Hub. Do but hear me, Sir. Bast. Ha! I'll tell thee what; Thou art damn'd as black nay, nothing is so black; Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer: As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child. Bast. If thou didst but consent To this most cruel act, do but despair, And, if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread Will serve to strangle thee; a rush will be Hub. If I in act, consent, or sin of thought, Bast. Go, bear him in thine arms. — I am amaz'd, methinks; and lose my way Among the thorns and dangers of this world. How easy dost thou take all England up! From forth this morsel of dead royalty, The life, the right, and truth of all this realm Is fied to heaven; and England now is left To tug, and scamble, and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud swelling state. Now, for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty, Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace: Now powers from home, and discontents at home, Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits ACT V. SCENE I. The same. A Room in the Palace. Enter King JOHN, PANDULPH with the Crown, and Attendants. K. John. Thus have I yielded up into your The circle of my glory. hand Pand. Take again [Giving JoHN the Crown. From this my hand, as holding of the Pope, Your sovereign greatness and authority. K. John. Now keep your holy word: go meet the French; And from his holiness use all your power Then pause not; for the present time's so sick, That present medicine must be administer'd, Or overthrow incurable ensues. Pand. It was my breath that blew this tempest up, Upon your stubborn usage of the Pope: But, since you are a gentle convertite, Go I to make the French lay down their arms. [Exit. K. John. Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet Say, that, before Ascension-day at noon, En er the Bastard. Bast. All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out, But Dover castle: London hath receiv'd, Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers; And wild amazement hurries up and down K. John. Would not my lords return to me again, After they heard young Arthur was alive? streets; An An empty casket, where the jewel of life live. Bast. So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew. But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad? Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; O', let it not be said! - Forage, and run And I have made a happy peace with him; Bast. O inglorious league! Shall we, upon the footing of our land, To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy, 6 And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, They saw we had a purpose of defence. K. John. Have thou the ordering of this present time. Bast. Away then, with good courage; yet, I know, Our party may well meet a prouder foe. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Plain, near St. Edmund's-Bury. Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and Soldiers. Lew. My Lord Melun, let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance: Return the precedent to these lords again; That, having our fair order written down, Both they, and we, perusing o'er these notes, May know wherefore we took the sacrament, And keep our faiths firm and inviolable. Sal. Upon our sides it never shall be broken. To your proceedings; yet, believe me, Prince, |