JC-BRUTUS
Sheathe your dagger.
JC 4.2. 162 Be angry when you will; it shall have scope.
JC 4.2. 163 Do what you will; dishonour shall be humour.
JC 4.2. 164 O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb
JC 4.2. 165 That carries anger as the flint bears fire,
JC 4.2. 166 Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark
JC 4.2. 167B And straight is cold again.
JC-CASSIUS
Hath Cassius lived
JC 4.2. 168 To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus
JC 4.2. 169 When grief and blood ill-tempered vexeth him?
JC 4.2. 170
JC-BRUTUS
When I spoke that, I was ill-tempered too.
JC 4.2. 171
JC-CASSIUS
Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.
JC 4.2. 172B
JC-BRUTUS
And my heart too. {[They embrace]}
JC-CASSIUS
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JC 4.2. 172B O Brutus!
JC-BRUTUS
What's the matter?
JC 4.2. 173
JC-CASSIUS
Have not you love enough to bear with me
JC 4.2. 174 When that rash humour which my mother gave me
JC 4.2. 175B Makes me forgetful?
JC-BRUTUS
Yes, Cassius, and from henceforth,
JC 4.2. 176 When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,
JC 4.2. 177 He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so. {Enter +
JC 4.2. 177 [Lucillius and] a Poet}
JC 4.2. 178
JC-POET
Let me go in to see the generals.
JC 4.2. 179 There is some grudge between 'em; 'tis not meet
JC 4.2. 180B They be alone.
JC-LUCILLIUS
You shall not come to them.
JC 4.2. 181B
JC-POET
Nothing but death shall stay me.
JC-CASSIUS
How now! What's +
JC 4.2. 181B the matter?
JC 4.2. 182
JC-POET
For shame, you generals, what do you mean?
JC 4.2. 183 Love and be friends, as two such men should be,
JC 4.2. 184 For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye.
JC 4.2. 185
JC-CASSIUS
Ha, ha! How vilely doth this cynic rhyme!
JC 4.2. 186
JC-BRUTUS
{(to the Poet)} Get you hence, sirrah; +
JC 4.2. 186 saucy fellow, hence!
JC 4.2. 187
JC-CASSIUS
Bear with him, Brutus, 'tis his fashion.
JC 4.2. 188
JC-BRUTUS
I'll know his humour when he knows his time.
JC 4.2. 189 What should the wars do with these jigging fools?
JC 4.2. 190B {(To the Poet)} Companion, hence!
JC-CASSIUS
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JC 4.2. 190B {(to the Poet)} Away, away, be gone! {Exit Poet}
JC 4.2. 191
JC-BRUTUS
Lucillius and Titinius, bid the commanders
JC 4.2. 192 Prepare to lodge their companies tonight.
JC 4.2. 193
JC-CASSIUS
And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you
JC 4.2. 194B Immediately to us. {Exeunt Lucillius and Titinius}
JC-BRUTUS
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JC 4.2. 194B Lucius, a bowl of wine. {Exit Lucius}
JC 4.2. 195
JC-CASSIUS
I did not think you could have been so angry.
JC 4.2. 196
JC-BRUTUS
O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
JC 4.2. 197
JC-CASSIUS
Of your philosophy you make no use,
JC 4.2. 198 If you give place to accidental evils.
JC 4.2. 199
JC-BRUTUS
No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
JC 4.2. 200A
JC-CASSIUS
Ha! Portia?
JC 4.2. 201A
JC-BRUTUS
She is dead.
JC 4.2. 202
JC-CASSIUS
How scaped I killing when I crossed you so?
JC 4.2. 203 O insupportable and touching loss!
JC 4.2. 204B Upon what sickness?
JC-BRUTUS
Impatience of my absence,
JC 4.2. 205 And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
JC 4.2. 206 Have made themselves so strong - for with her death
JC 4.2. 207 That tidings came. With this, she fell distraught,
JC 4.2. 208 And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire.
JC 4.2. 209B
JC-CASSIUS
And died so?
JC-BRUTUS
Even so.
JC-CASSIUS
O ye immortal +
JC 4.2. 209B gods! {Enter Lucius, with wine and tapers}
JC 4.2. 210
JC-BRUTUS
Speak no more of her. {(To Lucius)}+
JC 4.2. 210 Give me a bowl of wine.
JC 4.2. 211 {(To Cassius)} In this I bury all unkindness, +
JC 4.2. 211 Cassius. {He drinks}
JC 4.2. 212
JC-CASSIUS
My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.
JC 4.2. 213 Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup.
JC 4.2. 214 I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love. {He drinks.}
JC 4.2. 215 {[Exit Lucius]} {Enter Titinius and Messala}
JC-BRUTUS
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JC 4.2. 215 Come in, Titinius; welcome, good Messala.
JC 4.2. 216 Now sit we close about this taper here,
JC 4.2. 217 And call in question our necessities.
JC 4.2. 218B
JC-CASSIUS
{(aside)} Portia, art thou gone?
JC-BRUTUS
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JC 4.2. 218B No more, I pray you. {[They sit]}
JC 4.2. 219 Messala, I have here received letters
JC 4.2. 220 That young Octavius and Mark Antony
JC 4.2. 221 Come down upon us with a mighty power,
JC 4.2. 222 Bending their expedition toward Philippi.
JC 4.2. 223
JC-MESSALA
Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.
JC 4.2. 224A
JC-BRUTUS
With what addition?
JC 4.2. 225
JC-MESSALA
That by proscription and bills of outlawry
JC 4.2. 226 Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus
JC 4.2. 227 Have put to death an hundred senators.
JC 4.2. 228
JC-BRUTUS
Therein our letters do not well agree.
JC 4.2. 229 Mine speak of seventy senators that died
JC 4.2. 230 By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.
JC 4.2. 231B
JC-CASSIUS
Cicero one?
JC-MESSALA
Ay, Cicero is dead,
JC 4.2. 232 And by that order of proscription.
JC 4.2. 233 {(To Brutus)} Had you your letters from your wife, my +
JC 4.2. 233 lord?
JC 4.2. 234A
JC-BRUTUS
No, Messala.
JC 4.2. 235
JC-MESSALA
Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?
JC 4.2. 236B
JC-BRUTUS
Nothing, Messala.
JC-MESSALA
That methinks is strange.
JC 4.2. 237
JC-BRUTUS
Why ask you? Hear you aught of her in yours?
JC 4.2. 238A
JC-MESSALA
No, my lord.
JC 4.2. 239
JC-BRUTUS
Now as you are a Roman, tell me true.
JC 4.2. 240
JC-MESSALA
Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell;
JC 4.2. 241 For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.
JC 4.2. 242
JC-BRUTUS
Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala.
JC 4.2. 243 With meditating that she must die once,
JC 4.2. 244 I have the patience to endure it now.
JC 4.2. 245
JC-MESSALA
Even so great men great losses should endure.
JC 4.2. 246
JC-CASSIUS
I have as much of this in art as you,
JC 4.2. 247 But yet my nature could not bear it so.
JC 4.2. 248
JC-BRUTUS
Well, to our work alive. What do you think
JC 4.2. 249 Of marching to Philippi presently?
JC 4.2. 250B
JC-CASSIUS
I do not think it good.
JC-BRUTUS
Your reason?
JC-CASSIUS
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JC 4.2. 250B This it is:
JC 4.2. 251 'Tis better that the enemy seek us;
JC 4.2. 252 So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
JC 4.2. 253 Doing himself offence; whilst we, lying still,
JC 4.2. 254 Are full of rest, defence, and nimbleness.
JC 4.2. 255
JC-BRUTUS
Good reasons must of force give place to better.
JC 4.2. 256 The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground
JC 4.2. 257 Do stand but in a forced affection,
JC 4.2. 258 For they have grudged us contribution.
JC 4.2. 259 The enemy marching along by them
JC 4.2. 260 By them shall make a fuller number up,
JC 4.2. 261 Come on refreshed, new added, and encouraged;
JC 4.2. 262 From which advantage shall we cut him off,
JC 4.2. 263 If at Philippi we do face him there,
JC 4.2. 264B These people at our back.
JC-CASSIUS
Hear me, good brother.
JC 4.2. 265
JC-BRUTUS
Under your pardon. You must note beside
JC 4.2. 266 That we have tried the utmost of our friends;
JC 4.2. 267 Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe.
JC 4.2. 268 The enemy increaseth every day;
JC 4.2. 269 We at the height are ready to decline.
JC 4.2. 270 There is a tide in the affairs of men
JC 4.2. 271 Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
JC 4.2. 272 Omitted, all the voyage of their life
JC 4.2. 273 Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
JC 4.2. 274 On such a full sea are we now afloat,
JC 4.2. 275 And we must take the current when it serves,
JC 4.2. 276B Or lose our ventures.
JC-CASSIUS
Then, with your will, go on.
JC 4.2. 277 We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi.
JC 4.2. 278
JC-BRUTUS
The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
JC 4.2. 279 And nature must obey necessity,
JC 4.2. 280 Which we will niggard with a little rest.
JC 4.2. 281B There is no more to say.
JC-CASSIUS
No more. Good night.
JC 4.2. 282 Early tomorrow will we rise and hence.
JC 4.2. 283B
JC-BRUTUS
Lucius. {Enter Lucius} My gown. {Exit +
JC 4.2. 283B Lucius} Farewell, good Messala.
JC 4.2. 284 Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble, Cassius,
JC 4.2. 285B Good night and good repose.
JC-CASSIUS
O my dear brother,
JC 4.2. 286 This was an ill beginning of the night!
JC 4.2. 287 Never come such division 'tween our souls.
JC 4.2. 288B Let it not, Brutus. {Enter Lucius with the gown}
JC-BRUTUS
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JC 4.2. 288B Everything is well.
JC 4.2. 289B
JC-CASSIUS
Good night, my lord.
JC-BRUTUS
Good night, good brother.
JC 4.2. 290B
JC-TITINIUS
JC-AND
JC-MESSALA
Good night, Lord Brutus.
JC-BRUTUS
Farewell, +
JC 4.2. 290B every one. {Exeunt Cassius, Titinius, and Messala}
JC 4.2. 291B Give me the gown. {[He puts on the gown]} +
JC 4.2. 291B Where is thy instrument?
JC 4.2. 292B
JC-LUCIUS
Here in the tent.
JC-BRUTUS
What, thou speak'st drowsily.
JC 4.2. 293 Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'erwatched.
JC 4.2. 294 Call Claudio and some other of my men.
JC 4.2. 295 I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent.
JC 4.2. 296B
JC-LUCIUS
Varrus and Claudio! {Enter Varrus and +
JC 4.2. 296B Claudio}
JC-VARRUS
Calls my lord?
JC 4.2. 297
JC-BRUTUS
I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep.
JC 4.2. 298 It may be I shall raise you by and by
JC 4.2. 299 On business to my brother Cassius.
JC 4.2. 300
JC-VARRUS
So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure.
JC 4.2. 301
JC-BRUTUS
I will not have it so. Lie down, good sirs.
JC 4.2. 302 It may be I shall otherwise bethink me. {Varrus and Claudio lie +
JC 4.2. 302 down to sleep}
JC 4.2. 303 Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so.
JC 4.2. 304 I put it in the pocket of my gown.
JC 4.2. 305
JC-LUCIUS
I was sure your lordship did not give it me.
JC 4.2. 306
JC-BRUTUS
Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.
JC 4.2. 307 Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes a while,
JC 4.2. 308 And touch thy instrument a strain or two?
JC 4.2. 309B
JC-LUCIUS
Ay, my lord, an 't please you.
JC-BRUTUS
It does, my boy.
JC 4.2. 310 I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.
JC 4.2. 311A
JC-LUCIUS
It is my duty, sir.
JC 4.2. 312
JC-BRUTUS
I should not urge thy duty past thy might.
JC 4.2. 313 I know young bloods look for a time of rest.
JC 4.2. 314A
JC-LUCIUS
I have slept, my lord, already.
JC 4.2. 315
JC-BRUTUS
It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again.
JC 4.2. 316 I will not hold thee long. If I do live,
JC 4.2. 317 I will be good to thee. {Lucius plays music and sings a song, +
JC 4.2. 317 and so falls asleep}
JC 4.2. 318 This is a sleepy tune. O murd'rous slumber,
JC 4.2. 319 Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy
JC 4.2. 320 That plays thee music? - Gentle knave, good night.
JC 4.2. 321 I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee.
JC 4.2. 322 If thou dost nod thou break'st thy instrument;
JC 4.2. 323 I'll take it from thee, and, good boy, good night. {He takes +
JC 4.2. 323 away Lucius' instrument, then opens}
JC 4.2. 324 {the book} Let me see, let me see, is not the leaf turned down
JC 4.2. 325 Where I left reading? Here it is, I think. {Enter the Ghost of +
JC 4.2. 325 Caesar}
JC 4.2. 326 How ill this taper burns! Ha! Who comes here?
JC 4.2. 327 I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
JC 4.2. 328 That shapes this monstrous apparition.
JC 4.2. 329 It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?
JC 4.2. 330 Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
JC 4.2. 331 That mak'st my blood cold and my hair to stare?
JC 4.2. 332 Speak to me what thou art.
JC 4.2. 333A
JC-GHOST
Thy evil spirit, Brutus.
JC 4.2. 334A
JC-BRUTUS
Why com'st thou?
JC 4.2. 335
JC-GHOST
To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.
JC 4.2. 336B
JC-BRUTUS
Well; then I shall see thee again?
JC-GHOST
Ay, at Philippi.
JC 4.2. 337
JC-BRUTUS
Why, I will see thee at Philippi then. {Exit Ghost}
JC 4.2. 338 Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest.
JC 4.2. 339 Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee. -
JC 4.2. 340 Boy, Lucius, Varrus, Claudio, sirs, awake!
JC 4.2. 341B Claudio!
JC-LUCIUS
The strings, my lord, are false.
JC 4.2. 342
JC-BRUTUS
He thinks he still is at his instrument. -
JC 4.2. 343A Lucius, awake!
JC 4.2. 344A
JC-LUCIUS
My lord.
JC 4.2. 345
JC-BRUTUS
Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so cried'st out?
JC 4.2. 346
JC-LUCIUS
My lord, I do not know that I did cry.
JC 4.2. 347
JC-BRUTUS
Yes, that thou didst. Didst thou see anything?
JC 4.2. 348
JC-LUCIUS
Nothing, my lord.
JC 4.2. 349B
JC-BRUTUS
Sleep again, Lucius. - Sirrah Claudio! {(To +
JC 4.2. 349B Varrus)} Fellow,
JC 4.2. 350 Thou, awake!
JC 4.2. 351
JC-VARRUS
My lord.
JC 4.2. 352
JC-CLAUDIO
My lord.
JC 4.2. 353
JC-BRUTUS
Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?
JC 4.2. 354B
JC-BOTH
Did we, my lord?
JC-BRUTUS
Ay. Saw you anything?
JC 4.2. 355B
JC-VARRUS
No, my lord, I saw nothing.
JC-CLAUDIO
Nor I, my lord.
JC 4.2. 356
JC-BRUTUS
Go and commend me to my brother Cassius.
JC 4.2. 357 Bid him set on his powers betimes before,
JC 4.2. 358B And we will follow.
JC-BOTH
It shall be done, my lord. {Exeunt +
JC 4.2. 358B [Varrus and Claudio at one door, Brutus and Lucius at another door]}
JC 4.2. 0 {Enter Octavius, Antony, and their army}
JC 5.1. 1
JC-OCTAVIUS
Now, Antony, our hopes are answered.
JC 5.1. 2 You said the enemy would not come down,
JC 5.1. 3 But keep the hills and upper regions.
JC 5.1. 4 It proves not so; their battles are at hand.
JC 5.1. 5 They mean to warn us at Philippi here,
JC 5.1. 6 Answering before we do demand of them.
JC 5.1. 7
JC-ANTONY
Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know
JC 5.1. 8 Wherefore they do it. They could be content
JC 5.1. 9 To visit other places; and come down
JC 5.1. 10 With fearful bravery, thinking by this face
JC 5.1. 11 To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;
JC 5.1. 12B But 'tis not so. {Enter a Messenger}
JC-MESSENGER
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JC 5.1. 12B Prepare you, generals.
JC 5.1. 13 The enemy comes on in gallant show.
JC 5.1. 14 Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,
JC 5.1. 15 And something to be done immediately.
JC 5.1. 16
JC-ANTONY
Octavius, lead your battle softly on
JC 5.1. 17 Upon the left hand of the even field.
JC 5.1. 18
JC-OCTAVIUS
Upon the right hand, I; keep thou the left.
JC 5.1. 19
JC-ANTONY
Why do you cross me in this exigent?
JC 5.1. 20
JC-OCTAVIUS
I do not cross you, but I will do so. {[Drum. +
JC 5.1. 20 Antony and Octavius march with their army.]}
JC 5.1. 21A {Drum within. Enter, marching, Brutus, Cassius, and their army, amongst +
JC 5.1. 21A them Titinius, Lucillius, and Messala. Octavius' and Antony's army +
JC 5.1. 21A makes a stand}
JC-BRUTUS
They stand, and would have parley.
JC 5.1. 22
JC-CASSIUS
Stand fast, Titinius. We must out and talk. {Brutus' +
JC 5.1. 22 and Cassius' army makes a stand}
JC 5.1. 23
JC-OCTAVIUS
Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?
JC 5.1. 24
JC-ANTONY
No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.
JC 5.1. 25 Make forth, the generals would have some words.
JC 5.1. 26
JC-OCTAVIUS
{(to his army)} Stir not until the +
JC 5.1. 26 signal. {Antony and Octavius meet Brutus and Cassius}
JC 5.1. 27
JC-BRUTUS
Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?
JC 5.1. 28
JC-OCTAVIUS
Not that we love words better, as you do.
JC 5.1. 29
JC-BRUTUS
Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.
JC 5.1. 30
JC-ANTONY
In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words.
JC 5.1. 31 Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,
JC 5.1. 32B Crying `Long live, hail Caesar'.
JC-CASSIUS
Antony,
JC 5.1. 33 The posture of your blows are yet unknown;
JC 5.1. 34 But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
JC 5.1. 35 And leave them honeyless.
JC 5.1. 36A
JC-ANTONY
Not stingless too.
JC 5.1. 37A
JC-BRUTUS
O yes, and soundless too,
JC 5.1. 38 For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony,
JC 5.1. 39 And very wisely threat before you sting.
JC 5.1. 40
JC-ANTONY
Villains, you did not so when your vile daggers
JC 5.1. 41 Hacked one another in the sides of Caesar.
JC 5.1. 42 You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds,
JC 5.1. 43 And bowed like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet,
JC 5.1. 44 Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind,
JC 5.1. 45 Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!
JC 5.1. 46
JC-CASSIUS
Flatterers? Now, Brutus, thank yourself.
JC 5.1. 47 This tongue had not offended so today
JC 5.1. 48 If Cassius might have ruled.
JC 5.1. 49
JC-OCTAVIUS
Come, come, the cause. If arguing make us sweat,
JC 5.1. 50 The proof of it will turn to redder drops. {He draws}
JC 5.1. 51 Look, I draw a sword against conspirators.
JC 5.1. 52 When think you that the sword goes up again?
JC 5.1. 53 Never till Caesar's three and thirty wounds
JC 5.1. 54 Be well avenged, or till another Caesar
JC 5.1. 55 Have added slaughter to the swords of traitors.
JC 5.1. 56
JC-BRUTUS
Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands,
JC 5.1. 57B Unless thou bring'st them with thee.
JC-OCTAVIUS
So I hope.
JC 5.1. 58 I was not born to die on Brutus' sword.
JC 5.1. 59
JC-BRUTUS
O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,
JC 5.1. 60 Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable.
JC 5.1. 61
JC-CASSIUS
A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour,
JC 5.1. 62 Joined with a masquer and a reveller!
JC 5.1. 63B
JC-ANTONY
Old Cassius still.
JC-OCTAVIUS
Come, Antony, away.
JC 5.1. 64 Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth.
JC 5.1. 65 If you dare fight today, come to the field.
JC 5.1. 66 If not, when you have stomachs. {Exeunt Octavius, Antony, and +
JC 5.1. 66 their army}
JC 5.1. 67
JC-CASSIUS
Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark.
JC 5.1. 68 The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.
JC 5.1. 69B
JC-BRUTUS
Ho, Lucillius! Hark, a word with you.
JC-LUCILLIUS
My +
JC 5.1. 69B lord. {He stands forth, and speaks with Brutus}
JC 5.1. 70B
JC-CASSIUS
Messala.
JC-MESSALA
{(standing +
JC 5.1. 70B forth)} What says my general?
JC-CASSIUS
Messala,
JC 5.1. 71 This is my birthday; as this very day
JC 5.1. 72 Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala.
JC 5.1. 73 Be thou my witness that, against my will,
JC 5.1. 74 As Pompey was, am I compelled to set
JC 5.1. 75 Upon one battle all our liberties.
JC 5.1. 76 You know that I held Epicurus strong,
JC 5.1. 77 And his opinion. Now I change my mind,
JC 5.1. 78 And partly credit things that do presage.
JC 5.1. 79 Coming from Sardis, on our former ensigns
JC 5.1. 80 Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perched,
JC 5.1. 81 Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands,
JC 5.1. 82 Who to Philippi here consorted us.
JC 5.1. 83 This morning are they fled away and gone,
JC 5.1. 84 And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites
JC 5.1. 85 Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,
JC 5.1. 86 As we were sickly prey. Their shadows seem
JC 5.1. 87 A canopy most fatal, under which
JC 5.1. 88 Our army lies ready to give the ghost.
JC 5.1. 89B
JC-MESSALA
Believe not so.
JC-CASSIUS
I but believe it partly,
JC 5.1. 90 For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved
JC 5.1. 91 To meet all perils very constantly.
JC 5.1. 92B
JC-BRUTUS
Even so, Lucillius.
JC-CASSIUS
{(joining +
JC 5.1. 92B Brutus)} Now, most noble Brutus,
JC 5.1. 93 The gods today stand friendly, that we may,
JC 5.1. 94 Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age.
JC 5.1. 95 But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,
JC 5.1. 96 Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
JC 5.1. 97 If we do lose this battle, then is this
JC 5.1. 98 The very last time we shall speak together.
JC 5.1. 99 What are you then determined to do?
JC 5.1. 100
JC-BRUTUS
Even by the rule of that philosophy
JC 5.1. 101 By which I did blame Cato for the death
JC 5.1. 102 Which he did give himself - I know not how,
JC 5.1. 103 But I do find it cowardly and vile
JC 5.1. 104 For fear of what might fall so to prevent
JC 5.1. 105 The time of life - arming myself with patience
JC 5.1. 106 To stay the providence of some high powers
JC 5.1. 107B That govern us below.
JC-CASSIUS
Then if we lose this battle,
JC 5.1. 108 You are contented to be led in triumph
JC 5.1. 109 Thorough the streets of Rome?
JC 5.1. 110A
JC-BRUTUS
No, Cassius, no.
JC 5.1. 111A Think not, thou noble Roman,
JC 5.1. 112 That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome.
JC 5.1. 113 He bears too great a mind. But this same day
JC 5.1. 114 Must end that work the ides of March begun;
JC 5.1. 115 And whether we shall meet again I know not.
JC 5.1. 116 Therefore our everlasting farewell take.
JC 5.1. 117 For ever and for ever farewell, Cassius.
JC 5.1. 118 If we do meet again, why, we shall smile.
JC 5.1. 119 If not, why then, this parting was well made.
JC 5.1. 120
JC-CASSIUS
For ever and for ever farewell, Brutus.
JC 5.1. 121 If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed.
JC 5.1. 122 If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.
JC 5.1. 123
JC-BRUTUS
Why then, lead on. O that a man might know
JC 5.1. 124 The end of this day's business ere it come!
JC 5.1. 125 But it sufficeth that the day will end,
JC 5.1. 126 And then the end is known. - Come, ho, away! {Exeunt}
JC 5.1. 0 {Alarum. Enter Brutus and Messala}
JC 5.2. 1
JC-BRUTUS
Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills
JC 5.2. 2 Unto the legions on the other side. {Loud alarum}
JC 5.2. 3 Let them set on at once, for I perceive
JC 5.2. 4 But cold demeanour in Octavio's wing,
JC 5.2. 5 And sudden push gives them the overthrow.
JC 5.2. 6 Ride, ride, Messala; let them all come down. {Exeunt +
JC 5.2. 6 [severally]}
JC 5.2. 0 {Alarums. Enter Cassius [with an ensign], and Titinius}
JC 5.3. 1
JC-CASSIUS
O look, Titinius, look: the villains fly.
JC 5.3. 2 Myself have to mine own turned enemy:
JC 5.3. 3 This ensign here of mine was turning back;
JC 5.3. 4 I slew the coward, and did take it from him.
JC 5.3. 5
JC-TITINIUS
O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early,
JC 5.3. 6 Who, having some advantage on Octavius,
JC 5.3. 7 Took it too eagerly. His soldiers fell to spoil,
JC 5.3. 8 Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed. {Enter Pindarus}
JC 5.3. 9
JC-PINDARUS
Fly further off, my lord, fly further off!
JC 5.3. 10 Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord;
JC 5.3. 11 Fly therefore, noble Cassius, fly farre off.
JC 5.3. 12
JC-CASSIUS
This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius,
JC 5.3. 13 Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?
JC 5.3. 14B
JC-TITINIUS
They are, my lord.
JC-CASSIUS
Titinius, if thou lovest me,
JC 5.3. 15 Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him
JC 5.3. 16 Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops
JC 5.3. 17 And here again, that I may rest assured
JC 5.3. 18 Whether yon troops are friend or enemy.
JC 5.3. 19
JC-TITINIUS
I will be here again even with a thought. {Exit}
JC 5.3. 20
JC-CASSIUS
Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill.
JC 5.3. 21 My sight was ever thick. Regard, Titinius,
JC 5.3. 22 And tell me what thou not'st about the field. {Exit Pindarus}
JC 5.3. 23 This day I breathed first. Time is come round,
JC 5.3. 24 And where I did begin, there shall I end.
JC 5.3. 25B My life is run his compass. {Enter Pindarus above} +
JC 5.3. 25B Sirrah, what news?
JC 5.3. 26A
JC-PINDARUS
O my lord!
JC 5.3. 27A
JC-CASSIUS
What news?
JC 5.3. 28
JC-PINDARUS
Titinius is enclosed round about
JC 5.3. 29 With horsemen, that make to him on the spur.
JC 5.3. 30 Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.
JC 5.3. 31 Now Titinius. Now some light. O, he lights too.
JC 5.3. 32 He's ta'en. {Shout within}
JC 5.3. 33B And hark, they shout for joy.
JC-CASSIUS
Come down; behold no +
JC 5.3. 33B more. {Exit Pindarus}
JC 5.3. 34 O coward that I am, to live so long
JC 5.3. 35 To see my best friend ta'en before my face! {Enter Pindarus +
JC 5.3. 35 below}
JC 5.3. 36 Come hither, sirrah. In Parthia did I take thee prisoner,
JC 5.3. 37 And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,
JC 5.3. 38 That whatsoever I did bid thee do
JC 5.3. 39 Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath.
JC 5.3. 40 Now be a freeman, and, with this good sword
JC 5.3. 41 That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom.
JC 5.3. 42 Stand not to answer. Here, take thou the hilts, {Pindarus takes +
JC 5.3. 42 the sword}
JC 5.3. 43 And when my face is covered, as 'tis now,
JC 5.3. 44B Guide thou the sword. {Pindarus stabs him} Caesar, thou +
JC 5.3. 44B art revenged,
JC 5.3. 45 Even with the sword that killed thee. {He dies}
JC 5.3. 46
JC-PINDARUS
So, I am free, yet would not so have been
JC 5.3. 47 Durst I have done my will. O Cassius!
JC 5.3. 48 Far from this country Pindarus shall run,
JC 5.3. 49 Where never Roman shall take note of him. {Exit}
JC 5.3. 50 {Enter Titinius, wearing a wreath of victory, and +
JC 5.3. 50 Messala}
JC-MESSALA
It is but change, Titinius, for Octavius
JC 5.3. 51 Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,
JC 5.3. 52 As Cassius' legions are by Antony.
JC 5.3. 53
JC-TITINIUS
These tidings will well comfort Cassius.
JC 5.3. 54B
JC-MESSALA
Where did you leave him?
JC-TITINIUS
All disconsolate,
JC 5.3. 55 With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.
JC 5.3. 56
JC-MESSALA
Is not that he that lies upon the ground?
JC 5.3. 57
JC-TITINIUS
He lies not like the living. - O my heart!
JC 5.3. 58B
JC-MESSALA
Is not that he?
JC-TITINIUS
No, this was he, Messala;
JC 5.3. 59 But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,
JC 5.3. 60 As in thy red rays thou dost sink tonight,
JC 5.3. 61 So in his red blood Cassius' day is set.
JC 5.3. 62 The sun of Rome is set. Our day is gone.
JC 5.3. 63 Clouds, dews, and dangers come. Our deeds are done.
JC 5.3. 64 Mistrust of my success hath done this deed.
JC 5.3. 65
JC-MESSALA
Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
JC 5.3. 66 O hateful Error, Melancholy's child,
JC 5.3. 67 Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
JC 5.3. 68 The things that are not? O Error, soon conceived,
JC 5.3. 69 Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,
JC 5.3. 70 But kill'st the mother that engendered thee.
JC 5.3. 71
JC-TITINIUS
What, Pindarus! Where art thou, Pindarus?
JC 5.3. 72
JC-MESSALA
Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet
JC 5.3. 73 The noble Brutus, thrusting this report
JC 5.3. 74 Into his ears. I may say `thrusting' it,
JC 5.3. 75 For piercing steel and darts envenomed
JC 5.3. 76 Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus
JC 5.3. 77B As tidings of this sight.
JC-TITINIUS
Hie you, Messala,
JC 5.3. 78 And I will seek for Pindarus the while. {Exit Messala}
JC 5.3. 79 Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?
JC 5.3. 80 Did I not meet thy friends, and did not they
JC 5.3. 81 Put on my brows this wreath of victory,
JC 5.3. 82 And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?
JC 5.3. 83 Alas, thou hast misconstrued everything.
JC 5.3. 84 But hold thee, take this garland on thy brow.
JC 5.3. 85 Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I
JC 5.3. 86 Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,
JC 5.3. 87 And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.
JC 5.3. 88 By your leave, gods, this is a Roman's part:
JC 5.3. 89 Come Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart. {He stabs +
JC 5.3. 89 himself, and dies}
JC 5.3. 90 {Alarum. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Strato, Volumnius, +
JC 5.3. 90 Lucillius, [Labio, and Flavio]}
JC-BRUTUS
Where, where, +
JC 5.3. 90 Messala, doth his body lie?
JC 5.3. 91
JC-MESSALA
Lo yonder, and Titinius mourning it.
JC 5.3. 92B
JC-BRUTUS
Titinius' face is upward.
JC-CATO
He is slain.
JC 5.3. 93
JC-BRUTUS
O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet.
JC 5.3. 94 Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
JC 5.3. 95B In our own proper entrails. {Low Alarums}
JC-CATO
+
JC 5.3. 95B Brave Titinius,
JC 5.3. 96 Look whe'er he have not crowned dead Cassius.
JC 5.3. 97
JC-BRUTUS
Are yet two Romans living such as these?
JC 5.3. 98 The last of all the Romans, fare thee well.
JC 5.3. 99 It is impossible that ever Rome
JC 5.3. 100 Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears
JC 5.3. 101 To this dead man than you shall see me pay. -
JC 5.3. 102 I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time. -
JC 5.3. 103 Come, therefore, and to Thasos send his body.
JC 5.3. 104 His funerals shall not be in our camp,
JC 5.3. 105 Lest it discomfort us. Lucillius, come;
JC 5.3. 106 And come, young Cato. Let us to the field.
JC 5.3. 107 Labio and Flavio, set our battles on.
JC 5.3. 108 'Tis three o'clock, and, Romans, yet ere night
JC 5.3. 109 We shall try fortune in a second fight. {Exeunt [with the +
JC 5.3. 109 bodies]}
JC 5.3. 0 {Alarum. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Lucillius, +
JC 5.4. 0 and Flavius}
JC 5.4. 1
JC-BRUTUS
Yet, countrymen, O yet hold up your heads. +
JC 5.4. 1 {[Exit with Messala and Flavius]}
JC 5.4. 2
JC-CATO
What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?
JC 5.4. 3 I will proclaim my name about the field.
JC 5.4. 4 I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
JC 5.4. 5 A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
JC 5.4. 6 I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! {Enter Soldiers, and fight}
JC 5.4. 7
JC-[LUCILLIUS]
And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I,
JC 5.4. 8 Brutus, my country's friend. Know me for Brutus. {Soldiers kill +
JC 5.4. 8 Cato}
JC 5.4. 9 O young and noble Cato, art thou down?
JC 5.4. 10 Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius,
JC 5.4. 11 And mayst be honoured, being Cato's son.
JC 5.4. 12B
JC-[FIRST] SOLDIER
Yield, or thou diest.
JC-LUCILLIUS
Only I yield to +
JC 5.4. 12B die.
JC 5.4. 13 There is so much, that thou wilt kill me straight:
JC 5.4. 14 Kill Brutus, and be honoured in his death.
JC 5.4. 15
JC-[FIRST] SOLDIER
We must not. - A noble prisoner.
JC 5.4. 16
JC-SECOND SOLDIER
Room, ho! Tell Antony Brutus is ta'en. {Enter +
JC 5.4. 16 Antony}
JC 5.4. 17
JC-FIRST SOLDIER
I'll tell the news. Here comes the +
JC 5.4. 17 general. -
JC 5.4. 18 {(To Antony)} Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my +
JC 5.4. 18 lord.
JC 5.4. 19A
JC-ANTONY
Where is he?
JC 5.4. 20
JC-LUCILLIUS
Safe, Antony, Brutus is safe enough.
JC 5.4. 21 I dare assure thee that no enemy
JC 5.4. 22 Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus.
JC 5.4. 23 The gods defend him from so great a shame.
JC 5.4. 24 When you do find him, or alive or dead,
JC 5.4. 25 He will be found like Brutus, like himself.
JC 5.4. 26
JC-ANTONY
{(to First Soldier)} This is not Brutus, +
JC 5.4. 26 friend, but, I assure you,
JC 5.4. 27 A prize no less in worth. Keep this man safe.
JC 5.4. 28 Give him all kindness. I had rather have
JC 5.4. 29B Such men my friends than enemies. {[To another Soldier]}+
JC 5.4. 29B Go on,
JC 5.4. 30 And see whe'er Brutus be alive or dead,
JC 5.4. 31 And bring us word unto Octavius' tent
JC 5.4. 32 How everything is chanced.
JC 5.4. 0 {Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius}
JC 5.5. 1
JC-BRUTUS
Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this +
JC 5.5. 1 rock. {[He sits. Strato rests and falls asleep]}
JC 5.5. 2
JC-CLITUS
Statillius showed the torchlight, but, my lord,
JC 5.5. 3 He came not back. He is or ta'en or slain.
JC 5.5. 4
JC-BRUTUS
Sit thee down, Clitus. Slaying is the word:
JC 5.5. 5 It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus. {He whispers}
JC 5.5. 6
JC-CLITUS
What I, my lord? No, not for all the world.
JC 5.5. 7B
JC-BRUTUS
Peace, then, no words.
JC-CLITUS
I'll rather kill +
JC 5.5. 7B myself. {He stands apart}
JC 5.5. 8B
JC-BRUTUS
Hark thee, Dardanius. {He +
JC 5.5. 8B whispers}
JC-DARDANIUS
Shall I do such a deed? {He +
JC 5.5. 8B joins Clitus}
JC 5.5. 9A
JC-CLITUS
O Dardanius!
JC 5.5. 10A
JC-DARDANIUS
O Clitus!
JC 5.5. 11
JC-CLITUS
What ill request did Brutus make to thee?
JC 5.5. 12
JC-DARDANIUS
To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.
JC 5.5. 13
JC-CLITUS
Now is that noble vessel full of grief,
JC 5.5. 14 That it runs over even at his eyes.
JC 5.5. 15
JC-BRUTUS
Come hither, good Volumnius. List a word.
JC 5.5. 16B
JC-VOLUMNIUS
What says my lord?
JC-BRUTUS
Why this, Volumnius.
JC 5.5. 17 The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me
JC 5.5. 18 Two several times by night - at Sardis once,
JC 5.5. 19 And this last night, here in Philippi fields.
JC 5.5. 20B I know my hour is come.
JC-VOLUMNIUS
Not so, my lord.
JC 5.5. 21
JC-BRUTUS
Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.
JC 5.5. 22 Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes.
JC 5.5. 23 Our enemies have beat us to the pit, {Low alarums}
JC 5.5. 24 It is more worthy to leap in ourselves
JC 5.5. 25 Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,
JC 5.5. 26 Thou know'st that we two went to school together.
JC 5.5. 27 Even for that, our love of old, I prithee,
JC 5.5. 28 Hold thou my sword hilts whilst I run on it.
JC 5.5. 29
JC-VOLUMNIUS
That's not an office for a friend, my lord. +
JC 5.5. 29 {Alarum still}
JC 5.5. 30
JC-CLITUS
Fly, fly, my lord! There is no tarrying here.
JC 5.5. 31
JC-BRUTUS
Farewell to you, and you, and you, Volumnius. -
JC 5.5. 32 Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep. {[Strato wakes]}
JC 5.5. 33 Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,
JC 5.5. 34 My heart doth joy that yet in all my life
JC 5.5. 35 I found no man but he was true to me.
JC 5.5. 36 I shall have glory by this losing day,
JC 5.5. 37 More than Octavius and Mark Antony
JC 5.5. 38 By this vile conquest shall attain unto.
JC 5.5. 39 So fare you well at once, for Brutus' tongue
JC 5.5. 40 Hath almost ended his life's history.
JC 5.5. 41 Night hangs upon mine eyes. My bones would rest,
JC 5.5. 42 That have but laboured to attain this hour. {Alarum. Cry within: +
JC 5.5. 42 `Fly, fly, fly!'}
JC 5.5. 43B
JC-CLITUS
Fly, my lord, fly!
JC-BRUTUS
Hence; I will +
JC 5.5. 43B follow. {Exeunt Clitus, Dardanius, and Volumnius}
JC 5.5. 44 I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord.
JC 5.5. 45 Thou art a fellow of a good respect.
JC 5.5. 46 Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it.
JC 5.5. 47 Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face
JC 5.5. 48 While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?
JC 5.5. 49
JC-STRATO
Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.
JC 5.5. 50B
JC-BRUTUS
Farewell, good Strato. {Strato holds the sword, while +
JC 5.5. 50B Brutus runs on it} Caesar, now be still.
JC 5.5. 51 I killed not thee with half so good a will. {He dies}
JC 5.5. 52A {Alarum. Retreat. Enter Antony, Octavius, Messala, Lucillius, +
JC 5.5. 52A and the army}
JC-OCTAVIUS
What man is that?
JC 5.5. 53
JC-MESSALA
My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?
JC 5.5. 54
JC-STRATO
Free from the bondage you are in, Messala.
JC 5.5. 55 The conquerors can but make a fire of him,
JC 5.5. 56 For Brutus only overcame himself,
JC 5.5. 57 And no man else hath honour by his death.
JC 5.5. 58
JC-LUCILLIUS
So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,
JC 5.5. 59 That thou hast proved Lucillius' saying true.
JC 5.5. 60
JC-OCTAVIUS
All that served Brutus, I will entertain them.
JC 5.5. 61 {(To Strato)} Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with +
JC 5.5. 61 me?
JC 5.5. 62
JC-STRATO
Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.
JC 5.5. 63B
JC-OCTAVIUS
Do so, good Messala.
JC-MESSALA
How died my master, +
JC 5.5. 63B Strato?
JC 5.5. 64
JC-STRATO
I held the sword, and he did run on it.
JC 5.5. 65
JC-MESSALA
Octavius, then take him to follow thee,
JC 5.5. 66 That did the latest service to my master.
JC 5.5. 67
JC-ANTONY
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
JC 5.5. 68 All the conspirators save only he
JC 5.5. 69 Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
JC 5.5. 70 He only in a general honest thought
JC 5.5. 71 And common good to all made one of them.
JC 5.5. 72 His life was gentle, and the elements
JC 5.5. 73 So mixed in him that nature might stand up
JC 5.5. 74 And say to all the world `This was a man'.
JC 5.5. 75
JC-OCTAVIUS
According to his virtue let us use him,
JC 5.5. 76 With all respect and rites of burial.
JC 5.5. 77 Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie,
JC 5.5. 78 Most like a soldier, ordered honourably.
JC 5.5. 79 So call the field to rest, and let's away
JC 5.5. 80 To part the glories of this happy day. {Exeunt [with Brutus' +
JC 5.5. 80 body]}
JC 5.5.
JC
0
JN . . 0 The Life and Death of King John
JN . . 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, and +
JN 1.1. 0 the Earls of Pembroke, Essex, and Salisbury; with them Cha^tillon of +
JN 1.1. 0 France}
JN 1.1. 1
JN-KING JOHN
Now say, Cha^tillon, what would France with us?
JN 1.1. 2
JN-CHA^TILLON
Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France,
JN 1.1. 3 In my behaviour, to the majesty -
JN 1.1. 4 The borrowed majesty - of England here.
JN 1.1. 5
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
A strange beginning: `borrowed majesty'?
JN 1.1. 6
JN-KING JOHN
Silence, good mother, hear the embassy.
JN 1.1. 7
JN-CHA^TILLON
Philip of France, in right and true behalf
JN 1.1. 8 Of thy deceased brother Geoffrey's son,
JN 1.1. 9 Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
JN 1.1. 10 To this fair island and the territories,
JN 1.1. 11 To Ireland, Poitou, Anjou, Touraine, Maine;
JN 1.1. 12 Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
JN 1.1. 13 Which sways usurpingly these several titles,
JN 1.1. 14 And put the same into young Arthur's hand,
JN 1.1. 15 Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.
JN 1.1. 16
JN-KING JOHN
What follows if we disallow of this?
JN 1.1. 17
JN-CHA^TILLON
The proud control of fierce and bloody war,
JN 1.1. 18 To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld -
JN 1.1. 19
JN-KING JOHN
Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,
JN 1.1. 20 Controlment for controlment: so answer France.
JN 1.1. 21
JN-CHA^TILLON
Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,
JN 1.1. 22 The farthest limit of my embassy.
JN 1.1. 23
JN-KING JOHN
Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace.
JN 1.1. 24 Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France,
JN 1.1. 25 For ere thou canst report, I will be there;
JN 1.1. 26 The thunder of my cannon shall be heard.
JN 1.1. 27 So hence. Be thou the trumpet of our wrath,
JN 1.1. 28 And sullen presage of your own decay. -
JN 1.1. 29 An honourable conduct let him have;
JN 1.1. 30 Pembroke, look to 't. - Farewell, Cha^tillon. {Exeunt Cha^tillon +
JN 1.1. 30 and Pembroke}
JN 1.1. 31
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
What now, my son? Have I not ever said
JN 1.1. 32 How that ambitious Constance would not cease
JN 1.1. 33 Till she had kindled France and all the world
JN 1.1. 34 Upon the right and party of her son?
JN 1.1. 35 This might have been prevented and made whole
JN 1.1. 36 With very easy arguments of love,
JN 1.1. 37 Which now the manage of two kingdoms must
JN 1.1. 38 With fearful-bloody issue arbitrate.
JN 1.1. 39
JN-KING JOHN
Our strong possession and our right for us.
JN 1.1. 40
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
{(aside to King John)} Your strong +
JN 1.1. 40 possession much more than your right,
JN 1.1. 41 Or else it must go wrong with you and me:
JN 1.1. 42 So much my conscience whispers in your ear,
JN 1.1. 43 Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear. {Enter a +
JN 1.1. 43 Sheriff, [who whispers to Essex]}
JN 1.1. 44
JN-ESSEX
My liege, here is the strangest controversy,
JN 1.1. 45 Come from the country to be judged by you,
JN 1.1. 46 That e'er I heard. Shall I produce the men?
JN 1.1. 47A
JN-KING JOHN
Let them approach. - {[Exit Sheriff]}
JN 1.1. 48 Our abbeys and our priories shall pay
JN 1.1. 49B This expeditious charge. {Enter Robert Falconbridge and Philip +
JN 1.1. 49B the Bastard [with the Sheriff]} What men are you?
JN 1.1. 50
JN-BASTARD
Your faithful subject I, a gentleman
JN 1.1. 51 Born in Northamptonshire, and eldest son,
JN 1.1. 52 As I suppose, to Robert Falconbridge,
JN 1.1. 53 A soldier, by the honour-giving hand
JN 1.1. 54 Of Coeur-de-lion knighted in the field.
JN 1.1. 55A
JN-KING JOHN
What art thou?
JN 1.1. 56
JN-FALCONBRIDGE
The son and heir to that same Falconbridge.
JN 1.1. 57
JN-KING JOHN
Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?
JN 1.1. 58 You came not of one mother then, it seems.
JN 1.1. 59
JN-BASTARD
Most certain of one mother, mighty King -
JN 1.1. 60 That is well known - and, as I think, one father.
JN 1.1. 61 But for the certain knowledge of that truth
JN 1.1. 62 I put you o'er to heaven, and to my mother.
JN 1.1. 63 Of that I doubt as all men's children may.
JN 1.1. 64
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Out on thee, rude man! Thou dost shame thy mother
JN 1.1. 65 And wound her honour with this diffidence.
JN 1.1. 66
JN-BASTARD
I, Madam? No, I have no reason for it.
JN 1.1. 67 That is my brother's plea and none of mine,
JN 1.1. 68 The which if he can prove, a pops me out
JN 1.1. 69 At least from fair five hundred pound a year.
JN 1.1. 70 Heaven guard my mother's honour, and my land!
JN 1.1. 71
JN-KING JOHN
A good blunt fellow. - Why, being younger born,
JN 1.1. 72 Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?
JN 1.1. 73
JN-BASTARD
I know not why, except to get the land;
JN 1.1. 74 But once he slandered me with bastardy.
JN 1.1. 75 But whe'er I be as true begot or no,
JN 1.1. 76 That still I lay upon my mother's head;
JN 1.1. 77 But that I am as well begot, my liege -
JN 1.1. 78 Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me -
JN 1.1. 79 Compare our faces and be judge yourself.
JN 1.1. 80 If old Sir Robert did beget us both
JN 1.1. 81 And were our father, and this son like him,
JN 1.1. 82 O old Sir Robert, father, on my knee
JN 1.1. 83 I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee.
JN 1.1. 84
JN-KING JOHN
Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!
JN 1.1. 85
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's face;
JN 1.1. 86 The accent of his tongue affecteth him.
JN 1.1. 87 Do you not read some tokens of my son
JN 1.1. 88 In the large composition of this man?
JN 1.1. 89
JN-KING JOHN
Mine eye hath well examined his parts,
JN 1.1. 90B And finds them perfect Richard. {(To Robert +
JN 1.1. 90B Falconbridge)} Sirrah, speak:
JN 1.1. 91 What doth move you to claim your brother's land?
JN 1.1. 92
JN-BASTARD
Because he hath a half-face like my father!
JN 1.1. 93 With half that face would he have all my land,
JN 1.1. 94 A half-faced groat five hundred pound a year.
JN 1.1. 95
JN-FALCONBRIDGE
My gracious liege, when that my father lived,
JN 1.1. 96 Your brother did employ my father much -
JN 1.1. 97
JN-BASTARD
Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land.
JN 1.1. 98 Your tale must be how he employed my mother.
JN 1.1. 99
JN-FALCONBRIDGE
And once dispatched him in an embassy
JN 1.1. 100 To Germany, there with the Emperor
JN 1.1. 101 To treat of high affairs touching that time.
JN 1.1. 102 Th' advantage of his absence took the King,
JN 1.1. 103 And in the meantime sojourned at my father's,
JN 1.1. 104 Where how he did prevail I shame to speak.
JN 1.1. 105 But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores
JN 1.1. 106 Between my father and my mother lay,
JN 1.1. 107 As I have heard my father speak himself,
JN 1.1. 108 When this same lusty gentleman was got.
JN 1.1. 109 Upon his deathbed he by will bequeathed
JN 1.1. 110 His lands to me, and took it on his death
JN 1.1. 111 That this my mother's son was none of his;
JN 1.1. 112 And if he were, he came into the world
JN 1.1. 113 Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.
JN 1.1. 114 Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,
JN 1.1. 115 My father's land, as was my father's will.
JN 1.1. 116
JN-KING JOHN
Sirrah, your brother is legitimate.
JN 1.1. 117 Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him,
JN 1.1. 118 And if she did play false, the fault was hers,
JN 1.1. 119 Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands
JN 1.1. 120 That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,
JN 1.1. 121 Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,
JN 1.1. 122 Had of your father claimed this son for his?
JN 1.1. 123 In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept
JN 1.1. 124 This calf, bred from his cow, from all the world;
JN 1.1. 125 In sooth he might. Then if he were my brother's,
JN 1.1. 126 My brother might not claim him, nor your father,
JN 1.1. 127 Being none of his, refuse him. This concludes:
JN 1.1. 128 My mother's son did get your father's heir;
JN 1.1. 129 Your father's heir must have your father's land.
JN 1.1. 130
JN-FALCONBRIDGE
Shall then my father's will be of no force
JN 1.1. 131 To dispossess that child which is not his?
JN 1.1. 132
JN-BASTARD
Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,
JN 1.1. 133 Than was his will to get me, as I think.
JN 1.1. 134
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Whether hadst thou rather be: a Falconbridge,
JN 1.1. 135 And like thy brother to enjoy thy land,
JN 1.1. 136 Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion,
JN 1.1. 137 Lord of thy presence, and no land beside?
JN 1.1. 138
JN-BASTARD
Madam, an if my brother had my shape,
JN 1.1. 139 And I had his, Sir Robert's his like him,
JN 1.1. 140 And if my legs were two such riding-rods,
JN 1.1. 141 My arms such eel-skins stuffed, my face so thin
JN 1.1. 142 That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose
JN 1.1. 143 Lest men should say `Look where three-farthings goes!',
JN 1.1. 144 And, to his shape, were heir to all this land,
JN 1.1. 145 Would I might never stir from off this place.
JN 1.1. 146 I would give it every foot to have this face;
JN 1.1. 147 It would not be Sir Nob in any case.
JN 1.1. 148
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
I like thee well. Wilt thou forsake thy fortune,
JN 1.1. 149 Bequeath thy land to him, and follow me?
JN 1.1. 150 I am a soldier and now bound to France.
JN 1.1. 151
JN-BASTARD
Brother, take you my land; I'll take my chance.
JN 1.1. 152 Your face hath got five hundred pound a year,
JN 1.1. 153 Yet sell your face for fivepence and 'tis dear. -
JN 1.1. 154 Madam, I'll follow you unto the death.
JN 1.1. 155
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Nay, I would have you go before me thither.
JN 1.1. 156
JN-BASTARD
Our country manners give our betters way.
JN 1.1. 157A
JN-KING JOHN
What is thy name?
JN 1.1. 158
JN-BASTARD
Philip, my liege, so is my name begun:
JN 1.1. 159 Philip, good old Sir Robert's wife's eldest son.
JN 1.1. 160
JN-KING JOHN
From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st.
JN 1.1. 161 Kneel thou down Philip, but arise more great: {He knights the +
JN 1.1. 161 Bastard}
JN 1.1. 162 Arise Sir Richard and Plantagenet.
JN 1.1. 163
JN-BASTARD
Brother by th' mother's side, give me your hand.
JN 1.1. 164 My father gave me honour, yours gave land.
JN 1.1. 165 Now blessed be the hour, by night or day,
JN 1.1. 166 When I was got, Sir Robert was away.
JN 1.1. 167
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
The very spirit of Plantagenet!
JN 1.1. 168 I am thy grandam, Richard; call me so.
JN 1.1. 169
JN-BASTARD
Madam, by chance, but not by truth; what though?
JN 1.1. 170 Something about, a little from the right,
JN 1.1. 171 In at the window, or else o'er the hatch;
JN 1.1. 172 Who dares not stir by day must walk by night,
JN 1.1. 173 And have is have, however men do catch.
JN 1.1. 174 Near or far off, well won is still well shot,
JN 1.1. 175 And I am I, howe'er I was begot.
JN 1.1. 176
JN-KING JOHN
Go, Falconbridge, now hast thou thy desire:
JN 1.1. 177 A landless knight makes thee a landed squire. -
JN 1.1. 178 Come, madam, and come, Richard; we must speed
JN 1.1. 179 For France; for France, for it is more than need.
JN 1.1. 180
JN-BASTARD
Brother, adieu. Good fortune come to thee,
JN 1.1. 181 For thou wast got i' th' way of honesty. {Exeunt all but the +
JN 1.1. 181 Bastard}
JN 1.1. 182 A foot of honour better than I was,
JN 1.1. 183 But many a many foot of land the worse.
JN 1.1. 184 Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.
JN 1.1. 185 `Good e'en, Sir Richard' - `God-a-mercy fellow';
JN 1.1. 186 And if his name be George I'll call him Peter,
JN 1.1. 187 For new-made honour doth forget men's names;
JN 1.1. 188 'Tis too respective and too sociable
JN 1.1. 189 For your conversion. Now your traveller,
JN 1.1. 190 He and his toothpick at my worship's mess;
JN 1.1. 191 And when my knightly stomach is sufficed,
JN 1.1. 192 Why then I suck my teeth and catechize
JN 1.1. 193 My picked man of countries. `My dear sir,'
JN 1.1. 194 Thus leaning on mine elbow I begin,
JN 1.1. 195 `I shall beseech you - '. That is Question now;
JN 1.1. 196 And then comes Answer like an Absey book.
JN 1.1. 197 `O sir,' says Answer, `at your best command,
JN 1.1. 198 At your employment, at your service, sir.'
JN 1.1. 199 `No sir,' says Question, `I, sweet sir, at yours.'
JN 1.1. 200 And so, ere Answer knows what Question would,
JN 1.1. 201 Saving in dialogue of compliment,
JN 1.1. 202 And talking of the Alps and Apennines,
JN 1.1. 203 The Pyrenean and the River Po,
JN 1.1. 204 It draws toward supper in conclusion so.
JN 1.1. 205 But this is worshipful society,
JN 1.1. 206 And fits the mounting spirit like myself;
JN 1.1. 207 For he is but a bastard to the time
JN 1.1. 208 That doth not smack of observation;
JN 1.1. 209 And so am I - whether I smack or no,
JN 1.1. 210 And not alone in habit and device,
JN 1.1. 211 Exterior form, outward accoutrement,
JN 1.1. 212 But from the inward motion - to deliver
JN 1.1. 213 Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth;
JN 1.1. 214 Which, though I will not practise to deceive,
JN 1.1. 215 Yet to avoid deceit I mean to learn;
JN 1.1. 216 For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising. {Enter Lady +
JN 1.1. 216 Falconbridge and James Gurney}
JN 1.1. 217 But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
JN 1.1. 218 What woman-post is this? Hath she no husband
JN 1.1. 219 That will take pains to blow a horn before her?
JN 1.1. 220 O me, 'tis my mother! How now, good lady?
JN 1.1. 221 What brings you here to court so hastily?
JN 1.1. 222
JN-LADY FALCONBRIDGE
Where is that slave thy brother? Where is he
JN 1.1. 223 That holds in chase mine honour up and down?
JN 1.1. 224
JN-BASTARD
My brother Robert, old Sir Robert's son?
JN 1.1. 225 Colbrand the Giant, that same mighty man?
JN 1.1. 226 Is it Sir Robert's son that you seek so?
JN 1.1. 227
JN-LADY FALCONBRIDGE
Sir Robert's son, ay, thou unreverent boy,
JN 1.1. 228 Sir Robert's son. Why scorn'st thou at Sir Robert?
JN 1.1. 229 He is Sir Robert's son, and so art thou.
JN 1.1. 230
JN-BASTARD
James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile?
JN 1.1. 231B
JN-GURNEY
Good leave, good Philip.
JN-BASTARD
Philip Sparrow, James!
JN 1.1. 232 There's toys abroad; anon I'll tell thee more. {Exit James +
JN 1.1. 232 Gurney}
JN 1.1. 233 Madam, I was not old Sir Robert's son.
JN 1.1. 234 Sir Robert might have eat his part in me
JN 1.1. 235 Upon Good Friday, and ne'er broke his fast.
JN 1.1. 236 Sir Robert could do well, marry to confess,
JN 1.1. 237 Could a get me! Sir Robert could not do it:
JN 1.1. 238 We know his handiwork. Therefore, good mother,
JN 1.1. 239 To whom am I beholden for these limbs?
JN 1.1. 240 Sir Robert never holp to make this leg.
JN 1.1. 241
JN-LADY FALCONBRIDGE
Hast thou conspired with thy brother too,
JN 1.1. 242 That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?
JN 1.1. 243 What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave?
JN 1.1. 244
JN-BASTARD
Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like!
JN 1.1. 245 What! I am dubbed; I have it on my shoulder.
JN 1.1. 246 But, mother, I am not Sir Robert's son.
JN 1.1. 247 I have disclaimed Sir Robert; and my land,
JN 1.1. 248 Legitimation, name, and all is gone.
JN 1.1. 249 Then, good my mother, let me know my father;
JN 1.1. 250 Some proper man, I hope; who was it, mother?
JN 1.1. 251
JN-LADY FALCONBRIDGE
Hast thou denied thyself a Falconbridge?
JN 1.1. 252
JN-BASTARD
As faithfully as I deny the devil.
JN 1.1. 253
JN-LADY FALCONBRIDGE
King Richard Coeur-de-lion was thy father.
JN 1.1. 254 By long and vehement suit I was seduced
JN 1.1. 255 To make room for him in my husband's bed.
JN 1.1. 256 Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge!
JN 1.1. 257 Thou art the issue of my dear offence,
JN 1.1. 258 Which was so strongly urged past my defence.
JN 1.1. 259
JN-BASTARD
Now by this light, were I to get again,
JN 1.1. 260 Madam, I would not wish a better father.
JN 1.1. 261 Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
JN 1.1. 262 And so doth yours; your fault was not your folly.
JN 1.1. 263 Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
JN 1.1. 264 Subjected tribute to commanding love,
JN 1.1. 265 Against whose fury and unmatched force
JN 1.1. 266 The aweless lion could not wage the fight,
JN 1.1. 267 Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.
JN 1.1. 268 He that perforce robs lions of their hearts
JN 1.1. 269 May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother,
JN 1.1. 270 With all my heart I thank thee for my father.
JN 1.1. 271 Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well
JN 1.1. 272 When I was got, I'll send his soul to hell.
JN 1.1. 273 Come, lady, I will show thee to my kin,
JN 1.1. 274 And they shall say, when Richard me begot,
JN 1.1. 275 If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin.
JN 1.1. 276 Who says it was, he lies: I say 'twas not. {Exeunt}
JN 1.1. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter before Angers [at one door] +
JN 2.1. 0 Philip King of France, Louis the Dauphin, Lady Constance, and Arthur +
JN 2.1. 0 Duke of Brittaine, with soldiers; [at another door] the Duke of +
JN 2.1. 0 Austria, wearing a lion's hide, with soldiers}
JN 2.1. 1
JN-[KING PHILIP]
Before Angers well met, brave Austria. -
JN 2.1. 2 Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood,
JN 2.1. 3 Richard that robbed the lion of his heart
JN 2.1. 4 And fought the holy wars in Palestine,
JN 2.1. 5 By this brave duke came early to his grave;
JN 2.1. 6 And, for amends to his posterity,
JN 2.1. 7 At our importance hither is he come
JN 2.1. 8 To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf,
JN 2.1. 9 And to rebuke the usurpation
JN 2.1. 10 Of thy unnatural uncle, English John.
JN 2.1. 11 Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither.
JN 2.1. 12
JN-ARTHUR
{(to Austria)} God shall forgive you +
JN 2.1. 12 Coeur-de-lion's death,
JN 2.1. 13 The rather that you give his offspring life,
JN 2.1. 14 Shadowing their right under your wings of war.
JN 2.1. 15 I give you welcome with a powerless hand,
JN 2.1. 16 But with a heart full of unstained love.
JN 2.1. 17 Welcome before the gates of Angers, Duke.
JN 2.1. 18
JN-[KING PHILIP]
A noble boy. Who would not do thee right?
JN 2.1. 19
JN-AUSTRIA
{(kissing Arthur)} Upon thy cheek lay I +
JN 2.1. 19 this zealous kiss
JN 2.1. 20 As seal to this indenture of my love:
JN 2.1. 21 That to my home I will no more return
JN 2.1. 22 Till Angers and the right thou hast in France,
JN 2.1. 23 Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,
JN 2.1. 24 Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
JN 2.1. 25 And coops from other lands her islanders,
JN 2.1. 26 Even till that England, hedged in with the main,
JN 2.1. 27 That water-walled bulwark, still secure
JN 2.1. 28 And confident from foreign purposes,
JN 2.1. 29 Even till that utmost corner of the west
JN 2.1. 30 Salute thee for her king. Till then, fair boy,
JN 2.1. 31 Will I not think of home, but follow arms.
JN 2.1. 32
JN-CONSTANCE
O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,
JN 2.1. 33 Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
JN 2.1. 34 To make a more requital to your love.
JN 2.1. 35
JN-AUSTRIA
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords
JN 2.1. 36 In such a just and charitable war.
JN 2.1. 37
JN-KING PHILIP
Well then, to work! Our cannon shall be bent
JN 2.1. 38 Against the brows of this resisting town.
JN 2.1. 39 Call for our chiefest men of discipline
JN 2.1. 40 To cull the plots of best advantages.
JN 2.1. 41 We'll lay before this town our royal bones,
JN 2.1. 42 Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's blood,
JN 2.1. 43 But we will make it subject to this boy.
JN 2.1. 44
JN-CONSTANCE
Stay for an answer to your embassy,
JN 2.1. 45 Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood.
JN 2.1. 46 My lord Cha^tillon may from England bring
JN 2.1. 47 That right in peace which here we urge in war,
JN 2.1. 48 And then we shall repent each drop of blood
JN 2.1. 49 That hot rash haste so indirectly shed. {Enter Cha^tillon}
JN 2.1. 50
JN-KING PHILIP
A wonder, lady: lo upon thy wish
JN 2.1. 51 Our messenger Cha^tillon is arrived. -
JN 2.1. 52 What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;
JN 2.1. 53 We coldly pause for thee. Cha^tillon, speak.
JN 2.1. 54
JN-CHA^TILLON
Then turn your forces from this paltry siege,
JN 2.1. 55 And stir them up against a mightier task.
JN 2.1. 56 England, impatient of your just demands,
JN 2.1. 57 Hath put himself in arms. The adverse winds,
JN 2.1. 58 Whose leisure I have stayed, have given him time
JN 2.1. 59 To land his legions all as soon as I.
JN 2.1. 60 His marches are expedient to this town,
JN 2.1. 61 His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
JN 2.1. 62 With him along is come the Mother-Queen,
JN 2.1. 63 An Ate stirring him to blood and strife;
JN 2.1. 64 With her her niece, the Lady Blanche of Spain;
JN 2.1. 65 With them a bastard of the King's deceased;
JN 2.1. 66 And all th' unsettled humours of the land -
JN 2.1. 67 Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
JN 2.1. 68 With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens -
JN 2.1. 69 Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
JN 2.1. 70 Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
JN 2.1. 71 To make a hazard of new fortunes here.
JN 2.1. 72 In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits
JN 2.1. 73 Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er
JN 2.1. 74 Did never float upon the swelling tide
JN 2.1. 75 To do offence and scathe in Christendom. {Drum beats}
JN 2.1. 76 The interruption of their churlish drums
JN 2.1. 77 Cuts off more circumstance. They are at hand;
JN 2.1. 78 To parley or to fight therefore prepare.
JN 2.1. 79
JN-KING PHILIP
How much unlooked-for is this expedition!
JN 2.1. 80
JN-AUSTRIA
By how much unexpected, by so much
JN 2.1. 81 We must awake endeavour for defence,
JN 2.1. 82 For courage mounteth with occasion.
JN 2.1. 83 Let them be welcome then: we are prepared. {Enter, [marching,] +
JN 2.1. 83 King John of England, the Bastard, Queen Eleanor, Lady Blanche, the +
JN 2.1. 83 Earl of Pembroke, and soldiers}
JN 2.1. 84
JN-KING JOHN
Peace be to France, if France in peace permit
JN 2.1. 85 Our just and lineal entrance to our own.
JN 2.1. 86 If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven,
JN 2.1. 87 Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct
JN 2.1. 88 Their proud contempt that beats his peace to heaven.
JN 2.1. 89
JN-KING PHILIP
Peace be to England, if that war return
JN 2.1. 90 From France to England, there to live in peace.
JN 2.1. 91 England we love, and for that England's sake
JN 2.1. 92 With burden of our armour here we sweat.
JN 2.1. 93 This toil of ours should be a work of thine;
JN 2.1. 94 But thou from loving England art so far
JN 2.1. 95 That thou hast underwrought his lawful king,
JN 2.1. 96 Cut off the sequence of posterity,
JN 2.1. 97 Outfaced infant state, and done a rape
JN 2.1. 98 Upon the maiden virtue of the crown.
JN 2.1. 99 {(Pointing to Arthur)} Look here upon thy brother +
JN 2.1. 99 Geoffrey's face.
JN 2.1. 100 These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his;
JN 2.1. 101 This little abstract doth contain that large
JN 2.1. 102 Which died in Geoffrey; and the hand of time
JN 2.1. 103 Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume.
JN 2.1. 104 That Geoffrey was thy elder brother born,
JN 2.1. 105 And this his son; England was Geoffrey's right,
JN 2.1. 106 And this is Geoffrey's. In the name of God,
JN 2.1. 107 How comes it then that thou art called a king,
JN 2.1. 108 When living blood doth in these temples beat,
JN 2.1. 109 Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest?
JN 2.1. 110
JN-KING JOHN
From whom hast thou this great commission, France,
JN 2.1. 111 To draw my answer from thy articles?
JN 2.1. 112
JN-KING PHILIP
From that supernal judge that stirs good thoughts
JN 2.1. 113 In any breast of strong authority
JN 2.1. 114 To look into the blots and stains of right.
JN 2.1. 115 That judge hath made me guardian to this boy,
JN 2.1. 116 Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong,
JN 2.1. 117 And by whose help I mean to chastise it.
JN 2.1. 118
JN-KING JOHN
Alack, thou dost usurp authority.
JN 2.1. 119
JN-KING PHILIP
Excuse it is to beat usurping down.
JN 2.1. 120
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Who is it thou dost call usurper, France?
JN 2.1. 121
JN-CONSTANCE
Let me make answer: thy usurping son.
JN 2.1. 122
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Out, insolent! Thy bastard shall be king
JN 2.1. 123 That thou mayst be a queen and check the world.
JN 2.1. 124
JN-CONSTANCE
My bed was ever to thy son as true
JN 2.1. 125 As thine was to thy husband; and this boy
JN 2.1. 126 Liker in feature to his father Geoffrey
JN 2.1. 127 Than thou and John in manners, being as like
JN 2.1. 128 As rain to water, or devil to his dam.
JN 2.1. 129 My boy a bastard? By my soul I think
JN 2.1. 130 His father never was so true begot.
JN 2.1. 131 It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother.
JN 2.1. 132
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
{(to Arthur)} There's a good mother, +
JN 2.1. 132 boy, that blots thy father.
JN 2.1. 133
JN-CONSTANCE
{(to Arthur)} There's a good grandam, +
JN 2.1. 133 boy, that would blot thee.
JN 2.1. 134B
JN-AUSTRIA
Peace!
JN-BASTARD
Hear the crier!
JN-AUSTRIA
What the devil +
JN 2.1. 134B art thou?
JN 2.1. 135
JN-BASTARD
One that will play the devil, sir, with you,
JN 2.1. 136 An a may catch your hide and you alone.
JN 2.1. 137 You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,
JN 2.1. 138 Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard.
JN 2.1. 139 I'll smoke your skin-coat an I catch you right -
JN 2.1. 140 Sirrah, look to 't - i' faith I will, i' faith!
JN 2.1. 141
JN-BLANCHE
O, well did he become that lion's robe
JN 2.1. 142 That did disrobe the lion of that robe!
JN 2.1. 143
JN-BASTARD
It lies as sightly on the back of him
JN 2.1. 144 As great Alcides' shows upon an ass.
JN 2.1. 145 But, ass, I'll take that burden from your back,
JN 2.1. 146 Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.
JN 2.1. 147
JN-AUSTRIA
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
JN 2.1. 148 With this abundance of superfluous breath? -
JN 2.1. 149 King Philip, determine what we shall do straight.
JN 2.1. 150
JN-[KING PHILIP]
Women and fools, break off your conference. -
JN 2.1. 151 King John, this is the very sum of all:
JN 2.1. 152 England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
JN 2.1. 153 In right of Arthur do I claim of thee.
JN 2.1. 154 Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?
JN 2.1. 155
JN-KING JOHN
My life as soon. I do defy thee, France. -
JN 2.1. 156 Arthur of Brittaine, yield thee to my hand,
JN 2.1. 157 And out of my dear love I'll give thee more
JN 2.1. 158 Than e'er the coward hand of France can win.
JN 2.1. 159B Submit thee, boy.
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
{(to Arthur)} Come +
JN 2.1. 159B to thy grandam, child.
JN 2.1. 160
JN-CONSTANCE
{(to Arthur)} Do, child, go to it +
JN 2.1. 160 grandam, child.
JN 2.1. 161 Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will
JN 2.1. 162 Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig.
JN 2.1. 163B There's a good grandam.
JN-ARTHUR
Good my mother, peace.
JN 2.1. 164 I would that I were low laid in my grave.
JN 2.1. 165 I am not worth this coil that's made for me. {He weeps}
JN 2.1. 166
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
His mother shames him so, poor boy, he +
JN 2.1. 166 weeps.
JN 2.1. 167
JN-CONSTANCE
Now shame upon you, whe'er she does or no!
JN 2.1. 168 His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,
JN 2.1. 169 Draw those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,
JN 2.1. 170 Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee;
JN 2.1. 171 Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed
JN 2.1. 172 To do him justice and revenge on you.
JN 2.1. 173
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth!
JN 2.1. 174
JN-CONSTANCE
Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth!
JN 2.1. 175 Call not me slanderer. Thou and thine usurp
JN 2.1. 176 The dominations, royalties and rights
JN 2.1. 177 Of this oppressed boy. This is thy eld'st son's son,
JN 2.1. 178 Infortunate in nothing but in thee.
JN 2.1. 179 Thy sins are visited in this poor child;
JN 2.1. 180 The canon of the law is laid on him,
JN 2.1. 181 Being but the second generation
JN 2.1. 182 Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.
JN 2.1. 183B
JN-KING JOHN
Bedlam, have done.
JN-CONSTANCE
I have but this to say:
JN 2.1. 184 That he is not only plagued for her sin,
JN 2.1. 185 But God hath made her sin and her the plague
JN 2.1. 186 On this removed issue, plagued for her
JN 2.1. 187 And with her plague; her sin his injury,
JN 2.1. 188 Her injury the beadle to her sin;
JN 2.1. 189 All punished in the person of this child,
JN 2.1. 190 And all for her. A plague upon her!
JN 2.1. 191
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Thou unadvised scold, I can produce
JN 2.1. 192 A will that bars the title of thy son.
JN 2.1. 193
JN-CONSTANCE
Ay, who doubts that? A will, a wicked will,
JN 2.1. 194 A woman's will, a cankered grandam's will!
JN 2.1. 195
JN-KING PHILIP
Peace, lady; pause or be more temperate.
JN 2.1. 196 It ill beseems this presence to cry aim
JN 2.1. 197 To these ill-tuned repetitions. -
JN 2.1. 198 Some trumpet summon hither to the walls
JN 2.1. 199 These men of Angers. Let us hear them speak
JN 2.1. 200 Whose title they admit, Arthur's or John's. {Trumpet sounds. +
JN 2.1. 200 Enter a Citizen upon the walls}
JN 2.1. 201
JN-CITIZEN
Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?
JN 2.1. 202B
JN-KING PHILIP
'Tis France for England.
JN-KING JOHN
England for +
JN 2.1. 202B itself.
JN 2.1. 203 You men of Angers and my loving subjects -
JN 2.1. 204
JN-KING PHILIP
You loving men of Angers, Arthur's subjects,
JN 2.1. 205 Our trumpet called you to this gentle parle -
JN 2.1. 206
JN-KING JOHN
For our advantage; therefore hear us first.
JN 2.1. 207 These flags of France that are advanced here
JN 2.1. 208 Before the eye and prospect of your town,
JN 2.1. 209 Have hither marched to your endamagement.
JN 2.1. 210 The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,
JN 2.1. 211 And ready mounted are they to spit forth
JN 2.1. 212 Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls.
JN 2.1. 213 All preparation for a bloody siege
JN 2.1. 214 And merciless proceeding by these French
JN 2.1. 215 Confront your city's eyes, your winking gates;
JN 2.1. 216 And but for our approach, those sleeping stones
JN 2.1. 217 That as a waist doth girdle you about,
JN 2.1. 218 By the compulsion of their ordinance,
JN 2.1. 219 By this time from their fixed beds of lime
JN 2.1. 220 Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made
JN 2.1. 221 For bloody power to rush upon your peace.
JN 2.1. 222 But on the sight of us your lawful king,
JN 2.1. 223 Who painfully, with much expedient march,
JN 2.1. 224 Have brought a countercheck before your gates
JN 2.1. 225 To save unscratched your city's threatened cheeks,
JN 2.1. 226 Behold the French, amazed, vouchsafe a parle;
JN 2.1. 227 And now instead of bullets wrapped in fire
JN 2.1. 228 To make a shaking fever in your walls,
JN 2.1. 229 They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke
JN 2.1. 230 To make a faithless error in your ears;
JN 2.1. 231 Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,
JN 2.1. 232 And let us in, your king, whose laboured spirits,
JN 2.1. 233 Forwearied in this action of swift speed,
JN 2.1. 234 Craves harbourage within your city walls.
JN 2.1. 235
JN-KING PHILIP
When I have said, make answer to us both. {He +
JN 2.1. 235 takes Arthur's hand}
JN 2.1. 236 Lo, in this right hand, whose protection
JN 2.1. 237 Is most divinely vowed upon the right
JN 2.1. 238 Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,
JN 2.1. 239 Son to the elder brother of this man
JN 2.1. 240 And king o'er him and all that he enjoys.
JN 2.1. 241 For this downtrodden equity we tread
JN 2.1. 242 In warlike march these greens before your town,
JN 2.1. 243 Being no further enemy to you
JN 2.1. 244 Than the constraint of hospitable zeal
JN 2.1. 245 In the relief of this oppressed child
JN 2.1. 246 Religiously provokes. Be pleased then
JN 2.1. 247 To pay that duty which you truly owe
JN 2.1. 248 To him that owes it, namely this young prince;
JN 2.1. 249 And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear,
JN 2.1. 250 Save in aspect, hath all offence sealed up:
JN 2.1. 251 Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent
JN 2.1. 252 Against th' invulnerable clouds of heaven,
JN 2.1. 253 And with a blessed and unvexed retire,
JN 2.1. 254 With unhacked swords and helmets all unbruised,
JN 2.1. 255 We will bear home that lusty blood again
JN 2.1. 256 Which here we came to spout against your town,
JN 2.1. 257 And leave your children, wives, and you in peace.
JN 2.1. 258 But if you fondly pass our proffered offer,
JN 2.1. 259 'Tis not the roundure of your old-faced walls
JN 2.1. 260 Can hide you from our messengers of war,
JN 2.1. 261 Though all these English and their discipline
JN 2.1. 262 Were harboured in their rude circumference.
JN 2.1. 263 Then tell us, shall your city call us lord
JN 2.1. 264 In that behalf which we have challenged it,
JN 2.1. 265 Or shall we give the signal to our rage,
JN 2.1. 266 And stalk in blood to our possession?
JN 2.1. 267
JN-CITIZEN
In brief, we are the King of England's subjects.
JN 2.1. 268 For him and in his right we hold this town.
JN 2.1. 269
JN-KING JOHN
Acknowledge then the King, and let me in.
JN 2.1. 270
JN-CITIZEN
That can we not; but he that proves the king,
JN 2.1. 271 To him will we prove loyal; till that time
JN 2.1. 272 Have we rammed up our gates against the world.
JN 2.1. 273
JN-KING JOHN
Doth not the crown of England prove the king?
JN 2.1. 274 And if not that, I bring you witnesses:
JN 2.1. 275 Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed -
JN 2.1. 276A
JN-BASTARD
{(aside)} Bastards and else.
JN 2.1. 277
JN-KING JOHN
To verify our title with their lives.
JN 2.1. 278
JN-KING PHILIP
As many and as well-born bloods as those -
JN 2.1. 279A
JN-BASTARD
{(aside)} Some bastards too.
JN 2.1. 280
JN-KING PHILIP
Stand in his face to contradict his claim.
JN 2.1. 281
JN-CITIZEN
Till you compound whose right is worthiest,
JN 2.1. 282 We for the worthiest hold the right from both.
JN 2.1. 283
JN-KING JOHN
Then God forgive the sin of all those souls
JN 2.1. 284 That to their everlasting residence,
JN 2.1. 285 Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet
JN 2.1. 286 In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king.
JN 2.1. 287
JN-KING PHILIP
Amen, Amen! Mount, chevaliers! To arms!
JN 2.1. 288
JN-BASTARD
Saint George that swinged the dragon, and e'er since
JN 2.1. 289 Sits on 's horseback at mine hostess' door,
JN 2.1. 290 Teach us some fence! {(To Austria)} Sirrah, were I at +
JN 2.1. 290 home
JN 2.1. 291 At your den, sirrah, with your lioness,
JN 2.1. 292 I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide
JN 2.1. 293B And make a monster of you.
JN-AUSTRIA
Peace, no more.
JN 2.1. 294
JN-BASTARD
O tremble, for you hear the lion roar!
JN 2.1. 295
JN-KING JOHN
Up higher to the plain, where we'll set forth
JN 2.1. 296 In best appointment all our regiments.
JN 2.1. 297
JN-BASTARD
Speed then, to take advantage of the field.
JN 2.1. 298
JN-KING PHILIP
It shall be so, and at the other hill
JN 2.1. 299 Command the rest to stand. God and our right! {Exeunt +
JN 2.1. 299 [severally] King John and King Philip with their powers. The Citizen +
JN 2.1. 299 remains}
JN 2.1. 300 {on the walls} {[Alarum.] Here, after excursions, enter [at one +
JN 2.1. 300 door] the French Herald, with [a trumpeter], to the gates} +
JN 2.1. 300
JN-FRENCH HERALD
You men of Angers, open wide your gates
JN 2.1. 301 And let young Arthur Duke of Brittaine in,
JN 2.1. 302 Who by the hand of France this day hath made
JN 2.1. 303 Much work for tears in many an English mother,
JN 2.1. 304 Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground;
JN 2.1. 305 Many a widow's husband grovelling lies,
JN 2.1. 306 Coldly embracing the discoloured earth;
JN 2.1. 307 And victory with little loss doth play
JN 2.1. 308 Upon the dancing banners of the French,
JN 2.1. 309 Who are at hand, triumphantly displayed,
JN 2.1. 310 To enter conquerors, and to proclaim
JN 2.1. 311 Arthur of Brittaine England's king and yours. {Enter [at another +
JN 2.1. 311 door] the English Herald, with a trumpeter}
JN 2.1. 312
JN-ENGLISH HERALD
Rejoice, you men of Angers, ring your +
JN 2.1. 312 bells!
JN 2.1. 313 King John, your king and England's, doth approach,
JN 2.1. 314 Commander of this hot malicious day.
JN 2.1. 315 Their armours that marched hence so silver-bright
JN 2.1. 316 Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood.
JN 2.1. 317 There stuck no plume in any English crest
JN 2.1. 318 That is removed by a staff of France;
JN 2.1. 319 Our colours do return in those same hands
JN 2.1. 320 That did display them when we first marched forth;
JN 2.1. 321 And like a jolly troop of huntsmen come
JN 2.1. 322 Our lusty English, all with purpled hands
JN 2.1. 323 Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes.
JN 2.1. 324 Open your gates and give the victors way.
JN 2.1. 325
JN-[CITIZEN]
Heralds, from off our towers we might behold
JN 2.1. 326 From first to last the onset and retire
JN 2.1. 327 Of both your armies, whose equality
JN 2.1. 328 By our best eyes cannot be censured.
JN 2.1. 329 Blood hath bought blood and blows have answered blows,
JN 2.1. 330 Strength matched with strength and power confronted power.
JN 2.1. 331 Both are alike, and both alike we like.
JN 2.1. 332 One must prove greatest. While they weigh so even,
JN 2.1. 333 We hold our town for neither, yet for both. {Enter at one door +
JN 2.1. 333 King John, the Bastard, Queen Eleanor and Lady Blanche, with soldiers; +
JN 2.1. 333 at another door King Philip, Louis the Dauphin, and the Duke of Austria +
JN 2.1. 333 with soldiers}
JN 2.1. 334
JN-KING JOHN
France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away?
JN 2.1. 335 Say, shall the current of our right run on,
JN 2.1. 336 Whose passage, vexed with thy impediment,
JN 2.1. 337 Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell
JN 2.1. 338 With course disturbed even thy confining shores,
JN 2.1. 339 Unless thou let his silver water keep
JN 2.1. 340 A peaceful progress to the ocean?
JN 2.1. 341
JN-KING PHILIP
England, thou hast not saved one drop of blood
JN 2.1. 342 In this hot trial more than we of France;
JN 2.1. 343 Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear,
JN 2.1. 344 That sways the earth this climate overlooks,
JN 2.1. 345 Before we will lay down our just-borne arms,
JN 2.1. 346 We'll put thee down 'gainst whom these arms we bear,
JN 2.1. 347 Or add a royal number to the dead,
JN 2.1. 348 Gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss
JN 2.1. 349 With slaughter coupled to the name of kings.
JN 2.1. 350
JN-BASTARD
Ha, majesty! How high thy glory towers
JN 2.1. 351 When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!
JN 2.1. 352 O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;
JN 2.1. 353 The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs;
JN 2.1. 354 And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men
JN 2.1. 355 In undetermined differences of kings.
JN 2.1. 356 Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?
JN 2.1. 357 Cry havoc, Kings! Back to the stained field,
JN 2.1. 358 You equal potents, fiery-kindled spirits!
JN 2.1. 359 Then let confusion of one part confirm
JN 2.1. 360 The other's peace; till then, blows, blood, and death!
JN 2.1. 361
JN-KING JOHN
Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?
JN 2.1. 362
JN-KING PHILIP
Speak, citizens, for England: who's your king?
JN 2.1. 363
JN-[CITIZEN]
The King of England, when we know the King.
JN 2.1. 364
JN-KING PHILIP
Know him in us, that here hold up his right.
JN 2.1. 365
JN-KING JOHN
In us, that are our own great deputy
JN 2.1. 366 And bear possession of our person here,
JN 2.1. 367 Lord of our presence, Angers, and of you.
JN 2.1. 368
JN-[CITIZEN]
A greater power than we denies all this,
JN 2.1. 369 And, till it be undoubted, we do lock
JN 2.1. 370 Our former scruple in our strong-barred gates,
JN 2.1. 371 Kinged of our fear, until our fears resolved
JN 2.1. 372 Be by some certain king, purged and deposed.
JN 2.1. 373
JN-BASTARD
By heaven, these scroyles of Angers flout you, Kings,
JN 2.1. 374 And stand securely on their battlements
JN 2.1. 375 As in a theatre, whence they gape and point
JN 2.1. 376 At your industrious scenes and acts of death.
JN 2.1. 377 Your royal presences be ruled by me.
JN 2.1. 378 Do like the mutines of Jerusalem:
JN 2.1. 379 Be friends awhile, and both conjointly bend
JN 2.1. 380 Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town.
JN 2.1. 381 By east and west let France and England mount
JN 2.1. 382 Their battering cannon, charged to the mouths,
JN 2.1. 383 Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawled down
JN 2.1. 384 The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city.
JN 2.1. 385 I'd play incessantly upon these jades,
JN 2.1. 386 Even till unfenced desolation
JN 2.1. 387 Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.
JN 2.1. 388 That done, dissever your united strengths,
JN 2.1. 389 And part your mingled colours once again;
JN 2.1. 390 Turn face to face, and bloody point to point.
JN 2.1. 391 Then in a moment Fortune shall cull forth
JN 2.1. 392 Out of one side her happy minion,
JN 2.1. 393 To whom in favour she shall give the day,
JN 2.1. 394 And kiss him with a glorious victory.
JN 2.1. 395 How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?
JN 2.1. 396 Smacks it not something of the policy?
JN 2.1. 397
JN-KING JOHN
Now, by the sky that hangs above our heads,
JN 2.1. 398 I like it well. - France, shall we knit our powers,
JN 2.1. 399 And lay this Angers even with the ground,
JN 2.1. 400 Then after fight who shall be king of it?
JN 2.1. 401
JN-BASTARD
{(to King Philip)} An if thou hast the +
JN 2.1. 401 mettle of a king,
JN 2.1. 402 Being wronged as we are by this peevish town,
JN 2.1. 403 Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,
JN 2.1. 404 As we will ours, against these saucy walls;
JN 2.1. 405 And when that we have dashed them to the ground,
JN 2.1. 406 Why, then defy each other, and pell-mell
JN 2.1. 407 Make work upon ourselves, for heaven or hell.
JN 2.1. 408
JN-KING PHILIP
Let it be so. - Say, where will you assault?
JN 2.1. 409
JN-KING JOHN
We from the west will send destruction
JN 2.1. 410 Into this city's bosom.
JN 2.1. 411A
JN-AUSTRIA
I from the north.
JN 2.1. 412A
JN-KING PHILIP
Our thunder from the south
JN 2.1. 413 Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town.
JN 2.1. 414
JN-BASTARD
{[to King John]} O prudent discipline! +
JN 2.1. 414 From north to south
JN 2.1. 415 Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth.
JN 2.1. 416 I'll stir them to it. Come, away, away!
JN 2.1. 417
JN-[CITIZEN]
Hear us, great Kings, vouchsafe a while to stay,
JN 2.1. 418 And I shall show you peace and fair-faced league.
JN 2.1. 419 Win you this city without stroke or wound;
JN 2.1. 420 Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds,
JN 2.1. 421 That here come sacrifices for the field.
JN 2.1. 422 Persever not, but hear me, mighty Kings.
JN 2.1. 423
JN-KING JOHN
Speak on with favour; we are bent to hear.
JN 2.1. 424
JN-[CITIZEN]
That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanche,
JN 2.1. 425 Is niece to England. Look upon the years
JN 2.1. 426 Of Louis the Dauphin and that lovely maid.
JN 2.1. 427 If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,
JN 2.1. 428 Where should he find it fairer than in Blanche?
JN 2.1. 429 If zealous love should go in search of virtue,
JN 2.1. 430 Where should he find it purer than in Blanche?
JN 2.1. 431 If love ambitious sought a match of birth,
JN 2.1. 432 Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanche?
JN 2.1. 433 Such as she is in beauty, virtue, birth,
JN 2.1. 434 Is the young Dauphin every way complete;
JN 2.1. 435 If not complete, O, say he is not she;
JN 2.1. 436 And she again wants nothing - to name want -
JN 2.1. 437 If want it be not that she is not he.
JN 2.1. 438 He is the half part of a blessed man,
JN 2.1. 439 Left to be finished by such as she;
JN 2.1. 440 And she a fair divided excellence,
JN 2.1. 441 Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
JN 2.1. 442 O, two such silver currents when they join
JN 2.1. 443 Do glorify the banks that bound them in,
JN 2.1. 444 And two such shores to two such streams made one,
JN 2.1. 445 Two such controlling bounds, shall you be, Kings,
JN 2.1. 446 To these two princes if you marry them.
JN 2.1. 447 This union shall do more than battery can
JN 2.1. 448 To our fast-closed gates, for at this match,
JN 2.1. 449 With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,
JN 2.1. 450 The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,
JN 2.1. 451 And give you entrance. But without this match
JN 2.1. 452 The sea enraged is not half so deaf,
JN 2.1. 453 Lions more confident, mountains and rocks
JN 2.1. 454 More free from motion, no, not Death himself
JN 2.1. 455 In mortal fury half so peremptory,
JN 2.1. 456B As we to keep this city.
JN-BASTARD
{[aside]} Here's a +
JN 2.1. 456B stay
JN 2.1. 457 That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death
JN 2.1. 458 Out of his rags. Here's a large mouth, indeed,
JN 2.1. 459 That spits forth Death and mountains, rocks and seas,
JN 2.1. 460 Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
JN 2.1. 461 As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs.
JN 2.1. 462 What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
JN 2.1. 463 He speaks plain cannon: fire, and smoke, and bounce;
JN 2.1. 464 He gives the bastinado with his tongue;
JN 2.1. 465 Our ears are cudgelled; not a word of his
JN 2.1. 466 But buffets better than a fist of France.
JN 2.1. 467 Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words
JN 2.1. 468 Since I first called my brother's father Dad.
JN 2.1. 469
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
{(aside to King John)} Son, list to +
JN 2.1. 469 this conjunction, make this match,
JN 2.1. 470 Give with our niece a dowry large enough;
JN 2.1. 471 For, by this knot, thou shalt so surely tie
JN 2.1. 472 Thy now unsured assurance to the crown
JN 2.1. 473 That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe
JN 2.1. 474 The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit.
JN 2.1. 475 I see a yielding in the looks of France;
JN 2.1. 476 Mark how they whisper. Urge them while their souls
JN 2.1. 477 Are capable of this ambition,
JN 2.1. 478 Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath
JN 2.1. 479 Of soft petitions, pity, and remorse,
JN 2.1. 480 Cool and congeal again to what it was.
JN 2.1. 481
JN-[CITIZEN]
Why answer not the double majesties
JN 2.1. 482 This friendly treaty of our threatened town?
JN 2.1. 483
JN-KING PHILIP
Speak England first, that hath been forward first
JN 2.1. 484 To speak unto this city: what say you?
JN 2.1. 485
JN-KING JOHN
If that the Dauphin there, thy princely son,
JN 2.1. 486 Can in this book of beauty read `I love',
JN 2.1. 487 Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen;
JN 2.1. 488 For Anjou and fair Touraine, Maine, Poitou,
JN 2.1. 489 And all that we upon this side the sea -
JN 2.1. 490 Except this city now by us besieged -
JN 2.1. 491 Find liable to our crown and dignity,
JN 2.1. 492 Shall gild her bridal bed, and make her rich
JN 2.1. 493 In titles, honours, and promotions,
JN 2.1. 494 As she in beauty, education, blood,
JN 2.1. 495 Holds hand with any princess of the world.
JN 2.1. 496
JN-KING PHILIP
What sayst thou, boy? Look in the lady's face.
JN 2.1. 497
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
I do, my lord, and in her eye I find
JN 2.1. 498 A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,
JN 2.1. 499 The shadow of myself formed in her eye;
JN 2.1. 500 Which, being but the shadow of your son,
JN 2.1. 501 Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow.
JN 2.1. 502 I do protest I never loved myself
JN 2.1. 503 Till now enfixed I beheld myself
JN 2.1. 504 Drawn in the flattering table of her eye. {He whispers with +
JN 2.1. 504 Blanche}
JN 2.1. 505
JN-BASTARD
{(aside)} Drawn in the flattering table of +
JN 2.1. 505 her eye,
JN 2.1. 506 Hanged in the frowning wrinkle of her brow,
JN 2.1. 507 And quartered in her heart: he doth espy
JN 2.1. 508 Himself love's traitor. This is pity now,
JN 2.1. 509 That hanged and drawn and quartered there should be
JN 2.1. 510 In such a love so vile a lout as he.
JN 2.1. 511
JN-BLANCHE
{(to Louis the Dauphin)} My uncle's will +
JN 2.1. 511 in this respect is mine.
JN 2.1. 512 If he see aught in you that makes him like,
JN 2.1. 513 That anything he sees which moves his liking
JN 2.1. 514 I can with ease translate it to my will;
JN 2.1. 515 Or if you will, to speak more properly,
JN 2.1. 516 I will enforce it easily to my love.
JN 2.1. 517 Further I will not flatter you, my lord,
JN 2.1. 518 That all I see in you is worthy love,
JN 2.1. 519 Than this: that nothing do I see in you,
JN 2.1. 520 Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge,
JN 2.1. 521 That I can find should merit any hate.
JN 2.1. 522
JN-KING JOHN
What say these young ones? What say you, my niece?
JN 2.1. 523
JN-BLANCHE
That she is bound in honour still to do
JN 2.1. 524 What you in wisdom shall vouchsafe to say.
JN 2.1. 525
JN-KING JOHN
Speak then, Prince Dauphin, can you love this lady?
JN 2.1. 526
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love,
JN 2.1. 527 For I do love her most unfeignedly.
JN 2.1. 528
JN-KING JOHN
Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine,
JN 2.1. 529 Poitou, and Anjou, these five provinces,
JN 2.1. 530 With her to thee, and this addition more:
JN 2.1. 531 Full thirty thousand marks of English coin.
JN 2.1. 532 Philip of France, if thou be pleased withal,
JN 2.1. 533 Command thy son and daughter to join hands.
JN 2.1. 534
JN-KING PHILIP
It likes us well. - Young princes, close your hands.
JN 2.1. 535
JN-AUSTRIA
And your lips too, for I am well assured
JN 2.1. 536 That I did so when I was first assured. {[Louis the Dauphin and +
JN 2.1. 536 Lady Blanche join hands}
JN 2.1. 537 {and kiss]}
JN-KING PHILIP
Now citizens of Angers, ope your +
JN 2.1. 537 gates.
JN 2.1. 538 Let in that amity which you have made,
JN 2.1. 539 For at Saint Mary's chapel presently
JN 2.1. 540 The rites of marriage shall be solemnized. -
JN 2.1. 541 Is not the Lady Constance in this troop?
JN 2.1. 542 {(Aside)} I know she is not, for this match made up
JN 2.1. 543 Her presence would have interrupted much.
JN 2.1. 544 {(Aloud)} Where is she and her son? Tell me who knows.
JN 2.1. 545
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
JN 2.1. 546
JN-KING PHILIP
And by my faith this league that we have made
JN 2.1. 547 Will give her sadness very little cure. -
JN 2.1. 548 Brother of England, how may we content
JN 2.1. 549 This widow lady? In her right we came,
JN 2.1. 550 Which we, God knows, have turned another way
JN 2.1. 551B To our own vantage.
JN-KING JOHN
We will heal up all,
JN 2.1. 552 For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Brittaine
JN 2.1. 553 And Earl of Richmond, and this rich fair town
JN 2.1. 554 We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance.
JN 2.1. 555 Some speedy messenger bid her repair
JN 2.1. 556 To our solemnity. I trust we shall,
JN 2.1. 557 If not fill up the measure of her will,
JN 2.1. 558 Yet in some measure satisfy her so
JN 2.1. 559 That we shall stop her exclamation.
JN 2.1. 560 Go we as well as haste will suffer us
JN 2.1. 561 To this unlooked-for, unprepared pomp. {[Flourish.] Exeunt all +
JN 2.1. 561 but the Bastard}
JN 2.1. 562
JN-BASTARD
Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!
JN 2.1. 563 John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole,
JN 2.1. 564 Hath willingly departed with a part;
JN 2.1. 565 And France, whose armour conscience buckled on,
JN 2.1. 566 Whom zeal and charity brought to the field
JN 2.1. 567 As God's own soldier, rounded in the ear
JN 2.1. 568 With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil,
JN 2.1. 569 That broker that still breaks the pate of faith,
JN 2.1. 570 That daily break-vow, he that wins of all,
JN 2.1. 571 Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids, -
JN 2.1. 572 Who having no external thing to lose
JN 2.1. 573 But the word `maid', cheats the poor maid of that -
JN 2.1. 574 That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity;
JN 2.1. 575 Commodity, the bias of the world,
JN 2.1. 576 The world who of itself is peised well,
JN 2.1. 577 Made to run even upon even ground,
JN 2.1. 578 Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,
JN 2.1. 579 This sway of motion, this commodity,
JN 2.1. 580 Makes it take head from all indifferency,
JN 2.1. 581 From all direction, purpose, course, intent;
JN 2.1. 582 And this same bias, this commodity,
JN 2.1. 583 This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word,
JN 2.1. 584 Clapped on the outward eye of fickle France,
JN 2.1. 585 Hath drawn him from his own determined aid,
JN 2.1. 586 From a resolved and honourable war,
JN 2.1. 587 To a most base and vile-concluded peace.
JN 2.1. 588 And why rail I on this commodity?
JN 2.1. 589 But for because he hath not wooed me yet -
JN 2.1. 590 Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
JN 2.1. 591 When his fair angels would salute my palm,
JN 2.1. 592 But for my hand, as unattempted yet,
JN 2.1. 593 Like a poor beggar raileth on the rich.
JN 2.1. 594 Well, whiles I am a beggar I will rail,
JN 2.1. 595 And say there is no sin but to be rich,
JN 2.1. 596 And being rich, my virtue then shall be
JN 2.1. 597 To say there is no vice but beggary.
JN 2.1. 598 Since kings break faith upon commodity,
JN 2.1. 599 Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee. {Exit}
JN 2.1. 0 {Enter Lady Constance, Arthur Duke of Brittaine, and the +
JN 2.2. 0 Earl of Salisbury}
JN 2.2. 1
JN-CONSTANCE
{(to Salisbury)} Gone to be married? +
JN 2.2. 1 Gone to swear a peace?
JN 2.2. 2 False blood to false blood joined! Gone to be friends?
JN 2.2. 3 Shall Louis have Blanche, and Blanche those provinces?
JN 2.2. 4 It is not so, thou hast misspoke, misheard.
JN 2.2. 5 Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again.
JN 2.2. 6 It cannot be, thou dost but say 'tis so.
JN 2.2. 7 I trust I may not trust thee, for thy word
JN 2.2. 8 Is but the vain breath of a common man.
JN 2.2. 9 Believe me, I do not believe thee, man;
JN 2.2. 10 I have a king's oath to the contrary.
JN 2.2. 11 Thou shalt be punished for thus frighting me;
JN 2.2. 12 For I am sick and capable of fears;
JN 2.2. 13 Oppressed with wrongs, and therefore full of fears;
JN 2.2. 14 A widow husbandless, subject to fears;
JN 2.2. 15 A woman naturally born to fears;
JN 2.2. 16 And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,
JN 2.2. 17 With my vexed spirits I cannot take a truce,
JN 2.2. 18 But they will quake and tremble all this day.
JN 2.2. 19 What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?
JN 2.2. 20 Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?
JN 2.2. 21 What means that hand upon that breast of thine?
JN 2.2. 22 Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,
JN 2.2. 23 Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?
JN 2.2. 24 Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?
JN 2.2. 25 Then speak again - not all thy former tale,
JN 2.2. 26 But this one word: whether thy tale be true.
JN 2.2. 27
JN-SALISBURY
As true as I believe you think them false
JN 2.2. 28 That give you cause to prove my saying true.
JN 2.2. 29
JN-CONSTANCE
O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,
JN 2.2. 30 Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die;
JN 2.2. 31 And let belief and life encounter so
JN 2.2. 32 As doth the fury of two desperate men
JN 2.2. 33 Which in the very meeting fall and die.
JN 2.2. 34 Louis marry Blanche! {(To Arthur)} O boy, then where +
JN 2.2. 34 art thou?
JN 2.2. 35 France friend with England! - What becomes of me?
JN 2.2. 36 {(To Salisbury)} Fellow, be gone, I cannot brook thy +
JN 2.2. 36 sight;
JN 2.2. 37 This news hath made thee a most ugly man.
JN 2.2. 38
JN-SALISBURY
What other harm have I, good lady, done,
JN 2.2. 39 But spoke the harm that is by others done?
JN 2.2. 40
JN-CONSTANCE
Which harm within itself so heinous is
JN 2.2. 41 As it makes harmful all that speak of it.
JN 2.2. 42
JN-ARTHUR
I do beseech you, madam, be content.
JN 2.2. 43
JN-CONSTANCE
If thou that bidd'st me be content wert grim,
JN 2.2. 44 Ugly and sland'rous to thy mother's womb,
JN 2.2. 45 Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,
JN 2.2. 46 Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
JN 2.2. 47 Patched with foul moles and eye-offending marks,
JN 2.2. 48 I would not care, I then would be content,
JN 2.2. 49 For then I should not love thee, no, nor thou
JN 2.2. 50 Become thy great birth, nor deserve a crown.
JN 2.2. 51 But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
JN 2.2. 52 Nature and Fortune joined to make thee great.
JN 2.2. 53 Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
JN 2.2. 54 And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,
JN 2.2. 55 She is corrupted, changed, and won from thee;
JN 2.2. 56 Sh' adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,
JN 2.2. 57 And with her golden hand hath plucked on France
JN 2.2. 58 To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,
JN 2.2. 59 And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.
JN 2.2. 60 France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,
JN 2.2. 61 That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John.
JN 2.2. 62 {(To Salisbury)} Tell me, thou fellow, is not France +
JN 2.2. 62 forsworn?
JN 2.2. 63 Envenom him with words, or get thee gone
JN 2.2. 64 And leave those woes alone, which I alone
JN 2.2. 65B Am bound to underbear.
JN-SALISBURY
Pardon me, madam,
JN 2.2. 66 I may not go without you to the Kings.
JN 2.2. 67
JN-CONSTANCE
Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee.
JN 2.2. 68 I will instruct my sorrows to be proud,
JN 2.2. 69 For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop. {[She sits upon +
JN 2.2. 69 the ground]}
JN 2.2. 70 To me and to the state of my great grief
JN 2.2. 71 Let kings assemble, for my grief's so great
JN 2.2. 72 That no supporter but the huge firm earth
JN 2.2. 73 Can hold it up. Here I and sorrows sit;
JN 2.2. 74 Here is my throne; bid kings come bow to it. {[Exeunt Salisbury +
JN 2.2. 74 and Arthur]}
JN 2.2. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King John and King Philip [hand +
JN 3.1. 0 in hand]; Louis the Dauphin and Lady Blanche, [married]; Queen Eleanor, +
JN 3.1. 0 the Bastard, and the Duke of Austria}
JN 3.1. 1
JN-KING PHILIP
{(to Blanche)} 'Tis true, fair +
JN 3.1. 1 daughter, and this blessed day
JN 3.1. 2 Ever in France shall be kept festival.
JN 3.1. 3 To solemnize this day, the glorious sun
JN 3.1. 4 Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
JN 3.1. 5 Turning with splendour of his precious eye
JN 3.1. 6 The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.
JN 3.1. 7 The yearly course that brings this day about
JN 3.1. 8 Shall never see it but a holy day.
JN 3.1. 9
JN-CONSTANCE
{(rising)} A wicked day, and not a holy +
JN 3.1. 9 day!
JN 3.1. 10 What hath this day deserved? What hath it done,
JN 3.1. 11 That it in golden letters should be set
JN 3.1. 12 Among the high tides in the calendar?
JN 3.1. 13 Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,
JN 3.1. 14 This day of shame, oppression, perjury.
JN 3.1. 15 Or if it must stand still, let wives with child
JN 3.1. 16 Pray that their burdens may not fall this day,
JN 3.1. 17 Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crossed;
JN 3.1. 18 But on this day let seamen fear no wreck;
JN 3.1. 19 No bargains break that are not this day made;
JN 3.1. 20 This day all things begun come to ill end,
JN 3.1. 21 Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change.
JN 3.1. 22
JN-KING PHILIP
By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause
JN 3.1. 23 To curse the fair proceedings of this day.
JN 3.1. 24 Have I not pawned to you my majesty?
JN 3.1. 25
JN-CONSTANCE
You have beguiled me with a counterfeit
JN 3.1. 26 Resembling majesty, which being touched and tried
JN 3.1. 27 Proves valueless. You are forsworn, forsworn.
JN 3.1. 28 You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood,
JN 3.1. 29 But now in arms you strengthen it with yours.
JN 3.1. 30 The grappling vigour and rough frown of war
JN 3.1. 31 Is cold in amity and painted peace,
JN 3.1. 32 And our oppression hath made up this league.
JN 3.1. 33 Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjured Kings!
JN 3.1. 34 A widow cries, be husband to me, God!
JN 3.1. 35 Let not the hours of this ungodly day
JN 3.1. 36 Wear out the day in peace, but ere sun set
JN 3.1. 37 Set armed discord 'twixt these perjured Kings.
JN 3.1. 38B Hear me, O hear me!
JN-AUSTRIA
Lady Constance, peace.
JN 3.1. 39
JN-CONSTANCE
War, war, no peace! Peace is to me a war.
JN 3.1. 40 O Limoges, O Austria, thou dost shame
JN 3.1. 41 That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
JN 3.1. 42 Thou little valiant, great in villainy;
JN 3.1. 43 Thou ever strong upon the stronger side;
JN 3.1. 44 Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
JN 3.1. 45 But when her humorous ladyship is by
JN 3.1. 46 To teach thee safety. Thou art perjured too,
JN 3.1. 47 And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool art thou,
JN 3.1. 48 A ramping fool, to brag and stamp, and swear
JN 3.1. 49 Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
JN 3.1. 50 Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,
JN 3.1. 51 Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
JN 3.1. 52 Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
JN 3.1. 53 And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
JN 3.1. 54 Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it, for shame,
JN 3.1. 55 And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.
JN 3.1. 56
JN-AUSTRIA
O, that a man should speak those words to me!
JN 3.1. 57
JN-BASTARD
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.
JN 3.1. 58
JN-AUSTRIA
Thou dar'st not say so, villain, for thy life.
JN 3.1. 59
JN-BASTARD
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.
JN 3.1. 60
JN-KING JOHN
{(to the Bastard)} We like not this. +
JN 3.1. 60 Thou dost forget thyself. {Enter Cardinal Pandolf}
JN 3.1. 61
JN-KING PHILIP
Here comes the holy legate of the Pope.
JN 3.1. 62
JN-PANDOLF
Hail, you anointed deputies of God. -
JN 3.1. 63 To thee, King John, my holy errand is.
JN 3.1. 64 I Pandolf, of fair Milan Cardinal,
JN 3.1. 65 And from Pope Innocent the legate here,
JN 3.1. 66 Do in his name religiously demand
JN 3.1. 67 Why thou against the Church, our Holy Mother,
JN 3.1. 68 So wilfully dost spurn, and force perforce
JN 3.1. 69 Keep Stephen Langton, chosen Archbishop
JN 3.1. 70 Of Canterbury, from that holy see.
JN 3.1. 71 This, in our foresaid Holy Father's name,
JN 3.1. 72 Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.
JN 3.1. 73
JN-KING JOHN
What earthy name to interrogatories
JN 3.1. 74 Can task the free breath of a sacred king?
JN 3.1. 75 Thou canst not, Cardinal, devise a name
JN 3.1. 76 So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous
JN 3.1. 77 To charge me to an answer, as the Pope.
JN 3.1. 78 Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England
JN 3.1. 79 Add thus much more: that no Italian priest
JN 3.1. 80 Shall tithe or toll in our dominions;
JN 3.1. 81 But as we, under God, are supreme head,
JN 3.1. 82 So, under him, that great supremacy
JN 3.1. 83 Where we do reign we will alone uphold
JN 3.1. 84 Without th' assistance of a mortal hand.
JN 3.1. 85 So tell the Pope, all reverence set apart
JN 3.1. 86 To him and his usurped authority.
JN 3.1. 87
JN-KING PHILIP
Brother of England, you blaspheme in this.
JN 3.1. 88
JN-KING JOHN
Though you and all the kings of Christendom
JN 3.1. 89 Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,
JN 3.1. 90 Dreading the curse that money may buy out,
JN 3.1. 91 And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,
JN 3.1. 92 Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,
JN 3.1. 93 Who in that sale sells pardon from himself;
JN 3.1. 94 Though you and all the rest so grossly led
JN 3.1. 95 This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish;
JN 3.1. 96 Yet I alone, alone do me oppose
JN 3.1. 97 Against the Pope, and count his friends my foes.
JN 3.1. 98
JN-PANDOLF
Then by the lawful power that I have
JN 3.1. 99 Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate;
JN 3.1. 100 And blessed shall he be that doth revolt
JN 3.1. 101 From his allegiance to an heretic;
JN 3.1. 102 And meritorious shall that hand be called,
JN 3.1. 103 Canonized and worshipped as a saint,
JN 3.1. 104 That takes away by any secret course
JN 3.1. 105B Thy hateful life.
JN-CONSTANCE
O lawful let it be
JN 3.1. 106 That I have room with Rome to curse awhile.
JN 3.1. 107 Good Father Cardinal, cry thou `Amen'
JN 3.1. 108 To my keen curses, for without my wrong
JN 3.1. 109 There is no tongue hath power to curse him right.
JN 3.1. 110
JN-PANDOLF
There's law and warrant, lady, for my curse.
JN 3.1. 111
JN-CONSTANCE
And for mine too. When law can do no right,
JN 3.1. 112 Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
JN 3.1. 113 Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,
JN 3.1. 114 For he that holds his kingdom holds the law.
JN 3.1. 115 Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,
JN 3.1. 116 How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?
JN 3.1. 117
JN-PANDOLF
Philip of France, on peril of a curse,
JN 3.1. 118 Let go the hand of that arch-heretic,
JN 3.1. 119 And raise the power of France upon his head,
JN 3.1. 120 Unless he do submit himself to Rome.
JN 3.1. 121
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Look'st thou pale, France? Do not let go thy hand.
JN 3.1. 122
JN-CONSTANCE
{[to King John]} Look to it, devil, lest +
JN 3.1. 122 that France repent,
JN 3.1. 123 And by disjoining hands hell lose a soul.
JN 3.1. 124
JN-AUSTRIA
King Philip, listen to the Cardinal.
JN 3.1. 125
JN-BASTARD
And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs.
JN 3.1. 126
JN-AUSTRIA
Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs,
JN 3.1. 127B Because -
JN-BASTARD
Your breeches best may carry them.
JN 3.1. 128
JN-KING JOHN
Philip, what sayst thou to the Cardinal?
JN 3.1. 129
JN-CONSTANCE
What should he say, but as the Cardinal?
JN 3.1. 130
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Bethink you, Father, for the difference
JN 3.1. 131 Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,
JN 3.1. 132 Or the light loss of England for a friend.
JN 3.1. 133B Forgo the easier.
JN-BLANCHE
That's the curse of Rome.
JN 3.1. 134
JN-CONSTANCE
O Louis, stand fast; the devil tempts thee here
JN 3.1. 135 In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.
JN 3.1. 136
JN-BLANCHE
The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,
JN 3.1. 137B But from her need.
JN-CONSTANCE
{[to King Philip]} O +
JN 3.1. 137B if thou grant my need,
JN 3.1. 138 Which only lives but by the death of faith,
JN 3.1. 139 That need must needs infer this principle:
JN 3.1. 140 That faith would live again by death of need.
JN 3.1. 141 O, then tread down my need, and faith mounts up;
JN 3.1. 142 Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down.
JN 3.1. 143
JN-KING JOHN
The King is moved, and answers not to this.
JN 3.1. 144
JN-CONSTANCE
{(to King Philip)} O, be removed from +
JN 3.1. 144 him, and answer well.
JN 3.1. 145
JN-AUSTRIA
Do so, King Philip, hang no more in doubt.
JN 3.1. 146
JN-BASTARD
Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout.
JN 3.1. 147
JN-KING PHILIP
I am perplexed, and know not what to say.
JN 3.1. 148
JN-PANDOLF
What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,
JN 3.1. 149 If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?
JN 3.1. 150
JN-KING PHILIP
Good Reverend Father, make my person yours,
JN 3.1. 151 And tell me how you would bestow yourself.
JN 3.1. 152 This royal hand and mine are newly knit,
JN 3.1. 153 And the conjunction of our inward souls
JN 3.1. 154 Married in league, coupled and linked together
JN 3.1. 155 With all religious strength of sacred vows;
JN 3.1. 156 The latest breath that gave the sound of words
JN 3.1. 157 Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love,
JN 3.1. 158 Between our kingdoms and our royal selves;
JN 3.1. 159 And even before this truce, but new before,
JN 3.1. 160 No longer than we well could wash our hands
JN 3.1. 161 To clap this royal bargain up of peace,
JN 3.1. 162 God knows, they were besmeared and over-stained
JN 3.1. 163 With slaughter's pencil, where Revenge did paint
JN 3.1. 164 The fearful difference of incensed kings;
JN 3.1. 165 And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,
JN 3.1. 166 So newly joined in love, so strong in both,
JN 3.1. 167 Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet,
JN 3.1. 168 Play fast and loose with faith, so jest with heaven,
JN 3.1. 169 Make such unconstant children of ourselves,
JN 3.1. 170 As now again to snatch our palm from palm,
JN 3.1. 171 Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed
JN 3.1. 172 Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,
JN 3.1. 173 And make a riot on the gentle brow
JN 3.1. 174 Of true sincerity? O holy sir,
JN 3.1. 175 My Reverend Father, let it not be so.
JN 3.1. 176 Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose
JN 3.1. 177 Some gentle order, and then we shall be blessed
JN 3.1. 178 To do your pleasure and continue friends.
JN 3.1. 179
JN-PANDOLF
All form is formless, order orderless,
JN 3.1. 180 Save what is opposite to England's love.
JN 3.1. 181 Therefore to arms, be champion of our Church,
JN 3.1. 182 Or let the Church, our mother, breathe her curse,
JN 3.1. 183 A mother's curse, on her revolting son.
JN 3.1. 184 France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
JN 3.1. 185 A crazed lion by the mortal paw,
JN 3.1. 186 A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
JN 3.1. 187 Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.
JN 3.1. 188
JN-KING PHILIP
I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith.
JN 3.1. 189
JN-PANDOLF
So mak'st thou faith an enemy to faith,
JN 3.1. 190 And like a civil war, sett'st oath to oath,
JN 3.1. 191 Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow,
JN 3.1. 192 First made to heaven, first be to heaven performed;
JN 3.1. 193 That is, to be the champion of our Church.
JN 3.1. 194 What since thou swor'st is sworn against thyself,
JN 3.1. 195 And may not be performed by thyself;
JN 3.1. 196 For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss
JN 3.1. 197 Is not amiss when it is truly done;
JN 3.1. 198 And being not done where doing tends to ill,
JN 3.1. 199 The truth is then most done not doing it.
JN 3.1. 200 The better act of purposes mistook
JN 3.1. 201 Is to mistake again; though indirect,
JN 3.1. 202 Yet indirection thereby grows direct,
JN 3.1. 203 And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire
JN 3.1. 204 Within the scorched veins of one new burned.
JN 3.1. 205 It is religion that doth make vows kept;
JN 3.1. 206 But thou hast sworn against religion;
JN 3.1. 207 By what thou swear'st, against the thing thou swear'st;
JN 3.1. 208 And mak'st an oath the surety for thy troth:
JN 3.1. 209 Against an oath, the truth. Thou art unsure
JN 3.1. 210 To swear: swear'st only not to be forsworn -
JN 3.1. 211 Else what a mockery should it be to swear! -
JN 3.1. 212 But thou dost swear only to be forsworn,
JN 3.1. 213 And most forsworn to keep what thou dost swear;
JN 3.1. 214 Therefore thy later vows against thy first
JN 3.1. 215 Is in thyself rebellion to thyself,
JN 3.1. 216 And better conquest never canst thou make
JN 3.1. 217 Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
JN 3.1. 218 Against these giddy loose suggestions;
JN 3.1. 219 Upon which better part our prayers come in
JN 3.1. 220 If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know
JN 3.1. 221 The peril of our curses light on thee
JN 3.1. 222 So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,
JN 3.1. 223 But in despair die under their black weight.
JN 3.1. 224B
JN-AUSTRIA
Rebellion, flat rebellion!
JN-BASTARD
Wilt not be?
JN 3.1. 225 Will not a calf's-skin stop that mouth of thine?
JN 3.1. 226B
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Father, to arms!
JN-BLANCHE
Upon thy wedding day?
JN 3.1. 227 Against the blood that thou hast married?
JN 3.1. 228 What, shall our feast be kept with slaughtered men?
JN 3.1. 229 Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,
JN 3.1. 230 Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp? {She kneels}
JN 3.1. 231 O husband, hear me! Ay, alack, how new
JN 3.1. 232 Is `husband' in my mouth! Even for that name
JN 3.1. 233 Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce,
JN 3.1. 234 Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms
JN 3.1. 235B Against mine uncle.
JN-CONSTANCE
{(kneeling)} O, upon +
JN 3.1. 235B my knee
JN 3.1. 236 Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,
JN 3.1. 237 Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom
JN 3.1. 238 Forethought by heaven.
JN 3.1. 239
JN-BLANCHE
{(to Louis the Dauphin)} Now shall I see +
JN 3.1. 239 thy love: what motive may
JN 3.1. 240 Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?
JN 3.1. 241
JN-CONSTANCE
That which upholdeth him that thee upholds:
JN 3.1. 242 His honour. - O thine honour, Louis, thine honour!
JN 3.1. 243
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
{(to King Philip)} I muse your +
JN 3.1. 243 majesty doth seem so cold
JN 3.1. 244 When such profound respects do pull you on.
JN 3.1. 245
JN-PANDOLF
I will denounce a curse upon his head.
JN 3.1. 246
JN-KING PHILIP
Thou shalt not need. - England, I will fall from +
JN 3.1. 246 thee. {[He takes his hand from King John's hand. Blanche and +
JN 3.1. 246 Constance rise]}
JN 3.1. 247
JN-CONSTANCE
O, fair return of banished majesty!
JN 3.1. 248
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
O, foul revolt of French inconstancy!
JN 3.1. 249
JN-KING JOHN
France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour.
JN 3.1. 250
JN-BASTARD
Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,
JN 3.1. 251 Is it as he will? - Well then, France shall rue.
JN 3.1. 252
JN-BLANCHE
The sun's o'ercast with blood; fair day, adieu!
JN 3.1. 253 Which is the side that I must go withal?
JN 3.1. 254 I am with both, each army hath a hand,
JN 3.1. 255 And in their rage, I having hold of both,
JN 3.1. 256 They whirl asunder and dismember me.
JN 3.1. 257 Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win. -
JN 3.1. 258 Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose. -
JN 3.1. 259 Father, I may not wish the fortune thine. -
JN 3.1. 260 Grandam, I will not wish thy wishes thrive.
JN 3.1. 261 Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose,
JN 3.1. 262 Assured loss before the match be played.
JN 3.1. 263
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
JN 3.1. 264
JN-BLANCHE
There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.
JN 3.1. 265
JN-KING JOHN
{(to the Bastard)} Cousin, go draw our +
JN 3.1. 265 puissance together. - {[Exit the Bastard]}
JN 3.1. 266 France, I am burned up with inflaming wrath,
JN 3.1. 267 A rage whose heat hath this condition:
JN 3.1. 268 That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,
JN 3.1. 269 The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France.
JN 3.1. 270
JN-KING PHILIP
Thy rage shall burn thee up, and thou shalt turn
JN 3.1. 271 To ashes ere our blood shall quench that fire.
JN 3.1. 272 Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.
JN 3.1. 273
JN-KING JOHN
No more than he that threats. - To arms let's hie! +
JN 3.1. 273 {Exeunt [severally]}
JN 3.1. 0 {Alarum; excursions. Enter the Bastard, with the Duke of +
JN 3.2. 0 Austria's head}
JN 3.2. 1
JN-BASTARD
Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot;
JN 3.2. 2 Some airy devil hovers in the sky
JN 3.2. 3 And pours down mischief. Austria's head lie there,
JN 3.2. 4 While Philip breathes. {Enter King John, Arthur Duke of +
JN 3.2. 4 Brittaine, and Hubert}
JN 3.2. 5
JN-KING JOHN
Hubert, keep this boy. - Philip, make up!
JN 3.2. 6 My mother is assailed in our tent,
JN 3.2. 7B And ta'en I fear.
JN-BASTARD
My lord, I rescued her;
JN 3.2. 8 Her highness is in safety; fear you not.
JN 3.2. 9 But on, my liege, for very little pains
JN 3.2. 10 Will bring this labour to an happy end. {Exeunt [King John and +
JN 3.2. 10 the Bastard at one door, Hubert and Arthur at another door]}
JN 3.2. 0 {Alarum; excursions; retreat. Enter King John, Queen +
JN 3.3. 0 Eleanor, Arthur Duke of Brittaine, the Bastard, Hubert, lords, [with +
JN 3.3. 0 soldiers]}
JN 3.3. 1
JN-KING JOHN
{(to Queen Eleanor)} So shall it be; +
JN 3.3. 1 your grace shall stay behind
JN 3.3. 2 So strongly guarded. {(To Arthur)} Cousin, look not +
JN 3.3. 2 sad;
JN 3.3. 3 Thy grandam loves thee, and thy uncle will
JN 3.3. 4 As dear be to thee as thy father was.
JN 3.3. 5
JN-ARTHUR
O, this will make my mother die with grief.
JN 3.3. 6
JN-KING JOHN
{(to the Bastard)} Cousin, away for +
JN 3.3. 6 England! Haste before,
JN 3.3. 7 And ere our coming, see thou shake the bags
JN 3.3. 8 Of hoarding abbots. The fat ribs of peace
JN 3.3. 9 Must by the hungry now be fed upon.
JN 3.3. 10 Imprisoned angels set at liberty.
JN 3.3. 11 Use our commission in his utmost force.
JN 3.3. 12
JN-BASTARD
Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back
JN 3.3. 13 When gold and silver becks me to come on.
JN 3.3. 14 I leave your highness. - Grandam, I will pray,
JN 3.3. 15 If ever I remember to be holy,
JN 3.3. 16 For your fair safety. So I kiss your hand.
JN 3.3. 17B
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Farewell, gentle cousin.
JN-KING JOHN
Coz, +
JN 3.3. 17B farewell. {Exit the Bastard}
JN 3.3. 18
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
Come hither, little kinsman. Hark, a +
JN 3.3. 18 word. {She takes Arthur aside}
JN 3.3. 19B
JN-KING JOHN
Come hither, Hubert. {He takes Hubert +
JN 3.3. 19B aside} O my gentle Hubert,
JN 3.3. 20 We owe thee much. Within this wall of flesh
JN 3.3. 21 There is a soul counts thee her creditor,
JN 3.3. 22 And with advantage means to pay thy love;
JN 3.3. 23 And, my good friend, thy voluntary oath
JN 3.3. 24 Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.
JN 3.3. 25B Give me thy hand. {He takes Hubert's hand} I had a +
JN 3.3. 25B thing to say,
JN 3.3. 26 But I will fit it with some better tune.
JN 3.3. 27 By heaven, Hubert, I am almost ashamed
JN 3.3. 28 To say what good respect I have of thee.
JN 3.3. 29
JN-HUBERT
I am much bounden to your majesty.
JN 3.3. 30
JN-KING JOHN
Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet,
JN 3.3. 31 But thou shalt have; and creep time ne'er so slow,
JN 3.3. 32 Yet it shall come for me to do thee good.
JN 3.3. 33 I had a thing to say - but let it go.
JN 3.3. 34 The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,
JN 3.3. 35 Attended with the pleasures of the world,
JN 3.3. 36 Is all too wanton and too full of gauds
JN 3.3. 37 To give me audience. If the midnight bell
JN 3.3. 38 Did with his iron tongue and brazen mouth
JN 3.3. 39 Sound on into the drowsy race of night;
JN 3.3. 40 If this same were a churchyard where we stand,
JN 3.3. 41 And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs;
JN 3.3. 42 Or if that surly spirit, melancholy,
JN 3.3. 43 Had baked thy blood and made it heavy, thick,
JN 3.3. 44 Which else runs tickling up and down the veins,
JN 3.3. 45 Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes
JN 3.3. 46 And strain their cheeks to idle merriment -
JN 3.3. 47 A passion hateful to my purposes -
JN 3.3. 48 Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes,
JN 3.3. 49 Hear me without thine ears, and make reply
JN 3.3. 50 Without a tongue, using conceit alone,
JN 3.3. 51 Without eyes, ears, and harmful sound of words;
JN 3.3. 52 Then in despite of broad-eyed watchful day
JN 3.3. 53 I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts.
JN 3.3. 54 But, ah, I will not. Yet I love thee well,
JN 3.3. 55 And by my troth, I think thou lov'st me well.
JN 3.3. 56
JN-HUBERT
So well that what you bid me undertake,
JN 3.3. 57 Though that my death were adjunct to my act,
JN 3.3. 58B By heaven, I would do it.
JN-KING JOHN
Do not I know thou wouldst?
JN 3.3. 59 Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye
JN 3.3. 60 On yon young boy. I'll tell thee what, my friend,
JN 3.3. 61 He is a very serpent in my way,
JN 3.3. 62 And wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread,
JN 3.3. 63 He lies before me. Dost thou understand me?
JN 3.3. 64B Thou art his keeper.
JN-HUBERT
And I'll keep him so
JN 3.3. 65 That he shall not offend your majesty.
JN 3.3. 66B
JN-KING JOHN
Death.
JN-HUBERT
My lord.
JN-KING JOHN
A grave.
JN-HUBERT
+
JN 3.3. 66B He shall not live.
JN-KING JOHN
Enough.
JN 3.3. 67 I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee.
JN 3.3. 68 Well, I'll not say what I intend for thee.
JN 3.3. 69 Remember. {(To Queen Eleanor)} Madam, fare you well.
JN 3.3. 70 I'll send those powers o'er to your majesty.
JN 3.3. 71B
JN-QUEEN ELEANOR
My blessing go with thee.
JN-KING JOHN
{(to +
JN 3.3. 71B Arthur)} For England, cousin, go.
JN 3.3. 72 Hubert shall be your man, attend on you
JN 3.3. 73 With all true duty. - On toward Calais, ho! {Exeunt [Queen +
JN 3.3. 73 Eleanor, attended, at one door, the rest at another door]}
JN 3.3. 0 {Enter King Philip, Louis the Dauphin, Cardinal Pandolf, +
JN 3.4. 0 and attendants}
JN 3.4. 1
JN-KING PHILIP
So, by a roaring tempest on the flood,
JN 3.4. 2 A whole armada of convicted sail
JN 3.4. 3 Is scattered and disjoined from fellowship.
JN 3.4. 4
JN-PANDOLF
Courage and comfort; all shall yet go well.
JN 3.4. 5
JN-KING PHILIP
What can go well when we have run so ill?
JN 3.4. 6 Are we not beaten? Is not Angers lost,
JN 3.4. 7 Arthur ta'en prisoner, divers dear friends slain,
JN 3.4. 8 And bloody England into England gone,
JN 3.4. 9 O'erbearing interruption, spite of France?
JN 3.4. 10
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
What he hath won, that hath he fortified.
JN 3.4. 11 So hot a speed, with such advice disposed,
JN 3.4. 12 Such temperate order in so fierce a cause,
JN 3.4. 13 Doth want example. Who hath read or heard
JN 3.4. 14 Of any kindred action like to this?
JN 3.4. 15
JN-KING PHILIP
Well could I bear that England had this praise,
JN 3.4. 16 So we could find some pattern of our shame. {Enter Constance, +
JN 3.4. 16 distracted, with her hair about}
JN 3.4. 17 {her ears} Look who comes here! A grave unto a soul,
JN 3.4. 18 Holding th' eternal spirit against her will
JN 3.4. 19 In the vile prison of afflicted breath. -
JN 3.4. 20 I prithee, lady, go away with me.
JN 3.4. 21
JN-CONSTANCE
Lo, now, now see the issue of your peace!
JN 3.4. 22
JN-KING PHILIP
Patience, good lady; comfort, gentle Constance.
JN 3.4. 23
JN-CONSTANCE
No, I defy all counsel, all redress,
JN 3.4. 24 But that which ends all counsel, true redress:
JN 3.4. 25 Death, Death, O amiable, lovely Death!
JN 3.4. 26 Thou odoriferous stench, sound rottenness!
JN 3.4. 27 Arise forth from the couch of lasting night,
JN 3.4. 28 Thou hate and terror to prosperity,
JN 3.4. 29 And I will kiss thy detestable bones,
JN 3.4. 30 And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows,
JN 3.4. 31 And ring these fingers with thy household worms,
JN 3.4. 32 And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust,
JN 3.4. 33 And be a carrion monster like thyself.
JN 3.4. 34 Come grin on me, and I will think thou smil'st,
JN 3.4. 35 And buss thee as thy wife. Misery's love,
JN 3.4. 36B O, come to me!
JN-KING PHILIP
O fair affliction, peace!
JN 3.4. 37
JN-CONSTANCE
No, no, I will not, having breath to cry.
JN 3.4. 38 O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
JN 3.4. 39 Then with a passion would I shake the world,
JN 3.4. 40 And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy,
JN 3.4. 41 Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
JN 3.4. 42 Which scorns a modern invocation.
JN 3.4. 43
JN-PANDOLF
Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow.
JN 3.4. 44
JN-CONSTANCE
Thou art not holy to belie me so.
JN 3.4. 45 I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine;
JN 3.4. 46 My name is Constance; I was Geoffrey's wife;
JN 3.4. 47 Young Arthur is my son; and he is lost.
JN 3.4. 48 I am not mad; I would to God I were,
JN 3.4. 49 For then 'tis like I should forget myself.
JN 3.4. 50 O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
JN 3.4. 51 Preach some philosophy to make me mad,
JN 3.4. 52 And thou shalt be canonized, Cardinal.
JN 3.4. 53 For, being not mad, but sensible of grief,
JN 3.4. 54 My reasonable part produces reason
JN 3.4. 55 How I may be delivered of these woes,
JN 3.4. 56 And teaches me to kill or hang myself.
JN 3.4. 57 If I were mad I should forget my son,
JN 3.4. 58 Or madly think a babe of clouts were he.
JN 3.4. 59 I am not mad; too well, too well I feel
JN 3.4. 60 The different plague of each calamity.
JN 3.4. 61
JN-KING PHILIP
Bind up those tresses. O, what love I note
JN 3.4. 62 In the fair multitude of those her hairs!
JN 3.4. 63 Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen,
JN 3.4. 64 Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends
JN 3.4. 65 Do glue themselves in sociable grief,
JN 3.4. 66 Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,
JN 3.4. 67 Sticking together in calamity.
JN 3.4. 68B
JN-CONSTANCE
To England, if you will.
JN-KING PHILIP
Bind up your +
JN 3.4. 68B hairs.
JN 3.4. 69
JN-CONSTANCE
Yes, that I will. And wherefore will I do it?
JN 3.4. 70 I tore them from their bonds, and cried aloud,
JN 3.4. 71 `O that these hands could so redeem my son,
JN 3.4. 72 As they have given these hairs their liberty!'
JN 3.4. 73 But now I envy at their liberty,
JN 3.4. 74 And will again commit them to their bonds,
JN 3.4. 75 Because my poor child is a prisoner. {She binds up her hair}
JN 3.4. 76 And Father Cardinal, I have heard you say
JN 3.4. 77 That we shall see and know our friends in heaven.
JN 3.4. 78 If that be true, I shall see my boy again;
JN 3.4. 79 For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,
JN 3.4. 80 To him that did but yesterday suspire,
JN 3.4. 81 There was not such a gracious creature born.
JN 3.4. 82 But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud,
JN 3.4. 83 And chase the native beauty from his cheek;
JN 3.4. 84 And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
JN 3.4. 85 As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,
JN 3.4. 86 And so he'll die; and rising so again,
JN 3.4. 87 When I shall meet him in the court of heaven,
JN 3.4. 88 I shall not know him; therefore never, never
JN 3.4. 89 Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.
JN 3.4. 90
JN-PANDOLF
You hold too heinous a respect of grief.
JN 3.4. 91
JN-CONSTANCE
He talks to me that never had a son.
JN 3.4. 92
JN-KING PHILIP
You are as fond of grief as of your child.
JN 3.4. 93
JN-CONSTANCE
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
JN 3.4. 94 Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
JN 3.4. 95 Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
JN 3.4. 96 Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
JN 3.4. 97 Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
JN 3.4. 98 Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
JN 3.4. 99 Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I,
JN 3.4. 100 I could give better comfort than you do. {[She unbinds her +
JN 3.4. 100 hair]}
JN 3.4. 101 I will not keep this form upon my head
JN 3.4. 102 When there is such disorder in my wit.
JN 3.4. 103 O Lord, my boy, my Arthur, my fair son,
JN 3.4. 104 My life, my joy, my food, my all the world,
JN 3.4. 105 My widow-comfort, and my sorrow's cure! {Exit}
JN 3.4. 106
JN-KING PHILIP
I fear some outrage, and I'll follow +
JN 3.4. 106 her. {Exit [attended]}
JN 3.4. 107
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
There's nothing in this world can make +
JN 3.4. 107 me joy.
JN 3.4. 108 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
JN 3.4. 109 Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;
JN 3.4. 110 And bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's taste,
JN 3.4. 111 That it yields naught but shame and bitterness.
JN 3.4. 112
JN-PANDOLF
Before the curing of a strong disease,
JN 3.4. 113 Even in the instant of repair and health,
JN 3.4. 114 The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,
JN 3.4. 115 On their departure most of all show evil.
JN 3.4. 116 What have you lost by losing of this day?
JN 3.4. 117
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
All days of glory, joy, and happiness.
JN 3.4. 118
JN-PANDOLF
If you had won it, certainly you had.
JN 3.4. 119 No, no; when Fortune means to men most good,
JN 3.4. 120 She looks upon them with a threat'ning eye.
JN 3.4. 121 'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost
JN 3.4. 122 In this which he accounts so clearly won.
JN 3.4. 123 Are not you grieved that Arthur is his prisoner?
JN 3.4. 124
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
As heartily as he is glad he hath him.
JN 3.4. 125
JN-PANDOLF
Your mind is all as youthful as your blood.
JN 3.4. 126 Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit,
JN 3.4. 127 For even the breath of what I mean to speak
JN 3.4. 128 Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub,
JN 3.4. 129 Out of the path which shall directly lead
JN 3.4. 130 Thy foot to England's throne. And therefore mark.
JN 3.4. 131 John hath seized Arthur, and it cannot be
JN 3.4. 132 That whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins
JN 3.4. 133 The misplaced John should entertain an hour,
JN 3.4. 134 One minute, nay, one quiet breath of rest.
JN 3.4. 135 A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand
JN 3.4. 136 Must be as boisterously maintained as gained;
JN 3.4. 137 And he that stands upon a slipp'ry place
JN 3.4. 138 Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
JN 3.4. 139 That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall;
JN 3.4. 140 So be it, for it cannot be but so.
JN 3.4. 141
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall?
JN 3.4. 142
JN-PANDOLF
You, in the right of Lady Blanche your wife,
JN 3.4. 143 May then make all the claim that Arthur did.
JN 3.4. 144
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did.
JN 3.4. 145
JN-PANDOLF
How green you are, and fresh in this old world!
JN 3.4. 146 John lays you plots; the times conspire with you;
JN 3.4. 147 For he that steeps his safety in true blood
JN 3.4. 148 Shall find but bloody safety and untrue.
JN 3.4. 149 This act, so vilely born, shall cool the hearts
JN 3.4. 150 Of all his people, and freeze up their zeal,
JN 3.4. 151 That none so small advantage shall step forth
JN 3.4. 152 To check his reign but they will cherish it;
JN 3.4. 153 No natural exhalation in the sky,
JN 3.4. 154 No scope of nature, no distempered day,
JN 3.4. 155 No common wind, no customed event,
JN 3.4. 156 But they will pluck away his natural cause,
JN 3.4. 157 And call them meteors, prodigies, and signs,
JN 3.4. 158 Abortives, presages, and tongues of heaven
JN 3.4. 159 Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.
JN 3.4. 160
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Maybe he will not touch young Arthur's life,
JN 3.4. 161 But hold himself safe in his prisonment.
JN 3.4. 162
JN-PANDOLF
O sir, when he shall hear of your approach,
JN 3.4. 163 If that young Arthur be not gone already,
JN 3.4. 164 Even at that news he dies; and then the hearts
JN 3.4. 165 Of all his people shall revolt from him,
JN 3.4. 166 And kiss the lips of unacquainted change,
JN 3.4. 167 And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath
JN 3.4. 168 Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John.
JN 3.4. 169 Methinks I see this hurly all on foot,
JN 3.4. 170 And O, what better matter breeds for you
JN 3.4. 171 Than I have named! The Bastard Falconbridge
JN 3.4. 172 Is now in England, ransacking the Church,
JN 3.4. 173 Offending charity. If but a dozen French
JN 3.4. 174 Were there in arms, they would be as a call
JN 3.4. 175 To train ten thousand English to their side,
JN 3.4. 176 Or as a little snow tumbled about
JN 3.4. 177 Anon becomes a mountain. O noble Dauphin,
JN 3.4. 178 Go with me to the King. 'Tis wonderful
JN 3.4. 179 What may be wrought out of their discontent
JN 3.4. 180 Now that their souls are top-full of offence.
JN 3.4. 181 For England, go! I will whet on the King.
JN 3.4. 182
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Strong reasons make strange actions. Let us go.
JN 3.4. 183 If you say ay, the King will not say no. {Exeunt}
JN 3.4. 0 {Enter Hubert, and Executioners with a rope and +
JN 4.1. 0 irons}
JN 4.1. 1
JN-HUBERT
Heat me these irons hot, and look thou stand
JN 4.1. 2 Within the arras. When I strike my foot
JN 4.1. 3 Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth
JN 4.1. 4 And bind the boy which you shall find with me
JN 4.1. 5 Fast to the chair. Be heedful. Hence, and watch!
JN 4.1. 6
JN-EXECUTIONER
I hope your warrant will bear out the deed.
JN 4.1. 7
JN-HUBERT
Uncleanly scruples: fear not you. Look to 't! {[The +
JN 4.1. 7 Executioners withdraw behind the arras]}
JN 4.1. 8 Young lad, come forth, I have to say with you. {Enter +
JN 4.1. 8 Arthur Duke of Brittaine}
JN 4.1. 9B
JN-ARTHUR
Good morrow, Hubert.
JN-HUBERT
Good morrow, little +
JN 4.1. 9B Prince.
JN 4.1. 10
JN-ARTHUR
As little prince, having so great a title
JN 4.1. 11 To be more prince, as may be. You are sad.
JN 4.1. 12B
JN-HUBERT
Indeed I have been merrier.
JN-ARTHUR
Mercy on me!
JN 4.1. 13 Methinks nobody should be sad but I.
JN 4.1. 14 Yet I remember, when I was in France,
JN 4.1. 15 Young gentlemen would be as sad as night
JN 4.1. 16 Only for wantonness. By my christendom,
JN 4.1. 17 So I were out of prison and kept sheep,
JN 4.1. 18 I should be as merry as the day is long;
JN 4.1. 19 And so I would be here, but that I doubt
JN 4.1. 20 My uncle practises more harm to me.
JN 4.1. 21 He is afraid of me, and I of him.
JN 4.1. 22 Is it my fault that I was Geoffrey's son?
JN 4.1. 23 No, indeed is 't not, and I would to God
JN 4.1. 24 I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.
JN 4.1. 25
JN-HUBERT
{(aside)} If I talk to him, with his +
JN 4.1. 25 innocent prate
JN 4.1. 26 He will awake my mercy, which lies dead;
JN 4.1. 27 Therefore I will be sudden, and dispatch.
JN 4.1. 28
JN-ARTHUR
Are you sick, Hubert? You look pale today.
JN 4.1. 29 In sooth, I would you were a little sick,
JN 4.1. 30 That I might sit all night and watch with you.
JN 4.1. 31 I warrant I love you more than you do me.
JN 4.1. 32
JN-HUBERT
{(aside)} His words do take possession of +
JN 4.1. 32 my bosom. {He shows Arthur a paper}
JN 4.1. 33 Read here, young Arthur. {(Aside)} How now: +
JN 4.1. 33 foolish rheum,
JN 4.1. 34 Turning dispiteous torture out of door?
JN 4.1. 35 I must be brief, lest resolution drop
JN 4.1. 36 Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.
JN 4.1. 37 {(To Arthur)} Can you not read it? Is it not fair +
JN 4.1. 37 writ?
JN 4.1. 38
JN-ARTHUR
Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect.
JN 4.1. 39 Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?
JN 4.1. 40B
JN-HUBERT
Young boy, I must.
JN-ARTHUR
And will you?
JN-HUBERT
And I +
JN 4.1. 40B will.
JN 4.1. 41
JN-ARTHUR
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache
JN 4.1. 42 I knit my handkerchief about your brows,
JN 4.1. 43 The best I had - a princess wrought it me,
JN 4.1. 44 And I did never ask it you again -
JN 4.1. 45 And with my hand at midnight held your head,
JN 4.1. 46 And like the watchful minutes to the hour
JN 4.1. 47 Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,
JN 4.1. 48 Saying `What lack you?' and `Where lies your grief?'
JN 4.1. 49 Or `What good love may I perform for you?'
JN 4.1. 50 Many a poor man's son would have lain still
JN 4.1. 51 And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you,
JN 4.1. 52 But you at your sick service had a prince.
JN 4.1. 53 Nay, you may think my love was crafty love,
JN 4.1. 54 And call it cunning. Do, an if you will.
JN 4.1. 55 If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,
JN 4.1. 56 Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes,
JN 4.1. 57 These eyes that never did, nor never shall,
JN 4.1. 58B So much as frown on you?
JN-HUBERT
I have sworn to do it,
JN 4.1. 59 And with hot irons must I burn them out.
JN 4.1. 60
JN-ARTHUR
Ah, none but in this iron age would do it.
JN 4.1. 61 The iron of itself, though heat red hot,
JN 4.1. 62 Approaching near these eyes would drink my tears,
JN 4.1. 63 And quench his fiery indignation
JN 4.1. 64 Even in the matter of mine innocence;
JN 4.1. 65 Nay, after that, consume away in rust,
JN 4.1. 66 But for containing fire to harm mine eye.
JN 4.1. 67 Are you more stubborn-hard than hammered iron?
JN 4.1. 68 An if an angel should have come to me
JN 4.1. 69 And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,
JN 4.1. 70 I would not have believed him; no tongue but Hubert's. {Hubert +
JN 4.1. 70 stamps his foot}
JN 4.1. 71B
JN-HUBERT
Come forth! {The Executioners come +
JN 4.1. 71B forth} Do as I bid you do.
JN 4.1. 72
JN-ARTHUR
O, save me, Hubert, save me! My eyes are out
JN 4.1. 73 Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.
JN 4.1. 74
JN-HUBERT
{(to the Executioners)} Give me the iron, I +
JN 4.1. 74 say, and bind him here. {He takes the iron}
JN 4.1. 75
JN-ARTHUR
Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough?
JN 4.1. 76 I will not struggle; I will stand stone-still.
JN 4.1. 77 For God's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound.
JN 4.1. 78 Nay, hear me, Hubert! Drive these men away,
JN 4.1. 79 And I will sit as quiet as a lamb;
JN 4.1. 80 I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,
JN 4.1. 81 Nor look upon the iron angerly.
JN 4.1. 82 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you,
JN 4.1. 83 Whatever torment you do put me to.
JN 4.1. 84
JN-HUBERT
{(to the Executioners)} Go stand within. +
JN 4.1. 84 Let me alone with him.
JN 4.1. 85
JN-EXECUTIONER
I am best pleased to be from such a deed. +
JN 4.1. 85 {Exeunt Executioners}
JN 4.1. 86
JN-ARTHUR
Alas, I then have chid away my friend!
JN 4.1. 87 He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart.
JN 4.1. 88 Let him come back, that his compassion may
JN 4.1. 89B Give life to yours.
JN-HUBERT
Come, boy, prepare yourself.
JN 4.1. 90B
JN-ARTHUR
Is there no remedy?
JN-HUBERT
None but to lose your eyes.
JN 4.1. 91
JN-ARTHUR
O God, that there were but a mote in yours,
JN 4.1. 92 A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
JN 4.1. 93 Any annoyance in that precious sense,
JN 4.1. 94 Then, feeling what small things are boisterous there,
JN 4.1. 95 Your vile intent must needs seem horrible.
JN 4.1. 96
JN-HUBERT
Is this your promise? Go to, hold your tongue!
JN 4.1. 97
JN-ARTHUR
Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues
JN 4.1. 98 Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes.
JN 4.1. 99 Let me not hold my tongue, let me not, Hubert;
JN 4.1. 100 Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,
JN 4.1. 101 So I may keep mine eyes. O, spare mine eyes,
JN 4.1. 102 Though to no use but still to look on you.
JN 4.1. 103 Lo, by my troth, the instrument is cold
JN 4.1. 104B And would not harm me.
JN-HUBERT
I can heat it, boy.
JN 4.1. 105
JN-ARTHUR
No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief,
JN 4.1. 106 Being create for comfort, to be used
JN 4.1. 107 In undeserved extremes. See else yourself.
JN 4.1. 108 There is no malice in this burning coal;
JN 4.1. 109 The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit out,
JN 4.1. 110 And strewed repentant ashes on his head.
JN 4.1. 111
JN-HUBERT
But with my breath I can revive it, boy.
JN 4.1. 112
JN-ARTHUR
An if you do, you will but make it blush
JN 4.1. 113 And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert.
JN 4.1. 114 Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes,
JN 4.1. 115 And like a dog that is compelled to fight,
JN 4.1. 116 Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.
JN 4.1. 117 All things that you should use to do me wrong
JN 4.1. 118 Deny their office; only you do lack
JN 4.1. 119 That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,
JN 4.1. 120 Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.
JN 4.1. 121
JN-HUBERT
Well, see to live. I will not touch thine eye
JN 4.1. 122 For all the treasure that thine uncle owes.
JN 4.1. 123 Yet am I sworn, and I did purpose, boy,
JN 4.1. 124 With this same very iron to burn them out.
JN 4.1. 125
JN-ARTHUR
O, now you look like Hubert. All this while
JN 4.1. 126B You were disguised.
JN-HUBERT
Peace, no more. Adieu.
JN 4.1. 127 Your uncle must not know but you are dead.
JN 4.1. 128 I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports;
JN 4.1. 129 And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure
JN 4.1. 130 That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,
JN 4.1. 131B Will not offend thee.
JN-ARTHUR
O God! I thank you, Hubert.
JN 4.1. 132
JN-HUBERT
Silence, no more. Go closely in with me.
JN 4.1. 133 Much danger do I undergo for thee. {Exeunt}
JN 4.1. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King John, the Earls of Pembroke and +
JN 4.2. 0 Salisbury, and other lords. King John ascends the throne}
JN 4.2. 1
JN-KING JOHN
Here once again we sit, once again crowned,
JN 4.2. 2 And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes.
JN 4.2. 3
JN-PEMBROKE
This `once again', but that your highness pleased,
JN 4.2. 4 Was once superfluous. You were crowned before,
JN 4.2. 5 And that high royalty was ne'er plucked off,
JN 4.2. 6 The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt;
JN 4.2. 7 Fresh expectation troubled not the land
JN 4.2. 8 With any longed-for change or better state.
JN 4.2. 9
JN-SALISBURY
Therefore to be possessed with double pomp,
JN 4.2. 10 To guard a title that was rich before,
JN 4.2. 11 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
JN 4.2. 12 To throw a perfume on the violet,
JN 4.2. 13 To smooth the ice, or add another hue
JN 4.2. 14 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
JN 4.2. 15 To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
JN 4.2. 16 Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
JN 4.2. 17
JN-PEMBROKE
But that your royal pleasure must be done,
JN 4.2. 18 This act is as an ancient tale new-told,
JN 4.2. 19 And in the last repeating troublesome,
JN 4.2. 20 Being urged at a time unseasonable.
JN 4.2. 21
JN-SALISBURY
In this the antique and well-noted face
JN 4.2. 22 Of plain old form is much disfigured,
JN 4.2. 23 And like a shifted wind unto a sail,
JN 4.2. 24 It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about,
JN 4.2. 25 Startles and frights consideration,
JN 4.2. 26 Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected
JN 4.2. 27 For putting on so new a fashioned robe.
JN 4.2. 28
JN-PEMBROKE
When workmen strive to do better than well,
JN 4.2. 29 They do confound their skill in covetousness;
JN 4.2. 30 And oftentimes excusing of a fault
JN 4.2. 31 Doth make the fault the worser by th' excuse;
JN 4.2. 32 As patches set upon a little breach
JN 4.2. 33 Discredit more in hiding of the fault
JN 4.2. 34 Than did the fault before it was so patched.
JN 4.2. 35
JN-SALISBURY
To this effect: before you were new-crowned
JN 4.2. 36 We breathed our counsel, but it pleased your highness
JN 4.2. 37 To overbear it; and we are all well pleased,
JN 4.2. 38 Since all and every part of what we would
JN 4.2. 39 Doth make a stand at what your highness will.
JN 4.2. 40
JN-KING JOHN
Some reasons of this double coronation
JN 4.2. 41 I have possessed you with, and think them strong.
JN 4.2. 42 And more, more strong, when lesser is my fear
JN 4.2. 43 I shall endue you with. Meantime but ask
JN 4.2. 44 What you would have reformed that is not well,
JN 4.2. 45 And well shall you perceive how willingly
JN 4.2. 46 I will both hear and grant you your requests.
JN 4.2. 47
JN-PEMBROKE
Then I, as one that am the tongue of these
JN 4.2. 48 To sound the purposes of all their hearts,
JN 4.2. 49 Both for myself and them, but chief of all
JN 4.2. 50 Your safety, for the which myself and them
JN 4.2. 51 Bend their best studies, heartily request
JN 4.2. 52 Th' enfranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint
JN 4.2. 53 Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent
JN 4.2. 54 To break into this dangerous argument:
JN 4.2. 55 If what in rest you have, in right you hold,
JN 4.2. 56 Why then your fears - which, as they say, attend
JN 4.2. 57 The steps of wrong - should move you to mew up
JN 4.2. 58 Your tender kinsman, and to choke his days
JN 4.2. 59 With barbarous ignorance, and deny his youth
JN 4.2. 60 The rich advantage of good exercise?
JN 4.2. 61 That the time's enemies may not have this
JN 4.2. 62 To grace occasions, let it be our suit
JN 4.2. 63 That you have bid us ask, his liberty;
JN 4.2. 64 Which for our goods we do no further ask
JN 4.2. 65 Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,
JN 4.2. 66 Counts it your weal he have his liberty. {Enter Hubert}
JN 4.2. 67
JN-KING JOHN
Let it be so. I do commit his youth
JN 4.2. 68 To your direction. - Hubert, what news with you? {He takes Hubert +
JN 4.2. 68 aside}
JN 4.2. 69
JN-PEMBROKE
This is the man should do the bloody deed:
JN 4.2. 70 He showed his warrant to a friend of mine.
JN 4.2. 71 The image of a wicked heinous fault
JN 4.2. 72 Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his
JN 4.2. 73 Does show the mood of a much troubled breast;
JN 4.2. 74 And I do fearfully believe 'tis done
JN 4.2. 75 What we so feared he had a charge to do.
JN 4.2. 76
JN-SALISBURY
The colour of the King doth come and go
JN 4.2. 77 Between his purpose and his conscience,
JN 4.2. 78 Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set.
JN 4.2. 79 His passion is so ripe it needs must break.
JN 4.2. 80
JN-PEMBROKE
And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence
JN 4.2. 81 The foul corruption of a sweet child's death.
JN 4.2. 82
JN-KING JOHN
{(coming forward)} We cannot hold +
JN 4.2. 82 mortality's strong hand.
JN 4.2. 83 Good lords, although my will to give is living,
JN 4.2. 84 The suit which you demand is gone and dead.
JN 4.2. 85 He tells us Arthur is deceased tonight.
JN 4.2. 86
JN-SALISBURY
Indeed we feared his sickness was past cure.
JN 4.2. 87
JN-PEMBROKE
Indeed we heard how near his death he was,
JN 4.2. 88 Before the child himself felt he was sick.
JN 4.2. 89 This must be answered, either here or hence.
JN 4.2. 90
JN-KING JOHN
Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?
JN 4.2. 91 Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
JN 4.2. 92 Have I commandment on the pulse of life?
JN 4.2. 93
JN-SALISBURY
It is apparent foul play, and 'tis shame
JN 4.2. 94 That greatness should so grossly offer it.
JN 4.2. 95 So thrive it in your game; and so, farewell.
JN 4.2. 96
JN-PEMBROKE
Stay yet, Lord Salisbury; I'll go with thee,
JN 4.2. 97 And find th' inheritance of this poor child,
JN 4.2. 98 His little kingdom of a forced grave.
JN 4.2. 99 That blood which owed the breadth of all this isle
JN 4.2. 100 Three foot of it doth hold. Bad world the while.
JN 4.2. 101 This must not be thus borne. This will break out
JN 4.2. 102 To all our sorrows; and ere long, I doubt. {Exeunt Pembroke, +
JN 4.2. 102 Salisbury, [and other lords]}
JN 4.2. 103
JN-KING JOHN
They burn in indignation. I repent.
JN 4.2. 104 There is no sure foundation set on blood,
JN 4.2. 105 No certain life achieved by others' death. {Enter a Messenger}
JN 4.2. 106 A fearful eye thou hast. Where is that blood
JN 4.2. 107 That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?
JN 4.2. 108 So foul a sky clears not without a storm;
JN 4.2. 109 Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?
JN 4.2. 110
JN-MESSENGER
From France to England. Never such a power
JN 4.2. 111 For any foreign preparation
JN 4.2. 112 Was levied in the body of a land.
JN 4.2. 113 The copy of your speed is learned by them,
JN 4.2. 114 For when you should be told they do prepare,
JN 4.2. 115 The tidings comes that they are all arrived.
JN 4.2. 116
JN-KING JOHN
O, where hath our intelligence been drunk?
JN 4.2. 117 Where hath it slept? Where is my mother's ear,
JN 4.2. 118 That such an army could be drawn in France,
JN 4.2. 119B And she not hear of it?
JN-MESSENGER
My liege, her ear
JN 4.2. 120 Is stopped with dust. The first of April died
JN 4.2. 121 Your noble mother. And as I hear, my lord,
JN 4.2. 122 The Lady Constance in a frenzy died
JN 4.2. 123 Three days before; but this from rumour's tongue
JN 4.2. 124 I idly heard; if true or false I know not.
JN 4.2. 125
JN-KING JOHN
Withhold thy speed, dreadful Occasion;
JN 4.2. 126 O, make a league with me till I have pleased
JN 4.2. 127 My discontented peers. What, Mother dead?
JN 4.2. 128 How wildly then walks my estate in France! -
JN 4.2. 129 Under whose conduct came those powers of France
JN 4.2. 130 That thou for truth giv'st out are landed here?
JN 4.2. 131B
JN-MESSENGER
Under the Dauphin. {Enter the Bastard and Peter of +
JN 4.2. 131B Pomfret}
JN-KING JOHN
Thou hast made me giddy
JN 4.2. 132 With these ill tidings. {(To the Bastard)} Now, what +
JN 4.2. 132 says the world
JN 4.2. 133 To your proceedings? Do not seek to stuff
JN 4.2. 134 My head with more ill news, for it is full.
JN 4.2. 135
JN-BASTARD
But if you be afeard to hear the worst,
JN 4.2. 136 Then let the worst, unheard, fall on your head.
JN 4.2. 137
JN-KING JOHN
Bear with me, cousin, for I was amazed
JN 4.2. 138 Under the tide; but now I breathe again
JN 4.2. 139 Aloft the flood, and can give audience
JN 4.2. 140 To any tongue, speak it of what it will.
JN 4.2. 141
JN-BASTARD
How I have sped among the clergymen
JN 4.2. 142 The sums I have collected shall express.
JN 4.2. 143 But as I travelled hither through the land,
JN 4.2. 144 I find the people strangely fantasied,
JN 4.2. 145 Possessed with rumours, full of idle dreams,
JN 4.2. 146 Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
JN 4.2. 147 And here's a prophet that I brought with me
JN 4.2. 148 From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found
JN 4.2. 149 With many hundreds treading on his heels;
JN 4.2. 150 To whom he sung, in rude, harsh-sounding rhymes,
JN 4.2. 151 That ere the next Ascension Day at noon
JN 4.2. 152 Your highness should deliver up your crown.
JN 4.2. 153
JN-KING JOHN
Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so?
JN 4.2. 154
JN-PETER OF POMFRET
Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so.
JN 4.2. 155
JN-KING JOHN
Hubert, away with him! Imprison him,
JN 4.2. 156 And on that day, at noon, whereon he says
JN 4.2. 157 I shall yield up my crown, let him be hanged.
JN 4.2. 158 Deliver him to safety, and return,
JN 4.2. 159B For I must use thee. {Exeunt Hubert and Peter of +
JN 4.2. 159B Pomfret} O my gentle cousin,
JN 4.2. 160 Hear'st thou the news abroad, who are arrived?
JN 4.2. 161
JN-BASTARD
The French, my lord: men's mouths are full of it.
JN 4.2. 162 Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury
JN 4.2. 163 With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,
JN 4.2. 164 And others more, going to seek the grave
JN 4.2. 165 Of Arthur, whom they say is killed tonight
JN 4.2. 166B On your suggestion.
JN-KING JOHN
Gentle kinsman, go
JN 4.2. 167 And thrust thyself into their companies.
JN 4.2. 168 I have a way to win their loves again.
JN 4.2. 169B Bring them before me.
JN-BASTARD
I will seek them out.
JN 4.2. 170
JN-KING JOHN
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
JN 4.2. 171 O, let me have no subject enemies
JN 4.2. 172 When adverse foreigners affright my towns
JN 4.2. 173 With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!
JN 4.2. 174 Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels,
JN 4.2. 175 And fly like thought from them to me again.
JN 4.2. 176
JN-BASTARD
The spirit of the time shall teach me speed. {Exit}
JN 4.2. 177
JN-KING JOHN
Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman! -
JN 4.2. 178 Go after him, for he perhaps shall need
JN 4.2. 179 Some messenger betwixt me and the peers,
JN 4.2. 180 And be thou he.
JN 4.2. 181A
JN-MESSENGER
With all my heart, my liege. {Exit}
JN 4.2. 182A
JN-KING JOHN
My mother dead! {Enter Hubert}
JN 4.2. 183
JN-HUBERT
My lord, they say five moons were seen tonight,
JN 4.2. 184 Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about
JN 4.2. 185 The other four in wondrous motion.
JN 4.2. 186B
JN-KING JOHN
Five moons?
JN-HUBERT
Old men and beldams in the streets
JN 4.2. 187 Do prophesy upon it dangerously.
JN 4.2. 188 Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths,
JN 4.2. 189 And when they talk of him they shake their heads,
JN 4.2. 190 And whisper one another in the ear;
JN 4.2. 191 And he that speaks doth grip the hearer's wrist,
JN 4.2. 192 Whilst he that hears makes fearful action,
JN 4.2. 193 With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.
JN 4.2. 194 I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
JN 4.2. 195 The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
JN 4.2. 196 With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news,
JN 4.2. 197 Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,
JN 4.2. 198 Standing on slippers which his nimble haste
JN 4.2. 199 Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,
JN 4.2. 200 Told of a many thousand warlike French
JN 4.2. 201 That were embattailed and ranked in Kent.
JN 4.2. 202 Another lean unwashed artificer
JN 4.2. 203 Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
JN 4.2. 204
JN-KING JOHN
Why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears?
JN 4.2. 205 Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death?
JN 4.2. 206 Thy hand hath murdered him. I had a mighty cause
JN 4.2. 207 To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him.
JN 4.2. 208
JN-HUBERT
No had, my lord? Why, did you not provoke me?
JN 4.2. 209
JN-KING JOHN
It is the curse of kings to be attended
JN 4.2. 210 By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
JN 4.2. 211 To break within the bloody house of life,
JN 4.2. 212 And on the winking of authority
JN 4.2. 213 To understand a law, to know the meaning
JN 4.2. 214 Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns
JN 4.2. 215 More upon humour than advised respect.
JN 4.2. 216
JN-HUBERT
Here is your hand and seal for what I did. {He shows +
JN 4.2. 216 a paper}
JN 4.2. 217
JN-KING JOHN
O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and +
JN 4.2. 217 earth
JN 4.2. 218 Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal
JN 4.2. 219 Witness against us to damnation!
JN 4.2. 220 How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
JN 4.2. 221 Make deeds ill done! Hadst not thou been by,
JN 4.2. 222 A fellow by the hand of nature marked,
JN 4.2. 223 Quoted, and signed to do a deed of shame,
JN 4.2. 224 This murder had not come into my mind.
JN 4.2. 225 But taking note of thy abhorred aspect,
JN 4.2. 226 Finding thee fit for bloody villainy,
JN 4.2. 227 Apt, liable to be employed in danger,
JN 4.2. 228 I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death;
JN 4.2. 229 And thou, to be endeared to a king,
JN 4.2. 230 Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.
JN 4.2. 231A
JN-HUBERT
My lord -
JN 4.2. 232
JN-KING JOHN
Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause
JN 4.2. 233 When I spake darkly what I purposed,
JN 4.2. 234 Or turned an eye of doubt upon my face,
JN 4.2. 235 As bid me tell my tale in express words,
JN 4.2. 236 Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off,
JN 4.2. 237 And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me.
JN 4.2. 238 But thou didst understand me by my signs,
JN 4.2. 239 And didst in signs again parley with sin;
JN 4.2. 240 Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,
JN 4.2. 241 And consequently thy rude hand to act
JN 4.2. 242 The deed which both our tongues held vile to name.
JN 4.2. 243 Out of my sight, and never see me more!
JN 4.2. 244 My nobles leave me, and my state is braved,
JN 4.2. 245 Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers;
JN 4.2. 246 Nay, in the body of this fleshly land,
JN 4.2. 247 This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,
JN 4.2. 248 Hostility and civil tumult reigns
JN 4.2. 249 Between my conscience and my cousin's death.
JN 4.2. 250
JN-HUBERT
Arm you against your other enemies;
JN 4.2. 251 I'll make a peace between your soul and you.
JN 4.2. 252 Young Arthur is alive. This hand of mine
JN 4.2. 253 Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,
JN 4.2. 254 Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
JN 4.2. 255 Within this bosom never entered yet
JN 4.2. 256 The dreadful motion of a murderous thought;
JN 4.2. 257 And you have slandered nature in my form,
JN 4.2. 258 Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,
JN 4.2. 259 Is yet the cover of a fairer mind
JN 4.2. 260 Than to be butcher of an innocent child.
JN 4.2. 261
JN-KING JOHN
Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers;
JN 4.2. 262 Throw this report on their incensed rage,
JN 4.2. 263 And make them tame to their obedience.
JN 4.2. 264 Forgive the comment that my passion made
JN 4.2. 265 Upon thy feature, for my rage was blind,
JN 4.2. 266 And foul imaginary eyes of blood
JN 4.2. 267 Presented thee more hideous than thou art.
JN 4.2. 268 O, answer not, but to my closet bring
JN 4.2. 269 The angry lords with all expedient haste.
JN 4.2. 270 I conjure thee but slowly; run more fast. {Exeunt [severally]}
JN 4.2. 0 {Enter Arthur Duke of Brittaine on the walls, disguised +
JN 4.3. 0 as a ship-boy}
JN 4.3. 1
JN-ARTHUR
The wall is high, and yet will I leap down.
JN 4.3. 2 Good ground, be pitiful, and hurt me not.
JN 4.3. 3 There's few or none do know me; if they did,
JN 4.3. 4 This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite.
JN 4.3. 5 I am afraid, and yet I'll venture it.
JN 4.3. 6 If I get down and do not break my limbs,
JN 4.3. 7 I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
JN 4.3. 8 As good to die and go, as die and stay. {He leaps down}
JN 4.3. 9 O me! My uncle's spirit is in these stones.
JN 4.3. 10 Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones! {He dies}
JN 4.3. 11 {Enter the Earls of Pembroke and Salisbury, and Lord +
JN 4.3. 11 Bigot}
JN-SALISBURY
Lords, I will meet him at Saint +
JN 4.3. 11 Edmundsbury.
JN 4.3. 12 It is our safety, and we must embrace
JN 4.3. 13 This gentle offer of the perilous time.
JN 4.3. 14
JN-PEMBROKE
Who brought that letter from the Cardinal?
JN 4.3. 15
JN-SALISBURY
The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,
JN 4.3. 16 Who's private with me of the Dauphin's love;
JN 4.3. 17 'Tis much more general than these lines import.
JN 4.3. 18
JN-BIGOT
Tomorrow morning let us meet him then.
JN 4.3. 19
JN-SALISBURY
Or rather, then set forward, for 'twill be
JN 4.3. 20 Two long days' journey, lords, or ere we meet. {Enter the +
JN 4.3. 20 Bastard}
JN 4.3. 21
JN-BASTARD
Once more today well met, distempered lords.
JN 4.3. 22 The King by me requests your presence straight.
JN 4.3. 23
JN-SALISBURY
The King hath dispossessed himself of us.
JN 4.3. 24 We will not line his thin bestained cloak
JN 4.3. 25 With our pure honours, nor attend the foot
JN 4.3. 26 That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.
JN 4.3. 27 Return and tell him so; we know the worst.
JN 4.3. 28
JN-BASTARD
Whate'er you think, good words I think were best.
JN 4.3. 29
JN-SALISBURY
Our griefs and not our manners reason now.
JN 4.3. 30
JN-BASTARD
But there is little reason in your grief.
JN 4.3. 31 Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now.
JN 4.3. 32
JN-PEMBROKE
Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege.
JN 4.3. 33
JN-BASTARD
'Tis true - to hurt his master, no man else.
JN 4.3. 34B
JN-SALISBURY
This is the prison. {He sees Arthur's +
JN 4.3. 34B body} What is he lies here?
JN 4.3. 35
JN-PEMBROKE
O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
JN 4.3. 36 The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.
JN 4.3. 37
JN-SALISBURY
Murder, as hating what himself hath done,
JN 4.3. 38 Doth lay it open to urge on revenge.
JN 4.3. 39
JN-BIGOT
Or when he doomed this beauty to a grave,
JN 4.3. 40 Found it too precious-princely for a grave.
JN 4.3. 41
JN-SALISBURY
{(to the Bastard)} Sir Richard, what +
JN 4.3. 41 think you? You have beheld.
JN 4.3. 42 Or have you read or heard; or could you think,
JN 4.3. 43 Or do you almost think, although you see,
JN 4.3. 44 That you do see? Could thought, without this object,
JN 4.3. 45 Form such another? This is the very top,
JN 4.3. 46 The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,
JN 4.3. 47 Of murder's arms; this is the bloodiest shame,
JN 4.3. 48 The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke
JN 4.3. 49 That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
JN 4.3. 50 Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
JN 4.3. 51
JN-PEMBROKE
All murders past do stand excused in this,
JN 4.3. 52 And this, so sole and so unmatchable,
JN 4.3. 53 Shall give a holiness, a purity,
JN 4.3. 54 To the yet-unbegotten sin of times,
JN 4.3. 55 And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,
JN 4.3. 56 Exampled by this heinous spectacle.
JN 4.3. 57
JN-BASTARD
It is a damned and a bloody work,
JN 4.3. 58 The graceless action of a heavy hand -
JN 4.3. 59 If that it be the work of any hand.
JN 4.3. 60
JN-SALISBURY
If that it be the work of any hand?
JN 4.3. 61 We had a kind of light what would ensue:
JN 4.3. 62 It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand,
JN 4.3. 63 The practice and the purpose of the King;
JN 4.3. 64 From whose obedience I forbid my soul,
JN 4.3. 65 Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,
JN 4.3. 66 And breathing to his breathless excellence
JN 4.3. 67 The incense of a vow, a holy vow,
JN 4.3. 68 Never to taste the pleasures of the world,
JN 4.3. 69 Never to be infected with delight,
JN 4.3. 70 Nor conversant with ease and idleness,
JN 4.3. 71 Till I have set a glory to this hand
JN 4.3. 72 By giving it the worship of revenge.
JN 4.3. 73
JN-PEMBROKE
JN-AND
JN-BIGOT
Our souls religiously confirm thy words.+
JN 4.3. 73 {Enter Hubert}
JN 4.3. 74
JN-HUBERT
Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you.
JN 4.3. 75 Arthur doth live; the King hath sent for you.
JN 4.3. 76
JN-SALISBURY
O, he is bold, and blushes not at death! -
JN 4.3. 77 Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!
JN 4.3. 78B
JN-HUBERT
I am no villain.
JN-SALISBURY
Must I rob the law? {He +
JN 4.3. 78B draws his sword}
JN 4.3. 79
JN-BASTARD
Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again.
JN 4.3. 80
JN-SALISBURY
Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin.
JN 4.3. 81
JN-HUBERT
{(drawing his sword)} Stand back, Lord +
JN 4.3. 81 Salisbury, stand back, I say!
JN 4.3. 82 By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours.
JN 4.3. 83 I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,
JN 4.3. 84 Nor tempt the danger of my true defence,
JN 4.3. 85 Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget
JN 4.3. 86 Your worth, your greatness and nobility.
JN 4.3. 87
JN-BIGOT
Out, dunghill! Dar'st thou brave a nobleman?
JN 4.3. 88
JN-HUBERT
Not for my life; but yet I dare defend
JN 4.3. 89 My innocent life against an emperor.
JN 4.3. 90B
JN-SALISBURY
Thou art a murderer.
JN-HUBERT
Do not prove me so;
JN 4.3. 91 Yet I am none. Whose tongue soe'er speaks false,
JN 4.3. 92 Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.
JN 4.3. 93B
JN-PEMBROKE
Cut him to pieces!
JN-BASTARD
{(drawing his +
JN 4.3. 93B sword)} Keep the peace, I say!
JN 4.3. 94
JN-SALISBURY
Stand by, or I shall gall you, Falconbridge.
JN 4.3. 95
JN-BASTARD
Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury.
JN 4.3. 96 If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,
JN 4.3. 97 Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,
JN 4.3. 98 I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime,
JN 4.3. 99 Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron
JN 4.3. 100 That you shall think the devil is come from hell.
JN 4.3. 101
JN-BIGOT
What wilt thou do, renowned Falconbridge,
JN 4.3. 102 Second a villain and a murderer?
JN 4.3. 103B
JN-HUBERT
Lord Bigot, I am none.
JN-BIGOT
Who killed this prince?
JN 4.3. 104
JN-HUBERT
'Tis not an hour since I left him well.
JN 4.3. 105 I honoured him, I loved him, and will weep
JN 4.3. 106 My date of life out for his sweet life's loss.
JN 4.3. 107
JN-SALISBURY
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
JN 4.3. 108 For villainy is not without such rheum,
JN 4.3. 109 And he, long traded in it, makes it seem
JN 4.3. 110 Like rivers of remorse and innocency.
JN 4.3. 111 Away with me, all you whose souls abhor
JN 4.3. 112 Th' uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house,
JN 4.3. 113 For I am stifled with this smell of sin.
JN 4.3. 114
JN-BIGOT
Away toward Bury, to the Dauphin there.
JN 4.3. 115
JN-PEMBROKE
There, tell the King, he may enquire us out. +
JN 4.3. 115 {Exeunt Pembroke, Salisbury, and Bigot}
JN 4.3. 116
JN-BASTARD
Here's a good world! Knew you of this fair work?
JN 4.3. 117 Beyond the infinite and boundless reach
JN 4.3. 118 Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death
JN 4.3. 119 Art thou damned, Hubert.
JN 4.3. 120A
JN-HUBERT
Do but hear me, sir.
JN 4.3. 121A
JN-BASTARD
Ha! I'll tell thee what:
JN 4.3. 122 Thou'rt damned as black - nay nothing is so black -
JN 4.3. 123 Thou art more deep damned than Prince Lucifer;
JN 4.3. 124 There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell
JN 4.3. 125 As thou shalt be if thou didst kill this child.
JN 4.3. 126B
JN-HUBERT
Upon my soul -
JN-BASTARD
If thou didst but consent
JN 4.3. 127 To this most cruel act, do but despair;
JN 4.3. 128 And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread
JN 4.3. 129 That ever spider twisted from her womb
JN 4.3. 130 Will serve to strangle thee; a rush will be a beam
JN 4.3. 131 To hang thee on; or wouldst thou drown thyself,
JN 4.3. 132 Put but a little water in a spoon
JN 4.3. 133 And it shall be, as all the ocean,
JN 4.3. 134 Enough to stifle such a villain up.
JN 4.3. 135 I do suspect thee very grievously.
JN 4.3. 136
JN-HUBERT
If I in act, consent, or sin of thought
JN 4.3. 137 Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
JN 4.3. 138 Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,
JN 4.3. 139 Let hell want pains enough to torture me.
JN 4.3. 140B I left him well.
JN-BASTARD
Go bear him in thine arms.
JN 4.3. 141 I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way
JN 4.3. 142 Among the thorns and dangers of this world. {Hubert takes up +
JN 4.3. 142 Arthur in his arms}
JN 4.3. 143 How easy dost thou take all England up!
JN 4.3. 144 From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
JN 4.3. 145 The life, the right, and truth of all this realm
JN 4.3. 146 Is fled to heaven, and England now is left
JN 4.3. 147 To tug and scramble, and to part by th' teeth
JN 4.3. 148 The unowed interest of proud swelling state.
JN 4.3. 149 Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty
JN 4.3. 150 Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest,
JN 4.3. 151 And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace;
JN 4.3. 152 Now powers from home and discontents at home
JN 4.3. 153 Meet in one line, and vast confusion waits,
JN 4.3. 154 As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast,
JN 4.3. 155 The imminent decay of wrested pomp.
JN 4.3. 156 Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can
JN 4.3. 157 Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child,
JN 4.3. 158 And follow me with speed. I'll to the King.
JN 4.3. 159 A thousand businesses are brief in hand,
JN 4.3. 160 And heaven itself doth frown upon the land. {Exeunt [severally]}
JN 4.3. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King John and Cardinal Pandolf, +
JN 5.1. 0 with attendants}
JN 5.1. 1
JN-KING JOHN
{[giving Pandolf the crown]} Thus have I +
JN 5.1. 1 yielded up into your hand
JN 5.1. 2B The circle of my glory.
JN-PANDOLF
{(giving back the +
JN 5.1. 2B crown)} Take again
JN 5.1. 3 From this my hand, as holding of the Pope,
JN 5.1. 4 Your sovereign greatness and authority.
JN 5.1. 5
JN-KING JOHN
Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,
JN 5.1. 6 And from his Holiness use all your power
JN 5.1. 7 To stop their marches 'fore we are enflamed.
JN 5.1. 8 Our discontented counties do revolt,
JN 5.1. 9 Our people quarrel with obedience,
JN 5.1. 10 Swearing allegiance and the love of soul
JN 5.1. 11 To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.
JN 5.1. 12 This inundation of mistempered humour
JN 5.1. 13 Rests by you only to be qualified.
JN 5.1. 14 Then pause not, for the present time's so sick
JN 5.1. 15 That present med'cine must be ministered,
JN 5.1. 16 Or overthrow incurable ensues.
JN 5.1. 17
JN-PANDOLF
It was my breath that blew this tempest up,
JN 5.1. 18 Upon your stubborn usage of the Pope,
JN 5.1. 19 But since you are a gentle convertite,
JN 5.1. 20 My tongue shall hush again this storm of war
JN 5.1. 21 And make fair weather in your blust'ring land.
JN 5.1. 22 On this Ascension Day, remember well,
JN 5.1. 23 Upon your oath of service to the Pope,
JN 5.1. 24 Go I to make the French lay down their arms. {[Exeunt all but +
JN 5.1. 24 King John]}
JN 5.1. 25
JN-KING JOHN
Is this Ascension Day? Did not the prophet
JN 5.1. 26 Say that before Ascension Day at noon
JN 5.1. 27 My crown I should give off? Even so I have.
JN 5.1. 28 I did suppose it should be on constraint,
JN 5.1. 29 But, heaven be thanked, it is but voluntary. {Enter Bastard}
JN 5.1. 30
JN-BASTARD
All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out
JN 5.1. 31 But Dover Castle. London hath received,
JN 5.1. 32 Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers.
JN 5.1. 33 Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone
JN 5.1. 34 To offer service to your enemy;
JN 5.1. 35 And wild amazement hurries up and down
JN 5.1. 36 The little number of your doubtful friends.
JN 5.1. 37
JN-KING JOHN
Would not my lords return to me again
JN 5.1. 38 After they heard young Arthur was alive?
JN 5.1. 39
JN-BASTARD
They found him dead and cast into the streets,
JN 5.1. 40 An empty casket, where the jewel of life
JN 5.1. 41 By some damned hand was robbed and ta'en away.
JN 5.1. 42
JN-KING JOHN
That villain Hubert told me he did live.
JN 5.1. 43
JN-BASTARD
So on my soul he did, for aught he knew.
JN 5.1. 44 But wherefore do you droop? Why look you sad?
JN 5.1. 45 Be great in act as you have been in thought.
JN 5.1. 46 Let not the world see fear and sad distrust
JN 5.1. 47 Govern the motion of a kingly eye.
JN 5.1. 48 Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
JN 5.1. 49 Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
JN 5.1. 50 Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,
JN 5.1. 51 That borrow their behaviours from the great,
JN 5.1. 52 Grow great by your example, and put on
JN 5.1. 53 The dauntless spirit of resolution.
JN 5.1. 54 Away, and glisten like the god of war
JN 5.1. 55 When he intendeth to become the field.
JN 5.1. 56 Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
JN 5.1. 57 What, shall they seek the lion in his den
JN 5.1. 58 And fright him there, and make him tremble there?
JN 5.1. 59 O, let it not be said! Forage, and run
JN 5.1. 60 To meet displeasure farther from the doors,
JN 5.1. 61 And grapple with him ere he come so nigh.
JN 5.1. 62
JN-KING JOHN
The legate of the Pope hath been with me,
JN 5.1. 63 And I have made a happy peace with him,
JN 5.1. 64 And he hath promised to dismiss the powers
JN 5.1. 65B Led by the Dauphin.
JN-BASTARD
O inglorious league!
JN 5.1. 66 Shall we, upon the footing of our land,
JN 5.1. 67 Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
JN 5.1. 68 Insinuation, parley, and base truce
JN 5.1. 69 To arms invasive? Shall a beardless boy,
JN 5.1. 70 A cockered silken wanton, brave our fields
JN 5.1. 71 And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
JN 5.1. 72 Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
JN 5.1. 73 And find no check? Let us, my liege, to arms!
JN 5.1. 74 Perchance the Cardinal cannot make your peace,
JN 5.1. 75 Or if he do, let it at least be said
JN 5.1. 76 They saw we had a purpose of defence.
JN 5.1. 77
JN-KING JOHN
Have thou the ordering of this present time.
JN 5.1. 78
JN-BASTARD
Away, then, with good courage! {[Aside]} +
JN 5.1. 78 Yet I know
JN 5.1. 79 Our party may well meet a prouder foe. {Exeunt}
JN 5.1. 0 {Enter, [marching] in arms, Louis the Dauphin, the Earl +
JN 5.2. 0 of Salisbury, Count Melun, the Earl of Pembroke, and Lord Bigot, with +
JN 5.2. 0 soldiers}
JN 5.2. 1
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,
JN 5.2. 2 And keep it safe for our remembrance.
JN 5.2. 3 Return the precedent to these lords again,
JN 5.2. 4 That having our fair order written down,
JN 5.2. 5 Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes,
JN 5.2. 6 May know wherefore we took the sacrament
JN 5.2. 7 And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.
JN 5.2. 8
JN-SALISBURY
Upon our sides it never shall be broken.
JN 5.2. 9 And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear
JN 5.2. 10 A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith
JN 5.2. 11 To your proceedings, yet believe me, Prince,
JN 5.2. 12 I am not glad that such a sore of time
JN 5.2. 13 Should seek a plaster by contemned revolt,
JN 5.2. 14 And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
JN 5.2. 15 By making many. O, it grieves my soul
JN 5.2. 16 That I must draw this metal from my side
JN 5.2. 17 To be a widow-maker! O, and there
JN 5.2. 18 Where honourable rescue and defence
JN 5.2. 19 Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!
JN 5.2. 20 But such is the infection of the time,
JN 5.2. 21 That for the health and physic of our right,
JN 5.2. 22 We cannot deal but with the very hand
JN 5.2. 23 Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
JN 5.2. 24 And is 't not pity, O my grieved friends,
JN 5.2. 25 That we the sons and children of this isle
JN 5.2. 26 Was born to see so sad an hour as this,
JN 5.2. 27 Wherein we step after a stranger, march
JN 5.2. 28 Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up
JN 5.2. 29 Her enemies' ranks? I must withdraw and weep
JN 5.2. 30 Upon the spot of this enforced cause -
JN 5.2. 31 To grace the gentry of a land remote,
JN 5.2. 32 And follow unacquainted colours here.
JN 5.2. 33 What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove;
JN 5.2. 34 That Neptune's arms who clippeth thee about
JN 5.2. 35 Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself
JN 5.2. 36 And gripple thee unto a pagan shore,
JN 5.2. 37 Where these two Christian armies might combine
JN 5.2. 38 The blood of malice in a vein of league,
JN 5.2. 39 And not to spend it so unneighbourly.
JN 5.2. 40
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
A noble temper dost thou show in this,
JN 5.2. 41 And great affections, wrestling in thy bosom,
JN 5.2. 42 Doth make an earthquake of nobility.
JN 5.2. 43 O, what a noble combat hast thou fought
JN 5.2. 44 Between compulsion and a brave respect!
JN 5.2. 45 Let me wipe off this honourable dew
JN 5.2. 46 That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks.
JN 5.2. 47 My heart hath melted at a lady's tears,
JN 5.2. 48 Being an ordinary inundation;
JN 5.2. 49 But this effusion of such manly drops,
JN 5.2. 50 This shower blown up by tempest of the soul,
JN 5.2. 51 Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed
JN 5.2. 52 Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven
JN 5.2. 53 Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
JN 5.2. 54 Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,
JN 5.2. 55 And with a great heart heave away this storm;
JN 5.2. 56 Commend these waters to those baby eyes
JN 5.2. 57 That never saw the giant world enraged,
JN 5.2. 58 Nor met with Fortune other than at feasts,
JN 5.2. 59 Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossiping.
JN 5.2. 60 Come, come, for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep
JN 5.2. 61 Into the purse of rich prosperity
JN 5.2. 62 As Louis himself. So, nobles, shall you all
JN 5.2. 63 That knit your sinews to the strength of mine.
JN-[A
trumpet +
JN 5.2. 63 sounds]}
JN 5.2. 64 And even there methinks an angel spake! {Enter +
JN 5.2. 64 Cardinal Pandolf}
JN 5.2. 65 Look where the holy legate comes apace,
JN 5.2. 66 To give us warrant from the hand of heaven,
JN 5.2. 67 And on our actions set the name of right
JN 5.2. 68B With holy breath.
JN-PANDOLF
Hail, noble prince of France!
JN 5.2. 69 The next is this. King John hath reconciled
JN 5.2. 70 Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in
JN 5.2. 71 That so stood out against the Holy Church,
JN 5.2. 72 The great metropolis and See of Rome;
JN 5.2. 73 Therefore thy threat'ning colours now wind up,
JN 5.2. 74 And tame the savage spirit of wild war,
JN 5.2. 75 That like a lion fostered up at hand
JN 5.2. 76 It may lie gently at the foot of peace,
JN 5.2. 77 And be no further harmful than in show.
JN 5.2. 78
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Your grace shall pardon me: I will not back.
JN 5.2. 79 I am too high-born to be propertied,
JN 5.2. 80 To be a secondary at control,
JN 5.2. 81 Or useful serving-man and instrument
JN 5.2. 82 To any sovereign state throughout the world.
JN 5.2. 83 Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
JN 5.2. 84 Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
JN 5.2. 85 And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
JN 5.2. 86 And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
JN 5.2. 87 With that same weak wind which enkindled it.
JN 5.2. 88 You taught me how to know the face of right,
JN 5.2. 89 Acquainted me with interest to this land,
JN 5.2. 90 Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;
JN 5.2. 91 And come ye now to tell me John hath made
JN 5.2. 92 His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?
JN 5.2. 93 I, by the honour of my marriage bed,
JN 5.2. 94 After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;
JN 5.2. 95 And now it is half conquered, must I back
JN 5.2. 96 Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?
JN 5.2. 97 Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,
JN 5.2. 98 What men provided, what munition sent
JN 5.2. 99 To underprop this action? Is 't not I
JN 5.2. 100 That undergo this charge? Who else but I,
JN 5.2. 101 And such as to my claim are liable,
JN 5.2. 102 Sweat in this business and maintain this war?
JN 5.2. 103 Have I not heard these islanders shout out
JN 5.2. 104 `Vive le Roi!' as I have banked their towns?
JN 5.2. 105 Have I not here the best cards for the game,
JN 5.2. 106 To win this easy match played for a crown?
JN 5.2. 107 And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?
JN 5.2. 108 No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said.
JN 5.2. 109
JN-PANDOLF
You look but on the outside of this work.
JN 5.2. 110
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Outside or inside, I will not return
JN 5.2. 111 Till my attempt so much be glorified
JN 5.2. 112 As to my ample hope was promised
JN 5.2. 113 Before I drew this gallant head of war,
JN 5.2. 114 And culled these fiery spirits from the world
JN 5.2. 115 To outlook conquest and to win renown
JN 5.2. 116 Even in the jaws of danger and of death. {A trumpet sounds}
JN 5.2. 117 What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us? {Enter the +
JN 5.2. 117 Bastard}
JN 5.2. 118
JN-BASTARD
According to the fair play of the world,
JN 5.2. 119 Let me have audience; I am sent to speak.
JN 5.2. 120 My holy lord of Milan, from the King
JN 5.2. 121 I come to learn how you have dealt for him,
JN 5.2. 122 And as you answer I do know the scope
JN 5.2. 123 And warrant limited unto my tongue.
JN 5.2. 124
JN-PANDOLF
The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,
JN 5.2. 125 And will not temporize with my entreaties.
JN 5.2. 126 He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.
JN 5.2. 127
JN-BASTARD
By all the blood that ever fury breathed,
JN 5.2. 128 The youth says well. Now hear our English king,
JN 5.2. 129 For thus his royalty doth speak in me.
JN 5.2. 130 He is prepared, and reason too he should.
JN 5.2. 131 This apish and unmannerly approach,
JN 5.2. 132 This harnessed masque and unadvised revel,
JN 5.2. 133 This unhaired sauciness and boyish troops,
JN 5.2. 134 The King doth smile at, and is well prepared
JN 5.2. 135 To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,
JN 5.2. 136 From out the circle of his territories.
JN 5.2. 137 That hand which had the strength even at your door
JN 5.2. 138 To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,
JN 5.2. 139 To dive like buckets in concealed wells,
JN 5.2. 140 To crouch in litter of your stable planks,
JN 5.2. 141 To lie like pawns locked up in chests and trunks,
JN 5.2. 142 To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out
JN 5.2. 143 In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake
JN 5.2. 144 Even at the crying of your nation's crow,
JN 5.2. 145 Thinking his voice an armed Englishman;
JN 5.2. 146 Shall that victorious hand be feebled here
JN 5.2. 147 That in your chambers gave you chastisement?
JN 5.2. 148 No! Know the gallant monarch is in arms,
JN 5.2. 149 And like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers
JN 5.2. 150 To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
JN 5.2. 151 {(To the English lords)} And you degenerate, you +
JN 5.2. 151 ingrate revolts,
JN 5.2. 152 You bloody Neros, ripping up the womb
JN 5.2. 153 Of your dear mother England, blush for shame;
JN 5.2. 154 For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids
JN 5.2. 155 Like Amazons come tripping after drums;
JN 5.2. 156 Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,
JN 5.2. 157 Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts
JN 5.2. 158 To fierce and bloody inclination.
JN 5.2. 159
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace.
JN 5.2. 160 We grant thou canst outscold us. Fare thee well:
JN 5.2. 161 We hold our time too precious to be spent
JN 5.2. 162B With such a brabbler.
JN-PANDOLF
Give me leave to speak.
JN 5.2. 163B
JN-BASTARD
No, I will speak.
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
We will attend to +
JN 5.2. 163B neither. -
JN 5.2. 164 Strike up the drums, and let the tongue of war
JN 5.2. 165 Plead for our interest and our being here.
JN 5.2. 166
JN-BASTARD
Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out;
JN 5.2. 167 And so shall you, being beaten. Do but start
JN 5.2. 168 An echo with the clamour of thy drum,
JN 5.2. 169 And even at hand a drum is ready braced
JN 5.2. 170 That shall reverberate all as loud as thine.
JN 5.2. 171 Sound but another, and another shall
JN 5.2. 172 As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear,
JN 5.2. 173 And mock the deep-mouthed thunder; for at hand,
JN 5.2. 174 Not trusting to this halting legate here,
JN 5.2. 175 Whom he hath used rather for sport than need,
JN 5.2. 176 Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits
JN 5.2. 177 A bare-ribbed Death, whose office is this day
JN 5.2. 178 To feast upon whole thousands of the French.
JN 5.2. 179
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Strike up our drums to find this danger out.
JN 5.2. 180
JN-BASTARD
And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt.
JN 5.2. 0 {Alarum. Enter King John [at one door] and Hubert [at +
JN 5.3. 0 another door]}
JN 5.3. 1
JN-KING JOHN
How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.
JN 5.3. 2
JN-HUBERT
Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?
JN 5.3. 3
JN-KING JOHN
This fever that hath troubled me so long
JN 5.3. 4 Lies heavy on me. O, my heart is sick! {Enter a Messenger}
JN 5.3. 5
JN-MESSENGER
My lord, your valiant kinsman Falconbridge
JN 5.3. 6 Desires your majesty to leave the field,
JN 5.3. 7 And send him word by me which way you go.
JN 5.3. 8
JN-KING JOHN
Tell him toward Swineshead, to the abbey there.
JN 5.3. 9
JN-MESSENGER
Be of good comfort, for the great supply
JN 5.3. 10 That was expected by the Dauphin here
JN 5.3. 11 Are wrecked three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.
JN 5.3. 12 This news was brought to Richard, but even now
JN 5.3. 13 The French fight coldly and retire themselves.
JN 5.3. 14
JN-KING JOHN
Ay me, this tyrant fever burns me up,
JN 5.3. 15 And will not let me welcome this good news.
JN 5.3. 16 Set on toward Swineshead. To my litter straight;
JN 5.3. 17 Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint. {Exeunt}
JN 5.3. 0 {[Alarum.] Enter the Earls of Salisbury and Pembroke, and +
JN 5.4. 0 Lord Bigot}
JN 5.4. 1
JN-SALISBURY
I did not think the King so stored with +
JN 5.4. 1 friends.
JN 5.4. 2
JN-PEMBROKE
Up once again; put spirit in the French.
JN 5.4. 3 If they miscarry, we miscarry too.
JN 5.4. 4
JN-SALISBURY
That misbegotten devil Falconbridge,
JN 5.4. 5 In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
JN 5.4. 6
JN-PEMBROKE
They say King John, sore sick, hath left the field. +
JN 5.4. 6 {Enter Count Melun, wounded, [led by a soldier]}
JN 5.4. 7
JN-MELUN
Lead me to the revolts of England here.
JN 5.4. 8
JN-SALISBURY
When we were happy, we had other names.
JN 5.4. 9B
JN-PEMBROKE
It is the Count Melun.
JN-SALISBURY
Wounded to death.
JN 5.4. 10
JN-MELUN
Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold.
JN 5.4. 11 Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
JN 5.4. 12 And welcome home again discarded faith;
JN 5.4. 13 Seek out King John and fall before his feet,
JN 5.4. 14 For if the French be lords of this loud day
JN 5.4. 15 He means to recompense the pains you take
JN 5.4. 16 By cutting off your heads. Thus hath he sworn,
JN 5.4. 17 And I with him, and many more with me,
JN 5.4. 18 Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury,
JN 5.4. 19 Even on that altar where we swore to you
JN 5.4. 20 Dear amity and everlasting love.
JN 5.4. 21
JN-SALISBURY
May this be possible? May this be true?
JN 5.4. 22
JN-MELUN
Have I not hideous death within my view,
JN 5.4. 23 Retaining but a quantity of life,
JN 5.4. 24 Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax
JN 5.4. 25 Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire?
JN 5.4. 26 What in the world should make me now deceive,
JN 5.4. 27 Since I must lose the use of all deceit?
JN 5.4. 28 Why should I then be false, since it is true
JN 5.4. 29 That I must die here, and live hence by truth?
JN 5.4. 30 I say again, if Louis do win the day,
JN 5.4. 31 He is forsworn if e'er those eyes of yours
JN 5.4. 32 Behold another daybreak in the east;
JN 5.4. 33 But even this night, whose black contagious breath
JN 5.4. 34 Already smokes about the burning cresset
JN 5.4. 35 Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun,
JN 5.4. 36 Even this ill night your breathing shall expire,
JN 5.4. 37 Paying the fine of rated treachery
JN 5.4. 38 Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,
JN 5.4. 39 If Louis by your assistance win the day.
JN 5.4. 40 Commend me to one Hubert with your king.
JN 5.4. 41 The love of him, and this respect besides,
JN 5.4. 42 For that my grandsire was an Englishman,
JN 5.4. 43 Awakes my conscience to confess all this;
JN 5.4. 44 In lieu whereof, I pray you bear me hence
JN 5.4. 45 From forth the noise and rumour of the field,
JN 5.4. 46 Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts
JN 5.4. 47 In peace, and part this body and my soul
JN 5.4. 48 With contemplation and devout desires.
JN 5.4. 49
JN-SALISBURY
We do believe thee; and beshrew my soul
JN 5.4. 50 But I do love the favour and the form
JN 5.4. 51 Of this most fair occasion; by the which
JN 5.4. 52 We will untread the steps of damned flight,
JN 5.4. 53 And like a bated and retired flood,
JN 5.4. 54 Leaving our rankness and irregular course,
JN 5.4. 55 Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlooked,
JN 5.4. 56 And calmly run on in obedience
JN 5.4. 57 Even to our ocean, to our great King John.
JN 5.4. 58 My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence,
JN 5.4. 59 For I do see the cruel pangs of death
JN 5.4. 60 Right in thine eye. - Away, my friends! New flight,
JN 5.4. 61 And happy newness that intends old right. {Exeunt}
JN 5.4. 0 {[Alarum; retreat.] Enter Louis the Dauphin, and his +
JN 5.5. 0 train}
JN 5.5. 1
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
The sun of heaven, methought, was loath +
JN 5.5. 1 to set,
JN 5.5. 2 But stayed and made the western welkin blush,
JN 5.5. 3 When English measured backward their own ground
JN 5.5. 4 In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,
JN 5.5. 5 When with a volley of our needless shot,
JN 5.5. 6 After such bloody toil, we bid good night,
JN 5.5. 7 And wound our tatt'ring colours clearly up,
JN 5.5. 8 Last in the field and almost lords of it. {Enter a Messenger}
JN 5.5. 9B
JN-MESSENGER
Where is my prince the Dauphin? +
JN 5.5. 9B
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Here. What news?
JN 5.5. 10
JN-MESSENGER
The Count Melun is slain; the English lords
JN 5.5. 11 By his persuasion are again fall'n off;
JN 5.5. 12 And your supply which you have wished so long
JN 5.5. 13 Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands.
JN 5.5. 14
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Ah, foul shrewd news! Beshrew thy very heart!
JN 5.5. 15 I did not think to be so sad tonight
JN 5.5. 16 As this hath made me. Who was he that said
JN 5.5. 17 King John did fly an hour or two before
JN 5.5. 18 The stumbling night did part our weary powers?
JN 5.5. 19
JN-MESSENGER
Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord.
JN 5.5. 20
JN-LOUIS THE DAUPHIN
Well, keep good quarter and good care tonight.
JN 5.5. 21 The day shall not be up so soon as I,
JN 5.5. 22 To try the fair adventure of tomorrow. {Exeunt}
JN 5.5. 0 {Enter the Bastard [with a light] and Hubert [with a +
JN 5.6. 0 pistol], severally}
JN 5.6. 1
JN-HUBERT
Who's there? Speak, ho! Speak quickly, or I shoot.
JN 5.6. 2B
JN-BASTARD
A friend. What art thou?
JN-HUBERT
Of the part of England.
JN 5.6. 3B
JN-BASTARD
Whither dost thou go?
JN-HUBERT
What's that to thee?
JN 5.6. 4 Why may not I demand of thine affairs
JN 5.6. 5 As well as thou of mine?
JN 5.6. 6A
JN-BASTARD
Hubert, I think.
JN 5.6. 7A
JN-HUBERT
Thou hast a perfect thought.
JN 5.6. 8 I will upon all hazards well believe
JN 5.6. 9 Thou art my friend that know'st my tongue so well.
JN 5.6. 10B Who art thou?
JN-BASTARD
Who thou wilt. An if thou please,
JN 5.6. 11 Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think
JN 5.6. 12 I come one way of the Plantagenets.
JN 5.6. 13
JN-HUBERT
Unkind remembrance! Thou and eyeless night
JN 5.6. 14 Have done me shame. Brave soldier, pardon me
JN 5.6. 15 That any accent breaking from thy tongue
JN 5.6. 16 Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.
JN 5.6. 17
JN-BASTARD
Come, come, sans compliment. What news abroad?
JN 5.6. 18
JN-HUBERT
Why, here walk I in the black brow of night
JN 5.6. 19B To find you out.
JN-BASTARD
Brief, then, and what's the news?
JN 5.6. 20
JN-HUBERT
O my sweet sir, news fitting to the night:
JN 5.6. 21 Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
JN 5.6. 22
JN-BASTARD
Show me the very wound of this ill news;
JN 5.6. 23 I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.
JN 5.6. 24
JN-HUBERT
The King, I fear, is poisoned by a monk.
JN 5.6. 25 I left him almost speechless, and broke out
JN 5.6. 26 To acquaint you with this evil, that you might
JN 5.6. 27 The better arm you to the sudden time
JN 5.6. 28 Than if you had at leisure known of this.
JN 5.6. 29
JN-BASTARD
How did he take it? Who did taste to him?
JN 5.6. 30
JN-HUBERT
A monk, I tell you, a resolved villain,
JN 5.6. 31 Whose bowels suddenly burst out. The King
JN 5.6. 32 Yet speaks, and peradventure may recover.
JN 5.6. 33
JN-BASTARD
Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?
JN 5.6. 34
JN-HUBERT
Why, know you not? The lords are all come back,
JN 5.6. 35 And brought Prince Henry in their company,
JN 5.6. 36 At whose request the King hath pardoned them,
JN 5.6. 37 And they are all about his majesty.
JN 5.6. 38
JN-BASTARD
Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,
JN 5.6. 39 And tempt us not to bear above our power.
JN 5.6. 40 I'll tell thee, Hubert, half my power this night,
JN 5.6. 41 Passing these flats, are taken by the tide.
JN 5.6. 42 These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;
JN 5.6. 43 Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped.
JN 5.6. 44 Away before! Conduct me to the King.
JN 5.6. 45 I doubt he will be dead or ere I come. {Exeunt}
JN 5.6. 0 {Enter Prince Henry, the Earl of Salisbury, and Lord +
JN 5.7. 0 Bigot}
JN 5.7. 1
JN-PRINCE HENRY
It is too late. The life of all his blood
JN 5.7. 2 Is touched corruptibly, and his pure brain,
JN 5.7. 3 Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house,
JN 5.7. 4 Doth by the idle comments that it makes
JN 5.7. 5 Foretell the ending of mortality. {Enter the Earl of Pembroke}
JN 5.7. 6
JN-PEMBROKE
His highness yet doth speak, and holds belief
JN 5.7. 7 That being brought into the open air,
JN 5.7. 8 It would allay the burning quality
JN 5.7. 9 Of that fell poison which assaileth him.
JN 5.7. 10
JN-PRINCE HENRY
Let him be brought into the orchard here. - +
JN 5.7. 10 {[Exit Lord Bigot]}
JN 5.7. 11B Doth he still rage?
JN-PEMBROKE
He is more patient
JN 5.7. 12 Than when you left him. Even now, he sung.
JN 5.7. 13
JN-PRINCE HENRY
O, vanity of sickness! Fierce extremes
JN 5.7. 14 In their continuance will not feel themselves.
JN 5.7. 15 Death, having preyed upon the outward parts,
JN 5.7. 16 Leaves them invincible, and his siege is now
JN 5.7. 17 Against the mind; the which he pricks and wounds
JN 5.7. 18 With many legions of strange fantasies,
JN 5.7. 19 Which in their throng and press to that last hold
JN 5.7. 20 Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death should sing.
JN 5.7. 21 I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
JN 5.7. 22 Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
JN 5.7. 23 And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
JN 5.7. 24 His soul and body to their lasting rest.
JN 5.7. 25
JN-SALISBURY
Be of good comfort, Prince, for you are born
JN 5.7. 26 To set a form upon that indigest
JN 5.7. 27 Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude. {King John is +
JN 5.7. 27 brought in, [with Lord Bigot attending]}
JN 5.7. 28
JN-KING JOHN
Ay marry, now my soul hath elbow-room;
JN 5.7. 29 It would not out at windows nor at doors.
JN 5.7. 30 There is so hot a summer in my bosom
JN 5.7. 31 That all my bowels crumble up to dust;
JN 5.7. 32 I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen
JN 5.7. 33 Upon a parchment, and against this fire
JN 5.7. 34B Do I shrink up.
JN-PRINCE HENRY
How fares your majesty?
JN 5.7. 35
JN-KING JOHN
Poisoned, ill fare! Dead, forsook, cast off;
JN 5.7. 36 And none of you will bid the winter come
JN 5.7. 37 To thrust his icy fingers in my maw,
JN 5.7. 38 Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course
JN 5.7. 39 Through my burned bosom, nor entreat the north
JN 5.7. 40 To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips
JN 5.7. 41 And comfort me with cold. I do not ask you much;
JN 5.7. 42 I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait
JN 5.7. 43 And so ingrateful you deny me that.
JN 5.7. 44
JN-PRINCE HENRY
O, that there were some virtue in my tears
JN 5.7. 45B That might relieve you!
JN-KING JOHN
The salt in them is hot.
JN 5.7. 46 Within me is a hell, and there the poison
JN 5.7. 47 Is, as a fiend, confined to tyrannize
JN 5.7. 48 On unreprievable condemned blood. {Enter the Bastard}
JN 5.7. 49
JN-BASTARD
O, I am scalded with my violent motion
JN 5.7. 50 And spleen of speed to see your majesty!
JN 5.7. 51
JN-KING JOHN
O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye.
JN 5.7. 52 The tackle of my heart is cracked and burnt,
JN 5.7. 53 And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail
JN 5.7. 54 Are turned to one thread, one little hair;
JN 5.7. 55 My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
JN 5.7. 56 Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
JN 5.7. 57 And then all this thou seest is but a clod
JN 5.7. 58 And module of confounded royalty.
JN 5.7. 59
JN-BASTARD
The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,
JN 5.7. 60 Where God He knows how we shall answer him;
JN 5.7. 61 For in a night the best part of my power,
JN 5.7. 62 As I upon advantage did remove,
JN 5.7. 63 Were in the Washes all unwarily
JN 5.7. 64 Devoured by the unexpected flood. {King John dies}
JN 5.7. 65
JN-SALISBURY
You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
JN 5.7. 66 {(To King John)} My liege, my lord! - But now a king, +
JN 5.7. 66 now thus.
JN 5.7. 67
JN-PRINCE HENRY
Even so must I run on, and even so stop.
JN 5.7. 68 What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,
JN 5.7. 69 When this was now a king and now is clay?
JN 5.7. 70
JN-BASTARD
{(to King John)} Art thou gone so? I do +
JN 5.7. 70 but stay behind
JN 5.7. 71 To do the office for thee of revenge,
JN 5.7. 72 And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,
JN 5.7. 73 As it on earth hath been thy servant still.
JN 5.7. 74 {(To the lords)} Now, now, you stars that move in your +
JN 5.7. 74 right spheres,
JN 5.7. 75 Where be your powers? Show now your mended faiths,
JN 5.7. 76 And instantly return with me again,
JN 5.7. 77 To push destruction and perpetual shame
JN 5.7. 78 Out of the weak door of our fainting land.
JN 5.7. 79 Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought.
JN 5.7. 80 The Dauphin rages at our very heels.
JN 5.7. 81
JN-SALISBURY
It seems you know not, then, so much as we.
JN 5.7. 82 The Cardinal Pandolf is within at rest,
JN 5.7. 83 Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin,
JN 5.7. 84 And brings from him such offers of our peace
JN 5.7. 85 As we with honour and respect may take,
JN 5.7. 86 With purpose presently to leave this war.
JN 5.7. 87
JN-BASTARD
He will the rather do it when he sees
JN 5.7. 88 Ourselves well-sinewed to our own defence.
JN 5.7. 89
JN-SALISBURY
Nay, 'tis in a manner done already,
JN 5.7. 90 For many carriages he hath dispatched
JN 5.7. 91 To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel
JN 5.7. 92 To the disposing of the Cardinal,
JN 5.7. 93 With whom yourself, myself, and other lords,
JN 5.7. 94 If you think meet, this afternoon will post
JN 5.7. 95 To consummate this business happily.
JN 5.7. 96
JN-BASTARD
Let it be so. - And you, my noble prince,
JN 5.7. 97 With other princes that may best be spared,
JN 5.7. 98 Shall wait upon your father's funeral.
JN 5.7. 99
JN-PRINCE HENRY
At Worcester must his body be interred,
JN 5.7. 100B For so he willed it.
JN-BASTARD
Thither shall it then,
JN 5.7. 101 And happily may your sweet self put on
JN 5.7. 102 The lineal state and glory of the land,
JN 5.7. 103 To whom with all submission, on my knee,
JN 5.7. 104 I do bequeath my faithful services
JN 5.7. 105 And true subjection everlastingly. {He kneels}
JN 5.7. 106
JN-SALISBURY
And the like tender of our love we make,
JN 5.7. 107 To rest without a spot for evermore. {Salisbury, Pembroke and +
JN 5.7. 107 Bigot kneel}
JN 5.7. 108
JN-PRINCE HENRY
I have a kind of soul that would give +
JN 5.7. 108 thanks,
JN 5.7. 109 And knows not how to do it but with tears. {He weeps}
JN 5.7. 110
JN-BASTARD
{[rising]} O, let us pay the time but +
JN 5.7. 110 needful woe,
JN 5.7. 111 Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.
JN 5.7. 112 This England never did, nor never shall,
JN 5.7. 113 Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror
JN 5.7. 114 But when it first did help to wound itself.
JN 5.7. 115 Now these her princes are come home again,
JN 5.7. 116 Come the three corners of the world in arms
JN 5.7. 117 And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue
JN 5.7. 118 If England to itself do rest but true. {[Flourish.] Exeunt +
JN 5.7. 118 [with the body]}
JN 5.7.
JN
0
LLL . . 0 Love's Labour's Lost
LLL . . 0 {Enter Ferdinand, King of Navarre, Biron, +
LLL 1.1. 0 Longueville, and Dumaine}
LLL 1.1. 1
LLL-KING
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
LLL 1.1. 2 Live registered upon our brazen tombs,
LLL 1.1. 3 And then grace us in the disgrace of death
LLL 1.1. 4 When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
LLL 1.1. 5 Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy
LLL 1.1. 6 That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
LLL 1.1. 7 And make us heirs of all eternity.
LLL 1.1. 8 Therefore, brave conquerors - for so you are,
LLL 1.1. 9 That war against your own affections
LLL 1.1. 10 And the huge army of the world's desires -
LLL 1.1. 11 Our late edict shall strongly stand in force.
LLL 1.1. 12 Navarre shall be the wonder of the world.
LLL 1.1. 13 Our court shall be a little academe,
LLL 1.1. 14 Still and contemplative in living art.
LLL 1.1. 15 You three - Biron, Dumaine, and Longueville -
LLL 1.1. 16 Have sworn for three years' term to live with me
LLL 1.1. 17 My fellow scholars, and to keep those statutes
LLL 1.1. 18 That are recorded in this schedule here.
LLL 1.1. 19 Your oaths are passed; and now subscribe your names,
LLL 1.1. 20 That his own hand may strike his honour down
LLL 1.1. 21 That violates the smallest branch herein.
LLL 1.1. 22 If you are armed to do as sworn to do,
LLL 1.1. 23 Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it, too.
LLL 1.1. 24
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
I am resolved. 'Tis but a three years' fast.
LLL 1.1. 25 The mind shall banquet, though the body pine.
LLL 1.1. 26 Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
LLL 1.1. 27 Make rich the ribs but bankrupt quite the wits. {He signs}
LLL 1.1. 28
LLL-DUMAINE
My loving lord, Dumaine is mortified.
LLL 1.1. 29 The grosser manner of these world's delights
LLL 1.1. 30 He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves.
LLL 1.1. 31 To love, to wealth, to pomp I pine and die,
LLL 1.1. 32 With all these living in philosophy. {He signs}
LLL 1.1. 33
LLL-BIRON
I can but say their protestation over.
LLL 1.1. 34 So much, dear liege, I have already sworn:
LLL 1.1. 35 That is, to live and study here three years.
LLL 1.1. 36 But there are other strict observances,
LLL 1.1. 37 As not to see a woman in that term,
LLL 1.1. 38 Which I hope well is not enrolled there;
LLL 1.1. 39 And one day in a week to touch no food,
LLL 1.1. 40 And but one meal on every day beside,
LLL 1.1. 41 The which I hope is not enrolled there;
LLL 1.1. 42 And then to sleep but three hours in the night,
LLL 1.1. 43 And not be seen to wink of all the day,
LLL 1.1. 44 When I was wont to think no harm all night,
LLL 1.1. 45 And make a dark night too of half the day,
LLL 1.1. 46 Which I hope well is not enrolled there.
LLL 1.1. 47 O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep -
LLL 1.1. 48 Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep.
LLL 1.1. 49
LLL-KING
Your oath is passed to pass away from these.
LLL 1.1. 50
LLL-BIRON
Let me say no, my liege, an if you please.
LLL 1.1. 51 I only swore to study with your grace,
LLL 1.1. 52 And stay here in your court, for three years' space.
LLL 1.1. 53
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest.
LLL 1.1. 54
LLL-BIRON
By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.
LLL 1.1. 55 What is the end of study, let me know?
LLL 1.1. 56
LLL-KING
Why, that to know which else we should not know.
LLL 1.1. 57
LLL-BIRON
Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense.
LLL 1.1. 58
LLL-KING
Ay, that is study's god-like recompense.
LLL 1.1. 59
LLL-BIRON
Come on, then, I will swear to study so
LLL 1.1. 60 To know the thing I am forbid to know,
LLL 1.1. 61 As thus: to study where I well may dine
LLL 1.1. 62 When I to feast expressly am forbid;
LLL 1.1. 63 Or study where to meet some mistress fine
LLL 1.1. 64 When mistresses from common sense are hid;
LLL 1.1. 65 Or having sworn too hard a keeping oath,
LLL 1.1. 66 Study to break it and not break my troth.
LLL 1.1. 67 If study's gain be thus, and this be so,
LLL 1.1. 68 Study knows that which yet it doth not know.
LLL 1.1. 69 Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.
LLL 1.1. 70
LLL-KING
These be the stops that hinder study quite,
LLL 1.1. 71 And train our intellects to vain delight.
LLL 1.1. 72
LLL-BIRON
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
LLL 1.1. 73 Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain;
LLL 1.1. 74 As painfully to pore upon a book
LLL 1.1. 75 To seek the light of truth while truth the while
LLL 1.1. 76 Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.
LLL 1.1. 77 Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
LLL 1.1. 78 So ere you find where light in darkness lies
LLL 1.1. 79 Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
LLL 1.1. 80 Study me how to please the eye indeed
LLL 1.1. 81 By fixing it upon a fairer eye,
LLL 1.1. 82 Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed,
LLL 1.1. 83 And give him light that it was blinded by.
LLL 1.1. 84 Study is like the heavens' glorious sun,
LLL 1.1. 85 That will not be deep searched with saucy looks.
LLL 1.1. 86 Small have continual plodders ever won
LLL 1.1. 87 Save base authority from others' books.
LLL 1.1. 88 These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights,
LLL 1.1. 89 That give a name to every fixed star,
LLL 1.1. 90 Have no more profit of their shining nights
LLL 1.1. 91 Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
LLL 1.1. 92 Too much to know is to know naught but fame,
LLL 1.1. 93 And every godfather can give a name.
LLL 1.1. 94
LLL-KING
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
LLL 1.1. 95
LLL-DUMAINE
Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding.
LLL 1.1. 96
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding.
LLL 1.1. 97
LLL-BIRON
The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.
LLL 1.1. 98B
LLL-DUMAINE
How follows that?
LLL-BIRON
Fit in his place and time.
LLL 1.1. 99B
LLL-DUMAINE
In reason nothing.
LLL-BIRON
Something then in rhyme.
LLL 1.1. 100
LLL-KING
Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,
LLL 1.1. 101 That bites the first-born infants of the spring.
LLL 1.1. 102
LLL-BIRON
Well, say I am! Why should proud summer boast
LLL 1.1. 103 Before the birds have any cause to sing?
LLL 1.1. 104 Why should I joy in any abortive birth?
LLL 1.1. 105 At Christmas I no more desire a rose
LLL 1.1. 106 Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows,
LLL 1.1. 107 But like of each thing that in season grows.
LLL 1.1. 108 So you to study, now it is too late,
LLL 1.1. 109 Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.
LLL 1.1. 110
LLL-KING
Well, sit you out. Go home, Biron. Adieu.
LLL 1.1. 111
LLL-BIRON
No, my good lord, I have sworn to stay with you.
LLL 1.1. 112 And though I have for barbarism spoke more
LLL 1.1. 113 Than for that angel knowledge you can say,
LLL 1.1. 114 Yet confident I'll keep what I have sworn,
LLL 1.1. 115 And bide the penance of each three years' day.
LLL 1.1. 116 Give me the paper. Let me read the same,
LLL 1.1. 117 And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.
LLL 1.1. 118
LLL-KING
{(giving a paper)} How well this yielding +
LLL 1.1. 118 rescues thee from shame!
LLL 1.1. 119
LLL-BIRON
{(reads)} `Item: that no woman shall come +
LLL 1.1. 119 within a
LLL 1.1. 120 mile of my court.' Hath this been proclaimed?
LLL 1.1. 121A
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Four days ago.
LLL 1.1. 122
LLL-BIRON
Let's see the penalty. `On pain of losing her +
LLL 1.1. 122 tongue.'
LLL 1.1. 123 Who devised this penalty?
LLL 1.1. 124A
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Marry, that did I.
LLL 1.1. 125A
LLL-BIRON
Sweet lord, and why?
LLL 1.1. 126
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
To fright them hence with that dread penalty.
LLL 1.1. 127
LLL-BIRON
A dangerous law against gentility.
LLL 1.1. 128 `Item: if any man be seen to talk with a woman within
LLL 1.1. 129 the term of three years, he shall endure such public
LLL 1.1. 130 shame as the rest of the court can possible devise.'
LLL 1.1. 131 This article, my liege, yourself must break;
LLL 1.1. 132 For well you know here comes in embassy
LLL 1.1. 133 The French King's daughter with yourself to speak -
LLL 1.1. 134 A maid of grace and complete majesty -
LLL 1.1. 135 About surrender-up of Aquitaine
LLL 1.1. 136 To her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father.
LLL 1.1. 137 Therefore this article is made in vain,
LLL 1.1. 138 Or vainly comes th' admired Princess hither.
LLL 1.1. 139
LLL-KING
What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot.
LLL 1.1. 140
LLL-BIRON
So study evermore is overshot.
LLL 1.1. 141 While it doth study to have what it would,
LLL 1.1. 142 It doth forget to do the thing it should;
LLL 1.1. 143 And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
LLL 1.1. 144 'Tis won as towns with fire - so won, so lost.
LLL 1.1. 145
LLL-KING
We must of force dispense with this decree.
LLL 1.1. 146 She must lie here, on mere necessity.
LLL 1.1. 147
LLL-BIRON
Necessity will make us all forsworn
LLL 1.1. 148 Three thousand times within this three years' space;
LLL 1.1. 149 For every man with his affects is born,
LLL 1.1. 150 Not by might mastered, but by special grace.
LLL 1.1. 151 If I break faith, this word shall speak for me:
LLL 1.1. 152 I am forsworn on mere necessity.
LLL 1.1. 153 So to the laws at large I write my name,
LLL 1.1. 154 And he that breaks them in the least degree
LLL 1.1. 155 Stands in attainder of eternal shame. {He signs}
LLL 1.1. 156 Suggestions are to other as to me,
LLL 1.1. 157 But I believe, although I seem so loath,
LLL 1.1. 158 I am the last that will last keep his oath.
LLL 1.1. 159 But is there no quick recreation granted?
LLL 1.1. 160
LLL-KING
Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted
LLL 1.1. 161 With a refined traveller of Spain,
LLL 1.1. 162 A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
LLL 1.1. 163 That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
LLL 1.1. 164 One who the music of his own vain tongue
LLL 1.1. 165 Doth ravish like enchanting harmony;
LLL 1.1. 166 A man of complements, whom right and wrong
LLL 1.1. 167 Have chose as umpire of their mutiny.
LLL 1.1. 168 This child of fancy, that Armado hight,
LLL 1.1. 169 For interim to our studies shall relate
LLL 1.1. 170 In high-borne words the worth of many a knight
LLL 1.1. 171 From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.
LLL 1.1. 172 How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;
LLL 1.1. 173 But I protest I love to hear him lie,
LLL 1.1. 174 And I will use him for my minstrelsy.
LLL 1.1. 175
LLL-BIRON
Armado is a most illustrious wight,
LLL 1.1. 176 A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.
LLL 1.1. 177
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Costard the swain and he shall be our sport,
LLL 1.1. 178 And so to study three years is but short. {Enter a constable, +
LLL 1.1. 178 Anthony Dull, with Costard with a letter}
LLL 1.1. 179
LLL-DULL
Which is the Duke's own person?
LLL 1.1. 180
LLL-BIRON
This, fellow. What wouldst?
LLL 1.1. 181
LLL-DULL
I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his
LLL 1.1. 182 grace's farborough. But I would see his own person in
LLL 1.1. 183 flesh and blood.
LLL 1.1. 184
LLL-BIRON
This is he.
LLL 1.1. 185
LLL-DULL
Sen~or Arm - Arm - commends you. There's villainy
LLL 1.1. 186 abroad. This letter will tell you more.
LLL 1.1. 187
LLL-COSTARD
Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.
LLL 1.1. 188
LLL-KING
A letter from the magnificent Armado.
LLL 1.1. 189
LLL-BIRON
How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high
LLL 1.1. 190 words.
LLL 1.1. 191
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
A high hope for a low heaven. God grant
LLL 1.1. 192 us patience.
LLL 1.1. 193
LLL-BIRON
To hear, or forbear laughing?
LLL 1.1. 194
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately,
LLL 1.1. 195 or to forbear both.
LLL 1.1. 196
LLL-BIRON
Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to
LLL 1.1. 197 climb in the merriness.
LLL 1.1. 198
LLL-COSTARD
The matter is to me, sir, as concerning
LLL 1.1. 199 Jaquenetta. The manner of it is, I was taken with the
LLL 1.1. 200 manner.
LLL 1.1. 201
LLL-BIRON
In what manner?
LLL 1.1. 202
LLL-COSTARD
In manner and form following, sir - all those
LLL 1.1. 203 three. I was seen with her in the manor house, sitting
LLL 1.1. 204 with her upon the form, and taken following her into
LLL 1.1. 205 the park; which put together is `in manner and form
LLL 1.1. 206 following'. Now, sir, for the manner: it is the manner
LLL 1.1. 207 of a man to speak to a woman. For the form: in some
LLL 1.1. 208 form.
LLL 1.1. 209
LLL-BIRON
For the `following', sir?
LLL 1.1. 210
LLL-COSTARD
As it shall follow in my correction; and God
LLL 1.1. 211 defend the right.
LLL 1.1. 212
LLL-KING
Will you hear this letter with attention?
LLL 1.1. 213
LLL-BIRON
As we would hear an oracle.
LLL 1.1. 214
LLL-COSTARD
Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after
LLL 1.1. 215 the flesh.
LLL 1.1. 216
LLL-KING
{(reads)} `Great deputy, the welkin's +
LLL 1.1. 216 vicegerent and
LLL 1.1. 217 sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god, and
LLL 1.1. 218 body's fostering patron' -
LLL 1.1. 219
LLL-COSTARD
Not a word of Costard yet.
LLL 1.1. 220
LLL-KING
`So it is' -
LLL 1.1. 221
LLL-COSTARD
It may be so; but if he say it is so, he is, in
LLL 1.1. 222 telling true, but so.
LLL 1.1. 223
LLL-KING
Peace!
LLL 1.1. 224
LLL-COSTARD
Be to me and every man that dares not fight.
LLL 1.1. 225
LLL-KING
No words!
LLL 1.1. 226
LLL-COSTARD
Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.
LLL 1.1. 227
LLL-KING
`So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy,
LLL 1.1. 228 I did commend the black-oppressing humour to the
LLL 1.1. 229 most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air, and,
LLL 1.1. 230 as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk. The time
LLL 1.1. 231 when? About the sixth hour, when beasts most graze,
LLL 1.1. 232 birds best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment
LLL 1.1. 233 which is called supper. So much for the time when.
LLL 1.1. 234 Now for the ground which - which, I mean, I walked
LLL 1.1. 235 upon. It is yclept thy park. Then for the place where -
LLL 1.1. 236 where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and most
LLL 1.1. 237 preposterous event that draweth from my snow-white
LLL 1.1. 238 pen the ebon-coloured ink which here thou viewest,
LLL 1.1. 239 beholdest, surveyest, or seest. But to the place where.
LLL 1.1. 240 It standeth north-north-east and by east from the west
LLL 1.1. 241 corner of thy curious-knotted garden. There did I see
LLL 1.1. 242 that low-spirited swain, that base minnow of thy
LLL 1.1. 243 mirth' -
LLL 1.1. 244
LLL-COSTARD
Me?
LLL 1.1. 245
LLL-KING
`That unlettered, small-knowing soul' -
LLL 1.1. 246
LLL-COSTARD
Me?
LLL 1.1. 247
LLL-KING
`That shallow vassal' -
LLL 1.1. 248
LLL-COSTARD
Still me?
LLL 1.1. 249
LLL-KING
`Which, as I remember, hight Costard' -
LLL 1.1. 250
LLL-COSTARD
O, me!
LLL 1.1. 251
LLL-KING
`Sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established
LLL 1.1. 252 proclaimed edict and continent canon, with, with, O
LLL 1.1. 253 with - but with this I passion to say wherewith' -
LLL 1.1. 254
LLL-COSTARD
With a wench.
LLL 1.1. 255
LLL-KING
`With a child of our grandmother Eve, a female, or
LLL 1.1. 256 for thy more sweet understanding a woman. Him I, as
LLL 1.1. 257 my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on, have sent to thee,
LLL 1.1. 258 to receive the meed of punishment, by thy sweet grace's
LLL 1.1. 259 officer Anthony Dull, a man of good repute, carriage,
LLL 1.1. 260 bearing, and estimation.'
LLL 1.1. 261
LLL-DULL
Me, an 't shall please you. I am Anthony Dull.
LLL 1.1. 262
LLL-KING
`For Jaquenetta - so is the weaker vessel called -
LLL 1.1. 263 which I apprehended with the aforesaid swain, I keep
LLL 1.1. 264 her as a vessel of thy law's fury, and shall at the least
LLL 1.1. 265 of thy sweet notice bring her to trial. Thine in all
LLL 1.1. 266 compliments of devoted and heartburning heat of duty,
LLL 1.1. 267 Don Adriano de Armado.'
LLL 1.1. 268
LLL-BIRON
This is not so well as I looked for, but the best that
LLL 1.1. 269 ever I heard.
LLL 1.1. 270
LLL-KING
Ay, the best for the worst. {(To Costard)} +
LLL 1.1. 270 But, sirrah,
LLL 1.1. 271 what say you to this?
LLL 1.1. 272
LLL-COSTARD
Sir, I confess the wench.
LLL 1.1. 273
LLL-KING
Did you hear the proclamation?
LLL 1.1. 274
LLL-COSTARD
I do confess much of the hearing it, but little of
LLL 1.1. 275 the marking of it.
LLL 1.1. 276
LLL-KING
It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment to be taken
LLL 1.1. 277 with a wench.
LLL 1.1. 278
LLL-COSTARD
I was taken with none, sir. I was taken with a
LLL 1.1. 279 damsel.
LLL 1.1. 280
LLL-KING
Well, it was proclaimed `damsel'.
LLL 1.1. 281
LLL-COSTARD
This was no damsel, neither, sir. She was a
LLL 1.1. 282 virgin.
LLL 1.1. 283
LLL-[KING]
It is so varied, too, for it was proclaimed `virgin'.
LLL 1.1. 284
LLL-COSTARD
If it were, I deny her virginity. I was taken with
LLL 1.1. 285 a maid.
LLL 1.1. 286
LLL-KING
This `maid' will not serve your turn, sir.
LLL 1.1. 287
LLL-COSTARD
This maid will serve my turn, sir.
LLL 1.1. 288
LLL-KING
Sir, I will pronounce your sentence. You shall fast
LLL 1.1. 289 a week with bran and water.
LLL 1.1. 290
LLL-COSTARD
I had rather pray a month with mutton and
LLL 1.1. 291 porridge.
LLL 1.1. 292
LLL-KING
And Don Armado shall be your keeper.
LLL 1.1. 293 My lord Biron, see him delivered o'er,
LLL 1.1. 294 And go we, lords, to put in practice that
LLL 1.1. 295 Which each to other hath so strongly sworn. {Exeunt the King, +
LLL 1.1. 295 Longueville, and Dumaine}
LLL 1.1. 296
LLL-BIRON
I'll lay my head to any good man's hat
LLL 1.1. 297 These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn.
LLL 1.1. 298 Sirrah, come on.
LLL 1.1. 299
LLL-COSTARD
I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is I was
LLL 1.1. 300 taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true girl,
LLL 1.1. 301 and therefore, welcome the sour cup of prosperity,
LLL 1.1. 302 affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit
LLL 1.1. 303 thee down, sorrow. {Exeunt}
LLL 1.1. 0 {Enter Armado and Mote, his page}
LLL 1.2. 1
LLL-ARMADO
Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit
LLL 1.2. 2 grows melancholy?
LLL 1.2. 3
LLL-MOTE
A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.
LLL 1.2. 4
LLL-ARMADO
Why, sadness is one and the selfsame thing,
LLL 1.2. 5 dear imp.
LLL 1.2. 6
LLL-MOTE
No, no, O Lord, sir, no.
LLL 1.2. 7
LLL-ARMADO
How canst thou part sadness and melancholy,
LLL 1.2. 8 my tender juvenal?
LLL 1.2. 9
LLL-MOTE
By a familiar demonstration of the working, my
LLL 1.2. 10 tough sen~or.
LLL 1.2. 11
LLL-ARMADO
Why `tough sen~or'? Why `tough sen~or'?
LLL 1.2. 12
LLL-MOTE
Why `tender juvenal'? Why `tender juvenal'?
LLL 1.2. 13
LLL-ARMADO
I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent
LLL 1.2. 14 epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we
LLL 1.2. 15 may nominate `tender'.
LLL 1.2. 16
LLL-MOTE
And I, tough sen~or, as an appertinent title to your
LLL 1.2. 17 old time, which we may name `tough'.
LLL 1.2. 18
LLL-ARMADO
Pretty and apt.
LLL 1.2. 19
LLL-MOTE
How mean you, sir? I `pretty' and my saying `apt'?
LLL 1.2. 20 Or I `apt' and my saying `pretty'?
LLL 1.2. 21
LLL-ARMADO
Thou `pretty', because little.
LLL 1.2. 22
LLL-MOTE
Little pretty, because little. Wherefore `apt'?
LLL 1.2. 23
LLL-ARMADO
And therefore `apt' because quick.
LLL 1.2. 24
LLL-MOTE
Speak you this in my praise, master?
LLL 1.2. 25
LLL-ARMADO
In thy condign praise.
LLL 1.2. 26
LLL-MOTE
I will praise an eel with the same praise.
LLL 1.2. 27
LLL-ARMADO
What - that an eel is ingenious?
LLL 1.2. 28
LLL-MOTE
That an eel is quick.
LLL 1.2. 29
LLL-ARMADO
I do say thou art quick in answers. Thou heatest
LLL 1.2. 30 my blood.
LLL 1.2. 31
LLL-MOTE
I am answered, sir.
LLL 1.2. 32
LLL-ARMADO
I love not to be crossed.
LLL 1.2. 33
LLL-MOTE
{(aside)} He speaks the mere contrary - crosses +
LLL 1.2. 33 love
LLL 1.2. 34 not him.
LLL 1.2. 35
LLL-ARMADO
I have promised to study three years with the
LLL 1.2. 36 Duke.
LLL 1.2. 37
LLL-MOTE
You may do it in an hour, sir.
LLL 1.2. 38
LLL-ARMADO
Impossible.
LLL 1.2. 39
LLL-MOTE
How many is one, thrice told?
LLL 1.2. 40
LLL-ARMADO
I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a
LLL 1.2. 41 tapster.
LLL 1.2. 42
LLL-MOTE
You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir.
LLL 1.2. 43
LLL-ARMADO
I confess both. They are both the varnish of a
LLL 1.2. 44 complete man.
LLL 1.2. 45
LLL-MOTE
Then I am sure you know how much the gross
LLL 1.2. 46 sum of deuce-ace amounts to.
LLL 1.2. 47
LLL-ARMADO
It doth amount to one more than two.
LLL 1.2. 48
LLL-MOTE
Which the base vulgar do call three.
LLL 1.2. 49
LLL-ARMADO
True.
LLL 1.2. 50
LLL-MOTE
Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here
LLL 1.2. 51 is `three' studied ere ye'll thrice wink, and how easy it
LLL 1.2. 52 is to put `years' to the word `three' and study `three
LLL 1.2. 53 years' in two words, the dancing horse will tell you.
LLL 1.2. 54
LLL-ARMADO
A most fine figure.
LLL 1.2. 55
LLL-MOTE
{(aside)} To prove you a cipher.
LLL 1.2. 56
LLL-ARMADO
I will hereupon confess I am in love; and as it
LLL 1.2. 57 is base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a base
LLL 1.2. 58 wench. If drawing my sword against the humour of
LLL 1.2. 59 affection would deliver me from the reprobate thought
LLL 1.2. 60 of it, I would take desire prisoner and ransom him to
LLL 1.2. 61 any French courtier for a new-devised curtsy. I think
LLL 1.2. 62 scorn to sigh. Methinks I should outswear Cupid.
LLL 1.2. 63 Comfort me, boy. What great men have been in love?
LLL 1.2. 64
LLL-MOTE
Hercules, master.
LLL 1.2. 65
LLL-ARMADO
Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy.
LLL 1.2. 66 Name more - and, sweet my child, let them be men of
LLL 1.2. 67 good repute and carriage.
LLL 1.2. 68
LLL-MOTE
Samson, master; he was a man of good carriage,
LLL 1.2. 69 great carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his
LLL 1.2. 70 back like a porter, and he was in love.
LLL 1.2. 71
LLL-ARMADO
O well-knit Samson, strong-jointed Samson! I do
LLL 1.2. 72 excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in
LLL 1.2. 73 carrying gates. I am in love, too. Who was Samson's
LLL 1.2. 74 love, my dear Mote?
LLL 1.2. 75
LLL-MOTE
A woman, master.
LLL 1.2. 76
LLL-ARMADO
Of what complexion?
LLL 1.2. 77
LLL-MOTE
Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of
LLL 1.2. 78 the four.
LLL 1.2. 79
LLL-ARMADO
Tell me precisely of what complexion?
LLL 1.2. 80
LLL-MOTE
Of the sea-water green, sir.
LLL 1.2. 81
LLL-ARMADO
Is that one of the four complexions?
LLL 1.2. 82
LLL-MOTE
As I have read, sir; and the best of them, too.
LLL 1.2. 83
LLL-ARMADO
Green indeed is the colour of lovers, but to have
LLL 1.2. 84 a love of that colour, methinks Samson had small
LLL 1.2. 85 reason for it. He surely affected her for her wit.
LLL 1.2. 86
LLL-MOTE
It was so, sir, for she had a green wit.
LLL 1.2. 87
LLL-ARMADO
My love is most immaculate white and red.
LLL 1.2. 88
LLL-MOTE
Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under
LLL 1.2. 89 such colours.
LLL 1.2. 90
LLL-ARMADO
Define, define, well-educated infant.
LLL 1.2. 91
LLL-MOTE
My father's wit and my mother's tongue assist me!
LLL 1.2. 92
LLL-ARMADO
Sweet invocation of a child! - most pretty and
LLL 1.2. 93 pathetical.
LLL 1.2. 94
LLL-MOTE
If she be made of white and red
LLL 1.2. 95 Her faults will ne'er be known,
LLL 1.2. 96 For blushing cheeks by faults are bred
LLL 1.2. 97 And fears by pale white shown.
LLL 1.2. 98 Then if she fear or be to blame,
LLL 1.2. 99 By this you shall not know;
LLL 1.2. 100 For still her cheeks possess the same
LLL 1.2. 101 Which native she doth owe.
LLL 1.2. 102 A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of
LLL 1.2. 103 white and red.
LLL 1.2. 104
LLL-ARMADO
Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the
LLL 1.2. 105 Beggar?
LLL 1.2. 106
LLL-MOTE
The world was very guilty of such a ballad some
LLL 1.2. 107 three ages since, but I think now 'tis not to be found;
LLL 1.2. 108 or if it were, it would neither serve for the writing nor
LLL 1.2. 109 the tune.
LLL 1.2. 110
LLL-ARMADO
I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I
LLL 1.2. 111 may example my digression by some mighty precedent.
LLL 1.2. 112 Boy, I do love that country girl that I took in the park
LLL 1.2. 113 with the rational hind Costard. She deserves well.
LLL 1.2. 114
LLL-MOTE
{(aside)} To be whipped - and yet a better love +
LLL 1.2. 114 than
LLL 1.2. 115 my master.
LLL 1.2. 116
LLL-ARMADO
Sing, boy. My spirit grows heavy in love.
LLL 1.2. 117
LLL-MOTE
And that's great marvel, loving a light wench.
LLL 1.2. 118
LLL-ARMADO
I say, sing.
LLL 1.2. 119
LLL-MOTE
Forbear till this company be past. {Enter Costard the +
LLL 1.2. 119 clown, Constable Dull, and Jaquenetta, a wench}
LLL 1.2. 120
LLL-DULL
{(to Armado)} Sir, the Duke's pleasure is +
LLL 1.2. 120 that you keep
LLL 1.2. 121 Costard safe, and you must suffer him to take no
LLL 1.2. 122 delight, nor no penance, but a must fast three days a
LLL 1.2. 123 week. For this damsel, I must keep her at the park. She
LLL 1.2. 124 is allowed for the dey-woman. Fare you well.
LLL 1.2. 125
LLL-ARMADO
{(aside)} I do betray myself with +
LLL 1.2. 125 blushing. - Maid.
LLL 1.2. 126
LLL-JAQUENETTA
Man.
LLL 1.2. 127
LLL-ARMADO
I will visit thee at the lodge.
LLL 1.2. 128
LLL-JAQUENETTA
That's hereby.
LLL 1.2. 129
LLL-ARMADO
I know where it is situate.
LLL 1.2. 130
LLL-JAQUENETTA
Lord, how wise you are!
LLL 1.2. 131
LLL-ARMADO
I will tell thee wonders.
LLL 1.2. 132
LLL-JAQUENETTA
With that face?
LLL 1.2. 133
LLL-ARMADO
I love thee.
LLL 1.2. 134
LLL-JAQUENETTA
So I heard you say.
LLL 1.2. 135
LLL-ARMADO
And so farewell.
LLL 1.2. 136
LLL-JAQUENETTA
Fair weather after you.
LLL 1.2. 137
LLL-[DULL]
Come, Jaquenetta, away. {[Exeunt Dull and +
LLL 1.2. 137 Jaquenetta]}
LLL 1.2. 138
LLL-ARMADO
Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou
LLL 1.2. 139 be pardoned.
LLL 1.2. 140
LLL-COSTARD
Well, sir, I hope when I do it I shall do it on a
LLL 1.2. 141 full stomach.
LLL 1.2. 142
LLL-ARMADO
Thou shalt be heavily punished.
LLL 1.2. 143
LLL-COSTARD
I am more bound to you than your fellows, for
LLL 1.2. 144 they are but lightly rewarded.
LLL 1.2. 145
LLL-ARMADO
Take away this villain. Shut him up.
LLL 1.2. 146
LLL-MOTE
Come, you transgressing slave. Away!
LLL 1.2. 147
LLL-COSTARD
Let me not be pent up, sir. I will fast, being
LLL 1.2. 148 loose.
LLL 1.2. 149
LLL-MOTE
No, sir. That were fast and loose. Thou shalt to
LLL 1.2. 150 prison.
LLL 1.2. 151
LLL-COSTARD
Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation
LLL 1.2. 152 that I have seen, some shall see.
LLL 1.2. 153
LLL-MOTE
What shall some see?
LLL 1.2. 154
LLL-COSTARD
Nay, nothing, Master Mote, but what they look
LLL 1.2. 155 upon. It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their
LLL 1.2. 156 words, and therefore I will say nothing. I thank God I
LLL 1.2. 157 have as little patience as another man, and therefore I
LLL 1.2. 158 can be quiet. {Exeunt Mote and Costard}
LLL 1.2. 159
LLL-ARMADO
I do affect the very ground - which is base -
LLL 1.2. 160 where her shoe - which is baser - guided by her foot -
LLL 1.2. 161 which is basest - doth tread. I shall be forsworn - which
LLL 1.2. 162 is a great argument of falsehood - if I love. And how
LLL 1.2. 163 can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love
LLL 1.2. 164 is a familiar; love is a devil. There is no evil angel but
LLL 1.2. 165 love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an
LLL 1.2. 166 excellent strength. Yet was Solomon so seduced, and
LLL 1.2. 167 he had a very good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard
LLL 1.2. 168 for Hercules' club, and therefore too much odds for a
LLL 1.2. 169 Spaniard's rapier. The first and second cause will not
LLL 1.2. 170 serve my turn: the passado he respects not, the duello
LLL 1.2. 171 he regards not. His disgrace is to be called boy, but his
LLL 1.2. 172 glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour; rust, rapier; be
LLL 1.2. 173 still, drum: for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth.
LLL 1.2. 174 Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am
LLL 1.2. 175 sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise wit, write pen, for I
LLL 1.2. 176 am for whole volumes, in folio. {Exit}
LLL 1.2. 0 {Enter the Princess of France with three attending +
LLL 2.1. 0 ladies - Maria, Catherine, and Rosaline - and three lords, one named Boyet}
LLL 2.1. 1
LLL-BOYET
Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits.
LLL 2.1. 2 Consider who the King your father sends,
LLL 2.1. 3 To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:
LLL 2.1. 4 Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,
LLL 2.1. 5 To parley with the sole inheritor
LLL 2.1. 6 Of all perfections that a man may owe,
LLL 2.1. 7 Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight
LLL 2.1. 8 Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.
LLL 2.1. 9 Be now as prodigal of all dear grace
LLL 2.1. 10 As nature was in making graces dear
LLL 2.1. 11 When she did starve the general world beside
LLL 2.1. 12 And prodigally gave them all to you.
LLL 2.1. 13
LLL-PRINCESS
Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
LLL 2.1. 14 Needs not the painted flourish of your praise.
LLL 2.1. 15 Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
LLL 2.1. 16 Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
LLL 2.1. 17 I am less proud to hear you tell my worth
LLL 2.1. 18 Than you much willing to be counted wise
LLL 2.1. 19 In spending your wit in the praise of mine.
LLL 2.1. 20 But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,
LLL 2.1. 21 You are not ignorant all-telling fame
LLL 2.1. 22 Doth noise abroad Navarre hath made a vow
LLL 2.1. 23 Till painful study shall outwear three years
LLL 2.1. 24 No woman may approach his silent court.
LLL 2.1. 25 Therefore to 's seemeth it a needful course,
LLL 2.1. 26 Before we enter his forbidden gates,
LLL 2.1. 27 To know his pleasure; and in that behalf,
LLL 2.1. 28 Bold of your worthiness, we single you
LLL 2.1. 29 As our best-moving fair solicitor.
LLL 2.1. 30 Tell him the daughter of the King of France
LLL 2.1. 31 On serious business, craving quick dispatch,
LLL 2.1. 32 Importunes personal conference with his grace.
LLL 2.1. 33 Haste, signify so much while we attend,
LLL 2.1. 34 Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.
LLL 2.1. 35
LLL-BOYET
Proud of employment, willingly I go.
LLL 2.1. 36
LLL-PRINCESS
All pride is willing pride, and yours is so. {Exit +
LLL 2.1. 36 Boyet}
LLL 2.1. 37 Who are the votaries, my loving lords,
LLL 2.1. 38 That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke?
LLL 2.1. 39B A
LLL-LORD
Lord Longueville is one.
LLL-PRINCESS
Know you the man?
LLL 2.1. 40
LLL-MARIA
I know him, madam. At a marriage feast
LLL 2.1. 41 Between Lord Pe/rigord and the beauteous heir
LLL 2.1. 42 Of Jaques Fauconbridge solemnized
LLL 2.1. 43 In Normandy saw I this Longueville.
LLL 2.1. 44 A man of sovereign parts he is esteemed,
LLL 2.1. 45 Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms.
LLL 2.1. 46 Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.
LLL 2.1. 47 The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss -
LLL 2.1. 48 If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil -
LLL 2.1. 49 Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will,
LLL 2.1. 50 Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills
LLL 2.1. 51 It should none spare that come within his power.
LLL 2.1. 52
LLL-PRINCESS
Some merry mocking lord, belike - is 't so?
LLL 2.1. 53
LLL-MARIA
They say so most that most his humours know.
LLL 2.1. 54
LLL-PRINCESS
Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow.
LLL 2.1. 55 Who are the rest?
LLL 2.1. 56
LLL-CATHERINE
The young Dumaine, a well-accomplished youth,
LLL 2.1. 57 Of all that virtue love for virtue loved.
LLL 2.1. 58 Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill,
LLL 2.1. 59 For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,
LLL 2.1. 60 And shape to win grace, though he had no wit.
LLL 2.1. 61 I saw him at the Duke Alenc@on's once,
LLL 2.1. 62 And much too little of that good I saw
LLL 2.1. 63 Is my report to his great worthiness.
LLL 2.1. 64
LLL-ROSALINE
Another of these students at that time
LLL 2.1. 65 Was there with him, if I have heard a truth.
LLL 2.1. 66 Biron they call him, but a merrier man,
LLL 2.1. 67 Within the limit of becoming mirth,
LLL 2.1. 68 I never spent an hour's talk withal.
LLL 2.1. 69 His eye begets occasion for his wit,
LLL 2.1. 70 For every object that the one doth catch
LLL 2.1. 71 The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,
LLL 2.1. 72 Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,
LLL 2.1. 73 Delivers in such apt and gracious words
LLL 2.1. 74 That aged ears play truant at his tales,
LLL 2.1. 75 And younger hearings are quite ravished,
LLL 2.1. 76 So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
LLL 2.1. 77
LLL-PRINCESS
God bless my ladies, are they all in love,
LLL 2.1. 78 That every one her own hath garnished
LLL 2.1. 79 With such bedecking ornaments of praise?
LLL 2.1. 80B A
LLL-LORD
Here comes Boyet. {Enter Boyet}
LLL-PRINCESS
+
LLL 2.1. 80B Now, what admittance, lord?
LLL 2.1. 81
LLL-BOYET
Navarre had notice of your fair approach,
LLL 2.1. 82 And he and his competitors in oath
LLL 2.1. 83 Were all addressed to meet you, gentle lady,
LLL 2.1. 84 Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt:
LLL 2.1. 85 He rather means to lodge you in the field,
LLL 2.1. 86 Like one that comes here to besiege his court,
LLL 2.1. 87 Than seek a dispensation for his oath
LLL 2.1. 88 To let you enter his unpeopled house. {Enter Navarre, +
LLL 2.1. 88 Longueville, Dumaine, and Biron}
LLL 2.1. 89 Here comes Navarre.
LLL 2.1. 90
LLL-KING
Fair Princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.
LLL 2.1. 91
LLL-PRINCESS
`Fair' I give you back again, and welcome I
LLL 2.1. 92 have not yet. The roof of this court is too high to be
LLL 2.1. 93 yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be
LLL 2.1. 94 mine.
LLL 2.1. 95
LLL-KING
You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.
LLL 2.1. 96
LLL-PRINCESS
I will be welcome, then. Conduct me thither.
LLL 2.1. 97
LLL-KING
Hear me, dear lady. I have sworn an oath -
LLL 2.1. 98
LLL-PRINCESS
Our Lady help my lord! He'll be forsworn.
LLL 2.1. 99
LLL-KING
Not for the world, fair madam, by my will.
LLL 2.1. 100
LLL-PRINCESS
Why, will shall break it - will and nothing else.
LLL 2.1. 101
LLL-KING
Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
LLL 2.1. 102
LLL-PRINCESS
Were my lord so his ignorance were wise,
LLL 2.1. 103 Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
LLL 2.1. 104 I hear your grace hath sworn out housekeeping.
LLL 2.1. 105 'Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
LLL 2.1. 106 And sin to break it.
LLL 2.1. 107 But pardon me, I am too sudden-bold.
LLL 2.1. 108 To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
LLL 2.1. 109 Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
LLL 2.1. 110 And suddenly resolve me in my suit. {She gives him a paper}
LLL 2.1. 111
LLL-KING
Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.
LLL 2.1. 112
LLL-PRINCESS
You will the sooner that I were away,
LLL 2.1. 113 For you'll prove perjured if you make me stay. {Navarre reads +
LLL 2.1. 113 the paper}
LLL 2.1. 114
LLL-BIRON
{(to Rosaline)} Did not I dance with you in +
LLL 2.1. 114 Brabant once?
LLL 2.1. 115
LLL-[ROSALINE]
Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
LLL 2.1. 116B
LLL-BIRON
I know you did.
LLL-[ROSALINE]
How needless was it then
LLL 2.1. 117B To ask the question!
LLL-BIRON
You must not be so quick.
LLL 2.1. 118
LLL-[ROSALINE]
'Tis 'long of you, that spur me with such questions.
LLL 2.1. 119
LLL-BIRON
Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.
LLL 2.1. 120
LLL-[ROSALINE]
Not till it leave the rider in the mire.
LLL 2.1. 121
LLL-BIRON
What time o' day?
LLL 2.1. 122
LLL-[ROSALINE]
The hour that fools should ask.
LLL 2.1. 123
LLL-BIRON
Now fair befall your mask.
LLL 2.1. 124
LLL-[ROSALINE]
Fair fall the face it covers.
LLL 2.1. 125
LLL-BIRON
And send you many lovers.
LLL 2.1. 126
LLL-[ROSALINE]
Amen, so you be none.
LLL 2.1. 127
LLL-BIRON
Nay, then will I be gone.
LLL 2.1. 128
LLL-KING
{(to the Princess)} Madam, your father here +
LLL 2.1. 128 doth intimate
LLL 2.1. 129 The payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
LLL 2.1. 130 Being but the one-half of an entire sum
LLL 2.1. 131 Disbursed by my father in his wars.
LLL 2.1. 132 But say that he or we - as neither have -
LLL 2.1. 133 Received that sum, yet there remains unpaid
LLL 2.1. 134 A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which
LLL 2.1. 135 One part of Aquitaine is bound to us,
LLL 2.1. 136 Although not valued to the money's worth.
LLL 2.1. 137 If then the King your father will restore
LLL 2.1. 138 But that one half which is unsatisfied,
LLL 2.1. 139 We will give up our right in Aquitaine
LLL 2.1. 140 And hold fair friendship with his majesty.
LLL 2.1. 141 But that, it seems, he little purposeth,
LLL 2.1. 142 For here he doth demand to have repaid
LLL 2.1. 143 A hundred thousand crowns, and not demands,
LLL 2.1. 144 On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
LLL 2.1. 145 To have his title live in Aquitaine,
LLL 2.1. 146 Which we much rather had depart withal,
LLL 2.1. 147 And have the money by our father lent,
LLL 2.1. 148 Than Aquitaine, so gelded as it is.
LLL 2.1. 149 Dear Princess, were not his requests so far
LLL 2.1. 150 From reason's yielding, your fair self should make
LLL 2.1. 151 A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast,
LLL 2.1. 152 And go well satisfied to France again.
LLL 2.1. 153
LLL-PRINCESS
You do the King my father too much wrong,
LLL 2.1. 154 And wrong the reputation of your name,
LLL 2.1. 155 In so unseeming to confess receipt
LLL 2.1. 156 Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.
LLL 2.1. 157
LLL-KING
I do protest I never heard of it,
LLL 2.1. 158 And if you prove it I'll repay it back
LLL 2.1. 159B Or yield up Aquitaine.
LLL-PRINCESS
We arrest your word.
LLL 2.1. 160 Boyet, you can produce acquittances
LLL 2.1. 161 For such a sum from special officers
LLL 2.1. 162B Of Charles, his father.
LLL-KING
Satisfy me so.
LLL 2.1. 163
LLL-BOYET
So please your grace, the packet is not come
LLL 2.1. 164 Where that and other specialties are bound.
LLL 2.1. 165 Tomorrow you shall have a sight of them.
LLL 2.1. 166
LLL-KING
It shall suffice me, at which interview
LLL 2.1. 167 All liberal reason I will yield unto.
LLL 2.1. 168 Meantime receive such welcome at my hand
LLL 2.1. 169 As honour, without breach of honour, may
LLL 2.1. 170 Make tender of to thy true worthiness.
LLL 2.1. 171 You may not come, fair princess, within my gates,
LLL 2.1. 172 But here without you shall be so received
LLL 2.1. 173 As you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,
LLL 2.1. 174 Though so denied fair harbour in my house.
LLL 2.1. 175 Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell.
LLL 2.1. 176 Tomorrow shall we visit you again.
LLL 2.1. 177
LLL-PRINCESS
Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace.
LLL 2.1. 178
LLL-KING
Thy own wish wish I thee in every place. {Exit with +
LLL 2.1. 178 Longueville and Dumaine}
LLL 2.1. 179
LLL-BIRON
{(to Rosaline)} Lady, I will commend you to +
LLL 2.1. 179 mine
LLL 2.1. 180 own heart.
LLL 2.1. 181
LLL-ROSALINE
Pray you, do my commendations. I would be
LLL 2.1. 182 glad to see it.
LLL 2.1. 183A
LLL-BIRON
I would you heard it groan.
LLL 2.1. 184A
LLL-ROSALINE
Is the fool sick?
LLL 2.1. 185A
LLL-BIRON
Sick at the heart.
LLL 2.1. 186
LLL-ROSALINE
Alack, let it blood.
LLL 2.1. 187
LLL-BIRON
Would that do it good?
LLL 2.1. 188
LLL-ROSALINE
My physic says `Ay'.
LLL 2.1. 189
LLL-BIRON
Will you prick 't with your eye?
LLL 2.1. 190
LLL-ROSALINE
{Non point}, with my knife.
LLL 2.1. 191
LLL-BIRON
Now God save thy life.
LLL 2.1. 192
LLL-ROSALINE
And yours, from long living.
LLL 2.1. 193
LLL-BIRON
I cannot stay thanksgiving. {Exit}
LLL 2.1. 194 {Enter Dumaine}
LLL-DUMAINE
{(to Boyet)} Sir, I +
LLL 2.1. 194 pray you a word. What lady is that same?
LLL 2.1. 195
LLL-BOYET
The heir of Alenc@on, Catherine her name.
LLL 2.1. 196
LLL-DUMAINE
A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well. {Exit}
LLL 2.1. 197 {Enter Longueville}
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
{(to Boyet)}+
LLL 2.1. 197 I beseech you a word, what is she in the white?
LLL 2.1. 198
LLL-BOYET
A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.
LLL 2.1. 199
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Perchance light in the light. I desire her name.
LLL 2.1. 200
LLL-BOYET
She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.
LLL 2.1. 201
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Pray you, sir, whose daughter?
LLL 2.1. 202
LLL-BOYET
Her mother's, I have heard.
LLL 2.1. 203
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
God's blessing on your beard!
LLL 2.1. 204
LLL-BOYET
Good sir, be not offended.
LLL 2.1. 205 She is an heir of Fauconbridge.
LLL 2.1. 206
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Nay, my choler is ended.
LLL 2.1. 207 She is a most sweet lady.
LLL 2.1. 208
LLL-BOYET
Not unlike, sir. That may be. {Exit Longueville}
LLL 2.1. 209 {Enter Biron}
LLL-BIRON
What's her name in the cap?
LLL 2.1. 210
LLL-BOYET
Rosaline, by good hap.
LLL 2.1. 211
LLL-BIRON
Is she wedded or no?
LLL 2.1. 212
LLL-BOYET
To her will, sir, or so.
LLL 2.1. 213
LLL-BIRON
O, you are welcome, sir. Adieu.
LLL 2.1. 214
LLL-BOYET
Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you. {Exit Biron}
LLL 2.1. 215
LLL-MARIA
That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord.
LLL 2.1. 216B Not a word with him but a jest.
LLL-BOYET
And every jest but a word.
LLL 2.1. 217
LLL-PRINCESS
It was well done of you to take him at his word.
LLL 2.1. 218
LLL-BOYET
I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.
LLL 2.1. 219B
LLL-[CATHERINE]
Two hot sheeps, marry.
LLL-BOYET
And wherefore not +
LLL 2.1. 219B ships?
LLL 2.1. 220 No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.
LLL 2.1. 221
LLL-[CATHERINE]
You sheep and I pasture - shall that finish the jest?
LLL 2.1. 222B
LLL-BOYET
So you grant pasture for me.
LLL-[CATHERINE]
Not so, gentle +
LLL 2.1. 222B beast.
LLL 2.1. 223 My lips are no common, though several they be.
LLL 2.1. 224B
LLL-BOYET
Belonging to whom?
LLL-[CATHERINE]
To my fortunes and me.
LLL 2.1. 225
LLL-PRINCESS
Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.
LLL 2.1. 226 This civil war of wits were much better used
LLL 2.1. 227 On Navarre and his bookmen, for here 'tis abused.
LLL 2.1. 228
LLL-BOYET
If my observation, which very seldom lies,
LLL 2.1. 229 By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,
LLL 2.1. 230 Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.
LLL 2.1. 231A
LLL-PRINCESS
With what?
LLL 2.1. 232
LLL-BOYET
With that which we lovers entitle `affected'.
LLL 2.1. 233A
LLL-PRINCESS
Your reason?
LLL 2.1. 234
LLL-BOYET
Why, all his behaviours did make their retire
LLL 2.1. 235 To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire.
LLL 2.1. 236 His heart like an agate with your print impressed,
LLL 2.1. 237 Proud with his form, in his eye pride expressed.
LLL 2.1. 238 His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
LLL 2.1. 239 Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be.
LLL 2.1. 240 All senses to that sense did make their repair,
LLL 2.1. 241 To feel only looking on fairest of fair.
LLL 2.1. 242 Methought all his senses were locked in his eye,
LLL 2.1. 243 As jewels in crystal, for some prince to buy,
LLL 2.1. 244 Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glassed,
LLL 2.1. 245 Did point you to buy them along as you passed.
LLL 2.1. 246 His face's own margin did quote such amazes
LLL 2.1. 247 That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.
LLL 2.1. 248 I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his
LLL 2.1. 249 An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.
LLL 2.1. 250
LLL-PRINCESS
Come, to our pavilion. Boyet is disposed.
LLL 2.1. 251
LLL-BOYET
But to speak that in words which his eye hath disclosed.
LLL 2.1. 252 I only have made a mouth of his eye
LLL 2.1. 253 By adding a tongue, which I know will not lie.
LLL 2.1. 254
LLL-[ROSALINE]
Thou art an old love-monger, and speak'st skilfully.
LLL 2.1. 255
LLL-[MARIA]
He is Cupid's grandfather, and learns news of him.
LLL 2.1. 256
LLL-[CATHERINE]
Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but +
LLL 2.1. 256 grim.
LLL 2.1. 257B
LLL-BOYET
Do you hear, my mad wenches?
LLL-[MARIA]
No.
LLL-BOYET
What +
LLL 2.1. 257B then, do you see?
LLL 2.1. 258B
LLL-[CATHERINE]
Ay - our way to be gone.
LLL-BOYET
You are too hard for +
LLL 2.1. 258B me. {Exeunt}
LLL 2.1. 0 {Enter Armado the braggart, and Mote his boy}
LLL 3.1. 1
LLL-ARMADO
Warble, child; make passionate my sense of
LLL 3.1. 2 hearing.
LLL 3.1. 3
LLL-MOTE
{(sings)} Concolinel.
LLL 3.1. 4
LLL-ARMADO
Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years, take this key.
LLL 3.1. 5 Give enlargement to the swain. Bring him festinately
LLL 3.1. 6 hither. I must employ him in a letter to my love.
LLL 3.1. 7
LLL-MOTE
Master, will you win your love with a French
LLL 3.1. 8 brawl?
LLL 3.1. 9
LLL-ARMADO
How meanest thou - brawling in French?
LLL 3.1. 10
LLL-MOTE
No, my complete master; but to jig off a tune at
LLL 3.1. 11 the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour
LLL 3.1. 12 it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and sing
LLL 3.1. 13 a note, sometime through the throat as if you swallowed
LLL 3.1. 14 love with singing love, sometime through the nose as
LLL 3.1. 15 if you snuffed up love by smelling love, with your hat
LLL 3.1. 16 penthouse-like o'er the shop of your eyes, with your
LLL 3.1. 17 arms crossed on your thin-belly doublet like a rabbit
LLL 3.1. 18 on a spit, or your hands in your pocket like a man
LLL 3.1. 19 after the old painting, and keep not too long in one
LLL 3.1. 20 tune, but a snip and away. These are complements,
LLL 3.1. 21 these are humours; these betray nice wenches that
LLL 3.1. 22 would be betrayed without these, and make them men
LLL 3.1. 23 of note - do you note? {men} - that most are affected to
LLL 3.1. 24 these.
LLL 3.1. 25
LLL-ARMADO
How hast thou purchased this experience?
LLL 3.1. 26
LLL-MOTE
By my penny of observation.
LLL 3.1. 27
LLL-ARMADO
But O, but O -
LLL 3.1. 28
LLL-MOTE
`The hobby-horse is forgot.'
LLL 3.1. 29
LLL-ARMADO
Call'st thou my love hobby-horse?
LLL 3.1. 30
LLL-MOTE
No, master, the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your
LLL 3.1. 31 love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love?
LLL 3.1. 32
LLL-ARMADO
Almost I had.
LLL 3.1. 33
LLL-MOTE
Negligent student, learn her by heart.
LLL 3.1. 34
LLL-ARMADO
By heart and in heart, boy.
LLL 3.1. 35
LLL-MOTE
And out of heart, master. All those three I will
LLL 3.1. 36 prove.
LLL 3.1. 37
LLL-ARMADO
What wilt thou prove?
LLL 3.1. 38
LLL-MOTE
A man, if I live; and this, `by', `in', and `without',
LLL 3.1. 39 upon the instant: `by' heart you love her because your
LLL 3.1. 40 heart cannot come {by} her; `in' heart you love her
LLL 3.1. 41 because your heart is {in} love with her; and `out' of
LLL 3.1. 42 heart you love her, being {out} of heart that you cannot
LLL 3.1. 43 enjoy her.
LLL 3.1. 44
LLL-ARMADO
I am all these three.
LLL 3.1. 45
LLL-MOTE
{(aside)} And three times as much more, and +
LLL 3.1. 45 yet
LLL 3.1. 46 nothing at all.
LLL 3.1. 47
LLL-ARMADO
Fetch hither the swain. He must carry me a
LLL 3.1. 48 letter.
LLL 3.1. 49
LLL-MOTE
{(aside)} A message well sympathized - a horse +
LLL 3.1. 49 to be
LLL 3.1. 50 ambassador for an ass.
LLL 3.1. 51
LLL-ARMADO
Ha, ha! What sayst thou?
LLL 3.1. 52
LLL-MOTE
Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,
LLL 3.1. 53 for he is very slow-gaited. But I go.
LLL 3.1. 54
LLL-ARMADO
The way is but short. Away!
LLL 3.1. 55
LLL-MOTE
As swift as lead, sir.
LLL 3.1. 56
LLL-ARMADO
The meaning, pretty ingenious?
LLL 3.1. 57 Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?
LLL 3.1. 58
LLL-MOTE
{Minime}, honest master - or rather, master, no.
LLL 3.1. 59B
LLL-ARMADO
I say lead is slow.
LLL-MOTE
You are too swift, sir, to say +
LLL 3.1. 59B so.
LLL 3.1. 60 Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?
LLL 3.1. 61A
LLL-ARMADO
Sweet smoke of rhetoric!
LLL 3.1. 62 He reputes me a cannon, and the bullet, that's he.
LLL 3.1. 63B I shoot thee at the swain.
LLL-MOTE
Thump, then, and I flee. +
LLL 3.1. 63B {Exit}
LLL 3.1. 64
LLL-ARMADO
A most acute juvenal - voluble and free of grace.
LLL 3.1. 65 By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face.
LLL 3.1. 66 Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.
LLL 3.1. 67 My herald is returned. {Enter Mote the page, and Costard the +
LLL 3.1. 67 clown}
LLL 3.1. 68
LLL-MOTE
A wonder, master - here's a costard broken in a shin.
LLL 3.1. 69
LLL-ARMADO
Some enigma, some riddle; come, thy {l'envoi}. Begin.
LLL 3.1. 70
LLL-COSTARD
No egma, no riddle, no {l'envoi}, no salve in the
LLL 3.1. 71 mail, sir. O sir, plantain, a plain plantain - no {l'envoi},
LLL 3.1. 72 no {l'envoi}, no salve, sir, but a plantain.
LLL 3.1. 73
LLL-ARMADO
By virtue, thou enforcest laughter - thy silly
LLL 3.1. 74 thought my spleen. The heaving of my lungs provokes
LLL 3.1. 75 me to ridiculous smiling. O pardon me, my stars! Doth
LLL 3.1. 76 the inconsiderate take salve for {l'envoi}, and the word
LLL 3.1. 77 {l'envoi} for a salve?
LLL 3.1. 78
LLL-MOTE
Do the wise think them other? Is not {l'envoi} a +
LLL 3.1. 78 salve?
LLL 3.1. 79
LLL-ARMADO
No, page, it is an epilogue or discourse to make plain
LLL 3.1. 80 Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.
LLL 3.1. 81 I will example it.
LLL 3.1. 82 The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee
LLL 3.1. 83 Were still at odds, being but three.
LLL 3.1. 84 There's the moral. Now the {l'envoi}.
LLL 3.1. 85
LLL-MOTE
I will add the {l'envoi}. Say the moral again.
LLL 3.1. 86
LLL-ARMADO
The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee
LLL 3.1. 87 Were still at odds, being but three.
LLL 3.1. 88
LLL-MOTE
Until the goose came out of door
LLL 3.1. 89 And stayed the odds by adding four.
LLL 3.1. 90 Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with
LLL 3.1. 91 my {l'envoi}.
LLL 3.1. 92 The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee
LLL 3.1. 93 Were still at odds, being but three.
LLL 3.1. 94
LLL-ARMADO
Until the goose came out of door,
LLL 3.1. 95 Staying the odds by adding four.
LLL 3.1. 96
LLL-MOTE
A good {l'envoi}, ending in the goose. Would you
LLL 3.1. 97 desire more?
LLL 3.1. 98
LLL-COSTARD
The boy hath sold him a bargain - a goose, that's +
LLL 3.1. 98 flat.
LLL 3.1. 99 Sir, your pennyworth is good an your goose be fat.
LLL 3.1. 100 To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.
LLL 3.1. 101 Let me see, a fat {l'envoi} - ay, that's a fat goose.
LLL 3.1. 102
LLL-ARMADO
Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?
LLL 3.1. 103
LLL-MOTE
By saying that a costard was broken in a shin.
LLL 3.1. 104 Then called you for the {l'envoi}.
LLL 3.1. 105
LLL-COSTARD
True, and I for a plantain. Thus came your
LLL 3.1. 106 argument in. Then the boy's fat {l'envoi}, the goose that
LLL 3.1. 107 you bought, and he ended the market.
LLL 3.1. 108
LLL-ARMADO
But tell me, how was there a costard broken in
LLL 3.1. 109 a shin?
LLL 3.1. 110
LLL-MOTE
I will tell you sensibly.
LLL 3.1. 111
LLL-COSTARD
Thou hast no feeling of it. Mote, I will speak
LLL 3.1. 112 that {l'envoi}.
LLL 3.1. 113 I, Costard, running out, that was safely within,
LLL 3.1. 114 Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.
LLL 3.1. 115
LLL-ARMADO
We will talk no more of this matter.
LLL 3.1. 116
LLL-COSTARD
Till there be more matter in the shin.
LLL 3.1. 117
LLL-ARMADO
Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
LLL 3.1. 118
LLL-COSTARD
O, marry me to one Frances! I smell some {l'envoi},
LLL 3.1. 119 some goose, in this.
LLL 3.1. 120
LLL-ARMADO
By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty,
LLL 3.1. 121 enfreedoming thy person. Thou wert immured,
LLL 3.1. 122 restrained, captivated, bound.
LLL 3.1. 123
LLL-COSTARD
True, true, and now you will be my purgation
LLL 3.1. 124 and let me loose.
LLL 3.1. 125
LLL-ARMADO
I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance,
LLL 3.1. 126 and in lieu thereof impose on thee nothing but this:
LLL 3.1. 127 bear this significant to the country maid, Jaquenetta.
LLL 3.1. 128 {(Giving him a letter)} There is remuneration +
LLL 3.1. 128 {(giving him}
LLL 3.1. 129 {money)} , for the best ward of mine honour is rewarding
LLL 3.1. 130 my dependants. Mote, follow. {Exit}
LLL 3.1. 131
LLL-MOTE
Like the sequel, I. Signor Costard, adieu. +
LLL 3.1. 131 {Exit}
LLL 3.1. 132
LLL-COSTARD
My sweet ounce of man's flesh, my incony Jew!
LLL 3.1. 133 Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration -
LLL 3.1. 134 O, that's the Latin word for three-farthings. Three-
LLL 3.1. 135 farthings - remuneration. `What's the price of this
LLL 3.1. 136 inkle?' `One penny.' `No, I'll give you a remuneration.'
LLL 3.1. 137 Why, it carries it! Remuneration! Why, it is a fairer
LLL 3.1. 138 name than French crown. I will never buy and sell out
LLL 3.1. 139 of this word. {Enter Biron}
LLL 3.1. 140
LLL-BIRON
My good knave Costard, exceedingly well met.
LLL 3.1. 141
LLL-COSTARD
Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may
LLL 3.1. 142 a man buy for a remuneration?
LLL 3.1. 143
LLL-BIRON
What is a remuneration?
LLL 3.1. 144
LLL-COSTARD
Marry, sir, halfpenny-farthing.
LLL 3.1. 145
LLL-BIRON
Why, then, three-farthing-worth of silk.
LLL 3.1. 146
LLL-COSTARD
I thank your worship. God be wi' you.
LLL 3.1. 147
LLL-BIRON
Stay, slave, I must employ thee.
LLL 3.1. 148 As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,
LLL 3.1. 149 Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.
LLL 3.1. 150
LLL-COSTARD
When would you have it done, sir?
LLL 3.1. 151
LLL-BIRON
This afternoon.
LLL 3.1. 152
LLL-COSTARD
Well, I will do it, sir. Fare you well.
LLL 3.1. 153
LLL-BIRON
Thou knowest not what it is.
LLL 3.1. 154
LLL-COSTARD
I shall know, sir, when I have done it.
LLL 3.1. 155
LLL-BIRON
Why, villain, thou must know first.
LLL 3.1. 156
LLL-COSTARD
I will come to your worship tomorrow morning.
LLL 3.1. 157
LLL-BIRON
It must be done this afternoon. Hark, slave,
LLL 3.1. 158 It is but this:
LLL 3.1. 159 The Princess comes to hunt here in the park,
LLL 3.1. 160 And in her train there is a gentle lady.
LLL 3.1. 161 When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
LLL 3.1. 162 And Rosaline they call her. Ask for her,
LLL 3.1. 163 And to her white hand see thou do commend
LLL 3.1. 164 This sealed-up counsel. There's thy guerdon {(giving him a +
LLL 3.1. 164 letter and money)} , go.
LLL 3.1. 165
LLL-COSTARD
Guerdon! O sweet guerdon! - better than
LLL 3.1. 166 remuneration, elevenpence-farthing better - most sweet
LLL 3.1. 167 guerdon! I will do it, sir, in print. Guerdon -
LLL 3.1. 168 remuneration. {Exit}
LLL 3.1. 169
LLL-BIRON
And I, forsooth, in love - I that have been love's +
LLL 3.1. 169 whip,
LLL 3.1. 170 A very beadle to a humorous sigh,
LLL 3.1. 171 A critic, nay, a night-watch constable,
LLL 3.1. 172 A domineering pedant o'er the boy,
LLL 3.1. 173 Than whom no mortal so magnificent.
LLL 3.1. 174 This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,
LLL 3.1. 175 This Signor Junior, giant dwarf, Dan Cupid,
LLL 3.1. 176 Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
LLL 3.1. 177 Th' anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
LLL 3.1. 178 Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,
LLL 3.1. 179 Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,
LLL 3.1. 180 Sole imperator and great general
LLL 3.1. 181 Of trotting paritors - O my little heart!
LLL 3.1. 182 And I to be a corporal of his field,
LLL 3.1. 183 And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!
LLL 3.1. 184 What? I love, I sue, I seek a wife? -
LLL 3.1. 185 A woman, that is like a German clock,
LLL 3.1. 186 Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,
LLL 3.1. 187 And never going aright, being a watch,
LLL 3.1. 188 But being watched that it may still go right.
LLL 3.1. 189 Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all,
LLL 3.1. 190 And among three to love the worst of all -
LLL 3.1. 191 A whitely wanton with a velvet brow,
LLL 3.1. 192 With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes -
LLL 3.1. 193 Ay, and, by heaven, one that will do the deed
LLL 3.1. 194 Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard.
LLL 3.1. 195 And I to sigh for her, to watch for her,
LLL 3.1. 196 To pray for her - go to, it is a plague
LLL 3.1. 197 That Cupid will impose for my neglect
LLL 3.1. 198 Of his almighty dreadful little might.
LLL 3.1. 199 Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, groan:
LLL 3.1. 200 Some men must love my lady, and some Joan. {Exit}
LLL 3.1. 0 {Enter the Princess, a Forester, her +
LLL 4.1. 0 ladies - Rosaline, Maria, and Catherine - and her lords, among them Boyet}
LLL 4.1. 1
LLL-PRINCESS
Was that the King that spurred his horse so hard
LLL 4.1. 2 Against the steep uprising of the hill?
LLL 4.1. 3
LLL-[BOYET]
I know not, but I think it was not he.
LLL 4.1. 4
LLL-PRINCESS
Whoe'er a was, a showed a mounting mind.
LLL 4.1. 5 Well, lords, today we shall have our dispatch.
LLL 4.1. 6 Ere Saturday we will return to France.
LLL 4.1. 7 Then, forester my friend, where is the bush
LLL 4.1. 8 That we must stand and play the murderer in?
LLL 4.1. 9
LLL-FORESTER
Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice -
LLL 4.1. 10 A stand where you may make the fairest shoot.
LLL 4.1. 11
LLL-PRINCESS
I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot,
LLL 4.1. 12 And thereupon thou speak'st `the fairest shoot'.
LLL 4.1. 13
LLL-FORESTER
Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so.
LLL 4.1. 14
LLL-PRINCESS
What, what? First praise me, and again say no?
LLL 4.1. 15 O short-lived pride! Not fair? Alack, for woe!
LLL 4.1. 16B
LLL-FORESTER
Yes, madam, fair.
LLL-PRINCESS
Nay, never paint me now.
LLL 4.1. 17 Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.
LLL 4.1. 18 Here, good my glass, take this for telling true. {She gives him +
LLL 4.1. 18 money}
LLL 4.1. 19 Fair payment for foul words is more than due.
LLL 4.1. 20
LLL-FORESTER
Nothing but fair is that which you inherit.
LLL 4.1. 21
LLL-PRINCESS
See, see, my beauty will be saved by merit!
LLL 4.1. 22 O heresy in fair, fit for these days -
LLL 4.1. 23 A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
LLL 4.1. 24 But come, the bow. Now mercy goes to kill,
LLL 4.1. 25 And shooting well is then accounted ill.
LLL 4.1. 26 Thus will I save my credit in the shoot,
LLL 4.1. 27 Not wounding - pity would not let me do 't.
LLL 4.1. 28 If wounding, then it was to show my skill,
LLL 4.1. 29 That more for praise than purpose meant to kill.
LLL 4.1. 30 And, out of question, so it is sometimes -
LLL 4.1. 31 Glory grows guilty of detested crimes
LLL 4.1. 32 When for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part,
LLL 4.1. 33 We bend to that the working of the heart,
LLL 4.1. 34 As I for praise alone now seek to spill
LLL 4.1. 35 The poor deer's blood that my heart means no ill.
LLL 4.1. 36
LLL-BOYET
Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty
LLL 4.1. 37 Only for praise' sake when they strive to be
LLL 4.1. 38 Lords o'er their lords?
LLL 4.1. 39
LLL-PRINCESS
Only for praise, and praise we may afford
LLL 4.1. 40 To any lady that subdues a lord. {Enter Costard the clown}
LLL 4.1. 41
LLL-BOYET
Here comes a member of the commonwealth.
LLL 4.1. 42
LLL-COSTARD
God dig-you-de'en, all. Pray you, which is the
LLL 4.1. 43 head lady?
LLL 4.1. 44
LLL-PRINCESS
Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that
LLL 4.1. 45 have no heads.
LLL 4.1. 46
LLL-COSTARD
Which is the greatest lady, the highest?
LLL 4.1. 47
LLL-PRINCESS
The thickest and the tallest.
LLL 4.1. 48
LLL-COSTARD
The thickest and the tallest - it is so, truth is +
LLL 4.1. 48 truth.
LLL 4.1. 49 An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit
LLL 4.1. 50 One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit.
LLL 4.1. 51 Are not you the chief woman? You are the thickest here.
LLL 4.1. 52
LLL-PRINCESS
What's your will, sir? What's your will?
LLL 4.1. 53
LLL-COSTARD
I have a letter from Monsieur Biron to one Lady +
LLL 4.1. 53 Rosaline.
LLL 4.1. 54
LLL-PRINCESS
O, thy letter, thy letter! {(She takes it)}+
LLL 4.1. 54 He's a good friend of mine.
LLL 4.1. 55 {(To Costard)} Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you +
LLL 4.1. 55 can carve.
LLL 4.1. 56B Break up this capon. {She gives the letter to Boyet}
LLL-BOYET
+
LLL 4.1. 56B I am bound to serve.
LLL 4.1. 57 This letter is mistook. It importeth none here.
LLL 4.1. 58B It is writ to Jaquenetta.
LLL-PRINCESS
We will read it, I swear.
LLL 4.1. 59 Break the neck of the wax, and everyone give ear.
LLL 4.1. 60
LLL-BOYET
{(reads)} `By heaven, that thou art fair is +
LLL 4.1. 60 most
LLL 4.1. 61 infallible, true that thou art beauteous, truth itself that
LLL 4.1. 62 thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than
LLL 4.1. 63 beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration
LLL 4.1. 64 on thy heroical vassal. The magnanimous and most
LLL 4.1. 65 illustrate King Cophetua set 's eye upon the penurious
LLL 4.1. 66 and indubitate beggar Zenelophon, and he it was that
LLL 4.1. 67 might rightly say ``{Veni, vidi, vici}'', which to
LLL 4.1. 68 annothanize in the vulgar - O base and obscure
LLL 4.1. 69 vulgar! - {videlicet} ``He came, see, and overcame.'' He
LLL 4.1. 70 came, one; see, two; overcame, three. Who came? The
LLL 4.1. 71 King. Why did he come? To see. Why did he see? To
LLL 4.1. 72 overcome. To whom came he? To the beggar. What
LLL 4.1. 73 saw he? The beggar. Who overcame he? The beggar.
LLL 4.1. 74 The conclusion is victory. On whose side? The King's.
LLL 4.1. 75 The captive is enriched. On whose side? The beggar's.
LLL 4.1. 76 The catastrophe is a nuptial. On whose side? The
LLL 4.1. 77 King's - no, on both in one, or one in both. I am the
LLL 4.1. 78 King - for so stands the comparison - thou the beggar,
LLL 4.1. 79 for so witnesseth thy lowliness. Shall I command thy
LLL 4.1. 80 love? I may. Shall I enforce thy love? I could. Shall I
LLL 4.1. 81 entreat thy love? I will. What shalt thou exchange for
LLL 4.1. 82 rags? Robes. For tittles? Titles. For thyself? Me. Thus,
LLL 4.1. 83 expecting thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot, my
LLL 4.1. 84 eyes on thy picture, and my heart on thy every part.
LLL 4.1. 85 Thine in the dearest design of industry,
LLL 4.1. 86 Don Adriano de Armado.
LLL 4.1. 87 Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar
LLL 4.1. 88 'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey.
LLL 4.1. 89 Submissive fall his princely feet before,
LLL 4.1. 90 And he from forage will incline to play.
LLL 4.1. 91 But if thou strive, poor soul, what art thou then?
LLL 4.1. 92 Food for his rage, repasture for his den.'
LLL 4.1. 93
LLL-PRINCESS
What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?
LLL 4.1. 94 What vane? What weathercock? Did you ever hear better?
LLL 4.1. 95
LLL-BOYET
I am much deceived but I remember the style.
LLL 4.1. 96
LLL-PRINCESS
Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile.
LLL 4.1. 97
LLL-BOYET
This Armado is a Spaniard that keeps here in court,
LLL 4.1. 98 A phantasim, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport
LLL 4.1. 99B To the Prince and his bookmates.
LLL-PRINCESS
{(to +
LLL 4.1. 99B Costard)} Thou, fellow, a word.
LLL 4.1. 100B Who gave thee this letter?
LLL-COSTARD
I told you - my lord.
LLL 4.1. 101B
LLL-PRINCESS
To whom shouldst thou give it?
LLL-COSTARD
From my lord to +
LLL 4.1. 101B my lady.
LLL 4.1. 102
LLL-PRINCESS
From which lord to which lady?
LLL 4.1. 103
LLL-COSTARD
From my lord Biron, a good master of mine,
LLL 4.1. 104 To a lady of France that he called Rosaline.
LLL 4.1. 105
LLL-PRINCESS
Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.
LLL 4.1. 106 {(To Rosaline, giving her the letter)} Here, sweet, +
LLL 4.1. 106 put up this, 'twill be thine another day. {Exit attended}
LLL 4.1. 107B
LLL-BOYET
Who is the suitor? Who is the suitor?
LLL-ROSALINE
+
LLL 4.1. 107B Shall I teach you to know?
LLL 4.1. 108B
LLL-BOYET
Ay, my continent of beauty.
LLL-ROSALINE
Why, she that bears +
LLL 4.1. 108B the bow.
LLL 4.1. 109 Finely put off.
LLL 4.1. 110
LLL-BOYET
My lady goes to kill horns, but if thou marry,
LLL 4.1. 111 Hang me by the neck if horns that year miscarry.
LLL 4.1. 112 Finely put on.
LLL 4.1. 113B
LLL-ROSALINE
Well then, I am the shooter.
LLL-BOYET
And who is your +
LLL 4.1. 113B deer?
LLL 4.1. 114
LLL-ROSALINE
If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near.
LLL 4.1. 115 Finely put on indeed!
LLL 4.1. 116
LLL-MARIA
You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes at the +
LLL 4.1. 116 brow.
LLL 4.1. 117
LLL-BOYET
But she herself is hit lower - have I hit her now?
LLL 4.1. 118
LLL-ROSALINE
Shall I come upon thee with an old saying that
LLL 4.1. 119 was a man when King Pe/pin of France was a little boy,
LLL 4.1. 120 as touching the hit it?
LLL 4.1. 121
LLL-BOYET
So I may answer thee with one as old that was a
LLL 4.1. 122 woman when Queen Guinevere of Britain was a little
LLL 4.1. 123 wench, as touching the hit it.
LLL 4.1. 124
LLL-ROSALINE
{(sings)} Thou canst not hit it, hit it, +
LLL 4.1. 124 hit it,
LLL 4.1. 125 Thou canst not hit it, my good man.
LLL 4.1. 126
LLL-BOYET
{(sings)} An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
LLL 4.1. 127 An I cannot, another can. {Exit Rosaline}
LLL 4.1. 128
LLL-COSTARD
By my troth, most pleasant! How both did fit it!
LLL 4.1. 129
LLL-MARIA
A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.
LLL 4.1. 130
LLL-BOYET
A mark - O mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady.
LLL 4.1. 131 Let the mark have a prick in 't to mete at, if it may be.
LLL 4.1. 132
LLL-MARIA
Wide o' the bow hand - i' faith, your hand is out.
LLL 4.1. 133
LLL-COSTARD
Indeed, a must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.
LLL 4.1. 134
LLL-BOYET
An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.
LLL 4.1. 135
LLL-COSTARD
Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.
LLL 4.1. 136
LLL-MARIA
Come, come, you talk greasily, your lips grow foul.
LLL 4.1. 137
LLL-COSTARD
She's too hard for you at pricks, sir. Challenge her to +
LLL 4.1. 137 bowl.
LLL 4.1. 138
LLL-BOYET
I fear too much rubbing. Goodnight, my good owl. +
LLL 4.1. 138 {Exeunt Boyet, Maria, [and Catherine]}
LLL 4.1. 139
LLL-COSTARD
By my soul, a swain, a most simple clown.
LLL 4.1. 140 Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!
LLL 4.1. 141 O' my troth, most sweet jests, most incony vulgar wit,
LLL 4.1. 142 When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it were, so fit!
LLL 4.1. 143 Armado o' th' t' other side - O, a most dainty man! -
LLL 4.1. 144 To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!
LLL 4.1. 145 To see him kiss his hand, and how most sweetly a will swear,
LLL 4.1. 146 And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit -
LLL 4.1. 147 Ah heavens, it is a most pathetical nit! {Shout within}
LLL 4.1. 148 Sola, sola! {Exit}
LLL 4.1. 0 {Enter Dull, Holofernes the pedant, and Nathaniel the +
LLL 4.2. 0 curate}
LLL 4.2. 1
LLL-NATHANIEL
Very reverend sport, truly, and done in the
LLL 4.2. 2 testimony of a good conscience.
LLL 4.2. 3
LLL-HOLOFERNES
The deer was, as you know - {sanguis} - in
LLL 4.2. 4 blood, ripe as the pomewater who now hangeth like a
LLL 4.2. 5 jewel in the ear of {caelo}, the sky, the welkin, the heaven,
LLL 4.2. 6 and anon falleth like a crab on the face of {terra}, the
LLL 4.2. 7 soil, the land, the earth.
LLL 4.2. 8
LLL-NATHANIEL
Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are
LLL 4.2. 9 sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least. But, sir, I
LLL 4.2. 10 assure ye it was a buck of the first head.
LLL 4.2. 11
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Sir Nathaniel, {haud credo}.
LLL 4.2. 12
LLL-DULL
'Twas not a `auld grey doe', 'twas a pricket.
LLL 4.2. 13
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Most barbarous intimation! Yet a kind of
LLL 4.2. 14 insinuation, as it were {in via}, in way, of explication,
LLL 4.2. 15 {facere}, as it were, replication, or rather {ostentare}, to
LLL 4.2. 16 show, as it were, his inclination after his undressed,
LLL 4.2. 17 unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or
LLL 4.2. 18 rather unlettered, or ratherest unconfirmed, fashion, to
LLL 4.2. 19 insert again my `{haud credo}' for a deer.
LLL 4.2. 20
LLL-DULL
I said the deer was not a `auld grey doe', 'twas a
LLL 4.2. 21 pricket.
LLL 4.2. 22
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Twice-sod simplicity, {bis coctus}!
LLL 4.2. 23 O thou monster ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!
LLL 4.2. 24
LLL-NATHANIEL
Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a +
LLL 4.2. 24 book.
LLL 4.2. 25 He hath not eat paper, as it were, he hath not drunk
LLL 4.2. 26 ink. His intellect is not replenished, he is only an
LLL 4.2. 27 animal, only sensible in the duller parts,
LLL 4.2. 28 And such barren plants are set before us that we thankful +
LLL 4.2. 28 should be,
LLL 4.2. 29 Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that do fructify in +
LLL 4.2. 29 us more than he.
LLL 4.2. 30 For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,
LLL 4.2. 31 So were there a patch set on learning to see {him} in a school.
LLL 4.2. 32 But {omne bene} say I, being of an old father's mind:
LLL 4.2. 33 `Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.'
LLL 4.2. 34
LLL-DULL
You two are bookmen. Can you tell me by your wit
LLL 4.2. 35 What was a month old at Cain's birth that's not five weeks old as yet?
LLL 4.2. 36
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Dictynna}, Goodman Dull, {Dictynna}, Goodman
LLL 4.2. 37 Dull.
LLL 4.2. 38
LLL-DULL
What is `{Dictima}'?
LLL 4.2. 39
LLL-NATHANIEL
A title to Phoebe, to {luna}, to the moon.
LLL 4.2. 40
LLL-HOLOFERNES
The moon was a month old when Adam was no +
LLL 4.2. 40 more,
LLL 4.2. 41 And raught not to five weeks when he came to five score.
LLL 4.2. 42 Th' allusion holds in the exchange.
LLL 4.2. 43
LLL-DULL
'Tis true, indeed, the collusion holds in the
LLL 4.2. 44 exchange.
LLL 4.2. 45
LLL-HOLOFERNES
God comfort thy capacity, I say th' allusion
LLL 4.2. 46 holds in the exchange.
LLL 4.2. 47
LLL-DULL
And I say the pollution holds in the exchange, for
LLL 4.2. 48 the moon is never but a month old - and I say beside
LLL 4.2. 49 that 'twas a pricket that the Princess killed.
LLL 4.2. 50
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal
LLL 4.2. 51 epitaph on the death of the deer? And to humour the
LLL 4.2. 52 ignorant call I the deer the Princess killed a pricket.
LLL 4.2. 53
LLL-NATHANIEL
{Perge}, good Master Holofernes, {perge}, so it
LLL 4.2. 54 shall please you to abrogate scurrility.
LLL 4.2. 55
LLL-HOLOFERNES
I will something affect the letter, for it argues
LLL 4.2. 56 facility.
LLL 4.2. 57 The preyful Princess pierced and pricked a pretty pleasing +
LLL 4.2. 57 pricket.
LLL 4.2. 58 Some say a sore, but not a sore till now made sore with shooting.
LLL 4.2. 59 The dogs did yell; put `l' to `sore', then `sorel' jumps from thicket -
LLL 4.2. 60 Or pricket sore, or else sorel. The people fall a-hooting.
LLL 4.2. 61 If sore be sore, then `l' to `sore' makes fifty sores - O sore `l'!
LLL 4.2. 62 Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more `l'.
LLL 4.2. 63
LLL-NATHANIEL
A rare talent!
LLL 4.2. 64
LLL-DULL
If a talent be a claw, look how he claws him with
LLL 4.2. 65 a talent.
LLL 4.2. 66
LLL-HOLOFERNES
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple - a
LLL 4.2. 67 foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes,
LLL 4.2. 68 objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions.
LLL 4.2. 69 These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished
LLL 4.2. 70 in the womb of {pia mater}, and delivered upon the
LLL 4.2. 71 mellowing of occasion. But the gift is good in those in
LLL 4.2. 72 whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
LLL 4.2. 73
LLL-NATHANIEL
Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may my
LLL 4.2. 74 parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by you,
LLL 4.2. 75 and their daughters profit very greatly under you. You
LLL 4.2. 76 are a good member of the commonwealth.
LLL 4.2. 77
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Mehercle}, if their sons be ingenious they shall
LLL 4.2. 78 want no instruction; if their daughters be capable, I
LLL 4.2. 79 will put it to them. But {Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur}; a
LLL 4.2. 80 soul feminine saluteth us. {Enter Jaquenetta, and Costard the +
LLL 4.2. 80 clown}
LLL 4.2. 81
LLL-JAQUENETTA
God give you good-morrow, Master Parson.
LLL 4.2. 82
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Master Parson, {quasi} `pierce one'? And if one
LLL 4.2. 83 should be pierced, which is the one?
LLL 4.2. 84
LLL-COSTARD
Marry, Master Schoolmaster, he that is likeliest
LLL 4.2. 85 to a hogshead.
LLL 4.2. 86
LLL-HOLOFERNES
`Of piercing a hogshead' - a good lustre of
LLL 4.2. 87 conceit in a turf of earth, fire enough for a flint, pearl
LLL 4.2. 88 enough for a swine - 'tis pretty, it is well.
LLL 4.2. 89
LLL-JAQUENETTA
Good Master Parson, be so good as read me
LLL 4.2. 90 this letter. It was given me by Costard, and sent me
LLL 4.2. 91 from Don Armado. I beseech you read it. {She gives the letter to +
LLL 4.2. 91 Nathaniel, who reads it}
LLL 4.2. 92
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{(to himself)} `{Facile precor gelida +
LLL 4.2. 92 quando pecas
LLL 4.2. 93 omnia sub umbra ruminat}', and so forth. Ah, good old
LLL 4.2. 94 Mantuan! I may speak of thee as the traveller doth of
LLL 4.2. 95 Venice:
LLL 4.2. 96 {Venezia, Venezia},
LLL 4.2. 97 {Chi non ti vede, chi non ti prezia}.
LLL 4.2. 98 Old Mantuan, old Mantuan - who understandeth thee
LLL 4.2. 99 not, loves thee not. {(He sings)} Ut, re, sol, la, mi, +
LLL 4.2. 99 fa. {(To}
LLL 4.2. 100 {Nathaniel)} Under pardon, sir, what are the contents?
LLL 4.2. 101 Or rather, as Horace says in his - what, my soul -
LLL 4.2. 102 verses?
LLL 4.2. 103
LLL-NATHANIEL
Ay, sir, and very learned.
LLL 4.2. 104
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Let me hear a staff, a stanza, a verse. {Lege,
LLL 4.2. 105 domine}.
LLL 4.2. 106
LLL-NATHANIEL
{(reads)} `If love make me forsworn, how +
LLL 4.2. 106 shall I swear to love?
LLL 4.2. 107 Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vowed.
LLL 4.2. 108 Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove.
LLL 4.2. 109 Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bowed.
LLL 4.2. 110 Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes,
LLL 4.2. 111 Where all those pleasures live that art would comprehend.
LLL 4.2. 112 If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice.
LLL 4.2. 113 Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend;
LLL 4.2. 114 All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;
LLL 4.2. 115 Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire.
LLL 4.2. 116 Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,
LLL 4.2. 117 Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.
LLL 4.2. 118 Celestial as thou art, O pardon, love, this wrong,
LLL 4.2. 119 That singeth heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.'
LLL 4.2. 120
LLL-HOLOFERNES
You find not the apostrophus, and so miss
LLL 4.2. 121 the accent. Let me supervise the canzonet. Here are
LLL 4.2. 122 only numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, facility,
LLL 4.2. 123 and golden cadence of poesy - {caret}. Ovidius Naso was
LLL 4.2. 124 the man. And why indeed `Naso' but for smelling out
LLL 4.2. 125 the odoriferous flowers of fancy, the jerks of invention?
LLL 4.2. 126 {Imitari} is nothing. So doth the hound his master, the
LLL 4.2. 127 ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider. But {domicella} -
LLL 4.2. 128 virgin - was this directed to you?
LLL 4.2. 129
LLL-JAQUENETTA
Ay, sir.
LLL 4.2. 130
LLL-HOLOFERNES
I will overglance the superscript. `To the
LLL 4.2. 131 snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady Rosaline.'
LLL 4.2. 132 I will look again on the intellect of the letter for the
LLL 4.2. 133 nomination of the party writing to the person written
LLL 4.2. 134 unto. `Your ladyship's in all desired employment,
LLL 4.2. 135 Biron.' Sir Nathaniel, this Biron is one of the votaries
LLL 4.2. 136 with the King, and here he hath framed a letter to
LLL 4.2. 137 a sequent of the stranger Queen's, which, accidentally
LLL 4.2. 138 or by the way of progression, hath miscarried. {(To}
LLL 4.2. 139 {Jaquenetta)} Trip and go, my sweet, deliver this paper
LLL 4.2. 140 into the royal hand of the King. It may concern much.
LLL 4.2. 141 Stay not thy compliment, I forgive thy duty. Adieu.
LLL 4.2. 142
LLL-JAQUENETTA
Good Costard, go with me. - Sir, God save
LLL 4.2. 143 your life.
LLL 4.2. 144
LLL-COSTARD
Have with thee, my girl. {Exit with Jaquenetta}
LLL 4.2. 145
LLL-NATHANIEL
Sir, you have done this in the fear of God
LLL 4.2. 146 very religiously, and, as a certain father saith -
LLL 4.2. 147
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Sir, tell not me of the father; I do fear
LLL 4.2. 148 colourable colours. But to return to the verses - did
LLL 4.2. 149 they please you, Sir Nathaniel?
LLL 4.2. 150
LLL-NATHANIEL
Marvellous well for the pen.
LLL 4.2. 151
LLL-HOLOFERNES
I do dine today at the father's of a certain
LLL 4.2. 152 pupil of mine where, if before repast it shall please you
LLL 4.2. 153 to gratify the table with a grace, I will on my privilege
LLL 4.2. 154 I have with the parents of the foresaid child or pupil
LLL 4.2. 155 undertake your {ben venuto}, where I will prove those
LLL 4.2. 156 verses to be very unlearned, neither savouring of poetry,
LLL 4.2. 157 wit, nor invention. I beseech your society.
LLL 4.2. 158
LLL-NATHANIEL
And thank you too, for society, saith the text,
LLL 4.2. 159 is the happiness of life.
LLL 4.2. 160
LLL-HOLOFERNES
And certes the text most infallibly concludes
LLL 4.2. 161 it. {(To Dull)} Sir, I do invite you too. You shall not +
LLL 4.2. 161 say
LLL 4.2. 162 me nay. {Pauca verba}. Away, the gentles are at their
LLL 4.2. 163 game, and we will to our recreation. {Exeunt}
LLL 4.2. 0 {Enter Biron with a paper in his hand, alone}
LLL 4.3. 1
LLL-BIRON
The King, he is hunting the deer. I am coursing
LLL 4.3. 2 myself. They have pitched a toil, I am toiling in a
LLL 4.3. 3 pitch - pitch that defiles. Defile - a foul word. Well, set
LLL 4.3. 4 thee down, sorrow; for so they say the fool said, and
LLL 4.3. 5 so say I, and I the fool. Well proved, wit! By the Lord,
LLL 4.3. 6 this love is as mad as Ajax, it kills sheep, it kills me, I
LLL 4.3. 7 a sheep - well proved again o' my side. I will not love.
LLL 4.3. 8 If I do, hang me; i' faith, I will not. O, but her eye! By
LLL 4.3. 9 this light, but for her eye I would not love her. Yes,
LLL 4.3. 10 for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing in the world but
LLL 4.3. 11 lie, and lie in my throat. By heaven, I do love, and it
LLL 4.3. 12 hath taught me to rhyme and to be melancholy, and
LLL 4.3. 13 here {(showing a paper)} is part of my rhyme, and here
LLL 4.3. 14 {(touching his breast)} my melancholy. Well, she hath +
LLL 4.3. 14 one
LLL 4.3. 15 o' my sonnets already. The clown bore it, the fool sent
LLL 4.3. 16 it, and the lady hath it. Sweet clown, sweeter fool,
LLL 4.3. 17 sweetest lady. By the world, I would not care a pin if
LLL 4.3. 18 the other three were in. Here comes one with a paper.
LLL 4.3. 19 God give him grace to groan. {He stands aside. The King entereth +
LLL 4.3. 19 with a paper}
LLL 4.3. 20A
LLL-KING
Ay me!
LLL 4.3. 21
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet +
LLL 4.3. 21 Cupid, thou
LLL 4.3. 22 hast thumped him with thy birdbolt under the left pap.
LLL 4.3. 23 In faith, secrets.
LLL 4.3. 24
LLL-KING
{(reads)} `So sweet a kiss the golden sun +
LLL 4.3. 24 gives not
LLL 4.3. 25 To those fresh morning drops upon the rose
LLL 4.3. 26 As thy eyebeams when their fresh rays have smote
LLL 4.3. 27 The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows.
LLL 4.3. 28 Nor shines the silver moon one-half so bright
LLL 4.3. 29 Through the transparent bosom of the deep
LLL 4.3. 30 As doth thy face through tears of mine give light.
LLL 4.3. 31 Thou shin'st in every tear that I do weep.
LLL 4.3. 32 No drop but as a coach doth carry thee,
LLL 4.3. 33 So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.
LLL 4.3. 34 Do but behold the tears that swell in me
LLL 4.3. 35 And they thy glory through my grief will show.
LLL 4.3. 36 But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep
LLL 4.3. 37 My tears for glasses, and still make me weep.
LLL 4.3. 38 O Queen of queens, how far dost thou excel,
LLL 4.3. 39 No thought can think nor tongue of mortal tell.'
LLL 4.3. 40 How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper.
LLL 4.3. 41 Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here? {Enter +
LLL 4.3. 41 Longueville with papers. The King steps aside}
LLL 4.3. 42 What, Longueville, and reading - listen, ear!
LLL 4.3. 43
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} Now in thy likeness one more fool +
LLL 4.3. 43 appear!
LLL 4.3. 44A
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Ay me! I am forsworn.
LLL 4.3. 45
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} Why, he comes in like a perjure, +
LLL 4.3. 45 wearing papers.
LLL 4.3. 46
LLL-KING
{(aside)} In love, I hope! Sweet fellowship +
LLL 4.3. 46 in shame.
LLL 4.3. 47
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} One drunkard loves another of the +
LLL 4.3. 47 name.
LLL 4.3. 48
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Am I the first that have been perjured so?
LLL 4.3. 49
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} I could put thee in comfort, not +
LLL 4.3. 49 by two that I know.
LLL 4.3. 50 Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,
LLL 4.3. 51 The shape of love's Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity.
LLL 4.3. 52
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move.
LLL 4.3. 53 O sweet Maria, empress of my love,
LLL 4.3. 54 These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.
LLL 4.3. 55
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} O, rhymes are guards on wanton +
LLL 4.3. 55 Cupid's hose,
LLL 4.3. 56B Disfigure not his slop.
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
This same shall go. {He +
LLL 4.3. 56B reads the sonnet}
LLL 4.3. 57 `Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
LLL 4.3. 58 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,
LLL 4.3. 59 Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
LLL 4.3. 60 Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
LLL 4.3. 61 A woman I forswore, but I will prove,
LLL 4.3. 62 Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee.
LLL 4.3. 63 My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love.
LLL 4.3. 64 Thy grace being gained cures all disgrace in me.
LLL 4.3. 65 Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is.
LLL 4.3. 66 Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,
LLL 4.3. 67 Exhal'st this vapour-vow; in thee it is.
LLL 4.3. 68 If broken then, it is no fault of mine.
LLL 4.3. 69 If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
LLL 4.3. 70 To lose an oath to win a paradise?'
LLL 4.3. 71
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} This is the liver vein, which +
LLL 4.3. 71 makes flesh a deity,
LLL 4.3. 72 A green goose a goddess, pure, pure idolatry.
LLL 4.3. 73 God amend us, God amend: we are much out o' th' way. {Enter +
LLL 4.3. 73 Dumaine with a paper}
LLL 4.3. 74
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
{(aside)} By whom shall I send this? +
LLL 4.3. 74 Company? Stay. {He steps aside}
LLL 4.3. 75
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} All hid, all hid - an old infant +
LLL 4.3. 75 play.
LLL 4.3. 76 Like a demigod here sit I in the sky,
LLL 4.3. 77 And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'er-eye.
LLL 4.3. 78 More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish.
LLL 4.3. 79 Dumaine transformed - four woodcocks in a dish!
LLL 4.3. 80A
LLL-DUMAINE
O most divine Kate!
LLL 4.3. 81A
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} O most profane coxcomb!
LLL 4.3. 82
LLL-DUMAINE
By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!
LLL 4.3. 83
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} By earth, she is not, corporal; +
LLL 4.3. 83 there you lie.
LLL 4.3. 84
LLL-DUMAINE
Her amber hairs for foul hath amber quoted.
LLL 4.3. 85
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} An amber-coloured raven was well +
LLL 4.3. 85 noted.
LLL 4.3. 86B
LLL-DUMAINE
As upright as the cedar.
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)}+
LLL 4.3. 86B Stoop, I say.
LLL 4.3. 87B Her shoulder is with child.
LLL-DUMAINE
As fair as day.
LLL 4.3. 88
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} Ay, as some days; but then no sun +
LLL 4.3. 88 must shine.
LLL 4.3. 89A
LLL-DUMAINE
O that I had my wish!
LLL 4.3. 90A
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
{(aside)} And I had mine!
LLL 4.3. 91A
LLL-KING
{(aside)} And I mine too, good Lord!
LLL 4.3. 92
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} Amen, so I had mine. Is not that a +
LLL 4.3. 92 good word?
LLL 4.3. 93
LLL-DUMAINE
I would forget her, but a fever she
LLL 4.3. 94 Reigns in my blood and will remembered be.
LLL 4.3. 95
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} A fever in your blood - why then, +
LLL 4.3. 95 incision
LLL 4.3. 96 Would let her out in saucers - sweet misprision.
LLL 4.3. 97
LLL-DUMAINE
Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.
LLL 4.3. 98
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} Once more I'll mark how love can +
LLL 4.3. 98 vary wit. {Dumaine reads his sonnet}
LLL 4.3. 99
LLL-DUMAINE
`On a day - alack the day -
LLL 4.3. 100 Love, whose month is ever May,
LLL 4.3. 101 Spied a blossom passing fair
LLL 4.3. 102 Playing in the wanton air.
LLL 4.3. 103 Through the velvet leaves the wind
LLL 4.3. 104 All unseen can passage find,
LLL 4.3. 105 That the lover, sick to death,
LLL 4.3. 106 Wished himself the heavens' breath.
LLL 4.3. 107 ``Air'', quoth he, ``thy cheeks may blow;
LLL 4.3. 108 Air, would I might triumph so.
LLL 4.3. 109 But, alack, my hand is sworn
LLL 4.3. 110 Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn -
LLL 4.3. 111 Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,
LLL 4.3. 112 Youth so apt to pluck a sweet.
LLL 4.3. 113 Do not call it sin in me
LLL 4.3. 114 That I am forsworn for thee,
LLL 4.3. 115 Thou for whom great Jove would swear
LLL 4.3. 116 Juno but an Ethiop were,
LLL 4.3. 117 And deny himself for Jove,
LLL 4.3. 118 Turning mortal for thy love.'''
LLL 4.3. 119 This will I send, and something else more plain,
LLL 4.3. 120 That shall express my true love's fasting pain.
LLL 4.3. 121 O, would the King, Biron, and Longueville
LLL 4.3. 122 Were lovers too! Ill to example ill
LLL 4.3. 123 Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note,
LLL 4.3. 124 For none offend where all alike do dote.
LLL 4.3. 125
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
{(coming forward)} Dumaine, thy love +
LLL 4.3. 125 is far from charity,
LLL 4.3. 126 That in love's grief desir'st society.
LLL 4.3. 127 You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,
LLL 4.3. 128 To be o'erheard and taken napping so.
LLL 4.3. 129
LLL-KING
{(coming forward)} Come, sir, you blush. As +
LLL 4.3. 129 his, your case is such.
LLL 4.3. 130 You chide at him, offending twice as much.
LLL 4.3. 131 You do not love Maria? Longueville
LLL 4.3. 132 Did never sonnet for her sake compile,
LLL 4.3. 133 Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
LLL 4.3. 134 His loving bosom to keep down his heart?
LLL 4.3. 135 I have been closely shrouded in this bush,
LLL 4.3. 136 And marked you both, and for you both did blush.
LLL 4.3. 137 I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion,
LLL 4.3. 138 Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion.
LLL 4.3. 139 `Ay me!' says one, `O Jove!' the other cries.
LLL 4.3. 140 One, her hairs were gold; crystal the other's eyes.
LLL 4.3. 141 {(To Longueville)} You would for paradise break faith +
LLL 4.3. 141 and troth,
LLL 4.3. 142 {(To Dumaine)} And Jove for your love would infringe +
LLL 4.3. 142 an oath.
LLL 4.3. 143 What will Biron say when that he shall hear
LLL 4.3. 144 Faith so infringed, which such zeal did swear?
LLL 4.3. 145 How will he scorn, how will he spend his wit!
LLL 4.3. 146 How will he triumph, leap, and laugh at it!
LLL 4.3. 147 For all the wealth that ever I did see
LLL 4.3. 148 I would not have him know so much by me.
LLL 4.3. 149
LLL-BIRON
{(coming forward)} Now step I forth to whip +
LLL 4.3. 149 hypocrisy.
LLL 4.3. 150 Ah, good my liege, I pray thee pardon me.
LLL 4.3. 151 Good heart, what grace hast thou thus to reprove
LLL 4.3. 152 These worms for loving, that art most in love?
LLL 4.3. 153 Your eyes do make no coaches. In your tears
LLL 4.3. 154 There is no certain princess that appears.
LLL 4.3. 155 You'll not be perjured, 'tis a hateful thing;
LLL 4.3. 156 Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!
LLL 4.3. 157 But are you not ashamed, nay, are you not,
LLL 4.3. 158 All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?
LLL 4.3. 159 {(To Longueville)} You found his mote, the King your +
LLL 4.3. 159 mote did see,
LLL 4.3. 160 But I a beam do find in each of three.
LLL 4.3. 161 O, what a scene of fool'ry have I seen,
LLL 4.3. 162 Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow, and of teen!
LLL 4.3. 163 O me, with what strict patience have I sat,
LLL 4.3. 164 To see a king transformed to a gnat!
LLL 4.3. 165 To see great Hercules whipping a gig,
LLL 4.3. 166 And profound Solomon to tune a jig,
LLL 4.3. 167 And Nestor play at pushpin with the boys,
LLL 4.3. 168 And critic Timon laugh at idle toys!
LLL 4.3. 169 Where lies thy grief, O tell me, good Dumaine?
LLL 4.3. 170 And, gentle Longueville, where lies thy pain?
LLL 4.3. 171 And where my liege's? All about the breast.
LLL 4.3. 172B A caudle, ho!
LLL-KING
Too bitter is thy jest.
LLL 4.3. 173 Are we betrayed thus to thy over-view?
LLL 4.3. 174
LLL-BIRON
Not you to me, but I betrayed by you.
LLL 4.3. 175 I that am honest, I that hold it sin
LLL 4.3. 176 To break the vow I am engaged in.
LLL 4.3. 177 I am betrayed by keeping company
LLL 4.3. 178 With men like you, men of inconstancy.
LLL 4.3. 179 When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme,
LLL 4.3. 180 Or groan for Joan, or spend a minute's time
LLL 4.3. 181 In pruning me? When shall you hear that I
LLL 4.3. 182 Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,
LLL 4.3. 183 A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,
LLL 4.3. 184B A leg, a limb?
LLL-KING
Soft, whither away so fast?
LLL 4.3. 185 A true man or a thief, that gallops so?
LLL 4.3. 186
LLL-BIRON
I post from love; good lover, let me go. {Enter +
LLL 4.3. 186 Jaquenetta with a letter, and Costard the clown}
LLL 4.3. 187B
LLL-JAQUENETTA
God bless the King!
LLL-KING
What present hast +
LLL 4.3. 187B thou there?
LLL 4.3. 188B
LLL-COSTARD
Some certain treason.
LLL-KING
What makes treason here?
LLL 4.3. 189B
LLL-COSTARD
Nay, it makes nothing, sir.
LLL-KING
If it mar nothing +
LLL 4.3. 189B neither,
LLL 4.3. 190 The treason and you go in peace away together!
LLL 4.3. 191
LLL-JAQUENETTA
I beseech your grace, let this letter be read.
LLL 4.3. 192 Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said.
LLL 4.3. 193
LLL-KING
Biron, read it over. {Biron takes and reads +
LLL 4.3. 193 the letter}
LLL 4.3. 194 {(To Jaquenetta)} Where hadst thou it?
LLL 4.3. 195
LLL-JAQUENETTA
Of Costard.
LLL 4.3. 196
LLL-KING
{(to Costard)} Where hadst thou it?
LLL 4.3. 197
LLL-COSTARD
Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio. {Biron tears the +
LLL 4.3. 197 letter}
LLL 4.3. 198
LLL-KING
{(to Biron)} How now, what is in you? Why +
LLL 4.3. 198 dost thou tear it?
LLL 4.3. 199
LLL-BIRON
A toy, my liege, a toy. Your grace needs not fear it.
LLL 4.3. 200
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear +
LLL 4.3. 200 it.
LLL 4.3. 201
LLL-DUMAINE
{(taking up a piece of the letter)} It is +
LLL 4.3. 201 Biron's writing, and here is his name.
LLL 4.3. 202
LLL-BIRON
{(to Costard)} Ah, you whoreson loggerhead, +
LLL 4.3. 202 you were born to do me shame!
LLL 4.3. 203 Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.
LLL 4.3. 204A
LLL-KING
What?
LLL 4.3. 205
LLL-BIRON
That you three fools lacked me fool to make up the mess.
LLL 4.3. 206 He, he, and you - e'en you, my liege - and I
LLL 4.3. 207 Are pickpurses in love, and we deserve to die.
LLL 4.3. 208 O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more.
LLL 4.3. 209B
LLL-DUMAINE
Now the number is even.
LLL-BIRON
True, true; we are four.
LLL 4.3. 210B Will these turtles be gone?
LLL-KING
Hence, sirs; away.
LLL 4.3. 211
LLL-COSTARD
Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay. +
LLL 4.3. 211 {Exeunt Costard and Jaquenetta}
LLL 4.3. 212
LLL-BIRON
Sweet lords, sweet lovers! - O, let us embrace.
LLL 4.3. 213 As true we are as flesh and blood can be.
LLL 4.3. 214 The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face.
LLL 4.3. 215 Young blood doth not obey an old decree.
LLL 4.3. 216 We cannot cross the cause why we were born,
LLL 4.3. 217 Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.
LLL 4.3. 218
LLL-KING
What, did these rent lines show some love of thine?
LLL 4.3. 219
LLL-BIRON
`Did they', quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline
LLL 4.3. 220 That, like a rude and savage man of Ind
LLL 4.3. 221 At the first op'ning of the gorgeous east,
LLL 4.3. 222 Bows not his vassal head and, strucken blind,
LLL 4.3. 223 Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?
LLL 4.3. 224 What peremptory eagle-sighted eye
LLL 4.3. 225 Dares look upon the heaven of her brow
LLL 4.3. 226 That is not blinded by her majesty?
LLL 4.3. 227
LLL-KING
What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?
LLL 4.3. 228 My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon,
LLL 4.3. 229 She an attending star, scarce seen a light.
LLL 4.3. 230
LLL-BIRON
My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron.
LLL 4.3. 231 O, but for my love, day would turn to night.
LLL 4.3. 232 Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
LLL 4.3. 233 Do meet as at a fair in her fair cheek,
LLL 4.3. 234 Where several worthies make one dignity,
LLL 4.3. 235 Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
LLL 4.3. 236 Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues -
LLL 4.3. 237 Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not.
LLL 4.3. 238 To things of sale a seller's praise belongs.
LLL 4.3. 239 She passes praise - then praise too short doth blot.
LLL 4.3. 240 A withered hermit fivescore winters worn
LLL 4.3. 241 Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye.
LLL 4.3. 242 Beauty doth varnish age as if new-born,
LLL 4.3. 243 And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy.
LLL 4.3. 244 O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.
LLL 4.3. 245
LLL-KING
By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.
LLL 4.3. 246
LLL-BIRON
Is ebony like her? O word divine!
LLL 4.3. 247 A wife of such wood were felicity.
LLL 4.3. 248 O, who can give an oath? Where is a book,
LLL 4.3. 249 That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack
LLL 4.3. 250 If that she learn not of her eye to look?
LLL 4.3. 251 No face is fair that is not full so black.
LLL 4.3. 252
LLL-KING
O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,
LLL 4.3. 253 The hue of dungeons and the style of night,
LLL 4.3. 254 And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.
LLL 4.3. 255
LLL-BIRON
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
LLL 4.3. 256 O, if in black my lady's brows be decked,
LLL 4.3. 257 It mourns that painting and usurping hair
LLL 4.3. 258 Should ravish doters with a false aspect,
LLL 4.3. 259 And therefore is she born to make black fair.
LLL 4.3. 260 Her favour turns the fashion of the days,
LLL 4.3. 261 For native blood is counted painting now,
LLL 4.3. 262 And therefore red that would avoid dispraise
LLL 4.3. 263 Paints itself black to imitate her brow.
LLL 4.3. 264
LLL-DUMAINE
To look like her are chimney-sweepers black.
LLL 4.3. 265
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
And since her time are colliers counted bright.
LLL 4.3. 266
LLL-KING
And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack.
LLL 4.3. 267
LLL-DUMAINE
Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light.
LLL 4.3. 268
LLL-BIRON
Your mistresses dare never come in rain,
LLL 4.3. 269 For fear their colours should be washed away.
LLL 4.3. 270
LLL-KING
'Twere good yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain,
LLL 4.3. 271 I'll find a fairer face not washed today.
LLL 4.3. 272
LLL-BIRON
I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here.
LLL 4.3. 273
LLL-KING
No devil will fright thee then so much as she.
LLL 4.3. 274
LLL-DUMAINE
I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear.
LLL 4.3. 275
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
{(showing his foot)} Look, here's thy +
LLL 4.3. 275 love - my foot and her face see.
LLL 4.3. 276
LLL-BIRON
O, if the streets were paved with thine eyes
LLL 4.3. 277 Her feet were much too dainty for such tread.
LLL 4.3. 278
LLL-DUMAINE
O vile! Then as she goes, what upward lies
LLL 4.3. 279 The street should see as she walked overhead.
LLL 4.3. 280
LLL-KING
But what of this? Are we not all in love?
LLL 4.3. 281
LLL-BIRON
Nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworn.
LLL 4.3. 282
LLL-KING
Then leave this chat and, good Biron, now prove
LLL 4.3. 283 Our loving lawful and our faith not torn.
LLL 4.3. 284
LLL-DUMAINE
Ay, marry there, some flattery for this evil.
LLL 4.3. 285
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
O, some authority how to proceed,
LLL 4.3. 286 Some tricks, some quillets how to cheat the devil.
LLL 4.3. 287B
LLL-DUMAINE
Some salve for perjury.
LLL-BIRON
O, 'tis more than need.
LLL 4.3. 288 Have at you, then, affection's men-at-arms.
LLL 4.3. 289 Consider what you first did swear unto:
LLL 4.3. 290 To fast, to study, and to see no woman -
LLL 4.3. 291 Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.
LLL 4.3. 292 Say, can you fast? Your stomachs are too young,
LLL 4.3. 293 And abstinence engenders maladies.
LLL 4.3. 294 O, we have made a vow to study, lords,
LLL 4.3. 295 And in that vow we have forsworn our books;
LLL 4.3. 296 For when would you, my liege, or you, or you
LLL 4.3. 297 In leaden contemplation have found out
LLL 4.3. 298 Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
LLL 4.3. 299 Of beauty's tutors have enriched you with?
LLL 4.3. 300 Other slow arts entirely keep the brain,
LLL 4.3. 301 And therefore, finding barren practisers,
LLL 4.3. 302 Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil.
LLL 4.3. 303 But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
LLL 4.3. 304 Lives not alone immured in the brain,
LLL 4.3. 305 But with the motion of all elements
LLL 4.3. 306 Courses as swift as thought in every power,
LLL 4.3. 307 And gives to every power a double power
LLL 4.3. 308 Above their functions and their offices.
LLL 4.3. 309 It adds a precious seeing to the eye -
LLL 4.3. 310 A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
LLL 4.3. 311 A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound
LLL 4.3. 312 When the suspicious head of theft is stopped.
LLL 4.3. 313 Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
LLL 4.3. 314 Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.
LLL 4.3. 315 Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste.
LLL 4.3. 316 For valour, is not love a Hercules,
LLL 4.3. 317 Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
LLL 4.3. 318 Subtle as Sphinx, as sweet and musical
LLL 4.3. 319 As bright Apollo's lute strung with his hair;
LLL 4.3. 320 And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
LLL 4.3. 321 Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.
LLL 4.3. 322 Never durst poet touch a pen to write
LLL 4.3. 323 Until his ink were tempered with love's sighs.
LLL 4.3. 324 O, then his lines would ravish savage ears,
LLL 4.3. 325 And plant in tyrants mild humility.
LLL 4.3. 326 From women's eyes this doctrine I derive.
LLL 4.3. 327 They sparkle still the right Promethean fire.
LLL 4.3. 328 They are the books, the arts, the academes
LLL 4.3. 329 That show, contain, and nourish all the world,
LLL 4.3. 330 Else none at all in aught proves excellent.
LLL 4.3. 331 Then fools you were these women to forswear,
LLL 4.3. 332 Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.
LLL 4.3. 333 For wisdom's sake - a word that all men love -
LLL 4.3. 334 Or for love's sake - a word that loves all men -
LLL 4.3. 335 Or for men's sake - the authors of these women -
LLL 4.3. 336 Or women's sake - by whom we men are men -
LLL 4.3. 337 Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
LLL 4.3. 338 Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
LLL 4.3. 339 It is religion to be thus forsworn,
LLL 4.3. 340 For charity itself fulfils the law,
LLL 4.3. 341 And who can sever love from charity?
LLL 4.3. 342
LLL-KING
Saint Cupid, then, and, soldiers, to the field!
LLL 4.3. 343
LLL-BIRON
Advance your standards, and upon them, lords.
LLL 4.3. 344 Pell-mell, down with them; but be first advised
LLL 4.3. 345 In conflict that you get the sun of them.
LLL 4.3. 346
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Now to plain dealing. Lay these glozes by.
LLL 4.3. 347 Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?
LLL 4.3. 348
LLL-KING
And win them, too! Therefore let us devise
LLL 4.3. 349 Some entertainment for them in their tents.
LLL 4.3. 350
LLL-BIRON
First, from the park let us conduct them thither;
LLL 4.3. 351 Then homeward every man attach the hand
LLL 4.3. 352 Of his fair mistress. In the afternoon
LLL 4.3. 353 We will with some strange pastime solace them,
LLL 4.3. 354 Such as the shortness of the time can shape,
LLL 4.3. 355 For revels, dances, masques, and merry hours
LLL 4.3. 356 Forerun fair love, strewing her way with flowers.
LLL 4.3. 357
LLL-KING
Away, away, no time shall be omitted
LLL 4.3. 358 That will be time, and may by us be fitted.
LLL 4.3. 359
LLL-BIRON
{Allons, allons}! Sowed cockle reaped no corn,
LLL 4.3. 360 And justice always whirls in equal measure.
LLL 4.3. 361 Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn.
LLL 4.3. 362 If so, our copper buys no better treasure. {Exeunt}
LLL 4.3. 0 {Enter Holofernes the pedant, Nathaniel the curate, +
LLL 5.1. 0 and Anthony Dull}
LLL 5.1. 1
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Satis quid sufficit}.
LLL 5.1. 2
LLL-NATHANIEL
I praise God for you, sir. Your reasons at
LLL 5.1. 3 dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant
LLL 5.1. 4 without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious
LLL 5.1. 5 without impudency, learned without opinion, and
LLL 5.1. 6 strange without heresy. I did converse this quondam
LLL 5.1. 7 day with a companion of the King's who is intituled,
LLL 5.1. 8 nominated, or called Don Adriano de Armado.
LLL 5.1. 9
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Novi hominum tanquam te}. His humour is
LLL 5.1. 10 lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye
LLL 5.1. 11 ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general
LLL 5.1. 12 behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too
LLL 5.1. 13 picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too
LLL 5.1. 14 peregrinate, as I may call it.
LLL 5.1. 15
LLL-NATHANIEL
A most singular and choice epithet. {He draws out +
LLL 5.1. 15 his table-book}
LLL 5.1. 16
LLL-HOLOFERNES
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity
LLL 5.1. 17 finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such
LLL 5.1. 18 fanatical phantasims, such insociable and point-device
LLL 5.1. 19 companions, such rackers of orthography as to speak
LLL 5.1. 20 `dout', {sine} `b', when he should say `doubt'; `det' when
LLL 5.1. 21 he should pronounce `debt' - `d, e, b, t', not `d, e, t'.
LLL 5.1. 22 He clepeth a calf `cauf', half `hauf', neighbour
LLL 5.1. 23 {vocatur} `nebour' - `neigh' abbreviated `ne'. This is
LLL 5.1. 24 abhominable - which he would call `abominable'. It
LLL 5.1. 25 insinuateth me of {insanire} - {ne intelligis, domine}? - to
LLL 5.1. 26 make frantic, lunatic.
LLL 5.1. 27
LLL-NATHANIEL
{Laus deo, bone intelligo}.
LLL 5.1. 28
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Bone}? {Bon, fort bon} - Priscian a little
LLL 5.1. 29 scratched - 'twill serve. {Enter Armado the braggart, Mote his +
LLL 5.1. 29 boy, and Costard the clown}
LLL 5.1. 30
LLL-NATHANIEL
{Videsne quis venit?}
LLL 5.1. 31
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Video, et gaudio}.
LLL 5.1. 32
LLL-ARMADO
{(to Mote)} Chirrah.
LLL 5.1. 33
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{(to Nathaniel)} {Quare} `chirrah', not +
LLL 5.1. 33 `sirrah'?
LLL 5.1. 34
LLL-ARMADO
Men of peace, well encountered.
LLL 5.1. 35
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Most military sir, salutation!
LLL 5.1. 36
LLL-MOTE
{(aside to Costard)} They have been at a +
LLL 5.1. 36 great feast of
LLL 5.1. 37 languages and stolen the scraps.
LLL 5.1. 38
LLL-COSTARD
{(aside to Mote)} O, they have lived long +
LLL 5.1. 38 on the
LLL 5.1. 39 alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not
LLL 5.1. 40 eaten thee for a word, for thou art not so long by
LLL 5.1. 41 the head as {honorificabilitudinitatibus}. Thou art easier
LLL 5.1. 42 swallowed than a flapdragon.
LLL 5.1. 43
LLL-MOTE
{(aside to Costard)} Peace, the peal begins.
LLL 5.1. 44
LLL-ARMADO
{(to Holofernes)} Monsieur, are you not +
LLL 5.1. 44 lettered?
LLL 5.1. 45
LLL-MOTE
Yes, yes, he teaches boys the horn-book. What is
LLL 5.1. 46 `a, b' spelled backward, with the horn on his head?
LLL 5.1. 47
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Ba, {pueritia}, with a horn added.
LLL 5.1. 48
LLL-MOTE
Ba, most silly sheep, with a horn! You hear his
LLL 5.1. 49 learning.
LLL 5.1. 50
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Quis}, {quis}, thou consonant?
LLL 5.1. 51
LLL-MOTE
The last of the five vowels if you repeat them, or
LLL 5.1. 52 the fifth if I.
LLL 5.1. 53
LLL-HOLOFERNES
I will repeat them: a, e, i -
LLL 5.1. 54
LLL-MOTE
The sheep. The other two concludes it: o, u.
LLL 5.1. 55
LLL-ARMADO
Now by the salt wave of the {Mediterraneum} a
LLL 5.1. 56 sweet touch, a quick venue of wit; snip, snap, quick,
LLL 5.1. 57 and home. It rejoiceth my intellect - true wit.
LLL 5.1. 58
LLL-MOTE
Offered by a child to an old man, which is
LLL 5.1. 59 `wit-old'.
LLL 5.1. 60
LLL-HOLOFERNES
What is the figure? What is the figure?
LLL 5.1. 61
LLL-MOTE
Horns.
LLL 5.1. 62
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Thou disputes like an infant. Go whip thy
LLL 5.1. 63 gig.
LLL 5.1. 64
LLL-MOTE
Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip
LLL 5.1. 65 about your infamy {circum circa} - a gig of a cuckold's
LLL 5.1. 66 horn.
LLL 5.1. 67
LLL-COSTARD
An I had but one penny in the world, thou
LLL 5.1. 68 shouldst have it to buy gingerbread. {(Giving money)}
LLL 5.1. 69 Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy
LLL 5.1. 70 master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg
LLL 5.1. 71 of discretion. O, an the heavens were so pleased that
LLL 5.1. 72 thou wert but my bastard, what a joyful father wouldst
LLL 5.1. 73 thou make me! Go to, thou hast it {ad dunghill}, at the
LLL 5.1. 74 fingers' ends, as they say.
LLL 5.1. 75
LLL-HOLOFERNES
O, I smell false Latin - `dunghill' for {unguem}.
LLL 5.1. 76
LLL-ARMADO
Arts-man, {preambulate}. We will be singled from
LLL 5.1. 77 the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the charge-
LLL 5.1. 78 house on the top of the mountain?
LLL 5.1. 79
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Or {mons}, the hill.
LLL 5.1. 80
LLL-ARMADO
At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.
LLL 5.1. 81
LLL-HOLOFERNES
I do, sans question.
LLL 5.1. 82
LLL-ARMADO
Sir, it is the King's most sweet pleasure and
LLL 5.1. 83 affection to congratulate the Princess at her pavilion
LLL 5.1. 84 in the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude
LLL 5.1. 85 call the afternoon.
LLL 5.1. 86
LLL-HOLOFERNES
The posterior of the day, most generous sir,
LLL 5.1. 87 is liable, congruent, and measurable for the afternoon.
LLL 5.1. 88 The word is well culled, choice, sweet, and apt, I do
LLL 5.1. 89 assure you, sir, I do assure.
LLL 5.1. 90
LLL-ARMADO
Sir, the King is a noble gentleman, and my
LLL 5.1. 91 familiar, I do assure ye, very good friend. For what is
LLL 5.1. 92 inward between us, let it pass. I do beseech thee,
LLL 5.1. 93 remember thy courtesy. I beseech thee, apparel thy
LLL 5.1. 94 head. And, among other important and most serious
LLL 5.1. 95 designs, and of great import indeed, too - but let that
LLL 5.1. 96 pass, for I must tell thee it will please his grace, by the
LLL 5.1. 97 world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder and
LLL 5.1. 98 with his royal finger thus dally with my excrement,
LLL 5.1. 99 with my mustachio. But, sweetheart, let that pass. By
LLL 5.1. 100 the world, I recount no fable. Some certain special
LLL 5.1. 101 honours it pleaseth his greatness to impart to Armado,
LLL 5.1. 102 a soldier, a man of travel, that hath seen the world.
LLL 5.1. 103 But let that pass. The very all of all is - but, sweetheart,
LLL 5.1. 104 I do implore secrecy - that the King would have me
LLL 5.1. 105 present the Princess - sweet chuck - with some delightful
LLL 5.1. 106 ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or
LLL 5.1. 107 firework. Now, understanding that the curate and your
LLL 5.1. 108 sweet self are good at such eruptions and sudden
LLL 5.1. 109 breaking-out of mirth, as it were, I have acquainted
LLL 5.1. 110 you withal to the end to crave your assistance.
LLL 5.1. 111
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Sir, you shall present before her the Nine
LLL 5.1. 112 Worthies. Sir Nathaniel, as concerning some entertainment
LLL 5.1. 113 of time, some show in the posterior of this
LLL 5.1. 114 day to be rendered by our assistance, the King's
LLL 5.1. 115 command, and this most gallant, illustrate, and learned
LLL 5.1. 116 gentleman before the Princess, I say none so fit as to
LLL 5.1. 117 present the Nine Worthies.
LLL 5.1. 118
LLL-NATHANIEL
Where will you find men worthy enough to
LLL 5.1. 119 present them?
LLL 5.1. 120
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Joshua, yourself; myself, Judas Maccabeus;
LLL 5.1. 121 and this gallant gentleman, Hector. This swain, because
LLL 5.1. 122 of his great limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great;
LLL 5.1. 123 the page, Hercules.
LLL 5.1. 124
LLL-ARMADO
Pardon, sir, error! He is not quantity enough
LLL 5.1. 125 for that Worthy's thumb. He is not so big as the end
LLL 5.1. 126 of his club.
LLL 5.1. 127
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Shall I have audience? He shall present
LLL 5.1. 128 Hercules in minority. His enter and exit shall be
LLL 5.1. 129 strangling a snake, and I will have an apology for that
LLL 5.1. 130 purpose.
LLL 5.1. 131
LLL-MOTE
An excellent device! So, if any of the audience hiss,
LLL 5.1. 132 you may cry `Well done, Hercules, now thou crushest
LLL 5.1. 133 the snake!' - that is the way to make an offence
LLL 5.1. 134 gracious, though few have the grace to do it.
LLL 5.1. 135
LLL-ARMADO
For the rest of the Worthies?
LLL 5.1. 136
LLL-HOLOFERNES
I will play three myself.
LLL 5.1. 137
LLL-MOTE
Thrice-worthy gentleman!
LLL 5.1. 138
LLL-ARMADO
Shall I tell you a thing?
LLL 5.1. 139
LLL-HOLOFERNES
We attend.
LLL 5.1. 140
LLL-ARMADO
We will have, if this fadge not, an antic. I
LLL 5.1. 141 beseech you, follow.
LLL 5.1. 142
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Via}, goodman Dull! Thou hast spoken no
LLL 5.1. 143 word all this while.
LLL 5.1. 144
LLL-DULL
Nor understood none neither, sir.
LLL 5.1. 145
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{Allons}! We will employ thee.
LLL 5.1. 146
LLL-DULL
I'll make one in a dance or so, or I will play on the
LLL 5.1. 147 tabor to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.
LLL 5.1. 148
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away. +
LLL 5.1. 148 {Exeunt}
LLL 5.1. 0 {Enter the Princess and her ladies: Rosaline, Maria, and +
LLL 5.2. 0 Catherine}
LLL 5.2. 1
LLL-PRINCESS
Sweethearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,
LLL 5.2. 2 If fairings come thus plentifully in.
LLL 5.2. 3 A lady walled about with diamonds -
LLL 5.2. 4 Look you what I have from the loving King.
LLL 5.2. 5
LLL-ROSALINE
Madam, came nothing else along with that?
LLL 5.2. 6
LLL-PRINCESS
Nothing but this? - yes, as much love in rhyme
LLL 5.2. 7 As would be crammed up in a sheet of paper
LLL 5.2. 8 Writ o' both sides the leaf, margin and all,
LLL 5.2. 9 That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.
LLL 5.2. 10
LLL-ROSALINE
That was the way to make his godhead wax,
LLL 5.2. 11 For he hath been five thousand year a boy.
LLL 5.2. 12
LLL-CATHERINE
Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows, too.
LLL 5.2. 13
LLL-ROSALINE
You'll ne'er be friends with him, a killed your sister.
LLL 5.2. 14
LLL-CATHERINE
He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy,
LLL 5.2. 15 And so she died. Had she been light like you,
LLL 5.2. 16 Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
LLL 5.2. 17 She might ha' been a grandam ere she died;
LLL 5.2. 18 And so may you, for a light heart lives long.
LLL 5.2. 19
LLL-ROSALINE
What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
LLL 5.2. 20
LLL-CATHERINE
A light condition in a beauty dark.
LLL 5.2. 21
LLL-ROSALINE
We need more light to find your meaning out.
LLL 5.2. 22
LLL-CATHERINE
You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff,
LLL 5.2. 23 Therefore I'll darkly end the argument.
LLL 5.2. 24
LLL-ROSALINE
Look what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
LLL 5.2. 25
LLL-CATHERINE
So do not you, for you are a light wench.
LLL 5.2. 26
LLL-ROSALINE
Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light.
LLL 5.2. 27
LLL-CATHERINE
You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me.
LLL 5.2. 28
LLL-ROSALINE
Great reason, for past care is still past cure.
LLL 5.2. 29
LLL-PRINCESS
Well bandied, both; a set of wit well played.
LLL 5.2. 30 But Rosaline, you have a favour, too.
LLL 5.2. 31B Who sent it? And what is it?
LLL-ROSALINE
I would you knew.
LLL 5.2. 32 An if my face were but as fair as yours
LLL 5.2. 33 My favour were as great, be witness this.
LLL 5.2. 34 Nay, I have verses, too, I thank Biron,
LLL 5.2. 35 The numbers true, and were the numb'ring, too,
LLL 5.2. 36 I were the fairest goddess on the ground.
LLL 5.2. 37 I am compared to twenty thousand fairs.
LLL 5.2. 38 O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter.
LLL 5.2. 39A
LLL-PRINCESS
Anything like?
LLL 5.2. 40
LLL-ROSALINE
Much in the letters, nothing in the praise.
LLL 5.2. 41
LLL-PRINCESS
Beauteous as ink - a good conclusion.
LLL 5.2. 42
LLL-CATHERINE
Fair as a text B in a copy-book.
LLL 5.2. 43
LLL-ROSALINE
Ware pencils, ho! Let me not die your debtor,
LLL 5.2. 44 My red dominical, my golden letter.
LLL 5.2. 45 O, that your face were not so full of O's!
LLL 5.2. 46
LLL-PRINCESS
A pox of that jest; I beshrew all shrews.
LLL 5.2. 47 But Catherine, what was sent to you from fair Dumaine?
LLL 5.2. 48B
LLL-CATHERINE
Madam, this glove.
LLL-PRINCESS
Did he not send you twain?
LLL 5.2. 49A
LLL-CATHERINE
Yes, madam; and moreover,
LLL 5.2. 50 Some thousand verses of a faithful lover.
LLL 5.2. 51 A huge translation of hypocrisy
LLL 5.2. 52 Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.
LLL 5.2. 53
LLL-MARIA
This and these pearls to me sent Longueville.
LLL 5.2. 54 The letter is too long by half a mile.
LLL 5.2. 55
LLL-PRINCESS
I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart
LLL 5.2. 56 The chain were longer and the letter short?
LLL 5.2. 57
LLL-MARIA
Ay, or I would these hands might never part.
LLL 5.2. 58
LLL-PRINCESS
We are wise girls to mock our lovers so.
LLL 5.2. 59
LLL-ROSALINE
They are worse fools to purchase mocking so.
LLL 5.2. 60 That same Biron I'll torture ere I go.
LLL 5.2. 61 O that I knew he were but in by th' week! -
LLL 5.2. 62 How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek,
LLL 5.2. 63 And wait the season, and observe the times,
LLL 5.2. 64 And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes,
LLL 5.2. 65 And shape his service wholly to my hests,
LLL 5.2. 66 And make him proud to make me proud that jests!
LLL 5.2. 67 So pursuivant-like would I o'ersway his state
LLL 5.2. 68 That he should be my fool, and I his fate.
LLL 5.2. 69
LLL-PRINCESS
None are so surely caught when they are catched
LLL 5.2. 70 As wit turned fool. Folly in wisdom hatched
LLL 5.2. 71 Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of school,
LLL 5.2. 72 And wit's own grace, to grace a learned fool.
LLL 5.2. 73
LLL-ROSALINE
The blood of youth burns not with such excess
LLL 5.2. 74 As gravity's revolt to wantonness.
LLL 5.2. 75
LLL-MARIA
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note
LLL 5.2. 76 As fool'ry in the wise when wit doth dote,
LLL 5.2. 77 Since all the power thereof it doth apply
LLL 5.2. 78 To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity. {Enter Boyet}
LLL 5.2. 79
LLL-PRINCESS
Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face.
LLL 5.2. 80
LLL-BOYET
O, I am stabbed with laughter! Where's her grace?
LLL 5.2. 81B
LLL-PRINCESS
Thy news, Boyet?
LLL-BOYET
Prepare, madam, prepare.
LLL 5.2. 82 Arm, wenches, arm. Encounters mounted are
LLL 5.2. 83 Against your peace. Love doth approach disguised,
LLL 5.2. 84 Armed in arguments. You'll be surprised.
LLL 5.2. 85 Muster your wits, stand in your own defence,
LLL 5.2. 86 Or hide your heads like cowards and fly hence.
LLL 5.2. 87
LLL-PRINCESS
Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they
LLL 5.2. 88 That charge their breath against us? Say, scout, say.
LLL 5.2. 89
LLL-BOYET
Under the cool shade of a sycamore
LLL 5.2. 90 I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour
LLL 5.2. 91 When lo, to interrupt my purposed rest
LLL 5.2. 92 Toward that shade I might behold addressed
LLL 5.2. 93 The King and his companions. Warily
LLL 5.2. 94 I stole into a neighbour thicket by
LLL 5.2. 95 And overheard what you shall overhear:
LLL 5.2. 96 That by and by disguised they will be here.
LLL 5.2. 97 Their herald is a pretty knavish page
LLL 5.2. 98 That well by heart hath conned his embassage.
LLL 5.2. 99 Action and accent did they teach him there.
LLL 5.2. 100 `Thus must thou speak', and `thus thy body bear'.
LLL 5.2. 101 And ever and anon they made a doubt
LLL 5.2. 102 Presence majestical would put him out,
LLL 5.2. 103 `For', quoth the King, `an angel shalt thou see,
LLL 5.2. 104 Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.'
LLL 5.2. 105 The boy replied, `An angel is not evil.
LLL 5.2. 106 I should have feared her had she been a devil.'
LLL 5.2. 107 With that all laughed and clapped him on the shoulder,
LLL 5.2. 108 Making the bold wag by their praises bolder.
LLL 5.2. 109 One rubbed his elbow thus, and fleered, and swore
LLL 5.2. 110 A better speech was never spoke before.
LLL 5.2. 111 Another with his finger and his thumb
LLL 5.2. 112 Cried `{Via}, we will do 't, come what will come!'
LLL 5.2. 113 The third he capered and cried `All goes well!'
LLL 5.2. 114 The fourth turned on the toe and down he fell.
LLL 5.2. 115 With that they all did tumble on the ground
LLL 5.2. 116 With such a zealous laughter, so profound,
LLL 5.2. 117 That in this spleen ridiculous appears,
LLL 5.2. 118 To check their folly, passion's solemn tears.
LLL 5.2. 119
LLL-PRINCESS
But what, but what - come they to visit us?
LLL 5.2. 120
LLL-BOYET
They do, they do, and are apparelled thus
LLL 5.2. 121
LLL-[]
LLL 5.2. 122 Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess.
LLL 5.2. 123 Their purpose is to parley, to court and dance,
LLL 5.2. 124 And every one his love-suit will advance
LLL 5.2. 125 Unto his several mistress, which they'll know
LLL 5.2. 126 By favours several which they did bestow.
LLL 5.2. 127
LLL-PRINCESS
And will they so? The gallants shall be tasked,
LLL 5.2. 128 For, ladies, we will every one be masked,
LLL 5.2. 129 And not a man of them shall have the grace,
LLL 5.2. 130 Despite of suit, to see a lady's face.
LLL 5.2. 131 {(To Rosaline)} Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and +
LLL 5.2. 131 give me thine.
LLL 5.2. 132 So shall Biron take me for Rosaline. {She changes favours with +
LLL 5.2. 132 Rosaline}
LLL 5.2. 133 {(To Catherine and Maria)} And change you favours, +
LLL 5.2. 133 too. So shall your loves
LLL 5.2. 134 Woo contrary, deceived by these removes. {Catherine and Maria +
LLL 5.2. 134 change favours}
LLL 5.2. 135
LLL-ROSALINE
Come on, then, wear the favours most in sight.
LLL 5.2. 136
LLL-CATHERINE
But in this changing what is your intent?
LLL 5.2. 137
LLL-PRINCESS
The effect of my intent is to cross theirs.
LLL 5.2. 138 They do it but in mockery-merriment,
LLL 5.2. 139 And mock for mock is only my intent.
LLL 5.2. 140 Their several counsels they unbosom shall
LLL 5.2. 141 To loves mistook, and so be mocked withal
LLL 5.2. 142 Upon the next occasion that we meet
LLL 5.2. 143 With visages displayed to talk and greet.
LLL 5.2. 144
LLL-ROSALINE
But shall we dance if they desire us to 't?
LLL 5.2. 145
LLL-PRINCESS
No, to the death we will not move a foot,
LLL 5.2. 146 Nor to their penned speech render we no grace,
LLL 5.2. 147 But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face.
LLL 5.2. 148
LLL-BOYET
Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,
LLL 5.2. 149 And quite divorce his memory from his part.
LLL 5.2. 150
LLL-PRINCESS
Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt
LLL 5.2. 151 The rest will ne'er come in if he be out.
LLL 5.2. 152 There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,
LLL 5.2. 153 To make theirs ours, and ours none but our own.
LLL 5.2. 154 So shall we stay, mocking intended game,
LLL 5.2. 155 And they well mocked depart away with shame. {A trumpet sounds}
LLL 5.2. 156
LLL-BOYET
The trumpet sounds, be masked, the masquers +
LLL 5.2. 156 come. {The ladies mask.}
LLL 5.2. 157 {Enter blackamoors with music; the boy Mote with a speech; the King and +
LLL 5.2. 157 his lords, disguised as Russians}
LLL-MOTE
All hail, the +
LLL 5.2. 157 richest beauties on the earth!
LLL 5.2. 158
LLL-BIRON
{(aside)} Beauties no richer than rich +
LLL 5.2. 158 taffeta.
LLL 5.2. 159
LLL-MOTE
A holy parcel of the fairest dames - {The ladies turn +
LLL 5.2. 159 their backs to him}
LLL 5.2. 160 That ever turned their - backs to mortal views.
LLL 5.2. 161A
LLL-BIRON
`Their eyes', villain, `their eyes'!
LLL 5.2. 162
LLL-MOTE
That ever turned their eyes to mortal views.
LLL 5.2. 163 Out . . .
LLL 5.2. 164A
LLL-BOYET
True, out indeed!
LLL 5.2. 165
LLL-MOTE
Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe
LLL 5.2. 166 Not to behold -
LLL 5.2. 167A
LLL-BIRON
`Once to behold', rogue!
LLL 5.2. 168
LLL-MOTE
Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes -
LLL 5.2. 169 With your sun-beamed eyes -
LLL 5.2. 170
LLL-BOYET
They will not answer to that epithet.
LLL 5.2. 171 You were best call it `daughter-beamed' eyes.
LLL 5.2. 172
LLL-MOTE
They do not mark me, and that brings me out.
LLL 5.2. 173
LLL-BIRON
Is this your perfectness? Be gone, you rogue! {Exit +
LLL 5.2. 173 Mote}
LLL 5.2. 174
LLL-ROSALINE
{(as the Princess)} What would these +
LLL 5.2. 174 strangers? Know their minds, Boyet.
LLL 5.2. 175 If they do speak our language, 'tis our will
LLL 5.2. 176 That some plain man recount their purposes.
LLL 5.2. 177B Know what they would.
LLL-BOYET
What would you with the Princess?
LLL 5.2. 178
LLL-BIRON
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
LLL 5.2. 179
LLL-ROSALINE
What would they, say they?
LLL 5.2. 180
LLL-BOYET
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
LLL 5.2. 181
LLL-ROSALINE
Why, that they have, and bid them so be gone.
LLL 5.2. 182
LLL-BOYET
She says you have it, and you may be gone.
LLL 5.2. 183
LLL-KING
Say to her we have measured many miles
LLL 5.2. 184 To tread a measure with her on this grass.
LLL 5.2. 185
LLL-BOYET
They say that they have measured many a mile
LLL 5.2. 186 To tread a measure with you on this grass.
LLL 5.2. 187
LLL-ROSALINE
It is not so. Ask them how many inches
LLL 5.2. 188 Is in one mile. If they have measured many,
LLL 5.2. 189 The measure then of one is easily told.
LLL 5.2. 190
LLL-BOYET
If to come hither you have measured miles,
LLL 5.2. 191 And many miles, the Princess bids you tell
LLL 5.2. 192 How many inches doth fill up one mile.
LLL 5.2. 193
LLL-BIRON
Tell her we measure them by weary steps.
LLL 5.2. 194B
LLL-BOYET
She hears herself.
LLL-ROSALINE
How many weary steps
LLL 5.2. 195 Of many weary miles you have o'ergone
LLL 5.2. 196 Are numbered in the travel of one mile?
LLL 5.2. 197
LLL-BIRON
We number nothing that we spend for you.
LLL 5.2. 198 Our duty is so rich, so infinite,
LLL 5.2. 199 That we may do it still without account.
LLL 5.2. 200 Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face
LLL 5.2. 201 That we, like savages, may worship it.
LLL 5.2. 202
LLL-ROSALINE
My face is but a moon, and clouded, too.
LLL 5.2. 203
LLL-KING
Blessed are clouds to do as such clouds do.
LLL 5.2. 204 Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine,
LLL 5.2. 205 Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne.
LLL 5.2. 206
LLL-ROSALINE
O vain petitioner, beg a greater matter.
LLL 5.2. 207 Thou now requests but moonshine in the water.
LLL 5.2. 208
LLL-KING
Then in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.
LLL 5.2. 209 Thou bid'st me beg; this begging is not strange.
LLL 5.2. 210B
LLL-ROSALINE
Play, music, then. {[Music plays]} Nay, +
LLL 5.2. 210B you must do it soon.
LLL 5.2. 211 Not yet? - no dance! Thus change I like the moon.
LLL 5.2. 212
LLL-KING
Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?
LLL 5.2. 213
LLL-ROSALINE
You took the moon at full, but now she's changed.
LLL 5.2. 214
LLL-KING
Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.
LLL 5.2. 215
LLL-[]
LLL 5.2. 216 The music plays, vouchsafe some motion to it.
LLL 5.2. 217B
LLL-ROSALINE
Our ears vouchsafe it.
LLL-KING
But your legs should do it.
LLL 5.2. 218
LLL-ROSALINE
Since you are strangers and come here by chance
LLL 5.2. 219 We'll not be nice. Take hands. We will not dance.
LLL 5.2. 220B
LLL-KING
Why take we hands, then?
LLL-ROSALINE
Only to part friends.
LLL 5.2. 221 Curtsy, sweethearts, and so the measure ends.
LLL 5.2. 222
LLL-KING
More measure of this measure, be not nice.
LLL 5.2. 223
LLL-ROSALINE
We can afford no more at such a price.
LLL 5.2. 224
LLL-KING
Price you yourselves. What buys your company?
LLL 5.2. 225B
LLL-ROSALINE
Your absence only.
LLL-KING
That can never be.
LLL 5.2. 226
LLL-ROSALINE
Then cannot we be bought, and so adieu -
LLL 5.2. 227 Twice to your visor, and half once to you.
LLL 5.2. 228
LLL-KING
If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat.
LLL 5.2. 229B
LLL-ROSALINE
In private, then.
LLL-KING
I am best pleased with +
LLL 5.2. 229B that. {The King and Rosaline talk apart}
LLL 5.2. 230
LLL-BIRON
{(to the Princess, taking her for Rosaline)} +
LLL 5.2. 230 White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee.
LLL 5.2. 231
LLL-PRINCESS
Honey and milk and sugar - there is three.
LLL 5.2. 232
LLL-BIRON
Nay then, two treys, an if you grow so nice -
LLL 5.2. 233 Metheglin, wort, and malmsey - well run, dice!
LLL 5.2. 234B There's half-a-dozen sweets.
LLL-PRINCESS
Seventh sweet, adieu.
LLL 5.2. 235 Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.
LLL 5.2. 236B
LLL-BIRON
One word in secret.
LLL-PRINCESS
Let it not be sweet.
LLL 5.2. 237B
LLL-BIRON
Thou griev'st my gall.
LLL-PRINCESS
Gall - bitter!
LLL-BIRON
+
LLL 5.2. 237B Therefore meet. {Biron and the Princess talk apart}
LLL 5.2. 238
LLL-DUMAINE
{(to Maria, taking her for Catherine)} +
LLL 5.2. 238 Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?
LLL 5.2. 239B
LLL-MARIA
Name it.
LLL-DUMAINE
Fair lady -
LLL-MARIA
Say you so? Fair +
LLL 5.2. 239B lord -
LLL 5.2. 240B Take that for your `fair lady'.
LLL-DUMAINE
Please it you,
LLL 5.2. 241 As much in private, and I'll bid adieu. {Dumaine and Maria talk +
LLL 5.2. 241 apart}
LLL 5.2. 242
LLL-CATHERINE
What, was your visor made without a tongue?
LLL 5.2. 243
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
{(taking Catherine for Maria)} I know +
LLL 5.2. 243 the reason, lady, why you ask.
LLL 5.2. 244
LLL-CATHERINE
O, for your reason! Quickly, sir, I long.
LLL 5.2. 245
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
You have a double tongue within your mask,
LLL 5.2. 246 And would afford my speechless visor half.
LLL 5.2. 247
LLL-CATHERINE
`Veal', quoth the Dutchman. Is not veal a calf?
LLL 5.2. 248B
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
A calf, fair lady?
LLL-CATHERINE
No, a fair lord calf.
LLL 5.2. 249B
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Let's part the word.
LLL-CATHERINE
No, I'll not be your +
LLL 5.2. 249B half.
LLL 5.2. 250 Take all and wean it, it may prove an ox.
LLL 5.2. 251
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Look how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!
LLL 5.2. 252 Will you give horns, chaste lady? Do not so.
LLL 5.2. 253
LLL-CATHERINE
Then die a calf before your horns do grow.
LLL 5.2. 254
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
One word in private with you ere I die.
LLL 5.2. 255
LLL-CATHERINE
Bleat softly, then. The butcher hears you cry. +
LLL 5.2. 255 {Longueville and Catherine talk apart}
LLL 5.2. 256
LLL-BOYET
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
LLL 5.2. 257 As is the razor's edge invisible,
LLL 5.2. 258 Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,
LLL 5.2. 259 Above the sense of sense; so sensible
LLL 5.2. 260 Seemeth their conference. Their conceits have wings
LLL 5.2. 261 Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.
LLL 5.2. 262
LLL-ROSALINE
Not one word more, my maids. Break off, break off.
LLL 5.2. 263
LLL-BIRON
By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!
LLL 5.2. 264
LLL-KING
Farewell, mad wenches, you have simple wits. {Exeunt +
LLL 5.2. 264 the King, lords, and blackamoors}
LLL 5.2. 265 {[The ladies unmask]}
LLL-PRINCESS
Twenty adieus, my +
LLL 5.2. 265 frozen Muscovites.
LLL 5.2. 266 Are these the breed of wits so wondered at?
LLL 5.2. 267
LLL-BOYET
Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puffed out.
LLL 5.2. 268
LLL-ROSALINE
Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat.
LLL 5.2. 269
LLL-PRINCESS
O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!
LLL 5.2. 270 Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight,
LLL 5.2. 271 Or ever but in visors show their faces?
LLL 5.2. 272 This pert Biron was out of count'nance quite.
LLL 5.2. 273
LLL-ROSALINE
Ah, they were all in lamentable cases.
LLL 5.2. 274 The King was weeping-ripe for a good word.
LLL 5.2. 275
LLL-PRINCESS
Biron did swear himself out of all suit.
LLL 5.2. 276
LLL-MARIA
Dumaine was at my service, and his sword.
LLL 5.2. 277 `{Non point},' quoth I. My servant straight was mute.
LLL 5.2. 278
LLL-CATHERINE
Lord Longueville said I came o'er his heart,
LLL 5.2. 279B And trow you what he called me?
LLL-PRINCESS
`Qualm', perhaps.
LLL 5.2. 280B
LLL-CATHERINE
Yes, in good faith.
LLL-PRINCESS
Go, sickness as thou art.
LLL 5.2. 281
LLL-ROSALINE
Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.
LLL 5.2. 282 But will you hear? The King is my love sworn.
LLL 5.2. 283
LLL-PRINCESS
And quick Biron hath plighted faith to me.
LLL 5.2. 284
LLL-CATHERINE
And Longueville was for my service born.
LLL 5.2. 285
LLL-MARIA
Dumaine is mine, as sure as bark on tree.
LLL 5.2. 286
LLL-BOYET
Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear.
LLL 5.2. 287 Immediately they will again be here
LLL 5.2. 288 In their own shapes, for it can never be
LLL 5.2. 289 They will digest this harsh indignity.
LLL 5.2. 290B
LLL-PRINCESS
Will they return?
LLL-BOYET
They will, they will, God +
LLL 5.2. 290B knows,
LLL 5.2. 291 And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows.
LLL 5.2. 292 Therefore change favours, and when they repair,
LLL 5.2. 293 Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.
LLL 5.2. 294
LLL-PRINCESS
How `blow'? How `blow'? Speak to be understood.
LLL 5.2. 295
LLL-BOYET
Fair ladies masked are roses in their bud;
LLL 5.2. 296 Dismasked, their damask sweet commixture shown,
LLL 5.2. 297 Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
LLL 5.2. 298
LLL-PRINCESS
Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do
LLL 5.2. 299 If they return in their own shapes to woo?
LLL 5.2. 300
LLL-ROSALINE
Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,
LLL 5.2. 301 Let's mock them still, as well known as disguised.
LLL 5.2. 302 Let us complain to them what fools were here,
LLL 5.2. 303 Disguised like Muscovites in shapeless gear,
LLL 5.2. 304 And wonder what they were, and to what end
LLL 5.2. 305 Their shallow shows, and prologue vilely penned,
LLL 5.2. 306 And their rough carriage so ridiculous,
LLL 5.2. 307 Should be presented at our tent to us.
LLL 5.2. 308
LLL-BOYET
Ladies, withdraw. The gallants are at hand.
LLL 5.2. 309
LLL-PRINCESS
Whip, to our tents, as roes run over land! {Exeunt +
LLL 5.2. 309 the ladies}
LLL 5.2. 310 {Enter the King, Biron, Dumaine, and Longueville, as +
LLL 5.2. 310 themselves}
LLL-KING
Fair sir, God save you. Where's the +
LLL 5.2. 310 Princess?
LLL 5.2. 311
LLL-BOYET
Gone to her tent. Please it your majesty
LLL 5.2. 312 Command me any service to her thither?
LLL 5.2. 313
LLL-KING
That she vouchsafe me audience for one word.
LLL 5.2. 314
LLL-BOYET
I will, and so will she, I know, my lord. {Exit}
LLL 5.2. 315
LLL-BIRON
This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas,
LLL 5.2. 316 And utters it again when God doth please.
LLL 5.2. 317 He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares
LLL 5.2. 318 At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
LLL 5.2. 319 And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know,
LLL 5.2. 320 Have not the grace to grace it with such show.
LLL 5.2. 321 This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve.
LLL 5.2. 322 Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve.
LLL 5.2. 323 A can carve too, and lisp, why, this is he
LLL 5.2. 324 That kissed his hand away in courtesy.
LLL 5.2. 325 This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice,
LLL 5.2. 326 That when he plays at tables chides the dice
LLL 5.2. 327 In honourable terms. Nay, he can sing
LLL 5.2. 328 A mean most meanly, and in ushering
LLL 5.2. 329 Mend him who can. The ladies call him sweet.
LLL 5.2. 330 The stairs as he treads on them kiss his feet.
LLL 5.2. 331 This is the flower that smiles on everyone
LLL 5.2. 332 To show his teeth as white as whale|s bone,
LLL 5.2. 333 And consciences that will not die in debt
LLL 5.2. 334 Pay him the due of `honey-tongued' Boyet.
LLL 5.2. 335
LLL-KING
A blister on his sweet tongue with my heart,
LLL 5.2. 336 That put Armado's page out of his part! {Enter the ladies and +
LLL 5.2. 336 Boyet}
LLL 5.2. 337
LLL-BIRON
See where it comes. Behaviour, what wert thou
LLL 5.2. 338 Till this madman showed thee, and what art thou now?
LLL 5.2. 339
LLL-KING
All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day!
LLL 5.2. 340
LLL-PRINCESS
`Fair' in `all hail' is foul, as I conceive.
LLL 5.2. 341
LLL-KING
Construe my speeches better, if you may.
LLL 5.2. 342
LLL-PRINCESS
Then wish me better. I will give you leave.
LLL 5.2. 343
LLL-KING
We came to visit you, and purpose now
LLL 5.2. 344 To lead you to our court. Vouchsafe it, then.
LLL 5.2. 345
LLL-PRINCESS
This field shall hold me, and so hold your vow.
LLL 5.2. 346 Nor God nor I delights in perjured men.
LLL 5.2. 347
LLL-KING
Rebuke me not for that which you provoke.
LLL 5.2. 348 The virtue of your eye must break my oath.
LLL 5.2. 349
LLL-PRINCESS
You nickname virtue. `Vice' you should have spoke,
LLL 5.2. 350 For virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
LLL 5.2. 351 Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure
LLL 5.2. 352 As the unsullied lily, I protest,
LLL 5.2. 353 A world of torments though I should endure,
LLL 5.2. 354 I would not yield to be your house's guest,
LLL 5.2. 355 So much I hate a breaking cause to be
LLL 5.2. 356 Of heavenly oaths, vowed with integrity.
LLL 5.2. 357
LLL-KING
O, you have lived in desolation here,
LLL 5.2. 358 Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.
LLL 5.2. 359
LLL-PRINCESS
Not so, my lord. It is not so, I swear.
LLL 5.2. 360 We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game.
LLL 5.2. 361 A mess of Russians left us but of late.
LLL 5.2. 362B
LLL-KING
How, madam? Russians?
LLL-PRINCESS
Ay, in truth, my lord.
LLL 5.2. 363 Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.
LLL 5.2. 364
LLL-ROSALINE
Madam, speak true. - It is not so, my lord.
LLL 5.2. 365 My lady, to the manner of the days,
LLL 5.2. 366 In courtesy gives undeserving praise.
LLL 5.2. 367 We four indeed confronted were with four
LLL 5.2. 368 In Russian habit. Here they stayed an hour,
LLL 5.2. 369 And talked apace, and in that hour, my lord,
LLL 5.2. 370 They did not bless us with one happy word.
LLL 5.2. 371 I dare not call them fools, but this I think:
LLL 5.2. 372 When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.
LLL 5.2. 373
LLL-BIRON
This jest is dry to me. Gentle sweet,
LLL 5.2. 374 Your wits makes wise things foolish. When we greet,
LLL 5.2. 375 With eyes' best seeing, heaven's fiery eye,
LLL 5.2. 376 By light we lose light. Your capacity
LLL 5.2. 377 Is of that nature that to your huge store
LLL 5.2. 378 Wise things seem foolish, and rich things but poor.
LLL 5.2. 379
LLL-ROSALINE
This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye -
LLL 5.2. 380
LLL-BIRON
I am a fool, and full of poverty.
LLL 5.2. 381
LLL-ROSALINE
But that you take what doth to you belong
LLL 5.2. 382 It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue.
LLL 5.2. 383
LLL-BIRON
O, I am yours, and all that I possess.
LLL 5.2. 384B
LLL-ROSALINE
All the fool mine!
LLL-BIRON
I cannot give you less.
LLL 5.2. 385
LLL-ROSALINE
Which of the visors was it that you wore?
LLL 5.2. 386
LLL-BIRON
Where? When? What visor? Why demand you this?
LLL 5.2. 387
LLL-ROSALINE
There, then, that visor, that superfluous case,
LLL 5.2. 388 That hid the worse and showed the better face.
LLL 5.2. 389
LLL-KING
{(aside to the lords)} We were descried. +
LLL 5.2. 389 They'll mock us now, downright.
LLL 5.2. 390
LLL-DUMAINE
{(aside to the King)} Let us confess, and +
LLL 5.2. 390 turn it to a jest.
LLL 5.2. 391
LLL-PRINCESS
Amazed, my lord? Why looks your highness sad?
LLL 5.2. 392
LLL-ROSALINE
Help, hold his brows, he'll swoon. Why look you pale?
LLL 5.2. 393 Seasick, I think, coming from Muscovy.
LLL 5.2. 394
LLL-BIRON
Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.
LLL 5.2. 395 Can any face of brass hold longer out?
LLL 5.2. 396 Here stand I, lady. Dart thy skill at me -
LLL 5.2. 397 Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout,
LLL 5.2. 398 Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance,
LLL 5.2. 399 Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit,
LLL 5.2. 400 And I will wish thee nevermore to dance,
LLL 5.2. 401 Nor nevermore in Russian habit wait.
LLL 5.2. 402 O, never will I trust to speeches penned,
LLL 5.2. 403 Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue,
LLL 5.2. 404 Nor never come in visor to my friend,
LLL 5.2. 405 Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song.
LLL 5.2. 406 Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
LLL 5.2. 407 Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
LLL 5.2. 408 Figures pedantical - these summer flies
LLL 5.2. 409 Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
LLL 5.2. 410 I do forswear them, and I here protest,
LLL 5.2. 411 By this white glove - how white the hand, God knows! -
LLL 5.2. 412 Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed
LLL 5.2. 413 In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes.
LLL 5.2. 414 And to begin, wench, so God help me, law!
LLL 5.2. 415 My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
LLL 5.2. 416B
LLL-ROSALINE
Sans `sans', I pray you.
LLL-BIRON
Yet I have a trick
LLL 5.2. 417 Of the old rage. Bear with me, I am sick.
LLL 5.2. 418 I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see.
LLL 5.2. 419 Write `Lord have mercy on us' on those three.
LLL 5.2. 420 They are infected, in their hearts it lies.
LLL 5.2. 421 They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes.
LLL 5.2. 422 These lords are visited, you are not free;
LLL 5.2. 423 For the Lord's tokens on you do I see.
LLL 5.2. 424
LLL-PRINCESS
No, they are free that gave these tokens to us.
LLL 5.2. 425
LLL-BIRON
Our states are forfeit. Seek not to undo us.
LLL 5.2. 426
LLL-ROSALINE
It is not so, for how can this be true,
LLL 5.2. 427 That you stand forfeit, being those that sue?
LLL 5.2. 428
LLL-BIRON
Peace, for I will not have to do with you.
LLL 5.2. 429
LLL-ROSALINE
Nor shall not, if I do as I intend.
LLL 5.2. 430
LLL-BIRON
{(to the lords)} Speak for yourselves. My +
LLL 5.2. 430 wit is at an end.
LLL 5.2. 431
LLL-KING
Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression
LLL 5.2. 432B Some fair excuse.
LLL-PRINCESS
The fairest is confession.
LLL 5.2. 433 Were not you here but even now disguised?
LLL 5.2. 434B
LLL-KING
Madam, I was.
LLL-PRINCESS
And were you well advised?
LLL 5.2. 435B
LLL-KING
I was, fair madam.
LLL-PRINCESS
When you then were here,
LLL 5.2. 436 What did you whisper in your lady's ear?
LLL 5.2. 437
LLL-KING
That more than all the world I did respect her.
LLL 5.2. 438
LLL-PRINCESS
When she shall challenge this, you will reject her.
LLL 5.2. 439B
LLL-KING
Upon mine honour, no.
LLL-PRINCESS
Peace, peace, forbear.
LLL 5.2. 440 Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.
LLL 5.2. 441
LLL-KING
Despise me when I break this oath of mine.
LLL 5.2. 442
LLL-PRINCESS
I will, and therefore keep it. Rosaline,
LLL 5.2. 443 What did the Russian whisper in your ear?
LLL 5.2. 444
LLL-ROSALINE
Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear
LLL 5.2. 445 As precious eyesight, and did value me
LLL 5.2. 446 Above this world, adding thereto moreover
LLL 5.2. 447 That he would wed me, or else die my lover.
LLL 5.2. 448
LLL-PRINCESS
God give thee joy of him! The noble lord
LLL 5.2. 449 Most honourably doth uphold his word.
LLL 5.2. 450
LLL-KING
What mean you, madam? By my life, my troth,
LLL 5.2. 451 I never swore this lady such an oath.
LLL 5.2. 452
LLL-ROSALINE
By heaven, you did, and to confirm it plain,
LLL 5.2. 453 You gave me this. But take it, sir, again.
LLL 5.2. 454
LLL-KING
My faith and this the Princess I did give.
LLL 5.2. 455 I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve.
LLL 5.2. 456
LLL-PRINCESS
Pardon me, sir, {this} jewel did she wear,
LLL 5.2. 457 And Lord Biron, I thank him, is my dear.
LLL 5.2. 458 {(To Biron)} What, will you have me, or your pearl +
LLL 5.2. 458 again?
LLL 5.2. 459
LLL-BIRON
Neither of either. I remit both twain.
LLL 5.2. 460 I see the trick on 't. Here was a consent,
LLL 5.2. 461 Knowing aforehand of our merriment,
LLL 5.2. 462 To dash it like a Christmas comedy.
LLL 5.2. 463 Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany,
LLL 5.2. 464 Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick
LLL 5.2. 465 That smiles his cheek in years, and knows the trick
LLL 5.2. 466 To make my lady laugh when she's disposed,
LLL 5.2. 467 Told our intents before, which once disclosed,
LLL 5.2. 468 The ladies did change favours, and then we,
LLL 5.2. 469 Following the signs, wooed but the sign of she.
LLL 5.2. 470 Now, to our perjury to add more terror,
LLL 5.2. 471 We are again forsworn, in will and error.
LLL 5.2. 472 Much upon this 'tis, {(to Boyet)} and might not you
LLL 5.2. 473 Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?
LLL 5.2. 474 Do not you know my lady's foot by th' square,
LLL 5.2. 475 And laugh upon the apple of her eye,
LLL 5.2. 476 And stand between her back, sir, and the fire,
LLL 5.2. 477 Holding a trencher, jesting merrily?
LLL 5.2. 478 You put our page out. Go, you are allowed.
LLL 5.2. 479 Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.
LLL 5.2. 480 You leer upon me, do you? There's an eye
LLL 5.2. 481B Wounds like a leaden sword.
LLL-BOYET
Full merrily
LLL 5.2. 482 Hath this brave manege, this career been run.
LLL 5.2. 483
LLL-BIRON
Lo, he is tilting straight. Peace, I have done. {Enter +
LLL 5.2. 483 Costard the clown}
LLL 5.2. 484 Welcome, pure wit. Thou partest a fair fray.
LLL 5.2. 485
LLL-COSTARD
O Lord, sir, they would know
LLL 5.2. 486 Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no.
LLL 5.2. 487B
LLL-BIRON
What, are there but three?
LLL-COSTARD
No, sir, but it is vara +
LLL 5.2. 487B fine,
LLL 5.2. 488B For everyone pursents three.
LLL-BIRON
And three times thrice is nine.
LLL 5.2. 489
LLL-COSTARD
Not so, sir, under correction, sir, I hope it is not so.
LLL 5.2. 490 You cannot beg us, sir. I can assure you, sir, we know what we know.
LLL 5.2. 491B I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir -
LLL-BIRON
Is not nine?
LLL 5.2. 492
LLL-COSTARD
Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it
LLL 5.2. 493 doth amount.
LLL 5.2. 494
LLL-BIRON
By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.
LLL 5.2. 495
LLL-COSTARD
O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your
LLL 5.2. 496 living by reck'ning, sir.
LLL 5.2. 497
LLL-BIRON
How much is it?
LLL 5.2. 498
LLL-COSTARD
O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,
LLL 5.2. 499 sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount. For mine
LLL 5.2. 500 own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man
LLL 5.2. 501 in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.
LLL 5.2. 502
LLL-BIRON
Art thou one of the Worthies?
LLL 5.2. 503
LLL-COSTARD
It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompey
LLL 5.2. 504 the Great. For mine own part, I know not the degree
LLL 5.2. 505 of the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.
LLL 5.2. 506A
LLL-BIRON
Go, bid them prepare.
LLL 5.2. 507
LLL-COSTARD
We will turn it finely off, sir. We will take some +
LLL 5.2. 507 care. {Exit}
LLL 5.2. 508
LLL-KING
Biron, they will shame us. Let them not approach.
LLL 5.2. 509
LLL-BIRON
We are shame-proof, my lord, and 'tis some policy
LLL 5.2. 510 To have one show worse than the King's and his company.
LLL 5.2. 511A
LLL-KING
I say they shall not come.
LLL 5.2. 512
LLL-PRINCESS
Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now.
LLL 5.2. 513 That sport best pleases that doth least know how.
LLL 5.2. 514 Where zeal strives to content, and the contents
LLL 5.2. 515 Dies in the zeal of that which it presents,
LLL 5.2. 516 There form confounded makes most form in mirth,
LLL 5.2. 517 When great things labouring perish in their birth.
LLL 5.2. 518
LLL-BIRON
A right description of our sport, my lord. {Enter +
LLL 5.2. 518 Armado the braggart}
LLL 5.2. 519
LLL-ARMADO
{(to the King)} Anointed, I implore so much +
LLL 5.2. 519 expense
LLL 5.2. 520 of thy royal sweet breath as will utter a brace of words. +
LLL 5.2. 520 {[Armado and the King speak apart]}
LLL 5.2. 521
LLL-PRINCESS
Doth this man serve God?
LLL 5.2. 522
LLL-BIRON
Why ask you?
LLL 5.2. 523
LLL-PRINCESS
A speaks not like a man of God his making.
LLL 5.2. 524
LLL-ARMADO
That is all one, my fair sweet honey monarch,
LLL 5.2. 525 for, I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical,
LLL 5.2. 526 too-too vain, too-too vain. But we will put it, as they
LLL 5.2. 527 say, to {fortuna de la guerra}. I wish you the peace of
LLL 5.2. 528 mind, most royal couplement. {Exit}
LLL 5.2. 529
LLL-KING
Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He
LLL 5.2. 530 presents Hector of Troy, the swain Pompey the Great,
LLL 5.2. 531 the parish curate Alexander, Armado's page Hercules,
LLL 5.2. 532 the pedant Judas Maccabeus,
LLL 5.2. 533 And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive,
LLL 5.2. 534 These four will change habits and present the other five.
LLL 5.2. 535
LLL-BIRON
There is five in the first show.
LLL 5.2. 536
LLL-KING
You are deceived, 'tis not so.
LLL 5.2. 537
LLL-BIRON
The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the +
LLL 5.2. 537 boy,
LLL 5.2. 538 Abate throw at novum and the whole world again
LLL 5.2. 539 Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.
LLL 5.2. 540
LLL-KING
The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain. +
LLL 5.2. 540 {Enter Costard the clown as Pompey}
LLL 5.2. 541B
LLL-COSTARD
{(as Pompey)} I Pompey am -
LLL-BIRON
You +
LLL 5.2. 541B lie, you are not he.
LLL 5.2. 542B
LLL-COSTARD
{(as Pompey)} I Pompey am -
LLL-BOYET
With +
LLL 5.2. 542B leopard's head on knee.
LLL 5.2. 543
LLL-BIRON
Well said, old mocker. I must needs be friends with thee.
LLL 5.2. 544
LLL-COSTARD
{(as Pompey)} I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed +
LLL 5.2. 544 the Big.
LLL 5.2. 545A
LLL-DUMAINE
`The Great'.
LLL 5.2. 546A
LLL-COSTARD
It is `Great', sir -
LLL 5.2. 547 {(As Pompey)} Pompey surnamed the Great,
LLL 5.2. 548 That oft in field with targe and shield did make my foe to sweat,
LLL 5.2. 549 And travelling along this coast I here am come by chance,
LLL 5.2. 550 And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France. -
LLL 5.2. 551 If your ladyship would say `Thanks, Pompey', I had
LLL 5.2. 552 done.
LLL 5.2. 553A
LLL-[PRINCESS]
Great thanks, great Pompey.
LLL 5.2. 554
LLL-COSTARD
'Tis not so much worth, but I hope I was perfect.
LLL 5.2. 555 I made a little fault in `great'.
LLL 5.2. 556
LLL-BIRON
My hat to a halfpenny Pompey proves the best
LLL 5.2. 557 Worthy. {Costard stands aside.}
LLL 5.2. 558 {Enter Nathaniel the curate as Alexander}
LLL-NATHANIEL
{(as +
LLL 5.2. 558 Alexander)} When in the world I lived I was the world's +
LLL 5.2. 558 commander.
LLL 5.2. 559 By east, west, north, and south, I spread my conquering might.
LLL 5.2. 560 My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander.
LLL 5.2. 561
LLL-BOYET
Your nose says no, you are not, for it stands too right.
LLL 5.2. 562
LLL-BIRON
{(to Boyet)} Your nose smells `no' in this, +
LLL 5.2. 562 most tender-smelling knight.
LLL 5.2. 563
LLL-PRINCESS
The conqueror is dismayed. Proceed, good Alexander.
LLL 5.2. 564
LLL-NATHANIEL
{(as Alexander)} When in the world I +
LLL 5.2. 564 lived I was the world's commander.
LLL 5.2. 565
LLL-BOYET
Most true, 'tis right, you were so, Alisander.
LLL 5.2. 566
LLL-BIRON
{(to Costard)} Pompey the Great.
LLL 5.2. 567
LLL-COSTARD
Your servant, and Costard.
LLL 5.2. 568
LLL-BIRON
Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander.
LLL 5.2. 569
LLL-COSTARD
{(to Nathaniel)} O, sir, you have +
LLL 5.2. 569 overthrown
LLL 5.2. 570 Alisander the Conqueror. You will be scraped out of
LLL 5.2. 571 the painted cloth for this. Your lion that holds his pole-
LLL 5.2. 572 axe sitting on a close-stool will be given to Ajax. He
LLL 5.2. 573 will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror and afeard to
LLL 5.2. 574 speak? Run away for shame, Alisander. {[Exit Nathaniel the +
LLL 5.2. 574 curate]}
LLL 5.2. 575 There, an 't shall please you, a foolish mild man, an
LLL 5.2. 576 honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a
LLL 5.2. 577 marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good
LLL 5.2. 578 bowler, but for Alisander - alas, you see how 'tis - a
LLL 5.2. 579 little o'erparted. But there are Worthies a-coming will
LLL 5.2. 580 speak their mind in some other sort.
LLL 5.2. 581
LLL-PRINCESS
Stand aside, good Pompey. {Enter Holofernes the +
LLL 5.2. 581 pedant as Judas, and the boy Mote as Hercules}
LLL 5.2. 582
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Great Hercules is presented by this imp,
LLL 5.2. 583 Whose club killed Cerberus, that three-headed {canus},
LLL 5.2. 584 And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,
LLL 5.2. 585 Thus did he strangle serpents in his {manus}.
LLL 5.2. 586 {Quoniam} he seemeth in minority,
LLL 5.2. 587 {Ergo} I come with this apology.
LLL 5.2. 588 {(To Mote)} Keep some state in thy exit, and +
LLL 5.2. 588 vanish. {Exit Mote}
LLL 5.2. 589
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{(as Judas)} Judas I am -
LLL 5.2. 590
LLL-DUMAINE
A Judas?
LLL 5.2. 591
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Not Iscariot, sir.
LLL 5.2. 592 {(As Judas)} Judas I am, yclept Maccabeus.
LLL 5.2. 593
LLL-DUMAINE
Judas Maccabeus clipped is plain Judas.
LLL 5.2. 594
LLL-BIRON
A kissing traitor. How art thou proved Judas?
LLL 5.2. 595
LLL-HOLOFERNES
{(as Judas)} Judas I am -
LLL 5.2. 596
LLL-DUMAINE
The more shame for you, Judas.
LLL 5.2. 597
LLL-HOLOFERNES
What mean you, sir?
LLL 5.2. 598
LLL-BOYET
To make Judas hang himself.
LLL 5.2. 599
LLL-HOLOFERNES
Begin, sir. You are my elder.
LLL 5.2. 600
LLL-BIRON
Well followed - Judas was hanged on an elder.
LLL 5.2. 601
LLL-HOLOFERNES
I will not be put out of countenance.
LLL 5.2. 602
LLL-BIRON
Because thou hast no face.
LLL 5.2. 603
LLL-HOLOFERNES
What is this?
LLL 5.2. 604
LLL-BOYET
A cittern-head.
LLL 5.2. 605
LLL-DUMAINE
The head of a bodkin.
LLL 5.2. 606
LLL-BIRON
A death's face in a ring.
LLL 5.2. 607
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.
LLL 5.2. 608
LLL-BOYET
The pommel of Caesar's falchion.
LLL 5.2. 609
LLL-DUMAINE
The carved-bone face on a flask.
LLL 5.2. 610
LLL-BIRON
Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch.
LLL 5.2. 611
LLL-DUMAINE
Ay, and in a brooch of lead.
LLL 5.2. 612
LLL-BIRON
Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer. And
LLL 5.2. 613 now forward, for we have put thee in countenance.
LLL 5.2. 614
LLL-HOLOFERNES
You have put me out of countenance.
LLL 5.2. 615
LLL-BIRON
False, we have given thee faces.
LLL 5.2. 616
LLL-HOLOFERNES
But you have outfaced them all.
LLL 5.2. 617
LLL-BIRON
An thou wert a lion, we would do so.
LLL 5.2. 618
LLL-BOYET
Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.
LLL 5.2. 619 And so adieu, sweet Jude. Nay, why dost thou stay?
LLL 5.2. 620
LLL-DUMAINE
For the latter end of his name.
LLL 5.2. 621
LLL-BIRON
For the ass to the Jude. Give it him. Jud-as, away.
LLL 5.2. 622
LLL-HOLOFERNES
This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.
LLL 5.2. 623
LLL-BOYET
A light for Monsieur Judas. It grows dark, he may +
LLL 5.2. 623 stumble. {Exit Holofernes}
LLL 5.2. 624
LLL-PRINCESS
Alas, poor Maccabeus, how hath he been +
LLL 5.2. 624 baited! {Enter Armado the braggart as Hector}
LLL 5.2. 625
LLL-BIRON
Hide thy head, Achilles, here comes Hector in
LLL 5.2. 626 arms.
LLL 5.2. 627
LLL-DUMAINE
Though my mocks come home by me, I will
LLL 5.2. 628 now be merry.
LLL 5.2. 629
LLL-KING
Hector was but a Trojan in respect of this.
LLL 5.2. 630
LLL-BOYET
But is this Hector?
LLL 5.2. 631
LLL-KING
I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.
LLL 5.2. 632
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
His leg is too big for Hector's.
LLL 5.2. 633
LLL-DUMAINE
More calf, certain.
LLL 5.2. 634
LLL-BOYET
No, he is best endowed in the small.
LLL 5.2. 635
LLL-BIRON
This cannot be Hector.
LLL 5.2. 636
LLL-DUMAINE
He's a god, or a painter, for he makes faces.
LLL 5.2. 637
LLL-ARMADO
{(as Hector)} The armipotent Mars, of +
LLL 5.2. 637 lances the almighty,
LLL 5.2. 638 Gave Hector a gift -
LLL 5.2. 639
LLL-DUMAINE
A gilt nutmeg.
LLL 5.2. 640
LLL-BIRON
A lemon.
LLL 5.2. 641
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
Stuck with cloves.
LLL 5.2. 642
LLL-DUMAINE
No, cloven.
LLL 5.2. 643
LLL-ARMADO
Peace!
LLL 5.2. 644 {(As Hector)} The armipotent Mars, of lances the +
LLL 5.2. 644 almighty,
LLL 5.2. 645 Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion,
LLL 5.2. 646 A man so breathed that certain he would fight, yea,
LLL 5.2. 647 From morn till night, out of his pavilion.
LLL 5.2. 648B I am that flower -
LLL-DUMAINE
That mint.
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
That colombine.
LLL 5.2. 649
LLL-ARMADO
Sweet Lord Longueville, rein thy tongue.
LLL 5.2. 650
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
I must rather give it the rein, for it runs
LLL 5.2. 651 against Hector.
LLL 5.2. 652
LLL-DUMAINE
Ay, and Hector's a greyhound.
LLL 5.2. 653
LLL-ARMADO
The sweet war-man is dead and rotten. Sweet
LLL 5.2. 654 chucks, beat not the bones of the buried. When he
LLL 5.2. 655 breathed he was a man. But I will forward with my
LLL 5.2. 656 device. {(To the Princess)} Sweet royalty, bestow on me
LLL 5.2. 657 the sense of hearing. {Biron steps forth}
LLL 5.2. 658
LLL-PRINCESS
Speak, brave Hector, we are much delighted.
LLL 5.2. 659
LLL-ARMADO
I do adore thy sweet grace's slipper.
LLL 5.2. 660
LLL-BOYET
Loves her by the foot.
LLL 5.2. 661
LLL-DUMAINE
He may not by the yard.
LLL 5.2. 662
LLL-ARMADO
{(as Hector)} This Hector far surmounted +
LLL 5.2. 662 Hannibal.
LLL 5.2. 663 [[This line and speaker are lost]]
LLL 5.2. 664
LLL-ARMADO
The party is gone.
LLL 5.2. 665
LLL-COSTARD
Fellow Hector, she is gone, she is two months
LLL 5.2. 666 on her way.
LLL 5.2. 667
LLL-ARMADO
What meanest thou?
LLL 5.2. 668
LLL-COSTARD
Faith, unless you play the honest Trojan the
LLL 5.2. 669 poor wench is cast away. She's quick. The child brags
LLL 5.2. 670 in her belly already. 'Tis yours.
LLL 5.2. 671
LLL-ARMADO
Dost thou infamonize me among potentates?
LLL 5.2. 672 Thou shalt die.
LLL 5.2. 673
LLL-COSTARD
Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta
LLL 5.2. 674 that is quick by him, and hanged for Pompey that is
LLL 5.2. 675 dead by him.
LLL 5.2. 676
LLL-DUMAINE
Most rare Pompey!
LLL 5.2. 677
LLL-BOYET
Renowned Pompey!
LLL 5.2. 678
LLL-BIRON
Greater than great - great, great, great Pompey,
LLL 5.2. 679 Pompey the Huge.
LLL 5.2. 680
LLL-DUMAINE
Hector trembles.
LLL 5.2. 681
LLL-BIRON
Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates - stir them
LLL 5.2. 682 on, stir them on!
LLL 5.2. 683
LLL-DUMAINE
Hector will challenge him.
LLL 5.2. 684
LLL-BIRON
Ay, if a have no more man's blood in his belly
LLL 5.2. 685 than will sup a flea.
LLL 5.2. 686
LLL-ARMADO
By the North Pole, I do challenge thee.
LLL 5.2. 687
LLL-COSTARD
I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man.
LLL 5.2. 688 I'll slash, I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you, let me
LLL 5.2. 689 borrow my arms again.
LLL 5.2. 690
LLL-DUMAINE
Room for the incensed Worthies.
LLL 5.2. 691
LLL-COSTARD
I'll do it in my shirt.
LLL 5.2. 692
LLL-DUMAINE
Most resolute Pompey.
LLL 5.2. 693
LLL-MOTE
{(aside to Armado)} Master, let me take you a +
LLL 5.2. 693 button-
LLL 5.2. 694 hole lower. Do you not see Pompey is uncasing for the
LLL 5.2. 695 combat? What mean you? You will lose your
LLL 5.2. 696 reputation.
LLL 5.2. 697
LLL-ARMADO
Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me. I will not
LLL 5.2. 698 combat in my shirt.
LLL 5.2. 699
LLL-DUMAINE
You may not deny it, Pompey hath made the
LLL 5.2. 700 challenge.
LLL 5.2. 701
LLL-ARMADO
Sweet bloods, I both may and will.
LLL 5.2. 702
LLL-BIRON
What reason have you for 't?
LLL 5.2. 703
LLL-ARMADO
The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. I go
LLL 5.2. 704 woolward for penance.
LLL 5.2. 705
LLL-[MOTE]
True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want
LLL 5.2. 706 of linen, since when I'll be sworn he wore none but a
LLL 5.2. 707 dish-clout of Jaquenetta's, and that a wears next his
LLL 5.2. 708 heart, for a favour. {Enter a messenger, Monsieur Mercade/}
LLL 5.2. 709B
LLL-MERCADE
God save you, madam.
LLL-PRINCESS
Welcome, +
LLL 5.2. 709B Mercade/,
LLL 5.2. 710 But that thou interrupt'st our merriment.
LLL 5.2. 711
LLL-MERCADE
I am sorry, madam, for the news I bring
LLL 5.2. 712 Is heavy in my tongue. The King your father -
LLL 5.2. 713B
LLL-PRINCESS
Dead, for my life.
LLL-MERCADE
Even so. My tale is told.
LLL 5.2. 714
LLL-BIRON
Worthies, away. The scene begins to cloud.
LLL 5.2. 715
LLL-ARMADO
For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have
LLL 5.2. 716 seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
LLL 5.2. 717 discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier. {Exeunt the +
LLL 5.2. 717 Worthies}
LLL 5.2. 718
LLL-KING
How fares your majesty?
LLL 5.2. 719
LLL-QUEEN
Boyet, prepare. I will away tonight.
LLL 5.2. 720
LLL-KING
Madam, not so, I do beseech you stay.
LLL 5.2. 721
LLL-QUEEN
Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords,
LLL 5.2. 722 For all your fair endeavours, and entreat,
LLL 5.2. 723 Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe
LLL 5.2. 724 In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide
LLL 5.2. 725 The liberal opposition of our spirits.
LLL 5.2. 726 If overboldly we have borne ourselves
LLL 5.2. 727 In the converse of breath, your gentleness
LLL 5.2. 728 Was guilty of it. Farewell, worthy lord.
LLL 5.2. 729 A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
LLL 5.2. 730 Excuse me so coming too short of thanks,
LLL 5.2. 731 For my great suit so easily obtained.
LLL 5.2. 732
LLL-KING
The extreme parts of time extremely forms
LLL 5.2. 733 All causes to the purpose of his speed,
LLL 5.2. 734 And often at his very loose decides
LLL 5.2. 735 That which long process could not arbitrate.
LLL 5.2. 736 And though the mourning brow of progeny
LLL 5.2. 737 Forbid the smiling courtesy of love
LLL 5.2. 738 The holy suit which fain it would convince,
LLL 5.2. 739 Yet since love's argument was first on foot,
LLL 5.2. 740 Let not the cloud of sorrow jostle it
LLL 5.2. 741 From what it purposed, since to wail friends lost
LLL 5.2. 742 Is not by much so wholesome-profitable
LLL 5.2. 743 As to rejoice at friends but newly found.
LLL 5.2. 744
LLL-QUEEN
I understand you not. My griefs are double.
LLL 5.2. 745
LLL-BIRON
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief,
LLL 5.2. 746 And by these badges understand the King.
LLL 5.2. 747 For your fair sakes have we neglected time,
LLL 5.2. 748 Played foul play with our oaths. Your beauty, ladies,
LLL 5.2. 749 Hath much deformed us, fashioning our humours
LLL 5.2. 750 Even to the opposed end of our intents,
LLL 5.2. 751 And what in us hath seemed ridiculous -
LLL 5.2. 752 As love is full of unbefitting strains,
LLL 5.2. 753 All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
LLL 5.2. 754 Formed by the eye and therefore like the eye,
LLL 5.2. 755 Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
LLL 5.2. 756 Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
LLL 5.2. 757 To every varied object in his glance;
LLL 5.2. 758 Which parti-coated presence of loose love
LLL 5.2. 759 Put on by us, if in your heavenly eyes
LLL 5.2. 760 Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities,
LLL 5.2. 761 Those heavenly eyes that look into these faults
LLL 5.2. 762 Suggested us to make them. Therefore, ladies,
LLL 5.2. 763 Our love being yours, the error that love makes
LLL 5.2. 764 Is likewise yours. We to ourselves prove false
LLL 5.2. 765 By being once false for ever to be true
LLL 5.2. 766 To those that make us both - fair ladies, you.
LLL 5.2. 767 And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,
LLL 5.2. 768 Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.
LLL 5.2. 769
LLL-QUEEN
We have received your letters full of love,
LLL 5.2. 770 Your favours the ambassadors of love,
LLL 5.2. 771 And in our maiden council rated them
LLL 5.2. 772 At courtship, pleasant jest, and courtesy,
LLL 5.2. 773 As bombast and as lining to the time.
LLL 5.2. 774 But more devout than this in our respects
LLL 5.2. 775 Have we not been, and therefore met your loves
LLL 5.2. 776 In their own fashion, like a merriment.
LLL 5.2. 777
LLL-DUMAINE
Our letters, madam, showed much more than jest.
LLL 5.2. 778B
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
So did our looks.
LLL-ROSALINE
We did not quote them so.
LLL 5.2. 779
LLL-KING
Now, at the latest minute of the hour,
LLL 5.2. 780B Grant us your loves.
LLL-QUEEN
A time, methinks, too short
LLL 5.2. 781 To make a world-without-end bargain in.
LLL 5.2. 782 No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,
LLL 5.2. 783 Full of dear guiltiness, and therefore this:
LLL 5.2. 784 If for my love - as there is no such cause -
LLL 5.2. 785 You will do aught, this shall you do for me:
LLL 5.2. 786 Your oath I will not trust, but go with speed
LLL 5.2. 787 To some forlorn and naked hermitage
LLL 5.2. 788 Remote from all the pleasures of the world.
LLL 5.2. 789 There stay until the twelve celestial signs
LLL 5.2. 790 Have brought about the annual reckoning.
LLL 5.2. 791 If this austere, insociable life
LLL 5.2. 792 Change not your offer made in heat of blood;
LLL 5.2. 793 If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds
LLL 5.2. 794 Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,
LLL 5.2. 795 But that it bear this trial and last love,
LLL 5.2. 796 Then at the expiration of the year
LLL 5.2. 797 Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,
LLL 5.2. 798 And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine,
LLL 5.2. 799 I will be thine, and till that instance shut
LLL 5.2. 800 My woeful self up in a mourning house,
LLL 5.2. 801 Raining the tears of lamentation
LLL 5.2. 802 For the remembrance of my father's death.
LLL 5.2. 803 If this thou do deny, let our hands part,
LLL 5.2. 804 Neither entitled in the other's heart.
LLL 5.2. 805
LLL-KING
If this, or more than this, I would deny,
LLL 5.2. 806 To flatter up these powers of mine with rest
LLL 5.2. 807 The sudden hand of death close up mine eye.
LLL 5.2. 808 Hence, hermit, then. My heart is in thy breast. {They talk +
LLL 5.2. 808 apart}
LLL 5.2. 809
LLL-DUMAINE
{(to Catherine)} But what to me, my love? +
LLL 5.2. 809 But what to me?
LLL 5.2. 810B A wife?
LLL-CATHERINE
A beard, fair health, and honesty.
LLL 5.2. 811 With three-fold love I wish you all these three.
LLL 5.2. 812
LLL-DUMAINE
O, shall I say `I thank you, gentle wife'?
LLL 5.2. 813
LLL-CATHERINE
Not so, my lord. A twelvemonth and a day
LLL 5.2. 814 I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say.
LLL 5.2. 815 Come when the King doth to my lady come;
LLL 5.2. 816 Then if I have much love, I'll give you some.
LLL 5.2. 817
LLL-DUMAINE
I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then.
LLL 5.2. 818
LLL-CATHERINE
Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again. {They +
LLL 5.2. 818 talk apart}
LLL 5.2. 819B
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
What says Maria?
LLL-MARIA
At the +
LLL 5.2. 819B twelvemonth's end
LLL 5.2. 820 I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend.
LLL 5.2. 821
LLL-LONGUEVILLE
I'll stay with patience; but the time is long.
LLL 5.2. 822
LLL-MARIA
The liker you - few taller are so young. {They talk +
LLL 5.2. 822 apart}
LLL 5.2. 823
LLL-BIRON
{(to Rosaline)} Studies my lady? Mistress, +
LLL 5.2. 823 look on me.
LLL 5.2. 824 Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,
LLL 5.2. 825 What humble suit attends thy answer there.
LLL 5.2. 826 Impose some service on me for thy love.
LLL 5.2. 827
LLL-ROSALINE
Oft have I heard of you, my lord Biron,
LLL 5.2. 828 Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue
LLL 5.2. 829 Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,
LLL 5.2. 830 Full of comparisons and wounding flouts,
LLL 5.2. 831 Which you on all estates will execute
LLL 5.2. 832 That lie within the mercy of your wit.
LLL 5.2. 833 To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,
LLL 5.2. 834 And therewithal to win me if you please,
LLL 5.2. 835 Without the which I am not to be won,
LLL 5.2. 836 You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day
LLL 5.2. 837 Visit the speechless sick and still converse
LLL 5.2. 838 With groaning wretches, and your task shall be
LLL 5.2. 839 With all the fierce endeavour of your wit
LLL 5.2. 840 To enforce the pained impotent to smile.
LLL 5.2. 841
LLL-BIRON
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? -
LLL 5.2. 842 It cannot be, it is impossible.
LLL 5.2. 843 Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
LLL 5.2. 844
LLL-ROSALINE
Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit,
LLL 5.2. 845 Whose influence is begot of that loose grace
LLL 5.2. 846 Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools.
LLL 5.2. 847 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
LLL 5.2. 848 Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
LLL 5.2. 849 Of him that makes it. Then if sickly ears,
LLL 5.2. 850 Deafed with the clamours of their own dear groans,
LLL 5.2. 851 Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,
LLL 5.2. 852 And I will have you and that fault withal.
LLL 5.2. 853 But if they will not, throw away that spirit,
LLL 5.2. 854 And I shall find you empty of that fault,
LLL 5.2. 855 Right joyful of your reformation.
LLL 5.2. 856
LLL-BIRON
A twelvemonth? Well, befall what will befall,
LLL 5.2. 857 I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.
LLL 5.2. 858
LLL-QUEEN
{(to the King)} Ay, sweet my lord, and so I +
LLL 5.2. 858 take my leave.
LLL 5.2. 859
LLL-KING
No, madam, we will bring you on your way.
LLL 5.2. 860
LLL-BIRON
Our wooing doth not end like an old play.
LLL 5.2. 861 Jack hath not Jill. These ladies' courtesy
LLL 5.2. 862 Might well have made our sport a comedy.
LLL 5.2. 863
LLL-KING
Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth an' a day,
LLL 5.2. 864B And then 'twill end.
LLL-BIRON
That's too long for a play. {Enter +
LLL 5.2. 864B Armado the braggart}
LLL 5.2. 865A
LLL-ARMADO
{(to the King)} Sweet majesty, vouchsafe +
LLL 5.2. 865A me.
LLL 5.2. 866A
LLL-QUEEN
Was not that Hector?
LLL 5.2. 867A
LLL-DUMAINE
The worthy knight of Troy.
LLL 5.2. 868
LLL-ARMADO
I will kiss thy royal finger and take leave.
LLL 5.2. 869 I am a votary, I have vowed to Jaquenetta
LLL 5.2. 870 To hold the plough for her sweet love three year.
LLL 5.2. 871 But, most esteemed greatness, will you hear the
LLL 5.2. 872 dialogue that the two learned men have compiled in
LLL 5.2. 873 praise of the owl and the cuckoo? It should have
LLL 5.2. 874 followed in the end of our show.
LLL 5.2. 875
LLL-KING
Call them forth quickly, we will do so.
LLL 5.2. 876B
LLL-ARMADO
Holla, approach! {Enter Holofernes, +
LLL 5.2. 876B Nathaniel, Costard, Mote, Dull, Jaquenetta, and others} This +
LLL 5.2. 876B side is Hiems, winter,
LLL 5.2. 877 This Ver, the spring, the one maintained by the owl,
LLL 5.2. 878 The other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin.
LLL 5.2. 879
LLL-SPRING
{(sings)} When daisies pied and violets +
LLL 5.2. 879 blue,
LLL 5.2. 880 And lady-smocks, all silver-white,
LLL 5.2. 881 And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
LLL 5.2. 882 Do paint the meadows with delight,
LLL 5.2. 883 The cuckoo then on every tree
LLL 5.2. 884 Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
LLL 5.2. 885 Cuckoo!
LLL 5.2. 886 Cuckoo, cuckoo - O word of fear,
LLL 5.2. 887 Unpleasing to a married ear.
LLL 5.2. 888 When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
LLL 5.2. 889 And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks;
LLL 5.2. 890 When turtles tread, and rooks and daws,
LLL 5.2. 891 And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
LLL 5.2. 892 The cuckoo then on every tree
LLL 5.2. 893 Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
LLL 5.2. 894 Cuckoo!
LLL 5.2. 895 Cuckoo, cuckoo - O word of fear,
LLL 5.2. 896 Unpleasing to a married ear.
LLL 5.2. 897
LLL-WINTER
{(sings)} When icicles hang by the wall,
LLL 5.2. 898 And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
LLL 5.2. 899 And Tom bears logs into the hall,
LLL 5.2. 900 And milk comes frozen home in pail;
LLL 5.2. 901 When blood is nipped, and ways be foul,
LLL 5.2. 902 Then nightly sings the staring owl:
LLL 5.2. 903 Tu-whit, tu-whoo! - a merry note,
LLL 5.2. 904 While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
LLL 5.2. 905 When all aloud the wind doth blow,
LLL 5.2. 906 And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
LLL 5.2. 907 And birds sit brooding in the snow,
LLL 5.2. 908 And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
LLL 5.2. 909 When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
LLL 5.2. 910 Then nightly sings the staring owl:
LLL 5.2. 911 Tu-whit, tu-whoo! - a merry note,
LLL 5.2. 912 While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
LLL 5.2. 913
LLL-[ARMADO]
The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs
LLL 5.2. 914 of Apollo. You that way, we this way. {Exeunt, severally}
LLL 5.2. 0
LLL A.A. 0 [[The following lines found after 4.3.293 in the First Quarto represent an
LLL A.A. 0 unrevised version of parts of Biron's long speech, 4.3.287-341. The
LLL A.A. 0 first six lines form the basis of 4.3.294-9; the next three are revised at
LLL A.A. 0 4.3.326-30; the next four at 4.3.300-2; the last nine are less directly
LLL A.A. 0 related to the revised version; the speech prefix is added here to assist
LLL A.A. 0 in computer analysis
LLL-]]
LLL A.A. 1
LLL-BIRON
And where that you have vowed to study, lords,
LLL A.A. 2 In that each of you have forsworn his book,
LLL A.A. 3 Can you still dream, and pore, and thereon look?
LLL A.A. 4 For when would you, my lord, or you, or you,
LLL A.A. 5 Have found the ground of study's excellence
LLL A.A. 6 Without the beauty of a woman's face?
LLL A.A. 7 From women's eyes this doctrine I derive.
LLL A.A. 8 They are the ground, the books, the academes,
LLL A.A. 9 From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.
LLL A.A. 10 Why, universal plodding poisons up
LLL A.A. 11 The nimble spirits in the arteries,
LLL A.A. 12 As motion and long-during action tires
LLL A.A. 13 The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
LLL A.A. 14 Now, for not looking on a woman's face
LLL A.A. 15 You have in that forsworn the use of eyes,
LLL A.A. 16 And study, too, the causer of your vow.
LLL A.A. 17 For where is any author in the world
LLL A.A. 18 Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
LLL A.A. 19 Learning is but an adjunct to ourself,
LLL A.A. 20 And where we are, our learning likewise is.
LLL A.A. 21 Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes
LLL A.A. 22 With ourselves.
LLL A.A. 23 Do we not likewise see our learning there?
LLL A.A. 0
LLL A.B. 0 [[The following two lines, spoken by the Princess and found after
LLL A.B. 0 5.2.130 in the First Quarto, seem to represent a first draft of
LLL A.B. 0 5.2.131-2; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer analysis
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LLL A.B. 1
LLL-PRINCESS
Hold, Rosaline. This favour thou shalt wear,
LLL A.B. 2 And then the King will court thee for his dear.
LLL A.B. 0
LLL A.C. 0 [[The following lines found after 5.2.809 in the First Quarto represent a
LLL A.C. 0 draft version of 5.2.824-41
LLL-]]
LLL A.C. 1
LLL-BIRON
And what to me, my love? And what to me?
LLL A.C. 2
LLL-ROSALINE
You must be purged, too. Your sins are rank.
LLL A.C. 3 You are attaint with faults and perjury.
LLL A.C. 4 Therefore if you my favour mean to get
LLL A.C. 5 A twelvemonth shall you spend, and never rest
LLL A.C. 6 But seek the weary beds of people sick.
LLL A.C.
LLL
0
LRF . . 0 The Tragedy of King Lear [[The Folio Text]]
LRF . . 0 {Enter the Earl of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, +
LRF 1.1. 0 and Edmond}
LRF 1.1. 1
LRF-KENT
I thought the King had more affected the Duke of
LRF 1.1. 2 Albany than Cornwall.
LRF 1.1. 3
LRF-GLOUCESTER
It did always seem so to us, but now in the
LRF 1.1. 4 division of the kingdom it appears not which of the
LRF 1.1. 5 Dukes he values most; for qualities are so weighed that
LRF 1.1. 6 curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.
LRF 1.1. 7
LRF-KENT
Is not this your son, my lord?
LRF 1.1. 8
LRF-GLOUCESTER
His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I
LRF 1.1. 9 have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I
LRF 1.1. 10 am brazed to 't.
LRF 1.1. 11
LRF-KENT
I cannot conceive you.
LRF 1.1. 12
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Sir, this young fellow's mother could,
LRF 1.1. 13 whereupon she grew round-wombed and had indeed,
LRF 1.1. 14 sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her
LRF 1.1. 15 bed. Do you smell a fault?
LRF 1.1. 16
LRF-KENT
I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being
LRF 1.1. 17 so proper.
LRF 1.1. 18
LRF-GLOUCESTER
But I have a son, sir, by order of law, some
LRF 1.1. 19 year older than this, who yet is no dearer in my
LRF 1.1. 20 account. Though this knave came something saucily
LRF 1.1. 21 to the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother
LRF 1.1. 22 fair, there was good sport at his making, and the
LRF 1.1. 23 whoreson must be acknowledged. {(To Edmond)} Do you
LRF 1.1. 24 know this noble gentleman, Edmond?
LRF 1.1. 25
LRF-EDMOND
No, my lord.
LRF 1.1. 26
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Edmond)} My lord of Kent. Remember +
LRF 1.1. 26 him
LRF 1.1. 27 hereafter as my honourable friend.
LRF 1.1. 28
LRF-EDMOND
{(to Kent)} My services to your lordship.
LRF 1.1. 29
LRF-KENT
I must love you, and sue to know you better.
LRF 1.1. 30
LRF-EDMOND
Sir, I shall study deserving.
LRF 1.1. 31
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Kent)} He hath been out nine +
LRF 1.1. 31 years, and
LRF 1.1. 32 away he shall again. {Sennet}
LRF 1.1. 33 The King is coming. {Enter King Lear, the Dukes of +
LRF 1.1. 33 Cornwall and Albany, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, and attendants}
LRF 1.1. 34
LRF-LEAR
Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.
LRF 1.1. 35A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I shall, my lord. {Exit}
LRF 1.1. 36
LRF-LEAR
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
LRF 1.1. 37 Give me the map there. Know that we have divided
LRF 1.1. 38 In three our kingdom, and 'tis our fast intent
LRF 1.1. 39 To shake all cares and business from our age,
LRF 1.1. 40 Conferring them on younger strengths while we
LRF 1.1. 41 Unburdened crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
LRF 1.1. 42 And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
LRF 1.1. 43 We have this hour a constant will to publish
LRF 1.1. 44 Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife
LRF 1.1. 45 May be prevented now. The princes France and Burgundy -
LRF 1.1. 46 Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love -
LRF 1.1. 47 Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
LRF 1.1. 48 And here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters -
LRF 1.1. 49 Since now we will divest us both of rule,
LRF 1.1. 50 Interest of territory, cares of state -
LRF 1.1. 51 Which of you shall we say doth love us most,
LRF 1.1. 52 That we our largest bounty may extend
LRF 1.1. 53 Where nature doth with merit challenge? Goneril,
LRF 1.1. 54 Our eldest born, speak first.
LRF 1.1. 55
LRF-GONERIL
Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;
LRF 1.1. 56 Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty;
LRF 1.1. 57 Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare,
LRF 1.1. 58 No less than life; with grace, health, beauty, honour;
LRF 1.1. 59 As much as child e'er loved or father found;
LRF 1.1. 60 A love that makes breath poor and speech unable.
LRF 1.1. 61 Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
LRF 1.1. 62
LRF-CORDELIA
{(aside)} What shall Cordelia speak? Love +
LRF 1.1. 62 and be silent.
LRF 1.1. 63
LRF-LEAR
{(to Goneril)} Of all these bounds even from +
LRF 1.1. 63 this line to this,
LRF 1.1. 64 With shadowy forests and with champaigns riched,
LRF 1.1. 65 With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,
LRF 1.1. 66 We make thee lady. To thine and Albany's issues
LRF 1.1. 67 Be this perpetual. - What says our second daughter?
LRF 1.1. 68 Our dearest Regan, wife of Cornwall?
LRF 1.1. 69
LRF-REGAN
I am made of that self mettle as my sister,
LRF 1.1. 70 And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
LRF 1.1. 71 I find she names my very deed of love -
LRF 1.1. 72 Only she comes too short, that I profess
LRF 1.1. 73 Myself an enemy to all other joys
LRF 1.1. 74 Which the most precious square of sense possesses,
LRF 1.1. 75 And find I am alone felicitate
LRF 1.1. 76B In your dear highness' love.
LRF-CORDELIA
{(aside)} +
LRF 1.1. 76B Then poor Cordelia -
LRF 1.1. 77 And yet not so, since I am sure my love's
LRF 1.1. 78 More ponderous than my tongue.
LRF 1.1. 79
LRF-LEAR
{(to Regan)} To thee and thine hereditary +
LRF 1.1. 79 ever
LRF 1.1. 80 Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom,
LRF 1.1. 81 No less in space, validity, and pleasure
LRF 1.1. 82 Than that conferred on Goneril. {(To Cordelia)} Now our +
LRF 1.1. 82 joy,
LRF 1.1. 83 Although our last and least, to whose young love
LRF 1.1. 84 The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
LRF 1.1. 85 Strive to be interessed: what can you say to draw
LRF 1.1. 86 A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.
LRF 1.1. 87A
LRF-CORDELIA
Nothing, my lord.
LRF 1.1. 88A
LRF-LEAR
Nothing?
LRF 1.1. 89A
LRF-CORDELIA
Nothing.
LRF 1.1. 90
LRF-LEAR
Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again.
LRF 1.1. 91
LRF-CORDELIA
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
LRF 1.1. 92 My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty
LRF 1.1. 93 According to my bond, no more nor less.
LRF 1.1. 94
LRF-LEAR
How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little
LRF 1.1. 95B Lest you may mar your fortunes.
LRF-CORDELIA
Good my lord,
LRF 1.1. 96 You have begot me, bred me, loved me.
LRF 1.1. 97 I return those duties back as are right fit -
LRF 1.1. 98 Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
LRF 1.1. 99 Why have my sisters husbands if they say
LRF 1.1. 100 They love you all? Haply when I shall wed
LRF 1.1. 101 That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
LRF 1.1. 102 Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
LRF 1.1. 103 Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters.
LRF 1.1. 104A
LRF-LEAR
But goes thy heart with this?
LRF 1.1. 105A
LRF-CORDELIA
Ay, my good lord.
LRF 1.1. 106A
LRF-LEAR
So young and so untender?
LRF 1.1. 107A
LRF-CORDELIA
So young, my lord, and true.
LRF 1.1. 108
LRF-LEAR
Let it be so. Thy truth then be thy dower;
LRF 1.1. 109 For by the sacred radiance of the sun,
LRF 1.1. 110 The mysteries of Hecate and the night,
LRF 1.1. 111 By all the operation of the orbs
LRF 1.1. 112 From whom we do exist and cease to be,
LRF 1.1. 113 Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
LRF 1.1. 114 Propinquity, and property of blood,
LRF 1.1. 115 And as a stranger to my heart and me
LRF 1.1. 116 Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
LRF 1.1. 117 Or he that makes his generation messes
LRF 1.1. 118 To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
LRF 1.1. 119 Be as well neighboured, pitied, and relieved
LRF 1.1. 120B As thou, my sometime daughter.
LRF-KENT
Good my liege -
LRF 1.1. 121A
LRF-LEAR
Peace, Kent.
LRF 1.1. 122 Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
LRF 1.1. 123 I loved her most, and thought to set my rest
LRF 1.1. 124 On her kind nursery. {[To Cordelia]} Hence, and avoid +
LRF 1.1. 124 my sight! -
LRF 1.1. 125 So be my grave my peace as here I give
LRF 1.1. 126 Her father's heart from her. Call France. Who stirs?
LRF 1.1. 127B Call Burgundy. {[Exit one or more]} Cornwall and +
LRF 1.1. 127B Albany,
LRF 1.1. 128 With my two daughters' dowers digest the third.
LRF 1.1. 129 Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
LRF 1.1. 130 I do invest you jointly with my power,
LRF 1.1. 131 Pre-eminence, and all the large effects
LRF 1.1. 132 That troop with majesty. Ourself by monthly course,
LRF 1.1. 133 With reservation of an hundred knights
LRF 1.1. 134 By you to be sustained, shall our abode
LRF 1.1. 135 Make with you by due turn. Only we shall retain
LRF 1.1. 136 The name and all th' addition to a king. The sway,
LRF 1.1. 137 Revenue, execution of the rest,
LRF 1.1. 138 Beloved sons, be yours; which to confirm,
LRF 1.1. 139B This crownet part between you.
LRF-KENT
Royal Lear,
LRF 1.1. 140 Whom I have ever honoured as my king,
LRF 1.1. 141 Loved as my father, as my master followed,
LRF 1.1. 142 As my great patron thought on in my prayers -
LRF 1.1. 143
LRF-LEAR
The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft.
LRF 1.1. 144
LRF-KENT
Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
LRF 1.1. 145 The region of my heart. Be Kent unmannerly
LRF 1.1. 146 When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man?
LRF 1.1. 147 Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
LRF 1.1. 148 When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound
LRF 1.1. 149 When majesty falls to folly. Reserve thy state,
LRF 1.1. 150 And in thy best consideration check
LRF 1.1. 151 This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgement,
LRF 1.1. 152 Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least,
LRF 1.1. 153 Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds
LRF 1.1. 154B Reverb no hollowness.
LRF-LEAR
Kent, on thy life, no more!
LRF 1.1. 155
LRF-KENT
My life I never held but as a pawn
LRF 1.1. 156 To wage against thine enemies, ne'er feared to lose it,
LRF 1.1. 157B Thy safety being motive.
LRF-LEAR
Out of my sight!
LRF 1.1. 158
LRF-KENT
See better, Lear, and let me still remain
LRF 1.1. 159B The true blank of thine eye.
LRF-LEAR
Now, by Apollo -
LRF 1.1. 160
LRF-KENT
Now, by Apollo, King, thou swear'st thy gods in vain.
LRF 1.1. 161B
LRF-LEAR
{[making to strike him]} O vassal! +
LRF 1.1. 161B Miscreant!
LRF-ALBANY
LRF-AND
LRF-[CORDELIA]
Dear sir, forbear.
LRF 1.1. 162
LRF-KENT
{(to Lear)} Kill thy physician, and thy fee +
LRF 1.1. 162 bestow
LRF 1.1. 163 Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift,
LRF 1.1. 164 Or whilst I can vent clamour from my throat
LRF 1.1. 165 I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
LRF 1.1. 166
LRF-LEAR
Hear me, recreant; on thine allegiance hear me!
LRF 1.1. 167 That thou hast sought to make us break our vows,
LRF 1.1. 168 Which we durst never yet, and with strained pride
LRF 1.1. 169 To come betwixt our sentence and our power,
LRF 1.1. 170 Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,
LRF 1.1. 171 Our potency made good take thy reward:
LRF 1.1. 172 Five days we do allot thee for provision
LRF 1.1. 173 To shield thee from disasters of the world,
LRF 1.1. 174 And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
LRF 1.1. 175 Upon our kingdom. If on the seventh day following
LRF 1.1. 176 Thy banished trunk be found in our dominions,
LRF 1.1. 177 The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
LRF 1.1. 178 This shall not be revoked.
LRF 1.1. 179
LRF-KENT
Fare thee well, King; sith thus thou wilt appear,
LRF 1.1. 180 Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
LRF 1.1. 181 {(To Cordelia)} The gods to their dear shelter take +
LRF 1.1. 181 thee, maid,
LRF 1.1. 182 That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said.
LRF 1.1. 183 {(To Goneril and Regan)} And your large speeches may +
LRF 1.1. 183 your deeds approve,
LRF 1.1. 184 That good effects may spring from words of love.
LRF 1.1. 185 Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;
LRF 1.1. 186 He'll shape his old course in a country new. {Exit}
LRF 1.1. 187 {Flourish. Enter the Duke of Gloucester with the King France, +
LRF 1.1. 187 the Duke of Burgundy, and attendants}
LRF-[CORDELIA]
Here's +
LRF 1.1. 187 France and Burgundy, my noble lord.
LRF 1.1. 188A
LRF-LEAR
My lord of Burgundy,
LRF 1.1. 189 We first address toward you, who with this King
LRF 1.1. 190 Hath rivalled for our daughter: what in the least
LRF 1.1. 191 Will you require in present dower with her
LRF 1.1. 192B Or cease your quest of love?
LRF-BURGUNDY
Most royal majesty,
LRF 1.1. 193 I crave no more than hath your highness offered;
LRF 1.1. 194B Nor will you tender less.
LRF-LEAR
Right noble Burgundy,
LRF 1.1. 195 When she was dear to us we did hold her so;
LRF 1.1. 196 But now her price is fallen. Sir, there she stands.
LRF 1.1. 197 If aught within that little seeming substance,
LRF 1.1. 198 Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,
LRF 1.1. 199 And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,
LRF 1.1. 200B She's there, and she is yours.
LRF-BURGUNDY
I know no answer.
LRF 1.1. 201
LRF-LEAR
Will you with those infirmities she owes,
LRF 1.1. 202 Unfriended, new adopted to our hate,
LRF 1.1. 203 Dowered with our curse and strangered with our oath,
LRF 1.1. 204B Take her or leave her?
LRF-BURGUNDY
Pardon me, royal sir.
LRF 1.1. 205 Election makes not up in such conditions.
LRF 1.1. 206
LRF-LEAR
Then leave her, sir; for by the power that made me,
LRF 1.1. 207 I tell you all her wealth. {(To France)} For you, great +
LRF 1.1. 207 King,
LRF 1.1. 208 I would not from your love make such a stray
LRF 1.1. 209 To match you where I hate, therefore beseech you
LRF 1.1. 210 T' avert your liking a more worthier way
LRF 1.1. 211 Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed
LRF 1.1. 212B Almost t' acknowledge hers.
LRF-FRANCE
This is most strange,
LRF 1.1. 213 That she whom even but now was your best object,
LRF 1.1. 214 The argument of your praise, balm of your age,
LRF 1.1. 215 The best, the dear'st, should in this trice of time
LRF 1.1. 216 Commit a thing so monstrous to dismantle
LRF 1.1. 217 So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence
LRF 1.1. 218 Must be of such unnatural degree
LRF 1.1. 219 That monsters it, or your fore-vouched affection
LRF 1.1. 220 Fall into taint; which to believe of her
LRF 1.1. 221 Must be a faith that reason without miracle
LRF 1.1. 222 Should never plant in me.
LRF 1.1. 223
LRF-CORDELIA
{(to Lear)} I yet beseech your majesty,
LRF 1.1. 224 If for I want that glib and oily art
LRF 1.1. 225 To speak and purpose not - since what I well intend,
LRF 1.1. 226 I'll do 't before I speak - that you make known
LRF 1.1. 227 It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,
LRF 1.1. 228 No unchaste action or dishonoured step
LRF 1.1. 229 That hath deprived me of your grace and favour,
LRF 1.1. 230 But even the want of that for which I am richer -
LRF 1.1. 231 A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
LRF 1.1. 232 That I am glad I have not, though not to have it
LRF 1.1. 233B Hath lost me in your liking.
LRF-LEAR
Better thou
LRF 1.1. 234 Hadst not been born than not t' have pleased me better.
LRF 1.1. 235
LRF-FRANCE
Is it but this - a tardiness in nature,
LRF 1.1. 236 Which often leaves the history unspoke
LRF 1.1. 237 That it intends to do? - My lord of Burgundy,
LRF 1.1. 238 What say you to the lady? Love's not love
LRF 1.1. 239 When it is mingled with regards that stands
LRF 1.1. 240 Aloof from th' entire point. Will you have her?
LRF 1.1. 241B She is herself a dowry.
LRF-BURGUNDY
{(to Lear)} Royal +
LRF 1.1. 241B King,
LRF 1.1. 242 Give but that portion which yourself proposed,
LRF 1.1. 243 And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
LRF 1.1. 244 Duchess of Burgundy.
LRF 1.1. 245A
LRF-LEAR
Nothing. I have sworn. I am firm.
LRF 1.1. 246
LRF-BURGUNDY
{(to Cordelia)} I am sorry, then, you +
LRF 1.1. 246 have so lost a father
LRF 1.1. 247B That you must lose a husband.
LRF-CORDELIA
Peace be with Burgundy;
LRF 1.1. 248 Since that respect and fortunes are his love,
LRF 1.1. 249 I shall not be his wife.
LRF 1.1. 250
LRF-FRANCE
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
LRF 1.1. 251 Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised:
LRF 1.1. 252 Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
LRF 1.1. 253 Be it lawful, I take up what's cast away.
LRF 1.1. 254 Gods, gods! 'Tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
LRF 1.1. 255 My love should kindle to inflamed respect. -
LRF 1.1. 256 Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance,
LRF 1.1. 257 Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France.
LRF 1.1. 258 Not all the dukes of wat'rish Burgundy
LRF 1.1. 259 Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. -
LRF 1.1. 260 Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind.
LRF 1.1. 261 Thou losest here, a better where to find.
LRF 1.1. 262
LRF-LEAR
Thou hast her, France. Let her be thine, for we
LRF 1.1. 263 Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
LRF 1.1. 264 That face of hers again. Therefore be gone,
LRF 1.1. 265 Without our grace, our love, our benison. -
LRF 1.1. 266B Come, noble Burgundy. {Flourish. Exeunt all but France and the +
LRF 1.1. 266B sisters}
LRF-FRANCE
Bid farewell to your sisters.
LRF 1.1. 267
LRF-CORDELIA
Ye jewels of our father, with washed eyes
LRF 1.1. 268 Cordelia leaves you. I know you what you are,
LRF 1.1. 269 And like a sister am most loath to call
LRF 1.1. 270 Your faults as they are named. Love well our father.
LRF 1.1. 271 To your professed bosoms I commit him.
LRF 1.1. 272 But yet, alas, stood I within his grace
LRF 1.1. 273 I would prefer him to a better place.
LRF 1.1. 274 So farewell to you both.
LRF 1.1. 275A
LRF-REGAN
Prescribe not us our duty.
LRF 1.1. 276A
LRF-GONERIL
Let your study
LRF 1.1. 277 Be to content your lord, who hath received you
LRF 1.1. 278 At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,
LRF 1.1. 279 And well are worth the want that you have wanted.
LRF 1.1. 280
LRF-CORDELIA
Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides,
LRF 1.1. 281 Who covert faults at last with shame derides.
LRF 1.1. 282B Well may you prosper.
LRF-FRANCE
Come, my fair Cordelia. {Exeunt +
LRF 1.1. 282B France and Cordelia}
LRF 1.1. 283
LRF-GONERIL
Sister, it is not little I have to say of what +
LRF 1.1. 283 most
LRF 1.1. 284 nearly appertains to us both. I think our father will
LRF 1.1. 285 hence tonight.
LRF 1.1. 286
LRF-REGAN
That's most certain, and with you. Next month
LRF 1.1. 287 with us.
LRF 1.1. 288
LRF-GONERIL
You see how full of changes his age is. The
LRF 1.1. 289 observation we have made of it hath been little. He
LRF 1.1. 290 always loved our sister most, and with what poor
LRF 1.1. 291 judgement he hath now cast her off appears too grossly.
LRF 1.1. 292
LRF-REGAN
'Tis the infirmity of his age; yet he hath ever but
LRF 1.1. 293 slenderly known himself.
LRF 1.1. 294
LRF-GONERIL
The best and soundest of his time hath been but
LRF 1.1. 295 rash; then must we look from his age to receive not
LRF 1.1. 296 alone the imperfections of long-engrafted condition, but
LRF 1.1. 297 therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and
LRF 1.1. 298 choleric years bring with them.
LRF 1.1. 299
LRF-REGAN
Such unconstant starts are we like to have from
LRF 1.1. 300 him as this of Kent's banishment.
LRF 1.1. 301
LRF-GONERIL
There is further compliment of leave-taking
LRF 1.1. 302 between France and him. Pray you, let us sit together.
LRF 1.1. 303 If our father carry authority with such disposition as
LRF 1.1. 304 he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us.
LRF 1.1. 305
LRF-REGAN
We shall further think of it.
LRF 1.1. 306
LRF-GONERIL
We must do something, and i' th' heat. {Exeunt}
LRF 1.1. 0 {Enter Edmond the bastard}
LRF 1.2. 1
LRF-EDMOND
Thou, nature, art my goddess. To thy law
LRF 1.2. 2 My services are bound. Wherefore should I
LRF 1.2. 3 Stand in the plague of custom and permit
LRF 1.2. 4 The curiosity of nations to deprive me
LRF 1.2. 5 For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
LRF 1.2. 6 Lag of a brother? Why `bastard'? Wherefore `base',
LRF 1.2. 7 When my dimensions are as well compact,
LRF 1.2. 8 My mind as generous, and my shape as true
LRF 1.2. 9 As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
LRF 1.2. 10 With `base', with `baseness, bastardy - base, base' -
LRF 1.2. 11 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take
LRF 1.2. 12 More composition and fierce quality
LRF 1.2. 13 Than doth within a dull, stale, tired bed
LRF 1.2. 14 Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops
LRF 1.2. 15 Got 'tween a sleep and wake? Well then,
LRF 1.2. 16 Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land.
LRF 1.2. 17 Our father's love is to the bastard Edmond
LRF 1.2. 18 As to th' legitimate. Fine word, `legitimate'.
LRF 1.2. 19 Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed
LRF 1.2. 20 And my invention thrive, Edmond the base
LRF 1.2. 21 Shall to th' legitimate. I grow, I prosper.
LRF 1.2. 22 Now gods, stand up for bastards! {Enter the Duke of Gloucester. +
LRF 1.2. 22 Edmond reads a}
LRF 1.2. 23 {letter}
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Kent banished thus, and France in +
LRF 1.2. 23 choler parted,
LRF 1.2. 24 And the King gone tonight, prescribed his power,
LRF 1.2. 25 Confined to exhibition - all this done
LRF 1.2. 26 Upon the gad? - Edmond, how now? What news?
LRF 1.2. 27A
LRF-EDMOND
So please your lordship, none.
LRF 1.2. 28
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Why so earnestly seek you to put up that
LRF 1.2. 29 letter?
LRF 1.2. 30A
LRF-EDMOND
I know no news, my lord.
LRF 1.2. 31A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
What paper were you reading?
LRF 1.2. 32A
LRF-EDMOND
Nothing, my lord.
LRF 1.2. 33
LRF-GLOUCESTER
No? What needed then that terrible dispatch
LRF 1.2. 34 of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing hath not
LRF 1.2. 35 such need to hide itself. Let's see. Come, if it be nothing
LRF 1.2. 36 I shall not need spectacles.
LRF 1.2. 37
LRF-EDMOND
I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter from
LRF 1.2. 38 my brother that I have not all o'er-read; and for so
LRF 1.2. 39 much as I have perused, I find it not fit for your
LRF 1.2. 40 o'erlooking.
LRF 1.2. 41
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Give me the letter, sir.
LRF 1.2. 42
LRF-EDMOND
I shall offend either to detain or give it. The
LRF 1.2. 43 contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.
LRF 1.2. 44
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Let's see, let's see.
LRF 1.2. 45
LRF-EDMOND
I hope for my brother's justification he wrote
LRF 1.2. 46 this but as an assay or taste of my virtue. {He gives Gloucester +
LRF 1.2. 46 a letter}
LRF 1.2. 47
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(reads)} `This policy and reverence of +
LRF 1.2. 47 age makes
LRF 1.2. 48 the world bitter to the best of our times, keeps our
LRF 1.2. 49 fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them. I
LRF 1.2. 50 begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression
LRF 1.2. 51 of aged tyranny, who sways not as it hath power but
LRF 1.2. 52 as it is suffered. Come to me, that of this I may speak
LRF 1.2. 53 more. If our father would sleep till I waked him, you
LRF 1.2. 54 should enjoy half his revenue for ever and live the
LRF 1.2. 55 beloved of your brother,
LRF 1.2. 56 Edgar.'
LRF 1.2. 57 Hum, conspiracy! `Sleep till I wake him, you should
LRF 1.2. 58 enjoy half his revenue' - my son Edgar! Had he a hand
LRF 1.2. 59 to write this, a heart and brain to breed it in? When
LRF 1.2. 60 came you to this? Who brought it?
LRF 1.2. 61
LRF-EDMOND
It was not brought me, my lord, there's the
LRF 1.2. 62 cunning of it. I found it thrown in at the casement of
LRF 1.2. 63 my closet.
LRF 1.2. 64
LRF-GLOUCESTER
You know the character to be your brother's?
LRF 1.2. 65
LRF-EDMOND
If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear
LRF 1.2. 66 it were his; but in respect of that, I would fain think
LRF 1.2. 67 it were not.
LRF 1.2. 68
LRF-GLOUCESTER
It is his.
LRF 1.2. 69
LRF-EDMOND
It is his hand, my lord, but I hope his heart is
LRF 1.2. 70 not in the contents.
LRF 1.2. 71
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Has he never before sounded you in this
LRF 1.2. 72 business?
LRF 1.2. 73
LRF-EDMOND
Never, my lord; but I have heard him oft
LRF 1.2. 74 maintain it to be fit that, sons at perfect age and fathers
LRF 1.2. 75 declined, the father should be as ward to the son, and
LRF 1.2. 76 the son manage his revenue.
LRF 1.2. 77
LRF-GLOUCESTER
O villain, villain - his very opinion in the
LRF 1.2. 78 letter! Abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, brutish
LRF 1.2. 79 villain - worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him. I'll
LRF 1.2. 80 apprehend him. Abominable villain! Where is he?
LRF 1.2. 81
LRF-EDMOND
I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please you
LRF 1.2. 82 to suspend your indignation against my brother till you
LRF 1.2. 83 can derive from him better testimony of his intent, you
LRF 1.2. 84 should run a certain course; where if you violently
LRF 1.2. 85 proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would
LRF 1.2. 86 make a great gap in your own honour and shake in
LRF 1.2. 87 pieces the heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my
LRF 1.2. 88 life for him that he hath writ this to feel my affection to
LRF 1.2. 89 your honour, and to no other pretence of danger.
LRF 1.2. 90
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Think you so?
LRF 1.2. 91
LRF-EDMOND
If your honour judge it meet, I will place you
LRF 1.2. 92 where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an
LRF 1.2. 93 auricular assurance have your satisfaction, and that
LRF 1.2. 94 without any further delay than this very evening.
LRF 1.2. 95
LRF-GLOUCESTER
He cannot be such a monster. Edmond, seek
LRF 1.2. 96 him out, wind me into him, I pray you. Frame the
LRF 1.2. 97 business after your own wisdom. I would unstate myself
LRF 1.2. 98 to be in a due resolution.
LRF 1.2. 99
LRF-EDMOND
I will seek him, sir, presently, convey the business
LRF 1.2. 100 as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
LRF 1.2. 101
LRF-GLOUCESTER
These late eclipses in the sun and moon
LRF 1.2. 102 portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature
LRF 1.2. 103 can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself
LRF 1.2. 104 scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship
LRF 1.2. 105 falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries,
LRF 1.2. 106 discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked
LRF 1.2. 107 'twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under
LRF 1.2. 108 the prediction: there's son against father. The King
LRF 1.2. 109 falls from bias of nature: there's father against child.
LRF 1.2. 110 We have seen the best of our time. Machinations,
LRF 1.2. 111 hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow
LRF 1.2. 112 us disquietly to our graves. Find out this villain,
LRF 1.2. 113 Edmond; it shall lose thee nothing. Do it carefully. And
LRF 1.2. 114 the noble and true-hearted Kent banished, his offence
LRF 1.2. 115 honesty! 'Tis strange. {Exit}
LRF 1.2. 116
LRF-EDMOND
This is the excellent foppery of the world: that
LRF 1.2. 117 when we are sick in fortune - often the surfeits of our
LRF 1.2. 118 own behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the
LRF 1.2. 119 sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on
LRF 1.2. 120 necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,
LRF 1.2. 121 and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards,
LRF 1.2. 122 liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of
LRF 1.2. 123 planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a
LRF 1.2. 124 divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster
LRF 1.2. 125 man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge
LRF 1.2. 126 of a star! My father compounded with my mother under
LRF 1.2. 127 the Dragon's tail and my nativity was under Ursa Major,
LRF 1.2. 128 so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should
LRF 1.2. 129 have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the
LRF 1.2. 130 firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. {Enter Edgar}
LRF 1.2. 131 Pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy.
LRF 1.2. 132 My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom
LRF 1.2. 133 o' Bedlam. {[He reads a book]}
LRF 1.2. 134 - O, these eclipses do portend these divisions. Fa, so,
LRF 1.2. 135 la, mi.
LRF 1.2. 136
LRF-EDGAR
How now, brother Edmond, what serious contemplation
LRF 1.2. 137 are you in?
LRF 1.2. 138
LRF-EDMOND
I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this
LRF 1.2. 139 other day, what should follow these eclipses.
LRF 1.2. 140
LRF-EDGAR
Do you busy yourself with that?
LRF 1.2. 141
LRF-EDMOND
I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed
LRF 1.2. 142 unhappily. When saw you my father last?
LRF 1.2. 143
LRF-EDGAR
The night gone by.
LRF 1.2. 144
LRF-EDMOND
Spake you with him?
LRF 1.2. 145
LRF-EDGAR
Ay, two hours together.
LRF 1.2. 146
LRF-EDMOND
Parted you in good terms? Found you no
LRF 1.2. 147 displeasure in him by word nor countenance?
LRF 1.2. 148
LRF-EDGAR
None at all.
LRF 1.2. 149
LRF-EDMOND
Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended
LRF 1.2. 150 him, and at my entreaty forbear his presence until
LRF 1.2. 151 some little time hath qualified the heat of his
LRF 1.2. 152 displeasure, which at this instant so rageth in him that
LRF 1.2. 153 with the mischief of your person it would scarcely allay.
LRF 1.2. 154
LRF-EDGAR
Some villain hath done me wrong.
LRF 1.2. 155
LRF-EDMOND
That's my fear. I pray you have a continent
LRF 1.2. 156 forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower; and,
LRF 1.2. 157 as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I
LRF 1.2. 158 will fitly bring you to hear my lord speak. Pray ye, go.
LRF 1.2. 159 There's my key. If you do stir abroad, go armed.
LRF 1.2. 160
LRF-EDGAR
Armed, brother?
LRF 1.2. 161
LRF-EDMOND
Brother, I advise you to the best. I am no honest
LRF 1.2. 162 man if there be any good meaning toward you. I have
LRF 1.2. 163 told you what I have seen and heard but faintly,
LRF 1.2. 164 nothing like the image and horror of it. Pray you,
LRF 1.2. 165 away.
LRF 1.2. 166
LRF-EDGAR
Shall I hear from you anon?
LRF 1.2. 167
LRF-EDMOND
I do serve you in this business. {Exit Edgar}
LRF 1.2. 168 A credulous father, and a brother noble,
LRF 1.2. 169 Whose nature is so far from doing harms
LRF 1.2. 170 That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty
LRF 1.2. 171 My practices ride easy. I see the business.
LRF 1.2. 172 Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit.
LRF 1.2. 173 All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. {Exit}
LRF 1.2. 0 {Enter Goneril and Oswald, her steward}
LRF 1.3. 1
LRF-GONERIL
Did my father strike my gentleman
LRF 1.3. 2B For chiding of his fool?
LRF-OSWALD
Ay, madam.
LRF 1.3. 3
LRF-GONERIL
By day and night he wrongs me. Every hour
LRF 1.3. 4 He flashes into one gross crime or other
LRF 1.3. 5 That sets us all at odds. I'll not endure it.
LRF 1.3. 6 His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
LRF 1.3. 7 On every trifle. When he returns from hunting
LRF 1.3. 8 I will not speak with him. Say I am sick.
LRF 1.3. 9 If you come slack of former services
LRF 1.3. 10 You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer. {[Horns within]}
LRF 1.3. 11A
LRF-OSWALD
He's coming, madam. I hear him.
LRF 1.3. 12
LRF-GONERIL
Put on what weary negligence you please,
LRF 1.3. 13 You and your fellows. I'd have it come to question.
LRF 1.3. 14 If he distaste it, let him to my sister,
LRF 1.3. 15 Whose mind and mine I know in that are one.
LRF 1.3. 16B Remember what I have said.
LRF-OSWALD
Well, madam.
LRF 1.3. 17
LRF-GONERIL
And let his knights have colder looks among you.
LRF 1.3. 18 What grows of it, no matter. Advise your fellows so.
LRF 1.3. 19 I'll write straight to my sister to hold my course.
LRF 1.3. 20 Prepare for dinner. {Exeunt severally}
LRF 1.3. 0 {Enter the Earl of Kent, disguised}
LRF 1.4. 1
LRF-KENT
If but as well I other accents borrow
LRF 1.4. 2 That can my speech diffuse, my good intent
LRF 1.4. 3 May carry through itself to that full issue
LRF 1.4. 4 For which I razed my likeness. Now, banished Kent,
LRF 1.4. 5 If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemned,
LRF 1.4. 6 So may it come thy master, whom thou lov'st,
LRF 1.4. 7 Shall find thee full of labours. {Horns within. Enter King Lear +
LRF 1.4. 7 and attendants from hunting}
LRF 1.4. 8
LRF-LEAR
Let me not stay a jot for dinner. Go get it +
LRF 1.4. 8 ready. {[Exit one]}
LRF 1.4. 9 {(To Kent)} How now, what art thou?
LRF 1.4. 10
LRF-KENT
A man, sir.
LRF 1.4. 11
LRF-LEAR
What dost thou profess? What wouldst thou with
LRF 1.4. 12 us?
LRF 1.4. 13
LRF-KENT
I do profess to be no less than I seem, to serve him
LRF 1.4. 14 truly that will put me in trust, to love him that is
LRF 1.4. 15 honest, to converse with him that is wise and says
LRF 1.4. 16 little, to fear judgement, to fight when I cannot choose,
LRF 1.4. 17 and to eat no fish.
LRF 1.4. 18
LRF-LEAR
What art thou?
LRF 1.4. 19
LRF-KENT
A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the
LRF 1.4. 20 King.
LRF 1.4. 21
LRF-LEAR
If thou be'st as poor for a subject as he's for a king,
LRF 1.4. 22 thou'rt poor enough. What wouldst thou?
LRF 1.4. 23
LRF-KENT
Service.
LRF 1.4. 24
LRF-LEAR
Who wouldst thou serve?
LRF 1.4. 25
LRF-KENT
You.
LRF 1.4. 26
LRF-LEAR
Dost thou know me, fellow?
LRF 1.4. 27
LRF-KENT
No, sir, but you have that in your countenance
LRF 1.4. 28 which I would fain call master.
LRF 1.4. 29
LRF-LEAR
What's that?
LRF 1.4. 30
LRF-KENT
Authority.
LRF 1.4. 31
LRF-LEAR
What services canst do?
LRF 1.4. 32
LRF-KENT
I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious
LRF 1.4. 33 tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly.
LRF 1.4. 34 That which ordinary men are fit for I am qualified in;
LRF 1.4. 35 and the best of me is diligence.
LRF 1.4. 36
LRF-LEAR
How old art thou?
LRF 1.4. 37
LRF-KENT
Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor
LRF 1.4. 38 so old to dote on her for anything. I have years on my
LRF 1.4. 39 back forty-eight.
LRF 1.4. 40
LRF-LEAR
Follow me. Thou shalt serve me, if I like thee no
LRF 1.4. 41 worse after dinner. I will not part from thee yet. Dinner,
LRF 1.4. 42 ho, dinner! Where's my knave, my fool? Go you and
LRF 1.4. 43 call my fool hither. {[Exit one]}
LRF 1.4. 44 {Enter Oswald the steward} You, you, sirrah, where's +
LRF 1.4. 44 my daughter?
LRF 1.4. 45
LRF-OSWALD
So please you - {Exit}
LRF 1.4. 46
LRF-LEAR
What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll +
LRF 1.4. 46 back. {Exit a knight}
LRF 1.4. 47 Where's my fool? Ho, I think the world's asleep. +
LRF 1.4. 47 {Enter a Knight}
LRF 1.4. 48 How now? Where's that mongrel?
LRF 1.4. 49
LRF-KNIGHT
He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.
LRF 1.4. 50
LRF-LEAR
Why came not the slave back to me when I called
LRF 1.4. 51 him?
LRF 1.4. 52
LRF-KNIGHT
Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner he
LRF 1.4. 53 would not.
LRF 1.4. 54
LRF-LEAR
A would not?
LRF 1.4. 55
LRF-KNIGHT
My lord, I know not what the matter is, but to
LRF 1.4. 56 my judgement your highness is not entertained with
LRF 1.4. 57 that ceremonious affection as you were wont. There's
LRF 1.4. 58 a great abatement of kindness appears as well in the
LRF 1.4. 59 general dependants as in the Duke himself also, and
LRF 1.4. 60 your daughter.
LRF 1.4. 61
LRF-LEAR
Ha, sayst thou so?
LRF 1.4. 62
LRF-KNIGHT
I beseech you pardon me, my lord, if I be
LRF 1.4. 63 mistaken, for my duty cannot be silent when I think
LRF 1.4. 64 your highness wronged.
LRF 1.4. 65
LRF-LEAR
Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception.
LRF 1.4. 66 I have perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I
LRF 1.4. 67 have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than
LRF 1.4. 68 as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness. I will
LRF 1.4. 69 look further into 't. But where's my fool? I have not
LRF 1.4. 70 seen him these two days.
LRF 1.4. 71
LRF-KNIGHT
Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the
LRF 1.4. 72 fool hath much pined away.
LRF 1.4. 73
LRF-LEAR
No more of that, I have noted it well. Go you and
LRF 1.4. 74 tell my daughter I would speak with her. {[Exit one]}
LRF 1.4. 75 Go you, call hither my fool. {[Exit one]}
LRF 1.4. 76 {Enter Oswald the steward [crossing the stage]} O you, +
LRF 1.4. 76 sir, you, come you hither, sir, who am I, sir?
LRF 1.4. 77
LRF-OSWALD
My lady's father.
LRF 1.4. 78
LRF-LEAR
My lady's father? My lord's knave, you whoreson
LRF 1.4. 79 dog, you slave, you cur!
LRF 1.4. 80
LRF-OSWALD
I am none of these, my lord, I beseech your
LRF 1.4. 81 pardon.
LRF 1.4. 82
LRF-LEAR
Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal? {[Lear strikes +
LRF 1.4. 82 him]}
LRF 1.4. 83
LRF-OSWALD
I'll not be strucken, my lord.
LRF 1.4. 84
LRF-KENT
{[tripping him]} Nor tripped neither, you +
LRF 1.4. 84 base football
LRF 1.4. 85 player.
LRF 1.4. 86
LRF-LEAR
{(to Kent)} I thank thee, fellow. Thou +
LRF 1.4. 86 serv'st me, and
LRF 1.4. 87 I'll love thee.
LRF 1.4. 88
LRF-KENT
{(to Oswald)} Come, sir, arise, away. I'll +
LRF 1.4. 88 teach you
LRF 1.4. 89 differences. Away, away. If you will measure your
LRF 1.4. 90 lubber's length again, tarry; but away, go to. Have
LRF 1.4. 91 you wisdom? So. {Exit Oswald}
LRF 1.4. 92
LRF-LEAR
Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee. {Enter +
LRF 1.4. 92 Lear's Fool}
LRF 1.4. 93 There's earnest of thy service. {He gives Kent money}
LRF 1.4. 94
LRF-FOOL
Let me hire him, too. {(To Kent)} +
LRF 1.4. 94 Here's my coxcomb.
LRF 1.4. 95
LRF-LEAR
How now, my pretty knave, how dost thou?
LRF 1.4. 96
LRF-FOOL
{(to Kent)} Sirrah, you were best take my +
LRF 1.4. 96 coxcomb.
LRF 1.4. 97
LRF-LEAR
Why, my boy?
LRF 1.4. 98
LRF-FOOL
Why? For taking one's part that's out of favour. {(To}
LRF 1.4. 99 {Kent)} Nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits,
LRF 1.4. 100 thou'lt catch cold shortly. There, take my coxcomb.
LRF 1.4. 101 Why, this fellow has banished two on 's daughters and
LRF 1.4. 102 did the third a blessing against his will. If thou follow
LRF 1.4. 103 him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb. {(To Lear)}
LRF 1.4. 104 How now, nuncle? Would I had two coxcombs and
LRF 1.4. 105 two daughters.
LRF 1.4. 106
LRF-LEAR
Why, my boy?
LRF 1.4. 107
LRF-FOOL
If I gave them all my living I'd keep my coxcombs
LRF 1.4. 108 myself. There's mine; beg another off thy daughters.
LRF 1.4. 109
LRF-LEAR
Take heed, sirrah - the whip.
LRF 1.4. 110
LRF-FOOL
Truth's a dog must to kennel. He must be whipped
LRF 1.4. 111 out when the Lady Brach may stand by th' fire and
LRF 1.4. 112 stink.
LRF 1.4. 113
LRF-LEAR
A pestilent gall to me!
LRF 1.4. 114
LRF-FOOL
{[to Kent]} Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.
LRF 1.4. 115
LRF-LEAR
Do.
LRF 1.4. 116
LRF-FOOL
Mark it, nuncle:
LRF 1.4. 117 Have more than thou showest,
LRF 1.4. 118 Speak less than thou knowest,
LRF 1.4. 119 Lend less than thou owest,
LRF 1.4. 120 Ride more than thou goest,
LRF 1.4. 121 Learn more than thou trowest,
LRF 1.4. 122 Set less than thou throwest,
LRF 1.4. 123 Leave thy drink and thy whore,
LRF 1.4. 124 And keep in-a-door,
LRF 1.4. 125 And thou shalt have more
LRF 1.4. 126 Than two tens to a score.
LRF 1.4. 127
LRF-KENT
This is nothing, fool.
LRF 1.4. 128
LRF-FOOL
Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer: you
LRF 1.4. 129 gave me nothing for 't. {(To Lear)} Can you make no use
LRF 1.4. 130 of nothing, nuncle?
LRF 1.4. 131
LRF-LEAR
Why no, boy. Nothing can be made out of nothing.
LRF 1.4. 132
LRF-FOOL
{(to Kent)} Prithee, tell him so much the +
LRF 1.4. 132 rent of his
LRF 1.4. 133 land comes to. He will not believe a fool.
LRF 1.4. 134
LRF-LEAR
A bitter fool.
LRF 1.4. 135
LRF-FOOL
Dost know the difference, my boy, between a bitter
LRF 1.4. 136 fool and a sweet one?
LRF 1.4. 137
LRF-LEAR
No, lad. Teach me.
LRF 1.4. 138
LRF-FOOL
Nuncle, give me an egg, and I'll give thee two
LRF 1.4. 139 crowns.
LRF 1.4. 140
LRF-LEAR
What two crowns shall they be?
LRF 1.4. 141
LRF-FOOL
Why, after I have cut the egg i' th' middle and eat
LRF 1.4. 142 up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou
LRF 1.4. 143 clovest thy crown i' th' middle and gavest away both
LRF 1.4. 144 parts, thou borest thine ass o' th' back o'er the dirt.
LRF 1.4. 145 Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou
LRF 1.4. 146 gavest thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in
LRF 1.4. 147 this, let him be whipped that first finds it so.
LRF 1.4. 148 {[Sings]} Fools had ne'er less grace in a year,
LRF 1.4. 149 For wise men are grown foppish,
LRF 1.4. 150 And know not how their wits to wear,
LRF 1.4. 151 Their manners are so apish.
LRF 1.4. 152
LRF-LEAR
When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?
LRF 1.4. 153
LRF-FOOL
I have used it, nuncle, e'er since thou madest thy
LRF 1.4. 154 daughters thy mothers; for when thou gavest them the
LRF 1.4. 155 rod and puttest down thine own breeches,
LRF 1.4. 156 {[Sings]} Then they for sudden joy did weep,
LRF 1.4. 157 And I for sorrow sung,
LRF 1.4. 158 That such a king should play bo-peep
LRF 1.4. 159 And go the fools among.
LRF 1.4. 160 Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach
LRF 1.4. 161 thy fool to lie. I would fain learn to lie.
LRF 1.4. 162
LRF-LEAR
An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.
LRF 1.4. 163
LRF-FOOL
I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are.
LRF 1.4. 164 They'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt
LRF 1.4. 165 have me whipped for lying, and sometimes I am
LRF 1.4. 166 whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any
LRF 1.4. 167 kind o' thing than a fool; and yet I would not be thee,
LRF 1.4. 168 nuncle. Thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides and left
LRF 1.4. 169 nothing i' th' middle. {Enter Goneril}
LRF 1.4. 170 Here comes one o' the parings.
LRF 1.4. 171
LRF-LEAR
How now, daughter? What makes that frontlet on?
LRF 1.4. 172 You are too much of late i' th' frown.
LRF 1.4. 173
LRF-FOOL
Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need
LRF 1.4. 174 to care for her frowning. Now thou art an 0 without
LRF 1.4. 175 a figure. I am better than thou art, now. I am a fool;
LRF 1.4. 176 thou art nothing. {[To Goneril]} Yes, forsooth, I will +
LRF 1.4. 176 hold
LRF 1.4. 177 my tongue; so your face bids me, though you say
LRF 1.4. 178 nothing.
LRF 1.4. 179 {[Sings]} Mum, mum.
LRF 1.4. 180 He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,
LRF 1.4. 181 Weary of all, shall want some.
LRF 1.4. 182 That's a shelled peascod.
LRF 1.4. 183
LRF-GONERIL
{(to Lear)} Not only, sir, this your +
LRF 1.4. 183 all-licensed fool,
LRF 1.4. 184 But other of your insolent retinue
LRF 1.4. 185 Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth
LRF 1.4. 186 In rank and not-to-be-endured riots. Sir,
LRF 1.4. 187 I had thought by making this well known unto you
LRF 1.4. 188 To have found a safe redress, but now grow fearful,
LRF 1.4. 189 By what yourself too late have spoke and done,
LRF 1.4. 190 That you protect this course, and put it on
LRF 1.4. 191 By your allowance; which if you should, the fault
LRF 1.4. 192 Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep
LRF 1.4. 193 Which in the tender of a wholesome weal
LRF 1.4. 194 Might in their working do you that offence,
LRF 1.4. 195 Which else were shame, that then necessity
LRF 1.4. 196 Will call discreet proceeding.
LRF 1.4. 197
LRF-FOOL
{(to Lear)} For, you know, nuncle,
LRF 1.4. 198 {[Sings]} The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long
LRF 1.4. 199 That it's had it head bit off by it young;
LRF 1.4. 200 so out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
LRF 1.4. 201A
LRF-LEAR
{(to Goneril)} Are you our daughter?
LRF 1.4. 202
LRF-GONERIL
I would you would make use of your good wisdom,
LRF 1.4. 203 Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away
LRF 1.4. 204 These dispositions which of late transport you
LRF 1.4. 205 From what you rightly are.
LRF 1.4. 206
LRF-FOOL
May not an ass know when the cart draws the
LRF 1.4. 207 horse? {[Sings]} `Whoop, jug, I love thee!'
LRF 1.4. 208
LRF-LEAR
Does any here know me? This is not Lear.
LRF 1.4. 209 Does Lear walk thus, speak thus? Where are his eyes?
LRF 1.4. 210 Either his notion weakens, his discernings
LRF 1.4. 211 Are lethargied - ha, waking? 'Tis not so.
LRF 1.4. 212 Who is it that can tell me who I am?
LRF 1.4. 213
LRF-FOOL
Lear's shadow.
LRF 1.4. 214A
LRF-LEAR
{(to Goneril)} Your name, fair gentlewoman?
LRF 1.4. 215
LRF-GONERIL
This admiration, sir, is much o' th' savour
LRF 1.4. 216 Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
LRF 1.4. 217 To understand my purposes aright,
LRF 1.4. 218 As you are old and reverend, should be wise.
LRF 1.4. 219 Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires,
LRF 1.4. 220 Men so disordered, so debauched and bold
LRF 1.4. 221 That this our court, infected with their manners,
LRF 1.4. 222 Shows like a riotous inn. Epicurism and lust
LRF 1.4. 223 Makes it more like a tavern or a brothel
LRF 1.4. 224 Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak
LRF 1.4. 225 For instant remedy. Be then desired,
LRF 1.4. 226 By her that else will take the thing she begs,
LRF 1.4. 227 A little to disquantity your train,
LRF 1.4. 228 And the remainders that shall still depend
LRF 1.4. 229 To be such men as may besort your age,
LRF 1.4. 230B Which know themselves and you.
LRF-LEAR
Darkness and devils!
LRF 1.4. 231 Saddle my horses, call my train together! - {[Exit one or more]}
LRF 1.4. 232 Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee.
LRF 1.4. 233 Yet have I left a daughter.
LRF 1.4. 234
LRF-GONERIL
You strike my people, and your disordered rabble
LRF 1.4. 235B Make servants of their betters. {Enter the Duke of +
LRF 1.4. 235B Albany}
LRF-LEAR
Woe that too late repents!
LRF 1.4. 236 Is it your will? Speak, sir. - Prepare my horses. {[Exit one or +
LRF 1.4. 236 more]}
LRF 1.4. 237 Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
LRF 1.4. 238 More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
LRF 1.4. 239 Than the sea-monster -
LRF 1.4. 240A
LRF-ALBANY
Pray sir, be patient.
LRF 1.4. 241A
LRF-LEAR
{(to Goneril)} Detested kite, thou liest.
LRF 1.4. 242 My train are men of choice and rarest parts,
LRF 1.4. 243 That all particulars of duty know,
LRF 1.4. 244 And in the most exact regard support
LRF 1.4. 245 The worships of their name. O most small fault,
LRF 1.4. 246 How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show,
LRF 1.4. 247 Which, like an engine, wrenched my frame of nature
LRF 1.4. 248 From the fixed place, drew from my heart all love,
LRF 1.4. 249 And added to the gall! O Lear, Lear, Lear!
LRF 1.4. 250 Beat at this gate that let thy folly in
LRF 1.4. 251 And thy dear judgement out. - Go, go, my people!
LRF 1.4. 252
LRF-ALBANY
My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant
LRF 1.4. 253B Of what hath moved you.
LRF-LEAR
It may be so, my lord.
LRF 1.4. 254 Hear, nature; hear, dear goddess, hear:
LRF 1.4. 255 Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend
LRF 1.4. 256 To make this creature fruitful.
LRF 1.4. 257 Into her womb convey sterility.
LRF 1.4. 258 Dry up in her the organs of increase,
LRF 1.4. 259 And from her derogate body never spring
LRF 1.4. 260 A babe to honour her. If she must teem,
LRF 1.4. 261 Create her child of spleen, that it may live
LRF 1.4. 262 And be a thwart disnatured torment to her.
LRF 1.4. 263 Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,
LRF 1.4. 264 With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,
LRF 1.4. 265 Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
LRF 1.4. 266 To laughter and contempt, that she may feel -
LRF 1.4. 267 That she may feel
LRF 1.4. 268 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
LRF 1.4. 269 To have a thankless child. Away, away! {Exeunt Lear, [Kent, and +
LRF 1.4. 269 attendants]}
LRF 1.4. 270
LRF-ALBANY
Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
LRF 1.4. 271
LRF-GONERIL
Never afflict yourself to know more of it,
LRF 1.4. 272 But let his disposition have that scope
LRF 1.4. 273 As dotage gives it. {Enter King Lear}
LRF 1.4. 274
LRF-LEAR
What, fifty of my followers at a clap?
LRF 1.4. 275B Within a fortnight?
LRF-ALBANY
What's the matter, sir?
LRF 1.4. 276
LRF-LEAR
I'll tell thee. {(To Goneril)} Life and death! +
LRF 1.4. 276 I am ashamed
LRF 1.4. 277 That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus,
LRF 1.4. 278 That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,
LRF 1.4. 279 Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!
LRF 1.4. 280 Th' untented woundings of a father's curse
LRF 1.4. 281 Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,
LRF 1.4. 282 Beweep this cause again I'll pluck ye out
LRF 1.4. 283 And cast you, with the waters that you loose,
LRF 1.4. 284 To temper clay. Ha! Let it be so.
LRF 1.4. 285 I have another daughter
LRF 1.4. 286 Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable.
LRF 1.4. 287 When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
LRF 1.4. 288 She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find
LRF 1.4. 289 That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think
LRF 1.4. 290B I have cast off for ever. {Exit}
LRF-GONERIL
Do you +
LRF 1.4. 290B mark that?
LRF 1.4. 291
LRF-ALBANY
I cannot be so partial, Goneril,
LRF 1.4. 292 To the great love I bear you -
LRF 1.4. 293
LRF-GONERIL
Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho! -
LRF 1.4. 294 You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.
LRF 1.4. 295
LRF-FOOL
Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear,
LRF 1.4. 296 Tarry, take the fool with thee.
LRF 1.4. 297 A fox when one has caught her,
LRF 1.4. 298 And such a daughter,
LRF 1.4. 299 Should sure to the slaughter,
LRF 1.4. 300 If my cap would buy a halter.
LRF 1.4. 301 So, the fool follows after. {Exit}
LRF 1.4. 302
LRF-GONERIL
This man hath had good counsel - a hundred knights?
LRF 1.4. 303 'Tis politic and safe to let him keep
LRF 1.4. 304 At point a hundred knights, yes, that on every dream,
LRF 1.4. 305 Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,
LRF 1.4. 306 He may enguard his dotage with their powers
LRF 1.4. 307 And hold our lives in mercy. - Oswald, I say!
LRF 1.4. 308B
LRF-ALBANY
Well, you may fear too far.
LRF-GONERIL
Safer than trust too +
LRF 1.4. 308B far.
LRF 1.4. 309 Let me still take away the harms I fear,
LRF 1.4. 310 Not fear still to be taken. I know his heart.
LRF 1.4. 311 What he hath uttered I have writ my sister.
LRF 1.4. 312 If she sustain him and his hundred knights
LRF 1.4. 313B When I have showed th' unfitness - {Enter Oswald the +
LRF 1.4. 313B steward} How now, Oswald?
LRF 1.4. 314 What, have you writ that letter to my sister?
LRF 1.4. 315A
LRF-OSWALD
Ay, madam.
LRF 1.4. 316
LRF-GONERIL
Take you some company, and away to horse.
LRF 1.4. 317 Inform her full of my particular fear,
LRF 1.4. 318 And thereto add such reasons of your own
LRF 1.4. 319 As may compact it more. Get you gone,
LRF 1.4. 320B And hasten your return. {Exit Oswald} No, no, my lord,
LRF 1.4. 321 This milky gentleness and course of yours,
LRF 1.4. 322 Though I condemn not, yet under pardon
LRF 1.4. 323 You are much more attasked for want of wisdom
LRF 1.4. 324 Than praised for harmful mildness.
LRF 1.4. 325
LRF-ALBANY
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell.
LRF 1.4. 326 Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
LRF 1.4. 327A
LRF-GONERIL
Nay, then -
LRF 1.4. 328A
LRF-ALBANY
Well, well, th' event. {Exeunt}
LRF 1.4. 0 {Enter King Lear, the Earl of Kent disguised, the First +
LRF 1.5. 0 Gentleman, and Lear's Fool}
LRF 1.5. 1
LRF-LEAR
{[to the Gentleman, giving him a letter]} Go +
LRF 1.5. 1 you before
LRF 1.5. 2 to Gloucester with these letters. {[Exit Gentleman]}
LRF 1.5. 3 {[To Kent, giving him a letter]} Acquaint my daughter +
LRF 1.5. 3 no
LRF 1.5. 4 further with anything you know than comes from her
LRF 1.5. 5 demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy,
LRF 1.5. 6 I shall be there afore you.
LRF 1.5. 7
LRF-KENT
I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered your
LRF 1.5. 8 letter. {Exit}
LRF 1.5. 9
LRF-FOOL
If a man's brains were in 's heels, were 't not in
LRF 1.5. 10 danger of kibes?
LRF 1.5. 11
LRF-LEAR
Ay, boy.
LRF 1.5. 12
LRF-FOOL
Then, I prithee, be merry: thy wit shall not go
LRF 1.5. 13 slipshod.
LRF 1.5. 14
LRF-LEAR
Ha, ha, ha!
LRF 1.5. 15
LRF-FOOL
Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly,
LRF 1.5. 16 for though she's as like this as a crab's like an apple,
LRF 1.5. 17 yet I can tell what I can tell.
LRF 1.5. 18A
LRF-LEAR
What canst tell, boy?
LRF 1.5. 19
LRF-FOOL
She will taste as like this as a crab does to a +
LRF 1.5. 19 crab.
LRF 1.5. 20 Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i' th' middle
LRF 1.5. 21 on 's face?
LRF 1.5. 22
LRF-LEAR
No.
LRF 1.5. 23
LRF-FOOL
Why, to keep one's eyes of either side 's nose, that
LRF 1.5. 24 what a man cannot smell out, a may spy into.
LRF 1.5. 25A
LRF-LEAR
I did her wrong.
LRF 1.5. 26
LRF-FOOL
Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?
LRF 1.5. 27
LRF-LEAR
No.
LRF 1.5. 28
LRF-FOOL
Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a
LRF 1.5. 29 house.
LRF 1.5. 30
LRF-LEAR
Why?
LRF 1.5. 31
LRF-FOOL
Why, to put 's head in, not to give it away to his
LRF 1.5. 32 daughters and leave his horns without a case.
LRF 1.5. 33
LRF-LEAR
I will forget my nature. So kind a father!
LRF 1.5. 34 Be my horses ready?
LRF 1.5. 35
LRF-FOOL
Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the
LRF 1.5. 36 seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.
LRF 1.5. 37A
LRF-LEAR
Because they are not eight.
LRF 1.5. 38
LRF-FOOL
Yes, indeed, thou wouldst make a good fool.
LRF 1.5. 39
LRF-LEAR
To take 't again perforce - monster ingratitude!
LRF 1.5. 40
LRF-FOOL
If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten
LRF 1.5. 41 for being old before thy time.
LRF 1.5. 42A
LRF-LEAR
How's that?
LRF 1.5. 43
LRF-FOOL
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
LRF 1.5. 44 been wise.
LRF 1.5. 45
LRF-LEAR
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
LRF 1.5. 46 Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. {[Enter the First +
LRF 1.5. 46 Gentleman]}
LRF 1.5. 47B How now, are the horses ready?
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Ready, my +
LRF 1.5. 47B lord.
LRF 1.5. 48A
LRF-LEAR
{(to Fool)} Come, boy. {[Exeunt Lear +
LRF 1.5. 48A and Gentleman]}
LRF 1.5. 49
LRF-FOOL
She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
LRF 1.5. 50 Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter. {[Exit]}
LRF 1.5. 0 {Enter Edmond the bastard, and Curan, severally}
LRF 2.1. 1
LRF-EDMOND
Save thee, Curan.
LRF 2.1. 2
LRF-CURAN
And you, sir. I have been with your father, and
LRF 2.1. 3 given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan
LRF 2.1. 4 his duchess will be here with him this night.
LRF 2.1. 5
LRF-EDMOND
How comes that?
LRF 2.1. 6
LRF-CURAN
Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news
LRF 2.1. 7 abroad? - I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet
LRF 2.1. 8 but ear-kissing arguments.
LRF 2.1. 9
LRF-EDMOND
Not I. Pray you, what are they?
LRF 2.1. 10
LRF-CURAN
Have you heard of no likely wars toward twixt
LRF 2.1. 11 the Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?
LRF 2.1. 12
LRF-EDMOND
Not a word.
LRF 2.1. 13
LRF-CURAN
You may do then in time. Fare you well, sir. {Exit}
LRF 2.1. 14
LRF-EDMOND
The Duke be here tonight! The better, best.
LRF 2.1. 15 This weaves itself perforce into my business. {[Enter Edgar at a +
LRF 2.1. 15 window above]}
LRF 2.1. 16 My father hath set guard to take my brother,
LRF 2.1. 17 And I have one thing of a queasy question
LRF 2.1. 18 Which I must act. Briefness and fortune work! -
LRF 2.1. 19 Brother, a word, descend. Brother, I say. {[Edgar climbs down]}
LRF 2.1. 20 My father watches. O sir, fly this place.
LRF 2.1. 21 Intelligence is given where you are hid.
LRF 2.1. 22 You have now the good advantage of the night.
LRF 2.1. 23 Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?
LRF 2.1. 24 He's coming hither, now, i' th' night, i' th' haste,
LRF 2.1. 25 And Regan with him. Have you nothing said
LRF 2.1. 26 Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
LRF 2.1. 27B Advise yourself.
LRF-EDGAR
I am sure on 't, not a word.
LRF 2.1. 28
LRF-EDMOND
I hear my father coming. Pardon me.
LRF 2.1. 29 In cunning I must draw my sword upon you.
LRF 2.1. 30 Draw. Seem to defend yourself. Now, quit you well.
LRF 2.1. 31 {(Calling)} Yield, come before my father. Light ho, +
LRF 2.1. 31 here!
LRF 2.1. 32B {(To Edgar)} Fly, brother! {(Calling)} +
LRF 2.1. 32B Torches, torches! {(To Edgar)} So, farewell. +
LRF 2.1. 32B {Exit Edgar}
LRF 2.1. 33 Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion
LRF 2.1. 34B Of my more fierce endeavour. {He wounds his arm} I have +
LRF 2.1. 34B seen drunkards
LRF 2.1. 35 Do more than this in sport. {(Calling)} Father, father!
LRF 2.1. 36B Stop, stop! Ho, help! {Enter the Duke of Gloucester, and +
LRF 2.1. 36B servants with torches}
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Now, Edmond, where's +
LRF 2.1. 36B the villain?
LRF 2.1. 37
LRF-EDMOND
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
LRF 2.1. 38 Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
LRF 2.1. 39B To stand 's auspicious mistress.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
But where is he?
LRF 2.1. 40B
LRF-EDMOND
Look, sir, I bleed.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Where is the villain, +
LRF 2.1. 40B Edmond?
LRF 2.1. 41
LRF-EDMOND
Fled this way, sir, when by no means he could -
LRF 2.1. 42B
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Pursue him, ho! Go after. {Exeunt +
LRF 2.1. 42B servants} By no means what?
LRF 2.1. 43
LRF-EDMOND
Persuade me to the murder of your lordship,
LRF 2.1. 44 But that I told him the revenging gods
LRF 2.1. 45 'Gainst parricides did all the thunder bend,
LRF 2.1. 46 Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
LRF 2.1. 47 The child was bound to th' father. Sir, in fine,
LRF 2.1. 48 Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
LRF 2.1. 49 To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion
LRF 2.1. 50 With his prepared sword he charges home
LRF 2.1. 51 My unprovided body, latched mine arm;
LRF 2.1. 52 And when he saw my best alarumed spirits
LRF 2.1. 53 Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to th' encounter,
LRF 2.1. 54 Or whether ghasted by the noise I made,
LRF 2.1. 55B Full suddenly he fled.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Let him fly far,
LRF 2.1. 56 Not in this land shall he remain uncaught,
LRF 2.1. 57 And found, dispatch. The noble Duke my master,
LRF 2.1. 58 My worthy arch and patron, comes tonight.
LRF 2.1. 59 By his authority I will proclaim it
LRF 2.1. 60 That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,
LRF 2.1. 61 Bringing the murderous coward to the stake;
LRF 2.1. 62 He that conceals him, death.
LRF 2.1. 63
LRF-EDMOND
When I dissuaded him from his intent
LRF 2.1. 64 And found him pitched to do it, with curst speech
LRF 2.1. 65 I threatened to discover him. He replied,
LRF 2.1. 66 `Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think
LRF 2.1. 67 If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
LRF 2.1. 68 Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee
LRF 2.1. 69 Make thy words faithed? No, what I should deny -
LRF 2.1. 70 As this I would, ay, though thou didst produce
LRF 2.1. 71 My very character - I'd turn it all
LRF 2.1. 72 To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice,
LRF 2.1. 73 And thou must make a dullard of the world
LRF 2.1. 74 If they not thought the profits of my death
LRF 2.1. 75 Were very pregnant and potential spirits
LRF 2.1. 76B To make thee seek it.'
LRF-GLOUCESTER
O strange and fastened villain!
LRF 2.1. 77 Would he deny his letter, said he? {Tucket within}
LRF 2.1. 78 Hark, the Duke's trumpets. I know not why he comes.
LRF 2.1. 79 All ports I'll bar. The villain shall not scape.
LRF 2.1. 80 The Duke must grant me that; besides, his picture
LRF 2.1. 81 I will send far and near, that all the kingdom
LRF 2.1. 82 May have due note of him - and of my land,
LRF 2.1. 83 Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means
LRF 2.1. 84 To make thee capable. {Enter the Duke of Cornwall, Regan, and +
LRF 2.1. 84 attendants}
LRF 2.1. 85
LRF-CORNWALL
How now, my noble friend? Since I came hither,
LRF 2.1. 86 Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.
LRF 2.1. 87
LRF-REGAN
If it be true, all vengeance comes too short
LRF 2.1. 88 Which can pursue th' offender. How dost, my lord?
LRF 2.1. 89
LRF-GLOUCESTER
O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked.
LRF 2.1. 90
LRF-REGAN
What, did my father's godson seek your life?
LRF 2.1. 91 He whom my father named, your Edgar?
LRF 2.1. 92
LRF-GLOUCESTER
O lady, lady, shame would have it hid!
LRF 2.1. 93
LRF-REGAN
Was he not companion with the riotous knights
LRF 2.1. 94 That tend upon my father?
LRF 2.1. 95
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I know not, madam. 'Tis too bad, too bad.
LRF 2.1. 96
LRF-EDMOND
Yes, madam, he was of that consort.
LRF 2.1. 97
LRF-REGAN
No marvel, then, though he were ill affected.
LRF 2.1. 98 'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,
LRF 2.1. 99 To have th' expense and spoil of his revenues.
LRF 2.1. 100 I have this present evening from my sister
LRF 2.1. 101 Been well informed of them, and with such cautions
LRF 2.1. 102 That if they come to sojourn at my house
LRF 2.1. 103B I'll not be there.
LRF-CORNWALL
Nor I, assure thee, Regan.
LRF 2.1. 104 Edmond, I hear that you have shown your father
LRF 2.1. 105B A childlike office.
LRF-EDMOND
It was my duty, sir.
LRF 2.1. 106
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Cornwall)} He did bewray his +
LRF 2.1. 106 practice, and received
LRF 2.1. 107 This hurt you see striving to apprehend him.
LRF 2.1. 108B
LRF-CORNWALL
Is he pursued?
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Ay, my good lord.
LRF 2.1. 109
LRF-CORNWALL
If he be taken, he shall never more
LRF 2.1. 110 Be feared of doing harm. Make your own purpose
LRF 2.1. 111 How in my strength you please. For you, Edmond,
LRF 2.1. 112 Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
LRF 2.1. 113 So much commend itself, you shall be ours.
LRF 2.1. 114 Natures of such deep trust we shall much need.
LRF 2.1. 115B You we first seize on.
LRF-EDMOND
I shall serve you, sir,
LRF 2.1. 116B Truly, however else.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Cornwall)} For +
LRF 2.1. 116B him I thank your grace.
LRF 2.1. 117
LRF-CORNWALL
You know not why we came to visit you -
LRF 2.1. 118
LRF-REGAN
Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night -
LRF 2.1. 119 Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,
LRF 2.1. 120 Wherein we must have use of your advice.
LRF 2.1. 121 Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
LRF 2.1. 122 Of differences which I least thought it fit
LRF 2.1. 123 To answer from our home. The several messengers
LRF 2.1. 124 From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,
LRF 2.1. 125 Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow
LRF 2.1. 126 Your needful counsel to our businesses,
LRF 2.1. 127 Which craves the instant use.
LRF 2.1. 128A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I serve you, madam.
LRF 2.1. 129 Your graces are right welcome. {Flourish. Exeunt}
LRF 2.1. 0 {Enter the Earl of Kent, disguised, and Oswald the +
LRF 2.2. 0 steward, severally}
LRF 2.2. 1
LRF-OSWALD
Good dawning to thee, friend. Art of this house?
LRF 2.2. 2
LRF-KENT
Ay.
LRF 2.2. 3
LRF-OSWALD
Where may we set our horses?
LRF 2.2. 4
LRF-KENT
I' th' mire.
LRF 2.2. 5
LRF-OSWALD
Prithee, if thou lov'st me, tell me.
LRF 2.2. 6
LRF-KENT
I love thee not.
LRF 2.2. 7
LRF-OSWALD
Why then, I care not for thee.
LRF 2.2. 8
LRF-KENT
If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold I would make thee
LRF 2.2. 9 care for me.
LRF 2.2. 10
LRF-OSWALD
Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.
LRF 2.2. 11
LRF-KENT
Fellow, I know thee.
LRF 2.2. 12
LRF-OSWALD
What dost thou know me for?
LRF 2.2. 13
LRF-KENT
A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats, a base,
LRF 2.2. 14 proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound,
LRF 2.2. 15 filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-
LRF 2.2. 16 taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable,
LRF 2.2. 17 finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that
LRF 2.2. 18 wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art
LRF 2.2. 19 nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar,
LRF 2.2. 20 coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel
LRF 2.2. 21 bitch, one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if
LRF 2.2. 22 thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
LRF 2.2. 23
LRF-OSWALD
Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to
LRF 2.2. 24 rail on one that is neither known of thee nor knows
LRF 2.2. 25 thee!
LRF 2.2. 26
LRF-KENT
What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou
LRF 2.2. 27 knowest me! Is it two days since I tripped up thy heels
LRF 2.2. 28 and beat thee before the King? Draw, you rogue; for
LRF 2.2. 29 though it be night, yet the moon shines. {[He draws his sword]}
LRF 2.2. 30 I'll make a sop o' th' moonshine of you, you whoreson,
LRF 2.2. 31 cullionly barber-monger, draw!
LRF 2.2. 32
LRF-OSWALD
Away. I have nothing to do with thee.
LRF 2.2. 33
LRF-KENT
Draw, you rascal. You come with letters against
LRF 2.2. 34 the King, and take Vanity the puppet's part against the
LRF 2.2. 35 royalty of her father. Draw, you rogue, or I'll so
LRF 2.2. 36 carbonado your shanks - draw, you rascal, come your
LRF 2.2. 37 ways!
LRF 2.2. 38
LRF-OSWALD
Help, ho, murder, help!
LRF 2.2. 39
LRF-KENT
Strike, you slave! Stand, rogue! Stand, you neat
LRF 2.2. 40 slave, strike!
LRF 2.2. 41
LRF-OSWALD
Help, ho, murder, murder! {Enter Edmond the bastard, +
LRF 2.2. 41 [then] the Duke of Cornwall, Regan, the Duke of Gloucester, and +
LRF 2.2. 41 servants}
LRF 2.2. 42
LRF-EDMOND
How now, what's the matter? Part.
LRF 2.2. 43
LRF-KENT
With you, goodman boy. If you please, come, I'll
LRF 2.2. 44 flesh ye. Come on, young master.
LRF 2.2. 45
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Weapons? Arms? What's the matter here?
LRF 2.2. 46
LRF-CORNWALL
Keep peace, upon your lives. He dies that +
LRF 2.2. 46 strikes again.
LRF 2.2. 47 What is the matter?
LRF 2.2. 48
LRF-REGAN
The messengers from our sister and the King.
LRF 2.2. 49
LRF-CORNWALL
{(to Kent and Oswald)} What is your +
LRF 2.2. 49 difference?
LRF 2.2. 50 Speak.
LRF 2.2. 51
LRF-OSWALD
I am scarce in breath, my lord.
LRF 2.2. 52
LRF-KENT
No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour, you
LRF 2.2. 53 cowardly rascal. Nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made
LRF 2.2. 54 thee.
LRF 2.2. 55
LRF-CORNWALL
Thou art a strange fellow - a tailor make a
LRF 2.2. 56 man?
LRF 2.2. 57
LRF-KENT
A tailor, sir. A stone-cutter or a painter could not
LRF 2.2. 58 have made him so ill though they had been but two
LRF 2.2. 59 years o' th' trade.
LRF 2.2. 60A
LRF-CORNWALL
Speak yet; how grew your quarrel?
LRF 2.2. 61
LRF-OSWALD
This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have +
LRF 2.2. 61 spared
LRF 2.2. 62 at suit of his grey beard -
LRF 2.2. 63
LRF-KENT
Thou whoreson Z, thou unnecessary letter - {(to}
LRF 2.2. 64 {Cornwall)} my lord, if you'll give me leave I will tread
LRF 2.2. 65 this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the wall of
LRF 2.2. 66 a jakes with him. {(To Oswald)} Spare my grey beard,
LRF 2.2. 67 you wagtail?
LRF 2.2. 68A
LRF-CORNWALL
Peace, sirrah.
LRF 2.2. 69 You beastly knave, know you no reverence?
LRF 2.2. 70
LRF-KENT
Yes, sir, but anger hath a privilege.
LRF 2.2. 71A
LRF-CORNWALL
Why art thou angry?
LRF 2.2. 72
LRF-KENT
That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
LRF 2.2. 73 Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,
LRF 2.2. 74 Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain
LRF 2.2. 75 Which are too intrince t' unloose, smooth every passion
LRF 2.2. 76 That in the natures of their lords rebel;
LRF 2.2. 77 Being oil to fire, snow to the colder moods,
LRF 2.2. 78 Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
LRF 2.2. 79 With every gall and vary of their masters,
LRF 2.2. 80 Knowing naught, like dogs, but following.
LRF 2.2. 81 {[To Oswald]} A plague upon your epileptic visage!
LRF 2.2. 82 Smile you my speeches as I were a fool?
LRF 2.2. 83 Goose, an I had you upon Sarum Plain
LRF 2.2. 84 I'd drive ye cackling home to Camelot.
LRF 2.2. 85B
LRF-CORNWALL
What, art thou mad, old fellow?
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{[to +
LRF 2.2. 85B Kent]} How fell you out? Say that.
LRF 2.2. 86
LRF-KENT
No contraries hold more antipathy
LRF 2.2. 87B Than I and such a knave.
LRF-CORNWALL
Why dost thou call him knave?
LRF 2.2. 88B What is his fault?
LRF-KENT
His countenance likes me not.
LRF 2.2. 89
LRF-CORNWALL
No more perchance does mine, nor his, nor hers.
LRF 2.2. 90
LRF-KENT
Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:
LRF 2.2. 91 I have seen better faces in my time
LRF 2.2. 92 Than stands on any shoulder that I see
LRF 2.2. 93B Before me at this instant.
LRF-CORNWALL
This is some fellow
LRF 2.2. 94 Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect
LRF 2.2. 95 A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb
LRF 2.2. 96 Quite from his nature. He cannot flatter, he;
LRF 2.2. 97 An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth.
LRF 2.2. 98 An they will take 't, so; if not, he's plain.
LRF 2.2. 99 These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
LRF 2.2. 100 Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
LRF 2.2. 101 Than twenty silly-ducking observants
LRF 2.2. 102 That stretch their duties nicely.
LRF 2.2. 103
LRF-KENT
Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity,
LRF 2.2. 104 Under th' allowance of your great aspect,
LRF 2.2. 105 Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
LRF 2.2. 106B On flick'ring Phoebus' front -
LRF-CORNWALL
What mean'st by this?
LRF 2.2. 107
LRF-KENT
To go out of my dialect, which you discommend so
LRF 2.2. 108 much. I know, sir, I am no flatterer. He that beguiled
LRF 2.2. 109 you in a plain accent was a plain knave, which for my
LRF 2.2. 110 part I will not be, though I should win your displeasure
LRF 2.2. 111 to entreat me to 't.
LRF 2.2. 112B
LRF-CORNWALL
{(to Oswald)} What was th' offence you +
LRF 2.2. 112B gave him?
LRF-OSWALD
I never gave him any.
LRF 2.2. 113 It pleased the King his master very late
LRF 2.2. 114 To strike at me upon his misconstruction,
LRF 2.2. 115 When he, compact, and flattering his displeasure,
LRF 2.2. 116 Tripped me behind; being down, insulted, railed,
LRF 2.2. 117 And put upon him such a deal of man
LRF 2.2. 118 That worthied him, got praises of the King
LRF 2.2. 119 For him attempting who was self-subdued,
LRF 2.2. 120 And in the fleshment of this dread exploit
LRF 2.2. 121B Drew on me here again.
LRF-KENT
None of these rogues and cowards
LRF 2.2. 122B But Ajax is their fool.
LRF-CORNWALL
Fetch forth the stocks! +
LRF 2.2. 122B {[Exeunt some servants]}
LRF 2.2. 123 You stubborn, ancient knave, you reverend braggart,
LRF 2.2. 124B We'll teach you.
LRF-KENT
Sir, I am too old to learn.
LRF 2.2. 125 Call not your stocks for me. I serve the King,
LRF 2.2. 126 On whose employment I was sent to you.
LRF 2.2. 127 You shall do small respect, show too bold malice
LRF 2.2. 128 Against the grace and person of my master,
LRF 2.2. 129B Stocking his messenger.
LRF-CORNWALL
{[calling]} Fetch +
LRF 2.2. 129B forth the stocks! -
LRF 2.2. 130 As I have life and honour, there shall he sit till noon.
LRF 2.2. 131
LRF-REGAN
Till noon? - till night, my lord, and all night too.
LRF 2.2. 132
LRF-KENT
Why, madam, if I were your father's dog
LRF 2.2. 133B You should not use me so.
LRF-REGAN
Sir, being his knave, I will. +
LRF 2.2. 133B {Stocks brought out}
LRF 2.2. 134
LRF-CORNWALL
This is a fellow of the selfsame colour
LRF 2.2. 135 Our sister speaks of. - Come, bring away the stocks.
LRF 2.2. 136
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Let me beseech your grace not to do so.
LRF 2.2. 137 The King his master needs must take it ill
LRF 2.2. 138 That he, so slightly valued in his messenger,
LRF 2.2. 139B Should have him thus restrained.
LRF-CORNWALL
I'll answer that. +
LRF 2.2. 139B {[They put Kent in the stocks]}
LRF 2.2. 140
LRF-REGAN
My sister may receive it much more worse
LRF 2.2. 141 To have her gentlemen abused, assaulted.
LRF 2.2. 142A
LRF-CORNWALL
Come, my good lord, away! {Exeunt all but +
LRF 2.2. 142A Gloucester and Kent}
LRF 2.2. 143
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I am sorry for thee, friend. 'Tis the Duke's +
LRF 2.2. 143 pleasure,
LRF 2.2. 144 Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
LRF 2.2. 145 Will not be rubbed nor stopped. I'll entreat for thee.
LRF 2.2. 146
LRF-KENT
Pray do not, sir. I have watched and travelled hard.
LRF 2.2. 147 Some time I shall sleep out; the rest I'll whistle.
LRF 2.2. 148 A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.
LRF 2.2. 149 Give you good morrow.
LRF 2.2. 150
LRF-GLOUCESTER
The Duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken. +
LRF 2.2. 150 {Exit}
LRF 2.2. 151
LRF-KENT
Good King, that must approve the common say:
LRF 2.2. 152 Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st
LRF 2.2. 153 To the warm sun. {[He takes out a letter]}
LRF 2.2. 154 Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,
LRF 2.2. 155 That by thy comfortable beams I may
LRF 2.2. 156 Peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles
LRF 2.2. 157 But misery. I know 'tis from Cordelia,
LRF 2.2. 158 Who hath now fortunately been informed
LRF 2.2. 159 Of my obscured course, and shall find time
LRF 2.2. 160 For this enormous state, seeking to give
LRF 2.2. 161 Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatched,
LRF 2.2. 162 Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
LRF 2.2. 163 This shameful lodging. Fortune, good night;
LRF 2.2. 164B Smile once more; turn thy wheel. {He sleeps} {Enter +
LRF 2.2. 164B Edgar}
LRF-EDGAR
I heard myself proclaimed,
LRF 2.2. 165 And by the happy hollow of a tree
LRF 2.2. 166 Escaped the hunt. No port is free, no place
LRF 2.2. 167 That guard and most unusual vigilance
LRF 2.2. 168 Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may scape
LRF 2.2. 169 I will preserve myself, and am bethought
LRF 2.2. 170 To take the basest and most poorest shape
LRF 2.2. 171 That ever penury in contempt of man
LRF 2.2. 172 Brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth,
LRF 2.2. 173 Blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots,
LRF 2.2. 174 And with presented nakedness outface
LRF 2.2. 175 The winds and persecutions of the sky.
LRF 2.2. 176 The country gives me proof and precedent
LRF 2.2. 177 Of Bedlam beggars who with roaring voices
LRF 2.2. 178 Strike in their numbed and mortified arms
LRF 2.2. 179 Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary,
LRF 2.2. 180 And with this horrible object from low farms,
LRF 2.2. 181 Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes and mills
LRF 2.2. 182 Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers
LRF 2.2. 183 Enforce their charity. `Poor Tuelygod, Poor Tom.'
LRF 2.2. 184 That's something yet. Edgar I nothing am. {Exit}
LRF 2.2. 185 {Enter King Lear, his Fool, and [the First] Gentleman}
LRF-LEAR
+
LRF 2.2. 185 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home
LRF 2.2. 186B And not send back my messenger.
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
As I learned,
LRF 2.2. 187 The night before there was no purpose in them
LRF 2.2. 188B Of this remove.
LRF-KENT
{(waking)} Hail to thee, noble +
LRF 2.2. 188B master.
LRF 2.2. 189B
LRF-LEAR
Ha! Mak'st thou this shame thy pastime?
LRF-KENT
No, my lord.
LRF 2.2. 190
LRF-FOOL
Ha, ha, he wears cruel garters! Horses are tied by
LRF 2.2. 191 the heads, dogs and bears by th' neck, monkeys by th'
LRF 2.2. 192 loins, and men by th' legs. When a man's overlusty at
LRF 2.2. 193 legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.
LRF 2.2. 194
LRF-LEAR
{(to Kent)} What's he that hath so much thy +
LRF 2.2. 194 place mistook
LRF 2.2. 195B To set thee here?
LRF-KENT
It is both he and she:
LRF 2.2. 196B Your son and daughter.
LRF-LEAR
No.
LRF-KENT
Yes.
LRF-LEAR
No, I say.
LRF 2.2. 197B
LRF-KENT
I say yea.
LRF-LEAR
By Jupiter, I swear no.
LRF 2.2. 198B
LRF-KENT
By Juno, I swear ay.
LRF-LEAR
They durst not do 't,
LRF 2.2. 199 They could not, would not do 't. 'Tis worse than murder,
LRF 2.2. 200 To do upon respect such violent outrage.
LRF 2.2. 201 Resolve me with all modest haste which way
LRF 2.2. 202 Thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage,
LRF 2.2. 203B Coming from us.
LRF-KENT
My lord, when at their home
LRF 2.2. 204 I did commend your highness' letters to them,
LRF 2.2. 205 Ere I was risen from the place that showed
LRF 2.2. 206 My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post
LRF 2.2. 207 Stewed in his haste, half breathless, painting forth
LRF 2.2. 208 From Goneril, his mistress, salutations,
LRF 2.2. 209 Delivered letters spite of intermission,
LRF 2.2. 210 Which presently they read, on whose contents
LRF 2.2. 211 They summoned up their meiny, straight took horse,
LRF 2.2. 212 Commanded me to follow and attend
LRF 2.2. 213 The leisure of their answer, gave me cold looks;
LRF 2.2. 214 And meeting here the other messenger,
LRF 2.2. 215 Whose welcome I perceived had poisoned mine -
LRF 2.2. 216 Being the very fellow which of late
LRF 2.2. 217 Displayed so saucily against your highness -
LRF 2.2. 218 Having more man than wit about me, drew.
LRF 2.2. 219 He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
LRF 2.2. 220 Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
LRF 2.2. 221 The shame which here it suffers.
LRF 2.2. 222
LRF-FOOL
Winter's not gone yet if the wild geese fly that +
LRF 2.2. 222 way.
LRF 2.2. 223 {[Sings]} Fathers that wear rags
LRF 2.2. 224 Do make their children blind,
LRF 2.2. 225 But fathers that bear bags
LRF 2.2. 226 Shall see their children kind.
LRF 2.2. 227 Fortune, that arrant whore,
LRF 2.2. 228 Ne'er turns the key to th' poor.
LRF 2.2. 229 But for all this thou shalt have as many dolours for
LRF 2.2. 230 thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.
LRF 2.2. 231
LRF-LEAR
O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
LRF 2.2. 232 {Histerica passio} down, thou climbing sorrow;
LRF 2.2. 233 Thy element's below. - Where is this daughter?
LRF 2.2. 234B
LRF-KENT
With the Earl, sir, here within.
LRF-LEAR
Follow me not; stay +
LRF 2.2. 234B here. {Exit}
LRF 2.2. 235
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
{(to Kent)} Made you no more +
LRF 2.2. 235 offence but what you speak of?
LRF 2.2. 236A
LRF-KENT
None.
LRF 2.2. 237 How chance the King comes with so small a number?
LRF 2.2. 238
LRF-FOOL
An thou hadst been set i' th' stocks for that +
LRF 2.2. 238 question,
LRF 2.2. 239 thou'dst well deserved it.
LRF 2.2. 240A
LRF-KENT
Why, Fool?
LRF 2.2. 241
LRF-FOOL
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee
LRF 2.2. 242 there's no labouring i' th' winter. All that follow their
LRF 2.2. 243 noses are led by their eyes but blind men, and there's
LRF 2.2. 244 not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's
LRF 2.2. 245 stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs
LRF 2.2. 246 down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following; but
LRF 2.2. 247 the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee
LRF 2.2. 248 after. When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give
LRF 2.2. 249 me mine again. I would have none but knaves follow
LRF 2.2. 250 it, since a fool gives it.
LRF 2.2. 251 {[Sings]} That sir which serves and seeks for gain
LRF 2.2. 252 And follows but for form,
LRF 2.2. 253 Will pack when it begin to rain,
LRF 2.2. 254 And leave thee in the storm.
LRF 2.2. 255 But I will tarry, the fool will stay,
LRF 2.2. 256 And let the wise man fly.
LRF 2.2. 257 The knave turns fool that runs away,
LRF 2.2. 258 The fool no knave, pardie.
LRF 2.2. 259
LRF-KENT
Where learned you this, Fool?
LRF 2.2. 260
LRF-FOOL
Not i' th' stocks, fool. {Enter King Lear and the Duke +
LRF 2.2. 260 of Gloucester}
LRF 2.2. 261
LRF-LEAR
Deny to speak with me? They are sick, they are +
LRF 2.2. 261 weary,
LRF 2.2. 262 They have travelled all the night? - mere fetches,
LRF 2.2. 263 The images of revolt and flying off.
LRF 2.2. 264B Fetch me a better answer.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
My dear lord,
LRF 2.2. 265 You know the fiery quality of the Duke,
LRF 2.2. 266 How unremovable and fixed he is
LRF 2.2. 267B In his own course.
LRF-LEAR
Vengeance, plague, death, confusion!
LRF 2.2. 268 `Fiery'? What `quality'? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,
LRF 2.2. 269 I'd speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.
LRF 2.2. 270
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, I have informed them so.
LRF 2.2. 271
LRF-LEAR
`Informed them'? Dost thou understand me, man?
LRF 2.2. 272A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Ay, my good lord.
LRF 2.2. 273
LRF-LEAR
The King would speak with Cornwall; the dear father
LRF 2.2. 274 Would with his daughter speak, commands, tends service.
LRF 2.2. 275 Are they `informed' of this? My breath and blood -
LRF 2.2. 276 `Fiery'? The `fiery' Duke - tell the hot Duke that -
LRF 2.2. 277 No, but not yet. Maybe he is not well.
LRF 2.2. 278 Infirmity doth still neglect all office
LRF 2.2. 279 Whereto our health is bound. We are not ourselves
LRF 2.2. 280 When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
LRF 2.2. 281 To suffer with the body. I'll forbear,
LRF 2.2. 282 And am fallen out with my more headier will,
LRF 2.2. 283 To take the indisposed and sickly fit
LRF 2.2. 284 For the sound man. - Death on my state, wherefore
LRF 2.2. 285 Should he sit here? This act persuades me
LRF 2.2. 286 That this remotion of the Duke and her
LRF 2.2. 287 Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.
LRF 2.2. 288 Go tell the Duke and 's wife I'd speak with them,
LRF 2.2. 289 Now, presently. Bid them come forth and hear me,
LRF 2.2. 290 Or at their chamber door I'll beat the drum
LRF 2.2. 291B Till it cry sleep to death.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I would have all well betwixt +
LRF 2.2. 291B you. {Exit}
LRF 2.2. 292
LRF-LEAR
O me, my heart! My rising heart! But down.
LRF 2.2. 293
LRF-FOOL
Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels
LRF 2.2. 294 when she put 'em i' th' paste alive. She knapped 'em
LRF 2.2. 295 o' th' coxcombs with a stick, and cried `Down, wantons,
LRF 2.2. 296 down!' 'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his
LRF 2.2. 297 horse, buttered his hay. {Enter the Duke of Cornwall, Regan, the +
LRF 2.2. 297 Duke of Gloucester, and servants}
LRF 2.2. 298A
LRF-LEAR
Good morrow to you both.
LRF 2.2. 299A
LRF-CORNWALL
Hail to your grace. {Kent here set at liberty}
LRF 2.2. 300A
LRF-REGAN
I am glad to see your highness.
LRF 2.2. 301
LRF-LEAR
Regan, I think you are. I know what reason
LRF 2.2. 302 I have to think so. If thou shouldst not be glad
LRF 2.2. 303 I would divorce me from thy mother's shrine,
LRF 2.2. 304 Sepulchring an adultress. {(To Kent)} O, are you free?
LRF 2.2. 305B Some other time for that. {[Exit Kent]} Beloved Regan,
LRF 2.2. 306 Thy sister's naught. O, Regan, she hath tied
LRF 2.2. 307 Sharp-toothed unkindness like a vulture here.
LRF 2.2. 308 I can scarce speak to thee. Thou'lt not believe
LRF 2.2. 309 With how depraved a quality - O, Regan!
LRF 2.2. 310
LRF-REGAN
I pray you, sir, take patience. I have hope
LRF 2.2. 311 You less know how to value her desert
LRF 2.2. 312B Than she to scant her duty.
LRF-LEAR
Say, how is that?
LRF 2.2. 313
LRF-REGAN
I cannot think my sister in the least
LRF 2.2. 314 Would fail her obligation. If, sir, perchance
LRF 2.2. 315 She have restrained the riots of your followers,
LRF 2.2. 316 'Tis on such ground and to such wholesome end
LRF 2.2. 317 As clears her from all blame.
LRF 2.2. 318A
LRF-LEAR
My curses on her.
LRF 2.2. 319A
LRF-REGAN
O sir, you are old.
LRF 2.2. 320 Nature in you stands on the very verge
LRF 2.2. 321 Of his confine. You should be ruled and led
LRF 2.2. 322 By some discretion that discerns your state
LRF 2.2. 323 Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you
LRF 2.2. 324 That to our sister you do make return;
LRF 2.2. 325B Say you have wronged her.
LRF-LEAR
Ask her forgiveness?
LRF 2.2. 326 Do you but mark how this becomes the house?
LRF 2.2. 327 {[Kneeling]} `Dear daughter, I confess that I am old.
LRF 2.2. 328 Age is unnecessary. On my knees I beg
LRF 2.2. 329 That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'
LRF 2.2. 330
LRF-REGAN
Good sir, no more. These are unsightly tricks.
LRF 2.2. 331B Return you to my sister.
LRF-LEAR
{[rising]} Never, +
LRF 2.2. 331B Regan.
LRF 2.2. 332 She hath abated me of half my train,
LRF 2.2. 333 Looked black upon me, struck me with her tongue
LRF 2.2. 334 Most serpent-like upon the very heart.
LRF 2.2. 335 All the stored vengeances of heaven fall
LRF 2.2. 336 On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
LRF 2.2. 337B You taking airs, with lameness!
LRF-CORNWALL
Fie, sir, fie.
LRF 2.2. 338
LRF-LEAR
You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames
LRF 2.2. 339 Into her scornful eyes. Infect her beauty,
LRF 2.2. 340 You fen-sucked fogs drawn by the pow'rful sun
LRF 2.2. 341B To fall and blister.
LRF-REGAN
O, the blest gods!
LRF 2.2. 342 So will you wish on me when the rash mood is on.
LRF 2.2. 343
LRF-LEAR
No, Regan. Thou shalt never have my curse.
LRF 2.2. 344 Thy tender-hafted nature shall not give
LRF 2.2. 345 Thee o'er to harshness. Her eyes are fierce, but thine
LRF 2.2. 346 Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee
LRF 2.2. 347 To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,
LRF 2.2. 348 To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
LRF 2.2. 349 And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt
LRF 2.2. 350 Against my coming in. Thou better know'st
LRF 2.2. 351 The offices of nature, bond of childhood,
LRF 2.2. 352 Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude.
LRF 2.2. 353 Thy half o' th' kingdom hast thou not forgot,
LRF 2.2. 354B Wherein I thee endowed.
LRF-REGAN
Good sir, to th' purpose.
LRF 2.2. 355B
LRF-LEAR
Who put my man i' th' stocks? {Tucket within}
LRF-CORNWALL
LRF 2.2. 355B What trumpet's that? {Enter Oswald the steward}
LRF 2.2. 356
LRF-REGAN
I know 't, my sister's. This approves her letter
LRF 2.2. 357 That she would soon be here. {(To Oswald)} Is your lady +
LRF 2.2. 357 come?
LRF 2.2. 358
LRF-LEAR
This is a slave whose easy-borrowed pride
LRF 2.2. 359 Dwells in the sickly grace of her a follows.
LRF 2.2. 360B {(To Oswald)} Out, varlet, from my sight!
LRF-CORNWALL
+
LRF 2.2. 360B What means your grace? {Enter Goneril}
LRF 2.2. 361
LRF-LEAR
Who stocked my servant? Regan, I have good hope
LRF 2.2. 362 Thou didst not know on 't. Who comes here? O heavens,
LRF 2.2. 363 If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
LRF 2.2. 364 Allow obedience, if you yourselves are old,
LRF 2.2. 365 Make it your cause! Send down and take my part.
LRF 2.2. 366 {(To Goneril)} Art not ashamed to look upon this +
LRF 2.2. 366 beard?
LRF 2.2. 367 O Regan, will you take her by the hand?
LRF 2.2. 368
LRF-GONERIL
Why not by th' hand, sir? How have I offended?
LRF 2.2. 369 All's not offence that indiscretion finds
LRF 2.2. 370B And dotage terms so.
LRF-LEAR
O sides, you are too tough!
LRF 2.2. 371 Will you yet hold? - How came my man i' th' stocks?
LRF 2.2. 372
LRF-CORNWALL
I set him there, sir; but his own disorders
LRF 2.2. 373B Deserved much less advancement.
LRF-LEAR
You? Did you?
LRF 2.2. 374
LRF-REGAN
I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
LRF 2.2. 375 If till the expiration of your month
LRF 2.2. 376 You will return and sojourn with my sister,
LRF 2.2. 377 Dismissing half your train, come then to me.
LRF 2.2. 378 I am now from home, and out of that provision
LRF 2.2. 379 Which shall be needful for your entertainment.
LRF 2.2. 380
LRF-LEAR
Return to her, and fifty men dismissed?
LRF 2.2. 381 No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
LRF 2.2. 382 To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,
LRF 2.2. 383 To wage against the enmity o' th' air
LRF 2.2. 384 Necessity's sharp pinch. Return with her?
LRF 2.2. 385 Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took
LRF 2.2. 386 Our youngest born - I could as well be brought
LRF 2.2. 387 To knee his throne and, squire-like, pension beg
LRF 2.2. 388 To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
LRF 2.2. 389 Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
LRF 2.2. 390B To this detested groom.
LRF-GONERIL
At your choice, sir.
LRF 2.2. 391
LRF-LEAR
I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad.
LRF 2.2. 392 I will not trouble thee, my child. Farewell.
LRF 2.2. 393 We'll no more meet, no more see one another.
LRF 2.2. 394 But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter -
LRF 2.2. 395 Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,
LRF 2.2. 396 Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil,
LRF 2.2. 397 A plague-sore or embossed carbuncle
LRF 2.2. 398 In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee.
LRF 2.2. 399 Let shame come when it will, I do not call it.
LRF 2.2. 400 I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,
LRF 2.2. 401 Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove.
LRF 2.2. 402 Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
LRF 2.2. 403 I can be patient, I can stay with Regan,
LRF 2.2. 404B I and my hundred knights.
LRF-REGAN
Not altogether so.
LRF 2.2. 405 I looked not for you yet, nor am provided
LRF 2.2. 406 For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;
LRF 2.2. 407 For those that mingle reason with your passion
LRF 2.2. 408 Must be content to think you old, and so -
LRF 2.2. 409B But she knows what she does.
LRF-LEAR
Is this well spoken?
LRF 2.2. 410
LRF-REGAN
I dare avouch it, sir. What, fifty followers?
LRF 2.2. 411 Is it not well? What should you need of more,
LRF 2.2. 412 Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger
LRF 2.2. 413 Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house
LRF 2.2. 414 Should many people under two commands
LRF 2.2. 415 Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.
LRF 2.2. 416
LRF-GONERIL
Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance
LRF 2.2. 417 From those that she calls servants, or from mine?
LRF 2.2. 418
LRF-REGAN
Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack ye,
LRF 2.2. 419 We could control them. If you will come to me -
LRF 2.2. 420 For now I spy a danger - I entreat you
LRF 2.2. 421 To bring but five-and-twenty; to no more
LRF 2.2. 422 Will I give place or notice.
LRF 2.2. 423A
LRF-LEAR
I gave you all.
LRF 2.2. 424A
LRF-REGAN
And in good time you gave it.
LRF 2.2. 425
LRF-LEAR
Made you my guardians, my depositaries,
LRF 2.2. 426 But kept a reservation to be followed
LRF 2.2. 427 With such a number. What, must I come to you
LRF 2.2. 428 With five-and-twenty? Regan, said you so?
LRF 2.2. 429
LRF-REGAN
And speak 't again, my lord. No more with me.
LRF 2.2. 430
LRF-LEAR
Those wicked creatures yet do look well favoured
LRF 2.2. 431 When others are more wicked. Not being the worst
LRF 2.2. 432 Stands in some rank of praise. {(To Goneril)} I'll go +
LRF 2.2. 432 with thee.
LRF 2.2. 433 Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty,
LRF 2.2. 434B And thou art twice her love.
LRF-GONERIL
Hear me, my lord.
LRF 2.2. 435 What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five,
LRF 2.2. 436 To follow in a house where twice so many
LRF 2.2. 437B Have a command to tend you?
LRF-REGAN
What need one?
LRF 2.2. 438
LRF-LEAR
O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
LRF 2.2. 439 Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
LRF 2.2. 440 Allow not nature more than nature needs,
LRF 2.2. 441 Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady.
LRF 2.2. 442 If only to go warm were gorgeous,
LRF 2.2. 443 Why, nature needs not what thou, gorgeous, wear'st,
LRF 2.2. 444 Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need -
LRF 2.2. 445 You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need.
LRF 2.2. 446 You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
LRF 2.2. 447 As full of grief as age, wretched in both.
LRF 2.2. 448 If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
LRF 2.2. 449 Against their father, fool me not so much
LRF 2.2. 450 To bear it tamely. Touch me with noble anger,
LRF 2.2. 451 And let not women's weapons, water-drops,
LRF 2.2. 452 Stain my man's cheeks. No, you unnatural hags,
LRF 2.2. 453 I will have such revenges on you both
LRF 2.2. 454 That all the world shall - I will do such things -
LRF 2.2. 455 What they are, yet I know not; but they shall be
LRF 2.2. 456 The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep.
LRF 2.2. 457 No, I'll not weep. I have full cause of weeping, {Storm and +
LRF 2.2. 457 tempest}
LRF 2.2. 458 But this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
LRF 2.2. 459 Or ere I'll weep. - O Fool, I shall go mad! {Exeunt Lear, Fool, +
LRF 2.2. 459 Gentleman, and Gloucester}
LRF 2.2. 460
LRF-CORNWALL
Let us withdraw. 'Twill be a storm.
LRF 2.2. 461
LRF-REGAN
This house is little. The old man and 's people
LRF 2.2. 462B Cannot be well bestowed.
LRF-GONERIL
'Tis his own blame;
LRF 2.2. 463 Hath put himself from rest, and must needs taste his folly.
LRF 2.2. 464
LRF-REGAN
For his particular I'll receive him gladly,
LRF 2.2. 465B But not one follower.
LRF-GONERIL
So am I purposed.
LRF 2.2. 466 Where is my lord of Gloucester?
LRF 2.2. 467B
LRF-CORNWALL
Followed the old man forth. {[Enter the Duke of +
LRF 2.2. 467B Gloucester]} He is returned.
LRF 2.2. 468B
LRF-GLOUCESTER
The King is in high rage.
LRF-CORNWALL
Whither is he +
LRF 2.2. 468B going?
LRF 2.2. 469
LRF-GLOUCESTER
He calls to horse, but will I know not whither.
LRF 2.2. 470
LRF-CORNWALL
'Tis best to give him way. He leads himself.
LRF 2.2. 471
LRF-GONERIL
{(to Gloucester)} My lord, entreat him by +
LRF 2.2. 471 no means to stay.
LRF 2.2. 472
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Alack, the night comes on, and the high winds
LRF 2.2. 473 Do sorely ruffle. For many miles about
LRF 2.2. 474B There's scarce a bush.
LRF-REGAN
O sir, to wilful men
LRF 2.2. 475 The injuries that they themselves procure
LRF 2.2. 476 Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors.
LRF 2.2. 477 He is attended with a desperate train,
LRF 2.2. 478 And what they may incense him to, being apt
LRF 2.2. 479 To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.
LRF 2.2. 480
LRF-CORNWALL
Shut up your doors, my lord. 'Tis a wild night.
LRF 2.2. 481 My Regan counsels well. Come out o' th' storm. {Exeunt}
LRF 2.2. 0 {Storm still. Enter the Duke of Kent disguised and +
LRF 3.1. 0 [the First] Gentleman, severally}
LRF 3.1. 1B
LRF-KENT
Who's there, besides foul weather? +
LRF 3.1. 1B
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
One minded like the weather,
LRF 3.1. 2B Most unquietly.
LRF-KENT
I know you. Where's the King?
LRF 3.1. 3
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Contending with the fretful elements;
LRF 3.1. 4 Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea
LRF 3.1. 5 Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,
LRF 3.1. 6B That things might change or cease.
LRF-KENT
But who is with him?
LRF 3.1. 7
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
None but the Fool, who labours to outjest
LRF 3.1. 8B His heart-struck injuries.
LRF-KENT
Sir, I do know you,
LRF 3.1. 9 And dare upon the warrant of my note
LRF 3.1. 10 Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,
LRF 3.1. 11 Although as yet the face of it is covered
LRF 3.1. 12 With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall,
LRF 3.1. 13 Who have - as who have not that their great stars
LRF 3.1. 14 Throned and set high - servants, who seem no less,
LRF 3.1. 15 Which are to France the spies and speculations
LRF 3.1. 16 Intelligent of our state. What hath been seen,
LRF 3.1. 17 Either in snuffs and packings of the Dukes,
LRF 3.1. 18 Or the hard rein which both of them hath borne
LRF 3.1. 19 Against the old kind King; or something deeper,
LRF 3.1. 20 Whereof perchance these are but furnishings -
LRF 3.1. 21B
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
I will talk further with you.
LRF-KENT
No, do not.
LRF 3.1. 22 For confirmation that I am much more
LRF 3.1. 23 Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take
LRF 3.1. 24 What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia -
LRF 3.1. 25 As fear not but you shall - show her this ring
LRF 3.1. 26 And she will tell you who that fellow is
LRF 3.1. 27 That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
LRF 3.1. 28 I will go seek the King.
LRF 3.1. 29
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Give me your hand. Have you no more to say?
LRF 3.1. 30
LRF-KENT
Few words, but to effect more than all yet:
LRF 3.1. 31 That when we have found the King - in which your pain
LRF 3.1. 32 That way, I'll this - he that first lights on him
LRF 3.1. 33 Holla the other. {Exeunt severally}
LRF 3.1. 0 {Storm still. Enter King Lear and his Fool}
LRF 3.2. 1
LRF-LEAR
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow,
LRF 3.2. 2 You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
LRF 3.2. 3 Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
LRF 3.2. 4 You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,
LRF 3.2. 5 Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
LRF 3.2. 6 Singe my white head; and thou all-shaking thunder,
LRF 3.2. 7 Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world,
LRF 3.2. 8 Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
LRF 3.2. 9 That makes ingrateful man.
LRF 3.2. 10
LRF-FOOL
O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better
LRF 3.2. 11 than this rain-water out o' door. Good nuncle, in, ask
LRF 3.2. 12 thy daughters blessing. Here's a night pities neither
LRF 3.2. 13 wise men nor fools.
LRF 3.2. 14
LRF-LEAR
Rumble thy bellyful; spit, fire; spout, rain.
LRF 3.2. 15 Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.
LRF 3.2. 16 I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
LRF 3.2. 17 I never gave you kingdom, called you children.
LRF 3.2. 18 You owe me no subscription. Then let fall
LRF 3.2. 19 Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your slave,
LRF 3.2. 20 A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man,
LRF 3.2. 21 But yet I call you servile ministers,
LRF 3.2. 22 That will with two pernicious daughters join
LRF 3.2. 23 Your high-engendered battles 'gainst a head
LRF 3.2. 24 So old and white as this. O, ho, 'tis foul!
LRF 3.2. 25
LRF-FOOL
He that has a house to put 's head in has a good
LRF 3.2. 26 head-piece.
LRF 3.2. 27 {[Sings]} The codpiece that will house
LRF 3.2. 28 Before the head has any,
LRF 3.2. 29 The head and he shall louse,
LRF 3.2. 30 So beggars marry many.
LRF 3.2. 31 The man that makes his toe
LRF 3.2. 32 What he his heart should make
LRF 3.2. 33 Shall of a corn cry woe,
LRF 3.2. 34 And turn his sleep to wake -
LRF 3.2. 35 for there was never yet fair woman but she made
LRF 3.2. 36 mouths in a glass. {Enter the Earl of Kent disguised}
LRF 3.2. 37
LRF-LEAR
No, I will be the pattern of all patience.
LRF 3.2. 38 I will say nothing.
LRF 3.2. 39A
LRF-KENT
Who's there?
LRF 3.2. 40
LRF-FOOL
Marry, here's grace and a codpiece - that's a wise
LRF 3.2. 41 man and a fool.
LRF 3.2. 42
LRF-KENT
{(to Lear)} Alas, sir, are you here? Things +
LRF 3.2. 42 that love night
LRF 3.2. 43 Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies
LRF 3.2. 44 Gallow the very wanderers of the dark
LRF 3.2. 45 And make them keep their caves. Since I was man
LRF 3.2. 46 Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
LRF 3.2. 47 Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never
LRF 3.2. 48 Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry
LRF 3.2. 49B Th' affliction nor the fear.
LRF-LEAR
Let the great gods,
LRF 3.2. 50 That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,
LRF 3.2. 51 Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch
LRF 3.2. 52 That hast within thee undivulged crimes
LRF 3.2. 53 Unwhipped of justice; hide thee, thou bloody hand,
LRF 3.2. 54 Thou perjured and thou simular of virtue
LRF 3.2. 55 That art incestuous; caitiff, to pieces shake,
LRF 3.2. 56 That under covert and convenient seeming
LRF 3.2. 57 Has practised on man's life; close pent-up guilts,
LRF 3.2. 58 Rive your concealing continents and cry
LRF 3.2. 59 These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
LRF 3.2. 60B More sinned against than sinning.
LRF-KENT
Alack, bare-headed?
LRF 3.2. 61 Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel.
LRF 3.2. 62 Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest.
LRF 3.2. 63 Repose you there while I to this hard house -
LRF 3.2. 64 More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised,
LRF 3.2. 65 Which even but now, demanding after you,
LRF 3.2. 66 Denied me to come in - return and force
LRF 3.2. 67B Their scanted courtesy.
LRF-LEAR
My wits begin to turn.
LRF 3.2. 68 {(To Fool)} Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art +
LRF 3.2. 68 cold?
LRF 3.2. 69 I am cold myself. - Where is this straw, my fellow?
LRF 3.2. 70 The art of our necessities is strange,
LRF 3.2. 71 And can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel. -
LRF 3.2. 72 Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart
LRF 3.2. 73 That's sorry yet for thee.
LRF 3.2. 74
LRF-FOOL
{[Sings]} He that has and a little tiny wit,
LRF 3.2. 75 With heigh-ho, the wind and the rain,
LRF 3.2. 76 Must make content with his fortunes fit,
LRF 3.2. 77 Though the rain it raineth every day.
LRF 3.2. 78
LRF-LEAR
True, boy. {(To Kent)} Come, bring +
LRF 3.2. 78 us to this hovel. {Exeunt Lear and Kent}
LRF 3.2. 79
LRF-FOOL
This is a brave night to cool a courtesan. I'll +
LRF 3.2. 79 speak
LRF 3.2. 80 a prophecy ere I go:
LRF 3.2. 81 When priests are more in word than matter;
LRF 3.2. 82 When brewers mar their malt with water;
LRF 3.2. 83 When nobles are their tailors' tutors,
LRF 3.2. 84 No heretics burned, but wenches' suitors,
LRF 3.2. 85 Then shall the realm of Albion
LRF 3.2. 86 Come to great confusion.
LRF 3.2. 87 When every case in law is right;
LRF 3.2. 88 No squire in debt nor no poor knight;
LRF 3.2. 89 When slanders do not live in tongues,
LRF 3.2. 90 Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;
LRF 3.2. 91 When usurers tell their gold i' th' field,
LRF 3.2. 92 And bawds and whores do churches build,
LRF 3.2. 93 Then comes the time, who lives to see 't,
LRF 3.2. 94 That going shall be used with feet.
LRF 3.2. 95 This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his
LRF 3.2. 96 time. {Exit}
LRF 3.2. 0 {Enter the Duke of Gloucester and Edmond}
LRF 3.3. 1
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Alack, alack, Edmond, I like not this
LRF 3.3. 2 unnatural dealing. When I desired their leave that I
LRF 3.3. 3 might pity him, they took from me the use of mine
LRF 3.3. 4 own house, charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure
LRF 3.3. 5 neither to speak of him, entreat for him, or any way
LRF 3.3. 6 sustain him.
LRF 3.3. 7
LRF-EDMOND
Most savage and unnatural!
LRF 3.3. 8
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Go to, say you nothing. There is division
LRF 3.3. 9 between the Dukes, and a worse matter than that. I
LRF 3.3. 10 have received a letter this night - 'tis dangerous to be
LRF 3.3. 11 spoken - I have locked the letter in my closet. These
LRF 3.3. 12 injuries the King now bears will be revenged home.
LRF 3.3. 13 There is part of a power already footed. We must incline
LRF 3.3. 14 to the King. I will look him and privily relieve him. Go
LRF 3.3. 15 you and maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity
LRF 3.3. 16 be not of him perceived. If he ask for me, I am ill and
LRF 3.3. 17 gone to bed. If I die for 't - as no less is threatened me -
LRF 3.3. 18 the King my old master must be relieved. There is strange
LRF 3.3. 19 things toward, Edmond; pray you be careful. {Exit}
LRF 3.3. 20
LRF-EDMOND
This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the Duke
LRF 3.3. 21 Instantly know, and of that letter too.
LRF 3.3. 22 This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
LRF 3.3. 23 That which my father loses: no less than all.
LRF 3.3. 24 The younger rises when the old doth fall. {Exit}
LRF 3.3. 0 {Enter King Lear, the Earl of Kent disguised, and Lear's +
LRF 3.4. 0 Fool}
LRF 3.4. 1
LRF-KENT
Here is the place, my lord. Good my lord, enter.
LRF 3.4. 2 The tyranny of the open night's too rough
LRF 3.4. 3B For nature to endure. {Storm still}
LRF-LEAR
Let me +
LRF 3.4. 3B alone.
LRF 3.4. 4B
LRF-KENT
Good my lord, enter here.
LRF-LEAR
Wilt break my heart?
LRF 3.4. 5
LRF-KENT
I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.
LRF 3.4. 6
LRF-LEAR
Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
LRF 3.4. 7 Invades us to the skin. So 'tis to thee;
LRF 3.4. 8 But where the greater malady is fixed,
LRF 3.4. 9 The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear,
LRF 3.4. 10 But if thy flight lay toward the roaring sea
LRF 3.4. 11 Thou'dst meet the bear i' th' mouth. When the mind's free,
LRF 3.4. 12 The body's delicate. This tempest in my mind
LRF 3.4. 13 Doth from my senses take all feeling else
LRF 3.4. 14 Save what beats there: filial ingratitude.
LRF 3.4. 15 Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
LRF 3.4. 16 For lifting food to 't? But I will punish home.
LRF 3.4. 17 No, I will weep no more. - In such a night
LRF 3.4. 18 To shut me out? Pour on, I will endure.
LRF 3.4. 19 In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril,
LRF 3.4. 20 Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all -
LRF 3.4. 21 O, that way madness lies. Let me shun that.
LRF 3.4. 22B No more of that.
LRF-KENT
Good my lord, enter here.
LRF 3.4. 23
LRF-LEAR
Prithee, go in thyself. Seek thine own ease.
LRF 3.4. 24 This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
LRF 3.4. 25 On things would hurt me more; but I'll go in.
LRF 3.4. 26 {(To Fool)} In, boy; go first. +
LRF 3.4. 26 {[Kneeling]} You houseless poverty -
LRF 3.4. 27 Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. {Exit Fool}
LRF 3.4. 28 Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
LRF 3.4. 29 That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
LRF 3.4. 30 How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
LRF 3.4. 31 Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
LRF 3.4. 32 From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
LRF 3.4. 33 Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp,
LRF 3.4. 34 Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
LRF 3.4. 35 That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
LRF 3.4. 36 And show the heavens more just. {Enter Lear's Fool, [and Edgar +
LRF 3.4. 36 as a Bedlam beggar in the hovel]}
LRF 3.4. 37
LRF-EDGAR
Fathom and half! Fathom and half! Poor Tom!
LRF 3.4. 38
LRF-FOOL
Come not in here, nuncle. Here's a spirit. Help me,
LRF 3.4. 39 help me!
LRF 3.4. 40A
LRF-KENT
Give me thy hand. Who's there?
LRF 3.4. 41
LRF-FOOL
A spirit, a spirit. He says his name's Poor Tom.
LRF 3.4. 42
LRF-KENT
What art thou that dost grumble there i' th' straw?
LRF 3.4. 43B Come forth. {[Edgar comes forth]}
LRF-EDGAR
Away, the +
LRF 3.4. 43B foul fiend follows me.
LRF 3.4. 44 Thorough the sharp hawthorn blow the winds. Hm!
LRF 3.4. 45 Go to thy cold bed and warm thee.
LRF 3.4. 46
LRF-LEAR
Didst thou give all to thy two daughters,
LRF 3.4. 47 And art thou come to this?
LRF 3.4. 48
LRF-EDGAR
Who gives anything to Poor Tom, whom the foul
LRF 3.4. 49 fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through
LRF 3.4. 50 ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath
LRF 3.4. 51 laid knives under his pillow and halters in his pew, set
LRF 3.4. 52 ratsbane by his porridge, made him proud of heart to
LRF 3.4. 53 ride on a bay trotting-horse over four-inched bridges, to
LRF 3.4. 54 course his own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy five wits,
LRF 3.4. 55 Tom's a-cold! O, do, de, do, de, do de. Bless thee from
LRF 3.4. 56 whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking. Do Poor Tom some
LRF 3.4. 57 charity, whom the foul fiend vexes. There could I have
LRF 3.4. 58 him now, and there, and there again, and there. {Storm still}
LRF 3.4. 59
LRF-LEAR
Has his daughters brought him to this pass?
LRF 3.4. 60 {(To Edgar)} Couldst thou save nothing? Wouldst thou +
LRF 3.4. 60 give 'em all?
LRF 3.4. 61
LRF-FOOL
Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all
LRF 3.4. 62 shamed.
LRF 3.4. 63
LRF-LEAR
{(to Edgar)} Now all the plagues that in the +
LRF 3.4. 63 pendulous air
LRF 3.4. 64 Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!
LRF 3.4. 65A
LRF-KENT
He hath no daughters, sir.
LRF 3.4. 66
LRF-LEAR
Death, traitor! Nothing could have subdued nature
LRF 3.4. 67 To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
LRF 3.4. 68 {(To Edgar)} Is it the fashion that discarded fathers
LRF 3.4. 69 Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
LRF 3.4. 70 Judicious punishment: 'twas this flesh begot
LRF 3.4. 71 Those pelican daughters.
LRF 3.4. 72
LRF-EDGAR
Pillicock sat on Pillicock Hill; alow, alow, loo, +
LRF 3.4. 72 loo.
LRF 3.4. 73
LRF-FOOL
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
LRF 3.4. 74
LRF-EDGAR
Take heed o' th' foul fiend; obey thy parents; keep
LRF 3.4. 75 thy words' justice; swear not; commit not with man's
LRF 3.4. 76 sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.
LRF 3.4. 77 Tom's a-cold.
LRF 3.4. 78A
LRF-LEAR
What hast thou been?
LRF 3.4. 79
LRF-EDGAR
A servingman, proud in heart and mind, that
LRF 3.4. 80 curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust
LRF 3.4. 81 of my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with
LRF 3.4. 82 her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke
LRF 3.4. 83 them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the
LRF 3.4. 84 contriving of lust, and waked to do it. Wine loved I
LRF 3.4. 85 deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramoured the
LRF 3.4. 86 Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog
LRF 3.4. 87 in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in
LRF 3.4. 88 madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes
LRF 3.4. 89 nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman.
LRF 3.4. 90 Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets,
LRF 3.4. 91 thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
LRF 3.4. 92 Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind, says
LRF 3.4. 93 suum, mun, nonny. Dauphin, my boy! Boy, {cessez}; let
LRF 3.4. 94 him trot by. {Storm still}
LRF 3.4. 95
LRF-LEAR
Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with
LRF 3.4. 96 thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man
LRF 3.4. 97 no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the
LRF 3.4. 98 worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool,
LRF 3.4. 99 the cat no perfume. Ha, here's three on 's are
LRF 3.4. 100 sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated
LRF 3.4. 101 man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked
LRF 3.4. 102 animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come,
LRF 3.4. 103 unbutton here. {Enter the Duke of Gloucester with a torch}
LRF 3.4. 104
LRF-FOOL
Prithee, nuncle, be contented. 'Tis a naughty night
LRF 3.4. 105 to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were like
LRF 3.4. 106 an old lecher's heart - a small spark, all the rest on 's
LRF 3.4. 107 body cold. Look, here comes a walking fire.
LRF 3.4. 108
LRF-EDGAR
This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. He begins at
LRF 3.4. 109 curfew and walks till the first cock. He gives the web
LRF 3.4. 110 and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the harelip;
LRF 3.4. 111 mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor creature
LRF 3.4. 112 of earth.
LRF 3.4. 113 {[Sings]} Swithin footed thrice the wold,
LRF 3.4. 114 A met the night mare and her nine foal,
LRF 3.4. 115 Bid her alight
LRF 3.4. 116 And her troth plight,
LRF 3.4. 117 And aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!
LRF 3.4. 118B
LRF-KENT
{(to Lear)} How fares your grace?
LRF-LEAR
+
LRF 3.4. 118B What's he?
LRF 3.4. 119A
LRF-KENT
{(to Gloucester)} Who's there? What is 't you +
LRF 3.4. 119A seek?
LRF 3.4. 120A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
What are you there? Your names?
LRF 3.4. 121
LRF-EDGAR
Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad,
LRF 3.4. 122 the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the
LRF 3.4. 123 fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats
LRF 3.4. 124 cowdung for salads, swallows the old rat and the ditch-
LRF 3.4. 125 dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who
LRF 3.4. 126 is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stocked,
LRF 3.4. 127 punished, and imprisoned; who hath had three suits
LRF 3.4. 128 to his back, six shirts to his body,
LRF 3.4. 129 Horse to ride, and weapon to wear;
LRF 3.4. 130 But mice and rats and such small deer
LRF 3.4. 131 Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
LRF 3.4. 132 Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend!
LRF 3.4. 133
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Lear)} What, hath your grace no +
LRF 3.4. 133 better company?
LRF 3.4. 134
LRF-EDGAR
The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.
LRF 3.4. 135 Modo he's called, and Mahu.
LRF 3.4. 136
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Lear)} Our flesh and blood, my +
LRF 3.4. 136 lord, is grown so vile
LRF 3.4. 137B That it doth hate what gets it.
LRF-EDGAR
Poor Tom's a-cold.
LRF 3.4. 138
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Lear)} Go in with me. My duty +
LRF 3.4. 138 cannot suffer
LRF 3.4. 139 T' obey in all your daughters' hard commands.
LRF 3.4. 140 Though their injunction be to bar my doors
LRF 3.4. 141 And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,
LRF 3.4. 142 Yet have I ventured to come seek you out
LRF 3.4. 143 And bring you where both fire and food is ready.
LRF 3.4. 144
LRF-LEAR
First let me talk with this philosopher.
LRF 3.4. 145 {(To Edgar)} What is the cause of thunder?
LRF 3.4. 146
LRF-KENT
Good my lord, take his offer; go into th' house.
LRF 3.4. 147
LRF-LEAR
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
LRF 3.4. 148 {(To Edgar)} What is your study?
LRF 3.4. 149
LRF-EDGAR
How to prevent the fiend, and to kill vermin.
LRF 3.4. 150
LRF-LEAR
Let me ask you one word in private. {They converse +
LRF 3.4. 150 apart}
LRF 3.4. 151
LRF-KENT
{(to Gloucester)} Importune him once more to +
LRF 3.4. 151 go, my lord.
LRF 3.4. 152B His wits begin t' unsettle.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Canst thou blame him? +
LRF 3.4. 152B {Storm still}
LRF 3.4. 153 His daughters seek his death. Ah, that good Kent,
LRF 3.4. 154 He said it would be thus, poor banished man!
LRF 3.4. 155 Thou sayst the King grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend,
LRF 3.4. 156 I am almost mad myself. I had a son,
LRF 3.4. 157 Now outlawed from my blood; a sought my life
LRF 3.4. 158 But lately, very late. I loved him, friend;
LRF 3.4. 159 No father his son dearer. True to tell thee,
LRF 3.4. 160 The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this!
LRF 3.4. 161B {(To Lear)} I do beseech your grace -
LRF-LEAR
O, cry +
LRF 3.4. 161B you mercy, sir!
LRF 3.4. 162B {(To Edgar)} Noble philosopher, your company.
LRF-EDGAR
+
LRF 3.4. 162B Tom's a-cold.
LRF 3.4. 163
LRF-GLOUCESTER
In, fellow, there in t' hovel; keep thee warm.
LRF 3.4. 164B
LRF-LEAR
Come, let's in all.
LRF-KENT
This way, my lord.
LRF-LEAR
With +
LRF 3.4. 164B him!
LRF 3.4. 165 I will keep still with my philosopher.
LRF 3.4. 166
LRF-KENT
{(to Gloucester)} Good my lord, soothe him; +
LRF 3.4. 166 let him take the fellow.
LRF 3.4. 167A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Take him you on.
LRF 3.4. 168
LRF-KENT
{[to Edgar]} Sirrah, come on. Go along with +
LRF 3.4. 168 us.
LRF 3.4. 169B
LRF-LEAR
{(to Edgar)} Come, good +
LRF 3.4. 169B Athenian.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
No words, no words. Hush.
LRF 3.4. 170
LRF-EDGAR
Child Roland to the dark tower came,
LRF 3.4. 171 His word was still `Fie, fo, and fum;
LRF 3.4. 172 I smell the blood of a British man.' {Exeunt}
LRF 3.4. 0 {Enter the Duke of Cornwall and Edmond}
LRF 3.5. 1
LRF-CORNWALL
I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
LRF 3.5. 2
LRF-EDMOND
How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature
LRF 3.5. 3 thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think
LRF 3.5. 4 of.
LRF 3.5. 5
LRF-CORNWALL
I now perceive it was not altogether your
LRF 3.5. 6 brother's evil disposition made him seek his death, but
LRF 3.5. 7 a provoking merit set a-work by a reprovable badness
LRF 3.5. 8 in himself.
LRF 3.5. 9
LRF-EDMOND
How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent
LRF 3.5. 10 to be just! This is the letter which he spoke of, which
LRF 3.5. 11 approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of
LRF 3.5. 12 France. O heavens, that this treason were not, or not
LRF 3.5. 13 I the detector!
LRF 3.5. 14
LRF-CORNWALL
Go with me to the Duchess.
LRF 3.5. 15
LRF-EDMOND
If the matter of this paper be certain, you have
LRF 3.5. 16 mighty business in hand.
LRF 3.5. 17
LRF-CORNWALL
True or false, it hath made thee Earl of
LRF 3.5. 18 Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may
LRF 3.5. 19 be ready for our apprehension.
LRF 3.5. 20
LRF-EDMOND
{[aside]} If I find him comforting the +
LRF 3.5. 20 King, it will
LRF 3.5. 21 stuff his suspicion more fully. {(To Cornwall)} I will
LRF 3.5. 22 persever in my course of loyalty, though the conflict
LRF 3.5. 23 be sore between that and my blood.
LRF 3.5. 24
LRF-CORNWALL
I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find
LRF 3.5. 25 a dearer father in my love. {Exeunt}
LRF 3.5. 0 {Enter the Earl of Kent disguised, and the Duke of +
LRF 3.6. 0 Gloucester}
LRF 3.6. 1
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Here is better than the open air; take it
LRF 3.6. 2 thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what
LRF 3.6. 3 addition I can. I will not be long from you.
LRF 3.6. 4
LRF-KENT
All the power of his wits have given way to his
LRF 3.6. 5 impatience; the gods reward your kindness! {Exit Gloucester}
LRF 3.6. 6 {Enter King Lear, Edgar as a Bedlam beggar, and Lear's +
LRF 3.6. 6 Fool}
LRF-EDGAR
Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an +
LRF 3.6. 6 angler
LRF 3.6. 7 in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware
LRF 3.6. 8 the foul fiend.
LRF 3.6. 9
LRF-FOOL
Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a
LRF 3.6. 10 gentleman or a yeoman.
LRF 3.6. 11A
LRF-LEAR
A king, a king!
LRF 3.6. 12
LRF-FOOL
No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son;
LRF 3.6. 13 for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman
LRF 3.6. 14 before him.
LRF 3.6. 15
LRF-LEAR
To have a thousand with red burning spits
LRF 3.6. 16B Come hissing in upon 'em!
LRF-EDGAR
Bless thy five wits.
LRF 3.6. 17
LRF-KENT
{(to Lear)} O, pity! Sir, where is the +
LRF 3.6. 17 patience now
LRF 3.6. 18 That you so oft have boasted to retain?
LRF 3.6. 19
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} My tears begin to take his part so +
LRF 3.6. 19 much
LRF 3.6. 20B They mar my counterfeiting.
LRF-LEAR
The little dogs and all,
LRF 3.6. 21 Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart - see, they bark at me.
LRF 3.6. 22
LRF-EDGAR
Tom will throw his head at them. - Avaunt, you
LRF 3.6. 23 curs!
LRF 3.6. 24 Be thy mouth or black or white,
LRF 3.6. 25 Tooth that poisons if it bite,
LRF 3.6. 26 Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
LRF 3.6. 27 Hound or spaniel, brach or him,
LRF 3.6. 28 Bobtail tyke or trundle-tail,
LRF 3.6. 29 Tom will make him weep and wail;
LRF 3.6. 30 For with throwing thus my head,
LRF 3.6. 31 Dogs leapt the hatch, and all are fled.
LRF 3.6. 32 Do, de, de, de. Sese! Come, march to wakes and fairs
LRF 3.6. 33 And market towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.
LRF 3.6. 34
LRF-LEAR
Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds
LRF 3.6. 35 about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that
LRF 3.6. 36 makes these hard-hearts? {(To Edgar)} You, sir, I +
LRF 3.6. 36 entertain
LRF 3.6. 37 for one of my hundred, only I do not like the fashion
LRF 3.6. 38 of your garments. You will say they are Persian; but
LRF 3.6. 39 let them be changed.
LRF 3.6. 40
LRF-KENT
Now, good my lord, lie here and rest a while.
LRF 3.6. 41
LRF-LEAR
Make no noise, make no noise. Draw the curtains.
LRF 3.6. 42 So, so. We'll go to supper i' th' morning. {[He sleeps]}
LRF 3.6. 43
LRF-FOOL
And I'll go to bed at noon. {Enter the Duke +
LRF 3.6. 43 of Gloucester}
LRF 3.6. 44
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(to Kent)} Come hither, friend. Where +
LRF 3.6. 44 is the King my master?
LRF 3.6. 45
LRF-KENT
Here, sir, but trouble him not; his wits are gone.
LRF 3.6. 46
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Good friend, I prithee take him in thy arms.
LRF 3.6. 47 I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him.
LRF 3.6. 48 There is a litter ready. Lay him in 't
LRF 3.6. 49 And drive toward Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
LRF 3.6. 50 Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master.
LRF 3.6. 51 If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,
LRF 3.6. 52 With thine and all that offer to defend him,
LRF 3.6. 53 Stand in assured loss. Take up, take up,
LRF 3.6. 54 And follow me, that will to some provision
LRF 3.6. 55 Give thee quick conduct. Come, come away. {Exeunt, [Kent +
LRF 3.6. 55 carrying Lear in his arms]}
LRF 3.6. 0 {Enter the Duke of Cornwall, Regan, Goneril, Edmond the +
LRF 3.7. 0 bastard, and Servants}
LRF 3.7. 1
LRF-CORNWALL
{(to Goneril)} Post speedily to my lord +
LRF 3.7. 1 your husband.
LRF 3.7. 2 Show him this letter. The army of France is landed.
LRF 3.7. 3B {(To Servants)} Seek out the traitor Gloucester.+
LRF 3.7. 3B {Exeunt some}
LRF-REGAN
Hang him instantly.
LRF 3.7. 4B
LRF-GONERIL
Pluck out his eyes.
LRF-CORNWALL
Leave him to my +
LRF 3.7. 4B displeasure.
LRF 3.7. 5 Edmond, keep you our sister company.
LRF 3.7. 6 The revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous
LRF 3.7. 7 father are not fit for your beholding. Advise the Duke
LRF 3.7. 8 where you are going, to a most festinate preparation;
LRF 3.7. 9 we are bound to the like. Our posts shall be swift and
LRF 3.7. 10 intelligent betwixt us. {(To Goneril)} Farewell, dear +
LRF 3.7. 10 sister.
LRF 3.7. 11 {(To Edmond)} Farewell, my lord of Gloucester. +
LRF 3.7. 11 {Enter Oswald the steward}
LRF 3.7. 12 How now, where's the King?
LRF 3.7. 13
LRF-OSWALD
My lord of Gloucester hath conveyed him hence.
LRF 3.7. 14 Some five- or six-and-thirty of his knights,
LRF 3.7. 15 Hot questrists after him, met him at gate,
LRF 3.7. 16 Who, with some other of the lord's dependants,
LRF 3.7. 17 Are gone with him toward Dover, where they boast
LRF 3.7. 18 To have well-armed friends.
LRF 3.7. 19A
LRF-CORNWALL
Get horses for your mistress. {Exit Oswald}
LRF 3.7. 20A
LRF-GONERIL
Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.
LRF 3.7. 21B
LRF-CORNWALL
Edmond, farewell. {Exeunt Goneril and Edmond}+
LRF 3.7. 21B {(To Servants)} Go seek the traitor Gloucester.
LRF 3.7. 22 Pinion him like a thief; bring him before us. {Exeunt other +
LRF 3.7. 22 Servants}
LRF 3.7. 23 Though well we may not pass upon his life
LRF 3.7. 24 Without the form of justice, yet our power
LRF 3.7. 25 Shall do a curtsy to our wrath, which men
LRF 3.7. 26B May blame but not control. {Enter the Duke of Gloucester and +
LRF 3.7. 26B Servants} Who's there - the traitor?
LRF 3.7. 27B
LRF-REGAN
Ingrateful fox, 'tis he.
LRF-CORNWALL
{(to +
LRF 3.7. 27B Servants)} Bind fast his corky arms.
LRF 3.7. 28
LRF-GLOUCESTER
What means your graces? Good my friends, consider
LRF 3.7. 29 You are my guests. Do me no foul play, friends.
LRF 3.7. 30B
LRF-CORNWALL
{(to Servants)} Bind him, I say.
LRF-REGAN
+
LRF 3.7. 30B Hard, hard! O filthy traitor!
LRF 3.7. 31
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.
LRF 3.7. 32
LRF-CORNWALL
{(to Servants)} To this chair bind +
LRF 3.7. 32 him. {(To Gloucester)} Villain, thou shalt find - +
LRF 3.7. 32 {Regan plucks Gloucester's beard}
LRF 3.7. 33
LRF-GLOUCESTER
By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done,
LRF 3.7. 34 To pluck me by the beard.
LRF 3.7. 35A
LRF-REGAN
So white, and such a traitor?
LRF 3.7. 36A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Naughty lady,
LRF 3.7. 37 These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
LRF 3.7. 38 Will quicken and accuse thee. I am your host.
LRF 3.7. 39 With robbers' hands my hospitable favours
LRF 3.7. 40 You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?
LRF 3.7. 41
LRF-CORNWALL
Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?
LRF 3.7. 42
LRF-REGAN
Be simple-answered, for we know the truth.
LRF 3.7. 43
LRF-CORNWALL
And what confederacy have you with the traitors
LRF 3.7. 44B Late footed in the kingdom?
LRF-REGAN
To whose hands
LRF 3.7. 45 You have sent the lunatic King. Speak.
LRF 3.7. 46
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I have a letter guessingly set down,
LRF 3.7. 47 Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,
LRF 3.7. 48B And not from one opposed.
LRF-CORNWALL
Cunning.
LRF-REGAN
And false.
LRF 3.7. 49B
LRF-CORNWALL
Where hast thou sent the King?
LRF-GLOUCESTER
To Dover.
LRF 3.7. 50
LRF-REGAN
Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril -
LRF 3.7. 51
LRF-CORNWALL
Wherefore to Dover? - Let him answer that.
LRF 3.7. 52
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I am tied to th' stake, and I must stand the course.
LRF 3.7. 53A
LRF-REGAN
Wherefore to Dover?
LRF 3.7. 54
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Because I would not see thy cruel nails
LRF 3.7. 55 Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister
LRF 3.7. 56 In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.
LRF 3.7. 57 The sea, with such a storm as his bare head
LRF 3.7. 58 In hell-black night endured, would have buoyed up
LRF 3.7. 59 And quenched the stelled fires.
LRF 3.7. 60 Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.
LRF 3.7. 61 If wolves had at thy gate howled that stern time,
LRF 3.7. 62 Thou shouldst have said `Good porter, turn the key;
LRF 3.7. 63 All cruels I'll subscribe.' But I shall see
LRF 3.7. 64 The winged vengeance overtake such children.
LRF 3.7. 65
LRF-CORNWALL
See 't shalt thou never. - Fellows, hold the chair. -
LRF 3.7. 66 Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.
LRF 3.7. 67
LRF-GLOUCESTER
He that will think to live till he be old
LRF 3.7. 68 Give me some help! - O cruel! O you gods! {[Cornwall pulls out one +
LRF 3.7. 68 of Gloucester's eyes and stamps on it]}
LRF 3.7. 69
LRF-REGAN
{(to Cornwall)} One side will mock another; +
LRF 3.7. 69 th' other, too.
LRF 3.7. 70B
LRF-CORNWALL
{(to Gloucester)} If you see +
LRF 3.7. 70B vengeance -
LRF-SERVANT
Hold your hand, my lord.
LRF 3.7. 71 I have served you ever since I was a child,
LRF 3.7. 72 But better service have I never done you
LRF 3.7. 73B Than now to bid you hold.
LRF-REGAN
How now, you dog!
LRF 3.7. 74
LRF-SERVANT
If you did wear a beard upon your chin
LRF 3.7. 75 I'd shake it on this quarrel. {[To Cornwall]} What do +
LRF 3.7. 75 you mean?
LRF 3.7. 76A
LRF-CORNWALL
My villein!
LRF 3.7. 77
LRF-SERVANT
Nay then, come on, and take the chance of anger. +
LRF 3.7. 77 {They draw and fight}
LRF 3.7. 78
LRF-REGAN
{(to another Servant)} Give me thy sword. A +
LRF 3.7. 78 peasant stand up thus! {[She takes a sword and runs at him +
LRF 3.7. 78 behind]}
LRF 3.7. 79
LRF-SERVANT
{(to Gloucester)} O, I am slain. My lord, +
LRF 3.7. 79 you have one eye left
LRF 3.7. 80B To see some mischief on him. {[Regan stabs him again]} +
LRF 3.7. 80B O! {He dies}
LRF 3.7. 81
LRF-CORNWALL
Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile +
LRF 3.7. 81 jelly! {He [pulls out] Gloucester's other eye}
LRF 3.7. 82 Where is thy lustre now?
LRF 3.7. 83
LRF-GLOUCESTER
All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmond?
LRF 3.7. 84 Edmond, enkindle all the sparks of nature
LRF 3.7. 85B To quite this horrid act.
LRF-REGAN
Out, treacherous villain!
LRF 3.7. 86 Thou call'st on him that hates thee. It was he
LRF 3.7. 87 That made the overture of thy treasons to us,
LRF 3.7. 88 Who is too good to pity thee.
LRF 3.7. 89
LRF-GLOUCESTER
O, my follies! Then Edgar was abused.
LRF 3.7. 90 Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!
LRF 3.7. 91
LRF-REGAN
{(to Servants)} Go thrust him out at gates, +
LRF 3.7. 91 and let him smell
LRF 3.7. 92B His way to Dover. {Exit one or more with Gloucester} +
LRF 3.7. 92B How is 't, my lord? How look you?
LRF 3.7. 93
LRF-CORNWALL
I have received a hurt. Follow me, lady.
LRF 3.7. 94 {(To Servants)} Turn out that eyeless villain. Throw +
LRF 3.7. 94 this slave
LRF 3.7. 95 Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace.
LRF 3.7. 96 Untimely comes this hurt. Give me your arm. {Exeunt [with the +
LRF 3.7. 96 body]}
LRF 3.7. 0 {Enter Edgar as a Bedlam beggar}
LRF 4.1. 1
LRF-EDGAR
Yet better thus and known to be contemned
LRF 4.1. 2 Than still contemned and flattered. To be worst,
LRF 4.1. 3 The low'st and most dejected thing of fortune,
LRF 4.1. 4 Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.
LRF 4.1. 5 The lamentable change is from the best;
LRF 4.1. 6 The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,
LRF 4.1. 7 Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace.
LRF 4.1. 8 The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
LRF 4.1. 9B Owes nothing to thy blasts. {Enter the Duke of Gloucester led by +
LRF 4.1. 9B an Old Man} But who comes here?
LRF 4.1. 10 My father, parti-eyed? World, world, O world!
LRF 4.1. 11 But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
LRF 4.1. 12B Life would not yield to age. {[Edgar stands aside]}
LRF-OLD MAN
+
LRF 4.1. 12B {(to Gloucester)} O my good lord,
LRF 4.1. 13 I have been your tenant and your father's tenant
LRF 4.1. 14 These fourscore years.
LRF 4.1. 15
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Away, get thee away, good friend, be gone.
LRF 4.1. 16 Thy comforts can do me no good at all;
LRF 4.1. 17B Thee they may hurt.
LRF-OLD MAN
You cannot see your way.
LRF 4.1. 18
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I have no way, and therefore want no eyes.
LRF 4.1. 19 I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
LRF 4.1. 20 Our means secure us, and our mere defects
LRF 4.1. 21 Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,
LRF 4.1. 22 The food of thy abused father's wrath -
LRF 4.1. 23 Might I but live to see thee in my touch
LRF 4.1. 24B I'd say I had eyes again.
LRF-OLD MAN
How now? Who's there?
LRF 4.1. 25
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} O gods! Who is 't can say `I am at +
LRF 4.1. 25 the worst'?
LRF 4.1. 26B I am worse than e'er I was.
LRF-OLD MAN
{(to +
LRF 4.1. 26B Gloucester)} 'Tis poor mad Tom.
LRF 4.1. 27
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} And worse I may be yet. The worst +
LRF 4.1. 27 is not
LRF 4.1. 28 So long as we can say `This is the worst.'
LRF 4.1. 29A
LRF-OLD MAN
{(to Edgar)} Fellow, where goest?
LRF 4.1. 30A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Is it a beggarman?
LRF 4.1. 31A
LRF-OLD MAN
Madman and beggar too.
LRF 4.1. 32
LRF-GLOUCESTER
A has some reason, else he could not beg.
LRF 4.1. 33 I' th' last night's storm I such a fellow saw,
LRF 4.1. 34 Which made me think a man a worm. My son
LRF 4.1. 35 Came then into my mind, and yet my mind
LRF 4.1. 36 Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since.
LRF 4.1. 37 As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods;
LRF 4.1. 38B They kill us for their sport.
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} How +
LRF 4.1. 38B should this be?
LRF 4.1. 39 Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
LRF 4.1. 40B Ang'ring itself and others. {[He comes forward]} Bless +
LRF 4.1. 40B thee, master.
LRF 4.1. 41B
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Is that the naked fellow?
LRF-OLD MAN
Ay, my lord.
LRF 4.1. 42
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Get thee away. If for my sake
LRF 4.1. 43 Thou wilt o'ertake us hence a mile or twain
LRF 4.1. 44 I' th' way toward Dover, do it for ancient love,
LRF 4.1. 45 And bring some covering for this naked soul,
LRF 4.1. 46B Which I'll entreat to lead me.
LRF-OLD MAN
Alack, sir, he is mad.
LRF 4.1. 47
LRF-GLOUCESTER
'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.
LRF 4.1. 48 Do as I bid thee; or rather do thy pleasure.
LRF 4.1. 49 Above the rest, be gone.
LRF 4.1. 50
LRF-OLD MAN
I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,
LRF 4.1. 51B Come on 't what will. {Exit}
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Sirrah, +
LRF 4.1. 51B naked fellow!
LRF 4.1. 52
LRF-EDGAR
Poor Tom's a-cold. {(Aside)} I cannot daub it +
LRF 4.1. 52 further.
LRF 4.1. 53B
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Come hither, fellow.
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} +
LRF 4.1. 53B And yet I must.
LRF 4.1. 54B {(To Gloucester)} Bless thy sweet eyes, they +
LRF 4.1. 54B bleed.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Know'st thou the way to Dover?
LRF 4.1. 55
LRF-EDGAR
Both stile and gate, horseway and footpath. Poor
LRF 4.1. 56 Tom hath been scared out of his good wits. Bless thee,
LRF 4.1. 57 goodman's son, from the foul fiend.
LRF 4.1. 58
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' +
LRF 4.1. 58 plagues
LRF 4.1. 59 Have humbled to all strokes. That I am wretched
LRF 4.1. 60 Makes thee the happier. Heavens deal so still.
LRF 4.1. 61 Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man
LRF 4.1. 62 That slaves your ordinance, that will not see
LRF 4.1. 63 Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly.
LRF 4.1. 64 So distribution should undo excess,
LRF 4.1. 65 And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?
LRF 4.1. 66A
LRF-EDGAR
Ay, master.
LRF 4.1. 67
LRF-GLOUCESTER
There is a cliff whose high and bending head
LRF 4.1. 68 Looks fearfully in the confined deep.
LRF 4.1. 69 Bring me but to the very brim of it
LRF 4.1. 70 And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear
LRF 4.1. 71 With something rich about me. From that place
LRF 4.1. 72 I shall no leading need.
LRF 4.1. 73A
LRF-EDGAR
Give me thy arm.
LRF 4.1. 74 Poor Tom shall lead thee. {Exit Edgar guiding Gloucester}
LRF 4.1. 0 {Enter Goneril and Edmond the bastard [at one door] and +
LRF 4.2. 0 Oswald the steward [at another]}
LRF 4.2. 1
LRF-GONERIL
Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband
LRF 4.2. 2 Not met us on the way. {(To Oswald)} Now, where's your +
LRF 4.2. 2 master?
LRF 4.2. 3
LRF-OSWALD
Madam, within; but never man so changed.
LRF 4.2. 4 I told him of the army that was landed;
LRF 4.2. 5 He smiled at it. I told him you were coming;
LRF 4.2. 6 His answer was `The worse'. Of Gloucester's treachery
LRF 4.2. 7 And of the loyal service of his son
LRF 4.2. 8 When I informed him, then he called me sot,
LRF 4.2. 9 And told me I had turned the wrong side out.
LRF 4.2. 10 What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;
LRF 4.2. 11B What like, offensive.
LRF-GONERIL
{(to Edmond)} Then +
LRF 4.2. 11B shall you go no further.
LRF 4.2. 12 It is the cowish terror of his spirit
LRF 4.2. 13 That dares not undertake. He'll not feel wrongs
LRF 4.2. 14 Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way
LRF 4.2. 15 May prove effects. Back, Edmond, to my brother.
LRF 4.2. 16 Hasten his musters and conduct his powers.
LRF 4.2. 17 I must change names at home, and give the distaff
LRF 4.2. 18 Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant
LRF 4.2. 19 Shall pass between us. Ere long you are like to hear,
LRF 4.2. 20 If you dare venture in your own behalf,
LRF 4.2. 21 A mistress's command. Wear this. Spare speech.
LRF 4.2. 22 Decline your head. This kiss, if it durst speak,
LRF 4.2. 23 Would stretch thy spirits up into the air. {[She kisses him]}
LRF 4.2. 24 Conceive, and fare thee well.
LRF 4.2. 25A
LRF-EDMOND
Yours in the ranks of death.
LRF 4.2. 26A
LRF-GONERIL
My most dear Gloucester. {Exit Edmond}
LRF 4.2. 27 O, the difference of man and man!
LRF 4.2. 28 To thee a woman's services are due;
LRF 4.2. 29B My fool usurps my body.
LRF-OSWALD
Madam, here comes my lord. +
LRF 4.2. 29B {Enter the Duke of Albany}
LRF 4.2. 30B
LRF-GONERIL
I have been worth the whistling.
LRF-ALBANY
O +
LRF 4.2. 30B Goneril,
LRF 4.2. 31 You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
LRF 4.2. 32B Blows in your face.
LRF-GONERIL
Milk-livered man,
LRF 4.2. 33 That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
LRF 4.2. 34 Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
LRF 4.2. 35B Thine honour from thy suffering -
LRF-ALBANY
See thyself, devil.
LRF 4.2. 36 Proper deformity shows not in the fiend
LRF 4.2. 37B So horrid as in woman.
LRF-GONERIL
O vain fool! {Enter a +
LRF 4.2. 37B Messenger}
LRF 4.2. 38
LRF-MESSENGER
O my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead,
LRF 4.2. 39 Slain by his servant going to put out
LRF 4.2. 40B The other eye of Gloucester.
LRF-ALBANY
Gloucester's eyes?
LRF 4.2. 41
LRF-MESSENGER
A servant that he bred, thrilled with remorse,
LRF 4.2. 42 Opposed against the act, bending his sword
LRF 4.2. 43 To his great master, who thereat enraged
LRF 4.2. 44 Flew on him, and amongst them felled him dead,
LRF 4.2. 45 But not without that harmful stroke which since
LRF 4.2. 46B Hath plucked him after.
LRF-ALBANY
This shows you are above,
LRF 4.2. 47 You justicers, that these our nether crimes
LRF 4.2. 48 So speedily can venge. But O, poor Gloucester!
LRF 4.2. 49B Lost he his other eye?
LRF-MESSENGER
Both, both, my lord. -
LRF 4.2. 50 This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer.
LRF 4.2. 51B 'Tis from your sister.
LRF-GONERIL
{(aside)} One way I +
LRF 4.2. 51B like this well;
LRF 4.2. 52 But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,
LRF 4.2. 53 May all the building in my fancy pluck
LRF 4.2. 54 Upon my hateful life. Another way
LRF 4.2. 55 The news is not so tart. - I'll read and answer. {[Exit with +
LRF 4.2. 55 Oswald]}
LRF 4.2. 56
LRF-ALBANY
Where was his son when they did take his eyes?
LRF 4.2. 57B
LRF-MESSENGER
Come with my lady hither.
LRF-ALBANY
He is not here.
LRF 4.2. 58
LRF-MESSENGER
No, my good lord; I met him back again.
LRF 4.2. 59A
LRF-ALBANY
Knows he the wickedness?
LRF 4.2. 60
LRF-MESSENGER
Ay, my good lord; 'twas he informed against him,
LRF 4.2. 61 And quit the house on purpose that their punishment
LRF 4.2. 62B Might have the freer course.
LRF-ALBANY
Gloucester, I live
LRF 4.2. 63 To thank thee for the love thou showed'st the King,
LRF 4.2. 64 And to revenge thine eyes. - Come hither, friend.
LRF 4.2. 65 Tell me what more thou know'st. {Exeunt}
LRF 4.2. 0 {Enter with a drummer and colours, Queen Cordelia, +
LRF 4.3. 0 Gentlemen, and soldiers}
LRF 4.3. 1
LRF-CORDELIA
Alack, 'tis he! Why, he was met even now,
LRF 4.3. 2 As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
LRF 4.3. 3 Crowned with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
LRF 4.3. 4 With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
LRF 4.3. 5 Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
LRF 4.3. 6 In our sustaining corn. A century send forth.
LRF 4.3. 7 Search every acre in the high-grown field,
LRF 4.3. 8B And bring him to our eye. {[Exit one or more]} What can +
LRF 4.3. 8B man's wisdom
LRF 4.3. 9 In the restoring his bereaved sense,
LRF 4.3. 10 He that helps him take all my outward worth.
LRF 4.3. 11A
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
There is means, madam.
LRF 4.3. 12 Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,
LRF 4.3. 13 The which he lacks. That to provoke in him
LRF 4.3. 14 Are many simples operative, whose power
LRF 4.3. 15B Will close the eye of anguish.
LRF-CORDELIA
All blest secrets,
LRF 4.3. 16 All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
LRF 4.3. 17 Spring with my tears, be aidant and remediate
LRF 4.3. 18 In the good man's distress! - Seek, seek for him,
LRF 4.3. 19 Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
LRF 4.3. 20B That wants the means to lead it. {Enter a Messenger}
LRF-MESSENGER
LRF 4.3. 20B News, madam.
LRF 4.3. 21 The British powers are marching hitherward.
LRF 4.3. 22
LRF-CORDELIA
'Tis known before; our preparation stands
LRF 4.3. 23 In expectation of them. - O dear father,
LRF 4.3. 24 It is thy business that I go about;
LRF 4.3. 25 Therefore great France
LRF 4.3. 26 My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.
LRF 4.3. 27 No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
LRF 4.3. 28 But love, dear love, and our aged father's right.
LRF 4.3. 29 Soon may I hear and see him! {Exeunt}
LRF 4.3. 0 {Enter Regan and Oswald the steward}
LRF 4.4. 1B
LRF-REGAN
But are my brother's powers set forth?
LRF-OSWALD
+
LRF 4.4. 1B Ay, madam.
LRF 4.4. 2B
LRF-REGAN
Himself in person there?
LRF-OSWALD
Madam, with much ado.
LRF 4.4. 3 Your sister is the better soldier.
LRF 4.4. 4
LRF-REGAN
Lord Edmond spake not with your lord at home?
LRF 4.4. 5A
LRF-OSWALD
No, madam.
LRF 4.4. 6
LRF-REGAN
What might import my sister's letters to him?
LRF 4.4. 7A
LRF-OSWALD
I know not, lady.
LRF 4.4. 8
LRF-REGAN
Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.
LRF 4.4. 9 It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,
LRF 4.4. 10 To let him live. Where he arrives he moves
LRF 4.4. 11 All hearts against us. Edmond, I think, is gone,
LRF 4.4. 12 In pity of his misery, to dispatch
LRF 4.4. 13 His 'nighted life, moreover to descry
LRF 4.4. 14 The strength o' th' enemy.
LRF 4.4. 15
LRF-OSWALD
I must needs after, madam, with my letter.
LRF 4.4. 16
LRF-REGAN
Our troops set forth tomorrow. Stay with us.
LRF 4.4. 17B The ways are dangerous.
LRF-OSWALD
I may not, madam.
LRF 4.4. 18 My lady charged my duty in this business.
LRF 4.4. 19
LRF-REGAN
Why should she write to Edmond? Might not you
LRF 4.4. 20 Transport her purposes by word? Belike -
LRF 4.4. 21 Some things - I know not what. I'll love thee much:
LRF 4.4. 22B Let me unseal the letter.
LRF-OSWALD
Madam, I had rather -
LRF 4.4. 23
LRF-REGAN
I know your lady does not love her husband.
LRF 4.4. 24 I am sure of that, and at her late being here
LRF 4.4. 25 She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks
LRF 4.4. 26 To noble Edmond. I know you are of her bosom.
LRF 4.4. 27A
LRF-OSWALD
I, madam?
LRF 4.4. 28
LRF-REGAN
I speak in understanding. Y' are, I know 't.
LRF 4.4. 29 Therefore I do advise you take this note.
LRF 4.4. 30 My lord is dead. Edmond and I have talked,
LRF 4.4. 31 And more convenient is he for my hand
LRF 4.4. 32 Than for your lady's. You may gather more.
LRF 4.4. 33 If you do find him, pray you give him this,
LRF 4.4. 34 And when your mistress hears thus much from you,
LRF 4.4. 35 I pray desire her call her wisdom to her.
LRF 4.4. 36 So, fare you well.
LRF 4.4. 37 If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
LRF 4.4. 38 Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
LRF 4.4. 39
LRF-OSWALD
Would I could meet him, madam. I should show
LRF 4.4. 40B What party I do follow.
LRF-REGAN
Fare thee well. {Exeunt +
LRF 4.4. 40B severally}
LRF 4.4. 0 {Enter Edgar disguised as a peasant, with a staff, +
LRF 4.5. 0 guiding the blind Duke of Gloucester}
LRF 4.5. 1
LRF-GLOUCESTER
When shall I come to th' top of that same +
LRF 4.5. 1 hill?
LRF 4.5. 2
LRF-EDGAR
You do climb up it now. Look how we labour.
LRF 4.5. 3B
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Methinks the ground is even.
LRF-EDGAR
Horrible steep.
LRF 4.5. 4B Hark, do you hear the sea?
LRF-GLOUCESTER
No, truly.
LRF 4.5. 5
LRF-EDGAR
Why, then your other senses grow imperfect
LRF 4.5. 6B By your eyes' anguish.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
So may it be indeed.
LRF 4.5. 7 Methinks thy voice is altered, and thou speak'st
LRF 4.5. 8 In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
LRF 4.5. 9
LRF-EDGAR
You're much deceived. In nothing am I changed
LRF 4.5. 10B But in my garments.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Methinks you're better spoken.
LRF 4.5. 11
LRF-EDGAR
Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful
LRF 4.5. 12 And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
LRF 4.5. 13 The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
LRF 4.5. 14 Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down
LRF 4.5. 15 Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
LRF 4.5. 16 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.
LRF 4.5. 17 The fishermen that walk upon the beach
LRF 4.5. 18 Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring barque
LRF 4.5. 19 Diminished to her cock, her cock a buoy
LRF 4.5. 20 Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge
LRF 4.5. 21 That on th' unnumbered idle pebble chafes
LRF 4.5. 22 Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,
LRF 4.5. 23 Lest my brain turn and the deficient sight
LRF 4.5. 24B Topple down headlong.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Set me where you stand.
LRF 4.5. 25
LRF-EDGAR
Give me your hand. You are now within a foot
LRF 4.5. 26 Of th' extreme verge. For all beneath the moon
LRF 4.5. 27B Would I not leap upright.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Let go my hand.
LRF 4.5. 28 Here, friend, 's another purse; in it a jewel
LRF 4.5. 29 Well worth a poor man's taking. Fairies and gods
LRF 4.5. 30 Prosper it with thee! Go thou further off.
LRF 4.5. 31 Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.
LRF 4.5. 32B
LRF-EDGAR
Now fare ye well, good sir. {He stands +
LRF 4.5. 32B aside}
LRF-GLOUCESTER
With all my heart.
LRF 4.5. 33
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} Why I do trifle thus with his +
LRF 4.5. 33 despair
LRF 4.5. 34B Is done to cure it.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{(kneeling)} O you +
LRF 4.5. 34B mighty gods,
LRF 4.5. 35 This world I do renounce, and in your sights
LRF 4.5. 36 Shake patiently my great affliction off!
LRF 4.5. 37 If I could bear it longer, and not fall
LRF 4.5. 38 To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,
LRF 4.5. 39 My snuff and loathed part of nature should
LRF 4.5. 40 Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O bless him! -
LRF 4.5. 41B Now, fellow, fare thee well.
LRF-EDGAR
Gone, sir. Farewell. +
LRF 4.5. 41B {Gloucester falls forward}
LRF 4.5. 42 {(Aside)} And yet I know not how conceit may rob
LRF 4.5. 43 The treasury of life, when life itself
LRF 4.5. 44 Yields to the theft. Had he been where he thought,
LRF 4.5. 45 By this had thought been past. - Alive or dead?
LRF 4.5. 46 {(To Gloucester)} Ho, you, sir, friend; hear you, sir? +
LRF 4.5. 46 Speak.
LRF 4.5. 47 {(Aside)} Thus might he pass indeed. Yet he revives.
LRF 4.5. 48B {(To Gloucester)} What are you, sir?
LRF-GLOUCESTER
+
LRF 4.5. 48B Away, and let me die.
LRF 4.5. 49
LRF-EDGAR
Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,
LRF 4.5. 50 So many fathom down precipitating
LRF 4.5. 51 Thou'dst shivered like an egg. But thou dost breathe,
LRF 4.5. 52 Hast heavy substance, bleed'st not, speak'st, art sound.
LRF 4.5. 53 Ten masts a-length make not the altitude
LRF 4.5. 54 Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
LRF 4.5. 55 Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again.
LRF 4.5. 56A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
But have I fall'n, or no?
LRF 4.5. 57
LRF-EDGAR
From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.
LRF 4.5. 58 Look up a-height. The shrill-gorged lark so far
LRF 4.5. 59 Cannot be seen or heard. Do but look up.
LRF 4.5. 60A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Alack, I have no eyes.
LRF 4.5. 61 Is wretchedness deprived that benefit
LRF 4.5. 62 To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort
LRF 4.5. 63 When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage
LRF 4.5. 64B And frustrate his proud will.
LRF-EDGAR
Give me your arm.
LRF 4.5. 65 Up, so. How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand.
LRF 4.5. 66B
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Too well, too well.
LRF-EDGAR
This is above all +
LRF 4.5. 66B strangeness.
LRF 4.5. 67 Upon the crown o' th' cliff what thing was that
LRF 4.5. 68B Which parted from you?
LRF-GLOUCESTER
A poor unfortunate beggar.
LRF 4.5. 69
LRF-EDGAR
As I stood here below, methoughts his eyes
LRF 4.5. 70 Were two full moons. He had a thousand noses,
LRF 4.5. 71 Horns whelked and waved like the enraged sea.
LRF 4.5. 72 It was some fiend. Therefore, thou happy father,
LRF 4.5. 73 Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours
LRF 4.5. 74 Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee.
LRF 4.5. 75
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I do remember now. Henceforth I'll bear
LRF 4.5. 76 Affliction till it do cry out itself
LRF 4.5. 77 `Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,
LRF 4.5. 78 I took it for a man. Often 'twould say
LRF 4.5. 79 `The fiend, the fiend!' He led me to that place.
LRF 4.5. 80B
LRF-EDGAR
Bear free and patient thoughts. {Enter King Lear mad, +
LRF 4.5. 80B [crowned with weeds and flowers]} But who comes here?
LRF 4.5. 81 The safer sense will ne'er accommodate
LRF 4.5. 82 His master thus.
LRF 4.5. 83
LRF-LEAR
No, they cannot touch me for crying. I am the King
LRF 4.5. 84 himself.
LRF 4.5. 85A
LRF-EDGAR
O thou side-piercing sight!
LRF 4.5. 86
LRF-LEAR
Nature's above art in that respect. There's your
LRF 4.5. 87 press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-
LRF 4.5. 88 keeper. Draw me a clothier's yard. Look, look, a mouse!
LRF 4.5. 89 Peace, peace, this piece of toasted cheese will do 't.
LRF 4.5. 90 There's my gauntlet. I'll prove it on a giant. Bring up
LRF 4.5. 91 the brown bills. O, well flown, bird, i' th' clout, i' th'
LRF 4.5. 92 clout! Whew! Give the word.
LRF 4.5. 93A
LRF-EDGAR
Sweet marjoram.
LRF 4.5. 94
LRF-LEAR
Pass.
LRF 4.5. 95A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I know that voice.
LRF 4.5. 96
LRF-LEAR
Ha! Goneril with a white beard? They flattered me
LRF 4.5. 97 like a dog, and told me I had the white hairs in my
LRF 4.5. 98 beard ere the black ones were there. To say `ay' and
LRF 4.5. 99 `no' to everything that I said `ay' and `no' to was no
LRF 4.5. 100 good divinity. When the rain came to wet me once,
LRF 4.5. 101 and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder
LRF 4.5. 102 would not peace at my bidding, there I found 'em,
LRF 4.5. 103 there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are not men o' their
LRF 4.5. 104 words. They told me I was everything; 'tis a lie, I am
LRF 4.5. 105 not ague-proof.
LRF 4.5. 106
LRF-GLOUCESTER
The trick of that voice I do well remember.
LRF 4.5. 107B Is 't not the King?
LRF-LEAR
Ay, every inch a king. {[Gloucester +
LRF 4.5. 107B kneels]}
LRF 4.5. 108 When I do stare, see how the subject quakes!
LRF 4.5. 109 I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause?
LRF 4.5. 110 Adultery? Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery!
LRF 4.5. 111 No, the wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly
LRF 4.5. 112 Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive,
LRF 4.5. 113 For Gloucester's bastard son
LRF 4.5. 114 Was kinder to his father than my daughters
LRF 4.5. 115 Got 'tween the lawful sheets. To 't, luxury, pell-mell,
LRF 4.5. 116 For I lack soldiers. Behold yon simp'ring dame,
LRF 4.5. 117 Whose face between her forks presages snow,
LRF 4.5. 118 That minces virtue, and does shake the head
LRF 4.5. 119 To hear of pleasure's name.
LRF 4.5. 120 The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to 't
LRF 4.5. 121 With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist
LRF 4.5. 122 They're centaurs, though women all above.
LRF 4.5. 123 But to the girdle do the gods inherit;
LRF 4.5. 124 Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness,
LRF 4.5. 125 there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench,
LRF 4.5. 126 consumption. Fie, fie, fie; pah, pah! Give me an ounce
LRF 4.5. 127 of civet, good apothecary, sweeten my imagination.
LRF 4.5. 128B There's money for thee.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
O, let me kiss that +
LRF 4.5. 128B hand!
LRF 4.5. 129
LRF-LEAR
Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
LRF 4.5. 130
LRF-GLOUCESTER
O ruined piece of nature! This great world
LRF 4.5. 131 Shall so wear out to naught. Dost thou know me?
LRF 4.5. 132
LRF-LEAR
I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou
LRF 4.5. 133 squiny at me?
LRF 4.5. 134 No, do thy worst, blind Cupid, I'll not love.
LRF 4.5. 135 Read thou this challenge. Mark but the penning of it.
LRF 4.5. 136
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Were all thy letters suns, I could not see.
LRF 4.5. 137
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} I would not take this from report; +
LRF 4.5. 137 it is,
LRF 4.5. 138 And my heart breaks at it.
LRF 4.5. 139A
LRF-LEAR
{(to Gloucester)} Read.
LRF 4.5. 140A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
What - with the case of eyes?
LRF 4.5. 141
LRF-LEAR
O ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your head,
LRF 4.5. 142 nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in a heavy
LRF 4.5. 143 case, your purse in a light; yet you see how this world
LRF 4.5. 144 goes.
LRF 4.5. 145A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
I see it feelingly.
LRF 4.5. 146
LRF-LEAR
What, art mad? A man may see how this world
LRF 4.5. 147 goes with no eyes; look with thine ears. See how yon
LRF 4.5. 148 justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear:
LRF 4.5. 149 change places, and handy-dandy, which is the justice,
LRF 4.5. 150 which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark
LRF 4.5. 151 at a beggar?
LRF 4.5. 152A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Ay, sir.
LRF 4.5. 153
LRF-LEAR
An the creature run from the cur, there thou
LRF 4.5. 154 mightst behold the great image of authority. A dog's
LRF 4.5. 155 obeyed in office.
LRF 4.5. 156 Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand.
LRF 4.5. 157 Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own back.
LRF 4.5. 158 Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
LRF 4.5. 159 For which thou whip'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
LRF 4.5. 160 Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;
LRF 4.5. 161 Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
LRF 4.5. 162 And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
LRF 4.5. 163 Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.
LRF 4.5. 164 None does offend, none, I say none. I'll able 'em.
LRF 4.5. 165 Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
LRF 4.5. 166 To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes,
LRF 4.5. 167 And, like a scurvy politician, seem
LRF 4.5. 168 To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now!
LRF 4.5. 169 Pull off my boots. Harder, harder! So.
LRF 4.5. 170
LRF-EDGAR
{(aside)} O, matter and impertinency mixed -
LRF 4.5. 171 Reason in madness!
LRF 4.5. 172
LRF-LEAR
If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.
LRF 4.5. 173 I know thee well enough: thy name is Gloucester.
LRF 4.5. 174 Thou must be patient. We came crying hither.
LRF 4.5. 175 Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air
LRF 4.5. 176 We waul and cry. I will preach to thee. Mark.
LRF 4.5. 177A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Alack, alack the day!
LRF 4.5. 178
LRF-LEAR
{[removing his crown of weeds]} When we are +
LRF 4.5. 178 born, we cry that we are come
LRF 4.5. 179 To this great stage of fools. This' a good block.
LRF 4.5. 180 It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
LRF 4.5. 181 A troop of horse with felt. I'll put 't in proof,
LRF 4.5. 182 And when I have stol'n upon these son-in-laws,
LRF 4.5. 183 Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill! {Enter [two] Gentlemen}
LRF 4.5. 184
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
O, here he is. Lay hand upon him.+
LRF 4.5. 184 {[To Lear]} Sir,
LRF 4.5. 185 Your most dear daughter -
LRF 4.5. 186
LRF-LEAR
No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even
LRF 4.5. 187 The natural fool of fortune. Use me well.
LRF 4.5. 188 You shall have ransom. Let me have surgeons;
LRF 4.5. 189 I am cut to th' brains.
LRF 4.5. 190A
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
You shall have anything.
LRF 4.5. 191A
LRF-LEAR
No seconds? All myself?
LRF 4.5. 192 Why, this would make a man a man of salt,
LRF 4.5. 193 To use his eyes for garden water-pots.
LRF 4.5. 194 I will die bravely, like a smug bridegroom. What,
LRF 4.5. 195 I will be jovial. Come, come, I am a king.
LRF 4.5. 196 Masters, know you that?
LRF 4.5. 197
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
You are a royal one, and we obey you.
LRF 4.5. 198
LRF-LEAR
Then there's life in 't. Come, an you get it, you +
LRF 4.5. 198 shall
LRF 4.5. 199 get it by running. Sa, sa, sa, sa! {Exit running [pursued by a +
LRF 4.5. 199 Gentleman]}
LRF 4.5. 200
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
A sight most pitiful in the meanest +
LRF 4.5. 200 wretch,
LRF 4.5. 201 Past speaking in a king. Thou hast a daughter
LRF 4.5. 202 Who redeems nature from the general curse
LRF 4.5. 203 Which twain have brought her to.
LRF 4.5. 204A
LRF-EDGAR
Hail, gentle sir.
LRF 4.5. 205A
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Sir, speed you. What's your will?
LRF 4.5. 206
LRF-EDGAR
Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?
LRF 4.5. 207
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Most sure and vulgar, everyone hears that
LRF 4.5. 208 That can distinguish sound.
LRF 4.5. 209A
LRF-EDGAR
But, by your favour,
LRF 4.5. 210 How near's the other army?
LRF 4.5. 211
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Near and on speedy foot. The main descry
LRF 4.5. 212B Stands in the hourly thought.
LRF-EDGAR
I thank you, sir. That's all.
LRF 4.5. 213
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Though that the Queen on special cause is here,
LRF 4.5. 214B Her army is moved on.
LRF-EDGAR
I thank you, sir. {Exit +
LRF 4.5. 214B Gentleman}
LRF 4.5. 215
LRF-GLOUCESTER
You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me.
LRF 4.5. 216 Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
LRF 4.5. 217 To die before you please.
LRF 4.5. 218A
LRF-EDGAR
Well pray you, father.
LRF 4.5. 219A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?
LRF 4.5. 220
LRF-EDGAR
A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows,
LRF 4.5. 221 Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
LRF 4.5. 222 Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand,
LRF 4.5. 223B I'll lead you to some biding.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
{[rising]} +
LRF 4.5. 223B Hearty thanks.
LRF 4.5. 224 The bounty and the benison of heaven
LRF 4.5. 225B To boot and boot. {Enter Oswald the steward}
LRF-OSWALD
+
LRF 4.5. 225B A proclaimed prize! Most happy!
LRF 4.5. 226 That eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh
LRF 4.5. 227 To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,
LRF 4.5. 228 Briefly thyself remember. The sword is out
LRF 4.5. 229B That must destroy thee.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Now let thy friendly hand
LRF 4.5. 230B Put strength enough to 't.
LRF-OSWALD
{(to Edgar)} +
LRF 4.5. 230B Wherefore, bold peasant,
LRF 4.5. 231 Durst thou support a published traitor? Hence,
LRF 4.5. 232 Lest that th' infection of his fortune take
LRF 4.5. 233 Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.
LRF 4.5. 234
LRF-EDGAR
'Chill not let go, sir, without vurther 'cagion.
LRF 4.5. 235A
LRF-OSWALD
Let go, slave, or thou diest.
LRF 4.5. 236
LRF-EDGAR
Good gentleman, go your gate, and let poor volk
LRF 4.5. 237 pass. An 'chud ha' been swaggered out of my life,
LRF 4.5. 238 'twould not ha' been so long as 'tis by a vortnight.
LRF 4.5. 239 Nay, come not near th' old man. Keep out, 'che vor'
LRF 4.5. 240 ye, or I's' try whether your costard or my baton be the
LRF 4.5. 241 harder; I'll be plain with you.
LRF 4.5. 242A
LRF-OSWALD
Out, dunghill!
LRF 4.5. 243
LRF-EDGAR
'Chill pick your teeth, sir. Come, no matter vor
LRF 4.5. 244 your foins. {[Edgar knocks him down]}
LRF 4.5. 245
LRF-OSWALD
Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
LRF 4.5. 246 If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
LRF 4.5. 247 And give the letters which thou find'st about me
LRF 4.5. 248 To Edmond, Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
LRF 4.5. 249 Upon the English party. O untimely death! Death! {He dies}
LRF 4.5. 250
LRF-EDGAR
I know thee well - a serviceable villain,
LRF 4.5. 251 As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
LRF 4.5. 252 As badness would desire.
LRF 4.5. 253A
LRF-GLOUCESTER
What, is he dead?
LRF 4.5. 254A
LRF-EDGAR
Sit you down, father. Rest you. {Gloucester sits}
LRF 4.5. 255 Let's see these pockets. The letters that he speaks of
LRF 4.5. 256 May be my friends. He's dead; I am only sorrow
LRF 4.5. 257 He had no other deathsman. Let us see.
LRF 4.5. 258 Leave, gentle wax, and manners; blame us not.
LRF 4.5. 259 To know our enemies' minds we rip their hearts;
LRF 4.5. 260 Their papers is more lawful. {He reads the letter}
LRF 4.5. 261 `Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have
LRF 4.5. 262 many opportunities to cut him off. If your will want
LRF 4.5. 263 not, time and place will be fruitfully offered. There is
LRF 4.5. 264 nothing done if he return the conqueror; then am I
LRF 4.5. 265 the prisoner, and his bed my jail, from the loathed
LRF 4.5. 266 warmth whereof, deliver me, and supply the place for
LRF 4.5. 267 your labour.
LRF 4.5. 268 Your - wife, so I would say, - affectionate
LRF 4.5. 269 servant, and for you her own for venture,
LRF 4.5. 270 Goneril.'
LRF 4.5. 271 O indistinguished space of woman's will -
LRF 4.5. 272 A plot upon her virtuous husband's life,
LRF 4.5. 273 And the exchange my brother! - Here in the sands
LRF 4.5. 274 Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified
LRF 4.5. 275 Of murderous lechers, and in the mature time
LRF 4.5. 276 With this ungracious paper strike the sight
LRF 4.5. 277 Of the death-practised Duke. For him 'tis well
LRF 4.5. 278 That of thy death and business I can tell. {[Exit with the +
LRF 4.5. 278 body]}
LRF 4.5. 279
LRF-GLOUCESTER
The King is mad. How stiff is my vile sense,
LRF 4.5. 280 That I stand up and have ingenious feeling
LRF 4.5. 281 Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distraught,
LRF 4.5. 282 So should my thoughts be severed from my griefs, {Drum afar off}
LRF 4.5. 283 And woes by wrong imaginations lose
LRF 4.5. 284B The knowledge of themselves. {[Enter Edgar]}
LRF-EDGAR
+
LRF 4.5. 284B Give me your hand.
LRF 4.5. 285 Far off methinks I hear the beaten drum.
LRF 4.5. 286 Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend. {Exit Edgar guiding +
LRF 4.5. 286 Gloucester}
LRF 4.5. 0 {Enter Queen Cordelia, the Earl of Kent disguised, and +
LRF 4.6. 0 [the First] Gentleman}
LRF 4.6. 1
LRF-CORDELIA
O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work
LRF 4.6. 2 To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,
LRF 4.6. 3 And every measure fail me.
LRF 4.6. 4
LRF-KENT
To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid.
LRF 4.6. 5 All my reports go with the modest truth,
LRF 4.6. 6B Nor more, nor clipped, but so.
LRF-CORDELIA
Be better suited.
LRF 4.6. 7 These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
LRF 4.6. 8B I prithee put them off.
LRF-KENT
Pardon, dear madam.
LRF 4.6. 9 Yet to be known shortens my made intent.
LRF 4.6. 10 My boon I make it that you know me not
LRF 4.6. 11B Till time and I think meet.
LRF-CORDELIA
Then be 't so, my good lord. -
LRF 4.6. 12B How does the King?
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Madam, sleeps still.
LRF-CORDELIA
LRF 4.6. 12B O you kind gods,
LRF 4.6. 13 Cure this great breach in his abused nature;
LRF 4.6. 14 Th' untuned and jarring senses O wind up
LRF 4.6. 15B Of this child-changed father!
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
So please your +
LRF 4.6. 15B majesty
LRF 4.6. 16 That we may wake the King? He hath slept long.
LRF 4.6. 17
LRF-CORDELIA
Be governed by your knowledge, and proceed
LRF 4.6. 18 I' th' sway of your own will. Is he arrayed?
LRF 4.6. 19
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Ay, madam. In the heaviness of sleep
LRF 4.6. 20 We put fresh garments on him. {Enter King Lear asleep, in a +
LRF 4.6. 20 chair carried by servants}
LRF 4.6. 21 Be by, good madam, when we do awake him.
LRF 4.6. 22 I doubt not of his temperance.
LRF 4.6. 23
LRF-CORDELIA
O my dear father, restoration hang
LRF 4.6. 24 Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss
LRF 4.6. 25 Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
LRF 4.6. 26B Have in thy reverence made!
LRF-KENT
Kind and dear princess!
LRF 4.6. 27
LRF-CORDELIA
Had you not been their father, these white flakes
LRF 4.6. 28 Did challenge pity of them. Was this a face
LRF 4.6. 29 To be opposed against the warring winds?
LRF 4.6. 30 Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me, should have stood
LRF 4.6. 31 That night against my fire. And wast thou fain, poor father,
LRF 4.6. 32 To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn
LRF 4.6. 33 In short and musty straw? Alack, alack,
LRF 4.6. 34 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
LRF 4.6. 35 Had not concluded all! {(To the Gentleman)} He wakes. +
LRF 4.6. 35 Speak to him.
LRF 4.6. 36A
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Madam, do you; 'tis fittest.
LRF 4.6. 37
LRF-CORDELIA
{(to Lear)} How does my royal lord? How +
LRF 4.6. 37 fares your majesty?
LRF 4.6. 38
LRF-LEAR
You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave.
LRF 4.6. 39 Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound
LRF 4.6. 40 Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
LRF 4.6. 41B Do scald like molten lead.
LRF-CORDELIA
Sir, do you know me?
LRF 4.6. 42
LRF-LEAR
You are a spirit, I know. Where did you die?
LRF 4.6. 43A
LRF-CORDELIA
{(to the Gentleman)} Still, still far +
LRF 4.6. 43A wide!
LRF 4.6. 44
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
He's scarce awake. Let him alone a while.
LRF 4.6. 45
LRF-LEAR
Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?
LRF 4.6. 46 I am mightily abused. I should ev'n die with pity
LRF 4.6. 47 To see another thus. I know not what to say.
LRF 4.6. 48 I will not swear these are my hands. Let's see:
LRF 4.6. 49 I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured
LRF 4.6. 50B Of my condition.
LRF-CORDELIA
{(kneeling)} O look upon +
LRF 4.6. 50B me, sir,
LRF 4.6. 51 And hold your hands in benediction o'er me.
LRF 4.6. 52B You must not kneel.
LRF-LEAR
Pray do not mock.
LRF 4.6. 53 I am a very foolish, fond old man,
LRF 4.6. 54 Fourscore and upward,
LRF 4.6. 55 Not an hour more nor less; and to deal plainly,
LRF 4.6. 56 I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
LRF 4.6. 57 Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
LRF 4.6. 58 Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant
LRF 4.6. 59 What place this is; and all the skill I have
LRF 4.6. 60 Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
LRF 4.6. 61 Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
LRF 4.6. 62 For as I am a man, I think this lady
LRF 4.6. 63B To be my child, Cordelia.
LRF-CORDELIA
And so I am, I am.
LRF 4.6. 64
LRF-LEAR
Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not.
LRF 4.6. 65 If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
LRF 4.6. 66 I know you do not love me; for your sisters
LRF 4.6. 67 Have, as I do remember, done me wrong.
LRF 4.6. 68B You have some cause; they have not.
LRF-CORDELIA
No cause, no cause.
LRF 4.6. 69A
LRF-LEAR
Am I in France?
LRF 4.6. 70A
LRF-KENT
In your own kingdom, sir.
LRF 4.6. 71A
LRF-LEAR
Do not abuse me.
LRF 4.6. 72
LRF-[FIRST] GENTLEMAN
Be comforted, good madam. The great rage
LRF 4.6. 73 You see is killed in him. Desire him to go in.
LRF 4.6. 74 Trouble him no more till further settling.
LRF 4.6. 75A
LRF-CORDELIA
{(to Lear)} Will 't please your highness +
LRF 4.6. 75A walk?
LRF 4.6. 76
LRF-LEAR
You must bear with me. Pray you now, forget
LRF 4.6. 77 And forgive. I am old and foolish. {Exeunt}
LRF 4.6. 0 {Enter with a drummer and colours Edmond, Regan, +
LRF 5.1. 0 Gentlemen, and soldiers}
LRF 5.1. 1
LRF-EDMOND
Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold,
LRF 5.1. 2 Or whether since he is advised by aught
LRF 5.1. 3 To change the course. He's full of abdication
LRF 5.1. 4 And self-reproving. Bring his constant pleasure. {Exit one or +
LRF 5.1. 4 more}
LRF 5.1. 5
LRF-REGAN
Our sister's man is certainly miscarried.
LRF 5.1. 6B
LRF-EDMOND
'Tis to be doubted, madam.
LRF-REGAN
Now, sweet lord,
LRF 5.1. 7 You know the goodness I intend upon you.
LRF 5.1. 8 Tell me but truly - but then speak the truth -
LRF 5.1. 9B Do you not love my sister?
LRF-EDMOND
In honoured love.
LRF 5.1. 10
LRF-REGAN
But have you never found my brother's way
LRF 5.1. 11B To the forfended place?
LRF-EDMOND
No, by mine honour, madam.
LRF 5.1. 12
LRF-REGAN
I never shall endure her. Dear my lord,
LRF 5.1. 13 Be not familiar with her.
LRF 5.1. 14A
LRF-EDMOND
Fear me not.
LRF 5.1. 15 She and the Duke her husband - {Enter with a drummer and colours +
LRF 5.1. 15 the Duke of Albany, Goneril, and soldiers}
LRF 5.1. 16
LRF-ALBANY
{(to Regan)} Our very loving sister, well +
LRF 5.1. 16 bemet.
LRF 5.1. 17 {(To Edmond)} Sir, this I heard: the King is come to +
LRF 5.1. 17 his daughter,
LRF 5.1. 18 With others whom the rigour of our state
LRF 5.1. 19B Forced to cry out.
LRF-REGAN
Why is this reasoned?
LRF 5.1. 20
LRF-GONERIL
Combine together 'gainst the enemy;
LRF 5.1. 21 For these domestic and particular broils
LRF 5.1. 22 Are not the question here.
LRF 5.1. 23
LRF-ALBANY
Let's then determine with th' ensign of war
LRF 5.1. 24B On our proceeding.
LRF-REGAN
Sister, you'll go with us?
LRF 5.1. 25A
LRF-GONERIL
No.
LRF 5.1. 26
LRF-REGAN
'Tis most convenient. Pray go with us.
LRF 5.1. 27
LRF-GONERIL
{(aside)} O ho, I know the riddle! +
LRF 5.1. 27 {(To Regan)} I will go. {Enter Edgar disguised as a +
LRF 5.1. 27 peasant}
LRF 5.1. 28
LRF-EDGAR
{(to Albany)} If e'er your grace had speech +
LRF 5.1. 28 with man so poor,
LRF 5.1. 29B Hear me one word.
LRF-ALBANY
{(to the others)} I'll +
LRF 5.1. 29B overtake you. {Exeunt both the armies} Speak.
LRF 5.1. 30
LRF-EDGAR
Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
LRF 5.1. 31 If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
LRF 5.1. 32 For him that brought it. Wretched though I seem,
LRF 5.1. 33 I can produce a champion that will prove
LRF 5.1. 34 What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
LRF 5.1. 35 Your business of the world hath so an end,
LRF 5.1. 36 And machination ceases. Fortune love you.
LRF 5.1. 37B
LRF-ALBANY
Stay till I have read the letter.
LRF-EDGAR
I was forbid it.
LRF 5.1. 38 When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,
LRF 5.1. 39 And I'll appear again.
LRF 5.1. 40A
LRF-ALBANY
Why, fare thee well.
LRF 5.1. 41 I will o'erlook thy paper. {Exit Edgar}
LRF 5.1. 42 {Enter Edmond}
LRF-EDMOND
The enemy's in view; draw up +
LRF 5.1. 42 your powers. {He [offers] Albany a paper}
LRF 5.1. 43 Here is the guess of their true strength and forces
LRF 5.1. 44 By diligent discovery; but your haste
LRF 5.1. 45B Is now urged on you.
LRF-ALBANY
We will greet the time. {Exit}
LRF 5.1. 46
LRF-EDMOND
To both these sisters have I sworn my love,
LRF 5.1. 47 Each jealous of the other as the stung
LRF 5.1. 48 Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take? -
LRF 5.1. 49 Both? - one? - or neither? Neither can be enjoyed
LRF 5.1. 50 If both remain alive. To take the widow
LRF 5.1. 51 Exasperates, makes mad, her sister Goneril,
LRF 5.1. 52 And hardly shall I carry out my side,
LRF 5.1. 53 Her husband being alive. Now then, we'll use
LRF 5.1. 54 His countenance for the battle, which being done,
LRF 5.1. 55 Let her who would be rid of him devise
LRF 5.1. 56 His speedy taking off. As for the mercy
LRF 5.1. 57 Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,
LRF 5.1. 58 The battle done, and they within our power,
LRF 5.1. 59 Shall never see his pardon; for my state
LRF 5.1. 60 Stands on me to defend, not to debate. {Exit}
LRF 5.1. 0 {Alarum within. Enter with a drummer and colours King +
LRF 5.2. 0 Lear, Queen Cordelia, and soldiers over the stage; and exeunt. Enter +
LRF 5.2. 0 Edgar disguised as a peasant, guiding the blind Duke of Gloucester}
LRF 5.2. 1
LRF-EDGAR
Here, father, take the shadow of this tree
LRF 5.2. 2 For your good host; pray that the right may thrive.
LRF 5.2. 3 If ever I return to you again
LRF 5.2. 4B I'll bring you comfort.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
Grace go with you, sir. +
LRF 5.2. 4B {Exit Edgar}
LRF 5.2. 5 {Alarum and retreat within. Enter Edgar}
LRF-EDGAR
+
LRF 5.2. 5 Away, old man. Give me thy hand. Away.
LRF 5.2. 6 King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en.
LRF 5.2. 7 Give me thy hand. Come on.
LRF 5.2. 8
LRF-GLOUCESTER
No further, sir. A man may rot even here.
LRF 5.2. 9
LRF-EDGAR
What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
LRF 5.2. 10 Their going hence even as their coming hither.
LRF 5.2. 11B Ripeness is all. Come on.
LRF-GLOUCESTER
And that's true, too. +
LRF 5.2. 11B {Exit Edgar guiding Gloucester}
LRF 5.2. 0 {Enter in conquest with a drummer and colours Edmond; +
LRF 5.3. 0 King Lear and Queen Cordelia as prisoners; soldiers; a Captain}
LRF 5.3. 1
LRF-EDMOND
Some officers take them away. Good guard
LRF 5.3. 2 Until their greater pleasures first be known
LRF 5.3. 3B That are to censure them.
LRF-CORDELIA
{(to Lear)} We +
LRF 5.3. 3B are not the first
LRF 5.3. 4 Who with best meaning have incurred the worst.
LRF 5.3. 5 For thee, oppressed King, I am cast down,
LRF 5.3. 6 Myself could else outfrown false fortune's frown.
LRF 5.3. 7 Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
LRF 5.3. 8
LRF-LEAR
No, no, no, no. Come, let's away to prison.
LRF 5.3. 9 We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
LRF 5.3. 10 When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
LRF 5.3. 11 And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live,
LRF 5.3. 12 And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
LRF 5.3. 13 At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
LRF 5.3. 14 Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them too -
LRF 5.3. 15 Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out,
LRF 5.3. 16 And take upon 's the mystery of things
LRF 5.3. 17 As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out
LRF 5.3. 18 In a walled prison packs and sects of great ones
LRF 5.3. 19B That ebb and flow by th' moon.
LRF-EDMOND
{(to +
LRF 5.3. 19B soldiers)} Take them away.
LRF 5.3. 20
LRF-LEAR
Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
LRF 5.3. 21 The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?
LRF 5.3. 22 He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven
LRF 5.3. 23 And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes.
LRF 5.3. 24 The goodyear shall devour them, flesh and fell,
LRF 5.3. 25 Ere they shall make us weep. We'll see 'em starved first. Come. +
LRF 5.3. 25 {Exeunt all but Edmond and the Captain}
LRF 5.3. 26A
LRF-EDMOND
Come hither, captain. Hark.
LRF 5.3. 27 Take thou this note. Go follow them to prison.
LRF 5.3. 28 One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost
LRF 5.3. 29 As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way
LRF 5.3. 30 To noble fortunes. Know thou this: that men
LRF 5.3. 31 Are as the time is. To be tender-minded
LRF 5.3. 32 Does not become a sword. Thy great employment
LRF 5.3. 33 Will not bear question. Either say thou'lt do 't,
LRF 5.3. 34B Or thrive by other means.
LRF-CAPTAIN
I'll do 't, my lord.
LRF 5.3. 35
LRF-EDMOND
About it, and write `happy' when thou'st done.
LRF 5.3. 36 Mark, I say, instantly, and carry it so
LRF 5.3. 37 As I have set it down. {Exit the Captain}
LRF 5.3. 38 {Flourish. Enter the Duke of Albany, Goneril, Regan, [drummer, +
LRF 5.3. 38 trumpeter] and soldiers}
LRF-ALBANY
Sir, you have showed today +
LRF 5.3. 38 your valiant strain,
LRF 5.3. 39 And fortune led you well. You have the captives
LRF 5.3. 40 Who were the opposites of this day's strife.
LRF 5.3. 41 I do require them of you, so to use them
LRF 5.3. 42 As we shall find their merits and our safety
LRF 5.3. 43B May equally determine.
LRF-EDMOND
Sir, I thought it fit
LRF 5.3. 44 To send the old and miserable King
LRF 5.3. 45 To some retention and appointed guard,
LRF 5.3. 46 Whose age had charms in it, whose title more,
LRF 5.3. 47 To pluck the common bosom on his side
LRF 5.3. 48 And turn our impressed lances in our eyes
LRF 5.3. 49 Which do command them. With him I sent the Queen,
LRF 5.3. 50 My reason all the same, and they are ready
LRF 5.3. 51 Tomorrow, or at further space, t' appear
LRF 5.3. 52B Where you shall hold your session.
LRF-ALBANY
Sir, by your patience,
LRF 5.3. 53 I hold you but a subject of this war,
LRF 5.3. 54B Not as a brother.
LRF-REGAN
That's as we list to grace him.
LRF 5.3. 55 Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded
LRF 5.3. 56 Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers,
LRF 5.3. 57 Bore the commission of my place and person,
LRF 5.3. 58 The which immediacy may well stand up
LRF 5.3. 59B And call itself your brother.
LRF-GONERIL
Not so hot.
LRF 5.3. 60 In his own grace he doth exalt himself
LRF 5.3. 61B More than in your addition.
LRF-REGAN
In my rights
LRF 5.3. 62 By me invested, he compeers the best.
LRF 5.3. 63
LRF-ALBANY
That were the most if he should husband you.
LRF 5.3. 64B
LRF-REGAN
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
LRF-GONERIL
Holla, holla -
LRF 5.3. 65 That eye that told you so looked but asquint.
LRF 5.3. 66
LRF-REGAN
Lady, I am not well, else I should answer
LRF 5.3. 67 From a full-flowing stomach. {(To Edmond)} General,
LRF 5.3. 68 Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony.
LRF 5.3. 69 Dispose of them, of me. The walls is thine.
LRF 5.3. 70 Witness the world that I create thee here
LRF 5.3. 71B My lord and master.
LRF-GONERIL
Mean you to enjoy him?
LRF 5.3. 72
LRF-ALBANY
The let-alone lies not in your good will.
LRF 5.3. 73B
LRF-EDMOND
Nor in thine, lord.
LRF-ALBANY
Half-blooded fellow, yes.
LRF 5.3. 74
LRF-REGAN
{(to Edmond)} Let the drum strike and prove +
LRF 5.3. 74 my title thine.
LRF 5.3. 75
LRF-ALBANY
Stay yet, hear reason. Edmond, I arrest thee
LRF 5.3. 76 On capital treason, and in thy attaint
LRF 5.3. 77 This gilded serpent. {(To Regan)} For your claim, fair +
LRF 5.3. 77 sister,
LRF 5.3. 78 I bar it in the interest of my wife.
LRF 5.3. 79 'Tis she is subcontracted to this lord,
LRF 5.3. 80 And I, her husband, contradict your banns.
LRF 5.3. 81 If you will marry, make your loves to me.
LRF 5.3. 82B My lady is bespoke.
LRF-GONERIL
An interlude!
LRF 5.3. 83
LRF-ALBANY
Thou art armed, Gloucester. Let the trumpet sound.
LRF 5.3. 84 If none appear to prove upon thy person
LRF 5.3. 85 Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,
LRF 5.3. 86B There is my pledge. {[He throws down a glove]} I'll +
LRF 5.3. 86B make it on thy heart,
LRF 5.3. 87 Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less
LRF 5.3. 88 Than I have here proclaimed thee.
LRF 5.3. 89A
LRF-REGAN
Sick, O sick!
LRF 5.3. 90A
LRF-GONERIL
{(aside)} If not, I'll ne'er trust +
LRF 5.3. 90A medicine.
LRF 5.3. 91
LRF-EDMOND
{(to Albany, [throwing down a glove])} +
LRF 5.3. 91 There's my exchange. What in the world he is
LRF 5.3. 92 That names me traitor, villain-like he lies.
LRF 5.3. 93 Call by the trumpet. He that dares, approach;
LRF 5.3. 94 On him, on you - who not? - I will maintain
LRF 5.3. 95B My truth and honour firmly.
LRF-ALBANY
A herald, ho! {Enter a +
LRF 5.3. 95B Herald}
LRF 5.3. 96 {(To Edmond)} Trust to thy single virtue, for thy +
LRF 5.3. 96 soldiers,
LRF 5.3. 97 All levied in my name, have in my name
LRF 5.3. 98B Took their discharge.
LRF-REGAN
My sickness grows upon me.
LRF 5.3. 99
LRF-ALBANY
She is not well. Convey her to my tent. {Exit one or +
LRF 5.3. 99 more with Regan}
LRF 5.3. 100 Come hither, herald. Let the trumpet sound,
LRF 5.3. 101 And read out this. {A trumpet sounds}
LRF 5.3. 102
LRF-HERALD
{(reads)} `If any man of quality or degree +
LRF 5.3. 102 within
LRF 5.3. 103 the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmond,
LRF 5.3. 104 supposed Earl of Gloucester, that he is a manifold
LRF 5.3. 105 traitor, let him appear by the third sound of the trumpet.
LRF 5.3. 106 He is bold in his defence.' {First trumpet}
LRF 5.3. 107 Again. {Second trumpet}
LRF 5.3. 108 Again. {Third trumpet.}
LRF 5.3. 109 {Trumpet answers within. Enter Edgar, armed}
LRF-ALBANY
{(to the +
LRF 5.3. 109 Herald)} Ask him his purposes, why he appears
LRF 5.3. 110B Upon this call o' th' trumpet.
LRF-HERALD
{(to Edgar)} +
LRF 5.3. 110B What are you?
LRF 5.3. 111 Your name, your quality, and why you answer
LRF 5.3. 112B This present summons?
LRF-EDGAR
Know, my name is lost,
LRF 5.3. 113 By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.
LRF 5.3. 114 Yet am I noble as the adversary
LRF 5.3. 115B I come to cope.
LRF-ALBANY
Which is that adversary?
LRF 5.3. 116
LRF-EDGAR
What's he that speaks for Edmond, Earl of Gloucester?
LRF 5.3. 117B
LRF-EDMOND
Himself. What sayst thou to him?
LRF-EDGAR
Draw thy sword,
LRF 5.3. 118 That if my speech offend a noble heart
LRF 5.3. 119 Thy arm may do thee justice. Here is mine. {He draws his sword}
LRF 5.3. 120 Behold, it is the privilege of mine honour,
LRF 5.3. 121 My oath, and my profession. I protest,
LRF 5.3. 122 Maugre thy strength, place, youth, and eminence,
LRF 5.3. 123 Despite thy victor-sword and fire-new fortune,
LRF 5.3. 124 Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor,
LRF 5.3. 125 False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father,
LRF 5.3. 126 Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince,
LRF 5.3. 127 And from th' extremest upward of thy head
LRF 5.3. 128 To the descent and dust below thy foot
LRF 5.3. 129 A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou no,
LRF 5.3. 130 This sword, this arm, and my best spirits are bent
LRF 5.3. 131 To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,
LRF 5.3. 132B Thou liest.
LRF-EDMOND
In wisdom I should ask thy name,
LRF 5.3. 133 But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,
LRF 5.3. 134 And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,
LRF 5.3. 135 What safe and nicely I might well demand
LRF 5.3. 136 By rule of knighthood I disdain and spurn.
LRF 5.3. 137 Back do I toss those treasons to thy head,
LRF 5.3. 138 With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart,
LRF 5.3. 139 Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,
LRF 5.3. 140 This sword of mine shall give them instant way
LRF 5.3. 141 Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak! {Alarums. They +
LRF 5.3. 141 fight. Edmond is vanquished}
LRF 5.3. 142B
LRF-[ALL]
Save him, save him!
LRF-GONERIL
This is practice, +
LRF 5.3. 142B Gloucester.
LRF 5.3. 143 By th' law of arms thou wast not bound to answer
LRF 5.3. 144 An unknown opposite. Thou art not vanquished,
LRF 5.3. 145B But cozened and beguiled.
LRF-ALBANY
Shut your mouth, dame,
LRF 5.3. 146 Or with this paper shall I stopple it.
LRF 5.3. 147 {[To Edmond]} Hold, sir, thou worse than any name: +
LRF 5.3. 147 read thine own evil.
LRF 5.3. 148 {(To Goneril)} No tearing, lady. I perceive you know +
LRF 5.3. 148 it.
LRF 5.3. 149
LRF-GONERIL
Say if I do, the laws are mine, not thine.
LRF 5.3. 150B Who can arraign me for 't? {Exit}
LRF-ALBANY
Most +
LRF 5.3. 150B monstrous! -
LRF 5.3. 151B O, know'st thou this paper?
LRF-EDMOND
Ask me not what I know.
LRF 5.3. 152
LRF-ALBANY
Go after her. She's desperate. Govern her. {Exit one +
LRF 5.3. 152 or more}
LRF 5.3. 153
LRF-EDMOND
What you have charged me with, that have I done,
LRF 5.3. 154 And more, much more. The time will bring it out.
LRF 5.3. 155 'Tis past, and so am I. {(To Edgar)} But what art thou,
LRF 5.3. 156 That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,
LRF 5.3. 157B I do forgive thee.
LRF-EDGAR
Let's exchange charity.
LRF 5.3. 158 I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmond.
LRF 5.3. 159 If more, the more thou'st wronged me. {[He takes off his +
LRF 5.3. 159 helmet]}
LRF 5.3. 160 My name is Edgar, and thy father's son.
LRF 5.3. 161 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
LRF 5.3. 162 Make instruments to plague us.
LRF 5.3. 163 The dark and vicious place where thee he got
LRF 5.3. 164B Cost him his eyes.
LRF-EDMOND
Thou'st spoken right. 'Tis true.
LRF 5.3. 165 The wheel is come full circle. I am here.
LRF 5.3. 166
LRF-ALBANY
{(to Edgar)} Methought thy very gait did +
LRF 5.3. 166 prophesy
LRF 5.3. 167 A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
LRF 5.3. 168 Let sorrow split my heart if ever I
LRF 5.3. 169 Did hate thee or thy father.
LRF 5.3. 170A
LRF-EDGAR
Worthy prince, I know 't.
LRF 5.3. 171A
LRF-ALBANY
Where have you hid yourself?
LRF 5.3. 172 How have you known the miseries of your father?
LRF 5.3. 173
LRF-EDGAR
By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale,
LRF 5.3. 174 And when 'tis told, O that my heart would burst!
LRF 5.3. 175 The bloody proclamation to escape
LRF 5.3. 176 That followed me so near - O, our lives' sweetness,
LRF 5.3. 177 That we the pain of death would hourly die
LRF 5.3. 178 Rather than die at once! - taught me to shift
LRF 5.3. 179 Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance
LRF 5.3. 180 That very dogs disdained; and in this habit
LRF 5.3. 181 Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
LRF 5.3. 182 Their precious stones new-lost; became his guide,
LRF 5.3. 183 Led him, begged for him, saved him from despair;
LRF 5.3. 184 Never - O fault! - revealed myself unto him
LRF 5.3. 185 Until some half hour past, when I was armed.
LRF 5.3. 186 Not sure, though hoping, of this good success,
LRF 5.3. 187 I asked his blessing, and from first to last
LRF 5.3. 188 Told him our pilgrimage; but his flawed heart -
LRF 5.3. 189 Alack, too weak the conflict to support -
LRF 5.3. 190 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
LRF 5.3. 191B Burst smilingly.
LRF-EDMOND
This speech of yours hath moved me,
LRF 5.3. 192 And shall perchance do good. But speak you on -
LRF 5.3. 193 You look as you had something more to say.
LRF 5.3. 194
LRF-ALBANY
If there be more, more woeful, hold it in,
LRF 5.3. 195 For I am almost ready to dissolve,
LRF 5.3. 196 Hearing of this. {Enter a Gentleman with a bloody knife}
LRF 5.3. 197B
LRF-GENTLEMAN
Help, help, O help!
LRF-EDGAR
What kind of +
LRF 5.3. 197B help?
LRF-ALBANY
Speak, man.
LRF 5.3. 198B
LRF-EDGAR
What means this bloody knife?
LRF-GENTLEMAN
'Tis hot, it +
LRF 5.3. 198B smokes.
LRF 5.3. 199 It came even from the heart of - O, she's dead!
LRF 5.3. 200A
LRF-ALBANY
Who dead? Speak, man.
LRF 5.3. 201
LRF-GENTLEMAN
Your lady, sir, your lady; and her sister
LRF 5.3. 202 By her is poisoned. She confesses it.
LRF 5.3. 203
LRF-EDMOND
I was contracted to them both; all three
LRF 5.3. 204B Now marry in an instant.
LRF-EDGAR
Here comes Kent. {Enter the +
LRF 5.3. 204B Earl of Kent as himself}
LRF 5.3. 205
LRF-ALBANY
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead. +
LRF 5.3. 205 {Goneril's and Regan's bodies brought out}
LRF 5.3. 206 This judgement of the heavens, that makes us tremble,
LRF 5.3. 207 Touches us not with pity. - O, is this he?
LRF 5.3. 208 {(To Kent)} The time will not allow the compliment
LRF 5.3. 209B Which very manners urges.
LRF-KENT
I am come
LRF 5.3. 210 To bid my king and master aye good night.
LRF 5.3. 211B Is he not here?
LRF-ALBANY
Great thing of us forgot! -
LRF 5.3. 212 Speak, Edmond; where's the King, and where's Cordelia? -
LRF 5.3. 213 Seest thou this object, Kent?
LRF 5.3. 214A
LRF-KENT
Alack, why thus?
LRF 5.3. 215A
LRF-EDMOND
Yet Edmond was beloved.
LRF 5.3. 216 The one the other poisoned for my sake,
LRF 5.3. 217B And after slew herself.
LRF-ALBANY
Even so. - Cover their faces.
LRF 5.3. 218
LRF-EDMOND
I pant for life. Some good I mean to do,
LRF 5.3. 219 Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,
LRF 5.3. 220 Be brief in it, to th' castle; for my writ
LRF 5.3. 221 Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia.
LRF 5.3. 222B Nay, send in time.
LRF-ALBANY
Run, run, O run!
LRF 5.3. 223
LRF-EDGAR
To who, my lord? - Who has the office? Send
LRF 5.3. 224 Thy token of reprieve.
LRF 5.3. 225
LRF-EDMOND
Well thought on! Take my sword. The captain,
LRF 5.3. 226B Give it the captain.
LRF-EDGAR
Haste thee for thy life. {Exit +
LRF 5.3. 226B [the Gentleman]}
LRF 5.3. 227
LRF-EDMOND
{(to Albany)} He hath commission from thy +
LRF 5.3. 227 wife and me
LRF 5.3. 228 To hang Cordelia in the prison, and
LRF 5.3. 229 To lay the blame upon her own despair,
LRF 5.3. 230 That she fordid herself.
LRF 5.3. 231
LRF-ALBANY
The gods defend her! - Bear him hence a while. {Exeunt +
LRF 5.3. 231 some with Edmond}
LRF 5.3. 232 {Enter King Lear with Queen Cordelia in his arms, [followed by +
LRF 5.3. 232 the Gentleman]}
LRF-LEAR
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are +
LRF 5.3. 232 men of stones.
LRF 5.3. 233 Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so
LRF 5.3. 234 That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever.
LRF 5.3. 235 I know when one is dead and when one lives.
LRF 5.3. 236B She's dead as earth. {[He lays her down]} Lend me a +
LRF 5.3. 236B looking-glass.
LRF 5.3. 237 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
LRF 5.3. 238B Why, then she lives.
LRF-KENT
Is this the promised end?
LRF 5.3. 239B
LRF-EDGAR
Or image of that horror?
LRF-ALBANY
Fall and cease.
LRF 5.3. 240
LRF-LEAR
This feather stirs. She lives. If it be so,
LRF 5.3. 241 It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
LRF 5.3. 242B That ever I have felt.
LRF-KENT
{[kneeling]} O, my good +
LRF 5.3. 242B master!
LRF 5.3. 243B
LRF-LEAR
Prithee, away.
LRF-EDGAR
'Tis noble Kent, your friend.
LRF 5.3. 244
LRF-LEAR
A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all.
LRF 5.3. 245 I might have saved her; now she's gone for ever. -
LRF 5.3. 246 Cordelia, Cordelia: stay a little. Ha?
LRF 5.3. 247 What is 't thou sayst? - Her voice was ever soft,
LRF 5.3. 248 Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. -
LRF 5.3. 249 I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee.
LRF 5.3. 250B
LRF-GENTLEMAN
'Tis true, my lords, he did.
LRF-LEAR
Did I not, fellow?
LRF 5.3. 251 I have seen the day with my good biting falchion
LRF 5.3. 252 I would have made them skip. I am old now,
LRF 5.3. 253 And these same crosses spoil me. {(To Kent)} Who are +
LRF 5.3. 253 you?
LRF 5.3. 254 Mine eyes are not o' th' best, I'll tell you straight.
LRF 5.3. 255
LRF-KENT
If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,
LRF 5.3. 256B One of them we behold.
LRF-LEAR
This' a dull sight.
LRF 5.3. 257 Are you not Kent?
LRF 5.3. 258A
LRF-KENT
The same, your servant Kent.
LRF 5.3. 259 Where is your servant Caius?
LRF 5.3. 260
LRF-LEAR
He's a good fellow, I can tell you that.
LRF 5.3. 261 He'll strike, and quickly too. He's dead and rotten.
LRF 5.3. 262
LRF-KENT
No, my good lord, I am the very man -
LRF 5.3. 263A
LRF-LEAR
I'll see that straight.
LRF 5.3. 264
LRF-KENT
That from your first of difference and decay
LRF 5.3. 265B Have followed your sad steps.
LRF-LEAR
You're welcome hither.
LRF 5.3. 266
LRF-KENT
Nor no man else. All's cheerless, dark, and deadly.
LRF 5.3. 267 Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves,
LRF 5.3. 268B And desperately are dead.
LRF-LEAR
Ay, so think I.
LRF 5.3. 269
LRF-ALBANY
He knows not what he says; and vain is it
LRF 5.3. 270B That we present us to him. {Enter a Messenger}
LRF-EDGAR
+
LRF 5.3. 270B Very bootless.
LRF 5.3. 271B
LRF-MESSENGER
{(to Albany)} Edmond is dead, my +
LRF 5.3. 271B lord.
LRF-ALBANY
That's but a trifle here. -
LRF 5.3. 272 You lords and noble friends, know our intent.
LRF 5.3. 273 What comfort to this great decay may come
LRF 5.3. 274 Shall be applied; for us, we will resign
LRF 5.3. 275 During the life of this old majesty
LRF 5.3. 276B To him our absolute power; {(To Edgar and Kent)} you to +
LRF 5.3. 276B your rights,
LRF 5.3. 277 With boot and such addition as your honours
LRF 5.3. 278 Have more than merited. All friends shall taste
LRF 5.3. 279 The wages of their virtue, and all foes
LRF 5.3. 280 The cup of their deservings. - O see, see!
LRF 5.3. 281
LRF-LEAR
And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life?
LRF 5.3. 282 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
LRF 5.3. 283 And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more.
LRF 5.3. 284 Never, never, never, never, never.
LRF 5.3. 285 {[To Kent]} Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, +
LRF 5.3. 285 sir.
LRF 5.3. 286 Do you see this? Look on her. Look, her lips.
LRF 5.3. 287B Look there, look there. {He dies}
LRF-EDGAR
He +
LRF 5.3. 287B faints. {(To Lear)} My lord, my lord!
LRF 5.3. 288B
LRF-KENT
{[to Lear]} Break, heart, I prithee +
LRF 5.3. 288B break.
LRF-EDGAR
{(to Lear)} Look up, my lord.
LRF 5.3. 289
LRF-KENT
Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him
LRF 5.3. 290 That would upon the rack of this tough world
LRF 5.3. 291B Stretch him out longer.
LRF-EDGAR
He is gone indeed.
LRF 5.3. 292
LRF-KENT
The wonder is he hath endured so long.
LRF 5.3. 293 He but usurped his life.
LRF 5.3. 294
LRF-ALBANY
Bear them from hence. Our present business
LRF 5.3. 295 Is general woe. {(To Edgar and Kent)} Friends of my +
LRF 5.3. 295 soul, you twain
LRF 5.3. 296 Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain.
LRF 5.3. 297
LRF-KENT
I have a journey, sir, shortly to go:
LRF 5.3. 298 My master calls me; I must not say no.
LRF 5.3. 299
LRF-EDGAR
The weight of this sad time we must obey,
LRF 5.3. 300 Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
LRF 5.3. 301 The oldest hath borne most. We that are young
LRF 5.3. 302 Shall never see so much, nor live so long. {Exeunt with a dead +
LRF 5.3. 302 march, carrying the bodies}
LRF 5.3.
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MAC . . 0 The Tragedy of Macbeth
MAC . . 0 {Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches}
MAC 1.1. 1
MAC-FIRST WITCH
When shall we three meet again?
MAC 1.1. 2 In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
MAC 1.1. 3
MAC-SECOND WITCH
When the hurly-burly's done,
MAC 1.1. 4 When the battle's lost and won.
MAC 1.1. 5
MAC-THIRD WITCH
That will be ere the set of sun.
MAC 1.1. 6B
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Where the place?
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Upon the heath.
MAC 1.1. 7
MAC-THIRD WITCH
There to meet with Macbeth.
MAC 1.1. 8
MAC-FIRST WITCH
I come, Grimalkin.
MAC 1.1. 9B
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Paddock calls.
MAC-THIRD WITCH
Anon.
MAC 1.1. 10
MAC-ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
MAC 1.1. 11 Hover through the fog and filthy air. {Exeunt}
MAC 1.1. 0
MAC 1.1. 0 {Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, +
MAC 1.2. 0 Lennox, with attendants, meeting a bleeding Captain}
MAC 1.2. 1
MAC-KING DUNCAN
What bloody man is that? He can report,
MAC 1.2. 2 As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
MAC 1.2. 3B The newest state.
MAC-MALCOLM
This is the sergeant
MAC 1.2. 4 Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
MAC 1.2. 5 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend.
MAC 1.2. 6 Say to the King the knowledge of the broil
MAC 1.2. 7B As thou didst leave it.
MAC-CAPTAIN
Doubtful it stood,
MAC 1.2. 8 As two spent swimmers that do cling together
MAC 1.2. 9 And choke their art. The merciless Macdonald -
MAC 1.2. 10 Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
MAC 1.2. 11 The multiplying villainies of nature
MAC 1.2. 12 Do swarm upon him - from the Western Isles
MAC 1.2. 13 Of kerns and galloglasses is supplied,
MAC 1.2. 14 And fortune on his damned quarry smiling
MAC 1.2. 15 Showed like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak,
MAC 1.2. 16 For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name! -
MAC 1.2. 17 Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel
MAC 1.2. 18 Which smoked with bloody execution,
MAC 1.2. 19 Like valour's minion
MAC 1.2. 20 Carved out his passage till he faced the slave,
MAC 1.2. 21 Which ne'er shook hands nor bade farewell to him
MAC 1.2. 22 Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,
MAC 1.2. 23 And fixed his head upon our battlements.
MAC 1.2. 24
MAC-KING DUNCAN
O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!
MAC 1.2. 25
MAC-CAPTAIN
As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
MAC 1.2. 26 Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
MAC 1.2. 27 So from that spring whence comfort seemed to come
MAC 1.2. 28 Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark.
MAC 1.2. 29 No sooner justice had, with valour armed,
MAC 1.2. 30 Compelled these skipping kerns to trust their heels
MAC 1.2. 31 But the Norwegian lord, surveying vantage,
MAC 1.2. 32 With furbished arms and new supplies of men
MAC 1.2. 33 Began a fresh assault.
MAC 1.2. 34
MAC-KING DUNCAN
Dismayed not this our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
MAC 1.2. 35
MAC-CAPTAIN
Yes, as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion!
MAC 1.2. 36 If I say sooth I must report they were
MAC 1.2. 37 As cannons overcharged with double cracks,
MAC 1.2. 38 So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.
MAC 1.2. 39 Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds
MAC 1.2. 40 Or memorize another Golgotha,
MAC 1.2. 41 I cannot tell -
MAC 1.2. 42 But I am faint. My gashes cry for help.
MAC 1.2. 43
MAC-KING DUNCAN
So well thy words become thee as thy wounds:
MAC 1.2. 44 They smack of honour both. - Go get him surgeons. {Exit Captain +
MAC 1.2. 44 with attendants}
MAC 1.2. 45B {Enter Ross and Angus} Who comes here?
MAC-MALCOLM
The +
MAC 1.2. 45B worthy Thane of Ross.
MAC 1.2. 46
MAC-LENNOX
What haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
MAC 1.2. 47B That seems to speak things strange.
MAC-ROSS
God save the King.
MAC 1.2. 48B
MAC-KING DUNCAN
Whence cam'st thou, worthy thane?
MAC-ROSS
From Fife, +
MAC 1.2. 48B great King,
MAC 1.2. 49 Where the Norwegian banners flout the sky
MAC 1.2. 50 And fan our people cold.
MAC 1.2. 51 Norway himself, with terrible numbers,
MAC 1.2. 52 Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
MAC 1.2. 53 The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict,
MAC 1.2. 54 Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof,
MAC 1.2. 55 Confronted him with self-comparisons,
MAC 1.2. 56 Point against point, rebellious arm 'gainst arm,
MAC 1.2. 57 Curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude,
MAC 1.2. 58B The victory fell on us -
MAC-KING DUNCAN
Great happiness.
MAC-ROSS
That +
MAC 1.2. 58B now
MAC 1.2. 59 Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition;
MAC 1.2. 60 Nor would we deign him burial of his men
MAC 1.2. 61 Till he disbursed at Saint Colum's inch
MAC 1.2. 62 Ten thousand dollars to our general use.
MAC 1.2. 63
MAC-KING DUNCAN
No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive
MAC 1.2. 64 Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death,
MAC 1.2. 65 And with his former title greet Macbeth.
MAC 1.2. 66A
MAC-ROSS
I'll see it done.
MAC 1.2. 67
MAC-KING DUNCAN
What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. +
MAC 1.2. 67 {Exeunt severally}
MAC 1.2. 0
MAC 1.2. 0 {Thunder. Enter the three Witches}
MAC 1.3. 1
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Where hast thou been, sister?
MAC 1.3. 2B
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Killing swine.
MAC-THIRD WITCH
Sister, where thou?
MAC 1.3. 3
MAC-FIRST WITCH
A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
MAC 1.3. 4 And munched, and munched, and munched. `Give me,' quoth I.
MAC 1.3. 5 `Aroint thee, witch,' the rump-fed runnion cries.
MAC 1.3. 6 Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' th' Tiger.
MAC 1.3. 7 But in a sieve I'll thither sail,
MAC 1.3. 8 And like a rat without a tail
MAC 1.3. 9 I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
MAC 1.3. 10
MAC-SECOND WITCH
I'll give thee a wind.
MAC 1.3. 11
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Thou'rt kind.
MAC 1.3. 12
MAC-THIRD WITCH
And I another.
MAC 1.3. 13
MAC-FIRST WITCH
I myself have all the other,
MAC 1.3. 14 And the very ports they blow,
MAC 1.3. 15 All the quarters that they know
MAC 1.3. 16 I' th' shipman's card.
MAC 1.3. 17 I'll drain him dry as hay.
MAC 1.3. 18 Sleep shall neither night nor day
MAC 1.3. 19 Hang upon his penthouse lid.
MAC 1.3. 20 He shall live a man forbid.
MAC 1.3. 21 Weary sennights nine times nine
MAC 1.3. 22 Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine.
MAC 1.3. 23 Though his barque cannot be lost,
MAC 1.3. 24 Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.
MAC 1.3. 25B Look what I have.
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Show me, show me.
MAC 1.3. 26
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Here I have a pilot's thumb,
MAC 1.3. 27 Wrecked as homeward he did come. {Drum within}
MAC 1.3. 28
MAC-THIRD WITCH
A drum, a drum -
MAC 1.3. 29 Macbeth doth come.
MAC 1.3. 30
MAC-ALL
{(dancing in a ring)} The weird sisters hand +
MAC 1.3. 30 in hand,
MAC 1.3. 31 Posters of the sea and land,
MAC 1.3. 32 Thus do go about, about,
MAC 1.3. 33 Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
MAC 1.3. 34 And thrice again to make up nine.
MAC 1.3. 35 Peace! The charm's wound up. {Enter Macbeth and Banquo}
MAC 1.3. 36
MAC-MACBETH
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
MAC 1.3. 37
MAC-BANQUO
How far is 't called to Forres? +
MAC 1.3. 37 +
MAC 1.3. 37 - What are these,
MAC 1.3. 38 So withered, and so wild in their attire,
MAC 1.3. 39 That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth
MAC 1.3. 40 And yet are on 't? - Live you, or are you aught
MAC 1.3. 41 That man may question? You seem to understand me
MAC 1.3. 42 By each at once her choppy finger laying
MAC 1.3. 43 Upon her skinny lips. You should be women,
MAC 1.3. 44 And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
MAC 1.3. 45B That you are so. +
MAC 1.3. 45B +
MAC 1.3. 45B
MAC-MACBETH
{(to the Witches)} Speak, +
MAC 1.3. 45B if you can. What are you?
MAC 1.3. 46
MAC-FIRST WITCH
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.
MAC 1.3. 47
MAC-SECOND WITCH
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.
MAC 1.3. 48
MAC-THIRD WITCH
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
MAC 1.3. 49
MAC-BANQUO
Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear
MAC 1.3. 50 Things that do sound so fair? {(To the Witches)} I' th' +
MAC 1.3. 50 name of truth,
MAC 1.3. 51 Are ye fantastical or that indeed
MAC 1.3. 52 Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
MAC 1.3. 53 You greet with present grace and great prediction
MAC 1.3. 54 Of noble having and of royal hope,
MAC 1.3. 55 That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not.
MAC 1.3. 56 If you can look into the seeds of time
MAC 1.3. 57 And say which grain will grow and which will not,
MAC 1.3. 58 Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
MAC 1.3. 59 Your favours nor your hate.
MAC 1.3. 60A
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Hail!
MAC 1.3. 61A
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Hail!
MAC 1.3. 62A
MAC-THIRD WITCH
Hail!
MAC 1.3. 63
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
MAC 1.3. 64
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Not so happy, yet much happier.
MAC 1.3. 65
MAC-THIRD WITCH
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
MAC 1.3. 66 So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
MAC 1.3. 67
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!
MAC 1.3. 68
MAC-MACBETH
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
MAC 1.3. 69 By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis,
MAC 1.3. 70 But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives,
MAC 1.3. 71 A prosperous gentleman, and to be king
MAC 1.3. 72 Stands not within the prospect of belief,
MAC 1.3. 73 No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
MAC 1.3. 74 You owe this strange intelligence, or why
MAC 1.3. 75 Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
MAC 1.3. 76 With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. {The Witches +
MAC 1.3. 76 vanish}
MAC 1.3. 77
MAC-BANQUO
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
MAC 1.3. 78 And these are of them. Whither are they vanished?
MAC 1.3. 79
MAC-MACBETH
Into the air, and what seemed corporal
MAC 1.3. 80 Melted as breath into the wind. Would they had stayed.
MAC 1.3. 81
MAC-BANQUO
Were such things here as we do speak about,
MAC 1.3. 82 Or have we eaten on the insane root
MAC 1.3. 83 That takes the reason prisoner?
MAC 1.3. 84B
MAC-MACBETH
Your children shall be kings.
MAC-BANQUO
You shall be king.
MAC 1.3. 85
MAC-MACBETH
And Thane of Cawdor too. Went it not so?
MAC 1.3. 86
MAC-BANQUO
To th' self-same tune and words. Who's here? {Enter +
MAC 1.3. 86 Ross and Angus}
MAC 1.3. 87
MAC-ROSS
The King hath happily received, Macbeth,
MAC 1.3. 88 The news of thy success, and when he reads
MAC 1.3. 89 Thy personal venture in the rebels' sight
MAC 1.3. 90 His wonders and his praises do contend
MAC 1.3. 91 Which should be thine or his; silenced with that,
MAC 1.3. 92 In viewing o'er the rest o' th' self-same day
MAC 1.3. 93 He finds thee in the stout Norwegian ranks,
MAC 1.3. 94 Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
MAC 1.3. 95 Strange images of death. As thick as hail
MAC 1.3. 96 Came post with post, and every one did bear
MAC 1.3. 97 Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
MAC 1.3. 98B And poured them down before him.
MAC-ANGUS
{(to +
MAC 1.3. 98B Macbeth)} We are sent
MAC 1.3. 99 To give thee from our royal master thanks;
MAC 1.3. 100 Only to herald thee into his sight,
MAC 1.3. 101 Not pay thee.
MAC 1.3. 102
MAC-ROSS
And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
MAC 1.3. 103 He bade me from him call thee Thane of Cawdor,
MAC 1.3. 104 In which addition, hail, most worthy thane,
MAC 1.3. 105B For it is thine.
MAC-BANQUO
What, can the devil speak true?
MAC 1.3. 106
MAC-MACBETH
The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me
MAC 1.3. 107B In borrowed robes?
MAC-ANGUS
Who was the thane lives yet,
MAC 1.3. 108 But under heavy judgement bears that life
MAC 1.3. 109 Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
MAC 1.3. 110 With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
MAC 1.3. 111 With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
MAC 1.3. 112 He laboured in his country's wrack, I know not;
MAC 1.3. 113 But treasons capital, confessed, and proved
MAC 1.3. 114B Have overthrown him.
MAC-MACBETH
{(aside)} Glamis, and +
MAC 1.3. 114B Thane of Cawdor.
MAC 1.3. 115 The greatest is behind. {(To Ross and Angus)} Thanks +
MAC 1.3. 115 for your pains.
MAC 1.3. 116 {(To Banquo)} Do you not hope your children shall be +
MAC 1.3. 116 kings
MAC 1.3. 117 When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
MAC 1.3. 118B Promised no less to them?
MAC-BANQUO
That, trusted home,
MAC 1.3. 119 Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
MAC 1.3. 120 Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange,
MAC 1.3. 121 And oftentimes to win us to our harm
MAC 1.3. 122 The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
MAC 1.3. 123 Win us with honest trifles to betray 's
MAC 1.3. 124 In deepest consequence.
MAC 1.3. 125 {(To Ross and Angus)} Cousins, a word, I pray you.
MAC 1.3. 126A
MAC-MACBETH
{(aside)} Two truths are told
MAC 1.3. 127 As happy prologues to the swelling act
MAC 1.3. 128 Of the imperial theme. {(To Ross and Angus)} I thank +
MAC 1.3. 128 you, gentlemen.
MAC 1.3. 129 {(Aside)} This supernatural soliciting
MAC 1.3. 130 Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
MAC 1.3. 131 Why hath it given me earnest of success
MAC 1.3. 132 Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor.
MAC 1.3. 133 If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
MAC 1.3. 134 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
MAC 1.3. 135 And make my seated heart knock at my ribs
MAC 1.3. 136 Against the use of nature? Present fears
MAC 1.3. 137 Are less than horrible imaginings.
MAC 1.3. 138 My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
MAC 1.3. 139 Shakes so my single state of man that function
MAC 1.3. 140 Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is
MAC 1.3. 141B But what is not.
MAC-BANQUO
{(to Ross and Angus)} Look +
MAC 1.3. 141B how our partner's rapt.
MAC 1.3. 142
MAC-MACBETH
{(aside)} If chance will have me king, +
MAC 1.3. 142 why, chance may crown me
MAC 1.3. 143B Without my stir.
MAC-BANQUO
{(to Ross and Angus)} New +
MAC 1.3. 143B honours come upon him,
MAC 1.3. 144 Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
MAC 1.3. 145B But with the aid of use.
MAC-MACBETH
{(aside)} Come +
MAC 1.3. 145B what come may,
MAC 1.3. 146 Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
MAC 1.3. 147
MAC-BANQUO
Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
MAC 1.3. 148
MAC-MACBETH
Give me your favour. My dull brain was wrought
MAC 1.3. 149 With things forgotten. {(To Ross and Angus)} Kind +
MAC 1.3. 149 gentlemen, your pains
MAC 1.3. 150 Are registered where every day I turn
MAC 1.3. 151 The leaf to read them. Let us toward the King.
MAC 1.3. 152 {(Aside to Banquo)} Think upon what hath chanced, and +
MAC 1.3. 152 at more time,
MAC 1.3. 153 The interim having weighed it, let us speak
MAC 1.3. 154 Our free hearts each to other.
MAC 1.3. 155A
MAC-BANQUO
Very gladly.
MAC 1.3. 156
MAC-MACBETH
Till then, enough. {(To Ross and Angus)} +
MAC 1.3. 156 Come, friends. {Exeunt}
MAC 1.3. 0 {Flourish. Enter King Duncan, Lennox, Malcolm, Donalbain, +
MAC 1.4. 0 and attendants}
MAC 1.4. 1
MAC-KING DUNCAN
Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
MAC 1.4. 2B Those in commission yet returned?
MAC-MALCOLM
My liege,
MAC 1.4. 3 They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
MAC 1.4. 4 With one that saw him die, who did report
MAC 1.4. 5 That very frankly he confessed his treasons,
MAC 1.4. 6 Implored your highness' pardon, and set forth
MAC 1.4. 7 A deep repentance. Nothing in his life
MAC 1.4. 8 Became him like the leaving it. He died
MAC 1.4. 9 As one that had been studied in his death
MAC 1.4. 10 To throw away the dearest thing he owed
MAC 1.4. 11B As 'twere a careless trifle.
MAC-KING DUNCAN
There's no art
MAC 1.4. 12 To find the mind's construction in the face.
MAC 1.4. 13 He was a gentleman on whom I built
MAC 1.4. 14B An absolute trust. {Enter Macbeth, Banquo, Ross, and +
MAC 1.4. 14B Angus} {(To Macbeth)} O worthiest cousin,
MAC 1.4. 15 The sin of my ingratitude even now
MAC 1.4. 16 Was heavy on me! Thou art so far before
MAC 1.4. 17 That swiftest wing of recompense is slow
MAC 1.4. 18 To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,
MAC 1.4. 19 That the proportion both of thanks and payment
MAC 1.4. 20 Might have been mine. Only I have left to say,
MAC 1.4. 21 `More is thy due than more than all can pay'.
MAC 1.4. 22
MAC-MACBETH
The service and the loyalty I owe,
MAC 1.4. 23 In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part
MAC 1.4. 24 Is to receive our duties, and our duties
MAC 1.4. 25 Are to your throne and state children and servants
MAC 1.4. 26 Which do but what they should by doing everything
MAC 1.4. 27B Safe toward your love and honour.
MAC-KING DUNCAN
Welcome hither.
MAC 1.4. 28 I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
MAC 1.4. 29 To make thee full of growing. - Noble Banquo,
MAC 1.4. 30 That hast no less deserved, nor must be known
MAC 1.4. 31 No less to have done so, let me enfold thee
MAC 1.4. 32B And hold thee to my heart.
MAC-BANQUO
There if I grow
MAC 1.4. 33B The harvest is your own.
MAC-KING DUNCAN
My plenteous joys,
MAC 1.4. 34 Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
MAC 1.4. 35 In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
MAC 1.4. 36 And you whose places are the nearest, know
MAC 1.4. 37 We will establish our estate upon
MAC 1.4. 38 Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
MAC 1.4. 39 The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must
MAC 1.4. 40 Not unaccompanied invest him only,
MAC 1.4. 41 But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
MAC 1.4. 42 On all deservers. {(To Macbeth)} From hence to +
MAC 1.4. 42 Inverness,
MAC 1.4. 43 And bind us further to you.
MAC 1.4. 44
MAC-MACBETH
The rest is labour which is not used for you.
MAC 1.4. 45 I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful
MAC 1.4. 46 The hearing of my wife with your approach;
MAC 1.4. 47B So humbly take my leave.
MAC-KING DUNCAN
My worthy Cawdor.
MAC 1.4. 48
MAC-MACBETH
{(aside)} The Prince of Cumberland - that is +
MAC 1.4. 48 a step
MAC 1.4. 49 On which I must fall down or else o'erleap,
MAC 1.4. 50 For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires,
MAC 1.4. 51 Let not light see my black and deep desires;
MAC 1.4. 52 The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
MAC 1.4. 53 Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. {Exit}
MAC 1.4. 54
MAC-KING DUNCAN
True, worthy Banquo, he is full so valiant,
MAC 1.4. 55 And in his commendations I am fed.
MAC 1.4. 56 It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,
MAC 1.4. 57 Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome.
MAC 1.4. 58 It is a peerless kinsman. {Flourish. Exeunt}
MAC 1.4. 0 {Enter Lady Macbeth, with a letter}
MAC 1.5. 1
MAC-LADY MACBETH
{(reading)} `They met me in the day +
MAC 1.5. 1 of success,
MAC 1.5. 2 and I have learned by the perfect'st report they have
MAC 1.5. 3 more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in
MAC 1.5. 4 desire to question them further, they made themselves
MAC 1.5. 5 air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the
MAC 1.5. 6 wonder of it came missives from the King, who all-hailed
MAC 1.5. 7 me ``Thane of Cawdor'', by which title before these weird
MAC 1.5. 8 sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of
MAC 1.5. 9 time with ``Hail, King that shalt be!'' This have I thought
MAC 1.5. 10 good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness,
MAC 1.5. 11 that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing by being
MAC 1.5. 12 ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to
MAC 1.5. 13 thy heart, and farewell.'
MAC 1.5. 14 Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
MAC 1.5. 15 What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature.
MAC 1.5. 16 It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
MAC 1.5. 17 To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,
MAC 1.5. 18 Art not without ambition, but without
MAC 1.5. 19 The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,
MAC 1.5. 20 That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
MAC 1.5. 21 And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great Glamis,
MAC 1.5. 22 That which cries `Thus thou must do' if thou have it,
MAC 1.5. 23 And that which rather thou dost fear to do
MAC 1.5. 24 Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither,
MAC 1.5. 25 That I may pour my spirits in thine ear
MAC 1.5. 26 And chastise with the valour of my tongue
MAC 1.5. 27 All that impedes thee from the golden round
MAC 1.5. 28 Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
MAC 1.5. 29B To have thee crowned withal. {Enter a Servant} What is +
MAC 1.5. 29B your tidings?
MAC 1.5. 30B
MAC-SERVANT
The King comes here tonight.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Thou'rt mad to +
MAC 1.5. 30B say it.
MAC 1.5. 31 Is not thy master with him, who, were 't so,
MAC 1.5. 32 Would have informed for preparation?
MAC 1.5. 33
MAC-SERVANT
So please you, it is true. Our thane is coming,
MAC 1.5. 34 One of my fellows had the speed of him,
MAC 1.5. 35 Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more
MAC 1.5. 36B Than would make up his message.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Give him tending;
MAC 1.5. 37B He brings great news. {Exit Servant} The raven himself +
MAC 1.5. 37B is hoarse
MAC 1.5. 38 That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
MAC 1.5. 39 Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
MAC 1.5. 40 That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
MAC 1.5. 41 And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
MAC 1.5. 42 Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,
MAC 1.5. 43 Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,
MAC 1.5. 44 That no compunctious visitings of nature
MAC 1.5. 45 Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
MAC 1.5. 46 Th' effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts,
MAC 1.5. 47 And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,
MAC 1.5. 48 Wherever in your sightless substances
MAC 1.5. 49 You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night,
MAC 1.5. 50 And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
MAC 1.5. 51 That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
MAC 1.5. 52 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
MAC 1.5. 53B To cry `Hold, hold!' {Enter Macbeth} Great Glamis, +
MAC 1.5. 53B worthy Cawdor,
MAC 1.5. 54 Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter,
MAC 1.5. 55 Thy letters have transported me beyond
MAC 1.5. 56 This ignorant present, and I feel now
MAC 1.5. 57B The future in the instant.
MAC-MACBETH
My dearest love,
MAC 1.5. 58B Duncan comes here tonight.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
And when goes hence?
MAC 1.5. 59B
MAC-MACBETH
Tomorrow, as he purposes.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
O never
MAC 1.5. 60 Shall sun that morrow see.
MAC 1.5. 61 Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
MAC 1.5. 62 May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
MAC 1.5. 63 Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
MAC 1.5. 64 Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower,
MAC 1.5. 65 But be the serpent under 't. He that's coming
MAC 1.5. 66 Must be provided for; and you shall put
MAC 1.5. 67 This night's great business into my dispatch,
MAC 1.5. 68 Which shall to all our nights and days to come
MAC 1.5. 69 Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
MAC 1.5. 70B
MAC-MACBETH
We will speak further.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Only look up clear.
MAC 1.5. 71 To alter favour ever is to fear.
MAC 1.5. 72 Leave all the rest to me. {Exeunt}
MAC 1.5. 0 {[Hautboys and torches.] Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, +
MAC 1.6. 0 Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross, Angus, and attendants}
MAC 1.6. 1
MAC-KING DUNCAN
This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air
MAC 1.6. 2 Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
MAC 1.6. 3B Unto our gentle senses.
MAC-BANQUO
This guest of summer,
MAC 1.6. 4 The temple-haunting martlet, does approve
MAC 1.6. 5 By his loved mansionry that the heavens' breath
MAC 1.6. 6 Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze,
MAC 1.6. 7 Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird
MAC 1.6. 8 Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle;
MAC 1.6. 9 Where they most breed and haunt I have observed
MAC 1.6. 10B The air is delicate. {Enter Lady Macbeth}
MAC-KING DUNCAN
+
MAC 1.6. 10B See, see, our honoured hostess!
MAC 1.6. 11 The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
MAC 1.6. 12 Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
MAC 1.6. 13 How you shall bid God 'ield us for your pains,
MAC 1.6. 14B And thank us for your trouble.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
All our service
MAC 1.6. 15 In every point twice done, and then done double,
MAC 1.6. 16 Were poor and single business to contend
MAC 1.6. 17 Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
MAC 1.6. 18 Your majesty loads our house. For those of old,
MAC 1.6. 19 And the late dignities heaped up to them,
MAC 1.6. 20B We rest your hermits.
MAC-KING DUNCAN
Where's the Thane of Cawdor?
MAC 1.6. 21 We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose
MAC 1.6. 22 To be his purveyor; but he rides well,
MAC 1.6. 23 And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him
MAC 1.6. 24 To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
MAC 1.6. 25B We are your guest tonight.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Your servants ever
MAC 1.6. 26 Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs in count
MAC 1.6. 27 To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
MAC 1.6. 28B Still to return your own.
MAC-KING DUNCAN
Give me your hand.
MAC 1.6. 29 Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly,
MAC 1.6. 30 And shall continue our graces towards him.
MAC 1.6. 31 By your leave, hostess. {Exeunt}
MAC 1.6. 0 {Hautboys. Torches. Enter a sewer and divers servants +
MAC 1.7. 0 with dishes and service over the stage. Then enter Macbeth}
MAC 1.7. 1
MAC-MACBETH
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
MAC 1.7. 2 It were done quickly. If th' assassination
MAC 1.7. 3 Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
MAC 1.7. 4 With his surcease success: that but this blow
MAC 1.7. 5 Might be the be-all and the end-all, here,
MAC 1.7. 6 But here upon this bank and shoal of time,
MAC 1.7. 7 We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases
MAC 1.7. 8 We still have judgement here, that we but teach
MAC 1.7. 9 Bloody instructions which, being taught, return
MAC 1.7. 10 To plague th' inventor. This even-handed justice
MAC 1.7. 11 Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
MAC 1.7. 12 To our own lips. He's here in double trust:
MAC 1.7. 13 First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
MAC 1.7. 14 Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
MAC 1.7. 15 Who should against his murderer shut the door,
MAC 1.7. 16 Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
MAC 1.7. 17 Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
MAC 1.7. 18 So clear in his great office, that his virtues
MAC 1.7. 19 Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against
MAC 1.7. 20 The deep damnation of his taking-off,
MAC 1.7. 21 And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
MAC 1.7. 22 Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsed
MAC 1.7. 23 Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
MAC 1.7. 24 Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye
MAC 1.7. 25 That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
MAC 1.7. 26 To prick the sides of my intent, but only
MAC 1.7. 27 Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself
MAC 1.7. 28B And falls on th' other. {Enter Lady Macbeth} How now? +
MAC 1.7. 28B What news?
MAC 1.7. 29
MAC-LADY MACBETH
He has almost supped. Why have you left the chamber?
MAC 1.7. 30B
MAC-MACBETH
Hath he asked for me?
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Know you not he has?
MAC 1.7. 31
MAC-MACBETH
We will proceed no further in this business.
MAC 1.7. 32 He hath honoured me of late, and I have bought
MAC 1.7. 33 Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
MAC 1.7. 34 Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
MAC 1.7. 35B Not cast aside so soon.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Was the hope drunk
MAC 1.7. 36 Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
MAC 1.7. 37 And wakes it now to look so green and pale
MAC 1.7. 38 At what it did so freely? From this time
MAC 1.7. 39 Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
MAC 1.7. 40 To be the same in thine own act and valour
MAC 1.7. 41 As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
MAC 1.7. 42 Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
MAC 1.7. 43 And live a coward in thine own esteem,
MAC 1.7. 44 Letting `I dare not' wait upon `I would',
MAC 1.7. 45B Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
MAC-MACBETH
Prithee, peace.
MAC 1.7. 46 I dare do all that may become a man;
MAC 1.7. 47B Who dares do more is none.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
What beast was 't then
MAC 1.7. 48 That made you break this enterprise to me?
MAC 1.7. 49 When you durst do it, then you were a man;
MAC 1.7. 50 And to be more than what you were, you would
MAC 1.7. 51 Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
MAC 1.7. 52 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.
MAC 1.7. 53 They have made themselves, and that their fitness now
MAC 1.7. 54 Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
MAC 1.7. 55 How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me.
MAC 1.7. 56 I would, while it was smiling in my face,
MAC 1.7. 57 Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
MAC 1.7. 58 And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn
MAC 1.7. 59B As you have done to this.
MAC-MACBETH
If we should fail?
MAC-LADY MACBETH
+
MAC 1.7. 59B We fail!
MAC 1.7. 60 But screw your courage to the sticking-place
MAC 1.7. 61 And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep -
MAC 1.7. 62 Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey
MAC 1.7. 63 Soundly invite him - his two chamberlains
MAC 1.7. 64 Will I with wine and wassail so convince
MAC 1.7. 65 That memory, the warder of the brain,
MAC 1.7. 66 Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
MAC 1.7. 67 A limbeck only. When in swinish sleep
MAC 1.7. 68 Their drenched natures lies as in a death,
MAC 1.7. 69 What cannot you and I perform upon
MAC 1.7. 70 Th' unguarded Duncan? What not put upon
MAC 1.7. 71 His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
MAC 1.7. 72B Of our great quell?
MAC-MACBETH
Bring forth men-children only,
MAC 1.7. 73 For thy undaunted mettle should compose
MAC 1.7. 74 Nothing but males. Will it not be received,
MAC 1.7. 75 When we have marked with blood those sleepy two
MAC 1.7. 76 Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,
MAC 1.7. 77B That they have done 't?
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Who dares receive it other,
MAC 1.7. 78 As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
MAC 1.7. 79B Upon his death?
MAC-MACBETH
I am settled, and bend up
MAC 1.7. 80 Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
MAC 1.7. 81 Away, and mock the time with fairest show.
MAC 1.7. 82 False face must hide what the false heart doth know. {Exeunt}
MAC 1.7. 82
MAC-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MAC 1.7. 0 {Enter Banquo and Fleance, with a torch before him}
MAC 2.1. 1A
MAC-BANQUO
How goes the night, boy?
MAC 2.1. 2
MAC-FLEANCE
The moon is down. I have not heard the clock.
MAC 2.1. 3B
MAC-BANQUO
And she goes down at twelve.
MAC-FLEANCE
I take 't 'tis +
MAC 2.1. 3B later, sir.
MAC 2.1. 4
MAC-BANQUO
{(giving Fleance his sword)} Hold, take my +
MAC 2.1. 4 sword. There's husbandry in heaven,
MAC 2.1. 5 Their candles are all out. Take thee that, too.
MAC 2.1. 6 A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
MAC 2.1. 7 And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,
MAC 2.1. 8 Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
MAC 2.1. 9B Gives way to in repose. {Enter Macbeth, and a servant with a +
MAC 2.1. 9B torch} Give me my sword. Who's there?
MAC 2.1. 10A
MAC-MACBETH
A friend.
MAC 2.1. 11
MAC-BANQUO
What, sir, not yet at rest? The King's a-bed.
MAC 2.1. 12 He hath been in unusual pleasure, and
MAC 2.1. 13 Sent forth great largesse to your offices.
MAC 2.1. 14 This diamond he greets your wife withal
MAC 2.1. 15 By the name of most kind hostess, and shut up
MAC 2.1. 16B In measureless content.
MAC-MACBETH
Being unprepared
MAC 2.1. 17 Our will became the servant to defect,
MAC 2.1. 18B Which else should free have wrought.
MAC-BANQUO
All's well.
MAC 2.1. 19 I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters.
MAC 2.1. 20B To you they have showed some truth.
MAC-MACBETH
I think not of them;
MAC 2.1. 21 Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
MAC 2.1. 22 We would spend it in some words upon that business
MAC 2.1. 23B If you would grant the time.
MAC-BANQUO
At your kind'st leisure.
MAC 2.1. 24
MAC-MACBETH
If you shall cleave to my consent when 'tis,
MAC 2.1. 25B It shall make honour for you.
MAC-BANQUO
So I lose none
MAC 2.1. 26 In seeking to augment it, but still keep
MAC 2.1. 27 My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,
MAC 2.1. 28 I shall be counselled.
MAC 2.1. 29A
MAC-MACBETH
Good repose the while.
MAC 2.1. 30A
MAC-BANQUO
Thanks, sir. The like to you. {Exeunt Banquo and +
MAC 2.1. 30A Fleance}
MAC 2.1. 31
MAC-MACBETH
{(to the Servant)} Go bid thy mistress, +
MAC 2.1. 31 when my drink is ready,
MAC 2.1. 32 She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. {Exit Servant}
MAC 2.1. 33 Is this a dagger which I see before me,
MAC 2.1. 34 The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
MAC 2.1. 35 I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
MAC 2.1. 36 Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
MAC 2.1. 37 To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
MAC 2.1. 38 A dagger of the mind, a false creation
MAC 2.1. 39 Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
MAC 2.1. 40 I see thee yet, in form as palpable
MAC 2.1. 41 As this which now I draw.
MAC 2.1. 42 Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going,
MAC 2.1. 43 And such an instrument I was to use.
MAC 2.1. 44 Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses,
MAC 2.1. 45 Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,
MAC 2.1. 46 And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
MAC 2.1. 47 Which was not so before. There's no such thing.
MAC 2.1. 48 It is the bloody business which informs
MAC 2.1. 49 Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world
MAC 2.1. 50 Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
MAC 2.1. 51 The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates
MAC 2.1. 52 Pale Hecate's offerings, and withered murder,
MAC 2.1. 53 Alarumed by his sentinel the wolf,
MAC 2.1. 54 Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
MAC 2.1. 55 With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
MAC 2.1. 56 Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
MAC 2.1. 57 Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear
MAC 2.1. 58 Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
MAC 2.1. 59 And take the present horror from the time,
MAC 2.1. 60 Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives.
MAC 2.1. 61 Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. {A bell rings}
MAC 2.1. 62 I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.
MAC 2.1. 63 Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
MAC 2.1. 64 That summons thee to heaven or to hell. {Exit}
MAC 2.1. 0 {Enter Lady Macbeth}
MAC 2.2. 1
MAC-LADY MACBETH
That which hath made them drunk hath made me +
MAC 2.2. 1 bold.
MAC 2.2. 2 What hath quenched them hath given me fire. Hark, peace! -
MAC 2.2. 3 It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman
MAC 2.2. 4 Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it.
MAC 2.2. 5 The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms
MAC 2.2. 6 Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets
MAC 2.2. 7 That death and nature do contend about them
MAC 2.2. 8B Whether they live or die. {Enter Macbeth [above]}
MAC-MACBETH
+
MAC 2.2. 8B Who's there? What ho? {Exit}
MAC 2.2. 9
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,
MAC 2.2. 10 And 'tis not done. Th' attempt and not the deed
MAC 2.2. 11 Confounds us. Hark! - I laid their daggers ready;
MAC 2.2. 12 He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled
MAC 2.2. 13B My father as he slept, I had done 't. {[Enter Macbeth +
MAC 2.2. 13B below]} My husband!
MAC 2.2. 14
MAC-MACBETH
I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
MAC 2.2. 15
MAC-LADY MACBETH
I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
MAC 2.2. 16B Did not you speak?
MAC-MACBETH
When?
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Now.
MAC-MACBETH
As +
MAC 2.2. 16B I descended?
MAC 2.2. 17B
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Ay.
MAC-MACBETH
Hark! - Who lies i' th' second chamber?
MAC 2.2. 18B
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Donalbain.
MAC-MACBETH
{(looking at his +
MAC 2.2. 18B hands)} This is a sorry sight.
MAC 2.2. 19
MAC-LADY MACBETH
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
MAC 2.2. 20
MAC-MACBETH
There's one did laugh in 's sleep, and one cried `Murder!'
MAC 2.2. 21 That they did wake each other. I stood and heard them.
MAC 2.2. 22 But they did say their prayers and addressed them
MAC 2.2. 23B Again to sleep.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
There are two lodged together.
MAC 2.2. 24
MAC-MACBETH
One cried `God bless us' and `Amen' the other,
MAC 2.2. 25 As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
MAC 2.2. 26 List'ning their fear I could not say `Amen'
MAC 2.2. 27 When they did say `God bless us.'
MAC 2.2. 28
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Consider it not so deeply.
MAC 2.2. 29
MAC-MACBETH
But wherefore could not I pronounce `Amen'?
MAC 2.2. 30 I had most need of blessing, and `Amen'
MAC 2.2. 31B Stuck in my throat.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
These deeds must not be thought
MAC 2.2. 32 After these ways. So, it will make us mad.
MAC 2.2. 33
MAC-MACBETH
Methought I heard a voice cry `Sleep no more,
MAC 2.2. 34 Macbeth does murder sleep' - the innocent sleep,
MAC 2.2. 35 Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
MAC 2.2. 36 The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
MAC 2.2. 37 Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
MAC 2.2. 38B Chief nourisher in life's feast -
MAC-LADY MACBETH
What do you mean?
MAC 2.2. 39
MAC-MACBETH
Still it cried `Sleep no more' to all the house,
MAC 2.2. 40 `Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
MAC 2.2. 41 Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.'
MAC 2.2. 42
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
MAC 2.2. 43 You do unbend your noble strength to think
MAC 2.2. 44 So brain-sickly of things. Go get some water
MAC 2.2. 45 And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
MAC 2.2. 46 Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
MAC 2.2. 47 They must lie there. Go, carry them, and smear
MAC 2.2. 48B The sleepy grooms with blood.
MAC-MACBETH
I'll go no more.
MAC 2.2. 49 I am afraid to think what I have done,
MAC 2.2. 50B Look on 't again I dare not.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Infirm of purpose!
MAC 2.2. 51 Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
MAC 2.2. 52 Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood
MAC 2.2. 53 That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed
MAC 2.2. 54 I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,
MAC 2.2. 55B For it must seem their guilt. {Exit} {Knock +
MAC 2.2. 55B within}
MAC-MACBETH
Whence is that knocking? -
MAC 2.2. 56 How is 't with me when every noise appals me?
MAC 2.2. 57 What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
MAC 2.2. 58 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
MAC 2.2. 59 Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
MAC 2.2. 60 The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
MAC 2.2. 61 Making the green one red. {Enter Lady Macbeth}
MAC 2.2. 62
MAC-LADY MACBETH
My hands are of your colour, but I shame
MAC 2.2. 63B To wear a heart so white. {Knock within} I hear a +
MAC 2.2. 63B knocking
MAC 2.2. 64 At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber.
MAC 2.2. 65 A little water clears us of this deed.
MAC 2.2. 66 How easy is it then! Your constancy
MAC 2.2. 67B Hath left you unattended. {Knock within} Hark, more +
MAC 2.2. 67B knocking.
MAC 2.2. 68 Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us
MAC 2.2. 69 And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
MAC 2.2. 70 So poorly in your thoughts.
MAC 2.2. 71
MAC-MACBETH
To know my deed 'twere best not know myself. {Knock +
MAC 2.2. 71 within}
MAC 2.2. 72 Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst. +
MAC 2.2. 72 {Exeunt}
MAC 2.2. 0 {Enter a Porter. Knocking within}
MAC 2.3. 1
MAC-PORTER
Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter
MAC 2.3. 2 of hell-gate he should have old turning the key. {Knock within}
MAC 2.3. 3 Knock, knock, knock. Who's there, i' th' name of
MAC 2.3. 4 Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on
MAC 2.3. 5 th' expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins
MAC 2.3. 6 enough about you; here you'll sweat for 't. {Knock within}
MAC 2.3. 7 Knock, knock. Who's there, in th' other devil's name?
MAC 2.3. 8 Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both
MAC 2.3. 9 the scales against either scale, who committed treason
MAC 2.3. 10 enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to
MAC 2.3. 11 heaven. O, come in, equivocator. {Knock within}
MAC 2.3. 12 Knock, knock, knock. Who's there? 'Faith, here's an
MAC 2.3. 13 English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French
MAC 2.3. 14 hose. Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose. {Knock +
MAC 2.3. 14 within}
MAC 2.3. 15 Knock, knock. Never at quiet. What are you? - But this
MAC 2.3. 16 place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further.
MAC 2.3. 17 I had thought to have let in some of all professions
MAC 2.3. 18 that go the primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire. {Knock +
MAC 2.3. 18 within}
MAC 2.3. 19 Anon, anon! {He opens the gate}
MAC 2.3. 20 I pray you remember the porter. {Enter Macduff and +
MAC 2.3. 20 Lennox}
MAC 2.3. 21
MAC-MACDUFF
Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed
MAC 2.3. 22 That you do lie so late?
MAC 2.3. 23
MAC-PORTER
Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second +
MAC 2.3. 23 cock,
MAC 2.3. 24 and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
MAC 2.3. 25
MAC-MACDUFF
What three things does drink especially
MAC 2.3. 26 provoke?
MAC 2.3. 27
MAC-PORTER
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
MAC 2.3. 28 Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes: it provokes
MAC 2.3. 29 the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore
MAC 2.3. 30 much drink may be said to be an equivocator with
MAC 2.3. 31 lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on
MAC 2.3. 32 and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens
MAC 2.3. 33 him, makes him stand to and not stand to; in
MAC 2.3. 34 conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him
MAC 2.3. 35 the lie, leaves him.
MAC 2.3. 36
MAC-MACDUFF
I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
MAC 2.3. 37
MAC-PORTER
That it did, sir, i' the very throat on me; but I
MAC 2.3. 38 requited him for his lie, and, I think, being too strong
MAC 2.3. 39 for him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I
MAC 2.3. 40 made a shift to cast him.
MAC 2.3. 41A
MAC-MACDUFF
Is thy master stirring? {Enter Macbeth}
MAC 2.3. 42 Our knocking has awaked him: here he comes. {[Exit +
MAC 2.3. 42 Porter]}
MAC 2.3. 43B
MAC-LENNOX
{(to Macbeth)} Good morrow, noble +
MAC 2.3. 43B sir.
MAC-MACBETH
Good morrow, both.
MAC 2.3. 44B
MAC-MACDUFF
Is the King stirring, worthy thane?
MAC-MACBETH
Not yet.
MAC 2.3. 45
MAC-MACDUFF
He did command me to call timely on him.
MAC 2.3. 46B I have almost slipped the hour.
MAC-MACBETH
I'll bring you to him.
MAC 2.3. 47
MAC-MACDUFF
I know this is a joyful trouble to you,
MAC 2.3. 48 But yet 'tis one.
MAC 2.3. 49
MAC-MACBETH
The labour we delight in physics pain.
MAC 2.3. 50B This is the door.
MAC-MACDUFF
I'll make so bold to call,
MAC 2.3. 51 For 'tis my limited service. {Exit Macduff}
MAC 2.3. 52B
MAC-LENNOX
Goes the King hence today?
MAC-MACBETH
He does; he +
MAC 2.3. 52B did appoint so.
MAC 2.3. 53
MAC-LENNOX
The night has been unruly. Where we lay
MAC 2.3. 54 Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,
MAC 2.3. 55 Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death,
MAC 2.3. 56 And prophesying with accents terrible
MAC 2.3. 57 Of dire combustion and confused events
MAC 2.3. 58 New-hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure bird
MAC 2.3. 59 Clamoured the livelong night. Some say the earth
MAC 2.3. 60B Was feverous and did shake.
MAC-MACBETH
'Twas a rough night.
MAC 2.3. 61
MAC-LENNOX
My young remembrance cannot parallel
MAC 2.3. 62B A fellow to it. {Enter Macduff}
MAC-MACDUFF
O horror, +
MAC 2.3. 62B horror, horror!
MAC 2.3. 63 Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee.
MAC 2.3. 64A
MAC-MACBETH
MAC-AND
MAC-LENNOX
What's the matter?
MAC 2.3. 65
MAC-MACDUFF
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
MAC 2.3. 66 Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
MAC 2.3. 67 The Lord's anointed temple and stole thence
MAC 2.3. 68 The life o' th' building.
MAC 2.3. 69A
MAC-MACBETH
What is 't you say - the life?
MAC 2.3. 70A
MAC-LENNOX
Mean you his majesty?
MAC 2.3. 71
MAC-MACDUFF
Approach the chamber and destroy your sight
MAC 2.3. 72 With a new Gorgon. Do not bid me speak.
MAC 2.3. 73B See, and then speak yourselves. {Exeunt Macbeth and +
MAC 2.3. 73B Lennox} Awake, awake!
MAC 2.3. 74 Ring the alarum bell. Murder and treason!
MAC 2.3. 75 Banquo and Donalbain, Malcolm, awake!
MAC 2.3. 76 Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
MAC 2.3. 77 And look on death itself. Up, up, and see
MAC 2.3. 78 The great doom's image. Malcolm, Banquo,
MAC 2.3. 79 As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites
MAC 2.3. 80B To countenance this horror. {Bell rings. Enter Lady +
MAC 2.3. 80B Macbeth}
MAC-LADY MACBETH
What's the business,
MAC 2.3. 81 That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
MAC 2.3. 82B The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak.
MAC-MACDUFF
O gentle lady,
MAC 2.3. 83 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak.
MAC 2.3. 84 The repetition in a woman's ear
MAC 2.3. 85B Would murder as it fell. {Enter Banquo} O Banquo, +
MAC 2.3. 85B Banquo,
MAC 2.3. 86B Our royal master's murdered!
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Woe, alas -
MAC 2.3. 87B What, in our house?
MAC-BANQUO
Too cruel anywhere.
MAC 2.3. 88 Dear Duff, I prithee contradict thyself,
MAC 2.3. 89 And say it is not so. {Enter Macbeth, Lennox, [and Ross]}
MAC 2.3. 90
MAC-MACBETH
Had I but died an hour before this chance
MAC 2.3. 91 I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant
MAC 2.3. 92 There's nothing serious in mortality.
MAC 2.3. 93 All is but toys. Renown and grace is dead.
MAC 2.3. 94 The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
MAC 2.3. 95 Is left this vault to brag of. {Enter Malcolm and Donalbain}
MAC 2.3. 96A
MAC-DONALBAIN
What is amiss?
MAC 2.3. 97A
MAC-MACBETH
You are, and do not know 't.
MAC 2.3. 98 The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
MAC 2.3. 99 Is stopped, the very source of it is stopped.
MAC 2.3. 100B
MAC-MACDUFF
Your royal father's murdered.
MAC-MALCOLM
O, by whom?
MAC 2.3. 101
MAC-LENNOX
Those of his chamber, as it seemed, had done 't.
MAC 2.3. 102 Their hands and faces were all badged with blood,
MAC 2.3. 103 So were their daggers, which, unwiped, we found
MAC 2.3. 104 Upon their pillows. They stared and were distracted.
MAC 2.3. 105 No man's life was to be trusted with them.
MAC 2.3. 106
MAC-MACBETH
O, yet I do repent me of my fury
MAC 2.3. 107B That I did kill them.
MAC-MACDUFF
Wherefore did you so?
MAC 2.3. 108
MAC-MACBETH
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate and furious,
MAC 2.3. 109 Loyal and neutral in a moment? No man.
MAC 2.3. 110 Th' expedition of my violent love
MAC 2.3. 111 Outran the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,
MAC 2.3. 112 His silver skin laced with his golden blood,
MAC 2.3. 113 And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature
MAC 2.3. 114 For ruin's wasteful entrance; there the murderers,
MAC 2.3. 115 Steeped in the colours of their trade, their daggers
MAC 2.3. 116 Unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain,
MAC 2.3. 117 That had a heart to love, and in that heart
MAC 2.3. 118B Courage to make 's love known?
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Help me hence, ho!
MAC 2.3. 119B
MAC-MACDUFF
Look to the lady.
MAC-MALCOLM
{(aside to +
MAC 2.3. 119B Donalbain)} Why do we hold our tongues,
MAC 2.3. 120 That most may claim this argument for ours?
MAC 2.3. 121
MAC-DONALBAIN
{(aside to Malcolm)} What should be +
MAC 2.3. 121 spoken here, where our fate,
MAC 2.3. 122 Hid in an auger-hole, may rush and seize us?
MAC 2.3. 123B Let's away. Our tears are not yet brewed.
MAC-MALCOLM
{(aside to +
MAC 2.3. 123B Donalbain)} Nor our strong sorrow
MAC 2.3. 124B Upon the foot of motion.
MAC-BANQUO
Look to the lady; {Exit Lady +
MAC 2.3. 124B Macbeth, attended}
MAC 2.3. 125 And when we have our naked frailties hid,
MAC 2.3. 126 That suffer in exposure, let us meet
MAC 2.3. 127 And question this most bloody piece of work,
MAC 2.3. 128 To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us.
MAC 2.3. 129 In the great hand of God I stand, and thence
MAC 2.3. 130 Against the undivulged pretence I fight
MAC 2.3. 131B Of treasonous malice.
MAC-MACDUFF
And so do I.
MAC-ALL
So all.
MAC 2.3. 132
MAC-MACBETH
Let's briefly put on manly readiness,
MAC 2.3. 133B And meet i' th' hall together.
MAC-ALL
Well contented. {Exeunt +
MAC 2.3. 133B all but Malcolm and Donalbain}
MAC 2.3. 134
MAC-MALCOLM
What will you do? Let's not consort with them.
MAC 2.3. 135 To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
MAC 2.3. 136 Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.
MAC 2.3. 137
MAC-DONALBAIN
To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune
MAC 2.3. 138 Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are
MAC 2.3. 139 There's daggers in men's smiles. The nea'er in blood,
MAC 2.3. 140B The nearer bloody.
MAC-MALCOLM
This murderous shaft that's shot
MAC 2.3. 141 Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way
MAC 2.3. 142 Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse,
MAC 2.3. 143 And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
MAC 2.3. 144 But shift away. There's warrant in that theft
MAC 2.3. 145 Which steals itself when there's no mercy left. {Exeunt}
MAC 2.3. 0 {Enter Ross with an Old Man}
MAC 2.4. 1
MAC-OLD MAN
Threescore and ten I can remember well,
MAC 2.4. 2 Within the volume of which time I have seen
MAC 2.4. 3 Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
MAC 2.4. 4B Hath trifled former knowings.
MAC-ROSS
Ha, good father,
MAC 2.4. 5 Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man's act,
MAC 2.4. 6 Threatens his bloody stage. By th' clock 'tis day,
MAC 2.4. 7 And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.
MAC 2.4. 8 Is 't night's predominance or the day's shame
MAC 2.4. 9 That darkness does the face of earth entomb
MAC 2.4. 10B When living light should kiss it?
MAC-OLD MAN
'Tis unnatural,
MAC 2.4. 11 Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last
MAC 2.4. 12 A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place,
MAC 2.4. 13 Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
MAC 2.4. 14
MAC-ROSS
And Duncan's horses - a thing most strange and certain -
MAC 2.4. 15 Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
MAC 2.4. 16 Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,
MAC 2.4. 17 Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would
MAC 2.4. 18B Make war with mankind.
MAC-OLD MAN
'Tis said they ate each other.
MAC 2.4. 19
MAC-ROSS
They did so, to th' amazement of mine eyes
MAC 2.4. 20B That looked upon 't. {Enter Macduff} Here comes the +
MAC 2.4. 20B good Macduff.
MAC 2.4. 21B How goes the world, sir, now?
MAC-MACDUFF
Why, see you not?
MAC 2.4. 22
MAC-ROSS
Is 't known who did this more than bloody deed?
MAC 2.4. 23B
MAC-MACDUFF
Those that Macbeth hath slain.
MAC-ROSS
Alas the day,
MAC 2.4. 24B What good could they pretend?
MAC-MACDUFF
They were suborned.
MAC 2.4. 25 Malcolm and Donalbain, the King's two sons,
MAC 2.4. 26 Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them
MAC 2.4. 27B Suspicion of the deed.
MAC-ROSS
'Gainst nature still.
MAC 2.4. 28 Thriftless ambition, that will raven up
MAC 2.4. 29 Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like
MAC 2.4. 30 The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
MAC 2.4. 31
MAC-MACDUFF
He is already named and gone to Scone
MAC 2.4. 32 To be invested.
MAC 2.4. 33A
MAC-ROSS
Where is Duncan's body?
MAC 2.4. 34A
MAC-MACDUFF
Carried to Colmekill,
MAC 2.4. 35 The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,
MAC 2.4. 36B And guardian of their bones.
MAC-ROSS
Will you to Scone?
MAC 2.4. 37B
MAC-MACDUFF
No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
MAC-ROSS
Well, I will thither.
MAC 2.4. 38
MAC-MACDUFF
Well, may you see things well done there. Adieu,
MAC 2.4. 39 Lest our old robes sit easier than our new.
MAC 2.4. 40A
MAC-ROSS
Farewell, father.
MAC 2.4. 41
MAC-OLD MAN
God's benison go with you, and with those
MAC 2.4. 42 That would make good of bad, and friends of foes. {Exeunt +
MAC 2.4. 42 severally}
MAC 2.4. 42
MAC-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MAC 2.4. 0 {Enter Banquo}
MAC 3.1. 1
MAC-BANQUO
Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all
MAC 3.1. 2 As the weird women promised; and I fear
MAC 3.1. 3 Thou played'st most foully for 't. Yet it was said
MAC 3.1. 4 It should not stand in thy posterity,
MAC 3.1. 5 But that myself should be the root and father
MAC 3.1. 6 Of many kings. If there come truth from them -
MAC 3.1. 7 As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -
MAC 3.1. 8 Why by the verities on thee made good
MAC 3.1. 9 May they not be my oracles as well,
MAC 3.1. 10 And set me up in hope? But hush, no more. {Sennet sounded. Enter +
MAC 3.1. 10 Macbeth as King, Lady Macbeth as Queen, Lennox, Ross, lords, and +
MAC 3.1. 10 attendants}
MAC 3.1. 11B
MAC-MACBETH
Here's our chief guest.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
If he had +
MAC 3.1. 11B been forgotten
MAC 3.1. 12 It had been as a gap in our great feast,
MAC 3.1. 13 And all-thing unbecoming.
MAC 3.1. 14
MAC-MACBETH
{(to Banquo)} Tonight we hold a solemn +
MAC 3.1. 14 supper, sir,
MAC 3.1. 15B And I'll request your presence.
MAC-BANQUO
Let your highness
MAC 3.1. 16 Command upon me, to the which my duties
MAC 3.1. 17 Are with a most indissoluble tie
MAC 3.1. 18 For ever knit.
MAC 3.1. 19A
MAC-MACBETH
Ride you this afternoon?
MAC 3.1. 20A
MAC-BANQUO
Ay, my good lord.
MAC 3.1. 21
MAC-MACBETH
We should have else desired your good advice,
MAC 3.1. 22 Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,
MAC 3.1. 23 In this day's council; but we'll talk tomorrow.
MAC 3.1. 24 Is 't far you ride?
MAC 3.1. 25
MAC-BANQUO
As far, my lord, as will fill up the time
MAC 3.1. 26 'Twixt this and supper. Go not my horse the better,
MAC 3.1. 27 I must become a borrower of the night
MAC 3.1. 28 For a dark hour or twain.
MAC 3.1. 29A
MAC-MACBETH
Fail not our feast.
MAC 3.1. 30A
MAC-BANQUO
My lord, I will not.
MAC 3.1. 31
MAC-MACBETH
We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed
MAC 3.1. 32 In England and in Ireland, not confessing
MAC 3.1. 33 Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers
MAC 3.1. 34 With strange invention. But of that tomorrow,
MAC 3.1. 35 When therewithal we shall have cause of state
MAC 3.1. 36 Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse. Adieu,
MAC 3.1. 37 Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?
MAC 3.1. 38
MAC-BANQUO
Ay, my good lord. Our time does call upon 's.
MAC 3.1. 39
MAC-MACBETH
I wish your horses swift and sure of foot,
MAC 3.1. 40 And so I do commend you to their backs.
MAC 3.1. 41 Farewell. {Exit Banquo}
MAC 3.1. 42 Let every man be master of his time
MAC 3.1. 43 Till seven at night. To make society
MAC 3.1. 44 The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself
MAC 3.1. 45 Till supper-time alone. While then, God be with you. {Exeunt all +
MAC 3.1. 45 but Macbeth and a Servant}
MAC 3.1. 46 Sirrah, a word with you. Attend those men
MAC 3.1. 47 Our pleasure?
MAC 3.1. 48
MAC-SERVANT
They are, my lord, without the palace gate.
MAC 3.1. 49B
MAC-MACBETH
Bring them before us. {Exit Servant} To be +
MAC 3.1. 49B thus is nothing
MAC 3.1. 50 But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo
MAC 3.1. 51 Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
MAC 3.1. 52 Reigns that which would be feared. 'Tis much he dares,
MAC 3.1. 53 And to that dauntless temper of his mind
MAC 3.1. 54 He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
MAC 3.1. 55 To act in safety. There is none but he
MAC 3.1. 56 Whose being I do fear, and under him
MAC 3.1. 57 My genius is rebuked as, it is said,
MAC 3.1. 58 Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters
MAC 3.1. 59 When first they put the name of king upon me,
MAC 3.1. 60 And bade them speak to him. Then, prophet-like,
MAC 3.1. 61 They hailed him father to a line of kings.
MAC 3.1. 62 Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
MAC 3.1. 63 And put a barren sceptre in my grip,
MAC 3.1. 64 Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
MAC 3.1. 65 No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,
MAC 3.1. 66 For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind,
MAC 3.1. 67 For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered,
MAC 3.1. 68 Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
MAC 3.1. 69 Only for them, and mine eternal jewel
MAC 3.1. 70 Given to the common enemy of man
MAC 3.1. 71 To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings.
MAC 3.1. 72 Rather than so, come fate into the list
MAC 3.1. 73 And champion me to th' utterance. Who's there? {Enter Servant +
MAC 3.1. 73 and two Murderers}
MAC 3.1. 74 {(To the Servant)} Now go to the door, and stay there +
MAC 3.1. 74 till we call. {Exit Servant}
MAC 3.1. 75 Was it not yesterday we spoke together?
MAC 3.1. 76B
MAC-MURDERERS
It was, so please your highness.
MAC-MACBETH
Well then, +
MAC 3.1. 76B now
MAC 3.1. 77 Have you considered of my speeches? Know
MAC 3.1. 78 That it was he in the times past which held you
MAC 3.1. 79 So under fortune, which you thought had been
MAC 3.1. 80 Our innocent self. This I made good to you
MAC 3.1. 81 In our last conference, passed in probation with you
MAC 3.1. 82 How you were borne in hand, how crossed, the instruments,
MAC 3.1. 83 Who wrought with them, and all things else that might
MAC 3.1. 84 To half a soul, and to a notion crazed,
MAC 3.1. 85B Say `Thus did Banquo'.
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
You made it known to us.
MAC 3.1. 86
MAC-MACBETH
I did so, and went further, which is now
MAC 3.1. 87 Our point of second meeting. Do you find
MAC 3.1. 88 Your patience so predominant in your nature
MAC 3.1. 89 That you can let this go? Are you so gospelled
MAC 3.1. 90 To pray for this good man and for his issue,
MAC 3.1. 91 Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave
MAC 3.1. 92B And beggared yours for ever?
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
We are men, my liege.
MAC 3.1. 93
MAC-MACBETH
Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men,
MAC 3.1. 94 As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
MAC 3.1. 95 Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept
MAC 3.1. 96 All by the name of dogs. The valued file
MAC 3.1. 97 Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
MAC 3.1. 98 The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
MAC 3.1. 99 According to the gift which bounteous nature
MAC 3.1. 100 Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive
MAC 3.1. 101 Particular addition from the bill
MAC 3.1. 102 That writes them all alike. And so of men.
MAC 3.1. 103 Now, if you have a station in the file,
MAC 3.1. 104 Not i' th' worst rank of manhood, say 't,
MAC 3.1. 105 And I will put that business in your bosoms
MAC 3.1. 106 Whose execution takes your enemy off,
MAC 3.1. 107 Grapples you to the heart and love of us,
MAC 3.1. 108 Who wear our health but sickly in his life,
MAC 3.1. 109B Which in his death were perfect.
MAC-SECOND MURDERER
I am one, my liege,
MAC 3.1. 110 Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
MAC 3.1. 111 Hath so incensed that I am reckless what
MAC 3.1. 112B I do to spite the world.
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
And I another,
MAC 3.1. 113 So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune,
MAC 3.1. 114 That I would set my life on any chance
MAC 3.1. 115B To mend it or be rid on 't.
MAC-MACBETH
Both of you
MAC 3.1. 116B Know Banquo was your enemy.
MAC-MURDERERS
True, my lord.
MAC 3.1. 117
MAC-MACBETH
So is he mine, and in such bloody distance
MAC 3.1. 118 That every minute of his being thrusts
MAC 3.1. 119 Against my near'st of life; and though I could
MAC 3.1. 120 With barefaced power sweep him from my sight
MAC 3.1. 121 And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,
MAC 3.1. 122 For certain friends that are both his and mine,
MAC 3.1. 123 Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall
MAC 3.1. 124 Who I myself struck down. And thence it is
MAC 3.1. 125 That I to your assistance do make love,
MAC 3.1. 126 Masking the business from the common eye
MAC 3.1. 127B For sundry weighty reasons.
MAC-SECOND MURDERER
We shall, my lord,
MAC 3.1. 128B Perform what you command us.
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
Though our lives -
MAC 3.1. 129
MAC-MACBETH
Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most
MAC 3.1. 130 I will advise you where to plant yourselves,
MAC 3.1. 131 Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' th' time,
MAC 3.1. 132 The moment on 't; for 't must be done tonight,
MAC 3.1. 133 And something from the palace; always thought
MAC 3.1. 134 That I require a clearness; and with him,
MAC 3.1. 135 To leave no rubs nor botches in the work,
MAC 3.1. 136 Fleance, his son, that keeps him company -
MAC 3.1. 137 Whose absence is no less material to me
MAC 3.1. 138 Than is his father's - must embrace the fate
MAC 3.1. 139 Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart.
MAC 3.1. 140B I'll come to you anon.
MAC-MURDERERS
We are resolved, my lord.
MAC 3.1. 141
MAC-MACBETH
I'll call upon you straight. Abide within. {Exeunt +
MAC 3.1. 141 Murderers}
MAC 3.1. 142 It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,
MAC 3.1. 143 If it find heaven, must find it out tonight. {Exit}
MAC 3.1. 0 {Enter Lady Macbeth and a Servant}
MAC 3.2. 1A
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Is Banquo gone from court?
MAC 3.2. 2
MAC-SERVANT
Ay, madam, but returns again tonight.
MAC 3.2. 3
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Say to the King I would attend his leisure
MAC 3.2. 4 For a few words.
MAC 3.2. 5A
MAC-SERVANT
Madam, I will. {Exit}
MAC 3.2. 6A
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Naught's had, all's spent,
MAC 3.2. 7 Where our desire is got without content.
MAC 3.2. 8 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
MAC 3.2. 9 Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. {Enter Macbeth}
MAC 3.2. 10 How now, my lord, why do you keep alone,
MAC 3.2. 11 Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
MAC 3.2. 12 Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
MAC 3.2. 13 With them they think on? Things without all remedy
MAC 3.2. 14 Should be without regard. What's done is done.
MAC 3.2. 15
MAC-MACBETH
We have scorched the snake, not killed it.
MAC 3.2. 16 She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice
MAC 3.2. 17 Remains in danger of her former tooth.
MAC 3.2. 18 But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
MAC 3.2. 19 Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
MAC 3.2. 20 In the affliction of these terrible dreams
MAC 3.2. 21 That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead,
MAC 3.2. 22 Whom we to gain our peace have sent to peace,
MAC 3.2. 23 Than on the torture of the mind to lie
MAC 3.2. 24 In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave.
MAC 3.2. 25 After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.
MAC 3.2. 26 Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison,
MAC 3.2. 27 Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
MAC 3.2. 28B Can touch him further.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Come on, gentle my lord,
MAC 3.2. 29 Sleek o'er your rugged looks, be bright and jovial
MAC 3.2. 30B Among your guests tonight.
MAC-MACBETH
So shall I, love,
MAC 3.2. 31 And so I pray be you. Let your remembrance
MAC 3.2. 32 Apply to Banquo. Present him eminence
MAC 3.2. 33 Both with eye and tongue; unsafe the while that we
MAC 3.2. 34 Must lave our honours in these flattering streams
MAC 3.2. 35 And make our faces visors to our hearts,
MAC 3.2. 36B Disguising what they are.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
You must leave this.
MAC 3.2. 37
MAC-MACBETH
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
MAC 3.2. 38 Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance lives.
MAC 3.2. 39
MAC-LADY MACBETH
But in them nature's copy's not eterne.
MAC 3.2. 40
MAC-MACBETH
There's comfort yet, they are assailable.
MAC 3.2. 41 Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown
MAC 3.2. 42 His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate's summons
MAC 3.2. 43 The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
MAC 3.2. 44 Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
MAC 3.2. 45B A deed of dreadful note.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
What's to be done?
MAC 3.2. 46
MAC-MACBETH
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
MAC 3.2. 47 Till thou applaud the deed. - Come, seeling night,
MAC 3.2. 48 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
MAC 3.2. 49 And with thy bloody and invisible hand
MAC 3.2. 50 Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
MAC 3.2. 51 Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow
MAC 3.2. 52 Makes wing to th' rooky wood.
MAC 3.2. 53 Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
MAC 3.2. 54 Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
MAC 3.2. 55 Thou marvell'st at my words; but hold thee still.
MAC 3.2. 56 Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
MAC 3.2. 57 So prithee go with me. {Exeunt}
MAC 3.2. 0 {Enter three Murderers}
MAC 3.3. 1B
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
{(to Third Murderer)} But who did +
MAC 3.3. 1B bid thee join with us?
MAC-THIRD MURDERER
Macbeth.
MAC 3.3. 2
MAC-SECOND MURDERER
{(to First Murderer)} He needs not +
MAC 3.3. 2 our mistrust, since he delivers
MAC 3.3. 3 Our offices and what we have to do
MAC 3.3. 4B To the direction just.
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
{(to Third +
MAC 3.3. 4B Murderer)} Then stand with us.
MAC 3.3. 5 The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
MAC 3.3. 6 Now spurs the lated traveller apace
MAC 3.3. 7 To gain the timely inn, and near approaches
MAC 3.3. 8B The subject of our watch.
MAC-THIRD MURDERER
Hark, I hear horses.
MAC 3.3. 9B
MAC-BANQUO
{(within)} Give us a light there, +
MAC 3.3. 9B ho!
MAC-SECOND MURDERER
Then 'tis he. The rest
MAC 3.3. 10 That are within the note of expectation
MAC 3.3. 11B Already are i' th' court.
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
His horses go about.
MAC 3.3. 12
MAC-THIRD MURDERER
Almost a mile; but he does usually,
MAC 3.3. 13 So all men do, from hence to th' palace gate
MAC 3.3. 14B Make it their walk. {Enter Banquo and Fleance with a +
MAC 3.3. 14B torch}
MAC-SECOND MURDERER
{(aside)} A light, a +
MAC 3.3. 14B light.
MAC-THIRD MURDERER
{(aside)} 'Tis he.
MAC 3.3. 15A
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
{(aside)} Stand to 't.
MAC 3.3. 16B
MAC-BANQUO
It will be rain tonight.
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
Let it come +
MAC 3.3. 16B down. {First Murderer strikes out the torch. The others attack +
MAC 3.3. 16B Banquo}
MAC 3.3. 17
MAC-BANQUO
O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
MAC 3.3. 18 Thou mayst revenge. - O slave! {He dies. Exit Fleance}
MAC 3.3. 19A
MAC-THIRD MURDERER
Who did strike out the light?
MAC 3.3. 20A
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
Was 't not the way?
MAC 3.3. 21
MAC-THIRD MURDERER
There's but one down. The son is fled.
MAC 3.3. 22
MAC-SECOND MURDERER
We have lost best half of our affair.
MAC 3.3. 23
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
Well, let's away and say how much is done. +
MAC 3.3. 23 {Exeunt with Banquo's body}
MAC 3.3. 0 {Banquet prepared. Enter Macbeth as King, Lady Macbeth as +
MAC 3.4. 0 Queen, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and attendants. [Lady Macbeth sits]}
MAC 3.4. 1
MAC-MACBETH
You know your own degrees; sit down. At first and +
MAC 3.4. 1 last
MAC 3.4. 2B The hearty welcome.
MAC-LORDS
Thanks to your majesty. {They sit}
MAC 3.4. 3
MAC-MACBETH
Ourself will mingle with society
MAC 3.4. 4 And play the humble host. Our hostess keeps her state,
MAC 3.4. 5 But in best time we will require her welcome.
MAC 3.4. 6
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends,
MAC 3.4. 7 For my heart speaks they are welcome. {Enter First Murderer [to +
MAC 3.4. 7 the door]}
MAC 3.4. 8
MAC-MACBETH
See, they encounter thee with their hearts' +
MAC 3.4. 8 thanks.
MAC 3.4. 9 Both sides are even. Here I'll sit, i' th' midst.
MAC 3.4. 10 Be large in mirth. Anon we'll drink a measure
MAC 3.4. 11 The table round. {(To First Murderer)} There's blood +
MAC 3.4. 11 upon thy face.
MAC 3.4. 12A
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
{(aside to Macbeth)} 'Tis Banquo's, +
MAC 3.4. 12A then.
MAC 3.4. 13
MAC-MACBETH
'Tis better thee without than he within.
MAC 3.4. 14 Is he dispatched?
MAC 3.4. 15
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
My lord, his throat is cut. That I did for him.
MAC 3.4. 16
MAC-MACBETH
Thou art the best o' th' cut-throats. Yet he's good
MAC 3.4. 17 That did the like for Fleance. If thou didst it,
MAC 3.4. 18B Thou art the nonpareil.
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
Most royal sir,
MAC 3.4. 19 Fleance is scaped.
MAC 3.4. 20
MAC-MACBETH
Then comes my fit again; I had else been perfect,
MAC 3.4. 21 Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
MAC 3.4. 22 As broad and general as the casing air,
MAC 3.4. 23 But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
MAC 3.4. 24 To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?
MAC 3.4. 25
MAC-FIRST MURDERER
Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides,
MAC 3.4. 26 With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
MAC 3.4. 27B The least a death to nature.
MAC-MACBETH
Thanks for that.
MAC 3.4. 28 There the grown serpent lies. The worm that's fled
MAC 3.4. 29 Hath nature that in time will venom breed,
MAC 3.4. 30 No teeth for th' present. Get thee gone. Tomorrow
MAC 3.4. 31B We'll hear ourselves again. {Exit First Murderer}
MAC-LADY MACBETH
MAC 3.4. 31B My royal lord,
MAC 3.4. 32 You do not give the cheer. The feast is sold
MAC 3.4. 33 That is not often vouched, while 'tis a-making,
MAC 3.4. 34 'Tis given with welcome. To feed were best at home.
MAC 3.4. 35 From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony,
MAC 3.4. 36B Meeting were bare without it. {Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and +
MAC 3.4. 36B sits in Macbeth's place}
MAC-MACBETH
Sweet remembrancer.
MAC 3.4. 37 Now good digestion wait on appetite,
MAC 3.4. 38B And health on both.
MAC-LENNOX
May 't please your highness sit?
MAC 3.4. 39
MAC-MACBETH
Here had we now our country's honour roofed
MAC 3.4. 40 Were the graced person of our Banquo present,
MAC 3.4. 41 Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
MAC 3.4. 42B Than pity for mischance.
MAC-ROSS
His absence, sir,
MAC 3.4. 43 Lays blame upon his promise. Please 't your highness
MAC 3.4. 44 To grace us with your royal company?
MAC 3.4. 45B
MAC-MACBETH
The table's full.
MAC-LENNOX
Here is a place reserved, sir.
MAC 3.4. 46A
MAC-MACBETH
Where?
MAC 3.4. 47
MAC-LENNOX
Here, my good lord. What is 't that moves your highness?
MAC 3.4. 48B
MAC-MACBETH
Which of you have done this?
MAC-LORDS
What, my good lord?
MAC 3.4. 49
MAC-MACBETH
{(to the Ghost)} Thou canst not say I did +
MAC 3.4. 49 it. Never shake
MAC 3.4. 50 Thy gory locks at me.
MAC 3.4. 51
MAC-ROSS
{(rising)} Gentlemen, rise. His highness is +
MAC 3.4. 51 not well.
MAC 3.4. 52
MAC-LADY MACBETH
{(rising)} Sit, worthy friends. My +
MAC 3.4. 52 lord is often thus,
MAC 3.4. 53 And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat.
MAC 3.4. 54 The fit is momentary. Upon a thought
MAC 3.4. 55 He will again be well. If much you note him
MAC 3.4. 56 You shall offend him, and extend his passion.
MAC 3.4. 57B Feed, and regard him not. {She speaks apart with +
MAC 3.4. 57B Macbeth} Are you a man?
MAC 3.4. 58
MAC-MACBETH
Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that
MAC 3.4. 59B Which might appal the devil.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
O proper stuff!
MAC 3.4. 60 This is the very painting of your fear;
MAC 3.4. 61 This is the air-drawn dagger which you said
MAC 3.4. 62 Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,
MAC 3.4. 63 Impostors to true fear, would well become
MAC 3.4. 64 A woman's story at a winter's fire
MAC 3.4. 65 Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself,
MAC 3.4. 66 Why do you make such faces? When all's done
MAC 3.4. 67 You look but on a stool.
MAC 3.4. 68
MAC-MACBETH
Prithee see there. Behold, look, lo - how say you?
MAC 3.4. 69 Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak, too!
MAC 3.4. 70 If charnel-houses and our graves must send
MAC 3.4. 71 Those that we bury back, our monuments
MAC 3.4. 72B Shall be the maws of kites. {Exit Ghost}
MAC-LADY MACBETH
+
MAC 3.4. 72B What, quite unmanned in folly?
MAC 3.4. 73B
MAC-MACBETH
If I stand here, I saw him.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Fie, for shame!
MAC 3.4. 74
MAC-MACBETH
Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time,
MAC 3.4. 75 Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;
MAC 3.4. 76 Ay, and since, too, murders have been performed
MAC 3.4. 77 Too terrible for the ear. The time has been
MAC 3.4. 78 That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
MAC 3.4. 79 And there an end. But now they rise again
MAC 3.4. 80 With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
MAC 3.4. 81 And push us from our stools. This is more strange
MAC 3.4. 82B Than such a murder is.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
{(aloud)} My +
MAC 3.4. 82B worthy lord,
MAC 3.4. 83B Your noble friends do lack you.
MAC-MACBETH
I do forget.
MAC 3.4. 84 Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends.
MAC 3.4. 85 I have a strange infirmity which is nothing
MAC 3.4. 86 To those that know me. Come, love and health to all,
MAC 3.4. 87B Then I'll sit down. {(To an attendant)} Give me some +
MAC 3.4. 87B wine. Fill full. {Enter Ghost}
MAC 3.4. 88 I drink to th' general joy of th' whole table,
MAC 3.4. 89 And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss.
MAC 3.4. 90 Would he were here. To all and him we thirst,
MAC 3.4. 91B And all to all.
MAC-LORDS
Our duties, and the pledge. {They +
MAC 3.4. 91B drink}
MAC 3.4. 92
MAC-MACBETH
{(seeing the Ghost)} Avaunt, and quit my +
MAC 3.4. 92 sight! Let the earth hide thee.
MAC 3.4. 93 Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.
MAC 3.4. 94 Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
MAC 3.4. 95B Which thou dost glare with.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Think of this, good peers,
MAC 3.4. 96 But as a thing of custom. 'Tis no other;
MAC 3.4. 97 Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
MAC 3.4. 98A
MAC-MACBETH
What man dare, I dare.
MAC 3.4. 99 Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
MAC 3.4. 100 The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;
MAC 3.4. 101 Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
MAC 3.4. 102 Shall never tremble. Or be alive again,
MAC 3.4. 103 And dare me to the desert with thy sword.
MAC 3.4. 104 If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
MAC 3.4. 105 The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow,
MAC 3.4. 106B Unreal mock'ry, hence! {Exit Ghost} Why so, being gone,
MAC 3.4. 107 I am a man again. Pray you sit still.
MAC 3.4. 108
MAC-LADY MACBETH
You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting
MAC 3.4. 109B With most admired disorder.
MAC-MACBETH
Can such things be
MAC 3.4. 110 And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
MAC 3.4. 111 Without our special wonder? You make me strange
MAC 3.4. 112 Even to the disposition that I owe,
MAC 3.4. 113 When now I think you can behold such sights
MAC 3.4. 114 And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks
MAC 3.4. 115B When mine is blanched with fear.
MAC-ROSS
What sights, my lord?
MAC 3.4. 116
MAC-LADY MACBETH
I pray you, speak not. He grows worse and worse.
MAC 3.4. 117 Question enrages him. At once, good night.
MAC 3.4. 118 Stand not upon the order of your going,
MAC 3.4. 119B But go at once.
MAC-LENNOX
Good night, and better health
MAC 3.4. 120B Attend his majesty.
MAC-LADY MACBETH
A kind good-night to all. +
MAC 3.4. 120B {Exeunt Lords}
MAC 3.4. 121
MAC-MACBETH
It will have blood, they say. Blood will have +
MAC 3.4. 121 blood.
MAC 3.4. 122 Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak,
MAC 3.4. 123 Augurs and understood relations have
MAC 3.4. 124 By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
MAC 3.4. 125 The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?
MAC 3.4. 126
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Almost at odds with morning, which is which.
MAC 3.4. 127
MAC-MACBETH
How sayst thou that Macduff denies his person
MAC 3.4. 128B At our great bidding?
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Did you send to him, sir?
MAC 3.4. 129
MAC-MACBETH
I hear it by the way, but I will send.
MAC 3.4. 130 There's not a one of them but in his house
MAC 3.4. 131 I keep a servant fee'd. I will tomorrow,
MAC 3.4. 132 And betimes I will, to the weird sisters.
MAC 3.4. 133 More shall they speak, for now I am bent to know
MAC 3.4. 134 By the worst means the worst. For mine own good
MAC 3.4. 135 All causes shall give way. I am in blood
MAC 3.4. 136 Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
MAC 3.4. 137 Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
MAC 3.4. 138 Strange things I have in head that will to hand,
MAC 3.4. 139 Which must be acted ere they may be scanned.
MAC 3.4. 140
MAC-LADY MACBETH
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
MAC 3.4. 141
MAC-MACBETH
Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse
MAC 3.4. 142 Is the initiate fear that wants hard use.
MAC 3.4. 143 We are yet but young in deed. {Exeunt}
MAC 3.4. 0
MAC 3.4. 0 {Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting Hecate}
MAC 3.5. 1
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Why, how now, Hecate? You look angerly.
MAC 3.5. 2
MAC-HECATE
Have I not reason, beldams as you are?
MAC 3.5. 3 Saucy and over-bold, how did you dare
MAC 3.5. 4 To trade and traffic with Macbeth
MAC 3.5. 5 In riddles and affairs of death,
MAC 3.5. 6 And I, the mistress of your charms,
MAC 3.5. 7 The close contriver of all harms,
MAC 3.5. 8 Was never called to bear my part
MAC 3.5. 9 Or show the glory of our art? -
MAC 3.5. 10 And, which is worse, all you have done
MAC 3.5. 11 Hath been but for a wayward son,
MAC 3.5. 12 Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,
MAC 3.5. 13 Loves for his own ends, not for you.
MAC 3.5. 14 But make amends now. Get you gone,
MAC 3.5. 15 And at the pit of Acheron
MAC 3.5. 16 Meet me i' th' morning. Thither he
MAC 3.5. 17 Will come to know his destiny.
MAC 3.5. 18 Your vessels and your spells provide,
MAC 3.5. 19 Your charms and everything beside.
MAC 3.5. 20 I am for th' air. This night I'll spend
MAC 3.5. 21 Unto a dismal and a fatal end.
MAC 3.5. 22 Great business must be wrought ere noon.
MAC 3.5. 23 Upon the corner of the moon
MAC 3.5. 24 There hangs a vap'rous drop profound.
MAC 3.5. 25 I'll catch it ere it come to ground,
MAC 3.5. 26 And that, distilled by magic sleights,
MAC 3.5. 27 Shall raise such artificial sprites
MAC 3.5. 28 As by the strength of their illusion
MAC 3.5. 29 Shall draw him on to his confusion.
MAC 3.5. 30 He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
MAC 3.5. 31 His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace, and fear;
MAC 3.5. 32 And you all know security
MAC 3.5. 33 Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
MAC 3.5. 34
MAC-SPIRITS
{(singing dispersedly within)} Come away, +
MAC 3.5. 34 come away.
MAC 3.5. 35 Hecate, Hecate, come away.
MAC 3.5. 36
MAC-HECATE
Hark, I am called! My little spirit, see,
MAC 3.5. 37 Sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me.
MAC 3.5. 38 {The Song}
MAC-SPIRITS
{[within]} Come away, come away,
MAC 3.5. 39 Hecate, Hecate, come away.
MAC 3.5. 40
MAC-HECATE
I come, I come, I come, I come,
MAC 3.5. 41 With all the speed I may,
MAC 3.5. 42 With all the speed I may.
MAC 3.5. 43B Where's Stadlin?
MAC-SPIRIT
{[within]} Here.
MAC-HECATE
+
MAC 3.5. 43B Where's Puckle?
MAC-ANOTHER SPIRIT
{[within]} Here.
MAC 3.5. 44
MAC-OTHER SPIRITS
{[within]} And Hoppo, too, and +
MAC 3.5. 44 Hellwain, too,
MAC 3.5. 45 We lack but you, we lack but you.
MAC 3.5. 46 Come away, make up the count.
MAC 3.5. 47
MAC-HECATE
I will but 'noint, and then I mount. {[Spirits appear +
MAC 3.5. 47 above.] A Spirit like a Cat descends}
MAC 3.5. 48
MAC-SPIRITS
{[above]} There's one comes down to fetch +
MAC 3.5. 48 his dues,
MAC 3.5. 49 A kiss, a coll, a sip of blood,
MAC 3.5. 50 And why thou stay'st so long I muse, I muse,
MAC 3.5. 51 Since the air's so sweet and good.
MAC 3.5. 52
MAC-HECATE
O, art thou come? What news, what news?
MAC 3.5. 53
MAC-SPIRIT LIKE
A
MAC-CAT
All goes still to our delight.
MAC 3.5. 54 Either come, or else refuse, refuse.
MAC 3.5. 55
MAC-HECATE
Now I am furnished for the flight. {She ascends with +
MAC 3.5. 55 the spirit and sings}
MAC 3.5. 56 Now I go, now I fly,
MAC 3.5. 57 Malkin my sweet spirit and I.
MAC 3.5. 58
MAC-[SPIRITS
MAC-AND
MAC-HECATE]
O what a dainty pleasure 'tis
MAC 3.5. 59 To ride in the air
MAC 3.5. 60 When the moon shines fair,
MAC 3.5. 61 And sing, and dance, and toy, and kiss.
MAC 3.5. 62 Over woods, high rocks and mountains,
MAC 3.5. 63 Over seas and misty fountains,
MAC 3.5. 64 Over steeples, towers and turrets,
MAC 3.5. 65 We fly by night 'mongst troops of spirits.
MAC 3.5. 66 No ring of bells to our ears sounds,
MAC 3.5. 67 No howls of wolves, no yelps of hounds.
MAC 3.5. 68 No, not the noise of waters-breach
MAC 3.5. 69 Or cannons' throat our height can reach.
MAC 3.5. 70
MAC-SPIRITS
{[above]} No ring of bells to our ears +
MAC 3.5. 70 sounds,
MAC 3.5. 71 No howls of wolves, no yelps of hounds.
MAC 3.5. 72 No, not the noise of waters-breach
MAC 3.5. 73 Or cannons' throat our height can reach. {Exeunt into the +
MAC 3.5. 73 heavens the}
MAC 3.5. 74 {Spirit like a Cat and Hecate}
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Come, let's +
MAC 3.5. 74 make haste. She'll soon be back again. {Exeunt}
MAC 3.5. 0
MAC 3.5. 0 {Enter Lennox and another Lord}
MAC 3.6. 1
MAC-LENNOX
My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,
MAC 3.6. 2 Which can interpret farther. Only I say
MAC 3.6. 3 Things have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan
MAC 3.6. 4 Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead;
MAC 3.6. 5 And the right valiant Banquo walked too late,
MAC 3.6. 6 Whom you may say, if 't please you, Fleance killed,
MAC 3.6. 7 For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.
MAC 3.6. 8 Who cannot want the thought how monstrous
MAC 3.6. 9 It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain
MAC 3.6. 10 To kill their gracious father? Damned fact,
MAC 3.6. 11 How it did grieve Macbeth! Did he not straight
MAC 3.6. 12 In pious rage the two delinquents tear,
MAC 3.6. 13 That were the slaves of drink, and thralls of sleep?
MAC 3.6. 14 Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too,
MAC 3.6. 15 For 'twould have angered any heart alive
MAC 3.6. 16 To hear the men deny 't. So that I say
MAC 3.6. 17 He has borne all things well, and I do think
MAC 3.6. 18 That had he Duncan's sons under his key -
MAC 3.6. 19 As, an 't please heaven, he shall not - they should find
MAC 3.6. 20 What 'twere to kill a father. So should Fleance.
MAC 3.6. 21 But peace, for from broad words, and 'cause he failed
MAC 3.6. 22 His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear
MAC 3.6. 23 Macduff lives in disgrace. Sir, can you tell
MAC 3.6. 24B Where he bestows himself?
MAC-LORD
The son of Duncan
MAC 3.6. 25 From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth
MAC 3.6. 26 Lives in the English court, and is received
MAC 3.6. 27 Of the most pious Edward with such grace
MAC 3.6. 28 That the malevolence of fortune nothing
MAC 3.6. 29 Takes from his high respect. Thither Macduff
MAC 3.6. 30 Is gone to pray the holy King upon his aid
MAC 3.6. 31 To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward,
MAC 3.6. 32 That by the help of these - with Him above
MAC 3.6. 33 To ratify the work - we may again
MAC 3.6. 34 Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,
MAC 3.6. 35 Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,
MAC 3.6. 36 Do faithful homage, and receive free honours,
MAC 3.6. 37 All which we pine for now. And this report
MAC 3.6. 38 Hath so exasperate their king that he
MAC 3.6. 39 Prepares for some attempt of war.
MAC 3.6. 40A
MAC-LENNOX
Sent he to Macduff?
MAC 3.6. 41
MAC-LORD
He did, and with an absolute `Sir, not I,'
MAC 3.6. 42 The cloudy messenger turns me his back
MAC 3.6. 43 And hums, as who should say `You'll rue the time
MAC 3.6. 44B That clogs me with this answer.'
MAC-LENNOX
And that well might
MAC 3.6. 45 Advise him to a caution t' hold what distance
MAC 3.6. 46 His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel
MAC 3.6. 47 Fly to the court of England and unfold
MAC 3.6. 48 His message ere he come, that a swift blessing
MAC 3.6. 49 May soon return to this our suffering country
MAC 3.6. 50B Under a hand accursed.
MAC-LORD
I'll send my prayers with him. +
MAC 3.6. 50B {Exeunt}
MAC 3.6. 50
MAC-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MAC 3.6. 0 {A Cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches}
MAC 4.1. 1
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.
MAC 4.1. 2
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined.
MAC 4.1. 3
MAC-THIRD WITCH
Harpier cries `'Tis time, 'tis time.'
MAC 4.1. 4
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Round about the cauldron go,
MAC 4.1. 5 In the poisoned entrails throw.
MAC 4.1. 6 Toad that under cold stone
MAC 4.1. 7 Days and nights has thirty-one
MAC 4.1. 8 Sweltered venom sleeping got,
MAC 4.1. 9 Boil thou first i' th' charmed pot.
MAC 4.1. 10
MAC-ALL
Double, double, toil and trouble,
MAC 4.1. 11 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
MAC 4.1. 12
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Fillet of a fenny snake,
MAC 4.1. 13 In the cauldron boil and bake.
MAC 4.1. 14 Eye of newt and toe of frog,
MAC 4.1. 15 Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
MAC 4.1. 16 Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
MAC 4.1. 17 Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
MAC 4.1. 18 For a charm of powerful trouble,
MAC 4.1. 19 Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
MAC 4.1. 20
MAC-ALL
Double, double, toil and trouble,
MAC 4.1. 21 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
MAC 4.1. 22
MAC-THIRD WITCH
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
MAC 4.1. 23 Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
MAC 4.1. 24 Of the ravined salt-sea shark,
MAC 4.1. 25 Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark,
MAC 4.1. 26 Liver of blaspheming Jew,
MAC 4.1. 27 Gall of goat, and slips of yew
MAC 4.1. 28 Slivered in the moon's eclipse,
MAC 4.1. 29 Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,
MAC 4.1. 30 Finger of birth-strangled babe
MAC 4.1. 31 Ditch-delivered by a drab,
MAC 4.1. 32 Make the gruel thick and slab.
MAC 4.1. 33 Add thereto a tiger's chaudron
MAC 4.1. 34 For th' ingredience of our cauldron.
MAC 4.1. 35
MAC-ALL
Double, double, toil and trouble,
MAC 4.1. 36 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
MAC 4.1. 37
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
MAC 4.1. 38 Then the charm is firm and good. +
MAC 4.1. 38 +
MAC 4.1. 38 {Enter Hecate and the other three Witches}
MAC 4.1. 39
MAC-HECATE
O, well done! I commend your pains,
MAC 4.1. 40 And everyone shall share i' th' gains.
MAC 4.1. 41 And now about the cauldron sing
MAC 4.1. 42 Like elves and fairies in a ring,
MAC 4.1. 43 Enchanting all that you put in. {Music and a song}
MAC 4.1. 44
MAC-HECATE
Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey,
MAC 4.1. 45 Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.
MAC 4.1. 46
MAC-FOURTH WITCH
Titty, Tiffin, keep it stiff in;
MAC 4.1. 47 Firedrake, Puckey, make it lucky;
MAC 4.1. 48 Liard, Robin, you must bob in.
MAC 4.1. 49
MAC-ALL
Round, around, around, about, about,
MAC 4.1. 50 All ill come running in, all good keep out.
MAC 4.1. 51
MAC-FOURTH WITCH
Here's the blood of a bat.
MAC 4.1. 52
MAC-HECATE
Put in that, O put in that!
MAC 4.1. 53
MAC-FIFTH WITCH
Here's leopard's bane.
MAC 4.1. 54
MAC-HECATE
Put in a grain.
MAC 4.1. 55
MAC-FOURTH WITCH
The juice of toad, the oil of adder.
MAC 4.1. 56
MAC-FIFTH WITCH
Those will make the younker madder.
MAC 4.1. 57
MAC-HECATE
Put in, there's all, and rid the stench.
MAC 4.1. 58 A
MAC-WITCH
Nay, here's three ounces of a red-haired wench.
MAC 4.1. 59
MAC-ALL
Round, around, around, about, about,
MAC 4.1. 60 All ill come running in, all good keep out.
MAC 4.1. 61
MAC 4.1. 61
MAC-SECOND WITCH
By the pricking of my thumbs,
MAC 4.1. 62 Something wicked this way comes. {[Knock within]}
MAC 4.1. 63 Open, locks, whoever knocks. {Enter Macbeth}
MAC 4.1. 64
MAC-MACBETH
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags,
MAC 4.1. 65B What is 't you do?
MAC-ALL THE WITCHES
A deed without a name.
MAC 4.1. 66
MAC-MACBETH
I conjure you by that which you profess,
MAC 4.1. 67 Howe'er you come to know it, answer me.
MAC 4.1. 68 Though you untie the winds and let them fight
MAC 4.1. 69 Against the churches, though the yeasty waves
MAC 4.1. 70 Confound and swallow navigation up,
MAC 4.1. 71 Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down,
MAC 4.1. 72 Though castles topple on their warders' heads,
MAC 4.1. 73 Though palaces and pyramids do slope
MAC 4.1. 74 Their heads to their foundations, though the treasure
MAC 4.1. 75 Of nature's germens tumble all together
MAC 4.1. 76 Even till destruction sicken, answer me
MAC 4.1. 77B To what I ask you.
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Speak.
MAC-SECOND WITCH
+
MAC 4.1. 77B Demand.
MAC-THIRD WITCH
We'll answer.
MAC 4.1. 78
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Say if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths
MAC 4.1. 79B Or from our masters.
MAC-MACBETH
Call 'em, let me see 'em.
MAC 4.1. 80
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Pour in sow's blood that hath eaten
MAC 4.1. 81 Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten
MAC 4.1. 82 From the murderer's gibbet throw
MAC 4.1. 83B Into the flame.
MAC-ALL THE WITCHES
Come high or low,
MAC 4.1. 84 Thyself and office deftly show. {Thunder. First Apparition: an +
MAC 4.1. 84 armed head}
MAC 4.1. 85B
MAC-MACBETH
Tell me, thou unknown power -
MAC-FIRST WITCH
He +
MAC 4.1. 85B knows thy thought.
MAC 4.1. 86 Hear his speech, but say thou naught.
MAC 4.1. 87
MAC-FIRST APPARITION
Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, beware Macduff,
MAC 4.1. 88 Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. {Apparition +
MAC 4.1. 88 descends}
MAC 4.1. 89
MAC-MACBETH
Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution thanks.
MAC 4.1. 90 Thou hast harped my fear aright. But one word more -
MAC 4.1. 91
MAC-FIRST WITCH
He will not be commanded. Here's another,
MAC 4.1. 92 More potent than the first. {Thunder. Second Apparition: a +
MAC 4.1. 92 bloody child}
MAC 4.1. 93A
MAC-SECOND APPARITION
Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth.
MAC 4.1. 94A
MAC-MACBETH
Had I three ears I'd hear thee.
MAC 4.1. 95
MAC-SECOND APPARITION
Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
MAC 4.1. 96 The power of man, for none of woman born
MAC 4.1. 97 Shall harm Macbeth. {Apparition descends}
MAC 4.1. 98
MAC-MACBETH
Then live, Macduff - what need I fear of thee?
MAC 4.1. 99 But yet I'll make assurance double sure,
MAC 4.1. 100 And take a bond of fate thou shalt not live,
MAC 4.1. 101 That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
MAC 4.1. 102B And sleep in spite of thunder. {Thunder. Third Apparition: a +
MAC 4.1. 102B child crowned, with a tree in his hand} What is this
MAC 4.1. 103 That rises like the issue of a king,
MAC 4.1. 104 And wears upon his baby-brow the round
MAC 4.1. 105B And top of sovereignty?
MAC-ALL THE WITCHES
Listen, but speak not to 't.
MAC 4.1. 106
MAC-THIRD APPARITION
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
MAC 4.1. 107 Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
MAC 4.1. 108 Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
MAC 4.1. 109 Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
MAC 4.1. 110B Shall come against him. {Apparition descends}
MAC-MACBETH
+
MAC 4.1. 110B That will never be.
MAC 4.1. 111 Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
MAC 4.1. 112 Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements, good!
MAC 4.1. 113 Rebellious dead, rise never till the wood
MAC 4.1. 114 Of Birnam rise, and on 's high place Macbeth
MAC 4.1. 115 Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath
MAC 4.1. 116 To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart
MAC 4.1. 117 Throbs to know one thing. Tell me, if your art
MAC 4.1. 118 Can tell so much, shall Banquo's issue ever
MAC 4.1. 119B Reign in this kingdom?
MAC-ALL THE WITCHES
Seek to know no more.
MAC 4.1. 120
MAC-MACBETH
I will be satisfied. Deny me this,
MAC 4.1. 121 And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know. {The cauldron +
MAC 4.1. 121 sinks. Hautboys}
MAC 4.1. 122 Why sinks that cauldron? And what noise is this?
MAC 4.1. 123A
MAC-FIRST WITCH
Show.
MAC 4.1. 124A
MAC-SECOND WITCH
Show.
MAC 4.1. 125A
MAC-THIRD WITCH
Show.
MAC 4.1. 126
MAC-ALL THE WITCHES
Show his eyes and grieve his heart,
MAC 4.1. 127 Come like shadows, so depart. {A show of eight kings, the last +
MAC 4.1. 127 with a glass in his hand; and Banquo}
MAC 4.1. 128
MAC-MACBETH
Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!
MAC 4.1. 129 Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. And thy hair,
MAC 4.1. 130 Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.
MAC 4.1. 131 A third is like the former. Filthy hags,
MAC 4.1. 132 Why do you show me this? - A fourth? Start, eyes!
MAC 4.1. 133 What, will the line stretch out to th' crack of doom?
MAC 4.1. 134 Another yet? A seventh? I'll see no more -
MAC 4.1. 135 And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
MAC 4.1. 136 Which shows me many more; and some I see
MAC 4.1. 137 That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry.
MAC 4.1. 138 Horrible sight! Now I see 'tis true,
MAC 4.1. 139 For the blood-baltered Banquo smiles upon me,
MAC 4.1. 140B And points at them for his. {Exeunt kings and Banquo} +
MAC 4.1. 140B What, is this so?
MAC 4.1. 141
MAC 4.1. 141
MAC-[HECATE]
Ay, sir, all this is so. But why
MAC 4.1. 142 Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
MAC 4.1. 143 Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,
MAC 4.1. 144 And show the best of our delights.
MAC 4.1. 145 I'll charm the air to give a sound
MAC 4.1. 146 While you perform your antic round,
MAC 4.1. 147 That this great king may kindly say
MAC 4.1. 148 Our duties did his welcome pay. {Music. The Witches dance, and +
MAC 4.1. 148 vanish}
MAC 4.1. 149
MAC 4.1. 149
MAC-MACBETH
Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour
MAC 4.1. 150 Stand aye accursed in the calendar.
MAC 4.1. 151B Come in, without there. {Enter Lennox}
MAC-LENNOX
+
MAC 4.1. 151B What's your grace's will?
MAC 4.1. 152B
MAC-MACBETH
Saw you the weird sisters?
MAC-LENNOX
No, my lord.
MAC 4.1. 153B
MAC-MACBETH
Came they not by you?
MAC-LENNOX
No, indeed, my lord.
MAC 4.1. 154
MAC-MACBETH
Infected be the air whereon they ride,
MAC 4.1. 155 And damned all those that trust them. I did hear
MAC 4.1. 156 The galloping of horse. Who was 't came by?
MAC 4.1. 157
MAC-LENNOX
'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word
MAC 4.1. 158B Macduff is fled to England.
MAC-MACBETH
Fled to England?
MAC 4.1. 159A
MAC-LENNOX
Ay, my good lord.
MAC 4.1. 160
MAC-MACBETH
{(aside)} Time, thou anticipat'st my dread +
MAC 4.1. 160 exploits.
MAC 4.1. 161 The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
MAC 4.1. 162 Unless the deed go with it. From this moment
MAC 4.1. 163 The very firstlings of my heart shall be
MAC 4.1. 164 The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
MAC 4.1. 165 To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:
MAC 4.1. 166 The castle of Macduff I will surprise,
MAC 4.1. 167 Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword
MAC 4.1. 168 His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
MAC 4.1. 169 That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;
MAC 4.1. 170 This deed I'll do before this purpose cool.
MAC 4.1. 171 But no more sights! {(To Lennox)} Where are these +
MAC 4.1. 171 gentlemen?
MAC 4.1. 172 Come bring me where they are. {Exeunt}
MAC 4.1. 0 {Enter Macduff's Wife, her Son, and Ross}
MAC 4.2. 1
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
What had he done to make him fly the land?
MAC 4.2. 2B
MAC-ROSS
You must have patience, madam.
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
He had none.
MAC 4.2. 3 His flight was madness. When our actions do not,
MAC 4.2. 4B Our fears do make us traitors.
MAC-ROSS
You know not
MAC 4.2. 5 Whether it was his wisdom or his fear.
MAC 4.2. 6
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Wisdom - to leave his wife, to leave his babes,
MAC 4.2. 7 His mansion, and his titles in a place
MAC 4.2. 8 From whence himself does fly? He loves us not,
MAC 4.2. 9 He wants the natural touch, for the poor wren,
MAC 4.2. 10 The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
MAC 4.2. 11 Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
MAC 4.2. 12 All is the fear and nothing is the love;
MAC 4.2. 13 As little is the wisdom, where the flight
MAC 4.2. 14B So runs against all reason.
MAC-ROSS
My dearest coz,
MAC 4.2. 15 I pray you school yourself. But for your husband,
MAC 4.2. 16 He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
MAC 4.2. 17 The fits o' th' season. I dare not speak much further,
MAC 4.2. 18 But cruel are the times when we are traitors
MAC 4.2. 19 And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour
MAC 4.2. 20 From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
MAC 4.2. 21 But float upon a wild and violent sea
MAC 4.2. 22 Each way and none. I take my leave of you;
MAC 4.2. 23 Shall not be long but I'll be here again.
MAC 4.2. 24 Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
MAC 4.2. 25 To what they were before. My pretty cousin,
MAC 4.2. 26 Blessing upon you!
MAC 4.2. 27
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Fathered he is, and yet he's fatherless.
MAC 4.2. 28
MAC-ROSS
I am so much a fool, should I stay longer
MAC 4.2. 29 It would be my disgrace and your discomfort.
MAC 4.2. 30B I take my leave at once. {Exit}
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
+
MAC 4.2. 30B Sirrah, your father's dead,
MAC 4.2. 31 And what will you do now? How will you live?
MAC 4.2. 32B
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
As birds do, mother.
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
What, with worms +
MAC 4.2. 32B and flies?
MAC 4.2. 33
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
With what I get, I mean, and so do they.
MAC 4.2. 34
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Poor bird, thou'dst never fear the net nor lime,
MAC 4.2. 35 The pitfall nor the gin.
MAC 4.2. 36
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set +
MAC 4.2. 36 for.
MAC 4.2. 37 My father is not dead, for all your saying.
MAC 4.2. 38
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Yes, he is dead. How wilt thou do for a
MAC 4.2. 39 father?
MAC 4.2. 40
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
Nay, how will you do for a husband?
MAC 4.2. 41
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.
MAC 4.2. 42
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
Then you'll buy 'em to sell again.
MAC 4.2. 43
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Thou speak'st with all thy wit, and yet,
MAC 4.2. 44 i' faith, with wit enough for thee.
MAC 4.2. 45
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
Was my father a traitor, mother?
MAC 4.2. 46A
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Ay, that he was.
MAC 4.2. 47A
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
What is a traitor?
MAC 4.2. 48A
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Why, one that swears and lies.
MAC 4.2. 49
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
And be all traitors that do so?
MAC 4.2. 50
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Everyone that does so is a traitor, and
MAC 4.2. 51 must be hanged.
MAC 4.2. 52
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
And must they all be hanged that swear
MAC 4.2. 53 and lie?
MAC 4.2. 54
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Every one.
MAC 4.2. 55
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
Who must hang them?
MAC 4.2. 56
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Why, the honest men.
MAC 4.2. 57
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for
MAC 4.2. 58 there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest
MAC 4.2. 59 men and hang up them.
MAC 4.2. 60
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Now God help thee, poor monkey! But
MAC 4.2. 61 how wilt thou do for a father?
MAC 4.2. 62
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
If he were dead you'd weep for him. If
MAC 4.2. 63 you would not, it were a good sign that I should quickly
MAC 4.2. 64 have a new father.
MAC 4.2. 65A
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
Poor prattler, how thou talk'st! +
MAC 4.2. 65A {Enter a Messenger}
MAC 4.2. 66
MAC-MESSENGER
Bless you, fair dame. I am not to you known,
MAC 4.2. 67 Though in your state of honour I am perfect.
MAC 4.2. 68 I doubt some danger does approach you nearly.
MAC 4.2. 69 If you will take a homely man's advice,
MAC 4.2. 70 Be not found here. Hence with your little ones!
MAC 4.2. 71 To fright you thus methinks I am too savage,
MAC 4.2. 72 To do worse to you were fell cruelty,
MAC 4.2. 73 Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you.
MAC 4.2. 74B I dare abide no longer. {Exit Messenger}
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
+
MAC 4.2. 74B Whither should I fly?
MAC 4.2. 75 I have done no harm. But I remember now
MAC 4.2. 76 I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
MAC 4.2. 77 Is often laudable, to do good sometime
MAC 4.2. 78 Accounted dangerous folly. Why then, alas,
MAC 4.2. 79 Do I put up that womanly defence
MAC 4.2. 80B To say I have done no harm? {Enter Murderers} What are +
MAC 4.2. 80B these faces?
MAC 4.2. 81A A
MAC-MURDERER
Where is your husband?
MAC 4.2. 82
MAC-LADY MACDUFF
I hope in no place so unsanctified
MAC 4.2. 83B Where such as thou mayst find him. A
MAC-MURDERER
He's a traitor.
MAC 4.2. 84B
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain. A
MAC-MURDERER
+
MAC 4.2. 84B {(stabbing him)} What, you egg!
MAC 4.2. 85B Young fry of treachery!
MAC-MACDUFF
S
MAC-SON
He has killed me, mother.
MAC 4.2. 86 Run away, I pray you.
MAC 4.2. 0 {Enter Malcolm and Macduff}
MAC 4.3. 1
MAC-MALCOLM
Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there
MAC 4.3. 2B Weep our sad bosoms empty.
MAC-MACDUFF
Let us rather
MAC 4.3. 3 Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men
MAC 4.3. 4 Bestride our downfall birthdom. Each new morn
MAC 4.3. 5 New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
MAC 4.3. 6 Strike heaven on the face that it resounds
MAC 4.3. 7 As if it felt with Scotland and yelled out
MAC 4.3. 8B Like syllable of dolour.
MAC-MALCOLM
What I believe I'll wail,
MAC 4.3. 9 What know believe; and what I can redress,
MAC 4.3. 10 As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
MAC 4.3. 11 What you have spoke it may be so, perchance.
MAC 4.3. 12 This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
MAC 4.3. 13 Was once thought honest. You have loved him well.
MAC 4.3. 14 He hath not touched you yet. I am young, but something
MAC 4.3. 15 You may discern of him through me: and wisdom
MAC 4.3. 16 To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb
MAC 4.3. 17 T' appease an angry god.
MAC 4.3. 18A
MAC-MACDUFF
I am not treacherous.
MAC 4.3. 19A
MAC-MALCOLM
But Macbeth is.
MAC 4.3. 20 A good and virtuous nature may recoil
MAC 4.3. 21 In an imperial charge. But I shall crave your pardon.
MAC 4.3. 22 That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose.
MAC 4.3. 23 Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
MAC 4.3. 24 Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
MAC 4.3. 25B Yet grace must still look so.
MAC-MACDUFF
I have lost my hopes.
MAC 4.3. 26
MAC-MALCOLM
Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.
MAC 4.3. 27 Why in that rawness left you wife and child,
MAC 4.3. 28 Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,
MAC 4.3. 29 Without leave-taking? I pray you,
MAC 4.3. 30 Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,
MAC 4.3. 31 But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,
MAC 4.3. 32B Whatever I shall think.
MAC-MACDUFF
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
MAC 4.3. 33 Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
MAC 4.3. 34 For goodness dare not check thee. Wear thou thy wrongs;
MAC 4.3. 35 The title is affeered. Fare thee well, lord.
MAC 4.3. 36 I would not be the villain that thou think'st
MAC 4.3. 37 For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp,
MAC 4.3. 38B And the rich east to boot.
MAC-MALCOLM
Be not offended.
MAC 4.3. 39 I speak not as in absolute fear of you.
MAC 4.3. 40 I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
MAC 4.3. 41 It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
MAC 4.3. 42 Is added to her wounds. I think withal
MAC 4.3. 43 There would be hands uplifted in my right,
MAC 4.3. 44 And here from gracious England have I offer
MAC 4.3. 45 Of goodly thousands. But for all this,
MAC 4.3. 46 When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
MAC 4.3. 47 Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
MAC 4.3. 48 Shall have more vices than it had before,
MAC 4.3. 49 More suffer, and more sundry ways, than ever,
MAC 4.3. 50B By him that shall succeed.
MAC-MACDUFF
What should he be?
MAC 4.3. 51
MAC-MALCOLM
It is myself I mean, in whom I know
MAC 4.3. 52 All the particulars of vice so grafted
MAC 4.3. 53 That when they shall be opened black Macbeth
MAC 4.3. 54 Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
MAC 4.3. 55 Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
MAC 4.3. 56B With my confineless harms.
MAC-MACDUFF
Not in the legions
MAC 4.3. 57 Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned
MAC 4.3. 58B In evils to top Macbeth.
MAC-MALCOLM
I grant him bloody,
MAC 4.3. 59 Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
MAC 4.3. 60 Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
MAC 4.3. 61 That has a name. But there's no bottom, none,
MAC 4.3. 62 In my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters,
MAC 4.3. 63 Your matrons, and your maids could not fill up
MAC 4.3. 64 The cistern of my lust, and my desire
MAC 4.3. 65 All continent impediments would o'erbear
MAC 4.3. 66 That did oppose my will. Better Macbeth
MAC 4.3. 67B Than such an one to reign.
MAC-MACDUFF
Boundless intemperance
MAC 4.3. 68 In nature is a tyranny. It hath been
MAC 4.3. 69 Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne,
MAC 4.3. 70 And fall of many kings. But fear not yet
MAC 4.3. 71 To take upon you what is yours. You may
MAC 4.3. 72 Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty
MAC 4.3. 73 And yet seem cold. The time you may so hoodwink.
MAC 4.3. 74 We have willing dames enough. There cannot be
MAC 4.3. 75 That vulture in you to devour so many
MAC 4.3. 76 As will to greatness dedicate themselves,
MAC 4.3. 77B Finding it so inclined.
MAC-MALCOLM
With this there grows
MAC 4.3. 78 In my most ill-composed affection such
MAC 4.3. 79 A staunchless avarice that were I king
MAC 4.3. 80 I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
MAC 4.3. 81 Desire his jewels and this other's house,
MAC 4.3. 82 And my more having would be as a sauce
MAC 4.3. 83 To make me hunger more, that I should forge
MAC 4.3. 84 Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
MAC 4.3. 85B Destroying them for wealth.
MAC-MACDUFF
This avarice
MAC 4.3. 86 Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root
MAC 4.3. 87 Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been
MAC 4.3. 88 The sword of our slain kings. Yet do not fear.
MAC 4.3. 89 Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will
MAC 4.3. 90 Of your mere own. All these are portable,
MAC 4.3. 91 With other graces weighed.
MAC 4.3. 92
MAC-MALCOLM
But I have none. The king-becoming graces,
MAC 4.3. 93 As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
MAC 4.3. 94 Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
MAC 4.3. 95 Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
MAC 4.3. 96 I have no relish of them, but abound
MAC 4.3. 97 In the division of each several crime,
MAC 4.3. 98 Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power I should
MAC 4.3. 99 Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
MAC 4.3. 100 Uproar the universal peace, confound
MAC 4.3. 101B All unity on earth.
MAC-MACDUFF
O Scotland, Scotland!
MAC 4.3. 102
MAC-MALCOLM
If such a one be fit to govern, speak.
MAC 4.3. 103B I am as I have spoken.
MAC-MACDUFF
Fit to govern?
MAC 4.3. 104 No, not to live. O nation miserable,
MAC 4.3. 105 With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered,
MAC 4.3. 106 When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
MAC 4.3. 107 Since that the truest issue of thy throne
MAC 4.3. 108 By his own interdiction stands accursed
MAC 4.3. 109 And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father
MAC 4.3. 110 Was a most sainted king. The Queen that bore thee,
MAC 4.3. 111 Oft'ner upon her knees than on her feet,
MAC 4.3. 112 Died every day she lived. Fare thee well.
MAC 4.3. 113 These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself
MAC 4.3. 114 Hath banished me from Scotland. O, my breast -
MAC 4.3. 115B Thy hope ends here!
MAC-MALCOLM
Macduff, this noble passion,
MAC 4.3. 116 Child of integrity, hath from my soul
MAC 4.3. 117 Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts
MAC 4.3. 118 To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth
MAC 4.3. 119 By many of these trains hath sought to win me
MAC 4.3. 120 Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me
MAC 4.3. 121 From over-credulous haste; but God above
MAC 4.3. 122 Deal between thee and me, for even now
MAC 4.3. 123 I put myself to thy direction and
MAC 4.3. 124 Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure
MAC 4.3. 125 The taints and blames I laid upon myself
MAC 4.3. 126 For strangers to my nature. I am yet
MAC 4.3. 127 Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,
MAC 4.3. 128 Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,
MAC 4.3. 129 At no time broke my faith, would not betray
MAC 4.3. 130 The devil to his fellow, and delight
MAC 4.3. 131 No less in truth than life. My first false-speaking
MAC 4.3. 132 Was this upon myself. What I am truly
MAC 4.3. 133 Is thine and my poor country's to command,
MAC 4.3. 134 Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,
MAC 4.3. 135 Old Siward with ten thousand warlike men,
MAC 4.3. 136 Already at a point, was setting forth.
MAC 4.3. 137 Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness
MAC 4.3. 138 Be like our warranted quarrel! - Why are you silent?
MAC 4.3. 139
MAC-MACDUFF
Such welcome and unwelcome things at once
MAC 4.3. 140 'Tis hard to reconcile. {Enter a Doctor}
MAC 4.3. 141
MAC-MALCOLM
Well, more anon. {(To the Doctor)}+
MAC 4.3. 141 Comes the King forth, I pray you?
MAC 4.3. 142
MAC-DOCTOR
Ay, sir. There are a crew of wretched souls
MAC 4.3. 143 That stay his cure. Their malady convinces
MAC 4.3. 144 The great essay of art, but at his touch,
MAC 4.3. 145 Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand,
MAC 4.3. 146B They presently amend.
MAC-MALCOLM
I thank you, doctor. {Exit +
MAC 4.3. 146B Doctor}
MAC 4.3. 147B
MAC-MACDUFF
What's the disease he means?
MAC-MALCOLM
'Tis +
MAC 4.3. 147B called the evil -
MAC 4.3. 148 A most miraculous work in this good King,
MAC 4.3. 149 Which often since my here-remain in England
MAC 4.3. 150 I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven
MAC 4.3. 151 Himself best knows, but strangely visited people,
MAC 4.3. 152 All swoll'n and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,
MAC 4.3. 153 The mere despair of surgery, he cures,
MAC 4.3. 154 Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,
MAC 4.3. 155 Put on with holy prayers; and 'tis spoken,
MAC 4.3. 156 To the succeeding royalty he leaves
MAC 4.3. 157 The healing benediction. With this strange virtue
MAC 4.3. 158 He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,
MAC 4.3. 159 And sundry blessings hang about his throne
MAC 4.3. 160B That speak him full of grace. {Enter Ross}
MAC-MACDUFF
+
MAC 4.3. 160B See who comes here.
MAC 4.3. 161
MAC-MALCOLM
My countryman, but yet I know him not.
MAC 4.3. 162
MAC-MACDUFF
My ever gentle cousin, welcome hither.
MAC 4.3. 163
MAC-MALCOLM
I know him now. Good God betimes remove
MAC 4.3. 164B The means that makes us strangers!
MAC-ROSS
Sir, amen.
MAC 4.3. 165B
MAC-MACDUFF
Stands Scotland where it did?
MAC-ROSS
Alas, poor country,
MAC 4.3. 166 Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot
MAC 4.3. 167 Be called our mother, but our grave, where nothing
MAC 4.3. 168 But who knows nothing is once seen to smile;
MAC 4.3. 169 Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air
MAC 4.3. 170 Are made, not marked; where violent sorrow seems
MAC 4.3. 171 A modern ecstasy. The dead man's knell
MAC 4.3. 172 Is there scarce asked for who, and good men's lives
MAC 4.3. 173 Expire before the flowers in their caps,
MAC 4.3. 174B Dying or ere they sicken.
MAC-MACDUFF
O relation
MAC 4.3. 175B Too nice and yet too true!
MAC-MALCOLM
What's the newest grief?
MAC 4.3. 176
MAC-ROSS
That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
MAC 4.3. 177B Each minute teems a new one.
MAC-MACDUFF
How does my wife?
MAC 4.3. 178B
MAC-ROSS
Why, well.
MAC-MACDUFF
And all my children?
MAC-ROSS
Well, too.
MAC 4.3. 179
MAC-MACDUFF
The tyrant has not battered at their peace?
MAC 4.3. 180
MAC-ROSS
No, they were well at peace when I did leave 'em.
MAC 4.3. 181
MAC-MACDUFF
Be not a niggard of your speech. How goes 't?
MAC 4.3. 182
MAC-ROSS
When I came hither to transport the tidings
MAC 4.3. 183 Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour
MAC 4.3. 184 Of many worthy fellows that were out,
MAC 4.3. 185 Which was to my belief witnessed the rather
MAC 4.3. 186 For that I saw the tyrant's power afoot.
MAC 4.3. 187 Now is the time of help. {(To Malcolm)} Your eye in +
MAC 4.3. 187 Scotland
MAC 4.3. 188 Would create soldiers, make our women fight
MAC 4.3. 189B To doff their dire distresses.
MAC-MALCOLM
Be 't their comfort
MAC 4.3. 190 We are coming thither. Gracious England hath
MAC 4.3. 191 Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;
MAC 4.3. 192 An older and a better soldier none
MAC 4.3. 193B That Christendom gives out.
MAC-ROSS
Would I could answer
MAC 4.3. 194 This comfort with the like. But I have words
MAC 4.3. 195 That would be howled out in the desert air
MAC 4.3. 196B Where hearing should not latch them.
MAC-MACDUFF
What concern they -
MAC 4.3. 197 The general cause, or is it a fee-grief
MAC 4.3. 198B Due to some single breast?
MAC-ROSS
No mind that's honest
MAC 4.3. 199 But in it shares some woe, though the main part
MAC 4.3. 200B Pertains to you alone.
MAC-MACDUFF
If it be mine,
MAC 4.3. 201 Keep it not from me; quickly let me have it.
MAC 4.3. 202
MAC-ROSS
Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,
MAC 4.3. 203 Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
MAC 4.3. 204B That ever yet they heard.
MAC-MACDUFF
H'm, I guess at it.
MAC 4.3. 205
MAC-ROSS
Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes
MAC 4.3. 206 Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner
MAC 4.3. 207 Were on the quarry of these murdered deer
MAC 4.3. 208B To add the death of you.
MAC-MALCOLM
Merciful heaven!
MAC 4.3. 209 {(To Macduff)} What, man, ne'er pull your hat upon +
MAC 4.3. 209 your brows.
MAC 4.3. 210 Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
MAC 4.3. 211 Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
MAC 4.3. 212B
MAC-MACDUFF
My children too?
MAC-ROSS
Wife, children, servants, all
MAC 4.3. 213B That could be found.
MAC-MACDUFF
And I must be from thence!
MAC 4.3. 214B My wife killed too?
MAC-ROSS
I have said.
MAC-MALCOLM
Be comforted.
MAC 4.3. 215 Let's make us medicines of our great revenge
MAC 4.3. 216 To cure this deadly grief.
MAC 4.3. 217
MAC-MACDUFF
He has no children. All my pretty ones?
MAC 4.3. 218 Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
MAC 4.3. 219 What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
MAC 4.3. 220 At one fell swoop?
MAC 4.3. 221A
MAC-MALCOLM
Dispute it like a man.
MAC 4.3. 222A
MAC-MACDUFF
I shall do so,
MAC 4.3. 223 But I must also feel it as a man.
MAC 4.3. 224 I cannot but remember such things were
MAC 4.3. 225 That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on
MAC 4.3. 226 And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,
MAC 4.3. 227 They were all struck for thee. Naught that I am,
MAC 4.3. 228 Not for their own demerits but for mine
MAC 4.3. 229 Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now.
MAC 4.3. 230
MAC-MALCOLM
Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief
MAC 4.3. 231 Convert to anger: blunt not the heart, enrage it.
MAC 4.3. 232
MAC-MACDUFF
O, I could play the woman with mine eyes
MAC 4.3. 233 And braggart with my tongue! But gentle heavens
MAC 4.3. 234 Cut short all intermission. Front to front
MAC 4.3. 235 Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself.
MAC 4.3. 236 Within my sword's length set him. If he scape,
MAC 4.3. 237B Heaven forgive him too.
MAC-MALCOLM
This tune goes manly.
MAC 4.3. 238 Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;
MAC 4.3. 239 Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth
MAC 4.3. 240 Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
MAC 4.3. 241 Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may:
MAC 4.3. 242 The night is long that never finds the day. {Exeunt}
MAC 4.3. 242
MAC-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MAC 4.3. 0 {Enter a Doctor of Physic and a +
MAC 5.1. 0 Waiting-Gentlewoman}
MAC 5.1. 1
MAC-DOCTOR
I have two nights watched with you, but can
MAC 5.1. 2 perceive no truth in your report. When was it she last
MAC 5.1. 3 walked?
MAC 5.1. 4
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
Since his majesty went into the field I have
MAC 5.1. 5 seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon
MAC 5.1. 6 her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write
MAC 5.1. 7 upon 't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to
MAC 5.1. 8 bed, yet all this while in a most fast sleep.
MAC 5.1. 9
MAC-DOCTOR
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once
MAC 5.1. 10 the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching. In
MAC 5.1. 11 this slumbery agitation besides her walking and other
MAC 5.1. 12 actual performances, what at any time have you heard
MAC 5.1. 13 her say?
MAC 5.1. 14
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
That, sir, which I will not report after her.
MAC 5.1. 15
MAC-DOCTOR
You may to me; and 'tis most meet you should.
MAC 5.1. 16
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
Neither to you nor anyone, having no
MAC 5.1. 17 witness to confirm my speech. {Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper}
MAC 5.1. 18 Lo you, here she comes. This is her very guise, and,
MAC 5.1. 19 upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her. Stand close.
MAC 5.1. 20A
MAC-DOCTOR
How came she by that light?
MAC 5.1. 21
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
Why, it stood by her. She has light by her
MAC 5.1. 22 continually. 'Tis her command.
MAC 5.1. 23A
MAC-DOCTOR
You see her eyes are open.
MAC 5.1. 24A
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
Ay, but their sense are shut.
MAC 5.1. 25
MAC-DOCTOR
What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her
MAC 5.1. 26 hands.
MAC 5.1. 27
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
It is an accustomed action with her, to
MAC 5.1. 28 seem thus washing her hands. I have known her
MAC 5.1. 29 continue in this a quarter of an hour.
MAC 5.1. 30A
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Yet here's a spot.
MAC 5.1. 31
MAC-DOCTOR
Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes
MAC 5.1. 32 from her to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
MAC 5.1. 33
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two, -
MAC 5.1. 34 why, then 'tis time to do 't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord,
MAC 5.1. 35 fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows
MAC 5.1. 36 it when none can call our power to account? Yet who
MAC 5.1. 37 would have thought the old man to have had so much
MAC 5.1. 38 blood in him?
MAC 5.1. 39
MAC-DOCTOR
Do you mark that?
MAC 5.1. 40
MAC-LADY MACBETH
The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is
MAC 5.1. 41 she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No
MAC 5.1. 42 more o' that, my lord, no more o' that. You mar all
MAC 5.1. 43 with this starting.
MAC 5.1. 44
MAC-DOCTOR
Go to, go to. You have known what you should
MAC 5.1. 45 not.
MAC 5.1. 46
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
She has spoke what she should not, I am
MAC 5.1. 47 sure of that. Heaven knows what she has known.
MAC 5.1. 48
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Here's the smell of the blood still. All the
MAC 5.1. 49 perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O,
MAC 5.1. 50 O, O!
MAC 5.1. 51
MAC-DOCTOR
What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.
MAC 5.1. 52
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
I would not have such a heart in my
MAC 5.1. 53 bosom for the dignity of the whole body.
MAC 5.1. 54
MAC-DOCTOR
Well, well, well.
MAC 5.1. 55
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
Pray God it be, sir.
MAC 5.1. 56
MAC-DOCTOR
This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have
MAC 5.1. 57 known those which have walked in their sleep who
MAC 5.1. 58 have died holily in their beds.
MAC 5.1. 59
MAC-LADY MACBETH
Wash your hands, put on your nightgown,
MAC 5.1. 60 look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried.
MAC 5.1. 61 He cannot come out on 's grave.
MAC 5.1. 62
MAC-DOCTOR
Even so?
MAC 5.1. 63
MAC-LADY MACBETH
To bed, to bed. There's knocking at the
MAC 5.1. 64 gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand.
MAC 5.1. 65 What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed. {Exit}
MAC 5.1. 66
MAC-DOCTOR
Will she go now to bed?
MAC 5.1. 67
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
Directly.
MAC 5.1. 68
MAC-DOCTOR
Foul whisp'rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds
MAC 5.1. 69 Do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds
MAC 5.1. 70 To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
MAC 5.1. 71 More needs she the divine than the physician.
MAC 5.1. 72 God, God forgive us all! Look after her.
MAC 5.1. 73 Remove from her the means of all annoyance,
MAC 5.1. 74 And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night.
MAC 5.1. 75 My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight.
MAC 5.1. 76B I think, but dare not speak.
MAC-GENTLEWOMAN
Good night, good +
MAC 5.1. 76B doctor. {Exeunt}
MAC 5.1. 0 {Enter Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, soldiers, with +
MAC 5.2. 0 a drummer and colours}
MAC 5.2. 1
MAC-MENTEITH
The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,
MAC 5.2. 2 His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff.
MAC 5.2. 3 Revenges burn in them, for their dear causes
MAC 5.2. 4 Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
MAC 5.2. 5B Excite the mortified man.
MAC-ANGUS
Near Birnam Wood
MAC 5.2. 6 Shall we well meet them. That way are they coming.
MAC 5.2. 7
MAC-CAITHNESS
Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?
MAC 5.2. 8
MAC-LENNOX
For certain, sir, he is not. I have a file
MAC 5.2. 9 Of all the gentry. There is Siward's son,
MAC 5.2. 10 And many unrough youths that even now
MAC 5.2. 11B Protest their first of manhood.
MAC-MENTEITH
What does the tyrant?
MAC 5.2. 12
MAC-CAITHNESS
Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies.
MAC 5.2. 13 Some say he's mad, others that lesser hate him
MAC 5.2. 14 Do call it valiant fury; but for certain
MAC 5.2. 15 He cannot buckle his distempered cause
MAC 5.2. 16B Within the belt of rule.
MAC-ANGUS
Now does he feel
MAC 5.2. 17 His secret murders sticking on his hands.
MAC 5.2. 18 Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach.
MAC 5.2. 19 Those he commands move only in command,
MAC 5.2. 20 Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title
MAC 5.2. 21 Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
MAC 5.2. 22B Upon a dwarfish thief.
MAC-MENTEITH
Who then shall blame
MAC 5.2. 23 His pestered senses to recoil and start
MAC 5.2. 24 When all that is within him does condemn
MAC 5.2. 25B Itself for being there?
MAC-CAITHNESS
Well, march we on
MAC 5.2. 26 To give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
MAC 5.2. 27 Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,
MAC 5.2. 28 And with him pour we in our country's purge,
MAC 5.2. 29B Each drop of us.
MAC-LENNOX
Or so much as it needs
MAC 5.2. 30 To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.
MAC 5.2. 31 Make we our march towards Birnam. {Exeunt, marching}
MAC 5.2. 0 {Enter Macbeth, the Doctor of Physic, and attendants}
MAC 5.3. 1
MAC-MACBETH
Bring me no more reports. Let them fly all.
MAC 5.3. 2 Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane
MAC 5.3. 3 I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
MAC 5.3. 4 Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
MAC 5.3. 5 All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
MAC 5.3. 6 `Fear not, Macbeth. No man that's born of woman
MAC 5.3. 7 Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly, false thanes,
MAC 5.3. 8 And mingle with the English epicures.
MAC 5.3. 9 The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
MAC 5.3. 10 Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear. {Enter Servant}
MAC 5.3. 11 The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
MAC 5.3. 12 Where gott'st thou that goose look?
MAC 5.3. 13A
MAC-SERVANT
There is ten thousand -
MAC 5.3. 14A
MAC-MACBETH
Geese, villain?
MAC 5.3. 15A
MAC-SERVANT
Soldiers, sir.
MAC 5.3. 16
MAC-MACBETH
Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear,
MAC 5.3. 17 Thou lily-livered boy. What soldiers, patch?
MAC 5.3. 18 Death of thy soul, those linen cheeks of thine
MAC 5.3. 19 Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?
MAC 5.3. 20A
MAC-SERVANT
The English force, so please you.
MAC 5.3. 21B
MAC-MACBETH
Take thy face hence. {Exit Servant} +
MAC 5.3. 21B Seyton! - I am sick at heart
MAC 5.3. 22 When I behold - Seyton, I say! - This push
MAC 5.3. 23 Will cheer me ever or disseat me now.
MAC 5.3. 24 I have lived long enough. My way of life
MAC 5.3. 25 Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf,
MAC 5.3. 26 And that which should accompany old age,
MAC 5.3. 27 As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
MAC 5.3. 28 I must not look to have, but in their stead
MAC 5.3. 29 Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath
MAC 5.3. 30 Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.
MAC 5.3. 31B Seyton! {Enter Seyton}
MAC-SEYTON
What's your gracious +
MAC 5.3. 31B pleasure?
MAC-MACBETH
What news more?
MAC 5.3. 32
MAC-SEYTON
All is confirmed, my lord, which was reported.
MAC 5.3. 33
MAC-MACBETH
I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.
MAC 5.3. 34 Give me my armour.
MAC 5.3. 35A
MAC-SEYTON
'Tis not needed yet.
MAC 5.3. 36A
MAC-MACBETH
I'll put it on.
MAC 5.3. 37 Send out more horses. Skirr the country round.
MAC 5.3. 38 Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.
MAC 5.3. 39B How does your patient, doctor?
MAC-DOCTOR
Not so sick, my lord,
MAC 5.3. 40 As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
MAC 5.3. 41B That keep her from her rest.
MAC-MACBETH
Cure her of that.
MAC 5.3. 42 Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
MAC 5.3. 43 Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
MAC 5.3. 44 Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
MAC 5.3. 45 And with some sweet oblivious antidote
MAC 5.3. 46 Cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff
MAC 5.3. 47B Which weighs upon the heart?
MAC-DOCTOR
Therein the patient
MAC 5.3. 48 Must minister to himself.
MAC 5.3. 49
MAC-MACBETH
Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
MAC 5.3. 50 {(To an attendant)} Come, put mine armour on. Give me +
MAC 5.3. 50 my staff.
MAC 5.3. 51 Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
MAC 5.3. 52 {(To an attendant)} Come, sir, dispatch. - If thou +
MAC 5.3. 52 couldst, doctor, cast
MAC 5.3. 53 The water of my land, find her disease,
MAC 5.3. 54 And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
MAC 5.3. 55 I would applaud thee to the very echo,
MAC 5.3. 56 That should applaud again. {(To an attendant)} Pull 't +
MAC 5.3. 56 off, I say.
MAC 5.3. 57 {(To the Doctor)} What rhubarb, cyme, or what +
MAC 5.3. 57 purgative drug
MAC 5.3. 58 Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?
MAC 5.3. 59
MAC-DOCTOR
Ay, my good lord. Your royal preparation
MAC 5.3. 60B Makes us hear something.
MAC-MACBETH
{(To an attendant)}+
MAC 5.3. 60B Bring it after me.
MAC 5.3. 61 I will not be afraid of death and bane
MAC 5.3. 62 Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.
MAC 5.3. 63
MAC-DOCTOR
{(aside)} Were I from Dunsinane away and +
MAC 5.3. 63 clear,
MAC 5.3. 64 Profit again should hardly draw me here. {Exeunt}
MAC 5.3. 0 {Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Siward's Son, Menteith, +
MAC 5.4. 0 Caithness, Angus, and soldiers, marching, with a drummer and colours}
MAC 5.4. 1
MAC-MALCOLM
Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
MAC 5.4. 2B That chambers will be safe.
MAC-MENTEITH
We doubt it nothing.
MAC 5.4. 3B
MAC-SIWARD
What wood is this before us?
MAC-MENTEITH
The wood of Birnam.
MAC 5.4. 4
MAC-MALCOLM
Let every soldier hew him down a bough
MAC 5.4. 5 And bear 't before him. Thereby shall we shadow
MAC 5.4. 6 The numbers of our host, and make discovery
MAC 5.4. 7B Err in report of us. A
MAC-SOLDIER
It shall be done.
MAC 5.4. 8
MAC-SIWARD
We learn no other but the confident tyrant
MAC 5.4. 9 Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
MAC 5.4. 10B Our setting down before 't.
MAC-MALCOLM
'Tis his main hope,
MAC 5.4. 11 For where there is advantage to be gone,
MAC 5.4. 12 Both more and less have given him the revolt,
MAC 5.4. 13 And none serve with him but constrained things,
MAC 5.4. 14B Whose hearts are absent too.
MAC-MACDUFF
Let our just censures
MAC 5.4. 15 Attend the true event, and put we on
MAC 5.4. 16B Industrious soldiership.
MAC-SIWARD
The time approaches
MAC 5.4. 17 That will with due decision make us know
MAC 5.4. 18 What we shall say we have, and what we owe.
MAC 5.4. 19 Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
MAC 5.4. 20 But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;
MAC 5.4. 21 Towards which, advance the war. {Exeunt, marching}
MAC 5.4. 0 {Enter Macbeth, Seyton, and soldiers, with a drummer and +
MAC 5.5. 0 colours}
MAC 5.5. 1
MAC-MACBETH
Hang out our banners on the outward walls.
MAC 5.5. 2 The cry is still `They come.' Our castle's strength
MAC 5.5. 3 Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie
MAC 5.5. 4 Till famine and the ague eat them up.
MAC 5.5. 5 Were they not forced with those that should be ours
MAC 5.5. 6 We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
MAC 5.5. 7B And beat them backward home. {A cry within of women} +
MAC 5.5. 7B What is that noise?
MAC 5.5. 8
MAC-SEYTON
It is the cry of women, my good lord. {[Exit]}
MAC 5.5. 9
MAC-MACBETH
I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
MAC 5.5. 10 The time has been my senses would have cooled
MAC 5.5. 11 To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
MAC 5.5. 12 Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
MAC 5.5. 13 As life were in 't. I have supped full with horrors.
MAC 5.5. 14 Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
MAC 5.5. 15B Cannot once start me. {[Enter Seyton]} Wherefore was +
MAC 5.5. 15B that cry?
MAC 5.5. 16B
MAC-SEYTON
The Queen, my lord, is dead.
MAC-MACBETH
She should have died +
MAC 5.5. 16B hereafter.
MAC 5.5. 17 There would have been a time for such a word.
MAC 5.5. 18 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
MAC 5.5. 19 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
MAC 5.5. 20 To the last syllable of recorded time,
MAC 5.5. 21 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
MAC 5.5. 22 The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.
MAC 5.5. 23 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
MAC 5.5. 24 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
MAC 5.5. 25 And then is heard no more. It is a tale
MAC 5.5. 26 Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
MAC 5.5. 27B Signifying nothing. {Enter a Messenger} Thou com'st to +
MAC 5.5. 27B use
MAC 5.5. 28B Thy tongue: thy story quickly.
MAC-MESSENGER
Gracious my lord,
MAC 5.5. 29 I should report that which I say I saw,
MAC 5.5. 30B But know not how to do 't.
MAC-MACBETH
Well, say, sir.
MAC 5.5. 31
MAC-MESSENGER
As I did stand my watch upon the hill
MAC 5.5. 32 I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought
MAC 5.5. 33B The wood began to move.
MAC-MACBETH
Liar and slave!
MAC 5.5. 34
MAC-MESSENGER
Let me endure your wrath if 't be not so.
MAC 5.5. 35 Within this three mile may you see it coming.
MAC 5.5. 36B I say, a moving grove.
MAC-MACBETH
If thou speak'st false
MAC 5.5. 37 Upon the next tree shall thou hang alive
MAC 5.5. 38 Till famine cling thee. If thy speech be sooth,
MAC 5.5. 39 I care not if thou dost for me as much.
MAC 5.5. 40 I pall in resolution, and begin
MAC 5.5. 41 To doubt th' equivocation of the fiend,
MAC 5.5. 42 That lies like truth. `Fear not till Birnam Wood
MAC 5.5. 43 Do come to Dunsinane' - and now a wood
MAC 5.5. 44 Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out.
MAC 5.5. 45 If this which he avouches does appear
MAC 5.5. 46 There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
MAC 5.5. 47 I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
MAC 5.5. 48 And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
MAC 5.5. 49 Ring the alarum bell. {[Alarums]} Blow wind, come +
MAC 5.5. 49 wrack,
MAC 5.5. 50 At least we'll die with harness on our back. {Exeunt}
MAC 5.5. 0 {Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, and their army with +
MAC 5.6. 0 boughs, with a drummer and colours}
MAC 5.6. 1
MAC-MALCOLM
Now near enough. Your leafy screens throw down,
MAC 5.6. 2B And show like those you are. {[They throw down the +
MAC 5.6. 2B boughs]} You, worthy uncle,
MAC 5.6. 3 Shall with my cousin, your right noble son,
MAC 5.6. 4 Lead our first battle. Worthy Macduff and we
MAC 5.6. 5 Shall take upon 's what else remains to do
MAC 5.6. 6B According to our order.
MAC-SIWARD
Fare you well.
MAC 5.6. 7 Do we but find the tyrant's power tonight,
MAC 5.6. 8 Let us be beaten if we cannot fight.
MAC 5.6. 9
MAC-MACDUFF
Make all our trumpets speak, give them all breath,
MAC 5.6. 10 Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. {Exeunt. Alarums +
MAC 5.6. 10 continued}
MAC 5.6. 0 {Enter Macbeth}
MAC 5.7. 1
MAC-MACBETH
They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly,
MAC 5.7. 2 But bear-like I must fight the course. What's he
MAC 5.7. 3 That was not born of woman? Such a one
MAC 5.7. 4 Am I to fear, or none. {Enter Young Siward}
MAC 5.7. 5A
MAC-YOUNG SIWARD
What is thy name?
MAC 5.7. 6A
MAC-MACBETH
Thou'lt be afraid to hear it.
MAC 5.7. 7
MAC-YOUNG SIWARD
No, though thou call'st thyself a hotter name
MAC 5.7. 8B Than any is in hell.
MAC-MACBETH
My name's Macbeth.
MAC 5.7. 9
MAC-YOUNG SIWARD
The devil himself could not pronounce a title
MAC 5.7. 10B More hateful to mine ear.
MAC-MACBETH
No, nor more fearful.
MAC 5.7. 11
MAC-YOUNG SIWARD
Thou liest, abhorred tyrant. With my sword
MAC 5.7. 12B I'll prove the lie thou speak'st. {They fight, and Young Siward +
MAC 5.7. 12B is slain}
MAC-MACBETH
Thou wast born of woman,
MAC 5.7. 13 But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
MAC 5.7. 14 Brandished by man that's of a woman born. {Exit [with the body]}
MAC 5.7. 0 {Alarums. Enter Macduff}
MAC 5.8. 1
MAC-MACDUFF
That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!
MAC 5.8. 2 If thou beest slain and with no stroke of mine,
MAC 5.8. 3 My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.
MAC 5.8. 4 I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
MAC 5.8. 5 Are hired to bear their staves. Either thou, Macbeth,
MAC 5.8. 6 Or else my sword with an unbattered edge
MAC 5.8. 7 I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;
MAC 5.8. 8 By this great clatter one of greatest note
MAC 5.8. 9 Seems bruited. Let me find him, fortune,
MAC 5.8. 10 And more I beg not. {Exit. Alarums}
MAC 5.8. 0 {Enter Malcolm and Siward}
MAC 5.9. 1
MAC-SIWARD
This way, my lord. The castle's gently rendered.
MAC 5.9. 2 The tyrant's people on both sides do fight.
MAC 5.9. 3 The noble thanes do bravely in the war.
MAC 5.9. 4 The day almost itself professes yours,
MAC 5.9. 5B And little is to do.
MAC-MALCOLM
We have met with foes
MAC 5.9. 6B That strike beside us.
MAC-SIWARD
Enter, sir, the castle. +
MAC 5.9. 6B {Exeunt. Alarum}
MAC 5.9. 0 {Enter Macbeth}
MAC 5.10. 1
MAC-MACBETH
Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
MAC 5.10. 2 On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes
MAC 5.10. 3B Do better upon them. {Enter Macduff}
MAC-MACDUFF
Turn, +
MAC 5.10. 3B hell-hound, turn.
MAC 5.10. 4
MAC-MACBETH
Of all men else I have avoided thee.
MAC 5.10. 5 But get thee back. My soul is too much charged
MAC 5.10. 6B With blood of thine already.
MAC-MACDUFF
I have no words;
MAC 5.10. 7 My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain
MAC 5.10. 8B Than terms can give thee out. {They fight; alarum}
MAC-MACBETH
+
MAC 5.10. 8B Thou losest labour.
MAC 5.10. 9 As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
MAC 5.10. 10 With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed.
MAC 5.10. 11 Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
MAC 5.10. 12 I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
MAC 5.10. 13B To one of woman born.
MAC-MACDUFF
Despair thy charm,
MAC 5.10. 14 And let the angel whom thou still hast served
MAC 5.10. 15 Tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb
MAC 5.10. 16 Untimely ripped.
MAC 5.10. 17
MAC-MACBETH
Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
MAC 5.10. 18 For it hath cowed my better part of man;
MAC 5.10. 19 And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
MAC 5.10. 20 That palter with us in a double sense,
MAC 5.10. 21 That keep the word of promise to our ear
MAC 5.10. 22 And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.
MAC 5.10. 23A
MAC-MACDUFF
Then yield thee, coward,
MAC 5.10. 24 And live to be the show and gaze o' th' time.
MAC 5.10. 25 We'll have thee as our rarer monsters are,
MAC 5.10. 26 Painted upon a pole, and underwrit
MAC 5.10. 27B `Here may you see the tyrant.'
MAC-MACBETH
I will not yield
MAC 5.10. 28 To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
MAC 5.10. 29 And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
MAC 5.10. 30 Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,
MAC 5.10. 31 And thou opposed being of no woman born,
MAC 5.10. 32 Yet I will try the last. Before my body
MAC 5.10. 33 I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
MAC 5.10. 34 And damned be him that first cries `Hold, enough!' {Exeunt +
MAC 5.10. 34 fighting. Alarums}
MAC 5.10. 0 {They enter fighting, and Macbeth is slain. [Exit Macduff with +
MAC 5.10. 0 Macbeth's body]} {Retreat and flourish. Enter with a drummer and +
MAC 5.11. 0 colours Malcolm, Siward, Ross, thanes, and soldiers}
MAC 5.11. 1
MAC-MALCOLM
I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.
MAC 5.11. 2
MAC-SIWARD
Some must go off; and yet by these I see
MAC 5.11. 3 So great a day as this is cheaply bought.
MAC 5.11. 4
MAC-MALCOLM
Macduff is missing, and your noble son.
MAC 5.11. 5
MAC-ROSS
{(to Siward)} Your son, my lord, has paid a +
MAC 5.11. 5 soldier's debt.
MAC 5.11. 6 He only lived but till he was a man,
MAC 5.11. 7 The which no sooner had his prowess confirmed
MAC 5.11. 8 In the unshrinking station where he fought,
MAC 5.11. 9B But like a man he died.
MAC-SIWARD
Then he is dead?
MAC 5.11. 10
MAC-ROSS
Ay, and brought off the field. Your cause of sorrow
MAC 5.11. 11 Must not be measured by his worth, for then
MAC 5.11. 12B It hath no end.
MAC-SIWARD
Had he his hurts before?
MAC 5.11. 13B
MAC-ROSS
Ay, on the front.
MAC-SIWARD
Why then, God's soldier be he.
MAC 5.11. 14 Had I as many sons as I have hairs
MAC 5.11. 15 I would not wish them to a fairer death;
MAC 5.11. 16B And so his knell is knolled.
MAC-MALCOLM
He's worth more sorrow,
MAC 5.11. 17B And that I'll spend for him.
MAC-SIWARD
He's worth no more.
MAC 5.11. 18 They say he parted well and paid his score,
MAC 5.11. 19 And so God be with him. Here comes newer comfort. {Enter Macduff +
MAC 5.11. 19 with Macbeth's head}
MAC 5.11. 20
MAC-MACDUFF
{(to Malcolm)} Hail, King, for so thou +
MAC 5.11. 20 art. Behold where stands
MAC 5.11. 21 Th' usurper's cursed head. The time is free.
MAC 5.11. 22 I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl,
MAC 5.11. 23 That speak my salutation in their minds,
MAC 5.11. 24 Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
MAC 5.11. 25B Hail, King of Scotland!
MAC-ALL BUT MALCOLM
Hail, King of +
MAC 5.11. 25B Scotland! {Flourish}
MAC 5.11. 26
MAC-MALCOLM
We shall not spend a large expense of time
MAC 5.11. 27 Before we reckon with your several loves
MAC 5.11. 28 And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
MAC 5.11. 29 Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
MAC 5.11. 30 In such an honour named. What's more to do
MAC 5.11. 31 Which would be planted newly with the time,
MAC 5.11. 32 As calling home our exiled friends abroad,
MAC 5.11. 33 That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
MAC 5.11. 34 Producing forth the cruel ministers
MAC 5.11. 35 Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen -
MAC 5.11. 36 Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
MAC 5.11. 37 Took off her life - this and what needful else
MAC 5.11. 38 That calls upon us, by the grace of grace
MAC 5.11. 39 We will perform in measure, time, and place.
MAC 5.11. 40 So thanks to all at once, and to each one,
MAC 5.11. 41 Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone. {Flourish. Exeunt +
MAC 5.11. 41 Omnes}
MAC 5.11.
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MM . . 0 Measure for Measure
MM . . 0 {Enter the Duke, Escalus, and other lords}
MM 1.1. 1A
MM-DUKE
Escalus.
MM 1.1. 2A
MM-ESCALUS
My lord.
MM 1.1. 3
MM-DUKE
Of government the properties to unfold
MM 1.1. 4 Would seem in me t' affect speech and discourse,
MM 1.1. 5 Since I am put to know that your own science
MM 1.1. 6 Exceeds in that the lists of all advice
MM 1.1. 7 My strength can give you. Then no more remains
MM 1.1. 8 But this: to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,
MM 1.1. 9 And let them work. The nature of our people,
MM 1.1. 10 Our city's institutions and the terms
MM 1.1. 11 For common justice, you're as pregnant in
MM 1.1. 12 As art and practice hath enriched any
MM 1.1. 13B That we remember. {He gives Escalus papers} There is +
MM 1.1. 13B our commission,
MM 1.1. 14B From which we would not have you warp. {(To a lord)} +
MM 1.1. 14B Call hither,
MM 1.1. 15 I say bid come before us, Angelo. {Exit lord}
MM 1.1. 16 {(To Escalus)} What figure of us think you he will +
MM 1.1. 16 bear? -
MM 1.1. 17 For you must know we have with special soul
MM 1.1. 18 Elected him our absence to supply,
MM 1.1. 19 Lent him our terror, dressed him with our love,
MM 1.1. 20 And given his deputation all the organs
MM 1.1. 21 Of our own power. What think you of it?
MM 1.1. 22
MM-ESCALUS
If any in Vienna be of worth
MM 1.1. 23 To undergo such ample grace and honour,
MM 1.1. 24B It is Lord Angelo. {Enter Angelo}
MM-DUKE
Look where +
MM 1.1. 24B he comes.
MM 1.1. 25
MM-ANGELO
Always obedient to your grace's will,
MM 1.1. 26B I come to know your pleasure.
MM-DUKE
Angelo,
MM 1.1. 27 There is a kind of character in thy life
MM 1.1. 28 That to th' observer doth thy history
MM 1.1. 29 Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings
MM 1.1. 30 Are not thine own so proper as to waste
MM 1.1. 31 Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
MM 1.1. 32 Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
MM 1.1. 33 Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
MM 1.1. 34 Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
MM 1.1. 35 As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched
MM 1.1. 36 But to fine issues; nor nature never lends
MM 1.1. 37 The smallest scruple of her excellence
MM 1.1. 38 But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
MM 1.1. 39 Herself the glory of a creditor,
MM 1.1. 40 Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech
MM 1.1. 41 To one that can my part in him advertise.
MM 1.1. 42 Hold therefore, Angelo.
MM 1.1. 43 In our remove be thou at full ourself.
MM 1.1. 44 Mortality and mercy in Vienna
MM 1.1. 45 Live in thy tongue and heart. Old Escalus,
MM 1.1. 46 Though first in question, is thy secondary.
MM 1.1. 47B Take thy commission.
MM-ANGELO
Now good my lord,
MM 1.1. 48 Let there be some more test made of my metal
MM 1.1. 49 Before so noble and so great a figure
MM 1.1. 50B Be stamped upon it.
MM-DUKE
No more evasion.
MM 1.1. 51 We have with leavened and prepared choice
MM 1.1. 52 Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours. {[Angelo takes +
MM 1.1. 52 his commission]}
MM 1.1. 53 Our haste from hence is of so quick condition
MM 1.1. 54 That it prefers itself, and leaves unquestioned
MM 1.1. 55 Matters of needful value. We shall write to you
MM 1.1. 56 As time and our concernings shall importune,
MM 1.1. 57 How it goes with us; and do look to know
MM 1.1. 58 What doth befall you here. So fare you well.
MM 1.1. 59 To th' hopeful execution do I leave you
MM 1.1. 60B Of your commissions.
MM-ANGELO
Yet give leave, my lord,
MM 1.1. 61 That we may bring you something on the way.
MM 1.1. 62A
MM-DUKE
My haste may not admit it;
MM 1.1. 63 Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do
MM 1.1. 64 With any scruple. Your scope is as mine own,
MM 1.1. 65 So to enforce or qualify the laws
MM 1.1. 66 As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand.
MM 1.1. 67 I'll privily away. I love the people,
MM 1.1. 68 But do not like to stage me to their eyes.
MM 1.1. 69 Though it do well, I do not relish well
MM 1.1. 70 Their loud applause and {aves} vehement;
MM 1.1. 71 Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
MM 1.1. 72 That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.
MM 1.1. 73
MM-ANGELO
The heavens give safety to your purposes!
MM 1.1. 74
MM-ESCALUS
Lead forth and bring you back in happiness!
MM 1.1. 75A
MM-DUKE
I thank you. Fare you well. {Exit}
MM 1.1. 76
MM-ESCALUS
I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
MM 1.1. 77 To have free speech with you; and it concerns me
MM 1.1. 78 To look into the bottom of my place.
MM 1.1. 79 A power I have, but of what strength and nature
MM 1.1. 80 I am not yet instructed.
MM 1.1. 81
MM-ANGELO
'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,
MM 1.1. 82 And we may soon our satisfaction have
MM 1.1. 83B Touching that point.
MM-ESCALUS
I'll wait upon your honour. +
MM 1.1. 83B {Exeunt}
MM 1.1. 0
MM 1.1. 0 {Enter Lucio, and two other Gentlemen}
MM 1.2. 1
MM-LUCIO
If the Duke with the other dukes come not to
MM 1.2. 2 composition with the King of Hungary, why then, all
MM 1.2. 3 the dukes fall upon the King.
MM 1.2. 4
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Heaven grant us its peace, but not the
MM 1.2. 5 King of Hungary's!
MM 1.2. 6
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Amen.
MM 1.2. 7
MM-LUCIO
Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that
MM 1.2. 8 went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped
MM 1.2. 9 one out of the table.
MM 1.2. 10
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
`Thou shalt not steal'?
MM 1.2. 11
MM-LUCIO
Ay, that he razed.
MM 1.2. 12
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Why, 'twas a commandment to command
MM 1.2. 13 the captain and all the rest from their functions:
MM 1.2. 14 they put forth to steal. There's not a soldier of us all
MM 1.2. 15 that in the thanksgiving before meat do relish the
MM 1.2. 16 petition well that prays for peace.
MM 1.2. 17
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
I never heard any soldier dislike it.
MM 1.2. 18
MM-LUCIO
I believe thee, for I think thou never wast where
MM 1.2. 19 grace was said.
MM 1.2. 20
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
No? A dozen times at least.
MM 1.2. 21
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
What, in metre?
MM 1.2. 22
MM-LUCIO
In any proportion, or in any language.
MM 1.2. 23
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
I think, or in any religion.
MM 1.2. 24
MM-LUCIO
Ay, why not? Grace is grace despite of all
MM 1.2. 25 controversy; as for example, thou thyself art a wicked
MM 1.2. 26 villain despite of all grace.
MM 1.2. 27
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Well, there went but a pair of shears
MM 1.2. 28 between us.
MM 1.2. 29
MM-LUCIO
I grant - as there may between the lists and the
MM 1.2. 30 velvet. Thou art the list.
MM 1.2. 31
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
And thou the velvet. Thou art good
MM 1.2. 32 velvet, thou'rt a three-piled piece, I warrant thee. I had
MM 1.2. 33 as lief be a list of an English kersey as be piled as thou
MM 1.2. 34 art pilled, for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?
MM 1.2. 35
MM-LUCIO
I think thou dost, and indeed with most painful
MM 1.2. 36 feeling of thy speech. I will out of thine own confession
MM 1.2. 37 learn to begin thy health, but whilst I live forget to
MM 1.2. 38 drink after thee.
MM 1.2. 39
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
I think I have done myself wrong, have
MM 1.2. 40 I not?
MM 1.2. 41
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art
MM 1.2. 42 tainted or free. {Enter Mistress Overdone}
MM 1.2. 43
MM-LUCIO
Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes! I
MM 1.2. 44 have purchased as many diseases under her roof as
MM 1.2. 45 come to -
MM 1.2. 46
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
To what, I pray?
MM 1.2. 47
MM-LUCIO
Judge.
MM 1.2. 48
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
To three thousand dolours a year?
MM 1.2. 49
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Ay, and more.
MM 1.2. 50
MM-LUCIO
A French crown more.
MM 1.2. 51
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Thou art always figuring diseases in
MM 1.2. 52 me, but thou art full of error - I am sound.
MM 1.2. 53
MM-LUCIO
Nay not, as one would say, healthy, but so sound
MM 1.2. 54 as things that are hollow - thy bones are hollow,
MM 1.2. 55 impiety has made a feast of thee.
MM 1.2. 56
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
{(to Mistress Overdone)} How now, +
MM 1.2. 56 which
MM 1.2. 57 of your hips has the most profound sciatica?
MM 1.2. 58
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Well, well! There's one yonder
MM 1.2. 59 arrested and carried to prison was worth five thousand
MM 1.2. 60 of you all.
MM 1.2. 61
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Who's that, I pray thee?
MM 1.2. 62
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Marry sir, that's Claudio, Signor
MM 1.2. 63 Claudio.
MM 1.2. 64
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Claudio to prison? 'Tis not so.
MM 1.2. 65
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Nay, but I know 'tis so. I saw him
MM 1.2. 66 arrested, saw him carried away; and, which is more,
MM 1.2. 67 within these three days his head to be chopped off.
MM 1.2. 68
MM-LUCIO
But after all this fooling, I would not have it so.
MM 1.2. 69 Art thou sure of this?
MM 1.2. 70
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
I am too sure of it, and it is for getting
MM 1.2. 71 Madame Julietta with child.
MM 1.2. 72
MM-LUCIO
Believe me, this may be. He promised to meet me
MM 1.2. 73 two hours since and he was ever precise in promise-
MM 1.2. 74 keeping.
MM 1.2. 75
MM-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Besides, you know, it draws something
MM 1.2. 76 near to the speech we had to such a purpose.
MM 1.2. 77
MM-FIRST GENTLEMAN
But most of all agreeing with the
MM 1.2. 78 proclamation.
MM 1.2. 79
MM-LUCIO
Away; let's go learn the truth of it. {Exeunt Lucio +
MM 1.2. 79 and Gentlemen}
MM 1.2. 80
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Thus, what with the war, what with
MM 1.2. 81 the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with
MM 1.2. 82 poverty, I am custom-shrunk. +
MM 1.2. 82 +
MM 1.2. 82 {Enter Pompey}
MM 1.2. 83 How now, what's the news with you?
MM 1.2. 84
MM-POMPEY
You have not heard of the proclamation, have
MM 1.2. 85 you?
MM 1.2. 86
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
What proclamation, man?
MM 1.2. 87
MM-POMPEY
All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be
MM 1.2. 88 plucked down.
MM 1.2. 89
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
And what shall become of those in
MM 1.2. 90 the city?
MM 1.2. 91
MM-POMPEY
They shall stand for seed. They had gone down
MM 1.2. 92 too, but that a wise burgher put in for them.
MM 1.2. 93
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
But shall all our houses of resort in
MM 1.2. 94 the suburbs be pulled down?
MM 1.2. 95
MM-POMPEY
To the ground, mistress.
MM 1.2. 96
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Why, here's a change indeed in the
MM 1.2. 97 commonwealth. What shall become of me?
MM 1.2. 98
MM-POMPEY
Come, fear not you. Good counsellors lack no
MM 1.2. 99 clients. Though you change your place, you need not
MM 1.2. 100 change your trade. I'll be your tapster still. Courage,
MM 1.2. 101 there will be pity taken on you. You that have worn
MM 1.2. 102 your eyes almost out in the service, you will be
MM 1.2. 103 considered.
MM-[A
noise within]}
MM 1.2. 104
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
What's to do here, Thomas Tapster?
MM 1.2. 105 Let's withdraw! {Enter the Provost, Claudio, +
MM 1.2. 105 +
MM 1.2. 105 Juliet, and officers; Lucio and the two Gentlemen}
MM 1.2. 106 +
MM 1.2. 106
MM-POMPEY
Here comes Signor Claudio, led by the Provost to
MM 1.2. 107 prison; +
MM 1.2. 107 +
MM 1.2. 107 and there's Madame Juliet. +
MM 1.2. 107 +
MM 1.2. 107 {Exeunt Mistress Overdone and Pompey}
MM 1.2. 108
MM-CLAUDIO
{(to the Provost)} Fellow, why dost thou +
MM 1.2. 108 show me thus to th' world?
MM 1.2. 109 Bear me to prison, where I am committed.
MM 1.2. 110
MM-PROVOST
I do it not in evil disposition,
MM 1.2. 111 But from Lord Angelo by special charge.
MM 1.2. 112
MM-CLAUDIO
Thus can the demigod Authority
MM 1.2. 113 Make us pay down for our offence, by weight,
MM 1.2. 114 The bonds of heaven. On whom it will, it will;
MM 1.2. 115 On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just.
MM 1.2. 116
MM-LUCIO
Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint?
MM 1.2. 117
MM-CLAUDIO
From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty.
MM 1.2. 118 As surfeit is the father of much fast,
MM 1.2. 119 So every scope, by the immoderate use,
MM 1.2. 120 Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,
MM 1.2. 121 Like rats that raven down their proper bane,
MM 1.2. 122 A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die.
MM 1.2. 123
MM-LUCIO
If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would
MM 1.2. 124 send for certain of my creditors. And yet, to say the
MM 1.2. 125 truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the
MM 1.2. 126 morality of imprisonment. What's thy offence, Claudio?
MM 1.2. 127
MM-CLAUDIO
What but to speak of would offend again.
MM 1.2. 128B
MM-LUCIO
What, is 't murder?
MM-CLAUDIO
No.
MM-LUCIO
Lechery? +
MM 1.2. 128B
MM-CLAUDIO
Call it so.
MM 1.2. 129
MM-PROVOST
Away, sir; you must go.
MM 1.2. 130B
MM-CLAUDIO
One word, good friend. {[The Provost shows +
MM 1.2. 130B assent]} Lucio, a word with you.
MM 1.2. 131
MM-LUCIO
A hundred, if they'll do you any good. +
MM 1.2. 131 {[Claudio and Lucio speak apart]}
MM 1.2. 132 Is lechery so looked after?
MM 1.2. 133
MM-CLAUDIO
Thus stands it with me. Upon a true contract,
MM 1.2. 134 I got possession of Julietta's bed.
MM 1.2. 135 You know the lady; she is fast my wife,
MM 1.2. 136 Save that we do the denunciation lack
MM 1.2. 137 Of outward order. This we came not to
MM 1.2. 138 Only for propagation of a dower
MM 1.2. 139 Remaining in the coffer of her friends,
MM 1.2. 140 From whom we thought it meet to hide our love
MM 1.2. 141 Till time had made them for us. But it chances
MM 1.2. 142 The stealth of our most mutual entertainment
MM 1.2. 143 With character too gross is writ on Juliet.
MM 1.2. 144B
MM-LUCIO
With child, perhaps?
MM-CLAUDIO
Unhapp'ly even so.
MM 1.2. 145 And the new deputy now for the Duke -
MM 1.2. 146 Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,
MM 1.2. 147 Or whether that the body public be
MM 1.2. 148 A horse whereon the governor doth ride,
MM 1.2. 149 Who, newly in the seat, that it may know
MM 1.2. 150 He can command, lets it straight feel the spur -
MM 1.2. 151 Whether the tyranny be in his place,
MM 1.2. 152 Or in his eminence that fills it up -
MM 1.2. 153 I stagger in. But this new governor
MM 1.2. 154 Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
MM 1.2. 155 Which have, like unscoured armour, hung by th' wall
MM 1.2. 156 So long that fourteen zodiacs have gone round,
MM 1.2. 157 And none of them been worn; and, for a name,
MM 1.2. 158 Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
MM 1.2. 159 Freshly on me. 'Tis surely for a name.
MM 1.2. 160
MM-LUCIO
I warrant it is; and thy head stands so tickle on
MM 1.2. 161 thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may
MM 1.2. 162 sigh it off. Send after the Duke, and appeal to him.
MM 1.2. 163
MM-CLAUDIO
I have done so, but he's not to be found.
MM 1.2. 164 I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service.
MM 1.2. 165 This day my sister should the cloister enter,
MM 1.2. 166 And there receive her approbation.
MM 1.2. 167 Acquaint her with the danger of my state.
MM 1.2. 168 Implore her in my voice that she make friends
MM 1.2. 169 To the strict deputy. Bid herself assay him.
MM 1.2. 170 I have great hope in that, for in her youth
MM 1.2. 171 There is a prone and speechless dialect
MM 1.2. 172 Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art
MM 1.2. 173 When she will play with reason and discourse,
MM 1.2. 174 And well she can persuade.
MM 1.2. 175
MM-LUCIO
I pray she may - as well for the encouragement of
MM 1.2. 176 thy like, which else would stand under grievous
MM 1.2. 177 imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would
MM 1.2. 178 be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-
MM 1.2. 179 tack. I'll to her.
MM 1.2. 180
MM-CLAUDIO
I thank you, good friend Lucio.
MM 1.2. 181
MM-LUCIO
Within two hours.
MM 1.2. 182
MM-CLAUDIO
Come, officer; away. {Exeunt [Lucio and gentlemen at +
MM 1.2. 182 one door; Claudio, Juliet, Provost, and officers at another]}
MM 1.2. 0 {Enter the Duke and a Friar}
MM 1.3. 1
MM-DUKE
No, holy father, throw away that thought.
MM 1.3. 2 Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
MM 1.3. 3 Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
MM 1.3. 4 To give me secret harbour hath a purpose
MM 1.3. 5 More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
MM 1.3. 6B Of burning youth.
MM-FRIAR
May your grace speak of it?
MM 1.3. 7
MM-DUKE
My holy sir, none better knows than you
MM 1.3. 8 How I have ever loved the life removed,
MM 1.3. 9 And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
MM 1.3. 10 Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps.
MM 1.3. 11 I have delivered to Lord Angelo -
MM 1.3. 12 A man of stricture and firm abstinence -
MM 1.3. 13 My absolute power and place here in Vienna;
MM 1.3. 14 And he supposes me travelled to Poland -
MM 1.3. 15 For so I have strewed it in the common ear,
MM 1.3. 16 And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
MM 1.3. 17 You will demand of me why I do this.
MM 1.3. 18A
MM-FRIAR
Gladly, my lord.
MM 1.3. 19
MM-DUKE
We have strict statutes and most biting laws,
MM 1.3. 20 The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,
MM 1.3. 21 Which for this fourteen years we have let slip;
MM 1.3. 22 Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave
MM 1.3. 23 That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,
MM 1.3. 24 Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch
MM 1.3. 25 Only to stick it in their children's sight
MM 1.3. 26 For terror, not to use, in time the rod
MM 1.3. 27 More mocked becomes than feared: so our decrees,
MM 1.3. 28 Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;
MM 1.3. 29 And Liberty plucks Justice by the nose,
MM 1.3. 30 The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
MM 1.3. 31B Goes all decorum.
MM-FRIAR
It rested in your grace
MM 1.3. 32 To unloose this tied-up Justice when you pleased,
MM 1.3. 33 And it in you more dreadful would have seemed
MM 1.3. 34B Than in Lord Angelo.
MM-DUKE
I do fear, too dreadful.
MM 1.3. 35 Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,
MM 1.3. 36 'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
MM 1.3. 37 For what I bid them do - for we bid this be done
MM 1.3. 38 When evil deeds have their permissive pass,
MM 1.3. 39 And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,
MM 1.3. 40 I have on Angelo imposed the office,
MM 1.3. 41 Who may in th' ambush of my name strike home,
MM 1.3. 42 And yet my nature never in the fight
MM 1.3. 43 T' allow in slander. And to behold his sway,
MM 1.3. 44 I will as 'twere a brother of your order
MM 1.3. 45 Visit both prince and people. Therefore, I prithee,
MM 1.3. 46 Supply me with the habit, and instruct me
MM 1.3. 47 How I may formally in person bear
MM 1.3. 48 Like a true friar. More reasons for this action
MM 1.3. 49 At our more leisure shall I render you.
MM 1.3. 50 Only this one: Lord Angelo is precise,
MM 1.3. 51 Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses
MM 1.3. 52 That his blood flows, or that his appetite
MM 1.3. 53 Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see
MM 1.3. 54 If power change purpose, what our seemers be. {Exeunt}
MM 1.3. 0 {Enter Isabella, and Francesca, a nun}
MM 1.4. 1
MM-ISABELLA
And have you nuns no farther privileges?
MM 1.4. 2A
MM-FRANCESCA
Are not these large enough?
MM 1.4. 3
MM-ISABELLA
Yes, truly. I speak not as desiring more,
MM 1.4. 4 But rather wishing a more strict restraint
MM 1.4. 5 Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.
MM 1.4. 6B
MM-LUCIO
{(within)} Ho, peace be in this +
MM 1.4. 6B place!
MM-ISABELLA
{[to Francesca]} Who's that which +
MM 1.4. 6B calls?
MM 1.4. 7
MM-FRANCESCA
It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella.
MM 1.4. 8 Turn you the key, and know his business of him.
MM 1.4. 9 You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn.
MM 1.4. 10 When you have vowed, you must not speak with men
MM 1.4. 11 But in the presence of the prioress.
MM 1.4. 12 Then if you speak, you must not show your face;
MM 1.4. 13 Or if you show your face, you must not speak. {Lucio calls +
MM 1.4. 13 within}
MM 1.4. 14 He calls again. I pray you answer him. {[She stands +
MM 1.4. 14 aside]}
MM 1.4. 15
MM-ISABELLA
Peace and prosperity! Who is 't that calls? +
MM 1.4. 15 {She opens the door.}
MM 1.4. 16 {Enter Lucio}
MM-LUCIO
Hail, virgin, if you be - as those +
MM 1.4. 16 cheek-roses
MM 1.4. 17 Proclaim you are no less. Can you so stead me
MM 1.4. 18 As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
MM 1.4. 19 A novice of this place, and the fair sister
MM 1.4. 20 To her unhappy brother Claudio?
MM 1.4. 21
MM-ISABELLA
Why her unhappy brother? Let me ask,
MM 1.4. 22 The rather for I now must make you know
MM 1.4. 23 I am that Isabella, and his sister.
MM 1.4. 24
MM-LUCIO
Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you.
MM 1.4. 25 Not to be weary with you, he's in prison.
MM 1.4. 26A
MM-ISABELLA
Woe me! For what?
MM 1.4. 27
MM-LUCIO
For that which, if myself might be his judge,
MM 1.4. 28 He should receive his punishment in thanks.
MM 1.4. 29B He hath got his friend with child.
MM-ISABELLA
Sir, make me not your +
MM 1.4. 29B story.
MM 1.4. 30
MM-LUCIO
'Tis true. I would not - though 'tis my familiar sin
MM 1.4. 31 With maids to seem the lapwing, and to jest
MM 1.4. 32 Tongue far from heart - play with all virgins so.
MM 1.4. 33 I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted
MM 1.4. 34 By your renouncement, an immortal spirit,
MM 1.4. 35 And to be talked with in sincerity
MM 1.4. 36 As with a saint.
MM 1.4. 37
MM-ISABELLA
You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
MM 1.4. 38
MM-LUCIO
Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus:
MM 1.4. 39 Your brother and his lover have embraced.
MM 1.4. 40 As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
MM 1.4. 41 That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
MM 1.4. 42 To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
MM 1.4. 43 Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.
MM 1.4. 44
MM-ISABELLA
Someone with child by him? My cousin Juliet?
MM 1.4. 45A
MM-LUCIO
Is she your cousin?
MM 1.4. 46
MM-ISABELLA
Adoptedly, as schoolmaids change their names
MM 1.4. 47B By vain though apt affection.
MM-LUCIO
She it is.
MM 1.4. 48B
MM-ISABELLA
O, let him marry her!
MM-LUCIO
This is the point.
MM 1.4. 49 The Duke is very strangely gone from hence;
MM 1.4. 50 Bore many gentlemen - myself being one -
MM 1.4. 51 In hand and hope of action; but we do learn,
MM 1.4. 52 By those that know the very nerves of state,
MM 1.4. 53 His giving out were of an infinite distance
MM 1.4. 54 From his true-meant design. Upon his place,
MM 1.4. 55 And with full line of his authority,
MM 1.4. 56 Governs Lord Angelo - a man whose blood
MM 1.4. 57 Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
MM 1.4. 58 The wanton stings and motions of the sense,
MM 1.4. 59 But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
MM 1.4. 60 With profits of the mind, study, and fast.
MM 1.4. 61 He, to give fear to use and liberty,
MM 1.4. 62 Which have for long run by the hideous law
MM 1.4. 63 As mice by lions, hath picked out an act
MM 1.4. 64 Under whose heavy sense your brother's life
MM 1.4. 65 Falls into forfeit. He arrests him on it,
MM 1.4. 66 And follows close the rigour of the statute
MM 1.4. 67 To make him an example. All hope is gone,
MM 1.4. 68 Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer
MM 1.4. 69 To soften Angelo. And that's my pith
MM 1.4. 70 Of business 'twixt you and your poor brother.
MM 1.4. 71B
MM-ISABELLA
Doth he so seek his life?
MM-LUCIO
Has censured him +
MM 1.4. 71B already,
MM 1.4. 72 And, as I hear, the Provost hath a warrant
MM 1.4. 73B For 's execution.
MM-ISABELLA
Alas, what poor
MM 1.4. 74 Ability's in me to do him good?
MM 1.4. 75A
MM-LUCIO
Assay the power you have.
MM 1.4. 76A
MM-ISABELLA
My power? Alas, I doubt.
MM 1.4. 77A
MM-LUCIO
Our doubts are traitors,
MM 1.4. 78 And makes us lose the good we oft might win,
MM 1.4. 79 By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo;
MM 1.4. 80 And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
MM 1.4. 81 Men give like gods, but when they weep and kneel,
MM 1.4. 82 All their petitions are as freely theirs
MM 1.4. 83B As they themselves would owe them.
MM-ISABELLA
I'll see what I can do.
MM 1.4. 84B
MM-LUCIO
But speedily.
MM-ISABELLA
I will about it straight,
MM 1.4. 85 No longer staying but to give the Mother
MM 1.4. 86 Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you.
MM 1.4. 87 Commend me to my brother. Soon at night
MM 1.4. 88 I'll send him certain word of my success.
MM 1.4. 89B
MM-LUCIO
I take my leave of you.
MM-ISABELLA
Good sir, adieu. +
MM 1.4. 89B {Exeunt [Isabella and Francesca at one door, Lucio at another door]}
MM 1.4. 89
MM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MM 1.4. 0 {Enter Angelo, Escalus, and servants; a Justice}
MM 2.1. 1
MM-ANGELO
We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
MM 2.1. 2 Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
MM 2.1. 3 And let it keep one shape till custom make it
MM 2.1. 4B Their perch, and not their terror.
MM-ESCALUS
Ay, but yet
MM 2.1. 5 Let us be keen, and rather cut a little
MM 2.1. 6 Than fall and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman
MM 2.1. 7 Whom I would save had a most noble father.
MM 2.1. 8 Let but your honour know -
MM 2.1. 9 Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue -
MM 2.1. 10 That in the working of your own affections,
MM 2.1. 11 Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing,
MM 2.1. 12 Or that the resolute acting of your blood
MM 2.1. 13 Could have attained th' effect of your own purpose -
MM 2.1. 14 Whether you had not sometime in your life
MM 2.1. 15 Erred in this point which now you censure him,
MM 2.1. 16 And pulled the law upon you.
MM 2.1. 17
MM-ANGELO
'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
MM 2.1. 18 Another thing to fall. I not deny
MM 2.1. 19 The jury passing on the prisoner's life
MM 2.1. 20 May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
MM 2.1. 21 Guiltier than him they try. What knows the law
MM 2.1. 22 That thieves do pass on thieves? What's open made to justice,
MM 2.1. 23 That justice seizes. 'Tis very pregnant:
MM 2.1. 24 The jewel that we find, we stoop and take 't
MM 2.1. 25 Because we see it, but what we do not see
MM 2.1. 26 We tread upon and never think of it.
MM 2.1. 27 You may not so extenuate his offence
MM 2.1. 28 For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,
MM 2.1. 29 When I that censure him do so offend,
MM 2.1. 30 Let mine own judgement pattern out my death,
MM 2.1. 31 And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.
MM 2.1. 32B
MM-ESCALUS
Be it as your wisdom will.
MM-ANGELO
Where is the +
MM 2.1. 32B Provost? {Enter Provost}
MM 2.1. 33B
MM-PROVOST
Here, if it like your honour.
MM-ANGELO
See that +
MM 2.1. 33B Claudio
MM 2.1. 34 Be execute by nine tomorrow morning.
MM 2.1. 35 Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared,
MM 2.1. 36 For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage. {Exit Provost}
MM 2.1. 37
MM-ESCALUS
Well, heaven forgive him, and forgive us all!
MM 2.1. 38 Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
MM 2.1. 39 Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none;
MM 2.1. 40 And some condemned for a fault alone. {Enter Elbow, Froth, +
MM 2.1. 40 Pompey, and officers}
MM 2.1. 41
MM-ELBOW
Come, bring them away. If these be good people
MM 2.1. 42 in a commonweal, that do nothing but use their abuses
MM 2.1. 43 in common houses, I know no law. Bring them away.
MM 2.1. 44
MM-ANGELO
How now, sir? What's your name? And what's the +
MM 2.1. 44 matter?
MM 2.1. 45
MM-ELBOW
If it please your honour, I am the poor Duke's
MM 2.1. 46 constable, and my name is Elbow. I do lean upon
MM 2.1. 47 justice, sir; and do bring in here before your good
MM 2.1. 48 honour two notorious benefactors.
MM 2.1. 49
MM-ANGELO
Benefactors? Well! What benefactors are they?
MM 2.1. 50 Are they not malefactors?
MM 2.1. 51
MM-ELBOW
If it please your honour, I know not well what
MM 2.1. 52 they are; but precise villains they are, that I am sure
MM 2.1. 53 of, and void of all profanation in the world that good
MM 2.1. 54 Christians ought to have.
MM 2.1. 55
MM-ESCALUS
{(to Angelo)} This comes off well; here's +
MM 2.1. 55 a wise officer!
MM 2.1. 56
MM-ANGELO
Go to, what quality are they of? Elbow is your
MM 2.1. 57 name? Why dost thou not speak, Elbow?
MM 2.1. 58
MM-POMPEY
He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.
MM 2.1. 59
MM-ANGELO
What are you, sir?
MM 2.1. 60
MM-ELBOW
He, sir? A tapster, sir, parcel bawd; one that
MM 2.1. 61 serves a bad woman whose house, sir, was, as they
MM 2.1. 62 say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she
MM 2.1. 63 professes a hot-house, which I think is a very ill house
MM 2.1. 64 too.
MM 2.1. 65
MM-ESCALUS
How know you that?
MM 2.1. 66
MM-ELBOW
My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and
MM 2.1. 67 your honour -
MM 2.1. 68
MM-ESCALUS
How, thy wife?
MM 2.1. 69
MM-ELBOW
Ay, sir, whom I thank heaven is an honest
MM 2.1. 70 woman -
MM 2.1. 71
MM-ESCALUS
Dost thou detest her therefor?
MM 2.1. 72
MM-ELBOW
I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as she,
MM 2.1. 73 that this house, if it be not a bawd's house, it is pity
MM 2.1. 74 of her life, for it is a naughty house.
MM 2.1. 75
MM-ESCALUS
How dost thou know that, constable?
MM 2.1. 76
MM-ELBOW
Marry, sir, by my wife, who, if she had been a
MM 2.1. 77 woman cardinally given, might have been accused in
MM 2.1. 78 fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.
MM 2.1. 79
MM-ESCALUS
By the woman's means?
MM 2.1. 80
MM-ELBOW
Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means. But as she
MM 2.1. 81 spit in his face, so she defied him.
MM 2.1. 82
MM-POMPEY
{(to Escalus)} Sir, if it please your +
MM 2.1. 82 honour, this is
MM 2.1. 83 not so.
MM 2.1. 84
MM-ELBOW
Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable
MM 2.1. 85 man, prove it.
MM 2.1. 86
MM-ESCALUS
{(to Angelo)} Do you hear how he +
MM 2.1. 86 misplaces?
MM 2.1. 87
MM-POMPEY
Sir, she came in great with child, and longing -
MM 2.1. 88 saving your honour's reverence - for stewed prunes.
MM 2.1. 89 Sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very
MM 2.1. 90 distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit dish - a dish
MM 2.1. 91 of some threepence; your honours have seen such
MM 2.1. 92 dishes; they are not china dishes, but very good dishes.
MM 2.1. 93
MM-ESCALUS
Go to, go to, no matter for the dish, sir.
MM 2.1. 94
MM-POMPEY
No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in
MM 2.1. 95 the right. But to the point. As I say, this Mistress Elbow,
MM 2.1. 96 being, as I say, with child, and being great-bellied, and
MM 2.1. 97 longing, as I said, for prunes; and having but two in
MM 2.1. 98 the dish, as I said, Master Froth here, this very man,
MM 2.1. 99 having eaten the rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying
MM 2.1. 100 for them very honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth,
MM 2.1. 101 I could not give you threepence again.
MM 2.1. 102
MM-FROTH
No, indeed.
MM 2.1. 103
MM-POMPEY
Very well. You being, then, if you be remembered,
MM 2.1. 104 cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes -
MM 2.1. 105
MM-FROTH
Ay, so I did indeed.
MM 2.1. 106
MM-POMPEY
Why, very well. - I telling you then, if you be
MM 2.1. 107 remembered, that such a one and such a one were past
MM 2.1. 108 cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very
MM 2.1. 109 good diet, as I told you -
MM 2.1. 110
MM-FROTH
All this is true.
MM 2.1. 111
MM-POMPEY
Why, very well then -
MM 2.1. 112
MM-ESCALUS
Come, you are a tedious fool. To the purpose.
MM 2.1. 113 What was done to Elbow's wife that he hath cause to
MM 2.1. 114 complain of? Come me to what was done to her.
MM 2.1. 115
MM-POMPEY
Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet.
MM 2.1. 116
MM-ESCALUS
No, sir, nor I mean it not.
MM 2.1. 117
MM-POMPEY
Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's
MM 2.1. 118 leave. And I beseech you, look into Master Froth here,
MM 2.1. 119 sir, a man of fourscore pound a year, whose father died
MM 2.1. 120 at Hallowmas - was 't not at Hallowmas, Master Froth?
MM 2.1. 121
MM-FROTH
All Hallow Eve.
MM 2.1. 122
MM-POMPEY
Why, very well. I hope here be truths. He, sir,
MM 2.1. 123 sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir - 'twas in the
MM 2.1. 124 Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight to
MM 2.1. 125 sit, have you not?
MM 2.1. 126
MM-FROTH
I have so, because it is an open room, and good
MM 2.1. 127 for winter.
MM 2.1. 128
MM-POMPEY
Why, very well then. I hope here be truths.
MM 2.1. 129
MM-ANGELO
This will last out a night in Russia,
MM 2.1. 130 When nights are longest there. {(To Escalus)} I'll take +
MM 2.1. 130 my leave,
MM 2.1. 131 And leave you to the hearing of the cause,
MM 2.1. 132 Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all.
MM 2.1. 133
MM-ESCALUS
I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship. {Exit +
MM 2.1. 133 Angelo}
MM 2.1. 134 Now, sir, come on, what was done to Elbow's wife,
MM 2.1. 135 once more?
MM 2.1. 136
MM-POMPEY
Once, sir? There was nothing done to her once.
MM 2.1. 137
MM-ELBOW
I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to
MM 2.1. 138 my wife.
MM 2.1. 139
MM-POMPEY
I beseech your honour, ask me.
MM 2.1. 140
MM-ESCALUS
Well, sir, what did this gentleman to her?
MM 2.1. 141
MM-POMPEY
I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's face.
MM 2.1. 142 Good Master Froth, look upon his honour. 'Tis for a
MM 2.1. 143 good purpose. Doth your honour mark his face?
MM 2.1. 144
MM-ESCALUS
Ay, sir, very well.
MM 2.1. 145
MM-POMPEY
Nay, I beseech you, mark it well.
MM 2.1. 146
MM-ESCALUS
Well, I do so.
MM 2.1. 147
MM-POMPEY
Doth your honour see any harm in his face?
MM 2.1. 148
MM-ESCALUS
Why, no.
MM 2.1. 149
MM-POMPEY
I'll be supposed upon a book his face is the worst
MM 2.1. 150 thing about him. Good, then - if his face be the worst
MM 2.1. 151 thing about him, how could Master Froth do the
MM 2.1. 152 constable's wife any harm? I would know that of your
MM 2.1. 153 honour.
MM 2.1. 154
MM-ESCALUS
He's in the right, constable; what say you to it?
MM 2.1. 155
MM-ELBOW
First, an it like you, the house is a respected
MM 2.1. 156 house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his mistress
MM 2.1. 157 is a respected woman.
MM 2.1. 158
MM-POMPEY
{(to Escalus)} By this hand, sir, his wife +
MM 2.1. 158 is a more
MM 2.1. 159 respected person than any of us all.
MM 2.1. 160
MM-ELBOW
Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet. The
MM 2.1. 161 time is yet to come that she was ever respected with
MM 2.1. 162 man, woman, or child.
MM 2.1. 163
MM-POMPEY
Sir, she was respected with him before he married
MM 2.1. 164 with her.
MM 2.1. 165
MM-ESCALUS
Which is the wiser here, justice or iniquity? {(To}
MM 2.1. 166 {Elbow)} Is this true?
MM 2.1. 167
MM-ELBOW
{(to Pompey)} O thou caitiff, O thou varlet, +
MM 2.1. 167 O thou
MM 2.1. 168 wicked Hannibal! I respected with her before I was
MM 2.1. 169 married to her? {(To Escalus)} If ever I was respected
MM 2.1. 170 with her, or she with me, let not your worship think
MM 2.1. 171 me the poor Duke's officer. {(To Pompey)} Prove this,
MM 2.1. 172 thou wicked Hannibal, or I'll have mine action of
MM 2.1. 173 battery on thee.
MM 2.1. 174
MM-ESCALUS
If he took you a box o' th' ear you might have
MM 2.1. 175 your action of slander too.
MM 2.1. 176
MM-ELBOW
Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What
MM 2.1. 177 is 't your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked
MM 2.1. 178 caitiff?
MM 2.1. 179
MM-ESCALUS
Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in
MM 2.1. 180 him that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him
MM 2.1. 181 continue in his courses till thou knowest what they
MM 2.1. 182 are.
MM 2.1. 183
MM-ELBOW
Marry, I thank your worship for it. - Thou seest,
MM 2.1. 184 thou wicked varlet now, what's come upon thee. Thou
MM 2.1. 185 art to continue now, thou varlet, thou art to continue.
MM 2.1. 186
MM-ESCALUS
{(to Froth)} Where were you born, friend?
MM 2.1. 187
MM-FROTH
Here in Vienna, sir.
MM 2.1. 188
MM-ESCALUS
Are you of fourscore pounds a year?
MM 2.1. 189
MM-FROTH
Yes, an 't please you, sir.
MM 2.1. 190
MM-ESCALUS
So. {(To Pompey)} What trade are you of, +
MM 2.1. 190 sir?
MM 2.1. 191
MM-POMPEY
A tapster, a poor widow's tapster.
MM 2.1. 192
MM-ESCALUS
Your mistress's name?
MM 2.1. 193
MM-POMPEY
Mistress Overdone.
MM 2.1. 194
MM-ESCALUS
Hath she had any more than one husband?
MM 2.1. 195
MM-POMPEY
Nine, sir - Overdone by the last.
MM 2.1. 196
MM-ESCALUS
Nine? - Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master
MM 2.1. 197 Froth, I would not have you acquainted with tapsters.
MM 2.1. 198 They will draw you, Master Froth, and you will hang
MM 2.1. 199 them. Get you gone, and let me hear no more of you.
MM 2.1. 200
MM-FROTH
I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never
MM 2.1. 201 come into any room in a tap-house but I am drawn in.
MM 2.1. 202
MM-ESCALUS
Well, no more of it, Master Froth. Farewell. {Exit +
MM 2.1. 202 Froth}
MM 2.1. 203 Come you hither to me, Master Tapster. What's your
MM 2.1. 204 name, Master Tapster?
MM 2.1. 205
MM-POMPEY
Pompey.
MM 2.1. 206
MM-ESCALUS
What else?
MM 2.1. 207
MM-POMPEY
Bum, sir.
MM 2.1. 208
MM-ESCALUS
Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about
MM 2.1. 209 you; so that, in the beastliest sense, you are Pompey
MM 2.1. 210 the Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,
MM 2.1. 211 howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you
MM 2.1. 212 not? Come, tell me true; it shall be the better for you.
MM 2.1. 213
MM-POMPEY
Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.
MM 2.1. 214
MM-ESCALUS
How would you live, Pompey? By being a bawd?
MM 2.1. 215 What do you think of the trade, Pompey? Is it a lawful
MM 2.1. 216 trade?
MM 2.1. 217
MM-POMPEY
If the law would allow it, sir.
MM 2.1. 218
MM-ESCALUS
But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it
MM 2.1. 219 shall not be allowed in Vienna.
MM 2.1. 220
MM-POMPEY
Does your worship mean to geld and spay all the
MM 2.1. 221 youth of the city?
MM 2.1. 222
MM-ESCALUS
No, Pompey.
MM 2.1. 223
MM-POMPEY
Truly, sir, in my poor opinion they will to 't then.
MM 2.1. 224 If your worship will take order for the drabs and the
MM 2.1. 225 knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.
MM 2.1. 226
MM-ESCALUS
There is pretty orders beginning, I can tell you.
MM 2.1. 227 It is but heading and hanging.
MM 2.1. 228
MM-POMPEY
If you head and hang all that offend that way
MM 2.1. 229 but for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a
MM 2.1. 230 commission for more heads. If this law hold in Vienna
MM 2.1. 231 ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it after threepence
MM 2.1. 232 a bay. If you live to see this come to pass, say Pompey
MM 2.1. 233 told you so.
MM 2.1. 234
MM-ESCALUS
Thank you, good Pompey; and in requital of
MM 2.1. 235 your prophecy, hark you. I advise you, let me not find
MM 2.1. 236 you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever;
MM 2.1. 237 no, not for dwelling where you do. If I do, Pompey, I
MM 2.1. 238 shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd Caesar
MM 2.1. 239 to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall have you
MM 2.1. 240 whipped. So for this time, Pompey, fare you well.
MM 2.1. 241
MM-POMPEY
I thank your worship for your good counsel;
MM 2.1. 242 {[aside]} but I shall follow it as the flesh and +
MM 2.1. 242 fortune shall
MM 2.1. 243 better determine.
MM 2.1. 244 Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade.
MM 2.1. 245 The valiant heart's not whipped out of his trade. {Exit}
MM 2.1. 246
MM-ESCALUS
Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither,
MM 2.1. 247 Master Constable. How long have you been in this
MM 2.1. 248 place of constable?
MM 2.1. 249
MM-ELBOW
Seven year and a half, sir.
MM 2.1. 250
MM-ESCALUS
I thought, by the readiness in the office, you had
MM 2.1. 251 continued in it some time. You say seven years
MM 2.1. 252 together?
MM 2.1. 253
MM-ELBOW
And a half, sir.
MM 2.1. 254
MM-ESCALUS
Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do
MM 2.1. 255 you wrong to put you so oft upon 't. Are there not men
MM 2.1. 256 in your ward sufficient to serve it?
MM 2.1. 257
MM-ELBOW
Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters. As they
MM 2.1. 258 are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them. I do
MM 2.1. 259 it for some piece of money, and go through with all.
MM 2.1. 260
MM-ESCALUS
Look you bring me in the names of some six or
MM 2.1. 261 seven, the most sufficient of your parish.
MM 2.1. 262
MM-ELBOW
To your worship's house, sir?
MM 2.1. 263
MM-ESCALUS
To my house. Fare you well. {Exit Elbow with +
MM 2.1. 263 officers}
MM 2.1. 264 What's o'clock, think you?
MM 2.1. 265
MM-JUSTICE
Eleven, sir.
MM 2.1. 266
MM-ESCALUS
I pray you home to dinner with me.
MM 2.1. 267
MM-JUSTICE
I humbly thank you.
MM 2.1. 268
MM-ESCALUS
It grieves me for the death of Claudio,
MM 2.1. 269 But there's no remedy.
MM 2.1. 270A
MM-JUSTICE
Lord Angelo is severe.
MM 2.1. 271A
MM-ESCALUS
It is but needful.
MM 2.1. 272 Mercy is not itself that oft looks so.
MM 2.1. 273 Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
MM 2.1. 274 But yet, poor Claudio! There is no remedy.
MM 2.1. 275 Come, sir. {Exeunt}
MM 2.1. 0 {Enter the Provost and a Servant}
MM 2.2. 1
MM-SERVANT
He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight.
MM 2.2. 2B I'll tell him of you.
MM-PROVOST
Pray you do. {Exit +
MM 2.2. 2B Servant} I'll know
MM 2.2. 3 His pleasure; maybe he will relent. Alas,
MM 2.2. 4 He hath but as offended in a dream.
MM 2.2. 5 All sects, all ages, smack of this vice; and he
MM 2.2. 6B To die for 't! {Enter Angelo}
MM-ANGELO
Now, what's +
MM 2.2. 6B the matter, Provost?
MM 2.2. 7
MM-PROVOST
Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?
MM 2.2. 8
MM-ANGELO
Did not I tell thee yea? Hadst thou not order?
MM 2.2. 9B Why dost thou ask again?
MM-PROVOST
Lest I might be too rash.
MM 2.2. 10 Under your good correction, I have seen
MM 2.2. 11 When after execution judgement hath
MM 2.2. 12B Repented o'er his doom.
MM-ANGELO
Go to; let that be mine.
MM 2.2. 13 Do you your office, or give up your place,
MM 2.2. 14B And you shall well be spared.
MM-PROVOST
I crave your honour's pardon.
MM 2.2. 15 What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?
MM 2.2. 16B She's very near her hour.
MM-ANGELO
Dispose of her
MM 2.2. 17 To some more fitter place, and that with speed. {Enter Servant}
MM 2.2. 18
MM-SERVANT
Here is the sister of the man condemned
MM 2.2. 19B Desires access to you.
MM-ANGELO
Hath he a sister?
MM 2.2. 20
MM-PROVOST
Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid,
MM 2.2. 21 And to be shortly of a sisterhood,
MM 2.2. 22B If not already.
MM-ANGELO
Well, let her be admitted. {Exit +
MM 2.2. 22B Servant}
MM 2.2. 23 See you the fornicatress be removed.
MM 2.2. 24 Let her have needful but not lavish means.
MM 2.2. 25B There shall be order for 't. {Enter Lucio and Isabella} +
MM 2.2. 25B
MM-PROVOST
God save your honour.
MM 2.2. 26
MM-ANGELO
Stay a little while. {(To Isabella)} You're +
MM 2.2. 26 welcome. What's your will?
MM 2.2. 27
MM-ISABELLA
I am a woeful suitor to your honour.
MM 2.2. 28B Please but your honour hear me.
MM-ANGELO
Well, what's your suit?
MM 2.2. 29
MM-ISABELLA
There is a vice that most I do abhor,
MM 2.2. 30 And most desire should meet the blow of justice,
MM 2.2. 31 For which I would not plead, but that I must;
MM 2.2. 32 For which I must not plead, but that I am
MM 2.2. 33B At war 'twixt will and will not.
MM-ANGELO
Well, the matter?
MM 2.2. 34
MM-ISABELLA
I have a brother is condemned to die.
MM 2.2. 35 I do beseech you, let it be his fault,
MM 2.2. 36B And not my brother.
MM-PROVOST
{(aside)} Heaven give +
MM 2.2. 36B thee moving graces!
MM 2.2. 37
MM-ANGELO
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
MM 2.2. 38 Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
MM 2.2. 39 Mine were the very cipher of a function,
MM 2.2. 40 To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,
MM 2.2. 41B And let go by the actor.
MM-ISABELLA
O just but severe law!
MM 2.2. 42 I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour.
MM 2.2. 43
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} Give 't not o'er so. +
MM 2.2. 43 To him again; entreat him.
MM 2.2. 44 Kneel down before him; hang upon his gown.
MM 2.2. 45 You are too cold. If you should need a pin,
MM 2.2. 46 You could not with more tame a tongue desire it.
MM 2.2. 47 To him, I say!
MM 2.2. 48A
MM-ISABELLA
{(to Angelo)} Must he needs die?
MM 2.2. 49A
MM-ANGELO
Maiden, no remedy.
MM 2.2. 50
MM-ISABELLA
Yes, I do think that you might pardon him,
MM 2.2. 51 And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.
MM 2.2. 52B
MM-ANGELO
I will not do 't.
MM-ISABELLA
But can you if you would?
MM 2.2. 53
MM-ANGELO
Look what I will not, that I cannot do.
MM 2.2. 54
MM-ISABELLA
But might you do 't, and do the world no wrong,
MM 2.2. 55 If so your heart were touched with that remorse
MM 2.2. 56 As mine is to him?
MM 2.2. 57A
MM-ANGELO
He's sentenced; 'tis too late.
MM 2.2. 58A
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} You are too cold.
MM 2.2. 59
MM-ISABELLA
Too late? Why, no; I that do speak a word
MM 2.2. 60 May call it again. Well, believe this,
MM 2.2. 61 No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
MM 2.2. 62 Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
MM 2.2. 63 The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
MM 2.2. 64 Become them with one half so good a grace
MM 2.2. 65 As mercy does.
MM 2.2. 66 If he had been as you and you as he,
MM 2.2. 67 You would have slipped like him, but he, like you,
MM 2.2. 68B Would not have been so stern.
MM-ANGELO
Pray you be gone.
MM 2.2. 69
MM-ISABELLA
I would to heaven I had your potency,
MM 2.2. 70 And you were Isabel! Should it then be thus?
MM 2.2. 71 No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,
MM 2.2. 72B And what a prisoner.
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} +
MM 2.2. 72B Ay, touch him; there's the vein.
MM 2.2. 73
MM-ANGELO
Your brother is a forfeit of the law,
MM 2.2. 74B And you but waste your words.
MM-ISABELLA
Alas, alas!
MM 2.2. 75 Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once,
MM 2.2. 76 And He that might the vantage best have took
MM 2.2. 77 Found out the remedy. How would you be
MM 2.2. 78 If He which is the top of judgement should
MM 2.2. 79 But judge you as you are? O, think on that,
MM 2.2. 80 And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
MM 2.2. 81B Like man new made.
MM-ANGELO
Be you content, fair maid.
MM 2.2. 82 It is the law, not I, condemn your brother.
MM 2.2. 83 Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,
MM 2.2. 84 It should be thus with him. He must die tomorrow.
MM 2.2. 85
MM-ISABELLA
Tomorrow? O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!
MM 2.2. 86 He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens
MM 2.2. 87 We kill the fowl of season. Shall we serve heaven
MM 2.2. 88 With less respect than we do minister
MM 2.2. 89 To our gross selves? Good good my lord, bethink you:
MM 2.2. 90 Who is it that hath died for this offence?
MM 2.2. 91B There's many have committed it.
MM-LUCIO
{(aside)} Ay, +
MM 2.2. 91B well said.
MM 2.2. 92
MM-ANGELO
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
MM 2.2. 93 Those many had not dared to do that evil
MM 2.2. 94 If the first that did th' edict infringe
MM 2.2. 95 Had answered for his deed. Now 'tis awake,
MM 2.2. 96 Takes note of what is done, and, like a prophet,
MM 2.2. 97 Looks in a glass that shows what future evils,
MM 2.2. 98 Either raw, or by remissness new conceived
MM 2.2. 99 And so in progress to be hatched and born,
MM 2.2. 100 Are now to have no successive degrees,
MM 2.2. 101B But ere they live, to end.
MM-ISABELLA
Yet show some pity.
MM 2.2. 102
MM-ANGELO
I show it most of all when I show justice,
MM 2.2. 103 For then I pity those I do not know
MM 2.2. 104 Which a dismissed offence would after gall,
MM 2.2. 105 And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
MM 2.2. 106 Lives not to act another. Be satisfied.
MM 2.2. 107 Your brother dies tomorrow. Be content.
MM 2.2. 108
MM-ISABELLA
So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
MM 2.2. 109 And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
MM 2.2. 110 To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
MM 2.2. 111 To use it like a giant.
MM 2.2. 112A
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} That's well said.
MM 2.2. 113A
MM-ISABELLA
Could great men thunder
MM 2.2. 114 As Jove himself does, Jove would never be quiet,
MM 2.2. 115 For every pelting petty officer
MM 2.2. 116 Would use his heaven for thunder, nothing but thunder.
MM 2.2. 117 Merciful heaven,
MM 2.2. 118 Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
MM 2.2. 119 Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
MM 2.2. 120 Than the soft myrtle. But man, proud man,
MM 2.2. 121 Dressed in a little brief authority,
MM 2.2. 122 Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
MM 2.2. 123 His glassy essence, like an angry ape
MM 2.2. 124 Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
MM 2.2. 125 As makes the angels weep, who, with our spleens,
MM 2.2. 126 Would all themselves laugh mortal.
MM 2.2. 127
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} O, to him, to him, +
MM 2.2. 127 wench! He will relent.
MM 2.2. 128B He's coming; I perceive 't.
MM-PROVOST
{(aside)} Pray +
MM 2.2. 128B heaven she win him!
MM 2.2. 129
MM-ISABELLA
We cannot weigh our brother with ourself.
MM 2.2. 130 Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,
MM 2.2. 131 But in the less, foul profanation.
MM 2.2. 132
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} Thou'rt i' th' right, +
MM 2.2. 132 girl. More o'
MM 2.2. 133 that.
MM 2.2. 134
MM-ISABELLA
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
MM 2.2. 135 Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
MM 2.2. 136A
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} Art advised o' that? +
MM 2.2. 136A More on 't.
MM 2.2. 137
MM-ANGELO
Why do you put these sayings upon me?
MM 2.2. 138
MM-ISABELLA
Because authority, though it err like others,
MM 2.2. 139 Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself
MM 2.2. 140 That skins the vice o' th' top. Go to your bosom;
MM 2.2. 141 Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
MM 2.2. 142 That's like my brother's fault. If it confess
MM 2.2. 143 A natural guiltiness, such as is his,
MM 2.2. 144 Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
MM 2.2. 145B Against my brother's life.
MM-ANGELO
{(aside)} She +
MM 2.2. 145B speaks, and 'tis such sense
MM 2.2. 146 That my sense breeds with it. {(To Isabella)} Fare you +
MM 2.2. 146 well.
MM 2.2. 147A
MM-ISABELLA
Gentle my lord, turn back.
MM 2.2. 148
MM-ANGELO
I will bethink me. Come again tomorrow.
MM 2.2. 149
MM-ISABELLA
Hark how I'll bribe you; good my lord, turn back.
MM 2.2. 150A
MM-ANGELO
How, bribe me?
MM 2.2. 151
MM-ISABELLA
Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.
MM 2.2. 152A
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} You had marred all +
MM 2.2. 152A else.
MM 2.2. 153
MM-ISABELLA
Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,
MM 2.2. 154 Or stones, whose rate are either rich or poor
MM 2.2. 155 As fancy values them; but with true prayers,
MM 2.2. 156 That shall be up at heaven and enter there
MM 2.2. 157 Ere sunrise, prayers from preserved souls,
MM 2.2. 158 From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
MM 2.2. 159 To nothing temporal.
MM 2.2. 160A
MM-ANGELO
Well, come to me tomorrow.
MM 2.2. 161
MM-LUCIO
{(aside to Isabella)} Go to; 'tis well; +
MM 2.2. 161 away.
MM 2.2. 162A
MM-ISABELLA
Heaven keep your honour safe.
MM 2.2. 163A
MM-ANGELO
{(aside)} Amen;
MM 2.2. 164 For I am that way going to temptation,
MM 2.2. 165B Where prayer is crossed.
MM-ISABELLA
At what hour tomorrow
MM 2.2. 166B Shall I attend your lordship?
MM-ANGELO
At any time fore noon.
MM 2.2. 167B
MM-ISABELLA
God save your honour.
MM-ANGELO
{(aside)} +
MM 2.2. 167B From thee; even from thy virtue. {Exeunt Isabella, Lucio, and +
MM 2.2. 167B Provost}
MM 2.2. 168 What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine?
MM 2.2. 169 The tempter or the tempted, who sins most, ha?
MM 2.2. 170 Not she; nor doth she tempt; but it is I
MM 2.2. 171 That, lying by the violet in the sun,
MM 2.2. 172 Do, as the carrion does, not as the flower,
MM 2.2. 173 Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be
MM 2.2. 174 That modesty may more betray our sense
MM 2.2. 175 Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,
MM 2.2. 176 Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary,
MM 2.2. 177 And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie!
MM 2.2. 178 What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?
MM 2.2. 179 Dost thou desire her foully for those things
MM 2.2. 180 That make her good? O, let her brother live!
MM 2.2. 181 Thieves for their robbery have authority,
MM 2.2. 182 When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,
MM 2.2. 183 That I desire to hear her speak again,
MM 2.2. 184 And feast upon her eyes? What is 't I dream on?
MM 2.2. 185 O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
MM 2.2. 186 With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous
MM 2.2. 187 Is that temptation that doth goad us on
MM 2.2. 188 To sin in loving virtue. Never could the strumpet,
MM 2.2. 189 With all her double vigour - art and nature -
MM 2.2. 190 Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid
MM 2.2. 191 Subdues me quite. Ever till now
MM 2.2. 192 When men were fond, I smiled, and wondered how. {Exit}
MM 2.2. 0 {Enter [at one door] the Duke, disguised as a friar, and +
MM 2.3. 0 [at another door] the Provost}
MM 2.3. 1
MM-DUKE
Hail to you, Provost! - so I think you are.
MM 2.3. 2
MM-PROVOST
I am the Provost. What's your will, good friar?
MM 2.3. 3
MM-DUKE
Bound by my charity and my blest order,
MM 2.3. 4 I come to visit the afflicted spirits
MM 2.3. 5 Here in the prison. Do me the common right
MM 2.3. 6 To let me see them, and to make me know
MM 2.3. 7 The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
MM 2.3. 8 To them accordingly.
MM 2.3. 9
MM-PROVOST
I would do more than that, if more were needful. +
MM 2.3. 9 {Enter Juliet}
MM 2.3. 10 Look, here comes one, a gentlewoman of mine,
MM 2.3. 11 Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
MM 2.3. 12 Hath blistered her report. She is with child,
MM 2.3. 13 And he that got it, sentenced - a young man
MM 2.3. 14 More fit to do another such offence
MM 2.3. 15 Than die for this.
MM 2.3. 16A
MM-DUKE
When must he die?
MM 2.3. 17A
MM-PROVOST
As I do think, tomorrow.
MM 2.3. 18 {(To Juliet)} I have provided for you. Stay a while,
MM 2.3. 19 And you shall be conducted.
MM 2.3. 20
MM-DUKE
Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
MM 2.3. 21
MM-JULIET
I do, and bear the shame most patiently.
MM 2.3. 22
MM-DUKE
I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
MM 2.3. 23 And try your penitence if it be sound
MM 2.3. 24 Or hollowly put on.
MM 2.3. 25A
MM-JULIET
I'll gladly learn.
MM 2.3. 26A
MM-DUKE
Love you the man that wronged you?
MM 2.3. 27
MM-JULIET
Yes, as I love the woman that wronged him.
MM 2.3. 28
MM-DUKE
So then it seems your most offenceful act
MM 2.3. 29B Was mutually committed?
MM-JULIET
Mutually.
MM 2.3. 30
MM-DUKE
Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
MM 2.3. 31
MM-JULIET
I do confess it and repent it, father.
MM 2.3. 32
MM-DUKE
'Tis meet so, daughter. But lest you do repent
MM 2.3. 33 As that the sin hath brought you to this shame -
MM 2.3. 34 Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, not heaven,
MM 2.3. 35 Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
MM 2.3. 36 But as we stand in fear -
MM 2.3. 37
MM-JULIET
I do repent me as it is an evil,
MM 2.3. 38B And take the shame with joy.
MM-DUKE
There rest.
MM 2.3. 39 Your partner, as I hear, must die tomorrow,
MM 2.3. 40 And I am going with instruction to him.
MM 2.3. 41 Grace go with you. {Benedicite!} {Exit}
MM 2.3. 42
MM-JULIET
Must die tomorrow? O injurious law,
MM 2.3. 43 That respites me a life whose very comfort
MM 2.3. 44B Is still a dying horror!
MM-PROVOST
'Tis pity of him. {Exeunt}
MM 2.3. 0 {Enter Angelo}
MM 2.4. 1
MM-ANGELO
When I would pray and think, I think and pray
MM 2.4. 2 To several subjects: heaven hath my empty words,
MM 2.4. 3 Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,
MM 2.4. 4 Anchors on Isabel; God in my mouth,
MM 2.4. 5 As if I did but only chew his name,
MM 2.4. 6 And in my heart the strong and swelling evil
MM 2.4. 7 Of my conception. The state whereon I studied
MM 2.4. 8 Is like a good thing, being often read,
MM 2.4. 9 Grown seared and tedious. Yea, my gravity,
MM 2.4. 10 Wherein - let no man hear me - I take pride,
MM 2.4. 11 Could I with boot change for an idle plume
MM 2.4. 12 Which the air beats in vain. O place, O form,
MM 2.4. 13 How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
MM 2.4. 14 Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls
MM 2.4. 15 To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood.
MM 2.4. 16 Let's write `good angel' on the devil's horn -
MM 2.4. 17B 'Tis now the devil's crest. {Enter Servant} How now? +
MM 2.4. 17B Who's there?
MM 2.4. 18
MM-SERVANT
One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.
MM 2.4. 19B
MM-ANGELO
Teach her the way. {Exit Servant} +
MM 2.4. 19B O heavens,
MM 2.4. 20 Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
MM 2.4. 21 Making both it unable for itself,
MM 2.4. 22 And dispossessing all my other parts
MM 2.4. 23 Of necessary fitness?
MM 2.4. 24 So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons -
MM 2.4. 25 Come all to help him, and so stop the air
MM 2.4. 26 By which he should revive - and even so
MM 2.4. 27 The general subject to a well-wished king
MM 2.4. 28 Quit their own part and, in obsequious fondness,
MM 2.4. 29 Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love
MM 2.4. 30B Must needs appear offence. {Enter Isabella} How now, +
MM 2.4. 30B fair maid?
MM 2.4. 31A
MM-ISABELLA
I am come to know your pleasure.
MM 2.4. 32
MM-ANGELO
{(aside)} That you might know it would much +
MM 2.4. 32 better please me
MM 2.4. 33 Than to demand what 'tis. {(To Isabella)} Your brother +
MM 2.4. 33 cannot live.
MM 2.4. 34A
MM-ISABELLA
Even so. Heaven keep your honour.
MM 2.4. 35
MM-ANGELO
Yet may he live a while, and it may be
MM 2.4. 36 As long as you or I. Yet he must die.
MM 2.4. 37A
MM-ISABELLA
Under your sentence?
MM 2.4. 38A
MM-ANGELO
Yea.
MM 2.4. 39
MM-ISABELLA
When, I beseech you? - that in his reprieve,
MM 2.4. 40 Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted
MM 2.4. 41 That his soul sicken not.
MM 2.4. 42
MM-ANGELO
Ha, fie, these filthy vices! It were as good
MM 2.4. 43 To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
MM 2.4. 44 A man already made, as to remit
MM 2.4. 45 Their saucy sweetness that do coin God's image
MM 2.4. 46 In stamps that are forbid. 'Tis all as easy
MM 2.4. 47 Falsely to take away a life true made
MM 2.4. 48 As to put metal in restrained moulds,
MM 2.4. 49 To make a false one.
MM 2.4. 50
MM-ISABELLA
'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.
MM 2.4. 51
MM-ANGELO
Say you so? Then I shall pose you quickly.
MM 2.4. 52 Which had you rather: that the most just law
MM 2.4. 53 Now took your brother's life, or, to redeem him,
MM 2.4. 54 Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
MM 2.4. 55B As she that he hath stained?
MM-ISABELLA
Sir, believe this.
MM 2.4. 56 I had rather give my body than my soul.
MM 2.4. 57
MM-ANGELO
I talk not of your soul. Our compelled sins
MM 2.4. 58B Stand more for number than for account.
MM-ISABELLA
How say you?
MM 2.4. 59
MM-ANGELO
Nay, I'll not warrant that, for I can speak
MM 2.4. 60 Against the thing I say. Answer to this.
MM 2.4. 61 I now, the voice of the recorded law,
MM 2.4. 62 Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life.
MM 2.4. 63 Might there not be a charity in sin
MM 2.4. 64B To save this brother's life?
MM-ISABELLA
Please you to do 't,
MM 2.4. 65 I'll take it as a peril to my soul
MM 2.4. 66 It is no sin at all, but charity.
MM 2.4. 67
MM-ANGELO
Pleased you to do 't at peril of your soul
MM 2.4. 68 Were equal poise of sin and charity.
MM 2.4. 69
MM-ISABELLA
That I do beg his life, if it be sin,
MM 2.4. 70 Heaven let me bear it. You granting of my suit,
MM 2.4. 71 If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer
MM 2.4. 72 To have it added to the faults of mine,
MM 2.4. 73B And nothing of your answer.
MM-ANGELO
Nay, but hear me.
MM 2.4. 74 Your sense pursues not mine. Either you are ignorant,
MM 2.4. 75 Or seem so craftily, and that's not good.
MM 2.4. 76
MM-ISABELLA
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good
MM 2.4. 77 But graciously to know I am no better.
MM 2.4. 78
MM-ANGELO
Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
MM 2.4. 79 When it doth tax itself: as these black masks
MM 2.4. 80 Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
MM 2.4. 81 Than beauty could, displayed. But mark me.
MM 2.4. 82 To be received plain, I'll speak more gross.
MM 2.4. 83 Your brother is to die.
MM 2.4. 84A
MM-ISABELLA
So.
MM 2.4. 85
MM-ANGELO
And his offence is so, as it appears,
MM 2.4. 86 Accountant to the law upon that pain.
MM 2.4. 87A
MM-ISABELLA
True.
MM 2.4. 88
MM-ANGELO
Admit no other way to save his life -
MM 2.4. 89 As I subscribe not that nor any other -
MM 2.4. 90 But, in the loss of question, that you his sister,
MM 2.4. 91 Finding yourself desired of such a person
MM 2.4. 92 Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,
MM 2.4. 93 Could fetch your brother from the manacles
MM 2.4. 94 Of the all-binding law, and that there were
MM 2.4. 95 No earthly mean to save him, but that either
MM 2.4. 96 You must lay down the treasures of your body
MM 2.4. 97 To this supposed, or else to let him suffer -
MM 2.4. 98 What would you do?
MM 2.4. 99
MM-ISABELLA
As much for my poor brother as myself.
MM 2.4. 100 That is, were I under the terms of death,
MM 2.4. 101 Th' impression of keen whips I'd wear as rubies,
MM 2.4. 102 And strip myself to death as to a bed
MM 2.4. 103 That longing have been sick for, ere I'd yield
MM 2.4. 104 My body up to shame.
MM 2.4. 105A
MM-ANGELO
Then must your brother die.
MM 2.4. 106A
MM-ISABELLA
And 'twere the cheaper way.
MM 2.4. 107 Better it were a brother died at once
MM 2.4. 108 Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
MM 2.4. 109 Should die for ever.
MM 2.4. 110
MM-ANGELO
Were not you then as cruel as the sentence
MM 2.4. 111 That you have slandered so?
MM 2.4. 112
MM-ISABELLA
Ignominy in ransom and free pardon
MM 2.4. 113 Are of two houses; lawful mercy
MM 2.4. 114 Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
MM 2.4. 115
MM-ANGELO
You seemed of late to make the law a tyrant,
MM 2.4. 116 And rather proved the sliding of your brother
MM 2.4. 117 A merriment than a vice.
MM 2.4. 118
MM-ISABELLA
O pardon me, my lord. It oft falls out
MM 2.4. 119 To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.
MM 2.4. 120 I something do excuse the thing I hate
MM 2.4. 121 For his advantage that I dearly love.
MM 2.4. 122B
MM-ANGELO
We are all frail.
MM-ISABELLA
Else let my brother die -
MM 2.4. 123 If not a federy, but only he,
MM 2.4. 124B Owe and succeed thy weakness.
MM-ANGELO
Nay, women are frail too.
MM 2.4. 125
MM-ISABELLA
Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves,
MM 2.4. 126 Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
MM 2.4. 127 Women? Help, heaven! Men their creation mar
MM 2.4. 128 In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail,
MM 2.4. 129 For we are soft as our complexions are,
MM 2.4. 130B And credulous to false prints.
MM-ANGELO
I think it well,
MM 2.4. 131 And from this testimony of your own sex,
MM 2.4. 132 Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger
MM 2.4. 133 Than faults may shake our frames, let me be bold.
MM 2.4. 134 I do arrest your words. Be that you are;
MM 2.4. 135 That is, a woman. If you be more, you're none.
MM 2.4. 136 If you be one, as you are well expressed
MM 2.4. 137 By all external warrants, show it now,
MM 2.4. 138 By putting on the destined livery.
MM 2.4. 139
MM-ISABELLA
I have no tongue but one. Gentle my lord,
MM 2.4. 140 Let me entreat you speak the former language.
MM 2.4. 141A
MM-ANGELO
Plainly conceive, I love you.
MM 2.4. 142
MM-ISABELLA
My brother did love Juliet,
MM 2.4. 143 And you tell me that he shall die for it.
MM 2.4. 144
MM-ANGELO
He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.
MM 2.4. 145
MM-ISABELLA
I know your virtue hath a licence in 't,
MM 2.4. 146 Which seems a little fouler than it is,
MM 2.4. 147B To pluck on others.
MM-ANGELO
Believe me, on mine honour,
MM 2.4. 148 My words express my purpose.
MM 2.4. 149
MM-ISABELLA
Ha, little honour to be much believed,
MM 2.4. 150 And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!
MM 2.4. 151 I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for 't.
MM 2.4. 152 Sign me a present pardon for my brother,
MM 2.4. 153 Or with an outstretched throat I'll tell the world aloud
MM 2.4. 154B What man thou art.
MM-ANGELO
Who will believe thee, Isabel?
MM 2.4. 155 My unsoiled name, th' austereness of my life,
MM 2.4. 156 My vouch against you, and my place i' th' state,
MM 2.4. 157 Will so your accusation overweigh
MM 2.4. 158 That you shall stifle in your own report,
MM 2.4. 159 And smell of calumny. I have begun,
MM 2.4. 160 And now I give my sensual race the rein.
MM 2.4. 161 Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite.
MM 2.4. 162 Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes
MM 2.4. 163 That banish what they sue for. Redeem thy brother
MM 2.4. 164 By yielding up thy body to my will,
MM 2.4. 165 Or else he must not only die the death,
MM 2.4. 166 But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
MM 2.4. 167 To ling'ring sufferance. Answer me tomorrow,
MM 2.4. 168 Or by the affection that now guides me most,
MM 2.4. 169 I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,
MM 2.4. 170 Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true. {Exit}
MM 2.4. 171
MM-ISABELLA
To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
MM 2.4. 172 Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,
MM 2.4. 173 That bear in them one and the selfsame tongue
MM 2.4. 174 Either of condemnation or approof,
MM 2.4. 175 Bidding the law make curtsy to their will,
MM 2.4. 176 Hooking both right and wrong to th' appetite,
MM 2.4. 177 To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother.
MM 2.4. 178 Though he hath fall'n by prompture of the blood,
MM 2.4. 179 Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour
MM 2.4. 180 That had he twenty heads to tender down
MM 2.4. 181 On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up
MM 2.4. 182 Before his sister should her body stoop
MM 2.4. 183 To such abhorred pollution.
MM 2.4. 184 Then Isabel live chaste, and brother die:
MM 2.4. 185 More than our brother is our chastity.
MM 2.4. 186 I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,
MM 2.4. 187 And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest. {Exit}
MM 2.4. 187
MM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MM 2.4. 0 {Enter the Duke, disguised as a friar, Claudio, and +
MM 3.1. 0 the Provost}
MM 3.1. 1
MM-DUKE
So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?
MM 3.1. 2
MM-CLAUDIO
The miserable have no other medicine
MM 3.1. 3 But only hope.
MM 3.1. 4 I've hope to live, and am prepared to die.
MM 3.1. 5
MM-DUKE
Be absolute for death. Either death or life
MM 3.1. 6 Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life.
MM 3.1. 7 If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
MM 3.1. 8 That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art,
MM 3.1. 9 Servile to all the skyey influences
MM 3.1. 10 That dost this habitation where thou keep'st
MM 3.1. 11 Hourly afflict. Merely thou art death's fool,
MM 3.1. 12 For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun,
MM 3.1. 13 And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble,
MM 3.1. 14 For all th' accommodations that thou bear'st
MM 3.1. 15 Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant,
MM 3.1. 16 For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
MM 3.1. 17 Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,
MM 3.1. 18 And that thou oft provok'st, yet grossly fear'st
MM 3.1. 19 Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself,
MM 3.1. 20 For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains
MM 3.1. 21 That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not,
MM 3.1. 22 For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get,
MM 3.1. 23 And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain,
MM 3.1. 24 For thy complexion shifts to strange effects
MM 3.1. 25 After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
MM 3.1. 26 For like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
MM 3.1. 27 Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
MM 3.1. 28 And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none,
MM 3.1. 29 For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
MM 3.1. 30 The mere effusion of thy proper loins,
MM 3.1. 31 Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,
MM 3.1. 32 For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age,
MM 3.1. 33 But as it were an after-dinner's sleep
MM 3.1. 34 Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth
MM 3.1. 35 Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
MM 3.1. 36 Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
MM 3.1. 37 Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
MM 3.1. 38 To make thy riches pleasant. What's in this
MM 3.1. 39 That bears the name of life? Yet in this life
MM 3.1. 40 Lie hid more thousand deaths; yet death we fear
MM 3.1. 41B That makes these odds all even.
MM-CLAUDIO
I humbly thank you.
MM 3.1. 42 To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
MM 3.1. 43 And seeking death, find life. Let it come on.
MM 3.1. 44
MM-ISABELLA
{(within)} What ho! Peace here, grace, +
MM 3.1. 44 and good company!
MM 3.1. 45
MM-PROVOST
Who's there? Come in; the wish deserves a welcome.
MM 3.1. 46
MM-DUKE
{(to Claudio)} Dear sir, ere long I'll visit +
MM 3.1. 46 you again.
MM 3.1. 47A
MM-CLAUDIO
Most holy sir, I thank you. {Enter Isabella}
MM 3.1. 48
MM-ISABELLA
My business is a word or two with Claudio.
MM 3.1. 49
MM-PROVOST
And very welcome. Look, signor, here's your sister.
MM 3.1. 50B
MM-DUKE
Provost, a word with you.
MM-PROVOST
As many as you +
MM 3.1. 50B please. {The Duke and Provost draw aside}
MM 3.1. 51
MM-DUKE
Bring me to hear them speak where I may be +
MM 3.1. 51 concealed. {They conceal themselves}
MM 3.1. 52A
MM-CLAUDIO
Now sister, what's the comfort?
MM 3.1. 53
MM-ISABELLA
Why, as all comforts are: most good, most good indeed.
MM 3.1. 54 Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,
MM 3.1. 55 Intends you for his swift ambassador,
MM 3.1. 56 Where you shall be an everlasting leiger.
MM 3.1. 57 Therefore your best appointment make with speed.
MM 3.1. 58B Tomorrow you set on.
MM-CLAUDIO
Is there no remedy?
MM 3.1. 59
MM-ISABELLA
None but such remedy as, to save a head,
MM 3.1. 60 To cleave a heart in twain.
MM 3.1. 61A
MM-CLAUDIO
But is there any?
MM 3.1. 62A
MM-ISABELLA
Yes, brother, you may live.
MM 3.1. 63 There is a devilish mercy in the judge,
MM 3.1. 64 If you'll implore it, that will free your life,
MM 3.1. 65B But fetter you till death.
MM-CLAUDIO
Perpetual durance?
MM 3.1. 66
MM-ISABELLA
Ay, just, perpetual durance; a restraint,
MM 3.1. 67 Though all the world's vastidity you had,
MM 3.1. 68B To a determined scope.
MM-CLAUDIO
But in what nature?
MM 3.1. 69
MM-ISABELLA
In such a one as you consenting to 't
MM 3.1. 70 Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,
MM 3.1. 71B And leave you naked.
MM-CLAUDIO
Let me know the point.
MM 3.1. 72
MM-ISABELLA
O, I do fear thee, Claudio, and I quake
MM 3.1. 73 Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,
MM 3.1. 74 And six or seven winters more respect
MM 3.1. 75 Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die?
MM 3.1. 76 The sense of death is most in apprehension,
MM 3.1. 77 And the poor beetle that we tread upon
MM 3.1. 78 In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
MM 3.1. 79B As when a giant dies.
MM-CLAUDIO
Why give you me this shame?
MM 3.1. 80 Think you I can a resolution fetch
MM 3.1. 81 From flow'ry tenderness? If I must die,
MM 3.1. 82 I will encounter darkness as a bride,
MM 3.1. 83 And hug it in mine arms.
MM 3.1. 84
MM-ISABELLA
There spake my brother; there my father's grave
MM 3.1. 85 Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die.
MM 3.1. 86 Thou art too noble to conserve a life
MM 3.1. 87 In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,
MM 3.1. 88 Whose settled visage and deliberate word
MM 3.1. 89 Nips youth i' th' head and follies doth enew
MM 3.1. 90 As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil.
MM 3.1. 91 His filth within being cast, he would appear
MM 3.1. 92B A pond as deep as hell.
MM-CLAUDIO
The precise Angelo?
MM 3.1. 93
MM-ISABELLA
O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell
MM 3.1. 94 The damnedest body to invest and cover
MM 3.1. 95 In precise guards! Dost thou think, Claudio:
MM 3.1. 96 If I would yield him my virginity,
MM 3.1. 97B Thou might'st be freed!
MM-CLAUDIO
O heavens, it cannot be!
MM 3.1. 98
MM-ISABELLA
Yes, he would give 't thee, from this rank offence,
MM 3.1. 99 So to offend him still. This night's the time
MM 3.1. 100 That I should do what I abhor to name,
MM 3.1. 101 Or else thou diest tomorrow.
MM 3.1. 102A
MM-CLAUDIO
Thou shalt not do 't.
MM 3.1. 103A
MM-ISABELLA
O, were it but my life,
MM 3.1. 104 I'd throw it down for your deliverance
MM 3.1. 105B As frankly as a pin.
MM-CLAUDIO
Thanks, dear Isabel.
MM 3.1. 106
MM-ISABELLA
Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.
MM 3.1. 107
MM-CLAUDIO
Yes. Has he affections in him
MM 3.1. 108 That thus can make him bite the law by th' nose
MM 3.1. 109 When he would force it? Sure it is no sin,
MM 3.1. 110 Or of the deadly seven it is the least.
MM 3.1. 111A
MM-ISABELLA
Which is the least?
MM 3.1. 112
MM-CLAUDIO
If it were damnable, he being so wise,
MM 3.1. 113 Why would he for the momentary trick
MM 3.1. 114 Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!
MM 3.1. 115A
MM-ISABELLA
What says my brother?
MM 3.1. 116A
MM-CLAUDIO
Death is a fearful thing.
MM 3.1. 117A
MM-ISABELLA
And shamed life a hateful.
MM 3.1. 118
MM-CLAUDIO
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
MM 3.1. 119 To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
MM 3.1. 120 This sensible warm motion to become
MM 3.1. 121 A kneaded clod, and the dilated spirit
MM 3.1. 122 To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
MM 3.1. 123 In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
MM 3.1. 124 To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,
MM 3.1. 125 And blown with restless violence round about
MM 3.1. 126 The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
MM 3.1. 127 Of those that lawless and incertain thought
MM 3.1. 128 Imagine howling - 'tis too horrible!
MM 3.1. 129 The weariest and most loathed worldly life
MM 3.1. 130 That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
MM 3.1. 131 Can lay on nature is a paradise
MM 3.1. 132 To what we fear of death.
MM 3.1. 133A
MM-ISABELLA
Alas, alas!
MM 3.1. 134A
MM-CLAUDIO
Sweet sister, let me live.
MM 3.1. 135 What sin you do to save a brother's life,
MM 3.1. 136 Nature dispenses with the deed so far
MM 3.1. 137B That it becomes a virtue.
MM-ISABELLA
O, you beast!
MM 3.1. 138 O faithless coward, O dishonest wretch,
MM 3.1. 139 Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
MM 3.1. 140 Is 't not a kind of incest to take life
MM 3.1. 141 From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?
MM 3.1. 142 Heaven shield my mother played my father fair,
MM 3.1. 143 For such a warped slip of wilderness
MM 3.1. 144 Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance,
MM 3.1. 145 Die, perish! Might but my bending down
MM 3.1. 146 Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed.
MM 3.1. 147 I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,
MM 3.1. 148 No word to save thee.
MM 3.1. 149A
MM-CLAUDIO
Nay, hear me, Isabel.
MM 3.1. 150A
MM-ISABELLA
O fie, fie, fie!
MM 3.1. 151 Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
MM 3.1. 152 Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd.
MM 3.1. 153 'Tis best that thou diest quickly. {[She parts from Claudio]}
MM 3.1. 154A
MM-CLAUDIO
O hear me, Isabella.
MM 3.1. 155
MM-DUKE
{(coming forward to Isabella)} Vouchsafe a +
MM 3.1. 155 word, young sister, but one word.
MM 3.1. 156A
MM-ISABELLA
What is your will?
MM 3.1. 157
MM-DUKE
Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by
MM 3.1. 158 and by have some speech with you. The satisfaction I
MM 3.1. 159 would require is likewise your own benefit.
MM 3.1. 160
MM-ISABELLA
I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be
MM 3.1. 161 stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you a while.
MM 3.1. 162
MM-DUKE
{[standing aside with Claudio]} Son, I have +
MM 3.1. 162 overheard
MM 3.1. 163 what hath passed between you and your sister. Angelo
MM 3.1. 164 had never the purpose to corrupt her; only he hath
MM 3.1. 165 made an assay of her virtue, to practise his judgement
MM 3.1. 166 with the disposition of natures. She, having the truth
MM 3.1. 167 of honour in her, hath made him that gracious denial
MM 3.1. 168 which he is most glad to receive. I am confessor to
MM 3.1. 169 Angelo, and I know this to be true. Therefore prepare
MM 3.1. 170 yourself to death. Do not falsify your resolution with
MM 3.1. 171 hopes that are fallible. Tomorrow you must die. Go to
MM 3.1. 172 your knees and make ready.
MM 3.1. 173
MM-CLAUDIO
Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love
MM 3.1. 174 with life that I will sue to be rid of it.
MM 3.1. 175
MM-DUKE
Hold you there. Farewell. {[Claudio joins Isabella]}
MM 3.1. 176 Provost, a word with you.
MM 3.1. 177
MM-PROVOST
{(coming forward)} What's your will, +
MM 3.1. 177 father?
MM 3.1. 178
MM-DUKE
That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave
MM 3.1. 179 me a while with the maid. My mind promises with my
MM 3.1. 180 habit no loss shall touch her by my company.
MM 3.1. 181
MM-PROVOST
In good time. {Exit [with Claudio]}
MM 3.1. 182
MM-DUKE
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you
MM 3.1. 183 good. The goodness that is cheap in beauty makes
MM 3.1. 184 beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of
MM 3.1. 185 your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair.
MM 3.1. 186 The assault that Angelo hath made to you fortune hath
MM 3.1. 187 conveyed to my understanding; and but that frailty
MM 3.1. 188 hath examples for his falling, I should wonder at
MM 3.1. 189 Angelo. How will you do to content this substitute, and
MM 3.1. 190 to save your brother?
MM 3.1. 191
MM-ISABELLA
I am now going to resolve him. I had rather
MM 3.1. 192 my brother die by the law than my son should be
MM 3.1. 193 unlawfully born. But O, how much is the good Duke
MM 3.1. 194 deceived in Angelo! If ever he return and I can speak
MM 3.1. 195 to him, I will open my lips in vain, or discover his
MM 3.1. 196 government.
MM 3.1. 197
MM-DUKE
That shall not be much amiss. Yet as the matter
MM 3.1. 198 now stands, he will avoid your accusation: he made
MM 3.1. 199 trial of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my
MM 3.1. 200 advisings. To the love I have in doing good, a remedy
MM 3.1. 201 presents itself. I do make myself believe that you may
MM 3.1. 202 most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited
MM 3.1. 203 benefit, redeem your brother from the angry law, do
MM 3.1. 204 no stain to your own gracious person, and much please
MM 3.1. 205 the absent Duke, if peradventure he shall ever return
MM 3.1. 206 to have hearing of this business.
MM 3.1. 207
MM-ISABELLA
Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to
MM 3.1. 208 do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my
MM 3.1. 209 spirit.
MM 3.1. 210
MM-DUKE
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have you
MM 3.1. 211 not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of Frederick, the
MM 3.1. 212 great soldier who miscarried at sea?
MM 3.1. 213
MM-ISABELLA
I have heard of the lady, and good words went
MM 3.1. 214 with her name.
MM 3.1. 215
MM-DUKE
She should this Angelo have married, was affianced
MM 3.1. 216 to her oath, and the nuptial appointed; between which
MM 3.1. 217 time of the contract and limit of the solemnity, her
MM 3.1. 218 brother Frederick was wrecked at sea, having in that
MM 3.1. 219 perished vessel the dowry of his sister. But mark how
MM 3.1. 220 heavily this befell to the poor gentlewoman. There she
MM 3.1. 221 lost a noble and renowned brother, in his love toward
MM 3.1. 222 her ever most kind and natural; with him, the portion
MM 3.1. 223 and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry; with
MM 3.1. 224 both, her combinate husband, this well-seeming
MM 3.1. 225 Angelo.
MM 3.1. 226
MM-ISABELLA
Can this be so? Did Angelo so leave her?
MM 3.1. 227
MM-DUKE
Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them
MM 3.1. 228 with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole, pretending
MM 3.1. 229 in her discoveries of dishonour; in few,
MM 3.1. 230 bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet
MM 3.1. 231 wears for his sake; and he, a marble to her tears, is
MM 3.1. 232 washed with them, but relents not.
MM 3.1. 233
MM-ISABELLA
What a merit were it in death to take this poor
MM 3.1. 234 maid from the world! What corruption in this life, that
MM 3.1. 235 it will let this man live! But how out of this can she
MM 3.1. 236 avail?
MM 3.1. 237
MM-DUKE
It is a rupture that you may easily heal, and the
MM 3.1. 238 cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps you
MM 3.1. 239 from dishonour in doing it.
MM 3.1. 240
MM-ISABELLA
Show me how, good father.
MM 3.1. 241
MM-DUKE
This forenamed maid hath yet in her the
MM 3.1. 242 continuance of her first affection. His unjust unkindness,
MM 3.1. 243 that in all reason should have quenched her love,
MM 3.1. 244 hath, like an impediment in the current, made it more
MM 3.1. 245 violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo, answer his
MM 3.1. 246 requiring with a plausible obedience, agree with his
MM 3.1. 247 demands to the point; only refer yourself to this
MM 3.1. 248 advantage: first, that your stay with him may not be
MM 3.1. 249 long; that the time may have all shadow and silence
MM 3.1. 250 in it; and the place answer to convenience. This being
MM 3.1. 251 granted in course, and now follows all. We shall advise
MM 3.1. 252 this wronged maid to stead up your appointment, go
MM 3.1. 253 in your place. If the encounter acknowledge itself
MM 3.1. 254 hereafter, it may compel him to her recompense; and
MM 3.1. 255 hear, by this is your brother saved, your honour
MM 3.1. 256 untainted, the poor Mariana advantaged, and the
MM 3.1. 257 corrupt deputy scaled. The maid will I frame and make
MM 3.1. 258 fit for his attempt. If you think well to carry this, as
MM 3.1. 259 you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the
MM 3.1. 260 deceit from reproof. What think you of it?
MM 3.1. 261
MM-ISABELLA
The image of it gives me content already, and
MM 3.1. 262 I trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection.
MM 3.1. 263
MM-DUKE
It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily
MM 3.1. 264 to Angelo. If for this night he entreat you to his bed,
MM 3.1. 265 give him promise of satisfaction. I will presently to
MM 3.1. 266 Saint Luke's; there at the moated grange resides this
MM 3.1. 267 dejected Mariana. At that place call upon me; and
MM 3.1. 268 dispatch with Angelo, that it may be quickly.
MM 3.1. 269
MM-ISABELLA
I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well,
MM 3.1. 270 good father. {Exit}
MM 3.1. 271 {Enter Elbow, Clown, and officers}
MM-ELBOW
Nay, if +
MM 3.1. 271 there be no remedy for it but that you will
MM 3.1. 272 needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we
MM 3.1. 273 shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.
MM 3.1. 274
MM-DUKE
O heavens, what stuff is here?
MM 3.1. 275
MM-POMPEY
'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries,
MM 3.1. 276 the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by
MM 3.1. 277 order of law, a furred gown to keep him warm - and
MM 3.1. 278 furred with fox on lambskins too, to signify that craft,
MM 3.1. 279 being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.
MM 3.1. 280
MM-ELBOW
Come your way, sir. - Bless you, good father friar.
MM 3.1. 281
MM-DUKE
And you, good brother father. What offence hath
MM 3.1. 282 this man made you, sir?
MM 3.1. 283
MM-ELBOW
Marry, sir, he hath offended the law; and, sir, we
MM 3.1. 284 take him to be a thief, too, sir, for we have found upon
MM 3.1. 285 him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent to the
MM 3.1. 286 deputy.
MM 3.1. 287
MM-DUKE
{(to Pompey)} Fie, sirrah, a bawd, a wicked +
MM 3.1. 287 bawd!
MM 3.1. 288 The evil that thou causest to be done,
MM 3.1. 289 That is thy means to live. Do thou but think
MM 3.1. 290 What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
MM 3.1. 291 From such a filthy vice. Say to thyself,
MM 3.1. 292 `From their abominable and beastly touches
MM 3.1. 293 I drink, I eat, array myself, and live'.
MM 3.1. 294 Canst thou believe thy living is a life,
MM 3.1. 295 So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.
MM 3.1. 296
MM-POMPEY
Indeed it does stink in some sort, sir. But yet, +
MM 3.1. 296 sir,
MM 3.1. 297 I would prove -
MM 3.1. 298
MM-DUKE
Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
MM 3.1. 299 Thou wilt prove his. - Take him to prison, officer.
MM 3.1. 300 Correction and instruction must both work
MM 3.1. 301 Ere this rude beast will profit.
MM 3.1. 302
MM-ELBOW
He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him
MM 3.1. 303 warning. The deputy cannot abide a whoremaster. If
MM 3.1. 304 he be a whoremonger and comes before him, he were
MM 3.1. 305 as good go a mile on his errand.
MM 3.1. 306
MM-DUKE
That we were all as some would seem to be -
MM 3.1. 307 Free from our faults, or faults from seeming free.
MM 3.1. 308
MM-ELBOW
His neck will come to your waist: a cord, +
MM 3.1. 308 sir. {Enter Lucio}
MM 3.1. 309
MM-POMPEY
I spy comfort, I cry bail. Here's a gentleman, and
MM 3.1. 310 a friend of mine.
MM 3.1. 311
MM-LUCIO
How now, noble Pompey? What, at the wheels of
MM 3.1. 312 Caesar? Art thou led in triumph? What, is there none
MM 3.1. 313 of Pygmalion's images newly made woman to be had
MM 3.1. 314 now, for putting the hand in the pocket and extracting
MM 3.1. 315 clutched? What reply, ha? What sayst thou to this
MM 3.1. 316 tune, matter, and method? Is 't not drowned i' th' last
MM 3.1. 317 rain, ha? What sayst thou, trot? Is the world as it was,
MM 3.1. 318 man? Which is the way? Is it sad and few words? Or
MM 3.1. 319 how? The trick of it?
MM 3.1. 320
MM-DUKE
Still thus and thus; still worse!
MM 3.1. 321
MM-LUCIO
How doth my dear morsel thy mistress? Procures
MM 3.1. 322 she still, ha?
MM 3.1. 323
MM-POMPEY
Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and
MM 3.1. 324 she is herself in the tub.
MM 3.1. 325
MM-LUCIO
Why, 'tis good, it is the right of it, it must be so.
MM 3.1. 326 Ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd; an
MM 3.1. 327 unshunned consequence, it must be so. Art going to
MM 3.1. 328 prison, Pompey?
MM 3.1. 329
MM-POMPEY
Yes, faith, sir.
MM 3.1. 330
MM-LUCIO
Why 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell. Go; say I
MM 3.1. 331 sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey, or how?
MM 3.1. 332
MM-ELBOW
For being a bawd, for being a bawd.
MM 3.1. 333
MM-LUCIO
Well then, imprison him. If imprisonment be the
MM 3.1. 334 due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right. Bawd is he doubtless,
MM 3.1. 335 and of antiquity too - bawd born. Farewell, good
MM 3.1. 336 Pompey. Commend me to the prison, Pompey. You will
MM 3.1. 337 turn good husband now, Pompey; you will keep the
MM 3.1. 338 house.
MM 3.1. 339
MM-POMPEY
I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail?
MM 3.1. 340
MM-LUCIO
No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear.
MM 3.1. 341 I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage. If you
MM 3.1. 342 take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the more.
MM 3.1. 343 Adieu, trusty Pompey. - Bless you, friar.
MM 3.1. 344
MM-DUKE
And you.
MM 3.1. 345
MM-LUCIO
Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?
MM 3.1. 346
MM-ELBOW
{(to Pompey)} Come your ways, sir, come.
MM 3.1. 347
MM-POMPEY
{(to Lucio)} You will not bail me then, +
MM 3.1. 347 sir?
MM 3.1. 348
MM-LUCIO
Then, Pompey, nor now. - What news abroad,
MM 3.1. 349 friar, what news?
MM 3.1. 350
MM-ELBOW
{(to Pompey)} Come your ways, sir, come.
MM 3.1. 351
MM-LUCIO
Go to kennel, Pompey, go. {Exeunt Elbow, Pompey, and +
MM 3.1. 351 officers}
MM 3.1. 352 What news, friar, of the Duke?
MM 3.1. 353
MM-DUKE
I know none. Can you tell me of any?
MM 3.1. 354
MM-LUCIO
Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other
MM 3.1. 355 some, he is in Rome. But where is he, think you?
MM 3.1. 356
MM-DUKE
I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him
MM 3.1. 357 well.
MM 3.1. 358
MM-LUCIO
It was a mad, fantastical trick of him to steal from
MM 3.1. 359 the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born
MM 3.1. 360 to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he puts
MM 3.1. 361 transgression to 't.
MM 3.1. 362
MM-DUKE
He does well in 't.
MM 3.1. 363
MM-LUCIO
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm
MM 3.1. 364 in him. Something too crabbed that way, friar.
MM 3.1. 365
MM-DUKE
It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.
MM 3.1. 366
MM-LUCIO
Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred,
MM 3.1. 367 it is well allied. But it is impossible to extirp it quite,
MM 3.1. 368 friar, till eating and drinking be put down. They say
MM 3.1. 369 this Angelo was not made by man and woman, after
MM 3.1. 370 this downright way of creation. Is it true, think you?
MM 3.1. 371
MM-DUKE
How should he be made, then?
MM 3.1. 372
MM-LUCIO
Some report a sea-maid spawned him, some that
MM 3.1. 373 he was begot between two stockfishes. But it is certain
MM 3.1. 374 that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice;
MM 3.1. 375 that I know to be true. And he is a motion ungenerative;
MM 3.1. 376 that's infallible.
MM 3.1. 377
MM-DUKE
You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.
MM 3.1. 378
MM-LUCIO
Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the
MM 3.1. 379 rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a man!
MM 3.1. 380 Would the Duke that is absent have done this? Ere he
MM 3.1. 381 would have hanged a man for the getting a hundred
MM 3.1. 382 bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a
MM 3.1. 383 thousand. He had some feeling of the sport, he knew
MM 3.1. 384 the service, and that instructed him to mercy.
MM 3.1. 385
MM-DUKE
I never heard the absent Duke much detected for
MM 3.1. 386 women; he was not inclined that way.
MM 3.1. 387
MM-LUCIO
O sir, you are deceived.
MM 3.1. 388
MM-DUKE
'Tis not possible.
MM 3.1. 389
MM-LUCIO
Who, not the Duke? Yes, your beggar of fifty; and
MM 3.1. 390 his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish. The Duke
MM 3.1. 391 had crochets in him. He would be drunk too, that let
MM 3.1. 392 me inform you.
MM 3.1. 393
MM-DUKE
You do him wrong, surely.
MM 3.1. 394
MM-LUCIO
Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the
MM 3.1. 395 Duke, and I believe I know the cause of his withdrawing.
MM 3.1. 396
MM-DUKE
What, I prithee, might be the cause?
MM 3.1. 397
MM-LUCIO
No, pardon, 'tis a secret must be locked within the
MM 3.1. 398 teeth and the lips. But this I can let you understand.
MM 3.1. 399 The greater file of the subject held the Duke to be wise.
MM 3.1. 400
MM-DUKE
Wise? Why, no question but he was.
MM 3.1. 401
MM-LUCIO
A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
MM 3.1. 402
MM-DUKE
Either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking. The
MM 3.1. 403 very stream of his life, and the business he hath helmed,
MM 3.1. 404 must, upon a warranted need, give him a better
MM 3.1. 405 proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own
MM 3.1. 406 bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the envious a
MM 3.1. 407 scholar, a statesman, and a soldier. Therefore you speak
MM 3.1. 408 unskilfully, or, if your knowledge be more, it is much
MM 3.1. 409 darkened in your malice.
MM 3.1. 410
MM-LUCIO
Sir, I know him and I love him.
MM 3.1. 411
MM-DUKE
Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge
MM 3.1. 412 with dearer love.
MM 3.1. 413
MM-LUCIO
Come, sir, I know what I know.
MM 3.1. 414
MM-DUKE
I can hardly believe that, since you know not what
MM 3.1. 415 you speak. But if ever the Duke return, as our prayers
MM 3.1. 416 are he may, let me desire you to make your answer
MM 3.1. 417 before him. If it be honest you have spoke, you have
MM 3.1. 418 courage to maintain it. I am bound to call upon you;
MM 3.1. 419 and I pray you, your name?
MM 3.1. 420
MM-LUCIO
Sir, my name is Lucio, well known to the Duke.
MM 3.1. 421
MM-DUKE
He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to report
MM 3.1. 422 you.
MM 3.1. 423
MM-LUCIO
I fear you not.
MM 3.1. 424
MM-DUKE
O, you hope the Duke will return no more, or you
MM 3.1. 425 imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I
MM 3.1. 426 can do you little harm; you'll forswear this again.
MM 3.1. 427
MM-LUCIO
I'll be hanged first. Thou art deceived in me, friar.
MM 3.1. 428 But no more of this. Canst thou tell if Claudio die
MM 3.1. 429 tomorrow or no?
MM 3.1. 430
MM-DUKE
Why should he die, sir?
MM 3.1. 431
MM-LUCIO
Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish. I would
MM 3.1. 432 the Duke we talk of were returned again; this
MM 3.1. 433 ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with
MM 3.1. 434 continency. Sparrows must not build in his house-
MM 3.1. 435 eaves, because they are lecherous. The Duke yet would
MM 3.1. 436 have dark deeds darkly answered: he would never
MM 3.1. 437 bring them to light. Would he were returned. Marry,
MM 3.1. 438 this Claudio is condemned for untrussing. Farewell,
MM 3.1. 439 good friar. I prithee pray for me. The Duke, I say to
MM 3.1. 440 thee again, would eat mutton on Fridays. He's not past
MM 3.1. 441 it yet, and, I say to thee, he would mouth with a
MM 3.1. 442 beggar, though she smelt brown bread and garlic. Say
MM 3.1. 443 that I said so. Farewell. {Exit}
MM 3.1. 444
MM-DUKE
No might nor greatness in mortality
MM 3.1. 445 Can censure scape; back-wounding calumny
MM 3.1. 446 The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
MM 3.1. 447 Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? {Enter Escalus, +
MM 3.1. 447 the Provost, and Mistress Overdone}
MM 3.1. 448 But who comes here?
MM 3.1. 449
MM-ESCALUS
{(to the Provost)} Go, away with her to +
MM 3.1. 449 prison.
MM 3.1. 450
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Good my lord, be good to me. Your
MM 3.1. 451 honour is accounted a merciful man, good my lord.
MM 3.1. 452
MM-ESCALUS
Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in
MM 3.1. 453 the same kind! This would make mercy swear and play
MM 3.1. 454 the tyrant.
MM 3.1. 455
MM-PROVOST
A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it
MM 3.1. 456 please your honour.
MM 3.1. 457
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
My lord, this is one Lucio's information
MM 3.1. 458 against me. Mistress Kate Keepdown was
MM 3.1. 459 with child by him in the Duke's time; he promised her
MM 3.1. 460 marriage. His child is a year and a quarter old come
MM 3.1. 461 Philip and Jacob. I have kept it myself; and see how
MM 3.1. 462 he goes about to abuse me.
MM 3.1. 463
MM-ESCALUS
That fellow is a fellow of much licence. Let him
MM 3.1. 464 be called before us. Away with her to prison. Go to, no
MM 3.1. 465 more words. Provost, my brother Angelo will not be
MM 3.1. 466 altered; Claudio must die tomorrow. Let him be
MM 3.1. 467 furnished with divines, and have all charitable
MM 3.1. 468 preparation. If my brother wrought by my pity, it
MM 3.1. 469 should not be so with him.
MM 3.1. 470
MM-PROVOST
So please you, this friar hath been with him and
MM 3.1. 471 advised him for th' entertainment of death. {[Exeunt Provost and +
MM 3.1. 471 Mistress Overdone]}
MM 3.1. 472A
MM-ESCALUS
Good even, good father.
MM 3.1. 473A
MM-DUKE
Bliss and goodness on you.
MM 3.1. 474A
MM-ESCALUS
Of whence are you?
MM 3.1. 475
MM-DUKE
Not of this country, though my chance is now
MM 3.1. 476 To use it for my time. I am a brother
MM 3.1. 477 Of gracious order, late come from the See
MM 3.1. 478 In special business from his Holiness.
MM 3.1. 479
MM-ESCALUS
What news abroad i' th' world?
MM 3.1. 480
MM-DUKE
None, but that there is so great a fever on goodness
MM 3.1. 481 that the dissolution of it must cure it. Novelty is only
MM 3.1. 482 in request, and it is as dangerous to be aged in any
MM 3.1. 483 kind of course as it is virtuous to be inconstant in any
MM 3.1. 484 undertaking. There is scarce truth enough alive to
MM 3.1. 485 make societies secure, but security enough to make
MM 3.1. 486 fellowships accursed. Much upon this riddle runs the
MM 3.1. 487 wisdom of the world. This news is old enough, yet it
MM 3.1. 488 is every day's news. I pray you, sir, of what disposition
MM 3.1. 489 was the Duke?
MM 3.1. 490
MM-ESCALUS
One that, above all other strifes, contended
MM 3.1. 491 especially to know himself.
MM 3.1. 492
MM-DUKE
What pleasure was he given to?
MM 3.1. 493
MM-ESCALUS
Rather rejoicing to see another merry than merry
MM 3.1. 494 at anything which professed to make him rejoice; a
MM 3.1. 495 gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to his
MM 3.1. 496 events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous, and
MM 3.1. 497 let me desire to know how you find Claudio prepared.
MM 3.1. 498 I am made to understand that you have lent him
MM 3.1. 499 visitation.
MM 3.1. 500
MM-DUKE
He professes to have received no sinister measure
MM 3.1. 501 from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself to
MM 3.1. 502 the determination of justice. Yet had he framed to
MM 3.1. 503 himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many deceiving
MM 3.1. 504 promises of life, which I, by my good leisure, have
MM 3.1. 505 discredited to him; and now is he resolved to die.
MM 3.1. 506
MM-ESCALUS
You have paid the heavens your function, and
MM 3.1. 507 the prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have
MM 3.1. 508 laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest shore
MM 3.1. 509 of my modesty, but my brother-justice have I found so
MM 3.1. 510 severe that he hath forced me to tell him he is indeed
MM 3.1. 511 Justice.
MM 3.1. 512
MM-DUKE
If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding,
MM 3.1. 513 it shall become him well; wherein if he chance
MM 3.1. 514 to fail, he hath sentenced himself.
MM 3.1. 515
MM-ESCALUS
I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.
MM 3.1. 516A
MM-DUKE
Peace be with you. {Exit Escalus}
MM 3.1. 517 He who the sword of heaven will bear
MM 3.1. 518 Should be as holy as severe,
MM 3.1. 519 Pattern in himself to know,
MM 3.1. 520 Grace to stand, and virtue go,
MM 3.1. 521 More nor less to others paying
MM 3.1. 522 Than by self-offences weighing.
MM 3.1. 523 Shame to him whose cruel striking
MM 3.1. 524 Kills for faults of his own liking!
MM 3.1. 525 Twice treble shame on Angelo,
MM 3.1. 526 To weed my vice, and let his grow!
MM 3.1. 527 O, what may man within him hide,
MM 3.1. 528 Though angel on the outward side!
MM 3.1. 529 How may likeness made in crimes
MM 3.1. 530 Make my practice on the times
MM 3.1. 531 To draw with idle spiders' strings
MM 3.1. 532 Most ponderous and substantial things?
MM 3.1. 533 Craft against vice I must apply.
MM 3.1. 534 With Angelo tonight shall lie
MM 3.1. 535 His old betrothed but despised.
MM 3.1. 536 So disguise shall, by th' disguised,
MM 3.1. 537 Pay with falsehood false exacting,
MM 3.1. 538 And perform an old contracting. +
MM 3.1. 538 +
MM 3.1. 538 {Exit}
MM 3.1. 538
MM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MM 3.1. 0 {Mariana [discovered] with a Boy singing}
MM 4.1. 1
MM 4.1. 1
MM-BOY
Take, O take those lips away
MM 4.1. 2 That so sweetly were forsworn,
MM 4.1. 3 And those eyes, the break of day
MM 4.1. 4 Lights that do mislead the morn;
MM 4.1. 5 But my kisses bring again, bring again,
MM 4.1. 6 Seals of love, though sealed in vain, sealed in vain. +
MM 4.1. 6 +
MM 4.1. 6 {Enter the Duke, disguised as a friar}
MM 4.1. 7
MM-MARIANA
Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away.
MM 4.1. 8 Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
MM 4.1. 9 Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. {Exit Boy}
MM 4.1. 10 I cry you mercy, sir, and well could wish
MM 4.1. 11 You had not found me here so musical.
MM 4.1. 12 Let me excuse me, and believe me so:
MM 4.1. 13 My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
MM 4.1. 14
MM-DUKE
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
MM 4.1. 15 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
MM 4.1. 16 I pray you tell me, hath anybody enquired for me here
MM 4.1. 17 today? Much upon this time have I promised here to
MM 4.1. 18 meet.
MM 4.1. 19
MM-MARIANA
You have not been enquired after; I have sat
MM 4.1. 20 here all day. {Enter Isabella}
MM 4.1. 21
MM-DUKE
I do constantly believe you; the time is come even
MM 4.1. 22 now. I shall crave your forbearance a little. Maybe I
MM 4.1. 23 will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
MM 4.1. 24
MM-MARIANA
I am always bound to you. {Exit}
MM 4.1. 25A +
MM 4.1. 25A
MM-DUKE
Very well met,
MM 4.1. 25A +
MM 4.1. 25A and welcome.
MM 4.1. 26
MM 4.1. 26 What is the news from this good deputy?
MM 4.1. 27
MM-ISABELLA
He hath a garden circummured with brick,
MM 4.1. 28 Whose western side is with a vineyard backed;
MM 4.1. 29 And to that vineyard is a planked gate,
MM 4.1. 30 That makes his opening with this bigger key.
MM 4.1. 31 This other doth command a little door
MM 4.1. 32 Which from the vineyard to the garden leads.
MM 4.1. 33 There have I made my promise
MM 4.1. 34 Upon the heavy middle of the night
MM 4.1. 35 To call upon him.
MM 4.1. 36
MM-DUKE
But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
MM 4.1. 37
MM-ISABELLA
I have ta'en a due and wary note upon 't.
MM 4.1. 38 With whispering and most guilty diligence,
MM 4.1. 39 In action all of precept, he did show me
MM 4.1. 40B The way twice o'er.
MM-DUKE
Are there no other tokens
MM 4.1. 41 Between you 'greed concerning her observance?
MM 4.1. 42
MM-ISABELLA
No, none, but only a repair i' th' dark,
MM 4.1. 43 And that I have possessed him my most stay
MM 4.1. 44 Can be but brief, for I have made him know
MM 4.1. 45 I have a servant comes with me along
MM 4.1. 46 That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
MM 4.1. 47B I come about my brother.
MM-DUKE
'Tis well borne up.
MM 4.1. 48 I have not yet made known to Mariana
MM 4.1. 49 A word of this. - What ho, within! Come forth! {Enter Mariana}
MM 4.1. 50 {(To Mariana)} I pray you be acquainted with this +
MM 4.1. 50 maid.
MM 4.1. 51B She comes to do you good.
MM-ISABELLA
I do desire the like.
MM 4.1. 52
MM-DUKE
{(to Mariana)} Do you persuade yourself that +
MM 4.1. 52 I respect you?
MM 4.1. 53
MM-MARIANA
Good friar, I know you do, and so have found it.
MM 4.1. 54
MM-DUKE
Take then this your companion by the hand,
MM 4.1. 55 Who hath a story ready for your ear.
MM 4.1. 56 I shall attend your leisure; but make haste,
MM 4.1. 57B The vaporous night approaches.
MM-MARIANA
{(to +
MM 4.1. 57B Isabella)} Will 't please you walk aside? {[Exeunt +
MM 4.1. 57B Mariana and Isabella]}
MM 4.1. 58
MM-DUKE
O place and greatness, millions of false eyes
MM 4.1. 59 Are stuck upon thee; volumes of report
MM 4.1. 60 Run with their false and most contrarious quest
MM 4.1. 61 Upon thy doings; thousand escapes of wit
MM 4.1. 62 Make thee the father of their idle dream,
MM 4.1. 63B And rack thee in their fancies. {[Enter Mariana and +
MM 4.1. 63B Isabella]} Welcome. How agreed?
MM 4.1. 64
MM-ISABELLA
She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,
MM 4.1. 65B If you advise it.
MM-DUKE
It is not my consent,
MM 4.1. 66B But my entreaty too.
MM-ISABELLA
{(to Mariana)} Little +
MM 4.1. 66B have you to say
MM 4.1. 67 When you depart from him but, soft and low,
MM 4.1. 68B `Remember now my brother'.
MM-MARIANA
Fear me not.
MM 4.1. 69
MM-DUKE
Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
MM 4.1. 70 He is your husband on a pre-contract.
MM 4.1. 71 To bring you thus together 'tis no sin,
MM 4.1. 72 Sith that the justice of your title to him
MM 4.1. 73 Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go.
MM 4.1. 74 Our corn's to reap, for yet our tilth's to sow. {Exeunt}
MM 4.1. 0 {Enter the Provost and Pompey}
MM 4.2. 1
MM-PROVOST
Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's
MM 4.2. 2 head?
MM 4.2. 3
MM-POMPEY
If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be
MM 4.2. 4 a married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never
MM 4.2. 5 cut off a woman's head.
MM 4.2. 6
MM-PROVOST
Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me
MM 4.2. 7 a direct answer. Tomorrow morning are to die Claudio
MM 4.2. 8 and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common
MM 4.2. 9 executioner, who in his office lacks a helper. If you will
MM 4.2. 10 take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from
MM 4.2. 11 your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of
MM 4.2. 12 imprisonment, and your deliverance with an unpitied
MM 4.2. 13 whipping; for you have been a notorious bawd.
MM 4.2. 14
MM-POMPEY
Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of
MM 4.2. 15 mind, but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman.
MM 4.2. 16 I would be glad to receive some instruction from my
MM 4.2. 17 fellow partner.
MM 4.2. 18
MM-PROVOST
What ho, Abhorson! Where's Abhorson there? {Enter +
MM 4.2. 18 Abhorson}
MM 4.2. 19
MM-ABHORSON
Do you call, sir?
MM 4.2. 20
MM-PROVOST
Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you tomorrow
MM 4.2. 21 in your execution. If you think it meet, compound with
MM 4.2. 22 him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if
MM 4.2. 23 not, use him for the present, and dismiss him. He
MM 4.2. 24 cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a
MM 4.2. 25 bawd.
MM 4.2. 26
MM-ABHORSON
A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit
MM 4.2. 27 our mystery.
MM 4.2. 28
MM-PROVOST
Go to, sir, you weigh equally; a feather will turn
MM 4.2. 29 the scale. {Exit}
MM 4.2. 30
MM-POMPEY
Pray, sir, by your good favour - for surely, sir, a
MM 4.2. 31 good favour you have, but that you have a hanging
MM 4.2. 32 look - do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?
MM 4.2. 33
MM-ABHORSON
Ay, sir, a mystery.
MM 4.2. 34
MM-POMPEY
Painting, sir, I have heard say is a mystery; and
MM 4.2. 35 your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,
MM 4.2. 36 using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery. But
MM 4.2. 37 what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should
MM 4.2. 38 be hanged I cannot imagine.
MM 4.2. 39
MM-ABHORSON
Sir, it is a mystery.
MM 4.2. 40
MM-POMPEY
Proof.
MM 4.2. 41
MM-ABHORSON
Every true man's apparel fits your thief -
MM 4.2. 42
MM-POMPEY
If it be too little for your thief, your true man
MM 4.2. 43 thinks it big enough. If it be too big for your thief, your
MM 4.2. 44 thief thinks it little enough. So every true man's apparel
MM 4.2. 45 fits your thief. {Enter Provost}
MM 4.2. 46
MM-PROVOST
Are you agreed?
MM 4.2. 47
MM-POMPEY
Sir, I will serve him, for I do find your hangman
MM 4.2. 48 is a more penitent trade than your bawd - he doth
MM 4.2. 49 oftener ask forgiveness.
MM 4.2. 50
MM-PROVOST
{(to Abhorson)} You, sirrah, provide your +
MM 4.2. 50 block and
MM 4.2. 51 your axe tomorrow, four o'clock.
MM 4.2. 52
MM-ABHORSON
{(to Pompey)} Come on, bawd, I will +
MM 4.2. 52 instruct thee
MM 4.2. 53 in my trade. Follow.
MM 4.2. 54
MM-POMPEY
I do desire to learn, sir, and I hope, if you have
MM 4.2. 55 occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find
MM 4.2. 56 me yare. For truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you a
MM 4.2. 57 good turn.
MM 4.2. 58
MM-PROVOST
Call hither Barnardine and Claudio. +
MM 4.2. 58 {Exeunt Abhorson and Pompey}
MM 4.2. 59 Th' one has my pity; not a jot the other,
MM 4.2. 60 Being a murderer, though he were my brother. {Enter Claudio}
MM 4.2. 61 Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death.
MM 4.2. 62 'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight tomorrow
MM 4.2. 63 Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?
MM 4.2. 64
MM-CLAUDIO
As fast locked up in sleep as guiltless labour
MM 4.2. 65 When it lies starkly in the travailer's bones.
MM 4.2. 66B He will not wake.
MM-PROVOST
Who can do good on him?
MM 4.2. 67B Well, go prepare yourself. {Knocking within} But hark, +
MM 4.2. 67B what noise?
MM 4.2. 68B Heaven give your spirits comfort! {Exit Claudio} +
MM 4.2. 68B {[Knocking again]} By and by!
MM 4.2. 69 I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
MM 4.2. 70B For the most gentle Claudio. {Enter the Duke, disguised as a +
MM 4.2. 70B friar} Welcome, father.
MM 4.2. 71
MM-DUKE
The best and wholesom'st spirits of the night
MM 4.2. 72 Envelop you, good Provost! Who called here of late?
MM 4.2. 73A
MM-PROVOST
None since the curfew rung.
MM 4.2. 74A
MM-DUKE
Not Isabel?
MM 4.2. 75A
MM-PROVOST
No.
MM 4.2. 76A
MM-DUKE
They will then, ere 't be long.
MM 4.2. 77A
MM-PROVOST
What comfort is for Claudio?
MM 4.2. 78A
MM-DUKE
There's some in hope.
MM 4.2. 79A
MM-PROVOST
It is a bitter deputy.
MM 4.2. 80
MM-DUKE
Not so, not so; his life is paralleled
MM 4.2. 81 Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
MM 4.2. 82 He doth with holy abstinence subdue
MM 4.2. 83 That in himself which he spurs on his power
MM 4.2. 84 To qualify in others. Were he mealed with that
MM 4.2. 85 Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous;
MM 4.2. 86B But this being so, he's just. {Knocking within} Now are +
MM 4.2. 86B they come. {[The Provost goes to a door]}
MM 4.2. 87 This is a gentle Provost. Seldom when
MM 4.2. 88 The steeled jailer is the friend of men. {Knocking within}
MM 4.2. 89 {(To Provost)} How now, what noise? That spirit's +
MM 4.2. 89 possessed with haste
MM 4.2. 90 That wounds th' unlisting postern with these strokes.
MM 4.2. 91
MM-PROVOST
There he must stay until the officer
MM 4.2. 92 Arise to let him in. He is called up.
MM 4.2. 93
MM-DUKE
Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
MM 4.2. 94B But he must die tomorrow?
MM-PROVOST
None, sir, none.
MM 4.2. 95
MM-DUKE
As near the dawning, Provost, as it is,
MM 4.2. 96B You shall hear more ere morning.
MM-PROVOST
Happily
MM 4.2. 97 You something know, yet I believe there comes
MM 4.2. 98 No countermand. No such example have we;
MM 4.2. 99 Besides, upon the very siege of justice
MM 4.2. 100 Lord Angelo hath to the public ear
MM 4.2. 101 Professed the contrary. {Enter a Messenger}
MM 4.2. 102A This is his lordship's man.
MM 4.2. 103A
MM-[DUKE]
And here comes Claudio's pardon.
MM 4.2. 104
MM-MESSENGER
{(giving a paper to Provost)} My lord +
MM 4.2. 104 hath sent
MM 4.2. 105 you this note, and by me this further charge: that you
MM 4.2. 106 swerve not from the smallest article of it, neither in
MM 4.2. 107 time, matter, or other circumstance. Good morrow;
MM 4.2. 108 for, as I take it, it is almost day.
MM 4.2. 109
MM-PROVOST
I shall obey him. {Exit Messenger}
MM 4.2. 110
MM-DUKE
{(aside)} This is his pardon, purchased by +
MM 4.2. 110 such sin
MM 4.2. 111 For which the pardoner himself is in.
MM 4.2. 112 Hence hath offence his quick celerity,
MM 4.2. 113 When it is borne in high authority.
MM 4.2. 114 When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended
MM 4.2. 115 That for the fault's love is th' offender friended. -
MM 4.2. 116 Now sir, what news?
MM 4.2. 117
MM-PROVOST
I told you: Lord Angelo, belike thinking me
MM 4.2. 118 remiss in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted
MM 4.2. 119 putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used
MM 4.2. 120 it before.
MM 4.2. 121
MM-DUKE
Pray you let's hear.
MM 4.2. 122
MM-[PROVOST]
{(reading the letter)} `Whatsoever you +
MM 4.2. 122 may hear
MM 4.2. 123 to the contrary, let Claudio be executed by four of the
MM 4.2. 124 clock, and in the afternoon Barnardine. For my better
MM 4.2. 125 satisfaction, let me have Claudio's head sent me by five.
MM 4.2. 126 Let this be duly performed, with a thought that more
MM 4.2. 127 depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail not
MM 4.2. 128 to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.'
MM 4.2. 129 What say you to this, sir?
MM 4.2. 130
MM-DUKE
What is that Barnardine, who is to be executed in
MM 4.2. 131 th' afternoon?
MM 4.2. 132
MM-PROVOST
A Bohemian born, but here nursed up and bred;
MM 4.2. 133 one that is a prisoner nine years old.
MM 4.2. 134
MM-DUKE
How came it that the absent Duke had not either
MM 4.2. 135 delivered him to his liberty or executed him? I have
MM 4.2. 136 heard it was ever his manner to do so.
MM 4.2. 137
MM-PROVOST
His friends still wrought reprieves for him; and
MM 4.2. 138 indeed his fact, till now in the government of Lord
MM 4.2. 139 Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.
MM 4.2. 140
MM-DUKE
It is now apparent?
MM 4.2. 141
MM-PROVOST
Most manifest, and not denied by himself.
MM 4.2. 142
MM-DUKE
Hath he borne himself penitently in prison? How
MM 4.2. 143 seems he to be touched?
MM 4.2. 144
MM-PROVOST
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully
MM 4.2. 145 but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless
MM 4.2. 146 of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of
MM 4.2. 147 mortality, and desperately mortal.
MM 4.2. 148
MM-DUKE
He wants advice.
MM 4.2. 149
MM-PROVOST
He will hear none. He hath evermore had the
MM 4.2. 150 liberty of the prison. Give him leave to escape hence,
MM 4.2. 151 he would not. Drunk many times a day, if not many
MM 4.2. 152 days entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him as
MM 4.2. 153 if to carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming
MM 4.2. 154 warrant for it; it hath not moved him at all.
MM 4.2. 155
MM-DUKE
More of him anon. There is written in your brow,
MM 4.2. 156 Provost, honesty and constancy. If I read it not truly,
MM 4.2. 157 my ancient skill beguiles me. But in the boldness of my
MM 4.2. 158 cunning, I will lay myself in hazard. Claudio, whom
MM 4.2. 159 here you have warrant to execute, is no greater forfeit
MM 4.2. 160 to the law than Angelo who hath sentenced him. To
MM 4.2. 161 make you understand this in a manifested effect, I crave
MM 4.2. 162 but four days' respite, for the which you are to do me
MM 4.2. 163 both a present and a dangerous courtesy.
MM 4.2. 164
MM-PROVOST
Pray sir, in what?
MM 4.2. 165
MM-DUKE
In the delaying death.
MM 4.2. 166
MM-PROVOST
Alack, how may I do it, having the hour limited,
MM 4.2. 167 and an express command under penalty to deliver his
MM 4.2. 168 head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case as
MM 4.2. 169 Claudio's to cross this in the smallest.
MM 4.2. 170
MM-DUKE
By the vow of mine order, I warrant you, if my
MM 4.2. 171 instructions may be your guide, let this Barnardine be
MM 4.2. 172 this morning executed, and his head borne to Angelo.
MM 4.2. 173
MM-PROVOST
Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover
MM 4.2. 174 the favour.
MM 4.2. 175
MM-DUKE
O, death's a great disguiser, and you may add to
MM 4.2. 176 it. Shave the head and tie the beard, and say it was
MM 4.2. 177 the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his
MM 4.2. 178 death; you know the course is common. If anything
MM 4.2. 179 fall to you upon this more than thanks and good
MM 4.2. 180 fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead against
MM 4.2. 181 it with my life.
MM 4.2. 182
MM-PROVOST
Pardon me, good father, it is against my oath.
MM 4.2. 183
MM-DUKE
Were you sworn to the Duke or to the deputy?
MM 4.2. 184
MM-PROVOST
To him and to his substitutes.
MM 4.2. 185
MM-DUKE
You will think you have made no offence if the
MM 4.2. 186 Duke avouch the justice of your dealing?
MM 4.2. 187
MM-PROVOST
But what likelihood is in that?
MM 4.2. 188
MM-DUKE
Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see
MM 4.2. 189 you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor
MM 4.2. 190 persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further
MM 4.2. 191 than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you. {(Showing a}
MM 4.2. 192 {letter)} Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the
MM 4.2. 193 Duke. You know the character, I doubt not, and the
MM 4.2. 194 signet is not strange to you?
MM 4.2. 195
MM-PROVOST
I know them both.
MM 4.2. 196
MM-DUKE
The contents of this is the return of the Duke. You
MM 4.2. 197 shall anon over-read it at your pleasure, where you
MM 4.2. 198 shall find within these two days he will be here. This
MM 4.2. 199 is a thing that Angelo knows not, for he this very day
MM 4.2. 200 receives letters of strange tenor, perchance of the Duke's
MM 4.2. 201 death, perchance entering into some monastery; but
MM 4.2. 202 by chance nothing of what is writ. Look, th' unfolding
MM 4.2. 203 star calls up the shepherd. Put not yourself into
MM 4.2. 204 amazement how these things should be. All difficulties
MM 4.2. 205 are but easy when they are known. Call your
MM 4.2. 206 executioner, and off with Barnardine's head. I will give
MM 4.2. 207 him a present shrift, and advise him for a better place.
MM 4.2. 208 Yet you are amazed; but this shall absolutely resolve
MM 4.2. 209 you. Come away, it is almost clear dawn. {Exeunt}
MM 4.2. 0 {Enter Pompey}
MM 4.3. 1
MM-POMPEY
I am as well acquainted here as I was in our
MM 4.3. 2 house of profession. One would think it were Mistress
MM 4.3. 3 Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old
MM 4.3. 4 customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in for
MM 4.3. 5 a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, nine score
MM 4.3. 6 and seventeen pounds, of which he made five marks
MM 4.3. 7 ready money. Marry, then ginger was not much in
MM 4.3. 8 request, for the old women were all dead. Then is there
MM 4.3. 9 here one Master Caper, at the suit of Master Threepile
MM 4.3. 10 the mercer, for some four suits of peach-coloured satin,
MM 4.3. 11 which now peaches him a beggar. Then have we here
MM 4.3. 12 young Dizzy, and young Master Deepvow, and Master
MM 4.3. 13 Copperspur and Master Starve-lackey the rapier and
MM 4.3. 14 dagger man, and young Drop-hair that killed lusty
MM 4.3. 15 Pudding, and Master Forthright the tilter, and brave
MM 4.3. 16 Master Shoe-tie the great traveller, and wild Half-can
MM 4.3. 17 that stabbed Pots, and I think forty more, all great
MM 4.3. 18 doers in our trade, and are now `for the Lord's sake'. {Enter +
MM 4.3. 18 Abhorson}
MM 4.3. 19
MM-ABHORSON
Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.
MM 4.3. 20
MM-POMPEY
Master Barnardine! You must rise and be hanged,
MM 4.3. 21 Master Barnardine!
MM 4.3. 22
MM-ABHORSON
What ho, Barnardine!
MM 4.3. 23
MM-BARNARDINE
{(within)} A pox o' your throats! Who +
MM 4.3. 23 makes
MM 4.3. 24 that noise there? What are you?
MM 4.3. 25
MM-POMPEY
Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so
MM 4.3. 26 good, sir, to rise and be put to death.
MM 4.3. 27
MM-BARNARDINE
Away, you rogue, away! I am sleepy.
MM 4.3. 28
MM-ABHORSON
Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too.
MM 4.3. 29
MM-POMPEY
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
MM 4.3. 30 executed, and sleep afterwards.
MM 4.3. 31
MM-ABHORSON
Go in to him and fetch him out.
MM 4.3. 32
MM-POMPEY
He is coming, sir, he is coming. I hear his straw
MM 4.3. 33 rustle.
MM 4.3. 34
MM-ABHORSON
Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?
MM 4.3. 35
MM-POMPEY
Very ready, sir. {Enter Barnardine}
MM 4.3. 36
MM-BARNARDINE
How now, Abhorson, what's the news with
MM 4.3. 37 you?
MM 4.3. 38
MM-ABHORSON
Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your
MM 4.3. 39 prayers, for, look you, the warrant's come.
MM 4.3. 40
MM-BARNARDINE
You rogue, I have been drinking all night. I
MM 4.3. 41 am not fitted for 't.
MM 4.3. 42
MM-POMPEY
O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night,
MM 4.3. 43 and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the
MM 4.3. 44 sounder all the next day. {Enter the Duke, disguised as a friar}
MM 4.3. 45
MM-ABHORSON
{(to Barnardine)} Look you, sir, here +
MM 4.3. 45 comes your
MM 4.3. 46 ghostly father. Do we jest now, think you?
MM 4.3. 47
MM-DUKE
{(to Barnardine)} Sir, induced by my charity, +
MM 4.3. 47 and
MM 4.3. 48 hearing how hastily you are to depart, I am come to
MM 4.3. 49 advise you, comfort you, and pray with you.
MM 4.3. 50
MM-BARNARDINE
Friar, not I. I have been drinking hard all
MM 4.3. 51 night, and I will have more time to prepare me, or
MM 4.3. 52 they shall beat out my brains with billets. I will not
MM 4.3. 53 consent to die this day, that's certain.
MM 4.3. 54
MM-DUKE
O sir, you must; and therefore, I beseech you,
MM 4.3. 55 Look forward on the journey you shall go.
MM 4.3. 56
MM-BARNARDINE
I swear I will not die today, for any man's
MM 4.3. 57 persuasion.
MM 4.3. 58
MM-DUKE
But hear you -
MM 4.3. 59
MM-BARNARDINE
Not a word. If you have anything to say to
MM 4.3. 60 me, come to my ward, for thence will not I today. {Exit}
MM 4.3. 61
MM-DUKE
Unfit to live or die. O gravel heart!
MM 4.3. 62 After him, fellows; bring him to the block. {Exeunt Abhorson and +
MM 4.3. 62 Pompey}
MM 4.3. 63 {Enter Provost}
MM-PROVOST
Now, sir, how do you find +
MM 4.3. 63 the prisoner?
MM 4.3. 64
MM-DUKE
A creature unprepared, unmeet for death;
MM 4.3. 65 And to transport him in the mind he is
MM 4.3. 66B Were damnable.
MM-PROVOST
Here in the prison, father,
MM 4.3. 67 There died this morning of a cruel fever
MM 4.3. 68 One Ragusine, a most notorious pirate,
MM 4.3. 69 A man of Claudio's years, his beard and head
MM 4.3. 70 Just of his colour. What if we do omit
MM 4.3. 71 This reprobate till he were well inclined,
MM 4.3. 72 And satisfy the deputy with the visage
MM 4.3. 73 Of Ragusine, more like to Claudio?
MM 4.3. 74
MM-DUKE
O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides.
MM 4.3. 75 Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on
MM 4.3. 76 Prefixed by Angelo. See this be done,
MM 4.3. 77 And sent according to command, whiles I
MM 4.3. 78 Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die.
MM 4.3. 79
MM-PROVOST
This shall be done, good father, presently.
MM 4.3. 80 But Barnardine must die this afternoon;
MM 4.3. 81 And how shall we continue Claudio,
MM 4.3. 82 To save me from the danger that might come
MM 4.3. 83B If he were known alive?
MM-DUKE
Let this be done:
MM 4.3. 84 Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio.
MM 4.3. 85 Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting
MM 4.3. 86 To yonder generation, you shall find
MM 4.3. 87B Your safety manifested.
MM-PROVOST
I am your free dependant.
MM 4.3. 88
MM-DUKE
Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo. {Exit +
MM 4.3. 88 Provost}
MM 4.3. 89 Now will I write letters to Angelo -
MM 4.3. 90 The Provost, he shall bear them - whose contents
MM 4.3. 91 Shall witness to him I am near at home,
MM 4.3. 92 And that by great injunctions I am bound
MM 4.3. 93 To enter publicly. Him I'll desire
MM 4.3. 94 To meet me at the consecrated fount
MM 4.3. 95 A league below the city, and from thence,
MM 4.3. 96 By cold gradation and well-balanced form,
MM 4.3. 97 We shall proceed with Angelo. {Enter the Provost, with +
MM 4.3. 97 Ragusine's head}
MM 4.3. 98
MM-PROVOST
Here is the head; I'll carry it myself.
MM 4.3. 99
MM-DUKE
Convenient is it. Make a swift return,
MM 4.3. 100 For I would commune with you of such things
MM 4.3. 101 That want no ear but yours.
MM 4.3. 102A
MM-PROVOST
I'll make all speed. {Exit}
MM 4.3. 103A
MM-ISABELLA
{(within)} Peace, ho, be here!
MM 4.3. 104
MM-DUKE
The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know
MM 4.3. 105 If yet her brother's pardon be come hither;
MM 4.3. 106 But I will keep her ignorant of her good,
MM 4.3. 107 To make her heavenly comforts of despair
MM 4.3. 108B When it is least expected.
MM-ISABELLA
{[within]} Ho, +
MM 4.3. 108B by your leave! {[Enter Isabella]}
MM 4.3. 109
MM-DUKE
Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.
MM 4.3. 110
MM-ISABELLA
The better, given me by so holy a man.
MM 4.3. 111 Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon?
MM 4.3. 112
MM-DUKE
He hath released him, Isabel, from the world.
MM 4.3. 113 His head is off and sent to Angelo.
MM 4.3. 114B
MM-ISABELLA
Nay, but it is not so.
MM-DUKE
It is no other.
MM 4.3. 115 Show your wisdom, daughter, in your close patience.
MM 4.3. 116
MM-ISABELLA
O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!
MM 4.3. 117
MM-DUKE
You shall not be admitted to his sight.
MM 4.3. 118
MM-ISABELLA
{(weeping)} Unhappy Claudio! Wretched +
MM 4.3. 118 Isabel!
MM 4.3. 119 Injurious world! Most damned Angelo!
MM 4.3. 120
MM-DUKE
This nor hurts him, nor profits you a jot.
MM 4.3. 121 Forbear it, therefore; give your cause to heaven.
MM 4.3. 122 Mark what I say, which you shall find
MM 4.3. 123 By every syllable a faithful verity.
MM 4.3. 124 The Duke comes home tomorrow - nay, dry your eyes -
MM 4.3. 125 One of our convent, and his confessor,
MM 4.3. 126 Gives me this instance. Already he hath carried
MM 4.3. 127 Notice to Escalus and Angelo,
MM 4.3. 128 Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,
MM 4.3. 129 There to give up their power. If you can pace your wisdom
MM 4.3. 130 In that good path that I would wish it go,
MM 4.3. 131 And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
MM 4.3. 132 Grace of the Duke, revenges to your heart,
MM 4.3. 133B And general honour.
MM-ISABELLA
I am directed by you.
MM 4.3. 134
MM-DUKE
This letter, then, to Friar Peter give.
MM 4.3. 135 'Tis that he sent me of the Duke's return.
MM 4.3. 136 Say by this token I desire his company
MM 4.3. 137 At Mariana's house tonight. Her cause and yours
MM 4.3. 138 I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you
MM 4.3. 139 Before the Duke, and to the head of Angelo
MM 4.3. 140 Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,
MM 4.3. 141 I am combined by a sacred vow,
MM 4.3. 142 And shall be absent. {(Giving the letter)} Wend you +
MM 4.3. 142 with this letter.
MM 4.3. 143 Command these fretting waters from your eyes
MM 4.3. 144 With a light heart. Trust not my holy order
MM 4.3. 145B If I pervert your course. {Enter Lucio} Who's +
MM 4.3. 145B here?
MM-LUCIO
Good even.
MM 4.3. 146B Friar, where's the Provost?
MM-DUKE
Not within, sir.
MM 4.3. 147
MM-LUCIO
O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see
MM 4.3. 148 thine eyes so red. Thou must be patient. I am fain to
MM 4.3. 149 dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for my
MM 4.3. 150 head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set me to 't.
MM 4.3. 151 But they say the Duke will be here tomorrow. By my
MM 4.3. 152 troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother. If the old fantastical
MM 4.3. 153 Duke of dark corners had been at home, he had lived. {[Exit +
MM 4.3. 153 Isabella]}
MM 4.3. 154
MM-DUKE
Sir, the Duke is marvellous little beholden to your
MM 4.3. 155 reports; but the best is, he lives not in them.
MM 4.3. 156
MM-LUCIO
Friar, thou knowest not the Duke so well as I do.
MM 4.3. 157 He's a better woodman than thou tak'st him for.
MM 4.3. 158
MM-DUKE
Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well.
MM 4.3. 159
MM-LUCIO
Nay, tarry, I'll go along with thee. I can tell thee
MM 4.3. 160 pretty tales of the Duke.
MM 4.3. 161
MM-DUKE
You have told me too many of him already, sir, if
MM 4.3. 162 they be true; if not true, none were enough.
MM 4.3. 163
MM-LUCIO
I was once before him for getting a wench with
MM 4.3. 164 child.
MM 4.3. 165
MM-DUKE
Did you such a thing?
MM 4.3. 166
MM-LUCIO
Yes, marry, did I; but I was fain to forswear it.
MM 4.3. 167 They would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
MM 4.3. 168
MM-DUKE
Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you
MM 4.3. 169 well.
MM 4.3. 170
MM-LUCIO
By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end. If
MM 4.3. 171 bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of it. Nay,
MM 4.3. 172 friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. {Exeunt}
MM 4.3. 0 {Enter Angelo and Escalus}
MM 4.4. 1
MM-ESCALUS
Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.
MM 4.4. 2
MM-ANGELO
In most uneven and distracted manner. His
MM 4.4. 3 actions show much like to madness. Pray heaven his
MM 4.4. 4 wisdom be not tainted. And why meet him at the gates,
MM 4.4. 5 and redeliver our authorities there?
MM 4.4. 6
MM-ESCALUS
I guess not.
MM 4.4. 7
MM-ANGELO
And why should we proclaim it in an hour before
MM 4.4. 8 his entering, that if any crave redress of injustice, they
MM 4.4. 9 should exhibit their petitions in the street?
MM 4.4. 10
MM-ESCALUS
He shows his reason for that - to have a dispatch
MM 4.4. 11 of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter,
MM 4.4. 12 which shall then have no power to stand against us.
MM 4.4. 13
MM-ANGELO
Well, I beseech you let it be proclaimed.
MM 4.4. 14 Betimes i' th' morn I'll call you at your house.
MM 4.4. 15 Give notice to such men of sort and suit
MM 4.4. 16 As are to meet him.
MM 4.4. 17A
MM-ESCALUS
I shall, sir. Fare you well.
MM 4.4. 18A
MM-ANGELO
Good night. {Exit Escalus}
MM 4.4. 19 This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant
MM 4.4. 20 And dull to all proceedings. A deflowered maid,
MM 4.4. 21 And by an eminent body that enforced
MM 4.4. 22 The law against it! But that her tender shame
MM 4.4. 23 Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
MM 4.4. 24 How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no,
MM 4.4. 25 For my authority bears off a credent bulk,
MM 4.4. 26 That no particular scandal once can touch
MM 4.4. 27 But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,
MM 4.4. 28 Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
MM 4.4. 29 Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge
MM 4.4. 30 By so receiving a dishonoured life
MM 4.4. 31 With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived.
MM 4.4. 32 Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
MM 4.4. 33 Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not. {Exit}
MM 4.4. 0 {Enter the Duke, in his own habit, and Friar Peter}
MM 4.5. 1
MM-DUKE
These letters at fit time deliver me.
MM 4.5. 2 The Provost knows our purpose and our plot.
MM 4.5. 3 The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,
MM 4.5. 4 And hold you ever to our special drift,
MM 4.5. 5 Though sometimes you do blench from this to that
MM 4.5. 6 As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavio's house,
MM 4.5. 7 And tell him where I stay. Give the like notice
MM 4.5. 8 To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,
MM 4.5. 9 And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate.
MM 4.5. 10B But send me Flavius first.
MM-FRIAR
It shall be speeded well. +
MM 4.5. 10B {Exit}
MM 4.5. 11 {Enter Varrius}
MM-DUKE
I thank thee, Varrius; thou +
MM 4.5. 11 hast made good haste.
MM 4.5. 12 Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends
MM 4.5. 13 Will greet us here anon. My gentle Varrius! {Exeunt}
MM 4.5. 0 {Enter Isabella and Mariana}
MM 4.6. 1
MM-ISABELLA
To speak so indirectly I am loath -
MM 4.6. 2 I would say the truth, but to accuse him so,
MM 4.6. 3 That is your part - yet I am advised to do it,
MM 4.6. 4B He says, to veil full purpose.
MM-MARIANA
Be ruled by him.
MM 4.6. 5
MM-ISABELLA
Besides, he tells me that if peradventure
MM 4.6. 6 He speak against me on the adverse side,
MM 4.6. 7 I should not think it strange, for 'tis a physic
MM 4.6. 8 That's bitter to sweet end. {Enter Friar Peter}
MM 4.6. 9A
MM-MARIANA
I would Friar Peter -
MM 4.6. 10A
MM-ISABELLA
O, peace; the friar is come.
MM 4.6. 11
MM-FRIAR PETER
Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
MM 4.6. 12 Where you may have such vantage on the Duke
MM 4.6. 13 He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded.
MM 4.6. 14 The generous and gravest citizens
MM 4.6. 15 Have hent the gates, and very near upon
MM 4.6. 16 The Duke is ent'ring; therefore hence, away. {Exeunt}
MM 4.6. 16
MM-[[ACT INTERVAL]]
MM 4.6. 0 {Enter [at one door] the Duke, Varrius, and lords, +
MM 5.1. 0 [at another door] Angelo, Escalus, Lucio, citizens, [and officers]}
MM 5.1. 1
MM-DUKE
{(to Angelo)} My very worthy cousin, fairly +
MM 5.1. 1 met.
MM 5.1. 2 {(To Escalus)} Our old and faithful friend, we are +
MM 5.1. 2 glad to see you.
MM 5.1. 3
MM-ANGELO
MM-AND
MM-ESCALUS
Happy return be to your royal grace.
MM 5.1. 4
MM-DUKE
Many and hearty thankings to you both.
MM 5.1. 5 We have made enquiry of you, and we hear
MM 5.1. 6 Such goodness of your justice that our soul
MM 5.1. 7 Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
MM 5.1. 8B Forerunning more requital.
MM-ANGELO
You make my bonds still greater.
MM 5.1. 9
MM-DUKE
O, your desert speaks loud, and I should wrong it
MM 5.1. 10 To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
MM 5.1. 11 When it deserves with characters of brass
MM 5.1. 12 A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
MM 5.1. 13 And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,
MM 5.1. 14 And let the subject see, to make them know
MM 5.1. 15 That outward courtesies would fain proclaim
MM 5.1. 16 Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,
MM 5.1. 17 You must walk by us on our other hand,
MM 5.1. 18 And good supporters are you. {[They walk forward.]}
MM 5.1. 19 {Enter Friar Peter and Isabella}
MM-FRIAR PETER
Now is your +
MM 5.1. 19 time. Speak loud, and kneel before him.
MM 5.1. 20
MM-ISABELLA
{(kneeling)} Justice, O royal Duke! Vail +
MM 5.1. 20 your regard
MM 5.1. 21 Upon a wronged - I would fain have said, a maid.
MM 5.1. 22 O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye
MM 5.1. 23 By throwing it on any other object,
MM 5.1. 24 Till you have heard me in my true complaint,
MM 5.1. 25 And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!
MM 5.1. 26
MM-DUKE
Relate your wrongs. In what? By whom? Be brief.
MM 5.1. 27 Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice.
MM 5.1. 28B Reveal yourself to him.
MM-ISABELLA
O worthy Duke,
MM 5.1. 29 You bid me seek redemption of the devil.
MM 5.1. 30 Hear me yourself, for that which I must speak
MM 5.1. 31 Must either punish me, not being believed,
MM 5.1. 32 Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, hear!
MM 5.1. 33
MM-ANGELO
My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm.
MM 5.1. 34 She hath been a suitor to me for her brother,
MM 5.1. 35B Cut off by course of justice.
MM-ISABELLA
{[standing]} +
MM 5.1. 35B By course of justice!
MM 5.1. 36
MM-ANGELO
And she will speak most bitterly and strange.
MM 5.1. 37
MM-ISABELLA
Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak.
MM 5.1. 38 That Angelo's forsworn, is it not strange?
MM 5.1. 39 That Angelo's a murderer, is 't not strange?
MM 5.1. 40 That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
MM 5.1. 41 An hypocrite, a virgin-violator,
MM 5.1. 42B Is it not strange, and strange?
MM-DUKE
Nay, it is ten times strange!
MM 5.1. 43
MM-ISABELLA
It is not truer he is Angelo
MM 5.1. 44 Than this is all as true as it is strange.
MM 5.1. 45 Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth
MM 5.1. 46B To th' end of reck'ning.
MM-DUKE
Away with her. Poor soul,
MM 5.1. 47 She speaks this in th' infirmity of sense.
MM 5.1. 48
MM-ISABELLA
O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believ'st
MM 5.1. 49 There is another comfort than this world,
MM 5.1. 50 That thou neglect me not with that opinion
MM 5.1. 51 That I am touched with madness. Make not impossible
MM 5.1. 52 That which but seems unlike. 'Tis not impossible
MM 5.1. 53 But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground,
MM 5.1. 54 May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute,
MM 5.1. 55 As Angelo; even so may Angelo,
MM 5.1. 56 In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,
MM 5.1. 57 Be an arch-villain. Believe it, royal prince,
MM 5.1. 58 If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more,
MM 5.1. 59B Had I more name for badness.
MM-DUKE
By mine honesty,
MM 5.1. 60 If she be mad, as I believe no other,
MM 5.1. 61 Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
MM 5.1. 62 Such a dependency of thing on thing
MM 5.1. 63B As e'er I heard in madness.
MM-ISABELLA
O gracious Duke,
MM 5.1. 64 Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason
MM 5.1. 65 For inequality; but let your reason serve
MM 5.1. 66 To make the truth appear where it seems hid,
MM 5.1. 67B And hide the false seems true.
MM-DUKE
Many that are not mad
MM 5.1. 68 Have sure more lack of reason. What would you say?
MM 5.1. 69
MM-ISABELLA
I am the sister of one Claudio,
MM 5.1. 70 Condemned upon the act of fornication
MM 5.1. 71 To lose his head, condemned by Angelo.
MM 5.1. 72 I, in probation of a sisterhood,
MM 5.1. 73 Was sent to by my brother, one Lucio
MM 5.1. 74B As then the messenger.
MM-LUCIO
That's I, an 't like your grace.
MM 5.1. 75 I came to her from Claudio, and desired her
MM 5.1. 76 To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo
MM 5.1. 77B For her poor brother's pardon.
MM-ISABELLA
That's he indeed.
MM 5.1. 78B
MM-DUKE
{(to Lucio)} You were not bid to +
MM 5.1. 78B speak.
MM-LUCIO
No, my good lord,
MM 5.1. 79 Nor wished to hold my peace.
MM 5.1. 80
MM-DUKE
I wish you now, then. Pray you take note of it;
MM 5.1. 81 And when you have a business for yourself,
MM 5.1. 82B Pray heaven you then be perfect.
MM-LUCIO
I warrant your honour.
MM 5.1. 83
MM-DUKE
The warrant's for yourself; take heed to 't.
MM 5.1. 84
MM-ISABELLA
This gentleman told somewhat of my tale -
MM 5.1. 85A
MM-LUCIO
Right.
MM 5.1. 86
MM-DUKE
It may be right, but you are i' the wrong
MM 5.1. 87B To speak before your time. {(To Isabella)} +
MM 5.1. 87B Proceed.
MM-ISABELLA
I went
MM 5.1. 88 To this pernicious caitiff deputy -
MM 5.1. 89B
MM-DUKE
That's somewhat madly spoken.
MM-ISABELLA
Pardon it;
MM 5.1. 90B The phrase is to the matter.
MM-DUKE
Mended again.
MM 5.1. 91 The matter; proceed.
MM 5.1. 92
MM-ISABELLA
In brief, to set the needless process by,
MM 5.1. 93 How I persuaded, how I prayed and kneeled,
MM 5.1. 94 How he refelled me, and how I replied -
MM 5.1. 95 For this was of much length - the vile conclusion
MM 5.1. 96 I now begin with grief and shame to utter.
MM 5.1. 97 He would not, but by gift of my chaste body
MM 5.1. 98 To his concupiscible intemperate lust,
MM 5.1. 99 Release my brother; and after much debatement,
MM 5.1. 100 My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,
MM 5.1. 101 And I did yield to him. But the next morn betimes,
MM 5.1. 102 His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant
MM 5.1. 103B For my poor brother's head.
MM-DUKE
This is most likely!
MM 5.1. 104
MM-ISABELLA
O, that it were as like as it is true!
MM 5.1. 105
MM-DUKE
By heaven, fond wretch, thou know'st not what thou speak'st,
MM 5.1. 106 Or else thou art suborned against his honour
MM 5.1. 107 In hateful practice. First, his integrity
MM 5.1. 108 Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason
MM 5.1. 109 That with such vehemency he should pursue
MM 5.1. 110 Faults proper to himself. If he had so offended,
MM 5.1. 111 He would have weighed thy brother by himself,
MM 5.1. 112 And not have cut him off. Someone hath set you on.
MM 5.1. 113 Confess the truth, and say by whose advice
MM 5.1. 114B Thou cam'st here to complain.
MM-ISABELLA
And is this all?
MM 5.1. 115 Then, O you blessed ministers above,
MM 5.1. 116 Keep me in patience, and with ripened time
MM 5.1. 117 Unfold the evil which is here wrapped up
MM 5.1. 118 In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe,
MM 5.1. 119 As I, thus wronged, hence unbelieved go.
MM 5.1. 120
MM-DUKE
I know you'd fain be gone. An officer!
MM 5.1. 121B To prison with her. {An officer guards Isabella} Shall +
MM 5.1. 121B we thus permit
MM 5.1. 122 A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
MM 5.1. 123 On him so near us? This needs must be a practice.
MM 5.1. 124 Who knew of your intent and coming hither?
MM 5.1. 125
MM-ISABELLA
One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick. {[Exit, +
MM 5.1. 125 guarded]}
MM 5.1. 126
MM-DUKE
A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?
MM 5.1. 127
MM-LUCIO
My lord, I know him. 'Tis a meddling friar;
MM 5.1. 128 I do not like the man. Had he been lay, my lord,
MM 5.1. 129 For certain words he spake against your grace
MM 5.1. 130 In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
MM 5.1. 131
MM-DUKE
Words against me? This' a good friar, belike!
MM 5.1. 132 And to set on this wretched woman here
MM 5.1. 133 Against our substitute! Let this friar be found. {[Exit one or +
MM 5.1. 133 more]}
MM 5.1. 134
MM-LUCIO
But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,
MM 5.1. 135 I saw them at the prison. A saucy friar,
MM 5.1. 136B A very scurvy fellow.
MM-FRIAR PETER
Blessed be your royal grace!
MM 5.1. 137 I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard
MM 5.1. 138 Your royal ear abused. First hath this woman
MM 5.1. 139 Most wrongfully accused your substitute,
MM 5.1. 140 Who is as free from touch or soil with her
MM 5.1. 141B As she from one ungot.
MM-DUKE
We did believe no less.
MM 5.1. 142 Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?
MM 5.1. 143
MM-FRIAR PETER
I know him for a man divine and holy,
MM 5.1. 144 Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,
MM 5.1. 145 As he's reported by this gentleman;
MM 5.1. 146 And, on my trust, a man that never yet
MM 5.1. 147 Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace.
MM 5.1. 148
MM-LUCIO
My lord, most villainously; believe it.
MM 5.1. 149
MM-FRIAR PETER
Well, he in time may come to clear himself;
MM 5.1. 150 But at this instant he is sick, my lord,
MM 5.1. 151 Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,
MM 5.1. 152 Being come to knowledge that there was complaint
MM 5.1. 153 Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither
MM 5.1. 154 To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know
MM 5.1. 155 Is true and false, and what he with his oath
MM 5.1. 156 And all probation will make up full clear
MM 5.1. 157 Whensoever he's convented. First, for this woman:
MM 5.1. 158 To justify this worthy nobleman,
MM 5.1. 159 So vulgarly and personally accused,
MM 5.1. 160 Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,
MM 5.1. 161B Till she herself confess it.
MM-DUKE
Good friar, let's hear it. +
MM 5.1. 161B {[Exit Friar Peter]}
MM 5.1. 162 Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?
MM 5.1. 163 O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
MM 5.1. 164B Give us some seats. {[Seats are brought in]} Come, +
MM 5.1. 164B cousin Angelo,
MM 5.1. 165 In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
MM 5.1. 166B Of your own cause. {The Duke and Angelo sit. Enter [Friar +
MM 5.1. 166B Peter, and] Mariana, veiled} Is this the witness, friar?
MM 5.1. 167 First let her show her face, and after speak.
MM 5.1. 168
MM-MARIANA
Pardon, my lord, I will not show my face
MM 5.1. 169 Until my husband bid me.
MM 5.1. 170
MM-DUKE
What, are you married?
MM 5.1. 171
MM-MARIANA
No, my lord.
MM 5.1. 172
MM-DUKE
Are you a maid?
MM 5.1. 173
MM-MARIANA
No, my lord.
MM 5.1. 174
MM-DUKE
A widow then?
MM 5.1. 175
MM-MARIANA
Neither, my lord.
MM 5.1. 176
MM-DUKE
Why, you are nothing then; neither maid, widow,
MM 5.1. 177 nor wife!
MM 5.1. 178
MM-LUCIO
My lord, she may be a punk, for many of them are
MM 5.1. 179 neither maid, widow, nor wife.
MM 5.1. 180
MM-DUKE
Silence that fellow. I would he had some cause to
MM 5.1. 181 prattle for himself.
MM 5.1. 182
MM-LUCIO
Well, my lord.
MM 5.1. 183
MM-MARIANA
My lord, I do confess I ne'er was married,
MM 5.1. 184 And I confess besides, I am no maid.
MM 5.1. 185 I have known my husband, yet my husband
MM 5.1. 186 Knows not that ever he knew me.
MM 5.1. 187
MM-LUCIO
He was drunk then, my lord, it can be no better.
MM 5.1. 188
MM-DUKE
For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too.
MM 5.1. 189
MM-LUCIO
Well, my lord.
MM 5.1. 190
MM-DUKE
This is no witness for Lord Angelo.
MM 5.1. 191A
MM-MARIANA
Now I come to 't, my lord.
MM 5.1. 192 She that accuses him of fornication
MM 5.1. 193 In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,
MM 5.1. 194 And charges him, my lord, with such a time
MM 5.1. 195 When I'll depose I had him in mine arms
MM 5.1. 196B With all th' effect of love.
MM-ANGELO
Charges she more than me?
MM 5.1. 197B
MM-MARIANA
Not that I know.
MM-DUKE
No? You say your husband.
MM 5.1. 198
MM-MARIANA
Why just, my lord, and that is Angelo,
MM 5.1. 199 Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body,
MM 5.1. 200 But knows, he thinks, that he knows Isabel's.
MM 5.1. 201
MM-ANGELO
This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face.
MM 5.1. 202
MM-MARIANA
{(unveiling)} My husband bids me; now I +
MM 5.1. 202 will unmask.
MM 5.1. 203 This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,
MM 5.1. 204 Which once thou swor'st was worth the looking on.
MM 5.1. 205 This is the hand which, with a vowed contract,
MM 5.1. 206 Was fast belocked in thine. This is the body
MM 5.1. 207 That took away the match from Isabel,
MM 5.1. 208 And did supply thee at thy garden-house
MM 5.1. 209 In her imagined person.
MM 5.1. 210A
MM-DUKE
{(to Angelo)} Know you this woman?
MM 5.1. 211A
MM-LUCIO
Carnally, she says.
MM 5.1. 212A
MM-DUKE
Sirrah, no more!
MM 5.1. 213A
MM-LUCIO
Enough, my lord.
MM 5.1. 214
MM-ANGELO
My lord, I must confess I know this woman;
MM 5.1. 215 And five years since there was some speech of marriage
MM 5.1. 216 Betwixt myself and her, which was broke off,
MM 5.1. 217 Partly for that her promised proportions
MM 5.1. 218 Came short of composition, but in chief
MM 5.1. 219 For that her reputation was disvalued
MM 5.1. 220 In levity; since which time of five years
MM 5.1. 221 I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,
MM 5.1. 222B Upon my faith and honour.
MM-MARIANA
{[kneeling before the +
MM 5.1. 222B Duke]} Noble prince,
MM 5.1. 223 As there comes light from heaven, and words from breath,
MM 5.1. 224 As there is sense in truth, and truth in virtue,
MM 5.1. 225 I am affianced this man's wife, as strongly
MM 5.1. 226 As words could make up vows. And, my good lord,
MM 5.1. 227 But Tuesday night last gone, in 's garden-house,
MM 5.1. 228 He knew me as a wife. As this is true,
MM 5.1. 229 Let me in safety raise me from my knees,
MM 5.1. 230 Or else forever be confixed here,
MM 5.1. 231B A marble monument.
MM-ANGELO
I did but smile till now.
MM 5.1. 232 Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice.
MM 5.1. 233 My patience here is touched. I do perceive
MM 5.1. 234 These poor informal women are no more
MM 5.1. 235 But instruments of some more mightier member
MM 5.1. 236 That sets them on. Let me have way, my lord,
MM 5.1. 237B To find this practice out.
MM-DUKE
{(standing)} Ay, +
MM 5.1. 237B with my heart,
MM 5.1. 238 And punish them even to your height of pleasure. -
MM 5.1. 239 Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman
MM 5.1. 240 Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths,
MM 5.1. 241 Though they would swear down each particular saint,
MM 5.1. 242 Were testimonies against his worth and credit
MM 5.1. 243 That's sealed in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,
MM 5.1. 244 Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains
MM 5.1. 245 To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived.
MM 5.1. 246 There is another friar that set them on.
MM 5.1. 247 Let him be sent for. {Escalus sits}
MM 5.1. 248
MM-FRIAR PETER
Would he were here, my lord, for he indeed
MM 5.1. 249 Hath set the women on to this complaint.
MM 5.1. 250 Your Provost knows the place where he abides,
MM 5.1. 251B And he may fetch him.
MM-DUKE
{(to one or more)} Go, +
MM 5.1. 251B do it instantly. {Exit one or more}
MM 5.1. 252 {(To Angelo)} And you, my noble and well-warranted +
MM 5.1. 252 cousin,
MM 5.1. 253 Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,
MM 5.1. 254 Do with your injuries as seems you best
MM 5.1. 255 In any chastisement. I for a while will leave you,
MM 5.1. 256 But stir not you till you have well determined
MM 5.1. 257B Upon these slanderers.
MM-ESCALUS
My lord, we'll do it throughly.+
MM 5.1. 257B {Exit Duke}
MM 5.1. 258 Signor Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar
MM 5.1. 259 Lodowick to be a dishonest person?
MM 5.1. 260
MM-LUCIO
{Cucullus non facit monachum}: honest in nothing but
MM 5.1. 261 in his clothes; and one that hath spoke most villainous
MM 5.1. 262 speeches of the Duke.
MM 5.1. 263
MM-ESCALUS
We shall entreat you to abide here till he come,
MM 5.1. 264 and enforce them against him. We shall find this friar
MM 5.1. 265 a notable fellow.
MM 5.1. 266
MM-LUCIO
As any in Vienna, on my word.
MM 5.1. 267
MM-ESCALUS
Call that same Isabel here once again; I would
MM 5.1. 268 speak with her. {Exit one or more}
MM 5.1. 269 {(To Angelo)} Pray you, my lord, give me leave to +
MM 5.1. 269 question.
MM 5.1. 270 You shall see how I'll handle her.
MM 5.1. 271
MM-LUCIO
Not better than he, by her own report.
MM 5.1. 272
MM-ESCALUS
Say you?
MM 5.1. 273
MM-LUCIO
Marry, sir, I think if you handled her privately, she
MM 5.1. 274 would sooner confess; perchance publicly she'll be
MM 5.1. 275 ashamed.
MM 5.1. 276
MM-ESCALUS
I will go darkly to work with her.
MM 5.1. 277
MM-LUCIO
That's the way, for women are light at midnight. +
MM 5.1. 277 {Enter Isabella, guarded}
MM 5.1. 278
MM-ESCALUS
{(to Isabella)} Come on, mistress, here's +
MM 5.1. 278 a gentlewoman
MM 5.1. 279 denies all that you have said. {Enter the Duke, disguised as a +
MM 5.1. 279 friar, hooded, and the Provost}
MM 5.1. 280
MM-LUCIO
My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of, here
MM 5.1. 281 with the Provost.
MM 5.1. 282
MM-ESCALUS
In very good time. Speak not you to him till we
MM 5.1. 283 call upon you.
MM 5.1. 284
MM-LUCIO
Mum.
MM 5.1. 285
MM-ESCALUS
{(to the Duke)} Come, sir, did you set +
MM 5.1. 285 these women
MM 5.1. 286 on to slander Lord Angelo? They have confessed you
MM 5.1. 287 did.
MM 5.1. 288
MM-DUKE
'Tis false.
MM 5.1. 289
MM-ESCALUS
How! Know you where you are?
MM 5.1. 290
MM-DUKE
Respect to your great place, and let the devil
MM 5.1. 291 Be sometime honoured fore his burning throne.
MM 5.1. 292 Where is the Duke? 'Tis he should hear me speak.
MM 5.1. 293
MM-ESCALUS
The Duke's in us, and we will hear you speak.
MM 5.1. 294B Look you speak justly.
MM-DUKE
Boldly at least. {(To Isabella +
MM 5.1. 294B and Mariana)} But O, poor souls,
MM 5.1. 295 Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox,
MM 5.1. 296 Good night to your redress! Is the Duke gone?
MM 5.1. 297 Then is your cause gone too. The Duke's unjust
MM 5.1. 298 Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
MM 5.1. 299 And put your trial in the villain's mouth
MM 5.1. 300 Which here you come to accuse.
MM 5.1. 301
MM-LUCIO
This is the rascal, this is he I spoke of.
MM 5.1. 302
MM-ESCALUS
Why, thou unreverend and unhallowed friar,
MM 5.1. 303 Is 't not enough thou hast suborned these women
MM 5.1. 304 To accuse this worthy man but, in foul mouth,
MM 5.1. 305 And in the witness of his proper ear,
MM 5.1. 306 To call him villain, and then to glance from him
MM 5.1. 307 To th' Duke himself, to tax him with injustice?
MM 5.1. 308 Take him hence; to th' rack with him. We'll touse you
MM 5.1. 309 Joint by joint - but we will know his purpose.
MM 5.1. 310B What, `unjust'?
MM-DUKE
Be not so hot. The Duke
MM 5.1. 311 Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
MM 5.1. 312 Dare rack his own. His subject am I not,
MM 5.1. 313 Nor here provincial. My business in this state
MM 5.1. 314 Made me a looker-on here in Vienna,
MM 5.1. 315 Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble
MM 5.1. 316 Till it o'errun the stew; laws for all faults,
MM 5.1. 317 But faults so countenanced that the strong statutes
MM 5.1. 318 Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,
MM 5.1. 319 As much in mock as mark.
MM 5.1. 320A
MM-ESCALUS
Slander to th' state!
MM 5.1. 321 Away with him to prison.
MM 5.1. 322
MM-ANGELO
What can you vouch against him, Signor Lucio?
MM 5.1. 323 Is this the man that you did tell us of?
MM 5.1. 324
MM-LUCIO
'Tis he, my lord. - Come hither, goodman Bald-
MM 5.1. 325 pate. Do you know me?
MM 5.1. 326
MM-DUKE
I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice. I
MM 5.1. 327 met you at the prison, in the absence of the Duke.
MM 5.1. 328
MM-LUCIO
O, did you so? And do you remember what you
MM 5.1. 329 said of the Duke?
MM 5.1. 330
MM-DUKE
Most notedly, sir.
MM 5.1. 331
MM-LUCIO
Do you so, sir? And was the Duke a fleshmonger,
MM 5.1. 332 a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?
MM 5.1. 333
MM-DUKE
You must, sir, change persons with me ere you
MM 5.1. 334 make that my report. You indeed spoke so of him, and
MM 5.1. 335 much more, much worse.
MM 5.1. 336
MM-LUCIO
O, thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by
MM 5.1. 337 the nose for thy speeches?
MM 5.1. 338
MM-DUKE
I protest I love the Duke as I love myself.
MM 5.1. 339
MM-ANGELO
Hark how the villain would close now, after his
MM 5.1. 340 treasonable abuses.
MM 5.1. 341
MM-ESCALUS
Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away
MM 5.1. 342 with him to prison. Where is the Provost? Away with
MM 5.1. 343 him to prison. Lay bolts enough upon him. Let him
MM 5.1. 344 speak no more. Away with those giglets too, and with
MM 5.1. 345 the other confederate companion. {[Mariana is raised to her +
MM 5.1. 345 feet, and is guarded.]}
MM 5.1. 346 {The Provost makes to seize the Duke}
MM-DUKE
Stay, sir, stay +
MM 5.1. 346 a while.
MM 5.1. 347
MM-ANGELO
What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.
MM 5.1. 348
MM-LUCIO
{(to the Duke)} Come, sir; come, sir; come, +
MM 5.1. 348 sir! Foh,
MM 5.1. 349 sir! Why, you bald-pated lying rascal, you must be
MM 5.1. 350 hooded, must you? Show your knave's visage, with a
MM 5.1. 351 pox to you! Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged
MM 5.1. 352 an hour! Will 't not off? {He pulls off the friar's hood, and +
MM 5.1. 352 discovers the Duke. [Angelo and Escalus rise]}
MM 5.1. 353
MM-DUKE
Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke.
MM 5.1. 354 First, Provost, let me bail these gentle three.
MM 5.1. 355 {(To Lucio)} Sneak not away, sir, for the friar and +
MM 5.1. 355 you
MM 5.1. 356 Must have a word anon. {(To one or more)} Lay hold on +
MM 5.1. 356 him.
MM 5.1. 357
MM-LUCIO
This may prove worse than hanging.
MM 5.1. 358
MM-DUKE
{(to Escalus)} What you have spoke, I pardon. +
MM 5.1. 358 Sit you down.
MM 5.1. 359B We'll borrow place of him. {[Escalus sits]} {(To +
MM 5.1. 359B Angelo)} Sir, by your leave. {[He takes Angelo's seat]}
MM 5.1. 360 Hast thou or word or wit or impudence
MM 5.1. 361 That yet can do thee office? If thou hast,
MM 5.1. 362 Rely upon it till my tale be heard,
MM 5.1. 363B And hold no longer out.
MM-ANGELO
O my dread lord,
MM 5.1. 364 I should be guiltier than my guiltiness
MM 5.1. 365 To think I can be undiscernible,
MM 5.1. 366 When I perceive your grace, like power divine,
MM 5.1. 367 Hath looked upon my passes. Then, good prince,
MM 5.1. 368 No longer session hold upon my shame,
MM 5.1. 369 But let my trial be mine own confession.
MM 5.1. 370 Immediate sentence then, and sequent death,
MM 5.1. 371B Is all the grace I beg.
MM-DUKE
Come hither, Mariana.
MM 5.1. 372 {(To Angelo)} Say, wast thou e'er contracted to this +
MM 5.1. 372 woman?
MM 5.1. 373A
MM-ANGELO
I was, my lord.
MM 5.1. 374
MM-DUKE
Go, take her hence and marry her instantly.
MM 5.1. 375 Do you the office, friar; which consummate,
MM 5.1. 376 Return him here again. Go with him, Provost. {Exeunt Angelo, +
MM 5.1. 376 Mariana, Friar Peter, and the Provost}
MM 5.1. 377
MM-ESCALUS
My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour
MM 5.1. 378B Than at the strangeness of it.
MM-DUKE
Come hither, Isabel.
MM 5.1. 379 Your friar is now your prince. As I was then
MM 5.1. 380 Advertising and holy to your business,
MM 5.1. 381 Not changing heart with habit I am still
MM 5.1. 382B Attorneyed at your service.
MM-ISABELLA
O, give me pardon,
MM 5.1. 383 That I, your vassal, have employed and pained
MM 5.1. 384B Your unknown sovereignty.
MM-DUKE
You are pardoned, Isabel.
MM 5.1. 385 And now, dear maid, be you as free to us.
MM 5.1. 386 Your brother's death I know sits at your heart,
MM 5.1. 387 And you may marvel why I obscured myself,
MM 5.1. 388 Labouring to save his life, and would not rather
MM 5.1. 389 Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
MM 5.1. 390 Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,
MM 5.1. 391 It was the swift celerity of his death,
MM 5.1. 392 Which I did think with slower foot came on,
MM 5.1. 393 That brained my purpose. But peace be with him!
MM 5.1. 394 That life is better life, past fearing death,
MM 5.1. 395 Than that which lives to fear. Make it your comfort,
MM 5.1. 396B So happy is your brother.
MM-ISABELLA
I do, my lord. {Enter +
MM 5.1. 396B Angelo, Mariana, Friar Peter, and the Provost}
MM 5.1. 397
MM-DUKE
For this new-married man approaching here,
MM 5.1. 398 Whose salt imagination yet hath wronged
MM 5.1. 399 Your well-defended honour, you must pardon
MM 5.1. 400 For Mariana's sake; but as he adjudged your brother -
MM 5.1. 401 Being criminal in double violation
MM 5.1. 402 Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach,
MM 5.1. 403 Thereon dependent, for your brother's life -
MM 5.1. 404 The very mercy of the law cries out
MM 5.1. 405 Most audible, even from his proper tongue,
MM 5.1. 406 `An Angelo for Claudio, death for death'.
MM 5.1. 407 Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
MM 5.1. 408 Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.
MM 5.1. 409 Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested,
MM 5.1. 410 Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage.
MM 5.1. 411 We do condemn thee to the very block
MM 5.1. 412 Where Claudio stooped to death, and with like haste.
MM 5.1. 413B Away with him.
MM-MARIANA
O my most gracious lord,
MM 5.1. 414 I hope you will not mock me with a husband!
MM 5.1. 415
MM-DUKE
It is your husband mocked you with a husband.
MM 5.1. 416 Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,
MM 5.1. 417 I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,
MM 5.1. 418 For that he knew you, might reproach your life,
MM 5.1. 419 And choke your good to come. For his possessions,
MM 5.1. 420 Although by confiscation they are ours,
MM 5.1. 421 We do enstate and widow you with all,
MM 5.1. 422B To buy you a better husband.
MM-MARIANA
O my dear lord,
MM 5.1. 423 I crave no other, nor no better man.
MM 5.1. 424
MM-DUKE
Never crave him; we are definitive.
MM 5.1. 425B
MM-MARIANA
Gentle my liege -
MM-DUKE
You do but lose your labour. -
MM 5.1. 426 Away with him to death. {(To Lucio)} Now, sir, to you.
MM 5.1. 427
MM-MARIANA
{(kneeling)} O my good lord! - Sweet Isabel, +
MM 5.1. 427 take my part;
MM 5.1. 428 Lend me your knees, and all my life to come
MM 5.1. 429 I'll lend you all my life to do you service.
MM 5.1. 430
MM-DUKE
Against all sense you do importune her.
MM 5.1. 431 Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact,
MM 5.1. 432 Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break,
MM 5.1. 433B And take her hence in horror.
MM-MARIANA
Isabel,
MM 5.1. 434 Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me.
MM 5.1. 435 Hold up your hands; say nothing; I'll speak all.
MM 5.1. 436 They say best men are moulded out of faults,
MM 5.1. 437 And, for the most, become much more the better
MM 5.1. 438 For being a little bad. So may my husband.
MM 5.1. 439 O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?
MM 5.1. 440B
MM-DUKE
He dies for Claudio's death.
MM-ISABELLA
+
MM 5.1. 440B {(kneeling)} Most bounteous sir,
MM 5.1. 441 Look, if it please you, on this man condemned
MM 5.1. 442 As if my brother lived. I partly think
MM 5.1. 443 A due sincerity governed his deeds,
MM 5.1. 444 Till he did look on me. Since it is so,
MM 5.1. 445 Let him not die. My brother had but justice,
MM 5.1. 446 In that he did the thing for which he died.
MM 5.1. 447 For Angelo,
MM 5.1. 448 His act did not o'ertake his bad intent,
MM 5.1. 449 And must be buried but as an intent
MM 5.1. 450 That perished by the way. Thoughts are no subjects,
MM 5.1. 451B Intents but merely thoughts.
MM-MARIANA
Merely, my lord.
MM 5.1. 452
MM-DUKE
Your suit's unprofitable. Stand up, I say. {[Mariana +
MM 5.1. 452 and Isabella stand]}
MM 5.1. 453 I have bethought me of another fault.
MM 5.1. 454 Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded
MM 5.1. 455B At an unusual hour?
MM-PROVOST
It was commanded so.
MM 5.1. 456
MM-DUKE
Had you a special warrant for the deed?
MM 5.1. 457
MM-PROVOST
No, my good lord, it was by private message.
MM 5.1. 458
MM-DUKE
For which I do discharge you of your office.
MM 5.1. 459B Give up your keys.
MM-PROVOST
Pardon me, noble lord.
MM 5.1. 460 I thought it was a fault, but knew it not,
MM 5.1. 461 Yet did repent me after more advice;
MM 5.1. 462 For testimony whereof one in the prison
MM 5.1. 463 That should by private order else have died
MM 5.1. 464 I have reserved alive.
MM 5.1. 465A
MM-DUKE
What's he?
MM 5.1. 466A
MM-PROVOST
His name is Barnardine.
MM 5.1. 467
MM-DUKE
I would thou hadst done so by Claudio.
MM 5.1. 468 Go fetch him hither. Let me look upon him. {Exit Provost}
MM 5.1. 469
MM-ESCALUS
I am sorry one so learned and so wise
MM 5.1. 470 As you, Lord Angelo, have still appeared,
MM 5.1. 471 Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood
MM 5.1. 472 And lack of tempered judgement afterward.
MM 5.1. 473
MM-ANGELO
I am sorry that such sorrow I procure,
MM 5.1. 474 And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
MM 5.1. 475 That I crave death more willingly than mercy.
MM 5.1. 476 'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it. {Enter Barnardine and +
MM 5.1. 476 the Provost; Claudio, muffled, +
MM 5.1. 476 +
MM 5.1. 476 and Juliet}
MM 5.1. 477B
MM 5.1. 477B
MM-DUKE
Which is that Barnardine?
MM-PROVOST
This, my lord.
MM 5.1. 478
MM-DUKE
There was a friar told me of this man.
MM 5.1. 479 {(To Barnardine)} Sirrah, thou art said to have a +
MM 5.1. 479 stubborn soul
MM 5.1. 480 That apprehends no further than this world,
MM 5.1. 481 And squar'st thy life according. Thou'rt condemned;
MM 5.1. 482 But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all,
MM 5.1. 483 And pray thee take this mercy to provide
MM 5.1. 484 For better times to come. - Friar, advise him.
MM 5.1. 485 I leave him to your hand. {(To Provost)} What muffled +
MM 5.1. 485 fellow's that?
MM 5.1. 486
MM-PROVOST
This is another prisoner that I saved,
MM 5.1. 487 Who should have died when Claudio lost his head,
MM 5.1. 488 As like almost to Claudio as himself. {He unmuffles Claudio}
MM 5.1. 489
MM-DUKE
{(to Isabella)} If he be like your brother, +
MM 5.1. 489 for his sake
MM 5.1. 490 Is he pardoned; and for your lovely sake
MM 5.1. 491 Give me your hand, and say you will be mine.
MM 5.1. 492 He is my brother too. But fitter time for that.
MM 5.1. 493 By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe.
MM 5.1. 494 Methinks I see a quick'ning in his eye.
MM 5.1. 495 Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well.
MM 5.1. 496 Look that you love your wife, her worth worth yours.
MM 5.1. 497 I find an apt remission in myself;
MM 5.1. 498 And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.
MM 5.1. 499 {(To Lucio)} You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a +
MM 5.1. 499 coward,
MM 5.1. 500 One all of luxury, an ass, a madman,
MM 5.1. 501 Wherein have I so deserved of you
MM 5.1. 502 That you extol me thus?
MM 5.1. 503
MM-LUCIO
Faith, my lord, I spoke it but according to the +
MM 5.1. 503 trick.
MM 5.1. 504 If you will hang me for it, you may; but I had rather
MM 5.1. 505 it would please you I might be whipped.
MM 5.1. 506A
MM-DUKE
Whipped first, sir, and hanged after.
MM 5.1. 507 Proclaim it, Provost, round about the city,
MM 5.1. 508 If any woman wronged by this lewd fellow,
MM 5.1. 509 As I have heard him swear himself there's one
MM 5.1. 510 Whom he begot with child, let her appear,
MM 5.1. 511 And he shall marry her. The nuptial finished,
MM 5.1. 512 Let him be whipped and hanged.
MM 5.1. 513
MM-LUCIO
I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a
MM 5.1. 514 whore. Your highness said even now I made you a
MM 5.1. 515 duke; good my lord, do not recompense me in making
MM 5.1. 516 me a cuckold.
MM 5.1. 517
MM-DUKE
Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.
MM 5.1. 518 Thy slanders I forgive, and therewithal
MM 5.1. 519 Remit thy other forfeits. - Take him to prison,
MM 5.1. 520 And see our pleasure herein executed.
MM 5.1. 521
MM-LUCIO
Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
MM 5.1. 522 whipping, and hanging.
MM 5.1. 523A
MM-DUKE
Slandering a prince deserves it. {[Exit Lucio +
MM 5.1. 523A guarded]}
MM 5.1. 524 She, Claudio, that you wronged, look you restore.
MM 5.1. 525 Joy to you, Mariana. Love her, Angelo.
MM 5.1. 526 I have confessed her, and I know her virtue.
MM 5.1. 527 Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness.
MM 5.1. 528 There's more behind that is more gratulate.
MM 5.1. 529 Thanks, Provost, for thy care and secrecy.
MM 5.1. 530 We shall employ thee in a worthier place.
MM 5.1. 531 Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home
MM 5.1. 532 The head of Ragusine for Claudio's.
MM 5.1. 533 Th' offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel,
MM 5.1. 534 I have a motion much imports your good,
MM 5.1. 535 Whereto, if you'll a willing ear incline,
MM 5.1. 536 What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
MM 5.1. 537 {(To all)} So bring us to our palace, where we'll show
MM 5.1. 538 What's yet behind that's meet you all should know. {Exeunt}
MM 5.1. 0
MM A.1. 0 [[The text of {Measure for Measure} given in this edition is probably
MM A.1. 0 that of an adapted version made for Shakespeare's company after his
MM A.1. 0 death. Adaptation seems to have affected two passages, printed below as
MM A.1. 0 we believe Shakespeare to have written them
MM-]]
MM A.1. 0
MM A.A. 0 [[1.2.0.1-116]]
MM A.A. 0 [[Lines 2-9 of Additional Passage A (`. . . by him') are lines which the
MM A.A. 0 adapter (whom we believe to be Thomas Middleton) evidently intended
MM A.A. 0 to be replaced by 1.2.56-79 of the play as we print it. The adapter must
MM A.A. 0 have contributed all of 1.2.0.1-83, which in the earliest and subsequent
MM A.A. 0 printed texts precede the discussion between the Clown (Pompey) and the
MM A.A. 0 Bawd (Mistress Overdone) about Claudio's arrest. Lucio's entry alone at]]
MM A.A. 0 [[line 40.1 below, some eleven lines after his re-entry with the two
MM A.A. 0 Gentlemen and the Provost's party in the adapted text, probably represents
MM A.A. 0 Shakespeare's original intention. In his version, Juliet, present but
MM A.A. 0 silent in the adapted text both in 1.2 and 5.1, probably did not appear
MM A.A. 0 in either scene; accordingly, the words `and there's Madam Juliet'
MM A.A. 0 (1.2.107) must also be the reviser's work, and do not appear below
MM-]]
MM A.A. 0 {Enter Pompey and Mistress Overdone, [meeting]}
MM A.A. 1
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
How now, what's the news with you?
MM A.A. 2
MM-POMPEY
Yonder man is carried to prison.
MM A.A. 3
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Well! What has he done?
MM A.A. 4
MM-POMPEY
A woman.
MM A.A. 5
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
But what's his offence?
MM A.A. 6
MM-POMPEY
Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
MM A.A. 7
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
What, is there a maid with child by
MM A.A. 8 him?
MM A.A. 9
MM-POMPEY
No, but there's a woman with maid by him: you
MM A.A. 10 have not heard of the proclamation, have you?
MM A.A. 11
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
What proclamation, man?
MM A.A. 12
MM-POMPEY
All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be
MM A.A. 13 plucked down.
MM A.A. 14
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
And what shall become of those in
MM A.A. 15 the city?
MM A.A. 16
MM-POMPEY
They shall stand for seed. They had gone down
MM A.A. 17 too, but that a wise burgher put in for them.
MM A.A. 18
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
But shall all our houses of resort in
MM A.A. 19 the suburbs be pulled down?
MM A.A. 20
MM-POMPEY
To the ground, mistress.
MM A.A. 21
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
Why, here's a change indeed in the
MM A.A. 22 commonwealth. What shall become of me?
MM A.A. 23
MM-POMPEY
Come, fear not you. Good counsellors lack no
MM A.A. 24 clients. Though you change your place, you need not
MM A.A. 25 change your trade. I'll be your tapster still. Courage,
MM A.A. 26 there will be pity taken on you. You that have worn
MM A.A. 27 your eyes almost out in the service, you will be
MM A.A. 28 considered.
MM-[A
noise within]}
MM A.A. 29
MM-MISTRESS OVERDONE
What's to do here, Thomas Tapster?
MM A.A. 30 Let's withdraw! {Enter the Provost and Claudio}
MM A.A. 31
MM-POMPEY
Here comes Signor Claudio, led by the Provost to
MM A.A. 32 prison. {Exeunt Mistress Overdone and Pompey}
MM A.A. 33
MM-CLAUDIO
Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to th' world?
MM A.A. 34 Bear me to prison, where I am committed.
MM A.A. 35
MM-PROVOST
I do it not in evil disposition,
MM A.A. 36 But from Lord Angelo by special charge.
MM A.A. 37
MM-CLAUDIO
Thus can the demigod Authority
MM A.A. 38 Make us pay down for our offence, by weight,
MM A.A. 39 The bonds of heaven. On whom it will, it will;
MM A.A. 40 On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just. {[Enter Lucio]}
MM A.A. 41
MM-LUCIO
Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint?
MM A.A. 0
MM A.B. 0 [[3.1.515-4.1.65]]
MM A.B. 0 [[Before revision there would have been no act-break and no song; the lines
MM A.B. 0 immediately following the song would also have been absent. The Duke's
MM A.B. 0 soliloquies `He who the sword of heaven will bear' and `O place and
MM A.B. 0 greatness' have evidently been transposed in revision; in the original,
MM A.B. 0 the end of `O place and greatness' would have led straight on to the
MM A.B. 0 Duke's meeting with Isabella and then Mariana
MM-]]
MM A.B. 1
MM-ESCALUS
I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.
MM A.B. 2
MM-DUKE
Peace be with you. {Exit Escalus}
MM A.B. 3 O place and greatness, millions of false eyes
MM A.B. 4 Are stuck upon thee; volumes of report
MM A.B. 5 Run with their false and most contrarious quest
MM A.B. 6 Upon thy doings; thousand escapes of wit
MM A.B. 7 Make thee the father of their idle dream,
MM A.B. 8 And rack thee in their fancies. {Enter Isabella} Very +
MM A.B. 8 well met.
MM A.B. 9 What is the news from this good deputy?
MM A.B. 10
MM-ISABELLA
He hath a garden circummured with brick,
MM A.B. 11 Whose western side is with a vineyard backed;
MM A.B. 12 And to that vineyard is a plancked gate,
MM A.B. 13 That makes his opening with this bigger key.
MM A.B. 14 This other doth command a little door
MM A.B. 15 Which from the vineyard to the garden leads.
MM A.B. 16 There have I made my promise
MM A.B. 17 Upon the heavy middle of the night
MM A.B. 18 To call upon him.
MM A.B. 19
MM-DUKE
But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
MM A.B. 20
MM-ISABELLA
I have ta'en a due and wary note upon 't.
MM A.B. 21 With whispering and most guilty diligence,
MM A.B. 22 In action all of precept, he did show me
MM A.B. 23B The way twice o'er.
MM-DUKE
Are there no other tokens
MM A.B. 24 Between you 'greed concerning her observance?
MM A.B. 25
MM-ISABELLA
No, none, but only a repair i' th' dark,
MM A.B. 26 And that I have possessed him my most stay
MM A.B. 27 Can be but brief, for I have made him know
MM A.B. 28 I have a servant comes with me along
MM A.B. 29 That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
MM A.B. 30B I come about my brother.
MM-DUKE
'Tis well borne up.
MM A.B. 31 I have not yet made known to Mariana
MM A.B. 32 A word of this. - What ho, within! Come forth! {Enter Mariana}
MM A.B. 33 {(To Mariana)} I pray you be acquainted with this maid.
MM A.B. 34B She comes to do you good.
MM-ISABELLA
I do desire the like.
MM A.B. 35
MM-DUKE
{(to Mariana)} Do you persuade yourself that +
MM A.B. 35 I respect you?
MM A.B. 36
MM-MARIANA
Good friar, I know you do, and so have found it.
MM A.B. 37
MM-DUKE
Take then this your companion by the hand,
MM A.B. 38 Who hath a story ready for your ear.
MM A.B. 39 I shall attend your leisure; but make haste,
MM A.B. 40B The vaporous night approaches. +
MM A.B. 40B
MM-MARIANA
Will 't please you walk aside. {[Exeunt Mariana and +
MM A.B. 40B Isabella]}
MM A.B. 41
MM-DUKE
He who the sword of heaven will bear
MM A.B. 42 Should be as holy as severe,
MM A.B. 43 Pattern in himself to know,
MM A.B. 44 Grace to stand, and virtue go,
MM A.B. 45 More nor less to others paying
MM A.B. 46 Than by self-offences weighing.
MM A.B. 47 Shame to him whose cruel striking
MM A.B. 48 Kills for faults of his own liking!
MM A.B. 49 Twice treble shame on Angelo,
MM A.B. 50 To weed my vice, and let his grow!
MM A.B. 51 O, what may man within him hide,
MM A.B. 52 Though angel on the outward side!
MM A.B. 53 How may likeness made in crimes
MM A.B. 54 Make my practice on the times
MM A.B. 55 To draw with idle spiders' strings
MM A.B. 56 Most ponderous and substantial things?
MM A.B. 57 Craft against vice I must apply.
MM A.B. 58 With Angelo tonight shall lie
MM A.B. 59 His old betrothed but despised.
MM A.B. 60 So disguise shall, by th' disguised,
MM A.B. 61 Pay with falsehood false exacting,
MM A.B. 62 And perform an old contracting. {[Enter Mariana and Isabella]}
MM A.B. 63 Welcome. How agreed?
MM A.B. 64
MM-ISABELLA
She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,
MM A.B. 65 If you advise it.
MM A.B.
MM
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MND . . 0 A Midsummer Night's Dream
MND . . 0 {Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, and Philostrate, with +
MND 1.1. 0 others}
MND 1.1. 1
MND-THESEUS
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
MND 1.1. 2 Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in
MND 1.1. 3 Another moon - but O, methinks how slow
MND 1.1. 4 This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires
MND 1.1. 5 Like to a stepdame or a dowager
MND 1.1. 6 Long withering out a young man's revenue.
MND 1.1. 7
MND-HIPPOLYTA
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night,
MND 1.1. 8 Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
MND 1.1. 9 And then the moon, like to a silver bow
MND 1.1. 10 New bent in heaven, shall behold the night
MND 1.1. 11B Of our solemnities.
MND-THESEUS
Go, Philostrate,
MND 1.1. 12 Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments.
MND 1.1. 13 Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth.
MND 1.1. 14 Turn melancholy forth to funerals -
MND 1.1. 15 The pale companion is not for our pomp. {[Exit Philostrate]}
MND 1.1. 16 Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword,
MND 1.1. 17 And won thy love doing thee injuries.
MND 1.1. 18 But I will wed thee in another key -
MND 1.1. 19 With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling. {Enter Egeus and +
MND 1.1. 19 his daughter Hermia, and Lysander and Demetrius}
MND 1.1. 20
MND-EGEUS
Happy be Theseus, our renowned Duke.
MND 1.1. 21
MND-THESEUS
Thanks, good Egeus. What's the news with thee?
MND 1.1. 22
MND-EGEUS
Full of vexation come I, with complaint
MND 1.1. 23 Against my child, my daughter Hermia. -
MND 1.1. 24 Stand forth Demetrius. - My noble lord,
MND 1.1. 25 This man hath my consent to marry her. -
MND 1.1. 26 Stand forth Lysander. - And, my gracious Duke,
MND 1.1. 27 This hath bewitched the bosom of my child.
MND 1.1. 28 Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,
MND 1.1. 29 And interchanged love tokens with my child.
MND 1.1. 30 Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
MND 1.1. 31 With feigning voice verses of feigning love,
MND 1.1. 32 And stol'n the impression of her fantasy
MND 1.1. 33 With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits,
MND 1.1. 34 Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats - messengers
MND 1.1. 35 Of strong prevailment in unhardened youth.
MND 1.1. 36 With cunning hast thou filched my daughter's heart,
MND 1.1. 37 Turned her obedience which is due to me
MND 1.1. 38 To stubborn harshness. And, my gracious Duke,
MND 1.1. 39 Be it so she will not here before your grace
MND 1.1. 40 Consent to marry with Demetrius,
MND 1.1. 41 I beg the ancient privilege of Athens:
MND 1.1. 42 As she is mine, I may dispose of her,
MND 1.1. 43 Which shall be either to this gentleman
MND 1.1. 44 Or to her death, according to our law
MND 1.1. 45 Immediately provided in that case.
MND 1.1. 46
MND-THESEUS
What say you, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid.
MND 1.1. 47 To you your father should be as a god,
MND 1.1. 48 One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
MND 1.1. 49 To whom you are but as a form in wax,
MND 1.1. 50 By him imprinted, and within his power
MND 1.1. 51 To leave the figure or disfigure it.
MND 1.1. 52 Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
MND 1.1. 53B
MND-HERMIA
So is Lysander.
MND-THESEUS
In himself he is,
MND 1.1. 54 But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,
MND 1.1. 55 The other must be held the worthier.
MND 1.1. 56
MND-HERMIA
I would my father looked but with my eyes.
MND 1.1. 57
MND-THESEUS
Rather your eyes must with his judgement look.
MND 1.1. 58
MND-HERMIA
I do entreat your grace to pardon me.
MND 1.1. 59 I know not by what power I am made bold,
MND 1.1. 60 Nor how it may concern my modesty
MND 1.1. 61 In such a presence here to plead my thoughts,
MND 1.1. 62 But I beseech your grace that I may know
MND 1.1. 63 The worst that may befall me in this case
MND 1.1. 64 If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
MND 1.1. 65
MND-THESEUS
Either to die the death, or to abjure
MND 1.1. 66 For ever the society of men.
MND 1.1. 67 Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires.
MND 1.1. 68 Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
MND 1.1. 69 Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,
MND 1.1. 70 You can endure the livery of a nun,
MND 1.1. 71 For aye to be in shady cloister mewed,
MND 1.1. 72 To live a barren sister all your life,
MND 1.1. 73 Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
MND 1.1. 74 Thrice blessed they that master so their blood
MND 1.1. 75 To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;
MND 1.1. 76 But earthlier happy is the rose distilled
MND 1.1. 77 Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
MND 1.1. 78 Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
MND 1.1. 79
MND-HERMIA
So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
MND 1.1. 80 Ere I will yield my virgin patent up
MND 1.1. 81 Unto his lordship whose unwished yoke
MND 1.1. 82 My soul consents not to give sovereignty.
MND 1.1. 83
MND-THESEUS
Take time to pause, and by the next new moon -
MND 1.1. 84 The sealing day betwixt my love and me
MND 1.1. 85 For everlasting bond of fellowship -
MND 1.1. 86 Upon that day either prepare to die
MND 1.1. 87 For disobedience to your father's will,
MND 1.1. 88 Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
MND 1.1. 89 Or on Diana's altar to protest
MND 1.1. 90 For aye austerity and single life.
MND 1.1. 91
MND-DEMETRIUS
Relent, sweet Hermia; and, Lysander, yield
MND 1.1. 92 Thy crazed title to my certain right.
MND 1.1. 93
MND-LYSANDER
You have her father's love, Demetrius;
MND 1.1. 94 Let me have Hermia's. Do you marry him.
MND 1.1. 95
MND-EGEUS
Scornful Lysander! True, he hath my love;
MND 1.1. 96 And what is mine my love shall render him,
MND 1.1. 97 And she is mine, and all my right of her
MND 1.1. 98 I do estate unto Demetrius.
MND 1.1. 99
MND-LYSANDER
{[to Theseus]} I am, my lord, as well +
MND 1.1. 99 derived as he,
MND 1.1. 100 As well possessed. My love is more than his,
MND 1.1. 101 My fortunes every way as fairly ranked,
MND 1.1. 102 If not with vantage, as Demetrius;
MND 1.1. 103 And - which is more than all these boasts can be -
MND 1.1. 104 I am beloved of beauteous Hermia.
MND 1.1. 105 Why should not I then prosecute my right?
MND 1.1. 106 Demetrius - I'll avouch it to his head -
MND 1.1. 107 Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
MND 1.1. 108 And won her soul, and she, sweet lady, dotes,
MND 1.1. 109 Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry
MND 1.1. 110 Upon this spotted and inconstant man.
MND 1.1. 111
MND-THESEUS
I must confess that I have heard so much,
MND 1.1. 112 And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;
MND 1.1. 113 But, being over-full of self affairs,
MND 1.1. 114 My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;
MND 1.1. 115 And come, Egeus. You shall go with me.
MND 1.1. 116 I have some private schooling for you both.
MND 1.1. 117 For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
MND 1.1. 118 To fit your fancies to your father's will,
MND 1.1. 119 Or else the law of Athens yields you up -
MND 1.1. 120 Which by no means we may extenuate -
MND 1.1. 121 To death or to a vow of single life.
MND 1.1. 122 Come, my Hippolyta; what cheer, my love? -
MND 1.1. 123 Demetrius and Egeus, go along.
MND 1.1. 124 I must employ you in some business
MND 1.1. 125 Against our nuptial, and confer with you
MND 1.1. 126 Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.
MND 1.1. 127
MND-EGEUS
With duty and desire we follow you. {Exeunt all but +
MND 1.1. 127 Lysander and Hermia}
MND 1.1. 128
MND-LYSANDER
How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale?
MND 1.1. 129 How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
MND 1.1. 130
MND-HERMIA
Belike for want of rain, which I could well
MND 1.1. 131 Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
MND 1.1. 132
MND-LYSANDER
Ay me, for aught that I could ever read,
MND 1.1. 133 Could ever hear by tale or history,
MND 1.1. 134 The course of true love never did run smooth,
MND 1.1. 135 But either it was different in blood -
MND 1.1. 136
MND-HERMIA
O cross! - too high to be enthralled to low.
MND 1.1. 137
MND-LYSANDER
Or else misgrafted in respect of years -
MND 1.1. 138
MND-HERMIA
O spite! - too old to be engaged to young.
MND 1.1. 139
MND-LYSANDER
Or merit stood upon the choice of friends -
MND 1.1. 140
MND-HERMIA
O hell! - to choose love by another's eyes.
MND 1.1. 141
MND-LYSANDER
Or if there were a sympathy in choice,
MND 1.1. 142 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
MND 1.1. 143 Making it momentany as a sound,
MND 1.1. 144 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
MND 1.1. 145 Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
MND 1.1. 146 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
MND 1.1. 147 And, ere a man hath power to say `Behold!',
MND 1.1. 148 The jaws of darkness do devour it up.
MND 1.1. 149 So quick bright things come to confusion.
MND 1.1. 150
MND-HERMIA
If then true lovers have been ever crossed,
MND 1.1. 151 It stands as an edict in destiny.
MND 1.1. 152 Then let us teach our trial patience,
MND 1.1. 153 Because it is a customary cross,
MND 1.1. 154 As due to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs,
MND 1.1. 155 Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
MND 1.1. 156
MND-LYSANDER
A good persuasion. Therefore hear me, Hermia.
MND 1.1. 157 I have a widow aunt, a dowager
MND 1.1. 158 Of great revenue, and she hath no child,
MND 1.1. 159 And she respects me as her only son.
MND 1.1. 160 From Athens is her house remote seven leagues.
MND 1.1. 161 There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee,
MND 1.1. 162 And to that place the sharp Athenian law
MND 1.1. 163 Cannot pursue us. If thou lov'st me then,
MND 1.1. 164 Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night,
MND 1.1. 165 And in the wood, a league without the town,
MND 1.1. 166 Where I did meet thee once with Helena
MND 1.1. 167 To do observance to a morn of May,
MND 1.1. 168B There will I stay for thee.
MND-HERMIA
My good Lysander,
MND 1.1. 169 I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow,
MND 1.1. 170 By his best arrow with the golden head,
MND 1.1. 171 By the simplicity of Venus' doves,
MND 1.1. 172 By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,
MND 1.1. 173 And by that fire which burned the Carthage queen
MND 1.1. 174 When the false Trojan under sail was seen;
MND 1.1. 175 By all the vows that ever men have broke -
MND 1.1. 176 In number more than ever women spoke -
MND 1.1. 177 In that same place thou hast appointed me
MND 1.1. 178 Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.
MND 1.1. 179
MND-LYSANDER
Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena. {Enter +
MND 1.1. 179 Helena}
MND 1.1. 180
MND-HERMIA
God speed, fair Helena. Whither away?
MND 1.1. 181
MND-HELENA
Call you me fair? That `fair' again unsay.
MND 1.1. 182 Demetrius loves your fair - O happy fair!
MND 1.1. 183 Your eyes are lodestars, and your tongue's sweet air
MND 1.1. 184 More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear
MND 1.1. 185 When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
MND 1.1. 186 Sickness is catching. O, were favour so!
MND 1.1. 187 Your words I catch, fair Hermia; ere I go,
MND 1.1. 188 My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
MND 1.1. 189 My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
MND 1.1. 190 Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
MND 1.1. 191 The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
MND 1.1. 192 O, teach me how you look, and with what art
MND 1.1. 193 You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
MND 1.1. 194
MND-HERMIA
I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.
MND 1.1. 195
MND-HELENA
O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
MND 1.1. 196
MND-HERMIA
I give him curses, yet he gives me love.
MND 1.1. 197
MND-HELENA
O that my prayers could such affection move!
MND 1.1. 198
MND-HERMIA
The more I hate, the more he follows me.
MND 1.1. 199
MND-HELENA
The more I love, the more he hateth me.
MND 1.1. 200
MND-HERMIA
His folly, Helen, is no fault of mine.
MND 1.1. 201
MND-HELENA
None but your beauty; would that fault were mine!
MND 1.1. 202
MND-HERMIA
Take comfort. He no more shall see my face.
MND 1.1. 203 Lysander and myself will fly this place.
MND 1.1. 204 Before the time I did Lysander see
MND 1.1. 205 Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.
MND 1.1. 206 O then, what graces in my love do dwell,
MND 1.1. 207 That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?
MND 1.1. 208
MND-LYSANDER
Helen, to you our minds we will unfold.
MND 1.1. 209 Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
MND 1.1. 210 Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass,
MND 1.1. 211 Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass -
MND 1.1. 212 A time that lovers' sleights doth still conceal -
MND 1.1. 213 Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.
MND 1.1. 214
MND-HERMIA
And in the wood where often you and I
MND 1.1. 215 Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie,
MND 1.1. 216 Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
MND 1.1. 217 There my Lysander and myself shall meet,
MND 1.1. 218 And thence from Athens turn away our eyes
MND 1.1. 219 To seek new friends and stranger companies.
MND 1.1. 220 Farewell, sweet playfellow. Pray thou for us,
MND 1.1. 221 And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius. -
MND 1.1. 222 Keep word, Lysander. We must starve our sight
MND 1.1. 223 From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.
MND 1.1. 224B
MND-LYSANDER
I will, my Hermia. {Exit Hermia} Helena, +
MND 1.1. 224B adieu.
MND 1.1. 225 As you on him, Demetrius dote on you. {Exit}
MND 1.1. 226
MND-HELENA
How happy some o'er other some can be!
MND 1.1. 227 Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
MND 1.1. 228 But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
MND 1.1. 229 He will not know what all but he do know.
MND 1.1. 230 And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
MND 1.1. 231 So I, admiring of his qualities.
MND 1.1. 232 Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
MND 1.1. 233 Love can transpose to form and dignity.
MND 1.1. 234 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
MND 1.1. 235 And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
MND 1.1. 236 Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste;
MND 1.1. 237 Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
MND 1.1. 238 And therefore is love said to be a child
MND 1.1. 239 Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
MND 1.1. 240 As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
MND 1.1. 241 So the boy Love is perjured everywhere.
MND 1.1. 242 For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne
MND 1.1. 243 He hailed down oaths that he was only mine,
MND 1.1. 244 And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
MND 1.1. 245 So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
MND 1.1. 246 I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight.
MND 1.1. 247 Then to the wood will he tomorrow night
MND 1.1. 248 Pursue her, and for this intelligence
MND 1.1. 249 If I have thanks it is a dear expense.
MND 1.1. 250 But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
MND 1.1. 251 To have his sight thither and back again. {Exit}
MND 1.1. 0 {Enter Quince the carpenter, and Snug the joiner, and +
MND 1.2. 0 Bottom the weaver, and Flute the bellows-mender, and Snout the tinker, +
MND 1.2. 0 and Starveling the tailor}
MND 1.2. 1
MND-QUINCE
Is all our company here?
MND 1.2. 2
MND-BOTTOM
You were best to call them generally, man by
MND 1.2. 3 man, according to the scrip.
MND 1.2. 4
MND-QUINCE
Here is the scroll of every man's name which is
MND 1.2. 5 thought fit through all Athens to play in our interlude
MND 1.2. 6 before the Duke and the Duchess on his wedding day
MND 1.2. 7 at night.
MND 1.2. 8
MND-BOTTOM
First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats
MND 1.2. 9 on; then read the names of the actors; and so grow to
MND 1.2. 10 a point.
MND 1.2. 11
MND-QUINCE
Marry, our play is {The Most Lamentable Comedy
MND 1.2. 12 and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe.}
MND 1.2. 13
MND-BOTTOM
A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a
MND 1.2. 14 merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your actors
MND 1.2. 15 by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.
MND 1.2. 16
MND-QUINCE
Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver?
MND 1.2. 17
MND-BOTTOM
Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.
MND 1.2. 18
MND-QUINCE
You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
MND 1.2. 19
MND-BOTTOM
What is Pyramus? A lover or a tyrant?
MND 1.2. 20
MND-QUINCE
A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love.
MND 1.2. 21
MND-BOTTOM
That will ask some tears in the true performing
MND 1.2. 22 of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes. I will
MND 1.2. 23 move stones. I will condole, in some measure. To the
MND 1.2. 24 rest. - Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play
MND 1.2. 25 'erc'les rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all
MND 1.2. 26 split.
MND 1.2. 27 The raging rocks
MND 1.2. 28 And shivering shocks
MND 1.2. 29 Shall break the locks
MND 1.2. 30 Of prison gates,
MND 1.2. 31 And Phibus' car
MND 1.2. 32 Shall shine from far
MND 1.2. 33 And make and mar
MND 1.2. 34 The foolish Fates.
MND 1.2. 35 This was lofty. Now name the rest of the players. -
MND 1.2. 36 This is 'erc'les' vein, a tyrant's vein. A lover is more
MND 1.2. 37 condoling.
MND 1.2. 38
MND-QUINCE
Francis Flute, the bellows-mender?
MND 1.2. 39
MND-FLUTE
Here, Peter Quince.
MND 1.2. 40
MND-QUINCE
Flute, you must take Thisbe on you.
MND 1.2. 41
MND-FLUTE
What is Thisbe? A wand'ring knight?
MND 1.2. 42
MND-QUINCE
It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
MND 1.2. 43
MND-FLUTE
Nay, faith, let not me play a woman. I have a
MND 1.2. 44 beard coming.
MND 1.2. 45
MND-QUINCE
That's all one. You shall play it in a mask, and
MND 1.2. 46 you may speak as small as you will.
MND 1.2. 47
MND-BOTTOM
An I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too.
MND 1.2. 48 I'll speak in a monstrous little voice: `Thisne, Thisne!' -
MND 1.2. 49 `Ah Pyramus, my lover dear, thy Thisbe dear and lady
MND 1.2. 50 dear.'
MND 1.2. 51
MND-QUINCE
No, no, you must play Pyramus; and Flute, you
MND 1.2. 52 Thisbe.
MND 1.2. 53
MND-BOTTOM
Well, proceed.
MND 1.2. 54
MND-QUINCE
Robin Starveling, the tailor?
MND 1.2. 55
MND-STARVELING
Here, Peter Quince.
MND 1.2. 56
MND-QUINCE
Robin Starveling, you must play Thisbe's mother.
MND 1.2. 57 Tom Snout, the tinker?
MND 1.2. 58
MND-SNOUT
Here, Peter Quince.
MND 1.2. 59
MND-QUINCE
You, Pyramus' father; myself, Thisbe's father.
MND 1.2. 60 Snug the joiner, you the lion's part; and I hope here
MND 1.2. 61 is a play fitted.
MND 1.2. 62
MND-SNUG
Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be,
MND 1.2. 63 give it me; for I am slow of study.
MND 1.2. 64
MND-QUINCE
You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but
MND 1.2. 65 roaring.
MND 1.2. 66
MND-BOTTOM
Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will
MND 1.2. 67 do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I
MND 1.2. 68 will make the Duke say `Let him roar again; let him
MND 1.2. 69 roar again'.
MND 1.2. 70
MND-QUINCE
An you should do it too terribly you would fright
MND 1.2. 71 the Duchess and the ladies that they would shriek, and
MND 1.2. 72 that were enough to hang us all.
MND 1.2. 73
MND-ALL THE REST
That would hang us, every mother's son.
MND 1.2. 74
MND-BOTTOM
I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies
MND 1.2. 75 out of their wits they would have no more discretion
MND 1.2. 76 but to hang us, but I will aggravate my voice so that
MND 1.2. 77 I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will
MND 1.2. 78 roar you an 'twere any nightingale.
MND 1.2. 79
MND-QUINCE
You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus
MND 1.2. 80 is a sweet-faced man; a proper man as one shall see
MND 1.2. 81 in a summer's day; a most lovely, gentlemanlike man.
MND 1.2. 82 Therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
MND 1.2. 83
MND-BOTTOM
Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best
MND 1.2. 84 to play it in?
MND 1.2. 85
MND-QUINCE
Why, what you will.
MND 1.2. 86
MND-BOTTOM
I will discharge it in either your straw-colour
MND 1.2. 87 beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain
MND 1.2. 88 beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect
MND 1.2. 89 yellow.
MND 1.2. 90
MND-QUINCE
Some of your French crowns have no hair at all,
MND 1.2. 91 and then you will play bare faced. But masters, here
MND 1.2. 92 are your parts, and I am to entreat you, request you,
MND 1.2. 93 and desire you to con them by tomorrow night, and
MND 1.2. 94 meet me in the palace wood a mile without the town
MND 1.2. 95 by moonlight. There will we rehearse; for if we meet
MND 1.2. 96 in the city we shall be dogged with company, and our
MND 1.2. 97 devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of
MND 1.2. 98 properties such as our play wants. I pray you fail me
MND 1.2. 99 not.
MND 1.2. 100
MND-BOTTOM
We will meet, and there we may rehearse most
MND 1.2. 101 obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect.
MND 1.2. 102 Adieu.
MND 1.2. 103
MND-QUINCE
At the Duke's oak we meet.
MND 1.2. 104
MND-BOTTOM
Enough. Hold, or cut bowstrings. {Exeunt}
MND 1.2. 0 {Enter a Fairy at one door and Robin Goodfellow, a +
MND 2.1. 0 puck, at another}
MND 2.1. 1
MND-ROBIN
How now, spirit, whither wander you?
MND 2.1. 2
MND-FAIRY
Over hill, over dale,
MND 2.1. 3 Thorough bush, thorough brier,
MND 2.1. 4 Over park, over pale,
MND 2.1. 5 Thorough flood, thorough fire:
MND 2.1. 6 I do wander everywhere
MND 2.1. 7 Swifter than the moone|s sphere,
MND 2.1. 8 And I serve the Fairy Queen
MND 2.1. 9 To dew her orbs upon the green.
MND 2.1. 10 The cowslips tall her pensioners be.
MND 2.1. 11 In their gold coats spots you see;
MND 2.1. 12 Those be rubies, fairy favours;
MND 2.1. 13 In those freckles live their savours.
MND 2.1. 14 I must go seek some dewdrops here,
MND 2.1. 15 And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
MND 2.1. 16 Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone.
MND 2.1. 17 Our Queen and all her elves come here anon.
MND 2.1. 18
MND-ROBIN
The King doth keep his revels here tonight.
MND 2.1. 19 Take heed the Queen come not within his sight,
MND 2.1. 20 For Oberon is passing fell and wroth
MND 2.1. 21 Because that she, as her attendant, hath
MND 2.1. 22 A lovely boy stol'n from an Indian king.
MND 2.1. 23 She never had so sweet a changeling;
MND 2.1. 24 And jealous Oberon would have the child
MND 2.1. 25 Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild.
MND 2.1. 26 But she perforce withholds the loved boy,
MND 2.1. 27 Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy.
MND 2.1. 28 And now they never meet in grove, or green,
MND 2.1. 29 By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,
MND 2.1. 30 But they do square, that all their elves for fear
MND 2.1. 31 Creep into acorn cups, and hide them there.
MND 2.1. 32
MND-FAIRY
Either I mistake your shape and making quite
MND 2.1. 33 Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
MND 2.1. 34 Called Robin Goodfellow. Are not you he
MND 2.1. 35 That frights the maidens of the villag'ry,
MND 2.1. 36 Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern,
MND 2.1. 37 And bootless make the breathless housewife churn,
MND 2.1. 38 And sometime make the drink to bear no barm -
MND 2.1. 39 Mislead night wanderers, laughing at their harm?
MND 2.1. 40 Those that `hobgoblin' call you, and `sweet puck',
MND 2.1. 41 You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
MND 2.1. 42B Are not you he?
MND-ROBIN
Thou speak'st aright;
MND 2.1. 43 I am that merry wanderer of the night.
MND 2.1. 44 I jest to Oberon, and make him smile
MND 2.1. 45 When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
MND 2.1. 46 Neighing in likeness of a filly foal;
MND 2.1. 47 And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl
MND 2.1. 48 In very likeness of a roasted crab,
MND 2.1. 49 And when she drinks, against her lips I bob,
MND 2.1. 50 And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.
MND 2.1. 51 The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale
MND 2.1. 52 Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
MND 2.1. 53 Then slip I from her bum. Down topples she,
MND 2.1. 54 And `tailor' cries, and falls into a cough,
MND 2.1. 55 And then the whole choir hold their hips, and laugh,
MND 2.1. 56 And waxen in their mirth, and sneeze, and swear
MND 2.1. 57 A merrier hour was never wasted there. - {Enter Oberon the King +
MND 2.1. 57 of Fairies at one door, with}
MND 2.1. 58 {his train, and Titania the Queen at another, with hers} But +
MND 2.1. 58 make room, fairy: here comes Oberon.
MND 2.1. 59
MND-FAIRY
And here my mistress. Would that he were gone.
MND 2.1. 60
MND-OBERON
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
MND 2.1. 61
MND-TITANIA
What, jealous Oberon? - Fairies, skip hence.
MND 2.1. 62 I have forsworn his bed and company.
MND 2.1. 63
MND-OBERON
Tarry, rash wanton. Am not I thy lord?
MND 2.1. 64
MND-TITANIA
Then I must be thy lady; but I know
MND 2.1. 65 When thou hast stol'n away from fairyland
MND 2.1. 66 And in the shape of Corin sat all day,
MND 2.1. 67 Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love
MND 2.1. 68 To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here
MND 2.1. 69 Come from the farthest step of India,
MND 2.1. 70 But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
MND 2.1. 71 Your buskined mistress and your warrior love,
MND 2.1. 72 To Theseus must be wedded, and you come
MND 2.1. 73 To give their bed joy and prosperity?
MND 2.1. 74
MND-OBERON
How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,
MND 2.1. 75 Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,
MND 2.1. 76 Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?
MND 2.1. 77 Didst not thou lead him through the glimmering night
MND 2.1. 78 From Perigouna whom he ravished,
MND 2.1. 79 And make him with fair Aegles break his faith,
MND 2.1. 80 With Ariadne and Antiopa?
MND 2.1. 81
MND-TITANIA
These are the forgeries of jealousy,
MND 2.1. 82 And never since the middle summer's spring
MND 2.1. 83 Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
MND 2.1. 84 By paved fountain or by rushy brook,
MND 2.1. 85 Or in the beached margin of the sea
MND 2.1. 86 To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
MND 2.1. 87 But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
MND 2.1. 88 Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
MND 2.1. 89 As in revenge have sucked up from the sea
MND 2.1. 90 Contagious fogs which, falling in the land,
MND 2.1. 91 Hath every pelting river made so proud
MND 2.1. 92 That they have overborne their continents.
MND 2.1. 93 The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain,
MND 2.1. 94 The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
MND 2.1. 95 Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.
MND 2.1. 96 The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
MND 2.1. 97 And crows are fatted with the murrain flock.
MND 2.1. 98 The nine men's morris is filled up with mud,
MND 2.1. 99 And the quaint mazes in the wanton green
MND 2.1. 100 For lack of tread are undistinguishable.
MND 2.1. 101 The human mortals want their winter cheer.
MND 2.1. 102 No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.
MND 2.1. 103 Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
MND 2.1. 104 Pale in her anger washes all the air,
MND 2.1. 105 That rheumatic diseases do abound;
MND 2.1. 106 And thorough this distemperature we see
MND 2.1. 107 The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
MND 2.1. 108 Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
MND 2.1. 109 And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
MND 2.1. 110 An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
MND 2.1. 111 Is, as in mock'ry, set. The spring, the summer,
MND 2.1. 112 The childing autumn, angry winter change
MND 2.1. 113 Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world
MND 2.1. 114 By their increase now knows not which is which;
MND 2.1. 115 And this same progeny of evils comes
MND 2.1. 116 From our debate, from our dissension.
MND 2.1. 117 We are their parents and original.
MND 2.1. 118
MND-OBERON
Do you amend it, then. It lies in you.
MND 2.1. 119 Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
MND 2.1. 120 I do but beg a little changeling boy
MND 2.1. 121B To be my henchman.
MND-TITANIA
Set your heart at rest.
MND 2.1. 122 The fairyland buys not the child of me.
MND 2.1. 123 His mother was a vot'ress of my order,
MND 2.1. 124 And in the spiced Indian air by night
MND 2.1. 125 Full often hath she gossiped by my side,
MND 2.1. 126 And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,
MND 2.1. 127 Marking th' embarked traders on the flood,
MND 2.1. 128 When we have laughed to see the sails conceive
MND 2.1. 129 And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind,
MND 2.1. 130 Which she with pretty and with swimming gait
MND 2.1. 131 Following, her womb then rich with my young squire,
MND 2.1. 132 Would imitate, and sail upon the land
MND 2.1. 133 To fetch me trifles, and return again
MND 2.1. 134 As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.
MND 2.1. 135 But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;
MND 2.1. 136 And for her sake do I rear up her boy;
MND 2.1. 137 And for her sake I will not part with him.
MND 2.1. 138
MND-OBERON
How long within this wood intend you stay?
MND 2.1. 139
MND-TITANIA
Perchance till after Theseus' wedding day.
MND 2.1. 140 If you will patiently dance in our round,
MND 2.1. 141 And see our moonlight revels, go with us.
MND 2.1. 142 If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.
MND 2.1. 143
MND-OBERON
Give me that boy and I will go with thee.
MND 2.1. 144
MND-TITANIA
Not for thy fairy kingdom. - Fairies, away.
MND 2.1. 145 We shall chide downright if I longer stay. {Exeunt Titania and +
MND 2.1. 145 her train}
MND 2.1. 146
MND-OBERON
Well, go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove
MND 2.1. 147 Till I torment thee for this injury. -
MND 2.1. 148 My gentle puck, come hither. Thou rememb'rest
MND 2.1. 149 Since once I sat upon a promontory
MND 2.1. 150 And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
MND 2.1. 151 Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
MND 2.1. 152 That the rude sea grew civil at her song
MND 2.1. 153 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
MND 2.1. 154B To hear the sea-maid's music?
MND-ROBIN
I remember.
MND 2.1. 155
MND-OBERON
That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
MND 2.1. 156 Flying between the cold moon and the earth
MND 2.1. 157 Cupid, all armed. A certain aim he took
MND 2.1. 158 At a fair vestal throned by the west,
MND 2.1. 159 And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow
MND 2.1. 160 As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.
MND 2.1. 161 But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
MND 2.1. 162 Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,
MND 2.1. 163 And the imperial vot'ress passed on,
MND 2.1. 164 In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
MND 2.1. 165 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
MND 2.1. 166 It fell upon a little western flower -
MND 2.1. 167 Before, milk-white; now, purple with love's wound -
MND 2.1. 168 And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
MND 2.1. 169 Fetch me that flower; the herb I showed thee once.
MND 2.1. 170 The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
MND 2.1. 171 Will make or man or woman madly dote
MND 2.1. 172 Upon the next live creature that it sees.
MND 2.1. 173 Fetch me this herb, and be thou here again
MND 2.1. 174 Ere the leviathan can swim a league.
MND 2.1. 175
MND-ROBIN
I'll put a girdle round about the earth
MND 2.1. 176B In forty minutes. {Exit}
MND-OBERON
Having once this +
MND 2.1. 176B juice
MND 2.1. 177 I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,
MND 2.1. 178 And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.
MND 2.1. 179 The next thing then she waking looks upon -
MND 2.1. 180 Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
MND 2.1. 181 On meddling monkey, or on busy ape -
MND 2.1. 182 She shall pursue it with the soul of love.
MND 2.1. 183 And ere I take this charm from off her sight -
MND 2.1. 184 As I can take it with another herb -
MND 2.1. 185 I'll make her render up her page to me.
MND 2.1. 186 But who comes here? I am invisible,
MND 2.1. 187 And I will overhear their conference. {Enter Demetrius, Helena +
MND 2.1. 187 following him}
MND 2.1. 188
MND-DEMETRIUS
I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
MND 2.1. 189 Where is Lysander, and fair Hermia?
MND 2.1. 190 The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.
MND 2.1. 191 Thou told'st me they were stol'n unto this wood,
MND 2.1. 192 And here am I, and wood within this wood
MND 2.1. 193 Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
MND 2.1. 194 Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.
MND 2.1. 195
MND-HELENA
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant,
MND 2.1. 196 But yet you draw not iron; for my heart
MND 2.1. 197 Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,
MND 2.1. 198 And I shall have no power to follow you.
MND 2.1. 199
MND-DEMETRIUS
Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?
MND 2.1. 200 Or rather do I not in plainest truth
MND 2.1. 201 Tell you I do not nor I cannot love you?
MND 2.1. 202
MND-HELENA
And even for that do I love you the more.
MND 2.1. 203 I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius,
MND 2.1. 204 The more you beat me I will fawn on you.
MND 2.1. 205 Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me,
MND 2.1. 206 Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
MND 2.1. 207 Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
MND 2.1. 208 What worser place can I beg in your love -
MND 2.1. 209 And yet a place of high respect with me -
MND 2.1. 210 Than to be used as you use your dog?
MND 2.1. 211
MND-DEMETRIUS
Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;
MND 2.1. 212 For I am sick when I do look on thee.
MND 2.1. 213
MND-HELENA
And I am sick when I look not on you.
MND 2.1. 214
MND-DEMETRIUS
You do impeach your modesty too much,
MND 2.1. 215 To leave the city and commit yourself
MND 2.1. 216 Into the hands of one that loves you not;
MND 2.1. 217 To trust the opportunity of night,
MND 2.1. 218 And the ill counsel of a desert place,
MND 2.1. 219 With the rich worth of your virginity.
MND 2.1. 220
MND-HELENA
Your virtue is my privilege, for that
MND 2.1. 221 It is not night when I do see your face;
MND 2.1. 222 Therefore I think I am not in the night,
MND 2.1. 223 Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company;
MND 2.1. 224 For you in my respect are all the world.
MND 2.1. 225 Then how can it be said I am alone,
MND 2.1. 226 When all the world is here to look on me?
MND 2.1. 227
MND-DEMETRIUS
I'll run from thee, and hide me in the brakes,
MND 2.1. 228 And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.
MND 2.1. 229
MND-HELENA
The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
MND 2.1. 230 Run when you will. The story shall be changed:
MND 2.1. 231 Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase.
MND 2.1. 232 The dove pursues the griffin, the mild hind
MND 2.1. 233 Makes speed to catch the tiger: bootless speed,
MND 2.1. 234 When cowardice pursues, and valour flies.
MND 2.1. 235
MND-DEMETRIUS
I will not stay thy questions. Let me go;
MND 2.1. 236 Or if thou follow me, do not believe
MND 2.1. 237 But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
MND 2.1. 238
MND-HELENA
Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
MND 2.1. 239 You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius,
MND 2.1. 240 Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex.
MND 2.1. 241 We cannot fight for love as men may do;
MND 2.1. 242 We should be wooed, and were not made to woo.
MND 2.1. 243 I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell,
MND 2.1. 244 To die upon the hand I love so well. {[Exit Demetrius, Helena +
MND 2.1. 244 following him]}
MND 2.1. 245
MND-OBERON
Fare thee well, nymph. Ere he do leave this grove
MND 2.1. 246 Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love. {Enter Robin +
MND 2.1. 246 Goodfellow the puck}
MND 2.1. 247 Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.
MND 2.1. 248B
MND-ROBIN
Ay, there it is.
MND-OBERON
I pray thee give it me.
MND 2.1. 249 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
MND 2.1. 250 Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
MND 2.1. 251 Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
MND 2.1. 252 With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
MND 2.1. 253 There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
MND 2.1. 254 Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight;
MND 2.1. 255 And there the snake throws her enamelled skin,
MND 2.1. 256 Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in;
MND 2.1. 257 And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,
MND 2.1. 258 And make her full of hateful fantasies.
MND 2.1. 259 Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove.
MND 2.1. 260 A sweet Athenian lady is in love
MND 2.1. 261 With a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes;
MND 2.1. 262 But do it when the next thing he espies
MND 2.1. 263 May be the lady. Thou shalt know the man
MND 2.1. 264 By the Athenian garments he hath on.
MND 2.1. 265 Effect it with some care, that he may prove
MND 2.1. 266 More fond on her than she upon her love;
MND 2.1. 267 And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
MND 2.1. 268
MND-ROBIN
Fear not, my lord. Your servant shall do so. {Exeunt +
MND 2.1. 268 severally}
MND 2.1. 0 {Enter Titania, Queen of Fairies, with her train}
MND 2.2. 1
MND-TITANIA
Come, now a roundel and a fairy song,
MND 2.2. 2 Then for the third part of a minute hence:
MND 2.2. 3 Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,
MND 2.2. 4 Some war with reremice for their leathern wings
MND 2.2. 5 To make my small elves coats, and some keep back
MND 2.2. 6 The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders
MND 2.2. 7 At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;
MND 2.2. 8 Then to your offices, and let me rest. {She lies down. Fairies +
MND 2.2. 8 sing}
MND 2.2. 9
MND-[FIRST FAIRY]
You spotted snakes with double tongue,
MND 2.2. 10 Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
MND 2.2. 11 Newts and blindworms, do no wrong;
MND 2.2. 12 Come not near our Fairy Queen.
MND 2.2. 13
MND-[CHORUS]
{[dancing]} Philomel with melody,
MND 2.2. 14 Sing in our sweet lullaby;
MND 2.2. 15 Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby.
MND 2.2. 16 Never harm
MND 2.2. 17 Nor spell nor charm
MND 2.2. 18 Come our lovely lady nigh.
MND 2.2. 19 So good night, with lullaby.
MND 2.2. 20
MND-FIRST FAIRY
Weaving spiders, come not here;
MND 2.2. 21 Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence;
MND 2.2. 22 Beetles black, approach not near;
MND 2.2. 23 Worm nor snail do no offence.
MND 2.2. 24
MND-[CHORUS]
{[dancing]} Philomel with melody,
MND 2.2. 25 Sing in our sweet lullaby;
MND 2.2. 26 Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby.
MND 2.2. 27 Never harm
MND 2.2. 28 Nor spell nor charm
MND 2.2. 29 Come our lovely lady nigh.
MND 2.2. 30 So good night, with lullaby. {Titania sleeps}
MND 2.2. 31
MND-SECOND FAIRY
Hence, away. Now all is well.
MND 2.2. 32 One aloof stand sentinel. {Exeunt all but Titania [and the +
MND 2.2. 32 sentinel]}
MND 2.2. 33 {Enter Oberon. He drops the juice on +
MND 2.2. 33 Titania's eyelids}
MND-OBERON
What thou seest when thou dost +
MND 2.2. 33 wake,
MND 2.2. 34 Do it for thy true love take;
MND 2.2. 35 Love and languish for his sake.
MND 2.2. 36 Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
MND 2.2. 37 Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
MND 2.2. 38 In thy eye that shall appear
MND 2.2. 39 When thou wak'st, it is thy dear.
MND 2.2. 40 Wake when some vile thing is near. {Exit}
MND 2.2. 41 {Enter Lysander and Hermia}
MND-LYSANDER
Fair love, +
MND 2.2. 41 you faint with wand'ring in the wood,
MND 2.2. 42 And, to speak truth, I have forgot our way.
MND 2.2. 43 We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,
MND 2.2. 44 And tarry for the comfort of the day.
MND 2.2. 45
MND-HERMIA
Be it so, Lysander. Find you out a bed;
MND 2.2. 46 For I upon this bank will rest my head. {[She lies down]}
MND 2.2. 47
MND-LYSANDER
One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;
MND 2.2. 48 One heart, one bed; two bosoms, and one troth.
MND 2.2. 49
MND-HERMIA
Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,
MND 2.2. 50 Lie further off yet; do not lie so near.
MND 2.2. 51
MND-LYSANDER
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
MND 2.2. 52 Love takes the meaning in love's conference -
MND 2.2. 53 I mean that my heart unto yours is knit,
MND 2.2. 54 So that but one heart we can make of it.
MND 2.2. 55 Two bosoms interchained with an oath;
MND 2.2. 56 So, then, two bosoms and a single troth.
MND 2.2. 57 Then by your side no bed-room me deny;
MND 2.2. 58 For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.
MND 2.2. 59
MND-HERMIA
Lysander riddles very prettily.
MND 2.2. 60 Now much beshrew my manners and my pride
MND 2.2. 61 If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
MND 2.2. 62 But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy,
MND 2.2. 63 Lie further off, in humane modesty.
MND 2.2. 64 Such separation as may well be said
MND 2.2. 65 Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
MND 2.2. 66 So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend.
MND 2.2. 67 Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end.
MND 2.2. 68
MND-LYSANDER
Amen, amen, to that fair prayer say I;
MND 2.2. 69 And then end life when I end loyalty.
MND 2.2. 70 Here is my bed; sleep give thee all his rest. {He lies down}
MND 2.2. 71
MND-HERMIA
With half that wish the wisher's eyes be +
MND 2.2. 71 pressed. {They sleep apart.}
MND 2.2. 72 {Enter Robin Goodfellow the puck}
MND-ROBIN
Through the forest +
MND 2.2. 72 have I gone,
MND 2.2. 73 But Athenian found I none
MND 2.2. 74 On whose eyes I might approve
MND 2.2. 75 This flower's force in stirring love.
MND 2.2. 76 Night and silence. Who is here?
MND 2.2. 77 Weeds of Athens he doth wear.
MND 2.2. 78 This is he my master said
MND 2.2. 79 Despised the Athenian maid -
MND 2.2. 80 And here the maiden, sleeping sound
MND 2.2. 81 On the dank and dirty ground.
MND 2.2. 82 Pretty soul, she durst not lie
MND 2.2. 83 Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
MND 2.2. 84 Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
MND 2.2. 85 All the power this charm doth owe. {He drops the juice on +
MND 2.2. 85 Lysander's eyelids}
MND 2.2. 86 When thou wak'st, let love forbid
MND 2.2. 87 Sleep his seat on thy eyelid.
MND 2.2. 88 So, awake when I am gone.
MND 2.2. 89 For I must now to Oberon. {Exit}
MND 2.2. 90 {Enter Demetrius and Helena, running}
MND-HELENA
Stay, +
MND 2.2. 90 though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.
MND 2.2. 91
MND-DEMETRIUS
I charge thee hence, and do not haunt me thus.
MND 2.2. 92
MND-HELENA
O, wilt thou darkling leave me? Do not so.
MND 2.2. 93
MND-DEMETRIUS
Stay, on thy peril; I alone will go. {Exit}
MND 2.2. 94
MND-HELENA
O, I am out of breath in this fond chase.
MND 2.2. 95 The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.
MND 2.2. 96 Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;
MND 2.2. 97 For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.
MND 2.2. 98 How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears -
MND 2.2. 99 If so, my eyes are oft'ner washed than hers.
MND 2.2. 100 No, no; I am as ugly as a bear,
MND 2.2. 101 For beasts that meet me run away for fear.
MND 2.2. 102 Therefore no marvel though Demetrius
MND 2.2. 103 Do, as a monster, fly my presence thus.
MND 2.2. 104 What wicked and dissembling glass of mine
MND 2.2. 105 Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne!
MND 2.2. 106 But who is here? Lysander, on the ground?
MND 2.2. 107 Dead, or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.
MND 2.2. 108 Lysander, if you live, good sir, awake.
MND 2.2. 109
MND-LYSANDER
{(awaking)} And run through fire I will +
MND 2.2. 109 for thy sweet sake.
MND 2.2. 110 Transparent Helena, nature shows art
MND 2.2. 111 That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.
MND 2.2. 112 Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word
MND 2.2. 113 Is that vile name to perish on my sword!
MND 2.2. 114
MND-HELENA
Do not say so, Lysander; say not so.
MND 2.2. 115 What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?
MND 2.2. 116 Yet Hermia still loves you; then be content.
MND 2.2. 117
MND-LYSANDER
Content with Hermia? No, I do repent
MND 2.2. 118 The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
MND 2.2. 119 Not Hermia but Helena I love.
MND 2.2. 120 Who will not change a raven for a dove?
MND 2.2. 121 The will of man is by his reason swayed,
MND 2.2. 122 And reason says you are the worthier maid.
MND 2.2. 123 Things growing are not ripe until their season,
MND 2.2. 124 So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason.
MND 2.2. 125 And, touching now the point of human skill,
MND 2.2. 126 Reason becomes the marshal to my will,
MND 2.2. 127 And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook
MND 2.2. 128 Love's stories written in love's richest book.
MND 2.2. 129
MND-HELENA
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
MND 2.2. 130 When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
MND 2.2. 131 Is 't not enough, is 't not enough, young man,
MND 2.2. 132 That I did never - no, nor never can -
MND 2.2. 133 Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
MND 2.2. 134 But you must flout my insufficiency?
MND 2.2. 135 Good troth, you do me wrong; good sooth, you do,
MND 2.2. 136 In such disdainful manner me to woo.
MND 2.2. 137 But fare you well. Perforce I must confess
MND 2.2. 138 I thought you lord of more true gentleness.
MND 2.2. 139 O, that a lady of one man refused
MND 2.2. 140 Should of another therefore be abused! {Exit}
MND 2.2. 141
MND-LYSANDER
She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there,
MND 2.2. 142 And never mayst thou come Lysander near;
MND 2.2. 143 For as a surfeit of the sweetest things
MND 2.2. 144 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
MND 2.2. 145 Or as the heresies that men do leave
MND 2.2. 146 Are hated most of those they did deceive,
MND 2.2. 147 So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
MND 2.2. 148 Of all be hated, but the most of me;
MND 2.2. 149 And all my powers, address your love and might
MND 2.2. 150 To honour Helen, and to be her knight. {Exit}
MND 2.2. 151
MND-HERMIA
{(awaking)} Help me, Lysander, help me! Do +
MND 2.2. 151 thy best
MND 2.2. 152 To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!
MND 2.2. 153 Ay me, for pity. What a dream was here?
MND 2.2. 154 Lysander, look how I do quake with fear.
MND 2.2. 155 Methought a serpent ate my heart away,
MND 2.2. 156 And you sat smiling at his cruel prey.
MND 2.2. 157 Lysander - what, removed? Lysander, lord -
MND 2.2. 158 What, out of hearing, gone? No sound, no word?
MND 2.2. 159 Alack, where are you? Speak an if you hear,
MND 2.2. 160 Speak, of all loves. I swoon almost with fear.
MND 2.2. 161 No? Then I well perceive you are not nigh.
MND 2.2. 162 Either death or you I'll find immediately. {Exit}
MND 2.2. 0 {Enter the clowns: Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, +
MND 3.1. 0 Snout, and Starveling}
MND 3.1. 1
MND-BOTTOM
Are we all met?
MND 3.1. 2
MND-QUINCE
Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient
MND 3.1. 3 place for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our
MND 3.1. 4 stage, this hawthorn brake our tiring-house, and we
MND 3.1. 5 will do it in action as we will do it before the Duke.
MND 3.1. 6
MND-BOTTOM
Peter Quince?
MND 3.1. 7
MND-QUINCE
What sayst thou, bully Bottom?
MND 3.1. 8
MND-BOTTOM
There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and
MND 3.1. 9 Thisbe that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw
MND 3.1. 10 a sword to kill himself, which the ladies cannot abide.
MND 3.1. 11 How answer you that?
MND 3.1. 12
MND-SNOUT
By 'r la'kin, a parlous fear.
MND 3.1. 13
MND-STARVELING
I believe we must leave the killing out, when
MND 3.1. 14 all is done.
MND 3.1. 15
MND-BOTTOM
Not a whit. I have a device to make all well.
MND 3.1. 16 Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say
MND 3.1. 17 we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus
MND 3.1. 18 is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance,
MND 3.1. 19 tell them that I, Pyramus, am not Pyramus, but Bottom
MND 3.1. 20 the weaver. This will put them out of fear.
MND 3.1. 21
MND-QUINCE
Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall
MND 3.1. 22 be written in eight and six.
MND 3.1. 23
MND-BOTTOM
No, make it two more: let it be written in eight
MND 3.1. 24 and eight.
MND 3.1. 25
MND-SNOUT
Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?
MND 3.1. 26
MND-STARVELING
I fear it, I promise you.
MND 3.1. 27
MND-BOTTOM
Masters, you ought to consider with yourself, to
MND 3.1. 28 bring in - God shield us - a lion among ladies is a most
MND 3.1. 29 dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild fowl
MND 3.1. 30 than your lion living, and we ought to look to 't.
MND 3.1. 31
MND-SNOUT
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a
MND 3.1. 32 lion.
MND 3.1. 33
MND-BOTTOM
Nay, you must name his name, and half his face
MND 3.1. 34 must be seen through the lion's neck, and he himself
MND 3.1. 35 must speak through, saying thus or to the same defect:
MND 3.1. 36 `ladies', or `fair ladies, I would wish you' or `I would
MND 3.1. 37 request you' or `I would entreat you not to fear, not
MND 3.1. 38 to tremble. My life for yours. If you think I come hither
MND 3.1. 39 as a lion, it were pity of my life. No, I am no such
MND 3.1. 40 thing. I am a man, as other men are' - and there,
MND 3.1. 41 indeed, let him name his name, and tell them plainly
MND 3.1. 42 he is Snug the joiner.
MND 3.1. 43
MND-QUINCE
Well, it shall be so; but there is two hard things:
MND 3.1. 44 that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber - for
MND 3.1. 45 you know Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight.
MND 3.1. 46
MND-[SNOUT]
Doth the moon shine that night we play our
MND 3.1. 47 play?
MND 3.1. 48
MND-BOTTOM
A calendar, a calendar - look in the almanac,
MND 3.1. 49 find out moonshine, find out moonshine. {[Enter Robin Goodfellow +
MND 3.1. 49 the puck, invisible]}
MND 3.1. 50
MND-QUINCE
{[with a book]} Yes, it doth shine that +
MND 3.1. 50 night.
MND 3.1. 51
MND-BOTTOM
Why, then may you leave a casement of the great
MND 3.1. 52 chamber window where we play open, and the moon
MND 3.1. 53 may shine in at the casement.
MND 3.1. 54
MND-QUINCE
Ay, or else one must come in with a bush of
MND 3.1. 55 thorns and a lantern and say he comes to disfigure, or
MND 3.1. 56 to present, the person of Moonshine. Then there is
MND 3.1. 57 another thing: we must have a wall in the great
MND 3.1. 58 chamber; for Pyramus and Thisbe, says the story, did
MND 3.1. 59 talk through the chink of a wall.
MND 3.1. 60
MND-SNOUT
You can never bring in a wall. What say you,
MND 3.1. 61 Bottom?
MND 3.1. 62
MND-BOTTOM
Some man or other must present Wall; and let
MND 3.1. 63 him have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-
MND 3.1. 64 cast about him, to signify `wall'; and let him hold his
MND 3.1. 65 fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus
MND 3.1. 66 and Thisbe whisper.
MND 3.1. 67
MND-QUINCE
If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down
MND 3.1. 68 every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus,
MND 3.1. 69 you begin. When you have spoken your speech, enter
MND 3.1. 70 into that brake; and so everyone according to his cue.
MND 3.1. 71
MND-ROBIN
{(aside)} What hempen homespuns have we +
MND 3.1. 71 swagg'ring here
MND 3.1. 72 So near the cradle of the Fairy Queen?
MND 3.1. 73 What, a play toward? I'll be an auditor -
MND 3.1. 74 An actor, too, perhaps, if I see cause.
MND 3.1. 75
MND-QUINCE
Speak, Pyramus. Thisbe, stand forth.
MND 3.1. 76
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} Thisbe, the flowers of +
MND 3.1. 76 odious savours sweet.
MND 3.1. 77
MND-QUINCE
Odours, odours.
MND 3.1. 78A
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} Odours savours sweet.
MND 3.1. 79 So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisbe dear.
MND 3.1. 80 But hark, a voice. Stay thou but here a while,
MND 3.1. 81 And by and by I will to thee appear. {Exit}
MND 3.1. 82
MND-[ROBIN]
{(aside)} A stranger Pyramus than e'er +
MND 3.1. 82 played here. {Exit}
MND 3.1. 83
MND-FLUTE
Must I speak now?
MND 3.1. 84
MND-QUINCE
Ay, marry must you. For you must understand
MND 3.1. 85 he goes but to see a noise that he heard, and is to
MND 3.1. 86 come again.
MND 3.1. 87
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} Most radiant Pyramus, most +
MND 3.1. 87 lily-white of hue,
MND 3.1. 88 Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier;
MND 3.1. 89 Most bristly juvenile, and eke most lovely Jew,
MND 3.1. 90 As true as truest horse that yet would never tire:
MND 3.1. 91 I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.
MND 3.1. 92
MND-QUINCE
Ninus' tomb, man! - Why, you must not speak
MND 3.1. 93 that yet. That you answer to Pyramus. You speak all
MND 3.1. 94 your part at once, cues and all. - Pyramus, enter: your
MND 3.1. 95 cue is past; it is `never tire'.
MND 3.1. 96
MND-FLUTE
O.
MND 3.1. 97 {(As Thisbe)} As true as truest horse that yet would +
MND 3.1. 97 never tire. {Enter [Robin leading] Bottom with the ass-head}
MND 3.1. 98
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} If I were fair, Thisbe, I +
MND 3.1. 98 were only thine.
MND 3.1. 99
MND-QUINCE
O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. Pray,
MND 3.1. 100 masters; fly, masters: help! {[The clowns all exeunt]}
MND 3.1. 101
MND-ROBIN
I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,
MND 3.1. 102 Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier.
MND 3.1. 103 Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,
MND 3.1. 104 A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire,
MND 3.1. 105 And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
MND 3.1. 106 Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn. {Exit}
MND 3.1. 107 {[Enter Bottom again, with the ass-head]}
MND-BOTTOM
+
MND 3.1. 107 Why do they run away? This is a knavery of
MND 3.1. 108 them to make me afeard. {Enter Snout}
MND 3.1. 109
MND-SNOUT
O Bottom, thou art changed. What do I see on
MND 3.1. 110 thee?
MND 3.1. 111
MND-BOTTOM
What do you see? You see an ass-head of your
MND 3.1. 112 own, do you? {[Exit Snout]}
MND 3.1. 113 {Enter Quince}
MND-QUINCE
Bless thee, Bottom, bless +
MND 3.1. 113 thee. Thou art translated. {Exit}
MND 3.1. 114
MND-BOTTOM
I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me,
MND 3.1. 115 to fright me, if they could; but I will not stir from this
MND 3.1. 116 place, do what they can. I will walk up and down here,
MND 3.1. 117 and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid.
MND 3.1. 118 {(Sings)} The ousel cock so black of hue,
MND 3.1. 119 With orange-tawny bill;
MND 3.1. 120 The throstle with his note so true,
MND 3.1. 121 The wren with little quill.
MND 3.1. 122
MND-TITANIA
{(awaking)} What angel wakes me from my +
MND 3.1. 122 flow'ry bed?
MND 3.1. 123
MND-BOTTOM
{(sings)} The finch, the sparrow, and the +
MND 3.1. 123 lark,
MND 3.1. 124 The plainsong cuckoo grey,
MND 3.1. 125 Whose note full many a man doth mark,
MND 3.1. 126 And dares not answer `Nay' -
MND 3.1. 127 for indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish a bird?
MND 3.1. 128 Who would give a bird the lie, though he cry `Cuckoo'
MND 3.1. 129 never so?
MND 3.1. 130
MND-TITANIA
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.
MND 3.1. 131 Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;
MND 3.1. 132 So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
MND 3.1. 133 And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
MND 3.1. 134 On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
MND 3.1. 135
MND-BOTTOM
Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason
MND 3.1. 136 for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love
MND 3.1. 137 keep little company together nowadays - the more the
MND 3.1. 138 pity that some honest neighbours will not make them
MND 3.1. 139 friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.
MND 3.1. 140
MND-TITANIA
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
MND 3.1. 141
MND-BOTTOM
Not so, neither; but if I had wit enough to get
MND 3.1. 142 out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own
MND 3.1. 143 turn.
MND 3.1. 144
MND-TITANIA
Out of this wood do not desire to go.
MND 3.1. 145 Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.
MND 3.1. 146 I am a spirit of no common rate:
MND 3.1. 147 The summer still doth tend upon my state;
MND 3.1. 148 And I do love thee. Therefore go with me.
MND 3.1. 149 I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,
MND 3.1. 150 And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,
MND 3.1. 151 And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep;
MND 3.1. 152 And I will purge thy mortal grossness so
MND 3.1. 153 That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.
MND 3.1. 154 Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and Mustardseed! {Enter four +
MND 3.1. 154 fairies: Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and Mustardseed}
MND 3.1. 155B A
MND-FAIRY
Ready.
MND-ANOTHER
And I.
MND-ANOTHER
And +
MND 3.1. 155B I.
MND-ANOTHER
And I.
MND-[ALL FOUR]
Where shall we go?
MND 3.1. 156
MND-TITANIA
Be kind and courteous to this gentleman.
MND 3.1. 157 Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes.
MND 3.1. 158 Feed him with apricots and dewberries,
MND 3.1. 159 With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;
MND 3.1. 160 The honeybags steal from the humble-bees,
MND 3.1. 161 And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs
MND 3.1. 162 And light them at the fiery glow-worms' eyes
MND 3.1. 163 To have my love to bed, and to arise;
MND 3.1. 164 And pluck the wings from painted butterflies
MND 3.1. 165 To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
MND 3.1. 166 Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
MND 3.1. 167A A
MND-FAIRY
Hail, mortal.
MND 3.1. 168A
MND-[ANOTHER]
Hail.
MND 3.1. 169A
MND-ANOTHER
Hail.
MND 3.1. 170A
MND-ANOTHER
Hail.
MND 3.1. 171
MND-BOTTOM
I cry your worships mercy, heartily. - I beseech
MND 3.1. 172 your worship's name.
MND 3.1. 173
MND-COBWEB
Cobweb.
MND 3.1. 174
MND-BOTTOM
I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good
MND 3.1. 175 Master Cobweb. If I cut my finger, I shall make bold
MND 3.1. 176 with you. - Your name, honest gentleman?
MND 3.1. 177
MND-PEASEBLOSSOM
Peaseblossom.
MND 3.1. 178
MND-BOTTOM
I pray you commend me to Mistress Squash, your
MND 3.1. 179 mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good
MND 3.1. 180 Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more
MND 3.1. 181 acquaintance, too. - Your name, I beseech you, sir?
MND 3.1. 182
MND-MUSTARDSEED
Mustardseed.
MND 3.1. 183
MND-BOTTOM
Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience
MND 3.1. 184 well. That same cowardly giantlike ox-beef hath
MND 3.1. 185 devoured many a gentleman of your house. I promise
MND 3.1. 186 you your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now.
MND 3.1. 187 I desire you of more acquaintance, good Master
MND 3.1. 188 Mustardseed.
MND 3.1. 189
MND-TITANIA
{(to the Fairies)} Come, wait upon him, +
MND 3.1. 189 lead him to my bower.
MND 3.1. 190 The moon, methinks, looks with a wat'ry eye,
MND 3.1. 191 And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
MND 3.1. 192 Lamenting some enforced chastity.
MND 3.1. 193 Tie up my love's tongue; bring him silently. {Exeunt}
MND 3.1. 0 {Enter Oberon, King of Fairies}
MND 3.2. 1
MND-OBERON
I wonder if Titania be awaked,
MND 3.2. 2 Then what it was that next came in her eye,
MND 3.2. 3 Which she must dote on in extremity. {Enter Robin Goodfellow}
MND 3.2. 4 Here comes my messenger. How now, mad spirit?
MND 3.2. 5 What nightrule now about this haunted grove?
MND 3.2. 6
MND-ROBIN
My mistress with a monster is in love.
MND 3.2. 7 Near to her close and consecrated bower
MND 3.2. 8 While she was in her dull and sleeping hour
MND 3.2. 9 A crew of patches, rude mechanicals
MND 3.2. 10 That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
MND 3.2. 11 Were met together to rehearse a play
MND 3.2. 12 Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day.
MND 3.2. 13 The shallowest thickskin of that barren sort,
MND 3.2. 14 Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
MND 3.2. 15 Forsook his scene and entered in a brake,
MND 3.2. 16 When I did him at this advantage take.
MND 3.2. 17 An ass's nole I fixed on his head.
MND 3.2. 18 Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
MND 3.2. 19 And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy -
MND 3.2. 20 As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
MND 3.2. 21 Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
MND 3.2. 22 Rising and cawing at the gun's report,
MND 3.2. 23 Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky -
MND 3.2. 24 So, at his sight, away his fellows fly,
MND 3.2. 25 And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls.
MND 3.2. 26 He `Murder' cries, and help from Athens calls.
MND 3.2. 27 Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,
MND 3.2. 28 Made senseless things begin to do them wrong.
MND 3.2. 29 For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
MND 3.2. 30 Some sleeves, some hats - from yielders all things catch.
MND 3.2. 31 I led them on in this distracted fear,
MND 3.2. 32 And left sweet Pyramus translated there;
MND 3.2. 33 When in that moment, so it came to pass,
MND 3.2. 34 Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
MND 3.2. 35
MND-OBERON
This falls out better than I could devise.
MND 3.2. 36 But hast thou yet latched the Athenian's eyes
MND 3.2. 37 With the love juice, as I did bid thee do?
MND 3.2. 38
MND-ROBIN
I took him sleeping; that is finished, too;
MND 3.2. 39 And the Athenian woman by his side,
MND 3.2. 40 That when he waked of force she must be eyed. {Enter Demetrius +
MND 3.2. 40 and Hermia}
MND 3.2. 41
MND-OBERON
Stand close. This is the same Athenian.
MND 3.2. 42
MND-ROBIN
This is the woman, but not this the man. {[They stand +
MND 3.2. 42 apart]}
MND 3.2. 43
MND-DEMETRIUS
O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?
MND 3.2. 44 Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
MND 3.2. 45
MND-HERMIA
Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse;
MND 3.2. 46 For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse.
MND 3.2. 47 If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,
MND 3.2. 48 Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,
MND 3.2. 49 And kill me too.
MND 3.2. 50 The sun was not so true unto the day
MND 3.2. 51 As he to me. Would he have stolen away
MND 3.2. 52 From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon
MND 3.2. 53 This whole earth may be bored, and that the moon
MND 3.2. 54 May through the centre creep, and so displease
MND 3.2. 55 Her brother's noontide with th' Antipodes.
MND 3.2. 56 It cannot be but thou hast murdered him.
MND 3.2. 57 So should a murderer look - so dead, so grim.
MND 3.2. 58
MND-DEMETRIUS
So should the murdered look, and so should I,
MND 3.2. 59 Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty.
MND 3.2. 60 Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear
MND 3.2. 61 As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.
MND 3.2. 62
MND-HERMIA
What's this to my Lysander? Where is he?
MND 3.2. 63 Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?
MND 3.2. 64
MND-DEMETRIUS
I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.
MND 3.2. 65
MND-HERMIA
Out, dog; out, cur. Thou driv'st me past the bounds
MND 3.2. 66 Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him then?
MND 3.2. 67 Henceforth be never numbered among men.
MND 3.2. 68 O, once tell true; tell true, even for my sake.
MND 3.2. 69 Durst thou have looked upon him being awake,
MND 3.2. 70 And hast thou killed him sleeping? O brave touch!
MND 3.2. 71 Could not a worm, an adder do so much? -
MND 3.2. 72 An adder did it, for with doubler tongue
MND 3.2. 73 Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.
MND 3.2. 74
MND-DEMETRIUS
You spend your passion on a misprised mood.
MND 3.2. 75 I am not guilty of Lysander's blood,
MND 3.2. 76 Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.
MND 3.2. 77
MND-HERMIA
I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.
MND 3.2. 78
MND-DEMETRIUS
And if I could, what should I get therefor?
MND 3.2. 79
MND-HERMIA
A privilege never to see me more;
MND 3.2. 80 And from thy hated presence part I so.
MND 3.2. 81 See me no more, whether he be dead or no. {Exit}
MND 3.2. 82
MND-DEMETRIUS
There is no following her in this fierce vein.
MND 3.2. 83 Here therefore for a while I will remain.
MND 3.2. 84 So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow
MND 3.2. 85 For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe,
MND 3.2. 86 Which now in some slight measure it will pay,
MND 3.2. 87 If for his tender here I make some stay. {He lies down and +
MND 3.2. 87 sleeps}
MND 3.2. 88
MND-OBERON
{(to Robin)} What hast thou done? Thou hast +
MND 3.2. 88 mistaken quite,
MND 3.2. 89 And laid the love juice on some true love's sight.
MND 3.2. 90 Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
MND 3.2. 91 Some true love turned, and not a false turned true.
MND 3.2. 92
MND-ROBIN
Then fate o'errules, that, one man holding troth,
MND 3.2. 93 A million fail, confounding oath on oath.
MND 3.2. 94
MND-OBERON
About the wood go swifter than the wind,
MND 3.2. 95 And Helena of Athens look thou find.
MND 3.2. 96 All fancy-sick she is, and pale of cheer
MND 3.2. 97 With sighs of love that costs the fresh blood dear.
MND 3.2. 98 By some illusion see thou bring her here.
MND 3.2. 99 I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.
MND 3.2. 100
MND-ROBIN
I go, I go - look how I go,
MND 3.2. 101 Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. {Exit}
MND 3.2. 102
MND-OBERON
Flower of this purple dye,
MND 3.2. 103 Hit with Cupid's archery,
MND 3.2. 104 Sink in apple of his eye. {He drops the juice on Demetrius' +
MND 3.2. 104 eyelids}
MND 3.2. 105 When his love he doth espy,
MND 3.2. 106 Let her shine as gloriously
MND 3.2. 107 As the Venus of the sky.
MND 3.2. 108 When thou wak'st, if she be by,
MND 3.2. 109 Beg of her for remedy. {Enter Robin Goodfellow, the puck}
MND 3.2. 110
MND-ROBIN
Captain of our fairy band,
MND 3.2. 111 Helena is here at hand,
MND 3.2. 112 And the youth mistook by me,
MND 3.2. 113 Pleading for a lover's fee.
MND 3.2. 114 Shall we their fond pageant see?
MND 3.2. 115 Lord, what fools these mortals be!
MND 3.2. 116
MND-OBERON
Stand aside. The noise they make
MND 3.2. 117 Will cause Demetrius to awake.
MND 3.2. 118
MND-ROBIN
Then will two at once woo one.
MND 3.2. 119 That must needs be sport alone;
MND 3.2. 120 And those things do best please me
MND 3.2. 121 That befall prepost'rously. {[They stand apart.]}
MND 3.2. 122 {Enter Helena, Lysander [following her]}
MND-LYSANDER
Why +
MND 3.2. 122 should you think that I should woo in scorn?
MND 3.2. 123 Scorn and derision never come in tears.
MND 3.2. 124 Look when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,
MND 3.2. 125 In their nativity all truth appears.
MND 3.2. 126 How can these things in me seem scorn to you,
MND 3.2. 127 Bearing the badge of faith to prove them true?
MND 3.2. 128
MND-HELENA
You do advance your cunning more and more,
MND 3.2. 129 When truth kills truth - O devilish holy fray!
MND 3.2. 130 These vows are Hermia's. Will you give her o'er?
MND 3.2. 131 Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh.
MND 3.2. 132 Your vows to her and me put in two scales
MND 3.2. 133 Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.
MND 3.2. 134
MND-LYSANDER
I had no judgement when to her I swore.
MND 3.2. 135
MND-HELENA
Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.
MND 3.2. 136
MND-LYSANDER
Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.
MND 3.2. 137
MND-[HELENA] []
MND 3.2. 138
MND-DEMETRIUS
{(awaking)} O Helen, goddess, nymph, +
MND 3.2. 138 perfect, divine!
MND 3.2. 139 To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
MND 3.2. 140 Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show
MND 3.2. 141 Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
MND 3.2. 142 That pure congealed white - high Taurus' snow,
MND 3.2. 143 Fanned with the eastern wind - turns to a crow
MND 3.2. 144 When thou hold'st up thy hand. O, let me kiss
MND 3.2. 145 This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!
MND 3.2. 146
MND-HELENA
O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
MND 3.2. 147 To set against me for your merriment.
MND 3.2. 148 If you were civil, and knew courtesy,
MND 3.2. 149 You would not do me thus much injury.
MND 3.2. 150 Can you not hate me - as I know you do -
MND 3.2. 151 But you must join in souls to mock me too?
MND 3.2. 152 If you were men, as men you are in show,
MND 3.2. 153 You would not use a gentle lady so,
MND 3.2. 154 To vow and swear and superpraise my parts
MND 3.2. 155 When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.
MND 3.2. 156 You both are rivals and love Hermia,
MND 3.2. 157 And now both rivals to mock Helena.
MND 3.2. 158 A trim exploit, a manly enterprise -
MND 3.2. 159 To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes
MND 3.2. 160 With your derision. None of noble sort
MND 3.2. 161 Would so offend a virgin, and extort
MND 3.2. 162 A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.
MND 3.2. 163
MND-LYSANDER
You are unkind, Demetrius. Be not so.
MND 3.2. 164 For you love Hermia; this you know I know.
MND 3.2. 165 And here with all good will, with all my heart,
MND 3.2. 166 In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;
MND 3.2. 167 And yours of Helena to me bequeath,
MND 3.2. 168 Whom I do love, and will do till my death.
MND 3.2. 169
MND-HELENA
Never did mockers waste more idle breath.
MND 3.2. 170
MND-DEMETRIUS
Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none.
MND 3.2. 171 If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.
MND 3.2. 172 My heart to her but as guestwise sojourned
MND 3.2. 173 And now to Helen is it home returned,
MND 3.2. 174B There to remain.
MND-LYSANDER
Helen, it is not so.
MND 3.2. 175
MND-DEMETRIUS
Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,
MND 3.2. 176 Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. {Enter Hermia}
MND 3.2. 177 Look where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear.
MND 3.2. 178
MND-HERMIA
Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
MND 3.2. 179 The ear more quick of apprehension makes.
MND 3.2. 180 Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,
MND 3.2. 181 It pays the hearing double recompense.
MND 3.2. 182 Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;
MND 3.2. 183 Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound.
MND 3.2. 184 But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?
MND 3.2. 185
MND-LYSANDER
Why should he stay whom love doth press to go?
MND 3.2. 186
MND-HERMIA
What love could press Lysander from my side?
MND 3.2. 187
MND-LYSANDER
Lysander's love, that would not let him bide:
MND 3.2. 188 Fair Helena, who more engilds the night
MND 3.2. 189 Than all yon fiery O's and eyes of light.
MND 3.2. 190 Why seek'st thou me? Could not this make thee know
MND 3.2. 191 The hate I bare thee made me leave thee so?
MND 3.2. 192
MND-HERMIA
You speak not as you think. It cannot be.
MND 3.2. 193
MND-HELENA
{[aside]} Lo, she is one of this +
MND 3.2. 193 confederacy.
MND 3.2. 194 Now I perceive they have conjoined all three
MND 3.2. 195 To fashion this false sport in spite of me. -
MND 3.2. 196 Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid,
MND 3.2. 197 Have you conspired, have you with these contrived
MND 3.2. 198 To bait me with this foul derision?
MND 3.2. 199 Is all the counsel that we two have shared -
MND 3.2. 200 The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent
MND 3.2. 201 When we have chid the hasty-footed time
MND 3.2. 202 For parting us - O, is all quite forgot?
MND 3.2. 203 All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence?
MND 3.2. 204 We, Hermia, like two artificial gods
MND 3.2. 205 Have with our needles created both one flower,
MND 3.2. 206 Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
MND 3.2. 207 Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
MND 3.2. 208 As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds
MND 3.2. 209 Had been incorporate. So we grew together,
MND 3.2. 210 Like to a double cherry: seeming parted,
MND 3.2. 211 But yet an union in partition,
MND 3.2. 212 Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.
MND 3.2. 213 So, with two seeming bodies but one heart,
MND 3.2. 214 Two of the first - like coats in heraldry,
MND 3.2. 215 Due but to one and crowned with one crest.
MND 3.2. 216 And will you rend our ancient love asunder,
MND 3.2. 217 To join with men in scorning your poor friend?
MND 3.2. 218 It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly.
MND 3.2. 219 Our sex as well as I may chide you for it,
MND 3.2. 220 Though I alone do feel the injury.
MND 3.2. 221
MND-HERMIA
I am amazed at your passionate words.
MND 3.2. 222 I scorn you not. It seems that you scorn me.
MND 3.2. 223
MND-HELENA
Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,
MND 3.2. 224 To follow me, and praise my eyes and face?
MND 3.2. 225 And made your other love, Demetrius -
MND 3.2. 226 Who even but now did spurn me with his foot -
MND 3.2. 227 To call me goddess, nymph, divine, and rare,
MND 3.2. 228 Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this
MND 3.2. 229 To her he hates? And wherefore doth Lysander
MND 3.2. 230 Deny your love so rich within his soul,
MND 3.2. 231 And tender me, forsooth, affection,
MND 3.2. 232 But by your setting on, by your consent?
MND 3.2. 233 What though I be not so in grace as you,
MND 3.2. 234 So hung upon with love, so fortunate,
MND 3.2. 235 But miserable most, to love unloved -
MND 3.2. 236 This you should pity rather than despise.
MND 3.2. 237
MND-HERMIA
I understand not what you mean by this.
MND 3.2. 238
MND-HELENA
Ay, do. Persever, counterfeit sad looks,
MND 3.2. 239 Make mouths upon me when I turn my back,
MND 3.2. 240 Wink each at other, hold the sweet jest up.
MND 3.2. 241 This sport well carried shall be chronicled.
MND 3.2. 242 If you have any pity, grace, or manners,
MND 3.2. 243 You would not make me such an argument.
MND 3.2. 244 But fare ye well. 'Tis partly my own fault,
MND 3.2. 245 Which death or absence soon shall remedy.
MND 3.2. 246
MND-LYSANDER
Stay, gentle Helena, hear my excuse,
MND 3.2. 247 My love, my life, my soul, fair Helena.
MND 3.2. 248B
MND-HELENA
O excellent!
MND-HERMIA
{(to Lysander)} +
MND 3.2. 248B Sweet, do not scorn her so.
MND 3.2. 249
MND-DEMETRIUS
{(to Lysander)} If she cannot entreat I +
MND 3.2. 249 can compel.
MND 3.2. 250
MND-LYSANDER
Thou canst compel no more than she entreat.
MND 3.2. 251 Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers. -
MND 3.2. 252 Helen, I love thee; by my life I do.
MND 3.2. 253 I swear by that which I will lose for thee
MND 3.2. 254 To prove him false that says I love thee not.
MND 3.2. 255
MND-DEMETRIUS
{(to Helena)} I say I love thee more +
MND 3.2. 255 than he can do.
MND 3.2. 256
MND-LYSANDER
If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
MND 3.2. 257B
MND-DEMETRIUS
Quick, come.
MND-HERMIA
Lysander, whereto tends all +
MND 3.2. 257B this? {[She takes him by the arm]}
MND 3.2. 258B
MND-LYSANDER
Away, you Ethiope.
MND-DEMETRIUS
No, no, sir, +
MND 3.2. 258B yield.
MND 3.2. 259 Seem to break loose, take on as you would follow,
MND 3.2. 260 But yet come not. You are a tame man; go.
MND 3.2. 261
MND-LYSANDER
{(to Hermia)} Hang off, thou cat, thou +
MND 3.2. 261 burr; vile thing, let loose,
MND 3.2. 262 Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.
MND 3.2. 263
MND-HERMIA
Why are you grown so rude? What change is this,
MND 3.2. 264B Sweet love?
MND-LYSANDER
Thy love? Out, tawny Tartar, out;
MND 3.2. 265 Out, loathed med'cine; O hated potion, hence.
MND 3.2. 266B
MND-HERMIA
Do you not jest?
MND-HELENA
Yes, sooth, and so do you.
MND 3.2. 267
MND-LYSANDER
Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.
MND 3.2. 268
MND-DEMETRIUS
I would I had your bond, for I perceive
MND 3.2. 269 A weak bond holds you. I'll not trust your word.
MND 3.2. 270
MND-LYSANDER
What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?
MND 3.2. 271 Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.
MND 3.2. 272
MND-HERMIA
What, can you do me greater harm than hate?
MND 3.2. 273 Hate me - wherefore? O me, what news, my love?
MND 3.2. 274 Am not I Hermia? Are not you Lysander?
MND 3.2. 275 I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
MND 3.2. 276 Since night you loved me, yet since night you left me.
MND 3.2. 277 Why then, you left me - O, the gods forbid -
MND 3.2. 278B In earnest, shall I say?
MND-LYSANDER
Ay, by my life,
MND 3.2. 279 And never did desire to see thee more.
MND 3.2. 280 Therefore be out of hope, of question, doubt.
MND 3.2. 281 Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest
MND 3.2. 282 That I do hate thee and love Helena.
MND 3.2. 283
MND-HERMIA
{(to Helena)} O me, you juggler, you canker +
MND 3.2. 283 blossom,
MND 3.2. 284 You thief of love - what, have you come by night
MND 3.2. 285B And stol'n my love's heart from him?
MND-HELENA
Fine, i' faith.
MND 3.2. 286 Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
MND 3.2. 287 No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear
MND 3.2. 288 Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?
MND 3.2. 289 Fie, fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
MND 3.2. 290
MND-HERMIA
Puppet? Why, so! Ay, that way goes the game.
MND 3.2. 291 Now I perceive that she hath made compare
MND 3.2. 292 Between our statures; she hath urged her height,
MND 3.2. 293 And with her personage, her tall personage,
MND 3.2. 294 Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him -
MND 3.2. 295 And are you grown so high in his esteem
MND 3.2. 296 Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
MND 3.2. 297 How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak,
MND 3.2. 298 How low am I? I am not yet so low
MND 3.2. 299 But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
MND 3.2. 300
MND-HELENA
{(to Demetrius and Lysander)} I pray you, +
MND 3.2. 300 though you mock me, gentlemen,
MND 3.2. 301 Let her not hurt me. I was never curst.
MND 3.2. 302 I have no gift at all in shrewishness.
MND 3.2. 303 I am a right maid for my cowardice.
MND 3.2. 304 Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think
MND 3.2. 305 Because she is something lower than myself
MND 3.2. 306B That I can match her -
MND-HERMIA
Lower? Hark again.
MND 3.2. 307
MND-HELENA
Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.
MND 3.2. 308 I evermore did love you, Hermia,
MND 3.2. 309 Did ever keep your counsels, never wronged you -
MND 3.2. 310 Save that in love unto Demetrius
MND 3.2. 311 I told him of your stealth unto this wood.
MND 3.2. 312 He followed you; for love I followed him.
MND 3.2. 313 But he hath chid me hence, and threatened me
MND 3.2. 314 To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too.
MND 3.2. 315 And now, so you will let me quiet go,
MND 3.2. 316 To Athens will I bear my folly back,
MND 3.2. 317 And follow you no further. Let me go.
MND 3.2. 318 You see how simple and how fond I am.
MND 3.2. 319
MND-HERMIA
Why, get you gone. Who is 't that hinders you?
MND 3.2. 320
MND-HELENA
A foolish heart that I leave here behind.
MND 3.2. 321B
MND-HERMIA
What, with Lysander?
MND-HELENA
With Demetrius.
MND 3.2. 322
MND-LYSANDER
Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.
MND 3.2. 323
MND-DEMETRIUS
No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.
MND 3.2. 324
MND-HELENA
O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd.
MND 3.2. 325 She was a vixen when she went to school,
MND 3.2. 326 And though she be but little, she is fierce.
MND 3.2. 327
MND-HERMIA
Little again? Nothing but `low' and `little'? -
MND 3.2. 328 Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?
MND 3.2. 329B Let me come to her.
MND-LYSANDER
Get you gone, you dwarf,
MND 3.2. 330 You {minimus} of hind'ring knot-grass made,
MND 3.2. 331B You bead, you acorn.
MND-DEMETRIUS
You are too officious
MND 3.2. 332 In her behalf that scorns your services.
MND 3.2. 333 Let her alone. Speak not of Helena.
MND 3.2. 334 Take not her part. For if thou dost intend
MND 3.2. 335 Never so little show of love to her,
MND 3.2. 336B Thou shalt aby it.
MND-LYSANDER
Now she holds me not.
MND 3.2. 337 Now follow, if thou dar'st, to try whose right,
MND 3.2. 338 Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.
MND 3.2. 339
MND-DEMETRIUS
Follow? Nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jowl. +
MND 3.2. 339 {Exeunt Lysander and Demetrius}
MND 3.2. 340
MND-HERMIA
You, mistress, all this coil is long of you.
MND 3.2. 341B Nay, go not back.
MND-HELENA
I will not trust you, I,
MND 3.2. 342 Nor longer stay in your curst company.
MND 3.2. 343 Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray;
MND 3.2. 344 My legs are longer, though, to run away. {Exit}
MND 3.2. 345
MND-HERMIA
I am amazed, and know not what to say. +
MND 3.2. 345 {Exit}
MND 3.2. 346 {[Oberon and Robin come forward]}
MND-OBERON
This is +
MND 3.2. 346 thy negligence. Still thou mistak'st,
MND 3.2. 347 Or else commit'st thy knaveries wilfully.
MND 3.2. 348
MND-ROBIN
Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.
MND 3.2. 349 Did not you tell me I should know the man
MND 3.2. 350 By the Athenian garments he had on? -
MND 3.2. 351 And so far blameless proves my enterprise
MND 3.2. 352 That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;
MND 3.2. 353 And so far am I glad it so did sort
MND 3.2. 354 As this their jangling I esteem a sport.
MND 3.2. 355
MND-OBERON
Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight.
MND 3.2. 356 Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;
MND 3.2. 357 The starry welkin cover thou anon
MND 3.2. 358 With drooping fog as black as Acheron,
MND 3.2. 359 And lead these testy rivals so astray
MND 3.2. 360 As one come not within another's way.
MND 3.2. 361 Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,
MND 3.2. 362 Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;
MND 3.2. 363 And sometime rail thou like Demetrius,
MND 3.2. 364 And from each other look thou lead them thus
MND 3.2. 365 Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
MND 3.2. 366 With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.
MND 3.2. 367 Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye -
MND 3.2. 368 Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,
MND 3.2. 369 To take from thence all error with his might,
MND 3.2. 370 And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.
MND 3.2. 371 When they next wake, all this derision
MND 3.2. 372 Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,
MND 3.2. 373 And back to Athens shall the lovers wend
MND 3.2. 374 With league whose date till death shall never end.
MND 3.2. 375 Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,
MND 3.2. 376 I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;
MND 3.2. 377 And then I will her charmed eye release
MND 3.2. 378 From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.
MND 3.2. 379
MND-ROBIN
My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,
MND 3.2. 380 For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
MND 3.2. 381 And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger,
MND 3.2. 382 At whose approach ghosts, wand'ring here and there,
MND 3.2. 383 Troop home to churchyards; damned spirits all
MND 3.2. 384 That in cross-ways and floods have burial
MND 3.2. 385 Already to their wormy beds are gone,
MND 3.2. 386 For fear lest day should look their shames upon.
MND 3.2. 387 They wilfully themselves exiled from light,
MND 3.2. 388 And must for aye consort with black-browed night.
MND 3.2. 389
MND-OBERON
But we are spirits of another sort.
MND 3.2. 390 I with the morning's love have oft made sport,
MND 3.2. 391 And like a forester the groves may tread
MND 3.2. 392 Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red,
MND 3.2. 393 Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams
MND 3.2. 394 Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.
MND 3.2. 395 But notwithstanding, haste, make no delay;
MND 3.2. 396 We may effect this business yet ere day. {Exit}
MND 3.2. 397
MND-ROBIN
Up and down, up and down,
MND 3.2. 398 I will lead them up and down.
MND 3.2. 399 I am feared in field and town.
MND 3.2. 400 Goblin, lead them up and down.
MND 3.2. 401 Here comes one. {Enter Lysander}
MND 3.2. 402
MND-LYSANDER
Where art thou, proud Demetrius? Speak thou now.
MND 3.2. 403
MND-ROBIN
{[shifting place]} Here, villain, drawn and +
MND 3.2. 403 ready. Where art thou?
MND 3.2. 404B
MND-LYSANDER
I will be with thee straight.
MND-ROBIN
{[shifting +
MND 3.2. 404B place]} Follow me then
MND 3.2. 405B To plainer ground. {[Exit Lysander]} {Enter +
MND 3.2. 405B Demetrius}
MND-DEMETRIUS
{[shifting place]} Lysander, +
MND 3.2. 405B speak again.
MND 3.2. 406 Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?
MND 3.2. 407 Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?
MND 3.2. 408
MND-ROBIN
{[shifting place]} Thou coward, art thou +
MND 3.2. 408 bragging to the stars,
MND 3.2. 409 Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,
MND 3.2. 410 And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child,
MND 3.2. 411 I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled
MND 3.2. 412B That draws a sword on thee.
MND-DEMETRIUS
{[shifting +
MND 3.2. 412B place]} Yea, art thou there?
MND 3.2. 413
MND-ROBIN
{[shifting place]} Follow my voice; we'll +
MND 3.2. 413 try no manhood here. {Exeunt}
MND 3.2. 0 {[Enter Lysander]}
MND 3.3. 1
MND-LYSANDER
He goes before me, and still dares me on;
MND 3.3. 2 When I come where he calls, then he is gone.
MND 3.3. 3 The villain is much lighter heeled than I;
MND 3.3. 4 I followed fast, but faster he did fly,
MND 3.3. 5 That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
MND 3.3. 6B And here will rest me. {He lies down} Come, thou gentle +
MND 3.3. 6B day;
MND 3.3. 7 For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
MND 3.3. 8 I'll find Demetrius, and revenge this spite. {He sleeps}
MND 3.3. 9 {Enter Robin Goodfellow and Demetrius}
MND-ROBIN
+
MND 3.3. 9 {[shifting place]} Ho, ho, ho, coward, why com'st thou not?
MND 3.3. 10
MND-DEMETRIUS
Abide me if thou dar'st, for well I wot
MND 3.3. 11 Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,
MND 3.3. 12 And dar'st not stand nor look me in the face.
MND 3.3. 13B Where art thou now?
MND-ROBIN
{[shifting place]} Come +
MND 3.3. 13B hither, I am here.
MND 3.3. 14
MND-DEMETRIUS
Nay, then thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear
MND 3.3. 15 If ever I thy face by daylight see.
MND 3.3. 16 Now go thy way. Faintness constraineth me
MND 3.3. 17 To measure out my length on this cold bed. {He lies down}
MND 3.3. 18 By day's approach look to be visited. {He sleeps}
MND 3.3. 19 {Enter Helena}
MND-HELENA
O weary night, O long and +
MND 3.3. 19 tedious night,
MND 3.3. 20 Abate thy hours; shine comforts from the east
MND 3.3. 21 That I may back to Athens by daylight
MND 3.3. 22 From these that my poor company detest;
MND 3.3. 23 And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,
MND 3.3. 24 Steal me a while from mine own company. {She lies down and +
MND 3.3. 24 sleeps}
MND 3.3. 25
MND-ROBIN
Yet but three? Come one more,
MND 3.3. 26 Two of both kinds makes up four. {[Enter Hermia]}
MND 3.3. 27 Here she comes, curst and sad.
MND 3.3. 28 Cupid is a knavish lad
MND 3.3. 29 Thus to make poor females mad.
MND 3.3. 30
MND-HERMIA
Never so weary, never so in woe,
MND 3.3. 31 Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers,
MND 3.3. 32 I can no further crawl, no further go.
MND 3.3. 33 My legs can keep no pace with my desires.
MND 3.3. 34 Here will I rest me till the break of day. {She lies down}
MND 3.3. 35 Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray. {She +
MND 3.3. 35 sleeps}
MND 3.3. 36
MND-ROBIN
On the ground sleep sound.
MND 3.3. 37 I'll apply to your eye,
MND 3.3. 38 Gentle lover, remedy. {He drops the juice on Lysander's eyelids}
MND 3.3. 39 When thou wak'st thou tak'st
MND 3.3. 40 True delight in the sight
MND 3.3. 41 Of thy former lady's eye,
MND 3.3. 42 And the country proverb known,
MND 3.3. 43 That `every man should take his own',
MND 3.3. 44 In your waking shall be shown.
MND 3.3. 45 Jack shall have Jill,
MND 3.3. 46 Naught shall go ill,
MND 3.3. 47 the man shall have his mare again, and all shall be
MND 3.3. 48 well. {Exit}
MND 3.3. 0 {Enter Titania, Queen of Fairies, and Bottom the +
MND 4.1. 0 clown with the ass-head, and fairies: Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and +
MND 4.1. 0 Mustardseed}
MND 4.1. 1
MND-TITANIA
{(to Bottom)} Come, sit thee down upon +
MND 4.1. 1 this flow'ry bed,
MND 4.1. 2 While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
MND 4.1. 3 And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
MND 4.1. 4 And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
MND 4.1. 5
MND-BOTTOM
Where's Peaseblossom?
MND 4.1. 6
MND-PEASEBLOSSOM
Ready.
MND 4.1. 7
MND-BOTTOM
Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Where's Monsieur
MND 4.1. 8 Cobweb?
MND 4.1. 9
MND-COBWEB
Ready.
MND 4.1. 10
MND-BOTTOM
Monsieur Cobweb, good monsieur, get you your
MND 4.1. 11 weapons in your hand and kill me a red-hipped humble-
MND 4.1. 12 bee on the top of a thistle; and, good monsieur, bring
MND 4.1. 13 me the honeybag. Do not fret yourself too much in the
MND 4.1. 14 action, monsieur; and, good monsieur, have a care the
MND 4.1. 15 honeybag break not. I would be loath to have you
MND 4.1. 16 overflowen with a honeybag, signor. {[Exit Cobweb]}
MND 4.1. 17 Where's Monsieur Mustardseed?
MND 4.1. 18
MND-MUSTARDSEED
Ready.
MND 4.1. 19
MND-BOTTOM
Give me your neaf, Monsieur Mustardseed. Pray
MND 4.1. 20 you, leave your courtesy, good monsieur.
MND 4.1. 21
MND-MUSTARDSEED
What's your will?
MND 4.1. 22
MND-BOTTOM
Nothing, good monsieur, but to help Cavaliery
MND 4.1. 23 Peaseblossom to scratch. I must to the barber's,
MND 4.1. 24 monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about
MND 4.1. 25 the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but
MND 4.1. 26 tickle me I must scratch.
MND 4.1. 27
MND-TITANIA
What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love?
MND 4.1. 28
MND-BOTTOM
I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have
MND 4.1. 29 the tongs and the bones. {[Rural music]}
MND 4.1. 30
MND-TITANIA
Or say, sweet love, what thou desir'st to eat.
MND 4.1. 31
MND-BOTTOM
Truly, a peck of provender. I could munch your
MND 4.1. 32 good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle
MND 4.1. 33 of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
MND 4.1. 34
MND-TITANIA
I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
MND 4.1. 35 The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee off new nuts.
MND 4.1. 36
MND-BOTTOM
I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas.
MND 4.1. 37 But I pray you, let none of your people stir me. I have
MND 4.1. 38 an exposition of sleep come upon me.
MND 4.1. 39
MND-TITANIA
Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
MND 4.1. 40 Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away. {Exeunt Fairies}
MND 4.1. 41 So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
MND 4.1. 42 Gently entwist; the female ivy so
MND 4.1. 43 Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
MND 4.1. 44 O how I love thee, how I dote on thee! {They sleep.}
MND 4.1. 45 {Enter Robin Goodfellow [and Oberon, meeting]}
MND-OBERON
+
MND 4.1. 45 Welcome, good Robin. Seest thou this sweet sight?
MND 4.1. 46 Her dotage now I do begin to pity,
MND 4.1. 47 For meeting her of late behind the wood,
MND 4.1. 48 Seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool,
MND 4.1. 49 I did upbraid her and fall out with her,
MND 4.1. 50 For she his hairy temples then had rounded
MND 4.1. 51 With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers,
MND 4.1. 52 And that same dew which sometime on the buds
MND 4.1. 53 Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls
MND 4.1. 54 Stood now within the pretty flow'rets' eyes,
MND 4.1. 55 Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
MND 4.1. 56 When I had at my pleasure taunted her,
MND 4.1. 57 And she in mild terms begged my patience,
MND 4.1. 58 I then did ask of her her changeling child,
MND 4.1. 59 Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent
MND 4.1. 60 To bear him to my bower in fairyland.
MND 4.1. 61 And now I have the boy, I will undo
MND 4.1. 62 This hateful imperfection of her eyes.
MND 4.1. 63 And, gentle puck, take this transformed scalp
MND 4.1. 64 From off the head of this Athenian swain,
MND 4.1. 65 That he, awaking when the other do,
MND 4.1. 66 May all to Athens back again repair,
MND 4.1. 67 And think no more of this night's accidents
MND 4.1. 68 But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
MND 4.1. 69 But first I will release the Fairy Queen. {He drops the juice on +
MND 4.1. 69 Titania's eyelids}
MND 4.1. 70 Be as thou wast wont to be,
MND 4.1. 71 See as thou wast wont to see.
MND 4.1. 72 Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower
MND 4.1. 73 Hath such force and blessed power.
MND 4.1. 74 Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen.
MND 4.1. 75
MND-TITANIA
{(awaking)} My Oberon, what visions have I +
MND 4.1. 75 seen!
MND 4.1. 76 Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
MND 4.1. 77B
MND-OBERON
There lies your love.
MND-TITANIA
How came these things to +
MND 4.1. 77B pass?
MND 4.1. 78 O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!
MND 4.1. 79
MND-OBERON
Silence a while. - Robin, take off this head. -
MND 4.1. 80 Titania, music call, and strike more dead
MND 4.1. 81 Than common sleep of all these five the sense.
MND 4.1. 82
MND-TITANIA
Music, ho - music such as charmeth sleep. {[Still +
MND 4.1. 82 music]}
MND 4.1. 83
MND-ROBIN
{(taking the ass-head off Bottom)} Now when +
MND 4.1. 83 thou wak'st with thine own fool's eyes peep.
MND 4.1. 84B
MND-OBERON
Sound music. {[The music changes]} Come, my +
MND 4.1. 84B queen, take hands with me,
MND 4.1. 85 And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be. {Oberon and +
MND 4.1. 85 Titania dance}
MND 4.1. 86 Now thou and I are new in amity,
MND 4.1. 87 And will tomorrow midnight solemnly
MND 4.1. 88 Dance in Duke Theseus' house, triumphantly,
MND 4.1. 89 And bless it to all fair prosperity.
MND 4.1. 90 There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
MND 4.1. 91 Wedded with Theseus, all in jollity.
MND 4.1. 92
MND-ROBIN
Fairy King, attend and mark.
MND 4.1. 93 I do hear the morning lark.
MND 4.1. 94
MND-OBERON
Then, my queen, in silence sad
MND 4.1. 95 Trip we after nighte|s shade.
MND 4.1. 96 We the globe can compass soon,
MND 4.1. 97 Swifter than the wand'ring moon.
MND 4.1. 98
MND-TITANIA
Come, my lord, and in our flight
MND 4.1. 99 Tell me how it came this night
MND 4.1. 100 That I sleeping here was found
MND 4.1. 101 With these mortals on the ground. {Exeunt Oberon, Titania, and}
MND 4.1. 102 {Robin. The sleepers lie still} {Wind horns within. Enter +
MND 4.1. 102 Theseus with Egeus, Hippolyta, and all his train}
MND-THESEUS
+
MND 4.1. 102 Go, one of you, find out the forester,
MND 4.1. 103 For now our observation is performed;
MND 4.1. 104 And since we have the vanguard of the day,
MND 4.1. 105 My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
MND 4.1. 106 Uncouple in the western valley; let them go.
MND 4.1. 107 Dispatch, I say, and find the forester. {Exit one}
MND 4.1. 108 We will, fair Queen, up to the mountain's top,
MND 4.1. 109 And mark the musical confusion
MND 4.1. 110 Of hounds and echo in conjunction.
MND 4.1. 111
MND-HIPPOLYTA
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once
MND 4.1. 112 When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
MND 4.1. 113 With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear
MND 4.1. 114 Such gallant chiding; for besides the groves,
MND 4.1. 115 The skies, the fountains, every region near
MND 4.1. 116 Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard
MND 4.1. 117 So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
MND 4.1. 118
MND-THESEUS
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
MND 4.1. 119 So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung
MND 4.1. 120 With ears that sweep away the morning dew,
MND 4.1. 121 Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls,
MND 4.1. 122 Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,
MND 4.1. 123 Each under each. A cry more tuneable
MND 4.1. 124 Was never holla'd to nor cheered with horn
MND 4.1. 125 In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly.
MND 4.1. 126 Judge when you hear. But soft: what nymphs are these?
MND 4.1. 127
MND-EGEUS
My lord, this is my daughter here asleep,
MND 4.1. 128 And this Lysander; this Demetrius is;
MND 4.1. 129 This Helena, old Nedar's Helena.
MND 4.1. 130 I wonder of their being here together.
MND 4.1. 131
MND-THESEUS
No doubt they rose up early to observe
MND 4.1. 132 The rite of May, and, hearing our intent,
MND 4.1. 133 Came here in grace of our solemnity.
MND 4.1. 134 But speak, Egeus: is not this the day
MND 4.1. 135 That Hermia should give answer of her choice?
MND 4.1. 136A
MND-EGEUS
It is, my lord.
MND 4.1. 137
MND-THESEUS
Go bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns. +
MND 4.1. 137 {[Exit one]}
MND 4.1. 138 {Shout within: wind horns. The lovers all start up} +
MND 4.1. 138 Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past.
MND 4.1. 139 Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?
MND 4.1. 140B
MND-LYSANDER
Pardon, my lord. {The lovers kneel}
MND-THESEUS
+
MND 4.1. 140B I pray you all stand up. {The lovers stand}
MND 4.1. 141 {(To Demetrius and Lysander)} I know you two are rival +
MND 4.1. 141 enemies.
MND 4.1. 142 How comes this gentle concord in the world,
MND 4.1. 143 That hatred is so far from jealousy
MND 4.1. 144 To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?
MND 4.1. 145
MND-LYSANDER
My lord, I shall reply amazedly,
MND 4.1. 146 Half sleep, half waking. But as yet, I swear,
MND 4.1. 147 I cannot truly say how I came here,
MND 4.1. 148 But as I think - for truly would I speak,
MND 4.1. 149 And, now I do bethink me, so it is -
MND 4.1. 150 I came with Hermia hither. Our intent
MND 4.1. 151 Was to be gone from Athens where we might,
MND 4.1. 152 Without the peril of the Athenian law -
MND 4.1. 153
MND-EGEUS
{(to Theseus)} Enough, enough, my lord, you +
MND 4.1. 153 have enough.
MND 4.1. 154 I beg the law, the law upon his head. -
MND 4.1. 155 They would have stol'n away, they would, Demetrius,
MND 4.1. 156 Thereby to have defeated you and me -
MND 4.1. 157 You of your wife, and me of my consent,
MND 4.1. 158 Of my consent that she should be your wife.
MND 4.1. 159
MND-DEMETRIUS
{(to Theseus)} My lord, fair Helen told +
MND 4.1. 159 me of their stealth,
MND 4.1. 160 Of this their purpose hither to this wood,
MND 4.1. 161 And I in fury hither followed them,
MND 4.1. 162 Fair Helena in fancy following me.
MND 4.1. 163 But, my good lord, I wot not by what power -
MND 4.1. 164 But by some power it is - my love to Hermia,
MND 4.1. 165 Melted as the snow, seems to me now
MND 4.1. 166 As the remembrance of an idle gaud
MND 4.1. 167 Which in my childhood I did dote upon,
MND 4.1. 168 And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,
MND 4.1. 169 The object and the pleasure of mine eye
MND 4.1. 170 Is only Helena. To her, my lord,
MND 4.1. 171 Was I betrothed ere I see Hermia.
MND 4.1. 172 But like in sickness did I loathe this food;
MND 4.1. 173 But, as in health come to my natural taste,
MND 4.1. 174 Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,
MND 4.1. 175 And will for evermore be true to it.
MND 4.1. 176
MND-THESEUS
Fair lovers, you are fortunately met.
MND 4.1. 177 Of this discourse we more will hear anon. -
MND 4.1. 178 Egeus, I will overbear your will,
MND 4.1. 179 For in the temple by and by with us
MND 4.1. 180 These couples shall eternally be knit. -
MND 4.1. 181 And, for the morning now is something worn,
MND 4.1. 182 Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.
MND 4.1. 183 Away with us to Athens. Three and three,
MND 4.1. 184 We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.
MND 4.1. 185 Come, Hippolyta. {Exit Duke Theseus with Hippolyta, Egeus,}
MND 4.1. 186 {and all his train}
MND-DEMETRIUS
These things seem small and +
MND 4.1. 186 undistinguishable,
MND 4.1. 187 Like far-off mountains turned into clouds.
MND 4.1. 188
MND-HERMIA
Methinks I see these things with parted eye,
MND 4.1. 189B When everything seems double.
MND-HELENA
So methinks,
MND 4.1. 190 And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
MND 4.1. 191B Mine own and not mine own.
MND-DEMETRIUS
It seems to me
MND 4.1. 192 That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
MND 4.1. 193 The Duke was here and bid us follow him?
MND 4.1. 194B
MND-HERMIA
Yea, and my father.
MND-HELENA
And Hippolyta.
MND 4.1. 195
MND-LYSANDER
And he did bid us follow to the temple.
MND 4.1. 196
MND-DEMETRIUS
Why then, we are awake. Let's follow him,
MND 4.1. 197 And by the way let us recount our dreams. {Exeunt the lovers}
MND 4.1. 198 {Bottom wakes}
MND-BOTTOM
When my cue comes, call me, +
MND 4.1. 198 and I will answer.
MND 4.1. 199 My next is `most fair Pyramus'. Heigh-ho. Peter Quince?
MND 4.1. 200 Flute the bellows-mender? Snout the tinker?
MND 4.1. 201 Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence, and left me
MND 4.1. 202 asleep? - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a
MND 4.1. 203 dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
MND 4.1. 204 Man is but an ass if he go about t' expound this dream.
MND 4.1. 205 Methought I was - there is no man can tell what.
MND 4.1. 206 Methought I was, and methought I had - but man is
MND 4.1. 207 but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought
MND 4.1. 208 I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man
MND 4.1. 209 hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his
MND 4.1. 210 tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my
MND 4.1. 211 dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
MND 4.1. 212 this dream. It shall be called `Bottom's Dream', because
MND 4.1. 213 it hath no bottom, and I will sing it in the latter end
MND 4.1. 214 of a play, before the Duke. Peradventure, to make it
MND 4.1. 215 the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death. {Exit}
MND 4.1. 0 {Enter Quince, Flute, Snout, and Starveling}
MND 4.2. 1
MND-QUINCE
Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come
MND 4.2. 2 home yet?
MND 4.2. 3
MND-STARVELING
He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is
MND 4.2. 4 transported.
MND 4.2. 5
MND-FLUTE
If he come not, then the play is marred. It goes
MND 4.2. 6 not forward. Doth it?
MND 4.2. 7
MND-QUINCE
It is not possible. You have not a man in all
MND 4.2. 8 Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
MND 4.2. 9
MND-FLUTE
No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft-
MND 4.2. 10 man in Athens.
MND 4.2. 11
MND-QUINCE
Yea, and the best person, too; and he is a very
MND 4.2. 12 paramour for a sweet voice.
MND 4.2. 13
MND-FLUTE
You must say `paragon'. A paramour is, God bless
MND 4.2. 14 us, a thing of naught. {Enter Snug the joiner}
MND 4.2. 15
MND-SNUG
Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple, and
MND 4.2. 16 there is two or three lords and ladies more married. If
MND 4.2. 17 our sport had gone forward we had all been made men.
MND 4.2. 18
MND-FLUTE
O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence
MND 4.2. 19 a day during his life. He could not have scaped sixpence
MND 4.2. 20 a day. An the Duke had not given him sixpence a day
MND 4.2. 21 for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged. He would have
MND 4.2. 22 deserved it. Sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing. {Enter +
MND 4.2. 22 Bottom}
MND 4.2. 23
MND-BOTTOM
Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
MND 4.2. 24
MND-QUINCE
Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy
MND 4.2. 25 hour!
MND 4.2. 26
MND-BOTTOM
Masters, I am to discourse wonders; but ask me
MND 4.2. 27 not what. For if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I
MND 4.2. 28 will tell you everything right as it fell out.
MND 4.2. 29
MND-QUINCE
Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
MND 4.2. 30
MND-BOTTOM
Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is that
MND 4.2. 31 the Duke hath dined. Get your apparel together, good
MND 4.2. 32 strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps.
MND 4.2. 33 Meet presently at the palace; every man look o'er his
MND 4.2. 34 part. For the short and the long is, our play is preferred.
MND 4.2. 35 In any case let Thisbe have clean linen, and let not
MND 4.2. 36 him that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall
MND 4.2. 37 hang out for the lion's claws. And, most dear actors,
MND 4.2. 38 eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet
MND 4.2. 39 breath, and I do not doubt but to hear them say it is
MND 4.2. 40 a sweet comedy. No more words. Away, go, away! {Exeunt}
MND 4.2. 0 {Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, [Egeus], and attendant +
MND 5.1. 0 lords}
MND 5.1. 1
MND-HIPPOLYTA
'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers +
MND 5.1. 1 speak of.
MND 5.1. 2
MND-THESEUS
More strange than true. I never may believe
MND 5.1. 3 These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
MND 5.1. 4 Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
MND 5.1. 5 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
MND 5.1. 6 More than cool reason ever comprehends.
MND 5.1. 7 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
MND 5.1. 8 Are of imagination all compact.
MND 5.1. 9 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold:
MND 5.1. 10 That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
MND 5.1. 11 Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
MND 5.1. 12 The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
MND 5.1. 13 Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
MND 5.1. 14 And as imagination bodies forth
MND 5.1. 15 The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
MND 5.1. 16 Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
MND 5.1. 17 A local habitation and a name.
MND 5.1. 18 Such tricks hath strong imagination
MND 5.1. 19 That if it would but apprehend some joy
MND 5.1. 20 It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
MND 5.1. 21 Or in the night, imagining some fear,
MND 5.1. 22 How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
MND 5.1. 23
MND-HIPPOLYTA
But all the story of the night told over,
MND 5.1. 24 And all their minds transfigured so together,
MND 5.1. 25 More witnesseth than fancy's images,
MND 5.1. 26 And grows to something of great constancy;
MND 5.1. 27 But howsoever, strange and admirable. {Enter the lovers: +
MND 5.1. 27 Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia,}
MND 5.1. 28 {and Helena}
MND-THESEUS
Here come the lovers, full of joy and +
MND 5.1. 28 mirth.
MND 5.1. 29 Joy, gentle friends - joy and fresh days of love
MND 5.1. 30B Accompany your hearts.
MND-LYSANDER
More than to us
MND 5.1. 31 Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed.
MND 5.1. 32
MND-THESEUS
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
MND 5.1. 33 To wear away this long age of three hours
MND 5.1. 34 Between our after-supper and bed-time?
MND 5.1. 35 Where is our usual manager of mirth?
MND 5.1. 36 What revels are in hand? Is there no play
MND 5.1. 37 To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
MND 5.1. 38B Call Egeus.
MND-[EGEUS]
Here, mighty Theseus.
MND 5.1. 39
MND-THESEUS
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
MND 5.1. 40 What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
MND 5.1. 41 The lazy time if not with some delight?
MND 5.1. 42
MND-[EGEUS]
There is a brief how many sports are ripe.
MND 5.1. 43 Make choice of which your highness will see first.
MND 5.1. 44
MND-[LYSANDER]
{(reads)} `The battle with the +
MND 5.1. 44 centaurs, to be sung
MND 5.1. 45 By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'
MND 5.1. 46
MND-THESEUS
We'll none of that. That have I told my love
MND 5.1. 47 In glory of my kinsman Hercules.
MND 5.1. 48
MND-[LYSANDER]
{(reads)} `The riot of the tipsy +
MND 5.1. 48 bacchanals
MND 5.1. 49 Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'
MND 5.1. 50
MND-THESEUS
That is an old device, and it was played
MND 5.1. 51 When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.
MND 5.1. 52
MND-[LYSANDER]
{(reads)} `The thrice-three muses +
MND 5.1. 52 mourning for the death
MND 5.1. 53 Of learning, late deceased in beggary.'
MND 5.1. 54
MND-THESEUS
That is some satire, keen and critical,
MND 5.1. 55 Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.
MND 5.1. 56
MND-[LYSANDER]
{(reads)} `A tedious brief scene of +
MND 5.1. 56 young Pyramus
MND 5.1. 57 And his love Thisbe: very tragical mirth.'
MND 5.1. 58
MND-THESEUS
`Merry' {and} `tragical'? `Tedious' {and} `brief'? -
MND 5.1. 59 That is, hot ice and wondrous strange black snow.
MND 5.1. 60 How shall we find the concord of this discord?
MND 5.1. 61
MND-[EGEUS]
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
MND 5.1. 62 Which is as `brief' as I have known a play;
MND 5.1. 63 But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
MND 5.1. 64 Which makes it `tedious'; for in all the play
MND 5.1. 65 There is not one word apt, one player fitted.
MND 5.1. 66 And `tragical', my noble lord, it is,
MND 5.1. 67 For Pyramus therein doth kill himself;
MND 5.1. 68 Which when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,
MND 5.1. 69 Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears
MND 5.1. 70 The passion of loud laughter never shed.
MND 5.1. 71A
MND-THESEUS
What are they that do play it?
MND 5.1. 72
MND-[EGEUS]
Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,
MND 5.1. 73 Which never laboured in their minds till now,
MND 5.1. 74 And now have toiled their unbreathed memories
MND 5.1. 75 With this same play against your nuptial.
MND 5.1. 76B
MND-THESEUS
And we will hear it.
MND-[EGEUS]
No, my noble lord,
MND 5.1. 77 It is not for you. I have heard it over,
MND 5.1. 78 And it is nothing, nothing in the world,
MND 5.1. 79 Unless you can find sport in their intents
MND 5.1. 80 Extremely stretched, and conned with cruel pain
MND 5.1. 81B To do you service.
MND-THESEUS
I will hear that play;
MND 5.1. 82 For never anything can be amiss
MND 5.1. 83 When simpleness and duty tender it.
MND 5.1. 84 Go, bring them in; and take your places, ladies. {Exit [Egeus]}
MND 5.1. 85
MND-HIPPOLYTA
I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharged,
MND 5.1. 86 And duty in his service perishing.
MND 5.1. 87
MND-THESEUS
Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.
MND 5.1. 88
MND-HIPPOLYTA
He says they can do nothing in this kind.
MND 5.1. 89
MND-THESEUS
The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.
MND 5.1. 90 Our sport shall be to take what they mistake,
MND 5.1. 91 And what poor duty cannot do,
MND 5.1. 92 Noble respect takes it in might, not merit.
MND 5.1. 93 Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
MND 5.1. 94 To greet me with premeditated welcomes,
MND 5.1. 95 Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
MND 5.1. 96 Make periods in the midst of sentences,
MND 5.1. 97 Throttle their practised accent in their fears,
MND 5.1. 98 And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,
MND 5.1. 99 Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,
MND 5.1. 100 Out of this silence yet I picked a welcome,
MND 5.1. 101 And in the modesty of fearful duty
MND 5.1. 102 I read as much as from the rattling tongue
MND 5.1. 103 Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
MND 5.1. 104 Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
MND 5.1. 105 In least speak most, to my capacity. {Enter [Egeus]}
MND 5.1. 106
MND-[EGEUS]
So please your grace, the Prologue is addressed.
MND 5.1. 107A
MND-THESEUS
Let him approach. {[Flourish trumpets.] Enter +
MND 5.1. 107A [Quince as] the Prologue}
MND 5.1. 108
MND-[QUINCE]
{(as Prologue)} If we offend, it is with +
MND 5.1. 108 our good will.
MND 5.1. 109 That you should think: we come not to offend
MND 5.1. 110 But with good will. To show our simple skill,
MND 5.1. 111 That is the true beginning of our end.
MND 5.1. 112 Consider then we come but in despite.
MND 5.1. 113 We do not come as minding to content you,
MND 5.1. 114 Our true intent is. All for your delight
MND 5.1. 115 We are not here. That you should here repent you
MND 5.1. 116 The actors are at hand, and by their show
MND 5.1. 117 You shall know all that you are like to know.
MND 5.1. 118
MND-THESEUS
This fellow doth not stand upon points.
MND 5.1. 119
MND-LYSANDER
He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he
MND 5.1. 120 knows not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not
MND 5.1. 121 enough to speak, but to speak true.
MND 5.1. 122
MND-HIPPOLYTA
Indeed, he hath played on this prologue like
MND 5.1. 123 a child on a recorder - a sound, but not in government.
MND 5.1. 124
MND-THESEUS
His speech was like a tangled chain - nothing
MND 5.1. 125 impaired, but all disordered. Who is next? {Enter [with a +
MND 5.1. 125 trumpeter before them] Bottom as}
MND 5.1. 126 {Pyramus, Flute as Thisbe, Snout as Wall, Starveling as Moonshine, and +
MND 5.1. 126 Snug as Lion, for the dumb show}
MND-[QUINCE]
{(as +
MND 5.1. 126 Prologue)} Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show,
MND 5.1. 127 But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
MND 5.1. 128 This man is Pyramus, if you would know;
MND 5.1. 129 This beauteous lady Thisbe is, certain.
MND 5.1. 130 This man with lime and roughcast doth present
MND 5.1. 131 Wall, that vile wall which did these lovers sunder;
MND 5.1. 132 And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
MND 5.1. 133 To whisper; at the which let no man wonder.
MND 5.1. 134 This man, with lantern, dog, and bush of thorn,
MND 5.1. 135 Presenteth Moonshine. For if you will know,
MND 5.1. 136 By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
MND 5.1. 137 To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.
MND 5.1. 138 This grizzly beast, which `Lion' hight by name,
MND 5.1. 139 The trusty Thisbe coming first by night
MND 5.1. 140 Did scare away, or rather did affright;
MND 5.1. 141 And as she fled, her mantle she did fall,
MND 5.1. 142 Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
MND 5.1. 143 Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,
MND 5.1. 144 And finds his trusty Thisbe's mantle slain;
MND 5.1. 145 Whereat with blade - with bloody, blameful blade -
MND 5.1. 146 He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast;
MND 5.1. 147 And Thisbe, tarrying in mulberry shade,
MND 5.1. 148 His dagger drew and died. For all the rest,
MND 5.1. 149 Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain
MND 5.1. 150 At large discourse, while here they do remain. {[Exeunt all the +
MND 5.1. 150 clowns but Snout as Wall]}
MND 5.1. 151
MND-THESEUS
I wonder if the lion be to speak.
MND 5.1. 152
MND-DEMETRIUS
No wonder, my lord - one lion may when
MND 5.1. 153 many asses do.
MND 5.1. 154
MND-[SNOUT]
{(as Wall)} In this same interlude it doth +
MND 5.1. 154 befall
MND 5.1. 155 That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;
MND 5.1. 156 And such a wall as I would have you think
MND 5.1. 157 That had in it a crannied hole or chink,
MND 5.1. 158 Through which the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe
MND 5.1. 159 Did whisper often, very secretly.
MND 5.1. 160 This loam, this roughcast, and this stone doth show
MND 5.1. 161 That I am that same wall; the truth is so.
MND 5.1. 162 And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
MND 5.1. 163 Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.
MND 5.1. 164
MND-THESEUS
Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?
MND 5.1. 165
MND-DEMETRIUS
It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard
MND 5.1. 166 discourse, my lord. {Enter Bottom as Pyramus}
MND 5.1. 167
MND-THESEUS
Pyramus draws near the wall. Silence.
MND 5.1. 168
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} O grim-looked night, O night +
MND 5.1. 168 with hue so black,
MND 5.1. 169 O night which ever art when day is not;
MND 5.1. 170 O night, O night, alack, alack, alack,
MND 5.1. 171 I fear my Thisbe's promise is forgot.
MND 5.1. 172 And thou, O wall, O sweet O lovely wall,
MND 5.1. 173 That stand'st between her father's ground and mine,
MND 5.1. 174 Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
MND 5.1. 175 Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. {Wall shows +
MND 5.1. 175 his chink}
MND 5.1. 176 Thanks, courteous wall. Jove shield thee well for this.
MND 5.1. 177 But what see I? No Thisbe do I see.
MND 5.1. 178 O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss,
MND 5.1. 179 Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me.
MND 5.1. 180
MND-THESEUS
The wall methinks, being sensible, should curse
MND 5.1. 181 again.
MND 5.1. 182
MND-BOTTOM
{(to Theseus)} No, in truth, sir, he should +
MND 5.1. 182 not.
MND 5.1. 183 `Deceiving me' is Thisbe's cue. She is to enter now,
MND 5.1. 184 and I am to spy her through the wall. You shall see,
MND 5.1. 185 it will fall pat as I told you. {Enter Flute as Thisbe}
MND 5.1. 186 Yonder she comes.
MND 5.1. 187
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} O wall, full often hast thou +
MND 5.1. 187 heard my moans
MND 5.1. 188 For parting my fair Pyramus and me.
MND 5.1. 189 My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones,
MND 5.1. 190 Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.
MND 5.1. 191
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} I see a voice. Now will I to +
MND 5.1. 191 the chink
MND 5.1. 192 To spy an I can hear my Thisbe's face.
MND 5.1. 193B Thisbe?
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} My love - thou art my +
MND 5.1. 193B love, I think.
MND 5.1. 194
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} Think what thou wilt, I am +
MND 5.1. 194 thy lover's grace,
MND 5.1. 195 And like Lemander am I trusty still.
MND 5.1. 196
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} And I like Helen, till the +
MND 5.1. 196 fates me kill.
MND 5.1. 197
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} Not Shaphalus to Procrus was +
MND 5.1. 197 so true.
MND 5.1. 198
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} As Shaphalus to Procrus, I to +
MND 5.1. 198 you.
MND 5.1. 199
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} O kiss me through the hole +
MND 5.1. 199 of this vile wall.
MND 5.1. 200
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} I kiss the wall's hole, not +
MND 5.1. 200 your lips at all.
MND 5.1. 201
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb +
MND 5.1. 201 meet me straightway?
MND 5.1. 202
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} Tide life, tide death, I come +
MND 5.1. 202 without delay. {Exeunt Bottom and Flute severally}
MND 5.1. 203
MND-SNOUT
{(as Wall)} Thus have I, Wall, my part +
MND 5.1. 203 discharged so;
MND 5.1. 204 And being done, thus Wall away doth go. {Exit}
MND 5.1. 205
MND-THESEUS
Now is the wall down between the two
MND 5.1. 206 neighbours.
MND 5.1. 207
MND-DEMETRIUS
No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful
MND 5.1. 208 to hear without warning.
MND 5.1. 209
MND-HIPPOLYTA
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
MND 5.1. 210
MND-THESEUS
The best in this kind are but shadows, and the
MND 5.1. 211 worst are no worse if imagination amend them.
MND 5.1. 212
MND-HIPPOLYTA
It must be your imagination, then, and not
MND 5.1. 213 theirs.
MND 5.1. 214
MND-THESEUS
If we imagine no worse of them than they of
MND 5.1. 215 themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here
MND 5.1. 216 come two noble beasts in: a man and a lion. {Enter Snug as Lion, +
MND 5.1. 216 and Starveling as Moonshine with a lantern, thorn bush, and dog}
MND 5.1. 217
MND-SNUG
{(as Lion)} You, ladies, you whose gentle +
MND 5.1. 217 hearts do fear
MND 5.1. 218 The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
MND 5.1. 219 May now perchance both quake and tremble here
MND 5.1. 220 When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.
MND 5.1. 221 Then know that I as Snug the joiner am
MND 5.1. 222 A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam.
MND 5.1. 223 For if I should as Lion come in strife
MND 5.1. 224 Into this place, 'twere pity on my life.
MND 5.1. 225
MND-THESEUS
A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.
MND 5.1. 226
MND-DEMETRIUS
The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I
MND 5.1. 227 saw.
MND 5.1. 228
MND-LYSANDER
This lion is a very fox for his valour.
MND 5.1. 229
MND-THESEUS
True, and a goose for his discretion.
MND 5.1. 230
MND-DEMETRIUS
Not so, my lord, for his valour cannot carry
MND 5.1. 231 his discretion, and the fox carries the goose.
MND 5.1. 232
MND-THESEUS
His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour,
MND 5.1. 233 for the goose carries not the fox. It is well. Leave it to
MND 5.1. 234 his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.
MND 5.1. 235
MND-STARVELING
{(as Moonshine)} This lantern doth the +
MND 5.1. 235 horned moon present.
MND 5.1. 236
MND-DEMETRIUS
He should have worn the horns on his head.
MND 5.1. 237
MND-THESEUS
He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible
MND 5.1. 238 within the circumference.
MND 5.1. 239
MND-STARVELING
{(as Moonshine)} This lantern doth the +
MND 5.1. 239 horned moon present.
MND 5.1. 240 Myself the man i' th' moon do seem to be.
MND 5.1. 241
MND-THESEUS
This is the greatest error of all the rest - the +
MND 5.1. 241 man
MND 5.1. 242 should be put into the lantern. How is it else the man
MND 5.1. 243 i' th' moon?
MND 5.1. 244
MND-DEMETRIUS
He dares not come there for the candle; for
MND 5.1. 245 you see it is already in snuff.
MND 5.1. 246
MND-HIPPOLYTA
I am aweary of this moon. Would he would
MND 5.1. 247 change.
MND 5.1. 248
MND-THESEUS
It appears by his small light of discretion that he
MND 5.1. 249 is in the wane; but yet in courtesy, in all reason, we
MND 5.1. 250 must stay the time.
MND 5.1. 251
MND-LYSANDER
Proceed, Moon.
MND 5.1. 252
MND-STARVELING
All that I have to say is to tell you that the
MND 5.1. 253 lantern is the moon, I the man i' th' moon, this thorn
MND 5.1. 254 bush my thorn bush, and this dog my dog.
MND 5.1. 255
MND-DEMETRIUS
Why, all these should be in the lantern, for
MND 5.1. 256 all these are in the moon. But silence; here comes
MND 5.1. 257 Thisbe. {Enter Flute as Thisbe}
MND 5.1. 258
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} This is old Ninny's tomb. +
MND 5.1. 258 Where is my love?
MND 5.1. 259
MND-SNUG
{(as Lion)} O. {Lion roars. Thisbe +
MND 5.1. 259 drops her mantle and runs off}
MND 5.1. 260
MND-DEMETRIUS
Well roared, Lion.
MND 5.1. 261
MND-THESEUS
Well run, Thisbe.
MND 5.1. 262
MND-HIPPOLYTA
Well shone, Moon. - Truly, the moon shines
MND 5.1. 263 with a good grace. {Lion worries Thisbe's mantle}
MND 5.1. 264
MND-THESEUS
Well moused, Lion.
MND 5.1. 265
MND-DEMETRIUS
And then came Pyramus. {[Enter Bottom as Pyramus]}
MND 5.1. 266
MND-LYSANDER
And so the lion vanished. {[Exit Lion]}
MND 5.1. 267
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} Sweet moon, I thank thee for +
MND 5.1. 267 thy sunny beams.
MND 5.1. 268 I thank thee, moon, for shining now so bright;
MND 5.1. 269 For by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams
MND 5.1. 270 I trust to take of truest Thisbe sight.
MND 5.1. 271 But stay, O spite!
MND 5.1. 272 But mark, poor knight,
MND 5.1. 273 What dreadful dole is here?
MND 5.1. 274 Eyes, do you see?
MND 5.1. 275 How can it be?
MND 5.1. 276 O dainty duck, O dear!
MND 5.1. 277 Thy mantle good,
MND 5.1. 278 What, stained with blood?
MND 5.1. 279 Approach, ye furies fell.
MND 5.1. 280 O fates, come, come,
MND 5.1. 281 Cut thread and thrum,
MND 5.1. 282 Quail, crush, conclude, and quell.
MND 5.1. 283
MND-THESEUS
This passion - and the death of a dear friend -
MND 5.1. 284 would go near to make a man look sad.
MND 5.1. 285
MND-HIPPOLYTA
Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.
MND 5.1. 286
MND-BOTTOM
{(as Pyramus)} O wherefore, nature, didst +
MND 5.1. 286 thou lions frame,
MND 5.1. 287 Since lion vile hath here deflowered my dear? -
MND 5.1. 288 Which is - no, no, which {was} - the fairest dame
MND 5.1. 289 That lived, that loved, that liked, that looked, with cheer.
MND 5.1. 290 Come tears, confound;
MND 5.1. 291 Out sword, and wound
MND 5.1. 292 The pap of Pyramus.
MND 5.1. 293 Ay, that left pap,
MND 5.1. 294 Where heart doth hop.
MND 5.1. 295 Thus die I: thus, thus, thus. {He stabs himself}
MND 5.1. 296 Now am I dead,
MND 5.1. 297 Now am I fled,
MND 5.1. 298 My soul is in the sky.
MND 5.1. 299 Tongue, lose thy light;
MND 5.1. 300 Moon, take thy flight. {[Exit Moonshine]}
MND 5.1. 301 Now die, die, die, die, die. {He dies}
MND 5.1. 302
MND-DEMETRIUS
No die but an ace for him; for he is but one.
MND 5.1. 303
MND-LYSANDER
Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is
MND 5.1. 304 nothing.
MND 5.1. 305
MND-THESEUS
With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover
MND 5.1. 306 and prove an ass.
MND 5.1. 307
MND-HIPPOLYTA
How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe
MND 5.1. 308 comes back and finds her lover?
MND 5.1. 309
MND-THESEUS
She will find him by starlight. {[Enter Flute as +
MND 5.1. 309 Thisbe]}
MND 5.1. 310 Here she comes, and her passion ends the play.
MND 5.1. 311
MND-HIPPOLYTA
Methinks she should not use a long one for
MND 5.1. 312 such a Pyramus. I hope she will be brief.
MND 5.1. 313
MND-DEMETRIUS
A mote will turn the balance which Pyramus,
MND 5.1. 314 which Thisbe, is the better - he for a man, God warrant
MND 5.1. 315 us; she for a woman, God bless us.
MND 5.1. 316
MND-LYSANDER
She hath spied him already with those sweet
MND 5.1. 317 eyes.
MND 5.1. 318
MND-DEMETRIUS
And thus she means, videlicet:
MND 5.1. 319
MND-FLUTE
{(as Thisbe)} Asleep, my love?
MND 5.1. 320 What, dead, my dove?
MND 5.1. 321 O Pyramus, arise.
MND 5.1. 322 Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
MND 5.1. 323 Dead, dead? A tomb
MND 5.1. 324 Must cover thy sweet eyes.
MND 5.1. 325 These lily lips,
MND 5.1. 326 This cherry nose,
MND 5.1. 327 These yellow cowslip cheeks
MND 5.1. 328 Are gone, are gone.
MND 5.1. 329 Lovers, make moan.
MND 5.1. 330 His eyes were green as leeks.
MND 5.1. 331 O sisters three,
MND 5.1. 332 Come, come to me
MND 5.1. 333 With hands as pale as milk.
MND 5.1. 334 Lay them in gore,
MND 5.1. 335 Since you have shore
MND 5.1. 336 With shears his thread of silk.
MND 5.1. 337 Tongue, not a word.
MND 5.1. 338 Come, trusty sword,
MND 5.1. 339 Come, blade, my breast imbrue. {She stabs herself}
MND 5.1. 340 And farewell friends,
MND 5.1. 341 Thus Thisbe ends.
MND 5.1. 342 Adieu, adieu, adieu. {She dies}
MND 5.1. 343
MND-THESEUS
Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.
MND 5.1. 344
MND-DEMETRIUS
Ay, and Wall too.
MND 5.1. 345
MND-[BOTTOM]
No, I assure you, the wall is down that parted
MND 5.1. 346 their fathers. Will it please you to see the epilogue or
MND 5.1. 347 to hear a bergamask dance between two of our
MND 5.1. 348 company?
MND 5.1. 349
MND-THESEUS
No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no
MND 5.1. 350 excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead
MND 5.1. 351 there need none to be blamed. Marry, if he that writ
MND 5.1. 352 it had played Pyramus and hanged himself in Thisbe's
MND 5.1. 353 garter it would have been a fine tragedy; and so it is,
MND 5.1. 354 truly, and very notably discharged. But come, your
MND 5.1. 355 bergamask. Let your epilogue alone. {[Bottom and Flute] dance a +
MND 5.1. 355 bergamask, then exeunt}
MND 5.1. 356 The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
MND 5.1. 357 Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
MND 5.1. 358 I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn
MND 5.1. 359 As much as we this night have overwatched.
MND 5.1. 360 This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled
MND 5.1. 361 The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.
MND 5.1. 362 A fortnight hold we this solemnity
MND 5.1. 363 In nightly revels and new jollity. {Exeunt}
MND 5.1. 0 {Enter Robin Goodfellow with a broom}
MND 5.2. 1
MND-ROBIN
Now the hungry lion roars,
MND 5.2. 2 And the wolf behowls the moon,
MND 5.2. 3 Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
MND 5.2. 4 All with weary task fordone.
MND 5.2. 5 Now the wasted brands do glow
MND 5.2. 6 Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,
MND 5.2. 7 Puts the wretch that lies in woe
MND 5.2. 8 In remembrance of a shroud.
MND 5.2. 9 Now it is the time of night
MND 5.2. 10 That the graves, all gaping wide,
MND 5.2. 11 Every one lets forth his sprite
MND 5.2. 12 In the churchway paths to glide;
MND 5.2. 13 And we fairies that do run
MND 5.2. 14 By the triple Hecate's team
MND 5.2. 15 From the presence of the sun,
MND 5.2. 16 Following darkness like a dream,
MND 5.2. 17 Now are frolic. Not a mouse
MND 5.2. 18 Shall disturb this hallowed house.
MND 5.2. 19 I am sent with broom before
MND 5.2. 20 To sweep the dust behind the door. {Enter Oberon and Titania, +
MND 5.2. 20 King and Queen of Fairies, with all their train}
MND 5.2. 21
MND-OBERON
Through the house give glimmering light.
MND 5.2. 22 By the dead and drowsy fire
MND 5.2. 23 Every elf and fairy sprite
MND 5.2. 24 Hop as light as bird from brier,
MND 5.2. 25 And this ditty after me
MND 5.2. 26 Sing, and dance it trippingly.
MND 5.2. 27
MND-TITANIA
First rehearse your song by rote,
MND 5.2. 28 To each word a warbling note.
MND 5.2. 29 Hand in hand with fairy grace
MND 5.2. 30 Will we sing and bless this place. {[The song. The fairies +
MND 5.2. 30 dance]}
MND 5.2. 31
MND-OBERON
Now until the break of day
MND 5.2. 32 Through this house each fairy stray.
MND 5.2. 33 To the best bride bed will we,
MND 5.2. 34 Which by us shall blessed be,
MND 5.2. 35 And the issue there create
MND 5.2. 36 Ever shall be fortunate.
MND 5.2. 37 So shall all the couples three
MND 5.2. 38 Ever true in loving be,
MND 5.2. 39 And the blots of nature's hand
MND 5.2. 40 Shall not in their issue stand.
MND 5.2. 41 Never mole, harelip, nor scar,
MND 5.2. 42 Nor mark prodigious such as are
MND 5.2. 43 Despised in nativity
MND 5.2. 44 Shall upon their children be.
MND 5.2. 45 With this field-dew consecrate
MND 5.2. 46 Every fairy take his gait
MND 5.2. 47 And each several chamber bless
MND 5.2. 48 Through this palace with sweet peace;
MND 5.2. 49 And the owner of it blessed
MND 5.2. 50 Ever shall in safety rest.
MND 5.2. 51 Trip away, make no stay,
MND 5.2. 52 Meet me all by break of day. {Exeunt all but Robin}
MND 5.2. 0
MND 5.Ep. 1
MND-ROBIN
If we shadows have offended,
MND 5.Ep. 2 Think but this, and all is mended:
MND 5.Ep. 3 That you have but slumbered here,
MND 5.Ep. 4 While these visions did appear;
MND 5.Ep. 5 And this weak and idle theme,
MND 5.Ep. 6 No more yielding but a dream,
MND 5.Ep. 7 Gentles, do not reprehend.
MND 5.Ep. 8 If you pardon, we will mend.
MND 5.Ep. 9 And as I am an honest puck,
MND 5.Ep. 10 If we have unearned luck
MND 5.Ep. 11 Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
MND 5.Ep. 12 We will make amends ere long,
MND 5.Ep. 13 Else the puck a liar call.
MND 5.Ep. 14 So, good night unto you all.
MND 5.Ep. 15 Give me your hands, if we be friends,
MND 5.Ep. 16 And Robin shall restore amends. {Exit}
MND 5.Ep. 0
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MND A.E. 0 persuaded most scholars that the text at the beginning of Act 5 Scene 1
MND A.E. 0 was revised, with new material written in the margins. We here offer a
MND A.E. 0 reconstruction of the passage as originally drafted, which can be compared
MND A.E. 0 with 5.1.1-86 of the edited text
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MND A.E. 0 {Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, and Philostrate}
MND A.E. 1
MND-HIPPOLYTA
'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers +
MND A.E. 1 speak of.
MND A.E. 2
MND-THESEUS
More strange than true. I never may believe
MND A.E. 3 These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
MND A.E. 4 Lovers and mad men have such seething brains.
MND A.E. 5 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold:
MND A.E. 6 That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
MND A.E. 7 Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
MND A.E. 8 Such tricks hath strong imagination
MND A.E. 9 That if it would but apprehend some joy
MND A.E. 10 It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
MND A.E. 11 Or in the night, imagining some fear,
MND A.E. 12 How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
MND A.E. 13
MND-HIPPOLYTA
But all the story of the night told over,
MND A.E. 14 And all their minds transfigured so together,
MND A.E. 15 More witnesseth than fancy's images,
MND A.E. 16 And grows to something of great constancy;
MND A.E. 17 But howsoever, strange and admirable. {Enter the lovers: +
MND A.E. 17 Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena}
MND A.E. 18
MND-THESEUS
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.
MND A.E. 19 Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
MND A.E. 20 To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
MND A.E. 21B Call Philostrate.
MND-PHILOSTRATE
Here mighty Theseus.
MND A.E. 22
MND-THESEUS
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
MND A.E. 23 What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
MND A.E. 24 The lazy time if not with some delight?
MND A.E. 25
MND-PHILOSTRATE
There is a brief how many sports are ripe.
MND A.E. 26 Make choice of which your highness will see first.
MND A.E. 27
MND-THESEUS
`The battle with the centaurs to be sung
MND A.E. 28 By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'
MND A.E. 29 We'll none of that. That have I told my love
MND A.E. 30 In glory of my kinsman Hercules.
MND A.E. 31 `The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals
MND A.E. 32 Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'
MND A.E. 33 That is an old device, and it was played
MND A.E. 34 When I from Thebes came last a conquerer.
MND A.E. 35 `The thrice-three Muses mourning for the death
MND A.E. 36 Of learning, late deceased in beggary.'
MND A.E. 37 That is some satire, keen and critical,
MND A.E. 38 Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.
MND A.E. 39 `A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
MND A.E. 40 And his love Thisby.' `Tedious' {and} `brief'?
MND A.E. 41
MND-PHILOSTRATE
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
MND A.E. 42 Which is as `brief' as I have known a play;
MND A.E. 43 But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
MND A.E. 44 Which makes it `tedious'; for in all the play
MND A.E. 45 There is not one word apt, one player fitted.
MND A.E. 46A
MND-THESEUS
What are they that do play it?
MND A.E. 47
MND-PHILOSTRATE
Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,
MND A.E. 48 Which never laboured in their minds till now,
MND A.E. 49 And now have toiled their unbreathed memories
MND A.E. 50 With this same play against your nuptial.
MND A.E. 51
MND-THESEUS
Go, bring them in; and take your places, ladies. +
MND A.E. 51 {Exit Philostrate}
MND A.E. 52
MND-HIPPOLYTA
I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharged
MND A.E. 53 And duty in his service perishing.
MND A.E.
MND
0
MV . . 0 The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise +
MV . . 0 Called the Jew of Venice
MV . . 0 {Enter Antonio, Salerio, and Solanio}
MV 1.1. 1
MV-ANTONIO
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
MV 1.1. 2 It wearies me, you say it wearies you,
MV 1.1. 3 But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
MV 1.1. 4 What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
MV 1.1. 5 I am to learn;
MV 1.1. 6 And such a want-wit sadness makes of me
MV 1.1. 7 That I have much ado to know myself.
MV 1.1. 8
MV-SALERIO
Your mind is tossing on the ocean,
MV 1.1. 9 There where your argosies with portly sail,
MV 1.1. 10 Like signors and rich burghers on the flood -
MV 1.1. 11 Or as it were the pageants of the sea -
MV 1.1. 12 Do overpeer the petty traffickers
MV 1.1. 13 That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
MV 1.1. 14 As they fly by them with their woven wings.
MV 1.1. 15
MV-SOLANIO
{(to Antonio)} Believe me, sir, had I such +
MV 1.1. 15 venture forth
MV 1.1. 16 The better part of my affections would
MV 1.1. 17 Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still
MV 1.1. 18 Plucking the grass to know where sits the wind,
MV 1.1. 19 Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads,
MV 1.1. 20 And every object that might make me fear
MV 1.1. 21 Misfortune to my ventures out of doubt
MV 1.1. 22B Would make me sad.
MV-SALERIO
My wind cooling my broth
MV 1.1. 23 Would blow me to an ague when I thought
MV 1.1. 24 What harm a wind too great might do at sea.
MV 1.1. 25 I should not see the sandy hour-glass run
MV 1.1. 26 But I should think of shallows and of flats,
MV 1.1. 27 And see my wealthy Andrew, decks in sand,
MV 1.1. 28 Vailing her hightop lower than her ribs
MV 1.1. 29 To kiss her burial. Should I go to church
MV 1.1. 30 And see the holy edifice of stone
MV 1.1. 31 And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks
MV 1.1. 32 Which, touching but my gentle vessel's side,
MV 1.1. 33 Would scatter all her spices on the stream,
MV 1.1. 34 Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,
MV 1.1. 35 And, in a word, but even now worth this,
MV 1.1. 36 And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought
MV 1.1. 37 To think on this, and shall I lack the thought
MV 1.1. 38 That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?
MV 1.1. 39 But tell not me. I know Antonio
MV 1.1. 40 Is sad to think upon his merchandise.
MV 1.1. 41
MV-ANTONIO
Believe me, no. I thank my fortune for it,
MV 1.1. 42 My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
MV 1.1. 43 Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
MV 1.1. 44 Upon the fortune of this present year.
MV 1.1. 45 Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.
MV 1.1. 46B
MV-SOLANIO
Why then, you are in love.
MV-ANTONIO
Fie, fie.
MV 1.1. 47
MV-SOLANIO
Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad
MV 1.1. 48 Because you are not merry, and 'twere as easy
MV 1.1. 49 For you to laugh, and leap, and say you are merry
MV 1.1. 50 Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,
MV 1.1. 51 Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
MV 1.1. 52 Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
MV 1.1. 53 And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper,
MV 1.1. 54 And other of such vinegar aspect
MV 1.1. 55 That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile
MV 1.1. 56 Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. {Enter Bassanio, +
MV 1.1. 56 Lorenzo, and Graziano}
MV 1.1. 57 Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,
MV 1.1. 58 Graziano, and Lorenzo. Fare ye well.
MV 1.1. 59 We leave you now with better company.
MV 1.1. 60
MV-SALERIO
I would have stayed till I had made you merry
MV 1.1. 61 If worthier friends had not prevented me.
MV 1.1. 62
MV-ANTONIO
Your worth is very dear in my regard.
MV 1.1. 63 I take it your own business calls on you,
MV 1.1. 64 And you embrace th' occasion to depart.
MV 1.1. 65A
MV-SALERIO
Good morrow, my good lords.
MV 1.1. 66
MV-BASSANIO
Good signors both, when shall we laugh? Say, when?
MV 1.1. 67 You grow exceeding strange. Must it be so?
MV 1.1. 68
MV-SALERIO
We'll make our leisures to attend on yours. {Exeunt +
MV 1.1. 68 Salerio and Solanio}
MV 1.1. 69
MV-LORENZO
My lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,
MV 1.1. 70 We two will leave you; but at dinner-time
MV 1.1. 71 I pray you have in mind where we must meet.
MV 1.1. 72A
MV-BASSANIO
I will not fail you.
MV 1.1. 73
MV-GRAZIANO
You look not well, Signor Antonio.
MV 1.1. 74 You have too much respect upon the world.
MV 1.1. 75 They lose it that do buy it with much care.
MV 1.1. 76 Believe me, you are marvellously changed.
MV 1.1. 77
MV-ANTONIO
I hold the world but as the world, Graziano -
MV 1.1. 78 A stage where every man must play a part,
MV 1.1. 79B And mine a sad one.
MV-GRAZIANO
Let me play the fool.
MV 1.1. 80 With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
MV 1.1. 81 And let my liver rather heat with wine
MV 1.1. 82 Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
MV 1.1. 83 Why should a man whose blood is warm within
MV 1.1. 84 Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster,
MV 1.1. 85 Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice
MV 1.1. 86 By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio -
MV 1.1. 87 I love thee, and 'tis my love that speaks -
MV 1.1. 88 There are a sort of men whose visages
MV 1.1. 89 Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
MV 1.1. 90 And do a wilful stillness entertain
MV 1.1. 91 With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
MV 1.1. 92 Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
MV 1.1. 93 As who should say `I am Sir Oracle,
MV 1.1. 94 And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.'
MV 1.1. 95 O my Antonio, I do know of these
MV 1.1. 96 That therefore only are reputed wise
MV 1.1. 97 For saying nothing, when I am very sure,
MV 1.1. 98 If they should speak, would almost damn those ears
MV 1.1. 99 Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
MV 1.1. 100 I'll tell thee more of this another time.
MV 1.1. 101 But fish not with this melancholy bait
MV 1.1. 102 For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -
MV 1.1. 103 Come, good Lorenzo. - Fare ye well a while.
MV 1.1. 104 I'll end my exhortation after dinner.
MV 1.1. 105
MV-LORENZO
{(to Antonio and Bassanio)} Well, we will +
MV 1.1. 105 leave you then till dinner-time.
MV 1.1. 106 I must be one of these same dumb wise men,
MV 1.1. 107 For Graziano never lets me speak.
MV 1.1. 108
MV-GRAZIANO
Well, keep me company but two years more
MV 1.1. 109 Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.
MV 1.1. 110
MV-ANTONIO
Fare you well. I'll grow a talker for this gear.
MV 1.1. 111
MV-GRAZIANO
Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
MV 1.1. 112 In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible. {Exeunt +
MV 1.1. 112 Graziano and Lorenzo}
MV 1.1. 113
MV-ANTONIO
Yet is that anything now?
MV 1.1. 114
MV-BASSANIO
Graziano speaks an infinite deal of nothing,
MV 1.1. 115 more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as
MV 1.1. 116 two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you
MV 1.1. 117 shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you
MV 1.1. 118 have them they are not worth the search.
MV 1.1. 119
MV-ANTONIO
Well, tell me now what lady is the same
MV 1.1. 120 To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,
MV 1.1. 121 That you today promised to tell me of.
MV 1.1. 122
MV-BASSANIO
'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
MV 1.1. 123 How much I have disabled mine estate
MV 1.1. 124 By something showing a more swelling port
MV 1.1. 125 Than my faint means would grant continuance,
MV 1.1. 126 Nor do I now make moan to be abridged
MV 1.1. 127 From such a noble rate; but my chief care
MV 1.1. 128 Is to come fairly off from the great debts
MV 1.1. 129 Wherein my time, something too prodigal,
MV 1.1. 130 Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,
MV 1.1. 131 I owe the most in money and in love,
MV 1.1. 132 And from your love I have a warranty
MV 1.1. 133 To unburden all my plots and purposes
MV 1.1. 134 How to get clear of all the debts I owe.
MV 1.1. 135
MV-ANTONIO
I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it,
MV 1.1. 136 And if it stand as you yourself still do,
MV 1.1. 137 Within the eye of honour, be assured
MV 1.1. 138 My purse, my person, my extremest means
MV 1.1. 139 Lie all unlocked to your occasions.
MV 1.1. 140
MV-BASSANIO
In my schooldays, when I had lost one shaft,
MV 1.1. 141 I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight
MV 1.1. 142 The selfsame way, with more advised watch,
MV 1.1. 143 To find the other forth; and by adventuring both,
MV 1.1. 144 I oft found both. I urge this childhood proof
MV 1.1. 145 Because what follows is pure innocence.
MV 1.1. 146 I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,
MV 1.1. 147 That which I owe is lost; but if you please
MV 1.1. 148 To shoot another arrow that self way
MV 1.1. 149 Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
MV 1.1. 150 As I will watch the aim, or to find both
MV 1.1. 151 Or bring your latter hazard back again,
MV 1.1. 152 And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
MV 1.1. 153
MV-ANTONIO
You know me well, and herein spend but time
MV 1.1. 154 To wind about my love with circumstance;
MV 1.1. 155 And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
MV 1.1. 156 In making question of my uttermost
MV 1.1. 157 Than if you had made waste of all I have.
MV 1.1. 158 Then do but say to me what I should do
MV 1.1. 159 That in your knowledge may by me be done,
MV 1.1. 160 And I am pressed unto it. Therefore speak.
MV 1.1. 161
MV-BASSANIO
In Belmont is a lady richly left,
MV 1.1. 162 And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
MV 1.1. 163 Of wondrous virtues. Sometimes from her eyes
MV 1.1. 164 I did receive fair speechless messages.
MV 1.1. 165 Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued
MV 1.1. 166 To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia;
MV 1.1. 167 Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
MV 1.1. 168 For the four winds blow in from every coast
MV 1.1. 169 Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
MV 1.1. 170 Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
MV 1.1. 171 Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchis' strand,
MV 1.1. 172 And many Jasons come in quest of her.
MV 1.1. 173 O my Antonio, had I but the means
MV 1.1. 174 To hold a rival place with one of them,
MV 1.1. 175 I have a mind presages me such thrift
MV 1.1. 176 That I should questionless be fortunate.
MV 1.1. 177
MV-ANTONIO
Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea,
MV 1.1. 178 Neither have I money nor commodity
MV 1.1. 179 To raise a present sum. Therefore go forth -
MV 1.1. 180 Try what my credit can in Venice do;
MV 1.1. 181 That shall be racked even to the uttermost
MV 1.1. 182 To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
MV 1.1. 183 Go presently enquire, and so will I,
MV 1.1. 184 Where money is; and I no question make
MV 1.1. 185 To have it of my trust or for my sake. {Exeunt [severally]}
MV 1.1. 0 {Enter Portia with Nerissa, her waiting-woman}
MV 1.2. 1
MV-PORTIA
By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of
MV 1.2. 2 this great world.
MV 1.2. 3
MV-NERISSA
You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries
MV 1.2. 4 were in the same abundance as your good fortunes
MV 1.2. 5 are; and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that
MV 1.2. 6 surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
MV 1.2. 7 It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the
MV 1.2. 8 mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but
MV 1.2. 9 competency lives longer.
MV 1.2. 10
MV-PORTIA
Good sentences, and well pronounced.
MV 1.2. 11
MV-NERISSA
They would be better if well followed.
MV 1.2. 12
MV-PORTIA
If to do were as easy as to know what were good
MV 1.2. 13 to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's
MV 1.2. 14 cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows
MV 1.2. 15 his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what
MV 1.2. 16 were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to
MV 1.2. 17 follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws
MV 1.2. 18 for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
MV 1.2. 19 Such a hare is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the
MV 1.2. 20 meshes of good counsel, the cripple. But this reasoning
MV 1.2. 21 is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me,
MV 1.2. 22 the word `choose'! I may neither choose who I would
MV 1.2. 23 nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living
MV 1.2. 24 daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. Is it not
MV 1.2. 25 hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse
MV 1.2. 26 none?
MV 1.2. 27
MV-NERISSA
Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at
MV 1.2. 28 their death have good inspirations; therefore the lottery
MV 1.2. 29 that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver,
MV 1.2. 30 and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses
MV 1.2. 31 you, will no doubt never be chosen by any rightly but
MV 1.2. 32 one who you shall rightly love. But what warmth is
MV 1.2. 33 there in your affection towards any of these princely
MV 1.2. 34 suitors that are already come?
MV 1.2. 35
MV-PORTIA
I pray thee overname them, and as thou namest
MV 1.2. 36 them I will describe them; and according to my
MV 1.2. 37 description, level at my affection.
MV 1.2. 38
MV-NERISSA
First there is the Neapolitan prince.
MV 1.2. 39
MV-PORTIA
Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but
MV 1.2. 40 talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation
MV 1.2. 41 to his own good parts that he can shoe him himself. I
MV 1.2. 42 am much afeard my lady his mother played false with
MV 1.2. 43 a smith.
MV 1.2. 44
MV-NERISSA
Then is there the County Palatine.
MV 1.2. 45
MV-PORTIA
He doth nothing but frown, as who should say
MV 1.2. 46 `An you will not have me, choose'. He hears merry
MV 1.2. 47 tales and smiles not. I fear he will prove the weeping
MV 1.2. 48 philosopher when he grows old, being so full of
MV 1.2. 49 unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be
MV 1.2. 50 married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth
MV 1.2. 51 than to either of these. God defend me from these two!
MV 1.2. 52
MV-NERISSA
How say you by the French lord, Monsieur le
MV 1.2. 53 Bon?
MV 1.2. 54
MV-PORTIA
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a
MV 1.2. 55 man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but
MV 1.2. 56 he - why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan's,
MV 1.2. 57 a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine.
MV 1.2. 58 He is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls
MV 1.2. 59 straight a-cap'ring. He will fence with his own shadow.
MV 1.2. 60 If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.
MV 1.2. 61 If he would despise me, I would forgive him, for if he
MV 1.2. 62 love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
MV 1.2. 63
MV-NERISSA
What say you then to Falconbridge, the young
MV 1.2. 64 baron of England?
MV 1.2. 65
MV-PORTIA
You know I say nothing to him, for he understands
MV 1.2. 66 not me, nor I him. He hath neither Latin,
MV 1.2. 67 French, nor Italian, and you will come into the court
MV 1.2. 68 and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the
MV 1.2. 69 English. He is a proper man's picture, but alas, who
MV 1.2. 70 can converse with a dumb show? How oddly he is
MV 1.2. 71 suited! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round
MV 1.2. 72 hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his
MV 1.2. 73 behaviour everywhere.
MV 1.2. 74
MV-NERISSA
What think you of the Scottish lord, his
MV 1.2. 75 neighbour?
MV 1.2. 76
MV-PORTIA
That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for
MV 1.2. 77 he borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and
MV 1.2. 78 swore he would pay him again when he was able. I
MV 1.2. 79 think the Frenchman became his surety, and sealed
MV 1.2. 80 under for another.
MV 1.2. 81
MV-NERISSA
How like you the young German, the Duke of
MV 1.2. 82 Saxony's nephew?
MV 1.2. 83
MV-PORTIA
Very vilely in the morning when he is sober, and
MV 1.2. 84 most vilely in the afternoon when he is drunk. When
MV 1.2. 85 he is best he is a little worse than a man, and when
MV 1.2. 86 he is worst he is little better than a beast. An the worst
MV 1.2. 87 fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without
MV 1.2. 88 him.
MV 1.2. 89
MV-NERISSA
If he should offer to choose, and choose the right
MV 1.2. 90 casket, you should refuse to perform your father's will
MV 1.2. 91 if you should refuse to accept him.
MV 1.2. 92
MV-PORTIA
Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee set a
MV 1.2. 93 deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket; for
MV 1.2. 94 if the devil be within and that temptation without, I
MV 1.2. 95 know he will choose it. I will do anything, Nerissa, ere
MV 1.2. 96 I will be married to a sponge.
MV 1.2. 97
MV-NERISSA
You need not fear, lady, the having any of these
MV 1.2. 98 lords. They have acquainted me with their determinations,
MV 1.2. 99 which is indeed to return to their home and
MV 1.2. 100 to trouble you with no more suit unless you may be
MV 1.2. 101 won by some other sort than your father's imposition
MV 1.2. 102 depending on the caskets.
MV 1.2. 103
MV-PORTIA
If I live to be as old as Sibylla I will die as chaste
MV 1.2. 104 as Diana unless I be obtained by the manner of my
MV 1.2. 105 father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers are so
MV 1.2. 106 reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote
MV 1.2. 107 on his very absence; and I pray God grant them a fair
MV 1.2. 108 departure.
MV 1.2. 109
MV-NERISSA
Do you not remember, lady, in your father's
MV 1.2. 110 time, a Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came
MV 1.2. 111 hither in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?
MV 1.2. 112
MV-PORTIA
Yes, yes, it was Bassanio - as I think, so was he
MV 1.2. 113 called.
MV 1.2. 114
MV-NERISSA
True, madam. He of all the men that ever my
MV 1.2. 115 foolish eyes looked upon was the best deserving a fair
MV 1.2. 116 lady.
MV 1.2. 117
MV-PORTIA
I remember him well, and I remember him worthy
MV 1.2. 118 of thy praise. {Enter a Servingman}
MV 1.2. 119 How now, what news?
MV 1.2. 120
MV-SERVINGMAN
The four strangers seek for you, madam, to
MV 1.2. 121 take their leave, and there is a forerunner come from
MV 1.2. 122 a fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the
MV 1.2. 123 Prince his master will be here tonight.
MV 1.2. 124
MV-PORTIA
If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart
MV 1.2. 125 as I can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad
MV 1.2. 126 of his approach. If he have the condition of a saint and
MV 1.2. 127 the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive
MV 1.2. 128 me than wive me.
MV 1.2. 129 Come, Nerissa. {(To the Servingman)} Sirrah, +
MV 1.2. 129 go before.
MV 1.2. 130 Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer,
MV 1.2. 131 Another knocks at the door. {Exeunt}
MV 1.2. 0 {Enter Bassanio with Shylock the Jew}
MV 1.3. 1
MV-SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats. Well.
MV 1.3. 2
MV-BASSANIO
Ay, sir, for three months.
MV 1.3. 3
MV-SHYLOCK
For three months. Well.
MV 1.3. 4
MV-BASSANIO
For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be
MV 1.3. 5 bound.
MV 1.3. 6
MV-SHYLOCK
Antonio shall become bound. Well.
MV 1.3. 7
MV-BASSANIO
May you stead me? Will you pleasure me? Shall
MV 1.3. 8 I know your answer?
MV 1.3. 9
MV-SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats for three months, and
MV 1.3. 10 Antonio bound.
MV 1.3. 11
MV-BASSANIO
Your answer to that.
MV 1.3. 12
MV-SHYLOCK
Antonio is a good man.
MV 1.3. 13
MV-BASSANIO
Have you heard any imputation to the
MV 1.3. 14 contrary?
MV 1.3. 15
MV-SHYLOCK
Ho, no, no, no, no! My meaning in saying he
MV 1.3. 16 is a good man is to have you understand me that he
MV 1.3. 17 is sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition. He hath
MV 1.3. 18 an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies. I
MV 1.3. 19 understand moreover upon the Rialto he hath a third
MV 1.3. 20 at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures he
MV 1.3. 21 hath squandered abroad. But ships are but boards,
MV 1.3. 22 sailors but men. There be land rats and water rats,
MV 1.3. 23 water thieves and land thieves - I mean pirates - and
MV 1.3. 24 then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. The
MV 1.3. 25 man is, notwithstanding, sufficient. Three thousand
MV 1.3. 26 ducats. I think I may take his bond.
MV 1.3. 27
MV-BASSANIO
Be assured you may.
MV 1.3. 28
MV-SHYLOCK
I will be assured I may, and that I may be
MV 1.3. 29 assured, I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?
MV 1.3. 30
MV-BASSANIO
If it please you to dine with us.
MV 1.3. 31
MV-SHYLOCK
{[aside]} Yes, to smell pork, to eat of +
MV 1.3. 31 the habitation
MV 1.3. 32 which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil
MV 1.3. 33 into! I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
MV 1.3. 34 walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
MV 1.3. 35 with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. {Enter Antonio}
MV 1.3. 36 {[To Antonio]} What news on the Rialto? {[To +
MV 1.3. 36 Bassanio]}
MV 1.3. 37 Who is he comes here?
MV 1.3. 38
MV-BASSANIO
This is Signor Antonio. {[Bassanio and Antonio +
MV 1.3. 38 speak silently to one another]}
MV 1.3. 39
MV-SHYLOCK
{(aside)} How like a fawning publican he +
MV 1.3. 39 looks.
MV 1.3. 40 I hate him for he is a Christian;
MV 1.3. 41 But more, for that in low simplicity
MV 1.3. 42 He lends out money gratis, and brings down
MV 1.3. 43 The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
MV 1.3. 44 If I can catch him once upon the hip
MV 1.3. 45 I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
MV 1.3. 46 He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
MV 1.3. 47 Even there where merchants most do congregate,
MV 1.3. 48 On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift -
MV 1.3. 49 Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe
MV 1.3. 50B If I forgive him.
MV-BASSANIO
Shylock, do you hear?
MV 1.3. 51
MV-SHYLOCK
I am debating of my present store,
MV 1.3. 52 And by the near guess of my memory
MV 1.3. 53 I cannot instantly raise up the gross
MV 1.3. 54 Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?
MV 1.3. 55 Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,
MV 1.3. 56 Will furnish me. But soft - how many months
MV 1.3. 57 Do you desire? {[To Antonio]} Rest you fair, good +
MV 1.3. 57 signor.
MV 1.3. 58 Your worship was the last man in our mouths.
MV 1.3. 59
MV-ANTONIO
Shylock, albeit I neither lend nor borrow
MV 1.3. 60 By taking nor by giving of excess,
MV 1.3. 61 Yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend
MV 1.3. 62 I'll break a custom. {(To Bassanio)} Is he yet +
MV 1.3. 62 possessed
MV 1.3. 63 How much ye would?
MV 1.3. 64A
MV-SHYLOCK
Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.
MV 1.3. 65A
MV-ANTONIO
And for three months.
MV 1.3. 66
MV-SHYLOCK
I had forgot - three months. {(To Bassanio)} +
MV 1.3. 66 You told me so. -
MV 1.3. 67 Well then, your bond; and let me see - but hear you,
MV 1.3. 68 Methoughts you said you neither lend nor borrow
MV 1.3. 69B Upon advantage.
MV-ANTONIO
I do never use it.
MV 1.3. 70
MV-SHYLOCK
When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep -
MV 1.3. 71 This Jacob from our holy Abram was,
MV 1.3. 72 As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,
MV 1.3. 73 The third possessor; ay, he was the third -
MV 1.3. 74
MV-ANTONIO
And what of him? Did he take interest?
MV 1.3. 75
MV-SHYLOCK
No, not take interest, not, as you would say,
MV 1.3. 76 Directly int'rest. Mark what Jacob did:
MV 1.3. 77 When Laban and himself were compromised
MV 1.3. 78 That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied
MV 1.3. 79 Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,
MV 1.3. 80 In end of autumn turned to the rams,
MV 1.3. 81 And when the work of generation was
MV 1.3. 82 Between these woolly breeders in the act,
MV 1.3. 83 The skilful shepherd peeled me certain wands,
MV 1.3. 84 And in the doing of the deed of kind
MV 1.3. 85 He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes
MV 1.3. 86 Who, then conceiving, did in eaning time
MV 1.3. 87 Fall parti-coloured lambs; and those were Jacob's.
MV 1.3. 88 This was a way to thrive; and he was blest;
MV 1.3. 89 And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.
MV 1.3. 90
MV-ANTONIO
This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for -
MV 1.3. 91 A thing not in his power to bring to pass,
MV 1.3. 92 But swayed and fashioned by the hand of heaven.
MV 1.3. 93 Was this inserted to make interest good,
MV 1.3. 94 Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
MV 1.3. 95
MV-SHYLOCK
I cannot tell. I make it breed as fast.
MV 1.3. 96B But note me, signor -
MV-ANTONIO
Mark you this, Bassanio?
MV 1.3. 97 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
MV 1.3. 98 An evil soul producing holy witness
MV 1.3. 99 Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
MV 1.3. 100 A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
MV 1.3. 101 O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
MV 1.3. 102
MV-SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats. 'Tis a good round sum.
MV 1.3. 103 Three months from twelve - then let me see the rate.
MV 1.3. 104
MV-ANTONIO
Well, Shylock, shall we be beholden to you?
MV 1.3. 105
MV-SHYLOCK
Signor Antonio, many a time and oft
MV 1.3. 106 In the Rialto you have rated me
MV 1.3. 107 About my moneys and my usances.
MV 1.3. 108 Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
MV 1.3. 109 For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe.
MV 1.3. 110 You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog,
MV 1.3. 111 And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
MV 1.3. 112 And all for use of that which is mine own.
MV 1.3. 113 Well then, it now appears you need my help.
MV 1.3. 114 Go to, then. You come to me, and you say
MV 1.3. 115 `Shylock, we would have moneys' - you say so,
MV 1.3. 116 You, that did void your rheum upon my beard,
MV 1.3. 117 And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
MV 1.3. 118 Over your threshold. Moneys is your suit.
MV 1.3. 119 What should I say to you? Should I not say
MV 1.3. 120 `Hath a dog money? Is it possible
MV 1.3. 121 A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or
MV 1.3. 122 Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,
MV 1.3. 123 With bated breath and whisp'ring humbleness
MV 1.3. 124 Say this: `Fair sir, you spat on me on Wednesday last;
MV 1.3. 125 You spurned me such a day; another time
MV 1.3. 126 You called me dog; and for these courtesies
MV 1.3. 127 I'll lend you thus much moneys'?
MV 1.3. 128
MV-ANTONIO
I am as like to call thee so again,
MV 1.3. 129 To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.
MV 1.3. 130 If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
MV 1.3. 131 As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
MV 1.3. 132 A breed for barren metal of his friend?
MV 1.3. 133 But lend it rather to thine enemy,
MV 1.3. 134 Who if he break, thou mayst with better face
MV 1.3. 135B Exact the penalty.
MV-SHYLOCK
Why, look you, how you storm!
MV 1.3. 136 I would be friends with you, and have your love,
MV 1.3. 137 Forget the shames that you have stained me with,
MV 1.3. 138 Supply your present wants, and take no doit
MV 1.3. 139 Of usance for my moneys; and you'll not hear me.
MV 1.3. 140 This is kind I offer.
MV 1.3. 141A
MV-BASSANIO
This were kindness.
MV 1.3. 142A
MV-SHYLOCK
This kindness will I show.
MV 1.3. 143 Go with me to a notary, seal me there
MV 1.3. 144 Your single bond, and, in a merry sport,
MV 1.3. 145 If you repay me not on such a day,
MV 1.3. 146 In such a place, such sum or sums as are
MV 1.3. 147 Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit
MV 1.3. 148 Be nominated for an equal pound
MV 1.3. 149 Of your fair flesh to be cut off and taken
MV 1.3. 150 In what part of your body pleaseth me.
MV 1.3. 151
MV-ANTONIO
Content, in faith. I'll seal to such a bond,
MV 1.3. 152 And say there is much kindness in the Jew.
MV 1.3. 153
MV-BASSANIO
You shall not seal to such a bond for me.
MV 1.3. 154 I'll rather dwell in my necessity.
MV 1.3. 155
MV-ANTONIO
Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it.
MV 1.3. 156 Within these two months - that's a month before
MV 1.3. 157 This bond expires - I do expect return
MV 1.3. 158 Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
MV 1.3. 159
MV-SHYLOCK
O father Abram, what these Christians are,
MV 1.3. 160 Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
MV 1.3. 161 The thoughts of others! {(To Bassanio)} Pray you tell +
MV 1.3. 161 me this:
MV 1.3. 162 If he should break his day, what should I gain
MV 1.3. 163 By the exaction of the forfeiture?
MV 1.3. 164 A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
MV 1.3. 165 Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
MV 1.3. 166 As flesh of muttons, beeves, or goats. I say,
MV 1.3. 167 To buy his favour I extend this friendship.
MV 1.3. 168 If he will take it, so. If not, adieu,
MV 1.3. 169 And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.
MV 1.3. 170
MV-ANTONIO
Yes, Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.
MV 1.3. 171
MV-SHYLOCK
Then meet me forthwith at the notary's.
MV 1.3. 172 Give him direction for this merry bond,
MV 1.3. 173 And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
MV 1.3. 174 See to my house - left in the fearful guard
MV 1.3. 175 Of an unthrifty knave - and presently
MV 1.3. 176B I'll be with you.
MV-ANTONIO
Hie thee, gentle Jew. {Exit +
MV 1.3. 176B Shylock}
MV 1.3. 177 The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
MV 1.3. 178
MV-BASSANIO
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
MV 1.3. 179
MV-ANTONIO
Come on. In this there can be no dismay.
MV 1.3. 180 My ships come home a month before the day. {Exeunt}
MV 1.3. 0 {[Flourish of cornetts.] Enter the Prince of +
MV 2.1. 0 Morocco, a tawny Moor all in white, and three or four followers +
MV 2.1. 0 accordingly, with Portia, Nerissa, and their train}
MV 2.1. 1
MV-MOROCCO
{(to Portia)} Mislike me not for my +
MV 2.1. 1 complexion,
MV 2.1. 2 The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,
MV 2.1. 3 To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.
MV 2.1. 4 Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
MV 2.1. 5 Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,
MV 2.1. 6 And let us make incision for your love
MV 2.1. 7 To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.
MV 2.1. 8 I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine
MV 2.1. 9 Hath feared the valiant. By my love I swear,
MV 2.1. 10 The best regarded virgins of our clime
MV 2.1. 11 Have loved it too. I would not change this hue
MV 2.1. 12 Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.
MV 2.1. 13
MV-PORTIA
In terms of choice I am not solely led
MV 2.1. 14 By nice direction of a maiden's eyes.
MV 2.1. 15 Besides, the lott'ry of my destiny
MV 2.1. 16 Bars me the right of voluntary choosing.
MV 2.1. 17 But if my father had not scanted me,
MV 2.1. 18 And hedged me by his wit to yield myself
MV 2.1. 19 His wife who wins me by that means I told you,
MV 2.1. 20 Yourself, renowned Prince, then stood as fair
MV 2.1. 21 As any comer I have looked on yet
MV 2.1. 22B For my affection.
MV-MOROCCO
Even for that I thank you.
MV 2.1. 23 Therefore I pray you lead me to the caskets
MV 2.1. 24 To try my fortune. By this scimitar,
MV 2.1. 25 That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince
MV 2.1. 26 That won three fields of Sultan Suleiman,
MV 2.1. 27 I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that look,
MV 2.1. 28 Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,
MV 2.1. 29 Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
MV 2.1. 30 Yea, mock the lion when a roars for prey,
MV 2.1. 31 To win the lady. But alas the while,
MV 2.1. 32 If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
MV 2.1. 33 Which is the better man, the greater throw
MV 2.1. 34 May turn by fortune from the weaker hand.
MV 2.1. 35 So is Alcides beaten by his rage,
MV 2.1. 36 And so may I, blind Fortune leading me,
MV 2.1. 37 Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
MV 2.1. 38B And die with grieving.
MV-PORTIA
You must take your chance,
MV 2.1. 39 And either not attempt to choose at all,
MV 2.1. 40 Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong
MV 2.1. 41 Never to speak to lady afterward
MV 2.1. 42 In way of marriage. Therefore be advised.
MV 2.1. 43
MV-MOROCCO
Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.
MV 2.1. 44
MV-PORTIA
First, forward to the temple. After dinner
MV 2.1. 45B Your hazard shall be made.
MV-MOROCCO
Good fortune then,
MV 2.1. 46 To make me blest or cursed'st among men. {[Flourish of +
MV 2.1. 46 cornetts.] Exeunt}
MV 2.1. 0 {Enter Lancelot the clown}
MV 2.2. 1
MV-LANCELOT
Certainly my conscience will serve me to run
MV 2.2. 2 from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow
MV 2.2. 3 and tempts me, saying to me `Gobbo, Lancelot Gobbo,
MV 2.2. 4 good Lancelot,' or `good Gobbo,' or `good Lancelot
MV 2.2. 5 Gobbo - use your legs, take the start, run away.' My
MV 2.2. 6 conscience says `No, take heed, honest Lancelot, take
MV 2.2. 7 heed, honest Gobbo,' or, as aforesaid, `honest Lancelot
MV 2.2. 8 Gobbo - do not run, scorn running with thy heels.'
MV 2.2. 9 Well, the most courageous fiend bids me pack. `{Via}!'
MV 2.2. 10 says the fiend; `Away!' says the fiend. `For the heavens,
MV 2.2. 11 rouse up a brave mind,' says the fiend, `and run.' Well,
MV 2.2. 12 my conscience hanging about the neck of my heart
MV 2.2. 13 says very wisely to me, `My honest friend Lancelot' -
MV 2.2. 14 being an honest man's son, or rather an honest
MV 2.2. 15 woman's son, for indeed my father did something
MV 2.2. 16 smack, something grow to; he had a kind of taste -
MV 2.2. 17 well, my conscience says, `Lancelot, budge not';
MV 2.2. 18 `Budge!' says the fiend; `Budge not', says my
MV 2.2. 19 conscience. `Conscience,' say I, `you counsel well';
MV 2.2. 20 `Fiend,' say I, `you counsel well.' To be ruled by my
MV 2.2. 21 conscience I should stay with the Jew my master who,
MV 2.2. 22 God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and to run away
MV 2.2. 23 from the Jew I should be ruled by the fiend who, saving
MV 2.2. 24 your reverence, is the devil himself. Certainly the Jew
MV 2.2. 25 is the very devil incarnation; and in my conscience,
MV 2.2. 26 my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience to offer
MV 2.2. 27 to counsel me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the
MV 2.2. 28 more friendly counsel. I will run, fiend. My heels are
MV 2.2. 29 at your commandment. I will run. {Enter old Gobbo, [blind,] with +
MV 2.2. 29 a basket}
MV 2.2. 30
MV-GOBBO
Master young man, you, I pray you, which is the
MV 2.2. 31 way to Master Jew's?
MV 2.2. 32
MV-LANCELOT
{(aside)} O heavens, this is my +
MV 2.2. 32 true-begotten father
MV 2.2. 33 who, being more than sand-blind - high-gravel-blind -
MV 2.2. 34 knows me not. I will try confusions with him.
MV 2.2. 35
MV-GOBBO
Master young gentleman, I pray you which is the
MV 2.2. 36 way to Master Jew's?
MV 2.2. 37
MV-LANCELOT
Turn up on your right hand at the next turning,
MV 2.2. 38 but at the next turning of all on your left, marry at
MV 2.2. 39 the very next turning, turn of no hand but turn down
MV 2.2. 40 indirectly to the Jew's house.
MV 2.2. 41
MV-GOBBO
By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can
MV 2.2. 42 you tell me whether one Lancelot that dwells with him
MV 2.2. 43 dwell with him or no?
MV 2.2. 44
MV-LANCELOT
Talk you of young Master Lancelot? {(Aside)}
MV 2.2. 45 Mark me now, now will I raise the waters. {(To Gobbo)}
MV 2.2. 46 Talk you of young Master Lancelot?
MV 2.2. 47
MV-GOBBO
No master, sir, but a poor man's son. His father,
MV 2.2. 48 though I say 't, is an honest exceeding poor man, and,
MV 2.2. 49 God be thanked, well to live.
MV 2.2. 50
MV-LANCELOT
Well, let his father be what a will, we talk of
MV 2.2. 51 young Master Lancelot.
MV 2.2. 52
MV-GOBBO
Your worship's friend, and Lancelot, sir.
MV 2.2. 53
MV-LANCELOT
But I pray you, {ergo} old man, {ergo} I beseech
MV 2.2. 54 you, talk you of young Master Lancelot?
MV 2.2. 55
MV-GOBBO
Of Lancelot, an 't please your mastership.
MV 2.2. 56
MV-LANCELOT
{Ergo} Master Lancelot. Talk not of Master
MV 2.2. 57 Lancelot, father, for the young gentleman, according
MV 2.2. 58 to fates and destinies and such odd sayings - the sisters
MV 2.2. 59 three and such branches of learning - is indeed
MV 2.2. 60 deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to
MV 2.2. 61 heaven.
MV 2.2. 62
MV-GOBBO
Marry, God forbid! The boy was the very staff of
MV 2.2. 63 my age, my very prop.
MV 2.2. 64
MV-LANCELOT
{[aside]} Do I look like a cudgel or a +
MV 2.2. 64 hovel-post,
MV 2.2. 65 a staff or a prop? {(To Gobbo)} Do you know me, father?
MV 2.2. 66
MV-GOBBO
Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman.
MV 2.2. 67 But I pray you tell me, is my boy - God rest his soul -
MV 2.2. 68 alive or dead?
MV 2.2. 69
MV-LANCELOT
Do you not know me, father?
MV 2.2. 70
MV-GOBBO
Alack, sir, I am sand-blind. I know you not.
MV 2.2. 71
MV-LANCELOT
Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes you might
MV 2.2. 72 fail of the knowing me. It is a wise father that knows
MV 2.2. 73 his own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of
MV 2.2. 74 your son. {(Kneeling)} Give me your blessing. Truth +
MV 2.2. 74 will
MV 2.2. 75 come to light; murder cannot be hid long - a man's
MV 2.2. 76 son may, but in the end truth will out.
MV 2.2. 77
MV-GOBBO
Pray you, sir, stand up. I am sure you are not
MV 2.2. 78 Lancelot, my boy.
MV 2.2. 79
MV-LANCELOT
Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it,
MV 2.2. 80 but give me your blessing. I am Lancelot, your boy
MV 2.2. 81 that was, your son that is, your child that shall be.
MV 2.2. 82
MV-GOBBO
I cannot think you are my son.
MV 2.2. 83
MV-LANCELOT
I know not what I shall think of that, but I am
MV 2.2. 84 Lancelot the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your
MV 2.2. 85 wife is my mother.
MV 2.2. 86
MV-GOBBO
Her name is Margery indeed. I'll be sworn, if thou
MV 2.2. 87 be Lancelot thou art mine own flesh and blood. {He feels +
MV 2.2. 87 Lancelot's head}
MV 2.2. 88 Lord worshipped might he be, what a beard hast thou
MV 2.2. 89 got! Thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin
MV 2.2. 90 my fill-horse has on his tail.
MV 2.2. 91
MV-LANCELOT
It should seem then that Dobbin's tail grows
MV 2.2. 92 backward. I am sure he had more hair of his tail than
MV 2.2. 93 I have of my face when I last saw him.
MV 2.2. 94
MV-GOBBO
Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and
MV 2.2. 95 thy master agree? I have brought him a present. How
MV 2.2. 96 'gree you now?
MV 2.2. 97
MV-LANCELOT
Well, well; but for mine own part, as I have
MV 2.2. 98 set up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I have
MV 2.2. 99 run some ground. My master's a very Jew. Give him a
MV 2.2. 100 present? - give him a halter! I am famished in his
MV 2.2. 101 service. You may tell every finger I have with my ribs.
MV 2.2. 102 Father, I am glad you are come. Give me your present
MV 2.2. 103 to one Master Bassanio, who indeed gives rare new
MV 2.2. 104 liveries. If I serve not him, I will run as far as God has
MV 2.2. 105 any ground. {Enter Bassanio with Leonardo and followers}
MV 2.2. 106 O rare fortune! Here comes the man. To him, father,
MV 2.2. 107 for I am a Jew if I serve the Jew any longer.
MV 2.2. 108
MV-BASSANIO
{(to one of his men)} You may do so, but +
MV 2.2. 108 let it be
MV 2.2. 109 so hasted that supper be ready at the farthest by five
MV 2.2. 110 of the clock. See these letters delivered, put the liveries
MV 2.2. 111 to making, and desire Graziano to come anon to my
MV 2.2. 112 lodging. {Exit one}
MV 2.2. 113
MV-LANCELOT
{(to Gobbo)} To him, father.
MV 2.2. 114
MV-GOBBO
{(to Bassanio)} God bless your worship.
MV 2.2. 115
MV-BASSANIO
Gramercy. Wouldst thou aught with me?
MV 2.2. 116
MV-GOBBO
Here's my son, sir, a poor boy -
MV 2.2. 117
MV-LANCELOT
{(to Bassanio)} Not a poor boy, sir, but +
MV 2.2. 117 the rich
MV 2.2. 118 Jew's man that would, sir, as my father shall specify.
MV 2.2. 119
MV-GOBBO
{(to Bassiano)} He hath a great infection, +
MV 2.2. 119 sir, as one
MV 2.2. 120 would say, to serve -
MV 2.2. 121
MV-LANCELOT
Indeed, the short and the long is, I serve the
MV 2.2. 122 Jew, and have a desire as my father shall specify.
MV 2.2. 123
MV-GOBBO
{(to Bassiano)} His master and he, saving +
MV 2.2. 123 your
MV 2.2. 124 worship's reverence, are scarce cater-cousins.
MV 2.2. 125
MV-LANCELOT
{(to Bassiano)} To be brief, the very +
MV 2.2. 125 truth is that
MV 2.2. 126 the Jew, having done me wrong, doth cause me, as my
MV 2.2. 127 father - being, I hope, an old man - shall frutify unto
MV 2.2. 128 you.
MV 2.2. 129
MV-GOBBO
{(to Bassiano)} I have here a dish of doves +
MV 2.2. 129 that I
MV 2.2. 130 would bestow upon your worship, and my suit is -
MV 2.2. 131
MV-LANCELOT
{(to Bassiano)} In very brief, the suit +
MV 2.2. 131 is impertinent
MV 2.2. 132 to myself, as your worship shall know by this honest
MV 2.2. 133 old man; and though I say it, though old man, yet,
MV 2.2. 134 poor man, my father.
MV 2.2. 135
MV-BASSANIO
One speak for both. What would you?
MV 2.2. 136
MV-LANCELOT
Serve you, sir.
MV 2.2. 137
MV-GOBBO
{(to Bassiano)} That is the very defect of +
MV 2.2. 137 the matter,
MV 2.2. 138 sir.
MV 2.2. 139
MV-BASSANIO
{(to Lancelot)} I know thee well. Thou +
MV 2.2. 139 hast obtained thy suit.
MV 2.2. 140 Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,
MV 2.2. 141 And hath preferred thee, if it be preferment
MV 2.2. 142 To leave a rich Jew's service to become
MV 2.2. 143 The follower of so poor a gentleman.
MV 2.2. 144
MV-LANCELOT
The old proverb is very well parted between
MV 2.2. 145 my master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace
MV 2.2. 146 of God, sir, and he hath enough.
MV 2.2. 147
MV-BASSANIO
Thou speak'st it well. {(To +
MV 2.2. 147 Gobbo)} Go, father, with thy son.
MV 2.2. 148 {(To Lancelot)} Take leave of thy old master and +
MV 2.2. 148 enquire
MV 2.2. 149 My lodging out. {(To one of his men)} Give him a livery
MV 2.2. 150 More guarded than his fellows'. See it done.
MV 2.2. 151
MV-LANCELOT
{(to Gobbo)} Father, in. I cannot get a +
MV 2.2. 151 service, no,
MV 2.2. 152 I have ne'er a tongue in my head - well! {He looks at his palm}
MV 2.2. 153 If any man in Italy have a fairer table which doth offer
MV 2.2. 154 to swear upon a book, I shall have good fortune. Go
MV 2.2. 155 to, here's a simple line of life, here's a small trifle of
MV 2.2. 156 wives - alas, fifteen wives is nothing. Eleven widows
MV 2.2. 157 and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one man, and
MV 2.2. 158 then to scape drowning thrice, and to be in peril of my
MV 2.2. 159 life with the edge of a featherbed - here are simple
MV 2.2. 160 scapes. Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good
MV 2.2. 161 wench for this gear. Father, come. I'll take my leave
MV 2.2. 162 of the Jew in the twinkling. {Exit with old Gobbo}
MV 2.2. 163
MV-BASSANIO
I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this.
MV 2.2. 164 These things being bought and orderly bestowed,
MV 2.2. 165 Return in haste, for I do feast tonight
MV 2.2. 166 My best-esteemed acquaintance. Hie thee. Go.
MV 2.2. 167
MV-LEONARDO
My best endeavours shall be done herein. {He begins +
MV 2.2. 167 to leave. Enter Graziano}
MV 2.2. 168B
MV-GRAZIANO
{(to Leonardo)} Where's your +
MV 2.2. 168B master?
MV-LEONARDO
Yonder, sir, he walks. {Exit}
MV 2.2. 169B
MV-GRAZIANO
Signor Bassanio.
MV-BASSANIO
Graziano.
MV 2.2. 170B
MV-GRAZIANO
I have a suit to you.
MV-BASSANIO
You have obtained it.
MV 2.2. 171
MV-GRAZIANO
You must not deny me. I must go with you to Belmont.
MV 2.2. 172
MV-BASSANIO
Why then, you must. But hear thee, Graziano,
MV 2.2. 173 Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice -
MV 2.2. 174 Parts that become thee happily enough,
MV 2.2. 175 And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;
MV 2.2. 176 But where thou art not known, why, there they show
MV 2.2. 177 Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain
MV 2.2. 178 To allay with some cold drops of modesty
MV 2.2. 179 Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behaviour
MV 2.2. 180 I be misconstered in the place I go to,
MV 2.2. 181B And lose my hopes.
MV-GRAZIANO
Signor Bassanio, hear me.
MV 2.2. 182 If I do not put on a sober habit,
MV 2.2. 183 Talk with respect, and swear but now and then,
MV 2.2. 184 Wear prayer books in my pocket, look demurely -
MV 2.2. 185 Nay more, while grace is saying hood mine eyes
MV 2.2. 186 Thus with my hat, and sigh, and say `Amen',
MV 2.2. 187 Use all the observance of civility,
MV 2.2. 188 Like one well studied in a sad ostent
MV 2.2. 189 To please his grandam, never trust me more.
MV 2.2. 190A
MV-BASSANIO
Well, we shall see your bearing.
MV 2.2. 191
MV-GRAZIANO
Nay, but I bar tonight. You shall not gauge me
MV 2.2. 192B By what we do tonight.
MV-BASSANIO
No, that were pity.
MV 2.2. 193 I would entreat you rather to put on
MV 2.2. 194 Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends
MV 2.2. 195 That purpose merriment. But fare you well.
MV 2.2. 196 I have some business.
MV 2.2. 197
MV-GRAZIANO
And I must to Lorenzo and the rest.
MV 2.2. 198 But we will visit you at supper-time. {Exeunt severally}
MV 2.2. 0 {Enter Jessica and Lancelot, the clown}
MV 2.3. 1
MV-JESSICA
I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so.
MV 2.3. 2 Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,
MV 2.3. 3 Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.
MV 2.3. 4 But fare thee well. There is a ducat for thee.
MV 2.3. 5 And, Lancelot, soon at supper shalt thou see
MV 2.3. 6 Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest.
MV 2.3. 7 Give him this letter, do it secretly;
MV 2.3. 8 And so farewell. I would not have my father
MV 2.3. 9 See me in talk with thee.
MV 2.3. 10
MV-LANCELOT
Adieu. Tears exhibit my tongue, most beautiful
MV 2.3. 11 pagan; most sweet Jew; if a Christian do not play the
MV 2.3. 12 knave and get thee, I am much deceived. But adieu.
MV 2.3. 13 These foolish drops do something drown my manly
MV 2.3. 14 spirit. Adieu.
MV 2.3. 15A
MV-JESSICA
Farewell, good Lancelot. {Exit Lancelot}
MV 2.3. 16 Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
MV 2.3. 17 To be ashamed to be my father's child!
MV 2.3. 18 But though I am a daughter to his blood,
MV 2.3. 19 I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
MV 2.3. 20 If thou keep promise I shall end this strife,
MV 2.3. 21 Become a Christian and thy loving wife. {Exit}
MV 2.3. 0 {Enter Graziano, Lorenzo, Salerio, and Salanio}
MV 2.4. 1
MV-LORENZO
Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,
MV 2.4. 2 Disguise us at my lodging, and return
MV 2.4. 3 All in an hour.
MV 2.4. 4
MV-GRAZIANO
We have not made good preparation.
MV 2.4. 5
MV-SALERIO
We have not spoke as yet of torchbearers.
MV 2.4. 6
MV-SOLANIO
'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly ordered,
MV 2.4. 7 And better in my mind not undertook.
MV 2.4. 8
MV-LORENZO
'Tis now but four o'clock. We have two hours
MV 2.4. 9B To furnish us. {Enter Lancelot with a letter} Friend +
MV 2.4. 9B Lancelot, what's the news?
MV 2.4. 10
MV-LANCELOT
{(presenting the letter)} An it shall +
MV 2.4. 10 please you to
MV 2.4. 11 break up this, it shall seem to signify.
MV 2.4. 12
MV-LORENZO
{(taking the letter)} I know the hand. In +
MV 2.4. 12 faith, 'tis a fair hand,
MV 2.4. 13 And whiter than the paper it writ on
MV 2.4. 14B Is the fair hand that writ.
MV-GRAZIANO
Love-news, in faith.
MV 2.4. 15A
MV-LANCELOT
{[to Lorenzo]} By your leave, sir.
MV 2.4. 16A
MV-LORENZO
Whither goest thou?
MV 2.4. 17
MV-LANCELOT
Marry, sir, to bid my old master the Jew to sup
MV 2.4. 18 tonight with my new master the Christian.
MV 2.4. 19
MV-LORENZO
Hold, here, take this. {(Giving +
MV 2.4. 19 money)} Tell gentle Jessica
MV 2.4. 20 I will not fail her. Speak it privately.
MV 2.4. 21B Go. {Exit Lancelot} Gentlemen,
MV 2.4. 22 Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?
MV 2.4. 23 I am provided of a torchbearer.
MV 2.4. 24
MV-SALERIO
Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight.
MV 2.4. 25B
MV-SOLANIO
And so will I.
MV-LORENZO
Meet me and Graziano
MV 2.4. 26 At Graziano's lodging some hour hence.
MV 2.4. 27A
MV-SALERIO
'Tis good we do so. {Exit with Solanio}
MV 2.4. 28
MV-GRAZIANO
Was not that letter from fair Jessica?
MV 2.4. 29
MV-LORENZO
I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed
MV 2.4. 30 How I shall take her from her father's house,
MV 2.4. 31 What gold and jewels she is furnished with,
MV 2.4. 32 What page's suit she hath in readiness.
MV 2.4. 33 If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven
MV 2.4. 34 It will be for his gentle daughter's sake;
MV 2.4. 35 And never dare misfortune cross her foot
MV 2.4. 36 Unless she do it under this excuse:
MV 2.4. 37 That she is issue to a faithless Jew.
MV 2.4. 38 Come, go with me. Peruse this as thou goest. {He gives Graziano +
MV 2.4. 38 the letter}
MV 2.4. 39 Fair Jessica shall be my torchbearer. {Exeunt}
MV 2.4. 0 {Enter Shylock the Jew and his man that was, Lancelot the +
MV 2.5. 0 clown}
MV 2.5. 1
MV-SHYLOCK
Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy +
MV 2.5. 1 judge,
MV 2.5. 2 The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio.
MV 2.5. 3 {(Calling)} What, Jessica! {(To +
MV 2.5. 3 Lancelot)} Thou shalt not gormandize
MV 2.5. 4 As thou hast done with me. {(Calling)} What, Jessica!
MV 2.5. 5 {(To Lancelot)} And sleep and snore and rend apparel +
MV 2.5. 5 out.
MV 2.5. 6B {(Calling)} Why, Jessica, I say!
MV-LANCELOT
+
MV 2.5. 6B {(calling)} Why, Jessica!
MV 2.5. 7
MV-SHYLOCK
Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.
MV 2.5. 8
MV-LANCELOT
Your worship was wont to tell me I could do
MV 2.5. 9 nothing without bidding. {Enter Jessica}
MV 2.5. 10A
MV-JESSICA
{(to Shylock)} Call you? What is your +
MV 2.5. 10A will?
MV 2.5. 11
MV-SHYLOCK
I am bid forth to supper, Jessica.
MV 2.5. 12 There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?
MV 2.5. 13 I am not bid for love. They flatter me,
MV 2.5. 14 But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon
MV 2.5. 15 The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,
MV 2.5. 16 Look to my house. I am right loath to go.
MV 2.5. 17 There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
MV 2.5. 18 For I did dream of money-bags tonight.
MV 2.5. 19
MV-LANCELOT
I beseech you, sir, go. My young master doth
MV 2.5. 20 expect your reproach.
MV 2.5. 21
MV-SHYLOCK
So do I his.
MV 2.5. 22
MV-LANCELOT
And they have conspired together. I will not
MV 2.5. 23 say you shall see a masque, but if you do, then it was
MV 2.5. 24 not for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on Black
MV 2.5. 25 Monday last at six o'clock i' th' morning, falling out
MV 2.5. 26 that year on Ash Wednesday was four year in
MV 2.5. 27 th' afternoon.
MV 2.5. 28
MV-SHYLOCK
What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica,
MV 2.5. 29 Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum
MV 2.5. 30 And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife,
MV 2.5. 31 Clamber not you up to the casements then,
MV 2.5. 32 Nor thrust your head into the public street
MV 2.5. 33 To gaze on Christian fools with varnished faces,
MV 2.5. 34 But stop my house's ears - I mean my casements.
MV 2.5. 35 Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter
MV 2.5. 36 My sober house. By Jacob's staff I swear
MV 2.5. 37 I have no mind of feasting forth tonight.
MV 2.5. 38 But I will go. {(To Lancelot)} Go you before me, +
MV 2.5. 38 sirrah.
MV 2.5. 39B Say I will come.
MV-LANCELOT
I will go before, sir.
MV 2.5. 40 {(Aside to Jessica)} Mistress, look out at window for +
MV 2.5. 40 all this.
MV 2.5. 41 There will come a Christian by
MV 2.5. 42 Will be worth a Jewe|s eye. {Exit}
MV 2.5. 43
MV-SHYLOCK
{(to Jessica)} What says that fool of +
MV 2.5. 43 Hagar's offspring, ha?
MV 2.5. 44
MV-JESSICA
His words were `Farewell, mistress'; nothing else.
MV 2.5. 45
MV-SHYLOCK
The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
MV 2.5. 46 Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
MV 2.5. 47 More than the wildcat. Drones hive not with me;
MV 2.5. 48 Therefore I part with him, and part with him
MV 2.5. 49 To one that I would have him help to waste
MV 2.5. 50 His borrowed purse. Well, Jessica, go in.
MV 2.5. 51 Perhaps I will return immediately.
MV 2.5. 52 Do as I bid you. Shut doors after you.
MV 2.5. 53 Fast bind, fast find -
MV 2.5. 54 A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. {Exit at one door}
MV 2.5. 55
MV-JESSICA
Farewell; and if my fortune be not crossed,
MV 2.5. 56 I have a father, you a daughter lost. {Exit at another door}
MV 2.5. 0 {Enter the masquers, Graziano and Salerio, [with +
MV 2.6. 0 torchbearers]}
MV 2.6. 1
MV-GRAZIANO
This is the penthouse under which Lorenzo
MV 2.6. 2B Desired us to make stand.
MV-SALERIO
His hour is almost past.
MV 2.6. 3
MV-GRAZIANO
And it is marvel he outdwells his hour,
MV 2.6. 4 For lovers ever run before the clock.
MV 2.6. 5
MV-SALERIO
O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly
MV 2.6. 6 To seal love's bonds new made than they are wont
MV 2.6. 7 To keep obliged faith unforfeited.
MV 2.6. 8
MV-GRAZIANO
That ever holds. Who riseth from a feast
MV 2.6. 9 With that keen appetite that he sits down?
MV 2.6. 10 Where is the horse that doth untread again
MV 2.6. 11 His tedious measures with the unbated fire
MV 2.6. 12 That he did pace them first? All things that are
MV 2.6. 13 Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
MV 2.6. 14 How like a younker or a prodigal
MV 2.6. 15 The scarfed barque puts from her native bay,
MV 2.6. 16 Hugged and embraced by the strumpet wind!
MV 2.6. 17 How like the prodigal doth she return,
MV 2.6. 18 With over-weathered ribs and ragged sails,
MV 2.6. 19 Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind! {Enter Lorenzo, +
MV 2.6. 19 [with a torch]}
MV 2.6. 20
MV-SALERIO
Here comes Lorenzo. More of this hereafter.
MV 2.6. 21
MV-LORENZO
Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode.
MV 2.6. 22 Not I but my affairs have made you wait.
MV 2.6. 23 When you shall please to play the thieves for wives
MV 2.6. 24 I'll watch as long for you therein. Approach.
MV 2.6. 25 Here dwells my father Jew. {(Calling)} Ho, who's +
MV 2.6. 25 within? {Enter Jessica above in boy's apparel}
MV 2.6. 26
MV-JESSICA
Who are you? Tell me for more certainty,
MV 2.6. 27 Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue.
MV 2.6. 28A
MV-LORENZO
Lorenzo, and thy love.
MV 2.6. 29
MV-JESSICA
Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,
MV 2.6. 30 For who love I so much? And now who knows
MV 2.6. 31 But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?
MV 2.6. 32
MV-LORENZO
Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.
MV 2.6. 33
MV-JESSICA
Here, catch this casket. It is worth the pains.
MV 2.6. 34 I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,
MV 2.6. 35 For I am much ashamed of my exchange;
MV 2.6. 36 But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
MV 2.6. 37 The pretty follies that themselves commit;
MV 2.6. 38 For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
MV 2.6. 39 To see me thus transformed to a boy.
MV 2.6. 40
MV-LORENZO
Descend, for you must be my torchbearer.
MV 2.6. 41
MV-JESSICA
What, must I hold a candle to my shames?
MV 2.6. 42 They in themselves, good sooth, are too too light.
MV 2.6. 43 Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love,
MV 2.6. 44B And I should be obscured.
MV-LORENZO
So are you, sweet,
MV 2.6. 45 Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
MV 2.6. 46 But come at once,
MV 2.6. 47 For the close night doth play the runaway,
MV 2.6. 48 And we are stayed for at Bassanio's feast.
MV 2.6. 49
MV-JESSICA
I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
MV 2.6. 50 With some more ducats, and be with you straight. {Exit above}
MV 2.6. 51
MV-GRAZIANO
Now, by my hood, a gentile, and no Jew.
MV 2.6. 52
MV-LORENZO
Beshrew me but I love her heartily,
MV 2.6. 53 For she is wise, if I can judge of her;
MV 2.6. 54 And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true;
MV 2.6. 55 And true she is, as she hath proved herself;
MV 2.6. 56 And therefore like herself, wise, fair, and true,
MV 2.6. 57 Shall she be placed in my constant soul. {Enter Jessica below}
MV 2.6. 58 What, art thou come? On, gentlemen, away.
MV 2.6. 59 Our masquing mates by this time for us stay. {Exit with Jessica +
MV 2.6. 59 and Salerio}
MV 2.6. 60B {Enter Antonio}
MV-ANTONIO
Who's there?
MV-GRAZIANO
+
MV 2.6. 60B Signor Antonio?
MV 2.6. 61
MV-ANTONIO
Fie, fie, Graziano, where are all the rest?
MV 2.6. 62 'Tis nine o'clock. Our friends all stay for you.
MV 2.6. 63 No masque tonight. The wind is come about.
MV 2.6. 64 Bassanio presently will go aboard.
MV 2.6. 65 I have sent twenty out to seek for you.
MV 2.6. 66
MV-GRAZIANO
I am glad on 't. I desire no more delight
MV 2.6. 67 Than to be under sail and gone tonight. {Exeunt}
MV 2.6. 0 {[Flourish of cornetts.] Enter Portia with Morocco and +
MV 2.7. 0 both their trains}
MV 2.7. 1
MV-PORTIA
Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover
MV 2.7. 2 The several caskets to this noble prince. {The curtains are +
MV 2.7. 2 drawn aside, revealing three caskets}
MV 2.7. 3 {(To Morocco)} Now make your choice.
MV 2.7. 4
MV-MOROCCO
This first of gold, who this inscription bears:
MV 2.7. 5 `Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
MV 2.7. 6 The second silver, which this promise carries:
MV 2.7. 7 `Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
MV 2.7. 8 This third dull lead, with warning all as blunt:
MV 2.7. 9 `Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
MV 2.7. 10 How shall I know if I do choose the right?
MV 2.7. 11
MV-PORTIA
The one of them contains my picture, Prince.
MV 2.7. 12 If you choose that, then I am yours withal.
MV 2.7. 13
MV-MOROCCO
Some god direct my judgement! Let me see.
MV 2.7. 14 I will survey th' inscriptions back again.
MV 2.7. 15 What says this leaden casket?
MV 2.7. 16 `Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
MV 2.7. 17 Must give, for what? For lead? Hazard for lead?
MV 2.7. 18 This casket threatens. Men that hazard all
MV 2.7. 19 Do it in hope of fair advantages.
MV 2.7. 20 A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
MV 2.7. 21 I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
MV 2.7. 22 What says the silver with her virgin hue?
MV 2.7. 23 `Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
MV 2.7. 24 `As much as he deserves': pause there, Morocco,
MV 2.7. 25 And weigh thy value with an even hand.
MV 2.7. 26 If thou beest rated by thy estimation
MV 2.7. 27 Thou dost deserve enough, and yet `enough'
MV 2.7. 28 May not extend so far as to the lady.
MV 2.7. 29 And yet to be afeard of my deserving
MV 2.7. 30 Were but a weak disabling of myself.
MV 2.7. 31 As much as I deserve - why, that's the lady!
MV 2.7. 32 I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,
MV 2.7. 33 In graces, and in qualities of breeding;
MV 2.7. 34 But more than these, in love I do deserve.
MV 2.7. 35 What if I strayed no farther, but chose here?
MV 2.7. 36 Let's see once more this saying graved in gold:
MV 2.7. 37 `Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
MV 2.7. 38 Why, that's the lady! All the world desires her.
MV 2.7. 39 From the four corners of the earth they come
MV 2.7. 40 To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint.
MV 2.7. 41 The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
MV 2.7. 42 Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now
MV 2.7. 43 For princes to come view fair Portia.
MV 2.7. 44 The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head
MV 2.7. 45 Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar
MV 2.7. 46 To stop the foreign spirits, but they come
MV 2.7. 47 As o'er a brook to see fair Portia.
MV 2.7. 48 One of these three contains her heavenly picture.
MV 2.7. 49 Is 't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation
MV 2.7. 50 To think so base a thought. It were too gross
MV 2.7. 51 To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
MV 2.7. 52 Or shall I think in silver she's immured,
MV 2.7. 53 Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?
MV 2.7. 54 O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem
MV 2.7. 55 Was set in worse than gold. They have in England
MV 2.7. 56 A coin that bears the figure of an angel
MV 2.7. 57 Stamped in gold, but that's insculped upon;
MV 2.7. 58 But here an angel in a golden bed
MV 2.7. 59 Lies all within. Deliver me the key.
MV 2.7. 60 Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may. {He is given a key}
MV 2.7. 61
MV-PORTIA
There, take it, Prince; and if my form lie there,
MV 2.7. 62B Then I am yours. {Morocco opens the golden casket}
MV-MOROCCO
+
MV 2.7. 62B O hell! What have we here?
MV 2.7. 63 A carrion death, within whose empty eye
MV 2.7. 64 There is a written scroll. I'll read the writing.
MV 2.7. 65 `All that glisters is not gold;
MV 2.7. 66 Often have you heard that told.
MV 2.7. 67 Many a man his life hath sold
MV 2.7. 68 But my outside to behold.
MV 2.7. 69 Gilded tombs do worms infold.
MV 2.7. 70 Had you been as wise as bold,
MV 2.7. 71 Young in limbs, in judgement old,
MV 2.7. 72 Your answer had not been enscrolled.
MV 2.7. 73 Fare you well; your suit is cold.'
MV 2.7. 74 Cold indeed, and labour lost.
MV 2.7. 75 Then farewell heat, and welcome frost.
MV 2.7. 76 Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart
MV 2.7. 77 To take a tedious leave. Thus losers part. {[Flourish of +
MV 2.7. 77 cornetts.] Exit with his train}
MV 2.7. 78
MV-PORTIA
A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.
MV 2.7. 79 Let all of his complexion choose me so. {The curtains are drawn. +
MV 2.7. 79 Exeunt}
MV 2.7. 0 {Enter Salerio and Solanio}
MV 2.8. 1
MV-SALERIO
Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail.
MV 2.8. 2 With him is Graziano gone along,
MV 2.8. 3 And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.
MV 2.8. 4
MV-SOLANIO
The villain Jew with outcries raised the Duke,
MV 2.8. 5 Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.
MV 2.8. 6
MV-SALERIO
He came too late. The ship was under sail.
MV 2.8. 7 But there the Duke was given to understand
MV 2.8. 8 That in a gondola were seen together
MV 2.8. 9 Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
MV 2.8. 10 Besides, Antonio certified the Duke
MV 2.8. 11 They were not with Bassanio in his ship.
MV 2.8. 12
MV-SOLANIO
I never heard a passion so confused,
MV 2.8. 13 So strange, outrageous, and so variable
MV 2.8. 14 As the dog Jew did utter in the streets.
MV 2.8. 15 `My daughter! O, my ducats! O, my daughter!
MV 2.8. 16 Fled with a Christian! O, my Christian ducats!
MV 2.8. 17 Justice! The law! My ducats and my daughter!
MV 2.8. 18 A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
MV 2.8. 19 Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!
MV 2.8. 20 And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
MV 2.8. 21 Stol'n by my daughter! Justice! Find the girl!
MV 2.8. 22 She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats!'
MV 2.8. 23
MV-SALERIO
Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,
MV 2.8. 24 Crying, `His stones, his daughter, and his ducats!'
MV 2.8. 25
MV-SOLANIO
Let good Antonio look he keep his day,
MV 2.8. 26B Or he shall pay for this.
MV-SALERIO
Marry, well remembered.
MV 2.8. 27 I reasoned with a Frenchman yesterday,
MV 2.8. 28 Who told me in the narrow seas that part
MV 2.8. 29 The French and English there miscarried
MV 2.8. 30 A vessel of our country, richly fraught.
MV 2.8. 31 I thought upon Antonio when he told me,
MV 2.8. 32 And wished in silence that it were not his.
MV 2.8. 33
MV-SOLANIO
You were best to tell Antonio what you hear -
MV 2.8. 34 Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.
MV 2.8. 35
MV-SALERIO
A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.
MV 2.8. 36 I saw Bassanio and Antonio part.
MV 2.8. 37 Bassanio told him he would make some speed
MV 2.8. 38 Of his return. He answered, `Do not so.
MV 2.8. 39 Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
MV 2.8. 40 But stay the very riping of the time;
MV 2.8. 41 And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,
MV 2.8. 42 Let it not enter in your mind of love.
MV 2.8. 43 Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
MV 2.8. 44 To courtship and such fair ostents of love
MV 2.8. 45 As shall conveniently become you there.'
MV 2.8. 46 And even there, his eye being big with tears,
MV 2.8. 47 Turning his face, he put his hand behind him
MV 2.8. 48 And, with affection wondrous sensible,
MV 2.8. 49 He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.
MV 2.8. 50
MV-SOLANIO
I think he only loves the world for him.
MV 2.8. 51 I pray thee let us go and find him out,
MV 2.8. 52 And quicken his embraced heaviness
MV 2.8. 53B With some delight or other.
MV-SALERIO
Do we so. {Exeunt}
MV 2.8. 0 {Enter Nerissa and a servitor}
MV 2.9. 1
MV-NERISSA
Quick, quick, I pray thee, draw the curtain +
MV 2.9. 1 straight.
MV 2.9. 2 The Prince of Aragon hath ta'en his oath,
MV 2.9. 3 And comes to his election presently. {The servitor draws aside +
MV 2.9. 3 the curtain, revealing the three caskets. [Flourish of cornetts.] Enter +
MV 2.9. 3 Aragon, his train, and Portia}
MV 2.9. 4
MV-PORTIA
Behold, there stand the caskets, noble Prince.
MV 2.9. 5 If you choose that wherein I am contained,
MV 2.9. 6 Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized.
MV 2.9. 7 But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,
MV 2.9. 8 You must be gone from hence immediately.
MV 2.9. 9
MV-ARAGON
I am enjoined by oath to observe three things:
MV 2.9. 10 First, never to unfold to anyone
MV 2.9. 11 Which casket 'twas I chose. Next, if I fail
MV 2.9. 12 Of the right casket, never in my life
MV 2.9. 13 To woo a maid in way of marriage.
MV 2.9. 14 Lastly, if I do fail in fortune of my choice,
MV 2.9. 15 Immediately to leave you and be gone.
MV 2.9. 16
MV-PORTIA
To these injunctions everyone doth swear
MV 2.9. 17 That comes to hazard for my worthless self.
MV 2.9. 18
MV-ARAGON
And so have I addressed me. Fortune now
MV 2.9. 19 To my heart's hope! Gold, silver, and base lead. {He reads the +
MV 2.9. 19 leaden casket}
MV 2.9. 20 `Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
MV 2.9. 21 You shall look fairer ere I give or hazard.
MV 2.9. 22 What says the golden chest? Ha, let me see.
MV 2.9. 23 `Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
MV 2.9. 24 `What many men desire' - that `many' may be meant
MV 2.9. 25 By the fool multitude, that choose by show,
MV 2.9. 26 Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,
MV 2.9. 27 Which pries not to th' interior but, like the martlet,
MV 2.9. 28 Builds in the weather on the outward wall
MV 2.9. 29 Even in the force and road of casualty.
MV 2.9. 30 I will not choose what many men desire,
MV 2.9. 31 Because I will not jump with common spirits
MV 2.9. 32 And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
MV 2.9. 33 Why then, to thee, thou silver treasure-house.
MV 2.9. 34 Tell me once more what title thou dost bear.
MV 2.9. 35 `Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves' -
MV 2.9. 36 And well said too, for who shall go about
MV 2.9. 37 To cozen fortune, and be honourable
MV 2.9. 38 Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume
MV 2.9. 39 To wear an undeserved dignity.
MV 2.9. 40 O, that estates, degrees, and offices
MV 2.9. 41 Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour
MV 2.9. 42 Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
MV 2.9. 43 How many then should cover that stand bare,
MV 2.9. 44 How many be commanded that command?
MV 2.9. 45 How much low peasantry would then be gleaned
MV 2.9. 46 From the true seed of honour, and how much honour
MV 2.9. 47 Picked from the chaff and ruin of the times
MV 2.9. 48 To be new varnished? Well; but to my choice.
MV 2.9. 49 `Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
MV 2.9. 50 I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,
MV 2.9. 51 And instantly unlock my fortunes here. {He is given a key. [He] +
MV 2.9. 51 opens the silver casket}
MV 2.9. 52
MV-PORTIA
Too long a pause for that which you find there.
MV 2.9. 53
MV-ARAGON
What's here? The portrait of a blinking idiot
MV 2.9. 54 Presenting me a schedule. I will read it.
MV 2.9. 55 How much unlike art thou to Portia!
MV 2.9. 56 How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!
MV 2.9. 57 `Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'
MV 2.9. 58 Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?
MV 2.9. 59 Is that my prize? Are my deserts no better?
MV 2.9. 60
MV-PORTIA
To offend and judge are distinct offices,
MV 2.9. 61B And of opposed natures.
MV-ARAGON
What is here? {He reads the +
MV 2.9. 61B schedule}
MV 2.9. 62 `The fire seven times tried this;
MV 2.9. 63 Seven times tried that judgement is
MV 2.9. 64 That did never choose amiss.
MV 2.9. 65 Some there be that shadows kiss;
MV 2.9. 66 Such have but a shadow's bliss.
MV 2.9. 67 There be fools alive, iwis,
MV 2.9. 68 Silvered o'er; and so was this.
MV 2.9. 69 Take what wife you will to bed,
MV 2.9. 70 I will ever be your head.
MV 2.9. 71 So be gone; you are sped.'
MV 2.9. 72 Still more fool I shall appear
MV 2.9. 73 By the time I linger here.
MV 2.9. 74 With one fool's head I came to woo,
MV 2.9. 75 But I go away with two.
MV 2.9. 76 Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath
MV 2.9. 77 Patiently to bear my wroth. {[Flourish of cornetts.] Exit with +
MV 2.9. 77 his train}
MV 2.9. 78
MV-PORTIA
Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
MV 2.9. 79 O, these deliberate fools! When they do choose
MV 2.9. 80 They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.
MV 2.9. 81
MV-NERISSA
The ancient saying is no heresy:
MV 2.9. 82 Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
MV 2.9. 83
MV-PORTIA
Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa. {Nerissa draws the +
MV 2.9. 83 curtain.}
MV 2.9. 84B {Enter a Messenger}
MV-MESSENGER
Where is my lady?
MV-PORTIA
+
MV 2.9. 84B Here. What would my lord?
MV 2.9. 85
MV-MESSENGER
Madam, there is alighted at your gate
MV 2.9. 86 A young Venetian, one that comes before
MV 2.9. 87 To signify th' approaching of his lord,
MV 2.9. 88 From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,
MV 2.9. 89 To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,
MV 2.9. 90 Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen
MV 2.9. 91 So likely an ambassador of love.
MV 2.9. 92 A day in April never came so sweet
MV 2.9. 93 To show how costly summer was at hand
MV 2.9. 94 As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.
MV 2.9. 95
MV-PORTIA
No more, I pray thee, I am half afeard
MV 2.9. 96 Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,
MV 2.9. 97 Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.
MV 2.9. 98 Come, come, Nerissa, for I long to see
MV 2.9. 99 Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.
MV 2.9. 100
MV-NERISSA
Bassanio, Lord Love, if thy will it be! {Exeunt}
MV 2.9. 0 {Enter Solanio and Salerio}
MV 3.1. 1
MV-SOLANIO
Now, what news on the Rialto?
MV 3.1. 2
MV-SALERIO
Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio
MV 3.1. 3 hath a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow
MV 3.1. 4 seas - the Goodwins I think they call the place - a very
MV 3.1. 5 dangerous flat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many
MV 3.1. 6 a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip Report
MV 3.1. 7 be an honest woman of her word.
MV 3.1. 8
MV-SOLANIO
I would she were as lying a gossip in that as
MV 3.1. 9 ever knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe
MV 3.1. 10 she wept for the death of a third husband. But it is
MV 3.1. 11 true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain
MV 3.1. 12 highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the honest
MV 3.1. 13 Antonio - O that I had a title good enough to keep his
MV 3.1. 14 name company -
MV 3.1. 15
MV-SALERIO
Come, the full stop.
MV 3.1. 16
MV-SOLANIO
Ha, what sayst thou? Why, the end is he hath
MV 3.1. 17 lost a ship.
MV 3.1. 18
MV-SALERIO
I would it might prove the end of his losses.
MV 3.1. 19
MV-SOLANIO
Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross my
MV 3.1. 20 prayer - {Enter Shylock}
MV 3.1. 21 for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew. How now,
MV 3.1. 22 Shylock, what news among the merchants?
MV 3.1. 23
MV-SHYLOCK
You knew, none so well, none so well as you,
MV 3.1. 24 of my daughter's flight.
MV 3.1. 25
MV-SALERIO
That's certain. I for my part knew the tailor that
MV 3.1. 26 made the wings she flew withal.
MV 3.1. 27
MV-SOLANIO
And Shylock for his own part knew the bird was
MV 3.1. 28 fledge, and then it is the complexion of them all to
MV 3.1. 29 leave the dam.
MV 3.1. 30
MV-SHYLOCK
She is damned for it.
MV 3.1. 31
MV-SALERIO
That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.
MV 3.1. 32
MV-SHYLOCK
My own flesh and blood to rebel!
MV 3.1. 33
MV-SOLANIO
Out upon it, old carrion, rebels it at these years?
MV 3.1. 34
MV-SHYLOCK
I say my daughter is my flesh and my blood.
MV 3.1. 35
MV-SALERIO
There is more difference between thy flesh and
MV 3.1. 36 hers than between jet and ivory; more between your
MV 3.1. 37 bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish.
MV 3.1. 38 But tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had
MV 3.1. 39 any loss at sea or no?
MV 3.1. 40
MV-SHYLOCK
There I have another bad match. A bankrupt, a
MV 3.1. 41 prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto;
MV 3.1. 42 a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the
MV 3.1. 43 mart. Let him look to his bond. He was wont to call
MV 3.1. 44 me usurer: let him look to his bond. He was wont to
MV 3.1. 45 lend money for a Christian courtesy: let him look to
MV 3.1. 46 his bond.
MV 3.1. 47
MV-SALERIO
Why, I am sure if he forfeit thou wilt not take
MV 3.1. 48 his flesh. What's that good for?
MV 3.1. 49
MV-SHYLOCK
To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else it
MV 3.1. 50 will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
MV 3.1. 51 hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
MV 3.1. 52 mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
MV 3.1. 53 bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and
MV 3.1. 54 what's his reason? - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?
MV 3.1. 55 Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses,
MV 3.1. 56 affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with
MV 3.1. 57 the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed
MV 3.1. 58 by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same
MV 3.1. 59 winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us
MV 3.1. 60 do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If
MV 3.1. 61 you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us
MV 3.1. 62 shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest,
MV 3.1. 63 we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
MV 3.1. 64 what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a
MV 3.1. 65 Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian
MV 3.1. 66 example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I
MV 3.1. 67 will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the
MV 3.1. 68 instruction. {Enter a Man from Antonio}
MV 3.1. 69
MV-MAN
{(to Solanio and Salerio)} Gentlemen, my +
MV 3.1. 69 master Antonio
MV 3.1. 70 is at his house and desires to speak with you both.
MV 3.1. 71
MV-SALERIO
We have been up and down to seek him. {Enter Tubal}
MV 3.1. 72
MV-SOLANIO
Here comes another of the tribe. A third cannot
MV 3.1. 73 be matched unless the devil himself turn Jew. {Exeunt Solanio +
MV 3.1. 73 and Salerio, with Antonio's Man}
MV 3.1. 74
MV-SHYLOCK
How now, Tubal? What news from Genoa? Hast
MV 3.1. 75 thou found my daughter?
MV 3.1. 76
MV-TUBAL
I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot
MV 3.1. 77 find her.
MV 3.1. 78
MV-SHYLOCK
Why, there, there, there, there. A diamond gone
MV 3.1. 79 cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfurt. The curse
MV 3.1. 80 never fell upon our nation till now - I never felt it till
MV 3.1. 81 now. Two thousand ducats in that and other precious,
MV 3.1. 82 precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my
MV 3.1. 83 foot and the jewels in her ear! Would she were hearsed
MV 3.1. 84 at my foot and the ducats in her coffin! No news of
MV 3.1. 85 them? Why, so. And I know not what's spent in the
MV 3.1. 86 search. Why thou, loss upon loss: the thief gone with
MV 3.1. 87 so much, and so much to find the thief, and no
MV 3.1. 88 satisfaction, no revenge, nor no ill luck stirring but
MV 3.1. 89 what lights o' my shoulders, no sighs but o' my
MV 3.1. 90 breathing, no tears but o' my shedding.
MV 3.1. 91
MV-TUBAL
Yes, other men have ill luck too. Antonio, as I
MV 3.1. 92 heard in Genoa -
MV 3.1. 93
MV-SHYLOCK
What, what, what? Ill luck, ill luck?
MV 3.1. 94
MV-TUBAL
Hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis.
MV 3.1. 95
MV-SHYLOCK
I thank God, I thank God! Is it true, is it true?
MV 3.1. 96
MV-TUBAL
I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the
MV 3.1. 97 wreck.
MV 3.1. 98
MV-SHYLOCK
I thank thee, good Tubal. Good news, good
MV 3.1. 99 news! Ha, ha - heard in Genoa?
MV 3.1. 100
MV-TUBAL
Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one
MV 3.1. 101 night fourscore ducats.
MV 3.1. 102
MV-SHYLOCK
Thou stick'st a dagger in me. I shall never see
MV 3.1. 103 my gold again. Fourscore ducats at a sitting? Fourscore
MV 3.1. 104 ducats?
MV 3.1. 105
MV-TUBAL
There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my
MV 3.1. 106 company to Venice that swear he cannot choose but
MV 3.1. 107 break.
MV 3.1. 108
MV-SHYLOCK
I am very glad of it. I'll plague him, I'll torture
MV 3.1. 109 him. I am glad of it.
MV 3.1. 110
MV-TUBAL
One of them showed me a ring that he had of your
MV 3.1. 111 daughter for a monkey.
MV 3.1. 112
MV-SHYLOCK
Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was
MV 3.1. 113 my turquoise. I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor.
MV 3.1. 114 I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
MV 3.1. 115
MV-TUBAL
But Antonio is certainly undone.
MV 3.1. 116
MV-SHYLOCK
Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee
MV 3.1. 117 me an officer. Bespeak him a fortnight before. I will
MV 3.1. 118 have the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of
MV 3.1. 119 Venice I can make what merchandise I will. Go, Tubal,
MV 3.1. 120 and meet me at our synagogue. Go, good Tubal; at
MV 3.1. 121 our synagogue, Tubal. {Exeunt severally}
MV 3.1. 0 {Enter Bassanio, Portia, Nerissa, Graziano, and all their +
MV 3.2. 0 trains. [The curtains are drawn aside revealing the three caskets]}
MV 3.2. 1
MV-PORTIA
{(to Bassanio)} I pray you tarry. Pause a +
MV 3.2. 1 day or two
MV 3.2. 2 Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong
MV 3.2. 3 I lose your company. Therefore forbear a while.
MV 3.2. 4 There's something tells me - but it is not love -
MV 3.2. 5 I would not lose you; and you know yourself
MV 3.2. 6 Hate counsels not in such a quality.
MV 3.2. 7 But lest you should not understand me well -
MV 3.2. 8 And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought -
MV 3.2. 9 I would detain you here some month or two
MV 3.2. 10 Before you venture for me. I could teach you
MV 3.2. 11 How to choose right, but then I am forsworn.
MV 3.2. 12 So will I never be; so may you miss me.
MV 3.2. 13 But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
MV 3.2. 14 That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
MV 3.2. 15 They have o'erlooked me and divided me.
MV 3.2. 16 One half of me is yours, the other half yours -
MV 3.2. 17 Mine own, I would say, but if mine, then yours,
MV 3.2. 18 And so all yours. O, these naughty times
MV 3.2. 19 Puts bars between the owners and their rights;
MV 3.2. 20 And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
MV 3.2. 21 Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
MV 3.2. 22 I speak too long, but tis to piece the time,
MV 3.2. 23 To eke it, and to draw it out in length
MV 3.2. 24B To stay you from election.
MV-BASSANIO
Let me choose,
MV 3.2. 25 For as I am, I live upon the rack.
MV 3.2. 26
MV-PORTIA
Upon the rack, Bassanio? Then confess
MV 3.2. 27 What treason there is mingled with your love.
MV 3.2. 28
MV-BASSANIO
None but that ugly treason of mistrust
MV 3.2. 29 Which makes me fear th' enjoying of my love.
MV 3.2. 30 There may as well be amity and life
MV 3.2. 31 'Tween snow and fire as treason and my love.
MV 3.2. 32
MV-PORTIA
Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,
MV 3.2. 33 Where men enforced do speak anything.
MV 3.2. 34
MV-BASSANIO
Promise me life and I'll confess the truth.
MV 3.2. 35B
MV-PORTIA
Well then, confess and live.
MV-BASSANIO
`Confess and love'
MV 3.2. 36 Had been the very sum of my confession.
MV 3.2. 37 O happy torment, when my torturer
MV 3.2. 38 Doth teach me answers for deliverance!
MV 3.2. 39 But let me to my fortune and the caskets.
MV 3.2. 40
MV-PORTIA
Away then. I am locked in one of them.
MV 3.2. 41 If you do love me, you will find me out.
MV 3.2. 42 Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.
MV 3.2. 43 Let music sound while he doth make his choice.
MV 3.2. 44 Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,
MV 3.2. 45 Fading in music. That the comparison
MV 3.2. 46 May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream
MV 3.2. 47 And wat'ry deathbed for him. He may win,
MV 3.2. 48 And what is music then? Then music is
MV 3.2. 49 Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
MV 3.2. 50 To a new-crowned monarch. Such it is
MV 3.2. 51 As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
MV 3.2. 52 That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear
MV 3.2. 53 And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,
MV 3.2. 54 With no less presence but with much more love
MV 3.2. 55 Than young Alcides when he did redeem
MV 3.2. 56 The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
MV 3.2. 57 To the sea-monster. I stand for sacrifice.
MV 3.2. 58 The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,
MV 3.2. 59 With bleared visages come forth to view
MV 3.2. 60 The issue of th' exploit. Go, Hercules.
MV 3.2. 61 Live thou, I live. With much much more dismay
MV 3.2. 62 I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray. {[Here music.] +
MV 3.2. 62 A song the whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets to himself}
MV 3.2. 63
MV-[ONE FROM PORTIA
S
MV-TRAIN]
Tell me where is fancy bred,
MV 3.2. 64 Or in the heart, or in the head?
MV 3.2. 65 How begot, how nourished?
MV 3.2. 66
MV-[ALL]
Reply, reply.
MV 3.2. 67
MV-[ONE FROM PORTIA
S
MV-TRAIN]
It is engendered in the eyes,
MV 3.2. 68 With gazing fed; and fancy dies
MV 3.2. 69 In the cradle where it lies.
MV 3.2. 70 Let us all ring fancy's knell.
MV 3.2. 71 I'll begin it: ding, dong, bell.
MV 3.2. 72
MV-ALL
Ding, dong, bell.
MV 3.2. 73
MV-BASSANIO
{(aside)} So may the outward shows be +
MV 3.2. 73 least themselves.
MV 3.2. 74 The world is still deceived with ornament.
MV 3.2. 75 In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
MV 3.2. 76 But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
MV 3.2. 77 Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
MV 3.2. 78 What damned error but some sober brow
MV 3.2. 79 Will bless it and approve it with a text,
MV 3.2. 80 Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
MV 3.2. 81 There is no vice so simple but assumes
MV 3.2. 82 Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
MV 3.2. 83 How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
MV 3.2. 84 As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
MV 3.2. 85 The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
MV 3.2. 86 Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk?
MV 3.2. 87 And these assume but valour's excrement
MV 3.2. 88 To render them redoubted. Look on beauty
MV 3.2. 89 And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,
MV 3.2. 90 Which therein works a miracle in nature,
MV 3.2. 91 Making them lightest that wear most of it.
MV 3.2. 92 So are those crisped, snaky, golden locks
MV 3.2. 93 Which makes such wanton gambols with the wind
MV 3.2. 94 Upon supposed fairness, often known
MV 3.2. 95 To be the dowry of a second head,
MV 3.2. 96 The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
MV 3.2. 97 Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
MV 3.2. 98 To a most dangerous sea, the beauteous scarf
MV 3.2. 99 Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
MV 3.2. 100 The seeming truth which cunning times put on
MV 3.2. 101 To entrap the wisest. {(Aloud)} Therefore, thou gaudy +
MV 3.2. 101 gold,
MV 3.2. 102 Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee.
MV 3.2. 103 {(To the silver casket)} Nor none of thee, thou pale +
MV 3.2. 103 and common drudge
MV 3.2. 104 'Tween man and man. But thou, thou meagre lead,
MV 3.2. 105 Which rather threaten'st than dost promise aught,
MV 3.2. 106 Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence,
MV 3.2. 107 And here choose I. Joy be the consequence!
MV 3.2. 108
MV-PORTIA
{(aside)} How all the other passions fleet +
MV 3.2. 108 to air,
MV 3.2. 109 As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
MV 3.2. 110 And shudd'ring fear, and green-eyed jealousy.
MV 3.2. 111 O love, be moderate! Allay thy ecstasy.
MV 3.2. 112 In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess.
MV 3.2. 113 I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,
MV 3.2. 114B For fear I surfeit. {Bassanio opens the leaden +
MV 3.2. 114B casket}
MV-BASSANIO
What find I here?
MV 3.2. 115 Fair Portia's counterfeit. What demi-god
MV 3.2. 116 Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?
MV 3.2. 117 Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,
MV 3.2. 118 Seem they in motion? Here are severed lips
MV 3.2. 119 Parted with sugar breath. So sweet a bar
MV 3.2. 120 Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs
MV 3.2. 121 The painter plays the spider, and hath woven
MV 3.2. 122 A golden mesh t' untrap the hearts of men
MV 3.2. 123 Faster than gnats in cobwebs. But her eyes -
MV 3.2. 124 How could he see to do them? Having made one,
MV 3.2. 125 Methinks it should have power to steal both his
MV 3.2. 126 And leave itself unfurnished. Yet look how far
MV 3.2. 127 The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow
MV 3.2. 128 In underprizing it, so far this shadow
MV 3.2. 129 Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,
MV 3.2. 130 The continent and summary of my fortune.
MV 3.2. 131 `You that choose not by the view
MV 3.2. 132 Chance as fair and choose as true.
MV 3.2. 133 Since this fortune falls to you,
MV 3.2. 134 Be content, and seek no new.
MV 3.2. 135 If you be well pleased with this,
MV 3.2. 136 And hold your fortune for your bliss,
MV 3.2. 137 Turn you where your lady is,
MV 3.2. 138 And claim her with a loving kiss.'
MV 3.2. 139 A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave,
MV 3.2. 140 I come by note to give and to receive,
MV 3.2. 141 Like one of two contending in a prize,
MV 3.2. 142 That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,
MV 3.2. 143 Hearing applause and universal shout,
MV 3.2. 144 Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt
MV 3.2. 145 Whether those peals of praise be his or no.
MV 3.2. 146 So, thrice-fair lady, stand I even so,
MV 3.2. 147 As doubtful whether what I see be true
MV 3.2. 148 Until confirmed, signed, ratified by you.
MV 3.2. 149
MV-PORTIA
You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,
MV 3.2. 150 Such as I am. Though for myself alone
MV 3.2. 151 I would not be ambitious in my wish
MV 3.2. 152 To wish myself much better, yet for you
MV 3.2. 153 I would be trebled twenty times myself,
MV 3.2. 154 A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich,
MV 3.2. 155 That only to stand high in your account
MV 3.2. 156 I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends,
MV 3.2. 157 Exceed account. But the full sum of me
MV 3.2. 158 Is sum of something which, to term in gross,
MV 3.2. 159 Is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised,
MV 3.2. 160 Happy in this, she is not yet so old
MV 3.2. 161 But she may learn; happier than this,
MV 3.2. 162 She is not bred so dull but she can learn;
MV 3.2. 163 Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit
MV 3.2. 164 Commits itself to yours to be directed
MV 3.2. 165 As from her lord, her governor, her king.
MV 3.2. 166 Myself and what is mine to you and yours
MV 3.2. 167 Is now converted. But now I was the lord
MV 3.2. 168 Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
MV 3.2. 169 Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now,
MV 3.2. 170 This house, these servants, and this same myself
MV 3.2. 171 Are yours, my lord's. I give them with this ring,
MV 3.2. 172 Which when you part from, lose, or give away,
MV 3.2. 173 Let it presage the ruin of your love,
MV 3.2. 174 And be my vantage to exclaim on you.
MV 3.2. 175
MV-BASSANIO
Madam, you have bereft me of all words.
MV 3.2. 176 Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
MV 3.2. 177 And there is such confusion in my powers
MV 3.2. 178 As after some oration fairly spoke
MV 3.2. 179 By a beloved prince there doth appear
MV 3.2. 180 Among the buzzing pleased multitude,
MV 3.2. 181 Where every something being blent together
MV 3.2. 182 Turns to a wild of nothing save of joy,
MV 3.2. 183 Expressed and not expressed. But when this ring
MV 3.2. 184 Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence.
MV 3.2. 185 O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead.
MV 3.2. 186
MV-NERISSA
My lord and lady, it is now our time
MV 3.2. 187 That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper
MV 3.2. 188 To cry `Good joy, good joy, my lord and lady!'
MV 3.2. 189
MV-GRAZIANO
My lord Bassanio, and my gentle lady,
MV 3.2. 190 I wish you all the joy that you can wish,
MV 3.2. 191 For I am sure you can wish none from me.
MV 3.2. 192 And when your honours mean to solemnize
MV 3.2. 193 The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you
MV 3.2. 194 Even at that time I may be married too.
MV 3.2. 195
MV-BASSANIO
With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.
MV 3.2. 196
MV-GRAZIANO
I thank your lordship, you have got me one.
MV 3.2. 197 My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours.
MV 3.2. 198 You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid.
MV 3.2. 199 You loved, I loved; for intermission
MV 3.2. 200 No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.
MV 3.2. 201 Your fortune stood upon the caskets there,
MV 3.2. 202 And so did mine too, as the matter falls;
MV 3.2. 203 For wooing here until I sweat again,
MV 3.2. 204 And swearing till my very roof was dry
MV 3.2. 205 With oaths of love, at last - if promise last -
MV 3.2. 206 I got a promise of this fair one here
MV 3.2. 207 To have her love, provided that your fortune
MV 3.2. 208B Achieved her mistress.
MV-PORTIA
Is this true, Nerissa?
MV 3.2. 209
MV-NERISSA
Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.
MV 3.2. 210
MV-BASSANIO
And do you, Graziano, mean good faith?
MV 3.2. 211A
MV-GRAZIANO
Yes, faith, my lord.
MV 3.2. 212
MV-BASSANIO
Our feast shall be much honoured in your marriage.
MV 3.2. 213
MV-GRAZIANO
{(to Nerissa)} We'll play with them the +
MV 3.2. 213 first boy for a thousand ducats.
MV 3.2. 214A
MV-NERISSA
What, and stake down?
MV 3.2. 215
MV-GRAZIANO
No, we shall ne'er win at that sport and stake down.+
MV 3.2. 215 {Enter Lorenzo, Jessica, and Salerio, a messenger from Venice}
MV 3.2. 216 But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel!
MV 3.2. 217 What, and my old Venetian friend Salerio!
MV 3.2. 218
MV-BASSANIO
Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither,
MV 3.2. 219 If that the youth of my new int'rest here
MV 3.2. 220 Have power to bid you welcome. {(To Portia)} By your +
MV 3.2. 220 leave,
MV 3.2. 221 I bid my very friends and countrymen,
MV 3.2. 222 Sweet Portia, welcome.
MV 3.2. 223
MV-PORTIA
So do I, my lord. They are entirely welcome.
MV 3.2. 224
MV-LORENZO
I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,
MV 3.2. 225 My purpose was not to have seen you here,
MV 3.2. 226 But meeting with Salerio by the way
MV 3.2. 227 He did entreat me past all saying nay
MV 3.2. 228B To come with him along.
MV-SALERIO
I did, my lord,
MV 3.2. 229 And I have reason for it. Signor Antonio
MV 3.2. 230B Commends him to you. {He gives Bassanio a letter}
MV-BASSANIO
+
MV 3.2. 230B Ere I ope his letter
MV 3.2. 231 I pray you tell me how my good friend doth.
MV 3.2. 232
MV-SALERIO
Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;
MV 3.2. 233 Nor well, unless in mind. His letter there
MV 3.2. 234 Will show you his estate. {Bassanio opens the letter and reads}
MV 3.2. 235
MV-GRAZIANO
Nerissa, {(indicating Jessica)} +
MV 3.2. 235 cheer yon stranger. Bid her welcome.
MV 3.2. 236 Your hand, Salerio. What's the news from Venice?
MV 3.2. 237 How doth that royal merchant good Antonio?
MV 3.2. 238 I know he will be glad of our success.
MV 3.2. 239 We are the Jasons; we have won the fleece.
MV 3.2. 240
MV-SALERIO
I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost.
MV 3.2. 241
MV-PORTIA
There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper
MV 3.2. 242 That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek.
MV 3.2. 243 Some dear friend dead, else nothing in the world
MV 3.2. 244 Could turn so much the constitution
MV 3.2. 245 Of any constant man. What, worse and worse?
MV 3.2. 246 With leave, Bassanio, I am half yourself,
MV 3.2. 247 And I must freely have the half of anything
MV 3.2. 248B That this same paper brings you.
MV-BASSANIO
O sweet Portia,
MV 3.2. 249 Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
MV 3.2. 250 That ever blotted paper. Gentle lady,
MV 3.2. 251 When I did first impart my love to you
MV 3.2. 252 I freely told you all the wealth I had
MV 3.2. 253 Ran in my veins: I was a gentleman;
MV 3.2. 254 And then I told you true; and yet, dear lady,
MV 3.2. 255 Rating myself at nothing, you shall see
MV 3.2. 256 How much I was a braggart. When I told you
MV 3.2. 257 My state was nothing, I should then have told you
MV 3.2. 258 That I was worse than nothing, for indeed
MV 3.2. 259 I have engaged myself to a dear friend,
MV 3.2. 260 Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,
MV 3.2. 261 To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady,
MV 3.2. 262 The paper as the body of my friend,
MV 3.2. 263 And every word in it a gaping wound
MV 3.2. 264 Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?
MV 3.2. 265 Hath all his ventures failed? What, not one hit?
MV 3.2. 266 From Tripolis, from Mexico, and England,
MV 3.2. 267 From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
MV 3.2. 268 And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch
MV 3.2. 269B Of merchant-marring rocks?
MV-SALERIO
Not one, my lord.
MV 3.2. 270 Besides, it should appear that if he had
MV 3.2. 271 The present money to discharge the Jew
MV 3.2. 272 He would not take it. Never did I know
MV 3.2. 273 A creature that did bear the shape of man
MV 3.2. 274 So keen and greedy to confound a man.
MV 3.2. 275 He plies the Duke at morning and at night,
MV 3.2. 276 And doth impeach the freedom of the state
MV 3.2. 277 If they deny him justice. Twenty merchants,
MV 3.2. 278 The Duke himself, and the magnificoes
MV 3.2. 279 Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him,
MV 3.2. 280 But none can drive him from the envious plea
MV 3.2. 281 Of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond.
MV 3.2. 282
MV-JESSICA
When I was with him I have heard him swear
MV 3.2. 283 To Tubal and to Cush, his countrymen,
MV 3.2. 284 That he would rather have Antonio's flesh
MV 3.2. 285 Than twenty times the value of the sum
MV 3.2. 286 That he did owe him; and I know, my lord,
MV 3.2. 287 If law, authority, and power deny not,
MV 3.2. 288 It will go hard with poor Antonio.
MV 3.2. 289
MV-PORTIA
{(to Bassanio)} Is it your dear friend that +
MV 3.2. 289 is thus in trouble?
MV 3.2. 290
MV-BASSANIO
The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,
MV 3.2. 291 The best-conditioned and unwearied spirit
MV 3.2. 292 In doing courtesies, and one in whom
MV 3.2. 293 The ancient Roman honour more appears
MV 3.2. 294 Than any that draws breath in Italy.
MV 3.2. 295A
MV-PORTIA
What sum owes he the Jew?
MV 3.2. 296B
MV-BASSANIO
For me, three thousand ducats.
MV-PORTIA
What, no more?
MV 3.2. 297 Pay him six thousand and deface the bond.
MV 3.2. 298 Double six thousand, and then treble that,
MV 3.2. 299 Before a friend of this description
MV 3.2. 300 Shall lose a hair thorough Bassanio's fault.
MV 3.2. 301 First go with me to church and call me wife,
MV 3.2. 302 And then away to Venice to your friend;
MV 3.2. 303 For never shall you lie by Portia's side
MV 3.2. 304 With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold
MV 3.2. 305 To pay the petty debt twenty times over.
MV 3.2. 306 When it is paid, bring your true friend along.
MV 3.2. 307 My maid Nerissa and myself meantime
MV 3.2. 308 Will live as maids and widows. Come, away,
MV 3.2. 309 For you shall hence upon your wedding day.
MV 3.2. 310 Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer.
MV 3.2. 311 Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.
MV 3.2. 312 But let me hear the letter of your friend.
MV 3.2. 313
MV-[BASSANIO]
{(reads)} `Sweet Bassanio, my ships +
MV 3.2. 313 have all
MV 3.2. 314 miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is very
MV 3.2. 315 low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit, and since in paying
MV 3.2. 316 it, it is impossible I should live, all debts are cleared
MV 3.2. 317 between you and I if I might but see you at my death.
MV 3.2. 318 Notwithstanding, use your pleasure. If your love do
MV 3.2. 319 not persuade you to come, let not my letter.'
MV 3.2. 320
MV-PORTIA
O, love! Dispatch all business, and be gone.
MV 3.2. 321
MV-BASSANIO
Since I have your good leave to go away
MV 3.2. 322 I will make haste, but till I come again
MV 3.2. 323 No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay
MV 3.2. 324 Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain. {Exeunt}
MV 3.2. 0 {Enter Shylock the Jew, Solanio, Antonio, and the jailer}
MV 3.3. 1
MV-SHYLOCK
Jailer, look to him. Tell not me of mercy.
MV 3.3. 2 This is the fool that lent out money gratis.
MV 3.3. 3B Jailer, look to him.
MV-ANTONIO
Hear me yet, good Shylock.
MV 3.3. 4
MV-SHYLOCK
I'll have my bond. Speak not against my bond.
MV 3.3. 5 I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.
MV 3.3. 6 Thou called'st me dog before thou hadst a cause,
MV 3.3. 7 But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
MV 3.3. 8 The Duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,
MV 3.3. 9 Thou naughty jailer, that thou art so fond
MV 3.3. 10 To come abroad with him at his request.
MV 3.3. 11A
MV-ANTONIO
I pray thee hear me speak.
MV 3.3. 12
MV-SHYLOCK
I'll have my bond. I will not hear thee speak.
MV 3.3. 13 I'll have my bond, and therefore speak no more.
MV 3.3. 14 I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool
MV 3.3. 15 To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
MV 3.3. 16 To Christian intercessors. Follow not.
MV 3.3. 17 I'll have no speaking. I will have my bond. {Exit}
MV 3.3. 18
MV-SOLANIO
It is the most impenetrable cur
MV 3.3. 19B That ever kept with men.
MV-ANTONIO
Let him alone.
MV 3.3. 20 I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
MV 3.3. 21 He seeks my life. His reason well I know:
MV 3.3. 22 I oft delivered from his forfeitures
MV 3.3. 23 Many that have at times made moan to me.
MV 3.3. 24B Therefore he hates me.
MV-SOLANIO
I am sure the Duke
MV 3.3. 25 Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.
MV 3.3. 26
MV-ANTONIO
The Duke cannot deny the course of law,
MV 3.3. 27 For the commodity that strangers have
MV 3.3. 28 With us in Venice, if it be denied,
MV 3.3. 29 Will much impeach the justice of the state,
MV 3.3. 30 Since that the trade and profit of the city
MV 3.3. 31 Consisteth of all nations. Therefore go.
MV 3.3. 32 These griefs and losses have so bated me
MV 3.3. 33 That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
MV 3.3. 34 Tomorrow to my bloody creditor.
MV 3.3. 35 Well, jailer, on. Pray God Bassanio come
MV 3.3. 36 To see me pay his debt, and then I care not. {Exeunt}
MV 3.3. 0 {Enter Portia, Nerissa, Lorenzo, Jessica, and Balthasar, +
MV 3.4. 0 a man of Portia's}
MV 3.4. 1
MV-LORENZO
{(to Portia)} Madam, although I speak it +
MV 3.4. 1 in your presence,
MV 3.4. 2 You have a noble and a true conceit
MV 3.4. 3 Of godlike amity, which appears most strongly
MV 3.4. 4 In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
MV 3.4. 5 But if you knew to whom you show this honour,
MV 3.4. 6 How true a gentleman you send relief,
MV 3.4. 7 How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
MV 3.4. 8 I know you would be prouder of the work
MV 3.4. 9 Than customary bounty can enforce you.
MV 3.4. 10
MV-PORTIA
I never did repent for doing good,
MV 3.4. 11 Nor shall not now; for in companions
MV 3.4. 12 That do converse and waste the time together,
MV 3.4. 13 Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
MV 3.4. 14 There must be needs a like proportion
MV 3.4. 15 Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit,
MV 3.4. 16 Which makes me think that this Antonio,
MV 3.4. 17 Being the bosom lover of my lord,
MV 3.4. 18 Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
MV 3.4. 19 How little is the cost I have bestowed
MV 3.4. 20 In purchasing the semblance of my soul
MV 3.4. 21 From out the state of hellish cruelty.
MV 3.4. 22 This comes too near the praising of myself,
MV 3.4. 23 Therefore no more of it. Hear other things:
MV 3.4. 24 Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
MV 3.4. 25 The husbandry and manage of my house
MV 3.4. 26 Until my lord's return. For mine own part,
MV 3.4. 27 I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
MV 3.4. 28 To live in prayer and contemplation,
MV 3.4. 29 Only attended by Nerissa here,
MV 3.4. 30 Until her husband and my lord's return.
MV 3.4. 31 There is a monastery two miles off,
MV 3.4. 32 And there we will abide. I do desire you
MV 3.4. 33 Not to deny this imposition,
MV 3.4. 34 The which my love and some necessity
MV 3.4. 35B Now lays upon you.
MV-LORENZO
Madam, with all my heart,
MV 3.4. 36 I shall obey you in all fair commands.
MV 3.4. 37
MV-PORTIA
My people do already know my mind,
MV 3.4. 38 And will acknowledge you and Jessica
MV 3.4. 39 In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
MV 3.4. 40 So fare you well till we shall meet again.
MV 3.4. 41
MV-LORENZO
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
MV 3.4. 42
MV-JESSICA
I wish your ladyship all heart's content.
MV 3.4. 43
MV-PORTIA
I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
MV 3.4. 44 To wish it back on you. Fare you well, Jessica. {Exeunt Lorenzo +
MV 3.4. 44 and Jessica}
MV 3.4. 45 Now, Balthasar,
MV 3.4. 46 As I have ever found thee honest-true,
MV 3.4. 47 So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,
MV 3.4. 48 And use thou all th' endeavour of a man
MV 3.4. 49 In speed to Padua. See thou render this
MV 3.4. 50 Into my cousin's hands, Doctor Bellario,
MV 3.4. 51 And look what notes and garments he doth give thee,
MV 3.4. 52 Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
MV 3.4. 53 Unto the traject, to the common ferry
MV 3.4. 54 Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
MV 3.4. 55 But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.
MV 3.4. 56
MV-BALTHASAR
Madam, I go with all convenient speed. {Exit}
MV 3.4. 57
MV-PORTIA
Come on, Nerissa. I have work in hand
MV 3.4. 58 That you yet know not of. We'll see our husbands
MV 3.4. 59B Before they think of us.
MV-NERISSA
Shall they see us?
MV 3.4. 60
MV-PORTIA
They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit
MV 3.4. 61 That they shall think we are accomplished
MV 3.4. 62 With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager,
MV 3.4. 63 When we are both accoutered like young men
MV 3.4. 64 I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
MV 3.4. 65 And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
MV 3.4. 66 And speak between the change of man and boy
MV 3.4. 67 With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
MV 3.4. 68 Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
MV 3.4. 69 Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies
MV 3.4. 70 How honourable ladies sought my love,
MV 3.4. 71 Which I denying, they fell sick and died.
MV 3.4. 72 I could not do withal. Then I'll repent,
MV 3.4. 73 And wish for all that that I had not killed them;
MV 3.4. 74 And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,
MV 3.4. 75 That men shall swear I have discontinued school
MV 3.4. 76 Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
MV 3.4. 77 A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks
MV 3.4. 78 Which I will practise.
MV 3.4. 79A
MV-NERISSA
Why, shall we turn to men?
MV 3.4. 80A
MV-PORTIA
Fie, what a question's that
MV 3.4. 81 If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
MV 3.4. 82 But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device
MV 3.4. 83 When I am in my coach, which stays for us
MV 3.4. 84 At the park gate; and therefore haste away,
MV 3.4. 85 For we must measure twenty miles today. {Exeunt}
MV 3.4. 0 {Enter Lancelot the clown, and Jessica}
MV 3.5. 1
MV-LANCELOT
Yes, truly; for look you, the sins of the father
MV 3.5. 2 are to be laid upon the children, therefore I promise
MV 3.5. 3 you I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so
MV 3.5. 4 now I speak my agitation of the matter, therefore be
MV 3.5. 5 o' good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There
MV 3.5. 6 is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and
MV 3.5. 7 that is but a kind of bastard hope, neither.
MV 3.5. 8
MV-JESSICA
And what hope is that, I pray thee?
MV 3.5. 9
MV-LANCELOT
Marry, you may partly hope that your father
MV 3.5. 10 got you not, that you are not the Jew's daughter.
MV 3.5. 11
MV-JESSICA
That were a kind of bastard hope indeed. So the
MV 3.5. 12 sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
MV 3.5. 13
MV-LANCELOT
Truly then, I fear you are damned both by
MV 3.5. 14 father and mother. Thus, when I shun Scylla your
MV 3.5. 15 father, I fall into Charybdis your mother. Well, you are
MV 3.5. 16 gone both ways.
MV 3.5. 17
MV-JESSICA
I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made
MV 3.5. 18 me a Christian.
MV 3.5. 19
MV-LANCELOT
Truly, the more to blame he! We were
MV 3.5. 20 Christians enough before, e'en as many as could well
MV 3.5. 21 live one by another. This making of Christians will
MV 3.5. 22 raise the price of hogs. If we grow all to be pork-eaters
MV 3.5. 23 we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for
MV 3.5. 24 money. {Enter Lorenzo}
MV 3.5. 25
MV-JESSICA
I'll tell my husband, Lancelot, what you say. +
MV 3.5. 25 Here
MV 3.5. 26 he comes.
MV 3.5. 27
MV-LORENZO
I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Lancelot, if
MV 3.5. 28 you thus get my wife into corners.
MV 3.5. 29
MV-JESSICA
Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Lancelot and
MV 3.5. 30 I are out. He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in
MV 3.5. 31 heaven because I am a Jew's daughter, and he says
MV 3.5. 32 you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in
MV 3.5. 33 converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of
MV 3.5. 34 pork.
MV 3.5. 35
MV-LORENZO
{(to Lancelot)} I shall answer that better +
MV 3.5. 35 to the
MV 3.5. 36 commonwealth than you can the getting up of the
MV 3.5. 37 Negro's belly. The Moor is with child by you, Lancelot.
MV 3.5. 38
MV-LANCELOT
It is much that the Moor should be more than
MV 3.5. 39 reason, but if she be less than an honest woman, she
MV 3.5. 40 is indeed more than I took her for.
MV 3.5. 41
MV-LORENZO
How every fool can play upon the word! I think
MV 3.5. 42 the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and
MV 3.5. 43 discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.
MV 3.5. 44 Go in, sirrah, bid them prepare for dinner.
MV 3.5. 45
MV-LANCELOT
That is done, sir. They have all stomachs.
MV 3.5. 46
MV-LORENZO
Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! Then
MV 3.5. 47 bid them prepare dinner.
MV 3.5. 48
MV-LANCELOT
That is done too, sir; only `cover' is the word.
MV 3.5. 49
MV-LORENZO
Will you cover then, sir?
MV 3.5. 50
MV-LANCELOT
Not so, sir, neither. I know my duty.
MV 3.5. 51
MV-LORENZO
Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou
MV 3.5. 52 show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray
MV 3.5. 53 thee understand a plain man in his plain meaning. Go
MV 3.5. 54 to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve in the
MV 3.5. 55 meat, and we will come in to dinner.
MV 3.5. 56
MV-LANCELOT
For the table, sir, it shall be served in. For the
MV 3.5. 57 meat, sir, it shall be covered. For your coming in to
MV 3.5. 58 dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and conceits
MV 3.5. 59 shall govern. {Exit}
MV 3.5. 60
MV-LORENZO
O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
MV 3.5. 61 The fool hath planted in his memory
MV 3.5. 62 An army of good words, and I do know
MV 3.5. 63 A many fools that stand in better place,
MV 3.5. 64 Garnished like him, that for a tricksy word
MV 3.5. 65 Defy the matter. How cheer'st thou, Jessica?
MV 3.5. 66 And now, good sweet, say thy opinion:
MV 3.5. 67 How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?
MV 3.5. 68
MV-JESSICA
Past all expressing. It is very meet
MV 3.5. 69 The Lord Bassanio live an upright life,
MV 3.5. 70 For, having such a blessing in his lady,
MV 3.5. 71 He finds the joys of heaven here on earth,
MV 3.5. 72 And if on earth he do not merit it,
MV 3.5. 73 In reason he should never come to heaven.
MV 3.5. 74 Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
MV 3.5. 75 And on the wager lay two earthly women,
MV 3.5. 76 And Portia one, there must be something else
MV 3.5. 77 Pawned with the other; for the poor rude world
MV 3.5. 78B Hath not her fellow.
MV-LORENZO
Even such a husband
MV 3.5. 79 Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
MV 3.5. 80
MV-JESSICA
Nay, but ask my opinion too of that!
MV 3.5. 81
MV-LORENZO
I will anon. First let us go to dinner.
MV 3.5. 82
MV-JESSICA
Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
MV 3.5. 83
MV-LORENZO
No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk.
MV 3.5. 84 Then, howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
MV 3.5. 85B I shall digest it.
MV-JESSICA
Well, I'll set you forth. {Exeunt}
MV 3.5. 0 {Enter the Duke, the magnificoes, Antonio, +
MV 4.1. 0 Bassanio, Graziano, and Salerio}
MV 4.1. 1B
MV-DUKE
What, is Antonio here?
MV-ANTONIO
Ready, so please +
MV 4.1. 1B your grace.
MV 4.1. 2
MV-DUKE
I am sorry for thee. Thou art come to answer
MV 4.1. 3 A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
MV 4.1. 4 Uncapable of pity, void and empty
MV 4.1. 5B From any dram of mercy.
MV-ANTONIO
I have heard
MV 4.1. 6 Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify
MV 4.1. 7 His rigorous course, but since he stands obdurate,
MV 4.1. 8 And that no lawful means can carry me
MV 4.1. 9 Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose
MV 4.1. 10 My patience to his fury, and am armed
MV 4.1. 11 To suffer with a quietness of spirit
MV 4.1. 12 The very tyranny and rage of his.
MV 4.1. 13
MV-DUKE
Go one, and call the Jew into the court.
MV 4.1. 14
MV-SALERIO
He is ready at the door. He comes, my lord. {Enter +
MV 4.1. 14 Shylock}
MV 4.1. 15
MV-DUKE
Make room, and let him stand before our face.
MV 4.1. 16 Shylock, the world thinks - and I think so too -
MV 4.1. 17 That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice
MV 4.1. 18 To the last hour of act, and then 'tis thought
MV 4.1. 19 Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange
MV 4.1. 20 Than is thy strange apparent cruelty,
MV 4.1. 21 And where thou now exacts the penalty -
MV 4.1. 22 Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh -
MV 4.1. 23 Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,
MV 4.1. 24 But, touched with human gentleness and love,
MV 4.1. 25 Forgive a moiety of the principal,
MV 4.1. 26 Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,
MV 4.1. 27 That have of late so huddled on his back
MV 4.1. 28 Enough to press a royal merchant down
MV 4.1. 29 And pluck commiseration of his state
MV 4.1. 30 From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,
MV 4.1. 31 From stubborn Turks and Tartars never trained
MV 4.1. 32 To offices of tender courtesy.
MV 4.1. 33 We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.
MV 4.1. 34
MV-SHYLOCK
I have possessed your grace of what I purpose,
MV 4.1. 35 And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
MV 4.1. 36 To have the due and forfeit of my bond.
MV 4.1. 37 If you deny it, let the danger light
MV 4.1. 38 Upon your charter and your city's freedom.
MV 4.1. 39 You'll ask me why I rather choose to have
MV 4.1. 40 A weight of carrion flesh than to receive
MV 4.1. 41 Three thousand ducats. I'll not answer that,
MV 4.1. 42 But say it is my humour. Is it answered?
MV 4.1. 43 What if my house be troubled with a rat,
MV 4.1. 44 And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats
MV 4.1. 45 To have it baned? What, are you answered yet?
MV 4.1. 46 Some men there are love not a gaping pig,
MV 4.1. 47 Some that are mad if they behold a cat,
MV 4.1. 48 And others when the bagpipe sings i' th' nose
MV 4.1. 49 Cannot contain their urine; for affection,
MV 4.1. 50 Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
MV 4.1. 51 Of what it likes or loathes. Now for your answer:
MV 4.1. 52 As there is no firm reason to be rendered
MV 4.1. 53 Why he cannot abide a gaping pig,
MV 4.1. 54 Why he a harmless necessary cat,
MV 4.1. 55 Why he a woollen bagpipe, but of force
MV 4.1. 56 Must yield to such inevitable shame
MV 4.1. 57 As to offend himself being offended,
MV 4.1. 58 So can I give no reason, nor I will not,
MV 4.1. 59 More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing
MV 4.1. 60 I bear Antonio, that I follow thus
MV 4.1. 61 A losing suit against him. Are you answered?
MV 4.1. 62
MV-BASSANIO
This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,
MV 4.1. 63 To excuse the current of thy cruelty.
MV 4.1. 64
MV-SHYLOCK
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
MV 4.1. 65
MV-BASSANIO
Do all men kill the things they do not love?
MV 4.1. 66
MV-SHYLOCK
Hates any man the thing he would not kill?
MV 4.1. 67
MV-BASSANIO
Every offence is not a hate at first.
MV 4.1. 68
MV-SHYLOCK
What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
MV 4.1. 69
MV-ANTONIO
I pray you think you question with the Jew.
MV 4.1. 70 You may as well go stand upon the beach
MV 4.1. 71 And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
MV 4.1. 72 You may as well use question with the wolf
MV 4.1. 73 Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
MV 4.1. 74 You may as well forbid the mountain pines
MV 4.1. 75 To wag their high tops and to make no noise
MV 4.1. 76 When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven,
MV 4.1. 77 You may as well do anything most hard
MV 4.1. 78 As seek to soften that - than which what's harder? -
MV 4.1. 79 His Jewish heart. Therefore, I do beseech you,
MV 4.1. 80 Make no more offers, use no farther means,
MV 4.1. 81 But with all brief and plain conveniency
MV 4.1. 82 Let me have judgement and the Jew his will.
MV 4.1. 83
MV-BASSANIO
{(to Shylock)} For thy three thousand +
MV 4.1. 83 ducats here is six.
MV 4.1. 84
MV-SHYLOCK
If every ducat in six thousand ducats
MV 4.1. 85 Were in six parts, and every part a ducat,
MV 4.1. 86 I would not draw them. I would have my bond.
MV 4.1. 87
MV-DUKE
How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend'ring none?
MV 4.1. 88
MV-SHYLOCK
What judgement shall I dread, doing no wrong?
MV 4.1. 89 You have among you many a purchased slave
MV 4.1. 90 Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,
MV 4.1. 91 You use in abject and in slavish parts
MV 4.1. 92 Because you bought them. Shall I say to you
MV 4.1. 93 `Let them be free, marry them to your heirs.
MV 4.1. 94 Why sweat they under burdens? Let their beds
MV 4.1. 95 Be made as soft as yours, and let their palates
MV 4.1. 96 Be seasoned with such viands.' You will answer
MV 4.1. 97 `The slaves are ours.' So do I answer you.
MV 4.1. 98 The pound of flesh which I demand of him
MV 4.1. 99 Is dearly bought. 'Tis mine, and I will have it.
MV 4.1. 100 If you deny me, fie upon your law:
MV 4.1. 101 There is no force in the decrees of Venice.
MV 4.1. 102 I stand for judgement. Answer: shall I have it?
MV 4.1. 103
MV-DUKE
Upon my power I may dismiss this court
MV 4.1. 104 Unless Bellario, a learned doctor
MV 4.1. 105 Whom I have sent for to determine this,
MV 4.1. 106B Come here today.
MV-SALERIO
My lord, here stays without
MV 4.1. 107 A messenger with letters from the doctor,
MV 4.1. 108 New come from Padua.
MV 4.1. 109
MV-DUKE
Bring us the letters. Call the messenger. {[Exit +
MV 4.1. 109 Salerio]}
MV 4.1. 110
MV-BASSANIO
Good cheer, Antonio. What, man, courage yet!
MV 4.1. 111 The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones, and all
MV 4.1. 112 Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.
MV 4.1. 113
MV-ANTONIO
I am a tainted wether of the flock,
MV 4.1. 114 Meetest for death. The weakest kind of fruit
MV 4.1. 115 Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me.
MV 4.1. 116 You cannot better be employed, Bassanio,
MV 4.1. 117 Than to live still and write mine epitaph. {Enter [Salerio, +
MV 4.1. 117 with] Nerissa apparelled as a judge's clerk}
MV 4.1. 118
MV-DUKE
Came you from Padua, from Bellario?
MV 4.1. 119
MV-NERISSA
From both, my lord. Bellario greets your grace. {She +
MV 4.1. 119 gives a letter to the Duke.}
MV 4.1. 120 {Shylock whets his knife on his shoe}
MV-BASSANIO
{(to +
MV 4.1. 120 Shylock)} Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?
MV 4.1. 121
MV-SHYLOCK
To cut the forfeit from that bankrupt there.
MV 4.1. 122
MV-GRAZIANO
Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
MV 4.1. 123 Thou mak'st thy knife keen. But no metal can,
MV 4.1. 124 No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness
MV 4.1. 125 Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?
MV 4.1. 126
MV-SHYLOCK
No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.
MV 4.1. 127
MV-GRAZIANO
O, be thou damned, inexorable dog,
MV 4.1. 128 And for thy life let justice be accused!
MV 4.1. 129 Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith
MV 4.1. 130 To hold opinion with Pythagoras
MV 4.1. 131 That souls of animals infuse themselves
MV 4.1. 132 Into the trunks of men. Thy currish spirit
MV 4.1. 133 Governed a wolf who, hanged for human slaughter,
MV 4.1. 134 Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
MV 4.1. 135 And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallowed dam,
MV 4.1. 136 Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
MV 4.1. 137 Are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
MV 4.1. 138
MV-SHYLOCK
Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond
MV 4.1. 139 Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud.
MV 4.1. 140 Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall
MV 4.1. 141 To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.
MV 4.1. 142
MV-DUKE
This letter from Bellario doth commend
MV 4.1. 143 A young and learned doctor to our court.
MV 4.1. 144B Where is he?
MV-NERISSA
He attendeth here hard by
MV 4.1. 145 To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.
MV 4.1. 146
MV-DUKE
With all my heart. Some three or four of you
MV 4.1. 147 Go give him courteous conduct to this place. {Exeunt three or +
MV 4.1. 147 four}
MV 4.1. 148 Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.
MV 4.1. 149 {(Reads)} `Your grace shall understand that at the +
MV 4.1. 149 receipt
MV 4.1. 150 of your letter I am very sick, but in the instant that
MV 4.1. 151 your messenger came, in loving visitation was with me
MV 4.1. 152 a young doctor of Rome; his name is Balthasar. I
MV 4.1. 153 acquainted him with the cause in controversy between
MV 4.1. 154 the Jew and Antonio, the merchant. We turned o'er
MV 4.1. 155 many books together. He is furnished with my opinion
MV 4.1. 156 which, bettered with his own learning - the greatness
MV 4.1. 157 whereof I cannot enough commend - comes with him
MV 4.1. 158 at my importunity to fill up your grace's request in my
MV 4.1. 159 stead. I beseech you let his lack of years be no
MV 4.1. 160 impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation, for
MV 4.1. 161 I never knew so young a body with so old a head. I
MV 4.1. 162 leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial
MV 4.1. 163 shall better publish his commendation.' {Enter [three or four +
MV 4.1. 163 with] Portia as Balthasar}
MV 4.1. 164 You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes;
MV 4.1. 165 And here, I take it, is the doctor come.
MV 4.1. 166 {(To Portia)} Give me your hand. Come you from old +
MV 4.1. 166 Bellario?
MV 4.1. 167B
MV-PORTIA
I did, my lord.
MV-DUKE
You are welcome. Take your place.
MV 4.1. 168 Are you acquainted with the difference
MV 4.1. 169 That holds this present question in the court?
MV 4.1. 170
MV-PORTIA
I am informed throughly of the cause.
MV 4.1. 171 Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?
MV 4.1. 172
MV-DUKE
Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth. {Antonio and +
MV 4.1. 172 Shylock stand forth}
MV 4.1. 173B
MV-PORTIA
Is your name Shylock?
MV-SHYLOCK
Shylock is my +
MV 4.1. 173B name.
MV 4.1. 174
MV-PORTIA
Of a strange nature is the suit you follow,
MV 4.1. 175 Yet in such rule that the Venetian law
MV 4.1. 176 Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.
MV 4.1. 177 {(To Antonio)} You stand within his danger, do you +
MV 4.1. 177 not?
MV 4.1. 178B
MV-ANTONIO
Ay, so he says.
MV-PORTIA
Do you confess the bond?
MV 4.1. 179B
MV-ANTONIO
I do.
MV-PORTIA
Then must the Jew be merciful.
MV 4.1. 180
MV-SHYLOCK
On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.
MV 4.1. 181
MV-PORTIA
The quality of mercy is not strained.
MV 4.1. 182 It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
MV 4.1. 183 Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
MV 4.1. 184 It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
MV 4.1. 185 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes
MV 4.1. 186 The throned monarch better than his crown.
MV 4.1. 187 His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
MV 4.1. 188 The attribute to awe and majesty,
MV 4.1. 189 Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
MV 4.1. 190 But mercy is above this sceptred sway.
MV 4.1. 191 It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;
MV 4.1. 192 It is an attribute to God himself,
MV 4.1. 193 And earthly power doth then show likest God's
MV 4.1. 194 When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
MV 4.1. 195 Though justice be thy plea, consider this:
MV 4.1. 196 That in the course of justice none of us
MV 4.1. 197 Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy,
MV 4.1. 198 And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
MV 4.1. 199 The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
MV 4.1. 200 To mitigate the justice of thy plea,
MV 4.1. 201 Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
MV 4.1. 202 Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
MV 4.1. 203
MV-SHYLOCK
My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,
MV 4.1. 204 The penalty and forfeit of my bond.
MV 4.1. 205
MV-PORTIA
Is he not able to discharge the money?
MV 4.1. 206
MV-BASSANIO
Yes, here I tender it for him in the court,
MV 4.1. 207 Yea, twice the sum. If that will not suffice
MV 4.1. 208 I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er
MV 4.1. 209 On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart.
MV 4.1. 210 If this will not suffice, it must appear
MV 4.1. 211 That malice bears down truth. And, I beseech you,
MV 4.1. 212 Wrest once the law to your authority.
MV 4.1. 213 To do a great right, do a little wrong,
MV 4.1. 214 And curb this cruel devil of his will.
MV 4.1. 215
MV-PORTIA
It must not be. There is no power in Venice
MV 4.1. 216 Can alter a decree established.
MV 4.1. 217 'Twill be recorded for a precedent,
MV 4.1. 218 And many an error by the same example
MV 4.1. 219 Will rush into the state. It cannot be.
MV 4.1. 220
MV-SHYLOCK
A Daniel come to judgement, yea, a Daniel!
MV 4.1. 221 O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!
MV 4.1. 222
MV-PORTIA
I pray you let me look upon the bond.
MV 4.1. 223
MV-SHYLOCK
Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.
MV 4.1. 224
MV-PORTIA
Shylock, there's thrice thy money offered thee.
MV 4.1. 225
MV-SHYLOCK
An oath, an oath! I have an oath in heaven.
MV 4.1. 226 Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
MV 4.1. 227B No, not for Venice.
MV-PORTIA
Why, this bond is forfeit,
MV 4.1. 228 And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
MV 4.1. 229 A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
MV 4.1. 230 Nearest the merchant's heart. {(To Shylock)} Be +
MV 4.1. 230 merciful.
MV 4.1. 231 Take thrice thy money. Bid me tear the bond.
MV 4.1. 232
MV-SHYLOCK
When it is paid according to the tenor.
MV 4.1. 233 It doth appear you are a worthy judge.
MV 4.1. 234 You know the law. Your exposition
MV 4.1. 235 Hath been most sound. I charge you, by the law
MV 4.1. 236 Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,
MV 4.1. 237 Proceed to judgement. By my soul I swear
MV 4.1. 238 There is no power in the tongue of man
MV 4.1. 239 To alter me. I stay here on my bond.
MV 4.1. 240
MV-ANTONIO
Most heartily I do beseech the court
MV 4.1. 241B To give the judgement.
MV-PORTIA
Why, then thus it is:
MV 4.1. 242 You must prepare your bosom for his knife -
MV 4.1. 243
MV-SHYLOCK
O noble judge, O excellent young man!
MV 4.1. 244
MV-PORTIA
For the intent and purpose of the law
MV 4.1. 245 Hath full relation to the penalty
MV 4.1. 246 Which here appeareth due upon the bond.
MV 4.1. 247
MV-SHYLOCK
'Tis very true. O wise and upright judge!
MV 4.1. 248 How much more elder art thou than thy looks!
MV 4.1. 249B
MV-PORTIA
{(to Antonio)} Therefore lay bare your +
MV 4.1. 249B bosom.
MV-SHYLOCK
Ay, his breast.
MV 4.1. 250 So says the bond, doth it not, noble judge?
MV 4.1. 251 `Nearest his heart' - those are the very words.
MV 4.1. 252
MV-PORTIA
It is so. Are there balance here to weigh the flesh?
MV 4.1. 253A
MV-SHYLOCK
I have them ready.
MV 4.1. 254
MV-PORTIA
Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge
MV 4.1. 255 To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death.
MV 4.1. 256
MV-SHYLOCK
Is it so nominated in the bond?
MV 4.1. 257
MV-PORTIA
It is not so expressed, but what of that?
MV 4.1. 258 'Twere good you do so much for charity.
MV 4.1. 259
MV-SHYLOCK
I cannot find it. 'Tis not in the bond.
MV 4.1. 260
MV-PORTIA
{(to Antonio)} You, merchant, have you +
MV 4.1. 260 anything to say?
MV 4.1. 261
MV-ANTONIO
But little. I am armed and well prepared.
MV 4.1. 262 Give me your hand, Bassanio; fare you well.
MV 4.1. 263 Grieve not that I am fall'n to this for you,
MV 4.1. 264 For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
MV 4.1. 265 Than is her custom; it is still her use
MV 4.1. 266 To let the wretched man outlive his wealth
MV 4.1. 267 To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
MV 4.1. 268 An age of poverty, from which ling'ring penance
MV 4.1. 269 Of such misery doth she cut me off.
MV 4.1. 270 Commend me to your honourable wife.
MV 4.1. 271 Tell her the process of Antonio's end.
MV 4.1. 272 Say how I loved you. Speak me fair in death,
MV 4.1. 273 And when the tale is told, bid her be judge
MV 4.1. 274 Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
MV 4.1. 275 Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,
MV 4.1. 276 And he repents not that he pays your debt;
MV 4.1. 277 For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,
MV 4.1. 278 I'll pay it instantly, with all my heart.
MV 4.1. 279
MV-BASSANIO
Antonio, I am married to a wife
MV 4.1. 280 Which is as dear to me as life itself,
MV 4.1. 281 But life itself, my wife, and all the world
MV 4.1. 282 Are not with me esteemed above thy life.
MV 4.1. 283 I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all
MV 4.1. 284 Here to this devil, to deliver you.
MV 4.1. 285
MV-PORTIA
{[aside]} Your wife would give you little +
MV 4.1. 285 thanks for that
MV 4.1. 286 If she were by to hear you make the offer.
MV 4.1. 287
MV-GRAZIANO
I have a wife who, I protest, I love.
MV 4.1. 288 I would she were in heaven so she could
MV 4.1. 289 Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.
MV 4.1. 290
MV-NERISSA
{[aside]} 'Tis well you offer it behind +
MV 4.1. 290 her back;
MV 4.1. 291 The wish would make else an unquiet house.
MV 4.1. 292
MV-SHYLOCK
{[aside]} These be the Christian husbands. +
MV 4.1. 292 I have a daughter.
MV 4.1. 293 Would any of the stock of Barabbas
MV 4.1. 294 Had been her husband rather than a Christian.
MV 4.1. 295 {(Aloud)} We trifle time. I pray thee pursue sentence.
MV 4.1. 296
MV-PORTIA
A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine.
MV 4.1. 297 The court awards it, and the law doth give it.
MV 4.1. 298A
MV-SHYLOCK
Most rightful judge!
MV 4.1. 299
MV-PORTIA
And you must cut this flesh from off his breast.
MV 4.1. 300 The law allows it, and the court awards it.
MV 4.1. 301
MV-SHYLOCK
Most learned judge! A sentence: {(to +
MV 4.1. 301 Antonio)} come, prepare.
MV 4.1. 302
MV-PORTIA
Tarry a little. There is something else.
MV 4.1. 303 This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood.
MV 4.1. 304 The words expressly are `a pound of flesh'.
MV 4.1. 305 Take then thy bond. Take thou thy pound of flesh.
MV 4.1. 306 But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
MV 4.1. 307 One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
MV 4.1. 308 Are by the laws of Venice confiscate
MV 4.1. 309B Unto the state of Venice.
MV-GRAZIANO
O upright judge!
MV 4.1. 310 Mark, Jew! O learned judge!
MV 4.1. 311A
MV-SHYLOCK
Is that the law?
MV 4.1. 312A
MV-PORTIA
Thyself shalt see the act;
MV 4.1. 313 For as thou urgest justice, be assured
MV 4.1. 314 Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir'st.
MV 4.1. 315
MV-GRAZIANO
O learned judge! Mark, Jew - a learned judge!
MV 4.1. 316
MV-SHYLOCK
I take this offer, then. Pay the bond thrice,
MV 4.1. 317B And let the Christian go.
MV-BASSANIO
Here is the money.
MV 4.1. 318
MV-PORTIA
Soft, the Jew shall have all justice. Soft, no haste.
MV 4.1. 319 He shall have nothing but the penalty.
MV 4.1. 320
MV-GRAZIANO
O Jew, an upright judge, a learned judge!
MV 4.1. 321
MV-PORTIA
{(to Shylock)} Therefore prepare thee to +
MV 4.1. 321 cut off the flesh.
MV 4.1. 322 Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more
MV 4.1. 323 But just a pound of flesh. If thou tak'st more
MV 4.1. 324 Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
MV 4.1. 325 As makes it light or heavy in the substance
MV 4.1. 326 Or the division of the twentieth part
MV 4.1. 327 Of one poor scruple - nay, if the scale do turn
MV 4.1. 328 But in the estimation of a hair,
MV 4.1. 329 Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate.
MV 4.1. 330
MV-GRAZIANO
A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
MV 4.1. 331 Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.
MV 4.1. 332
MV-PORTIA
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
MV 4.1. 333
MV-SHYLOCK
Give me my principal, and let me go.
MV 4.1. 334
MV-BASSANIO
I have it ready for thee. Here it is.
MV 4.1. 335
MV-PORTIA
He hath refused it in the open court.
MV 4.1. 336 He shall have merely justice and his bond.
MV 4.1. 337
MV-GRAZIANO
A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
MV 4.1. 338 I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
MV 4.1. 339
MV-SHYLOCK
Shall I not have barely my principal?
MV 4.1. 340
MV-PORTIA
Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture
MV 4.1. 341 To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.
MV 4.1. 342
MV-SHYLOCK
Why then, the devil give him good of it.
MV 4.1. 343B I'll stay no longer question.
MV-PORTIA
Tarry, Jew.
MV 4.1. 344 The law hath yet another hold on you.
MV 4.1. 345 It is enacted in the laws of Venice,
MV 4.1. 346 If it be proved against an alien
MV 4.1. 347 That by direct or indirect attempts
MV 4.1. 348 He seek the life of any citizen,
MV 4.1. 349 The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive
MV 4.1. 350 Shall seize one half his goods; the other half
MV 4.1. 351 Comes to the privy coffer of the state,
MV 4.1. 352 And the offender's life lies in the mercy
MV 4.1. 353 Of the Duke only, 'gainst all other voice -
MV 4.1. 354 In which predicament I say thou stand'st,
MV 4.1. 355 For it appears by manifest proceeding
MV 4.1. 356 That indirectly, and directly too,
MV 4.1. 357 Thou hast contrived against the very life
MV 4.1. 358 Of the defendant, and thou hast incurred
MV 4.1. 359 The danger formerly by me rehearsed.
MV 4.1. 360 Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the Duke.
MV 4.1. 361
MV-GRAZIANO
{(to Shylock)} Beg that thou mayst have +
MV 4.1. 361 leave to hang thyself -
MV 4.1. 362 And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,
MV 4.1. 363 Thou hast not left the value of a cord.
MV 4.1. 364 Therefore thou must be hanged at the state's charge.
MV 4.1. 365
MV-DUKE
{(to Shylock)} That thou shalt see the +
MV 4.1. 365 difference of our spirit,
MV 4.1. 366 I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.
MV 4.1. 367 For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's.
MV 4.1. 368 The other half comes to the general state,
MV 4.1. 369 Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.
MV 4.1. 370
MV-PORTIA
Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.
MV 4.1. 371
MV-SHYLOCK
Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that.
MV 4.1. 372 You take my house when you do take the prop
MV 4.1. 373 That doth sustain my house; you take my life
MV 4.1. 374 When you do take the means whereby I live.
MV 4.1. 375
MV-PORTIA
What mercy can you render him, Antonio?
MV 4.1. 376
MV-GRAZIANO
A halter, gratis. Nothing else, for God's sake.
MV 4.1. 377
MV-ANTONIO
So please my lord the Duke and all the court
MV 4.1. 378 To quit the fine for one half of his goods,
MV 4.1. 379 I am content, so he will let me have
MV 4.1. 380 The other half in use, to render it
MV 4.1. 381 Upon his death unto the gentleman
MV 4.1. 382 That lately stole his daughter.
MV 4.1. 383 Two things provided more: that for this favour
MV 4.1. 384 He presently become a Christian;
MV 4.1. 385 The other, that he do record a gift
MV 4.1. 386 Here in the court of all he dies possessed
MV 4.1. 387 Unto his son, Lorenzo, and his daughter.
MV 4.1. 388
MV-DUKE
He shall do this, or else I do recant
MV 4.1. 389 The pardon that I late pronounced here.
MV 4.1. 390
MV-PORTIA
Art thou contented, Jew? What dost thou say?
MV 4.1. 391B
MV-SHYLOCK
I am content.
MV-PORTIA
{(to Nerissa)} +
MV 4.1. 391B Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
MV 4.1. 392
MV-SHYLOCK
I pray you give me leave to go from hence.
MV 4.1. 393 I am not well. Send the deed after me,
MV 4.1. 394B And I will sign it.
MV-DUKE
Get thee gone, but do it.
MV 4.1. 395
MV-GRAZIANO
{(to Shylock)} In christ'ning shalt thou +
MV 4.1. 395 have two godfathers.
MV 4.1. 396 Had I been judge thou shouldst have had ten more,
MV 4.1. 397 To bring thee to the gallows, not the font. {Exit Shylock}
MV 4.1. 398
MV-DUKE
{(to Portia)} Sir, I entreat you home with me +
MV 4.1. 398 to dinner.
MV 4.1. 399
MV-PORTIA
I humbly do desire your grace of pardon.
MV 4.1. 400 I must away this night toward Padua,
MV 4.1. 401 And it is meet I presently set forth.
MV 4.1. 402
MV-DUKE
I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.
MV 4.1. 403 Antonio, gratify this gentleman,
MV 4.1. 404 For in my mind you are much bound to him. {Exit Duke and his +
MV 4.1. 404 train}
MV 4.1. 405
MV-BASSANIO
{(to Portia)} Most worthy gentleman, I +
MV 4.1. 405 and my friend
MV 4.1. 406 Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted
MV 4.1. 407 Of grievous penalties, in lieu whereof
MV 4.1. 408 Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew
MV 4.1. 409 We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
MV 4.1. 410
MV-ANTONIO
And stand indebted over and above
MV 4.1. 411 In love and service to you evermore.
MV 4.1. 412
MV-PORTIA
He is well paid that is well satisfied,
MV 4.1. 413 And I, delivering you, am satisfied,
MV 4.1. 414 And therein do account myself well paid.
MV 4.1. 415 My mind was never yet more mercenary.
MV 4.1. 416 I pray you know me when we meet again.
MV 4.1. 417 I wish you well; and so I take my leave.
MV 4.1. 418
MV-BASSANIO
Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further.
MV 4.1. 419 Take some remembrance of us as a tribute,
MV 4.1. 420 Not as fee. Grant me two things, I pray you:
MV 4.1. 421 Not to deny me, and to pardon me.
MV 4.1. 422
MV-PORTIA
You press me far, and therefore I will yield.
MV 4.1. 423 {[To Antonio]} Give me your gloves. I'll wear them for +
MV 4.1. 423 your sake.
MV 4.1. 424 {(To Bassanio)} And for your love I'll take this ring +
MV 4.1. 424 from you.
MV 4.1. 425 Do not draw back your hand. I'll take no more,
MV 4.1. 426 And you in love shall not deny me this.
MV 4.1. 427
MV-BASSANIO
This ring, good sir? Alas, it is a trifle.
MV 4.1. 428 I will not shame myself to give you this.
MV 4.1. 429
MV-PORTIA
I will have nothing else, but only this;
MV 4.1. 430 And now, methinks, I have a mind to it.
MV 4.1. 431
MV-BASSANIO
There's more depends on this than on the value.
MV 4.1. 432 The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,
MV 4.1. 433 And find it out by proclamation.
MV 4.1. 434 Only for this, I pray you pardon me.
MV 4.1. 435
MV-PORTIA
I see, sir, you are liberal in offers.
MV 4.1. 436 You taught me first to beg, and now methinks
MV 4.1. 437 You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
MV 4.1. 438
MV-BASSANIO
Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife,
MV 4.1. 439 And when she put it on she made me vow
MV 4.1. 440 That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.
MV 4.1. 441
MV-PORTIA
That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.
MV 4.1. 442 An if your wife be not a madwoman,
MV 4.1. 443 And know how well I have deserved this ring,
MV 4.1. 444 She would not hold out enemy for ever
MV 4.1. 445 For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you. {Exeunt Portia and +
MV 4.1. 445 Nerissa}
MV 4.1. 446
MV-ANTONIO
My lord Bassanio, let him have the ring.
MV 4.1. 447 Let his deservings and my love withal
MV 4.1. 448 Be valued 'gainst your wife's commande|ment.
MV 4.1. 449
MV-BASSANIO
Go, Graziano, run and overtake him.
MV 4.1. 450 Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,
MV 4.1. 451 Unto Antonio's house. Away, make haste. {Exit Graziano}
MV 4.1. 452 Come, you and I will thither presently,
MV 4.1. 453 And in the morning early will we both
MV 4.1. 454 Fly toward Belmont. Come, Antonio. {Exeunt}
MV 4.1. 0 {Enter Portia and Nerissa, still disguised}
MV 4.2. 1
MV-PORTIA
Enquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed,
MV 4.2. 2 And let him sign it. We'll away tonight,
MV 4.2. 3 And be a day before our husbands home.
MV 4.2. 4 This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo. {Enter Graziano}
MV 4.2. 5A
MV-GRAZIANO
Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en.
MV 4.2. 6 My lord Bassanio upon more advice
MV 4.2. 7 Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
MV 4.2. 8B Your company at dinner.
MV-PORTIA
That cannot be.
MV 4.2. 9 His ring I do accept most thankfully,
MV 4.2. 10 And so I pray you tell him. Furthermore,
MV 4.2. 11 I pray you show my youth old Shylock's house.
MV 4.2. 12B
MV-GRAZIANO
That will I do.
MV-NERISSA
Sir, I would speak with you.
MV 4.2. 13 {(Aside to Portia)} I'll see if I can get my husband's +
MV 4.2. 13 ring
MV 4.2. 14 Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
MV 4.2. 15
MV-PORTIA
{(aside to Nerissa)} Thou mayst; I warrant +
MV 4.2. 15 we shall have old swearing
MV 4.2. 16 That they did give the rings away to men.
MV 4.2. 17 But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.
MV 4.2. 18 Away, make haste. Thou know'st where I will tarry. {Exit [at one +
MV 4.2. 18 door]}
MV 4.2. 19
MV-NERISSA
{(to Graziano)} Come, good sir, will you +
MV 4.2. 19 show me to this house? {Exeunt [at another door]}
MV 4.2. 0 {Enter Lorenzo and Jessica}
MV 5.1. 1
MV-LORENZO
The moon shines bright. In such a night as this,
MV 5.1. 2 When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
MV 5.1. 3 And they did make no noise - in such a night
MV 5.1. 4 Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls,
MV 5.1. 5 And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents
MV 5.1. 6B Where Cressid lay that night.
MV-JESSICA
In such a night
MV 5.1. 7 Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew
MV 5.1. 8 And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,
MV 5.1. 9B And ran dismayed away.
MV-LORENZO
In such a night
MV 5.1. 10 Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
MV 5.1. 11 Upon the wild sea banks, and waft her love
MV 5.1. 12B To come again to Carthage.
MV-JESSICA
In such a night
MV 5.1. 13 Medea gathered the enchanted herbs
MV 5.1. 14B That did renew old Aeson.
MV-LORENZO
In such a night
MV 5.1. 15 Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew,
MV 5.1. 16 And with an unthrift love did run from Venice
MV 5.1. 17B As far as Belmont.
MV-JESSICA
In such a night
MV 5.1. 18 Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,
MV 5.1. 19 Stealing her soul with many vows of faith,
MV 5.1. 20B And ne'er a true one.
MV-LORENZO
In such a night
MV 5.1. 21 Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,
MV 5.1. 22 Slander her love, and he forgave it her.
MV 5.1. 23
MV-JESSICA
I would outnight you, did nobody come.
MV 5.1. 24 But hark, I hear the footing of a man. {Enter Stefano, a +
MV 5.1. 24 messenger}
MV 5.1. 25
MV-LORENZO
Who comes so fast in silence of the night?
MV 5.1. 26A
MV-STEFANO
A friend.
MV 5.1. 27
MV-LORENZO
A friend - what friend? Your name, I pray you, friend?
MV 5.1. 28
MV-STEFANO
Stefano is my name, and I bring word
MV 5.1. 29 My mistress will before the break of day
MV 5.1. 30 Be here at Belmont. She doth stray about
MV 5.1. 31 By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays
MV 5.1. 32B For happy wedlock hours.
MV-LORENZO
Who comes with her?
MV 5.1. 33
MV-STEFANO
None but a holy hermit and her maid.
MV 5.1. 34 I pray you, is my master yet returned?
MV 5.1. 35
MV-LORENZO
He is not, nor we have not heard from him.
MV 5.1. 36 But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,
MV 5.1. 37 And ceremoniously let us prepare
MV 5.1. 38 Some welcome for the mistress of the house. {Enter Lancelot, the +
MV 5.1. 38 clown}
MV 5.1. 39
MV-LANCELOT
{(calling)} Sola, sola! Wo, ha, ho! Sola, +
MV 5.1. 39 sola!
MV 5.1. 40
MV-LORENZO
Who calls?
MV 5.1. 41
MV-LANCELOT
{(calling)} Sola! - Did you see Master +
MV 5.1. 41 Lorenzo?
MV 5.1. 42 {(Calling)} Master Lorenzo! Sola, sola!
MV 5.1. 43
MV-LORENZO
Leave hollering, man: here.
MV 5.1. 44
MV-LANCELOT
{(calling)} Sola! - Where, where?
MV 5.1. 45
MV-LORENZO
Here.
MV 5.1. 46
MV-LANCELOT
Tell him there's a post come from my master
MV 5.1. 47 with his horn full of good news. My master will be here
MV 5.1. 48 ere morning. {Exit}
MV 5.1. 49
MV-LORENZO
{(to Jessica)} Sweet soul, let's in, and +
MV 5.1. 49 there expect their coming.
MV 5.1. 50 And yet no matter. Why should we go in?
MV 5.1. 51 My friend Stefano, signify, I pray you,
MV 5.1. 52 Within the house your mistress is at hand,
MV 5.1. 53 And bring your music forth into the air. {Exit Stefano}
MV 5.1. 54 How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
MV 5.1. 55 Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
MV 5.1. 56 Creep in our ears. Soft stillness and the night
MV 5.1. 57 Become the touches of sweet harmony.
MV 5.1. 58B Sit, Jessica. {[They] sit} Look how the floor of heaven
MV 5.1. 59 Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold.
MV 5.1. 60 There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
MV 5.1. 61 But in his motion like an angel sings,
MV 5.1. 62 Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
MV 5.1. 63 Such harmony is in immortal souls,
MV 5.1. 64 But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
MV 5.1. 65 Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. {[Enter Musicians]}
MV 5.1. 66 {(To the Musicians)} Come, ho, and wake Diana with a +
MV 5.1. 66 hymn.
MV 5.1. 67 With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,
MV 5.1. 68 And draw her home with music. {The Musicians play}
MV 5.1. 69
MV-JESSICA
I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
MV 5.1. 70
MV-LORENZO
The reason is your spirits are attentive,
MV 5.1. 71 For do but note a wild and wanton herd
MV 5.1. 72 Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
MV 5.1. 73 Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
MV 5.1. 74 Which is the hot condition of their blood,
MV 5.1. 75 If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
MV 5.1. 76 Or any air of music touch their ears,
MV 5.1. 77 You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
MV 5.1. 78 Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze
MV 5.1. 79 By the sweet power of music. Therefore the poet
MV 5.1. 80 Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods,
MV 5.1. 81 Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage
MV 5.1. 82 But music for the time doth change his nature.
MV 5.1. 83 The man that hath no music in himself,
MV 5.1. 84 Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
MV 5.1. 85 Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
MV 5.1. 86 The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
MV 5.1. 87 And his affections dark as Erebus.
MV 5.1. 88 Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. {Enter Portia and +
MV 5.1. 88 Nerissa, as themselves}
MV 5.1. 89
MV-PORTIA
That light we see is burning in my hall.
MV 5.1. 90 How far that little candle throws his beams -
MV 5.1. 91 So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
MV 5.1. 92
MV-NERISSA
When the moon shone we did not see the candle.
MV 5.1. 93
MV-PORTIA
So doth the greater glory dim the less.
MV 5.1. 94 A substitute shines brightly as a king
MV 5.1. 95 Until a king be by, and then his state
MV 5.1. 96 Empties itself as doth an inland brook
MV 5.1. 97 Into the main of waters. Music, hark.
MV 5.1. 98
MV-NERISSA
It is your music, madam, of the house.
MV 5.1. 99
MV-PORTIA
Nothing is good, I see, without respect.
MV 5.1. 100 Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.
MV 5.1. 101
MV-NERISSA
Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.
MV 5.1. 102
MV-PORTIA
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
MV 5.1. 103 When neither is attended, and I think
MV 5.1. 104 The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
MV 5.1. 105 When every goose is cackling, would be thought
MV 5.1. 106 No better a musician than the wren.
MV 5.1. 107 How many things by season seasoned are
MV 5.1. 108 To their right praise and true perfection! {[She sees Lorenzo +
MV 5.1. 108 and Jessica]}
MV 5.1. 109B Peace, ho! {[Music ceases]} The moon sleeps +
MV 5.1. 109B with Endymion,
MV 5.1. 110B And would not be awaked.
MV-LORENZO
{[rising]} That is +
MV 5.1. 110B the voice,
MV 5.1. 111 Or I am much deceived, of Portia.
MV 5.1. 112
MV-PORTIA
He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo -
MV 5.1. 113B By the bad voice.
MV-LORENZO
Dear lady, welcome home.
MV 5.1. 114
MV-PORTIA
We have been praying for our husbands' welfare,
MV 5.1. 115 Which speed we hope the better for our words.
MV 5.1. 116B Are they returned?
MV-LORENZO
Madam, they are not yet,
MV 5.1. 117 But there is come a messenger before
MV 5.1. 118B To signify their coming.
MV-PORTIA
Go in, Nerissa.
MV 5.1. 119 Give order to my servants that they take
MV 5.1. 120 No note at all of our being absent hence;
MV 5.1. 121 Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.
MV-[A
tucket sounds]}
MV 5.1. 122
MV-LORENZO
Your husband is at hand. I hear his trumpet.
MV 5.1. 123 We are no tell-tales, madam. Fear you not.
MV 5.1. 124
MV-PORTIA
This night, methinks, is but the daylight sick.
MV 5.1. 125 It looks a little paler. 'Tis a day
MV 5.1. 126 Such as the day is when the sun is hid. {Enter Bassanio, +
MV 5.1. 126 Antonio, Graziano, and their followers. Graziano and Nerissa speak +
MV 5.1. 126 silently to one another}
MV 5.1. 127
MV-BASSANIO
We should hold day with the Antipodes
MV 5.1. 128 If you would walk in absence of the sun.
MV 5.1. 129
MV-PORTIA
Let me give light, but let me not be light;
MV 5.1. 130 For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,
MV 5.1. 131 And never be Bassanio so for me.
MV 5.1. 132 But God sort all. You are welcome home, my lord.
MV 5.1. 133
MV-BASSANIO
I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.
MV 5.1. 134 This is the man, this is Antonio,
MV 5.1. 135 To whom I am so infinitely bound.
MV 5.1. 136
MV-PORTIA
You should in all sense be much bound to him,
MV 5.1. 137 For as I hear he was much bound for you.
MV 5.1. 138
MV-ANTONIO
No more than I am well acquitted of.
MV 5.1. 139
MV-PORTIA
Sir, you are very welcome to our house.
MV 5.1. 140 It must appear in other ways than words,
MV 5.1. 141 Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
MV 5.1. 142
MV-GRAZIANO
{(to Nerissa)} By yonder moon I swear you +
MV 5.1. 142 do me wrong.
MV 5.1. 143 In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk.
MV 5.1. 144 Would he were gelt that had it for my part,
MV 5.1. 145 Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.
MV 5.1. 146
MV-PORTIA
A quarrel, ho, already! What's the matter?
MV 5.1. 147
MV-GRAZIANO
About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
MV 5.1. 148 That she did give me, whose posy was
MV 5.1. 149 For all the world like cutlers' poetry
MV 5.1. 150 Upon a knife - `Love me and leave me not'.
MV 5.1. 151
MV-NERISSA
What talk you of the posy or the value?
MV 5.1. 152 You swore to me when I did give it you
MV 5.1. 153 That you would wear it till your hour of death,
MV 5.1. 154 And that it should lie with you in your grave.
MV 5.1. 155 Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths
MV 5.1. 156 You should have been respective and have kept it.
MV 5.1. 157 Gave it a judge's clerk? - no, God's my judge,
MV 5.1. 158 The clerk will ne'er wear hair on 's face that had it.
MV 5.1. 159
MV-GRAZIANO
He will an if he live to be a man.
MV 5.1. 160
MV-NERISSA
Ay, if a woman live to be a man.
MV 5.1. 161
MV-GRAZIANO
Now by this hand, I gave it to a youth,
MV 5.1. 162 A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy
MV 5.1. 163 No higher than thyself, the judge's clerk,
MV 5.1. 164 A prating boy that begged it as a fee.
MV 5.1. 165 I could not for my heart deny it him.
MV 5.1. 166
MV-PORTIA
You were to blame, I must be plain with you,
MV 5.1. 167 To part so slightly with your wife's first gift,
MV 5.1. 168 A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger,
MV 5.1. 169 And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.
MV 5.1. 170 I gave my love a ring, and made him swear
MV 5.1. 171 Never to part with it; and here he stands.
MV 5.1. 172 I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it,
MV 5.1. 173 Nor pluck it from his finger for the wealth
MV 5.1. 174 That the world masters. Now, in faith, Graziano,
MV 5.1. 175 You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief.
MV 5.1. 176 An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.
MV 5.1. 177
MV-BASSANIO
{(aside)} Why, I were best to cut my left +
MV 5.1. 177 hand off
MV 5.1. 178 And swear I lost the ring defending it.
MV 5.1. 179
MV-GRAZIANO
{[to Portia]} My lord Bassanio gave his +
MV 5.1. 179 ring away
MV 5.1. 180 Unto the judge that begged it, and indeed
MV 5.1. 181 Deserved it, too, and then the boy his clerk,
MV 5.1. 182 That took some pains in writing, he begged mine,
MV 5.1. 183 And neither man nor master would take aught
MV 5.1. 184B But the two rings.
MV-PORTIA
{(to Bassanio)} What ring +
MV 5.1. 184B gave you, my lord?
MV 5.1. 185 Not that, I hope, which you received of me.
MV 5.1. 186
MV-BASSANIO
If I could add a lie unto a fault
MV 5.1. 187 I would deny it; but you see my finger
MV 5.1. 188 Hath not the ring upon it. It is gone.
MV 5.1. 189
MV-PORTIA
Even so void is your false heart of truth.
MV 5.1. 190 By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed
MV 5.1. 191B Until I see the ring.
MV-NERISSA
{(to Graziano)} Nor I +
MV 5.1. 191B in yours
MV 5.1. 192B Till I again see mine.
MV-BASSANIO
Sweet Portia,
MV 5.1. 193 If you did know to whom I gave the ring,
MV 5.1. 194 If you did know for whom I gave the ring,
MV 5.1. 195 And would conceive for what I gave the ring,
MV 5.1. 196 And how unwillingly I left the ring
MV 5.1. 197 When naught would be accepted but the ring,
MV 5.1. 198 You would abate the strength of your displeasure.
MV 5.1. 199
MV-PORTIA
If you had known the virtue of the ring,
MV 5.1. 200 Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,
MV 5.1. 201 Or your own honour to contain the ring,
MV 5.1. 202 You would not then have parted with the ring.
MV 5.1. 203 What man is there so much unreasonable,
MV 5.1. 204 If you had pleased to have defended it
MV 5.1. 205 With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty
MV 5.1. 206 To urge the thing held as a ceremony?
MV 5.1. 207 Nerissa teaches me what to believe.
MV 5.1. 208 I'll die for 't but some woman had the ring.
MV 5.1. 209
MV-BASSANIO
No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,
MV 5.1. 210 No woman had it, but a civil doctor
MV 5.1. 211 Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me,
MV 5.1. 212 And begged the ring, the which I did deny him,
MV 5.1. 213 And suffered him to go displeased away,
MV 5.1. 214 Even he that had held up the very life
MV 5.1. 215 Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?
MV 5.1. 216 I was enforced to send it after him.
MV 5.1. 217 I was beset with shame and courtesy.
MV 5.1. 218 My honour would not let ingratitude
MV 5.1. 219 So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady,
MV 5.1. 220 For by these blessed candles of the night,
MV 5.1. 221 Had you been there I think you would have begged
MV 5.1. 222 The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.
MV 5.1. 223
MV-PORTIA
Let not that doctor e'er come near my house.
MV 5.1. 224 Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
MV 5.1. 225 And that which you did swear to keep for me,
MV 5.1. 226 I will become as liberal as you.
MV 5.1. 227 I'll not deny him anything I have,
MV 5.1. 228 No, not my body nor my husband's bed.
MV 5.1. 229 Know him I shall, I am well sure of it.
MV 5.1. 230 Lie not a night from home. Watch me like Argus.
MV 5.1. 231 If you do not, if I be left alone,
MV 5.1. 232 Now by mine honour, which is yet mine own,
MV 5.1. 233 I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.
MV 5.1. 234
MV-NERISSA
{(to Graziano)} And I his clerk, therefore +
MV 5.1. 234 be well advised
MV 5.1. 235 How you do leave me to mine own protection.
MV 5.1. 236
MV-GRAZIANO
Well, do you so. Let not me take him then,
MV 5.1. 237 For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.
MV 5.1. 238
MV-ANTONIO
I am th' unhappy subject of these quarrels.
MV 5.1. 239
MV-PORTIA
Sir, grieve not you. You are welcome notwithstanding.
MV 5.1. 240
MV-BASSANIO
Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong,
MV 5.1. 241 And in the hearing of these many friends
MV 5.1. 242 I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,
MV 5.1. 243B Wherein I see myself -
MV-PORTIA
Mark you but that?
MV 5.1. 244 In both my eyes he doubly sees himself,
MV 5.1. 245 In each eye one. Swear by your double self,
MV 5.1. 246B And there's an oath of credit.
MV-BASSANIO
Nay, but hear me.
MV 5.1. 247 Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear
MV 5.1. 248 I never more will break an oath with thee.
MV 5.1. 249
MV-ANTONIO
{(to Portia)} I once did lend my body for +
MV 5.1. 249 his wealth
MV 5.1. 250 Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,
MV 5.1. 251 Had quite miscarried. I dare be bound again,
MV 5.1. 252 My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord
MV 5.1. 253 Will never more break faith advisedly.
MV 5.1. 254
MV-PORTIA
Then you shall be his surety. Give him this,
MV 5.1. 255 And bid him keep it better than the other.
MV 5.1. 256
MV-ANTONIO
Here, Lord Bassanio, swear to keep this ring.
MV 5.1. 257
MV-BASSANIO
By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!
MV 5.1. 258
MV-PORTIA
I had it of him. Pardon me, Bassanio,
MV 5.1. 259 For by this ring, the doctor lay with me.
MV 5.1. 260
MV-NERISSA
And pardon me, my gentle Graziano,
MV 5.1. 261 For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,
MV 5.1. 262 In lieu of this last night did lie with me.
MV 5.1. 263
MV-GRAZIANO
Why, this is like the mending of highways
MV 5.1. 264 In summer where the ways are fair enough!
MV 5.1. 265 What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?
MV 5.1. 266
MV-PORTIA
Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed.
MV 5.1. 267 Here is a letter. Read it at your leisure.
MV 5.1. 268 It comes from Padua, from Bellario.
MV 5.1. 269 There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,
MV 5.1. 270 Nerissa there her clerk. Lorenzo here
MV 5.1. 271 Shall witness I set forth as soon as you,
MV 5.1. 272 And even but now returned. I have not yet
MV 5.1. 273 Entered my house. Antonio, you are welcome,
MV 5.1. 274 And I have better news in store for you
MV 5.1. 275 Than you expect. Unseal this letter soon.
MV 5.1. 276 There you shall find three of your argosies
MV 5.1. 277 Are richly come to harbour suddenly.
MV 5.1. 278 You shall not know by what strange accident
MV 5.1. 279B I chanced on this letter.
MV-ANTONIO
I am dumb!
MV 5.1. 280
MV-BASSANIO
{(to Portia)} Were you the doctor and I +
MV 5.1. 280 knew you not?
MV 5.1. 281
MV-GRAZIANO
{(to Nerissa)} Were you the clerk that is +
MV 5.1. 281 to make me cuckold?
MV 5.1. 282
MV-NERISSA
Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it
MV 5.1. 283 Unless he live until he be a man.
MV 5.1. 284
MV-BASSANIO
{(to Portia)} Sweet doctor, you shall be +
MV 5.1. 284 my bedfellow.
MV 5.1. 285 When I am absent, then lie with my wife.
MV 5.1. 286
MV-ANTONIO
{(to Portia)} Sweet lady, you have given +
MV 5.1. 286 me life and living,
MV 5.1. 287 For here I read for certain that my ships
MV 5.1. 288B Are safely come to road.
MV-PORTIA
How now, Lorenzo?
MV 5.1. 289 My clerk hath some good comforts, too, for you.
MV 5.1. 290
MV-NERISSA
Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.
MV 5.1. 291 There do I give to you and Jessica
MV 5.1. 292 From the rich Jew a special deed of gift,
MV 5.1. 293 After his death, of all he dies possessed of.
MV 5.1. 294
MV-LORENZO
Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way
MV 5.1. 295B Of starved people.
MV-PORTIA
It is almost morning,
MV 5.1. 296 And yet I am sure you are not satisfied
MV 5.1. 297 Of these events at full. Let us go in,
MV 5.1. 298 And charge us there upon inter'gatories,
MV 5.1. 299 And we will answer all things faithfully.
MV 5.1. 300
MV-GRAZIANO
Let it be so. The first inter'gatory
MV 5.1. 301 That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is
MV 5.1. 302 Whether till the next night she had rather stay,
MV 5.1. 303 Or go to bed now, being two hours to day.
MV 5.1. 304 But were the day come, I should wish it dark
MV 5.1. 305 Till I were couching with the doctor's clerk.
MV 5.1. 306 Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
MV 5.1. 307 So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring. {Exeunt}
MV 5.1.
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OTH . . 0 The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice
OTH . . 0 {Enter Iago and Roderigo}
OTH 1.1. 1
OTH-RODERIGO
Tush, never tell me! I take it much unkindly
OTH 1.1. 2 That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
OTH 1.1. 3 As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.
OTH 1.1. 4A
OTH-IAGO
'Sblood, but you'll not hear me!
OTH 1.1. 5 If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me.
OTH 1.1. 6
OTH-RODERIGO
Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.
OTH 1.1. 7A
OTH-IAGO
Despise me
OTH 1.1. 8 If I do not. Three great ones of the city,
OTH 1.1. 9 In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
OTH 1.1. 10 Off-capped to him; and by the faith of man
OTH 1.1. 11 I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.
OTH 1.1. 12 But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,
OTH 1.1. 13 Evades them with a bombast circumstance
OTH 1.1. 14 Horribly stuffed with epithets of war,
OTH 1.1. 15 Nonsuits my mediators; for `Certes,' says he,
OTH 1.1. 16 `I have already chose my officer.'
OTH 1.1. 17 And what was he?
OTH 1.1. 18 Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
OTH 1.1. 19 One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
OTH 1.1. 20 A fellow almost damned in a fair wife,
OTH 1.1. 21 That never set a squadron in the field
OTH 1.1. 22 Nor the division of a battle knows
OTH 1.1. 23 More than a spinster - unless the bookish theoric,
OTH 1.1. 24 Wherein the togaed consuls can propose
OTH 1.1. 25 As masterly as he. Mere prattle without practice
OTH 1.1. 26 Is all his soldiership; but he, sir, had th' election,
OTH 1.1. 27 And I - of whom his eyes had seen the proof
OTH 1.1. 28 At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds
OTH 1.1. 29 Christened and heathen - must be beleed and calmed
OTH 1.1. 30 By debitor and creditor. This counter-caster,
OTH 1.1. 31 He in good time must his lieutenant be,
OTH 1.1. 32 And I - God bless the mark! - his Moorship's ensign.
OTH 1.1. 33
OTH-RODERIGO
By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.
OTH 1.1. 34
OTH-IAGO
Why, there's no remedy. 'Tis the curse of service.
OTH 1.1. 35 Preferment goes by letter and affection,
OTH 1.1. 36 And not by old gradation, where each second
OTH 1.1. 37 Stood heir to th' first. Now, sir, be judge yourself
OTH 1.1. 38 Whether I in any just term am affined
OTH 1.1. 39 To love the Moor.
OTH 1.1. 40A
OTH-RODERIGO
I would not follow him then.
OTH 1.1. 41A
OTH-IAGO
O sir, content you.
OTH 1.1. 42 I follow him to serve my turn upon him.
OTH 1.1. 43 We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
OTH 1.1. 44 Cannot be truly followed. You shall mark
OTH 1.1. 45 Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
OTH 1.1. 46 That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
OTH 1.1. 47 Wears out his time much like his master's ass
OTH 1.1. 48 For naught but provender, and when he's old, cashiered.
OTH 1.1. 49 Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are
OTH 1.1. 50 Who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty,
OTH 1.1. 51 Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,
OTH 1.1. 52 And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,
OTH 1.1. 53 Do well thrive by 'em, and when they have lined their coats,
OTH 1.1. 54 Do themselves homage. These fellows have some soul,
OTH 1.1. 55 And such a one do I profess myself - for, sir,
OTH 1.1. 56 It is as sure as you are Roderigo,
OTH 1.1. 57 Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.
OTH 1.1. 58 In following him I follow but myself.
OTH 1.1. 59 Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
OTH 1.1. 60 But seeming so for my peculiar end.
OTH 1.1. 61 For when my outward action doth demonstrate
OTH 1.1. 62 The native act and figure of my heart
OTH 1.1. 63 In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
OTH 1.1. 64 But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
OTH 1.1. 65 For daws to peck at. I am not what I am.
OTH 1.1. 66
OTH-RODERIGO
What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe
OTH 1.1. 67B If he can carry 't thus!
OTH-IAGO
Call up her father,
OTH 1.1. 68 Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight,
OTH 1.1. 69 Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,
OTH 1.1. 70 And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,
OTH 1.1. 71 Plague him with flies. Though that his joy be joy,
OTH 1.1. 72 Yet throw such chances of vexation on 't
OTH 1.1. 73 As it may lose some colour.
OTH 1.1. 74
OTH-RODERIGO
Here is her father's house. I'll call aloud.
OTH 1.1. 75
OTH-IAGO
Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell
OTH 1.1. 76 As when, by night and negligence, the fire
OTH 1.1. 77 Is spied in populous cities.
OTH 1.1. 78
OTH-RODERIGO
{(calling)} What ho, Brabanzio, Signor +
OTH 1.1. 78 Brabanzio, ho!
OTH 1.1. 79
OTH-IAGO
{(calling)} Awake, what ho, Brabanzio, +
OTH 1.1. 79 thieves, thieves, thieves!
OTH 1.1. 80 Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags.
OTH 1.1. 81 Thieves, thieves! {Enter Brabanzio in his nightgown at a window +
OTH 1.1. 81 above}
OTH 1.1. 82
OTH-BRABANZIO
What is the reason of this terrible summons?
OTH 1.1. 83 What is the matter there?
OTH 1.1. 84
OTH-RODERIGO
Signor, is all your family within?
OTH 1.1. 85B
OTH-IAGO
Are your doors locked?
OTH-BRABANZIO
Why, wherefore ask you +
OTH 1.1. 85B this?
OTH 1.1. 86
OTH-IAGO
'Swounds, sir, you're robbed. For shame, put on your gown.
OTH 1.1. 87 Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
OTH 1.1. 88 Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
OTH 1.1. 89 Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!
OTH 1.1. 90 Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
OTH 1.1. 91 Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
OTH 1.1. 92B Arise, I say.
OTH-BRABANZIO
What, have you lost your wits?
OTH 1.1. 93
OTH-RODERIGO
Most reverend signor, do you know my voice?
OTH 1.1. 94A
OTH-BRABANZIO
Not I. What are you?
OTH 1.1. 95A
OTH-RODERIGO
My name is Roderigo.
OTH 1.1. 96A
OTH-BRABANZIO
The worser welcome.
OTH 1.1. 97 I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
OTH 1.1. 98 In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
OTH 1.1. 99 My daughter is not for thee, and now in madness,
OTH 1.1. 100 Being full of supper and distempering draughts,
OTH 1.1. 101 Upon malicious bravery dost thou come
OTH 1.1. 102 To start my quiet.
OTH 1.1. 103A
OTH-RODERIGO
Sir, sir, sir.
OTH 1.1. 104A
OTH-BRABANZIO
But thou must needs be sure
OTH 1.1. 105 My spirits and my place have in their power
OTH 1.1. 106B To make this bitter to thee.
OTH-RODERIGO
Patience, good sir.
OTH 1.1. 107
OTH-BRABANZIO
What tell'st thou me of robbing? This is Venice.
OTH 1.1. 108B My house is not a grange.
OTH-RODERIGO
Most grave Brabanzio,
OTH 1.1. 109 In simple and pure soul I come to you.
OTH 1.1. 110
OTH-IAGO
{(to Brabanzio)} 'Swounds, sir, you are one +
OTH 1.1. 110 of those
OTH 1.1. 111 that will not serve God if the devil bid you. Because we
OTH 1.1. 112 come to do you service and you think we are ruffians,
OTH 1.1. 113 you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary
OTH 1.1. 114 horse, you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll
OTH 1.1. 115 have coursers for cousins and jennets for germans.
OTH 1.1. 116A
OTH-BRABANZIO
What profane wretch art thou?
OTH 1.1. 117
OTH-IAGO
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
OTH 1.1. 118 and the Moor are now making the beast with two
OTH 1.1. 119 backs.
OTH 1.1. 120B
OTH-BRABANZIO
Thou art a villain.
OTH-IAGO
You are a senator.
OTH 1.1. 121
OTH-BRABANZIO
This thou shalt answer. I know thee, Roderigo.
OTH 1.1. 122
OTH-RODERIGO
Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you,
OTH 1.1. 123 If 't be your pleasure and most wise consent -
OTH 1.1. 124 As partly I find it is - that your fair daughter,
OTH 1.1. 125 At this odd-even and dull watch o' th' night,
OTH 1.1. 126 Transported with no worse nor better guard
OTH 1.1. 127 But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
OTH 1.1. 128 To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor -
OTH 1.1. 129 If this be known to you, and your allowance,
OTH 1.1. 130 We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs.
OTH 1.1. 131 But if you know not this, my manners tell me
OTH 1.1. 132 We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe
OTH 1.1. 133 That, from the sense of all civility,
OTH 1.1. 134 I thus would play and trifle with your reverence.
OTH 1.1. 135 Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
OTH 1.1. 136 I say again hath made a gross revolt,
OTH 1.1. 137 Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes
OTH 1.1. 138 In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
OTH 1.1. 139 Of here and everywhere. Straight satisfy yourself.
OTH 1.1. 140 If she be in her chamber or your house,
OTH 1.1. 141 Let loose on me the justice of the state
OTH 1.1. 142B For thus deluding you.
OTH-BRABANZIO
{(calling)} Strike +
OTH 1.1. 142B on the tinder, ho!
OTH 1.1. 143 Give me a taper, call up all my people.
OTH 1.1. 144 This accident is not unlike my dream;
OTH 1.1. 145 Belief of it oppresses me already.
OTH 1.1. 146B Light, I say, light! {Exit}
OTH-IAGO
Farewell, for I +
OTH 1.1. 146B must leave you.
OTH 1.1. 147 It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place
OTH 1.1. 148 To be producted - as, if I stay, I shall -
OTH 1.1. 149 Against the Moor, for I do know the state,
OTH 1.1. 150 However this may gall him with some check,
OTH 1.1. 151 Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embarked
OTH 1.1. 152 With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,
OTH 1.1. 153 Which even now stands in act, that, for their souls,
OTH 1.1. 154 Another of his fathom they have none
OTH 1.1. 155 To lead their business, in which regard -
OTH 1.1. 156 Though I do hate him as I do hell pains -
OTH 1.1. 157 Yet for necessity of present life
OTH 1.1. 158 I must show out a flag and sign of love,
OTH 1.1. 159 Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,
OTH 1.1. 160 Lead to the Sagittary the raised search,
OTH 1.1. 161 And there will I be with him. So farewell. {Exit}
OTH 1.1. 162 {Enter below Brabanzio in his nightgown, and servants with +
OTH 1.1. 162 torches}
OTH-BRABANZIO
It is too true an evil. Gone she is,
OTH 1.1. 163 And what's to come of my despised time
OTH 1.1. 164 Is naught but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,
OTH 1.1. 165 Where didst thou see her? - O unhappy girl! -
OTH 1.1. 166 With the Moor, sayst thou? - Who would be a father? -
OTH 1.1. 167 How didst thou know 'twas she? - O, she deceives me
OTH 1.1. 168 Past thought! - What said she to you? {(To servants)} +
OTH 1.1. 168 Get more tapers,
OTH 1.1. 169B Raise all my kindred. {[Exit one or more]} {(To +
OTH 1.1. 169B Roderigo)} Are they married, think you?
OTH 1.1. 170A
OTH-RODERIGO
Truly, I think they are.
OTH 1.1. 171
OTH-BRABANZIO
O heaven, how got she out? O, treason of the blood!
OTH 1.1. 172 Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds
OTH 1.1. 173 By what you see them act. Is there not charms
OTH 1.1. 174 By which the property of youth and maidhood
OTH 1.1. 175 May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,
OTH 1.1. 176B Of some such thing?
OTH-RODERIGO
Yes, sir, I have indeed.
OTH 1.1. 177
OTH-BRABANZIO
{(to servants)} Call up my +
OTH 1.1. 177 brother. {(To Roderigo)} O, would you had had her.
OTH 1.1. 178B {(To servants)} Some one way, some another. +
OTH 1.1. 178B {[Exit one or more]} {(To Roderigo)} Do you know
OTH 1.1. 179 Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?
OTH 1.1. 180
OTH-RODERIGO
I think I can discover him, if you please
OTH 1.1. 181 To get good guard and go along with me.
OTH 1.1. 182
OTH-BRABANZIO
Pray you lead on. At every house I'll call;
OTH 1.1. 183 I may command at most. {(Calling)} Get weapons, ho,
OTH 1.1. 184 And raise some special officers of night.
OTH 1.1. 185 On, good Roderigo. I will deserve your pains. {Exeunt}
OTH 1.1. 0 {Enter Othello, Iago, and attendants with torches}
OTH 1.2. 1
OTH-IAGO
Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
OTH 1.2. 2 Yet do I hold it very stuff o' th' conscience
OTH 1.2. 3 To do no contrived murder. I lack iniquity,
OTH 1.2. 4 Sometime, to do me service. Nine or ten times
OTH 1.2. 5 I had thought to've yerked him here, under the ribs.
OTH 1.2. 6B
OTH-OTHELLO
'Tis better as it is.
OTH-IAGO
Nay, but he prated,
OTH 1.2. 7 And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
OTH 1.2. 8 Against your honour
OTH 1.2. 9 That, with the little godliness I have,
OTH 1.2. 10 I did full hard forbear him. But I pray you, sir,
OTH 1.2. 11 Are you fast married? Be assured of this:
OTH 1.2. 12 That the magnifico is much beloved,
OTH 1.2. 13 And hath in his effect a voice potential
OTH 1.2. 14 As double as the Duke's. He will divorce you,
OTH 1.2. 15 Or put upon you what restraint or grievance
OTH 1.2. 16 The law, with all his might to enforce it on,
OTH 1.2. 17B Will give him cable.
OTH-OTHELLO
Let him do his spite.
OTH 1.2. 18 My services which I have done the signory
OTH 1.2. 19 Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know -
OTH 1.2. 20 Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,
OTH 1.2. 21 I shall promulgate - I fetch my life and being
OTH 1.2. 22 From men of royal siege, and my demerits
OTH 1.2. 23 May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
OTH 1.2. 24 As this that I have reached. For know, Iago,
OTH 1.2. 25 But that I love the gentle Desdemona
OTH 1.2. 26 I would not my unhoused free condition
OTH 1.2. 27 Put into circumscription and confine
OTH 1.2. 28B For the seas' worth. {Enter Cassio and officers, with +
OTH 1.2. 28B torches} But look, what lights come yond?
OTH 1.2. 29
OTH-IAGO
Those are the raised father and his friends.
OTH 1.2. 30B You were best go in.
OTH-OTHELLO
Not I. I must be found.
OTH 1.2. 31 My parts, my title, and my perfect soul
OTH 1.2. 32 Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?
OTH 1.2. 33A
OTH-IAGO
By Janus, I think no.
OTH 1.2. 34
OTH-OTHELLO
The servants of the Duke, and my lieutenant!
OTH 1.2. 35 The goodness of the night upon you, friends.
OTH 1.2. 36B What is the news?
OTH-CASSIO
The Duke does greet you, general,
OTH 1.2. 37 And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance
OTH 1.2. 38B Even on the instant.
OTH-OTHELLO
What is the matter, think you?
OTH 1.2. 39
OTH-CASSIO
Something from Cyprus, as I may divine;
OTH 1.2. 40 It is a business of some heat. The galleys
OTH 1.2. 41 Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
OTH 1.2. 42 This very night at one another's heels,
OTH 1.2. 43 And many of the consuls, raised and met,
OTH 1.2. 44 Are at the Duke's already. You have been hotly called for,
OTH 1.2. 45 When, being not at your lodging to be found,
OTH 1.2. 46 The senate sent about three several quests
OTH 1.2. 47B To search you out.
OTH-OTHELLO
'Tis well I am found by you.
OTH 1.2. 48 I will but spend a word here in the house
OTH 1.2. 49B And go with you. {Exit}
OTH-CASSIO
Ensign, what makes +
OTH 1.2. 49B he here?
OTH 1.2. 50
OTH-IAGO
Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land-carrack.
OTH 1.2. 51 If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.
OTH 1.2. 52B
OTH-CASSIO
I do not understand.
OTH-IAGO
He's married.
OTH-CASSIO
To +
OTH 1.2. 52B who? {Enter Brabanzio, Roderigo, and officers, with lights and +
OTH 1.2. 52B weapons}
OTH 1.2. 53
OTH-IAGO
Marry, to - {Enter Othello}
OTH 1.2. 54B {(To Othello)} Come, captain, will you go?
OTH-OTHELLO
+
OTH 1.2. 54B Have with you.
OTH 1.2. 55
OTH-CASSIO
Here comes another troop to seek for you.
OTH 1.2. 56
OTH-IAGO
It is Brabanzio. General, be advised.
OTH 1.2. 57B He comes to bad intent.
OTH-OTHELLO
Holla, stand, there!
OTH 1.2. 58B
OTH-RODERIGO
{(to Brabanzio)} Signor, it is the +
OTH 1.2. 58B Moor.
OTH-BRABANZIO
Down with him, thief!
OTH 1.2. 59
OTH-IAGO
{(drawing his sword)} You, Roderigo? Come, +
OTH 1.2. 59 sir, I am for you.
OTH 1.2. 60
OTH-OTHELLO
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust 'em.
OTH 1.2. 61 {(To Brabanzio)} Good signor, you shall more command +
OTH 1.2. 61 with years
OTH 1.2. 62 Than with your weapons.
OTH 1.2. 63
OTH-BRABANZIO
O thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter?
OTH 1.2. 64 Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her,
OTH 1.2. 65 For I'll refer me to all things of sense,
OTH 1.2. 66 If she in chains of magic were not bound,
OTH 1.2. 67 Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy,
OTH 1.2. 68 So opposite to marriage that she shunned
OTH 1.2. 69 The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,
OTH 1.2. 70 Would ever have, t' incur a general mock,
OTH 1.2. 71 Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
OTH 1.2. 72 Of such a thing as thou - to fear, not to delight.
OTH 1.2. 73 Judge me the world if 'tis not gross in sense
OTH 1.2. 74 That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,
OTH 1.2. 75 Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
OTH 1.2. 76 That weakens motion. I'll have 't disputed on.
OTH 1.2. 77 'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking.
OTH 1.2. 78 I therefore apprehend and do attach thee
OTH 1.2. 79 For an abuser of the world, a practiser
OTH 1.2. 80 Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.
OTH 1.2. 81 {(To officers)} Lay hold upon him. If he do resist,
OTH 1.2. 82B Subdue him at his peril.
OTH-OTHELLO
Hold your hands,
OTH 1.2. 83 Both you of my inclining and the rest.
OTH 1.2. 84 Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
OTH 1.2. 85 Without a prompter. Whither will you that I go
OTH 1.2. 86B To answer this your charge?
OTH-BRABANZIO
To prison, till fit time
OTH 1.2. 87 Of law and course of direct session
OTH 1.2. 88B Call thee to answer.
OTH-OTHELLO
What if I do obey?
OTH 1.2. 89 How may the Duke be therewith satisfied,
OTH 1.2. 90 Whose messengers are here about my side
OTH 1.2. 91 Upon some present business of the state
OTH 1.2. 92B To bring me to him?
OTH-OFFICER
{(to Brabanzio)} 'Tis +
OTH 1.2. 92B true, most worthy signor.
OTH 1.2. 93 The Duke's in council, and your noble self,
OTH 1.2. 94B I am sure, is sent for.
OTH-BRABANZIO
How, the Duke in council?
OTH 1.2. 95 In this time of the night? Bring him away.
OTH 1.2. 96 Mine's not an idle cause. The Duke himself,
OTH 1.2. 97 Or any of my brothers of the state,
OTH 1.2. 98 Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;
OTH 1.2. 99 For if such actions may have passage free,
OTH 1.2. 100 Bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. {Exeunt}
OTH 1.2. 0 {Enter the Duke and Senators set at a table, with lights +
OTH 1.3. 0 and officers}
OTH 1.3. 1
OTH-DUKE
There is no composition in these news
OTH 1.3. 2B That gives them credit.
OTH-FIRST SENATOR
Indeed, they are +
OTH 1.3. 2B disproportioned.
OTH 1.3. 3 My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.
OTH 1.3. 4B
OTH-DUKE
And mine a hundred-forty.
OTH-SECOND SENATOR
And mine two +
OTH 1.3. 4B hundred.
OTH 1.3. 5 But though they jump not on a just account -
OTH 1.3. 6 As, in these cases, where the aim reports
OTH 1.3. 7 'Tis oft with difference - yet do they all confirm
OTH 1.3. 8 A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.
OTH 1.3. 9
OTH-DUKE
Nay, it is possible enough to judgement.
OTH 1.3. 10 I do not so secure me in the error,
OTH 1.3. 11 But the main article I do approve
OTH 1.3. 12B In fearful sense.
OTH-SAILOR
{(within)} What ho, what +
OTH 1.3. 12B ho, what ho! {Enter a Sailor}
OTH 1.3. 13B
OTH-OFFICER
A messenger from the galleys.
OTH-DUKE
Now, what's +
OTH 1.3. 13B the business?
OTH 1.3. 14
OTH-SAILOR
The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes.
OTH 1.3. 15 So was I bid report here to the state
OTH 1.3. 16 By Signor Angelo.
OTH 1.3. 17A
OTH-DUKE
{(to Senators)} How say you by this change?
OTH 1.3. 18A
OTH-FIRST SENATOR
This cannot be,
OTH 1.3. 19 By no assay of reason - 'tis a pageant
OTH 1.3. 20 To keep us in false gaze. When we consider
OTH 1.3. 21 The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,
OTH 1.3. 22 And let ourselves again but understand
OTH 1.3. 23 That, as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,
OTH 1.3. 24 So may he with more facile question bear it,
OTH 1.3. 25 For that it stands not in such warlike brace,
OTH 1.3. 26 But altogether lacks th' abilities
OTH 1.3. 27 That Rhodes is dressed in - if we make thought of this,
OTH 1.3. 28 We must not think the Turk is so unskilful
OTH 1.3. 29 To leave that latest which concerns him first,
OTH 1.3. 30 Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain
OTH 1.3. 31 To wake and wage a danger profitless.
OTH 1.3. 32
OTH-DUKE
Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.
OTH 1.3. 33A
OTH-OFFICER
Here is more news. {Enter a Messenger}
OTH 1.3. 34
OTH-MESSENGER
The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,
OTH 1.3. 35 Steering with due course toward the Isle of Rhodes,
OTH 1.3. 36 Have there injointed them with an after fleet.
OTH 1.3. 37
OTH-FIRST SENATOR
Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?
OTH 1.3. 38
OTH-MESSENGER
Of thirty sail, and now they do restem
OTH 1.3. 39 Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance
OTH 1.3. 40 Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signor Montano,
OTH 1.3. 41 Your trusty and most valiant servitor,
OTH 1.3. 42 With his free duty recommends you thus,
OTH 1.3. 43B And prays you to believe him.
OTH-DUKE
'Tis certain then for Cyprus.
OTH 1.3. 44 Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?
OTH 1.3. 45A
OTH-FIRST SENATOR
He's now in Florence.
OTH 1.3. 46
OTH-DUKE
Write from us to him post-post-haste. Dispatch. {Enter +
OTH 1.3. 46 Brabanzio, Othello, Roderigo, Iago, Cassio, and officers}
OTH 1.3. 47
OTH-FIRST SENATOR
Here comes Brabanzio and the valiant Moor.
OTH 1.3. 48
OTH-DUKE
Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you
OTH 1.3. 49 Against the general enemy Ottoman.
OTH 1.3. 50 {(To Brabanzio)} I did not see you. Welcome, gentle +
OTH 1.3. 50 signor.
OTH 1.3. 51 We lacked your counsel and your help tonight.
OTH 1.3. 52
OTH-BRABANZIO
So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me.
OTH 1.3. 53 Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business,
OTH 1.3. 54 Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care
OTH 1.3. 55 Take hold on me; for my particular grief
OTH 1.3. 56 Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature
OTH 1.3. 57 That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,
OTH 1.3. 58B And it is still itself.
OTH-DUKE
Why, what's the matter?
OTH 1.3. 59B
OTH-BRABANZIO
My daughter, O, my daughter!
OTH-[SENATORS]
+
OTH 1.3. 59B Dead?
OTH-BRABANZIO
Ay, to me.
OTH 1.3. 60 She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted
OTH 1.3. 61 By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks.
OTH 1.3. 62 For nature so preposterously to err,
OTH 1.3. 63 Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,
OTH 1.3. 64 Sans witchcraft could not.
OTH 1.3. 65
OTH-DUKE
Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding
OTH 1.3. 66 Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself
OTH 1.3. 67 And you of her, the bloody book of law
OTH 1.3. 68 You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
OTH 1.3. 69 After your own sense, yea, though our proper son
OTH 1.3. 70B Stood in your action.
OTH-BRABANZIO
Humbly I thank your grace.
OTH 1.3. 71 Here is the man, this Moor, whom now it seems
OTH 1.3. 72 Your special mandate for the state affairs
OTH 1.3. 73B Hath hither brought.
OTH-SENATORS
We are very sorry for 't.
OTH 1.3. 74
OTH-DUKE
{(to Othello)} What in your own part can you +
OTH 1.3. 74 say to this?
OTH 1.3. 75A
OTH-BRABANZIO
Nothing but this is so.
OTH 1.3. 76
OTH-OTHELLO
Most potent, grave, and reverend signors,
OTH 1.3. 77 My very noble and approved good masters,
OTH 1.3. 78 That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
OTH 1.3. 79 It is most true, true I have married her.
OTH 1.3. 80 The very head and front of my offending
OTH 1.3. 81 Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,
OTH 1.3. 82 And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace,
OTH 1.3. 83 For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith
OTH 1.3. 84 Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
OTH 1.3. 85 Their dearest action in the tented field,
OTH 1.3. 86 And little of this great world can I speak
OTH 1.3. 87 More than pertains to feats of broils and battle.
OTH 1.3. 88 And therefore little shall I grace my cause
OTH 1.3. 89 In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
OTH 1.3. 90 I will a round unvarnished tale deliver
OTH 1.3. 91 Of my whole course of love, what drugs, what charms,
OTH 1.3. 92 What conjuration and what mighty magic -
OTH 1.3. 93 For such proceeding I am charged withal -
OTH 1.3. 94B I won his daughter.
OTH-BRABANZIO
A maiden never bold,
OTH 1.3. 95 Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion
OTH 1.3. 96 Blushed at herself - and she in spite of nature,
OTH 1.3. 97 Of years, of country, credit, everything,
OTH 1.3. 98 To fall in love with what she feared to look on!
OTH 1.3. 99 It is a judgement maimed and most imperfect
OTH 1.3. 100 That will confess perfection so could err
OTH 1.3. 101 Against all rules of nature, and must be driven
OTH 1.3. 102 To find out practices of cunning hell
OTH 1.3. 103 Why this should be. I therefore vouch again
OTH 1.3. 104 That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,
OTH 1.3. 105 Or with some dram conjured to this effect,
OTH 1.3. 106B He wrought upon her.
OTH-DUKE
To vouch this is no proof
OTH 1.3. 107 Without more wider and more overt test
OTH 1.3. 108 Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
OTH 1.3. 109 Of modern seeming do prefer against him.
OTH 1.3. 110A A
OTH-SENATOR
But Othello, speak.
OTH 1.3. 111 Did you by indirect and forced courses
OTH 1.3. 112 Subdue and poison this young maid's affections,
OTH 1.3. 113 Or came it by request and such fair question
OTH 1.3. 114B As soul to soul affordeth?
OTH-OTHELLO
I do beseech you,
OTH 1.3. 115 Send for the lady to the Sagittary,
OTH 1.3. 116 And let her speak of me before her father.
OTH 1.3. 117 If you do find me foul in her report,
OTH 1.3. 118 The trust, the office I do hold of you
OTH 1.3. 119 Not only take away, but let your sentence
OTH 1.3. 120B Even fall upon my life.
OTH-DUKE
{(to officers)} Fetch +
OTH 1.3. 120B Desdemona hither.
OTH 1.3. 121
OTH-OTHELLO
Ensign, conduct them. You best know the place. {Exit +
OTH 1.3. 121 Iago with two or three officers}
OTH 1.3. 122 And till she come, as truly as to heaven
OTH 1.3. 123 I do confess the vices of my blood,
OTH 1.3. 124 So justly to your grave ears I'll present
OTH 1.3. 125 How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,
OTH 1.3. 126B And she in mine.
OTH-DUKE
Say it, Othello.
OTH 1.3. 127
OTH-OTHELLO
Her father loved me, oft invited me,
OTH 1.3. 128 Still questioned me the story of my life
OTH 1.3. 129 From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes
OTH 1.3. 130 That I have passed.
OTH 1.3. 131 I ran it through even from my boyish days
OTH 1.3. 132 To th' very moment that he bade me tell it,
OTH 1.3. 133 Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances,
OTH 1.3. 134 Of moving accidents by flood and field,
OTH 1.3. 135 Of hair-breadth scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach,
OTH 1.3. 136 Of being taken by the insolent foe
OTH 1.3. 137 And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence,
OTH 1.3. 138 And portance in my traveller's history,
OTH 1.3. 139 Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
OTH 1.3. 140 Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven,
OTH 1.3. 141 It was my hint to speak. Such was my process,
OTH 1.3. 142 And of the cannibals that each other eat,
OTH 1.3. 143 The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
OTH 1.3. 144 Do grow beneath their shoulders. These things to hear
OTH 1.3. 145 Would Desdemona seriously incline,
OTH 1.3. 146 But still the house affairs would draw her thence,
OTH 1.3. 147 Which ever as she could with haste dispatch
OTH 1.3. 148 She'd come again, and with a greedy ear
OTH 1.3. 149 Devour up my discourse; which I observing,
OTH 1.3. 150 Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
OTH 1.3. 151 To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
OTH 1.3. 152 That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
OTH 1.3. 153 Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
OTH 1.3. 154 But not intentively. I did consent,
OTH 1.3. 155 And often did beguile her of her tears
OTH 1.3. 156 When I did speak of some distressful stroke
OTH 1.3. 157 That my youth suffered. My story being done,
OTH 1.3. 158 She gave me for my pains a world of kisses.
OTH 1.3. 159 She swore in faith 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
OTH 1.3. 160 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
OTH 1.3. 161 She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished
OTH 1.3. 162 That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me,
OTH 1.3. 163 And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
OTH 1.3. 164 I should but teach him how to tell my story,
OTH 1.3. 165 And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake.
OTH 1.3. 166 She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
OTH 1.3. 167 And I loved her that she did pity them.
OTH 1.3. 168 This only is the witchcraft I have used. {Enter Desdemona, Iago, +
OTH 1.3. 168 and attendants}
OTH 1.3. 169 Here comes the lady. Let her witness it.
OTH 1.3. 170
OTH-DUKE
I think this tale would win my daughter, too. -
OTH 1.3. 171 Good Brabanzio,
OTH 1.3. 172 Take up this mangled matter at the best.
OTH 1.3. 173 Men do their broken weapons rather use
OTH 1.3. 174B Than their bare hands.
OTH-BRABANZIO
I pray you hear her speak.
OTH 1.3. 175 If she confess that she was half the wooer,
OTH 1.3. 176 Destruction on my head if my bad blame
OTH 1.3. 177 Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress.
OTH 1.3. 178 Do you perceive in all this noble company
OTH 1.3. 179B Where most you owe obedience?
OTH-DESDEMONA
My noble father,
OTH 1.3. 180 I do perceive here a divided duty.
OTH 1.3. 181 To you I am bound for life and education.
OTH 1.3. 182 My life and education both do learn me
OTH 1.3. 183 How to respect you. You are the lord of duty,
OTH 1.3. 184 I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,
OTH 1.3. 185 And so much duty as my mother showed
OTH 1.3. 186 To you, preferring you before her father,
OTH 1.3. 187 So much I challenge that I may profess
OTH 1.3. 188B Due to the Moor my lord.
OTH-BRABANZIO
God b' wi' you, I ha' done.
OTH 1.3. 189 Please it your grace, on to the state affairs.
OTH 1.3. 190 I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
OTH 1.3. 191 Come hither, Moor.
OTH 1.3. 192 I here do give thee that with all my heart
OTH 1.3. 193 Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart
OTH 1.3. 194 I would keep from thee. {(To Desdemona)} For your sake, +
OTH 1.3. 194 jewel,
OTH 1.3. 195 I am glad at soul I have no other child,
OTH 1.3. 196 For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
OTH 1.3. 197 To hang clogs on 'em. I have done, my lord.
OTH 1.3. 198
OTH-DUKE
Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence
OTH 1.3. 199 Which, as a grece or step, may help these lovers
OTH 1.3. 200 Into your favour.
OTH 1.3. 201 When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
OTH 1.3. 202 By seeing the worst which late on hopes depended.
OTH 1.3. 203 To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
OTH 1.3. 204 Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
OTH 1.3. 205 What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
OTH 1.3. 206 Patience her injury a mockery makes.
OTH 1.3. 207 The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief;
OTH 1.3. 208 He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
OTH 1.3. 209
OTH-BRABANZIO
So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile,
OTH 1.3. 210 We lose it not so long as we can smile.
OTH 1.3. 211 He bears the sentence well that nothing bears
OTH 1.3. 212 But the free comfort which from thence he hears,
OTH 1.3. 213 But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
OTH 1.3. 214 That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
OTH 1.3. 215 These sentences, to sugar or to gall,
OTH 1.3. 216 Being strong on both sides, are equivocal.
OTH 1.3. 217 But words are words. I never yet did hear
OTH 1.3. 218 That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.
OTH 1.3. 219 I humbly beseech you proceed to th' affairs of state.
OTH 1.3. 220
OTH-DUKE
The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes
OTH 1.3. 221 for Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best
OTH 1.3. 222 known to you, and though we have there a substitute
OTH 1.3. 223 of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a more
OTH 1.3. 224 sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice
OTH 1.3. 225 on you. You must therefore be content to slubber the
OTH 1.3. 226 gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn
OTH 1.3. 227 and boisterous expedition.
OTH 1.3. 228
OTH-OTHELLO
The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
OTH 1.3. 229 Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
OTH 1.3. 230 My thrice-driven bed of down. I do agnize
OTH 1.3. 231 A natural and prompt alacrity
OTH 1.3. 232 I find in hardness, and do undertake
OTH 1.3. 233 This present wars against the Ottomites.
OTH 1.3. 234 Most humbly therefore bending to your state,
OTH 1.3. 235 I crave fit disposition for my wife,
OTH 1.3. 236 Due reference of place and exhibition,
OTH 1.3. 237 With such accommodation and besort
OTH 1.3. 238 As levels with her breeding.
OTH 1.3. 239A
OTH-DUKE
Why, at her father's!
OTH 1.3. 240A
OTH-BRABANZIO
I will not have it so.
OTH 1.3. 241A
OTH-OTHELLO
Nor I.
OTH 1.3. 242A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Nor would I there reside,
OTH 1.3. 243 To put my father in impatient thoughts
OTH 1.3. 244 By being in his eye. Most gracious Duke,
OTH 1.3. 245 To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear,
OTH 1.3. 246 And let me find a charter in your voice
OTH 1.3. 247B T' assist my simpleness.
OTH-DUKE
What would you, Desdemona?
OTH 1.3. 248
OTH-DESDEMONA
That I did love the Moor to live with him,
OTH 1.3. 249 My downright violence and storm of fortunes
OTH 1.3. 250 May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdued
OTH 1.3. 251 Even to the very quality of my lord.
OTH 1.3. 252 I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
OTH 1.3. 253 And to his honours and his valiant parts
OTH 1.3. 254 Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate;
OTH 1.3. 255 So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
OTH 1.3. 256 A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
OTH 1.3. 257 The rites for why I love him are bereft me,
OTH 1.3. 258 And I a heavy interim shall support
OTH 1.3. 259 By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
OTH 1.3. 260A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(to the Duke)} Let her have your voice.
OTH 1.3. 261 Vouch with me heaven, I therefor beg it not
OTH 1.3. 262 To please the palate of my appetite,
OTH 1.3. 263 Nor to comply with heat - the young affects
OTH 1.3. 264 In me defunct - and proper satisfaction,
OTH 1.3. 265 But to be free and bounteous to her mind;
OTH 1.3. 266 And heaven defend your good souls that you think
OTH 1.3. 267 I will your serious and great business scant
OTH 1.3. 268 When she is with me. No, when light-winged toys
OTH 1.3. 269 Of feathered Cupid seel with wanton dullness
OTH 1.3. 270 My speculative and officed instruments,
OTH 1.3. 271 That my disports corrupt and taint my business,
OTH 1.3. 272 Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,
OTH 1.3. 273 And all indign and base adversities
OTH 1.3. 274 Make head against my estimation.
OTH 1.3. 275
OTH-DUKE
Be it as you shall privately determine,
OTH 1.3. 276 Either for her stay or going. Th' affair cries haste,
OTH 1.3. 277B And speed must answer it. A
OTH-SENATOR
{(to Othello)} +
OTH 1.3. 277B You must away tonight.
OTH 1.3. 278B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Tonight, my lord?
OTH-DUKE
This night.
OTH-OTHELLO
With all +
OTH 1.3. 278B my heart.
OTH 1.3. 279
OTH-DUKE
At nine i' th' morning here we'll meet again.
OTH 1.3. 280 Othello, leave some officer behind,
OTH 1.3. 281 And he shall our commission bring to you,
OTH 1.3. 282 And such things else of quality and respect
OTH 1.3. 283B As doth import you.
OTH-OTHELLO
So please your grace, my ensign.
OTH 1.3. 284 A man he is of honesty and trust.
OTH 1.3. 285 To his conveyance I assign my wife,
OTH 1.3. 286 With what else needful your good grace shall think
OTH 1.3. 287B To be sent after me.
OTH-DUKE
Let it be so.
OTH 1.3. 288 Good night to everyone. {(To Brabanzio)} And, noble +
OTH 1.3. 288 signor,
OTH 1.3. 289 If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
OTH 1.3. 290 Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.
OTH 1.3. 291 A
OTH-SENATOR
Adieu, brave Moor. Use Desdemona well.
OTH 1.3. 292
OTH-BRABANZIO
Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see.
OTH 1.3. 293 She has deceived her father, and may thee. {[Exeunt Duke, +
OTH 1.3. 293 Brabanzio, Cassio, Senators, and officers]}
OTH 1.3. 294
OTH-OTHELLO
My life upon her faith. Honest Iago,
OTH 1.3. 295 My Desdemona must I leave to thee.
OTH 1.3. 296 I prithee let thy wife attend on her,
OTH 1.3. 297 And bring them after in the best advantage.
OTH 1.3. 298 Come, Desdemona. I have but an hour
OTH 1.3. 299 Of love, of worldly matter and direction
OTH 1.3. 300 To spend with thee. We must obey the time. {Exeunt Othello and +
OTH 1.3. 300 Desdemona}
OTH 1.3. 301
OTH-RODERIGO
Iago.
OTH 1.3. 302
OTH-IAGO
What sayst thou, noble heart?
OTH 1.3. 303
OTH-RODERIGO
What will I do, think'st thou?
OTH 1.3. 304
OTH-IAGO
Why, go to bed and sleep.
OTH 1.3. 305
OTH-RODERIGO
I will incontinently drown myself.
OTH 1.3. 306
OTH-IAGO
If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why, thou
OTH 1.3. 307 silly gentleman!
OTH 1.3. 308
OTH-RODERIGO
It is silliness to live when to live is torment;
OTH 1.3. 309 and then have we a prescription to die when death is
OTH 1.3. 310 our physician.
OTH 1.3. 311
OTH-IAGO
O, villainous! I ha' looked upon the world for four
OTH 1.3. 312 times seven years, and since I could distinguish betwixt
OTH 1.3. 313 a benefit and an injury I never found man that knew
OTH 1.3. 314 how to love himself. Ere I would say I would drown
OTH 1.3. 315 myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change
OTH 1.3. 316 my humanity with a baboon.
OTH 1.3. 317
OTH-RODERIGO
What should I do? I confess it is my shame to
OTH 1.3. 318 be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it.
OTH 1.3. 319
OTH-IAGO
Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or
OTH 1.3. 320 thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our
OTH 1.3. 321 wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or
OTH 1.3. 322 sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it
OTH 1.3. 323 with one gender of herbs or distract it with many,
OTH 1.3. 324 either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with
OTH 1.3. 325 industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of
OTH 1.3. 326 this lies in our wills. If the beam of our lives had not
OTH 1.3. 327 one scale of reason to peise another of sensuality, the
OTH 1.3. 328 blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
OTH 1.3. 329 to most preposterous conclusions. But we have reason
OTH 1.3. 330 to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our
OTH 1.3. 331 unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to
OTH 1.3. 332 be a sect or scion.
OTH 1.3. 333
OTH-RODERIGO
It cannot be.
OTH 1.3. 334
OTH-IAGO
It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of
OTH 1.3. 335 the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats
OTH 1.3. 336 and blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend, and
OTH 1.3. 337 I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of
OTH 1.3. 338 perdurable toughness. I could never better stead thee
OTH 1.3. 339 than now. Put money in thy purse. Follow thou the
OTH 1.3. 340 wars, defeat thy favour with an usurped beard. I say,
OTH 1.3. 341 put money in thy purse. It cannot be long that
OTH 1.3. 342 Desdemona should continue her love to the Moor - put
OTH 1.3. 343 money in thy purse - nor he his to her. It was a violent
OTH 1.3. 344 commencement in her, and thou shalt see an
OTH 1.3. 345 answerable sequestration - put but money in thy purse.
OTH 1.3. 346 These Moors are changeable in their wills - fill thy
OTH 1.3. 347 purse with money. The food that to him now is as
OTH 1.3. 348 luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as
OTH 1.3. 349 coloquintida. She must change for youth. When she is
OTH 1.3. 350 sated with his body, she will find the error of her
OTH 1.3. 351 choice. Therefore put money in thy purse. If thou wilt
OTH 1.3. 352 needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than
OTH 1.3. 353 drowning. Make all the money thou canst. If
OTH 1.3. 354 sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian
OTH 1.3. 355 and a super-subtle Venetian be not too hard for my
OTH 1.3. 356 wits and all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her;
OTH 1.3. 357 therefore make money. A pox o' drowning thyself - it
OTH 1.3. 358 is clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged
OTH 1.3. 359 in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go
OTH 1.3. 360 without her.
OTH 1.3. 361
OTH-RODERIGO
Wilt thou be fast to my hopes if I depend on
OTH 1.3. 362 the issue?
OTH 1.3. 363
OTH-IAGO
Thou art sure of me. Go, make money. I have told
OTH 1.3. 364 thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I hate
OTH 1.3. 365 the Moor. My cause is hearted, thine hath no less
OTH 1.3. 366 reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against
OTH 1.3. 367 him. If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a
OTH 1.3. 368 pleasure, me a sport. There are many events in the
OTH 1.3. 369 womb of time, which will be delivered. Traverse, go,
OTH 1.3. 370 provide thy money. We will have more of this
OTH 1.3. 371 tomorrow. Adieu.
OTH 1.3. 372B
OTH-RODERIGO
Where shall we meet i' th' morning?
OTH-IAGO
At +
OTH 1.3. 372B my lodging.
OTH 1.3. 373B
OTH-RODERIGO
I'll be with thee betimes.
OTH-IAGO
Go to, farewell -
OTH 1.3. 374B Do you hear, Roderigo?
OTH-RODERIGO
I'll sell all my land. {Exit}
OTH 1.3. 375
OTH-IAGO
Thus do I ever make my fool my purse -
OTH 1.3. 376 For I mine own gained knowledge should profane
OTH 1.3. 377 If I would time expend with such a snipe
OTH 1.3. 378 But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor,
OTH 1.3. 379 And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets
OTH 1.3. 380 He has done my office. I know not if 't be true,
OTH 1.3. 381 But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
OTH 1.3. 382 Will do as if for surety. He holds me well:
OTH 1.3. 383 The better shall my purpose work on him.
OTH 1.3. 384 Cassio's a proper man. Let me see now,
OTH 1.3. 385 To get his place, and to plume up my will
OTH 1.3. 386 In double knavery - how, how? Let's see.
OTH 1.3. 387 After some time to abuse Othello's ears
OTH 1.3. 388 That he is too familiar with his wife;
OTH 1.3. 389 He hath a person and a smooth dispose
OTH 1.3. 390 To be suspected, framed to make women false.
OTH 1.3. 391 The Moor is of a free and open nature,
OTH 1.3. 392 That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
OTH 1.3. 393 And will as tenderly be led by th' nose
OTH 1.3. 394 As asses are.
OTH 1.3. 395 I ha 't. It is ingendered. Hell and night
OTH 1.3. 396 Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light. {Exit}
OTH 1.3. 0 {Enter below Montano, Governor of Cyprus; two other +
OTH 2.1. 0 gentlemen [above]}
OTH 2.1. 1
OTH-MONTANO
What from the cape can you discern at sea?
OTH 2.1. 2
OTH-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Nothing at all. It is a high-wrought flood.
OTH 2.1. 3 I cannot 'twixt the heaven and the main
OTH 2.1. 4 Descry a sail.
OTH 2.1. 5
OTH-MONTANO
Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land.
OTH 2.1. 6 A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements.
OTH 2.1. 7 If it ha' ruffianed so upon the sea,
OTH 2.1. 8 What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
OTH 2.1. 9 Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?
OTH 2.1. 10
OTH-SECOND GENTLEMAN
A segregation of the Turkish fleet;
OTH 2.1. 11 For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
OTH 2.1. 12 The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds,
OTH 2.1. 13 The wind-shaked surge with high and monstrous mane
OTH 2.1. 14 Seems to cast water on the burning Bear
OTH 2.1. 15 And quench the guards of th' ever-fixed Pole.
OTH 2.1. 16 I never did like molestation view
OTH 2.1. 17B On the enchafed flood.
OTH-MONTANO
If that the Turkish fleet
OTH 2.1. 18 Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned.
OTH 2.1. 19 It is impossible to bear it out. {Enter a third Gentleman}
OTH 2.1. 20A
OTH-THIRD GENTLEMAN
News, lads! Our wars are done.
OTH 2.1. 21 The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks
OTH 2.1. 22 That their designment halts. A noble ship of Venice
OTH 2.1. 23 Hath seen a grievous wrack and sufferance
OTH 2.1. 24 On most part of their fleet.
OTH 2.1. 25A
OTH-MONTANO
How, is this true?
OTH 2.1. 26A
OTH-THIRD GENTLEMAN
The ship is here put in,
OTH 2.1. 27 A Veronessa. Michael Cassio,
OTH 2.1. 28 Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
OTH 2.1. 29 Is come on shore; the Moor himself at sea,
OTH 2.1. 30 And is in full commission here for Cyprus.
OTH 2.1. 31
OTH-MONTANO
I am glad on 't; 'tis a worthy governor.
OTH 2.1. 32
OTH-THIRD GENTLEMAN
But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort
OTH 2.1. 33 Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,
OTH 2.1. 34 And prays the Moor be safe, for they were parted
OTH 2.1. 35B With foul and violent tempest.
OTH-MONTANO
Pray heavens he be,
OTH 2.1. 36 For I have served him, and the man commands
OTH 2.1. 37 Like a full soldier. Let's to the sea-side, ho! -
OTH 2.1. 38 As well to see the vessel that's come in
OTH 2.1. 39 As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,
OTH 2.1. 40 Even till we make the main and th' aerial blue
OTH 2.1. 41B An indistinct regard.
OTH-THIRD GENTLEMAN
Come, let's do so,
OTH 2.1. 42 For every minute is expectancy
OTH 2.1. 43 Of more arrivance. {Enter Cassio}
OTH 2.1. 44
OTH-CASSIO
Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle
OTH 2.1. 45 That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens
OTH 2.1. 46 Give him defence against the elements,
OTH 2.1. 47 For I have lost him on a dangerous sea.
OTH 2.1. 48A
OTH-MONTANO
Is he well shipped?
OTH 2.1. 49
OTH-CASSIO
His barque is stoutly timbered, and his pilot
OTH 2.1. 50 Of very expert and approved allowance.
OTH 2.1. 51 Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,
OTH 2.1. 52B Stand in bold cure.
OTH-VOICES
{(within)} A sail, a +
OTH 2.1. 52B sail, a sail!
OTH 2.1. 53A
OTH-CASSIO
What noise?
OTH 2.1. 54 A
OTH-GENTLEMAN
The town is empty. On the brow o' th' sea
OTH 2.1. 55 Stand ranks of people, and they cry `A sail!'
OTH 2.1. 56
OTH-CASSIO
My hopes do shape him for the governor. {A shot}
OTH 2.1. 57 A
OTH-GENTLEMAN
They do discharge their shot of courtesy -
OTH 2.1. 58B Our friends, at least.
OTH-CASSIO
I pray you, sir, go forth,
OTH 2.1. 59 And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived.
OTH 2.1. 60A A
OTH-GENTLEMAN
I shall. {Exit}
OTH 2.1. 61
OTH-MONTANO
But, good lieutenant, is your general wived?
OTH 2.1. 62
OTH-CASSIO
Most fortunately. He hath achieved a maid
OTH 2.1. 63 That paragons description and wild fame,
OTH 2.1. 64 One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,
OTH 2.1. 65 And in th' essential vesture of creation
OTH 2.1. 66B Does tire the engineer. {Enter Gentleman} How now, who +
OTH 2.1. 66B has put in?
OTH 2.1. 67
OTH-GENTLEMAN
'Tis one Iago, ensign to the general.
OTH 2.1. 68
OTH-CASSIO
He's had most favourable and happy speed.
OTH 2.1. 69 Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,
OTH 2.1. 70 The guttered rocks and congregated sands,
OTH 2.1. 71 Traitors ensteeped to enclog the guiltless keel,
OTH 2.1. 72 As having sense of beauty do omit
OTH 2.1. 73 Their mortal natures, letting go safely by
OTH 2.1. 74B The divine Desdemona.
OTH-MONTANO
What is she?
OTH 2.1. 75
OTH-CASSIO
She that I spake of, our great captain's captain,
OTH 2.1. 76 Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,
OTH 2.1. 77 Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
OTH 2.1. 78 A sennight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,
OTH 2.1. 79 And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,
OTH 2.1. 80 That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,
OTH 2.1. 81 Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,
OTH 2.1. 82 Give renewed fire to our extincted spirits,
OTH 2.1. 83B And bring all Cyprus comfort. {Enter Desdemona, Iago, Emilia, +
OTH 2.1. 83B and Roderigo} O, behold,
OTH 2.1. 84 The riches of the ship is come on shore!
OTH 2.1. 85 You men of Cyprus, let her have your knees. {Montano and the +
OTH 2.1. 85 Gentlemen make curtsy to Desdemona}
OTH 2.1. 86 Hail to thee, lady, and the grace of heaven
OTH 2.1. 87 Before, behind thee, and on every hand
OTH 2.1. 88B Enwheel thee round!
OTH-DESDEMONA
I thank you, valiant Cassio.
OTH 2.1. 89 What tidings can you tell me of my lord?
OTH 2.1. 90
OTH-CASSIO
He is not yet arrived, nor know I aught
OTH 2.1. 91 But that he's well and will be shortly here.
OTH 2.1. 92
OTH-DESDEMONA
O, but I fear - how lost you company?
OTH 2.1. 93
OTH-CASSIO
The great contention of the sea and skies
OTH 2.1. 94 Parted our fellowship.
OTH 2.1. 95A
OTH-VOICES
{(within)} A sail, a sail!
OTH 2.1. 96A
OTH-CASSIO
But hark, a sail. {A shot}
OTH 2.1. 97 A
OTH-GENTLEMAN
They give their greeting to the citadel.
OTH 2.1. 98B This likewise is a friend.
OTH-CASSIO
See for the news. {Exit +
OTH 2.1. 98B Gentleman}
OTH 2.1. 99 Good ensign, you are welcome. {(Kissing +
OTH 2.1. 99 Emilia)} Welcome, mistress.
OTH 2.1. 100 Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
OTH 2.1. 101 That I extend my manners. 'Tis my breeding
OTH 2.1. 102 That gives me this bold show of courtesy.
OTH 2.1. 103
OTH-IAGO
Sir, would she give you so much of her lips
OTH 2.1. 104 As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,
OTH 2.1. 105 You would have enough.
OTH 2.1. 106A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Alas, she has no speech!
OTH 2.1. 107A
OTH-IAGO
In faith, too much.
OTH 2.1. 108 I find it still when I ha' leave to sleep.
OTH 2.1. 109 Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
OTH 2.1. 110 She puts her tongue a little in her heart,
OTH 2.1. 111B And chides with thinking.
OTH-EMILIA
You ha' little cause to say so.
OTH 2.1. 112
OTH-IAGO
Come on, come on. You are pictures out of door,
OTH 2.1. 113 Bells in your parlours; wildcats in your kitchens,
OTH 2.1. 114 Saints in your injuries; devils being offended,
OTH 2.1. 115 Players in your housewifery, and hussies in your beds.
OTH 2.1. 116
OTH-DESDEMONA
O, fie upon thee, slanderer!
OTH 2.1. 117
OTH-IAGO
Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk.
OTH 2.1. 118 You rise to play and go to bed to work.
OTH 2.1. 119B
OTH-EMILIA
You shall not write my praise.
OTH-IAGO
No, let me not.
OTH 2.1. 120
OTH-DESDEMONA
What wouldst write of me, if thou shouldst praise me?
OTH 2.1. 121
OTH-IAGO
O, gentle lady, do not put me to 't,
OTH 2.1. 122 For I am nothing if not critical.
OTH 2.1. 123
OTH-DESDEMONA
Come on, essay - there's one gone to the harbour?
OTH 2.1. 124A
OTH-IAGO
Ay, madam.
OTH 2.1. 125
OTH-DESDEMONA
I am not merry, but I do beguile
OTH 2.1. 126 The thing I am by seeming otherwise.
OTH 2.1. 127 Come, how wouldst thou praise me?
OTH 2.1. 128
OTH-IAGO
I am about it, but indeed my invention
OTH 2.1. 129 Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze -
OTH 2.1. 130 It plucks out brains and all. But my muse labours,
OTH 2.1. 131 And thus she is delivered:
OTH 2.1. 132 If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
OTH 2.1. 133 The one's for use, the other useth it.
OTH 2.1. 134
OTH-DESDEMONA
Well praised! How if she be black and witty?
OTH 2.1. 135
OTH-IAGO
If she be black and thereto have a wit,
OTH 2.1. 136 She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.
OTH 2.1. 137B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Worse and worse.
OTH-EMILIA
How if fair and foolish?
OTH 2.1. 138
OTH-IAGO
She never yet was foolish that was fair,
OTH 2.1. 139 For even her folly helped her to an heir.
OTH 2.1. 140
OTH-DESDEMONA
These are old fond paradoxes, to make fools
OTH 2.1. 141 laugh i' th' alehouse.
OTH 2.1. 142 What miserable praise hast thou for her
OTH 2.1. 143 That's foul and foolish?
OTH 2.1. 144
OTH-IAGO
There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,
OTH 2.1. 145 But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.
OTH 2.1. 146
OTH-DESDEMONA
O heavy ignorance! Thou praisest the worst
OTH 2.1. 147 best. But what praise couldst thou bestow on a
OTH 2.1. 148 deserving woman indeed - one that, in the authority
OTH 2.1. 149 of her merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice
OTH 2.1. 150 itself?
OTH 2.1. 151
OTH-IAGO
She that was ever fair and never proud,
OTH 2.1. 152 Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,
OTH 2.1. 153 Never lacked gold and yet went never gay,
OTH 2.1. 154 Fled from her wish, and yet said `Now I may';
OTH 2.1. 155 She that, being angered, her revenge being nigh,
OTH 2.1. 156 Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly;
OTH 2.1. 157 She that in wisdom never was so frail
OTH 2.1. 158 To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail;
OTH 2.1. 159 She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,
OTH 2.1. 160 See suitors following, and not look behind -
OTH 2.1. 161 She was a wight, if ever such wights were -
OTH 2.1. 162
OTH-DESDEMONA
To do what?
OTH 2.1. 163
OTH-IAGO
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
OTH 2.1. 164
OTH-DESDEMONA
O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do
OTH 2.1. 165 not learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband.
OTH 2.1. 166 How say you, Cassio, is he not a most profane and
OTH 2.1. 167 liberal counsellor?
OTH 2.1. 168
OTH-CASSIO
He speaks home, madam. You may relish him
OTH 2.1. 169 more in the soldier than in the scholar. {Cassio and Desdemona +
OTH 2.1. 169 talk apart}
OTH 2.1. 170
OTH-IAGO
{(aside)} He takes her by the palm. Ay, well +
OTH 2.1. 170 said -
OTH 2.1. 171 whisper. With as little a web as this will I ensnare as
OTH 2.1. 172 great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon her, do. I will
OTH 2.1. 173 gyve thee in thine own courtship. You say true, 'tis so
OTH 2.1. 174 indeed. If such tricks as these strip you out of your
OTH 2.1. 175 lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed
OTH 2.1. 176 your three fingers so oft, which now again you are
OTH 2.1. 177 most apt to play the sir in. Very good, well kissed, an
OTH 2.1. 178 excellent curtsy, 'tis so indeed; yet again your fingers
OTH 2.1. 179 to your lips? Would they were clyster-pipes for your
OTH 2.1. 180 sake. {Trumpets within}
OTH 2.1. 181B {(Aloud)} The Moor - I know his trumpet.
OTH-CASSIO
'Tis +
OTH 2.1. 181B truly so.
OTH 2.1. 182B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Let's meet him and receive him.
OTH-CASSIO
Lo where he +
OTH 2.1. 182B comes! {Enter Othello and attendants}
OTH 2.1. 183B
OTH-OTHELLO
{(to Desdemona)} O my fair +
OTH 2.1. 183B warrior!
OTH-DESDEMONA
My dear Othello.
OTH 2.1. 184
OTH-OTHELLO
It gives me wonder great as my content
OTH 2.1. 185 To see you here before me. O my soul's joy,
OTH 2.1. 186 If after every tempest come such calms,
OTH 2.1. 187 May the winds blow till they have wakened death,
OTH 2.1. 188 And let the labouring barque climb hills of seas
OTH 2.1. 189 Olympus-high, and duck again as low
OTH 2.1. 190 As hell's from heaven. If it were now to die
OTH 2.1. 191 'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear
OTH 2.1. 192 My soul hath her content so absolute
OTH 2.1. 193 That not another comfort like to this
OTH 2.1. 194B Succeeds in unknown fate.
OTH-DESDEMONA
The heavens forbid
OTH 2.1. 195 But that our loves and comforts should increase
OTH 2.1. 196B Even as our days do grow.
OTH-OTHELLO
Amen to that, sweet powers!
OTH 2.1. 197 I cannot speak enough of this content.
OTH 2.1. 198 It stops me here, it is too much of joy.
OTH 2.1. 199 And this, {(they kiss)} and this, the greatest discords +
OTH 2.1. 199 be
OTH 2.1. 200B That e'er our hearts shall make.
OTH-IAGO
{(aside)} O, +
OTH 2.1. 200B you are well tuned now,
OTH 2.1. 201 But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
OTH 2.1. 202B As honest as I am.
OTH-OTHELLO
Come, let us to the castle.
OTH 2.1. 203 News, friends: our wars are done, the Turks are drowned.
OTH 2.1. 204 How does my old acquaintance of this isle? -
OTH 2.1. 205 Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus,
OTH 2.1. 206 I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,
OTH 2.1. 207 I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
OTH 2.1. 208 In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,
OTH 2.1. 209 Go to the bay and disembark my coffers.
OTH 2.1. 210 Bring thou the master to the citadel.
OTH 2.1. 211 He is a good one, and his worthiness
OTH 2.1. 212 Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona. -
OTH 2.1. 213 Once more, well met at Cyprus! {Exeunt Othello and Desdemona +
OTH 2.1. 213 with all but Iago and Roderigo}
OTH 2.1. 214
OTH-IAGO
{(to an attendant as he goes out)} Do thou +
OTH 2.1. 214 meet me
OTH 2.1. 215 presently at the harbour. {(To Roderigo)} Come hither. +
OTH 2.1. 215 If
OTH 2.1. 216 thou beest valiant - as they say base men being in love
OTH 2.1. 217 have then a nobility in their natures more than is
OTH 2.1. 218 native to them - list me. The lieutenant tonight watches
OTH 2.1. 219 on the court of guard. First, I must tell thee this:
OTH 2.1. 220 Desdemona is directly in love with him.
OTH 2.1. 221
OTH-RODERIGO
With him? Why, 'tis not possible!
OTH 2.1. 222
OTH-IAGO
Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed.
OTH 2.1. 223 Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor,
OTH 2.1. 224 but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies. To love
OTH 2.1. 225 him still for prating? - let not thy discreet heart think
OTH 2.1. 226 it. Her eye must be fed, and what delight shall she
OTH 2.1. 227 have to look on the devil? When the blood is made
OTH 2.1. 228 dull with the act of sport, there should be again to
OTH 2.1. 229 inflame it, and to give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness
OTH 2.1. 230 in favour, sympathy in years, manners, and beauties,
OTH 2.1. 231 all which the Moor is defective in. Now, for want of
OTH 2.1. 232 these required conveniences, her delicate tenderness
OTH 2.1. 233 will find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge, disrelish
OTH 2.1. 234 and abhor the Moor. Very nature will instruct her in
OTH 2.1. 235 it and compel her to some second choice. Now, sir, this
OTH 2.1. 236 granted - as it is a most pregnant and unforced
OTH 2.1. 237 position - who stands so eminent in the degree of this
OTH 2.1. 238 fortune as Cassio does? - a knave very voluble, no
OTH 2.1. 239 further conscionable than in putting on the mere form
OTH 2.1. 240 of civil and humane seeming for the better compass of
OTH 2.1. 241 his salt and most hidden loose affection. Why, none;
OTH 2.1. 242 why, none - a slipper and subtle knave, a finder of
OTH 2.1. 243 occasion, that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit
OTH 2.1. 244 advantages, though true advantage never present itself,
OTH 2.1. 245 a devilish knave! Besides, the knave is handsome,
OTH 2.1. 246 young, and hath all those requisites in him that folly
OTH 2.1. 247 and green minds look after. A pestilent complete knave,
OTH 2.1. 248 and the woman hath found him already.
OTH 2.1. 249
OTH-RODERIGO
I cannot believe that in her. She's full of most
OTH 2.1. 250 blessed condition.
OTH 2.1. 251
OTH-IAGO
Blessed fig's end! The wine she drinks is made of
OTH 2.1. 252 grapes. If she had been blessed, she would never have
OTH 2.1. 253 loved the Moor. Blessed pudding! Didst thou not see
OTH 2.1. 254 her paddle with the palm of his hand? Didst not mark
OTH 2.1. 255 that?
OTH 2.1. 256
OTH-RODERIGO
Yes, that I did, but that was but courtesy.
OTH 2.1. 257
OTH-IAGO
Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure
OTH 2.1. 258 prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They
OTH 2.1. 259 met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced
OTH 2.1. 260 together. Villainous thoughts, Roderigo! When these
OTH 2.1. 261 mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes
OTH 2.1. 262 the master and main exercise, th' incorporate conclusion.
OTH 2.1. 263 Pish! But, sir, be you ruled by me. I have brought
OTH 2.1. 264 you from Venice. Watch you tonight. For the command,
OTH 2.1. 265 I'll lay 't upon you. Cassio knows you not; I'll not be
OTH 2.1. 266 far from you. Do you find some occasion to anger
OTH 2.1. 267 Cassio, either by speaking too loud, or tainting his
OTH 2.1. 268 discipline, or from what other course you please, which
OTH 2.1. 269 the time shall more favourably minister.
OTH 2.1. 270
OTH-RODERIGO
Well.
OTH 2.1. 271
OTH-IAGO
Sir, he's rash and very sudden in choler, and haply
OTH 2.1. 272 may strike at you. Provoke him that he may, for even
OTH 2.1. 273 out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny,
OTH 2.1. 274 whose qualification shall come into no true taste again
OTH 2.1. 275 but by the displanting of Cassio. So shall you have a
OTH 2.1. 276 shorter journey to your desires by the means I shall
OTH 2.1. 277 then have to prefer them, and the impediment most
OTH 2.1. 278 profitably removed, without the which there were no
OTH 2.1. 279 expectation of our prosperity.
OTH 2.1. 280
OTH-RODERIGO
I will do this, if you can bring it to any
OTH 2.1. 281 opportunity.
OTH 2.1. 282
OTH-IAGO
I warrant thee. Meet me by and by at the citadel. I
OTH 2.1. 283 must fetch his necessaries ashore. Farewell.
OTH 2.1. 284
OTH-RODERIGO
Adieu. {Exit}
OTH 2.1. 285
OTH-IAGO
That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it.
OTH 2.1. 286 That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit.
OTH 2.1. 287 The Moor - howbe't that I endure him not -
OTH 2.1. 288 Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,
OTH 2.1. 289 And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona
OTH 2.1. 290 A most dear husband. Now I do love her too,
OTH 2.1. 291 Not out of absolute lust - though peradventure
OTH 2.1. 292 I stand accountant for as great a sin -
OTH 2.1. 293 But partly led to diet my revenge
OTH 2.1. 294 For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
OTH 2.1. 295 Hath leapt into my seat, the thought whereof
OTH 2.1. 296 Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;
OTH 2.1. 297 And nothing can or shall content my soul
OTH 2.1. 298 Till I am evened with him, wife for wife -
OTH 2.1. 299 Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
OTH 2.1. 300 At least into a jealousy so strong
OTH 2.1. 301 That judgement cannot cure, which thing to do,
OTH 2.1. 302 If this poor trash of Venice whom I trace
OTH 2.1. 303 For his quick hunting stand the putting on,
OTH 2.1. 304 I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,
OTH 2.1. 305 Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb -
OTH 2.1. 306 For I fear Cassio with my nightcap, too -
OTH 2.1. 307 Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me
OTH 2.1. 308 For making him egregiously an ass,
OTH 2.1. 309 And practising upon his peace and quiet
OTH 2.1. 310 Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused.
OTH 2.1. 311 Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. {Exit}
OTH 2.1. 0 {Enter Othello's Herald reading a proclamation}
OTH 2.2. 1
OTH-HERALD
It is Othello's pleasure - our noble and valiant
OTH 2.2. 2 general - that, upon certain tidings now arrived
OTH 2.2. 3 importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet, every
OTH 2.2. 4 man put himself into triumph: some to dance, some to
OTH 2.2. 5 make bonfires, each man to what sport and revels his
OTH 2.2. 6 addiction leads him; for besides these beneficial news,
OTH 2.2. 7 it is the celebration of his nuptial. So much was his
OTH 2.2. 8 pleasure should be proclaimed. All offices are open, and
OTH 2.2. 9 there is full liberty of feasting from this present hour
OTH 2.2. 10 of five till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the
OTH 2.2. 11 isle of Cyprus and our noble general, Othello! {Exit}
OTH 2.2. 0 {Enter Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, and attendants}
OTH 2.3. 1
OTH-OTHELLO
Good Michael, look you to the guard tonight.
OTH 2.3. 2 Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop
OTH 2.3. 3 Not to outsport discretion.
OTH 2.3. 4
OTH-CASSIO
Iago hath direction what to do,
OTH 2.3. 5 But notwithstanding, with my personal eye
OTH 2.3. 6B Will I look to 't.
OTH-OTHELLO
Iago is most honest.
OTH 2.3. 7 Michael, good night. Tomorrow with your earliest
OTH 2.3. 8 Let me have speech with you. {(To Desdemona)} Come, my +
OTH 2.3. 8 dear love,
OTH 2.3. 9 The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue.
OTH 2.3. 10 That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you.
OTH 2.3. 11 {(To Cassio)} Good night. {Exeunt Othello, +
OTH 2.3. 11 Desdemona, and attendants}
OTH 2.3. 12 {Enter Iago}
OTH-CASSIO
Welcome, Iago. We must to the +
OTH 2.3. 12 watch.
OTH 2.3. 13
OTH-IAGO
Not this hour, lieutenant; 'tis not yet ten o' th' +
OTH 2.3. 13 clock.
OTH 2.3. 14 Our general cast us thus early for the love of his
OTH 2.3. 15 Desdemona, who let us not therefore blame. He hath
OTH 2.3. 16 not yet made wanton the night with her, and she is
OTH 2.3. 17 sport for Jove.
OTH 2.3. 18
OTH-CASSIO
She's a most exquisite lady.
OTH 2.3. 19
OTH-IAGO
And I'll warrant her full of game.
OTH 2.3. 20
OTH-CASSIO
Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature.
OTH 2.3. 21
OTH-IAGO
What an eye she has! Methinks it sounds a parley
OTH 2.3. 22 to provocation.
OTH 2.3. 23
OTH-CASSIO
An inviting eye, and yet, methinks, right modest.
OTH 2.3. 24
OTH-IAGO
And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?
OTH 2.3. 25
OTH-CASSIO
She is indeed perfection.
OTH 2.3. 26
OTH-IAGO
Well, happiness to their sheets. Come, lieutenant. I
OTH 2.3. 27 have a stoup of wine, and here without are a brace of
OTH 2.3. 28 Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the
OTH 2.3. 29 health of black Othello.
OTH 2.3. 30
OTH-CASSIO
Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and
OTH 2.3. 31 unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy
OTH 2.3. 32 would invent some other custom of entertainment.
OTH 2.3. 33
OTH-IAGO
O, they are our friends! But one cup. I'll drink for
OTH 2.3. 34 you.
OTH 2.3. 35
OTH-CASSIO
I ha' drunk but one cup tonight, and that was
OTH 2.3. 36 craftily qualified, too, and behold what innovation it
OTH 2.3. 37 makes here! I am infortunate in the infirmity, and dare
OTH 2.3. 38 not task my weakness with any more.
OTH 2.3. 39
OTH-IAGO
What, man, 'tis a night of revels, the gallants desire
OTH 2.3. 40 it!
OTH 2.3. 41
OTH-CASSIO
Where are they?
OTH 2.3. 42
OTH-IAGO
Here at the door. I pray you call them in.
OTH 2.3. 43A
OTH-CASSIO
I'll do 't, but it dislikes me. {Exit}
OTH 2.3. 44
OTH-IAGO
If I can fasten but one cup upon him,
OTH 2.3. 45 With that which he hath drunk tonight already
OTH 2.3. 46 He'll be as full of quarrel and offence
OTH 2.3. 47 As my young mistress' dog. Now my sick fool Roderigo,
OTH 2.3. 48 Whom love hath turned almost the wrong side out,
OTH 2.3. 49 To Desdemona hath tonight caroused
OTH 2.3. 50 Potations pottle-deep, and he's to watch.
OTH 2.3. 51 Three else of Cyprus - noble swelling spirits
OTH 2.3. 52 That hold their honours in a wary distance,
OTH 2.3. 53 The very elements of this warlike isle -
OTH 2.3. 54 Have I tonight flustered with flowing cups,
OTH 2.3. 55 And they watch too. Now 'mongst this flock of drunkards
OTH 2.3. 56 Am I to put our Cassio in some action
OTH 2.3. 57B That may offend the isle. {Enter Montano, Cassio, Gentlemen, +
OTH 2.3. 57B [and servants] with wine} But here they come.
OTH 2.3. 58 If consequence do but approve my dream,
OTH 2.3. 59 My boat sails freely both with wind and stream.
OTH 2.3. 60
OTH-CASSIO
Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.
OTH 2.3. 61
OTH-MONTANO
Good faith, a little one; not past a pint,
OTH 2.3. 62B As I am a soldier.
OTH-IAGO
Some wine, ho!
OTH 2.3. 63 {(Sings)} And let me the cannikin clink, clink,
OTH 2.3. 64 And let me the cannikin clink.
OTH 2.3. 65 A soldier's a man,
OTH 2.3. 66 O, man's life's but a span,
OTH 2.3. 67 Why then, let a soldier drink.
OTH 2.3. 68 Some wine, boys!
OTH 2.3. 69
OTH-CASSIO
Fore God, an excellent song.
OTH 2.3. 70
OTH-IAGO
I learned it in England, where indeed they are most
OTH 2.3. 71 potent in potting. Your Dane, your German, and your
OTH 2.3. 72 swag-bellied Hollander - drink, ho! - are nothing to
OTH 2.3. 73 your English.
OTH 2.3. 74
OTH-CASSIO
Is your Englishman so exquisite in his drinking?
OTH 2.3. 75
OTH-IAGO
Why, he drinks you with facility your Dane dead
OTH 2.3. 76 drunk. He sweats not to overthrow your Almain. He
OTH 2.3. 77 gives your Hollander a vomit ere the next pottle can
OTH 2.3. 78 be filled.
OTH 2.3. 79
OTH-CASSIO
To the health of our general!
OTH 2.3. 80
OTH-MONTANO
I am for it, lieutenant, and I'll do you justice.
OTH 2.3. 81
OTH-IAGO
O sweet England!
OTH 2.3. 82 {(Sings)} King Stephen was and a worthy peer,
OTH 2.3. 83 His breeches cost him but a crown;
OTH 2.3. 84 He held them sixpence all too dear,
OTH 2.3. 85 With that he called the tailor lown.
OTH 2.3. 86 He was a wight of high renown,
OTH 2.3. 87 And thou art but of low degree.
OTH 2.3. 88 'Tis pride that pulls the country down,
OTH 2.3. 89 Then take thy auld cloak about thee.
OTH 2.3. 90 Some wine, ho!
OTH 2.3. 91
OTH-CASSIO
Fore God, this is a more exquisite song than the
OTH 2.3. 92 other.
OTH 2.3. 93
OTH-IAGO
Will you hear 't again?
OTH 2.3. 94
OTH-CASSIO
No, for I hold him to be unworthy of his place
OTH 2.3. 95 that does those things. Well, God's above all, and there
OTH 2.3. 96 be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not
OTH 2.3. 97 be saved.
OTH 2.3. 98
OTH-IAGO
It's true, good lieutenant.
OTH 2.3. 99
OTH-CASSIO
For mine own part - no offence to the general, nor
OTH 2.3. 100 any man of quality - I hope to be saved.
OTH 2.3. 101
OTH-IAGO
And so do I too, lieutenant.
OTH 2.3. 102
OTH-CASSIO
Ay, but, by your leave, not before me. The
OTH 2.3. 103 lieutenant is to be saved before the ensign. Let's ha'
OTH 2.3. 104 no more of this. Let's to our affairs. God forgive us our
OTH 2.3. 105 sins. Gentlemen, let's look to our business. Do not
OTH 2.3. 106 think, gentlemen, I am drunk. This is my ensign, this
OTH 2.3. 107 is my right hand, and this is my left. I am not drunk
OTH 2.3. 108 now. I can stand well enough, and I speak well enough.
OTH 2.3. 109
OTH-GENTLEMEN
Excellent well.
OTH 2.3. 110
OTH-CASSIO
Why, very well then. You must not think then
OTH 2.3. 111 that I am drunk. {Exit}
OTH 2.3. 112
OTH-MONTANO
To th' platform, masters. Come, let's set the +
OTH 2.3. 112 watch. {Exeunt Gentlemen}
OTH 2.3. 113
OTH-IAGO
You see this fellow that is gone before -
OTH 2.3. 114 He's a soldier fit to stand by Caesar
OTH 2.3. 115 And give direction; and do but see his vice.
OTH 2.3. 116 'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,
OTH 2.3. 117 The one as long as th' other. 'Tis pity of him.
OTH 2.3. 118 I fear the trust Othello puts him in,
OTH 2.3. 119 On some odd time of his infirmity,
OTH 2.3. 120B Will shake this island.
OTH-MONTANO
But is he often thus?
OTH 2.3. 121
OTH-IAGO
'Tis evermore his prologue to his sleep.
OTH 2.3. 122 He'll watch the horologe a double set
OTH 2.3. 123B If drink rock not his cradle.
OTH-MONTANO
It were well
OTH 2.3. 124 The general were put in mind of it.
OTH 2.3. 125 Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature
OTH 2.3. 126 Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,
OTH 2.3. 127 And looks not on his evils. Is not this true? {Enter Roderigo}
OTH 2.3. 128A
OTH-IAGO
{[aside]} How now, Roderigo!
OTH 2.3. 129 I pray you after the lieutenant, go. {Exit Roderigo}
OTH 2.3. 130
OTH-MONTANO
And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor
OTH 2.3. 131 Should hazard such a place as his own second
OTH 2.3. 132 With one of an engraffed infirmity.
OTH 2.3. 133 It were an honest action to say so
OTH 2.3. 134B To the Moor.
OTH-IAGO
Not I, for this fair island!
OTH 2.3. 135 I do love Cassio well, and would do much
OTH 2.3. 136 To cure him of this evil.
OTH 2.3. 137A
OTH-VOICES
{(within)} Help, help!
OTH 2.3. 138A
OTH-IAGO
But hark, what noise? {Enter Cassio, driving in +
OTH 2.3. 138A Roderigo}
OTH 2.3. 139
OTH-CASSIO
'Swounds, you rogue, you rascal!
OTH 2.3. 140
OTH-MONTANO
What's the matter, lieutenant?
OTH 2.3. 141
OTH-CASSIO
A knave teach me my duty? - I'll beat the knave
OTH 2.3. 142 into a twiggen bottle.
OTH 2.3. 143
OTH-RODERIGO
Beat me?
OTH 2.3. 144
OTH-CASSIO
Dost thou prate, rogue?
OTH 2.3. 145
OTH-MONTANO
Nay, good lieutenant, I pray you, sir, hold your
OTH 2.3. 146 hand.
OTH 2.3. 147
OTH-CASSIO
Let me go, sir, or I'll knock you o'er the mazard.
OTH 2.3. 148
OTH-MONTANO
Come, come, you're drunk.
OTH 2.3. 149
OTH-CASSIO
Drunk? {They fight}
OTH 2.3. 150
OTH-IAGO
{(to Roderigo)} Away, I say. Go out and cry a +
OTH 2.3. 150 mutiny. {Exit Roderigo}
OTH 2.3. 151 Nay, good lieutenant. God's will, gentlemen!
OTH 2.3. 152 Help, ho! Lieutenant! Sir! Montano! Sir!
OTH 2.3. 153 Help, masters. Here's a goodly watch indeed. {A bell rung}
OTH 2.3. 154 Who's that which rings the bell? Diablo, ho!
OTH 2.3. 155 The town will rise. God's will, lieutenant, hold.
OTH 2.3. 156B You'll be ashamed for ever. {Enter Othello and attendants, with +
OTH 2.3. 156B weapons}
OTH-OTHELLO
What is the matter here?
OTH 2.3. 157
OTH-MONTANO
'Swounds, I bleed still. I am hurt to th' death. { +
OTH 2.3. 157 (Attacking Cassio)} He dies.
OTH 2.3. 158A
OTH-OTHELLO
Hold, for your lives!
OTH 2.3. 159
OTH-IAGO
Hold, ho, lieutenant, sir, Montano, gentlemen!
OTH 2.3. 160 Have you forgot all place of sense and duty?
OTH 2.3. 161 Hold, the general speaks to you. Hold, hold, for shame.
OTH 2.3. 162
OTH-OTHELLO
Why, how now, ho? From whence ariseth this?
OTH 2.3. 163 Are we turned Turks, and to ourselves do that
OTH 2.3. 164 Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?
OTH 2.3. 165 For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl.
OTH 2.3. 166 He that stirs next to carve for his own rage
OTH 2.3. 167 Holds his soul light. He dies upon his motion.
OTH 2.3. 168 Silence that dreadful bell - it frights the isle
OTH 2.3. 169B From her propriety. {[Bell stops]} What is the matter, +
OTH 2.3. 169B masters?
OTH 2.3. 170 Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving,
OTH 2.3. 171 Speak. Who began this? On thy love I charge thee.
OTH 2.3. 172
OTH-IAGO
I do not know. Friends all but now, even now,
OTH 2.3. 173 In quarter and in terms like bride and groom
OTH 2.3. 174 Devesting them for bed; and then but now -
OTH 2.3. 175 As if some planet had unwitted men -
OTH 2.3. 176 Swords out, and tilting one at others' breasts
OTH 2.3. 177 In opposition bloody. I cannot speak
OTH 2.3. 178 Any beginning to this peevish odds,
OTH 2.3. 179 And would in action glorious I had lost
OTH 2.3. 180 Those legs that brought me to a part of it.
OTH 2.3. 181
OTH-OTHELLO
How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?
OTH 2.3. 182
OTH-CASSIO
I pray you pardon me. I cannot speak.
OTH 2.3. 183
OTH-OTHELLO
Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil.
OTH 2.3. 184 The gravity and stillness of your youth
OTH 2.3. 185 The world hath noted, and your name is great
OTH 2.3. 186 In mouths of wisest censure. What's the matter,
OTH 2.3. 187 That you unlace your reputation thus,
OTH 2.3. 188 And spend your rich opinion for the name
OTH 2.3. 189 Of a night-brawler? Give me answer to it.
OTH 2.3. 190
OTH-MONTANO
Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger.
OTH 2.3. 191 Your officer Iago can inform you,
OTH 2.3. 192 While I spare speech - which something now offends me -
OTH 2.3. 193 Of all that I do know; nor know I aught
OTH 2.3. 194 By me that's said or done amiss this night,
OTH 2.3. 195 Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,
OTH 2.3. 196 And to defend ourselves it be a sin
OTH 2.3. 197B When violence assails us.
OTH-OTHELLO
Now, by heaven,
OTH 2.3. 198 My blood begins my safer guides to rule,
OTH 2.3. 199 And passion, having my best judgement collied,
OTH 2.3. 200 Essays to lead the way. 'Swounds, if I stir,
OTH 2.3. 201 Or do but lift this arm, the best of you
OTH 2.3. 202 Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know
OTH 2.3. 203 How this foul rout began, who set it on,
OTH 2.3. 204 And he that is approved in this offence,
OTH 2.3. 205 Though he had twinned with me, both at a birth,
OTH 2.3. 206 Shall lose me. What, in a town of war
OTH 2.3. 207 Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,
OTH 2.3. 208 To manage private and domestic quarrel
OTH 2.3. 209 In night, and on the court and guard of safety!
OTH 2.3. 210 'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began 't?
OTH 2.3. 211
OTH-MONTANO
{(to Iago)} If partially affined or +
OTH 2.3. 211 leagued in office
OTH 2.3. 212 Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,
OTH 2.3. 213B Thou art no soldier.
OTH-IAGO
Touch me not so near.
OTH 2.3. 214 I had rather ha' this tongue cut from my mouth
OTH 2.3. 215 Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio.
OTH 2.3. 216 Yet I persuade myself to speak the truth
OTH 2.3. 217 Shall nothing wrong him. This it is, general.
OTH 2.3. 218 Montano and myself being in speech,
OTH 2.3. 219 There comes a fellow crying out for help,
OTH 2.3. 220 And Cassio following him with determined sword
OTH 2.3. 221 To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman
OTH 2.3. 222 Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause.
OTH 2.3. 223 Myself the crying fellow did pursue,
OTH 2.3. 224 Lest by his clamour, as it so fell out,
OTH 2.3. 225 The town might fall in fright. He, swift of foot,
OTH 2.3. 226 Outran my purpose, and I returned, the rather
OTH 2.3. 227 For that I heard the clink and fall of swords
OTH 2.3. 228 And Cassio high in oath, which till tonight
OTH 2.3. 229 I ne'er might say before. When I came back -
OTH 2.3. 230 For this was brief - I found them close together
OTH 2.3. 231 At blow and thrust, even as again they were
OTH 2.3. 232 When you yourself did part them.
OTH 2.3. 233 More of this matter cannot I report,
OTH 2.3. 234 But men are men. The best sometimes forget.
OTH 2.3. 235 Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,
OTH 2.3. 236 As men in rage strike those that wish them best,
OTH 2.3. 237 Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received
OTH 2.3. 238 From him that fled some strange indignity
OTH 2.3. 239B Which patience could not pass.
OTH-OTHELLO
I know, Iago,
OTH 2.3. 240 Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,
OTH 2.3. 241 Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee,
OTH 2.3. 242 But never more be officer of mine. {Enter Desdemona, attended}
OTH 2.3. 243 Look if my gentle love be not raised up.
OTH 2.3. 244 I'll make thee an example.
OTH 2.3. 245A
OTH-DESDEMONA
What is the matter, dear?
OTH 2.3. 246A
OTH-OTHELLO
All's well now, sweeting.
OTH 2.3. 247 Come away to bed. {(To Montano)} Sir, for your hurts
OTH 2.3. 248 Myself will be your surgeon. {(To attendants)} Lead him +
OTH 2.3. 248 off. {Exeunt attendants with Montano}
OTH 2.3. 249 Iago, look with care about the town,
OTH 2.3. 250 And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.
OTH 2.3. 251 Come, Desdemona. 'Tis the soldier's life
OTH 2.3. 252 To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife. {Exeunt all but +
OTH 2.3. 252 Iago and Cassio}
OTH 2.3. 253A
OTH-IAGO
What, are you hurt, lieutenant?
OTH 2.3. 254A
OTH-CASSIO
Ay, past all surgery.
OTH 2.3. 255A
OTH-IAGO
Marry, God forbid.
OTH 2.3. 256
OTH-CASSIO
Reputation, reputation, reputation - O, I ha' lost
OTH 2.3. 257 my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself,
OTH 2.3. 258 and what remains is bestial! My reputation, Iago, my
OTH 2.3. 259 reputation.
OTH 2.3. 260
OTH-IAGO
As I am an honest man, I thought you had received
OTH 2.3. 261 some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than
OTH 2.3. 262 in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false
OTH 2.3. 263 imposition, oft got without merit and lost without
OTH 2.3. 264 deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless
OTH 2.3. 265 you repute yourself such a loser. What, man, there are
OTH 2.3. 266 more ways to recover the general again. You are but
OTH 2.3. 267 now cast in his mood - a punishment more in policy
OTH 2.3. 268 than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless
OTH 2.3. 269 dog to affright an imperious lion. Sue to him again,
OTH 2.3. 270 and he's yours.
OTH 2.3. 271
OTH-CASSIO
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so
OTH 2.3. 272 good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so
OTH 2.3. 273 indiscreet an officer. Drunk, and speak parrot, and
OTH 2.3. 274 squabble? Swagger, swear, and discourse fustian with
OTH 2.3. 275 one's own shadow? O thou invisible spirit of wine, if
OTH 2.3. 276 thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee
OTH 2.3. 277 devil.
OTH 2.3. 278
OTH-IAGO
What was he that you followed with your sword?
OTH 2.3. 279 What had he done to you?
OTH 2.3. 280
OTH-CASSIO
I know not.
OTH 2.3. 281
OTH-IAGO
Is 't possible?
OTH 2.3. 282
OTH-CASSIO
I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly;
OTH 2.3. 283 a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that
OTH 2.3. 284 men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal
OTH 2.3. 285 away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance,
OTH 2.3. 286 revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
OTH 2.3. 287
OTH-IAGO
Why, but you are now well enough. How came you
OTH 2.3. 288 thus recovered?
OTH 2.3. 289
OTH-CASSIO
It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place
OTH 2.3. 290 to the devil wrath. One unperfectness shows me
OTH 2.3. 291 another, to make me frankly despise myself.
OTH 2.3. 292
OTH-IAGO
Come, you are too severe a moraller. As the time,
OTH 2.3. 293 the place, and the condition of this country stands, I
OTH 2.3. 294 could heartily wish this had not befallen; but since it
OTH 2.3. 295 is as it is, mend it for your own good.
OTH 2.3. 296
OTH-CASSIO
I will ask him for my place again. He shall tell me
OTH 2.3. 297 I am a drunkard. Had I as many mouths as Hydra,
OTH 2.3. 298 such an answer would stop them all. To be now a
OTH 2.3. 299 sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
OTH 2.3. 300 O, strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the
OTH 2.3. 301 ingredient is a devil.
OTH 2.3. 302
OTH-IAGO
Come, come. Good wine is a good familiar creature,
OTH 2.3. 303 if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it. And,
OTH 2.3. 304 good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.
OTH 2.3. 305
OTH-CASSIO
I have well approved it, sir - I drunk?
OTH 2.3. 306
OTH-IAGO
You or any man living may be drunk at a time,
OTH 2.3. 307 man. I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife
OTH 2.3. 308 is now the general. I may say so in this respect, for
OTH 2.3. 309 that he hath devoted and given up himself to the
OTH 2.3. 310 contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and
OTH 2.3. 311 graces. Confess yourself freely to her. Importune her
OTH 2.3. 312 help to put you in your place again. She is of so free,
OTH 2.3. 313 so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a
OTH 2.3. 314 vice in her goodness not to do more than she is
OTH 2.3. 315 requested. This broken joint between you and her
OTH 2.3. 316 husband entreat her to splinter, and, my fortunes
OTH 2.3. 317 against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love
OTH 2.3. 318 shall grow stronger than it was before.
OTH 2.3. 319
OTH-CASSIO
You advise me well.
OTH 2.3. 320
OTH-IAGO
I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.
OTH 2.3. 321
OTH-CASSIO
I think it freely, and betimes in the morning I will
OTH 2.3. 322 beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me.
OTH 2.3. 323 I am desperate of my fortunes if they check me here.
OTH 2.3. 324
OTH-IAGO
You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant. I must
OTH 2.3. 325 to the watch.
OTH 2.3. 326
OTH-CASSIO
Good night, honest Iago. {Exit}
OTH 2.3. 327
OTH-IAGO
And what's he then that says I play the villain,
OTH 2.3. 328 When this advice is free I give, and honest,
OTH 2.3. 329 Probal to thinking, and indeed the course
OTH 2.3. 330 To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy
OTH 2.3. 331 Th' inclining Desdemona to subdue
OTH 2.3. 332 In any honest suit. She's framed as fruitful
OTH 2.3. 333 As the free elements; and then for her
OTH 2.3. 334 To win the Moor, were 't to renounce his baptism,
OTH 2.3. 335 All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,
OTH 2.3. 336 His soul is so enfettered to her love
OTH 2.3. 337 That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
OTH 2.3. 338 Even as her appetite shall play the god
OTH 2.3. 339 With his weak function. How am I then a villain,
OTH 2.3. 340 To counsel Cassio to this parallel course
OTH 2.3. 341 Directly to his good? Divinity of hell:
OTH 2.3. 342 When devils will the blackest sins put on,
OTH 2.3. 343 They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
OTH 2.3. 344 As I do now; for whiles this honest fool
OTH 2.3. 345 Plies Desdemona to repair his fortune,
OTH 2.3. 346 And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
OTH 2.3. 347 I'll pour this pestilence into his ear:
OTH 2.3. 348 That she repeals him for her body's lust,
OTH 2.3. 349 And by how much she strives to do him good
OTH 2.3. 350 She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
OTH 2.3. 351 So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
OTH 2.3. 352 And out of her own goodness make the net
OTH 2.3. 353B That shall enmesh them all. {Enter Roderigo} How now, +
OTH 2.3. 353B Roderigo?
OTH 2.3. 354
OTH-RODERIGO
I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound
OTH 2.3. 355 that hunts, but one that fills up the cry. My money is
OTH 2.3. 356 almost spent, I ha' been tonight exceedingly well
OTH 2.3. 357 cudgelled, and I think the issue will be I shall have so
OTH 2.3. 358 much experience for my pains: and so, with no money
OTH 2.3. 359 at all and a little more wit, return again to Venice.
OTH 2.3. 360
OTH-IAGO
How poor are they that ha' not patience!
OTH 2.3. 361 What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
OTH 2.3. 362 Thou know'st we work by wit and not by witchcraft,
OTH 2.3. 363 And wit depends on dilatory time.
OTH 2.3. 364 Does 't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee,
OTH 2.3. 365 And thou by that small hurt hast cashiered Cassio.
OTH 2.3. 366 Though other things grow fair against the sun,
OTH 2.3. 367 Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.
OTH 2.3. 368 Content thyself a while. By the mass, 'tis morning.
OTH 2.3. 369 Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
OTH 2.3. 370 Retire thee. Go where thou art billeted.
OTH 2.3. 371 Away, I say. Thou shalt know more hereafter.
OTH 2.3. 372B Nay, get thee gone. {Exit Roderigo} Two things are to +
OTH 2.3. 372B be done.
OTH 2.3. 373 My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress.
OTH 2.3. 374 I'll set her on.
OTH 2.3. 375 Myself a while to draw the Moor apart,
OTH 2.3. 376 And bring him jump when he may Cassio find
OTH 2.3. 377 Soliciting his wife. Ay, that's the way.
OTH 2.3. 378 Dull not device by coldness and delay. {Exit}
OTH 2.3. 0 {Enter Cassio with Musicians}
OTH 3.1. 1
OTH-CASSIO
Masters, play here - I will content your pains -
OTH 3.1. 2 Something that's brief, and bid `Good morrow, general'. {Music. +
OTH 3.1. 2 Enter Clown}
OTH 3.1. 3
OTH-CLOWN
Why, masters, ha' your instruments been in
OTH 3.1. 4 Naples, that they speak i' th' nose thus?
OTH 3.1. 5
OTH-MUSICIAN
How, sir, how?
OTH 3.1. 6
OTH-CLOWN
Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
OTH 3.1. 7
OTH-MUSICIAN
Ay, marry are they, sir.
OTH 3.1. 8
OTH-CLOWN
O, thereby hangs a tail.
OTH 3.1. 9
OTH-MUSICIAN
Whereby hangs a tale, sir?
OTH 3.1. 10
OTH-CLOWN
Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I
OTH 3.1. 11 know. But masters, here's money for you, and the
OTH 3.1. 12 general so likes your music that he desires you, for
OTH 3.1. 13 love's sake, to make no more noise with it.
OTH 3.1. 14
OTH-MUSICIAN
Well, sir, we will not.
OTH 3.1. 15
OTH-CLOWN
If you have any music that may not be heard,
OTH 3.1. 16 to 't again; but, as they say, to hear music the general
OTH 3.1. 17 does not greatly care.
OTH 3.1. 18
OTH-MUSICIAN
We ha' none such, sir.
OTH 3.1. 19
OTH-CLOWN
Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away.
OTH 3.1. 20 Go, vanish into air, away. {Exeunt Musicians}
OTH 3.1. 21
OTH-CASSIO
Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
OTH 3.1. 22
OTH-CLOWN
No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
OTH 3.1. 23
OTH-CASSIO
Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece
OTH 3.1. 24 of gold for thee. If the gentlewoman that attends the
OTH 3.1. 25 general's wife be stirring, tell her there's one Cassio
OTH 3.1. 26 entreats her a little favour of speech. Wilt thou do this?
OTH 3.1. 27
OTH-CLOWN
She is stirring, sir. If she will stir hither, I shall
OTH 3.1. 28 seem to notify unto her.
OTH 3.1. 29B
OTH-CASSIO
Do, good my friend. {Exit Clown} +
OTH 3.1. 29B {Enter Iago} In happy time, Iago.
OTH 3.1. 30B
OTH-IAGO
You ha' not been abed, then.
OTH-CASSIO
Why, no. The day had +
OTH 3.1. 30B broke
OTH 3.1. 31 Before we parted. I ha' made bold, Iago,
OTH 3.1. 32 To send in to your wife. My suit to her
OTH 3.1. 33 Is that she will to virtuous Desdemona
OTH 3.1. 34 Procure me some access.
OTH 3.1. 35
OTH-IAGO
I'll send her to you presently,
OTH 3.1. 36 And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor
OTH 3.1. 37 Out of the way, that your converse and business
OTH 3.1. 38B May be more free.
OTH-CASSIO
I humbly thank you for 't. {Exit +
OTH 3.1. 38B Iago}
OTH 3.1. 39 I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest. {Enter +
OTH 3.1. 39 Emilia}
OTH 3.1. 40
OTH-EMILIA
Good morrow, good lieutenant. I am sorry
OTH 3.1. 41 For your displeasure, but all will sure be well.
OTH 3.1. 42 The general and his wife are talking of it,
OTH 3.1. 43 And she speaks for you stoutly. The Moor replies
OTH 3.1. 44 That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,
OTH 3.1. 45 And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom
OTH 3.1. 46 He might not but refuse you. But he protests he loves you,
OTH 3.1. 47 And needs no other suitor but his likings
OTH 3.1. 48 To take the saf'st occasion by the front
OTH 3.1. 49B To bring you in again.
OTH-CASSIO
Yet I beseech you,
OTH 3.1. 50 If you think fit, or that it may be done,
OTH 3.1. 51 Give me advantage of some brief discourse
OTH 3.1. 52B With Desdemon alone.
OTH-EMILIA
Pray you come in.
OTH 3.1. 53 I will bestow you where you shall have time
OTH 3.1. 54B To speak your bosom freely.
OTH-CASSIO
I am much bound to you. +
OTH 3.1. 54B {Exeunt}
OTH 3.1. 0 {Enter Othello, Iago, and Gentlemen}
OTH 3.2. 1
OTH-OTHELLO
These letters give, Iago, to the pilot,
OTH 3.2. 2 And by him do my duties to the senate.
OTH 3.2. 3 That done, I will be walking on the works.
OTH 3.2. 4B Repair there to me.
OTH-IAGO
Well, my good lord, I'll do 't. +
OTH 3.2. 4B {Exit}
OTH 3.2. 5
OTH-OTHELLO
This fortification, gentlemen - shall we see 't?
OTH 3.2. 6A A
OTH-GENTLEMAN
We'll wait upon your lordship. {Exeunt}
OTH 3.2. 0 {Enter Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia}
OTH 3.3. 1
OTH-DESDEMONA
Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
OTH 3.3. 2 All my abilities in thy behalf.
OTH 3.3. 3
OTH-EMILIA
Good madam, do. I warrant it grieves my husband
OTH 3.3. 4 As if the cause were his.
OTH 3.3. 5
OTH-DESDEMONA
O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
OTH 3.3. 6 But I will have my lord and you again
OTH 3.3. 7B As friendly as you were.
OTH-CASSIO
Bounteous madam,
OTH 3.3. 8 Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio
OTH 3.3. 9 He's never anything but your true servant.
OTH 3.3. 10
OTH-DESDEMONA
I know 't. I thank you. You do love my lord.
OTH 3.3. 11 You have known him long, and be you well assured
OTH 3.3. 12 He shall in strangeness stand no farther off
OTH 3.3. 13B Than in a politic distance.
OTH-CASSIO
Ay, but, lady,
OTH 3.3. 14 That policy may either last so long,
OTH 3.3. 15 Or feed upon such nice and wat'rish diet,
OTH 3.3. 16 Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
OTH 3.3. 17 That, I being absent and my place supplied,
OTH 3.3. 18 My general will forget my love and service.
OTH 3.3. 19
OTH-DESDEMONA
Do not doubt that. Before Emilia here
OTH 3.3. 20 I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee,
OTH 3.3. 21 If I do vow a friendship I'll perform it
OTH 3.3. 22 To the last article. My lord shall never rest.
OTH 3.3. 23 I'll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience.
OTH 3.3. 24 His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift.
OTH 3.3. 25 I'll intermingle everything he does
OTH 3.3. 26 With Cassio's suit. Therefore be merry, Cassio,
OTH 3.3. 27 For thy solicitor shall rather die
OTH 3.3. 28B Than give thy cause away. {Enter Othello and Iago}
OTH-EMILIA
+
OTH 3.3. 28B Madam, here comes my lord.
OTH 3.3. 29B
OTH-CASSIO
Madam, I'll take my leave.
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why, stay, and hear +
OTH 3.3. 29B me speak.
OTH 3.3. 30
OTH-CASSIO
Madam, not now. I am very ill at ease,
OTH 3.3. 31 Unfit for mine own purposes.
OTH 3.3. 32A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Well, do your discretion. {Exit Cassio}
OTH 3.3. 33A
OTH-IAGO
Ha! I like not that.
OTH 3.3. 34A
OTH-OTHELLO
What dost thou say?
OTH 3.3. 35
OTH-IAGO
Nothing, my lord. Or if, I know not what.
OTH 3.3. 36
OTH-OTHELLO
Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
OTH 3.3. 37
OTH-IAGO
Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it,
OTH 3.3. 38 That he would steal away so guilty-like
OTH 3.3. 39 Seeing your coming.
OTH 3.3. 40A
OTH-OTHELLO
I do believe 'twas he.
OTH 3.3. 41A
OTH-DESDEMONA
How now, my lord?
OTH 3.3. 42 I have been talking with a suitor here,
OTH 3.3. 43 A man that languishes in your displeasure.
OTH 3.3. 44A
OTH-OTHELLO
Who is 't you mean?
OTH 3.3. 45
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why, your lieutenant, Cassio; good my lord,
OTH 3.3. 46 If I have any grace or power to move you,
OTH 3.3. 47 His present reconciliation take;
OTH 3.3. 48 For if he be not one that truly loves you,
OTH 3.3. 49 That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,
OTH 3.3. 50 I have no judgement in an honest face.
OTH 3.3. 51 I prithee call him back.
OTH 3.3. 52A
OTH-OTHELLO
Went he hence now?
OTH 3.3. 53A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Yes, faith, so humbled
OTH 3.3. 54 That he hath left part of his grief with me
OTH 3.3. 55 To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.
OTH 3.3. 56
OTH-OTHELLO
Not now, sweet Desdemon. Some other time.
OTH 3.3. 57B
OTH-DESDEMONA
But shall 't be shortly?
OTH-OTHELLO
The sooner, sweet, +
OTH 3.3. 57B for you.
OTH 3.3. 58B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Shall 't be tonight at supper?
OTH-OTHELLO
No, not tonight.
OTH 3.3. 59B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Tomorrow dinner, then?
OTH-OTHELLO
I shall not dine at +
OTH 3.3. 59B home.
OTH 3.3. 60 I meet the captains at the citadel.
OTH 3.3. 61
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why then, tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn,
OTH 3.3. 62 On Tuesday noon, or night, on Wednesday morn -
OTH 3.3. 63 I prithee name the time, but let it not
OTH 3.3. 64 Exceed three days. In faith, he's penitent,
OTH 3.3. 65 And yet his trespass, in our common reason -
OTH 3.3. 66 Save that, they say, the wars must make example
OTH 3.3. 67 Out of her best - is not almost a fault
OTH 3.3. 68 T' incur a private check. When shall he come?
OTH 3.3. 69 Tell me, Othello. I wonder in my soul
OTH 3.3. 70 What you would ask me that I should deny,
OTH 3.3. 71 Or stand so mamm'ring on? What, Michael Cassio,
OTH 3.3. 72 That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time
OTH 3.3. 73 When I have spoke of you dispraisingly
OTH 3.3. 74 Hath ta'en your part - to have so much to-do
OTH 3.3. 75 To bring him in? By 'r Lady, I could do much.
OTH 3.3. 76
OTH-OTHELLO
Prithee, no more. Let him come when he will.
OTH 3.3. 77B I will deny thee nothing.
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why, this is not a boon.
OTH 3.3. 78 'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,
OTH 3.3. 79 Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,
OTH 3.3. 80 Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
OTH 3.3. 81 To your own person. Nay, when I have a suit
OTH 3.3. 82 Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
OTH 3.3. 83 It shall be full of poise and difficult weight,
OTH 3.3. 84B And fearful to be granted.
OTH-OTHELLO
I will deny thee nothing,
OTH 3.3. 85 Whereon I do beseech thee grant me this:
OTH 3.3. 86 To leave me but a little to myself.
OTH 3.3. 87
OTH-DESDEMONA
Shall I deny you? No. Farewell, my lord.
OTH 3.3. 88
OTH-OTHELLO
Farewell, my Desdemona. I'll come to thee straight.
OTH 3.3. 89
OTH-DESDEMONA
Emilia, come. {(To Othello)} Be as your +
OTH 3.3. 89 fancies teach you.
OTH 3.3. 90 Whate'er you be, I am obedient. {Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia}
OTH 3.3. 91
OTH-OTHELLO
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul
OTH 3.3. 92 But I do love thee, and when I love thee not,
OTH 3.3. 93 Chaos is come again.
OTH 3.3. 94A
OTH-IAGO
My noble lord.
OTH 3.3. 95A
OTH-OTHELLO
What dost thou say, Iago?
OTH 3.3. 96
OTH-IAGO
Did Michael Cassio, when you wooed my lady,
OTH 3.3. 97 Know of your love?
OTH 3.3. 98
OTH-OTHELLO
He did, from first to last. Why dost thou ask?
OTH 3.3. 99
OTH-IAGO
But for a satisfaction of my thought,
OTH 3.3. 100B No further harm.
OTH-OTHELLO
Why of thy thought, Iago?
OTH 3.3. 101
OTH-IAGO
I did not think he had been acquainted with her.
OTH 3.3. 102
OTH-OTHELLO
O yes, and went between us very oft.
OTH 3.3. 103A
OTH-IAGO
Indeed?
OTH 3.3. 104
OTH-OTHELLO
Indeed? Ay, indeed. Discern'st thou aught in that?
OTH 3.3. 105 Is he not honest?
OTH 3.3. 106A
OTH-IAGO
Honest, my lord?
OTH 3.3. 107A
OTH-OTHELLO
Honest? Ay, honest.
OTH 3.3. 108B
OTH-IAGO
My lord, for aught I know.
OTH-OTHELLO
What dost thou think?
OTH 3.3. 109A
OTH-IAGO
Think, my lord?
OTH 3.3. 110
OTH-OTHELLO
`Think, my lord?' By heaven, thou echo'st me
OTH 3.3. 111 As if there were some monster in thy thought
OTH 3.3. 112 Too hideous to be shown! Thou dost mean something.
OTH 3.3. 113 I heard thee say even now thou liked'st not that,
OTH 3.3. 114 When Cassio left my wife. What didst not like?
OTH 3.3. 115 And when I told thee he was of my counsel
OTH 3.3. 116 In my whole course of wooing, thou cried'st `Indeed?'
OTH 3.3. 117 And didst contract and purse thy brow together
OTH 3.3. 118 As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
OTH 3.3. 119 Some horrible conceit. If thou dost love me,
OTH 3.3. 120 Show me thy thought.
OTH 3.3. 121A
OTH-IAGO
My lord, you know I love you.
OTH 3.3. 122A
OTH-OTHELLO
I think thou dost,
OTH 3.3. 123 And for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,
OTH 3.3. 124 And weigh'st thy words before thou giv'st them breath,
OTH 3.3. 125 Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more;
OTH 3.3. 126 For such things in a false disloyal knave
OTH 3.3. 127 Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just,
OTH 3.3. 128 They're close dilations, working from the heart
OTH 3.3. 129B That passion cannot rule.
OTH-IAGO
For Michael Cassio,
OTH 3.3. 130 I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.
OTH 3.3. 131B
OTH-OTHELLO
I think so too.
OTH-IAGO
Men should be what they seem,
OTH 3.3. 132 Or those that be not, would they might seem none.
OTH 3.3. 133
OTH-OTHELLO
Certain, men should be what they seem.
OTH 3.3. 134
OTH-IAGO
Why then, I think Cassio's an honest man.
OTH 3.3. 135A
OTH-OTHELLO
Nay, yet there's more in this.
OTH 3.3. 136 I prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings,
OTH 3.3. 137 As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
OTH 3.3. 138B The worst of words.
OTH-IAGO
Good my lord, pardon me.
OTH 3.3. 139 Though I am bound to every act of duty,
OTH 3.3. 140 I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
OTH 3.3. 141 Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false,
OTH 3.3. 142 As where's that palace whereinto foul things
OTH 3.3. 143 Sometimes intrude not? Who has that breast so pure
OTH 3.3. 144 But some uncleanly apprehensions
OTH 3.3. 145 Keep leets and law-days, and in sessions sit
OTH 3.3. 146 With meditations lawful?
OTH 3.3. 147
OTH-OTHELLO
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
OTH 3.3. 148 If thou but think'st him wronged and mak'st his ear
OTH 3.3. 149B A stranger to thy thoughts.
OTH-IAGO
I do beseech you,
OTH 3.3. 150 Though I perchance am vicious in my guess -
OTH 3.3. 151 As I confess it is my nature's plague
OTH 3.3. 152 To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
OTH 3.3. 153 Shapes faults that are not - that your wisdom then,
OTH 3.3. 154 From one that so imperfectly conceits,
OTH 3.3. 155 Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
OTH 3.3. 156 Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
OTH 3.3. 157 It were not for your quiet nor your good,
OTH 3.3. 158 Nor for my manhood, honesty, and wisdom,
OTH 3.3. 159B To let you know my thoughts.
OTH-OTHELLO
What dost thou mean?
OTH 3.3. 160
OTH-IAGO
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
OTH 3.3. 161 Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
OTH 3.3. 162 Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
OTH 3.3. 163 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
OTH 3.3. 164 But he that filches from me my good name
OTH 3.3. 165 Robs me of that which not enriches him
OTH 3.3. 166B And makes me poor indeed.
OTH-OTHELLO
By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.
OTH 3.3. 167
OTH-IAGO
You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;
OTH 3.3. 168 Nor shall not whilst 'tis in my custody.
OTH 3.3. 169B
OTH-OTHELLO
Ha!
OTH-IAGO
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy.
OTH 3.3. 170 It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
OTH 3.3. 171 The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss
OTH 3.3. 172 Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger.
OTH 3.3. 173 But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
OTH 3.3. 174 Who dotes yet doubts, suspects yet fondly loves!
OTH 3.3. 175A
OTH-OTHELLO
O misery!
OTH 3.3. 176
OTH-IAGO
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough,
OTH 3.3. 177 But riches fineless is as poor as winter
OTH 3.3. 178 To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
OTH 3.3. 179 Good God the souls of all my tribe defend
OTH 3.3. 180B From jealousy!
OTH-OTHELLO
Why, why is this?
OTH 3.3. 181 Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,
OTH 3.3. 182 To follow still the changes of the moon
OTH 3.3. 183 With fresh suspicions? No, to be once in doubt
OTH 3.3. 184 Is once to be resolved. Exchange me for a goat
OTH 3.3. 185 When I shall turn the business of my soul
OTH 3.3. 186 To such exsufflicate and blowed surmises
OTH 3.3. 187 Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous
OTH 3.3. 188 To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
OTH 3.3. 189 Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well.
OTH 3.3. 190 Where virtue is, these are more virtuous,
OTH 3.3. 191 Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
OTH 3.3. 192 The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt,
OTH 3.3. 193 For she had eyes and chose me. No, Iago,
OTH 3.3. 194 I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
OTH 3.3. 195 And on the proof, there is no more but this:
OTH 3.3. 196 Away at once with love or jealousy.
OTH 3.3. 197
OTH-IAGO
I am glad of this, for now I shall have reason
OTH 3.3. 198 To show the love and duty that I bear you
OTH 3.3. 199 With franker spirit. Therefore, as I am bound,
OTH 3.3. 200 Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
OTH 3.3. 201 Look to your wife. Observe her well with Cassio.
OTH 3.3. 202 Wear your eyes thus: not jealous, nor secure.
OTH 3.3. 203 I would not have your free and noble nature
OTH 3.3. 204 Out of self-bounty be abused. Look to 't.
OTH 3.3. 205 I know our country disposition well.
OTH 3.3. 206 In Venice they do let God see the pranks
OTH 3.3. 207 They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience
OTH 3.3. 208 Is not to leave 't undone, but keep 't unknown.
OTH 3.3. 209A
OTH-OTHELLO
Dost thou say so?
OTH 3.3. 210
OTH-IAGO
She did deceive her father, marrying you,
OTH 3.3. 211 And when she seemed to shake and fear your looks
OTH 3.3. 212B She loved them most.
OTH-OTHELLO
And so she did.
OTH-IAGO
Why, go to, +
OTH 3.3. 212B then.
OTH 3.3. 213 She that so young could give out such a seeming,
OTH 3.3. 214 To seel her father's eyes up close as oak,
OTH 3.3. 215 He thought 'twas witchcraft! But I am much to blame.
OTH 3.3. 216 I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
OTH 3.3. 217B For too much loving you.
OTH-OTHELLO
I am bound to thee for ever.
OTH 3.3. 218
OTH-IAGO
I see this hath a little dashed your spirits.
OTH 3.3. 219B
OTH-OTHELLO
Not a jot, not a jot.
OTH-IAGO
I' faith, I fear it has.
OTH 3.3. 220 I hope you will consider what is spoke
OTH 3.3. 221 Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved.
OTH 3.3. 222 I am to pray you not to strain my speech
OTH 3.3. 223 To grosser issues, nor to larger reach
OTH 3.3. 224 Than to suspicion.
OTH 3.3. 225A
OTH-OTHELLO
I will not.
OTH 3.3. 226A
OTH-IAGO
Should you do so, my lord,
OTH 3.3. 227 My speech should fall into such vile success
OTH 3.3. 228 Which my thoughts aimed not. Cassio's my worthy friend.
OTH 3.3. 229B My lord, I see you're moved.
OTH-OTHELLO
No, not much moved.
OTH 3.3. 230 I do not think but Desdemona's honest.
OTH 3.3. 231
OTH-IAGO
Long live she so, and long live you to think so!
OTH 3.3. 232
OTH-OTHELLO
And yet how nature, erring from itself -
OTH 3.3. 233
OTH-IAGO
Ay, there's the point; as, to be bold with you,
OTH 3.3. 234 Not to affect many proposed matches
OTH 3.3. 235 Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,
OTH 3.3. 236 Whereto we see in all things nature tends.
OTH 3.3. 237 Foh, one may smell in such a will most rank,
OTH 3.3. 238 Foul disproportions, thoughts unnatural!
OTH 3.3. 239 But pardon me. I do not in position
OTH 3.3. 240 Distinctly speak of her, though I may fear
OTH 3.3. 241 Her will, recoiling to her better judgement,
OTH 3.3. 242 May fall to match you with her country forms
OTH 3.3. 243B And happily repent.
OTH-OTHELLO
Farewell, farewell.
OTH 3.3. 244 If more thou dost perceive, let me know more.
OTH 3.3. 245 Set on thy wife to observe. Leave me, Iago.
OTH 3.3. 246A
OTH-IAGO
{(going)} My lord, I take my leave.
OTH 3.3. 247
OTH-OTHELLO
Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless
OTH 3.3. 248 Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.
OTH 3.3. 249
OTH-IAGO
{(returning)} My lord, I would I might +
OTH 3.3. 249 entreat your honour
OTH 3.3. 250 To scan this thing no farther. Leave it to time.
OTH 3.3. 251 Although 'tis fit that Cassio have his place -
OTH 3.3. 252 For sure he fills it up with great ability -
OTH 3.3. 253 Yet, if you please to hold him off a while,
OTH 3.3. 254 You shall by that perceive him and his means.
OTH 3.3. 255 Note if your lady strain his entertainment
OTH 3.3. 256 With any strong or vehement importunity.
OTH 3.3. 257 Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,
OTH 3.3. 258 Let me be thought too busy in my fears -
OTH 3.3. 259 As worthy cause I have to fear I am -
OTH 3.3. 260 And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.
OTH 3.3. 261B
OTH-OTHELLO
Fear not my government.
OTH-IAGO
I once more take my +
OTH 3.3. 261B leave. {Exit}
OTH 3.3. 262
OTH-OTHELLO
This fellow's of exceeding honesty,
OTH 3.3. 263 And knows all qualities with a learned spirit
OTH 3.3. 264 Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,
OTH 3.3. 265 Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings
OTH 3.3. 266 I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind
OTH 3.3. 267 To prey at fortune. Haply for I am black,
OTH 3.3. 268 And have not those soft parts of conversation
OTH 3.3. 269 That chamberers have; or for I am declined
OTH 3.3. 270 Into the vale of years - yet that's not much -
OTH 3.3. 271 She's gone. I am abused, and my relief
OTH 3.3. 272 Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
OTH 3.3. 273 That we can call these delicate creatures ours
OTH 3.3. 274 And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad
OTH 3.3. 275 And live upon the vapour of a dungeon
OTH 3.3. 276 Than keep a corner in the thing I love
OTH 3.3. 277 For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones;
OTH 3.3. 278 Prerogatived are they less than the base.
OTH 3.3. 279 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.
OTH 3.3. 280 Even then this forked plague is fated to us
OTH 3.3. 281B When we do quicken. {Enter Desdemona and Emilia} Look +
OTH 3.3. 281B where she comes.
OTH 3.3. 282 If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself!
OTH 3.3. 283B I'll not believe 't.
OTH-DESDEMONA
How now, my dear Othello?
OTH 3.3. 284 Your dinner, and the generous islanders
OTH 3.3. 285 By you invited, do attend your presence.
OTH 3.3. 286A
OTH-OTHELLO
I am to blame.
OTH 3.3. 287
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why do you speak so faintly? Are you not well?
OTH 3.3. 288
OTH-OTHELLO
I have a pain upon my forehead here.
OTH 3.3. 289
OTH-DESDEMONA
Faith, that's with watching. 'Twill away again.
OTH 3.3. 290 Let me but bind it hard, within this hour
OTH 3.3. 291B It will be well.
OTH-OTHELLO
Your napkin is too little. {He puts +
OTH 3.3. 291B the napkin from him. It drops.}
OTH 3.3. 292 Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.
OTH 3.3. 293
OTH-DESDEMONA
I am very sorry that you are not well. {Exeunt +
OTH 3.3. 293 Othello and Desdemona}
OTH 3.3. 294
OTH-EMILIA
{(taking up the napkin)} I am glad I have +
OTH 3.3. 294 found this napkin.
OTH 3.3. 295 This was her first remembrance from the Moor.
OTH 3.3. 296 My wayward husband hath a hundred times
OTH 3.3. 297 Wooed me to steal it, but she so loves the token -
OTH 3.3. 298 For he conjured her she should ever keep it -
OTH 3.3. 299 That she reserves it evermore about her
OTH 3.3. 300 To kiss and talk to. I'll ha' the work ta'en out,
OTH 3.3. 301 And give 't Iago. What he will do with it,
OTH 3.3. 302 Heaven knows, not I.
OTH 3.3. 303 I nothing, but to please his fantasy. {Enter Iago}
OTH 3.3. 304
OTH-IAGO
How now, what do you here alone?
OTH 3.3. 305
OTH-EMILIA
Do not you chide. I have a thing for you.
OTH 3.3. 306
OTH-IAGO
You have a thing for me? It is a common thing.
OTH 3.3. 307A
OTH-EMILIA
Ha?
OTH 3.3. 308A
OTH-IAGO
To have a foolish wife.
OTH 3.3. 309
OTH-EMILIA
O, is that all? What will you give me now
OTH 3.3. 310 For that same handkerchief?
OTH 3.3. 311A
OTH-IAGO
What handkerchief?
OTH 3.3. 312A
OTH-EMILIA
What handkerchief?
OTH 3.3. 313 Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona,
OTH 3.3. 314 That which so often you did bid me steal.
OTH 3.3. 315A
OTH-IAGO
Hast stol'n it from her?
OTH 3.3. 316
OTH-EMILIA
No, faith, she let it drop by negligence,
OTH 3.3. 317 And to th' advantage I, being here, took 't up.
OTH 3.3. 318B Look, here 'tis.
OTH-IAGO
A good wench! Give it me.
OTH 3.3. 319
OTH-EMILIA
What will you do with it, that you have been so earnest
OTH 3.3. 320B To have me filch it?
OTH-IAGO
Why, what is that to you? {He takes +
OTH 3.3. 320B the napkin}
OTH 3.3. 321
OTH-EMILIA
If it be not for some purpose of import,
OTH 3.3. 322 Give 't me again. Poor lady, she'll run mad
OTH 3.3. 323 When she shall lack it.
OTH 3.3. 324
OTH-IAGO
Be not acknown on 't. I have use for it. Go, leave me. +
OTH 3.3. 324 {Exit Emilia}
OTH 3.3. 325 I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,
OTH 3.3. 326 And let him find it. Trifles light as air
OTH 3.3. 327 Are to the jealous confirmations strong
OTH 3.3. 328 As proofs of holy writ. This may do something.
OTH 3.3. 329 The Moor already changes with my poison.
OTH 3.3. 330 Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,
OTH 3.3. 331 Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
OTH 3.3. 332 But, with a little act upon the blood,
OTH 3.3. 333B Burn like the mines of sulphur. {Enter Othello} I did +
OTH 3.3. 333B say so.
OTH 3.3. 334 Look where he comes. Not poppy nor mandragora
OTH 3.3. 335 Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world
OTH 3.3. 336 Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
OTH 3.3. 337 Which thou owedst yesterday.
OTH 3.3. 338A
OTH-OTHELLO
Ha, ha, false to me?
OTH 3.3. 339
OTH-IAGO
Why, how now, general? No more of that.
OTH 3.3. 340
OTH-OTHELLO
Avaunt, be gone. Thou hast set me on the rack.
OTH 3.3. 341 I swear 'tis better to be much abused
OTH 3.3. 342B Than but to know 't a little.
OTH-IAGO
How now, my lord?
OTH 3.3. 343
OTH-OTHELLO
What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?
OTH 3.3. 344 I saw 't not, thought it not; it harmed not me.
OTH 3.3. 345 I slept the next night well, fed well, was free and merry.
OTH 3.3. 346 I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.
OTH 3.3. 347 He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n,
OTH 3.3. 348 Let him not know 't and he's not robbed at all.
OTH 3.3. 349A
OTH-IAGO
I am sorry to hear this.
OTH 3.3. 350
OTH-OTHELLO
I had been happy if the general camp,
OTH 3.3. 351 Pioneers and all, had tasted her sweet body,
OTH 3.3. 352 So I had nothing known. O, now for ever
OTH 3.3. 353 Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content,
OTH 3.3. 354 Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars
OTH 3.3. 355 That makes ambition virtue! O, farewell,
OTH 3.3. 356 Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
OTH 3.3. 357 The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
OTH 3.3. 358 The royal banner, and all quality,
OTH 3.3. 359 Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
OTH 3.3. 360 And O, you mortal engines whose rude throats
OTH 3.3. 361 Th' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
OTH 3.3. 362 Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone.
OTH 3.3. 363A
OTH-IAGO
Is 't possible, my lord?
OTH 3.3. 364
OTH-OTHELLO
{[taking Iago by the throat]} Villain, be +
OTH 3.3. 364 sure thou prove my love a whore.
OTH 3.3. 365 Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof,
OTH 3.3. 366 Or, by the worth of mine eternal soul,
OTH 3.3. 367 Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
OTH 3.3. 368B Than answer my waked wrath.
OTH-IAGO
Is 't come to this?
OTH 3.3. 369
OTH-OTHELLO
Make me to see 't, or at the least so prove it
OTH 3.3. 370 That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
OTH 3.3. 371 To hang a doubt on, or woe upon thy life.
OTH 3.3. 372A
OTH-IAGO
My noble lord.
OTH 3.3. 373
OTH-OTHELLO
If thou dost slander her and torture me,
OTH 3.3. 374 Never pray more; abandon all remorse,
OTH 3.3. 375 On horror's head horrors accumulate,
OTH 3.3. 376 Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed,
OTH 3.3. 377 For nothing canst thou to damnation add
OTH 3.3. 378B Greater than that.
OTH-IAGO
O grace, O heaven forgive me!
OTH 3.3. 379 Are you a man? Have you a soul or sense?
OTH 3.3. 380 God buy you, take mine office. O wretched fool,
OTH 3.3. 381 That lov'st to make thine honesty a vice!
OTH 3.3. 382 O monstrous world, take note, take note, O world,
OTH 3.3. 383 To be direct and honest is not safe!
OTH 3.3. 384 I thank you for this profit, and from hence
OTH 3.3. 385 I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.
OTH 3.3. 386A
OTH-OTHELLO
Nay, stay. Thou shouldst be honest.
OTH 3.3. 387
OTH-IAGO
I should be wise, for honesty's a fool,
OTH 3.3. 388B And loses that it works for.
OTH-OTHELLO
By the world,
OTH 3.3. 389 I think my wife be honest, and think she is not.
OTH 3.3. 390 I think that thou art just, and think thou art not.
OTH 3.3. 391 I'll have some proof. My name, that was as fresh
OTH 3.3. 392 As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black
OTH 3.3. 393 As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,
OTH 3.3. 394 Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
OTH 3.3. 395 I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!
OTH 3.3. 396
OTH-IAGO
I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion.
OTH 3.3. 397 I do repent me that I put it to you.
OTH 3.3. 398B You would be satisfied?
OTH-OTHELLO
Would? Nay, and I will.
OTH 3.3. 399
OTH-IAGO
And may. But how, how satisfied, my lord?
OTH 3.3. 400 Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on,
OTH 3.3. 401B Behold her topped?
OTH-OTHELLO
Death and damnation! O!
OTH 3.3. 402
OTH-IAGO
It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
OTH 3.3. 403 To bring them to that prospect. Damn them then
OTH 3.3. 404 If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
OTH 3.3. 405 More than their own! What then, how then?
OTH 3.3. 406 What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?
OTH 3.3. 407 It is impossible you should see this,
OTH 3.3. 408 Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
OTH 3.3. 409 As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
OTH 3.3. 410 As ignorance made drunk. But yet I say,
OTH 3.3. 411 If imputation, and strong circumstances
OTH 3.3. 412 Which lead directly to the door of truth,
OTH 3.3. 413 Will give you satisfaction, you might ha 't.
OTH 3.3. 414
OTH-OTHELLO
Give me a living reason she's disloyal.
OTH 3.3. 415A
OTH-IAGO
I do not like the office,
OTH 3.3. 416 But sith I am entered in this cause so far,
OTH 3.3. 417 Pricked to 't by foolish honesty and love,
OTH 3.3. 418 I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately,
OTH 3.3. 419 And being troubled with a raging tooth,
OTH 3.3. 420 I could not sleep. There are a kind of men
OTH 3.3. 421 So loose of soul that in their sleeps
OTH 3.3. 422 Will mutter their affairs. One of this kind is Cassio.
OTH 3.3. 423 In sleep I heard him say `Sweet Desdemona,
OTH 3.3. 424 Let us be wary, let us hide our loves',
OTH 3.3. 425 And then, sir, would he grip and wring my hand,
OTH 3.3. 426 Cry `O, sweet creature!', then kiss me hard,
OTH 3.3. 427 As if he plucked up kisses by the roots,
OTH 3.3. 428 That grew upon my lips, lay his leg o'er my thigh,
OTH 3.3. 429 And sigh, and kiss, and then cry `Cursed fate,
OTH 3.3. 430 That gave thee to the Moor!'
OTH 3.3. 431A
OTH-OTHELLO
O, monstrous, monstrous!
OTH 3.3. 432A
OTH-IAGO
Nay, this was but his dream.
OTH 3.3. 433
OTH-OTHELLO
But this denoted a foregone conclusion.
OTH 3.3. 434
OTH-IAGO
'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream,
OTH 3.3. 435 And this may help to thicken other proofs
OTH 3.3. 436B That do demonstrate thinly.
OTH-OTHELLO
I'll tear her all to pieces.
OTH 3.3. 437
OTH-IAGO
Nay, yet be wise; yet we see nothing done.
OTH 3.3. 438 She may be honest yet. Tell me but this:
OTH 3.3. 439 Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
OTH 3.3. 440 Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?
OTH 3.3. 441
OTH-OTHELLO
I gave her such a one. 'Twas my first gift.
OTH 3.3. 442
OTH-IAGO
I know not that, but such a handkerchief -
OTH 3.3. 443 I am sure it was your wife's - did I today
OTH 3.3. 444B See Cassio wipe his beard with.
OTH-OTHELLO
If it be that -
OTH 3.3. 445
OTH-IAGO
If it be that, or any that was hers,
OTH 3.3. 446 It speaks against her with the other proofs.
OTH 3.3. 447
OTH-OTHELLO
O that the slave had forty thousand lives!
OTH 3.3. 448 One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.
OTH 3.3. 449 Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago.
OTH 3.3. 450 All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven - 'tis gone.
OTH 3.3. 451 Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell.
OTH 3.3. 452 Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
OTH 3.3. 453 To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy freight,
OTH 3.3. 454B For 'tis of aspics' tongues.
OTH-IAGO
Yet be content.
OTH 3.3. 455B
OTH-OTHELLO
O, blood, blood, blood!
OTH-IAGO
Patience, I say. Your mind +
OTH 3.3. 455B may change.
OTH 3.3. 456
OTH-OTHELLO
Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic Sea,
OTH 3.3. 457 Whose icy current and compulsive course
OTH 3.3. 458 Ne'er knows retiring ebb, but keeps due on
OTH 3.3. 459 To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
OTH 3.3. 460 Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace
OTH 3.3. 461 Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
OTH 3.3. 462 Till that a capable and wide revenge
OTH 3.3. 463B Swallow them up. {[He kneels]} Now, by yon marble +
OTH 3.3. 463B heaven,
OTH 3.3. 464 In the due reverence of a sacred vow
OTH 3.3. 465B I here engage my words.
OTH-IAGO
Do not rise yet. {Iago kneels}
OTH 3.3. 466 Witness you ever-burning lights above,
OTH 3.3. 467 You elements that clip us round about,
OTH 3.3. 468 Witness that here Iago doth give up
OTH 3.3. 469 The execution of his wit, hands, heart
OTH 3.3. 470 To wronged Othello's service. Let him command,
OTH 3.3. 471 And to obey shall be in me remorse,
OTH 3.3. 472B What bloody business ever. {[They rise]}
OTH-OTHELLO
I +
OTH 3.3. 472B greet thy love,
OTH 3.3. 473 Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
OTH 3.3. 474 And will upon the instant put thee to 't.
OTH 3.3. 475 Within these three days let me hear thee say
OTH 3.3. 476B That Cassio's not alive.
OTH-IAGO
My friend is dead.
OTH 3.3. 477 'Tis done at your request; but let her live.
OTH 3.3. 478
OTH-OTHELLO
Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her, damn her!
OTH 3.3. 479 Come, go with me apart. I will withdraw
OTH 3.3. 480 To furnish me with some swift means of death
OTH 3.3. 481 For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.
OTH 3.3. 482A
OTH-IAGO
I am your own for ever. {Exeunt}
OTH 3.3. 0 {Enter Desdemona, Emilia, and the Clown}
OTH 3.4. 1
OTH-DESDEMONA
Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio
OTH 3.4. 2 lies?
OTH 3.4. 3
OTH-CLOWN
I dare not say he lies anywhere.
OTH 3.4. 4
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why, man?
OTH 3.4. 5
OTH-CLOWN
He's a soldier, and for me to say a soldier lies, 'tis
OTH 3.4. 6 stabbing.
OTH 3.4. 7
OTH-DESDEMONA
Go to. Where lodges he?
OTH 3.4. 8
OTH-CLOWN
To tell you where he lodges is to tell you where I
OTH 3.4. 9 lie.
OTH 3.4. 10
OTH-DESDEMONA
Can anything be made of this?
OTH 3.4. 11
OTH-CLOWN
I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise
OTH 3.4. 12 a lodging and say he lies here, or he lies there, were
OTH 3.4. 13 to lie in mine own throat.
OTH 3.4. 14
OTH-DESDEMONA
Can you enquire him out, and be edified by
OTH 3.4. 15 report?
OTH 3.4. 16
OTH-CLOWN
I will catechize the world for him; that is, make
OTH 3.4. 17 questions, and by them answer.
OTH 3.4. 18
OTH-DESDEMONA
Seek him, bid him come hither, tell him I
OTH 3.4. 19 have moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will
OTH 3.4. 20 be well.
OTH 3.4. 21
OTH-CLOWN
To do this is within the compass of man's wit,
OTH 3.4. 22 and therefore I will attempt the doing it. {Exit}
OTH 3.4. 23
OTH-DESDEMONA
Where should I lose the handkerchief, Emilia?
OTH 3.4. 24A
OTH-EMILIA
I know not, madam.
OTH 3.4. 25
OTH-DESDEMONA
Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse
OTH 3.4. 26 Full of crusadoes, and but my noble Moor
OTH 3.4. 27 Is true of mind, and made of no such baseness
OTH 3.4. 28 As jealous creatures are, it were enough
OTH 3.4. 29B To put him to ill thinking.
OTH-EMILIA
Is he not jealous?
OTH 3.4. 30
OTH-DESDEMONA
Who, he? I think the sun where he was born
OTH 3.4. 31B Drew all such humours from him. {Enter Othello}
OTH-EMILIA
+
OTH 3.4. 31B Look where he comes.
OTH 3.4. 32
OTH-DESDEMONA
I will not leave him now till Cassio
OTH 3.4. 33 Be called to him. How is 't with you, my lord?
OTH 3.4. 34
OTH-OTHELLO
Well, my good lady. {(Aside)} O hardness to +
OTH 3.4. 34 dissemble! -
OTH 3.4. 35B How do you, Desdemona?
OTH-DESDEMONA
Well, my good lord.
OTH 3.4. 36
OTH-OTHELLO
Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady.
OTH 3.4. 37
OTH-DESDEMONA
It hath felt no age, nor known no sorrow.
OTH 3.4. 38
OTH-OTHELLO
This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart.
OTH 3.4. 39 Hot, hot and moist - this hand of yours requires
OTH 3.4. 40 A sequester from liberty; fasting, and prayer,
OTH 3.4. 41 Much castigation, exercise devout,
OTH 3.4. 42 For here's a young and sweating devil here
OTH 3.4. 43 That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,
OTH 3.4. 44B A frank one.
OTH-DESDEMONA
You may indeed say so,
OTH 3.4. 45 For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.
OTH 3.4. 46
OTH-OTHELLO
A liberal hand. The hearts of old gave hands,
OTH 3.4. 47 But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.
OTH 3.4. 48
OTH-DESDEMONA
I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.
OTH 3.4. 49A
OTH-OTHELLO
What promise, chuck?
OTH 3.4. 50
OTH-DESDEMONA
I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.
OTH 3.4. 51
OTH-OTHELLO
I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
OTH 3.4. 52B Lend me thy handkerchief.
OTH-DESDEMONA
{(offering a +
OTH 3.4. 52B handkerchief)} Here, my lord.
OTH 3.4. 53B
OTH-OTHELLO
That which I gave you.
OTH-DESDEMONA
I have it not about me.
OTH 3.4. 54A
OTH-OTHELLO
Not?
OTH 3.4. 55B
OTH-DESDEMONA
No, faith, my lord.
OTH-OTHELLO
That's a fault. That +
OTH 3.4. 55B handkerchief
OTH 3.4. 56 Did an Egyptian to my mother give.
OTH 3.4. 57 She was a charmer, and could almost read
OTH 3.4. 58 The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it
OTH 3.4. 59 'Twould make her amiable, and subdue my father
OTH 3.4. 60 Entirely to her love; but if she lost it,
OTH 3.4. 61 Or made a gift of it, my father's eye
OTH 3.4. 62 Should hold her loathed, and his spirits should hunt
OTH 3.4. 63 After new fancies. She, dying, gave it me,
OTH 3.4. 64 And bid me, when my fate would have me wived,
OTH 3.4. 65 To give it her. I did so, and take heed on 't.
OTH 3.4. 66 Make it a darling, like your precious eye.
OTH 3.4. 67 To lose 't or give 't away were such perdition
OTH 3.4. 68B As nothing else could match.
OTH-DESDEMONA
Is 't possible?
OTH 3.4. 69
OTH-OTHELLO
'Tis true. There's magic in the web of it.
OTH 3.4. 70 A sibyl that had numbered in the world
OTH 3.4. 71 The sun to course two hundred compasses
OTH 3.4. 72 In her prophetic fury sewed the work.
OTH 3.4. 73 The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk,
OTH 3.4. 74 And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful
OTH 3.4. 75B Conserved of maidens' hearts.
OTH-DESDEMONA
I' faith, is 't true?
OTH 3.4. 76
OTH-OTHELLO
Most veritable. Therefore look to 't well.
OTH 3.4. 77
OTH-DESDEMONA
Then would to God that I had never seen it!
OTH 3.4. 78A
OTH-OTHELLO
Ha, wherefore?
OTH 3.4. 79
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why do you speak so startingly and rash?
OTH 3.4. 80
OTH-OTHELLO
Is 't lost? Is 't gone? Speak, is 't out o' th' way?
OTH 3.4. 81A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Heaven bless us!
OTH 3.4. 82A
OTH-OTHELLO
Say you?
OTH 3.4. 83
OTH-DESDEMONA
It is not lost, but what an if it were?
OTH 3.4. 84A
OTH-OTHELLO
How?
OTH 3.4. 85B
OTH-DESDEMONA
I say it is not lost.
OTH-OTHELLO
Fetch 't, let me see 't.
OTH 3.4. 86
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.
OTH 3.4. 87 This is a trick to put me from my suit.
OTH 3.4. 88 Pray you let Cassio be received again.
OTH 3.4. 89
OTH-OTHELLO
Fetch me the handkerchief. My mind misgives.
OTH 3.4. 90
OTH-DESDEMONA
Come, come, you'll never meet a more sufficient man.
OTH 3.4. 91B
OTH-OTHELLO
The handkerchief.
OTH-DESDEMONA
I pray, talk me of Cassio.
OTH 3.4. 92B
OTH-OTHELLO
The handkerchief.
OTH-DESDEMONA
A man that all his time
OTH 3.4. 93 Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,
OTH 3.4. 94 Shared dangers with you -
OTH 3.4. 95A
OTH-OTHELLO
The handkerchief.
OTH 3.4. 96A
OTH-DESDEMONA
I 'faith, you are to blame.
OTH 3.4. 97A
OTH-OTHELLO
'Swounds! {Exit}
OTH 3.4. 98B
OTH-EMILIA
Is not this man jealous?
OTH-DESDEMONA
I ne'er saw +
OTH 3.4. 98B this before.
OTH 3.4. 99 Sure there's some wonder in this handkerchief.
OTH 3.4. 100 I am most unhappy in the loss of it.
OTH 3.4. 101
OTH-EMILIA
'Tis not a year or two shows us a man.
OTH 3.4. 102 They are all but stomachs, and we all but food.
OTH 3.4. 103 They eat us hungrily, and when they are full,
OTH 3.4. 104B They belch us. {Enter Iago and Cassio} Look you, Cassio +
OTH 3.4. 104B and my husband.
OTH 3.4. 105
OTH-IAGO
{(to Cassio)} There is no other way. 'Tis she +
OTH 3.4. 105 must do 't,
OTH 3.4. 106 And lo, the happiness! Go and importune her.
OTH 3.4. 107
OTH-DESDEMONA
How now, good Cassio? What's the news with you?
OTH 3.4. 108
OTH-CASSIO
Madam, my former suit. I do beseech you
OTH 3.4. 109 That by your virtuous means I may again
OTH 3.4. 110 Exist and be a member of his love
OTH 3.4. 111 Whom I, with all the office of my heart,
OTH 3.4. 112 Entirely honour. I would not be delayed.
OTH 3.4. 113 If my offence be of such mortal kind
OTH 3.4. 114 That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,
OTH 3.4. 115 Nor purposed merit in futurity
OTH 3.4. 116 Can ransom me into his love again,
OTH 3.4. 117 But to know so must be my benefit.
OTH 3.4. 118 So shall I clothe me in a forced content,
OTH 3.4. 119 And shut myself up in some other course
OTH 3.4. 120B To fortune's alms.
OTH-DESDEMONA
Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!
OTH 3.4. 121 My advocation is not now in tune.
OTH 3.4. 122 My lord is not my lord, nor should I know him
OTH 3.4. 123 Were he in favour as in humour altered.
OTH 3.4. 124 So help me every spirit sanctified
OTH 3.4. 125 As I have spoken for you all my best,
OTH 3.4. 126 And stood within the blank of his displeasure
OTH 3.4. 127 For my free speech! You must a while be patient.
OTH 3.4. 128 What I can do I will, and more I will
OTH 3.4. 129 Than for myself I dare. Let that suffice you.
OTH 3.4. 130B
OTH-IAGO
Is my lord angry?
OTH-EMILIA
He went hence but now,
OTH 3.4. 131 And certainly in strange unquietness.
OTH 3.4. 132
OTH-IAGO
Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon
OTH 3.4. 133 When it hath blown his ranks into the air,
OTH 3.4. 134 And, like the devil, from his very arm
OTH 3.4. 135 Puffed his own brother; and is he angry?
OTH 3.4. 136 Something of moment then. I will go meet him.
OTH 3.4. 137 There's matter in 't indeed, if he be angry.
OTH 3.4. 138B
OTH-DESDEMONA
I prithee do so. {Exit Iago} Something +
OTH 3.4. 138B sure of state,
OTH 3.4. 139 Either from Venice or some unhatched practice
OTH 3.4. 140 Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,
OTH 3.4. 141 Hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases
OTH 3.4. 142 Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,
OTH 3.4. 143 Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so;
OTH 3.4. 144 For let our finger ache and it indues
OTH 3.4. 145 Our other, healthful members even to a sense
OTH 3.4. 146 Of pain. Nay, we must think men are not gods,
OTH 3.4. 147 Nor of them look for such observancy
OTH 3.4. 148 As fits the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,
OTH 3.4. 149 I was - unhandsome warrior as I am -
OTH 3.4. 150 Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
OTH 3.4. 151 But now I find I had suborned the witness,
OTH 3.4. 152B And he's indicted falsely.
OTH-EMILIA
Pray heaven it be
OTH 3.4. 153 State matters, as you think, and no conception
OTH 3.4. 154 Nor no jealous toy concerning you.
OTH 3.4. 155
OTH-DESDEMONA
Alas the day, I never gave him cause.
OTH 3.4. 156
OTH-EMILIA
But jealous souls will not be answered so.
OTH 3.4. 157 They are not ever jealous for the cause,
OTH 3.4. 158 But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster
OTH 3.4. 159 Begot upon itself, born on itself.
OTH 3.4. 160
OTH-DESDEMONA
Heaven keep the monster from Othello's mind.
OTH 3.4. 161A
OTH-EMILIA
Lady, amen.
OTH 3.4. 162
OTH-DESDEMONA
I will go seek him. Cassio, walk here about.
OTH 3.4. 163 If I do find him fit I'll move your suit,
OTH 3.4. 164 And seek to effect it to my uttermost.
OTH 3.4. 165
OTH-CASSIO
I humbly thank your ladyship. {Exeunt Desdemona and +
OTH 3.4. 165 Emilia}
OTH 3.4. 166B {Enter Bianca}
OTH-BIANCA
Save you, friend +
OTH 3.4. 166B Cassio.
OTH-CASSIO
What make you from home?
OTH 3.4. 167 How is 't with you, my most fair Bianca?
OTH 3.4. 168 I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.
OTH 3.4. 169
OTH-BIANCA
And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.
OTH 3.4. 170 What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
OTH 3.4. 171 Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
OTH 3.4. 172 More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
OTH 3.4. 173B O weary reckoning!
OTH-CASSIO
Pardon me, Bianca,
OTH 3.4. 174 I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed,
OTH 3.4. 175 But I shall in a more continuate time
OTH 3.4. 176 Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,
OTH 3.4. 177B Take me this work out. {He gives her Desdemona's +
OTH 3.4. 177B napkin}
OTH-BIANCA
O Cassio, whence came this?
OTH 3.4. 178 This is some token from a newer friend.
OTH 3.4. 179 To the felt absence now I feel a cause.
OTH 3.4. 180B Is 't come to this? Well, well.
OTH-CASSIO
Go to, woman.
OTH 3.4. 181 Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,
OTH 3.4. 182 From whence you have them. You are jealous now
OTH 3.4. 183 That this is from some mistress, some remembrance.
OTH 3.4. 184B No, by my faith, Bianca.
OTH-BIANCA
Why, whose is it?
OTH 3.4. 185
OTH-CASSIO
I know not, neither. I found it in my chamber.
OTH 3.4. 186 I like the work well. Ere it be demanded -
OTH 3.4. 187 As like enough it will - I would have it copied.
OTH 3.4. 188 Take it, and do 't, and leave me for this time.
OTH 3.4. 189A
OTH-BIANCA
Leave you? Wherefore?
OTH 3.4. 190
OTH-CASSIO
I do attend here on the general,
OTH 3.4. 191 And think it no addition, nor my wish,
OTH 3.4. 192B To have him see me womaned.
OTH-BIANCA
Why, I pray you?
OTH 3.4. 193B
OTH-CASSIO
Not that I love you not.
OTH-BIANCA
But that you do not love +
OTH 3.4. 193B me.
OTH 3.4. 194 I pray you bring me on the way a little,
OTH 3.4. 195 And say if I shall see you soon at night.
OTH 3.4. 196
OTH-CASSIO
'Tis but a little way that I can bring you,
OTH 3.4. 197 For I attend here; but I'll see you soon.
OTH 3.4. 198
OTH-BIANCA
'Tis very good. I must be circumstanced. {Exeunt}
OTH 3.4. 0 {Enter Iago and Othello}
OTH 4.1. 1B
OTH-IAGO
Will you think so?
OTH-OTHELLO
Think so, Iago?
OTH 4.1. 2B
OTH-IAGO
What, to kiss in private?
OTH-OTHELLO
An unauthorized kiss.
OTH 4.1. 3
OTH-IAGO
Or to be naked with her friend in bed
OTH 4.1. 4 An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
OTH 4.1. 5
OTH-OTHELLO
Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm?
OTH 4.1. 6 It is hypocrisy against the devil.
OTH 4.1. 7 They that mean virtuously and yet do so,
OTH 4.1. 8 The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.
OTH 4.1. 9
OTH-IAGO
If they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip.
OTH 4.1. 10 But if I give my wife a handkerchief -
OTH 4.1. 11A
OTH-OTHELLO
What then?
OTH 4.1. 12
OTH-IAGO
Why then, 'tis hers, my lord, and being hers,
OTH 4.1. 13 She may, I think, bestow 't on any man.
OTH 4.1. 14
OTH-OTHELLO
She is protectress of her honour, too.
OTH 4.1. 15 May she give that?
OTH 4.1. 16
OTH-IAGO
Her honour is an essence that's not seen.
OTH 4.1. 17 They have it very oft that have it not.
OTH 4.1. 18 But for the handkerchief -
OTH 4.1. 19
OTH-OTHELLO
By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.
OTH 4.1. 20 Thou said'st - O, it comes o'er my memory
OTH 4.1. 21 As doth the raven o'er the infectious house,
OTH 4.1. 22 Boding to all! - he had my handkerchief.
OTH 4.1. 23B
OTH-IAGO
Ay, what of that?
OTH-OTHELLO
That's not so good now.
OTH 4.1. 24
OTH-IAGO
What if I had said I had seen him do you wrong,
OTH 4.1. 25 Or heard him say - as knaves be such abroad,
OTH 4.1. 26 Who having by their own importunate suit
OTH 4.1. 27 Or voluntary dotage of some mistress
OTH 4.1. 28 Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose
OTH 4.1. 29B But they must blab -
OTH-OTHELLO
Hath he said anything?
OTH 4.1. 30
OTH-IAGO
He hath, my lord. But, be you well assured,
OTH 4.1. 31B No more than he'll unswear.
OTH-OTHELLO
What hath he said?
OTH 4.1. 32
OTH-IAGO
Faith, that he did - I know not what he did.
OTH 4.1. 33B
OTH-OTHELLO
What, what?
OTH-IAGO
Lie -
OTH-OTHELLO
With her?
OTH-IAGO
With +
OTH 4.1. 33B her, on her, what you will.
OTH 4.1. 34
OTH-OTHELLO
Lie with her? Lie on her? We say `lie on her'
OTH 4.1. 35 when they belie her. Lie with her? 'Swounds, that's
OTH 4.1. 36 fulsome! Handkerchief - confessions - hankerchief. To
OTH 4.1. 37 confess and be hanged for his labour. First to be hanged
OTH 4.1. 38 and then to confess! I tremble at it. Nature would not
OTH 4.1. 39 invest herself in such shadowing passion without some
OTH 4.1. 40 instruction. It is not words that shakes me thus. Pish!
OTH 4.1. 41 Noses, ears, and lips! Is 't possible? Confess? Handkerchief?
OTH 4.1. 42 O devil! {He falls down in a trance}
OTH 4.1. 43
OTH-IAGO
Work on; my medicine works. Thus credulous fools are +
OTH 4.1. 43 caught,
OTH 4.1. 44 And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
OTH 4.1. 45 All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho, my lord!
OTH 4.1. 46B My lord, I say. Othello! {Enter Cassio} How now, +
OTH 4.1. 46B Cassio?
OTH 4.1. 47A
OTH-CASSIO
What's the matter?
OTH 4.1. 48
OTH-IAGO
My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy.
OTH 4.1. 49 This is his second fit. He had one yesterday.
OTH 4.1. 50B
OTH-CASSIO
Rub him about the temples.
OTH-IAGO
No, forbear.
OTH 4.1. 51 The lethargy must have his quiet course.
OTH 4.1. 52 If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by
OTH 4.1. 53 Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs.
OTH 4.1. 54 Do you withdraw yourself a little while,
OTH 4.1. 55 He will recover straight. When he is gone
OTH 4.1. 56 I would on great occasion speak with you. {Exit Cassio}
OTH 4.1. 57 How is it, general? Have you not hurt your head?
OTH 4.1. 58B
OTH-OTHELLO
Dost thou mock me?
OTH-IAGO
I mock you not, by heaven.
OTH 4.1. 59 Would you would bear your fortune like a man.
OTH 4.1. 60
OTH-OTHELLO
A horned man's a monster and a beast.
OTH 4.1. 61
OTH-IAGO
There's many a beast then in a populous city,
OTH 4.1. 62 And many a civil monster.
OTH 4.1. 63A
OTH-OTHELLO
Did he confess it?
OTH 4.1. 64A
OTH-IAGO
Good sir, be a man.
OTH 4.1. 65 Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked
OTH 4.1. 66 May draw with you. There's millions now alive
OTH 4.1. 67 That nightly lie in those unproper beds
OTH 4.1. 68 Which they dare swear peculiar. Your case is better.
OTH 4.1. 69 O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,
OTH 4.1. 70 To lip a wanton in a secure couch
OTH 4.1. 71 And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know,
OTH 4.1. 72 And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.
OTH 4.1. 73B
OTH-OTHELLO
O, thou art wise, 'tis certain.
OTH-IAGO
Stand you a while +
OTH 4.1. 73B apart.
OTH 4.1. 74 Confine yourself but in a patient list.
OTH 4.1. 75 Whilst you were here, o'erwhelmed with your grief -
OTH 4.1. 76 A passion most unsuiting such a man -
OTH 4.1. 77 Cassio came hither. I shifted him away,
OTH 4.1. 78 And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,
OTH 4.1. 79 Bade him anon return and here speak with me,
OTH 4.1. 80 The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,
OTH 4.1. 81 And mark the fleers, the gibes and notable scorns
OTH 4.1. 82 That dwell in every region of his face.
OTH 4.1. 83 For I will make him tell the tale anew,
OTH 4.1. 84 Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
OTH 4.1. 85 He hath and is again to cope your wife.
OTH 4.1. 86 I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience,
OTH 4.1. 87 Or I shall say you're all-in-all in spleen,
OTH 4.1. 88B And nothing of a man.
OTH-OTHELLO
Dost thou hear, Iago?
OTH 4.1. 89 I will be found most cunning in my patience,
OTH 4.1. 90B But - dost thou hear? - most bloody.
OTH-IAGO
That's not amiss,
OTH 4.1. 91 But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw? {Othello stands +
OTH 4.1. 91 apart}
OTH 4.1. 92 Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
OTH 4.1. 93 A hussy that by selling her desires
OTH 4.1. 94 Buys herself bread and cloth. It is a creature
OTH 4.1. 95 That dotes on Cassio - as 'tis the strumpet's plague
OTH 4.1. 96 To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
OTH 4.1. 97 He, when he hears of her, cannot restrain
OTH 4.1. 98B From the excess of laughter. {Enter Cassio} Here he +
OTH 4.1. 98B comes.
OTH 4.1. 99 As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;
OTH 4.1. 100 And his unbookish jealousy must conster
OTH 4.1. 101 Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behaviours
OTH 4.1. 102 Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?
OTH 4.1. 103
OTH-CASSIO
The worser that you give me the addition
OTH 4.1. 104 Whose want even kills me.
OTH 4.1. 105
OTH-IAGO
Ply Desdemona well and you are sure on 't.
OTH 4.1. 106 Now, if this suit lay in Bianca's power,
OTH 4.1. 107 How quickly should you speed!
OTH 4.1. 108A
OTH-CASSIO
{(laughing)} Alas, poor caitiff!
OTH 4.1. 109A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Look how he laughs already.
OTH 4.1. 110
OTH-IAGO
I never knew a woman love man so.
OTH 4.1. 111
OTH-CASSIO
Alas, poor rogue! I think i' faith she loves me.
OTH 4.1. 112
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Now he denies it faintly, and +
OTH 4.1. 112 laughs it out.
OTH 4.1. 113B
OTH-IAGO
Do you hear, Cassio?
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Now +
OTH 4.1. 113B he importunes him
OTH 4.1. 114 To tell it o'er. Go to, well said, well said.
OTH 4.1. 115
OTH-IAGO
She gives it out that you shall marry her.
OTH 4.1. 116B Do you intend it?
OTH-CASSIO
Ha, ha, ha!
OTH 4.1. 117
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Do ye triumph, Roman, do you +
OTH 4.1. 117 triumph?
OTH 4.1. 118
OTH-CASSIO
I marry! What, a customer? Prithee, bear some
OTH 4.1. 119 charity to my wit - do not think it so unwholesome.
OTH 4.1. 120 Ha, ha, ha!
OTH 4.1. 121
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} So, so, so, so. They laugh that +
OTH 4.1. 121 wins.
OTH 4.1. 122
OTH-IAGO
Faith, the cry goes that you marry her.
OTH 4.1. 123
OTH-CASSIO
Prithee, say true.
OTH 4.1. 124
OTH-IAGO
I am a very villain else.
OTH 4.1. 125
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Ha' you scored me? Well.
OTH 4.1. 126
OTH-CASSIO
This is the monkey's own giving out. She is
OTH 4.1. 127 persuaded I will marry her out of her own love and
OTH 4.1. 128 flattery, not out of my promise.
OTH 4.1. 129
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Iago beckons me. Now he begins +
OTH 4.1. 129 the story. {Othello draws closer}
OTH 4.1. 130
OTH-CASSIO
She was here even now. She haunts me in every
OTH 4.1. 131 place. I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with
OTH 4.1. 132 certain Venetians, and thither comes the bauble, and
OTH 4.1. 133 falls me thus about my neck.
OTH 4.1. 134
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Crying `O dear Cassio!' as it +
OTH 4.1. 134 were. His
OTH 4.1. 135 gesture imports it.
OTH 4.1. 136
OTH-CASSIO
So hangs and lolls and weeps upon me, so shakes
OTH 4.1. 137 and pulls me - ha, ha, ha!
OTH 4.1. 138
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} Now he tells how she plucked him +
OTH 4.1. 138 to my
OTH 4.1. 139 chamber. O, I see that nose of yours, but not that dog
OTH 4.1. 140 I shall throw it to!
OTH 4.1. 141
OTH-CASSIO
Well, I must leave her company. {Enter Bianca}
OTH 4.1. 142
OTH-IAGO
Before me, look where she comes.
OTH 4.1. 143
OTH-CASSIO
'Tis such another fitchew! Marry, a perfumed one.
OTH 4.1. 144 {(To Bianca)} What do you mean by this haunting of me?
OTH 4.1. 145
OTH-BIANCA
Let the devil and his dam haunt you. What did
OTH 4.1. 146 you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me
OTH 4.1. 147 even now? I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out
OTH 4.1. 148 the whole work - a likely piece of work, that you should
OTH 4.1. 149 find it in your chamber and know not who left it there.
OTH 4.1. 150 This is some minx's token, and I must take out the
OTH 4.1. 151 work. There, give it your hobby-horse. {(Giving Cassio}
OTH 4.1. 152 {the napkin)} Wheresoever you had it, I'll take out no
OTH 4.1. 153 work on 't.
OTH 4.1. 154
OTH-CASSIO
How now, my sweet Bianca, how now, how now?
OTH 4.1. 155
OTH-OTHELLO
{(aside)} By heaven, that should be my +
OTH 4.1. 155 handkerchief.
OTH 4.1. 156
OTH-BIANCA
An you'll come to supper tonight, you may. An
OTH 4.1. 157 you will not, come when you are next prepared for. {Exit}
OTH 4.1. 158A
OTH-IAGO
After her, after her.
OTH 4.1. 159A
OTH-CASSIO
Faith, I must, she'll rail in the streets else.
OTH 4.1. 160A
OTH-IAGO
Will you sup there?
OTH 4.1. 161A
OTH-CASSIO
Faith, I intend so.
OTH 4.1. 162
OTH-IAGO
Well, I may chance to see you, for I would very
OTH 4.1. 163 fain speak with you.
OTH 4.1. 164
OTH-CASSIO
Prithee, come, will you?
OTH 4.1. 165
OTH-IAGO
Go to, say no more. {Exit Cassio}
OTH 4.1. 166
OTH-OTHELLO
How shall I murder him, Iago?
OTH 4.1. 167
OTH-IAGO
Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
OTH 4.1. 168
OTH-OTHELLO
O Iago!
OTH 4.1. 169
OTH-IAGO
And did you see the handkerchief?
OTH 4.1. 170
OTH-OTHELLO
Was that mine?
OTH 4.1. 171
OTH-IAGO
Yours, by this hand. And to see how he prizes the
OTH 4.1. 172 foolish woman your wife. She gave it him, and he hath
OTH 4.1. 173 given it his whore.
OTH 4.1. 174
OTH-OTHELLO
I would have him nine years a-killing. A fine
OTH 4.1. 175 woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman.
OTH 4.1. 176
OTH-IAGO
Nay, you must forget that.
OTH 4.1. 177
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay, let her rot and perish, and be damned
OTH 4.1. 178 tonight, for she shall not live. No, my heart is turned
OTH 4.1. 179 to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the world
OTH 4.1. 180 hath not a sweeter creature! She might lie by an
OTH 4.1. 181 emperor's side, and command him tasks.
OTH 4.1. 182
OTH-IAGO
Nay, that's not your way.
OTH 4.1. 183
OTH-OTHELLO
Hang her, I do but say what she is - so delicate
OTH 4.1. 184 with her needle, an admirable musician. O, she will
OTH 4.1. 185 sing the savageness out of a bear! Of so high and
OTH 4.1. 186 plenteous wit and invention.
OTH 4.1. 187
OTH-IAGO
She's the worse for all this.
OTH 4.1. 188
OTH-OTHELLO
O, a thousand, a thousand times! And then of
OTH 4.1. 189 so gentle a condition.
OTH 4.1. 190
OTH-IAGO
Ay, too gentle.
OTH 4.1. 191
OTH-OTHELLO
Nay, that's certain. But yet the pity of it, Iago.
OTH 4.1. 192 O, Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
OTH 4.1. 193
OTH-IAGO
If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent
OTH 4.1. 194 to offend; for if it touch not you, it comes near nobody.
OTH 4.1. 195
OTH-OTHELLO
I will chop her into messes. Cuckold me!
OTH 4.1. 196
OTH-IAGO
O, 'tis foul in her.
OTH 4.1. 197
OTH-OTHELLO
With mine officer.
OTH 4.1. 198
OTH-IAGO
That's fouler.
OTH 4.1. 199
OTH-OTHELLO
Get me some poison, Iago, this night. I'll not
OTH 4.1. 200 expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty
OTH 4.1. 201 unprovide my mind again. This night, Iago.
OTH 4.1. 202
OTH-IAGO
Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even
OTH 4.1. 203 the bed she hath contaminated.
OTH 4.1. 204
OTH-OTHELLO
Good, good, the justice of it pleases, very good.
OTH 4.1. 205
OTH-IAGO
And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker. You shall
OTH 4.1. 206 hear more by midnight.
OTH 4.1. 207
OTH-OTHELLO
Excellent good. {A trumpet}
OTH 4.1. 208 What trumpet is that same?
OTH 4.1. 209
OTH-IAGO
I warrant, something from Venice. {Enter Lodovico, +
OTH 4.1. 209 Desdemona, and attendants}
OTH 4.1. 210 'Tis Lodovico. This comes from the Duke. See, your
OTH 4.1. 211 wife's with him.
OTH 4.1. 212
OTH-LODOVICO
God save the worthy general.
OTH 4.1. 213
OTH-OTHELLO
With all my heart, sir.
OTH 4.1. 214
OTH-LODOVICO
{(giving Othello a letter)} The Duke and +
OTH 4.1. 214 the senators
OTH 4.1. 215 of Venice greet you.
OTH 4.1. 216
OTH-OTHELLO
I kiss the instrument of their pleasures. {He reads +
OTH 4.1. 216 the letter}
OTH 4.1. 217
OTH-DESDEMONA
And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?
OTH 4.1. 218
OTH-IAGO
{(to Lodovico)} I am very glad to see you, +
OTH 4.1. 218 signor.
OTH 4.1. 219 Welcome to Cyprus.
OTH 4.1. 220
OTH-LODOVICO
I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?
OTH 4.1. 221A
OTH-IAGO
Lives, sir.
OTH 4.1. 222
OTH-DESDEMONA
Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord
OTH 4.1. 223 An unkind breach. But you shall make all well.
OTH 4.1. 224A
OTH-OTHELLO
Are you sure of that?
OTH 4.1. 225A
OTH-DESDEMONA
My lord.
OTH 4.1. 226A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(reads)} `This fail you not to do as you +
OTH 4.1. 226A will' -
OTH 4.1. 227
OTH-LODOVICO
He did not call, he's busy in the paper.
OTH 4.1. 228 Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?
OTH 4.1. 229
OTH-DESDEMONA
A most unhappy one. I would do much
OTH 4.1. 230 T' atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.
OTH 4.1. 231B
OTH-OTHELLO
Fire and brimstone!
OTH-DESDEMONA
My lord?
OTH-OTHELLO
Are +
OTH 4.1. 231B you wise?
OTH 4.1. 232B
OTH-DESDEMONA
What, is he angry?
OTH-LODOVICO
Maybe the letter moved +
OTH 4.1. 232B him,
OTH 4.1. 233 For, as I think, they do command him home,
OTH 4.1. 234 Deputing Cassio in his government.
OTH 4.1. 235A
OTH-DESDEMONA
By my troth, I am glad on 't.
OTH 4.1. 236A
OTH-OTHELLO
Indeed!
OTH 4.1. 237A
OTH-DESDEMONA
My lord?
OTH 4.1. 238A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(to Desdemona)} I am glad to see you mad.
OTH 4.1. 239A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Why, sweet Othello!
OTH 4.1. 240A
OTH-OTHELLO
Devil! {He strikes her}
OTH 4.1. 241A
OTH-DESDEMONA
I have not deserved this.
OTH 4.1. 242
OTH-LODOVICO
My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
OTH 4.1. 243 Though I should swear I saw 't. 'Tis very much.
OTH 4.1. 244B Make her amends, she weeps.
OTH-OTHELLO
O, devil, devil!
OTH 4.1. 245 If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
OTH 4.1. 246 Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
OTH 4.1. 247B Out of my sight!
OTH-DESDEMONA
{(going)} I will not +
OTH 4.1. 247B stay to offend you.
OTH 4.1. 248
OTH-LODOVICO
Truly, an obedient lady.
OTH 4.1. 249 I do beseech your lordship call her back.
OTH 4.1. 250A
OTH-OTHELLO
Mistress!
OTH 4.1. 251A
OTH-DESDEMONA
{(returning)} My lord?
OTH 4.1. 252A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(to Lodovico)} What would you with her, +
OTH 4.1. 252A sir?
OTH 4.1. 253A
OTH-LODOVICO
Who, I, my lord?
OTH 4.1. 254
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay, you did wish that I would make her turn.
OTH 4.1. 255 Sir, she can turn and turn, and yet go on
OTH 4.1. 256 And turn again, and she can weep, sir, weep,
OTH 4.1. 257 And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,
OTH 4.1. 258 Very obedient. {(To Desdemona)} Proceed you in your +
OTH 4.1. 258 tears.
OTH 4.1. 259 {(To Lodovico)} Concerning this, sir - {(To +
OTH 4.1. 259 Desdemona)} O well painted passion!
OTH 4.1. 260 {(To Lodovico)} I am commanded home. {(To +
OTH 4.1. 260 Desdemona)} Get you away.
OTH 4.1. 261 I'll send for you anon. {(To Lodovico)} Sir, I obey the +
OTH 4.1. 261 mandate,
OTH 4.1. 262 And will return to Venice. {(To Desdemona)} Hence, +
OTH 4.1. 262 avaunt! {Exit Desdemona}
OTH 4.1. 263 {(To Lodovico)} Cassio shall have my place, and, sir, +
OTH 4.1. 263 tonight
OTH 4.1. 264 I do entreat that we may sup together.
OTH 4.1. 265 You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and monkeys! {Exit}
OTH 4.1. 266
OTH-LODOVICO
Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
OTH 4.1. 267 Call all-in-all sufficient? Is this the nature
OTH 4.1. 268 Whom passion could not shake, whose solid virtue
OTH 4.1. 269 The shot of accident nor dart of chance
OTH 4.1. 270B Could neither graze nor pierce?
OTH-IAGO
He is much changed.
OTH 4.1. 271
OTH-LODOVICO
Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?
OTH 4.1. 272
OTH-IAGO
He's that he is. I may not breathe my censure
OTH 4.1. 273 What he might be. If what he might he is not,
OTH 4.1. 274B I would to heaven he were.
OTH-LODOVICO
What, strike his wife!
OTH 4.1. 275
OTH-IAGO
Faith, that was not so well. Yet would I knew
OTH 4.1. 276B That stroke would prove the worst.
OTH-LODOVICO
Is it his use,
OTH 4.1. 277 Or did the letters work upon his blood
OTH 4.1. 278B And new-create his fault?
OTH-IAGO
Alas, alas.
OTH 4.1. 279 It is not honesty in me to speak
OTH 4.1. 280 What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,
OTH 4.1. 281 And his own courses will denote him so
OTH 4.1. 282 That I may save my speech. Do but go after,
OTH 4.1. 283 And mark how he continues.
OTH 4.1. 284
OTH-LODOVICO
I am sorry that I am deceived in him. {Exeunt}
OTH 4.1. 0 {Enter Othello and Emilia}
OTH 4.2. 1A
OTH-OTHELLO
You have seen nothing then?
OTH 4.2. 2
OTH-EMILIA
Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.
OTH 4.2. 3
OTH-OTHELLO
Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.
OTH 4.2. 4
OTH-EMILIA
But then I saw no harm, and then I heard
OTH 4.2. 5 Each syllable that breath made up between 'em.
OTH 4.2. 6A
OTH-OTHELLO
What, did they never whisper?
OTH 4.2. 7A
OTH-EMILIA
Never, my lord.
OTH 4.2. 8A
OTH-OTHELLO
Nor send you out o' th' way?
OTH 4.2. 9A
OTH-EMILIA
Never.
OTH 4.2. 10
OTH-OTHELLO
To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?
OTH 4.2. 11A
OTH-EMILIA
Never, my lord.
OTH 4.2. 12A
OTH-OTHELLO
That's strange.
OTH 4.2. 13
OTH-EMILIA
I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
OTH 4.2. 14 Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
OTH 4.2. 15 Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.
OTH 4.2. 16 If any wretch ha' put this in your head,
OTH 4.2. 17 Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse,
OTH 4.2. 18 For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
OTH 4.2. 19 There's no man happy; the purest of their wives
OTH 4.2. 20B Is foul as slander.
OTH-OTHELLO
Bid her come hither. Go. {Exit +
OTH 4.2. 20B Emilia}
OTH 4.2. 21 She says enough, yet she's a simple bawd
OTH 4.2. 22 That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
OTH 4.2. 23 A closet lock and key of villainous secrets,
OTH 4.2. 24 And yet she'll kneel and pray - I ha' seen her do 't. {Enter +
OTH 4.2. 24 Desdemona and Emilia}
OTH 4.2. 25B
OTH-DESDEMONA
My lord, what is your will?
OTH-OTHELLO
Pray +
OTH 4.2. 25B you, chuck, come hither.
OTH 4.2. 26B
OTH-DESDEMONA
What is your pleasure?
OTH-OTHELLO
Let me see your eyes.
OTH 4.2. 27 Look in my face.
OTH 4.2. 28A
OTH-DESDEMONA
What horrible fancy's this?
OTH 4.2. 29A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(to Emilia)} Some of your function, +
OTH 4.2. 29A mistress.
OTH 4.2. 30 Leave procreants alone, and shut the door,
OTH 4.2. 31 Cough or cry `Hem' if anybody come.
OTH 4.2. 32 Your mystery, your mystery - nay, dispatch. {Exit Emilia}
OTH 4.2. 33
OTH-DESDEMONA
Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?
OTH 4.2. 34 I understand a fury in your words,
OTH 4.2. 35B But not the words.
OTH-OTHELLO
Why, what art thou?
OTH 4.2. 36
OTH-DESDEMONA
Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife.
OTH 4.2. 37A
OTH-OTHELLO
Come, swear it, damn thyself,
OTH 4.2. 38 Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves
OTH 4.2. 39 Should fear to seize thee. Therefore be double-damned:
OTH 4.2. 40B Swear thou art honest.
OTH-DESDEMONA
Heaven doth truly know it.
OTH 4.2. 41
OTH-OTHELLO
Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
OTH 4.2. 42
OTH-DESDEMONA
To whom, my lord? With whom? How am I false?
OTH 4.2. 43
OTH-OTHELLO
{(weeping)} Ah, Desdemon, away, away, +
OTH 4.2. 43 away!
OTH 4.2. 44
OTH-DESDEMONA
Alas, the heavy day! Why do you weep?
OTH 4.2. 45 Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?
OTH 4.2. 46 If haply you my father do suspect
OTH 4.2. 47 An instrument of this your calling back,
OTH 4.2. 48 Lay not your blame on me. If you have lost him,
OTH 4.2. 49B I have lost him too.
OTH-OTHELLO
Had it pleased God
OTH 4.2. 50 To try me with affliction; had He rained
OTH 4.2. 51 All kind of sores and shames on my bare head,
OTH 4.2. 52 Steeped me in poverty to the very lips,
OTH 4.2. 53 Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,
OTH 4.2. 54 I should have found in some place of my soul
OTH 4.2. 55 A drop of patience. But, alas, to make me
OTH 4.2. 56 The fixed figure for the time of scorn
OTH 4.2. 57 To point his slow and moving finger at -
OTH 4.2. 58 Yet could I bear that too, well, very well.
OTH 4.2. 59 But there where I have garnered up my heart,
OTH 4.2. 60 Where either I must live or bear no life,
OTH 4.2. 61 The fountain from the which my current runs
OTH 4.2. 62 Or else dries up - to be discarded thence,
OTH 4.2. 63 Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
OTH 4.2. 64 To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,
OTH 4.2. 65 Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin,
OTH 4.2. 66 Ay, here look grim as hell.
OTH 4.2. 67
OTH-DESDEMONA
I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
OTH 4.2. 68
OTH-OTHELLO
O, ay - as summer flies are in the shambles,
OTH 4.2. 69 That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,
OTH 4.2. 70 Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet,
OTH 4.2. 71 That the sense aches at thee - would thou hadst ne'er been born!
OTH 4.2. 72
OTH-DESDEMONA
Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
OTH 4.2. 73
OTH-OTHELLO
Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
OTH 4.2. 74 Made to write `whore' upon? What committed?
OTH 4.2. 75 Committed? O thou public commoner,
OTH 4.2. 76 I should make very forges of my cheeks,
OTH 4.2. 77 That would to cinders burn up modesty,
OTH 4.2. 78 Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed?
OTH 4.2. 79 Heaven stops the nose at it, and the moon winks;
OTH 4.2. 80 The bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets,
OTH 4.2. 81 Is hushed within the hollow mine of earth
OTH 4.2. 82 And will not hear 't. What committed?
OTH 4.2. 83A
OTH-DESDEMONA
By heaven, you do me wrong.
OTH 4.2. 84A
OTH-OTHELLO
Are not you a strumpet?
OTH 4.2. 85A
OTH-DESDEMONA
No, as I am a Christian.
OTH 4.2. 86 If to preserve this vessel for my lord
OTH 4.2. 87 From any other foul unlawful touch
OTH 4.2. 88 Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.
OTH 4.2. 89B
OTH-OTHELLO
What, not a whore?
OTH-DESDEMONA
No, as I shall be saved.
OTH 4.2. 90A
OTH-OTHELLO
Is 't possible?
OTH 4.2. 91A
OTH-DESDEMONA
O heaven forgive us!
OTH 4.2. 92A
OTH-OTHELLO
I cry you mercy then.
OTH 4.2. 93 I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
OTH 4.2. 94 That married with Othello. {(Calling)} You, mistress,
OTH 4.2. 95 That have the office opposite to Saint Peter
OTH 4.2. 96B And keeps the gate of hell, {Enter Emilia} you, you, +
OTH 4.2. 96B ay, you.
OTH 4.2. 97 We ha' done our course. {(Giving money)} There's money +
OTH 4.2. 97 for your pains.
OTH 4.2. 98 I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel. {Exit}
OTH 4.2. 99
OTH-EMILIA
Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
OTH 4.2. 100 How do you, madam? How do you, my good lady?
OTH 4.2. 101A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Faith, half asleep.
OTH 4.2. 102
OTH-EMILIA
Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?
OTH 4.2. 103B
OTH-DESDEMONA
With who?
OTH-EMILIA
Why, with my lord, madam.
OTH 4.2. 104B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Who is thy lord?
OTH-EMILIA
He that is yours, sweet lady.
OTH 4.2. 105
OTH-DESDEMONA
I ha' none. Do not talk to me, Emilia.
OTH 4.2. 106 I cannot weep, nor answers have I none
OTH 4.2. 107 But what should go by water. Prithee tonight
OTH 4.2. 108 Lay on my bed my wedding sheets, remember.
OTH 4.2. 109B And call thy husband hither.
OTH-EMILIA
Here's a change indeed. +
OTH 4.2. 109B {Exit}
OTH 4.2. 110
OTH-DESDEMONA
'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.
OTH 4.2. 111 How have I been behaved, that he might stick
OTH 4.2. 112 The small'st opinion on my least misuse? {Enter Iago and Emilia}
OTH 4.2. 113
OTH-IAGO
What is your pleasure, madam? How is 't with you?
OTH 4.2. 114
OTH-DESDEMONA
I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes
OTH 4.2. 115 Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
OTH 4.2. 116 He might ha' chid me so, for, in good faith,
OTH 4.2. 117B I am a child to chiding.
OTH-IAGO
What is the matter, lady?
OTH 4.2. 118
OTH-EMILIA
Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her,
OTH 4.2. 119 Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
OTH 4.2. 120 That true hearts cannot bear it.
OTH 4.2. 121A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Am I that name, Iago?
OTH 4.2. 122A
OTH-IAGO
What name, fair lady?
OTH 4.2. 123
OTH-DESDEMONA
Such as she said my lord did say I was.
OTH 4.2. 124
OTH-EMILIA
He called her whore. A beggar in his drink
OTH 4.2. 125 Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.
OTH 4.2. 126A
OTH-IAGO
Why did he so?
OTH 4.2. 127
OTH-DESDEMONA
I do not know. I am sure I am none such.
OTH 4.2. 128
OTH-IAGO
Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!
OTH 4.2. 129
OTH-EMILIA
Hath she forsook so many noble matches,
OTH 4.2. 130 Her father and her country and her friends,
OTH 4.2. 131 To be called whore? Would it not make one weep?
OTH 4.2. 132B
OTH-DESDEMONA
It is my wretched fortune.
OTH-IAGO
Beshrew him for 't.
OTH 4.2. 133B How comes this trick upon him?
OTH-DESDEMONA
Nay, heaven doth know.
OTH 4.2. 134
OTH-EMILIA
I will be hanged if some eternal villain,
OTH 4.2. 135 Some busy and insinuating rogue,
OTH 4.2. 136 Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
OTH 4.2. 137 Have not devised this slander. I will be hanged else.
OTH 4.2. 138
OTH-IAGO
Fie, there is no such man. It is impossible.
OTH 4.2. 139
OTH-DESDEMONA
If any such there be, heaven pardon him.
OTH 4.2. 140
OTH-EMILIA
A halter pardon him, and hell gnaw his bones!
OTH 4.2. 141 Why should he call her whore? Who keeps her company?
OTH 4.2. 142 What place, what time, what form, what likelihood?
OTH 4.2. 143 The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave,
OTH 4.2. 144 Some base, notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
OTH 4.2. 145 O heaven, that such companions thou'dst unfold,
OTH 4.2. 146 And put in every honest hand a whip
OTH 4.2. 147 To lash the rascals naked through the world,
OTH 4.2. 148B Even from the east to th' west!
OTH-IAGO
Speak within door.
OTH 4.2. 149
OTH-EMILIA
O, fie upon them. Some such squire he was
OTH 4.2. 150 That turned your wit the seamy side without,
OTH 4.2. 151 And made you to suspect me with the Moor.
OTH 4.2. 152B
OTH-IAGO
You are a fool. Go to.
OTH-DESDEMONA
O God, Iago,
OTH 4.2. 153 What shall I do to win my lord again?
OTH 4.2. 154 Good friend, go to him; for by this light of heaven,
OTH 4.2. 155B I know not how I lost him. {She kneels} Here I kneel.
OTH 4.2. 156 If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,
OTH 4.2. 157 Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
OTH 4.2. 158 Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense
OTH 4.2. 159 Delighted them in any other form,
OTH 4.2. 160 Or that I do not yet, and ever did,
OTH 4.2. 161 And ever will - though he do shake me off
OTH 4.2. 162 To beggarly divorcement - love him dearly,
OTH 4.2. 163 Comfort forswear me. Unkindness may do much,
OTH 4.2. 164 And his unkindness may defeat my life,
OTH 4.2. 165B But never taint my love. {[She rises]} I cannot say +
OTH 4.2. 165B `whore'.
OTH 4.2. 166 It does abhor me now I speak the word.
OTH 4.2. 167 To do the act that might the addition earn,
OTH 4.2. 168 Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.
OTH 4.2. 169
OTH-IAGO
I pray you, be content. 'Tis but his humour.
OTH 4.2. 170 The business of the state does him offence,
OTH 4.2. 171 And he does chide with you.
OTH 4.2. 172A
OTH-DESDEMONA
If 'twere no other!
OTH 4.2. 173A
OTH-IAGO
It is but so, I warrant. {Flourish within}
OTH 4.2. 174 Hark how these instruments summon you to supper.
OTH 4.2. 175 The messengers of Venice stays the meat.
OTH 4.2. 176 Go in, and weep not. All things shall be well. {Exeunt Desdemona +
OTH 4.2. 176 and Emilia}
OTH 4.2. 177 {Enter Roderigo} How now, Roderigo?
OTH 4.2. 178
OTH-RODERIGO
I do not find that thou deal'st justly with me.
OTH 4.2. 179A
OTH-IAGO
What in the contrary?
OTH 4.2. 180
OTH-RODERIGO
Every day thou daff'st me with some device,
OTH 4.2. 181 Iago, and rather, as it seems to me now, keep'st from
OTH 4.2. 182 me all conveniency than suppliest me with the least
OTH 4.2. 183 advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure it,
OTH 4.2. 184 nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what already
OTH 4.2. 185 I have foolishly suffered.
OTH 4.2. 186
OTH-IAGO
Will you hear me, Roderigo?
OTH 4.2. 187
OTH-RODERIGO
Faith, I have heard too much, for your words
OTH 4.2. 188 and performances are no kin together.
OTH 4.2. 189A
OTH-IAGO
You charge me most unjustly.
OTH 4.2. 190
OTH-RODERIGO
With naught but truth. I have wasted myself
OTH 4.2. 191 out of my means. The jewels you have had from me
OTH 4.2. 192 to deliver Desdemona would half have corrupted a
OTH 4.2. 193 votarist. You have told me she hath received 'em, and
OTH 4.2. 194 returned me expectations and comforts of sudden
OTH 4.2. 195 respect and acquaintance, but I find none.
OTH 4.2. 196
OTH-IAGO
Well, go to, very well.
OTH 4.2. 197
OTH-RODERIGO
`Very well', `go to'! I cannot go to, man, nor
OTH 4.2. 198 'tis not very well. Nay, I think it is scurvy, and begin
OTH 4.2. 199 to find myself fopped in it.
OTH 4.2. 200
OTH-IAGO
Very well.
OTH 4.2. 201
OTH-RODERIGO
I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself
OTH 4.2. 202 known to Desdemona. If she will return me my jewels,
OTH 4.2. 203 I will give over my suit and repent my unlawful
OTH 4.2. 204 solicitation. If not, assure yourself I will seek satisfaction
OTH 4.2. 205 of you.
OTH 4.2. 206
OTH-IAGO
You have said now.
OTH 4.2. 207
OTH-RODERIGO
Ay, and said nothing but what I protest
OTH 4.2. 208 intendment of doing.
OTH 4.2. 209
OTH-IAGO
Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even
OTH 4.2. 210 from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than
OTH 4.2. 211 ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo. Thou hast
OTH 4.2. 212 taken against me a most just exception, but yet I protest
OTH 4.2. 213 I have dealt most directly in thy affair.
OTH 4.2. 214
OTH-RODERIGO
It hath not appeared.
OTH 4.2. 215
OTH-IAGO
I grant, indeed, it hath not appeared, and your
OTH 4.2. 216 suspicion is not without wit and judgement. But,
OTH 4.2. 217 Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed which I have
OTH 4.2. 218 greater reason to believe now than ever - I mean
OTH 4.2. 219 purpose, courage, and valour - this night show it. If
OTH 4.2. 220 thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona,
OTH 4.2. 221 take me from this world with treachery, and devise
OTH 4.2. 222 engines for my life.
OTH 4.2. 223
OTH-RODERIGO
Well, what is it? Is it within reason and
OTH 4.2. 224 compass?
OTH 4.2. 225
OTH-IAGO
Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice
OTH 4.2. 226 to depute Cassio in Othello's place.
OTH 4.2. 227
OTH-RODERIGO
Is that true? Why then, Othello and Desdemona
OTH 4.2. 228 return again to Venice.
OTH 4.2. 229
OTH-IAGO
O no, he goes into Mauritania, and takes away with
OTH 4.2. 230 him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be lingered
OTH 4.2. 231 here by some accident, wherein none can be so
OTH 4.2. 232 determinate as the removing of Cassio.
OTH 4.2. 233
OTH-RODERIGO
How do you mean `removing' of him?
OTH 4.2. 234
OTH-IAGO
Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's place -
OTH 4.2. 235 knocking out his brains.
OTH 4.2. 236
OTH-RODERIGO
And that you would have me to do.
OTH 4.2. 237
OTH-IAGO
Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right. He
OTH 4.2. 238 sups tonight with a harlotry, and thither will I go to
OTH 4.2. 239 him. He knows not yet of his honourable fortune. If
OTH 4.2. 240 you will watch his going thence, which I will fashion
OTH 4.2. 241 to fall out between twelve and one, you may take him
OTH 4.2. 242 at your pleasure. I will be near, to second your attempt,
OTH 4.2. 243 and he shall fall between us. Come, stand not amazed
OTH 4.2. 244 at it, but go along with me. I will show you such a
OTH 4.2. 245 necessity in his death that you shall think yourself
OTH 4.2. 246 bound to put it on him. It is now high supper-time,
OTH 4.2. 247 and the night grows to waste. About it.
OTH 4.2. 248
OTH-RODERIGO
I will hear further reason for this.
OTH 4.2. 249
OTH-IAGO
And you shall be satisfied. {Exeunt}
OTH 4.2. 0 {Enter Othello, Desdemona, Lodovico, Emilia, and +
OTH 4.3. 0 attendants}
OTH 4.3. 1
OTH-LODOVICO
I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no +
OTH 4.3. 1 further.
OTH 4.3. 2
OTH-OTHELLO
O, pardon me, 'twill do me good to walk.
OTH 4.3. 3
OTH-LODOVICO
{(to Desdemona)} Madam, good night. I +
OTH 4.3. 3 humbly thank your ladyship.
OTH 4.3. 4B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Your honour is most welcome.
OTH-OTHELLO
Will you walk, +
OTH 4.3. 4B sir?
OTH 4.3. 5 O, Desdemona!
OTH 4.3. 6A
OTH-DESDEMONA
My lord?
OTH 4.3. 7
OTH-OTHELLO
Get you to bed on th' instant. I will be returned
OTH 4.3. 8 forthwith. Dismiss your attendant there. Look 't be done.
OTH 4.3. 9A
OTH-DESDEMONA
I will, my lord. {Exeunt Othello, +
OTH 4.3. 9A Lodovico, and attendants}
OTH 4.3. 10
OTH-EMILIA
How goes it now? He looks gentler than he did.
OTH 4.3. 11
OTH-DESDEMONA
He says he will return incontinent.
OTH 4.3. 12 He hath commanded me to go to bed,
OTH 4.3. 13B And bid me to dismiss you.
OTH-EMILIA
Dismiss me?
OTH 4.3. 14
OTH-DESDEMONA
It was his bidding. Therefore, good Emilia,
OTH 4.3. 15 Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu.
OTH 4.3. 16 We must not now displease him.
OTH 4.3. 17A
OTH-EMILIA
I would you had never seen him.
OTH 4.3. 18
OTH-DESDEMONA
So would not I. My love doth so approve him
OTH 4.3. 19 That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns -
OTH 4.3. 20 Prithee unpin me - have grace and favour in them. {Emilia helps +
OTH 4.3. 20 Desdemona to undress}
OTH 4.3. 21
OTH-EMILIA
I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.
OTH 4.3. 22
OTH-DESDEMONA
All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!
OTH 4.3. 23 If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me
OTH 4.3. 24B In one of these same sheets.
OTH-EMILIA
Come, come, you talk.
OTH 4.3. 25
OTH-DESDEMONA
My mother had a maid called Barbary.
OTH 4.3. 26 She was in love, and he she loved proved mad
OTH 4.3. 27 And did forsake her. She had a song of willow.
OTH 4.3. 28 An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune,
OTH 4.3. 29 And she died singing it. That song tonight
OTH 4.3. 30 Will not go from my mind. I have much to do
OTH 4.3. 31 But to go hang my head all at one side
OTH 4.3. 32 And sing it, like poor Barbary. Prithee, dispatch.
OTH 4.3. 33B
OTH-EMILIA
Shall I go fetch your nightgown?
OTH-DESDEMONA
No. Unpin me +
OTH 4.3. 33B here.
OTH 4.3. 34 This Lodovico is a proper man.
OTH 4.3. 35B
OTH-EMILIA
A very handsome man.
OTH-DESDEMONA
He speaks well.
OTH 4.3. 36
OTH-EMILIA
I know a lady in Venice would have walked
OTH 4.3. 37 barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.
OTH 4.3. 38
OTH-DESDEMONA
{(sings)} `The poor soul sat sighing by a +
OTH 4.3. 38 sycamore tree,
OTH 4.3. 39 Sing all a green willow.
OTH 4.3. 40 Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
OTH 4.3. 41 Sing willow, willow, willow.
OTH 4.3. 42 The fresh streams ran by her and murmured her moans,
OTH 4.3. 43 Sing willow, willow, willow.
OTH 4.3. 44 Her salt tears fell from her and softened the stones,
OTH 4.3. 45 Sing willow' -
OTH 4.3. 46 Lay by these. -
OTH 4.3. 47 `willow, willow.'
OTH 4.3. 48 Prithee, hie thee. He'll come anon.
OTH 4.3. 49 `Sing all a green willow must be my garland.
OTH 4.3. 50 `Let nobody blame him, his scorn I approve' -
OTH 4.3. 51 Nay, that's not next. Hark, who is 't that knocks?
OTH 4.3. 52A
OTH-EMILIA
It's the wind.
OTH 4.3. 53
OTH-DESDEMONA
{(sings)} `I called my love false love, +
OTH 4.3. 53 but what said he then?
OTH 4.3. 54 Sing willow, willow, willow.
OTH 4.3. 55 If I court more women, you'll couch with more men.'
OTH 4.3. 56 So, get thee gone. Good night. Mine eyes do itch.
OTH 4.3. 57B Doth that bode weeping?
OTH-EMILIA
'Tis neither here nor there.
OTH 4.3. 58
OTH-DESDEMONA
I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!
OTH 4.3. 59 Dost thou in conscience think - tell me, Emilia -
OTH 4.3. 60 That there be women do abuse their husbands
OTH 4.3. 61B In such gross kind?
OTH-EMILIA
There be some such, no question.
OTH 4.3. 62
OTH-DESDEMONA
Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
OTH 4.3. 63B
OTH-EMILIA
Why, would not you?
OTH-DESDEMONA
No, by this heavenly light.
OTH 4.3. 64
OTH-EMILIA
Nor I neither, by this heavenly light. I might +
OTH 4.3. 64 do 't
OTH 4.3. 65 as well i' th' dark.
OTH 4.3. 66
OTH-DESDEMONA
Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
OTH 4.3. 67
OTH-EMILIA
The world's a huge thing. It is a great price for
OTH 4.3. 68 a small vice.
OTH 4.3. 69A
OTH-DESDEMONA
In truth, I think thou wouldst not.
OTH 4.3. 70
OTH-EMILIA
In truth, I think I should, and undo 't when I had
OTH 4.3. 71 done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a joint
OTH 4.3. 72 ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for gowns,
OTH 4.3. 73 petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty exhibition; but for
OTH 4.3. 74 all the whole world? Ud's pity, who would not make
OTH 4.3. 75 her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? I
OTH 4.3. 76 should venture purgatory for 't.
OTH 4.3. 77
OTH-DESDEMONA
Beshrew me if I would do such a wrong
OTH 4.3. 78 For the whole world.
OTH 4.3. 79
OTH-EMILIA
Why, the wrong is but a wrong i' th' world, and
OTH 4.3. 80 having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your
OTH 4.3. 81 own world, and you might quickly make it right.
OTH 4.3. 82
OTH-DESDEMONA
I do not think there is any such woman.
OTH 4.3. 83
OTH-EMILIA
Yes, a dozen, and as many
OTH 4.3. 84 To th' vantage as would store the world they played for.
OTH 4.3. 85 But I do think it is their husbands' faults
OTH 4.3. 86 If wives do fall. Say that they slack their duties,
OTH 4.3. 87 And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
OTH 4.3. 88 Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
OTH 4.3. 89 Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,
OTH 4.3. 90 Or scant our former having in despite:
OTH 4.3. 91 Why, we have galls; and though we have some grace,
OTH 4.3. 92 Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
OTH 4.3. 93 Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell,
OTH 4.3. 94 And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
OTH 4.3. 95 As husbands have. What is it that they do
OTH 4.3. 96 When they change us for others? Is it sport?
OTH 4.3. 97 I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
OTH 4.3. 98 I think it doth. Is 't frailty that thus errs?
OTH 4.3. 99 It is so, too. And have not we affections,
OTH 4.3. 100 Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
OTH 4.3. 101 Then let them use us well, else let them know
OTH 4.3. 102 The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
OTH 4.3. 103
OTH-DESDEMONA
Good night, good night. God me such uses send
OTH 4.3. 104 Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend! {Exeunt}
OTH 4.3. 0 {Enter Iago and Roderigo}
OTH 5.1. 1
OTH-IAGO
Here, stand behind this bulk. Straight will he come.
OTH 5.1. 2 Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home.
OTH 5.1. 3 Quick, quick, fear nothing. I'll be at thy elbow.
OTH 5.1. 4 It makes us or it mars us. Think on that,
OTH 5.1. 5 And fix most firm thy resolution.
OTH 5.1. 6
OTH-RODERIGO
Be near at hand. I may miscarry in 't.
OTH 5.1. 7
OTH-IAGO
Here at thy hand. Be bold, and take thy stand.
OTH 5.1. 8
OTH-RODERIGO
{(aside)} I have no great devotion to the +
OTH 5.1. 8 deed,
OTH 5.1. 9 And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons.
OTH 5.1. 10 'Tis but a man gone. Forth my sword - he dies!
OTH 5.1. 11
OTH-IAGO
{(aside)} I have rubbed this young quat +
OTH 5.1. 11 almost to the sense,
OTH 5.1. 12 And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio
OTH 5.1. 13 Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
OTH 5.1. 14 Every way makes my gain. Live Roderigo,
OTH 5.1. 15 He calls me to a restitution large
OTH 5.1. 16 Of gold and jewels that I bobbed from him
OTH 5.1. 17 As gifts to Desdemona.
OTH 5.1. 18 It must not be. If Cassio do remain,
OTH 5.1. 19 He hath a daily beauty in his life
OTH 5.1. 20 That makes me ugly; and besides, the Moor
OTH 5.1. 21 May unfold me to him - there stand I in much peril.
OTH 5.1. 22 No, he must die. But so, I hear him coming. {Enter Cassio}
OTH 5.1. 23
OTH-RODERIGO
I know his gait, 'tis he. {(Attacking +
OTH 5.1. 23 Cassio)} Villain, thou diest.
OTH 5.1. 24
OTH-CASSIO
That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
OTH 5.1. 25 But that my coat is better than thou know'st.
OTH 5.1. 26B I will make proof of thine. {He stabs Roderigo, who +
OTH 5.1. 26B falls}
OTH-RODERIGO
O, I am slain! {Iago wounds Cassio +
OTH 5.1. 26B in the leg from behind. Exit Iago}
OTH 5.1. 27
OTH-CASSIO
{(falling)} I am maimed for ever. Help, ho, +
OTH 5.1. 27 murder, murder! {Enter Othello [above]}
OTH 5.1. 28
OTH-OTHELLO
The voice of Cassio. Iago keeps his word.
OTH 5.1. 29A
OTH-RODERIGO
O, villain that I am!
OTH 5.1. 30A
OTH-OTHELLO
It is even so.
OTH 5.1. 31A
OTH-CASSIO
O, help, ho! Light, a surgeon!
OTH 5.1. 32
OTH-OTHELLO
'Tis he. O brave Iago, honest and just,
OTH 5.1. 33 That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong -
OTH 5.1. 34 Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
OTH 5.1. 35 And your unblessed fate hies. Strumpet, I come.
OTH 5.1. 36 Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted.
OTH 5.1. 37 Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust's blood be spotted. +
OTH 5.1. 37 {Exit}
OTH 5.1. 38 {Enter Lodovico and Graziano}
OTH-CASSIO
What ho, no +
OTH 5.1. 38 watch, no passage? Murder, murder!
OTH 5.1. 39
OTH-GRAZIANO
'Tis some mischance. The voice is very direful.
OTH 5.1. 40A
OTH-CASSIO
O, help!
OTH 5.1. 41A
OTH-LODOVICO
Hark.
OTH 5.1. 42A
OTH-RODERIGO
O wretched villain!
OTH 5.1. 43
OTH-LODOVICO
Two or three groan. 'Tis heavy night.
OTH 5.1. 44 These may be counterfeits. Let's think 't unsafe
OTH 5.1. 45 To come into the cry without more help.
OTH 5.1. 46
OTH-RODERIGO
Nobody come? Then shall I bleed to death. {Enter +
OTH 5.1. 46 Iago with a light}
OTH 5.1. 47A
OTH-LODOVICO
Hark.
OTH 5.1. 48
OTH-GRAZIANO
Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.
OTH 5.1. 49
OTH-IAGO
Who's there? Whose noise is this that cries on murder?
OTH 5.1. 50B
OTH-LODOVICO
We do not know.
OTH-IAGO
Do not you hear a cry?
OTH 5.1. 51B
OTH-CASSIO
Here, here. For heaven's sake, help me.
OTH-IAGO
What's the +
OTH 5.1. 51B matter?
OTH 5.1. 52
OTH-GRAZIANO
{(to Lodovico)} This is Othello's ensign, +
OTH 5.1. 52 as I take it.
OTH 5.1. 53
OTH-LODOVICO
The same indeed, a very valiant fellow.
OTH 5.1. 54
OTH-IAGO
{(to Cassio)} What are you here that cry so +
OTH 5.1. 54 grievously?
OTH 5.1. 55
OTH-CASSIO
Iago - O, I am spoiled, undone by villains.
OTH 5.1. 56 Give me some help.
OTH 5.1. 57
OTH-IAGO
O me, lieutenant, what villains have done this?
OTH 5.1. 58
OTH-CASSIO
I think that one of them is hereabout
OTH 5.1. 59B And cannot make away.
OTH-IAGO
O treacherous villains!
OTH 5.1. 60 {(To Lodovico and Graziano)} What are you there? Come +
OTH 5.1. 60 in and give some help.
OTH 5.1. 61A
OTH-RODERIGO
O, help me there!
OTH 5.1. 62A
OTH-CASSIO
That's one of 'em.
OTH 5.1. 63A
OTH-IAGO
{(stabbing Roderigo)} O murderous slave! O +
OTH 5.1. 63A villain!
OTH 5.1. 64
OTH-RODERIGO
O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!
OTH 5.1. 65
OTH-IAGO
Kill men i' th' dark? Where be these bloody thieves?
OTH 5.1. 66 How silent is this town! Ho, murder, murder!
OTH 5.1. 67 {(To Lodovico and Graziano)} What may you be? Are you +
OTH 5.1. 67 of good or evil?
OTH 5.1. 68B
OTH-LODOVICO
As you shall prove us, praise us.
OTH-IAGO
Signor Lodovico.
OTH 5.1. 69A
OTH-LODOVICO
He, sir.
OTH 5.1. 70
OTH-IAGO
I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains.
OTH 5.1. 71A
OTH-GRAZIANO
Cassio?
OTH 5.1. 72A
OTH-IAGO
How is 't, brother?
OTH 5.1. 73A
OTH-CASSIO
My leg is cut in two.
OTH 5.1. 74A
OTH-IAGO
Marry, heaven forbid!
OTH 5.1. 75 Light, gentlemen. I'll bind it with my shirt. {Enter Bianca}
OTH 5.1. 76
OTH-BIANCA
What is the matter, ho? Who is 't that cried?
OTH 5.1. 77B
OTH-IAGO
Who is 't that cried?
OTH-BIANCA
O my dear Cassio,
OTH 5.1. 78 My sweet Cassio, O, Cassio, Cassio!
OTH 5.1. 79
OTH-IAGO
O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
OTH 5.1. 80 Who they should be that have thus mangled you?
OTH 5.1. 81A
OTH-CASSIO
No.
OTH 5.1. 82
OTH-GRAZIANO
I am sorry to find you thus. I have been to seek you.
OTH 5.1. 83
OTH-IAGO
Lend me a garter. So. O for a chair,
OTH 5.1. 84 To bear him easily hence!
OTH 5.1. 85
OTH-BIANCA
Alas, he faints. O, Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
OTH 5.1. 86
OTH-IAGO
Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
OTH 5.1. 87 To be a party in this injury.
OTH 5.1. 88 Patience a while, good Cassio. Come, come,
OTH 5.1. 89 Lend me a light. {(Going to Roderigo)} Know we this +
OTH 5.1. 89 face or no?
OTH 5.1. 90 Alas, my friend, and my dear countryman.
OTH 5.1. 91 Roderigo? No - yes, sure - O heaven, Roderigo!
OTH 5.1. 92A
OTH-GRAZIANO
What, of Venice?
OTH 5.1. 93A
OTH-IAGO
Even he, sir. Did you know him?
OTH 5.1. 94A
OTH-GRAZIANO
Know him? Ay.
OTH 5.1. 95
OTH-IAGO
Signor Graziano, I cry your gentle pardon.
OTH 5.1. 96 These bloody accidents must excuse my manners
OTH 5.1. 97B That so neglected you.
OTH-GRAZIANO
I am glad to see you.
OTH 5.1. 98
OTH-IAGO
How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!
OTH 5.1. 99A
OTH-GRAZIANO
Roderigo.
OTH 5.1. 100B
OTH-IAGO
He, he, 'tis he. {Enter attendants with a +
OTH 5.1. 100B chair} O, that's well said, the chair!
OTH 5.1. 101 Some good man bear him carefully from hence.
OTH 5.1. 102 I'll fetch the general's surgeon. {(To Bianca)} For +
OTH 5.1. 102 you, mistress,
OTH 5.1. 103 Save you your labour. He that lies slain here, Cassio,
OTH 5.1. 104 Was my dear friend. What malice was between you?
OTH 5.1. 105
OTH-CASSIO
None in the world, nor do I know the man.
OTH 5.1. 106
OTH-IAGO
{(to Bianca)} What, look you pale? +
OTH 5.1. 106 {(To attendants)} O, bear him out o' th' air.
OTH 5.1. 107B {(To Lodovico and Graziano)} Stay you, good +
OTH 5.1. 107B gentlemen. {Exeunt attendants with Cassio in the chair [and +
OTH 5.1. 107B with Roderigo's body]} {(To Bianca)} Look you pale, +
OTH 5.1. 107B mistress?
OTH 5.1. 108 {(To Lodovico and Graziano)} Do you perceive the +
OTH 5.1. 108 ghastness of her eye?
OTH 5.1. 109 {(To Bianca)} Nay, an you stare we shall hear more +
OTH 5.1. 109 anon.
OTH 5.1. 110 {(To Lodovico and Graziano)} Behold her well; I pray +
OTH 5.1. 110 you look upon her.
OTH 5.1. 111 Do you see, gentlemen? Nay, guiltiness
OTH 5.1. 112 Will speak, though tongues were out of use. {Enter Emilia}
OTH 5.1. 113
OTH-EMILIA
Alas, what is the matter? What is the matter, +
OTH 5.1. 113 husband?
OTH 5.1. 114
OTH-IAGO
Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
OTH 5.1. 115 By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped.
OTH 5.1. 116 He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead.
OTH 5.1. 117
OTH-EMILIA
Alas, good gentleman! Alas, good Cassio!
OTH 5.1. 118
OTH-IAGO
This is the fruits of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
OTH 5.1. 119 Go know of Cassio where he supped tonight.
OTH 5.1. 120 {(To Bianca)} What, do you shake at that?
OTH 5.1. 121
OTH-BIANCA
He supped at my house, but I therefore shake not.
OTH 5.1. 122
OTH-IAGO
O, did he so? I charge you go with me.
OTH 5.1. 123A
OTH-EMILIA
{(to Bianca)} O, fie upon thee, strumpet!
OTH 5.1. 124
OTH-BIANCA
I am no strumpet, but of life as honest
OTH 5.1. 125B As you that thus abuse me.
OTH-EMILIA
As I? Fough, fie upon thee!
OTH 5.1. 126
OTH-IAGO
Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dressed.
OTH 5.1. 127 {(To Bianca)} Come, mistress, you must tell 's another +
OTH 5.1. 127 tale.
OTH 5.1. 128 Emilia, run you to the citadel
OTH 5.1. 129 And tell my lord and lady what hath happed.
OTH 5.1. 130B Will you go on afore? {Exit Emilia} {(Aside)} +
OTH 5.1. 130B This is the night
OTH 5.1. 131 That either makes me or fordoes me quite. {Exeunt}
OTH 5.1. 0 {Enter Othello with a light. [He draws back a curtain, +
OTH 5.2. 0 revealing] Desdemona asleep in her bed}
OTH 5.2. 1
OTH-OTHELLO
It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
OTH 5.2. 2 Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars.
OTH 5.2. 3 It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood,
OTH 5.2. 4 Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
OTH 5.2. 5 And smooth as monumental alabaster.
OTH 5.2. 6 Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
OTH 5.2. 7 Put out the light, and then put out the light.
OTH 5.2. 8 If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
OTH 5.2. 9 I can again thy former light restore
OTH 5.2. 10 Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
OTH 5.2. 11 Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
OTH 5.2. 12 I know not where is that Promethean heat
OTH 5.2. 13 That can thy light relume. When I have plucked thy rose
OTH 5.2. 14 I cannot give it vital growth again.
OTH 5.2. 15 It needs must wither. I'll smell thee on the tree. {[He kisses +
OTH 5.2. 15 her]}
OTH 5.2. 16 O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade
OTH 5.2. 17 Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.
OTH 5.2. 18 Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee
OTH 5.2. 19 And love thee after. One more, and that's the last. {He kisses +
OTH 5.2. 19 her}
OTH 5.2. 20 So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,
OTH 5.2. 21 But they are cruel tears. This sorrow's heavenly,
OTH 5.2. 22 It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.
OTH 5.2. 23A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Who's there? Othello?
OTH 5.2. 24A
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay, Desdemona.
OTH 5.2. 25A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Will you come to bed, my lord?
OTH 5.2. 26A
OTH-OTHELLO
Have you prayed tonight, Desdemon?
OTH 5.2. 27A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Ay, my lord.
OTH 5.2. 28
OTH-OTHELLO
If you bethink yourself of any crime
OTH 5.2. 29 Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,
OTH 5.2. 30 Solicit for it straight.
OTH 5.2. 31
OTH-DESDEMONA
Alack, my lord, what may you mean by that?
OTH 5.2. 32
OTH-OTHELLO
Well, do it, and be brief. I will walk by.
OTH 5.2. 33 I would not kill thy unprepared spirit.
OTH 5.2. 34 No, heavens forfend! I would not kill thy soul.
OTH 5.2. 35B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Talk you of killing?
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay, I do.
OTH-DESDEMONA
+
OTH 5.2. 35B Then heaven
OTH 5.2. 36B Have mercy on me.
OTH-OTHELLO
Amen, with all my heart.
OTH 5.2. 37
OTH-DESDEMONA
If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.
OTH 5.2. 38A
OTH-OTHELLO
Hum!
OTH 5.2. 39
OTH-DESDEMONA
And yet I fear you, for you're fatal then
OTH 5.2. 40 When your eyes roll so. Why I should fear I know not,
OTH 5.2. 41 Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear.
OTH 5.2. 42A
OTH-OTHELLO
Think on thy sins.
OTH 5.2. 43A
OTH-DESDEMONA
They are loves I bear to you.
OTH 5.2. 44A
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay, and for that thou diest.
OTH 5.2. 45
OTH-DESDEMONA
That death's unnatural that kills for loving.
OTH 5.2. 46 Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
OTH 5.2. 47 Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
OTH 5.2. 48 These are portents, but yet I hope, I hope
OTH 5.2. 49B They do not point on me.
OTH-OTHELLO
Peace, and be still.
OTH 5.2. 50B
OTH-DESDEMONA
I will so. What's the matter?
OTH-OTHELLO
That +
OTH 5.2. 50B handkerchief
OTH 5.2. 51 Which I so loved and gave thee, thou gav'st to Cassio.
OTH 5.2. 52
OTH-DESDEMONA
No, by my life and soul. Send for the man
OTH 5.2. 53 And ask him.
OTH 5.2. 54
OTH-OTHELLO
Sweet soul, take heed, take heed of perjury.
OTH 5.2. 55 Thou art on thy deathbed.
OTH 5.2. 56A
OTH-DESDEMONA
Ay, but not yet to die.
OTH 5.2. 57A
OTH-OTHELLO
Presently.
OTH 5.2. 58 Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin,
OTH 5.2. 59 For to deny each article with oath
OTH 5.2. 60 Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
OTH 5.2. 61 That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.
OTH 5.2. 62B
OTH-DESDEMONA
Then Lord have mercy on me.
OTH-OTHELLO
I say amen.
OTH 5.2. 63
OTH-DESDEMONA
And have you mercy, too. I never did
OTH 5.2. 64 Offend you in my life, never loved Cassio
OTH 5.2. 65 But with such general warranty of heaven
OTH 5.2. 66 As I might love. I never gave him token.
OTH 5.2. 67
OTH-OTHELLO
By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in 's hand.
OTH 5.2. 68 O perjured woman! Thou dost stone my heart,
OTH 5.2. 69 And makes me call what I intend to do
OTH 5.2. 70 A murder, which I thought a sacrifice.
OTH 5.2. 71B I saw the handkerchief.
OTH-DESDEMONA
He found it, then.
OTH 5.2. 72 I never gave it him. Send for him hither.
OTH 5.2. 73B Let him confess a truth.
OTH-OTHELLO
He hath confessed.
OTH 5.2. 74B
OTH-DESDEMONA
What, my lord?
OTH-OTHELLO
That he hath used thee.
OTH 5.2. 75A
OTH-DESDEMONA
How, unlawfully?
OTH 5.2. 76A
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay.
OTH 5.2. 77A
OTH-DESDEMONA
He will not say so.
OTH 5.2. 78A
OTH-OTHELLO
No, his mouth is stopped.
OTH 5.2. 79 Honest Iago hath ta'en order for 't.
OTH 5.2. 80
OTH-DESDEMONA
O, my fear interprets! What, is he dead?
OTH 5.2. 81
OTH-OTHELLO
Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
OTH 5.2. 82 Had stomach for 'em all.
OTH 5.2. 83
OTH-DESDEMONA
{(weeping)} Alas, he is betrayed, and I +
OTH 5.2. 83 undone.
OTH 5.2. 84
OTH-OTHELLO
Out, strumpet! Weep'st thou for him to my face?
OTH 5.2. 85
OTH-DESDEMONA
O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not.
OTH 5.2. 86A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(attacking her)} Down, strumpet.
OTH 5.2. 87
OTH-DESDEMONA
Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight.
OTH 5.2. 88A
OTH-OTHELLO
Nay, an you strive -
OTH 5.2. 89A
OTH-DESDEMONA
But half an hour.
OTH 5.2. 90A
OTH-OTHELLO
Being done, there is no pause.
OTH 5.2. 91A
OTH-DESDEMONA
But while I say one prayer.
OTH 5.2. 92A
OTH-OTHELLO
It is too late. {He smothers her}
OTH 5.2. 93A
OTH-DESDEMONA
O Lord, Lord, Lord! {Emilia at the door}
OTH 5.2. 94
OTH-EMILIA
{(within)} My lord, my lord, what ho, my +
OTH 5.2. 94 lord, my lord!
OTH 5.2. 95
OTH-OTHELLO
What noise is this? Not dead? Not yet quite dead?
OTH 5.2. 96 I that am cruel am yet merciful.
OTH 5.2. 97 I would not have thee linger in thy pain.
OTH 5.2. 98B So, so.
OTH-EMILIA
{(within)} What ho, my lord, my +
OTH 5.2. 98B lord!
OTH-OTHELLO
Who's there?
OTH 5.2. 99
OTH-EMILIA
{(within)} O, good my lord, I would speak a +
OTH 5.2. 99 word with you.
OTH 5.2. 100
OTH-OTHELLO
{(calling)} Yes. - 'Tis Emilia. +
OTH 5.2. 100 {(Calling)} By and by! - She's dead.
OTH 5.2. 101 'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death.
OTH 5.2. 102 The noise was high. Ha! No more moving.
OTH 5.2. 103 Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were 't good?
OTH 5.2. 104 I think she stirs again. No. What's best to do?
OTH 5.2. 105 If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife.
OTH 5.2. 106 My wife, my wife! What wife? I ha' no wife.
OTH 5.2. 107 O insupportable, O heavy hour!
OTH 5.2. 108 Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
OTH 5.2. 109 Of sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe
OTH 5.2. 110B Should yawn at alteration.
OTH-EMILIA
{(within)} I do +
OTH 5.2. 110B beseech you
OTH 5.2. 111 That I may speak with you. O, good my lord!
OTH 5.2. 112
OTH-OTHELLO
I had forgot thee. - O, come in, Emilia. -
OTH 5.2. 113 Soft, by and by. Let me the curtains draw. {He closes the +
OTH 5.2. 113 bed-curtains}
OTH 5.2. 114B Where art thou? {He opens the door. Enter +
OTH 5.2. 114B Emilia} What's the matter with thee now?
OTH 5.2. 115
OTH-EMILIA
O my good lord, yonder's foul murder's done.
OTH 5.2. 116A
OTH-OTHELLO
What, now?
OTH 5.2. 117A
OTH-EMILIA
But now, my lord.
OTH 5.2. 118
OTH-OTHELLO
It is the very error of the moon,
OTH 5.2. 119 She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,
OTH 5.2. 120 And makes men mad.
OTH 5.2. 121
OTH-EMILIA
Cassio, my lord, hath killed a young Venetian
OTH 5.2. 122B Called Roderigo.
OTH-OTHELLO
Roderigo killed
OTH 5.2. 123B And Cassio killed?
OTH-EMILIA
No, Cassio is not killed.
OTH 5.2. 124
OTH-OTHELLO
Not Cassio killed? Then murder's out of tune,
OTH 5.2. 125 And sweet revenge grows harsh.
OTH 5.2. 126A
OTH-DESDEMONA
O, falsely, falsely murdered!
OTH 5.2. 127A
OTH-EMILIA
O Lord, what cry is that?
OTH 5.2. 128A
OTH-OTHELLO
That? What?
OTH 5.2. 129
OTH-EMILIA
Out and alas, that was my lady's voice! {[She opens +
OTH 5.2. 129 the bed-curtains]}
OTH 5.2. 130 Help, help, ho, help! O lady, speak again!
OTH 5.2. 131 Sweet Desdemona, O sweet mistress, speak!
OTH 5.2. 132B
OTH-DESDEMONA
A guiltless death I die.
OTH-EMILIA
O, who hath done this +
OTH 5.2. 132B deed?
OTH 5.2. 133
OTH-DESDEMONA
Nobody, I myself. Farewell.
OTH 5.2. 134 Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell! {She dies}
OTH 5.2. 135B
OTH-OTHELLO
Why, how should she be murdered?
OTH-EMILIA
Alas, +
OTH 5.2. 135B who knows?
OTH 5.2. 136
OTH-OTHELLO
You heard her say herself it was not I.
OTH 5.2. 137
OTH-EMILIA
She said so, I must needs report the truth.
OTH 5.2. 138
OTH-OTHELLO
She's like a liar gone to burning hell.
OTH 5.2. 139 'Twas I that killed her.
OTH 5.2. 140
OTH-EMILIA
O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!
OTH 5.2. 141
OTH-OTHELLO
She turned to folly, and she was a whore.
OTH 5.2. 142
OTH-EMILIA
Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil.
OTH 5.2. 143B
OTH-OTHELLO
She was false as water.
OTH-EMILIA
Thou art rash as fire
OTH 5.2. 144 To say that she was false. O, she was heavenly true!
OTH 5.2. 145
OTH-OTHELLO
Cassio did top her. Ask thy husband else.
OTH 5.2. 146 O, I were damned beneath all depth in hell
OTH 5.2. 147 But that I did proceed upon just grounds
OTH 5.2. 148 To this extremity! Thy husband knew it all.
OTH 5.2. 149B
OTH-EMILIA
My husband?
OTH-OTHELLO
Thy husband.
OTH-EMILIA
That she was +
OTH 5.2. 149B false to wedlock?
OTH 5.2. 150
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay, with Cassio. Had she been true,
OTH 5.2. 151 If heaven would make me such another world
OTH 5.2. 152 Of one entire and perfect chrysolite
OTH 5.2. 153B I'd not have sold her for it.
OTH-EMILIA
My husband?
OTH 5.2. 154
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay, 'twas he that told me on her first.
OTH 5.2. 155 An honest man he is, and hates the slime
OTH 5.2. 156B That sticks on filthy deeds.
OTH-EMILIA
My husband?
OTH 5.2. 157
OTH-OTHELLO
What needs this iterance? Woman, I say thy husband.
OTH 5.2. 158
OTH-EMILIA
O mistress, villainy hath made mocks with love.
OTH 5.2. 159B My husband say she was false?
OTH-OTHELLO
He, woman.
OTH 5.2. 160 I say thy husband. Dost understand the word?
OTH 5.2. 161 My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago.
OTH 5.2. 162
OTH-EMILIA
If he say so, may his pernicious soul
OTH 5.2. 163 Rot half a grain a day. He lies to th' heart.
OTH 5.2. 164 She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.
OTH 5.2. 165A
OTH-OTHELLO
Ha?
OTH 5.2. 166A
OTH-EMILIA
Do thy worst.
OTH 5.2. 167 This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven
OTH 5.2. 168B Than thou wast worthy her.
OTH-OTHELLO
Peace, you were best.
OTH 5.2. 169
OTH-EMILIA
Thou hast not half that power to do me harm
OTH 5.2. 170 As I have to be hurt. O gull, O dolt,
OTH 5.2. 171 As ignorant as dirt! Thou hast done a deed -
OTH 5.2. 172 I care not for thy sword, I'll make thee known
OTH 5.2. 173 Though I lost twenty lives. Help, help, ho! Help!
OTH 5.2. 174 The Moor hath killed my mistress. Murder, murder! {Enter +
OTH 5.2. 174 Montano, Graziano, and Iago}
OTH 5.2. 175
OTH-MONTANO
What is the matter? How now, general?
OTH 5.2. 176
OTH-EMILIA
O, are you come, Iago? You have done well,
OTH 5.2. 177 That men must lay their murders on your neck.
OTH 5.2. 178A
OTH-GRAZIANO
What is the matter?
OTH 5.2. 179
OTH-EMILIA
{(to Iago)} Disprove this villain if thou +
OTH 5.2. 179 beest a man.
OTH 5.2. 180 He says thou told'st him that his wife was false.
OTH 5.2. 181 I know thou didst not. Thou'rt not such a villain.
OTH 5.2. 182 Speak, for my heart is full.
OTH 5.2. 183
OTH-IAGO
I told him what I thought, and told no more
OTH 5.2. 184 Than what he found himself was apt and true.
OTH 5.2. 185
OTH-EMILIA
But did you ever tell him she was false?
OTH 5.2. 186A
OTH-IAGO
I did.
OTH 5.2. 187
OTH-EMILIA
You told a lie, an odious, damned lie,
OTH 5.2. 188 Upon my soul a lie, a wicked lie.
OTH 5.2. 189 She false with Cassio? Did you say with Cassio?
OTH 5.2. 190
OTH-IAGO
With Cassio, mistress. Go to, charm your tongue.
OTH 5.2. 191
OTH-EMILIA
I will not charm my tongue. I am bound to speak.
OTH 5.2. 192 My mistress here lies murdered in her bed.
OTH 5.2. 193A
OTH-[MONTANO
OTH-AND
OTH-GRAZIANO]
O heavens forfend!
OTH 5.2. 194
OTH-EMILIA
{(to Iago)} And your reports have set the +
OTH 5.2. 194 murder on.
OTH 5.2. 195
OTH-OTHELLO
Nay, stare not, masters. It is true indeed.
OTH 5.2. 196B
OTH-GRAZIANO
'Tis a strange truth.
OTH-MONTANO
O monstrous act!
OTH 5.2. 197
OTH-EMILIA
Villainy, villainy, villainy!
OTH 5.2. 198 I think upon 't, I think. I smell 't. O villainy!
OTH 5.2. 199 I thought so then. I'll kill myself for grief.
OTH 5.2. 200 O villainy, villainy!
OTH 5.2. 201
OTH-IAGO
What, are you mad? I charge you get you home.
OTH 5.2. 202
OTH-EMILIA
Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak.
OTH 5.2. 203 'Tis proper I obey him, but not now.
OTH 5.2. 204 Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home.
OTH 5.2. 205B
OTH-OTHELLO
O, O, O! {Othello falls on the bed}
OTH-EMILIA
+
OTH 5.2. 205B Nay, lay thee down and roar,
OTH 5.2. 206 For thou hast killed the sweetest innocent
OTH 5.2. 207B That e'er did lift up eye.
OTH-OTHELLO
{[rising]} O, +
OTH 5.2. 207B she was foul!
OTH 5.2. 208 {(To Graziano)} I scarce did know you, uncle. There +
OTH 5.2. 208 lies your niece,
OTH 5.2. 209 Whose breath indeed these hands have newly stopped.
OTH 5.2. 210 I know this act shows horrible and grim.
OTH 5.2. 211
OTH-GRAZIANO
Poor Desdemon, I am glad thy father's dead.
OTH 5.2. 212 Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
OTH 5.2. 213 Shore his old thread in twain. Did he live now
OTH 5.2. 214 This sight would make him do a desperate turn,
OTH 5.2. 215 Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
OTH 5.2. 216 And fall to reprobance.
OTH 5.2. 217
OTH-OTHELLO
'Tis pitiful. But yet Iago knows
OTH 5.2. 218 That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
OTH 5.2. 219 A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it,
OTH 5.2. 220 And she did gratify his amorous works
OTH 5.2. 221 With that recognizance and pledge of love
OTH 5.2. 222 Which I first gave her. I saw it in his hand.
OTH 5.2. 223 It was a handkerchief, an antique token
OTH 5.2. 224B My father gave my mother.
OTH-EMILIA
O God! O heavenly God!
OTH 5.2. 225B
OTH-IAGO
'Swounds, hold your peace!
OTH-EMILIA
'Twill out, 'twill out. I +
OTH 5.2. 225B peace?
OTH 5.2. 226 No, I will speak as liberal as the north.
OTH 5.2. 227 Let heaven, and men, and devils, let 'em all,
OTH 5.2. 228 All, all cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
OTH 5.2. 229A
OTH-IAGO
Be wise and get you home.
OTH 5.2. 230A
OTH-EMILIA
I will not. {Iago draws his sword}
OTH 5.2. 231A
OTH-GRAZIANO
{(to Iago)} Fie, your sword upon a woman?
OTH 5.2. 232
OTH-EMILIA
O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of
OTH 5.2. 233 I found by fortune and did give my husband,
OTH 5.2. 234 For often, with a solemn earnestness -
OTH 5.2. 235 More than indeed belonged to such a trifle -
OTH 5.2. 236B He begged of me to steal 't.
OTH-IAGO
Villainous whore!
OTH 5.2. 237
OTH-EMILIA
She give it Cassio? No, alas, I found it,
OTH 5.2. 238B And I did give 't my husband.
OTH-IAGO
Filth, thou liest.
OTH 5.2. 239
OTH-EMILIA
By heaven I do not, I do not, gentlemen.
OTH 5.2. 240 O murderous coxcomb! What should such a fool
OTH 5.2. 241B Do with so good a wife?
OTH-OTHELLO
Are there no stones in heaven
OTH 5.2. 242 But what serves for the thunder? Precious villain! {The Moor +
OTH 5.2. 242 runs at Iago. Montano disarms Othello. Iago wounds his wife}
OTH 5.2. 243
OTH-GRAZIANO
The woman falls. Sure he hath killed his wife.
OTH 5.2. 244
OTH-EMILIA
Ay, ay. O, lay me by my mistress' side! {Exit Iago}
OTH 5.2. 245A
OTH-GRAZIANO
He's gone, but his wife's killed.
OTH 5.2. 246
OTH-MONTANO
'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon
OTH 5.2. 247 Which I have here recovered from the Moor.
OTH 5.2. 248 Come, guard the door without. Let him not pass,
OTH 5.2. 249 But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,
OTH 5.2. 250B For 'tis a damned slave. {Exeunt Montano and +
OTH 5.2. 250B Graziano}
OTH-OTHELLO
I am not valiant neither,
OTH 5.2. 251 But every puny whipster gets my sword.
OTH 5.2. 252 But why should honour outlive honesty?
OTH 5.2. 253B Let it go all.
OTH-EMILIA
What did thy song bode, lady?
OTH 5.2. 254 Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan,
OTH 5.2. 255 And die in music. {(Sings)} `Willow, willow, willow.' -
OTH 5.2. 256 Moor, she was chaste. She loved thee, cruel Moor.
OTH 5.2. 257 So come my soul to bliss as I speak true.
OTH 5.2. 258 So, speaking as I think, alas, I die. {She dies}
OTH 5.2. 259
OTH-OTHELLO
I have another weapon in this chamber.
OTH 5.2. 260 It was a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper.
OTH 5.2. 261 O, here it is. {(Calling)} Uncle, I must come forth.
OTH 5.2. 262
OTH-GRAZIANO
{(within)} If thou attempt it, it will +
OTH 5.2. 262 cost thee dear.
OTH 5.2. 263 Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.
OTH 5.2. 264
OTH-OTHELLO
Look in upon me then, and speak with me,
OTH 5.2. 265 Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee. {Enter Graziano}
OTH 5.2. 266B
OTH-GRAZIANO
What is the matter?
OTH-OTHELLO
Behold, I have a +
OTH 5.2. 266B weapon;
OTH 5.2. 267 A better never did itself sustain
OTH 5.2. 268 Upon a soldier's thigh. I have seen the day
OTH 5.2. 269 That, with this little arm and this good sword,
OTH 5.2. 270 I have made my way through more impediments
OTH 5.2. 271 Than twenty times your stop. But O, vain boast!
OTH 5.2. 272 Who can control his fate? 'Tis not so now.
OTH 5.2. 273 Be not afraid, though you do see me weaponed.
OTH 5.2. 274 Here is my journey's end, here is my butt
OTH 5.2. 275 And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
OTH 5.2. 276 Do you go back dismayed? 'Tis a lost fear.
OTH 5.2. 277 Man but a rush against Othello's breast
OTH 5.2. 278 And he retires. Where should Othello go?
OTH 5.2. 279 {(To Desdemona)} Now, how dost thou look now? O ill- +
OTH 5.2. 279 starred wench,
OTH 5.2. 280 Pale as thy smock! When we shall meet at count
OTH 5.2. 281 This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
OTH 5.2. 282B And fiends will snatch at it. {[He touches her]} Cold, +
OTH 5.2. 282B cold, my girl,
OTH 5.2. 283 Even like thy chastity. O cursed, cursed slave!
OTH 5.2. 284 Whip me, ye devils,
OTH 5.2. 285 From the possession of this heavenly sight.
OTH 5.2. 286 Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulphur,
OTH 5.2. 287 Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
OTH 5.2. 288 O Desdemon! Dead Desdemon! Dead! O! O! {Enter Lodovico, Montano, +
OTH 5.2. 288 Iago guarded by officers, with Cassio in a chair}
OTH 5.2. 289
OTH-LODOVICO
Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?
OTH 5.2. 290
OTH-OTHELLO
That's he that was Othello. Here I am.
OTH 5.2. 291
OTH-LODOVICO
Where is that viper? Bring the villain forth.
OTH 5.2. 292
OTH-OTHELLO
I look down towards his feet, but that's a fable.
OTH 5.2. 293 {(To Iago)} If that thou beest a devil I cannot kill +
OTH 5.2. 293 thee. {He wounds Iago}
OTH 5.2. 294B
OTH-LODOVICO
Wrench his sword from him. {Officers +
OTH 5.2. 294B disarm Othello}
OTH-IAGO
I bleed, sir, but not killed.
OTH 5.2. 295
OTH-OTHELLO
I am not sorry, neither. I'd have thee live,
OTH 5.2. 296 For in my sense 'tis happiness to die.
OTH 5.2. 297
OTH-LODOVICO
O thou Othello, that was once so good,
OTH 5.2. 298 Fall'n in the practice of a cursed slave,
OTH 5.2. 299B What shall be said to thee?
OTH-OTHELLO
Why, anything;
OTH 5.2. 300 An honourable murderer, if you will,
OTH 5.2. 301 For naught I did in hate, but all in honour.
OTH 5.2. 302
OTH-LODOVICO
This wretch hath part confessed his villainy.
OTH 5.2. 303 Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?
OTH 5.2. 304A
OTH-OTHELLO
Ay.
OTH 5.2. 305
OTH-CASSIO
Dear general, I never gave you cause.
OTH 5.2. 306
OTH-OTHELLO
I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.
OTH 5.2. 307 Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil
OTH 5.2. 308 Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?
OTH 5.2. 309
OTH-IAGO
Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
OTH 5.2. 310 From this time forth I never will speak word.
OTH 5.2. 311A
OTH-LODOVICO
{(to Iago)} What, not to pray?
OTH 5.2. 312A
OTH-GRAZIANO
{(to Iago)} Torments will ope your lips.
OTH 5.2. 313A
OTH-OTHELLO
Well, thou dost best.
OTH 5.2. 314
OTH-LODOVICO
Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,
OTH 5.2. 315 Which as, I think, you know not. Here is a letter,
OTH 5.2. 316 Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo,
OTH 5.2. 317 And here another. The one of them imports
OTH 5.2. 318 The death of Cassio, to be undertook
OTH 5.2. 319 By Roderigo.
OTH 5.2. 320A
OTH-OTHELLO
O villain!
OTH 5.2. 321A
OTH-CASSIO
Most heathenish and most gross.
OTH 5.2. 322
OTH-LODOVICO
Now here's another discontented paper
OTH 5.2. 323 Found in his pocket too, and this it seems
OTH 5.2. 324 Roderigo meant to've sent this damned villain,
OTH 5.2. 325 But that, belike, Iago in the interim
OTH 5.2. 326 Came in and satisfied him.
OTH 5.2. 327A
OTH-OTHELLO
{(to Iago)} O thou pernicious caitiff!
OTH 5.2. 328 How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
OTH 5.2. 329B That was my wife's?
OTH-CASSIO
I found it in my chamber,
OTH 5.2. 330 And he himself confessed it, but even now,
OTH 5.2. 331 That there he dropped it for a special purpose
OTH 5.2. 332B Which wrought to his desire.
OTH-OTHELLO
O fool, fool, fool!
OTH 5.2. 333
OTH-CASSIO
There is besides in Roderigo's letter
OTH 5.2. 334 How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
OTH 5.2. 335 Brave me upon the watch, whereon it came
OTH 5.2. 336 That I was cast; and even but now he spake
OTH 5.2. 337 After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,
OTH 5.2. 338 Iago set him on.
OTH 5.2. 339
OTH-LODOVICO
{(to Othello)} You must forsake this room +
OTH 5.2. 339 and go with us.
OTH 5.2. 340 Your power and your command is taken off,
OTH 5.2. 341 And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,
OTH 5.2. 342 If there be any cunning cruelty
OTH 5.2. 343 That can torment him much and hold him long,
OTH 5.2. 344 It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest
OTH 5.2. 345 Till that the nature of your fault be known
OTH 5.2. 346 To the Venetian state. {(To officers)} Come, bring +
OTH 5.2. 346 away.
OTH 5.2. 347
OTH-OTHELLO
Soft you, a word or two before you go.
OTH 5.2. 348 I have done the state some service, and they know 't.
OTH 5.2. 349 No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
OTH 5.2. 350 When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
OTH 5.2. 351 Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
OTH 5.2. 352 Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
OTH 5.2. 353 Of one that loved not wisely but too well,
OTH 5.2. 354 Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,
OTH 5.2. 355 Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,
OTH 5.2. 356 Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
OTH 5.2. 357 Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
OTH 5.2. 358 Albeit unused to the melting mood,
OTH 5.2. 359 Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees
OTH 5.2. 360 Their medicinable gum. Set you down this,
OTH 5.2. 361 And say besides that in Aleppo once,
OTH 5.2. 362 Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk
OTH 5.2. 363 Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
OTH 5.2. 364 I took by th' throat the circumcised dog
OTH 5.2. 365 And smote him thus. {He stabs himself}
OTH 5.2. 366A
OTH-LODOVICO
O bloody period!
OTH 5.2. 367A
OTH-GRAZIANO
All that is spoke is marred.
OTH 5.2. 368
OTH-OTHELLO
{(to Desdemona)} I kissed thee ere I +
OTH 5.2. 368 killed thee. No way but this:
OTH 5.2. 369 Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. {He kisses Desdemona and +
OTH 5.2. 369 dies}
OTH 5.2. 370
OTH-CASSIO
This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon,
OTH 5.2. 371B For he was great of heart.
OTH-LODOVICO
{(to Iago)} O +
OTH 5.2. 371B Spartan dog,
OTH 5.2. 372 More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea,
OTH 5.2. 373 Look on the tragic loading of this bed.
OTH 5.2. 374 This is thy work. The object poisons sight.
OTH 5.2. 375B Let it be hid. {[They close the bed-curtains]} +
OTH 5.2. 375B Graziano, keep the house,
OTH 5.2. 376 And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
OTH 5.2. 377 For they succeed on you. {(To Cassio)} To you, Lord +
OTH 5.2. 377 Governor,
OTH 5.2. 378 Remains the censure of this hellish villain.
OTH 5.2. 379 The time, the place, the torture, O, enforce it!
OTH 5.2. 380 Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
OTH 5.2. 381 This heavy act with heavy heart relate. {Exeunt [with Emilia's +
OTH 5.2. 381 body]}
OTH 5.2.
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PER . . 0 Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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PER . . 0 {Enter Gower as Prologue}
PER S.1. 1
PER-GOWER
To sing a song that old was sung
PER S.1. 2 From ashes ancient Gower is come,
PER S.1. 3 Assuming man's infirmities
PER S.1. 4 To glad your ear and please your eyes.
PER S.1. 5 It hath been sung at festivals,
PER S.1. 6 On ember-eves and holy-ales,
PER S.1. 7 And lords and ladies in their lives
PER S.1. 8 Have read it for restoratives.
PER S.1. 9 The purchase is to make men glorious,
PER S.1. 10 {Et bonum quo antiquius eo melius}.
PER S.1. 11 If you, born in these latter times
PER S.1. 12 When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes,
PER S.1. 13 And that to hear an old man sing
PER S.1. 14 May to your wishes pleasure bring,
PER S.1. 15 I life would wish, and that I might
PER S.1. 16 Waste it for you like taper-light.
PER S.1. 17 This' Antioch, then; Antiochus the Great
PER S.1. 18 Built up this city for his chiefest seat,
PER S.1. 19 The fairest in all Syria.
PER S.1. 20 I tell you what mine authors say.
PER S.1. 21 This king unto him took a fere
PER S.1. 22 Who died, and left a female heir
PER S.1. 23 So buxom, blithe, and full of face
PER S.1. 24 As heav'n had lent her all his grace,
PER S.1. 25 With whom the father liking took,
PER S.1. 26 And her to incest did provoke.
PER S.1. 27 Bad child, worse father, to entice his own
PER S.1. 28 To evil should be done by none.
PER S.1. 29 By custom what they did begin
PER S.1. 30 Was with long use account' no sin.
PER S.1. 31 The beauty of this sinful dame
PER S.1. 32 Made many princes thither frame
PER S.1. 33 To seek her as a bedfellow,
PER S.1. 34 In marriage pleasures playfellow,
PER S.1. 35 Which to prevent he made a law
PER S.1. 36 To keep her still, and men in awe,
PER S.1. 37 That whoso asked her for his wife,
PER S.1. 38 His riddle told not, lost his life.
PER S.1. 39 So for her many a wight did die,
PER-[A
row of heads is revealed]}
PER S.1. 40 As yon grim looks do testify.
PER S.1. 41 What now ensues, to th' judgement of your eye
PER S.1. 42 I give, my cause who best can justify. {Exit}
PER S.1. 43 {[Sennet.] Enter King Antiochus, Prince Pericles, and [lords +
PER S.1. 43 and peers in their richest ornaments]}
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Young +
PER S.1. 43 Prince of Tyre, you have at large received
PER S.1. 44 The danger of the task you undertake.
PER S.1. 45
PER-PERICLES
I have, Antiochus, and with a soul
PER S.1. 46 Emboldened with the glory of her praise
PER S.1. 47 Think death no hazard in this enterprise.
PER S.1. 48A
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Music! {Music sounds}
PER S.1. 49 Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride
PER S.1. 50 Fit for th' embracements ev'n of Jove himself,
PER S.1. 51 At whose conception, till Lucina reigned,
PER S.1. 52 Nature this dowry gave to glad her presence:
PER S.1. 53 The senate-house of planets all did sit,
PER S.1. 54 In her their best perfections to knit. {Enter Antiochus' +
PER S.1. 54 Daughter}
PER S.1. 55
PER-PERICLES
See where she comes, apparelled like the spring,
PER S.1. 56 Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
PER S.1. 57 Of ev'ry virtue gives renown to men;
PER S.1. 58 Her face the book of praises, where is read
PER S.1. 59 Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence
PER S.1. 60 Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath
PER S.1. 61 Could never be her mild companion.
PER S.1. 62 You gods that made me man, and sway in love,
PER S.1. 63 That have inflamed desire in my breast
PER S.1. 64 To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree
PER S.1. 65 Or die in the adventure, be my helps,
PER S.1. 66 As I am son and servant to your will,
PER S.1. 67 To compass such a boundless happiness.
PER S.1. 68A
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Prince Pericles -
PER S.1. 69
PER-PERICLES
That would be son to great Antiochus.
PER S.1. 70
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
PER S.1. 71 With golden fruit, but dang'rous to be touched, {[He gestures +
PER S.1. 71 towards the heads]}
PER S.1. 72 For death-like dragons here affright thee hard. {[He +
PER S.1. 72 gestures towards his daughter]}
PER S.1. 73 Her heav'n-like face enticeth thee to view
PER S.1. 74 Her countless glory, which desert must gain;
PER S.1. 75 And which without desert, because thine eye
PER S.1. 76 Presumes to reach, all the whole heap must die.
PER S.1. 77 Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself
PER S.1. 78 Drawn by report, advent'rous by desire,
PER S.1. 79 Tell thee with speechless tongues and semblants bloodless
PER S.1. 80 That without covering save yon field of stars
PER S.1. 81 Here they stand, martyrs slain in Cupid's wars,
PER S.1. 82 And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist
PER S.1. 83 From going on death's net, whom none resist.
PER S.1. 84
PER-PERICLES
Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught
PER S.1. 85 My frail mortality to know itself,
PER S.1. 86 And by those fearful objects to prepare
PER S.1. 87 This body, like to them, to what I must;
PER S.1. 88 For death remembered should be like a mirror
PER S.1. 89 Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.
PER S.1. 90 I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do,
PER S.1. 91 Who know the world, see heav'n, but feeling woe
PER S.1. 92 Grip not at earthly joys as erst they did,
PER S.1. 93 So I bequeath a happy peace to you
PER S.1. 94 And all good men, as ev'ry prince should do;
PER S.1. 95 My riches to the earth from whence they came,
PER S.1. 96 {(To the Daughter)} But my unspotted fire of love to +
PER S.1. 96 you.
PER S.1. 97 {(To Antiochus)} Thus ready for the way of life or +
PER S.1. 97 death,
PER S.1. 98 I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.
PER S.1. 99
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Scorning advice, read the conclusion then, {[He +
PER S.1. 99 angrily throws down the riddle]}
PER S.1. 100 Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed,
PER S.1. 101 As these before thee, thou thyself shalt bleed.
PER S.1. 102
PER-DAUGHTER
{(to Pericles)} Of all 'sayed yet, mayst +
PER S.1. 102 thou prove prosperous;
PER S.1. 103 Of all 'sayed yet, I wish thee happiness.
PER S.1. 104
PER-PERICLES
Like a bold champion I assume the lists,
PER S.1. 105 Nor ask advice of any other thought
PER S.1. 106 But faithfulness and courage. {[He takes up and] reads aloud the +
PER S.1. 106 riddle}
PER S.1. 107 I am no viper, yet I feed
PER S.1. 108 On mother's flesh which did me breed.
PER S.1. 109 I sought a husband, in which labour
PER S.1. 110 I found that kindness in a father.
PER S.1. 111 He's father, son, and husband mild;
PER S.1. 112 I mother, wife, and yet his child.
PER S.1. 113 How this may be and yet in two,
PER S.1. 114 As you will live resolve it you.
PER S.1. 115 Sharp physic is the last. {[Aside]} But O, you powers
PER S.1. 116 That gives heav'n countless eyes to view men's acts,
PER S.1. 117 Why cloud they not their sights perpetually
PER S.1. 118 If this be true which makes me pale to read it? {[He gazes on +
PER S.1. 118 the Daughter]}
PER S.1. 119 Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,
PER S.1. 120 Were not this glorious casket stored with ill.
PER S.1. 121 But I must tell you now my thoughts revolt,
PER S.1. 122 For he's no man on whom perfections wait
PER S.1. 123 That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate.
PER S.1. 124 You're a fair viol, and your sense the strings
PER S.1. 125 Who, fingered to make man his lawful music,
PER S.1. 126 Would draw heav'n down and all the gods to hearken,
PER S.1. 127 But, being played upon before your time,
PER S.1. 128 Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime.
PER S.1. 129 Good sooth, I care not for you.
PER S.1. 130
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life,
PER S.1. 131 For that's an article within our law
PER S.1. 132 As dang'rous as the rest. Your time's expired.
PER S.1. 133 Either expound now, or receive your sentence.
PER S.1. 134A
PER-PERICLES
Great King,
PER S.1. 135 Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
PER S.1. 136 'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it.
PER S.1. 137 Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
PER S.1. 138 He's more secure to keep it shut than shown,
PER S.1. 139 For vice repeated, like the wand'ring wind,
PER S.1. 140 Blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself;
PER S.1. 141 And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
PER S.1. 142 The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
PER S.1. 143 To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts
PER S.1. 144 Copped hills towards heav'n to tell the earth is thronged
PER S.1. 145 By man's oppression, and the poor worm doth die for 't.
PER S.1. 146 Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will,
PER S.1. 147 And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?
PER S.1. 148 It is enough you know, and it is fit,
PER S.1. 149 What being more known grows worse, to smother it.
PER S.1. 150 All love the womb that their first being bred;
PER S.1. 151 Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.
PER S.1. 152
PER-ANTIOCHUS
{(aside)} Heav'n, that I had thy head! +
PER S.1. 152 He's found the meaning.
PER S.1. 153 But I will gloze with him. - Young Prince of Tyre,
PER S.1. 154 Though by the tenor of our strict edict,
PER S.1. 155 Your exposition misinterpreting,
PER S.1. 156 We might proceed to cancel of your days,
PER S.1. 157 Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree
PER S.1. 158 As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise.
PER S.1. 159 Forty days longer we do respite you,
PER S.1. 160 If by which time our secret be undone,
PER S.1. 161 This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son.
PER S.1. 162 And until then your entertain shall be
PER S.1. 163 As doth befit your worth and our degree. {[Flourish.] Exeunt all +
PER S.1. 163 but Pericles}
PER S.1. 164
PER-PERICLES
How courtesy would seem to cover sin
PER S.1. 165 When what is done is like an hypocrite,
PER S.1. 166 The which is good in nothing but in sight.
PER S.1. 167 If it be true that I interpret false,
PER S.1. 168 Then were it certain you were not so bad
PER S.1. 169 As with foul incest to abuse your soul,
PER S.1. 170 Where now you're both a father and a son
PER S.1. 171 By your uncomely claspings with your child -
PER S.1. 172 Which pleasures fits a husband, not a father -
PER S.1. 173 And she, an eater of her mother's flesh,
PER S.1. 174 By the defiling of her parents' bed,
PER S.1. 175 And both like serpents are, who though they feed
PER S.1. 176 On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.
PER S.1. 177 Antioch, farewell, for wisdom sees those men
PER S.1. 178 Blush not in actions blacker than the night
PER S.1. 179 Will 'schew no course to keep them from the light.
PER S.1. 180 One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
PER S.1. 181 Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.
PER S.1. 182 Poison and treason are the hands of sin,
PER S.1. 183 Ay, and the targets to put off the shame.
PER S.1. 184 Then, lest my life be cropped to keep you clear,
PER S.1. 185 By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear. {Exit}
PER S.1. 186 {Enter Antiochus}
PER-ANTIOCHUS
He hath found the +
PER S.1. 186 meaning, for the which we mean
PER S.1. 187 To have his head. He must not live
PER S.1. 188 To trumpet forth my infamy, nor tell the world
PER S.1. 189 Antiochus doth sin in such a loathed manner,
PER S.1. 190 And therefore instantly this prince must die,
PER S.1. 191 For by his fall my honour must keep high.
PER S.1. 192B Who attends us there? {Enter Thaliart}
PER-THALIART
+
PER S.1. 192B Doth your highness call?
PER S.1. 193
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Thaliart, you are of our chamber, Thaliart,
PER S.1. 194 And to your secrecy our mind partakes
PER S.1. 195 Her private actions. For your faithfulness
PER S.1. 196 We will advance you, Thaliart. Behold,
PER S.1. 197 Here's poison, and here's gold.
PER S.1. 198 We hate the Prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him.
PER S.1. 199 It fits thee not to ask the reason. Why?
PER S.1. 200 Because we bid it. Say, is it done?
PER S.1. 201A
PER-THALIART
My lord, 'tis done.
PER S.1. 202A
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Enough. {Enter a Messenger hastily}
PER S.1. 203 Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste.
PER S.1. 204
PER-MESSENGER
Your majesty, Prince Pericles is fled. {[Exit]}
PER S.1. 205
PER-ANTIOCHUS
{(to Thaliart)} As thou wilt live, fly +
PER S.1. 205 after; like an arrow
PER S.1. 206 Shot from a well-experienced archer hits
PER S.1. 207 The mark his eye doth level at, so thou
PER S.1. 208 Never return unless it be to say
PER S.1. 209 `Your majesty, Prince Pericles is dead.'
PER S.1. 210
PER-THALIART
If I can get him in my pistol's length
PER S.1. 211 I'll make him sure enough. Farewell, your highness.
PER S.1. 212B
PER-ANTIOCHUS
Thaliart, adieu. {[Exit Thaliart]} Till +
PER S.1. 212B Pericles be dead
PER S.1. 213 My heart can lend no succour to my head. {Exit. [The heads are +
PER S.1. 213 concealed]}
PER S.1. 0 {Enter Pericles, distempered, with his lords}
PER S.2. 1B
PER-PERICLES
Let none disturb us. {Exeunt +
PER S.2. 1B lords} Why should this change of thoughts,
PER S.2. 2 The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,
PER S.2. 3 Be my so used a guest as not an hour
PER S.2. 4 In the day's glorious walk or peaceful night,
PER S.2. 5 The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?
PER S.2. 6 Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,
PER S.2. 7 And danger, which I feared, 's at Antioch,
PER S.2. 8 Whose arm seems far too short to hit me here.
PER S.2. 9 Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,
PER S.2. 10 Nor yet care's author's distance comfort me.
PER S.2. 11 Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,
PER S.2. 12 That have their first conception by misdread,
PER S.2. 13 Have after-nourishment and life by care,
PER S.2. 14 And what was first but fear what might be done
PER S.2. 15 Grows elder now, and cares it be not done.
PER S.2. 16 And so with me. The great Antiochus,
PER S.2. 17 'Gainst whom I am too little to contend,
PER S.2. 18 Since he's so great can make his will his act,
PER S.2. 19 Will think me speaking though I swear to silence,
PER S.2. 20 Nor boots it me to say I honour him
PER S.2. 21 If he suspect I may dishonour him.
PER S.2. 22 And what may make him blush in being known,
PER S.2. 23 He'll stop the course by which it might be known.
PER S.2. 24 With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land,
PER S.2. 25 And with th' ostent of war will look so huge
PER S.2. 26 Amazement shall drive courage from the state,
PER S.2. 27 Our men be vanquished ere they do resist,
PER S.2. 28 And subjects punished that ne'er thought offence,
PER S.2. 29 Which care of them, not pity of myself,
PER S.2. 30 Who am no more but as the tops of trees
PER S.2. 31 Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,
PER S.2. 32 Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,
PER S.2. 33 And punish that before that he would punish. {Enter all the +
PER S.2. 33 Lords, among them old Helicanus, to Pericles}
PER S.2. 34
PER-FIRST LORD
Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!
PER S.2. 35
PER-SECOND LORD
And keep your mind peaceful and comfortable.
PER S.2. 36
PER-HELICANUS
Peace, peace, and give experience tongue.
PER S.2. 37 {(To Pericles)} You do not well so to abuse yourself,
PER S.2. 38 To waste your body here with pining sorrow,
PER S.2. 39 Upon whose safety doth depend the lives
PER S.2. 40 And the prosperity of a whole kingdom.
PER S.2. 41 'Tis ill in you to do it, and no less
PER S.2. 42 Ill in your council not to contradict it.
PER S.2. 43 They do abuse the King that flatter him,
PER S.2. 44 For flatt'ry is the bellows blows up sin;
PER S.2. 45 The thing the which is flattered, but a spark,
PER S.2. 46 To which that wind gives heat and stronger glowing;
PER S.2. 47 Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,
PER S.2. 48 Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.
PER S.2. 49 When Signor Sooth here does proclaim a peace
PER S.2. 50 He flatters you, makes war upon your life. {[He kneels]}
PER S.2. 51 Prince, pardon me, or strike me if you please.
PER S.2. 52 I cannot be much lower than my knees.
PER S.2. 53
PER-PERICLES
All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook
PER S.2. 54 What shipping and what lading's in our haven,
PER S.2. 55B And then return to us. {Exeunt Lords} Helicane, thou
PER S.2. 56 Hast moved us. What seest thou in our looks?
PER S.2. 57A
PER-HELICANUS
An angry brow, dread lord.
PER S.2. 58
PER-PERICLES
If there be such a dart in princes' frowns,
PER S.2. 59 How durst thy tongue move anger to our brows?
PER S.2. 60
PER-HELICANUS
How dares the plants look up to heav'n from whence
PER S.2. 61 They have their nourishment?
PER S.2. 62
PER-PERICLES
Thou knowest I have pow'r to take thy life from thee.
PER S.2. 63
PER-HELICANUS
I have ground the axe myself; do you but strike the blow.
PER S.2. 64
PER-PERICLES
{[lifting him up]} Rise, prithee, rise. +
PER S.2. 64 Sit down. Thou art no flatterer,
PER S.2. 65 I thank thee for it, and the heav'ns forbid
PER S.2. 66 That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid.
PER S.2. 67 Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,
PER S.2. 68 Who by thy wisdom mak'st a prince thy servant,
PER S.2. 69B What wouldst thou have me do?
PER-HELICANUS
To bear with patience
PER S.2. 70 Such griefs as you do lay upon yourself.
PER S.2. 71
PER-PERICLES
Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,
PER S.2. 72 That ministers a potion unto me
PER S.2. 73 That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.
PER S.2. 74 Attend me, then. I went to Antioch,
PER S.2. 75 Where, as thou know'st, against the face of death
PER S.2. 76 I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty
PER S.2. 77 From whence an issue I might propagate,
PER S.2. 78 As children are heav'n's blessings: to parents, objects;
PER S.2. 79 Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects.
PER S.2. 80 Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder,
PER S.2. 81 The rest - hark in thine ear - as black as incest,
PER S.2. 82 Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father
PER S.2. 83 Seemed not to strike, but smooth. But thou know'st this,
PER S.2. 84 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seems to kiss;
PER S.2. 85 Which fear so grew in me I hither fled
PER S.2. 86 Under the covering of careful night,
PER S.2. 87 Who seemed my good protector, and being here
PER S.2. 88 Bethought me what was past, what might succeed.
PER S.2. 89 I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears
PER S.2. 90 Decrease not, but grow faster than the years.
PER S.2. 91 And should he doubt - as doubt no doubt he doth -
PER S.2. 92 That I should open to the list'ning air
PER S.2. 93 How many worthy princes' bloods were shed
PER S.2. 94 To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,
PER S.2. 95 To lop that doubt he'll fill this land with arms,
PER S.2. 96 And make pretence of wrong that I have done him,
PER S.2. 97 When all for mine - if I may call - offence
PER S.2. 98 Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence;
PER S.2. 99 Which love to all, of which thyself art one,
PER S.2. 100B Who now reproved'st me for 't -
PER-HELICANUS
Alas, sir.
PER S.2. 101
PER-PERICLES
Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,
PER S.2. 102 Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts,
PER S.2. 103 How I might stop this tempest ere it came,
PER S.2. 104 And, finding little comfort to relieve them,
PER S.2. 105 I thought it princely charity to grieve them.
PER S.2. 106
PER-HELICANUS
Well, my lord, since you have giv'n me leave to speak,
PER S.2. 107 Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,
PER S.2. 108 And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,
PER S.2. 109 Who either by public war or private treason
PER S.2. 110 Will take away your life.
PER S.2. 111 Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,
PER S.2. 112 Till that his rage and anger be forgot,
PER S.2. 113 Or destinies do cut his thread of life.
PER S.2. 114 Your rule direct to any; if to me,
PER S.2. 115 Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be.
PER S.2. 116A
PER-PERICLES
I do not doubt thy faith,
PER S.2. 117 But should he in my absence wrong thy liberties?
PER S.2. 118
PER-HELICANUS
We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth
PER S.2. 119 From whence we had our being and our birth.
PER S.2. 120
PER-PERICLES
Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus
PER S.2. 121 Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee,
PER S.2. 122 And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.
PER S.2. 123 The care I had and have of subjects' good
PER S.2. 124 On thee I lay, whose wisdom's strength can bear it.
PER S.2. 125 I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;
PER S.2. 126 Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
PER S.2. 127 But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe
PER S.2. 128 That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince:
PER S.2. 129 Thou showed'st a subject's shine, I a true prince. {Exeunt}
PER S.2. 0 {Enter Thaliart}
PER S.3. 1
PER-THALIART
So this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must
PER S.3. 2 I kill King Pericles, and if I do it and am caught I am
PER S.3. 3 like to be hanged abroad, but if I do it not, I am sure
PER S.3. 4 to be hanged at home. 'Tis dangerous. Well, I perceive
PER S.3. 5 he was a wise fellow and had good discretion that,
PER S.3. 6 being bid to ask what he would of the King, desired he
PER S.3. 7 might know none of his secrets. Now do I see he had
PER S.3. 8 some reason for 't, for if a king bid a man be a villain,
PER S.3. 9 he's bound by the indenture of his oath to be one.
PER S.3. 10 Hush, here comes the lords of Tyre. {Enter Helicanus and +
PER S.3. 10 Aeschines, with other lords}
PER S.3. 11
PER-HELICANUS
You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,
PER S.3. 12 Further to question of your King's departure.
PER S.3. 13 His sealed commission left in trust with me
PER S.3. 14 Does speak sufficiently he's gone to travel.
PER S.3. 15
PER-THALIART
{(aside)} How? The King gone?
PER S.3. 16
PER-HELICANUS
If further yet you will be satisfied
PER S.3. 17 Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,
PER S.3. 18 He would depart, I'll give some light unto you.
PER S.3. 19B Being at Antioch -
PER-THALIART
{(aside)} What from +
PER S.3. 19B Antioch?
PER S.3. 20
PER-HELICANUS
Royal Antiochus, on what cause I know not,
PER S.3. 21 Took some displeasure at him - at least he judged so -
PER S.3. 22 And doubting lest that he had erred or sinned,
PER S.3. 23 To show his sorrow he'd correct himself;
PER S.3. 24 So puts himself unto the ship-man's toil,
PER S.3. 25 With whom each minute threatens life or death.
PER S.3. 26
PER-THALIART
{(aside)} Well, I perceive I shall not be +
PER S.3. 26 hanged now,
PER S.3. 27 Although I would.
PER S.3. 28 But since he's gone, the King's ears it must please
PER S.3. 29 He scaped the land to perish on the seas.
PER S.3. 30 I'll present myself. - Peace to the lords of Tyre.
PER S.3. 31 Lord Thaliart am I, of Antioch.
PER S.3. 32
PER-[HELICANUS]
Lord Thaliart of Antioch is welcome.
PER S.3. 33
PER-THALIART
From King Antiochus I come
PER S.3. 34 With message unto princely Pericles,
PER S.3. 35 But since my landing I have understood
PER S.3. 36 Your lord's betook himself to unknown travels.
PER S.3. 37 Now my message must return from whence it came.
PER S.3. 38
PER-HELICANUS
We have no reason to enquire it,
PER S.3. 39 Commended to our master, not to us.
PER S.3. 40 Yet ere you shall depart, this we desire:
PER S.3. 41 As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre. {Exeunt}
PER S.3. 0 {Enter Cleon, the Governor of Tarsus, with Dionyza his +
PER S.4. 0 wife, and others}
PER S.4. 1
PER-CLEON
My Dionyza, shall we rest us here
PER S.4. 2 And, by relating tales of others' griefs,
PER S.4. 3 See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?
PER S.4. 4
PER-DIONYZA
That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it,
PER S.4. 5 For who digs hills because they do aspire
PER S.4. 6 Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
PER S.4. 7 O my distressed lord, e'en such our griefs are;
PER S.4. 8 Here they're but felt and seen with midges' eyes,
PER S.4. 9 But like to groves, being topped they higher rise.
PER S.4. 10A
PER-CLEON
O Dionyza,
PER S.4. 11 Who wanteth food and will not say he wants it,
PER S.4. 12 Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?
PER S.4. 13 Our tongues our sorrows dictate to sound deep
PER S.4. 14 Our woes into the air, our eyes to weep
PER S.4. 15 Till lungs fetch breath that may proclaim them louder,
PER S.4. 16 That, if heav'n slumber while their creatures want,
PER S.4. 17 They may awake their helps to comfort them.
PER S.4. 18 I'll then discourse our woes, felt sev'ral years,
PER S.4. 19 And, wanting breath to speak, help me with tears.
PER S.4. 20A
PER-DIONYZA
As you think best, sir.
PER S.4. 21
PER-CLEON
This Tarsus o'er which I have the government,
PER S.4. 22 A city o'er whom plenty held full hand,
PER S.4. 23 For riches strewed herself ev'n in the streets,
PER S.4. 24 Whose tow'rs bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,
PER S.4. 25 And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at,
PER S.4. 26 Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned
PER S.4. 27 Like one another's glass to trim them by;
PER S.4. 28 Their tables were stored full to glad the sight,
PER S.4. 29 And not so much to feed on as delight.
PER S.4. 30 All poverty was scorned, and pride so great
PER S.4. 31 The name of help grew odious to repeat.
PER S.4. 32A
PER-DIONYZA
O, 'tis too true.
PER S.4. 33
PER-CLEON
But see what heav'n can do by this our change.
PER S.4. 34 Those mouths who but of late earth, sea, and air
PER S.4. 35 Were all too little to content and please,
PER S.4. 36 Although they gave their creatures in abundance,
PER S.4. 37 As houses are defiled for want of use,
PER S.4. 38 They are now starved for want of exercise.
PER S.4. 39 Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,
PER S.4. 40 Must have inventions to delight the taste
PER S.4. 41 Would now be glad of bread and beg for it.
PER S.4. 42 Those mothers who to nuzzle up their babes
PER S.4. 43 Thought naught too curious are ready now
PER S.4. 44 To eat those little darlings whom they loved.
PER S.4. 45 So sharp are hunger's teeth that man and wife
PER S.4. 46 Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life.
PER S.4. 47 Here weeping stands a lord, there lies a lady dying,
PER S.4. 48 Here many sink, yet those which see them fall
PER S.4. 49 Have scarce strength left to give them burial.
PER S.4. 50 Is not this true?
PER S.4. 51
PER-DIONYZA
Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.
PER S.4. 52
PER-CLEON
O, let those cities that of plenty's cup
PER S.4. 53 And her prosperities so largely taste
PER S.4. 54 With their superfluous riots, heed these tears!
PER S.4. 55 The misery of Tarsus may be theirs. {Enter a [fainting] Lord of +
PER S.4. 55 Tarsus [slowly]}
PER S.4. 56A
PER-LORD
Where's the Lord Governor?
PER S.4. 57
PER-CLEON
Here. Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste,
PER S.4. 58 For comfort is too far for us t' expect.
PER S.4. 59
PER-LORD
We have descried upon our neighbouring shore
PER S.4. 60 A portly sail of ships make hitherward.
PER S.4. 61A
PER-CLEON
I thought as much.
PER S.4. 62 One sorrow never comes but brings an heir
PER S.4. 63 That may succeed as his inheritor,
PER S.4. 64 And so in ours. Some neighbour nation,
PER S.4. 65 Taking advantage of our misery,
PER S.4. 66 Hath stuffed these hollow vessels with their power
PER S.4. 67 To beat us down, the which are down already,
PER S.4. 68 And make a conquest of unhappy men,
PER S.4. 69 Whereas no glory's got to overcome.
PER S.4. 70
PER-LORD
That's the least fear, for by the semblance
PER S.4. 71 Of their white flags displayed they bring us peace,
PER S.4. 72 And come to us as favourers, not foes.
PER S.4. 73
PER-CLEON
Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat;
PER S.4. 74 Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
PER S.4. 75 But bring they what they will and what they can,
PER S.4. 76 What need we fear?
PER S.4. 77 Our grave's the low'st, and we are half-way there.
PER S.4. 78 Go tell their gen'ral we attend him here
PER S.4. 79 To know for what he comes, and whence he comes.
PER S.4. 80A
PER-LORD
I go, my lord. {Exit}
PER S.4. 81
PER-CLEON
Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;
PER S.4. 82 If wars, we are unable to resist. {Enter [the Lord again +
PER S.4. 82 conducting] Pericles with attendants}
PER S.4. 83
PER-PERICLES
{(to Cleon)} Lord Governor, for so we +
PER S.4. 83 hear you are,
PER S.4. 84 Let not our ships and number of our men
PER S.4. 85 Be like a beacon fixed t' amaze your eyes.
PER S.4. 86 We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,
PER S.4. 87 Since entering your unshut gates have witnessed
PER S.4. 88 The widowed desolation of your streets;
PER S.4. 89 Nor come we to add sorrow to your hearts,
PER S.4. 90 But to relieve them of their heavy load;
PER S.4. 91 And these our ships, you happily may think
PER S.4. 92 Are like the Trojan horse was fraught within
PER S.4. 93 With bloody veins importing overthrow,
PER S.4. 94 Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,
PER S.4. 95 And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.
PER S.4. 96
PER-ALL OF TARSUS
{[falling on their knees and +
PER S.4. 96 weeping]} The gods of Greece protect you, and we'll pray for +
PER S.4. 96 you!
PER S.4. 97A
PER-PERICLES
Arise, I pray you, rise.
PER S.4. 98 We do not look for reverence but for love,
PER S.4. 99 And harbourage for me, my ships and men.
PER S.4. 100
PER-CLEON
The which when any shall not gratify,
PER S.4. 101 Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,
PER S.4. 102 Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,
PER S.4. 103 The curse of heav'n and men succeed their evils!
PER S.4. 104 Till when - the which I hope shall ne'er be seen -
PER S.4. 105 Your grace is welcome to our town and us.
PER S.4. 106
PER-PERICLES
Which welcome we'll accept, feast here a while,
PER S.4. 107 Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. {Exeunt}
PER S.4. 0 {Enter Gower}
PER S.5. 1
PER-GOWER
Here have you seen a mighty king
PER S.5. 2 His child, iwis, to incest bring;
PER S.5. 3 A better prince and benign lord
PER S.5. 4 Prove awe-full both in deed and word.
PER S.5. 5 Be quiet then, as men should be,
PER S.5. 6 Till he hath passed necessity.
PER S.5. 7 I'll show you those in trouble's reign,
PER S.5. 8 Losing a mite, a mountain gain.
PER S.5. 9 The good in conversation,
PER S.5. 10 To whom I give my benison,
PER S.5. 11 Is still at Tarsus where each man
PER S.5. 12 Thinks all is writ he speken can,
PER S.5. 13 And to remember what he does
PER S.5. 14 His statue build to make him glorious.
PER S.5. 15 But tidings to the contrary
PER S.5. 16 Are brought your eyes. What need speak I?
PER S.5. 17 {Dumb show.} {Enter at one door Pericles talking with +
PER S.5. 17 Cleon, all the train with them. Enter at another door a gentleman with +
PER S.5. 17 a letter to Pericles. Pericles shows the letter to Cleon. Pericles +
PER S.5. 17 gives the messenger a reward, and knights him. Exeunt with their trains +
PER S.5. 17 Pericles at one door and Cleon at another} Good Helicane that +
PER S.5. 17 stayed at home,
PER S.5. 18 Not to eat honey like a drone
PER S.5. 19 From others' labours, for that he strive
PER S.5. 20 To killen bad, keep good alive,
PER S.5. 21 And to fulfil his prince' desire
PER S.5. 22 Sent word of all that haps in Tyre;
PER S.5. 23 How Thaliart came full bent with sin
PER S.5. 24 And hid intent to murdren him,
PER S.5. 25 And that in Tarsus was not best
PER S.5. 26 Longer for him to make his rest.
PER S.5. 27 He deeming so put forth to seas,
PER S.5. 28 Where when men been there's seldom ease,
PER S.5. 29 For now the wind begins to blow;
PER S.5. 30 Thunder above and deeps below
PER S.5. 31 Makes such unquiet that the ship
PER S.5. 32 Should house him safe is wrecked and split,
PER S.5. 33 And he, good prince, having all lost,
PER S.5. 34 By waves from coast to coast is tossed.
PER S.5. 35 All perishen of man, of pelf,
PER S.5. 36 Ne aught escapend but himself,
PER S.5. 37 Till fortune, tired with doing bad,
PER S.5. 38 Threw him ashore to give him glad. {[Enter Pericles wet and +
PER S.5. 38 half-naked]}
PER S.5. 39 And here he comes. What shall be next
PER S.5. 40 Pardon old Gower; this 'longs the text. {Exit}
PER S.5. 41 {[Thunder and lightning]}
PER-PERICLES
Yet cease your +
PER S.5. 41 ire, you angry stars of heaven!
PER S.5. 42 Wind, rain, and thunder, remember earthly man
PER S.5. 43 Is but a substance that must yield to you,
PER S.5. 44 And I, as fits my nature, do obey you.
PER S.5. 45 Alas, the seas hath cast me on the rocks,
PER S.5. 46 Washed me from shore to shore, and left my breath
PER S.5. 47 Nothing to think on but ensuing death.
PER S.5. 48 Let it suffice the greatness of your powers
PER S.5. 49 To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes,
PER S.5. 50 And, having thrown him from your wat'ry grave,
PER S.5. 51 Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave. {[He sits.]}
PER S.5. 52 {Enter two poor Fishermen: one the Master, the other his man}
PER-MASTER
+
PER S.5. 52 {[calling]} What ho, Pilch!
PER S.5. 53
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
{[calling]} Ha, come and bring +
PER S.5. 53 away the
PER S.5. 54 nets.
PER S.5. 55
PER-MASTER
{[calling]} What, Patchbreech, I say!+
PER S.5. 55 {[Enter a Third rough Fisherman with a hood upon his head and a filthy +
PER S.5. 55 leathern pelt upon his back, unseemly clad, and homely to behold. He +
PER S.5. 55 brings nets to dry and repair]}
PER S.5. 56
PER-THIRD FISHERMAN
What say you, master?
PER S.5. 57
PER-MASTER
Look how thou stirrest now. Come away, or I'll
PER S.5. 58 fetch th' with a wanion.
PER S.5. 59
PER-THIRD FISHERMAN
Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor
PER S.5. 60 men that were cast away before us even now.
PER S.5. 61
PER-MASTER
Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what
PER S.5. 62 pitiful cries they made to us to help them when, well-
PER S.5. 63 a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.
PER S.5. 64
PER-THIRD FISHERMAN
Nay, master, said not I as much when
PER S.5. 65 I saw the porpoise how he bounced and tumbled? They
PER S.5. 66 say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them, they
PER S.5. 67 ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I marvel
PER S.5. 68 how the fishes live in the sea.
PER S.5. 69
PER-MASTER
Why, as men do a-land - the great ones eat up
PER S.5. 70 the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing
PER S.5. 71 so fitly as to a whale: a plays and tumbles, driving the
PER S.5. 72 poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a
PER S.5. 73 mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o' th' land, who
PER S.5. 74 never leave gaping till they swallowed the whole parish:
PER S.5. 75 church, steeple, bells, and all.
PER S.5. 76A
PER-PERICLES
{(aside)} A pretty moral.
PER S.5. 77
PER-THIRD FISHERMAN
But, master, if I had been the sexton,
PER S.5. 78 I would have been that day in the belfry.
PER S.5. 79
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Why, man?
PER S.5. 80
PER-THIRD FISHERMAN
Because he should have swallowed me,
PER S.5. 81 too, and when I had been in his belly I would have
PER S.5. 82 kept such a jangling of the bells that he should never
PER S.5. 83 have left till he cast bells, steeple, church, and parish
PER S.5. 84 up again. But if the good King Simonides were of my
PER S.5. 85 mind -
PER S.5. 86A
PER-PERICLES
{(aside)} Simonides?
PER S.5. 87
PER-THIRD FISHERMAN
We would purge the land of these
PER S.5. 88 drones that rob the bee of her honey.
PER S.5. 89
PER-PERICLES
{(aside)} How from the finny subject of +
PER S.5. 89 the sea
PER S.5. 90 These fishers tell th' infirmities of men,
PER S.5. 91 And from their wat'ry empire recollect
PER S.5. 92 All that may men approve or men detect!
PER S.5. 93 {[Coming forward]} Peace be at your labour, honest +
PER S.5. 93 fishermen.
PER S.5. 94
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Honest, good fellow? What's that? If
PER S.5. 95 it be a day fits you, scratch 't out of the calendar, and
PER S.5. 96 nobody look after it.
PER S.5. 97
PER-PERICLES
May see the sea hath cast upon your coast -
PER S.5. 98
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
What a drunken knave was the sea
PER S.5. 99 to cast thee in our way!
PER S.5. 100
PER-PERICLES
A man, whom both the waters and the wind
PER S.5. 101 In that vast tennis-court hath made the ball
PER S.5. 102 For them to play upon, entreats you pity him.
PER S.5. 103 He asks of you that never used to beg.
PER S.5. 104
PER-MASTER
No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our
PER S.5. 105 country of Greece gets more with begging than we can
PER S.5. 106 do with working.
PER S.5. 107
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Canst thou catch any fishes, then?
PER S.5. 108A
PER-PERICLES
I never practised it.
PER S.5. 109
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for
PER S.5. 110 here's nothing to be got nowadays unless thou canst
PER S.5. 111 fish for 't.
PER S.5. 112
PER-PERICLES
What I have been, I have forgot to know,
PER S.5. 113 But what I am, want teaches me to think on:
PER S.5. 114 A man thronged up with cold; my veins are chill,
PER S.5. 115 And have no more of life than may suffice
PER S.5. 116 To give my tongue that heat to crave your help,
PER S.5. 117 Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,
PER S.5. 118 For that I am a man, pray see me buried. {[He falls down]}
PER S.5. 119
PER-MASTER
Die, quotha? Now, gods forbid 't an I have a gown
PER S.5. 120 here! {[To Pericles, lifting him up from the ground]} +
PER S.5. 120 Come,
PER S.5. 121 put it on, keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a handsome
PER S.5. 122 fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and we'll have flesh
PER S.5. 123 for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er
PER S.5. 124 puddings and flapjacks, and thou shalt be welcome.
PER S.5. 125A
PER-PERICLES
I thank you, sir.
PER S.5. 126
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Hark you, my friend, you said you
PER S.5. 127 could not beg?
PER S.5. 128A
PER-PERICLES
I did but crave.
PER S.5. 129
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
But crave? Then I'll turn craver too,
PER S.5. 130 an so I shall scape whipping.
PER S.5. 131A
PER-PERICLES
Why, are all your beggars whipped, then?
PER S.5. 132
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
O, not all, my friend, not all; for if +
PER S.5. 132 all
PER S.5. 133 your beggars were whipped I would wish no better
PER S.5. 134 office than to be beadle.
PER S.5. 135
PER-MASTER
Thine office, knave -
PER S.5. 136
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Is to draw up the other nets. I'll go. +
PER S.5. 136 {Exit with Third Fisherman}
PER S.5. 137
PER-PERICLES
{(aside)} How well this honest mirth +
PER S.5. 137 becomes their labour!
PER S.5. 138
PER-MASTER
{[seating himself by Pericles]} Hark you, +
PER S.5. 138 sir, do you
PER S.5. 139 know where ye are?
PER S.5. 140A
PER-PERICLES
Not well.
PER S.5. 141
PER-MASTER
Why, I'll tell you. This is called Pentapolis, and
PER S.5. 142 our king the good Simonides.
PER S.5. 143
PER-PERICLES
`The good Simonides' do you call him?
PER S.5. 144
PER-MASTER
Ay, sir, and he deserves so to be called for his
PER S.5. 145 peaceable reign and good government.
PER S.5. 146
PER-PERICLES
He is a happy king, since from his subjects
PER S.5. 147 He gains the name of good by his government.
PER S.5. 148 How far is his court distant from this shore?
PER S.5. 149
PER-MASTER
Marry, sir, some half a day's journey. And I'll
PER S.5. 150 tell you, he hath a fair daughter, and tomorrow is her
PER S.5. 151 birthday, and there are princes and knights come from
PER S.5. 152 all parts of the world to joust and tourney for her love.
PER S.5. 153
PER-PERICLES
Were but my fortunes answerable
PER S.5. 154 To my desires I could wish to make one there.
PER S.5. 155
PER-MASTER
O, sir, things must be as they may, and what a
PER S.5. 156 man cannot get himself, he may lawfully deal for with
PER S.5. 157 his wife's soul. {Enter the other two Fishermen drawing up a +
PER S.5. 157 net}
PER S.5. 158
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Help, master, help! Here's a fish hangs
PER S.5. 159 in the net like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill
PER S.5. 160 hardly come out. {[Before help comes, up comes their prize]}
PER S.5. 161 Ha, bots on 't, 'tis come at last, and 'tis turned to a
PER S.5. 162 rusty armour.
PER S.5. 163
PER-PERICLES
An armour, friends? I pray you let me see it.
PER S.5. 164 {(Aside)} Thanks, fortune, yet that after all thy +
PER S.5. 164 crosses
PER S.5. 165 Thou giv'st me somewhat to repair my losses,
PER S.5. 166 And though it was mine own, part of my heritage
PER S.5. 167 Which my dead father did bequeath to me
PER S.5. 168 With this strict charge ev'n as he left his life:
PER S.5. 169 `Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield
PER S.5. 170 'Twixt me and death,' and pointed to this brace,
PER S.5. 171 `For that it saved me, keep it. In like necessity,
PER S.5. 172 The which the Gods forfend, the same may defend thee.'
PER S.5. 173 It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it,
PER S.5. 174 Till the rough seas that spares not any man
PER S.5. 175 Took it in rage, though calmed have giv'n 't again.
PER S.5. 176 I thank thee for 't. My shipwreck now's no ill,
PER S.5. 177 Since I have here my father gave in 's will.
PER S.5. 178
PER-MASTER
What mean you, sir?
PER S.5. 179
PER-PERICLES
To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,
PER S.5. 180 For it was sometime target to a king.
PER S.5. 181 I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,
PER S.5. 182 And for his sake I wish the having of it,
PER S.5. 183 And that you'd guide me to your sov'reign's court,
PER S.5. 184 Where with 't I may appear a gentleman.
PER S.5. 185 And if that ever my low fortune's better,
PER S.5. 186 I'll pay your bounties, till then rest your debtor.
PER S.5. 187
PER-MASTER
Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?
PER S.5. 188
PER-PERICLES
I'll show the virtue I have learned in arms.
PER S.5. 189
PER-MASTER
Why, d' ye take it, and the gods give thee good
PER S.5. 190 on 't!
PER S.5. 191
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
Ay, but hark you, my friend, 'twas
PER S.5. 192 we that made up this garment through the rough
PER S.5. 193 seams of the waters. There are certain condolements,
PER S.5. 194 certain vails. I hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember
PER S.5. 195 from whence you had this.
PER S.5. 196A
PER-PERICLES
Believe 't, I will.
PER S.5. 197 By your furtherance I'm clothed in steel,
PER S.5. 198 And spite of all the rapture of the sea
PER S.5. 199 This jewel holds his building on my arm.
PER S.5. 200 Unto thy value I will mount myself
PER S.5. 201 Upon a courser whose delightsome steps
PER S.5. 202 Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
PER S.5. 203 Only, my friends, I yet am unprovided
PER S.5. 204 Of a pair of bases.
PER S.5. 205
PER-SECOND FISHERMAN
We'll sure provide. Thou shalt have
PER S.5. 206 my best gown to make thee a pair, and I'll bring thee
PER S.5. 207 to the court myself.
PER S.5. 208
PER-PERICLES
Then honour be but equal to my will,
PER S.5. 209 This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill. {Exeunt with nets +
PER S.5. 209 and armour}
PER S.5. 0 {[Sennet.] Enter King Simonides and Thaisa, with Lords in +
PER S.6. 0 attendance, [and sit on two thrones]}
PER S.6. 1
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Are the knights ready to begin the +
PER S.6. 1 triumph?
PER S.6. 2A
PER-FIRST LORD
They are, my liege,
PER S.6. 3 And stay your coming to present themselves.
PER S.6. 4
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Return them we are ready; and our daughter,
PER S.6. 5 In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,
PER S.6. 6 Sits here like beauty's child, whom nature gat
PER S.6. 7 For men to see and, seeing, wonder at. {[Exit one]}
PER S.6. 8
PER-THAISA
It pleaseth you, my father, to express
PER S.6. 9 My commendations great, whose merit's less.
PER S.6. 10
PER-KING SIMONIDES
It's fit it should be so, for princes are
PER S.6. 11 A model which heav'n makes like to itself.
PER S.6. 12 As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
PER S.6. 13 So princes their renown, if not respected.
PER S.6. 14 'Tis now your office, daughter, to entertain
PER S.6. 15 The labour of each knight in his device.
PER S.6. 16
PER-THAISA
Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform. +
PER S.6. 16 {[Flourish.] The first knight passes by [richly armed, and his page +
PER S.6. 16 before him, bearing his device on his shield, delivers it to the Lady +
PER S.6. 16 Thaisa]}
PER S.6. 17
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Who is the first that doth prefer himself?
PER S.6. 18
PER-THAISA
A knight of Sparta, my renowned father,
PER S.6. 19 And the device he bears upon his shield
PER S.6. 20 Is a black Ethiop reaching at the sun.
PER S.6. 21 The word, {Lux tua vita mihi}. {[She presents it to the King]}
PER S.6. 22
PER-KING SIMONIDES
He loves you well that holds his life of +
PER S.6. 22 you. {[He returns it to the page, who exits with the first +
PER S.6. 22 knight.]}
PER S.6. 23 {[Flourish.] The second knight passes by [richly armed, and his page +
PER S.6. 23 before him, bearing his device on his shield, delivers it to the Lady +
PER S.6. 23 Thaisa]} Who is the second that presents himself?
PER S.6. 24
PER-THAISA
A prince of Macedon, my royal father,
PER S.6. 25 And the device he bears upon his shield
PER S.6. 26 An armed knight that's conquered by a lady.
PER S.6. 27 The motto thus: {Piue per dolcezza che per forza}. {[She +
PER S.6. 27 presents it to the King]}
PER S.6. 28
PER-KING SIMONIDES
You win him more by lenity than +
PER S.6. 28 force. {[He returns it to the page, who exits with the second +
PER S.6. 28 knight.]}
PER S.6. 29B {[Flourish.] The third knight passes by [richly armed, and his page +
PER S.6. 29B before him, bearing his device on his shield, delivers it to the Lady +
PER S.6. 29B Thaisa]} And what's the third?
PER-THAISA
The third of Antioch,
PER S.6. 30 And his device a wreath of chivalry.
PER S.6. 31 The word, {Me pompae provexit apex}. {[She presents it to the +
PER S.6. 31 King]}
PER S.6. 32
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Desire of renown he doth devise,
PER S.6. 33 The which hath drawn him to this enterprise. {[He returns it to +
PER S.6. 33 the page, who exits with the third knight.]}
PER S.6. 34B {[Flourish.] The fourth knight passes by [richly armed, and his page +
PER S.6. 34B before him, bearing his device on his shield, delivers it to the Lady +
PER S.6. 34B Thaisa]} What is the fourth?
PER-THAISA
A knight of Athens +
PER S.6. 34B bearing
PER S.6. 35 A burning torch that's turned upside down.
PER S.6. 36 The word, {Qui me alit me extinguit}. {[She presents it to the +
PER S.6. 36 King]}
PER S.6. 37
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Which shows that beauty hath this power +
PER S.6. 37 and will,
PER S.6. 38 Which can as well inflame as it can kill. {[He returns it to the +
PER S.6. 38 page, who exits with the fourth knight.]}
PER S.6. 39B {[Flourish.] The fifth Knight passes by [richly armed, and his page +
PER S.6. 39B before him, bearing his device on his shield, delivers it to the Lady +
PER S.6. 39B Thaisa]} And who the fifth?
PER-THAISA
The fifth, a prince of +
PER S.6. 39B Corinth,
PER S.6. 40 Presents an hand environed with clouds,
PER S.6. 41 Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried.
PER S.6. 42 The motto thus: {Sic spectanda fides}. {[She presents it to the +
PER S.6. 42 King]}
PER S.6. 43
PER-KING SIMONIDES
So faith is to be looked into. {[He +
PER S.6. 43 returns it to the page, who exits with the fifth knight.]}
PER S.6. 44 {[Flourish.] The sixth knight, Pericles, in a rusty armour, who, having +
PER S.6. 44 neither page to deliver his shield nor shield to deliver, presents his +
PER S.6. 44 device unto the Lady Thaisa} And what's the sixth and last, +
PER S.6. 44 the which the knight himself
PER S.6. 45 With such a graceful courtesy delivereth?
PER S.6. 46
PER-THAISA
He seems to be a stranger, but his present is
PER S.6. 47 A withered branch that's only green at top.
PER S.6. 48 The motto, {In hac spe vivo}.
PER S.6. 49
PER-KING SIMONIDES
From the dejected state wherein he is
PER S.6. 50 He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.
PER S.6. 51
PER-FIRST LORD
He had need mean better than his outward show
PER S.6. 52 Can any way speak in his just commend,
PER S.6. 53 For by his rusty outside he appears
PER S.6. 54 T' have practised more the whipstock than the lance.
PER S.6. 55
PER-SECOND LORD
He well may be a stranger, for he comes
PER S.6. 56 Unto an honoured triumph strangely furnished.
PER S.6. 57
PER-THIRD LORD
And on set purpose let his armour rust
PER S.6. 58 Until this day, to scour it in the dust.
PER S.6. 59
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
PER S.6. 60 The outward habit for the inward man. {[Cornetts]}
PER S.6. 61 But stay, the knights are coming. We will withdraw
PER S.6. 62 Into the gallery. {[Exeunt]}
PER S.6. 0 {[Cornetts and] great shouts [within], and all cry `The mean +
PER S.6. 0 knight!'}
PER-[A
stately banquet is brought in.] Enter King +
PER S.7. 0 Simonides, Thaisa [and their train at one door], and [at another door] +
PER S.7. 0 a Marshal [conducting] Pericles and the other knights from tilting}
PER S.7. 1
PER-KING SIMONIDES
{(to the knights)} To say you're +
PER S.7. 1 welcome were superfluous.
PER S.7. 2 To place upon the volume of your deeds
PER S.7. 3 As in a title page your worth in arms
PER S.7. 4 Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,
PER S.7. 5 Since every worth in show commends itself.
PER S.7. 6 Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
PER S.7. 7B You're princes, and my guests.
PER-THAISA
{(to +
PER S.7. 7B Pericles)} But you, my knight and guest;
PER S.7. 8 To whom this wreath of victory I give,
PER S.7. 9 And crown you king of this day's happiness.
PER S.7. 10
PER-PERICLES
'Tis more by fortune, lady, than my merit.
PER S.7. 11
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Call it by what you will, the day is yours,
PER S.7. 12 And here I hope is none that envies it.
PER S.7. 13 In framing artists art hath thus decreed,
PER S.7. 14 To make some good, but others to exceed.
PER S.7. 15 You are her laboured scholar. {(To Thaisa)} Come, queen +
PER S.7. 15 o' th' feast -
PER S.7. 16 For, daughter, so you are - here take your place.
PER S.7. 17 {(To Marshal)} Marshal the rest as they deserve their +
PER S.7. 17 grace.
PER S.7. 18
PER-KNIGHTS
We are honoured much by good Simonides.
PER S.7. 19
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Your presence glads our days; honour we love,
PER S.7. 20 For who hates honour hates the gods above.
PER S.7. 21B
PER-MARSHAL
{(to Pericles)} Sir, yonder is your +
PER S.7. 21B place.
PER-PERICLES
Some other is more fit.
PER S.7. 22
PER-FIRST KNIGHT
Contend not, sir, for we are gentlemen
PER S.7. 23 Have neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
PER S.7. 24 Envied the great, nor shall the low despise.
PER S.7. 25B
PER-PERICLES
You are right courteous knights.
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Sit, +
PER S.7. 25B sir, sit. {[Pericles sits directly over against the King and +
PER S.7. 25B Thaisa. The guests feed apace. Pericles sits still and eats nothing]}
PER S.7. 26 {[Aside]} By Jove I wonder, that is king of thoughts,
PER S.7. 27 These cates distaste me, he but thought upon.
PER S.7. 28
PER-THAISA
{[aside]} By Juno, that is queen of +
PER S.7. 28 marriage,
PER S.7. 29 I am amazed all viands that I eat
PER S.7. 30 Do seem unsavoury, wishing him my meat.
PER S.7. 31 {[To the King]} Sure he's a gallant gentleman.
PER S.7. 32
PER-KING SIMONIDES
He's but a country gentleman.
PER S.7. 33 He's done no more than other knights have done.
PER S.7. 34 He's broke a staff or so, so let it pass.
PER S.7. 35
PER-THAISA
{[aside]} To me he seems like diamond to +
PER S.7. 35 glass.
PER S.7. 36
PER-PERICLES
{[aside]} Yon king's to me like to my +
PER S.7. 36 father's picture,
PER S.7. 37 Which tells me in what glory once he was -
PER S.7. 38 Had princes sit like stars about his throne,
PER S.7. 39 And he the sun for them to reverence.
PER S.7. 40 None that beheld him but like lesser lights
PER S.7. 41 Did vail their crowns to his supremacy;
PER S.7. 42 Where now his son's a glow-worm in the night,
PER S.7. 43 The which hath fire in darkness, none in light;
PER S.7. 44 Whereby I see that time's the king of men;
PER S.7. 45 He's both their parent and he is their grave,
PER S.7. 46 And gives them what he will, not what they crave.
PER S.7. 47A
PER-KING SIMONIDES
What, are you merry, knights?
PER S.7. 48
PER-[THE OTHER KNIGHTS]
Who can be other in this royal presence?
PER S.7. 49
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Here with a cup that's stored unto the brim,
PER S.7. 50 As you do love, full to your mistress' lips,
PER S.7. 51B We drink this health to you.
PER-[THE OTHER KNIGHTS]
We thank your +
PER S.7. 51B grace.
PER S.7. 52
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Yet pause a while. Yon knight doth sit too +
PER S.7. 52 melancholy,
PER S.7. 53 As if the entertainment in our court
PER S.7. 54 Had not a show might countervail his worth.
PER S.7. 55B Note it not you, Thaisa?
PER-THAISA
What is 't to me, my father?
PER S.7. 56
PER-KING SIMONIDES
O, attend, my daughter. Princes in this
PER S.7. 57 Should live like gods above, who freely give
PER S.7. 58 To everyone that come to honour them.
PER S.7. 59 And princes not so doing are like gnats
PER S.7. 60 Which make a sound but, killed, are wondered at.
PER S.7. 61 Therefore to make his entertain more sweet,
PER S.7. 62 Here bear this standing-bowl of wine to him.
PER S.7. 63
PER-THAISA
Alas, my father, it befits not me
PER S.7. 64 Unto a stranger knight to be so bold.
PER S.7. 65 He may my proffer take for an offence,
PER S.7. 66 Since men take women's gifts for impudence.
PER S.7. 67
PER-KING SIMONIDES
How? Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else.
PER S.7. 68
PER-THAISA
{(aside)} Now, by the gods, he could not +
PER S.7. 68 please me better.
PER S.7. 69
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Furthermore, tell him we desire to know
PER S.7. 70 Of whence he is, his name and parentage. {[Thaisa bears the cup +
PER S.7. 70 to Pericles]}
PER S.7. 71
PER-THAISA
The King my father, sir, has drunk to you,
PER S.7. 72 Wishing it so much blood unto your life.
PER S.7. 73
PER-PERICLES
I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely. +
PER S.7. 73 {He pledges the King}
PER S.7. 74
PER-THAISA
And further he desires to know of you
PER S.7. 75 Of whence you are, your name and parentage.
PER S.7. 76
PER-PERICLES
A gentleman of Tyre, my name Pericles,
PER S.7. 77 My education been in arts and arms,
PER S.7. 78 Who, looking for adventures in the world,
PER S.7. 79 Was by the rough unconstant seas bereft
PER S.7. 80 Unfortunately both of ships and men,
PER S.7. 81 And after shipwreck driven upon this shore. {[Thaisa returns to +
PER S.7. 81 the King]}
PER S.7. 82
PER-THAISA
He thanks your grace, names himself Pericles,
PER S.7. 83 A gentleman of Tyre, who, seeking adventures,
PER S.7. 84 Was solely by misfortune of the seas
PER S.7. 85 Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.
PER S.7. 86
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Now by the gods I pity his mishaps,
PER S.7. 87 And will awake him from his melancholy. {[Simonides, rising from +
PER S.7. 87 his state, goes forthwith and embraces Pericles]}
PER S.7. 88 Be cheered, for what misfortune hath impaired you of,
PER S.7. 89 Fortune by my help can repair to you.
PER S.7. 90 My self and country both shall be your friends,
PER S.7. 91 And presently a goodly milk-white steed
PER S.7. 92 And golden spurs I first bestow upon you,
PER S.7. 93 The prizes due your merit, and ordained
PER S.7. 94 For this day's enterprise.
PER S.7. 95
PER-PERICLES
Your kingly courtesy I thankfully accept.
PER S.7. 96
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,
PER S.7. 97 And waste the time which looks for other revels.
PER S.7. 98 Ev'n in your armours, as you are addressed,
PER S.7. 99 Your limbs will well become a soldier's dance.
PER S.7. 100 I will not have excuse with saying this,
PER S.7. 101 `Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads',
PER S.7. 102 Since they love men in arms as well as beds. {The knights dance}
PER S.7. 103 So this was well asked, 'twas so well performed.
PER S.7. 104 Come, here's a lady that wants breathing too.
PER S.7. 105 {(To Pericles)} And I have heard, sir, that the +
PER S.7. 105 knights of Tyre
PER S.7. 106 Are excellent in making ladies trip,
PER S.7. 107 And that their measures are as excellent.
PER S.7. 108
PER-PERICLES
In those that practise them they are, my lord.
PER S.7. 109
PER-KING SIMONIDES
O, that's as much as you would be denied
PER S.7. 110 Of your fair courtesy. Unclasp, unclasp. {They dance}
PER S.7. 111 Thanks, gentlemen, to all. All have done well,
PER S.7. 112 {(To Pericles)} But you the best. - Lights, pages, to +
PER S.7. 112 conduct
PER S.7. 113 These knights unto their sev'ral lodgings. - Yours, sir,
PER S.7. 114 We have giv'n order should be next our own.
PER S.7. 115A
PER-PERICLES
I am at your grace's pleasure.
PER S.7. 116
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Princes, it is too late to talk of love,
PER S.7. 117 And that's the mark I know you level at.
PER S.7. 118 Therefore each one betake him to his rest;
PER S.7. 119 Tomorrow all for speeding do their best. {Exeunt [severally]}
PER S.7. 0 {Enter Helicanus and Aeschines}
PER S.8. 1
PER-HELICANUS
No, Aeschines, know this of me:
PER S.8. 2 Antiochus from incest lived not free,
PER S.8. 3 For which the most high gods, not minding longer
PER S.8. 4 To hold the vengeance that they had in store
PER S.8. 5 Due to this heinous capital offence,
PER S.8. 6 Even in the height and pride of all his glory,
PER S.8. 7 When he was seated in a chariot
PER S.8. 8 Of an inestimable value, and
PER S.8. 9 His daughter with him, both apparelled all in jewels,
PER S.8. 10 A fire from heaven came and shrivelled up
PER S.8. 11 Their bodies e'en to loathing, for they so stunk
PER S.8. 12 That all those eyes adored them ere their fall
PER S.8. 13 Scorn now their hands should give them burial.
PER S.8. 14B
PER-AESCHINES
'Twas very strange.
PER-HELICANUS
And yet but justice, for +
PER S.8. 14B though
PER S.8. 15 This king were great, his greatness was no guard
PER S.8. 16 To bar heav'n's shaft, but sin had his reward.
PER S.8. 17A
PER-AESCHINES
'Tis very true. {Enter three Lords, and stand +
PER S.8. 17A aside}
PER S.8. 18
PER-FIRST LORD
See, not a man in private conference
PER S.8. 19 Or council has respect with him but he.
PER S.8. 20
PER-SECOND LORD
It shall no longer grieve without reproof.
PER S.8. 21
PER-THIRD LORD
And cursed be he that will not second it.
PER S.8. 22
PER-FIRST LORD
Follow me, then. - Lord Helicane, a word.
PER S.8. 23
PER-HELICANUS
With me? And welcome. Happy day, my lords.
PER S.8. 24
PER-FIRST LORD
Know that our griefs are risen to the top,
PER S.8. 25 And now at length they overflow their banks.
PER S.8. 26
PER-HELICANUS
Your griefs? For what? Wrong not your prince you love.
PER S.8. 27
PER-FIRST LORD
Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane,
PER S.8. 28 But if the prince do live, let us salute him
PER S.8. 29 Or know what ground's made happy by his step,
PER S.8. 30 And be resolved he lives to govern us,
PER S.8. 31 Or dead, give 's cause to mourn his funeral
PER S.8. 32 And leave us to our free election.
PER S.8. 33
PER-SECOND LORD
Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure,
PER S.8. 34 And knowing this - kingdoms without a head,
PER S.8. 35 Like goodly buildings left without a roof,
PER S.8. 36 Soon fall to utter ruin - your noble self,
PER S.8. 37 That best know how to rule and how to reign,
PER S.8. 38 We thus submit unto as sovereign.
PER S.8. 39A
PER-ALL
{[kneeling]} Live, noble Helicane!
PER S.8. 40
PER-HELICANUS
By honour's cause, forbear your suffrages.
PER S.8. 41 If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear. {[The lords rise]}
PER S.8. 42 Take I your wish I leap into the seas
PER S.8. 43 Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease,
PER S.8. 44 But if I cannot win you to this love,
PER S.8. 45 A twelvemonth longer then let me entreat you
PER S.8. 46 Further to bear the absence of your king;
PER S.8. 47 If in which time expired he not return,
PER S.8. 48 I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.
PER S.8. 49 Go, seek your noble prince like noble subjects,
PER S.8. 50 And in your search spend your adventurous worth,
PER S.8. 51 Whom if you find and win unto return,
PER S.8. 52 You shall like diamonds sit about his crown.
PER S.8. 53
PER-FIRST LORD
To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield,
PER S.8. 54 And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,
PER S.8. 55 We with our travels will endeavour us.
PER S.8. 56 If in the world he live we'll seek him out;
PER S.8. 57 If in his grave he rest, we'll find him there.
PER S.8. 58
PER-HELICANUS
Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands.
PER S.8. 59 When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. {Exeunt}
PER S.8. 0 {Enter Pericles with Gentlemen with lights}
PER S.8a. 1B
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Here is your lodging, sir.
PER-PERICLES
+
PER S.8a. 1B Pray leave me private.
PER S.8a. 2 Only for instant solace pleasure me
PER S.8a. 3 With some delightful instrument, with which,
PER S.8a. 4 And with my former practice, I intend
PER S.8a. 5 To pass away the tediousness of night,
PER S.8a. 6B Though slumbers were more fitting.
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Presently. +
PER S.8a. 6B {Exit First Gentleman}
PER S.8a. 7
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Your will's obeyed in all things, for +
PER S.8a. 7 our master
PER S.8a. 8 Commanded you be disobeyed in nothing. {Enter First Gentleman +
PER S.8a. 8 with a stringed instrument}
PER S.8a. 9
PER-PERICLES
I thank you. Now betake you to your pillows,
PER S.8a. 10 And to the nourishment of quiet sleep. {Exeunt Gentlemen}
PER S.8a. 11 {Pericles plays and sings} Day - that hath still that +
PER S.8a. 11 sovereignty to draw back
PER S.8a. 12 The empire of the night, though for a while
PER S.8a. 13 In darkness she usurp - brings morning on.
PER S.8a. 14 I will go give his grace that salutation
PER S.8a. 15 Morning requires of me. {Exit with instrument}
PER S.8a. 0 {Enter King Simonides at one door reading of a letter, +
PER S.9. 0 the Knights enter [at another door] and meet him}
PER S.9. 1
PER-FIRST KNIGHT
Good morrow to the good Simonides.
PER S.9. 2
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Knights, from my daughter this I let you know:
PER S.9. 3 That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake
PER S.9. 4 A married life. Her reason to herself
PER S.9. 5 Is only known, which from her none can get.
PER S.9. 6
PER-SECOND KNIGHT
May we not have access to her, my lord?
PER S.9. 7
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Faith, by no means. It is impossible,
PER S.9. 8 She hath so strictly tied her to her chamber.
PER S.9. 9 One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's liv'ry.
PER S.9. 10 This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vowed,
PER S.9. 11 And on her virgin honour will not break it.
PER S.9. 12
PER-THIRD KNIGHT
Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves. +
PER S.9. 12 {Exeunt Knights}
PER S.9. 13
PER-KING SIMONIDES
So, they are well dispatched. Now to my +
PER S.9. 13 daughter's letter.
PER S.9. 14 She tells me here she'll wed the stranger knight,
PER S.9. 15 Or never more to view nor day nor light.
PER S.9. 16 I like that well. Nay, how absolute she's in 't,
PER S.9. 17 Not minding whether I dislike or no!
PER S.9. 18 Mistress, 'tis well, I do commend your choice,
PER S.9. 19 And will no longer have it be delayed. {Enter Pericles}
PER S.9. 20 Soft, here he comes. I must dissemble that
PER S.9. 21 In show, I have determined on in heart.
PER S.9. 22
PER-PERICLES
All fortune to the good Simonides.
PER S.9. 23
PER-KING SIMONIDES
To you as much, sir. I am beholden to you
PER S.9. 24 For your sweet music this last night. My ears,
PER S.9. 25 I do protest, were never better fed
PER S.9. 26 With such delightful pleasing harmony.
PER S.9. 27
PER-PERICLES
It is your grace's pleasure to commend,
PER S.9. 28B Not my desert.
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Sir, you are music's master.
PER S.9. 29
PER-PERICLES
The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.
PER S.9. 30
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Let me ask you one thing. What think you of my +
PER S.9. 30 daughter?
PER S.9. 31B
PER-PERICLES
A most virtuous princess.
PER-KING SIMONIDES
And fair, too, +
PER S.9. 31B is she not?
PER S.9. 32
PER-PERICLES
As a fair day in summer; wondrous fair.
PER S.9. 33
PER-KING SIMONIDES
My daughter, sir, thinks very well of you;
PER S.9. 34 So well indeed that you must be her master
PER S.9. 35 And she will be your scholar; therefore look to it.
PER S.9. 36
PER-PERICLES
I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.
PER S.9. 37
PER-KING SIMONIDES
She thinks not so. Peruse this writing else. +
PER S.9. 37 {He gives the letter to Pericles, who reads}
PER S.9. 38
PER-PERICLES
{(aside)} What's here? - a letter that she +
PER S.9. 38 loves the knight of Tyre?
PER S.9. 39 'Tis the King's subtlety to have my life. {[He prostrates +
PER S.9. 39 himself at the King's feet]}
PER S.9. 40 O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,
PER S.9. 41 A stranger and distressed gentleman
PER S.9. 42 That never aimed so high to love your daughter,
PER S.9. 43 But bent all offices to honour her.
PER S.9. 44 Never did thought of mine levy offence,
PER S.9. 45 Nor never did my actions yet commence
PER S.9. 46 A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.
PER S.9. 47B
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Thou liest like a traitor.
PER-PERICLES
+
PER S.9. 47B Traitor?
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Ay, traitor,
PER S.9. 48 That thus disguised art stol'n into my court
PER S.9. 49 With witchcraft of thy actions to bewitch
PER S.9. 50 The yielding spirit of my tender child.
PER S.9. 51
PER-PERICLES
{[rising]} Who calls me traitor, unless +
PER S.9. 51 it be the King,
PER S.9. 52 Ev'n in his bosom I will write the lie.
PER S.9. 53
PER-KING SIMONIDES
{(aside)} Now, by the gods, I do +
PER S.9. 53 applaud his courage.
PER S.9. 54
PER-PERICLES
My actions are as noble as my blood,
PER S.9. 55 That never relished of a base descent.
PER S.9. 56 I came unto your court in search of honour,
PER S.9. 57 And not to be a rebel to your state;
PER S.9. 58 And he that otherwise accounts of me,
PER S.9. 59 This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.
PER S.9. 60
PER-KING SIMONIDES
I shall prove otherwise, since both your practice
PER S.9. 61 And her consent therein is evident
PER S.9. 62 There, by my daughter's hand, as she can witness. {Enter Thaisa}
PER S.9. 63
PER-PERICLES
{(to Thaisa)} Then as you are as virtuous +
PER S.9. 63 as fair,
PER S.9. 64 By what you hope of heaven or desire
PER S.9. 65 By your best wishes here i' th' world fulfilled,
PER S.9. 66 Resolve your angry father if my tongue
PER S.9. 67 Did e'er solicit, or my hand subscribe
PER S.9. 68 To any syllable made love to you.
PER S.9. 69A
PER-THAISA
Why, sir, say if you had,
PER S.9. 70 Who takes offence at that would make me glad?
PER S.9. 71
PER-KING SIMONIDES
How, minion, are you so peremptory?
PER S.9. 72 {(Aside)} I am glad on 't. - Is this a fit match for you?
PER S.9. 73 A straggling Theseus, born we know not where,
PER S.9. 74 One that hath neither blood nor merit
PER S.9. 75 For thee to hope for, or himself to challenge
PER S.9. 76 Of thy perfections e'en the least allowance.
PER S.9. 77
PER-THAISA
{(kneeling)} Suppose his birth were base, +
PER S.9. 77 when that his life
PER S.9. 78 Shows that he is not so, yet he hath virtue,
PER S.9. 79 The very ground of all nobility,
PER S.9. 80 Enough to make him noble. I entreat you
PER S.9. 81 To remember that I am in love,
PER S.9. 82 The power of which love cannot be confined
PER S.9. 83 By th' power of your will. Most royal father,
PER S.9. 84 What with my pen I have in secret written
PER S.9. 85 With my tongue now I openly confirm,
PER S.9. 86 Which is I have no life but in his love,
PER S.9. 87 Nor any being but in joying of his worth.
PER S.9. 88
PER-KING SIMONIDES
Equals to equals, good to good is joined.
PER S.9. 89 This not being so, the bavin of your mind
PER S.9. 90 In rashness kindled must again be quenched,
PER S.9. 91 Or purchase our displeasure. - And for you, sir,
PER S.9. 92 First learn to know I banish you my court,
PER S.9. 93 And yet I scorn our rage should stoop so low.
PER S.9. 94 For your ambition, sir, I'll have your life.
PER S.9. 95
PER-THAISA
{(to Pericles)} For every drop of blood he +
PER S.9. 95 sheds of yours
PER S.9. 96 He'll draw another from his only child.
PER S.9. 97
PER-KING SIMONIDES
I'll tame you, yea, I'll bring you in subjection.
PER S.9. 98 Will you not having my consent
PER S.9. 99 Bestow your love and your affections
PER S.9. 100 Upon a stranger? - {(aside)} who for aught I know
PER S.9. 101 May be, nor can I think the contrary,
PER S.9. 102 As great in blood as I myself. {[He catches Thaisa rashly by the +
PER S.9. 102 hand]}
PER S.9. 103 Therefore hear you, mistress: either frame your will to +
PER S.9. 103 mine - {[He catches Pericles rashly by the hand]}
PER S.9. 104 And you, sir, hear you: either be ruled by me -
PER S.9. 105B Or I shall make you {[He claps their hands together]} +
PER S.9. 105B man and wife.
PER S.9. 106 Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too, {Pericles and +
PER S.9. 106 Thaisa kiss}
PER S.9. 107 And being joined, I'll thus your hopes destroy, {[He +
PER S.9. 107 parts them]}
PER S.9. 108 And for your further grief, God give you joy.
PER S.9. 109B What, are you pleased?
PER-THAISA
Yes, {(to Pericles)} +
PER S.9. 109B if you love me, sir.
PER S.9. 110
PER-PERICLES
Ev'n as my life my blood that fosters it.
PER S.9. 111B
PER-KING SIMONIDES
What, are you both agreed?
PER-PERICLES
PER-AND
PER-THAISA
+
PER S.9. 111B Yes, if 't please your majesty.
PER S.9. 112
PER-KING SIMONIDES
It pleaseth me so well that I will see you wed,
PER S.9. 113 Then with what haste you can, get you to bed. {Exeunt}
PER S.9. 0
PER S.9. 0 {Enter Gower}
PER S.10. 1
PER-GOWER
Now sleep y-slacked hath the rout,
PER S.10. 2 No din but snores the house about,
PER S.10. 3 Made louder by the o'erfed breast
PER S.10. 4 Of this most pompous marriage feast.
PER S.10. 5 The cat with eyne of burning coal
PER S.10. 6 Now couches fore the mouse's hole,
PER S.10. 7 And crickets sing at th' oven's mouth
PER S.10. 8 As the blither for their drouth.
PER S.10. 9 Hymen hath brought the bride to bed,
PER S.10. 10 Where by the loss of maidenhead
PER S.10. 11 A babe is moulded. Be attent,
PER S.10. 12 And time that is so briefly spent
PER S.10. 13 With your fine fancies quaintly eche.
PER S.10. 14 What's dumb in show, I'll plain with speech.
PER S.10. 15 {Dumb show.} {Enter Pericles and Simonides at one door +
PER S.10. 15 with attendants. A messenger comes [hastily] in to them, kneels, and +
PER S.10. 15 gives Pericles a letter. Pericles shows it Simonides; the lords kneel +
PER S.10. 15 to him. Then enter Thaisa with child, with Lychorida, a nurse. The +
PER S.10. 15 King shows her the letter. She rejoices. She and Pericles take leave of +
PER S.10. 15 her father and depart with Lychorida at one door; Simonides [and +
PER S.10. 15 attendants] depart at another} By many a dern and painful +
PER S.10. 15 perch
PER S.10. 16 Of Pericles the care-full search,
PER S.10. 17 By the four opposing coigns
PER S.10. 18 Which the world together joins,
PER S.10. 19 Is made with all due diligence
PER S.10. 20 That horse and sail and high expense
PER S.10. 21 Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre
PER S.10. 22 Fame answering the most strange enquire,
PER S.10. 23 To th' court of King Simonides
PER S.10. 24 Are letters brought, the tenor these:
PER S.10. 25 Antiochus and his daughter dead,
PER S.10. 26 The men of Tyrus on the head
PER S.10. 27 Of Helicanus would set on
PER S.10. 28 The crown of Tyre, but he will none.
PER S.10. 29 The mutiny there he hastes t' appease,
PER S.10. 30 Says to 'em if King Pericles
PER S.10. 31 Come not home in twice six moons
PER S.10. 32 He, obedient to their dooms,
PER S.10. 33 Will take the crown. The sum of this
PER S.10. 34 Brought hither to Pentapolis
PER S.10. 35 Y-ravished the regions round,
PER S.10. 36 And everyone with claps can sound
PER S.10. 37 `Our heir-apparent is a king!
PER S.10. 38 Who dreamt, who thought of such a thing?'
PER S.10. 39 Brief he must hence depart to Tyre;
PER S.10. 40 His queen with child makes her desire -
PER S.10. 41 Which who shall cross? - along to go.
PER S.10. 42 Omit we all their dole and woe.
PER S.10. 43 Lychorida her nurse she takes,
PER S.10. 44 And so to sea. Their vessel shakes
PER S.10. 45 On Neptune's billow. Half the flood
PER S.10. 46 Hath their keel cut, but fortune's mood
PER S.10. 47 Varies again. The grizzled north
PER S.10. 48 Disgorges such a tempest forth
PER S.10. 49 That as a duck for life that dives,
PER S.10. 50 So up and down the poor ship drives.
PER S.10. 51 The lady shrieks, and well-a-near
PER S.10. 52 Does fall in travail with her fear,
PER S.10. 53 And what ensues in this fell storm
PER S.10. 54 Shall for itself itself perform;
PER S.10. 55 I nill relate; action may
PER S.10. 56 Conveniently the rest convey,
PER S.10. 57 Which might not what by me is told.
PER S.10. 58 In your imagination hold
PER S.10. 59 This stage the ship, upon whose deck
PER S.10. 60 The sea-tossed Pericles appears to speke. {Exit}
PER S.10. 0 {[Thunder and lightning.] Enter Pericles a-shipboard}
PER S.11. 1
PER-PERICLES
The god of this great vast rebuke these surges
PER S.11. 2 Which wash both heav'n and hell; and thou that hast
PER S.11. 3 Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,
PER S.11. 4 Having called them from the deep. O still
PER S.11. 5 Thy deaf'ning dreadful thunders, gently quench
PER S.11. 6 Thy nimble sulph'rous flashes. - O, ho, Lychorida!
PER S.11. 7 How does my queen? - Thou stormest venomously.
PER S.11. 8 Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle
PER S.11. 9 Is as a whisper in the ears of death,
PER S.11. 10 Unheard. - Lychorida! - Lucina, O!
PER S.11. 11 Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle
PER S.11. 12 To those that cry by night, convey thy deity
PER S.11. 13 Aboard our dancing boat, make swift the pangs
PER S.11. 14 Of my queen's travails! - Now, Lychorida. {Enter Lychorida with an +
PER S.11. 14 infant}
PER S.11. 15
PER-LYCHORIDA
Here is a thing too young for such a place,
PER S.11. 16 Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I
PER S.11. 17 Am like to do. Take in your arms this piece
PER S.11. 18B Of your dead queen.
PER-PERICLES
How, how, Lychorida?
PER S.11. 19
PER-LYCHORIDA
Patience, good sir, do not assist the storm.
PER S.11. 20 Here's all that is left living of your queen,
PER S.11. 21 A little daughter. For the sake of it
PER S.11. 22B Be manly, and take comfort.
PER-PERICLES
O you gods!
PER S.11. 23 Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,
PER S.11. 24 And snatch them straight away? We here below
PER S.11. 25 Recall not what we give, and therein may
PER S.11. 26B Use honour with you.
PER-LYCHORIDA
Patience, good sir,
PER S.11. 27B E'en for this charge. {She gives him the infant. [Pericles, +
PER S.11. 27B looking mournfully upon it, shakes his head, and weeps]}
PER-PERICLES
+
PER S.11. 27B Now mild may be thy life,
PER S.11. 28 For a more blust'rous birth had never babe;
PER S.11. 29 Quiet and gentle thy conditions, for
PER S.11. 30 Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world
PER S.11. 31 That e'er was prince's child; happy what follows.
PER S.11. 32 Thou hast as chiding a nativity
PER S.11. 33 As fire, air, water, earth, and heav'n can make
PER S.11. 34 To herald thee from th' womb. Poor inch of nature,
PER S.11. 35 Ev'n at the first thy loss is more than can
PER S.11. 36 Thy partage quit with all thou canst find here.
PER S.11. 37 Now the good gods throw their best eyes upon 't. {Enter [the +
PER S.11. 37 Master] and a Sailor}
PER S.11. 38A
PER-[MASTER]
What, courage, sir! God save you.
PER S.11. 39
PER-PERICLES
Courage enough, I do not fear the flaw;
PER S.11. 40 It hath done to me its worst. Yet for the love
PER S.11. 41 Of this poor infant, this fresh new seafarer,
PER S.11. 42 I would it would be quiet.
PER S.11. 43
PER-[MASTER]
{(calling)} Slack the bow-lines, +
PER S.11. 43 there. - Thou wilt
PER S.11. 44 not, wilt thou? Blow, and split thyself.
PER S.11. 45
PER-SAILOR
But searoom, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss
PER S.11. 46 the moon, I care not.
PER S.11. 47
PER-[MASTER]
{(to Pericles)} Sir, your queen must +
PER S.11. 47 overboard.
PER S.11. 48 The sea works high, the wind is loud, and will not lie
PER S.11. 49 till the ship be cleared of the dead.
PER S.11. 50
PER-PERICLES
That's but your superstition.
PER S.11. 51
PER-[MASTER]
Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been +
PER S.11. 51 still
PER S.11. 52 observed, and we are strong in custom. Therefore briefly
PER S.11. 53 yield 'er, for she must overboard straight.
PER S.11. 54B
PER-PERICLES
As you think meet. Most wretched +
PER S.11. 54B queen!
PER-LYCHORIDA
Here she lies, sir. {She [draws the curtains +
PER S.11. 54B and discovers] the body of Thaisa in a [bed. Pericles gives Lychorida +
PER S.11. 54B the infant]}
PER S.11. 55
PER-PERICLES
{(to Thaisa)} A terrible childbed hast +
PER S.11. 55 thou had, my dear,
PER S.11. 56 No light, no fire. Th' unfriendly elements
PER S.11. 57 Forgot thee utterly, nor have I time
PER S.11. 58 To give thee hallowed to thy grave, but straight
PER S.11. 59 Must cast thee, scarcely coffined, in the ooze,
PER S.11. 60 Where, for a monument upon thy bones
PER S.11. 61 And aye-remaining lamps, the belching whale
PER S.11. 62 And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,
PER S.11. 63 Lying with simple shells. - O Lychorida,
PER S.11. 64 Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink, and paper,
PER S.11. 65 My casket and my jewels, and bid Nicander
PER S.11. 66 Bring me the satin coffer. Lay the babe
PER S.11. 67 Upon the pillow. Hie thee whiles I say
PER S.11. 68 A priestly farewell to her. Suddenly, woman. {Exit Lychorida}
PER S.11. 69
PER-[SAILOR]
Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches caulked
PER S.11. 70 and bitumed ready.
PER S.11. 71
PER-PERICLES
I thank thee. {[To the Master]} +
PER S.11. 71 Mariner, say, what coast is this?
PER S.11. 72B
PER-[MASTER]
We are near Tarsus.
PER-PERICLES
Thither, gentle mariner,
PER S.11. 73 Alter thy course from Tyre. When canst thou reach it?
PER S.11. 74B
PER-[MASTER]
By break of day, if the wind cease.
PER-PERICLES
Make for +
PER S.11. 74B Tarsus.
PER S.11. 75 There will I visit Cleon, for the babe
PER S.11. 76 Cannot hold out to Tyrus. There I'll leave it
PER S.11. 77 At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner.
PER S.11. 78 I'll bring the body presently. {[Exit Master at one door and +
PER S.11. 78 Sailor beneath}
PER S.11. 0 {the hatches. Exit Pericles to Thaisa,}{closing the curtains]} +
PER S.12. 0 {Enter Lord Cerimon with a [poor man and a] servant}
PER S.12. 1B
PER-CERIMON
Philemon, ho! {Enter Philemon}
PER-PHILEMON
+
PER S.12. 1B Doth my lord call?
PER S.12. 2
PER-CERIMON
Get fire and meat for those poor men. {[Exit +
PER S.12. 2 Philemon]}
PER S.12. 3 'T 'as been a turbulent and stormy night.
PER S.12. 4
PER-SERVANT
I have seen many, but such a night as this
PER S.12. 5 Till now I ne'er endured.
PER S.12. 6
PER-CERIMON
Your master will be dead ere you return.
PER S.12. 7 There's nothing can be ministered in nature
PER S.12. 8 That can recover him. {[To poor man]} Give this to th' +
PER S.12. 8 pothecary
PER S.12. 9B And tell me how it works. {[Exeunt poor man and servant]} +
PER S.12. 9B {Enter two Gentlemen}
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Good morrow.
PER S.12. 10B
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Good morrow to your lordship.
PER-CERIMON
+
PER S.12. 10B Gentlemen,
PER S.12. 11B Why do you stir so early?
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Sir,
PER S.12. 12 Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,
PER S.12. 13 Shook as the earth did quake.
PER S.12. 14 The very principals did seem to rend
PER S.12. 15 And all to topple. Pure surprise and fear
PER S.12. 16 Made me to quit the house.
PER S.12. 17
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
That is the cause we trouble you so early;
PER S.12. 18B 'Tis not our husbandry.
PER-CERIMON
O, you say well.
PER S.12. 19
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
But I much marvel that your lordship should,
PER S.12. 20 Having rich tire about you, at this hour
PER S.12. 21 Shake off the golden slumber of repose. 'Tis most strange,
PER S.12. 22 Nature to be so conversant with pain,
PER S.12. 23B Being thereto not compelled.
PER-CERIMON
I held it ever
PER S.12. 24 Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
PER S.12. 25 Than nobleness and riches. Careless heirs
PER S.12. 26 May the two latter darken and dispend,
PER S.12. 27 But immortality attends the former,
PER S.12. 28 Making a man a god. 'Tis known I ever
PER S.12. 29 Have studied physic, through which secret art,
PER S.12. 30 By turning o'er authorities, I have,
PER S.12. 31 Together with my practice, made familiar
PER S.12. 32 To me and to my aid the blest infusions
PER S.12. 33 That dwells in vegetives, in metals, stones,
PER S.12. 34 And so can speak of the disturbances
PER S.12. 35 That nature works, and of her cures, which doth give me
PER S.12. 36 A more content and cause of true delight
PER S.12. 37 Than to be thirsty after tott'ring honour,
PER S.12. 38 Or tie my pleasure up in silken bags
PER S.12. 39B To glad the fool and death.
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Your honour has
PER S.12. 40 Through Ephesus poured forth your charity,
PER S.12. 41 And hundreds call themselves your creatures who by you
PER S.12. 42 Have been restored. And not alone your knowledge,
PER S.12. 43 Your personal pain, but e'en your purse still open
PER S.12. 44 Hath built Lord Cerimon such strong renown
PER S.12. 45 As time shall never - {Enter [Philemon and one or] two with a +
PER S.12. 45 chest}
PER S.12. 46A
PER-[PHILEMON]
So, lift there.
PER S.12. 47A
PER-CERIMON
What's that?
PER S.12. 48A
PER-[PHILEMON]
Sir, even now
PER S.12. 49 The sea tossed up upon our shore this chest.
PER S.12. 50B 'Tis off some wreck.
PER-CERIMON
Set 't down. Let's look upon 't.
PER S.12. 51B
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
'Tis like a coffin, sir.
PER-CERIMON
Whate'er it +
PER S.12. 51B be,
PER S.12. 52 'Tis wondrous heavy. - Did the sea cast it up?
PER S.12. 53
PER-[PHILEMON]
I never saw so huge a billow, sir,
PER S.12. 54B Or a more eager.
PER-CERIMON
Wrench it open straight. {The others +
PER S.12. 54B start to work}
PER S.12. 55 If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold
PER S.12. 56 'Tis by a good constraint of queasy fortune
PER S.12. 57B It belches upon us.
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
'Tis so, my lord.
PER S.12. 58B
PER-CERIMON
How close 'tis caulked and bitumed! {[They force the +
PER S.12. 58B lid]} Soft, it smells
PER S.12. 59B Most sweetly in my sense.
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
A delicate odour.
PER S.12. 60
PER-CERIMON
As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it. {They take +
PER S.12. 60 the lid off}
PER S.12. 61 O you most potent gods! What's here - a corpse?
PER S.12. 62B
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Most strange.
PER-CERIMON
Shrouded in cloth of +
PER S.12. 62B state, and crowned,
PER S.12. 63 Balmed and entreasured with full bags of spices.
PER S.12. 64 A passport, too! {He takes a paper from the chest}
PER S.12. 65 Apollo perfect me i' th' characters.
PER S.12. 66 `Here I give to understand,
PER S.12. 67 If e'er this coffin drives a-land,
PER S.12. 68 I, King Pericles, have lost
PER S.12. 69 This queen worth all our mundane cost.
PER S.12. 70 Who finds her, give her burying;
PER S.12. 71 She was the daughter of a king.
PER S.12. 72 Besides this treasure for a fee,
PER S.12. 73 The gods requite his charity.'
PER S.12. 74 If thou liv'st, Pericles, thou hast a heart
PER S.12. 75 That even cracks for woe. This chanced tonight.
PER S.12. 76B
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Most likely, sir.
PER-CERIMON
Nay, certainly +
PER S.12. 76B tonight,
PER S.12. 77 For look how fresh she looks. They were too rash
PER S.12. 78 That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within.
PER S.12. 79 Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet. {[Exit Philemon]}
PER S.12. 80 Death may usurp on nature many hours,
PER S.12. 81 And yet the fire of life kindle again
PER S.12. 82 The o'erpressed spirits. I have heard
PER S.12. 83 Of an Egyptian nine hours dead
PER S.12. 84 Who was by good appliances recovered. {Enter [Philemon] with +
PER S.12. 84 napkins and fire}
PER S.12. 85 Well said, well said, the fire and cloths.
PER S.12. 86 The still and woeful music that we have,
PER S.12. 87B Cause it to sound, beseech you. {Music} The vial once +
PER S.12. 87B more.
PER S.12. 88 How thou stirr'st, thou block! The music there!
PER S.12. 89 I pray you give her air. Gentlemen,
PER S.12. 90 This queen will live. Nature awakes, a warmth
PER S.12. 91 Breathes out of her. She hath not been entranced
PER S.12. 92 Above five hours. See how she 'gins to blow
PER S.12. 93B Into life's flow'r again.
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
The heavens
PER S.12. 94 Through you increase our wonder, and set up
PER S.12. 95B Your fame for ever.
PER-CERIMON
She is alive. Behold,
PER S.12. 96 Her eyelids, cases to those heav'nly jewels
PER S.12. 97 Which Pericles hath lost,
PER S.12. 98 Begin to part their fringes of bright gold.
PER S.12. 99 The diamonds of a most praised water
PER S.12. 100 Doth appear to make the world twice rich. - Live,
PER S.12. 101 And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,
PER S.12. 102B Rare as you seem to be. {She moves}
PER-THAISA
O dear +
PER S.12. 102B Diana,
PER S.12. 103 Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this?
PER S.12. 104B
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
Is not this strange?
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Most +
PER S.12. 104B rare.
PER-CERIMON
Hush, gentle neighbours.
PER S.12. 105 Lend me your hands. To the next chamber bear her.
PER S.12. 106 Get linen. Now this matter must be looked to,
PER S.12. 107 For her relapse is mortal. Come, come,
PER S.12. 108 And Aesculapius guide us. {They carry her away. Exeunt}
PER S.12. 0 {Enter Pericles at Tarsus, with Cleon and Dionyza, and +
PER S.13. 0 Lychorida with a babe}
PER S.13. 1
PER-PERICLES
Most honoured Cleon, I must needs be gone.
PER S.13. 2 My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands
PER S.13. 3 In a litigious peace. You and your lady
PER S.13. 4 Take from my heart all thankfulness. The gods
PER S.13. 5B Make up the rest upon you!
PER-CLEON
Your strokes of fortune,
PER S.13. 6 Though they hurt you mortally, yet glance
PER S.13. 7B Full woundingly on us.
PER-DIONYZA
O your sweet queen!
PER S.13. 8 That the strict fates had pleased you'd brought her hither
PER S.13. 9B T' have blessed mine eyes with her!
PER-PERICLES
We cannot but obey
PER S.13. 10 The pow'rs above us. Should I rage and roar
PER S.13. 11 As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end
PER S.13. 12 Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina,
PER S.13. 13 Whom for she was born at sea I have named so,
PER S.13. 14 Here I charge your charity withal, and leave her
PER S.13. 15 The infant of your care, beseeching you
PER S.13. 16 To give her princely training, that she may be
PER S.13. 17B Mannered as she is born.
PER-CLEON
Fear not, my lord, but think
PER S.13. 18 Your grace, that fed my country with your corn -
PER S.13. 19 For which the people's pray'rs still fall upon you -
PER S.13. 20 Must in your child be thought on. If neglection
PER S.13. 21 Should therein make me vile, the common body
PER S.13. 22 By you relieved would force me to my duty.
PER S.13. 23 But if to that my nature need a spur,
PER S.13. 24 The gods revenge it upon me and mine
PER S.13. 25B To th' end of generation.
PER-PERICLES
I believe you.
PER S.13. 26 Your honour and your goodness teach me to 't
PER S.13. 27 Without your vows. - Till she be married, madam,
PER S.13. 28 By bright Diana, whom we honour all,
PER S.13. 29 Unscissored shall this hair of mine remain,
PER S.13. 30 Though I show ill in 't. So I take my leave.
PER S.13. 31 Good madam, make me blessed in your care
PER S.13. 32B In bringing up my child.
PER-DIONYZA
I have one myself,
PER S.13. 33 Who shall not be more dear to my respect
PER S.13. 34B Than yours, my lord.
PER-PERICLES
Madam, my thanks and prayers.
PER S.13. 35
PER-CLEON
We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' th' shore,
PER S.13. 36 Then give you up to th' masted Neptune and
PER S.13. 37 The gentlest winds of heaven.
PER S.13. 38
PER-PERICLES
I will embrace your offer. - Come, dear'st madam. -
PER S.13. 39 O, no tears, Lychorida, no tears.
PER S.13. 40 Look to your little mistress, on whose grace
PER S.13. 41 You may depend hereafter. - Come, my lord. {Exeunt}
PER S.13. 0 {Enter Cerimon and Thaisa}
PER S.14. 1
PER-CERIMON
Madam, this letter and some certain jewels
PER S.14. 2 Lay with you in your coffer, which are all
PER S.14. 3 At your command. Know you the character?
PER S.14. 4
PER-THAISA
It is my lord's. That I was shipped at sea
PER S.14. 5 I well remember, ev'n on my eaning time,
PER S.14. 6 But whether there delivered, by th' holy gods
PER S.14. 7 I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,
PER S.14. 8 My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,
PER S.14. 9 A vestal liv'ry will I take me to,
PER S.14. 10 And never more have joy.
PER S.14. 11
PER-CLEON
Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,
PER S.14. 12 Diana's temple is not distant far,
PER S.14. 13 Where till your date expire you may abide.
PER S.14. 14 Moreover, if you please a niece of mine
PER S.14. 15 Shall there attend you.
PER S.14. 16
PER-THAISA
My recompense is thanks, that's all,
PER S.14. 17 Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. {Exeunt}
PER S.14. 0 {Enter Gower}
PER S.15. 1
PER-GOWER
Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,
PER S.15. 2 Welcomed and settled to his own desire.
PER S.15. 3 His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,
PER S.15. 4 Unto Diana there 's a votaress.
PER S.15. 5 Now to Marina bend your mind,
PER S.15. 6 Whom our fast-growing scene must find
PER S.15. 7 At Tarsus, and by Cleon trained
PER S.15. 8 In music, letters; who hath gained
PER S.15. 9 Of education all the grace,
PER S.15. 10 Which makes her both the heart and place
PER S.15. 11 Of gen'ral wonder. But, alack,
PER S.15. 12 That monster envy, oft the wrack
PER S.15. 13 Of earned praise, Marina's life
PER S.15. 14 Seeks to take off by treason's knife,
PER S.15. 15 And in this kind our Cleon has
PER S.15. 16 One daughter, and a full-grown lass
PER S.15. 17 E'en ripe for marriage-rite. This maid
PER S.15. 18 Hight Philoten, and it is said
PER S.15. 19 For certain in our story she
PER S.15. 20 Would ever with Marina be,
PER S.15. 21 Be 't when they weaved the sleided silk
PER S.15. 22 With fingers long, small, white as milk;
PER S.15. 23 Or when she would with sharp nee'le wound
PER S.15. 24 The cambric which she made more sound
PER S.15. 25 By hurting it, or when to th' lute
PER S.15. 26 She sung, and made the night bird mute,
PER S.15. 27 That still records with moan; or when
PER S.15. 28 She would with rich and constant pen
PER S.15. 29 Vail to her mistress Dian. Still
PER S.15. 30 This Philoten contends in skill
PER S.15. 31 With absolute Marina; so
PER S.15. 32 With dove of Paphos might the crow
PER S.15. 33 Vie feathers white. Marina gets
PER S.15. 34 All praises which are paid as debts,
PER S.15. 35 And not as given. This so darks
PER S.15. 36 In Philoten all graceful marks
PER S.15. 37 That Cleon's wife with envy rare
PER S.15. 38 A present murder does prepare
PER S.15. 39 For good Marina, that her daughter
PER S.15. 40 Might stand peerless by this slaughter.
PER S.15. 41 The sooner her vile thoughts to stead
PER S.15. 42 Lychorida, our nurse, is dead,
PER-[A
tomb is revealed]}
PER S.15. 43 And cursed Dionyza hath
PER S.15. 44 The pregnant instrument of wrath
PER S.15. 45 Pressed for this blow. Th' unborn event
PER S.15. 46 I do commend to your content,
PER S.15. 47 Only I carry winged Time
PER S.15. 48 Post on the lame feet of my rhyme,
PER S.15. 49 Which never could I so convey
PER S.15. 50 Unless your thoughts went on my way. {[Enter Dionyza with +
PER S.15. 50 Leonine]}
PER S.15. 51 Dionyza does appear,
PER S.15. 52 With Leonine, a murderer. {Exit}
PER S.15. 53
PER-DIONYZA
Thy oath remember. Thou hast sworn to do 't.
PER S.15. 54 'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.
PER S.15. 55 Thou canst not do a thing i' th' world so soon
PER S.15. 56 To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,
PER S.15. 57 Which is but cold, or fanning love thy bosom
PER S.15. 58 Unflame too nicely, nor let pity, which
PER S.15. 59 E'en women have cast off, melt thee; but be
PER S.15. 60B A soldier to thy purpose.
PER-LEONINE
I will do 't;
PER S.15. 61 But yet she is a goodly creature.
PER S.15. 62
PER-DIONYZA
The fitter then the gods should have her. {Enter +
PER S.15. 62 Marina [to the tomb] with a basket of flowers}
PER S.15. 63 Here she comes, weeping her only nurse's death.
PER S.15. 64B Thou art resolved.
PER-LEONINE
I am resolved.
PER S.15. 65
PER-MARINA
No, I will rob Tellus of her weed
PER S.15. 66 To strew thy grave with flow'rs. The yellows, blues,
PER S.15. 67 The purple violets and marigolds
PER S.15. 68 Shall as a carpet hang upon thy tomb
PER S.15. 69 While summer days doth last. Ay me, poor maid,
PER S.15. 70 Born in a tempest when my mother died,
PER S.15. 71 This world to me is but a ceaseless storm
PER S.15. 72 Whirring me from my friends.
PER S.15. 73
PER-DIONYZA
How now, Marina, why do you keep alone?
PER S.15. 74 How chance my daughter is not with you?
PER S.15. 75 Do not consume your blood with sorrowing.
PER S.15. 76 Have you a nurse of me. Lord, how your favour
PER S.15. 77 Is changed with this unprofitable woe!
PER S.15. 78 Give me your flowers. Come, o'er the sea margin
PER S.15. 79 Walk with Leonine. The air is piercing there,
PER S.15. 80 And quick; it sharps the stomach. Come, Leonine,
PER S.15. 81B Take her by th' arm. Walk with her.
PER-MARINA
No, I pray you,
PER S.15. 82B I'll not bereave you of your servant.
PER-DIONYZA
Come, come,
PER S.15. 83 I love the King your father and yourself
PER S.15. 84 With more than foreign heart. We ev'ry day
PER S.15. 85 Expect him here. When he shall come and find
PER S.15. 86 Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,
PER S.15. 87 He will repent the breadth of his great voyage,
PER S.15. 88 Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken
PER S.15. 89 No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,
PER S.15. 90 Walk and be cheerful once again; resume
PER S.15. 91 That excellent complexion which did steal
PER S.15. 92 The eyes of young and old. Care not for me.
PER S.15. 93B I can go home alone.
PER-MARINA
Well, I will go,
PER S.15. 94 But truly I have no desire to it.
PER S.15. 95
PER-DIONYZA
Nay, I know 'tis good for you. Walk half an hour,
PER S.15. 96 Leonine, at the least; remember
PER S.15. 97B What I have said.
PER-LEONINE
I warr'nt you, madam.
PER S.15. 98
PER-DIONYZA
{(to Marina)} I'll leave you, my sweet +
PER S.15. 98 lady, for a while.
PER S.15. 99 Pray you walk softly, do not heat your blood.
PER S.15. 100B What, I must have care of you!
PER-MARINA
My thanks, sweet madam. +
PER S.15. 100B {Exit Dionyza}
PER S.15. 101B Is this wind westerly that blows?
PER-LEONINE
South-west.
PER S.15. 102B
PER-MARINA
When I was born the wind was north.
PER-LEONINE
Was 't so?
PER S.15. 103
PER-MARINA
My father, as nurse says, did never fear,
PER S.15. 104 But cried `Good seamen' to the mariners,
PER S.15. 105 Galling his kingly hands with haling ropes,
PER S.15. 106 And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea
PER S.15. 107 That almost burst the deck.
PER S.15. 108A
PER-LEONINE
When was this?
PER S.15. 109A
PER-MARINA
When I was born.
PER S.15. 110 Never was waves nor wind more violent.
PER S.15. 111 Once from the ladder tackle washes off
PER S.15. 112 A canvas-climber. `Ha!' says one, `wolt out?'
PER S.15. 113 And with a dropping industry they skip
PER S.15. 114 From stem to stern. The boatswain whistles, and
PER S.15. 115 The master calls and trebles their confusion.
PER S.15. 116A
PER-LEONINE
Come, say your prayers.
PER S.15. 117A
PER-MARINA
What mean you?
PER S.15. 118
PER-LEONINE
If you require a little space for prayer
PER S.15. 119 I grant it. Pray, but be not tedious.
PER S.15. 120 The gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn
PER S.15. 121B To do my work with haste.
PER-MARINA
Why would you kill me?
PER S.15. 122B
PER-LEONINE
To satisfy my lady.
PER-MARINA
Why would she have me killed?
PER S.15. 123 Now, as I can remember, by my troth
PER S.15. 124 I never did her hurt in all my life.
PER S.15. 125 I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
PER S.15. 126 To any living creature. Believe me, la.
PER S.15. 127 I never killed a mouse nor hurt a fly.
PER S.15. 128 I trod once on a worm against my will,
PER S.15. 129 But I wept for it. How have I offended
PER S.15. 130 Wherein my death might yield her any profit
PER S.15. 131B Or my life imply her danger?
PER-LEONINE
My commission
PER S.15. 132 Is not to reason of the deed, but do 't.
PER S.15. 133
PER-MARINA
You will not do 't for all the world, I hope.
PER S.15. 134 You are well favoured, and your looks foreshow
PER S.15. 135 You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately
PER S.15. 136 When you caught hurt in parting two that fought.
PER S.15. 137 Good sooth, it showed well in you. Do so now.
PER S.15. 138 Your lady seeks my life. Come you between,
PER S.15. 139B And save poor me, the weaker.
PER-LEONINE
{[drawing out his +
PER S.15. 139B sword]} I am sworn,
PER S.15. 140 And will dispatch. {Enter Pirates [running]}
PER S.15. 141A
PER-FIRST PIRATE
Hold, villain. {Leonine runs away +
PER S.15. 141A [and hides behind the tomb]}
PER S.15. 142A
PER-SECOND PIRATE
A prize, a prize.
PER S.15. 143
PER-THIRD PIRATE
Half-part, mates, half-part. Come, let's +
PER S.15. 143 have
PER S.15. 144 her aboard suddenly. {Exeunt Pirates [carrying] Marina}
PER S.15. 145 {Leonine [steals back]}
PER-LEONINE
These roguing +
PER S.15. 145 thieves serve the great pirate Valdes.
PER S.15. 146 An they have seized Marina, let her go.
PER S.15. 147 There's no hope she'll return. I'll swear she's dead
PER S.15. 148 And thrown into the sea; but I'll see further.
PER S.15. 149 Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,
PER S.15. 150 Not carry her aboard. If she remain,
PER S.15. 151 Whom they have ravished must by me be slain. {Exit. [The tomb is +
PER S.15. 151 concealed]}
PER S.15. 0
PER-[A
brothel sign.] Enter the Pander, his wife the Bawd, +
PER S.16. 0 and their man Boult}
PER S.16. 1
PER-PANDER
Boult.
PER S.16. 2
PER-BOULT
Sir.
PER S.16. 3
PER-PANDER
Search the market narrowly. Mytilene is full of
PER S.16. 4 gallants. We lose too much money this mart by being
PER S.16. 5 wenchless.
PER S.16. 6
PER-BAWD
We were never so much out of creatures. We have
PER S.16. 7 but poor three, and they can do no more than they
PER S.16. 8 can do, and they with continual action are even as
PER S.16. 9 good as rotten.
PER S.16. 10
PER-PANDER
Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay
PER S.16. 11 for them. If there be not a conscience to be used in
PER S.16. 12 every trade, we shall never prosper.
PER S.16. 13
PER-BAWD
Thou sayst true. 'Tis not our bringing up of poor
PER S.16. 14 bastards - as I think I have brought up some eleven -
PER S.16. 15
PER-BOULT
Ay, to eleven, and brought them down again. But
PER S.16. 16 shall I search the market?
PER S.16. 17
PER-BAWD
What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind
PER S.16. 18 will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.
PER S.16. 19
PER-PANDER
Thou sayst true. They're too unwholesome, o'
PER S.16. 20 conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead that lay
PER S.16. 21 with the little baggage.
PER S.16. 22
PER-BOULT
Ay, she quickly pooped him, she made him roast
PER S.16. 23 meat for worms. But I'll go search the market. {Exit}
PER S.16. 24
PER-PANDER
Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty
PER S.16. 25 a proportion to live quietly, and so give over.
PER S.16. 26
PER-BAWD
Why to give over, I pray you? Is it a shame to get
PER S.16. 27 when we are old?
PER S.16. 28
PER-PANDER
O, our credit comes not in like the commodity,
PER S.16. 29 nor the commodity wages not with the danger. Therefore
PER S.16. 30 if in our youths we could pick up some pretty
PER S.16. 31 estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.
PER S.16. 32 Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods
PER S.16. 33 will be strong with us for giving o'er.
PER S.16. 34
PER-BAWD
Come, other sorts offend as well as we.
PER S.16. 35
PER-PANDER
As well as we? Ay, and better too; we offend
PER S.16. 36 worse. Neither is our profession any mystery, it's no
PER S.16. 37 calling. But here comes Boult. {Enter Boult with the Pirates and +
PER S.16. 37 Marina}
PER S.16. 38
PER-BOULT
{[to the Pirates]} Come your ways, my +
PER S.16. 38 masters, you
PER S.16. 39 say she's a virgin?
PER S.16. 40 A
PER-PIRATE
O sir, we doubt it not.
PER S.16. 41
PER-BOULT
{(to Pander)} Master, I have gone through +
PER S.16. 41 for this
PER S.16. 42 piece you see. If you like her, so; if not, I have lost my
PER S.16. 43 earnest.
PER S.16. 44
PER-BAWD
Boult, has she any qualities?
PER S.16. 45
PER-BOULT
She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent
PER S.16. 46 good clothes. There's no farther necessity of qualities
PER S.16. 47 can make her be refused.
PER S.16. 48
PER-BAWD
What's her price, Boult?
PER S.16. 49
PER-BOULT
I cannot be bated one doit of a hundred sesterces.
PER S.16. 50
PER-PANDER
{(to Pirates)} Well, follow me, my masters. +
PER S.16. 50 You
PER S.16. 51 shall have your money presently. {(To Bawd)} Wife, take
PER S.16. 52 her in, instruct her what she has to do, that she may
PER S.16. 53 not be raw in her entertainment. {Exeunt Pander and Pirates}
PER S.16. 54
PER-BAWD
Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her
PER S.16. 55 hair, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her
PER S.16. 56 virginity, and cry `He that will give most shall have
PER S.16. 57 her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap thing if
PER S.16. 58 men were as they have been. Get this done as I
PER S.16. 59 command you.
PER S.16. 60
PER-BOULT
Performance shall follow. {Exit}
PER S.16. 61
PER-MARINA
Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow.
PER S.16. 62 He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates,
PER S.16. 63 Not enough barbarous, had but o'erboard thrown me
PER S.16. 64 To seek my mother.
PER S.16. 65
PER-BAWD
Why lament you, pretty one?
PER S.16. 66A
PER-MARINA
That I am pretty.
PER S.16. 67
PER-BAWD
Come, the gods have done their part in you.
PER S.16. 68A
PER-MARINA
I accuse them not.
PER S.16. 69
PER-BAWD
You are light into my hands, where you are like
PER S.16. 70 to live.
PER S.16. 71A
PER-MARINA
The more my fault
PER S.16. 72 To scape his hands where I was like to die.
PER S.16. 73
PER-BAWD
Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.
PER S.16. 74A
PER-MARINA
No.
PER S.16. 75
PER-BAWD
Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all
PER S.16. 76 fashions. You shall fare well. You shall have the
PER S.16. 77 difference of all complexions. What, do you stop your
PER S.16. 78 ears?
PER S.16. 79A
PER-MARINA
Are you a woman?
PER S.16. 80
PER-BAWD
What would you have me be an I be not a woman?
PER S.16. 81
PER-MARINA
An honest woman, or not a woman.
PER S.16. 82
PER-BAWD
Marry, whip the gosling! I think I shall have
PER S.16. 83 something to do with you. Come, you're a young foolish
PER S.16. 84 sapling, and must be bowed as I would have you.
PER S.16. 85A
PER-MARINA
The gods defend me!
PER S.16. 86
PER-BAWD
If it please the gods to defend you by men, then
PER S.16. 87 men must comfort you, men must feed you, men must
PER S.16. 88 stir you up. {Enter Boult}
PER S.16. 89 Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?
PER S.16. 90
PER-BOULT
I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs.
PER S.16. 91 I have drawn her picture with my voice.
PER S.16. 92
PER-BAWD
And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the
PER S.16. 93 inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort?
PER S.16. 94
PER-BOULT
Faith, they listened to me as they would have
PER S.16. 95 hearkened to their fathers' testament. There was a
PER S.16. 96 Spaniard's mouth watered as he went to bed to her
PER S.16. 97 very description.
PER S.16. 98
PER-BAWD
We shall have him here tomorrow with his best
PER S.16. 99 ruff on.
PER S.16. 100
PER-BOULT
Tonight, tonight. But mistress, do you know the
PER S.16. 101 French knight that cowers i' the hams?
PER S.16. 102
PER-BAWD
Who, Monsieur Veroles?
PER S.16. 103
PER-BOULT
Ay, he. He offered to cut a caper at the proclamation,
PER S.16. 104 but he made a groan at it, and swore he
PER S.16. 105 would see her tomorrow.
PER S.16. 106
PER-BAWD
Well, well, as for him, he brought his disease
PER S.16. 107 hither. Here he does but repair it. I know he will come
PER S.16. 108 in our shadow to scatter his crowns of the sun.
PER S.16. 109
PER-BOULT
Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we
PER S.16. 110 should lodge them all with this sign.
PER S.16. 111
PER-BAWD
{(to Marina)} Pray you, come hither a while. +
PER S.16. 111 You
PER S.16. 112 have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me, you must
PER S.16. 113 seem to do that fearfully which you commit willingly,
PER S.16. 114 to despise profit where you have most gain. To weep
PER S.16. 115 that you live as ye do makes pity in your lovers. Seldom
PER S.16. 116 but that pity begets you a good opinion, and that
PER S.16. 117 opinion a mere profit.
PER S.16. 118A
PER-MARINA
I understand you not.
PER S.16. 119
PER-BOULT
{(to Bawd)} O, take her home, mistress, take +
PER S.16. 119 her
PER S.16. 120 home. These blushes of hers must be quenched with
PER S.16. 121 some present practice.
PER S.16. 122
PER-BAWD
Thou sayst true, i' faith, so they must, for your
PER S.16. 123 bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go
PER S.16. 124 with warrant.
PER S.16. 125
PER-BOULT
Faith, some do and some do not. But mistress, if I
PER S.16. 126 have bargained for the joint -
PER S.16. 127
PER-BAWD
Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.
PER S.16. 128
PER-BOULT
I may so.
PER S.16. 129
PER-BAWD
Who should deny it? {(To Marina)} Come, young
PER S.16. 130 one, I like the manner of your garments well.
PER S.16. 131
PER-BOULT
Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.
PER S.16. 132
PER-BAWD
{(giving him money)} Boult, spend thou that +
PER S.16. 132 in the
PER S.16. 133 town. Report what a sojourner we have. You'll lose
PER S.16. 134 nothing by custom. When nature framed this piece she
PER S.16. 135 meant thee a good turn. Therefore say what a paragon
PER S.16. 136 she is, and thou reapest the harvest out of thine own
PER S.16. 137 setting forth.
PER S.16. 138
PER-BOULT
I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake
PER S.16. 139 the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stirs up
PER S.16. 140 the lewdly inclined. I'll bring home some tonight. {[Exit]}
PER S.16. 141
PER-BAWD
Come your ways, follow me.
PER S.16. 142
PER-MARINA
If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
PER S.16. 143 Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
PER S.16. 144 Diana aid my purpose.
PER S.16. 145
PER-BAWD
What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will
PER S.16. 146 you go with me? {Exeunt. [The sign is removed]}
PER S.16. 0 {Enter [in mourning garments] Cleon and Dionyza}
PER S.17. 1
PER-DIONYZA
Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
PER S.17. 2
PER-CLEON
O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter
PER S.17. 3 The sun and moon ne'er looked upon.
PER S.17. 4
PER-DIONYZA
I think you'll turn a child again.
PER S.17. 5
PER-CLEON
Were I chief lord of all this spacious world
PER S.17. 6 I'd give it to undo the deed. A lady
PER S.17. 7 Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess
PER S.17. 8 To equal any single crown o' th' earth
PER S.17. 9 I' th' justice of compare. O villain Leonine,
PER S.17. 10 Whom thou hast poisoned too,
PER S.17. 11 If thou hadst drunk to him 't 'ad been a kindness
PER S.17. 12 Becoming well thy fact. What canst thou say
PER S.17. 13 When noble Pericles demands his child?
PER S.17. 14
PER-DIONYZA
That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates.
PER S.17. 15 To foster is not ever to preserve.
PER S.17. 16 She died at night. I'll say so. Who can cross it,
PER S.17. 17 Unless you play the pious innocent
PER S.17. 18 And, for an honest attribute, cry out
PER S.17. 19B `She died by foul play.'
PER-CLEON
O, go to. Well, well,
PER S.17. 20 Of all the faults beneath the heav'ns the gods
PER S.17. 21B Do like this worst.
PER-DIONYZA
Be one of those that thinks
PER S.17. 22 The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence
PER S.17. 23 And open this to Pericles. I do shame
PER S.17. 24 To think of what a noble strain you are,
PER S.17. 25B And of how cowed a spirit.
PER-CLEON
To such proceeding
PER S.17. 26 Whoever but his approbation added,
PER S.17. 27 Though not his prime consent, he did not flow
PER S.17. 28B From honourable sources.
PER-DIONYZA
Be it so, then.
PER S.17. 29 Yet none does know but you how she came dead,
PER S.17. 30 Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.
PER S.17. 31 She did distain my child, and stood between
PER S.17. 32 Her and her fortunes. None would look on her,
PER S.17. 33 But cast their gazes on Marina's face
PER S.17. 34 Whilst ours was blurted at, and held a malkin
PER S.17. 35 Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through,
PER S.17. 36 And though you call my course unnatural,
PER S.17. 37 You not your child well loving, yet I find
PER S.17. 38 It greets me as an enterprise of kindness
PER S.17. 39 Performed to your sole daughter.
PER S.17. 40A
PER-CLEON
Heavens forgive it.
PER S.17. 41A
PER-DIONYZA
And as for Pericles,
PER S.17. 42 What should he say? We wept after her hearse,
PER S.17. 43 And yet we mourn. Her monument
PER S.17. 44 Is almost finished, and her epitaphs
PER S.17. 45 In glitt'ring golden characters express
PER S.17. 46 A gen'ral praise to her and care in us,
PER S.17. 47B At whose expense 'tis done.
PER-CLEON
Thou art like the harpy,
PER S.17. 48 Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel face,
PER S.17. 49 Seize in thine eagle talons.
PER S.17. 50
PER-DIONYZA
Ye're like one that superstitiously
PER S.17. 51 Do swear to th' gods that winter kills the flies,
PER S.17. 52 But yet I know you'll do as I advise. {Exeunt}
PER S.17. 0
PER S.17. 0 {Enter Gower}
PER S.18. 1
PER-GOWER
Thus time we waste, and long leagues make we short,
PER S.18. 2 Sail seas in cockles, have and wish but for 't,
PER S.18. 3 Making to take imagination
PER S.18. 4 From bourn to bourn, region to region.
PER S.18. 5 By you being pardoned, we commit no crime
PER S.18. 6 To use one language in each sev'ral clime
PER S.18. 7 Where our scene seems to live. I do beseech you
PER S.18. 8 To learn of me, who stand i' th' gaps to teach you
PER S.18. 9 The stages of our story: Pericles
PER S.18. 10 Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,
PER S.18. 11 Attended on by many a lord and knight,
PER S.18. 12 To see his daughter, all his life's delight.
PER S.18. 13 Old Helicanus goes along. Behind
PER S.18. 14 Is left to govern, if you bear in mind,
PER S.18. 15 Old Aeschines, whom Helicanus late
PER S.18. 16 Advanced in Tyre to great and high estate.
PER S.18. 17 Well sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
PER S.18. 18 This king to Tarsus - think his pilot thought;
PER S.18. 19 So with his steerage shall your thoughts go on -
PER S.18. 20 To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.
PER S.18. 21 Like motes and shadows see them move a while;
PER S.18. 22 Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.
PER S.18. 23 {Dumb show.} {Enter Pericles at one door with all his +
PER S.18. 23 train, Cleon and Dionyza [in mourning garments] at the other. Cleon +
PER S.18. 23 [draws the curtain and] shows Pericles the tomb, whereat Pericles makes +
PER S.18. 23 lamentation, puts on sack-cloth, and in a mighty passion departs, +
PER S.18. 23 followed by his train. Cleon and Dionyza depart at the other +
PER S.18. 23 door} See how belief may suffer by foul show.
PER S.18. 24 This borrowed passion stands for true-owed woe,
PER S.18. 25 And Pericles, in sorrow all devoured,
PER S.18. 26 With sighs shot through, and biggest tears o'ershow'red,
PER S.18. 27 Leaves Tarsus, and again embarks. He swears
PER S.18. 28 Never to wash his face nor cut his hairs.
PER S.18. 29 He puts on sack-cloth, and to sea. He bears
PER S.18. 30 A tempest which his mortal vessel tears,
PER S.18. 31 And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit
PER S.18. 32 The epitaph is for Marina writ
PER S.18. 33 By wicked Dionyza. {He reads Marina's epitaph on the tomb}
PER S.18. 34 `The fairest, sweetest, best lies here,
PER S.18. 35 Who withered in her spring of year.
PER S.18. 36 In nature's garden, though by growth a bud,
PER S.18. 37 She was the chiefest flower: she was good.'
PER S.18. 38 No visor does become black villainy
PER S.18. 39 So well as soft and tender flattery.
PER S.18. 40 Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead
PER S.18. 41 And bear his courses to be ordered
PER S.18. 42 By Lady Fortune, while our scene must play
PER S.18. 43 His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day
PER S.18. 44 In her unholy service. Patience then,
PER S.18. 45 And think you now are all in Mytilene. {Exit}
PER S.18. 0
PER S.18. 0
PER-[A
brothel sign.] Enter two Gentlemen}
PER S.19. 1
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
Did you ever hear the like?
PER S.19. 2
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
No, nor never shall do in such a place
PER S.19. 3 as this, she being once gone.
PER S.19. 4
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
But to have divinity preached there -
PER S.19. 5 did you ever dream of such a thing?
PER S.19. 6
PER-SECOND GENTLEMAN
No, no. Come, I am for no more
PER S.19. 7 bawdy houses. Shall 's go hear the vestals sing?
PER S.19. 8
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
I'll do anything now that is virtuous,
PER S.19. 9 but I am out of the road of rutting for ever. {Exeunt}
PER S.19. 10 {Enter Pander, Bawd, and Boult}
PER-PANDER
Well, I had +
PER S.19. 10 rather than twice the worth of her
PER S.19. 11 she had ne'er come here.
PER S.19. 12
PER-BAWD
Fie, fie upon her, she's able to freeze the god
PER S.19. 13 Priapus and undo the whole of generation. We must
PER S.19. 14 either get her ravished or be rid of her. When she
PER S.19. 15 should do for clients her fitment and do me the kindness
PER S.19. 16 of our profession, she has me her quirks, her reasons,
PER S.19. 17 her master reasons, her prayers, her knees, that she
PER S.19. 18 would make a puritan of the devil if he should cheapen
PER S.19. 19 a kiss of her.
PER S.19. 20
PER-BOULT
Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us of
PER S.19. 21 all our cavalleria and make our swearers priests.
PER S.19. 22
PER-PANDER
Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me.
PER S.19. 23
PER-BAWD
Faith, there's no way to be rid on 't but by the way
PER S.19. 24 to the pox. {Enter Lysimachus, disguised}
PER S.19. 25 Here comes the Lord Lysimachus, disguised.
PER S.19. 26
PER-BOULT
We should have both lord and loon if the peevish
PER S.19. 27 baggage would but give way to custom.
PER S.19. 28
PER-LYSIMACHUS
How now, how a dozen of virginities?
PER S.19. 29
PER-BAWD
Now, the gods to-bless your honour!
PER S.19. 30
PER-BOULT
I am glad to see your honour in good health.
PER S.19. 31
PER-LYSIMACHUS
You may so. 'Tis the better for you that your
PER S.19. 32 resorters stand upon sound legs. How now, wholesome
PER S.19. 33 iniquity have you, that a man may deal withal and
PER S.19. 34 defy the surgeon?
PER S.19. 35
PER-BAWD
We have here one, sir, if she would - but there
PER S.19. 36 never came her like in Mytilene.
PER S.19. 37
PER-LYSIMACHUS
If she'd do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst
PER S.19. 38 say.
PER S.19. 39
PER-BAWD
Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.
PER S.19. 40
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Well, call forth, call forth. {[Exit Pander]}
PER S.19. 41
PER-BOULT
For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall
PER S.19. 42 see a rose. And she were a rose indeed, if she had but -
PER S.19. 43
PER-LYSIMACHUS
What, prithee?
PER S.19. 44
PER-BOULT
O sir, I can be modest.
PER S.19. 45
PER-LYSIMACHUS
That dignifies the renown of a bawd no less
PER S.19. 46 than it gives a good report to a noble to be chaste. {[Enter +
PER S.19. 46 Pander with Marina]}
PER S.19. 47
PER-BAWD
Here comes that which grows to the stalk, never
PER S.19. 48 plucked yet, I can assure you. Is she not a fair creature?
PER S.19. 49
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Faith, she would serve after a long voyage
PER S.19. 50 at sea. Well, there's for you. Leave us. {[He pays the Bawd]}
PER S.19. 51
PER-BAWD
I beseech your honour give me leave: a word, and
PER S.19. 52 I'll have done presently.
PER S.19. 53
PER-LYSIMACHUS
I beseech you, do.
PER S.19. 54
PER-BAWD
{(aside to Marina)} First, I would have you +
PER S.19. 54 note this
PER S.19. 55 is an honourable man.
PER S.19. 56
PER-MARINA
I desire to find him so, that I may honourably
PER S.19. 57 know him.
PER S.19. 58
PER-BAWD
Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man
PER S.19. 59 whom I am bound to.
PER S.19. 60
PER-MARINA
If he govern the country you are bound to him
PER S.19. 61 indeed, but how honourable he is in that, I know not.
PER S.19. 62
PER-BAWD
Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will
PER S.19. 63 you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold.
PER S.19. 64
PER-MARINA
What he will do graciously I will thankfully
PER S.19. 65 receive.
PER S.19. 66
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{(to Bawd)} Ha' you done?
PER S.19. 67
PER-BAWD
My lord, she's not paced yet. You must take some
PER S.19. 68 pains to work her to your manege. {(To Boult and Pander)}
PER S.19. 69 Come, we will leave his honour and hers together. Go
PER S.19. 70 thy ways. {Exeunt Pander, Bawd, and Boult}
PER S.19. 71
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Fair one, how long have you been at this +
PER S.19. 71 trade?
PER S.19. 72A
PER-MARINA
What trade, sir?
PER S.19. 73
PER-LYSIMACHUS
I cannot name it but I shall offend.
PER S.19. 74
PER-MARINA
I cannot be offended with my trade.
PER S.19. 75B Please you to name it.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
How long have you been
PER S.19. 76B Of this profession?
PER-MARINA
E'er since I can remember.
PER S.19. 77
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester
PER S.19. 78B At five, or seven?
PER-MARINA
Earlier too, sir,
PER S.19. 79B If now I be one.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Why, the house you dwell in
PER S.19. 80 Proclaimeth you a creature of sale.
PER S.19. 81
PER-MARINA
And do you know this house to be a place
PER S.19. 82 Of such resort and will come into it?
PER S.19. 83 I hear say you're of honourable blood,
PER S.19. 84 And are the governor of this whole province.
PER S.19. 85
PER-LYSIMACHUS
What, hath your principal informed you who I am?
PER S.19. 86B
PER-MARINA
Who is my principal?
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Why, your herb-woman;
PER S.19. 87 She that sets seeds of shame, roots of iniquity. {[Marina +
PER S.19. 87 weeps]}
PER S.19. 88 O, you've heard something of my pow'r, and so
PER S.19. 89 Stand off aloof for a more serious wooing.
PER S.19. 90 But I protest to thee,
PER S.19. 91 Pretty one, my authority can wink
PER S.19. 92 At blemishes, or can on faults look friendly;
PER S.19. 93 Or my displeasure punish at my pleasure,
PER S.19. 94 From which displeasure, not thy beauty shall
PER S.19. 95 Privilege thee, nor my affection, which
PER S.19. 96 Hath drawn me here, abate with further ling'ring.
PER S.19. 97 Come bring me to some private place. Come, come.
PER S.19. 98
PER-MARINA
Let not authority, which teaches you
PER S.19. 99 To govern others, be the means to make you
PER S.19. 100 Misgovern much yourself.
PER S.19. 101 If you were born to honour, show it now;
PER S.19. 102 If put upon you, make the judgement good
PER S.19. 103 That thought you worthy of it. What reason's in
PER S.19. 104 Your justice, who hath power over all,
PER S.19. 105 To undo any? If you take from me
PER S.19. 106 Mine honour, you're like him that makes a gap
PER S.19. 107 Into forbidden ground, whom after
PER S.19. 108 Too many enter, and of all their evils
PER S.19. 109 Yourself are guilty. My life is yet unspotted;
PER S.19. 110 My chastity unstained ev'n in thought.
PER S.19. 111 Then if your violence deface this building,
PER S.19. 112 The workmanship of heav'n, you do kill your honour,
PER S.19. 113 Abuse your justice, and impoverish me.
PER S.19. 114 My yet good lord, if there be fire before me,
PER S.19. 115 Must I straight fly and burn myself? Suppose this house -
PER S.19. 116 Which too too many feel such houses are -
PER S.19. 117 Should be the doctor's patrimony, and
PER S.19. 118 The surgeon's feeding; follows it, that I
PER S.19. 119 Must needs infect myself to give them maint'nance?
PER S.19. 120B
PER-LYSIMACHUS
How's this, how's this? Some more. Be sage.
PER-MARINA
+
PER S.19. 120B {[kneeling]} For me
PER S.19. 121 That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune
PER S.19. 122 Have franked me in this sty, where since I came
PER S.19. 123 Diseases have been sold dearer than physic -
PER S.19. 124 That the gods would set me free from this unhallowed place,
PER S.19. 125 Though they did change me to the meanest bird
PER S.19. 126B That flies i' th' purer air!
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{[moved]} I +
PER S.19. 126B did not think
PER S.19. 127 Thou couldst have spoke so well, ne'er dreamt thou couldst. {[He +
PER S.19. 127 lifts her up with his hands]}
PER S.19. 128 Though I brought hither a corrupted mind,
PER S.19. 129B Thy speech hath altered it, {[He wipes the wet from her +
PER S.19. 129B eyes]} and my foul thoughts
PER S.19. 130 Thy tears so well hath laved that they're now white.
PER S.19. 131 I came here meaning but to pay the price,
PER S.19. 132 A piece of gold for thy virginity;
PER S.19. 133 Here's twenty to relieve thine honesty.
PER S.19. 134 Persever still in that clear way thou goest,
PER S.19. 135B And the gods strengthen thee.
PER-MARINA
The good gods preserve you!
PER S.19. 136
PER-LYSIMACHUS
The very doors and windows savour vilely.
PER S.19. 137 Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue,
PER S.19. 138 The best wrought up that ever nature made,
PER S.19. 139 And I doubt not thy training hath been noble.
PER S.19. 140 A curse upon him, die he like a thief,
PER S.19. 141 That robs thee of thy honour. Hold, here's more gold.
PER S.19. 142 If thou dost hear from me, it shall be for thy good. {[Enter +
PER S.19. 142 Boult standing ready at the door, making his obeisance unto him as +
PER S.19. 142 Lysimachus should go out]}
PER S.19. 143
PER-BOULT
I beseech your honour, one piece for me.
PER S.19. 144
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!
PER S.19. 145 Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,
PER S.19. 146 Would sink and overwhelm you. Away. {Exit}
PER S.19. 147
PER-BOULT
How's this? We must take another course with
PER S.19. 148 you. If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a
PER S.19. 149 breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, shall
PER S.19. 150 undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a spaniel.
PER S.19. 151 Come your ways.
PER S.19. 152A
PER-MARINA
Whither would you have me?
PER S.19. 153
PER-BOULT
I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the
PER S.19. 154 common executioner shall do it. We'll have no more
PER S.19. 155 gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say. {Enter Bawd and +
PER S.19. 155 Pander}
PER S.19. 156
PER-BAWD
How now, what's the matter?
PER S.19. 157
PER-BOULT
Worse and worse, mistress, she has here spoken
PER S.19. 158 holy words to the Lord Lysimachus.
PER S.19. 159
PER-BAWD
O, abominable!
PER S.19. 160
PER-BOULT
She makes our profession as it were to stink afore
PER S.19. 161 the face of the gods.
PER S.19. 162
PER-BAWD
Marry hang her up for ever!
PER S.19. 163
PER-BOULT
The nobleman would have dealt with her like a
PER S.19. 164 nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a snowball,
PER S.19. 165 saying his prayers, too.
PER S.19. 166
PER-[PANDER]
Boult, take her away. Use her at thy pleasure.
PER S.19. 167 Crack the ice of her virginity, and make the rest
PER S.19. 168 malleable.
PER S.19. 169
PER-BOULT
An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she
PER S.19. 170 is, she shall be ploughed.
PER S.19. 171A
PER-MARINA
Hark, hark, you gods!
PER S.19. 172
PER-BAWD
She conjures. Away with her! Would she had never
PER S.19. 173 come within my doors. - Marry, hang you! - She's born
PER S.19. 174 to undo us. - Will you not go the way of womenkind?
PER S.19. 175 Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary
PER S.19. 176 and bays. {Exeunt Bawd and Pander}
PER S.19. 177
PER-BOULT
{[catching her rashly by the hand]} Come, +
PER S.19. 177 mistress,
PER S.19. 178 come your way with me.
PER S.19. 179A
PER-MARINA
Whither wilt thou have me?
PER S.19. 180
PER-BOULT
To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.
PER S.19. 181A
PER-MARINA
Prithee, tell me one thing first.
PER S.19. 182
PER-BOULT
Come, now, your one thing.
PER S.19. 183
PER-MARINA
What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?
PER S.19. 184
PER-BOULT
Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather
PER S.19. 185 my mistress.
PER S.19. 186
PER-MARINA
Neither of these can be so bad as thou art,
PER S.19. 187 Since they do better thee in their command.
PER S.19. 188 Thou hold'st a place the pained'st fiend of hell
PER S.19. 189 Would not in reputation change with thee,
PER S.19. 190 Thou damned doorkeeper to ev'ry coistrel
PER S.19. 191 That comes enquiring for his Tib.
PER S.19. 192 To th' choleric fisting of ev'ry rogue
PER S.19. 193 Thy ear is liable. Thy food is such
PER S.19. 194 As hath been belched on by infected lungs.
PER S.19. 195
PER-BOULT
What would you have me do? Go to the wars,
PER S.19. 196 would you, where a man may serve seven years for
PER S.19. 197 the loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the
PER S.19. 198 end to buy him a wooden one?
PER S.19. 199
PER-MARINA
Do anything but this thou dost. Empty
PER S.19. 200 Old receptacles or common sew'rs of filth,
PER S.19. 201 Serve by indenture to the public hangman -
PER S.19. 202 Any of these are yet better than this.
PER S.19. 203 For what thou professest a baboon, could he speak,
PER S.19. 204 Would own a name too dear. Here's gold for thee.
PER S.19. 205 If that thy master would make gain by me,
PER S.19. 206 Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
PER S.19. 207 With other virtues which I'll keep from boast,
PER S.19. 208 And I will undertake all these to teach.
PER S.19. 209 I doubt not but this populous city will
PER S.19. 210 Yield many scholars.
PER S.19. 211
PER-BOULT
But can you teach all this you speak of?
PER S.19. 212
PER-MARINA
Prove that I cannot, take me home again
PER S.19. 213 And prostitute me to the basest groom
PER S.19. 214 That doth frequent your house.
PER S.19. 215
PER-BOULT
Well, I will see what I can do for thee. If I can
PER S.19. 216 place thee, I will.
PER S.19. 217A
PER-MARINA
But amongst honest women.
PER S.19. 218
PER-BOULT
Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them;
PER S.19. 219 but since my master and mistress hath bought you,
PER S.19. 220 there's no going but by their consent. Therefore I will
PER S.19. 221 make them acquainted with your purpose, and I doubt
PER S.19. 222 not but I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I'll
PER S.19. 223 do for thee what I can. Come your ways. {Exeunt. [The sign is +
PER S.19. 223 removed]}
PER S.19. 0 {Enter Gower}
PER S.20. 1
PER-GOWER
Marina thus the brothel scapes, and chances
PER S.20. 2 Into an honest house, our story says.
PER S.20. 3 She sings like one immortal, and she dances
PER S.20. 4 As goddess-like to her admired lays.
PER S.20. 5 Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her nee'le composes
PER S.20. 6 Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
PER S.20. 7 That e'en her art sisters the natural roses.
PER S.20. 8 Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry;
PER S.20. 9 That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
PER S.20. 10 Who pour their bounty on her, and her gain
PER S.20. 11 She gives the cursed Bawd. Here we her place,
PER S.20. 12 And to her father turn our thoughts again.
PER S.20. 13 We left him on the sea. Waves there him tossed,
PER S.20. 14 Whence, driven tofore the winds, he is arrived
PER S.20. 15 Here where his daughter dwells, and on this coast
PER S.20. 16 Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived
PER S.20. 17 God Neptune's annual feast to keep, from whence
PER S.20. 18 Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
PER S.20. 19 His banners sable, trimmed with rich expense;
PER S.20. 20 And to him in his barge with fervour hies.
PER S.20. 21 In your supposing once more put your sight;
PER S.20. 22 Of heavy Pericles think this the barque,
PER S.20. 23 Where what is done in action, more if might,
PER S.20. 24 Shall be discovered. Please you sit and hark. {Exit}
PER S.20. 0 {Enter Helicanus [above; below, enter] to him at the +
PER S.21. 0 first door two Sailors, [one of Tyre, the other of Mytilene]}
PER S.21. 1
PER-SAILOR OF TYRE
{(to Sailor of Mytilene)} Lord +
PER S.21. 1 Helicanus can resolve you, sir.
PER S.21. 2 {(To Helicanus)} There is a barge put off from +
PER S.21. 2 Mytilene.
PER S.21. 3 In it, Lysimachus, the governor,
PER S.21. 4 Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?
PER S.21. 5B
PER-HELICANUS
That he have his. {[Exit Sailor of Mytilene at +
PER S.21. 5B first door]} Call up some gentlemen. {[Exit Helicanus +
PER S.21. 5B above]}
PER S.21. 6B
PER-[SAILOR OF TYRE]
Ho, my lord calls! {Enter [from +
PER S.21. 6B below the stage] two or three Gentlemen; [to them, enter +
PER S.21. 6B Helicanus]}
PER-FIRST GENTLEMAN
What is your lordship's +
PER S.21. 6B pleasure?
PER S.21. 7
PER-HELICANUS
Gentlemen, some of worth would come aboard.
PER S.21. 8 I pray you, greet him fairly. {Enter Lysimachus [at first door, +
PER S.21. 8 with the Sailor and Lords of Mytilene]}
PER S.21. 9
PER-[SAILOR OF MYTILENE]
{(to Lysimachus)} This is the +
PER S.21. 9 man that can in aught resolve you.
PER S.21. 10
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{(to Helicanus)} Hail, reverend sir; +
PER S.21. 10 the gods preserve you!
PER S.21. 11
PER-HELICANUS
And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,
PER S.21. 12B And die as I would do.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
You wish me well.
PER S.21. 13 I am the governor of Mytilene;
PER S.21. 14 Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,
PER S.21. 15 Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,
PER S.21. 16 I made to it to know of whence you are.
PER S.21. 17
PER-HELICANUS
Our vessel is of Tyre, in it our king,
PER S.21. 18 A man who for this three months hath not spoken
PER S.21. 19 To anyone, nor taken sustenance
PER S.21. 20 But to prorogue his grief.
PER S.21. 21
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Upon what ground grew his distemp'rature?
PER S.21. 22
PER-HELICANUS
'Twould be too tedious to tell it over,
PER S.21. 23 But the main grief springs from the precious loss
PER S.21. 24 Of a beloved daughter and a wife.
PER S.21. 25B
PER-LYSIMACHUS
May we not see him?
PER-HELICANUS
See him, sir, you may,
PER S.21. 26 But bootless is your sight. He will not speak
PER S.21. 27B To any.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Let me yet obtain my wish.
PER S.21. 28B
PER-HELICANUS
Behold him. {[Helicanus draws a curtain, revealing +
PER S.21. 28B Pericles lying upon a couch with a long overgrown beard, diffused hair, +
PER S.21. 28B undecent nails on his fingers, and attired in sack-cloth]} +
PER S.21. 28B This was a goodly person
PER S.21. 29 Till the disaster of one mortal night
PER S.21. 30 Drove him to this.
PER S.21. 31
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{(to Pericles)} Sir, King, all hail. +
PER S.21. 31 Hail, royal sir. {[Pericles shrinks himself down upon his +
PER S.21. 31 pillow]}
PER S.21. 32
PER-HELICANUS
It is in vain. He will not speak to you.
PER S.21. 33
PER-LORD OF MYTILENE
Sir, we have a maid in Mytilene I durst wager
PER S.21. 34B Would win some words of him.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
'Tis well bethought.
PER S.21. 35 She questionless, with her sweet harmony
PER S.21. 36 And other choice attractions, would alarum
PER S.21. 37 And make a batt'ry through his deafened ports,
PER S.21. 38 Which now are midway stopped. She in all happy,
PER S.21. 39 As the fair'st of all, among her fellow maids
PER S.21. 40 Dwells now i' th' leafy shelter that abuts
PER S.21. 41 Against the island's side. Go fetch her hither. {[Exit Lord]}
PER S.21. 42
PER-HELICANUS
Sure, all effectless; yet nothing we'll omit
PER S.21. 43 That bears recov'ry's name. But since your kindness
PER S.21. 44 We have stretched thus far, let us beseech you
PER S.21. 45 That for our gold we may provision have,
PER S.21. 46 Wherein we are not destitute for want,
PER S.21. 47B But weary for the staleness.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
O sir, a courtesy
PER S.21. 48 Which if we should deny, the most just gods
PER S.21. 49 For every graft would send a caterpillar,
PER S.21. 50 And so inflict our province. Yet once more
PER S.21. 51 Let me entreat to know at large the cause
PER S.21. 52B Of your king's sorrow.
PER-HELICANUS
Sit, sir. I will recount it. +
PER S.21. 52B {[Enter Lord with Marina and another maid]}
PER S.21. 53 But see, I am prevented.
PER S.21. 54
PER-LYSIMACHUS
O, here's the lady that I sent for. -
PER S.21. 55 Welcome, fair one. - Is 't not a goodly presence?
PER S.21. 56A
PER-HELICANUS
She's a gallant lady.
PER S.21. 57
PER-LYSIMACHUS
She's such a one that, were I well assured
PER S.21. 58 Came of gentle kind or noble stock, I'd wish
PER S.21. 59 No better choice to think me rarely wed. -
PER S.21. 60 Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty
PER S.21. 61 Expect e'en here, where is a kingly patient;
PER S.21. 62 If that thy prosperous and artificial feat
PER S.21. 63 Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,
PER S.21. 64 Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay
PER S.21. 65B As thy desires can wish.
PER-MARINA
Sir, I will use
PER S.21. 66 My utmost skill in his recure, provided
PER S.21. 67 That none but I and my companion maid
PER S.21. 68B Be suffered to come near him.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{(to the +
PER S.21. 68B others)} Let us leave her,
PER S.21. 69B And the gods prosper her. {[The men stand aside]} {The +
PER S.21. 69B Song}
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{[coming forward]} Marked he your +
PER S.21. 69B music?
PER S.21. 70B
PER-[MAID]
No, nor looked on us.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{(to the +
PER S.21. 70B others)} See, she will speak to him.
PER S.21. 71
PER-MARINA
{(to Pericles)} Hail, sir; my lord, lend +
PER S.21. 71 ear.
PER S.21. 72A
PER-PERICLES
Hmh, ha! {[He roughly repulses her]}
PER S.21. 73A
PER-MARINA
I am a maid,
PER S.21. 74 My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,
PER S.21. 75 But have been gazed on like a comet. She speaks,
PER S.21. 76 My lord, that maybe hath endured a grief
PER S.21. 77 Might equal yours, if both were justly weighed.
PER S.21. 78 Though wayward fortune did malign my state,
PER S.21. 79 My derivation was from ancestors
PER S.21. 80 Who stood equivalent with mighty kings,
PER S.21. 81 But time hath rooted out my parentage,
PER S.21. 82 And to the world and awkward casualties
PER S.21. 83 Bound me in servitude. {(Aside)} I will desist.
PER S.21. 84 But there is something glows upon my cheek,
PER S.21. 85 And whispers in mine ear `Stay till he speak.'
PER S.21. 86
PER-PERICLES
My fortunes, parentage, good parentage,
PER S.21. 87 To equal mine? Was it not thus? What say you?
PER S.21. 88
PER-MARINA
I said if you did know my parentage,
PER S.21. 89 My lord, you would not do me violence.
PER S.21. 90
PER-PERICLES
I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.
PER S.21. 91 You're like something that - what countrywoman?
PER S.21. 92B Here of these shores?
PER-MARINA
No, nor of any shores,
PER S.21. 93 Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
PER S.21. 94 No other than I seem.
PER S.21. 95
PER-PERICLES
{[aside]} I am great with woe, and shall +
PER S.21. 95 deliver weeping.
PER S.21. 96 My dearest wife was like this maid, and such
PER S.21. 97 My daughter might have been. My queen's square brows,
PER S.21. 98 Her stature to an inch, as wand-like straight,
PER S.21. 99 As silver-voiced, her eyes as jewel-like,
PER S.21. 100 And cased as richly, in pace another Juno,
PER S.21. 101 Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry
PER S.21. 102 The more she gives them speech. - Where do you live?
PER S.21. 103
PER-MARINA
Where I am but a stranger. From the deck
PER S.21. 104B You may discern the place.
PER-PERICLES
Where were you bred,
PER S.21. 105 And how achieved you these endowments which
PER S.21. 106B You make more rich to owe?
PER-MARINA
If I should tell
PER S.21. 107 My history, it would seem like lies
PER S.21. 108B Disdained in the reporting.
PER-PERICLES
Prithee speak.
PER S.21. 109 Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st
PER S.21. 110 Modest as justice, and thou seem'st a palace
PER S.21. 111 For the crowned truth to dwell in. I will believe thee,
PER S.21. 112 And make my senses credit thy relation
PER S.21. 113 To points that seem impossible. Thou show'st
PER S.21. 114 Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?
PER S.21. 115 Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back -
PER S.21. 116 Which was when I perceived thee - that thou cam'st
PER S.21. 117B From good descending?
PER-MARINA
So indeed I did.
PER S.21. 118
PER-PERICLES
Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st
PER S.21. 119 Thou hadst been tossed from wrong to injury,
PER S.21. 120 And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,
PER S.21. 121B If both were opened.
PER-MARINA
Some such thing I said,
PER S.21. 122 And said no more but what my circumstance
PER S.21. 123B Did warrant me was likely.
PER-PERICLES
Tell thy story.
PER S.21. 124 If thine considered prove the thousandth part
PER S.21. 125 Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I
PER S.21. 126 Have suffered like a girl. Yet thou dost look
PER S.21. 127 Like patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
PER S.21. 128 Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?
PER S.21. 129 How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?
PER S.21. 130 Recount, I do beseech thee. Come, sit by me. {She sits}
PER S.21. 131B
PER-MARINA
My name, sir, is Marina.
PER-PERICLES
O, I am +
PER S.21. 131B mocked,
PER S.21. 132 And thou by some incensed god sent hither
PER S.21. 133B To make the world to laugh at me.
PER-MARINA
Patience, good sir,
PER S.21. 134B Or here I'll cease.
PER-PERICLES
Nay, I'll be patient.
PER S.21. 135 Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me
PER S.21. 136B To call thyself Marina.
PER-MARINA
The name
PER S.21. 137 Was given me by one that had some power:
PER S.21. 138B My father, and a king.
PER-PERICLES
How, a king's daughter,
PER S.21. 139B And called Marina?
PER-MARINA
You said you would believe me,
PER S.21. 140 But not to be a troubler of your peace
PER S.21. 141B I will end here.
PER-PERICLES
But are you flesh and blood?
PER S.21. 142 Have you a working pulse and are no fairy?
PER S.21. 143 Motion as well? Speak on. Where were you born,
PER S.21. 144B And wherefore called Marina?
PER-MARINA
Called Marina
PER S.21. 145B For I was born at sea.
PER-PERICLES
At sea? What mother?
PER S.21. 146
PER-MARINA
My mother was the daughter of a king,
PER S.21. 147 Who died when I was born, as my good nurse
PER S.21. 148 Lychorida hath oft recounted weeping.
PER S.21. 149
PER-PERICLES
O, stop there a little! {[Aside]} This is +
PER S.21. 149 the rarest dream
PER S.21. 150 That e'er dulled sleep did mock sad fools withal.
PER S.21. 151 This cannot be my daughter, buried. Well.
PER S.21. 152 {(To Marina)} Where were you bred? I'll hear you more +
PER S.21. 152 to th' bottom
PER S.21. 153 Of your story, and never interrupt you.
PER S.21. 154
PER-MARINA
You will scarce believe me. 'Twere best I did give o'er.
PER S.21. 155
PER-PERICLES
I will believe you by the syllable
PER S.21. 156 Of what you shall deliver. Yet give me leave.
PER S.21. 157 How came you in these parts? Where were you bred?
PER S.21. 158
PER-MARINA
The King my father did in Tarsus leave me,
PER S.21. 159 Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
PER S.21. 160 Did seek to murder me, and wooed a villain
PER S.21. 161 To attempt the deed; who having drawn to do 't,
PER S.21. 162 A crew of pirates came and rescued me.
PER S.21. 163 To Mytilene they brought me. But, good sir,
PER S.21. 164 What will you of me? Why do you weep? It may be
PER S.21. 165 You think me an impostor. No, good faith,
PER S.21. 166 I am the daughter to King Pericles,
PER S.21. 167 If good King Pericles be.
PER S.21. 168A
PER-PERICLES
{[rising]} Ho, Helicanus!
PER S.21. 169A
PER-HELICANUS
{(coming forward)} Calls my lord?
PER S.21. 170
PER-PERICLES
Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,
PER S.21. 171 Most wise in gen'ral. Tell me if thou canst
PER S.21. 172 What this maid is, or what is like to be,
PER S.21. 173B That thus hath made me weep.
PER-HELICANUS
I know not.
PER S.21. 174 But here's the regent, sir, of Mytilene
PER S.21. 175B Speaks nobly of her.
PER-LYSIMACHUS
She would never tell
PER S.21. 176 Her parentage. Being demanded that,
PER S.21. 177 She would sit still and weep.
PER S.21. 178
PER-PERICLES
O Helicanus, strike me, honoured sir,
PER S.21. 179 Give me a gash, put me to present pain,
PER S.21. 180 Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
PER S.21. 181 O'erbear the shores of my mortality
PER S.21. 182 And drown me with their sweetness! {(To Marina)} O, +
PER S.21. 182 come hither, {[Marina stands]}
PER S.21. 183 Thou that begett'st him that did thee beget,
PER S.21. 184 Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,
PER S.21. 185 And found at sea again! - O Helicanus,
PER S.21. 186 Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud
PER S.21. 187 As thunder threatens us, this is Marina!
PER S.21. 188 {(To Marina)} What was thy mother's name? Tell me but +
PER S.21. 188 that,
PER S.21. 189 For truth can never be confirmed enough,
PER S.21. 190B Though doubts did ever sleep.
PER-MARINA
First, sir, I pray,
PER S.21. 191B What is your title?
PER-PERICLES
I am Pericles
PER S.21. 192 Of Tyre. But tell me now my drowned queen's name.
PER S.21. 193 As in the rest thou hast been godlike perfect,
PER S.21. 194 So prove but true in that, thou art my daughter,
PER S.21. 195 The heir of kingdoms, and another life
PER S.21. 196B To Pericles thy father.
PER-MARINA
{[kneeling]} Is it +
PER S.21. 196B no more
PER S.21. 197 To be your daughter than to say my mother's name?
PER S.21. 198 Thaisa was my mother, who did end
PER S.21. 199 The minute I began.
PER S.21. 200
PER-PERICLES
Now blessing on thee! Rise. Thou art my child. +
PER S.21. 200 {[Marina stands. He kisses her]}
PER S.21. 201 {[To attendants]} Give me fresh garments. - Mine own, +
PER S.21. 201 Helicanus!
PER S.21. 202 Not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been
PER S.21. 203 By savage Cleon. She shall tell thee all,
PER S.21. 204 When thou shalt kneel and justify in knowledge
PER S.21. 205 She is thy very princess. Who is this?
PER S.21. 206
PER-HELICANUS
Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,
PER S.21. 207 Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
PER S.21. 208B Did come to see you.
PER-PERICLES
{(to Lysimachus)} I +
PER S.21. 208B embrace you, sir. -
PER S.21. 209B Give me my robes. {[He is attired in fresh robes]} I am +
PER S.21. 209B wild in my beholding.
PER S.21. 210B O heavens, bless my girl! {[Celestial music]} But hark, +
PER S.21. 210B what music?
PER S.21. 211 Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him
PER S.21. 212 O'er point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,
PER S.21. 213 How sure you are my daughter. But what music?
PER S.21. 214A
PER-HELICANUS
My lord, I hear none.
PER S.21. 215
PER-PERICLES
None? The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.
PER S.21. 216
PER-LYSIMACHUS
{(aside to the others)} It is not good +
PER S.21. 216 to cross him. Give him way.
PER S.21. 217A
PER-PERICLES
Rar'st sounds. Do ye not hear?
PER S.21. 218A
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Music, my lord?
PER S.21. 219A
PER-PERICLES
I hear most heav'nly music.
PER S.21. 220 It raps me unto list'ning, and thick slumber
PER S.21. 221 Hangs upon mine eyelids. Let me rest. {He sleeps}
PER S.21. 222B
PER-LYSIMACHUS
A pillow for his head. {[To Marina and +
PER S.21. 222B others]} Companion friends,
PER S.21. 223 If this but answer to my just belief
PER S.21. 224 I'll well remember you. So leave him all. {Exeunt all but +
PER S.21. 224 Pericles}
PER S.21. 225 {Diana [descends from the heavens]}
PER-DIANA
My +
PER S.21. 225 temple stands in Ephesus. Hie thee thither,
PER S.21. 226 And do upon mine altar sacrifice.
PER S.21. 227 There when my maiden priests are met together,
PER S.21. 228 At large discourse thy fortunes in this wise:
PER S.21. 229 With a full voice before the people all,
PER S.21. 230 Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife.
PER S.21. 231 To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call
PER S.21. 232 And give them repetition to the life.
PER S.21. 233 Perform my bidding, or thou liv'st in woe;
PER S.21. 234 Do 't, and rest happy, by my silver bow.
PER S.21. 235 Awake, and tell thy dream. {[Diana ascends into the heavens]}
PER S.21. 236
PER-PERICLES
Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
PER S.21. 237B I will obey thee. {(Calling)} Helicanus! {Enter +
PER S.21. 237B Helicanus, Lysimachus, and Marina}
PER-HELICANUS
Sir?
PER S.21. 238
PER-PERICLES
My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike
PER S.21. 239 Th' inhospitable Cleon, but I am
PER S.21. 240 For other service first. Toward Ephesus
PER S.21. 241 Turn our blown sails. Eftsoons I'll tell thee why. {[Exit +
PER S.21. 241 Helicanus]}
PER S.21. 242 Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
PER S.21. 243 And give you gold for such provision
PER S.21. 244B As our intents will need?
PER-LYSIMACHUS
With all my heart, sir,
PER S.21. 245 And when you come ashore I have a suit.
PER S.21. 246
PER-PERICLES
You shall prevail, were it to woo my daughter,
PER S.21. 247 For it seems you have been noble towards her.
PER S.21. 248B
PER-LYSIMACHUS
Sir, lend me your arm.
PER-PERICLES
Come, my +
PER S.21. 248B Marina. {[Exit Pericles with Lysimachus at one arm, Marina at +
PER S.21. 248B the other]}
PER S.21. 0 {Enter Gower}
PER S.22. 1
PER-GOWER
Now our sands are almost run;
PER S.22. 2 More a little, and then dumb.
PER S.22. 3 This my last boon give me,
PER S.22. 4 For such kindness must relieve me,
PER S.22. 5 That you aptly will suppose
PER S.22. 6 What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
PER S.22. 7 What minstrelsy and pretty din
PER S.22. 8 The regent made in Mytilene
PER S.22. 9 To greet the King. So well he thrived
PER S.22. 10 That he is promised to be wived
PER S.22. 11 To fair Marina, but in no wise
PER S.22. 12 Till he had done his sacrifice
PER S.22. 13 As Dian bade, whereto being bound
PER S.22. 14 The int'rim, pray you, all confound.
PER S.22. 15 In feathered briefness sails are filled,
PER S.22. 16 And wishes fall out as they're willed.
PER S.22. 17 At Ephesus the temple see: {[An altar, Thaisa and other vestals +
PER S.22. 17 are revealed]}
PER S.22. 18 Our king, and all his company. {[Enter Pericles, +
PER S.22. 18 Marina, Lysimachus, Helicanus, Cerimon, with attendants]}
PER S.22. 19 That he can hither come so soon
PER S.22. 20 Is by your fancies' thankful doom. {[Gower stands aside]}
PER S.22. 21
PER-PERICLES
Hail, Dian. To perform thy just command
PER S.22. 22 I here confess myself the King of Tyre,
PER S.22. 23 Who, frighted from my country, did espouse
PER S.22. 24B The fair Thaisa {[Thaisa starts]} at Pentapolis.
PER S.22. 25 At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
PER S.22. 26 A maid child called Marina, who, O goddess,
PER S.22. 27 Wears yet thy silver liv'ry. She at Tarsus
PER S.22. 28 Was nursed with Cleon, whom at fourteen years
PER S.22. 29 He sought to murder, but her better stars
PER S.22. 30 Bore her to Mytilene, 'gainst whose shore riding
PER S.22. 31 Her fortunes brought the maid aboard our barque,
PER S.22. 32 Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
PER S.22. 33B Made known herself my daughter.
PER-THAISA
Voice and favour -
PER S.22. 34 You are, you are - O royal Pericles! {She falls}
PER S.22. 35
PER-PERICLES
What means the nun? She dies. Help, gentlemen!
PER S.22. 36A
PER-CERIMON
Noble sir,
PER S.22. 37 If you have told Diana's altar true,
PER S.22. 38B This is your wife.
PER-PERICLES
Reverend appearer, no.
PER S.22. 39 I threw her overboard with these same arms.
PER S.22. 40B
PER-CERIMON
Upon this coast, I warr'nt you.
PER-PERICLES
'Tis most +
PER S.22. 40B certain.
PER S.22. 41
PER-CERIMON
Look to the lady. O, she's but o'erjoyed.
PER S.22. 42 Early one blustering morn this lady
PER S.22. 43 Was thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,
PER S.22. 44 Found there rich jewels, recovered her, and placed her
PER S.22. 45B Here in Diana's temple.
PER-PERICLES
May we see them?
PER S.22. 46
PER-CERIMON
Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,
PER S.22. 47 Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is
PER S.22. 48B Recovered.
PER-THAISA
O, let me look upon him!
PER S.22. 49 If he be none of mine, my sanctity
PER S.22. 50 Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
PER S.22. 51 But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
PER S.22. 52 Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,
PER S.22. 53 Like him you are. Did you not name a tempest,
PER S.22. 54 A birth and death?
PER S.22. 55A
PER-PERICLES
The voice of dead Thaisa!
PER S.22. 56A
PER-THAISA
That Thaisa
PER S.22. 57 Am I, supposed dead and drowned.
PER S.22. 58A
PER-PERICLES
{[taking Thaisa's hand]} Immortal Dian!
PER S.22. 59A
PER-THAISA
Now I know you better.
PER S.22. 60 When we with tears parted Pentapolis,
PER S.22. 61 The King my father gave you such a ring.
PER S.22. 62
PER-PERICLES
This, this! No more, you gods. Your present kindness
PER S.22. 63 Makes my past miseries sports; you shall do well
PER S.22. 64 That on the touching of her lips I may
PER S.22. 65 Melt, and no more be seen. - O come, be buried
PER S.22. 66B A second time within these arms. {[They embrace and +
PER S.22. 66B kiss]}
PER-MARINA
{(kneeling to Thaisa)} My heart
PER S.22. 67 Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.
PER S.22. 68
PER-PERICLES
Look who kneels here: flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa,
PER S.22. 69 Thy burden at the sea, and called Marina
PER S.22. 70B For she was yielded there.
PER-THAISA
{[embracing +
PER S.22. 70B Marina]} Blessed, and mine own!
PER S.22. 71B
PER-HELICANUS
{[kneeling to Thaisa]} Hail, madam, and +
PER S.22. 71B my queen.
PER-THAISA
I know you not.
PER S.22. 72
PER-PERICLES
You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,
PER S.22. 73 I left behind an ancient substitute.
PER S.22. 74 Can you remember what I called the man?
PER S.22. 75 I have named him oft.
PER S.22. 76A
PER-THAISA
'Twas Helicanus then.
PER S.22. 77A
PER-PERICLES
Still confirmation.
PER S.22. 78 Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.
PER S.22. 79 Now do I long to hear how you were found,
PER S.22. 80 How possibly preserved, and who to thank -
PER S.22. 81 Besides the gods - for this great miracle.
PER S.22. 82
PER-THAISA
Lord Cerimon, my lord. This is the man
PER S.22. 83 Through whom the gods have shown their pow'r, that can
PER S.22. 84B From first to last resolve you.
PER-PERICLES
{(to +
PER S.22. 84B Cerimon)} Reverend sir,
PER S.22. 85 The gods can have no mortal officer
PER S.22. 86 More like a god than you. Will you deliver
PER S.22. 87B How this dead queen re-lives?
PER-CERIMON
I will, my lord.
PER S.22. 88 Beseech you, first go with me to my house,
PER S.22. 89 Where shall be shown you all was found with her,
PER S.22. 90 And told how in this temple she came placed,
PER S.22. 91B No needful thing omitted.
PER-PERICLES
Pure Diana,
PER S.22. 92 I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer
PER S.22. 93 Nightly oblations to thee. - Beloved Thaisa,
PER S.22. 94 This prince, the fair betrothed of your daughter,
PER S.22. 95 At Pentapolis shall marry her.
PER S.22. 96 {(To Marina)} And now this ornament
PER S.22. 97 Makes me look dismal will I clip to form,
PER S.22. 98 And what this fourteen years no razor touched,
PER S.22. 99 To grace thy marriage day I'll beautify.
PER S.22. 100
PER-THAISA
Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit,
PER S.22. 101 Sir, from Pentapolis: my father's dead.
PER S.22. 102
PER-PERICLES
Heav'n make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
PER S.22. 103 We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
PER S.22. 104 Will in that kingdom spend our following days.
PER S.22. 105 Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign. -
PER S.22. 106 Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
PER S.22. 107 To hear the rest untold. Sir, lead 's the way. {Exeunt [all but +
PER S.22. 107 Gower]}
PER S.22. 108
PER S.22. 108
PER-GOWER
In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
PER S.22. 109 Of monstrous lust the due and just reward;
PER S.22. 110 In Pericles, his queen, and daughter seen,
PER S.22. 111 Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen,
PER S.22. 112 Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,
PER S.22. 113 Led on by heav'n, and crowned with joy at last.
PER S.22. 114 In Helicanus may you well descry
PER S.22. 115 A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty.
PER S.22. 116 In reverend Cerimon there well appears
PER S.22. 117 The worth that learned charity aye wears.
PER S.22. 118 For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
PER S.22. 119 Had spread their cursed deed to th' honoured name
PER S.22. 120 Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
PER S.22. 121 That him and his they in his palace burn.
PER S.22. 122 The gods for murder seemed so content
PER S.22. 123 To punish that, although not done, but meant.
PER S.22. 124 So on your patience evermore attending,
PER S.22. 125 New joy wait on you. Here our play has ending. {Exit}
PER S.22. 0
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PER A.2. 0
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PER A.2. 1
PER-GOWER
`The fairest, sweetest, best lies here,
PER A.2. 2 Who withered in her spring of year.
PER A.2. 3 She was of Tyrus the King's daughter,
PER A.2. 4 On whom foul death hath made this slaughter.
PER A.2. 5 Marina was she called, and at her birth
PER A.2. 6 Thetis, being proud, swallowed some part o' th' earth;
PER A.2. 7 Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflowed,
PER A.2. 8 Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heav'ns bestowed,
PER A.2. 9 Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,
PER A.2. 10 Make raging batt'ry upon shores of flint.'
PER A.2.
PER
0
R2 . . 0 The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
R2 . . 0 {Enter King Richard and John of Gaunt, with the +
R2 1.1. 0 Lord Marshal, other nobles, and attendants}
R2 1.1. 1
R2-KING RICHARD
Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,
R2 1.1. 2 Hast thou according to thy oath and bond
R2 1.1. 3 Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son,
R2 1.1. 4 Here to make good the boist'rous late appeal,
R2 1.1. 5 Which then our leisure would not let us hear,
R2 1.1. 6 Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
R2 1.1. 7A
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
I have, my liege.
R2 1.1. 8
R2-KING RICHARD
Tell me moreover, hast thou sounded him
R2 1.1. 9 If he appeal the Duke on ancient malice
R2 1.1. 10 Or worthily, as a good subject should,
R2 1.1. 11 On some known ground of treachery in him?
R2 1.1. 12
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
As near as I could sift him on that argument,
R2 1.1. 13 On some apparent danger seen in him
R2 1.1. 14 Aimed at your highness, no inveterate malice.
R2 1.1. 15B
R2-KING RICHARD
Then call them to our presence. {[Exit one or +
R2 1.1. 15B more]} Face to face
R2 1.1. 16 And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear
R2 1.1. 17 The accuser and the accused freely speak.
R2 1.1. 18 High-stomached are they both and full of ire;
R2 1.1. 19 In rage, deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. {Enter Bolingbroke Duke +
R2 1.1. 19 of Hereford, and Mowbray Duke of Norfolk}
R2 1.1. 20
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Many years of happy days befall
R2 1.1. 21 My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!
R2 1.1. 22
R2-MOWBRAY
Each day still better others' happiness,
R2 1.1. 23 Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap,
R2 1.1. 24 Add an immortal title to your crown!
R2 1.1. 25
R2-KING RICHARD
We thank you both. Yet one but flatters us,
R2 1.1. 26 As well appeareth by the cause you come,
R2 1.1. 27 Namely, to appeal each other of high treason.
R2 1.1. 28 Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object
R2 1.1. 29 Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
R2 1.1. 30
R2-BOLINGBROKE
First - heaven be the record to my speech -
R2 1.1. 31 In the devotion of a subject's love,
R2 1.1. 32 Tend'ring the precious safety of my Prince,
R2 1.1. 33 And free from other misbegotten hate,
R2 1.1. 34 Come I appellant to this princely presence.
R2 1.1. 35 Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee;
R2 1.1. 36 And mark my greeting well, for what I speak
R2 1.1. 37 My body shall make good upon this earth,
R2 1.1. 38 Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.
R2 1.1. 39 Thou art a traitor and a miscreant,
R2 1.1. 40 Too good to be so, and too bad to live,
R2 1.1. 41 Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,
R2 1.1. 42 The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.
R2 1.1. 43 Once more, the more to aggravate the note,
R2 1.1. 44 With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat,
R2 1.1. 45 And wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move
R2 1.1. 46 What my tongue speaks my right-drawn sword may prove.
R2 1.1. 47
R2-MOWBRAY
Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal.
R2 1.1. 48 'Tis not the trial of a woman's war,
R2 1.1. 49 The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,
R2 1.1. 50 Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain.
R2 1.1. 51 The blood is hot that must be cooled for this.
R2 1.1. 52 Yet can I not of such tame patience boast
R2 1.1. 53 As to be hushed and naught at all to say.
R2 1.1. 54 First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
R2 1.1. 55 From giving reins and spurs to my free speech,
R2 1.1. 56 Which else would post until it had returned
R2 1.1. 57 These terms of treason doubled down his throat.
R2 1.1. 58 Setting aside his high blood's royalty,
R2 1.1. 59 And let him be no kinsman to my liege,
R2 1.1. 60 I do defy him, and I spit at him,
R2 1.1. 61 Call him a slanderous coward and a villain;
R2 1.1. 62 Which to maintain I would allow him odds,
R2 1.1. 63 And meet him, were I tied to run afoot
R2 1.1. 64 Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,
R2 1.1. 65 Or any other ground inhabitable,
R2 1.1. 66 Wherever Englishman durst set his foot.
R2 1.1. 67 Meantime let this defend my loyalty:
R2 1.1. 68 By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.
R2 1.1. 69
R2-BOLINGBROKE
{(throwing down his gage)} Pale +
R2 1.1. 69 trembling coward, there I throw my gage,
R2 1.1. 70 Disclaiming here the kindred of the King,
R2 1.1. 71 And lay aside my high blood's royalty,
R2 1.1. 72 Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except.
R2 1.1. 73 If guilty dread have left thee so much strength
R2 1.1. 74 As to take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop.
R2 1.1. 75 By that, and all the rites of knighthood else,
R2 1.1. 76 Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,
R2 1.1. 77 What I have spoke or thou canst worse devise.
R2 1.1. 78
R2-MOWBRAY
{(taking up the gage)} I take it up, and +
R2 1.1. 78 by that sword I swear
R2 1.1. 79 Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,
R2 1.1. 80 I'll answer thee in any fair degree
R2 1.1. 81 Or chivalrous design of knightly trial;
R2 1.1. 82 And when I mount, alive may I not light
R2 1.1. 83 If I be traitor or unjustly fight!
R2 1.1. 84
R2-KING RICHARD
{(to Bolingbroke)} What doth our +
R2 1.1. 84 cousin lay to Mowbray's charge?
R2 1.1. 85 It must be great that can inherit us
R2 1.1. 86 So much as of a thought of ill in him.
R2 1.1. 87
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Look what I speak, my life shall prove it true:
R2 1.1. 88 That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles
R2 1.1. 89 In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers,
R2 1.1. 90 The which he hath detained for lewd employments,
R2 1.1. 91 Like a false traitor and injurious villain.
R2 1.1. 92 Besides I say, and will in battle prove,
R2 1.1. 93 Or here or elsewhere, to the furthest verge
R2 1.1. 94 That ever was surveyed by English eye,
R2 1.1. 95 That all the treasons for these eighteen years
R2 1.1. 96 Complotted and contrived in this land
R2 1.1. 97 Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
R2 1.1. 98 Further I say, and further will maintain
R2 1.1. 99 Upon his bad life, to make all this good,
R2 1.1. 100 That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,
R2 1.1. 101 Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,
R2 1.1. 102 And consequently, like a traitor-coward,
R2 1.1. 103 Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood;
R2 1.1. 104 Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries
R2 1.1. 105 Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth
R2 1.1. 106 To me for justice and rough chastisement.
R2 1.1. 107 And, by the glorious worth of my descent,
R2 1.1. 108 This arm shall do it or this life be spent.
R2 1.1. 109
R2-KING RICHARD
How high a pitch his resolution soars!
R2 1.1. 110 Thomas of Norfolk, what sayst thou to this?
R2 1.1. 111
R2-MOWBRAY
O, let my sovereign turn away his face,
R2 1.1. 112 And bid his ears a little while be deaf,
R2 1.1. 113 Till I have told this slander of his blood
R2 1.1. 114 How God and good men hate so foul a liar!
R2 1.1. 115
R2-KING RICHARD
Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears.
R2 1.1. 116 Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir,
R2 1.1. 117 As he is but my father's brother's son,
R2 1.1. 118 Now by my sceptre's awe I make a vow
R2 1.1. 119 Such neighbour-nearness to our sacred blood
R2 1.1. 120 Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize
R2 1.1. 121 The unstooping firmness of my upright soul.
R2 1.1. 122 He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou.
R2 1.1. 123 Free speech and fearless I to thee allow.
R2 1.1. 124
R2-MOWBRAY
Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart
R2 1.1. 125 Through the false passage of thy throat thou liest!
R2 1.1. 126 Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais
R2 1.1. 127 Disbursed I duly to his highness' soldiers.
R2 1.1. 128 The other part reserved I by consent,
R2 1.1. 129 For that my sovereign liege was in my debt
R2 1.1. 130 Upon remainder of a dear account
R2 1.1. 131 Since last I went to France to fetch his queen.
R2 1.1. 132 Now swallow down that lie. For Gloucester's death,
R2 1.1. 133 I slew him not, but to my own disgrace
R2 1.1. 134 Neglected my sworn duty in that case.
R2 1.1. 135 For you, my noble lord of Lancaster,
R2 1.1. 136 The honourable father to my foe,
R2 1.1. 137 Once did I lay an ambush for your life,
R2 1.1. 138 A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul;
R2 1.1. 139 But ere I last received the Sacrament
R2 1.1. 140 I did confess it, and exactly begged
R2 1.1. 141 Your grace's pardon, and I hope I had it.
R2 1.1. 142 This is my fault. As for the rest appealed,
R2 1.1. 143 It issues from the rancour of a villain,
R2 1.1. 144 A recreant and most degenerate traitor,
R2 1.1. 145 Which in myself I boldly will defend, {He throws down his gage}
R2 1.1. 146 And interchangeably hurl down my gage
R2 1.1. 147 Upon this overweening traitor's foot,
R2 1.1. 148 To prove myself a loyal gentleman
R2 1.1. 149 Even in the best blood chambered in his bosom;
R2 1.1. 150 In haste whereof most heartily I pray
R2 1.1. 151 Your highness to assign our trial day. {[Bolingbroke takes up +
R2 1.1. 151 the gage]}
R2 1.1. 152
R2-KING RICHARD
Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me.
R2 1.1. 153 Let's purge this choler without letting blood.
R2 1.1. 154 This we prescribe, though no physician:
R2 1.1. 155 Deep malice makes too deep incision;
R2 1.1. 156 Forget, forgive, conclude, and be agreed;
R2 1.1. 157 Our doctors say this is no time to bleed.
R2 1.1. 158 Good uncle, let this end where it begun.
R2 1.1. 159 We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son.
R2 1.1. 160
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
To be a make-peace shall become my age.
R2 1.1. 161 Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage.
R2 1.1. 162B
R2-KING RICHARD
And, Norfolk, throw down his.
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
When, +
R2 1.1. 162B Harry, when?
R2 1.1. 163 Obedience bids I should not bid again.
R2 1.1. 164
R2-KING RICHARD
Norfolk, throw down! We bid; there is no boot.
R2 1.1. 165
R2-MOWBRAY
{(kneeling)} Myself I throw, dread +
R2 1.1. 165 sovereign, at thy foot.
R2 1.1. 166 My life thou shalt command, but not my shame.
R2 1.1. 167 The one my duty owes, but my fair name,
R2 1.1. 168 Despite of death that lives upon my grave,
R2 1.1. 169 To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have.
R2 1.1. 170 I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
R2 1.1. 171 Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,
R2 1.1. 172 The which no balm can cure but his heart blood
R2 1.1. 173B Which breathed this poison.
R2-KING RICHARD
Rage must be withstood.
R2 1.1. 174 Give me his gage. Lions make leopards tame.
R2 1.1. 175
R2-MOWBRAY
{[standing]} Yea, but not change his +
R2 1.1. 175 spots. Take but my shame,
R2 1.1. 176 And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,
R2 1.1. 177 The purest treasure mortal times afford
R2 1.1. 178 Is spotless reputation; that away,
R2 1.1. 179 Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
R2 1.1. 180 A jewel in a ten-times barred-up chest
R2 1.1. 181 Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
R2 1.1. 182 Mine honour is my life. Both grow in one.
R2 1.1. 183 Take honour from me, and my life is done.
R2 1.1. 184 Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try.
R2 1.1. 185 In that I live, and for that will I die.
R2 1.1. 186
R2-KING RICHARD
Cousin, throw down your gage. Do you begin.
R2 1.1. 187
R2-BOLINGBROKE
O God defend my soul from such deep sin!
R2 1.1. 188 Shall I seem crest-fallen in my father's sight?
R2 1.1. 189 Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height
R2 1.1. 190 Before this out-dared dastard? Ere my tongue
R2 1.1. 191 Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong,
R2 1.1. 192 Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear
R2 1.1. 193 The slavish motive of recanting fear,
R2 1.1. 194 And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace
R2 1.1. 195 Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face. {[Exit John of +
R2 1.1. 195 Gaunt]}
R2 1.1. 196
R2-KING RICHARD
We were not born to sue, but to command;
R2 1.1. 197 Which since we cannot do to make you friends,
R2 1.1. 198 Be ready, as your lives shall answer it,
R2 1.1. 199 At Coventry upon Saint Lambert's day.
R2 1.1. 200 There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
R2 1.1. 201 The swelling difference of your settled hate.
R2 1.1. 202 Since we cannot atone you, we shall see
R2 1.1. 203 Justice design the victor's chivalry.
R2 1.1. 204 Lord Marshal, command our officers-at-arms
R2 1.1. 205 Be ready to direct these home alarms. {Exeunt}
R2 1.1. 0 {Enter John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, with the Duchess +
R2 1.2. 0 of Gloucester}
R2 1.2. 1
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Alas, the part I had in Gloucester's blood
R2 1.2. 2 Doth more solicit me than your exclaims
R2 1.2. 3 To stir against the butchers of his life.
R2 1.2. 4 But since correction lieth in those hands
R2 1.2. 5 Which made the fault that we cannot correct,
R2 1.2. 6 Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven,
R2 1.2. 7 Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth,
R2 1.2. 8 Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.
R2 1.2. 9
R2-DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER
Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?
R2 1.2. 10 Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?
R2 1.2. 11 Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one,
R2 1.2. 12 Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,
R2 1.2. 13 Or seven fair branches springing from one root.
R2 1.2. 14 Some of those seven are dried by nature's course,
R2 1.2. 15 Some of those branches by the destinies cut;
R2 1.2. 16 But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,
R2 1.2. 17 One vial full of Edward's sacred blood,
R2 1.2. 18 One flourishing branch of his most royal root,
R2 1.2. 19 Is cracked, and all the precious liquor spilt;
R2 1.2. 20 Is hacked down, and his summer leaves all faded
R2 1.2. 21 By envy's hand and murder's bloody axe.
R2 1.2. 22 Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! That bed, that womb,
R2 1.2. 23 That mettle, that self mould that fashioned thee,
R2 1.2. 24 Made him a man; and though thou liv'st and breathest,
R2 1.2. 25 Yet art thou slain in him. Thou dost consent
R2 1.2. 26 In some large measure to thy father's death
R2 1.2. 27 In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,
R2 1.2. 28 Who was the model of thy father's life.
R2 1.2. 29 Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair.
R2 1.2. 30 In suff'ring thus thy brother to be slaughtered
R2 1.2. 31 Thou show'st the naked pathway to thy life,
R2 1.2. 32 Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee.
R2 1.2. 33 That which in mean men we entitle patience
R2 1.2. 34 Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
R2 1.2. 35 What shall I say? To safeguard thine own life
R2 1.2. 36 The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.
R2 1.2. 37
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
God's is the quarrel; for God's substitute,
R2 1.2. 38 His deputy anointed in his sight,
R2 1.2. 39 Hath caused his death; the which if wrongfully,
R2 1.2. 40 Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift
R2 1.2. 41 An angry arm against his minister.
R2 1.2. 42
R2-DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER
Where then, alas, may I complain myself?
R2 1.2. 43
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
To God, the widow's champion and defence.
R2 1.2. 44
R2-DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER
Why then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt.
R2 1.2. 45 Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold
R2 1.2. 46 Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight.
R2 1.2. 47 O, set my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear,
R2 1.2. 48 That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast!
R2 1.2. 49 Or if misfortune miss the first career,
R2 1.2. 50 Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom
R2 1.2. 51 That they may break his foaming courser's back
R2 1.2. 52 And throw the rider headlong in the lists,
R2 1.2. 53 A caitiff, recreant to my cousin Hereford!
R2 1.2. 54 Farewell, old Gaunt. Thy sometimes brother's wife
R2 1.2. 55 With her companion, grief, must end her life.
R2 1.2. 56
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Sister, farewell. I must to Coventry.
R2 1.2. 57 As much good stay with thee as go with me.
R2 1.2. 58
R2-DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER
Yet one word more. Grief boundeth where it +
R2 1.2. 58 falls,
R2 1.2. 59 Not with the empty hollowness, but weight.
R2 1.2. 60 I take my leave before I have begun,
R2 1.2. 61 For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
R2 1.2. 62 Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York.
R2 1.2. 63 Lo, this is all. - Nay, yet depart not so!
R2 1.2. 64 Though this be all, do not so quickly go.
R2 1.2. 65 I shall remember more. Bid him - ah, what? -
R2 1.2. 66 With all good speed at Pleshey visit me.
R2 1.2. 67 Alack, and what shall good old York there see
R2 1.2. 68 But empty lodgings and unfurnished walls,
R2 1.2. 69 Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones,
R2 1.2. 70 And what hear there for welcome but my groans?
R2 1.2. 71 Therefore commend me; let him not come there
R2 1.2. 72 To seek out sorrow that dwells everywhere.
R2 1.2. 73 Desolate, desolate will I hence and die.
R2 1.2. 74 The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye. {Exeunt +
R2 1.2. 74 [severally]}
R2 1.2. 0 {Enter Lord Marshal [with officers setting out chairs], +
R2 1.3. 0 and the Duke of Aumerle}
R2 1.3. 1
R2-LORD MARSHAL
My lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford armed?
R2 1.3. 2
R2-AUMERLE
Yea, at all points, and longs to enter in.
R2 1.3. 3
R2-LORD MARSHAL
The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,
R2 1.3. 4 Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet.
R2 1.3. 5
R2-AUMERLE
Why then, the champions are prepared, and stay
R2 1.3. 6 For nothing but his majesty's approach. {The trumpets sound, and +
R2 1.3. 6 King Richard enters, with John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, [Bushy, +
R2 1.3. 6 Bagot, Green,] and other nobles. When they are set, enter Mowbray Duke +
R2 1.3. 6 of Norfolk, defendant, in arms, [and a Herald]}
R2 1.3. 7
R2-KING RICHARD
Marshal, demand of yonder champion
R2 1.3. 8 The cause of his arrival here in arms.
R2 1.3. 9 Ask him his name, and orderly proceed
R2 1.3. 10 To swear him in the justice of his cause.
R2 1.3. 11
R2-LORD MARSHAL
{(to Mowbray)} In God's name and the +
R2 1.3. 11 King's, say who thou art,
R2 1.3. 12 And why thou com'st thus knightly clad in arms,
R2 1.3. 13 Against what man thou com'st, and what thy quarrel.
R2 1.3. 14 Speak truly on thy knighthood and thy oath,
R2 1.3. 15 As so defend thee heaven and thy valour!
R2 1.3. 16
R2-MOWBRAY
My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
R2 1.3. 17 Who hither come engaged by my oath -
R2 1.3. 18 Which God defend a knight should violate -
R2 1.3. 19 Both to defend my loyalty and truth
R2 1.3. 20 To God, my king, and my succeeding issue,
R2 1.3. 21 Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me;
R2 1.3. 22 And by the grace of God and this mine arm
R2 1.3. 23 To prove him, in defending of myself,
R2 1.3. 24 A traitor to my God, my king, and me.
R2 1.3. 25 And as I truly fight, defend me heaven! {[He sits.]}
R2 1.3. 26 {The trumpets sound. Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Hereford, appellant, in +
R2 1.3. 26 armour, [and a Herald]}
R2-KING RICHARD
Marshal, ask yonder +
R2 1.3. 26 knight in arms
R2 1.3. 27 Both who he is and why he cometh hither
R2 1.3. 28 Thus plated in habiliments of war;
R2 1.3. 29 And formally, according to our law,
R2 1.3. 30 Depose him in the justice of his cause.
R2 1.3. 31
R2-LORD MARSHAL
{(to Bolingbroke)} What is thy name? +
R2 1.3. 31 And wherefore com'st thou hither
R2 1.3. 32 Before King Richard in his royal lists?
R2 1.3. 33 Against whom comest thou? And what's thy quarrel?
R2 1.3. 34 Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!
R2 1.3. 35
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby
R2 1.3. 36 Am I, who ready here do stand in arms
R2 1.3. 37 To prove by God's grace and my body's valour
R2 1.3. 38 In lists on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
R2 1.3. 39 That he is a traitor foul and dangerous
R2 1.3. 40 To God of heaven, King Richard, and to me.
R2 1.3. 41 And as I truly fight, defend me heaven! {[He sits]}
R2 1.3. 42
R2-LORD MARSHAL
On pain of death, no person be so bold
R2 1.3. 43 Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists
R2 1.3. 44 Except the Marshal and such officers
R2 1.3. 45 Appointed to direct these fair designs.
R2 1.3. 46
R2-BOLINGBROKE
{[standing]} Lord Marshal, let me kiss +
R2 1.3. 46 my sovereign's hand
R2 1.3. 47 And bow my knee before his majesty,
R2 1.3. 48 For Mowbray and myself are like two men
R2 1.3. 49 That vow a long and weary pilgrimage;
R2 1.3. 50 Then let us take a ceremonious leave
R2 1.3. 51 And loving farewell of our several friends.
R2 1.3. 52
R2-LORD MARSHAL
{(to King Richard)} The appellant in +
R2 1.3. 52 all duty greets your highness,
R2 1.3. 53 And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave.
R2 1.3. 54
R2-KING RICHARD
We will descend and fold him in our arms. {He +
R2 1.3. 54 descends from his seat and embraces Bolingbroke}
R2 1.3. 55 Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is just,
R2 1.3. 56 So be thy fortune in this royal fight.
R2 1.3. 57 Farewell, my blood, which if today thou shed,
R2 1.3. 58 Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.
R2 1.3. 59
R2-BOLINGBROKE
O, let no noble eye profane a tear
R2 1.3. 60 For me if I be gored with Mowbray's spear.
R2 1.3. 61 As confident as is the falcon's flight
R2 1.3. 62 Against a bird do I with Mowbray fight.
R2 1.3. 63 {(To the Lord Marshal)} My loving lord, I take my +
R2 1.3. 63 leave of you;
R2 1.3. 64 {(To Aumerle)} Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle;
R2 1.3. 65 Not sick, although I have to do with death,
R2 1.3. 66 But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.
R2 1.3. 67 Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet
R2 1.3. 68 The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
R2 1.3. 69 {(To Gaunt, [kneeling])} O thou, the earthly author of +
R2 1.3. 69 my blood,
R2 1.3. 70 Whose youthful spirit in me regenerate
R2 1.3. 71 Doth with a two-fold vigour lift me up
R2 1.3. 72 To reach at victory above my head,
R2 1.3. 73 Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers,
R2 1.3. 74 And with thy blessings steel my lance's point,
R2 1.3. 75 That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat
R2 1.3. 76 And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt
R2 1.3. 77 Even in the lusty haviour of his son.
R2 1.3. 78
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
God in thy good cause make thee prosperous!
R2 1.3. 79 Be swift like lightning in the execution,
R2 1.3. 80 And let thy blows, doubly redoubled,
R2 1.3. 81 Fall like amazing thunder on the casque
R2 1.3. 82 Of thy adverse pernicious enemy.
R2 1.3. 83 Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live.
R2 1.3. 84
R2-BOLINGBROKE
{[standing]} Mine innocence and Saint +
R2 1.3. 84 George to thrive!
R2 1.3. 85
R2-MOWBRAY
{[standing]} However God or fortune cast +
R2 1.3. 85 my lot,
R2 1.3. 86 There lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne,
R2 1.3. 87 A loyal, just, and upright gentleman.
R2 1.3. 88 Never did captive with a freer heart
R2 1.3. 89 Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace
R2 1.3. 90 His golden uncontrolled enfranchisement
R2 1.3. 91 More than my dancing soul doth celebrate
R2 1.3. 92 This feast of battle with mine adversary.
R2 1.3. 93 Most mighty liege, and my companion peers,
R2 1.3. 94 Take from my mouth the wish of happy years.
R2 1.3. 95 As gentle and as jocund as to jest
R2 1.3. 96 Go I to fight. Truth hath a quiet breast.
R2 1.3. 97
R2-KING RICHARD
Farewell, my lord. Securely I espy
R2 1.3. 98 Virtue with valour couched in thine eye. -
R2 1.3. 99 Order the trial, Marshal, and begin.
R2 1.3. 100
R2-LORD MARSHAL
Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
R2 1.3. 101 Receive thy lance; and God defend the right! {[An officer bears +
R2 1.3. 101 a lance to Bolingbroke]}
R2 1.3. 102
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Strong as a tower in hope, I cry `Amen!'
R2 1.3. 103
R2-LORD MARSHAL
{(to an officer)} Go bear this lance +
R2 1.3. 103 to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. {[An officer bears a lance to +
R2 1.3. 103 Mowbray]}
R2 1.3. 104
R2-FIRST HERALD
Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby
R2 1.3. 105 Stands here for God, his sovereign, and himself,
R2 1.3. 106 On pain to be found false and recreant,
R2 1.3. 107 To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,
R2 1.3. 108 A traitor to his God, his king, and him,
R2 1.3. 109 And dares him to set forward to the fight.
R2 1.3. 110
R2-SECOND HERALD
Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
R2 1.3. 111 On pain to be found false and recreant,
R2 1.3. 112 Both to defend himself and to approve
R2 1.3. 113 Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby
R2 1.3. 114 To God his sovereign and to him disloyal,
R2 1.3. 115 Courageously and with a free desire
R2 1.3. 116 Attending but the signal to begin.
R2 1.3. 117
R2-LORD MARSHAL
Sound trumpets, and set forward combatants!
R2-[A
+
R2 1.3. 117 charge is sounded.]}
R2 1.3. 118 {King Richard throws down his warder} Stay, the King hath +
R2 1.3. 118 thrown his warder down.
R2 1.3. 119
R2-KING RICHARD
Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,
R2 1.3. 120 And both return back to their chairs again. {[Bolingbroke and +
R2 1.3. 120 Mowbray disarm and sit]}
R2 1.3. 121 {(To the nobles)} Withdraw with us, and let the +
R2 1.3. 121 trumpets sound
R2 1.3. 122 While we return these dukes what we decree. {A long flourish, +
R2 1.3. 122 during which King Richard and his nobles withdraw and hold council, +
R2 1.3. 122 [then come forward]. King Richard addresses Bolingbroke and Mowbray}
R2 1.3. 123 Draw near, and list what with our council we have done.
R2 1.3. 124 For that our kingdom's earth should not be soiled
R2 1.3. 125 With that dear blood which it hath fostered,
R2 1.3. 126 And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
R2 1.3. 127 Of civil wounds ploughed up with neighbours' swords,
R2 1.3. 128 Which, so roused up with boist'rous untuned drums,
R2 1.3. 129 With harsh-resounding trumpets' dreadful bray,
R2 1.3. 130 And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,
R2 1.3. 131 Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace
R2 1.3. 132 And make us wade even in our kindred's blood,
R2 1.3. 133 Therefore we banish you our territories.
R2 1.3. 134 You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,
R2 1.3. 135 Till twice five summers have enriched our fields
R2 1.3. 136 Shall not regreet our fair dominions,
R2 1.3. 137 But tread the stranger paths of banishment.
R2 1.3. 138
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Your will be done. This must my comfort be:
R2 1.3. 139 That sun that warms you here shall shine on me,
R2 1.3. 140 And those his golden beams to you here lent
R2 1.3. 141 Shall point on me and gild my banishment.
R2 1.3. 142
R2-KING RICHARD
Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,
R2 1.3. 143 Which I with some unwillingness pronounce.
R2 1.3. 144 The sly slow hours shall not determinate
R2 1.3. 145 The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
R2 1.3. 146 The hopeless word of `never to return'
R2 1.3. 147 Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.
R2 1.3. 148
R2-MOWBRAY
A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,
R2 1.3. 149 And all unlooked-for from your highness' mouth.
R2 1.3. 150 A dearer merit, not so deep a maim
R2 1.3. 151 As to be cast forth in the common air,
R2 1.3. 152 Have I deserved at your highness' hands.
R2 1.3. 153 The language I have learnt these forty years,
R2 1.3. 154 My native English, now I must forgo,
R2 1.3. 155 And now my tongue's use is to me no more
R2 1.3. 156 Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
R2 1.3. 157 Or like a cunning instrument cased up,
R2 1.3. 158 Or, being open, put into his hands
R2 1.3. 159 That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
R2 1.3. 160 Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue,
R2 1.3. 161 Doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips,
R2 1.3. 162 And dull unfeeling barren ignorance
R2 1.3. 163 Is made my jailer to attend on me.
R2 1.3. 164 I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
R2 1.3. 165 Too far in years to be a pupil now.
R2 1.3. 166 What is thy sentence then but speechless death,
R2 1.3. 167 Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?
R2 1.3. 168
R2-KING RICHARD
It boots thee not to be compassionate.
R2 1.3. 169 After our sentence, plaining comes too late.
R2 1.3. 170
R2-MOWBRAY
Then thus I turn me from my country's light,
R2 1.3. 171 To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.
R2 1.3. 172
R2-KING RICHARD
Return again, and take an oath with thee.
R2 1.3. 173 {(To both)} Lay on our royal sword your banished +
R2 1.3. 173 hands.
R2 1.3. 174 Swear by the duty that you owe to God -
R2 1.3. 175 Our part therein we banish with yourselves -
R2 1.3. 176 To keep the oath that we administer.
R2 1.3. 177 You never shall, so help you truth and God,
R2 1.3. 178 Embrace each other's love in banishment,
R2 1.3. 179 Nor never look upon each other's face,
R2 1.3. 180 Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile
R2 1.3. 181 This low'ring tempest of your home-bred hate,
R2 1.3. 182 Nor never by advised purpose meet
R2 1.3. 183 To plot, contrive, or complot any ill
R2 1.3. 184 'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.
R2 1.3. 185B
R2-BOLINGBROKE
I swear.
R2-MOWBRAY
And I, to keep all this.
R2 1.3. 186
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:
R2 1.3. 187 By this time, had the King permitted us,
R2 1.3. 188 One of our souls had wandered in the air,
R2 1.3. 189 Banished this frail sepulchre of our flesh,
R2 1.3. 190 As now our flesh is banished from this land.
R2 1.3. 191 Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm.
R2 1.3. 192 Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
R2 1.3. 193 The clogging burden of a guilty soul.
R2 1.3. 194
R2-MOWBRAY
No, Bolingbroke, if ever I were traitor,
R2 1.3. 195 My name be blotted from the book of life,
R2 1.3. 196 And I from heaven banished as from hence.
R2 1.3. 197 But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know,
R2 1.3. 198 And all too soon I fear the King shall rue.
R2 1.3. 199 Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray:
R2 1.3. 200 Save back to England, all the world's my way. {Exit}
R2 1.3. 201
R2-KING RICHARD
Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes
R2 1.3. 202 I see thy grieved heart. Thy sad aspect
R2 1.3. 203 Hath from the number of his banished years
R2 1.3. 204 Plucked four away. {(To Bolingbroke)} Six frozen +
R2 1.3. 204 winters spent,
R2 1.3. 205 Return with welcome home from banishment.
R2 1.3. 206
R2-BOLINGBROKE
How long a time lies in one little word!
R2 1.3. 207 Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
R2 1.3. 208 End in a word: such is the breath of kings.
R2 1.3. 209
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
I thank my liege that in regard of me
R2 1.3. 210 He shortens four years of my son's exile.
R2 1.3. 211 But little vantage shall I reap thereby,
R2 1.3. 212 For ere the six years that he hath to spend
R2 1.3. 213 Can change their moons and bring their times about,
R2 1.3. 214 My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light
R2 1.3. 215 Shall be extinct with age and endless night.
R2 1.3. 216 My inch of taper will be burnt and done,
R2 1.3. 217 And blindfold death not let me see my son.
R2 1.3. 218
R2-KING RICHARD
Why, uncle, thou hast many years to live.
R2 1.3. 219
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
But not a minute, King, that thou canst give.
R2 1.3. 220 Shorten my days thou canst with sudden sorrow,
R2 1.3. 221 And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow.
R2 1.3. 222 Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
R2 1.3. 223 But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
R2 1.3. 224 Thy word is current with him for my death,
R2 1.3. 225 But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.
R2 1.3. 226
R2-KING RICHARD
Thy son is banished upon good advice,
R2 1.3. 227 Whereto thy tongue a party verdict gave.
R2 1.3. 228 Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour?
R2 1.3. 229
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
R2 1.3. 230 You urged me as a judge, but I had rather
R2 1.3. 231 You would have bid me argue like a father.
R2 1.3. 232 Alas, I looked when some of you should say
R2 1.3. 233 I was too strict to make mine own away,
R2 1.3. 234 But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
R2 1.3. 235 Against my will to do myself this wrong.
R2 1.3. 236
R2-KING RICHARD
Cousin, farewell; and uncle, bid him so.
R2 1.3. 237 Six years we banish him, and he shall go. {[Flourish.] Exeunt +
R2 1.3. 237 all but Aumerle, the Lord Marshal, John of Gaunt, and Bolingbroke}
R2 1.3. 238
R2-AUMERLE
{(to Bolingbroke)} Cousin, farewell. What +
R2 1.3. 238 presence must not know,
R2 1.3. 239 From where you do remain let paper show. {[Exit]}
R2 1.3. 240
R2-LORD MARSHAL
{(to Bolingbroke)} My lord, no leave +
R2 1.3. 240 take I, for I will ride
R2 1.3. 241 As far as land will let me by your side.
R2 1.3. 242
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
{(to Bolingbroke)} O, to what +
R2 1.3. 242 purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
R2 1.3. 243 That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?
R2 1.3. 244
R2-BOLINGBROKE
I have too few to take my leave of you,
R2 1.3. 245 When the tongue's office should be prodigal
R2 1.3. 246 To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.
R2 1.3. 247
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.
R2 1.3. 248
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Joy absent, grief is present for that time.
R2 1.3. 249
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
What is six winters? They are quickly gone.
R2 1.3. 250
R2-BOLINGBROKE
To men in joy, but grief makes one hour ten.
R2 1.3. 251
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Call it a travel that thou tak'st for pleasure.
R2 1.3. 252
R2-BOLINGBROKE
My heart will sigh when I miscall it so,
R2 1.3. 253 Which finds it an enforced pilgrimage.
R2 1.3. 254
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
The sullen passage of thy weary steps
R2 1.3. 255 Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set
R2 1.3. 256 The precious jewel of thy home return.
R2 1.3. 257
R2-BOLINGBROKE
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
R2 1.3. 258 By thinking on the frosty Caucasus,
R2 1.3. 259 Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
R2 1.3. 260 By bare imagination of a feast,
R2 1.3. 261 Or wallow naked in December snow
R2 1.3. 262 By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
R2 1.3. 263 O no, the apprehension of the good
R2 1.3. 264 Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
R2 1.3. 265 Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
R2 1.3. 266 Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.
R2 1.3. 267
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way.
R2 1.3. 268 Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay.
R2 1.3. 269
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Then England's ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu,
R2 1.3. 270 My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
R2 1.3. 271 Where'er I wander, boast of this I can:
R2 1.3. 272 Though banished, yet a trueborn Englishman. {Exeunt}
R2 1.3. 0 {Enter King Richard with [Green and Bagot] at one door, +
R2 1.4. 0 and the Lord Aumerle at another}
R2 1.4. 1
R2-KING RICHARD
We did observe. - Cousin Aumerle,
R2 1.4. 2 How far brought you high Hereford on his way?
R2 1.4. 3
R2-AUMERLE
I brought high Hereford, if you call him so,
R2 1.4. 4 But to the next highway, and there I left him.
R2 1.4. 5
R2-KING RICHARD
And say, what store of parting tears were shed?
R2 1.4. 6
R2-AUMERLE
Faith, none for me, except the north-east wind,
R2 1.4. 7 Which then grew bitterly against our faces,
R2 1.4. 8 Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance
R2 1.4. 9 Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.
R2 1.4. 10
R2-KING RICHARD
What said our cousin when you parted with him?
R2 1.4. 11
R2-AUMERLE
`Farewell.' And for my heart disdained that my tongue
R2 1.4. 12 Should so profane the word, that taught me craft
R2 1.4. 13 To counterfeit oppression of such grief
R2 1.4. 14 That words seemed buried in my sorrow's grave.
R2 1.4. 15 Marry, would the word `farewell' have lengthened hours
R2 1.4. 16 And added years to his short banishment,
R2 1.4. 17 He should have had a volume of farewells;
R2 1.4. 18 But since it would not, he had none of me.
R2 1.4. 19
R2-KING RICHARD
He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt,
R2 1.4. 20 When time shall call him home from banishment,
R2 1.4. 21 Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.
R2 1.4. 22 Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green
R2 1.4. 23 Observed his courtship to the common people,
R2 1.4. 24 How he did seem to dive into their hearts
R2 1.4. 25 With humble and familiar courtesy,
R2 1.4. 26 What reverence he did throw away on slaves,
R2 1.4. 27 Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
R2 1.4. 28 And patient underbearing of his fortune,
R2 1.4. 29 As 'twere to banish their affects with him.
R2 1.4. 30 Off goes his bonnet to an oysterwench.
R2 1.4. 31 A brace of draymen bid God speed him well,
R2 1.4. 32 And had the tribute of his supple knee
R2 1.4. 33 With `Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends',
R2 1.4. 34 As were our England in reversion his,
R2 1.4. 35 And he our subjects' next degree in hope.
R2 1.4. 36
R2-GREEN
Well, he is gone, and with him go these thoughts.
R2 1.4. 37 Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland.
R2 1.4. 38 Expedient manage must be made, my liege,
R2 1.4. 39 Ere further leisure yield them further means
R2 1.4. 40 For their advantage and your highness' loss.
R2 1.4. 41
R2-KING RICHARD
We will ourself in person to this war,
R2 1.4. 42 And for our coffers with too great a court
R2 1.4. 43 And liberal largess are grown somewhat light,
R2 1.4. 44 We are enforced to farm our royal realm,
R2 1.4. 45 The revenue whereof shall furnish us
R2 1.4. 46 For our affairs in hand. If that come short,
R2 1.4. 47 Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters,
R2 1.4. 48 Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,
R2 1.4. 49 They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold,
R2 1.4. 50 And send them after to supply our wants;
R2 1.4. 51 For we will make for Ireland presently. {Enter Bushy}
R2 1.4. 52 Bushy, what news?
R2 1.4. 53
R2-BUSHY
Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord,
R2 1.4. 54 Suddenly taken, and hath sent post-haste
R2 1.4. 55 To entreat your majesty to visit him.
R2 1.4. 56A
R2-KING RICHARD
Where lies he?
R2 1.4. 57A
R2-BUSHY
At Ely House.
R2 1.4. 58
R2-KING RICHARD
Now put it, God, in his physician's mind
R2 1.4. 59 To help him to his grave immediately.
R2 1.4. 60 The lining of his coffers shall make coats
R2 1.4. 61 To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.
R2 1.4. 62 Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him.
R2 1.4. 63 Pray God we may make haste and come too late! {Exeunt}
R2 1.4. 0 {Enter John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, sick, +
R2 2.1. 0 [carried in a chair,] with the Duke of York}
R2 2.1. 1
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Will the King come, that I may breathe my +
R2 2.1. 1 last
R2 2.1. 2 In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?
R2 2.1. 3
R2-YORK
Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath,
R2 2.1. 4 For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.
R2 2.1. 5
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
O, but they say the tongues of dying men
R2 2.1. 6 Enforce attention, like deep harmony.
R2 2.1. 7 Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain,
R2 2.1. 8 For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
R2 2.1. 9 He that no more must say is listened more
R2 2.1. 10 Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose.
R2 2.1. 11 More are men's ends marked than their lives before.
R2 2.1. 12 The setting sun, and music at the close,
R2 2.1. 13 As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
R2 2.1. 14 Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
R2 2.1. 15 Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,
R2 2.1. 16 My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.
R2 2.1. 17
R2-YORK
No, it is stopped with other, flattering sounds,
R2 2.1. 18 As praises of whose taste the wise are feared,
R2 2.1. 19 Lascivious metres to whose venom sound
R2 2.1. 20 The open ear of youth doth always listen,
R2 2.1. 21 Report of fashions in proud Italy,
R2 2.1. 22 Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation
R2 2.1. 23 Limps after in base imitation.
R2 2.1. 24 Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity -
R2 2.1. 25 So it be new there's no respect how vile -
R2 2.1. 26 That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?
R2 2.1. 27 Then all too late comes counsel, to be heard
R2 2.1. 28 Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.
R2 2.1. 29 Direct not him whose way himself will choose:
R2 2.1. 30 'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.
R2 2.1. 31
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Methinks I am a prophet new-inspired,
R2 2.1. 32 And thus, expiring, do foretell of him.
R2 2.1. 33 His rash, fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
R2 2.1. 34 For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
R2 2.1. 35 Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.
R2 2.1. 36 He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes.
R2 2.1. 37 With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
R2 2.1. 38 Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
R2 2.1. 39 Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
R2 2.1. 40 This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
R2 2.1. 41 This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
R2 2.1. 42 This other Eden, demi-paradise,
R2 2.1. 43 This fortress built by nature for herself
R2 2.1. 44 Against infection and the hand of war,
R2 2.1. 45 This happy breed of men, this little world,
R2 2.1. 46 This precious stone set in the silver sea,
R2 2.1. 47 Which serves it in the office of a wall,
R2 2.1. 48 Or as a moat defensive to a house
R2 2.1. 49 Against the envy of less happier lands;
R2 2.1. 50 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
R2 2.1. 51 This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
R2 2.1. 52 Feared by their breed and famous by their birth,
R2 2.1. 53 Renowned for their deeds as far from home
R2 2.1. 54 For Christian service and true chivalry
R2 2.1. 55 As is the sepulchre, in stubborn Jewry,
R2 2.1. 56 Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son;
R2 2.1. 57 This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
R2 2.1. 58 Dear for her reputation through the world,
R2 2.1. 59 Is now leased out - I die pronouncing it -
R2 2.1. 60 Like to a tenement or pelting farm.
R2 2.1. 61 England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
R2 2.1. 62 Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
R2 2.1. 63 Of wat'ry Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
R2 2.1. 64 With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds.
R2 2.1. 65 That England that was wont to conquer others
R2 2.1. 66 Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
R2 2.1. 67 Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
R2 2.1. 68 How happy then were my ensuing death! {Enter King Richard and +
R2 2.1. 68 the Queen; [the Duke of Aumerle,] Bushy, [Green, Bagot,] Lord Ross, and +
R2 2.1. 68 Lord Willoughby}
R2 2.1. 69
R2-YORK
The King is come. Deal mildly with his youth,
R2 2.1. 70 For young hot colts, being reined, do rage the more.
R2 2.1. 71
R2-QUEEN
How fares our noble uncle Lancaster?
R2 2.1. 72
R2-KING RICHARD
What comfort, man? How is 't with aged Gaunt?
R2 2.1. 73
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
O, how that name befits my composition!
R2 2.1. 74 Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old.
R2 2.1. 75 Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast,
R2 2.1. 76 And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
R2 2.1. 77 For sleeping England long time have I watched.
R2 2.1. 78 Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt.
R2 2.1. 79 The pleasure that some fathers feed upon
R2 2.1. 80 Is my strict fast: I mean my children's looks.
R2 2.1. 81 And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt.
R2 2.1. 82 Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,
R2 2.1. 83 Whose hollow womb inherits naught but bones.
R2 2.1. 84
R2-KING RICHARD
Can sick men play so nicely with their names?
R2 2.1. 85
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
No, misery makes sport to mock itself.
R2 2.1. 86 Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,
R2 2.1. 87 I mock my name, great King, to flatter thee.
R2 2.1. 88
R2-KING RICHARD
Should dying men flatter with those that live?
R2 2.1. 89
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
No, no, men living flatter those that die.
R2 2.1. 90
R2-KING RICHARD
Thou now a-dying sayst thou flatt'rest me.
R2 2.1. 91
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
O no: thou diest, though I the sicker be.
R2 2.1. 92
R2-KING RICHARD
I am in health; I breathe, and see thee ill.
R2 2.1. 93
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
Now He that made me knows I see thee ill:
R2 2.1. 94 Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.
R2 2.1. 95 Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
R2 2.1. 96 Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
R2 2.1. 97 And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
R2 2.1. 98 Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure
R2 2.1. 99 Of those physicians that first wounded thee.
R2 2.1. 100 A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
R2 2.1. 101 Whose compass is no bigger than thy head,
R2 2.1. 102 And yet, encaged in so small a verge,
R2 2.1. 103 The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.
R2 2.1. 104 O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye
R2 2.1. 105 Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons,
R2 2.1. 106 From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,
R2 2.1. 107 Deposing thee before thou wert possessed,
R2 2.1. 108 Which art possessed now to depose thyself.
R2 2.1. 109 Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world
R2 2.1. 110 It were a shame to let this land by lease.
R2 2.1. 111 But, for thy world, enjoying but this land,
R2 2.1. 112 Is it not more than shame to shame it so?
R2 2.1. 113 Landlord of England art thou now, not king.
R2 2.1. 114 Thy state of law is bondslave to the law,
R2 2.1. 115 And -
R2 2.1. 116
R2-KING RICHARD
And thou, a lunatic lean-witted fool,
R2 2.1. 117 Presuming on an ague's privilege,
R2 2.1. 118 Dar'st with thy frozen admonition
R2 2.1. 119 Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood
R2 2.1. 120 With fury from his native residence.
R2 2.1. 121 Now by my seat's right royal majesty,
R2 2.1. 122 Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son,
R2 2.1. 123 This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
R2 2.1. 124 Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.
R2 2.1. 125
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
R2 2.1. 126 For that I was his father Edward's son.
R2 2.1. 127 That blood already, like the pelican,
R2 2.1. 128 Hast thou tapped out and drunkenly caroused.
R2 2.1. 129 My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul -
R2 2.1. 130 Whom fair befall in heaven 'mongst happy souls -
R2 2.1. 131 May be a precedent and witness good
R2 2.1. 132 That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood.
R2 2.1. 133 Join with the present sickness that I have,
R2 2.1. 134 And thy unkindness be like crooked age,
R2 2.1. 135 To crop at once a too-long withered flower.
R2 2.1. 136 Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee.
R2 2.1. 137 These words hereafter thy tormentors be.
R2 2.1. 138 {(To attendants)} Convey me to my bed, then to my +
R2 2.1. 138 grave.
R2 2.1. 139 Love they to live that love and honour have. {Exit, [carried in +
R2 2.1. 139 the chair]}
R2 2.1. 140
R2-KING RICHARD
And let them die that age and sullens have,
R2 2.1. 141 For both hast thou, and both become the grave.
R2 2.1. 142
R2-YORK
I do beseech your majesty impute his words
R2 2.1. 143 To wayward sickliness and age in him.
R2 2.1. 144 He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear
R2 2.1. 145 As Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here.
R2 2.1. 146
R2-KING RICHARD
Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so his.
R2 2.1. 147 As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is. {Enter the Earl of +
R2 2.1. 147 Northumberland}
R2 2.1. 148
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your +
R2 2.1. 148 majesty.
R2 2.1. 149B
R2-KING RICHARD
What says he?
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Nay, nothing: all is +
R2 2.1. 149B said.
R2 2.1. 150 His tongue is now a stringless instrument.
R2 2.1. 151 Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent.
R2 2.1. 152
R2-YORK
Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!
R2 2.1. 153 Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
R2 2.1. 154
R2-KING RICHARD
The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he.
R2 2.1. 155 His time is spent; our pilgrimage must be.
R2 2.1. 156 So much for that. Now for our Irish wars.
R2 2.1. 157 We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
R2 2.1. 158 Which live like venom where no venom else
R2 2.1. 159 But only they have privilege to live.
R2 2.1. 160 And for these great affairs do ask some charge,
R2 2.1. 161 Towards our assistance we do seize to us
R2 2.1. 162 The plate, coin, revenues, and movables
R2 2.1. 163 Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possessed.
R2 2.1. 164
R2-YORK
How long shall I be patient? Ah, how long
R2 2.1. 165 Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?
R2 2.1. 166 Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment,
R2 2.1. 167 Nor Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs,
R2 2.1. 168 Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke
R2 2.1. 169 About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,
R2 2.1. 170 Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,
R2 2.1. 171 Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face.
R2 2.1. 172 I am the last of noble Edward's sons,
R2 2.1. 173 Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first.
R2 2.1. 174 In war was never lion raged more fierce,
R2 2.1. 175 In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
R2 2.1. 176 Than was that young and princely gentleman.
R2 2.1. 177 His face thou hast, for even so looked he,
R2 2.1. 178 Accomplished with the number of thy hours.
R2 2.1. 179 But when he frowned it was against the French,
R2 2.1. 180 And not against his friends. His noble hand
R2 2.1. 181 Did win what he did spend, and spent not that
R2 2.1. 182 Which his triumphant father's hand had won.
R2 2.1. 183 His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,
R2 2.1. 184 But bloody with the enemies of his kin.
R2 2.1. 185 O, Richard, York is too far gone with grief,
R2 2.1. 186 Or else he never would compare between.
R2 2.1. 187B
R2-KING RICHARD
Why uncle, what's the matter?
R2-YORK
O my liege,
R2 2.1. 188 Pardon me if you please; if not, I, pleased
R2 2.1. 189 Not to be pardoned, am content withal.
R2 2.1. 190 Seek you to seize and grip into your hands
R2 2.1. 191 The royalties and rights of banished Hereford?
R2 2.1. 192 Is not Gaunt dead? And doth not Hereford live?
R2 2.1. 193 Was not Gaunt just? And is not Harry true?
R2 2.1. 194 Did not the one deserve to have an heir?
R2 2.1. 195 Is not his heir a well-deserving son?
R2 2.1. 196 Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time
R2 2.1. 197 His charters and his customary rights:
R2 2.1. 198 Let not tomorrow then ensue today;
R2 2.1. 199 Be not thyself, for how art thou a king
R2 2.1. 200 But by fair sequence and succession?
R2 2.1. 201 Now afore God - God forbid I say true! -
R2 2.1. 202 If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,
R2 2.1. 203 Call in the letters patents that he hath
R2 2.1. 204 By his attorneys general to sue
R2 2.1. 205 His livery, and deny his offered homage,
R2 2.1. 206 You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
R2 2.1. 207 You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts,
R2 2.1. 208 And prick my tender patience to those thoughts
R2 2.1. 209 Which honour and allegiance cannot think.
R2 2.1. 210
R2-KING RICHARD
Think what you will, we seize into our hands
R2 2.1. 211 His plate, his goods, his money, and his lands.
R2 2.1. 212
R2-YORK
I'll not be by the while. My liege, farewell.
R2 2.1. 213 What will ensue hereof there's none can tell.
R2 2.1. 214 But by bad courses may be understood
R2 2.1. 215 That their events can never fall out good. {Exit}
R2 2.1. 216
R2-KING RICHARD
Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire +
R2 2.1. 216 straight.
R2 2.1. 217 Bid him repair to us to Ely House
R2 2.1. 218 To see this business. Tomorrow next
R2 2.1. 219 We will for Ireland, and 'tis time, I trow.
R2 2.1. 220 And we create, in absence of ourself,
R2 2.1. 221 Our uncle York Lord Governor of England;
R2 2.1. 222 For he is just and always loved us well. -
R2 2.1. 223 Come on, our Queen; tomorrow must we part.
R2 2.1. 224 Be merry, for our time of stay is short.
R2 2.1. 225
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.
R2 2.1. 226
R2-ROSS
And living too, for now his son is Duke.
R2 2.1. 227
R2-WILLOUGHBY
Barely in title, not in revenues.
R2 2.1. 228
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Richly in both, if justice had her right.
R2 2.1. 229
R2-ROSS
My heart is great, but it must break with silence
R2 2.1. 230 Ere 't be disburdened with a liberal tongue.
R2 2.1. 231
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Nay, speak thy mind, and let him ne'er speak more
R2 2.1. 232 That speaks thy words again to do thee harm.
R2 2.1. 233
R2-WILLOUGHBY
Tends that that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of +
R2 2.1. 233 Hereford?
R2 2.1. 234 If it be so, out with it boldly, man.
R2 2.1. 235 Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.
R2 2.1. 236
R2-ROSS
No good at all that I can do for him,
R2 2.1. 237 Unless you call it good to pity him,
R2 2.1. 238 Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.
R2 2.1. 239
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Now afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne
R2 2.1. 240 In him, a royal prince, and many more
R2 2.1. 241 Of noble blood in this declining land.
R2 2.1. 242 The King is not himself, but basely led
R2 2.1. 243 By flatterers; and what they will inform
R2 2.1. 244 Merely in hate 'gainst any of us all,
R2 2.1. 245 That will the King severely prosecute
R2 2.1. 246 'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.
R2 2.1. 247
R2-ROSS
The commons hath he pilled with grievous taxes,
R2 2.1. 248 And quite lost their hearts. The nobles hath he fined
R2 2.1. 249 For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts.
R2 2.1. 250
R2-WILLOUGHBY
And daily new exactions are devised,
R2 2.1. 251 As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what.
R2 2.1. 252 But what, a' God's name, doth become of this?
R2 2.1. 253
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Wars hath not wasted it; for warred he hath not,
R2 2.1. 254 But basely yielded upon compromise
R2 2.1. 255 That which his ancestors achieved with blows.
R2 2.1. 256 More hath he spent in peace than they in wars.
R2 2.1. 257
R2-ROSS
The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.
R2 2.1. 258
R2-WILLOUGHBY
The King's grown bankrupt like a broken man.
R2 2.1. 259
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.
R2 2.1. 260
R2-ROSS
He hath not money for these Irish wars,
R2 2.1. 261 His burdenous taxations notwithstanding,
R2 2.1. 262 But by the robbing of the banished Duke.
R2 2.1. 263
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
His noble kinsman. Most degenerate King!
R2 2.1. 264 But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
R2 2.1. 265 Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.
R2 2.1. 266 We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,
R2 2.1. 267 And yet we strike not, but securely perish.
R2 2.1. 268
R2-ROSS
We see the very wreck that we must suffer,
R2 2.1. 269 And unavoided is the danger now
R2 2.1. 270 For suffering so the causes of our wreck.
R2 2.1. 271
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Not so: even through the hollow eyes of death
R2 2.1. 272 I spy life peering; but I dare not say
R2 2.1. 273 How near the tidings of our comfort is.
R2 2.1. 274
R2-WILLOUGHBY
Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.
R2 2.1. 275
R2-ROSS
Be confident to speak, Northumberland.
R2 2.1. 276 We three are but thyself, and, speaking so,
R2 2.1. 277 Thy words are but as thoughts. Therefore be bold.
R2 2.1. 278
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Then thus. I have from Port le Blanc,
R2 2.1. 279 A bay in Brittaine, received intelligence
R2 2.1. 280 That Harry Duke of Hereford, Reinold Lord Cobham,
R2 2.1. 281 Thomas son and heir to the Earl of Arundel
R2 2.1. 282 That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,
R2 2.1. 283 His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,
R2 2.1. 284 Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir Thomas Ramston,
R2 2.1. 285 Sir John Norbery,
R2 2.1. 286 Sir Robert Waterton, and Francis Coint,
R2 2.1. 287 All these well furnished by the Duke of Brittaine
R2 2.1. 288 With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,
R2 2.1. 289 Are making hither with all due expedience,
R2 2.1. 290 And shortly mean to touch our northern shore.
R2 2.1. 291 Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay
R2 2.1. 292 The first departing of the King for Ireland.
R2 2.1. 293 If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,
R2 2.1. 294 Imp out our drooping country's broken wing,
R2 2.1. 295 Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown,
R2 2.1. 296 Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt,
R2 2.1. 297 And make high majesty look like itself,
R2 2.1. 298 Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh.
R2 2.1. 299 But if you faint, as fearing to do so,
R2 2.1. 300 Stay, and be secret, and myself will go.
R2 2.1. 301
R2-ROSS
To horse, to horse! Urge doubts to them that fear.
R2 2.1. 302
R2-WILLOUGHBY
Hold out my horse, and I will first be there. +
R2 2.1. 302 {Exeunt}
R2 2.1. 0 {Enter the Queen, Bushy, and Bagot}
R2 2.2. 1
R2-BUSHY
Madam, your majesty is too much sad.
R2 2.2. 2 You promised when you parted with the King
R2 2.2. 3 To lay aside life-harming heaviness
R2 2.2. 4 And entertain a cheerful disposition.
R2 2.2. 5
R2-QUEEN
To please the King I did; to please myself
R2 2.2. 6 I cannot do it. Yet I know no cause
R2 2.2. 7 Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,
R2 2.2. 8 Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
R2 2.2. 9 As my sweet Richard. Yet again, methinks
R2 2.2. 10 Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb,
R2 2.2. 11 Is coming towards me; and my inward soul
R2 2.2. 12 At nothing trembles. With something it grieves
R2 2.2. 13 More than with parting from my lord the King.
R2 2.2. 14
R2-BUSHY
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
R2 2.2. 15 Which shows like grief itself but is not so.
R2 2.2. 16 For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,
R2 2.2. 17 Divides one thing entire to many objects -
R2 2.2. 18 Like perspectives, which, rightly gazed upon,
R2 2.2. 19 Show nothing but confusion; eyed awry,
R2 2.2. 20 Distinguish form. So your sweet majesty,
R2 2.2. 21 Looking awry upon your lord's departure,
R2 2.2. 22 Find shapes of grief more than himself to wail,
R2 2.2. 23 Which, looked on as it is, is naught but shadows
R2 2.2. 24 Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious Queen,
R2 2.2. 25 More than your lord's departure weep not: more is not seen,
R2 2.2. 26 Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye,
R2 2.2. 27 Which for things true weeps things imaginary.
R2 2.2. 28
R2-QUEEN
It may be so, but yet my inward soul
R2 2.2. 29 Persuades me it is otherwise. Howe'er it be,
R2 2.2. 30 I cannot but be sad: so heavy-sad
R2 2.2. 31 As thought - on thinking on no thought I think -
R2 2.2. 32 Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.
R2 2.2. 33
R2-BUSHY
'Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.
R2 2.2. 34
R2-QUEEN
'Tis nothing less: conceit is still derived
R2 2.2. 35 From some forefather grief; mine is not so;
R2 2.2. 36 For nothing hath begot my something grief -
R2 2.2. 37 Or something hath the nothing that I grieve -
R2 2.2. 38 'Tis in reversion that I do possess -
R2 2.2. 39 But what it is that is not yet known what,
R2 2.2. 40 I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot. {Enter Green}
R2 2.2. 41
R2-GREEN
God save your majesty, and well met, gentlemen.
R2 2.2. 42 I hope the King is not yet shipped for Ireland.
R2 2.2. 43
R2-QUEEN
Why hop'st thou so? 'Tis better hope he is,
R2 2.2. 44 For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope.
R2 2.2. 45 Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipped?
R2 2.2. 46
R2-GREEN
That he, our hope, might have retired his power,
R2 2.2. 47 And driven into despair an enemy's hope,
R2 2.2. 48 Who strongly hath set footing in this land.
R2 2.2. 49 The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself,
R2 2.2. 50 And with uplifted arms is safe arrived
R2 2.2. 51B At Ravenspurgh.
R2-QUEEN
Now God in heaven forbid!
R2 2.2. 52
R2-GREEN
Ah madam, 'tis too true! And, that is worse,
R2 2.2. 53 The Lord Northumberland, his son young Harry Percy,
R2 2.2. 54 The Lords of Ross, Beaumont, and Willoughby,
R2 2.2. 55 With all their powerful friends, are fled to him.
R2 2.2. 56
R2-BUSHY
Why have you not proclaimed Northumberland,
R2 2.2. 57 And all the rest, revolted faction-traitors?
R2 2.2. 58
R2-GREEN
We have; whereupon the Earl of Worcester
R2 2.2. 59 Hath broke his staff, resigned his stewardship,
R2 2.2. 60 And all the household servants fled with him
R2 2.2. 61 To Bolingbroke.
R2 2.2. 62
R2-QUEEN
So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,
R2 2.2. 63 And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir.
R2 2.2. 64 Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,
R2 2.2. 65 And I, a gasping new-delivered mother,
R2 2.2. 66 Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow joined.
R2 2.2. 67B
R2-BUSHY
Despair not, madam.
R2-QUEEN
Who shall hinder me?
R2 2.2. 68 I will despair, and be at enmity
R2 2.2. 69 With cozening hope. He is a flatterer,
R2 2.2. 70 A parasite, a keeper-back of death,
R2 2.2. 71 Who gently would dissolve the bonds of life,
R2 2.2. 72 Which false hope lingers in extremity. {Enter the Duke of York, +
R2 2.2. 72 [wearing a gorget]}
R2 2.2. 73A
R2-GREEN
Here comes the Duke of York.
R2 2.2. 74
R2-QUEEN
With signs of war about his aged neck.
R2 2.2. 75 O, full of careful business are his looks!
R2 2.2. 76 Uncle, for God's sake speak comfortable words.
R2 2.2. 77
R2-YORK
Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
R2 2.2. 78 Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth,
R2 2.2. 79 Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief.
R2 2.2. 80 Your husband, he is gone to save far off,
R2 2.2. 81 Whilst others come to make him lose at home.
R2 2.2. 82 Here am I, left to underprop his land,
R2 2.2. 83 Who, weak with age, cannot support myself.
R2 2.2. 84 Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
R2 2.2. 85 Now shall he try his friends that flattered him. {Enter a +
R2 2.2. 85 Servingman}
R2 2.2. 86
R2-SERVINGMAN
My lord, your son was gone before I came.
R2 2.2. 87
R2-YORK
He was? Why so, go all which way it will.
R2 2.2. 88 The nobles they are fled. The commons they are cold,
R2 2.2. 89 And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.
R2 2.2. 90 Sirrah, get thee to Pleshey, to my sister Gloucester.
R2 2.2. 91 Bid her send me presently a thousand pound -
R2 2.2. 92 Hold; take my ring.
R2 2.2. 93
R2-SERVINGMAN
My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
R2 2.2. 94 Today as I came by I called there -
R2 2.2. 95 But I shall grieve you to report the rest.
R2 2.2. 96A
R2-YORK
What is 't, knave?
R2 2.2. 97
R2-SERVINGMAN
An hour before I came, the Duchess died.
R2 2.2. 98
R2-YORK
God for his mercy, what a tide of woes
R2 2.2. 99 Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!
R2 2.2. 100 I know not what to do. I would to God,
R2 2.2. 101 So my untruth had not provoked him to it,
R2 2.2. 102 The King had cut off my head with my brother's.
R2 2.2. 103 What, are there no posts dispatched for Ireland?
R2 2.2. 104 How shall we do for money for these wars?
R2 2.2. 105 {(To the Queen)} Come, sister - cousin, I would say; +
R2 2.2. 105 pray pardon me.
R2 2.2. 106 {(To the Servingman)} Go, fellow, get thee home. +
R2 2.2. 106 Provide some carts,
R2 2.2. 107 And bring away the armour that is there. {[Exit Servingman]}
R2 2.2. 108 Gentlemen, will you go muster men?
R2 2.2. 109 If I know how or which way to order these affairs
R2 2.2. 110 Thus disorderly thrust into my hands,
R2 2.2. 111 Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen.
R2 2.2. 112 T' one is my sovereign, whom both my oath
R2 2.2. 113 And duty bids defend; t' other again
R2 2.2. 114 Is my kinsman, whom the King hath wronged,
R2 2.2. 115 Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right.
R2 2.2. 116 Well, somewhat we must do. {(To the Queen)} Come, +
R2 2.2. 116 cousin,
R2 2.2. 117 I'll dispose of you. -
R2 2.2. 118 Gentlemen, go muster up your men,
R2 2.2. 119 And meet me presently at Berkeley Castle.
R2 2.2. 120 I should to Pleshey too, but time will not permit.
R2 2.2. 121 All is uneven,
R2 2.2. 122 And everything is left at six and seven. {Exeunt the Duke of +
R2 2.2. 122 York and the Queen. Bushy, Bagot, and Green remain}
R2 2.2. 123
R2-BUSHY
The wind sits fair for news to go for Ireland,
R2 2.2. 124 But none returns. For us to levy power
R2 2.2. 125 Proportionable to the enemy
R2 2.2. 126 Is all unpossible.
R2 2.2. 127
R2-GREEN
Besides, our nearness to the King in love
R2 2.2. 128 Is near the hate of those love not the King.
R2 2.2. 129
R2-BAGOT
And that is the wavering commons; for their love
R2 2.2. 130 Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them
R2 2.2. 131 By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
R2 2.2. 132
R2-BUSHY
Wherein the King stands generally condemned.
R2 2.2. 133
R2-BAGOT
If judgement lie in them, then so do we,
R2 2.2. 134 Because we ever have been near the King.
R2 2.2. 135
R2-GREEN
Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol Castle.
R2 2.2. 136 The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.
R2 2.2. 137
R2-BUSHY
Thither will I with you; for little office
R2 2.2. 138 Will the hateful commoners perform for us,
R2 2.2. 139 Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.
R2 2.2. 140 {(To Bagot)} Will you go along with us?
R2 2.2. 141
R2-BAGOT
No, I will to Ireland, to his majesty.
R2 2.2. 142 Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain
R2 2.2. 143 We three here part that ne'er shall meet again.
R2 2.2. 144
R2-BUSHY
That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke.
R2 2.2. 145
R2-GREEN
Alas, poor Duke, the task he undertakes
R2 2.2. 146 Is numb'ring sands and drinking oceans dry.
R2 2.2. 147 Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
R2 2.2. 148
R2-[BAGOT]
Farewell at once, for once, for all and ever.
R2 2.2. 149B
R2-BUSHY
Well, we may meet again.
R2-BAGOT
I fear me never. +
R2 2.2. 149B {Exeunt [Bushy and Green at one door, and Bagot at another door]}
R2 2.2. 0 {Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, and +
R2 2.3. 0 the Earl of Northumberland}
R2 2.3. 1
R2-BOLINGBROKE
How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?
R2 2.3. 2A
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Believe me, noble lord,
R2 2.3. 3 I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire.
R2 2.3. 4 These high wild hills and rough uneven ways
R2 2.3. 5 Draws out our miles and makes them wearisome;
R2 2.3. 6 And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
R2 2.3. 7 Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
R2 2.3. 8 But I bethink me what a weary way
R2 2.3. 9 From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found
R2 2.3. 10 In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,
R2 2.3. 11 Which I protest hath very much beguiled
R2 2.3. 12 The tediousness and process of my travel.
R2 2.3. 13 But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have
R2 2.3. 14 The present benefit which I possess;
R2 2.3. 15 And hope to joy is little less in joy
R2 2.3. 16 Than hope enjoyed. By this the weary lords
R2 2.3. 17 Shall make their way seem short as mine hath done
R2 2.3. 18 By sight of what I have: your noble company.
R2 2.3. 19
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Of much less value is my company
R2 2.3. 20B Than your good words. {Enter Harry Percy} But who comes +
R2 2.3. 20B here?
R2 2.3. 21
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
It is my son, young Harry Percy,
R2 2.3. 22 Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever.
R2 2.3. 23 Harry, how fares your uncle?
R2 2.3. 24
R2-HARRY PERCY
I had thought, my lord, to have learned his health of +
R2 2.3. 24 you.
R2 2.3. 25A
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Why, is he not with the Queen?
R2 2.3. 26
R2-HARRY PERCY
No, my good lord; he hath forsook the court,
R2 2.3. 27 Broken his staff of office, and dispersed
R2 2.3. 28B The household of the King.
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
What was his reason?
R2 2.3. 29 He was not so resolved when last we spake together.
R2 2.3. 30
R2-HARRY PERCY
Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor.
R2 2.3. 31 But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh
R2 2.3. 32 To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,
R2 2.3. 33 And sent me over by Berkeley to discover
R2 2.3. 34 What power the Duke of York had levied there,
R2 2.3. 35 Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh.
R2 2.3. 36
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?
R2 2.3. 37
R2-HARRY PERCY
No, my good lord, for that is not forgot
R2 2.3. 38 Which ne'er I did remember. To my knowledge,
R2 2.3. 39 I never in my life did look on him.
R2 2.3. 40
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Then learn to know him now. This is the Duke.
R2 2.3. 41
R2-HARRY PERCY
My gracious lord, I tender you my service,
R2 2.3. 42 Such as it is, being tender, raw, and young,
R2 2.3. 43 Which elder days shall ripen and confirm
R2 2.3. 44 To more approved service and desert.
R2 2.3. 45
R2-BOLINGBROKE
I thank thee, gentle Percy, and be sure
R2 2.3. 46 I count myself in nothing else so happy
R2 2.3. 47 As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends;
R2 2.3. 48 And as my fortune ripens with thy love,
R2 2.3. 49 It shall be still thy true love's recompense.
R2 2.3. 50 My heart this covenant makes; my hand thus seals it. {He gives +
R2 2.3. 50 Percy his hand}
R2 2.3. 51
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
How far is it to Berkeley, and what stir
R2 2.3. 52 Keeps good old York there with his men of war?
R2 2.3. 53
R2-HARRY PERCY
There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,
R2 2.3. 54 Manned with three hundred men, as I have heard,
R2 2.3. 55 And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour,
R2 2.3. 56 None else of name and noble estimate. {Enter Lord Ross and Lord +
R2 2.3. 56 Willoughby}
R2 2.3. 57
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Here come the Lords of Ross and +
R2 2.3. 57 Willoughby,
R2 2.3. 58 Bloody with spurring, fiery red with haste.
R2 2.3. 59
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues
R2 2.3. 60 A banished traitor. All my treasury
R2 2.3. 61 Is yet but unfelt thanks, which, more enriched,
R2 2.3. 62 Shall be your love and labour's recompense.
R2 2.3. 63
R2-ROSS
Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.
R2 2.3. 64
R2-WILLOUGHBY
And far surmounts our labour to attain it.
R2 2.3. 65
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Evermore thank's the exchequer of the poor,
R2 2.3. 66 Which till my infant fortune comes to years
R2 2.3. 67B Stands for my bounty. {Enter Berkeley} But who comes +
R2 2.3. 67B here?
R2 2.3. 68
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
It is my lord of Berkeley, as I guess.
R2 2.3. 69
R2-BERKELEY
My lord of Hereford, my message is to you.
R2 2.3. 70
R2-BOLINGBROKE
My lord, my answer is to `Lancaster',
R2 2.3. 71 And I am come to seek that name in England,
R2 2.3. 72 And I must find that title in your tongue
R2 2.3. 73 Before I make reply to aught you say.
R2 2.3. 74
R2-BERKELEY
Mistake me not, my lord, 'tis not my meaning
R2 2.3. 75 To raze one title of your honour out.
R2 2.3. 76 To you, my lord, I come - what lord you will -
R2 2.3. 77 From the most gracious regent of this land,
R2 2.3. 78 The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on
R2 2.3. 79 To take advantage of the absent time
R2 2.3. 80 And fright our native peace with self-borne arms. {Enter the +
R2 2.3. 80 Duke of York}
R2 2.3. 81
R2-BOLINGBROKE
I shall not need transport my words by you.
R2 2.3. 82 Here comes his grace in person. - My noble uncle! {He kneels}
R2 2.3. 83
R2-YORK
Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,
R2 2.3. 84 Whose duty is deceivable and false.
R2 2.3. 85A
R2-BOLINGBROKE
My gracious uncle -
R2 2.3. 86
R2-YORK
Tut, tut, grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
R2 2.3. 87 I am no traitor's uncle, and that word `grace'
R2 2.3. 88 In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
R2 2.3. 89 Why have those banished and forbidden legs
R2 2.3. 90 Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?
R2 2.3. 91 But then more `why': why have they dared to march
R2 2.3. 92 So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,
R2 2.3. 93 Frighting her pale-faced villages with war
R2 2.3. 94 And ostentation of despised arms?
R2 2.3. 95 Com'st thou because the anointed King is hence?
R2 2.3. 96 Why, foolish boy, the King is left behind,
R2 2.3. 97 And in my loyal bosom lies his power.
R2 2.3. 98 Were I but now the lord of such hot youth
R2 2.3. 99 As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself
R2 2.3. 100 Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,
R2 2.3. 101 From forth the ranks of many thousand French,
R2 2.3. 102 O then how quickly should this arm of mine,
R2 2.3. 103 Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee
R2 2.3. 104 And minister correction to thy fault!
R2 2.3. 105
R2-BOLINGBROKE
My gracious uncle, let me know my fault.
R2 2.3. 106 On what condition stands it and wherein?
R2 2.3. 107
R2-YORK
Even in condition of the worst degree:
R2 2.3. 108 In gross rebellion and detested treason.
R2 2.3. 109 Thou art a banished man, and here art come
R2 2.3. 110 Before the expiration of thy time
R2 2.3. 111 In braving arms against thy sovereign.
R2 2.3. 112
R2-BOLINGBROKE
{[standing]} As I was banished, I was +
R2 2.3. 112 banished Hereford;
R2 2.3. 113 But as I come, I come for Lancaster.
R2 2.3. 114 And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace,
R2 2.3. 115 Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye.
R2 2.3. 116 You are my father, for methinks in you
R2 2.3. 117 I see old Gaunt alive. O then, my father,
R2 2.3. 118 Will you permit that I shall stand condemned
R2 2.3. 119 A wandering vagabond, my rights and royalties
R2 2.3. 120 Plucked from my arms perforce and given away
R2 2.3. 121 To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?
R2 2.3. 122 If that my cousin King be King in England,
R2 2.3. 123 It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster.
R2 2.3. 124 You have a son, Aumerle my noble kinsman.
R2 2.3. 125 Had you first died and he been thus trod down,
R2 2.3. 126 He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father
R2 2.3. 127 To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.
R2 2.3. 128 I am denied to sue my livery here,
R2 2.3. 129 And yet my letters patents give me leave.
R2 2.3. 130 My father's goods are all distrained and sold,
R2 2.3. 131 And these and all are all amiss employed.
R2 2.3. 132 What would you have me do? I am a subject,
R2 2.3. 133 And I challenge law; attorneys are denied me;
R2 2.3. 134 And therefore personally I lay my claim
R2 2.3. 135 To my inheritance of free descent.
R2 2.3. 136
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
The noble Duke hath been too much abused.
R2 2.3. 137
R2-ROSS
It stands your grace upon to do him right.
R2 2.3. 138
R2-WILLOUGHBY
Base men by his endowments are made great.
R2 2.3. 139
R2-YORK
My lords of England, let me tell you this.
R2 2.3. 140 I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs,
R2 2.3. 141 And laboured all I could to do him right.
R2 2.3. 142 But in this kind to come, in braving arms,
R2 2.3. 143 Be his own carver, and cut out his way
R2 2.3. 144 To find out right with wrong - it may not be.
R2 2.3. 145 And you that do abet him in this kind
R2 2.3. 146 Cherish rebellion, and are rebels all.
R2 2.3. 147
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
The noble Duke hath sworn his coming is
R2 2.3. 148 But for his own, and for the right of that
R2 2.3. 149 We all have strongly sworn to give him aid;
R2 2.3. 150 And let him never see joy that breaks that oath.
R2 2.3. 151
R2-YORK
Well, well, I see the issue of these arms.
R2 2.3. 152 I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,
R2 2.3. 153 Because my power is weak and all ill-left.
R2 2.3. 154 But if I could, by Him that gave me life,
R2 2.3. 155 I would attach you all, and make you stoop
R2 2.3. 156 Unto the sovereign mercy of the King.
R2 2.3. 157 But since I cannot, be it known to you
R2 2.3. 158 I do remain as neuter. So fare you well -
R2 2.3. 159 Unless you please to enter in the castle
R2 2.3. 160 And there repose you for this night.
R2 2.3. 161
R2-BOLINGBROKE
An offer, uncle, that we will accept.
R2 2.3. 162 But we must win your grace to go with us
R2 2.3. 163 To Bristol Castle, which they say is held
R2 2.3. 164 By Bushy, Bagot, and their complices,
R2 2.3. 165 The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
R2 2.3. 166 Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
R2 2.3. 167
R2-YORK
It may be I will go with you - but yet I'll pause,
R2 2.3. 168 For I am loath to break our country's laws.
R2 2.3. 169 Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are.
R2 2.3. 170 Things past redress are now with me past care. {Exeunt}
R2 2.3. 0 {Enter the Earl of Salisbury and a Welsh Captain}
R2 2.4. 1
R2-WELSH CAPTAIN
My lord of Salisbury, we have stayed ten +
R2 2.4. 1 days,
R2 2.4. 2 And hardly kept our countrymen together,
R2 2.4. 3 And yet we hear no tidings from the King.
R2 2.4. 4 Therefore we will disperse ourselves. Farewell.
R2 2.4. 5
R2-SALISBURY
Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman.
R2 2.4. 6 The King reposeth all his confidence in thee.
R2 2.4. 7
R2-WELSH CAPTAIN
'Tis thought the King is dead. We will not stay.
R2 2.4. 8 The bay trees in our country are all withered,
R2 2.4. 9 And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven.
R2 2.4. 10 The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,
R2 2.4. 11 And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change.
R2 2.4. 12 Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap;
R2 2.4. 13 The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
R2 2.4. 14 The other to enjoy by rage and war.
R2 2.4. 15 These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
R2 2.4. 16 Farewell. Our countrymen are gone and fled,
R2 2.4. 17 As well assured Richard their king is dead. {Exit}
R2 2.4. 18
R2-SALISBURY
Ah, Richard! With the eyes of heavy mind
R2 2.4. 19 I see thy glory, like a shooting star,
R2 2.4. 20 Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
R2 2.4. 21 Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,
R2 2.4. 22 Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest.
R2 2.4. 23 Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,
R2 2.4. 24 And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. {Exit}
R2 2.4. 0 {Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, +
R2 3.1. 0 the Duke of York, the Earl of Northumberland, [Lord Ross, Harry Percy, +
R2 3.1. 0 and Lord Willoughby]}
R2 3.1. 1A
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Bring forth these men. {Enter Bushy +
R2 3.1. 1A and Green, guarded as prisoners}
R2 3.1. 2 Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls,
R2 3.1. 3 Since presently your souls must part your bodies,
R2 3.1. 4 With too much urging your pernicious lives,
R2 3.1. 5 For 'twere no charity. Yet to wash your blood
R2 3.1. 6 From off my hands, here in the view of men
R2 3.1. 7 I will unfold some causes of your deaths.
R2 3.1. 8 You have misled a prince, a royal king,
R2 3.1. 9 A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
R2 3.1. 10 By you unhappied and disfigured clean.
R2 3.1. 11 You have, in manner, with your sinful hours
R2 3.1. 12 Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
R2 3.1. 13 Broke the possession of a royal bed,
R2 3.1. 14 And stained the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
R2 3.1. 15 With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
R2 3.1. 16 Myself - a prince by fortune of my birth,
R2 3.1. 17 Near to the King in blood, and near in love
R2 3.1. 18 Till you did make him misinterpret me -
R2 3.1. 19 Have stooped my neck under your injuries,
R2 3.1. 20 And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
R2 3.1. 21 Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
R2 3.1. 22 Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
R2 3.1. 23 Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
R2 3.1. 24 From my own windows torn my household coat,
R2 3.1. 25 Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
R2 3.1. 26 Save men's opinions and my living blood,
R2 3.1. 27 To show the world I am a gentleman.
R2 3.1. 28 This and much more, much more than twice all this,
R2 3.1. 29 Condemns you to the death. - See them delivered over
R2 3.1. 30 To execution and the hand of death.
R2 3.1. 31
R2-BUSHY
More welcome is the stroke of death to me
R2 3.1. 32 Than Bolingbroke to England.
R2 3.1. 33
R2-GREEN
My comfort is that heaven will take our souls,
R2 3.1. 34 And plague injustice with the pains of hell.
R2 3.1. 35
R2-BOLINGBROKE
My lord Northumberland, see them dispatched. +
R2 3.1. 35 {Exit Northumberland, with Bushy and Green, guarded}
R2 3.1. 36 Uncle, you say the Queen is at your house.
R2 3.1. 37 For God's sake, fairly let her be intreated.
R2 3.1. 38 Tell her I send to her my kind commends.
R2 3.1. 39 Take special care my greetings be delivered.
R2 3.1. 40
R2-YORK
A gentleman of mine I have dispatched
R2 3.1. 41 With letters of your love to her at large.
R2 3.1. 42
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Thanks, gentle uncle. - Come, lords, away,
R2 3.1. 43 To fight with Glyndwr and his complices.
R2 3.1. 44 A while to work, and after, holiday. {Exeunt}
R2 3.1. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King Richard, the Duke of Aumerle, the +
R2 3.2. 0 Bishop of Carlisle, and [soldiers, with drum and colours]}
R2 3.2. 1
R2-KING RICHARD
Harlechly Castle call they this at hand?
R2 3.2. 2
R2-AUMERLE
Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air
R2 3.2. 3 After your late tossing on the breaking seas?
R2 3.2. 4
R2-KING RICHARD
Needs must I like it well. I weep for joy
R2 3.2. 5 To stand upon my kingdom once again. {He touches the ground}
R2 3.2. 6 Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
R2 3.2. 7 Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs.
R2 3.2. 8 As a long-parted mother with her child
R2 3.2. 9 Plays fondly with her tears, and smiles in meeting,
R2 3.2. 10 So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee my earth,
R2 3.2. 11 And do thee favours with my royal hands.
R2 3.2. 12 Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,
R2 3.2. 13 Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;
R2 3.2. 14 But let thy spiders that suck up thy venom
R2 3.2. 15 And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,
R2 3.2. 16 Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
R2 3.2. 17 Which with usurping steps do trample thee.
R2 3.2. 18 Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies,
R2 3.2. 19 And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower
R2 3.2. 20 Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder,
R2 3.2. 21 Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
R2 3.2. 22 Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies. -
R2 3.2. 23 Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords.
R2 3.2. 24 This earth shall have a feeling, and these stones
R2 3.2. 25 Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king
R2 3.2. 26 Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
R2 3.2. 27
R2-BISHOP OF CARLISLE
Fear not, my lord. That power that made you king
R2 3.2. 28 Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.
R2 3.2. 29
R2-AUMERLE
He means, my lord, that we are too remiss,
R2 3.2. 30 Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,
R2 3.2. 31 Grows strong and great in substance and in friends.
R2 3.2. 32
R2-KING RICHARD
Discomfortable cousin, know'st thou not
R2 3.2. 33 That when the searching eye of heaven is hid
R2 3.2. 34 Behind the globe, that lights the lower world,
R2 3.2. 35 Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen
R2 3.2. 36 In murders and in outrage bloody here;
R2 3.2. 37 But when from under this terrestrial ball
R2 3.2. 38 He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines,
R2 3.2. 39 And darts his light through every guilty hole,
R2 3.2. 40 Then murders, treasons, and detested sins,
R2 3.2. 41 The cloak of night being plucked from off their backs,
R2 3.2. 42 Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?
R2 3.2. 43 So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,
R2 3.2. 44 Who all this while hath revelled in the night
R2 3.2. 45 Whilst we were wand'ring with the Antipodes,
R2 3.2. 46 Shall see us rising in our throne, the east,
R2 3.2. 47 His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
R2 3.2. 48 Not able to endure the sight of day,
R2 3.2. 49 But, self-affrighted, tremble at his sin.
R2 3.2. 50 Not all the water in the rough rude sea
R2 3.2. 51 Can wash the balm from an anointed king.
R2 3.2. 52 The breath of worldly men cannot depose
R2 3.2. 53 The deputy elected by the Lord.
R2 3.2. 54 For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
R2 3.2. 55 To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
R2 3.2. 56 God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
R2 3.2. 57 A glorious angel. Then if angels fight,
R2 3.2. 58 Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right. {Enter +
R2 3.2. 58 the Earl of Salisbury}
R2 3.2. 59 Welcome, my lord. How far off lies your power?
R2 3.2. 60
R2-SALISBURY
Nor nea'er nor farther off, my gracious lord,
R2 3.2. 61 Than this weak arm. Discomfort guides my tongue,
R2 3.2. 62 And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
R2 3.2. 63 One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
R2 3.2. 64 Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
R2 3.2. 65 O, call back yesterday, bid time return,
R2 3.2. 66 And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men.
R2 3.2. 67 Today, today, unhappy day too late,
R2 3.2. 68 Overthrows thy joys, friends, fortune, and thy state;
R2 3.2. 69 For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead,
R2 3.2. 70 Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed, and fled.
R2 3.2. 71
R2-AUMERLE
Comfort, my liege. Why looks your grace so pale?
R2 3.2. 72
R2-KING RICHARD
But now the blood of twenty thousand men
R2 3.2. 73 Did triumph in my face, and they are fled;
R2 3.2. 74 And till so much blood thither come again
R2 3.2. 75 Have I not reason to look pale and dead?
R2 3.2. 76 All souls that will be safe fly from my side,
R2 3.2. 77 For time hath set a blot upon my pride.
R2 3.2. 78
R2-AUMERLE
Comfort, my liege. Remember who you are.
R2 3.2. 79
R2-KING RICHARD
I had forgot myself. Am I not King?
R2 3.2. 80 Awake, thou sluggard majesty, thou sleep'st!
R2 3.2. 81 Is not the King's name forty thousand names?
R2 3.2. 82 Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject strikes
R2 3.2. 83 At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,
R2 3.2. 84 Ye favourites of a king: are we not high?
R2 3.2. 85 High be our thoughts. I know my uncle York
R2 3.2. 86B Hath power enough to serve our turn. {Enter Scrope} But +
R2 3.2. 86B who comes here?
R2 3.2. 87
R2-SCROPE
More health and happiness betide my liege
R2 3.2. 88 Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him.
R2 3.2. 89
R2-KING RICHARD
Mine ear is open and my heart prepared.
R2 3.2. 90 The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.
R2 3.2. 91 Say, is my kingdom lost? Why 'twas my care,
R2 3.2. 92 And what loss is it to be rid of care?
R2 3.2. 93 Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?
R2 3.2. 94 Greater he shall not be. If he serve God
R2 3.2. 95 We'll serve Him too, and be his fellow so.
R2 3.2. 96 Revolt our subjects? That we cannot mend.
R2 3.2. 97 They break their faith to God as well as us.
R2 3.2. 98 Cry woe, destruction, ruin, loss, decay:
R2 3.2. 99 The worst is death, and death will have his day.
R2 3.2. 100
R2-SCROPE
Glad am I that your highness is so armed
R2 3.2. 101 To bear the tidings of calamity.
R2 3.2. 102 Like an unseasonable stormy day,
R2 3.2. 103 Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores
R2 3.2. 104 As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
R2 3.2. 105 So high above his limits swells the rage
R2 3.2. 106 Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
R2 3.2. 107 With hard bright steel, and hearts harder than steel.
R2 3.2. 108 Whitebeards have armed their thin and hairless scalps
R2 3.2. 109 Against thy majesty. Boys with women's voices
R2 3.2. 110 Strive to speak big, and clap their female joints
R2 3.2. 111 In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown.
R2 3.2. 112 Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
R2 3.2. 113 Of double-fatal yew against thy state.
R2 3.2. 114 Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills
R2 3.2. 115 Against thy seat. Both young and old rebel,
R2 3.2. 116 And all goes worse than I have power to tell.
R2 3.2. 117
R2-KING RICHARD
Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill.
R2 3.2. 118 Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? Where is Bagot?
R2 3.2. 119 What is become of Bushy, where is Green,
R2 3.2. 120 That they have let the dangerous enemy
R2 3.2. 121 Measure our confines with such peaceful steps?
R2 3.2. 122 If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it.
R2 3.2. 123 I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke.
R2 3.2. 124
R2-SCROPE
Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord.
R2 3.2. 125
R2-KING RICHARD
O villains, vipers damned without redemption!
R2 3.2. 126 Dogs easily won to fawn on any man!
R2 3.2. 127 Snakes in my heart-blood warmed, that sting my heart!
R2 3.2. 128 Three Judases, each one thrice-worse than Judas!
R2 3.2. 129 Would they make peace? Terrible hell make war
R2 3.2. 130 Upon their spotted souls for this offence!
R2 3.2. 131
R2-SCROPE
Sweet love, I see, changing his property,
R2 3.2. 132 Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate.
R2 3.2. 133 Again uncurse their souls. Their peace is made
R2 3.2. 134 With heads, and not with hands. Those whom you curse
R2 3.2. 135 Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound,
R2 3.2. 136 And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
R2 3.2. 137
R2-AUMERLE
Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?
R2 3.2. 138
R2-SCROPE
Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads.
R2 3.2. 139
R2-AUMERLE
Where is the Duke my father, with his power?
R2 3.2. 140
R2-KING RICHARD
No matter where. Of comfort no man speak.
R2 3.2. 141 Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,
R2 3.2. 142 Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
R2 3.2. 143 Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
R2 3.2. 144 Let's choose executors and talk of wills -
R2 3.2. 145 And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
R2 3.2. 146 Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
R2 3.2. 147 Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's;
R2 3.2. 148 And nothing can we call our own but death,
R2 3.2. 149 And that small model of the barren earth
R2 3.2. 150 Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
R2 3.2. 151 {[Sitting]} For God's sake, let us sit upon the +
R2 3.2. 151 ground,
R2 3.2. 152 And tell sad stories of the death of kings -
R2 3.2. 153 How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
R2 3.2. 154 Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
R2 3.2. 155 Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
R2 3.2. 156 All murdered. For within the hollow crown
R2 3.2. 157 That rounds the mortal temples of a king
R2 3.2. 158 Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,
R2 3.2. 159 Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
R2 3.2. 160 Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
R2 3.2. 161 To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks,
R2 3.2. 162 Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
R2 3.2. 163 As if this flesh which walls about our life
R2 3.2. 164 Were brass impregnable; and humoured thus,
R2 3.2. 165 Comes at the last, and with a little pin
R2 3.2. 166 Bores through his castle wall; and farewell, king.
R2 3.2. 167 Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood
R2 3.2. 168 With solemn reverence. Throw away respect,
R2 3.2. 169 Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty,
R2 3.2. 170 For you have but mistook me all this while.
R2 3.2. 171 I live with bread, like you; feel want,
R2 3.2. 172 Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus,
R2 3.2. 173 How can you say to me I am a king?
R2 3.2. 174
R2-BISHOP OF CARLISLE
My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes,
R2 3.2. 175 But presently prevent the ways to wail.
R2 3.2. 176 To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
R2 3.2. 177 Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe;
R2 3.2. 178 And so your follies fight against yourself.
R2 3.2. 179 Fear, and be slain. No worse can come to fight;
R2 3.2. 180 And fight and die is death destroying death,
R2 3.2. 181 Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
R2 3.2. 182
R2-AUMERLE
My father hath a power. Enquire of him,
R2 3.2. 183 And learn to make a body of a limb.
R2 3.2. 184
R2-KING RICHARD
{[standing]} Thou chid'st me well. +
R2 3.2. 184 Proud Bolingbroke, I come
R2 3.2. 185 To change blows with thee for our day of doom.
R2 3.2. 186 This ague-fit of fear is overblown.
R2 3.2. 187 An easy task it is to win our own.
R2 3.2. 188 Say, Scrope, where lies our uncle with his power?
R2 3.2. 189 Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.
R2 3.2. 190
R2-SCROPE
Men judge by the complexion of the sky
R2 3.2. 191 The state and inclination of the day.
R2 3.2. 192 So may you by my dull and heavy eye
R2 3.2. 193 My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.
R2 3.2. 194 I play the torturer by small and small
R2 3.2. 195 To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken.
R2 3.2. 196 Your uncle York is joined with Bolingbroke,
R2 3.2. 197 And all your northern castles yielded up,
R2 3.2. 198 And all your southern gentlemen in arms
R2 3.2. 199B Upon his faction.
R2-KING RICHARD
Thou hast said enough.
R2 3.2. 200 {(To Aumerle)} Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead +
R2 3.2. 200 me forth
R2 3.2. 201 Of that sweet way I was in to despair.
R2 3.2. 202 What say you now? What comfort have we now?
R2 3.2. 203 By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly
R2 3.2. 204 That bids me be of comfort any more.
R2 3.2. 205 Go to Flint Castle; there I'll pine away.
R2 3.2. 206 A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.
R2 3.2. 207 That power I have, discharge, and let them go
R2 3.2. 208 To ear the land that hath some hope to grow;
R2 3.2. 209 For I have none. Let no man speak again
R2 3.2. 210 To alter this, for counsel is but vain.
R2 3.2. 211B
R2-AUMERLE
My liege, one word.
R2-KING RICHARD
He does me double wrong
R2 3.2. 212 That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
R2 3.2. 213 Discharge my followers. Let them hence away
R2 3.2. 214 From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day. {Exeunt}
R2 3.2. 0 {Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, the +
R2 3.3. 0 Duke of York, the Earl of Northumberland, [and soldiers, with drum and +
R2 3.3. 0 colours]}
R2 3.3. 1
R2-BOLINGBROKE
So that by this intelligence we learn
R2 3.3. 2 The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury
R2 3.3. 3 Is gone to meet the King, who lately landed
R2 3.3. 4 With some few private friends upon this coast.
R2 3.3. 5
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
The news is very fair and good, my lord.
R2 3.3. 6 Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.
R2 3.3. 7
R2-YORK
It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
R2 3.3. 8 To say `King Richard'. Alack the heavy day
R2 3.3. 9 When such a sacred king should hide his head!
R2 3.3. 10
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Your grace mistakes. Only to be brief
R2 3.3. 11B Left I his title out.
R2-YORK
The time hath been,
R2 3.3. 12 Would you have been so brief with him, he would
R2 3.3. 13 Have been so brief with you to shorten you,
R2 3.3. 14 For taking so the head, your whole head's length.
R2 3.3. 15
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.
R2 3.3. 16
R2-YORK
Take not, good cousin, further than you should,
R2 3.3. 17 Lest you mistake the heavens are over our heads.
R2 3.3. 18
R2-BOLINGBROKE
I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself
R2 3.3. 19B Against their will. {Enter Harry Percy [and a +
R2 3.3. 19B trumpeter]} But who comes here?
R2 3.3. 20 Welcome, Harry. What, will not this castle yield?
R2 3.3. 21
R2-HARRY PERCY
The castle royally is manned, my lord,
R2 3.3. 22B Against thy entrance.
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Royally?
R2 3.3. 23B Why, it contains no king.
R2-HARRY PERCY
Yes, my good lord,
R2 3.3. 24 It doth contain a king. King Richard lies
R2 3.3. 25 Within the limits of yon lime and stone,
R2 3.3. 26 And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,
R2 3.3. 27 Sir Stephen Scrope, besides a clergyman
R2 3.3. 28 Of holy reverence; who, I cannot learn.
R2 3.3. 29
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.
R2 3.3. 30A
R2-BOLINGBROKE
{(to Northumberland)} Noble lord,
R2 3.3. 31 Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;
R2 3.3. 32 Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley
R2 3.3. 33 Into his ruined ears, and thus deliver.
R2 3.3. 34 Henry Bolingbroke
R2 3.3. 35 Upon his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand,
R2 3.3. 36 And sends allegiance and true faith of heart
R2 3.3. 37 To his most royal person, hither come
R2 3.3. 38 Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,
R2 3.3. 39 Provided that my banishment repealed
R2 3.3. 40 And lands restored again be freely granted.
R2 3.3. 41 If not, I'll use the advantage of my power,
R2 3.3. 42 And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood
R2 3.3. 43 Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen;
R2 3.3. 44 The which how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke
R2 3.3. 45 It is such crimson tempest should bedrench
R2 3.3. 46 The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land,
R2 3.3. 47 My stooping duty tenderly shall show.
R2 3.3. 48 Go, signify as much, while here we march
R2 3.3. 49 Upon the grassy carpet of this plain.
R2 3.3. 50 Let's march without the noise of threat'ning drum,
R2 3.3. 51 That from this castle's tottered battlements
R2 3.3. 52 Our fair appointments may be well perused.
R2 3.3. 53 Methinks King Richard and myself should meet
R2 3.3. 54 With no less terror than the elements
R2 3.3. 55 Of fire and water when their thund'ring shock
R2 3.3. 56 At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.
R2 3.3. 57 Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water.
R2 3.3. 58 The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain
R2 3.3. 59 My waters: on the earth, and not on him. -
R2 3.3. 60 March on, and mark King Richard, how he looks. {[They march +
R2 3.3. 60 about the stage; then Bolingbroke, York, Percy, and soldiers stand at a +
R2 3.3. 60 distance from the walls; Northumberland and trumpeter advance to the +
R2 3.3. 60 walls.] The trumpets sound [a parley}
R2 3.3. 61 {without, and an answer within; then a flourish within]. King Richard +
R2 3.3. 61 appeareth on the walls, with the Bishop of Carlisle, the Duke of +
R2 3.3. 61 Aumerle, [Scrope, and the Earl of Salisbury]} See, see, King +
R2 3.3. 61 Richard doth himself appear,
R2 3.3. 62 As doth the blushing discontented sun
R2 3.3. 63 From out the fiery portal of the east
R2 3.3. 64 When he perceives the envious clouds are bent
R2 3.3. 65 To dim his glory and to stain the track
R2 3.3. 66 Of his bright passage to the occident.
R2 3.3. 67
R2-YORK
Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye,
R2 3.3. 68 As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth
R2 3.3. 69 Controlling majesty. Alack, alack for woe
R2 3.3. 70 That any harm should stain so fair a show!
R2 3.3. 71
R2-KING RICHARD
{(to Northumberland)} We are amazed; +
R2 3.3. 71 and thus long have we stood
R2 3.3. 72 To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,
R2 3.3. 73 Because we thought ourself thy lawful king.
R2 3.3. 74 An if we be, how dare thy joints forget
R2 3.3. 75 To pay their aweful duty to our presence?
R2 3.3. 76 If we be not, show us the hand of God
R2 3.3. 77 That hath dismissed us from our stewardship.
R2 3.3. 78 For well we know no hand of blood and bone
R2 3.3. 79 Can grip the sacred handle of our sceptre,
R2 3.3. 80 Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.
R2 3.3. 81 And though you think that all - as you have done -
R2 3.3. 82 Have torn their souls by turning them from us,
R2 3.3. 83 And we are barren and bereft of friends,
R2 3.3. 84 Yet know my master, God omnipotent,
R2 3.3. 85 Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
R2 3.3. 86 Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike
R2 3.3. 87 Your children yet unborn and unbegot,
R2 3.3. 88 That lift your vassal hands against my head
R2 3.3. 89 And threat the glory of my precious crown.
R2 3.3. 90 Tell Bolingbroke, for yon methinks he is,
R2 3.3. 91 That every stride he makes upon my land
R2 3.3. 92 Is dangerous treason. He is come to open
R2 3.3. 93 The purple testament of bleeding war;
R2 3.3. 94 But ere the crown he looks for live in peace
R2 3.3. 95 Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons
R2 3.3. 96 Shall ill become the flower of England's face,
R2 3.3. 97 Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace
R2 3.3. 98 To scarlet indignation, and bedew
R2 3.3. 99 Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.
R2 3.3. 100
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
{[kneeling]} The King of heaven +
R2 3.3. 100 forbid our lord the King
R2 3.3. 101 Should so with civil and uncivil arms
R2 3.3. 102 Be rushed upon. Thy thrice-noble cousin
R2 3.3. 103 Harry Bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand,
R2 3.3. 104 And by the honourable tomb he swears,
R2 3.3. 105 That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones,
R2 3.3. 106 And by the royalties of both your bloods,
R2 3.3. 107 Currents that spring from one most gracious head,
R2 3.3. 108 And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,
R2 3.3. 109 And by the worth and honour of himself,
R2 3.3. 110 Comprising all that may be sworn or said,
R2 3.3. 111 His coming hither hath no further scope
R2 3.3. 112 Than for his lineal royalties, and to beg
R2 3.3. 113 Enfranchisement immediate on his knees;
R2 3.3. 114 Which on thy royal party granted once,
R2 3.3. 115 His glittering arms he will commend to rust,
R2 3.3. 116 His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
R2 3.3. 117 To faithful service of your majesty.
R2 3.3. 118 This swears he as he is a prince and just,
R2 3.3. 119 And as I am a gentleman I credit him.
R2 3.3. 120
R2-KING RICHARD
Northumberland, say thus the King returns:
R2 3.3. 121 His noble cousin is right welcome hither,
R2 3.3. 122 And all the number of his fair demands
R2 3.3. 123 Shall be accomplished without contradiction.
R2 3.3. 124 With all the gracious utterance thou hast,
R2 3.3. 125 Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends. {Northumberland and +
R2 3.3. 125 the trumpeter return to Bolingbroke}
R2 3.3. 126 {(To Aumerle)} We do debase ourself, cousin, do we +
R2 3.3. 126 not,
R2 3.3. 127 To look so poorly and to speak so fair?
R2 3.3. 128 Shall we call back Northumberland, and send
R2 3.3. 129 Defiance to the traitor, and so die?
R2 3.3. 130
R2-AUMERLE
No, good my lord, let's fight with gentle words
R2 3.3. 131 Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords.
R2 3.3. 132
R2-KING RICHARD
O God, O God, that e'er this tongue of mine,
R2 3.3. 133 That laid the sentence of dread banishment
R2 3.3. 134 On yon proud man, should take it off again
R2 3.3. 135 With words of sooth! O, that I were as great
R2 3.3. 136 As is my grief, or lesser than my name,
R2 3.3. 137 Or that I could forget what I have been,
R2 3.3. 138 Or not remember what I must be now!
R2 3.3. 139 Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat,
R2 3.3. 140 Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me. {Northumberland +
R2 3.3. 140 advances to the walls}
R2 3.3. 141
R2-AUMERLE
Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.
R2 3.3. 142
R2-KING RICHARD
What must the King do now? Must he submit?
R2 3.3. 143 The King shall do it. Must he be deposed?
R2 3.3. 144 The King shall be contented. Must he lose
R2 3.3. 145 The name of King? A God's name, let it go.
R2 3.3. 146 I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
R2 3.3. 147 My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
R2 3.3. 148 My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
R2 3.3. 149 My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
R2 3.3. 150 My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,
R2 3.3. 151 My subjects for a pair of carved saints,
R2 3.3. 152 And my large kingdom for a little grave,
R2 3.3. 153 A little, little grave, an obscure grave;
R2 3.3. 154 Or I'll be buried in the King's highway,
R2 3.3. 155 Some way of common trade where subjects' feet
R2 3.3. 156 May hourly trample on their sovereign's head,
R2 3.3. 157 For on my heart they tread now, whilst I live,
R2 3.3. 158 And buried once, why not upon my head?
R2 3.3. 159 Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin.
R2 3.3. 160 We'll make foul weather with despised tears.
R2 3.3. 161 Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,
R2 3.3. 162 And make a dearth in this revolting land.
R2 3.3. 163 Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,
R2 3.3. 164 And make some pretty match with shedding tears;
R2 3.3. 165 As thus to drop them still upon one place
R2 3.3. 166 Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
R2 3.3. 167 Within the earth, and therein laid? `There lies
R2 3.3. 168 Two kinsmen digged their graves with weeping eyes.'
R2 3.3. 169 Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see
R2 3.3. 170 I talk but idly and you mock at me.
R2 3.3. 171 Most mighty prince, my lord Northumberland,
R2 3.3. 172 What says King Bolingbroke? Will his majesty
R2 3.3. 173 Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?
R2 3.3. 174 You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says `Ay'.
R2 3.3. 175
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
My lord, in the base court he doth attend
R2 3.3. 176 To speak with you. May it please you to come down?
R2 3.3. 177
R2-KING RICHARD
Down, down I come like glist'ring Phaethon,
R2 3.3. 178 Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
R2 3.3. 179 In the base court: base court where kings grow base
R2 3.3. 180 To come at traitors' calls, and do them grace.
R2 3.3. 181 In the base court, come down: down court, down King,
R2 3.3. 182 For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing. {Exeunt +
R2 3.3. 182 King Richard and his party}
R2 3.3. 183B {Northumberland returns to Bolingbroke}
R2-BOLINGBROKE
+
R2 3.3. 183B What says his majesty?
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Sorrow and grief of heart
R2 3.3. 184 Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man. {Enter King Richard +
R2 3.3. 184 [and his party] below}
R2 3.3. 185B Yet he is come.
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Stand all apart,
R2 3.3. 186 And show fair duty to his majesty. {He kneels down}
R2 3.3. 187 My gracious lord.
R2 3.3. 188
R2-KING RICHARD
Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee
R2 3.3. 189 To make the base earth proud with kissing it.
R2 3.3. 190 Me rather had my heart might feel your love
R2 3.3. 191 Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
R2 3.3. 192 Up, cousin, up. Your heart is up, I know,
R2 3.3. 193 Thus high at least, although your knee be low.
R2 3.3. 194
R2-BOLINGBROKE
My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.
R2 3.3. 195
R2-KING RICHARD
Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.
R2 3.3. 196
R2-BOLINGBROKE
So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
R2 3.3. 197 As my true service shall deserve your love.
R2 3.3. 198
R2-KING RICHARD
Well you deserve. They well deserve to have
R2 3.3. 199 That know the strong'st and surest way to get. {[Bolingbroke +
R2 3.3. 199 rises]}
R2 3.3. 200 {(To York)} Uncle, give me your hands. Nay, dry your +
R2 3.3. 200 eyes.
R2 3.3. 201 Tears show their love, but want their remedies.
R2 3.3. 202 {(To Bolingbroke)} Cousin, I am too young to be your +
R2 3.3. 202 father,
R2 3.3. 203 Though you are old enough to be my heir.
R2 3.3. 204 What you will have I'll give, and willing too;
R2 3.3. 205 For do we must what force will have us do.
R2 3.3. 206 Set on towards London, cousin: is it so?
R2 3.3. 207B
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Yea, my good lord.
R2-KING RICHARD
Then I must not say +
R2 3.3. 207B no. {Flourish. Exeunt}
R2 3.3. 0 {Enter the Queen, with her two Ladies}
R2 3.4. 1
R2-QUEEN
What sport shall we devise here in this garden,
R2 3.4. 2 To drive away the heavy thought of care?
R2 3.4. 3A
R2-[FIRST] LADY
Madam, we'll play at bowls.
R2 3.4. 4
R2-QUEEN
'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,
R2 3.4. 5 And that my fortune runs against the bias.
R2 3.4. 6A
R2-[SECOND] LADY
Madam, we'll dance.
R2 3.4. 7
R2-QUEEN
My legs can keep no measure in delight
R2 3.4. 8 When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief;
R2 3.4. 9 Therefore no dancing, girl. Some other sport.
R2 3.4. 10A
R2-[FIRST] LADY
Madam, we'll tell tales.
R2 3.4. 11A
R2-QUEEN
Of sorrow or of joy?
R2 3.4. 12A
R2-[FIRST] LADY
Of either, madam.
R2 3.4. 13A
R2-QUEEN
Of neither, girl.
R2 3.4. 14 For if of joy, being altogether wanting,
R2 3.4. 15 It doth remember me the more of sorrow.
R2 3.4. 16 Or if of grief, being altogether had,
R2 3.4. 17 It adds more sorrow to my want of joy.
R2 3.4. 18 For what I have I need not to repeat,
R2 3.4. 19 And what I want it boots not to complain.
R2 3.4. 20B
R2-[SECOND] LADY
Madam, I'll sing.
R2-QUEEN
'Tis well that thou hast +
R2 3.4. 20B cause;
R2 3.4. 21 But thou shouldst please me better wouldst thou weep.
R2 3.4. 22
R2-[SECOND] LADY
I could weep, madam, would it do you good.
R2 3.4. 23
R2-QUEEN
And I could sing, would weeping do me good,
R2 3.4. 24 And never borrow any tear of thee. {Enter a Gardener and two +
R2 3.4. 24 Men}
R2 3.4. 25 But stay; here come the gardeners.
R2 3.4. 26 Let's step into the shadow of these trees.
R2 3.4. 27 My wretchedness unto a row of pins
R2 3.4. 28 They will talk of state, for everyone doth so
R2 3.4. 29 Against a change. Woe is forerun with woe. {The Queen and her +
R2 3.4. 29 Ladies stand apart}
R2 3.4. 30
R2-GARDENER
{[to First Man]} Go, bind thou up young +
R2 3.4. 30 dangling apricots
R2 3.4. 31 Which, like unruly children, make their sire
R2 3.4. 32 Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight.
R2 3.4. 33 Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
R2 3.4. 34 {[To Second Man]} Go thou, and, like an executioner,
R2 3.4. 35 Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays
R2 3.4. 36 That look too lofty in our commonwealth.
R2 3.4. 37 All must be even in our government.
R2 3.4. 38 You thus employed, I will go root away
R2 3.4. 39 The noisome weeds which without profit suck
R2 3.4. 40 The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.
R2 3.4. 41
R2-[FIRST] MAN
Why should we, in the compass of a pale,
R2 3.4. 42 Keep law and form and due proportion,
R2 3.4. 43 Showing as in a model our firm estate,
R2 3.4. 44 When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
R2 3.4. 45 Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
R2 3.4. 46 Her fruit trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined,
R2 3.4. 47 Her knots disordered, and her wholesome herbs
R2 3.4. 48B Swarming with caterpillars?
R2-GARDENER
Hold thy peace.
R2 3.4. 49 He that hath suffered this disordered spring
R2 3.4. 50 Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf.
R2 3.4. 51 The weeds which his broad spreading leaves did shelter,
R2 3.4. 52 That seemed in eating him to hold him up,
R2 3.4. 53 Are plucked up, root and all, by Bolingbroke -
R2 3.4. 54 I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.
R2 3.4. 55B
R2-[SECOND] MAN
What, are they dead?
R2-GARDENER
They are; and +
R2 3.4. 55B Bolingbroke
R2 3.4. 56 Hath seized the wasteful King. O, what pity is it
R2 3.4. 57 That he had not so trimmed and dressed his land
R2 3.4. 58 As we this garden! We at time of year
R2 3.4. 59 Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees,
R2 3.4. 60 Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,
R2 3.4. 61 With too much riches it confound itself.
R2 3.4. 62 Had he done so to great and growing men,
R2 3.4. 63 They might have lived to bear, and he to taste,
R2 3.4. 64 Their fruits of duty. Superfluous branches
R2 3.4. 65 We lop away, that bearing boughs may live.
R2 3.4. 66 Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,
R2 3.4. 67 Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.
R2 3.4. 68
R2-[FIRST] MAN
What, think you then the King shall be deposed?
R2 3.4. 69
R2-GARDENER
Depressed he is already, and deposed
R2 3.4. 70 'Tis doubt he will be. Letters came last night
R2 3.4. 71 To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's
R2 3.4. 72 That tell black tidings.
R2 3.4. 73
R2-QUEEN
O, I am pressed to death through want of speaking! +
R2 3.4. 73 {She comes forward}
R2 3.4. 74 Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden,
R2 3.4. 75 How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?
R2 3.4. 76 What Eve, what serpent hath suggested thee
R2 3.4. 77 To make a second fall of cursed man?
R2 3.4. 78 Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?
R2 3.4. 79 Dar'st thou, thou little better thing than earth,
R2 3.4. 80 Divine his downfall? Say where, when, and how
R2 3.4. 81 Cam'st thou by this ill tidings? Speak, thou wretch!
R2 3.4. 82
R2-GARDENER
Pardon me, madam. Little joy have I
R2 3.4. 83 To breathe this news, yet what I say is true.
R2 3.4. 84 King Richard he is in the mighty hold
R2 3.4. 85 Of Bolingbroke. Their fortunes both are weighed.
R2 3.4. 86 In your lord's scale is nothing but himself
R2 3.4. 87 And some few vanities that make him light.
R2 3.4. 88 But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,
R2 3.4. 89 Besides himself, are all the English peers,
R2 3.4. 90 And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.
R2 3.4. 91 Post you to London and you will find it so.
R2 3.4. 92 I speak no more than everyone doth know.
R2 3.4. 93
R2-QUEEN
Nimble mischance that art so light of foot,
R2 3.4. 94 Doth not thy embassage belong to me,
R2 3.4. 95 And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st
R2 3.4. 96 To serve me last, that I may longest keep
R2 3.4. 97 Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go
R2 3.4. 98 To meet at London London's king in woe.
R2 3.4. 99 What, was I born to this, that my sad look
R2 3.4. 100 Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?
R2 3.4. 101 Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe,
R2 3.4. 102 Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. {Exit with her +
R2 3.4. 102 Ladies}
R2 3.4. 103
R2-GARDENER
Poor Queen, so that thy state might be no worse
R2 3.4. 104 I would my skill were subject to thy curse.
R2 3.4. 105 Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
R2 3.4. 106 I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb-of-grace.
R2 3.4. 107 Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen
R2 3.4. 108 In the remembrance of a weeping queen. {Exeunt}
R2 3.4. 0 {Enter, as to Parliament, Bolingbroke Duke of +
R2 4.1. 0 Lancaster and Hereford, the Duke of Aumerle, the Earl of +
R2 4.1. 0 Northumberland, Harry Percy, Lord Fitzwalter, the Duke of Surrey, the +
R2 4.1. 0 Bishop of Carlisle, and the Abbot of Westminster}
R2 4.1. 1B
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Call forth Bagot. {Enter Bagot, with +
R2 4.1. 1B officers} Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind:
R2 4.1. 2 What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death,
R2 4.1. 3 Who wrought it with the King, and who performed
R2 4.1. 4 The bloody office of his timeless end.
R2 4.1. 5
R2-BAGOT
Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.
R2 4.1. 6
R2-BOLINGBROKE
{(to Aumerle)} Cousin, stand forth, +
R2 4.1. 6 and look upon that man. {Aumerle stands forth}
R2 4.1. 7
R2-BAGOT
My lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue
R2 4.1. 8 Scorns to unsay what once it hath delivered.
R2 4.1. 9 In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted
R2 4.1. 10 I heard you say `Is not my arm of length,
R2 4.1. 11 That reacheth from the restful English court
R2 4.1. 12 As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'
R2 4.1. 13 Amongst much other talk that very time
R2 4.1. 14 I heard you say that you had rather refuse
R2 4.1. 15 The offer of an hundred thousand crowns
R2 4.1. 16 Than Bolingbroke's return to England,
R2 4.1. 17 Adding withal how blest this land would be
R2 4.1. 18B In this your cousin's death.
R2-AUMERLE
Princes and noble lords,
R2 4.1. 19 What answer shall I make to this base man?
R2 4.1. 20 Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars
R2 4.1. 21 On equal terms to give him chastisement?
R2 4.1. 22 Either I must, or have mine honour soiled
R2 4.1. 23 With the attainder of his slanderous lips. {He throws down his +
R2 4.1. 23 gage}
R2 4.1. 24 There is my gage, the manual seal of death
R2 4.1. 25 That marks thee out for hell. I say thou liest,
R2 4.1. 26 And will maintain what thou hast said is false
R2 4.1. 27 In thy heart blood, though being all too base
R2 4.1. 28 To stain the temper of my knightly sword.
R2 4.1. 29
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Bagot, forbear. Thou shalt not take it up.
R2 4.1. 30
R2-AUMERLE
Excepting one, I would he were the best
R2 4.1. 31 In all this presence that hath moved me so.
R2 4.1. 32
R2-FITZWALTER
If that thy valour stand on sympathy,
R2 4.1. 33 There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine. {He throws down his +
R2 4.1. 33 gage}
R2 4.1. 34 By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,
R2 4.1. 35 I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spak'st it,
R2 4.1. 36 That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death.
R2 4.1. 37 If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest,
R2 4.1. 38 And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
R2 4.1. 39 Where it was forged, with my rapier's point.
R2 4.1. 40
R2-AUMERLE
Thou dar'st not, coward, live to see that day.
R2 4.1. 41
R2-FITZWALTER
Now by my soul, I would it were this hour.
R2 4.1. 42
R2-AUMERLE
Fitzwalter, thou art damned to hell for this.
R2 4.1. 43
R2-HARRY PERCY
Aumerle, thou liest. His honour is as true
R2 4.1. 44 In this appeal as thou art all unjust;
R2 4.1. 45 And that thou art so, there I throw my gage {He throws down his +
R2 4.1. 45 gage}
R2 4.1. 46 To prove it on thee to the extremest point
R2 4.1. 47 Of mortal breathing. Seize it if thou dar'st.
R2 4.1. 48
R2-AUMERLE
An if I do not, may my hands rot off,
R2 4.1. 49 And never brandish more revengeful steel
R2 4.1. 50 Over the glittering helmet of my foe.
R2 4.1. 51
R2-SURREY
My lord Fitzwalter, I do remember well
R2 4.1. 52 The very time Aumerle and you did talk.
R2 4.1. 53
R2-FITZWALTER
'Tis very true. You were in presence then,
R2 4.1. 54 And you can witness with me this is true.
R2 4.1. 55
R2-SURREY
As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.
R2 4.1. 56B
R2-FITZWALTER
Surrey, thou liest.
R2-SURREY
Dishonourable boy,
R2 4.1. 57 That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword
R2 4.1. 58 That it shall render vengeance and revenge,
R2 4.1. 59 Till thou, the lie-giver, and that lie do lie
R2 4.1. 60 In earth as quiet as thy father's skull;
R2 4.1. 61 In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn. {He throws down his +
R2 4.1. 61 gage}
R2 4.1. 62 Engage it to the trial if thou dar'st.
R2 4.1. 63
R2-FITZWALTER
How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!
R2 4.1. 64 If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,
R2 4.1. 65 I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness
R2 4.1. 66 And spit upon him whilst I say he lies,
R2 4.1. 67 And lies, and lies. There is my bond of faith
R2 4.1. 68 To tie thee to my strong correction.
R2 4.1. 69 As I intend to thrive in this new world,
R2 4.1. 70 Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal.
R2 4.1. 71 Besides, I heard the banished Norfolk say
R2 4.1. 72 That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men
R2 4.1. 73 To execute the noble Duke at Calais.
R2 4.1. 74
R2-AUMERLE
Some honest Christian trust me with a gage. {He +
R2 4.1. 74 takes another's gage and throws it down}
R2 4.1. 75 That Norfolk lies, here do I throw down this,
R2 4.1. 76 If he may be repealed, to try his honour.
R2 4.1. 77
R2-BOLINGBROKE
These differences shall all rest under gage
R2 4.1. 78 Till Norfolk be repealed. Repealed he shall be,
R2 4.1. 79 And, though mine enemy, restored again
R2 4.1. 80 To all his lands and signories. When he is returned,
R2 4.1. 81 Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial.
R2 4.1. 82
R2-BISHOP OF CARLISLE
That honourable day shall never be seen.
R2 4.1. 83 Many a time hath banished Norfolk fought
R2 4.1. 84 For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,
R2 4.1. 85 Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross
R2 4.1. 86 Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens;
R2 4.1. 87 And, toiled with works of war, retired himself
R2 4.1. 88 To Italy, and there at Venice gave
R2 4.1. 89 His body to that pleasant country's earth,
R2 4.1. 90 And his pure soul unto his captain, Christ,
R2 4.1. 91 Under whose colours he had fought so long.
R2 4.1. 92
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Why, Bishop of Carlisle, is Norfolk dead?
R2 4.1. 93
R2-BISHOP OF CARLISLE
As surely as I live, my lord.
R2 4.1. 94
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
R2 4.1. 95 Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,
R2 4.1. 96 Your differences shall all rest under gage
R2 4.1. 97 Till we assign you to your days of trial. {Enter the Duke of +
R2 4.1. 97 York}
R2 4.1. 98
R2-YORK
Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee
R2 4.1. 99 From plume-plucked Richard, who with willing soul
R2 4.1. 100 Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields
R2 4.1. 101 To the possession of thy royal hand.
R2 4.1. 102 Ascend his throne, descending now from him,
R2 4.1. 103 And long live Henry, of that name the fourth!
R2 4.1. 104
R2-BOLINGBROKE
In God's name I'll ascend the regal throne.
R2 4.1. 105A
R2-BISHOP OF CARLISLE
Marry, God forbid!
R2 4.1. 106 Worst in this royal presence may I speak,
R2 4.1. 107 Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.
R2 4.1. 108 Would God that any in this noble presence
R2 4.1. 109 Were enough noble to be upright judge
R2 4.1. 110 Of noble Richard. Then true noblesse would
R2 4.1. 111 Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
R2 4.1. 112 What subject can give sentence on his king?
R2 4.1. 113 And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?
R2 4.1. 114 Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,
R2 4.1. 115 Although apparent guilt be seen in them;
R2 4.1. 116 And shall the figure of God's majesty,
R2 4.1. 117 His captain, steward, deputy elect,
R2 4.1. 118 Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
R2 4.1. 119 Be judged by subject and inferior breath,
R2 4.1. 120 And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
R2 4.1. 121 That in a Christian climate souls refined
R2 4.1. 122 Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!
R2 4.1. 123 I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks
R2 4.1. 124 Stirred up by God thus boldly for his king.
R2 4.1. 125 My lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,
R2 4.1. 126 Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king;
R2 4.1. 127 And, if you crown him, let me prophesy
R2 4.1. 128 The blood of English shall manure the ground,
R2 4.1. 129 And future ages groan for this foul act.
R2 4.1. 130 Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,
R2 4.1. 131 And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
R2 4.1. 132 Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound.
R2 4.1. 133 Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny
R2 4.1. 134 Shall here inhabit, and this land be called
R2 4.1. 135 The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls.
R2 4.1. 136 O, if you rear this house against this house
R2 4.1. 137 It will the woefullest division prove
R2 4.1. 138 That ever fell upon this cursed earth!
R2 4.1. 139 Prevent, resist it; let it not be so,
R2 4.1. 140 Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe.
R2 4.1. 141
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Well have you argued, sir, and for your pains
R2 4.1. 142 Of capital treason we arrest you here.
R2 4.1. 143 My lord of Westminster, be it your charge
R2 4.1. 144 To keep him safely till his day of trial.
R2 4.1. 145 May it please you, lords, to grant the Commons' suit?
R2 4.1. 146
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Fetch hither Richard, that in common view
R2 4.1. 147 He may surrender. So we shall proceed
R2 4.1. 148B Without suspicion.
R2-YORK
I will be his conduct. {Exit}
R2 4.1. 149
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Lords, you that here are under our arrest,
R2 4.1. 150 Procure your sureties for your days of answer.
R2 4.1. 151 Little are we beholden to your love,
R2 4.1. 152 And little looked for at your helping hands. {Enter Richard and +
R2 4.1. 152 the Duke of York, [with attendants bearing the crown and sceptre]}
R2 4.1. 153
R2-RICHARD
Alack, why am I sent for to a king
R2 4.1. 154 Before I have shook off the regal thoughts
R2 4.1. 155 Wherewith I reigned? I hardly yet have learned
R2 4.1. 156 To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee.
R2 4.1. 157 Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
R2 4.1. 158 To this submission. Yet I well remember
R2 4.1. 159 The favours of these men. Were they not mine?
R2 4.1. 160 Did they not sometime cry `All hail!' to me?
R2 4.1. 161 So Judas did to Christ. But He in twelve
R2 4.1. 162 Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.
R2 4.1. 163 God save the King! Will no man say `Amen'?
R2 4.1. 164 Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, Amen.
R2 4.1. 165 God save the King, although I be not he.
R2 4.1. 166 And yet Amen, if heaven do think him me.
R2 4.1. 167 To do what service am I sent for hither?
R2 4.1. 168
R2-YORK
To do that office of thine own good will
R2 4.1. 169 Which tired majesty did make thee offer:
R2 4.1. 170 The resignation of thy state and crown
R2 4.1. 171 To Henry Bolingbroke.
R2 4.1. 172
R2-RICHARD
{(to an attendant)} Give me the +
R2 4.1. 172 crown. {(To Bolingbroke)} Here, cousin, seize the +
R2 4.1. 172 crown.
R2 4.1. 173 Here, cousin. On this side my hand, on that side thine.
R2 4.1. 174 Now is this golden crown like a deep well
R2 4.1. 175 That owes two buckets filling one another,
R2 4.1. 176 The emptier ever dancing in the air,
R2 4.1. 177 The other down, unseen, and full of water.
R2 4.1. 178 That bucket down and full of tears am I,
R2 4.1. 179 Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
R2 4.1. 180
R2-BOLINGBROKE
I thought you had been willing to resign.
R2 4.1. 181
R2-RICHARD
My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine.
R2 4.1. 182 You may my glories and my state depose,
R2 4.1. 183 But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
R2 4.1. 184
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Part of your cares you give me with your crown.
R2 4.1. 185
R2-RICHARD
Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
R2 4.1. 186 My care is loss of care by old care done;
R2 4.1. 187 Your care is gain of care by new care won.
R2 4.1. 188 The cares I give I have, though given away;
R2 4.1. 189 They 'tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.
R2 4.1. 190
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Are you contented to resign the crown?
R2 4.1. 191
R2-RICHARD
Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;
R2 4.1. 192 Therefore no, no, for I resign to thee.
R2 4.1. 193 Now mark me how I will undo myself.
R2 4.1. 194 I give this heavy weight from off my head, {[Bolingbroke accepts +
R2 4.1. 194 the crown]}
R2 4.1. 195 And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, {[Bolingbroke +
R2 4.1. 195 accepts the sceptre]}
R2 4.1. 196 The pride of kingly sway from out my heart.
R2 4.1. 197 With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
R2 4.1. 198 With mine own hands I give away my crown,
R2 4.1. 199 With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
R2 4.1. 200 With mine own breath release all duteous oaths.
R2 4.1. 201 All pomp and majesty I do forswear.
R2 4.1. 202 My manors, rents, revenues I forgo.
R2 4.1. 203 My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny.
R2 4.1. 204 God pardon all oaths that are broke to me.
R2 4.1. 205 God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee.
R2 4.1. 206 Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,
R2 4.1. 207 And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved.
R2 4.1. 208 Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,
R2 4.1. 209 And soon lie Richard in an earthy pit.
R2 4.1. 210 `God save King Henry,' unkinged Richard says,
R2 4.1. 211 `And send him many years of sunshine days.'
R2 4.1. 212B What more remains?
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(giving Richard +
R2 4.1. 212B papers)} No more but that you read
R2 4.1. 213 These accusations and these grievous crimes
R2 4.1. 214 Committed by your person and your followers
R2 4.1. 215 Against the state and profit of this land,
R2 4.1. 216 That by confessing them, the souls of men
R2 4.1. 217 May deem that you are worthily deposed.
R2 4.1. 218
R2-RICHARD
Must I do so? And must I ravel out
R2 4.1. 219 My weaved-up follies? Gentle Northumberland,
R2 4.1. 220 If thy offences were upon record,
R2 4.1. 221 Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop
R2 4.1. 222 To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,
R2 4.1. 223 There shouldst thou find one heinous article
R2 4.1. 224 Containing the deposing of a king
R2 4.1. 225 And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,
R2 4.1. 226 Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven.
R2 4.1. 227 Nay, all of you that stand and look upon
R2 4.1. 228 Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,
R2 4.1. 229 Though some of you, with Pilate, wash your hands,
R2 4.1. 230 Showing an outward pity, yet you Pilates
R2 4.1. 231 Have here delivered me to my sour cross,
R2 4.1. 232 And water cannot wash away your sin.
R2 4.1. 233
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
My lord, dispatch. Read o'er these articles.
R2 4.1. 234
R2-RICHARD
Mine eyes are full of tears; I cannot see.
R2 4.1. 235 And yet salt water blinds them not so much
R2 4.1. 236 But they can see a sort of traitors here.
R2 4.1. 237 Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself
R2 4.1. 238 I find myself a traitor with the rest,
R2 4.1. 239 For I have given here my soul's consent
R2 4.1. 240 T' undeck the pompous body of a king,
R2 4.1. 241 Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,
R2 4.1. 242 Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.
R2 4.1. 243A
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
My lord -
R2 4.1. 244
R2-RICHARD
No lord of thine, thou haught-insulting man,
R2 4.1. 245 Nor no man's lord. I have no name, no title,
R2 4.1. 246 No, not that name was given me at the font,
R2 4.1. 247 But 'tis usurped. Alack the heavy day,
R2 4.1. 248 That I have worn so many winters out
R2 4.1. 249 And know not now what name to call myself!
R2 4.1. 250 O, that I were a mockery king of snow,
R2 4.1. 251 Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke
R2 4.1. 252 To melt myself away in water-drops!
R2 4.1. 253 Good king, great king - and yet not greatly good -
R2 4.1. 254 An if my word be sterling yet in England,
R2 4.1. 255 Let it command a mirror hither straight,
R2 4.1. 256 That it may show me what a face I have,
R2 4.1. 257 Since it is bankrupt of his majesty.
R2 4.1. 258
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass. {Exit +
R2 4.1. 258 one or more}
R2 4.1. 259
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
Read o'er this paper while the glass doth +
R2 4.1. 259 come.
R2 4.1. 260
R2-RICHARD
Fiend, thou torment'st me ere I come to hell.
R2 4.1. 261
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Urge it no more, my lord Northumberland.
R2 4.1. 262
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
The Commons will not then be satisfied.
R2 4.1. 263
R2-RICHARD
They shall be satisfied. I'll read enough
R2 4.1. 264 When I do see the very book indeed
R2 4.1. 265 Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. {Enter one with a +
R2 4.1. 265 glass}
R2 4.1. 266 Give me that glass, and therein will I read. {Richard +
R2 4.1. 266 takes the glass and looks in it}
R2 4.1. 267 No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck
R2 4.1. 268 So many blows upon this face of mine
R2 4.1. 269 And made no deeper wounds? O flatt'ring glass,
R2 4.1. 270 Like to my followers in prosperity,
R2 4.1. 271 Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face
R2 4.1. 272 That every day under his household roof
R2 4.1. 273 Did keep ten thousand men? Was this the face
R2 4.1. 274 That like the sun did make beholders wink?
R2 4.1. 275 Is this the face which faced so many follies,
R2 4.1. 276 That was at last outfaced by Bolingbroke?
R2 4.1. 277 A brittle glory shineth in this face.
R2 4.1. 278 As brittle as the glory is the face, {He shatters the glass}
R2 4.1. 279 For there it is, cracked in an hundred shivers.
R2 4.1. 280 Mark, silent King, the moral of this sport:
R2 4.1. 281 How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face.
R2 4.1. 282
R2-BOLINGBROKE
The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed
R2 4.1. 283B The shadow of your face.
R2-RICHARD
Say that again:
R2 4.1. 284 `The shadow of my sorrow' - ha, let's see.
R2 4.1. 285 'Tis very true: my grief lies all within,
R2 4.1. 286 And these external manner of laments
R2 4.1. 287 Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
R2 4.1. 288 That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
R2 4.1. 289 There lies the substance, and I thank thee, King,
R2 4.1. 290 For thy great bounty that not only giv'st
R2 4.1. 291 Me cause to wail, but teachest me the way
R2 4.1. 292 How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon,
R2 4.1. 293 And then be gone and trouble you no more.
R2 4.1. 294B Shall I obtain it?
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Name it, fair cousin.
R2 4.1. 295
R2-RICHARD
Fair cousin? I am greater than a king;
R2 4.1. 296 For when I was a king my flatterers
R2 4.1. 297 Were then but subjects; being now a subject,
R2 4.1. 298 I have a king here to my flatterer.
R2 4.1. 299 Being so great, I have no need to beg.
R2 4.1. 300A
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Yet ask.
R2 4.1. 301A
R2-RICHARD
And shall I have?
R2 4.1. 302A
R2-BOLINGBROKE
You shall.
R2 4.1. 303A
R2-RICHARD
Then give me leave to go.
R2 4.1. 304A
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Whither?
R2 4.1. 305
R2-RICHARD
Whither you will, so I were from your sights.
R2 4.1. 306
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Go some of you, convey him to the Tower.
R2 4.1. 307
R2-RICHARD
O good, `convey'! Conveyors are you all,
R2 4.1. 308 That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall. {[Exit, guarded]}
R2 4.1. 309
R2-BOLINGBROKE
On Wednesday next we solemnly set down
R2 4.1. 310 Our coronation. Lords, prepare yourselves. {Exeunt all but the +
R2 4.1. 310 Abbot of Westminster, the Bishop of Carlisle, and Aumerle}
R2 4.1. 311
R2-ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER
A woeful pageant have we here +
R2 4.1. 311 beheld.
R2 4.1. 312
R2-BISHOP OF CARLISLE
The woe's to come, the children yet unborn
R2 4.1. 313 Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.
R2 4.1. 314
R2-AUMERLE
You holy clergymen, is there no plot
R2 4.1. 315 To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?
R2 4.1. 316
R2-ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER
My lord, before I freely speak my mind herein,
R2 4.1. 317 You shall not only take the sacrament
R2 4.1. 318 To bury mine intents, but also to effect
R2 4.1. 319 Whatever I shall happen to devise.
R2 4.1. 320 I see your brows are full of discontent,
R2 4.1. 321 Your hearts of sorrow, and your eyes of tears.
R2 4.1. 322 Come home with me to supper. I will lay
R2 4.1. 323 A plot shall show us all a merry day. {Exeunt}
R2 4.1. 0 {Enter the Queen, with her Ladies}
R2 5.1. 1
R2-QUEEN
This way the King will come. This is the way
R2 5.1. 2 To Julius Caesar's ill-erected Tower,
R2 5.1. 3 To whose flint bosom my condemned lord
R2 5.1. 4 Is doomed a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke.
R2 5.1. 5 Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth
R2 5.1. 6 Have any resting for her true king's queen. {Enter Richard [and +
R2 5.1. 6 guard]}
R2 5.1. 7 But soft, but see - or rather do not see -
R2 5.1. 8 My fair rose wither. Yet look up, behold,
R2 5.1. 9 That you in pity may dissolve to dew,
R2 5.1. 10 And wash him fresh again with true-love tears. -
R2 5.1. 11 Ah, thou the model where old Troy did stand!
R2 5.1. 12 Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,
R2 5.1. 13 And not King Richard! Thou most beauteous inn:
R2 5.1. 14 Why should hard-favoured grief be lodged in thee,
R2 5.1. 15 When triumph is become an alehouse guest?
R2 5.1. 16
R2-RICHARD
Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
R2 5.1. 17 To make my end too sudden. Learn, good soul,
R2 5.1. 18 To think our former state a happy dream,
R2 5.1. 19 From which awaked, the truth of what we are
R2 5.1. 20 Shows us but this. I am sworn brother, sweet,
R2 5.1. 21 To grim necessity, and he and I
R2 5.1. 22 Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France,
R2 5.1. 23 And cloister thee in some religious house.
R2 5.1. 24 Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,
R2 5.1. 25 Which our profane hours here have stricken down.
R2 5.1. 26
R2-QUEEN
What, is my Richard both in shape and mind
R2 5.1. 27 Transformed and weakened? Hath Bolingbroke
R2 5.1. 28 Deposed thine intellect? Hath he been in thy heart?
R2 5.1. 29 The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw
R2 5.1. 30 And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage
R2 5.1. 31 To be o'erpowered; and wilt thou, pupil-like,
R2 5.1. 32 Take the correction, mildly kiss the rod,
R2 5.1. 33 And fawn on rage with base humility,
R2 5.1. 34 Which art a lion and the king of beasts?
R2 5.1. 35
R2-RICHARD
A king of beasts indeed! If aught but beasts,
R2 5.1. 36 I had been still a happy king of men.
R2 5.1. 37 Good sometimes Queen, prepare thee hence for France.
R2 5.1. 38 Think I am dead, and that even here thou tak'st,
R2 5.1. 39 As from my death-bed, thy last living leave.
R2 5.1. 40 In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire
R2 5.1. 41 With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales
R2 5.1. 42 Of woeful ages long ago betid;
R2 5.1. 43 And ere thou bid goodnight, to quit their griefs
R2 5.1. 44 Tell thou the lamentable fall of me,
R2 5.1. 45 And send the hearers weeping to their beds;
R2 5.1. 46 Forwhy the senseless brands will sympathize
R2 5.1. 47 The heavy accent of thy moving tongue,
R2 5.1. 48 And in compassion weep the fire out;
R2 5.1. 49 And some will mourn in ashes, some coal black,
R2 5.1. 50 For the deposing of a rightful king. {Enter the Earl of +
R2 5.1. 50 Northumberland}
R2 5.1. 51
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is +
R2 5.1. 51 changed.
R2 5.1. 52 You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.
R2 5.1. 53 And, madam, there is order ta'en for you.
R2 5.1. 54 With all swift speed you must away to France.
R2 5.1. 55
R2-RICHARD
Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal
R2 5.1. 56 The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,
R2 5.1. 57 The time shall not be many hours of age
R2 5.1. 58 More than it is ere foul sin, gathering head,
R2 5.1. 59 Shall break into corruption. Thou shalt think,
R2 5.1. 60 Though he divide the realm and give thee half,
R2 5.1. 61 It is too little helping him to all.
R2 5.1. 62 He shall think that thou, which know'st the way
R2 5.1. 63 To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,
R2 5.1. 64 Being ne'er so little urged another way,
R2 5.1. 65 To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.
R2 5.1. 66 The love of wicked friends converts to fear,
R2 5.1. 67 That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
R2 5.1. 68 To worthy danger and deserved death.
R2 5.1. 69
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
R2 5.1. 70 Take leave and part, for you must part forthwith.
R2 5.1. 71
R2-RICHARD
Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate
R2 5.1. 72 A twofold marriage: 'twixt my crown and me,
R2 5.1. 73 And then betwixt me and my married wife.
R2 5.1. 74 {(To the Queen)} Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee +
R2 5.1. 74 and me -
R2 5.1. 75 And yet not so, for with a kiss 'twas made.
R2 5.1. 76 Part us, Northumberland: I towards the north,
R2 5.1. 77 Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime;
R2 5.1. 78 My queen to France, from whence set forth in pomp
R2 5.1. 79 She came adorned hither like sweet May,
R2 5.1. 80 Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day.
R2 5.1. 81
R2-QUEEN
And must we be divided? Must we part?
R2 5.1. 82
R2-RICHARD
Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.
R2 5.1. 83
R2-QUEEN
Banish us both, and send the King with me.
R2 5.1. 84
R2-[NORTHUMBERLAND]
That were some love, but little policy.
R2 5.1. 85
R2-QUEEN
Then whither he goes, thither let me go.
R2 5.1. 86
R2-RICHARD
So two together weeping make one woe.
R2 5.1. 87 Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here.
R2 5.1. 88 Better far off than, near, be ne'er the nea'er.
R2 5.1. 89 Go count thy way with sighs, I mine with groans.
R2 5.1. 90
R2-QUEEN
So longest way shall have the longest moans.
R2 5.1. 91
R2-RICHARD
Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short,
R2 5.1. 92 And piece the way out with a heavy heart.
R2 5.1. 93 Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief,
R2 5.1. 94 Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief.
R2 5.1. 95 One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part.
R2 5.1. 96 Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart. {They kiss}
R2 5.1. 97
R2-QUEEN
Give me mine own again. 'Twere no good part
R2 5.1. 98 To take on me to keep and kill thy heart. {They kiss}
R2 5.1. 99 So now I have mine own again, be gone,
R2 5.1. 100 That I may strive to kill it with a groan.
R2 5.1. 101
R2-RICHARD
We make woe wanton with this fond delay.
R2 5.1. 102 Once more, adieu. The rest let sorrow say.
R2 5.1. 0 {Enter the Duke and Duchess of York}
R2 5.2. 1
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
My lord, you told me you would tell the +
R2 5.2. 1 rest,
R2 5.2. 2 When weeping made you break the story off,
R2 5.2. 3 Of our two cousins' coming into London.
R2 5.2. 4B
R2-YORK
Where did I leave?
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
At that sad stop, my +
R2 5.2. 4B lord,
R2 5.2. 5 Where rude misgoverned hands from windows' tops
R2 5.2. 6 Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.
R2 5.2. 7
R2-YORK
Then, as I said, the Duke, great Bolingbroke,
R2 5.2. 8 Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed,
R2 5.2. 9 Which his aspiring rider seemed to know,
R2 5.2. 10 With slow but stately pace kept on his course,
R2 5.2. 11 Whilst all tongues cried `God save thee, Bolingbroke!'
R2 5.2. 12 You would have thought the very windows spake,
R2 5.2. 13 So many greedy looks of young and old
R2 5.2. 14 Through casements darted their desiring eyes
R2 5.2. 15 Upon his visage, and that all the walls
R2 5.2. 16 With painted imagery had said at once,
R2 5.2. 17 `Jesu preserve thee! Welcome, Bolingbroke!'
R2 5.2. 18 Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,
R2 5.2. 19 Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck,
R2 5.2. 20 Bespake them thus: `I thank you, countrymen',
R2 5.2. 21 And thus still doing, thus he passed along.
R2 5.2. 22
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Alack, poor Richard! Where rode he the whilst?
R2 5.2. 23
R2-YORK
As in a theatre the eyes of men,
R2 5.2. 24 After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
R2 5.2. 25 Are idly bent on him that enters next,
R2 5.2. 26 Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
R2 5.2. 27 Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes
R2 5.2. 28 Did scowl on gentle Richard. No man cried `God save him!'
R2 5.2. 29 No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home;
R2 5.2. 30 But dust was thrown upon his sacred head,
R2 5.2. 31 Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
R2 5.2. 32 His face still combating with tears and smiles,
R2 5.2. 33 The badges of his grief and patience,
R2 5.2. 34 That had not God for some strong purpose steeled
R2 5.2. 35 The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted,
R2 5.2. 36 And barbarism itself have pitied him.
R2 5.2. 37 But heaven hath a hand in these events,
R2 5.2. 38 To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
R2 5.2. 39 To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,
R2 5.2. 40 Whose state and honour I for aye allow. {Enter the Duke of +
R2 5.2. 40 Aumerle}
R2 5.2. 41B
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Here comes my son Aumerle.
R2-YORK
+
R2 5.2. 41B Aumerle that was;
R2 5.2. 42 But that is lost for being Richard's friend,
R2 5.2. 43 And, madam, you must call him `Rutland' now.
R2 5.2. 44 I am in Parliament pledge for his truth
R2 5.2. 45 And lasting fealty to the new-made King.
R2 5.2. 46
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Welcome, my son. Who are the violets now
R2 5.2. 47 That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?
R2 5.2. 48
R2-AUMERLE
Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not.
R2 5.2. 49 God knows I had as lief be none as one.
R2 5.2. 50
R2-YORK
Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,
R2 5.2. 51 Lest you be cropped before you come to prime.
R2 5.2. 52 What news from Oxford? Hold these jousts and triumphs?
R2 5.2. 53
R2-AUMERLE
For aught I know, my lord, they do.
R2 5.2. 54A
R2-YORK
You will be there, I know.
R2 5.2. 55
R2-AUMERLE
If God prevent it not, I purpose so.
R2 5.2. 56
R2-YORK
What seal is that that hangs without thy bosom?
R2 5.2. 57 Yea, look'st thou pale? Let me see the writing.
R2 5.2. 58B
R2-AUMERLE
My lord, 'tis nothing.
R2-YORK
No matter, then, who see it.
R2 5.2. 59 I will be satisfied. Let me see the writing.
R2 5.2. 60
R2-AUMERLE
I do beseech your grace to pardon me.
R2 5.2. 61 It is a matter of small consequence,
R2 5.2. 62 Which for some reasons I would not have seen.
R2 5.2. 63
R2-YORK
Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.
R2 5.2. 64B I fear, I fear!
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
What should you fear?
R2 5.2. 65 'Tis nothing but some bond that he is entered into
R2 5.2. 66 For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day.
R2 5.2. 67
R2-YORK
Bound to himself? What doth he with a bond
R2 5.2. 68 That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.
R2 5.2. 69 Boy, let me see the writing.
R2 5.2. 70
R2-AUMERLE
I do beseech you, pardon me. I may not show it.
R2 5.2. 71
R2-YORK
I will be satisfied. Let me see it, I say. {He plucks +
R2 5.2. 71 it out of Aumerle's bosom, and reads it}
R2 5.2. 72 Treason, foul treason! Villain, traitor, slave!
R2 5.2. 73A
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
What is the matter, my lord?
R2 5.2. 74
R2-YORK
Ho, who is within there? Saddle my horse. -
R2 5.2. 75 God for his mercy, what treachery is here!
R2 5.2. 76A
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Why, what is it, my lord?
R2 5.2. 77
R2-YORK
Give me my boots, I say. Saddle my horse. -
R2 5.2. 78 Now by mine honour, by my life, my troth,
R2 5.2. 79 I will appeach the villain.
R2 5.2. 80A
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
What is the matter?
R2 5.2. 81A
R2-YORK
Peace, foolish woman.
R2 5.2. 82
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
I will not peace. What is the matter, son?
R2 5.2. 83
R2-AUMERLE
Good mother, be content. It is no more
R2 5.2. 84B Than my poor life must answer.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Thy life answer?
R2 5.2. 85
R2-YORK
Bring me my boots. I will unto the King. {His man +
R2 5.2. 85 enters with his boots}
R2 5.2. 86
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Strike him, Aumerle! Poor boy, thou art +
R2 5.2. 86 amazed.
R2 5.2. 87 {(To York's man)} Hence, villain! Never more come in +
R2 5.2. 87 my sight.
R2 5.2. 88B
R2-YORK
Give me my boots, I say.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Why, York, what +
R2 5.2. 88B wilt thou do?
R2 5.2. 89 Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?
R2 5.2. 90 Have we more sons? Or are we like to have?
R2 5.2. 91 Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?
R2 5.2. 92 And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age,
R2 5.2. 93 And rob me of a happy mother's name?
R2 5.2. 94 Is he not like thee? Is he not thine own?
R2 5.2. 95A
R2-YORK
Thou fond, mad woman,
R2 5.2. 96 Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?
R2 5.2. 97 A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament,
R2 5.2. 98 And interchangeably set down their hands
R2 5.2. 99B To kill the King at Oxford.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
He shall be none.
R2 5.2. 100 We'll keep him here, then what is that to him?
R2 5.2. 101
R2-YORK
Away, fond woman! Were he twenty times my son
R2 5.2. 102B I would appeach him.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Hadst thou groaned for him
R2 5.2. 103 As I have done thou wouldst be more pitiful.
R2 5.2. 104 But now I know thy mind: thou dost suspect
R2 5.2. 105 That I have been disloyal to thy bed,
R2 5.2. 106 And that he is a bastard, not thy son.
R2 5.2. 107 Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind.
R2 5.2. 108 He is as like thee as a man may be,
R2 5.2. 109 Not like to me or any of my kin,
R2 5.2. 110B And yet I love him.
R2-YORK
Make way, unruly woman. {Exit [with +
R2 5.2. 110B his man]}
R2 5.2. 111
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
After, Aumerle! Mount thee upon his +
R2 5.2. 111 horse.
R2 5.2. 112 Spur, post, and get before him to the King,
R2 5.2. 113 And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.
R2 5.2. 114 I'll not be long behind - though I be old,
R2 5.2. 115 I doubt not but to ride as fast as York -
R2 5.2. 116 And never will I rise up from the ground
R2 5.2. 117 Till Bolingbroke have pardoned thee. Away, be gone! {Exeunt +
R2 5.2. 117 [severally]}
R2 5.2. 0 {Enter Bolingbroke, crowned King Henry, with Harry Percy, +
R2 5.3. 0 and other nobles}
R2 5.3. 1
R2-KING HENRY
Can no man tell of my unthrifty son?
R2 5.3. 2 'Tis full three months since I did see him last.
R2 5.3. 3 If any plague hang over us, 'tis he.
R2 5.3. 4 I would to God, my lords, he might be found.
R2 5.3. 5 Enquire at London 'mongst the taverns there,
R2 5.3. 6 For there, they say, he daily doth frequent
R2 5.3. 7 With unrestrained loose companions -
R2 5.3. 8 Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes
R2 5.3. 9 And beat our watch and rob our passengers -
R2 5.3. 10 Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy,
R2 5.3. 11 Takes on the point of honour to support
R2 5.3. 12 So dissolute a crew.
R2 5.3. 13
R2-HARRY PERCY
My lord, some two days since, I saw the Prince,
R2 5.3. 14 And told him of these triumphs held at Oxford.
R2 5.3. 15A
R2-KING HENRY
And what said the gallant?
R2 5.3. 16
R2-HARRY PERCY
His answer was he would unto the stews,
R2 5.3. 17 And from the common'st creature pluck a glove,
R2 5.3. 18 And wear it as a favour, and with that
R2 5.3. 19 He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.
R2 5.3. 20
R2-KING HENRY
As dissolute as desperate. Yet through both
R2 5.3. 21 I see some sparks of better hope, which elder days
R2 5.3. 22B May happily bring forth. {Enter the Duke of Aumerle, +
R2 5.3. 22B amazed} But who comes here?
R2 5.3. 23A
R2-AUMERLE
Where is the King?
R2 5.3. 24
R2-KING HENRY
What means our cousin that he stares and looks so +
R2 5.3. 24 wildly?
R2 5.3. 25
R2-AUMERLE
{(kneeling)} God save your grace! I do +
R2 5.3. 25 beseech your majesty
R2 5.3. 26 To have some conference with your grace alone.
R2 5.3. 27
R2-KING HENRY
{(to lords)} Withdraw yourselves, and +
R2 5.3. 27 leave us here alone. {Exeunt all but King Henry and Aumerle}
R2 5.3. 28 What is the matter with our cousin now?
R2 5.3. 29
R2-AUMERLE
For ever may my knees grow to the earth,
R2 5.3. 30 My tongue cleave to the roof within my mouth,
R2 5.3. 31 Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak.
R2 5.3. 32
R2-KING HENRY
Intended or committed was this fault?
R2 5.3. 33 If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,
R2 5.3. 34 To win thy after-love I pardon thee.
R2 5.3. 35
R2-AUMERLE
{(rising)} Then give me leave that I may +
R2 5.3. 35 turn the key,
R2 5.3. 36 That no man enter till my tale be done.
R2 5.3. 37B
R2-KING HENRY
Have thy desire. {Aumerle locks the door. The +
R2 5.3. 37B Duke of York knocks at the door and crieth}
R2-YORK
+
R2 5.3. 37B {(within)} My liege, beware! Look to thyself!
R2 5.3. 38 Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there. {King Henry draws his +
R2 5.3. 38 sword}
R2 5.3. 39A
R2-KING HENRY
{(to Aumerle)} Villain, I'll make thee +
R2 5.3. 39A safe.
R2 5.3. 40
R2-AUMERLE
Stay thy revengeful hand! Thou hast no cause to fear.
R2 5.3. 41
R2-YORK
{(knocking within)} Open the door, secure +
R2 5.3. 41 foolhardy King!
R2 5.3. 42 Shall I for love speak treason to thy face?
R2 5.3. 43 Open the door, or I will break it open. {[King Henry] opens the +
R2 5.3. 43 door. Enter the Duke of York}
R2 5.3. 44
R2-KING HENRY
What is the matter, uncle? Speak,
R2 5.3. 45 Recover breath, tell us how near is danger,
R2 5.3. 46 That we may arm us to encounter it.
R2 5.3. 47
R2-YORK
Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know
R2 5.3. 48 The treason that my haste forbids me show. {He gives King Henry +
R2 5.3. 48 the paper}
R2 5.3. 49
R2-AUMERLE
Remember, as thou read'st, thy promise past.
R2 5.3. 50 I do repent me. Read not my name there.
R2 5.3. 51 My heart is not confederate with my hand.
R2 5.3. 52
R2-YORK
It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.
R2 5.3. 53 I tore it from the traitor's bosom, King.
R2 5.3. 54 Fear, and not love, begets his penitence.
R2 5.3. 55 Forget to pity him, lest pity prove
R2 5.3. 56 A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.
R2 5.3. 57
R2-KING HENRY
O, heinous, strong, and bold conspiracy!
R2 5.3. 58 O loyal father of a treacherous son!
R2 5.3. 59 Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain,
R2 5.3. 60 From whence this stream through muddy passages
R2 5.3. 61 Hath held his current and defiled himself,
R2 5.3. 62 Thy overflow of good converts to bad,
R2 5.3. 63 And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
R2 5.3. 64 This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
R2 5.3. 65
R2-YORK
So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd,
R2 5.3. 66 And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,
R2 5.3. 67 As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.
R2 5.3. 68 Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,
R2 5.3. 69 Or my shamed life in his dishonour lies.
R2 5.3. 70 Thou kill'st me in his life: giving him breath
R2 5.3. 71 The traitor lives, the true man's put to death.
R2 5.3. 72
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
{(within)} What ho, my liege, for +
R2 5.3. 72 God's sake let me in!
R2 5.3. 73
R2-KING HENRY
What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?
R2 5.3. 74
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
{(within)} A woman, and thy aunt, +
R2 5.3. 74 great King; 'tis I.
R2 5.3. 75 Speak with me, pity me! Open the door!
R2 5.3. 76 A beggar begs that never begged before.
R2 5.3. 77
R2-KING HENRY
Our scene is altered from a serious thing,
R2 5.3. 78 And now changed to `The Beggar and the King'.
R2 5.3. 79 My dangerous cousin, let your mother in.
R2 5.3. 80 I know she is come to pray for your foul sin. {Aumerle opens the +
R2 5.3. 80 door. Enter the Duchess of York}
R2 5.3. 81
R2-YORK
If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,
R2 5.3. 82 More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
R2 5.3. 83 This festered joint cut off, the rest rest sound.
R2 5.3. 84 This let alone will all the rest confound.
R2 5.3. 85
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
{(kneeling)} O King, believe not +
R2 5.3. 85 this hard-hearted man.
R2 5.3. 86 Love loving not itself, none other can.
R2 5.3. 87
R2-YORK
Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?
R2 5.3. 88 Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?
R2 5.3. 89
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Sweet York, be patient. - Hear me, gentle liege.
R2 5.3. 90B
R2-KING HENRY
Rise up, good aunt.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Not yet, I thee +
R2 5.3. 90B beseech.
R2 5.3. 91 Forever will I kneel upon my knees,
R2 5.3. 92 And never see day that the happy sees,
R2 5.3. 93 Till thou give joy, until thou bid me joy
R2 5.3. 94 By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy.
R2 5.3. 95
R2-AUMERLE
{(kneeling)} Unto my mother's prayers I +
R2 5.3. 95 bend my knee.
R2 5.3. 96
R2-YORK
{(kneeling)} Against them both my true joints +
R2 5.3. 96 bended be.
R2 5.3. 97 Ill mayst thou thrive if thou grant any grace.
R2 5.3. 98
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Pleads he in earnest? Look upon his face.
R2 5.3. 99 His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest.
R2 5.3. 100 His words come from his mouth; ours from our breast.
R2 5.3. 101 He prays but faintly, and would be denied;
R2 5.3. 102 We pray with heart and soul, and all beside.
R2 5.3. 103 His weary joints would gladly rise, I know;
R2 5.3. 104 Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.
R2 5.3. 105 His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;
R2 5.3. 106 Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.
R2 5.3. 107 Our prayers do outpray his; then let them have
R2 5.3. 108 That mercy which true prayer ought to have.
R2 5.3. 109B
R2-[KING HENRY]
Good aunt, stand up.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Nay, do not +
R2 5.3. 109B say `Stand up'.
R2 5.3. 110 Say `Pardon' first, and afterwards `Stand up'.
R2 5.3. 111 An if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,
R2 5.3. 112 `Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech.
R2 5.3. 113 I never longed to hear a word till now.
R2 5.3. 114 Say `Pardon', King. Let pity teach thee how.
R2 5.3. 115 The word is short, but not so short as sweet;
R2 5.3. 116 No word like `Pardon' for kings' mouths so meet.
R2 5.3. 117
R2-YORK
Speak it in French, King: say `Pardonnez-moi'.
R2 5.3. 118
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?
R2 5.3. 119 Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord
R2 5.3. 120 That sets the word itself against the word!
R2 5.3. 121 Speak `Pardon' as 'tis current in our land;
R2 5.3. 122 The chopping French we do not understand.
R2 5.3. 123 Thine eye begins to speak; set thy tongue there;
R2 5.3. 124 Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear,
R2 5.3. 125 That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,
R2 5.3. 126 Pity may move thee `Pardon' to rehearse.
R2 5.3. 127B
R2-KING HENRY
Good aunt, stand up.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
I do not sue to +
R2 5.3. 127B stand.
R2 5.3. 128 Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.
R2 5.3. 129
R2-KING HENRY
I pardon him as God shall pardon me. {[York and +
R2 5.3. 129 Aumerle rise]}
R2 5.3. 130
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
O, happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
R2 5.3. 131 Yet am I sick for fear. Speak it again.
R2 5.3. 132 Twice saying pardon doth not pardon twain,
R2 5.3. 133B But makes one pardon strong.
R2-KING HENRY
I pardon him
R2 5.3. 134B With all my heart.
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
{(rising)} A god +
R2 5.3. 134B on earth thou art.
R2 5.3. 135
R2-KING HENRY
But for our trusty brother-in-law and the Abbot,
R2 5.3. 136 With all the rest of that consorted crew,
R2 5.3. 137 Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.
R2 5.3. 138 Good uncle, help to order several powers
R2 5.3. 139 To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are.
R2 5.3. 140 They shall not live within this world, I swear,
R2 5.3. 141 But I will have them if I once know where.
R2 5.3. 142 Uncle, farewell; and cousin, so adieu.
R2 5.3. 143 Your mother well hath prayed; and prove you true.
R2 5.3. 144
R2-DUCHESS OF YORK
Come, my old son. I pray God make thee new. +
R2 5.3. 144 {Exeunt [King Henry at one door; York, the Duchess of York, and Aumerle +
R2 5.3. 144 at another door]}
R2 5.3. 0 {Enter Sir Piers Exton, and his Men}
R2 5.4. 1
R2-EXTON
Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake?
R2 5.4. 2 `Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'
R2 5.4. 3B Was it not so?
R2-[FIRST] MAN
Those were his very words.
R2 5.4. 4
R2-EXTON
`Have I no friend?' quoth he. He spake it twice,
R2 5.4. 5 And urged it twice together, did he not?
R2 5.4. 6A
R2-[SECOND] MAN
He did.
R2 5.4. 7
R2-EXTON
And speaking it, he wishtly looked on me,
R2 5.4. 8 As who should say `I would thou wert the man
R2 5.4. 9 That would divorce this terror from my heart',
R2 5.4. 10 Meaning the King at Pomfret. Come, let's go.
R2 5.4. 11 I am the King's friend, and will rid his foe. {Exeunt}
R2 5.4. 0 {Enter Richard, alone}
R2 5.5. 1
R2-RICHARD
I have been studying how I may compare
R2 5.5. 2 This prison where I live unto the world;
R2 5.5. 3 And for because the world is populous,
R2 5.5. 4 And here is not a creature but myself,
R2 5.5. 5 I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
R2 5.5. 6 My brain I'll prove the female to my soul,
R2 5.5. 7 My soul the father, and these two beget
R2 5.5. 8 A generation of still-breeding thoughts;
R2 5.5. 9 And these same thoughts people this little world
R2 5.5. 10 In humours like the people of this world.
R2 5.5. 11 For no thought is contented. The better sort,
R2 5.5. 12 As thoughts of things divine, are intermixed
R2 5.5. 13 With scruples, and do set the faith itself
R2 5.5. 14 Against the faith, as thus: `Come, little ones',
R2 5.5. 15 And then again,
R2 5.5. 16 `It is as hard to come as for a camel
R2 5.5. 17 To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'
R2 5.5. 18 Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot
R2 5.5. 19 Unlikely wonders: how these vain weak nails
R2 5.5. 20 May tear a passage through the flinty ribs
R2 5.5. 21 Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls;
R2 5.5. 22 And for they cannot, die in their own pride.
R2 5.5. 23 Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves
R2 5.5. 24 That they are not the first of fortune's slaves,
R2 5.5. 25 Nor shall not be the last - like seely beggars,
R2 5.5. 26 Who, sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame
R2 5.5. 27 That many have, and others must, set there;
R2 5.5. 28 And in this thought they find a kind of ease,
R2 5.5. 29 Bearing their own misfortunes on the back
R2 5.5. 30 Of such as have before endured the like.
R2 5.5. 31 Thus play I in one person many people,
R2 5.5. 32 And none contented. Sometimes am I king;
R2 5.5. 33 Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar,
R2 5.5. 34 And so I am. Then crushing penury
R2 5.5. 35 Persuades me I was better when a king.
R2 5.5. 36 Then am I kinged again, and by and by
R2 5.5. 37 Think that I am unkinged by Bolingbroke,
R2 5.5. 38 And straight am nothing. But whate'er I be,
R2 5.5. 39 Nor I, nor any man that but man is,
R2 5.5. 40 With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
R2 5.5. 41B With being nothing. {The music plays} Music do I hear.
R2 5.5. 42 Ha, ha; keep time! How sour sweet music is
R2 5.5. 43 When time is broke and no proportion kept.
R2 5.5. 44 So is it in the music of men's lives.
R2 5.5. 45 And here have I the daintiness of ear
R2 5.5. 46 To check time broke in a disordered string;
R2 5.5. 47 But for the concord of my state and time
R2 5.5. 48 Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.
R2 5.5. 49 I wasted time, and now doth time waste me,
R2 5.5. 50 For now hath time made me his numb'ring clock.
R2 5.5. 51 My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar
R2 5.5. 52 Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch
R2 5.5. 53 Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,
R2 5.5. 54 Is pointing still in cleansing them from tears.
R2 5.5. 55 Now, sir, the sounds that tell what hour it is
R2 5.5. 56 Are clamorous groans that strike upon my heart,
R2 5.5. 57 Which is the bell. So sighs, and tears, and groans
R2 5.5. 58 Show minutes, hours, and times. But my time
R2 5.5. 59 Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,
R2 5.5. 60 While I stand fooling here, his jack of the clock.
R2 5.5. 61 This music mads me. Let it sound no more,
R2 5.5. 62 For though it have holp madmen to their wits,
R2 5.5. 63 In me it seems it will make wise men mad. {[The music ceases]}
R2 5.5. 64 Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me,
R2 5.5. 65 For 'tis a sign of love, and love to Richard
R2 5.5. 66 Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world. {Enter a Groom of +
R2 5.5. 66 the stable}
R2 5.5. 67B
R2-GROOM
Hail, royal Prince!
R2-RICHARD
Thanks, noble peer.
R2 5.5. 68 The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
R2 5.5. 69 What art thou, and how com'st thou hither,
R2 5.5. 70 Where no man never comes but that sad dog
R2 5.5. 71 That brings me food to make misfortune live?
R2 5.5. 72
R2-GROOM
I was a poor groom of thy stable, King,
R2 5.5. 73 When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,
R2 5.5. 74 With much ado at length have gotten leave
R2 5.5. 75 To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.
R2 5.5. 76 O, how it erned my heart when I beheld
R2 5.5. 77 In London streets, that coronation day,
R2 5.5. 78 When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,
R2 5.5. 79 That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,
R2 5.5. 80 That horse that I so carefully have dressed!
R2 5.5. 81
R2-RICHARD
Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,
R2 5.5. 82 How went he under him?
R2 5.5. 83
R2-GROOM
So proudly as if he disdained the ground.
R2 5.5. 84
R2-RICHARD
So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back.
R2 5.5. 85 That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
R2 5.5. 86 This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
R2 5.5. 87 Would he not stumble, would he not fall down -
R2 5.5. 88 Since pride must have a fall - and break the neck
R2 5.5. 89 Of that proud man that did usurp his back?
R2 5.5. 90 Forgiveness, horse! Why do I rail on thee,
R2 5.5. 91 Since thou, created to be awed by man,
R2 5.5. 92 Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse,
R2 5.5. 93 And yet I bear a burden like an ass,
R2 5.5. 94 Spur-galled and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke. {Enter Keeper to +
R2 5.5. 94 Richard, with meat}
R2 5.5. 95
R2-KEEPER
{(to Groom)} Fellow, give place. Here is no +
R2 5.5. 95 longer stay.
R2 5.5. 96
R2-RICHARD
{(to Groom)} If thou love me, 'tis time +
R2 5.5. 96 thou wert away.
R2 5.5. 97
R2-GROOM
What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say. +
R2 5.5. 97 {Exit}
R2 5.5. 98
R2-KEEPER
My lord, will 't please you to fall to?
R2 5.5. 99
R2-RICHARD
Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do.
R2 5.5. 100
R2-KEEPER
My lord, I dare not. Sir Piers of Exton,
R2 5.5. 101 Who lately came from the King, commands the contrary.
R2 5.5. 102
R2-RICHARD
{(striking the Keeper)} The devil take +
R2 5.5. 102 Henry of Lancaster and thee!
R2 5.5. 103 Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.
R2 5.5. 104A
R2-KEEPER
Help, help, help! {Exton and his men rush in}
R2 5.5. 105
R2-RICHARD
How now! What means death in this rude +
R2 5.5. 105 assault? {He seizes a weapon from a man, and kills him}
R2 5.5. 106 Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument. +
R2 5.5. 106 {He kills another}
R2 5.5. 107 Go thou, and fill another room in hell. {Here Exton +
R2 5.5. 107 strikes him down}
R2 5.5. 108
R2-RICHARD
That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire
R2 5.5. 109 That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand
R2 5.5. 110 Hath with the King's blood stained the King's own land.
R2 5.5. 111 Mount, mount, my soul; thy seat is up on high,
R2 5.5. 112 Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die. {He dies}
R2 5.5. 113
R2-EXTON
As full of valour as of royal blood.
R2 5.5. 114 Both have I spilt. O, would the deed were good!
R2 5.5. 115 For now the devil that told me I did well
R2 5.5. 116 Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.
R2 5.5. 117 This dead King to the living King I'll bear.
R2 5.5. 118 Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.
R2 5.5. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King Henry and the Duke of York, [with +
R2 5.6. 0 other lords and attendants]}
R2 5.6. 1
R2-KING HENRY
Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear
R2 5.6. 2 Is that the rebels have consumed with fire
R2 5.6. 3 Our town of Ci'cester in Gloucestershire;
R2 5.6. 4 But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not. {Enter the Earl +
R2 5.6. 4 of Northumberland}
R2 5.6. 5 Welcome, my lord. What is the news?
R2 5.6. 6
R2-NORTHUMBERLAND
First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.
R2 5.6. 7 The next news is, I have to London sent
R2 5.6. 8 The heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent.
R2 5.6. 9 The manner of their taking may appear
R2 5.6. 10 At large discoursed in this paper here. {He gives the paper to +
R2 5.6. 10 King Henry}
R2 5.6. 11
R2-KING HENRY
We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains,
R2 5.6. 12 And to thy worth will add right worthy gains. {Enter Lord +
R2 5.6. 12 Fitzwalter}
R2 5.6. 13
R2-FITZWALTER
My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London
R2 5.6. 14 The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,
R2 5.6. 15 Two of the dangerous consorted traitors
R2 5.6. 16 That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.
R2 5.6. 17
R2-KING HENRY
Thy pains, Fitzwalter, shall not be forgot.
R2 5.6. 18 Right noble is thy merit, well I wot. {Enter Harry Percy, with +
R2 5.6. 18 the Bishop of Carlisle, guarded}
R2 5.6. 19
R2-HARRY PERCY
The grand conspirator Abbot of Westminster,
R2 5.6. 20 With clog of conscience and sour melancholy,
R2 5.6. 21 Hath yielded up his body to the grave.
R2 5.6. 22 But here is Carlisle living, to abide
R2 5.6. 23 Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.
R2 5.6. 24A
R2-KING HENRY
Carlisle, this is your doom.
R2 5.6. 25 Choose out some secret place, some reverent room
R2 5.6. 26 More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life.
R2 5.6. 27 So as thou liv'st in peace, die free from strife.
R2 5.6. 28 For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,
R2 5.6. 29 High sparks of honour in thee have I seen. {Enter Exton with +
R2 5.6. 29 [his men bearing] the coffin}
R2 5.6. 30
R2-EXTON
Great King, within this coffin I present
R2 5.6. 31 Thy buried fear. Herein all breathless lies
R2 5.6. 32 The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,
R2 5.6. 33 Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.
R2 5.6. 34
R2-KING HENRY
Exton, I thank thee not, for thou hast wrought
R2 5.6. 35 A deed of slander with thy fatal hand
R2 5.6. 36 Upon my head and all this famous land.
R2 5.6. 37
R2-EXTON
From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.
R2 5.6. 38
R2-KING HENRY
They love not poison that do poison need;
R2 5.6. 39 Nor do I thee. Though I did wish him dead,
R2 5.6. 40 I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
R2 5.6. 41 The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,
R2 5.6. 42 But neither my good word nor princely favour.
R2 5.6. 43 With Cain go wander through the shades of night,
R2 5.6. 44 And never show thy head by day nor light. {[Exeunt Exton and his +
R2 5.6. 44 men]}
R2 5.6. 45 Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
R2 5.6. 46 That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
R2 5.6. 47 Come mourn with me for what I do lament,
R2 5.6. 48 And put on sullen black incontinent.
R2 5.6. 49 I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
R2 5.6. 50 To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
R2 5.6. 51 March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
R2 5.6. 52 In weeping after this untimely bier. {Exeunt [with the coffin]}
R2 5.6. 0
R2 A.6. 0 [[The following passages of four lines or more appear in the 1597 Quarto
R2 A.6. 0 but not the Folio; Shakespeare probably deleted them as part of his
R2 A.6. 0 limited revisions to the text
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R2 A.6. 0
R2 A.A. 0 [[After 1.3.127; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
R2 A.A. 0 analysis]]
R2 A.A. 1
R2-KING RICHARD
And for we think the eagle-winged pride
R2 A.A. 2 Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts
R2 A.A. 3 With rival-hating envy set on you
R2 A.A. 4 To wake our peace, which in our country's cradle
R2 A.A. 5 Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep,
R2 A.A. 0
R2 A.B. 0 [[After 1.3.235; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
R2 A.B. 0 analysis]]
R2 A.B. 1
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
O, had 't been a stranger, not my child,
R2 A.B. 2 To smooth his fault I should have been more mild.
R2 A.B. 3 A partial slander sought I to avoid,
R2 A.B. 4 And in the sentence my own life destroyed.
R2 A.B. 0
R2 A.C. 0 [[After 1.3.256]]
R2 A.C. 1
R2-BOLINGBROKE
Nay, rather every tedious stride I make
R2 A.C. 2 Will but remember what a deal of world
R2 A.C. 3 I wander from the jewels that I love.
R2 A.C. 4 Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
R2 A.C. 5 To foreign passages, and in the end,
R2 A.C. 6 Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
R2 A.C. 7 But that I was a journeyman to grief?
R2 A.C. 8
R2-JOHN OF GAUNT
All places that the eye of heaven visits
R2 A.C. 9 Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
R2 A.C. 10 Teach thy necessity to reason thus:
R2 A.C. 11 There is no virtue like necessity.
R2 A.C. 12 Think not the King did banish thee,
R2 A.C. 13 But thou the King. Woe doth the heavier sit
R2 A.C. 14 Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
R2 A.C. 15 Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour,
R2 A.C. 16 And not the King exiled thee; or suppose
R2 A.C. 17 Devouring pestilence hangs in our air
R2 A.C. 18 And thou art flying to a fresher clime.
R2 A.C. 19 Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
R2 A.C. 20 To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.
R2 A.C. 21 Suppose the singing birds musicians,
R2 A.C. 22 The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,
R2 A.C. 23 The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
R2 A.C. 24 Than a delightful measure or a dance;
R2 A.C. 25 For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
R2 A.C. 26 The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
R2 A.C. 0
R2 A.D. 0 [[After 3.2.28; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
R2 A.D. 0 analysis]]
R2 A.D. 1
R2-BISHOP OF CARLISLE
The means that heavens yield must be +
R2 A.D. 1 embraced
R2 A.D. 2 And not neglected; else heaven would,
R2 A.D. 3 And we will not: heaven's offer we refuse,
R2 A.D. 4 The proffered means of succour and redress.
R2 A.D. 0
R2 A.E. 0 [[After 4.1.50]]
R2 A.E. 1
R2-ANOTHER LORD
I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle,
R2 A.E. 2 And spur thee on with full as many lies
R2 A.E. 3 As may be hollowed in thy treacherous ear
R2 A.E. 4 From sun to sun. There is my honour's pawn.
R2 A.E. 5 Engage it to the trial if thou darest. {He throws down his gage}
R2 A.E. 6
R2-AUMERLE
Who sets me else? By heaven, I'll throw at all.
R2 A.E. 7 I have a thousand spirits in one breast
R2 A.E. 8 To answer twenty thousand such as you.
R2 A.E.
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R3 . . 0 The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
R3 . . 0 {Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester}
R3 1.1. 1
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Now is the winter of our discontent
R3 1.1. 2 Made glorious summer by this son of York;
R3 1.1. 3 And all the clouds that loured upon our house
R3 1.1. 4 In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
R3 1.1. 5 Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
R3 1.1. 6 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
R3 1.1. 7 Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
R3 1.1. 8 Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
R3 1.1. 9 Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front,
R3 1.1. 10 And now - instead of mounting barbed steeds
R3 1.1. 11 To fright the souls of fearful adversaries -
R3 1.1. 12 He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
R3 1.1. 13 To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
R3 1.1. 14 But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks
R3 1.1. 15 Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass,
R3 1.1. 16 I that am rudely stamped and want love's majesty
R3 1.1. 17 To strut before a wanton ambling nymph,
R3 1.1. 18 I that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
R3 1.1. 19 Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
R3 1.1. 20 Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
R3 1.1. 21 Into this breathing world scarce half made up -
R3 1.1. 22 And that so lamely and unfashionable
R3 1.1. 23 That dogs bark at me as I halt by them -
R3 1.1. 24 Why, I in this weak piping time of peace
R3 1.1. 25 Have no delight to pass away the time,
R3 1.1. 26 Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
R3 1.1. 27 And descant on mine own deformity.
R3 1.1. 28 And therefore since I cannot prove a lover
R3 1.1. 29 To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
R3 1.1. 30 I am determined to prove a villain
R3 1.1. 31 And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
R3 1.1. 32 Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
R3 1.1. 33 By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams
R3 1.1. 34 To set my brother Clarence and the King
R3 1.1. 35 In deadly hate the one against the other.
R3 1.1. 36 And if King Edward be as true and just
R3 1.1. 37 As I am subtle false and treacherous,
R3 1.1. 38 This day should Clarence closely be mewed up
R3 1.1. 39 About a prophecy which says that `G'
R3 1.1. 40 Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be. {Enter George Duke of +
R3 1.1. 40 Clarence, guarded, and Sir Robert Brackenbury}
R3 1.1. 41 Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Clarence comes.
R3 1.1. 42 Brother, good day. What means this armed guard
R3 1.1. 43B That waits upon your grace?
R3-CLARENCE
His majesty,
R3 1.1. 44 Tend'ring my person's safety, hath appointed
R3 1.1. 45 This conduct to convey me to the Tower.
R3 1.1. 46B
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Upon what cause?
R3-CLARENCE
Because my name is +
R3 1.1. 46B George.
R3 1.1. 47
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours.
R3 1.1. 48 He should for that commit your godfathers.
R3 1.1. 49 Belike his majesty hath some intent
R3 1.1. 50 That you should be new-christened in the Tower.
R3 1.1. 51 But what's the matter, Clarence? May I know?
R3 1.1. 52
R3-CLARENCE
Yea, Richard, when I know - for I protest
R3 1.1. 53 As yet I do not. But as I can learn
R3 1.1. 54 He hearkens after prophecies and dreams,
R3 1.1. 55 And from the cross-row plucks the letter `G'
R3 1.1. 56 And says a wizard told him that by `G'
R3 1.1. 57 His issue disinherited should be.
R3 1.1. 58 And for my name of George begins with `G',
R3 1.1. 59 It follows in his thought that I am he.
R3 1.1. 60 These, as I learn, and suchlike toys as these,
R3 1.1. 61 Hath moved his highness to commit me now.
R3 1.1. 62
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Why, this it is when men are ruled by women.
R3 1.1. 63 'Tis not the King that sends you to the Tower;
R3 1.1. 64 My Lady Gray, his wife - Clarence, 'tis she
R3 1.1. 65 That tempts him to this harsh extremity.
R3 1.1. 66 Was it not she, and that good man of worship
R3 1.1. 67 Anthony Woodeville her brother there,
R3 1.1. 68 That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,
R3 1.1. 69 From whence this present day he is delivered?
R3 1.1. 70 We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.
R3 1.1. 71
R3-CLARENCE
By heaven, I think there is no man secure
R3 1.1. 72 But the Queen's kindred, and night-walking heralds
R3 1.1. 73 That trudge betwixt the King and Mrs Shore.
R3 1.1. 74 Heard ye not what an humble suppliant
R3 1.1. 75 Lord Hastings was for his delivery?
R3 1.1. 76
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Humbly complaining to her deity
R3 1.1. 77 Got my Lord Chamberlain his liberty.
R3 1.1. 78 I'll tell you what: I think it is our way,
R3 1.1. 79 If we will keep in favour with the King,
R3 1.1. 80 To be her men and wear her livery.
R3 1.1. 81 The jealous, o'erworn widow and herself,
R3 1.1. 82 Since that our brother dubbed them gentlewomen,
R3 1.1. 83 Are mighty gossips in our monarchy.
R3 1.1. 84
R3-BRACKENBURY
I beseech your graces both to pardon me.
R3 1.1. 85 His majesty hath straitly given in charge
R3 1.1. 86 That no man shall have private conference,
R3 1.1. 87 Of what degree soever, with your brother.
R3 1.1. 88
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Even so. An 't please your worship, Brackenbury,
R3 1.1. 89 You may partake of anything we say.
R3 1.1. 90 We speak no treason, man. We say the King
R3 1.1. 91 Is wise and virtuous, and his noble Queen
R3 1.1. 92 Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous.
R3 1.1. 93 We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
R3 1.1. 94 A cherry lip,
R3 1.1. 95 A bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue,
R3 1.1. 96 And that the Queen's kin are made gentlefolks.
R3 1.1. 97 How say you, sir? Can you deny all this?
R3 1.1. 98
R3-BRACKENBURY
With this, my lord, myself have naught to do.
R3 1.1. 99
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Naught to do with Mrs Shore? I tell thee, +
R3 1.1. 99 fellow:
R3 1.1. 100 He that doth naught with her - excepting one -
R3 1.1. 101 Were best to do it secretly alone.
R3 1.1. 102A
R3-BRACKENBURY
What one, my lord?
R3 1.1. 103
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Her husband, knave. Wouldst thou betray me?
R3 1.1. 104
R3-BRACKENBURY
I beseech your grace to pardon me, and do withal
R3 1.1. 105 Forbear your conference with the noble Duke.
R3 1.1. 106
R3-CLARENCE
We know thy charge, Brackenbury, and will obey.
R3 1.1. 107
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
We are the Queen's abjects, and must obey.
R3 1.1. 108 Brother, farewell. I will unto the King,
R3 1.1. 109 And whatsoe'er you will employ me in -
R3 1.1. 110 Were it to call King Edward's widow `sister' -
R3 1.1. 111 I will perform it to enfranchise you.
R3 1.1. 112 Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood
R3 1.1. 113 Touches me dearer than you can imagine.
R3 1.1. 114
R3-CLARENCE
I know it pleaseth neither of us well.
R3 1.1. 115
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Well, your imprisonment shall not be long.
R3 1.1. 116 I will deliver you or lie for you.
R3 1.1. 117B Meantime, have patience.
R3-CLARENCE
I must perforce. Farewell. +
R3 1.1. 117B {Exeunt Clarence, Brackenbury, and guard, to the Tower}
R3 1.1. 118
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Go tread the path that thou shalt +
R3 1.1. 118 ne'er return.
R3 1.1. 119 Simple plain Clarence, I do love thee so
R3 1.1. 120 That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
R3 1.1. 121 If heaven will take the present at our hands.
R3 1.1. 122 But who comes here? The new-delivered Hastings? {Enter Lord +
R3 1.1. 122 Hastings from the Tower}
R3 1.1. 123
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Good time of day unto my gracious lord.
R3 1.1. 124
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
As much unto my good Lord Chamberlain.
R3 1.1. 125 Well are you welcome to the open air.
R3 1.1. 126 How hath your lordship brooked imprisonment?
R3 1.1. 127
R3-LORD HASTINGS
With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must.
R3 1.1. 128 But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks
R3 1.1. 129 That were the cause of my imprisonment.
R3 1.1. 130
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
No doubt, no doubt - and so shall Clarence too,
R3 1.1. 131 For they that were your enemies are his,
R3 1.1. 132 And have prevailed as much on him as you.
R3 1.1. 133
R3-LORD HASTINGS
More pity that the eagles should be mewed
R3 1.1. 134 While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
R3 1.1. 135A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
What news abroad?
R3 1.1. 136
R3-LORD HASTINGS
No news so bad abroad as this at home:
R3 1.1. 137 The King is sickly, weak, and melancholy,
R3 1.1. 138 And his physicians fear him mightily.
R3 1.1. 139
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Now by Saint Paul, that news is bad indeed.
R3 1.1. 140 O he hath kept an evil diet long,
R3 1.1. 141 And overmuch consumed his royal person.
R3 1.1. 142 'Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
R3 1.1. 143B Where is he? In his bed?
R3-LORD HASTINGS
He is.
R3 1.1. 144
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Go you before and I will follow you. +
R3 1.1. 144 {Exit Hastings}
R3 1.1. 145 He cannot live, I hope, and must not die
R3 1.1. 146 Till George be packed with post-haste up to heaven.
R3 1.1. 147 I'll in to urge his hatred more to Clarence,
R3 1.1. 148 With lies well steeled with weighty arguments.
R3 1.1. 149 And if I fail not in my deep intent,
R3 1.1. 150 Clarence hath not another day to live -
R3 1.1. 151 Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy
R3 1.1. 152 And leave the world for me to bustle in.
R3 1.1. 153 For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.
R3 1.1. 154 What though I killed her husband and her father?
R3 1.1. 155 The readiest way to make the wench amends
R3 1.1. 156 Is to become her husband and her father,
R3 1.1. 157 The which will I: not all so much for love,
R3 1.1. 158 As for another secret close intent,
R3 1.1. 159 By marrying her, which I must reach unto.
R3 1.1. 160 But yet I run before my horse to market.
R3 1.1. 161 Clarence still breathes, Edward still lives and reigns;
R3 1.1. 162 When they are gone, then must I count my gains. {Exit}
R3 1.1. 0 {Enter gentlemen, bearing the corpse of King Henry the +
R3 1.2. 0 Sixth in an open coffin, with halberdiers to guard it, Lady Anne being +
R3 1.2. 0 the mourner}
R3 1.2. 1
R3-LADY ANNE
Set down, set down your honourable load,
R3 1.2. 2 If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
R3 1.2. 3 Whilst I a while obsequiously lament
R3 1.2. 4 Th' untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. {They set the coffin +
R3 1.2. 4 down}
R3 1.2. 5 Poor key-cold figure of a holy king,
R3 1.2. 6 Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster,
R3 1.2. 7 Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood:
R3 1.2. 8 Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost
R3 1.2. 9 To hear the lamentations of poor Anne,
R3 1.2. 10 Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughtered son,
R3 1.2. 11 Stabbed by the selfsame hand that made these wounds.
R3 1.2. 12 Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,
R3 1.2. 13 I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.
R3 1.2. 14 O cursed be the hand that made these holes,
R3 1.2. 15 Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence,
R3 1.2. 16 Cursed the heart that had the heart to do it.
R3 1.2. 17 More direful hap betide that hated wretch
R3 1.2. 18 That makes us wretched by the death of thee
R3 1.2. 19 Than I can wish to wolves, to spiders, toads,
R3 1.2. 20 Or any creeping venomed thing that lives.
R3 1.2. 21 If ever he have child, abortive be it,
R3 1.2. 22 Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
R3 1.2. 23 Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
R3 1.2. 24 May fright the hopeful mother at the view,
R3 1.2. 25 And that be heir to his unhappiness.
R3 1.2. 26 If ever he have wife, let her be made
R3 1.2. 27 More miserable by the death of him
R3 1.2. 28 Than I am made by my young lord and thee. -
R3 1.2. 29 Come now towards Chertsey with your holy load,
R3 1.2. 30 Taken from Paul's to be interred there, {[The gentlemen lift +
R3 1.2. 30 the coffin]}
R3 1.2. 31 And still as you are weary of this weight
R3 1.2. 32 Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corpse. {Enter Richard +
R3 1.2. 32 Duke of Gloucester}
R3 1.2. 33
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to the gentlemen)} Stay, you +
R3 1.2. 33 that bear the corpse, and set it down.
R3 1.2. 34
R3-LADY ANNE
What black magician conjures up this fiend
R3 1.2. 35 To stop devoted charitable deeds?
R3 1.2. 36
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to the gentlemen)} Villains, +
R3 1.2. 36 set down the corpse, or by Saint Paul
R3 1.2. 37 I'll make a corpse of him that disobeys.
R3 1.2. 38
R3-[HALBERDIER]
My lord, stand back and let the coffin pass.
R3 1.2. 39
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Unmannered dog, stand thou when I command.
R3 1.2. 40 Advance thy halberd higher than my breast,
R3 1.2. 41 Or by Saint Paul I'll strike thee to my foot
R3 1.2. 42 And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness. {They set the +
R3 1.2. 42 coffin down}
R3 1.2. 43
R3-LADY ANNE
{(to gentlemen and halberdiers)} What, +
R3 1.2. 43 do you tremble? Are you all afraid?
R3 1.2. 44 Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal,
R3 1.2. 45 And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil. -
R3 1.2. 46 Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell.
R3 1.2. 47 Thou hadst but power over his mortal body;
R3 1.2. 48 His soul thou canst not have; therefore be gone.
R3 1.2. 49
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Sweet saint, for charity be not so cursed.
R3 1.2. 50
R3-LADY ANNE
Foul devil, for God's sake hence and trouble us not,
R3 1.2. 51 For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
R3 1.2. 52 Filled it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
R3 1.2. 53 If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
R3 1.2. 54 Behold this pattern of thy butcheries. -
R3 1.2. 55 O gentlemen, see, see! Dead Henry's wounds
R3 1.2. 56 Ope their congealed mouths and bleed afresh. -
R3 1.2. 57 Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity,
R3 1.2. 58 For 'tis thy presence that ex-hales this blood
R3 1.2. 59 From cold and empty veins where no blood dwells.
R3 1.2. 60 Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,
R3 1.2. 61 Provokes this deluge supernatural.
R3 1.2. 62 O God, which this blood mad'st, revenge his death.
R3 1.2. 63 O earth, which this blood drink'st, revenge his death.
R3 1.2. 64 Either heav'n with lightning strike the murd'rer dead,
R3 1.2. 65 Or earth gape open wide and eat him quick
R3 1.2. 66 As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood,
R3 1.2. 67 Which his hell-governed arm hath butchered.
R3 1.2. 68
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
R3 1.2. 69 Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
R3 1.2. 70
R3-LADY ANNE
Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man.
R3 1.2. 71 No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
R3 1.2. 72
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
R3 1.2. 73
R3-LADY ANNE
O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!
R3 1.2. 74
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
R3 1.2. 75 Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
R3 1.2. 76 Of these supposed crimes to give me leave
R3 1.2. 77 By circumstance but to acquit myself.
R3 1.2. 78
R3-LADY ANNE
Vouchsafe, diffused infection of a man,
R3 1.2. 79 Of these known evils but to give me leave
R3 1.2. 80 By circumstance t' accuse thy cursed self.
R3 1.2. 81
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
R3 1.2. 82 Some patient leisure to excuse myself.
R3 1.2. 83
R3-LADY ANNE
Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make
R3 1.2. 84 No excuse current but to hang thyself.
R3 1.2. 85
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
By such despair I should accuse myself.
R3 1.2. 86
R3-LADY ANNE
And by despairing shalt thou stand excused,
R3 1.2. 87 For doing worthy vengeance on thyself
R3 1.2. 88 That didst unworthy slaughter upon others.
R3 1.2. 89B
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Say that I slew them not.
R3-LADY ANNE
Then say +
R3 1.2. 89B they were not slain.
R3 1.2. 90 But dead they are - and, devilish slave, by thee.
R3 1.2. 91B
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I did not kill your husband.
R3-LADY ANNE
Why, +
R3 1.2. 91B then he is alive.
R3 1.2. 92
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Nay, he is dead, and slain by Edward's hand.
R3 1.2. 93
R3-LADY ANNE
In thy foul throat thou liest. Queen Margaret saw
R3 1.2. 94 Thy murd'rous falchion smoking in his blood,
R3 1.2. 95 The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
R3 1.2. 96 But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
R3 1.2. 97
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I was provoked by her sland'rous tongue,
R3 1.2. 98 That laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.
R3 1.2. 99
R3-LADY ANNE
Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind,
R3 1.2. 100 That never dream'st on aught but butcheries.
R3 1.2. 101B Didst thou not kill this king?
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I grant ye.
R3 1.2. 102
R3-LADY ANNE
Dost grant me, hedgehog? Then God grant me, too,
R3 1.2. 103 Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed.
R3 1.2. 104 O he was gentle, mild, and virtuous.
R3 1.2. 105
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
The better for the King of Heaven that hath him.
R3 1.2. 106
R3-LADY ANNE
He {is} in heaven, where thou shalt never come.
R3 1.2. 107
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Let him thank me that holp to send him thither,
R3 1.2. 108 For he was fitter for that place than earth.
R3 1.2. 109
R3-LADY ANNE
And thou unfit for any place but hell.
R3 1.2. 110
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name +
R3 1.2. 110 it.
R3 1.2. 111B
R3-LADY ANNE
Some dungeon.
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Your bedchamber.
R3 1.2. 112
R3-LADY ANNE
Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest.
R3 1.2. 113
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
So will it, madam, till I lie with you.
R3 1.2. 114B
R3-LADY ANNE
I hope so.
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I know so. But gentle +
R3 1.2. 114B Lady Anne,
R3 1.2. 115 To leave this keen encounter of our wits
R3 1.2. 116 And fall something into a slower method,
R3 1.2. 117 Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
R3 1.2. 118 Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
R3 1.2. 119 As blameful as the executioner?
R3 1.2. 120
R3-LADY ANNE
Thou wast the cause of that accursed effect.
R3 1.2. 121
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Your beauty was the cause of that effect -
R3 1.2. 122 Your beauty that did haunt me in my sleep
R3 1.2. 123 To undertake the death of all the world
R3 1.2. 124 So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
R3 1.2. 125
R3-LADY ANNE
If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
R3 1.2. 126 These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
R3 1.2. 127
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
These eyes could not endure sweet beauty's +
R3 1.2. 127 wreck.
R3 1.2. 128 You should not blemish it if I stood by.
R3 1.2. 129 As all the world is cheered by the sun,
R3 1.2. 130 So I by that: it is my day, my life.
R3 1.2. 131
R3-LADY ANNE
Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life.
R3 1.2. 132
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Curse not thyself, fair creature: thou art both.
R3 1.2. 133
R3-LADY ANNE
I would I were, to be revenged on thee.
R3 1.2. 134
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
It is a quarrel most unnatural,
R3 1.2. 135 To be revenged on him that loveth you.
R3 1.2. 136
R3-LADY ANNE
It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
R3 1.2. 137 To be revenged on him that killed my husband.
R3 1.2. 138
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,
R3 1.2. 139 Did it to help thee to a better husband.
R3 1.2. 140
R3-LADY ANNE
His better doth not breathe upon the earth.
R3 1.2. 141
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
He lives that loves thee better than he could.
R3 1.2. 142B
R3-LADY ANNE
Name him.
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Plantagenet.
R3-LADY ANNE
+
R3 1.2. 142B Why, that was he.
R3 1.2. 143
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
The selfsame name, but one of better nature.
R3 1.2. 144B
R3-LADY ANNE
Where is he?
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Here. {She +
R3 1.2. 144B spits at him} Why dost thou spit at me?
R3 1.2. 145
R3-LADY ANNE
Would it were mortal poison for thy sake.
R3 1.2. 146
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Never came poison from so sweet a place.
R3 1.2. 147
R3-LADY ANNE
Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
R3 1.2. 148 Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
R3 1.2. 149
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.
R3 1.2. 150
R3-LADY ANNE
Would they were basilisks to strike thee dead.
R3 1.2. 151
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I would they were, that I might die at once,
R3 1.2. 152 For now they kill me with a living death.
R3 1.2. 153 Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
R3 1.2. 154 Shamed their aspects with store of childish drops.
R3 1.2. 155 I never sued to friend nor enemy;
R3 1.2. 156 My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word;
R3 1.2. 157 But now thy beauty is proposed my fee,
R3 1.2. 158 My proud heart sues and prompts my tongue to speak. {She looks +
R3 1.2. 158 scornfully at him}
R3 1.2. 159 Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made
R3 1.2. 160 For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
R3 1.2. 161 If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive, {[He kneels and offers +
R3 1.2. 161 her his sword]}
R3 1.2. 162 Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword,
R3 1.2. 163 Which if thou please to hide in this true breast
R3 1.2. 164 And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,
R3 1.2. 165 I lay it naked to the deadly stroke
R3 1.2. 166 And humbly beg the death upon my knee. {He lays his breast open; +
R3 1.2. 166 she offers at it with his sword}
R3 1.2. 167 Nay, do not pause, for I did kill King Henry;
R3 1.2. 168 But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me.
R3 1.2. 169 Nay, now dispatch: 'twas I that stabbed young Edward;
R3 1.2. 170 But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on. {She drops the +
R3 1.2. 170 sword}
R3 1.2. 171 Take up the sword again, or take up me.
R3 1.2. 172B
R3-LADY ANNE
Arise, dissembler. {[He rises]} Though I +
R3 1.2. 172B wish thy death,
R3 1.2. 173 I will not be thy executioner.
R3 1.2. 174
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.
R3 1.2. 175B
R3-LADY ANNE
I have already.
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
That was in thy +
R3 1.2. 175B rage.
R3 1.2. 176 Speak it again, and even with the word
R3 1.2. 177 This hand - which for thy love did kill thy love -
R3 1.2. 178 Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love.
R3 1.2. 179 To both their deaths shalt thou be accessary.
R3 1.2. 180A
R3-LADY ANNE
I would I knew thy heart.
R3 1.2. 181A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
'Tis figured in my tongue.
R3 1.2. 182A
R3-LADY ANNE
I fear me both are false.
R3 1.2. 183A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Then never man was true.
R3 1.2. 184A
R3-LADY ANNE
Well, well, put up your sword.
R3 1.2. 185A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Say then my peace is made.
R3 1.2. 186A
R3-LADY ANNE
That shalt thou know hereafter.
R3 1.2. 187A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
But shall I live in hope?
R3 1.2. 188A
R3-LADY ANNE
All men, I hope, live so.
R3 1.2. 189A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Vouchsafe to wear this ring.
R3 1.2. 190A
R3-LADY ANNE
To take is not to give.
R3 1.2. 191
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger;
R3 1.2. 192 Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart.
R3 1.2. 193 Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
R3 1.2. 194 And if thy poor devoted servant may
R3 1.2. 195 But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,
R3 1.2. 196 Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.
R3 1.2. 197A
R3-LADY ANNE
What is it?
R3 1.2. 198
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
That it may please you leave these sad designs
R3 1.2. 199 To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,
R3 1.2. 200 And presently repair to Crosby House,
R3 1.2. 201 Where - after I have solemnly interred
R3 1.2. 202 At Chertsey monast'ry this noble king,
R3 1.2. 203 And wet his grave with my repentant tears -
R3 1.2. 204 I will with all expedient duty see you.
R3 1.2. 205 For divers unknown reasons, I beseech you
R3 1.2. 206 Grant me this boon.
R3 1.2. 207
R3-LADY ANNE
With all my heart - and much it joys me, too,
R3 1.2. 208 To see you are become so penitent.
R3 1.2. 209 Tressell and Berkeley, go along with me.
R3 1.2. 210B
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Bid me farewell.
R3-LADY ANNE
'Tis more than you +
R3 1.2. 210B deserve.
R3 1.2. 211 But since you teach me how to flatter you,
R3 1.2. 212 Imagine I have said farewell already. {Exeunt two with Anne}
R3 1.2. 213B
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Sirs, take up the corpse.
R3-GENTLEMAN
+
R3 1.2. 213B Towards Chertsey, noble lord?
R3 1.2. 214
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
No, to Blackfriars; there attend my +
R3 1.2. 214 coming. {Exeunt with corpse all but Gloucester}
R3 1.2. 215 Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
R3 1.2. 216 Was ever woman in this humour won?
R3 1.2. 217 I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.
R3 1.2. 218 What, I that killed her husband and his father,
R3 1.2. 219 To take her in her heart's extremest hate,
R3 1.2. 220 With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
R3 1.2. 221 The bleeding witness of my hatred by,
R3 1.2. 222 Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me,
R3 1.2. 223 And I no friends to back my suit withal
R3 1.2. 224 But the plain devil and dissembling looks -
R3 1.2. 225 And yet to win her, all the world to nothing? Ha!
R3 1.2. 226 Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
R3 1.2. 227 Edward her lord, whom I some three months since
R3 1.2. 228 Stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury?
R3 1.2. 229 A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
R3 1.2. 230 Framed in the prodigality of nature,
R3 1.2. 231 Young, valiant, wise, and no doubt right royal,
R3 1.2. 232 The spacious world cannot again afford -
R3 1.2. 233 And will she yet abase her eyes on me,
R3 1.2. 234 That cropped the golden prime of this sweet prince
R3 1.2. 235 And made her widow to a woeful bed?
R3 1.2. 236 On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?
R3 1.2. 237 On me, that halts and am misshapen thus?
R3 1.2. 238 My dukedom to a beggarly {denier},
R3 1.2. 239 I do mistake my person all this while.
R3 1.2. 240 Upon my life she finds, although I cannot,
R3 1.2. 241 Myself to be a marv'lous proper man.
R3 1.2. 242 I'll be at charges for a looking-glass
R3 1.2. 243 And entertain a score or two of tailors
R3 1.2. 244 To study fashions to adorn my body.
R3 1.2. 245 Since I am crept in favour with myself,
R3 1.2. 246 I will maintain it with some little cost.
R3 1.2. 247 But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave,
R3 1.2. 248 And then return lamenting to my love.
R3 1.2. 249 Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
R3 1.2. 250 That I may see my shadow as I pass. {Exit}
R3 1.2. 0 {Enter Queen Elizabeth, Lord Rivers, [Marquis Dorset], +
R3 1.3. 0 and Lord Gray}
R3 1.3. 1
R3-RIVERS
{(to Elizabeth)} Have patience, madam. +
R3 1.3. 1 There's no doubt his majesty
R3 1.3. 2 Will soon recover his accustomed health.
R3 1.3. 3
R3-GRAY
{(to Elizabeth)} In that you brook it ill, it +
R3 1.3. 3 makes him worse.
R3 1.3. 4 Therefore, for God's sake entertain good comfort,
R3 1.3. 5 And cheer his grace with quick and merry eyes.
R3 1.3. 6
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
If he were dead, what would betide on me?
R3 1.3. 7
R3-[RIVERS]
No other harm but loss of such a lord.
R3 1.3. 8
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
The loss of such a lord includes all harms.
R3 1.3. 9
R3-GRAY
The heavens have blessed you with a goodly son
R3 1.3. 10 To be your comforter when he is gone.
R3 1.3. 11
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ah, he is young, and his minority
R3 1.3. 12 Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,
R3 1.3. 13 A man that loves not me - nor none of you.
R3 1.3. 14
R3-RIVERS
Is it concluded he shall be Protector?
R3 1.3. 15
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
It is determined, not concluded yet;
R3 1.3. 16 But so it must be, if the King miscarry. {Enter the Duke of +
R3 1.3. 16 Buckingham and Lord Stanley Earl of Derby}
R3 1.3. 17
R3-GRAY
Here come the Lords of Buckingham and Derby.
R3 1.3. 18
R3-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Elizabeth)} Good time of day unto +
R3 1.3. 18 your royal grace.
R3 1.3. 19
R3-STANLEY
{(to Elizabeth)} God make your majesty +
R3 1.3. 19 joyful, as you have been.
R3 1.3. 20
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
The Countess Richmond, good my lord of Derby,
R3 1.3. 21 To your good prayer will scarcely say `Amen'.
R3 1.3. 22 Yet, Derby - notwithstanding she's your wife,
R3 1.3. 23 And loves not me - be you, good lord, assured
R3 1.3. 24 I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
R3 1.3. 25
R3-STANLEY
I do beseech you, either not believe
R3 1.3. 26 The envious slanders of her false accusers
R3 1.3. 27 Or, if she be accused on true report,
R3 1.3. 28 Bear with her weakness, which I think proceeds
R3 1.3. 29 From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
R3 1.3. 30
R3-[RIVERS]
Saw you the King today, my lord of Derby?
R3 1.3. 31
R3-STANLEY
But now the Duke of Buckingham and I
R3 1.3. 32 Are come from visiting his majesty.
R3 1.3. 33
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
With likelihood of his amendment, lords?
R3 1.3. 34
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Madam, good hope: his grace speaks cheerfully.
R3 1.3. 35
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
God grant him health. Did you confer with him?
R3 1.3. 36
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Ay, madam. He desires to make atonement
R3 1.3. 37 Between the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,
R3 1.3. 38 And between them and my Lord Chamberlain,
R3 1.3. 39 And sent to warn them to his royal presence.
R3 1.3. 40
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Would all were well! But that will never be.
R3 1.3. 41 I fear our happiness is at the height. {Enter Richard Duke of +
R3 1.3. 41 Gloucester and Lord Hastings}
R3 1.3. 42
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
They do me wrong, and I will not +
R3 1.3. 42 endure it.
R3 1.3. 43 Who are they that complain unto the King
R3 1.3. 44 That I forsooth am stern and love them not?
R3 1.3. 45 By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly
R3 1.3. 46 That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.
R3 1.3. 47 Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
R3 1.3. 48 Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
R3 1.3. 49 Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
R3 1.3. 50 I must be held a rancorous enemy.
R3 1.3. 51 Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
R3 1.3. 52 But thus his simple truth must be abused
R3 1.3. 53 With silken, sly, insinuating jacks?
R3 1.3. 54
R3-[RIVERS]
To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?
R3 1.3. 55
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.
R3 1.3. 56 When have I injured thee? When done thee wrong?
R3 1.3. 57 Or thee? Or thee? Or any of your faction?
R3 1.3. 58 A plague upon you all! His royal grace -
R3 1.3. 59 Whom God preserve better than you would wish -
R3 1.3. 60 Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing while
R3 1.3. 61 But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
R3 1.3. 62
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
R3 1.3. 63 The King - on his own royal disposition,
R3 1.3. 64 And not provoked by any suitor else -
R3 1.3. 65 Aiming belike at your interior hatred,
R3 1.3. 66 That in your outward action shows itself
R3 1.3. 67 Against my children, brothers, and myself,
R3 1.3. 68 Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground
R3 1.3. 69 Of your ill will, and thereby to remove it.
R3 1.3. 70
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad
R3 1.3. 71 That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
R3 1.3. 72 Since every jack became a gentleman,
R3 1.3. 73 There's many a gentle person made a jack.
R3 1.3. 74
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Come, come, we know your meaning, brother +
R3 1.3. 74 Gloucester.
R3 1.3. 75 You envy my advancement, and my friends'.
R3 1.3. 76 God grant we never may have need of you.
R3 1.3. 77
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Meantime, God grants that I have need of you.
R3 1.3. 78 Our brother is imprisoned by your means,
R3 1.3. 79 Myself disgraced, and the nobility
R3 1.3. 80 Held in contempt, while great promotions
R3 1.3. 81 Are daily given to ennoble those
R3 1.3. 82 That scarce some two days since were worth a noble.
R3 1.3. 83
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
By him that raised me to this care-full height
R3 1.3. 84 From that contented hap which I enjoyed,
R3 1.3. 85 I never did incense his majesty
R3 1.3. 86 Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been
R3 1.3. 87 An earnest advocate to plead for him.
R3 1.3. 88 My lord, you do me shameful injury
R3 1.3. 89 Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.
R3 1.3. 90
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
You may deny that you were not the mean
R3 1.3. 91 Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.
R3 1.3. 92A
R3-RIVERS
She may, my lord, for -
R3 1.3. 93
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
She may, Lord Rivers; why, who knows not so?
R3 1.3. 94 She may do more, sir, than denying that.
R3 1.3. 95 She may help you to many fair preferments,
R3 1.3. 96 And then deny her aiding hand therein,
R3 1.3. 97 And lay those honours on your high desert.
R3 1.3. 98 What may she not? She may - ay, marry, may she.
R3 1.3. 99A
R3-RIVERS
What `marry, may she'?
R3 1.3. 100
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
What marry, may she? Marry with a king:
R3 1.3. 101 A bachelor, and a handsome stripling, too.
R3 1.3. 102 Iwis your grandam had a worser match.
R3 1.3. 103
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
My lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
R3 1.3. 104 Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs.
R3 1.3. 105 By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty
R3 1.3. 106 Of those gross taunts that oft I have endured.
R3 1.3. 107 I had rather be a country servant-maid
R3 1.3. 108 Than a great queen, with this condition:
R3 1.3. 109 To be so baited, scorned, and stormed at. {Enter old Queen +
R3 1.3. 109 Margaret, unseen behind them}
R3 1.3. 110 Small joy have I in being England's queen.
R3 1.3. 111
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} And lessened be that +
R3 1.3. 111 small, God I beseech him.
R3 1.3. 112 Thy honour, state, and seat is due to me.
R3 1.3. 113
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to Elizabeth)} What? Threat +
R3 1.3. 113 you me with telling of the King?
R3 1.3. 114 Tell him, and spare not. Look what I have said,
R3 1.3. 115 I will avouch 't in presence of the King.
R3 1.3. 116 I dare adventure to be sent to th' Tower.
R3 1.3. 117 'Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot.
R3 1.3. 118
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Out, devil! I remember +
R3 1.3. 118 them too well.
R3 1.3. 119 Thou killed'st my husband Henry in the Tower,
R3 1.3. 120 And Edward, my poor son, at Tewkesbury.
R3 1.3. 121
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to Elizabeth)} Ere you were +
R3 1.3. 121 queen - ay, or your husband king -
R3 1.3. 122 I was a packhorse in his great affairs,
R3 1.3. 123 A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,
R3 1.3. 124 A liberal rewarder of his friends.
R3 1.3. 125 To royalize his blood, I spent mine own.
R3 1.3. 126
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Ay, and much better blood +
R3 1.3. 126 than his or thine.
R3 1.3. 127
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to Elizabeth)} In all which +
R3 1.3. 127 time you and your husband Gray
R3 1.3. 128 Were factious for the house of Lancaster;
R3 1.3. 129 And Rivers, so were you. - Was not your husband
R3 1.3. 130 In Margaret's battle at Saint Albans slain?
R3 1.3. 131 Let me put in your minds, if you forget,
R3 1.3. 132 What you have been ere this, and what you are;
R3 1.3. 133 Withal, what I have been, and what I am.
R3 1.3. 134
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} A murd'rous villain, and +
R3 1.3. 134 so still thou art.
R3 1.3. 135
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Poor Clarence did forsake his father Warwick -
R3 1.3. 136 Ay, and forswore himself, which Jesu pardon -
R3 1.3. 137A
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Which God revenge!
R3 1.3. 138
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
To fight on Edward's party for the crown,
R3 1.3. 139 And for his meed, poor lord, he is mewed up.
R3 1.3. 140 I would to God my heart were flint like Edward's,
R3 1.3. 141 Or Edward's soft and pitiful like mine.
R3 1.3. 142 I am too childish-foolish for this world.
R3 1.3. 143
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Hie thee to hell for +
R3 1.3. 143 shame, and leave this world,
R3 1.3. 144 Thou cacodemon; there thy kingdom is.
R3 1.3. 145
R3-RIVERS
My lord of Gloucester, in those busy days
R3 1.3. 146 Which here you urge to prove us enemies,
R3 1.3. 147 We followed then our lord, our sovereign king.
R3 1.3. 148 So should we you, if you should be our king.
R3 1.3. 149
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
If I should be? I had rather be a pedlar.
R3 1.3. 150 Far be it from my heart, the thought thereof.
R3 1.3. 151
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
As little joy, my lord, as you suppose
R3 1.3. 152 You should enjoy, were you this country's king,
R3 1.3. 153 As little joy may you suppose in me,
R3 1.3. 154 That I enjoy being the queen thereof.
R3 1.3. 155
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Ah, little joy enjoys the +
R3 1.3. 155 queen thereof,
R3 1.3. 156 For I am she, and altogether joyless.
R3 1.3. 157 I can no longer hold me patient. {She comes forward}
R3 1.3. 158 Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
R3 1.3. 159 In sharing that which you have pilled from me.
R3 1.3. 160 Which of you trembles not that looks on me?
R3 1.3. 161 If not that I am Queen, you bow like subjects;
R3 1.3. 162 Yet that by you deposed, you quake like rebels.
R3 1.3. 163 {(To Richard)} Ah, gentle villain, do not turn away.
R3 1.3. 164
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Foul wrinkled witch, what mak'st thou in my +
R3 1.3. 164 sight?
R3 1.3. 165
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
But repetition of what thou hast marred:
R3 1.3. 166 That will I make before I let thee go.
R3 1.3. 167 A husband and a son thou ow'st to me,
R3 1.3. 168 {(To Elizabeth)} And thou a kingdom; {(to the +
R3 1.3. 168 rest)} all of you allegiance.
R3 1.3. 169 This sorrow that I have by right is yours,
R3 1.3. 170 And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.
R3 1.3. 171
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
The curse my noble father laid on thee -
R3 1.3. 172 When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper,
R3 1.3. 173 And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,
R3 1.3. 174 And then, to dry them, gav'st the duke a clout
R3 1.3. 175 Steeped in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland -
R3 1.3. 176 His curses then, from bitterness of soul
R3 1.3. 177 Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee,
R3 1.3. 178 And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.
R3 1.3. 179
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
{(to Margaret)} So just is God to +
R3 1.3. 179 right the innocent.
R3 1.3. 180
R3-LORD HASTINGS
{(to Margaret)} O 'twas the foulest +
R3 1.3. 180 deed to slay that babe,
R3 1.3. 181 And the most merciless that e'er was heard of.
R3 1.3. 182
R3-RIVERS
{(to Margaret)} Tyrants themselves wept +
R3 1.3. 182 when it was reported.
R3 1.3. 183
R3-DORSET
{(to Margaret)} No man but prophesied +
R3 1.3. 183 revenge for it.
R3 1.3. 184
R3-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Margaret)} Northumberland, then +
R3 1.3. 184 present, wept to see it.
R3 1.3. 185
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
What? Were you snarling all before I came,
R3 1.3. 186 Ready to catch each other by the throat,
R3 1.3. 187 And turn you all your hatred now on me?
R3 1.3. 188 Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven
R3 1.3. 189 That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,
R3 1.3. 190 Their kingdom's loss, my woeful banishment,
R3 1.3. 191 Should all but answer for that peevish brat?
R3 1.3. 192 Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?
R3 1.3. 193 Why then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!
R3 1.3. 194 Though not by war, by surfeit die your king,
R3 1.3. 195 As ours by murder to make him a king.
R3 1.3. 196 {(To Elizabeth)} Edward thy son, that now is Prince of +
R3 1.3. 196 Wales,
R3 1.3. 197 For Edward my son, that was Prince of Wales,
R3 1.3. 198 Die in his youth by like untimely violence.
R3 1.3. 199 Thyself, a queen, for me that was a queen,
R3 1.3. 200 Outlive thy glory like my wretched self.
R3 1.3. 201 Long mayst thou live - to wail thy children's death,
R3 1.3. 202 And see another, as I see thee now,
R3 1.3. 203 Decked in thy rights, as thou art 'stalled in mine.
R3 1.3. 204 Long die thy happy days before thy death,
R3 1.3. 205 And after many lengthened hours of grief
R3 1.3. 206 Die, neither mother, wife, nor England's queen. -
R3 1.3. 207 Rivers and Dorset, you were standers-by,
R3 1.3. 208 And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son
R3 1.3. 209 Was stabbed with bloody daggers. God I pray him,
R3 1.3. 210 That none of you may live his natural age,
R3 1.3. 211 But by some unlooked accident cut off.
R3 1.3. 212
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Have done thy charm, thou hateful, withered hag.
R3 1.3. 213
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
And leave out thee? Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear +
R3 1.3. 213 me.
R3 1.3. 214 If heaven have any grievous plague in store
R3 1.3. 215 Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
R3 1.3. 216 O let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
R3 1.3. 217 And then hurl down their indignation
R3 1.3. 218 On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace.
R3 1.3. 219 The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.
R3 1.3. 220 Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv'st,
R3 1.3. 221 And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends.
R3 1.3. 222 No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
R3 1.3. 223 Unless it be while some tormenting dream
R3 1.3. 224 Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils.
R3 1.3. 225 Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog,
R3 1.3. 226 Thou that wast sealed in thy nativity
R3 1.3. 227 The slave of nature and the son of hell,
R3 1.3. 228 Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb,
R3 1.3. 229 Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins,
R3 1.3. 230 Thou rag of honour, thou detested -
R3 1.3. 231A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Margaret.
R3 1.3. 232B
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Richard.
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Ha?
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
+
R3 1.3. 232B I call thee not.
R3 1.3. 233
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I cry thee mercy then, for I did think
R3 1.3. 234 That thou hadst called me all these bitter names.
R3 1.3. 235
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Why so I did, but looked for no reply.
R3 1.3. 236 O let me make the period to my curse.
R3 1.3. 237
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
'Tis done by me, and ends in `Margaret'.
R3 1.3. 238
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
{(to Margaret)} Thus have you +
R3 1.3. 238 breathed your curse against yourself.
R3 1.3. 239
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Poor painted Queen, vain flourish of my fortune,
R3 1.3. 240 Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider
R3 1.3. 241 Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
R3 1.3. 242 Fool, fool, thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself.
R3 1.3. 243 The day will come that thou shalt wish for me
R3 1.3. 244 To help thee curse this poisonous bunch-backed toad.
R3 1.3. 245
R3-LORD HASTINGS
False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,
R3 1.3. 246 Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.
R3 1.3. 247
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Foul shame upon you, you have all moved mine.
R3 1.3. 248
R3-RIVERS
Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.
R3 1.3. 249
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
To serve me well you all should do me duty.
R3 1.3. 250 Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:
R3 1.3. 251 O serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty.
R3 1.3. 252
R3-DORSET
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
R3 1.3. 253
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Peace, master Marquis, you are malapert.
R3 1.3. 254 Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
R3 1.3. 255 O that your young nobility could judge
R3 1.3. 256 What 'twere to lose it and be miserable.
R3 1.3. 257 They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
R3 1.3. 258 And if they fall they dash themselves to pieces.
R3 1.3. 259
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Good counsel, marry! - Learn it, learn it, +
R3 1.3. 259 Marquis.
R3 1.3. 260
R3-DORSET
It touches you, my lord, as much as me.
R3 1.3. 261
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Ay, and much more; but I was born so high.
R3 1.3. 262 Our eyrie buildeth in the cedar's top,
R3 1.3. 263 And dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun.
R3 1.3. 264
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
And turns the sun to shade. Alas, alas!
R3 1.3. 265 Witness my son, now in the shade of death,
R3 1.3. 266 Whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath
R3 1.3. 267 Hath in eternal darkness folded up.
R3 1.3. 268 Your eyrie buildeth in our eyrie's nest. -
R3 1.3. 269 O God that seest it, do not suffer it;
R3 1.3. 270 As it was won with blood, lost be it so.
R3 1.3. 271
R3-[RICHARD GLOUCESTER]
Peace, peace! For shame, if not for charity.
R3 1.3. 272
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Urge neither charity nor shame to me.
R3 1.3. 273 Uncharitably with me have you dealt,
R3 1.3. 274 And shamefully my hopes by you are butchered.
R3 1.3. 275 My charity is outrage; life, my shame;
R3 1.3. 276 And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage.
R3 1.3. 277A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Have done, have done.
R3 1.3. 278
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
O princely Buckingham, I'll kiss thy hand
R3 1.3. 279 In sign of league and amity with thee.
R3 1.3. 280 Now fair befall thee and thy noble house!
R3 1.3. 281 Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,
R3 1.3. 282 Nor thou within the compass of my curse.
R3 1.3. 283
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Nor no one here, for curses never pass
R3 1.3. 284 The lips of those that breathe them in the air.
R3 1.3. 285
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
I will not think but they ascend the sky
R3 1.3. 286 And there awake God's gentle sleeping peace.
R3 1.3. 287 O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog. {She points at Richard}
R3 1.3. 288 Look when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,
R3 1.3. 289 His venom tooth will rankle to the death.
R3 1.3. 290 Have naught to do with him; beware of him;
R3 1.3. 291 Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
R3 1.3. 292 And all their ministers attend on him.
R3 1.3. 293
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
What doth she say, my lord of Buckingham?
R3 1.3. 294
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.
R3 1.3. 295
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel,
R3 1.3. 296 And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?
R3 1.3. 297 O but remember this another day,
R3 1.3. 298 When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
R3 1.3. 299 And say, `Poor Margaret was a prophetess'. -
R3 1.3. 300 Live each of you the subjects to his hate,
R3 1.3. 301 And he to yours, and all of you to God's. {Exit}
R3 1.3. 302
R3-[HASTINGS]
My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.
R3 1.3. 303
R3-RIVERS
And so doth mine. I muse why she's at liberty.
R3 1.3. 304
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I cannot blame her, by God's holy mother.
R3 1.3. 305 She hath had too much wrong, and I repent
R3 1.3. 306 My part thereof that I have done to her.
R3 1.3. 307
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
I never did her any, to my knowledge.
R3 1.3. 308
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Yet you have all the vantage of her wrong.
R3 1.3. 309 I was too hot to do somebody good,
R3 1.3. 310 That is too cold in thinking of it now.
R3 1.3. 311 Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid:
R3 1.3. 312 He is franked up to fatting for his pains.
R3 1.3. 313 God pardon them that are the cause thereof.
R3 1.3. 314
R3-RIVERS
A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
R3 1.3. 315 To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
R3 1.3. 316
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
So do I ever - {(speaks to +
R3 1.3. 316 himself)} being well advised:
R3 1.3. 317 For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself. {Enter Sir William +
R3 1.3. 317 Catesby}
R3 1.3. 318
R3-CATESBY
Madam, his majesty doth call for you,
R3 1.3. 319 And for your grace, and you my gracious lords.
R3 1.3. 320
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Catesby, I come. - Lords, will you go with me?
R3 1.3. 321A
R3-RIVERS
We wait upon your grace. {Exeunt all but Richard}
R3 1.3. 322
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I do the wrong, and first begin to +
R3 1.3. 322 brawl.
R3 1.3. 323 The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
R3 1.3. 324 I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
R3 1.3. 325 Clarence, whom I indeed have cast in darkness,
R3 1.3. 326 I do beweep to many simple gulls -
R3 1.3. 327 Namely to Derby, Hastings, Buckingham -
R3 1.3. 328 And tell them, `'Tis the Queen and her allies
R3 1.3. 329 That stir the King against the Duke my brother'.
R3 1.3. 330 Now they believe it, and withal whet me
R3 1.3. 331 To be revenged on Rivers, Dorset, Gray;
R3 1.3. 332 But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture
R3 1.3. 333 Tell them that God bids us do good for evil;
R3 1.3. 334 And thus I clothe my naked villainy
R3 1.3. 335 With odd old ends, stol'n forth of Holy Writ,
R3 1.3. 336 And seem a saint when most I play the devil. {Enter two +
R3 1.3. 336 Murderers}
R3 1.3. 337 But soft, here come my executioners. -
R3 1.3. 338 How now, my hardy, stout, resolved mates!
R3 1.3. 339 Are you now going to dispatch this thing?
R3 1.3. 340 A
R3-MURDERER
We are, my lord, and come to have the warrant,
R3 1.3. 341 That we may be admitted where he is.
R3 1.3. 342
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Well thought upon; I have it here about +
R3 1.3. 342 me. {He gives them the warrant}
R3 1.3. 343 When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.
R3 1.3. 344 But sirs, be sudden in the execution,
R3 1.3. 345 Withal obdurate; do not hear him plead,
R3 1.3. 346 For Clarence is well spoken, and perhaps
R3 1.3. 347 May move your hearts to pity, if you mark him.
R3 1.3. 348 A
R3-MURDERER
Tut, tut, my lord, we will not stand to prate.
R3 1.3. 349 Talkers are no good doers. Be assured,
R3 1.3. 350 We go to use our hands, and not our tongues.
R3 1.3. 351
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Your eyes drop millstones when fools' eyes fall +
R3 1.3. 351 tears.
R3 1.3. 352 I like you, lads. About your business straight.
R3 1.3. 353B Go, go, dispatch.
R3-[MURDERERS]
We will, my noble lord. {Exeunt +
R3 1.3. 353B Richard at one door, the Murderers at another}
R3 1.3. 0 {Enter George Duke of Clarence and [Sir Robert +
R3 1.4. 0 Brackenbury]}
R3 1.4. 1
R3-[BRACKENBURY]
Why looks your grace so heavily today?
R3 1.4. 2
R3-CLARENCE
O I have passed a miserable night,
R3 1.4. 3 So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
R3 1.4. 4 That as I am a Christian faithful man,
R3 1.4. 5 I would not spend another such a night
R3 1.4. 6 Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,
R3 1.4. 7 So full of dismal terror was the time.
R3 1.4. 8
R3-[BRACKENBURY]
What was your dream, my lord? I pray you, tell me.
R3 1.4. 9
R3-CLARENCE
Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,
R3 1.4. 10 And was embarked to cross to Burgundy,
R3 1.4. 11 And in my company my brother Gloucester,
R3 1.4. 12 Who from my cabin tempted me to walk
R3 1.4. 13 Upon the hatches; there we looked toward England,
R3 1.4. 14 And cited up a thousand heavy times
R3 1.4. 15 During the wars of York and Lancaster
R3 1.4. 16 That had befall'n us. As we paced along
R3 1.4. 17 Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,
R3 1.4. 18 Methought that Gloucester stumbled, and in falling
R3 1.4. 19 Struck me - that sought to stay him - overboard
R3 1.4. 20 Into the tumbling billows of the main.
R3 1.4. 21 O Lord! Methought what pain it was to drown,
R3 1.4. 22 What dreadful noise of waters in my ears,
R3 1.4. 23 What sights of ugly death within my eyes.
R3 1.4. 24 Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
R3 1.4. 25 Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon,
R3 1.4. 26 Wedges of gold, great ouches, heaps of pearl,
R3 1.4. 27 Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
R3 1.4. 28 All scattered in the bottom of the sea.
R3 1.4. 29 Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes
R3 1.4. 30 Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept -
R3 1.4. 31 As 'twere in scorn of eyes - reflecting gems,
R3 1.4. 32 Which wooed the slimy bottom of the deep
R3 1.4. 33 And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by.
R3 1.4. 34
R3-[BRACKENBURY]
Had you such leisure in the time of death,
R3 1.4. 35 To gaze upon these secrets of the deep?
R3 1.4. 36
R3-CLARENCE
Methought I had, and often did I strive
R3 1.4. 37 To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood
R3 1.4. 38 Stopped-in my soul and would not let it forth
R3 1.4. 39 To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring air,
R3 1.4. 40 But smothered it within my panting bulk,
R3 1.4. 41 Who almost burst to belch it in the sea.
R3 1.4. 42
R3-[BRACKENBURY]
Awaked you not in this sore agony?
R3 1.4. 43
R3-CLARENCE
No, no, my dream was lengthened after life.
R3 1.4. 44 O then began the tempest to my soul!
R3 1.4. 45 I passed, methought, the melancholy flood,
R3 1.4. 46 With that sour ferryman which poets write of,
R3 1.4. 47 Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
R3 1.4. 48 The first that there did greet my stranger soul
R3 1.4. 49 Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick,
R3 1.4. 50 Who cried aloud, `What scourge for perjury
R3 1.4. 51 Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'
R3 1.4. 52 And so he vanished. Then came wand'ring by
R3 1.4. 53 A shadow like an angel, with bright hair,
R3 1.4. 54 Dabbled in blood, and he shrieked out aloud,
R3 1.4. 55 `Clarence is come: false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,
R3 1.4. 56 That stabbed me in the field by Tewkesbury.
R3 1.4. 57 Seize on him, furies! Take him unto torment!'
R3 1.4. 58 With that, methoughts a legion of foul fiends
R3 1.4. 59 Environed me, and howled in mine ears
R3 1.4. 60 Such hideous cries that with the very noise
R3 1.4. 61 I trembling waked, and for a season after
R3 1.4. 62 Could not believe but that I was in hell,
R3 1.4. 63 Such terrible impression made my dream.
R3 1.4. 64
R3-[BRACKENBURY]
No marvel, lord, though it affrighted you;
R3 1.4. 65 I am afraid, methinks, to hear you tell it.
R3 1.4. 66
R3-CLARENCE
Ah, Brackenbury, I have done these things,
R3 1.4. 67 That now give evidence against my soul,
R3 1.4. 68 For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me.
R3 1.4. 69 Keeper, I pray thee, sit by me awhile.
R3 1.4. 70 My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.
R3 1.4. 71
R3-[BRACKENBURY]
I will, my lord. God give your grace good rest.+
R3 1.4. 71 {Clarence sleeps}
R3 1.4. 72 Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
R3 1.4. 73 Makes the night morning and the noontide night.
R3 1.4. 74 Princes have but their titles for their glories,
R3 1.4. 75 An outward honour for an inward toil,
R3 1.4. 76 And for unfelt imaginations
R3 1.4. 77 They often feel a world of restless cares;
R3 1.4. 78 So that, between their titles and low name,
R3 1.4. 79 There's nothing differs but the outward fame. {Enter two +
R3 1.4. 79 Murderers}
R3 1.4. 80
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Ho, who's here?
R3 1.4. 81
R3-BRACKENBURY
What wouldst thou, fellow? And how cam'st +
R3 1.4. 81 thou hither?
R3 1.4. 82
R3-SECOND MURDERER
I would speak with Clarence, and I
R3 1.4. 83 came hither on my legs.
R3 1.4. 84
R3-BRACKENBURY
What, so brief?
R3 1.4. 85
R3-FIRST MURDERER
'Tis better, sir, than to be tedious. {(To}
R3 1.4. 86 {Second Murderer)} Let him see our commission, and talk
R3 1.4. 87 no more. {Brackenbury reads}
R3 1.4. 88
R3-BRACKENBURY
I am in this commanded to deliver
R3 1.4. 89 The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands.
R3 1.4. 90 I will not reason what is meant hereby,
R3 1.4. 91 Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
R3 1.4. 92 There lies the Duke asleep, and there the keys. {[He throws down +
R3 1.4. 92 the keys]}
R3 1.4. 93 I'll to the King and signify to him
R3 1.4. 94 That thus I have resigned to you my charge.
R3 1.4. 95
R3-FIRST MURDERER
You may, sir; 'tis a point of wisdom.
R3 1.4. 96 Fare you well. {Exit Brackenbury}
R3 1.4. 97
R3-SECOND MURDERER
What, shall I stab him as he sleeps?
R3 1.4. 98
R3-FIRST MURDERER
No. He'll say 'twas done cowardly, when
R3 1.4. 99 he wakes.
R3 1.4. 100
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Why, he shall never wake until the
R3 1.4. 101 great judgement day.
R3 1.4. 102
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Why, then he'll say we stabbed him
R3 1.4. 103 sleeping.
R3 1.4. 104
R3-SECOND MURDERER
The urging of that word `judgement'
R3 1.4. 105 hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
R3 1.4. 106
R3-FIRST MURDERER
What, art thou afraid?
R3 1.4. 107
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Not to kill him, having a warrant, but
R3 1.4. 108 to be damned for killing him, from the which no
R3 1.4. 109 warrant can defend me.
R3 1.4. 110
R3-FIRST MURDERER
I thought thou hadst been resolute.
R3 1.4. 111
R3-SECOND MURDERER
So I am - to let him live.
R3 1.4. 112
R3-FIRST MURDERER
I'll back to the Duke of Gloucester and
R3 1.4. 113 tell him so.
R3 1.4. 114
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Nay, I pray thee. Stay a little. I hope
R3 1.4. 115 this passionate humour of mine will change. It was
R3 1.4. 116 wont to hold me but while one tells twenty. {[He counts to +
R3 1.4. 116 twenty]}
R3 1.4. 117
R3-FIRST MURDERER
How dost thou feel thyself now?
R3 1.4. 118
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Some certain dregs of conscience are
R3 1.4. 119 yet within me.
R3 1.4. 120
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Remember our reward, when the deed's
R3 1.4. 121 done.
R3 1.4. 122
R3-SECOND MURDERER
'Swounds, he dies. I had forgot the
R3 1.4. 123 reward.
R3 1.4. 124
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Where's thy conscience now?
R3 1.4. 125
R3-SECOND MURDERER
O, in the Duke of Gloucester's purse.
R3 1.4. 126
R3-FIRST MURDERER
When he opens his purse to give us our
R3 1.4. 127 reward, thy conscience flies out.
R3 1.4. 128
R3-SECOND MURDERER
'Tis no matter. Let it go. There's few
R3 1.4. 129 or none will entertain it.
R3 1.4. 130
R3-FIRST MURDERER
What if it come to thee again?
R3 1.4. 131
R3-SECOND MURDERER
I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man
R3 1.4. 132 a coward. A man cannot steal but it accuseth him. A
R3 1.4. 133 man cannot swear but it checks him. A man cannot
R3 1.4. 134 lie with his neighbour's wife but it detects him. 'Tis a
R3 1.4. 135 blushing, shamefaced spirit, that mutinies in a man's
R3 1.4. 136 bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once
R3 1.4. 137 restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It
R3 1.4. 138 beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns
R3 1.4. 139 and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that
R3 1.4. 140 means to live well endeavours to trust to himself and
R3 1.4. 141 live without it.
R3 1.4. 142
R3-FIRST MURDERER
'Swounds, 'tis even now at my elbow,
R3 1.4. 143 persuading me not to kill the Duke.
R3 1.4. 144
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Take the devil in thy mind, and believe
R3 1.4. 145 him not: he would insinuate with thee but to make
R3 1.4. 146 thee sigh.
R3 1.4. 147
R3-FIRST MURDERER
I am strong framed; he cannot prevail
R3 1.4. 148 with me.
R3 1.4. 149
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Spoke like a tall man that respects thy
R3 1.4. 150 reputation. Come, shall we fall to work?
R3 1.4. 151
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Take him on the costard with the hilts
R3 1.4. 152 of thy sword, and then throw him into the malmsey
R3 1.4. 153 butt in the next room.
R3 1.4. 154
R3-SECOND MURDERER
O excellent device! - and make a sop
R3 1.4. 155 of him.
R3 1.4. 156
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Soft, he wakes.
R3 1.4. 157
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Strike!
R3 1.4. 158
R3-FIRST MURDERER
No, we'll reason with him.
R3 1.4. 159
R3-CLARENCE
Where art thou, keeper? Give me a cup of wine.
R3 1.4. 160
R3-SECOND MURDERER
You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.
R3 1.4. 161B
R3-CLARENCE
In God's name, what art thou?
R3-FIRST MURDERER
A man, as +
R3 1.4. 161B you are.
R3 1.4. 162A
R3-CLARENCE
But not as I am, royal.
R3 1.4. 163A
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Nor you as we are, loyal.
R3 1.4. 164
R3-CLARENCE
Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.
R3 1.4. 165
R3-FIRST MURDERER
My voice is now the King's; my looks, mine own.
R3 1.4. 166
R3-CLARENCE
How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak.
R3 1.4. 167 Your eyes do menace me. Why look you pale?
R3 1.4. 168 Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?
R3 1.4. 169B
R3-SECOND MURDERER
To, to, to -
R3-CLARENCE
To murder me. +
R3 1.4. 169B
R3-BOTH MURDERERS
Ay, ay.
R3 1.4. 170
R3-CLARENCE
You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
R3 1.4. 171 And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.
R3 1.4. 172 Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?
R3 1.4. 173
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Offended us you have not, but the King.
R3 1.4. 174
R3-CLARENCE
I shall be reconciled to him again.
R3 1.4. 175
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.
R3 1.4. 176
R3-CLARENCE
Are you drawn forth among a world of men
R3 1.4. 177 To slay the innocent? What is my offence?
R3 1.4. 178 Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?
R3 1.4. 179 What lawful quest have given their verdict up
R3 1.4. 180 Unto the frowning judge, or who pronounced
R3 1.4. 181 The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?
R3 1.4. 182 Before I be convict by course of law,
R3 1.4. 183 To threaten me with death is most unlawful.
R3 1.4. 184 I charge you, as you hope to have redemption
R3 1.4. 185 By Christ's dear blood, shed for our grievous sins,
R3 1.4. 186 That you depart and lay no hands on me.
R3 1.4. 187 The deed you undertake is damnable.
R3 1.4. 188
R3-FIRST MURDERER
What we will do, we do upon command.
R3 1.4. 189
R3-SECOND MURDERER
And he that hath commanded is our king.
R3 1.4. 190
R3-CLARENCE
Erroneous vassals, the great King of Kings
R3 1.4. 191 Hath in the table of his law commanded
R3 1.4. 192 That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then
R3 1.4. 193 Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's?
R3 1.4. 194 Take heed, for he holds vengeance in his hand
R3 1.4. 195 To hurl upon their heads that break his law.
R3 1.4. 196
R3-SECOND MURDERER
And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,
R3 1.4. 197 For false forswearing, and for murder too.
R3 1.4. 198 Thou didst receive the sacrament to fight
R3 1.4. 199 In quarrel of the house of Lancaster.
R3 1.4. 200
R3-FIRST MURDERER
And, like a traitor to the name of God,
R3 1.4. 201 Didst break that vow, and with thy treacherous blade
R3 1.4. 202 Unripped'st the bowels of thy sov'reign's son.
R3 1.4. 203
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Whom thou wast sworn to cherish and defend.
R3 1.4. 204
R3-FIRST MURDERER
How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,
R3 1.4. 205 When thou hast broke it in such dear degree?
R3 1.4. 206
R3-CLARENCE
Alas, for whose sake did I that ill deed?
R3 1.4. 207 For Edward, for my brother, for his sake.
R3 1.4. 208 He sends ye not to murder me for this,
R3 1.4. 209 For in that sin he is as deep as I.
R3 1.4. 210 If God will be avenged for the deed,
R3 1.4. 211 O know you yet, he doth it publicly.
R3 1.4. 212 Take not the quarrel from his pow'rful arm;
R3 1.4. 213 He needs no indirect or lawless course
R3 1.4. 214 To cut off those that have offended him.
R3 1.4. 215
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Who made thee then a bloody minister
R3 1.4. 216 When gallant springing brave Plantagenet,
R3 1.4. 217 That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?
R3 1.4. 218
R3-CLARENCE
My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.
R3 1.4. 219
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy faults
R3 1.4. 220 Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.
R3 1.4. 221
R3-CLARENCE
If you do love my brother, hate not me.
R3 1.4. 222 I am his brother, and I love him well.
R3 1.4. 223 If you are hired for meed, go back again,
R3 1.4. 224 And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,
R3 1.4. 225 Who shall reward you better for my life
R3 1.4. 226 Than Edward will for tidings of my death.
R3 1.4. 227
R3-SECOND MURDERER
You are deceived. Your brother Gloucester hates +
R3 1.4. 227 you.
R3 1.4. 228
R3-CLARENCE
O no, he loves me, and he holds me dear.
R3 1.4. 229B Go you to him from me.
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Ay, so we will.
R3 1.4. 230
R3-CLARENCE
Tell him, when that our princely father York
R3 1.4. 231 Blessed his three sons with his victorious arm,
R3 1.4. 232 And charged us from his soul to love each other,
R3 1.4. 233 He little thought of this divided friendship.
R3 1.4. 234 Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.
R3 1.4. 235
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Ay, millstones, as he lessoned us to weep.
R3 1.4. 236
R3-CLARENCE
O do not slander him, for he is kind.
R3 1.4. 237
R3-FIRST MURDERER
As snow in harvest. Come, you deceive yourself.
R3 1.4. 238 'Tis he that sends us to destroy you here.
R3 1.4. 239
R3-CLARENCE
It cannot be, for he bewept my fortune,
R3 1.4. 240 And hugged me in his arms, and swore with sobs
R3 1.4. 241 That he would labour my delivery.
R3 1.4. 242
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Why, so he doth, when he delivers you
R3 1.4. 243 From this earth's thraldom to the joys of heaven.
R3 1.4. 244
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.
R3 1.4. 245
R3-CLARENCE
Have you that holy feeling in your souls
R3 1.4. 246 To counsel me to make my peace with God,
R3 1.4. 247 And are you yet to your own souls so blind
R3 1.4. 248 That you will war with God by murd'ring me?
R3 1.4. 249 O sirs, consider: they that set you on
R3 1.4. 250 To do this deed will hate you for the deed.
R3 1.4. 251B
R3-SECOND MURDERER
{(to First)} What shall we +
R3 1.4. 251B do?
R3-CLARENCE
Relent, and save your souls.
R3 1.4. 252
R3-FIRST MURDERER
Relent? No. 'Tis cowardly and womanish.
R3 1.4. 253
R3-CLARENCE
Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish. -
R3 1.4. 254 My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks.
R3 1.4. 255 O if thine eye be not a flatterer,
R3 1.4. 256 Come thou on my side, and entreat for me.
R3 1.4. 257 A begging prince, what beggar pities not?
R3 1.4. 258 Which of you, if you were a prince's son,
R3 1.4. 259 Being pent from liberty as I am now,
R3 1.4. 260 If two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
R3 1.4. 261 Would not entreat for life? As you would beg
R3 1.4. 262 Were you in my distress -
R3 1.4. 263
R3-SECOND MURDERER
Look behind you, my lord!
R3 1.4. 264
R3-FIRST MURDERER
{(stabbing Clarence)} Take that, +
R3 1.4. 264 and that! If all this will not serve,
R3 1.4. 265 I'll drown you in the malmsey butt within. {Exit with Clarence's +
R3 1.4. 265 body}
R3 1.4. 266
R3-SECOND MURDERER
A bloody deed, and desperately +
R3 1.4. 266 dispatched!
R3 1.4. 267 How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
R3 1.4. 268 Of this most grievous, guilty murder done. {Enter First +
R3 1.4. 268 Murderer}
R3 1.4. 269
R3-FIRST MURDERER
How now? What mean'st thou, that thou +
R3 1.4. 269 help'st me not?
R3 1.4. 270 By heaven, the Duke shall know how slack you have been.
R3 1.4. 271
R3-SECOND MURDERER
I would he knew that I had saved his brother.
R3 1.4. 272 Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say,
R3 1.4. 273 For I repent me that the Duke is slain. {Exit}
R3 1.4. 274
R3-FIRST MURDERER
So do not I. Go, coward as thou art. -
R3 1.4. 275 Well, I'll go hide the body in some hole
R3 1.4. 276 Till that the Duke give order for his burial.
R3 1.4. 277 And, when I have my meed, I will away,
R3 1.4. 278 For this will out, and then I must not stay. {Exit}
R3 1.4. 0 {Flourish. Enter King Edward, sick, Queen +
R3 2.1. 0 Elizabeth, Lord Marquis Dorset, Lord Rivers, Lord Hastings, Sir William +
R3 2.1. 0 Catesby, the Duke of Buckingham [and Lord Gray]}
R3 2.1. 1
R3-KING EDWARD
Why, so! Now have I done a good day's work.
R3 2.1. 2 You peers, continue this united league.
R3 2.1. 3 I every day expect an embassage
R3 2.1. 4 From my redeemer to redeem me hence,
R3 2.1. 5 And more in peace my soul shall part to heaven
R3 2.1. 6 Since I have made my friends at peace on earth.
R3 2.1. 7 Hastings and Rivers, take each other's hand.
R3 2.1. 8 Dissemble not your hatred; swear your love.
R3 2.1. 9
R3-RIVERS
By heaven, my soul is purged from grudging hate,
R3 2.1. 10 And with my hand I seal my true heart's love. {[He takes +
R3 2.1. 10 Hastings' hand]}
R3 2.1. 11
R3-LORD HASTINGS
So thrive I, as I truly swear the like.
R3 2.1. 12
R3-KING EDWARD
Take heed you dally not before your king,
R3 2.1. 13 Lest he that is the supreme King of Kings
R3 2.1. 14 Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
R3 2.1. 15 Either of you to be the other's end.
R3 2.1. 16
R3-LORD HASTINGS
So prosper I, as I swear perfect love.
R3 2.1. 17
R3-RIVERS
And I, as I love Hastings with my heart.
R3 2.1. 18
R3-KING EDWARD
{(to Elizabeth)} Madam, yourself is +
R3 2.1. 18 not exempt from this,
R3 2.1. 19 Nor your son Dorset; - Buckingham, nor you.
R3 2.1. 20 You have been factious one against the other.
R3 2.1. 21 Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand -
R3 2.1. 22 And what you do, do it unfeignedly.
R3 2.1. 23
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
{(giving Hastings her hand to +
R3 2.1. 23 kiss)} There, Hastings. I will never more remember
R3 2.1. 24 Our former hatred: so thrive I, and mine.
R3 2.1. 25
R3-KING EDWARD
Dorset, embrace him. Hastings, love Lord Marquis.
R3 2.1. 26
R3-DORSET
This interchange of love, I here protest,
R3 2.1. 27 Upon my part shall be inviolable.
R3 2.1. 28A
R3-LORD HASTINGS
And so swear I. {They embrace}
R3 2.1. 29
R3-KING EDWARD
Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this +
R3 2.1. 29 league
R3 2.1. 30 With thy embracements to my wife's allies,
R3 2.1. 31 And make me happy in your unity.
R3 2.1. 32
R3-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Elizabeth)} Whenever Buckingham +
R3 2.1. 32 doth turn his hate
R3 2.1. 33 Upon your grace, but with all duteous love
R3 2.1. 34 Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me
R3 2.1. 35 With hate in those where I expect most love.
R3 2.1. 36 When I have most need to employ a friend,
R3 2.1. 37 And most assured that he is a friend,
R3 2.1. 38 Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile
R3 2.1. 39 Be he unto me. This do I beg of heaven,
R3 2.1. 40 When I am cold in love to you or yours. {They embrace}
R3 2.1. 41
R3-KING EDWARD
A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,
R3 2.1. 42 Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
R3 2.1. 43 There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,
R3 2.1. 44 To make the blessed period of this peace. {Enter Sir Richard +
R3 2.1. 44 Ratcliffe and Richard Duke of Gloucester}
R3 2.1. 45A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
And in good time,
R3 2.1. 46 Here comes Sir Richard Ratcliffe and the Duke.
R3 2.1. 47
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Good morrow to my sovereign King and Queen. -
R3 2.1. 48 And princely peers, a happy time of day.
R3 2.1. 49
R3-KING EDWARD
Happy indeed, as we have spent the day.
R3 2.1. 50 Brother, we have done deeds of charity,
R3 2.1. 51 Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,
R3 2.1. 52 Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
R3 2.1. 53
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
A blessed labour, my most sovereign lord.
R3 2.1. 54 Among this princely heap if any here,
R3 2.1. 55 By false intelligence or wrong surmise,
R3 2.1. 56 Hold me a foe,
R3 2.1. 57 If I unwittingly or in my rage
R3 2.1. 58 Have aught committed that is hardly borne
R3 2.1. 59 By any in this presence, I desire
R3 2.1. 60 To reconcile me to his friendly peace.
R3 2.1. 61 'Tis death to me to be at enmity.
R3 2.1. 62 I hate it, and desire all good men's love. -
R3 2.1. 63 First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,
R3 2.1. 64 Which I will purchase with my duteous service. -
R3 2.1. 65 Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,
R3 2.1. 66 If ever any grudge were lodged between us. -
R3 2.1. 67 Of you, Lord Rivers, and Lord Gray of you,
R3 2.1. 68 That all without desert have frowned on me. -
R3 2.1. 69 Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen, indeed of all!
R3 2.1. 70 I do not know that Englishman alive
R3 2.1. 71 With whom my soul is any jot at odds
R3 2.1. 72 More than the infant that is born tonight.
R3 2.1. 73 I thank my God for my humility.
R3 2.1. 74
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
A holy day shall this be kept hereafter.
R3 2.1. 75 I would to God all strifes were well compounded. -
R3 2.1. 76 My sovereign lord, I do beseech your highness
R3 2.1. 77 To take our brother Clarence to your grace.
R3 2.1. 78
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Why, madam, have I offered love for this,
R3 2.1. 79 To be so flouted in this royal presence?
R3 2.1. 80 Who knows not that the gentle Duke is dead? {The others all +
R3 2.1. 80 start}
R3 2.1. 81 You do him injury to scorn his corpse.
R3 2.1. 82
R3-[RIVERS]
Who knows not he is dead? Who knows he is?
R3 2.1. 83
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
All-seeing heaven, what a world is this?
R3 2.1. 84
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?
R3 2.1. 85
R3-DORSET
Ay, my good lord, and no one in the presence
R3 2.1. 86 But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.
R3 2.1. 87
R3-KING EDWARD
Is Clarence dead? The order was reversed.
R3 2.1. 88
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
But he, poor man, by your first order died,
R3 2.1. 89 And that a winged Mercury did bear;
R3 2.1. 90 Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,
R3 2.1. 91 That came too lag to see him buried.
R3 2.1. 92 God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
R3 2.1. 93 Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,
R3 2.1. 94 Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,
R3 2.1. 95 And yet go current from suspicion. {Enter Lord Stanley Earl of +
R3 2.1. 95 Derby}
R3 2.1. 96
R3-STANLEY
{(kneeling)} A boon, my sovereign, for my +
R3 2.1. 96 service done.
R3 2.1. 97
R3-KING EDWARD
I pray thee, peace! My soul is full of sorrow.
R3 2.1. 98
R3-STANLEY
I will not rise, unless your highness hear me.
R3 2.1. 99
R3-KING EDWARD
Then say at once, what is it thou requests?
R3 2.1. 100
R3-STANLEY
The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life,
R3 2.1. 101 Who slew today a riotous gentleman,
R3 2.1. 102 Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.
R3 2.1. 103
R3-KING EDWARD
Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death,
R3 2.1. 104 And shall that tongue give pardon to a slave?
R3 2.1. 105 My brother slew no man; his fault was thought;
R3 2.1. 106 And yet his punishment was bitter death.
R3 2.1. 107 Who sued to me for him? Who in my wrath
R3 2.1. 108 Kneeled at my feet, and bid me be advised?
R3 2.1. 109 Who spoke of brotherhood? Who spoke of love?
R3 2.1. 110 Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
R3 2.1. 111 The mighty Warwick and did fight for me?
R3 2.1. 112 Who told me, in the field at Tewkesbury,
R3 2.1. 113 When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,
R3 2.1. 114 And said, `Dear brother, live, and be a king'?
R3 2.1. 115 Who told me, when we both lay in the field,
R3 2.1. 116 Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
R3 2.1. 117 Even in his garments, and did give himself
R3 2.1. 118 All thin and naked to the numb-cold night?
R3 2.1. 119 All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
R3 2.1. 120 Sinfully plucked, and not a man of you
R3 2.1. 121 Had so much grace to put it in my mind.
R3 2.1. 122 But when your carters or your waiting vassals
R3 2.1. 123 Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
R3 2.1. 124 The precious image of our dear redeemer,
R3 2.1. 125 You straight are on your knees for `Pardon, pardon!' -
R3 2.1. 126 And I, unjustly too, must grant it you.
R3 2.1. 127 But, for my brother, not a man would speak,
R3 2.1. 128 Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself
R3 2.1. 129 For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all
R3 2.1. 130 Have been beholden to him in his life,
R3 2.1. 131 Yet none of you would once beg for his life.
R3 2.1. 132 O God, I fear thy justice will take hold
R3 2.1. 133 On me - and you, and mine, and yours, for this. -
R3 2.1. 134 Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.
R3 2.1. 135 Ah, poor Clarence! {Exeunt some with King and Queen}
R3 2.1. 136
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
This is the fruits of rashness. Marked +
R3 2.1. 136 you not
R3 2.1. 137 How that the guilty kindred of the Queen
R3 2.1. 138 Looked pale, when they did hear of Clarence' death?
R3 2.1. 139 O, they did urge it still unto the King.
R3 2.1. 140 God will revenge it. Come, lords, will you go
R3 2.1. 141 To comfort Edward with our company?
R3 2.1. 142A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
We wait upon your grace. {Exeunt}
R3 2.1. 0 {Enter the old Duchess of York with the two children of +
R3 2.2. 0 Clarence}
R3 2.2. 1
R3-BOY
Good grannam, tell us, is our father dead?
R3 2.2. 2A
R3-DUCHESS
No, boy.
R3 2.2. 3
R3-GIRL
Why do you weep so oft, and beat your breast,
R3 2.2. 4 And cry, `O Clarence, my unhappy son'?
R3 2.2. 5
R3-BOY
Why do you look on us and shake your head,
R3 2.2. 6 And call us orphans, wretches, castaways,
R3 2.2. 7 If that our noble father were alive?
R3 2.2. 8
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
My pretty cousins, you mistake me both.
R3 2.2. 9 I do lament the sickness of the King,
R3 2.2. 10 As loath to lose him, not your father's death.
R3 2.2. 11 It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost.
R3 2.2. 12
R3-BOY
Then you conclude, my grannam, he is dead.
R3 2.2. 13 The King mine uncle is to blame for this.
R3 2.2. 14 God will revenge it - whom I will importune
R3 2.2. 15 With earnest prayers, all to that effect.
R3 2.2. 16A
R3-GIRL
And so will I.
R3 2.2. 17
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Peace, children, peace! The King doth love you +
R3 2.2. 17 well.
R3 2.2. 18 Incapable and shallow innocents,
R3 2.2. 19 You cannot guess who caused your father's death.
R3 2.2. 20
R3-BOY
Grannam, we can. For my good uncle Gloucester
R3 2.2. 21 Told me the King, provoked to it by the Queen,
R3 2.2. 22 Devised impeachments to imprison him,
R3 2.2. 23 And when my uncle told me so he wept,
R3 2.2. 24 And pitied me, and kindly kissed my cheek,
R3 2.2. 25 Bade me rely on him as on my father,
R3 2.2. 26 And he would love me dearly as his child.
R3 2.2. 27
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
R3 2.2. 28 And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice!
R3 2.2. 29 He is my son, ay, and therein my shame;
R3 2.2. 30 Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.
R3 2.2. 31
R3-BOY
Think you my uncle did dissemble, grannam?
R3 2.2. 32A
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Ay, boy.
R3 2.2. 33
R3-BOY
I cannot think it. Hark, what noise is this? {Enter +
R3 2.2. 33 Queen Elizabeth with her hair about her ears}
R3 2.2. 34
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ah, who shall hinder me to wail and weep?
R3 2.2. 35 To chide my fortune, and torment myself?
R3 2.2. 36 I'll join with black despair against my soul,
R3 2.2. 37 And to myself become an enemy.
R3 2.2. 38
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
What means this scene of rude impatience?
R3 2.2. 39
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
To mark an act of tragic violence.
R3 2.2. 40 Edward, my lord, thy son, our king, is dead.
R3 2.2. 41 Why grow the branches when the root is gone?
R3 2.2. 42 Why wither not the leaves that want their sap?
R3 2.2. 43 If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,
R3 2.2. 44 That our swift-winged souls may catch the King's,
R3 2.2. 45 Or like obedient subjects follow him
R3 2.2. 46 To his new kingdom of ne'er-changing night.
R3 2.2. 47
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow
R3 2.2. 48 As I had title in thy noble husband.
R3 2.2. 49 I have bewept a worthy husband's death,
R3 2.2. 50 And lived with looking on his images.
R3 2.2. 51 But now two mirrors of his princely semblance
R3 2.2. 52 Are cracked in pieces by malignant death,
R3 2.2. 53 And I for comfort have but one false glass,
R3 2.2. 54 That grieves me when I see my shame in him.
R3 2.2. 55 Thou art a widow, yet thou art a mother,
R3 2.2. 56 And hast the comfort of thy children left.
R3 2.2. 57 But death hath snatched my husband from mine arms
R3 2.2. 58 And plucked two crutches from my feeble hands,
R3 2.2. 59 Clarence and Edward. O what cause have I,
R3 2.2. 60 Thine being but a moiety of my moan,
R3 2.2. 61 To overgo thy woes, and drown thy cries?
R3 2.2. 62
R3-BOY
{(to Elizabeth)} Ah, aunt, you wept not for +
R3 2.2. 62 our father's death.
R3 2.2. 63 How can we aid you with our kindred tears?
R3 2.2. 64
R3-DAUGHTER
{(to Elizabeth)} Our fatherless distress +
R3 2.2. 64 was left unmoaned;
R3 2.2. 65 Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept.
R3 2.2. 66
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Give me no help in lamentation.
R3 2.2. 67 I am not barren to bring forth complaints.
R3 2.2. 68 All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
R3 2.2. 69 That I, being governed by the wat'ry moon,
R3 2.2. 70 May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world.
R3 2.2. 71 Ah, for my husband, for my dear Lord Edward!
R3 2.2. 72
R3-CHILDREN
Ah, for our father, for our dear Lord Clarence!
R3 2.2. 73
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Alas, for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!
R3 2.2. 74
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
What stay had I but Edward, and he's gone?
R3 2.2. 75
R3-CHILDREN
What stay had we but Clarence, and he's gone?
R3 2.2. 76
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
What stays had I but they, and they are gone?
R3 2.2. 77
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Was never widow had so dear a loss!
R3 2.2. 78
R3-CHILDREN
Were never orphans had so dear a loss!
R3 2.2. 79
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Was never mother had so dear a loss!
R3 2.2. 80 Alas, I am the mother of these griefs.
R3 2.2. 81 Their woes are parcelled; mine is general.
R3 2.2. 82 She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;
R3 2.2. 83 I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she.
R3 2.2. 84 These babes for Clarence weep, and so do I;
R3 2.2. 85 I for an Edward weep, so do not they.
R3 2.2. 86 Alas, you three on me, threefold distressed,
R3 2.2. 87 Pour all your tears. I am your sorrow's nurse,
R3 2.2. 88 And I will pamper it with lamentation. {Enter Richard Duke of +
R3 2.2. 88 Gloucester, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Stanley Earl of Derby, Lord +
R3 2.2. 88 Hastings, and Sir Richard Ratcliffe}
R3 2.2. 89
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to Elizabeth)} Sister, have +
R3 2.2. 89 comfort. All of us have cause
R3 2.2. 90 To wail the dimming of our shining star,
R3 2.2. 91 But none can help our harms by wailing them. -
R3 2.2. 92 Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy.
R3 2.2. 93 I did not see your grace. Humbly on my knee
R3 2.2. 94 I crave your blessing.
R3 2.2. 95
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast,
R3 2.2. 96 Love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
R3 2.2. 97
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Amen. {(Aside)} `And make me die +
R3 2.2. 97 a good old man.'
R3 2.2. 98 That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing;
R3 2.2. 99 I marvel that her grace did leave it out.
R3 2.2. 100
R3-BUCKINGHAM
You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers
R3 2.2. 101 That bear this heavy mutual load of moan,
R3 2.2. 102 Now cheer each other in each other's love.
R3 2.2. 103 Though we have spent our harvest of this king,
R3 2.2. 104 We are to reap the harvest of his son.
R3 2.2. 105 The broken rancour of your high-swoll'n hearts
R3 2.2. 106 But lately splinted, knit, and joined together,
R3 2.2. 107 Must gently be preserved, cherished, and kept.
R3 2.2. 108 Meseemeth good that, with some little train,
R3 2.2. 109 Forthwith from Ludlow the young Prince be fet
R3 2.2. 110 Hither to London to be crowned our king.
R3 2.2. 111
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Then be it so, and go we to determine
R3 2.2. 112 Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow. -
R3 2.2. 113 Madam, and you my sister, will you go
R3 2.2. 114 To give your censures in this weighty business?
R3 2.2. 115A
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
R3-AND
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
With all our hearts. +
R3 2.2. 115A {Exeunt all but Richard and Buckingham}
R3 2.2. 116
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord, whoever journeys to the Prince,
R3 2.2. 117 For God's sake let not us two stay at home,
R3 2.2. 118 For by the way I'll sort occasion,
R3 2.2. 119 As index to the story we late talked of,
R3 2.2. 120 To part the Queen's proud kindred from the Prince.
R3 2.2. 121
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
My other self, my counsel's consistory,
R3 2.2. 122 My oracle, my prophet, my dear cousin!
R3 2.2. 123 I, as a child, will go by thy direction.
R3 2.2. 124 Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind. {Exeunt}
R3 2.2. 0 {Enter one Citizen at one door and another at the other}
R3 2.3. 1
R3-FIRST CITIZEN
Good morrow, neighbour. Whither away so +
R3 2.3. 1 fast?
R3 2.3. 2
R3-SECOND CITIZEN
I promise you, I scarcely know myself.
R3 2.3. 3B Hear you the news abroad?
R3-FIRST CITIZEN
Yes, that the King is dead.
R3 2.3. 4
R3-SECOND CITIZEN
Ill news, by 'r Lady; seldom comes the better.
R3 2.3. 5 I fear, I fear, 'twill prove a giddy world. {Enter another +
R3 2.3. 5 Citizen}
R3 2.3. 6B
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
Neighbours, God speed.
R3-FIRST CITIZEN
+
R3 2.3. 6B Give you good morrow, sir.
R3 2.3. 7
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
Doth the news hold of good King Edward's death?
R3 2.3. 8
R3-SECOND CITIZEN
Ay, sir, it is too true. God help the while.
R3 2.3. 9
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.
R3 2.3. 10
R3-FIRST CITIZEN
No, no, by God's good grace his son shall reign.
R3 2.3. 11
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
Woe to that land that's governed by a child.
R3 2.3. 12
R3-SECOND CITIZEN
In him there is a hope of government,
R3 2.3. 13 Which in his nonage council under him,
R3 2.3. 14 And in his full and ripened years himself,
R3 2.3. 15 No doubt shall then, and till then, govern well.
R3 2.3. 16
R3-FIRST CITIZEN
So stood the state when Henry the Sixth
R3 2.3. 17 Was crowned in Paris but at nine months old.
R3 2.3. 18
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot.
R3 2.3. 19 For then this land was famously enriched
R3 2.3. 20 With politic, grave counsel; then the King
R3 2.3. 21 Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace.
R3 2.3. 22
R3-FIRST CITIZEN
Why, so hath this, both by his father and mother.
R3 2.3. 23
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
Better it were they all came by his father,
R3 2.3. 24 Or by his father there were none at all.
R3 2.3. 25 For emulation who shall now be near'st
R3 2.3. 26 Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.
R3 2.3. 27 O full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester,
R3 2.3. 28 And the Queen's sons and brothers haught and proud.
R3 2.3. 29 And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
R3 2.3. 30 This sickly land might solace as before.
R3 2.3. 31
R3-FIRST CITIZEN
Come, come, we fear the worst. All will be well.
R3 2.3. 32
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
R3 2.3. 33 When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
R3 2.3. 34 When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
R3 2.3. 35 Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.
R3 2.3. 36 All may be well, but if God sort it so
R3 2.3. 37 'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.
R3 2.3. 38
R3-SECOND CITIZEN
Truly the hearts of men are full of fear.
R3 2.3. 39 You cannot reason almost with a man
R3 2.3. 40 That looks not heavily and full of dread.
R3 2.3. 41
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
Before the days of change still is it so.
R3 2.3. 42 By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust
R3 2.3. 43 Ensuing danger, as by proof we see
R3 2.3. 44 The water swell before a boist'rous storm.
R3 2.3. 45 But leave it all to God. Whither away?
R3 2.3. 46
R3-SECOND CITIZEN
Marry, we were sent for to the justices.
R3 2.3. 47
R3-THIRD CITIZEN
And so was I. I'll bear you company. {Exeunt}
R3 2.3. 0 {Enter [Lord Cardinal], young Duke of York, Queen +
R3 2.4. 0 Elizabeth, and the old Duchess of York}
R3 2.4. 1
R3-[CARDINAL]
Last night, I hear, they lay them at +
R3 2.4. 1 Northampton.
R3 2.4. 2 At Stony Stratford they do rest tonight.
R3 2.4. 3 Tomorrow, or next day, they will be here.
R3 2.4. 4
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
I long with all my heart to see the Prince.
R3 2.4. 5 I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.
R3 2.4. 6
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
But I hear, no. They say my son of York
R3 2.4. 7 Has almost overta'en him in his growth.
R3 2.4. 8
R3-YORK
Ay, mother, but I would not have it so.
R3 2.4. 9
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.
R3 2.4. 10
R3-YORK
Grandam, one night as we did sit at supper,
R3 2.4. 11 My uncle Rivers talked how I did grow
R3 2.4. 12 More than my brother. `Ay', quoth my nuncle Gloucester,
R3 2.4. 13 `Small herbs have grace; gross weeds do grow apace'.
R3 2.4. 14 And since, methinks I would not grow so fast,
R3 2.4. 15 Because sweet flow'rs are slow, and weeds make haste.
R3 2.4. 16
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
R3 2.4. 17 In him that did object the same to thee.
R3 2.4. 18 He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,
R3 2.4. 19 So long a-growing, and so leisurely,
R3 2.4. 20 That if his rule were true he should be gracious.
R3 2.4. 21
R3-[CARDINAL]
Why, so no doubt he is, my gracious madam.
R3 2.4. 22
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
I hope he is, but yet let mothers doubt.
R3 2.4. 23
R3-YORK
Now, by my troth, if I had been remembered,
R3 2.4. 24 I could have given my uncle's grace a flout
R3 2.4. 25 To touch his growth, nearer than he touched mine.
R3 2.4. 26
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
How, my young York? I pray thee, let me hear it.
R3 2.4. 27
R3-YORK
Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast
R3 2.4. 28 That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old.
R3 2.4. 29 'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
R3 2.4. 30 Grannam, this would have been a biting jest.
R3 2.4. 31
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?
R3 2.4. 32A
R3-YORK
Grannam, his nurse.
R3 2.4. 33
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
His nurse? Why, she was dead ere thou wast born.
R3 2.4. 34
R3-YORK
If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.
R3 2.4. 35
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
A parlous boy! Go to, you are too shrewd.
R3 2.4. 36
R3-[CARDINAL]
Good madam, be not angry with the child.
R3 2.4. 37B
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Pitchers have ears. {Enter [Marquis +
R3 2.4. 37B Dorset]}
R3-[CARDINAL]
Here comes your son, Lord Dorset.
R3 2.4. 38B What news, Lord Marquis?
R3-[DORSET]
Such news, my lord,
R3 2.4. 39B As grieves me to report.
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
How doth the Prince?
R3 2.4. 40B
R3-[DORSET]
Well, madam, and in health.
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
What is thy +
R3 2.4. 40B news then?
R3 2.4. 41
R3-[DORSET]
Lord Rivers and Lord Gray are sent to Pomfret,
R3 2.4. 42 And with them Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.
R3 2.4. 43B
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Who hath committed them?
R3-[DORSET]
The mighty +
R3 2.4. 43B dukes,
R3 2.4. 44B Gloucester and Buckingham.
R3-[CARDINAL]
For what offence?
R3 2.4. 45
R3-[DORSET]
The sum of all I can, I have disclosed.
R3 2.4. 46 Why or for what the nobles were committed
R3 2.4. 47 Is all unknown to me, my gracious lord.
R3 2.4. 48
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ay me! I see the ruin of our house.
R3 2.4. 49 The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind.
R3 2.4. 50 Insulting tyranny begins to jet
R3 2.4. 51 Upon the innocent and aweless throne.
R3 2.4. 52 Welcome destruction, blood, and massacre!
R3 2.4. 53 I see, as in a map, the end of all.
R3 2.4. 54
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,
R3 2.4. 55 How many of you have mine eyes beheld?
R3 2.4. 56 My husband lost his life to get the crown,
R3 2.4. 57 And often up and down my sons were tossed,
R3 2.4. 58 For me to joy and weep their gain and loss.
R3 2.4. 59 And being seated, and domestic broils
R3 2.4. 60 Clean overblown, themselves the conquerors
R3 2.4. 61 Make war upon themselves, brother to brother,
R3 2.4. 62 Blood to blood, self against self. O preposterous
R3 2.4. 63 And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen,
R3 2.4. 64 Or let me die, to look on death no more.
R3 2.4. 65
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
{(to York)} Come, come, my boy, we +
R3 2.4. 65 will to sanctuary. -
R3 2.4. 66B Madam, farewell.
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Stay, I will go with you.
R3 2.4. 67B
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
You have no cause.
R3-[CARDINAL]
{(to +
R3 2.4. 67B Elizabeth)} My gracious lady, go,
R3 2.4. 68 And thither bear your treasure and your goods.
R3 2.4. 69 For my part, I'll resign unto your grace
R3 2.4. 70 The seal I keep, and so betide to me
R3 2.4. 71 As well I tender you and all of yours.
R3 2.4. 72 Go, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary. {Exeunt}
R3 2.4. 0 {The Trumpets sound. Enter young Prince Edward, the +
R3 3.1. 0 Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham, Lord Cardinal, with others, +
R3 3.1. 0 including [Lord Stanley Earl of Derby and] Sir William Catesby}
R3 3.1. 1
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Welcome, sweet Prince, to London, to your +
R3 3.1. 1 chamber.
R3 3.1. 2
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to Prince Edward)} Welcome, +
R3 3.1. 2 dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign.
R3 3.1. 3 The weary way hath made you melancholy.
R3 3.1. 4
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
No, uncle, but our crosses on the way
R3 3.1. 5 Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy.
R3 3.1. 6 I want more uncles here to welcome me.
R3 3.1. 7
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Sweet Prince, the untainted virtue of your years
R3 3.1. 8 Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit,
R3 3.1. 9 Nor more can you distinguish of a man
R3 3.1. 10 Than of his outward show, which God he knows
R3 3.1. 11 Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.
R3 3.1. 12 Those uncles which you want were dangerous.
R3 3.1. 13 Your grace attended to their sugared words,
R3 3.1. 14 But looked not on the poison of their hearts.
R3 3.1. 15 God keep you from them, and from such false friends.
R3 3.1. 16
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
God keep me from false friends; but they were +
R3 3.1. 16 none. {Enter Lord Mayor [and his train]}
R3 3.1. 17
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
My lord, the Mayor of London comes to +
R3 3.1. 17 greet you.
R3 3.1. 18
R3-MAYOR
{(kneeling to Prince Edward)} God bless your +
R3 3.1. 18 grace with health and happy days.
R3 3.1. 19
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
I thank you, good my lord, and thank you all. -
R3 3.1. 20 I thought my mother and my brother York
R3 3.1. 21 Would long ere this have met us on the way.
R3 3.1. 22 Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he hastes not
R3 3.1. 23 To tell us whether they will come or no. {Enter Lord Hastings}
R3 3.1. 24
R3-BUCKINGHAM
In happy time here comes the sweating lord.
R3 3.1. 25
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
{(to Hastings)} Welcome, my lord. +
R3 3.1. 25 What, will our mother come?
R3 3.1. 26
R3-LORD HASTINGS
On what occasion God he knows, not I,
R3 3.1. 27 The Queen your mother, and your brother York,
R3 3.1. 28 Have taken sanctuary. The tender Prince
R3 3.1. 29 Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,
R3 3.1. 30 But by his mother was perforce withheld.
R3 3.1. 31
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Fie, what an indirect and peevish course
R3 3.1. 32 Is this of hers! - Lord Cardinal, will your grace
R3 3.1. 33 Persuade the Queen to send the Duke of York
R3 3.1. 34 Unto his princely brother presently? -
R3 3.1. 35 If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,
R3 3.1. 36 And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.
R3 3.1. 37
R3-CARDINAL
My lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
R3 3.1. 38 Can from his mother win the Duke of York,
R3 3.1. 39 Anon expect him. But if she be obdurate
R3 3.1. 40 To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
R3 3.1. 41 We should infringe the sacred privilege
R3 3.1. 42 Of blessed sanctuary. Not for all this land
R3 3.1. 43 Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.
R3 3.1. 44
R3-BUCKINGHAM
You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord,
R3 3.1. 45 Too ceremonious and traditional.
R3 3.1. 46 Weigh it not with the grossness of this age.
R3 3.1. 47 You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
R3 3.1. 48 The benefit thereof is always granted
R3 3.1. 49 To those whose dealings have deserved the place,
R3 3.1. 50 And those who have the wit to claim the place.
R3 3.1. 51 This prince hath neither claimed it nor deserved it,
R3 3.1. 52 And therefore, in my mind, he cannot have it.
R3 3.1. 53 Then taking him from thence that 'longs not there,
R3 3.1. 54 You break thereby no privilege nor charter.
R3 3.1. 55 Oft have I heard of `sanctuary men',
R3 3.1. 56 But `sanctuary children' ne'er till now.
R3 3.1. 57
R3-CARDINAL
My lord, you shall o'errule my mind for once. -
R3 3.1. 58 Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?
R3 3.1. 59A
R3-LORD HASTINGS
I come, my lord.
R3 3.1. 60
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may. - +
R3 3.1. 60 {Exeunt Cardinal and Hastings}
R3 3.1. 61 Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,
R3 3.1. 62 Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?
R3 3.1. 63
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Where it seems best unto your royal self.
R3 3.1. 64 If I may counsel you, some day or two
R3 3.1. 65 Your highness shall repose you at the Tower,
R3 3.1. 66 Then where you please and shall be thought most fit
R3 3.1. 67 For your best health and recreation.
R3 3.1. 68
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
I do not like the Tower of any place. -
R3 3.1. 69 Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?
R3 3.1. 70
R3-BUCKINGHAM
He did, my gracious lord, begin that place,
R3 3.1. 71 Which since succeeding ages have re-edified.
R3 3.1. 72
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
Is it upon record, or else reported
R3 3.1. 73 Successively from age to age, he built it?
R3 3.1. 74
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Upon record, my gracious liege.
R3 3.1. 75
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
But say, my lord, it were not registered,
R3 3.1. 76 Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
R3 3.1. 77 As 'twere retailed to all posterity
R3 3.1. 78 Even to the general all-ending day.
R3 3.1. 79
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} So wise so young, +
R3 3.1. 79 they say, do never live long.
R3 3.1. 80A
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
What say you, uncle?
R3 3.1. 81
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I say, `Without characters fame lives long'.
R3 3.1. 82 {(Aside)} Thus like the formal Vice, Iniquity,
R3 3.1. 83 I moralize two meanings in one word.
R3 3.1. 84
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
That Julius Caesar was a famous man:
R3 3.1. 85 With what his valour did t' enrich his wit,
R3 3.1. 86 His wit set down to make his valour live.
R3 3.1. 87 Death made no conquest of this conqueror,
R3 3.1. 88 For yet he lives in fame though not in life.
R3 3.1. 89 I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham.
R3 3.1. 90A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
What, my good lord?
R3 3.1. 91
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
An if I live until I be a man,
R3 3.1. 92 I'll win our ancient right in France again,
R3 3.1. 93 Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.
R3 3.1. 94
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} Short summers lightly +
R3 3.1. 94 have a forward spring. {Enter young Duke of York, Lord Hastings, +
R3 3.1. 94 and Lord Cardinal}
R3 3.1. 95
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Now in good time, here comes the Duke of York.
R3 3.1. 96
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
Richard of York, how fares our loving brother?
R3 3.1. 97
R3-YORK
Well, my dread lord - so must I call you now.
R3 3.1. 98
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours.
R3 3.1. 99 Too late he died that might have kept that title,
R3 3.1. 100 Which by his death hath lost much majesty.
R3 3.1. 101
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
How fares our noble cousin, Lord of York?
R3 3.1. 102
R3-YORK
I thank you, gentle uncle, well. O, my lord,
R3 3.1. 103 You said that idle weeds are fast in growth;
R3 3.1. 104 The Prince, my brother, hath outgrown me far.
R3 3.1. 105B
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
He hath, my lord.
R3-YORK
And therefore is he +
R3 3.1. 105B idle?
R3 3.1. 106
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
O my fair cousin, I must not say so.
R3 3.1. 107
R3-YORK
He is more beholden to you then than I.
R3 3.1. 108
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
He may command me as my sovereign,
R3 3.1. 109 But you have power in me as a kinsman.
R3 3.1. 110
R3-YORK
I pray you, uncle, render me this dagger.
R3 3.1. 111
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
My dagger, little cousin? With all my heart.
R3 3.1. 112A
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
A beggar, brother?
R3 3.1. 113
R3-YORK
Of my kind uncle that I know will give,
R3 3.1. 114 It being but a toy which is no grief to give.
R3 3.1. 115
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin.
R3 3.1. 116
R3-YORK
A greater gift? O, that's the sword to it.
R3 3.1. 117
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Ay, gentle cousin, were it light enough.
R3 3.1. 118
R3-YORK
O, then I see you will part but with light gifts.
R3 3.1. 119 In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay.
R3 3.1. 120
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
It is too heavy for your grace to wear.
R3 3.1. 121
R3-YORK
I'd weigh it lightly, were it heavier.
R3 3.1. 122
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
What, would you have my weapon, little lord?
R3 3.1. 123
R3-YORK
I would, that I might thank you as you call me.
R3 3.1. 124A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
How?
R3 3.1. 125A
R3-YORK
Little.
R3 3.1. 126
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
My lord of York will still be cross in talk. -
R3 3.1. 127 Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.
R3 3.1. 128
R3-YORK
You mean to bear me, not to bear with me. -
R3 3.1. 129 Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me.
R3 3.1. 130 Because that I am little like an ape,
R3 3.1. 131 He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.
R3 3.1. 132
R3-BUCKINGHAM
With what a sharp, prodigal wit he reasons.
R3 3.1. 133 To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
R3 3.1. 134 He prettily and aptly taunts himself.
R3 3.1. 135 So cunning and so young is wonderful.
R3 3.1. 136
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to Prince Edward)} My lord, +
R3 3.1. 136 will 't please you pass along?
R3 3.1. 137 Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
R3 3.1. 138 Will to your mother to entreat of her
R3 3.1. 139 To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.
R3 3.1. 140
R3-YORK
{(to Prince Edward)} What, will you go unto +
R3 3.1. 140 the Tower, my lord?
R3 3.1. 141
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
My Lord Protector needs will have it so.
R3 3.1. 142
R3-YORK
I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.
R3 3.1. 143A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Why, what should you fear there?
R3 3.1. 144
R3-YORK
Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost.
R3 3.1. 145 My grannam told me he was murdered there.
R3 3.1. 146B
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
I fear no uncles dead.
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Nor none +
R3 3.1. 146B that live, I hope.
R3 3.1. 147
R3-PRINCE EDWARD
An if they live, I hope I need not fear.
R3 3.1. 148 {(To York)} But come, my lord, and with a heavy heart,
R3 3.1. 149 Thinking on them, go we unto the Tower. {A Sennet. Exeunt all +
R3 3.1. 149 but Richard, Buckingham, and Catesby}
R3 3.1. 150
R3-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Richard)} Think you, my lord, this +
R3 3.1. 150 little prating York
R3 3.1. 151 Was not incensed by his subtle mother
R3 3.1. 152 To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?
R3 3.1. 153
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
No doubt, no doubt. O, 'tis a parlous boy,
R3 3.1. 154 Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable.
R3 3.1. 155 He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.
R3 3.1. 156
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Well, let them rest. - Come hither, Catesby. Thou art +
R3 3.1. 156 sworn
R3 3.1. 157 As deeply to effect what we intend
R3 3.1. 158 As closely to conceal what we impart.
R3 3.1. 159 Thou know'st our reasons, urged upon the way.
R3 3.1. 160 What think'st thou? Is it not an easy matter
R3 3.1. 161 To make Lord William Hastings of our mind,
R3 3.1. 162 For the instalment of this noble duke
R3 3.1. 163 In the seat royal of this famous isle?
R3 3.1. 164
R3-CATESBY
He for his father's sake so loves the Prince
R3 3.1. 165 That he will not be won to aught against him.
R3 3.1. 166
R3-BUCKINGHAM
What think'st thou then of Stanley? Will not he?
R3 3.1. 167
R3-CATESBY
He will do all-in-all as Hastings doth.
R3 3.1. 168
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Well then, no more but this. Go, gentle Catesby,
R3 3.1. 169 And, as it were far off, sound thou Lord Hastings
R3 3.1. 170 How he doth stand affected to our purpose.
R3 3.1. 171 If thou dost find him tractable to us,
R3 3.1. 172 Encourage him, and tell him all our reasons.
R3 3.1. 173 If he be leaden, icy, cold, unwilling,
R3 3.1. 174 Be thou so too, and so break off your talk,
R3 3.1. 175 And give us notice of his inclination,
R3 3.1. 176 For we tomorrow hold divided counsels,
R3 3.1. 177 Wherein thyself shalt highly be employed.
R3 3.1. 178
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Commend me to Lord William. Tell him, Catesby,
R3 3.1. 179 His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
R3 3.1. 180 Tomorrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle,
R3 3.1. 181 And bid my lord, for joy of this good news,
R3 3.1. 182 Give Mrs Shore one gentle kiss the more.
R3 3.1. 183
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Good Catesby, go effect this business soundly.
R3 3.1. 184
R3-CATESBY
My good lords both, with all the heed I can.
R3 3.1. 185
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?
R3 3.1. 186A
R3-CATESBY
You shall, my lord.
R3 3.1. 187
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
At Crosby House, there shall you find us +
R3 3.1. 187 both. {Exit Catesby}
R3 3.1. 188
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord, what shall we do if we perceive
R3 3.1. 189 Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?
R3 3.1. 190
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Chop off his head. Something we will determine.
R3 3.1. 191 And look when I am king, claim thou of me
R3 3.1. 192 The earldom of Hereford, and all the movables
R3 3.1. 193 Whereof the King my brother was possessed.
R3 3.1. 194
R3-BUCKINGHAM
I'll claim that promise at your grace's hand.
R3 3.1. 195
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
And look to have it yielded with all kindness.
R3 3.1. 196 Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
R3 3.1. 197 We may digest our complots in some form. {Exeunt}
R3 3.1. 0 {Enter a Messenger to the door of Lord Hastings}
R3 3.2. 1B
R3-MESSENGER
{(knocking)} My lord, my lord! +
R3 3.2. 1B
R3-LORD HASTINGS
{[within]} Who knocks?
R3-MESSENGER
+
R3 3.2. 1B One from Lord Stanley. {[Enter Lord Hastings]}
R3 3.2. 2B
R3-LORD HASTINGS
What is 't o'clock?
R3-MESSENGER
Upon the +
R3 3.2. 2B stroke of four.
R3 3.2. 3
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Cannot my Lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights?
R3 3.2. 4
R3-MESSENGER
So it appears by that I have to say.
R3 3.2. 5 First he commends him to your noble self.
R3 3.2. 6A
R3-LORD HASTINGS
What then?
R3 3.2. 7
R3-MESSENGER
Then certifies your lordship that this night
R3 3.2. 8 He dreamt the boar had razed off his helm.
R3 3.2. 9 Besides, he says there are two councils kept,
R3 3.2. 10 And that may be determined at the one
R3 3.2. 11 Which may make you and him to rue at th' other.
R3 3.2. 12 Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure,
R3 3.2. 13 If you will presently take horse with him,
R3 3.2. 14 And with all speed post with him toward the north
R3 3.2. 15 To shun the danger that his soul divines.
R3 3.2. 16
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord.
R3 3.2. 17 Bid him not fear the separated councils.
R3 3.2. 18 His honour and myself are at the one,
R3 3.2. 19 And at the other is my good friend Catesby,
R3 3.2. 20 Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us
R3 3.2. 21 Whereof I shall not have intelligence.
R3 3.2. 22 Tell him his fears are shallow, without instance.
R3 3.2. 23 And for his dreams, I wonder he's so simple,
R3 3.2. 24 To trust the mock'ry of unquiet slumbers.
R3 3.2. 25 To fly the boar before the boar pursues
R3 3.2. 26 Were to incense the boar to follow us,
R3 3.2. 27 And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
R3 3.2. 28 Go, bid thy master rise, and come to me,
R3 3.2. 29 And we will both together to the Tower,
R3 3.2. 30 Where he shall see the boar will use us kindly.
R3 3.2. 31
R3-MESSENGER
I'll go, my lord, and tell him what you say. +
R3 3.2. 31 {Exit}
R3 3.2. 32 {Enter Catesby}
R3-CATESBY
Many good morrows to my +
R3 3.2. 32 noble lord.
R3 3.2. 33
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Good morrow, Catesby. You are early stirring.
R3 3.2. 34 What news, what news, in this our tott'ring state?
R3 3.2. 35
R3-CATESBY
It is a reeling world indeed, my lord,
R3 3.2. 36 And I believe will never stand upright
R3 3.2. 37 Till Richard wear the garland of the realm.
R3 3.2. 38
R3-LORD HASTINGS
How? `Wear the garland'? Dost thou mean the crown?
R3 3.2. 39A
R3-CATESBY
Ay, my good lord.
R3 3.2. 40
R3-LORD HASTINGS
I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
R3 3.2. 41 Before I'll see the crown so foul misplaced.
R3 3.2. 42 But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?
R3 3.2. 43
R3-CATESBY
Ay, on my life, and hopes to find you forward
R3 3.2. 44 Upon his party for the gain thereof -
R3 3.2. 45 And thereupon he sends you this good news:
R3 3.2. 46 That this same very day your enemies,
R3 3.2. 47 The kindred of the Queen, must die at Pomfret.
R3 3.2. 48
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Indeed I am no mourner for that news,
R3 3.2. 49 Because they have been still my adversaries.
R3 3.2. 50 But that I'll give my voice on Richard's side
R3 3.2. 51 To bar my master's heirs in true descent,
R3 3.2. 52 God knows I will not do it, to the death.
R3 3.2. 53
R3-CATESBY
God keep your lordship in that gracious mind!
R3 3.2. 54
R3-LORD HASTINGS
But I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence:
R3 3.2. 55 That they which brought me in my master's hate,
R3 3.2. 56 I live to look upon their tragedy.
R3 3.2. 57 Well, Catesby, ere a fortnight make me older,
R3 3.2. 58 I'll send some packing that yet think not on 't.
R3 3.2. 59
R3-CATESBY
'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
R3 3.2. 60 When men are unprepared, and look not for it.
R3 3.2. 61
R3-LORD HASTINGS
O monstrous, monstrous! And so falls it out
R3 3.2. 62 With Rivers, Vaughan, Gray - and so 'twill do
R3 3.2. 63 With some men else, that think themselves as safe
R3 3.2. 64 As thou and I, who as thou know'st are dear
R3 3.2. 65 To princely Richard and to Buckingham.
R3 3.2. 66
R3-CATESBY
The Princes both make high account of you -
R3 3.2. 67 {(Aside)} For they account his head upon the bridge.
R3 3.2. 68
R3-LORD HASTINGS
I know they do, and I have well deserved it. +
R3 3.2. 68 {Enter Lord Stanley}
R3 3.2. 69 Come on, come on, where is your boar-spear, man?
R3 3.2. 70 Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?
R3 3.2. 71
R3-STANLEY
My lord, good morrow. - Good morrow, Catesby. -
R3 3.2. 72 You may jest on, but by the Holy Rood
R3 3.2. 73 I do not like these several councils, I.
R3 3.2. 74
R3-LORD HASTINGS
My lord, I hold my life as dear as you do yours,
R3 3.2. 75 And never in my days, I do protest,
R3 3.2. 76 Was it so precious to me as 'tis now.
R3 3.2. 77 Think you, but that I know our state secure,
R3 3.2. 78 I would be so triumphant as I am?
R3 3.2. 79
R3-STANLEY
The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,
R3 3.2. 80 Were jocund, and supposed their states were sure,
R3 3.2. 81 And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;
R3 3.2. 82 But yet you see how soon the day o'ercast.
R3 3.2. 83 This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt.
R3 3.2. 84 Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward.
R3 3.2. 85 What, shall we toward the Tower? The day is spent.
R3 3.2. 86
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Come, come, have with you! Wot you what, my lord?
R3 3.2. 87 Today the lords you talked of are beheaded.
R3 3.2. 88
R3-STANLEY
They for their truth might better wear their heads
R3 3.2. 89 Than some that have accused them wear their hats.
R3 3.2. 90 But come, my lord, let us away. {Enter a Pursuivant named +
R3 3.2. 90 [Hastings]}
R3 3.2. 91
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Go on before; I'll follow presently. +
R3 3.2. 91 {Exeunt Stanley and Catesby}
R3 3.2. 92 Well met, Hastings. How goes the world with thee?
R3 3.2. 93
R3-PURSUIVANT
The better that your lordship please to ask.
R3 3.2. 94
R3-LORD HASTINGS
I tell thee, man, 'tis better with me now
R3 3.2. 95 Than when I met thee last, where now we meet.
R3 3.2. 96 Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,
R3 3.2. 97 By the suggestion of the Queen's allies;
R3 3.2. 98 But now, I tell thee - keep it to thyself -
R3 3.2. 99 This day those enemies are put to death,
R3 3.2. 100 And I in better state than e'er I was.
R3 3.2. 101
R3-PURSUIVANT
God hold it to your honour's good content.
R3 3.2. 102
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Gramercy, Hastings. There, drink that for me. +
R3 3.2. 102 {He throws him his purse}
R3 3.2. 103A
R3-PURSUIVANT
God save your lordship. {Exit}
R3 3.2. 104 {Enter a Priest}
R3-PRIEST
Well met, my lord. I am +
R3 3.2. 104 glad to see your honour.
R3 3.2. 105
R3-LORD HASTINGS
I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.
R3 3.2. 106 I am in your debt for your last exercise.
R3 3.2. 107 Come the next sabbath, and I will content you. {[He whispers in +
R3 3.2. 107 his ear.]}
R3 3.2. 108 {Enter Buckingham}
R3-BUCKINGHAM
What, talking with a priest, +
R3 3.2. 108 Lord Chamberlain?
R3 3.2. 109 Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest;
R3 3.2. 110 Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.
R3 3.2. 111
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Good faith, and when I met this holy man
R3 3.2. 112 The men you talk of came into my mind.
R3 3.2. 113 What, go you toward the Tower?
R3 3.2. 114
R3-BUCKINGHAM
I do, my lord, but long I cannot stay there;
R3 3.2. 115 I shall return before your lordship thence.
R3 3.2. 116
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Nay, like enough, for I stay dinner there.
R3 3.2. 117
R3-BUCKINGHAM
{(aside)} And supper too, although thou +
R3 3.2. 117 know'st it not.
R3 3.2. 118B Come, will you go?
R3-LORD HASTINGS
I'll wait upon your lordship.+
R3 3.2. 118B {Exeunt}
R3 3.2. 0 {Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe with Halberdiers taking Lord +
R3 3.3. 0 Rivers, Lord Gray, and Sir Thomas Vaughan to death at Pomfret}
R3 3.3. 1
R3-RIVERS
Sir Richard Ratcliffe, let me tell thee this:
R3 3.3. 2 Today shalt thou behold a subject die
R3 3.3. 3 For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
R3 3.3. 4
R3-GRAY
{(to Ratcliffe)} God bless the Prince from +
R3 3.3. 4 all the pack of you!
R3 3.3. 5 A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
R3 3.3. 6
R3-VAUGHAN
{(to Ratcliffe)} You live, that shall cry +
R3 3.3. 6 woe for this hereafter.
R3 3.3. 7
R3-RATCLIFFE
Dispatch. The limit of your lives is out.
R3 3.3. 8
R3-RIVERS
O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
R3 3.3. 9 Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
R3 3.3. 10 Within the guilty closure of thy walls,
R3 3.3. 11 Richard the Second here was hacked to death,
R3 3.3. 12 And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
R3 3.3. 13 We give to thee our guiltless blood to drink.
R3 3.3. 14
R3-GRAY
Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,
R3 3.3. 15 For standing by when Richard stabbed her son.
R3 3.3. 16
R3-RIVERS
Then cursed she Hastings; then cursed she Buckingham;
R3 3.3. 17 Then cursed she Richard. O remember, God,
R3 3.3. 18 To hear her prayer for them as now for us.
R3 3.3. 19 And for my sister and her princely sons,
R3 3.3. 20 Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
R3 3.3. 21 Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.
R3 3.3. 22
R3-RATCLIFFE
Make haste: the hour of death is expiate.
R3 3.3. 23
R3-RIVERS
Come, Gray; come, Vaughan; let us here embrace.
R3 3.3. 24 Farewell, until we meet again in heaven. {Exeunt}
R3 3.3. 0 {Enter the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Stanley Earl of +
R3 3.4. 0 Derby, Lord Hastings, Bishop of Ely, the Duke of Norfolk, [Sir William +
R3 3.4. 0 Catesby], with others at a table}
R3 3.4. 1
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Now, noble peers, the cause why we are met
R3 3.4. 2 Is to determine of the coronation.
R3 3.4. 3 In God's name, speak: when is the royal day?
R3 3.4. 4
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Is all things ready for that solemn time?
R3 3.4. 5
R3-STANLEY
It is, and wants but nomination.
R3 3.4. 6
R3-BISHOP OF ELY
Tomorrow, then, I judge a happy day.
R3 3.4. 7
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Who knows the Lord Protector's mind herein?
R3 3.4. 8 Who is most inward with the noble Duke?
R3 3.4. 9
R3-BISHOP OF ELY
Your grace, methinks, should soonest know his mind.
R3 3.4. 10
R3-BUCKINGHAM
We know each other's faces. For our hearts,
R3 3.4. 11 He knows no more of mine than I of yours,
R3 3.4. 12 Or I of his, my lord, than you of mine. -
R3 3.4. 13 Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.
R3 3.4. 14
R3-LORD HASTINGS
I thank his grace; I know he loves me well.
R3 3.4. 15 But for his purpose in the coronation,
R3 3.4. 16 I have not sounded him, nor he delivered
R3 3.4. 17 His gracious pleasure any way therein.
R3 3.4. 18 But you, my honourable lords, may name the time,
R3 3.4. 19 And in the Duke's behalf I'll give my voice,
R3 3.4. 20 Which I presume he'll take in gentle part. {Enter Richard Duke +
R3 3.4. 20 of Gloucester}
R3 3.4. 21
R3-BISHOP OF ELY
In happy time, here comes the Duke himself.
R3 3.4. 22
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
My noble lords, and cousins all, good morrow.
R3 3.4. 23 I have been long a sleeper, but I trust
R3 3.4. 24 My absence doth neglect no great design
R3 3.4. 25 Which by my presence might have been concluded.
R3 3.4. 26
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Had not you come upon your cue, my lord,
R3 3.4. 27 William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part -
R3 3.4. 28 I mean, your voice, for crowning of the King.
R3 3.4. 29
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder.
R3 3.4. 30 His lordship knows me well, and loves me well. -
R3 3.4. 31 My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn
R3 3.4. 32 I saw good strawberries in your garden there.
R3 3.4. 33 I do beseech you send for some of them.
R3 3.4. 34
R3-BISHOP OF ELY
Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart. +
R3 3.4. 34 {Exit}
R3 3.4. 35
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.
R3 3.4. 36 {(Aside)} Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our +
R3 3.4. 36 business,
R3 3.4. 37 And finds the testy gentleman so hot
R3 3.4. 38 That he will lose his head ere give consent
R3 3.4. 39 His `master's child' - as worshipful he terms it -
R3 3.4. 40 Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.
R3 3.4. 41
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Withdraw yourself a while; I'll go with you. +
R3 3.4. 41 {Exeunt Richard [and Buckingham]}
R3 3.4. 42
R3-STANLEY
We have not yet set down this day of triumph.
R3 3.4. 43 Tomorrow, in my judgement, is too sudden,
R3 3.4. 44 For I myself am not so well provided
R3 3.4. 45 As else I would be, were the day prolonged. {Enter Bishop of +
R3 3.4. 45 Ely}
R3 3.4. 46
R3-BISHOP OF ELY
Where is my lord, the Duke of Gloucester?
R3 3.4. 47 I have sent for these strawberries.
R3 3.4. 48
R3-LORD HASTINGS
His grace looks cheerfully and smooth this morning.
R3 3.4. 49 There's some conceit or other likes him well,
R3 3.4. 50 When that he bids good morrow with such spirit.
R3 3.4. 51 I think there's never a man in Christendom
R3 3.4. 52 Can lesser hide his love or hate than he,
R3 3.4. 53 For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
R3 3.4. 54
R3-STANLEY
What of his heart perceive you in his face
R3 3.4. 55 By any likelihood he showed today?
R3 3.4. 56
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Marry, that with no man here he is offended -
R3 3.4. 57 For were he, he had shown it in his looks.
R3 3.4. 58
R3-STANLEY
I pray God he be not. {Enter Richard [and +
R3 3.4. 58 Buckingham]}
R3 3.4. 59
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I pray you all, tell me what they +
R3 3.4. 59 deserve
R3 3.4. 60 That do conspire my death with devilish plots
R3 3.4. 61 Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevailed
R3 3.4. 62 Upon my body with their hellish charms?
R3 3.4. 63
R3-LORD HASTINGS
The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,
R3 3.4. 64 Makes me most forward in this princely presence
R3 3.4. 65 To doom th' offenders, whatsoe'er they be.
R3 3.4. 66 I say, my lord, they have deserved death.
R3 3.4. 67
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Then be your eyes the witness of their evil:
R3 3.4. 68 See how I am bewitched. Behold, mine arm
R3 3.4. 69 Is like a blasted sapling withered up.
R3 3.4. 70 And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch,
R3 3.4. 71 Consorted with that harlot, strumpet Shore,
R3 3.4. 72 That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.
R3 3.4. 73
R3-LORD HASTINGS
If they have done this deed, my noble lord -
R3 3.4. 74
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
`If'? Thou protector of this damned strumpet,
R3 3.4. 75 Talk'st thou to me of `ifs'? Thou art a traitor. -
R3 3.4. 76 Off with his head. Now, by Saint Paul I swear,
R3 3.4. 77 I will not dine until I see the same.
R3 3.4. 78 Some see it done.
R3 3.4. 79 The rest that love me, rise and follow me. {Exeunt all but +
R3 3.4. 79 [Catesby] and Hastings}
R3 3.4. 80
R3-LORD HASTINGS
Woe, woe for England! Not a whit for me,
R3 3.4. 81 For I, too fond, might have prevented this.
R3 3.4. 82 Stanley did dream the boar did raze our helms,
R3 3.4. 83 But I did scorn it and disdain to fly.
R3 3.4. 84 Three times today my footcloth horse did stumble,
R3 3.4. 85 And started when he looked upon the Tower,
R3 3.4. 86 As loath to bear me to the slaughterhouse.
R3 3.4. 87 O now I need the priest that spake to me.
R3 3.4. 88 I now repent I told the pursuivant,
R3 3.4. 89 As too triumphing, how mine enemies
R3 3.4. 90 Today at Pomfret bloodily were butchered,
R3 3.4. 91 And I myself secure in grace and favour.
R3 3.4. 92 O Margaret, Margaret! Now thy heavy curse
R3 3.4. 93 Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head.
R3 3.4. 94
R3-[CATESBY]
Come, come, dispatch: the Duke would be at dinner.
R3 3.4. 95 Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head.
R3 3.4. 96
R3-LORD HASTINGS
O momentary grace of mortal men,
R3 3.4. 97 Which we more hunt for than the grace of God.
R3 3.4. 98 Who builds his hope in th' air of your good looks
R3 3.4. 99 Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
R3 3.4. 100 Ready with every nod to tumble down
R3 3.4. 101 Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
R3 3.4. 102
R3-[CATESBY]
Come, come, dispatch. 'Tis bootless to exclaim.
R3 3.4. 103
R3-LORD HASTINGS
O bloody Richard! Miserable England!
R3 3.4. 104 I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee
R3 3.4. 105 That ever wretched age hath looked upon. -
R3 3.4. 106 Come lead me to the block; bear him my head.
R3 3.4. 107 They smile at me, who shortly shall be dead. {Exeunt}
R3 3.4. 0 {Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of +
R3 3.5. 0 Buckingham in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured}
R3 3.5. 1
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Come, cousin, canst thou quake and +
R3 3.5. 1 change thy colour?
R3 3.5. 2 Murder thy breath in middle of a word?
R3 3.5. 3 And then again begin, and stop again,
R3 3.5. 4 As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?
R3 3.5. 5
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian,
R3 3.5. 6 Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
R3 3.5. 7 Speak, and look back, and pry on every side,
R3 3.5. 8 Intending deep suspicion; ghastly looks
R3 3.5. 9 Are at my service, like enforced smiles,
R3 3.5. 10 And both are ready in their offices
R3 3.5. 11 At any time to grace my stratagems. {Enter the Lord Mayor}
R3 3.5. 12
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(aside to Buckingham)} Here +
R3 3.5. 12 comes the Mayor.
R3 3.5. 13
R3-BUCKINGHAM
{(aside to Richard)} Let me alone to +
R3 3.5. 13 entertain him. - Lord Mayor -
R3 3.5. 14
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{[calling as to one within]} +
R3 3.5. 14 Look to the drawbridge there!
R3 3.5. 15A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Hark, a drum!
R3 3.5. 16
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{[calling as to one within]} +
R3 3.5. 16 Catesby, o'erlook the walls!
R3 3.5. 17A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Lord Mayor, the reason we have sent -
R3 3.5. 18
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Look back, defend thee! Here are enemies.
R3 3.5. 19
R3-BUCKINGHAM
God and our innocence defend and guard us. {Enter +
R3 3.5. 19 [Sir William Catesby] with Hastings' head}
R3 3.5. 20
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
O, O, be quiet! It is Catesby.
R3 3.5. 21
R3-CATESBY
Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,
R3 3.5. 22 The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.
R3 3.5. 23
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
So dear I loved the man that I must weep.
R3 3.5. 24 I took him for the plainest harmless creature
R3 3.5. 25 That breathed upon the earth, a Christian,
R3 3.5. 26 Made him my book wherein my soul recorded
R3 3.5. 27 The history of all her secret thoughts.
R3 3.5. 28 So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue
R3 3.5. 29 That, his apparent open guilt omitted -
R3 3.5. 30 I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife -
R3 3.5. 31 He lived from all attainture of suspect.
R3 3.5. 32
R3-BUCKINGHAM
The covert'st sheltered traitor that ever lived.
R3 3.5. 33 {(To the Mayor)} Would you imagine, or almost believe -
R3 3.5. 34 Were 't not that, by great preservation,
R3 3.5. 35 We live to tell it - that the subtle traitor
R3 3.5. 36 This day had plotted in the Council house
R3 3.5. 37 To murder me and my good lord of Gloucester?
R3 3.5. 38A
R3-MAYOR
Had he done so?
R3 3.5. 39
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
What, think you we are Turks or infidels,
R3 3.5. 40 Or that we would against the form of law
R3 3.5. 41 Proceed thus rashly in the villain's death
R3 3.5. 42 But that the extreme peril of the case,
R3 3.5. 43 The peace of England, and our persons' safety,
R3 3.5. 44 Enforced us to this execution?
R3 3.5. 45
R3-MAYOR
Now fair befall you, he deserved his death,
R3 3.5. 46 And your good graces both have well proceeded,
R3 3.5. 47 To warn false traitors from the like attempts.
R3 3.5. 48 I never looked for better at his hands
R3 3.5. 49 After he once fell in with Mrs Shore.
R3 3.5. 50
R3-[RICHARD GLOUCESTER]
Yet had not we determined he should die,
R3 3.5. 51 Until your lordship came to see his end,
R3 3.5. 52 Which now the loving haste of these our friends -
R3 3.5. 53 Something against our meanings - have prevented;
R3 3.5. 54 Because, my lord, we would have had you hear
R3 3.5. 55 The traitor speak, and timorously confess
R3 3.5. 56 The manner and the purpose of his treason,
R3 3.5. 57 That you might well have signified the same
R3 3.5. 58 Unto the citizens, who haply may
R3 3.5. 59 Misconster us in him, and wail his death.
R3 3.5. 60
R3-MAYOR
But, my good lord, your graces' word shall serve
R3 3.5. 61 As well as I had seen and heard him speak.
R3 3.5. 62 And do not doubt, right noble princes both,
R3 3.5. 63 But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens
R3 3.5. 64 With all your just proceedings in this cause.
R3 3.5. 65
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
And to that end we wished your lordship here,
R3 3.5. 66 T' avoid the censures of the carping world.
R3 3.5. 67
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Which, since you come too late of our intent,
R3 3.5. 68 Yet witness what you hear we did intend,
R3 3.5. 69 And so, my good Lord Mayor, we bid farewell. {Exit Mayor}
R3 3.5. 70
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Go after; after, cousin Buckingham!
R3 3.5. 71 The Mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post;
R3 3.5. 72 There, at your meetest vantage of the time,
R3 3.5. 73 Infer the bastardy of Edward's children.
R3 3.5. 74 Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen
R3 3.5. 75 Only for saying he would make his son
R3 3.5. 76 `Heir to the Crown' - meaning indeed, his house,
R3 3.5. 77 Which by the sign thereof was termed so.
R3 3.5. 78 Moreover, urge his hateful luxury
R3 3.5. 79 And bestial appetite in change of lust,
R3 3.5. 80 Which stretched unto their servants, daughters, wives,
R3 3.5. 81 Even where his raging eye, or savage heart,
R3 3.5. 82 Without control, listed to make a prey.
R3 3.5. 83 Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
R3 3.5. 84 Tell them, when that my mother went with child
R3 3.5. 85 Of that insatiate Edward, noble York,
R3 3.5. 86 My princely father, then had wars in France,
R3 3.5. 87 And by true computation of the time
R3 3.5. 88 Found that the issue was not his begot -
R3 3.5. 89 Which well appeared in his lineaments,
R3 3.5. 90 Being nothing like the noble Duke my father.
R3 3.5. 91 Yet touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off,
R3 3.5. 92 Because, my lord, you know my mother lives.
R3 3.5. 93
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Doubt not, my lord, I'll play the orator
R3 3.5. 94 As if the golden fee for which I plead
R3 3.5. 95 Were for myself. And so, my lord, adieu. {He starts to go}
R3 3.5. 96
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
If you thrive well, bring them to +
R3 3.5. 96 Baynard's Castle,
R3 3.5. 97 Where you shall find me well accompanied
R3 3.5. 98 With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.
R3 3.5. 99
R3-BUCKINGHAM
I go, and towards three or four o'clock
R3 3.5. 100 Look for the news that the Guildhall affords. {Exit}
R3 3.5. 101
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Now will I in, to take some privy +
R3 3.5. 101 order
R3 3.5. 102 To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight,
R3 3.5. 103 And to give notice that no manner person
R3 3.5. 104 Have any time recourse unto the Princes. {Exeunt}
R3 3.5. 0 {Enter a Scrivener with a paper in his hand}
R3 3.6. 1
R3-SCRIVENER
Here is the indictment of the good Lord +
R3 3.6. 1 Hastings,
R3 3.6. 2 Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed,
R3 3.6. 3 That it may be today read o'er in Paul's -
R3 3.6. 4 And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
R3 3.6. 5 Eleven hours I have spent to write it over,
R3 3.6. 6 For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me;
R3 3.6. 7 The precedent was full as long a-doing;
R3 3.6. 8 And yet, within these five hours, Hastings lived,
R3 3.6. 9 Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.
R3 3.6. 10 Here's a good world the while! Who is so gross
R3 3.6. 11 That cannot see this palpable device?
R3 3.6. 12 Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
R3 3.6. 13 Bad is the world, and all will come to naught,
R3 3.6. 14 When such ill dealing must be seen in thought. {Exit}
R3 3.6. 0 {Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester at one door and the +
R3 3.7. 0 Duke of Buckingham at another}
R3 3.7. 1
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
How now, how now! What say the +
R3 3.7. 1 citizens?
R3 3.7. 2
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,
R3 3.7. 3 The citizens are mum, say not a word.
R3 3.7. 4
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Touched you the bastardy of Edward's children?
R3 3.7. 5
R3-BUCKINGHAM
I did, with his contract with Lady Lucy,
R3 3.7. 6 And his contract by deputy in France,
R3 3.7. 7 Th' insatiate greediness of his desire,
R3 3.7. 8 And his enforcement of the city wives,
R3 3.7. 9 His tyranny for trifles, his own bastardy -
R3 3.7. 10 As being got your father then in France,
R3 3.7. 11 And his resemblance, being not like the Duke.
R3 3.7. 12 Withal, I did infer your lineaments -
R3 3.7. 13 Being the right idea of your father
R3 3.7. 14 Both in your face and nobleness of mind;
R3 3.7. 15 Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
R3 3.7. 16 Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
R3 3.7. 17 Your bounty, virtue, fair humility -
R3 3.7. 18 Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
R3 3.7. 19 Untouched or slightly handled in discourse.
R3 3.7. 20 And when mine oratory grew toward end,
R3 3.7. 21 I bid them that did love their country's good
R3 3.7. 22 Cry `God save Richard, England's royal king!'
R3 3.7. 23A
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
And did they so?
R3 3.7. 24
R3-BUCKINGHAM
No, so God help me. They spake not a word,
R3 3.7. 25 But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones,
R3 3.7. 26 Stared each on other and looked deadly pale -
R3 3.7. 27 Which, when I saw, I reprehended them,
R3 3.7. 28 And asked the Mayor, what meant this wilful silence?
R3 3.7. 29 His answer was, the people were not used
R3 3.7. 30 To be spoke to but by the Recorder.
R3 3.7. 31 Then he was urged to tell my tale again:
R3 3.7. 32 `Thus saith the Duke...thus hath the Duke inferred' -
R3 3.7. 33 But nothing spoke in warrant from himself.
R3 3.7. 34 When he had done, some followers of mine own,
R3 3.7. 35 At lower end of the Hall, hurled up their caps,
R3 3.7. 36 And some ten voices cried `God save King Richard!'
R3 3.7. 37 And thus I took the vantage of those few:
R3 3.7. 38 `Thanks, gentle citizens and friends', quoth I;
R3 3.7. 39 `This general applause and cheerful shout
R3 3.7. 40 Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard' -
R3 3.7. 41 And even here brake off and came away.
R3 3.7. 42
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
What tongueless blocks were they! Would they not +
R3 3.7. 42 speak?
R3 3.7. 43A
R3-[BUCKINGHAM]
No, by my troth, my lord.
R3 3.7. 44
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Will not the Mayor then, and his brethren, come?
R3 3.7. 45
R3-BUCKINGHAM
The Mayor is here at hand. Intend some fear;
R3 3.7. 46 Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit;
R3 3.7. 47 And look you get a prayer book in your hand,
R3 3.7. 48 And stand between two churchmen, good my lord,
R3 3.7. 49 For on that ground I'll build a holy descant.
R3 3.7. 50 And be not easily won to our request.
R3 3.7. 51 Play the maid's part: still answer `nay' - and take it.
R3 3.7. 52
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I go. An if you plead as well for them
R3 3.7. 53 As I can say nay to thee for myself,
R3 3.7. 54 No doubt we'll bring it to a happy issue. {One knocks within}
R3 3.7. 55
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Go, go, up to the leads! The Lord Mayor +
R3 3.7. 55 knocks. - {Exit Richard}
R3 3.7. 56 {Enter the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens} +
R3 3.7. 56 Welcome, my lord. I dance attendance here.
R3 3.7. 57 I think the Duke will not be spoke withal. {Enter Catesby}
R3 3.7. 58 Now Catesby, what says your lord to my request?
R3 3.7. 59
R3-CATESBY
He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord,
R3 3.7. 60 To visit him tomorrow, or next day.
R3 3.7. 61 He is within with two right reverend fathers,
R3 3.7. 62 Divinely bent to meditation,
R3 3.7. 63 And in no worldly suits would he be moved,
R3 3.7. 64 To draw him from his holy exercise.
R3 3.7. 65
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Return, good Catesby, to the gracious Duke.
R3 3.7. 66 Tell him myself, the Mayor, and aldermen,
R3 3.7. 67 In deep designs, in matter of great moment,
R3 3.7. 68 No less importing than our general good,
R3 3.7. 69 Are come to have some conference with his grace.
R3 3.7. 70
R3-CATESBY
I'll signify so much unto him straight. {Exit}
R3 3.7. 71
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Ah ha! My lord, this prince is not an Edward.
R3 3.7. 72 He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,
R3 3.7. 73 But on his knees at meditation;
R3 3.7. 74 Not dallying with a brace of courtesans,
R3 3.7. 75 But meditating with two deep divines;
R3 3.7. 76 Not sleeping to engross his idle body,
R3 3.7. 77 But praying to enrich his watchful soul.
R3 3.7. 78 Happy were England would this virtuous prince
R3 3.7. 79 Take on his grace the sovereignty thereof.
R3 3.7. 80 But, sure I fear, we shall not win him to it.
R3 3.7. 81
R3-MAYOR
Marry, God defend his grace should say us nay.
R3 3.7. 82
R3-BUCKINGHAM
I fear he will. Here Catesby comes again. {Enter +
R3 3.7. 82 Catesby}
R3 3.7. 83 Now Catesby, what says his grace?
R3 3.7. 84
R3-CATESBY
He wonders to what end you have assembled
R3 3.7. 85 Such troops of citizens to come to him,
R3 3.7. 86 His grace not being warned thereof before.
R3 3.7. 87 He fears, my lord, you mean no good to him.
R3 3.7. 88
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Sorry I am my noble cousin should
R3 3.7. 89 Suspect me that I mean no good to him.
R3 3.7. 90 By heaven, we come to him in perfect love,
R3 3.7. 91 And so once more return and tell his grace. {Exit Catesby}
R3 3.7. 92 When holy and devout religious men
R3 3.7. 93 Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence.
R3 3.7. 94 So sweet is zealous contemplation. {Enter Richard aloft, between +
R3 3.7. 94 two bishops. [Enter Catesby below]}
R3 3.7. 95
R3-MAYOR
See where his grace stands 'tween two clergymen.
R3 3.7. 96
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,
R3 3.7. 97 To stay him from the fall of vanity;
R3 3.7. 98 And see, a book of prayer in his hand -
R3 3.7. 99 True ornaments to know a holy man. -
R3 3.7. 100 Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,
R3 3.7. 101 Lend favourable ear to our request,
R3 3.7. 102 And pardon us the interruption
R3 3.7. 103 Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.
R3 3.7. 104
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
My lord, there needs no such apology.
R3 3.7. 105 I do beseech your grace to pardon me,
R3 3.7. 106 Who, earnest in the service of my God,
R3 3.7. 107 Deferred the visitation of my friends.
R3 3.7. 108 But leaving this, what is your grace's pleasure?
R3 3.7. 109
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,
R3 3.7. 110 And all good men of this ungoverned isle.
R3 3.7. 111
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I do suspect I have done some offence
R3 3.7. 112 That seems disgracious in the city's eye,
R3 3.7. 113 And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.
R3 3.7. 114
R3-BUCKINGHAM
You have, my lord. Would it might please your grace
R3 3.7. 115 On our entreaties to amend your fault.
R3 3.7. 116
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?
R3 3.7. 117
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Know then, it is your fault that you resign
R3 3.7. 118 The supreme seat, the throne majestical,
R3 3.7. 119 The sceptred office of your ancestors,
R3 3.7. 120 Your state of fortune and your due of birth,
R3 3.7. 121 The lineal glory of your royal house,
R3 3.7. 122 To the corruption of a blemished stock,
R3 3.7. 123 Whiles in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts -
R3 3.7. 124 Which here we waken to our country's good -
R3 3.7. 125 The noble isle doth want her proper limbs:
R3 3.7. 126 Her face defaced with scars of infamy,
R3 3.7. 127 Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants
R3 3.7. 128 And almost shouldered in the swallowing gulf
R3 3.7. 129 Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion,
R3 3.7. 130 Which to recure we heartily solicit
R3 3.7. 131 Your gracious self to take on you the charge
R3 3.7. 132 And kingly government of this your land -
R3 3.7. 133 Not as Protector, steward, substitute,
R3 3.7. 134 Or lowly factor for another's gain,
R3 3.7. 135 But as successively, from blood to blood,
R3 3.7. 136 Your right of birth, your empery, your own.
R3 3.7. 137 For this, consorted with the citizens,
R3 3.7. 138 Your very worshipful and loving friends,
R3 3.7. 139 And by their vehement instigation,
R3 3.7. 140 In this just cause come I to move your grace.
R3 3.7. 141
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I cannot tell if to depart in silence
R3 3.7. 142 Or bitterly to speak in your reproof
R3 3.7. 143 Best fitteth my degree or your condition.
R3 3.7. 144 Your love deserves my thanks; but my desert,
R3 3.7. 145 Unmeritable, shuns your high request.
R3 3.7. 146 First, if all obstacles were cut away
R3 3.7. 147 And that my path were even to the crown,
R3 3.7. 148 As the ripe revenue and due of birth,
R3 3.7. 149 Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,
R3 3.7. 150 So mighty and so many my defects,
R3 3.7. 151 That I would rather hide me from my greatness -
R3 3.7. 152 Being a barque to brook no mighty sea -
R3 3.7. 153 Than in my greatness covet to be hid,
R3 3.7. 154 And in the vapour of my glory smothered.
R3 3.7. 155 But God be thanked, there is no need of me,
R3 3.7. 156 And much I need to help you, were there need.
R3 3.7. 157 The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,
R3 3.7. 158 Which, mellowed by the stealing hours of time,
R3 3.7. 159 Will well become the seat of majesty
R3 3.7. 160 And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.
R3 3.7. 161 On him I lay that you would lay on me,
R3 3.7. 162 The right and fortune of his happy stars,
R3 3.7. 163 Which God defend that I should wring from him.
R3 3.7. 164
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord, this argues conscience in your grace,
R3 3.7. 165 But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,
R3 3.7. 166 All circumstances well considered.
R3 3.7. 167 You say that Edward is your brother's son;
R3 3.7. 168 So say we, too - but not by Edward's wife.
R3 3.7. 169 For first was he contract to Lady Lucy -
R3 3.7. 170 Your mother lives a witness to his vow -
R3 3.7. 171 And afterward, by substitute, betrothed
R3 3.7. 172 To Bona, sister to the King of France.
R3 3.7. 173 These both put off, a poor petitioner,
R3 3.7. 174 A care-crazed mother to a many sons,
R3 3.7. 175 A beauty-waning and distressed widow
R3 3.7. 176 Even in the afternoon of her best days,
R3 3.7. 177 Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye,
R3 3.7. 178 Seduced the pitch and height of his degree
R3 3.7. 179 To base declension and loathed bigamy.
R3 3.7. 180 By her in his unlawful bed he got
R3 3.7. 181 This Edward, whom our manners call the Prince.
R3 3.7. 182 More bitterly could I expostulate,
R3 3.7. 183 Save that for reverence to some alive
R3 3.7. 184 I give a sparing limit to my tongue.
R3 3.7. 185 Then, good my lord, take to your royal self
R3 3.7. 186 This proffered benefit of dignity -
R3 3.7. 187 If not to bless us and the land withal,
R3 3.7. 188 Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
R3 3.7. 189 From the corruption of abusing times,
R3 3.7. 190 Unto a lineal, true-derived course.
R3 3.7. 191
R3-MAYOR
{(to Richard)} Do, good my lord; your +
R3 3.7. 191 citizens entreat you.
R3 3.7. 192
R3-BUCKINGHAM
{(to Richard)} Refuse not, mighty lord, +
R3 3.7. 192 this proffered love.
R3 3.7. 193
R3-CATESBY
{(to Richard)} O make them joyful: grant +
R3 3.7. 193 their lawful suit.
R3 3.7. 194
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Alas, why would you heap this care on me?
R3 3.7. 195 I am unfit for state and majesty.
R3 3.7. 196 I do beseech you, take it not amiss.
R3 3.7. 197 I cannot, nor I will not, yield to you.
R3 3.7. 198
R3-BUCKINGHAM
If you refuse it - as, in love and zeal,
R3 3.7. 199 Loath to depose the child, your brother's son,
R3 3.7. 200 As well we know your tenderness of heart
R3 3.7. 201 And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,
R3 3.7. 202 Which we have noted in you to your kindred,
R3 3.7. 203 And equally indeed to all estates -
R3 3.7. 204 Yet know, whe'er you accept our suit or no,
R3 3.7. 205 Your brother's son shall never reign our king,
R3 3.7. 206 But we will plant some other in the throne,
R3 3.7. 207 To the disgrace and downfall of your house.
R3 3.7. 208 And in this resolution here we leave you. -
R3 3.7. 209 Come, citizens. 'Swounds, I'll entreat no more.
R3 3.7. 210
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
O do not swear, my lord of Buckingham. +
R3 3.7. 210 {[Exeunt Buckingham and some others]}
R3 3.7. 211
R3-CATESBY
Call him again, sweet prince. Accept their suit.
R3 3.7. 212
R3-[ANOTHER]
If you deny them, all the land will rue it.
R3 3.7. 213
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Will you enforce me to a world of cares?
R3 3.7. 214B Call them again. {Exit one or more} I am not made of +
R3 3.7. 214B stone,
R3 3.7. 215 But penetrable to your kind entreats,
R3 3.7. 216 Albeit against my conscience and my soul. {Enter Buckingham and +
R3 3.7. 216 the rest}
R3 3.7. 217 Cousin of Buckingham, and sage, grave men,
R3 3.7. 218 Since you will buckle fortune on my back,
R3 3.7. 219 To bear her burden, whe'er I will or no,
R3 3.7. 220 I must have patience to endure the load.
R3 3.7. 221 But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach
R3 3.7. 222 Attend the sequel of your imposition,
R3 3.7. 223 Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
R3 3.7. 224 From all the impure blots and stains thereof;
R3 3.7. 225 For God doth know, and you may partly see,
R3 3.7. 226 How far I am from the desire of this.
R3 3.7. 227
R3-MAYOR
God bless your grace! We see it, and will say it.
R3 3.7. 228
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
In saying so, you shall but say the truth.
R3 3.7. 229
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Then I salute you with this royal title:
R3 3.7. 230 Long live kind Richard, England's worthy king!
R3 3.7. 231A
R3-[ALL BUT RICHARD]
Amen.
R3 3.7. 232
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Tomorrow may it please you to be crowned?
R3 3.7. 233
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Even when you please, for you will have it so.
R3 3.7. 234
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Tomorrow then, we will attend your grace.
R3 3.7. 235 And so, most joyfully, we take our leave.
R3 3.7. 236
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
{(to the bishops)} Come, let us +
R3 3.7. 236 to our holy work again. -
R3 3.7. 237 Farewell, my cousin. Farewell, gentle friends. {Exeunt Richard +
R3 3.7. 237 and bishops above, the rest below}
R3 3.7. 0 {Enter Queen Elizabeth, the old Duchess of York, +
R3 4.1. 0 and Marquis Dorset at one door; Lady Anne (Duchess of Gloucester) with +
R3 4.1. 0 Clarence's daughter at another door}
R3 4.1. 1
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Who meets us here? My niece Plantagenet,
R3 4.1. 2 Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?
R3 4.1. 3 Now for my life, she's wand'ring to the Tower,
R3 4.1. 4 On pure heart's love, to greet the tender Prince. -
R3 4.1. 5B Daughter, well met.
R3-LADY ANNE
God give your graces both
R3 4.1. 6 A happy and a joyful time of day.
R3 4.1. 7
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
As much to you, good sister. Whither away?
R3 4.1. 8
R3-LADY ANNE
No farther than the Tower, and - as I guess -
R3 4.1. 9 Upon the like devotion as yourselves:
R3 4.1. 10 To gratulate the gentle princes there.
R3 4.1. 11
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Kind sister, thanks. We'll enter all +
R3 4.1. 11 together - {Enter from the Tower [Brackenbury] the Lieutenant}
R3 4.1. 12 And in good time, here the Lieutenant comes.
R3 4.1. 13 Master Lieutenant, pray you by your leave,
R3 4.1. 14 How doth the Prince, and my young son of York?
R3 4.1. 15
R3-BRACKENBURY
Right well, dear madam. By your patience,
R3 4.1. 16 I may not suffer you to visit them.
R3 4.1. 17 The King hath strictly charged the contrary.
R3 4.1. 18B
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
The King? Who's that?
R3-BRACKENBURY
I mean, the +
R3 4.1. 18B Lord Protector.
R3 4.1. 19
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
The Lord protect him from that kingly title.
R3 4.1. 20 Hath he set bounds between their love and me?
R3 4.1. 21 I am their mother; who shall bar me from them?
R3 4.1. 22
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
I am their father's mother; I will see them.
R3 4.1. 23
R3-LADY ANNE
Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother;
R3 4.1. 24 Then bring me to their sights. I'll bear thy blame,
R3 4.1. 25 And take thy office from thee on my peril.
R3 4.1. 26
R3-BRACKENBURY
No, madam, no; I may not leave it so.
R3 4.1. 27 I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me. {Exit}
R3 4.1. 28 {Enter Lord Stanley Earl of Derby}
R3-STANLEY
Let me +
R3 4.1. 28 but meet you ladies one hour hence,
R3 4.1. 29 And I'll salute your grace of York as mother
R3 4.1. 30 And reverend looker-on of two fair queens.
R3 4.1. 31 {(To Anne)} Come, madam, you must straight to +
R3 4.1. 31 Westminster,
R3 4.1. 32 There to be crowned Richard's royal queen.
R3 4.1. 33
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ah, cut my lace asunder, that my pent heart
R3 4.1. 34 May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
R3 4.1. 35 With this dead-killing news.
R3 4.1. 36
R3-LADY ANNE
Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!
R3 4.1. 37
R3-DORSET
{(to Anne)} Be of good cheer. - Mother, how +
R3 4.1. 37 fares your grace?
R3 4.1. 38
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
O Dorset, speak not to me. Get thee gone.
R3 4.1. 39 Death and destruction dogs thee at thy heels.
R3 4.1. 40 Thy mother's name is ominous to children.
R3 4.1. 41 If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,
R3 4.1. 42 And live with Richmond from the reach of hell.
R3 4.1. 43 Go, hie thee! Hie thee from this slaughterhouse,
R3 4.1. 44 Lest thou increase the number of the dead,
R3 4.1. 45 And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curses:
R3 4.1. 46 `Nor mother, wife, nor counted England's Queen'.
R3 4.1. 47
R3-STANLEY
Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.
R3 4.1. 48 {(To Dorset)} Take all the swift advantage of the +
R3 4.1. 48 hours.
R3 4.1. 49 You shall have letters from me to my son
R3 4.1. 50 In your behalf, to meet you on the way.
R3 4.1. 51 Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.
R3 4.1. 52
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
O ill-dispersing wind of misery!
R3 4.1. 53 O my accursed womb, the bed of death!
R3 4.1. 54 A cockatrice hast thou hatched to the world,
R3 4.1. 55 Whose unavoided eye is murderous.
R3 4.1. 56
R3-STANLEY
{(to Anne)} Come, madam, come. I in all +
R3 4.1. 56 haste was sent.
R3 4.1. 57
R3-LADY ANNE
And I in all unwillingness will go.
R3 4.1. 58 O would to God that the inclusive verge
R3 4.1. 59 Of golden metal that must round my brow
R3 4.1. 60 Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brains.
R3 4.1. 61 Anointed let me be with deadly venom,
R3 4.1. 62 And die ere men can say `God save the Queen'.
R3 4.1. 63
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Go, go, poor soul. I envy not thy glory.
R3 4.1. 64 To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.
R3 4.1. 65
R3-LADY ANNE
No? Why? When he that is my husband now
R3 4.1. 66 Came to me as I followed Henry's corpse,
R3 4.1. 67 When scarce the blood was well washed from his hands,
R3 4.1. 68 Which issued from my other angel husband
R3 4.1. 69 And that dear saint which then I weeping followed -
R3 4.1. 70 O when, I say, I looked on Richard's face,
R3 4.1. 71 This was my wish: `Be thou', quoth I, `accursed
R3 4.1. 72 For making me, so young, so old a widow,
R3 4.1. 73 And when thou wedd'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;
R3 4.1. 74 And be thy wife - if any be so mad -
R3 4.1. 75 More miserable made by the life of thee
R3 4.1. 76 Than thou hast made me by my dear lord's death.'
R3 4.1. 77 Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,
R3 4.1. 78 Within so small a time, my woman's heart
R3 4.1. 79 Grossly grew captive to his honey words
R3 4.1. 80 And proved the subject of mine own soul's curse,
R3 4.1. 81 Which hitherto hath held mine eyes from rest -
R3 4.1. 82 For never yet one hour in his bed
R3 4.1. 83 Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep,
R3 4.1. 84 But with his timorous dreams was still awaked.
R3 4.1. 85 Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick,
R3 4.1. 86 And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.
R3 4.1. 87
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Poor heart, adieu. I pity thy complaining.
R3 4.1. 88
R3-LADY ANNE
No more than with my soul I mourn for yours.
R3 4.1. 89
R3-DORSET
Farewell, thou woeful welcomer of glory.
R3 4.1. 90
R3-LADY ANNE
Adieu, poor soul, that tak'st thy leave of it.
R3 4.1. 91
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide +
R3 4.1. 91 thee. {[Exit Dorset]}
R3 4.1. 92 Go thou to Richard, and good angels tend thee. +
R3 4.1. 92 {[Exeunt Anne, Stanley, and Clarence's daughter]}
R3 4.1. 93 Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee. +
R3 4.1. 93 {[Exit Elizabeth]}
R3 4.1. 94 I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me.
R3 4.1. 95 Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
R3 4.1. 96 And each hour's joy racked with a week of teen. {[Exit]}
R3 4.1. 0 {Sound a sennet. Enter King Richard in pomp, the Duke of +
R3 4.2. 0 Buckingham, Sir William Catesby, [other nobles], and a Page}
R3 4.2. 1
R3-KING RICHARD
Stand all apart. - Cousin of Buckingham.
R3 4.2. 2A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My gracious sovereign?
R3 4.2. 3A
R3-KING RICHARD
Give me thy hand. {Sound [a sennet]. Here +
R3 4.2. 3A Richard ascendeth the throne}
R3 4.2. 4 Thus high by thy advice
R3 4.2. 5 And thy assistance is King Richard seated.
R3 4.2. 6 But shall we wear these glories for a day?
R3 4.2. 7 Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
R3 4.2. 8
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Still live they, and for ever let them last.
R3 4.2. 9
R3-KING RICHARD
Ah, Buckingham, now do I play the touch,
R3 4.2. 10 To try if thou be current gold indeed.
R3 4.2. 11 Young Edward lives. Think now what I would speak.
R3 4.2. 12A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Say on, my loving lord.
R3 4.2. 13
R3-KING RICHARD
Why, Buckingham, I say I would be king.
R3 4.2. 14
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Why, so you are, my thrice-renowned liege.
R3 4.2. 15
R3-KING RICHARD
Ha? Am I king? 'Tis so. But Edward lives.
R3 4.2. 16B
R3-BUCKINGHAM
True, noble prince.
R3-KING RICHARD
O bitter +
R3 4.2. 16B consequence,
R3 4.2. 17 That Edward still should live `true noble prince'.
R3 4.2. 18 Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull.
R3 4.2. 19 Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead,
R3 4.2. 20 And I would have it immediately performed.
R3 4.2. 21 What sayst thou now? Speak suddenly, be brief.
R3 4.2. 22A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Your grace may do your pleasure.
R3 4.2. 23
R3-KING RICHARD
Tut, tut, thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.
R3 4.2. 24 Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?
R3 4.2. 25
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Give me some little breath, some pause, dear lord,
R3 4.2. 26 Before I positively speak in this.
R3 4.2. 27 I will resolve you herein presently. {Exit}
R3 4.2. 28
R3-CATESBY
{(to another, aside)} The King is angry. +
R3 4.2. 28 See, he gnaws his lip.
R3 4.2. 29
R3-KING RICHARD
{(aside)} I will converse with +
R3 4.2. 29 iron-witted fools
R3 4.2. 30 And unrespective boys. None are for me
R3 4.2. 31 That look into me with considerate eyes.
R3 4.2. 32 High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect. -
R3 4.2. 33 Boy.
R3 4.2. 34A
R3-PAGE
My lord?
R3 4.2. 35
R3-KING RICHARD
Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
R3 4.2. 36 Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?
R3 4.2. 37
R3-PAGE
I know a discontented gentleman
R3 4.2. 38 Whose humble means match not his haughty spirit.
R3 4.2. 39 Gold were as good as twenty orators,
R3 4.2. 40 And will no doubt tempt him to anything.
R3 4.2. 41B
R3-KING RICHARD
What is his name?
R3-PAGE
His name, my lord, is +
R3 4.2. 41B Tyrrell.
R3 4.2. 42
R3-KING RICHARD
I partly know the man. Go call him hither, boy. +
R3 4.2. 42 {Exit Page}
R3 4.2. 43 {[Aside]} The deep-revolving, witty Buckingham
R3 4.2. 44 No more shall be the neighbour to my counsels.
R3 4.2. 45 Hath he so long held out with me untired,
R3 4.2. 46 And stops he now for breath? Well, be it so. {Enter Lord Stanley +
R3 4.2. 46 Earl of Derby}
R3 4.2. 47 How now, Lord Stanley? What's the news?
R3 4.2. 48A
R3-STANLEY
Know, my loving lord,
R3 4.2. 49 The Marquis Dorset, as I hear, is fled
R3 4.2. 50 To Richmond, in those parts beyond the seas
R3 4.2. 51 Where he abides.
R3 4.2. 52
R3-KING RICHARD
Come hither, Catesby. {(Aside to +
R3 4.2. 52 Catesby)} Rumour it abroad
R3 4.2. 53 That Anne, my wife, is very grievous sick.
R3 4.2. 54 I will take order for her keeping close.
R3 4.2. 55 Enquire me out some mean-born gentleman,
R3 4.2. 56 Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter.
R3 4.2. 57 The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.
R3 4.2. 58 Look how thou dream'st. I say again, give out
R3 4.2. 59 That Anne, my queen, is sick, and like to die.
R3 4.2. 60 About it, for it stands me much upon
R3 4.2. 61 To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me. {[Exit Catesby]}
R3 4.2. 62 {(Aside)} I must be married to my brother's daughter,
R3 4.2. 63 Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
R3 4.2. 64 Murder her brothers, and then marry her?
R3 4.2. 65 Uncertain way of gain, but I am in
R3 4.2. 66 So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.
R3 4.2. 67 Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. - {Enter Sir James +
R3 4.2. 67 Tyrrell; [he kneels]}
R3 4.2. 68 Is thy name Tyrrell?
R3 4.2. 69
R3-TYRRELL
James Tyrrell, and your most obedient subject.
R3 4.2. 70B
R3-KING RICHARD
Art thou indeed?
R3-TYRRELL
Prove me, my gracious +
R3 4.2. 70B lord.
R3 4.2. 71
R3-KING RICHARD
Dar'st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?
R3 4.2. 72
R3-TYRRELL
Please you, but I had rather kill two enemies.
R3 4.2. 73
R3-KING RICHARD
Why there thou hast it: two deep enemies,
R3 4.2. 74 Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep's disturbers,
R3 4.2. 75 Are they that I would have thee deal upon.
R3 4.2. 76 Tyrrell, I mean those bastards in the Tower.
R3 4.2. 77
R3-TYRRELL
Let me have open means to come to them,
R3 4.2. 78 And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.
R3 4.2. 79
R3-KING RICHARD
Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrell.
R3 4.2. 80 Go, by this token. Rise, and lend thine ear. {Richard whispers +
R3 4.2. 80 in his ear}
R3 4.2. 81 'Tis no more but so. Say it is done,
R3 4.2. 82 And I will love thee, and prefer thee for it.
R3 4.2. 83A
R3-TYRRELL
I will dispatch it straight.
R3 4.2. 84
R3-[KING RICHARD]
Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrell, ere we +
R3 4.2. 84 sleep? {Enter Buckingham}
R3 4.2. 85A
R3-[TYRRELL]
Ye shall, my lord. {Exit}
R3 4.2. 86
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord, I have considered in my mind
R3 4.2. 87 The late request that you did sound me in.
R3 4.2. 88
R3-KING RICHARD
Well, let that rest. Dorset is fled to Richmond.
R3 4.2. 89A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
I hear the news, my lord.
R3 4.2. 90
R3-KING RICHARD
Stanley, he is your wife's son. Well, look to it.
R3 4.2. 91
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord, I claim the gift, my due by promise,
R3 4.2. 92 For which your honour and your faith is pawned:
R3 4.2. 93 Th' earldom of Hereford, and the movables
R3 4.2. 94 Which you have promised I shall possess.
R3 4.2. 95
R3-KING RICHARD
Stanley, look to your wife. If she convey
R3 4.2. 96 Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.
R3 4.2. 97
R3-BUCKINGHAM
What says your highness to my just request?
R3 4.2. 98
R3-KING RICHARD
I do remember me, Henry the Sixth
R3 4.2. 99 Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,
R3 4.2. 100 When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
R3 4.2. 101B A king...perhaps...perhaps.
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord?
R3 4.2. 102
R3-KING RICHARD
How chance the prophet could not at that time
R3 4.2. 103 Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?
R3 4.2. 104
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord, your promise for the earldom.
R3 4.2. 105
R3-KING RICHARD
Richmond? When last I was at Exeter,
R3 4.2. 106 The Mayor in courtesy showed me the castle,
R3 4.2. 107 And called it `Ruge-mount' - at which name I started,
R3 4.2. 108 Because a bard of Ireland told me once
R3 4.2. 109 I should not live long after I saw `Richmond'.
R3 4.2. 110A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
My lord?
R3 4.2. 111A
R3-KING RICHARD
Ay? What's o'clock?
R3 4.2. 112
R3-BUCKINGHAM
I am thus bold to put your grace in mind
R3 4.2. 113B Of what you promised me.
R3-KING RICHARD
But what's o'clock?
R3 4.2. 114A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Upon the stroke of ten.
R3 4.2. 115A
R3-KING RICHARD
Well, let it strike!
R3 4.2. 116A
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Why `let it strike'?
R3 4.2. 117
R3-KING RICHARD
Because that, like a jack, thou keep'st the stroke
R3 4.2. 118 Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
R3 4.2. 119 I am not in the giving vein today.
R3 4.2. 120
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Why then resolve me, whe'er you will or no?
R3 4.2. 121
R3-KING RICHARD
Thou troublest me. I am not in the vein. {Exit +
R3 4.2. 121 Richard, followed by all but Buckingham}
R3 4.2. 122
R3-BUCKINGHAM
And is it thus? Repays he my deep service
R3 4.2. 123 With such contempt? Made I him king for this?
R3 4.2. 124 O let me think on Hastings, and be gone
R3 4.2. 125 To Brecon, while my fearful head is on. {Exit [at another door]}
R3 4.2. 0 {Enter Sir James Tyrrell}
R3 4.3. 1
R3-TYRRELL
The tyrannous and bloody act is done -
R3 4.3. 2 The most arch deed of piteous massacre
R3 4.3. 3 That ever yet this land was guilty of.
R3 4.3. 4 Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn
R3 4.3. 5 To do this piece of ruthless butchery,
R3 4.3. 6 Albeit they were fleshed villains, bloody dogs,
R3 4.3. 7 Melted with tenderness and mild compassion,
R3 4.3. 8 Wept like two children in their deaths' sad story.
R3 4.3. 9 `O thus', quoth Dighton, `lay the gentle babes';
R3 4.3. 10 `Thus, thus', quoth Forrest, `girdling one another
R3 4.3. 11 Within their alabaster innocent arms.
R3 4.3. 12 Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
R3 4.3. 13 And in their summer beauty kissed each other.
R3 4.3. 14 A book of prayers on their pillow lay,
R3 4.3. 15 Which once', quoth Forrest, `almost changed my mind.
R3 4.3. 16 But O, the devil' - there the villain stopped,
R3 4.3. 17 When Dighton thus told on, `We smothered
R3 4.3. 18 The most replenished sweet work of nature,
R3 4.3. 19 That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'
R3 4.3. 20 Hence both are gone, with conscience and remorse.
R3 4.3. 21 They could not speak, and so I left them both,
R3 4.3. 22 To bear this tidings to the bloody king. {Enter King Richard}
R3 4.3. 23 And here he comes. - All health, my sovereign lord.
R3 4.3. 24
R3-KING RICHARD
Kind Tyrrell, am I happy in thy news?
R3 4.3. 25
R3-TYRRELL
If to have done the thing you gave in charge
R3 4.3. 26 Beget your happiness, be happy then,
R3 4.3. 27B For it is done.
R3-KING RICHARD
But didst thou see them dead?
R3 4.3. 28B
R3-TYRRELL
I did, my lord.
R3-KING RICHARD
And buried, gentle Tyrrell?
R3 4.3. 29
R3-TYRRELL
The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;
R3 4.3. 30 But where, to say the truth, I do not know.
R3 4.3. 31
R3-KING RICHARD
Come to me, Tyrrell, soon, at after-supper,
R3 4.3. 32 When thou shalt tell the process of their death.
R3 4.3. 33 Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,
R3 4.3. 34 And be inheritor of thy desire.
R3 4.3. 35B Farewell till then.
R3-TYRRELL
I humbly take my leave. {Exit}
R3 4.3. 36
R3-KING RICHARD
The son of Clarence have I pent up close.
R3 4.3. 37 His daughter meanly have I matched in marriage.
R3 4.3. 38 The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,
R3 4.3. 39 And Anne, my wife, hath bid this world goodnight.
R3 4.3. 40 Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
R3 4.3. 41 At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,
R3 4.3. 42 And by that knot looks proudly o'er the crown,
R3 4.3. 43 To her go I, a jolly thriving wooer - {Enter Sir Richard +
R3 4.3. 43 Ratcliffe, [running]}
R3 4.3. 44A
R3-RATCLIFFE
My lord.
R3 4.3. 45
R3-KING RICHARD
Good news or bad, that thou com'st in so bluntly?
R3 4.3. 46
R3-RATCLIFFE
Bad news, my lord. Ely is fled to Richmond,
R3 4.3. 47 And Buckingham, backed with the hardy Welshmen,
R3 4.3. 48 Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.
R3 4.3. 49
R3-KING RICHARD
Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
R3 4.3. 50 Than Buckingham and his rash-levied strength.
R3 4.3. 51 Come, I have learned that fearful commenting
R3 4.3. 52 Is leaden servitor to dull delay.
R3 4.3. 53 Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
R3 4.3. 54 Then fiery expedition be my wing:
R3 4.3. 55 Jove's Mercury, an herald for a king.
R3 4.3. 56 Go, muster men. My counsel is my shield.
R3 4.3. 57 We must be brief, when traitors brave the field. {Exeunt}
R3 4.3. 0 {Enter old Queen Margaret}
R3 4.4. 1
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
So now prosperity begins to mellow
R3 4.4. 2 And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
R3 4.4. 3 Here in these confines slyly have I lurked
R3 4.4. 4 To watch the waning of mine enemies.
R3 4.4. 5 A dire induction am I witness to,
R3 4.4. 6 And will to France, hoping the consequence
R3 4.4. 7 Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. {[Enter the old +
R3 4.4. 7 Duchess of York and Queen Elizabeth]}
R3 4.4. 8 Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret. Who comes here?
R3 4.4. 9
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ah, my poor princes! Ah, my tender babes!
R3 4.4. 10 My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!
R3 4.4. 11 If yet your gentle souls fly in the air,
R3 4.4. 12 And be not fixed in doom perpetual,
R3 4.4. 13 Hover about me with your airy wings
R3 4.4. 14 And hear your mother's lamentation.
R3 4.4. 15
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Hover about her, say that +
R3 4.4. 15 right for right
R3 4.4. 16 Hath dimmed your infant morn to aged night.
R3 4.4. 17
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
So many miseries have crazed my voice
R3 4.4. 18 That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.
R3 4.4. 19 Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?
R3 4.4. 20
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Plantagenet doth quit +
R3 4.4. 20 Plantagenet;
R3 4.4. 21 Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.
R3 4.4. 22
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs
R3 4.4. 23 And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?
R3 4.4. 24 When didst thou sleep, when such a deed was done?
R3 4.4. 25
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} When holy Harry died, and +
R3 4.4. 25 my sweet son.
R3 4.4. 26
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Dead life, blind sight, poor mortal living ghost,
R3 4.4. 27 Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurped,
R3 4.4. 28 Brief abstract and record of tedious days,
R3 4.4. 29 Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth,
R3 4.4. 30 Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood. {[They] sit}
R3 4.4. 31
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ah that thou wouldst as soon afford a +
R3 4.4. 31 grave
R3 4.4. 32 As thou canst yield a melancholy seat.
R3 4.4. 33 Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
R3 4.4. 34 Ah, who hath any cause to mourn but we?
R3 4.4. 35
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
{(coming forward)} If ancient +
R3 4.4. 35 sorrow be most reverend,
R3 4.4. 36 Give mine the benefit of seniory,
R3 4.4. 37 And let my griefs frown on the upper hand.
R3 4.4. 38 If sorrow can admit society,
R3 4.4. 39 Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine.
R3 4.4. 40 I had an Edward, till a Richard killed him;
R3 4.4. 41 I had a husband, till a Richard killed him.
R3 4.4. 42 {(To Elizabeth)} Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard +
R3 4.4. 42 killed him;
R3 4.4. 43 Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him.
R3 4.4. 44
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
{[rising]} I had a Richard too, +
R3 4.4. 44 and thou didst kill him;
R3 4.4. 45 I had a Rutland too, thou holpst to kill him.
R3 4.4. 46
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard killed him.
R3 4.4. 47 From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
R3 4.4. 48 A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:
R3 4.4. 49 That dog that had his teeth before his eyes,
R3 4.4. 50 To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood;
R3 4.4. 51 That foul defacer of God's handiwork,
R3 4.4. 52 That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls;
R3 4.4. 53 That excellent grand tyrant of the earth
R3 4.4. 54 Thy womb let loose to chase us to our graves.
R3 4.4. 55 O upright, just, and true-disposing God,
R3 4.4. 56 How do I thank thee that this charnel cur
R3 4.4. 57 Preys on the issue of his mother's body,
R3 4.4. 58 And makes her pewfellow with others' moan.
R3 4.4. 59
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes.
R3 4.4. 60 God witness with me, I have wept for thine.
R3 4.4. 61
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Bear with me. I am hungry for revenge,
R3 4.4. 62 And now I cloy me with beholding it.
R3 4.4. 63 Thy Edward, he is dead, that killed my Edward;
R3 4.4. 64 Thy other Edward dead, to quite my Edward;
R3 4.4. 65 Young York, he is but boot, because both they
R3 4.4. 66 Matched not the high perfection of my loss;
R3 4.4. 67 Thy Clarence, he is dead, that stabbed my Edward,
R3 4.4. 68 And the beholders of this frantic play -
R3 4.4. 69 Th' adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Gray -
R3 4.4. 70 Untimely smothered in their dusky graves.
R3 4.4. 71 Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,
R3 4.4. 72 Only reserved their factor to buy souls
R3 4.4. 73 And send them thither; but at hand, at hand
R3 4.4. 74 Ensues his piteous and unpitied end.
R3 4.4. 75 Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray,
R3 4.4. 76 To have him suddenly conveyed from hence.
R3 4.4. 77 Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I plead,
R3 4.4. 78 That I may live and say, `The dog is dead'.
R3 4.4. 79
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
O thou didst prophesy the time would come
R3 4.4. 80 That I should wish for thee to help me curse
R3 4.4. 81 That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad.
R3 4.4. 82
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
I called thee then `vain flourish of my fortune';
R3 4.4. 83 I called thee then, poor shadow, `painted queen' -
R3 4.4. 84 The presentation of but what I was,
R3 4.4. 85 The flattering index of a direful pageant,
R3 4.4. 86 One heaved a-high to be hurled down below,
R3 4.4. 87 A mother only mocked with two fair babes,
R3 4.4. 88 A dream of what thou wast, a garish flag
R3 4.4. 89 To be the aim of every dangerous shot,
R3 4.4. 90 A sign of dignity, a breath, a bubble,
R3 4.4. 91 A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.
R3 4.4. 92 Where is thy husband now? Where be thy brothers?
R3 4.4. 93 Where are thy two sons? Wherein dost thou joy?
R3 4.4. 94 Who sues, and kneels, and says `God save the Queen'?
R3 4.4. 95 Where be the bending peers that flattered thee?
R3 4.4. 96 Where be the thronging troops that followed thee?
R3 4.4. 97 Decline all this, and see what now thou art:
R3 4.4. 98 For happy wife, a most distressed widow;
R3 4.4. 99 For joyful mother, one that wails the name;
R3 4.4. 100 For queen, a very caitiff, crowned with care;
R3 4.4. 101 For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;
R3 4.4. 102 For she that scorned at me, now scorned of me;
R3 4.4. 103 For she being feared of all, now fearing one;
R3 4.4. 104 For she commanding all, obeyed of none.
R3 4.4. 105 Thus hath the course of justice whirled about,
R3 4.4. 106 And left thee but a very prey to time,
R3 4.4. 107 Having no more but thought of what thou wert
R3 4.4. 108 To torture thee the more, being what thou art.
R3 4.4. 109 Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not
R3 4.4. 110 Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?
R3 4.4. 111 Now thy proud neck bears half my burdened yoke -
R3 4.4. 112 From which, even here, I slip my weary head,
R3 4.4. 113 And leave the burden of it all on thee.
R3 4.4. 114 Farewell, York's wife, and queen of sad mischance.
R3 4.4. 115 These English woes shall make me smile in France.
R3 4.4. 116
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
{(rising)} O thou, well skilled in +
R3 4.4. 116 curses, stay a while,
R3 4.4. 117 And teach me how to curse mine enemies.
R3 4.4. 118
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;
R3 4.4. 119 Compare dead happiness with living woe;
R3 4.4. 120 Think that thy babes were sweeter than they were,
R3 4.4. 121 And he that slew them fouler than he is.
R3 4.4. 122 Bett'ring thy loss makes the bad causer worse.
R3 4.4. 123 Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.
R3 4.4. 124
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
My words are dull. O quicken them with thine!
R3 4.4. 125
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
Thy woes will make them sharp and pierce like +
R3 4.4. 125 mine. {Exit}
R3 4.4. 126
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Why should calamity be full of words?
R3 4.4. 127
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Windy attorneys to their client woes,
R3 4.4. 128 Airy recorders of intestate joys,
R3 4.4. 129 Poor breathing orators of miseries.
R3 4.4. 130 Let them have scope. Though what they will impart
R3 4.4. 131 Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart.
R3 4.4. 132
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
If so, then be not tongue-tied; go with me,
R3 4.4. 133 And in the breath of bitter words let's smother
R3 4.4. 134 My damned son, that thy two sweet sons smothered. {A march +
R3 4.4. 134 within}
R3 4.4. 135 The trumpet sounds. Be copious in exclaims. {Enter +
R3 4.4. 135 King Richard and his train [marching with drummers and trumpeters]}
R3 4.4. 136
R3-KING RICHARD
Who intercepts me in my expedition?
R3 4.4. 137
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
O, she that might have intercepted thee,
R3 4.4. 138 By strangling thee in her accursed womb,
R3 4.4. 139 From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done.
R3 4.4. 140
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Hid'st thou that forehead with a golden crown,
R3 4.4. 141 Where should be branded - if that right were right -
R3 4.4. 142 The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,
R3 4.4. 143 And the dire death of my poor sons and brothers?
R3 4.4. 144 Tell me, thou villain-slave, where are my children?
R3 4.4. 145
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother +
R3 4.4. 145 Clarence?
R3 4.4. 146 And little Ned Plantagenet his son?
R3 4.4. 147
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Where is the gentle Rivers, Vaughan, Gray?
R3 4.4. 148A
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Where is kind Hastings?
R3 4.4. 149
R3-KING RICHARD
{(to his train)} A flourish, +
R3 4.4. 149 trumpets! Strike alarum, drums!
R3 4.4. 150 Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women
R3 4.4. 151 Rail on the Lord's anointed. Strike, I say! {Flourish. Alarums}
R3 4.4. 152 {(To the women)} Either be patient and entreat me +
R3 4.4. 152 fair,
R3 4.4. 153 Or with the clamorous report of war
R3 4.4. 154 Thus will I drown your exclamations.
R3 4.4. 155A
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Art thou my son?
R3 4.4. 156
R3-KING RICHARD
Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.
R3 4.4. 157
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Then patiently hear my impatience.
R3 4.4. 158
R3-KING RICHARD
Madam, I have a touch of your condition,
R3 4.4. 159 That cannot brook the accent of reproof.
R3 4.4. 160B
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
O let me speak!
R3-KING RICHARD
Do, then; but I'll +
R3 4.4. 160B not hear.
R3 4.4. 161
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
I will be mild and gentle in my words.
R3 4.4. 162
R3-KING RICHARD
And brief, good mother, for I am in haste.
R3 4.4. 163
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Art thou so hasty? I have stayed for thee,
R3 4.4. 164 God knows, in torment and in agony -
R3 4.4. 165
R3-KING RICHARD
And came I not at last to comfort you?
R3 4.4. 166
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
No, by the Holy Rood, thou know'st it well.
R3 4.4. 167 Thou cam'st on earth to make the earth my hell.
R3 4.4. 168 A grievous burden was thy birth to me;
R3 4.4. 169 Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;
R3 4.4. 170 Thy schooldays frightful, desp'rate, wild, and furious;
R3 4.4. 171 Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous;
R3 4.4. 172 Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody;
R3 4.4. 173 More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
R3 4.4. 174 What comfortable hour canst thou name
R3 4.4. 175 That ever graced me in thy company?
R3 4.4. 176
R3-KING RICHARD
Faith, none but Humphrey Hewer, that called your grace
R3 4.4. 177 To breakfast once, forth of my company.
R3 4.4. 178 If I be so disgracious in your eye,
R3 4.4. 179 Let me march on, and not offend you, madam. -
R3 4.4. 180B Strike up the drum.
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
I pray thee, hear me speak.
R3 4.4. 181B
R3-KING RICHARD
You speak too bitterly.
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Hear me a +
R3 4.4. 181B word,
R3 4.4. 182 For I shall never speak to thee again.
R3 4.4. 183A
R3-KING RICHARD
So.
R3 4.4. 184
R3-DUCHESS OF YORK
Either thou wilt die by God's just ordinance
R3 4.4. 185 Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,
R3 4.4. 186 Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish,
R3 4.4. 187 And never more behold thy face again.
R3 4.4. 188 Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse,
R3 4.4. 189 Which in the day of battle tire thee more
R3 4.4. 190 Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st.
R3 4.4. 191 My prayers on the adverse party fight,
R3 4.4. 192 And there the little souls of Edward's children
R3 4.4. 193 Whisper the spirits of thine enemies,
R3 4.4. 194 And promise them success and victory.
R3 4.4. 195 Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
R3 4.4. 196 Shame serves thy life, and doth thy death attend. {Exit}
R3 4.4. 197
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Though far more cause, yet much less +
R3 4.4. 197 spirit to curse
R3 4.4. 198 Abides in me; I say `Amen' to all.
R3 4.4. 199
R3-KING RICHARD
Stay, madam. I must talk a word with you.
R3 4.4. 200
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
I have no more sons of the royal blood
R3 4.4. 201 For thee to slaughter. For my daughters, Richard,
R3 4.4. 202 They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens,
R3 4.4. 203 And therefore level not to hit their lives.
R3 4.4. 204
R3-KING RICHARD
You have a daughter called Elizabeth,
R3 4.4. 205 Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
R3 4.4. 206
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
And must she die for this? O let her live,
R3 4.4. 207 And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty,
R3 4.4. 208 Slander myself as false to Edward's bed,
R3 4.4. 209 Throw over her the veil of infamy.
R3 4.4. 210 So she may live unscarred of bleeding slaughter,
R3 4.4. 211 I will confess she was not Edward's daughter.
R3 4.4. 212
R3-KING RICHARD
Wrong not her birth. She is a royal princess.
R3 4.4. 213
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
To save her life I'll say she is not so.
R3 4.4. 214
R3-KING RICHARD
Her life is safest only in her birth.
R3 4.4. 215
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
And only in that safety died her brothers.
R3 4.4. 216
R3-KING RICHARD
Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.
R3 4.4. 217
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
No, to their lives ill friends were contrary.
R3 4.4. 218
R3-KING RICHARD
All unavoided is the doom of destiny -
R3 4.4. 219
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
True, when avoided grace makes destiny.
R3 4.4. 220 My babes were destined to a fairer death,
R3 4.4. 221 If grace had blessed thee with a fairer life.
R3 4.4. 222
R3-KING RICHARD
Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise
R3 4.4. 223 And dangerous success of bloody wars,
R3 4.4. 224 As I intend more good to you and yours
R3 4.4. 225 Than ever you or yours by me were harmed.
R3 4.4. 226
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
What good is covered with the face of heaven,
R3 4.4. 227 To be discovered, that can do me good?
R3 4.4. 228
R3-KING RICHARD
Th' advancement of your children, gentle lady.
R3 4.4. 229
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads.
R3 4.4. 230
R3-KING RICHARD
Unto the dignity and height of fortune,
R3 4.4. 231 The high imperial type of this earth's glory.
R3 4.4. 232
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Flatter my sorrow with report of it.
R3 4.4. 233 Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,
R3 4.4. 234 Canst thou demise to any child of mine?
R3 4.4. 235
R3-KING RICHARD
Even all I have - ay, and myself and all,
R3 4.4. 236 Will I withal endow a child of thine,
R3 4.4. 237 So in the Lethe of thy angry soul
R3 4.4. 238 Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs,
R3 4.4. 239 Which thou supposest I have done to thee.
R3 4.4. 240
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Be brief, lest that the process of thy kindness
R3 4.4. 241 Last longer telling than thy kindness' date.
R3 4.4. 242
R3-KING RICHARD
Then know that, from my soul, I love thy daughter.
R3 4.4. 243
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
My daughter's mother thinks that with her soul.
R3 4.4. 244A
R3-KING RICHARD
What do you think?
R3 4.4. 245
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
That thou dost love my daughter {from} thy soul;
R3 4.4. 246 So {from} thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers,
R3 4.4. 247 And {from} my heart's love I do thank thee for it.
R3 4.4. 248
R3-KING RICHARD
Be not so hasty to confound my meaning.
R3 4.4. 249 I mean, that {with} my soul I love thy daughter,
R3 4.4. 250 And do intend to make her queen of England.
R3 4.4. 251
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Well then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?
R3 4.4. 252
R3-KING RICHARD
Even he that makes her queen. Who else should be?
R3 4.4. 253B
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
What, thou?
R3-KING RICHARD
Even so. How think you +
R3 4.4. 253B of it?
R3 4.4. 254B
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
How canst thou woo her?
R3-KING RICHARD
That would +
R3 4.4. 254B I learn of you,
R3 4.4. 255 As one being best acquainted with her humour.
R3 4.4. 256B
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
And wilt thou learn of me?
R3-KING RICHARD
Madam, +
R3 4.4. 256B with all my heart.
R3 4.4. 257
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,
R3 4.4. 258 A pair of bleeding hearts; thereon engrave
R3 4.4. 259 `Edward' and `York'; then haply will she weep.
R3 4.4. 260 Therefore present to her - as sometimes Margaret
R3 4.4. 261 Did to thy father, steeped in Rutland's blood -
R3 4.4. 262 A handkerchief which, say to her, did drain
R3 4.4. 263 The purple sap from her sweet brother's body,
R3 4.4. 264 And bid her wipe her weeping eyes withal.
R3 4.4. 265 If this inducement move her not to love,
R3 4.4. 266 Send her a letter of thy noble deeds.
R3 4.4. 267 Tell her thou mad'st away her uncle Clarence,
R3 4.4. 268 Her uncle Rivers - ay, and for her sake
R3 4.4. 269 Mad'st quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.
R3 4.4. 270
R3-KING RICHARD
You mock me, madam. This is not the way
R3 4.4. 271B To win your daughter.
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
There is no other way,
R3 4.4. 272 Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,
R3 4.4. 273 And not be Richard, that hath done all this.
R3 4.4. 274
R3-KING RICHARD
Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.
R3 4.4. 275
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Which she shall purchase with still-lasting war.
R3 4.4. 276
R3-KING RICHARD
Tell her the King, that may command, entreats.
R3 4.4. 277
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
That at her hands which the King's King forbids.
R3 4.4. 278
R3-KING RICHARD
Say she shall be a high and mighty queen.
R3 4.4. 279
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
To vail the title, as her mother doth.
R3 4.4. 280
R3-KING RICHARD
Say I will love her everlastingly.
R3 4.4. 281
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
But how long shall that title `ever' last?
R3 4.4. 282
R3-KING RICHARD
Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end.
R3 4.4. 283
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
But how long fairly shall her sweet life last?
R3 4.4. 284
R3-KING RICHARD
As long as heaven and nature lengthens it.
R3 4.4. 285
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
As long as hell and Richard likes of it.
R3 4.4. 286
R3-KING RICHARD
Say I, her sovereign, am her subject love.
R3 4.4. 287
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.
R3 4.4. 288
R3-KING RICHARD
Be eloquent in my behalf to her.
R3 4.4. 289
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
R3 4.4. 290
R3-KING RICHARD
Then plainly to her tell my loving tale.
R3 4.4. 291
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
R3 4.4. 292
R3-KING RICHARD
Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.
R3 4.4. 293
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
O no, my reasons are too deep and dead -
R3 4.4. 294 Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their graves.
R3 4.4. 295
R3-KING RICHARD
Harp not on that string, madam. That is past.
R3 4.4. 296
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Harp on it still shall I, till heart-strings break.
R3 4.4. 297
R3-KING RICHARD
Now by my George, my garter, and my crown -
R3 4.4. 298
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Profaned, dishonoured, and the third usurped.
R3 4.4. 299B
R3-KING RICHARD
I swear -
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
By nothing, for this is no +
R3 4.4. 299B oath.
R3 4.4. 300 Thy George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour;
R3 4.4. 301 Thy garter, blemished, pawned his lordly virtue;
R3 4.4. 302 Thy crown, usurped, disgraced his kingly glory.
R3 4.4. 303 If something thou wouldst swear to be believed,
R3 4.4. 304 Swear then by something that thou hast not wronged.
R3 4.4. 305B
R3-KING RICHARD
Then by myself -
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Thy self is +
R3 4.4. 305B self-misused.
R3 4.4. 306B
R3-KING RICHARD
Now by the world -
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
'Tis full of thy +
R3 4.4. 306B foul wrongs.
R3 4.4. 307B
R3-KING RICHARD
My father's death -
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Thy life hath +
R3 4.4. 307B that dishonoured.
R3 4.4. 308B
R3-KING RICHARD
Why then, by God -
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
God's wrong is +
R3 4.4. 308B most of all.
R3 4.4. 309 If thou didst fear to break an oath with him,
R3 4.4. 310 The unity the King my husband made
R3 4.4. 311 Thou hadst not broken, nor my brothers died.
R3 4.4. 312 If thou hadst feared to break an oath by him,
R3 4.4. 313 Th' imperial metal circling now thy head
R3 4.4. 314 Had graced the tender temples of my child,
R3 4.4. 315 And both the princes had been breathing here,
R3 4.4. 316 Which now - two tender bedfellows for dust -
R3 4.4. 317 Thy broken faith hath made the prey for worms.
R3 4.4. 318B What canst thou swear by now?
R3-KING RICHARD
The time to come.
R3 4.4. 319
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast,
R3 4.4. 320 For I myself have many tears to wash
R3 4.4. 321 Hereafter time, for time past wronged by thee.
R3 4.4. 322 The children live, whose fathers thou hast slaughtered -
R3 4.4. 323 Ungoverned youth, to wail it in their age.
R3 4.4. 324 The parents live, whose children thou hast butchered -
R3 4.4. 325 Old barren plants, to wail it with their age.
R3 4.4. 326 Swear not by time to come, for that thou hast
R3 4.4. 327 Misused ere used, by times ill-used o'erpast.
R3 4.4. 328
R3-KING RICHARD
As I intend to prosper and repent,
R3 4.4. 329 So thrive I in my dangerous affairs
R3 4.4. 330 Of hostile arms - myself myself confound,
R3 4.4. 331 Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours,
R3 4.4. 332 Day yield me not thy light nor night thy rest;
R3 4.4. 333 Be opposite, all planets of good luck,
R3 4.4. 334 To my proceeding - if, with dear heart's love,
R3 4.4. 335 Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,
R3 4.4. 336 I tender not thy beauteous, princely daughter.
R3 4.4. 337 In her consists my happiness and thine.
R3 4.4. 338 Without her follows - to myself and thee,
R3 4.4. 339 Herself, the land, and many a Christian soul -
R3 4.4. 340 Death, desolation, ruin, and decay.
R3 4.4. 341 It cannot be avoided but by this;
R3 4.4. 342 It will not be avoided but by this.
R3 4.4. 343 Therefore, good-mother - I must call you so -
R3 4.4. 344 Be the attorney of my love to her.
R3 4.4. 345 Plead what I will be, not what I have been;
R3 4.4. 346 Not my deserts, but what I will deserve.
R3 4.4. 347 Urge the necessity and state of times,
R3 4.4. 348 And be not peevish-fond in great designs.
R3 4.4. 349
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?
R3 4.4. 350
R3-KING RICHARD
Ay, if the devil tempt you to do good.
R3 4.4. 351
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Shall I forget myself to be myself?
R3 4.4. 352
R3-KING RICHARD
Ay, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself.
R3 4.4. 353A
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Yet thou didst kill my children.
R3 4.4. 354
R3-KING RICHARD
But in your daughter's womb I bury them,
R3 4.4. 355 Where, in that nest of spicery, they will breed
R3 4.4. 356 Selves of themselves, to your recomfiture.
R3 4.4. 357
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?
R3 4.4. 358
R3-KING RICHARD
And be a happy mother by the deed.
R3 4.4. 359
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
I go. Write to me very shortly,
R3 4.4. 360 And you shall understand from me her mind.
R3 4.4. 361B
R3-KING RICHARD
Bear her my true love's kiss, {He kisses +
R3 4.4. 361B her} and so farewell - {Exit Elizabeth}
R3 4.4. 362 Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman. {Enter +
R3 4.4. 362 Sir Richard Ratcliffe}
R3 4.4. 363 How now, what news?
R3 4.4. 364
R3-RATCLIFFE
Most mighty sovereign, on the western coast
R3 4.4. 365 Rideth a puissant navy. To our shores
R3 4.4. 366 Throng many doubtful, hollow-hearted friends,
R3 4.4. 367 Unarmed and unresolved, to beat them back.
R3 4.4. 368 'Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral,
R3 4.4. 369 And there they hull, expecting but the aid
R3 4.4. 370 Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore.
R3 4.4. 371
R3-KING RICHARD
Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk.
R3 4.4. 372 Ratcliffe thyself, or Catesby - where is he?
R3 4.4. 373B
R3-CATESBY
Here, my good lord.
R3-KING RICHARD
Catesby, fly to the +
R3 4.4. 373B Duke.
R3 4.4. 374
R3-CATESBY
I will, my lord, with all convenient haste.
R3 4.4. 375
R3-KING RICHARD
Ratcliffe, come hither. Post to Salisbury;
R3 4.4. 376 When thou com'st thither - {(to Catesby)} dull, +
R3 4.4. 376 unmindful villain,
R3 4.4. 377 Why stay'st thou here, and goest not to the Duke?
R3 4.4. 378
R3-CATESBY
First, mighty liege, tell me your highness' pleasure:
R3 4.4. 379 What from your grace I shall deliver to him?
R3 4.4. 380
R3-KING RICHARD
O true, good Catesby. Bid him levy straight
R3 4.4. 381 The greatest strength and power that he can make,
R3 4.4. 382 And meet me suddenly at Salisbury.
R3 4.4. 383A
R3-CATESBY
I go. {Exit}
R3 4.4. 384
R3-RATCLIFFE
What, may it please you, shall I do at +
R3 4.4. 384 Salisbury?
R3 4.4. 385
R3-KING RICHARD
Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?
R3 4.4. 386
R3-RATCLIFFE
Your highness told me I should post before.
R3 4.4. 387B
R3-KING RICHARD
My mind is changed. {Enter Lord +
R3 4.4. 387B Stanley} Stanley, what news with you?
R3 4.4. 388
R3-STANLEY
None, good my liege, to please you with the hearing,
R3 4.4. 389 Nor none so bad but well may be reported.
R3 4.4. 390
R3-KING RICHARD
Hoyday, a riddle! Neither good nor bad.
R3 4.4. 391 Why need'st thou run so many mile about
R3 4.4. 392 When thou mayst tell thy tale the nearest way?
R3 4.4. 393B Once more, what news?
R3-STANLEY
Richmond is on the seas.
R3 4.4. 394
R3-KING RICHARD
There let him sink, and be the seas on him.
R3 4.4. 395 White-livered renegade, what doth he there?
R3 4.4. 396
R3-STANLEY
I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.
R3 4.4. 397A
R3-KING RICHARD
Well, as you guess?
R3 4.4. 398
R3-STANLEY
Stirred up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,
R3 4.4. 399 He makes for England, here to claim the crown.
R3 4.4. 400
R3-KING RICHARD
Is the chair empty? Is the sword unswayed?
R3 4.4. 401 Is the King dead? The empire unpossessed?
R3 4.4. 402 What heir of York is there alive but we?
R3 4.4. 403 And who is England's king but great York's heir?
R3 4.4. 404 Then tell me, what makes he upon the seas?
R3 4.4. 405
R3-STANLEY
Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.
R3 4.4. 406
R3-KING RICHARD
Unless for that he comes to be your liege,
R3 4.4. 407 You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.
R3 4.4. 408 Thou wilt revolt and fly to him, I fear.
R3 4.4. 409
R3-STANLEY
No, my good lord, therefore mistrust me not.
R3 4.4. 410
R3-KING RICHARD
Where is thy power then? To beat him back,
R3 4.4. 411 Where be thy tenants and thy followers?
R3 4.4. 412 Are they not now upon the western shore,
R3 4.4. 413 Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships?
R3 4.4. 414
R3-STANLEY
No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.
R3 4.4. 415
R3-KING RICHARD
Cold friends to me. What do they in the north,
R3 4.4. 416 When they should serve their sovereign in the west?
R3 4.4. 417
R3-STANLEY
They have not been commanded, mighty King.
R3 4.4. 418 Pleaseth your majesty to give me leave,
R3 4.4. 419 I'll muster up my friends and meet your grace
R3 4.4. 420 Where and what time your majesty shall please.
R3 4.4. 421
R3-KING RICHARD
Ay, ay, thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond.
R3 4.4. 422B But I'll not trust thee.
R3-STANLEY
Most mighty sovereign,
R3 4.4. 423 You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful.
R3 4.4. 424 I never was, nor never will be, false.
R3 4.4. 425
R3-KING RICHARD
Go then and muster men - but leave behind
R3 4.4. 426 Your son George Stanley. Look your heart be firm,
R3 4.4. 427 Or else his head's assurance is but frail.
R3 4.4. 428
R3-STANLEY
So deal with him as I prove true to you. {Exit}
R3 4.4. 429 {Enter a Messenger}
R3-MESSENGER
My gracious +
R3 4.4. 429 sovereign, now in Devonshire,
R3 4.4. 430 As I by friends am well advertised,
R3 4.4. 431 Sir Edward Courtenay and the haughty prelate,
R3 4.4. 432 Bishop of Exeter, his elder brother,
R3 4.4. 433 With many more confederates are in arms. {Enter another +
R3 4.4. 433 Messenger}
R3 4.4. 434
R3-SECOND MESSENGER
In Kent, my liege, the Guildfords are in +
R3 4.4. 434 arms,
R3 4.4. 435 And every hour more competitors
R3 4.4. 436 Flock to the rebels, and their power grows strong. {Enter +
R3 4.4. 436 another Messenger}
R3 4.4. 437
R3-THIRD MESSENGER
My lord, the army of great Buckingham -
R3 4.4. 438
R3-KING RICHARD
Out on ye, owls! Nothing but songs of death? +
R3 4.4. 438 {He striketh him}
R3 4.4. 439 There, take thou that, till thou bring better news.
R3 4.4. 440
R3-THIRD MESSENGER
The news I have to tell your majesty
R3 4.4. 441 Is that, by sudden flood and fall of water,
R3 4.4. 442 Buckingham's army is dispersed and scattered,
R3 4.4. 443 And he himself wandered away alone,
R3 4.4. 444B No man knows whither.
R3-KING RICHARD
I cry thee mercy. -
R3 4.4. 445 Ratcliffe, reward him for the blow I gave him. -
R3 4.4. 446 Hath any well-advised friend proclaimed
R3 4.4. 447 Reward to him that brings the traitor in?
R3 4.4. 448
R3-THIRD MESSENGER
Such proclamation hath been made, my lord. +
R3 4.4. 448 {Enter another Messenger}
R3 4.4. 449
R3-FOURTH MESSENGER
Sir Thomas Lovell and Lord Marquis +
R3 4.4. 449 Dorset -
R3 4.4. 450 'Tis said, my liege - in Yorkshire are in arms.
R3 4.4. 451 But this good comfort bring I to your highness:
R3 4.4. 452 The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest.
R3 4.4. 453 Richmond in Dorsetshire sent out a boat
R3 4.4. 454 Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks
R3 4.4. 455 If they were his assistants, yea or no?
R3 4.4. 456 Who answered him they came from Buckingham
R3 4.4. 457 Upon his party. He, mistrusting them,
R3 4.4. 458 Hoist sail and made his course again for Bretagne.
R3 4.4. 459
R3-KING RICHARD
March on, march on, since we are up in arms,
R3 4.4. 460 If not to fight with foreign enemies,
R3 4.4. 461 Yet to beat down these rebels here at home. {Enter Catesby}
R3 4.4. 462
R3-CATESBY
My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken.
R3 4.4. 463 That is the best news. That the Earl of Richmond
R3 4.4. 464 Is with a mighty power landed at Milford
R3 4.4. 465 Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.
R3 4.4. 466
R3-KING RICHARD
Away, towards Salisbury! While we reason here,
R3 4.4. 467 A royal battle might be won and lost.
R3 4.4. 468 Someone take order Buckingham be brought
R3 4.4. 469 To Salisbury. The rest march on with me. {Flourish. Exeunt}
R3 4.4. 0 {Enter Lord Stanley Earl of Derby and Sir Christopher, a +
R3 4.5. 0 priest}
R3 4.5. 1
R3-STANLEY
Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:
R3 4.5. 2 That in the sty of this most deadly boar
R3 4.5. 3 My son George Stanley is franked up in hold.
R3 4.5. 4 If I revolt, off goes young George's head.
R3 4.5. 5 The fear of that holds off my present aid.
R3 4.5. 6 But tell me, where is princely Richmond now?
R3 4.5. 7
R3-SIR CHRISTOPHER
At Pembroke, or at Ha'rfordwest in Wales.
R3 4.5. 8
R3-STANLEY
What men of name resort to him?
R3 4.5. 9
R3-SIR CHRISTOPHER
Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier,
R3 4.5. 10 Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley,
R3 4.5. 11 Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,
R3 4.5. 12 And Rhys-ap-Thomas with a valiant crew,
R3 4.5. 13 And many other of great name and worth -
R3 4.5. 14 And towards London do they bend their power,
R3 4.5. 15 If by the way they be not fought withal.
R3 4.5. 16
R3-STANLEY
Well, hie thee to thy lord. Commend me to him.
R3 4.5. 17 Tell him the Queen hath heartily consented
R3 4.5. 18 He should espouse Elizabeth her daughter.
R3 4.5. 19 My letter will resolve him of my mind.
R3 4.5. 20 Farewell. {Exeunt severally}
R3 4.5. 0 {Enter the Duke of Buckingham with halberdiers, led +
R3 5.1. 0 by a Sheriff to execution}
R3 5.1. 1
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Will not King Richard let me speak with him?
R3 5.1. 2
R3-SHERIFF
No, my good lord, therefore be patient.
R3 5.1. 3
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Hastings, and Edward's children, Gray and Rivers,
R3 5.1. 4 Holy King Henry and thy fair son Edward,
R3 5.1. 5 Vaughan, and all that have miscarried
R3 5.1. 6 By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice:
R3 5.1. 7 If that your moody, discontented souls
R3 5.1. 8 Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
R3 5.1. 9 Even for revenge mock my destruction.
R3 5.1. 10 This is All-Souls' day, fellow, is it not?
R3 5.1. 11A
R3-SHERIFF
It is.
R3 5.1. 12
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Why then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday.
R3 5.1. 13 This is the day which, in King Edward's time,
R3 5.1. 14 I wished might fall on me, when I was found
R3 5.1. 15 False to his children and his wife's allies.
R3 5.1. 16 This is the day wherein I wished to fall
R3 5.1. 17 By the false faith of him whom most I trusted.
R3 5.1. 18 This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul
R3 5.1. 19 Is the determined respite of my wrongs.
R3 5.1. 20 That high all-seer which I dallied with
R3 5.1. 21 Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head,
R3 5.1. 22 And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
R3 5.1. 23 Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
R3 5.1. 24 To turn their own points in their masters' bosoms.
R3 5.1. 25 Thus Margaret's curse falls heavy on my neck.
R3 5.1. 26 `When he', quoth she, `shall split thy heart with sorrow,
R3 5.1. 27 Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'
R3 5.1. 28 Come lead me, officers, to the block of shame.
R3 5.1. 29 Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. {Exeunt}
R3 5.1. 0 {Enter Henry Earl of Richmond with a letter, the Earl of +
R3 5.2. 0 Oxford, Sir James Blunt, Sir Walter Herbert, and others, with drum and +
R3 5.2. 0 colours}
R3 5.2. 1
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
Fellows in arms, and my most +
R3 5.2. 1 loving friends,
R3 5.2. 2 Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,
R3 5.2. 3 Thus far into the bowels of the land
R3 5.2. 4 Have we marched on without impediment,
R3 5.2. 5 And here receive we from our father Stanley
R3 5.2. 6 Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.
R3 5.2. 7 The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
R3 5.2. 8 That spoils your summer fields and fruitful vines,
R3 5.2. 9 Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
R3 5.2. 10 In your inbowelled bosoms, this foul swine
R3 5.2. 11 Lies now even in the centry of this isle,
R3 5.2. 12 Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn.
R3 5.2. 13 From Tamworth thither is but one day's march.
R3 5.2. 14 In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends,
R3 5.2. 15 To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
R3 5.2. 16 By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
R3 5.2. 17
R3-OXFORD
Every man's conscience is a thousand swords
R3 5.2. 18 To fight against this guilty homicide.
R3 5.2. 19
R3-HERBERT
I doubt not but his friends will turn to us.
R3 5.2. 20
R3-BLUNT
He hath no friends but what are friends for fear,
R3 5.2. 21 Which in his dearest need will fly from him.
R3 5.2. 22
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, +
R3 5.2. 22 march.
R3 5.2. 23 True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings;
R3 5.2. 24 Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. {Exeunt +
R3 5.2. 24 [marching]}
R3 5.2. 0 {Enter King Richard in arms, with the Duke of Norfolk, +
R3 5.3. 0 Sir Richard Ratcliffe, [Sir William Catesby, and others]}
R3 5.3. 1
R3-KING RICHARD
Here pitch our tent, even here in Bosworth +
R3 5.3. 1 field. {Soldiers begin to pitch [a tent]}
R3 5.3. 2 Why, how now, Catesby? Why look you so sad?
R3 5.3. 3
R3-[CATESBY]
My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.
R3 5.3. 4B
R3-KING RICHARD
My lord of Norfolk.
R3-NORFOLK
Here, most gracious +
R3 5.3. 4B liege.
R3 5.3. 5
R3-KING RICHARD
Norfolk, we must have knocks. Ha, must we not?
R3 5.3. 6
R3-NORFOLK
We must both give and take, my loving lord.
R3 5.3. 7
R3-KING RICHARD
Up with my tent! Here will I lie tonight.
R3 5.3. 8 But where tomorrow? Well, all's one for that.
R3 5.3. 9 Who hath descried the number of the traitors?
R3 5.3. 10
R3-NORFOLK
Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.
R3 5.3. 11
R3-KING RICHARD
Why, our battalia trebles that account.
R3 5.3. 12 Besides, the King's name is a tower of strength,
R3 5.3. 13 Which they upon the adverse faction want.
R3 5.3. 14 Up with the tent! Come, noble gentlemen,
R3 5.3. 15 Let us survey the vantage of the ground.
R3 5.3. 16 Call for some men of sound direction.
R3 5.3. 17 Let's lack no discipline, make no delay -
R3 5.3. 18 For, lords, tomorrow is a busy day. {Exeunt [at one door]}
R3 5.3. 0 {Enter [at another door] Henry Earl of Richmond, Sir +
R3 5.4. 0 James Blunt, Sir William Brandon, [the Earl of Oxford, Marquis Dorset, +
R3 5.4. 0 and others]}
R3 5.4. 1
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
The weary sun hath made a golden +
R3 5.4. 1 set,
R3 5.4. 2 And by the bright track of his fiery car
R3 5.4. 3 Gives token of a goodly day tomorrow.
R3 5.4. 4 Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.
R3 5.4. 5 The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment;
R3 5.4. 6 Good Captain Blunt, bear my good night to him,
R3 5.4. 7 And by the second hour in the morning
R3 5.4. 8 Desire the Earl to see me in my tent.
R3 5.4. 9 Yet one thing more, good Captain, do for me:
R3 5.4. 10 Where is Lord Stanley quartered, do you know?
R3 5.4. 11
R3-BLUNT
Unless I have mista'en his colours much,
R3 5.4. 12 Which well I am assured I have not done,
R3 5.4. 13 His regiment lies half a mile, at least,
R3 5.4. 14 South from the mighty power of the King.
R3 5.4. 15
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
If without peril it be possible,
R3 5.4. 16 Sweet Blunt, make some good means to speak with him,
R3 5.4. 17 And give him from me this most needful note.
R3 5.4. 18
R3-BLUNT
Upon my life, my lord, I'll undertake it.
R3 5.4. 19 And so God give you quiet rest tonight.
R3 5.4. 20B
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
Good night, good Captain Blunt. {Exit +
R3 5.4. 20B Blunt} Come, gentlemen.
R3 5.4. 21 Give me some ink and paper in my tent.
R3 5.4. 22 I'll draw the form and model of our battle,
R3 5.4. 23 Limit each leader to his several charge,
R3 5.4. 24 And part in just proportion our small power.
R3 5.4. 25 Let us consult upon tomorrow's business.
R3 5.4. 26 Into my tent: the dew is raw and cold. {They withdraw into the +
R3 5.4. 26 tent}
R3 5.4. 0
R3-[A
table brought in.] Enter King Richard, Sir Richard +
R3 5.5. 0 Ratcliffe, the Duke of Norfolk, Sir William Catesby, and others}
R3 5.5. 1A
R3-KING RICHARD
What is 't o'clock?
R3 5.5. 2
R3-CATESBY
It's supper-time, my lord. It's nine o'clock.
R3 5.5. 3
R3-KING RICHARD
I will not sup tonight. Give me some ink and paper.
R3 5.5. 4 What, is my beaver easier than it was?
R3 5.5. 5 And all my armour laid into my tent?
R3 5.5. 6
R3-CATESBY
It is, my liege, and all things are in readiness.
R3 5.5. 7
R3-KING RICHARD
Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge.
R3 5.5. 8 Use careful watch; choose trusty sentinels.
R3 5.5. 9A
R3-NORFOLK
I go, my lord.
R3 5.5. 10
R3-KING RICHARD
Stir with the lark tomorrow, gentle Norfolk.
R3 5.5. 11B
R3-NORFOLK
I warrant you, my lord. {Exit}
R3-KING RICHARD
+
R3 5.5. 11B Catesby.
R3-CATESBY
My lord?
R3 5.5. 12
R3-KING RICHARD
Send out a pursuivant-at-arms
R3 5.5. 13 To Stanley's regiment. Bid him bring his power
R3 5.5. 14 Before sun-rising, lest his son George fall
R3 5.5. 15 Into the blind cave of eternal night. {[Exit Catesby]}
R3 5.5. 16 Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch.
R3 5.5. 17 Saddle white Surrey for the field tomorrow.
R3 5.5. 18 Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.
R3 5.5. 19 Ratcliffe.
R3 5.5. 20A
R3-RATCLIFFE
My lord?
R3 5.5. 21
R3-KING RICHARD
Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?
R3 5.5. 22
R3-RATCLIFFE
Thomas the Earl of Surrey and himself,
R3 5.5. 23 Much about cockshut time, from troop to troop
R3 5.5. 24 Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.
R3 5.5. 25
R3-KING RICHARD
So, I am satisfied. Give me some wine.
R3 5.5. 26 I have not that alacrity of spirit,
R3 5.5. 27 Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. {The wine is +
R3 5.5. 27 brought}
R3 5.5. 28 Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?
R3 5.5. 29B
R3-RATCLIFFE
It is, my lord.
R3-KING RICHARD
Leave me. Bid my guard +
R3 5.5. 29B watch.
R3 5.5. 30 About the mid of night come to my tent,
R3 5.5. 31 Ratcliffe, and help to arm me. Leave me, I say. {Exit Ratcliffe +
R3 5.5. 31 [with others. Richard writes, and later sleeps]}
R3 5.5. 32 {Enter Lord Stanley Earl of Derby to Henry Earl of Richmond and +
R3 5.5. 32 the lords in his tent}
R3-STANLEY
Fortune and victory sit on +
R3 5.5. 32 thy helm!
R3 5.5. 33
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
All comfort that the dark night can afford
R3 5.5. 34 Be to thy person, noble father-in-law.
R3 5.5. 35 Tell me, how fares our loving mother?
R3 5.5. 36
R3-STANLEY
I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother,
R3 5.5. 37 Who prays continually for Richmond's good.
R3 5.5. 38 So much for that. The silent hours steal on,
R3 5.5. 39 And flaky darkness breaks within the east.
R3 5.5. 40 In brief - for so the season bids us be -
R3 5.5. 41 Prepare thy battle early in the morning,
R3 5.5. 42 And put thy fortune to th' arbitrement
R3 5.5. 43 Of bloody strokes and mortal-sharing war.
R3 5.5. 44 I, as I may - that which I would, I cannot -
R3 5.5. 45 With best advantage will deceive the time,
R3 5.5. 46 And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms.
R3 5.5. 47 But on thy side I may not be too forward -
R3 5.5. 48 Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,
R3 5.5. 49 Be executed in his father's sight.
R3 5.5. 50 Farewell. The leisure and the fearful time
R3 5.5. 51 Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love
R3 5.5. 52 And ample interchange of sweet discourse,
R3 5.5. 53 Which so long sundered friends should dwell upon.
R3 5.5. 54 God give us leisure for these rights of love.
R3 5.5. 55 Once more, adieu. Be valiant, and speed well.
R3 5.5. 56
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
Good lords, conduct him to his regiment.
R3 5.5. 57 I'll strive with troubled thoughts to take a nap,
R3 5.5. 58 Lest leaden slumber peise me down tomorrow,
R3 5.5. 59 When I should mount with wings of victory.
R3 5.5. 60 Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen. {Exeunt Stanley +
R3 5.5. 60 and the lords}
R3 5.5. 61 {[Richmond kneels]} O thou, whose captain I account +
R3 5.5. 61 myself,
R3 5.5. 62 Look on my forces with a gracious eye.
R3 5.5. 63 Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,
R3 5.5. 64 That they may crush down with a heavy fall
R3 5.5. 65 Th' usurping helmets of our adversaries.
R3 5.5. 66 Make us thy ministers of chastisement,
R3 5.5. 67 That we may praise thee in the victory.
R3 5.5. 68 To thee I do commend my watchful soul,
R3 5.5. 69 Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.
R3 5.5. 70 Sleeping and waking, O defend me still! {He sleeps}
R3 5.5. 71 {Enter the Ghost of young Prince Edward [above]} +
R3 5.5. 71
R3-GHOST OF PRINCE EDWARD
{(to Richard)} Let me sit +
R3 5.5. 71 heavy on thy soul tomorrow,
R3 5.5. 72 Prince Edward, son to Henry the Sixth.
R3 5.5. 73 Think how thou stabbedst me in my prime of youth
R3 5.5. 74 At Tewkesbury. Despair, therefore, and die.
R3 5.5. 75 {(To Richmond)} Be cheerful, Richmond, for the +
R3 5.5. 75 wronged souls
R3 5.5. 76 Of butchered princes fight in thy behalf.
R3 5.5. 77 King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee. {[Exit]}
R3 5.5. 78 {Enter [above] the Ghost of King Henry the Sixth} +
R3 5.5. 78
R3-GHOST OF KING HENRY
{(to Richard)} When I was +
R3 5.5. 78 mortal, my anointed body
R3 5.5. 79 By thee was punched full of deadly holes.
R3 5.5. 80 Think on the Tower and me. Despair and die.
R3 5.5. 81 Harry the Sixth bids thee despair and die.
R3 5.5. 82 {(To Richmond)} Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror.
R3 5.5. 83 Harry that prophesied thou shouldst be king
R3 5.5. 84 Comforts thee in thy sleep. Live and flourish! {[Exit]}
R3 5.5. 85 {Enter [above] the Ghost of George Duke of Clarence} +
R3 5.5. 85
R3-GHOST OF CLARENCE
{(to Richard)} Let me sit heavy +
R3 5.5. 85 on thy soul tomorrow,
R3 5.5. 86 I that was washed to death with fulsome wine,
R3 5.5. 87 Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death.
R3 5.5. 88 Tomorrow in the battle think on me,
R3 5.5. 89 And fall thy edgeless sword. Despair and die.
R3 5.5. 90 {(To Richmond)} Thou offspring of the house of +
R3 5.5. 90 Lancaster,
R3 5.5. 91 The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee.
R3 5.5. 92 Good angels guard thy battle. Live and flourish! {[Exit]}
R3 5.5. 93 {Enter [above] the Ghosts of Lord Rivers, Lord Gray, and Sir +
R3 5.5. 93 Thomas Vaughan}
R3-GHOST OF RIVERS
{(to Richard)} Let +
R3 5.5. 93 me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow,
R3 5.5. 94 Rivers that died at Pomfret. Despair and die.
R3 5.5. 95
R3-GHOST OF GRAY
{(to Richard)} Think upon Gray, and +
R3 5.5. 95 let thy soul despair.
R3 5.5. 96
R3-GHOST OF VAUGHAN
{(to Richard)} Think upon +
R3 5.5. 96 Vaughan, and with guilty fear
R3 5.5. 97 Let fall thy pointless lance. Despair and die.
R3 5.5. 98
R3-ALL THREE
{(to Richmond)} Awake, and think our +
R3 5.5. 98 wrongs in Richard's bosom
R3 5.5. 99 Will conquer him. Awake, and win the day! {[Exeunt Ghosts]}
R3 5.5. 100 {Enter [above] the Ghosts of the two young Princes} +
R3 5.5. 100
R3-[GHOSTS OF THE PRINCES]
{(to Richard)} Dream on +
R3 5.5. 100 thy cousins, smothered in the Tower.
R3 5.5. 101 Let us be lead within thy bosom, Richard,
R3 5.5. 102 And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death.
R3 5.5. 103 Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair and die.
R3 5.5. 104 {(To Richmond)} Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace and +
R3 5.5. 104 wake in joy.
R3 5.5. 105 Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy.
R3 5.5. 106 Live, and beget a happy race of kings!
R3 5.5. 107 Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish. {[Exeunt Ghosts]}
R3 5.5. 108 {Enter [above] the Ghost of Lord Hastings}
R3-GHOST OF HASTINGS
+
R3 5.5. 108 {(to Richard)} Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,
R3 5.5. 109 And in a bloody battle end thy days.
R3 5.5. 110 Think on Lord Hastings, then despair and die.
R3 5.5. 111 {(To Richmond)} Quiet, untroubled soul, awake, awake!
R3 5.5. 112 Arm, fight, and conquer for fair England's sake. {[Exit]}
R3 5.5. 113 {Enter [above] the Ghost of Lady Anne}
R3-GHOST OF LADY ANNE
+
R3 5.5. 113 {(to Richard)} Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne +
R3 5.5. 113 thy wife,
R3 5.5. 114 That never slept a quiet hour with thee,
R3 5.5. 115 Now fills thy sleep with perturbations.
R3 5.5. 116 Tomorrow in the battle think on me,
R3 5.5. 117 And fall thy edgeless sword. Despair and die.
R3 5.5. 118 {(To Richmond)} Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet +
R3 5.5. 118 sleep.
R3 5.5. 119 Dream of success and happy victory.
R3 5.5. 120 Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee. {[Exit]}
R3 5.5. 121 {Enter [above] the Ghost of the Duke of Buckingham} +
R3 5.5. 121
R3-GHOST OF BUCKINGHAM
{(to Richard)} The first was I +
R3 5.5. 121 that helped thee to the crown;
R3 5.5. 122 The last was I that felt thy tyranny.
R3 5.5. 123 O in the battle think on Buckingham,
R3 5.5. 124 And die in terror of thy guiltiness!
R3 5.5. 125 Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death;
R3 5.5. 126 Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath.
R3 5.5. 127 {(To Richmond)} I died for hope ere I could lend thee +
R3 5.5. 127 aid.
R3 5.5. 128 But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismayed.
R3 5.5. 129 God and good angels fight on Richmond's side,
R3 5.5. 130 And Richard falls in height of all his pride. {[Exit]}
R3 5.5. 131 {Richard starteth up out of a dream}
R3-KING RICHARD
+
R3 5.5. 131 Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!
R3 5.5. 132 Have mercy, Jesu! - Soft, I did but dream.
R3 5.5. 133 O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me?
R3 5.5. 134 The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
R3 5.5. 135 Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
R3 5.5. 136 What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by.
R3 5.5. 137 Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
R3 5.5. 138 Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am.
R3 5.5. 139 Then fly! What, from myself? Great reason. Why?
R3 5.5. 140 Lest I revenge. Myself upon myself?
R3 5.5. 141 Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good
R3 5.5. 142 That I myself have done unto myself?
R3 5.5. 143 O no, alas, I rather hate myself
R3 5.5. 144 For hateful deeds committed by myself.
R3 5.5. 145 I am a villain. Yet I lie: I am not.
R3 5.5. 146 Fool, of thyself speak well. - Fool, do not flatter.
R3 5.5. 147 My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
R3 5.5. 148 And every tongue brings in a several tale,
R3 5.5. 149 And every tale condemns me for a villain.
R3 5.5. 150 Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree!
R3 5.5. 151 Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree!
R3 5.5. 152 All several sins, all used in each degree,
R3 5.5. 153 Throng to the bar, crying all, `Guilty, guilty!'
R3 5.5. 154 I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,
R3 5.5. 155 And if I die no soul will pity me.
R3 5.5. 156 Nay, wherefore should they? - Since that I myself
R3 5.5. 157 Find in myself no pity to myself.
R3 5.5. 158 Methought the souls of all that I had murdered
R3 5.5. 159 Came to my tent, and every one did threat
R3 5.5. 160 Tomorrow's vengeance on the head of Richard. {Enter Ratcliffe}
R3 5.5. 161A
R3-RATCLIFFE
My lord?
R3 5.5. 162A
R3-KING RICHARD
'Swounds, who is there?
R3 5.5. 163
R3-RATCLIFFE
My lord, 'tis I. The early village cock
R3 5.5. 164 Hath twice done salutation to the morn.
R3 5.5. 165 Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour.
R3 5.5. 166
R3-KING RICHARD
O Ratcliffe, I have dreamed a fearful dream.
R3 5.5. 167 What thinkest thou, will all our friends prove true?
R3 5.5. 168B
R3-RATCLIFFE
No doubt, my lord.
R3-KING RICHARD
Ratcliffe, I fear, I +
R3 5.5. 168B fear.
R3 5.5. 169
R3-RATCLIFFE
Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.
R3 5.5. 170
R3-KING RICHARD
By the Apostle Paul, shadows tonight
R3 5.5. 171 Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
R3 5.5. 172 Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
R3 5.5. 173 Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.
R3 5.5. 174 'Tis not yet near day. Come, go with me.
R3 5.5. 175 Under our tents I'll play the eavesdropper,
R3 5.5. 176 To see if any mean to shrink from me. {Exeunt Richard and +
R3 5.5. 176 Ratcliffe}
R3 5.5. 177A {Enter the lords to Henry Earl of Richmond, sitting in his +
R3 5.5. 177A tent}
R3-[LORDS]
Good morrow, Richmond.
R3 5.5. 178
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,
R3 5.5. 179 That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here.
R3 5.5. 180A
R3-[A LORD]
How have you slept, my lord?
R3 5.5. 181
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
The sweetest sleep and fairest boding dreams
R3 5.5. 182 That ever entered in a drowsy head
R3 5.5. 183 Have I since your departure had, my lords.
R3 5.5. 184 Methought their souls whose bodies Richard murdered
R3 5.5. 185 Came to my tent and cried on victory.
R3 5.5. 186 I promise you, my soul is very jocund
R3 5.5. 187 In the remembrance of so fair a dream.
R3 5.5. 188 How far into the morning is it, lords?
R3 5.5. 189A
R3-[A LORD]
Upon the stroke of four.
R3 5.5. 190
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
Why then, 'tis time to arm, and give +
R3 5.5. 190 direction. {His oration to his soldiers}
R3 5.5. 191 Much that I could say, loving countrymen,
R3 5.5. 192 The leisure and enforcement of the time
R3 5.5. 193 Forbids to dwell on. Yet remember this:
R3 5.5. 194 God and our good cause fight upon our side.
R3 5.5. 195 The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,
R3 5.5. 196 Like high-reared bulwarks, stand before our forces.
R3 5.5. 197 Richard except, those whom we fight against
R3 5.5. 198 Had rather have us win than him they follow.
R3 5.5. 199 For what is he they follow? Truly, friends,
R3 5.5. 200 A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
R3 5.5. 201 One raised in blood, and one in blood established;
R3 5.5. 202 One that made means to come by what he hath,
R3 5.5. 203 And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;
R3 5.5. 204 A base, foul stone, made precious by the foil
R3 5.5. 205 Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;
R3 5.5. 206 One that hath ever been God's enemy.
R3 5.5. 207 Then if you fight against God's enemy,
R3 5.5. 208 God will, in justice, ward you as his soldiers.
R3 5.5. 209 If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,
R3 5.5. 210 You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain.
R3 5.5. 211 If you do fight against your country's foes,
R3 5.5. 212 Your country's foison pays your pains the hire.
R3 5.5. 213 If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
R3 5.5. 214 Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors.
R3 5.5. 215 If you do free your children from the sword,
R3 5.5. 216 Your children's children quites it in your age.
R3 5.5. 217 Then, in the name of God and all these rights,
R3 5.5. 218 Advance your standards! Draw your willing swords!
R3 5.5. 219 For me, the ransom of this bold attempt
R3 5.5. 220 Shall be my cold corpse on the earth's cold face;
R3 5.5. 221 But if I thrive, to gain of my attempt,
R3 5.5. 222 The least of you shall share his part thereof.
R3 5.5. 223 Sound, drums and trumpets, bold and cheerfully!
R3 5.5. 224 God and Saint George! Richmond and victory! {[Exeunt to the +
R3 5.5. 224 sound of drums and trumpets]}
R3 5.5. 0 {Enter King Richard, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Sir William +
R3 5.6. 0 Catesby, and others}
R3 5.6. 1
R3-KING RICHARD
What said Northumberland, as touching +
R3 5.6. 1 Richmond?
R3 5.6. 2
R3-RATCLIFFE
That he was never trained up in arms.
R3 5.6. 3
R3-KING RICHARD
He said the truth. And what said Surrey then?
R3 5.6. 4
R3-RATCLIFFE
He smiled and said, `The better for our purpose.'
R3 5.6. 5
R3-KING RICHARD
He was in the right, and so indeed it is. +
R3 5.6. 5 {Clock strikes}
R3 5.6. 6 Tell the clock there. Give me a calendar.
R3 5.6. 7B Who saw the sun today?
R3-[A
book is brought]}
R3-RATCLIFFE
+
R3 5.6. 7B Not I, my lord.
R3 5.6. 8
R3-KING RICHARD
Then he disdains to shine, for by the book
R3 5.6. 9 He should have braved the east an hour ago.
R3 5.6. 10 A black day will it be to somebody.
R3 5.6. 11 Ratcliffe.
R3 5.6. 12B
R3-RATCLIFFE
My lord?
R3-KING RICHARD
The sun will not be seen today.
R3 5.6. 13 The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
R3 5.6. 14 I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
R3 5.6. 15 Not shine today - why, what is that to me
R3 5.6. 16 More than to Richmond? For the selfsame heaven
R3 5.6. 17 That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. {Enter the Duke of +
R3 5.6. 17 Norfolk}
R3 5.6. 18
R3-NORFOLK
Arm, arm, my lord! The foe vaunts in the field.
R3 5.6. 19
R3-KING RICHARD
Come, bustle, bustle! Caparison my horse. +
R3 5.6. 19 {[Richard arms]}
R3 5.6. 20 Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power. {Exit +
R3 5.6. 20 one}
R3 5.6. 21 I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
R3 5.6. 22 And thus my battle shall be ordered.
R3 5.6. 23 My forward shall be drawn out all in length,
R3 5.6. 24 Consisting equally of horse add foot,
R3 5.6. 25 Our archers placed strongly in the midst.
R3 5.6. 26 John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,
R3 5.6. 27 Shall have the leading of this multitude.
R3 5.6. 28 They thus directed, we ourself will follow
R3 5.6. 29 In the main battle, whose puissance on both sides
R3 5.6. 30 Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
R3 5.6. 31 This, and Saint George to boot! What think'st thou, Norfolk?
R3 5.6. 32
R3-NORFOLK
A good direction, warlike sovereign. {He showeth him +
R3 5.6. 32 a paper}
R3 5.6. 33 This paper found I on my tent this morning.
R3 5.6. 34 {(He reads)} `Jackie of Norfolk be not too bold,
R3 5.6. 35 For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.'
R3 5.6. 36
R3-KING RICHARD
A thing devised by the enemy. -
R3 5.6. 37 Go, gentlemen, each man unto his charge.
R3 5.6. 38 Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls.
R3 5.6. 39 Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
R3 5.6. 40 Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
R3 5.6. 41 Our strong arms be our conscience; swords, our law.
R3 5.6. 42 March on, join bravely! Let us to 't, pell mell -
R3 5.6. 43 If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell. {His oration to his +
R3 5.6. 43 army}
R3 5.6. 44 What shall I say, more than I have inferred?
R3 5.6. 45 Remember whom you are to cope withal:
R3 5.6. 46 A sort of vagabonds, rascals and runaways,
R3 5.6. 47 A scum of Bretons and base lackey peasants,
R3 5.6. 48 Whom their o'ercloyed country vomits forth
R3 5.6. 49 To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
R3 5.6. 50 You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;
R3 5.6. 51 You having lands and blessed with beauteous wives,
R3 5.6. 52 They would distrain the one, distain the other.
R3 5.6. 53 And who doth lead them, but a paltry fellow?
R3 5.6. 54 Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost;
R3 5.6. 55 A milksop; one that never in his life
R3 5.6. 56 Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow.
R3 5.6. 57 Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again,
R3 5.6. 58 Lash hence these overweening rags of France,
R3 5.6. 59 These famished beggars, weary of their lives,
R3 5.6. 60 Who - but for dreaming on this fond exploit -
R3 5.6. 61 For want of means, poor rats, had hanged themselves.
R3 5.6. 62 If we be conquered, let {men} conquer us,
R3 5.6. 63 And not these bastard Bretons, whom our fathers
R3 5.6. 64 Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped,
R3 5.6. 65 And in record left them the heirs of shame.
R3 5.6. 66 Shall these enjoy our lands? Lie with our wives?
R3 5.6. 67B Ravish our daughters? {Drum afar off} Hark, I hear +
R3 5.6. 67B their drum.
R3 5.6. 68 Fight, gentlemen of England! Fight, bold yeomen!
R3 5.6. 69 Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
R3 5.6. 70 Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood!
R3 5.6. 71 Amaze the welkin with your broken staves! {Enter a Messenger}
R3 5.6. 72 What says Lord Stanley? Will he bring his power?
R3 5.6. 73
R3-MESSENGER
My lord, he doth deny to come.
R3 5.6. 74A
R3-KING RICHARD
Off with young George's head!
R3 5.6. 75
R3-NORFOLK
My lord, the enemy is past the marsh.
R3 5.6. 76 After the battle let George Stanley die.
R3 5.6. 77
R3-KING RICHARD
A thousand hearts are great within my bosom.
R3 5.6. 78 Advance our standards! Set upon our foes!
R3 5.6. 79 Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
R3 5.6. 80 Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons.
R3 5.6. 81 Upon them! Victory sits on our helms! {Exeunt}
R3 5.6. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir William Catesby}
R3 5.7. 1
R3-CATESBY
{[calling]} Rescue, my lord of Norfolk! +
R3 5.7. 1 Rescue, rescue!
R3 5.7. 2 {[To a soldier]} The King enacts more wonders than a +
R3 5.7. 2 man,
R3 5.7. 3 Daring an opposite to every danger.
R3 5.7. 4 His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
R3 5.7. 5 Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
R3 5.7. 6 {[Calling]} Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is +
R3 5.7. 6 lost! {Alarums. Enter King Richard}
R3 5.7. 7
R3-KING RICHARD
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
R3 5.7. 8
R3-CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I'll help you to a horse.
R3 5.7. 9
R3-KING RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
R3 5.7. 10 And I will stand the hazard of the die.
R3 5.7. 11 I think there be six Richmonds in the field.
R3 5.7. 12 Five have I slain today, instead of him.
R3 5.7. 13 A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! {Exeunt}
R3 5.7. 0 {Alarum. Enter King Richard [at one door] and Henry Earl +
R3 5.8. 0 of Richmond [at another]. They fight. Richard is slain. [Exit +
R3 5.8. 0 Richmond.] Retreat and flourish. Enter Henry Earl of Richmond and Lord +
R3 5.8. 0 Stanley Earl of Derby, with divers other lords and soldiers}
R3 5.8. 1
R3-HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND
God and your arms be praised, +
R3 5.8. 1 victorious friends!
R3 5.8. 2 The day is ours. The bloody dog is dead.
R3 5.8. 3
R3-STANLEY
{(bearing the crown)} Courageous Richmond, +
R3 5.8. 3 well hast thou acquit thee.
R3 5.8. 4 Lo, here this long usurped royalty
R3 5.8. 5 From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
R3 5.8. 6 Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal.
R3 5.8. 7 Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it. {[He sets the crown on +
R3 5.8. 7 Henry's head]}
R3 5.8. 8
R3-KING HENRY THE SEVENTH
Great God of heaven, say `Amen' to +
R3 5.8. 8 all.
R3 5.8. 9 But tell me - young George Stanley, is he living?
R3 5.8. 10
R3-STANLEY
He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,
R3 5.8. 11 Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
R3 5.8. 12
R3-KING HENRY THE SEVENTH
What men of name are slain on either side?
R3 5.8. 13
R3-[STANLEY]
{(reads)} John Duke of Norfolk, Robert +
R3 5.8. 13 Brackenbury,
R3 5.8. 14 Walter Lord Ferrers, and Sir William Brandon.
R3 5.8. 15
R3-KING HENRY THE SEVENTH
Inter their bodies as becomes their births.
R3 5.8. 16 Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
R3 5.8. 17 That in submission will return to us,
R3 5.8. 18 And then - as we have ta'en the sacrament -
R3 5.8. 19 We will unite the white rose and the red.
R3 5.8. 20 Smile, heaven, upon this fair conjunction,
R3 5.8. 21 That long have frowned upon their enmity.
R3 5.8. 22 What traitor hears me and says not `Amen'?
R3 5.8. 23 England hath long been mad, and scarred herself;
R3 5.8. 24 The brother blindly shed the brother's blood;
R3 5.8. 25 The father rashly slaughtered his own son;
R3 5.8. 26 The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire;
R3 5.8. 27 All that divided York and Lancaster,
R3 5.8. 28 United in their dire division.
R3 5.8. 29 O now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
R3 5.8. 30 The true succeeders of each royal house,
R3 5.8. 31 By God's fair ordinance conjoin together,
R3 5.8. 32 And let their heirs - God, if his will be so -
R3 5.8. 33 Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
R3 5.8. 34 With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days.
R3 5.8. 35 Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
R3 5.8. 36 That would reduce these bloody days again
R3 5.8. 37 And make poor England weep forth streams of blood.
R3 5.8. 38 Let them not live to taste this land's increase,
R3 5.8. 39 That would with treason wound this fair land's peace.
R3 5.8. 40 Now civil wounds are stopped; peace lives again.
R3 5.8. 41 That she may long live here, God say `Amen'. {[Flourish.] +
R3 5.8. 41 Exeunt}
R3 5.8. 0
R3 A.8. 0 [[The following passages are contained in the Folio text, but not the +
R3 A.8. 0 Quarto; they were apparently omitted from performances
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R3 A.8. 0
R3 A.A. 0 [[After 1.2.154; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
R3 A.A. 0 analysis]]
R3 A.A. 1
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
These eyes, which never shed remorseful +
R3 A.A. 1 tear -
R3 A.A. 2 No, when my father York and Edward wept
R3 A.A. 3 To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
R3 A.A. 4 When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;
R3 A.A. 5 Nor when thy warlike father like a child
R3 A.A. 6 Told the sad story of my father's death
R3 A.A. 7 And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
R3 A.A. 8 That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks
R3 A.A. 9 Like trees bedashed with rain. In that sad time
R3 A.A. 10 My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear,
R3 A.A. 11 And what these sorrows could not thence exhale
R3 A.A. 12 Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.
R3 A.A. 0
R3 A.B. 0 [[After 1.3.166]]
R3 A.B. 1
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Wert thou not banished on pain of death?
R3 A.B. 2
R3-QUEEN MARGARET
I was, but I do find more pain in banishment
R3 A.B. 3 Than death can yield me here by my abode.
R3 A.B. 0
R3 A.C. 0 [[After 1.4.68; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
R3 A.C. 0 analysis]]
R3 A.C. 1
R3-CLARENCE
O God! If my deep prayers cannot appease thee
R3 A.C. 2 But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
R3 A.C. 3 Yet execute thy wrath in me alone.
R3 A.C. 4 O spare my guiltless wife and my poor children.
R3 A.C. 0
R3 A.D. 0 [[After 2.2.88]]
R3 A.D. 0 [[The Folio has Dorset and Rivers enter with Queen Elizabeth at
R3 A.D. 0 2.2.33.1
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R3 A.D. 1
R3-DORSET
Comfort, dear mother. God is much displeased
R3 A.D. 2 That you take with unthankfulness his doing.
R3 A.D. 3 In common worldly things 'tis called ungrateful
R3 A.D. 4 With dull unwillingness to pay a debt
R3 A.D. 5 Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;
R3 A.D. 6 Much more to be thus opposite with heaven
R3 A.D. 7 For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
R3 A.D. 8
R3-RIVERS
Madam, bethink you like a careful mother
R3 A.D. 9 Of the young Prince your son. Send straight for him;
R3 A.D. 10 Let him be crowned. In him your comfort lives.
R3 A.D. 11 Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave
R3 A.D. 12 And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.
R3 A.D. 0
R3 A.E. 0 [[After 2.2.110]]
R3 A.E. 1
R3-RIVERS
Why with some little train, my lord of Buckingham?
R3 A.E. 2
R3-BUCKINGHAM
Marry, my lord, lest by a multitude
R3 A.E. 3 The new-healed wound of malice should break out,
R3 A.E. 4 Which would be so much the more dangerous
R3 A.E. 5 By how much the estate is green and yet ungoverned.
R3 A.E. 6 Where every horse bears his commanding rein
R3 A.E. 7 And may direct his course as please himself,
R3 A.E. 8 As well the fear of harm as harm apparent
R3 A.E. 9 In my opinion ought to be prevented.
R3 A.E. 10
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
I hope the King made peace with all of us,
R3 A.E. 11 And the compact is firm and true in me.
R3 A.E. 12
R3-RIVERS
And so in me, and so I think in all.
R3 A.E. 13 Yet since it is but green, it should be put
R3 A.E. 14 To no apparent likelihood of breach,
R3 A.E. 15 Which haply by much company might be urged.
R3 A.E. 16 Therefore I say, with noble Buckingham,
R3 A.E. 17 That it is meet so few should fetch the Prince.
R3 A.E. 18A
R3-HASTINGS
And so say I.
R3 A.E. 0
R3 A.F. 0 [[After 3.1.170; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
R3 A.F. 0 analysis]]
R3 A.F. 1
R3-BUCKINGHAM
And summon him tomorrow to the Tower
R3 A.F. 2 To sit about the coronation.
R3 A.F. 0
R3 A.G. 0 [[After 3.5.100]]
R3 A.G. 0 [[Beginning Richard Gloucester's speech. The Folio brings on Lovell and
R3 A.G. 0 Ratcliffe instead of Catesby at 3.5.19.1
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R3 A.G. 1
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
Go, Lovell, with all speed to Doctor +
R3 A.G. 1 Shaw;
R3 A.G. 2 {(To Ratcliffe)} Go thou to Friar Penker. Bid them both
R3 A.G. 3 Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle. {Exeunt Lovell and +
R3 A.G. 3 Ratcliffe}
R3 A.G. 0
R3 A.H. 0 [[After 3.7.143; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
R3 A.H. 0 analysis]]
R3 A.H. 1
R3-RICHARD GLOUCESTER
If not to answer, you might haply think
R3 A.H. 2 Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
R3 A.H. 3 To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
R3 A.H. 4 Which fondly you would here impose on me.
R3 A.H. 5 If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
R3 A.H. 6 So seasoned with your faithful love to me,
R3 A.H. 7 Then on the other side I checked my friends.
R3 A.H. 8 Therefore to speak, and to avoid the first,
R3 A.H. 9 And then in speaking not to incur the last,
R3 A.H. 10 Definitively thus I answer you.
R3 A.H. 0
R3 A.I. 0 [[After 4.1.96]]
R3 A.I. 0 [[In the Folio, the characters do not exit during the Duchess of York's
R3 A.I. 0 preceding speech
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R3 A.I. 1
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Stay: yet look back with me unto the Tower. -
R3 A.I. 2 Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes,
R3 A.I. 3 Whom envy hath immured within your walls.
R3 A.I. 4 Rough cradle for such little pretty ones,
R3 A.I. 5 Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
R3 A.I. 6 For tender princes: use my babies well.
R3 A.I. 7 So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell. {Exeunt}
R3 A.I. 0
R3 A.J. 0 [[After 4.4.221]]
R3 A.J. 1
R3-KING RICHARD
You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
R3 A.J. 2
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Cousins indeed, and by their uncle cozened
R3 A.J. 3 Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.
R3 A.J. 4 Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,
R3 A.J. 5 Thy head all indirectly gave direction.
R3 A.J. 6 No doubt the murd'rous knife was dull and blunt
R3 A.J. 7 Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart
R3 A.J. 8 To revel in the entrails of my lambs.
R3 A.J. 9 But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,
R3 A.J. 10 My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
R3 A.J. 11 Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes -
R3 A.J. 12 And I in such a desp'rate bay of death,
R3 A.J. 13 Like a poor barque of sails and tackling reft,
R3 A.J. 14 Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.
R3 A.J. 0
R3 A.K. 0 [[After 4.4.273]]
R3 A.K. 1
R3-KING RICHARD
Say that I did all this for love of her.
R3 A.K. 2
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,
R3 A.K. 3 Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.
R3 A.K. 4
R3-KING RICHARD
Look what is done cannot be now amended.
R3 A.K. 5 Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
R3 A.K. 6 Which after-hours gives leisure to repent.
R3 A.K. 7 If I did take the kingdom from your sons,
R3 A.K. 8 To make amends I'll give it to your daughter.
R3 A.K. 9 If I have killed the issue of your womb,
R3 A.K. 10 To quicken your increase I will beget
R3 A.K. 11 Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter.
R3 A.K. 12 A grandam's name is little less in love
R3 A.K. 13 Than is the doting title of a mother.
R3 A.K. 14 They are as children but one step below,
R3 A.K. 15 Even of your mettall, of your very blood:
R3 A.K. 16 Of all one pain, save for a night of groans
R3 A.K. 17 Endured of her for whom you bid like sorrow.
R3 A.K. 18 Your children were vexation to your youth,
R3 A.K. 19 But mine shall be a comfort to your age.
R3 A.K. 20 The loss you have is but a son being king,
R3 A.K. 21 And by that loss your daughter is made queen.
R3 A.K. 22 I cannot make you what amends I would,
R3 A.K. 23 Therefore accept such kindness as I can.
R3 A.K. 24 Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul
R3 A.K. 25 Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
R3 A.K. 26 This fair alliance quickly shall call home
R3 A.K. 27 To high promotions and great dignity.
R3 A.K. 28 The king that calls your beauteous daughter wife,
R3 A.K. 29 Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother.
R3 A.K. 30 Again shall you be mother to a king,
R3 A.K. 31 And all the ruins of distressful times
R3 A.K. 32 Repaired with double riches of content.
R3 A.K. 33 What? We have many goodly days to see.
R3 A.K. 34 The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
R3 A.K. 35 Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl,
R3 A.K. 36 Advantaging their loan with interest
R3 A.K. 37 Of ten times double gain of happiness.
R3 A.K. 38 Go then, my mother, to thy daughter go.
R3 A.K. 39 Make bold her bashful years with your experience.
R3 A.K. 40 Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale.
R3 A.K. 41 Put in her tender heart th' aspiring flame
R3 A.K. 42 Of golden sovereignty. Acquaint the Princess
R3 A.K. 43 With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys.
R3 A.K. 44 And when this arm of mine hath chastised
R3 A.K. 45 The petty rebel, dull-brained Buckingham,
R3 A.K. 46 Bound with triumphant garlands will I come
R3 A.K. 47 And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed -
R3 A.K. 48 To whom I will retail my conquest won,
R3 A.K. 49 And she shall be sole victoress: Caesar's Caesar.
R3 A.K. 50
R3-QUEEN ELIZABETH
What were I best to say? Her father's brother
R3 A.K. 51 Would be her lord? Or shall I say her uncle?
R3 A.K. 52 Or he that slew her brothers and her uncles?
R3 A.K. 53 Under what title shall I woo for thee,
R3 A.K. 54 That God, the law, my honour, and her love
R3 A.K. 55 Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?
R3 A.K.
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0
RDY . . 0 The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the +
RDY . . 0 Good King Henry the Sixth
RDY . . 0 {A chair of state. Alarum. Enter Richard +
RDY 1.1. 0 Plantagenet, Duke of York, his two sons Edward, Earl of March, and +
RDY 1.1. 0 Crookback Richard, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Montague, and +
RDY 1.1. 0 the Earl of Warwick, [with drummers] and soldiers. [They all wear white +
RDY 1.1. 0 roses in their hats]}
RDY 1.1. 1
RDY-WARWICK
I wonder how the King escaped our hands?
RDY 1.1. 2
RDY-YORK
While we pursued the horsemen of the north,
RDY 1.1. 3 He slyly stole away and left his men;
RDY 1.1. 4 Whereat the great lord of Northumberland,
RDY 1.1. 5 Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat,
RDY 1.1. 6 Cheered up the drooping army; and himself,
RDY 1.1. 7 Lord Clifford, and Lord Stafford, all abreast,
RDY 1.1. 8 Charged our main battle's front, and, breaking in,
RDY 1.1. 9 Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.
RDY 1.1. 10
RDY-EDWARD
Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingham,
RDY 1.1. 11 Is either slain or wounded dangerous.
RDY 1.1. 12 I cleft his beaver with a downright blow.
RDY 1.1. 13 That this is true, father, behold his blood. {He shows a bloody +
RDY 1.1. 13 sword}
RDY 1.1. 14
RDY-MONTAGUE
{[to York]} And, brother, here's the Earl +
RDY 1.1. 14 of Wiltshire's blood, {He shows a bloody sword}
RDY 1.1. 15 Whom I encountered as the battles joined.
RDY 1.1. 16
RDY-RICHARD
{(to Somerset's head, which he shows)} +
RDY 1.1. 16 Speak thou for me, and tell them what I did.
RDY 1.1. 17
RDY-YORK
Richard hath best deserved of all my sons.
RDY 1.1. 18 {(To the head)} But is your grace dead, my lord of +
RDY 1.1. 18 Somerset?
RDY 1.1. 19
RDY-NORFOLK
Such hap have all the line of John of Gaunt.
RDY 1.1. 20
RDY-RICHARD
Thus do I hope to shake King Henry's head. {[He +
RDY 1.1. 20 holds aloft the head, then throws it down]}
RDY 1.1. 21
RDY-WARWICK
And so do I, victorious prince of York.
RDY 1.1. 22 Before I see thee seated in that throne
RDY 1.1. 23 Which now the house of Lancaster usurps,
RDY 1.1. 24 I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close.
RDY 1.1. 25 This is the palace of the fearful King,
RDY 1.1. 26 And this {(pointing to the chair of state)} , the regal +
RDY 1.1. 26 seat - possess it, York,
RDY 1.1. 27 For this is thine, and not King Henry's heirs'.
RDY 1.1. 28
RDY-YORK
Assist me then, sweet Warwick, and I will,
RDY 1.1. 29 For hither we have broken in by force.
RDY 1.1. 30
RDY-NORFOLK
We'll all assist you - he that flies shall die.
RDY 1.1. 31
RDY-YORK
Thanks, gentle Norfolk. Stay by me, my lords
RDY 1.1. 32 And soldiers - stay, and lodge by me this night. {They go up upon +
RDY 1.1. 32 the state}
RDY 1.1. 33
RDY-WARWICK
And when the King comes, offer him no violence
RDY 1.1. 34 Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce. {[The soldiers +
RDY 1.1. 34 withdraw]}
RDY 1.1. 35
RDY-YORK
The Queen this day here holds her Parliament,
RDY 1.1. 36 But little thinks we shall be of her council;
RDY 1.1. 37 By words or blows here let us win our right.
RDY 1.1. 38
RDY-RICHARD
Armed as we are, let's stay within this house.
RDY 1.1. 39
RDY-WARWICK
`The Bloody Parliament' shall this be called,
RDY 1.1. 40 Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king,
RDY 1.1. 41 And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice
RDY 1.1. 42 Hath made us bywords to our enemies.
RDY 1.1. 43
RDY-YORK
Then leave me not, my lords. Be resolute -
RDY 1.1. 44 I mean to take possession of my right.
RDY 1.1. 45
RDY-WARWICK
Neither the King nor he that loves him best -
RDY 1.1. 46 The proudest he that holds up Lancaster -
RDY 1.1. 47 Dares stir a wing if Warwick shake his bells.
RDY 1.1. 48 I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares.
RDY 1.1. 49 Resolve thee, Richard - claim the English crown. {[York sits in +
RDY 1.1. 49 the chair.]}
RDY 1.1. 50 {Flourish. Enter King Henry, Lord Clifford, the Earls of Northumberland +
RDY 1.1. 50 and Westmorland, the Duke of Exeter, and the rest. [They all wear red +
RDY 1.1. 50 roses in their hats]}
RDY-KING HENRY
My lords, look where the +
RDY 1.1. 50 sturdy rebel sits -
RDY 1.1. 51 Even in the chair of state! Belike he means,
RDY 1.1. 52 Backed by the power of Warwick, that false peer,
RDY 1.1. 53 To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.
RDY 1.1. 54 Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father -
RDY 1.1. 55 And thine, Lord Clifford - and you both have vowed revenge
RDY 1.1. 56 On him, his sons, his favourites, and his friends.
RDY 1.1. 57
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
If I be not, heavens be revenged on me.
RDY 1.1. 58
RDY-CLIFFORD
The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel.
RDY 1.1. 59
RDY-WESTMORLAND
What, shall we suffer this? Let's pluck him down.
RDY 1.1. 60 My heart for anger burns - I cannot brook it.
RDY 1.1. 61
RDY-KING HENRY
Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmorland.
RDY 1.1. 62
RDY-CLIFFORD
Patience is for poltroons, such as he {(indicating +
RDY 1.1. 62 York)} .
RDY 1.1. 63 He durst not sit there had your father lived.
RDY 1.1. 64 My gracious lord, here in the Parliament
RDY 1.1. 65 Let us assail the family of York.
RDY 1.1. 66
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Well hast thou spoken, cousin, be it so.
RDY 1.1. 67
RDY-KING HENRY
Ah, know you not the city favours them,
RDY 1.1. 68 And they have troops of soldiers at their beck?
RDY 1.1. 69
RDY-EXETER
But when the Duke is slain, they'll quickly fly.
RDY 1.1. 70
RDY-KING HENRY
Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,
RDY 1.1. 71 To make a shambles of the Parliament House.
RDY 1.1. 72 Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words, and threats
RDY 1.1. 73 Shall be the war that Henry means to use.
RDY 1.1. 74 {(To York)} Thou factious Duke of York, descend my +
RDY 1.1. 74 throne
RDY 1.1. 75 And kneel for grace and mercy at my feet.
RDY 1.1. 76B I am thy sovereign.
RDY-YORK
I am thine.
RDY 1.1. 77
RDY-EXETER
For shame, come down - he made thee Duke of York.
RDY 1.1. 78
RDY-YORK
It was mine inheritance, as the earldom was.
RDY 1.1. 79
RDY-EXETER
Thy father was a traitor to the crown.
RDY 1.1. 80
RDY-WARWICK
Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown
RDY 1.1. 81 In following this usurping Henry.
RDY 1.1. 82
RDY-CLIFFORD
Whom should he follow but his natural king?
RDY 1.1. 83
RDY-WARWICK
True, Clifford, and that's Richard Duke of York.
RDY 1.1. 84
RDY-KING HENRY
{(to York)} And shall I stand and thou +
RDY 1.1. 84 sit in my throne?
RDY 1.1. 85
RDY-YORK
It must and shall be so - content thyself.
RDY 1.1. 86
RDY-WARWICK
{(to King Henry)} Be Duke of Lancaster, +
RDY 1.1. 86 let him be king.
RDY 1.1. 87
RDY-WESTMORLAND
He is both king and Duke of Lancaster -
RDY 1.1. 88 And that, the Lord of Westmorland shall maintain.
RDY 1.1. 89
RDY-WARWICK
And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget
RDY 1.1. 90 That we are those which chased you from the field,
RDY 1.1. 91 And slew your fathers, and, with colours spread,
RDY 1.1. 92 Marched through the city to the palace gates.
RDY 1.1. 93
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief,
RDY 1.1. 94 And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.
RDY 1.1. 95
RDY-WESTMORLAND
{(to York)} Plantagenet, of thee, and +
RDY 1.1. 95 these thy sons,
RDY 1.1. 96 Thy kinsmen, and thy friends, I'll have more lives
RDY 1.1. 97 Than drops of blood were in my father's veins.
RDY 1.1. 98
RDY-CLIFFORD
{(to Warwick)} Urge it no more, lest +
RDY 1.1. 98 that, instead of words,
RDY 1.1. 99 I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger
RDY 1.1. 100 As shall revenge his death before I stir.
RDY 1.1. 101
RDY-WARWICK
{[to York]} Poor Clifford, how I scorn his +
RDY 1.1. 101 worthless threats.
RDY 1.1. 102
RDY-YORK
{[to King Henry]} Will you we show our title +
RDY 1.1. 102 to the crown?
RDY 1.1. 103 If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.
RDY 1.1. 104
RDY-KING HENRY
What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?
RDY 1.1. 105 Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York;
RDY 1.1. 106 Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March.
RDY 1.1. 107 I am the son of Henry the Fifth,
RDY 1.1. 108 Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop
RDY 1.1. 109 And seized upon their towns and provinces.
RDY 1.1. 110
RDY-WARWICK
Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all.
RDY 1.1. 111
RDY-KING HENRY
The Lord Protector lost it, and not I.
RDY 1.1. 112 When I was crowned, I was but nine months old.
RDY 1.1. 113
RDY-RICHARD
You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.
RDY 1.1. 114 {(To York)} Father, tear the crown from the usurper's +
RDY 1.1. 114 head.
RDY 1.1. 115
RDY-EDWARD
{(to York)} Sweet father, do so - set it on +
RDY 1.1. 115 your head.
RDY 1.1. 116
RDY-MONTAGUE
{(to York)} Good brother, as thou lov'st +
RDY 1.1. 116 and honour'st arms,
RDY 1.1. 117 Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.
RDY 1.1. 118
RDY-RICHARD
Sound drums and trumpets, and the King will fly.
RDY 1.1. 119A
RDY-YORK
Sons, peace!
RDY 1.1. 120
RDY-[NORTHUMBERLAND]
Peace, thou - and give King Henry leave to speak.
RDY 1.1. 121
RDY-KING HENRY
Ah, York, why seekest thou to depose me?
RDY 1.1. 122 Are we not both Plantagenets by birth,
RDY 1.1. 123 And from two brothers lineally descent?
RDY 1.1. 124 Suppose by right and equity thou be king -
RDY 1.1. 125 Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,
RDY 1.1. 126 Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?
RDY 1.1. 127 No - first shall war unpeople this my realm;
RDY 1.1. 128 Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,
RDY 1.1. 129 And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,
RDY 1.1. 130 Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?
RDY 1.1. 131 My title's good, and better far than his.
RDY 1.1. 132
RDY-WARWICK
Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.
RDY 1.1. 133
RDY-KING HENRY
Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.
RDY 1.1. 134
RDY-YORK
'Twas by rebellion against his king.
RDY 1.1. 135
RDY-KING HENRY
{[aside]} I know not what to say - my +
RDY 1.1. 135 title's weak.
RDY 1.1. 136 {(To York)} Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?
RDY 1.1. 137A
RDY-YORK
What then?
RDY 1.1. 138
RDY-KING HENRY
An if he may, then am I lawful king -
RDY 1.1. 139 For Richard, in the view of many lords,
RDY 1.1. 140 Resigned the crown to Henry the Fourth,
RDY 1.1. 141 Whose heir my father was, and I am his.
RDY 1.1. 142
RDY-YORK
He rose against him, being his sovereign,
RDY 1.1. 143 And made him to resign his crown perforce.
RDY 1.1. 144
RDY-WARWICK
Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrained -
RDY 1.1. 145 Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown?
RDY 1.1. 146
RDY-EXETER
No, for he could not so resign his crown
RDY 1.1. 147 But that the next heir should succeed and reign.
RDY 1.1. 148
RDY-KING HENRY
Art thou against us, Duke of Exeter?
RDY 1.1. 149
RDY-EXETER
His is the right, and therefore pardon me.
RDY 1.1. 150
RDY-YORK
Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?
RDY 1.1. 151
RDY-EXETER
{[to King Henry]} My conscience tells me he +
RDY 1.1. 151 is lawful king.
RDY 1.1. 152
RDY-KING HENRY
{[aside]} All will revolt from me and +
RDY 1.1. 152 turn to him.
RDY 1.1. 153
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to York)} Plantagenet, for all +
RDY 1.1. 153 the claim thou lay'st,
RDY 1.1. 154 Think not that Henry shall be so deposed.
RDY 1.1. 155
RDY-WARWICK
Deposed he shall be, in despite of all.
RDY 1.1. 156
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Thou art deceived - 'tis not thy southern power
RDY 1.1. 157 Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent,
RDY 1.1. 158 Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,
RDY 1.1. 159 Can set the Duke up in despite of me.
RDY 1.1. 160
RDY-CLIFFORD
King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,
RDY 1.1. 161 Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence.
RDY 1.1. 162 May that ground gape and swallow me alive
RDY 1.1. 163 Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father.
RDY 1.1. 164
RDY-KING HENRY
O, Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!
RDY 1.1. 165
RDY-YORK
Henry of Lancaster, resign thy crown.
RDY 1.1. 166 What mutter you, or what conspire you, lords?
RDY 1.1. 167
RDY-WARWICK
Do right unto this princely Duke of York,
RDY 1.1. 168 Or I will fill the house with armed men
RDY 1.1. 169 And over the chair of state, where now he sits,
RDY 1.1. 170 Write up his title with usurping blood. {He stamps with his foot +
RDY 1.1. 170 and the soldiers show themselves}
RDY 1.1. 171
RDY-KING HENRY
My lord of Warwick, hear me but one word -
RDY 1.1. 172 Let me for this my lifetime reign as king.
RDY 1.1. 173
RDY-YORK
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,
RDY 1.1. 174 And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou liv'st.
RDY 1.1. 175
RDY-KING HENRY
I am content. Richard Plantagenet,
RDY 1.1. 176 Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.
RDY 1.1. 177
RDY-CLIFFORD
What wrong is this unto the prince your son?
RDY 1.1. 178
RDY-WARWICK
What good is this to England and himself?
RDY 1.1. 179
RDY-WESTMORLAND
Base, fearful, and despairing Henry.
RDY 1.1. 180
RDY-CLIFFORD
How hast thou injured both thyself and us?
RDY 1.1. 181
RDY-WESTMORLAND
I cannot stay to hear these articles.
RDY 1.1. 182A
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Nor I.
RDY 1.1. 183
RDY-CLIFFORD
Come, cousin, let us tell the Queen these news.
RDY 1.1. 184
RDY-WESTMORLAND
{(to King Henry)} Farewell, +
RDY 1.1. 184 faint-hearted and degenerate king,
RDY 1.1. 185 In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides. {[Exit with his +
RDY 1.1. 185 soldiers]}
RDY 1.1. 186
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to King Henry)} Be thou a prey +
RDY 1.1. 186 unto the house of York,
RDY 1.1. 187 And die in bands for this unmanly deed. {[Exit with his +
RDY 1.1. 187 soldiers]}
RDY 1.1. 188
RDY-CLIFFORD
{(to King Henry)} In dreadful war mayst +
RDY 1.1. 188 thou be overcome,
RDY 1.1. 189 Or live in peace, abandoned and despised. {Exit [with his +
RDY 1.1. 189 soldiers]}
RDY 1.1. 190
RDY-WARWICK
{(to King Henry)} Turn this way, Henry, +
RDY 1.1. 190 and regard them not.
RDY 1.1. 191
RDY-EXETER
{(to King Henry)} They seek revenge and +
RDY 1.1. 191 therefore will not yield.
RDY 1.1. 192B
RDY-KING HENRY
Ah, Exeter.
RDY-WARWICK
Why should you sigh, my lord?
RDY 1.1. 193
RDY-KING HENRY
Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,
RDY 1.1. 194 Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit.
RDY 1.1. 195 But be it as it may. {(To York)} I here entail
RDY 1.1. 196 The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever,
RDY 1.1. 197 Conditionally, that here thou take thine oath
RDY 1.1. 198 To cease this civil war, and whilst I live
RDY 1.1. 199 To honour me as thy king and sovereign,
RDY 1.1. 200 And nor by treason nor hostility
RDY 1.1. 201 To seek to put me down and reign thyself.
RDY 1.1. 202
RDY-YORK
This oath I willingly take and will perform.
RDY 1.1. 203
RDY-WARWICK
Long live King Henry. {(To York)} +
RDY 1.1. 203 Plantagenet, embrace him. {[York descends.] Henry and York +
RDY 1.1. 203 embrace}
RDY 1.1. 204
RDY-KING HENRY
{(to York)} And long live thou, and +
RDY 1.1. 204 these thy forward sons.
RDY 1.1. 205
RDY-YORK
Now York and Lancaster are reconciled.
RDY 1.1. 206
RDY-EXETER
Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes. {Sennet. +
RDY 1.1. 206 Here York's train comes down from the state}
RDY 1.1. 207
RDY-YORK
{(to King Henry)} Farewell, my gracious lord, +
RDY 1.1. 207 I'll to my castle. {Exeunt York, Edward, and Richard, [with +
RDY 1.1. 207 soldiers]}
RDY 1.1. 208
RDY-WARWICK
And I'll keep London with my soldiers. +
RDY 1.1. 208 {Exit [with soldiers]}
RDY 1.1. 209
RDY-NORFOLK
And I to Norfolk with my followers. {Exit +
RDY 1.1. 209 [with soldiers]}
RDY 1.1. 210
RDY-MONTAGUE
And I unto the sea from whence I came. +
RDY 1.1. 210 {Exit [with soldiers]}
RDY 1.1. 211
RDY-KING HENRY
And I with grief and sorrow to the +
RDY 1.1. 211 court. {[King Henry and Exeter turn to leave.]}
RDY 1.1. 212 {Enter Queen Margaret and Prince Edward}
RDY-EXETER
Here comes +
RDY 1.1. 212 the Queen, whose looks bewray her anger.
RDY 1.1. 213B I'll steal away.
RDY-KING HENRY
Exeter, so will I.
RDY 1.1. 214
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Nay, go not from me - I will follow thee.
RDY 1.1. 215
RDY-KING HENRY
Be patient, gentle Queen, and I will stay.
RDY 1.1. 216
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Who can be patient in such extremes?
RDY 1.1. 217 Ah, wretched man, would I had died a maid
RDY 1.1. 218 And never seen thee, never borne thee son,
RDY 1.1. 219 Seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father.
RDY 1.1. 220 Hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus?
RDY 1.1. 221 Hadst thou but loved him half so well as I,
RDY 1.1. 222 Or felt that pain which I did for him once,
RDY 1.1. 223 Or nourished him as I did with my blood,
RDY 1.1. 224 Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there
RDY 1.1. 225 Rather than have made that savage Duke thine heir
RDY 1.1. 226 And disinherited thine only son.
RDY 1.1. 227
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Father, you cannot disinherit me.
RDY 1.1. 228 If you be king, why should not I succeed?
RDY 1.1. 229
RDY-KING HENRY
Pardon me, Margaret; pardon me, sweet son -
RDY 1.1. 230 The Earl of Warwick and the Duke enforced me.
RDY 1.1. 231
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Enforced thee? Art thou king, and wilt be forced?
RDY 1.1. 232 I shame to hear thee speak! Ah, timorous wretch,
RDY 1.1. 233 Thou hast undone thyself, thy son, and me,
RDY 1.1. 234 And giv'n unto the house of York such head
RDY 1.1. 235 As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance.
RDY 1.1. 236 To entail him and his heirs unto the crown -
RDY 1.1. 237 What is it, but to make thy sepulchre
RDY 1.1. 238 And creep into it far before thy time?
RDY 1.1. 239 Warwick is Chancellor and the Lord of Calais;
RDY 1.1. 240 Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas;
RDY 1.1. 241 The Duke is made Protector of the Realm;
RDY 1.1. 242 And yet shalt thou be safe? Such safety finds
RDY 1.1. 243 The trembling lamb environed with wolves.
RDY 1.1. 244 Had I been there, which am a seely woman,
RDY 1.1. 245 The soldiers should have tossed me on their pikes
RDY 1.1. 246 Before I would have granted to that act.
RDY 1.1. 247 But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour.
RDY 1.1. 248 And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself
RDY 1.1. 249 Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,
RDY 1.1. 250 Until that act of Parliament be repealed
RDY 1.1. 251 Whereby my son is disinherited.
RDY 1.1. 252 The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours
RDY 1.1. 253 Will follow mine, if once they see them spread -
RDY 1.1. 254 And spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace
RDY 1.1. 255 And the utter ruin of the house of York.
RDY 1.1. 256 Thus do I leave thee. {(To Prince Edward)} Come, son, +
RDY 1.1. 256 let's away.
RDY 1.1. 257 Our army is ready - come, we'll after them.
RDY 1.1. 258
RDY-KING HENRY
Stay, gentle Margaret, and hear me speak.
RDY 1.1. 259B
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Thou hast spoke too much already. {[To Prince +
RDY 1.1. 259B Edward]} Get thee gone.
RDY 1.1. 260
RDY-KING HENRY
Gentle son Edward, thou wilt stay with me?
RDY 1.1. 261
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Ay, to be murdered by his enemies.
RDY 1.1. 262
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
{(to King Henry)} When I return with +
RDY 1.1. 262 victory from the field,
RDY 1.1. 263 I'll see your grace. Till then, I'll follow her.
RDY 1.1. 264
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Come, son, away - we may not linger thus. {Exit +
RDY 1.1. 264 with Prince Edward}
RDY 1.1. 265
RDY-KING HENRY
Poor Queen, how love to me and to her son
RDY 1.1. 266 Hath made her break out into terms of rage.
RDY 1.1. 267 Revenged may she be on that hateful Duke,
RDY 1.1. 268 Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire,
RDY 1.1. 269 Will coast my crown, and, like an empty eagle,
RDY 1.1. 270 Tire on the flesh of me and of my son.
RDY 1.1. 271 The loss of those three lords torments my heart.
RDY 1.1. 272 I'll write unto them and entreat them fair.
RDY 1.1. 273 Come, cousin, you shall be the messenger.
RDY 1.1. 274
RDY-EXETER
And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all. {Flourish. +
RDY 1.1. 274 Exeunt}
RDY 1.1. 0 {Enter Richard, Edward Earl of March, and the Marquis of +
RDY 1.2. 0 Montague}
RDY 1.2. 1
RDY-RICHARD
Brother, though I be youngest give me leave.
RDY 1.2. 2
RDY-EDWARD
No, I can better play the orator.
RDY 1.2. 3
RDY-MONTAGUE
But I have reasons strong and forcible. {Enter the +
RDY 1.2. 3 Duke of York}
RDY 1.2. 4
RDY-YORK
Why, how now, sons and brother - at a strife?
RDY 1.2. 5 What is your quarrel? How began it first?
RDY 1.2. 6
RDY-EDWARD
No quarrel, but a slight contention.
RDY 1.2. 7A
RDY-YORK
About what?
RDY 1.2. 8
RDY-RICHARD
About that which concerns your grace and us -
RDY 1.2. 9 The crown of England, father, which is yours.
RDY 1.2. 10
RDY-YORK
Mine, boy? Not till King Henry be dead.
RDY 1.2. 11
RDY-RICHARD
Your right depends not on his life or death.
RDY 1.2. 12
RDY-EDWARD
Now you are heir - therefore enjoy it now.
RDY 1.2. 13 By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,
RDY 1.2. 14 It will outrun you, father, in the end.
RDY 1.2. 15
RDY-YORK
I took an oath that he should quietly reign.
RDY 1.2. 16
RDY-EDWARD
But for a kingdom any oath may be broken.
RDY 1.2. 17 I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.
RDY 1.2. 18
RDY-RICHARD
{(to York)} No - God forbid your grace +
RDY 1.2. 18 should be forsworn.
RDY 1.2. 19
RDY-YORK
I shall be if I claim by open war.
RDY 1.2. 20
RDY-RICHARD
I'll prove the contrary, if you'll hear me speak.
RDY 1.2. 21
RDY-YORK
Thou canst not, son - it is impossible.
RDY 1.2. 22
RDY-RICHARD
An oath is of no moment being not took
RDY 1.2. 23 Before a true and lawful magistrate
RDY 1.2. 24 That hath authority over him that swears.
RDY 1.2. 25 Henry had none, but did usurp the place.
RDY 1.2. 26 Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose,
RDY 1.2. 27 Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.
RDY 1.2. 28 Therefore to arms - and, father, do but think
RDY 1.2. 29 How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,
RDY 1.2. 30 Within whose circuit is Elysium
RDY 1.2. 31 And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
RDY 1.2. 32 Why do we linger thus? I cannot rest
RDY 1.2. 33 Until the white rose that I wear be dyed
RDY 1.2. 34 Even in the luke-warm blood of Henry's heart.
RDY 1.2. 35
RDY-YORK
Richard, enough! I will be king or die.
RDY 1.2. 36 {(To Montague)} Brother, thou shalt to London +
RDY 1.2. 36 presently
RDY 1.2. 37 And whet on Warwick to this enterprise.
RDY 1.2. 38 Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk
RDY 1.2. 39 And tell him privily of our intent.
RDY 1.2. 40 You, Edward, shall to Edmund Brook, Lord Cobham,
RDY 1.2. 41 With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise.
RDY 1.2. 42 In them I trust, for they are soldiers
RDY 1.2. 43 Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.
RDY 1.2. 44 While you are thus employed, what resteth more
RDY 1.2. 45 But that I seek occasion how to rise,
RDY 1.2. 46 And yet the King not privy to my drift,
RDY 1.2. 47 Nor any of the house of Lancaster. {Enter a Messenger}
RDY 1.2. 48 But stay, what news? Why com'st thou in such post?
RDY 1.2. 49
RDY-MESSENGER
The Queen, with all the northern earls and lords,
RDY 1.2. 50 Intend here to besiege you in your castle.
RDY 1.2. 51 She is hard by with twenty thousand men,
RDY 1.2. 52 And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.
RDY 1.2. 53
RDY-YORK
Ay, with my sword. What - think'st thou that we fear them?
RDY 1.2. 54 Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;
RDY 1.2. 55 My brother Montague shall post to London.
RDY 1.2. 56 Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,
RDY 1.2. 57 Whom we have left protectors of the King,
RDY 1.2. 58 With powerful policy strengthen themselves,
RDY 1.2. 59 And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths.
RDY 1.2. 60
RDY-MONTAGUE
Brother, I go - I'll win them, fear it not.
RDY 1.2. 61 And thus most humbly I do take my leave. {Exit}
RDY 1.2. 62 {Enter Sir John Mortimer and his brother Sir Hugh}
RDY-YORK
+
RDY 1.2. 62 Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, mine uncles,
RDY 1.2. 63 You are come to Sandal in a happy hour.
RDY 1.2. 64 The army of the Queen mean to besiege us.
RDY 1.2. 65
RDY-SIR JOHN
She shall not need, we'll meet her in the field.
RDY 1.2. 66A
RDY-YORK
What, with five thousand men?
RDY 1.2. 67
RDY-RICHARD
Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need.
RDY 1.2. 68 A woman's general - what should we fear? {A march sounds afar off}
RDY 1.2. 69
RDY-EDWARD
I hear their drums. Let's set our men in order,
RDY 1.2. 70 And issue forth and bid them battle straight.
RDY 1.2. 71
RDY-YORK
{[to Sir John and Sir Hugh]} Five men to +
RDY 1.2. 71 twenty - though the odds be great,
RDY 1.2. 72 I doubt not, uncles, of our victory.
RDY 1.2. 73 Many a battle have I won in France
RDY 1.2. 74 Whenas the enemy hath been ten to one -
RDY 1.2. 75 Why should I not now have the like success? {Exeunt}
RDY 1.2. 0 {Alarums, and then enter the young Earl of Rutland and +
RDY 1.3. 0 his Tutor, a chaplain}
RDY 1.3. 1
RDY-RUTLAND
Ah, whither shall I fly to scape their +
RDY 1.3. 1 hands? {Enter Lord Clifford with soldiers}
RDY 1.3. 2 Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes.
RDY 1.3. 3
RDY-CLIFFORD
{(to the Tutor)} Chaplain, away - thy +
RDY 1.3. 3 priesthood saves thy life.
RDY 1.3. 4 As for the brat of this accursed duke,
RDY 1.3. 5 Whose father slew my father - he shall die.
RDY 1.3. 6
RDY-TUTOR
And I, my lord, will bear him company.
RDY 1.3. 7A
RDY-CLIFFORD
Soldiers, away with him.
RDY 1.3. 8
RDY-TUTOR
Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child
RDY 1.3. 9 Lest thou be hated both of God and man. {Exit, guarded}
RDY 1.3. 10 {[Rutland falls to the ground]}
RDY-CLIFFORD
How +
RDY 1.3. 10 now - is he dead already?
RDY 1.3. 11 Or is it fear that makes him close his eyes?
RDY 1.3. 12 I'll open them.
RDY 1.3. 13
RDY-RUTLAND
{[reviving]} So looks the pent-up lion +
RDY 1.3. 13 o'er the wretch
RDY 1.3. 14 That trembles under his devouring paws,
RDY 1.3. 15 And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey,
RDY 1.3. 16 And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder.
RDY 1.3. 17 Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword
RDY 1.3. 18 And not with such a cruel threat'ning look.
RDY 1.3. 19 Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die.
RDY 1.3. 20 I am too mean a subject for thy wrath.
RDY 1.3. 21 Be thou revenged on men, and let me live.
RDY 1.3. 22
RDY-CLIFFORD
In vain thou speak'st, poor boy. My father's blood
RDY 1.3. 23 Hath stopped the passage where thy words should enter.
RDY 1.3. 24
RDY-RUTLAND
Then let my father's blood open it again.
RDY 1.3. 25 He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him.
RDY 1.3. 26
RDY-CLIFFORD
Had I thy brethren here, their lives and thine
RDY 1.3. 27 Were not revenge sufficient for me.
RDY 1.3. 28 No - if I digged up thy forefathers' graves,
RDY 1.3. 29 And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
RDY 1.3. 30 It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
RDY 1.3. 31 The sight of any of the house of York
RDY 1.3. 32 Is as a fury to torment my soul.
RDY 1.3. 33 And till I root out their accursed line,
RDY 1.3. 34 And leave not one alive, I live in hell.
RDY 1.3. 35 Therefore -
RDY 1.3. 36
RDY-RUTLAND
O, let me pray before I take my death.
RDY 1.3. 37 {[Kneeling]} To thee I pray: sweet Clifford, pity me.
RDY 1.3. 38
RDY-CLIFFORD
Such pity as my rapier's point affords.
RDY 1.3. 39
RDY-RUTLAND
I never did thee harm - why wilt thou slay me?
RDY 1.3. 40B
RDY-CLIFFORD
Thy father hath.
RDY-RUTLAND
But 'twas ere I was born.
RDY 1.3. 41 Thou hast one son - for his sake pity me,
RDY 1.3. 42 Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,
RDY 1.3. 43 He be as miserably slain as I.
RDY 1.3. 44 Ah, let me live in prison all my days,
RDY 1.3. 45 And when I give occasion of offence,
RDY 1.3. 46 Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.
RDY 1.3. 47
RDY-CLIFFORD
No cause? Thy father slew my father, therefore die. +
RDY 1.3. 47 {He stabs him}
RDY 1.3. 48
RDY-RUTLAND
{Dii faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae.} +
RDY 1.3. 48 {He dies}
RDY 1.3. 49
RDY-CLIFFORD
Plantagenet - I come, Plantagenet!
RDY 1.3. 50 And this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade
RDY 1.3. 51 Shall rust upon my weapon till thy blood,
RDY 1.3. 52 Congealed with this, do make me wipe off both. {Exit with +
RDY 1.3. 52 Rutland's body [and soldiers]}
RDY 1.3. 0 {Alarum. Enter Richard Duke of York}
RDY 1.4. 1
RDY-YORK
The army of the Queen hath got the field;
RDY 1.4. 2 My uncles both are slain in rescuing me;
RDY 1.4. 3 And all my followers to the eager foe
RDY 1.4. 4 Turn back, and fly like ships before the wind,
RDY 1.4. 5 Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves.
RDY 1.4. 6 My sons - God knows what hath bechanced them.
RDY 1.4. 7 But this I know - they have demeaned themselves
RDY 1.4. 8 Like men born to renown by life or death.
RDY 1.4. 9 Three times did Richard make a lane to me,
RDY 1.4. 10 And thrice cried, `Courage, father, fight it out!'
RDY 1.4. 11 And full as oft came Edward to my side,
RDY 1.4. 12 With purple falchion painted to the hilt
RDY 1.4. 13 In blood of those that had encountered him.
RDY 1.4. 14 And when the hardiest warriors did retire,
RDY 1.4. 15 Richard cried, `Charge and give no foot of ground!'
RDY 1.4. 16
RDY-[]
RDY 1.4. 17 And cried `A crown or else a glorious tomb!
RDY 1.4. 18 A sceptre or an earthly sepulchre!'
RDY 1.4. 19 With this, we charged again - but out, alas -
RDY 1.4. 20 We bodged again, as I have seen a swan
RDY 1.4. 21 With bootless labour swim against the tide
RDY 1.4. 22 And spend her strength with over-matching waves. {A short alarum +
RDY 1.4. 22 within}
RDY 1.4. 23 Ah, hark - the fatal followers do pursue,
RDY 1.4. 24 And I am faint and cannot fly their fury;
RDY 1.4. 25 And were I strong, I would not shun their fury.
RDY 1.4. 26 The sands are numbered that makes up my life.
RDY 1.4. 27 Here must I stay, and here my life must end. {Enter Queen +
RDY 1.4. 27 Margaret, Lord Clifford, the Earl of Northumberland, and the young +
RDY 1.4. 27 Prince Edward, with soldiers}
RDY 1.4. 28 Come bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland -
RDY 1.4. 29 I dare your quenchless fury to more rage!
RDY 1.4. 30 I am your butt, and I abide your shot.
RDY 1.4. 31
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yield to our mercy, proud Plantagenet.
RDY 1.4. 32
RDY-CLIFFORD
Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm,
RDY 1.4. 33 With downright payment, showed unto my father.
RDY 1.4. 34 Now Phae|ton hath tumbled from his car,
RDY 1.4. 35 And made an evening at the noontide prick.
RDY 1.4. 36
RDY-YORK
My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth
RDY 1.4. 37 A bird that will revenge upon you all,
RDY 1.4. 38 And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,
RDY 1.4. 39 Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.
RDY 1.4. 40 Why come you not? What - multitudes, and fear?
RDY 1.4. 41
RDY-CLIFFORD
So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
RDY 1.4. 42 So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;
RDY 1.4. 43 So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
RDY 1.4. 44 Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.
RDY 1.4. 45
RDY-YORK
O, Clifford, but bethink thee once again,
RDY 1.4. 46 And in thy thought o'errun my former time,
RDY 1.4. 47 And, if thou canst for blushing, view this face
RDY 1.4. 48 And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice
RDY 1.4. 49 Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this.
RDY 1.4. 50
RDY-CLIFFORD
I will not bandy with thee word for word,
RDY 1.4. 51 But buckle with thee blows twice two for one. {[He draws his +
RDY 1.4. 51 sword]}
RDY 1.4. 52
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Hold, valiant Clifford: for a thousand +
RDY 1.4. 52 causes
RDY 1.4. 53 I would prolong a while the traitor's life.
RDY 1.4. 54 Wrath makes him deaf - speak thou, Northumberland.
RDY 1.4. 55
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Hold, Clifford - do not honour him so much
RDY 1.4. 56 To prick thy finger though to wound his heart.
RDY 1.4. 57 What valour were it when a cur doth grin
RDY 1.4. 58 For one to thrust his hand between his teeth
RDY 1.4. 59 When he might spurn him with his foot away?
RDY 1.4. 60 It is war's prize to take all vantages,
RDY 1.4. 61 And ten to one is no impeach of valour. {They [fight and] take +
RDY 1.4. 61 York}
RDY 1.4. 62
RDY-CLIFFORD
Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.
RDY 1.4. 63
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
So doth the cony struggle in the net.
RDY 1.4. 64
RDY-YORK
So triumph thieves upon their conquered booty,
RDY 1.4. 65 So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatched.
RDY 1.4. 66
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to the Queen)} What would your +
RDY 1.4. 66 grace have done unto him now?
RDY 1.4. 67
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland,
RDY 1.4. 68 Come make him stand upon this molehill here,
RDY 1.4. 69 That wrought at mountains with outstretched arms
RDY 1.4. 70 Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.
RDY 1.4. 71 {(To York)} What - was it you that would be England's +
RDY 1.4. 71 king?
RDY 1.4. 72 Was 't you that revelled in our Parliament,
RDY 1.4. 73 And made a preachment of your high descent?
RDY 1.4. 74 Where are your mess of sons to back you now?
RDY 1.4. 75 The wanton Edward and the lusty George?
RDY 1.4. 76 And where's that valiant crookback prodigy,
RDY 1.4. 77 Dickie, your boy, that with his grumbling voice
RDY 1.4. 78 Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies?
RDY 1.4. 79 Or with the rest where is your darling Rutland?
RDY 1.4. 80 Look, York, I stained this napkin with the blood
RDY 1.4. 81 That valiant Clifford with his rapier's point
RDY 1.4. 82 Made issue from the bosom of thy boy.
RDY 1.4. 83 And if thine eyes can water for his death,
RDY 1.4. 84 I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal.
RDY 1.4. 85 Alas, poor York, but that I hate thee deadly
RDY 1.4. 86 I should lament thy miserable state.
RDY 1.4. 87 I prithee, grieve, to make me merry, York.
RDY 1.4. 88 What - hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails
RDY 1.4. 89 That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death?
RDY 1.4. 90 Why art thou patient, man? Thou shouldst be mad,
RDY 1.4. 91 And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
RDY 1.4. 92 Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.
RDY 1.4. 93 Thou wouldst be fee'd, I see, to make me sport.
RDY 1.4. 94 York cannot speak unless he wear a crown.
RDY 1.4. 95 {(To her men)} A crown for York, and, lords, bow low +
RDY 1.4. 95 to him.
RDY 1.4. 96 Hold you his hands whilst I do set it on. {She puts a paper +
RDY 1.4. 96 crown on York's head}
RDY 1.4. 97 Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king,
RDY 1.4. 98 Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair,
RDY 1.4. 99 And this is he was his adopted heir.
RDY 1.4. 100 But how is it that great Plantagenet
RDY 1.4. 101 Is crowned so soon and broke his solemn oath?
RDY 1.4. 102 As I bethink me, you should not be king
RDY 1.4. 103 Till our King Henry had shook hands with death.
RDY 1.4. 104 And will you pale your head in Henry's glory,
RDY 1.4. 105 And rob his temples of the diadem
RDY 1.4. 106 Now, in his life, against your holy oath?
RDY 1.4. 107 O 'tis a fault too, too, unpardonable.
RDY 1.4. 108B Off with the crown, {[She knocks it from his head]} and +
RDY 1.4. 108B with the crown his head,
RDY 1.4. 109 And whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead.
RDY 1.4. 110
RDY-CLIFFORD
That is my office for my father's sake.
RDY 1.4. 111
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Nay, stay - let's hear the orisons he makes.
RDY 1.4. 112
RDY-YORK
She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,
RDY 1.4. 113 Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth -
RDY 1.4. 114 How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex
RDY 1.4. 115 To triumph like an Amazonian trull
RDY 1.4. 116 Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!
RDY 1.4. 117 But that thy face is visor-like, unchanging,
RDY 1.4. 118 Made impudent with use of evil deeds,
RDY 1.4. 119 I would essay, proud Queen, to make thee blush.
RDY 1.4. 120 To tell thee whence thou cam'st, of whom derived,
RDY 1.4. 121 Were shame enough to shame thee - wert thou not shameless.
RDY 1.4. 122 Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,
RDY 1.4. 123 Of both the Sicils, and Jerusalem -
RDY 1.4. 124 Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.
RDY 1.4. 125 Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?
RDY 1.4. 126 It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud Queen,
RDY 1.4. 127 Unless the adage must be verified
RDY 1.4. 128 That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
RDY 1.4. 129 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud -
RDY 1.4. 130 But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small;
RDY 1.4. 131 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired -
RDY 1.4. 132 The contrary doth make thee wondered at;
RDY 1.4. 133 'Tis government that makes them seem divine -
RDY 1.4. 134 The want thereof makes thee abominable.
RDY 1.4. 135 Thou art as opposite to every good
RDY 1.4. 136 As the antipodes are unto us,
RDY 1.4. 137 Or as the south to the septentrion.
RDY 1.4. 138 O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!
RDY 1.4. 139 How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child
RDY 1.4. 140 To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,
RDY 1.4. 141 And yet be seen to bear a woman's face?
RDY 1.4. 142 Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible -
RDY 1.4. 143 Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
RDY 1.4. 144 Bidd'st thou me rage? Why, now thou hast thy wish.
RDY 1.4. 145 Wouldst have me weep? Why, now thou hast thy will.
RDY 1.4. 146 For raging wind blows up incessant showers,
RDY 1.4. 147 And when the rage allays the rain begins.
RDY 1.4. 148 These tears are my sweet Rutland's obsequies,
RDY 1.4. 149 And every drop cries vengeance for his death
RDY 1.4. 150 'Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false Frenchwoman.
RDY 1.4. 151
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Beshrew me, but his passions move me so
RDY 1.4. 152 That hardly can I check my eyes from tears.
RDY 1.4. 153
RDY-YORK
That face of his the hungry cannibals
RDY 1.4. 154 Would not have touched, would not have stained with blood -
RDY 1.4. 155 But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,
RDY 1.4. 156 O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania.
RDY 1.4. 157 See, ruthless Queen, a hapless father's tears.
RDY 1.4. 158 This cloth thou dipped'st in blood of my sweet boy,
RDY 1.4. 159 And I with tears do wash the blood away.
RDY 1.4. 160 Keep thou the napkin and go boast of this,
RDY 1.4. 161 And if thou tell'st the heavy story right,
RDY 1.4. 162 Upon my soul the hearers will shed tears,
RDY 1.4. 163 Yea, even my foes will shed fast-falling tears
RDY 1.4. 164 And say, `Alas, it was a piteous deed'.
RDY 1.4. 165 There, take the crown - and with the crown, my curse:
RDY 1.4. 166 And in thy need such comfort come to thee
RDY 1.4. 167 As now I reap at thy too cruel hand.
RDY 1.4. 168 Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world.
RDY 1.4. 169 My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads.
RDY 1.4. 170
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,
RDY 1.4. 171 I should not, for my life, but weep with him,
RDY 1.4. 172 To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.
RDY 1.4. 173
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
What - weeping-ripe, my lord Northumberland?
RDY 1.4. 174 Think but upon the wrong he did us all,
RDY 1.4. 175 And that will quickly dry thy melting tears.
RDY 1.4. 176
RDY-CLIFFORD
Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death. +
RDY 1.4. 176 {He stabs York}
RDY 1.4. 177
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
And here's to right our gentle-hearted +
RDY 1.4. 177 King. {She stabs York}
RDY 1.4. 178
RDY-YORK
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God -
RDY 1.4. 179 My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. {[He dies]}
RDY 1.4. 180
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Off with his head and set it on York +
RDY 1.4. 180 gates,
RDY 1.4. 181 So York may overlook the town of York. {Flourish. Exeunt with +
RDY 1.4. 181 York's body}
RDY 1.4. 0 {A march. Enter Edward Earl of March and Richard, +
RDY 2.1. 0 [with a drummer and soldiers]}
RDY 2.1. 1
RDY-EDWARD
I wonder how our princely father scaped,
RDY 2.1. 2 Or whether he be scaped away or no
RDY 2.1. 3 From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit.
RDY 2.1. 4 Had he been ta'en we should have heard the news;
RDY 2.1. 5 Had he been slain we should have heard the news;
RDY 2.1. 6 Or had he scaped, methinks we should have heard
RDY 2.1. 7 The happy tidings of his good escape.
RDY 2.1. 8 How fares my brother? Why is he so sad?
RDY 2.1. 9
RDY-RICHARD
I cannot joy until I be resolved
RDY 2.1. 10 Where our right valiant father is become.
RDY 2.1. 11 I saw him in the battle range about,
RDY 2.1. 12 And watched him how he singled Clifford forth.
RDY 2.1. 13 Methought he bore him in the thickest troop,
RDY 2.1. 14 As doth a lion in a herd of neat;
RDY 2.1. 15 Or as a bear encompassed round with dogs,
RDY 2.1. 16 Who having pinched a few and made them cry,
RDY 2.1. 17 The rest stand all aloof and bark at him.
RDY 2.1. 18 So fared our father with his enemies;
RDY 2.1. 19 So fled his enemies my warlike father.
RDY 2.1. 20 Methinks 'tis prize enough to be his son. {[Three suns appear in +
RDY 2.1. 20 the air]}
RDY 2.1. 21 See how the morning opes her golden gates
RDY 2.1. 22 And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.
RDY 2.1. 23 How well resembles it the prime of youth,
RDY 2.1. 24 Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!
RDY 2.1. 25
RDY-EDWARD
Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?
RDY 2.1. 26
RDY-RICHARD
Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;
RDY 2.1. 27 Not separated with the racking clouds,
RDY 2.1. 28 But severed in a pale clear-shining sky. {[The three suns begin +
RDY 2.1. 28 to join]}
RDY 2.1. 29 See, see - they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,
RDY 2.1. 30 As if they vowed some league inviolable.
RDY 2.1. 31 Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.
RDY 2.1. 32 In this the heaven figures some event.
RDY 2.1. 33
RDY-EDWARD
'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.
RDY 2.1. 34 I think it cites us, brother, to the field,
RDY 2.1. 35 That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,
RDY 2.1. 36 Each one already blazing by our meeds,
RDY 2.1. 37 Should notwithstanding join our lights together
RDY 2.1. 38 And over-shine the earth as this the world.
RDY 2.1. 39 Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear
RDY 2.1. 40 Upon my target three fair-shining suns.
RDY 2.1. 41
RDY-RICHARD
Nay, bear three daughters - by your leave I speak it -
RDY 2.1. 42 You love the breeder better than the male. {Enter one blowing}
RDY 2.1. 43 But what art thou whose heavy looks foretell
RDY 2.1. 44 Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?
RDY 2.1. 45
RDY-MESSENGER
Ah, one that was a woeful looker-on
RDY 2.1. 46 Whenas the noble Duke of York was slain -
RDY 2.1. 47 Your princely father and my loving lord.
RDY 2.1. 48
RDY-EDWARD
O, speak no more, for I have heard too much.
RDY 2.1. 49
RDY-RICHARD
Say how he died, for I will hear it all.
RDY 2.1. 50
RDY-MESSENGER
Environed he was with many foes,
RDY 2.1. 51 And stood against them as the hope of Troy
RDY 2.1. 52 Against the Greeks that would have entered Troy.
RDY 2.1. 53 But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
RDY 2.1. 54 And many strokes, though with a little axe,
RDY 2.1. 55 Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.
RDY 2.1. 56 By many hands your father was subdued,
RDY 2.1. 57 But only slaughtered by the ireful arm
RDY 2.1. 58 Of unrelenting Clifford and the Queen,
RDY 2.1. 59 Who crowned the gracious Duke in high despite,
RDY 2.1. 60 Laughed in his face, and when with grief he wept,
RDY 2.1. 61 The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks
RDY 2.1. 62 A napkin steeped in the harmless blood
RDY 2.1. 63 Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain;
RDY 2.1. 64 And after many scorns, many foul taunts,
RDY 2.1. 65 They took his head, and on the gates of York
RDY 2.1. 66 They set the same; and there it doth remain,
RDY 2.1. 67 The saddest spectacle that e'er I viewed.
RDY 2.1. 68
RDY-EDWARD
Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,
RDY 2.1. 69 Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.
RDY 2.1. 70 O Clifford, boist'rous Clifford - thou hast slain
RDY 2.1. 71 The flower of Europe for his chivalry,
RDY 2.1. 72 And treacherously hast thou vanquished him -
RDY 2.1. 73 For hand to hand he would have vanquished thee.
RDY 2.1. 74 Now my soul's palace is become a prison.
RDY 2.1. 75 Ah, would she break from hence that this my body
RDY 2.1. 76 Might in the ground be closed up in rest.
RDY 2.1. 77 For never henceforth shall I joy again -
RDY 2.1. 78 Never, O never, shall I see more joy.
RDY 2.1. 79
RDY-RICHARD
I cannot weep, for all my body's moisture
RDY 2.1. 80 Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart;
RDY 2.1. 81 Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burden,
RDY 2.1. 82 For selfsame wind that I should speak withal
RDY 2.1. 83 Is kindling coals that fires all my breast,
RDY 2.1. 84 And burns me up with flames that tears would quench.
RDY 2.1. 85 To weep is to make less the depth of grief;
RDY 2.1. 86 Tears, then, for babes - blows and revenge for me!
RDY 2.1. 87 Richard, I bear thy name; I'll venge thy death
RDY 2.1. 88 Or die renowned by attempting it.
RDY 2.1. 89
RDY-EDWARD
His name that valiant Duke hath left with thee,
RDY 2.1. 90 His dukedom and his chair with me is left.
RDY 2.1. 91
RDY-RICHARD
Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird,
RDY 2.1. 92 Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun:
RDY 2.1. 93 For `chair and dukedom', `throne and kingdom' say -
RDY 2.1. 94 Either that is thine or else thou wert not his. {March. Enter +
RDY 2.1. 94 the Earl of Warwick and the Marquis of Montague [with drummers, an +
RDY 2.1. 94 ensign, and soldiers]}
RDY 2.1. 95
RDY-WARWICK
How now, fair lords? What fare? What news abroad?
RDY 2.1. 96
RDY-RICHARD
Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount
RDY 2.1. 97 Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance
RDY 2.1. 98 Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,
RDY 2.1. 99 The words would add more anguish than the wounds.
RDY 2.1. 100 O valiant lord, the Duke of York is slain.
RDY 2.1. 101
RDY-EDWARD
O Warwick, Warwick! That Plantagenet,
RDY 2.1. 102 Which held thee dearly as his soul's redemption,
RDY 2.1. 103 Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death.
RDY 2.1. 104
RDY-WARWICK
Ten days ago I drowned these news in tears.
RDY 2.1. 105 And now, to add more measure to your woes,
RDY 2.1. 106 I come to tell you things sith then befall'n.
RDY 2.1. 107 After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought,
RDY 2.1. 108 Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp,
RDY 2.1. 109 Tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,
RDY 2.1. 110 Were brought me of your loss and his depart.
RDY 2.1. 111 I then in London, keeper of the King,
RDY 2.1. 112 Mustered my soldiers, gathered flocks of friends,
RDY 2.1. 113 And, very well appointed as I thought,
RDY 2.1. 114 Marched toward Saint Albans to intercept the Queen,
RDY 2.1. 115 Bearing the King in my behalf along -
RDY 2.1. 116 For by my scouts I was advertised
RDY 2.1. 117 That she was coming with a full intent
RDY 2.1. 118 To dash our late decree in Parliament
RDY 2.1. 119 Touching King Henry's oath and your succession.
RDY 2.1. 120 Short tale to make, we at Saint Albans met,
RDY 2.1. 121 Our battles joined, and both sides fiercely fought;
RDY 2.1. 122 But whether 'twas the coldness of the King,
RDY 2.1. 123 Who looked full gently on his warlike queen,
RDY 2.1. 124 That robbed my soldiers of their heated spleen,
RDY 2.1. 125 Or whether 'twas report of her success,
RDY 2.1. 126 Or more than common fear of Clifford's rigour -
RDY 2.1. 127 Who thunders to his captains blood and death -
RDY 2.1. 128 I cannot judge; but, to conclude with truth,
RDY 2.1. 129 Their weapons like to lightning came and went;
RDY 2.1. 130 Our soldiers', like the night-owl's lazy flight,
RDY 2.1. 131 Or like an idle thresher with a flail,
RDY 2.1. 132 Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends.
RDY 2.1. 133 I cheered them up with justice of our cause,
RDY 2.1. 134 With promise of high pay, and great rewards.
RDY 2.1. 135 But all in vain. They had no heart to fight,
RDY 2.1. 136 And we in them no hope to win the day.
RDY 2.1. 137 So that we fled - the King unto the Queen,
RDY 2.1. 138 Lord George your brother, Norfolk, and myself
RDY 2.1. 139 In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you.
RDY 2.1. 140 For in the Marches here we heard you were,
RDY 2.1. 141 Making another head to fight again.
RDY 2.1. 142
RDY-EDWARD
Where is the Duke of Norfolk, gentle Warwick?
RDY 2.1. 143 And when came George from Burgundy to England?
RDY 2.1. 144
RDY-WARWICK
Some six miles off the Duke is with his soldiers;
RDY 2.1. 145 And for your brother - he was lately sent
RDY 2.1. 146 From your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy,
RDY 2.1. 147 With aid of soldiers to this needful war.
RDY 2.1. 148
RDY-RICHARD
'Twas odd belike when valiant Warwick fled.
RDY 2.1. 149 Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit,
RDY 2.1. 150 But ne'er till now his scandal of retire.
RDY 2.1. 151
RDY-WARWICK
Nor now my scandal, Richard, dost thou hear -
RDY 2.1. 152 For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine
RDY 2.1. 153 Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head
RDY 2.1. 154 And wring the aweful sceptre from his fist,
RDY 2.1. 155 Were he as famous and as bold in war
RDY 2.1. 156 As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.
RDY 2.1. 157
RDY-RICHARD
I know it well, Lord Warwick - blame me not.
RDY 2.1. 158 'Tis love I bear thy glories make me speak.
RDY 2.1. 159 But in this troublous time what's to be done?
RDY 2.1. 160 Shall we go throw away our coats of steel,
RDY 2.1. 161 And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,
RDY 2.1. 162 Numb'ring our Ave-Maries with our beads?
RDY 2.1. 163 Or shall we on the helmets of our foes
RDY 2.1. 164 Tell our devotion with revengeful arms?
RDY 2.1. 165 If for the last, say `ay', and to it, lords.
RDY 2.1. 166
RDY-WARWICK
Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out,
RDY 2.1. 167 And therefore comes my brother Montague.
RDY 2.1. 168 Attend me, lords. The proud insulting Queen,
RDY 2.1. 169 With Clifford and the haught Northumberland,
RDY 2.1. 170 And of their feather many more proud birds,
RDY 2.1. 171 Have wrought the easy-melting King like wax.
RDY 2.1. 172 {(To Edward)} He swore consent to your succession,
RDY 2.1. 173 His oath enrolled in the Parliament.
RDY 2.1. 174 And now to London all the crew are gone,
RDY 2.1. 175 To frustrate both his oath and what beside
RDY 2.1. 176 May make against the house of Lancaster.
RDY 2.1. 177 Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong.
RDY 2.1. 178 Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself,
RDY 2.1. 179 With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March,
RDY 2.1. 180 Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure,
RDY 2.1. 181 Will but amount to five-and-twenty thousand,
RDY 2.1. 182 Why, {via}, to London will we march,
RDY 2.1. 183 And once again bestride our foaming steeds,
RDY 2.1. 184 And once again cry `Charge!' upon our foes -
RDY 2.1. 185 But never once again turn back and fly.
RDY 2.1. 186
RDY-RICHARD
Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak.
RDY 2.1. 187 Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day
RDY 2.1. 188 That cries `Retire!' if Warwick bid him stay.
RDY 2.1. 189
RDY-EDWARD
Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean,
RDY 2.1. 190 And when thou fail'st - as God forbid the hour -
RDY 2.1. 191 Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!
RDY 2.1. 192
RDY-WARWICK
No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York;
RDY 2.1. 193 The next degree is England's royal throne -
RDY 2.1. 194 For King of England shalt thou be proclaimed
RDY 2.1. 195 In every borough as we pass along,
RDY 2.1. 196 And he that throws not up his cap for joy,
RDY 2.1. 197 Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head.
RDY 2.1. 198 King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague -
RDY 2.1. 199 Stay we no longer dreaming of renown,
RDY 2.1. 200 But sound the trumpets and about our task.
RDY 2.1. 201
RDY-RICHARD
Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,
RDY 2.1. 202 As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,
RDY 2.1. 203 I come to pierce it or to give thee mine.
RDY 2.1. 204
RDY-EDWARD
Then strike up drums - God and Saint George for us! +
RDY 2.1. 204 {Enter a Messenger}
RDY 2.1. 205A
RDY-WARWICK
How now? What news?
RDY 2.1. 206
RDY-MESSENGER
The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me
RDY 2.1. 207 The Queen is coming with a puissant host,
RDY 2.1. 208 And craves your company for speedy counsel.
RDY 2.1. 209
RDY-WARWICK
Why then it sorts. Brave warriors, let's away. +
RDY 2.1. 209 {[March.] Exeunt}
RDY 2.1. 0 {[York's head is thrust out, above.] Flourish. Enter +
RDY 2.2. 0 King Henry, Queen Margaret, Lord Clifford, the Earl of Northumberland, +
RDY 2.2. 0 and young Prince Edward, with a drummer and trumpeters}
RDY 2.2. 1
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of +
RDY 2.2. 1 York.
RDY 2.2. 2 Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy
RDY 2.2. 3 That sought to be encompassed with your crown.
RDY 2.2. 4 Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?
RDY 2.2. 5
RDY-KING HENRY
Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck.
RDY 2.2. 6 To see this sight, it irks my very soul.
RDY 2.2. 7 Withhold revenge, dear God - 'tis not my fault,
RDY 2.2. 8 Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow.
RDY 2.2. 9
RDY-CLIFFORD
My gracious liege, this too much lenity
RDY 2.2. 10 And harmful pity must be laid aside.
RDY 2.2. 11 To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
RDY 2.2. 12 Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
RDY 2.2. 13 Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
RDY 2.2. 14 Not his that spoils her young before her face.
RDY 2.2. 15 Who scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?
RDY 2.2. 16 Not he that sets his foot upon her back.
RDY 2.2. 17 The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on,
RDY 2.2. 18 And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
RDY 2.2. 19 Ambitious York did level at thy crown,
RDY 2.2. 20 Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows.
RDY 2.2. 21 He, but a duke, would have his son a king,
RDY 2.2. 22 And raise his issue like a loving sire;
RDY 2.2. 23 Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,
RDY 2.2. 24 Didst yield consent to disinherit him,
RDY 2.2. 25 Which argued thee a most unloving father.
RDY 2.2. 26 Unreasonable creatures feed their young,
RDY 2.2. 27 And though man's face be fearful to their eyes,
RDY 2.2. 28 Yet, in protection of their tender ones,
RDY 2.2. 29 Who hath not seen them, even with those wings
RDY 2.2. 30 Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,
RDY 2.2. 31 Make war with him that climbed unto their nest,
RDY 2.2. 32 Offering their own lives in their young's defence?
RDY 2.2. 33 For shame, my liege, make them your precedent!
RDY 2.2. 34 Were it not pity that this goodly boy
RDY 2.2. 35 Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,
RDY 2.2. 36 And long hereafter say unto his child
RDY 2.2. 37 `What my great-grandfather and grandsire got
RDY 2.2. 38 My careless father fondly gave away'?
RDY 2.2. 39 Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy,
RDY 2.2. 40 And let his manly face, which promiseth
RDY 2.2. 41 Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart
RDY 2.2. 42 To hold thine own and leave thine own with him.
RDY 2.2. 43
RDY-KING HENRY
Full well hath Clifford played the orator,
RDY 2.2. 44 Inferring arguments of mighty force.
RDY 2.2. 45 But, Clifford, tell me - didst thou never hear
RDY 2.2. 46 That things ill got had ever bad success?
RDY 2.2. 47 And happy always was it for that son
RDY 2.2. 48 Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
RDY 2.2. 49 I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind,
RDY 2.2. 50 And would my father had left me no more.
RDY 2.2. 51 For all the rest is held at such a rate
RDY 2.2. 52 As brings a thousandfold more care to keep
RDY 2.2. 53 Than in possession any jot of pleasure.
RDY 2.2. 54 Ah, cousin York, would thy best friends did know
RDY 2.2. 55 How it doth grieve me that thy head is here.
RDY 2.2. 56
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
My lord, cheer up your spirits - our foes are nigh,
RDY 2.2. 57 And this soft courage makes your followers faint.
RDY 2.2. 58 You promised knighthood to our forward son.
RDY 2.2. 59 Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
RDY 2.2. 60 Edward, kneel down. {Prince Edward kneels}
RDY 2.2. 61
RDY-KING HENRY
Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight -
RDY 2.2. 62 And learn this lesson: draw thy sword in right.
RDY 2.2. 63
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
{(rising)} My gracious father, by +
RDY 2.2. 63 your kingly leave,
RDY 2.2. 64 I'll draw it as apparent to the crown,
RDY 2.2. 65 And in that quarrel use it to the death.
RDY 2.2. 66
RDY-CLIFFORD
Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. {Enter a +
RDY 2.2. 66 Messenger}
RDY 2.2. 67
RDY-MESSENGER
Royal commanders, be in readiness -
RDY 2.2. 68 For with a band of thirty thousand men
RDY 2.2. 69 Comes Warwick backing of the Duke of York;
RDY 2.2. 70 And in the towns, as they do march along,
RDY 2.2. 71 Proclaims him king, and many fly to him.
RDY 2.2. 72 Darraign your battle, for they are at hand.
RDY 2.2. 73
RDY-CLIFFORD
{(to King Henry)} I would your highness +
RDY 2.2. 73 would depart the field -
RDY 2.2. 74 The Queen hath best success when you are absent.
RDY 2.2. 75
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to King Henry)} Ay, good my lord, +
RDY 2.2. 75 and leave us to our fortune.
RDY 2.2. 76
RDY-KING HENRY
Why, that's my fortune too - therefore I'll stay.
RDY 2.2. 77
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
Be it with resolution then to fight.
RDY 2.2. 78
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
{(to King Henry)} My royal father, +
RDY 2.2. 78 cheer these noble lords
RDY 2.2. 79 And hearten those that fight in your defence.
RDY 2.2. 80 Unsheathe your sword, good father; cry `Saint George!' {March. +
RDY 2.2. 80 Enter Edward Duke of York, the Earl of Warwick, Richard, George, the +
RDY 2.2. 80 Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Montague, and soldiers}
RDY 2.2. 81
RDY-EDWARD
Now, perjured Henry, wilt thou kneel for grace,
RDY 2.2. 82 And set thy diadem upon my head -
RDY 2.2. 83 Or bide the mortal fortune of the field?
RDY 2.2. 84
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Go rate thy minions, proud insulting boy!
RDY 2.2. 85 Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms
RDY 2.2. 86 Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king?
RDY 2.2. 87
RDY-EDWARD
I am his king, and he should bow his knee.
RDY 2.2. 88 I was adopted heir by his consent.
RDY 2.2. 89
RDY-GEORGE
{(to Queen Margaret)} Since when his oath +
RDY 2.2. 89 is broke - for, as I hear,
RDY 2.2. 90 You that are king, though he do wear the crown,
RDY 2.2. 91 Have caused him by new act of Parliament
RDY 2.2. 92 To blot our brother out, and put his own son in.
RDY 2.2. 93A
RDY-CLIFFORD
And reason too -
RDY 2.2. 94 Who should succeed the father but the son?
RDY 2.2. 95
RDY-RICHARD
Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak!
RDY 2.2. 96
RDY-CLIFFORD
Ay, crookback, here I stand to answer thee,
RDY 2.2. 97 Or any he the proudest of thy sort.
RDY 2.2. 98
RDY-RICHARD
'Twas you that killed young Rutland, was it not?
RDY 2.2. 99
RDY-CLIFFORD
Ay, and old York, and yet not satisfied.
RDY 2.2. 100
RDY-RICHARD
For God's sake, lords, give signal to the fight.
RDY 2.2. 101
RDY-WARWICK
What sayst thou, Henry, wilt thou yield the crown?
RDY 2.2. 102
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick, dare you speak?
RDY 2.2. 103 When you and I met at Saint Albans last,
RDY 2.2. 104 Your legs did better service than your hands.
RDY 2.2. 105
RDY-WARWICK
Then 'twas my turn to fly - and now 'tis thine.
RDY 2.2. 106
RDY-CLIFFORD
You said so much before, and yet you fled.
RDY 2.2. 107
RDY-WARWICK
'Twas not your valour, Clifford, drove me thence.
RDY 2.2. 108
RDY-NORTHUMBERLAND
No, nor your manhood that durst make you stay.
RDY 2.2. 109
RDY-RICHARD
Northumberland, I hold thee reverently.
RDY 2.2. 110 Break off the parley, for scarce I can refrain
RDY 2.2. 111 The execution of my big-swoll'n heart
RDY 2.2. 112 Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.
RDY 2.2. 113
RDY-CLIFFORD
I slew thy father - call'st thou him a child?
RDY 2.2. 114
RDY-RICHARD
Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,
RDY 2.2. 115 As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland.
RDY 2.2. 116 But ere sun set I'll make thee curse the deed.
RDY 2.2. 117
RDY-KING HENRY
Have done with words, my lords, and hear me speak.
RDY 2.2. 118
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Defy them, then, or else hold close thy lips.
RDY 2.2. 119
RDY-KING HENRY
I prithee give no limits to my tongue -
RDY 2.2. 120 I am a king, and privileged to speak.
RDY 2.2. 121
RDY-CLIFFORD
My liege, the wound that bred this meeting here
RDY 2.2. 122 Cannot be cured by words - therefore be still.
RDY 2.2. 123
RDY-RICHARD
Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword.
RDY 2.2. 124 By him that made us all, I am resolved
RDY 2.2. 125 That Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue.
RDY 2.2. 126
RDY-EDWARD
Say, Henry, shall I have my right or no?
RDY 2.2. 127 A thousand men have broke their fasts today
RDY 2.2. 128 That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown.
RDY 2.2. 129
RDY-WARWICK
{(to King Henry)} If thou deny, their +
RDY 2.2. 129 blood upon thy head;
RDY 2.2. 130 For York in justice puts his armour on.
RDY 2.2. 131
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
If that be right which Warwick says is right,
RDY 2.2. 132 There is no wrong, but everything is right.
RDY 2.2. 133
RDY-RICHARD
Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands -
RDY 2.2. 134 For, well I wot, thou hast thy mother's tongue.
RDY 2.2. 135
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam,
RDY 2.2. 136 But like a foul misshapen stigmatic,
RDY 2.2. 137 Marked by the destinies to be avoided,
RDY 2.2. 138 As venom toads or lizards' dreadful stings.
RDY 2.2. 139
RDY-RICHARD
Iron of Naples, hid with English gilt,
RDY 2.2. 140 Whose father bears the title of a king -
RDY 2.2. 141 As if a channel should be called the sea -
RDY 2.2. 142 Sham'st thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,
RDY 2.2. 143 To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?
RDY 2.2. 144
RDY-EDWARD
A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns
RDY 2.2. 145 To make this shameless callet know herself.
RDY 2.2. 146 Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,
RDY 2.2. 147 Although thy husband may be Menelaus;
RDY 2.2. 148 And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wronged
RDY 2.2. 149 By that false woman, as this king by thee.
RDY 2.2. 150 His father revelled in the heart of France,
RDY 2.2. 151 And tamed the King, and made the Dauphin stoop;
RDY 2.2. 152 And had he matched according to his state,
RDY 2.2. 153 He might have kept that glory to this day.
RDY 2.2. 154 But when he took a beggar to his bed,
RDY 2.2. 155 And graced thy poor sire with his bridal day,
RDY 2.2. 156 Even then that sunshine brewed a shower for him
RDY 2.2. 157 That washed his father's fortunes forth of France,
RDY 2.2. 158 And heaped sedition on his crown at home.
RDY 2.2. 159 For what hath broached this tumult but thy pride?
RDY 2.2. 160 Hadst thou been meek, our title still had slept,
RDY 2.2. 161 And we, in pity of the gentle King,
RDY 2.2. 162 Had slipped our claim until another age.
RDY 2.2. 163
RDY-GEORGE
{(to Queen Margaret)} But when we saw our +
RDY 2.2. 163 sunshine made thy spring,
RDY 2.2. 164 And that thy summer bred us no increase,
RDY 2.2. 165 We set the axe to thy usurping root.
RDY 2.2. 166 And though the edge hath something hit ourselves,
RDY 2.2. 167 Yet know thou, since we have begun to strike,
RDY 2.2. 168 We'll never leave till we have hewn thee down,
RDY 2.2. 169 Or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods.
RDY 2.2. 170
RDY-EDWARD
{(to Queen Margaret)} And in this +
RDY 2.2. 170 resolution I defy thee,
RDY 2.2. 171 Not willing any longer conference
RDY 2.2. 172 Since thou deniest the gentle King to speak.
RDY 2.2. 173 Sound trumpets - let our bloody colours wave!
RDY 2.2. 174 And either victory, or else a grave!
RDY 2.2. 175A
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Stay, Edward.
RDY 2.2. 176
RDY-EDWARD
No, wrangling woman, we'll no longer stay -
RDY 2.2. 177 These words will cost ten thousand lives this day.
RDY 2.2. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter the Earl of Warwick}
RDY 2.3. 1
RDY-WARWICK
Forespent with toil, as runners with a race,
RDY 2.3. 2 I lay me down a little while to breathe;
RDY 2.3. 3 For strokes received, and many blows repaid,
RDY 2.3. 4 Have robbed my strong-knit sinews of their strength,
RDY 2.3. 5 And, spite of spite, needs must I rest a while. {Enter Edward, +
RDY 2.3. 5 the Duke of York, running}
RDY 2.3. 6
RDY-EDWARD
Smile, gentle heaven, or strike, ungentle death!
RDY 2.3. 7 For this world frowns, and Edward's sun is clouded.
RDY 2.3. 8
RDY-WARWICK
How now, my lord, what hap? What hope of good? +
RDY 2.3. 8 {Enter George, [running]}
RDY 2.3. 9
RDY-GEORGE
Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair;
RDY 2.3. 10 Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us.
RDY 2.3. 11 What counsel give you? Whither shall we fly?
RDY 2.3. 12
RDY-EDWARD
Bootless is flight - they follow us with wings,
RDY 2.3. 13 And weak we are, and cannot shun pursuit. {Enter Richard, +
RDY 2.3. 13 [running]}
RDY 2.3. 14
RDY-RICHARD
Ah, Warwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyself?
RDY 2.3. 15 Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,
RDY 2.3. 16 Broached with the steely point of Clifford's lance.
RDY 2.3. 17 And in the very pangs of death he cried,
RDY 2.3. 18 Like to a dismal clangour heard from far,
RDY 2.3. 19 `Warwick, revenge - brother, revenge my death!'
RDY 2.3. 20 So, underneath the belly of their steeds
RDY 2.3. 21 That stained their fetlocks in his smoking blood,
RDY 2.3. 22 The noble gentleman gave up the ghost.
RDY 2.3. 23
RDY-WARWICK
Then let the earth be drunken with our blood.
RDY 2.3. 24 I'll kill my horse, because I will not fly.
RDY 2.3. 25 Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,
RDY 2.3. 26 Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage;
RDY 2.3. 27 And look upon, as if the tragedy
RDY 2.3. 28 Were played in jest by counterfeiting actors?
RDY 2.3. 29 {(Kneeling)} Here, on my knee, I vow to God above
RDY 2.3. 30 I'll never pause again, never stand still,
RDY 2.3. 31 Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
RDY 2.3. 32 Or fortune given me measure of revenge.
RDY 2.3. 33
RDY-EDWARD
{(kneeling)} O, Warwick, I do bend my knee +
RDY 2.3. 33 with thine,
RDY 2.3. 34 And in this vow do chain my soul to thine.
RDY 2.3. 35 And, ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face,
RDY 2.3. 36 I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to Thee,
RDY 2.3. 37 Thou setter up and plucker down of kings,
RDY 2.3. 38 Beseeching Thee, if with Thy will it stands
RDY 2.3. 39 That to my foes this body must be prey,
RDY 2.3. 40 Yet that Thy brazen gates of heaven may ope
RDY 2.3. 41 And give sweet passage to my sinful soul. {[They rise]}
RDY 2.3. 42 Now, lords, take leave until we meet again,
RDY 2.3. 43 Where'er it be, in heaven or in earth.
RDY 2.3. 44
RDY-RICHARD
Brother, give me thy hand; and, gentle Warwick,
RDY 2.3. 45 Let me embrace thee in my weary arms.
RDY 2.3. 46 I, that did never weep, now melt with woe
RDY 2.3. 47 That winter should cut off our springtime so.
RDY 2.3. 48
RDY-WARWICK
Away, away! Once more, sweet lords, farewell.
RDY 2.3. 49
RDY-GEORGE
Yet let us all together to our troops,
RDY 2.3. 50 And give them leave to fly that will not stay;
RDY 2.3. 51 And call them pillars that will stand to us;
RDY 2.3. 52 And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards
RDY 2.3. 53 As victors wear at the Olympian games.
RDY 2.3. 54 This may plant courage in their quailing breasts,
RDY 2.3. 55 For yet is hope of life and victory.
RDY 2.3. 56 Forslow no longer - make we hence amain. {Exeunt}
RDY 2.3. 0 {[Alarums.] Excursions. Enter Richard [at one door] and +
RDY 2.4. 0 Lord Clifford [at the other]}
RDY 2.4. 1
RDY-RICHARD
Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone.
RDY 2.4. 2 Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York,
RDY 2.4. 3 And this for Rutland, both bound to revenge,
RDY 2.4. 4 Wert thou environed with a brazen wall.
RDY 2.4. 5
RDY-CLIFFORD
Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone.
RDY 2.4. 6 This is the hand that stabbed thy father York,
RDY 2.4. 7 And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland,
RDY 2.4. 8 And here's the heart that triumphs in their death
RDY 2.4. 9 And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother
RDY 2.4. 10 To execute the like upon thyself -
RDY 2.4. 11 And so, have at thee! {They fight. The Earl of Warwick comes and +
RDY 2.4. 11 rescues Richard. Lord Clifford flies}
RDY 2.4. 12
RDY-RICHARD
Nay, Warwick, single out some other chase -
RDY 2.4. 13 For I myself will hunt this wolf to death. {Exeunt}
RDY 2.4. 0 {Alarum. Enter King Henry}
RDY 2.5. 1
RDY-KING HENRY
This battle fares like to the morning's war,
RDY 2.5. 2 When dying clouds contend with growing light,
RDY 2.5. 3 What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
RDY 2.5. 4 Can neither call it perfect day nor night.
RDY 2.5. 5 Now sways it this way like a mighty sea
RDY 2.5. 6 Forced by the tide to combat with the wind,
RDY 2.5. 7 Now sways it that way like the selfsame sea
RDY 2.5. 8 Forced to retire by fury of the wind.
RDY 2.5. 9 Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind;
RDY 2.5. 10 Now one the better, then another best -
RDY 2.5. 11 Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,
RDY 2.5. 12 Yet neither conqueror nor conquered.
RDY 2.5. 13 So is the equal poise of this fell war.
RDY 2.5. 14 Here on this molehill will I sit me down.
RDY 2.5. 15 To whom God will, there be the victory.
RDY 2.5. 16 For Margaret my queen, and Clifford, too,
RDY 2.5. 17 Have chid me from the battle, swearing both
RDY 2.5. 18 They prosper best of all when I am thence.
RDY 2.5. 19 Would I were dead, if God's good will were so -
RDY 2.5. 20 For what is in this world but grief and woe?
RDY 2.5. 21 O God! Methinks it were a happy life
RDY 2.5. 22 To be no better than a homely swain.
RDY 2.5. 23 To sit upon a hill, as I do now;
RDY 2.5. 24 To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
RDY 2.5. 25 Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
RDY 2.5. 26 How many makes the hour full complete,
RDY 2.5. 27 How many hours brings about the day,
RDY 2.5. 28 How many days will finish up the year,
RDY 2.5. 29 How many years a mortal man may live.
RDY 2.5. 30 When this is known, then to divide the times:
RDY 2.5. 31 So many hours must I tend my flock,
RDY 2.5. 32 So many hours must I take my rest,
RDY 2.5. 33 So many hours must I contemplate,
RDY 2.5. 34 So many hours must I sport myself,
RDY 2.5. 35 So many days my ewes have been with young,
RDY 2.5. 36 So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,
RDY 2.5. 37 So many years ere I shall shear the fleece.
RDY 2.5. 38 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,
RDY 2.5. 39 Passed over to the end they were created,
RDY 2.5. 40 Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
RDY 2.5. 41 Ah, what a life were this! How sweet! How lovely!
RDY 2.5. 42 Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
RDY 2.5. 43 To shepherds looking on their seely sheep
RDY 2.5. 44 Than doth a rich embroidered canopy
RDY 2.5. 45 To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?
RDY 2.5. 46 O yes, it doth - a thousandfold it doth.
RDY 2.5. 47 And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds,
RDY 2.5. 48 His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle,
RDY 2.5. 49 His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,
RDY 2.5. 50 All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,
RDY 2.5. 51 Is far beyond a prince's delicates,
RDY 2.5. 52 His viands sparkling in a golden cup,
RDY 2.5. 53 His body couched in a curious bed,
RDY 2.5. 54 When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him. {Alarum. Enter +
RDY 2.5. 54 [at one door] a Soldier with a dead man in his arms. King Henry stands +
RDY 2.5. 54 apart}
RDY 2.5. 55
RDY-SOLDIER
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
RDY 2.5. 56 This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,
RDY 2.5. 57 May be possessed with some store of crowns;
RDY 2.5. 58 And I, that haply take them from him now,
RDY 2.5. 59 May yet ere night yield both my life and them
RDY 2.5. 60 To some man else, as this dead man doth me. {[He removes the +
RDY 2.5. 60 dead man's helmet]}
RDY 2.5. 61 Who's this? O God! It is my father's face
RDY 2.5. 62 Whom in this conflict I, unwares, have killed.
RDY 2.5. 63 O, heavy times, begetting such events!
RDY 2.5. 64 From London by the King was I pressed forth;
RDY 2.5. 65 My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,
RDY 2.5. 66 Came on the part of York, pressed by his master;
RDY 2.5. 67 And I, who at his hands received my life,
RDY 2.5. 68 Have by my hands of life bereaved him.
RDY 2.5. 69 Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did;
RDY 2.5. 70 And pardon, father, for I knew not thee.
RDY 2.5. 71 My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks,
RDY 2.5. 72 And no more words till they have flowed their fill. {He weeps}
RDY 2.5. 73
RDY-KING HENRY
O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!
RDY 2.5. 74 Whiles lions war and battle for their dens,
RDY 2.5. 75 Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.
RDY 2.5. 76 Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear;
RDY 2.5. 77 And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,
RDY 2.5. 78 Be blind with tears, and break, o'ercharged with grief. {Enter +
RDY 2.5. 78 [at another door] another Soldier with a dead man [in his arms]}
RDY 2.5. 79
RDY-SECOND SOLDIER
Thou that so stoutly hath resisted me,
RDY 2.5. 80 Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold -
RDY 2.5. 81 For I have bought it with an hundred blows. {[He removes the +
RDY 2.5. 81 dead man's helmet]}
RDY 2.5. 82 But let me see: is this our foeman's face?
RDY 2.5. 83 Ah, no, no, no - it is mine only son!
RDY 2.5. 84 Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,
RDY 2.5. 85 Throw up thine eye! {(Weeping)} See, see, what showers +
RDY 2.5. 85 arise,
RDY 2.5. 86 Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,
RDY 2.5. 87 Upon thy wounds, that kills mine eye and heart!
RDY 2.5. 88 O, pity, God, this miserable age!
RDY 2.5. 89 What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
RDY 2.5. 90 Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural,
RDY 2.5. 91 This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
RDY 2.5. 92 O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,
RDY 2.5. 93 And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!
RDY 2.5. 94
RDY-KING HENRY
Woe above woe! Grief more than common grief!
RDY 2.5. 95 O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!
RDY 2.5. 96 O, pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!
RDY 2.5. 97 The red rose and the white are on his face,
RDY 2.5. 98 The fatal colours of our striving houses;
RDY 2.5. 99 The one his purple blood right well resembles,
RDY 2.5. 100 The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth.
RDY 2.5. 101 Wither one rose, and let the other flourish -
RDY 2.5. 102 If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.
RDY 2.5. 103
RDY-FIRST SOLDIER
How will my mother for a father's death
RDY 2.5. 104 Take on with me, and ne'er be satisfied!
RDY 2.5. 105
RDY-SECOND SOLDIER
How will my wife for slaughter of my son
RDY 2.5. 106 Shed seas of tears, and ne'er be satisfied!
RDY 2.5. 107
RDY-KING HENRY
How will the country for these woeful chances
RDY 2.5. 108 Misthink the King, and not be satisfied!
RDY 2.5. 109
RDY-FIRST SOLDIER
Was ever son so rued a father's death?
RDY 2.5. 110
RDY-SECOND SOLDIER
Was ever father so bemoaned his son?
RDY 2.5. 111
RDY-KING HENRY
Was ever king so grieved for subjects' woe?
RDY 2.5. 112 Much is your sorrow, mine ten times so much.
RDY 2.5. 113
RDY-FIRST SOLDIER
{(to his father's body)} I'll bear +
RDY 2.5. 113 thee hence where I may weep my fill. {Exit [at one door] with +
RDY 2.5. 113 the body of his father}
RDY 2.5. 114
RDY-SECOND SOLDIER
{(to his son's body)} These arms of +
RDY 2.5. 114 mine shall be thy winding sheet;
RDY 2.5. 115 My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,
RDY 2.5. 116 For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go.
RDY 2.5. 117 My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell,
RDY 2.5. 118 And so obsequious will thy father be,
RDY 2.5. 119 E'en for the loss of thee, having no more,
RDY 2.5. 120 As Priam was for all his valiant sons.
RDY 2.5. 121 I'll bear thee hence, and let them fight that will -
RDY 2.5. 122 For I have murdered where I should not kill. {Exit [at another +
RDY 2.5. 122 door] with the body of his son}
RDY 2.5. 123
RDY-KING HENRY
Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care,
RDY 2.5. 124 Here sits a king more woeful than you are. {Alarums. Excursions. +
RDY 2.5. 124 Enter Prince Edward}
RDY 2.5. 125
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Fly, father, fly - for all your friends are +
RDY 2.5. 125 fled,
RDY 2.5. 126 And Warwick rages like a chafed bull!
RDY 2.5. 127 Away - for death doth hold us in pursuit! {[Enter Queen Margaret]}
RDY 2.5. 128
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Mount you, my lord - towards Berwick post +
RDY 2.5. 128 amain.
RDY 2.5. 129 Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds
RDY 2.5. 130 Having the fearful flying hare in sight,
RDY 2.5. 131 With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,
RDY 2.5. 132 And bloody steel grasped in their ireful hands,
RDY 2.5. 133 Are at our backs - and therefore hence amain. {[Enter Exeter]}
RDY 2.5. 134
RDY-EXETER
Away - for vengeance comes along with them!
RDY 2.5. 135 Nay - stay not to expostulate - make speed -
RDY 2.5. 136 Or else come after. I'll away before.
RDY 2.5. 137
RDY-KING HENRY
Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter.
RDY 2.5. 138 Not that I fear to stay, but love to go
RDY 2.5. 139 Whither the Queen intends. Forward, away. {Exeunt}
RDY 2.5. 0 {A loud alarum. Enter Lord Clifford, wounded [with an +
RDY 2.6. 0 arrow in his neck]}
RDY 2.6. 1
RDY-CLIFFORD
Here burns my candle out - ay, here it dies,
RDY 2.6. 2 Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.
RDY 2.6. 3 O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow
RDY 2.6. 4 More than my body's parting with my soul!
RDY 2.6. 5 My love and fear glued many friends to thee -
RDY 2.6. 6 And, now I fall, thy tough commixture melts,
RDY 2.6. 7 Impairing Henry, strength'ning misproud York.
RDY 2.6. 8 The common people swarm like summer flies,
RDY 2.6. 9 And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?
RDY 2.6. 10 And who shines now but Henry's enemies?
RDY 2.6. 11 O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent
RDY 2.6. 12 That Phae|ton should check thy fiery steeds,
RDY 2.6. 13 Thy burning car never had scorched the earth!
RDY 2.6. 14 And, Henry, hadst thou swayed as kings should do,
RDY 2.6. 15 Or as thy father and his father did,
RDY 2.6. 16 Giving no ground unto the house of York,
RDY 2.6. 17 They never then had sprung like summer flies;
RDY 2.6. 18 I and ten thousand in this luckless realm
RDY 2.6. 19 Had left no mourning widows for our death;
RDY 2.6. 20 And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace.
RDY 2.6. 21 For what doth cherish weeds, but gentle air?
RDY 2.6. 22 And what makes robbers bold, but too much lenity?
RDY 2.6. 23 Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds;
RDY 2.6. 24 No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight;
RDY 2.6. 25 The foe is merciless and will not pity,
RDY 2.6. 26 For at their hands I have deserved no pity.
RDY 2.6. 27 The air hath got into my deadly wounds,
RDY 2.6. 28 And much effuse of blood doth make me faint.
RDY 2.6. 29 Come York and Richard, Warwick and the rest -
RDY 2.6. 30 I stabbed your fathers' bosoms; split my breast. {[He faints.]}
RDY 2.6. 31 {Alarum and retreat. Enter Edward Duke of York, his brothers George and +
RDY 2.6. 31 Richard, the Earl of Warwick, [the Marquis of Montague,] and +
RDY 2.6. 31 soldiers}
RDY-EDWARD
Now breathe we, lords - good fortune bids +
RDY 2.6. 31 us pause,
RDY 2.6. 32 And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.
RDY 2.6. 33 Some troops pursue the bloody-minded Queen,
RDY 2.6. 34 That led calm Henry, though he were a king,
RDY 2.6. 35 As doth a sail filled with a fretting gust
RDY 2.6. 36 Command an argosy to stem the waves.
RDY 2.6. 37 But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?
RDY 2.6. 38
RDY-WARWICK
No - 'tis impossible he should escape;
RDY 2.6. 39 For, though before his face I speak the words,
RDY 2.6. 40 Your brother Richard marked him for the grave.
RDY 2.6. 41 And whereso'er he is, he's surely dead. {Clifford groans}
RDY 2.6. 42
RDY-[EDWARD]
Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?
RDY 2.6. 43
RDY-[RICHARD]
A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.
RDY 2.6. 44B
RDY-[EDWARD]
{[to Richard]} See who it is. +
RDY 2.6. 44B {[Richard goes to Clifford]} And now the battle's ended,
RDY 2.6. 45 If friend or foe, let him be gently used.
RDY 2.6. 46
RDY-RICHARD
Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford;
RDY 2.6. 47 Who not contented that he lopped the branch
RDY 2.6. 48 In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth,
RDY 2.6. 49 But set his murd'ring knife unto the root
RDY 2.6. 50 From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring -
RDY 2.6. 51 I mean our princely father, Duke of York.
RDY 2.6. 52
RDY-WARWICK
From off the gates of York fetch down the head,
RDY 2.6. 53 Your father's head, which Clifford placed there.
RDY 2.6. 54 Instead whereof let this supply the room -
RDY 2.6. 55 Measure for measure must be answered.
RDY 2.6. 56
RDY-EDWARD
Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house,
RDY 2.6. 57 That nothing sung but death to us and ours. {[Clifford is +
RDY 2.6. 57 dragged forward]}
RDY 2.6. 58 Now death shall stop his dismal threat'ning sound
RDY 2.6. 59 And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak.
RDY 2.6. 60
RDY-WARWICK
I think his understanding is bereft.
RDY 2.6. 61 Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee?
RDY 2.6. 62 Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,
RDY 2.6. 63 And he nor sees nor hears us what we say.
RDY 2.6. 64
RDY-RICHARD
O, would he did - and so perhaps he doth.
RDY 2.6. 65 'Tis but his policy to counterfeit,
RDY 2.6. 66 Because he would avoid such bitter taunts
RDY 2.6. 67 Which in the time of death he gave our father.
RDY 2.6. 68
RDY-GEORGE
If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words.
RDY 2.6. 69
RDY-RICHARD
Clifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace.
RDY 2.6. 70
RDY-EDWARD
Clifford, repent in bootless penitence.
RDY 2.6. 71
RDY-WARWICK
Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults.
RDY 2.6. 72
RDY-GEORGE
While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.
RDY 2.6. 73
RDY-RICHARD
Thou didst love York, and I am son to York.
RDY 2.6. 74
RDY-EDWARD
Thou pitied'st Rutland - I will pity thee.
RDY 2.6. 75
RDY-GEORGE
Where's Captain Margaret to fence you now?
RDY 2.6. 76
RDY-WARWICK
They mock thee, Clifford - swear as thou wast wont.
RDY 2.6. 77
RDY-RICHARD
What, not an oath? Nay, then, the world goes hard
RDY 2.6. 78 When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.
RDY 2.6. 79 I know by that he's dead - and, by my soul,
RDY 2.6. 80 If this right hand would buy but two hours' life
RDY 2.6. 81 That I, in all despite, might rail at him,
RDY 2.6. 82 This hand should chop it off, and with the issuing blood
RDY 2.6. 83 Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst
RDY 2.6. 84 York and young Rutland could not satisfy.
RDY 2.6. 85
RDY-WARWICK
Ay, but he's dead. Off with the traitor's head,
RDY 2.6. 86 And rear it in the place your father's stands.
RDY 2.6. 87 And now to London with triumphant march,
RDY 2.6. 88 There to be crowned England's royal king;
RDY 2.6. 89 From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France,
RDY 2.6. 90 And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen.
RDY 2.6. 91 So shalt thou sinew both these lands together.
RDY 2.6. 92 And, having France thy friend, thou shalt not dread
RDY 2.6. 93 The scattered foe that hopes to rise again,
RDY 2.6. 94 For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,
RDY 2.6. 95 Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears.
RDY 2.6. 96 First will I see the coronation,
RDY 2.6. 97 And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea
RDY 2.6. 98 To effect this marriage, so it please my lord.
RDY 2.6. 99
RDY-EDWARD
Even as thou wilt, sweet Warwick, let it be.
RDY 2.6. 100 For in thy shoulder do I build my seat,
RDY 2.6. 101 And never will I undertake the thing
RDY 2.6. 102 Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting.
RDY 2.6. 103 Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester,
RDY 2.6. 104 And George, of Clarence; Warwick, as ourself,
RDY 2.6. 105 Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.
RDY 2.6. 106
RDY-RICHARD
Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester -
RDY 2.6. 107 For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.
RDY 2.6. 108
RDY-WARWICK
Tut, that's a foolish observation -
RDY 2.6. 109 Richard, be Duke of Gloucester. Now to London
RDY 2.6. 110 To see these honours in possession. {Exeunt. [York's head is +
RDY 2.6. 110 removed]}
RDY 2.6. 0 {Enter two Gamekeepers, with crossbows in their +
RDY 3.1. 0 hands}
RDY 3.1. 1
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
Under this thick-grown brake we'll +
RDY 3.1. 1 shroud ourselves,
RDY 3.1. 2 For through this laund anon the deer will come,
RDY 3.1. 3 And in this covert will we make our stand,
RDY 3.1. 4 Culling the principal of all the deer.
RDY 3.1. 5
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
I'll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.
RDY 3.1. 6
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
That cannot be - the noise of thy crossbow
RDY 3.1. 7 Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
RDY 3.1. 8 Here stand we both, and aim we at the best.
RDY 3.1. 9 And, for the time shall not seem tedious,
RDY 3.1. 10 I'll tell thee what befell me on a day
RDY 3.1. 11 In this self place where now we mean to stand.
RDY 3.1. 12
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
Here comes a man - let's stay till he be past.+
RDY 3.1. 12 {They stand apart.}
RDY 3.1. 13 {Enter King Henry, disguised, carrying a prayer-book}
RDY-KING HENRY
+
RDY 3.1. 13 From Scotland am I stolen, even of pure love,
RDY 3.1. 14 To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.
RDY 3.1. 15 No, Harry, Harry - 'tis no land of thine.
RDY 3.1. 16 Thy place is filled, thy sceptre wrung from thee,
RDY 3.1. 17 Thy balm washed off wherewith thou wast anointed.
RDY 3.1. 18 No bending knee will call thee Caesar now,
RDY 3.1. 19 No humble suitors press to speak for right,
RDY 3.1. 20 No, not a man comes for redress of thee -
RDY 3.1. 21 For how can I help them and not myself?
RDY 3.1. 22
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
{(to the Second Gamekeeper)} Ay, +
RDY 3.1. 22 here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee:
RDY 3.1. 23 This is the quondam king - let's seize upon him.
RDY 3.1. 24
RDY-KING HENRY
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,
RDY 3.1. 25 For wise men say it is the wisest course.
RDY 3.1. 26
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
{(to the First Gamekeeper)} Why +
RDY 3.1. 26 linger we? Let us lay hands upon him.
RDY 3.1. 27
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
{(to the Second Gamekeeper)} +
RDY 3.1. 27 Forbear awhile - we'll hear a little more.
RDY 3.1. 28
RDY-KING HENRY
My queen and son are gone to France for aid,
RDY 3.1. 29 And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick
RDY 3.1. 30 Is thither gone to crave the French King's sister
RDY 3.1. 31 To wife for Edward. If this news be true,
RDY 3.1. 32 Poor Queen and son, your labour is but lost -
RDY 3.1. 33 For Warwick is a subtle orator,
RDY 3.1. 34 And Louis a prince soon won with moving words.
RDY 3.1. 35 By this account, then, Margaret may win him -
RDY 3.1. 36 For she's a woman to be pitied much.
RDY 3.1. 37 Her sighs will make a batt'ry in his breast,
RDY 3.1. 38 Her tears will pierce into a marble heart,
RDY 3.1. 39 The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn,
RDY 3.1. 40 And Nero will be tainted with remorse
RDY 3.1. 41 To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.
RDY 3.1. 42 Ay, but she's come to beg; Warwick to give.
RDY 3.1. 43 She on his left side, craving aid for Henry;
RDY 3.1. 44 He on his right, asking a wife for Edward.
RDY 3.1. 45 She weeps and says her Henry is deposed,
RDY 3.1. 46 He smiles and says his Edward is installed;
RDY 3.1. 47 That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more,
RDY 3.1. 48 Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,
RDY 3.1. 49 Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,
RDY 3.1. 50 And in conclusion wins the King from her
RDY 3.1. 51 With promise of his sister and what else
RDY 3.1. 52 To strengthen and support King Edward's place.
RDY 3.1. 53 O, Margaret, thus 'twill be; and thou, poor soul,
RDY 3.1. 54 Art then forsaken, as thou went'st forlorn.
RDY 3.1. 55
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
{(coming forward)} Say, what art +
RDY 3.1. 55 thou that talk'st of kings and queens?
RDY 3.1. 56
RDY-KING HENRY
More than I seem, and less than I was born to:
RDY 3.1. 57 A man at least, for less I should not be;
RDY 3.1. 58 And men may talk of kings, and why not I?
RDY 3.1. 59
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king.
RDY 3.1. 60
RDY-KING HENRY
Why, so I am, in mind - and that's enough.
RDY 3.1. 61
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
But if thou be a king, where is thy crown?
RDY 3.1. 62
RDY-KING HENRY
My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
RDY 3.1. 63 Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
RDY 3.1. 64 Nor to be seen. My crown is called content -
RDY 3.1. 65 A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
RDY 3.1. 66
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
Well, if you be a king crowned with content,
RDY 3.1. 67 Your crown content and you must be contented
RDY 3.1. 68 To go along with us - for, as we think,
RDY 3.1. 69 You are the king King Edward hath deposed,
RDY 3.1. 70 And we his subjects sworn in all allegiance
RDY 3.1. 71 Will apprehend you as his enemy.
RDY 3.1. 72
RDY-KING HENRY
But did you never swear and break an oath?
RDY 3.1. 73
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
No - never such an oath, nor will not now.
RDY 3.1. 74
RDY-KING HENRY
Where did you dwell when I was King of England?
RDY 3.1. 75
RDY-SECOND GAMEKEEPER
Here in this country, where we now remain.
RDY 3.1. 76
RDY-KING HENRY
I was anointed king at nine months old,
RDY 3.1. 77 My father and my grandfather were kings,
RDY 3.1. 78 And you were sworn true subjects unto me -
RDY 3.1. 79 And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?
RDY 3.1. 80
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
No, for we were subjects but while you were king.
RDY 3.1. 81
RDY-KING HENRY
Why, am I dead? Do I not breathe a man?
RDY 3.1. 82 Ah, simple men, you know not what you swear.
RDY 3.1. 83 Look as I blow this feather from my face,
RDY 3.1. 84 And as the air blows it to me again,
RDY 3.1. 85 Obeying with my wind when I do blow,
RDY 3.1. 86 And yielding to another when it blows,
RDY 3.1. 87 Commanded always by the greater gust -
RDY 3.1. 88 Such is the lightness of you common men.
RDY 3.1. 89 But do not break your oaths, for of that sin
RDY 3.1. 90 My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty.
RDY 3.1. 91 Go where you will, the King shall be commanded;
RDY 3.1. 92 And be you kings, command, and I'll obey.
RDY 3.1. 93
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
We are true subjects to the King, King Edward.
RDY 3.1. 94
RDY-KING HENRY
So would you be again to Henry,
RDY 3.1. 95 If he were seated as King Edward is.
RDY 3.1. 96
RDY-FIRST GAMEKEEPER
We charge you, in God's name and in the King's,
RDY 3.1. 97 To go with us unto the officers.
RDY 3.1. 98
RDY-KING HENRY
In God's name, lead; your king's name be obeyed;
RDY 3.1. 99 And what God will, that let your king perform;
RDY 3.1. 100 And what he will I humbly yield unto. {Exeunt}
RDY 3.1. 0 {Enter King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloucester, George +
RDY 3.2. 0 Duke of Clarence, and the Lady Gray}
RDY 3.2. 1
RDY-KING EDWARD
Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Albans field
RDY 3.2. 2 This lady's husband, Sir Richard Gray, was slain,
RDY 3.2. 3 His lands then seized on by the conqueror.
RDY 3.2. 4 Her suit is now to repossess those lands,
RDY 3.2. 5 Which we in justice cannot well deny,
RDY 3.2. 6 Because in quarrel of the house of York
RDY 3.2. 7 The worthy gentleman did lose his life.
RDY 3.2. 8
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Your highness shall do well to grant her +
RDY 3.2. 8 suit -
RDY 3.2. 9 It were dishonour to deny it her.
RDY 3.2. 10
RDY-KING EDWARD
It were no less; but yet I'll make a pause.
RDY 3.2. 11A
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside to George)} Yea, is +
RDY 3.2. 11A it so?
RDY 3.2. 12 I see the lady hath a thing to grant
RDY 3.2. 13 Before the King will grant her humble suit.
RDY 3.2. 14
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
{(aside to Richard)} He knows +
RDY 3.2. 14 the game; how true he keeps the wind!
RDY 3.2. 15A
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside to George)} Silence.
RDY 3.2. 16
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Lady Gray)} Widow, we will +
RDY 3.2. 16 consider of your suit;
RDY 3.2. 17 And come some other time to know our mind.
RDY 3.2. 18
RDY-LADY GRAY
Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay.
RDY 3.2. 19 May it please your highness to resolve me now,
RDY 3.2. 20 And what your pleasure is shall satisfy me.
RDY 3.2. 21
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside to George)} Ay, +
RDY 3.2. 21 widow? Then I'll warrant you all your lands
RDY 3.2. 22 An if what pleases him shall pleasure you.
RDY 3.2. 23 Fight closer, or, good faith, you'll catch a blow.
RDY 3.2. 24
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
{(aside to Richard)} I fear her +
RDY 3.2. 24 not unless she chance to fall.
RDY 3.2. 25
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside to George)} God +
RDY 3.2. 25 forbid that! For he'll take vantages.
RDY 3.2. 26
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Lady Gray)} How many children +
RDY 3.2. 26 hast thou, widow? Tell me.
RDY 3.2. 27
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
{(aside to Richard)} I think he +
RDY 3.2. 27 means to beg a child of her.
RDY 3.2. 28
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside to George)} Nay, +
RDY 3.2. 28 whip me then - he'll rather give her two.
RDY 3.2. 29A
RDY-LADY GRAY
{(to King Edward)} Three, my most +
RDY 3.2. 29A gracious lord.
RDY 3.2. 30
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} You shall have +
RDY 3.2. 30 four, an you'll be ruled by him.
RDY 3.2. 31
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Lady Gray)} 'Twere pity they +
RDY 3.2. 31 should lose their father's lands.
RDY 3.2. 32
RDY-LADY GRAY
Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it them.
RDY 3.2. 33
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Richard and George)} Lords, give +
RDY 3.2. 33 us leave - I'll try this widow's wit.
RDY 3.2. 34
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{[aside to George]} Ay, good +
RDY 3.2. 34 leave have you; for you will have leave,
RDY 3.2. 35 Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch. {Richard and +
RDY 3.2. 35 George stand apart}
RDY 3.2. 36
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Lady Gray)} Now tell me, madam, +
RDY 3.2. 36 do you love your children?
RDY 3.2. 37
RDY-LADY GRAY
Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.
RDY 3.2. 38
RDY-KING EDWARD
And would you not do much to do them good?
RDY 3.2. 39
RDY-LADY GRAY
To do them good I would sustain some harm.
RDY 3.2. 40
RDY-KING EDWARD
Then get your husband's lands, to do them good.
RDY 3.2. 41
RDY-LADY GRAY
Therefore I came unto your majesty.
RDY 3.2. 42
RDY-KING EDWARD
I'll tell you how these lands are to be got.
RDY 3.2. 43
RDY-LADY GRAY
So shall you bind me to your highness' service.
RDY 3.2. 44
RDY-KING EDWARD
What service wilt thou do me, if I give them?
RDY 3.2. 45
RDY-LADY GRAY
What you command, that rests in me to do.
RDY 3.2. 46
RDY-KING EDWARD
But you will take exceptions to my boon.
RDY 3.2. 47
RDY-LADY GRAY
No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it.
RDY 3.2. 48
RDY-KING EDWARD
Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.
RDY 3.2. 49
RDY-LADY GRAY
Why, then, I will do what your grace commands.
RDY 3.2. 50
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to George)} He plies her +
RDY 3.2. 50 hard, and much rain wears the marble.
RDY 3.2. 51
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
As red as fire! Nay, then her wax must melt.
RDY 3.2. 52
RDY-LADY GRAY
{(to King Edward)} Why stops my lord? +
RDY 3.2. 52 Shall I not hear my task?
RDY 3.2. 53
RDY-KING EDWARD
An easy task - 'tis but to love a king.
RDY 3.2. 54
RDY-LADY GRAY
That's soon performed, because I am a subject.
RDY 3.2. 55
RDY-KING EDWARD
Why, then, thy husband's lands I freely give thee.
RDY 3.2. 56
RDY-LADY GRAY
{(curtsies)} I take my leave, with many +
RDY 3.2. 56 thousand thanks.
RDY 3.2. 57
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to George)} The match is +
RDY 3.2. 57 made - she seals it with a curtsy.
RDY 3.2. 58
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Lady Gray)} But stay thee - 'tis +
RDY 3.2. 58 the fruits of love I mean.
RDY 3.2. 59
RDY-LADY GRAY
The fruits of love {I} mean, my loving liege.
RDY 3.2. 60
RDY-KING EDWARD
Ay, but I fear me in another sense.
RDY 3.2. 61 What love think'st thou I sue so much to get?
RDY 3.2. 62
RDY-LADY GRAY
My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers -
RDY 3.2. 63 That love which virtue begs and virtue grants.
RDY 3.2. 64
RDY-KING EDWARD
No, by my troth, I did not mean such love.
RDY 3.2. 65
RDY-LADY GRAY
Why, then, you mean not as I thought you did.
RDY 3.2. 66
RDY-KING EDWARD
But now you partly may perceive my mind.
RDY 3.2. 67
RDY-LADY GRAY
My mind will never grant what I perceive
RDY 3.2. 68 Your highness aims at, if I aim aright.
RDY 3.2. 69
RDY-KING EDWARD
To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
RDY 3.2. 70
RDY-LADY GRAY
To tell {you} plain, I had rather lie in prison.
RDY 3.2. 71
RDY-KING EDWARD
Why, then, thou shalt not have thy husband's lands.
RDY 3.2. 72
RDY-LADY GRAY
Why, then, mine honesty shall be my dower;
RDY 3.2. 73 For by that loss I will not purchase them.
RDY 3.2. 74
RDY-KING EDWARD
Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily.
RDY 3.2. 75
RDY-LADY GRAY
Herein your highness wrongs both them and me.
RDY 3.2. 76 But, mighty lord, this merry inclination
RDY 3.2. 77 Accords not with the sadness of my suit.
RDY 3.2. 78 Please you dismiss me either with ay or no.
RDY 3.2. 79
RDY-KING EDWARD
Ay, if thou wilt say `ay' to my request;
RDY 3.2. 80 No, if thou dost say `no' to my demand.
RDY 3.2. 81
RDY-LADY GRAY
Then, no, my lord - my suit is at an end.
RDY 3.2. 82
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to George)} The widow +
RDY 3.2. 82 likes him not - she knits her brows.
RDY 3.2. 83
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom.
RDY 3.2. 84
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(aside)} Her looks doth argue her +
RDY 3.2. 84 replete with modesty;
RDY 3.2. 85 Her words doth show her wit incomparable;
RDY 3.2. 86 All her perfections challenge sovereignty.
RDY 3.2. 87 One way or other, she is for a king;
RDY 3.2. 88 And she shall be my love or else my queen.
RDY 3.2. 89 {(To Lady Gray)} Say that King Edward take thee for +
RDY 3.2. 89 his queen?
RDY 3.2. 90
RDY-LADY GRAY
'Tis better said than done, my gracious lord.
RDY 3.2. 91 I am a subject fit to jest withal,
RDY 3.2. 92 But far unfit to be a sovereign.
RDY 3.2. 93
RDY-KING EDWARD
Sweet widow, by my state I swear to thee
RDY 3.2. 94 I speak no more than what my soul intends,
RDY 3.2. 95 And that is to enjoy thee for my love.
RDY 3.2. 96
RDY-LADY GRAY
And that is more than I will yield unto.
RDY 3.2. 97 I know I am too mean to be your queen,
RDY 3.2. 98 And yet too good to be your concubine.
RDY 3.2. 99
RDY-KING EDWARD
You cavil, widow - I did mean my queen.
RDY 3.2. 100
RDY-LADY GRAY
'Twill grieve your grace my sons should call you father.
RDY 3.2. 101
RDY-KING EDWARD
No more than when my daughters call thee mother.
RDY 3.2. 102 Thou art a widow and thou hast some children;
RDY 3.2. 103 And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor,
RDY 3.2. 104 Have other some. Why, 'tis a happy thing
RDY 3.2. 105 To be the father unto many sons.
RDY 3.2. 106 Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen.
RDY 3.2. 107
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to George)} The ghostly +
RDY 3.2. 107 father now hath done his shrift.
RDY 3.2. 108
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
When he was made a shriver, 'twas for shift.
RDY 3.2. 109
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Richard and George)} Brothers, +
RDY 3.2. 109 you muse what chat we two have had. {Richard and George come +
RDY 3.2. 109 forward}
RDY 3.2. 110
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
The widow likes it not, for she +
RDY 3.2. 110 looks very sad.
RDY 3.2. 111
RDY-KING EDWARD
You'd think it strange if I should marry her.
RDY 3.2. 112B
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
To who, my lord?
RDY-KING EDWARD
Why, Clarence, +
RDY 3.2. 112B to myself.
RDY 3.2. 113
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
That would be ten days' wonder at the least.
RDY 3.2. 114
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
That's a day longer than a wonder lasts.
RDY 3.2. 115
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
By so much is the wonder in extremes.
RDY 3.2. 116
RDY-KING EDWARD
Well, jest on, brothers - I can tell you both
RDY 3.2. 117 Her suit is granted for her husband's lands. {Enter a Nobleman}
RDY 3.2. 118
RDY-NOBLEMAN
My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken
RDY 3.2. 119 And brought as prisoner to your palace gate.
RDY 3.2. 120
RDY-KING EDWARD
See that he be conveyed unto the Tower -
RDY 3.2. 121 {(To Richard and George)} And go we, brothers, to the +
RDY 3.2. 121 man that took him,
RDY 3.2. 122 To question of his apprehension.
RDY 3.2. 123 {(To Lady Gray)} Widow, go you along. {[To +
RDY 3.2. 123 Richard and George]} Lords, use her honourably. {Exeunt +
RDY 3.2. 123 all but Richard}
RDY 3.2. 124
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Ay, Edward will use women +
RDY 3.2. 124 honourably.
RDY 3.2. 125 Would he were wasted, marrow, bones, and all,
RDY 3.2. 126 That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring
RDY 3.2. 127 To cross me from the golden time I look for.
RDY 3.2. 128 And yet, between my soul's desire and me -
RDY 3.2. 129 The lustful Edward's title buried -
RDY 3.2. 130 Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward,
RDY 3.2. 131 And all the unlooked-for issue of their bodies,
RDY 3.2. 132 To take their rooms ere I can place myself.
RDY 3.2. 133 A cold premeditation for my purpose.
RDY 3.2. 134 Why, then, I do but dream on sovereignty
RDY 3.2. 135 Like one that stands upon a promontory
RDY 3.2. 136 And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,
RDY 3.2. 137 Wishing his foot were equal with his eye,
RDY 3.2. 138 And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
RDY 3.2. 139 Saying he'll lade it dry to have his way -
RDY 3.2. 140 So do I wish the crown being so far off,
RDY 3.2. 141 And so I chide the means that keeps me from it,
RDY 3.2. 142 And so I say I'll cut the causes off,
RDY 3.2. 143 Flattering me with impossibilities.
RDY 3.2. 144 My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much,
RDY 3.2. 145 Unless my hand and strength could equal them.
RDY 3.2. 146 Well, say there is no kingdom then for Richard -
RDY 3.2. 147 What other pleasure can the world afford?
RDY 3.2. 148 I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap,
RDY 3.2. 149 And deck my body in gay ornaments,
RDY 3.2. 150 And 'witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
RDY 3.2. 151 O, miserable thought! And more unlikely
RDY 3.2. 152 Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns.
RDY 3.2. 153 Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb,
RDY 3.2. 154 And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,
RDY 3.2. 155 She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe
RDY 3.2. 156 To shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub,
RDY 3.2. 157 To make an envious mountain on my back -
RDY 3.2. 158 Where sits deformity to mock my body -
RDY 3.2. 159 To shape my legs of an unequal size,
RDY 3.2. 160 To disproportion me in every part,
RDY 3.2. 161 Like to a chaos, or an unlicked bear whelp
RDY 3.2. 162 That carries no impression like the dam.
RDY 3.2. 163 And am I then a man to be beloved?
RDY 3.2. 164 O, monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought!
RDY 3.2. 165 Then, since this earth affords no joy to me
RDY 3.2. 166 But to command, to check, to o'erbear such
RDY 3.2. 167 As are of better person than myself,
RDY 3.2. 168 I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,
RDY 3.2. 169 And whiles I live, t' account this world but hell,
RDY 3.2. 170 Until my misshaped trunk that bears this head
RDY 3.2. 171 Be round impaled with a glorious crown.
RDY 3.2. 172 And yet I know not how to get the crown,
RDY 3.2. 173 For many lives stand between me and home.
RDY 3.2. 174 And I - like one lost in a thorny wood,
RDY 3.2. 175 That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,
RDY 3.2. 176 Seeking a way and straying from the way,
RDY 3.2. 177 Not knowing how to find the open air,
RDY 3.2. 178 But toiling desperately to find it out -
RDY 3.2. 179 Torment myself to catch the English crown.
RDY 3.2. 180 And from that torment I will free myself,
RDY 3.2. 181 Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
RDY 3.2. 182 Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
RDY 3.2. 183 And cry `Content!' to that which grieves my heart,
RDY 3.2. 184 And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
RDY 3.2. 185 And frame my face to all occasions.
RDY 3.2. 186 I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
RDY 3.2. 187 I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
RDY 3.2. 188 I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,
RDY 3.2. 189 Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,
RDY 3.2. 190 And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
RDY 3.2. 191 I can add colours to the chameleon,
RDY 3.2. 192 Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
RDY 3.2. 193 And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
RDY 3.2. 194 Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
RDY 3.2. 195 Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down. {Exit}
RDY 3.2. 0 {[Two] chairs of state. Flourish. Enter King Louis of +
RDY 3.3. 0 France, his sister the Lady Bona, Lord Bourbon his admiral, Prince +
RDY 3.3. 0 Edward, Queen Margaret, and the Earl of Oxford. Louis goes up upon the +
RDY 3.3. 0 state, sits, and riseth up again}
RDY 3.3. 1
RDY-KING LOUIS
Fair Queen of England, worthy Margaret,
RDY 3.3. 2 Sit down with us. It ill befits thy state
RDY 3.3. 3 And birth that thou shouldst stand while Louis doth sit.
RDY 3.3. 4
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
No, mighty King of France, now Margaret
RDY 3.3. 5 Must strike her sail and learn a while to serve
RDY 3.3. 6 Where kings command. I was, I must confess,
RDY 3.3. 7 Great Albion's queen in former golden days,
RDY 3.3. 8 But now mischance hath trod my title down,
RDY 3.3. 9 And with dishonour laid me on the ground,
RDY 3.3. 10 Where I must take like seat unto my fortune
RDY 3.3. 11 And to my humble state conform myself.
RDY 3.3. 12
RDY-KING LOUIS
Why, say, fair Queen, whence springs this deep despair?
RDY 3.3. 13
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears
RDY 3.3. 14 And stops my tongue, while heart is drowned in cares.
RDY 3.3. 15
RDY-KING LOUIS
Whate'er it be, be thou still like thyself,
RDY 3.3. 16B And sit thee by our side. {Seats her by him} Yield not +
RDY 3.3. 16B thy neck
RDY 3.3. 17 To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
RDY 3.3. 18 Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
RDY 3.3. 19 Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief.
RDY 3.3. 20 It shall be eased if France can yield relief.
RDY 3.3. 21
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts,
RDY 3.3. 22 And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak.
RDY 3.3. 23 Now, therefore, be it known to noble Louis
RDY 3.3. 24 That Henry, sole possessor of my love,
RDY 3.3. 25 Is of a king become a banished man,
RDY 3.3. 26 And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn,
RDY 3.3. 27 While proud ambitious Edward, Duke of York,
RDY 3.3. 28 Usurps the regal title and the seat
RDY 3.3. 29 Of England's true-anointed lawful King.
RDY 3.3. 30 This is the cause that I, poor Margaret,
RDY 3.3. 31 With this my son, Prince Edward, Henry's heir,
RDY 3.3. 32 Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid.
RDY 3.3. 33 An if thou fail us all our hope is done.
RDY 3.3. 34 Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help;
RDY 3.3. 35 Our people and our peers are both misled,
RDY 3.3. 36 Our treasure seized, our soldiers put to flight,
RDY 3.3. 37 And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.
RDY 3.3. 38
RDY-KING LOUIS
Renowned Queen, with patience calm the storm,
RDY 3.3. 39 While we bethink a means to break it off.
RDY 3.3. 40
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
The more we stay, the stronger grows our foe.
RDY 3.3. 41
RDY-KING LOUIS
The more I stay, the more I'll succour thee.
RDY 3.3. 42
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow. +
RDY 3.3. 42 {Enter the Earl of Warwick}
RDY 3.3. 43 And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow.
RDY 3.3. 44
RDY-KING LOUIS
What's he approacheth boldly to our presence?
RDY 3.3. 45
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Our Earl of Warwick, Edward's greatest friend.
RDY 3.3. 46
RDY-KING LOUIS
Welcome, brave Warwick. What brings thee to +
RDY 3.3. 46 France? {He descends. She ariseth}
RDY 3.3. 47
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} Ay, now begins a second +
RDY 3.3. 47 storm to rise,
RDY 3.3. 48 For this is he that moves both wind and tide.
RDY 3.3. 49
RDY-WARWICK
{(to King Louis)} From worthy Edward, King +
RDY 3.3. 49 of Albion,
RDY 3.3. 50 My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,
RDY 3.3. 51 I come in kindness and unfeigned love,
RDY 3.3. 52 First, to do greetings to thy royal person,
RDY 3.3. 53 And then, to crave a league of amity,
RDY 3.3. 54 And lastly, to confirm that amity
RDY 3.3. 55 With nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant
RDY 3.3. 56 That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister,
RDY 3.3. 57 To England's King in lawful marriage.
RDY 3.3. 58
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
{(aside)} If that go forward, +
RDY 3.3. 58 Henry's hope is done.
RDY 3.3. 59
RDY-WARWICK
{(to Lady Bona)} And, gracious madam, in +
RDY 3.3. 59 our King's behalf
RDY 3.3. 60 I am commanded, with your leave and favour,
RDY 3.3. 61 Humbly to kiss your hand, and with my tongue
RDY 3.3. 62 To tell the passion of my sovereign's heart,
RDY 3.3. 63 Where fame, late ent'ring at his heedful ears,
RDY 3.3. 64 Hath placed thy beauty's image and thy virtue.
RDY 3.3. 65
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
King Louis and Lady Bona, hear me speak
RDY 3.3. 66 Before you answer Warwick. His demand
RDY 3.3. 67 Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
RDY 3.3. 68 But from deceit, bred by necessity.
RDY 3.3. 69 For how can tyrants safely govern home
RDY 3.3. 70 Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
RDY 3.3. 71 To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice -
RDY 3.3. 72 That Henry liveth still; but were he dead,
RDY 3.3. 73 Yet here Prince Edward stands, King Henry's son.
RDY 3.3. 74 Look, therefore, Louis, that by this league and marriage
RDY 3.3. 75 Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour,
RDY 3.3. 76 For though usurpers sway the rule a while,
RDY 3.3. 77 Yet heav'ns are just and time suppresseth wrongs.
RDY 3.3. 78B
RDY-WARWICK
Injurious Margaret.
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
And why not `Queen'?
RDY 3.3. 79
RDY-WARWICK
Because thy father Henry did usurp,
RDY 3.3. 80 And thou no more art prince than she is queen.
RDY 3.3. 81
RDY-OXFORD
Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt,
RDY 3.3. 82 Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain;
RDY 3.3. 83 And, after John of Gaunt, Henry the Fourth,
RDY 3.3. 84 Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest;
RDY 3.3. 85 And, after that wise prince, Henry the Fifth,
RDY 3.3. 86 Who by his prowess conquered all France.
RDY 3.3. 87 From these our Henry lineally descends.
RDY 3.3. 88
RDY-WARWICK
Oxford, how haps it in this smooth discourse
RDY 3.3. 89 You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost
RDY 3.3. 90 All that which Henry the Fifth had gotten?
RDY 3.3. 91 Methinks these peers of France should smile at that.
RDY 3.3. 92 But for the rest, you tell a pedigree
RDY 3.3. 93 Of threescore and two years - a silly time
RDY 3.3. 94 To make prescription for a kingdom's worth.
RDY 3.3. 95
RDY-OXFORD
Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,
RDY 3.3. 96 Whom thou obeyedest thirty and six years,
RDY 3.3. 97 And not bewray thy treason with a blush?
RDY 3.3. 98
RDY-WARWICK
Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
RDY 3.3. 99 Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?
RDY 3.3. 100 For shame - leave Henry, and call Edward king.
RDY 3.3. 101
RDY-OXFORD
Call him my king by whose injurious doom
RDY 3.3. 102 My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere,
RDY 3.3. 103 Was done to death? And more than so, my father,
RDY 3.3. 104 Even in the downfall of his mellowed years,
RDY 3.3. 105 When nature brought him to the door of death?
RDY 3.3. 106 No, Warwick, no - while life upholds this arm,
RDY 3.3. 107 This arm upholds the house of Lancaster.
RDY 3.3. 108A
RDY-WARWICK
And I the house of York.
RDY 3.3. 109
RDY-KING LOUIS
Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,
RDY 3.3. 110 Vouchsafe, at our request, to stand aside
RDY 3.3. 111 While I use further conference with Warwick. {Queen Margaret +
RDY 3.3. 111 [comes down from the state and], with Prince Edward and Oxford, stands +
RDY 3.3. 111 apart}
RDY 3.3. 112
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch +
RDY 3.3. 112 him not.
RDY 3.3. 113
RDY-KING LOUIS
Now, Warwick, tell me even upon thy conscience,
RDY 3.3. 114 Is Edward your true king? For I were loath
RDY 3.3. 115 To link with him that were not lawful chosen.
RDY 3.3. 116
RDY-WARWICK
Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour.
RDY 3.3. 117
RDY-KING LOUIS
But is he gracious in the people's eye?
RDY 3.3. 118
RDY-WARWICK
The more that Henry was unfortunate.
RDY 3.3. 119
RDY-KING LOUIS
Then further, all dissembling set aside,
RDY 3.3. 120 Tell me for truth the measure of his love
RDY 3.3. 121B Unto our sister Bona.
RDY-WARWICK
Such it seems
RDY 3.3. 122 As may beseem a monarch like himself.
RDY 3.3. 123 Myself have often heard him say and swear
RDY 3.3. 124 That this his love was an eternal plant,
RDY 3.3. 125 Whereof the root was fixed in virtue's ground,
RDY 3.3. 126 The leaves and fruit maintained with beauty's sun,
RDY 3.3. 127 Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,
RDY 3.3. 128 Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain.
RDY 3.3. 129
RDY-KING LOUIS
{(to Lady Bona)} Now, sister, let us +
RDY 3.3. 129 hear your firm resolve.
RDY 3.3. 130
RDY-LADY BONA
Your grant, or your denial, shall be mine.
RDY 3.3. 131 {(To Warwick)} Yet I confess that often ere this day,
RDY 3.3. 132 When I have heard your king's desert recounted,
RDY 3.3. 133 Mine ear hath tempted judgement to desire.
RDY 3.3. 134
RDY-KING LOUIS
{(to Warwick)} Then, Warwick, thus - our +
RDY 3.3. 134 sister shall be Edward's.
RDY 3.3. 135 And now, forthwith, shall articles be drawn
RDY 3.3. 136 Touching the jointure that your king must make,
RDY 3.3. 137 Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
RDY 3.3. 138 {(To Queen Margaret)} Draw near, Queen Margaret, and +
RDY 3.3. 138 be a witness
RDY 3.3. 139 That Bona shall be wife to the English king. {Queen Margaret, +
RDY 3.3. 139 Prince Edward, [and Oxford] come forward}
RDY 3.3. 140
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
To Edward, but not to the English king.
RDY 3.3. 141
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Deceitful Warwick - it was thy device
RDY 3.3. 142 By this alliance to make void my suit!
RDY 3.3. 143 Before thy coming Louis was Henry's friend.
RDY 3.3. 144
RDY-KING LOUIS
And still is friend to him and Margaret.
RDY 3.3. 145 But if your title to the crown be weak,
RDY 3.3. 146 As may appear by Edward's good success,
RDY 3.3. 147 Then 'tis but reason that I be released
RDY 3.3. 148 From giving aid which late I promised.
RDY 3.3. 149 Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand
RDY 3.3. 150 That your estate requires and mine can yield.
RDY 3.3. 151
RDY-WARWICK
{(to Queen Margaret)} Henry now lives in +
RDY 3.3. 151 Scotland at his ease,
RDY 3.3. 152 Where having nothing, nothing can he lose.
RDY 3.3. 153 And as for you yourself, our quondam queen,
RDY 3.3. 154 You have a father able to maintain you,
RDY 3.3. 155 And better 'twere you troubled him than France.
RDY 3.3. 156
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, peace!
RDY 3.3. 157 Proud setter-up and puller-down of kings!
RDY 3.3. 158 I will not hence till, with my talk and tears,
RDY 3.3. 159 Both full of truth, I make King Louis behold
RDY 3.3. 160 Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love, {Post blowing a +
RDY 3.3. 160 horn within}
RDY 3.3. 161 For both of you are birds of selfsame feather.
RDY 3.3. 162
RDY-KING LOUIS
Warwick, this is some post to us or thee. {Enter +
RDY 3.3. 162 the Post}
RDY 3.3. 163
RDY-POST
{(to Warwick)} My lord ambassador, these +
RDY 3.3. 163 letters are for you,
RDY 3.3. 164 Sent from your brother Marquis Montague;
RDY 3.3. 165 {(To Louis)} These from our King unto your majesty;
RDY 3.3. 166 {(To Queen Margaret)} And, madam, these for you, from +
RDY 3.3. 166 whom I know not. {They all read their letters}
RDY 3.3. 167
RDY-OXFORD
{(to Prince Edward)} I like it well that +
RDY 3.3. 167 our fair Queen and mistress
RDY 3.3. 168 Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns at his.
RDY 3.3. 169
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Nay, mark how Louis stamps as he were nettled.
RDY 3.3. 170 I hope all's for the best.
RDY 3.3. 171
RDY-KING LOUIS
Warwick, what are thy news? And yours, fair Queen?
RDY 3.3. 172
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Mine, such as fill my heart with unhoped joys.
RDY 3.3. 173
RDY-WARWICK
Mine, full of sorrow and heart's discontent.
RDY 3.3. 174
RDY-KING LOUIS
What! Has your king married the Lady Gray?
RDY 3.3. 175 And now to soothe your forgery and his,
RDY 3.3. 176 Sends me a paper to persuade me patience?
RDY 3.3. 177 Is this th' alliance that he seeks with France?
RDY 3.3. 178 Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?
RDY 3.3. 179
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
I told your majesty as much before -
RDY 3.3. 180 This proveth Edward's love and Warwick's honesty.
RDY 3.3. 181
RDY-WARWICK
King Louis, I here protest in sight of heaven
RDY 3.3. 182 And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,
RDY 3.3. 183 That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's,
RDY 3.3. 184 No more my king, for he dishonours me,
RDY 3.3. 185 But most himself, if he could see his shame.
RDY 3.3. 186 Did I forget that by the house of York
RDY 3.3. 187 My father came untimely to his death?
RDY 3.3. 188 Did I let pass th' abuse done to my niece?
RDY 3.3. 189 Did I impale him with the regal crown?
RDY 3.3. 190 Did I put Henry from his native right?
RDY 3.3. 191 And am I guerdoned at the last with shame?
RDY 3.3. 192 Shame on himself, for my desert is honour.
RDY 3.3. 193 And to repair my honour, lost for him,
RDY 3.3. 194 I here renounce him and return to Henry.
RDY 3.3. 195 {(To Queen Margaret)} My noble Queen, let former +
RDY 3.3. 195 grudges pass,
RDY 3.3. 196 And henceforth I am thy true servitor.
RDY 3.3. 197 I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona
RDY 3.3. 198 And replant Henry in his former state.
RDY 3.3. 199
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Warwick, these words have turned my hate to love,
RDY 3.3. 200 And I forgive and quite forget old faults,
RDY 3.3. 201 And joy that thou becom'st King Henry's friend.
RDY 3.3. 202
RDY-WARWICK
So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,
RDY 3.3. 203 That if King Louis vouchsafe to furnish us
RDY 3.3. 204 With some few bands of chosen soldiers,
RDY 3.3. 205 I'll undertake to land them on our coast
RDY 3.3. 206 And force the tyrant from his seat by war.
RDY 3.3. 207 'Tis not his new-made bride shall succour him.
RDY 3.3. 208 And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me,
RDY 3.3. 209 He's very likely now to fall from him
RDY 3.3. 210 For matching more for wanton lust than honour,
RDY 3.3. 211 Or than for strength and safety of our country.
RDY 3.3. 212
RDY-LADY BONA
{(to King Louis)} Dear brother, how +
RDY 3.3. 212 shall Bona be revenged,
RDY 3.3. 213 But by thy help to this distressed Queen?
RDY 3.3. 214
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to King Louis)} Renowned Prince, +
RDY 3.3. 214 how shall poor Henry live
RDY 3.3. 215 Unless thou rescue him from foul despair?
RDY 3.3. 216
RDY-LADY BONA
{(to King Louis)} My quarrel and this +
RDY 3.3. 216 English Queen's are one.
RDY 3.3. 217
RDY-WARWICK
And mine, fair Lady Bona, joins with yours.
RDY 3.3. 218
RDY-KING LOUIS
And mine with hers, and thine, and Margaret's.
RDY 3.3. 219 Therefore at last I firmly am resolved:
RDY 3.3. 220 You shall have aid.
RDY 3.3. 221
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Let me give humble thanks for all at once.
RDY 3.3. 222
RDY-KING LOUIS
{(to the Post)} Then, England's +
RDY 3.3. 222 messenger, return in post
RDY 3.3. 223 And tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
RDY 3.3. 224 That Louis of France is sending over masquers
RDY 3.3. 225 To revel it with him and his new bride.
RDY 3.3. 226 Thou seest what's passed, go fear thy king withal.
RDY 3.3. 227
RDY-LADY BONA
{(to the Post)} Tell him, in hope he'll +
RDY 3.3. 227 prove a widower shortly,
RDY 3.3. 228 I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.
RDY 3.3. 229
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to the Post)} Tell him my +
RDY 3.3. 229 mourning weeds are laid aside,
RDY 3.3. 230 And I am ready to put armour on.
RDY 3.3. 231
RDY-WARWICK
{(to the Post)} Tell him from me that he +
RDY 3.3. 231 hath done me wrong,
RDY 3.3. 232 And therefore I'll uncrown him ere 't be long.
RDY 3.3. 233 {(Giving money)} There's thy reward - be gone. +
RDY 3.3. 233 {Exit Post}
RDY 3.3. 234
RDY-KING LOUIS
But, Warwick, thou and Oxford, with five +
RDY 3.3. 234 thousand men,
RDY 3.3. 235 Shall cross the seas and bid false Edward battle;
RDY 3.3. 236 And, as occasion serves, this noble Queen
RDY 3.3. 237 And Prince shall follow with a fresh supply.
RDY 3.3. 238 Yet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt:
RDY 3.3. 239 What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty?
RDY 3.3. 240
RDY-WARWICK
This shall assure my constant loyalty:
RDY 3.3. 241 That if our Queen and this young Prince agree,
RDY 3.3. 242 I'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy
RDY 3.3. 243 To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands.
RDY 3.3. 244
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
RDY 3.3. 245 {(To Prince Edward)} Son Edward, she is fair and +
RDY 3.3. 245 virtuous,
RDY 3.3. 246 Therefore delay not. Give thy hand to Warwick,
RDY 3.3. 247 And with thy hand thy faith irrevocable
RDY 3.3. 248 That only Warwick's daughter shall be thine.
RDY 3.3. 249
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Yes, I accept her, for she well deserves it,
RDY 3.3. 250 And here to pledge my vow I give my hand. {He and Warwick clasp +
RDY 3.3. 250 hands}
RDY 3.3. 251
RDY-KING LOUIS
Why stay we now? These soldiers shall be +
RDY 3.3. 251 levied,
RDY 3.3. 252 And thou, Lord Bourbon, our high admiral,
RDY 3.3. 253 Shall waft them over with our royal fleet.
RDY 3.3. 254 I long till Edward fall by war's mischance
RDY 3.3. 255 For mocking marriage with a dame of France. {Exeunt all but +
RDY 3.3. 255 Warwick}
RDY 3.3. 256
RDY-WARWICK
I came from Edward as ambassador,
RDY 3.3. 257 But I return his sworn and mortal foe.
RDY 3.3. 258 Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me,
RDY 3.3. 259 But dreadful war shall answer his demand.
RDY 3.3. 260 Had he none else to make a stale but me?
RDY 3.3. 261 Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow.
RDY 3.3. 262 I was the chief that raised him to the crown,
RDY 3.3. 263 And I'll be chief to bring him down again.
RDY 3.3. 264 Not that I pity Henry's misery,
RDY 3.3. 265 But seek revenge on Edward's mockery. {Exit}
RDY 3.3. 0 {Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester, George Duke of +
RDY 4.1. 0 Clarence, the Duke of Somerset, and the Marquis of Montague}
RDY 4.1. 1
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Now tell me, brother Clarence, what +
RDY 4.1. 1 think you
RDY 4.1. 2 Of this new marriage with the Lady Gray?
RDY 4.1. 3 Hath not our brother made a worthy choice?
RDY 4.1. 4
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Alas, you know 'tis far from hence to France;
RDY 4.1. 5 How could he stay till Warwick made return?
RDY 4.1. 6
RDY-SOMERSET
My lords, forbear this talk - here comes the King. +
RDY 4.1. 6 {Flourish. Enter King Edward, the Lady Gray his Queen, the Earl of +
RDY 4.1. 6 Pembroke, and the Lords Stafford and Hastings. Four stand on one side +
RDY 4.1. 6 [of the King], and four on the other}
RDY 4.1. 7A
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
And his well-chosen bride.
RDY 4.1. 8
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
RDY 4.1. 9
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now, brother of Clarence, how like you our choice,
RDY 4.1. 10 That you stand pensive, as half-malcontent?
RDY 4.1. 11
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
As well as Louis of France, or the Earl of +
RDY 4.1. 11 Warwick,
RDY 4.1. 12 Which are so weak of courage and in judgement
RDY 4.1. 13 That they'll take no offence at our abuse.
RDY 4.1. 14
RDY-KING EDWARD
Suppose they take offence without a cause -
RDY 4.1. 15 They are but Louis and Warwick; I am Edward,
RDY 4.1. 16 Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will.
RDY 4.1. 17
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
And you shall have your will, because our +
RDY 4.1. 17 king.
RDY 4.1. 18 Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
RDY 4.1. 19
RDY-KING EDWARD
Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?
RDY 4.1. 20
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Not I, no - God forbid that I should wish them +
RDY 4.1. 20 severed
RDY 4.1. 21 Whom God hath joined together. Ay, and 'twere pity
RDY 4.1. 22 To sunder them that yoke so well together.
RDY 4.1. 23
RDY-KING EDWARD
Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,
RDY 4.1. 24 Tell me some reason why the Lady Gray
RDY 4.1. 25 Should not become my wife and England's queen.
RDY 4.1. 26 And you too, Somerset and Montague,
RDY 4.1. 27 Speak freely what you think.
RDY 4.1. 28
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Then this is my opinion: that King Louis
RDY 4.1. 29 Becomes your enemy for mocking him
RDY 4.1. 30 About the marriage of the Lady Bona.
RDY 4.1. 31
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,
RDY 4.1. 32 Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.
RDY 4.1. 33
RDY-KING EDWARD
What if both Louis and Warwick be appeased
RDY 4.1. 34 By such invention as I can devise?
RDY 4.1. 35
RDY-MONTAGUE
Yet, to have joined with France in such alliance
RDY 4.1. 36 Would more have strengthened this our commonwealth
RDY 4.1. 37 'Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage.
RDY 4.1. 38
RDY-HASTINGS
Why, knows not Montague that of itself
RDY 4.1. 39 England is safe, if true within itself?
RDY 4.1. 40
RDY-MONTAGUE
But the safer when 'tis backed with France.
RDY 4.1. 41
RDY-HASTINGS
'Tis better using France than trusting France.
RDY 4.1. 42 Let us be backed with God and with the seas
RDY 4.1. 43 Which he hath giv'n for fence impregnable,
RDY 4.1. 44 And with their helps only defend ourselves.
RDY 4.1. 45 In them and in ourselves our safety lies.
RDY 4.1. 46
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves
RDY 4.1. 47 To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford.
RDY 4.1. 48
RDY-KING EDWARD
Ay, what of that? It was my will and grant -
RDY 4.1. 49 And for this once my will shall stand for law.
RDY 4.1. 50
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
And yet, methinks, your grace hath not done +
RDY 4.1. 50 well
RDY 4.1. 51 To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales
RDY 4.1. 52 Unto the brother of your loving bride.
RDY 4.1. 53 She better would have fitted me or Clarence,
RDY 4.1. 54 But in your bride you bury brotherhood.
RDY 4.1. 55
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Or else you would not have bestowed the heir
RDY 4.1. 56 Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son,
RDY 4.1. 57 And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere.
RDY 4.1. 58
RDY-KING EDWARD
Alas, poor Clarence, is it for a wife
RDY 4.1. 59 That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee.
RDY 4.1. 60
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
In choosing for yourself you showed your +
RDY 4.1. 60 judgement,
RDY 4.1. 61 Which being shallow, you shall give me leave
RDY 4.1. 62 To play the broker in mine own behalf,
RDY 4.1. 63 And to that end I shortly mind to leave you.
RDY 4.1. 64
RDY-KING EDWARD
Leave me, or tarry. Edward will be king,
RDY 4.1. 65 And not be tied unto his brother's will.
RDY 4.1. 66
RDY-LADY GRAY
My lords, before it pleased his majesty
RDY 4.1. 67 To raise my state to title of a queen,
RDY 4.1. 68 Do me but right, and you must all confess
RDY 4.1. 69 That I was not ignoble of descent -
RDY 4.1. 70 And meaner than myself have had like fortune.
RDY 4.1. 71 But as this title honours me and mine,
RDY 4.1. 72 So your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing,
RDY 4.1. 73 Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.
RDY 4.1. 74
RDY-KING EDWARD
My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns.
RDY 4.1. 75 What danger or what sorrow can befall thee
RDY 4.1. 76 So long as Edward is thy constant friend,
RDY 4.1. 77 And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?
RDY 4.1. 78 Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too -
RDY 4.1. 79 Unless they seek for hatred at my hands,
RDY 4.1. 80 Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,
RDY 4.1. 81 And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.
RDY 4.1. 82
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} I hear, yet say +
RDY 4.1. 82 not much, but think the more. {Enter the Post from France}
RDY 4.1. 83
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now, messenger, what letters or what news +
RDY 4.1. 83 from France?
RDY 4.1. 84
RDY-POST
My sovereign liege, no letters and few words,
RDY 4.1. 85 But such as I, without your special pardon,
RDY 4.1. 86 Dare not relate.
RDY 4.1. 87
RDY-KING EDWARD
Go to, we pardon thee. Therefore, in brief,
RDY 4.1. 88 Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them.
RDY 4.1. 89 What answer makes King Louis unto our letters?
RDY 4.1. 90
RDY-POST
At my depart these were his very words:
RDY 4.1. 91 `Go tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
RDY 4.1. 92 That Louis of France is sending over masquers
RDY 4.1. 93 To revel it with him and his new bride.'
RDY 4.1. 94
RDY-KING EDWARD
Is Louis so brave? Belike he thinks me Henry.
RDY 4.1. 95 But what said Lady Bona to my marriage?
RDY 4.1. 96
RDY-POST
These were her words, uttered with mild disdain:
RDY 4.1. 97 `Tell him in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,
RDY 4.1. 98 I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.'
RDY 4.1. 99
RDY-KING EDWARD
I blame not her, she could say little less;
RDY 4.1. 100 She had the wrong. But what said Henry's queen?
RDY 4.1. 101 For I have heard that she was there in place.
RDY 4.1. 102
RDY-POST
`Tell him', quoth she, `my mourning weeds are done,
RDY 4.1. 103 And I am ready to put armour on.'
RDY 4.1. 104
RDY-KING EDWARD
Belike she minds to play the Amazon.
RDY 4.1. 105 But what said Warwick to these injuries?
RDY 4.1. 106
RDY-POST
He, more incensed against your majesty
RDY 4.1. 107 Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:
RDY 4.1. 108 `Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
RDY 4.1. 109 And therefore I'll uncrown him ere 't be long.'
RDY 4.1. 110
RDY-KING EDWARD
Ha! Durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?
RDY 4.1. 111 Well, I will arm me, being thus forewarned.
RDY 4.1. 112 They shall have wars and pay for their presumption.
RDY 4.1. 113 But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret?
RDY 4.1. 114
RDY-POST
Ay, gracious sovereign, they are so linked in friendship
RDY 4.1. 115 That young Prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter.
RDY 4.1. 116
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Belike the elder; Clarence will have the +
RDY 4.1. 116 younger.
RDY 4.1. 117 Now, brother King, farewell, and sit you fast,
RDY 4.1. 118 For I will hence to Warwick's other daughter,
RDY 4.1. 119 That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage
RDY 4.1. 120 I may not prove inferior to yourself.
RDY 4.1. 121 You that love me and Warwick, follow me. {Exit Clarence, and +
RDY 4.1. 121 Somerset follows}
RDY 4.1. 122
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Not I - {[aside]} my +
RDY 4.1. 122 thoughts aim at a further matter.
RDY 4.1. 123 I stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown.
RDY 4.1. 124
RDY-KING EDWARD
Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick?
RDY 4.1. 125 Yet am I armed against the worst can happen,
RDY 4.1. 126 And haste is needful in this desp'rate case.
RDY 4.1. 127 Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf
RDY 4.1. 128 Go levy men and make prepare for war.
RDY 4.1. 129 They are already, or quickly will be, landed.
RDY 4.1. 130 Myself in person will straight follow you. {Exeunt Pembroke and +
RDY 4.1. 130 Stafford}
RDY 4.1. 131 But ere I go, Hastings and Montague,
RDY 4.1. 132 Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest,
RDY 4.1. 133 Are near'st to Warwick by blood and by alliance.
RDY 4.1. 134 Tell me if you love Warwick more than me.
RDY 4.1. 135 If it be so, then both depart to him -
RDY 4.1. 136 I rather wish you foes than hollow friends.
RDY 4.1. 137 But if you mind to hold your true obedience,
RDY 4.1. 138 Give me assurance with some friendly vow
RDY 4.1. 139 That I may never have you in suspect.
RDY 4.1. 140
RDY-MONTAGUE
So God help Montague as he proves true.
RDY 4.1. 141
RDY-HASTINGS
And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause.
RDY 4.1. 142
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?
RDY 4.1. 143
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand +
RDY 4.1. 143 you.
RDY 4.1. 144
RDY-KING EDWARD
Why, so. Then am I sure of victory.
RDY 4.1. 145 Now, therefore, let us hence and lose no hour
RDY 4.1. 146 Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power. {Exeunt}
RDY 4.1. 0 {Enter the Earls of Warwick and Oxford in England, with +
RDY 4.2. 0 French soldiers}
RDY 4.2. 1
RDY-WARWICK
Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well.
RDY 4.2. 2 The common sort by numbers swarm to us. {Enter the Dukes of +
RDY 4.2. 2 Clarence and Somerset}
RDY 4.2. 3 But see where Somerset and Clarence comes.
RDY 4.2. 4 Speak suddenly, my lords, are we all friends?
RDY 4.2. 5A
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Fear not that, my lord.
RDY 4.2. 6
RDY-WARWICK
Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick -
RDY 4.2. 7 And welcome, Somerset. I hold it cowardice
RDY 4.2. 8 To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
RDY 4.2. 9 Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love,
RDY 4.2. 10 Else might I think that Clarence, Edward's brother,
RDY 4.2. 11 Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings.
RDY 4.2. 12 But come, sweet Clarence, my daughter shall be thine.
RDY 4.2. 13 And now what rests but, in night's coverture,
RDY 4.2. 14 Thy brother being carelessly encamped,
RDY 4.2. 15 His soldiers lurking in the towns about,
RDY 4.2. 16 And but attended by a simple guard,
RDY 4.2. 17 We may surprise and take him at our pleasure?
RDY 4.2. 18 Our scouts have found the adventure very easy;
RDY 4.2. 19 That, as Ulysses and stout Diomed
RDY 4.2. 20 With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents
RDY 4.2. 21 And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds,
RDY 4.2. 22 So we, well covered with the night's black mantle,
RDY 4.2. 23 At unawares may beat down Edward's guard
RDY 4.2. 24 And seize himself - I say not `slaughter him',
RDY 4.2. 25 For I intend but only to surprise him.
RDY 4.2. 26 You that will follow me to this attempt,
RDY 4.2. 27 Applaud the name of Henry with your leader. {They all cry +
RDY 4.2. 27 `Henry'}
RDY 4.2. 28 Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort,
RDY 4.2. 29 For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George! {Exeunt}
RDY 4.2. 0 {Enter three Watchmen, to guard King Edward's tent}
RDY 4.3. 1
RDY-FIRST WATCHMAN
Come on, my masters, each man take his +
RDY 4.3. 1 stand.
RDY 4.3. 2 The King by this is set him down to sleep.
RDY 4.3. 3A
RDY-SECOND WATCHMAN
What, will he not to bed?
RDY 4.3. 4
RDY-FIRST WATCHMAN
Why, no - for he hath made a solemn vow
RDY 4.3. 5 Never to lie and take his natural rest
RDY 4.3. 6 Till Warwick or himself be quite suppressed.
RDY 4.3. 7
RDY-SECOND WATCHMAN
Tomorrow then belike shall be the day,
RDY 4.3. 8 If Warwick be so near as men report.
RDY 4.3. 9
RDY-THIRD WATCHMAN
But say, I pray, what nobleman is that
RDY 4.3. 10 That with the King here resteth in his tent?
RDY 4.3. 11
RDY-FIRST WATCHMAN
'Tis the Lord Hastings, the King's chiefest friend.
RDY 4.3. 12
RDY-THIRD WATCHMAN
O, is it so? But why commands the King
RDY 4.3. 13 That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,
RDY 4.3. 14 While he himself keeps in the cold field?
RDY 4.3. 15
RDY-SECOND WATCHMAN
'Tis the more honour, because more dangerous.
RDY 4.3. 16
RDY-THIRD WATCHMAN
Ay, but give me worship and quietness -
RDY 4.3. 17 I like it better than a dangerous honour.
RDY 4.3. 18 If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,
RDY 4.3. 19 'Tis to be doubted he would waken him.
RDY 4.3. 20
RDY-FIRST WATCHMAN
Unless our halberds did shut up his passage.
RDY 4.3. 21
RDY-SECOND WATCHMAN
Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent
RDY 4.3. 22 But to defend his person from night-foes? {Enter silently the +
RDY 4.3. 22 Earl of Warwick, George Duke of Clarence, the Earl of Oxford, and the +
RDY 4.3. 22 Duke of Somerset, with French soldiers}
RDY 4.3. 23
RDY-WARWICK
This is his tent - and see where stand his guard.
RDY 4.3. 24 Courage, my masters - honour now or never!
RDY 4.3. 25 But follow me, and Edward shall be ours.
RDY 4.3. 26
RDY-FIRST WATCHMAN
Who goes there?
RDY 4.3. 27
RDY-SECOND WATCHMAN
Stay or thou diest. {Warwick and the rest +
RDY 4.3. 27 all cry `Warwick, Warwick!' and set upon the guard, who fly, crying +
RDY 4.3. 27 `Arm, arm!' Warwick and the rest follow them}
RDY 4.3. 0 {With the drummer playing and trumpeter sounding, enter the Earl +
RDY 4.4. 0 of Warwick, the Duke of Somerset, and the rest bringing King Edward out +
RDY 4.4. 0 in his gown, sitting in a chair. Richard Duke of Gloucester and Lord +
RDY 4.4. 0 Hastings flies over the stage}
RDY 4.4. 1A
RDY-SOMERSET
What are they that fly there?
RDY 4.4. 2
RDY-WARWICK
Richard and Hastings - let them go. Here is the Duke.
RDY 4.4. 3
RDY-KING EDWARD
`The Duke'! Why, Warwick, when we parted,
RDY 4.4. 4B Thou calledst me king.
RDY-WARWICK
Ay, but the case is altered.
RDY 4.4. 5 When you disgraced me in my embassade,
RDY 4.4. 6 Then I degraded you from being king,
RDY 4.4. 7 And come now to create you Duke of York.
RDY 4.4. 8 Alas, how should you govern any kingdom
RDY 4.4. 9 That know not how to use ambassadors,
RDY 4.4. 10 Nor how to be contented with one wife,
RDY 4.4. 11 Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,
RDY 4.4. 12 Nor how to study for the people's welfare,
RDY 4.4. 13 Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?
RDY 4.4. 14
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(seeing George)} Yea, brother of +
RDY 4.4. 14 Clarence, art thou here too?
RDY 4.4. 15 Nay, then, I see that Edward needs must down.
RDY 4.4. 16 Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance,
RDY 4.4. 17 Of thee thyself and all thy complices,
RDY 4.4. 18 Edward will always bear himself as king.
RDY 4.4. 19 Though fortune's malice overthrow my state,
RDY 4.4. 20 My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
RDY 4.4. 21
RDY-WARWICK
Then, for his mind, be Edward England's king. +
RDY 4.4. 21 {Warwick takes off Edward's crown}
RDY 4.4. 22 But Henry now shall wear the English crown,
RDY 4.4. 23 And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.
RDY 4.4. 24 My lord of Somerset, at my request,
RDY 4.4. 25 See that, forthwith, Duke Edward be conveyed
RDY 4.4. 26 Unto my brother, Archbishop of York.
RDY 4.4. 27 When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,
RDY 4.4. 28 I'll follow you, and tell what answer
RDY 4.4. 29 Louis and the Lady Bona send to him.
RDY 4.4. 30 Now for a while farewell, good Duke of York. {They begin to lead +
RDY 4.4. 30 Edward out forcibly}
RDY 4.4. 31
RDY-KING EDWARD
What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
RDY 4.4. 32 It boots not to resist both wind and tide. {Exeunt some with +
RDY 4.4. 32 Edward}
RDY 4.4. 33
RDY-OXFORD
What now remains, my lords, for us to do
RDY 4.4. 34 But march to London with our soldiers?
RDY 4.4. 35
RDY-WARWICK
Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do -
RDY 4.4. 36 To free King Henry from imprisonment
RDY 4.4. 37 And see him seated in the regal throne. {Exeunt}
RDY 4.4. 0 {Enter Earl Rivers and his sister, Lady Gray, Edward's +
RDY 4.5. 0 queen}
RDY 4.5. 1
RDY-RIVERS
Madam, what makes you in this sudden change?
RDY 4.5. 2
RDY-LADY GRAY
Why, brother Rivers, are you yet to learn
RDY 4.5. 3 What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward?
RDY 4.5. 4
RDY-RIVERS
What? Loss of some pitched battle against Warwick?
RDY 4.5. 5
RDY-LADY GRAY
No, but the loss of his own royal person.
RDY 4.5. 6A
RDY-RIVERS
Then is my sovereign slain?
RDY 4.5. 7
RDY-LADY GRAY
Ay, almost slain - for he is taken prisoner,
RDY 4.5. 8 Either betrayed by falsehood of his guard
RDY 4.5. 9 Or by his foe surprised at unawares,
RDY 4.5. 10 And, as I further have to understand,
RDY 4.5. 11 Is new committed to the Bishop of York,
RDY 4.5. 12 Fell Warwick's brother, and by that our foe.
RDY 4.5. 13
RDY-RIVERS
These news, I must confess, are full of grief.
RDY 4.5. 14 Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may.
RDY 4.5. 15 Warwick may lose, that now hath won the day.
RDY 4.5. 16
RDY-LADY GRAY
Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay,
RDY 4.5. 17 And I the rather wean me from despair
RDY 4.5. 18 For love of Edward's offspring in my womb.
RDY 4.5. 19 This is it that makes me bridle passion
RDY 4.5. 20 And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross.
RDY 4.5. 21 Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear
RDY 4.5. 22 And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,
RDY 4.5. 23 Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown
RDY 4.5. 24 King Edward's fruit, true heir to th' English crown.
RDY 4.5. 25
RDY-RIVERS
But, madam, where is Warwick then become?
RDY 4.5. 26
RDY-LADY GRAY
I am informed that he comes towards London
RDY 4.5. 27 To set the crown once more on Henry's head.
RDY 4.5. 28 Guess thou the rest - King Edward's friends must down.
RDY 4.5. 29 But to prevent the tyrant's violence -
RDY 4.5. 30 For trust not him that hath once broken faith -
RDY 4.5. 31 I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,
RDY 4.5. 32 To save at least the heir of Edward's right.
RDY 4.5. 33 There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.
RDY 4.5. 34 Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly.
RDY 4.5. 35 If Warwick take us, we are sure to die. {Exeunt}
RDY 4.5. 0 {Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and Sir +
RDY 4.6. 0 William Stanley, [with soldiers]}
RDY 4.6. 1
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Now my lord Hastings and Sir +
RDY 4.6. 1 William Stanley,
RDY 4.6. 2 Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither
RDY 4.6. 3 Into this chiefest thicket of the park.
RDY 4.6. 4 Thus stands the case: you know our King, my brother,
RDY 4.6. 5 Is prisoner to the Bishop here, at whose hands
RDY 4.6. 6 He hath good usage and great liberty,
RDY 4.6. 7 And, often but attended with weak guard,
RDY 4.6. 8 Comes hunting this way to disport himself.
RDY 4.6. 9 I have advertised him by secret means
RDY 4.6. 10 That if about this hour he make this way
RDY 4.6. 11 Under the colour of his usual game,
RDY 4.6. 12 He shall here find his friends with horse and men
RDY 4.6. 13 To set him free from his captivity. {Enter King Edward and a +
RDY 4.6. 13 Huntsman with him}
RDY 4.6. 14
RDY-HUNTSMAN
This way, my lord - for this way lies the game.
RDY 4.6. 15
RDY-KING EDWARD
Nay, this way, man - see where the huntsmen stand.
RDY 4.6. 16 Now, brother of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
RDY 4.6. 17 Stand you thus close to steal the Bishop's deer?
RDY 4.6. 18
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Brother, the time and case requireth haste.
RDY 4.6. 19 Your horse stands ready at the park corner.
RDY 4.6. 20A
RDY-KING EDWARD
But whither shall we then?
RDY 4.6. 21A
RDY-HASTINGS
To Lynn, my lord,
RDY 4.6. 22 And shipped from thence to Flanders.
RDY 4.6. 23
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{[aside]} Well guessed, +
RDY 4.6. 23 believe me - for that was my meaning.
RDY 4.6. 24
RDY-KING EDWARD
Stanley, I will requite thy forwardness.
RDY 4.6. 25
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
But wherefore stay we? 'Tis no time to talk.
RDY 4.6. 26
RDY-KING EDWARD
Huntsman, what sayst thou? Wilt thou go along?
RDY 4.6. 27
RDY-HUNTSMAN
Better do so than tarry and be hanged.
RDY 4.6. 28
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Come then, away - let's have no more ado.
RDY 4.6. 29
RDY-KING EDWARD
Bishop, farewell - shield thee from Warwick's frown,
RDY 4.6. 30 And pray that I may repossess the crown. {Exeunt}
RDY 4.6. 0 {Flourish. Enter the Earl of Warwick and George Duke of +
RDY 4.7. 0 Clarence [with the crown]. Then enter King Henry, the Earl of Oxford, +
RDY 4.7. 0 the Duke of Somerset [with] young Henry Earl of Richmond, the Marquis +
RDY 4.7. 0 of Montague, and the Lieutenant of the Tower}
RDY 4.7. 1
RDY-KING HENRY
Master Lieutenant, now that God and friends
RDY 4.7. 2 Have shaken Edward from the regal seat
RDY 4.7. 3 And turned my captive state to liberty,
RDY 4.7. 4 My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,
RDY 4.7. 5 At our enlargement what are thy due fees?
RDY 4.7. 6
RDY-LIEUTENANT
Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns -
RDY 4.7. 7 But if an humble prayer may prevail,
RDY 4.7. 8 I then crave pardon of your majesty.
RDY 4.7. 9
RDY-KING HENRY
For what, Lieutenant? For well using me?
RDY 4.7. 10 Nay, be thou sure I'll well requite thy kindness,
RDY 4.7. 11 For that it made my prisonment a pleasure -
RDY 4.7. 12 Ay, such a pleasure as encaged birds
RDY 4.7. 13 Conceive when, after many moody thoughts,
RDY 4.7. 14 At last by notes of household harmony
RDY 4.7. 15 They quite forget their loss of liberty.
RDY 4.7. 16 But, Warwick, after God, thou sett'st me free,
RDY 4.7. 17 And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee.
RDY 4.7. 18 He was the author, thou the instrument.
RDY 4.7. 19 Therefore, that I may conquer fortune's spite
RDY 4.7. 20 By living low, where fortune cannot hurt me,
RDY 4.7. 21 And that the people of this blessed land
RDY 4.7. 22 May not be punished with my thwarting stars,
RDY 4.7. 23 Warwick, although my head still wear the crown,
RDY 4.7. 24 I here resign my government to thee,
RDY 4.7. 25 For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.
RDY 4.7. 26
RDY-WARWICK
Your grace hath still been famed for virtuous,
RDY 4.7. 27 And now may seem as wise as virtuous
RDY 4.7. 28 By spying and avoiding fortune's malice,
RDY 4.7. 29 For few men rightly temper with the stars.
RDY 4.7. 30 Yet in this one thing let me blame your grace:
RDY 4.7. 31 For choosing me when Clarence is in place.
RDY 4.7. 32
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway,
RDY 4.7. 33 To whom the heav'ns in thy nativity
RDY 4.7. 34 Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown,
RDY 4.7. 35 As likely to be blest in peace and war.
RDY 4.7. 36 And therefore I yield thee my free consent.
RDY 4.7. 37
RDY-WARWICK
And I choose Clarence only for Protector.
RDY 4.7. 38
RDY-KING HENRY
Warwick and Clarence, give me both your hands.
RDY 4.7. 39 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,
RDY 4.7. 40 That no dissension hinder government.
RDY 4.7. 41 I make you both Protectors of this land,
RDY 4.7. 42 While I myself will lead a private life
RDY 4.7. 43 And in devotion spend my latter days,
RDY 4.7. 44 To sin's rebuke and my creator's praise.
RDY 4.7. 45
RDY-WARWICK
What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will?
RDY 4.7. 46
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
That he consents, if Warwick yield consent,
RDY 4.7. 47 For on thy fortune I repose myself.
RDY 4.7. 48
RDY-WARWICK
Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content.
RDY 4.7. 49 We'll yoke together, like a double shadow
RDY 4.7. 50 To Henry's body, and supply his place -
RDY 4.7. 51 I mean in bearing weight of government -
RDY 4.7. 52 While he enjoys the honour and his ease.
RDY 4.7. 53 And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful
RDY 4.7. 54 Forthwith that Edward be pronounced a traitor,
RDY 4.7. 55 And all his lands and goods be confiscate.
RDY 4.7. 56
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
What else? And that succession be determined.
RDY 4.7. 57
RDY-WARWICK
Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part.
RDY 4.7. 58
RDY-KING HENRY
But with the first of all your chief affairs,
RDY 4.7. 59 Let me entreat - for I command no more -
RDY 4.7. 60 That Margaret your queen and my son Edward
RDY 4.7. 61 Be sent for, to return from France with speed.
RDY 4.7. 62 For, till I see them here, by doubtful fear
RDY 4.7. 63 My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.
RDY 4.7. 64
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed.
RDY 4.7. 65
RDY-KING HENRY
My lord of Somerset, what youth is that
RDY 4.7. 66 Of whom you seem to have so tender care?
RDY 4.7. 67
RDY-SOMERSET
My liege, it is young Henry, Earl of Richmond.
RDY 4.7. 68B
RDY-KING HENRY
Come hither, England's hope. {King Henry lays his +
RDY 4.7. 68B hand on Richmond's head} If secret powers
RDY 4.7. 69 Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts,
RDY 4.7. 70 This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss.
RDY 4.7. 71 His looks are full of peaceful majesty,
RDY 4.7. 72 His head by nature framed to wear a crown,
RDY 4.7. 73 His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself
RDY 4.7. 74 Likely in time to bless a regal throne.
RDY 4.7. 75 Make much of him, my lords, for this is he
RDY 4.7. 76 Must help you more than you are hurt by me. {Enter a Post}
RDY 4.7. 77A
RDY-WARWICK
What news, my friend?
RDY 4.7. 78
RDY-POST
That Edward is escaped from your brother
RDY 4.7. 79 And fled, as he hears since, to Burgundy.
RDY 4.7. 80
RDY-WARWICK
Unsavoury news - but how made he escape?
RDY 4.7. 81
RDY-POST
He was conveyed by Richard Duke of Gloucester
RDY 4.7. 82 And the Lord Hastings, who attended him
RDY 4.7. 83 In secret ambush on the forest side
RDY 4.7. 84 And from the Bishop's huntsmen rescued him -
RDY 4.7. 85 For hunting was his daily exercise.
RDY 4.7. 86
RDY-WARWICK
My brother was too careless of his charge.
RDY 4.7. 87 {(To King Henry)} But let us hence, my sovereign, to +
RDY 4.7. 87 provide
RDY 4.7. 88 A salve for any sore that may betide. {Exeunt all but Somerset, +
RDY 4.7. 88 Richmond, and Oxford}
RDY 4.7. 89
RDY-SOMERSET
{(to Oxford)} My lord, I like not of this +
RDY 4.7. 89 flight of Edward's,
RDY 4.7. 90 For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help,
RDY 4.7. 91 And we shall have more wars before 't be long.
RDY 4.7. 92 As Henry's late presaging prophecy
RDY 4.7. 93 Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,
RDY 4.7. 94 So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts,
RDY 4.7. 95 What may befall him, to his harm and ours.
RDY 4.7. 96 Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst,
RDY 4.7. 97 Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany,
RDY 4.7. 98 Till storms be past of civil enmity.
RDY 4.7. 99
RDY-OXFORD
Ay, for if Edward repossess the crown,
RDY 4.7. 100 'Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down.
RDY 4.7. 101
RDY-SOMERSET
It shall be so - he shall to Brittany.
RDY 4.7. 102 Come, therefore, let's about it speedily. {Exeunt}
RDY 4.7. 0 {Flourish. Enter King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloucester, +
RDY 4.8. 0 and Lord Hastings, [with a troop of Hollanders]}
RDY 4.8. 1
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the +
RDY 4.8. 1 rest,
RDY 4.8. 2 Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends,
RDY 4.8. 3 And says that once more I shall interchange
RDY 4.8. 4 My waned state for Henry's regal crown.
RDY 4.8. 5 Well have we passed and now repassed the seas
RDY 4.8. 6 And brought desired help from Burgundy.
RDY 4.8. 7 What then remains, we being thus arrived
RDY 4.8. 8 From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York,
RDY 4.8. 9 But that we enter, as into our dukedom? {[Hastings] knocks at +
RDY 4.8. 9 the gates of York}
RDY 4.8. 10
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
The gates made fast? Brother, I +
RDY 4.8. 10 like not this.
RDY 4.8. 11 For many men that stumble at the threshold
RDY 4.8. 12 Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
RDY 4.8. 13
RDY-KING EDWARD
Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us.
RDY 4.8. 14 By fair or foul means we must enter in,
RDY 4.8. 15 For hither will our friends repair to us.
RDY 4.8. 16
RDY-HASTINGS
My liege, I'll knock once more to summon them. {He +
RDY 4.8. 16 knocks.}
RDY 4.8. 17 {Enter, on the walls, the Mayor and aldermen of York}
RDY-MAYOR
+
RDY 4.8. 17 My lords, we were forewarned of your coming,
RDY 4.8. 18 And shut the gates for safety of ourselves -
RDY 4.8. 19 For now we owe allegiance unto Henry.
RDY 4.8. 20
RDY-KING EDWARD
But, Master Mayor, if Henry be your king,
RDY 4.8. 21 Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York.
RDY 4.8. 22
RDY-MAYOR
True, my good lord, I know you for no less.
RDY 4.8. 23
RDY-KING EDWARD
Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,
RDY 4.8. 24 As being well content with that alone.
RDY 4.8. 25
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} But when the fox +
RDY 4.8. 25 hath once got in his nose,
RDY 4.8. 26 He'll soon find means to make the body follow.
RDY 4.8. 27
RDY-HASTINGS
Why, Master Mayor, why stand you in a doubt?
RDY 4.8. 28 Open the gates - we are King Henry's friends.
RDY 4.8. 29
RDY-MAYOR
Ay, say you so? The gates shall then be opened. {They +
RDY 4.8. 29 descend}
RDY 4.8. 30
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
A wise stout captain, and soon +
RDY 4.8. 30 persuaded.
RDY 4.8. 31
RDY-HASTINGS
The good old man would fain that all were well,
RDY 4.8. 32 So 'twere not long of him; but being entered,
RDY 4.8. 33 I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade
RDY 4.8. 34 Both him and all his brothers unto reason. {Enter below the +
RDY 4.8. 34 Mayor and two aldermen}
RDY 4.8. 35
RDY-KING EDWARD
So, Master Mayor, these gates must not be +
RDY 4.8. 35 shut
RDY 4.8. 36 But in the night or in the time of war.
RDY 4.8. 37 What - fear not, man, but yield me up the keys, {King Edward takes +
RDY 4.8. 37 some keys from the Mayor}
RDY 4.8. 38 For Edward will defend the town and thee,
RDY 4.8. 39 And all those friends that deign to follow me. {March. Enter Sir +
RDY 4.8. 39 John Montgomery with a drummer and soldiers}
RDY 4.8. 40
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Brother, this is Sir John +
RDY 4.8. 40 Montgomery,
RDY 4.8. 41 Our trusty friend, unless I be deceived.
RDY 4.8. 42
RDY-KING EDWARD
Welcome, Sir John - but why come you in arms?
RDY 4.8. 43
RDY-MONTGOMERY
To help King Edward in his time of storm,
RDY 4.8. 44 As every loyal subject ought to do.
RDY 4.8. 45
RDY-KING EDWARD
Thanks, good Montgomery, but we now forget
RDY 4.8. 46 Our title to the crown, and only claim
RDY 4.8. 47 Our dukedom till God please to send the rest.
RDY 4.8. 48
RDY-MONTGOMERY
Then fare you well, for I will hence again.
RDY 4.8. 49 I came to serve a king and not a duke.
RDY 4.8. 50 Drummer, strike up, and let us march away. {The drummer begins +
RDY 4.8. 50 to sound a march}
RDY 4.8. 51
RDY-KING EDWARD
Nay, stay, Sir John, a while, and we'll +
RDY 4.8. 51 debate
RDY 4.8. 52 By what safe means the crown may be recovered.
RDY 4.8. 53
RDY-MONTGOMERY
What talk you of debating? In few words,
RDY 4.8. 54 If you'll not here proclaim yourself our king
RDY 4.8. 55 I'll leave you to your fortune and be gone
RDY 4.8. 56 To keep them back that come to succour you.
RDY 4.8. 57 Why shall we fight, if you pretend no title?
RDY 4.8. 58
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to King Edward)} Why, +
RDY 4.8. 58 brother, wherefore stand you on nice points?
RDY 4.8. 59
RDY-KING EDWARD
When we grow stronger, then we'll make our claim.
RDY 4.8. 60 Till then 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning.
RDY 4.8. 61
RDY-HASTINGS
Away with scrupulous wit! Now arms must rule.
RDY 4.8. 62
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
RDY 4.8. 63 Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand,
RDY 4.8. 64 The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
RDY 4.8. 65
RDY-KING EDWARD
Then be it as you will, for 'tis my right,
RDY 4.8. 66 And Henry but usurps the diadem.
RDY 4.8. 67
RDY-MONTGOMERY
Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself,
RDY 4.8. 68 And now will I be Edward's champion.
RDY 4.8. 69
RDY-HASTINGS
Sound trumpet, Edward shall be here proclaimed.
RDY 4.8. 70 {[To Montgomery]} Come, fellow soldier, make thou +
RDY 4.8. 70 proclamation. {Flourish}
RDY 4.8. 71
RDY-[MONTGOMERY]
Edward the Fourth, by the grace of God
RDY 4.8. 72 King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland -
RDY 4.8. 73 And whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right,
RDY 4.8. 74 By this I challenge him to single fight. {He throws down his +
RDY 4.8. 74 gauntlet}
RDY 4.8. 75A
RDY-ALL
Long live Edward the Fourth!
RDY 4.8. 76
RDY-KING EDWARD
Thanks, brave Montgomery, and thanks unto you all.
RDY 4.8. 77 If fortune serve me I'll requite this kindness.
RDY 4.8. 78 Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York;
RDY 4.8. 79 And when the morning sun shall raise his car
RDY 4.8. 80 Above the border of this horizon,
RDY 4.8. 81 We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates.
RDY 4.8. 82 For well I wot that Henry is no soldier.
RDY 4.8. 83 Ah, froward Clarence, how evil it beseems thee
RDY 4.8. 84 To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!
RDY 4.8. 85 Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick.
RDY 4.8. 86 Come on, brave soldiers - doubt not of the day
RDY 4.8. 87 And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay. {Exeunt}
RDY 4.8. 0 {Flourish. Enter King Henry, the Earl of Warwick, the +
RDY 4.9. 0 Marquis of Montague, George Duke of Clarence, and the Earl of Oxford}
RDY 4.9. 1
RDY-WARWICK
What counsel, lords? Edward from Belgia,
RDY 4.9. 2 With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders,
RDY 4.9. 3 Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas,
RDY 4.9. 4 And with his troops doth march amain to London,
RDY 4.9. 5 And many giddy people flock to him.
RDY 4.9. 6
RDY-KING HENRY
Let's levy men and beat him back again.
RDY 4.9. 7
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
A little fire is quickly trodden out,
RDY 4.9. 8 Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
RDY 4.9. 9
RDY-WARWICK
In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends,
RDY 4.9. 10 Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war.
RDY 4.9. 11 Those will I muster up. And thou, son Clarence,
RDY 4.9. 12 Shalt stir in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent,
RDY 4.9. 13 The knights and gentlemen to come with thee.
RDY 4.9. 14 Thou, brother Montague, in Buckingham,
RDY 4.9. 15 Northampton, and in Leicestershire shalt find
RDY 4.9. 16 Men well inclined to hear what thou command'st.
RDY 4.9. 17 And thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved
RDY 4.9. 18 In Oxfordshire, shalt muster up thy friends.
RDY 4.9. 19 My sovereign, with the loving citizens,
RDY 4.9. 20 Like to his island girt in with the ocean,
RDY 4.9. 21 Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs,
RDY 4.9. 22 Shall rest in London till we come to him.
RDY 4.9. 23 Fair lords, take leave and stand not to reply.
RDY 4.9. 24 Farewell, my sovereign.
RDY 4.9. 25
RDY-KING HENRY
Farewell, my Hector, and my Troy's true hope.
RDY 4.9. 26
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
In sign of truth, I kiss your highness' +
RDY 4.9. 26 hand. {He kisses King Henry's hand}
RDY 4.9. 27
RDY-KING HENRY
Well-minded Clarence, be thou fortunate.
RDY 4.9. 28
RDY-MONTAGUE
Comfort, my lord, and so I take my leave. {[He +
RDY 4.9. 28 kisses King Henry's hand]}
RDY 4.9. 29
RDY-OXFORD
And thus I seal my truth and bid adieu. +
RDY 4.9. 29 {[He kisses King Henry's hand]}
RDY 4.9. 30
RDY-KING HENRY
Sweet Oxford, and my loving Montague,
RDY 4.9. 31 And all at once, once more a happy farewell. {[Exit]}
RDY 4.9. 32
RDY-WARWICK
Farewell, sweet lords - let's meet at +
RDY 4.9. 32 Coventry. {Exeunt [severally]}
RDY 4.9. 0 {[Enter King Henry and the Duke of Exeter]}
RDY 4.10. 1
RDY-KING HENRY
Here at the palace will I rest a while.
RDY 4.10. 2 Cousin of Exeter, what thinks your lordship?
RDY 4.10. 3 Methinks the power that Edward hath in field
RDY 4.10. 4 Should not be able to encounter mine.
RDY 4.10. 5
RDY-EXETER
The doubt is that he will seduce the rest.
RDY 4.10. 6
RDY-KING HENRY
That's not my fear. My meed hath got me fame.
RDY 4.10. 7 I have not stopped mine ears to their demands,
RDY 4.10. 8 Nor posted off their suits with slow delays.
RDY 4.10. 9 My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
RDY 4.10. 10 My mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs,
RDY 4.10. 11 My mercy dried their water-flowing tears.
RDY 4.10. 12 I have not been desirous of their wealth,
RDY 4.10. 13 Nor much oppressed them with great subsidies,
RDY 4.10. 14 Nor forward of revenge, though they much erred.
RDY 4.10. 15 Then why should they love Edward more than me?
RDY 4.10. 16 No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace;
RDY 4.10. 17 And when the lion fawns upon the lamb,
RDY 4.10. 18 The lamb will never cease to follow him. {Shout within `A +
RDY 4.10. 18 Lancaster', [`A York']}
RDY 4.10. 19
RDY-EXETER
Hark, hark, my lord - what shouts are these? +
RDY 4.10. 19 {Enter King Edward and Richard Duke of Gloucester, with soldiers}
RDY 4.10. 20
RDY-KING EDWARD
Seize on the shame-faced Henry - bear him +
RDY 4.10. 20 hence,
RDY 4.10. 21 And once again proclaim us King of England.
RDY 4.10. 22 You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow.
RDY 4.10. 23 Now stops thy spring - my sea shall suck them dry,
RDY 4.10. 24 And swell so much the higher by their ebb.
RDY 4.10. 25 Hence with him to the Tower - let him not speak. {Exeunt some with +
RDY 4.10. 25 King Henry and Exeter}
RDY 4.10. 26 And lords, towards Coventry bend we our course,
RDY 4.10. 27 Where peremptory Warwick now remains.
RDY 4.10. 28 The sun shines hot, and, if we use delay,
RDY 4.10. 29 Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay.
RDY 4.10. 30
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Away betimes, before his forces join,
RDY 4.10. 31 And take the great-grown traitor unawares.
RDY 4.10. 32 Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry. {Exeunt}
RDY 4.10. 0 {Enter the Earl of Warwick, the Mayor of Coventry, +
RDY 5.1. 0 two Messengers, and others upon the walls}
RDY 5.1. 1
RDY-WARWICK
Where is the post that came from valiant +
RDY 5.1. 1 Oxford? {[The First Messenger steps forward]}
RDY 5.1. 2 How far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellow?
RDY 5.1. 3
RDY-FIRST MESSENGER
By this at Dunsmore, marching hitherward.
RDY 5.1. 4
RDY-WARWICK
How far off is our brother Montague?
RDY 5.1. 5 Where is the post that came from Montague? {[The Second +
RDY 5.1. 5 Messenger steps forward]}
RDY 5.1. 6
RDY-SECOND MESSENGER
By this at Da'ntry, with a puissant +
RDY 5.1. 6 troop. {Enter Somerville [to them, above]}
RDY 5.1. 7
RDY-WARWICK
Say, Somerville - what says my loving son?
RDY 5.1. 8 And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now?
RDY 5.1. 9
RDY-SOMERVILLE
At Southam I did leave him with his forces,
RDY 5.1. 10 And do expect him here some two hours hence. {A march afar off}
RDY 5.1. 11
RDY-WARWICK
Then Clarence is at hand - I hear his drum.
RDY 5.1. 12
RDY-SOMERVILLE
It is not his, my lord. Here Southam lies.
RDY 5.1. 13 The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick.
RDY 5.1. 14
RDY-WARWICK
Who should that be? Belike, unlooked-for friends.
RDY 5.1. 15
RDY-SOMERVILLE
They are at hand, and you shall quickly know. +
RDY 5.1. 15 {Flourish. Enter below King Edward and Richard Duke of Gloucester, with +
RDY 5.1. 15 soldiers}
RDY 5.1. 16
RDY-KING EDWARD
Go, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a +
RDY 5.1. 16 parley. {[Sound a parley]}
RDY 5.1. 17
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
See how the surly Warwick mans the +
RDY 5.1. 17 wall.
RDY 5.1. 18
RDY-WARWICK
O, unbid spite - is sportful Edward come?
RDY 5.1. 19 Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,
RDY 5.1. 20 That we could hear no news of his repair?
RDY 5.1. 21
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,
RDY 5.1. 22 Speak gentle words, and humbly bend thy knee,
RDY 5.1. 23 Call Edward king, and at his hands beg mercy?
RDY 5.1. 24 And he shall pardon thee these outrages.
RDY 5.1. 25
RDY-WARWICK
Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,
RDY 5.1. 26 Confess who set thee up and plucked thee down,
RDY 5.1. 27 Call Warwick patron, and be penitent?
RDY 5.1. 28 And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York.
RDY 5.1. 29
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
I thought at least he would have said `the +
RDY 5.1. 29 King'.
RDY 5.1. 30 Or did he make the jest against his will?
RDY 5.1. 31
RDY-WARWICK
Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?
RDY 5.1. 32
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give.
RDY 5.1. 33 I'll do thee service for so good a gift.
RDY 5.1. 34
RDY-WARWICK
'Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother.
RDY 5.1. 35
RDY-KING EDWARD
Why then, 'tis mine, if but by Warwick's gift.
RDY 5.1. 36
RDY-WARWICK
Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight;
RDY 5.1. 37 And, weakling, Warwick takes his gift again;
RDY 5.1. 38 And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject.
RDY 5.1. 39
RDY-KING EDWARD
But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner,
RDY 5.1. 40 And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:
RDY 5.1. 41 What is the body when the head is off?
RDY 5.1. 42
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,
RDY 5.1. 43 But whiles he thought to steal the single ten,
RDY 5.1. 44 The king was slyly fingered from the deck.
RDY 5.1. 45 {[To Warwick]} You left poor Henry at the Bishop's +
RDY 5.1. 45 palace,
RDY 5.1. 46 And ten to one you'll meet him in the Tower.
RDY 5.1. 47
RDY-KING EDWARD
'Tis even so - {[to Warwick]} yet you +
RDY 5.1. 47 are Warwick still.
RDY 5.1. 48
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Come, Warwick, take the time - kneel down, +
RDY 5.1. 48 kneel down.
RDY 5.1. 49 Nay, when? Strike now, or else the iron cools.
RDY 5.1. 50
RDY-WARWICK
I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
RDY 5.1. 51 And with the other fling it at thy face,
RDY 5.1. 52 Than bear so low a sail to strike to thee.
RDY 5.1. 53
RDY-KING EDWARD
Sail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend,
RDY 5.1. 54 This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair,
RDY 5.1. 55 Shall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off,
RDY 5.1. 56 Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood:
RDY 5.1. 57 `Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more'. {Enter the Earl +
RDY 5.1. 57 of Oxford, with a drummer and [soldiers bearing] colours}
RDY 5.1. 58
RDY-WARWICK
O cheerful colours! See where Oxford comes.
RDY 5.1. 59
RDY-OXFORD
Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster! {[Oxford and his men +
RDY 5.1. 59 pass over the stage and exeunt into the city]}
RDY 5.1. 60
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to King Edward)} The gates +
RDY 5.1. 60 are open - let us enter too.
RDY 5.1. 61
RDY-KING EDWARD
So other foes may set upon our backs?
RDY 5.1. 62 Stand we in good array, for they no doubt
RDY 5.1. 63 Will issue out again and bid us battle.
RDY 5.1. 64 If not, the city being but of small defence,
RDY 5.1. 65 We'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same.
RDY 5.1. 66
RDY-WARWICK
{[to Oxford, within]} O, welcome, +
RDY 5.1. 66 Oxford - for we want thy help. {Enter the Marquis of Montague with +
RDY 5.1. 66 a drummer and [soldiers bearing] colours}
RDY 5.1. 67
RDY-MONTAGUE
Montague, Montague, for Lancaster! +
RDY 5.1. 67 {[Montague and his men pass over the stage and exeunt into the city]}
RDY 5.1. 68
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Thou and thy brother both shall bye +
RDY 5.1. 68 this treason
RDY 5.1. 69 Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear.
RDY 5.1. 70
RDY-KING EDWARD
The harder matched, the greater victory.
RDY 5.1. 71 My mind presageth happy gain and conquest. {Enter the Duke of +
RDY 5.1. 71 Somerset with a drummer and [soldiers bearing] colours}
RDY 5.1. 72
RDY-SOMERSET
Somerset, Somerset, for Lancaster! +
RDY 5.1. 72 {[Somerset and his men pass over the stage and exeunt into the city]}
RDY 5.1. 73
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Two of thy name, both dukes of +
RDY 5.1. 73 Somerset,
RDY 5.1. 74 Have sold their lives unto the house of York -
RDY 5.1. 75 And thou shalt be the third, an this sword hold. {Enter George +
RDY 5.1. 75 Duke of Clarence with a drummer and [soldiers bearing] colours}
RDY 5.1. 76
RDY-WARWICK
And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along,
RDY 5.1. 77 Of force enough to bid his brother battle;
RDY 5.1. 78 With whom an upright zeal to right prevails
RDY 5.1. 79 More than the nature of a brother's love.
RDY 5.1. 80
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Clarence, Clarence, for Lancaster!
RDY 5.1. 81
RDY-KING EDWARD
{Et tu, Brute} - wilt thou stab Caesar too?
RDY 5.1. 82 {(To a trumpeter)} A parley, sirra, to George of +
RDY 5.1. 82 Clarence. {Sound a parley. Richard of Gloucester and George of +
RDY 5.1. 82 Clarence whisper together}
RDY 5.1. 83
RDY-WARWICK
Come, Clarence, come - thou wilt if Warwick call.
RDY 5.1. 84
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Father of Warwick, know you what this +
RDY 5.1. 84 means? {[He takes his red rose out of his hat and throws it at +
RDY 5.1. 84 Warwick]}
RDY 5.1. 85 Look - here I throw my infamy at thee!
RDY 5.1. 86 I will not ruinate my father's house,
RDY 5.1. 87 Who gave his blood to lime the stones together,
RDY 5.1. 88 And set up Lancaster. Why, trowest thou, Warwick,
RDY 5.1. 89 That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,
RDY 5.1. 90 To bend the fatal instruments of war
RDY 5.1. 91 Against his brother and his lawful king?
RDY 5.1. 92 Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath.
RDY 5.1. 93 To keep that oath were more impiety
RDY 5.1. 94 Than Jephthah, when he sacrificed his daughter.
RDY 5.1. 95 I am so sorry for my trespass made
RDY 5.1. 96 That, to deserve well at my brothers' hands,
RDY 5.1. 97 I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,
RDY 5.1. 98 With resolution, wheresoe'er I meet thee -
RDY 5.1. 99 As I will meet thee, if thou stir abroad -
RDY 5.1. 100 To plague thee for thy foul misleading me.
RDY 5.1. 101 And so, proud-hearted Warwick, I defy thee,
RDY 5.1. 102 And to my brothers turn my blushing cheeks.
RDY 5.1. 103 {(To King Edward)} Pardon me, Edward - I will make +
RDY 5.1. 103 amends.
RDY 5.1. 104 {(To Richard)} And, Richard, do not frown upon my +
RDY 5.1. 104 faults,
RDY 5.1. 105 For I will henceforth be no more unconstant.
RDY 5.1. 106
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now welcome more, and ten times more beloved,
RDY 5.1. 107 Than if thou never hadst deserved our hate.
RDY 5.1. 108
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to George)} Welcome, good +
RDY 5.1. 108 Clarence - this is brother-like.
RDY 5.1. 109
RDY-WARWICK
{(to George)} O, passing traitor - perjured +
RDY 5.1. 109 and unjust!
RDY 5.1. 110
RDY-KING EDWARD
What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight?
RDY 5.1. 111 Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears?
RDY 5.1. 112
RDY-WARWICK
{[aside]} Alas, I am not cooped here for +
RDY 5.1. 112 defence.
RDY 5.1. 113 {(To King Edward)} I will away towards Barnet +
RDY 5.1. 113 presently,
RDY 5.1. 114 And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou dar'st.
RDY 5.1. 115
RDY-KING EDWARD
Yes, Warwick - Edward dares, and leads the way.
RDY 5.1. 116 Lords, to the field - Saint George and victory! {Exeunt below King +
RDY 5.1. 116 Edward and his company.}
RDY 5.1. 0 {March. The Earl of Warwick and his company descend and follow} +
RDY 5.2. 0 {Alarum and excursions. Enter King Edward bringing forth the +
RDY 5.2. 0 Earl of Warwick, wounded}
RDY 5.2. 1
RDY-KING EDWARD
So lie thou there. Die thou, and die our +
RDY 5.2. 1 fear -
RDY 5.2. 2 For Warwick was a bug that feared us all.
RDY 5.2. 3 Now, Montague, sit fast - I seek for thee
RDY 5.2. 4 That Warwick's bones may keep thine company. {Exit}
RDY 5.2. 5
RDY-WARWICK
Ah, who is nigh? Come to me, friend or foe,
RDY 5.2. 6 And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?
RDY 5.2. 7 Why ask I that? My mangled body shows,
RDY 5.2. 8 My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows,
RDY 5.2. 9 That I must yield my body to the earth
RDY 5.2. 10 And by my fall the conquest to my foe.
RDY 5.2. 11 Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,
RDY 5.2. 12 Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
RDY 5.2. 13 Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,
RDY 5.2. 14 Whose top-branch over-peered Jove's spreading tree
RDY 5.2. 15 And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.
RDY 5.2. 16 These eyes, that now are dimmed with death's black veil,
RDY 5.2. 17 Have been as piercing as the midday sun
RDY 5.2. 18 To search the secret treasons of the world.
RDY 5.2. 19 The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,
RDY 5.2. 20 Were likened oft to kingly sepulchres -
RDY 5.2. 21 For who lived king, but I could dig his grave?
RDY 5.2. 22 And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow?
RDY 5.2. 23 Lo now my glory smeared in dust and blood.
RDY 5.2. 24 My parks, my walks, my manors that I had,
RDY 5.2. 25 Even now forsake me, and of all my lands
RDY 5.2. 26 Is nothing left me but my body's length.
RDY 5.2. 27 Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
RDY 5.2. 28 And, live we how we can, yet die we must. {Enter the Earl of +
RDY 5.2. 28 Oxford and the Duke of Somerset}
RDY 5.2. 29
RDY-SOMERSET
Ah, Warwick, Warwick - wert thou as we are,
RDY 5.2. 30 We might recover all our loss again.
RDY 5.2. 31 The Queen from France hath brought a puissant power.
RDY 5.2. 32 Even now we heard the news. Ah, couldst thou fly!
RDY 5.2. 33
RDY-WARWICK
Why, then I would not fly. Ah, Montague,
RDY 5.2. 34 If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand,
RDY 5.2. 35 And with thy lips keep in my soul a while.
RDY 5.2. 36 Thou lov'st me not - for, brother, if thou didst,
RDY 5.2. 37 Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
RDY 5.2. 38 That glues my lips and will not let me speak.
RDY 5.2. 39 Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead.
RDY 5.2. 40
RDY-SOMERSET
Ah, Warwick - Montague hath breathed his last,
RDY 5.2. 41 And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,
RDY 5.2. 42 And said `Commend me to my valiant brother.'
RDY 5.2. 43 And more he would have said, and more he spoke,
RDY 5.2. 44 Which sounded like a canon in a vault,
RDY 5.2. 45 That mote not be distinguished; but at last
RDY 5.2. 46 I well might hear, delivered with a groan,
RDY 5.2. 47 `O, farewell, Warwick.'
RDY 5.2. 48
RDY-WARWICK
Sweet rest his soul. Fly, lords, and save yourselves -
RDY 5.2. 49 For Warwick bids you all farewell, to meet in heaven. {He dies}
RDY 5.2. 50
RDY-OXFORD
Away, away - to meet the Queen's great power! +
RDY 5.2. 50 {Here they bear away Warwick's body. Exeunt}
RDY 5.2. 0 {Flourish. Enter King Edward in triumph, with Richard +
RDY 5.3. 0 Duke of Gloucester, George Duke of Clarence, and [soldiers]}
RDY 5.3. 1
RDY-KING EDWARD
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
RDY 5.3. 2 And we are graced with wreaths of victory.
RDY 5.3. 3 But in the midst of this bright-shining day
RDY 5.3. 4 I spy a black suspicious threatening cloud
RDY 5.3. 5 That will encounter with our glorious sun
RDY 5.3. 6 Ere he attain his easeful western bed.
RDY 5.3. 7 I mean, my lords, those powers that the Queen
RDY 5.3. 8 Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast,
RDY 5.3. 9 And, as we hear, march on to fight with us.
RDY 5.3. 10
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
A little gale will soon disperse that cloud,
RDY 5.3. 11 And blow it to the source from whence it came.
RDY 5.3. 12 Thy very beams will dry those vapours up,
RDY 5.3. 13 For every cloud engenders not a storm.
RDY 5.3. 14
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
The Queen is valued thirty thousand strong,
RDY 5.3. 15 And Somerset, with Oxford, fled to her.
RDY 5.3. 16 If she have time to breathe, be well assured,
RDY 5.3. 17 Her faction will be full as strong as ours.
RDY 5.3. 18
RDY-KING EDWARD
We are advertised by our loving friends
RDY 5.3. 19 That they do hold their course toward Tewkesbury.
RDY 5.3. 20 We, having now the best at Barnet field,
RDY 5.3. 21 Will thither straight, for willingness rids way -
RDY 5.3. 22 And, as we march, our strength will be augmented
RDY 5.3. 23 In every county as we go along.
RDY 5.3. 24 Strike up the drum, cry `Courage!'; and away. {[Flourish. +
RDY 5.3. 24 March.] Exeunt}
RDY 5.3. 0 {Flourish. March. Enter Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, +
RDY 5.4. 0 the Duke of Somerset, the Earl of Oxford, and soldiers}
RDY 5.4. 1
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail +
RDY 5.4. 1 their loss,
RDY 5.4. 2 But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
RDY 5.4. 3 What though the mast be now blown overboard,
RDY 5.4. 4 The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,
RDY 5.4. 5 And half our sailors swallowed in the flood?
RDY 5.4. 6 Yet lives our pilot still. Is 't meet that he
RDY 5.4. 7 Should leave the helm and, like a fearful lad,
RDY 5.4. 8 With tearful eyes add water to the sea,
RDY 5.4. 9 And give more strength to that which hath too much,
RDY 5.4. 10 Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock
RDY 5.4. 11 Which industry and courage might have saved?
RDY 5.4. 12 Ah, what a shame; ah, what a fault were this.
RDY 5.4. 13 Say Warwick was our anchor - what of that?
RDY 5.4. 14 And Montague our top-mast - what of him?
RDY 5.4. 15 Our slaughtered friends the tackles - what of these?
RDY 5.4. 16 Why, is not Oxford here another anchor?
RDY 5.4. 17 And Somerset another goodly mast?
RDY 5.4. 18 The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?
RDY 5.4. 19 And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I
RDY 5.4. 20 For once allowed the skilful pilot's charge?
RDY 5.4. 21 We will not from the helm to sit and weep,
RDY 5.4. 22 But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,
RDY 5.4. 23 From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck.
RDY 5.4. 24 As good to chide the waves as speak them fair.
RDY 5.4. 25 And what is Edward but a ruthless sea?
RDY 5.4. 26 What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?
RDY 5.4. 27 And Richard but a ragged fatal rock?
RDY 5.4. 28 All these the enemies to our poor barque.
RDY 5.4. 29 Say you can swim - alas, 'tis but a while;
RDY 5.4. 30 Tread on the sand - why, there you quickly sink;
RDY 5.4. 31 Bestride the rock - the tide will wash you off,
RDY 5.4. 32 Or else you famish. That's a threefold death.
RDY 5.4. 33 This speak I, lords, to let you understand,
RDY 5.4. 34 If case some one of you would fly from us,
RDY 5.4. 35 That there's no hoped-for mercy with the brothers York
RDY 5.4. 36 More than with ruthless waves, with sands, and rocks.
RDY 5.4. 37 Why, courage then - what cannot be avoided
RDY 5.4. 38 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
RDY 5.4. 39
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit
RDY 5.4. 40 Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,
RDY 5.4. 41 Infuse his breast with magnanimity
RDY 5.4. 42 And make him, naked, foil a man at arms.
RDY 5.4. 43 I speak not this as doubting any here -
RDY 5.4. 44 For did I but suspect a fearful man,
RDY 5.4. 45 He should have leave to go away betimes,
RDY 5.4. 46 Lest in our need he might infect another
RDY 5.4. 47 And make him of like spirit to himself.
RDY 5.4. 48 If any such be here - as God forbid -
RDY 5.4. 49 Let him depart before we need his help.
RDY 5.4. 50
RDY-OXFORD
Women and children of so high a courage,
RDY 5.4. 51 And warriors faint - why, 'twere perpetual shame!
RDY 5.4. 52 O brave young Prince, thy famous grandfather
RDY 5.4. 53 Doth live again in thee! Long mayst thou live
RDY 5.4. 54 To bear his image and renew his glories!
RDY 5.4. 55
RDY-SOMERSET
And he that will not fight for such a hope,
RDY 5.4. 56 Go home to bed, and like the owl by day,
RDY 5.4. 57 If he arise, be mocked and wondered at.
RDY 5.4. 58
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Thanks, gentle Somerset; sweet Oxford, thanks.
RDY 5.4. 59
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.+
RDY 5.4. 59 {Enter a Messenger}
RDY 5.4. 60
RDY-MESSENGER
Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand
RDY 5.4. 61 Ready to fight - therefore be resolute.
RDY 5.4. 62
RDY-OXFORD
I thought no less. It is his policy
RDY 5.4. 63 To haste thus fast to find us unprovided.
RDY 5.4. 64
RDY-SOMERSET
But he's deceived; we are in readiness.
RDY 5.4. 65
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
This cheers my heart, to see your forwardness.
RDY 5.4. 66
RDY-OXFORD
Here pitch our battle - hence we will not budge. +
RDY 5.4. 66 {Flourish and march. Enter King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloucester, and +
RDY 5.4. 66 George Duke of Clarence, with soldiers}
RDY 5.4. 67
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to his followers)} Brave followers, +
RDY 5.4. 67 yonder stands the thorny wood
RDY 5.4. 68 Which, by the heavens' assistance and your strength,
RDY 5.4. 69 Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night.
RDY 5.4. 70 I need not add more fuel to your fire,
RDY 5.4. 71 For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out.
RDY 5.4. 72 Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords.
RDY 5.4. 73
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
{(to her followers)} Lords, +
RDY 5.4. 73 knights, and gentlemen - what I should say
RDY 5.4. 74 My tears gainsay; for every word I speak
RDY 5.4. 75 Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
RDY 5.4. 76 Therefore, no more but this: Henry your sovereign
RDY 5.4. 77 Is prisoner to the foe, his state usurped,
RDY 5.4. 78 His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain,
RDY 5.4. 79 His statutes cancelled, and his treasure spent -
RDY 5.4. 80 And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil.
RDY 5.4. 81 You fight in justice; then in God's name, lords,
RDY 5.4. 82 Be valiant, and give signal to the fight. {Alarum, retreat, +
RDY 5.4. 82 excursions. Exeunt}
RDY 5.4. 0 {Flourish. Enter King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloucester, and +
RDY 5.5. 0 George Duke of Clarence with Queen Margaret, the Earl of Oxford, and +
RDY 5.5. 0 the Duke of Somerset, guarded}
RDY 5.5. 1
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now here a period of tumultuous broils.
RDY 5.5. 2 Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight;
RDY 5.5. 3 For Somerset, off with his guilty head.
RDY 5.5. 4 Go bear them hence - I will not hear them speak.
RDY 5.5. 5
RDY-OXFORD
For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words. {Exit, +
RDY 5.5. 5 guarded}
RDY 5.5. 6
RDY-SOMERSET
Nor I, but stoop with patience to my +
RDY 5.5. 6 fortune. {Exit, guarded}
RDY 5.5. 7
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
So part we sadly in this troublous world
RDY 5.5. 8 To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.
RDY 5.5. 9
RDY-KING EDWARD
Is proclamation made that who finds Edward
RDY 5.5. 10 Shall have a high reward and he his life?
RDY 5.5. 11
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
It is, and lo where youthful Edward +
RDY 5.5. 11 comes. {Enter Prince Edward, guarded}
RDY 5.5. 12
RDY-KING EDWARD
Bring forth the gallant - let us hear him +
RDY 5.5. 12 speak.
RDY 5.5. 13 What, can so young a thorn begin to prick?
RDY 5.5. 14 Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make
RDY 5.5. 15 For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects,
RDY 5.5. 16 And all the trouble thou hast turned me to?
RDY 5.5. 17
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York.
RDY 5.5. 18 Suppose that I am now my father's mouth -
RDY 5.5. 19 Resign thy chair, and where I stand, kneel thou,
RDY 5.5. 20 Whilst I propose the self-same words to thee,
RDY 5.5. 21 Which, traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to.
RDY 5.5. 22
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Ah, that thy father had been so resolved.
RDY 5.5. 23
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
That you might still have worn the petticoat
RDY 5.5. 24 And ne'er have stolen the breech from Lancaster.
RDY 5.5. 25
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Let Aesop fable in a winter's night -
RDY 5.5. 26 His currish riddles sorts not with this place.
RDY 5.5. 27
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
By heaven, brat, I'll plague ye for that +
RDY 5.5. 27 word.
RDY 5.5. 28
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men.
RDY 5.5. 29
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
For God's sake take away this captive scold.
RDY 5.5. 30
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather.
RDY 5.5. 31
RDY-KING EDWARD
Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue.
RDY 5.5. 32
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
{(to Prince Edward)} Untutored +
RDY 5.5. 32 lad, thou art too malapert.
RDY 5.5. 33
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
I know my duty - you are all undutiful.
RDY 5.5. 34 Lascivious Edward, and thou, perjured George,
RDY 5.5. 35 And thou, misshapen Dick - I tell ye all
RDY 5.5. 36 I am your better, traitors as ye are,
RDY 5.5. 37 And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine.
RDY 5.5. 38
RDY-KING EDWARD
Take that, the likeness of this railer here. +
RDY 5.5. 38 {King Edward stabs Prince Edward}
RDY 5.5. 39
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Sprawl'st thou? Take that, to end +
RDY 5.5. 39 thy agony. {Richard stabs Prince Edward}
RDY 5.5. 40
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
And there's for twitting me with +
RDY 5.5. 40 perjury. {George stabs Prince Edward, [who dies]}
RDY 5.5. 41B
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
O, kill me too!
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
+
RDY 5.5. 41B Marry, and shall. {He offers to kill her}
RDY 5.5. 42
RDY-KING EDWARD
Hold, Richard, hold - for we have done too +
RDY 5.5. 42 much.
RDY 5.5. 43
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Why should she live to fill the world with +
RDY 5.5. 43 words? {Queen Margaret faints}
RDY 5.5. 44
RDY-KING EDWARD
What - doth she swoon? Use means for her +
RDY 5.5. 44 recovery.
RDY 5.5. 45
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside to George)} +
RDY 5.5. 45 Clarence, excuse me to the King my brother.
RDY 5.5. 46 I'll hence to London on a serious matter.
RDY 5.5. 47 Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news.
RDY 5.5. 48A
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
{(aside to Richard)} What? +
RDY 5.5. 48A What?
RDY 5.5. 49
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside to George)} The +
RDY 5.5. 49 Tower, the Tower. {Exit}
RDY 5.5. 50
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
O Ned, sweet Ned - speak to thy mother, boy.
RDY 5.5. 51 Canst thou not speak? O traitors, murderers!
RDY 5.5. 52 They that stabbed Caesar shed no blood at all,
RDY 5.5. 53 Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,
RDY 5.5. 54 If this foul deed were by to equal it.
RDY 5.5. 55 He was a man - this, in respect, a child;
RDY 5.5. 56 And men ne'er spend their fury on a child.
RDY 5.5. 57 What's worse than murderer that I may name it?
RDY 5.5. 58 No, no, my heart will burst an if I speak;
RDY 5.5. 59 And I will speak that so my heart may burst.
RDY 5.5. 60 Butchers and villains! Bloody cannibals!
RDY 5.5. 61 How sweet a plant have you untimely cropped!
RDY 5.5. 62 You have no children, butchers; if you had,
RDY 5.5. 63 The thought of them would have stirred up remorse.
RDY 5.5. 64 But if you ever chance to have a child,
RDY 5.5. 65 Look in his youth to have him so cut off
RDY 5.5. 66 As, deathsmen, you have rid this sweet young Prince!
RDY 5.5. 67
RDY-KING EDWARD
Away with her - go, bear her hence perforce.
RDY 5.5. 68
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Nay, never bear me hence - dispatch me here.
RDY 5.5. 69 Here sheathe thy sword - I'll pardon thee my death.
RDY 5.5. 70 What? Wilt thou not? Then, Clarence, do it thou.
RDY 5.5. 71
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease.
RDY 5.5. 72
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Good Clarence, do; sweet Clarence, do thou do it.
RDY 5.5. 73
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?
RDY 5.5. 74
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself.
RDY 5.5. 75 'Twas sin before, but now 'tis charity.
RDY 5.5. 76 What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher,
RDY 5.5. 77 Hard-favoured Richard? Richard, where art thou?
RDY 5.5. 78 Thou art not here. Murder is thy alms-deed -
RDY 5.5. 79 Petitioners for blood thou ne'er putt'st back.
RDY 5.5. 80
RDY-KING EDWARD
Away, I say - I charge ye, bear her hence.
RDY 5.5. 81
RDY-QUEEN MARGARET
So come to you and yours as to this Prince! +
RDY 5.5. 81 {Exit, guarded}
RDY 5.5. 82A
RDY-KING EDWARD
Where's Richard gone?
RDY 5.5. 83
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
To London all in post - {[aside]} +
RDY 5.5. 83 and as I guess,
RDY 5.5. 84 To make a bloody supper in the Tower.
RDY 5.5. 85
RDY-KING EDWARD
He's sudden if a thing comes in his head.
RDY 5.5. 86 Now march we hence. Discharge the common sort
RDY 5.5. 87 With pay and thanks, and let's away to London,
RDY 5.5. 88 And see our gentle Queen how well she fares.
RDY 5.5. 89 By this I hope she hath a son for me. {Exeunt}
RDY 5.5. 0 {Enter on the walls King Henry the Sixth, reading a book, +
RDY 5.6. 0 Richard Duke of Gloucester, and the Lieutenant of the Tower}
RDY 5.6. 1
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Good day, my lord. What, at your +
RDY 5.6. 1 book so hard?
RDY 5.6. 2
RDY-KING HENRY
Ay, my good lord - `my lord', I should say, rather.
RDY 5.6. 3 'Tis sin to flatter; `good' was little better.
RDY 5.6. 4 `Good Gloucester' and `good devil' were alike,
RDY 5.6. 5 And both preposterous - therefore not `good lord'.
RDY 5.6. 6
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(to the Lieutenant)} +
RDY 5.6. 6 Sirrah, leave us to ourselves. We must confer. {Exit Lieutenant}
RDY 5.6. 7
RDY-KING HENRY
So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;
RDY 5.6. 8 So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece,
RDY 5.6. 9 And next his throat unto the butcher's knife.
RDY 5.6. 10 What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?
RDY 5.6. 11
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
RDY 5.6. 12 The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
RDY 5.6. 13
RDY-KING HENRY
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
RDY 5.6. 14 With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.
RDY 5.6. 15 And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,
RDY 5.6. 16 Have now the fatal object in my eye
RDY 5.6. 17 Where my poor young was limed, was caught and killed.
RDY 5.6. 18
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete,
RDY 5.6. 19 That taught his son the office of a fowl!
RDY 5.6. 20 And yet, for all his wings, the fool was drowned.
RDY 5.6. 21
RDY-KING HENRY
I, Daedalus; my poor boy, Icarus;
RDY 5.6. 22 Thy father, Minos, that denied our course;
RDY 5.6. 23 The sun that seared the wings of my sweet boy,
RDY 5.6. 24 Thy brother Edward; and thyself, the sea,
RDY 5.6. 25 Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life.
RDY 5.6. 26 Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!
RDY 5.6. 27 My breast can better brook thy dagger's point
RDY 5.6. 28 Than can my ears that tragic history.
RDY 5.6. 29 But wherefore dost thou come? Is 't for my life?
RDY 5.6. 30
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Think'st thou I am an executioner?
RDY 5.6. 31
RDY-KING HENRY
A persecutor I am sure thou art;
RDY 5.6. 32 If murdering innocents be executing,
RDY 5.6. 33 Why, then thou art an executioner.
RDY 5.6. 34
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
Thy son I killed for his presumption.
RDY 5.6. 35
RDY-KING HENRY
Hadst thou been killed when first thou didst presume,
RDY 5.6. 36 Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.
RDY 5.6. 37 And thus I prophesy: that many a thousand
RDY 5.6. 38 Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,
RDY 5.6. 39 And many an old man's sigh, and many a widow's,
RDY 5.6. 40 And many an orphan's water-standing eye -
RDY 5.6. 41 Men for their sons', wives for their husbands',
RDY 5.6. 42 Orphans for their parents' timeless death -
RDY 5.6. 43 Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born.
RDY 5.6. 44 The owl shrieked at thy birth - an evil sign;
RDY 5.6. 45 The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;
RDY 5.6. 46 Dogs howled, and hideous tempests shook down trees;
RDY 5.6. 47 The raven rooked her on the chimney's top;
RDY 5.6. 48 And chatt'ring pies in dismal discords sung.
RDY 5.6. 49 Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,
RDY 5.6. 50 And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope -
RDY 5.6. 51 To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,
RDY 5.6. 52 Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
RDY 5.6. 53 Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
RDY 5.6. 54 To signify thou cam'st to bite the world;
RDY 5.6. 55 And if the rest be true which I have heard
RDY 5.6. 56 Thou cam'st -
RDY 5.6. 57
RDY-RICHARD
I'll hear no more. Die, prophet, in thy speech, {He +
RDY 5.6. 57 stabs him}
RDY 5.6. 58 For this, amongst the rest, was I ordained.
RDY 5.6. 59
RDY-KING HENRY
Ay, and for much more slaughter after this.
RDY 5.6. 60 O, God forgive my sins, and pardon thee. {He dies}
RDY 5.6. 61
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
What - will the aspiring blood of +
RDY 5.6. 61 Lancaster
RDY 5.6. 62 Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted.
RDY 5.6. 63 See how my sword weeps for the poor King's death.
RDY 5.6. 64 O, may such purple tears be alway shed
RDY 5.6. 65 From those that wish the downfall of our house!
RDY 5.6. 66 If any spark of life be yet remaining,
RDY 5.6. 67 Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee thither - {He stabs him +
RDY 5.6. 67 again}
RDY 5.6. 68 I that have neither pity, love, nor fear.
RDY 5.6. 69 Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of,
RDY 5.6. 70 For I have often heard my mother say
RDY 5.6. 71 I came into the world with my legs forward.
RDY 5.6. 72 Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,
RDY 5.6. 73 And seek their ruin that usurped our right?
RDY 5.6. 74 The midwife wondered and the women cried
RDY 5.6. 75 `O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!' -
RDY 5.6. 76 And so I was, which plainly signified
RDY 5.6. 77 That I should snarl and bite and play the dog.
RDY 5.6. 78 Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
RDY 5.6. 79 Let hell make crooked my mind to answer it.
RDY 5.6. 80 I had no father, I am like no father;
RDY 5.6. 81 I have no brother, I am like no brother;
RDY 5.6. 82 And this word, `love', which greybeards call divine,
RDY 5.6. 83 Be resident in men like one another
RDY 5.6. 84 And not in me - I am myself alone.
RDY 5.6. 85 Clarence, beware; thou kept'st me from the light -
RDY 5.6. 86 But I will sort a pitchy day for thee.
RDY 5.6. 87 For I will buzz abroad such prophecies
RDY 5.6. 88 That Edward shall be fearful of his life,
RDY 5.6. 89 And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.
RDY 5.6. 90 Henry and his son are gone; thou, Clarence, art next;
RDY 5.6. 91 And by one and one I will dispatch the rest,
RDY 5.6. 92 Counting myself but bad till I be best.
RDY 5.6. 93 I'll throw thy body in another room
RDY 5.6. 94 And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom. {Exit with the body}
RDY 5.6. 0
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chair of state.] Flourish. Enter King Edward, Lady +
RDY 5.7. 0 Gray his Queen, George Duke of Clarence, Richard Duke of Gloucester, +
RDY 5.7. 0 the Lord Hastings, a nurse carrying the infant Prince Edward, and +
RDY 5.7. 0 attendants}
RDY 5.7. 1
RDY-KING EDWARD
Once more we sit in England's royal throne,
RDY 5.7. 2 Repurchased with the blood of enemies.
RDY 5.7. 3 What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,
RDY 5.7. 4 Have we mowed down in tops of all their pride!
RDY 5.7. 5 Three dukes of Somerset, threefold renowned
RDY 5.7. 6 For hardy and undoubted champions;
RDY 5.7. 7 Two Cliffords, as the father and the son;
RDY 5.7. 8 And two Northumberlands - two braver men
RDY 5.7. 9 Ne'er spurred their coursers at the trumpet's sound.
RDY 5.7. 10 With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,
RDY 5.7. 11 That in their chains fettered the kingly lion
RDY 5.7. 12 And made the forest tremble when they roared.
RDY 5.7. 13 Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat
RDY 5.7. 14 And made our footstool of security.
RDY 5.7. 15 {(To Lady Gray)} Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my +
RDY 5.7. 15 boy. {The nurse brings forth the infant prince. King Edward +
RDY 5.7. 15 kisses him}
RDY 5.7. 16 Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself
RDY 5.7. 17 Have in our armours watched the winter's night,
RDY 5.7. 18 Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat,
RDY 5.7. 19 That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace;
RDY 5.7. 20 And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.
RDY 5.7. 21
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} I'll blast his +
RDY 5.7. 21 harvest, an your head were laid;
RDY 5.7. 22 For yet I am not looked on in the world.
RDY 5.7. 23 This shoulder was ordained so thick to heave;
RDY 5.7. 24 And heave it shall some weight or break my back.
RDY 5.7. 25 Work thou the way, and thou shalt execute.
RDY 5.7. 26
RDY-KING EDWARD
Clarence and Gloucester, love my lovely queen;
RDY 5.7. 27 And kiss your princely nephew, brothers, both.
RDY 5.7. 28
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
The duty that I owe unto your majesty
RDY 5.7. 29 I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe. {He kisses the infant +
RDY 5.7. 29 prince}
RDY 5.7. 30
RDY-LADY GRAY
Thanks, noble Clarence - worthy brother, thanks.
RDY 5.7. 31
RDY-RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
And that I love the tree from whence thou +
RDY 5.7. 31 sprang'st,
RDY 5.7. 32 Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit. {He kisses the infant +
RDY 5.7. 32 prince}
RDY 5.7. 33 {(Aside)} To say the truth, so Judas kissed his +
RDY 5.7. 33 master,
RDY 5.7. 34 And cried `All hail!' whenas he meant all harm.
RDY 5.7. 35
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now am I seated as my soul delights,
RDY 5.7. 36 Having my country's peace and brothers' loves.
RDY 5.7. 37
RDY-GEORGE OF CLARENCE
What will your grace have done with Margaret?
RDY 5.7. 38 Rene/ her father, to the King of France
RDY 5.7. 39 Hath pawned the Sicils and Jerusalem,
RDY 5.7. 40 And hither have they sent it for her ransom.
RDY 5.7. 41
RDY-KING EDWARD
Away with her, and waft her hence to France.
RDY 5.7. 42 And now what rests but that we spend the time
RDY 5.7. 43 With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
RDY 5.7. 44 Such as befits the pleasure of the court?
RDY 5.7. 45 Sound drums and trumpets - farewell, sour annoy!
RDY 5.7. 46 For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy. {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
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RDY A.A. 0 reflects an authorial revision; an edited text of the Folio alternative
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RDY A.A. 1
RDY-KING HENRY
Peace, thou - and give King Henry leave to speak.
RDY A.A. 2
RDY-WARWICK
Plantagenet shall speak first - hear him, lords,
RDY A.A. 3 And be you silent and attentive too,
RDY A.A. 4 For he that interrupts him shall not live.
RDY A.A. 5
RDY-KING HENRY
{[to York]} Think'st thou that I will +
RDY A.A. 5 leave my kingly throne,
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RDY-ALL THE LANCASTER PARTY
Saint George for Lancaster! +
RDY A.B. 1 {Alarums to the battle. [The house of] York flies, then the +
RDY A.B. 1 chambers are discharged. Then enter King Edward, George of Clarence, and +
RDY A.B. 1 Richard of Gloucester, and their followers: they make a great shout, +
RDY A.B. 1 and cry `For York! +
RDY A.B. 1 For York!' Then Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, Oxford and Somerset are +
RDY A.B. 1 all taken prisoner. Flourish, and enter all again}
RDY A.B. 2
RDY-KING EDWARD
Now here a period of tumultuous broils.
RDY A.B. 3 Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight;
RDY A.B. 4 For Somerset, off with his guilty head.
RDY A.B. 5 Go, bear them hence - I will not hear them speak.
RDY A.B. 6
RDY-OXFORD
For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words. {Exit, +
RDY A.B. 6 guarded}
RDY A.B. 7
RDY-SOMERSET
Nor I, but stoop with patience to my death. +
RDY A.B. 7 {Exit, guarded}
RDY A.B. 8
RDY-KING EDWARD
{(to Prince Edward)} Edward, what +
RDY A.B. 8 satisfaction canst thou make
RDY A.B. 9 For stirring up my subjects to rebellion?
RDY A.B. 10
RDY-PRINCE EDWARD
Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York.
RDY A.B.
RDY
0
ROM . . 0 The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
ROM . . 0 {Enter Chorus}
ROM .Pr. 1
ROM-CHORUS
Two households, both alike in dignity
ROM .Pr. 2 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
ROM .Pr. 3 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
ROM .Pr. 4 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
ROM .Pr. 5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
ROM .Pr. 6 A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
ROM .Pr. 7 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
ROM .Pr. 8 Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
ROM .Pr. 9 The fearful passage of their death-marked love
ROM .Pr. 10 And the continuance of their parents' rage -
ROM .Pr. 11 Which but their children's end, naught could remove -
ROM .Pr. 12 Is now the two-hours' traffic of our stage;
ROM .Pr. 13 The which if you with patient ears attend,
ROM .Pr. 14 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. {Exit}
ROM .Pr. 0 {Enter Samson and Gregory, of the house of Capulet, +
ROM 1.1. 0 with swords and bucklers}
ROM 1.1. 1
ROM-SAMSON
Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.
ROM 1.1. 2
ROM-GREGORY
No, for then we should be colliers.
ROM 1.1. 3
ROM-SAMSON
I mean an we be in choler, we'll draw.
ROM 1.1. 4
ROM-GREGORY
Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
ROM 1.1. 5
ROM-SAMSON
I strike quickly, being moved.
ROM 1.1. 6
ROM-GREGORY
But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
ROM 1.1. 7
ROM-SAMSON
A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
ROM 1.1. 8
ROM-GREGORY
To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand,
ROM 1.1. 9 therefore if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.
ROM 1.1. 10
ROM-SAMSON
A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I
ROM 1.1. 11 will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.
ROM 1.1. 12
ROM-GREGORY
That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest
ROM 1.1. 13 goes to the wall.
ROM 1.1. 14
ROM-SAMSON
'Tis true, and therefore women, being the weaker
ROM 1.1. 15 vessels, are ever thrust to the wall; therefore I will
ROM 1.1. 16 push Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his
ROM 1.1. 17 maids to the wall.
ROM 1.1. 18
ROM-GREGORY
The quarrel is between our masters and us their
ROM 1.1. 19 men.
ROM 1.1. 20
ROM-SAMSON
'Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant: when I
ROM 1.1. 21 have fought with the men I will be civil with the
ROM 1.1. 22 maids - I will cut off their heads.
ROM 1.1. 23
ROM-GREGORY
The heads of the maids?
ROM 1.1. 24
ROM-SAMSON
Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads,
ROM 1.1. 25 take it in what sense thou wilt.
ROM 1.1. 26
ROM-GREGORY
They must take it in sense that feel it.
ROM 1.1. 27
ROM-SAMSON
Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and
ROM 1.1. 28 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.
ROM 1.1. 29
ROM-GREGORY
'Tis well thou art not fish. If thou hadst, thou
ROM 1.1. 30 hadst been poor-john. {Enter Abraham and another servingman of +
ROM 1.1. 30 the Montagues}
ROM 1.1. 31 Draw thy tool. Here comes of the house of Montagues.
ROM 1.1. 32
ROM-SAMSON
My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back
ROM 1.1. 33 thee.
ROM 1.1. 34
ROM-GREGORY
How - turn thy back and run?
ROM 1.1. 35
ROM-SAMSON
Fear me not.
ROM 1.1. 36
ROM-GREGORY
No, marry - I fear thee!
ROM 1.1. 37
ROM-SAMSON
Let us take the law of our side. Let them begin.
ROM 1.1. 38
ROM-GREGORY
I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it
ROM 1.1. 39 as they list.
ROM 1.1. 40
ROM-SAMSON
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them,
ROM 1.1. 41 which is disgrace to them if they bear it. {He bites his thumb}
ROM 1.1. 42
ROM-ABRAHAM
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
ROM 1.1. 43
ROM-SAMSON
I do bite my thumb, sir.
ROM 1.1. 44
ROM-ABRAHAM
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
ROM 1.1. 45
ROM-SAMSON
{(to Gregory)} Is the law of our side if I +
ROM 1.1. 45 say `Ay'?
ROM 1.1. 46
ROM-GREGORY
No.
ROM 1.1. 47
ROM-SAMSON
{(to Abraham)} No, sir, I do not bite my +
ROM 1.1. 47 thumb at
ROM 1.1. 48 you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
ROM 1.1. 49
ROM-GREGORY
{(to Abraham)} Do you quarrel, sir?
ROM 1.1. 50
ROM-ABRAHAM
Quarrel, sir? No, sir.
ROM 1.1. 51
ROM-SAMSON
But if you do, sir, I am for you. I serve as good
ROM 1.1. 52 a man as you.
ROM 1.1. 53
ROM-ABRAHAM
No better.
ROM 1.1. 54
ROM-SAMSON
Well, sir. {Enter Benvolio}
ROM 1.1. 55
ROM-GREGORY
Say `better'. Here comes one of my master's
ROM 1.1. 56 kinsmen.
ROM 1.1. 57
ROM-SAMSON
{(to Abraham)} Yes, better, sir.
ROM 1.1. 58
ROM-ABRAHAM
You lie.
ROM 1.1. 59
ROM-SAMSON
Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy
ROM 1.1. 60 washing blow. {They draw and fight}
ROM 1.1. 61
ROM-BENVOLIO
{(drawing)} Part, fools. Put up your +
ROM 1.1. 61 swords. You
ROM 1.1. 62 know not what you do. {Enter Tybalt}
ROM 1.1. 63
ROM-TYBALT
{(drawing)} What, art thou drawn among +
ROM 1.1. 63 these heartless hinds?
ROM 1.1. 64 Turn thee, Benvolio. Look upon thy death.
ROM 1.1. 65
ROM-BENVOLIO
I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,
ROM 1.1. 66 Or manage it to part these men with me.
ROM 1.1. 67
ROM-TYBALT
What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word
ROM 1.1. 68 As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
ROM 1.1. 69 Have at thee, coward. {They fight. Enter three or four Citizens +
ROM 1.1. 69 [of the watch], with clubs or partisans}
ROM 1.1. 70
ROM-[CITIZENS OF THE WATCH]
Clubs, bills and partisans! +
ROM 1.1. 70 Strike! Beat them down!
ROM 1.1. 71 Down with the Capulets. Down with the Montagues. {Enter Capulet +
ROM 1.1. 71 in his gown, and his Wife}
ROM 1.1. 72
ROM-CAPULET
What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!
ROM 1.1. 73
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
A crutch, a crutch - why call you for a sword? +
ROM 1.1. 73 {Enter Montague [with his sword drawn], and his Wife}
ROM 1.1. 74
ROM-CAPULET
My sword, I say. Old Montague is come,
ROM 1.1. 75 And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
ROM 1.1. 76B
ROM-MONTAGUE
Thou villain Capulet! {[His Wife holds him +
ROM 1.1. 76B back]} Hold me not, let me go.
ROM 1.1. 77
ROM-MONTAGUE
S
ROM-WIFE
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. +
ROM 1.1. 77 {[The Citizens of the watch attempt to part}
ROM 1.1. 78 {the factions.] Enter Prince Escalus with his train}
ROM-PRINCE
+
ROM 1.1. 78 Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
ROM 1.1. 79 Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel -
ROM 1.1. 80 Will they not hear? What ho, you men, you beasts,
ROM 1.1. 81 That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
ROM 1.1. 82 With purple fountains issuing from your veins:
ROM 1.1. 83 On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
ROM 1.1. 84 Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,
ROM 1.1. 85 And hear the sentence of your moved Prince. {[Montague, +
ROM 1.1. 85 Capulet, and their followers throw down their weapons]}
ROM 1.1. 86 Three civil brawls bred of an airy word
ROM 1.1. 87 By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
ROM 1.1. 88 Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets
ROM 1.1. 89 And made Verona's ancient citizens
ROM 1.1. 90 Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments
ROM 1.1. 91 To wield old partisans in hands as old,
ROM 1.1. 92 Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.
ROM 1.1. 93 If ever you disturb our streets again
ROM 1.1. 94 Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
ROM 1.1. 95 For this time all the rest depart away.
ROM 1.1. 96 You, Capulet, shall go along with me;
ROM 1.1. 97 And Montague, come you this afternoon
ROM 1.1. 98 To know our farther pleasure in this case
ROM 1.1. 99 To old Freetown, our common judgement-place.
ROM 1.1. 100 Once more, on pain of death, all men depart. {Exeunt all but +
ROM 1.1. 100 Montague,}
ROM 1.1. 101 {his Wife, and Benvolio}
ROM-MONTAGUE
Who set this ancient +
ROM 1.1. 101 quarrel new abroach?
ROM 1.1. 102 Speak, nephew: were you by when it began?
ROM 1.1. 103
ROM-BENVOLIO
Here were the servants of your adversary
ROM 1.1. 104 And yours, close fighting ere I did approach.
ROM 1.1. 105 I drew to part them. In the instant came
ROM 1.1. 106 The fiery Tybalt with his sword prepared,
ROM 1.1. 107 Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,
ROM 1.1. 108 He swung about his head and cut the winds
ROM 1.1. 109 Who, nothing hurt withal, hissed him in scorn.
ROM 1.1. 110 While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,
ROM 1.1. 111 Came more and more, and fought on part and part
ROM 1.1. 112 Till the Prince came, who parted either part.
ROM 1.1. 113
ROM-MONTAGUE
S
ROM-WIFE
O where is Romeo - saw you him today?
ROM 1.1. 114 Right glad I am he was not at this fray.
ROM 1.1. 115
ROM-BENVOLIO
Madam, an hour before the worshipped sun
ROM 1.1. 116 Peered forth the golden window of the east,
ROM 1.1. 117 A troubled mind drive me to walk abroad,
ROM 1.1. 118 Where, underneath the grove of sycamore
ROM 1.1. 119 That westward rooteth from this city side,
ROM 1.1. 120 So early walking did I see your son.
ROM 1.1. 121 Towards him I made, but he was ware of me,
ROM 1.1. 122 And stole into the covert of the wood.
ROM 1.1. 123 I, measuring his affections by my own -
ROM 1.1. 124 Which then most sought where most might not be found,
ROM 1.1. 125 Being one too many by my weary self -
ROM 1.1. 126 Pursued my humour not pursuing his,
ROM 1.1. 127 And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.
ROM 1.1. 128
ROM-MONTAGUE
Many a morning hath he there been seen,
ROM 1.1. 129 With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew,
ROM 1.1. 130 Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs.
ROM 1.1. 131 But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
ROM 1.1. 132 Should in the farthest east begin to draw
ROM 1.1. 133 The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
ROM 1.1. 134 Away from light steals home my heavy son,
ROM 1.1. 135 And private in his chamber pens himself,
ROM 1.1. 136 Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,
ROM 1.1. 137 And makes himself an artificial night.
ROM 1.1. 138 Black and portentous must this humour prove,
ROM 1.1. 139 Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
ROM 1.1. 140
ROM-BENVOLIO
My noble uncle, do you know the cause?
ROM 1.1. 141
ROM-MONTAGUE
I neither know it nor can learn of him.
ROM 1.1. 142
ROM-BENVOLIO
Have you importuned him by any means?
ROM 1.1. 143
ROM-MONTAGUE
Both by myself and many other friends,
ROM 1.1. 144 But he, his own affection's counsellor,
ROM 1.1. 145 Is to himself - I will not say how true,
ROM 1.1. 146 But to himself so secret and so close,
ROM 1.1. 147 So far from sounding and discovery,
ROM 1.1. 148 As is the bud bit with an envious worm
ROM 1.1. 149 Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air
ROM 1.1. 150 Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
ROM 1.1. 151 Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow
ROM 1.1. 152 We would as willingly give cure as know. {Enter Romeo}
ROM 1.1. 153
ROM-BENVOLIO
See where he comes. So please you step aside,
ROM 1.1. 154 I'll know his grievance or be much denied.
ROM 1.1. 155
ROM-MONTAGUE
I would thou wert so happy by thy stay
ROM 1.1. 156 To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. {Exeunt Montague +
ROM 1.1. 156 and his Wife}
ROM 1.1. 157B
ROM-BENVOLIO
Good morrow, cousin.
ROM-ROMEO
Is the day so +
ROM 1.1. 157B young?
ROM 1.1. 158B
ROM-BENVOLIO
But new struck nine.
ROM-ROMEO
Ay me, sad hours seem long.
ROM 1.1. 159 Was that my father that went hence so fast?
ROM 1.1. 160
ROM-BENVOLIO
It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
ROM 1.1. 161
ROM-ROMEO
Not having that which, having, makes them short.
ROM 1.1. 162A
ROM-BENVOLIO
In love.
ROM 1.1. 163A
ROM-ROMEO
Out.
ROM 1.1. 164A
ROM-BENVOLIO
Of love?
ROM 1.1. 165
ROM-ROMEO
Out of her favour where I am in love.
ROM 1.1. 166
ROM-BENVOLIO
Alas that love, so gentle in his view,
ROM 1.1. 167 Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.
ROM 1.1. 168
ROM-ROMEO
Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,
ROM 1.1. 169 Should without eyes see pathways to his will.
ROM 1.1. 170 Where shall we dine? {[Seeing blood]} O me! What fray +
ROM 1.1. 170 was here?
ROM 1.1. 171 Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
ROM 1.1. 172 Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
ROM 1.1. 173 Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
ROM 1.1. 174 O anything of nothing first create;
ROM 1.1. 175 O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
ROM 1.1. 176 Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
ROM 1.1. 177 Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
ROM 1.1. 178 Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
ROM 1.1. 179 This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
ROM 1.1. 180B Dost thou not laugh?
ROM-BENVOLIO
No, coz, I rather weep.
ROM 1.1. 181B
ROM-ROMEO
Good heart, at what?
ROM-BENVOLIO
At thy good heart's +
ROM 1.1. 181B oppression.
ROM 1.1. 182A
ROM-ROMEO
Why, such is love's transgression.
ROM 1.1. 183 Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
ROM 1.1. 184 Which thou wilt propagate to have it pressed
ROM 1.1. 185 With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown
ROM 1.1. 186 Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
ROM 1.1. 187 Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,
ROM 1.1. 188 Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
ROM 1.1. 189 Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
ROM 1.1. 190 What is it else? A madness most discreet,
ROM 1.1. 191 A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
ROM 1.1. 192B Farewell, my coz.
ROM-BENVOLIO
Soft, I will go along;
ROM 1.1. 193 An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.
ROM 1.1. 194
ROM-ROMEO
Tut, I have lost myself. I am not here.
ROM 1.1. 195 This is not Romeo; he's some other where.
ROM 1.1. 196
ROM-BENVOLIO
Tell me in sadness, who is that you love?
ROM 1.1. 197A
ROM-ROMEO
What, shall I groan and tell thee?
ROM 1.1. 198
ROM-BENVOLIO
Groan? Why no; but sadly tell me who.
ROM 1.1. 199
ROM-ROMEO
Bid a sick man in sadness make his will,
ROM 1.1. 200 A word ill urged to one that is so ill.
ROM 1.1. 201 In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.
ROM 1.1. 202
ROM-BENVOLIO
I aimed so near when I supposed you loved.
ROM 1.1. 203
ROM-ROMEO
A right good markman; and she's fair I love.
ROM 1.1. 204
ROM-BENVOLIO
A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.
ROM 1.1. 205
ROM-ROMEO
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
ROM 1.1. 206 With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit,
ROM 1.1. 207 And, in strong proof of chastity well armed,
ROM 1.1. 208 From love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed.
ROM 1.1. 209 She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
ROM 1.1. 210 Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes,
ROM 1.1. 211 Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.
ROM 1.1. 212 O, she is rich in beauty, only poor
ROM 1.1. 213 That when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
ROM 1.1. 214
ROM-BENVOLIO
Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?
ROM 1.1. 215
ROM-ROMEO
She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste;
ROM 1.1. 216 For beauty starved with her severity
ROM 1.1. 217 Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
ROM 1.1. 218 She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
ROM 1.1. 219 To merit bliss by making me despair.
ROM 1.1. 220 She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
ROM 1.1. 221 Do I live dead, that live to tell it now.
ROM 1.1. 222
ROM-BENVOLIO
Be ruled by me; forget to think of her.
ROM 1.1. 223
ROM-ROMEO
O, teach me how I should forget to think!
ROM 1.1. 224
ROM-BENVOLIO
By giving liberty unto thine eyes.
ROM 1.1. 225B Examine other beauties.
ROM-ROMEO
'Tis the way
ROM 1.1. 226 To call hers, exquisite, in question more.
ROM 1.1. 227 These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows,
ROM 1.1. 228 Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair.
ROM 1.1. 229 He that is strucken blind cannot forget
ROM 1.1. 230 The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
ROM 1.1. 231 Show me a mistress that is passing fair,
ROM 1.1. 232 What doth her beauty serve but as a note
ROM 1.1. 233 Where I may read who passed that passing fair?
ROM 1.1. 234 Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget.
ROM 1.1. 235
ROM-BENVOLIO
I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. +
ROM 1.1. 235 {Exeunt}
ROM 1.1. 0 {Enter Capulet, Paris, and [Peter,] a servingman}
ROM 1.2. 1
ROM-CAPULET
But Montague is bound as well as I,
ROM 1.2. 2 In penalty alike, and 'tis not hard, I think,
ROM 1.2. 3 For men so old as we to keep the peace.
ROM 1.2. 4
ROM-PARIS
Of honourable reckoning are you both,
ROM 1.2. 5 And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.
ROM 1.2. 6 But now, my lord: what say you to my suit?
ROM 1.2. 7
ROM-CAPULET
But saying o'er what I have said before.
ROM 1.2. 8 My child is yet a stranger in the world;
ROM 1.2. 9 She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.
ROM 1.2. 10 Let two more summers wither in their pride
ROM 1.2. 11 Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
ROM 1.2. 12
ROM-PARIS
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
ROM 1.2. 13
ROM-CAPULET
And too soon marred are those so early made.
ROM 1.2. 14 But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;
ROM 1.2. 15 My will to her consent is but a part,
ROM 1.2. 16 And, she agreed, within her scope of choice
ROM 1.2. 17 Lies my consent and fair-according voice.
ROM 1.2. 18 This night I hold an old-accustomed feast
ROM 1.2. 19 Whereto I have invited many a guest
ROM 1.2. 20 Such as I love, and you among the store,
ROM 1.2. 21 One more most welcome, makes my number more.
ROM 1.2. 22 At my poor house look to behold this night
ROM 1.2. 23 Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light.
ROM 1.2. 24 Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
ROM 1.2. 25 When well-apparelled April on the heel
ROM 1.2. 26 Of limping winter treads - even such delight
ROM 1.2. 27 Among fresh female buds shall you this night
ROM 1.2. 28 Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,
ROM 1.2. 29 And like her most whose merit most shall be,
ROM 1.2. 30 Which on more view of many, mine, being one,
ROM 1.2. 31 May stand in number, though in reck'ning none.
ROM 1.2. 32 Come, go with me. {(Giving [Peter] a paper)} Go, +
ROM 1.2. 32 sirrah, trudge about;
ROM 1.2. 33 Through fair Verona find those persons out
ROM 1.2. 34 Whose names are written there, and to them say
ROM 1.2. 35 My house and welcome on their pleasure stay. {Exeunt Capulet and +
ROM 1.2. 35 Paris}
ROM 1.2. 36
ROM-[PETER]
Find them out whose names are written here? It
ROM 1.2. 37 is written that the shoemaker should meddle with his
ROM 1.2. 38 yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his
ROM 1.2. 39 pencil and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to
ROM 1.2. 40 find those persons whose names are here writ, and can
ROM 1.2. 41 never find what names the writing person hath here
ROM 1.2. 42 writ. I must to the learned. {Enter Benvolio and Romeo}
ROM 1.2. 43 In good time.
ROM 1.2. 44
ROM-BENVOLIO
{(to Romeo)} Tut, man, one fire burns out +
ROM 1.2. 44 another's burning,
ROM 1.2. 45 One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
ROM 1.2. 46 Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning.
ROM 1.2. 47 One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
ROM 1.2. 48 Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
ROM 1.2. 49 And the rank poison of the old will die.
ROM 1.2. 50
ROM-ROMEO
Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.
ROM 1.2. 51A
ROM-BENVOLIO
For what, I pray thee?
ROM 1.2. 52A
ROM-ROMEO
For your broken shin.
ROM 1.2. 53A
ROM-BENVOLIO
Why, Romeo, art thou mad?
ROM 1.2. 54
ROM-ROMEO
Not mad, but bound more than a madman is;
ROM 1.2. 55 Shut up in prison, kept without my food,
ROM 1.2. 56 Whipped and tormented and - {(to [Peter])} Good e'en, +
ROM 1.2. 56 good fellow.
ROM 1.2. 57
ROM-[PETER]
God gi' good e'en. I pray, sir, can you read?
ROM 1.2. 58
ROM-ROMEO
Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.
ROM 1.2. 59
ROM-[PETER]
Perhaps you have learned it without book. But I
ROM 1.2. 60 pray, can you read anything you see?
ROM 1.2. 61
ROM-ROMEO
Ay, if I know the letters and the language.
ROM 1.2. 62
ROM-[PETER]
Ye say honestly. Rest you merry.
ROM 1.2. 63A
ROM-ROMEO
Stay, fellow, I can read. {He reads the +
ROM 1.2. 63A letter}
ROM 1.2. 64 `Signor Martino and his wife and daughters,
ROM 1.2. 65 County Anselme and his beauteous sisters,
ROM 1.2. 66 The lady widow of Vitruvio,
ROM 1.2. 67 Signor Placentio and his lovely nieces,
ROM 1.2. 68 Mercutio and his brother Valentine,
ROM 1.2. 69 Mine uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters,
ROM 1.2. 70 My fair niece Rosaline and Livia,
ROM 1.2. 71 Signor Valentio and his cousin Tybalt,
ROM 1.2. 72 Lucio and the lively Helena.'
ROM 1.2. 73 A fair assembly. Whither should they come?
ROM 1.2. 74A
ROM-[PETER]
Up.
ROM 1.2. 75A
ROM-ROMEO
Whither?
ROM 1.2. 76A
ROM-[PETER]
To supper to our house.
ROM 1.2. 77A
ROM-ROMEO
Whose house?
ROM 1.2. 78A
ROM-[PETER]
My master's.
ROM 1.2. 79
ROM-ROMEO
Indeed, I should have asked thee that before.
ROM 1.2. 80
ROM-[PETER]
Now I'll tell you without asking. My master is
ROM 1.2. 81 the great rich Capulet, and if you be not of the house
ROM 1.2. 82 of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine.
ROM 1.2. 83 Rest you merry. {Exit}
ROM 1.2. 84
ROM-BENVOLIO
At this same ancient feast of Capulet's
ROM 1.2. 85 Sups the fair Rosaline, whom thou so loves,
ROM 1.2. 86 With all the admired beauties of Verona.
ROM 1.2. 87 Go thither, and with unattainted eye
ROM 1.2. 88 Compare her face with some that I shall show,
ROM 1.2. 89 And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
ROM 1.2. 90
ROM-ROMEO
When the devout religion of mine eye
ROM 1.2. 91 Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;
ROM 1.2. 92 And these who, often drowned, could never die,
ROM 1.2. 93 Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars.
ROM 1.2. 94 One fairer than my love! - the all-seeing sun
ROM 1.2. 95 Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
ROM 1.2. 96
ROM-BENVOLIO
Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,
ROM 1.2. 97 Herself poised with herself in either eye;
ROM 1.2. 98 But in that crystal scales let there be weighed
ROM 1.2. 99 Your lady's love against some other maid
ROM 1.2. 100 That I will show you shining at this feast,
ROM 1.2. 101 And she shall scant show well that now seems best.
ROM 1.2. 102
ROM-ROMEO
I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,
ROM 1.2. 103 But to rejoice in splendour of mine own. {Exeunt}
ROM 1.2. 0 {Enter Capulet's Wife and the Nurse}
ROM 1.3. 1
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth +
ROM 1.3. 1 to me.
ROM 1.3. 2
ROM-NURSE
Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old,
ROM 1.3. 3 I bade her come. What, lamb, what, ladybird -
ROM 1.3. 4 God forbid - where is this girl? What, Juliet! {Enter Juliet}
ROM 1.3. 5A
ROM-JULIET
How now, who calls?
ROM 1.3. 6A
ROM-NURSE
Your mother.
ROM 1.3. 7
ROM-JULIET
Madam, I am here. What is your will?
ROM 1.3. 8
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
This is the matter. - Nurse, give leave a while.
ROM 1.3. 9 We must talk in secret. - Nurse, come back again.
ROM 1.3. 10 I have remembered me, thou's hear our counsel.
ROM 1.3. 11 Thou knowest my daughter's of a pretty age.
ROM 1.3. 12
ROM-NURSE
Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
ROM 1.3. 13A
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
She's not fourteen.
ROM 1.3. 14
ROM-NURSE
I'll lay fourteen of my teeth - and yet, to my teen
ROM 1.3. 15 be it spoken, I have but four - she's not fourteen. How
ROM 1.3. 16 long is it now to Lammastide?
ROM 1.3. 17A
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
A fortnight and odd days.
ROM 1.3. 18
ROM-NURSE
Even or odd, of all days in the year
ROM 1.3. 19 Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
ROM 1.3. 20 Susan and she - God rest all Christian souls! -
ROM 1.3. 21 Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God;
ROM 1.3. 22 She was too good for me. But, as I said,
ROM 1.3. 23 On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen,
ROM 1.3. 24 That shall she, marry, I remember it well.
ROM 1.3. 25 'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years,
ROM 1.3. 26 And she was weaned - I never shall forget it -
ROM 1.3. 27 Of all the days of the year upon that day,
ROM 1.3. 28 For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
ROM 1.3. 29 Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall.
ROM 1.3. 30 My lord and you were then at Mantua.
ROM 1.3. 31 Nay, I do bear a brain! But, as I said,
ROM 1.3. 32 When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
ROM 1.3. 33 Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
ROM 1.3. 34 To see it tetchy and fall out wi' th' dug!
ROM 1.3. 35 `Shake', quoth the dove-house! 'Twas no need, I trow,
ROM 1.3. 36 To bid me trudge;
ROM 1.3. 37 And since that time it is eleven years,
ROM 1.3. 38 For then she could stand high-lone. Nay, by th' rood,
ROM 1.3. 39 She could have run and waddled all about,
ROM 1.3. 40 For even the day before, she broke her brow,
ROM 1.3. 41 And then my husband - God be with his soul,
ROM 1.3. 42 A was a merry man! - took up the child.
ROM 1.3. 43 `Yea,' quoth he, `dost thou fall upon thy face?
ROM 1.3. 44 Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit,
ROM 1.3. 45 Wilt thou not, Jule?' And, by my halidom,
ROM 1.3. 46 The pretty wretch left crying and said `Ay'.
ROM 1.3. 47 To see now how a jest shall come about!
ROM 1.3. 48 I warrant an I should live a thousand years
ROM 1.3. 49 I never should forget it. `Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he,
ROM 1.3. 50 And, pretty fool, it stinted and said `Ay'.
ROM 1.3. 51
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Enough of this. I pray thee hold thy peace.
ROM 1.3. 52
ROM-NURSE
Yes, madam. Yet I cannot choose but laugh
ROM 1.3. 53 To think it should leave crying and say `Ay'.
ROM 1.3. 54 And yet, I warrant, it had upon it brow
ROM 1.3. 55 A bump as big as a young cock'rel's stone.
ROM 1.3. 56 A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly.
ROM 1.3. 57 `Yea,' quoth my husband, `fall'st upon thy face?
ROM 1.3. 58 Thou wilt fall backward when thou com'st to age,
ROM 1.3. 59 Wilt thou not, Jule?' It stinted and said `Ay'.
ROM 1.3. 60
ROM-JULIET
And stint thou too, I pray thee, Nurse, say I.
ROM 1.3. 61
ROM-NURSE
Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace,
ROM 1.3. 62 Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed.
ROM 1.3. 63 An I might live to see thee married once,
ROM 1.3. 64 I have my wish.
ROM 1.3. 65
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Marry, that `marry' is the very theme
ROM 1.3. 66 I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,
ROM 1.3. 67 How stands your dispositions to be married?
ROM 1.3. 68
ROM-JULIET
It is an honour that I dream not of.
ROM 1.3. 69
ROM-NURSE
`An honour'! Were not I thine only nurse,
ROM 1.3. 70 I would say thou hadst sucked wisdom from thy teat.
ROM 1.3. 71
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you
ROM 1.3. 72 Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
ROM 1.3. 73 Are made already mothers. By my count
ROM 1.3. 74 I was your mother much upon these years
ROM 1.3. 75 That you are now a maid. Thus then, in brief:
ROM 1.3. 76 The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.
ROM 1.3. 77
ROM-NURSE
A man, young lady, lady, such a man
ROM 1.3. 78 As all the world - why, he's a man of wax.
ROM 1.3. 79
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Verona's summer hath not such a flower.
ROM 1.3. 80
ROM-NURSE
Nay, he's a flower, in faith, a very flower.
ROM 1.3. 81
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
{(to Juliet)} What say you? Can you +
ROM 1.3. 81 love the gentleman?
ROM 1.3. 82 This night you shall behold him at our feast.
ROM 1.3. 83 Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
ROM 1.3. 84 And find delight writ there with beauty's pen.
ROM 1.3. 85 Examine every married lineament,
ROM 1.3. 86 And see how one another lends content;
ROM 1.3. 87 And what obscured in this fair volume lies
ROM 1.3. 88 Find written in the margin of his eyes.
ROM 1.3. 89 This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
ROM 1.3. 90 To beautify him only lacks a cover.
ROM 1.3. 91 The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
ROM 1.3. 92 For fair without the fair within to hide.
ROM 1.3. 93 That book in many's eyes doth share the glory
ROM 1.3. 94 That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.
ROM 1.3. 95 So shall you share all that he doth possess
ROM 1.3. 96 By having him, making yourself no less.
ROM 1.3. 97
ROM-NURSE
No less, nay, bigger. Women grow by men.
ROM 1.3. 98
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
{(to Juliet)} Speak briefly: can +
ROM 1.3. 98 you like of Paris' love?
ROM 1.3. 99
ROM-JULIET
I'll look to like, if looking liking move;
ROM 1.3. 100 But no more deep will I endart mine eye
ROM 1.3. 101 Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. {Enter [Peter]}
ROM 1.3. 102
ROM-[PETER]
Madam, the guests are come, supper served up,
ROM 1.3. 103 you called, my young lady asked for, the Nurse cursed
ROM 1.3. 104 in the pantry, and everything in extremity. I must hence
ROM 1.3. 105 to wait. I beseech you follow straight.
ROM 1.3. 106B
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
We follow thee. {Exit +
ROM 1.3. 106B [Peter]} Juliet, the County stays.
ROM 1.3. 107
ROM-NURSE
Go, girl; seek happy nights to happy days. {Exeunt}
ROM 1.3. 0 {Enter Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio, as masquers, with +
ROM 1.4. 0 five or six other masquers, [bearing a drum and torches]}
ROM 1.4. 1
ROM-ROMEO
What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse,
ROM 1.4. 2 Or shall we on without apology?
ROM 1.4. 3
ROM-BENVOLIO
The date is out of such prolixity.
ROM 1.4. 4 We'll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf,
ROM 1.4. 5 Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,
ROM 1.4. 6 Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper,
ROM 1.4. 7 Nor no without-book Prologue faintly spoke
ROM 1.4. 8 After the prompter for our entrance.
ROM 1.4. 9 But let them measure us by what they will,
ROM 1.4. 10 We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.
ROM 1.4. 11
ROM-ROMEO
Give me a torch. I am not for this ambling;
ROM 1.4. 12 Being but heavy, I will bear the light.
ROM 1.4. 13
ROM-MERCUTIO
Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
ROM 1.4. 14
ROM-ROMEO
Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes
ROM 1.4. 15 With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead
ROM 1.4. 16 So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
ROM 1.4. 17
ROM-MERCUTIO
You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
ROM 1.4. 18 And soar with them above a common bound.
ROM 1.4. 19
ROM-ROMEO
I am too sore empierced with his shaft
ROM 1.4. 20 To soar with his light feathers, and so bound
ROM 1.4. 21 I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe;
ROM 1.4. 22 Under love's heavy burden do I sink.
ROM 1.4. 23
ROM-MERCUTIO
And to sink in it should you burden love -
ROM 1.4. 24 Too great oppression for a tender thing.
ROM 1.4. 25
ROM-ROMEO
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
ROM 1.4. 26 Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn.
ROM 1.4. 27
ROM-MERCUTIO
If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
ROM 1.4. 28 Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
ROM 1.4. 29 Give me a case to put my visage in,
ROM 1.4. 30 A visor for a visor. What care I
ROM 1.4. 31 What curious eye doth quote deformity?
ROM 1.4. 32 Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. {[They put on +
ROM 1.4. 32 visors]}
ROM 1.4. 33
ROM-BENVOLIO
Come, knock and enter, and no sooner in
ROM 1.4. 34 But every man betake him to his legs.
ROM 1.4. 35
ROM-ROMEO
A torch for me. Let wantons light of heart
ROM 1.4. 36 Tickle the sense-less rushes with their heels,
ROM 1.4. 37 For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
ROM 1.4. 38 I'll be a candle-holder and look on.
ROM 1.4. 39 The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done. {[He takes a torch]}
ROM 1.4. 40
ROM-MERCUTIO
Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word.
ROM 1.4. 41 If thou art dun we'll draw thee from the mire
ROM 1.4. 42 Of - save your reverence - love, wherein thou stickest
ROM 1.4. 43 Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!
ROM 1.4. 44B
ROM-ROMEO
Nay, that's not so.
ROM-MERCUTIO
I mean, sir, in delay
ROM 1.4. 45 We waste our lights in vain, like lights by day.
ROM 1.4. 46 Take our good meaning, for our judgement sits
ROM 1.4. 47 Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
ROM 1.4. 48
ROM-ROMEO
And we mean well in going to this masque,
ROM 1.4. 49B But 'tis no wit to go.
ROM-MERCUTIO
Why, may one ask?
ROM 1.4. 50B
ROM-ROMEO
I dreamt a dream tonight.
ROM-MERCUTIO
And so did I.
ROM 1.4. 51B
ROM-ROMEO
Well, what was yours?
ROM-MERCUTIO
That dreamers often lie.
ROM 1.4. 52
ROM-ROMEO
In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
ROM 1.4. 53
ROM-MERCUTIO
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
ROM 1.4. 54A
ROM-BENVOLIO
Queen Mab, what's she?
ROM 1.4. 55
ROM-MERCUTIO
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
ROM 1.4. 56 In shape no bigger than an agate stone
ROM 1.4. 57 On the forefinger of an alderman,
ROM 1.4. 58 Drawn with a team of little atomi
ROM 1.4. 59 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
ROM 1.4. 60 Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs;
ROM 1.4. 61 The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
ROM 1.4. 62 Her traces, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams;
ROM 1.4. 63 Her collars, of the smallest spider web;
ROM 1.4. 64 Her whip, of cricket's bone, the lash of film;
ROM 1.4. 65 Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat
ROM 1.4. 66 Not half so big as a round little worm
ROM 1.4. 67 Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.
ROM 1.4. 68 Her chariot is an empty hazelnut
ROM 1.4. 69 Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
ROM 1.4. 70 Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
ROM 1.4. 71 And in this state she gallops night by night
ROM 1.4. 72 Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
ROM 1.4. 73 O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
ROM 1.4. 74 O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
ROM 1.4. 75 Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues
ROM 1.4. 76 Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
ROM 1.4. 77 Sometime she gallops o'er a lawyer's lip,
ROM 1.4. 78 And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
ROM 1.4. 79 And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
ROM 1.4. 80 Tickling a parson's nose as a lies asleep;
ROM 1.4. 81 Then dreams he of another benefice.
ROM 1.4. 82 Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
ROM 1.4. 83 And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
ROM 1.4. 84 Of breaches, ambuscados, Spanish blades,
ROM 1.4. 85 Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon
ROM 1.4. 86 Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
ROM 1.4. 87 And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two,
ROM 1.4. 88 And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
ROM 1.4. 89 That plaits the manes of horses in the night,
ROM 1.4. 90 And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs,
ROM 1.4. 91 Which once untangled much misfortune bodes.
ROM 1.4. 92 This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
ROM 1.4. 93 That presses them and learns them first to bear,
ROM 1.4. 94 Making them women of good carriage.
ROM 1.4. 95B This is she -
ROM-ROMEO
Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
ROM 1.4. 96B Thou talk'st of nothing.
ROM-MERCUTIO
True. I talk of dreams,
ROM 1.4. 97 Which are the children of an idle brain,
ROM 1.4. 98 Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
ROM 1.4. 99 Which is as thin of substance as the air,
ROM 1.4. 100 And more inconstant than the wind, who woos
ROM 1.4. 101 Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
ROM 1.4. 102 And, being angered, puffs away from thence,
ROM 1.4. 103 Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
ROM 1.4. 104
ROM-BENVOLIO
This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves.
ROM 1.4. 105 Supper is done, and we shall come too late.
ROM 1.4. 106
ROM-ROMEO
I fear too early, for my mind misgives
ROM 1.4. 107 Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
ROM 1.4. 108 Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
ROM 1.4. 109 With this night's revels, and expire the term
ROM 1.4. 110 Of a despised life, closed in my breast,
ROM 1.4. 111 By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
ROM 1.4. 112 But he that hath the steerage of my course
ROM 1.4. 113 Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.
ROM 1.4. 114A
ROM-BENVOLIO
Strike, drum. {They march about the stage and +
ROM 1.4. 114A [exeunt]}
ROM 1.4. 0 {[Peter] and other Servingmen come forth with napkins}
ROM 1.5. 1
ROM-[PETER]
Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away?
ROM 1.5. 2 He shift a trencher, he scrape a trencher!
ROM 1.5. 3
ROM-FIRST SERVINGMAN
When good manners shall lie all in one
ROM 1.5. 4 or two men's hands, and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul
ROM 1.5. 5 thing.
ROM 1.5. 6
ROM-[PETER]
Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-
ROM 1.5. 7 cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece
ROM 1.5. 8 of marzipan, and, as thou loves me, let the porter let in
ROM 1.5. 9 Susan Grindstone and Nell. Anthony and Potpan!
ROM 1.5. 10
ROM-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Ay, boy, ready.
ROM 1.5. 11
ROM-[PETER]
You are looked for and called for, asked for and
ROM 1.5. 12 sought for, in the great chamber.
ROM 1.5. 13
ROM-[FIRST] SERVINGMAN
We cannot be here and there too.
ROM 1.5. 14 Cheerly, boys! Be brisk a while, and the longest liver
ROM 1.5. 15 take all. {[They come and go, setting forth tables and chairs.]}
ROM 1.5. 16 {Enter [Musicians, then] at one door Capulet, [his Wife,] his Cousin, +
ROM 1.5. 16 Juliet, [the Nurse,] Tybalt, his page, Petruccio, and all the guests +
ROM 1.5. 16 and gentlewomen; at another door, the masquers: [Romeo, Benvolio and +
ROM 1.5. 16 Mercutio]}
ROM-CAPULET
{(to the masquers)} Welcome, +
ROM 1.5. 16 gentlemen. Ladies that have their toes
ROM 1.5. 17 Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you.
ROM 1.5. 18 Aha, my mistresses, which of you all
ROM 1.5. 19 Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
ROM 1.5. 20 She, I'll swear, hath corns. Am I come near ye now?
ROM 1.5. 21 Welcome, gentlemen. I have seen the day
ROM 1.5. 22 That I have worn a visor, and could tell
ROM 1.5. 23 A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear
ROM 1.5. 24 Such as would please. 'Tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone.
ROM 1.5. 25 You are welcome, gentlemen. Come, musicians, play. {Music plays, +
ROM 1.5. 25 and the masquers, guests, and gentlewomen dance. [Romeo stands apart]}
ROM 1.5. 26 A hall, a hall! Give room, and foot it, girls.
ROM 1.5. 27 {(To Servingmen)} More light, you knaves, and turn the +
ROM 1.5. 27 tables up,
ROM 1.5. 28 And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
ROM 1.5. 29 {(To his Cousin)} Ah sirrah, this unlooked-for sport +
ROM 1.5. 29 comes well.
ROM 1.5. 30 Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet,
ROM 1.5. 31 For you and I are past our dancing days. {[Capulet and his +
ROM 1.5. 31 Cousin sit]}
ROM 1.5. 32 How long is 't now since last yourself and I
ROM 1.5. 33B Were in a masque?
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-COUSIN
By 'r Lady, thirty years.
ROM 1.5. 34
ROM-CAPULET
What, man, 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much.
ROM 1.5. 35 'Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,
ROM 1.5. 36 Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,
ROM 1.5. 37 Some five-and-twenty years; and then we masqued.
ROM 1.5. 38
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-COUSIN
'Tis more, 'tis more. His son is elder, sir.
ROM 1.5. 39B His son is thirty.
ROM-CAPULET
Will you tell me that?
ROM 1.5. 40 His son was but a ward two years ago.
ROM 1.5. 41
ROM-ROMEO
{(to a Servingman)} What lady's that which +
ROM 1.5. 41 doth enrich the hand
ROM 1.5. 42B Of yonder knight?
ROM-SERVINGMAN
I know not, sir.
ROM 1.5. 43
ROM-ROMEO
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
ROM 1.5. 44 It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
ROM 1.5. 45 As a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear -
ROM 1.5. 46 Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
ROM 1.5. 47 So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
ROM 1.5. 48 As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
ROM 1.5. 49 The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
ROM 1.5. 50 And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
ROM 1.5. 51 Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,
ROM 1.5. 52 For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
ROM 1.5. 53
ROM-TYBALT
This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
ROM 1.5. 54B Fetch me my rapier, boy. {[Exit page]} What, dares the +
ROM 1.5. 54B slave
ROM 1.5. 55 Come hither, covered with an antic face,
ROM 1.5. 56 To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
ROM 1.5. 57 Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
ROM 1.5. 58 To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
ROM 1.5. 59
ROM-CAPULET
{[standing]} Why, how now, kinsman? +
ROM 1.5. 59 Wherefore storm you so?
ROM 1.5. 60
ROM-TYBALT
Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
ROM 1.5. 61 A villain that is hither come in spite
ROM 1.5. 62 To scorn at our solemnity this night.
ROM 1.5. 63B
ROM-CAPULET
Young Romeo, is it?
ROM-TYBALT
'Tis he, that villain Romeo.
ROM 1.5. 64
ROM-CAPULET
Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.
ROM 1.5. 65 A bears him like a portly gentleman,
ROM 1.5. 66 And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
ROM 1.5. 67 To be a virtuous and well-governed youth.
ROM 1.5. 68 I would not for the wealth of all this town
ROM 1.5. 69 Here in my house do him disparagement.
ROM 1.5. 70 Therefore be patient, take no note of him.
ROM 1.5. 71 It is my will, the which if thou respect,
ROM 1.5. 72 Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
ROM 1.5. 73 An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.
ROM 1.5. 74
ROM-TYBALT
It fits when such a villain is a guest.
ROM 1.5. 75B I'll not endure him.
ROM-CAPULET
He shall be endured.
ROM 1.5. 76 What, goodman boy, I say he shall. Go to,
ROM 1.5. 77 Am I the master here or you? Go to -
ROM 1.5. 78 You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul.
ROM 1.5. 79 You'll make a mutiny among my guests,
ROM 1.5. 80 You will set cock-a-hoop! You'll be the man!
ROM 1.5. 81B
ROM-TYBALT
Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.
ROM-CAPULET
Go to, go to,
ROM 1.5. 82 You are a saucy boy. Is 't so, indeed?
ROM 1.5. 83 This trick may chance to scathe you. I know what,
ROM 1.5. 84 You must contrary me. Marry, 'tis time -
ROM-[A
dance ends. Juliet +
ROM 1.5. 84 retires to her place of stand, where Romeo awaits her]}
ROM 1.5. 85 {(To the guests)} Well said, my hearts! {(To +
ROM 1.5. 85 Tybalt)} You are a princox, go.
ROM 1.5. 86 Be quiet, or - {(to Servingmen)} more light, more +
ROM 1.5. 86 light! - { (to Tybalt)} for shame,
ROM 1.5. 87 I'll make you quiet. {(To the guests)} What, cheerly, +
ROM 1.5. 87 my hearts! {[The music plays again, and the guests dance]}
ROM 1.5. 88
ROM-TYBALT
Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
ROM 1.5. 89 Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
ROM 1.5. 90 I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,
ROM 1.5. 91 Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall. {Exit}
ROM 1.5. 92
ROM-ROMEO
{(to Juliet, touching her hand)} If I +
ROM 1.5. 92 profane with my unworthiest hand
ROM 1.5. 93 This holy shrine, the gentler sin is this:
ROM 1.5. 94 My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
ROM 1.5. 95 To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
ROM 1.5. 96
ROM-JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
ROM 1.5. 97 Which mannerly devotion shows in this.
ROM 1.5. 98 For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
ROM 1.5. 99 And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
ROM 1.5. 100
ROM-ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too?
ROM 1.5. 101
ROM-JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROM 1.5. 102
ROM-ROMEO
O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do:
ROM 1.5. 103 They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
ROM 1.5. 104
ROM-JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROM 1.5. 105
ROM-ROMEO
Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. {He +
ROM 1.5. 105 kisses her}
ROM 1.5. 106 Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged.
ROM 1.5. 107
ROM-JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROM 1.5. 108
ROM-ROMEO
Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
ROM 1.5. 109B Give me my sin again. {He kisses her}
ROM-JULIET
You +
ROM 1.5. 109B kiss by th' book.
ROM 1.5. 110
ROM-NURSE
Madam, your mother craves a word with you. {[Juliet +
ROM 1.5. 110 departs to her mother]}
ROM 1.5. 111B
ROM-ROMEO
What is her mother?
ROM-NURSE
Marry, bachelor,
ROM 1.5. 112 Her mother is the lady of the house,
ROM 1.5. 113 And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.
ROM 1.5. 114 I nursed her daughter that you talked withal.
ROM 1.5. 115 I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
ROM 1.5. 116B Shall have the chinks.
ROM-ROMEO
{(aside)} Is she a +
ROM 1.5. 116B Capulet?
ROM 1.5. 117 O dear account! My life is my foe's debt.
ROM 1.5. 118
ROM-BENVOLIO
Away, be gone, the sport is at the best.
ROM 1.5. 119
ROM-ROMEO
Ay, so I fear, the more is my unrest.
ROM 1.5. 120
ROM-CAPULET
Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone.
ROM 1.5. 121 We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. {[They whisper in +
ROM 1.5. 121 his ear]}
ROM 1.5. 122 Is it e'en so? Why then, I thank you all.
ROM 1.5. 123 I thank you, honest gentlemen. Good night.
ROM 1.5. 124 More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.
ROM 1.5. 125 {(To his Cousin)} Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes +
ROM 1.5. 125 late.
ROM 1.5. 126 I'll to my rest.
ROM 1.5. 127
ROM-JULIET
Come hither, Nurse. What is yon gentleman?
ROM 1.5. 128
ROM-NURSE
The son and heir of old Tiberio.
ROM 1.5. 129
ROM-JULIET
What's he that now is going out of door?
ROM 1.5. 130
ROM-NURSE
Marry, that, I think, be young Petruccio.
ROM 1.5. 131
ROM-JULIET
What's he that follows here, that would not dance?
ROM 1.5. 132A
ROM-NURSE
I know not.
ROM 1.5. 133B
ROM-JULIET
Go ask his name. {The Nurse goes} If he be +
ROM 1.5. 133B married,
ROM 1.5. 134 My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
ROM 1.5. 135
ROM-NURSE
{(returning)} His name is Romeo, and a +
ROM 1.5. 135 Montague,
ROM 1.5. 136 The only son of your great enemy.
ROM 1.5. 137
ROM-JULIET
{[aside]} My only love sprung from my only +
ROM 1.5. 137 hate!
ROM 1.5. 138 Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
ROM 1.5. 139 Prodigious birth of love it is to me
ROM 1.5. 140 That I must love a loathed enemy.
ROM 1.5. 141B
ROM-NURSE
What's tis? what's tis?
ROM-JULIET
A rhyme I learnt even now
ROM 1.5. 142B Of one I danced withal. {One calls within `Juliet!'}
ROM-NURSE
+
ROM 1.5. 142B Anon, anon.
ROM 1.5. 143 Come, let's away. The strangers all are gone. {Exeunt}
ROM 1.5. 0 {Enter Chorus}
ROM 2.0. 1
ROM-CHORUS
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
ROM 2.0. 2 And young affection gapes to be his heir.
ROM 2.0. 3 That fair for which love groaned for and would die,
ROM 2.0. 4 With tender Juliet matched, is now not fair.
ROM 2.0. 5 Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
ROM 2.0. 6 Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;
ROM 2.0. 7 But to his foe supposed he must complain,
ROM 2.0. 8 And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks.
ROM 2.0. 9 Being held a foe, he may not have access
ROM 2.0. 10 To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear,
ROM 2.0. 11 And she as much in love, her means much less
ROM 2.0. 12 To meet her new beloved anywhere.
ROM 2.0. 13 But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,
ROM 2.0. 14 Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet. {Exit}
ROM 2.0. 0 {Enter Romeo}
ROM 2.1. 1
ROM-ROMEO
Can I go forward when my heart is here?
ROM 2.1. 2 Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. {[He turns back +
ROM 2.1. 2 and withdraws.]}
ROM 2.1. 3 {Enter Benvolio with Mercutio}
ROM-BENVOLIO
{(calling)} +
ROM 2.1. 3 Romeo, my cousin Romeo, Romeo!
ROM 2.1. 4
ROM-MERCUTIO
He is wise, and, on my life, hath stol'n him home to bed.
ROM 2.1. 5
ROM-BENVOLIO
He ran this way, and leapt this orchard wall.
ROM 2.1. 6B Call, good Mercutio.
ROM-[MERCUTIO]
Nay, I'll conjure too.
ROM 2.1. 7 Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover!
ROM 2.1. 8 Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh.
ROM 2.1. 9 Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied.
ROM 2.1. 10 Cry but `Ay me!' Pronounce but `love' and `dove'.
ROM 2.1. 11 Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
ROM 2.1. 12 One nickname for her purblind son and heir,
ROM 2.1. 13 Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim
ROM 2.1. 14 When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid. -
ROM 2.1. 15 He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not.
ROM 2.1. 16 The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. -
ROM 2.1. 17 I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
ROM 2.1. 18 By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
ROM 2.1. 19 By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
ROM 2.1. 20 And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
ROM 2.1. 21 That in thy likeness thou appear to us.
ROM 2.1. 22
ROM-BENVOLIO
An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
ROM 2.1. 23
ROM-MERCUTIO
This cannot anger him. 'Twould anger him
ROM 2.1. 24 To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle
ROM 2.1. 25 Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
ROM 2.1. 26 Till she had laid it and conjured it down.
ROM 2.1. 27 That were some spite. My invocation
ROM 2.1. 28 Is fair and honest. In his mistress' name,
ROM 2.1. 29 I conjure only but to raise up him.
ROM 2.1. 30
ROM-BENVOLIO
Come, he hath hid himself among these trees
ROM 2.1. 31 To be consorted with the humorous night.
ROM 2.1. 32 Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.
ROM 2.1. 33
ROM-MERCUTIO
If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
ROM 2.1. 34 Now will he sit under a medlar tree
ROM 2.1. 35 And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
ROM 2.1. 36 As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.
ROM 2.1. 37 O Romeo, that she were, O that she were
ROM 2.1. 38 An open-arse, and thou a popp'rin' pear.
ROM 2.1. 39 Romeo, good night. I'll to my truckle-bed.
ROM 2.1. 40 This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep.
ROM 2.1. 41B Come, shall we go?
ROM-BENVOLIO
Go then, for 'tis in vain
ROM 2.1. 42 To seek him here that means not to be found. {Exeunt Benvolio +
ROM 2.1. 42 and Mercutio}
ROM 2.1. 43
ROM-ROMEO
{[coming forward]} He jests at scars that +
ROM 2.1. 43 never felt a wound.
ROM 2.1. 44 But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
ROM 2.1. 45 It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
ROM 2.1. 46 Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
ROM 2.1. 47 Who is already sick and pale with grief
ROM 2.1. 48 That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
ROM 2.1. 49 Be not her maid, since she is envious.
ROM 2.1. 50 Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
ROM 2.1. 51 And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. {[Enter Juliet +
ROM 2.1. 51 aloft]}
ROM 2.1. 52 It is my lady, O, it is my love.
ROM 2.1. 53 O that she knew she were!
ROM 2.1. 54 She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
ROM 2.1. 55 Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
ROM 2.1. 56 I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks.
ROM 2.1. 57 Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
ROM 2.1. 58 Having some business, do entreat her eyes
ROM 2.1. 59 To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
ROM 2.1. 60 What if her eyes were there, they in her head? -
ROM 2.1. 61 The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
ROM 2.1. 62 As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven
ROM 2.1. 63 Would through the airy region stream so bright
ROM 2.1. 64 That birds would sing and think it were not night.
ROM 2.1. 65 See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
ROM 2.1. 66 O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
ROM 2.1. 67B That I might touch that cheek!
ROM-JULIET
Ay me.
ROM-ROMEO
+
ROM 2.1. 67B {(aside)} She speaks.
ROM 2.1. 68 O, speak again, bright angel; for thou art
ROM 2.1. 69 As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,
ROM 2.1. 70 As is a winged messenger of heaven
ROM 2.1. 71 Unto the white upturned wond'ring eyes
ROM 2.1. 72 Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
ROM 2.1. 73 When he bestrides the lazy-passing clouds
ROM 2.1. 74 And sails upon the bosom of the air.
ROM 2.1. 75
ROM-JULIET
{(not knowing Romeo hears her)} O Romeo, +
ROM 2.1. 75 Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
ROM 2.1. 76 Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
ROM 2.1. 77 Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
ROM 2.1. 78 And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
ROM 2.1. 79
ROM-ROMEO
{(aside)} Shall I hear more, or shall I +
ROM 2.1. 79 speak at this?
ROM 2.1. 80
ROM-JULIET
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
ROM 2.1. 81 Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
ROM 2.1. 82 What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
ROM 2.1. 83 Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
ROM 2.1. 84 Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
ROM 2.1. 85 What's in a name? That which we call a rose
ROM 2.1. 86 By any other word would smell as sweet.
ROM 2.1. 87 So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
ROM 2.1. 88 Retain that dear perfection which he owes
ROM 2.1. 89 Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
ROM 2.1. 90 And for thy name - which is no part of thee -
ROM 2.1. 91B Take all myself.
ROM-ROMEO
{(to Juliet)} I take thee at +
ROM 2.1. 91B thy word.
ROM 2.1. 92 Call me but love and I'll be new baptized.
ROM 2.1. 93 Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
ROM 2.1. 94
ROM-JULIET
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,
ROM 2.1. 95B So stumblest on my counsel?
ROM-ROMEO
By a name
ROM 2.1. 96 I know not how to tell thee who I am.
ROM 2.1. 97 My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself
ROM 2.1. 98 Because it is an enemy to thee.
ROM 2.1. 99 Had I it written, I would tear the word.
ROM 2.1. 100
ROM-JULIET
My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words
ROM 2.1. 101 Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound.
ROM 2.1. 102 Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
ROM 2.1. 103
ROM-ROMEO
Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.
ROM 2.1. 104
ROM-JULIET
How cam'st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
ROM 2.1. 105 The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
ROM 2.1. 106 And the place death, considering who thou art,
ROM 2.1. 107 If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
ROM 2.1. 108
ROM-ROMEO
With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls,
ROM 2.1. 109 For stony limits cannot hold love out,
ROM 2.1. 110 And what love can do, that dares love attempt.
ROM 2.1. 111 Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.
ROM 2.1. 112
ROM-JULIET
If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
ROM 2.1. 113
ROM-ROMEO
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
ROM 2.1. 114 Than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet,
ROM 2.1. 115 And I am proof against their enmity.
ROM 2.1. 116
ROM-JULIET
I would not for the world they saw thee here.
ROM 2.1. 117
ROM-ROMEO
I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes,
ROM 2.1. 118 And but thou love me, let them find me here.
ROM 2.1. 119 My life were better ended by their hate
ROM 2.1. 120 Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.
ROM 2.1. 121
ROM-JULIET
By whose direction found'st thou out this place?
ROM 2.1. 122
ROM-ROMEO
By love, that first did prompt me to enquire.
ROM 2.1. 123 He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes.
ROM 2.1. 124 I am no pilot, yet wert thou as far
ROM 2.1. 125 As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,
ROM 2.1. 126 I should adventure for such merchandise.
ROM 2.1. 127
ROM-JULIET
Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face,
ROM 2.1. 128 Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
ROM 2.1. 129 For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight.
ROM 2.1. 130 Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
ROM 2.1. 131 What I have spoke; but farewell, compliment.
ROM 2.1. 132 Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say `Ay',
ROM 2.1. 133 And I will take thy word. Yet if thou swear'st
ROM 2.1. 134 Thou mayst prove false. At lovers' perjuries,
ROM 2.1. 135 They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
ROM 2.1. 136 If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully;
ROM 2.1. 137 Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
ROM 2.1. 138 I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay,
ROM 2.1. 139 So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
ROM 2.1. 140 In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
ROM 2.1. 141 And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light.
ROM 2.1. 142 But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
ROM 2.1. 143 Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
ROM 2.1. 144 I should have been more strange, I must confess,
ROM 2.1. 145 But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
ROM 2.1. 146 My true-love passion. Therefore pardon me,
ROM 2.1. 147 And not impute this yielding to light love,
ROM 2.1. 148 Which the dark night hath so discovered.
ROM 2.1. 149
ROM-ROMEO
Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow,
ROM 2.1. 150 That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops -
ROM 2.1. 151
ROM-JULIET
O swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon
ROM 2.1. 152 That monthly changes in her circled orb,
ROM 2.1. 153 Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
ROM 2.1. 154B
ROM-ROMEO
What shall I swear by?
ROM-JULIET
Do not swear at all,
ROM 2.1. 155 Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
ROM 2.1. 156 Which is the god of my idolatry,
ROM 2.1. 157B And I'll believe thee.
ROM-ROMEO
If my heart's dear love -
ROM 2.1. 158
ROM-JULIET
Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,
ROM 2.1. 159 I have no joy of this contract tonight.
ROM 2.1. 160 It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
ROM 2.1. 161 Too like the lightning which doth cease to be
ROM 2.1. 162 Ere one can say it lightens. Sweet, good night.
ROM 2.1. 163 This bud of love by summer's ripening breath
ROM 2.1. 164 May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
ROM 2.1. 165 Good night, good night. As sweet repose and rest
ROM 2.1. 166 Come to thy heart as that within my breast.
ROM 2.1. 167
ROM-ROMEO
O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
ROM 2.1. 168
ROM-JULIET
What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?
ROM 2.1. 169
ROM-ROMEO
Th' exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.
ROM 2.1. 170
ROM-JULIET
I gave thee mine before thou didst request it,
ROM 2.1. 171 And yet I would it were to give again.
ROM 2.1. 172
ROM-ROMEO
Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love?
ROM 2.1. 173
ROM-JULIET
But to be frank and give it thee again.
ROM 2.1. 174 And yet I wish but for the thing I have.
ROM 2.1. 175 My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
ROM 2.1. 176 My love as deep. The more I give to thee
ROM 2.1. 177 The more I have, for both are infinite. {Nurse calls within}
ROM 2.1. 178 I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu. -
ROM 2.1. 179 Anon, good Nurse! - Sweet Montague, be true.
ROM 2.1. 180 Stay but a little; I will come again. {Exit}
ROM 2.1. 181
ROM-ROMEO
O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard,
ROM 2.1. 182 Being in night, all this is but a dream,
ROM 2.1. 183 Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. {Enter Juliet aloft}
ROM 2.1. 184
ROM-JULIET
Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.
ROM 2.1. 185 If that thy bent of love be honourable,
ROM 2.1. 186 Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,
ROM 2.1. 187 By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
ROM 2.1. 188 Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,
ROM 2.1. 189 And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay,
ROM 2.1. 190 And follow thee, my lord, throughout the world.
ROM 2.1. 191
ROM-[NURSE]
{(within)} Madam!
ROM 2.1. 192
ROM-JULIET
I come, anon. {(To Romeo)} But if thou +
ROM 2.1. 192 mean'st not well,
ROM 2.1. 193 I do beseech thee -
ROM 2.1. 194A
ROM-[NURSE]
{(within)} Madam!
ROM 2.1. 195A
ROM-JULIET
By and by I come. -
ROM 2.1. 196 To cease thy strife and leave me to my grief.
ROM 2.1. 197 Tomorrow will I send.
ROM 2.1. 198A
ROM-ROMEO
So thrive my soul -
ROM 2.1. 199A
ROM-JULIET
A thousand times good night. {Exit}
ROM 2.1. 200
ROM-ROMEO
A thousand times the worse to want thy light.
ROM 2.1. 201 Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
ROM 2.1. 202 But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. {[He is +
ROM 2.1. 202 going.]}
ROM 2.1. 203 {Enter Juliet aloft again}
ROM-JULIET
Hist, Romeo! Hist! O for +
ROM 2.1. 203 a falconer's voice
ROM 2.1. 204 To lure this tassel-gentle back again.
ROM 2.1. 205 Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud,
ROM 2.1. 206 Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
ROM 2.1. 207 And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
ROM 2.1. 208 With repetition of my Romeo's name. Romeo!
ROM 2.1. 209
ROM-ROMEO
It is my soul that calls upon my name.
ROM 2.1. 210 How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
ROM 2.1. 211 Like softest music to attending ears!
ROM 2.1. 212B
ROM-JULIET
Romeo!
ROM-ROMEO
My nyas?
ROM-JULIET
What o'clock tomorrow
ROM 2.1. 213B Shall I send to thee?
ROM-ROMEO
By the hour of nine.
ROM 2.1. 214
ROM-JULIET
I will not fail; 'tis twenty year till then.
ROM 2.1. 215 I have forgot why I did call thee back.
ROM 2.1. 216
ROM-ROMEO
Let me stand here till thou remember it.
ROM 2.1. 217
ROM-JULIET
I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
ROM 2.1. 218 Rememb'ring how I love thy company.
ROM 2.1. 219
ROM-ROMEO
And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,
ROM 2.1. 220 Forgetting any other home but this.
ROM 2.1. 221
ROM-JULIET
'Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone -
ROM 2.1. 222 And yet no farther than a wanton's bird,
ROM 2.1. 223 That lets it hop a little from his hand,
ROM 2.1. 224 Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
ROM 2.1. 225 And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
ROM 2.1. 226 So loving-jealous of his liberty.
ROM 2.1. 227B
ROM-ROMEO
I would I were thy bird.
ROM-JULIET
Sweet, so would I.
ROM 2.1. 228 Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
ROM 2.1. 229 Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow
ROM 2.1. 230 That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
ROM 2.1. 231
ROM-[ROMEO]
Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. +
ROM 2.1. 231 {Exit Juliet}
ROM 2.1. 232 Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.
ROM 2.1. 233 Hence will I to my ghostly sire's close cell,
ROM 2.1. 234 His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell. {Exit}
ROM 2.1. 0 {Enter Friar Laurence, with a basket}
ROM 2.2. 1
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning +
ROM 2.2. 1 night,
ROM 2.2. 2 Chequ'ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
ROM 2.2. 3 And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
ROM 2.2. 4 From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels.
ROM 2.2. 5 Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye
ROM 2.2. 6 The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
ROM 2.2. 7 I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
ROM 2.2. 8 With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
ROM 2.2. 9 The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb.
ROM 2.2. 10 What is her burying grave, that is her womb,
ROM 2.2. 11 And from her womb children of divers kind
ROM 2.2. 12 We sucking on her natural bosom find,
ROM 2.2. 13 Many for many virtues excellent,
ROM 2.2. 14 None but for some, and yet all different.
ROM 2.2. 15 O mickle is the powerful grace that lies
ROM 2.2. 16 In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities,
ROM 2.2. 17 For naught so vile that on the earth doth live
ROM 2.2. 18 But to the earth some special good doth give;
ROM 2.2. 19 Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use,
ROM 2.2. 20 Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
ROM 2.2. 21 Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied,
ROM 2.2. 22 And vice sometime's by action dignified. {Enter Romeo}
ROM 2.2. 23 Within the infant rind of this weak flower
ROM 2.2. 24 Poison hath residence, and medicine power,
ROM 2.2. 25 For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
ROM 2.2. 26 Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
ROM 2.2. 27 Two such opposed kings encamp them still
ROM 2.2. 28 In man as well as herbs - grace and rude will;
ROM 2.2. 29 And where the worser is predominant,
ROM 2.2. 30 Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
ROM 2.2. 31B
ROM-ROMEO
Good morrow, father.
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
{Benedicite}.
ROM 2.2. 32 What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
ROM 2.2. 33 Young son, it argues a distempered head
ROM 2.2. 34 So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed.
ROM 2.2. 35 Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
ROM 2.2. 36 And where care lodges, sleep will never lie,
ROM 2.2. 37 But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
ROM 2.2. 38 Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
ROM 2.2. 39 Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
ROM 2.2. 40 Thou art uproused with some distemp'rature;
ROM 2.2. 41 Or if not so, then here I hit it right:
ROM 2.2. 42 Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight.
ROM 2.2. 43
ROM-ROMEO
That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.
ROM 2.2. 44
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
God pardon sin! - Wast thou with Rosaline?
ROM 2.2. 45
ROM-ROMEO
With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No,
ROM 2.2. 46 I have forgot that name and that name's woe.
ROM 2.2. 47
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
That's my good son; but where hast thou been then?
ROM 2.2. 48
ROM-ROMEO
I'll tell thee ere thou ask it me again.
ROM 2.2. 49 I have been feasting with mine enemy,
ROM 2.2. 50 Where on a sudden one hath wounded me
ROM 2.2. 51 That's by me wounded. Both our remedies
ROM 2.2. 52 Within thy help and holy physic lies.
ROM 2.2. 53 I bear no hatred, blessed man, for lo,
ROM 2.2. 54 My intercession likewise steads my foe.
ROM 2.2. 55
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.
ROM 2.2. 56 Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
ROM 2.2. 57
ROM-ROMEO
Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
ROM 2.2. 58 On the fair daughter of rich Capulet.
ROM 2.2. 59 As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine,
ROM 2.2. 60 And all combined save what thou must combine
ROM 2.2. 61 By holy marriage. When and where and how
ROM 2.2. 62 We met, we wooed, and made exchange of vow
ROM 2.2. 63 I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,
ROM 2.2. 64 That thou consent to marry us today.
ROM 2.2. 65
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
ROM 2.2. 66 Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,
ROM 2.2. 67 So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies
ROM 2.2. 68 Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
ROM 2.2. 69 Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
ROM 2.2. 70 Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
ROM 2.2. 71 How much salt water thrown away in waste
ROM 2.2. 72 To season love, that of it doth not taste!
ROM 2.2. 73 The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears.
ROM 2.2. 74 Thy old groans yet ring in mine ancient ears.
ROM 2.2. 75 Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
ROM 2.2. 76 Of an old tear that is not washed off yet.
ROM 2.2. 77 If e'er thou wast thyself, and these woes thine,
ROM 2.2. 78 Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline.
ROM 2.2. 79 And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence then:
ROM 2.2. 80 Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
ROM 2.2. 81
ROM-ROMEO
Thou chidd'st me oft for loving Rosaline.
ROM 2.2. 82
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.
ROM 2.2. 83B
ROM-ROMEO
And bad'st me bury love.
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Not in a grave
ROM 2.2. 84 To lay one in, another out to have.
ROM 2.2. 85
ROM-ROMEO
I pray thee, chide me not. Her I love now
ROM 2.2. 86 Doth grace for grace and love for love allow.
ROM 2.2. 87B The other did not so.
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
O, she knew well
ROM 2.2. 88 Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell.
ROM 2.2. 89 But come, young waverer, come, go with me.
ROM 2.2. 90 In one respect I'll thy assistant be;
ROM 2.2. 91 For this alliance may so happy prove
ROM 2.2. 92 To turn your households' rancour to pure love.
ROM 2.2. 93
ROM-ROMEO
O, let us hence! I stand on sudden haste.
ROM 2.2. 94
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. +
ROM 2.2. 94 {Exeunt}
ROM 2.2. 0 {Enter Benvolio and Mercutio}
ROM 2.3. 1
ROM-MERCUTIO
Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came
ROM 2.3. 2 he not home tonight?
ROM 2.3. 3
ROM-BENVOLIO
Not to his father's. I spoke with his man.
ROM 2.3. 4
ROM-MERCUTIO
Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline,
ROM 2.3. 5 Torments him so that he will sure run mad.
ROM 2.3. 6
ROM-BENVOLIO
Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet,
ROM 2.3. 7 Hath sent a letter to his father's house.
ROM 2.3. 8B
ROM-MERCUTIO
A challenge, on my life.
ROM-BENVOLIO
Romeo will answer it.
ROM 2.3. 9
ROM-MERCUTIO
Any man that can write may answer a letter.
ROM 2.3. 10
ROM-BENVOLIO
Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he
ROM 2.3. 11 dares, being dared.
ROM 2.3. 12
ROM-MERCUTIO
Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead - stabbed
ROM 2.3. 13 with a white wench's black eye, run through the ear
ROM 2.3. 14 with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the
ROM 2.3. 15 blind bow-boy's butt-shaft; and is he a man to encounter
ROM 2.3. 16 Tybalt?
ROM 2.3. 17
ROM-[BENVOLIO]
Why, what is Tybalt?
ROM 2.3. 18
ROM-MERCUTIO
More than Prince of Cats. O, he's the courageous
ROM 2.3. 19 captain of compliments. He fights as you sing pricksong:
ROM 2.3. 20 keeps time, distance, and proportion. He rests his minim
ROM 2.3. 21 rests: one, two, and the third in your bosom; the very
ROM 2.3. 22 butcher of a silk button. A duellist, a duellist; a gentleman
ROM 2.3. 23 of the very first house of the first and second cause. Ah,
ROM 2.3. 24 the immortal {passado}, the {punto reverso}, the {hai}.
ROM 2.3. 25
ROM-BENVOLIO
The what?
ROM 2.3. 26
ROM-MERCUTIO
The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting
ROM 2.3. 27 phantasims, these new tuners of accent! `By Jesu, a very
ROM 2.3. 28 good blade, a very tall man, a very good whore.' Why
ROM 2.3. 29 is not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should
ROM 2.3. 30 be thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion-
ROM 2.3. 31 mongers, these `pardon-me's', who stand so much on
ROM 2.3. 32 the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old
ROM 2.3. 33 bench? O, their bones, their bones! {Enter Romeo}
ROM 2.3. 34
ROM-BENVOLIO
Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo!
ROM 2.3. 35
ROM-MERCUTIO
Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh,
ROM 2.3. 36 flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers
ROM 2.3. 37 that Petrarch flowed in. Laura to his lady was a kitchen
ROM 2.3. 38 wench - marry, she had a better love to berhyme her -
ROM 2.3. 39 Dido a dowdy, Cleopatra a gypsy, Helen and Hero
ROM 2.3. 40 hildings and harlots, Thisbe a grey eye or so, but not to
ROM 2.3. 41 the purpose. Signor Romeo, {bonjour}. There's a French
ROM 2.3. 42 salutation to your French slop. You gave us the
ROM 2.3. 43 counterfeit fairly last night.
ROM 2.3. 44
ROM-ROMEO
Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I
ROM 2.3. 45 give you?
ROM 2.3. 46
ROM-MERCUTIO
The slip, sir, the slip. Can you not conceive?
ROM 2.3. 47
ROM-ROMEO
Pardon, good Mercutio. My business was great, and
ROM 2.3. 48 in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
ROM 2.3. 49
ROM-MERCUTIO
That's as much as to say such a case as yours
ROM 2.3. 50 constrains a man to bow in the hams.
ROM 2.3. 51
ROM-ROMEO
Meaning to curtsy.
ROM 2.3. 52
ROM-MERCUTIO
Thou hast most kindly hit it.
ROM 2.3. 53
ROM-ROMEO
A most courteous exposition.
ROM 2.3. 54
ROM-MERCUTIO
Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
ROM 2.3. 55
ROM-ROMEO
Pink for flower.
ROM 2.3. 56
ROM-MERCUTIO
Right.
ROM 2.3. 57
ROM-ROMEO
Why, then is my pump well flowered.
ROM 2.3. 58
ROM-MERCUTIO
Sure wit, follow me this jest now till thou hast
ROM 2.3. 59 worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it is
ROM 2.3. 60 worn, the jest may remain, after the wearing, solely
ROM 2.3. 61 singular.
ROM 2.3. 62
ROM-ROMEO
O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness!
ROM 2.3. 63
ROM-MERCUTIO
Come between us, good Benvolio. My wits faints.
ROM 2.3. 64
ROM-ROMEO
Switch and spurs, switch and spurs, or I'll cry a
ROM 2.3. 65 match.
ROM 2.3. 66
ROM-MERCUTIO
Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am
ROM 2.3. 67 done, for thou hast more of the wild goose in one of thy
ROM 2.3. 68 wits than I am sure I have in my whole five. Was I with
ROM 2.3. 69 you there for the goose?
ROM 2.3. 70
ROM-ROMEO
Thou wast never with me for anything when thou
ROM 2.3. 71 wast not there for the goose.
ROM 2.3. 72
ROM-MERCUTIO
I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.
ROM 2.3. 73
ROM-ROMEO
Nay, good goose, bite not.
ROM 2.3. 74
ROM-MERCUTIO
Thy wit is very bitter sweeting, it is a most sharp
ROM 2.3. 75 sauce.
ROM 2.3. 76
ROM-ROMEO
And is it not then well served in to a sweet goose?
ROM 2.3. 77
ROM-MERCUTIO
O, here's a wit of cheverel, that stretches from
ROM 2.3. 78 an inch narrow to an ell broad.
ROM 2.3. 79
ROM-ROMEO
I stretch it out for that word `broad', which, added
ROM 2.3. 80 to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.
ROM 2.3. 81
ROM-MERCUTIO
Why, is not this better now than groaning for
ROM 2.3. 82 love? Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo, now
ROM 2.3. 83 art thou what thou art by art as well as by nature, for
ROM 2.3. 84 this drivelling love is like a great natural that runs lolling
ROM 2.3. 85 up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
ROM 2.3. 86
ROM-BENVOLIO
Stop there, stop there.
ROM 2.3. 87
ROM-MERCUTIO
Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the
ROM 2.3. 88 hair.
ROM 2.3. 89
ROM-BENVOLIO
Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.
ROM 2.3. 90
ROM-MERCUTIO
O, thou art deceived, I would have made it short,
ROM 2.3. 91 for I was come to the whole depth of my tale, and meant
ROM 2.3. 92 indeed to occupy the argument no longer. {Enter the Nurse, and +
ROM 2.3. 92 Peter, her man}
ROM 2.3. 93
ROM-ROMEO
Here's goodly gear.
ROM 2.3. 94
ROM-[BENVOLIO]
A sail, a sail!
ROM 2.3. 95
ROM-MERCUTIO
Two, two - a shirt and a smock.
ROM 2.3. 96
ROM-NURSE
Peter.
ROM 2.3. 97
ROM-PETER
Anon.
ROM 2.3. 98
ROM-NURSE
My fan, Peter.
ROM 2.3. 99
ROM-MERCUTIO
Good Peter, to hide her face, for her fan's the
ROM 2.3. 100 fairer face.
ROM 2.3. 101
ROM-NURSE
God ye good morrow, gentlemen.
ROM 2.3. 102
ROM-MERCUTIO
God ye good e'en, fair gentlewoman.
ROM 2.3. 103
ROM-NURSE
Is it good e'en?
ROM 2.3. 104
ROM-MERCUTIO
'Tis no less, I tell ye: for the bawdy hand of the
ROM 2.3. 105 dial is now upon the prick of noon.
ROM 2.3. 106
ROM-NURSE
Out upon you, what a man are you!
ROM 2.3. 107
ROM-ROMEO
One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself
ROM 2.3. 108 to mar.
ROM 2.3. 109
ROM-NURSE
By my troth, it is well said. `For himself to mar',
ROM 2.3. 110 quoth a? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I
ROM 2.3. 111 may find the young Romeo?
ROM 2.3. 112
ROM-ROMEO
I can tell you, but young Romeo will be older when
ROM 2.3. 113 you have found him than he was when you sought him.
ROM 2.3. 114 I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.
ROM 2.3. 115
ROM-NURSE
You say well.
ROM 2.3. 116
ROM-MERCUTIO
Yea, is the worst well? Very well took, i' faith,
ROM 2.3. 117 wisely, wisely.
ROM 2.3. 118
ROM-NURSE
{(to Romeo)} If you be he, sir, I desire +
ROM 2.3. 118 some confidence
ROM 2.3. 119 with you.
ROM 2.3. 120
ROM-BENVOLIO
She will endite him to some supper.
ROM 2.3. 121
ROM-MERCUTIO
A bawd, a bawd, a bawd. So ho!
ROM 2.3. 122
ROM-ROMEO
What hast thou found?
ROM 2.3. 123
ROM-MERCUTIO
No hare, sir, unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,
ROM 2.3. 124 that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent. {[He walks by +
ROM 2.3. 124 them and] sings}
ROM 2.3. 125 An old hare hoar
ROM 2.3. 126 And an old hare hoar
ROM 2.3. 127 Is very good meat in Lent.
ROM 2.3. 128 But a hare that is hoar
ROM 2.3. 129 Is too much for a score
ROM 2.3. 130 When it hoars ere it be spent.
ROM 2.3. 131 Romeo, will you come to your father's? We'll to dinner
ROM 2.3. 132 thither.
ROM 2.3. 133
ROM-ROMEO
I will follow you.
ROM 2.3. 134
ROM-MERCUTIO
Farewell, ancient lady. Farewell, {[sings]}+
ROM 2.3. 134 `lady,
ROM 2.3. 135 lady, lady'. {Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio}
ROM 2.3. 136
ROM-NURSE
I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this that
ROM 2.3. 137 was so full of his ropery?
ROM 2.3. 138
ROM-ROMEO
A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,
ROM 2.3. 139 and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to
ROM 2.3. 140 in a month.
ROM 2.3. 141
ROM-NURSE
An a speak anything against me, I'll take him down
ROM 2.3. 142 an a were lustier than he is, and twenty such jacks; an
ROM 2.3. 143 if I cannot, I'll find those that shall. Scurvy knave! I am
ROM 2.3. 144 none of his flirt-jills, I am none of his skeans-mates. {(To}
ROM 2.3. 145 {Peter)} And thou must stand by, too, and suffer every
ROM 2.3. 146 knave to use me at his pleasure.
ROM 2.3. 147
ROM-PETER
I saw no man use you at his pleasure. If I had, my
ROM 2.3. 148 weapon should quickly have been out; I warrant you,
ROM 2.3. 149 I dare draw as soon as another man if I see occasion in
ROM 2.3. 150 a good quarrel, and the law on my side.
ROM 2.3. 151
ROM-NURSE
Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part about
ROM 2.3. 152 me quivers. Scurvy knave! {(To Romeo)} Pray you, sir, a
ROM 2.3. 153 word; and, as I told you, my young lady bid me enquire
ROM 2.3. 154 you out. What she bid me say I will keep to myself, but
ROM 2.3. 155 first let me tell ye if ye should lead her in a fool's
ROM 2.3. 156 paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of
ROM 2.3. 157 behaviour, as they say, for the gentlewoman is young;
ROM 2.3. 158 and therefore if you should deal double with her, truly
ROM 2.3. 159 it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman,
ROM 2.3. 160 and very weak dealing.
ROM 2.3. 161
ROM-ROMEO
Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I
ROM 2.3. 162 protest unto thee -
ROM 2.3. 163
ROM-NURSE
Good heart, and i' faith I will tell her as much. Lord,
ROM 2.3. 164 Lord, she will be a joyful woman.
ROM 2.3. 165
ROM-ROMEO
What wilt thou tell her, Nurse? Thou dost not
ROM 2.3. 166 mark me.
ROM 2.3. 167
ROM-NURSE
I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which as I
ROM 2.3. 168 take it is a gentlemanlike offer.
ROM 2.3. 169
ROM-ROMEO
Bid her devise
ROM 2.3. 170 Some means to come to shrift this afternoon,
ROM 2.3. 171 And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell
ROM 2.3. 172 Be shrived and married. {(Offering money)} Here is for +
ROM 2.3. 172 thy pains.
ROM 2.3. 173
ROM-NURSE
No, truly, sir, not a penny.
ROM 2.3. 174
ROM-ROMEO
Go to, I say, you shall.
ROM 2.3. 175
ROM-NURSE
{[taking the money]} This afternoon, sir. +
ROM 2.3. 175 Well, she shall be there.
ROM 2.3. 176
ROM-ROMEO
And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall.
ROM 2.3. 177 Within this hour my man shall be with thee
ROM 2.3. 178 And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair,
ROM 2.3. 179 Which to the high topgallant of my joy
ROM 2.3. 180 Must be my convoy in the secret night.
ROM 2.3. 181 Farewell. Be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains.
ROM 2.3. 182 Farewell. Commend me to thy mistress.
ROM 2.3. 183
ROM-NURSE
Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.
ROM 2.3. 184A
ROM-ROMEO
What sayst thou, my dear Nurse?
ROM 2.3. 185
ROM-NURSE
Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say
ROM 2.3. 186 `Two may keep counsel, putting one away'?
ROM 2.3. 187
ROM-ROMEO
I warrant thee my man's as true as steel.
ROM 2.3. 188
ROM-NURSE
Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady.
ROM 2.3. 189 Lord, Lord, when 'twas a little prating thing -
ROM 2.3. 190 O, there is a nobleman in town, one Paris,
ROM 2.3. 191 That would fain lay knife aboard; but she, good soul,
ROM 2.3. 192 Had as lief see a toad, a very toad,
ROM 2.3. 193 As see him. I anger her sometimes,
ROM 2.3. 194 And tell her that Paris is the properer man;
ROM 2.3. 195 But I'll warrant you, when I say so she looks
ROM 2.3. 196 As pale as any clout in the versal world.
ROM 2.3. 197 Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin
ROM 2.3. 198 Both with a letter?
ROM 2.3. 199
ROM-ROMEO
Ay, Nurse, what of that? Both with an `R'.
ROM 2.3. 200
ROM-NURSE
Ah, mocker - that's the dog's name. `R' is for the -
ROM 2.3. 201 no, I know it begins with some other letter, and she
ROM 2.3. 202 hath the prettiest sententious of it, of you and rosemary,
ROM 2.3. 203 that it would do you good to hear it.
ROM 2.3. 204
ROM-ROMEO
Commend me to thy lady.
ROM 2.3. 205
ROM-NURSE
Ay, a thousand times. Peter!
ROM 2.3. 206
ROM-PETER
Anon.
ROM 2.3. 207
ROM-NURSE
{[giving Peter her fan]} Before, and +
ROM 2.3. 207 apace. {Exeunt [Peter and Nurse at one door,}
ROM 2.3. 0 {Romeo at another door]} {Enter Juliet}
ROM 2.4. 1
ROM-JULIET
The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse.
ROM 2.4. 2 In half an hour she promised to return.
ROM 2.4. 3 Perchance she cannot meet him. That's not so.
ROM 2.4. 4 O, she is lame! Love's heralds should be thoughts,
ROM 2.4. 5 Which ten times faster glides than the sun's beams
ROM 2.4. 6 Driving back shadows over louring hills.
ROM 2.4. 7 Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
ROM 2.4. 8 And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
ROM 2.4. 9 Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
ROM 2.4. 10 Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve
ROM 2.4. 11 Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
ROM 2.4. 12 Had she affections and warm youthful blood
ROM 2.4. 13 She would be as swift in motion as a ball.
ROM 2.4. 14 My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
ROM 2.4. 15 And his to me.
ROM 2.4. 16 But old folks, many feign as they were dead -
ROM 2.4. 17 Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead. {Enter the Nurse and +
ROM 2.4. 17 Peter}
ROM 2.4. 18 O God, she comes! O honey Nurse, what news?
ROM 2.4. 19 Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.
ROM 2.4. 20A
ROM-NURSE
Peter, stay at the gate. {Exit Peter}
ROM 2.4. 21
ROM-JULIET
Now, good sweet Nurse - O Lord, why look'st thou +
ROM 2.4. 21 sad?
ROM 2.4. 22 Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;
ROM 2.4. 23 If good, thou sham'st the music of sweet news
ROM 2.4. 24 By playing it to me with so sour a face.
ROM 2.4. 25
ROM-NURSE
I am a-weary. Give me leave a while.
ROM 2.4. 26 Fie, how my bones ache. What a jaunce have I!
ROM 2.4. 27
ROM-JULIET
I would thou hadst my bones and I thy news.
ROM 2.4. 28 Nay, come, I pray thee speak, good, good Nurse, speak.
ROM 2.4. 29
ROM-NURSE
Jesu, what haste! Can you not stay a while?
ROM 2.4. 30 Do you not see that I am out of breath?
ROM 2.4. 31
ROM-JULIET
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
ROM 2.4. 32 To say to me that thou art out of breath?
ROM 2.4. 33 The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
ROM 2.4. 34 Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
ROM 2.4. 35 Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that.
ROM 2.4. 36 Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance.
ROM 2.4. 37 Let me be satisfied: is 't good or bad?
ROM 2.4. 38
ROM-NURSE
Well, you have made a simple choice. You know
ROM 2.4. 39 not how to choose a man. Romeo? No, not he; though
ROM 2.4. 40 his face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels all
ROM 2.4. 41 men's, and for a hand and a foot and a body, though
ROM 2.4. 42 they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare.
ROM 2.4. 43 He is not the flower of courtesy, but, I'll warrant him,
ROM 2.4. 44 as gentle as a lamb. Go thy ways, wench. Serve God.
ROM 2.4. 45 What, have you dined at home?
ROM 2.4. 46
ROM-JULIET
No, no. But all this did I know before.
ROM 2.4. 47 What says he of our marriage - what of that?
ROM 2.4. 48
ROM-NURSE
Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I!
ROM 2.4. 49 It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
ROM 2.4. 50B My back - {[Juliet rubs her back]} a' t' other side - ah, +
ROM 2.4. 50B my back, my back!
ROM 2.4. 51 Beshrew your heart for sending me about
ROM 2.4. 52 To catch my death with jauncing up and down.
ROM 2.4. 53
ROM-JULIET
I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.
ROM 2.4. 54 Sweet, sweet, sweet Nurse, tell me, what says my love?
ROM 2.4. 55
ROM-NURSE
Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a
ROM 2.4. 56 courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant,
ROM 2.4. 57 a virtuous - where is your mother?
ROM 2.4. 58
ROM-JULIET
Where is my mother? Why, she is within.
ROM 2.4. 59 Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!
ROM 2.4. 60 `Your love says like an honest gentleman
ROM 2.4. 61B ``Where is your mother?'' '
ROM-NURSE
O, God's Lady dear!
ROM 2.4. 62 Are you so hot? Marry come up, I trow.
ROM 2.4. 63 Is this the poultice for my aching bones?
ROM 2.4. 64 Henceforward do your messages yourself.
ROM 2.4. 65
ROM-JULIET
Here's such a coil! Come, what says Romeo?
ROM 2.4. 66
ROM-NURSE
Have you got leave to go to shrift today?
ROM 2.4. 67A
ROM-JULIET
I have.
ROM 2.4. 68
ROM-NURSE
Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell.
ROM 2.4. 69 There stays a husband to make you a wife.
ROM 2.4. 70 Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks.
ROM 2.4. 71 They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.
ROM 2.4. 72 Hie you to church. I must another way,
ROM 2.4. 73 To fetch a ladder by the which your love
ROM 2.4. 74 Must climb a bird's nest soon, when it is dark.
ROM 2.4. 75 I am the drudge, and toil in your delight,
ROM 2.4. 76 But you shall bear the burden soon at night.
ROM 2.4. 77 Go, I'll to dinner. Hie you to the cell.
ROM 2.4. 78
ROM-JULIET
Hie to high fortune! Honest Nurse, farewell. {Exeunt +
ROM 2.4. 78 [severally]}
ROM 2.4. 0 {Enter Friar Laurence and Romeo}
ROM 2.5. 1
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
So smile the heavens upon this holy act
ROM 2.5. 2 That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!
ROM 2.5. 3
ROM-ROMEO
Amen, amen. But come what sorrow can,
ROM 2.5. 4 It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
ROM 2.5. 5 That one short minute gives me in her sight.
ROM 2.5. 6 Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
ROM 2.5. 7 Then love-devouring death do what he dare -
ROM 2.5. 8 It is enough I may but call her mine.
ROM 2.5. 9
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
These violent delights have violent ends,
ROM 2.5. 10 And in their triumph die like fire and powder,
ROM 2.5. 11 Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
ROM 2.5. 12 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
ROM 2.5. 13 And in the taste confounds the appetite.
ROM 2.5. 14 Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
ROM 2.5. 15 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. {Enter Juliet [somewhat +
ROM 2.5. 15 fast, and embraceth Romeo]}
ROM 2.5. 16 Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot
ROM 2.5. 17 Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.
ROM 2.5. 18 A lover may bestride the gossamers
ROM 2.5. 19 That idles in the wanton summer air,
ROM 2.5. 20 And yet not fall, so light is vanity.
ROM 2.5. 21
ROM-JULIET
Good even to my ghostly confessor.
ROM 2.5. 22
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
ROM 2.5. 23
ROM-JULIET
As much to him, else is his thanks too much.
ROM 2.5. 24
ROM-ROMEO
Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
ROM 2.5. 25 Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
ROM 2.5. 26 To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
ROM 2.5. 27 This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue
ROM 2.5. 28 Unfold the imagined happiness that both
ROM 2.5. 29 Receive in either by this dear encounter.
ROM 2.5. 30
ROM-JULIET
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
ROM 2.5. 31 Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
ROM 2.5. 32 They are but beggars that can count their worth,
ROM 2.5. 33 But my true love is grown to such excess
ROM 2.5. 34 I cannot sum up some of half my wealth.
ROM 2.5. 35
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Come, come with me, and we will make short work,
ROM 2.5. 36 For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
ROM 2.5. 37 Till Holy Church incorporate two in one. {Exeunt}
ROM 2.5. 0 {Enter Mercutio with his page, Benvolio, and men}
ROM 3.1. 1
ROM-BENVOLIO
I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire.
ROM 3.1. 2 The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,
ROM 3.1. 3 And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl,
ROM 3.1. 4 For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
ROM 3.1. 5
ROM-MERCUTIO
Thou art like one of these fellows that, when he
ROM 3.1. 6 enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon
ROM 3.1. 7 the table and says `God send me no need of thee', and
ROM 3.1. 8 by the operation of the second cup, draws him on the
ROM 3.1. 9 drawer when indeed there is no need.
ROM 3.1. 10
ROM-BENVOLIO
Am I like such a fellow?
ROM 3.1. 11
ROM-MERCUTIO
Come, come, thou art as hot a jack in thy mood
ROM 3.1. 12 as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and
ROM 3.1. 13 as soon moody to be moved.
ROM 3.1. 14
ROM-BENVOLIO
And what to?
ROM 3.1. 15
ROM-MERCUTIO
Nay, an there were two such, we should have
ROM 3.1. 16 none shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou - why,
ROM 3.1. 17 thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or
ROM 3.1. 18 a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel
ROM 3.1. 19 with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason
ROM 3.1. 20 but because thou hast hazel eyes. What eye but such
ROM 3.1. 21 an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as
ROM 3.1. 22 full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy
ROM 3.1. 23 head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.
ROM 3.1. 24 Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the
ROM 3.1. 25 street because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain
ROM 3.1. 26 asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor
ROM 3.1. 27 for wearing his new doublet before Easter; with another
ROM 3.1. 28 for tying his new shoes with old ribbon? And yet thou
ROM 3.1. 29 wilt tutor me from quarrelling!
ROM 3.1. 30
ROM-BENVOLIO
An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any
ROM 3.1. 31 man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour
ROM 3.1. 32 and a quarter.
ROM 3.1. 33
ROM-MERCUTIO
The fee simple? O, simple! {Enter Tybalt, +
ROM 3.1. 33 Petruccio, and others}
ROM 3.1. 34
ROM-BENVOLIO
By my head, here comes the Capulets.
ROM 3.1. 35
ROM-MERCUTIO
By my heel, I care not.
ROM 3.1. 36
ROM-TYBALT
{(to Petruccio and the others)} Follow me +
ROM 3.1. 36 close, for I will speak to them.
ROM 3.1. 37 {(To the Montagues)} Gentlemen, good e'en. A word with +
ROM 3.1. 37 one of you.
ROM 3.1. 38
ROM-MERCUTIO
And but one word with one of us? Couple it
ROM 3.1. 39 with something: make it a word and a blow.
ROM 3.1. 40
ROM-TYBALT
You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you
ROM 3.1. 41 will give me occasion.
ROM 3.1. 42
ROM-MERCUTIO
Could you not take some occasion without
ROM 3.1. 43 giving?
ROM 3.1. 44
ROM-TYBALT
Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo.
ROM 3.1. 45
ROM-MERCUTIO
`Consort'? What, dost thou make us minstrels?
ROM 3.1. 46 An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but
ROM 3.1. 47 discords. {[Touching his rapier]} Here's my +
ROM 3.1. 47 fiddlestick; here's
ROM 3.1. 48 that shall make you dance. Zounds - `Consort'!
ROM 3.1. 49
ROM-BENVOLIO
We talk here in the public haunt of men.
ROM 3.1. 50 Either withdraw unto some private place,
ROM 3.1. 51 Or reason coldly of your grievances,
ROM 3.1. 52 Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us.
ROM 3.1. 53
ROM-MERCUTIO
Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.
ROM 3.1. 54 I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I. {Enter Romeo}
ROM 3.1. 55
ROM-TYBALT
Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man.
ROM 3.1. 56
ROM-MERCUTIO
But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery.
ROM 3.1. 57 Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower.
ROM 3.1. 58 Your worship in that sense may call him `man'.
ROM 3.1. 59
ROM-TYBALT
Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford
ROM 3.1. 60 No better term than this: thou art a villain.
ROM 3.1. 61
ROM-ROMEO
Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
ROM 3.1. 62 Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
ROM 3.1. 63 To such a greeting. Villain am I none.
ROM 3.1. 64 Therefore, farewell. I see thou knowest me not.
ROM 3.1. 65
ROM-TYBALT
Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries
ROM 3.1. 66 That thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.
ROM 3.1. 67
ROM-ROMEO
I do protest I never injured thee,
ROM 3.1. 68 But love thee better than thou canst devise
ROM 3.1. 69 Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.
ROM 3.1. 70 And so, good Capulet - which name I tender
ROM 3.1. 71 As dearly as mine own - be satisfied.
ROM 3.1. 72
ROM-MERCUTIO
{[drawing]} O calm, dishonourable, vile +
ROM 3.1. 72 submission!
ROM 3.1. 73 {Alla stoccado} carries it away.
ROM 3.1. 74 Tybalt, you ratcatcher, come, will you walk?
ROM 3.1. 75A
ROM-TYBALT
What wouldst thou have with me?
ROM 3.1. 76
ROM-MERCUTIO
Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine
ROM 3.1. 77 lives. That I mean to make bold withal, and, as you
ROM 3.1. 78 shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight.
ROM 3.1. 79 Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?
ROM 3.1. 80 Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.
ROM 3.1. 81
ROM-TYBALT
{(drawing)} I am for you.
ROM 3.1. 82
ROM-ROMEO
Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.
ROM 3.1. 83
ROM-MERCUTIO
{(to Tybalt)} Come, sir, your +
ROM 3.1. 83 {passado}. {They fight}
ROM 3.1. 84
ROM-ROMEO
{[drawing]} Draw, Benvolio. Beat down their +
ROM 3.1. 84 weapons.
ROM 3.1. 85 Gentlemen, for shame forbear this outrage.
ROM 3.1. 86 Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath
ROM 3.1. 87 Forbid this bandying in Verona streets.
ROM 3.1. 88 Hold, Tybalt, good Mercutio. {[Romeo beats down their points and +
ROM 3.1. 88 rushes between}
ROM 3.1. 89A {them. Tybalt under Romeo's arm thrusts Mercutio in]}
ROM-[PETRUCCIO]
+
ROM 3.1. 89A Away, Tybalt! {Exeunt Tybalt, Petruccio, and their +
ROM 3.1. 89A followers}
ROM 3.1. 90A
ROM-MERCUTIO
I am hurt.
ROM 3.1. 91 A plague o' both your houses. I am sped.
ROM 3.1. 92B Is he gone, and hath nothing?
ROM-BENVOLIO
What, art thou hurt?
ROM 3.1. 93
ROM-MERCUTIO
Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.
ROM 3.1. 94 Where is my page? Go, villain. Fetch a surgeon. {Exit page}
ROM 3.1. 95
ROM-ROMEO
Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.
ROM 3.1. 96
ROM-MERCUTIO
No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
ROM 3.1. 97 church door, but 'tis enough. 'Twill serve. Ask for me
ROM 3.1. 98 tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am
ROM 3.1. 99 peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both
ROM 3.1. 100 your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to
ROM 3.1. 101 scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain,
ROM 3.1. 102 that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil
ROM 3.1. 103 came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
ROM 3.1. 104
ROM-ROMEO
I thought all for the best.
ROM 3.1. 105
ROM-MERCUTIO
Help me into some house, Benvolio,
ROM 3.1. 106 Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses.
ROM 3.1. 107 They have made worms' meat of me.
ROM 3.1. 108 I have it, and soundly, too. Your houses! {Exeunt all but Romeo}
ROM 3.1. 109
ROM-ROMEO
This gentleman, the Prince's near ally,
ROM 3.1. 110 My very friend, hath got this mortal hurt
ROM 3.1. 111 In my behalf, my reputation stained
ROM 3.1. 112 With Tybalt's slander - Tybalt, that an hour
ROM 3.1. 113 Hath been my cousin! O sweet Juliet,
ROM 3.1. 114 Thy beauty hath made me effeminate,
ROM 3.1. 115 And in my temper softened valour's steel. {Enter Benvolio}
ROM 3.1. 116
ROM-BENVOLIO
O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead!
ROM 3.1. 117 That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
ROM 3.1. 118 Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
ROM 3.1. 119
ROM-ROMEO
This day's black fate on more days doth depend.
ROM 3.1. 120 This but begins the woe others must end. {Enter Tybalt}
ROM 3.1. 121
ROM-BENVOLIO
Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.
ROM 3.1. 122
ROM-ROMEO
He gad in triumph, and Mercutio slain?
ROM 3.1. 123 Away to heaven, respective lenity,
ROM 3.1. 124 And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.
ROM 3.1. 125 Now, Tybalt, take the `villain' back again
ROM 3.1. 126 That late thou gav'st me, for Mercutio's soul
ROM 3.1. 127 Is but a little way above our heads,
ROM 3.1. 128 Staying for thine to keep him company.
ROM 3.1. 129 Either thou, or I, or both must go with him.
ROM 3.1. 130
ROM-TYBALT
Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
ROM 3.1. 131B Shalt with him hence.
ROM-ROMEO
This shall determine that. {They +
ROM 3.1. 131B fight. Tybalt is wounded. He falls and dies}
ROM 3.1. 132A
ROM-BENVOLIO
Romeo, away, be gone.
ROM 3.1. 133 The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.
ROM 3.1. 134 Stand not amazed. The Prince will doom thee death
ROM 3.1. 135 If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away.
ROM 3.1. 136B
ROM-ROMEO
O, I am fortune's fool!
ROM-BENVOLIO
Why dost thou stay?+
ROM 3.1. 136B {Exit Romeo}
ROM 3.1. 137 {Enter Citizens [of the watch]}
ROM-CITIZEN [OF THE WATCH]
+
ROM 3.1. 137 Which way ran he that killed Mercutio?
ROM 3.1. 138 Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?
ROM 3.1. 139B
ROM-BENVOLIO
There lies that Tybalt.
ROM-CITIZEN [OF THE WATCH]
+
ROM 3.1. 139B {(to Tybalt)} Up, sir, go with me.
ROM 3.1. 140 I charge thee in the Prince's name, obey. {Enter the Prince, old +
ROM 3.1. 140 Montague, Capulet, their Wives, and all}
ROM 3.1. 141
ROM-PRINCE
Where are the vile beginners of this fray?
ROM 3.1. 142
ROM-BENVOLIO
O noble Prince, I can discover all
ROM 3.1. 143 The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.
ROM 3.1. 144 There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,
ROM 3.1. 145 That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.
ROM 3.1. 146
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Tybalt, my cousin, O, my brother's child!
ROM 3.1. 147 O Prince, O cousin, husband! O, the blood is spilled
ROM 3.1. 148 Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,
ROM 3.1. 149 For blood of ours shed blood of Montague!
ROM 3.1. 150B O cousin, cousin!
ROM-PRINCE
Benvolio, who began this fray?
ROM 3.1. 151
ROM-BENVOLIO
Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay.
ROM 3.1. 152 Romeo, that spoke him fair, bid him bethink
ROM 3.1. 153 How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal
ROM 3.1. 154 Your high displeasure. All this - uttered
ROM 3.1. 155 With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bowed -
ROM 3.1. 156 Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
ROM 3.1. 157 Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts
ROM 3.1. 158 With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,
ROM 3.1. 159 Who, all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
ROM 3.1. 160 And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
ROM 3.1. 161 Cold death aside, and with the other sends
ROM 3.1. 162 It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity
ROM 3.1. 163 Retorts it. Romeo, he cries aloud,
ROM 3.1. 164 `Hold, friends, friends, part!' and swifter than his tongue
ROM 3.1. 165 His agent arm beats down their fatal points,
ROM 3.1. 166 And 'twixt them rushes, underneath whose arm
ROM 3.1. 167 An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
ROM 3.1. 168 Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled,
ROM 3.1. 169 But by and by comes back to Romeo,
ROM 3.1. 170 Who had but newly entertained revenge,
ROM 3.1. 171 And to 't they go like lightning; for ere I
ROM 3.1. 172 Could draw to part them was stout Tybalt slain,
ROM 3.1. 173 And as he fell did Romeo turn and fly.
ROM 3.1. 174 This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.
ROM 3.1. 175
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
He is a kinsman to the Montague.
ROM 3.1. 176 Affection makes him false; he speaks not true.
ROM 3.1. 177 Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
ROM 3.1. 178 And all those twenty could but kill one life.
ROM 3.1. 179 I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give.
ROM 3.1. 180 Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.
ROM 3.1. 181
ROM-PRINCE
Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio.
ROM 3.1. 182 Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?
ROM 3.1. 183
ROM-[MONTAGUE]
Not Romeo, Prince. He was Mercutio's friend.
ROM 3.1. 184 His fault concludes but what the law should end,
ROM 3.1. 185B The life of Tybalt.
ROM-PRINCE
And for that offence
ROM 3.1. 186 Immediately we do exile him hence.
ROM 3.1. 187 I have an interest in your hate's proceeding;
ROM 3.1. 188 My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding.
ROM 3.1. 189 But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
ROM 3.1. 190 That you shall all repent the loss of mine.
ROM 3.1. 191 I will be deaf to pleading and excuses.
ROM 3.1. 192 Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
ROM 3.1. 193 Therefore use none. Let Romeo hence in haste,
ROM 3.1. 194 Else, when he is found, that hour is his last.
ROM 3.1. 195 Bear hence this body, and attend our will.
ROM 3.1. 196 Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. {Exeunt with the +
ROM 3.1. 196 body}
ROM 3.1. 0 {Enter Juliet}
ROM 3.2. 1
ROM-JULIET
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
ROM 3.2. 2 Towards Phoebus' lodging. Such a waggoner
ROM 3.2. 3 As Phae|ton would whip you to the west
ROM 3.2. 4 And bring in cloudy night immediately.
ROM 3.2. 5 Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
ROM 3.2. 6 That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo
ROM 3.2. 7 Leap to these arms untalked of and unseen.
ROM 3.2. 8 Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
ROM 3.2. 9 By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,
ROM 3.2. 10 It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,
ROM 3.2. 11 Thou sober-suited matron all in black,
ROM 3.2. 12 And learn me how to lose a winning match
ROM 3.2. 13 Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.
ROM 3.2. 14 Hood my unmanned blood, bating in my cheeks,
ROM 3.2. 15 With thy black mantle till strange love grown bold
ROM 3.2. 16 Think true love acted simple modesty.
ROM 3.2. 17 Come night, come Romeo; come, thou day in night,
ROM 3.2. 18 For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
ROM 3.2. 19 Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
ROM 3.2. 20 Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night,
ROM 3.2. 21 Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die
ROM 3.2. 22 Take him and cut him out in little stars,
ROM 3.2. 23 And he will make the face of heaven so fine
ROM 3.2. 24 That all the world will be in love with night
ROM 3.2. 25 And pay no worship to the garish sun.
ROM 3.2. 26 O, I have bought the mansion of a love
ROM 3.2. 27 But not possessed it, and though I am sold,
ROM 3.2. 28 Not yet enjoyed. So tedious is this day
ROM 3.2. 29 As is the night before some festival
ROM 3.2. 30 To an impatient child that hath new robes
ROM 3.2. 31B And may not wear them. {Enter the Nurse, [wringing her hands,] +
ROM 3.2. 31B with the ladder of cords [in her lap]} O, here comes my Nurse,
ROM 3.2. 32 And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks
ROM 3.2. 33 But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.
ROM 3.2. 34 Now, Nurse, what news? What, hast thou there
ROM 3.2. 35B The cords that Romeo bid thee fetch?
ROM-NURSE
{[putting down +
ROM 3.2. 35B the cords]} Ay, ay, the cords.
ROM 3.2. 36
ROM-JULIET
Ay me, what news? Why dost thou wring thy hands?
ROM 3.2. 37
ROM-NURSE
Ah, welladay! He's dead, he's dead, he's dead!
ROM 3.2. 38 We are undone, lady, we are undone.
ROM 3.2. 39 Alack the day, he's gone, he's killed, he's dead!
ROM 3.2. 40B
ROM-JULIET
Can heaven be so envious?
ROM-NURSE
Romeo can,
ROM 3.2. 41 Though heaven cannot. O Romeo, Romeo,
ROM 3.2. 42 Who ever would have thought it Romeo?
ROM 3.2. 43
ROM-JULIET
What devil art thou that dost torment me thus?
ROM 3.2. 44 This torture should be roared in dismal hell.
ROM 3.2. 45 Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but `Ay',
ROM 3.2. 46 And that bare vowel `I' shall poison more
ROM 3.2. 47 Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.
ROM 3.2. 48 I am not I if there be such an `Ay',
ROM 3.2. 49 Or those eyes shut that makes thee answer `Ay'.
ROM 3.2. 50 If he be slain, say `Ay'; or if not, `No'.
ROM 3.2. 51 Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.
ROM 3.2. 52
ROM-NURSE
I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,
ROM 3.2. 53 God save the mark, here on his manly breast -
ROM 3.2. 54 A piteous corpse, a bloody, piteous corpse -
ROM 3.2. 55 Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaubed in blood,
ROM 3.2. 56 All in gore blood; I swooned at the sight.
ROM 3.2. 57
ROM-JULIET
O, break, my heart, poor bankrupt, break at once!
ROM 3.2. 58 To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty.
ROM 3.2. 59 Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,
ROM 3.2. 60 And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!
ROM 3.2. 61
ROM-NURSE
O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!
ROM 3.2. 62 O courteous Tybalt, honest gentleman,
ROM 3.2. 63 That ever I should live to see thee dead!
ROM 3.2. 64
ROM-JULIET
What storm is this that blows so contrary?
ROM 3.2. 65 Is Romeo slaughtered, and is Tybalt dead?
ROM 3.2. 66 My dearest cousin and my dearer lord?
ROM 3.2. 67 Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom,
ROM 3.2. 68 For who is living if those two are gone?
ROM 3.2. 69
ROM-NURSE
Tybalt is gone and Romeo banished.
ROM 3.2. 70 Romeo that killed him - he is banished.
ROM 3.2. 71
ROM-JULIET
O God, did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
ROM 3.2. 72
ROM-[NURSE]
It did, it did, alas the day, it did.
ROM 3.2. 73
ROM-[JULIET]
O serpent heart hid with a flow'ring face!
ROM 3.2. 74 Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
ROM 3.2. 75 Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!
ROM 3.2. 76 Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
ROM 3.2. 77 Despised substance of divinest show!
ROM 3.2. 78 Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st -
ROM 3.2. 79 A damned saint, an honourable villain.
ROM 3.2. 80 O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
ROM 3.2. 81 When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
ROM 3.2. 82 In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
ROM 3.2. 83 Was ever book containing such vile matter
ROM 3.2. 84 So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
ROM 3.2. 85 In such a gorgeous palace!
ROM 3.2. 86
ROM-NURSE
There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men;
ROM 3.2. 87 All perjured, all forsworn, all naught, dissemblers all.
ROM 3.2. 88 Ah, where's my man? Give me some aqua vitae.
ROM 3.2. 89 These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
ROM 3.2. 90B Shame come to Romeo!
ROM-JULIET
Blistered be thy tongue
ROM 3.2. 91 For such a wish! He was not born to shame.
ROM 3.2. 92 Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit,
ROM 3.2. 93 For 'tis a throne where honour may be crowned
ROM 3.2. 94 Sole monarch of the universal earth.
ROM 3.2. 95 O, what a beast was I to chide at him!
ROM 3.2. 96
ROM-NURSE
Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?
ROM 3.2. 97
ROM-JULIET
Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
ROM 3.2. 98 Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name
ROM 3.2. 99 When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
ROM 3.2. 100 But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
ROM 3.2. 101 That villain cousin would have killed my husband.
ROM 3.2. 102 Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring!
ROM 3.2. 103 Your tributary drops belong to woe,
ROM 3.2. 104 Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
ROM 3.2. 105 My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
ROM 3.2. 106 And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband.
ROM 3.2. 107 All this is comfort. Wherefore weep I then?
ROM 3.2. 108 Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,
ROM 3.2. 109 That murdered me. I would forget it fain,
ROM 3.2. 110 But O, it presses to my memory
ROM 3.2. 111 Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds!
ROM 3.2. 112 `Tybalt is dead, and Romeo banished.'
ROM 3.2. 113 That `banished', that one word `banished'
ROM 3.2. 114 Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death
ROM 3.2. 115 Was woe enough, if it had ended there;
ROM 3.2. 116 Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
ROM 3.2. 117 And needly will be ranked with other griefs,
ROM 3.2. 118 Why followed not, when she said `Tybalt's dead',
ROM 3.2. 119 `Thy father', or `thy mother', nay, or both,
ROM 3.2. 120 Which modern lamentation might have moved?
ROM 3.2. 121 But with a rearward following Tybalt's death,
ROM 3.2. 122 `Romeo is banished' - to speak that word
ROM 3.2. 123 Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
ROM 3.2. 124 All slain, all dead. `Romeo is banished' -
ROM 3.2. 125 There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
ROM 3.2. 126 In that word's death. No words can that woe sound.
ROM 3.2. 127 Where is my father and my mother, Nurse?
ROM 3.2. 128
ROM-NURSE
Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corpse.
ROM 3.2. 129 Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.
ROM 3.2. 130
ROM-JULIET
Wash they his wounds with tears; mine shall be spent
ROM 3.2. 131 When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.
ROM 3.2. 132 Take up those cords. Poor ropes, you are beguiled,
ROM 3.2. 133 Both you and I, for Romeo is exiled.
ROM 3.2. 134 He made you for a highway to my bed,
ROM 3.2. 135 But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.
ROM 3.2. 136 Come, cords; come, Nurse; I'll to my wedding bed,
ROM 3.2. 137 And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!
ROM 3.2. 138
ROM-NURSE
{(taking up the cords)} Hie to your chamber. +
ROM 3.2. 138 I'll find Romeo
ROM 3.2. 139 To comfort you. I wot well where he is.
ROM 3.2. 140 Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night.
ROM 3.2. 141 I'll to him. He is hid at Laurence' cell.
ROM 3.2. 142
ROM-JULIET
{(giving her a ring)} O, find him! Give +
ROM 3.2. 142 this ring to my true knight,
ROM 3.2. 143 And bid him come to take his last farewell. {Exeunt [severally]}
ROM 3.2. 0 {Enter Friar Laurence}
ROM 3.3. 1
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo, come forth, come forth, thou +
ROM 3.3. 1 fear-full man.
ROM 3.3. 2 Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
ROM 3.3. 3 And thou art wedded to calamity. {Enter Romeo}
ROM 3.3. 4
ROM-ROMEO
Father, what news? What is the Prince's doom?
ROM 3.3. 5 What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand
ROM 3.3. 6B That I yet know not?
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Too familiar
ROM 3.3. 7 Is my dear son with such sour company.
ROM 3.3. 8 I bring thee tidings of the Prince's doom.
ROM 3.3. 9
ROM-ROMEO
What less than doomsday is the Prince's doom?
ROM 3.3. 10
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
A gentler judgement vanished from his lips:
ROM 3.3. 11 Not body's death, but body's banishment.
ROM 3.3. 12
ROM-ROMEO
Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say `death',
ROM 3.3. 13 For exile hath more terror in his look,
ROM 3.3. 14 Much more than death. Do not say `banishment'.
ROM 3.3. 15
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Hence from Verona art thou banished.
ROM 3.3. 16 Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
ROM 3.3. 17
ROM-ROMEO
There is no world without Verona walls
ROM 3.3. 18 But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
ROM 3.3. 19 Hence banished is banished from the world,
ROM 3.3. 20 And world's exile is death. Then `banished'
ROM 3.3. 21 Is death mistermed. Calling death `banished'
ROM 3.3. 22 Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,
ROM 3.3. 23 And smil'st upon the stroke that murders me.
ROM 3.3. 24
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness!
ROM 3.3. 25 Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince,
ROM 3.3. 26 Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law
ROM 3.3. 27 And turned that black word `death' to banishment.
ROM 3.3. 28 This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.
ROM 3.3. 29
ROM-ROMEO
'Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here
ROM 3.3. 30 Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog
ROM 3.3. 31 And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
ROM 3.3. 32 Live here in heaven and may look on her,
ROM 3.3. 33 But Romeo may not. More validity,
ROM 3.3. 34 More honourable state, more courtship lives
ROM 3.3. 35 In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize
ROM 3.3. 36 On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand,
ROM 3.3. 37 And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
ROM 3.3. 38 Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
ROM 3.3. 39 Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
ROM 3.3. 40 But Romeo may not, he is banished.
ROM 3.3. 41 Flies may do this, but I from this must fly.
ROM 3.3. 42 They are free men, but I am banished.
ROM 3.3. 43 And sayst thou yet that exile is not death?
ROM 3.3. 44 Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
ROM 3.3. 45 No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
ROM 3.3. 46 But `banished' to kill me - `banished'?
ROM 3.3. 47 O friar, the damned use that word in hell.
ROM 3.3. 48 Howling attends it. How hast thou the heart,
ROM 3.3. 49 Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
ROM 3.3. 50 A sin-absolver and my friend professed,
ROM 3.3. 51 To mangle me with that word `banished'?
ROM 3.3. 52
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Thou fond mad man, hear me a little speak.
ROM 3.3. 53
ROM-ROMEO
O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.
ROM 3.3. 54
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
I'll give thee armour to keep off that word -
ROM 3.3. 55 Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
ROM 3.3. 56 To comfort thee though thou art banished.
ROM 3.3. 57
ROM-ROMEO
Yet `banished'? Hang up philosophy!
ROM 3.3. 58 Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
ROM 3.3. 59 Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
ROM 3.3. 60 It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more.
ROM 3.3. 61
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
O, then I see that madmen have no ears.
ROM 3.3. 62
ROM-ROMEO
How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
ROM 3.3. 63
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.
ROM 3.3. 64
ROM-ROMEO
Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel.
ROM 3.3. 65 Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
ROM 3.3. 66 An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
ROM 3.3. 67 Doting like me, and like me banished,
ROM 3.3. 68 Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
ROM 3.3. 69 And fall upon the ground, as I do now, {He falls upon the +
ROM 3.3. 69 ground}
ROM 3.3. 70 Taking the measure of an unmade grave. {Knock within}
ROM 3.3. 71
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Arise, one knocks. Good Romeo, hide +
ROM 3.3. 71 thyself.
ROM 3.3. 72
ROM-ROMEO
Not I, unless the breath of heartsick groans
ROM 3.3. 73 Mist-like enfold me from the search of eyes. {Knocking within}
ROM 3.3. 74
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Hark, how they knock! - Who's there? - Romeo, +
ROM 3.3. 74 arise.
ROM 3.3. 75 Thou wilt be taken. - Stay a while. - Stand up. {Still knock within}
ROM 3.3. 76 Run to my study. - By and by! - God's will,
ROM 3.3. 77B What simpleness is this? {Knock within} I come, I come.
ROM 3.3. 78 Who knocks so hard? Whence come you? What's your will?
ROM 3.3. 79
ROM-NURSE
{(within)} Let me come in, and you shall +
ROM 3.3. 79 know my errand.
ROM 3.3. 80B I come from Lady Juliet.
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
{[opening the +
ROM 3.3. 80B door]} Welcome then. {Enter the Nurse}
ROM 3.3. 81
ROM-NURSE
O holy friar, O tell me, holy friar,
ROM 3.3. 82 Where is my lady's lord? Where's Romeo?
ROM 3.3. 83
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.
ROM 3.3. 84
ROM-NURSE
O, he is even in my mistress' case,
ROM 3.3. 85 Just in her case! O woeful sympathy,
ROM 3.3. 86 Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,
ROM 3.3. 87 Blubb'ring and weeping, weeping and blubb'ring.
ROM 3.3. 88 {(To Romeo)} Stand up, stand up, stand an you be a +
ROM 3.3. 88 man,
ROM 3.3. 89 For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand.
ROM 3.3. 90 Why should you fall into so deep an O?
ROM 3.3. 91B
ROM-ROMEO
{(rising)} Nurse.
ROM-NURSE
Ah sir, ah sir, +
ROM 3.3. 91B death's the end of all.
ROM 3.3. 92
ROM-ROMEO
Spak'st thou of Juliet? How is it with her?
ROM 3.3. 93 Doth not she think me an old murderer,
ROM 3.3. 94 Now I have stained the childhood of our joy
ROM 3.3. 95 With blood removed but little from her own?
ROM 3.3. 96 Where is she, and how doth she, and what says
ROM 3.3. 97 My concealed lady to our cancelled love?
ROM 3.3. 98
ROM-NURSE
O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps,
ROM 3.3. 99 And now falls on her bed, and then starts up,
ROM 3.3. 100 And `Tybalt' calls, and then on Romeo cries,
ROM 3.3. 101B And then down falls again.
ROM-ROMEO
As if that name
ROM 3.3. 102 Shot from the deadly level of a gun
ROM 3.3. 103 Did murder her as that name's cursed hand
ROM 3.3. 104 Murdered her kinsman. O tell me, friar, tell me,
ROM 3.3. 105 In what vile part of this anatomy
ROM 3.3. 106 Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack
ROM 3.3. 107B The hateful mansion. {[He offers to stab himself, and the Nurse +
ROM 3.3. 107B snatches the dagger away]}
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Hold thy +
ROM 3.3. 107B desperate hand.
ROM 3.3. 108 Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art.
ROM 3.3. 109 Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote
ROM 3.3. 110 The unreasonable fury of a beast.
ROM 3.3. 111 Unseemly woman in a seeming man,
ROM 3.3. 112 And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
ROM 3.3. 113 Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order,
ROM 3.3. 114 I thought thy disposition better tempered.
ROM 3.3. 115 Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself,
ROM 3.3. 116 And slay thy lady that in thy life lives
ROM 3.3. 117 By doing damned hate upon thyself?
ROM 3.3. 118 Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth,
ROM 3.3. 119 Since birth and heaven and earth, all three, do meet
ROM 3.3. 120 In thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose?
ROM 3.3. 121 Fie, fie, thou sham'st thy shape, thy love, thy wit,
ROM 3.3. 122 Which like a usurer abound'st in all,
ROM 3.3. 123 And usest none in that true use indeed
ROM 3.3. 124 Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit.
ROM 3.3. 125 Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,
ROM 3.3. 126 Digressing from the valour of a man;
ROM 3.3. 127 Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,
ROM 3.3. 128 Killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish;
ROM 3.3. 129 Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
ROM 3.3. 130 Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
ROM 3.3. 131 Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask
ROM 3.3. 132 Is set afire by thine own ignorance,
ROM 3.3. 133 And thou dismembered with thine own defence.
ROM 3.3. 134 What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive,
ROM 3.3. 135 For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead:
ROM 3.3. 136 There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,
ROM 3.3. 137 But thou slewest Tybalt: there art thou happy.
ROM 3.3. 138 The law that threatened death becomes thy friend,
ROM 3.3. 139 And turns it to exile: there art thou happy.
ROM 3.3. 140 A pack of blessings light upon thy back,
ROM 3.3. 141 Happiness courts thee in her best array,
ROM 3.3. 142 But, like a mishaved and sullen wench,
ROM 3.3. 143 Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love.
ROM 3.3. 144 Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
ROM 3.3. 145 Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed.
ROM 3.3. 146 Ascend her chamber; hence and comfort her.
ROM 3.3. 147 But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
ROM 3.3. 148 For then thou canst not pass to Mantua,
ROM 3.3. 149 Where thou shalt live till we can find a time
ROM 3.3. 150 To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
ROM 3.3. 151 Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back
ROM 3.3. 152 With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
ROM 3.3. 153 Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
ROM 3.3. 154 Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady,
ROM 3.3. 155 And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
ROM 3.3. 156 Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.
ROM 3.3. 157 Romeo is coming.
ROM 3.3. 158
ROM-NURSE
O Lord, I could have stayed here all the night
ROM 3.3. 159 To hear good counsel! O, what learning is!
ROM 3.3. 160 My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.
ROM 3.3. 161
ROM-ROMEO
Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. {[Nurse +
ROM 3.3. 161 offers to go in, and turns again]}
ROM 3.3. 162
ROM-NURSE
{(giving the ring)} Here, sir, a ring she +
ROM 3.3. 162 bid me give you, sir.
ROM 3.3. 163 Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.
ROM 3.3. 164
ROM-ROMEO
How well my comfort is revived by this. {Exit Nurse}
ROM 3.3. 165
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Go hence, good night, and here stands all +
ROM 3.3. 165 your state.
ROM 3.3. 166 Either be gone before the watch be set,
ROM 3.3. 167 Or by the break of day disguised from hence.
ROM 3.3. 168 Sojourn in Mantua. I'll find out your man,
ROM 3.3. 169 And he shall signify from time to time
ROM 3.3. 170 Every good hap to you that chances here.
ROM 3.3. 171 Give me thy hand. 'Tis late. Farewell. Good night.
ROM 3.3. 172
ROM-ROMEO
But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
ROM 3.3. 173 It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
ROM 3.3. 174 Farewell. {Exeunt [severally]}
ROM 3.3. 0 {Enter Capulet, his Wife, and Paris}
ROM 3.4. 1
ROM-CAPULET
Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily
ROM 3.4. 2 That we have had no time to move our daughter.
ROM 3.4. 3 Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
ROM 3.4. 4 And so did I. Well, we were born to die.
ROM 3.4. 5 'Tis very late. She'll not come down tonight.
ROM 3.4. 6 I promise you, but for your company
ROM 3.4. 7 I would have been abed an hour ago.
ROM 3.4. 8
ROM-PARIS
These times of woe afford no times to woo.
ROM 3.4. 9 Madam, good night. Commend me to your daughter.
ROM 3.4. 10
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
I will, and know her mind early tomorrow.
ROM 3.4. 11 Tonight she's mewed up to her heaviness. {[Paris offers to go +
ROM 3.4. 11 in, and Capulet calls him again]}
ROM 3.4. 12
ROM-CAPULET
Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
ROM 3.4. 13 Of my child's love. I think she will be ruled
ROM 3.4. 14 In all respects by me. Nay, more, I doubt it not.
ROM 3.4. 15 Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed.
ROM 3.4. 16 Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love,
ROM 3.4. 17 And bid her - mark you me? - on Wednesday next -
ROM 3.4. 18B But soft - what day is this?
ROM-PARIS
Monday, my lord.
ROM 3.4. 19
ROM-CAPULET
Monday. Ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon.
ROM 3.4. 20 O' Thursday let it be. O' Thursday, tell her,
ROM 3.4. 21 She shall be married to this noble earl.
ROM 3.4. 22 Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?
ROM 3.4. 23 We'll keep no great ado - a friend or two.
ROM 3.4. 24 For hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
ROM 3.4. 25 It may be thought we held him carelessly,
ROM 3.4. 26 Being our kinsman, if we revel much.
ROM 3.4. 27 Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,
ROM 3.4. 28 And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?
ROM 3.4. 29
ROM-PARIS
My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.
ROM 3.4. 30
ROM-CAPULET
Well, get you gone. O' Thursday be it, then.
ROM 3.4. 31 {(To his Wife)} Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed.
ROM 3.4. 32 Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day. -
ROM 3.4. 33 Farewell, my lord. - Light to my chamber, ho! -
ROM 3.4. 34 Afore me, it is so very late that we
ROM 3.4. 35 May call it early by and by. Good night. {Exeunt [Capulet and +
ROM 3.4. 35 his wife at}
ROM 3.4. 0 {one door, Paris at another door]} {Enter Romeo and Juliet +
ROM 3.5. 0 aloft [with the ladder of cords]}
ROM 3.5. 1
ROM-JULIET
Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.
ROM 3.5. 2 It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
ROM 3.5. 3 That pierced the fear-full hollow of thine ear.
ROM 3.5. 4 Nightly she sings on yon pom'granate tree.
ROM 3.5. 5 Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
ROM 3.5. 6
ROM-ROMEO
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
ROM 3.5. 7 No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks
ROM 3.5. 8 Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
ROM 3.5. 9 Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
ROM 3.5. 10 Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
ROM 3.5. 11 I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
ROM 3.5. 12
ROM-JULIET
Yon light is not daylight; I know it, I.
ROM 3.5. 13 It is some meteor that the sun exhaled
ROM 3.5. 14 To be to thee this night a torchbearer
ROM 3.5. 15 And light thee on thy way to Mantua.
ROM 3.5. 16 Therefore stay yet. Thou need'st not to be gone.
ROM 3.5. 17
ROM-ROMEO
Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death.
ROM 3.5. 18 I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
ROM 3.5. 19 I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,
ROM 3.5. 20 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;
ROM 3.5. 21 Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat
ROM 3.5. 22 The vaulty heaven so high above our heads.
ROM 3.5. 23 I have more care to stay than will to go.
ROM 3.5. 24 Come, death, and welcome; Juliet wills it so.
ROM 3.5. 25 How is 't, my soul? Let's talk. It is not day.
ROM 3.5. 26
ROM-JULIET
It is, it is. Hie hence, be gone, away.
ROM 3.5. 27 It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
ROM 3.5. 28 Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
ROM 3.5. 29 Some say the lark makes sweet division;
ROM 3.5. 30 This doth not so, for she divideth us.
ROM 3.5. 31 Some say the lark and loathed toad changed eyes.
ROM 3.5. 32 O, now I would they had changed voices, too,
ROM 3.5. 33 Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
ROM 3.5. 34 Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day.
ROM 3.5. 35 O, now be gone! More light and light it grows.
ROM 3.5. 36
ROM-ROMEO
More light and light, more dark and dark our woes. +
ROM 3.5. 36 {Enter the Nurse [hastily]}
ROM 3.5. 37A
ROM-NURSE
Madam.
ROM 3.5. 38A
ROM-JULIET
Nurse.
ROM 3.5. 39
ROM-NURSE
Your lady mother is coming to your chamber.
ROM 3.5. 40 The day is broke; be wary, look about. {Exit}
ROM 3.5. 41
ROM-JULIET
Then, window, let day in, and let life out.
ROM 3.5. 42
ROM-ROMEO
Farewell, farewell! One kiss, and I'll descend. {[He +
ROM 3.5. 42 lets down the ladder of cords and goes down]}
ROM 3.5. 43
ROM-JULIET
Art thou gone so, love, lord, my husband, friend?
ROM 3.5. 44 I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
ROM 3.5. 45 For in a minute there are many days.
ROM 3.5. 46 O, by this count I shall be much in years
ROM 3.5. 47 Ere I again behold my Romeo.
ROM 3.5. 48A
ROM-ROMEO
Farewell.
ROM 3.5. 49 I will omit no opportunity
ROM 3.5. 50 That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
ROM 3.5. 51
ROM-JULIET
O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again?
ROM 3.5. 52
ROM-ROMEO
I doubt it not, and all these woes shall serve
ROM 3.5. 53 For sweet discourses in our times to come.
ROM 3.5. 54
ROM-[JULIET]
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
ROM 3.5. 55 Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,
ROM 3.5. 56 As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
ROM 3.5. 57 Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.
ROM 3.5. 58
ROM-ROMEO
And trust me, love, in my eye so do you.
ROM 3.5. 59 Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu. {Exit}
ROM 3.5. 60
ROM-JULIET
{[pulling up the ladder and weeping]} O +
ROM 3.5. 60 fortune, fortune, all men call thee fickle.
ROM 3.5. 61 If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him
ROM 3.5. 62 That is renowned for faith? Be fickle, fortune,
ROM 3.5. 63 For then I hope thou wilt not keep him long,
ROM 3.5. 64B But send him back. {Enter Capulet's Wife [below]} +
ROM 3.5. 64B
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Ho, daughter, are you up?
ROM 3.5. 65
ROM-JULIET
Who is 't that calls? It is my lady mother.
ROM 3.5. 66 Is she not down so late, or up so early?
ROM 3.5. 67 What unaccustomed cause procures her hither? {[She goes down and +
ROM 3.5. 67 enters below]}
ROM 3.5. 68B
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Why, how now, Juliet?
ROM-JULIET
Madam, I +
ROM 3.5. 68B am not well.
ROM 3.5. 69
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?
ROM 3.5. 70 What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?
ROM 3.5. 71 An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live,
ROM 3.5. 72 Therefore have done. Some grief shows much of love,
ROM 3.5. 73 But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
ROM 3.5. 74
ROM-JULIET
Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.
ROM 3.5. 75
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend
ROM 3.5. 76B Which you so weep for.
ROM-JULIET
Feeling so the loss,
ROM 3.5. 77 I cannot choose but ever weep the friend.
ROM 3.5. 78
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death
ROM 3.5. 79 As that the villain lives which slaughtered him.
ROM 3.5. 80B
ROM-JULIET
What villain, madam?
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
That same villain +
ROM 3.5. 80B Romeo.
ROM 3.5. 81
ROM-JULIET
{(aside)} Villain and he be many miles +
ROM 3.5. 81 asunder.
ROM 3.5. 82 {(To her mother)} God pardon him - I do, with all my +
ROM 3.5. 82 heart,
ROM 3.5. 83 And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.
ROM 3.5. 84
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
That is because the traitor murderer lives.
ROM 3.5. 85
ROM-JULIET
Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands.
ROM 3.5. 86 Would none but I might venge my cousin's death.
ROM 3.5. 87
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not.
ROM 3.5. 88 Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,
ROM 3.5. 89 Where that same banished runagate doth live,
ROM 3.5. 90 Shall give him such an unaccustomed dram
ROM 3.5. 91 That he shall soon keep Tybalt company;
ROM 3.5. 92 And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied.
ROM 3.5. 93
ROM-JULIET
Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
ROM 3.5. 94 With Romeo till I behold him, dead,
ROM 3.5. 95 Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed.
ROM 3.5. 96 Madam, if you could find out but a man
ROM 3.5. 97 To bear a poison, I would temper it
ROM 3.5. 98 That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
ROM 3.5. 99 Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
ROM 3.5. 100 To hear him named and cannot come to him
ROM 3.5. 101 To wreak the love I bore my cousin
ROM 3.5. 102 Upon his body that hath slaughtered him!
ROM 3.5. 103
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.
ROM 3.5. 104 But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.
ROM 3.5. 105
ROM-JULIET
And joy comes well in such a needy time.
ROM 3.5. 106 What are they, I beseech your ladyship?
ROM 3.5. 107
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;
ROM 3.5. 108 One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,
ROM 3.5. 109 Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy
ROM 3.5. 110 That thou expect'st not, nor I looked not for.
ROM 3.5. 111
ROM-JULIET
Madam, in happy time. What day is that?
ROM 3.5. 112
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn
ROM 3.5. 113 The gallant, young, and noble gentleman
ROM 3.5. 114 The County Paris at Saint Peter's Church
ROM 3.5. 115 Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.
ROM 3.5. 116
ROM-JULIET
Now, by Saint Peter's Church, and Peter too,
ROM 3.5. 117 He shall not make me there a joyful bride.
ROM 3.5. 118 I wonder at this haste, that I must wed
ROM 3.5. 119 Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.
ROM 3.5. 120 I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,
ROM 3.5. 121 I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear
ROM 3.5. 122 It shall be Romeo - whom you know I hate -
ROM 3.5. 123 Rather than Paris. These are news indeed. {Enter Capulet and the +
ROM 3.5. 123 Nurse}
ROM 3.5. 124
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Here comes your father. Tell him so +
ROM 3.5. 124 yourself,
ROM 3.5. 125 And see how he will take it at your hands.
ROM 3.5. 126
ROM-CAPULET
When the sun sets, the earth doth drizzle dew,
ROM 3.5. 127 But for the sunset of my brother's son
ROM 3.5. 128 It rains downright.
ROM 3.5. 129 How now, a conduit, girl? What, still in tears?
ROM 3.5. 130 Evermore show'ring? In one little body
ROM 3.5. 131 Thou counterfeit'st a barque, a sea, a wind,
ROM 3.5. 132 For still thy eyes - which I may call the sea -
ROM 3.5. 133 Do ebb and flow with tears. The barque thy body is,
ROM 3.5. 134 Sailing in this salt flood; the winds thy sighs,
ROM 3.5. 135 Who, raging with thy tears and they with them,
ROM 3.5. 136 Without a sudden calm will overset
ROM 3.5. 137 Thy tempest-tossed body. - How now, wife?
ROM 3.5. 138 Have you delivered to her our decree?
ROM 3.5. 139
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Ay, sir, but she will none, she gives you thanks.
ROM 3.5. 140 I would the fool were married to her grave.
ROM 3.5. 141
ROM-CAPULET
Soft, take me with you, take me with you, wife.
ROM 3.5. 142 How, will she none? Doth she not give us thanks?
ROM 3.5. 143 Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blest,
ROM 3.5. 144 Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
ROM 3.5. 145 So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?
ROM 3.5. 146
ROM-JULIET
Not proud you have, but thankful that you have.
ROM 3.5. 147 Proud can I never be of what I hate,
ROM 3.5. 148 But thankful even for hate that is meant love.
ROM 3.5. 149
ROM-CAPULET
How, how, how, how - chopped logic? What is this?
ROM 3.5. 150 `Proud', and `I thank you', and `I thank you not',
ROM 3.5. 151 And yet `not proud'? Mistress minion, you,
ROM 3.5. 152 Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,
ROM 3.5. 153 But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next
ROM 3.5. 154 To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,
ROM 3.5. 155 Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.
ROM 3.5. 156 Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage,
ROM 3.5. 157B You tallow-face!
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Fie, fie, what, are you mad?
ROM 3.5. 158
ROM-JULIET
{(kneeling)} Good father, I beseech you on +
ROM 3.5. 158 my knees,
ROM 3.5. 159 Hear me with patience but to speak a word.
ROM 3.5. 160
ROM-CAPULET
Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!
ROM 3.5. 161 I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,
ROM 3.5. 162 Or never after look me in the face.
ROM 3.5. 163 Speak not, reply not, do not answer me. {[Juliet rises]}
ROM 3.5. 164 My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest
ROM 3.5. 165 That God had lent us but this only child,
ROM 3.5. 166 But now I see this one is one too much,
ROM 3.5. 167 And that we have a curse in having her.
ROM 3.5. 168B Out on her, hilding!
ROM-NURSE
God in heaven bless her!
ROM 3.5. 169 You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.
ROM 3.5. 170
ROM-CAPULET
And why, my lady Wisdom? Hold your tongue,
ROM 3.5. 171 Good Prudence. Smatter with your gossips, go!
ROM 3.5. 172B
ROM-NURSE
I speak no treason.
ROM-[CAPULET]
O, God-i'-good-e'en!
ROM 3.5. 173B
ROM-[NURSE]
May not one speak?
ROM-CAPULET
Peace, you mumbling fool,
ROM 3.5. 174 Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl,
ROM 3.5. 175B For here we need it not.
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
You are too hot.
ROM 3.5. 176
ROM-CAPULET
God's bread, it makes me mad. Day, night; work, play;
ROM 3.5. 177 Alone, in company, still my care hath been
ROM 3.5. 178 To have her matched; and having now provided
ROM 3.5. 179 A gentleman of noble parentage,
ROM 3.5. 180 Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly lined,
ROM 3.5. 181 Stuffed, as they say, with honourable parts,
ROM 3.5. 182 Proportioned as one's thought would wish a man -
ROM 3.5. 183 And then to have a wretched puling fool,
ROM 3.5. 184 A whining maumet, in her fortune's tender,
ROM 3.5. 185 To answer `I'll not wed, I cannot love;
ROM 3.5. 186 I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!
ROM 3.5. 187 But an you will not wed, I'll pardon you!
ROM 3.5. 188 Graze where you will, you shall not house with me.
ROM 3.5. 189 Look to 't, think on 't. I do not use to jest.
ROM 3.5. 190 Thursday is near. Lay hand on heart. Advise.
ROM 3.5. 191 An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend.
ROM 3.5. 192 An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
ROM 3.5. 193 For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,
ROM 3.5. 194 Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.
ROM 3.5. 195 Trust to 't. Bethink you. I'll not be forsworn. {Exit}
ROM 3.5. 196
ROM-JULIET
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
ROM 3.5. 197 That sees into the bottom of my grief?
ROM 3.5. 198 O sweet my mother, cast me not away!
ROM 3.5. 199 Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
ROM 3.5. 200 Or if you do not, make the bridal bed
ROM 3.5. 201 In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
ROM 3.5. 202
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word.
ROM 3.5. 203 Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. {Exit}
ROM 3.5. 204
ROM-JULIET
O, God - O Nurse, how shall this be prevented?
ROM 3.5. 205 My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven.
ROM 3.5. 206 How shall that faith return again to earth
ROM 3.5. 207 Unless that husband send it me from heaven
ROM 3.5. 208 By leaving earth? Comfort me, counsel me.
ROM 3.5. 209 Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems
ROM 3.5. 210 Upon so soft a subject as myself!
ROM 3.5. 211 What sayst thou? Hast thou not a word of joy?
ROM 3.5. 212B Some comfort, Nurse.
ROM-NURSE
Faith, here it is: Romeo
ROM 3.5. 213 Is banished, and all the world to nothing
ROM 3.5. 214 That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you,
ROM 3.5. 215 Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth.
ROM 3.5. 216 Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
ROM 3.5. 217 I think it best you married with the County.
ROM 3.5. 218 O, he's a lovely gentleman!
ROM 3.5. 219 Romeo's a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam,
ROM 3.5. 220 Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye
ROM 3.5. 221 As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,
ROM 3.5. 222 I think you are happy in this second match,
ROM 3.5. 223 For it excels your first; or if it did not,
ROM 3.5. 224 Your first is dead, or 'twere as good he were
ROM 3.5. 225 As living hence and you no use of him.
ROM 3.5. 226A
ROM-JULIET
Speak'st thou from thy heart?
ROM 3.5. 227
ROM-NURSE
And from my soul, too, else beshrew them both.
ROM 3.5. 228A
ROM-JULIET
Amen.
ROM 3.5. 229A
ROM-NURSE
What?
ROM 3.5. 230
ROM-JULIET
Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.
ROM 3.5. 231 Go in; and tell my lady I am gone,
ROM 3.5. 232 Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell
ROM 3.5. 233 To make confession and to be absolved.
ROM 3.5. 234
ROM-NURSE
Marry, I will; and this is wisely done. {[Exit]}
ROM 3.5. 235
ROM-JULIET
{(watching her go)} Ancient damnation! O +
ROM 3.5. 235 most wicked fiend!
ROM 3.5. 236 Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,
ROM 3.5. 237 Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
ROM 3.5. 238 Which she hath praised him with above compare
ROM 3.5. 239 So many thousand times? Go, counsellor!
ROM 3.5. 240 Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
ROM 3.5. 241 I'll to the friar, to know his remedy.
ROM 3.5. 242 If all else fail, myself have power to die. {Exit}
ROM 3.5. 0 {Enter Friar Laurence and Paris}
ROM 4.1. 1
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
On Thursday, sir? The time is very short.
ROM 4.1. 2
ROM-PARIS
My father Capulet will have it so,
ROM 4.1. 3 And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.
ROM 4.1. 4
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
You say you do not know the lady's mind?
ROM 4.1. 5 Uneven is the course. I like it not.
ROM 4.1. 6
ROM-PARIS
Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,
ROM 4.1. 7 And therefore have I little talked of love,
ROM 4.1. 8 For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
ROM 4.1. 9 Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
ROM 4.1. 10 That she do give her sorrow so much sway,
ROM 4.1. 11 And in his wisdom hastes our marriage
ROM 4.1. 12 To stop the inundation of her tears,
ROM 4.1. 13 Which, too much minded by herself alone,
ROM 4.1. 14 May be put from her by society.
ROM 4.1. 15 Now do you know the reason of this haste.
ROM 4.1. 16
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
{(aside)} I would I knew not why it +
ROM 4.1. 16 should be slowed. - {Enter Juliet}
ROM 4.1. 17 Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell.
ROM 4.1. 18
ROM-PARIS
Happily met, my lady and my wife.
ROM 4.1. 19
ROM-JULIET
That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.
ROM 4.1. 20
ROM-PARIS
That `may be' must be, love, on Thursday next.
ROM 4.1. 21B
ROM-JULIET
What must be shall be.
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
That's a certain +
ROM 4.1. 21B text.
ROM 4.1. 22
ROM-PARIS
Come you to make confession to this father?
ROM 4.1. 23
ROM-JULIET
To answer that, I should confess to you.
ROM 4.1. 24
ROM-PARIS
Do not deny to him that you love me.
ROM 4.1. 25
ROM-JULIET
I will confess to you that I love him.
ROM 4.1. 26
ROM-PARIS
So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.
ROM 4.1. 27
ROM-JULIET
If I do so, it will be of more price,
ROM 4.1. 28 Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.
ROM 4.1. 29
ROM-PARIS
Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.
ROM 4.1. 30
ROM-JULIET
The tears have got small victory by that,
ROM 4.1. 31 For it was bad enough before their spite.
ROM 4.1. 32
ROM-PARIS
Thou wrong'st it more than tears with that report.
ROM 4.1. 33
ROM-JULIET
That is no slander, sir, which is a truth,
ROM 4.1. 34 And what I spake, I spake it to my face.
ROM 4.1. 35
ROM-PARIS
Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it.
ROM 4.1. 36
ROM-JULIET
It may be so, for it is not mine own. -
ROM 4.1. 37 Are you at leisure, holy father, now,
ROM 4.1. 38 Or shall I come to you at evening mass?
ROM 4.1. 39
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.
ROM 4.1. 40 My lord, we must entreat the time alone.
ROM 4.1. 41
ROM-PARIS
God shield I should disturb devotion! -
ROM 4.1. 42 Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye.
ROM 4.1. 43 {(Kissing her)} Till then, adieu, and keep this holy +
ROM 4.1. 43 kiss. {Exit}
ROM 4.1. 44
ROM-JULIET
O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so,
ROM 4.1. 45 Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help!
ROM 4.1. 46
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
O Juliet, I already know thy grief.
ROM 4.1. 47 It strains me past the compass of my wits.
ROM 4.1. 48 I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,
ROM 4.1. 49 On Thursday next be married to this County.
ROM 4.1. 50
ROM-JULIET
Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,
ROM 4.1. 51 Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.
ROM 4.1. 52 If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,
ROM 4.1. 53 Do thou but call my resolution wise, {She draws a knife}
ROM 4.1. 54 And with this knife I'll help it presently.
ROM 4.1. 55 God joined my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands,
ROM 4.1. 56 And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo's sealed,
ROM 4.1. 57 Shall be the label to another deed,
ROM 4.1. 58 Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
ROM 4.1. 59 Turn to another, this shall slay them both.
ROM 4.1. 60 Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,
ROM 4.1. 61 Give me some present counsel; or, behold,
ROM 4.1. 62 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
ROM 4.1. 63 Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that
ROM 4.1. 64 Which the commission of thy years and art
ROM 4.1. 65 Could to no issue of true honour bring.
ROM 4.1. 66 Be not so long to speak. I long to die
ROM 4.1. 67 If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.
ROM 4.1. 68
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope
ROM 4.1. 69 Which craves as desperate an execution
ROM 4.1. 70 As that is desperate which we would prevent.
ROM 4.1. 71 If, rather than to marry County Paris,
ROM 4.1. 72 Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
ROM 4.1. 73 Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
ROM 4.1. 74 A thing like death to chide away this shame,
ROM 4.1. 75 That cop'st with death himself to scape from it;
ROM 4.1. 76 And, if thou dar'st, I'll give thee remedy.
ROM 4.1. 77
ROM-JULIET
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
ROM 4.1. 78 From off the battlements of any tower,
ROM 4.1. 79 Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk
ROM 4.1. 80 Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears,
ROM 4.1. 81 Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,
ROM 4.1. 82 O'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
ROM 4.1. 83 With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
ROM 4.1. 84 Or bid me go into a new-made grave
ROM 4.1. 85 And hide me with a dead man in his tomb -
ROM 4.1. 86 Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble -
ROM 4.1. 87 And I will do it without fear or doubt,
ROM 4.1. 88 To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.
ROM 4.1. 89
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent
ROM 4.1. 90 To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow.
ROM 4.1. 91 Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone.
ROM 4.1. 92 Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
ROM 4.1. 93 Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
ROM 4.1. 94 And this distilling liquor drink thou off,
ROM 4.1. 95 When presently through all thy veins shall run
ROM 4.1. 96 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse
ROM 4.1. 97 Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
ROM 4.1. 98 No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.
ROM 4.1. 99 The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
ROM 4.1. 100 To wanny ashes, thy eyes' windows fall
ROM 4.1. 101 Like death when he shuts up the day of life.
ROM 4.1. 102 Each part, deprived of supple government,
ROM 4.1. 103 Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death;
ROM 4.1. 104 And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
ROM 4.1. 105 Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours,
ROM 4.1. 106 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
ROM 4.1. 107 Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
ROM 4.1. 108 To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.
ROM 4.1. 109 Then, as the manner of our country is,
ROM 4.1. 110 In thy best robes, uncovered on the bier
ROM 4.1. 111 Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
ROM 4.1. 112 Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
ROM 4.1. 113 In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,
ROM 4.1. 114 Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,
ROM 4.1. 115 And hither shall he come, and he and I
ROM 4.1. 116 Will watch thy waking, and that very night
ROM 4.1. 117 Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
ROM 4.1. 118 And this shall free thee from this present shame,
ROM 4.1. 119 If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear
ROM 4.1. 120 Abate thy valour in the acting it.
ROM 4.1. 121
ROM-JULIET
Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!
ROM 4.1. 122
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
{(giving her the vial)} Hold, get +
ROM 4.1. 122 you gone. Be strong and prosperous
ROM 4.1. 123 In this resolve. I'll send a friar with speed
ROM 4.1. 124 To Mantua with my letters to thy lord.
ROM 4.1. 125
ROM-JULIET
Love give me strength, and strength shall help afford.
ROM 4.1. 126 Farewell, dear father. {Exeunt [severally]}
ROM 4.1. 0 {Enter Capulet, his Wife, the Nurse, and [two] +
ROM 4.2. 0 Servingmen}
ROM 4.2. 1
ROM-CAPULET
{(giving a Servingman a paper)} So many +
ROM 4.2. 1 guests invite as here are writ. {[Exit Servingman]}
ROM 4.2. 2 {(To the other Servingman)} Sirrah, go hire me twenty +
ROM 4.2. 2 cunning cooks.
ROM 4.2. 3
ROM-SERVINGMAN
You shall have none ill, sir, for I'll try if +
ROM 4.2. 3 they
ROM 4.2. 4 can lick their fingers.
ROM 4.2. 5
ROM-CAPULET
How canst thou try them so?
ROM 4.2. 6
ROM-SERVINGMAN
Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his
ROM 4.2. 7 own fingers, therefore he that cannot lick his fingers
ROM 4.2. 8 goes not with me.
ROM 4.2. 9A
ROM-CAPULET
Go, be gone. {[Exit Servingman]}
ROM 4.2. 10 We shall be much unfurnished for this time.
ROM 4.2. 11 {(To the Nurse)} What, is my daughter gone to Friar +
ROM 4.2. 11 Laurence?
ROM 4.2. 12
ROM-NURSE
Ay, forsooth.
ROM 4.2. 13
ROM-CAPULET
Well, he may chance to do some good on her.
ROM 4.2. 14 A peevish, self-willed harlotry it is. {Enter Juliet}
ROM 4.2. 15
ROM-NURSE
See where she comes from shrift with merry look.
ROM 4.2. 16
ROM-CAPULET
{(to Juliet)} How now, my headstrong, +
ROM 4.2. 16 where have you been gadding?
ROM 4.2. 17
ROM-JULIET
Where I have learned me to repent the sin
ROM 4.2. 18 Of disobedient opposition
ROM 4.2. 19 To you and your behests, and am enjoined
ROM 4.2. 20 By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here
ROM 4.2. 21 To beg your pardon. {(Kneeling)} Pardon, I beseech you.
ROM 4.2. 22 Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.
ROM 4.2. 23
ROM-CAPULET
{[to the Nurse]} Send for the County; go +
ROM 4.2. 23 tell him of this.
ROM 4.2. 24 I'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.
ROM 4.2. 25
ROM-JULIET
I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell,
ROM 4.2. 26 And gave him what becoming love I might,
ROM 4.2. 27 Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
ROM 4.2. 28
ROM-CAPULET
Why, I am glad on 't. This is well. Stand up. {Juliet +
ROM 4.2. 28 rises}
ROM 4.2. 29 This is as 't should be. Let me see the County.
ROM 4.2. 30 {[To Nurse]} Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him +
ROM 4.2. 30 hither.
ROM 4.2. 31 Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar,
ROM 4.2. 32 All our whole city is much bound to him.
ROM 4.2. 33
ROM-JULIET
Nurse, will you go with me into my closet
ROM 4.2. 34 To help me sort such needful ornaments
ROM 4.2. 35 As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?
ROM 4.2. 36
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
No, not till Thursday. There is time enough.
ROM 4.2. 37
ROM-CAPULET
Go, Nurse, go with her. We'll to church tomorrow. +
ROM 4.2. 37 {Exeunt Juliet and Nurse}
ROM 4.2. 38
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
We shall be short in our provision.
ROM 4.2. 39B 'Tis now near night.
ROM-CAPULET
Tush, I will stir about,
ROM 4.2. 40 And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife.
ROM 4.2. 41 Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her.
ROM 4.2. 42 I'll not to bed tonight. Let me alone.
ROM 4.2. 43 I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!
ROM 4.2. 44 They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself
ROM 4.2. 45 To County Paris to prepare up him
ROM 4.2. 46 Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light,
ROM 4.2. 47 Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed. {Exeunt +
ROM 4.2. 47 [severally]}
ROM 4.2. 0 {Enter Juliet and the Nurse [with garments]}
ROM 4.3. 1
ROM-JULIET
Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse,
ROM 4.3. 2 I pray thee leave me to myself tonight,
ROM 4.3. 3 For I have need of many orisons
ROM 4.3. 4 To move the heavens to smile upon my state,
ROM 4.3. 5 Which - well thou knowest - is cross and full of sin. {Enter +
ROM 4.3. 5 Capulet's Wife}
ROM 4.3. 6
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help?
ROM 4.3. 7
ROM-JULIET
No, madam, we have culled such necessaries
ROM 4.3. 8 As are behoveful for our state tomorrow.
ROM 4.3. 9 So please you, let me now be left alone,
ROM 4.3. 10 And let the Nurse this night sit up with you,
ROM 4.3. 11 For I am sure you have your hands full all
ROM 4.3. 12B In this so sudden business.
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Good night.
ROM 4.3. 13 Get thee to bed, and rest, for thou hast need. {Exeunt Capulet's +
ROM 4.3. 13 Wife [and Nurse]}
ROM 4.3. 14
ROM-JULIET
Farewell. God knows when we shall meet again.
ROM 4.3. 15 I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
ROM 4.3. 16 That almost freezes up the heat of life.
ROM 4.3. 17 I'll call them back again to comfort me.
ROM 4.3. 18 Nurse! - What should she do here? {[She opens curtains, behind +
ROM 4.3. 18 which is seen her bed]}
ROM 4.3. 19 My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
ROM 4.3. 20 Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all?
ROM 4.3. 21 Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?
ROM 4.3. 22 No, no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there. {She lays down a +
ROM 4.3. 22 knife}
ROM 4.3. 23 What if it be a poison which the friar
ROM 4.3. 24 Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,
ROM 4.3. 25 Lest in this marriage he should be dishonoured
ROM 4.3. 26 Because he married me before to Romeo?
ROM 4.3. 27 I fear it is - and yet methinks it should not,
ROM 4.3. 28 For he hath still been tried a holy man.
ROM 4.3. 29 How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
ROM 4.3. 30 I wake before the time that Romeo
ROM 4.3. 31 Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point.
ROM 4.3. 32 Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
ROM 4.3. 33 To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
ROM 4.3. 34 And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
ROM 4.3. 35 Or, if I live, is it not very like
ROM 4.3. 36 The horrible conceit of death and night,
ROM 4.3. 37 Together with the terror of the place -
ROM 4.3. 38 As in a vault, an ancient receptacle
ROM 4.3. 39 Where for this many hundred years the bones
ROM 4.3. 40 Of all my buried ancestors are packed;
ROM 4.3. 41 Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
ROM 4.3. 42 Lies fest'ring in his shroud; where, as they say,
ROM 4.3. 43 At some hours in the night spirits resort -
ROM 4.3. 44 Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
ROM 4.3. 45 So early waking - what with loathsome smells,
ROM 4.3. 46 And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
ROM 4.3. 47 That living mortals, hearing them, run mad -
ROM 4.3. 48 O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
ROM 4.3. 49 Environed with all these hideous fears,
ROM 4.3. 50 And madly play with my forefathers' joints,
ROM 4.3. 51 And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud,
ROM 4.3. 52 And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone
ROM 4.3. 53 As with a club dash out my desp'rate brains?
ROM 4.3. 54 O, look! Methinks I see my cousin's ghost
ROM 4.3. 55 Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body
ROM 4.3. 56 Upon a rapier's point. Stay, Tybalt, stay!
ROM 4.3. 57 Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink. I drink to thee. {She drinks +
ROM 4.3. 57 from the vial and falls upon the bed, [pulling closed the curtains]}
ROM 4.3. 0 {Enter Capulet's Wife, and the Nurse [with herbs]}
ROM 4.4. 1
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Hold, take these keys, and fetch more +
ROM 4.4. 1 spices, Nurse.
ROM 4.4. 2
ROM-NURSE
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. {Enter +
ROM 4.4. 2 Capulet}
ROM 4.4. 3
ROM-CAPULET
Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath +
ROM 4.4. 3 crowed.
ROM 4.4. 4 The curfew bell hath rung. 'Tis three o'clock.
ROM 4.4. 5 Look to the baked meats, good Angelica.
ROM 4.4. 6B Spare not for cost.
ROM-NURSE
Go, you cot-quean, go.
ROM 4.4. 7 Get you to bed. Faith, you'll be sick tomorrow
ROM 4.4. 8 For this night's watching.
ROM 4.4. 9
ROM-CAPULET
No, not a whit. What, I have watched ere now
ROM 4.4. 10 All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.
ROM 4.4. 11
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,
ROM 4.4. 12 But I will watch you from such watching now. {Exeunt Capulet's +
ROM 4.4. 12 Wife and Nurse}
ROM 4.4. 13B
ROM-CAPULET
A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood! {Enter +
ROM 4.4. 13B three or four Servingmen, with spits and logs and baskets} +
ROM 4.4. 13B Now, fellow, what is there?
ROM 4.4. 14
ROM-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what.
ROM 4.4. 15B
ROM-CAPULET
Make haste, make haste. {Exit First Servingman [and +
ROM 4.4. 15B one or two others]} Sirrah, fetch drier logs.
ROM 4.4. 16 Call Peter. He will show thee where they are.
ROM 4.4. 17
ROM-SECOND SERVINGMAN
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
ROM 4.4. 18 And never trouble Peter for the matter.
ROM 4.4. 19
ROM-CAPULET
Mass, and well said! A merry whoreson, ha!
ROM 4.4. 20B Thou shalt be loggerhead. {Exit Second Servingman} Good +
ROM 4.4. 20B faith, 'tis day.
ROM 4.4. 21 The County will be here with music straight,
ROM 4.4. 22B For so he said he would. {Music plays within} I hear +
ROM 4.4. 22B him near.
ROM 4.4. 23 Nurse! Wife! What ho, what, Nurse, I say! {Enter the Nurse}
ROM 4.4. 24 Go waken Juliet. Go and trim her up.
ROM 4.4. 25 I'll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,
ROM 4.4. 26 Make haste, the bridegroom he is come already.
ROM 4.4. 27 Make haste, I say. {Exit}
ROM 4.4. 28
ROM-NURSE
Mistress, what, mistress! Juliet! Fast, I warrant +
ROM 4.4. 28 her, she.
ROM 4.4. 29 Why, lamb, why, lady! Fie, you slug-abed!
ROM 4.4. 30 Why, love, I say, madam, sweetheart, why, bride!
ROM 4.4. 31 What, not a word? You take your pennyworths now.
ROM 4.4. 32 Sleep for a week, for the next night, I warrant,
ROM 4.4. 33 The County Paris hath set up his rest
ROM 4.4. 34 That you shall rest but little. God forgive me!
ROM 4.4. 35 Marry, and amen. How sound is she asleep!
ROM 4.4. 36 I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam!
ROM 4.4. 37 Ay, let the County take you in your bed.
ROM 4.4. 38 He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be? {[She draws back +
ROM 4.4. 38 the curtains]}
ROM 4.4. 39 What, dressed and in your clothes, and down again?
ROM 4.4. 40 I must needs wake you. Lady, lady, lady!
ROM 4.4. 41 Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead.
ROM 4.4. 42 O welladay, that ever I was born!
ROM 4.4. 43 Some aqua-vitae, ho! My lord, my lady! {Enter Capulet's Wife}
ROM 4.4. 44B
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
What noise is here?
ROM-NURSE
O lamentable +
ROM 4.4. 44B day!
ROM 4.4. 45B
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
What is the matter?
ROM-NURSE
Look, look. O heavy +
ROM 4.4. 45B day!
ROM 4.4. 46
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
O me, O me, my child, my only life!
ROM 4.4. 47 Revive, look up, or I will die with thee.
ROM 4.4. 48 Help, help, call help! {Enter Capulet}
ROM 4.4. 49
ROM-CAPULET
For shame, bring Juliet forth. Her lord is come.
ROM 4.4. 50
ROM-NURSE
She's dead, deceased. She's dead, alack the day!
ROM 4.4. 51
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!
ROM 4.4. 52
ROM-CAPULET
Ha, let me see her! Out, alas, she's cold.
ROM 4.4. 53 Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff.
ROM 4.4. 54 Life and these lips have long been separated.
ROM 4.4. 55 Death lies on her like an untimely frost
ROM 4.4. 56 Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
ROM 4.4. 57B
ROM-NURSE
O lamentable day!
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
O woeful time!
ROM 4.4. 58
ROM-CAPULET
Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,
ROM 4.4. 59 Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. {Enter Friar +
ROM 4.4. 59 Laurence and Paris, with Musicians}
ROM 4.4. 60
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
ROM 4.4. 61
ROM-CAPULET
Ready to go, but never to return.
ROM 4.4. 62 {(To Paris)} O son, the night before thy wedding day
ROM 4.4. 63 Hath death lain with thy wife. See, there she lies,
ROM 4.4. 64 Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
ROM 4.4. 65 Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.
ROM 4.4. 66 My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
ROM 4.4. 67 And leave him all. Life, living, all is death's. {[Paris, +
ROM 4.4. 67 Capulet and his Wife, and the Nurse all at once wring their hands and +
ROM 4.4. 67 cry out together:]}
ROM 4.4. 68
ROM-PARIS
Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
ROM 4.4. 69 And doth it give me such a sight as this?
ROM 4.4. 70 Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!
ROM 4.4. 71 Most detestable death, by thee beguiled,
ROM 4.4. 72 By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown.
ROM 4.4. 73 O love, O life: not life, but love in death.
ROM 4.4. 74
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
ROM 4.4. 75 Most miserable hour that e'er time saw
ROM 4.4. 76 In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!
ROM 4.4. 77 But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,
ROM 4.4. 78 But one thing to rejoice and solace in,
ROM 4.4. 79 And cruel death hath catched it from my sight!
ROM 4.4. 80
ROM-NURSE
O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
ROM 4.4. 81 Most lamentable day! Most woeful day
ROM 4.4. 82 That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
ROM 4.4. 83 O day, O day, O day, O hateful day,
ROM 4.4. 84 Never was seen so black a day as this!
ROM 4.4. 85 O woeful day, O woeful day!
ROM 4.4. 86
ROM-CAPULET
Despised, distressed, hated, martyred, killed!
ROM 4.4. 87 Uncomfortable time, why cam'st thou now
ROM 4.4. 88 To murder, murder our solemnity?
ROM 4.4. 89 O child, O child, my soul and not my child!
ROM 4.4. 90 Dead art thou, alack, my child is dead,
ROM 4.4. 91 And with my child my joys are buried.
ROM 4.4. 92
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not
ROM 4.4. 93 In these confusions. Heaven and yourself
ROM 4.4. 94 Had part in this fair maid. Now heaven hath all,
ROM 4.4. 95 And all the better is it for the maid.
ROM 4.4. 96 Your part in her you could not keep from death,
ROM 4.4. 97 But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.
ROM 4.4. 98 The most you sought was her promotion,
ROM 4.4. 99 For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced,
ROM 4.4. 100 And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced
ROM 4.4. 101 Above the clouds as high as heaven itself?
ROM 4.4. 102 O, in this love you love your child so ill
ROM 4.4. 103 That you run mad, seeing that she is well.
ROM 4.4. 104 She's not well married that lives married long,
ROM 4.4. 105 But she's best married that dies married young.
ROM 4.4. 106 Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary
ROM 4.4. 107 On this fair corpse, and, as the custom is,
ROM 4.4. 108 All in her best array bear her to church;
ROM 4.4. 109 For though fond nature bids us all lament,
ROM 4.4. 110 Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.
ROM 4.4. 111
ROM-CAPULET
All things that we ordained festival
ROM 4.4. 112 Turn from their office to black funeral.
ROM 4.4. 113 Our instruments to melancholy bells,
ROM 4.4. 114 Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,
ROM 4.4. 115 Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
ROM 4.4. 116 Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corpse,
ROM 4.4. 117 And all things change them to the contrary.
ROM 4.4. 118
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Sir, go you in; and madam, go with him,
ROM 4.4. 119 And go, Sir Paris. Everyone prepare
ROM 4.4. 120 To follow this fair corpse unto her grave.
ROM 4.4. 121 The heavens do lour upon you for some ill.
ROM 4.4. 122 Move them no more by crossing their high will. {[They cast +
ROM 4.4. 122 rosemary on Juliet, and shut the curtains.] Exeunt all but the Nurse +
ROM 4.4. 122 and Musicians}
ROM 4.4. 123
ROM-[FIRST] MUSICIAN
Faith, we may put up our pipes and be
ROM 4.4. 124 gone.
ROM 4.4. 125
ROM-NURSE
Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up,
ROM 4.4. 126 For well you know this is a pitiful case.
ROM 4.4. 127
ROM-[FIRST] MUSICIAN
Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended. +
ROM 4.4. 127 {Exit Nurse}
ROM 4.4. 128 {Enter Peter}
ROM-PETER
Musicians, O, musicians! +
ROM 4.4. 128 `Heart's ease', `Heart's
ROM 4.4. 129 ease'; O, an you will have me live, play `Heart's ease'.
ROM 4.4. 130
ROM-[FIRST] MUSICIAN
Why `Heart's ease'?
ROM 4.4. 131
ROM-PETER
O, musicians, because my heart itself plays `My heart
ROM 4.4. 132 is full of woe'. O, play me some merry dump to comfort
ROM 4.4. 133 me.
ROM 4.4. 134
ROM-[FIRST] MUSICIAN
Not a dump, we. 'Tis no time to play
ROM 4.4. 135 now.
ROM 4.4. 136
ROM-PETER
You will not then?
ROM 4.4. 137
ROM-FIRST MUSICIAN
No.
ROM 4.4. 138
ROM-PETER
I will then give it you soundly.
ROM 4.4. 139
ROM-FIRST MUSICIAN
What will you give us?
ROM 4.4. 140
ROM-PETER
No money, on my faith, but the gleek. I will give
ROM 4.4. 141 you the minstrel.
ROM 4.4. 142
ROM-FIRST MUSICIAN
Then will I give you the serving-creature.
ROM 4.4. 143
ROM-PETER
{(drawing his dagger)} Then will I lay the +
ROM 4.4. 143 serving-
ROM 4.4. 144 creature's dagger on your pate. I will carry no crochets.
ROM 4.4. 145 I'll re you, I'll fa you. Do you note me?
ROM 4.4. 146
ROM-FIRST MUSICIAN
An you re us and fa us, you note us.
ROM 4.4. 147
ROM-SECOND MUSICIAN
Pray you, put up your dagger and put
ROM 4.4. 148 out your wit.
ROM 4.4. 149
ROM-[PETER]
Then have at you with my wit. I will dry-beat you
ROM 4.4. 150 with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer
ROM 4.4. 151 me like men.
ROM 4.4. 152 {[Sings]} When griping grief the heart doth wound,
ROM 4.4. 153 And doleful dumps the mind oppress,
ROM 4.4. 154 Then music with her silver sound -
ROM 4.4. 155 Why `silver sound', why `music with her silver sound'?
ROM 4.4. 156 What say you, Matthew Minikin?
ROM 4.4. 157
ROM-FIRST MUSICIAN
Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet
ROM 4.4. 158 sound.
ROM 4.4. 159
ROM-PETER
Prates! What say you, Hugh Rebec?
ROM 4.4. 160
ROM-SECOND MUSICIAN
I say `silver sound' because musicians
ROM 4.4. 161 sound for silver.
ROM 4.4. 162
ROM-PETER
Prates too! What say you, Simon Soundpost?
ROM 4.4. 163
ROM-THIRD MUSICIAN
Faith, I know not what to say.
ROM 4.4. 164
ROM-PETER
O, I cry you mercy, you are the singer. I will say
ROM 4.4. 165 for you. It is `music with her silver sound' because
ROM 4.4. 166 musicians have no gold for sounding.
ROM 4.4. 167 {[Sings]} Then music with her silver sound
ROM 4.4. 168 With speedy help doth lend redress. {Exit}
ROM 4.4. 169
ROM-FIRST MUSICIAN
What a pestilent knave is this same!
ROM 4.4. 170
ROM-SECOND MUSICIAN
Hang him, jack! Come, we'll in here,
ROM 4.4. 171 tarry for the mourners, and stay dinner. {Exeunt}
ROM 4.4. 0 {Enter Romeo}
ROM 5.1. 1
ROM-ROMEO
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
ROM 5.1. 2 My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
ROM 5.1. 3 My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,
ROM 5.1. 4 And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
ROM 5.1. 5 Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
ROM 5.1. 6 I dreamt my lady came and found me dead -
ROM 5.1. 7 Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think! -
ROM 5.1. 8 And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
ROM 5.1. 9 That I revived and was an emperor.
ROM 5.1. 10 Ah me, how sweet is love itself possessed
ROM 5.1. 11 When but love's shadows are so rich in joy! {Enter Balthasar, +
ROM 5.1. 11 Romeo's man, [booted]}
ROM 5.1. 12 News from Verona! How now, Balthasar?
ROM 5.1. 13 Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
ROM 5.1. 14 How doth my lady? Is my father well?
ROM 5.1. 15 How fares my Juliet? That I ask again,
ROM 5.1. 16 For nothing can be ill if she be well.
ROM 5.1. 17
ROM-BALTHASAR
Then she is well, and nothing can be ill.
ROM 5.1. 18 Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
ROM 5.1. 19 And her immortal part with angels lives.
ROM 5.1. 20 I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,
ROM 5.1. 21 And presently took post to tell it you.
ROM 5.1. 22 O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
ROM 5.1. 23 Since you did leave it for my office, sir.
ROM 5.1. 24
ROM-ROMEO
Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars.
ROM 5.1. 25 Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper,
ROM 5.1. 26 And hire posthorses. I will hence tonight.
ROM 5.1. 27
ROM-BALTHASAR
I do beseech you, sir, have patience.
ROM 5.1. 28 Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
ROM 5.1. 29B Some misadventure.
ROM-ROMEO
Tush, thou art deceived.
ROM 5.1. 30 Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
ROM 5.1. 31 Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?
ROM 5.1. 32B
ROM-BALTHASAR
No, my good lord.
ROM-ROMEO
No matter. Get thee gone,
ROM 5.1. 33 And hire those horses. I'll be with thee straight. {Exit +
ROM 5.1. 33 Balthasar}
ROM 5.1. 34 Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
ROM 5.1. 35 Let's see for means. O mischief, thou art swift
ROM 5.1. 36 To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
ROM 5.1. 37 I do remember an apothecary,
ROM 5.1. 38 And hereabouts a dwells, which late I noted,
ROM 5.1. 39 In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows,
ROM 5.1. 40 Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks.
ROM 5.1. 41 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones,
ROM 5.1. 42 And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
ROM 5.1. 43 An alligator stuffed, and other skins
ROM 5.1. 44 Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
ROM 5.1. 45 A beggarly account of empty boxes,
ROM 5.1. 46 Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
ROM 5.1. 47 Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
ROM 5.1. 48 Were thinly scattered to make up a show.
ROM 5.1. 49 Noting this penury, to myself I said
ROM 5.1. 50 `An if a man did need a poison now,
ROM 5.1. 51 Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
ROM 5.1. 52 Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'
ROM 5.1. 53 O, this same thought did but forerun my need,
ROM 5.1. 54 And this same needy man must sell it me.
ROM 5.1. 55 As I remember, this should be the house.
ROM 5.1. 56 Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
ROM 5.1. 57B What ho, apothecary! {Enter Apothecary}
ROM-APOTHECARY
+
ROM 5.1. 57B Who calls so loud?
ROM 5.1. 58
ROM-ROMEO
Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. {He offers +
ROM 5.1. 58 money}
ROM 5.1. 59 Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
ROM 5.1. 60 A dram of poison - such soon-speeding gear
ROM 5.1. 61 As will disperse itself through all the veins,
ROM 5.1. 62 That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
ROM 5.1. 63 And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
ROM 5.1. 64 As violently as hasty powder fired
ROM 5.1. 65 Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.
ROM 5.1. 66
ROM-APOTHECARY
Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law
ROM 5.1. 67 Is death to any he that utters them.
ROM 5.1. 68
ROM-ROMEO
Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
ROM 5.1. 69 And fear'st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks,
ROM 5.1. 70 Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes,
ROM 5.1. 71 Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back.
ROM 5.1. 72 The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.
ROM 5.1. 73 The world affords no law to make thee rich.
ROM 5.1. 74 Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
ROM 5.1. 75
ROM-APOTHECARY
My poverty but not my will consents.
ROM 5.1. 76
ROM-ROMEO
I pay thy poverty and not thy will.
ROM 5.1. 77
ROM-APOTHECARY
{(handing Romeo poison)} Put this in +
ROM 5.1. 77 any liquid thing you will
ROM 5.1. 78 And drink it off, and if you had the strength
ROM 5.1. 79 Of twenty men it would dispatch you straight.
ROM 5.1. 80
ROM-ROMEO
{(giving money)} There is thy gold - worse +
ROM 5.1. 80 poison to men's souls,
ROM 5.1. 81 Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
ROM 5.1. 82 Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
ROM 5.1. 83 I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
ROM 5.1. 84 Farewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh. {[Exit +
ROM 5.1. 84 Apothecary]}
ROM 5.1. 85 Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
ROM 5.1. 86 To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee. {Exit}
ROM 5.1. 0 {Enter Friar John at one door}
ROM 5.2. 1
ROM-FRIAR JOHN
Holy Franciscan friar, brother, ho! +
ROM 5.2. 1 {Enter Friar Laurence at another door}
ROM 5.2. 2
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
This same should be the voice of Friar +
ROM 5.2. 2 John.
ROM 5.2. 3 Welcome from Mantua! What says Romeo?
ROM 5.2. 4 Or if his mind be writ, give me his letter.
ROM 5.2. 5
ROM-FRIAR JOHN
Going to find a barefoot brother out -
ROM 5.2. 6 One of our order - to associate me
ROM 5.2. 7 Here in this city visiting the sick,
ROM 5.2. 8 And finding him, the searchers of the town,
ROM 5.2. 9 Suspecting that we both were in a house
ROM 5.2. 10 Where the infectious pestilence did reign,
ROM 5.2. 11 Sealed up the doors, and would not let us forth,
ROM 5.2. 12 So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.
ROM 5.2. 13
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Who bare my letter then to Romeo?
ROM 5.2. 14
ROM-FRIAR JOHN
I could not send it - here it is again -
ROM 5.2. 15 Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
ROM 5.2. 16 So fearful were they of infection.
ROM 5.2. 17
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
ROM 5.2. 18 The letter was not nice, but full of charge,
ROM 5.2. 19 Of dear import, and the neglecting it
ROM 5.2. 20 May do much danger. Friar John, go hence.
ROM 5.2. 21 Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight
ROM 5.2. 22B Unto my cell.
ROM-FRIAR JOHN
Brother, I'll go and bring it thee. +
ROM 5.2. 22B {Exit}
ROM 5.2. 23
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Now must I to the monument alone.
ROM 5.2. 24 Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake.
ROM 5.2. 25 She will beshrew me much that Romeo
ROM 5.2. 26 Hath had no notice of these accidents.
ROM 5.2. 27 But I will write again to Mantua,
ROM 5.2. 28 And keep her at my cell till Romeo come.
ROM 5.2. 29 Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man's tomb! {Exit}
ROM 5.2. 0 {Enter Paris and his Page, with flowers, sweet water, and +
ROM 5.3. 0 a torch}
ROM 5.3. 1
ROM-PARIS
Give me thy torch, boy. Hence, and stand aloof.
ROM 5.3. 2 Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. {[His Page puts out the +
ROM 5.3. 2 torch]}
ROM 5.3. 3 Under yon yew trees lay thee all along,
ROM 5.3. 4 Holding thy ear close to the hollow ground.
ROM 5.3. 5 So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
ROM 5.3. 6 Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
ROM 5.3. 7 But thou shalt hear it. Whistle then to me
ROM 5.3. 8 As signal that thou hear'st something approach.
ROM 5.3. 9 Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee. Go.
ROM 5.3. 10
ROM-PAGE
{[aside]} I am almost afraid to stand alone
ROM 5.3. 11 Here in the churchyard, yet I will adventure. {He hides himself +
ROM 5.3. 11 at a distance from Paris}
ROM 5.3. 12
ROM-PARIS
{(strewing flowers)} Sweet flower, with +
ROM 5.3. 12 flowers thy bridal bed I strew. {He sprinkles water}
ROM 5.3. 13 O woe! Thy canopy is dust and stones,
ROM 5.3. 14 Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
ROM 5.3. 15 Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans.
ROM 5.3. 16 The obsequies that I for thee will keep
ROM 5.3. 17 Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. {The Page +
ROM 5.3. 17 whistles}
ROM 5.3. 18 The boy gives warning. Something doth approach.
ROM 5.3. 19 What cursed foot wanders this way tonight
ROM 5.3. 20 To cross my obsequies and true love's rite? {Enter Romeo and +
ROM 5.3. 20 [Balthasar] his man, with a torch, a mattock, and a crow of iron}
ROM 5.3. 21 What, with a torch? Muffle me, night, a while. {He +
ROM 5.3. 21 stands aside}
ROM 5.3. 22
ROM-ROMEO
Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
ROM 5.3. 23 Hold, take this letter. Early in the morning
ROM 5.3. 24 See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
ROM 5.3. 25 Give me the light. Upon thy life I charge thee,
ROM 5.3. 26 Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,
ROM 5.3. 27 And do not interrupt me in my course.
ROM 5.3. 28 Why I descend into this bed of death
ROM 5.3. 29 Is partly to behold my lady's face,
ROM 5.3. 30 But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
ROM 5.3. 31 A precious ring, a ring that I must use
ROM 5.3. 32 In dear employment. Therefore hence, be gone.
ROM 5.3. 33 But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry
ROM 5.3. 34 In what I farther shall intend to do,
ROM 5.3. 35 By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint,
ROM 5.3. 36 And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs.
ROM 5.3. 37 The time and my intents are savage-wild,
ROM 5.3. 38 More fierce and more inexorable far
ROM 5.3. 39 Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
ROM 5.3. 40
ROM-[BALTHASAR]
I will be gone, sir, and not trouble ye.
ROM 5.3. 41
ROM-ROMEO
So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that. {He +
ROM 5.3. 41 gives money}
ROM 5.3. 42 Live and be prosperous, and farewell, good fellow.
ROM 5.3. 43
ROM-[BALTHASAR]
{(aside)} For all this same, I'll hide +
ROM 5.3. 43 me hereabout.
ROM 5.3. 44 His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt. {He hides himself at +
ROM 5.3. 44 a distance from Romeo.}
ROM 5.3. 45 {[Romeo begins to force open the tomb]}
ROM-ROMEO
Thou +
ROM 5.3. 45 detestable maw, thou womb of death,
ROM 5.3. 46 Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
ROM 5.3. 47 Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
ROM 5.3. 48 And in despite I'll cram thee with more food.
ROM 5.3. 49
ROM-PARIS
{(aside)} This is that banished haughty +
ROM 5.3. 49 Montague
ROM 5.3. 50 That murdered my love's cousin, with which grief
ROM 5.3. 51 It is supposed the fair creature died;
ROM 5.3. 52 And here is come to do some villainous shame
ROM 5.3. 53 To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.
ROM 5.3. 54 {[Drawing]} Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague!
ROM 5.3. 55 Can vengeance be pursued further than death?
ROM 5.3. 56 Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee.
ROM 5.3. 57 Obey and go with me, for thou must die.
ROM 5.3. 58
ROM-ROMEO
I must indeed, and therefore came I hither.
ROM 5.3. 59 Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp'rate man.
ROM 5.3. 60 Fly hence, and leave me. Think upon these gone.
ROM 5.3. 61 Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
ROM 5.3. 62 Put not another sin upon my head
ROM 5.3. 63 By urging me to fury. O, be gone.
ROM 5.3. 64 By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
ROM 5.3. 65 For I come hither armed against myself.
ROM 5.3. 66 Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say
ROM 5.3. 67 A madman's mercy bid thee run away.
ROM 5.3. 68
ROM-PARIS
I do defy thy conjuration,
ROM 5.3. 69 And apprehend thee for a felon here.
ROM 5.3. 70
ROM-ROMEO
{(drawing)} Wilt thou provoke me? Then have +
ROM 5.3. 70 at thee, boy. {They fight}
ROM 5.3. 71
ROM-[PAGE]
O Lord, they fight! I will go call the +
ROM 5.3. 71 watch. {Exit}
ROM 5.3. 72
ROM-PARIS
O, I am slain! If thou be merciful,
ROM 5.3. 73 Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.
ROM 5.3. 74B
ROM-ROMEO
In faith, I will. {Paris dies} Let me peruse +
ROM 5.3. 74B this face.
ROM 5.3. 75 Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!
ROM 5.3. 76 What said my man when my betossed soul
ROM 5.3. 77 Did not attend him as we rode? I think
ROM 5.3. 78 He told me Paris should have married Juliet.
ROM 5.3. 79 Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?
ROM 5.3. 80 Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
ROM 5.3. 81 To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
ROM 5.3. 82 One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.
ROM 5.3. 83 I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. {[He opens the tomb, +
ROM 5.3. 83 revealing Juliet]}
ROM 5.3. 84 A grave - O no, a lantern, slaughtered youth,
ROM 5.3. 85 For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
ROM 5.3. 86 This vault a feasting presence full of light. {[He bears the +
ROM 5.3. 86 body of Paris to the tomb]}
ROM 5.3. 87 Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred.
ROM 5.3. 88 How oft, when men are at the point of death,
ROM 5.3. 89 Have they been merry, which their keepers call
ROM 5.3. 90 A lightning before death! O, how may I
ROM 5.3. 91 Call this a lightning? O my love, my wife!
ROM 5.3. 92 Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
ROM 5.3. 93 Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
ROM 5.3. 94 Thou art not conquered. Beauty's ensign yet
ROM 5.3. 95 Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
ROM 5.3. 96 And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
ROM 5.3. 97 Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
ROM 5.3. 98 O, what more favour can I do to thee
ROM 5.3. 99 Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
ROM 5.3. 100 To sunder his that was thine enemy?
ROM 5.3. 101 Forgive me, cousin. Ah, dear Juliet,
ROM 5.3. 102 Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
ROM 5.3. 103 That unsubstantial death is amorous,
ROM 5.3. 104 And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
ROM 5.3. 105 Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
ROM 5.3. 106 For fear of that I still will stay with thee,
ROM 5.3. 107 And never from this pallet of dim night
ROM 5.3. 108 Depart again. Here, here will I remain
ROM 5.3. 109 With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here
ROM 5.3. 110 Will I set up my everlasting rest,
ROM 5.3. 111 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
ROM 5.3. 112 From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last.
ROM 5.3. 113 Arms, take your last embrace, and lips, O you
ROM 5.3. 114 The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
ROM 5.3. 115 A dateless bargain to engrossing death. {[He kisses Juliet, then +
ROM 5.3. 115 pours poison into the cup]}
ROM 5.3. 116 Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide,
ROM 5.3. 117 Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
ROM 5.3. 118 The dashing rocks thy seasick weary barque!
ROM 5.3. 119B Here's to my love. {He drinks the poison} O true +
ROM 5.3. 119B apothecary,
ROM 5.3. 120 Thy drugs are quick! Thus with a kiss I die. {He kisses Juliet, +
ROM 5.3. 120 falls, and dies.}
ROM 5.3. 121 {Enter Friar Laurence with lantern, crow, and spade}
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
+
ROM 5.3. 121 Saint Francis be my speed! How oft tonight
ROM 5.3. 122 Have my old feet stumbled at graves? Who's there?
ROM 5.3. 123
ROM-BALTHASAR
Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
ROM 5.3. 124
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Bliss be upon you. Tell me, good my friend,
ROM 5.3. 125 What torch is yon that vainly lends his light
ROM 5.3. 126 To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern,
ROM 5.3. 127 It burneth in the Capels' monument.
ROM 5.3. 128
ROM-BALTHASAR
It doth so, holy sir, and there's my master,
ROM 5.3. 129B One that you love.
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Who is it?
ROM-BALTHASAR
Romeo.
ROM 5.3. 130B
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
How long hath he been there?
ROM-BALTHASAR
Full half +
ROM 5.3. 130B an hour.
ROM 5.3. 131B
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Go with me to the vault.
ROM-BALTHASAR
I dare not, +
ROM 5.3. 131B sir.
ROM 5.3. 132 My master knows not but I am gone hence,
ROM 5.3. 133 And fearfully did menace me with death
ROM 5.3. 134 If I did stay to look on his intents.
ROM 5.3. 135
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Stay then, I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me.
ROM 5.3. 136 O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing.
ROM 5.3. 137
ROM-BALTHASAR
As I did sleep under this yew tree here
ROM 5.3. 138 I dreamt my master and another fought,
ROM 5.3. 139B And that my master slew him.
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo! {He +
ROM 5.3. 139B [stoops and] looks on the blood and weapons}
ROM 5.3. 140 Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains
ROM 5.3. 141 The stony entrance of this sepulchre?
ROM 5.3. 142 What mean these masterless and gory swords
ROM 5.3. 143 To lie discoloured by this place of peace?
ROM 5.3. 144 Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris, too,
ROM 5.3. 145 And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
ROM 5.3. 146 Is guilty of this lamentable chance! {Juliet awakes [and rises]}
ROM 5.3. 147 The lady stirs.
ROM 5.3. 148
ROM-JULIET
O comfortable friar, where is my lord?
ROM 5.3. 149 I do remember well where I should be,
ROM 5.3. 150 And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
ROM 5.3. 151
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
ROM 5.3. 152 Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.
ROM 5.3. 153 A greater power than we can contradict
ROM 5.3. 154 Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
ROM 5.3. 155 Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead,
ROM 5.3. 156 And Paris, too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
ROM 5.3. 157 Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.
ROM 5.3. 158 Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.
ROM 5.3. 159 Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay. {Exit}
ROM 5.3. 160
ROM-JULIET
Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
ROM 5.3. 161 What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand?
ROM 5.3. 162 Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
ROM 5.3. 163 O churl! - drunk all, and left no friendly drop
ROM 5.3. 164 To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.
ROM 5.3. 165 Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
ROM 5.3. 166 To make me die with a restorative. {She kisses Romeo's lips}
ROM 5.3. 167B Thy lips are warm.
ROM-CHIEF WATCHMAN
+
ROM 5.3. 167B {[within]} Lead, boy. Which way?
ROM 5.3. 168B
ROM-JULIET
Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. {She takes Romeo's +
ROM 5.3. 168B dagger} O happy dagger,
ROM 5.3. 169 This is thy sheath! There rust, and let me die. {She stabs +
ROM 5.3. 169 herself, falls, and dies.}
ROM 5.3. 170 {Enter the Page and Watchmen}
ROM-[PAGE]
This is the place, +
ROM 5.3. 170 there where the torch doth burn.
ROM 5.3. 171
ROM-CHIEF WATCHMAN
The ground is bloody. Search about the churchyard.
ROM 5.3. 172 Go, some of you. Whoe'er you find, attach. {Exeunt some +
ROM 5.3. 172 Watchmen}
ROM 5.3. 173 Pitiful sight! Here lies the County slain,
ROM 5.3. 174 And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
ROM 5.3. 175 Who here hath lain this two days buried.
ROM 5.3. 176 Go tell the Prince. Run to the Capulets,
ROM 5.3. 177 Raise up the Montagues. Some others search. {Exeunt other +
ROM 5.3. 177 Watchmen [severally]}
ROM 5.3. 178 We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,
ROM 5.3. 179 But the true ground of all these piteous woes
ROM 5.3. 180 We cannot without circumstance descry. {Enter [Watchmen] with +
ROM 5.3. 180 Balthasar}
ROM 5.3. 181
ROM-[SECOND] WATCHMAN
Here's Romeo's man. We found him in the +
ROM 5.3. 181 churchyard.
ROM 5.3. 182
ROM-CHIEF WATCHMAN
Hold him in safety till the Prince come +
ROM 5.3. 182 hither. {Enter another Watchman with Friar Laurence}
ROM 5.3. 183
ROM-THIRD WATCHMAN
Here is a friar that trembles, sighs, and +
ROM 5.3. 183 weeps.
ROM 5.3. 184 We took this mattock and this spade from him
ROM 5.3. 185 As he was coming from this churchyard's side.
ROM 5.3. 186
ROM-CHIEF WATCHMAN
A great suspicion. Stay the friar, too. +
ROM 5.3. 186 {Enter the Prince [with others]}
ROM 5.3. 187
ROM-PRINCE
What misadventure is so early up,
ROM 5.3. 188 That calls our person from our morning rest? {Enter Capulet and +
ROM 5.3. 188 his Wife}
ROM 5.3. 189
ROM-CAPULET
What should it be that is so shrieked abroad?
ROM 5.3. 190
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
O, the people in the street cry `Romeo',
ROM 5.3. 191 Some `Juliet', and some `Paris', and all run
ROM 5.3. 192 With open outcry toward our monument.
ROM 5.3. 193
ROM-PRINCE
What fear is this which startles in our ears?
ROM 5.3. 194
ROM-CHIEF WATCHMAN
Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain,
ROM 5.3. 195 And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before,
ROM 5.3. 196 Warm, and new killed.
ROM 5.3. 197
ROM-PRINCE
Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
ROM 5.3. 198
ROM-CHIEF WATCHMAN
Here is a friar, and slaughtered Romeo's man,
ROM 5.3. 199 With instruments upon them fit to open
ROM 5.3. 200 These dead men's tombs.
ROM 5.3. 201
ROM-CAPULET
O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
ROM 5.3. 202 This dagger hath mista'en, for lo, his house
ROM 5.3. 203 Is empty on the back of Montague,
ROM 5.3. 204 And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom.
ROM 5.3. 205
ROM-CAPULET
S
ROM-WIFE
O me, this sight of death is as a bell
ROM 5.3. 206 That warns my old age to a sepulchre. {Enter Montague}
ROM 5.3. 207
ROM-PRINCE
Come, Montague, for thou art early up
ROM 5.3. 208 To see thy son and heir more early down.
ROM 5.3. 209
ROM-MONTAGUE
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight.
ROM 5.3. 210 Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath.
ROM 5.3. 211 What further woe conspires against mine age?
ROM 5.3. 212A
ROM-PRINCE
Look, and thou shalt see.
ROM 5.3. 213
ROM-MONTAGUE
{(seeing Romeo's body)} O thou untaught! +
ROM 5.3. 213 What manners is in this,
ROM 5.3. 214 To press before thy father to a grave?
ROM 5.3. 215
ROM-PRINCE
Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
ROM 5.3. 216 Till we can clear these ambiguities
ROM 5.3. 217 And know their spring, their head, their true descent;
ROM 5.3. 218 And then will I be general of your woes,
ROM 5.3. 219 And lead you even to death. Meantime, forbear,
ROM 5.3. 220 And let mischance be slave to patience.
ROM 5.3. 221 Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
ROM 5.3. 222
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
I am the greatest, able to do least,
ROM 5.3. 223 Yet most suspected, as the time and place
ROM 5.3. 224 Doth make against me, of this direful murder;
ROM 5.3. 225 And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
ROM 5.3. 226 Myself condemned and myself excused.
ROM 5.3. 227
ROM-PRINCE
Then say at once what thou dost know in this.
ROM 5.3. 228
ROM-FRIAR LAURENCE
I will be brief, for my short date of breath
ROM 5.3. 229 Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
ROM 5.3. 230 Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
ROM 5.3. 231 And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife.
ROM 5.3. 232 I married them, and their stol'n marriage day
ROM 5.3. 233 Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death
ROM 5.3. 234 Banished the new-made bridegroom from this city,
ROM 5.3. 235 For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
ROM 5.3. 236 You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
ROM 5.3. 237 Betrothed and would have married her perforce
ROM 5.3. 238 To County Paris. Then comes she to me,
ROM 5.3. 239 And with wild looks bid me devise some mean
ROM 5.3. 240 To rid her from this second marriage,
ROM 5.3. 241 Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
ROM 5.3. 242 Then gave I her - so tutored by my art -
ROM 5.3. 243 A sleeping potion, which so took effect
ROM 5.3. 244 As I intended, for it wrought on her
ROM 5.3. 245 The form of death. Meantime I writ to Romeo
ROM 5.3. 246 That he should hither come as this dire night
ROM 5.3. 247 To help to take her from her borrowed grave,
ROM 5.3. 248 Being the time the potion's force should cease.
ROM 5.3. 249 But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
ROM 5.3. 250 Was stayed by accident, and yesternight
ROM 5.3. 251 Returned my letter back. Then all alone,
ROM 5.3. 252 At the prefixed hour of her waking,
ROM 5.3. 253 Came I to take her from her kindred's vault,
ROM 5.3. 254 Meaning to keep her closely at my cell
ROM 5.3. 255 Till I conveniently could send to Romeo.
ROM 5.3. 256 But when I came, some minute ere the time
ROM 5.3. 257 Of her awakening, here untimely lay
ROM 5.3. 258 The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
ROM 5.3. 259 She wakes, and I entreated her come forth
ROM 5.3. 260 And bear this work of heaven with patience.
ROM 5.3. 261 But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
ROM 5.3. 262 And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
ROM 5.3. 263 But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
ROM 5.3. 264 All this I know, and to the marriage
ROM 5.3. 265 Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this
ROM 5.3. 266 Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
ROM 5.3. 267 Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
ROM 5.3. 268 Unto the rigour of severest law.
ROM 5.3. 269
ROM-PRINCE
We still have known thee for a holy man.
ROM 5.3. 270 Where's Romeo's man? What can he say to this?
ROM 5.3. 271
ROM-BALTHASAR
I brought my master news of Juliet's death,
ROM 5.3. 272 And then in post he came from Mantua
ROM 5.3. 273 To this same place, to this same monument.
ROM 5.3. 274 This letter he early bid me give his father,
ROM 5.3. 275 And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
ROM 5.3. 276 If I departed not and left him there.
ROM 5.3. 277
ROM-PRINCE
Give me the letter. I will look on it. {He takes the +
ROM 5.3. 277 letter}
ROM 5.3. 278 Where is the County's page that raised the watch?
ROM 5.3. 279 Sirrah, what made your master in this place?
ROM 5.3. 280
ROM-PAGE
He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave,
ROM 5.3. 281 And bid me stand aloof, and so I did.
ROM 5.3. 282 Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb,
ROM 5.3. 283 And by and by my master drew on him,
ROM 5.3. 284 And then I ran away to call the watch.
ROM 5.3. 285
ROM-PRINCE
This letter doth make good the friar's words,
ROM 5.3. 286 Their course of love, the tidings of her death;
ROM 5.3. 287 And here he writes that he did buy a poison
ROM 5.3. 288 Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
ROM 5.3. 289 Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
ROM 5.3. 290 Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague,
ROM 5.3. 291 See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
ROM 5.3. 292 That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
ROM 5.3. 293 And I, for winking at your discords, too
ROM 5.3. 294 Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.
ROM 5.3. 295
ROM-CAPULET
O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
ROM 5.3. 296 This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
ROM 5.3. 297B Can I demand.
ROM-MONTAGUE
But I can give thee more,
ROM 5.3. 298 For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
ROM 5.3. 299 That whiles Verona by that name is known
ROM 5.3. 300 There shall no figure at such rate be set
ROM 5.3. 301 As that of true and faithful Juliet.
ROM 5.3. 302
ROM-CAPULET
As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie,
ROM 5.3. 303 Poor sacrifices of our enmity.
ROM 5.3. 304
ROM-PRINCE
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
ROM 5.3. 305 The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
ROM 5.3. 306 Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
ROM 5.3. 307 Some shall be pardoned, and some punished;
ROM 5.3. 308 For never was a story of more woe
ROM 5.3. 309 Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. {[The tomb is closed.] +
ROM 5.3. 309 Exeunt}
ROM 5.3.
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SHR . . 0 The Taming of the Shrew
SHR . . 0 {Enter Christopher Sly the beggar, and +
SHR I.1. 0 the Hostess}
SHR I.1. 1
SHR-SLY
I'll feeze you, in faith.
SHR I.1. 2
SHR-HOSTESS
A pair of stocks, you rogue.
SHR I.1. 3
SHR-SLY
You're a baggage. The Slys are no rogues. Look in
SHR I.1. 4 the Chronicles - we came in with Richard Conqueror,
SHR I.1. 5 therefore {paucas} {palabras}, let the world slide. Sessa!
SHR I.1. 6
SHR-HOSTESS
You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
SHR I.1. 7
SHR-SLY
No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy! Go to thy
SHR I.1. 8 cold bed and warm thee.
SHR I.1. 9
SHR-HOSTESS
I know my remedy, I must go fetch the
SHR I.1. 10 headborough. {Exit}
SHR I.1. 11
SHR-SLY
Third or fourth or fifth borough, I'll answer him by
SHR I.1. 12 law. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Let him come, and
SHR I.1. 13 kindly. {He falls asleep.}
SHR I.1. 14 {Horns sound. Enter a Lord from hunting, with his train}
SHR-LORD
+
SHR I.1. 14 Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds.
SHR I.1. 15 Breathe Merriman - the poor cur is embossed -
SHR I.1. 16 And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.
SHR I.1. 17 Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
SHR I.1. 18 At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault?
SHR I.1. 19 I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
SHR I.1. 20
SHR-FIRST HUNTSMAN
Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord.
SHR I.1. 21 He cried upon it at the merest loss,
SHR I.1. 22 And twice today picked out the dullest scent.
SHR I.1. 23 Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
SHR I.1. 24
SHR-LORD
Thou art a fool. If Echo were as fleet
SHR I.1. 25 I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
SHR I.1. 26 But sup them well, and look unto them all.
SHR I.1. 27 Tomorrow I intend to hunt again.
SHR I.1. 28A
SHR-FIRST HUNTSMAN
I will, my lord.
SHR I.1. 29
SHR-LORD
{(seeing Sly)} What's here? One dead, or +
SHR I.1. 29 drunk? See, doth he breathe?
SHR I.1. 30
SHR-SECOND HUNTSMAN
He breathes, my lord. Were he not warmed with ale
SHR I.1. 31 This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
SHR I.1. 32
SHR-LORD
O monstrous beast! How like a swine he lies.
SHR I.1. 33 Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image.
SHR I.1. 34 Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
SHR I.1. 35 What think you: if he were conveyed to bed,
SHR I.1. 36 Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
SHR I.1. 37 A most delicious banquet by his bed,
SHR I.1. 38 And brave attendants near him when he wakes -
SHR I.1. 39 Would not the beggar then forget himself?
SHR I.1. 40
SHR-FIRST HUNTSMAN
Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.
SHR I.1. 41
SHR-SECOND HUNTSMAN
It would seem strange unto him when he waked.
SHR I.1. 42
SHR-LORD
Even as a flatt'ring dream or worthless fancy.
SHR I.1. 43 Then take him up, and manage well the jest.
SHR I.1. 44 Carry him gently to my fairest chamber,
SHR I.1. 45 And hang it round with all my wanton pictures.
SHR I.1. 46 Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters,
SHR I.1. 47 And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet.
SHR I.1. 48 Procure me music ready when he wakes
SHR I.1. 49 To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound,
SHR I.1. 50 And if he chance to speak be ready straight,
SHR I.1. 51 And with a low submissive reverence
SHR I.1. 52 Say `What is it your honour will command?'
SHR I.1. 53 Let one attend him with a silver basin
SHR I.1. 54 Full of rose-water and bestrewed with flowers;
SHR I.1. 55 Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,
SHR I.1. 56 And say `Will 't please your lordship cool your hands?'
SHR I.1. 57 Someone be ready with a costly suit,
SHR I.1. 58 And ask him what apparel he will wear.
SHR I.1. 59 Another tell him of his hounds and horse,
SHR I.1. 60 And that his lady mourns at his disease.
SHR I.1. 61 Persuade him that he hath been lunatic,
SHR I.1. 62 And when he says he is, say that he dreams,
SHR I.1. 63 For he is nothing but a mighty lord.
SHR I.1. 64 This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs.
SHR I.1. 65 It will be pastime passing excellent,
SHR I.1. 66 If it be husbanded with modesty.
SHR I.1. 67
SHR-FIRST HUNTSMAN
My lord, I warrant you we will play our part
SHR I.1. 68 As he shall think by our true diligence
SHR I.1. 69 He is no less than what we say he is.
SHR I.1. 70
SHR-LORD
Take him up gently, and to bed with him;
SHR I.1. 71 And each one to his office when he wakes. {Servingmen carry Sly +
SHR I.1. 71 out}
SHR I.1. 72 {Trumpets sound} Sirrah, go see what trumpet 'tis that +
SHR I.1. 72 sounds. {Exit a Servingman}
SHR I.1. 73 Belike some noble gentleman that means,
SHR I.1. 74 Travelling some journey, to repose him here. {Enter a +
SHR I.1. 74 Servingman}
SHR I.1. 75B How now? Who is it?
SHR-SERVINGMAN
An 't please your honour, +
SHR I.1. 75B players
SHR I.1. 76 That offer service to your lordship. {Enter Players}
SHR I.1. 77
SHR-LORD
Bid them come near. Now fellows, you are welcome.
SHR I.1. 78A
SHR-PLAYERS
We thank your honour.
SHR I.1. 79
SHR-LORD
Do you intend to stay with me tonight?
SHR I.1. 80 A
SHR-PLAYER
So please your lordship to accept our duty.
SHR I.1. 81
SHR-LORD
With all my heart. This fellow I remember
SHR I.1. 82 Since once he played a farmer's eldest son.
SHR I.1. 83 'Twas where you wooed the gentlewoman so well.
SHR I.1. 84 I have forgot your name, but sure that part
SHR I.1. 85 Was aptly fitted and naturally performed.
SHR I.1. 86
SHR-ANOTHER PLAYER
I think 'twas Soto that your honour means.
SHR I.1. 87
SHR-LORD
'Tis very true. Thou didst it excellent.
SHR I.1. 88 Well, you are come to me in happy time,
SHR I.1. 89 The rather for I have some sport in hand
SHR I.1. 90 Wherein your cunning can assist me much.
SHR I.1. 91 There is a lord will hear you play tonight;
SHR I.1. 92 But I am doubtful of your modesties
SHR I.1. 93 Lest, over-eyeing of his odd behaviour -
SHR I.1. 94 For yet his honour never heard a play -
SHR I.1. 95 You break into some merry passion,
SHR I.1. 96 And so offend him; for I tell you, sirs,
SHR I.1. 97 If you should smile he grows impatient.
SHR I.1. 98 A
SHR-PLAYER
Fear not, my lord, we can contain ourselves
SHR I.1. 99 Were he the veriest antic in the world.
SHR I.1. 100
SHR-LORD
{(to a Servingman)} Go, sirrah, take them to +
SHR I.1. 100 the buttery
SHR I.1. 101 And give them friendly welcome every one.
SHR I.1. 102 Let them want nothing that my house affords. {Exit one with the +
SHR I.1. 102 Players}
SHR I.1. 103 {(To a Servingman)} Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew, my +
SHR I.1. 103 page,
SHR I.1. 104 And see him dressed in all suits like a lady.
SHR I.1. 105 That done, conduct him to the drunkard's chamber
SHR I.1. 106 And call him `madam', do him obeisance.
SHR I.1. 107 Tell him from me, as he will win my love,
SHR I.1. 108 He bear himself with honourable action
SHR I.1. 109 Such as he hath observed in noble ladies
SHR I.1. 110 Unto their lords by them accomplished.
SHR I.1. 111 Such duty to the drunkard let him do
SHR I.1. 112 With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,
SHR I.1. 113 And say `What is 't your honour will command
SHR I.1. 114 Wherein your lady and your humble wife
SHR I.1. 115 May show her duty and make known her love?'
SHR I.1. 116 And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
SHR I.1. 117 And with declining head into his bosom
SHR I.1. 118 Bid him shed tears, as being overjoyed
SHR I.1. 119 To see her noble lord restored to health,
SHR I.1. 120 Who for this seven years hath esteemed him
SHR I.1. 121 No better than a poor and loathsome beggar.
SHR I.1. 122 And if the boy have not a woman's gift
SHR I.1. 123 To rain a shower of commanded tears,
SHR I.1. 124 An onion will do well for such a shift,
SHR I.1. 125 Which, in a napkin being close conveyed,
SHR I.1. 126 Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.
SHR I.1. 127 See this dispatched with all the haste thou canst.
SHR I.1. 128 Anon I'll give thee more instructions. {Exit a Servingman}
SHR I.1. 129 I know the boy will well usurp the grace,
SHR I.1. 130 Voice, gait, and action of a gentlewoman.
SHR I.1. 131 I long to hear him call the drunkard husband,
SHR I.1. 132 And how my men will stay themselves from laughter
SHR I.1. 133 When they do homage to this simple peasant.
SHR I.1. 134 I'll in to counsel them. Haply my presence
SHR I.1. 135 May well abate the over-merry spleen
SHR I.1. 136 Which otherwise would grow into extremes. {Exeunt}
SHR I.1. 0 {Enter aloft Sly, the drunkard, with +
SHR I.2. 0 attendants, some with apparel, basin, and ewer, and other +
SHR I.2. 0 appurtenances; and Lord}
SHR I.2. 1
SHR-SLY
For God's sake, a pot of small ale!
SHR I.2. 2
SHR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Will 't please your lordship drink a cup +
SHR I.2. 2 of sack?
SHR I.2. 3
SHR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Will 't please your honour taste of these +
SHR I.2. 3 conserves?
SHR I.2. 4
SHR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
What raiment will your honour wear today?
SHR I.2. 5
SHR-SLY
I am Christophero Sly. Call not me `honour' nor
SHR I.2. 6 `lordship'. I ne'er drank sack in my life, and if you give
SHR I.2. 7 me any conserves, give me conserves of beef. Ne'er ask
SHR I.2. 8 me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets
SHR I.2. 9 than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more
SHR I.2. 10 shoes than feet - nay, sometime more feet than shoes,
SHR I.2. 11 or such shoes as my toes look through the over-leather.
SHR I.2. 12
SHR-LORD
Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour.
SHR I.2. 13 O that a mighty man of such descent,
SHR I.2. 14 Of such possessions and so high esteem,
SHR I.2. 15 Should be infused with so foul a spirit.
SHR I.2. 16
SHR-SLY
What, would you make me mad? Am not I
SHR I.2. 17 Christopher Sly - old Sly's son of Burton Heath, by
SHR I.2. 18 birth a pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation
SHR I.2. 19 a bearherd, and now by present profession a
SHR I.2. 20 tinker? Ask Marian Hacket, the fat alewife of Wincot,
SHR I.2. 21 if she know me not. If she say I am not fourteen pence
SHR I.2. 22 on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lying'st
SHR I.2. 23 knave in Christendom. What, I am not bestraught;
SHR I.2. 24 here's -
SHR I.2. 25
SHR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
O, this it is that makes your lady +
SHR I.2. 25 mourn.
SHR I.2. 26
SHR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
O, this is it that makes your servants droop.
SHR I.2. 27
SHR-LORD
Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
SHR I.2. 28 As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
SHR I.2. 29 O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth.
SHR I.2. 30 Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment,
SHR I.2. 31 And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
SHR I.2. 32 Look how thy servants do attend on thee,
SHR I.2. 33 Each in his office, ready at thy beck.
SHR I.2. 34B Wilt thou have music? {Music} Hark, Apollo plays,
SHR I.2. 35 And twenty caged nightingales do sing.
SHR I.2. 36 Or wilt thou sleep? We'll have thee to a couch
SHR I.2. 37 Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
SHR I.2. 38 On purpose trimmed up for Semiramis.
SHR I.2. 39 Say thou wilt walk, we will bestrew the ground.
SHR I.2. 40 Or wilt thou ride, thy horses shall be trapped,
SHR I.2. 41 Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
SHR I.2. 42 Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
SHR I.2. 43 Above the morning lark. Or wilt thou hunt,
SHR I.2. 44 Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
SHR I.2. 45 And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.
SHR I.2. 46
SHR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Say thou wilt course, thy greyhounds are as swift
SHR I.2. 47 As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.
SHR I.2. 48
SHR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee +
SHR I.2. 48 straight
SHR I.2. 49 Adonis painted by a running brook,
SHR I.2. 50 And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
SHR I.2. 51 Which seem to move and wanton with her breath
SHR I.2. 52 Even as the waving sedges play wi' th' wind.
SHR I.2. 53
SHR-LORD
We'll show thee Io as she was a maid,
SHR I.2. 54 And how she was beguiled and surprised,
SHR I.2. 55 As lively painted as the deed was done.
SHR I.2. 56
SHR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
SHR I.2. 57 Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
SHR I.2. 58 And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
SHR I.2. 59 So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
SHR I.2. 60
SHR-LORD
Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord.
SHR I.2. 61 Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
SHR I.2. 62 Than any woman in this waning age.
SHR I.2. 63
SHR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
And till the tears that she hath shed for thee
SHR I.2. 64 Like envious floods o'errun her lovely face
SHR I.2. 65 She was the fairest creature in the world;
SHR I.2. 66 And yet she is inferior to none.
SHR I.2. 67
SHR-SLY
Am I a lord, and have I such a lady?
SHR I.2. 68 Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now?
SHR I.2. 69 I do not sleep. I see, I hear, I speak.
SHR I.2. 70 I smell sweet savours, and I feel soft things.
SHR I.2. 71 Upon my life, I am a lord indeed,
SHR I.2. 72 And not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly.
SHR I.2. 73 Well, bring our lady hither to our sight,
SHR I.2. 74 And once again a pot o' th' smallest ale.
SHR I.2. 75
SHR-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Will 't please your mightiness to wash your hands?
SHR I.2. 76 O, how we joy to see your wit restored!
SHR I.2. 77 O that once more you knew but what you are!
SHR I.2. 78 These fifteen years you have been in a dream,
SHR I.2. 79 Or when you waked, so waked as if you slept.
SHR I.2. 80
SHR-SLY
These fifteen years - by my fay, a goodly nap.
SHR I.2. 81 But did I never speak of all that time?
SHR I.2. 82
SHR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
O yes, my lord, but very idle words,
SHR I.2. 83 For though you lay here in this goodly chamber
SHR I.2. 84 Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door,
SHR I.2. 85 And rail upon the hostess of the house,
SHR I.2. 86 And say you would present her at the leet
SHR I.2. 87 Because she brought stone jugs and no sealed quarts.
SHR I.2. 88 Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.
SHR I.2. 89
SHR-SLY
Ay, the woman's maid of the house.
SHR I.2. 90
SHR-THIRD SERVINGMAN
Why, sir, you know no house, nor no such +
SHR I.2. 90 maid,
SHR I.2. 91 Nor no such men as you have reckoned up,
SHR I.2. 92 As Stephen Sly, and old John Naps of Greet,
SHR I.2. 93 And Peter Turf, and Henry Pimpernel,
SHR I.2. 94 And twenty more such names and men as these,
SHR I.2. 95 Which never were, nor no man ever saw.
SHR I.2. 96
SHR-SLY
Now Lord be thanked for my good amends.
SHR I.2. 97
SHR-ALL
Amen.
SHR I.2. 98
SHR-SLY
I thank thee. Thou shalt not lose by it. {Enter +
SHR I.2. 98 Bartholomew the Page, as Lady, with attendants}
SHR I.2. 99B
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
How fares my noble lord?
SHR-SLY
Marry, I fare +
SHR I.2. 99B well,
SHR I.2. 100 For here is cheer enough. Where is my wife?
SHR I.2. 101
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
Here, noble lord. What is thy will with her?
SHR I.2. 102
SHR-SLY
Are you my wife, and will not call me husband?
SHR I.2. 103 My men should call me lord. I am your goodman.
SHR I.2. 104
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
My husband and my lord, my lord and husband;
SHR I.2. 105 I am your wife in all obedience.
SHR I.2. 106B
SHR-SLY
I know it well. {(To the Lord)} What must I +
SHR I.2. 106B call her?
SHR-LORD
Madam.
SHR I.2. 107A
SHR-SLY
Al'ce Madam or Joan Madam?
SHR I.2. 108
SHR-LORD
Madam, and nothing else. So lords call ladies.
SHR I.2. 109
SHR-SLY
Madam wife, they say that I have dreamed,
SHR I.2. 110 And slept above some fifteen year or more.
SHR I.2. 111
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
SHR I.2. 112 Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
SHR I.2. 113
SHR-SLY
'Tis much. Servants, leave me and her alone. {Exeunt +
SHR I.2. 113 [Lord and] attendants}
SHR I.2. 114 Madam, undress you and come now to bed.
SHR I.2. 115
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
Thrice-noble lord, let me entreat of you
SHR I.2. 116 To pardon me yet for a night or two,
SHR I.2. 117 Or if not so, until the sun be set,
SHR I.2. 118 For your physicians have expressly charged,
SHR I.2. 119 In peril to incur your former malady,
SHR I.2. 120 That I should yet absent me from your bed.
SHR I.2. 121 I hope this reason stands for my excuse.
SHR I.2. 122
SHR-SLY
Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long. But
SHR I.2. 123 I would be loath to fall into my dreams again. I will
SHR I.2. 124 therefore tarry in despite of the flesh and the blood. {Enter a +
SHR I.2. 124 Messenger}
SHR I.2. 125
SHR-MESSENGER
Your honour's players, hearing your amendment,
SHR I.2. 126 Are come to play a pleasant comedy,
SHR I.2. 127 For so your doctors hold it very meet,
SHR I.2. 128 Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
SHR I.2. 129 And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
SHR I.2. 130 Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
SHR I.2. 131 And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
SHR I.2. 132 Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
SHR I.2. 133
SHR-SLY
Marry, I will let them play it. Is not a comonty
SHR I.2. 134 A Christmas gambol, or a tumbling trick?
SHR I.2. 135
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.
SHR I.2. 136B
SHR-SLY
What, household stuff?
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
It is a kind of history.
SHR I.2. 137
SHR-SLY
Well, we'll see 't. Come, madam wife, sit by my side
SHR I.2. 138 And let the world slip. We shall ne'er be younger. {Bartholomew +
SHR I.2. 138 sits}
SHR I.2. 0 {Flourish. Enter Lucentio and his man, Tranio}
SHR 1.1. 1
SHR-LUCENTIO
Tranio, since for the great desire I had
SHR 1.1. 2 To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
SHR 1.1. 3 I am arrived fore fruitful Lombardy,
SHR 1.1. 4 The pleasant garden of great Italy,
SHR 1.1. 5 And by my father's love and leave am armed
SHR 1.1. 6 With his good will and thy good company,
SHR 1.1. 7 My trusty servant, well approved in all,
SHR 1.1. 8 Here let us breathe, and haply institute
SHR 1.1. 9 A course of learning and ingenious studies.
SHR 1.1. 10 Pisa, renowned for grave citizens,
SHR 1.1. 11 Gave me my being, and my father first -
SHR 1.1. 12 A merchant of great traffic through the world,
SHR 1.1. 13 Vincentio, come of the Bentivolii.
SHR 1.1. 14 Vincentio's son, brought up in Florence,
SHR 1.1. 15 It shall become to serve all hopes conceived
SHR 1.1. 16 To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds.
SHR 1.1. 17 And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,
SHR 1.1. 18 Virtue and that part of philosophy
SHR 1.1. 19 Will I apply that treats of happiness
SHR 1.1. 20 By virtue specially to be achieved.
SHR 1.1. 21 Tell me thy mind, for I have Pisa left
SHR 1.1. 22 And am to Padua come as he that leaves
SHR 1.1. 23 A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep,
SHR 1.1. 24 And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.
SHR 1.1. 25
SHR-TRANIO
{Mi perdonate}, gentle master mine.
SHR 1.1. 26 I am in all affected as yourself,
SHR 1.1. 27 Glad that you thus continue your resolve
SHR 1.1. 28 To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
SHR 1.1. 29 Only, good master, while we do admire
SHR 1.1. 30 This virtue and this moral discipline,
SHR 1.1. 31 Let's be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray,
SHR 1.1. 32 Or so devote to Aristotle's checks
SHR 1.1. 33 As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured.
SHR 1.1. 34 Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,
SHR 1.1. 35 And practise rhetoric in your common talk.
SHR 1.1. 36 Music and poesy use to quicken you;
SHR 1.1. 37 The mathematics and the metaphysics,
SHR 1.1. 38 Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
SHR 1.1. 39 No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
SHR 1.1. 40 In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
SHR 1.1. 41
SHR-LUCENTIO
Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
SHR 1.1. 42 If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,
SHR 1.1. 43 We could at once put us in readiness
SHR 1.1. 44 And take a lodging fit to entertain
SHR 1.1. 45 Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.
SHR 1.1. 46 But stay a while, what company is this?
SHR 1.1. 47
SHR-TRANIO
Master, some show to welcome us to town. {Enter +
SHR 1.1. 47 Baptista with his two daughters, Katherine and Bianca; Gremio, a +
SHR 1.1. 47 pantaloon; Hortensio, suitor to Bianca. Lucentio and Tranio stand by}
SHR 1.1. 48
SHR-BAPTISTA
Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
SHR 1.1. 49 For how I firmly am resolved you know:
SHR 1.1. 50 That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter
SHR 1.1. 51 Before I have a husband for the elder.
SHR 1.1. 52 If either of you both love Katherina,
SHR 1.1. 53 Because I know you well and love you well
SHR 1.1. 54 Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
SHR 1.1. 55
SHR-GREMIO
To cart her rather. She's too rough for me.
SHR 1.1. 56 There, there, Hortensio. Will you any wife?
SHR 1.1. 57
SHR-KATHERINE
{(to Baptista)} I pray you, sir, is it +
SHR 1.1. 57 your will
SHR 1.1. 58 To make a stale of me amongst these mates?
SHR 1.1. 59
SHR-HORTENSIO
`Mates', maid? How mean you that? No mates for you
SHR 1.1. 60 Unless you were of gentler, milder mould.
SHR 1.1. 61
SHR-KATHERINE
I' faith, sir, you shall never need to fear.
SHR 1.1. 62 Iwis it is not half-way to her heart,
SHR 1.1. 63 But if it were, doubt not her care should be
SHR 1.1. 64 To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool,
SHR 1.1. 65 And paint your face, and use you like a fool.
SHR 1.1. 66
SHR-HORTENSIO
From all such devils, good Lord deliver us.
SHR 1.1. 67A
SHR-GREMIO
And me too, good Lord.
SHR 1.1. 68
SHR-TRANIO
{(aside to Lucentio)} Husht, master, here's +
SHR 1.1. 68 some good pastime toward.
SHR 1.1. 69 That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.
SHR 1.1. 70
SHR-LUCENTIO
{(aside to Tranio)} But in the other's +
SHR 1.1. 70 silence do I see
SHR 1.1. 71 Maid's mild behaviour and sobriety.
SHR 1.1. 72 Peace, Tranio.
SHR 1.1. 73
SHR-TRANIO
{(aside to Lucentio)} Well said, master. +
SHR 1.1. 73 Mum, and gaze your fill.
SHR 1.1. 74
SHR-BAPTISTA
Gentlemen, that I may soon make good
SHR 1.1. 75 What I have said - Bianca, get you in.
SHR 1.1. 76 And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,
SHR 1.1. 77 For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl.
SHR 1.1. 78A
SHR-KATHERINE
A pretty peat! It is best
SHR 1.1. 79 Put finger in the eye, an she knew why.
SHR 1.1. 80
SHR-BIANCA
Sister, content you in my discontent.
SHR 1.1. 81 {(To Baptista)} Sir, to your pleasure humbly I +
SHR 1.1. 81 subscribe.
SHR 1.1. 82 My books and instruments shall be my company,
SHR 1.1. 83 On them to look and practise by myself.
SHR 1.1. 84
SHR-LUCENTIO
{(aside to Tranio)} Hark, Tranio, thou +
SHR 1.1. 84 mayst hear Minerva speak.
SHR 1.1. 85
SHR-HORTENSIO
Signor Baptista, will you be so strange?
SHR 1.1. 86 Sorry am I that our good will effects
SHR 1.1. 87B Bianca's grief.
SHR-GREMIO
Why will you mew her up,
SHR 1.1. 88 Signor Baptista, for this fiend of hell,
SHR 1.1. 89 And make her bear the penance of her tongue?
SHR 1.1. 90
SHR-BAPTISTA
Gentlemen, content ye. I am resolved.
SHR 1.1. 91 Go in, Bianca. {Exit Bianca}
SHR 1.1. 92 And for I know she taketh most delight
SHR 1.1. 93 In music, instruments, and poetry,
SHR 1.1. 94 Schoolmasters will I keep within my house
SHR 1.1. 95 Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,
SHR 1.1. 96 Or, Signor Gremio, you know any such,
SHR 1.1. 97 Prefer them hither; for to cunning men
SHR 1.1. 98 I will be very kind, and liberal
SHR 1.1. 99 To mine own children in good bringing up.
SHR 1.1. 100 And so farewell. Katherina, you may stay,
SHR 1.1. 101 For I have more to commune with Bianca. {Exit}
SHR 1.1. 102
SHR-KATHERINE
Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not?
SHR 1.1. 103 What, shall I be appointed hours, as though belike I
SHR 1.1. 104 knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha! {Exit}
SHR 1.1. 105
SHR-GREMIO
You may go to the devil's dam. Your gifts are so
SHR 1.1. 106 good here's none will hold you. Their love is not so
SHR 1.1. 107 great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails together
SHR 1.1. 108 and fast it fairly out. Our cake's dough on both sides.
SHR 1.1. 109 Farewell. Yet for the love I bear my sweet Bianca, if I
SHR 1.1. 110 can by any means light on a fit man to teach her that
SHR 1.1. 111 wherein she delights, I will wish him to her father.
SHR 1.1. 112
SHR-HORTENSIO
So will I, Signor Gremio. But a word, I pray.
SHR 1.1. 113 Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked
SHR 1.1. 114 parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both -
SHR 1.1. 115 that we may yet again have access to our fair mistress
SHR 1.1. 116 and be happy rivals in Bianca's love - to labour and
SHR 1.1. 117 effect one thing specially.
SHR 1.1. 118
SHR-GREMIO
What's that, I pray?
SHR 1.1. 119
SHR-HORTENSIO
Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.
SHR 1.1. 120
SHR-GREMIO
A husband? - a devil!
SHR 1.1. 121
SHR-HORTENSIO
I say a husband.
SHR 1.1. 122
SHR-GREMIO
I say a devil. Think'st thou, Hortensio, though
SHR 1.1. 123 her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool to
SHR 1.1. 124 be married to hell?
SHR 1.1. 125
SHR-HORTENSIO
Tush, Gremio. Though it pass your patience
SHR 1.1. 126 and mine to endure her loud alarums, why, man, there
SHR 1.1. 127 be good fellows in the world, an a man could light on
SHR 1.1. 128 them, would take her with all faults, and money
SHR 1.1. 129 enough.
SHR 1.1. 130
SHR-GREMIO
I cannot tell, but I had as lief take her dowry
SHR 1.1. 131 with this condition: to be whipped at the high cross
SHR 1.1. 132 every morning.
SHR 1.1. 133
SHR-HORTENSIO
Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten
SHR 1.1. 134 apples. But come, since this bar in law makes us friends,
SHR 1.1. 135 it shall be so far forth friendly maintained till by helping
SHR 1.1. 136 Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband we set his
SHR 1.1. 137 youngest free for a husband, and then have to 't afresh.
SHR 1.1. 138 Sweet Bianca! Happy man be his dole. He that runs
SHR 1.1. 139 fastest gets the ring. How say you, Signor Gremio?
SHR 1.1. 140
SHR-GREMIO
I am agreed, and would I had given him the best
SHR 1.1. 141 horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would
SHR 1.1. 142 thoroughly woo her, wed her, and bed her, and rid the
SHR 1.1. 143 house of her. Come on. {Exeunt Hortensio and Gremio. Tranio and +
SHR 1.1. 143 Lucentio remain}
SHR 1.1. 144
SHR-TRANIO
I pray, sir, tell me: is it possible
SHR 1.1. 145 That love should of a sudden take such hold?
SHR 1.1. 146
SHR-LUCENTIO
O Tranio, till I found it to be true
SHR 1.1. 147 I never thought it possible or likely.
SHR 1.1. 148 But see, while idly I stood looking on
SHR 1.1. 149 I found the effect of love in idleness,
SHR 1.1. 150 And now in plainness do confess to thee,
SHR 1.1. 151 That art to me as secret and as dear
SHR 1.1. 152 As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was,
SHR 1.1. 153 Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,
SHR 1.1. 154 If I achieve not this young modest girl.
SHR 1.1. 155 Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst.
SHR 1.1. 156 Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.
SHR 1.1. 157
SHR-TRANIO
Master, it is no time to chide you now.
SHR 1.1. 158 Affection is not rated from the heart.
SHR 1.1. 159 If love have touched you, naught remains but so -
SHR 1.1. 160 {Redime te captum quam queas minimo}.
SHR 1.1. 161
SHR-LUCENTIO
Gramercies, lad. Go forward, this contents.
SHR 1.1. 162 The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound.
SHR 1.1. 163
SHR-TRANIO
Master, you looked so longly on the maid
SHR 1.1. 164 Perhaps you marked not what's the pith of all.
SHR 1.1. 165
SHR-LUCENTIO
O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
SHR 1.1. 166 Such as the daughter of Agenor had,
SHR 1.1. 167 That made great Jove to humble him to her hand
SHR 1.1. 168 When with his knees he kissed the Cretan strand.
SHR 1.1. 169
SHR-TRANIO
Saw you no more? Marked you not how her sister
SHR 1.1. 170 Began to scold and raise up such a storm
SHR 1.1. 171 That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?
SHR 1.1. 172
SHR-LUCENTIO
Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,
SHR 1.1. 173 And with her breath she did perfume the air.
SHR 1.1. 174 Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.
SHR 1.1. 175
SHR-TRANIO
{(aside)} Nay, then 'tis time to stir him +
SHR 1.1. 175 from his trance.
SHR 1.1. 176 {(To Lucentio)} I pray, awake, sir. If you love the +
SHR 1.1. 176 maid,
SHR 1.1. 177 Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:
SHR 1.1. 178 Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd
SHR 1.1. 179 That till the father rid his hands of her,
SHR 1.1. 180 Master, your love must live a maid at home,
SHR 1.1. 181 And therefore has he closely mewed her up
SHR 1.1. 182 Because she will not be annoyed with suitors.
SHR 1.1. 183
SHR-LUCENTIO
Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he!
SHR 1.1. 184 But art thou not advised he took some care
SHR 1.1. 185 To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?
SHR 1.1. 186
SHR-TRANIO
Ay, marry am I, sir, and now 'tis plotted.
SHR 1.1. 187B
SHR-LUCENTIO
I have it, Tranio.
SHR-TRANIO
Master, for my hand,
SHR 1.1. 188 Both our inventions meet and jump in one.
SHR 1.1. 189B
SHR-LUCENTIO
Tell me thine first.
SHR-TRANIO
You will be schoolmaster
SHR 1.1. 190 And undertake the teaching of the maid.
SHR 1.1. 191B That's your device.
SHR-LUCENTIO
It is. May it be done?
SHR 1.1. 192
SHR-TRANIO
Not possible; for who shall bear your part,
SHR 1.1. 193 And be in Padua here Vincentio's son,
SHR 1.1. 194 Keep house, and ply his book, welcome his friends,
SHR 1.1. 195 Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?
SHR 1.1. 196
SHR-LUCENTIO
{Basta}, content thee, for I have it full.
SHR 1.1. 197 We have not yet been seen in any house,
SHR 1.1. 198 Nor can we be distinguished by our faces
SHR 1.1. 199 For man or master. Then it follows thus:
SHR 1.1. 200 Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead;
SHR 1.1. 201 Keep house, and port, and servants, as I should.
SHR 1.1. 202 I will some other be, some Florentine,
SHR 1.1. 203 Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.
SHR 1.1. 204 'Tis hatched, and shall be so. Tranio, at once
SHR 1.1. 205 Uncase thee. Take my coloured hat and cloak.
SHR 1.1. 206 When Biondello comes he waits on thee,
SHR 1.1. 207 But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.
SHR 1.1. 208A
SHR-TRANIO
So had you need. {[They exchange clothes]}
SHR 1.1. 209 In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,
SHR 1.1. 210 And I am tied to be obedient -
SHR 1.1. 211 For so your father charged me at our parting,
SHR 1.1. 212 `Be serviceable to my son,' quoth he,
SHR 1.1. 213 Although I think 'twas in another sense -
SHR 1.1. 214 I am content to be Lucentio
SHR 1.1. 215 Because so well I love Lucentio.
SHR 1.1. 216
SHR-LUCENTIO
Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves,
SHR 1.1. 217 And let me be a slave t' achieve that maid
SHR 1.1. 218 Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye. {Enter +
SHR 1.1. 218 Biondello}
SHR 1.1. 219 Here comes the rogue. Sirrah, where have you been?
SHR 1.1. 220
SHR-BIONDELLO
Where have {I} been? Nay, how now, where
SHR 1.1. 221 are {you}? Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your
SHR 1.1. 222 clothes, or you stolen his, or both? Pray, what's the
SHR 1.1. 223 news?
SHR 1.1. 224
SHR-LUCENTIO
Sirrah, come hither. 'Tis no time to jest,
SHR 1.1. 225 And therefore frame your manners to the time.
SHR 1.1. 226 Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life
SHR 1.1. 227 Puts my apparel and my count'nance on,
SHR 1.1. 228 And I for my escape have put on his,
SHR 1.1. 229 For in a quarrel since I came ashore
SHR 1.1. 230 I killed a man, and fear I was descried.
SHR 1.1. 231 Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
SHR 1.1. 232 While I make way from hence to save my life.
SHR 1.1. 233B You understand me?
SHR-BIONDELLO
I sir? Ne'er a whit.
SHR 1.1. 234
SHR-LUCENTIO
And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth.
SHR 1.1. 235 Tranio is changed into Lucentio.
SHR 1.1. 236
SHR-BIONDELLO
The better for him. Would I were so too.
SHR 1.1. 237
SHR-TRANIO
So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after -
SHR 1.1. 238 That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter.
SHR 1.1. 239 But sirrah, not for my sake but your master's I advise
SHR 1.1. 240 You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies.
SHR 1.1. 241 When I am alone, why then I am Tranio,
SHR 1.1. 242 But in all places else your master, Lucentio.
SHR 1.1. 243A
SHR-LUCENTIO
Tranio, let's go.
SHR 1.1. 244 One thing more rests that thyself execute -
SHR 1.1. 245 To make one among these wooers. If thou ask me why,
SHR 1.1. 246 Sufficeth my reasons are both good and weighty. {Exeunt}
SHR 1.1. 247 {The presenters above speak}
SHR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
My +
SHR 1.1. 247 lord, you nod. You do not mind the play.
SHR 1.1. 248
SHR-SLY
Yes, by Saint Anne do I. A good matter, surely.
SHR 1.1. 249 Comes there any more of it?
SHR 1.1. 250
SHR-BARTHOLOMEW
My lord, 'tis but begun.
SHR 1.1. 251
SHR-SLY
'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady.
SHR 1.1. 252 Would 'twere done. {They sit and mark}
SHR 1.1. 0 {Enter Petruccio and his man, Grumio}
SHR 1.2. 1
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Verona, for a while I take my leave
SHR 1.2. 2 To see my friends in Padua; but of all
SHR 1.2. 3 My best-beloved and approved friend
SHR 1.2. 4 Hortensio, and I trow this is his house.
SHR 1.2. 5 Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say.
SHR 1.2. 6
SHR-GRUMIO
Knock, sir? Whom should I knock? Is there any
SHR 1.2. 7 man has rebused your worship?
SHR 1.2. 8
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.
SHR 1.2. 9
SHR-GRUMIO
Knock you here, sir? Why, sir, what am I, sir,
SHR 1.2. 10 that I should knock you here, sir?
SHR 1.2. 11
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Villain, I say, knock me at this gate,
SHR 1.2. 12 And rap me well or I'll knock your knave's pate.
SHR 1.2. 13
SHR-GRUMIO
My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock you first,
SHR 1.2. 14 And then I know after who comes by the worst.
SHR 1.2. 15A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Will it not be?
SHR 1.2. 16 Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it.
SHR 1.2. 17 I'll try how you can sol-fa and sing it. {He wrings him by the +
SHR 1.2. 17 ears. [Grumio kneels]}
SHR 1.2. 18
SHR-GRUMIO
Help, masters, help! My master is mad.
SHR 1.2. 19
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Now knock when I bid you, sirrah villain. {Enter +
SHR 1.2. 19 Hortensio}
SHR 1.2. 20
SHR-HORTENSIO
How now, what's the matter? My old friend
SHR 1.2. 21 Grumio and my good friend Petruccio? How do you all
SHR 1.2. 22 at Verona?
SHR 1.2. 23
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Signor Hortensio, come you to part the fray?
SHR 1.2. 24 {Con tutto il cuore ben trovato}, may I say.
SHR 1.2. 25
SHR-HORTENSIO
{Alla nostra casa ben venuto, molto onorato +
SHR 1.2. 25 signor}
SHR 1.2. 26 {mio Petruccio}.
SHR 1.2. 27 Rise, Grumio, rise. We will compound this quarrel. +
SHR 1.2. 27 {Grumio rises}
SHR 1.2. 28
SHR-GRUMIO
Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin.
SHR 1.2. 29 If this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service -
SHR 1.2. 30 look you, sir: he bid me knock him and rap him
SHR 1.2. 31 soundly, sir. Well, was it fit for a servant to use his
SHR 1.2. 32 master so, being perhaps, for aught I see, two-and-
SHR 1.2. 33 thirty, a pip out?
SHR 1.2. 34 Whom would to God I had well knocked at first,
SHR 1.2. 35 Then had not Grumio come by the worst.
SHR 1.2. 36
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A senseless villain. Good Hortensio,
SHR 1.2. 37 I bade the rascal knock upon your gate,
SHR 1.2. 38 And could not get him for my heart to do it.
SHR 1.2. 39
SHR-GRUMIO
Knock at the gate? O heavens, spake you not
SHR 1.2. 40 these words plain? `Sirrah, knock me here, rap me
SHR 1.2. 41 here, knock me well, and knock me soundly'? And
SHR 1.2. 42 come you now with knocking at the gate?
SHR 1.2. 43
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.
SHR 1.2. 44
SHR-HORTENSIO
Petruccio, patience. I am Grumio's pledge.
SHR 1.2. 45 Why this' a heavy chance 'twixt him and you,
SHR 1.2. 46 Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.
SHR 1.2. 47 And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale
SHR 1.2. 48 Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?
SHR 1.2. 49
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Such wind as scatters young men through the world
SHR 1.2. 50 To seek their fortunes farther than at home,
SHR 1.2. 51 Where small experience grows. But in a few,
SHR 1.2. 52 Signor Hortensio, thus it stands with me:
SHR 1.2. 53 Antonio, my father, is deceased,
SHR 1.2. 54 And I have thrust myself into this maze
SHR 1.2. 55 Happily to wive and thrive as best I may.
SHR 1.2. 56 Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
SHR 1.2. 57 And so am come abroad to see the world.
SHR 1.2. 58
SHR-HORTENSIO
Petruccio, shall I then come roundly to thee
SHR 1.2. 59 And wish thee to a shrewd, ill-favoured wife?
SHR 1.2. 60 Thou'dst thank me but a little for my counsel,
SHR 1.2. 61 And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich,
SHR 1.2. 62 And very rich. But thou'rt too much my friend,
SHR 1.2. 63 And I'll not wish thee to her.
SHR 1.2. 64
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Signor Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we
SHR 1.2. 65 Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know
SHR 1.2. 66 One rich enough to be Petruccio's wife -
SHR 1.2. 67 As wealth is burden of my wooing dance -
SHR 1.2. 68 Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,
SHR 1.2. 69 As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd
SHR 1.2. 70 As Socrates' Xanthippe or a worse,
SHR 1.2. 71 She moves me not - or not removes at least
SHR 1.2. 72 Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
SHR 1.2. 73 As are the swelling Adriatic seas.
SHR 1.2. 74 I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
SHR 1.2. 75 If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
SHR 1.2. 76
SHR-GRUMIO
{(to Hortensio)} Nay, look you, sir, he +
SHR 1.2. 76 tells you flatly
SHR 1.2. 77 what his mind is. Why, give him gold enough and
SHR 1.2. 78 marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby, or an old trot
SHR 1.2. 79 with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as
SHR 1.2. 80 many diseases as two-and-fifty horses. Why, nothing
SHR 1.2. 81 comes amiss so money comes withal.
SHR 1.2. 82
SHR-HORTENSIO
Petruccio, since we are stepped thus far in,
SHR 1.2. 83 I will continue that I broached in jest.
SHR 1.2. 84 I can, Petruccio, help thee to a wife
SHR 1.2. 85 With wealth enough, and young and beauteous,
SHR 1.2. 86 Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman.
SHR 1.2. 87 Her only fault - and that is faults enough -
SHR 1.2. 88 Is that she is intolerable curst,
SHR 1.2. 89 And shrewd and froward so beyond all measure
SHR 1.2. 90 That, were my state far worser than it is,
SHR 1.2. 91 I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
SHR 1.2. 92
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Hortensio, peace. Thou know'st not gold's effect.
SHR 1.2. 93 Tell me her father's name and 'tis enough,
SHR 1.2. 94 For I will board her though she chide as loud
SHR 1.2. 95 As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
SHR 1.2. 96
SHR-HORTENSIO
Her father is Baptista Minola,
SHR 1.2. 97 An affable and courteous gentleman.
SHR 1.2. 98 Her name is Katherina Minola,
SHR 1.2. 99 Renowned in Padua for her scolding tongue.
SHR 1.2. 100
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I know her father, though I know not her,
SHR 1.2. 101 And he knew my deceased father well.
SHR 1.2. 102 I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her,
SHR 1.2. 103 And therefore let me be thus bold with you
SHR 1.2. 104 To give you over at this first encounter,
SHR 1.2. 105 Unless you will accompany me thither.
SHR 1.2. 106
SHR-GRUMIO
I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour
SHR 1.2. 107 lasts. O' my word, an she knew him as well as I do
SHR 1.2. 108 she would think scolding would do little good upon
SHR 1.2. 109 him. She may perhaps call him half a score knaves or
SHR 1.2. 110 so. Why, that's nothing; an he begin once he'll rail in
SHR 1.2. 111 his rope-tricks. I'll tell you what, sir, an she stand him
SHR 1.2. 112 but a little he will throw a figure in her face and so
SHR 1.2. 113 disfigure her with it that she shall have no more eyes
SHR 1.2. 114 to see withal than a cat. You know him not, sir.
SHR 1.2. 115
SHR-HORTENSIO
Tarry, Petruccio, I must go with thee,
SHR 1.2. 116 For in Baptista's keep my treasure is.
SHR 1.2. 117 He hath the jewel of my life in hold,
SHR 1.2. 118 His youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca,
SHR 1.2. 119 And her withholds from me and other more,
SHR 1.2. 120 Suitors to her and rivals in my love,
SHR 1.2. 121 Supposing it a thing impossible,
SHR 1.2. 122 For those defects I have before rehearsed,
SHR 1.2. 123 That ever Katherina will be wooed.
SHR 1.2. 124 Therefore this order hath Baptista ta'en:
SHR 1.2. 125 That none shall have access unto Bianca
SHR 1.2. 126 Till Katherine the curst have got a husband.
SHR 1.2. 127A
SHR-GRUMIO
Katherine the curst -
SHR 1.2. 128 A title for a maid of all titles the worst.
SHR 1.2. 129
SHR-HORTENSIO
Now shall my friend Petruccio do me grace,
SHR 1.2. 130 And offer me disguised in sober robes
SHR 1.2. 131 To old Baptista as a schoolmaster
SHR 1.2. 132 Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca,
SHR 1.2. 133 That so I may by this device at least
SHR 1.2. 134 Have leave and leisure to make love to her,
SHR 1.2. 135 And unsuspected court her by herself. {Enter Gremio with a +
SHR 1.2. 135 paper, and Lucentio disguised as a schoolmaster}
SHR 1.2. 136
SHR-GRUMIO
Here's no knavery. See, to beguile the old folks,
SHR 1.2. 137 how the young folks lay their heads together. Master,
SHR 1.2. 138 master, look about you. Who goes there, ha?
SHR 1.2. 139
SHR-HORTENSIO
Peace, Grumio, it is the rival of my love.
SHR 1.2. 140 Petruccio, stand by a while.
SHR 1.2. 141
SHR-GRUMIO
A proper stripling, and an amorous! {Petruccio, +
SHR 1.2. 141 Hortensio, and Grumio stand aside}
SHR 1.2. 142
SHR-GREMIO
{(to Lucentio)} O, very well - I have perused +
SHR 1.2. 142 the note.
SHR 1.2. 143 Hark you, sir, I'll have them very fairly bound -
SHR 1.2. 144 All books of love, see that at any hand -
SHR 1.2. 145 And see you read no other lectures to her.
SHR 1.2. 146 You understand me. Over and beside
SHR 1.2. 147 Signor Baptista's liberality,
SHR 1.2. 148 I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper, too,
SHR 1.2. 149 And let me have them very well perfumed,
SHR 1.2. 150 For she is sweeter than perfume itself
SHR 1.2. 151 To whom they go to. What will you read to her?
SHR 1.2. 152
SHR-LUCENTIO
Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you
SHR 1.2. 153 As for my patron, stand you so assured,
SHR 1.2. 154 As firmly as yourself were still in place -
SHR 1.2. 155 Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
SHR 1.2. 156 Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
SHR 1.2. 157
SHR-GREMIO
O this learning, what a thing it is!
SHR 1.2. 158
SHR-GRUMIO
{(aside)} O this woodcock, what an ass it +
SHR 1.2. 158 is!
SHR 1.2. 159A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Peace, sirrah.
SHR 1.2. 160
SHR-HORTENSIO
Grumio, mum. {(Coming forward)} God save +
SHR 1.2. 160 you, Signor Gremio.
SHR 1.2. 161
SHR-GREMIO
And you are well met, Signor Hortensio.
SHR 1.2. 162 Trow you whither I am going?
SHR 1.2. 163 To Baptista Minola.
SHR 1.2. 164 I promised to enquire carefully
SHR 1.2. 165 About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca,
SHR 1.2. 166 And by good fortune I have lighted well
SHR 1.2. 167 On this young man, for learning and behaviour
SHR 1.2. 168 Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
SHR 1.2. 169 And other books - good ones, I warrant ye.
SHR 1.2. 170
SHR-HORTENSIO
'Tis well, and I have met a gentleman
SHR 1.2. 171 Hath promised me to help me to another,
SHR 1.2. 172 A fine musician, to instruct our mistress.
SHR 1.2. 173 So shall I no whit be behind in duty
SHR 1.2. 174 To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.
SHR 1.2. 175
SHR-GREMIO
Beloved of me, and that my deeds shall prove.
SHR 1.2. 176A
SHR-GRUMIO
{(aside)} And that his bags shall prove.
SHR 1.2. 177
SHR-HORTENSIO
Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love.
SHR 1.2. 178 Listen to me, and if you speak me fair
SHR 1.2. 179 I'll tell you news indifferent good for either.
SHR 1.2. 180 Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
SHR 1.2. 181 Upon agreement from us to his liking
SHR 1.2. 182 Will undertake to woo curst Katherine,
SHR 1.2. 183 Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.
SHR 1.2. 184A
SHR-GREMIO
So said, so done, is well.
SHR 1.2. 185 Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?
SHR 1.2. 186
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I know she is an irksome brawling scold.
SHR 1.2. 187 If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.
SHR 1.2. 188
SHR-GREMIO
No, sayst me so, friend? What countryman?
SHR 1.2. 189
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Born in Verona, old Antonio's son.
SHR 1.2. 190 My father dead, his fortune lives for me,
SHR 1.2. 191 And I do hope good days and long to see.
SHR 1.2. 192
SHR-GREMIO
O sir, such a life with such a wife were strange.
SHR 1.2. 193 But if you have a stomach, to 't, a' God's name.
SHR 1.2. 194 You shall have me assisting you in all.
SHR 1.2. 195B But will you woo this wildcat?
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Will I live!
SHR 1.2. 196
SHR-GRUMIO
Will he woo her? Ay, or I'll hang her.
SHR 1.2. 197
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why came I hither but to that intent?
SHR 1.2. 198 Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
SHR 1.2. 199 Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
SHR 1.2. 200 Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds,
SHR 1.2. 201 Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
SHR 1.2. 202 Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
SHR 1.2. 203 And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
SHR 1.2. 204 Have I not in a pitched battle heard
SHR 1.2. 205 Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?
SHR 1.2. 206 And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,
SHR 1.2. 207 That gives not half so great a blow to hear
SHR 1.2. 208 As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
SHR 1.2. 209 Tush, tush - fear boys with bugs.
SHR 1.2. 210A
SHR-GRUMIO
For he fears none.
SHR 1.2. 211A
SHR-GREMIO
Hortensio, hark.
SHR 1.2. 212 This gentleman is happily arrived,
SHR 1.2. 213 My mind presumes, for his own good and ours.
SHR 1.2. 214
SHR-HORTENSIO
I promised we would be contributors,
SHR 1.2. 215 And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe'er.
SHR 1.2. 216
SHR-GREMIO
And so we will, provided that he win her.
SHR 1.2. 217
SHR-GRUMIO
I would I were as sure of a good dinner. {Enter +
SHR 1.2. 217 Tranio, brave, as Lucentio, and Biondello}
SHR 1.2. 218
SHR-TRANIO
Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold, tell
SHR 1.2. 219 me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way to the
SHR 1.2. 220 house of Signor Baptista Minola?
SHR 1.2. 221
SHR-BIONDELLO
He that has the two fair daughters - is 't he
SHR 1.2. 222 you mean?
SHR 1.2. 223A
SHR-TRANIO
Even he, Biondello.
SHR 1.2. 224
SHR-GREMIO
Hark you, sir, you mean not her to -
SHR 1.2. 225
SHR-TRANIO
Perhaps him and her, sir. What have you to do?
SHR 1.2. 226
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.
SHR 1.2. 227
SHR-TRANIO
I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let's away.
SHR 1.2. 228B
SHR-LUCENTIO
{(aside)} Well begun, Tranio.
SHR-HORTENSIO
SHR 1.2. 228B Sir, a word ere you go.
SHR 1.2. 229 Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of - yea or no?
SHR 1.2. 230
SHR-TRANIO
And if I be, sir, is it any offence?
SHR 1.2. 231
SHR-GREMIO
No, if without more words you will get you hence.
SHR 1.2. 232
SHR-TRANIO
Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
SHR 1.2. 233B For me as for you?
SHR-GREMIO
But so is not she.
SHR 1.2. 234
SHR-TRANIO
For what reason, I beseech you?
SHR 1.2. 235
SHR-GREMIO
For this reason, if you'll know -
SHR 1.2. 236 That she's the choice love of Signor Gremio.
SHR 1.2. 237
SHR-HORTENSIO
That she's the chosen of Signor Hortensio.
SHR 1.2. 238
SHR-TRANIO
Softly, my masters. If you be gentlemen,
SHR 1.2. 239 Do me this right, hear me with patience.
SHR 1.2. 240 Baptista is a noble gentleman
SHR 1.2. 241 To whom my father is not all unknown,
SHR 1.2. 242 And were his daughter fairer than she is
SHR 1.2. 243 She may more suitors have, and me for one.
SHR 1.2. 244 Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers;
SHR 1.2. 245 Then well one more may fair Bianca have,
SHR 1.2. 246 And so she shall. Lucentio shall make one,
SHR 1.2. 247 Though Paris came, in hope to speed alone.
SHR 1.2. 248
SHR-GREMIO
What, this gentleman will out-talk us all!
SHR 1.2. 249
SHR-LUCENTIO
Sir, give him head, I know he'll prove a jade.
SHR 1.2. 250
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Hortensio, to what end are all these words?
SHR 1.2. 251
SHR-HORTENSIO
Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,
SHR 1.2. 252 Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter?
SHR 1.2. 253
SHR-TRANIO
No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two,
SHR 1.2. 254 The one as famous for a scolding tongue
SHR 1.2. 255 As is the other for beauteous modesty.
SHR 1.2. 256
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Sir, sir, the first's for me. Let her go by.
SHR 1.2. 257
SHR-GREMIO
Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules,
SHR 1.2. 258 And let it be more than Alcides' twelve.
SHR 1.2. 259
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Sir, understand you this of me in sooth,
SHR 1.2. 260 The youngest daughter whom you hearken for
SHR 1.2. 261 Her father keeps from all access of suitors,
SHR 1.2. 262 And will not promise her to any man
SHR 1.2. 263 Until the elder sister first be wed.
SHR 1.2. 264 The younger then is free, and not before.
SHR 1.2. 265
SHR-TRANIO
If it be so, sir, that you are the man
SHR 1.2. 266 Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest,
SHR 1.2. 267 And if you break the ice and do this feat,
SHR 1.2. 268 Achieve the elder, set the younger free
SHR 1.2. 269 For our access, whose hap shall be to have her
SHR 1.2. 270 Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.
SHR 1.2. 271
SHR-HORTENSIO
Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive;
SHR 1.2. 272 And since you do profess to be a suitor
SHR 1.2. 273 You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
SHR 1.2. 274 To whom we all rest generally beholden.
SHR 1.2. 275
SHR-TRANIO
Sir, I shall not be slack. In sign whereof,
SHR 1.2. 276 Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,
SHR 1.2. 277 And quaff carouses to our mistress' health,
SHR 1.2. 278 And do as adversaries do in law -
SHR 1.2. 279 Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
SHR 1.2. 280
SHR-GRUMIO
SHR-AND
SHR-BIONDELLO
O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone.
SHR 1.2. 281
SHR-HORTENSIO
The motion's good indeed, and be it so.
SHR 1.2. 282 Petruccio, I shall be your {ben venuto}. {Exeunt}
SHR 1.2. 0 {Enter Katherina and Bianca, her hands bound}
SHR 2.1. 1
SHR-BIANCA
Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself
SHR 2.1. 2 To make a bondmaid and a slave of me.
SHR 2.1. 3 That I disdain, but for these other goods,
SHR 2.1. 4 Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,
SHR 2.1. 5 Yea, all my raiment to my petticoat,
SHR 2.1. 6 Or what you will command me will I do,
SHR 2.1. 7 So well I know my duty to my elders.
SHR 2.1. 8
SHR-KATHERINE
Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tell
SHR 2.1. 9 Whom thou lov'st best. See thou dissemble not.
SHR 2.1. 10
SHR-BIANCA
Believe me, sister, of all the men alive
SHR 2.1. 11 I never yet beheld that special face
SHR 2.1. 12 Which I could fancy more than any other.
SHR 2.1. 13
SHR-KATHERINE
Minion, thou liest. Is 't not Hortensio?
SHR 2.1. 14
SHR-BIANCA
If you affect him, sister, here I swear
SHR 2.1. 15 I'll plead for you myself but you shall have him.
SHR 2.1. 16
SHR-KATHERINE
O then, belike you fancy riches more.
SHR 2.1. 17 You will have Gremio to keep you fair.
SHR 2.1. 18
SHR-BIANCA
Is it for him you do envy me so?
SHR 2.1. 19 Nay, then, you jest, and now I well perceive
SHR 2.1. 20 You have but jested with me all this while.
SHR 2.1. 21 I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
SHR 2.1. 22
SHR-KATHERINE
{(strikes her)} If that be jest, then +
SHR 2.1. 22 all the rest was so. {Enter Baptista}
SHR 2.1. 23
SHR-BAPTISTA
Why, how now, dame, whence grows this insolence?
SHR 2.1. 24 Bianca, stand aside. - Poor girl, she weeps. -
SHR 2.1. 25 Go ply thy needle, meddle not with her.
SHR 2.1. 26 {(To Katherine)} For shame, thou hilding of a devilish +
SHR 2.1. 26 spirit,
SHR 2.1. 27 Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee?
SHR 2.1. 28 When did she cross thee with a bitter word?
SHR 2.1. 29
SHR-KATHERINE
Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged. {She +
SHR 2.1. 29 flies after Bianca}
SHR 2.1. 30
SHR-BAPTISTA
What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in. +
SHR 2.1. 30 {Exit Bianca}
SHR 2.1. 31
SHR-KATHERINE
What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
SHR 2.1. 32 She is your treasure, she must have a husband.
SHR 2.1. 33 I must dance barefoot on her wedding day,
SHR 2.1. 34 And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
SHR 2.1. 35 Talk not to me. I will go sit and weep
SHR 2.1. 36 Till I can find occasion of revenge. {Exit}
SHR 2.1. 37
SHR-BAPTISTA
Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?
SHR 2.1. 38 But who comes here? {Enter Gremio, Lucentio as a schoolmaster in +
SHR 2.1. 38 the habit of a mean man, Petruccio with Hortensio as a musician, Tranio +
SHR 2.1. 38 as Lucentio, with Biondello his boy bearing a lute and books}
SHR 2.1. 39A
SHR-GREMIO
Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.
SHR 2.1. 40
SHR-BAPTISTA
Good morrow, neighbour Gremio. God save you,
SHR 2.1. 41 gentlemen.
SHR 2.1. 42
SHR-PETRUCCIO
And you, good sir. Pray, have you not a +
SHR 2.1. 42 daughter
SHR 2.1. 43 Called Katherina, fair and virtuous?
SHR 2.1. 44
SHR-BAPTISTA
I have a daughter, sir, called Katherina.
SHR 2.1. 45
SHR-GREMIO
You are too blunt. Go to it orderly.
SHR 2.1. 46
SHR-PETRUCCIO
You wrong me, Signor Gremio. Give me leave.
SHR 2.1. 47 {(To Baptista)} I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,
SHR 2.1. 48 That hearing of her beauty and her wit,
SHR 2.1. 49 Her affability and bashful modesty,
SHR 2.1. 50 Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour,
SHR 2.1. 51 Am bold to show myself a forward guest
SHR 2.1. 52 Within your house to make mine eye the witness
SHR 2.1. 53 Of that report which I so oft have heard,
SHR 2.1. 54 And for an entrance to my entertainment
SHR 2.1. 55 I do present you with a man of mine {(presenting +
SHR 2.1. 55 Hortensio)}
SHR 2.1. 56 Cunning in music and the mathematics
SHR 2.1. 57 To instruct her fully in those sciences,
SHR 2.1. 58 Whereof I know she is not ignorant.
SHR 2.1. 59 Accept of him, or else you do me wrong.
SHR 2.1. 60 His name is Licio, born in Mantua.
SHR 2.1. 61
SHR-BAPTISTA
You're welcome, sir, and he for your good sake.
SHR 2.1. 62 But for my daughter, Katherine, this I know:
SHR 2.1. 63 She is not for your turn, the more my grief.
SHR 2.1. 64
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I see you do not mean to part with her,
SHR 2.1. 65 Or else you like not of my company.
SHR 2.1. 66
SHR-BAPTISTA
Mistake me not, I speak but as I find.
SHR 2.1. 67 Whence are you, sir? What may I call your name?
SHR 2.1. 68
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Petruccio is my name, Antonio's son,
SHR 2.1. 69 A man well known throughout all Italy.
SHR 2.1. 70
SHR-BAPTISTA
I know him well. You are welcome for his sake.
SHR 2.1. 71
SHR-GREMIO
Saving your tale, Petruccio, I pray
SHR 2.1. 72 Let us that are poor petitioners speak too.
SHR 2.1. 73 {Baccare}, you are marvellous forward.
SHR 2.1. 74
SHR-PETRUCCIO
O pardon me, Signor Gremio, I would fain be doing.
SHR 2.1. 75
SHR-GREMIO
I doubt it not, sir. But you will curse your wooing.
SHR 2.1. 76 {(To Baptista)} Neighbour, this is a gift very +
SHR 2.1. 76 grateful, I
SHR 2.1. 77 am sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself, that
SHR 2.1. 78 have been more kindly beholden to you than any,
SHR 2.1. 79 freely give unto you this young scholar {(presenting}
SHR 2.1. 80 {Lucentio)} that hath been long studying at Rheims, as
SHR 2.1. 81 cunning in Greek, Latin, and other languages as the
SHR 2.1. 82 other in music and mathematics. His name is Cambio.
SHR 2.1. 83 Pray accept his service.
SHR 2.1. 84
SHR-BAPTISTA
A thousand thanks, Signor Gremio. Welcome,
SHR 2.1. 85 good Cambio. {(To Tranio)} But, gentle sir, methinks +
SHR 2.1. 85 you
SHR 2.1. 86 walk like a stranger. May I be so bold to know the
SHR 2.1. 87 cause of your coming?
SHR 2.1. 88
SHR-TRANIO
Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own
SHR 2.1. 89 That, being a stranger in this city here,
SHR 2.1. 90 Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,
SHR 2.1. 91 Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.
SHR 2.1. 92 Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me
SHR 2.1. 93 In the preferment of the eldest sister.
SHR 2.1. 94 This liberty is all that I request:
SHR 2.1. 95 That upon knowledge of my parentage
SHR 2.1. 96 I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo,
SHR 2.1. 97 And free access and favour as the rest.
SHR 2.1. 98 And toward the education of your daughters
SHR 2.1. 99 I here bestow a simple instrument,
SHR 2.1. 100 And this small packet of Greek and Latin books.
SHR 2.1. 101 If you accept them, then their worth is great.
SHR 2.1. 102
SHR-BAPTISTA
Lucentio is your name - of whence, I pray?
SHR 2.1. 103
SHR-TRANIO
Of Pisa, sir, son to Vincentio.
SHR 2.1. 104
SHR-BAPTISTA
A mighty man of Pisa. By report
SHR 2.1. 105 I know him well. You are very welcome, sir.
SHR 2.1. 106 {(To Hortensio)} Take you the lute, {(to +
SHR 2.1. 106 Lucentio)} and you the set of books.
SHR 2.1. 107 You shall go see your pupils presently.
SHR 2.1. 108B Holla, within! {Enter a Servant} Sirrah, lead these +
SHR 2.1. 108B gentlemen
SHR 2.1. 109 To my daughters, and tell them both
SHR 2.1. 110 These are their tutors. Bid them use them well. {Exit Servant +
SHR 2.1. 110 with Lucentio and Hortensio, [Biondello following]}
SHR 2.1. 111 {(To Petruccio)} We will go walk a little in the +
SHR 2.1. 111 orchard,
SHR 2.1. 112 And then to dinner. You are passing welcome -
SHR 2.1. 113 And so I pray you all to think yourselves.
SHR 2.1. 114
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Signor Baptista, my business asketh haste,
SHR 2.1. 115 And every day I cannot come to woo.
SHR 2.1. 116 You knew my father well, and in him me,
SHR 2.1. 117 Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,
SHR 2.1. 118 Which I have bettered rather than decreased.
SHR 2.1. 119 Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,
SHR 2.1. 120 What dowry shall I have with her to wife?
SHR 2.1. 121
SHR-BAPTISTA
After my death the one half of my lands,
SHR 2.1. 122 And in possession twenty thousand crowns.
SHR 2.1. 123
SHR-PETRUCCIO
And for that dowry I'll assure her of
SHR 2.1. 124 Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
SHR 2.1. 125 In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
SHR 2.1. 126 Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,
SHR 2.1. 127 That covenants may be kept on either hand.
SHR 2.1. 128
SHR-BAPTISTA
Ay, when the special thing is well obtained -
SHR 2.1. 129 That is her love, for that is all in all.
SHR 2.1. 130
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, that is nothing, for I tell you, father,
SHR 2.1. 131 I am as peremptory as she proud-minded,
SHR 2.1. 132 And where two raging fires meet together
SHR 2.1. 133 They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
SHR 2.1. 134 Though little fire grows great with little wind,
SHR 2.1. 135 Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
SHR 2.1. 136 So I to her, and so she yields to me,
SHR 2.1. 137 For I am rough, and woo not like a babe.
SHR 2.1. 138
SHR-BAPTISTA
Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed.
SHR 2.1. 139 But be thou armed for some unhappy words.
SHR 2.1. 140
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,
SHR 2.1. 141 That shakes not though they blow perpetually. {Enter Hortensio +
SHR 2.1. 141 with his head broke}
SHR 2.1. 142
SHR-BAPTISTA
How now, my friend, why dost thou look so pale?
SHR 2.1. 143
SHR-HORTENSIO
For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.
SHR 2.1. 144
SHR-BAPTISTA
What, will my daughter prove a good musician?
SHR 2.1. 145
SHR-HORTENSIO
I think she'll sooner prove a soldier.
SHR 2.1. 146 Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
SHR 2.1. 147
SHR-BAPTISTA
Why then, thou canst not break her to the lute?
SHR 2.1. 148
SHR-HORTENSIO
Why no, for she hath broke the lute to me.
SHR 2.1. 149 I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
SHR 2.1. 150 And bowed her hand to teach her fingering,
SHR 2.1. 151 When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
SHR 2.1. 152 `Frets, call you these?' quoth she, `I'll fume with them,'
SHR 2.1. 153 And with that word she struck me on the head,
SHR 2.1. 154 And through the instrument my pate made way,
SHR 2.1. 155 And there I stood amazed for a while,
SHR 2.1. 156 As on a pillory, looking through the lute,
SHR 2.1. 157 While she did call me rascal, fiddler,
SHR 2.1. 158 And twangling jack, with twenty such vile terms,
SHR 2.1. 159 As had she studied to misuse me so.
SHR 2.1. 160
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench!
SHR 2.1. 161 I love her ten times more than e'er I did.
SHR 2.1. 162 O, how I long to have some chat with her!
SHR 2.1. 163
SHR-BAPTISTA
{(to Hortensio)} Well, go with me, and be +
SHR 2.1. 163 not so discomfited.
SHR 2.1. 164 Proceed in practice with my younger daughter.
SHR 2.1. 165 She's apt to learn, and thankful for good turns.
SHR 2.1. 166 Signor Petruccio, will you go with us,
SHR 2.1. 167 Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?
SHR 2.1. 168B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I pray you, do. {Exeunt all but Petruccio}+
SHR 2.1. 168B I'll attend her here,
SHR 2.1. 169 And woo her with some spirit when she comes.
SHR 2.1. 170 Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain
SHR 2.1. 171 She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
SHR 2.1. 172 Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear
SHR 2.1. 173 As morning roses newly washed with dew.
SHR 2.1. 174 Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
SHR 2.1. 175 Then I'll commend her volubility,
SHR 2.1. 176 And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
SHR 2.1. 177 If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks
SHR 2.1. 178 As though she bid me stay by her a week.
SHR 2.1. 179 If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
SHR 2.1. 180 When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.
SHR 2.1. 181 But here she comes, and now, Petruccio, speak. {Enter Katherina}
SHR 2.1. 182 Good morrow, Kate, for that's your name, I hear.
SHR 2.1. 183
SHR-KATHERINE
Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing.
SHR 2.1. 184 They call me Katherine that do talk of me.
SHR 2.1. 185
SHR-PETRUCCIO
You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate,
SHR 2.1. 186 And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst,
SHR 2.1. 187 But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
SHR 2.1. 188 Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate -
SHR 2.1. 189 For dainties are all cates, and therefore `Kate' -
SHR 2.1. 190 Take this of me, Kate of my consolation:
SHR 2.1. 191 Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,
SHR 2.1. 192 Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded -
SHR 2.1. 193 Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs -
SHR 2.1. 194 Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.
SHR 2.1. 195
SHR-KATHERINE
Moved? In good time. Let him that moved you hither
SHR 2.1. 196 Re-move you hence. I knew you at the first
SHR 2.1. 197B You were a movable.
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, what's a movable?
SHR 2.1. 198B
SHR-KATHERINE
A joint-stool.
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Thou hast hit it. Come, sit +
SHR 2.1. 198B on me.
SHR 2.1. 199
SHR-KATHERINE
Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
SHR 2.1. 200
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Women are made to bear, and so are you.
SHR 2.1. 201
SHR-KATHERINE
No such jade as you, if me you mean.
SHR 2.1. 202
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee,
SHR 2.1. 203 For knowing thee to be but young and light.
SHR 2.1. 204
SHR-KATHERINE
Too light for such a swain as you to catch,
SHR 2.1. 205 And yet as heavy as my weight should be.
SHR 2.1. 206B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Should be? - should buzz.
SHR-KATHERINE
Well ta'en, and like +
SHR 2.1. 206B a buzzard.
SHR 2.1. 207
SHR-PETRUCCIO
O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?
SHR 2.1. 208
SHR-KATHERINE
Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.
SHR 2.1. 209
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Come, come, you wasp, i' faith you are too angry.
SHR 2.1. 210
SHR-KATHERINE
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
SHR 2.1. 211
SHR-PETRUCCIO
My remedy is then to pluck it out.
SHR 2.1. 212
SHR-KATHERINE
Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.
SHR 2.1. 213
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?
SHR 2.1. 214B In his tail.
SHR-KATHERINE
In his tongue.
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Whose tongue?
SHR 2.1. 215
SHR-KATHERINE
Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell.
SHR 2.1. 216
SHR-PETRUCCIO
What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again,
SHR 2.1. 217B Good Kate, I am a gentleman.
SHR-KATHERINE
That I'll try. {She +
SHR 2.1. 217B strikes him}
SHR 2.1. 218
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I swear I'll cuff you if you strike again.
SHR 2.1. 219A
SHR-KATHERINE
So may you lose your arms.
SHR 2.1. 220 If you strike me you are no gentleman,
SHR 2.1. 221 And if no gentleman, why then, no arms.
SHR 2.1. 222
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books.
SHR 2.1. 223A
SHR-KATHERINE
What is your crest - a coxcomb?
SHR 2.1. 224
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.
SHR 2.1. 225
SHR-KATHERINE
No cock of mine. You crow too like a craven.
SHR 2.1. 226
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Nay, come, Kate, come. You must not look so sour.
SHR 2.1. 227
SHR-KATHERINE
It is my fashion when I see a crab.
SHR 2.1. 228
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, here's no crab, and therefore look not sour.
SHR 2.1. 229A
SHR-KATHERINE
There is, there is.
SHR 2.1. 230A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Then show it me.
SHR 2.1. 231A
SHR-KATHERINE
Had I a glass I would.
SHR 2.1. 232B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
What, you mean my face?
SHR-KATHERINE
Well aimed, of such +
SHR 2.1. 232B a young one.
SHR 2.1. 233
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.
SHR 2.1. 234B
SHR-KATHERINE
Yet you are withered.
SHR-PETRUCCIO
'Tis with +
SHR 2.1. 234B cares.
SHR-KATHERINE
I care not.
SHR 2.1. 235
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Nay, hear you, Kate. In sooth, you scape not so.
SHR 2.1. 236
SHR-KATHERINE
I chafe you if I tarry. Let me go.
SHR 2.1. 237
SHR-PETRUCCIO
No, not a whit. I find you passing gentle.
SHR 2.1. 238 'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen,
SHR 2.1. 239 And now I find report a very liar,
SHR 2.1. 240 For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
SHR 2.1. 241 But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers.
SHR 2.1. 242 Thou canst not frown. Thou canst not look askance,
SHR 2.1. 243 Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will,
SHR 2.1. 244 Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk,
SHR 2.1. 245 But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers,
SHR 2.1. 246 With gentle conference, soft, and affable.
SHR 2.1. 247 Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?
SHR 2.1. 248 O sland'rous world! Kate like the hazel twig
SHR 2.1. 249 Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue
SHR 2.1. 250 As hazelnuts, and sweeter than the kernels.
SHR 2.1. 251 O let me see thee walk. Thou dost not halt.
SHR 2.1. 252
SHR-KATHERINE
Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command.
SHR 2.1. 253
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Did ever Dian so become a grove
SHR 2.1. 254 As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?
SHR 2.1. 255 O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate,
SHR 2.1. 256 And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful.
SHR 2.1. 257
SHR-KATHERINE
Where did you study all this goodly speech?
SHR 2.1. 258
SHR-PETRUCCIO
It is extempore, from my mother-wit.
SHR 2.1. 259
SHR-KATHERINE
A witty mother, witless else her son.
SHR 2.1. 260B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Am I not wise?
SHR-KATHERINE
Yes, keep you warm.
SHR 2.1. 261
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed.
SHR 2.1. 262 And therefore setting all this chat aside,
SHR 2.1. 263 Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
SHR 2.1. 264 That you shall be my wife, your dowry 'greed on,
SHR 2.1. 265 And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
SHR 2.1. 266 Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn,
SHR 2.1. 267 For by this light, whereby I see thy beauty -
SHR 2.1. 268 Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well -
SHR 2.1. 269 Thou must be married to no man but me, {Enter Baptista, Gremio, +
SHR 2.1. 269 and Tranio as Lucentio}
SHR 2.1. 270 For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,
SHR 2.1. 271 And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
SHR 2.1. 272 Conformable as other household Kates.
SHR 2.1. 273 Here comes your father. Never make denial.
SHR 2.1. 274 I must and will have Katherine to my wife.
SHR 2.1. 275
SHR-BAPTISTA
Now, Signor Petruccio, how speed you with my
SHR 2.1. 276 daughter?
SHR 2.1. 277A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
How but well, sir, how but well?
SHR 2.1. 278 It were impossible I should speed amiss.
SHR 2.1. 279
SHR-BAPTISTA
Why, how now, daughter Katherine - in your dumps?
SHR 2.1. 280
SHR-KATHERINE
Call you me daughter? Now I promise you
SHR 2.1. 281 You have showed a tender fatherly regard,
SHR 2.1. 282 To wish me wed to one half-lunatic,
SHR 2.1. 283 A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack,
SHR 2.1. 284 That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.
SHR 2.1. 285
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world
SHR 2.1. 286 That talked of her have talked amiss of her.
SHR 2.1. 287 If she be curst, it is for policy,
SHR 2.1. 288 For she's not froward, but modest as the dove.
SHR 2.1. 289 She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
SHR 2.1. 290 For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
SHR 2.1. 291 And Roman Lucrece for her chastity.
SHR 2.1. 292 And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together
SHR 2.1. 293 That upon Sunday is the wedding day.
SHR 2.1. 294
SHR-KATHERINE
I'll see thee hanged on Sunday first.
SHR 2.1. 295
SHR-GREMIO
Hark, Petruccio, she says she'll see thee hanged
SHR 2.1. 296 first.
SHR 2.1. 297
SHR-TRANIO
Is this your speeding? Nay then, goodnight our +
SHR 2.1. 297 part.
SHR 2.1. 298
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself.
SHR 2.1. 299 If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?
SHR 2.1. 300 'Tis bargained 'twixt us twain, being alone,
SHR 2.1. 301 That she shall still be curst in company.
SHR 2.1. 302 I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe
SHR 2.1. 303 How much she loves me. O, the kindest Kate!
SHR 2.1. 304 She hung about my neck, and kiss on kiss
SHR 2.1. 305 She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
SHR 2.1. 306 That in a twink she won me to her love.
SHR 2.1. 307 O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to see
SHR 2.1. 308 How tame, when men and women are alone,
SHR 2.1. 309 A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
SHR 2.1. 310 Give me thy hand, Kate. I will unto Venice,
SHR 2.1. 311 To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding day.
SHR 2.1. 312 Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests.
SHR 2.1. 313 I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.
SHR 2.1. 314
SHR-BAPTISTA
I know not what to say, but give me your hands.
SHR 2.1. 315 God send you joy, Petruccio! 'Tis a match.
SHR 2.1. 316
SHR-GREMIO
SHR-AND
SHR-TRANIO
Amen, say we. We will be witnesses.
SHR 2.1. 317
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu.
SHR 2.1. 318 I will to Venice. Sunday comes apace.
SHR 2.1. 319 We will have rings, and things, and fine array;
SHR 2.1. 320 And kiss me, Kate. We will be married o' Sunday. {Exeunt +
SHR 2.1. 320 Petruccio and Katherine, severally}
SHR 2.1. 321
SHR-GREMIO
Was ever match clapped up so suddenly?
SHR 2.1. 322
SHR-BAPTISTA
Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part,
SHR 2.1. 323 And venture madly on a desperate mart.
SHR 2.1. 324
SHR-TRANIO
'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you.
SHR 2.1. 325 'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.
SHR 2.1. 326
SHR-BAPTISTA
The gain I seek is quiet in the match.
SHR 2.1. 327
SHR-GREMIO
No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.
SHR 2.1. 328 But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter.
SHR 2.1. 329 Now is the day we long have looked for.
SHR 2.1. 330 I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.
SHR 2.1. 331
SHR-TRANIO
And I am one that love Bianca more
SHR 2.1. 332 Than words can witness, or your thoughts can guess.
SHR 2.1. 333
SHR-GREMIO
Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.
SHR 2.1. 334B
SHR-TRANIO
Greybeard, thy love doth freeze.
SHR-GREMIO
But thine doth +
SHR 2.1. 334B fry.
SHR 2.1. 335 Skipper, stand back. 'Tis age that nourisheth.
SHR 2.1. 336
SHR-TRANIO
But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth.
SHR 2.1. 337
SHR-BAPTISTA
Content you, gentlemen. I will compound this strife.
SHR 2.1. 338 'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both
SHR 2.1. 339 That can assure my daughter greatest dower
SHR 2.1. 340 Shall have my Bianca's love.
SHR 2.1. 341 Say, Signor Gremio, what can you assure her?
SHR 2.1. 342
SHR-GREMIO
First, as you know, my house within the city
SHR 2.1. 343 Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
SHR 2.1. 344 Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
SHR 2.1. 345 My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry.
SHR 2.1. 346 In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns,
SHR 2.1. 347 In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
SHR 2.1. 348 Costly apparel, tents and canopies,
SHR 2.1. 349 Fine linen, Turkey cushions bossed with pearl,
SHR 2.1. 350 Valance of Venice gold in needlework,
SHR 2.1. 351 Pewter, and brass, and all things that belongs
SHR 2.1. 352 To house or housekeeping. Then at my farm
SHR 2.1. 353 I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,
SHR 2.1. 354 Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls,
SHR 2.1. 355 And all things answerable to this portion.
SHR 2.1. 356 Myself am struck in years, I must confess,
SHR 2.1. 357 And if I die tomorrow this is hers,
SHR 2.1. 358 If whilst I live she will be only mine.
SHR 2.1. 359
SHR-TRANIO
That `only' came well in. Sir, list to me.
SHR 2.1. 360 I am my father's heir and only son.
SHR 2.1. 361 If I may have your daughter to my wife
SHR 2.1. 362 I'll leave her houses three or four as good,
SHR 2.1. 363 Within rich Pisa walls, as any one
SHR 2.1. 364 Old Signor Gremio has in Padua,
SHR 2.1. 365 Besides two thousand ducats by the year
SHR 2.1. 366 Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.
SHR 2.1. 367 What, have I pinched you, Signor Gremio?
SHR 2.1. 368
SHR-GREMIO
Two thousand ducats by the year of land -
SHR 2.1. 369 My land amounts not to so much in all.
SHR 2.1. 370 That she shall have; besides, an argosy
SHR 2.1. 371 That now is lying in Marseilles road.
SHR 2.1. 372 What, have I choked you with an argosy?
SHR 2.1. 373
SHR-TRANIO
Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less
SHR 2.1. 374 Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses
SHR 2.1. 375 And twelve tight galleys. These I will assure her,
SHR 2.1. 376 And twice as much whate'er thou off'rest next.
SHR 2.1. 377
SHR-GREMIO
Nay, I have offered all. I have no more,
SHR 2.1. 378 And she can have no more than all I have.
SHR 2.1. 379 If you like me, she shall have me and mine.
SHR 2.1. 380
SHR-TRANIO
Why then, the maid is mine from all the world.
SHR 2.1. 381 By your firm promise Gremio is out-vied.
SHR 2.1. 382
SHR-BAPTISTA
I must confess your offer is the best,
SHR 2.1. 383 And let your father make her the assurance,
SHR 2.1. 384 She is your own. Else, you must pardon me,
SHR 2.1. 385 If you should die before him, where's her dower?
SHR 2.1. 386
SHR-TRANIO
That's but a cavil. He is old, I young.
SHR 2.1. 387
SHR-GREMIO
And may not young men die as well as old?
SHR 2.1. 388A
SHR-BAPTISTA
Well, gentlemen,
SHR 2.1. 389 I am thus resolved. On Sunday next, you know,
SHR 2.1. 390 My daughter Katherine is to be married.
SHR 2.1. 391 {(To Tranio)} Now, on the Sunday following shall +
SHR 2.1. 391 Bianca
SHR 2.1. 392 Be bride to you, if you make this assurance;
SHR 2.1. 393 If not, to Signor Gremio.
SHR 2.1. 394 And so I take my leave, and thank you both.
SHR 2.1. 395B
SHR-GREMIO
Adieu, good neighbour. {Exit Baptista} Now I +
SHR 2.1. 395B fear thee not.
SHR 2.1. 396 Sirrah, young gamester, your father were a fool
SHR 2.1. 397 To give thee all, and in his waning age
SHR 2.1. 398 Set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy!
SHR 2.1. 399 An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy. {Exit}
SHR 2.1. 400
SHR-TRANIO
A vengeance on your crafty withered hide!
SHR 2.1. 401 Yet I have faced it with a card of ten.
SHR 2.1. 402 'Tis in my head to do my master good.
SHR 2.1. 403 I see no reason but supposed Lucentio
SHR 2.1. 404 Must get a father called supposed Vincentio -
SHR 2.1. 405 And that's a wonder; fathers commonly
SHR 2.1. 406 Do get their children, but in this case of wooing
SHR 2.1. 407 A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning. {Exit}
SHR 2.1. 0 {Enter Lucentio with books, as Cambio, Hortensio +
SHR 3.1. 0 with a lute, as Licio, and Bianca}
SHR 3.1. 1
SHR-LUCENTIO
Fiddler, forbear. You grow too forward, sir.
SHR 3.1. 2 Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
SHR 3.1. 3 Her sister Katherine welcomed you withal?
SHR 3.1. 4
SHR-HORTENSIO
But, wrangling pedant, this Bianca is,
SHR 3.1. 5 The patroness of heavenly harmony.
SHR 3.1. 6 Then give me leave to have prerogative,
SHR 3.1. 7 And when in music we have spent an hour
SHR 3.1. 8 Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.
SHR 3.1. 9
SHR-LUCENTIO
Preposterous ass, that never read so far
SHR 3.1. 10 To know the cause why music was ordained!
SHR 3.1. 11 Was it not to refresh the mind of man
SHR 3.1. 12 After his studies or his usual pain?
SHR 3.1. 13 Then give me leave to read philosophy,
SHR 3.1. 14 And while I pause, serve in your harmony.
SHR 3.1. 15
SHR-HORTENSIO
Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.
SHR 3.1. 16
SHR-BIANCA
Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong
SHR 3.1. 17 To strive for that which resteth in my choice.
SHR 3.1. 18 I am no breeching scholar in the schools.
SHR 3.1. 19 I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times,
SHR 3.1. 20 But learn my lessons as I please myself;
SHR 3.1. 21 And to cut off all strife, here sit we down.
SHR 3.1. 22 {(To Hortensio)} Take you your instrument, play you +
SHR 3.1. 22 the whiles.
SHR 3.1. 23 His lecture will be done ere you have tuned.
SHR 3.1. 24
SHR-HORTENSIO
You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?
SHR 3.1. 25
SHR-LUCENTIO
That will be never. Tune your instrument. +
SHR 3.1. 25 {Hortensio tunes his lute. Lucentio opens a book}
SHR 3.1. 26
SHR-BIANCA
Where left we last?
SHR 3.1. 27
SHR-LUCENTIO
Here, madam.
SHR 3.1. 28 {(Reads)} `{Hic ibat Simois, hic est Sigeia tellus},
SHR 3.1. 29 {Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis}.'
SHR 3.1. 30
SHR-BIANCA
Construe them.
SHR 3.1. 31
SHR-LUCENTIO
`{Hic ibat}', as I told you before - `{Simois}', I am
SHR 3.1. 32 Lucentio - `{hic est}', son unto Vincentio of Pisa - `{Sigeia
SHR 3.1. 33 tellus}', disguised thus to get your love - `{hic steterat}',
SHR 3.1. 34 and that Lucentio that comes a-wooing - `{Priami}', is
SHR 3.1. 35 my man Tranio - `{regia}', bearing my port - `{celsa senis}',
SHR 3.1. 36 that we might beguile the old pantaloon.
SHR 3.1. 37
SHR-HORTENSIO
Madam, my instrument's in tune.
SHR 3.1. 38
SHR-BIANCA
Let's hear. {(Hortensio plays)} O fie, the +
SHR 3.1. 38 treble jars.
SHR 3.1. 39
SHR-LUCENTIO
Spit in the hole, man, and tune again. {Hortensio +
SHR 3.1. 39 tunes his lute again}
SHR 3.1. 40
SHR-BIANCA
Now let me see if I can construe it. `{Hic ibat
SHR 3.1. 41 Simois}', I know you not - `{hic est Sigeia tellus}', I trust
SHR 3.1. 42 you not - `{hic steterat Priami}', take heed he hear us
SHR 3.1. 43 not - `{regia}', presume not - `{celsa senis}', despair not.
SHR 3.1. 44B
SHR-HORTENSIO
Madam, 'tis now in tune.
SHR-LUCENTIO
All but +
SHR 3.1. 44B the bass.
SHR 3.1. 45
SHR-HORTENSIO
The bass is right, 'tis the base knave that jars.
SHR 3.1. 46 {(Aside)} How fiery and forward our pedant is!
SHR 3.1. 47 Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love.
SHR 3.1. 48 {Pedascule}, I'll watch you better yet.
SHR 3.1. 49
SHR-BIANCA
{(to Lucentio)} In time I may believe; yet, +
SHR 3.1. 49 I mistrust.
SHR 3.1. 50
SHR-LUCENTIO
Mistrust it not, for sure Aeacides
SHR 3.1. 51 Was Ajax, called so from his grandfather.
SHR 3.1. 52
SHR-BIANCA
I must believe my master, else, I promise you,
SHR 3.1. 53 I should be arguing still upon that doubt.
SHR 3.1. 54 But let it rest. Now Licio, to you.
SHR 3.1. 55 Good master, take it not unkindly, pray,
SHR 3.1. 56 That I have been thus pleasant with you both.
SHR 3.1. 57
SHR-HORTENSIO
{(to Lucentio)} You may go walk and give +
SHR 3.1. 57 me leave awhile.
SHR 3.1. 58 My lessons make no music in three parts.
SHR 3.1. 59
SHR-LUCENTIO
Are you so formal, sir? Well, I must wait.
SHR 3.1. 60 {(Aside)} And watch withal, for but I be deceived
SHR 3.1. 61 Our fine musician groweth amorous.
SHR 3.1. 62
SHR-HORTENSIO
Madam, before you touch the instrument
SHR 3.1. 63 To learn the order of my fingering,
SHR 3.1. 64 I must begin with rudiments of art,
SHR 3.1. 65 To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,
SHR 3.1. 66 More pleasant, pithy, and effectual
SHR 3.1. 67 Than hath been taught by any of my trade;
SHR 3.1. 68 And there it is in writing, fairly drawn. {He gives a paper}
SHR 3.1. 69
SHR-BIANCA
Why, I am past my gamut long ago.
SHR 3.1. 70
SHR-HORTENSIO
Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.
SHR 3.1. 71
SHR-BIANCA
{(reads)} `{Gam-ut} I am, the ground of all +
SHR 3.1. 71 accord,
SHR 3.1. 72 A - re - to plead Hortensio's passion.
SHR 3.1. 73 B - mi - Bianca, take him for thy lord,
SHR 3.1. 74 C - fa, ut - that loves with all affection.
SHR 3.1. 75 D - sol, re - one clef, two notes have I,
SHR 3.1. 76 E - la, mi - show pity, or I die.'
SHR 3.1. 77 Call you this gamut? Tut, I like it not.
SHR 3.1. 78 Old fashions please me best. I am not so nice
SHR 3.1. 79 To change true rules for odd inventions. {Enter a Messenger}
SHR 3.1. 80
SHR-MESSENGER
Mistress, your father prays you leave your +
SHR 3.1. 80 books
SHR 3.1. 81 And help to dress your sister's chamber up.
SHR 3.1. 82 You know tomorrow is the wedding day.
SHR 3.1. 83
SHR-BIANCA
Farewell, sweet masters both. I must be gone.
SHR 3.1. 84
SHR-LUCENTIO
Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay. +
SHR 3.1. 84 {Exeunt Bianca, Messenger, and Lucentio}
SHR 3.1. 85
SHR-HORTENSIO
But I have cause to pry into this pedant.
SHR 3.1. 86 Methinks he looks as though he were in love.
SHR 3.1. 87 Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble
SHR 3.1. 88 To cast thy wand'ring eyes on every stale,
SHR 3.1. 89 Seize thee that list. If once I find thee ranging,
SHR 3.1. 90 Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing. {Exit}
SHR 3.1. 0 {Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio as Lucentio, Katherine, +
SHR 3.2. 0 Bianca, and others, attendants}
SHR 3.2. 1
SHR-BAPTISTA
{(to Tranio)} Signor Lucentio, this is +
SHR 3.2. 1 the 'pointed day
SHR 3.2. 2 That Katherine and Petruccio should be married,
SHR 3.2. 3 And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.
SHR 3.2. 4 What will be said, what mockery will it be,
SHR 3.2. 5 To want the bridegroom when the priest attends
SHR 3.2. 6 To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage?
SHR 3.2. 7 What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?
SHR 3.2. 8
SHR-KATHERINE
No shame but mine. I must forsooth be forced
SHR 3.2. 9 To give my hand opposed against my heart
SHR 3.2. 10 Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen,
SHR 3.2. 11 Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure.
SHR 3.2. 12 I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,
SHR 3.2. 13 Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviour,
SHR 3.2. 14 And to be noted for a merry man
SHR 3.2. 15 He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage,
SHR 3.2. 16 Make friends, invite them, and proclaim the banns,
SHR 3.2. 17 Yet never means to wed where he hath wooed.
SHR 3.2. 18 Now must the world point at poor Katherine
SHR 3.2. 19 And say `Lo, there is mad Petruccio's wife,
SHR 3.2. 20 If it would please him come and marry her.'
SHR 3.2. 21
SHR-TRANIO
Patience, good Katherine, and Baptista, too.
SHR 3.2. 22 Upon my life, Petruccio means but well.
SHR 3.2. 23 Whatever fortune stays him from his word,
SHR 3.2. 24 Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;
SHR 3.2. 25 Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest.
SHR 3.2. 26
SHR-KATHERINE
Would Katherine had never seen him, though. {Exit +
SHR 3.2. 26 weeping}
SHR 3.2. 27
SHR-BAPTISTA
Go, girl. I cannot blame thee now to weep.
SHR 3.2. 28 For such an injury would vex a very saint,
SHR 3.2. 29 Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour. {Enter Biondello}
SHR 3.2. 30
SHR-BIONDELLO
Master, master, news - old news, and such
SHR 3.2. 31 news as you never heard of.
SHR 3.2. 32
SHR-BAPTISTA
Is it new and old too? How may that be?
SHR 3.2. 33
SHR-BIONDELLO
Why, is it not news to hear of Petruccio's
SHR 3.2. 34 coming?
SHR 3.2. 35
SHR-BAPTISTA
Is he come?
SHR 3.2. 36
SHR-BIONDELLO
Why, no, sir.
SHR 3.2. 37
SHR-BAPTISTA
What then?
SHR 3.2. 38
SHR-BIONDELLO
He is coming.
SHR 3.2. 39
SHR-BAPTISTA
When will he be here?
SHR 3.2. 40
SHR-BIONDELLO
When he stands where I am and sees you
SHR 3.2. 41 there.
SHR 3.2. 42
SHR-TRANIO
But say, what to thine old news?
SHR 3.2. 43
SHR-BIONDELLO
Why, Petruccio is coming in a new hat and
SHR 3.2. 44 an old jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice-turned, a
SHR 3.2. 45 pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled,
SHR 3.2. 46 another laced, an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town
SHR 3.2. 47 armoury with a broken hilt, and chapeless, with two
SHR 3.2. 48 broken points, his horse hipped, with an old mothy
SHR 3.2. 49 saddle and stirrups of no kindred, besides, possessed
SHR 3.2. 50 with the glanders and like to mose in the chine, troubled
SHR 3.2. 51 with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of
SHR 3.2. 52 windgalls, sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows,
SHR 3.2. 53 past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers,
SHR 3.2. 54 begnawn with the bots, weighed in the back and
SHR 3.2. 55 shoulder-shotten, near-legged before and with a half-
SHR 3.2. 56 cheeked bit and a headstall of sheep's leather which,
SHR 3.2. 57 being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been
SHR 3.2. 58 often burst and now repaired with knots, one girth six
SHR 3.2. 59 times pieced, and a woman's crupper of velour which
SHR 3.2. 60 hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs,
SHR 3.2. 61 and here and there pieced with packthread.
SHR 3.2. 62
SHR-BAPTISTA
Who comes with him?
SHR 3.2. 63
SHR-BIONDELLO
O sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned
SHR 3.2. 64 like the horse, with a linen stock on one leg and a
SHR 3.2. 65 kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red and
SHR 3.2. 66 blue list; an old hat, and the humour of forty fancies
SHR 3.2. 67 pricked in 't for a feather - a monster, a very monster
SHR 3.2. 68 in apparel, and not like a Christian footboy or a
SHR 3.2. 69 gentleman's lackey.
SHR 3.2. 70
SHR-TRANIO
'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion;
SHR 3.2. 71 Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-apparelled.
SHR 3.2. 72
SHR-BAPTISTA
I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.
SHR 3.2. 73
SHR-BIONDELLO
Why, sir, he comes not.
SHR 3.2. 74
SHR-BAPTISTA
Didst thou not say he comes?
SHR 3.2. 75
SHR-BIONDELLO
Who? That Petruccio came?
SHR 3.2. 76
SHR-BAPTISTA
Ay, that Petruccio came.
SHR 3.2. 77
SHR-BIONDELLO
No, sir. I say his horse comes with him on his
SHR 3.2. 78 back.
SHR 3.2. 79
SHR-BAPTISTA
Why, that's all one.
SHR 3.2. 80
SHR-BIONDELLO
Nay, by Saint Jamy,
SHR 3.2. 81 I hold you a penny,
SHR 3.2. 82 A horse and a man
SHR 3.2. 83 Is more than one,
SHR 3.2. 84 And yet not many. {Enter Petruccio and Grumio, fantastically +
SHR 3.2. 84 dressed}
SHR 3.2. 85
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Come, where be these gallants? Who's at
SHR 3.2. 86 home?
SHR 3.2. 87A
SHR-BAPTISTA
You are welcome, sir.
SHR 3.2. 88A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
And yet I come not well.
SHR 3.2. 89A
SHR-BAPTISTA
And yet you halt not.
SHR 3.2. 90
SHR-TRANIO
Not so well apparelled as I wish you were.
SHR 3.2. 91
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Were it not better I should rush in thus -
SHR 3.2. 92 But where is Kate? Where is my lovely bride?
SHR 3.2. 93 How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown.
SHR 3.2. 94 And wherefore gaze this goodly company
SHR 3.2. 95 As if they saw some wondrous monument,
SHR 3.2. 96 Some comet or unusual prodigy?
SHR 3.2. 97
SHR-BAPTISTA
Why, sir, you know this is your wedding day.
SHR 3.2. 98 First were we sad, fearing you would not come;
SHR 3.2. 99 Now sadder that you come so unprovided.
SHR 3.2. 100 Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,
SHR 3.2. 101 An eyesore to our solemn festival.
SHR 3.2. 102
SHR-TRANIO
And tell us what occasion of import
SHR 3.2. 103 Hath all so long detained you from your wife
SHR 3.2. 104 And sent you hither so unlike yourself?
SHR 3.2. 105
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear.
SHR 3.2. 106 Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
SHR 3.2. 107 Though in some part enforced to digress,
SHR 3.2. 108 Which at more leisure I will so excuse
SHR 3.2. 109 As you shall well be satisfied withal.
SHR 3.2. 110 But where is Kate? I stay too long from her.
SHR 3.2. 111 The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.
SHR 3.2. 112
SHR-TRANIO
See not your bride in these unreverent robes.
SHR 3.2. 113 Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.
SHR 3.2. 114
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Not I, believe me. Thus I'll visit her.
SHR 3.2. 115
SHR-BAPTISTA
But thus, I trust, you will not marry her.
SHR 3.2. 116
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Good sooth, even thus. Therefore ha' done with words.
SHR 3.2. 117 To me she's married, not unto my clothes.
SHR 3.2. 118 Could I repair what she will wear in me
SHR 3.2. 119 As I can change these poor accoutrements,
SHR 3.2. 120 'Twere well for Kate and better for myself.
SHR 3.2. 121 But what a fool am I to chat with you
SHR 3.2. 122 When I should bid good morrow to my bride,
SHR 3.2. 123 And seal the title with a lovely kiss! {Exit [with Grumio]}
SHR 3.2. 124
SHR-TRANIO
He hath some meaning in his mad attire.
SHR 3.2. 125 We will persuade him, be it possible,
SHR 3.2. 126 To put on better ere he go to church. {[Exit with Gremio]}
SHR 3.2. 127
SHR-BAPTISTA
I'll after him, and see the event of this.+
SHR 3.2. 127 {[Exeunt]}
SHR 3.2. 0 {[Enter Lucentio as Cambio, and Tranio as Lucentio]}
SHR 3.3. 1
SHR-TRANIO
But, sir, to love concerneth us to add
SHR 3.3. 2 Her father's liking, which to bring to pass,
SHR 3.3. 3 As I before imparted to your worship,
SHR 3.3. 4 I am to get a man - whate'er he be
SHR 3.3. 5 It skills not much, we'll fit him to our turn -
SHR 3.3. 6 And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa,
SHR 3.3. 7 And make assurance here in Padua
SHR 3.3. 8 Of greater sums than I have promised.
SHR 3.3. 9 So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,
SHR 3.3. 10 And marry sweet Bianca with consent.
SHR 3.3. 11
SHR-LUCENTIO
Were it not that my fellow schoolmaster
SHR 3.3. 12 Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly,
SHR 3.3. 13 'Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage,
SHR 3.3. 14 Which once performed, let all the world say no,
SHR 3.3. 15 I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world.
SHR 3.3. 16
SHR-TRANIO
That by degrees we mean to look into,
SHR 3.3. 17 And watch our vantage in this business.
SHR 3.3. 18 We'll overreach the greybeard Gremio,
SHR 3.3. 19 The narrow-prying father Minola,
SHR 3.3. 20 The quaint musician, amorous Licio,
SHR 3.3. 21 All for my master's sake, Lucentio. {Enter Gremio}
SHR 3.3. 22 Signor Gremio, came you from the church?
SHR 3.3. 23
SHR-GREMIO
As willingly as e'er I came from school.
SHR 3.3. 24
SHR-TRANIO
And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?
SHR 3.3. 25
SHR-GREMIO
A bridegroom, say you? 'Tis a groom indeed -
SHR 3.3. 26 A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.
SHR 3.3. 27
SHR-TRANIO
Curster than she? Why, 'tis impossible.
SHR 3.3. 28
SHR-GREMIO
Why, he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
SHR 3.3. 29
SHR-TRANIO
Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam.
SHR 3.3. 30
SHR-GREMIO
Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him.
SHR 3.3. 31 I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest
SHR 3.3. 32 Should ask if Katherine should be his wife,
SHR 3.3. 33 `Ay, by Gog's woun's,' quoth he, and swore so loud
SHR 3.3. 34 That all amazed the priest let fall the book,
SHR 3.3. 35 And as he stooped again to take it up
SHR 3.3. 36 This mad-brained bridegroom took him such a cuff
SHR 3.3. 37 That down fell priest, and book, and book, and priest.
SHR 3.3. 38 `Now take them up,' quoth he, `if any list.'
SHR 3.3. 39
SHR-TRANIO
What said the vicar when he rose again?
SHR 3.3. 40
SHR-GREMIO
Trembled and shook, forwhy he stamped and swore
SHR 3.3. 41 As if the vicar meant to cozen him.
SHR 3.3. 42 But after many ceremonies done
SHR 3.3. 43 He calls for wine. `A health,' quoth he, as if
SHR 3.3. 44 He had been aboard, carousing to his mates
SHR 3.3. 45 After a storm; quaffed off the muscatel
SHR 3.3. 46 And threw the sops all in the sexton's face,
SHR 3.3. 47 Having no other reason
SHR 3.3. 48 But that his beard grew thin and hungerly
SHR 3.3. 49 And seemed to ask him sops as he was drinking.
SHR 3.3. 50 This done, he took the bride about the neck
SHR 3.3. 51 And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack
SHR 3.3. 52 That at the parting all the church did echo,
SHR 3.3. 53 And I seeing this came thence for very shame,
SHR 3.3. 54 And after me, I know, the rout is coming.
SHR 3.3. 55 Such a mad marriage never was before. {Music plays}
SHR 3.3. 56 Hark, hark, I hear the minstrels play. {Enter +
SHR 3.3. 56 Petruccio, Katherine, Bianca, Hortensio as Licio, Baptista, Grumio, and +
SHR 3.3. 56 others, attendants}
SHR 3.3. 57
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your +
SHR 3.3. 57 pains.
SHR 3.3. 58 I know you think to dine with me today,
SHR 3.3. 59 And have prepared great store of wedding cheer.
SHR 3.3. 60 But so it is my haste doth call me hence,
SHR 3.3. 61 And therefore here I mean to take my leave.
SHR 3.3. 62
SHR-BAPTISTA
Is 't possible you will away tonight?
SHR 3.3. 63
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I must away today, before night come.
SHR 3.3. 64 Make it no wonder. If you knew my business,
SHR 3.3. 65 You would entreat me rather go than stay.
SHR 3.3. 66 And, honest company, I thank you all
SHR 3.3. 67 That have beheld me give away myself
SHR 3.3. 68 To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife.
SHR 3.3. 69 Dine with my father, drink a health to me,
SHR 3.3. 70 For I must hence; and farewell to you all.
SHR 3.3. 71
SHR-TRANIO
Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.
SHR 3.3. 72B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
It may not be.
SHR-GREMIO
Let me entreat you.
SHR 3.3. 73B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
It cannot be.
SHR-KATHERINE
Let me entreat you.
SHR 3.3. 74B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I am content.
SHR-KATHERINE
Are you content to stay?
SHR 3.3. 75
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I am content you shall entreat me stay,
SHR 3.3. 76 But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.
SHR 3.3. 77B
SHR-KATHERINE
Now, if you love me, stay.
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Grumio, my horse.
SHR 3.3. 78
SHR-GRUMIO
Ay, sir, they be ready. The oats have eaten the
SHR 3.3. 79 horses.
SHR 3.3. 80
SHR-KATHERINE
Nay, then, do what thou canst, I will not go +
SHR 3.3. 80 today,
SHR 3.3. 81 No, nor tomorrow - not till I please myself.
SHR 3.3. 82 The door is open, sir, there lies your way.
SHR 3.3. 83 You may be jogging whiles your boots are green.
SHR 3.3. 84 For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself.
SHR 3.3. 85 'Tis like you'll prove a jolly, surly groom,
SHR 3.3. 86 That take it on you at the first so roundly.
SHR 3.3. 87
SHR-PETRUCCIO
O Kate, content thee. Prithee, be not angry.
SHR 3.3. 88
SHR-KATHERINE
I will be angry. What hast thou to do?
SHR 3.3. 89 Father, be quiet. He shall stay my leisure.
SHR 3.3. 90
SHR-GREMIO
Ay, marry, sir. Now it begins to work.
SHR 3.3. 91
SHR-KATHERINE
Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.
SHR 3.3. 92 I see a woman may be made a fool
SHR 3.3. 93 If she had not a spirit to resist.
SHR 3.3. 94
SHR-PETRUCCIO
They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.
SHR 3.3. 95 Obey the bride, you that attend on her.
SHR 3.3. 96 Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
SHR 3.3. 97 Carouse full measure to her maidenhead.
SHR 3.3. 98 Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves.
SHR 3.3. 99 But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
SHR 3.3. 100 Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret.
SHR 3.3. 101 I will be master of what is mine own.
SHR 3.3. 102 She is my goods, my chattels. She is my house,
SHR 3.3. 103 My household-stuff, my field, my barn,
SHR 3.3. 104 My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything,
SHR 3.3. 105 And here she stands, touch her whoever dare.
SHR 3.3. 106 I'll bring mine action on the proudest he
SHR 3.3. 107 That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,
SHR 3.3. 108 Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves.
SHR 3.3. 109 Rescue thy mistress if thou be a man.
SHR 3.3. 110 Fear not, sweet wench. They shall not touch thee, Kate.
SHR 3.3. 111 I'll buckler thee against a million. {Exeunt Petruccio, +
SHR 3.3. 111 Katherine, and Grumio}
SHR 3.3. 112
SHR-BAPTISTA
Nay, let them go - a couple of quiet ones!
SHR 3.3. 113
SHR-GREMIO
Went they not quickly I should die with laughing.
SHR 3.3. 114
SHR-TRANIO
Of all mad matches never was the like.
SHR 3.3. 115
SHR-LUCENTIO
Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?
SHR 3.3. 116
SHR-BIANCA
That being mad herself she's madly mated.
SHR 3.3. 117
SHR-GREMIO
I warrant him, Petruccio is Kated.
SHR 3.3. 118
SHR-BAPTISTA
Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants
SHR 3.3. 119 For to supply the places at the table,
SHR 3.3. 120 You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
SHR 3.3. 121 Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place,
SHR 3.3. 122 And let Bianca take her sister's room.
SHR 3.3. 123
SHR-TRANIO
Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?
SHR 3.3. 124
SHR-BAPTISTA
She shall, Lucentio. Come, gentlemen, let's go. +
SHR 3.3. 124 {Exeunt}
SHR 3.3. 0 {Enter Grumio}
SHR 4.1. 1
SHR-GRUMIO
Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, +
SHR 4.1. 1 and
SHR 4.1. 2 all foul ways. Was ever man so beaten? Was ever man
SHR 4.1. 3 so rayed? Was ever man so weary? I am sent before
SHR 4.1. 4 to make a fire, and they are coming after to warm
SHR 4.1. 5 them. Now were not I a little pot and soon hot, my
SHR 4.1. 6 very lips might freeze to my teeth, my tongue to the
SHR 4.1. 7 roof of my mouth, my heart in my belly ere I should
SHR 4.1. 8 come by a fire to thaw me. But I with blowing the fire
SHR 4.1. 9 shall warm myself, for considering the weather, a taller
SHR 4.1. 10 man than I will take cold. Holla! Hoa, Curtis! {Enter Curtis}
SHR 4.1. 11
SHR-CURTIS
Who is that calls so coldly?
SHR 4.1. 12
SHR-GRUMIO
A piece of ice. If thou doubt it, thou mayst slide
SHR 4.1. 13 from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run
SHR 4.1. 14 but my head and my neck. A fire, good Curtis!
SHR 4.1. 15
SHR-CURTIS
Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?
SHR 4.1. 16
SHR-GRUMIO
O ay, Curtis, ay, and therefore fire, fire! Cast on
SHR 4.1. 17 no water.
SHR 4.1. 18
SHR-CURTIS
Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?
SHR 4.1. 19
SHR-GRUMIO
She was, good Curtis, before this frost; but thou
SHR 4.1. 20 know'st, winter tames man, woman, and beast, for it
SHR 4.1. 21 hath tamed my old master, and my new mistress, and
SHR 4.1. 22 myself, fellow Curtis.
SHR 4.1. 23
SHR-CURTIS
Away, you three-inch fool. I am no beast.
SHR 4.1. 24
SHR-GRUMIO
Am I but three inches? Why, thy horn is a foot,
SHR 4.1. 25 and so long am I, at the least. But wilt thou make a
SHR 4.1. 26 fire, or shall I complain on thee to our mistress, whose
SHR 4.1. 27 hand - she being now at hand - thou shalt soon feel to
SHR 4.1. 28 thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office.
SHR 4.1. 29
SHR-CURTIS
I prithee, good Grumio, tell me - how goes the
SHR 4.1. 30 world?
SHR 4.1. 31
SHR-GRUMIO
A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine.
SHR 4.1. 32 And therefore fire, do thy duty, and have thy duty, for
SHR 4.1. 33 my master and mistress are almost frozen to death.
SHR 4.1. 34
SHR-CURTIS
There's fire ready, and therefore, good Grumio,
SHR 4.1. 35 the news.
SHR 4.1. 36
SHR-GRUMIO
Why, `Jack boy, ho boy!', and as much news as
SHR 4.1. 37 wilt thou.
SHR 4.1. 38
SHR-CURTIS
Come, you are so full of cony-catching.
SHR 4.1. 39
SHR-GRUMIO
Why, therefore fire, for I have caught extreme
SHR 4.1. 40 cold. Where's the cook? Is supper ready, the house
SHR 4.1. 41 trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the servingmen
SHR 4.1. 42 in their new fustian, the white stockings, and
SHR 4.1. 43 every officer his wedding garment on? Be the Jacks fair
SHR 4.1. 44 within, the Jills fair without, the carpets laid, and
SHR 4.1. 45 everything in order?
SHR 4.1. 46
SHR-CURTIS
All ready, and therefore, I pray thee, news.
SHR 4.1. 47
SHR-GRUMIO
First, know my horse is tired, my master and
SHR 4.1. 48 mistress fallen out.
SHR 4.1. 49
SHR-CURTIS
How?
SHR 4.1. 50
SHR-GRUMIO
Out of their saddles into the dirt, and thereby
SHR 4.1. 51 hangs a tale.
SHR 4.1. 52
SHR-CURTIS
Let's ha 't, good Grumio.
SHR 4.1. 53
SHR-GRUMIO
Lend thine ear.
SHR 4.1. 54
SHR-CURTIS
Here.
SHR 4.1. 55
SHR-GRUMIO
{(cuffing him)} There.
SHR 4.1. 56
SHR-CURTIS
This 'tis to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
SHR 4.1. 57
SHR-GRUMIO
And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this
SHR 4.1. 58 cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseech listening.
SHR 4.1. 59 Now I begin. {Inprimis}, we came down a foul hill, my
SHR 4.1. 60 master riding behind my mistress.
SHR 4.1. 61
SHR-CURTIS
Both of one horse?
SHR 4.1. 62
SHR-GRUMIO
What's that to thee?
SHR 4.1. 63
SHR-CURTIS
Why, a horse.
SHR 4.1. 64
SHR-GRUMIO
Tell thou the tale. But hadst thou not crossed me
SHR 4.1. 65 thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she
SHR 4.1. 66 under her horse; thou shouldst have heard in how
SHR 4.1. 67 miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her
SHR 4.1. 68 with the horse upon her, how he beat me because her
SHR 4.1. 69 horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt to
SHR 4.1. 70 pluck him off me, how he swore, how she prayed that
SHR 4.1. 71 never prayed before, how I cried, how the horses ran
SHR 4.1. 72 away, how her bridle was burst, how I lost my crupper,
SHR 4.1. 73 with many things of worthy memory which now shall
SHR 4.1. 74 die in oblivion, and thou return unexperienced to thy
SHR 4.1. 75 grave.
SHR 4.1. 76
SHR-CURTIS
By this reckoning he is more shrew than she.
SHR 4.1. 77
SHR-GRUMIO
Ay, and that thou and the proudest of you all
SHR 4.1. 78 shall find when he comes home. But what talk I of
SHR 4.1. 79 this? Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip,
SHR 4.1. 80 Walter, Sugarsop, and the rest. Let their heads be
SHR 4.1. 81 sleekly combed, their blue coats brushed, and their
SHR 4.1. 82 garters of an indifferent knit. Let them curtsy with their
SHR 4.1. 83 left legs and not presume to touch a hair of my master's
SHR 4.1. 84 horse-tail till they kiss their hands. Are they all ready?
SHR 4.1. 85
SHR-CURTIS
They are.
SHR 4.1. 86
SHR-GRUMIO
Call them forth.
SHR 4.1. 87
SHR-CURTIS
{(calling)} Do you hear, ho? You must meet +
SHR 4.1. 87 my
SHR 4.1. 88 master to countenance my mistress.
SHR 4.1. 89
SHR-GRUMIO
Why, she hath a face of her own.
SHR 4.1. 90
SHR-CURTIS
Who knows not that?
SHR 4.1. 91
SHR-GRUMIO
Thou, it seems, that calls for company to
SHR 4.1. 92 countenance her.
SHR 4.1. 93
SHR-CURTIS
I call them forth to credit her. {Enter four or five +
SHR 4.1. 93 servingmen}
SHR 4.1. 94
SHR-GRUMIO
Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.
SHR 4.1. 95
SHR-NATHANIEL
Welcome home, Grumio!
SHR 4.1. 96
SHR-PHILIP
How now, Grumio?
SHR 4.1. 97
SHR-JOSEPH
What, Grumio?
SHR 4.1. 98
SHR-NICHOLAS
Fellow Grumio!
SHR 4.1. 99
SHR-NATHANIEL
How now, old lad!
SHR 4.1. 100
SHR-GRUMIO
Welcome you, how now you, what you, fellow
SHR 4.1. 101 you, and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce
SHR 4.1. 102 companions, is all ready and all things neat?
SHR 4.1. 103
SHR-NATHANIEL
All things is ready. How near is our master?
SHR 4.1. 104
SHR-GRUMIO
E'en at hand, alighted by this, and therefore be
SHR 4.1. 105 not - Cock's passion, silence! I hear my master. {Enter Petruccio +
SHR 4.1. 105 and Katherine}
SHR 4.1. 106
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Where be these knaves? What, no man at door
SHR 4.1. 107 To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse?
SHR 4.1. 108 Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?
SHR 4.1. 109A
SHR-ALL SERVANTS
Here, here sir, here sir.
SHR 4.1. 110
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Here sir, here sir, here sir, here sir!
SHR 4.1. 111 You logger-headed and unpolished grooms,
SHR 4.1. 112 What! No attendance! No regard! No duty!
SHR 4.1. 113 Where is the foolish knave I sent before?
SHR 4.1. 114
SHR-GRUMIO
Here, sir, as foolish as I was before.
SHR 4.1. 115
SHR-PETRUCCIO
You peasant swain, you whoreson, malthorse drudge,
SHR 4.1. 116 Did I not bid thee meet me in the park
SHR 4.1. 117 And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?
SHR 4.1. 118
SHR-GRUMIO
Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,
SHR 4.1. 119 And Gabriel's pumps were all unpinked i' th' heel.
SHR 4.1. 120 There was no link to colour Peter's hat,
SHR 4.1. 121 And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing.
SHR 4.1. 122 There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory.
SHR 4.1. 123 The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly.
SHR 4.1. 124 Yet as they are, here are they come to meet you.
SHR 4.1. 125
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Go, rascals, go and fetch my supper in. {Exeunt +
SHR 4.1. 125 servants}
SHR 4.1. 126 {(Sings)} `Where is the life that late I led?
SHR 4.1. 127 Where are those - '
SHR 4.1. 128 Sit down, Kate, and welcome. Soud, soud, soud, soud. +
SHR 4.1. 128 {Enter servants with supper}
SHR 4.1. 129 Why, when, I say? - Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry. -
SHR 4.1. 130 Off with my boots, you rogues, you villains. When?
SHR 4.1. 131 {(Sings)} `It was the friar of orders gray,
SHR 4.1. 132 As he forth walked on his way.'
SHR 4.1. 133 Out, you rogue, you pluck my foot awry.
SHR 4.1. 134 {(Kicking a servant)} Take that, and mend the plucking +
SHR 4.1. 134 of the other.
SHR 4.1. 135 Be merry, Kate. {(Calling)} Some water, here. What, +
SHR 4.1. 135 hoa! {Enter one with water}
SHR 4.1. 136 Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence,
SHR 4.1. 137 And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither -
SHR 4.1. 138 One, Kate, that you must kiss and be acquainted with.
SHR 4.1. 139 {(Calling)} Where are my slippers? Shall I have some +
SHR 4.1. 139 water?
SHR 4.1. 140 Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.
SHR-[A
servant drops +
SHR 4.1. 140 water]}
SHR 4.1. 141 You whoreson villain, will you let it fall?
SHR 4.1. 142
SHR-KATHERINE
Patience, I pray you, 'twas a fault unwilling.
SHR 4.1. 143
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-eared knave.
SHR 4.1. 144 Come, Kate, sit down, I know you have a stomach.
SHR 4.1. 145 Will you give thanks, sweet Kate, or else shall I?
SHR 4.1. 146B What's this - mutton?
SHR-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Ay.
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Who brought +
SHR 4.1. 146B it?
SHR-PETER
I.
SHR 4.1. 147
SHR-PETRUCCIO
'Tis burnt, and so is all the meat.
SHR 4.1. 148 What dogs are these? Where is the rascal cook?
SHR 4.1. 149 How durst you villains bring it from the dresser
SHR 4.1. 150 And serve it thus to me that love it not?
SHR 4.1. 151 There, {(throwing food)} take it to you, trenchers, +
SHR 4.1. 151 cups, and all,
SHR 4.1. 152 You heedless jolt-heads and unmannered slaves.
SHR 4.1. 153 What, do you grumble? I'll be with you straight. {He chases the +
SHR 4.1. 153 servants away}
SHR 4.1. 154
SHR-KATHERINE
I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet.
SHR 4.1. 155 The meat was well, if you were so contented.
SHR 4.1. 156
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away,
SHR 4.1. 157 And I expressly am forbid to touch it,
SHR 4.1. 158 For it engenders choler, planteth anger,
SHR 4.1. 159 And better 'twere that both of us did fast,
SHR 4.1. 160 Since of ourselves ourselves are choleric,
SHR 4.1. 161 Than feed it with such overroasted flesh.
SHR 4.1. 162 Be patient, tomorrow 't shall be mended,
SHR 4.1. 163 And for this night we'll fast for company.
SHR 4.1. 164 Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber. {Exeunt}
SHR 4.1. 165 {Enter servants severally}
SHR-NATHANIEL
Peter, didst +
SHR 4.1. 165 ever see the like?
SHR 4.1. 166
SHR-PETER
He kills her in her own humour. {Enter Curtis, a +
SHR 4.1. 166 servant}
SHR 4.1. 167
SHR-GRUMIO
Where is he?
SHR 4.1. 168A
SHR-CURTIS
In her chamber,
SHR 4.1. 169 Making a sermon of continency to her,
SHR 4.1. 170 And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,
SHR 4.1. 171 Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak,
SHR 4.1. 172 And sits as one new risen from a dream.
SHR 4.1. 173 Away, away, for he is coming hither. {Exeunt}
SHR 4.1. 174 {Enter Petruccio}
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Thus have I politicly +
SHR 4.1. 174 begun my reign,
SHR 4.1. 175 And 'tis my hope to end successfully.
SHR 4.1. 176 My falcon now is sharp and passing empty,
SHR 4.1. 177 And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,
SHR 4.1. 178 For then she never looks upon her lure.
SHR 4.1. 179 Another way I have to man my haggard,
SHR 4.1. 180 To make her come and know her keeper's call -
SHR 4.1. 181 That is, to watch her as we watch these kites
SHR 4.1. 182 That bate and beat, and will not be obedient.
SHR 4.1. 183 She ate no meat today, nor none shall eat.
SHR 4.1. 184 Last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not.
SHR 4.1. 185 As with the meat, some undeserved fault
SHR 4.1. 186 I'll find about the making of the bed,
SHR 4.1. 187 And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
SHR 4.1. 188 This way the coverlet, another way the sheets,
SHR 4.1. 189 Ay, and amid this hurly I intend
SHR 4.1. 190 That all is done in reverent care of her,
SHR 4.1. 191 And in conclusion she shall watch all night,
SHR 4.1. 192 And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl
SHR 4.1. 193 And with the clamour keep her still awake.
SHR 4.1. 194 This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
SHR 4.1. 195 And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
SHR 4.1. 196 He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
SHR 4.1. 197 Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show. {Exit}
SHR 4.1. 0 {Enter Tranio as Lucentio, and Hortensio as Licio}
SHR 4.2. 1
SHR-TRANIO
Is 't possible, friend Licio, that Mistress Bianca
SHR 4.2. 2 Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?
SHR 4.2. 3 I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.
SHR 4.2. 4
SHR-HORTENSIO
Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,
SHR 4.2. 5 Stand by, and mark the manner of his teaching. {They stand +
SHR 4.2. 5 aside.}
SHR 4.2. 6 {Enter Bianca, and Lucentio as Cambio}
SHR-LUCENTIO
Now, +
SHR 4.2. 6 mistress, profit you in what you read?
SHR 4.2. 7
SHR-BIANCA
What, master, read you? First resolve me that.
SHR 4.2. 8
SHR-LUCENTIO
I read that I profess, {The Art to Love}.
SHR 4.2. 9
SHR-BIANCA
And may you prove, sir, master of your art.
SHR 4.2. 10
SHR-LUCENTIO
While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart. +
SHR 4.2. 10 {They stand aside}
SHR 4.2. 11
SHR-HORTENSIO
Quick proceeders, marry! Now tell me, I pray,
SHR 4.2. 12 You that durst swear that your mistress Bianca
SHR 4.2. 13 Loved none in the world so well as Lucentio.
SHR 4.2. 14
SHR-TRANIO
O despiteful love, unconstant womankind!
SHR 4.2. 15 I tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful.
SHR 4.2. 16
SHR-HORTENSIO
Mistake no more, I am not Licio,
SHR 4.2. 17 Nor a musician as I seem to be,
SHR 4.2. 18 But one that scorn to live in this disguise
SHR 4.2. 19 For such a one as leaves a gentleman
SHR 4.2. 20 And makes a god of such a cullion.
SHR 4.2. 21 Know, sir, that I am called Hortensio.
SHR 4.2. 22
SHR-TRANIO
Signor Hortensio, I have often heard
SHR 4.2. 23 Of your entire affection to Bianca,
SHR 4.2. 24 And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness
SHR 4.2. 25 I will with you, if you be so contented,
SHR 4.2. 26 Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.
SHR 4.2. 27
SHR-HORTENSIO
See how they kiss and court. Signor Lucentio,
SHR 4.2. 28 Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
SHR 4.2. 29 Never to woo her more, but do forswear her
SHR 4.2. 30 As one unworthy all the former favours
SHR 4.2. 31 That I have fondly flattered her withal.
SHR 4.2. 32
SHR-TRANIO
And here I take the like unfeigned oath
SHR 4.2. 33 Never to marry with her, though she would entreat.
SHR 4.2. 34 Fie on her, see how beastly she doth court him!
SHR 4.2. 35
SHR-HORTENSIO
Would all the world but he had quite forsworn.
SHR 4.2. 36 For me, that I may surely keep mine oath
SHR 4.2. 37 I will be married to a wealthy widow
SHR 4.2. 38 Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me
SHR 4.2. 39 As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
SHR 4.2. 40 And so farewell, Signor Lucentio.
SHR 4.2. 41 Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
SHR 4.2. 42 Shall win my love; and so I take my leave,
SHR 4.2. 43 In resolution as I swore before. {Exit}
SHR 4.2. 44
SHR-TRANIO
Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace
SHR 4.2. 45 As 'longeth to a lover's blessed case.
SHR 4.2. 46 Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love,
SHR 4.2. 47 And have forsworn you with Hortensio.
SHR 4.2. 48
SHR-BIANCA
Tranio, you jest. But have you both forsworn me?
SHR 4.2. 49B
SHR-TRANIO
Mistress, we have.
SHR-LUCENTIO
Then we are rid of Licio.
SHR 4.2. 50
SHR-TRANIO
I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,
SHR 4.2. 51 That shall be wooed and wedded in a day.
SHR 4.2. 52A
SHR-BIANCA
God give him joy.
SHR 4.2. 53A
SHR-TRANIO
Ay, and he'll tame her.
SHR 4.2. 54A
SHR-BIANCA
He says so, Tranio.
SHR 4.2. 55
SHR-TRANIO
Faith, he is gone unto the taming-school.
SHR 4.2. 56
SHR-BIANCA
The taming-school - what, is there such a place?
SHR 4.2. 57
SHR-TRANIO
Ay, mistress, and Petruccio is the master,
SHR 4.2. 58 That teacheth tricks eleven-and-twenty long
SHR 4.2. 59 To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue. {Enter +
SHR 4.2. 59 Biondello}
SHR 4.2. 60
SHR-BIONDELLO
O, master, master, I have watched so long
SHR 4.2. 61 That I am dog-weary, but at last I spied
SHR 4.2. 62 An ancient angel coming down the hill
SHR 4.2. 63B Will serve the turn.
SHR-TRANIO
What is he, Biondello?
SHR 4.2. 64
SHR-BIONDELLO
Master, a marcantant or a pedant,
SHR 4.2. 65 I know not what, but formal in apparel,
SHR 4.2. 66 In gait and countenance surely like a father.
SHR 4.2. 67A
SHR-LUCENTIO
And what of him, Tranio?
SHR 4.2. 68
SHR-TRANIO
If he be credulous and trust my tale,
SHR 4.2. 69 I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio
SHR 4.2. 70 And give assurance to Baptista Minola
SHR 4.2. 71 As if he were the right Vincentio.
SHR 4.2. 72 Take in your love, and then let me alone. {Exeunt Lucentio and +
SHR 4.2. 72 Bianca}
SHR 4.2. 73B {Enter a Pedant}
SHR-PEDANT
God save you, +
SHR 4.2. 73B sir.
SHR-TRANIO
And you, sir. You are welcome.
SHR 4.2. 74 Travel you farre on, or are you at the farthest?
SHR 4.2. 75
SHR-PEDANT
Sir, at the farthest for a week or two,
SHR 4.2. 76 But then up farther and as far as Rome,
SHR 4.2. 77 And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.
SHR 4.2. 78B
SHR-TRANIO
What countryman, I pray?
SHR-PEDANT
Of Mantua.
SHR 4.2. 79
SHR-TRANIO
Of Mantua, sir? Marry, God forbid,
SHR 4.2. 80 And come to Padua careless of your life!
SHR 4.2. 81
SHR-PEDANT
My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard.
SHR 4.2. 82
SHR-TRANIO
'Tis death for anyone in Mantua
SHR 4.2. 83 To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
SHR 4.2. 84 Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke,
SHR 4.2. 85 For private quarrel 'twixt your Duke and him,
SHR 4.2. 86 Hath published and proclaimed it openly.
SHR 4.2. 87 'Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come,
SHR 4.2. 88 You might have heard it else proclaimed about.
SHR 4.2. 89
SHR-PEDANT
Alas, sir, it is worse for me than so,
SHR 4.2. 90 For I have bills for money by exchange
SHR 4.2. 91 From Florence, and must here deliver them.
SHR 4.2. 92
SHR-TRANIO
Well, sir, to do you courtesy
SHR 4.2. 93 This will I do, and this I will advise you.
SHR 4.2. 94 First tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?
SHR 4.2. 95
SHR-PEDANT
Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,
SHR 4.2. 96 Pisa renowned for grave citizens.
SHR 4.2. 97
SHR-TRANIO
Among them know you one Vincentio?
SHR 4.2. 98
SHR-PEDANT
I know him not, but I have heard of him,
SHR 4.2. 99 A merchant of incomparable wealth.
SHR 4.2. 100
SHR-TRANIO
He is my father, sir, and sooth to say,
SHR 4.2. 101 In count'nance somewhat doth resemble you.
SHR 4.2. 102
SHR-BIONDELLO
{(aside)} As much as an apple doth an +
SHR 4.2. 102 oyster,
SHR 4.2. 103 and all one.
SHR 4.2. 104
SHR-TRANIO
To save your life in this extremity
SHR 4.2. 105 This favour will I do you for his sake,
SHR 4.2. 106 And think it not the worst of all your fortunes
SHR 4.2. 107 That you are like to Sir Vincentio.
SHR 4.2. 108 His name and credit shall you undertake,
SHR 4.2. 109 And in my house you shall be friendly lodged.
SHR 4.2. 110 Look that you take upon you as you should.
SHR 4.2. 111 You understand me, sir? So shall you stay
SHR 4.2. 112 Till you have done your business in the city.
SHR 4.2. 113 If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.
SHR 4.2. 114
SHR-PEDANT
O sir, I do, and will repute you ever
SHR 4.2. 115 The patron of my life and liberty.
SHR 4.2. 116
SHR-TRANIO
Then go with me to make the matter good.
SHR 4.2. 117 This, by the way, I let you understand -
SHR 4.2. 118 My father is here looked for every day
SHR 4.2. 119 To pass assurance of a dower in marriage
SHR 4.2. 120 'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here.
SHR 4.2. 121 In all these circumstances I'll instruct you.
SHR 4.2. 122 Go with me to clothe you as becomes you. {Exeunt}
SHR 4.2. 0 {Enter Katherine and Grumio}
SHR 4.3. 1
SHR-GRUMIO
No, no, forsooth. I dare not, for my life.
SHR 4.3. 2
SHR-KATHERINE
The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.
SHR 4.3. 3 What, did he marry me to famish me?
SHR 4.3. 4 Beggars that come unto my father's door
SHR 4.3. 5 Upon entreaty have a present alms,
SHR 4.3. 6 If not, elsewhere they meet with charity.
SHR 4.3. 7 But I, who never knew how to entreat,
SHR 4.3. 8 Nor never needed that I should entreat,
SHR 4.3. 9 Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
SHR 4.3. 10 With oaths kept waking and with brawling fed,
SHR 4.3. 11 And that which spites me more than all these wants,
SHR 4.3. 12 He does it under name of perfect love,
SHR 4.3. 13 As who should say if I should sleep or eat
SHR 4.3. 14 'Twere deadly sickness, or else present death.
SHR 4.3. 15 I prithee, go and get me some repast.
SHR 4.3. 16 I care not what, so it be wholesome food.
SHR 4.3. 17A
SHR-GRUMIO
What say you to a neat's foot?
SHR 4.3. 18
SHR-KATHERINE
'Tis passing good. I prithee, let me have it.
SHR 4.3. 19
SHR-GRUMIO
I fear it is too choleric a meat.
SHR 4.3. 20 How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?
SHR 4.3. 21
SHR-KATHERINE
I like it well. Good Grumio, fetch it me.
SHR 4.3. 22
SHR-GRUMIO
I cannot tell, I fear 'tis choleric.
SHR 4.3. 23 What say you to a piece of beef, and mustard?
SHR 4.3. 24
SHR-KATHERINE
A dish that I do love to feed upon.
SHR 4.3. 25
SHR-GRUMIO
Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.
SHR 4.3. 26
SHR-KATHERINE
Why then, the beef, and let the mustard rest.
SHR 4.3. 27
SHR-GRUMIO
Nay, then I will not. You shall have the mustard,
SHR 4.3. 28 Or else you get no beef of Grumio.
SHR 4.3. 29
SHR-KATHERINE
Then both, or one, or anything thou wilt.
SHR 4.3. 30
SHR-GRUMIO
Why then, the mustard without the beef.
SHR 4.3. 31
SHR-KATHERINE
Go, get thee gone, thou false, deluding slave,
SHR 4.3. 32 {(Beating him)} That feed'st me with the very name of +
SHR 4.3. 32 meat.
SHR 4.3. 33 Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you,
SHR 4.3. 34 That triumph thus upon my misery.
SHR 4.3. 35 Go, get thee gone, I say. {Enter Petruccio and Hortensio, with +
SHR 4.3. 35 meat}
SHR 4.3. 36
SHR-PETRUCCIO
How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?
SHR 4.3. 37B
SHR-HORTENSIO
Mistress, what cheer?
SHR-KATHERINE
Faith, as cold as can +
SHR 4.3. 37B be.
SHR 4.3. 38
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me.
SHR 4.3. 39 Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am
SHR 4.3. 40 To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.
SHR 4.3. 41 I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks.
SHR 4.3. 42 What, not a word? Nay then, thou lov'st it not,
SHR 4.3. 43 And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
SHR 4.3. 44B Here, take away this dish.
SHR-KATHERINE
I pray you, let it stand.
SHR 4.3. 45
SHR-PETRUCCIO
The poorest service is repaid with thanks,
SHR 4.3. 46 And so shall mine before you touch the meat.
SHR 4.3. 47A
SHR-KATHERINE
I thank you, sir.
SHR 4.3. 48
SHR-HORTENSIO
Signor Petruccio, fie, you are to blame.
SHR 4.3. 49 Come, Mistress Kate, I'll bear you company.
SHR 4.3. 50
SHR-PETRUCCIO
{(aside)} Eat it up all, Hortensio, if +
SHR 4.3. 50 thou lov'st me.
SHR 4.3. 51 {(To Katherine)} Much good do it unto thy gentle +
SHR 4.3. 51 heart.
SHR 4.3. 52 Kate, eat apace; and now, my honey love,
SHR 4.3. 53 Will we return unto thy father's house,
SHR 4.3. 54 And revel it as bravely as the best,
SHR 4.3. 55 With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings,
SHR 4.3. 56 With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and things,
SHR 4.3. 57 With scarves, and fans, and double change of bravery,
SHR 4.3. 58 With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
SHR 4.3. 59 What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure,
SHR 4.3. 60 To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure. {Enter Tailor with +
SHR 4.3. 60 a gown}
SHR 4.3. 61 Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments.
SHR 4.3. 62B Lay forth the gown. {Enter Haberdasher with a cap} What +
SHR 4.3. 62B news with you, sir?
SHR 4.3. 63
SHR-HABERDASHER
Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.
SHR 4.3. 64
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, this was moulded on a porringer -
SHR 4.3. 65 A velvet dish. Fie, fie, 'tis lewd and filthy.
SHR 4.3. 66 Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
SHR 4.3. 67 A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap.
SHR 4.3. 68 Away with it! Come, let me have a bigger.
SHR 4.3. 69
SHR-KATHERINE
I'll have no bigger. This doth fit the time,
SHR 4.3. 70 And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.
SHR 4.3. 71
SHR-PETRUCCIO
When you are gentle you shall have one, too,
SHR 4.3. 72B And not till then.
SHR-HORTENSIO
{(aside)} That will +
SHR 4.3. 72B not be in haste.
SHR 4.3. 73
SHR-KATHERINE
Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,
SHR 4.3. 74 And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.
SHR 4.3. 75 Your betters have endured me say my mind,
SHR 4.3. 76 And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
SHR 4.3. 77 My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
SHR 4.3. 78 Or else my heart concealing it will break,
SHR 4.3. 79 And rather than it shall I will be free
SHR 4.3. 80 Even to the uttermost as I please in words.
SHR 4.3. 81
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, thou sayst true. It is a paltry cap,
SHR 4.3. 82 A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie.
SHR 4.3. 83 I love thee well in that thou lik'st it not.
SHR 4.3. 84
SHR-KATHERINE
Love me or love me not, I like the cap
SHR 4.3. 85 And it I will have, or I will have none. {[Exit Haberdasher]}
SHR 4.3. 86
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Thy gown? Why, ay. Come, tailor, let us see 't.
SHR 4.3. 87 O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is here?
SHR 4.3. 88 What's this - a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
SHR 4.3. 89 What, up and down carved like an apple-tart?
SHR 4.3. 90 Here's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish and slash,
SHR 4.3. 91 Like to a scissor in a barber's shop.
SHR 4.3. 92 Why, what o' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?
SHR 4.3. 93
SHR-HORTENSIO
{(aside)} I see she's like to have nor +
SHR 4.3. 93 cap nor gown.
SHR 4.3. 94
SHR-TAILOR
You bid me make it orderly and well,
SHR 4.3. 95 According to the fashion and the time.
SHR 4.3. 96
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Marry, and did, but if you be remembered
SHR 4.3. 97 I did not bid you mar it to the time.
SHR 4.3. 98 Go hop me over every kennel home,
SHR 4.3. 99 For you shall hop without my custom, sir.
SHR 4.3. 100 I'll none of it. Hence, make your best of it.
SHR 4.3. 101
SHR-KATHERINE
I never saw a better fashioned gown,
SHR 4.3. 102 More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable.
SHR 4.3. 103 Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.
SHR 4.3. 104
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why true, he means to make a puppet of thee.
SHR 4.3. 105
SHR-TAILOR
She says your worship means to make a puppet
SHR 4.3. 106 of her.
SHR 4.3. 107
SHR-PETRUCCIO
O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, +
SHR 4.3. 107 thou thimble,
SHR 4.3. 108 Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
SHR 4.3. 109 Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket, thou.
SHR 4.3. 110 Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread!
SHR 4.3. 111 Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant,
SHR 4.3. 112 Or I shall so bemete thee with thy yard
SHR 4.3. 113 As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st.
SHR 4.3. 114 I tell thee, I, that thou hast marred her gown.
SHR 4.3. 115
SHR-TAILOR
Your worship is deceived. The gown is made
SHR 4.3. 116 Just as my master had direction.
SHR 4.3. 117 Grumio gave order how it should be done.
SHR 4.3. 118
SHR-GRUMIO
I gave him no order, I gave him the stuff.
SHR 4.3. 119
SHR-TAILOR
But how did you desire it should be made?
SHR 4.3. 120
SHR-GRUMIO
Marry, sir, with needle and thread.
SHR 4.3. 121
SHR-TAILOR
But did you not request to have it cut?
SHR 4.3. 122
SHR-GRUMIO
Thou hast faced many things.
SHR 4.3. 123
SHR-TAILOR
I have.
SHR 4.3. 124
SHR-GRUMIO
Face not me. Thou hast braved many men. Brave
SHR 4.3. 125 not me. I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto
SHR 4.3. 126 thee I bid thy master cut out the gown, but I did not
SHR 4.3. 127 bid him cut it to pieces. {Ergo} thou liest.
SHR 4.3. 128
SHR-TAILOR
{(showing a paper)} Why, here is the note +
SHR 4.3. 128 of the
SHR 4.3. 129 fashion, to testify.
SHR 4.3. 130
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Read it.
SHR 4.3. 131
SHR-GRUMIO
The note lies in 's throat if he say I said so.
SHR 4.3. 132
SHR-TAILOR
{(reads)} `{Imprimis}, a loose-bodied +
SHR 4.3. 132 gown.'
SHR 4.3. 133
SHR-GRUMIO
Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me
SHR 4.3. 134 in the skirts of it and beat me to death with a bottom
SHR 4.3. 135 of brown thread. I said a gown.
SHR 4.3. 136
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Proceed.
SHR 4.3. 137
SHR-TAILOR
{(reads)} `With a small compassed cape.'
SHR 4.3. 138
SHR-GRUMIO
I confess the cape.
SHR 4.3. 139
SHR-TAILOR
{(reads)} `With a trunk sleeve.'
SHR 4.3. 140
SHR-GRUMIO
I confess two sleeves.
SHR 4.3. 141
SHR-TAILOR
{(reads)} `The sleeves curiously cut.'
SHR 4.3. 142
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Ay, there's the villany.
SHR 4.3. 143
SHR-GRUMIO
Error i' th' bill, sir, error i' th' bill. I commanded
SHR 4.3. 144 the sleeves should be cut out and sewed up again, and
SHR 4.3. 145 that I'll prove upon thee though thy little finger be
SHR 4.3. 146 armed in a thimble.
SHR 4.3. 147
SHR-TAILOR
This is true that I say. An I had thee in place
SHR 4.3. 148 where, thou shouldst know it.
SHR 4.3. 149
SHR-GRUMIO
I am for thee straight. Take thou the bill, give
SHR 4.3. 150 me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.
SHR 4.3. 151
SHR-HORTENSIO
Godamercy, Grumio, then he shall have no
SHR 4.3. 152 odds.
SHR 4.3. 153
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.
SHR 4.3. 154
SHR-GRUMIO
You are i' th' right, sir. 'Tis for my mistress.
SHR 4.3. 155
SHR-PETRUCCIO
{(to the Tailor)} Go, take it up unto +
SHR 4.3. 155 thy master's use.
SHR 4.3. 156
SHR-GRUMIO
{(to the Tailor)} Villain, not for thy +
SHR 4.3. 156 life. Take up my
SHR 4.3. 157 mistress' gown for thy master's use!
SHR 4.3. 158
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?
SHR 4.3. 159
SHR-GRUMIO
O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for.
SHR 4.3. 160 `Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use' - O
SHR 4.3. 161 fie, fie, fie!
SHR 4.3. 162
SHR-PETRUCCIO
{(aside)} Hortensio, say thou wilt see +
SHR 4.3. 162 the tailor paid.
SHR 4.3. 163 {(To the Tailor)} Go, take it hence. Be gone, and say +
SHR 4.3. 163 no more.
SHR 4.3. 164
SHR-HORTENSIO
{(aside to the Tailor)} Tailor, I'll pay +
SHR 4.3. 164 thee for thy gown tomorrow.
SHR 4.3. 165 Take no unkindness of his hasty words.
SHR 4.3. 166 Away, I say. Commend me to thy master. {Exit Tailor}
SHR 4.3. 167
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Well, come, my Kate. We will unto your father's
SHR 4.3. 168 Even in these honest, mean habiliments.
SHR 4.3. 169 Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor,
SHR 4.3. 170 For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich,
SHR 4.3. 171 And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
SHR 4.3. 172 So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
SHR 4.3. 173 What, is the jay more precious than the lark
SHR 4.3. 174 Because his feathers are more beautiful?
SHR 4.3. 175 Or is the adder better than the eel
SHR 4.3. 176 Because his painted skin contents the eye?
SHR 4.3. 177 O no, good Kate, neither art thou the worse
SHR 4.3. 178 For this poor furniture and mean array.
SHR 4.3. 179 If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me,
SHR 4.3. 180 And therefore frolic; we will hence forthwith
SHR 4.3. 181 To feast and sport us at thy father's house.
SHR 4.3. 182 Go call my men, and let us straight to him,
SHR 4.3. 183 And bring our horses unto Long Lane end.
SHR 4.3. 184 There will we mount, and thither walk on foot.
SHR 4.3. 185 Let's see, I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,
SHR 4.3. 186 And well we may come there by dinner-time.
SHR 4.3. 187
SHR-KATHERINE
I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two,
SHR 4.3. 188 And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there.
SHR 4.3. 189
SHR-PETRUCCIO
It shall be seven ere I go to horse.
SHR 4.3. 190 Look what I speak, or do, or think to do,
SHR 4.3. 191 You are still crossing it. Sirs, let 't alone.
SHR 4.3. 192 I will not go today, and ere I do
SHR 4.3. 193 It shall be what o'clock I say it is.
SHR 4.3. 194
SHR-HORTENSIO
{(aside)} Why, so this gallant will +
SHR 4.3. 194 command the sun. {Exeunt}
SHR 4.3. 0 {Enter Tranio as Lucentio, and the Pedant dressed like +
SHR 4.4. 0 Vincentio, booted and bare-headed}
SHR 4.4. 1
SHR-TRANIO
Sir, this is the house. Please it you that I call?
SHR 4.4. 2
SHR-PEDANT
Ay, what else. And but I be deceived,
SHR 4.4. 3 Signor Baptista may remember me
SHR 4.4. 4 Near twenty years ago in Genoa -
SHR 4.4. 5
SHR-TRANIO
Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus. -
SHR 4.4. 6 'Tis well, and hold your own in any case
SHR 4.4. 7 With such austerity as 'longeth to a father. {Enter Biondello}
SHR 4.4. 8
SHR-PEDANT
I warrant you. But sir, here comes your boy.
SHR 4.4. 9 'Twere good he were schooled.
SHR 4.4. 10
SHR-TRANIO
Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,
SHR 4.4. 11 Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.
SHR 4.4. 12 Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.
SHR 4.4. 13A
SHR-BIONDELLO
Tut, fear not me.
SHR 4.4. 14
SHR-TRANIO
But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?
SHR 4.4. 15
SHR-BIONDELLO
I told him that your father was at Venice
SHR 4.4. 16 And that you looked for him this day in Padua.
SHR 4.4. 17
SHR-TRANIO
{(giving money)} Thou'rt a tall fellow. +
SHR 4.4. 17 Hold thee that to drink.
SHR 4.4. 18 Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, sir. {Enter Baptista, +
SHR 4.4. 18 and Lucentio as Cambio}
SHR 4.4. 19
SHR-TRANIO
Signor Baptista, you are happily met.
SHR 4.4. 20 {(To the Pedant)} Sir, this is the gentleman I told +
SHR 4.4. 20 you of.
SHR 4.4. 21 I pray you stand good father to me now.
SHR 4.4. 22 Give me Bianca for my patrimony.
SHR 4.4. 23
SHR-PEDANT
Soft, son. {(To Baptista)} Sir, by your +
SHR 4.4. 23 leave, having come to Padua
SHR 4.4. 24 To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
SHR 4.4. 25 Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
SHR 4.4. 26 Of love between your daughter and himself,
SHR 4.4. 27 And for the good report I hear of you,
SHR 4.4. 28 And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
SHR 4.4. 29 And she to him, to stay him not too long
SHR 4.4. 30 I am content in a good father's care
SHR 4.4. 31 To have him matched, and if you please to like
SHR 4.4. 32 No worse than I, upon some agreement
SHR 4.4. 33 Me shall you find ready and willing
SHR 4.4. 34 With one consent to have her so bestowed,
SHR 4.4. 35 For curious I cannot be with you,
SHR 4.4. 36 Signor Baptista, of whom I hear so well.
SHR 4.4. 37
SHR-BAPTISTA
Sir, pardon me in what I have to say.
SHR 4.4. 38 Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
SHR 4.4. 39 Right true it is your son Lucentio here
SHR 4.4. 40 Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,
SHR 4.4. 41 Or both dissemble deeply their affections.
SHR 4.4. 42 And therefore if you say no more than this,
SHR 4.4. 43 That like a father you will deal with him
SHR 4.4. 44 And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
SHR 4.4. 45 The match is made, and all is done.
SHR 4.4. 46 Your son shall have my daughter with consent.
SHR 4.4. 47
SHR-TRANIO
I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best
SHR 4.4. 48 We be affied, and such assurance ta'en
SHR 4.4. 49 As shall with either part's agreement stand?
SHR 4.4. 50
SHR-BAPTISTA
Not in my house, Lucentio, for you know
SHR 4.4. 51 Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants.
SHR 4.4. 52 Besides, old Gremio is heark'ning still,
SHR 4.4. 53 And happily we might be interrupted.
SHR 4.4. 54
SHR-TRANIO
Then at my lodging, an it like you.
SHR 4.4. 55 There doth my father lie, and there this night
SHR 4.4. 56 We'll pass the business privately and well.
SHR 4.4. 57 Send for your daughter by your servant here.
SHR 4.4. 58 My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
SHR 4.4. 59 The worst is this, that at so slender warning
SHR 4.4. 60 You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.
SHR 4.4. 61
SHR-BAPTISTA
It likes me well. Cambio, hie you home
SHR 4.4. 62 And bid Bianca make her ready straight,
SHR 4.4. 63 And if you will, tell what hath happened -
SHR 4.4. 64 Lucentio's father is arrived in Padua -
SHR 4.4. 65 And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife. {[Exit Lucentio]}
SHR 4.4. 66
SHR-BIONDELLO
I pray the gods she may with all my heart.
SHR 4.4. 67
SHR-TRANIO
Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone. {[Exit +
SHR 4.4. 67 Biondello]}
SHR 4.4. 68 Signor Baptista, shall I lead the way?
SHR 4.4. 69 Welcome. One mess is like to be your cheer.
SHR 4.4. 70 Come, sir, we will better it in Pisa.
SHR 4.4. 71
SHR-BAPTISTA
I follow you. {Exeunt}
SHR 4.4. 0 {Enter Lucentio and Biondello}
SHR 4.5. 1
SHR-BIONDELLO
Cambio.
SHR 4.5. 2
SHR-LUCENTIO
What sayst thou, Biondello?
SHR 4.5. 3
SHR-BIONDELLO
You saw my master wink and laugh upon
SHR 4.5. 4 you?
SHR 4.5. 5
SHR-LUCENTIO
Biondello, what of that?
SHR 4.5. 6
SHR-BIONDELLO
Faith, nothing, but he's left me here behind to
SHR 4.5. 7 expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.
SHR 4.5. 8
SHR-LUCENTIO
I pray thee, moralize them.
SHR 4.5. 9
SHR-BIONDELLO
Then thus: Baptista is safe, talking with the
SHR 4.5. 10 deceiving father of a deceitful son.
SHR 4.5. 11
SHR-LUCENTIO
And what of him?
SHR 4.5. 12
SHR-BIONDELLO
His daughter is to be brought by you to the
SHR 4.5. 13 supper.
SHR 4.5. 14
SHR-LUCENTIO
And then?
SHR 4.5. 15
SHR-BIONDELLO
The old priest at Saint Luke's church is at your
SHR 4.5. 16 command at all hours.
SHR 4.5. 17
SHR-LUCENTIO
And what of all this?
SHR 4.5. 18
SHR-BIONDELLO
I cannot tell, except they are busied about a
SHR 4.5. 19 counterfeit assurance. Take you assurance of her {cum}
SHR 4.5. 20 {privilegio ad imprimendum solum} - to th' church take the
SHR 4.5. 21 priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses.
SHR 4.5. 22 If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say,
SHR 4.5. 23 But bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day.
SHR 4.5. 24
SHR-LUCENTIO
Hear'st thou, Biondello?
SHR 4.5. 25
SHR-BIONDELLO
I cannot tarry, I knew a wench married in an
SHR 4.5. 26 afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff
SHR 4.5. 27 a rabbit, and so may you, sir, and so adieu, sir. My
SHR 4.5. 28 master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke's to bid
SHR 4.5. 29 the priest be ready t' attend against you come with your
SHR 4.5. 30 appendix. {Exit}
SHR 4.5. 31
SHR-LUCENTIO
I may and will, if she be so contented.
SHR 4.5. 32 She will be pleased, then wherefore should I doubt?
SHR 4.5. 33 Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her.
SHR 4.5. 34 It shall go hard if Cambio go without her. {Exit}
SHR 4.5. 0 {Enter Petruccio, Katherine, Hortensio, and servants}
SHR 4.6. 1
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Come on, i' God's name. Once more toward our +
SHR 4.6. 1 father's.
SHR 4.6. 2 Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
SHR 4.6. 3
SHR-KATHERINE
The moon? - the sun. It is not moonlight now.
SHR 4.6. 4
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
SHR 4.6. 5
SHR-KATHERINE
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
SHR 4.6. 6
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Now, by my mother's son - and that's myself -
SHR 4.6. 7 It shall be moon, or star, or what I list
SHR 4.6. 8 Or ere I journey to your father's house.
SHR 4.6. 9 Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
SHR 4.6. 10 Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed.
SHR 4.6. 11
SHR-HORTENSIO
{(to Katherine)} Say as he says or we +
SHR 4.6. 11 shall never go.
SHR 4.6. 12
SHR-KATHERINE
Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
SHR 4.6. 13 And be it moon or sun or what you please,
SHR 4.6. 14 And if you please to call it a rush-candle
SHR 4.6. 15 Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
SHR 4.6. 16
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I say it is the moon.
SHR 4.6. 17
SHR-KATHERINE
I know it is the moon.
SHR 4.6. 18
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Nay then you lie, it is the blessed sun.
SHR 4.6. 19
SHR-KATHERINE
Then God be blessed, it is the blessed sun,
SHR 4.6. 20 But sun it is not when you say it is not,
SHR 4.6. 21 And the moon changes even as your mind.
SHR 4.6. 22 What you will have it named, even that it is,
SHR 4.6. 23 And so it shall be still for Katherine.
SHR 4.6. 24
SHR-HORTENSIO
Petruccio, go thy ways. The field is won.
SHR 4.6. 25
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Well, forward, forward. Thus the bowl should run,
SHR 4.6. 26 And not unluckily against the bias.
SHR 4.6. 27 But soft, company is coming here. {Enter old Vincentio}
SHR 4.6. 28 {(To Vincentio)} Good morrow, gentle mistress, where +
SHR 4.6. 28 away?
SHR 4.6. 29 Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
SHR 4.6. 30 Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman,
SHR 4.6. 31 Such war of white and red within her cheeks?
SHR 4.6. 32 What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
SHR 4.6. 33 As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
SHR 4.6. 34 Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
SHR 4.6. 35 Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.
SHR 4.6. 36
SHR-HORTENSIO
A will make the man mad to make the woman
SHR 4.6. 37 of him.
SHR 4.6. 38
SHR-KATHERINE
Young budding virgin, fair, and fresh, and +
SHR 4.6. 38 sweet,
SHR 4.6. 39 Whither away, or where is thy abode?
SHR 4.6. 40 Happy the parents of so fair a child,
SHR 4.6. 41 Happier the man whom favourable stars
SHR 4.6. 42 Allots thee for his lovely bedfellow.
SHR 4.6. 43
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, how now, Kate, I hope thou art not mad.
SHR 4.6. 44 This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered,
SHR 4.6. 45 And not a maiden as thou sayst he is.
SHR 4.6. 46
SHR-KATHERINE
Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes
SHR 4.6. 47 That have been so bedazzled with the sun
SHR 4.6. 48 That everything I look on seemeth green.
SHR 4.6. 49 Now I perceive thou art a reverend father.
SHR 4.6. 50 Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
SHR 4.6. 51
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Do, good old grandsire, and withal make known
SHR 4.6. 52 Which way thou travell'st. If along with us,
SHR 4.6. 53 We shall be joyful of thy company.
SHR 4.6. 54
SHR-VINCENTIO
Fair sir, and you, my merry mistress,
SHR 4.6. 55 That with your strange encounter much amazed me,
SHR 4.6. 56 My name is called Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,
SHR 4.6. 57 And bound I am to Padua, there to visit
SHR 4.6. 58 A son of mine which long I have not seen.
SHR 4.6. 59B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
What is his name?
SHR-VINCENTIO
Lucentio, gentle sir.
SHR 4.6. 60
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Happily met, the happier for thy son.
SHR 4.6. 61 And now by law as well as reverend age
SHR 4.6. 62 I may entitle thee my loving father.
SHR 4.6. 63 The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,
SHR 4.6. 64 Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,
SHR 4.6. 65 Nor be not grieved. She is of good esteem,
SHR 4.6. 66 Her dowry wealthy, and of worthy birth,
SHR 4.6. 67 Beside, so qualified as may beseem
SHR 4.6. 68 The spouse of any noble gentleman.
SHR 4.6. 69 Let me embrace with old Vincentio,
SHR 4.6. 70 And wander we to see thy honest son,
SHR 4.6. 71 Who will of thy arrival be full joyous. {He embraces Vincentio}
SHR 4.6. 72
SHR-VINCENTIO
But is this true, or is it else your pleasure
SHR 4.6. 73 Like pleasant travellers to break a jest
SHR 4.6. 74 Upon the company you overtake?
SHR 4.6. 75
SHR-HORTENSIO
I do assure thee, father, so it is.
SHR 4.6. 76
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Come, go along, and see the truth hereof,
SHR 4.6. 77 For our first merriment hath made thee jealous. {Exeunt all but +
SHR 4.6. 77 Hortensio}
SHR 4.6. 78
SHR-HORTENSIO
Well, Petruccio, this has put me in heart.
SHR 4.6. 79 Have to my widow, and if she be froward,
SHR 4.6. 80 Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward. {Exit}
SHR 4.6. 0 {Enter Biondello, Lucentio, and Bianca. Gremio is +
SHR 5.1. 0 out before}
SHR 5.1. 1
SHR-BIONDELLO
Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is +
SHR 5.1. 1 ready.
SHR 5.1. 2
SHR-LUCENTIO
I fly, Biondello; but they may chance to need
SHR 5.1. 3 thee at home, therefore leave us.
SHR 5.1. 4
SHR-BIONDELLO
Nay, faith, I'll see the church a' your back
SHR 5.1. 5 and then come back to my master's as soon as I can. {Exeunt +
SHR 5.1. 5 Lucentio, Bianca, and Biondello}
SHR 5.1. 6
SHR-GREMIO
I marvel Cambio comes not all this while. +
SHR 5.1. 6 {Enter Petruccio, Katherine, Vincentio, Grumio, with attendants}
SHR 5.1. 7
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Sir, here's the door. This is Lucentio's house.
SHR 5.1. 8 My father's bears more toward the market-place.
SHR 5.1. 9 Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.
SHR 5.1. 10
SHR-VINCENTIO
You shall not choose but drink before you go.
SHR 5.1. 11 I think I shall command your welcome here,
SHR 5.1. 12 And by all likelihood some cheer is toward. {He knocks}
SHR 5.1. 13
SHR-GREMIO
They're busy within. You were best knock +
SHR 5.1. 13 louder. {Vincentio knocks again. The Pedant looks out of the +
SHR 5.1. 13 window}
SHR 5.1. 14
SHR-PEDANT
What's he that knocks as he would beat down
SHR 5.1. 15 the gate?
SHR 5.1. 16
SHR-VINCENTIO
Is Signor Lucentio within, sir?
SHR 5.1. 17
SHR-PEDANT
He's within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.
SHR 5.1. 18
SHR-VINCENTIO
What if a man bring him a hundred pound or
SHR 5.1. 19 two to make merry withal?
SHR 5.1. 20
SHR-PEDANT
Keep your hundred pounds to yourself. He shall
SHR 5.1. 21 need none so long as I live.
SHR 5.1. 22
SHR-PETRUCCIO
{(to Vincentio)} Nay, I told you your +
SHR 5.1. 22 son was well
SHR 5.1. 23 beloved in Padua. {(To the Pedant)} Do you hear, sir, +
SHR 5.1. 23 to
SHR 5.1. 24 leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signor
SHR 5.1. 25 Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and is here
SHR 5.1. 26 at the door to speak with him.
SHR 5.1. 27
SHR-PEDANT
Thou liest. His father is come from Padua and
SHR 5.1. 28 here looking out at the window.
SHR 5.1. 29
SHR-VINCENTIO
Art thou his father?
SHR 5.1. 30
SHR-PEDANT
Ay, sir, so his mother says, if I may believe her.
SHR 5.1. 31
SHR-PETRUCCIO
{(to Vincentio)} Why, how now, +
SHR 5.1. 31 gentleman? Why,
SHR 5.1. 32 this is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's
SHR 5.1. 33 name.
SHR 5.1. 34
SHR-PEDANT
Lay hands on the villain. I believe a means to
SHR 5.1. 35 cozen somebody in this city under my countenance. {Enter +
SHR 5.1. 35 Biondello}
SHR 5.1. 36
SHR-BIONDELLO
{(aside)} I have seen them in the church +
SHR 5.1. 36 together,
SHR 5.1. 37 God send 'em good shipping. But who is here? Mine
SHR 5.1. 38 old master, Vincentio - now we are undone and
SHR 5.1. 39 brought to nothing.
SHR 5.1. 40
SHR-VINCENTIO
{(to Biondello)} Come hither, crackhemp.
SHR 5.1. 41
SHR-BIONDELLO
I hope I may choose, sir.
SHR 5.1. 42
SHR-VINCENTIO
Come hither, you rogue. What, have you forgot
SHR 5.1. 43 me?
SHR 5.1. 44
SHR-BIONDELLO
Forgot you? No, sir, I could not forget you,
SHR 5.1. 45 for I never saw you before in all my life.
SHR 5.1. 46
SHR-VINCENTIO
What, you notorious villain, didst thou never
SHR 5.1. 47 see thy master's father, Vincentio?
SHR 5.1. 48
SHR-BIONDELLO
What, my old worshipful old master? Yes,
SHR 5.1. 49 marry, sir, see where he looks out of the window.
SHR 5.1. 50
SHR-VINCENTIO
Is 't so indeed? {He beats Biondello}
SHR 5.1. 51
SHR-BIONDELLO
Help, help, help! Here's a madman will murder
SHR 5.1. 52 me. {Exit}
SHR 5.1. 53
SHR-PEDANT
Help, son! Help, Signor Baptista! {Exit +
SHR 5.1. 53 above}
SHR 5.1. 54
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the +
SHR 5.1. 54 end
SHR 5.1. 55 of this controversy. {They stand aside.}
SHR 5.1. 56 {Enter Pedant with servants, Baptista, Tranio as Lucentio}
SHR-TRANIO
+
SHR 5.1. 56 {(to Vincentio)} Sir, what are you that offer to beat
SHR 5.1. 57 my servant?
SHR 5.1. 58
SHR-VINCENTIO
What am I, sir? Nay, what are you, sir? O
SHR 5.1. 59 immortal gods, O fine villain, a silken doublet, a velvet
SHR 5.1. 60 hose, a scarlet cloak, and a copintank hat - O, I am
SHR 5.1. 61 undone, I am undone! While I play the good husband
SHR 5.1. 62 at home, my son and my servant spend all at the
SHR 5.1. 63 university.
SHR 5.1. 64
SHR-TRANIO
How now, what's the matter?
SHR 5.1. 65
SHR-BAPTISTA
What, is the man lunatic?
SHR 5.1. 66
SHR-TRANIO
Sir, you seem a sober, ancient gentleman by your
SHR 5.1. 67 habit, but your words show you a madman. Why sir,
SHR 5.1. 68 what 'cerns it you if I wear pearl and gold? I thank
SHR 5.1. 69 my good father, I am able to maintain it.
SHR 5.1. 70
SHR-VINCENTIO
Thy father! O villain, he is a sailmaker in
SHR 5.1. 71 Bergamo.
SHR 5.1. 72
SHR-BAPTISTA
You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray what
SHR 5.1. 73 do you think is his name?
SHR 5.1. 74
SHR-VINCENTIO
His name? As if I knew not his name - I have
SHR 5.1. 75 brought him up ever since he was three years old, and
SHR 5.1. 76 his name is Tranio.
SHR 5.1. 77
SHR-PEDANT
Away, away, mad ass. His name is Lucentio, and
SHR 5.1. 78 he is mine only son, and heir to the lands of me, Signor
SHR 5.1. 79 Vincentio.
SHR 5.1. 80
SHR-VINCENTIO
Lucentio? O, he hath murdered his master!
SHR 5.1. 81 Lay hold on him, I charge you, in the Duke's name. O
SHR 5.1. 82 my son, my son! Tell me, thou villain, where is my
SHR 5.1. 83 son Lucentio?
SHR 5.1. 84
SHR-TRANIO
Call forth an officer. {Enter an Officer}
SHR 5.1. 85 Carry this mad knave to the jail. Father Baptista, I
SHR 5.1. 86 charge you see that he be forthcoming.
SHR 5.1. 87
SHR-VINCENTIO
Carry me to the jail?
SHR 5.1. 88
SHR-GREMIO
Stay, officer, he shall not go to prison.
SHR 5.1. 89
SHR-BAPTISTA
Talk not, Signor Gremio. I say he shall go to
SHR 5.1. 90 prison.
SHR 5.1. 91
SHR-GREMIO
Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-
SHR 5.1. 92 catched in this business. I dare swear this is the right
SHR 5.1. 93 Vincentio.
SHR 5.1. 94
SHR-PEDANT
Swear if thou dar'st.
SHR 5.1. 95
SHR-GREMIO
Nay, I dare not swear it.
SHR 5.1. 96
SHR-TRANIO
Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio.
SHR 5.1. 97
SHR-GREMIO
Yes, I know thee to be Signor Lucentio.
SHR 5.1. 98
SHR-BAPTISTA
Away with the dotard. To the jail with him. {Enter +
SHR 5.1. 98 Biondello, Lucentio, and Bianca}
SHR 5.1. 99
SHR-VINCENTIO
Thus strangers may be haled and abused. O
SHR 5.1. 100 monstrous villain!
SHR 5.1. 101
SHR-BIONDELLO
O, we are spoiled and - yonder he is. Deny
SHR 5.1. 102 him, forswear him, or else we are all undone. {Exeunt Biondello, +
SHR 5.1. 102 Tranio, and Pedant, as fast as may be}
SHR 5.1. 103A
SHR-LUCENTIO
{(to Vincentio)} Pardon, sweet +
SHR 5.1. 103A father. {He kneels}
SHR 5.1. 104A
SHR-VINCENTIO
Lives my sweet son?
SHR 5.1. 105A
SHR-BIANCA
{(to Baptista)} Pardon, dear father.
SHR 5.1. 106
SHR-BAPTISTA
How hast thou offended? Where is Lucentio?
SHR 5.1. 107
SHR-LUCENTIO
Here's Lucentio, right son to the right Vincentio,
SHR 5.1. 108 That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,
SHR 5.1. 109 While counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne.
SHR 5.1. 110
SHR-GREMIO
Here's packing with a witness, to deceive us all.
SHR 5.1. 111
SHR-VINCENTIO
Where is that damned villain Tranio,
SHR 5.1. 112 That faced and braved me in this matter so?
SHR 5.1. 113
SHR-BAPTISTA
Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?
SHR 5.1. 114
SHR-BIANCA
Cambio is changed into Lucentio.
SHR 5.1. 115
SHR-LUCENTIO
Love wrought these miracles. Bianca's love
SHR 5.1. 116 Made me exchange my state with Tranio
SHR 5.1. 117 While he did bear my countenance in the town,
SHR 5.1. 118 And happily I have arrived at the last
SHR 5.1. 119 Unto the wished haven of my bliss.
SHR 5.1. 120 What Tranio did, myself enforced him to.
SHR 5.1. 121 Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.
SHR 5.1. 122
SHR-VINCENTIO
I'll slit the villain's nose that would have +
SHR 5.1. 122 sent
SHR 5.1. 123 me to the jail.
SHR 5.1. 124
SHR-BAPTISTA
But do you hear, sir, have you married my
SHR 5.1. 125 daughter without asking my good will?
SHR 5.1. 126
SHR-VINCENTIO
Fear not, Baptista. We will content you. Go to,
SHR 5.1. 127 but I will in to be revenged for this villainy. {Exit}
SHR 5.1. 128
SHR-BAPTISTA
And I to sound the depth of this knavery. +
SHR 5.1. 128 {Exit}
SHR 5.1. 129
SHR-LUCENTIO
Look not pale, Bianca. Thy father will not +
SHR 5.1. 129 frown. {Exeunt Lucentio and Bianca}
SHR 5.1. 130
SHR-GREMIO
My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest,
SHR 5.1. 131 Out of hope of all but my share of the feast. {Exit}
SHR 5.1. 132
SHR-KATHERINE
{(coming forward)} Husband, let's follow +
SHR 5.1. 132 to see
SHR 5.1. 133 the end of this ado.
SHR 5.1. 134
SHR-PETRUCCIO
First kiss me, Kate, and we will.
SHR 5.1. 135
SHR-KATHERINE
What, in the midst of the street?
SHR 5.1. 136
SHR-PETRUCCIO
What, art thou ashamed of me?
SHR 5.1. 137
SHR-KATHERINE
No, sir, God forbid; but ashamed to kiss.
SHR 5.1. 138
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why then, let's home again. Come sirrah, let's +
SHR 5.1. 138 away.
SHR 5.1. 139
SHR-KATHERINE
Nay, I will give thee a kiss. Now pray thee love, +
SHR 5.1. 139 stay. {They kiss}
SHR 5.1. 140
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate.
SHR 5.1. 141 Better once than never, for never too late. {Exeunt}
SHR 5.1. 0 {Enter Baptista, Vincentio, Gremio, the Pedant, Lucentio +
SHR 5.2. 0 and Bianca, Petruccio, Katherine, and Hortensio, Tranio, Biondello, +
SHR 5.2. 0 Grumio, and the Widow, the servingmen with Tranio bringing in a +
SHR 5.2. 0 banquet}
SHR 5.2. 1
SHR-LUCENTIO
At last, though long, our jarring notes agree,
SHR 5.2. 2 And time it is when raging war is done
SHR 5.2. 3 To smile at scapes and perils overblown.
SHR 5.2. 4 My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,
SHR 5.2. 5 While I with selfsame kindness welcome thine.
SHR 5.2. 6 Brother Petruccio, sister Katherina,
SHR 5.2. 7 And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,
SHR 5.2. 8 Feast with the best, and welcome to my house.
SHR 5.2. 9 My banquet is to close our stomachs up
SHR 5.2. 10 After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down,
SHR 5.2. 11 For now we sit to chat as well as eat. {They sit}
SHR 5.2. 12
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Nothing but sit, and sit, and eat, and eat.
SHR 5.2. 13
SHR-BAPTISTA
Padua affords this kindness, son Petruccio.
SHR 5.2. 14
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Padua affords nothing but what is kind.
SHR 5.2. 15
SHR-HORTENSIO
For both our sakes I would that word were true.
SHR 5.2. 16
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.
SHR 5.2. 17
SHR-WIDOW
Then never trust me if I be afeard.
SHR 5.2. 18
SHR-PETRUCCIO
You are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense.
SHR 5.2. 19 I mean Hortensio is afeard of you.
SHR 5.2. 20
SHR-WIDOW
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
SHR 5.2. 21A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Roundly replied.
SHR 5.2. 22A
SHR-KATHERINE
Mistress, how mean you that?
SHR 5.2. 23A
SHR-WIDOW
Thus I conceive by him.
SHR 5.2. 24
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?
SHR 5.2. 25
SHR-HORTENSIO
My widow says thus she conceives her tale.
SHR 5.2. 26
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good
SHR 5.2. 27 widow.
SHR 5.2. 28
SHR-KATHERINE
`He that is giddy thinks the world turns +
SHR 5.2. 28 round' -
SHR 5.2. 29 I pray you tell me what you meant by that.
SHR 5.2. 30
SHR-WIDOW
Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,
SHR 5.2. 31 Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe.
SHR 5.2. 32 And now you know my meaning.
SHR 5.2. 33B
SHR-KATHERINE
A very mean meaning.
SHR-WIDOW
Right, I mean you.
SHR 5.2. 34
SHR-KATHERINE
And I am mean indeed respecting you.
SHR 5.2. 35
SHR-PETRUCCIO
To her, Kate!
SHR 5.2. 36
SHR-HORTENSIO
To her, widow!
SHR 5.2. 37
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A hundred marks my Kate does put her down.
SHR 5.2. 38
SHR-HORTENSIO
That's my office.
SHR 5.2. 39
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Spoke like an officer! Ha' to thee, lad. +
SHR 5.2. 39 {He drinks to Hortensio}
SHR 5.2. 40
SHR-BAPTISTA
How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?
SHR 5.2. 41
SHR-GREMIO
Believe me, sir, they butt together well.
SHR 5.2. 42
SHR-BIANCA
Head and butt? An hasty-witted body
SHR 5.2. 43 Would say your head and butt were head and horn.
SHR 5.2. 44
SHR-VINCENTIO
Ay, mistress bride, hath that awakened you?
SHR 5.2. 45
SHR-BIANCA
Ay, but not frighted me, therefore I'll sleep again.
SHR 5.2. 46
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Nay, that you shall not. Since you have begun,
SHR 5.2. 47 Have at you for a better jest or two.
SHR 5.2. 48
SHR-BIANCA
Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush,
SHR 5.2. 49 And then pursue me as you draw your bow.
SHR 5.2. 50 You are welcome all. {Exit Bianca with Katherine and the Widow}
SHR 5.2. 51
SHR-PETRUCCIO
She hath prevented me here, Signor Tranio.
SHR 5.2. 52 This bird you aimed at, though you hit her not.
SHR 5.2. 53 Therefore a health to all that shot and missed.
SHR 5.2. 54
SHR-TRANIO
O sir, Lucentio slipped me like his greyhound,
SHR 5.2. 55 Which runs himself and catches for his master.
SHR 5.2. 56
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A good swift simile, but something currish.
SHR 5.2. 57
SHR-TRANIO
'Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself.
SHR 5.2. 58 'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.
SHR 5.2. 59
SHR-BAPTISTA
O, O, Petruccio, Tranio hits you now.
SHR 5.2. 60
SHR-LUCENTIO
I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
SHR 5.2. 61
SHR-HORTENSIO
Confess, confess, hath he not hit you here?
SHR 5.2. 62
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A has a little galled me, I confess,
SHR 5.2. 63 And as the jest did glance away from me,
SHR 5.2. 64 'Tis ten to one it maimed you two outright.
SHR 5.2. 65
SHR-BAPTISTA
Now in good sadness, son Petruccio,
SHR 5.2. 66 I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.
SHR 5.2. 67
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Well, I say no. - And therefore, Sir Assurance,
SHR 5.2. 68 Let's each one send unto his wife,
SHR 5.2. 69 And he whose wife is most obedient
SHR 5.2. 70 To come at first when he doth send for her
SHR 5.2. 71 Shall win the wager which we will propose.
SHR 5.2. 72A
SHR-HORTENSIO
Content. What's the wager?
SHR 5.2. 73A
SHR-LUCENTIO
Twenty crowns.
SHR 5.2. 74A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Twenty crowns!
SHR 5.2. 75 I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound,
SHR 5.2. 76 But twenty times so much upon my wife.
SHR 5.2. 77A
SHR-LUCENTIO
A hundred, then.
SHR 5.2. 78A
SHR-HORTENSIO
Content.
SHR 5.2. 79A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
A match, 'tis done.
SHR 5.2. 80A
SHR-HORTENSIO
Who shall begin?
SHR 5.2. 81A
SHR-LUCENTIO
That will I.
SHR 5.2. 82 Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.
SHR 5.2. 83A
SHR-BIONDELLO
I go. {Exit}
SHR 5.2. 84
SHR-BAPTISTA
Son, I'll be your half Bianca comes.
SHR 5.2. 85
SHR-LUCENTIO
I'll have no halves, I'll bear it all myself. +
SHR 5.2. 85 {Enter Biondello}
SHR 5.2. 86B How now, what news?
SHR-BIONDELLO
Sir, my mistress sends you +
SHR 5.2. 86B word
SHR 5.2. 87 That she is busy and she cannot come.
SHR 5.2. 88
SHR-PETRUCCIO
How? She's busy and she cannot come?
SHR 5.2. 89B Is that an answer?
SHR-GREMIO
Ay, and a kind one, too.
SHR 5.2. 90 Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse.
SHR 5.2. 91B
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I hope, better.
SHR-HORTENSIO
Sirrah Biondello,
SHR 5.2. 92 Go and entreat my wife to come to me forthwith. {Exit Biondello}
SHR 5.2. 93
SHR-PETRUCCIO
O ho, `entreat' her - nay, then she must needs +
SHR 5.2. 93 come.
SHR 5.2. 94
SHR-HORTENSIO
I am afraid, sir, do what you can, {Enter +
SHR 5.2. 94 Biondello}
SHR 5.2. 95 Yours will not be entreated. Now, where's my wife?
SHR 5.2. 96
SHR-BIONDELLO
She says you have some goodly jest in hand.
SHR 5.2. 97 She will not come. She bids you come to her.
SHR 5.2. 98
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Worse and worse! She will not come - O vile,
SHR 5.2. 99 Intolerable, not to be endured!
SHR 5.2. 100 Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress.
SHR 5.2. 101 Say I command her come to me. {Exit Grumio}
SHR 5.2. 102B
SHR-HORTENSIO
I know her answer.
SHR-PETRUCCIO
+
SHR 5.2. 102B What?
SHR-HORTENSIO
She will not.
SHR 5.2. 103
SHR-PETRUCCIO
The fouler fortune mine, and there an end. {Enter +
SHR 5.2. 103 Katherine}
SHR 5.2. 104
SHR-BAPTISTA
Now by my halidom, here comes Katherina.
SHR 5.2. 105
SHR-KATHERINE
{(to Petruccio)} What is your will, sir, +
SHR 5.2. 105 that you send for me?
SHR 5.2. 106
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Where is your sister and Hortensio's wife?
SHR 5.2. 107
SHR-KATHERINE
They sit conferring by the parlour fire.
SHR 5.2. 108
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Go, fetch them hither. If they deny to come,
SHR 5.2. 109 Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands.
SHR 5.2. 110 Away, I say, and bring them hither straight. {Exit Katherine}
SHR 5.2. 111
SHR-LUCENTIO
Here is a wonder, if you talk of wonders.
SHR 5.2. 112
SHR-HORTENSIO
And so it is. I wonder what it bodes.
SHR 5.2. 113
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life;
SHR 5.2. 114 An aweful rule and right supremacy,
SHR 5.2. 115 And, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.
SHR 5.2. 116
SHR-BAPTISTA
Now fair befall thee, good Petruccio,
SHR 5.2. 117 The wager thou hast won, and I will add
SHR 5.2. 118 Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns,
SHR 5.2. 119 Another dowry to another daughter,
SHR 5.2. 120 For she is changed as she had never been.
SHR 5.2. 121
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Nay, I will win my wager better yet,
SHR 5.2. 122 And show more sign of her obedience,
SHR 5.2. 123 Her new-built virtue and obedience. {Enter Katherine, Bianca, +
SHR 5.2. 123 and the Widow}
SHR 5.2. 124 See where she comes, and brings your froward wives
SHR 5.2. 125 As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.
SHR 5.2. 126 Katherine, that cap of yours becomes you not.
SHR 5.2. 127 Off with that bauble, throw it underfoot. {Katherine throws down +
SHR 5.2. 127 her cap}
SHR 5.2. 128
SHR-WIDOW
Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh
SHR 5.2. 129 Till I be brought to such a silly pass.
SHR 5.2. 130
SHR-BIANCA
Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?
SHR 5.2. 131
SHR-LUCENTIO
I would your duty were as foolish, too.
SHR 5.2. 132 The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,
SHR 5.2. 133 Hath cost me a hundred crowns since supper-time.
SHR 5.2. 134
SHR-BIANCA
The more fool you for laying on my duty.
SHR 5.2. 135
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Katherine, I charge thee tell these headstrong women
SHR 5.2. 136 What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.
SHR 5.2. 137
SHR-WIDOW
Come, come, you're mocking. We will have no telling.
SHR 5.2. 138
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Come on, I say, and first begin with her.
SHR 5.2. 139A
SHR-WIDOW
She shall not.
SHR 5.2. 140
SHR-PETRUCCIO
I say she shall: and first begin with her.
SHR 5.2. 141
SHR-KATHERINE
Fie, fie, unknit that threat'ning, unkind brow,
SHR 5.2. 142 And dart not scornful glances from those eyes
SHR 5.2. 143 To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.
SHR 5.2. 144 It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
SHR 5.2. 145 Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
SHR 5.2. 146 And in no sense is meet or amiable.
SHR 5.2. 147 A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
SHR 5.2. 148 Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
SHR 5.2. 149 And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
SHR 5.2. 150 Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
SHR 5.2. 151 Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
SHR 5.2. 152 Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,
SHR 5.2. 153 And for thy maintenance commits his body
SHR 5.2. 154 To painful labour both by sea and land,
SHR 5.2. 155 To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
SHR 5.2. 156 Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe,
SHR 5.2. 157 And craves no other tribute at thy hands
SHR 5.2. 158 But love, fair looks, and true obedience,
SHR 5.2. 159 Too little payment for so great a debt.
SHR 5.2. 160 Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
SHR 5.2. 161 Even such a woman oweth to her husband,
SHR 5.2. 162 And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
SHR 5.2. 163 And not obedient to his honest will,
SHR 5.2. 164 What is she but a foul contending rebel,
SHR 5.2. 165 And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
SHR 5.2. 166 I am ashamed that women are so simple
SHR 5.2. 167 To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
SHR 5.2. 168 Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway
SHR 5.2. 169 When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
SHR 5.2. 170 Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,
SHR 5.2. 171 Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
SHR 5.2. 172 But that our soft conditions and our hearts
SHR 5.2. 173 Should well agree with our external parts?
SHR 5.2. 174 Come, come, you froward and unable worms,
SHR 5.2. 175 My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
SHR 5.2. 176 My heart as great, my reason haply more,
SHR 5.2. 177 To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
SHR 5.2. 178 But now I see our lances are but straws,
SHR 5.2. 179 Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
SHR 5.2. 180 That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
SHR 5.2. 181 Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
SHR 5.2. 182 And place your hands below your husband's foot,
SHR 5.2. 183 In token of which duty, if he please,
SHR 5.2. 184 My hand is ready, may it do him ease.
SHR 5.2. 185
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. +
SHR 5.2. 185 {They kiss}
SHR 5.2. 186
SHR-LUCENTIO
Well, go thy ways, old lad, for thou shalt ha 't.
SHR 5.2. 187
SHR-VINCENTIO
'Tis a good hearing when children are toward.
SHR 5.2. 188
SHR-LUCENTIO
But a harsh hearing when women are froward.
SHR 5.2. 189A
SHR-PETRUCCIO
Come, Kate, we'll to bed.
SHR 5.2. 190 We three are married, but you two are sped.
SHR 5.2. 191 'Twas I won the wager, though {(to Lucentio)} you hit +
SHR 5.2. 191 the white,
SHR 5.2. 192 And being a winner, God give you good night. {Exit Petruccio +
SHR 5.2. 192 with Katherine}
SHR 5.2. 193
SHR-HORTENSIO
Now go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrew.
SHR 5.2. 194
SHR-LUCENTIO
'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so. +
SHR 5.2. 194 {Exeunt omnes}
SHR 5.2. 0
SHR A.2. 0
SHR A.2. 0
SHR-[[
The Taming of A Shrew}, printed in 1594 and believed to derive from
SHR A.2. 0 Shakespeare's play as performed, contains episodes continuing and +
SHR A.2. 0 rounding off the Christopher Sly framework which may echo passages written
SHR A.2. 0 by Shakespeare but not printed in the Folio. They are given below
SHR-]]
SHR A.2. 0
SHR A.A. 0 [[The following exchange occurs at a point for which there is no exact
SHR A.A. 0 equivalent in Shakespeare's play. It could come at the end of 2.1. The +
SHR A.A. 0 `fool' of the first line is Sander, the counterpart of Grumio
SHR-]]
SHR A.A. 0 {Then Sly speaks}
SHR A.A. 1
SHR-SLY
Sim, when will the fool come again?
SHR A.A. 2
SHR-LORD
He'll come again, my lord, anon.
SHR A.A. 3
SHR-SLY
Gi 's some more drink here. Zounds, where's the
SHR A.A. 4 tapster? Here, Sim, eat some of these things.
SHR A.A. 5
SHR-LORD
So I do, my lord.
SHR A.A. 6
SHR-SLY
Here, Sim, I drink to thee.
SHR A.A. 7
SHR-LORD
My lord, here comes the players again.
SHR A.A. 8
SHR-SLY
O brave, here's two fine gentlewomen.
SHR A.A. 0
SHR A.B. 0 [[This passage comes between 4.5 and 4.6. If it originates with
SHR A.B. 0 Shakespeare it implies that Grumio accompanies Petruccio at the
SHR A.B. 0 beginning of 4.6
SHR-]]
SHR A.B. 1
SHR-SLY
Sim, must they be married now?
SHR A.B. 2
SHR-LORD
Ay, my lord. {Enter Ferando and Kate and Sander}
SHR A.B. 3
SHR-SLY
Look, Sim, the fool is come again now.
SHR A.B. 0
SHR A.C. 0 [[Sly interrupts the action of the play-within-play. This is at 5.1.102 of
SHR A.C. 0 Shakespeare's play
SHR-]]
SHR A.C. 0 {Phylotus and Valeria runs away. Then Sly speaks}
SHR A.C. 1
SHR-SLY
I say we'll have no sending to prison.
SHR A.C. 2
SHR-LORD
My lord, this is but the play. They're but in jest.
SHR A.C. 3
SHR-SLY
I tell thee, Sim, we'll have no sending to prison, that's
SHR A.C. 4 flat. Why, Sim, am not I Don Christo Vary? Therefore I
SHR A.C. 5 say they shall not go to prison.
SHR A.C. 6
SHR-LORD
No more they shall not, my lord. They be run away.
SHR A.C. 7
SHR-SLY
Are they run away, Sim? That's well. Then gi 's some
SHR A.C. 8 more drink, and let them play again.
SHR A.C. 9
SHR-LORD
Here, my lord. {Sly drinks and then falls asleep}
SHR A.C. 0
SHR A.D. 0 [[Sly is carried off between 5.1 and 5.2
SHR-]]
SHR A.D. 0 {Exeunt omnes} {Sly sleeps}
SHR A.D. 1
SHR-LORD
Who's within there? Come hither, sirs, my lord's
SHR A.D. 2 Asleep again. Go take him easily up
SHR A.D. 3 And put him in his own apparel again,
SHR A.D. 4 And lay him in the place where we did find him
SHR A.D. 5 Just underneath the alehouse side below.
SHR A.D. 6 But see you wake him not in any case.
SHR A.D. 7
SHR-BOY
It shall be done, my lord. Come help to bear him hence. +
SHR A.D. 7 {Exit}
SHR A.D. 0
SHR A.E. 0 [[The conclusion
SHR-]]
SHR A.E. 0 {Then enter two bearing of Sly in his own apparel again and +
SHR A.E. 0 leaves him where they found him and then goes out. Then enter the Tapster}
SHR A.E. 1
SHR-TAPSTER
Now that the darksome night is overpast
SHR A.E. 2 And dawning day appears in crystal sky,
SHR A.E. 3 Now must I haste abroad. But soft, who's this?
SHR A.E. 4 What, Sly! O wondrous, hath he lain here all night?
SHR A.E. 5 I'll wake him. I think he's starved by this,
SHR A.E. 6 But that his belly was so stuffed with ale.
SHR A.E. 7 What ho, Sly, awake, for shame!
SHR A.E. 8
SHR-SLY
Sim, gi 's some more wine. What, 's all the players
SHR A.E. 9 gone? Am not I a lord?
SHR A.E. 10
SHR-TAPSTER
A lord with a murrain! Come, art thou drunken still?
SHR A.E. 11
SHR-SLY
Who's this? Tapster? O Lord, sirrah, I have had
SHR A.E. 12 The bravest dream tonight that ever thou
SHR A.E. 13 Heardest in all thy life.
SHR A.E. 14
SHR-TAPSTER
Ay, marry, but you had best get you home,
SHR A.E. 15 For your wife will course you for dreaming here tonight.
SHR A.E. 16
SHR-SLY
Will she? I know now how to tame a shrew.
SHR A.E. 17 I dreamt upon it all this night till now,
SHR A.E. 18 And thou hast waked me out of the best dream
SHR A.E. 19 That ever I had in my life. But I'll to my
SHR A.E. 20 Wife presently and tame her too,
SHR A.E. 21 An if she anger me.
SHR A.E. 22
SHR-TAPSTER
Nay, tarry, Sly, for I'll go home with thee
SHR A.E. 23 And hear the rest that thou hast dreamt tonight. {Exeunt omnes}
SHR A.E.
SHR
0
TGV . . 0 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
TGV . . 0 {Enter Valentine and Proteus}
TGV 1.1. 1
TGV-VALENTINE
Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus.
TGV 1.1. 2 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
TGV 1.1. 3 Were 't not affection chains thy tender days
TGV 1.1. 4 To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
TGV 1.1. 5 I rather would entreat thy company
TGV 1.1. 6 To see the wonders of the world abroad
TGV 1.1. 7 Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
TGV 1.1. 8 Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
TGV 1.1. 9 But since thou lov'st, love still, and thrive therein -
TGV 1.1. 10 Even as I would, when I to love begin.
TGV 1.1. 11
TGV-PROTEUS
Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu.
TGV 1.1. 12 Think on thy Proteus when thou haply seest
TGV 1.1. 13 Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel.
TGV 1.1. 14 Wish me partaker in thy happiness
TGV 1.1. 15 When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger -
TGV 1.1. 16 If ever danger do environ thee -
TGV 1.1. 17 Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers;
TGV 1.1. 18 For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.
TGV 1.1. 19
TGV-VALENTINE
And on a love-book pray for my success?
TGV 1.1. 20
TGV-PROTEUS
Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee.
TGV 1.1. 21
TGV-VALENTINE
That's on some shallow story of deep love -
TGV 1.1. 22 How young Leander crossed the Hellespont.
TGV 1.1. 23
TGV-PROTEUS
That's a deep story of a deeper love,
TGV 1.1. 24 For he was more than over-shoes in love.
TGV 1.1. 25
TGV-VALENTINE
'Tis true, for you are over-boots in love,
TGV 1.1. 26 And yet you never swam the Hellespont.
TGV 1.1. 27
TGV-PROTEUS
Over the boots? Nay, give me not the boots.
TGV 1.1. 28B
TGV-VALENTINE
No, I will not; for it boots thee not.
TGV-PROTEUS
What?
TGV 1.1. 29
TGV-VALENTINE
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans,
TGV 1.1. 30 Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth
TGV 1.1. 31 With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights.
TGV 1.1. 32 If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
TGV 1.1. 33 If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
TGV 1.1. 34 However, but a folly bought with wit,
TGV 1.1. 35 Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
TGV 1.1. 36
TGV-PROTEUS
So by your circumstance you call me fool.
TGV 1.1. 37
TGV-VALENTINE
So by your circumstance I fear you'll prove.
TGV 1.1. 38
TGV-PROTEUS
'Tis love you cavil at. I am not love.
TGV 1.1. 39
TGV-VALENTINE
Love is your master, for he masters you,
TGV 1.1. 40 And he that is so yoked by a fool
TGV 1.1. 41 Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
TGV 1.1. 42
TGV-PROTEUS
Yet writers say `As in the sweetest bud
TGV 1.1. 43 The eating canker dwells, so doting love
TGV 1.1. 44 Inhabits in the finest wits of all.'
TGV 1.1. 45
TGV-VALENTINE
And writers say `As the most forward bud
TGV 1.1. 46 Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
TGV 1.1. 47 Even so by love the young and tender wit
TGV 1.1. 48 Is turned to folly, blasting in the bud,
TGV 1.1. 49 Losing his verdure even in the prime,
TGV 1.1. 50 And all the fair effects of future hopes.'
TGV 1.1. 51 But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee
TGV 1.1. 52 That art a votary to fond desire?
TGV 1.1. 53 Once more adieu. My father at the road
TGV 1.1. 54 Expects my coming, there to see me shipped.
TGV 1.1. 55
TGV-PROTEUS
And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.
TGV 1.1. 56
TGV-VALENTINE
Sweet Proteus, no. Now let us take our leave.
TGV 1.1. 57 To Milan let me hear from thee by letters
TGV 1.1. 58 Of thy success in love, and what news else
TGV 1.1. 59 Betideth here in absence of thy friend;
TGV 1.1. 60 And I likewise will visit thee with mine.
TGV 1.1. 61
TGV-PROTEUS
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan.
TGV 1.1. 62
TGV-VALENTINE
As much to you at home; and so farewell. {Exit}
TGV 1.1. 63
TGV-PROTEUS
He after honour hunts, I after love.
TGV 1.1. 64 He leaves his friends to dignify them more,
TGV 1.1. 65 I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love.
TGV 1.1. 66 Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
TGV 1.1. 67 Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
TGV 1.1. 68 War with good counsel, set the world at naught;
TGV 1.1. 69 Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought. {Enter +
TGV 1.1. 69 Speed}
TGV 1.1. 70
TGV-SPEED
Sir Proteus, save you. Saw you my master?
TGV 1.1. 71
TGV-PROTEUS
But now he parted hence to embark for Milan.
TGV 1.1. 72
TGV-SPEED
Twenty to one, then, he is shipped already,
TGV 1.1. 73 And I have played the sheep in losing him.
TGV 1.1. 74
TGV-PROTEUS
Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,
TGV 1.1. 75 An if the shepherd be a while away.
TGV 1.1. 76
TGV-SPEED
You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then, and I a +
TGV 1.1. 76 sheep?
TGV 1.1. 77
TGV-PROTEUS
I do.
TGV 1.1. 78
TGV-SPEED
Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or +
TGV 1.1. 78 sleep.
TGV 1.1. 79
TGV-PROTEUS
A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep.
TGV 1.1. 80
TGV-SPEED
This proves me still a sheep.
TGV 1.1. 81
TGV-PROTEUS
True, and thy master a shepherd.
TGV 1.1. 82
TGV-SPEED
Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.
TGV 1.1. 83
TGV-PROTEUS
It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another.
TGV 1.1. 84
TGV-SPEED
The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep
TGV 1.1. 85 the shepherd. But I seek my master, and my master
TGV 1.1. 86 seeks not me. Therefore I am no sheep.
TGV 1.1. 87
TGV-PROTEUS
The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the
TGV 1.1. 88 shepherd for food follows not the sheep. Thou for wages
TGV 1.1. 89 followest thy master, thy master for wages follows not
TGV 1.1. 90 thee. Therefore thou art a sheep.
TGV 1.1. 91
TGV-SPEED
Such another proof will make me cry `baa'.
TGV 1.1. 92
TGV-PROTEUS
But dost thou hear: gav'st thou my letter to
TGV 1.1. 93 Julia?
TGV 1.1. 94
TGV-SPEED
Ay, sir. I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a
TGV 1.1. 95 laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost
TGV 1.1. 96 mutton, nothing for my labour.
TGV 1.1. 97
TGV-PROTEUS
Here's too small a pasture for such store of
TGV 1.1. 98 muttons.
TGV 1.1. 99
TGV-SPEED
If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick
TGV 1.1. 100 her.
TGV 1.1. 101
TGV-PROTEUS
Nay, in that you are astray. 'Twere best pound
TGV 1.1. 102 you.
TGV 1.1. 103
TGV-SPEED
Nay sir, less than a pound shall serve me for
TGV 1.1. 104 carrying your letter.
TGV 1.1. 105
TGV-PROTEUS
You mistake. I mean the pound, a pinfold.
TGV 1.1. 106
TGV-SPEED
From a pound to a pin? Fold it over and over
TGV 1.1. 107 'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to your lover.
TGV 1.1. 108
TGV-PROTEUS
But what said she?
TGV 1.1. 109
TGV-SPEED
{(nods, then says)} Ay.
TGV 1.1. 110
TGV-PROTEUS
Nod-ay? Why, that's `noddy'.
TGV 1.1. 111
TGV-SPEED
You mistook, sir. I say she did nod, and you ask
TGV 1.1. 112 me if she did nod, and I say `Ay'.
TGV 1.1. 113
TGV-PROTEUS
And that set together is `noddy'.
TGV 1.1. 114
TGV-SPEED
Now you have taken the pains to set it together,
TGV 1.1. 115 take it for your pains.
TGV 1.1. 116
TGV-PROTEUS
No, no. You shall have it for bearing the letter.
TGV 1.1. 117
TGV-SPEED
Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.
TGV 1.1. 118
TGV-PROTEUS
Why, sir, how do you bear with me?
TGV 1.1. 119
TGV-SPEED
Marry, sir, the letter very orderly, having nothing
TGV 1.1. 120 but the word `noddy' for my pains.
TGV 1.1. 121
TGV-PROTEUS
Beshrew me but you have a quick wit.
TGV 1.1. 122
TGV-SPEED
And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
TGV 1.1. 123
TGV-PROTEUS
Come, come, open the matter in brief. What said
TGV 1.1. 124 she?
TGV 1.1. 125
TGV-SPEED
Open your purse, that the money and the matter
TGV 1.1. 126 may be both at once delivered.
TGV 1.1. 127
TGV-PROTEUS
{(giving money)} Well, sir, here is for +
TGV 1.1. 127 your pains.
TGV 1.1. 128 What said she?
TGV 1.1. 129
TGV-SPEED
Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her.
TGV 1.1. 130
TGV-PROTEUS
Why? Couldst thou perceive so much from her?
TGV 1.1. 131
TGV-SPEED
Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her, no,
TGV 1.1. 132 not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter. And
TGV 1.1. 133 being so hard to me, that brought your mind, I fear
TGV 1.1. 134 she'll prove as hard to you in telling your mind. Give
TGV 1.1. 135 her no token but stones, for she's as hard as steel.
TGV 1.1. 136
TGV-PROTEUS
What said she? Nothing?
TGV 1.1. 137
TGV-SPEED
No, not so much as `Take this for thy pains'. To
TGV 1.1. 138 testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned
TGV 1.1. 139 me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your letters
TGV 1.1. 140 yourself. And so, sir, I'll commend you to my master. {[Exit]}
TGV 1.1. 141
TGV-PROTEUS
Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,
TGV 1.1. 142 Which cannot perish having thee aboard,
TGV 1.1. 143 Being destined to a drier death on shore.
TGV 1.1. 144 I must go send some better messenger.
TGV 1.1. 145 I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
TGV 1.1. 146 Receiving them from such a worthless post. {Exit}
TGV 1.1. 0 {Enter Julia and Lucetta}
TGV 1.2. 1
TGV-JULIA
But say, Lucetta, now we are alone -
TGV 1.2. 2 Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?
TGV 1.2. 3
TGV-LUCETTA
Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully.
TGV 1.2. 4
TGV-JULIA
Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
TGV 1.2. 5 That every day with parle encounter me,
TGV 1.2. 6 In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
TGV 1.2. 7
TGV-LUCETTA
Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind
TGV 1.2. 8 According to my shallow simple skill.
TGV 1.2. 9
TGV-JULIA
What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?
TGV 1.2. 10
TGV-LUCETTA
As of a knight well spoken, neat, and fine,
TGV 1.2. 11 But were I you, he never should be mine.
TGV 1.2. 12
TGV-JULIA
What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio?
TGV 1.2. 13
TGV-LUCETTA
Well of his wealth, but of himself, so-so.
TGV 1.2. 14
TGV-JULIA
What think'st thou of the gentle Proteus?
TGV 1.2. 15
TGV-LUCETTA
Lord, lord, to see what folly reigns in us!
TGV 1.2. 16
TGV-JULIA
How now? What means this passion at his name?
TGV 1.2. 17
TGV-LUCETTA
Pardon, dear madam, 'tis a passing shame
TGV 1.2. 18 That I, unworthy body as I am,
TGV 1.2. 19 Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen.
TGV 1.2. 20
TGV-JULIA
Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?
TGV 1.2. 21
TGV-LUCETTA
Then thus: of many good, I think him best.
TGV 1.2. 22A
TGV-JULIA
Your reason?
TGV 1.2. 23
TGV-LUCETTA
I have no other but a woman's reason:
TGV 1.2. 24 I think him so because I think him so.
TGV 1.2. 25
TGV-JULIA
And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him?
TGV 1.2. 26
TGV-LUCETTA
Ay, if you thought your love not cast away.
TGV 1.2. 27
TGV-JULIA
Why, he of all the rest hath never moved me.
TGV 1.2. 28
TGV-LUCETTA
Yet he of all the rest I think best loves ye.
TGV 1.2. 29
TGV-JULIA
His little speaking shows his love but small.
TGV 1.2. 30
TGV-LUCETTA
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
TGV 1.2. 31
TGV-JULIA
They do not love that do not show their love.
TGV 1.2. 32
TGV-LUCETTA
O, they love least that let men know their love.
TGV 1.2. 33
TGV-JULIA
I would I knew his mind.
TGV 1.2. 34
TGV-LUCETTA
{(giving Proteus' letter)} Peruse this +
TGV 1.2. 34 paper, madam.
TGV 1.2. 35
TGV-JULIA
`To Julia' - say, from whom?
TGV 1.2. 36
TGV-LUCETTA
That the contents will show.
TGV 1.2. 37
TGV-JULIA
Say, say - who gave it thee?
TGV 1.2. 38
TGV-LUCETTA
Sir Valentine's page; and sent, I think, from Proteus.
TGV 1.2. 39 He would have given it you, but I being in the way
TGV 1.2. 40 Did in your name receive it. Pardon the fault, I pray.
TGV 1.2. 41
TGV-JULIA
Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker.
TGV 1.2. 42 Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines?
TGV 1.2. 43 To whisper, and conspire against my youth?
TGV 1.2. 44 Now trust me, 'tis an office of great worth,
TGV 1.2. 45 And you an officer fit for the place.
TGV 1.2. 46B There. Take the paper. {She gives Lucetta the letter} +
TGV 1.2. 46B See it be returned,
TGV 1.2. 47 Or else return no more into my sight.
TGV 1.2. 48
TGV-LUCETTA
To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
TGV 1.2. 49B
TGV-JULIA
Will ye be gone?
TGV-LUCETTA
That you may ruminate. +
TGV 1.2. 49B {Exit}
TGV 1.2. 50
TGV-JULIA
And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter.
TGV 1.2. 51 It were a shame to call her back again
TGV 1.2. 52 And pray her to a fault for which I chid her.
TGV 1.2. 53 What fool is she, that knows I am a maid
TGV 1.2. 54 And would not force the letter to my view,
TGV 1.2. 55 Since maids in modesty say `No' to that
TGV 1.2. 56 Which they would have the profferer construe `Ay'.
TGV 1.2. 57 Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love
TGV 1.2. 58 That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse
TGV 1.2. 59 And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod.
TGV 1.2. 60 How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence
TGV 1.2. 61 When willingly I would have had her here.
TGV 1.2. 62 How angerly I taught my brow to frown
TGV 1.2. 63 When inward joy enforced my heart to smile.
TGV 1.2. 64 My penance is to call Lucetta back
TGV 1.2. 65 And ask remission for my folly past.
TGV 1.2. 66B What ho! Lucetta! {Enter Lucetta}
TGV-LUCETTA
What +
TGV 1.2. 66B would your ladyship?
TGV 1.2. 67B
TGV-JULIA
Is 't near dinner-time?
TGV-LUCETTA
I would it were,
TGV 1.2. 68 That you might kill your stomach on your meat
TGV 1.2. 69B And not upon your maid. {[She drops and picks up the +
TGV 1.2. 69B letter]}
TGV-JULIA
What is 't that you
TGV 1.2. 70 Took up so gingerly?
TGV 1.2. 71A
TGV-LUCETTA
Nothing.
TGV 1.2. 72A
TGV-JULIA
Why didst thou stoop then?
TGV 1.2. 73
TGV-LUCETTA
To take a paper up that I let fall.
TGV 1.2. 74
TGV-JULIA
And is that paper nothing?
TGV 1.2. 75
TGV-LUCETTA
Nothing concerning me.
TGV 1.2. 76
TGV-JULIA
Then let it lie for those that it concerns.
TGV 1.2. 77
TGV-LUCETTA
Madam, it will not lie where it concerns,
TGV 1.2. 78 Unless it have a false interpreter.
TGV 1.2. 79
TGV-JULIA
Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme.
TGV 1.2. 80
TGV-LUCETTA
That I might sing it, madam, to a tune,
TGV 1.2. 81 Give me a note. Your ladyship can set.
TGV 1.2. 82
TGV-JULIA
As little by such toys as may be possible.
TGV 1.2. 83 Best sing it to the tune of `Light o' love'.
TGV 1.2. 84
TGV-LUCETTA
It is too heavy for so light a tune.
TGV 1.2. 85
TGV-JULIA
Heavy? Belike it hath some burden, then?
TGV 1.2. 86
TGV-LUCETTA
Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it.
TGV 1.2. 87B
TGV-JULIA
And why not you?
TGV-LUCETTA
I cannot reach so high.
TGV 1.2. 88B
TGV-JULIA
Let's see your song. {[She tries to take the +
TGV 1.2. 88B letter]} How now, minion!
TGV 1.2. 89
TGV-LUCETTA
Keep tune there still. So you will sing it out.
TGV 1.2. 90 And yet methinks I do not like this tune.
TGV 1.2. 91A
TGV-JULIA
You do not?
TGV 1.2. 92
TGV-LUCETTA
No, madam, 'tis too sharp.
TGV 1.2. 93
TGV-JULIA
You, minion, are too saucy.
TGV 1.2. 94
TGV-LUCETTA
Nay, now you are too flat,
TGV 1.2. 95 And mar the concord with too harsh a descant.
TGV 1.2. 96 There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.
TGV 1.2. 97
TGV-JULIA
The mean is drowned with your unruly bass.
TGV 1.2. 98
TGV-LUCETTA
Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.
TGV 1.2. 99
TGV-JULIA
This bauble shall not henceforth trouble me.
TGV 1.2. 100 Here is a coil with protestation. {She tears the letter and +
TGV 1.2. 100 drops the pieces}
TGV 1.2. 101 Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie.
TGV 1.2. 102 You would be fing'ring them to anger me.
TGV 1.2. 103
TGV-LUCETTA
{(aside)} She makes it strange, but she +
TGV 1.2. 103 would be best pleased
TGV 1.2. 104 To be so angered with another letter. {Exit}
TGV 1.2. 105
TGV-JULIA
Nay, would I were so angered with the same.
TGV 1.2. 106 O hateful hands, to tear such loving words;
TGV 1.2. 107 Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
TGV 1.2. 108 And kill the bees that yield it with your stings.
TGV 1.2. 109 I'll kiss each several paper for amends. {She picks up some of +
TGV 1.2. 109 the pieces of paper}
TGV 1.2. 110 Look, here is writ `Kind Julia' - unkind Julia,
TGV 1.2. 111 As in revenge of thy ingratitude
TGV 1.2. 112 I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
TGV 1.2. 113 Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
TGV 1.2. 114 And here is writ `Love-wounded Proteus'.
TGV 1.2. 115 Poor wounded name, my bosom as a bed
TGV 1.2. 116 Shall lodge thee till thy wound be throughly healed;
TGV 1.2. 117 And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
TGV 1.2. 118 But twice or thrice was `Proteus' written down.
TGV 1.2. 119 Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away
TGV 1.2. 120 Till I have found each letter in the letter
TGV 1.2. 121 Except mine own name. That, some whirlwind bear
TGV 1.2. 122 Unto a ragged, fearful, hanging rock
TGV 1.2. 123 And throw it thence into the raging sea.
TGV 1.2. 124 Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ:
TGV 1.2. 125 `Poor forlorn Proteus', `passionate Proteus',
TGV 1.2. 126 `To the sweet Julia' - that I'll tear away.
TGV 1.2. 127 And yet I will not, sith so prettily
TGV 1.2. 128 He couples it to his complaining names.
TGV 1.2. 129 Thus will I fold them, one upon another.
TGV 1.2. 130 Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will. {Enter Lucetta}
TGV 1.2. 131
TGV-LUCETTA
Madam, dinner is ready, and your father stays.
TGV 1.2. 132A
TGV-JULIA
Well, let us go.
TGV 1.2. 133
TGV-LUCETTA
What, shall these papers lie like telltales here?
TGV 1.2. 134
TGV-JULIA
If you respect them, best to take them up.
TGV 1.2. 135
TGV-LUCETTA
Nay, I was taken up for laying them down.
TGV 1.2. 136 Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold.
TGV 1.2. 137
TGV-JULIA
I see you have a month's mind to them.
TGV 1.2. 138
TGV-LUCETTA
Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see.
TGV 1.2. 139 I see things too, although you judge I wink.
TGV 1.2. 140A
TGV-JULIA
Come, come, will 't please you go? {Exeunt}
TGV 1.2. 0 {Enter Antonio and Panthino}
TGV 1.3. 1
TGV-ANTONIO
Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that
TGV 1.3. 2 Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?
TGV 1.3. 3
TGV-PANTHINO
'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.
TGV 1.3. 4B
TGV-ANTONIO
Why, what of him?
TGV-PANTHINO
He wondered that your +
TGV 1.3. 4B lordship
TGV 1.3. 5 Would suffer him to spend his youth at home
TGV 1.3. 6 While other men, of slender reputation,
TGV 1.3. 7 Put forth their sons to seek preferment out -
TGV 1.3. 8 Some to the wars, to try their fortune there,
TGV 1.3. 9 Some to discover islands far away,
TGV 1.3. 10 Some to the studious universities.
TGV 1.3. 11 For any or for all these exercises
TGV 1.3. 12 He said that Proteus your son was meet,
TGV 1.3. 13 And did request me to importune you
TGV 1.3. 14 To let him spend his time no more at home,
TGV 1.3. 15 Which would be great impeachment to his age
TGV 1.3. 16 In having known no travel in his youth.
TGV 1.3. 17
TGV-ANTONIO
Nor need'st thou much importune me to that
TGV 1.3. 18 Whereon this month I have been hammering.
TGV 1.3. 19 I have considered well his loss of time,
TGV 1.3. 20 And how he cannot be a perfect man,
TGV 1.3. 21 Not being tried and tutored in the world.
TGV 1.3. 22 Experience is by industry achieved,
TGV 1.3. 23 And perfected by the swift course of time.
TGV 1.3. 24 Then tell me, whither were I best to send him?
TGV 1.3. 25
TGV-PANTHINO
I think your lordship is not ignorant
TGV 1.3. 26 How his companion, youthful Valentine,
TGV 1.3. 27 Attends the Emperor in his royal court.
TGV 1.3. 28A
TGV-ANTONIO
I know it well.
TGV 1.3. 29
TGV-PANTHINO
'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither.
TGV 1.3. 30 There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,
TGV 1.3. 31 Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen,
TGV 1.3. 32 And be in eye of every exercise
TGV 1.3. 33 Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.
TGV 1.3. 34
TGV-ANTONIO
I like thy counsel. Well hast thou advised,
TGV 1.3. 35 And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,
TGV 1.3. 36 The execution of it shall make known.
TGV 1.3. 37 Even with the speediest expedition
TGV 1.3. 38 I will dispatch him to the Emperor's court.
TGV 1.3. 39
TGV-PANTHINO
Tomorrow, may it please you, Don Alfonso,
TGV 1.3. 40 With other gentlemen of good esteem,
TGV 1.3. 41 Are journeying to salute the Emperor
TGV 1.3. 42 And to commend their service to his will.
TGV 1.3. 43
TGV-ANTONIO
Good company. With them shall Proteus go. {Enter +
TGV 1.3. 43 Proteus with a letter. He does not see Antonio and Panthino}
TGV 1.3. 44 And in good time. Now will we break with him.
TGV 1.3. 45A
TGV-PROTEUS
Sweet love, sweet lines, sweet life!
TGV 1.3. 46 Here is her hand, the agent of her heart.
TGV 1.3. 47 Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn.
TGV 1.3. 48 O that our fathers would applaud our loves
TGV 1.3. 49 To seal our happiness with their consents.
TGV 1.3. 50 O heavenly Julia!
TGV 1.3. 51
TGV-ANTONIO
How now, what letter are you reading there?
TGV 1.3. 52
TGV-PROTEUS
May 't please your lordship, 'tis a word or two
TGV 1.3. 53 Of commendations sent from Valentine,
TGV 1.3. 54 Delivered by a friend that came from him.
TGV 1.3. 55
TGV-ANTONIO
Lend me the letter. Let me see what news.
TGV 1.3. 56
TGV-PROTEUS
There is no news, my lord, but that he writes
TGV 1.3. 57 How happily he lives, how well beloved
TGV 1.3. 58 And daily graced by the Emperor,
TGV 1.3. 59 Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune.
TGV 1.3. 60
TGV-ANTONIO
And how stand you affected to his wish?
TGV 1.3. 61
TGV-PROTEUS
As one relying on your lordship's will,
TGV 1.3. 62 And not depending on his friendly wish.
TGV 1.3. 63
TGV-ANTONIO
My will is something sorted with his wish.
TGV 1.3. 64 Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed,
TGV 1.3. 65 For what I will, I will, and there an end.
TGV 1.3. 66 I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time
TGV 1.3. 67 With Valentinus in the Emperor's court.
TGV 1.3. 68 What maintenance he from his friends receives,
TGV 1.3. 69 Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.
TGV 1.3. 70 Tomorrow be in readiness to go.
TGV 1.3. 71 Excuse it not, for I am peremptory.
TGV 1.3. 72
TGV-PROTEUS
My lord, I cannot be so soon provided.
TGV 1.3. 73 Please you deliberate a day or two.
TGV 1.3. 74
TGV-ANTONIO
Look what thou want'st shall be sent after thee.
TGV 1.3. 75 No more of stay. Tomorrow thou must go.
TGV 1.3. 76 Come on, Panthino. You shall be employed
TGV 1.3. 77 To hasten on his expedition. {Exeunt Antonio and Panthino}
TGV 1.3. 78
TGV-PROTEUS
Thus have I shunned the fire for fear of burning
TGV 1.3. 79 And drenched me in the sea where I am drowned.
TGV 1.3. 80 I feared to show my father Julia's letter
TGV 1.3. 81 Lest he should take exceptions to my love,
TGV 1.3. 82 And with the vantage of mine own excuse
TGV 1.3. 83 Hath he excepted most against my love.
TGV 1.3. 84 O, how this spring of love resembleth
TGV 1.3. 85 The uncertain glory of an April day,
TGV 1.3. 86 Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
TGV 1.3. 87 And by and by a cloud takes all away. {Enter Panthino}
TGV 1.3. 88
TGV-PANTHINO
Sir Proteus, your father calls for you.
TGV 1.3. 89 He is in haste, therefore I pray you go.
TGV 1.3. 90
TGV-PROTEUS
Why, this it is. My heart accords thereto,
TGV 1.3. 91 And yet a thousand times it answers `No'. {Exeunt}
TGV 1.3. 0 {Enter Valentine and Speed}
TGV 2.1. 1B
TGV-SPEED
{(offering Valentine a glove)} Sir, your +
TGV 2.1. 1B glove.
TGV-VALENTINE
Not mine. My gloves are on.
TGV 2.1. 2
TGV-SPEED
Why then, this may be yours, for this is but one.
TGV 2.1. 3
TGV-VALENTINE
Ha, let me see. Ay, give it me, it's mine -
TGV 2.1. 4 Sweet ornament, that decks a thing divine.
TGV 2.1. 5 Ah, Silvia, Silvia!
TGV 2.1. 6
TGV-SPEED
Madam Silvia, Madam Silvia!
TGV 2.1. 7
TGV-VALENTINE
How now, sirrah?
TGV 2.1. 8
TGV-SPEED
She is not within hearing, sir.
TGV 2.1. 9
TGV-VALENTINE
Why, sir, who bade you call her?
TGV 2.1. 10
TGV-SPEED
Your worship, sir, or else I mistook.
TGV 2.1. 11
TGV-VALENTINE
Well, you'll still be too forward.
TGV 2.1. 12
TGV-SPEED
And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.
TGV 2.1. 13
TGV-VALENTINE
Go to, sir. Tell me, do you know Madam
TGV 2.1. 14 Silvia?
TGV 2.1. 15
TGV-SPEED
She that your worship loves?
TGV 2.1. 16
TGV-VALENTINE
Why, how know you that I am in love?
TGV 2.1. 17
TGV-SPEED
Marry, by these special marks: first, you have
TGV 2.1. 18 learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreath your arms, like a
TGV 2.1. 19 malcontent; to relish a love-song, like a robin redbreast;
TGV 2.1. 20 to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to sigh,
TGV 2.1. 21 like a schoolboy that had lost his
TGV-ABC
to weep, like a
TGV 2.1. 22 young wench that had buried her grandam; to fast,
TGV 2.1. 23 like one that takes diet; to watch, like one that fears
TGV 2.1. 24 robbing; to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas.
TGV 2.1. 25 You were wont, when you laughed, to crow like a
TGV 2.1. 26 cock; when you walked, to walk like one of the lions.
TGV 2.1. 27 When you fasted, it was presently after dinner; when
TGV 2.1. 28 you looked sadly, it was for want of money. And now
TGV 2.1. 29 you are metamorphosed with a mistress, that when I
TGV 2.1. 30 look on you I can hardly think you my master.
TGV 2.1. 31
TGV-VALENTINE
Are all these things perceived in me?
TGV 2.1. 32
TGV-SPEED
They are all perceived without ye.
TGV 2.1. 33
TGV-VALENTINE
Without me? They cannot.
TGV 2.1. 34
TGV-SPEED
Without you? Nay, that's certain, for without you
TGV 2.1. 35 were so simple, none else would. But you are so without
TGV 2.1. 36 these follies that these follies are within you, and shine
TGV 2.1. 37 through you like the water in an urinal, that not an
TGV 2.1. 38 eye that sees you but is a physician to comment on
TGV 2.1. 39 your malady.
TGV 2.1. 40
TGV-VALENTINE
But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?
TGV 2.1. 41
TGV-SPEED
She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?
TGV 2.1. 42
TGV-VALENTINE
Hast thou observed that? Even she I mean.
TGV 2.1. 43
TGV-SPEED
Why sir, I know her not.
TGV 2.1. 44
TGV-VALENTINE
Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and
TGV 2.1. 45 yet know'st her not?
TGV 2.1. 46
TGV-SPEED
Is she not hard-favoured, sir?
TGV 2.1. 47
TGV-VALENTINE
Not so fair, boy, as well favoured.
TGV 2.1. 48
TGV-SPEED
Sir, I know that well enough.
TGV 2.1. 49
TGV-VALENTINE
What dost thou know?
TGV 2.1. 50
TGV-SPEED
That she is not so fair as of you well favoured.
TGV 2.1. 51
TGV-VALENTINE
I mean that her beauty is exquisite but her
TGV 2.1. 52 favour infinite.
TGV 2.1. 53
TGV-SPEED
That's because the one is painted and the other
TGV 2.1. 54 out of all count.
TGV 2.1. 55
TGV-VALENTINE
How painted? And how out of count?
TGV 2.1. 56
TGV-SPEED
Marry, sir, so painted to make her fair that no man
TGV 2.1. 57 counts of her beauty.
TGV 2.1. 58
TGV-VALENTINE
How esteem'st thou me? I account of her
TGV 2.1. 59 beauty.
TGV 2.1. 60
TGV-SPEED
You never saw her since she was deformed.
TGV 2.1. 61
TGV-VALENTINE
How long hath she been deformed?
TGV 2.1. 62
TGV-SPEED
Ever since you loved her.
TGV 2.1. 63
TGV-VALENTINE
I have loved her ever since I saw her, and still
TGV 2.1. 64 I see her beautiful.
TGV 2.1. 65
TGV-SPEED
If you love her you cannot see her.
TGV 2.1. 66
TGV-VALENTINE
Why?
TGV 2.1. 67
TGV-SPEED
Because love is blind. O that you had mine eyes,
TGV 2.1. 68 or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to
TGV 2.1. 69 have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going ungartered.
TGV 2.1. 70
TGV-VALENTINE
What should I see then?
TGV 2.1. 71
TGV-SPEED
Your own present folly and her passing deformity;
TGV 2.1. 72 for he being in love could not see to garter his hose,
TGV 2.1. 73 and you being in love cannot see to put on your hose.
TGV 2.1. 74
TGV-VALENTINE
Belike, boy, then you are in love, for last
TGV 2.1. 75 morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.
TGV 2.1. 76
TGV-SPEED
True, sir. I was in love with my bed. I thank you,
TGV 2.1. 77 you swinged me for my love, which makes me the
TGV 2.1. 78 bolder to chide you for yours.
TGV 2.1. 79
TGV-VALENTINE
In conclusion, I stand affected to her.
TGV 2.1. 80
TGV-SPEED
I would you were set. So your affection would
TGV 2.1. 81 cease.
TGV 2.1. 82
TGV-VALENTINE
Last night she enjoined me to write some lines
TGV 2.1. 83 to one she loves.
TGV 2.1. 84
TGV-SPEED
And have you?
TGV 2.1. 85
TGV-VALENTINE
I have.
TGV 2.1. 86
TGV-SPEED
Are they not lamely writ?
TGV 2.1. 87
TGV-VALENTINE
No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace,
TGV 2.1. 88 here she comes. {Enter Silvia}
TGV 2.1. 89
TGV-SPEED
{(aside)} O excellent motion! O exceeding +
TGV 2.1. 89 puppet!
TGV 2.1. 90 Now will he interpret to her.
TGV 2.1. 91
TGV-VALENTINE
Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows.
TGV 2.1. 92
TGV-SPEED
{(aside)} O, give ye good e'en! Here's a +
TGV 2.1. 92 million of
TGV 2.1. 93 manners.
TGV 2.1. 94
TGV-SILVIA
Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand.
TGV 2.1. 95
TGV-SPEED
{(aside)} He should give her interest, and +
TGV 2.1. 95 she gives it
TGV 2.1. 96 him.
TGV 2.1. 97
TGV-VALENTINE
As you enjoined me, I have writ your letter
TGV 2.1. 98 Unto the secret, nameless friend of yours;
TGV 2.1. 99 Which I was much unwilling to proceed in
TGV 2.1. 100 But for my duty to your ladyship. {He gives her a letter}
TGV 2.1. 101
TGV-SILVIA
I thank you, gentle servant. 'Tis very clerkly +
TGV 2.1. 101 done.
TGV 2.1. 102
TGV-VALENTINE
Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;
TGV 2.1. 103 For being ignorant to whom it goes
TGV 2.1. 104 I writ at random, very doubtfully.
TGV 2.1. 105
TGV-SILVIA
Perchance you think too much of so much pains?
TGV 2.1. 106
TGV-VALENTINE
No, madam. So it stead you I will write -
TGV 2.1. 107 Please you command - a thousand times as much.
TGV 2.1. 108 And yet . . .
TGV 2.1. 109
TGV-SILVIA
A pretty period. Well, I guess the sequel.
TGV 2.1. 110 And yet I will not name it. And yet I care not.
TGV 2.1. 111B And yet, take this again. {She offers him the letter} +
TGV 2.1. 111B And yet I thank you,
TGV 2.1. 112 Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.
TGV 2.1. 113
TGV-SPEED
{(aside)} And yet you will, and yet another +
TGV 2.1. 113 yet.
TGV 2.1. 114
TGV-VALENTINE
What means your ladyship? Do you not like it?
TGV 2.1. 115
TGV-SILVIA
Yes, yes. The lines are very quaintly writ,
TGV 2.1. 116 But since unwillingly, take them again. {She presses the letter +
TGV 2.1. 116 upon him}
TGV 2.1. 117B Nay, take them.
TGV-VALENTINE
Madam, they are for you.
TGV 2.1. 118
TGV-SILVIA
Ay, ay. You writ them, sir, at my request,
TGV 2.1. 119 But I will none of them. They are for you.
TGV 2.1. 120 I would have had them writ more movingly.
TGV 2.1. 121
TGV-VALENTINE
Please you, I'll write your ladyship another.
TGV 2.1. 122
TGV-SILVIA
And when it's writ, for my sake read it over,
TGV 2.1. 123 And if it please you, so. If not, why, so.
TGV 2.1. 124
TGV-VALENTINE
If it please me, madam? What then?
TGV 2.1. 125
TGV-SILVIA
Why, if it please you, take it for your labour.
TGV 2.1. 126 And so good morrow, servant. {Exit}
TGV 2.1. 127
TGV-SPEED
{(aside)} O jest unseen, inscrutable, +
TGV 2.1. 127 invisible
TGV 2.1. 128 As a nose on a man's face or a weathercock on a steeple.
TGV 2.1. 129 My master sues to her, and she hath taught her suitor,
TGV 2.1. 130 He being her pupil, to become her tutor.
TGV 2.1. 131 O excellent device! Was there ever heard a better? -
TGV 2.1. 132 That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter.
TGV 2.1. 133
TGV-VALENTINE
How now, sir - what, are you reasoning with
TGV 2.1. 134 yourself?
TGV 2.1. 135
TGV-SPEED
Nay, I was rhyming. 'Tis you that have the reason.
TGV 2.1. 136
TGV-VALENTINE
To do what?
TGV 2.1. 137
TGV-SPEED
To be a spokesman from Madam Silvia.
TGV 2.1. 138
TGV-VALENTINE
To whom?
TGV 2.1. 139
TGV-SPEED
To yourself. Why, she woos you by a figure.
TGV 2.1. 140
TGV-VALENTINE
What figure?
TGV 2.1. 141
TGV-SPEED
By a letter, I should say.
TGV 2.1. 142
TGV-VALENTINE
Why, she hath not writ to me.
TGV 2.1. 143
TGV-SPEED
What need she, when she hath made you write to
TGV 2.1. 144 yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?
TGV 2.1. 145
TGV-VALENTINE
No, believe me.
TGV 2.1. 146
TGV-SPEED
No believing you indeed, sir. But did you perceive
TGV 2.1. 147 her earnest?
TGV 2.1. 148
TGV-VALENTINE
She gave me none, except an angry word.
TGV 2.1. 149
TGV-SPEED
Why, she hath given you a letter.
TGV 2.1. 150
TGV-VALENTINE
That's the letter I writ to her friend.
TGV 2.1. 151
TGV-SPEED
And that letter hath she delivered, and there an
TGV 2.1. 152 end.
TGV 2.1. 153
TGV-VALENTINE
I would it were no worse.
TGV 2.1. 154
TGV-SPEED
I'll warrant you, 'tis as well.
TGV 2.1. 155 For often have you writ to her, and she in modesty
TGV 2.1. 156 Or else for want of idle time could not again reply,
TGV 2.1. 157 Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,
TGV 2.1. 158 Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
TGV 2.1. 159 - All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. Why
TGV 2.1. 160 muse you, sir? 'Tis dinner-time.
TGV 2.1. 161
TGV-VALENTINE
I have dined.
TGV 2.1. 162
TGV-SPEED
Ay, but hearken, sir. Though the chameleon love
TGV 2.1. 163 can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by
TGV 2.1. 164 my victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like
TGV 2.1. 165 your mistress - be moved, be moved! {Exeunt}
TGV 2.1. 0 {Enter Proteus and Julia}
TGV 2.2. 1
TGV-PROTEUS
Have patience, gentle Julia.
TGV 2.2. 2
TGV-JULIA
I must where is no remedy.
TGV 2.2. 3
TGV-PROTEUS
When possibly I can I will return.
TGV 2.2. 4
TGV-JULIA
If you turn not, you will return the sooner. {She +
TGV 2.2. 4 gives him a ring}
TGV 2.2. 5 Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
TGV 2.2. 6
TGV-PROTEUS
Why then, we'll make exchange. Here, take you this. +
TGV 2.2. 6 {He gives her a ring}
TGV 2.2. 7
TGV-JULIA
And seal the bargain with a holy kiss. +
TGV 2.2. 7 {[They kiss]}
TGV 2.2. 8
TGV-PROTEUS
Here is my hand for my true constancy.
TGV 2.2. 9 And when that hour o'erslips me in the day
TGV 2.2. 10 Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
TGV 2.2. 11 The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
TGV 2.2. 12 Torment me for my love's forgetfulness.
TGV 2.2. 13 My father stays my coming. Answer not.
TGV 2.2. 14 The tide is now. {(Julia weeps)} Nay, not thy tide of +
TGV 2.2. 14 tears,
TGV 2.2. 15 That tide will stay me longer than I should.
TGV 2.2. 16B Julia, farewell. {Exit Julia} What, gone without a +
TGV 2.2. 16B word?
TGV 2.2. 17 Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak,
TGV 2.2. 18 For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. {Enter +
TGV 2.2. 18 Panthino}
TGV 2.2. 19B
TGV-PANTHINO
Sir Proteus, you are stayed for.
TGV-PROTEUS
Go, +
TGV 2.2. 19B I come, I come. -
TGV 2.2. 20 Alas, this parting strikes poor lovers dumb. {Exeunt}
TGV 2.2. 0 {Enter Lance with his dog Crab}
TGV 2.3. 1
TGV-LANCE
{(to the audience)} Nay, 'twill be this hour +
TGV 2.3. 1 ere I have
TGV 2.3. 2 done weeping. All the kind of the Lances have this very
TGV 2.3. 3 fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious
TGV 2.3. 4 son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's
TGV 2.3. 5 court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured
TGV 2.3. 6 dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing,
TGV 2.3. 7 my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing
TGV 2.3. 8 her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet
TGV 2.3. 9 did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a
TGV 2.3. 10 stone, a very pebble-stone, and has no more pity in
TGV 2.3. 11 him than a dog. A Jew would have wept to have seen
TGV 2.3. 12 our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes, look
TGV 2.3. 13 you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I'll show
TGV 2.3. 14 you the manner of it. This shoe is my father. No, this
TGV 2.3. 15 left shoe is my father. No, no, this left shoe is my
TGV 2.3. 16 mother. Nay, that cannot be so, neither. Yes, it is so,
TGV 2.3. 17 it is so, it hath the worser sole. This shoe with the hole
TGV 2.3. 18 in it is my mother, and this my father. A vengeance
TGV 2.3. 19 on 't, there 'tis. Now, sir, this staff is my sister, for, look
TGV 2.3. 20 you, she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand.
TGV 2.3. 21 This hat is Nan our maid. I am the dog. No, the dog
TGV 2.3. 22 is himself, and I am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I
TGV 2.3. 23 am myself. Ay, so, so. Now come I to my father.
TGV 2.3. 24 `Father, your blessing.' Now should not the shoe speak
TGV 2.3. 25 a word for weeping. Now should I kiss my father. Well,
TGV 2.3. 26 he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. O that she
TGV 2.3. 27 could speak now, like a moved woman. Well, I kiss
TGV 2.3. 28 her. Why, there 'tis. Here's my mother's breath up and
TGV 2.3. 29 down. Now come I to my sister. Mark the moan she
TGV 2.3. 30 makes. - Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear
TGV 2.3. 31 nor speaks a word. But see how I lay the dust with my
TGV 2.3. 32 tears. {Enter Panthino}
TGV 2.3. 33
TGV-PANTHINO
Lance, away, away, aboard. Thy master is
TGV 2.3. 34 shipped, and thou art to post after with oars. What's
TGV 2.3. 35 the matter? Why weep'st thou, man? Away, ass, you'll
TGV 2.3. 36 lose the tide if you tarry any longer.
TGV 2.3. 37
TGV-LANCE
It is no matter if the tied were lost, for it is the
TGV 2.3. 38 unkindest tied that ever any man tied.
TGV 2.3. 39
TGV-PANTHINO
What's the unkindest tide?
TGV 2.3. 40
TGV-LANCE
Why, he that's tied here, Crab my dog.
TGV 2.3. 41
TGV-PANTHINO
Tut, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood, and
TGV 2.3. 42 in losing the flood, lose thy voyage, and in losing thy
TGV 2.3. 43 voyage, lose thy master, and in losing thy master, lose
TGV 2.3. 44 thy service, and in losing thy service - {Lance puts his hand +
TGV 2.3. 44 over Panthino's mouth}
TGV 2.3. 45 Why dost thou stop my mouth?
TGV 2.3. 46
TGV-LANCE
For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue.
TGV 2.3. 47
TGV-PANTHINO
Where should I lose my tongue?
TGV 2.3. 48
TGV-LANCE
In thy tale.
TGV 2.3. 49
TGV-PANTHINO
In thy tail!
TGV 2.3. 50
TGV-LANCE
Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and
TGV 2.3. 51 the service, and the tied? Why, man, if the river were
TGV 2.3. 52 dry, I am able to fill it with my tears. If the wind were
TGV 2.3. 53 down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.
TGV 2.3. 54
TGV-PANTHINO
Come, come away, man. I was sent to call
TGV 2.3. 55 thee.
TGV 2.3. 56
TGV-LANCE
Sir, call me what thou darest.
TGV 2.3. 57
TGV-PANTHINO
Wilt thou go?
TGV 2.3. 58
TGV-LANCE
Well, I will go. {Exeunt}
TGV 2.3. 0 {Enter Valentine, Silvia, Thurio, and Speed}
TGV 2.4. 1
TGV-SILVIA
Servant!
TGV 2.4. 2
TGV-VALENTINE
Mistress?
TGV 2.4. 3
TGV-SPEED
{(to Valentine)} Master, Sir Thurio frowns +
TGV 2.4. 3 on you.
TGV 2.4. 4
TGV-VALENTINE
Ay, boy, it's for love.
TGV 2.4. 5
TGV-SPEED
Not of you.
TGV 2.4. 6
TGV-VALENTINE
Of my mistress, then.
TGV 2.4. 7
TGV-SPEED
'Twere good you knocked him.
TGV 2.4. 8
TGV-SILVIA
{(to Valentine)} Servant, you are sad.
TGV 2.4. 9
TGV-VALENTINE
Indeed, madam, I seem so.
TGV 2.4. 10
TGV-THURIO
Seem you that you are not?
TGV 2.4. 11
TGV-VALENTINE
Haply I do.
TGV 2.4. 12
TGV-THURIO
So do counterfeits.
TGV 2.4. 13
TGV-VALENTINE
So do you.
TGV 2.4. 14
TGV-THURIO
What seem I that I am not?
TGV 2.4. 15
TGV-VALENTINE
Wise.
TGV 2.4. 16
TGV-THURIO
What instance of the contrary?
TGV 2.4. 17
TGV-VALENTINE
Your folly.
TGV 2.4. 18
TGV-THURIO
And how quote you my folly?
TGV 2.4. 19
TGV-VALENTINE
I quote it in your jerkin.
TGV 2.4. 20
TGV-THURIO
My `jerkin' is a doublet.
TGV 2.4. 21
TGV-VALENTINE
Well then, I'll double your folly.
TGV 2.4. 22
TGV-THURIO
How!
TGV 2.4. 23
TGV-SILVIA
What, angry, Sir Thurio? Do you change colour?
TGV 2.4. 24
TGV-VALENTINE
Give him leave, madam, he is a kind of chameleon.
TGV 2.4. 26
TGV-THURIO
That hath more mind to feed on your blood than
TGV 2.4. 27 live in your air.
TGV 2.4. 28
TGV-VALENTINE
You have said, sir.
TGV 2.4. 29
TGV-THURIO
Ay, sir, and done too, for this time.
TGV 2.4. 30
TGV-VALENTINE
I know it well, sir, you always end ere you
TGV 2.4. 31 begin.
TGV 2.4. 32
TGV-SILVIA
A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly
TGV 2.4. 33 shot off.
TGV 2.4. 34
TGV-VALENTINE
'Tis indeed, madam, we thank the giver.
TGV 2.4. 35
TGV-SILVIA
Who is that, servant?
TGV 2.4. 36
TGV-VALENTINE
Yourself, sweet lady, for you gave the fire. Sir
TGV 2.4. 37 Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, and
TGV 2.4. 38 spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
TGV 2.4. 39
TGV-THURIO
Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall
TGV 2.4. 40 make your wit bankrupt.
TGV 2.4. 41
TGV-VALENTINE
I know it well, sir. You have an exchequer of
TGV 2.4. 42 words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your
TGV 2.4. 43 followers. For it appears by their bare liveries that they
TGV 2.4. 44 live by your bare words.
TGV 2.4. 45
TGV-SILVIA
No more, gentlemen, no more. Here comes my
TGV 2.4. 46 father. {Enter the Duke}
TGV 2.4. 47
TGV-DUKE
Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.
TGV 2.4. 48 Sir Valentine, your father is in good health,
TGV 2.4. 49 What say you to a letter from your friends
TGV 2.4. 50B Of much good news?
TGV-VALENTINE
My lord, I will be thankful
TGV 2.4. 51 To any happy messenger from thence.
TGV 2.4. 52
TGV-DUKE
Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?
TGV 2.4. 53
TGV-VALENTINE
Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman
TGV 2.4. 54 To be of worth, and worthy estimation,
TGV 2.4. 55 And not without desert so well reputed.
TGV 2.4. 56A
TGV-DUKE
Hath he not a son?
TGV 2.4. 57
TGV-VALENTINE
Ay, my good lord, a son that well deserves
TGV 2.4. 58 The honour and regard of such a father.
TGV 2.4. 59A
TGV-DUKE
You know him well?
TGV 2.4. 60
TGV-VALENTINE
I knew him as myself, for from our infancy
TGV 2.4. 61 We have conversed, and spent our hours together.
TGV 2.4. 62 And though myself have been an idle truant,
TGV 2.4. 63 Omitting the sweet benefit of time
TGV 2.4. 64 To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
TGV 2.4. 65 Yet hath Sir Proteus - for that's his name -
TGV 2.4. 66 Made use and fair advantage of his days:
TGV 2.4. 67 His years but young, but his experience old;
TGV 2.4. 68 His head unmellowed, but his judgement ripe.
TGV 2.4. 69 And in a word - for far behind his worth
TGV 2.4. 70 Comes all the praises that I now bestow -
TGV 2.4. 71 He is complete, in feature and in mind,
TGV 2.4. 72 With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
TGV 2.4. 73
TGV-DUKE
Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good
TGV 2.4. 74 He is as worthy for an empress' love
TGV 2.4. 75 As meet to be an emperor's counsellor.
TGV 2.4. 76 Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me
TGV 2.4. 77 With commendation from great potentates,
TGV 2.4. 78 And here he means to spend his time awhile.
TGV 2.4. 79 I think 'tis no unwelcome news to you.
TGV 2.4. 80
TGV-VALENTINE
Should I have wished a thing it had been he.
TGV 2.4. 81
TGV-DUKE
Welcome him then according to his worth.
TGV 2.4. 82 Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio;
TGV 2.4. 83 For Valentine, I need not cite him to it.
TGV 2.4. 84 I will send him hither to you presently. {Exit}
TGV 2.4. 85
TGV-VALENTINE
This is the gentleman I told your ladyship
TGV 2.4. 86 Had come along with me, but that his mistress
TGV 2.4. 87 Did hold his eyes locked in her crystal looks.
TGV 2.4. 88
TGV-SILVIA
Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
TGV 2.4. 89 Upon some other pawn for fealty.
TGV 2.4. 90
TGV-VALENTINE
Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still.
TGV 2.4. 91
TGV-SILVIA
Nay, then he should be blind, and being blind
TGV 2.4. 92 How could he see his way to seek out you?
TGV 2.4. 93
TGV-VALENTINE
Why, lady, love hath twenty pair of eyes.
TGV 2.4. 94
TGV-THURIO
They say that love hath not an eye at all.
TGV 2.4. 95
TGV-VALENTINE
To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself.
TGV 2.4. 96 Upon a homely object love can wink.
TGV 2.4. 97
TGV-SILVIA
Have done, have done. Here comes the gentleman. +
TGV 2.4. 97 {Enter Proteus}
TGV 2.4. 98
TGV-VALENTINE
Welcome, dear Proteus. Mistress, I beseech you
TGV 2.4. 99 Confirm his welcome with some special favour.
TGV 2.4. 100
TGV-SILVIA
His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,
TGV 2.4. 101 If this be he you oft have wished to hear from.
TGV 2.4. 102
TGV-VALENTINE
Mistress, it is. Sweet lady, entertain him
TGV 2.4. 103 To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship.
TGV 2.4. 104
TGV-SILVIA
Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
TGV 2.4. 105
TGV-PROTEUS
Not so, sweet lady, but too mean a servant
TGV 2.4. 106 To have a look of such a worthy mistress.
TGV 2.4. 107
TGV-VALENTINE
Leave off discourse of disability.
TGV 2.4. 108 Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.
TGV 2.4. 109
TGV-PROTEUS
My duty will I boast of, nothing else.
TGV 2.4. 110
TGV-SILVIA
And duty never yet did want his meed.
TGV 2.4. 111 Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.
TGV 2.4. 112
TGV-PROTEUS
I'll die on him that says so but yourself.
TGV 2.4. 113B
TGV-SILVIA
That you are welcome?
TGV-PROTEUS
That you are +
TGV 2.4. 113B worthless. {[Enter a Servant]}
TGV 2.4. 114
TGV-[SERVANT]
Madam, my lord your father would speak with +
TGV 2.4. 114 you.
TGV 2.4. 115B
TGV-SILVIA
I wait upon his pleasure. {[Exit the +
TGV 2.4. 115B Servant]} Come, Sir Thurio,
TGV 2.4. 116 Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome.
TGV 2.4. 117 I'll leave you to confer of home affairs.
TGV 2.4. 118 When you have done, we look to hear from you.
TGV 2.4. 119
TGV-PROTEUS
We'll both attend upon your ladyship. {Exeunt Silvia +
TGV 2.4. 119 and Thurio}
TGV 2.4. 120
TGV-VALENTINE
Now tell me, how do all from whence you came?
TGV 2.4. 121
TGV-PROTEUS
Your friends are well, and have them much commended.
TGV 2.4. 122B
TGV-VALENTINE
And how do yours?
TGV-PROTEUS
I left them all in health.
TGV 2.4. 123
TGV-VALENTINE
How does your lady, and how thrives your love?
TGV 2.4. 124
TGV-PROTEUS
My tales of love were wont to weary you.
TGV 2.4. 125 I know you joy not in a love-discourse.
TGV 2.4. 126
TGV-VALENTINE
Ay, Proteus, but that life is altered now.
TGV 2.4. 127 I have done penance for contemning love,
TGV 2.4. 128 Whose high imperious thoughts have punished me
TGV 2.4. 129 With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,
TGV 2.4. 130 With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs.
TGV 2.4. 131 For in revenge of my contempt of love
TGV 2.4. 132 Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes,
TGV 2.4. 133 And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow.
TGV 2.4. 134 O gentle Proteus, love's a mighty lord,
TGV 2.4. 135 And hath so humbled me as I confess
TGV 2.4. 136 There is no woe to his correction,
TGV 2.4. 137 Nor to his service no such joy on earth.
TGV 2.4. 138 Now, no discourse except it be of love.
TGV 2.4. 139 Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep
TGV 2.4. 140 Upon the very naked name of love.
TGV 2.4. 141
TGV-PROTEUS
Enough. I read your fortune in your eye.
TGV 2.4. 142 Was this the idol that you worship so?
TGV 2.4. 143
TGV-VALENTINE
Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint?
TGV 2.4. 144
TGV-PROTEUS
No, but she is an earthly paragon.
TGV 2.4. 145B
TGV-VALENTINE
Call her divine.
TGV-PROTEUS
I will not flatter her.
TGV 2.4. 146
TGV-VALENTINE
O flatter me; for love delights in praises.
TGV 2.4. 147
TGV-PROTEUS
When I was sick you gave me bitter pills,
TGV 2.4. 148 And I must minister the like to you.
TGV 2.4. 149
TGV-VALENTINE
Then speak the truth by her; if not divine,
TGV 2.4. 150 Yet let her be a principality,
TGV 2.4. 151 Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
TGV 2.4. 152B
TGV-PROTEUS
Except my mistress.
TGV-VALENTINE
Sweet, except not any,
TGV 2.4. 153 Except thou wilt except against my love.
TGV 2.4. 154
TGV-PROTEUS
Have I not reason to prefer mine own?
TGV 2.4. 155
TGV-VALENTINE
And I will help thee to prefer her, too.
TGV 2.4. 156 She shall be dignified with this high honour,
TGV 2.4. 157 To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth
TGV 2.4. 158 Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss
TGV 2.4. 159 And, of so great a favour growing proud,
TGV 2.4. 160 Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower,
TGV 2.4. 161 And make rough winter everlastingly.
TGV 2.4. 162
TGV-PROTEUS
Why, Valentine, what braggartism is this?
TGV 2.4. 163
TGV-VALENTINE
Pardon me, Proteus, all I can is nothing
TGV 2.4. 164 To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing.
TGV 2.4. 165B She is alone.
TGV-PROTEUS
Then let her alone.
TGV 2.4. 166
TGV-VALENTINE
Not for the world. Why man, she is mine own,
TGV 2.4. 167 And I as rich in having such a jewel
TGV 2.4. 168 As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
TGV 2.4. 169 The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
TGV 2.4. 170 Forgive me that I do not dream on thee
TGV 2.4. 171 Because thou seest me dote upon my love.
TGV 2.4. 172 My foolish rival, that her father likes
TGV 2.4. 173 Only for his possessions are so huge,
TGV 2.4. 174 Is gone with her along, and I must after;
TGV 2.4. 175 For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.
TGV 2.4. 176A
TGV-PROTEUS
But she loves you?
TGV 2.4. 177
TGV-VALENTINE
Ay, and we are betrothed. Nay more, our marriage hour,
TGV 2.4. 178 With all the cunning manner of our flight,
TGV 2.4. 179 Determined of: how I must climb her window,
TGV 2.4. 180 The ladder made of cords, and all the means
TGV 2.4. 181 Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness.
TGV 2.4. 182 Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber
TGV 2.4. 183 In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.
TGV 2.4. 184
TGV-PROTEUS
Go on before. I shall enquire you forth.
TGV 2.4. 185 I must unto the road, to disembark
TGV 2.4. 186 Some necessaries that I needs must use,
TGV 2.4. 187 And then I'll presently attend you.
TGV 2.4. 188A
TGV-VALENTINE
Will you make haste?
TGV 2.4. 189A
TGV-PROTEUS
I will. {Exit Valentine}
TGV 2.4. 190 Even as one heat another heat expels,
TGV 2.4. 191 Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
TGV 2.4. 192 So the remembrance of my former love
TGV 2.4. 193 Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
TGV 2.4. 194 Is it mine eye, or Valentine's praise,
TGV 2.4. 195 Her true perfection, or my false transgression
TGV 2.4. 196 That makes me, reasonless, to reason thus?
TGV 2.4. 197 She is fair, and so is Julia that I love -
TGV 2.4. 198 That I did love, for now my love is thawed,
TGV 2.4. 199 Which like a waxen image 'gainst a fire
TGV 2.4. 200 Bears no impression of the thing it was.
TGV 2.4. 201 Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,
TGV 2.4. 202 And that I love him not as I was wont.
TGV 2.4. 203 O, but I love his lady too-too much,
TGV 2.4. 204 And that's the reason I love him so little.
TGV 2.4. 205 How shall I dote on her with more advice,
TGV 2.4. 206 That thus without advice begin to love her?
TGV 2.4. 207 'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
TGV 2.4. 208 And that hath dazzled my reason's light.
TGV 2.4. 209 But when I look on her perfections
TGV 2.4. 210 There is no reason but I shall be blind.
TGV 2.4. 211 If I can check my erring love I will,
TGV 2.4. 212 If not, to compass her I'll use my skill. {Exit}
TGV 2.4. 0 {Enter Speed, and Lance with his dog Crab}
TGV 2.5. 1
TGV-SPEED
Lance, by mine honesty, welcome to Milan.
TGV 2.5. 2
TGV-LANCE
Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not
TGV 2.5. 3 welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never
TGV 2.5. 4 undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a place
TGV 2.5. 5 till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say
TGV 2.5. 6 `Welcome'.
TGV 2.5. 7
TGV-SPEED
Come on, you madcap. I'll to the alehouse with
TGV 2.5. 8 you presently, where, for one shot of five pence, thou
TGV 2.5. 9 shalt have five thousand welcomes. But sirrah, how
TGV 2.5. 10 did thy master part with Madam Julia?
TGV 2.5. 11
TGV-LANCE
Marry, after they closed in earnest they parted
TGV 2.5. 12 very fairly in jest.
TGV 2.5. 13
TGV-SPEED
But shall she marry him?
TGV 2.5. 14
TGV-LANCE
No.
TGV 2.5. 15
TGV-SPEED
How then, shall he marry her?
TGV 2.5. 16
TGV-LANCE
No, neither.
TGV 2.5. 17
TGV-SPEED
What, are they broken?
TGV 2.5. 18
TGV-LANCE
No, they are both as whole as a fish.
TGV 2.5. 19
TGV-SPEED
Why then, how stands the matter with them?
TGV 2.5. 20
TGV-LANCE
Marry, thus: when it stands well with him it
TGV 2.5. 21 stands well with her.
TGV 2.5. 22
TGV-SPEED
What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.
TGV 2.5. 23
TGV-LANCE
What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My
TGV 2.5. 24 staff understands me.
TGV 2.5. 25
TGV-SPEED
What thou sayst?
TGV 2.5. 26
TGV-LANCE
Ay, and what I do too. Look thee, I'll but lean,
TGV 2.5. 27 and my staff under-stands me.
TGV 2.5. 28
TGV-SPEED
It stands under thee indeed.
TGV 2.5. 29
TGV-LANCE
Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.
TGV 2.5. 30
TGV-SPEED
But tell me true, will 't be a match?
TGV 2.5. 31
TGV-LANCE
Ask my dog. If he say `Ay', it will. If he say `No',
TGV 2.5. 32 it will. If he shake his tail and say nothing, it will.
TGV 2.5. 33
TGV-SPEED
The conclusion is, then, that it will.
TGV 2.5. 34
TGV-LANCE
Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but
TGV 2.5. 35 by a parable.
TGV 2.5. 36
TGV-SPEED
'Tis well that I get it so. But Lance, how sayst thou
TGV 2.5. 37 that my master is become a notable lover?
TGV 2.5. 38
TGV-LANCE
I never knew him otherwise.
TGV 2.5. 39
TGV-SPEED
Than how?
TGV 2.5. 40
TGV-LANCE
A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
TGV 2.5. 41
TGV-SPEED
Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistak'st me.
TGV 2.5. 42
TGV-LANCE
Why, fool, I meant not thee, I meant thy master.
TGV 2.5. 43
TGV-SPEED
I tell thee my master is become a hot lover.
TGV 2.5. 44
TGV-LANCE
Why, I tell thee I care not, though he burn himself
TGV 2.5. 45 in love. If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse. If not,
TGV 2.5. 46 thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the name
TGV 2.5. 47 of a Christian.
TGV 2.5. 48
TGV-SPEED
Why?
TGV 2.5. 49
TGV-LANCE
Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as
TGV 2.5. 50 to go to the ale with a Christian. Wilt thou go?
TGV 2.5. 51
TGV-SPEED
At thy service. {Exeunt}
TGV 2.5. 0 {Enter Proteus}
TGV 2.6. 1
TGV-PROTEUS
To leave my Julia shall I be forsworn;
TGV 2.6. 2 To love fair Silvia shall I be forsworn;
TGV 2.6. 3 To wrong my friend I shall be much forsworn.
TGV 2.6. 4 And e'en that power which gave me first my oath
TGV 2.6. 5 Provokes me to this threefold perjury.
TGV 2.6. 6 Love bade me swear, and love bids me forswear.
TGV 2.6. 7 O sweet-suggesting love, if thou hast sinned
TGV 2.6. 8 Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it.
TGV 2.6. 9 At first I did adore a twinkling star,
TGV 2.6. 10 But now I worship a celestial sun.
TGV 2.6. 11 Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
TGV 2.6. 12 And he wants wit that wants resolved will
TGV 2.6. 13 To learn his wit t' exchange the bad for better.
TGV 2.6. 14 Fie, fie, unreverent tongue, to call her bad
TGV 2.6. 15 Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred
TGV 2.6. 16 With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.
TGV 2.6. 17 I cannot leave to love, and yet I do.
TGV 2.6. 18 But there I leave to love where I should love.
TGV 2.6. 19 Julia I lose, and Valentine I lose.
TGV 2.6. 20 If I keep them I needs must lose myself.
TGV 2.6. 21 If I lose them, thus find I by their loss
TGV 2.6. 22 For Valentine, myself, for Julia, Silvia.
TGV 2.6. 23 I to myself am dearer than a friend,
TGV 2.6. 24 For love is still most precious in itself,
TGV 2.6. 25 And Silvia - witness heaven that made her fair -
TGV 2.6. 26 Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope.
TGV 2.6. 27 I will forget that Julia is alive,
TGV 2.6. 28 Rememb'ring that my love to her is dead,
TGV 2.6. 29 And Valentine I'll hold an enemy,
TGV 2.6. 30 Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend.
TGV 2.6. 31 I cannot now prove constant to myself
TGV 2.6. 32 Without some treachery used to Valentine.
TGV 2.6. 33 This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
TGV 2.6. 34 To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window,
TGV 2.6. 35 Myself in counsel his competitor.
TGV 2.6. 36 Now presently I'll give her father notice
TGV 2.6. 37 Of their disguising and pretended flight,
TGV 2.6. 38 Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine;
TGV 2.6. 39 For Thurio he intends shall wed his daughter.
TGV 2.6. 40 But Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross
TGV 2.6. 41 By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding.
TGV 2.6. 42 Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
TGV 2.6. 43 As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift. {Exit}
TGV 2.6. 0 {Enter Julia and Lucetta}
TGV 2.7. 1
TGV-JULIA
Counsel, Lucetta. Gentle girl, assist me,
TGV 2.7. 2 And e'en in kind love I do conjure thee,
TGV 2.7. 3 Who art the table wherein all my thoughts
TGV 2.7. 4 Are visibly charactered and engraved,
TGV 2.7. 5 To lesson me, and tell me some good mean
TGV 2.7. 6 How with my honour I may undertake
TGV 2.7. 7 A journey to my loving Proteus.
TGV 2.7. 8
TGV-LUCETTA
Alas, the way is wearisome and long.
TGV 2.7. 9
TGV-JULIA
A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
TGV 2.7. 10 To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
TGV 2.7. 11 Much less shall she that hath love's wings to fly,
TGV 2.7. 12 And when the flight is made to one so dear,
TGV 2.7. 13 Of such divine perfection as Sir Proteus.
TGV 2.7. 14
TGV-LUCETTA
Better forbear till Proteus make return.
TGV 2.7. 15
TGV-JULIA
O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food?
TGV 2.7. 16 Pity the dearth that I have pined in
TGV 2.7. 17 By longing for that food so long a time.
TGV 2.7. 18 Didst thou but know the inly touch of love
TGV 2.7. 19 Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
TGV 2.7. 20 As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
TGV 2.7. 21
TGV-LUCETTA
I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
TGV 2.7. 22 But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
TGV 2.7. 23 Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
TGV 2.7. 24
TGV-JULIA
The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns.
TGV 2.7. 25 The current that with gentle murmur glides,
TGV 2.7. 26 Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage.
TGV 2.7. 27 But when his fair course is not hindered
TGV 2.7. 28 He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones,
TGV 2.7. 29 Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
TGV 2.7. 30 He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.
TGV 2.7. 31 And so by many winding nooks he strays
TGV 2.7. 32 With willing sport to the wild ocean.
TGV 2.7. 33 Then let me go, and hinder not my course.
TGV 2.7. 34 I'll be as patient as a gentle stream,
TGV 2.7. 35 And make a pastime of each weary step
TGV 2.7. 36 Till the last step have brought me to my love.
TGV 2.7. 37 And there I'll rest as after much turmoil
TGV 2.7. 38 A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
TGV 2.7. 39
TGV-LUCETTA
But in what habit will you go along?
TGV 2.7. 40
TGV-JULIA
Not like a woman, for I would prevent
TGV 2.7. 41 The loose encounters of lascivious men.
TGV 2.7. 42 Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds
TGV 2.7. 43 As may beseem some well-reputed page.
TGV 2.7. 44
TGV-LUCETTA
Why then, your ladyship must cut your hair.
TGV 2.7. 45
TGV-JULIA
No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings
TGV 2.7. 46 With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots.
TGV 2.7. 47 To be fantastic may become a youth
TGV 2.7. 48 Of greater time than I shall show to be.
TGV 2.7. 49
TGV-LUCETTA
What fashion, madam, shall I make your breeches?
TGV 2.7. 50
TGV-JULIA
That fits as well as `Tell me, good my lord,
TGV 2.7. 51 What compass will you wear your farthingale?'
TGV 2.7. 52 Why, e'en what fashion thou best likes, Lucetta.
TGV 2.7. 53
TGV-LUCETTA
You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.
TGV 2.7. 54
TGV-JULIA
Out, out, Lucetta. That will be ill-favoured.
TGV 2.7. 55
TGV-LUCETTA
A round hose, madam, now's not worth a pin
TGV 2.7. 56 Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on.
TGV 2.7. 57
TGV-JULIA
Lucetta, as thou lov'st me let me have
TGV 2.7. 58 What thou think'st meet and is most mannerly.
TGV 2.7. 59 But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
TGV 2.7. 60 For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
TGV 2.7. 61 I fear me it will make me scandalized.
TGV 2.7. 62
TGV-LUCETTA
If you think so, then stay at home, and go not.
TGV 2.7. 63A
TGV-JULIA
Nay, that I will not.
TGV 2.7. 64
TGV-LUCETTA
Then never dream on infamy, but go.
TGV 2.7. 65 If Proteus like your journey when you come,
TGV 2.7. 66 No matter who's displeased when you are gone.
TGV 2.7. 67 I fear me he will scarce be pleased withal.
TGV 2.7. 68
TGV-JULIA
That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear.
TGV 2.7. 69 A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears,
TGV 2.7. 70 And instances of infinite of love
TGV 2.7. 71 Warrant me welcome to my Proteus.
TGV 2.7. 72
TGV-LUCETTA
All these are servants to deceitful men.
TGV 2.7. 73
TGV-JULIA
Base men, that use them to so base effect.
TGV 2.7. 74 But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth.
TGV 2.7. 75 His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
TGV 2.7. 76 His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
TGV 2.7. 77 His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
TGV 2.7. 78 His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
TGV 2.7. 79
TGV-LUCETTA
Pray heaven he prove so when you come to him.
TGV 2.7. 80
TGV-JULIA
Now, as thou lov'st me, do him not that wrong
TGV 2.7. 81 To bear a hard opinion of his truth.
TGV 2.7. 82 Only deserve my love by loving him,
TGV 2.7. 83 And presently go with me to my chamber
TGV 2.7. 84 To take a note of what I stand in need of
TGV 2.7. 85 To furnish me upon my longing journey.
TGV 2.7. 86 All that is mine I leave at thy dispose,
TGV 2.7. 87 My goods, my lands, my reputation;
TGV 2.7. 88 Only in lieu thereof dispatch me hence.
TGV 2.7. 89 Come, answer not, but to it presently.
TGV 2.7. 90 I am impatient of my tarriance. {Exeunt}
TGV 2.7. 0 {Enter Duke, Thurio, and Proteus}
TGV 3.1. 1
TGV-DUKE
Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile.
TGV 3.1. 2 We have some secrets to confer about. {Exit Thurio}
TGV 3.1. 3 Now tell me, Proteus, what's your will with me?
TGV 3.1. 4
TGV-PROTEUS
My gracious lord, that which I would discover
TGV 3.1. 5 The law of friendship bids me to conceal.
TGV 3.1. 6 But when I call to mind your gracious favours
TGV 3.1. 7 Done to me, undeserving as I am,
TGV 3.1. 8 My duty pricks me on to utter that
TGV 3.1. 9 Which else no worldly good should draw from me.
TGV 3.1. 10 Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine my friend
TGV 3.1. 11 This night intends to steal away your daughter.
TGV 3.1. 12 Myself am one made privy to the plot.
TGV 3.1. 13 I know you have determined to bestow her
TGV 3.1. 14 On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates,
TGV 3.1. 15 And should she thus be stol'n away from you
TGV 3.1. 16 It would be much vexation to your age.
TGV 3.1. 17 Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose
TGV 3.1. 18 To cross my friend in his intended drift
TGV 3.1. 19 Than by concealing it heap on your head
TGV 3.1. 20 A pack of sorrows which would press you down,
TGV 3.1. 21 Being unprevented, to your timeless grave.
TGV 3.1. 22
TGV-DUKE
Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care,
TGV 3.1. 23 Which to requite command me while I live.
TGV 3.1. 24 This love of theirs myself have often seen,
TGV 3.1. 25 Haply, when they have judged me fast asleep,
TGV 3.1. 26 And oftentimes have purposed to forbid
TGV 3.1. 27 Sir Valentine her company and my court.
TGV 3.1. 28 But fearing lest my jealous aim might err,
TGV 3.1. 29 And so unworthily disgrace the man -
TGV 3.1. 30 A rashness that I ever yet have shunned -
TGV 3.1. 31 I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find
TGV 3.1. 32 That which thyself hast now disclosed to me.
TGV 3.1. 33 And that thou mayst perceive my fear of this,
TGV 3.1. 34 Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested,
TGV 3.1. 35 I nightly lodge her in an upper tower,
TGV 3.1. 36 The key whereof myself have ever kept;
TGV 3.1. 37 And thence she cannot be conveyed away.
TGV 3.1. 38
TGV-PROTEUS
Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean
TGV 3.1. 39 How he her chamber-window will ascend,
TGV 3.1. 40 And with a corded ladder fetch her down,
TGV 3.1. 41 For which the youthful lover now is gone,
TGV 3.1. 42 And this way comes he with it presently,
TGV 3.1. 43 Where, if it please you, you may intercept him.
TGV 3.1. 44 But, good my lord, do it so cunningly
TGV 3.1. 45 That my discovery be not aimed at;
TGV 3.1. 46 For love of you, not hate unto my friend,
TGV 3.1. 47 Hath made me publisher of this pretence.
TGV 3.1. 48
TGV-DUKE
Upon mine honour, he shall never know
TGV 3.1. 49 That I had any light from thee of this.
TGV 3.1. 50
TGV-PROTEUS
Adieu, my lord. Sir Valentine is coming. {Exit}
TGV 3.1. 51 {Enter Valentine}
TGV-DUKE
Sir Valentine, whither away +
TGV 3.1. 51 so fast?
TGV 3.1. 52
TGV-VALENTINE
Please it your grace, there is a messenger
TGV 3.1. 53 That stays to bear my letters to my friends,
TGV 3.1. 54 And I am going to deliver them.
TGV 3.1. 55A
TGV-DUKE
Be they of much import?
TGV 3.1. 56
TGV-VALENTINE
The tenor of them doth but signify
TGV 3.1. 57 My health and happy being at your court.
TGV 3.1. 58
TGV-DUKE
Nay then, no matter. Stay with me awhile.
TGV 3.1. 59 I am to break with thee of some affairs
TGV 3.1. 60 That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.
TGV 3.1. 61 'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought
TGV 3.1. 62 To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter.
TGV 3.1. 63
TGV-VALENTINE
I know it well, my lord; and sure the match
TGV 3.1. 64 Were rich and honourable. Besides, the gentleman
TGV 3.1. 65 Is full of virtue, bounty, worth, and qualities
TGV 3.1. 66 Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter.
TGV 3.1. 67 Cannot your grace win her to fancy him?
TGV 3.1. 68
TGV-DUKE
No, trust me. She is peevish, sullen, froward,
TGV 3.1. 69 Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty,
TGV 3.1. 70 Neither regarding that she is my child
TGV 3.1. 71 Nor fearing me as if I were her father.
TGV 3.1. 72 And may I say to thee, this pride of hers
TGV 3.1. 73 Upon advice hath drawn my love from her,
TGV 3.1. 74 And where I thought the remnant of mine age
TGV 3.1. 75 Should have been cherished by her child-like duty,
TGV 3.1. 76 I now am full resolved to take a wife,
TGV 3.1. 77 And turn her out to who will take her in.
TGV 3.1. 78 Then let her beauty be her wedding dower,
TGV 3.1. 79 For me and my possessions she esteems not.
TGV 3.1. 80
TGV-VALENTINE
What would your grace have me to do in this?
TGV 3.1. 81
TGV-DUKE
There is a lady of Verona here
TGV 3.1. 82 Whom I affect, but she is nice, and coy,
TGV 3.1. 83 And naught esteems my aged eloquence.
TGV 3.1. 84 Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor -
TGV 3.1. 85 For long agone I have forgot to court,
TGV 3.1. 86 Besides, the fashion of the time is changed -
TGV 3.1. 87 How and which way I may bestow myself
TGV 3.1. 88 To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.
TGV 3.1. 89
TGV-VALENTINE
Win her with gifts if she respect not words.
TGV 3.1. 90 Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
TGV 3.1. 91 More than quick words do move a woman's mind.
TGV 3.1. 92
TGV-DUKE
But she did scorn a present that I sent her.
TGV 3.1. 93
TGV-VALENTINE
A woman sometime scorns what best contents her.
TGV 3.1. 94 Send her another. Never give her o'er,
TGV 3.1. 95 For scorn at first makes after-love the more.
TGV 3.1. 96 If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you,
TGV 3.1. 97 But rather to beget more love in you.
TGV 3.1. 98 If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone,
TGV 3.1. 99 Forwhy the fools are mad if left alone.
TGV 3.1. 100 Take no repulse, whatever she doth say:
TGV 3.1. 101 For `Get you gone' she doth not mean `Away'.
TGV 3.1. 102 Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
TGV 3.1. 103 Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.
TGV 3.1. 104 That man that hath a tongue I say is no man
TGV 3.1. 105 If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
TGV 3.1. 106
TGV-DUKE
But she I mean is promised by her friends
TGV 3.1. 107 Unto a youthful gentleman of worth,
TGV 3.1. 108 And kept severely from resort of men,
TGV 3.1. 109 That no man hath access by day to her.
TGV 3.1. 110
TGV-VALENTINE
Why then I would resort to her by night.
TGV 3.1. 111
TGV-DUKE
Ay, but the doors be locked and keys kept safe,
TGV 3.1. 112 That no man hath recourse to her by night.
TGV 3.1. 113
TGV-VALENTINE
What lets but one may enter at her window?
TGV 3.1. 114
TGV-DUKE
Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground,
TGV 3.1. 115 And built so shelving that one cannot climb it
TGV 3.1. 116 Without apparent hazard of his life.
TGV 3.1. 117
TGV-VALENTINE
Why then, a ladder quaintly made of cords
TGV 3.1. 118 To cast up, with a pair of anchoring hooks,
TGV 3.1. 119 Would serve to scale another Hero's tower,
TGV 3.1. 120 So bold Leander would adventure it.
TGV 3.1. 121
TGV-DUKE
Now as thou art a gentleman of blood,
TGV 3.1. 122 Advise me where I may have such a ladder.
TGV 3.1. 123
TGV-VALENTINE
When would you use it? Pray sir, tell me that.
TGV 3.1. 124
TGV-DUKE
This very night; for love is like a child
TGV 3.1. 125 That longs for everything that he can come by.
TGV 3.1. 126
TGV-VALENTINE
By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder.
TGV 3.1. 127
TGV-DUKE
But hark thee: I will go to her alone.
TGV 3.1. 128 How shall I best convey the ladder thither?
TGV 3.1. 129
TGV-VALENTINE
It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it
TGV 3.1. 130 Under a cloak that is of any length.
TGV 3.1. 131
TGV-DUKE
A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn?
TGV 3.1. 132B
TGV-VALENTINE
Ay, my good lord.
TGV-DUKE
Then let me see thy cloak,
TGV 3.1. 133 I'll get me one of such another length.
TGV 3.1. 134
TGV-VALENTINE
Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord.
TGV 3.1. 135
TGV-DUKE
How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?
TGV 3.1. 136 I pray thee let me feel thy cloak upon me. {He lifts Valentine's +
TGV 3.1. 136 cloak and finds a letter and a rope-ladder}
TGV 3.1. 137 What letter is this same? What's here? `To Silvia'?
TGV 3.1. 138 And here an engine fit for my proceeding.
TGV 3.1. 139 I'll be so bold to break the seal for once.
TGV 3.1. 140 {(Reads)} `My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia +
TGV 3.1. 140 nightly,
TGV 3.1. 141 And slaves they are to me, that send them flying.
TGV 3.1. 142 O, could their master come and go as lightly,
TGV 3.1. 143 Himself would lodge where, senseless, they are lying.
TGV 3.1. 144 My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them,
TGV 3.1. 145 While I, their king, that thither them importune,
TGV 3.1. 146 Do curse the grace that with such grace hath blessed them,
TGV 3.1. 147 Because myself do want my servants' fortune.
TGV 3.1. 148 I curse myself for they are sent by me,
TGV 3.1. 149 That they should harbour where their lord should be.'
TGV 3.1. 150 What's here?
TGV 3.1. 151 `Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee'?
TGV 3.1. 152 'Tis so, and here's the ladder for the purpose.
TGV 3.1. 153 Why, Phae|ton, for thou art Merops' son
TGV 3.1. 154 Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car,
TGV 3.1. 155 And with thy daring folly burn the world?
TGV 3.1. 156 Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?
TGV 3.1. 157 Go, base intruder, over-weening slave,
TGV 3.1. 158 Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates,
TGV 3.1. 159 And think my patience, more than thy desert,
TGV 3.1. 160 Is privilege for thy departure hence.
TGV 3.1. 161 Thank me for this more than for all the favours
TGV 3.1. 162 Which, all too much, I have bestowed on thee.
TGV 3.1. 163 But if thou linger in my territories
TGV 3.1. 164 Longer than swiftest expedition
TGV 3.1. 165 Will give thee time to leave our royal court,
TGV 3.1. 166 By heaven, my wrath shall far exceed the love
TGV 3.1. 167 I ever bore my daughter or thyself.
TGV 3.1. 168 Be gone. I will not hear thy vain excuse,
TGV 3.1. 169 But as thou lov'st thy life, make speed from hence. {Exit}
TGV 3.1. 170
TGV-VALENTINE
And why not death, rather than living torment?
TGV 3.1. 171 To die is to be banished from myself,
TGV 3.1. 172 And Silvia is my self. Banished from her
TGV 3.1. 173 Is self from self, a deadly banishment.
TGV 3.1. 174 What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
TGV 3.1. 175 What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by -
TGV 3.1. 176 Unless it be to think that she is by,
TGV 3.1. 177 And feed upon the shadow of perfection.
TGV 3.1. 178 Except I be by Silvia in the night
TGV 3.1. 179 There is no music in the nightingale.
TGV 3.1. 180 Unless I look on Silvia in the day
TGV 3.1. 181 There is no day for me to look upon.
TGV 3.1. 182 She is my essence, and I leave to be
TGV 3.1. 183 If I be not by her fair influence
TGV 3.1. 184 Fostered, illumined, cherished, kept alive.
TGV 3.1. 185 I fly not death to fly his deadly doom.
TGV 3.1. 186 Tarry I here I but attend on death,
TGV 3.1. 187 But fly I hence, I fly away from life. {Enter Proteus and Lance}
TGV 3.1. 188
TGV-PROTEUS
Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.
TGV 3.1. 189
TGV-LANCE
So-ho, so-ho!
TGV 3.1. 190
TGV-PROTEUS
What seest thou?
TGV 3.1. 191
TGV-LANCE
Him we go to find. There's not a hair on 's head
TGV 3.1. 192 but 'tis a Valentine.
TGV 3.1. 193
TGV-PROTEUS
Valentine?
TGV 3.1. 194
TGV-VALENTINE
No.
TGV 3.1. 195
TGV-PROTEUS
Who then - his spirit?
TGV 3.1. 196
TGV-VALENTINE
Neither.
TGV 3.1. 197
TGV-PROTEUS
What then?
TGV 3.1. 198
TGV-VALENTINE
Nothing.
TGV 3.1. 199
TGV-LANCE
Can nothing speak? {He threatens Valentine}
TGV 3.1. 200 Master, shall I strike?
TGV 3.1. 201
TGV-PROTEUS
Who wouldst thou strike?
TGV 3.1. 202
TGV-LANCE
Nothing.
TGV 3.1. 203
TGV-PROTEUS
Villain, forbear.
TGV 3.1. 204
TGV-LANCE
Why, sir, I'll strike nothing. I pray you -
TGV 3.1. 205
TGV-PROTEUS
Sirrah, I say forbear. Friend Valentine, a word.
TGV 3.1. 206
TGV-VALENTINE
My ears are stopped, and cannot hear good news,
TGV 3.1. 207 So much of bad already hath possessed them.
TGV 3.1. 208
TGV-PROTEUS
Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,
TGV 3.1. 209 For they are harsh, untuneable, and bad.
TGV 3.1. 210B
TGV-VALENTINE
Is Silvia dead?
TGV-PROTEUS
No, Valentine.
TGV 3.1. 211
TGV-VALENTINE
No Valentine indeed, for sacred Silvia.
TGV 3.1. 212B Hath she forsworn me?
TGV-PROTEUS
No, Valentine.
TGV 3.1. 213
TGV-VALENTINE
No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me.
TGV 3.1. 214 What is your news?
TGV 3.1. 215
TGV-LANCE
Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished.
TGV 3.1. 216
TGV-PROTEUS
That thou art banished. O that's the news:
TGV 3.1. 217 From hence, from Silvia, and from me thy friend.
TGV 3.1. 218
TGV-VALENTINE
O, I have fed upon this woe already,
TGV 3.1. 219 And now excess of it will make me surfeit.
TGV 3.1. 220 Doth Silvia know that I am banished?
TGV 3.1. 221
TGV-PROTEUS
Ay, ay; and she hath offered to the doom,
TGV 3.1. 222 Which unreversed stands in effectual force,
TGV 3.1. 223 A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears.
TGV 3.1. 224 Those at her father's churlish feet she tendered,
TGV 3.1. 225 With them, upon her knees, her humble self,
TGV 3.1. 226 Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them
TGV 3.1. 227 As if but now they waxed pale, for woe.
TGV 3.1. 228 But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
TGV 3.1. 229 Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears
TGV 3.1. 230 Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire,
TGV 3.1. 231 But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die.
TGV 3.1. 232 Besides, her intercession chafed him so
TGV 3.1. 233 When she for thy repeal was suppliant
TGV 3.1. 234 That to close prison he commanded her,
TGV 3.1. 235 With many bitter threats of biding there.
TGV 3.1. 236
TGV-VALENTINE
No more, unless the next word that thou speak'st
TGV 3.1. 237 Have some malignant power upon my life.
TGV 3.1. 238 If so I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
TGV 3.1. 239 As ending anthem of my endless dolour.
TGV 3.1. 240
TGV-PROTEUS
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
TGV 3.1. 241 And study help for that which thou lament'st.
TGV 3.1. 242 Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
TGV 3.1. 243 Here if thou stay thou canst not see thy love.
TGV 3.1. 244 Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.
TGV 3.1. 245 Hope is a lover's staff. Walk hence with that,
TGV 3.1. 246 And manage it against despairing thoughts.
TGV 3.1. 247 Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence,
TGV 3.1. 248 Which, being writ to me, shall be delivered
TGV 3.1. 249 Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.
TGV 3.1. 250 The time now serves not to expostulate.
TGV 3.1. 251 Come, I'll convey thee through the city gate,
TGV 3.1. 252 And ere I part with thee confer at large
TGV 3.1. 253 Of all that may concern thy love affairs.
TGV 3.1. 254 As thou lov'st Silvia, though not for thyself,
TGV 3.1. 255 Regard thy danger, and along with me.
TGV 3.1. 256
TGV-VALENTINE
I pray thee, Lance, an if thou seest my boy
TGV 3.1. 257 Bid him make haste, and meet me at the North Gate.
TGV 3.1. 258
TGV-PROTEUS
Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine.
TGV 3.1. 259
TGV-VALENTINE
O my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine. {Exeunt +
TGV 3.1. 259 Proteus and Valentine}
TGV 3.1. 260
TGV-LANCE
I am but a fool, look you, and yet I have the wit
TGV 3.1. 261 to think my master is a kind of a knave. But that's all
TGV 3.1. 262 one, if he be but one knave. He lives not now that
TGV 3.1. 263 knows me to be in love, yet I am in love, but a team
TGV 3.1. 264 of horse shall not pluck that from me, nor who 'tis I
TGV 3.1. 265 love; and yet 'tis a woman, but what woman I will
TGV 3.1. 266 not tell myself; and yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet 'tis not a
TGV 3.1. 267 maid, for she hath had gossips; yet 'tis a maid, for she
TGV 3.1. 268 is her master's maid, and serves for wages. She hath
TGV 3.1. 269 more qualities than a water-spaniel, which is much in
TGV 3.1. 270 a bare Christian. {He takes out a paper}
TGV 3.1. 271 Here is the catalogue of her conditions. `{Imprimis}, she
TGV 3.1. 272 can fetch and carry' - why, a horse can do no more.
TGV 3.1. 273 Nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only carry, therefore is
TGV 3.1. 274 she better than a jade. `{Item}, she can milk.' Look you,
TGV 3.1. 275 a sweet virtue in a maid with clean hands. {Enter Speed}
TGV 3.1. 276
TGV-SPEED
How now, Signor Lance, what news with your
TGV 3.1. 277 mastership?
TGV 3.1. 278
TGV-LANCE
With my master's ship? Why, it is at sea.
TGV 3.1. 279
TGV-SPEED
Well, your old vice still, mistake the word. What
TGV 3.1. 280 news then in your paper?
TGV 3.1. 281
TGV-LANCE
The blackest news that ever thou heard'st.
TGV 3.1. 282
TGV-SPEED
Why, man, how `black'?
TGV 3.1. 283
TGV-LANCE
Why, as black as ink.
TGV 3.1. 284
TGV-SPEED
Let me read them.
TGV 3.1. 285
TGV-LANCE
Fie on thee, jolt-head, thou canst not read.
TGV 3.1. 286
TGV-SPEED
Thou liest. I can.
TGV 3.1. 287
TGV-LANCE
I will try thee. Tell me this: who begot thee?
TGV 3.1. 288
TGV-SPEED
Marry, the son of my grandfather.
TGV 3.1. 289
TGV-LANCE
O illiterate loiterer, it was the son of thy grandmother.
TGV 3.1. 290 This proves that thou canst not read.
TGV 3.1. 291
TGV-SPEED
Come, fool, come. Try me in thy paper.
TGV 3.1. 292
TGV-LANCE
{(giving Speed the paper)} There: and Saint +
TGV 3.1. 292 Nicholas
TGV 3.1. 293 be thy speed.
TGV 3.1. 294
TGV-SPEED
`{Imprimis}, she can milk.'
TGV 3.1. 295
TGV-LANCE
Ay, that she can.
TGV 3.1. 296
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she brews good ale.'
TGV 3.1. 297
TGV-LANCE
And thereof comes the proverb `Blessing of your
TGV 3.1. 298 heart, you brew good ale'.
TGV 3.1. 299
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she can sew.'
TGV 3.1. 300
TGV-LANCE
That's as much as to say `Can she so?'
TGV 3.1. 301
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she can knit.'
TGV 3.1. 302
TGV-LANCE
What need a man care for a stock with a wench
TGV 3.1. 303 when she can knit him a stock?
TGV 3.1. 304
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she can wash and scour.'
TGV 3.1. 305
TGV-LANCE
A special virtue, for then she need not be washed
TGV 3.1. 306 and scoured.
TGV 3.1. 307
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she can spin.'
TGV 3.1. 308
TGV-LANCE
Then may I set the world on wheels, when she
TGV 3.1. 309 can spin for her living.
TGV 3.1. 310
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she hath many nameless virtues.'
TGV 3.1. 311
TGV-LANCE
That's as much as to say `bastard virtues', that
TGV 3.1. 312 indeed know not their fathers, and therefore have no
TGV 3.1. 313 names.
TGV 3.1. 314
TGV-SPEED
Here follows her vices.
TGV 3.1. 315
TGV-LANCE
Close at the heels of her virtues.
TGV 3.1. 316
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she is not to be broken with fasting, in
TGV 3.1. 317 respect of her breath.'
TGV 3.1. 318
TGV-LANCE
Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast.
TGV 3.1. 319 Read on.
TGV 3.1. 320
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she hath a sweet mouth.'
TGV 3.1. 321
TGV-LANCE
That makes amends for her sour breath.
TGV 3.1. 322
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she doth talk in her sleep.'
TGV 3.1. 323
TGV-LANCE
It's no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.
TGV 3.1. 324
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she is slow in words.'
TGV 3.1. 325
TGV-LANCE
O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
TGV 3.1. 326 be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. I pray thee
TGV 3.1. 327 out with 't, and place it for her chief virtue.
TGV 3.1. 328
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she is proud.'
TGV 3.1. 329
TGV-LANCE
Out with that, too. It was Eve's legacy, and cannot
TGV 3.1. 330 be ta'en from her.
TGV 3.1. 331
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she hath no teeth.'
TGV 3.1. 332
TGV-LANCE
I care not for that, neither, because I love crusts.
TGV 3.1. 333
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she is curst.'
TGV 3.1. 334
TGV-LANCE
Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite.
TGV 3.1. 335
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she will often praise her liquor.'
TGV 3.1. 336
TGV-LANCE
If her liquor be good, she shall. If she will not, I
TGV 3.1. 337 will; for good things should be praised.
TGV 3.1. 338
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she is too liberal.'
TGV 3.1. 339
TGV-LANCE
Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down
TGV 3.1. 340 she is slow of. Of her purse she shall not, for that I'll
TGV 3.1. 341 keep shut. Now of another thing she may, and that
TGV 3.1. 342 cannot I help. Well, proceed.
TGV 3.1. 343
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she hath more hair than wit, and more faults
TGV 3.1. 344 than hairs, and more wealth than faults.'
TGV 3.1. 345
TGV-LANCE
Stop there. I'll have her. She was mine and not
TGV 3.1. 346 mine twice or thrice in that last article. Rehearse that
TGV 3.1. 347 once more.
TGV 3.1. 348
TGV-SPEED
`{Item}, she hath more hair than wit' -
TGV 3.1. 349
TGV-LANCE
`More hair than wit.' It may be. I'll prove it: the
TGV 3.1. 350 cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it is more
TGV 3.1. 351 than the salt. The hair that covers the wit is more than
TGV 3.1. 352 the wit, for the greater hides the less. What's next?
TGV 3.1. 353
TGV-SPEED
`And more faults than hairs' -
TGV 3.1. 354
TGV-LANCE
That's monstrous. O that that were out!
TGV 3.1. 355
TGV-SPEED
`And more wealth than faults.'
TGV 3.1. 356
TGV-LANCE
Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well,
TGV 3.1. 357 I'll have her, and if it be a match - as nothing is
TGV 3.1. 358 impossible -
TGV 3.1. 359
TGV-SPEED
What then?
TGV 3.1. 360
TGV-LANCE
Why then will I tell thee that thy master stays for
TGV 3.1. 361 thee at the North Gate.
TGV 3.1. 362
TGV-SPEED
For me?
TGV 3.1. 363
TGV-LANCE
For thee? Ay, who art thou? He hath stayed for
TGV 3.1. 364 a better man than thee.
TGV 3.1. 365
TGV-SPEED
And must I go to him?
TGV 3.1. 366
TGV-LANCE
Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so
TGV 3.1. 367 long that going will scarce serve the turn.
TGV 3.1. 368
TGV-SPEED
Why didst not tell me sooner? Pox of your love
TGV 3.1. 369 letters! {Exit}
TGV 3.1. 370
TGV-LANCE
Now will he be swinged for reading my letter. An
TGV 3.1. 371 unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into secrets.
TGV 3.1. 372 I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction. {Exit}
TGV 3.1. 0 {Enter the Duke and Thurio}
TGV 3.2. 1
TGV-DUKE
Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you
TGV 3.2. 2 Now Valentine is banished from her sight.
TGV 3.2. 3
TGV-THURIO
Since his exile she hath despised me most,
TGV 3.2. 4 Forsworn my company, and railed at me,
TGV 3.2. 5 That I am desperate of obtaining her.
TGV 3.2. 6
TGV-DUKE
This weak impress of love is as a figure
TGV 3.2. 7 Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat
TGV 3.2. 8 Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
TGV 3.2. 9 A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,
TGV 3.2. 10 And worthless Valentine shall be forgot. {Enter Proteus}
TGV 3.2. 11 How now, Sir Proteus, is your countryman,
TGV 3.2. 12 According to our proclamation, gone?
TGV 3.2. 13A
TGV-PROTEUS
Gone, my good lord.
TGV 3.2. 14
TGV-DUKE
My daughter takes his going grievously?
TGV 3.2. 15
TGV-PROTEUS
A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
TGV 3.2. 16
TGV-DUKE
So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
TGV 3.2. 17 Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee -
TGV 3.2. 18 For thou hast shown some sign of good desert -
TGV 3.2. 19 Makes me the better to confer with thee.
TGV 3.2. 20
TGV-PROTEUS
Longer than I prove loyal to your grace
TGV 3.2. 21 Let me not live to look upon your grace.
TGV 3.2. 22
TGV-DUKE
Thou know'st how willingly I would effect
TGV 3.2. 23 The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter?
TGV 3.2. 24A
TGV-PROTEUS
I do, my lord.
TGV 3.2. 25
TGV-DUKE
And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
TGV 3.2. 26 How she opposes her against my will?
TGV 3.2. 27
TGV-PROTEUS
She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
TGV 3.2. 28
TGV-DUKE
Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
TGV 3.2. 29 What might we do to make the girl forget
TGV 3.2. 30 The love of Valentine, and love Sir Thurio?
TGV 3.2. 31
TGV-PROTEUS
The best way is to slander Valentine
TGV 3.2. 32 With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
TGV 3.2. 33 Three things that women highly hold in hate.
TGV 3.2. 34
TGV-DUKE
Ay, but she'll think that it is spoke in hate.
TGV 3.2. 35
TGV-PROTEUS
Ay, if his enemy deliver it.
TGV 3.2. 36 Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
TGV 3.2. 37 By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
TGV 3.2. 38
TGV-DUKE
Then you must undertake to slander him.
TGV 3.2. 39
TGV-PROTEUS
And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do.
TGV 3.2. 40 'Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
TGV 3.2. 41 Especially against his very friend.
TGV 3.2. 42
TGV-DUKE
Where your good word cannot advantage him
TGV 3.2. 43 Your slander never can endamage him.
TGV 3.2. 44 Therefore the office is indifferent,
TGV 3.2. 45 Being entreated to it by your friend.
TGV 3.2. 46
TGV-PROTEUS
You have prevailed, my lord. If I can do it
TGV 3.2. 47 By aught that I can speak in his dispraise
TGV 3.2. 48 She shall not long continue love to him.
TGV 3.2. 49 But say this weed her love from Valentine,
TGV 3.2. 50 It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
TGV 3.2. 51
TGV-THURIO
Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
TGV 3.2. 52 Lest it should ravel and be good to none
TGV 3.2. 53 You must provide to bottom it on me;
TGV 3.2. 54 Which must be done by praising me as much
TGV 3.2. 55 As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
TGV 3.2. 56
TGV-DUKE
And Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind
TGV 3.2. 57 Because we know, on Valentine's report,
TGV 3.2. 58 You are already love's firm votary,
TGV 3.2. 59 And cannot soon revolt, and change your mind.
TGV 3.2. 60 Upon this warrant shall you have access
TGV 3.2. 61 Where you with Silvia may confer at large.
TGV 3.2. 62 For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
TGV 3.2. 63 And for your friend's sake will be glad of you;
TGV 3.2. 64 Where you may temper her, by your persuasion,
TGV 3.2. 65 To hate young Valentine and love my friend.
TGV 3.2. 66
TGV-PROTEUS
As much as I can do, I will effect.
TGV 3.2. 67 But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough.
TGV 3.2. 68 You must lay lime to tangle her desires
TGV 3.2. 69 By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
TGV 3.2. 70 Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
TGV 3.2. 71
TGV-DUKE
Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
TGV 3.2. 72
TGV-PROTEUS
Say that upon the altar of her beauty
TGV 3.2. 73 You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart.
TGV 3.2. 74 Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
TGV 3.2. 75 Moist it again; and frame some feeling line
TGV 3.2. 76 That may discover such integrity;
TGV 3.2. 77 For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,
TGV 3.2. 78 Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
TGV 3.2. 79 Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
TGV 3.2. 80 Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
TGV 3.2. 81 After your dire-lamenting elegies,
TGV 3.2. 82 Visit by night your lady's chamber-window
TGV 3.2. 83 With some sweet consort. To their instruments
TGV 3.2. 84 Tune a deploring dump. The night's dead silence
TGV 3.2. 85 Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.
TGV 3.2. 86 This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
TGV 3.2. 87
TGV-DUKE
This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
TGV 3.2. 88
TGV-THURIO
And thy advice this night I'll put in practice.
TGV 3.2. 89 Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
TGV 3.2. 90 Let us into the city presently
TGV 3.2. 91 To sort some gentlemen well skilled in music.
TGV 3.2. 92 I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
TGV 3.2. 93 To give the onset to thy good advice.
TGV 3.2. 94A
TGV-DUKE
About it, gentlemen.
TGV 3.2. 95
TGV-PROTEUS
We'll wait upon your grace till after supper,
TGV 3.2. 96 And afterward determine our proceedings.
TGV 3.2. 97
TGV-DUKE
Even now about it. I will pardon you. {Exeunt Thurio +
TGV 3.2. 97 and Proteus at one door, and the Duke at another}
TGV 3.2. 0 {Enter the Outlaws}
TGV 4.1. 1
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
TGV 4.1. 2
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.+
TGV 4.1. 2 {Enter Valentine and Speed}
TGV 4.1. 3
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about +
TGV 4.1. 3 ye.
TGV 4.1. 4 If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you.
TGV 4.1. 5
TGV-SPEED
{(to Valentine)} Sir, we are undone. These +
TGV 4.1. 5 are the villains
TGV 4.1. 6 That all the travellers do fear so much.
TGV 4.1. 7A
TGV-VALENTINE
{(to the Outlaws)} My friends.
TGV 4.1. 8
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
That's not so, sir. We are your enemies.
TGV 4.1. 9A
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
Peace. We'll hear him.
TGV 4.1. 10
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
Ay, by my beard will we. For he is a proper
TGV 4.1. 11 man.
TGV 4.1. 12
TGV-VALENTINE
Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
TGV 4.1. 13 A man I am, crossed with adversity.
TGV 4.1. 14 My riches are these poor habiliments,
TGV 4.1. 15 Of which if you should here disfurnish me
TGV 4.1. 16 You take the sum and substance that I have.
TGV 4.1. 17A
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
Whither travel you?
TGV 4.1. 18A
TGV-VALENTINE
To Verona.
TGV 4.1. 19A
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
Whence came you?
TGV 4.1. 20A
TGV-VALENTINE
From Milan.
TGV 4.1. 21A
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
Have you long sojourned there?
TGV 4.1. 22
TGV-VALENTINE
Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
TGV 4.1. 23 If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
TGV 4.1. 24B
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
What, were you banished thence?
TGV-VALENTINE
I +
TGV 4.1. 24B was.
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
For what offence?
TGV 4.1. 25
TGV-VALENTINE
For that which now torments me to rehearse.
TGV 4.1. 26 I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
TGV 4.1. 27 But yet I slew him manfully, in fight,
TGV 4.1. 28 Without false vantage or base treachery.
TGV 4.1. 29
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
Why, ne'er repent it, if it were done so.
TGV 4.1. 30 But were you banished for so small a fault?
TGV 4.1. 31
TGV-VALENTINE
I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
TGV 4.1. 32A
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
Have you the tongues?
TGV 4.1. 33
TGV-VALENTINE
My youthful travel therein made me happy,
TGV 4.1. 34 Or else I had been often miserable.
TGV 4.1. 35
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,
TGV 4.1. 36 This fellow were a king for our wild faction.
TGV 4.1. 37B
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
We'll have him. Sirs, a word. {The Outlaws +
TGV 4.1. 37B confer}
TGV-SPEED
{(to Valentine)} Master, be one of +
TGV 4.1. 37B them.
TGV 4.1. 38 It's an honourable kind of thievery.
TGV 4.1. 39A
TGV-VALENTINE
Peace, villain.
TGV 4.1. 40
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
Tell us this: have you anything to take to?
TGV 4.1. 41A
TGV-VALENTINE
Nothing but my fortune.
TGV 4.1. 42
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen
TGV 4.1. 43 Such as the fury of ungoverned youth
TGV 4.1. 44 Thrust from the company of aweful men.
TGV 4.1. 45 Myself was from Verona banished
TGV 4.1. 46 For practising to steal away a lady,
TGV 4.1. 47 An heir, and near allied unto the Duke.
TGV 4.1. 48
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
And I from Mantua, for a gentleman
TGV 4.1. 49 Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.
TGV 4.1. 50
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
And I, for suchlike petty crimes as these.
TGV 4.1. 51 But to the purpose, for we cite our faults
TGV 4.1. 52 That they may hold excused our lawless lives.
TGV 4.1. 53 And partly seeing you are beautified
TGV 4.1. 54 With goodly shape, and by your own report
TGV 4.1. 55 A linguist, and a man of such perfection
TGV 4.1. 56 As we do in our quality much want -
TGV 4.1. 57
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
Indeed because you are a banished man,
TGV 4.1. 58 Therefore above the rest we parley to you.
TGV 4.1. 59 Are you content to be our general,
TGV 4.1. 60 To make a virtue of necessity
TGV 4.1. 61 And live as we do in this wilderness?
TGV 4.1. 62
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
TGV 4.1. 63 Say `Ay', and be the captain of us all.
TGV 4.1. 64 We'll do thee homage, and be ruled by thee,
TGV 4.1. 65 Love thee as our commander and our king.
TGV 4.1. 66
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.
TGV 4.1. 67
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
TGV 4.1. 68
TGV-VALENTINE
I take your offer, and will live with you,
TGV 4.1. 69 Provided that you do no outrages
TGV 4.1. 70 On silly women or poor passengers.
TGV 4.1. 71
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
No, we detest such vile, base practices.
TGV 4.1. 72 Come, go with us. We'll bring thee to our crews
TGV 4.1. 73 And show thee all the treasure we have got,
TGV 4.1. 74 Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose. {Exeunt}
TGV 4.1. 0 {Enter Proteus}
TGV 4.2. 1
TGV-PROTEUS
Already have I been false to Valentine,
TGV 4.2. 2 And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.
TGV 4.2. 3 Under the colour of commending him
TGV 4.2. 4 I have access my own love to prefer.
TGV 4.2. 5 But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy
TGV 4.2. 6 To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
TGV 4.2. 7 When I protest true loyalty to her
TGV 4.2. 8 She twits me with my falsehood to my friend.
TGV 4.2. 9 When to her beauty I commend my vows
TGV 4.2. 10 She bids me think how I have been forsworn
TGV 4.2. 11 In breaking faith with Julia, whom I loved.
TGV 4.2. 12 And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,
TGV 4.2. 13 The least whereof would quell a lover's hope,
TGV 4.2. 14 Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
TGV 4.2. 15 The more it grows and fawneth on her still.
TGV 4.2. 16 But here comes Thurio. Now must we to her window,
TGV 4.2. 17 And give some evening music to her ear. {Enter Thurio with +
TGV 4.2. 17 Musicians}
TGV 4.2. 18
TGV-THURIO
How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?
TGV 4.2. 19
TGV-PROTEUS
Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love
TGV 4.2. 20 Will creep in service where it cannot go.
TGV 4.2. 21
TGV-THURIO
Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here.
TGV 4.2. 22
TGV-PROTEUS
Sir, but I do, or else I would be hence.
TGV 4.2. 23B
TGV-THURIO
Who, Silvia?
TGV-PROTEUS
Ay, Silvia - for your sake.
TGV 4.2. 24
TGV-THURIO
I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen,
TGV 4.2. 25 Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile. {Enter the Host, and Julia +
TGV 4.2. 25 dressed as a page-boy. They talk apart}
TGV 4.2. 26
TGV-HOST
Now, my young guest, methinks you're allycholly.
TGV 4.2. 27 I pray you, why is it?
TGV 4.2. 28
TGV-JULIA
Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry.
TGV 4.2. 29
TGV-HOST
Come, we'll have you merry. I'll bring you where
TGV 4.2. 30 you shall hear music, and see the gentleman that you
TGV 4.2. 31 asked for.
TGV 4.2. 32
TGV-JULIA
But shall I hear him speak?
TGV 4.2. 33
TGV-HOST
Ay, that you shall.
TGV 4.2. 34
TGV-JULIA
That will be music.
TGV 4.2. 35
TGV-HOST
Hark, hark.
TGV 4.2. 36
TGV-JULIA
Is he among these?
TGV 4.2. 37
TGV-HOST
Ay. But peace, let's hear 'em.
TGV 4.2. 38 {Song} Who is Silvia? What is she,
TGV 4.2. 39 That all our swains commend her?
TGV 4.2. 40 Holy, fair, and wise is she.
TGV 4.2. 41 The heaven such grace did lend her
TGV 4.2. 42 That she might admired be.
TGV 4.2. 43 Is she kind as she is fair?
TGV 4.2. 44 For beauty lives with kindness.
TGV 4.2. 45 Love doth to her eyes repair
TGV 4.2. 46 To help him of his blindness,
TGV 4.2. 47 And, being helped, inhabits there.
TGV 4.2. 48 Then to Silvia let us sing
TGV 4.2. 49 That Silvia is excelling.
TGV 4.2. 50 She excels each mortal thing
TGV 4.2. 51 Upon the dull earth dwelling.
TGV 4.2. 52 To her let us garlands bring.
TGV 4.2. 53
TGV-HOST
How now, are you sadder than you were before?
TGV 4.2. 54 How do you, man? The music likes you not.
TGV 4.2. 55
TGV-JULIA
You mistake. The musician likes me not.
TGV 4.2. 56
TGV-HOST
Why, my pretty youth?
TGV 4.2. 57
TGV-JULIA
He plays false, father.
TGV 4.2. 58
TGV-HOST
How, out of tune on the strings?
TGV 4.2. 59
TGV-JULIA
Not so, but yet so false that he grieves my very
TGV 4.2. 60 heart-strings.
TGV 4.2. 61
TGV-HOST
You have a quick ear.
TGV 4.2. 62
TGV-JULIA
Ay, I would I were deaf. It makes me have a slow
TGV 4.2. 63 heart.
TGV 4.2. 64
TGV-HOST
I perceive you delight not in music.
TGV 4.2. 65
TGV-JULIA
Not a whit when it jars so.
TGV 4.2. 66
TGV-HOST
Hark what fine change is in the music.
TGV 4.2. 67
TGV-JULIA
Ay, that `change' is the spite.
TGV 4.2. 68
TGV-HOST
You would have them always play but one thing?
TGV 4.2. 69
TGV-JULIA
I would always have one play but one thing. But
TGV 4.2. 70 host, doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on often resort
TGV 4.2. 71 unto this gentlewoman?
TGV 4.2. 72
TGV-HOST
I tell you what Lance his man told me, he loved
TGV 4.2. 73 her out of all nick.
TGV 4.2. 74
TGV-JULIA
Where is Lance?
TGV 4.2. 75
TGV-HOST
Gone to seek his dog, which tomorrow, by his
TGV 4.2. 76 master's command, he must carry for a present to his
TGV 4.2. 77 lady.
TGV 4.2. 78
TGV-JULIA
Peace, stand aside. The company parts.
TGV 4.2. 79
TGV-PROTEUS
Sir Thurio, fear not you. I will so plead
TGV 4.2. 80 That you shall say my cunning drift excels.
TGV 4.2. 81B
TGV-THURIO
Where meet we?
TGV-PROTEUS
At Saint Gregory's well.
TGV-THURIO
+
TGV 4.2. 81B Farewell. {Exeunt Thurio and the Musicians}
TGV 4.2. 82 {Enter Silvia, above}
TGV-PROTEUS
Madam, good even to +
TGV 4.2. 82 your ladyship.
TGV 4.2. 83
TGV-SILVIA
I thank you for your music, gentlemen.
TGV 4.2. 84 Who is that that spake?
TGV 4.2. 85
TGV-PROTEUS
One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth
TGV 4.2. 86 You would quickly learn to know him by his voice.
TGV 4.2. 87A
TGV-SILVIA
Sir Proteus, as I take it.
TGV 4.2. 88
TGV-PROTEUS
Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.
TGV 4.2. 89B
TGV-SILVIA
What's your will?
TGV-PROTEUS
That I may compass yours.
TGV 4.2. 90
TGV-SILVIA
You have your wish. My will is even this,
TGV 4.2. 91 That presently you hie you home to bed.
TGV 4.2. 92 Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man,
TGV 4.2. 93 Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless
TGV 4.2. 94 To be seduced by thy flattery,
TGV 4.2. 95 That hast deceived so many with thy vows?
TGV 4.2. 96 Return, return, and make thy love amends.
TGV 4.2. 97 For me - by this pale queen of night I swear -
TGV 4.2. 98 I am so far from granting thy request
TGV 4.2. 99 That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit,
TGV 4.2. 100 And by and by intend to chide myself
TGV 4.2. 101 Even for this time I spend in talking to thee.
TGV 4.2. 102
TGV-PROTEUS
I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady,
TGV 4.2. 103B But she is dead.
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} 'Twere false if I +
TGV 4.2. 103B should speak it,
TGV 4.2. 104 For I am sure she is not buried.
TGV 4.2. 105
TGV-SILVIA
Say that she be, yet Valentine, thy friend,
TGV 4.2. 106 Survives, to whom, thyself art witness,
TGV 4.2. 107 I am betrothed. And art thou not ashamed
TGV 4.2. 108 To wrong him with thy importunacy?
TGV 4.2. 109
TGV-PROTEUS
I likewise hear that Valentine is dead.
TGV 4.2. 110
TGV-SILVIA
And so suppose am I, for in his grave,
TGV 4.2. 111 Assure thyself, my love is buried.
TGV 4.2. 112
TGV-PROTEUS
Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.
TGV 4.2. 113
TGV-SILVIA
Go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence,
TGV 4.2. 114 Or at the least, in hers sepulchre thine.
TGV 4.2. 115A
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} He heard not that.
TGV 4.2. 116
TGV-PROTEUS
Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,
TGV 4.2. 117 Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,
TGV 4.2. 118 The picture that is hanging in your chamber.
TGV 4.2. 119 To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep;
TGV 4.2. 120 For since the substance of your perfect self
TGV 4.2. 121 Is else devoted, I am but a shadow,
TGV 4.2. 122 And to your shadow will I make true love.
TGV 4.2. 123
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} If 'twere a substance, you would +
TGV 4.2. 123 sure deceive it
TGV 4.2. 124 And make it but a shadow, as I am.
TGV 4.2. 125
TGV-SILVIA
I am very loath to be your idol, sir,
TGV 4.2. 126 But since your falsehood shall become you well
TGV 4.2. 127 To worship shadows and adore false shapes,
TGV 4.2. 128 Send to me in the morning, and I'll send it.
TGV 4.2. 129B And so, good rest. {Exit}
TGV-PROTEUS
As wretches have +
TGV 4.2. 129B o'ernight,
TGV 4.2. 130 That wait for execution in the morn. {Exit}
TGV 4.2. 131
TGV-JULIA
Host, will you go?
TGV 4.2. 132
TGV-HOST
By my halidom, I was fast asleep.
TGV 4.2. 133
TGV-JULIA
Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus?
TGV 4.2. 134
TGV-HOST
Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think 'tis almost
TGV 4.2. 135 day.
TGV 4.2. 136
TGV-JULIA
Not so; but it hath been the longest night
TGV 4.2. 137 That e'er I watched, and the most heaviest. {Exeunt}
TGV 4.2. 0 {Enter Sir Eglamour}
TGV 4.3. 1
TGV-EGLAMOUR
This is the hour that Madam Silvia
TGV 4.3. 2 Entreated me to call, and know her mind.
TGV 4.3. 3 There's some great matter she'd employ me in.
TGV 4.3. 4B Madam, madam! {Enter Silvia [above]}
TGV-SILVIA
Who +
TGV 4.3. 4B calls?
TGV-EGLAMOUR
Your servant, and your friend.
TGV 4.3. 5 One that attends your ladyship's command.
TGV 4.3. 6
TGV-SILVIA
Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow!
TGV 4.3. 7
TGV-EGLAMOUR
As many, worthy lady, to yourself.
TGV 4.3. 8 According to your ladyship's impose
TGV 4.3. 9 I am thus early come, to know what service
TGV 4.3. 10 It is your pleasure to command me in.
TGV 4.3. 11
TGV-SILVIA
O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman -
TGV 4.3. 12 Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not -
TGV 4.3. 13 Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplished.
TGV 4.3. 14 Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
TGV 4.3. 15 I bear unto the banished Valentine,
TGV 4.3. 16 Nor how my father would enforce me marry
TGV 4.3. 17 Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors.
TGV 4.3. 18 Thyself hast loved, and I have heard thee say
TGV 4.3. 19 No grief did ever come so near thy heart
TGV 4.3. 20 As when thy lady and thy true love died,
TGV 4.3. 21 Upon whose grave thou vowed'st pure chastity.
TGV 4.3. 22 Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
TGV 4.3. 23 To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;
TGV 4.3. 24 And for the ways are dangerous to pass
TGV 4.3. 25 I do desire thy worthy company,
TGV 4.3. 26 Upon whose faith and honour I repose.
TGV 4.3. 27 Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour,
TGV 4.3. 28 But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,
TGV 4.3. 29 And on the justice of my flying hence
TGV 4.3. 30 To keep me from a most unholy match,
TGV 4.3. 31 Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.
TGV 4.3. 32 I do desire thee, even from a heart
TGV 4.3. 33 As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
TGV 4.3. 34 To bear me company and go with me.
TGV 4.3. 35 If not, to hide what I have said to thee
TGV 4.3. 36 That I may venture to depart alone.
TGV 4.3. 37
TGV-EGLAMOUR
Madam, I pity much your grievances,
TGV 4.3. 38 Which, since I know they virtuously are placed,
TGV 4.3. 39 I give consent to go along with you,
TGV 4.3. 40 Recking as little what betideth me
TGV 4.3. 41 As much I wish all good befortune you.
TGV 4.3. 42B When will you go?
TGV-SILVIA
This evening coming.
TGV 4.3. 43B
TGV-EGLAMOUR
Where shall I meet you?
TGV-SILVIA
At Friar Patrick's cell,
TGV 4.3. 44 Where I intend holy confession.
TGV 4.3. 45
TGV-EGLAMOUR
I will not fail your ladyship.
TGV 4.3. 46 Good morrow, gentle lady.
TGV 4.3. 47
TGV-SILVIA
Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour. {Exeunt}
TGV 4.3. 0 {Enter Lance and his dog Crab}
TGV 4.4. 1
TGV-LANCE
{(to the audience)} When a man's servant +
TGV 4.4. 1 shall play
TGV 4.4. 2 the cur with him, look you, it goes hard. One that I
TGV 4.4. 3 brought up of a puppy, one that I saved from drowning
TGV 4.4. 4 when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters
TGV 4.4. 5 went to it. I have taught him, even as one would say
TGV 4.4. 6 precisely `Thus I would teach a dog'. I was sent to
TGV 4.4. 7 deliver him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my
TGV 4.4. 8 master, and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber
TGV 4.4. 9 but he steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's
TGV 4.4. 10 leg. O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself
TGV 4.4. 11 in all companies. I would have, as one should say, one
TGV 4.4. 12 that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it
TGV 4.4. 13 were, a dog at all things. If I had not had more wit
TGV 4.4. 14 than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think
TGV 4.4. 15 verily he had been hanged for 't. Sure as I live, he had
TGV 4.4. 16 suffered for 't. You shall judge. He thrusts me himself
TGV 4.4. 17 into the company of three or four gentleman-like dogs
TGV 4.4. 18 under the Duke's table. He had not been there - bless
TGV 4.4. 19 the mark - a pissing-while but all the chamber smelled
TGV 4.4. 20 him. `Out with the dog,' says one. `What cur is that?'
TGV 4.4. 21 says another. `Whip him out,' says the third. `Hang
TGV 4.4. 22 him up,' says the Duke. I, having been acquainted with
TGV 4.4. 23 the smell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the
TGV 4.4. 24 fellow that whips the dogs. `Friend,' quoth I, `you mean
TGV 4.4. 25 to whip the dog.' `Ay, marry do I,' quoth he. `You do
TGV 4.4. 26 him the more wrong,' quoth I, `'twas I did the thing
TGV 4.4. 27 you wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me
TGV 4.4. 28 out of the chamber. How many masters would do this
TGV 4.4. 29 for his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn I have sat in the
TGV 4.4. 30 stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had
TGV 4.4. 31 been executed. I have stood on the pillory for geese he
TGV 4.4. 32 hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for 't. {(To +
TGV 4.4. 32 Crab)}
TGV 4.4. 33 Thou think'st not of this now. Nay, I remember the
TGV 4.4. 34 trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam
TGV 4.4. 35 Silvia. Did not I bid thee still mark me, and do as I do?
TGV 4.4. 36 When didst thou see me heave up my leg and make
TGV 4.4. 37 water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? Didst thou
TGV 4.4. 38 ever see me do such a trick? {Enter Proteus, with Julia dressed +
TGV 4.4. 38 as a page-boy}
TGV 4.4. 39
TGV-PROTEUS
{(to Julia)} Sebastian is thy name? I like +
TGV 4.4. 39 thee well,
TGV 4.4. 40 And will employ thee in some service presently.
TGV 4.4. 41
TGV-JULIA
In what you please. I'll do what I can.
TGV 4.4. 42
TGV-PROTEUS
I hope thou wilt. - How now, you whoreson peasant,
TGV 4.4. 43 Where have you been these two days loitering?
TGV 4.4. 44
TGV-LANCE
Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you
TGV 4.4. 45 bade me.
TGV 4.4. 46
TGV-PROTEUS
And what says she to my little jewel?
TGV 4.4. 47
TGV-LANCE
Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you
TGV 4.4. 48 currish thanks is good enough for such a present.
TGV 4.4. 49
TGV-PROTEUS
But she received my dog?
TGV 4.4. 50
TGV-LANCE
No indeed did she not. Here have I brought him
TGV 4.4. 51 back again.
TGV 4.4. 52
TGV-PROTEUS
What, didst thou offer her this from me?
TGV 4.4. 53
TGV-LANCE
Ay, sir. The other squirrel was stolen from me by
TGV 4.4. 54 the hangman boys in the market place, and then I
TGV 4.4. 55 offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of
TGV 4.4. 56 yours, and therefore the gift the greater.
TGV 4.4. 57
TGV-PROTEUS
Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again,
TGV 4.4. 58 Or ne'er return again into my sight.
TGV 4.4. 59 Away, I say. Stay'st thou to vex me here? {Exit Lance with Crab}
TGV 4.4. 60 A slave, that still on end turns me to shame.
TGV 4.4. 61 Sebastian, I have entertained thee
TGV 4.4. 62 Partly that I have need of such a youth
TGV 4.4. 63 That can with some discretion do my business,
TGV 4.4. 64 For 'tis no trusting to yon foolish lout,
TGV 4.4. 65 But chiefly for thy face and thy behaviour,
TGV 4.4. 66 Which, if my augury deceive me not,
TGV 4.4. 67 Witness good bringing up, fortune, and truth.
TGV 4.4. 68 Therefore know thou, for this I entertain thee.
TGV 4.4. 69 Go presently, and take this ring with thee.
TGV 4.4. 70 Deliver it to Madam Silvia.
TGV 4.4. 71 She loved me well delivered it to me.
TGV 4.4. 72
TGV-JULIA
It seems you loved not her, to leave her token.
TGV 4.4. 73B She is dead belike?
TGV-PROTEUS
Not so. I think she lives.
TGV 4.4. 74B
TGV-JULIA
Alas.
TGV-PROTEUS
Why dost thou cry `Alas'?
TGV 4.4. 75
TGV-JULIA
I cannot choose but pity her.
TGV 4.4. 76
TGV-PROTEUS
Wherefore shouldst thou pity her?
TGV 4.4. 77
TGV-JULIA
Because methinks that she loved you as well
TGV 4.4. 78 As you do love your lady Silvia.
TGV 4.4. 79 She dreams on him that has forgot her love;
TGV 4.4. 80 You dote on her that cares not for your love.
TGV 4.4. 81 'Tis pity love should be so contrary,
TGV 4.4. 82 And thinking on it makes me cry `Alas'.
TGV 4.4. 83
TGV-PROTEUS
Well, give her that ring, and therewithal
TGV 4.4. 84 This letter. {(Pointing)} That's her chamber. Tell my +
TGV 4.4. 84 lady
TGV 4.4. 85 I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.
TGV 4.4. 86 Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,
TGV 4.4. 87 Where thou shalt find me sad and solitary. {Exit}
TGV 4.4. 88
TGV-JULIA
How many women would do such a message?
TGV 4.4. 89 Alas, poor Proteus, thou hast entertained
TGV 4.4. 90 A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs.
TGV 4.4. 91 Alas, poor fool, why do I pity him
TGV 4.4. 92 That with his very heart despiseth me?
TGV 4.4. 93 Because he loves her, he despiseth me.
TGV 4.4. 94 Because I love him, I must pity him.
TGV 4.4. 95 This ring I gave him when he parted from me,
TGV 4.4. 96 To bind him to remember my good will.
TGV 4.4. 97 And now am I, unhappy messenger,
TGV 4.4. 98 To plead for that which I would not obtain;
TGV 4.4. 99 To carry that which I would have refused;
TGV 4.4. 100 To praise his faith, which I would have dispraised.
TGV 4.4. 101 I am my master's true-confirmed love,
TGV 4.4. 102 But cannot be true servant to my master
TGV 4.4. 103 Unless I prove false traitor to myself.
TGV 4.4. 104 Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly
TGV 4.4. 105 As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed. {Enter Silvia}
TGV 4.4. 106 Gentlewoman, good day. I pray you be my mean
TGV 4.4. 107 To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia.
TGV 4.4. 108
TGV-SILVIA
What would you with her, if that I be she?
TGV 4.4. 109
TGV-JULIA
If you be she, I do entreat your patience
TGV 4.4. 110 To hear me speak the message I am sent on.
TGV 4.4. 111A
TGV-SILVIA
From whom?
TGV 4.4. 112
TGV-JULIA
From my master, Sir Proteus, madam.
TGV 4.4. 113A
TGV-SILVIA
O, he sends you for a picture?
TGV 4.4. 114A
TGV-JULIA
Ay, madam.
TGV 4.4. 115A
TGV-SILVIA
Ursula, bring my picture there. {[An attendant brings +
TGV 4.4. 115A a picture]}
TGV 4.4. 116 Go, give your master this. Tell him from me
TGV 4.4. 117 One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,
TGV 4.4. 118 Would better fit his chamber than this shadow.
TGV 4.4. 119
TGV-JULIA
Madam, please you peruse this letter. {She gives +
TGV 4.4. 119 Silvia a letter}
TGV 4.4. 120 Pardon me, madam, I have unadvised
TGV 4.4. 121 Delivered you a paper that I should not. {She takes back the +
TGV 4.4. 121 letter and gives Silvia another letter}
TGV 4.4. 122 This is the letter to your ladyship.
TGV 4.4. 123
TGV-SILVIA
I pray thee, let me look on that again.
TGV 4.4. 124
TGV-JULIA
It may not be. Good madam, pardon me.
TGV 4.4. 125
TGV-SILVIA
There, hold. I will not look upon your master's lines.
TGV 4.4. 126 I know they are stuffed with protestations,
TGV 4.4. 127 And full of new-found oaths, which he will break
TGV 4.4. 128 As easily as I do tear his paper. {She tears the letter}
TGV 4.4. 129
TGV-JULIA
Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring. +
TGV 4.4. 129 {She offers Silvia a ring}
TGV 4.4. 130
TGV-SILVIA
The more shame for him, that he sends it me;
TGV 4.4. 131 For I have heard him say a thousand times
TGV 4.4. 132 His Julia gave it him at his departure.
TGV 4.4. 133 Though his false finger have profaned the ring,
TGV 4.4. 134 Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong.
TGV 4.4. 135A
TGV-JULIA
She thanks you.
TGV 4.4. 136A
TGV-SILVIA
What sayst thou?
TGV 4.4. 137
TGV-JULIA
I thank you, madam, that you tender her.
TGV 4.4. 138 Poor gentlewoman, my master wrongs her much.
TGV 4.4. 139A
TGV-SILVIA
Dost thou know her?
TGV 4.4. 140
TGV-JULIA
Almost as well as I do know myself.
TGV 4.4. 141 To think upon her woes I do protest
TGV 4.4. 142 That I have wept a hundred several times.
TGV 4.4. 143
TGV-SILVIA
Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her?
TGV 4.4. 144
TGV-JULIA
I think she doth; and that's her cause of sorrow.
TGV 4.4. 145A
TGV-SILVIA
Is she not passing fair?
TGV 4.4. 146
TGV-JULIA
She hath been fairer, madam, than she is.
TGV 4.4. 147 When she did think my master loved her well
TGV 4.4. 148 She, in my judgement, was as fair as you.
TGV 4.4. 149 But since she did neglect her looking-glass,
TGV 4.4. 150 And threw her sun-expelling mask away,
TGV 4.4. 151 The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks
TGV 4.4. 152 And pinched the lily tincture of her face,
TGV 4.4. 153 That now she is become as black as I.
TGV 4.4. 154A
TGV-SILVIA
How tall was she?
TGV 4.4. 155
TGV-JULIA
About my stature; for at Pentecost,
TGV 4.4. 156 When all our pageants of delight were played,
TGV 4.4. 157 Our youth got me to play the woman's part,
TGV 4.4. 158 And I was trimmed in Madam Julia's gown,
TGV 4.4. 159 Which served me as fit, by all men's judgements,
TGV 4.4. 160 As if the garment had been made for me;
TGV 4.4. 161 Therefore I know she is about my height.
TGV 4.4. 162 And at that time I made her weep agood,
TGV 4.4. 163 For I did play a lamentable part.
TGV 4.4. 164 Madam, 'twas Ariadne, passioning
TGV 4.4. 165 For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight;
TGV 4.4. 166 Which I so lively acted with my tears
TGV 4.4. 167 That my poor mistress, moved therewithal,
TGV 4.4. 168 Wept bitterly; and would I might be dead
TGV 4.4. 169 If I in thought felt not her very sorrow.
TGV 4.4. 170
TGV-SILVIA
She is beholden to thee, gentle youth.
TGV 4.4. 171 Alas, poor lady, desolate and left.
TGV 4.4. 172 I weep myself to think upon thy words.
TGV 4.4. 173 Here, youth. There is my purse. I give thee this
TGV 4.4. 174 For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lov'st her.
TGV 4.4. 175 Farewell. {Exit}
TGV 4.4. 176
TGV-JULIA
And she shall thank you for 't, if e'er you know +
TGV 4.4. 176 her. -
TGV 4.4. 177 A virtuous gentlewoman, mild, and beautiful.
TGV 4.4. 178 I hope my master's suit will be but cold,
TGV 4.4. 179 Since she respects `my mistress'' love so much.
TGV 4.4. 180 Alas, how love can trifle with itself.
TGV 4.4. 181 Here is her picture. Let me see, I think
TGV 4.4. 182 If I had such a tire, this face of mine
TGV 4.4. 183 Were full as lovely as is this of hers.
TGV 4.4. 184 And yet the painter flattered her a little,
TGV 4.4. 185 Unless I flatter with myself too much.
TGV 4.4. 186 Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow.
TGV 4.4. 187 If that be all the difference in his love,
TGV 4.4. 188 I'll get me such a coloured periwig.
TGV 4.4. 189 Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine.
TGV 4.4. 190 Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.
TGV 4.4. 191 What should it be that he respects in her
TGV 4.4. 192 But I can make respective in myself,
TGV 4.4. 193 If this fond love were not a blinded god?
TGV 4.4. 194 Come, shadow, come, and take this shadow up,
TGV 4.4. 195B For 'tis thy rival. {She picks up the portrait} O thou +
TGV 4.4. 195B senseless form,
TGV 4.4. 196 Thou shalt be worshipped, kissed, loved, and adored;
TGV 4.4. 197 And were there sense in his idolatry
TGV 4.4. 198 My substance should be statue in thy stead.
TGV 4.4. 199 I'll use thee kindly, for thy mistress' sake,
TGV 4.4. 200 That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,
TGV 4.4. 201 I should have scratched out your unseeing eyes,
TGV 4.4. 202 To make my master out of love with thee. {Exit}
TGV 4.4. 0 {Enter Sir Eglamour}
TGV 5.1. 1
TGV-EGLAMOUR
The sun begins to gild the western sky,
TGV 5.1. 2 And now it is about the very hour
TGV 5.1. 3 That Silvia at Friar Patrick's cell should meet me.
TGV 5.1. 4 She will not fail; for lovers break not hours,
TGV 5.1. 5 Unless it be to come before their time,
TGV 5.1. 6 So much they spur their expedition. {Enter Silvia}
TGV 5.1. 7 See where she comes. Lady, a happy evening!
TGV 5.1. 8
TGV-SILVIA
Amen, amen. Go on, good Eglamour,
TGV 5.1. 9 Out at the postern by the abbey wall.
TGV 5.1. 10 I fear I am attended by some spies.
TGV 5.1. 11
TGV-EGLAMOUR
Fear not. The forest is not three leagues off.
TGV 5.1. 12 If we recover that, we are sure enough. {Exeunt}
TGV 5.1. 0 {Enter Thurio, Proteus, and Julia dressed as a page-boy}
TGV 5.2. 1
TGV-THURIO
Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit?
TGV 5.2. 2
TGV-PROTEUS
O sir, I find her milder than she was,
TGV 5.2. 3 And yet she takes exceptions at your person.
TGV 5.2. 4
TGV-THURIO
What? That my leg is too long?
TGV 5.2. 5
TGV-PROTEUS
No, that it is too little.
TGV 5.2. 6
TGV-THURIO
I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder.
TGV 5.2. 7
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} But love will not be spurred to +
TGV 5.2. 7 what it loathes.
TGV 5.2. 8
TGV-THURIO
What says she to my face?
TGV 5.2. 9
TGV-PROTEUS
She says it is a fair one.
TGV 5.2. 10
TGV-THURIO
Nay, then, the wanton lies. My face is black.
TGV 5.2. 11
TGV-PROTEUS
But pearls are fair; and the old saying is,
TGV 5.2. 12 `Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes'.
TGV 5.2. 13
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} 'Tis true, such pearls as put out +
TGV 5.2. 13 ladies' eyes,
TGV 5.2. 14 For I had rather wink than look on them.
TGV 5.2. 15
TGV-THURIO
How likes she my discourse?
TGV 5.2. 16
TGV-PROTEUS
Ill, when you talk of war.
TGV 5.2. 17
TGV-THURIO
But well when I discourse of love and peace.
TGV 5.2. 18
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} But better indeed when you hold +
TGV 5.2. 18 your peace.
TGV 5.2. 19
TGV-THURIO
What says she to my valour?
TGV 5.2. 20
TGV-PROTEUS
O sir, she makes no doubt of that.
TGV 5.2. 21
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} She needs not, when she knows it +
TGV 5.2. 21 cowardice.
TGV 5.2. 22
TGV-THURIO
What says she to my birth?
TGV 5.2. 23
TGV-PROTEUS
That you are well derived.
TGV 5.2. 24
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} True: from a gentleman to a fool.
TGV 5.2. 25
TGV-THURIO
Considers she my possessions?
TGV 5.2. 26
TGV-PROTEUS
O ay, and pities them.
TGV 5.2. 27A
TGV-THURIO
Wherefore?
TGV 5.2. 28
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} That such an ass should owe them.
TGV 5.2. 29B
TGV-PROTEUS
That they are out by lease.
TGV-JULIA
Here comes the +
TGV 5.2. 29B Duke. {Enter the Duke}
TGV 5.2. 30
TGV-DUKE
How now, Sir Proteus. How now, Thurio.
TGV 5.2. 31 Which of you saw Eglamour of late?
TGV 5.2. 32B
TGV-THURIO
Not I.
TGV-PROTEUS
Nor I.
TGV-DUKE
Saw you my +
TGV 5.2. 32B daughter?
TGV-PROTEUS
Neither.
TGV 5.2. 33
TGV-DUKE
Why then, she's fled unto that peasant Valentine,
TGV 5.2. 34 And Eglamour is in her company.
TGV 5.2. 35 'Tis true, for Friar Laurence met them both
TGV 5.2. 36 As he in penance wandered through the forest.
TGV 5.2. 37 Him he knew well, and guessed that it was she,
TGV 5.2. 38 But being masked, he was not sure of it.
TGV 5.2. 39 Besides, she did intend confession
TGV 5.2. 40 At Patrick's cell this even, and there she was not.
TGV 5.2. 41 These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence;
TGV 5.2. 42 Therefore I pray you stand not to discourse,
TGV 5.2. 43 But mount you presently, and meet with me
TGV 5.2. 44 Upon the rising of the mountain foot
TGV 5.2. 45 That leads toward Mantua, whither they are fled.
TGV 5.2. 46 Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me. {Exit}
TGV 5.2. 47
TGV-THURIO
Why, this it is to be a peevish girl,
TGV 5.2. 48 That flies her fortune when it follows her.
TGV 5.2. 49 I'll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour
TGV 5.2. 50 Than for the love of reckless Silvia. {[Exit]}
TGV 5.2. 51
TGV-PROTEUS
And I will follow, more for Silvia's love
TGV 5.2. 52 Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her. {[Exit]}
TGV 5.2. 53
TGV-JULIA
And I will follow, more to cross that love
TGV 5.2. 54 Than hate for Silvia, that is gone for love. {[Exit]}
TGV 5.2. 0 {Enter the Outlaws with Silvia captive}
TGV 5.3. 1
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
Come, come, be patient. We must bring you to +
TGV 5.3. 1 our captain.
TGV 5.3. 2
TGV-SILVIA
A thousand more mischances than this one
TGV 5.3. 3 Have learned me how to brook this patiently.
TGV 5.3. 4A
TGV-SECOND OUTLAW
Come, bring her away.
TGV 5.3. 5
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
Where is the gentleman that was with her?
TGV 5.3. 6
TGV-THIRD OUTLAW
Being nimble-footed he hath outrun us;
TGV 5.3. 7 But Moses and Valerius follow him.
TGV 5.3. 8 Go thou with her to the west end of the wood.
TGV 5.3. 9 There is our captain. We'll follow him that's fled.
TGV 5.3. 10 The thicket is beset, he cannot scape. {Exeunt the Second and +
TGV 5.3. 10 Third Outlaws}
TGV 5.3. 11
TGV-FIRST OUTLAW
{(to Silvia)} Come, I must bring you +
TGV 5.3. 11 to our captain's cave.
TGV 5.3. 12 Fear not. He bears an honourable mind,
TGV 5.3. 13 And will not use a woman lawlessly.
TGV 5.3. 14
TGV-SILVIA
{(aside)} O Valentine! This I endure for +
TGV 5.3. 14 thee. {Exeunt}
TGV 5.3. 0 {Enter Valentine}
TGV 5.4. 1
TGV-VALENTINE
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
TGV 5.4. 2 This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods
TGV 5.4. 3 I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
TGV 5.4. 4 Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
TGV 5.4. 5 And to the nightingale's complaining notes
TGV 5.4. 6 Tune my distresses and record my woes.
TGV 5.4. 7 O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
TGV 5.4. 8 Leave not the mansion so long tenantless
TGV 5.4. 9 Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall
TGV 5.4. 10 And leave no memory of what it was.
TGV 5.4. 11 Repair me with thy presence, Silvia.
TGV 5.4. 12 Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain.
TGV 5.4. 13 What hallooing and what stir is this today?
TGV 5.4. 14 These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
TGV 5.4. 15 Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
TGV 5.4. 16 They love me well, yet I have much to do
TGV 5.4. 17 To keep them from uncivil outrages.
TGV 5.4. 18 Withdraw thee, Valentine. Who's this comes here? {He stands +
TGV 5.4. 18 aside.}
TGV 5.4. 19 {Enter Proteus, Silvia, and Julia dressed as a page-boy}
TGV-PROTEUS
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TGV 5.4. 19 Madam, this service I have done for you -
TGV 5.4. 20 Though you respect not aught your servant doth -
TGV 5.4. 21 To hazard life, and rescue you from him
TGV 5.4. 22 That would have forced your honour and your love.
TGV 5.4. 23 Vouchsafe me for my meed but one fair look.
TGV 5.4. 24 A smaller boon than this I cannot beg,
TGV 5.4. 25 And less than this I am sure you cannot give.
TGV 5.4. 26
TGV-VALENTINE
{(aside)} How like a dream is this I see +
TGV 5.4. 26 and hear!
TGV 5.4. 27 Love lend me patience to forbear awhile.
TGV 5.4. 28
TGV-SILVIA
O miserable, unhappy that I am!
TGV 5.4. 29
TGV-PROTEUS
Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came.
TGV 5.4. 30 But by my coming I have made you happy.
TGV 5.4. 31
TGV-SILVIA
By thy approach thou mak'st me most unhappy.
TGV 5.4. 32
TGV-JULIA
{(aside)} And me, when he approacheth to +
TGV 5.4. 32 your presence.
TGV 5.4. 33
TGV-SILVIA
Had I been seized by a hungry lion
TGV 5.4. 34 I would have been a breakfast to the beast
TGV 5.4. 35 Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.
TGV 5.4. 36 O heaven be judge how I love Valentine,
TGV 5.4. 37 Whose life's as tender to me as my soul.
TGV 5.4. 38 And full as much, for more there cannot be,
TGV 5.4. 39 I do detest false perjured Proteus.
TGV 5.4. 40 Therefore be gone, solicit me no more.
TGV 5.4. 41
TGV-PROTEUS
What dangerous action, stood it next to death,
TGV 5.4. 42 Would I not undergo for one calm look!
TGV 5.4. 43 O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,
TGV 5.4. 44 When women cannot love where they're beloved.
TGV 5.4. 45
TGV-SILVIA
When Proteus cannot love where he's beloved.
TGV 5.4. 46 Read over Julia's heart, thy first, best love,
TGV 5.4. 47 For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
TGV 5.4. 48 Into a thousand oaths, and all those oaths
TGV 5.4. 49 Descended into perjury to love me.
TGV 5.4. 50 Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two,
TGV 5.4. 51 And that's far worse than none. Better have none
TGV 5.4. 52 Than plural faith, which is too much by one,
TGV 5.4. 53B Thou counterfeit to thy true friend.
TGV-PROTEUS
In love
TGV 5.4. 54B Who respects friend?
TGV-SILVIA
All men but Proteus.
TGV 5.4. 55
TGV-PROTEUS
Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words
TGV 5.4. 56 Can no way change you to a milder form
TGV 5.4. 57 I'll woo you like a soldier, at arm's end,
TGV 5.4. 58 And love you 'gainst the nature of love: force ye.
TGV 5.4. 59B
TGV-SILVIA
O heaven!
TGV-PROTEUS
{(assailing her)} I'll +
TGV 5.4. 59B force thee yield to my desire.
TGV 5.4. 60
TGV-VALENTINE
{(coming forward)} Ruffian, let go that +
TGV 5.4. 60 rude uncivil touch,
TGV 5.4. 61B Thou friend of an ill fashion.
TGV-PROTEUS
Valentine!
TGV 5.4. 62
TGV-VALENTINE
Thou common friend, that's without faith or love,
TGV 5.4. 63 For such is a friend now. Treacherous man,
TGV 5.4. 64 Thou hast beguiled my hopes. Naught but mine eye
TGV 5.4. 65 Could have persuaded me. Now I dare not say
TGV 5.4. 66 I have one friend alive. Thou wouldst disprove me.
TGV 5.4. 67 Who should be trusted, when one's right hand
TGV 5.4. 68 Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus,
TGV 5.4. 69 I am sorry I must never trust thee more,
TGV 5.4. 70 But count the world a stranger for thy sake.
TGV 5.4. 71 The private wound is deepest. O time most accursed,
TGV 5.4. 72 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
TGV 5.4. 73A
TGV-PROTEUS
My shame and guilt confounds me.
TGV 5.4. 74 Forgive me, Valentine. If hearty sorrow
TGV 5.4. 75 Be a sufficient ransom for offence,
TGV 5.4. 76 I tender 't here. I do as truly suffer
TGV 5.4. 77B As e'er I did commit.
TGV-VALENTINE
Then I am paid,
TGV 5.4. 78 And once again I do receive thee honest.
TGV 5.4. 79 Who by repentance is not satisfied
TGV 5.4. 80 Is nor of heaven nor earth. For these are pleased;
TGV 5.4. 81 By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeased.
TGV 5.4. 82 And that my love may appear plain and free,
TGV 5.4. 83 All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.
TGV 5.4. 84B
TGV-JULIA
O me unhappy! {She faints}
TGV-PROTEUS
Look +
TGV 5.4. 84B to the boy.
TGV-VALENTINE
Why, boy!
TGV 5.4. 85 Why wag, how now? What's the matter? Look up. Speak.
TGV 5.4. 86
TGV-JULIA
O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring
TGV 5.4. 87 to Madam Silvia, which out of my neglect was never
TGV 5.4. 88 done.
TGV 5.4. 89A
TGV-PROTEUS
Where is that ring, boy?
TGV 5.4. 90A
TGV-JULIA
Here 'tis. This is it. {She gives Proteus the ring}
TGV 5.4. 91A
TGV-PROTEUS
How, let me see!
TGV 5.4. 92 Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia.
TGV 5.4. 93
TGV-JULIA
O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook. {She offers +
TGV 5.4. 93 Proteus another ring}
TGV 5.4. 94 This is the ring you sent to Silvia.
TGV 5.4. 95
TGV-PROTEUS
But how cam'st thou by this ring? At my depart
TGV 5.4. 96 I gave this unto Julia.
TGV 5.4. 97
TGV-JULIA
And Julia herself did give it me,
TGV 5.4. 98 And Julia herself hath brought it hither.
TGV 5.4. 99A
TGV-PROTEUS
How? Julia?
TGV 5.4. 100
TGV-JULIA
Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths
TGV 5.4. 101 And entertained 'em deeply in her heart.
TGV 5.4. 102 How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root?
TGV 5.4. 103 O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush.
TGV 5.4. 104 Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me
TGV 5.4. 105 Such an immodest raiment, if shame live
TGV 5.4. 106 In a disguise of love.
TGV 5.4. 107 It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,
TGV 5.4. 108 Women to change their shapes than men their minds.
TGV 5.4. 109
TGV-PROTEUS
Than men their minds! 'Tis true. O heaven, were man
TGV 5.4. 110 But constant, he were perfect. That one error
TGV 5.4. 111 Fills him with faults, makes him run through all th' sins;
TGV 5.4. 112 Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
TGV 5.4. 113 What is in Silvia's face but I may spy
TGV 5.4. 114 More fresh in Julia's, with a constant eye?
TGV 5.4. 115A
TGV-VALENTINE
Come, come, a hand from either.
TGV 5.4. 116 Let me be blessed to make this happy close.
TGV 5.4. 117 'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes. {Julia and +
TGV 5.4. 117 Proteus join hands}
TGV 5.4. 118
TGV-PROTEUS
Bear witness, heaven, I have my wish for ever.
TGV 5.4. 119B
TGV-JULIA
And I mine. {Enter the Outlaws with the Duke and +
TGV 5.4. 119B Thurio as captives}
TGV-OUTLAWS
A prize, a prize, a prize!
TGV 5.4. 120
TGV-VALENTINE
Forbear, forbear, I say. It is my lord the Duke. +
TGV 5.4. 120 {The Outlaws release the Duke and Thurio}
TGV 5.4. 121 {(To the Duke)} Your grace is welcome to a man +
TGV 5.4. 121 disgraced,
TGV 5.4. 122B Banished Valentine.
TGV-DUKE
Sir Valentine!
TGV 5.4. 123
TGV-THURIO
Yonder is Silvia, and Silvia's mine.
TGV 5.4. 124
TGV-VALENTINE
Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death.
TGV 5.4. 125 Come not within the measure of my wrath.
TGV 5.4. 126 Do not name Silvia thine. If once again,
TGV 5.4. 127 Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands.
TGV 5.4. 128 Take but possession of her with a touch -
TGV 5.4. 129 I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.
TGV 5.4. 130
TGV-THURIO
Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I.
TGV 5.4. 131 I hold him but a fool that will endanger
TGV 5.4. 132 His body for a girl that loves him not.
TGV 5.4. 133 I claim her not, and therefore she is thine.
TGV 5.4. 134
TGV-DUKE
The more degenerate and base art thou
TGV 5.4. 135 To make such means for her as thou hast done,
TGV 5.4. 136 And leave her on such slight conditions.
TGV 5.4. 137 Now by the honour of my ancestry
TGV 5.4. 138 I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,
TGV 5.4. 139 And think thee worthy of an empress' love.
TGV 5.4. 140 Know then I here forget all former griefs,
TGV 5.4. 141 Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again,
TGV 5.4. 142 Plead a new state in thy unrivalled merit,
TGV 5.4. 143 To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine,
TGV 5.4. 144 Thou art a gentleman, and well derived.
TGV 5.4. 145 Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her.
TGV 5.4. 146
TGV-VALENTINE
I thank your grace. The gift hath made me happy.
TGV 5.4. 147 I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake,
TGV 5.4. 148 To grant one boon that I shall ask of you.
TGV 5.4. 149
TGV-DUKE
I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be.
TGV 5.4. 150
TGV-VALENTINE
These banished men that I have kept withal
TGV 5.4. 151 Are men endowed with worthy qualities.
TGV 5.4. 152 Forgive them what they have committed here,
TGV 5.4. 153 And let them be recalled from their exile.
TGV 5.4. 154 They are reformed, civil, full of good,
TGV 5.4. 155 And fit for great employment, worthy lord.
TGV 5.4. 156
TGV-DUKE
Thou hast prevailed. I pardon them and thee.
TGV 5.4. 157 Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts.
TGV 5.4. 158 Come, let us go. We will include all jars
TGV 5.4. 159 With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
TGV 5.4. 160
TGV-VALENTINE
And as we walk along I dare be bold
TGV 5.4. 161 With our discourse to make your grace to smile.
TGV 5.4. 162 What think you of this page, my lord?
TGV 5.4. 163
TGV-DUKE
I think the boy hath grace in him. He blushes.
TGV 5.4. 164
TGV-VALENTINE
I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.
TGV 5.4. 165A
TGV-DUKE
What mean you by that saying?
TGV 5.4. 166
TGV-VALENTINE
Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along,
TGV 5.4. 167 That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
TGV 5.4. 168 Come, Proteus, 'tis your penance but to hear
TGV 5.4. 169 The story of your loves discovered.
TGV 5.4. 170 That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,
TGV 5.4. 171 One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. {Exeunt}
TGV 5.4.
TGV